skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stopped drinking around 6 weeks ago. Due to my indolent WFH lifestyle and drinking heavily after work to "relax", I gradually developed back pain which eventually made it impossible to get to sleep.

Drinking myself into a stupor made it all to easy to sit, for hours on end, in front of a tv or computer, endlessly consuming while shirking my responsibilities to myself, not least of all exercise. I always knew that it was leading to a bad place, but it got to the point where I could not physically continue. That, and reducing inflammation were my primary motivators.

Being continuously sober for an extended period of time has revealed to me that there are likely other reasons for my misuse of alcohol, I think I've been dealing with low-level anxiety and procrastination, making it difficult to quiet my mind, go to bed on time, etc. Part of this is probably due to the effects of abruptly quitting a crutch I've leaned on for a long time, but my conscience is telling me that there's more beneath the surface which needs to be addressed.

I would say that the single biggest factor in keeping my roll going is this: I have admitted to myself that I do have a problem with alcohol, and that some people are just not capable of enjoying alcohol responsibly, and I am probably one of them.

The inner voice telling me "go on, it's normal to have one or two at the weekend, everyone does it" has been quieted, because I know that I am not one of those people who stop at one or two. And that is fine by me.
> MacOS has Carbon and Cocoa (and WebKit). QuartzCore lets you make windows, but doesn't give you decorations. Pretty similar to libwayland.

Carbon was deprecated well over a decade ago, and has not been available for several iterations of macOS.

> The real difference is that there's a single entity with the will to go through each and every UI toolkit

No, the real difference is that it is absolutely clear on macOS and Windows what the obvious/preferred/blessed UI toolkit is, and anyone who chooses to use something else is extremely aware of the consequences of that (and if they weren't before making that choice, they will be very soon afterwards).

On Linux, the situation is more or less the opposite. Not only do you have the choice of actual UI toolkit libraries, with none being more or less "blessed" than any other, but with Wayland's adoption, the fundamental windowing technology that sits on top of the video drivers is also not a single thing either.
Journalists have protections under international laws.
BeFS was the last real one i'm aware of at the complexity you are talking about (plenty of FSen have some very basic indexed support for say file sizes , but not the kind of generic tagging you are talking about)

At this point, the view seems to be "attributes happen in the file system, indexing happens in user space".

Especially on linux.

Part of the reason is, as i understand it, the surface/complexity of including query languages in the kernel, which is not horribly unreasonable

So all the common FSen have reasonable xattr support, and inotify/etc that support notification of attribute changes.

The expectation seems to be that the fact that inotify might drop events now and then is not a dealbreaker.
The modern queue length is usually 16384 anyway.

I'm not saying there aren't tradeoffs here, but this seems to be the direction taken overall.

I actually would love to have an FS with native indexed xattr and a way to get at them.

I just don't think we'll get back there again anytime soon.
It is now being reported he talked to Putin before acting as an ambassador of peace on Twitter.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake44z/elon-musk-vladimir-pu...
I remember when we had the huge wildfires in the Santa Cruz mountains in the 80s, and they said if they did the same practices afterwards as they had prior, there would be similar fires in 40 years. I don't live there anymore, but what are the fire prospects in the Santa Cruz mountains? It's about exactly the time those forestry guys said fires would become a thing again as I am pretty sure nothing was changed, and that even worse more risky housing was added.
Individual Discord communities are, and always have been, called "servers", despite the fact that they are entirely logical/digital entities and have no particular correspondence with actual physical servers (the way IRC servers do).
Theres a rate of fasting thats harmful though. On the TV show Alone, people are out in the woods for a few weeks to months and they end up just sloughing off weight. One contestant lost 86 pounds in 67 days, you'd practically see it fall off you each day. They do have to get medical checkups because losing all this weight too fast can put a lot of strain on your organs. A few people have been forced to leave the show because of starvation.
Covid-19:Antiviral purchased by UK gov does not lower risk of hospital admission
And that's always the rub, isn't it? It's next to impossible to prove that most of the people in key decision making positions work for Redhat or are Redhat alumni.
can confirm. 4chan was full of the stuff way before it became remotely politicized.
There is always a question of format-strings (or format-string like) and native syntax with the manipulation of parameters to be printed in native code. This is the same as C++ iostream vs printf.
Curious to see how Figma turns out after Adobe runs it.
Many many compilers have multiple IRs. It’s very normal. rustc has three already, last time I checked, and that’s not counting llvm-IR. Non-lexical lifetimes was gated on adding an additional IR to rustc, even.
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> Apart from one kernel regression bug related to NILFS2 it’s worked flawlessly

