skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying you actually generate a positive income stream by showing large fire art at events? I'm impressed. :) When I've been involved in big art, it was a giant money pit, even before accounting for the thousands of hours of unpaid labor we put into it. We weren't aiming to make money with it, but still, it seems pretty hard to make the financials work.
They simulate slow wireless data, which I suspect is the cause of the gap. It's certainly the case that a big % of the world's population has bad mobile data even if they do have a relatively fast smartphone.
> Why do these pills even exist?

Short answer: Fentanyl is easier to smuggle because more doses can be packed into a smaller space. The black market has no regulations.

Long answer: Because recreational opiates are illegal and unregulated. This creates a market incentive for people willing to take the legal risk to cater to the market that wants recreational opiates. Fentanyl is essentially a cost-cutting and risk management technique within the supply chain, because more doses can be smuggled in the same shipment.

I suspect that, before the pills were pressed, the fentanyl just wasn't mixed in well enough. These kinds of mistakes are very rare in a legal and regulated market.

Want to fix the problem? Support drug reform.
I don’t think this is much of a concern here. Poetry is still not super compatible with a bunch of tooling, but that only matters when consuming Poetry projects. When you just install a dependency into a poetry project, it gets installed into a venv - nothing particularly exotic about it.
Check out Snowcrash! I liked Snowcrash but thought Cryptonomicon was incredibly boring as well.
Yep, I haven’t exceeded the reporting amount yet. Hopefully my tax situation doesn’t get overly complicated. If it does, I may need a new side project.
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe. Extremely well written history of Sackler family detailing their involvement in the opioid epidemic and inner workings of FDA.

Bad blood by John Carreyrou.
I'm watching almost anything between 1.21 and 1.77 (these are the default speed-up steps in mpv - 1.1^x), depending on speaker. I just cannot keep attention to most things when played at 1x. When I miss something, I seek back a few seconds (mpv seeking is not limited to keyframes) and maybe slow down. If it's an important lecture, I watch the most critical parts later once more (maybe a week or a month later). This works better for me than watching at the original speed once. As a bonus, you get video that does not tear your eyes, as most things are still produced at only 25 or 30 FPS nowadays.

I cannot keep at 2x with almost any speakers though, neither in English nor in my native language.

What really matters is the audio resampling algorithm. I consider the default in browsers and YouTube really bad (apart from that, YT offers only 1.5 and 2x, which is too coarse). I actually prefer no "smart" resampling - just play the samples faster (and I guess low-pass them to avoid aliasing?) -- audio-pitch-correction=no in mpv is what I use. I think some adaptive algorithm that compresses spaces between syllables more than the "payload" might be great, but I have not seen any yet (suggestions?). I also have a tiny bit of hearing problems, and maybe this shifts the frequencies to a region where my "brain receiver" works better?

I also downmix all audio to mono (af=lavfi=[pan=1c|c0=0.5c0+0.5c1]), as I have problems (kind of nausea, or trying to follow the sound with my head) when listening to stereo with headphones. (I have tried to use remap-sink PulseAudio module, but it added terrible latency)

Because of this, watching anything in the browser is a terrible pain. I really wish browsers allowed you to specify an external player and pipe the stream to it. (I use youtube-dl, but of course it does not work for everything)
The difference is that after a week of serious Photoshop training you will have at your fingertips a world class, incredibly powerful piece of software with modern ML tools for smart image manipulation, collaborative tools and cloud infrastructure for syncing documents, plus a massive ecosystem of plugins and assets available to purchase.

I say this as someone who strongly dislikes Photoshop. I wish I had a viable alternative.
My 2002 Focus had side impact airbags so they were around then, just not in every car yet.
I've found it handy, it not critical.

Cell phone based remote starts handy. I can start the car while out of fob range.

