skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Incidentally that approach might well see tighter regulations on alcohol than several currently illegal drugs.

Well, from the scientific view things are pretty clear.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Psychoactive_dru...

Only politics don't want to move. Because why ask science when you can ask the alcohol and tobacco lobby?
> However it is also curious that people in treatment for ADHD also develop a dependency on the drug, although perhaps in a more controlled manner due to it being prescribed, yet few people in the medical-pharmacological world seem to be that concerned about it.

Dose makes the difference. The kind of dependency people with ADHD develop on their meds is closer to the kind a person with mobility issues develops on their wheelchair after spending some time using it.
The real driver of inflation and low workers' wages is lack of attention to long-term growth potential. This is not a partisan issue, least of all in the UK; both sides have done things that hurt long-term growth. By way of example, we're still waiting for those billions that the Brexit folks once promised as increased NHS funding.
The Apple keyboard is junk, especially if you use it in swiping mode.

Swype on Android (and briefly on iOS) - RIP - was simply better in every imaginable way, but whoever bought it just buried it. Far better prediction (once they fixed the bug that interpreted a common swipe as "nee", which I almost never use, instead of "me", which I use constantly) and a host of useful features. Need to capitalize a word? Just Swype above the keyboard once during the motion. Need a double letter? Squiggle a bit on that letter as you move through the word. Swype-X, C, V for cut, copy, and paste. Swype-spacebar to bring up an editing keyboard that offered single-character cursor movement. Want to curse? Feel free, it won't forget it with the next version upgrade. Keyboard learned a typo? Delete it from your user dictionary and it won't appear anymore.

That was a startup. Apple could buy out any patents they had with pocket change. But they didn't, and I can't figure out why.
> The number of flu shots increased by a factor of x16 over a 40 year period. With these numbers I would've expected a serious dent on the flu deaths graph regardless of population.

It went from negligible to about 2/3 the population, but the population increased by about 50%. If the vaccine was 50% effective in preventing flu deaths, and there were no other changes (or if better care was exactly offset by increased vulnerability due to aging population) you would expect no change in total deaths.

Your intuition just looking at the multiplier on vaccinated population just seems to be a bad intuition.
You have misaligned expectations, whole Apple approach since forever to anything is to dumb things down so few power users are unhappy but rest doesn't care and appreciates lack of choices, or more like hopes best possible choices are done for them because they paid premium. Which sometimes works OK, sometimes less so.

I mean underlying a lot of Apple stuff is linux. Do you feel you have linux device and its might and endless configurability when working with iphone? My wife can't force that f!@#!@ device to allow her pattern unlock of her phone without losing warranty, Apple rather prefers her having no safety at all (since face ID simply doesn't work for her line of work, and typing minimum 6 digits code 100x a day is extremely annoying... no other choices on 13 mini).
> It would be interesting to see how the Chorus schematic from 1985 compares to the Chorus schematic of 2023.

Is probably identical. The actual board is probably different in that they will have used surface mount to bring the cost down.

There is very little in the fx world that is not a tweak on a few classic designs... unless you are going dsp of course
We have... very different ideas about how capable random devs on a government contract are. Or how feasible it is to prevent the worst possible behavior in a large codebase. That is to say, I tend to assume code managed by a large team on a government project (or a project in any sufficiently large organization) will be the worst possible code that language can produce. And C++ can produce worse code than C (all of the danger of C, but happening implicitly instead of explicitly).

You seem to be taking the best possible code as the default. I will admit that the best possible C++ code is better than the best possible C code.
My flow/boilerplate for apps:

./scripts/create-venv.sh # create venv using specific python version, update pip, wheel, setuptools, install requirements.txt
./scripts/freeze-requirements.sh # create tmp venv with requirements-base.txt and pip freeze > requirements.txt
./requirements-base.txt # dependencies with loose versions
./requirements.txt # frozen/locked dependencies
There is a Spanish translation, though it is a bit behind the English version.
I almost exclusively exit vi using CTRL_W-CTRL-Q.

