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>See pam bondi threatening to prosecute private companies with DEI programs

And previously private companies were being threatened with lawsuits due to disparate impact in hiring, which lead to the creation of said DEI programs

If you consider the current situation control and a precursor towards fascism, you have to consider the past situation in the same light
It's kpopping.com
He bet his entire fortune on that, for one thing.
Judges are literally saying Trump is ignoring the rule of law.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-accuses-trump-igno...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-states-tell-judge-trump-not...

If you're not a bot, please get off the misinformation machine called X.
What happens if you remove its access to the Internet entirely? Does it refuse to work?

An offline VM seems like the only safe way to run modern proprietary software.
In a few years or more, we will notice a correlation of the world passing peak air pollution linked dementia too.
This and Ben Eater's videos.
Public Beta of Gen AI Toolbox for Databases
Must be a couple of decades since I was last charged for SMS
> One day, all these products will be gone, and people will only know MBA-ware. They won't know it can be any other way.

Just like vinyl made a comeback 'real' software will come back as well, maybe running in an emulator in a browser. Yes, there will be copyright problems, yes there will be hurdles but if and when MBAware becomes the norm software will persevere. Free software for sure, commercial software most likely even if legally on shaky foundations. The tighter they grip, the more users will slip from their clutches.
I agree that 128 bits is on the lower end of "never", but you still need to store trillions of hashes to have a one-in-a-trillion chance to see a collision (and that's already the overall probability, you don't multiply it by the number of inserts to get 1:1 chance :)
I don't think anybody in the world has ever seen a collision of a cryptographically strong 128-bit hash that wasn't a bug or attack.

Birthday paradox applies when you store the items together (it's a chance of collision against any existing item in the set), so overall annual hashing churn isn't affected (more hashes against a smaller set doesn't increase your collision probability as quickly).
What I'm saying is that the idea that quantity will work where quality fails does not work on complex systems, like humans. If you present me 10, or 100, or 1000 wrong solutions to my problems I will ignore 100% of those ads.

Not 90%. Not 99%. Not 99.9%. Not 99.99%.

Every last one.

And this behavior is the same for complex systems in general. They "lock" to a particular solution, and you can perturb their behavior, but not for long. It will go back to whatever the individual thinks is the best solution. The only thing an ad can hope to accomplish is to present a new solution, nothing more. It cannot hope to change preferences.
Night scenes do look darker now than they did in the decades prior
> Of course, we can build tools that make... call it "unsound assumptions"... and I'll happily use them and encourage their use, because you can make the correct judgement call that those assumptions should hold in your context (and that the one causing the assumptions to be broken, if they ever are, is the one "at fault" rather than the tools.)

That's a pretty bad way to standardise a data format IMO. If readers, writers, and tools all want these representations to be equivalent, far better to make that equivalence part of the standard - the point of the standard is to support the use cases, and being able to sensibly reformat HTML is far more valuable than being able to preserve a distinction that doesn't show up in any browser and most writers would never intend anyway.
> Never again can our entire country be locked down on shoddy evidence and lies

What’s this about? Is it some mad “covid was a hoax” thing?
That's not "uninsurable". That's "you can't afford it" or "the insurance isn't worth it". Both of those are already true for many cases where insurance exists and people buy it.
Affinity Photo is amazing. I'll never switch back to Photoshop, but I also wish it loaded a bit more quickly (solid 15 seconds on a pc with an SSD and a 3950x. not that PS was much better or anything, but one can wish).
Patterns for Building Realtime Features
Yeah, I'm not sure what Trump could really do here. Harvard gets < 1B in federal funds every year, mainly for research. Harvard also has a ~50B endowment. Short of sending in the military or confiscating Harvard's private funds, it seems like Harvard can wait him out.

With that said, the current administration appears to have a war on education in general so who knows what ideas they could cook up.
imho we're completely missing the problem. It's not so much that kids need our attention, it's more that adults have 0 fucking free time, both parents have to work full time (or often even more) to afford what people could afford on a single salary not even 50 years ago.

Giving a phone to a 5 years old solves the symptom but it certainly doesn't fix the problem.
An amazing VP hears about something on another team and chucks it your way.

