skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keeping warrants secret can also cause harm, by preventing oversight. Even if you take a "balance of harms" approach (which I don't agree with in general if it doesn't take deontological prohibitions and fundamental rights into account), in general I think the ability to have secret warrants with correspondingly minimal oversight is far more prone to abuse than any added benefit it might theoretically provide.

Among other things, secret warrants eliminate the ability of a party affected by a warrant to contest the legality or scope of the warrant. Secret warrants also prevent the public from having oversight of governmental overreach and abuse.

The US legal system is not and should not be designed to maximize the discovery and conviction of criminals at all costs. (Though observation of its net effects might suggest otherwise.) The US legal system is and should be designed to presume innocence, and to not presume that anyone targeted by law enforcement is a criminal. Your argument is focused solely on whether someone will change their behavior in response to knowledge of a warrant and whether that will prevent the conviction of a criminal. Having to obtain warrants at all also makes it harder to gather evidence; having to target specific individuals rather than a fishing dragnet of everyone makes it harder to gather evidence; many things make it harder to gather evidence, and that's a feature, not a bug. It's the reason why "if you have nothing to hide" arguments are invalid.

> I disagree, and so do the courts.

Disagreement is not an argument, and a statement of the current status quo is not an argument. If you want to argue "that's the current law" then my response is "I know, it's wrong and needs fixing", and we're done.

The status quo for several centuries were that secret warrants could not exist. This changed opportunistically in response to an event that made people fearful, even though there's zero evidence that these expansive and easily abused powers would have done anything to help stop that.
This also made his voice unusually easy to clone, so there's an early AI parody of him called NileGreen.
FWIW, if Coherent did no fold, I would have stuck with it.
MHz and Megapixel race all over again!
I never understood why in 21st century checks are still so popular.
in germany i would use cash or direct debit. The later only for remote things.
I don't think the core motivation in this discussion (or the monetary motivation from Beeper) is due solely to "angsty teenagers." Clearly there are adults out there, with money to spend, who would prefer to send an iMessage to an iPhone owner rather than an SMS message.

While I find it annoying to constantly hear from my mother and other members of my family how messages from me are "a hassle" or "always getting missed" or "never show up in the group chat", I am not willing to spend the money on something like Beeper. But some people are spending the money, it looks like there is a market there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betting_shop

UK, Ireland, Greece are mentioned. Italy apparently has them too. I don't know about anywhere else.

Some British towns had four or more of these within 100m. It was generally a sign of a deprived area.
I didn't say it broke the guidelines (other than by having a baity title).
What's the avg spacing on atoms in a silicon matrix anyway? Something on the order of 0.2nm (2A)? So are we now nearing a point where 1 extra atom is 10% error in a single dimension?

Would be grateful if someone who actually understands this stuff would care to illuminate my speculation further?
SQL queries return data from tables.
The abstract does mention that one downside of this is that the result of the query has to be constructed in memory, resulting in a lot of copying.
This is particularly apparent for joins, where some join types can produce much more data than all their input tables combined.

I don't see how this is "return something other than a relation" they are pretty specific about what they mean and what benefits it can bring
I worked with a woman that didn't have fingerprints.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adermatoglyphia
Sure, but only if you opt-into it. If a browser sends your private information like IP address to a third party, without your consent, that is by default opposite of privacy-respecting. (there is no privacy being respected there).
I used a variation of the Einstein to make a D&D puzzle. Players had to use a limited number of tiles to make a sufficiently-difficult hedge maze.
https://www.threads.net/@nonarbitrarity/post/CuYKHNSMEhw

Playing with Einsteins, they really feel like a leap forward in puzzle technology. The aperiodicity means, no matter how many you put together, you've never quite figured out how you'll get the next bit to work without gaps. Endlessly entertaining.
This made me to lookup Samorost again - initially a flash based adventure and puzzle game.
I have written a couple of 80kloc Common Lisp apps. Not a problem. But we all are used to what we are used to, and anything different offends.
Thoisoi is also good but has a heavy Russian (Estonian?) accent, which I didn't mind but seems to have bothered him enough that he's gotten someone to dub him over now.