It's a 3 finger chord that I use all the time to close vi windows. Makes sense that I'd use it to close the last one too.
Yep with shift-zz you don’t have to worry about this (I don’t think, even if you do shift-xx by mistake I don’t think that does anything— although haven’t tried)
Unclear why the school has standing, except they have to deal with depressed students, but doesn't everybody? Can Starbucks sue because it's become harder to find cheerful baristas?
We had snow at Mt Kosciusko (Australia) in mid December, in summer. Whiteout conditions at the summit, and cold enough snow was settling on the ground at Thredbo. (search for UTK 100k race photos to see!).
I had to click and read the article to see whether CGI in this context was "Computer Generated Imagery" or "Common Gateway Interface". I've always been a fan of simple CGI interfaces. More middle-ware always means more bugs.
-written by company selling outdated search solutions
If I quoted ChatGPT for this question, how does HN feel?
It can take quite a lot of time to figure that out. If you see Street name and number, sure, with index you will find it. But slowly.

And when you don't see no named sign, it takes a lot more time to find the place on map.
Sure, it's always cheaper to use the hardware you've got than to buy something new! And you don't lose much: AV1 and VP9 compatibility the same, and probably your home doesn't use more than NVIDIA's maximum of 3 simultaneous transcodes anyway. And IIRC that's about the maximum 4k transcode throughput of a 1070 regardless.

Personally I moved from NVIDIA to quicksync exactly because I felt NVIDIA required too much babysitting. Driver compatibility, interactive mode updates, patches and patch compatibility... In comparison the intel driver felt like a cake walk. But you should definitely go with your own comfort level, especially for the price point!
I've been a vim user for 15 years and I still often type `:Q` and `:W`. Everyone types differently and some people make mistakes.

Your blaming the victim instead of the software.
> I guess the quickest solution is to checksum the pyproject.toml

This is the kind of stuff bazel/ninja do.

https://bazel.build

https://ninja-build.org
The part of the paragraph that really bothered me wasn't the hours, actually. It was the implication that you would be expected to code during those hours. Even when I've been on-call, I've never expected to write code, outside of business hours, during my on-call shifts. Update configuration? Sure. Roll back a broken deployment? Absolutely. But if devs are writing significant amounts of code (beyond 10-line patches, or updates to config files) in order to put out operational fires, that's a big red flag. It means that the codebase hasn't been designed to be easily changed with configuration. It means that deployments are so difficult, it's easier to try to write a patch in the moment than it is to roll back and see what went wrong in the morning. Furthermore, any code that is written under that kind of pressure isn't going to be high quality. It's going to be code that does the minimum necessary, with no documentation or unit tests. It's tech-debt equivalent of a high-interest payday loan.
What kind of battery life do you get? I know it depends on workload/wifi use etc., but any such data would be helpful.
They were drawing a comparison. Overuse of antibiotics can lead to antibiotic resistance; and similarly, in some cases we get similar results with antivirals.
For scientific calculation I just use mamba (sometimes micromamba) + managed environment in home folder. It is impossible to keep an environment for each project due to the library size and storage limitation. These I keep one copy each machine (including on HPCs and local machines). For bootstraping, I keep a copy of the environment.yaml file.

I used to have a dedicated folder to manage these environments myself, but seeing conda/mamba does a good job managing these; and they are also easier to load with command, so I switched to the managed approach.

Conda does not only work for Python, but many software necessary for our workflow that are written in C/C++/Fortran has been precompiled and uploaded to the conda-forge index as well.
Aside from that, the process will probably just be:

- Trend inspires camera apps that recreate the effect

- One app takes off

- NYTimes publishes a trend piece on the app that takes off

- Olds start using this app unironically

- It falls out of fashion

- Everyone forgets it ever happened, again

Which seems likely considering this part of the story:

> But the comments by despairing millennials and people with more modern tastes were overwhelmed by those where users had tagged their friends and asked how to upload photos from their digital camera to their smartphone.

