skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There seems to be a lot of potential for abuse in forcing everyone supporting any cause to publicly disclose their identity

That’s not what’s on the table—the issue in question is whether paying others to magnify your views with a direct aim at affecting policy is something one should be able to do anonymously. Especially if we restrict this to “paying enough money to buy a substantial amount of an entire person’s time dedicated to promoting your interests” then this very much does not mean forcing everyone who supports a cause to abandon anonymity, but even without that carve-out for small time donors, it still doesn’t.
Hollywood actor Terrence Howard patented AR/VR in 2010 and cited by 31 companies
How do they distribute bandwidth between the parties? What happens when a new company wants to use some bandwidth? Who pays for repairs and upgrades?
Regarding #1. Will there be performance implications when adding the secure layer?

Will there be cost implications when adding a secure layer?

Will the secure layer add risks to the project? Governments are already bad at delivering defence projects on time, will the extra complexity make it worse?

How do we know which layers are insecure? Will there be a published list of vulnerabilities that need to be mitigated by the military?
I thought if you tried to use emacs in the sunlight, it bursts into flame?

(with love, vi user)
Hmm I'll think about how to make the dots more obvious visually
Perhaps we need a better example? Detecting "esc" is simple: it is its own key code (ASCII 27.) Detecting "esc" and another key is more difficult because it is not a modifier, like shift or control, so you'll have to do it yourself.
The crappy 16-bit-legacy memory model of the PC was probably as costly as "the billion dollar mistake" with Java pointer semantics.
thinking is generally considered an internal process, without input/output (of tokens), though some people decide to output some of that thinking into a more permanent form

I see thinking as less about "timing" and more about a "process"

What this post seems to be describing is more about where attention is paid and what neurons fire for various stimuli
I love gridfinity, especially for drawers. It feels like 70% of the time when I want to store something there’s already a nicely molded box out there from someone else.
There's been a myria news regarding AI-related incidents in the academic settings. One constant in most of these stories appear to be that most educators have no interest in educating themselves about AI.
Medicaid Unwinding Threatens Native Communities' Already Tenuous Access to Care
2000 Camp David Summit

[1]

> Shlomo Ben-Ami, then Israel's Minister of Foreign Relations who participated in the talks, stated that the Palestinians wanted the immediate withdrawal of the Israelis from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, and only subsequently the Palestinian authority would dismantle the Palestinian organizations. The Israeli response was "we can't accept the demand for a return to the borders of June 1967 as a pre-condition for the negotiation." In 2006, Shlomo Ben-Ami stated on Democracy Now! that "Camp David was not the missed opportunity for the Palestinians, and if I were a Palestinian I would have rejected Camp David, as well."

Multiple members of Clinton's negotiating team also dispute that interpretation:

> Robert Malley, part of the Clinton administration and present at the summit, wrote to dispel three "myths" regarding the summit's failure. First myth, Malley says, was "Camp David was an ideal test of Mr. Arafat's intentions". Malley recalls that Arafat didn't think that Israeli and Palestinian diplomats had sufficiently narrowed issues in preparation for the summit and that the Summit happened at a "low point" in the relations between Arafat and Barak.

> The second myth was "Israel's offer met most if not all of the Palestinians' legitimate aspirations". According to Malley, Arafat was told that Israel would not only retain sovereignty over some Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem, but Haram al Sharif too, and Arafat was also asked to accept an unfavorable 9-to-1 ratio in land swaps.

> The third myth was that "The Palestinians made no concession of their own". Malley pointed out that the Palestinians starting position was at the 1967 borders, but they were ready to give up Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, and parts of the West Bank with Israeli settlements. Further, the Palestinians were willing to implement the right of return in a way that guaranteed Israel's demographic interests. He argues that Arafat was far more compromising in his negotiations with Israel than Anwar el-Sadat or King Hussein of Jordan had been when they negotiated with Israel.

