skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When I was college age

I don't want to reveal my age on Hacker News, but I'll just say that I reached the legal drinking age within the last five years, and have never had any issues with alcoholism. I have no idea what a hangover feels like (or have ever had trouble standing) despite my primary drink of choice being whiskey (80 proof, give or take). Even if we may appear to be Unicorns...

> I do hope it’s just the bubble I grew up in because I want to think there’s a pathway to teaching my kids there is a responsible way to enjoy it without making it a competition, identity or escape. But it’s hard for me to believe my experience is very far outside the norm.

That is sad. I would hope that the "Squeaky wheel gets the grease" analogy applies here, but I'm not sure. The NIH seems hopeful even if the numbers are still bad: "In 2018, two-thirds of adults aged 18 and over consumed alcohol in the past year. In 2018, 5.1% of adults engaged in heavy drinking in the past year, 15.5% engaged in moderate drinking, 45.7% engaged in light drinking, and 33.7% did not consume alcohol." 5.1% is still a lot of people, but it shows that the heavy drinkers are about... 8% of all drinkers.

However, the negative view would be that 1 in 7 people in my home state (Minnesota) has had a DWI on their record at some point. DWI does not strictly speaking require 0.08% or even alcohol specifically though. The average first-time intoxication level is 0.148%, repeat offenders 0.166%, which takes... a lot of drinks. If I was a 100-lb woman, that would take about three to hit. But for me, that would take more like... six or seven. Which I freely admit does make my struggle lower than others - my weight makes the intoxication level from one or two drinks very small compared to others.

> Looking the other way while people are actively hurting themselves with the wrong medication or dose doesn’t help either.

I personally wish that our Age ID system was expanded so that there was a hashed database of driver's licenses not permitted to purchase alcohol or who could only purchase small amounts, that a court (or a voluntary listing) could add a person to. The hashed list would then be downloaded for offline use weekly by breweries and alcohol stores. If a person's ID went through the hashing algorithm and matched a hash on the list, the sale would be denied or restricted (to say, one drink). This would not put any impositions on people who do not struggle with drinking, would not harm anonymity or privacy, but would assist with self-control for those who need it or are interested.

This is especially important because 10% of Americans (or, about 14% of the drinking population) buys 60% of the alcohol.
oh yeah C++ regex is stupidly inefficient, like "python is faster" inefficient. I tried to use it for text replacements and pretty much immediately abandoned it
The implementations are bad and implementers are refusing to fix their own bad implementations so as to not break their own ABI, but that has nothing to do with C++ the standard.
Email and SMS are legacy. Some banks do use TOTP the same way.

The issue with TOTP is that it’s a shared secret, not a second factor. TOTP auth is two step.
Its not an unfalseifiable claim.

If 100 Ai "experts" shutdown the OpenAI office for a week due to protests outside their headquarters that would be one way to falseify the claim that "doomers don't actually care".

But, as far as I can tell, the doomers aren't doing much of anything besides writing a strongly worded letter here or there.
Whoever fetching resumes from 217.182.175.162 you are [still] parsing this page wrong.
I agree "one AI" might produce output that keeps humans busy for decades. But that doesn't make us cockroaches. Cockroaches can't understand language, at all. You can't teach a cockroach calculus if had a trillion years. That's not our position relative to AIs. We will be learning shit-tons from them constantly. I think people who say humans will be "cockroaches" or "ants" or "bacteria" are fear-mongering, or just confused.
Wired did an article on this earlier this year. It talks about the ecological concerns and the international politics surrounding these deep sea mining efforts.

https://www.wired.com/story/deep-sea-mining-electric-vehicle...
Vulkan Video is literally supported in ffmpeg.
Around 2010-2013 (gaming), I found fdb, and to me it seemed like the perfect database because of their architecture. I tried it a bit, and was really happy with it.

