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Its a naked power play when placed in context, despite how inoccuous it may seem. Commissioners are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. They can be fired by the president unilaterally.

This new rule means that the president only have to get one of "his" guys in, and now you can own all of the SEC decisions if you want by just firing any dissenting commissioners.

In the past, that is the sort of norm that would not be broken. We are now in a world where the president trying to fire fed bankers is real, and that is arguably a much, much, more serious norm to have broken. I don't think this administration will have any issues playing to the letter of the law instead of the spirit.

So with this rule change, the effect is that a president only needs one commissioner and a lack of regard for norms to completely control SEC decisions.

I think there is also an argument for general numeracy as a life skill. Lots of people I run into just have no intuitive sense of how numbers work and how to calculate roughly.

The number of people that cannot calculate a tip in their head, or have a basic grasp of how interest works is constantly shocking to me. Yeah, we all carry calculators around, but you should be able to reason about numbers enough to know when an entry error has been made on a calculator

You’re concentrating on quantitative “better” with performance.

Qualitative “better” is frequently what design and front end people are concerned with.

If the solution to date range pickers is two individual pickers tied together with validation logic, most people will call that qualitatively worse from a ux perspective and probably code wise too. If I have to run a bunch of code to get the native element to do standard things, then why not just use a better propietary thing anyway. A date picker taking an extra 1.3ms to render on click is fine if it gets me a bunch of functionality that is not possible with the native version.

In other words, you seem to be defining “better” way too narrowly. Raw performance is one metric amongst many.

Native date pickers can’t handle range. So then you need two date pickers with validation logic.

That’s just one example of the native implementation lacking common utility. That’s one thing they could mean when they say the native solution is lacking.

Most modern spy satellites are low observability. Combine that with overlapping coverage and the only thing you can predict is that there’s probably a satellite capable of looking at you right now.

Yes, it would be appropriate.

In rigorous academic contexts things that are generally accepted or common knowledge do not need to be cited. Nobody is disputing the existence of frozen milk or sliced bread for sale. They are commonly known and accepted facts. We do not need a peer reviewed citation for those claims to be believable.

The claim is not that sliced bread is always available in every place on earth. Nor is it that bread is usually sliced. That is a different claim that you have added. The claim is that sliced bread is available for sale, nonspecifically. It is a commonly known fact that bread can be purchased sliced in some places.

If you make a specific claim, like: sliced bread is not usually available in Nordic countries, I could see that needing a citation. You have made specific claims about sliced bread availability and market preferences. I am making the general case that it exists.

The point is that there is some basic level of knowledge that we don’t need to validate with a third party source. People drink water. I’ve never seen a scientific study or source for this, but it is universally accepted as truth. Bread is sold sliced sometimes is a similar fact.

That doesn’t in any way invalidate that bread is sold sliced. That is the assertion, that sliced bread is available for sale. Even in places where bread is typically sold unsliced, the concept of sliced bread exists.

Or are you claiming that you are completely unaware of unsliced bread and need a citation to verify its existence?

The issue is a shitty teacher or curriculum.

Teachers and schools need to let LLMs do the things they are better at, and concentrate on having instructors do the things that LLMs cannot. Teachers that only read from the slides have always been a problem.

Your instructor should be having you dismantle an injector pump or bleed an air locked injector rail. You can read a book about how to do that, but you won’t really know how to do it until you’ve done it for reall

I like the idea of keeping an example of everything flying from the perspective of my inner child, but it would be such a colossal waste of resources in reality.

This plane had its own special blend of fuel, meaning it had its own special tankers too since it needed to refuel immediately after takeoff, and custom rubber blends for the tires.

So we would need to have a refinery that can make the fuel, a tire manufacturer to make the rubber and tires, and a tanker program to fuel the thing.

All this for a plane that is incredibly dangerous to fly (37% of them were destroyed in crashes, none due to enemy action), and that adds no capability.

Satellites perform the mission today.

Even easier: there are direct USB-GPIO adapters.

A corollary to the apocryphal Henry Ford quote: if I asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said “a faster horse”.

In the case of youtube? I am paying quite a bit actually.

Updates are one thing, changes made specifically targeted towards manipulating users into spending more time on the site in ways they can’t opt out of (youtube shorts is a good example) are different. No one is bothered if YouTube updates to allow 8k streams. I am extremely bothered that YouTube does not allow me to disable shorts in the app. I don’t want shorts, they are a distraction and one more thing i have to guard against getting sucked into. Let me use the app how I want to use it, not how you want me to use it.

> Are you autistic or just antisocial? This is pretty straightforward

This is extremely inappropriate on HN. Or anywhere, really.

