skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But GitHub doesn't ship copilot as a separate binary. So the threat vector of “AI has no place in my VCS get it out it increases the surface area” is there. So it’s okay for github to have copilot but not iterm2 to have codesierge? Doesn't add up.
>it's about prudes who don't like the way the younger generations enjoy sex.

Worth mentioning again that this is California, one of if not the most left/progressive state in the union. Absolutely dominated by Left/Progressive/Democrat politics thanks to how many cities are located in it.

As the old saying goes, one becomes more Right/Conservative/Republican(?) the older they get.

I'll sit back amused at identity politics players' heads imploding if this measure goes ahead further, because they always point and laugh at Texas, Montana, and Right/Conservatives/Republicans, et al. for this very thing.
Psychedelics improve mental health in special ops vets
I saw a study where they asked people to estimate the budget and discussed how wrong they got it.

We do have a tiny bit of say with the presidential election fund.
Capacitance Electronic Disc an analog video disc playback system
Ed: ah, I see it's from TFA: "Hello World in Orthodox C++"

Is that really the hello world of c++ though?

It's a bit long in the tooth perhaps, bit I think still highlights some differences between C and C++: "Learning Standard C++ as a New Language":

https://www.stroustrup.com/new_learning.pdf

Ed: I suppose if you want to throw out a lot of c++, then the article might not apply...
Taiwan dispatches forces around island after China starts 'punishment' drills
> I checked two dozen profiles and all but one of them had fresh comments posted within that same day.

I also remember when the internet was talking about the twenty four Reddit accounts that threatened to quit the site. It’s enlightening to see that the protest the size of Jethro Tull didn’t impact the site
Nuclear pulse engines for 2151-2154!
I worry tools like this will make kids not bother with developing their own drawing skills.
Math is un-democratic.
It is possible to do well, even with insufficient information. Look at jet aircraft that are routinely landed without the ability to see the runway -- long before GPS was available. This is called flying with instrument flight rules.

Everyone only has a fraction of all the information. And you have to be satisfied with big returns in which you wonder, "how much of that was luck?" And, the occasional big losers. I can say I don't have 'the formula', but I'm returning 15% for over 20 years... knowing there is a ton I don't know. Which is something you find out when you are a patent attorney, and innovations come out of nowhere while MOST 'innovations' also lead nowhere.

Just. Have to be. OK. With. Not knowing.
This is a document with an overt political agenda and should be taken with a bucketful of salt.
emacs does the entire OS thing in 8MB
Do you remember the "code review" debacle after Elon took over Twitter? Of course HN thought it was genius[0] but outside of the Elon hugbox the premise of being told to print out the last 30 days of code you wrote to justify your job is absurd and clueless. It's the sort of thing someone who's trying too hard to appear clever would do.

Do you really think Elon is like that with Twitter - not just an idiot on it but according to all evidence also while running it - yet somehow doing in depth high-level technical reviews of his own spacecraft like he's Geordi LaForge? Looking at the blueprints while sipping coffee and telling the engineers that if they only invert the polarity of the neutron flow, the engines could get another 10% efficiency by harnessing negative energy from the Casimir Effect or some nonsense?

He's smart but it should be obvious he's not nearly the world class polymath billionaire playboy inventor he's been hyped up to be. His companies work because he surrounds himself with people smarter than he is, and because those people create cultures that route around his tendencies (which culture doesn't appear to exist at Twitter.) The man brought a fucking sink to Twitter for the sake of a pun like it was the funniest thing ever.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33379578
Just the other day I was wishing there was a uBlock but for podcasts...
The argument runs like this.

Legal, regulated opiate availability implies a known quality, purity and therefore dosage. Any drug user who prefers heroin takes uncut heroin in the precise amount they choose. They would not choose to take cut fentanyl where they can be precise about nothing, including the knowledge that it is fentanyl not something else they might prefer.

The secondary argument is the reduction in crime committed to finance addiction. Burglary, mugging, prostitution all are said to expect to decline.

The tertiary argument is the reduction in corruption of law enforcement enabled by the sugar bags of cash in the illegal drug trade, a trade that just got undercut by the government to the point where it is out of business. In addition the additional police resource made available by the collapse of the illegal drug trade and reduction in "drug use financing" crime is very useful in reducing other crime and corruption.

Whether you believe it or not is up to you. If you have strong views either way it would pay to research results from countries where it has been tried while noting it's a hugely emotive issue so your bullshit detector has to be well tuned. Also keeping in mind any good idea can be ruined in implementation through incompetence, inexperience or malice. Also people do get very excited about ideas they think are fantastic but turn out not to be.

Good luck.
This is a really awesome write up, thank you!

Question, what stops you from modifying the GPU driver to make it so the command to set a draw-context to be DRM'd is a no-op? That way the gpu would happily let you snapshot the context, and the OS would be none the wiser. Or is gpu driver tampering something nvidia explicitly designs against?