Unfortunately they were acquired by Apple, only to resurface something like 10 years later. All momentum was gone, and I’m not really aware nor interested in where they stand. I’ll stick with my rusty old Postgres for a long time before I’d try anything else out.
This is a known longstanding issue with the combination of Cloudflare DNS and Archive.today. Nothing to do with censorship
The only viable alternative is violence, and most of us aren't especially thrilled by this perspective either, so cynicism is all we've left…
An inner join is a Cartesian product with conditionals added.
Interesting workaround, although it's kind of so overkill to get a /48 prefix and have 5-10 IP addresses used inside it... and what happens when the abusers will also get a /48?
Even without knowing any real hints from the pictures myself, it was still a lot of fun for me refining each guessed location based solely on distances reported on previous guesses. Nice work.
I'm not looking at the iPhone in a vaccuum. I'm also taking into consideration other things Apple has inexplicably delayed for multiple years:

- support for mouse input

- a native file manager app (2017!)

- pressure-sensitive pens and screens (~ 4 years after Samsung)

- Multiple apps on same screen (2019!)

None of these are things that take years to get right. Apple commentators simply get lazy and recycle this iPod-era talking point.
I did not even notice that it was giving me distance feedback after each guess.
1. Historically, std::regex was offered in GCC before it was actually fully implemented. Much hilarity ensued...

2. Some existing implementations have efficiency issues, e.g. performing many allocations.

3. It is claimed (e.g. by Titus Winters) that the ABI of std::regex is problematic, and without breaking it, the implementations cannot be good enough

See these points and others at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/e16s1m/what_is_wrong_w...
Seems like its also slowly loosing its way.
Not our fault your distro has outdated ffmpeg and mesa. Vulkan Video is nice.
The only electronic parking brakes I've had experience with have the motor right on the caliper.

e.g. https://data.embeddedcomputing.com/uploads/resize/1256/756/e...

And FWIW, a quick image search for 'electronic parking brake' only shows this style.
These retailers are failing. They are trying to blame something else.
https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/4078123-walg...
My first guess hit 17 miles from the mark.

Maybe that's because I've been there...
Reddit is a content network. TikTok is similar but the mechanism for discovery and selection is vastly catered towards casual users.

Instagram, Facebook and Twitter all remain social. For business it’s a content network, but for most users it’s still social.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35439673
Governments and institutions mostly don't like it, that's a pretty big reason.
This is great. Thanks for creating and sharing it.
As far as I understand, basic_stack trace is just a container of stacktrace_entries, which are Regular types. So the default distinct-objects type safety rules apply.

You should be able to, for example, collect the stacktace on one thread, transport it to another and print it.
Twitter is losing users fast. Even Facebook, which everyone wants to pretend is dying, is still gaining users every single year. And Twitter should be losing users - it's virtually indistinguishable from any other whiny, hate-filled internet comment section, only less anonymous.
I wonder what impact Apple's VR headset is going to have in, say, 10 years. Hopefully prices for their headsets as a complete unit will have dropped, and at that point, while I'm no optical scientist, we must be approaching the limits of eye clarity, no? So eventually VR headsets will offer effectively 360 degrees of "monitor" that can't be matched by any panel, and the only actual pixels they will need to produce are a postage stamp sized thing in front of your eyeball.

I can imagine that a lot of personal computing is going to transform into some kind of "screen+lens+eyeball" as COGs for these kinds of headset displays are going to be lower than traditional monitor (or possibly even smartphone) displays.
People are already working on a 128bit Linux kernel.
Ah, so basically the variable speed and feed-forward PID make it so the unit is running all the time, so it's not like the 15 minute curtailment will come right after it kicked on to satisfy cooling demand. Rather your house is continually cooling, stops for 15 minutes, then goes back to it. That makes a lot of sense!

I do find it interesting that these terms are still valuable to a power company. Obviously being able to shed the load for 15 minutes is fantastic, but I would think the system would then just use more energy (say for the next 45 minutes) to make up for it. But perhaps staggering the curtailment times, and paying the debt of more draw from the units that were curtailed by doing even more curtailments, can kick the can down the road enough for the few hours they need to smooth peak load?