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2001 Taba Summit

[2]

> A new round of talks was held at Taba in January 2001, during the last few days of the Clinton presidency, between President Arafat and the Israeli foreign minister, and it was later claimed that the Palestinians rejected a "generous offer" put forward by Prime Minister Barak with Israel keeping only 5 percent of the West Bank. The fact is that no such offers were ever made.

[1] Camp David wiki page

[2] Carter - Peace Not Apartheid
I read "Exit" as "F--- you money", not ... well I'm not sure what you view "Exit" as if you exclude a big paycheck.
Show HN: I wrote a Julia program to simulate the US Electoral College
## Hooray, Julia's Ecosystem

For this simulation / estimation / optimization task, Julia was great! I used:

* Julia for succinctly expressing the logic and simulation
* Turing.jl for estimation based on polling data
* DuckDB for storage and fast analytic queries (even on Julia DataFrames)
* Mustache.jl for building the site and Vega visualizations

I'm amazed at how far the Julia analytic ecosystem has come. Granted, some of these tools aren't Julia-exclusive (DuckDB, Mustache, Vega) but they worked well with it and were a pleasure to use.

Julia's speed gets a lot of attention, and it is nice. However, I think the clear syntax and how nicely it interacts with other systems don't get enough attention.

If you haven't played around with Julia recently, I recommend it (particularly for simulation).

## Why I Did This

The electoral college presents an optimization problem with layers of uncertainty (my specialty!). It can be hard to reliably find the states where focused campaigning will increase the chances of winning the most.

I want to help Biden win the election. Over $300MM in spending supporting Biden in the election will be managed by super PACs, which are legally prohibited from coordinating with the party or the campaign.

It seemed like an external source of Democrat-focused electoral college analysis could be useful. So, as a citizen unaffiliated with any campaign, I volunteered my skills by building this.

## The Site

I'm not trying to change your vote here, so I didn't put the website at the top. But, if you made it this far and are interested, here it is:
https://swingstatesolver.com/
Super Mario in the Pernicious Kingdoms: Classifying glitches in old games
I don't think it is; I think "major" is doing the work.

Damn near all major websites are using TLS now. Support for eSNI is probably a lot lower though (see sibling comment).
I really like the distinction of "density in time".

JIRA is a really visually dense application, but it's speed, as well as the number of different screens you normally need to click on makes it feel really sparse despite the dense visuals.
Is there any question at this point that plastics are the next lead paint / asbestos? We should be moving to ban single use plastics, especially in products consumed by humans.
US Cities Have More Parking Lots Than Housing
Design becomes quite a lot easier when it doesn't need to cater to multiple platforms and input paradigms. Testing is easier, there's much less need to make concessions and tradeoffs.

If anything, having two designs that look and function well is less work than having one design that looks and functions well on two disparate platforms with completely different affordances.
Gavin Andresen did for years. Even after a recent walkback statement, people are saying he still does and that his statement isn’t a complete repudiation. I haven’t really kept up with it, so this is just a summary of quick googling.
Maybe the execs get paid less, what about that.
Worker Co-Ops Have a Role to Play in Socialist Strategy
A harrowing near-future dystopian tale, definitely worth a read. His "Windup Girl" is better; "Ship Breaker" is like a YA version of Windup Girl, IMHO. His "Water Knife" is also quite interesting, imagining a future where climate change has dried up water supply to the southwestern US, and the states have militarized against each other.
Yes, I know snark is discouraged, but any time I hear this sort of plutocrat apologia, I want to respond, "oh yeah, why won't someone think of those poor, poor rich people with their million dollar windfalls". I always suspect a bit of astroturfing, but it's entirely possible that the propaganda has been internalized by those repeating it. But to them I say that if there's anyone in society you don't need to worry about, it's the rich (and anyone who's looking at a one mil windfall is going to be rich); they're going to be just fine.
GW-BASIC is open source and should presumably be able to run this code with possibly minimal changes.

https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/
It's not a stretch at all.
What bearing does this have on the article?
100ms is much too long to feel instantaneous. Open a low latency terminal such as xterm (ideally also with a high refresh rate gaming monitor and gaming keyboard), and compare "sleep 0" with "sleep 0.05".
Hold on: I have to calm my shivering nerves after the intimidating meaningless jargon and threat to evaluate "the science", whether or not you actually have the ability to do so.

