skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the very short term, this ruling is probably OK.

I am on 50+ US patents, and a practitioner of artificial intelligence for about 40 years. I see AIs becoming partners in writing patent applications. Corporations that own AI resources should really be able to use them for legal and ethical things.

Off topic, but it is ethics that introduces a wrinkle: in an ideal world widely accepted ethical norms would be codified into law - not much chance of that happening given the powers of special interests.
The offense people took had nothing to do with cars and more to do with generalizations and common microaggressions by coastal folks from large metros.

Honestly, I am very frustrated that this forum struggles so repeatedly to empathize with voices outside large metros, but I will attempt to break this down shotgun-style for you.

> As a New Yorker driving around middle america is super depressing.

Imagine if I called the place you're from, the place you grew up "depressing". All for a lack of sidewalks? As others shared we have woods, parks, lots of activities, etc. Yeah, it's not the same culture as NYC, but I don't think it requires being insulted. It's also not factual that you can only get around with a car. I survived til I was 16 with just a bike and rode everywhere. Still do, and now I live in San Jose.

> I can't imagine growing up trapped in my own home on a street with no sidewalks, only being able to go where my parents take me and finally growing into driving age so that I can go from parking lot to parking lot.

To most of the midwest and south, this is an extreme exaggeration but conveyed as commonplace.

I don't owe any more mental energy to this thread, so this is my last reply. I do hope that you (and him!) can be aware of the microaggressions in this thread and why they're not okay.
> My take is that maintaining backward compatibility is a core principle which needs to be strictly observed to solve that problem.

Given that software developers never guess the correct design up front this means that you always have architecturally buggy software, and a bunch of complaining about why buggy-looking edge conditions are never fixed. There has to be some kind of release valve for software to evolve and break backwards compatibility.
An interesting thing that is happening on Bitcoin mailing list is that although it would be quite easy to add Lamport signatures as an extra safety feature for high value transactions, as they would be quite expensive and easy to misuse (they can be used only once, which is a problem if money is sent to the same address twice), the current concensus between developers is to ,,just wait for NSA/NIST to be ready with the algorithm''. I haven't seen any discussion on the possibility of never being ready on purpose because of a sabotage.
I’m not sure what your point is. Journalists can hold mutual funds and ETFs without being in conflict of interest.

Since a journalist writing about crypto currency can have direct impact on that coin’s value, they are ethically bound to not write about coins the hold. Just like direct holdings of stock.
> This gets my curiosity going, so now I'm paying a lot more attention to conservatives than is normal for me (on Substack, YouTube, and Instagram).

This is a phrase right out of this playbook. No thank you.

https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/the-rhetoric-tricks-traps-an...
I'd add

* and it's been 20 yrs since the 9/11 attacks which predicated a lot of the more recent dragnets
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Regardless of the payment model, construction of reliable, large scale wireless mesh networks remains an unsolved problem. Scaling those is not easy due to nodes going up and down, terminal devices moving around, intermittent RF interference, etc. The One Laptop Per Child project famously tried to use such a network in order to extend Internet access into areas lacking communications infrastructure, but it never really worked. This remains an area of active research and I'm skeptical whether the field has matured enough for commercialization.
Looks like you can register without CC details, and the majority of the homepage is a video example.
Fresh out of university as an EE in my first job I was surprised to find that the rule was "if it conforms to the tests then it works". Sometimes the tests were poorly designed or were narrow enough only to test the happy paths. Box ticked, ship to customer.

I eventually moved to software at which point I discovered that it's even worse here. It's at least 10^6x more difficult to kill people though and you usually don't have to get off your chair to undo the carnage.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Mass Produce Prior Art in Patent Law (2021)
Too much friction. Reminds me of the classic HN refrain: why use Netflix when I could just setup a RAID storage server and my own linux-based media platform?
This is part of a class division where we cannot practically exercise our rights which are clearly enumerated in public law. Only people with money or connections can even attempt to get many kinds of records.

It’s wrong and government employees involved should be fired, and perhaps seriously punished. If people at NIST had faced real public scrutiny and sanction for their last round of sabotage, perhaps we wouldn’t see delay and dismissal by NIST.

Delay of responding to these requests is yet another kind of sabotage of the public NIST standardization processes. Delay in standardization is delay in deployment. Delay means mass surveillance adversaries have more ciphertext that they can attack with a quantum computer. This isn’t a coincidence, though I am sure the coincidence theorists will come out in full force.

