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> In America we have case law that prohibits public officials from blocking their constituents from their official accounts [1].

Can’t they just make a new account to see the posts? Are you stating that you think this is the reason this is being implemented? As for the rest of your post, your whole argument is undermined by the arguments you’ve already made in this thread.
Has Google merely neglected search, or are they actively working to make it worse?
I've heard that it's needed to counter heavy parent opposition. If it's not enshrined higher, the PTA will not hear the end of it.
What do you mean by “smart hands?” Will they replace hardware that failed?
No offense but if you give people a machine to tie their shoes they won't miraculously get better at tying their shoes. Convenient, yes, but it would be silly to call it the shoe tying age. The automobile doesn't bring the age of horses.

I keep noticing how LLM's make our vocabulary not work anymore. Maybe we should call it the age of fast-talk :P
I tried to put some reasoning here https://nts.strzibny.name/kamal-proxy/

But I don't think they ever published comparisons to anything else than Traefik
Convicted murderer Derek Chauvin, did he kill through violence or through force?
government has to govern
To those saying this shouldn't be law, and instead school policy, that is precisely what this bill is requiring is it not? Further, it gives protection to students who might need a device for whatever reason. That's probably the most important piece of this bill. Many students require the use of assisted technology and poorly run school systems, such as the one I was in, are more likely to harm students if they are to roll their own policy without such protection.

This seems reasonable to me.
Shame that the existing NAND has to be turned to dust. Gone are the days of upgradable hardware.
> >What benefit is "the sheer power to hose Windows with a single Powershell line" when it is not you whom executes it?

> The benefit is the sheer power to hose Windows with a single Powershell line.

> In case that doesn't make sense, let me put it this way: The benefit is the power to do whatever you want with Windows.

The point which I think I am failing to convey is not about limiting what a person whom owns a computer can do with it. Instead, it is that computers interacting with other computers can be introduced to code which is not "whatever you want with Windows", but instead "whatever someone else wants to do with your Windows."

In the case you presented above, nowhere is there consideration of malicious actors. Were this not a real concern, there would be no market for virus scanners (be they for Windows or other operating systems).

Here is an exercise to try out - replace first person tense in the text above with the equivalent of "someone other than me."
Yes, thank you for using Ebookany. I have already replied to you on Twitter.
I wish you many great experiences with Ebookany.
I’ve done the math on whether it’s cheaper to pay for 1tb of local storage or 1tb of cloud, and local wins.
Incorrect. Wildly incorrect. I used to co-lo servers, it has been a long time. SSH Keys were not in vogue back then. I did use them at one point and, because I haven't done it in a while, it slipped my mind. I'm just rusty.

There's just nothing wrong with adding a few steps to do your keygen, upload your public key, save your private key on a thumb drive or whatever, and so on. Please, tell me why that should NOT be added to a tutorial. Whom does it harm? What is the downside?

I can't see anything but Crappy Gatekeeping, but please, come up with a decent reason not to add just a few more instructions.

(Although now, apparently, keys are out for some folksand certs are coming in vogue. Who knew?)
It's literally their job to know.
What's the best thing that can be done to reduce the risk of conflict?
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41631912
Wow. I was right. https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-De...

IYKYK I guess.
Why not? The major player in this space (icloud) can do end to end encryption and it's easy to do local backups on your NAS
It didn't apply directly, but a lot of cartoons used comics for the source material. And even without that, Hollywood had to worry about ratings, and that resulted in similar restrictions.
> Local school policy is good enough

An angry parent that can't possibly imagine life without immediate access to their kid throughout the school day is likely to respond differently to the statement "This kid can't have their phone on during the day." when the reason is "local school policy" than when the reason is "state law".

In the former situation, a sufficiently-offended parent will likely try to get the administrator in question fired (or -at minimum- make their life dreadfully difficult). In the latter, the only people the parent can really appeal to are the folks in Sacramento. Busybodies like that rarely have the clout to do anything meaningful to the governor or his staff.

Anyway. It's quite possible that local school administrators requested that the governor help them out by making it so they can say "Sorry, I'd love to help, but The State says I have to order teachers to ban phones from classrooms. You know how it is. Take it up with the governor if you're mad about it.".
> If you don’t compensate creators one way or another, then they stop creating, and that’s the bit which has to get solved

I'm not sure this is true. Maybe they stop creating commercial stuff for sale, and go do something else for money, but generally creative people don't stop creating just because they can't get paid for it.
And I could date Natalie Portman.

Facts are russia is corrupt and bankrupt, they havent serviced/maintained nuke arsenal since forever. They cant even make new ICBMs anymore, their fifth try blew up on launch pad https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/23/russia-sarma... just like four previous attempts.
I worked at a place where there was a giant grass patch surrounded by 3 buildings. A guy came in once per week flying his hawks around which make an excellent deterrent.