For the really really slick operator this is a way to extend their powerbase throughout the org.
on my firefox if i right click on a part of the page the website hasn't hijacked, it gives the option to "take screenshot" - which i think required enabling a setting somewhere. I hope it wasn't in about:config or wherever the dark-art settings are. I use that feature of FF to screenshot youtube videos with the subtitles moved and the scrub bar cropped out, i feel like it's a cleaner and smaller clipboard copy than using win+shift+s. Microsoft changed a lot about how windows handles ... files ... internally and screenshots are huge .png now, making me miss the days of huge .bmp.

also as mentioned above, if you need entire sites backed up the firefox extension "singlefile" is the business. if image-y things? bulk image downloader (costs money but 100% worth; you know it if you need it: BID); and yt-dlp + ffmpeg for video, in powershell (get 7.5.0 do yourself a favor!)

```powershell

$userInput = Read-Host -Prompt '480 video download script enter URL'

Write-Output "URL:`t`t$userInput"

c:\opt\yt-dlp.exe `

-f 'bestvideo[height<=480]+bestaudio/best[height<=480]' `

--write-auto-subs --write-subs `

--fragment-retries infinite `

$userInput

```
If something can be configured, this opens up infinite possibilities for discussions on how it should be configured. The fact that you even ASK if you should use the tall style means that you are considering the POSSIBILITY of using it that way.

Put it this way, if it is technically impossible to develop a car that have the color red, we would not be discussing or entertaining what color the next car should have. It would be red, end of story. It doesn't matter if we like red or not, it just has to be. end of story.

Yes, the code looks awful. end of story.
Pgxpool go driver is the best connection pooler for PostgreSQL
Show HN: An AI Bible
Not religious, but as a New Year's resolution I wanted to read the Torah, Bible and Quran this year. I started looking for a way to have AI handy to interpret what I was reading and ask it questions.

Built holytextai.com to read for myself and it turned into more of a side-project that I wanted to put online. Also, it was a good way for me to play with AI tools. I focused it on Christianity for now and might make standalone apps for multi-faith.

Would appreciate any feedback!
Unusually? Regulation is the issue more often than not (which the astute reader will understand to mean that sometimes regulation is good), and much more so when it involves any kind of price fixing.
> 90% of the time I’m getting the Please select all stairs bullshit.

Just yesterday it had me clicking all squares with motorcycles in it. I failed five consecutive times before it let me through.

Almost started to doubt myself.
To add insult to the injury, it now looks like AMD "officially" supports ROCm on 7800 XT and lower _but only on Windows_. Compare:

https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/lates...

https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-windows/en/lat...
A similar argument was tried with 'we sell all users data because otherwise we would not be able to run the service, thus we have a legitimate interest.' It did not fly there either.

A service does not have a right to exist. The user has a right to privacy. The users right to privacy trumps the services want to exist. Not to mention that, yeah, there are ways to get similar or better blocking for free, if you have some technical chops at least. I wouldn't fault a small blog for using googles captcha (although the need is questionable), but any company with at least a few employees should be able to figure this out at a relatively trivial cost.
Not to mention specifically saying "you won't have to vote anymore" on multiple occasions.
Research grants. That said, Harvard has the largest university endowment in the world, they'd be just fine operating at their current size off their endowment proceeds effectively forever.
It's a collective action problem, solving it through our own behavior is impossible.
This whole post is spot on. Where I live the use of a screen as a baby sitter is a lot higher in the households where there is a single parent, or where both parents work jobs with very low flexibility, often in combination with no grandparents able to help out.
Your scenario does not have enough information for valid advice. This is a negotiation, and you haven't mentioned what your leverage is, if any. If you have none, you're at their mercy, and negotiation is impossible - you will have to do as they say. If you have some (such as being valuable to the company and a possible flight risk), then you can just put your cards on the table. A manager worth their salt will try to retain a hard-to-replace employee. This only works, however, if you're prepared to walk away, so I'd get another offer in advance.
This is a very shady website and thus not a good source for legal advice of any kind… they call themselves “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Datenschutz” (German society for data protection) but are actually located in Bulgaria. They are not any kind of “official” data protection organisation.
Not an answer to your question, but this is another reason to self-custody bitcoin.
I would love to jettison Photoshop/Illustrator and just use Affinity. Illustrator has recently gone from taking 30 seconds to over 2 minutes to launch on my M1. It's an atrocity. But Adobe software is so entrenched in printing that, even though print media is only 10% or less of what I do these days, it would just be an endless headache to deal with file conversions to and from other designers, print shops and publishers. And anyway I expect Affinity will go the same way soon, now that they're owned by Canva.
Well written, h/t.
If you had "decided to build out of fireproof materials and install a sprinkler system" then you would have paid significantly lower premiums on your insurance, and the home is not worthless unless you decide to sell it soon.

The price drop might be a bonus due to the insane CA property taxes.
Allocator Hints for Btrfs
Ah, ok, sorry, my bad - unfortunately I can't delete the comment anymore...
Sorry but the spoils state is called corruption and is totally bad in all forms. If you want to curtail the so called administrative agency then the parties have to win elections by dicisive margins.
Or the president and judiciary can force Congress to pass laws.
It's not really clear how it'd prevent bots...