I can think of a few reasons that companies might not share data. A big one is that people have no idea what a responsible amount of water usage is, so your information will be weaponized no matter what.

A fun way to frame the copyright lifetime absurdity is to point out that in a few years there will be books published on the 1900s that will be copyright protected until the 2100s.

There’s no way to know one way or another whether her editing “saved” it. There’s no other original edit without her, so it’s an unfalsifiable claim.

I was just responding to the poster claiming it was some sort of feminist conspiracy theory to claim that she was an editor on the film and did a good job. She did edit the film, and a plurality of her peers thought the editing was a good enough job to award the most prestigious award in the industry for the work.

She won the Oscar for editing "A New Hope"

I don't think its mythology to claim that Marcia Lucas edited the films. It's pretty well accepted reality.

If the remasters and the episodes I-III are anything to judge by, George really does better when there is an editor that will check him.

It’s the largest, heaviest rocket ever, with double the thrust of the last record holder, and it is the first one that is supposed to be reusable.

It’s a lot of records that just got broken.

Going viral is not necessarily a profitable event for most businesses. Especially overnight virality.

I maintain a few WP sites for small businesses. Precisely none of them would benefit from the kind of traffic spike that would incur a $50k cloud scaling bill.

If you’re running an online store, maybe, but by now almost all of those businesses are on Shopify where that isn’t an issue. 99% of all the businesses with WP installs I’ve touched would only be harmed by autoscaling instead of just choking on the traffic. Think local service businesses and restaurants.

If I missed a year of fifth grade in 2020, I have had 5 years to recover any lost progress and should do better in 10th grade than the kids that just missed a year. Especially when you consider that many of the topics being tested against are not even introduced until after 5th grade. Sure you might miss out on some arithmetic, but you have had half a decade to correct and your trigonometry scores should be better than students that missed out on trigonometry the same year.

I think the pandemic had some effect on the current cohort of 15 year olds, but it should not be as large of an effect as the students who were 15 in 2020.

If I missed a week of math class at age ten would it have the same effect on a test given when I was 15 as if I had missed a week of math class just before the test? Your position seems to be that missing math class at any point in your schooling is a permanent unrecoverable setback

The corollary to this is that if you choose a smaller capacity battery, you run the risk of charging at too high of a current possibly leading to fire.

When you buy a property you buy a property, not a view. Check the deed for the property you bought; the view won’t be listed on the legal docs. The view is an externality. If you are lucky enough to have a view across someone else’s property, lucky you. Having had a free benefit does not mean that other people’s right to their own property should be restricted to maintain access to a positive externality for you. In other words, if someone else can build something that blocks your view, it wasn’t your view, you were just lucky enough to be able to have access to someone else’s view for a while.

If you want to maintain the view, you should pay the cost of that, whether that is buying the property that the view crosses, or compensating that other property owner for the loss of use of their property.

Using regulatory means to shortcut other peoples property rights is - in my opinion - horseshit. It also sets a dangerous precedent to regulate out the ability to change. It’s all fun and games until someone out maneuvers you at a city council meeting and now you can’t build a carport without hiring a lawyer and 6 months of hearings (real story, had to do this because our house was old enough to be considered historic. For context the carport was being put in an alley next to a dumpster and a cinder block apartment building. No historic element was involved)

Using the correct tool appropriately - including computers - is for any percentile.

My point is that we tried to make computers universal and one size fits all, and it doesn’t seem to have helped.

That’s an entirely different problem, and a hard one to solve. I would still suggest looking at the tutoring center or groups since there is time accountability there. If you don’t show up it is more consequential than skipping class from a personal point of view.

Give a short quiz at the start of the class with one or two problems directly from the homework.

Office hours, tutoring centres, and self formed study groups are all great options.

No, but you would still expect to see some recovery 5 years on from students who were much younger when in-person was implemented.

I think that computers in the classroom can have a tremendous positive influence in specific areas when see with correct guidance. I think where we went wrong is replacing the classroom with ChromeOS and iPads.

Wouldn’t there be recovery? Especially for the cohort that started school after the end of restrictions.

A continuous decline across both COVID and llms points towards a different causal relationship to me. I would be more likely to believe algorithmic social media or computerized teaching tools are to blame, but that is pure conjecture.

So many people in this thread completely misunderstand what WP is being used for and by who. Most users simply have no idea that Automattic exists and probably wouldn’t care if they knew what’s going on.

WP users want a mature, easy to use framework, with lots of plugins, and a tutorial that can show you how to get anything done. Wordpress is the piece of software that kind of defines that genre. The fact that every host offers a Wordpress package seals the deal.