skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> signing a book deal is substantially different from receiving all expenses paid vacations.

You do know the rules for disclosure were changed recently right? The ProPublica article used Thomas past dealings and then applied the recent changes to those dealings. That would seem, I don't know, a bit underhanded in their reporting no?

"The Smearing of Clarence Thomas"

Wall St Journal

April 2023

https://archive.ph/pXVuq

But it seems clear that the Court’s rules at the time all of this happened did not require that gifts of personal hospitality be disclosed. This includes the private plane trips. ProPublica fails to make clear to readers that the U.S. Judicial Conference recently changed its rules to require more disclosure. The new rules took effect last month.

Justice Thomas would have been obliged to disclose gifts that posed a conflict of interest involving cases that would be heard by the High Court. But there is no evidence that Mr. Crow has had any such business before the Court, and Mr. Crow says he has “never asked about a pending or lower court case.”

So then to review:

- Thomas had no obligation to disclose his trips

- The person he went on the trips with had no business before the court, nor did he ever inquire about any of the court's business.

- Thomas has said he will adhere to the new disclosure rules.

Yet:

- Sotomayor took $2M from a publisher who DID have business with the court

- Sotomayor was one of their clients and had an obvious conflict of interest

- She refused to recuse herself and ruled (shockingly) in favor of her beneficiary

And your take here is Thomas' was worst than Sotomayor's?
This is a bad article, missing half what it needs to cover the subject. It’s mostly describing a single dialog box with two affordances, and it only describes the effect of one of them — “Continue to Allow”. It’s reasonable to think that the other — “Open System Settings” - allows one to make the change permanently.
Is that the solution to social science's replication problem?
I'm not going to invest a drug company with a 90% chance of failure unless I can expect to get a 10x return if it succeeds.
> the article was written by a marketing professor

This is flat-out false.
I reached it so long ago. My most "up-to-date" Mac runs OS X 10.10. No intention to ever run anything newer.
Another concern besides register file size is shuffle instructions, which can transfer any byte of a 512-bit register to any other (or any byte across two such registers for another instruction variant (vpermt2b), i.e. selecting from 128 bytes, and doing 64 such selections in one instruction).

You can't emulate that via just two regular 256-bit uops, you need four (maybe more for blending the results together). And if you don't have the two-register table 256-bit variant (e.g. Tiger Lake doesn't, though for 512-bit of course; it splits it into three uops), that'd end up at a rather massive 12 uops.
>How would you feel if you were one of them?

>I'd feel pretty upset.

Agreed.

Yes, flying in space is cool. No, most people don't want to do this indefinitely. Astronauts retire all the time even when they are 100% guaranteed more flight time if they didn't retire; a whole bunch did that in the 1960s and 1970s (some, like Frank Borman, 100% guaranteed to walk on the moon), and more during the shuttle era.

It's one thing to have a mission extended by a day, as happened to the shuttle routinely because of bad weather at the landing site. Skylab 4's mission I believe got extended by 28 days, but that was a known possibility before launch. To have an eight-day mission be possibly extended to eight months is in no way shape or form OK.
Before yesterday's Sequoia update, this was a daily permission prompt.

In a vacuum, I don't consider this to be an extremely poor decision; the system picker has a mostly-sane interface. Apps that capture the screen currently have an extremely long leash, and the hole for an app that decided to become malicious and start (for example) exfiltrating capture data is... extremely wide.

However, for apps that took pains prior to macOS Sequoia in offering a reasonable and privacy-focused consent interface for screen capture (that doesn't use the picker, that is), this prompt is insulting and a slap in the face. Apple did not do a good job with its developers with the introduction of this 'feature'.

Furthermore, the system picker lacks important functionality (can't capture apps without currently visible windows, can't do 'everything-except-these-apps' captures) and its configurations have no time-to-live, meaning an app would have to use the picker every single time it starts up, or else get this prompt. This really undermines the picker and the prompt's effectiveness, and it's disappointing to see something well-intentioned be self-defeating in this way.

In general, ScreenCaptureKit is one of the most poorly managed and poorly functioning APIs Apple has introduced in recent years. It offers solid functionality, but every release introduces a legion of new bugs and performance regressions. I dunno if someone key to this APIs success quit or what, but it really needs to be fixed up by someone with actual care for the details.
> The department must adopt ... a prohibition on surveillance of First Amendment–protected activity.

This seems like a silly thing to call for. What is the problem with the police monitoring what was, in this case, public first amendment protected activity? There isn't any reason to prohibit government officers listening to public speech.

