skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the government by force of law can wholesale strip citizens of their second amendment rights by having a list of gun owners. The ATF not even 5 years ago was doing this with all sorts of guns that were formerly legal. In particular, ex post facto laws seem to not apply with the ATF. Once they issue a new "opinion" it becomes defacto law because of the Chevron Defense. The result, is ATF door kickers visiting people who were, possibly weeks ago, entirely law abiding citizens. "Ghost guns" in particular were used to justify no-knock raiding several law abiding citizens when the ATF "opinion" came out. In that case however, the ATF more-or-less told manufacturers if you don't give us names we will send you to prison for life.

The government having any list of any kind of person is never good. Ever. The government already "has" a list of gun owners. 4473s are kept forever. If a gun store shuts down, the 4473s are shuttled to storage in the ATF's buildings/containers/whatever. They have, historically, used these for all kinds of questionably legal "enforcement" procedures.

However, since the 4473 list isn't entirely accurate - for example, gun transfers do not require a background check in many states, you could have destroyed the gun, lost it in a literal boating accident, etc there's plausible deniability. A government run list would certainly be designed to eliminate this - and that's a horrible, horrible thing for the 2nd. Presently the only "real list" is for NFA items. I'd imagine a government-run list would have the same privacy invading, civil rights abusing powers the NFA-owners list has.

A manufacturer on the other hand could be coerced, as "ghost gun" 80% lower manufacturers were, to narc on their customer base. However, there are legal avenues to at least slow this process down significantly. It's far better, if we have to choose, to let manufacturers have the data. They have historically been far better stewards of the bill of rights than the ATF ever has.
Good question. Something to do with interactive mode?

$ cat l.sh
alias l=ls
l
$ sh l.sh
file1 file2 l.sh
$ bash l.sh
l.sh: line 2: l: command not found
$ bash -i l.sh
file1 file2 l.sh

Edit: Ah yes, the man page says so.

> Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interactive, unless the expand_aliases shell option is set using shopt
Lots of gain for those in charge, and their cronies.
> I wish we could have conversations about things like this which are based in reality and not some fear of a macguffin enemy trying to "keep the poor from existing".

There is no other explanation for what exclusive zoning is. By banning the only form of housing poor people can afford you are attempting to "keep the poor from existing". Sure, land prices follow supply and demand so land in expensive places is expensive. But it turns out that we can build many housing units on not much land and amortize the land cost so that even the poor can afford expensive areas, if only it were legal.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Hints at an 'Agentic' Alexa
I live in NYC and know a ton of founders. its just the facts. people certainly get funded outside the normal background, but probably 70% of early stage funding goes to the same types of people
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Hey Taimur! Great job on the acquisition. Looking forward to seeing what you do next.
Hugh Hewitt quits The Washington Post after storming off newspaper's live show
Calling Adobe apps polished is a hot take. Adobe products are houses that have been added onto until the learning curve on their apps is similar to that of taking up playing a pipe organ.
A fantastic product but the colour science does not look great from a first play, and I don't know if seven days is long enough to figure it out. If I had a job I'd pull the trigger anyway, but too much of a luxury right now. I can't believe I did not know about this application. Shocking marketing! :D
I respect your opinion. The fact that I have extracted (and not extracted) more wisdom teeth than 3 of you means nothing to this argument is what worries me the most: Dentists have lost patients trust. I am no longer a trustworthy expert. So sad.
This is moving goalposts. Voyager doesn't need to manage Root CAs. Any JS program with the same scope as what Voyager does would be fine. Of course if it needs to connects to online services, deal with certs or other things, yes, it won't work. But neither would voyager-era software with similar requirements.
Late this summer, Apple Weather finally lost me (I'm in Indiana).

We had a storm roll through, and the temperature dropped 15º. Guess whose weather app continued to report the higher temperature?

But the real problem: rain forecasts were painfully unreliable. I spend the summer driving topless in my Jeep, and it's helpful to know these things in advance.