Maybe on x86? I’ve tried repeatedly to use it on ARM for RaspberryPi where it would have been perfect, but always ran into various kernel panics as soon as the file system is mounted or accessed.
Debian continues to package GTK 2.0 which is ABI compatible with GTK 2.0 ... from 20 years ago.
Legal state level, illegal federal and global means that there is a high incentive for diversion to both other states and other countries. There's a difference between going to a medical facility every day to get a 1-3 day supply and a free-for-all with drugs being handed out for $5 on every corner.
No, if by "solve" you mean completely understand nature and reduce it all to theories and algorithms. Humans exist as part of nature. We can't observe the universe from outside. Will fish in an aquarium ever figure out the world outside the glass? We have no way to know that we have asked and answered every question.
33 Apps on the Meta Quest app store have brought in $10M+ in gross revenue
Unbelievable behavior from SD. The subreddit is currently an unmoderated mess, illustrating they have no clue how to run the community.

I am unsurprised at Discord's behavior, handing over a server like that. They have essentially been hostile when not silent to us at WSB with our 600K user server.

Reddit has an opportunity to do better here. Hand back control of r/StableDiffusion back to OP.

Steve Huffman alluded to the disaster that is sub transitions in the recent Mod Summit. If someone at Reddit is reading this, this is your opportunity to do better.
There are plenty of economic models that can support cures to recurrent issues. For example, internal sprinklers & smoke detectors have dramatically improved survivability of structure fires, but that "cure" supports a whole industry of sprinkler and alarm system companies.
A contrarian outburst seems to be the default on HN these days. Perhaps it has seeped in via the rampant infestation of politics. The ‘hackers’ get blasted when sharing projects.

Personally I’m in awe of this tech. But I also detest its inevitable weaponisation. But the tech! Wow.
Different trained model, which was extracted from its creator via unauthorized system access and is illicitly available via BitTorrent. The drama appears to have started because an open-source developer who wrote a web frontend to control SD adapted that frontend to control the hacked model also, which has offended SD's CEO (because of the general principle of "Don't help software pirates").

The additional drama includes that said open-source author has looked at the leaked code and concluded that it stole some of his open source work in the way it tunes text parameters.
> if the Millennials catch up and have enough kids

This is a big "if" and as a millenial, I don't see any signs of people wanting to have more than 1 kid. They have struggled throughout our life and don't want to sacrifice more.
> What even is the point of this article?

Harvesting the data from those who clicked on this link - business as usual
Are they advocating for intentional burns? Because if not they're doing it wrong.
NO

First, we are not the only players here, and second, the more care we take to keep the natural cycle as normal as possible, the better the natural system will take care of us.

Megafires are an entirely different kind of fire, and merely expecting and avoiding them is insufficient. Managing the forest a little bit, and using controlled fires both almost eliminates the danger of megafires, and reduces the damage of fires on the ecosystem and on the human systems. Just one paragraph in the article encapsulates that nicely.

Please re-think your human-centric approach to problems with nature. At least read this one paragraph.

>>In Southern Oregon in 2021, when the massive Bootleg Fire reached a 30,000-acre nature preserve managed by the Nature Conservancy, flames were shooting 200 feet in the air. But when the fire got to an area that had been carefully managed, it suddenly changed. The flames dropped down and moved more slowly. For years, researchers in the area had been testing different “treatments” for the forest, thinning out trees in some areas and conducting prescribed burns. When the fire came through, it demonstrated what worked: In photos taken a few months after the fire, trees were still alive in the area that had been both thinned and treated with controlled burns. Across a road, in an untreated area, nearly everything had burned. (When a fire is so extreme, it can also sterilize the soil in some cases, making it hard for any new trees to grow back.)
In what world would the body prioritize consuming "unnecessary muscle mass" (the thing you need to hunt down and kill food) over fat, which is by definition energy stored for this exact scenario?

Muscle simply doesn't consume much more energy at idle than fat does but is far more useful and far less calorie-dense. A pound of muscle burns 4-6 calories per day at idle vs a pound of fat which burns 2-3 calories. Basically the same.
> It's trivial to incentivise them to do a great job (just give them a fraction of money from tickets they write, and fine them for writing frivolous ones)

Congratulations; you've essentially re-invented tax farming, as was popular in the Roman Empire.

We know from _literally millennia_ of bitter experience that giving private companies a cut of whatever they manage to extract from the general public is a very bad idea. If you pay someone more the more they abuse the rules (these things are virtually impossible to police), then you can't be surprised when they break the rules.
The one-company workers who never leave
(For those that don't get the reference: https://www.kleinbottle.com/ )
Yup, @dang is paid.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23810452
What drew me into Elm was their focus on demonstrating how using elm would let you build web interfaces a different way. PureScript seems technically interesting but I don't feel like their current website "pitches" me on how I might want to use it.
>Merck Molnupiravir, a covid-19 antiviral drug bought by the UK government in the amount of 2.23 million doses, is no better than placebo at lowering the risks of death and hospital admission, a pivotal UK trial has found.