Also StyroPyro for an electrical mad scientist version.

…now that I go look at his channel apparently Thoisoi's lab just burned down.
Sounds like you're just bound to Google rather than Apple.
> It's also the only timekeeping device that will still work after three days away from an electric plug

I get your point, but I can easily get >2 weeks out of my Garmin Fenix or over a month if I put it in battery saving mode.
I'm the only one not being able to see the first graph? it just doesn't fit horizontally, and it also doesn't allow me to scroll to the right either (on mobile, using Android Firefox)
I don't have to imagine computers not existing — I was there (personal computers anyway, mainframes were around).

I would probably be an engineer or a draftsman.
Does Portland's program do anything to address the mental health problems underlying much of this drug abuse?
Gambling operators pay taxes on gross receipts beyond just ordinary corporate taxes that in most states range from 5-10% which also happens to be the typical range for sales tax. As well as a federal excise tax of 0.25% on all dollars wagered.
Normalization of contract based elision of Right of First Sale. Since the tech has evolved to basically allow for doing things like keeping one's finger on what happens to something after it changes hands, of course businesses are engaging in lawfare to normalize it's use and snuff out any memory that things were ever different.
Behavior belongs in the HTML
Instructions are misleading. If you click on the Issuu see full screen icon, you can read the whole book online.
It is a hard problem to solve. Criminalizing drugs and throwing addicts in jail doesn't resolve the problem.
Just curious if you'd include alcohol in that list? What about prescription pain-killers? Just curious where you draw the line on what's criminal, and what's not.

Personally, I'd rather criminalize the negative behavior, rather than the drugs themselves. Like DUI laws, for example.
> Qualcomm’s licensing business is best-in-class and an example many companies can learn from.

The last thing this world needs is more Qualcomm. I'd rather see the entire patent system go down in flames than this utter crap continuing.

Qualcomm has been a vampire on technology for years now, it's time for this company to end once and for all. We have to get technology under the people's control again - it is ridiculous and stifling progress that governments legally prescribe standards that are not open to everyone to implement. And especially it's ridiculous how few notable manufacturers of mobile phone SoCs remain - it's either Qualcomm or Mediatek.
>The solution is literally downloading a free app and encouraging others to do the same.

Absolutely not. I'll never touch whatsapp with a ten thousand foot pole. If you aren't tired of facebook ruining people's lives then I don't know what to tell you, but frankly most people who pay attention are sick of FB controlling the planet.

How about instead, you use apps that don't sell your information to literally anyone who will give them a dollar? Like Apple's iMessage.
But also 53k/month is revenue. Who knows what the profit margin is there?

If he's subbing out all that work it could be very little.

It feels a bit misleading to mention that as revenue and in other cases mention a six-figure operation.

Six-figure could mean anything from $100k to $999k. So which is it, there's quite a huge difference.

Usually when people say six figures they would mean somewhere around $100k. Is what he's paying himself after all of that around $100k per year then?

Overall the article of course seems like ad piece that directs you to his homepage where he's selling a course on how to do the same...
"Lack of age controls" doesn't mean "targeting kids" though, does it?

And I read the transcripts of the four videos, and I don't see anyone even suggesting the specific or explicit targeting of kids. Some mention of younger teens gambling, but nobody's claiming explicit targeting, as far as I can tell.

My point, though, is the whole, "think of the kids!" argument is often abused to try and prohibit activity that any adult should be free to engage in.
Hell, why not just summarily execute them. No more homeless problem!
I question who this article is for - having worked at Qualcomm, they beat you over the head on how their business is built on patents and how they were going to go belly up some 20 years ago had they not pivoted to this model. I can't imagine a single analyst or anyone interested in the company not aware of their business model in the same way it doesn't take long to figure out that Apple is in the business of selling iPhones, mac books, etc.
I'll give you one guess as to the skin color of the people who "seem dangerous" to these all white judges, prosecutors, and juries.
I mean I kind of like "boring"?

