skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the interesting thing about the headline/title of the paper. It's intriguing to me, as I have been in the mental health system for 30 years now.

The description of "drug abuse" has morphed a few times, from "addiction" to "abuse" and of course, the framing of addiction as a Medical Disease that can be Treated Medically, and finally to this non-judgemental terminology of "substance use".

Apparently, the psychiatric establishment has chosen to stop passing judgement on those who abuse illegal drugs, in favor of incorporating those drugs into the tapestry of treatments available. Just a few weeks ago, I attended a brief seminar on Sleep Hygiene, which was led by a physician. One of the other participants boasted about how good his sleep was after smoking a joint, and the physician, as the Medical Authority in the room, explictly condoned this drug abuse and said that whatever this person perceives to help must be good and alright.

I used to be friends with a certain person who lived in Boston but moved to San Francisco. She suffers from several poorly-specified mental conditions, such as bipolar disorder and anxiety. She is absolutely open to treating these conditions with drugs (and not any other way such as CBT or other talk-based therapies.) But she is also an inveterate abuser of illegal/quasi-legal drugs, and often discusses her experiences with marijuana, gummies, Ecstasy, LSD, etc. She has hired a psychiatrist who does not accept insurance, so she pays out of pocket for visits, and this psychiatrist basically turns a blind-eye to the illegal drug use while also prescribing psychotropic meds, including scheduled ones like Xanax.

So my opinion is that the aforementioned friend is simply a recreational drug seeker and enjoys the extra boost from legal prescription drugs in the same way as she enjoys the illegal ones.

But mental (sorry, behavioral) health professionals are not allowed to judge this as "abuse" but must instead refer to "substance use" and incorporate usage patterns into treatment plans, as if this self-medicating is not detrimental to someone who already has issues when they are 100% clean.
Wikipedia is not an authorative source and the open source foundation is just some people who decided to name their org that.
Perhaps many of tomorrow pasteurizations, penicillins, or vaccinations may never materialized if their inventors wouldn't have accessed to information at their fingertips, via their smartphones
Actually the "Let's Go Brandon" phrase has an interesting origin of a reporter trying to say the crowd was cheering for a Nascar driver named Brandon while they were clearly chanting "Fuck Joe Biden". So it became a euphemism for the actual phrase they were cheering and a callback towards that event that shows the media's biased coverage.

So yes, I think that phrase is a bit deeper than saying someone has tiny hands? over and over for a decade.
If that works thank you soooo much!
that's never going to be a seamless transition. the fact the transition happens automatically is a marvel in itself
> Did the people who grew up with nude magazines, cable pornography... grow up to be dysfunctional members of society?

TBH, some of them, yes. Just look at the political "elite".
It’s barely bikeable with high humidity and 100F temps. They need AC skywalks - the opposite of what exists in Minnesota.
Inflation seems to mainly be driven by corporate profits (>50%) in the first place: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35795299

The current situation is completely absurd.

In addition there also is no skin in the game here, over-hiring or other blunders on core leadership competencies don't matter at all as long as "shareholder value" isn't negatively affected in the short term.
Not to derail you but Premium costs $16/month when I view the option from the YouTube app on my phone. Not sure why this is the case.

EDIT: Never mind it’s just the apple tax. I had forgotten about it.
I’ve done three recoveries to a remote service for clients - the first failed and two which were ssd had a full success.m but all were ssds. Hdds I never sent to recovery because generally they were not complete failures (ie some bad blocks and a copy around was possible ) or the board could be replaced to fix it with the same model and firmware.
Well for one I appreciated their free mailboxes, which are now gone (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080777), for another, I've seen reports of their customer service not being very good anymore (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001959). Just in general, I picked Gandi initially because of their reputation, which seems to have become worse and worse over the years.
So if someone keeps making fun of you about a physical trait, true or not, if you respond at all, you're insecure?

That's really convenient if you want to make fun of someone. If they get bothered, just call them a narcissist and your insults are justified!
The NYT death announcements have this tone. It says at the bottom that a formal obituary will be forthcoming.
No, I mean the owners sold the company to an (apparently not super well reputed) other company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080777
You certainly raise some valid points about the evolution of Hacker News, and indeed many other digital spaces. Minimalism and content-focus have traditionally been valued in certain corners of the internet. For these spaces, adding a favicon or any other aesthetic elements can be perceived as a step away from these principles.

