skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Per Miller:

> In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a "shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length" at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. Certainly it is *not within judicial notice that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment*, or that its use *could contribute to the common defense*.

If you point to Miller, it becomes clear that military weapons were more acceptable for personal ownership under their interpretation of the 2A than a sawed-off shotgun, which was considered only useful for crimes when the NFA was passed (similar to other "concealable" arms). Consequently, the common refrain that "well-regulated militia" now implies something like the National Guard, would thus also imply that in fact it's more reasonable to privately own a tank or fighter jet than a suppressor.

I don't think that most anti-2A advocates really understand that our current legislative limits on gun ownership are about as restrictive as they can be. Amend the 2A if you like (and it probably should be, even if only for clarity), but don't try to amend history.

There is no textual interpretation of the 2A that would not allow for private firearm ownership. Every state constitution that directly preceded the Federal US constitution had a section that said some variation of:

> "That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; And that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power."

That specific quote came from Pennsylvania's constitution (Article 13), which was a Quaker colony at the time, that was much less friendly to firearms than other states, but even they explicitly spelled out the right to arms for personal defense. Heller (2008) reaffirmed this. That we have the largest standing army on Earth now would be horrifying to the founders, because they knew exactly the kind of Imperialism and Authoritarianism that follows, as opposed to a muster-able militia.

As Huey Newton noted: "Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment."

> So can we safely assume that in 2007 you were steadfastly in support of the constitutionality of regulating weapons that fall outside of reasonable use in a Militia

Yes, absolutely. I don't think that, for instance, anyone should own chemical weapons, or weapons like cluster munitions. Generally, any weapon that you would not deploy defensively in a conflict should not be in the hands of a defensive force (the citizenry/ militia). I don't think anyone should have nukes, period, but that's a different discussion.
Italy's regulator blocks Chinese AI app DeepSeek on data protection
Combination PIT/serial interrupt issue involving microsecond-resolution system programmable interval timer and multi-port serial driver. Would crash every day or so.

Had to create a stress test to reproduce in minutes not days. Then trace code paths through timers and serial events to find problematical path. Turned out to have many - timer interrupt callback could cancel interrupt, reschedule timer, change interval, cancel then reschedule. All in the presence of other channel interrupts occurring and overlapping unpredictably. Timers rescheduled for intervals that had passed already once the callback completed. And on and on.

Took a weekend alone with the code and a set of machines, desk-time getting my head around it all, then coding bullet-proof paths for all calls and callbacks for every related system call.

Once it worked, it worked for days then months under test. Nothing is too hard to resist a methodical approach.
It'd be normal to have night vision to hand for either a training mission or for a secure VIP transport mission.

It's unclear whether they were being used at the time of the crash, but it'd be part of training.

The reporting to hand ATM makes statements such as:

Earlier in the day, Mr. Hegseth said the crew had night vision goggles. However, it was unclear whether the crew was wearing the goggles at the time of the crash, Army officials said.

~ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/politics/army-helicopt...
Quantum spin is an intrinsic angular momentum of a particle. It's angular momentum that is 'just there' as a key component of the particle.

In early days it was hypothesised that particles were spinning about their own axes, but this isn't accurate.

All the interesting stuff of Spin from its quantizable nature, the non-commutatability of spin measurements along orthogonal directions, the very different fundamental behavior of particles with half-integer spin (Fermions, eg Electrons, Protons) vs integer spin (Bosons eg Photons), how Spins interact (eg spins of say two electrons with half-integer spin interacting as a Spin-0 Boson in a Cooper Pair of a superconductor), or spin interacting with orbital angular momentum eg electron spin interacting with it's orbit around proton in an atom.

At the end of the day Spin isn't a terrible name for it.

I believe Spinor vectors are merely named after the eigenvectors used to represent spin itself, not the other way around as you suggested.
What is the rationale for the mile limit (other than protectionism for Dulles, which is what I suspect the answer is)? DCA’s short runways and tight space mean larger aircraft can’t use so that’s already a natural limiter.

My bias is that I think Dulles needs to become a better airport rather than limiting competition with DCA.
I don't know about programmable, but hwInfo used to be pretty popular on Windows for monitoring temps/hd/CPU/etc.

https://www.hwinfo.com
Normally, there are several types of sensors available, but most use 9DOF packages (3-axis gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer)

gyroscope: fast over-sampled low-pass filter, but slowly drifts compounding heading errors

accelerometer: relatively stable, but dead-reckoning errors compound quickly

magnetometer: best stability, but low-sample rate and vulnerable to metal/magnets fooling/blinding the sensors

The fusion algorithms usually weights which data is consistent with the motion path, and attenuates the estimated pose errors.