Eliminate the hassle and kids will do it more, then it'll go mainstream, then kids get sick of it, dump it, come up with another clunky old/dumb/cool, unhad-nostalgia revival (plush animals with audio recorders! portable TVs! leisure suits! uncut cocaine!), and repeat the cycle.

Every NYT trend piece reports it breathlessly, like this one is the one that's gonna stick.
As someone who works a lot with SSO, please avoid SAML for as long as you can. SAML is a Pandora’s box of pain and security vulnerabilities. My advice is to implement OIDC instead, avoiding SAML until you have a customer willing to pay a lot for it.
I’ve been using an FM3 through a Fryette Power Station 100 into a 4x12 and it’s pretty awesome. I’ve only used it for rehearsals so far but it sounds better (subjectively) than my main tube amp. This to me is a good option for folks who want to go the modeling option live but aren’t down with running it through the PA.
+1 to building up muscles, though ideally work with a physical therapist to get the best recommendations for your specific circumstances.
You might as well use emacs at that point.
Each frame of the image would have to be divided into many sequences. Atleast that's how transformer based image models work. Then you have to account for audio data too in the same way. It just blows up the compute required
13 pro shoots ProRAW as well.
More leisure time would be the benefit. Although the leisure would have to be less sophisticated.
Ask HN: What's your favourite service to deploy Django websites?
Best New Year's Resolution? A 'Stop Doing' List – Jim Collins (2003)
IIRC it took about 20 years to be apparent with Marek's disease.

The polio vaccines aren't "leaky", but we are seeing increasing problems with oral-vaccine-derived polio now: https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2... - there are more cases of this than of "wild" polio nowadays.
The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse
> It's an implicit appeal to their authority, and I personally have no idea who they are.

Alex Russel, a developer, team lead and developer advocate for Google for 13 years from 2008 to 2021. He's one of the primary people responsible for the web components mess.

He's quite well known in hte web/web-adjacent world. During his work at Google he would:

- go out of his way to blame and gaslight Apple for everything

- defend and any and all Chrome-only non-standards that Chrome was (and still is) churning out at ever-accelerating rate, completely ignoring any and all standards processes, or other browser vendors' input

- be completely silent on "how Google killed mobile web" and only blaming Apple

Once he went to work for Microsoft he started bashing Google, too.

The amount of grains of salt tyou need to take to read anything he writes that is not strictly technnical would cause world-wide salt deficit for any forseeable future.
It won’t have to replace; it can just augment and be very successful at it. I’m just unsure how to cover the massive costs of running this thing with millions of req/sec.
Related:

The Cornell Note-Taking System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21989063 - Jan 2020 (66 comments)

The Cornell Note-taking System (2001) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21674946 - Dec 2019 (41 comments)
I don't think they're trying to please the first group at all. Iphone pictures come fried to hell, but since that's what people want, that's what we get.
Updates since then:

- A new 'assistant' UI that prevents users from getting stuck on instructions they found unclear, which was the most common complaint.

- Can now be translated to other languages.

- Available in 3 other languages.

- Can now be used in Safari.

- Can now be used offline.

- Can now be used in China.

- A new course chapter about dictionaries.

- A 'Stop' button to interrupt running code.

- Output is shown in the console as it's produced.

- time.sleep() works correctly.

- Ctrl+Enter keyboard shortcut to run code.

- Lots of small improvements and bug fixes.
Name an era when "stuff from 20 years ago" was not a nostalgia trend.
Outdated? How so? The primary thing Algolia is guilty of is being massively overpriced to the point it’s a non-starter for any platform with even moderate usage. But their full-text search functions quite well and is very fast.
Not quite. I meant something that models pure binary sequences, not higher level tokens. That way, it could learn from any source that can be represented as binary data. Could be video, text, audio, or all three at once.

It wouldn't be "video model", it would be an "anything that can be expressed in binary" model.
That's very weird. I'm an American and I hold my pen the way you do, which is the way I was taught. I had never noticed it before but now that I see it, the way the students are holding it in the video is very strange to me.

