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> Abortion

A case ultimately rooted in the legal theory or “emanations from penumbras” in the Constitution.

> fair share union dues

Forcing government employees to pay dues to a private organization they disagree with politically.

> Chevron

Overturning an earlier case that had ruled in favor of an oil company.

> Citizens United

Held that making a political movie about Hilary Clinton was free speech.

> gutting the Voting Rights Act

Finding that Congress couldn’t impose different voting rights requirements on different states based on a 40 year old formula.

> this week effectively legalizing bribery of government officials

Overturned a conviction for accepting bribes in connection with an official act, where the jury was instructed that it was irrelevant whether the defendant had corrupt intent at the time of the official act.

I don’t know what historians will say about the current Supreme Court. But historians (and journalists) are feelers (in the Meyers Briggs sense), not thinkers. They think in terms of human stories and impacts on people, rather than logical systems. Who cares what feelers think about legal precedents?
Why would I want so much software in my bed that even makes sense to discuss updating it?
Safari PWAs support web push. Not only does Safari support it, but they're first-class notifications in iOS — they show on the Lock Screen, in Notification Center, and on a paired Apple Watch.
From the article:

> 4. Performance

> How can we ensure there are no performance regressions, and even performance improvements? When we launched Shepherd we promised to respond to every submission with an indication in 24 hours or less, which directly relates to the performance of our platform.

I actually run a (small, bootstrapped) startup in a very related space (we operate as an agency and MSB, and have direct tie-ins to a much broader range of insurance and financial products) and this article just feels like going the wrong direction. We host on prem (colo) because we knew the DB would be a latency bottleneck and clone operations need to be fast for compliance purposes.

This just feels like the wrong solution for the problem.
The truckers did had their bank accounts frozen due to their actions, not due to their political opinions.
"Ogallala Aquifer... is recharged on a geological time scale... That depletion is accelerated by climate change and continued over pumping of water."

Is it obligatory to put in stuff about climate change in spite of the fact that it's barely relevant?

We are over pumping when we exceed the replenishment rate. And that is going on in just about every aquifer I have heard about. Climate change has nothing to do with it. Almond tree growing, ease of well drilling, and improper use of the pure water have more to do with it (e.g., https://www.protectouraquifer.org/issues/poas-fight-to-stop-...)
yeah.. StopIteration is not an instance of Exception, is a subclass of it :^)

no, really:

help(StopIteration)

class StopIteration(Exception)
| Signal the end from iterator.__next__().
|
| Method resolution order:
| StopIteration
| Exception
| BaseException
| object

...
Had to use Reader mode which helped.
In 1998, Microsoft had >90% desktop OS marketshare.

Even today the iOS is less than 40% mobile marketshare and the macOS is less than 10% on desktop.

Wall Garden argument is frustrating, but the monopoly argument is confusing.

I think it's more like:

Microsoft 1998 = Bell Phone System 1982

Apple 2024 = Your local airport or sports arena vendors 1980s - Today
Okay, let me get this straight. So, Rails will neither patch security vulns, nor bugs, because Rails isn't a community? lol.
Clunky, annoying, inconvenient, borderline useless. Cash only place is a good way to lose my business, especially since the odds I have cash on me are close to zero.

Also one of the most expensive options for me as a consumer since I have to use my time to find an ABM, pay the ABM fee, etc.

Also one of the most expensive options for me as a merchant, since I have to physically go to a bank and jump through hoops to deposit it.
Great points. Also they used to have video games, I don’t know if they still do.

That was a very big differentiator.
Really really light shades. Destroying a country's ability to produce weapons grade nuclear fuel vs potentially burning down a hacker's/tinkerer's house; I don't think these are any where near the same level
> […] seeing as any given bank can only have one credit card affiliated with it.

CIBC has both Visa and MasterCard:

* https://www.cibc.com/en/personal-banking/credit-cards/costco...

