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I've often wondered if Monty Python was just doing a big meta-parody of RP. That is, you speak like a proper Oxford man while also being absurd, and the comedy almost writes itself.

https://youtu.be/ZArgEvK2R1s
I think nebula is the obvious FOSS competitor? With the unfortunate exception of the Android client being closed source.
I think there are many nerd-simplification-projects that seem elegant in theory, but are either hard to bring to fruition, or nobody wants to buy something simple.

I'm reminded of the next computer, which had a very expensive factory that just failed. The IDEA of highly-automated assembly of a computer is just so compelling, but getting it from automated to highly-automated wrecks the economics of things.

The other thing I think about is tesla - they have been working very hard to remove complexity from each generation of their cars. But they keep going and don't know where to stop, removing the dashboard, buttons, sensors (radar and sonar) and control stalks. In the end, the car might have marched right past "elegant minimalism" to "cheap dangerous nobody wants"
I love this. Thanks for posting.

Your Father and Mother must be very proud of you.
You know who would pay those property taxes? The renters. Not the owners. The owners just pass those taxes onto the renters.

What would actually help is the reverse, i.e. abolish property taxes and reduce rents by that much.

If that was done I'd save money faster and be able to buy 1 house for myself sooner.
to be exact, San Francisco ideology shaped by the images of their limitless compassion now spreading world wide and raising questions.
Seems like the author moved from a “speakers + networked amp” setup, to a one where with active speakers where everything is built-in.

When I was buying speakers for my apartment some time ago, I was similarly considering going for the all-in-one options like this, but I’m glad I didn’t. I prefer the “dumb passive speaker + networked amp”, as it allows you to pick / replace / upgrade the separate components.
Went for the KEF LS50, and for the amp Lyngdorf TDAI-1120. And that’s despite KEF having the all-in-one active version of those speakers. Very happy with my choices!
Not to mention the effect of platforms like Facebook and Instagram on young boys and girls.
I’m curious, if your phone is locked, were they ever able to demand that you unlock it so they could conduct a search?
The eternal problem with companies like Tailscale (and Cloudflare, Google, etc. etc.) is that, by solving a problem with the modern internet which the internet should have been designed to solve by itself, like simple end-to-end secure connectivity, Tailscale becomes incentivized to keep the problem. What the internet would need is something like IPv6 with automatic encryption via IPsec, with PKI provided by DNSSEC. But Tailscale has every incentive to prevent such things to be widely and compatibly implemented, because it would destroy their business. Their whole business depends on the problem persisting.

(Repost of <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38570370>)
Something I have seen in the unreal community is heavy blueprinters develop wrist issues.
> We should separate out the legal question from the biological question and the moral question.

These are all connected. The positive law, lex, is part of the broader law jus, which includes the ius civile, ius gentium, and ius naturale, all of which inform the positive law, or rather, are what positive law determines. Otherwise, what is law? Arbitrary? Of course not, even if in practice it can be. It is a determination of the moral law, which is rooted in the human good which is itself determined by human nature, which itself is or has a biological component. The purpose of the law is the human good, which includes the common good. It is absurd to think these can be considered separately as if they have nothing to do with one another. On the contrary.

> Your statement is a legal claim, but is not backed up by how societies define or think about human personhood.

The Aztecs thought large scale human sacrifice was fine. Am I to take the culturally relativist stance that this was simply viewed as morally good in their culture, and therefore beyond moral criticism and condemnation? Or that I cannot judge their actions from outside their culture, or that in judging them, I would be doing so by my culture's moral criteria?

If we can take this meta view, then we have a problem. This normative claim that I cannot judge is itself a moral claim, in which case you are either appealing to your own cultural norms, in which case it isn't meta, or morality is objective, in which case, I can judge Aztec human sacrifice as objectively immoral.

In any case, closer inspection reveals the incoherence of cultural relativism. We can have debates about moral principles, but once one accepts that moral principles are culturally relative, then it immediately follows that morality simply does not exist, since something like the good either has an objective reality or it does not, and denying objective moral principles necessarily means denying the objective good. To claim that cultures disagree about moral principles is uninteresting as such, since disagreement over what is true is a quotidian fact about human beings, as is the fact that human beings err. This fact does not justify the conclusion that morality is culturally relative, or that facts are culturally relative.

Culture is a medium and a tradition that sustains and transmits knowledge across the generations. It is not in itself a fiction that permits arbitrary invention. Personhood either has an objective reality, or it does not. It is meaningless to speak of convention. What matters is establishing what it is, and whether it is true of the unborn. And, again, closer examination shows that it is. You will not find better support for the contrary position if you do your homework.

> Whether or not the legal framework is morally correct or not is a different issue, but it is worth noting that conventionally, societies also think that human personhood starts at birth, as witnessed by gravestones on which we mark someone's life as starting at birth.