I upgraded from a 11 Pro Max to a 14 Pro Max last year and it was my phone, but better.
Weight. Glass is pretty heavy, which increases transport cost and fuel usage. TFA also mentions that in applications where transluency is okay, it's a better insulator.

https://cen.acs.org/materials/inorganic-chemistry/glass-recy...

> But even if the US shifted more to multistream collection, there are other economic factors standing in the way of increasing glass-recycling rates to European levels. One significant difference between the US and European nations is size. Distances in the US between a materials recovery facility and a cullet supplier, or a cullet supplier and a buyer tend to be greater. Transporting glass waste and cullet is costly because of their weight, and those costs can be a deal breaker for some glassmakers and can prevent would-be cullet suppliers from opening processing facilities. For example, in the US, some materials recovery facilities do not recover any glass from their single streams because there are no nearby buyers to make it worthwhile, according to Rue.
US Americans love iMessage, nobody knows why.
The root cause in both instances isn't drugs and so infinite spending or (de)criminalization won't matter. The core issue is hope. In the absence of work for the abled and care for the disabled and housing, there isn't much hope and so crimes, habits, and deaths of despair take hold. Without holistic and comprehensive betterment of people who feel ignored and cheated, there isn't much for this growing sector of society to look forward to. It should be no wonder why many people are so desperate and put faith in a lying, vindictive con artist like Trump.
Sure, I can print and mail her the picture, too - the point is convenience.
Sometimes, people want to send photos back and forth, too, so asking the technical user of the two to setup a host isn't a solution.

(But I'm guessing you already knew that)
I really enjoined working in Lua.
As per the article, clawbacks. Even "Pauls" that Bernie didn't talk into reinvesting were threatened with clawbacks of their fake earnings.
Eh, all the stimulant use you don't see on the streets is surely responsible for much Value Creation.
Yes! They used a full orchestra for it
Another good one is instant messaging. Both latency and reliability (exactly once delivery) are important.

Doing so using microservices will teach you a lot more (but may not be immediately applicable as it's not so favored).
A little context.

This is a letter concerning a bill pending in the U.S. House of Representatives which would provide some reforms to how civil asset forfeiture is conducted in the U.S.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1525...

Unsurprisingly, for law enforcement, any hinderance of their ability to engage in such forfeitures does make their jobs harder (individual rights can add pesky additional hoops to jump through) and, perhaps more importantly, threatens a revenue stream (discussed in the letter as "equitable sharing"... in essence the cut of the take local agencies get from a forfeiture).
I wonder if this will be the last COP. The complete capture by fossil fuel interests has been disgraceful. Next year’s will be in another corrupt pterostate, Azerbaijan, and almost didn’t have a host country as another corrupt and collapsing petrostate, Russia, was vetoing every choice up to the very end.
There’s no contradiction here. It may or may not be bad policy, but it’s not a contradiction.

Nobody’s a victim when a kid falls and breaks an arm while skateboarding, but we have programs like CHIP to help kids have access to healthcare to get that arm treated, regardless.
you'd break the web and that is worse overall
It was meant to be a full release for PC and consoles in Nov 2023 (after having been delayed twice already), at which point they announced it would be delayed a 3rd time, until Dec 8th, and would be released as PC-only Steam Early Access content instead of a full game like they had led gamers to expect. The 2 years leading up to that point were spent releasing promo videos and info which grossly misrepresented both the game's content and the progress of its development.

I don't know that this technically constitutes fraud, but it is completely disingenuous and abusive of the trust gamers had placed in them.
Hi! Thanks for trying out ast-grep.

I have been improving ast-grep's documentation since the release of the project.

It is arguably not that good/abundant for resources compared to eslint/babel. But it has improved a lot (say, example page[0] and deep dive page[1]). The doc site is also carefully crafted to make it accessible, compared to libcst or other similar projects.