I'm contending that you putting words in my mouth is garbage rhetoric and that you should know better.

That higher tax revenue is not an absolute good; primarily because those who impose taxes are incentivized to do so via variously legal and unethical pay that diverts tax funds from their supposed intent back to these people. To the point that the supposed intent should be assumed to be often false until otherwise proven not only by funding but by results.

And that the economic system in general is inherently flawed to the point that there is no solution that will satisfy most people either via trickle-down economics nor via heavy taxation. A slave system is not fixable by free markets, socialism-communism (old school if militant feudalism hidden so that low-wits can get behind it), nor by anything else.

I'm not saying that I have a better solution as far as maintenance of civilization is concerned, but only that the system of money is fundamentally a people-ownership system that inherently cannot offer solutions, either, and out of which no ethical nor practical justification for high taxation is possible. Unless the goal is explicitly to create wealthier feudal lords that do absolutely nothing but to extract taxes to support themselves.

Everyone should pay their taxes.
No one has to accept the lie that more taxation is good taxation.
Um, I didn't find that very informative. Did the feature get implemented anyway? Should everyone expect the same kindness from their management?
Of course you can. When the brits first met the Chinese, the Chinese didn’t speak a word of English and the British not a word of Chinese.

The Chinese room thought experiment is flawed; this is exactly how we learn languages!
Absolutely right and there didn’t changed much in the last 100 years. Here a quote from a old book: ‘It is true that there exists a vast body of what is termed “international law”; but this bloodless caricature lacks the first essential foundation of law in capitalist society, the existence of a sovereign power capable of enforcing it…’[1].

1. World Politics 1918-1936 R. Palme Dutt
This is the kind of abuse of power that I wish antitrust regulators would focus on.

Apple, Inc owns an operating system and a music app, and leverages its control of the OS to secure an unearned advantage for its music app over its rivals.

Apple is not the only perp here, every single large tech company abuses platform power for competitive advantage in unrelated industries.
Then the message is even more dire: the world has always been a dystopia. And even 70+ years later, with more (and better) education, higher standards of living, and a wealth of dystopias to read and learn from, nothing has changed.
As a solidly-middle-class tech worker in Massachusetts, your stance hurts a bit.

I'm a life-long renter with a family and elderly mother to support, and an IPO windfall would give me some much needed breathing room.

I don't know who you picture when you think of a windfall recipient, but I can assure you I am not lighting any cigars with $100 bills.
I agree with everything, but I would like to introduce another variable: economies of scale.

There are more-or-less objectively correct ways to do a lot of things reliably, to a point where they’re kind of boring. Since they are somewhat objective, most companies use them as the default and the prices can get lower and lower because they’re making more and more.

When a company purposefully tries the differentiate themselves, that inherently means that they cannot benefit from the same economies of scale, which in turn means higher prices have to be baked in. Sometimes that’s fine, I think Apple generally makes solid products for example, but a lot of the time this differentiation is just “different for the sake of being different”.
The Witcher 3 REDkit is a modding tool to customize and expand The Witcher 3
I continue to be impressed by Anthropic’s work and their dual commitment to scaling and safety.

HN is often characterized by a very negative tone related to any of these developments, but I really do feel that Anthropic is trying to do a “race to the top” in terms of alignment, though it doesn’t seem like all the other major companies are doing enough to race with them.