Who cares? Some could claim that personhood begins at puberty. What matter is objective fact.
SCOTUS doesn't always make shitty decisions. Sometimes dozens of lower courts will all make a shitty decision and then it gets to SCOTUS and they somehow use their greater resources to produce a better decision contrary to everyone's expectations.

IIRC pretty much 99% of state and fed courts had ruled against the warrant requirement for GPS tracking until it hit SCOTUS and they went the opposite direction (just): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Jones_(2012)
I'm not sure about the lessons learned.

Clearly somebody did a migration to move the data source on the UI for appoints from that call to something else, but didn't include removing the old way.

From a rest-y-ness perspective, I think this would also show up as an API smell, of returning something that should be paginated as part of an API call whose purpose is to do something else. Design review should really have caught this
>It was immediately obvious to me that Uber would go "oh, you need to go to the hospital, you'll pay more", preying on the need.

I just tried this and can't replicate. While it's possible that uber was preying on the fact you had an emergency, it's equally likely it was a coincidence. Moreover, "this guy is going to a hospital so let's charge him more because he's probably going to bleed out" is a pretty poor strategy. Besides the obvious PR risk, most people going to the hospital probably aren't bleeding out or in any sort of emergency. Think of the last time you were at a hospital. How many cars are in the parking lot vs waiting in the emergency room? It's far more likely that you're there for non-emergency reasons (eg. visiting a someone, going to an appointment, or work there), and charging 3x surge pricing is a good way of losing the fare to a competitor.
> If someone doesn't want to use IPv6, then what they're effectively suggesting is that we create a new protocol, and role it out to every smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop, server, (Wifi) router/CPE, ISP router, SMB router, enterprise switches, and IoT device. Meanwhile we've already effectively run out of IPv4 addresses (e.g., ARIN and RIPE pools are zero) and are just shuffling about whatever is left in auctions.

Although I've heard some ideas for a IPv4.1 that suffer from the obvious problem, I think the far more common view is rather that v4 is fine and its only problem is solved by NAT. Which I agree isn't actually a long term solution, but let's try to meet the stronger argument.
Fellow housing provider here. To your point about scraping the lots and building SFHs, I would counter the solution to that is to outlaw zoning for SFHs for tear downs. Raw land, go for it. But if a structure stood on a parcel, you can only increase density when rebuilding and upzone. This also potentially avoids situations like Naperville, Illinois, where you have a housing shortage at the same time obscenely wealthy folks tear down older modest homes to build McMansions to the lot lines.

https://legallysociable.com/2021/12/28/new-publication-more-...
Ah, HN is letting me reply now.

Irrelevant how fast the USB is. If the filesystem has to do things slower, then simply do things slower. There's no excuse for hard freezes.

> You're trying to drive a Ferrari on a dirt road and claiming the dirt road is ar fault when your Ferrari has issues.

So btrfs in this metaphor is the Ferrari? Yes, I agree with you that my Ferrari definitely 100% has issues XD

You keep talking about btrfs workloads as though it's something crazy for usb firmware to handle. It really isn't. There's a bit of performance overhead, but not so much as to be unusable. And it's just I/O at the end of the day, not some mysterious workload that pushes the wrong buttons. USB firmware is more likely to freak out when doing sustained I/O and the thing gets too hot.

Anyway, I did minimal writes with btrfs before the freezes, and this particular USB drive I was able to push to the limit with XFS. Sustained reads and writes in a benchmark workload. Way more than the manufacturer would have tested for. And no freezes. I rest my case.
Here's a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOHGBuZCswA
This article is just quoting the original source of this information, which would be a much better link: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206529/intel-13th-14th-...
They can demand, and you can refuse. However if you have Face ID or other biometric measures, they can (legally) force your finger onto the sensor or hold the phone up to your face to unlock it for their needs.

Passwords are personal data, faces and fingerprints are not, apparently.
AFAIK the "Windows Recovery Environment" is actually a stripped-down minimal version of Windows missing most of the normal userland and parts of the kernel, which people have extended and customised in various ways.
Yeah, that sounds like the cops.

This is one of those things you should talk to a lawyer about, and possibly, if you want to and your lawyer approves, the media.

Being invasively searched for drugs due to false testimony by officers, where it was proven that you were free of contraband, but then being billed for the process, is fucked up and a clear violation of your constitutional rights.
The Puzzle of Generational Politics
of course you can know it exists. you just need to observe inputs and outputs and compare with precious non LLM ways.
remove names then. problem solved.
You can't apply the law retroactively.

The law, despite being unconstitutional, allowed this, so you can't go back and arrest people who weren't breaking the law at the time.

What you can do is track back every arrest that resulted from one of these searches, and ask for all charges and convictions to be vacated/overturned because the evidence was collected in an unconstitutional way.