However, it's important to remember that design and aesthetics are also a part of the user experience, and can contribute to usability and accessibility. A favicon, for instance, can make it easier to distinguish between tabs in a browser, improving navigation and efficiency. While it's true that overdoing it with design elements can lead to clutter and distract from the content, there is a balance to be struck.

Your concerns about this being a slippery slope towards a more ad-heavy, visually cluttered site are understandable. However, it's also possible that the addition of a favicon is merely a small design tweak to improve usability, rather than a sign of a larger shift in priorities.

Ultimately, it's crucial that the community voices these concerns and helps steer the direction of the platform. After all, it's the users who make a platform like Hacker News what it is, and their input should be valued and considered.
The Nexus line was great.
I don't typically agree with pg, but I think he's right here. I was thinking about this topic yesterday.

I've already seen people start using using these tools to help them craft messages (email, text) to family members and friends. Do we really inhabit a world in which the average person is that creatively bankrupt and lazy that we'll start mediating our intimate social relationships through these tools? It's pretty pathetic.

The outliers who are able to produce truly novel styles that the models can't replicate yet (since they aren't in the dataset yet) are going to increase in value 10000x as soon as model produced language becomes the norm.
But the body of canon law would have been impractical to standardize and disseminate without the printed word.

See: how many schisms and papal crises there were in medieval times (admittedly, the Catholic Church was also much more a political-nation-religious entity then vs now)
Nice product. It's always good to see more choices in the authz space.

I think Ory (Kratos) is a critical omission in the comparissons page, given the Ory suite seems to be one of the top alternatives currently for OSS authz/authn.

Hopefully the omission is fixed soon.
I feel like late 90’s/early 00’s, on the other hand, were the ideal time to learn a little bit about networking as a kid. You only really needed to learn about IP addresses and NAT.

I vaguely remember Age of Empires had some options for more esoteric network options, but it was pretty obvious pretty quickly that they were hopeless.

Earlier, as you mention, networking was for grown-ups to figure out only. Nowadays you don’t need to learn anything about networks to play most AAA games (I bet some folks learned a lot setting up Minecraft servers though).
I'm not American so have no idea what you mean.

My point was that she was busy with a non-musical project for several years. I have not met her since the pandemic though.
If you use FreeTube it will buffer a second stream of the video started just before ad spots then stream-and-discard the ads. When you get to an ad spot it cuts to the buffer from the second stream while the ad in your primary stream buffers.

It can also optionally stream through mirror services like invidious that also strip all ads.

In short, you can -always- access content provided to the anonymous internet without ads without the provider being able to tell.

The creators even get paid for ads you never watched.

If everyone does this advertisers will stop paying, and we can move on from this failed experiment and build better microtransaction systems.

Never ever watch or listen to ads or give data to adtech companies. This is always doing more harm to society than alternatives like piracy or violating terms of service.
Keep on raising that bar. Just remember that USB sticks exist, I guess.
Block cloning support has indeed recently landed in git and already allows for reflinks under FreeBSD. Still has to be wired up for Linux though.
Women of Salerno
Lol tell that to the actively working doctors, lawyers and c-suite execs living in the fanciest neighborhoods of their respective cities that own moderate to significant controlling portions of companies
High Frequency Crypto Market Making and the Hyperliquid Exchange (Podcast Ep.)
Here's a link to the Bcachefs site https://bcachefs.org/

I think it summarizes its features and strengths pretty well, and it has a lot of good technical information.
> If blocking a subset of users is such a good idea, why isn't Google rolling it out to everyone today?

There's a bunch of reasons to do an experiment with a small percentage of users first, and to do a gradual rollout.

First, they don't actually know for sure that this works, since users are unpredictable. You need an experiment to see how they react now and in the longer term. Do all the impacted users just immediately switch to a different ad blocker that isn't getting detected? No point in rolling this out further until that is fixed. Do all of those users churn out entirely, rather than some of them disabling the adblocker or subscribing to Premium? Then there's a business decision to be made, and they didn't have data for it earlier.

Second, there might be technical issues that make the implementation harmful. For example maybe the JS code causes crashes for legit users on a browser you didn't test, or something. You'd like to contain the damage to just members of the experimental group, not all users of that browser.

Third, even if they know this will be a beneficial change, they don't know how beneficial. The people who proposed and implemented the project want to show the impact (an increase of X million in ads revenue, extra Y thousand Premium subscribers, Z reduction in serving costs, whatever their KPI is). The people who funded the team want to know whether they actually got a return on the investment, and whether they should continue staffing further work to improve coverage, etc.
Optimizing for Engagement: Understanding the Use of Persuasive Technology
Quite a confusing comparison, especially against Keycloak. From what I can tell the open source part doesn't seem to do anything Keycloak doesn't do, but many of Keycloak's features aren't on the list.