Well, that and the new UI was so much more cluttered than Dark Sky's, but I stomached that for years before throwing in the towel.
You can turn SponsorBlock off right in the SmartTube options UI. Personally, I love SponsorBlock and it works remarkably well for me, especially considering the information is crowd-sourced.
I remember Steve Yeggie selling me on it as a better Unix than Unix, then getting bogged down in cryptic inexplicable failure modes

Really cool technology really early, but I can't say I'm nostalgic!
> Apple has now made four generations of chips and each one were class leading upon release.

Buying up most of TSMC's latest node capacity certainly helps. Zen chips on the same node turn out to be very competitive, butAMD don't get first dibs.
You can absolutely install Firefox from the Play store
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What is weird to me about her proposal is that they talk about 3m homes but that is the normal number of housing starts in 4 years. Do they mean they will double it or are they just giving tax incentives for the expected home construction so they can point to it and get credit?
Oh I see, my skim made it sound like the NSSF in turn used that data in a way that exposed it to government eyes.
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Unlike several other authoritarian regimes, this is very much constitutional in China. Every institution pretty much reports to the CCP.
> ... at event F52A

Sure, if the database supports this sort of temporal query, then you're good with such id-only events. But that's not exactly the default for most databases / data models.
My feeling is that if you think quitting the day job is risky, you probably won't fit the profile YC and VCs look for.

YC is an enormous brand in the VC and startup industry, and as a YC startup doors open to you that would be harder to pry open otherwise. The connections, and willingness of people to "pay it forward" are a huge (probably biggest) asset.

The odds of your idea working are not great, that's correct. YC does encourage you to experiment and fail fast so you have time to adapt the idea or try another one. If all fails, having had a YC startup means it'll be easy to get into other startups (if you like the lifestyle - and you really have to like it!).

That sad, YC is what you make of it. You get encouragement and support but nobody's going to force you to take advantage of all the things they have to offer.

Watch a few episodes of https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ-uHSnFig5Nd98Sc9I-k... If you get a feeling "omg I want to work with those guys", then you might be a fit. If you get a feeling of "dude, no", then you're probably not a fit.
> many people in the Lisp world were unhappy because Common Lisp didn't have this or that from whatever they were working on, and because CL was standard they would have to use it.

There were many unhappy, but from very different camps. Some were unhappy (for example people in the small Standard Lisp camp) because Common Lisp was not dynamic enough (it has features of static compilation, no fexprs, ...). Others were unhappy because it was too dynamic and difficult to compile to efficient code on small machines with stock CPUs. Some complained that it was too large and hard to fit onto some of the tiny machines of that time. Others complained that it was too small and lacked critical features from larger Lisp implementations (like stack groups, threads, a fully integrated object system, the first version had no useful error handling, gui functionality, extensible streams, ...).

Many more users/implementors from other Lisp dialects were unhappy, because it was clear that their favorite Lisp dialect would slowly fade away - funding was going away, new users would avoid it, existing users would port their code away, ...

> This is why math functions are not generic for instance

The math functions are generic (they work for several types). But there was no machinery behind that specified. They were not generic in the sense of CLOS generic functions (or similar). Also because with CLtL1 there was no such machinery in the language, but there are (non-extensible) generic numeric functions. CLOS later added a machinery for generic functions, but there was no experience to create optimized&fast code for it. The way of a CLtL1 Lisp implementation for fast numeric functions was to specify types and let a compiler generate type specific (non-generic) code. ANSI CL left the language in that state: the generic numeric functions were not implemented by CLOS, similar to so much in the language specification avoids further integration of CLOS and leaves it to implementations to decide how to implement them: I/O, condition handling, ...

> I have no idea why ANSI CL has such a large page count.

It was supposed to be a language specification for industrial users with detailed infos. There were standard templates how to specify a function, macro, ...

