skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Headlines are so certain even if the first sentence isn't:

"Giant lizards called heath goannas could save Australian sheep farmers millions of dollars a year by keeping blowfly numbers down—and must be prioritized in conservation schemes to boost native wildlife, say researchers."
Being a non-treadmill human.
We have two systems of physics. We can make predictions using either system. We cannot fully unify the two systems.
> Citing a prior ruling that contains more precedence around the idea that federal agencies should have the right to interpret and enforce regulations is an interesting way to argue that it's a controversial topic.

That's not what Skidmore said. It said that courts should defer to agency interpretations to the degree they are "persuasive." Which is almost a truism--obviously courts can defer to reasoning they find persuasive. Chevron went further, and required courts to defer to agency interpretations if they were "reasonable," even if the court would have interpreted the law differently.

> I'm also unsure how the political makeup of the court 80 years ago has anything to do with whether or not the court is more political now than ever

The Court is less political than ever. In the mid-20th century, the Court was at the peak of politicization, striking down democratically adopted laws based on "emanations from penumbras" of constitutional provisions.

Regarding Thomas, you sound like you're reading from some sort of talking points. Thomas was the OG constitutional purist. The notion that he's developed this views because he want on vacations with his personal friend is absurd.
Let's see then. In order to vote, you will need:

Driver's License or State ID. In my state (Georgia) to get these you must also provide a birth certificate or passport, as well as two documents showing Georgia residency (I.E., utility bill/phone bill that must have your address listed on them.

Okay, so those are unavailable to the homeless as they most likely will not have their birth certificate or passport with them (as belongings are routinely confiscated by police during removals of homeless encampments). Nor will they have an address or a utility bill in their name. Oh, also, Georgia requires a residential address for these ID cards so while you can use a PO Box on the card itself, they still need proof of a residential address for their records.

So, how again are the homeless expected to vote when they, legally, can't even get a drivers license or state ID card? This isn't even getting into the $25 it costs to get a copy of your birth certificate or the $32 fee for get a state ID. $57 could potentially feed them for a week, and when you don't know when your next meal is going to be, what's more important to you in that situation?
But whose expertise. The problem is that with every change in the administration, The rules change because there are new experts that interpret the rules in a different way. Chevron deference led to instability of understanding what the law was.
Show me the proof please.
This article is a bit better on photos

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/rom...
As far as I know, that very much isn't the case. The singularity is a result of the math, not a trick to simplify it.

My understanding is that many researchers do think it's a "placeholder" representing our lack of insight into how physics behave at those scales, and not a real physical phenomenon, and that it will one day be possible to work past it. I believe Kerr and Penrose (both of whom did some of the most foundational work on black holes) believe it's a mathematical artifact.
There are also legit but over zealous listings. There are apartment complexes that re-post the listings every single day. So, checking if any new apartments appear is always manually filtering over 40% the apartments you've already looked at but which were reposted.
Why would they have lost their right to complain?
And I can edit binaries with binedit. Reverse engineering is a lost art, but reversing binaries with Ida pro and patching binaries is a time honored skill. It's a shame it's usually used to patch out license checks but there have been some truely impressive reverse engineering on video game ROMs for which the source is not available so we're left with modifying the binary. or as we're looking at it, the model.
The problem isn't "new laws being enacted as governments change", it was "new interpretations of existing laws being enacted as control of the executive branch switches parties". Net Neutrality either is or isn't the law of the land, depending on which president last got to appoint to the FCC, and is in charge now. Federal prosecution for possession of marijuana is or isn't the law of the land depending on which president is in charge of the DEA. It should be considered a complete failure of our system that the status of those things can change overnight, without debate or challenge and on the whims of which of the octogenarians running for president wins in November.
Quarto supports any language and works just fine. I have quarto blog posts for using APL as an example of a somewhat niche language.
> This honestly sounds perfect.

> If this is the actual end result of this ruling, we’ll all be in a much much better place.

There's no way. But, I guess we'll find out. I hope HN is around in 10 years so we can see who is right.
It's a triangulation problem. As long as the two detectors are perpendicular with each other you can triangulate the source of the signal received by both of them.
Body language is a powerful signal that almost nobody can control.
I'm probably just cranky. Moving files is a universal use-case, i.e. xargs predates Bourne. Maybe PowerShell hasn't arrived at the amount of reliability testing we expect from a data utility. If I saw it being used as such, I would ask for many assertions for both data manipulation and filesystem traversal.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/rom...
The replacement of google2
I did something similar with an Aeron chair on Facebook Marketplace recently. Drove around an hour to the next city over to take a look at one, apparently the good ones had been picked over already (and he only posted photos of one out of the batch, presumably the best), but I felt a little obligated to buy something since I'd taken the person's time and driven all that way.

