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>why do you think there's no anti-anaesthetics movement?

for one, I've never been required to get anesthesia as a condition of employment. lumping all vaccines together is not productive and we don't do that when discussing painkillers. there is a movement against OxyContin but not a movement against Ibuprofen.
It's like what FireWire was to USB, but hopefully it has a better fate.
Hail affects a much larger area than a missile. Cluster bombs would be effective, but they were banned.

And why would anyone waste a missile on a solar farm when they could target a transformer station or a transport line that distributes power from lots and lots of power sources?
Sounds really interesting to build it with Markdown that's cool, especially to make web pages thanks to AI ^^. Thanks for sharing this.
People here are describing many projects that already have something resembling this syntax and concept, so I'll add another query language to the pile too: Influx's now-mostly-abandoned Flux. Uses the same |> token and structures the query descriptions starting with an equivalent of "FROM".
“Rails can’t scale” is so 10 years ago. It’s often other things like DB queries or network I/O that tend to be bottlenecks, or you have a huge Rails monolith that has a large memory footprint, or an application that isn’t well architected or optimized.
Everything these people touch turns to shit. Look at the movies industry or gaming.
The article seems a little out of sync with the title.
We're moving an on-prem Windows app to the cloud, and that's the approach I've taken so far when staking out our approach.

We use Azure blob storage, but just the parts that reasonably maps to say S3. We're using Azure Service Bus, but keep to the AMPQ bits. We use Entra ID, but rely on OAuth and SCIM. And so on.

So far we've not needed special functionality for anything critical, so while it wouldn't be just a flick of a button, the hope is we're avoiding painting ourselves in a cloud provider corner.

Time will tell, hadn't done any cloudy stuff until a year or so ago.
> I was just pulling the numbers off of the source you gave. I'm not sure what methodology they used to compute those numbers.

It's Piketty/Saez/Zucman. They did a lot of work to compile the data but they have a particular conclusion they're trying to support, so the data is probably accurate but they're organizing it in a way that supports their position.

> I agree with you that the wealth/income inequality we're seeing is mostly driven by the actual incomes of the rich vastly outpacing the middle/lower classes - what I meant is that a higher progressive tax rate should be deployed in order to help correct that problem.

I don't think that really fixes it because it isn't the underlying cause. The problem here is market consolidation, e.g. Facebook is too big. So Zuckerberg has "billions of dollars" but in fact the vast majority of that money is in shares of that one company and what he really has is control over an enormous and disproportionately powerful corporation. Which is a problem, but taxes don't solve it, because the corporation is still just as big even if nobody has a controlling interest. Wall St would still put someone in charge of it and that person would still have massively disproportionate influence.

Whereas if you do something about the market consolidation then individual corporations don't come to be that size and their owners/executives don't come to have that much influence or money. So higher tax rates neither solve the problem nor are necessary if you do solve it.

> Again what I meant is that if we're going to continue to spend at the levels we are, and wealth inequality continues to grow at the rate it has, then it makes sense to increase the tax rate on the highest brackets.

The current level of spending is pretty useless. Indeed, it's actually one of the causes of the problem -- a lot of the money is going to the megacorps. It's probably better to stop giving it to them to begin with.

> There were though - according to your source.

On corporations, not rich people.

> No argument there - but again my point is that they aren't getting rich from increased government taxes, they are getting rich by lobbying/regulatory capture.

The thing they're lobbying for is the tax dollars. Lockheed and healthcare companies are getting rich from tax money. And the same for Congress, though the mechanism there is less direct. They allocate tax dollars to corporations that then funnel a portion of it back to the legislators in various ways.
It's All Change for Pawlean
A nice little redesign write up
At least there's EU legislation that's slowly improving as well ensuring longer term warranties and the like. I hope that for household appliances like aircon or solar panels this warranty or support is set to its expected lifetime of 15-20 years. In this case, it should be mandatory that the control system can be easily swapped out by an aftermarket replacement, just like central heating thermostats are.

(in fact, replacing basic central heating thermostats with a tablet device has been very successful for one energy company in my country, see https://www.eneco.nl/energieproducten/toon-thermostaat/; it wouldn't have been possible if the thermostat data thing was some complicated / encrypted nonsense)
> how far away are we from making phone companies and ISPs liable for crimes committed using their services?

