skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title is much stronger than the content.

You'd think that in an article about someone "breaking the law" you'd learn about a court of law determining that fact. Otherwise, at least in this country, "innocent until proven guilty". It's part of the journalistic unwritten rules to add "allegedly" in such a title.

What we learn instead is that an internal audit found that the Secret Service and ICE broke some internal DHS policy and generally internal policies are stricter than laws (otherwise they wouldn't be needed).

The actual law appears to be complex, as the article itself states later:

Legislators recently have tried to make CSS usage clearer. In 2021, US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and a bipartisan group of other lawmakers introduced a bill, the Cell-Site Simulator Warrant Act, requiring the government to obtain a warrant to deploy a CSS device.
"Current federal, state, and local policies regulating Stingrays are confusing and inconsistent, opening the door to abuse and unconstrained, invasive surveillance by law enforcement," the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) said in support of the bill.
The bill never made it out of committee.
Exactly. You're a SERF to the government forever!

People lose their house often to runaway property taxes.

This should anger people more.
"Modern" ICE car engine tech is now 20-30 years old.

Even in the 1980s a 100K mile walk normal min lifespan
> That and bladerunner are probably the two slowest sci fi movies in the canon

Silent Running: hold my beer.

(I say this with love for Silent Running and Blade Runner. I find 2001 to be the hardest one to watch.)
It's rare to need kilometres in engineering, but I know from a friend that works at Network Rail that everything is done in kilometres, except final conversions on many older railway lines where the mileposts still measure miles.

Those small blue signs at the side of motorways, and the white emergency location posts, both use kilometres.
China is restricting flows of capital out of the country
Interesting! What does Gauss Legendre look like in Gambit-Scheme? I also wonder if perhaps there is a way to get the Julia implementation up to par…
> True yet less likely because most integer values appearing in programs are small, and so underflows are more common than overflows.

That's a dangerous argument. The values might be small, until an attacker provides a large one. Your code has to work properly with all possible values, regardless of which ones are more "likely" or "common". In my experience, unsigned makes this simpler, since there are only two cases to consider (zero or positive) instead of four (zero, positive, negative, and INT_MIN); I've expanded on this in a comment here an year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29770689).
I once heard a park ranger literally say "I am the law" while telling a story to a random visitor about how she had her sister with dogs come live with her, even though dogs were prohibited in the park (or something like that).

This isn't to impugn park rangers in general nor the fantastic national park system, just a datapoint about how warped people's viewpoints can get with even an inkling of power.

The whole concept of sovereign immunity needs to be massively neutered, especially as extended to individuals employed by the state rather than the state itself.
> Downvote irrelevant content, not content you disagree with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena [pdf]
I don't get the point of Bing Chat. As a chat, it is not as good or knowledgeable as ChatGPT. As a search it is not as good as Google or even Bing. I don't know what I would use Bing Chat for.
I'm not a famous author and newline isn't a famous publisher.

The book is quite old now and newer React features are missing, so I guess the lack of reviews won't change in the future.
Ask HN: Looking for a Cofounder Full Stack Dev
Tl;dr Looking for a technical co-founder for https://coursecopilot.ai/

Background: I've built 2 online course and coaching businesses over the last 7 years. One has sunsetted. The other is currently hovering around US$1.2M ARR. I have a team in place in the current business and I'm not involved in the day-to-day anymore.

Now I want switch gears and dive back into the SaaS world and build a product-based business as opposed to a personal brand facing company.

I'm looking for a technical co-founder to help me build Course Copilot.

I know juuuust enough about basic programming to do it myself (eventually), but it will painfully slow. Speed is critical right now.

My ask: 1. Is this something you're interested in? If yes, reach out. Elif: 2. If you know someone looking to take on a new project, get in touch. Elif: 3. Is there a space or a community that I'm missing that I should be connecting with and reaching out to to find my +1? Break.

I'm also open to any comments or questions about the product and use case. I'd be really interested to hear your insights!
Signal supports anonymous connections, anonymous user accounts, secure operating systems, etc — not saying it’s easy, but neither is securely using SecureDrop to my knowledge. OpSec is hard by definition, if it was easy and cheap, counter measures including laws banning such activities would rapidly appear.
But of course, just like gait detection and etc... there would be a whole genre of preprints dedicated to eye tracking fingerprinting
I once met someone who self-identified as an artist.

I asked them, what is your medium?

And they replied: LIFE.
CANADIAN companies.

"A Canadian weed company and a psychedelics company have received government licenses to make and distribute the drugs under certain circumstances."
“They are only permitted for sale to other licence holders who have cocaine listed on
their licence, pharmacists, practitioners, hospitals, or the holder of a section 56(1)
exemption for research purposes,” the agency said.