I really only use the cell unlock when I forget to grab the key to get something out of the car. I could walk back inside to get the key, but it ain't worth it.
The only thing lifting will make you do is enjoy your life more. This may apply downward pressure on burnout, which will make you code longer. It probably will not help you code faster.
> Criticizing QOI for not being able to be well parallelized inside the decode function, that seems more like a demand for a premature optimization to me

What? Faster encoding and decoding is one of the primary reasons for the format. Yet, QOI decoders are currently an order of magnitude slower than SSDs available today and even worse compared to DRAM! Now seems like the perfect time to look at possible optimizations to close that gap.
This story of "profitable lines" has hung around forever. Every retail business has profitable lines and loss leaders. Many non retail business have them too.

The problem with this line of reasoning is it assumes you can cut off the loss leaders and just run the profitable lines. Generally speaking, you can't. The customers come to Amazon because everything is there. The second they think everything isn't there, they come less frequently, and those "amazingly profitable" categories become not so amazing or profitable. Rotisserie chicken is a loss leader for many supermarkets, and the supermarket makes a lot of money on those snacks near the register. They can't decide to be in the snacks only business tomorrow. Neither can Amazon.

The story about the ambition and the growth and all that is nice - that story is true for Facebook, Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and so on. They all got profitable within a decade and continued with high growth, high profitability operations.
So is ancestry. All Phylogenetic histories with any form of categorization is by definition a social construct. Social constructs, however, are not useless.
Is it worth the effort? I've picked up snow crash a few times in the past 20 years and found it a hard read. I really want to enjoy it but I find it hard to swallow. I suppose it has been hard because it doesn't take itself seriously. My sci-fi reading history has been:

- several William Gibson novels between 1995-2008
- Most of the ender's game series and home coming from 80's to 2008.
- Between 2008 and 2018 I read only 1 novel, which was Ready Player One.
- From 2019 to today I've ready 40+ novels: The Expanse, Red Rising, Bobiverse, Planetside, Magic 2.0, Singularity Trap, Vicarious, NPC, Childeren of Time, Project Hail Mary, Fuzzy Nation, Space Between Worlds, The Salvage Crew.

I feel like I've exhausted sci-fi and have been checking out fantasy novels like Riyria. I've been having a hard time finding something new to sink my teeth into. Piranesi was weird but good.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. I spent a lot of the year in isolation, only seeing a few people and this book felt like an appropriate analogy. It was also very heartwarming when I really needed something to lift me up.
Yeah, I'm with you. I just feel like a lot of my "research" so far – crypto-wise – has mostly just been people talking about it, instead of me making an actual effort to understand any of it myself. So now I gotta go do that.
I don't care what people do in the privacy of their home. All of that is out the door when you step foot in a vehicle and put others at risk while driving intoxicated.

You can get upset that we don't have the tools to measure other substances but as soon as we do I can guaranteed they'll be deployed and I won't mind a bit. Don't drive intoxicated, it's simple, I do it all the time. If I drink or smoke, I uber to and/or from. It's not a hard concept to abide by.

Who said anything about penalizing any one substance? Alcohol abuse is just the most rampant and its effects tend to be the strongest when compared to other illicit substances. I think people that are selfish and ignorant enough to drive intoxicated deserve harsh penalties. Sorry not sorry.
Not sure why you're getting down voted. People here complain that a website/app doesn't load quickly even if it's a few seconds regardless of the complexity. I'm not going to use the service if it has problems. I don't care about the "engineering challenges" unless it's moving needle dramatically.
From your link:

> However, a large genome-wide association study has failed to find any large or statistically significant effects of the MAOA gene on aggression.[47] A separate GWAS on antisocial personality disorder likewise did not report a significant effect of MAOA.[48] Another study, while finding effects from a candidate gene search, failed to find any evidence in a large GWAS.[46] A separate analysis of human and rat genome wide association studies, Mandelian randomization studies, and causal pathway analyses likewise failed to reveal robust evidence of MAOA in aggression.[49] This lack of replication is predicted from the known issues of candidate gene research, which can produce many substantial false positives.[50]
Why did you buy two broken cars?
Are you seriously under the impression most of the computers in a modern car have anything to do with safety?