As does RBC:

* https://www.rbcroyalbank.com/credit-cards/travel/rbc-avion-v...

* https://www.rbcroyalbank.com/credit-cards/travel/westjet-rbc...

BMO:

* https://www.bmo.com/main/personal/credit-cards/bmo-cashback-...

* https://www.bmo.com/en-ca/main/personal/credit-cards/bmo-ecl...

Not sure where you got the idea, as simply visiting the websites would have show otherwise.
Is the LD2410B sensing range limited by the PCB antenna?
> Furthermore, bundling an 80MB+ SQLite file to our codebase slowed down the entire Github repository and hindered us from considering more robust hosting platforms.

It's... an 80MB database. It couldn't be smaller. There are local apps that have DBs bigger than that. There is no scale issue here.

And... it's committed to GitHub instead of just living somewhere. And they switched to Neon.

To me, this screams "we don't know backend and we refuse to learn".

To their credit, I will say this: They clearly were in a situation like: "we have no backend, we have nowhere to store a DB, but we need to store this data, what do we do?" and someone came up with "store it in git and that way it's deployed and available to the app". That's... clever. Even if terrible.
Lots of other laptops has the same whitelist annoyance, and are harder to tinker with. Lenovo is still nearly the least cumbersome even with this.

Sony laptops were the worst: Sony has elitist culture when it comes to miniaturization and engineering excellence, which manifests as unsolderable gapless tiny solder pads in case with PCBs. Fujitsu is better: they love to get creative with their own testing criteria that results in excessively hot laptops that relies on keyboard typing surfaces as heatsinks. Toshiba designers seem to be smart and rational people who understands that no one cares if they double sided everything. Dell is just thick and heavy while not particularly durable and occasionally being annoying with proprietary accessories. HP seem to have every hardware and software imported into their ERP and that can be annoying sometimes like having HP-only bugs.

ThinkPads don't have that kinds of things. They note on Hardware Maintenance Manual(HMM) that all removed screws must be discarded and replaced with their beautiful urethane coated and thread locked screws, and they still haven't made value of ~220 as default for `/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/sensitivity`, and that's it.
Google and Apple didn't exist as trillion$ competitors when Microsoft got anti-trusted.

Harder to justfy Apple's dominance when Android and Windows exist and have massive marketshare.
Formula seems to be round(num_social_media_posts * 460.85)

Where 460.85 comes from is unsure, but I guess a calibration factor based on some more reputable data set.
Most if not all the web feature that are not supported in Safari are things I resolutely do NOT want in a browser though.
Stuffing things in a browser is not good for anybody…
> Promoting by showing that you care creates the obligation.

Promoting by promising to fulfill a particular obligation creates the obligation. I'm not sure "showing that you care" is specific enough.

In any case, you are shifting your ground. Before you said that just making the software available and having enough people use it creates an obligation. Now you are saying that "promoting" it does. When "promoting" is properly unpacked, you will end up agreeing with my position: either the software author has made an explicit promise to provide support, or they haven't. If they have, they have an obligation; if not, they don't.
An interesting facet of this that makes me feel somewhat more charitable to cashless payments in that context is that it's very easy to perform cashless payments in Japan pseudoanonymously, in that you can buy an IC card from a vending machine, load it with cash, and use it for payments all without explicit links to your KYC'd banking identity. Sure, if you attracted individualized security state attention they could probably pull security camera footage and figure it out, but that approach doesn't scale into turnkey tyrrany; sort of how like $5 wrench cryptanalysis doesn't prevent widespread strong cryptography fundamentally altering the envelope of what kinds of automated, at-scale privacy abuses are possible.

This is a fairly stark contrast with the West, where pseudoanonymous cashless payments basically don't exist. The closest thing (stuff like xmr aside, where the chance you can use it to buy a coffee is very low) are prepaid visa gift cards, but the UX on these is terrible for a lot of reasons and so aren't anywhere close to the practical usability of cash-charged IC cards in Japan.
... in the EU only.
I'm not sure, it always just made sense to me that the farther away someone is, the harder it'll be to detect their small movements.
Lego CNC Pixel Art Generator
If Bob watches one movie a month, you won’t have a good business. If there are thousands of Bobs in one area, you can do just fine.