> The difficulty of the puzzle, and therefore the time and resources needed to solve it, is intelligently and automatically scaled based on sophisticated risk signals to protect against advanced bots. Friendly Captcha is completely invisible and require no manual user challenge at all.

So... magic?
I see you recommend CaptureOne to replace Lightroom. My wife is currently trying out CaptureOne, and my biggest issue is that it has such a different UX.

I would love to ditch Lightroom, because I don't even use it for editing, I only use it for digital asset management/cataloguing, I do all my RAW edits from DxO Photo Lab, but I have thousands of raw images in my Lightroom catalog, just for this year so far.

Unfortunately, all the alternatives I try have such a fundamentally different UX, especially when it comes to the export/import flow for third-party editing tools, that I haven't yet been able to get anything to fit my workflow.
The cost of providing carry and overflow is absolutely negligible in any CPU and even more so in an OoO CPU, which is many times more complex.

If you mean that if the flags are not stored in a general-purpose register, which is a possible choice, but it requires an extra register file write port, but in a dedicated flags register, like in x86 or ARM, then the flags register must also be renamed to allow concurrent operations, like any other register, this is a minor complication over having register renaming for all other registers.

What is extremely expensive is not having overflow and carry in hardware and having to implement software workarounds that require several times more instructions.

When loops are vectorized or you have an array of structures, this does not change anything, you still use the same indexed addressing (or auto-incremented addressing in ISAs that have it). Perhaps you think about scaled indexed addressing, which may not always work for an array of structures, but in such cases you just use simple indexed addressing, with the scale factor 1.

Without either indexed addressing or auto-incremented addressing you need an extra addition instruction for each memory access, which increases the code size and it limits the execution speed by occupying an extra execution port.

Because of this, the highest-performing RISC-V implementations have added non-standard ISA extensions for indexed addressing, but such extensions are still rather awkward because the base instruction encoding has not been thought for allowing indexed addressing, so the extensions must use a quite different encoding that must be squeezed in a limited encoding space.
And controlled burns. And making sure your reservoirs are actually functional.
As I recall, the Nim strategy is in Courant, 'What is Mathematics'.
From the announcement: "This work is made possible with support from the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund."

https://fil.org/
> I interact with other characters whose motivation I cannot understand and whose actions I cannot fully anticipate. It feels like there's a foreign entity acting as DM.

My head canon on this phenomenon is that we are not quite as integrated (or isolated) as our conscious 'self' would have us believe.

Neuroscience and Buddhism alike seem to back this up... The concept of 'anatta' [0] has held up strongly for thousands of years (how could it not?). As far as I can tell, neuroscience is also increasingly clear that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon - and strange things happen when this is disrupted.

Most who have experienced psychedelics will agree that our brains are capable of providing utterly novel, previously unimaginable experiences; stranger even than most dreams.

For example, DMT users across a wide range of cultural backgrounds describe seeing 'machine elves' [1]; "People describe these entities as distinct, autonomous beings that typically present with some kind of message."

Then, look at people who 'hear voices'; a phenomenon which is quite scary in our culture, and quite normal or respected in other, older cultures. The voices can say things which surprise us even in our waking lives, sometimes even offering powerful insight, without any ingestion of substances.

So... There are these ways to experience surprising characters made by our own brains - dreams, drugs, and other oddities. My personal view is that these are always active, mostly doing their thing in the background; something like flora and fauna in the sea of our sub/consciousness. Sleep can reveal them, as can 'altered' states of mind.. As if the light of consciousness dazzles us, and we can't see the gloriously intricate machinery in the dark.

0 - https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/a/25302

1 - https://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/drugs-alcohol/dmt-...
It's it's political by nature, and biased because it's written by humans, but I think the brevity of the format helps keep things to the point.

Really, you have to do the pre-social-media trick of comparing multiple sources, adjusting for known biases, and synthesising a world view.

I've always rated the Financial Times for world news. It has a high-capital bias of course, but because its goal is to help investors make investment decisions it is incentivised to report things accurately rather than spin.

Also old media international news reporting is usually leagues better than domestic reporting. The BBC's reporting of UK politics is pretty weak, but it's international reporting is very high-quality. I wouldn't trust Al Jazeera to report on things the Qatari royal family have a stake in, but their remit is (or was) to inform said royal family accurately about world affairs.

On that note, I've seen plenty of adverts for Ground News, which supposedly lets you compare the bias of various sources for the same story. I've not tried it.
Not necessarily. It's a desire to move out from their current position. They may prefer a move upwards where they currently are, or sideways, but a move nonetheless.

I think that's different from "You wouldn't give me X so I'm annoyed and don't want to be here any more".
>The users right to privacy trumps the services want to exist

The user can simply choose not to use the service?
I haven't taken the time to fully understand the write up, but it seems like it would disallow creating a box that encloses both characters together, which would be a stupid move, but not necessarily "against the rules".

