skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 3 things mentioned so far are governed by very different regulatory regimes:

- Using a camera drone to spot game will fall under the purview of both Federal and state level Fish and Game/Wildlife departments, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Department_of_Fish_... AFAIK this is not federally illegal, so there should be plenty of places where you can do this in the US.

- Drone (I assume you mean some quadcopter UAV) with a gun falls under FAA guidelines. You can't intentionally destroy them in flight or attach weapons to them for the same reason that you can't do that with planes: they are aircraft and the FAA doesn't want to deal with you shooting down aircraft. Since the FAA is federal, you can't do this anywhere in the US.

- Robot with a gun falls under ATF guidelines, specifically ATF letters that indicate certain classes of electronic trigger are effectively a machine gun and fall under the purview of the NFA. Same as point 2, the ATF rules will apply federally. If you have the relevant licensing, which I think would fall under a Class 2 SOT FFL, you can hook a firearm up to a robot since you are legally allowed by the ATF to manufacture machine guns. Most (?) of the Youtubers who have given guns to those offbrand Spots are doing it legally under the supervision of a Class 2 SOT.

- The autonomous robot with a gun would fall under the third point, as I am unaware of any rulings about specifically autonomous stuff, though someone could potentially make the argument that past rulings on booby traps could apply.

None of this directly answers the OP question about whether the 2nd amendment applies, but broadly federal regulation has moved past "shall not be infringed", so what the relevant federal agencies actually de facto allow is more to the point.
I would imagine there is a fair portion of those opposing it here who don't have the US' best interests in mind.
If any Stripes are here: the link on this page to "2022 annual letter" goes to https://example.com right now.
Very interesting! Shows how much AI is over-hyped (even though, as you say, it was very impressive anyway). It was even worse in case of Starcraft 2, where the AI had a much wider view than humans, and while the AI was supposed to show its strategic superiority, by limiting the APM (actions per minute), the limit was still very high, inspired by the max APM achieved by humans - whereas this max is achieved only for a very short period of time (a single minute), and consists mostly of insignificant click spam (had APM been limited to half that for humans, the effect would probably be negligible, and very minor for a quarter...). So as a result the AI would win by being able to micro-manage more units, rather than having a better strategy. But again, it was very impressive anyway.
Then just connect the water loop to the house heaters...
Indeed! Because none of this exists!

https://www.equipter.com/equipter-articles/roofing-tools-tha...
I really appreciated the author's candor about his father's passing and its impact on his relationship with software. My mom unexpectedly passed 14 months ago and I've similarly been feeling less excited about this industry since.

I've been slowing crawling out of this mindset but it's been a long journey.
The nuclear family is a catastrophe all of its own. Most older cultures would consider two parents and two children in a house on their own far away from relatives a recipe for insanity in all parties, as it has been proven to be!
Which includes most of our best public engineering schools. Big 10 and SEC schools pump out a whole bunch of engineers.
I worked at a lab hired away by SV.

In general our lab was very good at research & the rigidity of current academic institutions means that

1. admins are always the first hiring priority

2. academics do a ton of free work in publishing, service to their institutions on panels and committees, etc.

The leadership above our program head were so entrenched by block grants, & their de-facto recipients, that there would be fights over post-doctoral salary increases on the $5k level.

We had more money, which we won on competitive contracts, meaning if we won new contracts we could pay for better people... this was not welcome news to block grant recipients who had, essentially, fixed budgets & old mindsets.

The result is, as it typically is, driven by incentive structures.
This was much better to read than typical annual letters. I'm not in this space at all so the examples were interesting and helped me appreciate the complexity of the business.
OpenLDAP from a Mathematician's Perspective
This is a short blog post I wrote about my exploration of OpenLDAP, it may demystify some things for you.
Although it doesn't seem have much in the way of runtime isolation of Guix source files themselves. From what I can tell it runs the Guile scripts that evaluate to manifests and such as your own user, with all of the authority associated with that.

So although Guix provides good mechanisms for isolating applications at runtime, you do have to put a lot of trust in the channels you're using.

(This is something I would like to see improved as a Guix user.)
Yes and the administrative areas take up to 50% of all grant funding as "overhead"