Wonder if "research tourism" is expected to become a thing? ;)
You are standing in front of a massive pile of broken glass. It hurts like no one ever told you it would. To lose a women that you thought you would spend the rest of your life with hurts. It's hard. But you reached out. You know it's going to be hard and you asked the world for help. There are people all over that will be there for you. It's funny how many you find when you need them.
While I definitely sympathize with your sentiment, TFA is mostly about how confusing and inconsistent the laws are.

According to the article, Ron Wyden and several others tried to pass a bill to clarify the guidelines, but it didn't make it out of committee.

Perhaps we should write good, clear laws and guidelines before we break out the pitchforks.

I may be naive, but I still believe that most law enforcement officers want to do the right thing, and dedicate their lives to helping others.

Of course egregious violations should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
I will give it a go, cheers
Not to mention the infamous Northern bank, which Danske Bank replaced. I don't think I've ever seen a note replacement scheme happen as quickly as the one that replaced all of the green Northern bank notes for purple ones after the Northern bank robbery, which I believe is still the largest amount of money stolen from a bank at once in UK history, right?
These are all generally highly reviewed can lead to interesting discussions:

Gattaca - interesting take on genetics/DNA discrimination

Europa - hard science fiction, maybe a bit slow for a 12 year old

The Net - older movie but the concept of digital exile resonates today

City of Ember - post apocalyptic civilization that lives deep underground

First Man - dramatization of Neil Armstrong and the first moon landing (not realy "fiction")

Arrival - first contact situation, tastefully done

Contact - another first contact situation that explores how politics, skepticism, and fanaticism react

The Martian - easily as fun as the book

The Prestige - competing magicians in an industrial age setting

The Hunger Games - extreme class divide in a future setting

Jurassic Park - the original not the sequels

Stargate - wormhole travel to another planet (be careful with the TV shows though, SG1 on streaming has full frontal nudity and "not ok" scenes which were obviously not on the broadcast version and a total shock when we watched it as a family)

District 9 - has some graphic gore and language, so it might be 14+, but is an interesting look at aliens as refugees

Contagion - a look at how a pandemic could play out. Premiered before COVID.

The Maze Runner - interesting setting and look at group dynamics

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids - fun setting

The Village - scary movie with a sci fi twist

Galaxy Quest - comedy

Short Circuit - old movie that deals with AI sentience

Innerspace - another old one, but has some fun concepts
Its going to (further) democratize content creation. Think of a novelist who could produce a whole interactive movie by themself, or an engineer who could roughly prototype a vehicle in minutes.

But don't get me wrong... its going to be awful for anything real-world. And companies like Meta wants us mindlessly scrolling through feeds in VR, not making cool stuff ourselves.
Bitcoin has a throughput of 1 KB/s for the entire world, so it will never be used for micro transactions.
Fewer and fewer babies are born so i guess embryo editing is not seen as a profit maker.

On the other hand, no word about the status of the crispr-kids
Quantum Computing Shorts
Remember to contribute money/time if you love and use emacs!

Microsoft recently cancelled PayPal for Github sponsors and Tarsius lost significant amounts of income (that was already below minimum wage)[1].

A small contribution, the price of a coffee a week, which for successful developers is very little, goes a long way in supporting open source that doesn't have extensive corporate support like chromium/linux/docker.

https://magit.vc/donate/
https://liberapay.com/hlissner/donate
https://liberapay.com/bzg/ (org-mode maintainer)
https://www.patreon.com/sanityinc (MELPA)
https://github.com/freetonik/support-emacs-community-devs (other good list)

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/11cezoq/magit_mainta...
Yeah, but no one likes to get moral lectures from hypocrites. We Americans sure do like self-determination, just not for anyone else.
Does Python do anything to enforce mutually exclusive access when mutating? If not, that’s a hole you could drive a truck through, isn’t it?
> I've also started therapy 2 months ago, but it's going slow and it hasn't been very useful yet.

My #1 piece of advice is, find a new therapist.

Therapy isn't one size fits all. You need to not only find the right type of "modality" for you (e.g. CBT and IFS* are worlds apart, generally you want somebody "integrative/eclectic" who will combine the right modalities for you), but you also simply need to find somebody to click with. It really does depend on trust and chemistry to a shockingly large degree.

I know multiple people who did years of therapy that was next to useless, then found a new therapist that just 2-4 sessions made a huge difference.

It's entirely normal and expected to "shop around" with therapists. Try an initial 1-2 sessions with 3-4 different therapists, and be upfront with them about what you're doing as well. They won't take it personally -- they're therapists -- and they're even more aware than you that therapeutic outcomes are super dependent on just finding the right personal match.