Notably, not all sensors are equal quality, but there are probably better options now. =3
But I'm not critizing the behavior. I'm critizing the name.

And it's not even a timestamp with a UTC offset! It's just a Unix timestamp.

If you think the current naming is "reasonable," then we are likely living in two different planes of existence. And no amount of back-and-forth over the Internet is going to help. This is a level of dissonance that requires an in-person discussion in the pub to resolve.
I disagree with it as a blanket statement. It’s related to the problem of hallucinations in LLMs; sometimes they come up with plausible, misleading bullshit. The user quickly relies on the automatic labeling as a crutch, while exhausting mental effort trying to distinguish the bullshit from the accurate labels. The cryptic symbols do not convey meaning but consequently can’t mislead you.

I don’t reject the whole concept and am bullish on AI-assisted decompilation. But the UX needs to help the user have confidence in the results, just like source code-level static analyzers generate proofs.
I just want to say I'm rooting for you, and hope you enjoy the book and learn a lot from it.

I had a bad experience with complex analysis as a teen (took a grad class that was a bit over my head). Many years later, I got Tristan Needham's "Visual Complex Analysis" and the whole thing clicked for me - I'm a visual person and do a lot of geometry. I hope your experience is similar.
Even better; get a printer that doesn't do it, but manually add the id dots from the printer of someone you don't like.
>Isn’t it a little like Ted Bundy pointing out he hasn’t murdered the vast majority of Americans, though?

You expect there to be no murders.

I expect murders to be low, and for murderers to be punished.

I also expect the number of murderers in the police force to be only slightly better than that of the rest of society. There are background checks, but there are also other factors that may increase the rate, regardless: I expect from them what I expect from everyone.

So-- 7,000 murders per year.

For Iceland that's high. I think they had 3 last year.

For the United States, that's fucking fantastic! I wish we had 7,000 murders per year! If we had 3 that would be awesome but I'm not delusional.

It's all about the wider context.

Especially in this case, 6,800 of the misuses were from the LA sheriff's department doing background checks for gun permits so that's almost certainly a policy and procedure problem that has been fixed.

So that leaves around 200 cases.

Is that good? No.

But how bad is it? 200 misuses out of ten quadrillion accesses is pretty not bad, if you ask me. edit: and that's a sign that things are going well because I am not dumb enough to expect 0 misuses of anything by any group of individuals. I expect misuses to be low and for misuse to be punished.
I've used Stats for years and loved it -- for CPU, GPU, memory, and network upload/download speeds.

It's fantastic for catching when a bunch of processes haven't been killed and are stuck at 100%. For figuring out if my code is actually running on the GPU or not. For seeing what my network transfer rates are, when a download or transfer gets stuck, and which process is suddenly downloading hundreds of megabytes without telling me?

It gives me the security I have a top-level overview of what my computer's up to. Can't imagine my menubar without it.
for real give this person tens of millions of dollars ASAP
So, they've learned nothing about the risks of tying their identity to a platform controlled by a third party.
> Is my view of the world too simplistic?

It's not. There are no artifacts of cache incoherence visible on modern devices that are treated as part of the C language undefined behavior rules. The language runtime can assume memory is just memory.

Obviously there are visible artifacts, but all that code lies outside the realm of standard C, even though you write it in C and build it with a C compiler. This is one of the reasons I find arguments that start from the UB rules as postulates unpersuasive. At the end of the day we have to write code for real hardware.

The tl;dr version is that Rust as currently understood is just never going to be able to express stuff like incoherent DMA spaces. As witnessed here it still struggles with representing read() in a way that doesn't require zero-filling the buffer.
California has been a shall-issue state since 2022, when Bruen made may-issue unconstitutional.
Tiny algae shaped the evolution of giant clams
Well, this administration has a definite penchant for rewriting history and using force to push into other branches.

Hopefully they won't try doing it with git repositories too.
Ahh, I thought it meant the slang "86 it". As in it'll throw out your old workflow for a whole new paradigm.
Ah yes, removing such awful wokeness as “making forms easy to complete, even in times of stress” and “waiting for a clear directive to collect personal data”.
Exactly. That's why I asked for a rebuttal. I wanted to see what an AI's counter arguments might be.
US Probing Whether DeepSeek Got Nvidia Chips Through Singapore
I respectfully have to disagree. As Fedora packager for OCaml packages, dune's configuration is yet another one-off, with a weird Lisp syntax, hard to understand, difficult to patch. I'd far rather people stuck to using more familiar Linux build systems. As an upstream OCaml developer, the whole thing falls down the minute you need to integrate other programming languages into your build (or OCaml code into a code base written in another language).

(This rant more or less equally applies to other language-specific build systems.)
Let’s not turn this site into reddit.

