skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, absolutely I would.

I don’t really go to clubs anymore, and I don’t enjoy my flashy stuff anymore either.

Otherwise I stand by those comments. They were made to a guy running a sex tourism business.
Interestingly, the guns keep getting easier to make at home, but the ammo is still too challenging, as handmade powder and primers are really unreliable / dangerous.

Of course lots of people made ammo at home using off the shelf components, but if you have access to primers, powder, etc. you'd probably just smuggle the bullets themselves.

Like Chris Rock said: "We need bullet control" - ie it's actually harder to make ammo than the guns themselves.
I'm looking at https://tigerbeat.com now and wishing I had the 'shop skills to do a HN front page. Buzz are stories, Crush is "Tell HN", and Polls are "Ask HN"; the mapping practically writes itself...

[Edit: and Beauty are the automatic YC front page spots?]
> If the NYC underground economy is indeed the only thing keeping minorities afloat, that means the economy is dependent on exploiting minority communities (keeping them working in illegal ventures, preventing upward mobility).

The flip side of the coin is that there's a reason people work in illegal ventures: making them fully legal would make them uneconomic, because of a combination of taxes and regulations, and also hurt upward mobility. You see that in places like France, where the youth unemployment rate tends to fall in the 20-25% range. (Though that too gives an overly negative representation of the state of things: France also has a significant shadow economy, so things aren't actually as bad as they might look there.)

It's a game of tradeoffs. What's probably ideal is to move as much as possible into the formal economy, regulate only those things which you can actually afford to regulate and enforce, and tax to the extent you don't drive things underground or out of jurisdiction.
Oh? Well I say that it's obviously incorrect.

Checkmate.
The absolute first line:

> OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity.

is clearly not their first priority, and maybe never was.

> to avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power.

> primary fiduciary duty is to humanity

They're literally concentrating power into a multibillion company (MS) and are making MS their main financial priority
WOW that's awesome!
the podcast "future of code" recently did an episode discussing the paper "programming as theory building."

maybe it's just because i listened to that podcast last week, but it sounds like you don't have the theory of the api you're porting. by theory i mean an intuition of what the software is, what motivates its existence, what it ought to do. to define the term "theory" by an example from the paper (or possibly from "the concept of mind" by gilbert ryle, referenced by "programming as theory building"): you don't have newton's theory when you can answer a question that he answered the way he answered it, you have newton's theory when your answer to a question he wasn't ever asked is how he would've answered.

so this notion of theory means, first, you can never record a theory. you can't write it all down. to have the theory means you can apply it to any new circumstance that arises, so you can't just write it all down, because you'd be writing forever. a theory is knowing how to respond. the impliction for software is that the code and documentation can't communicate the theory of the software. a theory can't be communicated at all, it has to be acquired.

so how does one acquire a theory? how'd you learn to read? how'd you learn to write? how'd you learn arithmetic? theory transmission is a social function. people with the theory show you, teach you, guide you in forming the theory for yourself.

the conclusion is that software firms should put a lot of effort into retaining people who have the theory of their software, and put a lot of effort into transmitting that theory to new people. that's not the world we live in, is it?

actually, i think that conclusion applies to any business, yet onboarding is terrible everywhere, and workers are treated as interchangeable.

what i'd be asking myself if i were you is who has the theory of this api you're porting, and how much of their time can i get?
I used to work for a trade show marketing company, so we all jumped on board (in about 2010ish) to get a feel for the space, and are all Facebook friends with each other.

I'm glad to still here from them, and keep up on how everyone is doing. I never pushed work's stuff on my friends, or did any blogspam stuff, and would have refused to do so.

I don't do social media on my phone, neither should you.
Wiretap lawsuit accuses Apple of tracking iPhone users who opted out
> Or is the “on par” piece completely made up and just assumed to not be the case?

You think the fact the native americans are poorest people with lowest life expectancy is made up ?

yes your fellow compatriot belonging to poorest class of people for belonging to a particular group of people should be a good hint. Like i said its really simple. People trying over complicate this or trying to find gotchas are being disingenuous.
heh, same. I built a little custom sign for my airbnb. Part of my home automation system:

https://imgur.com/a/8A5IKV6
What in the world are you doing where you need everything you described? Writing a custom cache for a FS?
Yep, if we zoom into the NYC area and filter by "Employer does not provide health insurance", this gives you a better picture. In addition, many of the people would not state that they're employed, FWIW.

I agree that the "greater" economy is dependent on the grey economy, which is often exploitative-without-recourse. It's a big issue. I guess I'm trying to say that it's important to analyze the greater economy as-is, not just the easily-measurable economy.
I understand, and applaud you for trying do your best to help the nature. Surely what you're doing is better than the alternatives which do exists.

