skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, it's a mess with no clear right answer. It doesn't sound like it's going too well in Portugal and Portland, but yea, some dystopian police state doesn't seem like the best answer either. It almost feels like some kind of delayed fuse terrorism that is plauging us. If cartels were killing people with guns instead of drugs, there would be military action. I wouldn't normally speak for military action, but having our fellow citizens hooked on hard drugs that kill and ruin lives is an absolute horror. Maybe we attack cartels and try to reduce supply some? Else, another route could be to produce a soma like drug that is safe and cheap so that people can be addicted and maintain their lives. It would have to be government controlled though, I don't think we would want corporations trying to compete and produce the best variant. But this route would lead to more people getting addicted and it would reduce the productivity of our society.
For sure, it’s always been a blend of both but you’d have to agree there was more of it than those moving to other parts of the Western US, which impacted many things downstream.

And the question is more about whether it’s currently primarily a luxury option as a headline idea, with a thousand different caveats.
This shifted from owning to riding. As a rider, I agree, most of the Ubers I've taken have been just fine, though not particularly clean, but fine nonetheless. Still, the cars are in far worse condition than a similarly aged car, and not something I'd personally accept as an owner for a few bucks. Again it's not just puke, but the tons of wear and tear that happens during ride sharing.

Uber churns through 96% of their drivers per year, so it's clearly not a no-brainer for the vast majority of them [1].

Self driving cars may help uber and its ilk lower their fleet costs if and when they get them, but a relatively insignificant portion of people will be willing to loan out their personal vehicle to them.

[1] https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/how-uber-makes-mo....
Ig you remove the incentive, why would they pay to do the research in the first place?

There is a gulf of value between "literal cure for cancer" and, like, some basic consumer good. Most things do not exist at either extreme end. Not all things worth doing are wildly profitable.
> That's as opposed to the significant costs of keeping someone in prison, which is significantly more than they would be earning if they were free.

It's worse than that. If someone is working a productive job, even if they don't make much, they're doing something useful. Someone has their dishes washed or their floors swept and there is a surplus that accrues not only to the worker but also the rest of society.

If someone is in prison, not only do you lose that surplus, you have to extract tax dollars from some other productive activity and use it to pay prison guards and consume real estate, which money could have been used by the government to do something useful, or to lower taxes so the taxpayer can do something useful.

Prison is an enormous net loss on both ends.
I wouldn't be opposed to exploring the idea of an alcohol+drug consumption license. Mandatory checkins every few months to make sure you're doing ok

> Most people who use drugs eventually end up not being able to live like normal adults

It is definitely not "most". There are people who are highly prone to drug addiction. Add on depression or lack of a stable life/job/community/friends/family and the risks go way up.

There are tons of people who do plenty of drugs recreationally, and it is safer than alcohol for many.
Well, you can say that again
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Your comment may inspire someone to make an air conditioner that runs on PoE...
Paramedic here, being a bit agist: and often it's a senior citizen that I'd be nervous seeing drive a Corolla, let alone this.
The USA and a few other cultures have unfortunately devalued shame to the point where it holds nearly no cultural power.

Shame is an important aspect of behaviour moderation, a negative emotion usefully experienced when doing something that breaks the social contract.

Devaluing shame instad of targeting the parts of the contract that needed to be changed has cost us a critical tool for self moderation and has created a significant subclass of infantile or openly hostile actors.

Without shame, many people unfortunately need an authority figure to step in and moderate their behaviour. It is an unfortunate side effect of what I can only describe as the infantilisation of society that I have watched happen over the last few decades.

It will likely result in people reaching for a paternal “strongman” figure and a subsequent slide into (probably) fascism.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.
See also N2660[1],a.k.a. "Dynamic Initialization and Destruction with Concurrency", a.k.a. C++ Magic Statics, for a similar feature built-in the language.

The paper has in the appendix a description of a possible implementation (which I believe is used by all major compilers).

[1] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n26...
Not sure if we’re talking about the same. It’s clear that one could block reviews from a bad reviewer and e.g. subscribe to another one. But those who game the system will promote their own reviewer accounts and drown real useful ones in low karma via botnets, making them non-discoverable for new users. It means money to them, and it doesn’t cost much, so it’s basically free money in doing that for sites which would want to pay for a good position in such system. It’s inevitable and there are tens to hundreds of examples of third-party review sites out there. The loop is fragile by design.
I’m interested to know if anyone has any recommended resources on DFT or DDFT (the simulation method used here) for someone with good applied math knowledge but who is not a physicist.