Particularly frustrating on HN is the common syllogism of:
1. I believe anything that “thinks” must do X thing.
2. LLM doesn’t do X thing
3. LLM doesn’t think

X thing is usually both poorly justified as constitutive of thinking (usually constitutive of human thinking but not writ large) nor is it explained why it matters whether the label of “thinking” applies to LLM or not if the capabilities remain the same.
How is Vox's new design?
Vox.com has updated the design of its website. What do you think of Vox's new design? Personally, I liked it.
Yeah, it sounds like they were upfront about connecting it to the system in the original competition, but never actually received permission to do so after that. They just assumed they had permission.

The "it can be used to cheat" thing is just dumb and is totally on the university for selecting them in the first place if that was a problem.
we know so little about thinking and consciousness, these claims seem premature
Like the categories they use to show a headphone, keyboard or mouse icon next to a device in the Bluetooth menu?
Glad to see many comments recognize what a bad thing this is. The photographer is sadly insouciant of how many poor people it kills and the terrible ecosystem damage it creates. Read more about it at https://shipbreakingplatform.org/
>utility

f'.... utility is the bane of existence...

i can now embed an obfuscated <script> in a barely-discernible QR code that exists solely on the spectroscopic output of an arbitrary noise

the stegacoustic opportunities also have practical phylactologic applications, outside of inane google easteregg hunts to find tail-end dwellers
To which “dishonesty” do you refer?
Yes some really did. Craig Wright was pretty good at faking it as long as you didn't get to close.

What kept me (and I suspect the majority) of tech people from it was his failure/refusal to use Satoshi's keys. IMHO if Satoshi were still alive, it's extremely unlikely that he would have lost those keys.
I do think you're right. I know a number of people that doesn't own computers anymore and even more who are just doing everything on their phone.

One interesting usage I've seen is especially younger people, who have a debit card which doesn't allow an overdraft. They then keep their account at or around zero and only transfer the amount they need to the card account before every purchase. That usage is supported way better than my attempts at managing saving, paying large bills or keeping track subscriptions and other spending for the past week.
That mission of organizing the worlds info fell to the way side, after they became the world's largest Human Attention trading (some call it thieving) marketplace.

They can't reconcile both missions.

Ideally Alphabet should be running this as separate company that is free from any obligation to incorporate what they build, into Google's existing line up of garbage no customer ever asked for. That ever growing landfill has mostly been built up to increase digital real estate, on which to sell ads. And if it all burns down its good for the planet.
In one of his last videos he said he was having a child, so that’ll add a few years to your appearance too :P. That kid is probably in grade school by now…
Right. You do realise all your finances are in your bank and that’s all online right?

Same with most health information.

Or your child’s beach pictures.

I do not think I should be allowed to access or use any of that without your consent
> The advice to wear your seat belt throughout the flight are hardly clear

> Where? Where would I have seen this documentation? I'm 53 and I have no recollection of stumbling across it.

Besides the bright "buckle your belt" sign in front of you and the little leaflet that says "buckle your belt" at arms reach ?

https://www.travelandleisure.com/thmb/K-qKcdwWTPYlcarQsYPkR3...
I'm 100% with you. I ran an Enterprise Apps org within corporate IT for about 15 years and the #1 rule is that the tools must be functional.

Unfortunately, this frequently results in technical debt because "functional" often means "complies with whatever business logic the current sponsoring org (Finance, HR, Supply Chain/Procurement, Ops, etc) wants that week, and the result of that is that many internal enterprise apps get wholesale rewrites every 4-5 years because it's easier than refactoring.

This set of phenomena is completely foreign to SWEs and PMs who have only ever worked in big tech, on consumer products especially, and the reality is that while some engineering teams in some companies are sometimes doing hard and creative work, the majority of big tech SWEs "moving protobufs" is much easier and less complicated than the kind of crap faced by enterprise IT.
The article quotes them as planning to train their model on course materials automatically. But it is not clear if that actually happened. Individual students were always free to upload course materials.

I'm not sure what is dishonest about that.