However ... I'll try to explain my position. But it's a complex problem, i don't have enough time to formulate it properly ... anyhow, here goes the gist.

If you look at the problem of animal agriculture from the point, where you're able to acknowledge that meat and dairy is simply not needed (it produces just fraction of world's nutritional needs, while needing 75% of agricultural land [0]), when it's not needed nutritionally [6], when you account in the amount of suffering it causes, when you see the amount of deforestation and biodiversity loss it causes, when you discount your taste buds experiences (and we need meat & dairy in this day and age for nothing else [6]), only then you'll start to see how unnecessary and destructive it all is.

You know ... for the planet to function, we need forests. And not few trees here and there, we need big rain forests on every continent, continuous, large bodies of both new and old growth, several layers of vegetation, full of diversity (= food), biodiversity and only then the forest starts to fulfill its other functions, especially working as a biotic pump and producing rain and self-protect against climate changes, wind and excessive evaporation, draughts, etc. [7] [8]

Those small patches of trees we have and we call forests are not functional in this regard. And can't be, because we have animal agriculture which stole much of their land, and is still stealing immensive parts of land from them.

Sahara and arabian peninsula are deserts probably because of overgrazing [4]. Amazon is dying mainly because of animal agriculture [2]. Deforestation of the last 300 years is a product of animal agriculture [1]. So is a biodiversity loss (did you notice we're in anthropocene now? [5]).

So ... I can't accept animal agriculture as a way out of this mess. I know that everybody's blaming fossil fuels and nothing else, but that's because everybody eats meat and dairy and nobody wants to acknowledge it's him causing it, it's THEM causing it, not me.

In my view we need to stop using both fossil fuels and meat & dairy industry [3], just fossil fuels won't cut it. Those are the largest destroyers of the environment we have. Doing it better is not a way out. It's just normalizing it, putting a pretty mask on something very destructive, while losing time for the real solutions. We've done a plenty of that.

Nothing against you, all in good will. Be well.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

[1] https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/weve-lost-35-pe...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/magazine/amazon-tipping-p...

[3] https://climatehealers.org/the-science/animal-agriculture-po...

[4] https://www.academia.edu/es/38627904/Blame_it_on_the_goats_D...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene

[6] https://talkveganto.me/en/facts/suitable-for-all/

[7] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cutting-down-rain...

[8] https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/59/4/341/346941
The overdoses will only get worse as drugs get more toxic as they're mixed with more random shit by the illegal industry.

If the government replaced the toxic drugs with a prescribed, known safe supply of drugs, the amount of overdoses would dramatically decrease, because drugs users would know what substance they're taking and are able to make an informed decision about the proper dose.
How sad is it that the top comments (currently) are all excusing this. "They live beyond their means.", "They take money under the table.", "They're willing to do this to live in NYC.", etc etc

STOP IT!

JUST STOP IT!

The past 40 odd years have had a HUGE TRANSFER OF WEALTH TO THE TOP! It never trickled down. People are getting screwed harder today than in nearly a century.

STOP IT! STOP MAKING EXCUSES!
You can't have a war against a thing.
You have a war against people, and there is always collateral damage.
There is no Rousseau–Portalis doctrine when you aim inwards at the population itself.

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
Here in the UK, a lot of things that are available without prescription in the US or are easily prescribed are very hard to get.

I buy melatonin and buproprion from dodgy websites. In the US I could just go the pharmacy or my doctor respectively.

Here we see that there is some level of harm from any drug restriction which must be balanced against the benefit.

In the US you can buy lidocaine cream over the counter. My wife is experiencing some post pregnancy problems involving really extreme pain that could be mitigated effectively with lidocaine. Because we need an authorisation issued to a specific pharmacy and we can't get another doctors appointment after the first pharmacy was out of stock, I watch her curled up crying again, I wonder how huge this benefit has to be to be worth it.
Ask HN: What are some surprising ways to gain social status?
"Mmmm tastes like boot"
> You get discouraged because you can't come up with anything interesting, whereas when you were 20 everything you came up with seemed interesting.

This is so true. I'm 37 now, and I'm struggling with that - I'll come up with a project idea, only to second-guess myself whether it's ambitious or innovative enough, and really worth spending the limited time I have available. I end up questioning whether it would really count, or just serve as frivolous self-entertainment.

When I was younger, it was good enough that ideas were interesting or would help me achieve mastery. Once you have a bunch of well-worn skills under your belt and have plenty of options and the ability to make commitments, everything becomes just a function of effort/time and choosing what to do next becomes the biggest challenge.

