skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I have noticed that some people who hold your views believe that there are processes whereby illegitimate laws get nullified and until those processes are followed the law should be followed. Do you hold to this view?

Yeah sorta, my point was more about enforcement than compliance. I don't necessarily think unjust laws should be followed but it certainly should not be up to each individual police officer to decide which laws gets enforced on which people.

If a law is unjust enough and enough people choose to disobey it and the legal system is forced to get involved constantly then I believe we would see a lot more change in the law than with our current system of writing laws then letting cops selectively enforce them.

>Furthermore I would ask are there any laws that you would consider illegitimate? If so what are you doing personally to overturn those?

Yes, just about any restriction on abortion. What am I doing? Not much other than voting, occasionally donating money, and choosing to never live in a state that writes those laws. Would what I do change if there were, say, a national abortion ban? Probably, but I certainly won't count on the police joining in on whatever form of protest I see fit.

I don't think the laws around shoplifting, public intoxication, vandalism, etc. are bad and I am doing nothing to overturn them.

> Given the necessity to uphold the law that you believe in (meaning you believe in the necessity above other things) was I under an obligation to tell the police that the homeless guy asked me for money, and that I gave it to him?

No, but the cops who saw you do it were obliged to follow whatever procedure was written into the law. Does SLC still have this law? Having been involved in the enforcement of this law, were you more aware that the law existed and you wanted it changed?

The laws are written democratically, then enforced dictatorially by the whim of a few individuals with a gun. I think this is bad.
I agree with the discussion that rejection is normal and researchers should discuss it more often.

That said, I do think that "publish or perish" plays an unspoken role here. I see a lot of colleagues trying to push out "least publishable units" that might barely pass review (by definition). If you need to juice your metrics, it's a common strategy that people employ. Still, I think a lot of papers would pass peer review more easily if researchers just combined multiple results into a single longer paper. I find those papers to be easier to read since they require less boilerplate, and I imagine they would be easier to pass peer review by the virtue that they simply contain more significant results.
> In historical context

In current federal legal context, the "militia" is all men between like age 18-45, plus all people in the national guard, or something like that. That's what the US CFR says.
Encryption at rest is meant to protect data when the storage device is stolen or lost.
Yes when I started working, "staff" meant entry-level. My first job out of school was a "staff consultant." So I'm always tripped up when I see "staff" used to mean "very senior/experienced"
Nobody sane actually cares what you "disagree" with, other than maybe being reminded to be sure to avoid people like you getting any actual power.
High-rises built with wood are showing up as sustainable building options
Have you considered a Framework laptop? They have 13-inch and 16-inch models and are designed to be upgraded.

https://frame.work/
When someone ask for my favourite author my answer is Hemingway. Want to write better? Try to write like Hemingway.

That said, people who read less tend to believe that more and bigger words equal better writting. My (usually scientific) texts are described as "telegraphic", and heavily expanded without adding any real content. E.g. "the house was white" gets transformed to "the paint that covered the beautiful house was pure white".
This is fascinating. I was just playing around with this pretty printing library in .net and I wondered how security critical such a thing was, and whether or not it could be trusted.

https://spectreconsole.net/

Things like this make me a little more cautious about standard out in general! More research to do.
PornHub is owned by Aylo and Aylo is owned by Ethical Capital Partners per Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylo
> The idea is to ban smoking for people who never smoke while still allow already addicted people to smoke

The idea seems to be about banning smoking based on age, not if they ever tried to smoke or not, which may seem like a minor distinction, but it's a vital one. I bet you most of the people who are addicted to smoking started smoking before the age limit (if there was one), not afterwards.

It seems to me like smoking was decreasing by itself already (probably because of vaping if anything), and making it more illegal could counter that decrease.
- hey honey how was work today?