After cleaning it up at home, it ended up being usable for now, but definitely felt crappy driving back with it knowing I wasn't really happy with it.
Pardon my ignorance, but why not? This is what I’ve long assumed is the true nature of black holes — not some kind of divide-by-zero error, but merely a very very heavy object.
But who would design a character set that only works properly on printers in 1985? Hence the question of whether and which operating systems properly supported that kind of use.
Apart from battery management, zonal architecture, etc., the infotainment (though that word seems insufficient to cover it) is Android Automotive (not to be confused with Android Auto) but no Google Automotive Services (GAS), plus Epic's Unreal Engine for the animated 3D render of your car, that you are sitting in, that you probably know what it looks like, for the settings screens. So no Android App Store and no Google Maps. But GAS is probably easy to add.
> doubt that granting Congress more power will inspire them to be less political

Now imagine what unelected government officials who play the revolving doors game with the industry they're supposed to regulate can do.
> across basically all of sciences

Not to mention what is outside the domain of science. Sadly, this area is essentially culturally off limits so I expect it to remain as is in the short to medium term, perhaps forever.
It would be quite interesting to see the same hardware used to repeat the training, but with raw Unicode, instead of tokenized training data.

I'd like to see the difference in performance on spelling and rhymes.
Google's code, tooling and accompanying practices are developing a reputation for being largely useless outside Google ... and many are starting to suspect it's alleged value even inside Google is mostly cult dogma.
The claim of general relativity is that a black hole is a singularity in spacetime, meaning that space effectively "ends" there. A very crude model would be cutting a hole out of fabric and then sewing the circle up into a point. The area of the hole is "gone" --- it's not like it's there and you can't see it, it's just not there. I guess that it is what you mean by "devoid of space".

Then the rest of the fabric is bent in weird ways around the fact that there's a chunk missing, which in physics manifests as as everything being pulled towards it (and there is a point, the event horizon, at which things are no longer possible to interact with, like you're too deep in the hole to get out again.
Yeah I’ll have a conversation about the nuances of authority delegation with people who aren’t actively trying to make America a theist state.

Separation of church and state is non negotiable requirement for maintaining a civil society.
that's a much much smaller subset than the vast users of R in academic/research
Big Pimp strikes again
Same.

I know I wrote perfect, maintainable code that can easily live in my brain.

But when I go to work on it again a few months since I wrote it, it seems like some asshole stepped in and overwrote my beautiful code with a bunch of jumbly mish-mash and had the gall to overwrite the git commit history with it, using the exact same commit messages, and my own name!
Healthcare tech worker here. I know exactly how you feel.

"What did I do today? Helped a bunch of doctors get the information they needed to diagnose someone's obscure disease. What did you do?"

"Oh, I worked on ways to make my company's app more addictive to 12-year-olds, and look less like gambling."

I'm happy to be in the first group.
All we know is that we’ve made a lot of crazy predictions about the structure and behavior of black holes well before we measured them and so far they’ve aligned remarkably close to the predictions. If there is a difference, it’s about the interior not how it shows up in our universe. And since we can never see inside the black hole, any alternative model would have to better explain some phenomena our existing models can’t or be even easier than relativity and explain the same things. We know string theory is hard to make consistent and it struggles to create falsifiable experiments. I would bet on relatively remaining a very very long time until we figure out how to unify quantum and relativity.
There's actually a bespoke object metamodel mapping atop the RDBMS, and it permits customers who want to use SQL direct to the database to do so.

And, IMHO, PostgreSQL is the default choice for most storage backend purposes, unless one has figured out a good reason something else is better. :)

There were also multiple kinds of large blob storage needs, and changing architecture needs over time (e.g., multi-tenant, changing authn implications of things like browser plugins, scalability, move to cloud), so systems programming skills and controlling your framework comes in handy, for not getting stuck or blocking on vendors, but just solving the problem.
I see no epistemic problem with a singularity existing. After all electron are singularities in the EM field, of a sort. Why shouldn't a lot of electrons together form a giant singularity?
Possible, but this is a gigantic project. You get a sentient AI, then what? You don't want to murder a sentient being, do you?
Noam Chomsky called Foucault a morally bankrupt phony. I think Chomsky was being kind.
The thing is, compared to an ASIC you've got a commodity product that doesn't become completely redundant if you mess something up. With ASICs, you need another tape out. FPGAs you can just recompile and reprogram the device. I've had customer spot a bug on their code and stream an update through to a satellite in orbit; can't don't that with an ASIC.