It’s obvious to anyone who has watched the video with an iota of common sense that Musk didn’t deliberately make a Nazi salute.

Even the hypersensitive ADL can recognise that.
Prevent a Mac laptop from turning on when opening its lid or connecting to power
Cargo ship captures CO2 from its own exhausts and stores it on-deck
I would need to see the APIs and examples to be able to evaluate it honestly.

(FWIW, I'm the author of a datetime library in Rust called Jiff.)
For me, the distributed lock manager, queues (SYS$ENC / SYS$DEQ), IPC via message passing (mailboxes), SYS$QIO to literally queue IO requests, event flags (SYS$SETEF / SYS$WAITFR)? Amazing clustering, - UNIX just seemed so backwards after learning VMS first! (Apologies though if I got any of those system call names wrong, its been a long time!)
Alcohol in cocktails is like MSG in cooking. Sometimes you just have to sneak some in there to tie everything together.
I loath autotools with a passion, and it's awkward to set it all up, but it handles OCaml code just fine. We use it for multi-language projects (including OCaml) like nbdkit & libguestfs.
Related Italy's privacy regulator goes after DeepSeek (40 points, 1 day ago, 92 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42865445
The article is interesting, but I didn't come away with it feeling like I have any idea how to replicate the flavor of alcohol in a non-alcoholic drink.

>If you've been following along, you may have concluded that you should be brewing up a batch of bitter, spicy, slightly sweet tea the next time you serve as designated driver. Gross.

>But, there's no need to do that.

Ok, so what do I actually do lol?

I think this advice is useful for mixed drinks which already have a lot of flavorful non-alcoholic ingredients like a bloody mary, but I doubt anybody is going to come up with a good substitute for a dry martini any time soon.
I wonder if anyone has used Jane Street's open source OCaml libraries and tools for somewhat serious projects.

I took a brief look at these things, and my impression is that their stuff isn't "ready" for anyone outside Jane Street, even though they put a lot of effort in building the ecosystem and open source their code.
There's a couple reasons that I know of, plus I suspect it may be cheaper for the manufacturer. One is that the media type selection in the printer driver (especially glossy vs. matte) changes the ink composition used for black, and you wouldn't have the ability to adjust that if it was premixed. Another is that "automatic" use of color inks for black is an RGB thing; when printing CMYK the same thing is done but it's actually part of the original data. That is, a "deep" black in a CMYK image will have non-zero CMY. Another way to put this is that the whole "we have to use color ink to produce black" is basically an artifact of a mapping problem between how RGB additive-color and CMYK subtractive-color look for black. If you prepare a CMYK graphic you can put down a sample of "100% black" or CMYK 0,0,0,100 and whatever your editing tool considers "black," like CMYK 60,40,40,100, and you'll find that they look quite different printed. But people working in the CMYK space expect to be able to control that to their preferences; people printing documents get it done automatically as a convenience.

Photo-quality inkjet printers sometimes use two different black cartridges, I'm not sure what exactly goes into the composition of the two. Art reproduction inkjet printers (giclee) can use 10, 11, even 12 different pigments to get optimum reproduction across the whole gamut. It gets very technical.
To me, alcohol burns a lot at first, in a similar way to wasabi, then it settles down to something more akin to capsaicin/ginger burn in the throat
The only thing worse than a complex codebase is a complex build system. I think CMake is an abomination. “Hey go learn this new language to compile this other language!”
And somehow politicizing the federal government is cutting spending? When 95% of that spending is the military and two social insurance programs, and most of the debt is caused by a tax cut for the super wealthy? That's just a failure to understand math.
That was a very interesting bit of phraseology there my friend!
Our AI goes much further than Zapier/Make in terms of how far it can get you towards a complete, ready-to-run workflow.

Make's copilot is pretty limited to generating an outline of the flow by selecting the right nodes but does not actually configure them. You still need to manually click into each one and set it up.

Zapier goes a bit further than Make, but it still leaves the workflow with a lot of configuration work that needs to be picked up by the user.

In both Make and Zapier, you really need to prompt the AI copilot in a very specific way to get good results. In our case, the AI is designed to use its business analyst/consultant mode to extract information so it can work from very general, unclear and ambiguous instructions to a clearly defined workflow/process to build.

The ability for our AI to edit the workflow at any time (including on top of your own manual changes) also means you can have a continuous iterative dialog/interaction with our AI copilot vs a once off interaction at the start. Both Make and Zapier's AI Copilots lack this or are very weak in being able to edit existing workflows reliably.
Even gold isn’t completely immune. Yet, I would use my money on gold instead. Bold claims.
I'd be lucky if my new job even requires me to code anything. Moved from Application Architecture to Enterprise Architecture, so most likely powerpoint from here on out :)

And that suits me just fine, gives me more time to code stuff that interests me in my spare time.
Granting it's been 30 years since I've considered myself Catholic, so speaking entirely from the perspective of a non-believer at this point, but to me, the central dilemma is say I buy that we and our universe have a thinking, feeling creator that watches events, possibly intervenes, and actually cares how we behave in a way we can translate into human language and moral directives, given all the thousands upon thousands of conflicting historical text claiming to be that, why should I accept what one specific council of European priests 600 years ago or whatever decided is to be considered holy canon?