The racketeering charges sound much more concerning and are a problem in line with the absurdist lawfare we've seen at the Federal level. The RICO Act abuse seems to be a problem. Maybe at some point the US public will cotton on to excess laws being a bad idea due to selective prosecution, but unfortunately if the mass public were going to acquire a case of principles we'd have seen more of it in the voting patterns of the last few decades.
Trusting Apple not to break the computer I paid them $1k+ for is very different from trusting Apple to not hoover up and sell my personal data (or let it get stolen).
Not me 2:00am slack posting links to DataDog where our DB latency is at 30 seconds "is this bad?" while I hotfix better 500 handling to the client app.
this is probably the least flame-y thread about crime in SF I've ever seen on here
They use sand from deposits that are quite pure.
I follow like 80% of the channels listed in this thread so far, so here are some more that I enjoy

https://youtube.com/@cuttingedgeengineering

https://youtube.com/@snowballengineering

https://youtube.com/@noengineerhere (but probably too much comedy for your taste)

https://youtube.com/@matthiaswandel

https://youtube.com/@agingwheels

https://youtube.com/@breakingtaps

https://youtube.com/@saveitforparts
Corps can’t silently allow apps to have screen recording access. The user still has to allow the app access when it requests it.

They can allow/block list certain apps from ever being allowed, but it’s still up to the user to enable it via an interactive prompt.

This just adds to prompt fatigue, which is already bad enough. Users don’t read this shit, they just get annoyed by it and blindly click Allow.
CRT can only be used for private key ops e.g. signing. The verification side (i.e. the logic that runs on the console) can't use CRT.
CrowdStrike releases root cause analysis of global Microsoft breakdown
Isn't it more friendly to let the customer know in advance instead of wasting their time browsing the store only to be stopped at the cash register?
> doesn't count unless you did it on purpose

According to whom?

In any case, the Montreal Convention fits the bill [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol
You can set `pipe` to true in puppeteer (default false) here https://pptr.dev/api/puppeteer.launchoptions

By default, Playwright launches this way and you have to specifically enable the tcp listening.
How does this work, given the pharmacy is open to non-members?

Additionally, anyone with a gift card is entitled to shop there without a membership.

I don’t see how the burden on cashiers is changed.
There are a few sites that do this -- this is a popular one, won't work if the thread author blocked the bot

https://threadreaderapp.com/
If you have mild fever symptoms and you are able to take the time to rest and recover no. But if your fever has lasted for a prolonged period of time and you are unable to take the time to rest, then you may consider taking them.

There is a similar argument for inflammation, if you have a sporting injury or you have worked out and your muscles are sore, should you be taking anti-inflammation drugs or using massage guns which reduce inflammation, when inflammation is your bodies response to rebuild itself. By taking them you are reducing your bodies ability to repair itself, however you may experience less pain and discomfort as a result.
Abstraction: Not What You Think It Is (2022)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30840873 (March 2022 | 127 comments)
CrowdStrike's outage should not have happened
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The ribosome lowers the entropic penalty of protein folding (Nature)
> Seems more confusing than useful.

Are you suggesting that these design decisions make it through the entire process and into the language without the feature bringing a clear advantage in its use case? What would you say are the worst two or three of these C# features approved in the last decade?

Let’s assume for the sake of argument that you are correct though. The Roslyn compiler diagnostics are second to none, and pretty much any of these features will have corresponding analyzers to help remove some of that confusion, with documentation links being automatically provided if used incorrectly.

These guys aren’t writing feature proposals the way you write comments.
When I'm looking for how-to's on YouTube, I scroll until I see (a) an actual dirty construction worker with poor camera angles (home improvement) or (b) a dirty garage (auto).

It's the easiest way to ensure material requirements will be distilled down to "Now, cut the top off a plastic coke bottle..."
s/Russia/Soviet Union/ . Sloppiness weakens trust in the rest of this otherwise intriguing post.
Will it bypass it regardless of the virtualization engine, or only if you're using the Hypervisor framework for macOS VMs?
I don't understand your hostility. Are my opinions hostile to you? I'm sorry if they were. I'm just sharing what I've learned.

> Wow, that means...literally every dev can be a scrum master.

Yes. And that's why if you take the training as a developer, you get "Certified Scrum Master" training. If you would stop trying to gotcha me, you would see this is an potential area of agreement between us.

I don't think you have a proper sense for what a 'blocker' is in the context of Scrum. In a normal workplace and well-functioning team, blockers are few and far between so the SM shouldn't need to engage all that often anyways.

Not all problems we encounter in the workplace are in code. Scrum has roles to own and manage the different kinds of problems. Scrum is also a flat hierarchy, it's fairly minimal. You're supposed to make things as simple as possible, but no simpler. I think you're over-simplifying.

The 'Business' is capitalized because of English, but feel free to read my words with business all lowercase. I don't worship any man, bad look.

Product Owners need to be subject matter experts or at least SME's in training. In my experience lead developers who try to also wear the PO hat sometimes have trouble getting their heads out of the minutae. If you have seen the opposite in your experience, then lucky you.