Edit: apparently I do the "quadrupod" grip, while you do the "tripod" grip. But neither of those is what some of the students in the video were doing.
...But ChatGPT's successors just might.

I, for one, look forward to a future in which I can ask a digital assistant to find and summarize information on anything:

"Computer, please find out how GPS works and explain it to me like I'm five years old."

"Computer, what are the latest Covid-19 infection stats in my city?"

"Computer, who is Claude Shannon and why is he important?"

"Computer, what are the top three stories on HN today?"

"Computer, what's on my calendar?"

etc.
What exactly are we calling ales here, isn't ale just beer said another way (or, rather, the other way around)?

Speaking of lagers, good ones are hard to come by these days. I like all things beer, and I enjoy all the IPAs, fruited sours and all that, BUT I also much, much enjoy quality lagers. As it is, in the US, it's rather hard to find good ones, all the mass market ones are horrible (I guess a Stella will work if that's absolutely the best you can do, but everything else is even lower in terms of quality).

I'm in the ironic position that I actually whole-heartedly enjoy IPAs, but hate the IPA fad because it's (mostly, just due to the sheer size of the IPA market) keeping brewers from making good lagers. Can I have both please?
K-Cup rebate: Two days left for Keurig customers to claim from $10M settlement
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds (2022) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34283385 - Jan 2023 (104 comments)

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32494497 - Aug 2022 (953 comments)
But how would you run out of iCloud space, then?
"I don't understand the value of a warrant canary: if it goes away or is not updated, what is the suggested action of users of the service?"

It really depends on how you use rsync.net.

The stated purpose of our product is: An empty UNIX filesystem to do anything you'd like with.

So ... if you are using a sophisticated tool like 'borg'[1] or 'restic' or 'duplicity' then no action would be necessary. Your data at rsync.net is garbage ciphertext that we do not hold a key to.

On the other hand, you may, as many thousands of people do, use rsync.net as a dead simple SFTP/SCP endpoint[2] and just copy files there. In this case your threat model and exposure is very different - but presumably you realize that.

Yes, you are thinking correctly when you describe your bottom line as:

"... encrypt your data before it leaves your control ..."

... and we encourage all of our customers to approach it this way.

[1] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

[2] https://rsync.net/products/sftp.html
I'd also add general theory of education content to that. How do we expect people to learn if they don't understand teaching?
They were terrible, because the resolution was low in the early models.

And they were JPEG, so they were "fake" computational.
Sorry for not being born in an English speaking country. Would you prefer if I'd said "Then Apple's products are not for you"?
When I first read that article, the writing looked dull and unstructured, so I did not read it to the end.

I assumed it was written by a human either lacking the skill or the motivation to create a captivating piece of text.

If in the future AI can write as captivating and as structured as a skilled human, then why should we not enjoy reading it?
Tank space and cooling costs the big boys very little because insulated factories and tanks the volume increases with the cube and the cost increases with the square. This is why lagers are made cheaply industrially, and ales can be made inexpensively on a much smaller scale.

The premium light lagers are tanked for a month. Try to make anything resembling a light lager faster than that. They don’t have some super secret method that no one knows about to make the style in a week. You are wholesale making that up.
My VAG car (VW/Audi/Skoda/SEAT/etc) has a great digital dash. It's super responsive, it's clear in all sun light, no framerate issues or anything.

I think digital dials and things like that are excellent and aren't a problem. These have been around for around 10 years now. They have clear benefits such as having navigation info up front, music info, customizable dials, speed as a number, etc.

Peugeot has always had shitty technology in their cars, they are a budget brand trying to be a premium brand.
Your theory is that Rust programmers "make all their variables shared pointers" ?