The Scheme reports OTOH were made to have the smallest page count possible with 2 columns of text, leaving out much of the detail of a real language spec. Why? Because it was material for a teaching language and thus was supposed to be read by students learning the language in a semester course at the university. Thus R5RS specified a teaching language, just barely, not as a full application programming language (for example it has zero error handling and basic things were just barely specified in its behavior and implementation).
Typically, as society has gotten wealthier, the average standard of living has increased. That's just thousands of years of history though.
> If there are a lot of game simulation calculations

Why not move at least some of that into the GPU as well? Lots of different branchy code paths for the in-game objects?
I haven't used Notepad++ since they were exposed for having a CIA backdoor, which they "fixed" after it came to light.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v733-fix-cia-hacking-npp-...
Was this verified independently? Because people can submit all sorts of results for Geekbench scores. Look at all these top scorers (most of which are obviously fake or overclocked chips): https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/singlecore
Child rape victims are now being forced to give birth in some states: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/11/chil...

For monsters wearing human skin, the cruelty is the point.
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I bet the Studio and the Pro will have that option. I'm hoping the Pro has more versatile PCIe slots as well.
Picture of the remains of the tunic, since I didn't see one in the article:

https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1t...

> The revered tunic is is in fragmentary state and many small pieces less than 6cm (2.3 inches). It's pictured here in a shot from its discovery at Vergina in 1977

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To be fair, he is a Nobel Prize winner for his AI research. But that doesn't mean anything since we are all speculating about the proximity of something that clearly doesn't exist -- AGI.
Sure, but they're not claiming to analyze everything. Cancer marker detection is an active field, and it often involves checking for the levels of several proteins/RNA fragments.

What they did, they found a material that allows them to microfluidize the processes.
A friend has a theory that if an ad say "X is Y", it's because a bunch of surveys and marketing studies have shown that people think that X is ~Y. So if people think some soft drink is unhealthy, the ad companies will make ads showing it is healthy. He takes it a step further and says that all ads are lies. I wouldn't go that far myself, but I think that it's not just Facebook and it's not just election lies that are being spread.
Tell me you haven't had a baby without telling me you haven't had a baby.

You are fucking 10x more aware of bullshit you're doing just to keep baby safe. Probably more like 100x, really. Nothing focusses your mind like having CREATED A HUMAN THAT MUST BE KEPT SAFE AT ALL COST.
No kidding. The M1 MacBook Pro I got from work is the first time I've ever subjectively considered a computer to be just as fast as it was the day I got it.
feels like forbidden knowledge... I guess any app devs know things like these if their software's used widely enough like chrome/steam and your various motherboard software suites and crapware installed by laptop makers
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Same, I have a Ryzen 9 7950X and it has 130-140% better performance (according to Geekbench)

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/8593555?baselin...

Though a MacBook Pro 16" with M4 Max(that's what achieved this geekbench score), but the same amount of memory (64GB) and the same amount of storage (4TB) as my PC, would cost 6079€. That is roughly twice as much as my whole PC Build did cost, and I'm able to expand Storage and upgrade my CPU and GPU in the future (for way less than buying a new Mac in a few years)
Migrants Face Mass Kidnappings as U.S. and Mexico Ramp Up Enforcement
The full article title is:

> Held for Ransom in Animal Pens, Migrants Face Mass Kidnappings as U.S. and Mexico Ramp Up Enforcement
Godspeed to the Asahi team, but as much as I envy the performance and efficiency of Apple silicon, I could never depend on a small group of hackers to reverse engineer every part of a closed system and to maintain it in perpetuity so that I can run free software on it. As brilliant as this team is, and as much progress as they've made, fighting against a trillion-dollar corporation that can decide to shut it down at any moment is a sisyphean endeavor. Spending thousands of dollars on that bet is a hard sell, even for tech nerds.

Not to mention that you'd be supporting a corporation that has this hostile stance towards their customers to begin with.

