skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they were independent levers capable of being physically locked together, you'd probably notice when they aren't moving together. Of course, you could easily have similar visual feedback on a touch screen. Seems like the real issue is described later in the article; throttle control can be split between control stations, which is actually insane, I can't imagine a scenario where you'd want that.
Or Security.
It specifically carved out cases where the balance leans toward non-regulation - namely, non-competes for executives.

This is false. The FTC tried to ban for all workers and senior executives. The only difference for senior executives is that the FTC didn't retroactively invalidate existing non-competes. Under the FTC's rule, no new non-competes could be signed.
If it was within their authority[1], then it is of no relevance what a particular judge thinks of its scope.

[1] Acknowledging that in this case, the judge also believes it's not within their authority.
There was really one AI winter which is a sample size of 1, saying this time is different is justified based on the exponential improvement over AI 10 years back
Any amount of time is unreasonable. We already have laws against corporate espionage and sharing corporate secrets. Competitors offering better compensation to workers is fifty percent of the basis of capitalism.
A single judge in a lower court in a notoriously anti-regulation part of Texas. This isn't very interesting (yet).
If you're already using Firefox, all you have to do is click the Reader Mode button, at the right edge of your URL bar.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...
But they judge shopped for this. It makes a mockery of our system.
Wickard v. Filburn basically destroyed the commerce clause. Growing wheat on your own farm is "interstate commerce" because it impacts national wheat prices (since you would have bought that wheat otherwise!). In the second half of the 20th century, this ruling was used to great effect to limit the power of in-state businesses in the South to discriminate.

On the other hand, it was also used to justify why the federal government can prevent states from legalizing marijuana, even if it won't leave the state. It's certainly a ruling with a complicated moral legacy, in that it has some clearly good use cases, a few bad ones, while also brazenly defying the clear meaning of the constitution because doing so was convenient to the state.

Not sure how I feel about it, but I guess it was inevitable anyway.
You know, I think I’d be fine with non-competes that only apply to jobs with employers in the same state, and to jobs with an employer that does no business outside the state.

That’d effectively be a blanket ban anyway, so sure.
The issue is that corporations, with billions of dollars and hundreds of top lawyers at their disposal can always come up with justifications for everything they do.
Coding assistance ain’t useful till it has around 50mb of context or whatever the size of 80% of code bases uses
If you can be put in jail for hurting somebodies feelings, there is no functional right free expression.
One of my favorite interviews was like this, but it was a long time ago and they printed out the code and told me there was a problem. Here's a pencil. What's wrong? Most were a function call or two. In one case I remember someone was doing a loop that incremented the index of a SQL query in code and using each result, instead of querying the set and looping through it in the code.

The fun part was it was a discussion. Two people, paper and pencil, talking about the code. And the examples were from bugs they'd already squashed in a code base they inherited. It was a project that I ended up working on that had... quite a few interesting bugs like that.
Do you keep a journal? Things like sunlight, diet, schedule, socialization, can have a big effect.
Wow. This is extremely saddening. And who loses in the end? The kids. Which means we all do.
Despite being a voracious reader all my life, I'm surprised I never noticed until now that there is no literary equivalent of the ESRB. Perhaps someone should work on that.
>(this class of issue is going to be a big issue for the RISC-V ecosystem moving forward, imo)

What issue? Generic RV32I code "just works" in this microcontroller.

This is not unlike telling LLVM the target is Zen4, which enables e.g. avx-512.
It’s a complex feedback loop. On one hand the economy is great. On the other the housing policy is completely messed up. So you get a lot of new wealth that than chases too few houses, pushing everyone else out.
I can’t help but appreciate the irony as someone who has been forced into numerous non-competes that were too broad. In Texas, nonetheless.
The funny thing is Atom was the origin story of Zed, written in some C++ and a lot of Coffeescript exactly so it could be very programmable.

Also, Spacemacs? It's technically a terminal but definitely has a lot of UI features. Very programmable.
A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

https://www.acityonmars.com/
What is the most secure FOSS operating system with Internet access?
Random people say Arch Linux, OpenBSD or Qubes, but it is true that Arch Linux is secure to an extent if it is fully hardened, but not as secure as OpenBSD, so is OpenBSD secure? Qubes is a good approach to an OS, but it's Xen security, not OS security, and I'd rather run a secure OS other than Fedora or Debian on Qubes. And I've heard that Chrome OS/Chromium OS has the highest security of any Linux OS, but it's not more secure, it's just more limited. But that, like Qubes, goes back to the drawing board. So which OS is the most secure? Maybe Multics (better protection rings than Linux, OSX or Windows)? I use the most aggressive attackers as my threat model.

