skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meters and seconds are both abstract and arbitrary. Abstract because time and space aren't divided. A measure of length isn't concrete like a count of atoms in a cup is. Surely we can agree that those two things have different degrees of concreteness. Yes, the phrase "a second" can be translated to a real equivalent, but the "second" is human idea, unlike the atom.
Luckily it didn't get far - co-founding with a fantasist...
Those reasons are sufficient for me. I'm not contributing my traffic to benefit someone I believe is actively working to corrode democratic institutions.
Not to diminish your fear of dogs, but that hardly seems like the core point to discuss about such a hugely consequential policy.
Most of the HN crowd is the long tail. The vast majority will continue to use whatever mass surveillance/monetization platform their friends use and so news outlets, government bodies, etc. will continue to post on that platform. You can either throw in the towel and join the masses or continue to use technical means of circumvention to access information there when necessary.
As the article reports, the ruling actually states that the amount of time must be reasonable. Any gross or blatant violation would be picked up by any lawyer or judge.
If Mastodon is too much of a lift in the near term (social network effects are admittedly hard and humans are tricky), Threads is an option for a Fediverse-compatible managed solution.

Not hard to get the top 10 folks over to threads (except a few folks who probably wouldn't migrate): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_Twitter_... (https://www.threads.net/@barackobama, https://www.threads.net/@whitehouse, https://www.threads.net/@potus demonstrate popular accounts will make the effort)

Fediverse posting is then a checkbox. Drag the normies. Popular social management tools already support Threads as well (Buffer comes to mind).

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/thr...

https://help.instagram.com/760878905943039

https://buffer.com/threads

(think in systems)
> a necessary lubricant to get enough agreement

It is unfortunate that our representatives are as such, that they don't strive for clarity, but I understand. To me, the lack of clarity is an "invalid state" that has no place in the rulebook.

> if a court decides at some future time that the law fails to accomplish the intent it should be struck down.

This would be very welcome, but it should require repeated testings in fibonacci years, not merely once. This means at 1, 2, 3, 5, ... years after the law was passed or updated.
I recommend the Consent-O-Matic plugin. It automatically rejects consent on almost all sites I interact with on a semi-regular basis.
What makes you feel that? The post you responded to makes complete sense and reflects countless instances of police brutality directed towards individual peaceful protestors.

Here's just one example out of literally countless examples of police brutality directed towards individual peaceful protestors: https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/08/29/nypd-cop-pepper-spray-blm...

Ironically (but unsurprisingly), this example of wanton and indiscriminate police brutality was the police response to protests against wanton and indiscriminate police brutality.
Poking at the documentation, they're only recompiled when the schema changes or ANALYZE has been run[1]. So, if you want them recompiled, you can use the optimize PRAGMA[2].

They raise a good point in the docs that in the contexts SQLite works in, if there's a regression caused by changing the plan, there won't be a DBA around to fix it.

[1] https://sqlite.org/queryplanner-ng.html

[2] https://sqlite.org/lang_analyze.html#req
There is a world controlling technology, thought control and Power.

The green orb business would certainly be fake, though highly possible to have been a figment of the mind, for you see our minds are hacked by Power and one never really can tell who is which phenomenon.

The secret technology is that consciousness may be manipulated through continuity of will (by wetware brains alone). Humans are the humanitarian threat.
How about 300 years? anyone with half a brain can see the problem with that ruling.

Likely someone with lawyers could get that lowered to nothing and as a layman that feels like a feature not a bug.
Firefox on Android mobile works! With unlock origin also which is nice
It's not perfect, but forcing police to define the time that something will be taken does go a long way to shining a light into their intentions and make it easier to prove that they're being unreasonable. "Local police department claims right to hold things for 30 years without a warrant" is a much better headline that would draw a lot more scrutiny from local voters and councils than just "the police won't tell me when I'll get my stuff back".
> I have sometimes wondered if this was just me.

Same for me and even if you have notes you will get "thats not what i said", "thats not how i remember it", etc.
Learn physics, it is really useful for understanding just about everything. Knowing the mechanics of machinery is also very useful. If you're asking about physical tools, there are the usual ones: screwdrivers, hammers, saws, wrench's, pliers, etc. Learn to operating a milling machine and you can make anything. Good flashlights are really useful and last a long time and there are indeed aspects to learning to use them well (battery conservation by using momentary on buttons, color accuracy-important in medicine, colors, UV, search and rescue, note taking and book reading, etc.) Also cooking, you'll live better and longer. Some basic sewing skills and the simple tools and materials that go with it. Some sociology for understanding people. Any physical or mental (or both) discipline: Kung Fu, meditation, drawing, reading+writing+arithmetic, art, music.