My car has a full blown ECU for my seat memory. And a second one for the passenger seat memory. Another one for my soft close trunk. One for my HUD. One for my gauge cluster. One that exists entire for... playing fake engine sounds. One for the head unit, which is a separate ECU from the one for the amplifier, which is in turn separate from the DVD changer ECU. One climate control... but only in the rear! Front gets a separate ECU for AC. One for interior accent lighting (not lighting your dashboard, I mean dim lights around your door handle).

And if you think ECU is a stretch here, these are individually versioned ECUs all residing on a shared bus. If my amplifier ECU dies, the optical fiber ring it's connected to might go down. Things connected to that bus include 911 emergency dialing the headunit's RTC...
The number of people that I read/told me they read this book and go on to shaman trips and source material is staggering.

I never really knew it was that hard to find/source said items. They aren't marketed publicly, but if you're in the right community they're available, usually for free.

Psychedelics have a powerful community online from numerous forums, to websites such as Erowid and Psychonauts, which have their own discords. You can also find like minded people on meetup, or facebook groups.

Or, what all the cool kids do - music festivals and camping.

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Is the shaman really that necessary? AS for doing it again, more and more psychdelics and chemicals with neuro effects are being legalized such as Ketamine IV treatment.

There's also a whole semi famous association with it, MAPS.org, which has been increasing in membership, and governance creation and paid studies that show that psychedelics time and time again have a positive role in society.

Then again, maybe Shaman isn't so different from a Doctor or N.P.

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Just curious information, ever since Barnes & Noble highlisted this book when published, it really took off and this small world now seems to be mainstream.
Shifty – The fastest JavaScript animation engine on the web
This is not helpful. I asked the OP to back up his drive-by claims. I wasn’t asking for more of them.
Alas it wouldn’t in the case that it doesn’t get press.

Because the person who made the original claim has like two weeks to respond and the content can’t be returned until they respond or two weeks is up
Lol I know right?!
The GP’s comment is for macOS and iOS.

On iOS, Firefox Focus (a single tab browser) comes with a content blocker. Hush is another good content blocker. Of course, Magic Lasso (free or paid).
"Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar" by Simon Sebag Montefiore. It's honestly hard to tell if the narratives outlined in the book are real; it reads like fiction or a novel. It's backed by a mountain of sources, but I suppose that feeling of doubt is fitting for a subject like Stalin.
Nice. Great book.
Or, you can buy your TV with Special Offers, so it listens to your conversations via a mic built into the remote and sends you better targeted ads.
> Race being a social construct is an idea of social justice ideology, not of science.

Source?
Don’t you think they have run tests that trade off search speed for additional features and determined the features increase engagement / revenue?

There is a lot more going on than 10 blue links these days, including continual scroll on mobile. Perf versus features is always a matter of trade offs.
Triple vaccinated, got probable Omicron recently.

Asymptomatic. Not truly - in hindsight I had a bit of a cough and felt slightly off for a day or two - but nothing above baseline (I get coughs every couple of weeks)

Could have been a secondary or tertiary exposure though, I don't usually bother testing.
I’d want templating if I’m going to make more than two pages on a site.
Unsong by Scott Alexander

A delightful, completed serial that tells an alternate story of the world since 1968, when Apollo 8 crashed into the crystal fabric of the sky and fundamentally broke the machinery of the universe. Now science no longer works, the old ways have power and sometimes people go to bed on Monday to wake up on Wednesday.

I loved the way the fiction intertwined with reality.
More of what makes the first one good. Def read if you liked the first. Not as good in terms of how attached you get to the characters. The ending of the first was brilliant IMO, and the ending of the second was a bit of a let down. I think it almost would have been better if he left the Chekhov's gun introduced towards the end up to the reader's imagination, instead of going into it explicitly.
This has been my stance for a few years.