I have also heard that the Windows NT kernel design, although not FOSS, is better than Linux, BSD and OSX because it is based on OpenVMS knowledge.
So whisper is 6 years old and this supposed UI expert never noticed this issue?

Or, for that matter, never considered that maybe trying to dynamically calculate font size--instead of just using standard CSS sizes like, oh, I dunno, "100%" or "medium", which are specifically intended to present the best font size for the user taking into account their device's configuration--wasn't a good idea?
There is no good answer, it's just not a good UI pattern for that reason.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Only Skyscraper Set to Close Amid Controversy
> It’s easy for the candidate to self-assess their own progress.⊕ When the candidate isn’t doing well on it, they probably already knew it without needing to be told as much by the recruiter. This is a much better candidate experience than the whiplash of thinking you solved a question perfectly only to realize that the interviewer was looking for something else entirely.

Not to say that I think this is a bad type of question overall, but IMO, this is an anti-feature. The candidate does not need to accurately self-assess their performance on the day. They need to have their confidence preserved so they don’t tilt and tank the signal for the entire interview round.
Everything except that shriveled little thing that drove the buying decision.
It’s true that California is experiencing outmigration but that’s primarily driven by the fact that Democratic Party voters like to use the phrase “preserve our community” to mean the same sentiment as “build the wall”.

The anti-non-compete is a good thing but it’s not anywhere near a big factor for the vast majority of people.
It's fair to say that you need to spin off and do random crap in order to innovate. But I would not say that "spinning off doing random crap == innovation". It dirties the word a little bit.
Thanks!

I'll check it out!
Oh I totally agree. Ive just never encountered 10 years. My jaw dropped a little. Ive definitely seen 1-2 years but also have never seen it enforced. Most people either left on good terms, or were let go not because of performance, but just re-org, etc.... and as long as you were not bringing trade secrets the former employer was really just happy you were working again.
Most U.S. cities were located and built due to the geography of water, whether it is on the coasts or inland on lakes and rivers. The reason why the railways ended at the coastal cities is due to oceanic shipping.
The question in the case isn't whether banning non-competes are good policy, or whether the federal government has the power to ban non-competes, but:

1. Whether Congress gave rulemaking power to the FTC under the provision cited supporting the ban on non-competes, and

2. Whether, assuming FTC had been granted the authority by Congress to issue the rules, it acted properly procedurally under the Administrative Procedure Act when it did so.

The court ruled "no" on both.

(I haven't reviewed it in detail to have an opinion on whether it is correct on either point; banning non-competes is good policy, and it would be good if Congress did so directly.)
This should have really said "WebExtension extensions" instead of "Chrome extensions" as it's a standard across most modern browsers these days
You’re all missing the point.

Iran’s oil company was mostly owned by foreign interests (eventually just the British Gov’t) and the Shah (king). [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company]

It was never meaningfully privately owned while it was producing, and the British (and Russians!) eventually just forced a coup - before being overthrown by a democratic government, which was then overthrown by the Shah (with the help of the CIA), which was then overthrown by the Ayatollahs in turn.

Because foreign interests were taking almost all the profits and abusing their position.

At no point, including today, were the common people of Iran meaningfully in control of the oil or had anything resembling a meaningful ownership stake.

Though there is significant socialized benefits under most modern regimes, where oil and energy costs are dramatically subsidized, and revenues get pushed into the economy in various make work type schemes.

This is similar to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc. though with varying flavors of current socio/religious ruling framework.

It’s essentially buying population compliance through bribes of cheap energy and easy jobs, and it’s not just the Middle East that does it. The vast majority of oil producing nations do it.

Though notably, Russia is pretty bad at actually delivering to the population, despite being a major exporter.

Also Notably? That oil company became what is now known as British Petroleum, or BP.
Let's take this to it's logical conclusion, where each individual rider is given their own packetized vehicle that takes them right to their destination. We can amortize this cost by relying on the riders themselves as the drivers.
No problem at all with the concept of price discrimination. The economics make sense. In any scenario where unit costs are low, but development costs are high, the ideal situation is where everyone gets the benefit of having the product at a price they are willing to pay. Maximizes total value to all parties.

The problem with the SSO tax is that it wedges itself into the pre-existing cracks in most organizations. Security practitioners are already in conflict with other departments. What happens when a department head has pitched a new SaaS as being 1x price, but then it becomes 2x price after the security team's requirements are added? It is not seen as the [application is expensive], it seen as [security team's requirements have doubled the price]. Conversely a price discrimination strategy which locks specific user facing features behind a specific tiers means that the same person championing the software, would also advocate for the appropriate payment tier.