- it was fine, I desk rejected terence tao, his result was a bit meh and the write up wasn't up to my standard. Then I had a bit of a quite office hour, anyway, ...
Well at least it wasn't E4M2.
Just shooting without moving shouldn't solve it. The ammo is excessive.

Mobile needs a better interface and landscape mode.
I imagine he would say to practice is to realize and to realize is to practice.
Printing this out for some people, thanks for sharing this.
2025 New Year Programmer Vlog in Zimbabwe [video]
Thank you.

Original article blocks Tor.

Archive blocks Tor by having a Google Captcha (which cannot be completed under Tor).

No article for me, evil Tor user that I am.
Everything in life is about degrees (or ranges, or orders of magnitude - whichever way you want to phrase it).
fwiw, editorial review =/= peer review
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36646791, 530 comments

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25486191, 279 comments

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32674830, 111 comments
Author here. No, unfortunately there aren't any such photos that I know of, and that's because even though sea level rise to date is verifiable via reliable measurements, in most of the world the sea level hasn't risen enough to be discernible to the human eye.

In the article, I linked to a number of fact checks of "then and now" photos, that claim to be evidence that sea level rise isn't real, and that have been determined to be false claims.
Yea, I always use Redis for very specialized purposes.

Like offloading a shared data structure between threads / processes / machines so that I don’t have to deal with thread safety issues.
Betaflight doesn't really care about what Radio receiver you're using - as long as it can talk to it over uart (/SPI) via one of its supported protocols like crsf, ibus, sbus etc..

If you really want encryption, you can simply use a PiZero that talks CRSF to Betaflight and has an encrypted channel to your ground station over 4G LTE/Wifi/Wfb-ng/what not.

But if you're dealing with 4G and PiZero, might as well use Ardupilot + mavlink. Those tools already support this use case much better.

Betaflight is more of a proximity racing drone kind of use case. Only recently did it's GPS return to home functionality got some improvements.
Love this. I’ve worked on a few projects in RPA prior and I’m losing faith in selectors. I think either direct data access like this or AI based CV are the automation arms of the future.
> This seems reasonable?

In some sense, but it does feel like the journal is missing the bigger picture somewhat. Say the two papers are A and B, and we have A + B = C. The journal is saying they'll publish C, but not A and B!
(2014), and Walter is on the left in the first picture, not the right as credited!
Nope. Check the Apple documentation, that’s not how it works. Even if Mallory gets your Apple ID and 2FA code you still need biometrics from a nearby device to initiate password sync.

This is a special requirement for Passwords that does not apply to other encrypted data in your Apple account.
Source article: [https://electrek.co/2024/12/30/tesla-replaced-laid-off-us-wo...]
> One thing remained clear from the time I got Covid the first time- people with natural immunity should be allowed to return to going about their normal lives.

I'm going to parse this and offer some personal impressions.

"One thing" (variant = "All I know") signals to me that my question - are you working backward from a conclusion - can't be considered at this time. It's a reasonable response and I hope you will consider my Q at a later time.

In considering your whole response, I get a vibe that you were justified or maybe vindicated. In my experience, those are markers of clinging to a conclusion and waiting for evidence of it. If I'm off base, help me out here.

I also think you're being forthright with me and not subversive.
On my side I prefer Dell Latitudes and Fujitsu Siemens, which only makes "professional" laptops. I agree with the keyboards, however really good keyboards have totally disappeared now.

That said a used laptop is perfect for web browsing, office stuff, casual development and light gaming. When it dies you have no regrets. It is almost 20 years I have not bought a new laptop. Of course my kids have used laptops too. At some point they had Fujitsu Siemens with a Wacom stylus/digitizer. I do not think they still make those. They were rock solid and quite fun to use.

I only buy new laptops for my wife. She is very careful with her stuff, they last ages. I bought her a new one recently only to offer her a better screen.
Most users don't need anything else than React with React-Router, a tool like Vite or similar for hot reload in dev and make the build, and a static hosting solution like S3 and CloudFront to host the app for peanuts.
Well, this is not the first level, but this is the level entry weapon.