Some overhead is necessary of course, you need buildings and offices and the people who take care of them but it's likely more bloated than it needs to be.
When our son moved out and we decided to right-size our home, we went looking for condos, but there was very little available in our area, at least nothing that was 3 bedroom + priced in our range + located near the subway. We found one condo that had size and location, and while the purchase price was less than a TH across the street, the monthly condo fees were somewhere near $1000/month. That ended up making the monthly expense >30% higher than the TH across the street (which is where we ended up).
"quasi-artist": That's how I've always felt about it. My job title says, "engineer", but I think of myself as more the software equivalent of a master cabinet maker, an artisan of fine heirloom software. ("Heirloom" is no joke. I'm currently replacing software I wrote over 25 years ago, that's been in use ever since.)
Most of the people who have died in this conflict are Russian soldiers aren't they?
How many democratic or non-democratic governments have been overthrown with Chinese assistance this century?
Appreciate your opinion. Unfortunately, I am a Masters student continuing for a PhD, so dropping out with a Masters is not an option for me. A PhD in general is quite demanding, so, doing both would be next to impossible.
long ago in the netherlands the road in front of your house was your responsibility. You could agree with your neighbors to a crappy road but with loss of status and probably the value of the home. (The last remnant was the requirement to remove weeds. That was how I found out.)
This was impressive, but wasn't this out on Arxiv a while ago? What does the Nature republication add?
Ask HN: Cancer (chemo/radiation) – tips and gifts for person
[throwaway due to PEP nature of involved persons]

I'm asking this community because I always found that you all gave the most educated and helpful answers to a breadth of topics:

A close family member of mine was very recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer (glioma) in the spinal cord and it doesn't look good. She is hospitalized and will go through chemotherapy and irradiation for the next four weeks. Outcome is very unclear to say the least.

I want to do everything I can to make the time as passable as possible.

Do you have any tips or advice how I can support her?
Can you recommend any gadgets / things that are a good gift to pass time and get her distracted?

Would you happen to have any other any other advice?

Thank you all for your advice.
It’s also possible it’s like that because the city and apartments they are familiar with suck. I used to live in a small, admittedly rich, city, and had all amenities within 7 minutes walk, park within 3 minute walk. The city policy is that there is a primary school within kids walking distance. We had 4 apartments in the city with these characteristics, and didn’t hear the neighbors (much) except for the above neighbors heels in one of them.
You know they have secure drives, right? I wouldn't carry anything I really cared about around on my phone.

... oh this is some cryptocurrency thing, isn't it?
That's what confuses me. Surely they know it likely won't survive the courts. So maybe they are banning it to win points with voters, but it doesn't seem like something that would be popular with the voters. So I'm left wondering why there's so much motivation in Congress to do this.
> The pedagogical level is far higher than what seems common today. And the they take their time to convey the message.

I think that is true for some content, but there's certainly a contingent of content creators out there now putting out a lot of good technical explainer videos. They're doing it far better than your typical mass media content producers.
As with everything, it depends. It depends on which school you went to, taught by which professor(s), and that had access to insiders within the broader academia landscape you are in.

If you got an ML degree from University of Alabama, You have a vastly different experience than someone who got theirs from Harvard or MIT. It has its place, as with all things, but how many of the AI/ML grads with go work at Google or OpenAI? Not many.

A degree does not guarantee you success, but in some cases, it is a barrier to entry (Physicians).
> Can they, though? I've been trying for about as long as I can remember without much luck...

A sign that the constituents don't care about a given issue the way you do.
Read “ Designing Data-Intensive Applications”

Try to implement ideas and concepts from the book. Play various orchestration tools.
Good one, added it to my Powershell profile for the occasional giggle so I can invoke it on demand, feel free to reuse it

function Insult { (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://cheswick.com/insults") .ParsedHtml.getElementsByTagName("p")[2].innerText } #Outputs a random quality insult!

Note: delete the space behind insults")
Formatting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ivy league schools in particular are essentially just endowment funds with some teachers around to keep their non-profit status. There are plenty of great educational institutions out there but the most prestigious ones are suffering from their success and attracting money-minded management that is more focused on growing their investment portfolio and handing out juicy bonuses than attracting good staff and ensuring a good educational environment.

And even with all that universities still have better a more altruistic profit alignment than most private firms.
This is good for leveling the playing field. If Facebook, X, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, etc. are banned/blocked in the PRC, the US should reciprocally return the favor.
There has been a lot of attempts with multiple iterations (see https://www.burges-salmon.com/news-and-insight/legal-updates...).

Sadly European intelligence services actually want US to spy on their citizen in order to gain access to the data legally.
Look at that, academia figured out how to improve someone’s job prospects after all.
March Patch Tuesday sees Hyper-V join the guest-host escape club
> It will not be out of a sense of protecting free speech or desire for the public good

Arguing out of principle for 'free speech' is often used to defend literal Nazis even. Why couldn't they use it? Especially when corporations are people there.
It might make a slight difference or it might not, but you can't know that it will so best to assume that it doesn't. In practice the amount of computing power actually available is going to make much more difference than the method used.

IMO, pass phrases only seem useful if you have a quite insecure password. It is ideal to aim for 115-128 bits of entropy, which is not that bad with just random lower case letters and numbers (24 characters is good) but turns into a long and complex passphrase. To learn a random password write it down (split into groups of 6ish characters) and copy it from the paper for 2-4 weeks (do not try to guess until you are almost certain your guess is correct).
I was surprised by the last clause in your last sentence, but you’re absolutely right. https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/ua/ua_list_all.tx...