EDIT: oh wait, i bet the driver is signed and the OS checks it and only allows DRM content to play if the driver is signed by nvidia. That would make sense.
It's easy to say that but a lot of the venues Exclusively use Ticketmaster as the official way to buy tickets for their shows. I called one, and they said to go online or pay at the door and hope There are seats left.
New Horizons was launched without being part of the alignment used for the grand tour, but it is moving much faster than Voyagers. The Parker Solar probe is moving even faster. These are just examples showing the gravity assists work very well. It would be interesting to see how long it took Parker to get up to speed, and then add that to the time to the Voyager distance and compare that to the nearly 50 years of Voyager as the baseline.
There is another very famous leader on trial for exactly that right now.
Mechanical engineering and paper science are sciences too.

That we're had them for so long shouldn't diminish the fact that they have specific physical characteristics that need to be discovered and optimized.
Well said. Even if that 40% number is true, which I doubt, a significant number of women want rough sex.
Thank you for posting this. Parent comment is exactly how lies get told on the Internet these days: write a statement that nominally has a speck of truth but with the deliberate intention that it will be misinterpreted by any normal person reading it.

Here is an article I found about that study, https://www.psypost.org/choking-during-is-surprisingly-commo.... So here are the lies:

1. It's not just "college aged women". The study was on undergraduates of both sexes.

2. The framing of OP's comment ("these porn laws are dumb when all these women are being choked!") was obviously made to imply that we should somehow stop women from being choked, implying it was nonconsensual.

3. As you point out, the study itself was more about sex practices than people being attacked.

Hardly anything is even bothered to be argued in good faith anymore.
How dare they!!??! /s
Yes, absolutely. You will be shocked how complex CMOs might be just to calculate plain cashflow on a tranche (https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Mortgage-Backed-Securities-7... is a great standard treatise on the topic). Add to this interest rate modeling and prepayment modeling - and we are talking serious logical complexity. And this is the area where people get REALLY pissed when you have bugs.
I still think it’s a bit harsh to judge it as contradictory without the rest of the paper. Another valid interpretation:

“The Civil War was inevitable [given the sequence of historical events], but it didn’t have to be that way [if we hypothetically could change a couple small pivotal scenarios].”

The rest of the paper would need to support that title of course, but a catchy title that causes someone to rage-read your paper is the literary equivalent of clickbait and a time honored tradition of aspiring writers.
That's just not feasible for people who don't have the means to simply fly to Europe to see a band. Sometimes it's a once in a lifetime chance that your favorite band happens to be in your city
I watched this 4 times and I kind of get it, but it is a horrible demo that ends so fast it’s hard to evaluate what happened.

This seems like it should be a 5 minute demo, from a blank canvas to the turtle.
I mean, you know that's just not true, yeah?
most of the population does not live in areas that regularly have below zero Fahrenheit temperatures, still a massive market despite not working in minnesota
In this case, because I don't expect Biden to win another term and I expect the prosecution of this case to take longer than a year. The last several administrations have opened their term by tearing down everything that the prior administration had done. To be specific: I'm not confident the prosecutor behind this will have a job at the end of the year.
Interesting, thank you for linking to that study and providing the quote! I agree that the "losing weight naturally" thing is ridiculous. Medication for mental health gets some of the same rhetoric ("nobody needs drugs, they should just go outside and exercise!"), but really it's all the same as stigmatizing toothpaste and then blaming people for getting cavities imo.
You don’t learn much generalizable wisdom from drilling integral calculus rules though
It’s rare among mammals in general even if it’s universal for sloths.

Most people think of evolution as a string of improvements, however you can get negative traits in a population from a large enough genetic bottleneck or spread by being next to a very useful mutation. So it’s not necessarily an advantage for them, it could have just been bad luck.

Alternatively, there could have been some selective pressure for it as a means of improving night vision or something, we just don’t know.
Etsy is a hell hole and this is just the latest head of the hydra
I had someone on my dorm floor in college tell me that they were terrible at math, but it didn't matter because they were going into elementary education.
I didn’t say you should do it or that it’s ideal, it’s just the reality of the circumstance.
I think there's an obvious slippery slope here, and it's visible in how these sorts of age verification requirements are implemented. Specifically, requiring a government ID to access, creating a log of who/what/where/when.

The slippery slope comes from someone then asking the question: "Well, we already require an ID to allow someone to access porn... so can we require it for other things online where people have less desire for privacy? Why shouldn't we require an ID to post to social media, or participate in online video games (especially those violent ones!)"

The slope I see, is once you set up a system for ID verification and require it for a primary thing people want to keep private, it becomes easier to mandate it in other areas where privacy is less demanded.