I also appreciate blogs/introductions to ast-grep if the community can help! Let me know if there are issues/problems when using ast-grep!

[0] https://ast-grep.github.io/catalog/

[1] https://ast-grep.github.io/advanced/core-concepts.html
Some people are finding themselves excluded from their social group because of platform choice - basically not being able to use iMessage (sometimes) means people don't want you in the group chat (because mixing iMessage and SMS messages makes a bad experience.)

It is incredibly difficult to get a social group to change messaging platforms, especially if that social group's shared interest isn't "using a good messaging platform"

The easiest solution is to conform to the existing messaging platform in the group. In the case of a bunch of iOS users, that might mean leaving Android for iOS. People don't want to do this (For a variety of reasons.) So being able to participate as a first-world-citizen of the platform has its appeal.
We might be on the cusp of dethroning the attention & transformer dynasty! Anyone have context on how the mamba architecture fares with multimodal models?
Can someone please explain how this works to a software engineer who used to work with heuristically observable functions and algorithms? I'm having a hard time comprehending how a mix of experts can work.

In SE, to me, it would look like (sorting example):

- Having 8 functions that do some stuff in parallel

- There's 1 function that picks the output of a function that (let's say) did the fastest sorting calculation and takes the result further

But how does that work in ML? How can you mix and match what seems like simple matrix transformations in a way that resembles if/else flowchart logic?
I'm the exact opposite from you on this. One of the main reasons why I switched to extremely tiny microcontrollers for my hobby projects is because they bring a lot of those days back for me.

Vive la différence! :)
Thanks, it was down when I tried earlier
The House Intelligence Committee's Surveillance 'Reform' Bill Is a Farce
Patents don't protect smaller players -- enforcement is cost-prohibitive.

The only sector that could plausibly justify patents is biotech... but even there, the vast majority of early R&D is publicly-funded, and thus should negate protection.

A Government-mandated monopoly on ideas may have made sense at some point, but it's antiquated today. Today they serve to stifle innovation, extract rent and act as yet another form of regulatory capture -- e.g. when they become standards.

(Coming from someone who has 20+ patents to their name.)
But there are other law enforcement agencies that are fairly conventional also actively working to keep the status quo.

https://www.poam.net/poam-members/letter-regarding-hr-1525/
Unless I misunderstand, they are codifying their patents into open standards like 5G.

So you can't implement 5G without their patents. Add that to encouraging complexity (10,000+ pages of spec to do something outwardly similar to WiFi), and they have a really effective moat around an "open" standard.

The entire protocol space is somewhat arbitrary. This is a bit like patenting a strategy in a board game you created, and that everyone is required to play.
Show HN: cypress-diff plugin that provides enhanced highlights in Cypress UI
Hello community. I'm happy to share with you my new library that shows and highlights differences in Cypress Test Runner.

Simple installation and usage:
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and then add the following line in your cypress/support/e2e.ts
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you ever licked an apple? tastes nothing like the fruit.

what’s sad is that it isn’t limited to tech.

papa johns? not for a while it hasn’t been.

the list goes on, but you better sit down first…
Apple has a literal complete monopoly on operating systems. Every iPhone must either run iOS or be cracked (jailbreak). That's not the whole story, though: Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior was not monopolizing the OS market. It was using that monopoly to promote IE.

> Apple is not trying to eliminate Beeper

They are literally eliminating one of their products. That's anti-competitive.

> they have no monopoly in anything and there is clear evidence of a fair and functioning market by the presence of WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, Signal etc.

You just moved the goalposts out of the stadium. Anti-competitive behavior doesn't need to overwhelm every segment of a market to be anti-competitive behavior.
Oh, believe me I don't think it's an easy problem either. My brother is a social worker and I know the stories.

