skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> fabricated tales about Kamala wasting FEMAs budget on transgender surgery for migrants

It's not fabricated, this is based on a question she was asked by the ACLU.

> ACLU: As President will you use your executive authority to ensure that transgender and nonbinary people who rely on the state for medical care - including those in prison and immigration detention - will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care? If yes, how will you do so?

> Harris: Yes. It is important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition. That’s why, as Attorney General, I pushed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide gender transition surgery to state inmates. I support policies ensuring that federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained. Transition treatment is a medical necessity, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment.
The problem is not on network level.

The problem is that the developers behind this way of streaming video data seem to have no idea of how video codecs work.

If they are in control of the headless chromium instances, the video streams, and the receiving backend of that video stream...why not simply use RDP or a similar video streaming protocol that is made exactly for this purpose?

This whole post reads like an article from a web dev that is totally over their head, trying to implement something that they didn't take the time to even think about. Arguing with TCP fragmentation when that is not even an issue, and trying to use a TCP stream when that is literally the worst thing you can do in that situation because of roundtrip costs.

But I guess that there is no JS API for that, so it's outside the development scope? Can't imagine any reason not to use a much more efficient video codec here other than this running in node.js, potentially missing offscreen canvas/buffer APIs and C encoding libraries that you could use for that.

I would not want to work at this company, if this is how they develop software. Must be horribly rushed prototypical code, everywhere.
Correct. It’s a very straightforward algebraic correction that reflects both supply and demand. The demand is implicit and equal to production. You consumed it but you didn’t produce it. The demand is internal but the supply is not.

This equation is tautologically true. It is not some “almost always wrong” blah blah. People here know almost nothing about economics and are vulnerable to the most specious of arguments.
The issue with new rights vs preserving existing rights also applies here I think.

Lina Khan's FTC is left of most of these though. They're trying to break up Google right now!
You seem focused on the labor theory of value, and sidestep completely the entire idea of investors, or the entrepreneurial function they serve.

Advocate for higher taxes if you wish, but acknowledge that economics are not a zero-sum game and propose an alternative to savvy investment, unless you simply want to foment division or to upend modern capitalism entirely.
A little off topic, but if you need a bot for a meeting, do you even need a meeting?
Hopefully this trickles down into an nvidia shield tv successor. I am dreading the day mine dies.
Neovim + CopilotChat + CopilotLSP + Copilot subscription. You can dump your context, autocomplete, chat and select Claude or O1. Best deal so far.
He didn't pay US taxes. Actually the more you earned, the less they gave.
I almost mentioned Hooters, I think they're the exception that proves the rule - they're seen as unusual and seedy, whereas in Japan that's pretty much the norm for a bar.
I'm listening to Australian radio right now and a group of mothers just made this exact point.
Honestly the amount of info on the Hunter Biden laptop story is abundant so it puzzles me you'd even have to ask.

Zuckerberg talking about warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532

Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-...

NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/us/politics/republicans-h...

NY Times and Washington Post finally admit laptop is real
https://nypost.com/2022/04/01/new-york-times-finally-admit-h...

And the 34 felony was about 34 payments for the one thing so in reality was just the one "crime" beefed up by a weaponized justice system to look worse than it was.

Again, it is obviously and emphatically true that this kind of govt election interference is way worse than whatever Trump did. So again why was there no charge over this?

And I'm just going to repeat, people are not nearly as stupid as the Democrat party thinks they are.
Tasmania tried doing that with smoking and it kind of didn't go through due to technicalities.

https://www.smokefreetasmania.com/new-law/
Damn ageism. There’s some amazing 60yo assembly devs out there.
I guess reality can sometimes be circular then....
That's the macroeconomic argument I alluded to. Of course, what this argument amounts to is that economic growth should be fueled in part by devaluing the money of the working and lower-middle class, who earn their money through wages and have limited means of preserving its value through capital investment, while the wealthy, who have more opportunity to invest in capital and use leverage, are largely shieled from, or on the extreme end even benefit from, its effects. Hence, a regressive tax.

The most obvious argument against this notion is that many things are effectively deflationary anyway, such as computers, which at least until recently were deflationary in the extreme. Not only did they tend to get ever cheaper over time, but while getting cheaper they have and continue to become more powerful, at times by miles in the space of a few years. And yet, people still buy computers, and firms still engineer and manufacture them, because at some point it doesn't matter that if you wait 6 months you can get a vastly better computer for half the price, at some point you have to actually buy a computer.
Yeehaw! Screw y’all and your lintin’ ‘n’ rules. I gets the final say!