LA edges out NYC: 7000 to 5300. Presumably in individuals per square mile.
This is exactly the kind of Motte-and-Bailey argument the commenter you are replying to is talking about. Sure, you can justify some of the regulations, much like you can justify not allowing a chemical plant next to a school, but there are, in many places, hundreds to thousands of such rules and the vast majority of them are _not_ that important. How does not wanting houses to flood relate to setbacks, minimum square footage, lot size, etc. requirements? Literally no one is saying "get rid of every single development regulation". So bringing up one of the _extremely_ small number of regulations that are worth having does not address the argument about the _hundreds_ that are not worth having.
https://archive.is/GYrTa
Yeah, all are in various stages. And yeah, Keith's proposal takes the popovertarget to a generic approach and will be great to have in the platform!

Other primitives that we're actively working on in addition to that is focusgroup which I think likewise will be of value.

And finally, <select> - that is the one that is "closest" to getting a full makeover in HTML. We're wanting to fully land that one which will hopefully create a fly-wheel and help "speed" this up a bit.
Congrats Ron! Glad to see you still at it!
Their article about the Fisker review by MKHBD (https://tedium.co/2024/03/04/mkbhd-fisker-negative-review-fi...) is also great. It expands on the idea that:

the malleable nature of software in the modern era means that it’s now possible to release products before they’re actually ready.
To me the smartphone seems worse than tablets and other devices.

Having some screen based entertainment available is one thing.

Having a smartphone inside a 7 year old’s pocket constantly providing notifications of group chats? Having a 9 year boy have unlimited unrestricted access to the web 24/7?

Children with smartphones. I think I’m very fortunate that I grew up before the iPhone was invented.

When I was going through middle school I had a PlayStation 2. I’m lucky I went through that time when electronics was magical and mindblowing and before it became what it is today.
Nice try bro, but US symmetrically responds to the hostile actions of authoritarian governments. If those authoritarian governments wouldn't be desperately trying to destroy the free world, no one would care of their silly apps.
Getting acquired after 13 years of building
That's precisely my point - the NumPy+Python overhead is quite costly for fine-grained processing :)

PS: Those `wrapped` functions aren't used for any reported numbers in the article.
Stanford University failed to detect ransomware intruders for 4 months
> I pulled up Zillow Rentals around downtown and there's a comical number of listings available.

And how does that tell you that supply exceeds demand?

Even when there's a housing undersupply, units will still be available at any given moment. It's not like people stop dying, moving out or building altogether.

To determine oversupply, you need to look at something that also tells you demand as well. Like, what's the average time available units are on the market? What's the vacancy rate look like?
Indeed. But keyword is „inferred“, assuming that all laws worked the same at any point in a gigantic timeframe, at any point in a gigantic universe. Except singularities. And quantum mechanics as it seems? And maybe dark energy. Oh and lately, maybe gravity waves. Btw I was once in a lecture room in Berlin where they claimed that one of the thermodynamic laws where discovered…while giving a lecture. Not too long ago, perhaps 150-200 years. Doesn‘t seem so unlikely that somebody comes up with a new version at some point.
You're in luck: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devk...

There's also the Steam Deck, if you hate getting bent-over by third-party OEMs that don't care about you. But considering your affinity for Apple, maybe the console market is right for you.
No, you are muddling the issues. This is about speech and not about
anything trade-related. Banning TikTok is not equivalent to putting
import tariffs on cheap Chinese electronic bikes or solar panels. It's
not about whatever profits ByteDance makes from TikTok.

It's 100% about controlling the narrative. "Young Americans are
turning against Israel — and you can thank TikTok"
https://forward.com/opinion/574346/freepalestine-tiktok-isra...
Can't have that happening in the US. The right to brainwash kids is a
right reserved to the American billionaire class, their purchased
politicians and lobbyists. You can talk about "geopolitical risks",
"security issues", and "reciprocity" all you want but it doesn't hide
this fact.
If they don't care, then it shouldn't matter that third-party options exist. The same thing happens on Android, nobody uses F-Droid even if the apps are better and cheaper. The fact that it exists puts meaningful pressure on competitors though, and fills the niche that I use the device for.