Concern about that slope would be a nonissue if the laws mandated adult sites tag themselves as "adult content" for trivial filtering at the household network level, instead of establishing and normalizing the ID verification regime.
I don’t have a dog in this fight but I’m curious why Live Nation-Ticketmaster and not Meta, Google, or Amazon?
The numbers were as accurate as I stated for the beginning of the war. It's true that as Israel kept destroying all of Gaza's civilian infrastructure (hospitals, power, government offices, everything), they have started relying on less reliable sources, which they fully discuss, and clearly estimate how many numbers are directly known and how many are more complex estimates. I was a little vague perhaps in not going into all of these details. The fact remains that all international organizations view these numbers as highly reliable, including the UN, WHO, Human Rights Watch, and many parts of the US government (despite Biden publically claiming these numbers are not refutable).

And in fact Netanyahu has all but confirmed these numbers himself. The "about 30,000" number, with no other details about provenance, accuracy, methodology, etc, is basically an excellent confirmation of the Hamas numbers.

> The IDF released plenty of evidence of fighting Hamas in hospitals by the way. It also released interrogation videos where Hamas operatives describe their use of hospitals. Probably not in the news you choose to consume.

They staged a few photo shoots of weapons they "found in the hospital", and showed some tunnels under one of the hospitals that Ehud Barak himself confirmed live in an interview with Christiane Amanpoor were actually built by Israel back when it controlled Gaza. So, no, they have not actually presented any evidence whatsoever, anymore than Avengers was evidence of an alien invasion in NYC. No journalists were ever allowed to investigate this evidence on their own, nor have any other kind of investigators.

> I think the IDF simply does not know. I think Netanyahu said something like 14,000 combatants and 16,000 civilians is the estimate.

Than it should shut up immediately about (1) the "Hamas" numbers that they just confirmed being "inaccurate", and (2) any pretense that they care about not slaughtering civilians, if they don't even know how many they are murdering.
I don't think VAX emulators were the thing back then. :-) In fact, our target platform was a cluster of commodity DEC Alpha machines running an early version of RedHat Linux for AXP. I know for a fact, that we were the first system that employed Linux clusters in fintech.
Even more so seeing the recent indefinite delay of Starliner, again. The Voyager team(s) had 1 shot, similar to JWST, to get it right. They did it twice. All of these kinds of examples make it that much more insulting that Starliner is such rubish.
Show HN: Multistate – Save and restore WebGL state like in a 2D canvas
This project is a side effect of my other project, and I thought it's something that could be used for many other purposes.

I've been working for three and half years, mostly in my spare time but also two dedicated months this year on https://font.skin (originally called Fonted). It requires using certain WebGL features that are not available in Three and most importantly I wanted the project to be universal to create plugins for Three, Babylon and PlayCanvas. By not using any framework but writing a small, bespoke renderer, every text effect can be exported to i.e. React and only takes a few kilobytes + 30kb shared player (gzipped).

A few weeks ago the time had come to build a Three plugin and this is when I realised that using the same context as the current Three one is going to be difficult. Using separate contexts is prohibitively slow due to not being able to share textures between them. When using the same context I realised that Three renderer reset is too nasty for an already-busy environment and can't be used in between draw calls. Three does not provide any way of interacting with low level state like binding textures, but in the worst case scenario I thought I'd just make a plugin that only works with my modified version of Three and add whatever is necessary to the core. (I use it for my game engine running https://bad,city and it was used by a friend of mine for a couple of art exhibitions in London.) Having the text effects working only in my modified version wouldn't be ideal because I wanted to not only use them in my projects but make them available for everyone using any rendering engine.

"What if after the webgl work all the state changes can be restored to where they were?" I thought.
The regular 2D HTML Canvas has such a functionality with "save" and "restore" functions, but 3D WebGL context doesn't. Having these would be way too complicated. Or would it? So why not:
1. create a snapshot of the WebGL state(not going deep into individual textures or buffers, just all global settings and bindings)
2. Run Fontskin renderer which will alter WebGL state
3. Restore the state from the snapshot

And that's it. Save and restore was born. It also allows having multiple snapshot containers i.e. to create presets. At this point it's well-optimized and saving the snapshot is extremely cheap. Restoring the snapshot is checking the cache so it's not creating any redundant WebGL API calls.

Multistate can be used for interop between multiple WebGL frameworks i.e. Three and Pixi without having to use their nuclear reset functions. It can also be used for more predictable programming with pure WebGL and to debug issues by creating zones of isolation.
C. 1995, I aced the SAT-I math section (/800) cold with zero prep at a time when I was taking AP Calculus BC (5.0/5.0 on that too). BS CS/EE but stopped there because there wasn't really any benefit going on. If a gun were put to my head, I'd like to think I would be able to reteach myself how to derive the time-dependent hydrogen 1s PDF. I don't know the last time I used an integral or manipulated a PDE, but have had to use vectors and kernels now and then. I'm lazy, so I would probably use Mathematica or Giac if anything hurt my brain and couldn't be entered easily on an HP 48 (emulator).