Meanwhile no streaming service will ever get Bob to sign up.

As an silly example: no one rents carpet cleaners every weekend, you can still rent carpet cleaning machines. There is enough demand in aggregate for it to be viable.
So you want to offer authN on your Instagram website [Image]
The part of my post you're replying to concerns my thoughts on something much broader, though. My claim is not that all investment today is pointless, but that investment predicated on the belief that we're a few years away from the economy being "turned upside down by 1) LLM agent workflows 2) AGI 3) superintelligence" is bad.

It feels like a Motte-and-bailey type issue. If I point out that the original claim doesn't have enough evidence and is purely speculation, I don't really want to hear about how call center jobs are being affected by LLMs. I don't disagree, but we're not talking about the same thing here.
Well duh. Apple admits as much in China, of course they do that in the US too: https://support.apple.com/en-us/111754

But those are parlor tricks. Yes, the United States forces Apple and Microsoft to turn over data on a regular basis; everyone from India to Brazil demands the same thing. It's non-unique. The United States and it's FIVE-EYES partners clearly have more capabilities on the table; they literally control these businesses, up to a certain point. If you're unwilling to acquit telecoms and server providers for installing backdoors, then it's a no-brainer to implicate Microsoft, Google and Apple for knowledgeably shipping compromised client software too.
We get told about Islam preserving greek thought/history. Did Islam not do the same for Indian thought/history?
This reads like the sort of academic engineering that I hate working around. You ask great questions for research, but the truth of the matter is quite simple.

You can just open both editors next to each other and ask how they are. For me, it's trivial to see that vim is at least an oom faster than VSCode. I don't need to profile or show test coverage. I can just use it and it works. Even if they were about the same speed, the less-than-perfect vim mode implementation always takes too much time out of my editing flow.

Occasionally, an ide will have such a great curated experience that I'll use it for something specific -- but the general case is a no contest for me.
Can I come with you?

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/quotes/?item=qt0315389&...
I read George Dyson’s “Analogia” with a bit of skepticism a few years ago, now all of the sudden it feels relevant (if you can make it past all of the chapters on kayak-building).
Citation needed. Even at 100% duty cycle the heated bed tops out at a stable, safe temperature. I know because I’ve struggled to keep it hot enough for certain materials.

Maybe you could argue that the hot end could be set to melt down, ignoring the built-in safety mechanisms, but thats a stretch for doing much more than breaking the printer due to the way it’s designed.

Regardless, if all of this still scares someone they can run it in local-only mode without internet access.

The Bambu printer fear mongering is ridiculous.
Of course.

We have a paid enterprise product: OpenBB Terminal Pro (https://openbb.co/products/pro).

In it, users have access to several datasets that we have redistribution rights for. This enables users to export any dataset but also to access that same financial data through our Excel Add-in.

Most retail financial products only have display rights as it's much cheaper than the redistribution license.
I've got a lot of shortcuts set up for telescope (fuzzy finder ui in neovim). One of them is leader fa for "find around" which limits the file list to current directory and the next level down (only). It's quite useful in the same scenario.

The regular fuzzy finder is unfortunately useless in the home directory (too many files), with this limit, it's useful.
I don't need my bed to transmit measurements to a server. I need my bed to be comfortable to sleep on. I need exactly zero interactions with a server for that.

So, yeah, back to the question. Why does my bed have an SSH server? Because it needs to be able to talk to some machine on the internet. And why does my bed need that? It's a bed.

[Edit: Wait a minute. Even if I do want to transmit measurements, why is my bed running a server? My bed should be running a client.]
I did, it still doesn't make sense to compare the two.
All those things are true, but there’s risk associated with going with such a new project with no current monetisation path (especially for something that my colleagues might be putting information into that we might need to access/modify for many years or even indefinitely).