> Wanna hear about my revolutionary idea? A development team consisting of...developers.

When you get to know types of folks other than coders, you get to appreciate how they make important contributions to the project. I think you were trying to smash home a point here, but the world is bigger and more interesting than what you wish it was.
I have to assume that much like gyms they will have displays that will pop up the associated picture on file on entry. Not facial recognition, and it sounds like the person will still be standing there just like they do now and they can reference the picture match manually. In practice they seldom if never would, but it's a risk for people sharing cards.

As is the checkout person will essentially never deny someone based on a mismatch because it causes quite a logistic issue to deny someone who has a big cart of goods, most of which are sitting on the belt, then to suddenly refuse their service.
I've only been to Costco once here in the UK (as I'm not eligible for membership - the criteria are quite tight here), but they had a person and a scanner checking cards on the entrance.

Maybe that's because of the stricter eligibility rules.
TL;DR: it became the Demon Core, after its core was repurposed in criticality experiments with poor methodology. Though the article is mostly about the politics of Japan's surrender, and of maybe/not dropping the third bomb.

Kinda offtopic:

> Private Robert Hemmerly, was also irradiated but survived, only to die of cancer 33 years later.

The phrasing is odd, "only to ..." is a colloquialism to indicate bad luck, as in to escape one bad event only to immediately fall to another bad event.

But living 33 more years is a good amount of life! (and long enough interval to start doubting a direct causality between the irradiation and the cancer)
>It’s hard to bring your cpap to Confrences because you must find distilled water

I gave up on using distilled water with my AirSense 11 after the initial supply. I don't mind unhumidified air. While it's possible to run the device with an empty water tank, a replacement sidecap is available that automatically disables the water-warming feature.
Related ~100 pg report from Dec 2022. We'll researched and well articulated, in my opinion at least.

In history books it's appropriately shocking to see those photos of kids playing in clouds of DEET sprayed by trucks, 1950s and 60s, yet today we're many orders of magnitude beyond that with glyphosate.

https://foe.org/resources/merchants-of-poison/
They stopped the study because of the incredible efficacy and lack of side effects. This was a phase 3 clinical trial so they have already cleared substantial hurdles in safety requirements (clinical trials are about both efficacy and side effects).

But for argument’s sake, there are even more sides than efficacy and safety: there are substantially different risk profiles for different potential patients, and a long acting treatment with no daily pill is more valuable for some people.

One of the reasons that long acting injectables could have a big impact on transmission in Africa is because there’s stigma around PrEP usage, especially for women. Obviously, there is now a big conversation about the cost and who pays, but the potential here is indisputable.

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/nih-statement-prelimin...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10879468/
Strong advocate of open source here.

That said, in an enterprise setting, for all of Microsoft's other faults, C# is damn near bullet proof. Some enterprises, like mine, can't rely on community supported tooling for life-critical systems. If something breaks, we're near instantaneously on the phone to a dedicated support rep to fix the problem.

I learned C# and Java years ago during my IT degree but had long since forgotten them. The enterprise I work in uses C# a fair bit.

Only started to pick up C# again in the past few months, and holy heck, I forgot how pleasurable it is to work in C# again.

If the third-party components used in some software I help maintain supported JetBrains Rider, I'd use it in a heartbeat.

Visual Studio (not Code...) is okay, though I'm not tripping over myself to use it. PyCharm and IntelliJ have spoiled me.
really good point, and well worth mentioning in the "code should be self-documenting and comments are unnecessary" debate.
For the AirSense 11, a replacement sidecap is available that automatically disables the water-warming function.
> Could probably write a book about the lessons learned getting a "vision first" approach to automation working

ha that would be splendid! please do maybe even a blog on valetnet.dev (lovely site btw a demo or video would be a nice)

I'm convinced vision first is the way to go despite people saying its slow the benefits are tremendous as lot of websites simply do not play nice with HTML and I do not like having to inspect XHR to figure out APIs

SikuliX was my last love affair with this approach but eventually I lost interest in scraping and automation so I'm pleased to see people still working on vision first automation approaches.
Now I'm curious what the criteria are. Oxbridge graduate?
Well, maybe not the one who drove across the country in a diaper to assault her ex-boyfriend's lover.
Related After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table (147 points, 22 days ago, 176 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40979539
Google also has obligations to disclose info about its manner of operations, but chose to delete and obfusicate that instead
> A [Customer] has a [Paid Subscription], to a [Plan (Subscription)], which grants them [Permissions] to login with an [Account] to see certain [Plan Features] on the [Product Pages].