I have a decent working knowledge of stat mech from knowing about dynamical systems and information theory, but I am not a physicist. I’ve come across (classical) DFT before, but the tutorial papers I’ve come across get weighed down by a lot of physics jargon and notation that I don’t understand and they describe it in terms of certain physical systems that obfuscate whether I can adapt the method to problems I am interested (I think the answer is yes in my case but if I was confident I wouldn’t be asking). I could just rederive (classical) D or DDFT for my stochastic process, and that is likely the best way to learn it, but having a resource that is written more from the perspective of dynamical systems than a physicist would speed the process up quite a bit!
Great addition thanks!
I would be wary of copying this code and using it in my own project. Generally speaking, it's best to avoid rolling your own thread primitives. Even the smartest professionals sometimes get it subtly wrong (and sometimes it only becomes clear at scale via analytics and studying the data, luxuries you probably don't have). Use the battle-tested primitives: pthread_once, whatever the C++ equivalent is, or dispatch_once on the Mac.
If you already know Vim, you should probably not use Emacs without Evil:

https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

It gives you comprehensive Vim bindings so what you need to learn to be comfortable in Emacs is very little. As a bonus, it also keeps your RSI risk unchanged.
That's the thing about social media dunks: you can't get beat up for them. They show no personal courage or commitment. Social media dunking is disorganized, unprofessional, and likely only seen by one's own followers, if anyone. Whereas the sit-ins were well-organized and designed to bring wider public attention: "The protesters had been encouraged to dress professionally, to sit quietly, and to occupy every other stool so that potential white sympathizers could join in." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement#Sit-ins,...

Randomly flailing about, acting like an online vigilante, is extremely unlikely to be effective.
It's trivially easy to beat Snowflake on latency because its latency is truly awful. It often takes 1-4 SECONDS end-to-end to run a query that touches just a few thousand (not million!) rows. In theory this is fine for OLAP but when you have a Looker dashboard with 20+ tiles, it becomes a serious problem. ClickHouse absolutely thrashes Snowflake at this, routinely running millions-of-rows queries in hundreds of milliseconds.

Anyway the specific thing I'm remembering about cost is a case where a data team I joined had built a (dumb) CI process that ran a whole DBT pipeline when a PR was opened. After a month or so we got a bill for something like $50k.

Snowflake's rack-rate pricing is $2/credit and an XS warehouse is 1 credit/hr. That XS warehouse is, allegedly, an 8-core/16GB(?) instance with about a hundred gigs of SSD cache, from a "c" family if you're on AWS. Of course since your data is in S3 (cache notwithstanding), you're likely to be network-constrained for many query patterns. BigQuery, which is unquestionably faster than Snowflake, proves that this can be done efficiently. But compare to Redshift (non-RA3) or ClickHouse where you have data in locally-attached disks, Snowflake just gets smoked. The only lever they give you to get more performance is to spend more money which is great for their bottom line but bad for you.

The pitch is that because you can turn it all off when you're not using it (which in fairness they make very easy!), the overall costs end up low. Ehhhhhhhhhhh, maybe. It only takes one person leaving a Looker dashboard open with auto-refresh enabled to keep a warehouse constantly online, and that will add up fast. Plus if you are being silly and building DW data hourly, as is popular, it's going to need to be on anyway. (Do daily builds! You don't need more than that!) Point being, the cost model you will get from sales reps makes very optimistic assumptions about utilization, and it is very likely you will be hit with a bill larger than expected. In practice while it is technically easy to control utilization, it is not actually easy because there are humans in the loop.
Spanish newspapers tried this. They failed miserably.

Don't let your dislike for social media blind you from the reality that the world has changed, for the majority of the people in the world. People will spend their free time on these sites/apps, whether or not they have news.