But I think the suffering of the individual is largely unchanged whether it happens out in public or on the periphery. In contrast, I think we as a larger society are suffering from lack of safe and clean public spaces. So we may as well maintain some sort of enforcement.
It made a huge difference in my sleep. Before, I kept waking up at night for no clear reason and it was getting worse. Within a week or two of changing my diet I started sleeping like a baby and, aside from some periods of high stress, that hasn't changed.
Or to include them. Most E2EE messengers encrypt messages only in transit, so they technically have access to them (via their app) while they are stored.
Your username is hilariously appropriate for someone commenting on what the most significant part of human speech is!
Lots of Americans have iPhones, iMessage is the default messaging on the platform, and it's actually quite a good messaging system.
Qualcomm does have a nice margin (20%) [https://valustox.com/QCOM] but this is roughly in line with other big co's in the industry.

Motorola makes 18% [https://valustox.com/MSI]

Broadcom, Nvidia, and even Texas Instruments are around 40%! [https://valustox.com/AVGO, https://valustox.com/NVDA, https://valustox.com/TXN].

Intel and AMD bring up the rear with 1.8% and 0.5%. [https://valustox.com/INTC, https://valustox.com/AMD]

For reference, Apple is at 25% and Tesla is at 11%. https://valustox.com/AAPL, https://valustox.com/TSLA]
Sounds like you’re volunteering to take them in. Good for you.
Firefox, Graphene, Pixel, DDG, Proton, MS365, Rumble.

1/7 isn't bad, I guess.
Doesn't the sale need to be legal to remove the criminal element from the entire thing?
And people like you must learn not to think (if you do actually think at all) in binary terms all the time (and maybe consider reading a history book or two).

Yes it existed, at a massively smaller scale.

> Like you need a monetary incentive to get a human to do anything.

So we agree? Or was that a question? Because the answer is yes. Without copyright it was almost impossible (and still largely is) for any creator to make a living without being independently wealthy/being funded by a third party.

If you're fine living in a world with almost no books (especially no fiction) and approximately zero non ultra low cost TV/movies (unless you count ads which would effectively become the only way of funding anything substantial..) etc. than sure maybe copyright is not really necessary.
The problem is that Apple has valid case, because these guys are making money with the app, by using Apple’s private backend services without permission.
my god they’re everywhere…
Warzone 3
December 6th, 2023, witnessed the arrival of Warzone 3, the latest addition to the Call of Duty series, emerging just 26 days after the success of Modern Warfare 3. Warzone 3 promises not just a game but an immersive experience featuring top-notch graphics, dynamic gameplay, and an extensive array of weapons and features
He mentioned their reason in the blog — that Messages is the default messaging app on iPhone and that it is also not a replaceable default.
Is dead because people asking questions like that. I’m sorry I don’t want to sound harsh but that’s what I think: don’t learn programming or how computers works or anything about hardware or software if you’re not already passionate about it or doesn’t passionate you. You won’t give a f of LLMS if the argument of study makes you curious, happy or satisfied. LLMs are just a tool like any other. Quite often I find myself believing that the future might be like how it’s been depicted on a South Park episode where handyman’s got so rich to the point that they start space exploration :)
Maya's C++ API was what taught me the most about the importance of proper do/undo functionality. As soon as you start to modify the DAG, you really must ensure that the undo operation leaves everything (be it meshes or shaders or curves, whatever) as it was before your custom object got inserted into the DAG. Else your plugin is worthless.

See the doIt/undoIt methods in https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2022/ENU/?guid=Maya_SD...
That feels like a pricing model that Atlassian has chosen to steer customers towards their cloud offering, rather than true competition.
Solid-State Lithium-Sulfur Battery Tech Portfolio – T2 Portal
are we talking about the same YT channel?

the one I looked at had overly-pretentious zooms and panning, while almost no actual info
Time Travel Visual Debugger for Rust
Associated blog post.

https://firedbg.sea-ql.org/blog/2023-12-12-introducing-fired...
That's not too surprising. Mesopotamia has been continuously inhabited for about that long.

Humans tend to stick to good places until climate change forces their hand! Not even war is enough to make us migrate.
Hey Steve, loved your work on Rust and your goodbye letter. Nice to see you in my comment chain