Also just a guess: is the story with heating that your heat pump is sized based on your max heating load, and so losing up to 25% of its capacity on the coldest days means it would never be able to catch up?
Good riddance. The random message drops problem has been going on for well over a month now, with a really long issue on GitHub. Almost zero messages from developers, as far as I can tell they neither have a clue what the problem is, nor are they working on a solution. This is absolutely pathetic. If anything this just cemented my aversion towards the whole matrix ecosystem.
I don't really understand the sentiment in the article about Amazon not doing anything with it. When Goodreads was acquired, general opinion was "oh no, I hope they don't ruin it -- don't worry, Amazon is known for acquiring working businesses and letting them be." I don't want new social functions on Goodreads; I get an email digest with activity of my friends, and I keep the friend list very, very short so I'm not overloaded with activity.
And why on Earth does the author of the article want Amazon to get more involved with detecting bad reviews? As if their track record on their main site would provide any evidence of their being good at that!
Can’t recommend this enough. I recently “invested” in some second hand iMacs for my partner and kids. And by invested I mean I spend ~€100 on two 2011 iMacs each. No top of the line specs, just the basic model i5s with SSD. They run great for 10 year old machines. Have a decent enough screen resolution. Still an up to date enough OS though not the latest. When I use them occasionally I don’t notice a difference in normal browsing or usage. Migration from the small MacBook (also 2011) was a breeze with assistant. They all run time machine to my Linux NAS so no worries there. I’m considering doing this for my parent as well but it’s hard to get them away from their old & trusted Office apps.
Reading about his alternative, it sounds a lot like GHB, which I suppose makes sense. In small doses, GHB gets you that drunk feeling with out the hangover. It looks like they're investigating ways of reducing the misuse/abuse potential relative to GHB, though, reading their patent.
You can follow any Mastodon account with RSS:

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/108357998963885456
^ This is Reddit level snark. Well done.

I guess the thinking is the ocean approach is "see no evil or the outcomes" .... especially since large amounts of the ocean are empty enough?
No. You just need a minority of people. And they don't have to be stupid; they can be equally motivated by mendacity, spreading untruths because its fun or because they will discomfit political opponents. About 30% of humans are willing to suffer some sort of loss or disadvantage in order to inflict a larger one on a counterparty; that might seem irrational, but some people are just mean.

You have to have a little more faith in humanity than that...

I used to, but then I grew out of it.
Apart the expertise, is hard to say if is best to be an optimist and hope for the best, or to be a pessimist an hope being wrong.

Anyway i suspect that one true risk, among others, is to loose the true ability to think, if we delegate on a large scale to some LLM the production of the language, because the capacity to use our languages IS the capacity to think, and bad use of technology is a norm in recent (and not so recent) times.

I suspect LLM (this kind of LLM) does not really -generate- (this will be intelligence?), but only mimic on a vaste scale, but nothing more.
If our brain/mind is a result of a long evolution, where this LLM are not, builded only on the final results, the language, this will be a great difference in the inner deep working, so the question is: we are feeding in our minds a massive amount of nothing more than our same intellectual productions, recycled, and nothing more? (apart all the distorsions and biases?)

A parallelism i see is in the social-networks: simply, humans cannot sustain a indifferentiated and massive amount of opinion/information/news (apart all the fakes).
Even the small scale message communication is impacting the abilit of understanding long texts..

Even it there LLM are -benign-, sure their (indiscriminare) use will not cause some troubles in our beings? On a scale as big as this i an not sure at all.

im' not sure i'm expressing my doubts (and without using a LLM) clearly enough...
Works fine from Sweden. Tested with multiple ISPs.
This is a factor you need to take into account, but in my experience, people overstate it. It's not actually that hard to get people to pay for things online.

The way you do it is the way it's always been done historically: offer a value proposition that justifies the money. And don't offer it for free at the beginning. People rightfully get very angry if you change the deal after they've come to rely on your product or service.
Ease of integration, because having literally anything is typically better than nothing. Honestly Crashpad isn't fun to integrate unless you use a fork like backtrace's (which adds CMake support), which I think doesn't help. I don't know of any alternatives.