The old local news model is dead. Niche sites like the WSJ, FT, NYT can survive with paid subscriptions, the rest have to find a different business model. This is not a conspiracy by Big Tech or billionaires, as much as we might want to find someone to blame. It's a structural change in the ether of society, information and distribution. Anything with near zero marginal costs of distribution needs is now in competition with the whole world, and unless they have something unique that people are willing to pay for, their days are numbered.
DRE == dense rock equivalent:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense-rock_equivalent>
As far as I can tell all the JBC stuff is also electronically controlled, so complaining about firmware here seems pretty odd.
> Do you manage to get a runny yoke?

nit: yolk
Liu Cixin, specifically the "Remembrance of Earth's Past" trilogy.
Firefox is <2% user base at this point, and financially completely beholden to Google.

The fight was lost long ago, several times (once when they decided to throw out thousands of developer work years by gimping all the addons)
OneNote lock-in is crazy. I legitimately lost access to over a year of notetaking after my "complementary" OneDrive storage trial period ended despite having paid for a Surface that included OneNote. I shudder just thinking of going back to any note taking app that doesn't export my data in a portable format.
Wow, I'm not sure how I missed that.
> "Is that the API the thesis has in mind, HTTP itself, while I was always thinking about the one on top, the one that lets me transfer money from my account to someone else?"

Yep, that's it.

Field's REST/HATEOAS can be used as a "layer" underneath a more traditional, schema-bound, RPC-like API. This is what Google did with GData, for example.
> you will have a huge budget to direct to social programs that can reduce the upstream causes of drug abuse, not just providing treatment after the fact. It sounds like Oregon didn’t get those programs in place yet.

If anything, Portland's actively pushed back against the county's efforts to put programs in place because the mayor wants the money to instead sweep ad-hoc encampments into city-run encampments:

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/12/portland-mayor-t...

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/05/mayor-ted-wheele...
> How much moonshine do you drink?

That question varies depending on where in the country you ask it. There’s a huge cultural aspect to moonshining and a lot of people in the south drink it.
lol that's a really interesting view on it. Ironically my next (or maybe first?) favorite genre is just post-apocalyptic stuff. I love the Silo series and my favorite book is the Canticle for Leibowitz.
Ask HN: How are colleges adapting to the era of AI-Produced Essays?
I was wondering that as AI technology gains popularity this year, how might colleges change their application process to stop AI-written essays?
Yeah at those kinds of scales I get doubtful. At those scales the electrical fields themselves begin to exert inertia on things, to the point that you could cut most power lines and they wouldn't stop catastrophically, they'd continue catastrophically (a problem that only gets worse with superconductors, as happened to CERN when they accidentally vaporised a length of superconductor that had become conductive).

It could definitely open up the road to long distance high capacity power lines, but somewhere along the line reality is going to make things difficult. It's not magic after all, just sufficiently advanced technology.
pretty cool indeed

long live sidefx
I like this a lot. Does anyone here have experience using Patreon for supporting this kind of work? Seems like a natural fit for a digital artist.
For example, anything with a bearing in it used in an application where it's safe to have a strong permanent magnet.
Ironically, one of the major themes of modern(ist) architecture is eliminating ornamentation and focusing solely on the hierarchy of spaces buildings create and what their uses are. "Form follows function" comes from modern architecture.

(Not all of it is successful! And like, it's hard to say Calatrava is about that. But we hear more about the failures than the successes in modern architecture, and conversely less about the failures of classical architecture, b/c survivorship bias.)
I don't know what exactly Oregon did, so following isn't about Oregon but more in general:

I often hear the "decriminalize drugs it worked in Portugal" phrase. But while it's not wrong it also misses a lot of points.

Portugal did much more then just decriminalizing drugs, they also e.g. giving people free therapy or consulting to get them away from drugs, places where addicts can safely take drugs and also people can reach out to them to help them reduce drug consumption and much more. Also they did various steps to reduce the poverty<=>organized crime<=>selling drugs<=>taking drugs relationship through I don't remember enough details.

I'm not even sure the last step is possible in the US due to the US being in a very different situations, e.g. wrt. police violence, gang violence, but also stuff like how society tends to punish people which had been in prison even through the prison punishment already is supposed to be their full penalty and enacting such discrimination is quite problematic (as it makes it much harder for someone to change their live to the better).

Anyway only decriminalizing without any other steps is likely most times a bad idea.

E.g. in Portugal after cutting resources for that program the results also started to become worse AFIK.

