skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We always debate this topic, CyberDildonics.

You were wrong last time you debated me on AI porn. It's here [1, 2].

Movies are next.

> Anyone with a few hundred dollars can buy mics, steady cams, action cams and more off of amazon that would give them quality above the black and white or 16mm film that some directors started out on.

I've been down this path, and frankly it sucks.

The task: tell a visual story.

The current process: script, edit, break down with AD, location scout, secure filming rights to a location, go to a rental house and get equipment, get insurance, find camera crew that can handle it, rent lights, get gels, go to a prop house, pick props, rent props, transport props to set, set dec, run electrical, light set, do blocking, rehearse, film, retake, film, reset, capture photons, smear pixels around with an editing package for three months.

This ceremony freaking sucks. It's so far divorced from the objective at hand, it's more primitive than punch cards, and nothing is reusable. I absolutely hate it. And I've always hated it. It needs to die. These steps have nothing to do with storytelling. It's vestigial and is an artifact of our primitive technologies.

The task is to convey visual stories. Not to play dress up, logistics, and awkward gridded photon capture.

Anyway, movies are next. I'll eat my hat if they're not. The current filmmaking process is as dumb as bloodletting. And it feels about the same.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711614

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35523656
I thought your comment was spot on. I just appreciated the possible turn towards nihilism or existentialism.

We spend so much of our life determining what is useful in one sense of the word, and rarely stop to think about the usefulness of what we do in the philosophical sense.
I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil. We have quite bad drug abuse issues as well.

I have helped a group that rescued several people (I believe most with drug addiction) from the streets[1]. What they do, and several other groups, and also government institutes do, is offer voluntary recovery programs that are legitimately very good. You can go there and they'll take care of you, including professional psychologist/psychiatrist support (and medicine to help get off drugs); in the main institution we're working with[2], former homeless and former drug dependents help directly in welcoming people. I'm not sure that's the whole solution to the drug problem, but I think it's part of the solution -- getting out in the streets, offering help to the homeless and addicts, and if they want, taking them somewhere that'll offer shelter and recovery from addiction. [3]

There's one rule in those places: you can't go in with drugs with you. Of course, if the person becomes too violent then they might not be able to deal with them either.

Please, go out there and help (while staying safe too, preferably in a group) -- or help institutions that do this kind of work (like we say, everyone can play a role, be it in a kitchen, on the streets, or with donations). I think it's groups like this that keep things from falling apart.

There are many people on the streets for whom drugs are just a quick escape mechanism, and have economic issues, mental health issues, or health issues (or all together), and a compassionate community/institutions that helps everyone recover is what really is needed I think.

Pretending they don't exist or as a friend calls "shuffling them around" doesn't work.

[1] Our group offers a meal once a week (Sunday nights, where they have difficulty finding something to eat), and we offer taking them off the streets. It's incredible what genuinely caring about people will do: I've seen people cry when you hand them a plate of food.

[2] It's this one: https://www.missaobelem.org/; This one is state funded and excellent as well: https://hub.spdmafiliadas.org.br/ (called HUB)

[3] Other important parts being, educating people about the tragedy of drug abuse, and providing community and support so they don't resort to drugs, and also preventing selling.
> I fail to understand how HN and the court system do not think the same against Apple

"The court system" is not a collective entity with a shared set of thoughts. Different judges, different arguments, in one case (but not the other) a jury, these things make a difference.

The appellate process and the system of binding precedent goes with it serves to somewhat make things more consistent overall than individual trial court processes would when considered over a longer time and a larger number of cases, but cases very close in time ending up with different trial court decisions despite broadly similar fact patterns are not really surprising.
Apple's whole schtick is that they exercise restraint on design so that it works well across many constraints, not just optimizing for one, such as newest or best feature.

I am sure engineering these devices involves lots of compromise, and maybe they did not find sufficient benefits to outweigh the drawbacks for those other features.

Maybe it is possible they swing the pendulum too far into the cautious territory, but given their track record, I would not bet on it.
> Singapore indicates strict prohibition and punishing laws can and do work.

For a city-state with a reasonably homogeneous population, perhaps. But that's very different from a large country.

> The problem wasn’t that prohibition didn’t work, it was the lack of enforcement.

That's because the amount of enforcement it would have taken to actually prohibit all use of liquor would have been (a) way, way too costly, and (b) inconsistent with having a free country. At least our country realized that for liquor and repeated Prohibition.

> I don’t have any philosophy towards the idea of drugs.

It sure seems like you do from your statements that immediately follow this one.
That hasn't been a serious issue for 20 years. The overwhelming majority of big games are now being released for PC on day one, the only exceptions being platform exclusives and Rockstar games.