Plenty of cowboy developers rejoicing reading this ;)
benchmarks can never be right. machines with different specs will always show different results.
That is actually a pretty interesting question, fascism doesn't seem to have any actual meaning. It is very hard to outline what a "fascist" is unless they self-identify. I thought briefly in writing this comment and I can't actually rule out Trump being a fascist, based on the fact that any policy that isn't explicitly in the liberal or communist traditions may technically be fascist.

Anyway; it has reached the point where I no longer believe people who claim Trump said something negative. Back in the 2010s I spent enough time reading up primary sources to reveal it was a misquote. Possibly a malicious misinterpretation, possibly the man just makes people so emotional that they can't listen to him for a full minute and try to interpret with a neutral lens.

He appears to be close to a saint given how much time his opponents have to spend making up stuff about him to dislike. Realistically there are a lot of real problems that people should focus on; like bad policies.
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I don't doubt it. Even to an outsider there is a obvious economic divide between blue and red states and I am sure both parties exploit that to some extent.

Judging from what I have seen of the foreign reach of "US" politics I am certain there is a lot of dark money and influence going around beyond any official numbers. I have doubts if those sorts of operations have any influence on the swing voters that were required for a victory. It seems more likely their needs were simply ignored.
Ask HN: What Local LLM apps are you using?
The 1983 West Indian rebel tour to South Africa that shocked cricket
Interestingly, I had this problem with Claude (their web chat) and not Copilot. However, there were times where it was unresponsive.
Lol...selected by "both sides" in one of the most left-wing jurisdictions in America.
So you're saying that President Trump can appoint as many Supreme Court justices as he would like to in January?
I foresee a collision between getting rid of Section 230 protection, and the laws that prevent banning commenters based on political orientation.

Someone help me out - how does this combo not lead to shutting down all comment sections, and maybe leads to no user content at all.
Steam releases new built-in recording feature
> If the rule is meant to allow expats to still participating in voting in their hometown

Is the rule meant to do that? I don't perceive that to be the case. What even is a hometown? What if someone doesn't have a hometown? What if you leave and never plan to return?

Decidedly expats do have real business in voting in elections otherwise this rule would have been removed. But it would be unconstitutional to tax citizens abroad upon depriving them the right to representation so this seems. Given there seems to be no appetite to disowning American expats this all seems moot.

I'm not aware of any other country with this sort of policy. It certainly seems to me that you get precisely what you ask for here, and there is no possiblity of abuse.
I once used a website https://makepassportphoto.com to create such photos for my family
Nitpick but it was mostly in the ~$60ks.
So am I blind or does it not mention the results? Was the result a faster kernel? How big was the difference?
Do you think English language conversational AI tutors could have a positive impact on a nation like Japan (which tends to be a little more introverted)?
you can take a simple a+b code program written in both Ruby 3.3 and Python 3; and run it using concurrency features of each language and compare. This article has no intentions to provide any benchmarks and comparisons.
No guidelines on where the limits are? Or does this just give us license to work for and with, and do business with anyone?
Just to promote the sanctioned opinion on Ukraine?

My own strategy is to completely ignore what the "sanctioned opinion" (whatever that means) on a given topic is, and to work the factual chronology and reasonably verifiable reporting or statements best as I can. That, and whenever possible, to talk with people who were on the ground or reasonably close to it at the time. Or who are at least from the region, seem knowledgeable, and definitely are not assholes or otherwise have some major axe to grind.

I also try to ignore nearly all social media, to whatever extent possible.

But hey, that's just me. You do you. I wouldn't say I didn't want a substantive engagement, but it's getting late, and I think we've both said enough. We just disagree. We didn't start this war, and in the broader picture, I suspect we're probably more or less on the same basic side of the basic moral issues.

So if you like we can leave it that.
This is so. But places like Turkyie, Russia, or even Iran have much weaker blocks; same applies to much of the authoritarian African regimes.

Basically, to enforce border controls on the internet, you have to break the internet.
> The ID check is productive at 1) registration - ensure eligibility and 2) at ballot casting - ensure the voter is registered and unique.

How does checking an ID ensure eligibility better than what's already done? And similarly for ballot casting - how would IDs make a better uniqueness/registration check than what we have?

> a) id requirements disenfranchise voters and b) official collusion is the “only way” are structurally and by evidence unfounded

It's well documented that many legitimate voters do not have IDs. And it's widely accepted that large-scale in-person voter fraud is not happening and there's no real plausible way for it to happen; if you want to claim that it is or it can, the onus is on you.

> In your argument they provide only hand-wavy service for an otherwise unsupported conclusion.