Very far. but france is a civil law system. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_responsibility_in_Fre...)

if you don't comply with legally valid requests, then you are going to be held liable for it.

But thats the same in common law as well. If an hosting provider in the USA refuses to act on reports of hosting copyrighted material, then they are liable for damages. Safe Harbour has its limits.
> There was a failure

There are failures which only cost the company money and there are failures which risks lives.

By all indications this is the first kind. It would be entirely different situation if the rocket thumbled out of control and hit the sea in the wrong spot. Then a grounding would be warranted. Here by all accounts they flown to the right spot but did not stick the landing.

> This is what we expect from every plane crash too, or did I imagine the existence and purpose of the NTSB?

We would not ground the whole fleet of an aircraft model if something adverse but expected happened to one of them.
Can't channels deadlock too? Sending or receiving on a channel will block by default until the other side receives/sends the value if the channel is unbuffered, or it's buffered but the buffer is full. You have to write extra code to make it non-blocking; the pubsub example under discussion is blocking. I don't see how switching the discussed code to a mutex would make it any more blocking or deadlock prone.

I found a bug in production caused by the author not realizing a send on a channel can block.
Most people will use the path of least resistance.

Many people/organizations still use VGA and ketchup-mustard-onion cables to this day if they still do the job, let alone HDMI.
They skimped on the tablet, grabbing a <$100 device for cheap. It should be a ruggedized / semi-industrial device with an expected lifetime as long as the device it controls, so at least 15-20 years.
We have robust cryptographic constructions for channels at this point. One is described in https://www.ietf.org/blog/mls-secure-and-usable-end-to-end-e...
i encourage everyone to watch the linked video [0]. reminds me of the recent non-technical arguments made in the freebsd thread [1].

git mailing lists have such a greybeard IRC vibe to them.
i will, from now on, use "only accepts patches per mail" as a proxy for "not worth suggesting new ideas to" for all projects.
it's a stupid proxy.
correlation and causation and all that.
but it's a very useful one for your sanity.

[0] https://youtu.be/WiPp9YEBV0Q?t=1529

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41386697
It is kind of ridiculous though, every other rocket launched by any other company or country basically just blows up in the sea or the air.

Penalizing SpaceX for being the most successful company seems silly. Are they grounding other companies whose rockets cannot land at all?
Is "from" keyword originating from .NET (Framework 3.5 in 2007) or is this pre-existing somewhere in research?
That's the deal: ISPs aren't responsible for hosting child abuse content, phishing sites, crime ring messaging infrastructure, or pirated content, as long as they work with the relevant authorities to take such content down or hand over relevant evidence.

ISPs hand over phone records and anything else they have on people. They set wiretaps, they can triangulate users, you name it. When the government asks Telegram for information, they get a history dump. When they ask a carrier for information, they get a history dump (for anything stored on ISP servers, such as email or some text messages, depending on the warrant) _and a live copy of every bit of information that flows over the connection_.

Email inboxes get handed over all the time, and server hosts must take down content within days to hours depending on how illegal the content reported is. Services like Google have been handing out information like "what users were in this general area at this time" because they track that stuff (which is why Android's location history has degraded significantly; Google moved that stuff to on-device storage for this reason).

As for data collection: in some places, the government can force you to collect data. Some "logless" VPN/email providers have been compelled to turn on logging for certain accounts, for instance.

The alternative, which was almost a thing in the early internet, was that ISPs were responsible for all content on their systems.
An interesting thing to me about all these dplyr-style syntaxes is that Wickham thinks the group_by operator was a design mistake. In modern dplyr you can often specify a .by on an operation instead. I found switching to this style a pretty easy adjustment, and I think it’s a bit better. Example:

d |> filter(id==max(id),.by=orderId)

I think PRQL were thinking a bit about ways to avoid a group_by operation and I think what they have is a kind of ‘scoped’ or ‘higher order’ group_by operation which takes your grouping keys and a pipeline and outputs a pipeline step that applies the inner pipeline to each group.
> Were these skill "trees" the output of an LLM or something

My thoughts exactly. There’s a strong LLM flavor to them.
Sorry to hear that. Amazing GitHub username by the way.
Isn't electricity and magnetism the same force?
I thoroughly disagree with your positions about foresight, multiple specialists, a lack of need in this space, etc.

There is space in the market for something like this, and it would suit small teams who may be lean, single devs who are starting out, and those who would like to use native code with few if any dependencies.