NIST should be responsive in a timely manner and they should be trustworthy, we rely on their standards for all kinds of mandatory data processing. It’s pathetic that Americans don’t have several IG investigations in parallel covering NIST and NSA behavior. Rather we have to rely on a professor to file lawsuits for the public (and cryptographers involved in the standardization process) to have even a glimpse of what is happening. Unbelievable but good that someone is doing it. He deserves our support.
It happens often that when someone has a great skill they find it a very natural thing. In my humble opinion it is a gift
I'm not arguing for the existence of any such laws (and indeed, I think they would be a mistake).

In the case of Citizens, the law involved covered who can spend what on election related advertising during certain periods close to an election. The law was acknowledged by everyone to not impact the individual right to free speech, but in the lower courts it had been ruled constitutional to inhibit corporations of various kinds in this way. SCOTUS said "nuh-uh", and ruled that corporations have the same speech rights as natural persons and that their right (in this case, to publish a book about Hilary Clinton) could not be restricted by such a law.

I don't actually disagree entirely with Citizens at all, I just wish that SCOTUS had limited the ruling to non-profit corporations.
You are right about that. In fact, they make a profit.

Of course, once you've exhausted your two rounds of rejection with them, you have to pay again for another two, or appeal it, so they make money arguing with you, too. But yeah, probably more $$$ to issue you some worthless government paper.
There's sense in this if you don't trust compilers/ interpreters in other languages to be reliably doing the right thing, which is certainly a reason to be wary of languages that are new or aren't super widely used. But the amount of effort that goes into ensuring Go or Rust or Ada compilers always generate the correct underlying machine code is surely far more than your own team can achieve, and if there were bugs in such compilers you'd be extraordinarily unlucky to be the first devs affected by them.
Also are you saying the final shipped product is built with all the debug flags on (and optimisation flags off)? If not, how do you trust those binaries- trying to match machine code output with C source when optimizations are on (and key debug info stripped) is virtually impossible much of the time.
the new-ish <dialog> tag with a <form method="dialog"><button>Close</button></form> inside, combined with styling the pseudo-element ::backdrop, comes very close to being javascript-less built-in solution for modals. you still need js to trigger opening the dialog though, but that can be as simple as document.querySelector('#dialog').showModal()

apparently <dialog>'s still needs some accessibility/interaction improvements to be a first-class solution, but it's getting there: https://nolanlawson.com/2022/06/14/dialogs-and-shadow-dom-ca...
How does it compare to lalal.ai ?
This is exactly right from my experience in having worked on a few different BLE devices, one of which you've almost certainly used.

If you use it like classic bluetooth, you're going to have a bad time like classic bluetooth. Information in advertising packets (which can be as infrequent as a few seconds) is also used extensively in sensor applications which can last a few years on a coin cell battery.
For those, like me, who weren't up to speed with why this argument is made, https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1967.htm seems to be a good summary of the problems with it.

(if it isn't, hopefully somebody who knows more will post a better link)
One of my main concerns using an older machine is screen quality. I used my 2013 MacBook Pro until it died last year and that was plenty fast, but it also had a very good screen.

When looking at older Dell og Lenovo laptops, the thing that keeps me from buying is the screen. I suppose I could just use it with an external monitor.
My main area of concern is people who can exploit these augmentations for political, personal, and profit reasons. Even in the best scenario possible, these things are going to happen. All code is flawed in some fashion. Unless we plan on keeping these augmentations completely offline, they can and WILL be exploited by hackers. Imagine how giddy North Korea would be to be able to mess with the President's body, or having a competitor hack your eyes to see corporate secrets. Or a disgraced lover wanting revenge. These are already real threats with current technology to an extent...how much more deadly will these threats become when we can't just throw the tech out or modify them, because they are parts of ourselves?

Even better yet, what happens when those parts of yours no longer get support? There are already people who were able to gain sight through robotics, but lost vision again once the company that sold them the eyes went out of business. We can't just blindly think about the best case scenario and call it good. We need to think of worst case scenarios to provide a safer future.
I didn't mention Rust or any language because depending on the problem, many other programming languages may be better too, such as Golang, C#, Python, Java…

I know that some people get upset when they have a question, and they don't get the answer but some suggestions. But sometimes, people are not aware of the alternatives, and it's important to remind them that perhaps a better solution exists.

If someone asks how to cut crusty bread with a butter knife safely, you can talk about the proper technic, how most people do it wrong, write a book about your industry do it better, but perhaps, someone should also mention that it's easier and better with a bread knife.
What looks better and what drives more revenue/conversions are often very different. The data collected this way might not be useful at all.
Good, maybe it was related to the Logitech keyboard. How do you switch layouts, cmd+space? It opened a small window that blocked all input until it auto-closed half a second later.
2015 / 2016 I bought the original HP Omen gaming laptop because it didn't have a numeric keypad. There weren't a lot of other choices in the 15.6in category.
The beauty of helium is that it didn't exist, then two years later, it exists everywhere, covering most of the western world. People don't "agree" with how it got there: guess what, all other attempts to do the same have utterly failed.