"Okay, we trust 90%+ of all transactions. Is there a way we can allocate $1T dollars to get that up to 99% without consuming more electricity than many countries?"

It costs civilization 1/3 (current crypto marketcap ~$3T) and delays an environmental apocalypse
On top of that, they keep wanting people to finance cars longer and longer to cover the ever increasing costs while keeping monthly payments the same.

We are upto some finance offering 84 mo;s now for a new car purchase, 7 years

Image buying a car today, still making payments on it 5 years from now, and many of the core features stop working because cell network drops support
It didn't get added unintentionally, it was left enabled unintentionally.

Obviously remote start can't be unintentional, but this is the kind of thing that's usually a simple config change away from working. Likely 3rd parties would have RE'd how to enable it in the aftermarket like they have for other cars too.
> any random person on the internet could legitimately send

Any random person on the internet could harmlessly send a more gently worded email and then only escalate to legalese if they get an unsatisfactory response.
Do you have any citations for your claim that most people want KYC? All the data I've seen indicates it's a government initiative and not debated or discussed with the general public. In fact the polls we do have show an overwhelming support for cash which is private and peer to peer.
I suppose you are right. I can only guess that RPU is the primary KPI and somehow more scripts allow for more revenue extraction even if the performance is lower.
You're misunderstanding me again. I do the job of an employee. I simply have never had any expectation of "40 hours," or any other fixed amount of hours placed upon me as a salaried tech employee.
I do not really know exactly how to cite US code correctly, so I will just get you close enough to do a text search:

Go here:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1681c

Search on that page for "Exempted Cases"

All of the language about how long negative information can be shown on a credit report is exempted when the loan principle is $150K or greater.
Unless you park uphill/downhill, and leave it in first as an added safety measure with the parking brake...
It makes sense from a DRM standpoint - PDFs and ePub are easy to crack if you offer it at all, so the only way to fix this is to go web-only and assume nobody will want to dig into turning that into a sharable PDF. Bonus points if you make it a SaaS test platform and get universities to buy into it, forcing every student to purchase the 'book' to receive grades.
Dealership makes money selling you parts via their mechanic services, not selling you parts to DIY your repairs.

The parts dept does not want to sell to you directly, like autozone, they want to sell to you via your "service advisor" when you bring your car in for them to change your fluids for you
No it can't. The encoder doesn't insert any "cut-off points". In fact, nearly every chunk encodes the current pixel value in terms of one of the previous pixel values, so without knowing those it is impossible for a second core to start up and initialize its decoder state enough to produce correct output.
Not just possible.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8430483/

"...it also proposes the individual association for each of the HCoVs, pointing to the previous infection by HCoV-229E as a possible protective effect against severe clinical manifestations of COVID-19. This protective effect could be higher if the person is a female."
> Considering how badly their ads have traditionally performed

I pay for Twitter Blue and I still get ads :)

Speaking for myself, but the majority of ads I see on Twitter are for the generic big-brands (Kraft, P&G, Mars, Ford, etc): stuff that I instantly mentally filter-out. I don't understand why mainstream American TV and web advertising is just so... simultaneously try-hard (with clearly massive production budgets) but also so awful, insipid messaging that insults the intelligence of those watching/reading. I'll admit I used to watch the Superbowl for the ads, but even those are now mostly unwatchable.

...or am I just getting older?