Plus, left and right arrows rotate the characters since it's keyboard only, but in modern FPS you are used to having them laterally move you and you rotate with the mouse, so your reflexes are off.
Lots of other websites are more appropriate for meme jokes.
- Naval's Almanac

- Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish

I have started reading "Book of Life" by J.KrishnaMurti
I predict people will continue to ignore the search box https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490343
iCloud Passwords is more secure than that. Even a TOTP code and password is not enough to initiate a password sync. You also need to biometrically authenticate a previously synced device
Fascinating and something I hadn't thought of at all.

Basically we're putting a lot of metal up into LEO, and it's shedding particles, and those are metal particles - compared to the atmosphere, which is gas. This stuff is not there normally, and nothing like it before has been known. It's a bit like putting 100k+ small metal asteroids into orbit, and finding out what happens.

LEO megaconstellation are going to profoundly change LEO environment.
Solving Advent of Code 2024 in Under 1ms
I think the article is trying to say more than that the development and ownership of projects is often underestimated. It’s attempting to explain why that is the case. Because the cost of theory building is misunderstood. I don’t think the lede has been buried at all.
Waymo is pretty good (but not perfect) as far as safety, but there's too many ways it can get stuck. Including vandalism from humans like "coning". And if a significant number of them are on the road, it could gum up traffic when that happens.

I still think it'll do well because even if you need to hire 1 person to remotely monitor every 10 cars (I doubt Waymo has anywhere near that many support staff) it's still better than having to pay 10 drivers who may or may not actually be good at driving. But to really take over they'll need to be much more independent.
I would imagine a bloody long time, knowing the human race...
Thanks! I never thought this would reach him!
I feel that the real problem is a lot of people don’t care about collecting requirements.

It’s one of my favorite parts of the process.

People just want to build the app that they want to build. I’ve talked to engineers who just say “I don’t really care until we can start coding.”

I got into engineering because I like building things that are useful.
They had some of the brightest minds in the world, thanks in part to the Nazi's rejection of "Jewish science".
Do they have 15 hour battery life, run cool and silent like my MacBook Air?

The Framework laptop has way too many compromises

https://www.theverge.com/24185827/framework-laptop-16-six-mo...
... well... this is all good except... if you use Windows and want to upgrade to Windows 11... am currently fighting with a Lenovo W530 from 2013 - and nothing is working "well", even the recent 2024 Win 11 IoT Enterprise release build that can make TPM/etc optional via a Rufus-created USB stick.

And then testing newer Linux distros is also not working with the nVidia K2000M discrete graphics system.

Am thinking it may be time to give-up, harvest the RAM, the SSD's and the screen and recycle the rest of this one...
I don’t think that’s a useful way to think about this, especially when theres so little information provided about this. Reviewing is a capricious process.
Have you seen anyone port this to XR (VR/AR/MR) ? These radial menus are a good fit and a lot of designers work with them as a theme. Kando would be great in a library like Three.js or Babylon.js

Here are two people experimenting with radials in XR:
https://x.com/Volorf
https://x.com/dmvrg
Covid was treated with fear because it was massively contagious.
> 1. GET is the retrieve-the-key-of-string-type operation.

That's a tautological argument. The question isn't what the definition of GET is, but whether the design is good.

> 2. Having GET doing something like LRANGE 0 -1 would have many side effects. Getting for error a huge list and returning a huge data set without any reason, creating latency issues.

If this really were the reason, you'd have separate operations for tiny strings and huge strings. After all, by analogy having GET return a huge string "without any reason" would create latency issues.