Developers certainly have no problem making PC games.
The consumer harm rule of antitrust isn't actually part of the law just how it's been interpreted for a while, but I do agree that's how a conservative court will likely rule.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1197954487/antitrust-double-f...
> guys, it's a phone/tablet. The consoles are much more like a General Purpose Computers

Some five billion people have a smart phone [1]. For many it's the primary way they access the Internet.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/203734/global-smartphone....
The graph shows some countries have this effect start 2018 ish, so I doubt LLMs are the driving force behind this.
I don’t think it’s because Apple conned them over.

Google said you could start your own App Store and then secretly undermined people who tried to start their own App Store.

That’s what they got in trouble for. There is no evidence of Apple making backroom deals to prevent people from doing things Apple said they could.
Piracy Shield: IPTV Blocking Orders Apply to All DNS and VPN Providers
Since I’ve moved out of the US and started using Line (the message service of choice in my country of residence) I have no idea why the US market continues to cope with SMS.

iMessage is confusing. I get constant random authorization requests on my iPad because it got un-synced. Messages never come through to my Mac either.

Line is nowhere near perfect, and the app does have ads, but it works, it’s fast, and encrypted. People even use it for calling. I’ve literally never gave my phone number to someone for communication. Not even my coworkers.

It’s so prominent that data only cellphone plans are actually usable-and cheap.

I’m not saying we should all use Line (I would prefer Matrix). What I’m saying is there are so many communication platforms out there that are way better than S/MMS.
On security theatre:

> However, security theatre has positive aspects too, provided that it is not used as a substitute for actions that would actually improve security. In the context of the election of the Doge, the complexity of the protocol had the effect that all the oligarchs took part in a long, involved ritual in which they demonstrated individually and collectively to each other that they took seriously their responsibility to try to elect a Doge who would act for the good of Venice, and also that they would submit to the rule of the Doge after he was elected. This demonstration was particularly important given the disastrous consequences in other Mediaeval Italian city states of unsuitable rulers or civil strife between different aristocratic factions.

> It would have served, too, as commercial brand-building for Venice, reassuring the oligarchs’ customers and trading partners that the city was likely to remain stable and business-friendly. After the election, the security theatre continued for several days of elaborate processions and parties. There is also some evidence of security theatre outside the election period. A 16th century engraving by Mateo Pagan depicting the lavish parade which took place in Venice each year on Palm Sunday shows the balotino in the parade, in a prominent position—next to the Grand Chancellor—and dressed in what appears to be a special costume.

Highlighted by Schneier:

* https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/security-anal...
I think you should keep
your dam opinions to yourself, pal.
This is a reddit post which links to a Twitter post [0] which links to this paper [1] and this repo [2]

[0] - https://nitter.net/_albertgu/status/1731727672286294400

[1] - https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00752

[2] - https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba

Out of curiosity, does anyone feel as though there's any benefit to linking to reddit when we can link to whatever the reddit post actually is? I for one do not click the link and read discussion on reddit - if I wanted that sort of discussion, I would browse there, not HN.
I agree. But the strategies that Elm/React/Vue/etc use to deal with this can be copied without taking on all the rest of the baggage. Creating a Flux/Vuex-style state container and a bunch of mutator functions isn't hard.
My definitions:

- Macros: arguments are interpreted as syntax, produces syntax, typically runs at compile-time. Their use case is anything functions can't do, e.g. define things or interpret syntax "abnormally" (different than parent language)

- Function: arguments are interpreted "normally" as values, outputs a value, usually runs at runtime.

- Method: function where one of the inputs is denoted as "self". Semantically there's no difference between `a.f(...)` and `f(a, ...)`, and some languages let you do both.

- Fexprs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fexpr): weird macro/function hybrids, arguments are interpreted as syntax, but it produces a value and runs at runtime. I only know they exist in LISP and R, and only know how they work in R: certain operations (like assigning to a variable) evaluates the argument, the argument won't be evaluated if execution never reaches these operations (like if the assignment is in an `if` which doesn't get triggered; in other words, arguments are lazy), and special functions like `substitute` will extract the argument's syntax (e.g. if `⟦f⟧ = function(a) subsitute(a)`, `⟦f(foo(bar))⟧ = <syntax object foo(bar)>`; now if ⟦g⟧ = function(a) f(a)`, `⟦g(foo(bar))⟧ = <syntax object a>`). Personally I don't like these, and prefer separate macros and functions, which I believe can accomplish anything fexprs can with less confusing semantics and accidental bugs. But they're an interesting concept I just listed here because they're like a function or macro, but neither.
Sounds good. Will have that done soon.
This is one of my favorite insane voting systems.

One does have to keep in mind that this is definitely just rich people voting for other rich people - the system is in place to limit corruption for a single rich family, but is a far cry from any kind of democracy.
> what has the war on drugs really ended up accomplishing?