Some things have proved to be very useful in past decades but may not be so useful in the future, like small engine repair, and possibly computer programming and electronics. Small engines will cease to exist with time, computer programming is trending towards automation and libraries, electronics keeps getting smaller with less ability to manually build and fix it, though understanding electronics from a design perspective seems likely to still be useful for some time.
If this happens this could happen and the easiest way is through doing this and too much of doing this will low share price of a stock you might hold.

Weak article with little facts. Fortune rarely does better.
> Would any OEM dare to use workarounds to install windows 11 on not officially supported hardware? I feel like most OEMs would simply upgrade the hardware no questions asked. Simply because should any problem occur, Microsoft would just tell them your problem not ours.

Well on a basic level, if the consumer buys your motherboard or laptop and it doesn't work out of the box (but your competitors do) then you are going to have a massive customer satisfaction problem.

> Doesn't 90% of the push for this come from Media companies to implement DRM?

I don't think so. DRM is an old lens of understanding the problem from the last generation. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg . The new methods use a softer approach. Consider something like iOS where the developers can just make it very uncomfortable to do something like download a video and watch it. There's no bittorrent app or p2p file-sharing, there's no real filesystem, and there is no real standalone video player. So users rely on streaming services to do this for them, and you can charge money to middle-man that service.

You don't need to strictly enforce copyright like with DRM, just use trusted computing so that the entire system discourages general computer-like operations (including copying files, running programs, etc.) and encourages acting like a thin client to some server. This is a much better model because some small fraction of users still DO need to have general-purpose computing to make consumables in the first place (for example, video editors or musicians, writers, programmers) but the majority of the user-base is discouraged for a variety of reasons. The more you can separate the creator of information from the user of information, the more you can charge the user to access the creator.

You can't replace the OS or any of the parts of the machine because of trusted computing, so you cannot really use reverse engineering to simply break the system (and if you do, it may break the trust chain you now need to access now-networked services). Another example is that on a lot of phones and laptops these days, you can't add removable storage, so you are heavily encouraged to use cloud storage. And you are discouraged from using cloud services from any third party (usually on an API level, as services provided from the OS vendor can integrate better with the system). Consider how Apple pushes iCloud and Microsoft pushes OneCloud.
I’m curious what makes you think each and every snippet of code has to be monetized and turned into a product?
My guess is that they had prior experience with asking students not to use cellphones and they observed students start using wearables to skirt the ban, which led them to just ban all of them.

An interesting consequence about the wearable ban is that they also banned medical electronic devices (e.g., heart monitors or blood sugar monitors) and parents are required to meet with administration to approve their use [1].

[1]: https://greenwichfreepress.com/schools/greenwich-schools-ann...
Do you not see the inherent contradiction here? You want to consume good content on X but you don't want to sign up for an account out of protest because you don't like the owner. You can't have it both ways. So instead you make the experience 100x more complicated for yourself by using a network of proxies to consume the content using other people's accounts. Make it make sense?
To add,

+ CRT's were usually shipped in bulk on pallets and that's how they would arrive in a big box store. So "This side up" and "Handle with Care" had meaning and until reaching store shelves forked jacks and lifts were used. Unlike today when a CRT will mostly be moved by hand alongside unfragile goods by someone who isn't paid to care.

+ Crating a used CRT is time consuming and requires more effort and experience than most sellers are likely to commit or have. The margins just aren't there when selling to price sensitive customers. It's probably $100 worth of work on top of the cost of shipping and whose going to pay that?

For reference, manufacturers have engineers designing their shipping packages.
> And what alternatives do you suggest?

The utility company could post on their own website.
I didn’t say it’s stupid. Everyone’s assessment is inaccurate every once in a while. Or pretty much always, when it comes to certain biases.

You say “average user” and then point to a comment where someone’s disappointed that they can’t get their professional software to work. The average user these days needs a web browser, and doesn’t care which one.
It's a little too late for it to matter. My understanding is Twitter was bought with debt secured by TSLA. If the debt gets called the stock gets liquidated regardless of Musk.
Let's invent a new programming language that tells its users that the amount of time for which they hold memory should be "reasonable", without getting into specifics. This means the language can reclaim memory whenever it deems a violation has occurred. How well do you think would that work for the program? Not very well.
Can you publish the "stats" here?
sounds like a nightmare to do logistically. it would be cool though.
The quote sucks and I completely disagree with the author.

It puts the whole responsibility on the engineer to predict how long a thing will take. There are much better approaches though. We can focus on allowing the team to create lots of small tickets (can be done in a few hours or 1-2 days), massively improving our prediction estimates. The author seems to suggest we should be able to predict the future no matter the task or team communication/organization.
if you want your comments to make any sense, you need to use "key value" with every usage of "value", otherwise people are going to think "container value"
Roast: I'm glad this site isn't a restaurant. It's great at serving things, but much too slowly.