Price discrimination is a valid strategy. Responding to organizations who are actively making the security practitioners job more difficult is also valid.
If it doesn't involve the cellular network authentication won't work. The killer app will be something I can put in my house that makes anyone driving by thinks a demolition derby is going on so they'll slow down.

If it does involve the cellular network it will face opposition because people don't want to buy another plan and coverage will never really be satisfactory, even if the cell phone industry is able to force every driver to buy a plan for their car.
Given how populous California is, it could be one of the most desirable states and still lose people. Likewise, a low population state like Idaho doesn't need much net inflow to grow by large percentage margins.
There are plenty of cases where executive authority may not be enacted in an arbitrary manner. The government probably spent more time asserting that they had the authority to do so, than that doing so was necessary.

Either way, this will likely end up in a different court, and at a higher level, and get decided again.
Now imagine what happens to you when you get a doctor in the second half of his shift.
Probably realized their plan was nothing short of a joke. Every time I use android auto i get impressed by how many things had to go right for it to work. Good luck getting the same kind of phone support or app support. Absolute clowns.
Did you get a tumor genetic profile? A family member had been dealing with the same thing and I have built a tool with their oncologist who has been using it to treat each mutation in the tumor. I would be more than happy to give you access to it.
I agree! I don't think these actions need to be bundled together. I'm mainly just saying that curation is helpful, IMO.
Very cool, especially if you zoom in and use the step-button repeatedly/
My understanding was that Chevron was specifically about the cases where the law was ambiguous, allowing the agencies to come up with reasonable interpretations on their own. Was that an issue here?
Spoofing is, by definition, not jamming but in terms of the goal if you combined a multi carrier spoofer with a DAS you could theoretically get things down to ~a million $ per high school on average and not horrifically leak signal as if you just stood up a spoofer and centrally blasted it out. It's also still carrier and technology generation specific though. I.e. if a new carrier/MVNO appears or an existing carrier rolls out new frequency bands then you need to replace the system. If it's a new technology (e.g. 5G) then you need to replace the system. If things just change in general (new MVNO on existing bands), you at least need to maintain the system accordingly (but might not have to replace it). You'd also need to convince the majority of people this is something all public companies should be mandated to support, which is a separate issue from convincing the majority of people this general approach should be taken, or you'll never get much compliance. All of that accounted for, the solution still brushes against needing to fix physics a bit in that lowers SNR in a many times larger area than the accepted dead zone - though not as badly as a jammer system.

Geofencing with cooperation of the local carriers is technically possible (with big downsides) in that if a phone is connected to 3+ towers you can decently get the position tower side to within several hundred meters (or worse) in an urban area. That means to reliably geofence a building you're still going to screw up anyone in the surrounding city blocks trying to drive by, use their phones at home/work, and so on regularly. It also still impacts noise (therefore connection quality), though not as bad, over a much large area than is excluded. You could also theoretically mandate that all devices have device side geofencing which uses the extra data from phone side (more than just tower connection data, BSSID or other local signal data) were you convince people to mandate public companies on this one as well (and even then there will be "old" devices for many years a la retiring 3G lest you want to convince everyone to throw their current devices away on top of the extra forced hardware monitoring ability). The cost for this would largely escape the schools by becoming a cost to carriers/hardware manufacturers.

Or you could, again, just build schools with RF shielding if this is really the path you want to go down. It'll probably have a higher up front cost but it'd achieve the goal for every high speed cellular service current and future without requiring any external mandates or external interference. It's still a bit silly compared to other funding requests schools typically have but it would solve the problem if the public prioritized it.
You know what, I'll try that!

Save me contorting my little finger.

Although I wish we could go back CTRL defaulting to where CAPSLOCK is!
"unreasonable" here actually has some legal meaning, and some states have previously established some pretty relevant case law as to what is a reasonable amount of time. I remember running one by a lawyer many years ago, and they said that the state I was in would not enforce a non-compete more than one year in duration. So just because a non-compete is written in your contract, and they're legal in your state, doesn't mean that the specific non-compete you have is legal in your state.
> I would much rather only get the toast if there is a failure to commit the change.

I would much rather the sequence of commands issued through the ui be a declarative state change queued until committed without bugging me about an error I can’t directly fix. Toast that backend chaos monkey, not me.
> there seems to be an arms race between pickup manufacturers to place the headlights as high as possible.

And make them both as small as possible and as bright as possible, resulting in pinpoint sources of very bright light which completely destroy the night vision of any oncoming drivers.