When you find the right therapist who is really in tune with you, you can go from having a "breakthrough" every couple of years, to every couple of sessions. It's crazy how different the outcomes can be, and how few people are even aware that the outcomes can be so different.

(Note that this is less applicable to CBT which is very recipe-oriented, paint-by-numbers, surface-level treatment. CBT can be great as a short-term fix for distorted thinking patterns, but it's not designed to address anything deeper, so a good match with a therapist matters less.)

* CBT = cognitive behavioral therapy, IFS = internal family systems
Yes that's what I am saying. Europeans thought their civilization is superior and has a manifest destiny to colonize others, a lie that must be told to get the support of the masses when you do terrible things. Even in Africa or even native americans in north america invaded territory as a means to gain wealth and resources.

Of course this makes none of it acceptable, especially in modern times where resources are so abundant.

It is plain and simple organized theft and murder. These nations chose to be murderers,rapists and thieves. The fact that europe wasn't the first only geographical area does not change that. You can develop resources and trade with others but when thay doesn't work either you find some way to better your society or turn to evil.

The US invading iraq for oil using spreading freedom as a cover is a replay of this ancient playbook. It's easy to say we will not do this as a nation anymore in a time of prosperity but but miss a few meals and then we will see what people think.
Sure, if it was the 1960's it might be appropriate to call this topic a conservative position. That doesn't mean it's conservative two generations later. Your comment basically demonstrates my larger point - if you tie your positions to how things were at some fixed time in the past, then as time moves forward you have less and less claim to being called "conservative" as what you want becomes ever more of a drastic departure from current society.
Start Trek Prodigy is aimed at kids and not bad either.
This resonates with me; nice way of putting our psychological pitfalls into machine learning terms!
Life Stories: From Art to Tech, Max Liani
The World's Smallest Hash Table
Are you sure that people from Europe who don't fall into that group also didn't see America as a symbol of freedom relative to what they knew at home? It's possible, but it also seems possible, even likely, that the opposite would be true, given the degree of entrenched social stratification in post-medieval Europe.
Dictatorships aren’t self determination.
Looks nice! Unfortunately they don't support repositories that use plaintext HTTP. I get the idea, but my repository is private and only accessible over my personal Tailscale network so that's annoying.
I've a friend in the industrial and academic chip development space.

They basically agreed with what you said. ARM isn't some magical compute/watt wand that Apple waved; it's their incredibly tight software and hardware integration that allowed them optimize.
> She gave me that big 4C4F4C laugh of hers. It gets me every time.

Anyone get this joke?
On one hand I've been waiting for LiveView to stabilize and get to its 1.0, on the other hand every release is more awesome than the previous one, and I'm speaking as someone that has been using it since its first public release.

Thanks Chris and all the contributors for your hard work.
I myself, as someone with ADHD, absolutely despise the term “neurodivergent” (and also “neurotypical”). I hate how it’s used to lump everyone with different neurological, mental, and learning conditions under one umbrella. I hate how it is used to separate us from the “neurotypical” who don’t have these conditions. And I hate how offensive it sounds (“neurodivergent” sounds like some C-tier, crazed, antisocial comic book villain obsessed with building bombs or something.) I feel clear[0] adjectives and nouns are the best, most direct descriptors. I’m not neurodivergent, I just have ADHD. I’m not oculi-visuallydivergent, I just wear glasses because I am nearsighted.

[0] Yes I am aware that what counts as clear is itself very, very up for discussion and is a very loaded term. I hope I got my point across.
> Don't give me strawman arguments and personal attacks,instead provide some valid counter arguments

You haven't provided an argument to counter. "Nobody drives the speed limit. Are people only interested in texting and fornication?"
Isn't Python still run under a single global interpreter lock? Can't have simultaneous access while mutating if only one thing is running at a time...
As if they need much effort elsewhere. ICE (HSI) got a search warrant against me because an anonymous dog allegedly accused me of wrongdoing. That anonymous dog allegedly told an anonymous officer, who allegedly told an HSI detective. I was served a warrant based off 3rd degree, inter-species hearsay. How do you even argue against that. I still have no fucking clue what that was all about and I never interacted with a dog that alerted on me.

Then the cost of the (fruitless) search warrant was sent to collections, and I now have debt collectors chasing me where the debt document literally says guarantor "ICE" on it.
Hm..

> In 1946, for instance, science-fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev explained the puzzling scene by positing a scenario in which an alien spacecraft had exploded in the atmosphere.