A version of Crashpad or something like it with a single turnkey server for database dumps, a one-line "defaults are good enough" integration, would be a real great thing to see.
What is async-unsafe in using `<stacktrace>`?

As for not using standard allocators - not a problem, just have a fixed area set aside as a buffer for crash reporting. Yes, it might not fit an extremely long report, but it's not that much of an issue.
if you actually wanted to you could probably wrap thread to pass the stacktrace of the spawning thread into the worker thread whenever you spawn a thread and then output that upon a crash as well. the library seems pretty simple and flexible.
They seem to be constantly redesigning the website. For me, there are two versions of the "new design": one for listing, another for the post itself... one is black and the other blue. Every other week there's something slightly different or a bit broken. The latest change for me was that I can't collapse posts anymore in the new version. Since I don't really use much, I just end up in reddit.com instead of old.reddit.com...

(EDIT: Scratch that, when I actually log in there seems to be a THIRD layout!!!)

There's also the mobile apps that still seem to get weekly (?) releases, all with the same copy-paste changelog (at least in my language). Don't know if something really changed, I don't use it.

The overall quality of course is terrible (at least for the site).

But that's completely expected when the number of developers is that large. Developer headcount doesn't scale linearly to delivered work. At some point you can keep adding people and it will only make things slower. :/
> I think if people genuinely feel this way then what is needed are solutions.

I personally think the solutions, from a technical stand point, are already there. What we need are intentions and solid motivations.

The reason why more people are not running personal sites, blogs, digital gardens or any other sort of truly personal web space is not for lack of technical solutions.

But it’s hard to make non dev people to realize what’s possible out there on the web.
Right, it's just a means to an end, one of several.
Does this include google photos and google docs?
Location: Hong Kong / Australia

Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Product Management Leader, B2C, mostly Mobile, but also Web and PC, Travel, Social Media, Google, UX/UI focused
Résumé/CV: http://www.ulfw.com/docs/CVulfw.pdf
Email: see resume
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waschbusch/

Results-driven Product Management Senior Executive with an extensive background in the mobile and
internet industries, boasting a strong technical, product design, e-commerce, and management skill set.
A Stanford MBA graduate who has spearheaded high-impact products and initiatives for global organizations such as Google, Myspace, Booking Holdings Agoda, Trip.com Skyscanner, SEA, and various startups. Proven track record of guiding organizations through challenging times, generating strong user growth, high satisfaction scores, and significantly increased conversion rates, while consistently receiving top ratings from users and independent reviewers.
Ah I see, fair point then I would agree.
Location: Canada

Remote: Yes, or hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: eC, git, Python, sqlite, js, Docker

GIS: geospatial standards and OGC APIs, geospatial software development, geospatial web development, spatial analysis (previous work)

dev: OO, test-driven, agile methodology and Kanban, UI design, web api design

eC is an object-oriented superset of C similar to C++, Java and C#.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-dion-954a9669

Email: patcdion [at] outlook.com
A few months ago I looked into how to do an angled gradient in SVG and was baffled that is isn't supported. Now looking at this spec, it's also not in there. Why the hell is this something nobody talks about. Photoshop has it since ages...
ARM macs can probably handle that, the M2 can do 10 8k video streams at once, 22 simultaneously on the Ultra, and people are running 4k 120hz on the M1 with a couple hacks.
Oh, like a wiki, or Scrivener, or some other tools, but specialized for legal writing?
No More Feedback (book summary)
Ah! That must be it. Yeah, super weird that you _have_ to put `.js` when that only exists at runtime
The 2560x1440 equivalent looks tack sharp on macOS. It renders at 5120x2880 and scales it down to native, as I said it’s effectively supersampling. I used this for years and never experienced a blurry image. I now run a 5k2k monitor, also at a fractional scale and again it looks excellent.
The article is about this:

https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html
It isn't necessarily defeatist. We could expect human nature to prevail despite our best efforts to curb it, and use that expectation to be prepared with mitigations and backup plans.
> What M&A are you familiar with that they can typically happen in a 6 day timeframe?