>The Panoramic study, sponsored by the University of Oxford, found that 0.8% of patients in the molnupiravir group (103 of 12 516) and 0.8% in the usual care group (96 of 12 484) were admitted to hospital or died in the first 28 days (adjusted odds ratio 1.061 (95% bayesian credible interval 0.80 to 1.40)).

TLDR you have better survival odds with placebo than with this Merck drug
I'm pretty sure the HN moderators do it as a job and not just as a hobby. I remember reading this[1] a few years back when it came out, and from a quick scan it seems to support this, although it's possible in my skimming I might have misread.

[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
The only correct answer is talk to a lawyer about the responses necessary for a correct, formal DMCA request.

Also speak to your providers, they're going to get the same ones shortly.
Hello! I still have your cookie jar LOL
The government doesn't tax them here. They're free, because the cost of the drugs is less than the cost of the crime prevented by just giving them out.
I'm pretty much in that position and still don't use the apps. It's like saying there's nothing to eat and settling for grass. For average males they'll provide a fleeting moment of hope only to utterly destroy self confidence after a few weeks. Better off not using them at all.
If I was looking for problems to solve, I could think of a few.

- Commercial fleets can be managed remotely. I imagine U-Haul has a lot of manual work to manage their entire fleet of trucks, making sure that all registration stickers are up to date.

- You can personalize the plate slightly. There's room for a small message that you can change via the app.

- If you report the vehicle stolen they can remotely change the plate to reflect that. Obviously there are a ton of attack vectors here, but if you trust corporations and the government with this sort of thing then this raises the chance of recovering your vehicle.

- It's another surface for Amber alerts.

Note that I don't think these are particularly *good* solutions to problems, and I've seen a few of these plates and am not a fan, but.... /me raises his hands in exasperation.

That being said, I would start looking into one if I could configure it to blank out when parked at home. It's my car on my property, there's no reason anyone needs to be able to read the license plate. But that isn't currently legal in California.
There was an enormous & destructive lightning fire in the Santa Cruz mountains in 2020 called the CZU complex: https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/16/two-years-later-czu-f...
Chicago, San Francisco, and LA are far from the most dangerous cities in the United States. Why are they your talking points?
My uncle had a home like this built in the 70s. His whole home was solar heated.

AFAIK, it worked pretty well year round.

Solar heating is one of the most efficient usage of solar energy. The reason we don't generally do it more is because it's expensive and can be a headache to maintain (what happens when you spring a leak or your PVC pipes become brittle from sun exposure? Or when your heatbox ends up fogged or dirty).

In that case, it can be a lot simpler to rely on heat pumps and geothermal energy storage.
It’s basically append-only for recent things so you theoretically you can’t lose anything (within a reasonable timeframe). I don’t know if the porcelain exposes everything you need to avail yourself of that design functionality, though.
If they're thinking about increasing enrichment capacity that likely means they have locked-in future mining output in Niger by some means or other. Here's some background on that:

https://resourceworld.com/france-aims-to-retain-leadership-i...

Incidentally, France's record in Niger is about as blatant a case of colonial exploitation as anyone can imagine. Uranium resources have been extracted for many years with zero if any benefit to the local population, which remains among the poorest on the planet, and arguably the toxic waste makes the net equation pretty negative:

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/health-in-africa/extract...

Another fun fact: All the electricty used to power the uranium mines comes from burning coal (about 260,000 tons per year, and sources seem to indicate about 80% of that goes to power uranium mining activities). Uranium mining is among the most toxic-waste-generating forms of mining, releasing radioactive dust and radon gas. So, anyone claiming France's nuclear power is entirely clean carbon-friendly energy might want to tack those coal emissions (and the power needed for enrichment) onto their estimate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_Niger
For a complete layman this sounds cool. Can someone with proper knowledge weigh in and tell me if this is non-sense or not?

EDIT:

Nevermind, other comments are clearing things up for me.
imo they're much less resilient to spills than cheap membrane keyboards and they're very annoying
I don't think it's a orwellian conspiracy, they make money running a dating website and took down some old blogs that suggested online dating is really pretty rigged not in your favor for guys (their paying customers). You don't need some men in the shadows to explain why they took that down
I mean, yes, you're right that many people just parrot whatever they learned in high school even in the case of maths (somehow it's surprisingly easy to get people on Facebook to argue about whether square roots of negative numbers exist).

And if I interpret your second paragraph correctly that's more about the fact that deciding which research programs are getting grants is not a very "scientific" (or logical) matter but has a lot to do with how humans behave on a societal level. That's certainly true, although I'm not sure how to solve that. Nobody thought that we'd have any use for number theory for millenia and now cryptography is everywhere.