I haven't studied this extensively, and I know that it's widely accepted that the war on drugs was unsuccessful, but I would caution against conflating "it didn't completely solve the problem" with "it had no positive impact at all." As a parent comment mentioned, periods of prohibition are generally associated with lower consumption overall (across both legal and illegal channels).
Genetically defined brainstem neurons involved in production, modulating sounds
Nintendo makes a ton of money on first-party games, and they could easily continue releasing their games exclusively on their consoles. They'd lose very little.

Random sideloaded games are just irrelevant when people are buying the systems for Zelda and Pokemon.
The difference being that Apple isn't strong arming other companies into using their App Store. Google opens itself up to scrutiny because they both offer the ability to compete but then actively use their influence to try to stop that competition.
What are you even talking about and how is it relevant to what I'm asking? You seem to be leaping to Apple's defense as if you're taking a bullet for them but it isn't really necessary here.
I'm not a lawyer, but the idea of #2 seems crazy to me.

Have there been any past case(s) where the country/nationality of minority owners of a company has been grounds for changing a ruling?
The $385k is base salary, not total comp, right?
Gorilla Glass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass :

> Gorilla Glass faces varying competition from close equivalents, including AGC Inc.'s Dragontrail and Schott AG's Xensation and synthetic sapphire.

"A New Wonder Material Is 5x Lighter—and 4x Stronger—Than Steel" (2023)
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a44725449/new-mater... :

"High-strength, lightweight nano-architected silica" (2023)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266638642...

[Zirconium] carbide ceramics

Silicon carbide:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_carbide

2DPA-1 polyaramide:
https://www.google.com/search?q=2DPA-1

https://news.mit.edu/2022/polymer-lightweight-material-2d-02... :

> However, in the new study, Strano and his colleagues came up with a new polymerization process that allows them to generate a two-dimensional sheet called a polyaramide. For the monomer building blocks, they use a compound called melamine, which contains a ring of carbon and nitrogen atoms. Under the right conditions, these monomers can grow in two dimensions, forming disks. These disks stack on top of each other, held together by hydrogen bonds between the layers, which make the structure very stable and strong.

> “Instead of making a spaghetti-like molecule, we can make a sheet-like molecular plane, where we get molecules to hook themselves together in two dimensions,” Strano says. “This mechanism happens spontaneously in solution, and after we synthesize the material, we can easily spin-coat thin films that are extraordinarily strong.”

> Because the material self-assembles in solution, it can be made in large quantities by simply increasing the quantity of the starting materials. The researchers showed that they could coat surfaces with films of the material, which they call 2DPA-1.

FWIU, melamine is somewhat fire-supressive due to the Nitrogen.

Most other melamine products are made with formaldehyde? There is formaldehyde-free plywood for lower VOCs.

But what about fire rating and recyclability after damage due to severe weather?
It's funny to see this posted because I'm working on writing up my list right now to put up tomorrow. I've done this each December for a few years now. Here's my list from 2022: https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-books-2022/

Here's a gloss on my list for this year:

"Slouching Towards Utopia" by J. Bradford DeLong (2022). A narrative economic history of the 20th century that focuses on the interaction between policy and economic thought.

"Lost Continents" by L. Sprague de Camp (1954). Looks at Atlantis and other lost continents as rhetorical devices in ancient history and philosophy, 20th century pseudoscience/pseudohistory, and science fiction.

"The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902). My favorite Sherlock Holmes tale yet. Really embraces the themes of gothic literature.

"The Rise of Universities" by Charles Homer Haskins (1923). Three short lectures on the history of universities. Quite funny! This was part of a project where I looked back at research from 1923: https://bcmullins.github.io/research-from-1923/.

"The Book of Yokai" Michael Dylan Foster (2015). Explores an interesting aspect of Japanese folklore which has found its way into all sorts of popular media.
Wait, do you still think this is about flight safety? I thought everyone saw it for what it is, conditioning.
So we only care about either the rich or the destitute? How about the vast majority of people in between those poles who don’t want to be harassed by crazed meth heads or walk their kids past a forest of fent zombies?

Crazy how people think there is a viable solution other than strict intolerance of public drug use. The mental gymnastics are gold medal worthy.

(Also, I know quite a few rich people and none of them do coke. They’re problem is booze and food-just like everyone else in America)
Keyword _public_

And I'm here for it (as a Portland resident). My sympathy for the homeless/addicted population here has gone to basically 0.
Law enforcement are a means to an end. They don't lobby for themselves, but other powerful interests lobby on law enforcement's behalf.