Open source isn’t a business model.
Smart temperature and softness adaptation for different regions? Sleep stats of your positions, maybe combined with some deep sleep stats? I mean, there are options
Seems neat. What's the advantage over something like replit?
Is this your first exposure to Linux-based embedded devices? It’s very common to run Linux on embedded devices. There are even variants of Linux designed for microcontrollers.
So, do I need a massive dishwasher that can hold all the pans, and then another one as a spare?
nice catch, thank you
I think you may be comparing fuel supply for a coal plant with installing a new PV plant.
I am actively having to resist putting a question mark at the end.
Good question!

The answer depends on funding, i.e. in my own never-leaves-my-house case it is always self-host, much like SOC work.

In the case of startup or research lab work (day-job, for lack of a better descriptor). It's frequently a slice of AWS, GCP, or Azure, i.e. 6 figure/mo cloud bills.

I think those two broad cases are worth considering.
This is happening in a lot of places, just a few days ago I went to a restaurant (California) that had a sign up front saying "We are now Cashless" and touting why this is better for the staff.

https://imgur.com/a/uDA8E4A

I predominately use credit for everything because its easier, faster, etc. But the 3% fees since time immemorial is screwed up. We need a better standard for payment that is digital but cash equivalent, aka not paying for the payment convenience.
I usually doubt about this, am I missing out on useful tools because I like my terminal based environment. Editing is much better when you have tools that are keyboard first, I think everyone agrees about that.

My conclusion now about an integrated environment (like an IDE) versus a more handbuilt (like vim) is that a handbuilt one requires the dev to know it's tools. With an IDE you are seduced to trust the magic black box, that the box will help you. This makes it that when stuff goes different then expected (usually user error), you are lost.

With a more custom environment you are pushed to learn your tools. And while this is not a given, I like this approach more. I might miss some fancy new tools, but the tools I do use, I *know*. This could be done with an IDE but is more forced in a terminal based flow.
Since the source seems to be social media posts, there's a small possibility that theft may be some kind of portion of the number, but I'm not sure due to the questionable accuracy of source data.

Semi-related: I work for a homeless service agency and a few of our clients were arrested for a tiny luggage theft ring at LAX a couple of months ago. One of the detectives said that some of the luggage they found was reported missing and it was luck that someone else had airtags hidden in their luggage to be able to track the item which allowed them to discover more items from others.
but but but, we need to see all of that data about your sleeping patterns so we can adjust settings to make you even more comfy. are you getting too hot? we'll cool down the temp for you. getting too cold? we'll heat it up. starting to snore, we'll automatically incline you to change your positioning.

of course we'll also sell all of that data so we can send you an ad for new bamboo sheets to keep you cool. or any thing else from anyone else that offers us money for the data
If you give the government the power to block financing to anyone they declare a terrorist then they'll just declare anyone who opposes them to be terrorists.
The article should at least preface with some explanation about lazyvim.

Some snippets simply have comments like "I use lazy.nvim to load plugins" and that's it.
What Title do you think has been granted by having a particular property right tied to a particular piece of property?
They were blowing freight truck horns at all hours of the day and night. Tens of thousands of people's lives and sleep were disrupted for weeks on end. 90% of the stuff they were protesting literally wasn't real.

Obviously there is a fine line between legitimate, legal protest and it should be taken very seriously. IMO that particular protest pushed that line too hard.
There's a lot we don't know about the details of how our brains work, but we do know that our brains are connected to the external world in a huge number of ways that LLMs are not. The only connections to the external world that LLMs have are their training data and the prompts they are given. That is an incredibly paltry level of connection compared with the connections that our brains have. Those connections make a huge difference.

As AI technology evolves, I would expect that the connections AIs have with the external world will become much more extensive, and that will make a huge difference as well. But current LLMs simply don't have that, and it shows.
> Alien Skin Software and their Photoshop plugins was all the rage.