Other commenters trying to compare to science seem to misunderstand the analogy. You don't have to accept the conclusions of Francis Bacon himself because he sort of formalized the scientific method as we know it today. Nor do we read the texts of Newton and consider that eternal canon. Science involves empirical investigation and all claims can be corroborated or contradicted by further investigation. They're probabilistic claims based on statistical analysis of the currently available known evidence and always subject to change.

If you don't think this works, then explain how AI is able to exist in the first place, because adjusting probability estimates based on statistical modeling of incoming evidence conditioned on past evidence is exactly what machine learning does.

I love Catholicism for all the reasons given elsewhere. It has produced a grand tradition of clear writers and erudite thinkers. The basic morality and orientation of man's purpose with respect to other men rings "true" to me even if it lies outside of empiricism. But the core dogma of "believe specific claims of fact because they were written down in one text and not another" is bad epistemology no matter how you cut it. If God himself ever spoke to me directly, I'd have no choice but to consider that (but would also have to consider that I might be insane). No priest and no prophet, however, is ever going to convince me that they speak with the mandate of God just because they believe it very strongly themselves.
let's hope so.
It looks like even though VMS Software Inc have taken over development of OpenVMS, HP still hosts the v8.4 documentation set, for instance here's the system services reference manual:

http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/doc/84final/4527/4527pro.html#fir...
That's 100% accurate.
No, that's just because the function of inkjet printers is to transfer as much money as possible from you to the printer manufacturer.

Uh, I mean, because it's because colour ink makes your blacks blacker. Yeah, that's it.
> HM-typed functional programming

Mercury also uses Haskell for their backend
https://mercury.com/
this looks dope!
>Regulated like pressure regulator

I've read every single word that Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin ever wrote that survived to be collected into the various volumes of their collected writings.

Regulated has always meant "controlled".

The pressure regulator schtick sounds like some BS the NRA came up with after snorting some coke through the pile of rubles Putin gave them to poison the minds of Americans.

Here's the full text of the Federalist Papers: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1404/1404-h/1404-h.htm

"regulated" appears 26 times, often in a military context, and it always means what everyone thinks it means and is never used the way you propose.

>Elections in Ireland, till of late, were regulated entirely by the discretion of the crown, and were seldom repeated, except on the accession of a new prince, or some other contingent event.

Do you have any historical examples that support your usage of the word?
I tried to use their magic-trace tool but I get at least 4 differents crash when using it on trivial dotnet programs.
"Who are you gonna believe? Me or your lyin' eyes?"
Anything inside the case will have more noise from other components than something sitting outside the case. Instead of a sound "card", you're going to want a USB DAC. It doesn't even have to be that expensive - those $10 Apple USB-C dongles were highly rated.
Tesla sales only dropping 17% after BYD launched here is surprising.

BYD’s launch was aggressive with several new models and significantly cheaper pricing.
And for the longest time, nobody even considered javascript to be a serious tool; It was rare for anyone to write more than a hundred lines of javascript.

I remember when google introduced gmail in 2004. Suddenly google had done full single-page application in javascript, proving that not only was it possible, but that the resulting user-experience was awesome.

At the time, there were no javascript frameworks. Jquery (if you can even call it a framework) wasn't created until 2006. I don't think there were even helper libraries.

I mostly remember javascript from dynamicdrive.com, where you would go to find quick snippets of "Dynamic HTML" to copy/paste into your html. Sometimes there were useful things like roll-over menus, but I remember many of them being silly toys, like sparkles that would follow your mouse around the screen, or snow which would slowly cover the page.
I think the main difference is the degree of anthropomorphizing that happens with new chatbots. I mean, most kids in the 2000's didn't believe that they were literally asking Jeeves a question, but a lot of users today actually think of AI as an anthropomorphic being.
Computer vision. C++ and Python.
Whatever he says, it is working: it keeps people with your mindset angered/frustrated, not really able to think clearly.
> I suppose this doesn't account for files which no longer exist or that have been completely re-written.

But... that's the point of this? Finding the initial commit is not nearly as fun as looking at the oldest code that is still running.
dear god i wish we could just end dst already
What was the extent of your web apps? Were they just simple todo type apps or were they decently complex? Did you modify the code yourself or was it just copy and paste mainly?