That said, I need a pigeon deterrent for my patio.
Show HN: No more tracking code–Implement analytics manually, code-free in 30 SEC
No more tracking code, no more deployment – Implement analytics (Amplitude, Mixpanel, GA) without touching codebase
Wide range of people using/following OpenAI. Just like any of the Amazon/Walmart/Google scams. This is no different.

It’s all a numbers game at this point.
Does 2.x BSD really include TCP/IP networking?
Probably having the three major powers have regular contact with each other rather than pretending they're not there and refusing to take their calls.
> Can’t they just make a new account to see the posts?

Sure. But they may not know they've been blocked.

> you think this is the reason this is being implented?

No. I think it's being done to increase engagement. Engagement scales with outrage, and a pretty simple way to boost outrage would be by showing people stuff they've been blocked from.

> your whole argument is undermined by the arguments you’ve already made in this argument

Not really. Blocking users from seeing your public content degrades weak relationships. My interest in what my state Senator is doing is a weak relationship; I don't think I'd be able to tell if they stopped e-mailing me for at least a full election cycle. Harassment, on the other hand, is a strong relationship. That provides circumvention motivation.

My argument is that there appear to be marginal benefits to this policy. If the cost is making unmotivated harassers' jobs a little easier, inasmuch as it pertains to them viewing (not responding to) public content, that seems to be worth it.
Obsidian can't do anything about it. It's HN chopping up the url
Seems like a great idea. What can people in the US do to facilitate this you think?
> windows

Everything you write makes sense in the context of Windows, but only for Windows. That's certainly not true for open source non-Windows specific software.
It's kind of a joke / riffing. Collaboration/elaboration, not attack. The "like" wasn't sarcasm; it was observing additional possibilities for meaning -- meanings that actually worked kind of amusingly to me.
(These are references to Untitled Goose Game)
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Out of 6,000 units, even 1% of theirs working would be devastating (you know they have MIRVs), not to mention what launching ours would do. This is a stupid thought.
Ask HN: LLM Debugging Stories?
I just came across one of the most confusing error messages I may have ever seen. I was running some LLM-generated JS code in a VM in node that uses esprima and escodegen to modify some other JS code. The idea is, my user might have some js they want to automatically modify. So I ask an LLM to modify the JS by writing some JS to modify the JS (using esprima, escodegen, etc).

But I got this message in one of my demo projects:

"Line 61: Unexpected token ..."

I would see it in my app logs, printed to a file from my flask app that runs docker containers and node to modify user files. Every time I tried to modify this JS I got this error. And I couldn't figure it out. It is also un-googleable as Google simply strips out the ... and leaves you with just results for "unexpected token".

But of course the LLM itself can know and help with this right?! Of course it can. o1-mini tells me in ChatGPT that in fact, the unexpected token itself is literally "...". I was using esprima without full ES6 support and the spread/rest operator was not recognized. Of course, it was the same LLM that generated the code that had the ... in the first place!

I think I'm told to use babel rather than esprima for this, or maybe there in a newer esprima than I am using that has better support. For now, at least I figured out what the error message is. And that I don't support full ES6 apparently, at least not yet.

Have you been flummoxed by an error message that Google couldn't solve, but an LLM could? (not by virtue of search being impossible, but at least, current Google can't do it?)

Or maybe you're encountering new error messages since working with new code that LLMs are generating for you?

Hoping for some good modern debugging stories in the LLM era.
When we did it in high school (70's) we just used compound that had a long chain (soap?) and only one end dissolved in the water. It was very easy to measure and calculate the size of the molecule . We had a series of these simple experiments. Another I recall was measure the speed at which certain volatile compounds moved through the air.

I definitely learned that all science doesn't have to involve complex equipment.
Yes, that phenomenon is called the vortex ring state and it's a big problem in rotorcraft.
Yeah I run wp2static on clients, cancel the hosting then push the files to vercel/cloudflare pages/github pages.

A PHP version is vulnerable. If you upgrade it, some plugin breaks. If you manually upgrade the offending plugin, the pesky developer now wants a subscription. Just a nono. I build on Hugo.
> Which means, if we want to kill WordPress, we need to offer a better solution. Not just for WordPress, but a coherent system that also reimplements the top hundred or so plugins.

And a solution for which a typical non-tech business can ask around their family/friends/employees and find someone who's experienced enough to come in for a few hours out a few hours a week to to typical CMS admin/editorial stuff. And for which there are heaps of easy to find tutorials and youtube videos which can get someone up to speed enough to keep their own site running, while still spending 95+% of their time making widgets or selling trinkets or whatever their actual business is.