The chart also assumes you're using the hosted solution (as 2FA isn't even available on the open source version according to that same page). If that's the case, it should compare against any hosted Keycloak provider, because SLA and management are readily available. I suppose the table could also compare the open source versions, but that wouldn't be very advantage to SuperTokens with major features still marked "coming soon".

I'm not sure why Keycloak wouldn't offer "UI and backend customisability". The theme guide shows quite a lot of customisation (https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_development/#the...) to the point where you can restructure the HTML itself.

One thing Keycloak lacks is an easy to use API, using complex OpenID/OAuth/etc. APIs and two language specific libraries instead. That seems like a much more sensible option to distinguish between these products. As someone currently using Keycloak (and not experiencing any problems with it after setup) this comparison just isn't very convincing.
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I did not say exclusively used.

But sure, Never Trumpers like Marco Rubio threw the same lame insult.
I wonder if we will see more of the network layer move into the application layer, like what I think happened with QUIC.

I’m not really a network guy, but the thing I find interesting about QUIC is that it’s upgradable. Normalising regular browser updates was a godsend for the web, while TCP/IP remains hard to upgrade because you still, in 2023, have to upgrade your whole OS.

Protocols like TLS that sit outside the OS seem to have been much more dynamic, and that too is the promise of QUIC. It might be interesting to find operating system primitives that enable use of the networking hardware without having to implement the protocol itself. Although that stuff is above my pay grade.
I seem to get a link to the right settings place after typing "ke" into the start menu on Windows 10. "keyboard layout" indeed does not work, but "keyboard" or part of it does.
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If considered harmful (2015) [video]
Stop it! If you bastards optimize this any more, you'll hit the fractal limit, and drop into negative optimized space, renting local spacetime, killing us all!

Is it really worth it? Is it?!?!
US Gulf states’ inactive, uncapped oil and gas wells a $30B liability
How do you define abuse? Just the legality of it? Can one abuse alcohol?
To apply the scientific method and prove correctness, you need to define the subject first. Meaning is ill-defined, just like consciousness, intelligence, and others.

LLMs can clearly grasp higher order abstractions and concepts just by reordering the words. In fact, embeddings (developed much earlier) are specifically intended to represent the semantical meaning extracted from text using just statistical methods; until the introduction of transformers they lacked a good architecture to demonstrate the usefulness of that.

This makes many people argue that being a sentence builder is enough to be intelligent, as they also received most of their intelligence from the same source (concentrated experience of someone else - social intelligence).

"Honesty" and other forms of self-introspection is just a high level construct which current models aren't trained for, and likely not a fundamental issue with being a stochastic parrot.
Don’t talk about politics at work. Don’t put the employer above yourself. Don’t gossip and criticize other employees, and try to see the good in people. Don’t stop looking for other better jobs. Don’t neglect maxing the company match for your retirement.
yeah, once a day, like i said, i go through all "new" and 24 hours later, before repeating, i actually read yesterdays tabs, along with comments. then bookmark interesting once.

and yes, like you said, will never be read :)
There are breaking changes from 4->5->7->(less so)8

This is why so many basic php web hosts continue to offer older php versions because the old code will not work and why paid projects like cloudlinux hardened php still exists. Just in the last 2 years they finally ended security support for php4 on the hardened php project.

So to explain how it worked, it wasn’t as sudden as python, but the problem areas have been depreciated and removed as php has evolved.
You really have to self-host those services if you want adequate performance. All the public instances are overloaded.
Crush the weak was the moral norm in the past and is rising in parts of the world. Humans are born unequal and will remain so is also a baseline normal belief. Laws are embodied local moral norms.
On a log-odds (logistic) scale, though, we get something that resembles a normal (a logistic distribution).
Yep, IPX just worked. It was sort of like how IPv6 auto-assign is now. Except IPX worked.
You can go directly to the subscriptions tab.

Or hell, Youtube has an API; You can write your own frontend.
The more limited life span, lack of warning about impending failure, and greater cost (at the drive sizes I want) are why I haven't moved to SSDs yet. The speed advantage over platters is nice and all, but isn't really a factor for me.
i use this one too but it often drops/forgets the settings, and i have to set it all colors and margins all over again.
As in, they had theirdomain.com, and they had a google account with name@theirdomain.com, and now they've set up Google Workspace for theirdomain.com but they can't access the old email inbox of name@theirdomain.com?