Actual Feedback: I got a black screen with a long scroll bar. Scrolling down, I got near the bottom and spotted a sentence in white text.

Scrolled back up to it, and then noticed content starting to appear.

Scrolled all the way back to the top and saw content appearing bit by bit.

It's definitely taking way too long to populate, because I should not have been able to scroll so far without seeing at least some sort of content at the start. The priority should be on what is shown on the immediate screen, instead of populating in what looks like a random order. It'll at least feel a whole lot faster if the slow-to-load stuff is initially offscreen below, and the top of the page rendered immediately so there is no wait.
And to get the same for linux they would have to build a kernel module for all major distributions or open source the module and have users compile it themselves. I can see why both dont make sense for them.

Thanks for clarifying.
I didn't develop too much because as I said in another thread, I wrote this post without giving much thought. Sorry for not being at the HN standards, but this post wasn't even supposed to be here, and here we are ;).

That said, I think given the current state of the language, adding nullability would be much easier to do than adding Union or Sum types. And from my experience with Kotlin, nullability already gives much of the benefits.

I am not saying I will not change my opinion in the future. I got my first job working with a language that has algebraic types (Scala), so my opinion may change in future. However, even if it changes I think getting Union or Sum types in a language like Go is impossible, while nullables are unlikely to happen but at least not impossible.
It’s not Twitter itself, it’s the people and conversations. Probably the same reason you use HN.
I think maybe they're hoping for more sympathetic victims of police abuse.

Unfortunately, the police tend to be pretty thoughtful and discriminatory in whom they target for abuse.
Thanks for explaining the distinction. In Italy we’ve had the same kind of polemic for 20 years from Berlusconi’s Right, claiming — whether preposterously or not is itself debatable, and fanned by Berlusconi’s media — that the Judiciary was corrupt, captured by the “CUmmunishti”, and the haters.

It’s interesting how it’s all playing out again.
Well, movies, music and video games have content rating, to the extent that a book that features tobacco use may be rated for certain audiences...

For the sake of consistency, I would expect that a sexually explicit book would not be put in the hands of kids, same as we already do with other types of content such as music, movies and games.

Now, there are books that should be banned. Like the Golden book of Chemistry Experiments and other books that can lead to potentially dangerous outcomes.
Which is why our (ATC) pay is becoming not worth the job which is why good controllers are quiting or retiring early, and there are lower quality applicants who wash out of the academy, their facility, or skate by until they nearly kill hundreds of people (see the recent Austin airport incident where a plane nearly landed on a Southwest plane, or other incidents that don't make the news that I can't mention without doxing myself), all while pilots are getting 40% raises. I hope your TCAS is working.

Rasie our f***ing pay.

Opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect the Federal Aviation Administration.

(I'm close to retirement eligibility, so instead of working until I'm 56 - the mandatory returement age, I'm going to retire sooner. Because there has been a struggle to hire an adequate number of controllers over the past decade or so, no one is really going to replace my vacancy which causes shortstaffing and everyone else to be that much more overworked, but when the FAA does fill that spot, it will be by someone who is not as good because people who would be better will be attracted by better salaries and work-life balance in other jobs.)
They're jealous of the platform Apple has created where they can sell the users rather than sell software to them. This requires cryptographic hardware like the TPM.

Obviously it's not going to work because the only advantage Windows had was being the last popular platform that didn't work this way^ but the admins in charge of the decisions probably don't understand this.

^There also used to be compatibility with early y2k apps and familiarity of users from school but both of those have been quickly eroding.

EDIT: Out of replies

Trapping 20% of tech illiterate users would be a loss considering they currently have upwards of 80%.
> Likely someone with lawyers could get that lowered to nothing

I wouldn't be so sure. Cops have implicit prosecutorial attorneys too that have a lot more experience with such cases than do defense attorneys.

There is no substitute for clarity in law. All else opens the door to exploitation and selective application, both of which are a mockery of justice.
Didn't Vladimir Vysotsky have a french girlfriend?

While watching a retro-Soviet russian program, I was amused to see a videotape on a desk clearly labeled «Эммануэль» — "Emmanuelle".

(I'm pretty sure Americans could watch that even despite subtitles?)

EDIT: come to think of it, both france and russia (as well as bits of africa?) used SECAM, which probably helped cultural exchange a great deal. Back in the day, it was easier for us to get not-broadcast-in-the-US anime than not-broadcast-in-the-US BBC programs, despite the language barrier, because the former were NTSC but the latter PAL.