The data is so cheap that it enables fantastic new applications like yours. Don't stop building. There are many people (not on HN) cheering for you.
What's the relevance of any of this? You originally said that Taiwan's language and writing system made them Chinese. I've repeatedly demonstrated that such reasoning is nonsense.

There may be other arguments that Taiwan is Chinese, but I haven't really given you my thoughts on those (hypothetical) arguments.
OK, you're replying weird, but let's go with this....

> Yes, now you understand. Someone saying nuclear families do well is not saying extended families do worse.

I mean, I reject that logic, but my initial question was do nuclear families do better than extended families? If we go with this "subset" argument and nuclear families are the best because they are a subset of extended families, then the best outcomes for children are single orphaned people without children because they are subsets of every family.
the author was also part of the Linux kernel SPECK cipher talks that broke down in 2013 due to the nsa's stonewalling and hand waving for technical data and explanations.

nsa speck was never adopted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck_(cipher)
In the case of TempleOS, a hand-built operating system where every aspect of the software was written by Terry himself, I think it's safe to assume no outside factor twiddled those bits.
What if it's not feasible on iPad?
You can also bake analog sounding warmth into your hi-res digital master and it's done all the time. There are a wide variety of different digital mastering plug-ins which do remarkably sophisticated analog modeling.

Ultimately, this boils down to signal which vibrates speakers. As a thought experiment, if you use some kind of theoretically perfect surface-sampling laser to capture every movement of the speaker surface at sufficient frequency and fidelity to reproduce all of the information in the original signal and speaker surface vibrations (ala Shannon->Nyquist), then a digital playback of that signal which vibrates the same speaker surface identically will sound exactly the same.

Individuals can prefer different sonic characteristics encoded in an output but that's an aesthetic choice. The entire signal chain creating that output is the result of creative and technical choices. It goes from guitar string to studio acoustics to microphone to mixing board to outboard processing gear to recording medium to duplication to distribution to playback to amplifier to speakers to room acoustics to human ear. Most of those elements significantly color the sound. Yes, mistakes can be made in the downstream signal chain which diverge from the creative intent. However, those mistakes are exceptions, and not inevitable. Done correctly, there's no reason a digital step in the chain shouldn't be completely undetectable.
Free software in general is an argument for reform of intellectual property.

Any permissive or copyleft license is effectively a hack of the copyright system, using it for the opposite of its intended purpose.

Let's also not forget that US copyright law started out as one thing and has been continuously changed so that Disney can keep making money off Mickey Mouse.
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The reasons for higher quality audio (24/32-bit data, higher frequency, etc) have value in the mastering process. For recording, yes there is value in it. It gives you freedom to adjust your recording without running out of headroom.

For listening, no. Find me a double-blind test where 16-bit 48 or 44.1 kHz audio compares poorly to 24-bit 192 kHz audio. You won't find it. You'll find PLENTY of people claiming they can tell a difference, but it's just unfounded claims.
Do you need URLs working while user is editing content, or only when text is saved? You might get away with simple URL detection script during text render. Of course, that might lead to some false positives, depending on supported URL format.
Don't worry, its legacy lives on. Other sites have taken up the mantle (hmu). OiNK is gone, but not forgotten.
Assume you have a functional safety requirement for which a standard exists. What language implementation would you use that is certified for that standard?
I agree that it's a problem. The solution is not `rm -rf corporate_law`, the solution is to `git add amendment_34 && git commit -m 'fix citizens united' `