Please grow up. The over-the-top rhetoric doesn't make you more convincing, quite the opposite.
Realistically speaking, it'd probably be no different than $random_billionare pushing for whatever makes them the most profit.
I'm not sure I understand what Heimdal actually does. Aren't updates handled by Windows Server itself?
The GOP won't have a supermajority, as the word is usually understood (i.e., having more than two thirds of the seats in the Senate). They'll have barely more than half the seats in both houses. So they can pass some things using the reconciliation process, but can't pass general legislation without Democrat support or abolishing the filibuster.
It's a pretty unique hybrid genre game, you don't really get a lot of first person + RTS experiences, I think that's the big enduring appeal. It also gives you a lot of vehicle types to pick from, which became Pandemic's signature game style as seen later in Mercenaries and Star Wars Battlefront.

Part of the appeal of being a hybrid genre game is that there just aren't really many of them, because after the 90s games kinda settled into some pretty well-defined genres. You have 3rd person action games, FPS, RTS, RPGs, etc, all pretty cleanly delineated, and they all start getting judged based on those genres conventions.
>spend enough of their time writing HCL to master it

Making Terraform changes every six weeks was enough time that we forgot everything and had to refresh our memories. Every time it felt like going into the water in a northern beach and forgetting how goddamned cold the water was, then reproaching yourself for forgetting.
Tell HN: ChatGPT has default responses for each day recorded on Internet Archive
Found something pretty interesting.

If you go to the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine", it appears that looking at previous saves for the "chatgpt.com" website, after OpenAI's acquisition, have default responses from ChatGPT for each day

For example, August 1st 2024 has any message replied with the answer "It seems like you've mentioned "Glen Mulroney." If you're referring to someone specific or have a question about them, could you please provide more context?"
https://web.archive.org/web/20240801000429/https://chatgpt.com/

Different days have different responses, it's pretty interesting!
New Zealand also tried it. But then we elected a government full of [ex] tobacco lobbyists
That's only obvious if you're looking at Jupiter from the outside!

You could imagine primitive aliens on the various moons each believing their own is the center of the Jupiter system, which is an elaborate world of epicycles. And when they communicate with the aliens of the other worlds (over shortwave radios each time the moons fly past each other), they debate Europacentrism and Ganymedocentrism and get into very heated arguments.
Parent said that Bitcoin is not a ponzi scheme: "more evidence against the Ponzi scheme narrative".
That 'change' is I think exactly what GP is referring to here:

> people out there who believe that this demagogue, this partisan, this policy will give them the riches and posh comforts their elders enjoyed

None of the promised or delivered change really upset the status quo.
I would advice testing this idea on iOS only, find PMF, find SEO patterns, then consider expand. It also depends what framework you are using to build the app, cross platform vs native. It is not worth maintaining two platforms in the beginning, not just dev efforts, QA efforts, but just understanding how these two platform works would consume lot of your time.
Do you remember John Kerry by any chance?
I've worked in quantum nonlinear optics during my first postdoc 12 years ago, and back then we could only dream of the efficiency of frequency conversions that are used here. So many advances in just a decade, and most of them don't even make the news.
Absolutely! I was a teenager when I worked on it, so I feel ya :)
they are taking a common lingo (i.e. chat) and making a brand out of it. Could be a genius move.
Definitely agree that things could have been done differently and democrats were far too modest/quiet about what they did.

A lot of red states are benefiting from Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and don't even realize it.
Except when there's not ... In this case, it was superseded by "more pressing" alarms, namely "pull up"/"you're too low".
> Back before Apple Silicon, running that 1440p display at “1920x1080” was actually just scaling the UI elements up

I’m almost sure that macOS can’t do that. It’s always done scaling by rendering the whole image at 2x the virtual resolution and then just displaying it on whatever screen you had. For example, for “looks like 1080p” on a 1440p screen it would draw onto a 2160p canvas (and do 2160p screenshots).
This sounds like the (debunked) labor theory of value :p
"It’s wild to me that on this topic people seem to see their own governments as largely equivalent to an outwardly adversarial if not explicitly hostile foreign power".

Because governments are adversarial to their general population in many cases. People live in reality, not in imagination land where the salt-of-the-earth type of people's voices are at all considered.
The world has changed drastically over the past few decades. Maybe the lessons we've learned historically about socioeconomic systems don't apply so much any more.
>steep learning curve

actually, shallow learning curve.

the steepness means "a lot of learning from a small amount of experience"
I was a teacher at an English Conversation School, more than 30 years ago, and I think that there is more to them -- or at least there was.

Where I lived, this was one of the few places to interact with a foreigner and practice English (often before going on an overseas holiday or work contract). Even better, it was a safe and controlled environment.

One of the crucial hurdles for Japanese people learning English has always been a lack of confidence and fear of looking foolish in public.

It didn't do much for English ability, because how could it when the class is only one hour a week?