What is most important in my opinions is to make it easier for people to get away from drugs and turn their live around. _And this fundamentally also means not treating drug addicts for criminals because they are drug addicts_. But that isn't exact the same as a general decriminalization. For example you could have rules like not punishing people which committed a (non serve, e.g. drug possession up to some amount) crime due to being addicted iff and only iff they take a withdrawal therapy, and only once or so. Also such a therapy is provided for free by the state for any addicted citizen, at least once or twice in their live. Similar you do not get discriminated when for having been addicted in the past if you went to a withdrawal therapy. Especially the later point is really important.
You can see them every year on the big screen in a lot of cities and I highly recommend it: https://www.fathomevents.com/series/studio-ghibli-fest

The absence of true "bad guys" is one of the best part (Suliman, Yubaba).
Could you elaborate on why and how tipping at ridiculous rates is effectively mandatory?

Genuinely curious. In Europe, I just book a ride in the app, get brought to my destination, say goodbye to the driver, the service's price is automatically charged on my bank account, and I go on with my plans.

It does ask for a tip (between 0.50 € to maybe 4 € or so, if I recall correctly) and a rating if you are looking at the app. So maybe give 5 starts as a way to help the driver if they were good and there is some free time to kill. But as far as I know, most people just ignore it and dismiss any extra dialogs after the trip.

Are you from the US, and would you say that the culture of almost-mandatory tipping in bars & restaurants also applies for services like Uber?
That’s a stretch. Dias’ material has real color change under high pressure which is an expected property of superconductors but nobody would argue his paper was not complete fabrication
Is it possible to connect this to an external display via USB to HDMI, or is it VNC-only? I'd love to have an Ubuntu desktop in my pocket, to use in a pinch.
I believe you have to go to native app switcher and long press the application icon to get more options
The faster a web site asks me for an email address determines how fast I bail on even looking at their product/tool, or if I have no choice I put in a bogus email address to get past it, if it is one of those damn forms that sends you a link I use one of the various public inbox/temporary email address sites so I don't have to deal with the attempts to bring me back into the conversion funnel when I was just seeking information.
Brave is a man-child’s tantrum that he had to face the consequences of being a bigot.
1. Police routinely lie.

2. Even if you believe them, this is about who they chose to arrest during a two week period in one small neighborhood. You can't get any more cherry-picked than that.

3. This doesn't even mention homeless people.
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Sure, I would love to the see the receipt from the author
> Sure it could be the RPi hat, but it just means the standard is so complicated that people don't implement it correctly.

Or there are ways to cheap out on a PoE device that may work in some cases but don't fully and properly implement the standard.

The standard is widely used in VoIP phones, wireless access points, security cameras, and all sorts of other networked devices that get installed in places that may not have nearby power outlets or where a single wire solution is beneficial.

Personally I have three Pis that have been on PoE their entire lives and have had no problem, but I used a name brand PoE hat (the Waveshare hat with the OLED display) and am powering them from a mainstream PoE switch. If you're using some random AliExpress hat with janky injectors you get what you pay for.

> I wouldn't trust the hat or whatever you call it for Mac Mini.

Almost any large commercial building has had hardware running on PoE that costs more than the average Mac Mini for years. Most PTZ cameras for example, high-end directional wireless bridges, even some nicer wireless access points.
The site owners don’t care. If something works on 99% of people and pushes away 1%, they will keep doing it.
I have used it and if you take time to customize it, it surpasses all the other options simply because you can do whatever you please with your data.

Sometimes I edit my markdown files in other editors like Bear (or web interfaces). Sometimes I draw handwritten notes on my ipad and insert them as images.

It all works pretty well.
Its well known that ~25% is what Uber takes from the fare. Everything else is broken out by fee. The author should post receipt
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Is there not discrimination against black people in Europe?

there is. my point is that you can discover them by tracking their origin and language. no need to track their race. it's extremely rare that any have been living in europe for more than two, maybe three generations (maybe a bit less rare in france, belgium, netherlands due to their colonies).

EDIT: the guardian article actually touches on that and argues that migration background is being tracked, but doesn't work, but if i understand it correctly, they don't track previous generations.

but anyways, my suggestion is just a hack on the current law. what we really need to focus on is identifying factors that lead to discrimination and statistically track them. skin color is such a factor. if the law prevents that, then and we can't find another way to solve the problem, then maybe it should be changed.