I'm not _that_ much of a fan of WordPress, but WordPress on WPEngine is 100% my initial recommendation for anyone asking about how to run their business website.

(I'd be curious to see a Rust backend API replacement for the WP + top 100 plugins that uses the standard html/frontend, to have the type safety and security Rust is famed for, while being identical in use to WordPress so all the people currently admin-ing WP site wouldn't have to even know it's different. But not curious enough to expend any effort to make it. )
Low-hanging bill before an election.
Hey, good catch! I just added an MIT license.
Thanks!
> It feels intuitive that a thin fluid on a low-friction surface (like water) would spread out "as much as possible" given enough time.

Most fluids do not behave this way in most circumstances, because of surface tension, so it's really not intuitive.

This experiments is one of the few ways you can get an accurate measurement. Many other fluids will either mix or end up as bubbles/blobs many orders of magnitude thicker than a molecule.
Ah yes, the classic "ignorance of the law is a perfectly valid reason to break the law" defense, which famously works all the time.
how many years did this take?
It's not even a very good padlock. Using Cloudflare makes you powerless to stop level 4 DDOS attacks, because Cloudflare isn't very good at preventing hackers from abusing their service as a means of amplifying them. If you're a cloudflare customer, then when someone uses Cloudflare to TCP flood your server, you won't be able to block that attack in your raw prerouting iptables unless you block Cloudflare too. Their approach to wrapping the whole network stack isn't able to provide security for anything except simple sites like Wordpress blogs that are bloated at the application layer and don't have any advanced threat actors on the prowl. Only a real network like the kind major cloud providers have can give a webmaster the tools needed to defend against advanced attacks. The rest of Cloudflare's services are pretty good though.
I don't know, but you might try asking one of these sub-reddits:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DHExchange/

https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets

https://www.reddit.com/r/opendata
I think your understanding of the geopolitical game state here is way off. The reality is that nuclear war is less likely in now that it was during the cold war. We aren't in isolated echo chambers fearing an ideology we don't understand, the only reason anyone wants nukes is to prevent other people from nuking them. The world is running on capitalism, there isn't the same ideological drive to conflict. We're in a metastable equilibrium. Ukraine blowing up ammo depots in Russia is far further away from catalyzing WW3 than the Cuban Missile Crisis. Vasily Arkhipov etc etc.
Something not mentioned is that on Windows `long` is always 32 bits (same size as `int`), even on 64-bit architectures.
Entire Subreddits Full of Bots
In part I see this as the legislature stepping up to be the bad guy, and taking pressure off schools. School administrators know phones are a problem, but a minority of students and parents are very vocal and make it hard to put bans in place.

Pretty much every school allows teachers to ban phones in their class, so we have the fully devolved approach already, but it just puts the burden on teachers, it's not real autonomy.
Hahaha, I've been in this exact situation. Marketing set up an entire WordPress website unbeknownst to IT. Over a year's worth of effort and they never even mentioned to us they work working on it.

I'm in a monthly directors meeting of all depts and marketing unveils their wonderful website to much applause and oohs and ahhs. They then say, looking at me, "Yes we should be ready to launch in a couple weeks after IT sets up authentication and integrates it with our CRM and mail blast system."

I was so lost for words I just kind of nodded my head, wide-eyed.

The way they had it set up did not allow us to use the same SSO/auth we used for everything else. So users would need a separate account. Their auth system didn't support any kind of MFA. Their plugins were not compatible with our CRM. External accounts would need to be set up manually. They used a different domain thinking they could just change it later but it got so baked into everything that changing it everywhere would be extremely difficult. Their hosting solution was going to cost us a shit ton of money because none of the graphics were optimized for web. Every image was like a 50MB PNG. It did look nice, but nothing was set up in a way that made it compatible with anything we already had in place.

I told marketing there was no way I could make this work and they'd wasted a year's worth of effort by not pulling me in from the get go to at least help them find some sane compatible solutions. "Well, if we can't use SSO, couldn't we just build a spreadsheet with everyone's logins so you could plug that in?" Jfc no.

The CEO/owner sends me a meeting invite and asks me why I'm refusing to work with marketing on their website. I explain that they had decided not mention any of this to me from the get go and explained the reasons why I couldn't make it work.

I said, "well, technically we could make anything work, but you're going to have to hire a small dev team to integrate this with our CRM. We're going to have to pay a lot more monthly for our CRM because now we need API access (we'd need that either way even if the plugins were compatible) and if you want a team to write some custom integrations for this, you'll need some kind of retainer to make sure they can support it when the plugins change and break everything in unpredictable intervals or the plugins are no longer maintained."