As I understand your algorithm, your true goal is not to determine if cells have a path to the edge, but that the characters can reach each other. So, it seems like it would be better to use the A* Algorithm to determine if there is a path between the two characters.
Actually Discord - the standalone "application" - has improved at some point.

It used to go up to multiple gigabytes (i caught it at over 4 at some point) if you left the meme channel displayed for weeks. I'm guessing it used to keep all those animated gifs uncompressed in memory.

I does seem more reasonable now. For a javascript "application" at least.

> displayed for weeks

I'm guessing that since Discord is a gamer oriented application all their devs are used to restarting their Windows PCs daily and don't realize that you can leave other operating systems running for months* without any trouble.

* or years if you don't apply core os updates.
Honeywell intends to split into automation, aerospace, and materials companies
You forget content "moderation" with AI, which can result in getting banned from using Adobe products and reported to the authorities if their AI "thinks" you are breaking law.
Copilot stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from GitHub (2023)
> Last time he was elected his government

I'm not sure pointing out 'last time' is such a great idea considering it ended with a violent insurrection attempt which I watch in real time. I don't need the news or anyone else to tell me that a threat to democracy is exactly what he is.
If LLMs could produce innovative solutions, they wouldn't be large language models. They'd be valuable and indispensable software engineers to covet instead.

Don't you agree that having a free artificial junior developer at your beck and call is better than not having freely and quickly produced code that can help point you into the direction your engineering needs to go in?

As a senior developer, don't you also fight with managing your subordinates? Don't you have to solve the management problem and do leadership tasks?

As a senior developer, don't you also have to deal with code that is not bug free, as you yourself don't always produce bug free code? Especially on the first try.

Maybe your approach to LLMs is wrong? Maybe you expect one shot solutions when that is not how LLMs are supposed to be used? Instead, you could invest in working with this new tool and then see phenomenal productivity gains. And also maybe grow a new capability in software development with the use of LLMs in your engineering.
> My interpretation of that evidence is that OP, a random internet commenter, just doesn't think it is credible that plastics are harmful to humans, and is grasping at plastic straws with cherry picked evidence and poor rebuttals to reach that "fact based" conclusion.

So what? If some things haven't been discussed or rebutted, then just say that the argument is incomplete for those reasons and move on.
Well, even better to add it to that! But I was thinking generally, to be honest. I really want Python to synonimise the keyword lamdba with the λ symbol so I can golf my Advent of Code code better.
NASA will swap Dragon spacecraft on the ground to return Butch and Suni sooner
Germany... A place where you cannot publish a photo without permission from every person whose face is visible in it and yet people walk around with their faces uncovered all the time...
That list contains a lot of Microsoft services and login urls and seems to be more than just telemetry, though
ah, the seed, an innocent implementation detail, but many people latch on to this and missuse random as a hash function. The one I remember was this screwball long term archival system from the early 2000's, zipped business archives on cd, the zip files were password protected. with the password being a hash of several factors about the data(unit, date, etc). A little stupid, but not the worst thing I have ever seen. The bad part was the hashing algorithm used, it was perls rand(). When I saw that I was vaguely horrified and a few test's confirmed my fears, the perl rand function would vary across operating systems and even different version of perl would change it. I think they ended up having to keep an explicit database of all the passwords just to have a fighting chance at opening those files later. not that they ever would. no one ever looks at long term records once they are stored.

Anyway, I like how the openbsd folk fixed the old C rand family of functions. they made their seed functions do nothing and tied the generators to a strong kernel random source, that is, they made rand actually random. If your application actually depends on rand as a hash function they provided the old behavior under srand_deterministic(3)

"Standards insist that this interface return deterministic results. Unsafe usage is very common, so OpenBSD changed the subsystem to return non-deterministic results by default."

makes me laugh every time.

http://man.openbsd.org/rand
In my native language, absolutely.

In non-native languages, often not.

One of the interesting things I've found in picking up a few languages is that listening to a foreign language is quite different from reading one.

When listening, especially to a recording (that is, you can't simply ask someone to repeat themselves, though you can usually replay a passage), when I hear a word I don't immediately recognise or am unfamiliar with ... my mind just sort of skips over it. Often I have some idea of meaning (previous encounters, or more often, context), even if that's vague. When reading, however, strange words cause me to stumble and I'll slow considerably. Consequence is that I can listen faster than I can read.

The dual option of listening and reading simultaneously is particularly effective, and I'm fond of options (often podcasts) which offer both audio and text transcripts to read along. This also seems to be more useful for expanding my language skills.
Google's 7-year slog to improve Chrome extensions hasn't satisfied developers