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...but every so-often, Twitter will show me an uncannily perfect ad that's matched right-up with my interests and beneficial for everyone (I get to learn about a commercial product or service that I can genuinely benefit from, and the advertiser has my attention): but it's never for anything from a mainstream advertiser, it's usually something very niche (like specialty tooling, non-AWS PaaS services, etc). I actually want to see more of these kinds of ads (well, I'd still rather have zero ads considering I also pay for Twitter Blue), but Twitter just won't.
Try increasing your salt intake. You can test this with water + salting to taste. If you have positive results invest in salt tablets to pick up on other micronutrients you’re also missing.
What's the benefit? If most new car buyers lease (a good decision if you want a perpetually new car) then who cares about resale value? I suppose it makes a difference on the residual but Chrysler is still in business so it can't be that important.
I am sure that is the case, but I am not sure it is good for the user: Google ads a lot of ads and behavior tracking that probably is for their benefit, not yours.
Started 7 years ago, delivered nothing? I don't think they gonna make it.
> On (1), all objects in Java are references, being a pointer to a pointer effectively. This indirection has a cost but has been incredibly useful historically because it enables moving allocation around the address space because none of the references change. They're effectively just pointers to a lookup table and it's the lookup table that changes.

There's only one level of indirection. References are simply pointers. You can't see the raw bits of the pointer without Unsafe, but that's how the Sun JVM implements references. (The implementation calls them "ordinary object pointers".) GC rewrites these pointers when it moves objects; there is no separate lookup table of all objects.

You might have been mislead by the existence of Object.identityHashCode(). The identity hash code is not a memory address and not guaranteed unique. It's an arbitrary value stored in some bits of the object's mark word and copied around when the object moves. That's how it remains stable across GCs.

Or you might be thinking of "compressed oops". Those are still pointers, but encoded as (object_address - start_of_heap) >> 3 to save space.

I think there is a global lookup table for interned strings and symbols loaded from class files, but slots in that table are not themselves pointed to by references.
Back in 2016, Taiwan rolled out a system like this but also include warnings on mudslide, emergency road closure, thunderstorm, air raid drill, nuclear disaster, dam release.

Since then, however, I have only received alerts on earthquakes and air raid drills.
I am not sure why people keep repeating this. As long as you are not using company's property or time, what you do in your personal time is your business, not your employer's.

IANAL, but I believe in some states it is completely illegal for employers to add such clauses in employment contracts. Even if that clause exist, it is highly unlikely to be enforced in courts. We need to stop taking this abuse or living in fear of our employers.

Again standard disclosure, talk to a lawyer.
Weirdly where I honed my CSS skills was as a Reddit moderator. You had no control over content, but could style anything and everything, and a lot of subreddits had very custom styles. I’ve never done so many :after and !important hacks in my life.
Tables are special. The width of a cell is determined by the widest cell in the column. The height of a cell is determined by the tallest cell in the row. I have yet to see a convincing replication of the simplicity of the native <table> element with a flex layout. Consider the colspan and rowspan attributes for additional complexity.

You are right that flex offers much more... flexibility. But tables adhere to a certain set of rules that I don't think is easily implemented with flexbox.
Or maybe just give it away to ppl and see if they like using it to find stuff?

Where did the love go....
I have two!

An app for making wedding place cards that does about $1000/mo https://www.placecard.me/

A boilerplate for making SaaS apps with Python/Django that does $5k/month (highly variable) https://www.saaspegasus.com/

I also have a third that does around $150/mo. It's an app that adds analytics to GroupMe which is a WhatsApp alternative. https://chatstats.co/

I keep complete revenue and effort data here if you're curious: https://www.coryzue.com/open/
Was going for visual resemblance, but certainly!
Early Plausible customer here — Happy so far; most importantly is the necessary feature to proxy myhost.com/randomstats.js to their server to circumvent blocking.

Eventually these new-gen solutions all look and work the same now so it's mostly about the UI you prefer. Can't do magic without cookies and stuff.
That's awesome! :) That sounds like an amazing experience. I bet you learned a lot! And 3k is enough to make it memorable but not enough to go into massive debt or anything like that. And sure it's a loss but nobody goes into this trying to lose money. (AFAIK)
I think Walter was too busy creating the D programming language to attend law school! :P
To clarify, I meant that as a figure of speech. As in, there's different contexts of reality that individuals can look to, for example family, work, etc. On my personal view of the context of authority figures, it seems to be more and more vacant as time goes on. I did not mean I'm physically in an airplane. Sorry for the mix up.