Many of the schools were get-rich-quick schemes, as you say, but that doesn't mean they didn't provide a valuable function, even if they didn't contribute directly to English ability.
I disagree IF their design was flawed. Regulated professions like engineers who presumably designed this thing have moral and legal obligations to not crank out a death trap and say it's the buyer's fault. It's actually something I don't respect about the tech industry a whole with a wild wild west approach so probably not a popular view here.
A few random thoughts from a Japanese programmer:
(warning: not gonna be fun read)

* As far as I can tell, most Japanese programmers can read at least some portion of English software documentations

* English in Japan is always about the U.S. Not the U.K, not South Africa, not Singapore. I still remember my English teacher in the university, who was from South Africa, complained about that he was always assumed to be American.

* I find it interesting that, your article doesn't mention on the Japan's political dependence and subordination to the United States. The people who study at Tokyo Univ. are not commoners at all. They're the political and economic ruling class elites, and don't give a shit to the median Japanes people. They don't have to learn English because...why do they have to?

* English is basically for the elites. As Tatsuru Uchida pointed out, most of LDP elites have learned in American universities. [0] They're literally colonial elites.

> 逆に、植民地的言語教育では、原住民の子どもたちにはテクストを読む力はできるだけ付けさせないようにする。うっかり読む力が身に着くと、植民地の賢い子どもたちは、宗主国の植民地官僚が読まないような古典を読み、彼らが理解できないような知識や教養を身に付ける「リスク」があるからです。植民地の子どもが無教養な宗主国の大人に向かってすらすらとシェークスピアを引用したりして、宗主国民の知的優越性を脅かすということは何があっても避けなければならない。だから、読む力はつねに話す力よりも劣位に置かれる。「難しい英語の本なんか読めても仕方がない。それより日常会話だ」というようなことを平然と言い放つ人がいますけれど、これは骨の髄まで「植民地人根性」がしみこんだ人間の言い草です。[1]

So, that's the reason why they focus on the conversational English instead of reading/writing. Seriously, "you can teach tourists how to get to the station" as a motivation to learn the language is insane. And that's the elites want us Japanese commoners to learn in English education.

* My university English teacher (not the guy I mentioned earlier), who was a former bureaucrat who worked for the Ministry of Economy IIRC, told us that the Japan is a unique nation state, unlike the Western countries, that have kept single people and single language through the history. This is the Japanese ruling class. It was the most disgusting time I ever had in the univ, and that may be the reason I still feel very uncomfortable with English education.

* Although I'm very against the current English education, I genuinely believe learning English have improved my life. I can watch 3Blue1Brown on YouTube, I can read the books from Slavoj Zizek not translated in Japanese, and of course, I can post on HN!

* It's important that, the means to fight against colonialism is not blindly praising the native culture (see how Japanese have internalized "Japan is unique! Japan is cool!" bullshit), but to understand the relativism of the history and cultural development, and take universal values like democracy and human rights seriously - more seriously than their inventors. While American politics is becoming a kind of tragic farce, I hope Japan will present itself as a true representative of those values. It's unlikely to happen, but I hope so.

[0]: http://blog.tatsuru.com/2024/10/11_1037.html
[1]: http://blog.tatsuru.com/2018/10/31_1510.html
I have a strong memory that AFL - american fuzzy lop the binary fuzzer had a feature similar to what this was doing based on the highlighted portions and screenshots. It wasn't the AFL status screen, it was (may have been a) third party app, and it would color code parts of the input files based on the outputs or whatever from afl's processing.

For example, there was a color key that explained that say, purple meant "magic bytes", like "0x4a46494600" for JFIF0, and if any part of the input file caused errors it meant it was probably a checksum and needed to be "fixed" so afl could properly fuzz all the functions in the source code.

I'm not super in to fuzzing or that realm anymore, so i doubt i could describe it better than i did, here. I clicked through to see if someone have leveraged the AFL stuff for use in another tool, which would be cool.

edit: i think it was afl-analyze - i had a go at the source code for aflplusplus:

> A nifty utility that grabs an input file and takes a stab at explaining its structure by observing how changes to it affect the execution path.

> Another tool in AFL++ is the afl-analyze tool. It takes an input file, attempts to sequentially flip bytes and observes the behavior of the tested program. It then color-codes the input based on which sections appear to be critical and which are not; while not bulletproof, it can often offer quick insights into complex file formats.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/17189376/308851 claims it's O(N^2). 10^82 operations ... say you can run 10^10 iterations in a second which no current CPU is capable of but let's pretend, it's not like a factor of 10 or 100 will make a big difference given how this is like 10^54 times the age of universe.

This algorithm is not practical.
> these are the actual majority of America as indicated yesterday.

Less than a third of Americans cast votes for Trump in this cycle.