I'm trying to cut myself some slack and allow myself some amount of time to pursue frivolous ideas. At least you can intentionally combine them with e.g. new implementation technologies (e.g. a new tech stack or new tools) to get important first-hand experience and maintain relevant skills (and therefore decision freedom).

I'm also hoping that some day, having kids might help me with some of these anxieties :-). If I revisit/retread older ground then perhaps to make it accessible to them at home or teach them by doing little projects together and give them a boost and allow the next generation to take it further. I.e., even doing non-innovative stuff could count, as a fundamentals teaching moment for someone else. Hope they take an interest!
Last time I did iOS stuff, coding around iCloud everything was called UbiquityContainers or something.
Ukrainians to start training on Patriot missiles in US as soon as next week
Shouldn't the reverse happen? Marijuana trade was a big chunk of Mexican cartel money. Now when it is grown legally in most of US and Canada, the cartels are losing money. The illegality of drugs is keeping the drug gangs in power, because the high price and huge markets are giving them huge profits.
Unless you don't want to use Emacs, which is completely understandable. I know SLIME is great but we really shouldn't force Emacs on people.
This entire issue stems from the lack of regulation in underground drug distribution.
See also my remark up thread about dollar vans
Tell HN: Wikiless.org Certificate Expired 10 January 2023
Browsers are throwing expired certificate warnings as of 10 January 2023 for wikiless.org, the wikipedia front-end scraper. Wikiless.org is described here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/p3ez7y/what_is_wikiless_and_why_should_i_use_it_in_place/
I just stop paying for domains, and they go back into the pool. Like a house, a domain is an expense, not an asset.
> Articles urging people not to panic sell also start appearing.

Considering what people do and the track record of buy-and-hold, this is a responsible move.
GNOME Contacts 43 can import .vcf, so that one is partially solved. :-)
That does not actually indicate anything about the insurance limit not matching inflation because housing prices are not necessarily flat. In fact they are not. However, the fdic insurance limit is indeed worth less now, but most people don’t even have $5,000 in the bank. The mean bank account balance is $40,000 according to a quick Google search.
Is this just a wrapper around the OpenAI GPT API?
Build a mind map app from scratch with React Flow
So cultural group has a majority which is okay and a minority within the group which isn’t, then you have a smaller group where a majority of the group are not okay but a minority is and both the small group and larger group are in turn members of an umbrella group, by what reason does the small group get to decide for the larger group what is and isn’t okay?

English is a language like most languages that does not have a policing academy prescribing usage. People/speakers are allowed to use words as they see fit and use them in new and innovative ways.
Based https://emojipedia.org/nerd-face/
A great example of how FSD/Autopilot is hugely flawed today. The car just does not give you clear indications of when or _why_ it is slowing down/swerving erratically in the lane when nothing is around. I get that about once a week.

This is 100% the drivers fault though, it is extremely easy to override Autopilot. Tap the brakes will disable the entire system, press the accelerator will keep lane keeping on but override the speed, and moving the steering wheel will disable lane keeping but keep cruise control on.
Wait until they discover what can be done with 50's machine shop.

It's almost as if the guns themselves aren't the problem; it's the crimes committed with these that are.
In this case the Tesla slammed on the brakes and changed lanes, so there wasn't a realistic way for the other car to prevent the collision.
No. You are not declining. You just need a break. Go out with friends. Do some Sports, socialise. Take oxygen.
I am 55 and still ok.
Author here: Thanks for the suggestion! I forgot to change it in the repository description! It's already fixed.

> My favourite languages, Java and SQL, are not in the supported languages list but hopefully support can be added with LSP.

For the moment I only implemented syntax highlighting for the languages. Adding linter and LSP support is trivial. May be you can collaborate by adding it (it's just a configuration, take a look at the plugins section).
It’s true. People believe you can raise money on having a trendy feeling product idea with very little merit… and sadly they are right. It baffles me.
You sound like your only interaction with "the millennials" is fox news.
The Kings Fund is a credible source of information about the NHS systems in England, Scotland, Wales, and NI. One of the reasons that they're credible is because they're cautious about definitions. In your quote they're saying "lots of people have written about this, and they all use slightly different definitions for management, and so they all give different numbers".

What is a manager? Are you only including non-clinical staff? Or do clinical staff count too? If you're including clinical staff, how many hours of their working week are you counting as clinical hours and how many are you counting as managerial hours? Are you converting people who work part time as managers to Full Time Equivalent positions, or not?

If you want to poke the data it's here: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/sta...

If you want more description of the complications of counting managers in the NHS I found these useful (if a bit old now):

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/future-leadership-...

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/general-election-2010/...