Is that what you mean, or do you mean something else by a free Google account using branded email / personal version of branded email.
What is interesting to me is that thought leaders are always optimising for some X - be it productivity, some higher good, low poverty, efficiency etc.

But two things humanity, as a whole, consistently optimises for is *short-term survival* and *lesser day-to-day friction*.

ChatGPT/AI seems to be just another friction optimisation, and truth is, we don't know if this optimisation leads us to the world that is anywhere close to 'pretty' by modern standards. People from pre-industrial world would be shocked to see modern people enjoying all the air and noise pollution, but there is no way to avoid falling into such local optimum, because we do not optimise for clean air or quality of life, only for lower friction and survival.

This seems to put us randomly into some local optimums all the time, until unsolved problems pile up so high that they start endangering our survival - rinse and repeat.

What I'd argue is there is no way known to mankind that allows to steer this globally in a different way.
Unless you're distributing, I don't see how anybody could do anything. Personal (or company wide) use has always allowed the mixing of basically any licenses.

The worst case scenarios would be something like Ubuntu being unable to provide compiled modules, but dkms would still be fine. Or the very unlikely ZFS on Linux getting sued, but that would involve a lengthy trial that would allow you to move away from Open ZFS.
Not today though, sadly it's down at 1.77% right now:

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

It's nearly 50% gas (cctg, combined-cycle gas turbine) at the moment.

Nice to see solar at up at nearly 18%!
OpenAPI Generator v6.6.0 Released
OpenAPI Generator v6.6.0 released with bug fixes, enhancements and 2 new generators for N4JS (@n4jsdev) and Xojo (@xojo).
For those concerned about the license, you can go right ahead and fork the open-source parts and start coordinating the development of any of the non-open parts on your fully open version.

Personally, I appreciate the parts that have been made open and love that they could be the foundation of a fully open solution that is viable for organizations of any size.

There is no offense in doing this, as this company has intentionally selected to license part of their code to facilitate thus type of competition in the software eco-system.

They are betting than no one could sustain an fully open alternative, and therefore their open-core business model is viable. Maybe they are right-- maybe not.
19th-century trippers who probed the mind
That's fair. Because also probably the people the advertisers want to reach MOST are exactly the people who have the spare money (and willingness to spend it) to shell out for YT Premium.

But yeah I'd pay to get rid of all the "this video is sponsored by brilliant/nordVPN/whatever".

Sigh.
Does their glowing obituary of Nigel Lawson count:

> His frequent presence on the bbc, arguing against the reality of man-made climate change or, alternatively, that a bit of warming was desirable, depending on the day, outraged environmentalists and scientists alike.

https://www.economist.com/britain/2023/04/04/nigel-lawson-wa...
I managed to nest it three times then it stopped working (vs code window was empty). Winder why is there a limit
Just to make sure, are you selecting the GPT4 model at the top of the conversation in ChatGPT?
Don’t forget to deploy all that code to the edge. Your $5 VPS in NY running both nginx and MySQL is going to be a huge bottle neck when somebody in Texas tries to view your simple website and it takes .10 seconds longer to load. You’re going to want that contact form code on at least 1,000 servers worldwide for maximum benefits and conversions.
I'm sorry, in two years they upped their revenue by over 10b - from 19 to 28b - I'm fairly certain they are having record profits. (Google doesn't release numbers for youtube's revenue, so that's the best number you're getting)
At least focus stacking these wouldn't be too hard as they aren't moving and not likely affected by the wind!

Definitely using a flash, you wouldn't get that even side/shadow lighting without either (diffused) flash or other added light source
Convenient of the BBC to publish this after https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/10/uk-tops-...
> A fast SSD can be set as the target for foreground writes, but that data will be transparently copied in the background to a "background" target, i.e. a large/slow disk.

This is very similar in concept to (or an evolution of?) ZFS's ZIL:

* https://www.servethehome.com/what-is-the-zfs-zil-slog-and-wh...

* https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zilandslog/

* https://www.45drives.com/community/articles/zfs-caching/

When this feature was first introduced to ZFS in the Solaris 10 days there was an interesting demo from a person at Sun that I ran across: he was based in a Sun office on the US East Coast where he did stuff, but had access to Sun lab equipment across the US. He mounted iSCSI drives that were based in (IIRC) Colorado as a ZFS poool, and was using them for Postgres stuff: the performance was unsurprisingly not good. He then add a local ZIL to the ZFS pool and got I/O that was not too far off from some local (near-LAN) disks he was using for another pool.