I'm more interested in damage control than revenge on this one.
Interesting. I had thought of the garden walls as being in the way of users, based on my personal experience, but you bring up the point that the walls can also be in the way of nefarious companies. I assume both can be true.

And perhaps the legal system sees some of these garden wall as protecting Apple, falling under anti-trust, like the 30% markups on all financial transactions?

You mentioned malicious versions of the Facebook app that do an end-run around Apple's review. Maybe the EU is trying to cover this with new laws like the GDPR and DMA, making malicious app behaviour illegal. Might that not be better, protecting all users regardless of platform?
You should tone the paranoia down a notch. Realistically speaking if they can't identify you they'll just give you a worse price. It makes absolutely no sense to refuse a sale.
They’re?
Also the firmware supports multiple faces. The default face can just be the time
I suspect it's equivalent to a Universal Turing machine but I haven't seen any models or proofs on this. If that's the case then just like computers some nerve cells are switches that activate "programs" of thousands or more neurons, just like the article mentions.
And this is why tailscale isn't solving the fundamental issues of connectivity. Thanks and cheers eddythompson80.
That would be a bad idea because the problem isnt the need to increase density, that is obvious and wanted by nearly everybody building. The provlem is the zoning often limits lot coverage to one or two units and some percentage less than 50 % coverage. You dont jave to be a dick to the one guy in the hundred building that wants a small single family and lots of land, you need to let the other 99 act in their own self interest and build much higher density with a much jigher unit count.
I started a small service recently in rails. I'm forcing sorbet with typechecking (you can still set things to false like tests which sometimes are a pain to get to pass). It feels almost like a typed language with LSP jump to etc. It's getting there.
First thing that came to mind upon seeing the title was Powershell --- or as some like to call it, powersHell. ;-)
How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break?
I talked to several including the lawyer of Ashley Cervantes v US , a woman warrantlessly digitally raped (fingered) by doctors at the same hospital in search of drugs. Her case was publicized and far more egregious.

They essentially told me they'd given up.

I also reported a nurse who acted without consent to the nursing board. The board covered for her. And in Cervantes case, her doctor simply testified it was a he said she said and he pretty promised she consented.

The ACLU occasionally picks up cases but rarely and even rarer for an unsympathetic white guy.

It feels pretty hopeless honestly. They have QI,the courts, and every institution covers for them. At the border, CBP is god, even immune from 1A right to record them.
Did they? It really felt to me like they weren't trying for a moonshot with it: their sales projection of ca. 1M units falls under the single-digit percentage range of their annual revenue.

Yeah, they've actually sold less than that, but in context, it's still very much a "let's throw it at the wall and see what sticks" kind of thing. It also nonetheless fits how Apple communicates their product vision in new areas.
That could be true. Especially those that opt for a heuristic/application anomalous behaviour approach.
But then, you can add white listing and exceptions to most AV products.
The overall design was inspired by the simple text based ui of clockworkmod recovery for android. There are zero dependencies as well.
precisely. Isn't every business that plus some custom stuff & employee time?

i.e., isn't some business is just a kludge of FOSS heavyweights, say for example, when they write an app in some open source language, deploy it on an open source OS with open source orchestration etc

I think Tailscale is a lot of foss software, with the utility that it lowers the barrier to entry massively
Wow, I never thought speakers would connect to the network, let alone be running Linux and a webserver for a hidden interface. Honestly, I thought speakers still weren't any more complicated than "convert this digital signal into a signal playable by the driver" with a volume knob.
There's no mention in the article as to why the cuttings were beneath the floorboards. My guess is one girl got mad at another and slipped her classwork between the boards. Possible since this predated tongue & groove (the technology angle).
Well, it's more complicated than that under federal law. If there is no completely specific SCOTUS ruling on the issue then it comes down to whether there is a published opinion by the Circuit Court in the government official's area. If there is, then they are expected to have read it and taken it into account when they acted. If they violate that opinion then they are liable.

You can only be civil liable for these sorts of violations. I think to criminally liable under a constitutional violation you need an act of violence? e.g. like the Floyd case?
Or the recreational properties. My 2 bedroom 80+ year old cabin that isn't fit for winter season gets used every weekend in the summer for 4 months but counts as vacant for my province, mevermind that it is W hours from any major non agricultural employment opportunitiesx
2012 was a very different court.