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/health-and-social-care...
I can't find any plans that are actually accepting new customers for less than £0.27/kWh overnight. I'm pretty sure anything as cheap as £0.075/kWh is grandfathered into a legacy plan.

I would be happy to be proven wrong, I'd love to switch plans right now.
as a white person, your culture is defined by taking things from others (e.g., the english language is a melange of many languages).

therefore, it is cultural appropriation to adopt cultural appropriation as a perjorative
That is interesting. I am wondering though, in what areas does Lisp get used these days?

What would be a good project to showcase the strengths of Lisp, versus other well-known languages?

How/why do people end up learning Lisp, what is the usual route to entry?

Genuine questions, not trying to start a language battle here. I've never used Lisp before so am curious about all of this. To me it feels like one of those exotic old-school languages like Erlang or Perl.
Because the moment you actually write any server or business logic in Python performance drops off a cliff and it doesn't differ significantly from any of the other Python web frameworks.
> There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better"

The former is a little Lindy. The latter is ready for paradigm shifts. Ideal is if you don't choose based on age.

But I'll say something contrary: neither of these things matter in technology. The layoffs are good for the firms that 2xed in the pandemic. The kubernetes is survivable or beneficial.
I’m 50 and I feel in better cognitive shape now than ever. I’m wondering if there is something else going on with you than old age cognitive decline. Maybe you should check with your doctor?
Might this be the unintended consequence of banning the sales of handguns in Canada recently? Canadians have always been well armed but now there are more handguns moving from the U.S. into Canada and it seems like 3D printing would be the natural evolution of this path as border checks are increasing.
I still suspect that the fan curve written into OSX still prioritized silence/efficiency over cooling performance.

No amount of fans can overcome a setting that refuses to spin them up.
Thank you for the lesson, but I'm not exactly clear on what was racist-looking about my text. Please explain if you can, I would like to know so I can avoid unintentional apparent racism. Was it pointing out the rarity of black texan catholics? I never considered that noticing something unusual about someone is racist. Was it clicking the wrong link above and not realizing I had the wrong murderer? As you say, I should have read more about the personal history of the person and then crosschecked his final words with the parent comment. But that would be against the spirit of my whole argument. Something else?
>"But unfortunately for whatever reason the United States is allergic to empathetic policy, so instead we will just keep going down this road until there is a major shift in public sentiment."

The US is not a monolith and there are parts of the country which are moving towards such a policy in a de facto way on a local level. Usually by turning a blind eye towards federal enforcement or having the DA deliberately choose not to pursue drug cases against individuals.

>"The solution is very simple if you approach policy with empathy for the addicts themselves: harm reduction to prevent overdoses ("clean" opioids and distribution of narcan) with free rehab programs funded by taxpayers."

If I'm not mistaken this is basically the policy of San Francisco. Time will tell how effective this kind of policy actually is.
The choice of language around firearms is always interesting. Instead of using a descriptive term like "homebuilt firearms", communications on this topic use an editorialized description like "ghost guns".
Thanks. Never watched it and the site was inaccessible.
The primary benefit of storing all the state in the URL is that the server can be stateless. Using a shortener just moves the state to a different server. A user being able to inspect the state is just a side benefit.
Vehicles unfortunately have to come to a stop all the time on a highway for various reasons. This is clearly due the cars going too fast and too close from behind.
The Glorification of the Chip
> it is certainly neither compassionate, nor wise, nor good, to subsidize people living there with other people's money

If you genuinely believe this to be true, then I think we can be sure my ethics are not aligned with yours.

Do you pay taxes? If you do, are you one of these folk that believes your contributions should only be spent on amenities for you to avail of, personally? God forbid any cent of what you "earn" should ever have any communal benefit for any of the other beings you share the planet with.
I'm sure you're familiar with the ATM example?

Lets say Bob's money in an ATM is being held in your "database" (be it a file, or SQL database, or whatever).

Thread#1: Depositing money
--------------

int bob_balance = readfile();
bob_balance += 100; // Add 100 to Bob's account.
writefile(bob_balance);

Thread#2: Withdrawing money
-------------

int bob_balance = readfile();
bob_balance -= 100; // Add 100 to Bob's account.
writefile(bob_balance);

------------

Lets say Bob started with X-dollars. What is Bob's value of his account after Thread#1 and Thread#2 run concurrently?

More than likely, Bob's account is either X, X-100, or X+100. But under the worst case scenario, a full corruption of Bob's account value could happen. If Bob's account straddles across a filesystem boundary, like across 4096 hard drive cluster or something, then the "writefile" itself could be corrupted and interleaved between the two threads.
Eh, companies and organisations regularly rebrand, even if it doesn't always require a name change.