Sting has a great story about watching Soviet children's programming while at uni (probably explaining his lines "I don't subscribe to this point of view / It'd be such an ignorant thing to do / If the Russians love their children too"), but I kind of wondered if his friend who built the SECAM decoder had, at least originally, been more interested in picking up cross-channel programming than cross-iron-curtain?
I wouldn't call it useless, the decision is pretty clear on when property can be held:

> If the rationales that justified the initial retention of the plaintiffs’ effects dissipated, and if no new justification for retaining the effects arose, then the Fourth Amendment obliged the MPD to return the plaintiffs’ effects.

...and even addresses acceptable reasons for delay:

> we do not suggest that it must always return the property instantaneously.
Matching a person with his effects can be difficult, as can the logistics of storage and inventory.

The court's opinion is basically that once the criminal complaint is resolved and the investigation is terminated, the gov't has no reason to hold the property and it must be returned. If it takes them a few days or weeks to get the stuff out of inventory and coordinate the return that's fine, but they can't continue holding it just because they feel like it.
They still teach them in Germany, though I think maybe only up to 10x10 these days.

In the US AFAIK they are called "times tables"; in Germany "one times one" („Einmaleins‟). It's funny what people emphasize for the same thing.
> some are still latching on for some reason.

Reason being the network effect. I'd rather use Mastodon but everyone i'd follow posts on Twitter - even the people i follow on Mastodon at best put the same posts on Twitter and -way more often than not- barely put anything on Mastodon.
The whole system setup is just borderline arcane. Tell my girlfriend to do that or hack the government, it will be on the same level of impossible to her. And she’s a smart, digital native.

And that comes before all the user interface struggles mentioned above.
Should the tittle be changed? The link doesn't explicitly say what the OP says.
> “Please enter the characters in the 31, 98, 102 position…”

I think this is a “the password game” requirement.
Honestly I connected it to both macOS and windows before. I recently got a new WiFi card so I'm thinking it just has a crappy chipset in terms of Linux support (Asus PCE-AXE59BT is all my store had at the time). Playing around with Mint and tried the xpadneo kmod.
> And nothing of value was lost.

Some presumably nice and relevant images were lost.
As much as programmers like to draw analogies between law and code, they don't really work the same way at all.
According to Musk, we're going to have full self driving cars in negative 8 years so maybe look to independent parties when assessing claims that directly impact the wealth of the people making them.
Tabulator: Spreadsheet-like datatables in Vanilla JavaScript
There's a few communities stubbornly remaining on Twitter for some reason. In particular, communities built around anything coming out of Japan - e.g. rhythm games, anime, or vtubers.
I'm not sure how you can link these test results to lack of memorization when so many other factors are likely at play from the worsening parental support many children face with school due to economic decline, to the pittance teachers are paid, to the war on education some states seem to be playing (curiously they are all heavy red states).
Better yet, don’t use passwords at all. I’m personally fond of the magic link sent to email method of authN
You're saying meta had ~$14 billion in revenue in 2023? I think you're missing a zero...
To me it seems the very distinction is toxic. All users of a platform should be considered equal, not separated into developers and consumers. Creating your own apps for whatever an audience to use it (for yourself, for specific people you want or for everyone) should be considered a normal feature any user may use.
They don’t need to, but often do from my experience. Electric delivery and garbage trucks can’t soon enough to my neighborhood.
> Our findings reveal that the most commonly used positional encoding methods, such as ALiBi, Rotary, and APE, are not well suited for length generalization in downstream tasks. More importantly, NoPE outperforms other explicit positional encoding methods while requiring no additional computation. We theoretically demonstrate that NoPE can represent both absolute and relative PEs, but when trained with SGD, it mostly resembles T5's relative PE attention patterns.

Interestingly, position embeddings seem unnecessary for decoder only architectures going against what is conventionally thought. Wondering, if this result is as strong as it sounds.

> Overall, our work suggests that explicit position embeddings are not essential for decoder-only Transformers to generalize well to longer sequences.
Superhuman Powers for Superhero Developers
Why does a utility company need to post status updates on a microblogging platform?
Corruption is pretty much always the answer.
Interestingly, I think the "participates in a strike" portion of the statute might be the only part of Section 7311 that could survive and/or has survived [0, 1] a First Amendment challenge.

[0]: https://casetext.com/case/stewart-v-washington

[1]: https://casetext.com/case/national-association-of-letter-car...
If that feature would introduce a need to reactor or re-architect major parts of the the logic since everything has been built with the purpose of the playing video forwards supporting as many codecs as possible. Then, yes. And as a long time user of vlc video playback (and transcoding) I have never wanted to go back one frame. I always wanted to go back like 15 seconds, and that has worked forever.
Sadly, this also means the end of the Google Maps Timeline feature on the website. All location data will only be stored on-device. I really valued the website feature, I would regularly ask Google what restaurant I ate at in Chicago 5 years ago.
That might be why I like mastodon. May we never suffer an eternal September.