Said more directly - powerful people want more law enforcement against the common people and they will lobby for it.
Locked in? You can't buy another phone? Would you have been able to buy the apps you use without Google taking 30% as well?
Clients could probably hook/trap a fake buffer exploit for protocol compatibility without the security concerns. This ends up becoming a game of cat and mouse resulting in even more intricate technical workarounds and hacks.
Kids with cats have double the risk of developing schizophrenia
Sadly they never fixed the supporting issues, low wages, inability of affordable housing at pace to keep up with growth. It’s like they just thought giving an aspirin was going to cure the flu.
> If it's a specific litigation (Epic v. Apple

It's probably this that GP is confused over

It's addressed, if not in this article, then others - the Apple trial wasn't a jury trial. Google lost the motion to not have a jury trial
Quick addendum that Washington state is open carry, as far as I know.
Exactly. How much "work" is it to type out a useful title? Almost none. And yet we see one douchily obscure title after another, and those who politely call for better get berated.
"what has the war on drugs really ended up accomplishing?"

A lot of comments here have a "Portland was a lot better before decriminalization" theme. So at least some people might think the war on drugs was working out better than the current policies.

I'm not saying we should bring back the war on drugs, but the argument you are making can no longer be taken for granted.
If Google has the monopoly, Apple, by definition, cannot.
It's been that way since 2005. It's pretty much indistinguishable from TSA other than the badges on the uniforms.
> They don't lobby for themselves

Law enforcement (both agencies and law enforcement personnel collectively separately from any agency) absolute do lobby legislators directly, and the public, for themselves.
I agree. Why would a judge be afraid of Apple or Google? They don’t give a shit. Neither company is going to hire hitmen.

The judges are following previous rulings and trying to apply them to what are likely novel situations that the law was never intended to cover because it no one foresaw it.

The courts are not how you fix this. The legislature is. Unfortunately that’s too broken to do anything.
> Why not ban nicotine, by the same logic as heroin?

because nicotine doesn't increase crime rates on society.
Biocrusts on Great Wall of China found to be protecting it from erosion
> Fucked up as his story may be, what has the war on drugs really ended up accomplishing? Do we really think amping it up will make things better?

A full-on "war on drugs" and "do noting" are both extremes. Not many people are in favour of a war on drugs, but that doesn't mean complete laissez-faire policies are the solution either.

"Drugs are illegal" and "war on drugs" are NOT the same thing.
> I'll never touch whatsapp with a ten thousand foot pole.

Then use Signal.
CLEAR is different than Pre-Check. CLEAR is a pay-to-skip-line service.

You still need to be screened by security in the normal way. There is Pre-Check CLEAR and normal CLEAR, and you go to the one that matches your security level.

> What's going to happen when CLEAR becomes saturated and slows down

I have CLEAR. When I was in Seattle I saw a family of 5 trying to go through clear because the father was a member, and members get guest passes they can use to sign people up for a trial. It was an absolute mess, but the agents saw me and escorted me past the family. Because of how CLEAR is set up, you can usually handle 5+ people at once, and it's expensive enough it probably won't be saturated by everyone.

> a fourth tier of passenger

I fly a lot, and I think we've just about gotten enough Tiers haha. You have the "normal" pool for occasional people flying to see family or go on vacation. It's slow, the TSA agents have to explain to people how to queue correctly, and the line ends up out the door during busy times. In some airports, you can now reserve your place in line remotely. If you fly 1/yr, its probably fine though.

You have PreCheck, which I recommend to anyone who flies more than 1/yr. It can sometimes get a line during busy times, but it moves - it's probably exclusively people who "know how airports work" so it's orderly. It's also a simpler security protocol, so it's actually less time per person.

Then you have private lines that some airlines set up. TBH I've never used them, but my understanding is that you go through existing TSA, they're just private queues. IDK why you'd do this instead of just paying for PreCheck or CLEAR. I think it's often sold for ~$20 each use (or free with 1st class, etc).

You have CLEAR which is literally just paying to cut the line for PreCheck or Normal TSA. This would compete with the private airport lines. This is $200/yr so you really need to fly often to justify the cost. I have it and use it where available, but I don't miss if its its not there. I would go out of my way to find a pre-check line, but not CLEAR.

Lastly, if you're really fancy there are private security entrances at some airports, with private lounges and security checkpoints. These run in the $5k range, so they're really not for most people. The LAX one will drive you across the tarmac to your plane in a luxury car I'm told. I assume there's no line here ever.

So America already has 5 different tiers of passengers just for going through security depending on your wealth (and risk profile). I can only assume we've rung all the money out we can, and we don't need another yet.
Permission is controlled by the browser. If you go into your browser settings, there will be something for controlling which websites have which permissions.
If we see fair competition reducing fees massively in android vs Apple, Apple’s abuse will be clear
Awesome! Can you please link to your expired patent or related articles?
I am with you, I don't see the point of linking to the reddit post in a situation like this.