Edit: I'm not sure if the article has been updated from when I first skimmed it, or I just missed it, but this seems directly addressed now:

> The students were also accused of “disseminating course material” by allowing students to use their own, individualized Canvas API tokens to connect Eightball directly so they did not have to upload PDFs to the tool themselves. “The upgrade did not change what students could upload to Eightball or what learning materials Eightball could produce upon request,” the suspended students’ lawyers note in the lawsuit.
> They could just have a “quick edit” mode, a “read” mode and a “power user mode”.

Would the density of these interfaces increase or decrease? An actual power-user would master all the shortcuts and would prefer a zen experience where only the document is visible, with no widgets whatsoever.
Ask HN: What are your favorite podcasts?
I'm looking to update my podcast lineup. No specific topics in mind, but ideally something that leaves me a bit smarter or more interesting :)
Far from toxic, lactate rivals glucose as body's fuel after a carbohydrate meal
It's quite configurable, allowing different key combinations for different window arrangement functions, but the most useful one is that it allows you to bring a single window from another application to the top without rearranging the rest of the stack. This is useful if you are switching back and forth between windows from two different apps each of which has several other windows open, for example a browser and a text editor.
I don't think those building/owning the ships care much about the benefit to sailors, just that the ships are less likely to be severely damaged by fire.
1/10 failure rate of Razer Blade 18's in the last 18 months.

That said: getting them seems to be horribly hard, so I might regret telling you this.
I m a bit surprised by TFA: most C64 games, by very far, would also run entirely in memory. Some would load mid-game or even use several disks (like Ultima) but these were the exception.
come work here for 20 years and tell me how you feel about it after.
Totally agree with the central thesis!

Engineering has constraints. Science does not.

Engineering is the application of the findings of science to solve actual problems. Science does not solve actual problems, but it is critical to engineering.
Eagles changed migration route to avoid Ukraine war
Sadly "sensitivity" has been over done. It's a fine line and corporations would rather cross it for legal/social reasons. Similar to how too much political correctness will hamper the society, so does the overly done sensitivity in an agent, be it a human, or AI.
Yeah - you aren't "learning" anything. You're guessing-and-checking until it lets yo go. No idea what blocks do what, or why you're connecting them - which would be the basis for learning.
U.S. Congress Live Net Worth Tracker
We do live in a world where it's basically impossible to live without violating one law at one time or another (often unknowingly and without malice)
President of European Commission: Democracy Shield to control All Information
Thieves in San Francisco take advantage of the first one to check if there are goods in cars.
I can’t figure out how to connect the dots on mobile.
The Science of Discworld series of books are surprisingly good for things that sound, on first hearing of them them, like a quick cash in.

Both the science writing and the Discworld content is pretty great and well integrated together.

The Folklore of Discworld book is also great, digging into the myths and folklore that was referenced and lampooned.
Full paper (open access): https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)...
I recently found that my Razer Chroma X could not fit a modern 40-series GPU.

I'm not sure I can recommend eGPU's for gamedev for this reason (among, many others).
Show HN: Plug-and-play collision avoidance module for ROS1 and ROS2
3Laws Supervisor is a ROS package designed for easily adding real-time collision avoidance capabilities to an existing stack. It works for robots operating in either autonomous or teleop modes.

We're currently looking for feedback from the community so you can download it for free!

It's available as a ROS1 (noetic) and ROS2 (foxy/galactic/humble/iron) package, running on x86-64 and arm64 architectures.

We hope it can help with your development efforts.

Sincerely,
The 3Laws Team
Is Biodegradable Plastic a Thing?
It seems totally at odds with common sense. Now, every time you need to make some change across multiple branches you have to go through a lot of unnecessary pain.
Is the title supposed to be a joke? "Images that sound" really doesn't _sound_ right to me.

Also I believe the missed out on citing the pioneering work of Snares et al. 2001 [0]

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=BHup81lEjqo
It is not really clear to me if it had privileged access to answers or if it saw the same material a student would see reading through the syllabus + assigned readings.