Youtube, for one: https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/30/the-entire-1-65b-acquisiti...

Android as well, if I'm remembering correctly.

They don't necessarily need to complete the acquisition in a week, just get the broad details negotiated and agreed to. Given the GP's bankruptcy example, if they thought it was worth the risk the acquirer can extend a bare minimum amount of credit to keep the company alive while they do the rest of due diligence and finish the acquisition, folding it into a breakup fee.
Looks cool! Have you considered making that picture on the homepage (the first one you see) a video? It'd make the site much more immersive, while also giving a true-to-life representation of the app.
Show me how I can kill you with my LLM, or my GAN or Diffusion Model.

I dare you!
1. Can you link to that?

2. Have these changes been offered as patch for libunwind or boost::stacktrace?
There are certainly ways, I switched to a Kobo reader instead of a Kindle and haven’t bought a book off Amazon in years.
> For like 99% of websites and software today, if anyone cared about the app performance, I am pretty sure most would be able to achieve at least 50% speed-ups through very basic changes (correct caching, optimizing assets, replacing bloated 3rd party libraries with a basic native call that does the same thing, configuring the servers and databases properly, etc.).

I'd say a big factor to include here is the choice of language. Going from Python/Ruby to Kotlin/Rust/etc could probably yield a speed up of over 10x / over 1000%.
That's pretty certain then archive.today rejecting it (maybe your ISP also doesnt use the subnet-extension they are so mad at Cloudflare about?).

Curious why "europe-wide censorship" was your first instinct, over "something is broken with that website"?
Another factor; so many programs today either require or… at least try a network connection before they actually DO anything.
huh I clicked around for a while and I like the vibe but I can't find any directory or feed of pages/projects to explore; it looks like it's all documentation and chat rooms for developers. Is there a way to browse the indie web as a consumer rather than a developer?
Humans have limited "working memory". We manage to cram more into it via hierarchical decomposition into "chunks", a single concept that is more complex inside.

I submit that not everything can be hierarchically decomposed in a way that's useful - i.e. any "abstraction" you try to force on it is more leaky than non-leaky; in that it doesn't simplify its interactions with other chunks. You might say it's the wrong abstraction - but there's no guarantee there is a right abstraction. Some things are just complex.
(This is hypothetical, since I don't think we can conceive of any concepts we can't understand.)

An AI could have an arbitrarily large working memory.

Note: I'm talking about intuitive understanding. We could use it mechanically, just never "get it", cowering before icons, being the one in Searle's Chinese Room https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
AliExpress is full of kids toy cameras similar to this - small, crappy quality, cheap but technically working.
Ditto. My wife and I like Ales and Ciders etc. and we will periodically buy some. I love Gin and use it in hot teas and what not.

But like my wife has had a bottle of a beer she loves in the fridge door For pushing 6 months now untouched. We have a bottle of cider we both love from gatlinburg that’s been in there for over a month, opened.

I’ll routinely have a bottle of gin take me several years to finish. Sit in the freezer for 2-3 years as I randomly put a dash in a tea.

This all or nothing mindset is bs. If an individual has problems with addiction and self control then definitely do the all or nothing.

Otherwise? Leave well enough alone.
6. https://www.tasteatlas.com/map-of-european-cuisines-with-rat...
Weirdly, I ONLY even look at books are best sellers. If I had to wade through books randomly, I'd rather not read a book at all.
Articles like this keep pushing the narrative that “users are angry” but I don’t see that anger in the local subreddit i visit the most (500+k subscribers, several thousands daily visitors)

The past two weeks have been largely normal.

I don’t think this narrative is truthful. Most likely is going to be a very vocal minority.

Not sure they can be called “landed gentry” but surely I’ve seen some shady behaviours (like silencing political opinions not liked by the mods).
Okay so edibles and the same rules we have for smoking/vaping which are specifically to address your concerns.