Gorsuch, Neil M. April 10, 2017
Kavanaugh, Brett M. October 6, 2018
Barrett, Amy Coney October 27, 2020
Jackson, Ketanji Brown June 30, 2022
not just the US, they couldn't sell to the West. Sanctions for an IP violation would likely bind all the signatories to WIPO or whatever. sure they could sell internally, but the chips would have to be pretty good to risk pissing off Intel and AMD, since they're not likely to keep doing business with China after that.
Oh man, this has been on my to-build list for ages, right up there with the 6 axis “3D mouse” build. I love the attention to detail.
The states might apply this differently, I'm out of touch, but under fed law, I think you can only apply new SCOTUS rulings to criminal cases that are still not "final." (e.g. haven't gone to trial, or haven't completed their course through all 11 or 13 stages of appellate review.. however many there are these days inc state + fed + habeas)
I got hit by this. On June 6 I got an email from Google saying welcome to Google workspace for my domain.

I don't have Google workspace for this domain and use an alternate email provider. I was curious so tried to signin and was told that the admin account was an email on my domain (eg foo@mydomain.com). Ok, created that account so I could receive email, except then Google said that I had to use the backup recovery email which happened to be mydomain@gmail.com.

Google said that non verified workspaces (eg not verified through txt or cname records) would be automatically deleted after 7 days.

14 days later the workspace was still there.

I had to go through a convoluted manual form and process to get my workspace domain back and then properly register it so this would not happen again.

I provided the following feedback which seems like common sense, but I guess it ain't that common:

1) you shouldn't be able to create a workspace with a custom domain without verifying it via DNS records from the start. No 7 day grace which actually was broken and for all I know was infinite grace period.

2) the established admin account with a custom domain email address should be eligible to perform recovery. Not some arbitrary secondary Gmail account.
Absolutely phenomenal quality. Subscribed to the pro plan! Please add an option to use Claude as I absolutely prefer it to GPT4 and it's probably cheaper too.
Verse Sharing App
Amen to that, I mentioned that above too :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41084212
I agree and disagree. You definitely need someone competent to take a look before merging in code, but you can do a first pass with an LLM to provide immediate feedback on any obvious issues as defined in your internal engineering standards.

Especially helpful if you're a team with where there's a wide variance in competency/experience levels.
You can self-host a Tailscale control sever with Headscale[1]. It's not quite at feature parity with Tailscale, but it supports most if not all the current feature set and its improving every day.
One of the lead devs is even paid by Tailscale to work on it, IIRC.

I run it for my personal self-hosted infra, and it works really well. Setting a custom control server URL is relatively easy (at least on Windows and Android which I use).

I use taildrop, I serve docker containers to the tailnet, etc. headscale works really well and is worth a go.

1: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
One motivation for HDR is having absolute physical units, such as luminance in candelas per square meter. You can imagine that might be a floating point value and that 8 bits per channel might not be enough.

The problem you’re describing is that color brightness is relative, but if you want physical units and you have a calibrated display then adjusting your brightness is not allowed, because it would break the calibration.

Another reason for HDR is to allow you to change the “exposure” of an image. Imagine you take a photo of the sun with a camera. It clips to white. Most of the time even the whole sky clips to white, and clouds too. With a film camera, once the film is exposed, that’s it. You can’t see the sun or clouds because they got clamped to white. But what if you had a special camera that could see any color value, bright or dark, and you could decide later which parts are white and which are black. That’s what HDR gives you - lots of range, and it’s not necessarily all meant to be visible.

In computer graphics, this is useful for the same reason - if you render something with path tracing, you don’t want to expose it and throw away information that happens to get clamped to white. You want to save out the physical units and then simulate the exposure part later, so you don’t have to re-render.

So that’s all to say- the concept of HDR isn’t hacky at all, it’s closer to physics, but that can make it a bit harder to use and understand. Others have pointed out that productized HDR can be a confusing array of marketing mumbo jumbo, and that’s true, but not because HDR is messed up, that’s just a thing companies tend to do to consumers when dealing with science and technology.

I was introduced to HDR image formats in college while studying physically based rendering, and the first HDR image format I remember was Greg Ward’s .hdr format that is clever- 8 bits mantissa per channel and an 8 bit shared exponent, because if, say, green is way brighter than the other channels, you can’t see the dark detail in red & blue.
I understood it to be a political accounting gimmick to make the total cost of the tax cuts seem lower, since the standard way to measure this cost is to use an (arbitrary) 10-year time window. Under this approach, tax deductions that would previously be claimed in year 7 would now be spread out through years 7-11 and thus wouldn’t be counted. This is also why most people seemed fine with undoing the change, because it didn’t matter. But maybe I have this wrong.
My suggestion does not prevent a SFH and lots of land entirely, only if an existing structure was torn down to make way for it. You can still buy an existing SFH, or build one on vacant land. You simply can’t replace an existing SFH or multi family with another SFH. Density line only go up.
Are you saying that people of below average intelligence can't benefit from a university education?
Funny how any effort to limit Big Tech’s ability to do whatever they want is seen as a negative thing.

IMHO attention to privacy and privacy regulations will help make Europe the leader in privacy-respecting services.