You may not see the point because you are deeply experienced with the existing tools. I see the point as someone who has struggled to get deep with the existing tools.
Does that reset/jump still happen when you're in copy-mode?

If not, maybe you can you rebind the scroll wheel to enter copy-mode if it's not already in it, and then scroll, and bind enter/return while in copy-mode to exit copy-mode.
IR is fine for these things, it's not like they need much data. I have an IR ceiling fan, no issues there (even if the receiver is on a little wire that is supposed to stick to something but the sticktivity of the tape sucked), and a radio "smart" lighting system (just simple on / off switch on a plug socket). And some radio spots from IKEA, although I'm sure that can be hooked up to a "smart" system.
Just because something is law does not mean it should be law. Not all legal responsibilities should be legal responsibilities. There is no way in which we will accept that what the French government is doing is legitimate merely because it's legal for them to do it in France.

What France is doing is unjust. They should stop. If their laws are not just they should be repealed.
> Isn't this what forks are meant for? Fork FreeBSD to RustBSD and experiment?

There's even a precedent for this, check out DragonFly BSD if interested in reading more.
Emergent property != laws of physics yet to be broken. All I meant was equating economic principles to empirically proven scientific theory is deeply misleading. I agree with your last paragraph. I liken it to the saying, “all models are wrong, but some are useful.”
Advantage Air doesn't produce ACs. They produce smart home solutions, including AC controllers. They're not winging it on an external control device, they're cheaping out on their main product.

Also, their claim is that they're not outsourcing. If you check their website, it claims everything is designed and manufactured in Australia.

Nevertheless, I'd have given them the benefit of the doubt if it were not for:

1. The only option being a full system replacement.

2. Communication protocol being encrypted.

3. App being locked down to certain hard-coded models.

None of these give me any hope that this is a well-meaning company that just has some issues.

Also, I think a company that sells a product most customers would only buy once or twice in their lives is not a company that expects many repeat customers.
> If Durov is liable for crimes committed on his platform how far away are we from making phone companies and ISPs liable for crimes committed using their services?

> This is a very slippery slope.

I wonder what is hard to understand. Is there CP/violent content in Instagram? Nope. In Facebook? Nope. In YouTube? nope.

Why? These companies are held responsible for the public content, published in clear, on their platforms and they enforce moderation to remove illegal content.

Telegram is in clear and has public content violating the law. They should have done the same, they did not.
Well, guess that's why I started with the fact I'm terrible at statistics!
> In just the same way that US agencies can compel investigations with US companies, I'm sure that Russia exerts some amount of control on Telegram for investigation purposes.

Not in the same way, since Telegram (unlike, say, vKontakte), is NOT a Russian company.

(At least officially, also quite anti-Putin at its funding... less clearly now.)
Ya, it can be hard to balance all the aspects you care about. Unfortunately we don’t recommend wearing our booties on rocks/concrete/coral, because the soles will wear out faster than normal. It’s on the horizon as something to improve. I’d love to give you a recommendation for an alternative, but my personal use case isn’t generally swimming — I haven’t tested a lot of the alternatives for that. Would normal surfing booties work? They’re often nearly skintight, and many have a rubberized sole which should help with the rocks/coral

Eg https://www.patagonia.com/product/r5-yulex-round-toe-winter-...
that reminds me, you might be interested in Prigogine, From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences (1980).

Lagniappe: https://xkcd.com/2904/
Oh, now the price makes sense... So the best it can do is 160MHz on one of two supported channels, both of which need DFS.
There is one style of flat roof which is designed to hold water, with gravel on top to protect the rubber. Apparently very good, but you have to get it 100% right.
Static website generator – Starlight by Astro
We have been planning a new from scratch version that'll be in tree, but with the retirement of libolm which is for good reasons, it means we're going to have to write our own OLM implementation at some point as well.

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/08/libolm-deprecation/

TL;DR it's on the list, going to be a bit before we get to it.
Can't read the news just the headline? Maybe that's the crime!
Such a casual and low-key introduction of what sounds like an incredible new capability.

1 . Would something like this replace packer for creating machine images?