The ability to buy them off the shelf and build something with them right away, testing in hardware rather than simulation, is something that's massively undersold too I think.
Are you saying French Fries (Simply cut Potatoes, oil + salt) are healthier for you than Pasta? (Ground grain, dried, wet, combined with Eggs, dried again, combined with various sauces made from oils, often dried herbs and other such ingredients)

Because Pasta is a hell of a lot more "processed" than a typical French Fry
Infinite checkboxes in 71 lines of backend code
I think that's BS because if I Google that exact question it tells me how. You don't understand because you either don't want to understand or haven't taken any time at all to research the topic.

It's also not always Russia, there were two cyber attack headlines yesterday and neither appeared to be state actors.
Ask HN: HR performance management feedback tools used for backstabbing?
The curse of anonymous employee feedback tools for performance management on your colleagues.

Background

I worked as a project manager for a smallish (~35 staff) Dev agency that used an HR platform for staffing matters including performance management.

As part of the performance management process employees were made to give anonymous feedback on their colleagues from time to time. This was not optional, we had to give the feedback.

We worked in small teams and so the feedback wasn't actually anonymous: most/all of the time it was obvious who it came from.

The feedback requests were presented and phrased in such a way that encouraged and sought negative feedback under the false premise of security via anonymity.

As a consequence the system was open to abuse and backstabbing.

As a PM my work to create a highly performing team with good dynamics was being undermined. From my perspective I felt that if someone had a problem with another person or issue then they should raise it directly.

I raised my concerns about the anonymous feedback system with the HO Delivery, who seemed nonplussed. I was puzzled, I could not understand why the organization was using such a harmful system.

I came to the conclusion that the system of anonymous feedback was actually used as a legal tool - to be used as evidence in a court of law for employment tribunals, should they arise.

Am I being naive here? Is it obvious and an open secret that this is why organizations seek negative employee feedback from colleagues?

Employee feedback systems can be useful, especially in larger organizations, for example for senior managers to gauge employee sentiment and ideas. But for small organizations anonymous employee feedback seems perverse.

What is your experience? What is the real purpose of these systems? Can it ever work well in small orgs?
Strange that a dead website generates hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue.
Kudos to Ars Technica for this piece.
Impersonation isn't the issue. In almost every state, ID isn't required for voter registration, so there's no way to tell if you're an eligible voter or even a real person. Maybe if we have access to how many people registered and voted without ID in each race, we could determine it's been a small enough number not to matter even if 100% of them were fraudulent. But idk, there have been some tight races in the past.
Parent comment here, chiming in days after this thread.

My primary purpose in making my comment was to help employees that feel stuck using bad tools. I hope my advice helps to encourage people to look for better opportunities, and to consider the software they will be using in those opportunities. I have given dozens of technical interviews, and no one has ever asked me "what is your development setup like?" as part of the interview. I wanted to share with other people my little trick.

Maybe my comment smells of privilege, but this is a privilege anyone can claim. After all, all tech workers have transferable skills and access to private retirement accounts.
Infrastructure is routinely subsidized because of the benefits it brings. Taxing the problem can help pay for that subsidy, that has some hazards because now government revenue depends on carbon emissions, but it can be part of the solution, sure. Tax revenue all goes in the same bucket no matter what the government claims.

It helps that the actual electrical generators don't care where the steam is coming from, so we could be leveraging the gensets from decommissioned coal plants in fission reactors. All that's missing is the political will.
Full source here: https://github.com/jackkleeman/restate-checkbox/tree/main

But the fun bit is the virtual object: https://github.com/jackkleeman/restate-checkbox/blob/main/ob...
Having grown up as an American Jew, it has been a recurring revelation of how much of what I think if as "Jewish" culture is actually German.
The better question is what percentage of _printers_ could handle arbitrary overlap, and I think the answer is, all of them. It's just a head striking paper, backspace and strike twice is always an option.

Printers were fare more common than hardware terminals for most of the initial history of computing.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

What the Supreme Court case on tent encampments could mean for homeless people - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40107034 - April 2024 (88 comments)
The agencies can draft any ruels they'd like and put them before congress. Perhaps we can have less rules...
You always strip them out from input because a record value can’t contain more records.