The "walled Kindle/Nook garden" isn't similar Apple's ecosystem. A Kindle or Nook will let you access it's EMMC and put Epub files or PDFs wherever you need to. It functions indistinguishably from a store-bought file and doesn't even make you enable Developer Mode to get there. It's "out of reach" in the sense that you need the skills to follow a Wikihow article to do it - my grandma could figure it out.

iPhones don't let you install IPA files on equal-footing as Apple, ever. That's the problem, and it's what the DMA remediates. I don't care how you or the normies feel about it any more than I consider the public sentiment towards Bell telephone or Internet Explorer.
With regards to Discord, that's simply used in place of IRC for informal discussions. All potentially "normative" discussions occur within the Github issues and minutes are recorded as with other W3C groups via our IRC Channel. Thanks for the feedback :)
Because this is the internet I can't be certain if you're being sarcastic or not but in case you aren't... a lot. Life isn't a pursuit of profit and if people's training is solely devoted to that they'll miss out on a lot of the stuff that actually matters.
IBM said to be binning off more staff as 'workforce rebalance' continues
this is a week old. Nothing new happened this week.
Finally I will be able to keep my password on a sticky note on my monitor without IT getting upset.
> Well, all the previous private companies that built spacecraft for decades didn't manage to save us.

That is more of a cost-plus contract vs fixed-price contract thing.
It doesnt have to be pro CCP. All they have to do is slightly boost anti US or anti Israel or anti Ukraine and it is the same thing. Slowly boiling the frog by boosting fringe voices and promoting them as common views.
I just want to point out how this bill came to existance and then passed all within ~4 days
Question: I see MidJourney added some new things around character consistency.

Do you keep promptfox up to date with the latest features?
Storybook 8
> Of course! These are like BGA or something similar, the solder will crack after some number of on/off/cool/heat cycles.

This was mostly happening during the transition to lead-free solder. Today, component should fail earlier than BGA.
I'd love to find out how it compares! We're not quite ready to support CircleCI, but when we are -- want to do a test? You could hop on to our discord: https://determinate.systems/discord
It may have been that they used a PRNG and gave it the same initial seed each time.

There were all sorts of odd bits of programming in a lot of these early BASIC games; they were often done by self-taught programmers.
Who wants to learn from anything less than the best sources?

I've often thought that a search engine that indexes only the highest quality, probably hand-curated, sources would be highly desireable. I'm not really interested in learning from everyone about, for example, physics or history or climate change or the invasion of Ukraine; I only want the best. I'm not missing out, practically: there is far more than enough of the 'best' to consume all my time; there's a large opportunity cost to reading other things. Choosing the 'best' is somewhat subjective, but it is far better than arbitrarily or randomly choosing sources.

LLMs, used for knowledge discovery and retrieval, would seem to benefit from the same sources.
> How many democratic or non-democratic governments have been overthrown with Chinese assistance this century?

None, because we've stopped them (for now) at great personal cost. Unless you count that little tiff in Hong Kong. No biggy.
The Trump children haven't fallen far from the tree. Don't know about Bezos, Gates, etc. but if their kids (if they have them) were off doing socially redeeming works I'm sure it would be known. Private security is pretty good insulation against consequences, spine or no spine.
Because economists would have to acknowledge that protected and restricted markets are better for developing local industry than open markets. Which of course is true. But then they would have to acknowledge the whole neo-liberal experiment of open global markets is bad for us. It would also pave the way for foreign markets to follow in our footsteps and restrict google, facebook, and others, further segregating our digital spaces.
Cheaper compared to what NASA used to spend (in R&D and/or launch costs) to put one of their astronauts or 1 kg of mass into orbit.
Thank you for the thoughtful post.

I hope that the current circumstances trigger a renewed interest in thinking about how we organise our society. It would be great if that could be done rationally, without taboos. I don't have high hopes though. The people in power want to stay in power, and any hint at socialistic or communistic ideas are quickly shot down.

Communism as implemented by Soviet Russia was pretty bad and failed, but that doesn't mean that the ideas of Karl Marx are all terrible.

I like the idea of a centrally managed economy but I don't think it's a stable system. There's too much opportunity for abuse by the central power.

I hope we explore the spectrum between extreme capitalism and extreme communism.

Does anyone have any reading recommendations that explore these kinds of economic and societal system?
How Arnold Schoenberg changed Hollywood
Huh, you're right. It did seem coincidental that just yesterday I saw something hyping Stonebreaker's new DB Operating System concept.
I'm not any "dumber". I'm a much better dev at 50 than I was at 30.
<3. So often, I wish I could still talk to him, about anything, incl Dark.
I wish you the best in recovering from and processing your mother's passing - it's been over five years now since my dad's death. It's not easy, but it gets easier.

Maybe it's OK that software / the industry means less. Maybe death just puts things into perspective? At least, that feels like a component to me. Maybe I should have spent less time coding and more time calling him.
That and political reasoning is impotent in the age of internet connectivity.
100% agreed. Same thought I had when I worked with other UI toolkits; you bring it in and it "requires" a Label by default and thus is accessible out of the box. Swift is a great example.

I doubt we will ever get HTML leaner unless we do a DOCTYPE versioning approach that rips out legacy aspects within the engine but that would enable backwards compat to still exist so that the Space Jam site from the 90 can still run in 2300.