2. Curious how quickly the replay log grows and how it compares to a CoW snapshot.

3. Will be interesting what the log looks like and what doors could open up creating or generating it by other means.
Yes but it's reasonable that they didn't. For quick hacky scripts you really want a lightweight syntax that supports interactive REPL exploration. Kotlin is the first language that manages to combine a strict static type system with a Python-weight syntax, and there's a REPL too although I don't think it gets much use. These days notebooks are a better replacement for REPLs anyway when doing data analysis, but Kotlin only got support for such features very recently.
> Yeah the only difference is that one person is right and the other person is wrong.

Says everyone. While there are clear examples where this is the case - e.g. SARS2 vaccines do not protect against infection nor do they protect against infecting others - there are many other situations where 'right' and 'wrong' are not so clearly defined. When someone claims a certain party or presidential candidate is a 'threat to democracy' there is no clear 'right' or 'wrong' as these are opinions, not facts.

Your following statements with regards to the 'current Republican-controlled senate' show where your bias lies and explains why you react the way you do. Now try to step outside your bubble for a while - and yes, you are in a bubble just like most others (myself included) are - and step in another one, say the bubble inhabited by a Russian or someone who supports the current Russian regime. That person would consider it 'patently obvious that Facebook (et al) are American operations. The messages can be intercepted by the operators who censor on behalf of the American regime.

If you are happy using platforms which are controlled by this or that government, fine. I prefer to be able to say what I want without either the American or Russian or French or Swedish or Dutch (etc.) governments interfering or censoring so I run my own services. This happens to be dead-easy and nearly maintenance-free.
That plugin was abandoned and we (the pidgin team) are unlikely to pick it up as we're planning our own implementation.
What does missing human rights activists have to do with telegram?

What are your sources on "utterly compromised security on telegram"?
Wouldn't the prior 26 years in california include multiple huge wildfires?
I agree with you on this, my issue is mainly when they bring this thinking with them into other languages. I can easily avoid working with C# (I spent a decade working with it and I’d prefer to never work with it again), but it’s just such a pain in the ass to onboard developers coming from that world.

It may be the same for Java as GP mentioned it along with C#, but they tend to stay within their own little domain in my part of the world. By contrast C# is mostly used by mid-sized stagnant to failing companies which means C# developers job hop a lot. There is also a lot of them because mid-sized companies that end up failing love the shit out of C# for some reason and there are soooo many of those around here. Basically we have to un-learn almost everything a new hire knows about development or they’ve solely worked with C#.
Versions with longer sleeves exist for this exact reason.
Ah, do you have some tips for someone who wants to do something similar?

I use AC units that come with IR remotes (Samsung maybe??) but the timers don't work for some reason. It would be great to hand roll some automation, but I never "hacked" IR remote/receiver systems.
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Texas man set to be executed in 'shaken baby' death [video]
> Is there any website owner with a million users who can't be held accountable for the same crimes?

Go and look at "Safe Harbour" rules. Its not a blank cheque to say "oh it wasn't us, it was the users". your protection from being sanctioned is contingent on complying with requests to take down posts(be that copyright or other).

The same thing applies here
If you’d have read the comment you’re replying to, you’d know that “robust cryptographic constructions” are irrelevant here, because channels are publicly-accessible.
twitter should def be charged with the same. why when elon musk seized it he could bring down pedopornography by double digit percentage in a few weeks? why wasnt it addressed before? META also recently revealed that they indeed worked for the DNC to supress opinions shouldnt we trial zuck?
They can't. That's why they latch on like parasites to working projects.
Wow I had no idea those existed, that’s very helpful thanks!
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Aggregations could be non-commutative in general case and order is important. Filters before and after grouping are also tied to a particular place in the pipeline.
CEO's of ISP's who reject providing the information to the courts and the law enforcement will certainly go to jail.

That's why we don't have network operators for criminals. We have seen the demand for it in the crypto(as in cryptocurrency) space and many went to prison for running networks and tools for criminals, especially people running cryptocurrency tumblers were caught, prosecuted and imprisoned.

I don't believe in a CEO that takes on the law enforcement for higher morals or even money, that's mafia's line of work. In some cases maybe its possible to have high moral outlaws but they will have to shoot at the police when they are coming to make an arrest.
For those who believe in the politics circus, wouldn't this be a much better female president candidate compared to Hillary Clinton (first declare independence from Britain then go back to kings and queens?), or Kamala Harris?
Would it be possible to listen to it? Would it sound like static or does it has a frequency?