CSV is more broken than you imagine. Try opening an American CSV file with Excel in Germany or France. You’ll discover that it doesn’t parse, and the reason is that the ‘C’ in CSV apparently stands for “could be a semicolon too” because comma is the decimal separator in these countries and therefore must be available for use inside values.
How does one trespass on public land
TalktoData: Personal AI Data Analyst
> what else are they supposed to thank you for everyday

OP:
> they stopped saying hello or even talking to me

The OP said they completely stopped talking, which is weird to not acknowledge someone you previously would talk to. Seems like sociopathic behavior to me, which these professions tend to attract. They got what they wanted/needed out of the relationship and now could care less.
In the context of a Church controversy where members of the church agree that the Bible is their foundational doctrine? I’d feel exactly the same.
I'm thankful.

Congress skirted their duties for 40 years. This legislative / executive codependency then created a tightly connected and interdependent governance system, outside the purview of the judicial 'checks and balances.' This is why things like warrantless mass tapping and the Patriot Act became 'good law.'

We are unwinding decades of bad governance. This is a joyous occasion, along with the ACJ decision from last session.

Before anyone says there were still checks and balances - if you feel the need to, you have no idea what Cheveron meant
> It should be considered a complete failure of our system that the status of those things can change overnight, without debate or challenge and on the whims of which of the octogenarians running for president wins in November.

I would consider an election to be the highest form of debate and challenge. It is not a failure of the system that the leaders the people choose get to lead the way they see fit, that is the point of the system.
Where is the plain and simple C99 renderer?
You need Gold not a second bank
#1 - Prior to Chevron, did Congress delegate authority to federal agencies to impose regulations? The answer is yes. Prior to Skidmore, did Congress delegate authority to federal agencies to impose regulations? The answer is yes.

The fact that Chevron codified things in a more structured way does not change the fact that it was a ruling about an existing practice. How are you arguing otherwise? Both rulings were about things that were already happening. Neither Skidmore or Chevron resulted in the brand new practice of federal agencies having regulatory power.

#2 - Of course there is always dissent around laws and decisions. Obviously, however, the majority of the past century has had further support for federal agencies having regulatory power. It is only the past half decade where there has been significant pushback. People are sitting here complaining about how for so long the SC increased their deference to Chevron - how would that be the case if it was controversial within the court? Weird that we had more than 70 years of the courts just strengthening their position on this if it was so controversial the whole time, rather than something that has been a significant change over the past half decade.
It's a "feature" typewriters had. On mechanical ones you had to manually move the carriage to the left after the bell rang indicating you are out of space in the line, thus "Carriage Return" and also move paper up to move to the next line.
IANAL but I think that's confusing mens rea with something else more like malice.

If someone sees a sign says "Camping prohibited", and they decide to camp there anyway, that's mens rea.

It doesn't depend on whether they had other options, or whether they desired to purposefully harm others, or whether they were very sure they'd be able to avoid harming the grass, etc.
One of the biggest upsets to the constitution and civil liberties now as we treat those who have gone into financial hardship the penalty of jail time as it is not cruel or unusual somehow.

I don't see positive outcomes from this as states will now pick up the tab of hosting the homeless in prisons. We can only hope that Williams v. Illinois isn't overturned next, then you could see people being perpetually in jail for failing to pay fines they couldn't have ever afforded.
You can go out for drinks with coworkers and not show up hungover the next day... Like, office happy hours are basically a cliché at this point.
For some meanings of "well."

Setting fan speed to max would also do a "fantastic job of keeping my GPU at reasonable temps."

Linear scaling means your fan is not going fast enough at high temps, and is going too fast at low temps. If your GPU is at 30C, the fan should slow down. It will be at 45C instead, which has no effect on ageing. Likewise, if your target is 45C, your fan isn't going nearly fast enough at high power.
We didn't start putting computers on everyone's desk until the mid 90s. Prior to that printed output dominated businesses.
The article says that the information had yet to be verified.

How did the driver not step on the breaks or turn before they got that far down the tracks? I don't know how this could be possible if the driver was paying attention at all.
Why is the word “supposedly” in your comment?

Is there some implication that these people are doing something else? If there is no implication then there’s no need to include this word.
I think a technocratic executive bureaucracy, created and overseen by the legislature, is better than demanding the legislature directly craft all regulations and have judges adjudicate every nuance.
Cookies alone don't make you non-compliant, it's what you (or anything embedded on your site) do with them. You can also be non-compliant without cookies, but that's not fixable with a banner.
Used: the Boost C++ libraries. In particular ASIO. Variant has also been very useful.

The Mac GUSI BSD socket library is worth a mention too. I built a multithreaded Quark XPress XTension with it that used PowerPlant for UI. Quark even wanted to interview me.

Added to: a pre-Boost cross platform library for Mac (Classic) and Windows NT. It did much of what Boost did way back when.