And yes, the Bill of Rights is law, and as such it is within the legislative's power to change.
Citizens was decided not on the basis of a law, but the US Constitution, which does not make the distinction you refer to. SCOTUS ruled that it was unconstitutional to restrict the speech rights of corporations, so even if the original Congressionally-passed, Presidentially-signed law had been specific about the type of "persons" it referred to, SCOTUS would (under the logic of Citizens) have overruled it as unconstitutional.
I see lots of people getting banned for, e.g., being gender critical, or for sharing the actual stats from vaccine trials when those stats make the vaccines look bad. Twitter seems to respond to coordinated complaints against conservatives. My guess is that you can get Twitter to silence a conservative that doesn't have too many followers through these ambushes, but you can't get Twitter to silence established and well-known conservatives such as those you mentioned.
I saw this technique in a cooking video, someone called pomegranate seeds “strawberries”. There were a lot of comments, half of them were about the mistake, while the other half were saying that the mistake was intentional. I guess it’s a modern version of a flame bait?
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Brake fluid should be changed before 50k. With regen braking maybe you'll never notice the degradation but the components won't appreciate the ever increasing water content.
There are 30+ vendors of helium compatible hardware. Nothing is purchased "from helium".
I'm guessing it's a combination of genuine goodwill (Dreamworks has a history of open-sourcing stuff) and wanting to be able to hire people who already have experience with their renderer instead of having to train every new hire. Not to mention the improvements that will surely be made to it once anyone can contribute a pull request. Whatever their reasoning, I'm hyped because it seems like an unconditional win-win -- artists get a great new render engine, Dreamworks gets kudos + free development + market/mind share.
i was never a very good programmer, but i did have a decent understanding of some of the at-the-time favored design patterns (singletons, factories, facades, etc.) and how they were implemented in Java (potentially called 'idioms' -- that is, how to construct a design pattern in a specific language).

and i feel like you could not really understand one without the other.

i also feel it's a good idea to get really good at at least one language and its toolchain/ecosystem as opposed to trying to learn a little bit of every language/ecosystem. b/c being half-assed at everything is just not very useful -- being really good at one language can boost your productivity 10 or 100x from where you are as a beginner.

so part of that would be to continue increasing your expertise in whatever language(s) you happen to be using - b/c it's easy to get lazy - and you'll pay the price in productivity - if you care about that kind of thing, and presumably you do.

i suspect doing open source stuff is great for learning, and great for future job prospects, but no practical experience there. i've often built side projects and they've helped me land gigs, especially if i didn't come off as an entrepreneur-type.

one piece of advice i heard from an unrelated field (sort of) -- is to pick a problem that interests you, then try to solve it.
Can't wait to get to #8 there. "Harry Potter: Hogwarts Hardcover Journal" -- I bet I could read that whole thing in one night.
So, this is about popups inside of browser windows, is it? And not about popups in Windows/Mac/Linux desktops? Because I couldn't start making up my mind until close to the end of the article.

FWIW, I do make some use of modals in Linux on the Web (source code, admittedly somewhat sloppy: https://github.com/linuxontheweb/LOTW/blob/main/root/code/mo...). In fact, I just tried to make a post about a new app I'm working on (that happens to use them) called "HackerNotify": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32358782
Major NHS computer outage caused by cyber attack
Previous discussion from earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32355480
Yes, please check out the comprehensive help page referenced for the list of web tracking protections we offer by default across platforms, some of which are not offered by related extensions, and most all of which are not offered by most browsers by default: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/we.... This is the full list for reference/comparison (platform support can vary and in some cases is impossible, but working hard to get them on all platforms -- the help page has all the details): 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection, 3rd-Party Cookie Protection, 1st-Party Cookie Protection, CNAME Cloaking Protection, Fingerprinting Protection, Smarter Encryption (HTTPS Upgrading), Link Tracking Protection, Referrer Tracking Protection, Embedded Social Content Tracking Protection, Google AMP Protection, Google Topics Protection, Google FLEDGE Protection, Surrogates, The Fire Button, Cookie Consent Pop-Up Management, Global Privacy Control (GPC).

More fundamentally though our web tracking protections are built upon a data set (we call Tracker Radar) that is frequently updated based on web crawling (we call our Tracker Radar Detector), which offers a much more comprehensive picture of third-party web tracking of which to base lists and evolving protections relative to solely community maintained lists. Both of these are open source on github. We also have an analogous data set for our HTTPS upgrade list (we call Smarter Encryption), updated daily based on continuous crawling, which is also open source.
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Sounds like your issue is with capitalism and not helium
When he refused to call kaffir lime by its widely accepted name because it might potentially offend someone, I had about enough. What silliness, especially when the etymology of the term remains undecided.

Are we also going to stop called puttanesca dishes by their name because sex workers might be offended because it includes a profane term? Can we finally say enough to the constant quest for purity typified by a food critic penning a column on what words she won't use?[0] She won't even write "guilty" because that might trigger someone, even though I think nearly anyone would agree that an Animal Style 3x3 from In-N-Out is indeed a guilty pleasure.

I just want to cook and eat good food, not play these kinds of nonsense games that cater to a certain rather noisy (and politically homogeneous) audience.

[0]: "The trouble comes from the fact that the word is a cognate for a slur used by white colonists to refer to Black Africans in South Africa. Though the spirit of the word likely has very little to do with the latter context, my reasoning is the same as the reason why you’re never going to catch me casually saying or writing the word “niggardly.”"
https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/Words-you-ll...