DOT used to regulate headlight brightness, placement, and beam pattern, it seems that if these regulations are still in force they are being completely ignored without consequence.
Northern District of Texas

Shocker.
Housing policy is finally changing, with the state government forcing municipalities to build. Hopefully that leads to a slower growth in prices (with such a red hot economy, I don't expect prices to fall much, if at all).
I think this was sarcasm
How do I enable Zed AI?

I'm logged in, using Zed Preview, and selecting the model does nothing. In the configuration it says I "must accept the terms of service to use this provider" but I don't see where and how I can do that.
Im glad Russian pensioners are able to supplement their income by serving in their "50 cent army"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
Federal courts frequently hear cases involving state law. When they determine that California law applies to a case, they will apply it. However, they wouldn’t apply it to a case involving a New York based defendant and activity that took place exclusively in New York.
Yeah, this article isn't all that persuasive to me. The contrast between "analog warmth" and digital convenience doesn't make any sense to me. True emulation of vintage analog gear will always be an approximation since the originals were notoriously inconsistent. In any case the digital stuff sounds great and preferring the "warmth" of analog and its "technically infinite" amount of detail is little more than cork sniffing IMO.

One place that analog synths have an advantage over digital is with feedback patching. It isn't clear to me how VSTs or digital modules can cope with feedback like analog systems can. Feedback and cybernetic patching are pretty popular with Serge system in particular.
Disappointing, but not unexpected. The ruling/owner class wants you, the wage slave, to have as little mobility as possible so as to minimize competition for your labor, and therefore cost.
We have the ability to mathematically determine the readability of books based on the words in them: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2013/09/24/guide-to-re...

As far as what rating a book has as to who should be allowed to read it, what do you think? If you are a voracious reader, would you be happy having certain book topics restricted based on your age? Or maybe what your parents thought was right? Maybe they didn't want you know about certain topics. Be careful what you wish for.
You configure it
I really like you retrofit analogy - not sure if you coined it or geohot has.

It seems to me that's where a ton of start-ups are currently converging - not repairing the old, which would be too complicated, but understanding and "mending" for new usages, or functionalities.
Try explaining to a space alien the concept of "well first we tax the people to raise money, and the that money is given to scientists to conduct research, and then we sell that research back to the people on an individual basis so long as they can afford access to it."
> Also state vs federal

Congress absolutely has the right to regulate employment.
So you spend 10 minutes writing a free text description of the test you want; tell it exactly how you want it to write the test, and then 4-5 minutes trying to understand if it did the right thing or not, restart because it did something crazy then a few minutes manually fixing the diff it generated?

MMmm.

I mean, don't get me wrong; this is impressive stuff; but it needs to be an order of magnitude less 'screwing around trying to fix the random crap' for this to be 'wow, amazing!' rather than a technical demonstration.

You could have done this more quickly without using AI.

I have no doubt this is transformative technology, but people using it are choosing to use it; it's not actually better than not using it at this point, as far as I can tell.

It's slower and more error prone.
I also suggest checking out WXT (https://wxt.dev/) as an alternative (it's also faster using Vite and supports more frameworks).
> Was that an issue here?

Yes. The FTC’s powers over employment aren’t as clearly defined.
You’ve got it backward. It’s not surprising that a court found the FTC lacked the power to categorically ban contractual arrangements under state contract law. The relevant principles are ones most people learn in high school government class:
federalism (employment contracts are a matter of state rather than federal law) and separation of powers (executive branch agencies enforce the law, they don’t make it).

What would require a special explanation is if the court found the opposite. It’s really appalling how many supposedly educated lawyers would arrive at the wrong answer to something a bright 10th grader could figure out from first principles.
>I think this depend heavily on what type of coding your doing. The more your job could be replaced by copy/pasting from Stack Overflow, the more useful you find coding assistants.

I think this is true and also why you see some "older devs just don't like AI" type comments. AI assistants seem to be great at simple webdev tasks, which also happens to be the type of work that more junior developers do day to day.

I have also found them useful with that and I keep one active for those types of projects because of the speed up, although I still have to keep a close eye on what it wants to inject. They also seem to excel at generating tests if you have already developed the functions.

Then there are more difficult (usually not webdev) projects. In those cases, it really only shines if I need to ask it a question that I would previously have searched on SO or some obscure board for an answer. And even then, it really has to be scrutinized, because if it was simple, I wouldn't be asking the question.

There is def. something there for specific types of development, but it has not "changed my life" or anything like that. It might have if I was just starting out or if I only did webdev type projects.
Not relevant. Neither the right to drive, nor the right to drive a pickup truck, is guaranteed in the constitution.
I'm going to need more history here on exactly what you linked this is insanely interesting. Alternate windows things in unix land are always interesting
I’d be happy with an unfuzzy video of the green globes he said he had flying thru his house for 7 years.