Mathematics still has the unique property that it is, in principle, independently verifiable by anyone, even by a (relatively dumb) computer. The validity of results is rarely in question (Mochizuki notwithstanding), and if there are disagreements, they are mostly philosophical or concern the question of whether or not we should accept certain axioms. But I don't consider the latter a problem - working with different sets of axioms makes mathematics richer, not poorer.
How about instead fixing any of the hundreds of well-documented bugreports raised by your developers instead?
I never noticed they pulled the plug on systemd for the extinguish, when did they do that?

And how exactly was any of it an embrace? Redhat was a Linux distribution provider from the start, they didn't take something over in order to destroy it. They just created systemd and provided help to distributions if they were willing to use it.

The distributions were fully aware what they were doing when they abandoned Sysvinit, it wasn't a backhanded tactic by redhat.

A recent example of something close to EEE is vscode, which is now getting "refactored" to utilize non-open source plug-ins for everything, effectively extinguishing it from a free perspective.
So there's still a void for a dating service to be filled?
Sure, but it's a slippery slope, and there are other ways to reduce the profit motive, like grant/donation-based non-profits or public benefit corporations.

Well-intentioned government mandates have a nasty habit of being used coercively when authoritarian-minded administrations get their turn at the helm.
iirc the term incel was actually coined as part of a support group for folks that struggled to date; I have a vague memory of an interview with the lady who's credited with it's Genesis, and how she was shocked at where it ended up.
Such a beautiful article and really covers the root of the issue. I know we skim a lot of articles but this one really deserves to be read in full.

The issue being that natural fires have been suppressed for so long that when they do burn there is so much fuel available that they get way hotter than is natural and end up sterilizing the soil so nothing grows for years. Prescribed burns and thinning are the answer to prevention. Let nature happen, and even encourage it so it can be controlled.
> unsafe, of course, [] disables a lot of the checks that the compiler makes.

This is, of course, not true. It allows only two things: (1) allow access through pointers and union fields (2) allow calling unsafe or external functions.

Neither of these is really a "check", more like "some operation that just isn't present in safe rust and is present in unsafe rust". They aren't conditionally allowed in safe rust; they just aren't allowed.
In particular unsafe does not alter the operation of borrowck by one jot.
So then, should the useful heuristic include the US as well? By far, the most imprisoning country in the history of the Earth? Whose major technology companies have been clearly documented to be funneling user information to that same state's security services?
Bi isn’t an all or nothing thing. Men are well known to enter same sex relationships when in restricted environments long term such as sailing ships or prison, but not everyone is that flexible.

Women do the same with a lesser known example being elderly women swapping because of the shrinking dating pool.

So, self identifying as bi shouldn’t be taken as having zero gender preferences nor should we assume peoples preferences are static through time. People may be in a committed relationship and seek partners of the a different gender etc.
One way to think about it is that you can extend your testing to prove the correctness of your program up to some notion of what “correct” means. You can reason about your program in your program and that allows you to capture another class of errors than regular static typing does. In principle, a strong enough dependent type systems allows you to encode mathematics, and you can then prove thing about your program in the same language as your are writing it. As for practical examples, you should look at Idris and some of the talks given about it. They do very fancy things while still being somewhat performant. Besides errors and testing, having dependent types also allows your IDE to reason about your program and can give much stronger hints and code completion.

But I agree that it is often a hard sell for normal developers. Given the choice, I would happily write large code bases in a dependent language, but I am also very biased having worked a lot in them.
How much human editing was done on the output from GPT3?
A motivated person will persuade his close friend/family.

That's why this scales well
Honest to who, others or themselves?

I think most dishonesty in dating is just lack of self awareness.
Vultures are mainly carrion-eaters, scavengers.

Hyenas mainly hunt actively, often in coordinated groups, and not just for the weakest animals.

Opus being a healthy codec, and the attempt at a coordinated attack make the hyena analogy seems more appropriate, to me at least.
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> partially due to lack of cooling water (which should resolve itself as the summer ends)

I don't know where you live, but summer is already ended here. Water is not lacking.
Is this a distinction without a difference?

Meaning, it seems eminently reasonable if I was 16, started a Disney Discord, got a verified badge for it, then Disney pointed out the delicacies of Discord handing the Official Disney Discord to a minor, it seems to be a reasonable compromise to make the official Disney Discord officially Disney's, and allow the 16 year old to still have the secret chats, etc.
It isn't serious for the very simple and immediately nullifying fact that it doesn't run the coast.

If you check the population centers in Spain, it clearly should have the form of a bike wheel (full circle and radials), but it is an asterisk.
Article about him here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...