I'm kind of annoyed when people without degrees and with liberal arts majors are making $400k-$1M in the same job I'm in (when employed), and annoyed at myself for bothering pay the establishment years and $70k for nothing of value.
I'm against most of these government "breakup" actions but there is an exception for every rule. I believe we can all agree that it's okay to disintegrate a company that simultaneously occupies every circle of hell.
To the contrary, I've been paying very close attention. I'm just not confident that the DoJ can pull this off before the end of the Biden administration.
I know, but it looks like it is heading in that direction.
It shows that it doesn't matter where the hostages are because they'll just shoot at everyone anyways
Which are all further accomplishments in my opinion.
First, I just did what you asked for.

Except you didn't, actually. You were asked to support a specific claim that you made:

Any journalist that reports something they don't like gets a beating, and if they persist, they're killed.

You were asked point blank by user @Pfhortune -- but you ducked to the side, and put out some noise about there being lots of people with guns walking around. You were then asked again by @runarberg -- but the article you dug up still didn't support this claim -- referring only to a vague "pressuring" of journalists by Hamas, and threats to collaborators. But nothing about specific cases of journalists being routinely "beaten, and then if they persists, killed" (per your words) for saying stuff Hamas doesn't like. Meanwhile the same article mentions far more worse abuses by the IDF (which has apparently killed some 147 journalists since the start of the current massacre in Gaza -- some specifically targeted, some killed incidentally).

In other words -- it looks like you're basically making stuff up here. If you'd care to convince us otherwise, you're going to have to do a lot more than 5 seconds of Googling.
“The Social Bitcoin Wallet”

Hard pass. Why would I ever want my wallet to be social? What does a social network have to do with Bitcoin? This sounds like social media for insufferable crypto bros.
You are wrong. The duty of trust doesn't even require a formal contract, girlfriend/boyfriend qualifies for example. Also see point 4 from https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-26/watch-... for example where there is no discussion of explicit duty of confidentiality; it is presumed in an employment relationship.
> The bill would require that any data collection would ensure the user’s anonymity and would not be used to create a record of the user’s online activity.

What are the penalties when this is violated (by pretty much every company involved)?
We're receiving real readings of the interstellar medium instead of just hypothesizing it's make up. So, I'd consider that new
I wouldn't read too much into this document. It's written by one of the most egregious political hacks on the planet: Jim Jordan. Even in this report, he can't resist using the classic "Democrat" epithet at the tippy-top of page 5 [1]. Jordan also subpoenaed Khan after the FTC took action against Elon Musk—Republicans' second-favorite billionaire they'll defend at all costs.

This document reads like political theater because it is political theater.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
I agree Nvidia is for sure making money.

For the other companies in your list and more specifically the ones that are developing LLM's they are investing billions of dollars in the hope that they will make all of those back and then some in the future. Meta for example said they invested $10bn into AI just last quarter alone.
The argument is that kids growing up with easy access to high quality video porn internalize what they see as normal sexual behavior, and then inflict it on their partners when they get older.
> During the filming, the British director cut two children from the documentary because she believed their experiences online had made them too vulnerable to include in the movie. Another videogame-obsessed participant was kicked out of college soon after she finished filming. A fourth was recommended for psychological support.

So out of the 11 children she happened to follow, 4 ended up with pretty severe negative outcomes. And yet we’ve had nearly 17 years of smartphones and 20 years of Facebook, and I don’t believe I’ve read anywhere that ~40% of kids have such negative reactions to tech. Either she has enormous bad luck in selecting children for her documentary and selected mostly outliers, selected children who were more predisposed to having problems in the first place, or she is actually the one that has such a negative impact on kids lives.

That’s not to say whether or not such things are bad ideas in the first place, but I wish policy was focused more on what the scientific literature says rather than what a filmmaker who followed some kids around is promoting.
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> I don't know what to think about humanity sometimes.

If it's any solace, selection bias is a thing. Those applicants that can't Fizz Buzz? They rarely get hired, and are rarely kept on for long when they do get an offer. Spoolsky made the argument like 20 years ago that as a result they flood the zone, and produce a massively biased applicant stream.
Wait. So why are sloths so slow?

I read this whole article and it’s still not clear to me _why_ they’re slow.

I’m genuinely curious! It seems like this article just lists a bunch of facts about sloths. But doesn’t say why being nearly blind or having a slow metabolism gives any evolutionary advantages.
It also appears softer and borderline condescending. I always thought it was feminine because I've only seen women do it before very recently.
Lessons learned from studying 4k YC companies