Not to mention Kai's Power Tools, and the other plugins by Kai Kruse!
This is cool, it’s also not the most accurate.

The US DOT requires airlines to submit reports on mishandled luggage.

One such is available here;
https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2024-05/M...
Edit: see page 39

Point to point carriers such as Allegiant and Spirit typically do much better than carriers that operate a connection like Delta and United.

Since they are souring their data from people on social media I suspect the chance that someone complains about missing a bag varies more than the amount of missing bags.
Ask HN: AI hackday at work – what shall I work on?
I’m a software engineer (typescript/react (and react native)/lua/bash scripting skills). At work this week we’re having an “AI hackday”; we can work or anything we want, as long as it utilises AI in some way (doesn’t have to be work related). An app, proof-of-concept, etc. work will pay for chatgpt or similar API keys (for a limited time). I’m really struggling to come with a unique and fun idea.

Does anyone have any ideas for a useful, fun thing to work on for 24 hours?
OK, I started reading the article, and then found this gem:

> The Kansas aqueduct is a nutty idea, but one that has taken root among some individuals in western Kansas desperate for a solution to continue irrigation after the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer. Aside from its expense and impracticality, it is a regressive idea that harkens back to the days of ditches and avoids a conversation about us having squandered the resource beneath our feet.

Like, WTF? How the hell a "conversation" can solve the depletion issue? An aqueduct is a possible solution, yet it's bad because it can solve the issue?
It can't. Without the ability to propose a hypothesis and then experimentally test it in the physical real world, no ML technique or app can add new information to the world. The only form of creativity possible using AI (as it exists today) is to recombine existing information in a new way -- as a musical composer or jazz artist creates a variation on an theme that already exists. But that can't be compared to devising something new that we would call truly creative and original, especially novel work that advances the frontier of our understanding of the world, like scientific discovery.
"man, i tried going to bed last night, but it was a BSOD so I had to reboot it, but then it needed 45 minutes of OS updates before I could get in the bed."

seems like a pretty good torture on multiple levels
It's a real shame there is no IBM i emulation the same way there is Hercules. The very alien nature of its OS, all the way back to the AS/400, can be extremely educational and mind-expanding for people who grew up on Windows and Unix.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'both' courts, Robert's has been lead justice for something like two decades. The pre and post conservative super majority is a distinction.

Regardless, legislatures are not going to now create less ambiguous legislation (they are not experts, they do not understand nuances they are creating, nor do they really want to clarify them even if they did - cause they would get blamed)

The thing i really want to point out - Overturning Chevron removes power from the executive branch and gives it to the judicial branch. Instead of an executive agency (which contains subject matter experts) making a good faith interpretation, it would now be up to a court instead. Congress could amend laws to fix ambiguous legislation, but they don't, won't, and it's too much (even if congress were interested to do so). Thus, there is no power going back to the legislature here that did not exist previously (if congress is not happy with how an ambiguous law they wrote is executed, they could always have and can still amend it). Thus, it's a shift from executive branch to judicial. This opens the door to shopping around for judges when an agency does something you don't like. (Per Harry Litman's analysis and opinion) this is perhaps the biggest shift of power from executive to judicial in decades.
k3s for on premises deployments. I'm also using it for local self hosting side projects.
You will have worse problems in 292B years.

In 4.5 billion years we would live in the result of the Milky way galaxy merging with Andromeda, which will increase our chances of encountering either alien life, or alien artificial entities.

And after 200+ billion years, the sun, after having been a red giant and evaporated all oceans on Earth, will become a white dwarf.
> You seem to think I want to gallop around with you. I'm not accountable to you. I love to derail spammy garbage though.

I'm asking (for the third time, mind you) why do you think your complains are relevant to the fact that this post is being flagged.

You're repeatedly trying to dodge the question.

Can't you even explain your own train of thought? What does this say about it?