Meanwhile, other x86 and ARM manufacturers are making substantial improvements that are shortening Apple's lead. You're not losing much by buying a new CPU from them in 2024 or 2025, but you gain much more in return. Most importantly, the freedom to run any software you choose.
Just tried the new search mode, asked for a list of odd or unique things to see in Frankfurt. The second suggestion was "Kaiserlei Bunker", a "former bunker turned into an arts space". I googled it and found nothing; asked for clarification, standard "sorry, my mistake, it doesn't actually exist".

How does it confabulate even when summarizing web results?
Fork and steal users, and pull their new changes until the totality of patching new pulls into the new project becomes too arduous, then let the original project and author float into the sunset as you are the new big kid on the block and have the bully pulpit!
> Edit: I am looking at peak 1T performance, not efficiency. In that regard I don't think anyone has been close.

Indeed. Anything that approaches Apple performance does so at a much higher power consumption. Which is no biggie for a large-ish desktop (I often recommend getting middle-of-the-road tower servers for workstations).
I don't think its a Go-specific issue, its useful syntactic sugar. I would love an updated JSX for Python.
Sure same as any medical device.

But siezing on the word "microfluidics" because theranos used it, makes about as much sense as seizing on the word "chemistry" and saying theranos also claimed to use chemistry.
Predicate logic
Peak consumption for a population is 45-54, when income is highest and people are having their 1 kid. Once retirement hits income is generally fixed as people rely on pension or savings. They also depend more on state services like healthcare. In China, this also means depending on their 1 child.

It’s not really possible to say “China’s fundamentals are fine” because China’s fundamentals look like nothing the world has ever seen. It’s not clear they have the leadership to navigate it.
If people wonder why some of us don't like Apple, this is the fundamental philosophy why. It's not about the M series, it's been their modus operandi since time immemorial. It's like if Microsoft owned x86 and nobody could run anything on it but Windows. And people would like it because it's a "cohesive ecosystem" or whatever.
That's a rather incomplete, revisionist and rose tinted glasses view of the history of native vs web apps in iPhone.

As someone who built one of the first web apps featured by Apple, I can say that your view, too, is incomplete and revisionist.

A much more plausible theory

Theories are not necessary. Apple was very up-front about its trajectory with the iPhone at launch.
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anything that pegged the CPU for extended periods of time, caused many Apple laptop models to overheat. There is some design tradeoff about power specs, cooling, "typical workloads" and other things.. A common and not-new example of heat-death-workload was video editing..
I'll admit, as an attorney, this isn't my specialty, and every jurisdiction varies, but the ye olde common law of tortuous interference requires something more than mere competition, this is America, not the EU.

2 DAN B. DOBBS, THE LAW OF TORTS §§ 448-52 (2001)("you are thus free to induce my customers, employees, or suppliers to deal with you instead of me, as long [as] they are not bound to me by contract").

Restatement (Second) of Torts § 768 (1979) (stating that interference with a competitor’s contractual relations is permissible if it does not employ wrongful means and is intended to advance the competing interest).

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Sturges, 52 S.W.3d 711, 726 (Tex. 2001) (" we conclude that to establish liability for interference with a prospective contractual or business relation the plaintiff must prove that it was harmed by the defendant's conduct that was either independently tortious or unlawful. By "independently tortious" we mean conduct that would violate some other recognized tort duty.").
Thanks, I had no idea. I guess I've never used aliases in scripts, but I would've assumed that they'd just work the same as in interactive mode. Good to know.
>Sounds to me like they're both sound principles at heart

That's why this kind of vague inspirational garbage is written. It resonates emotionally with some people who lack the cognitive ability to see through it.

>This is not rocket science.

Religious texts are not any kind of science. The lack of disprovability is one of their core features.

>Yeah, you're going to do better if you actively try to better yourself as opposed to sitting like a lump.

This seems like projection rather than anything based on something I said.
In this case i imagine skepticism just means buying some devices and getting an independent lab to run a blind test.
time to revisit the news from back in the day, because they very much did, and the details are an exercise in "wow, how much do you want to split hairs?".