But that's not how Redis works, right?
It's especially important coming from someone like Terence Tao. If one of the best and brightest mathematicians out there can get a paper declined, then it can happen to literally anyone.
Blarcamesine for the Treatment of Early Alzheimer's Disease
There's one QOL extension that I haven't seen anyone else implement: dimensional analysis. I can declare a column is an integer. Why not an integer that expresses feet? Why shouldn't I be able to write SELECT 1inch + 1cm and get a correctly computed length? Why can't the query parser help me avoid nonsense like SELECT 1kg + 1hr? All this stuff is pretty straightforward to add and would help avoid avoidable mistakes.
To the downvoters: we now know conclusively that Kim Il Sung initiated the war, and did so only with Stalin's (initially reluctant) blessing: https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/cable-nos-4...

And the North's military so easily overwhelmed the South's that within two months, they were driven to brink of defeat, retaining only the Pusan Perimeter on the south-eastern tip of the peninsula.
I've seen no auditing requirements on any bill, and in fact all that I've read make it illegal to retain information used for verification. Audits also aren't done in person; stings are. Why does auditing always come up with this topic?

It seems to me that these bills aren't prescriptive (they say you can use a "commercially reasonable" method). Most states are also moving to adopt the ISO mDL standard[0].

[0] https://www.mdlconnection.com/implementation-tracker-map/
ofc they will.
This leaves yourself too vulnerable for my taste.

I like, no I think it's simply a hard requirement, that I can recover from nothing but the contents of my head. I can wake up naked in a foreign country and regain everything.
I think this is a bug with smooth scrolling of pixel perfect scaled images. I'm not quite sure though.
> On January 1, 2025, we celebrate published works from 1929 and published sound recordings from 1924 entering the public domain!

We live in repressive societies in which the state forbids making copies of things for 100 years.

And it annoys me even more when I remember these restrictions can be traced back to the corrupt protectionist collusion between British Queen Anne and the printers' guild:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne

... but even they did not presume to prohibit copying for more than 14 years. Now it's seven times longer than that.
you assume that people can be retrained instantly or that they can afford to support themselves while they retrain, or even that they even have the capability to learn new trades/skills. in practice in the past I think a lot of people have simply dropped out of the workforce and relied on welfare.
Looks very interesting. Does it produce an OpenAPI file? That'd help immensely in documenting APIs that lack specifications.
I saw explicit pornography before ever kissing a girl. So did everybody I knew well enough to have known whether they had or not.

In the 1970s.

We did not have an Internet. No, the volume wasn't nearly as high, nor was the technical quality.

As for "expectations", non-porn media also have horrible expectations about gender and relationships. In fact, they have more of them and are able to convey them in more detail. And the fact is that today's teenaged boys are a lot more respectful toward their prospective-or-desired partners than my cohort was, porn or no porn.
I was still just a "kid" at the time (early 20s, I'm over 40 now for context) so I was just excited to be working with folks that seemed to know what they were doing (as I clearly didn't.) Every day I was excited to go to work and absorb as much as I could. Richard and the other seniors were never condescending and everyone was able to communicate the inner workings of their systems to a naive kid straight out of college.

The same project (nTAG Interactive LLC) also involved Brian Silverman who famously made a Babbage style mechanical computer capable of playing tick tac toe using only tinker toys for construction while he was still attending university. He also created the original Lego "computing brick" which ran Logo, a lisp-adjacent language, via interpreter/pcode vm he wrote using HC11 ASM (and later he ported to PIC for the "Cricket" robotics controller.) That brick project spun off into what is today Lego Mindstorms. So I've had the privilege of working with some very creative and intelligent folks over the years.

I had only stumbled into the opportunity by way of working as an assistant at my local university's robotics lab (to help pay for undergrad) when my professor thought I would be a good fit for the MIT Media Lab startup opening.