He refused to believe me and basically said "Well I'm not sure why I'm paying you if you can't even get a website to work."

I quiet quit and resigned about a month later. You can imagine the other kind of shenanigans that went on if that was considered acceptable.
I'm confused, the blog wrote "known amount of water," so was it a closed little area like a bathtub? If you added a ton of oil wouldn't it spread out as much as possible aka 600 molecules thick or whatever?

Or did he pour it into a huge lake or something?
> Comparing a human brain in these terms makes it incredibly obvious how inefficient the human brain actually is

Until you have AGI you can't say this since until then we don't know how much the different parts costs to replace with AI systems.
> The problem is that marketing wants a website that

... they can publish and update content without having to get IT involved - just like they did at their last job where the website was WordPress.

Oh, and IT who thinks their company has a marketing department that adds zero revenue to the bottom line needs to go back to they mom's basement or academia. That's just not how the world works.
Original source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/legal-spor... (5 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41626714
Many companies are now conscious of junk referrals from employees referring people they don't actually know.

The referral form at my current employer asks you how you know that person, and to briefly describe why you think they're a good fit.
Or if you know, you want to maintain any level of brightness over a greater than a 10% window. I have OLED's and MiniLED on my desk. Each excels in a different area. The OLED can't even get close to the MiniLED's HDR performance, whilst the MiniLED gets close enough to the OLEDs strength for 95% of content. Save for motion, OLED reams LCD in motion. I just wish I could have everything in the one panel but alas we are just not there.

I'm hoping we see major bumps to OLED on the desktops brightness over the next few generations of panel as it's still early days to be fair.

For now, it's likely ill keep both on my desk. OLED for darker tighters only supplying the occasional highlight, MiniLED for everything else including titles calling for large and sustained brightness values.
No I don't, because I don't need to carry things like that. I need to compare this drone with a sturdy cardboard box that I can carry things in.
"specified that school districts have the authority to regulate the use of smartphones during school hours"

"require every school district, charter school and county office of education to adopt a policy limiting or prohibiting the use of smartphones by July 1, 2026"

sounds like this explicitly allows responsibility, and requires it be taken.
Thanks for this, I thought it was a library for the Russian Army.
I guess Web3 will exist after all. In a microtransaction-per-webpage-utilized sense. No way websites don't start charging real people when there's money to be made.
> This is a good point because “mental health condition” means “severe mental health condition”.

Yes, and the union between them and the drug addicts is around 80%. Still qualifies for the "vast majority" characteristic.

> For example on page 2 it says that stable housing is essential for ending homelessness

What else can they say: "We need mandatory treatment"? Yeah, sure.

I can quote you another example. Utah's "housing first" has 75%+ failure rate, most of people who were simply given housing, return to homelessness within 2 years.
Don't moralize your niece.
Poll Parrot Shoe Money
Not sure what this is meant to be but...I really miss r/subredditsimulator. Was absolutely hilarious back in the day.
You're moving the bars. In fact, these bars are so laughably low, I don't know that we're having the same conversation any more.

Nobody's saying it can't write "sensible code at rates much greater than random chance." We're not competing with an army of typing monkeys here. We're saying it actually doesn't "know" anything, and regularly demonstrates that quality, despite it seeming very much like something that knows things, most of the time. You're being tricked by a clever algorithm.

> All Modern NNs are much more blank slate than the brain has been for at least millions of years.

All well and good if we were talking about interesting research and had millions of years to let these algorithms prove themselves out, I suppose. But we're talking about industries that are being created out of whole cloth and/or destroyed, depending on where you stand, and the time frame is in single-digit years, if not less. And these things will still confidently make elementary mistakes and get lost in their own context.

Look, they're obviously not useless, but they're a tool with weaknesses and strengths. And people like pg who are acting like there ARE no weaknesses, or that a simple application of will and money will erase them, they are selling us a bill of goods.
Synthetic flagella spin and contract at the expense of chemical fuel
If safety is important, people will not buy unsafe cars. Free market.

We should just get rid of safety regulations and let the free market decide if they want to pay for addons like seat belts or air bags.
> There is no handy oscillator or clock embedded in the cortex or thalamus that allows a neuron or module or us to declare “these events are synchronous and in phase”.

Brains waves drive synchronization of groups of neurons, lower frequencies broader, higher frequencies more localized.
Company execs aren't writing the policies, actuaries are. Actuaries which spend their days analyzing all the minutiae of data and trying to quantize risk.

If anyone knows the real risk/reward of putting merchandise in cabinets by zip code it's some actuary at some insurance firm.

Arguing insurance companies don't follow the data and usually behave irrationally is ignoring reality.