This is interesting. I'm thinking about how I would implement this, and I think I could do it, but I don't really have it clear in my mind. I'm going to have to make a project to practice this with since it does seem quite important to understand. Especially since I want to work in SaaS and eventually start my own micro SaaS. Thanks for your detailed comment.
IIRC this request happened every time you open the app, not just at install time. So Apple has a log of (IP, AppID, TimeOpened).
Bun v1.1.22
> It’s reasonable to think that the other — “Open System Settings” - allows one to make the change permanently.

It does not. All it does is what it says on the tin- open System Settings.
So what exactly do we do when a Supreme Court justice willfully misreads clear and established law and precedent set by congress? Can we impeach them? IANAL, but that statue is plain english. I do not need an interpreter. Neither should any of you.
https://archive.is/foyma
Can we get a trial to test this out? Been looking for this.
HTTrack was fantastic, still was a couple of years ago when I used it for a small project too.
The answer is that your beliefs on how PE works/what they do is wrong.
The answers to your questions are in the paper linked in the first line of the app
> However, idiots never become surgeons.

That would once have been taken as gospel, then came Ben Carson standing by his statement that Egyptian pyramids were built for grain storage.

In the medical world there are strong opinions as to whether the procedural dexterity inherent in excelling as a surgeon also requires better than average reasoning prowess.
I misunderstood "Of course it's not" upthread then. If you are not using a US hosting company, obviously you are free of the DMCA.
This seems like a well written, balanced, principled, fair news article. Well done Reynolds and Gutiérrez.
> The public gets access

Just a reminder that on-patent Truvada cost $4,500 for a 30 day supply of a drug that needs to be taken every day.
They’re not a “late contributor” if what they bring to the table is nonexistent today.
Alcohol as well, non-members can go in at buy that too.

> "It helps speed up the process," Richard Galanti, Costco's former chief financial officer, told Axios in January.

> "When you go through checkout, particularly self-checkout, there's not someone there having to review the card again," Galanti said.

As far as I can tell, it's not going to prevent reviews at checkout (unless there are scanners there), not to mention the card still needs to be used to tie the purchases to the member... it's not like they are going to be like Amazon Go. Even if it does speed up checkout, it will just move the slowdown from checkout to store entry, so it doesn't seem like anything is actually being saved.
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No more inexpensive hotdogs for nonmembers
Why spend money just for the sake of it? Rich people don’t stay rich by spending their own money. I’ve always had a starving student mentality as wasting money on junk is just that. For any big purchase of more than three figures, wait a month. Do you really need it?
For the private parts of development, the costs are absolutely priced in. A large drug company needs to amortize the cost of all development attempts, not just the successful ones. Private investments into smaller firms price in a very large chance of failure, so the cost of capital is quite high.
There shouldn't be much of an issue with designing the the payload as an entry vehicle. Give it the ability to destructively remove itself from the tether, then parachute down. Or just build your tether next to a body of water and have the payload steer into that.

That is if your payload wasn't so high up, it's now on its way to an orbit around earth. I think physically the place of departure should be the periapsis of its orbit, so even with orbital decay through atmospheric drag you'll have long enough to figure where to steer it.
You have to work in specific industries or work in specific job roles:

https://customercare.costco.co.uk/app/answers/detail/a_id/85...

Apparently, by targeting the Wholesale market - plus a limited range of general consumers, they are able to class their stores as wholesale warehouses, which can be opened in locations where a general retail store wouldn't be permitted. That makes purchasing or leasing land for the store much cheaper.
No linters in C#? That’s a good one.

C# as a language has always been cross-platform.

Though the last few versions have made incredible gains in performance optimizations. You won’t get the flexibility of C++ but the performance comes close to it in most cases, when written optimally.

And you don’t have to deal with arcane, bullshit build systems with a learning curve that is worse than the language, and breaks down on every OS major version update (or its own version updates).
There is no risk to them if they always honor DMCA takedown requests.
deep exasperated sigh

If you're too young to remember a time when Windows didn't bug you every five minutes with a prompt that said 'Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?', you should know computers used to just silently do what you wanted them to do. Shame that macOS is going the same way.
What better way to drive acceptance of robot soldiers then to start out having them only hunting robots first.
He also does a test with pbo enabled which brings the power draw inline with the 7700x and it only is 10% better or less.
For flat iron surfaces, it's hard to beat a single-edge razor scraper. The plastic Allway holders are great. Incredibly, the HDX ones are crap. Not sure how they screwed that up, but they did.

Anyhow, the steel of the blade isn't hard enough to scratch the surface without some serious effort, which means you won't wear any hollows where there's more rust (beyond any pitting from the rust itself). It's quicker than a wire brush because you're basically cutting under the rust and lifting it off in paths the width of the blade. Replace the blades when they get full or nicked. They're more than cheap enough.

As mentioned elsewhere, Evaporust does wonders for any remaining rust.