Even if I generously assume you're thinking of C++ "shared pointers", and so you've concluded that Rust's Rc<T> (a reference counted T) is basically the same thing, I don't see where you'd come to the conclusion that Rust programmers do this for "all their variables" as this seems wildly unlikely.
Discussed at the time:

Modern C for C++ Peeps (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27288145 - May 2021 (21 comments)

Modern C for C++ Peeps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21093727 - Sept 2019 (16 comments)
Weight can pile back on if you stop using semaglutide drugs, doctor warns
This coming August we probably won't need to use electricity to brew coffee.

You can just leave a pot of water out on the porch, let it warm to about 50C by 6PM , run that water through a percolator, and put it in the fridge for your iced coffee in the morning.
There is no EU regulation that requires camera. Cars without cameras are easy to buy and usually cheaper then ones with camera.
Maybe I’m discovering the obvious, but I began using THC for sleep in my 30s and as a side effect, I kinda get a little bit high for about 20 mins before bed.

I’ll be having a shower that usually turns into a bath for safety and I just close my eyes and think. And it’s truly miraculous… My brain just wanders so freely among the ideas of the day. But what interests me most are these “eureka!” moments. They’re so fast and fleeting and my brain struggles to focus that I rush to orate them to my phone before they fade. It’s an interesting sensation to have where I’m confident that the idea was brilliant but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was seconds later.

Upon review the next day, 75% of the time the ideas are gibberish and I have a laugh at my own expense. The other 25% aren’t brilliant but are colourable and sometimes actually pan out. Usually about software design or parenting.
I wonder where the first place is for people to look when needing help with random commands.

man vim

The :help command is mentioned in the second paragraph. And repeated the third. Though most people probably just use web searches anyway nowadays.
I think it's worth noting the potential bias, but Algolia's the furthest thing from outdated.
Comments by old people complaining. Seriously if you people had power we would still be on blackberries
Aliens from heaven.

Actually a valid theory that angels are just friendly aliens and demons are the bad ones. If they can visit earth they probably have godlike technology.
Well, that's a big question; hope you don't mind if I reflect a bit before attempting to answer! (any specific qs, go ahead and I'll do my best)

I was living in the US in the 80s and 90s (among which, both in Silicon Valley and in "flyover" country, with non-domicile tours in Boston, Seattle, and the DC Beltway)

Have you read Microserfs yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs

It's a pretty good capture of our Zeitgeist. In fact, I distinctly remember one day when I was at my desk, and two of my colleagues were enjoying the afternoon sun on the balcony of my office. We had started to discuss Microserfs, through the open window next to my desk, and one of them remarked: "it's pretty accurate ... except they're all dating within the company". One year or so later, the company had grown by a factor of two or three, and it turns out Coupland had indeed called it in advance: all three of us were then in intra-company relationships. (which was again, a topic of balcony discussion)

(sorry, no idea about Dinosaurs: we were working extreme hours [some days the company was comping us ~$2'000/day (in 2023 USD), which was considered very good money back then for "kids" not many years out of uni], and except for attending watch parties for Simpsons, Beavis & Butthead, and Spike & Mike's when it came through town, I was not getting much pop culture exposure during these years)

Another anecdote: our landlord once complained that the janitor had found porno mags in the restrooms, and as the other tenants were law firms, maybe they might have been from us, possibly one of our contractors? My boss, indignant, called them up and she asked them if they knew we were an internet company? With a T1 connection? How could they possibly think any of us would still be paying for porn on dead trees?
I wish brand loyalty was more of a thing
Yes. I was not claiming prohibition did anything.
:x gang checking in
I don't know of any algae, anywhere, that are more concentrated sources of carbon than existing trees. Even if we had to grow both sides, algae are still problematic, since separating them from water is apparently quite a difficult problem.

Yield of rapeseed in the US in 2020 was 2.16 tonnes/hectare/year. Yields of lignocellosic biomass (dry mass) in the US (miscanthus, eucalypt) is almost an order of magnitude higher.

Above ground forest biomass in Guyana: 499 tonnes/hectare.
ChatGPT will flood the internet with articles like how SEO was used to hack search. It might not replace search engine, but search results will becomes even more irrelevant.