Maybe Tesla shot down a UFO, and it self-destructed to prevent their technology from falling into our hands.
It makes launching emacs practically instant because it’s always running in the background—emacsclient connects to the already running instance so you get to skip the startup process.
It doesn't need to be crude. It's just a matter of putting function over form.
well they filter all their employees by doing leetcode questions, if you dont meet that criteria they dont want you even if you can do creative code that might not be as efficient
"Subconscious" is not a well defined technical term in psychology anymore, and hasn't been used since the days of Freud when nothing was well-defined anyway. And even Freud regretted his use of the term:

"If someone talks of subconsciousness, I cannot tell whether he means the term topographically – to indicate something lying in the mind beneath consciousness – or qualitatively – to indicate another consciousness, a subterranean one, as it were. He is probably not clear about any of it. The only trustworthy antithesis is between conscious and unconscious."

The "unconscious" is not understood as being a "hidden consciousness" with its own agency. It's simply understood as the collection of processes in the brain that you are not consciously aware of. All sorts of sensory processing and integration. Things like balance, the syncing of visual and auditory inputs. It's like the brain's standard library.

There's very little support for the idea of some sort of dialogue between conscious and unconscious.
Did you do your schoolwork on a computer? It's not that many years ago that a school exam could mean writing multiple half-page answers by hand, and you would also write multi-page essays by hand.
Lack of testing is part of it, most places do less testing than is ideal.

But there’s much more to it than that. From the article, the author’s resolution is 1366×768. This was designed and tested for! The problem wasn’t that it was broken at that res, the problem was that it was incorrectly classified as a tablet-only resolution.

The issue here is their designers and developers being out of touch with their users, and using constrained hardware helps with that.
I think Tron: Legacy, Pacific Rim, and Alita: Battle Angel should all be great for any 12-year-old. High-concept (12-year-old me loved the "what if?" question), lots of action, and not too adult. Great suggestions.

I think some of the other ones like Oblivion, Contact, and Gattaca might be a bit too dry/subtle/pondering (depending on exactly how tedious he found 2001 to be).
> insane battery life

Is it just hardware that helps extend battery life or is it the combination of hardware and software? One advantage for Apple is that they are both the hardware and software designer hence they can optimise both to take advantage of each other.
It's a double edged sword. I don't think it governments should have right to control anything like this but since they do already, at least they can be helpful on the other end of the spectrum.
Why is AVIF limited to 4k. Thats sound kinda arbitrary.
I can viscerally remember seeing the The Last Starfighter as a 13 y/o. I have avoided ever re-watching it because I know it's not going to be nearly as good as an adult. I've already ruined some of the others on the list by re-watching them, though a bunch of those still hold up.

But um.... Teen Wolf? The best I can say is Michael J. Fox did the best he could with it.

I think maybe Tron and The Black Hole would slot nicely into your list.
I do 8k but combine with K2
It's ASCII: 0x4C = 'L', 0x4F = 'O', 0x4C = 'L'.
I will give it a try, time permitting. The scheme code above is a variation of something I converted from CommonLisp (orignal code by Robert Smith) in 2013. Its speed depends on bignum multiplication speed. I imagine most serious bignum implementations use the Schönhage–Strassen algorithm for very large numbers.
In the case of Bing use of OpenAI, Microsoft is the customer.
US has done much better than previous empires.

Despite starting off with genocide of natives and slavery, it slowly improved over time in terms of addressing internal strife, which is probably a major contributor to its longevity as a global power.
> the failure rate is too high

The rate dramatically changes with demographic, for example many of those were married young and did not complete education.

> who you pick to marry

The quote doesn't say whether :) Married men also tend to make more money and work for longer periods of time. There is a cynical view of whether that's good or not, but 40-50 year old single men don't seem to be a particularly successful demographic.
As a language model, I'm not capable of benevolence
Sanction and export controls are used by governments around the world as a means to further their foreign policy and national security interests, not just the US. Further these regulations always govern both the export and re-export of the goods and services being sold. They are useless otherwise.

This is playing out right now in the EU with Switzerland and Germany debating allowing armaments to be re-exported to Ukraine.[1]

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/switzerland-rethinks-neutral...
Beats does that to their headphones. (Not literal pennies).
Could you give an example (source code link) of a "truly reusable" component?
Is it lost on you that this specific action is literally in defence of self determination in the context of the entire point of the war. Such an incredibly lazy take.
Much like Facebook being told no to its crypto plans, the issue here is less about morality,and more about state control. I'm sure military programs are using this technology to further state ends and "super soldiers" or some such approach will be sought. The public just can't be allowed access, and they'll hide that stifling behind moral platitudes.
Quite true about how democratic it was, and the diminished powers of the emperors, kings, and aristocrats...though I know enough older European history to have doubts about "would have ended far sooner". Their power wasn't so diminished because they'd proven so competent in the past.

Hmm...reading your comment again, I sense that similar reflections were behind Churchill's famous quote about democracy.