The job was a tremendously fun time and to this day I still think of it as my "favorite" work experience. Sadly, as with most startups, ours didn't make it when funding dried up, so the fun eventually ended. To be honest, I've been involved with a number of other early stage startups (and various larger size orgs) since and none have come close to the experience. There truly isn't anything better than being surrounded by folks who are masters at their craft and are willing to help you learn.
... A and B separately.
Spent like $2000 NZD on a new XPS 13 to replace my old XPS 13 from ~2017 - a device I loved. The new one was a piece of hot garbage. Overheat and throttled playing League of Legends - a game that has ran adequately on every other piece of hardware I've owned since 2011?

I couldn't understand how a 2022 device would run so much worse than 2017 device and assumed it was faulty. Returned, given a replacement, same issue. It is quite literally not built to hand the heat from the Intel chip doing very minimal stuff. I refuse to use a laptop that sounds like a jet engine when Microsoft is doing basic background stuff.

Returned and ended up buying a used 15 inch T-type Thinkpad with an AMD chip recommended by Reddit for $500 NZD. Runs great, cool, and quiet. It's much bigger and bulkier that the Dell but I don't mind.

Note: Not a Thinkpad fanboy, work has given me an X1 Carbon that I dislike for the same reasons I didn't like the new XPS 13 - it's useable, but it's still much hotter and louder than I would like.
Fixed! I grabbed that example from the bug tracker issue where the change was discussed and that wasn’t based on a version where the backtick change had been made.
Probably true for the US. In Europe, it was very country-dependent. Here PS2 sold simply because it was the new PlayStation, to a public that for the vast majority wasn't even aware there was competition.
The housing market is heading into 2025 with a worrying supply trend
Except that if the model genuinely was reasoning about the problem, you could test it with every variation of materials and weights in the world and it would pass. Failing that problem at all in any way under any conditions is a failure of reasoning.
Why? Did a grocery store self checkout ever fail to calculate sales tax? Do I need to run a study on that?

The people selling this could not make a car drive but now its AGI.
It actually seems reasonable for a journal that has limited space and too many submissions. What's the alternative, to accept on or two of the half proofs, and bump one or two other papers in the process?
I was talking about the looks of the version 1. Technical side of things seems quite solid, and things have clearly improved by 2.x.
I always thought that part of the upside of being tenured and extremely recognised as a leader of your field is the freedom to submit to incredibly obscure (non-predatory) journals just for fun.
A Tesla Cybertruck 'blew up' outside Trump's hotel in Las Vegas
Why journals exist at all? Could papers be published on something like arxiv.org (like software is on github.com)?

It could support links/backref, citations(forks), questions(discussions), tags, followers, etc easily.
Hardcover Report for January 2025
Really interesting alternative to Goodreads and Storygraph, this post dives into their shift from NextJS to Rails, their stats, and their API posture for the new year.
With my mechanical keyboard, I have had a tendency to break a few (specific) keys. I got around it by 3D printing a few blank keys.

So long as I know where the N and M keys are, that's all that matters :)
I often hear this and am confused; not only are things like 'object soup'[0] possible and straightforward (putting things in collections and referring to them by indices), I never concretely hear why a graph or doubly-linked list becomes uniquely difficult to implement in Rust (and would genuinely be curious to learn why you feel this way). If you needed such data structures anyway, they're either in the standard library or in the many libraries ('crates' in Rust-lingo) available on Rust's package registry[1]---using dependencies in Rust is very straightforward & easy.

[0]: https://jacko.io/object_soup.html

[1]: https://crates.io/
A bit of a repeat of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490343 (10 days ago, 583 comments).

Still, it's ten days later, and we might have learned some things in those ten days.

Here's two bold ones:

- Trump manages to extend the Abraham Accords in the Middle East, but not bring peace between Ukraine and Russia.

- By the end of the year, the easy gains from LLMs are obviously over. Incremental improvements are still happening, but it is widely recognized that a new approach is needed. (Not admitted by all, but widely recognized.)
Paths Towards Intelligence
"Just a moment, Pooh Bear!" cried Owl. "You can't just rush ahead without IP lawyers and make things that are free of DRM!"

"Oh, bother!" replied Pooh.