skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The assumption behind your entire post is that temporarily putting people in prison for drug use limits their use. I'm pretty sure it just makes people do drugs where you can't see them. That's probably good enough for most folks though.
The first ammendment doesn't apply to a Dutch court case.

Of course there's article 7 of the Dutch constitution (as a guide for laws related to speech, not necessarily for individual rights, as judges cannot directly use them in most judgements) and article 10 of the ECHR (which comes with loads of exceptions like ensuring protection of morals) but those are still directed at states and governments rather than individual freedoms.

Of course the concept of freedom of expression goes beyond the legal definition, but the legal definition is the only one that's relevant as that's the freedom you actually have.
Not all early-stage AI startups are created equal
I’m moving to Firefox as my main browser, and the amount of sites that break because of me blocking JavaScript (with ublock) is staggering. I can understand SPA being JS only, but simple blogs and other content sites, no.
Xylazine present in more than 1 in 10 fentanyl overdose deaths in the US
More people are killed on the road in accidents caused by elderly folks than drunk drivers. I know this sounds insane, but drunk driving should be no harm no foul.
He's thinking of superconducting magnetic energy storage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energ...

Currently they're only feasible as high quality power sources for fabs and other industrial uses because of the operating costs of cooling the superconductors.
This is pretty neat to see Apple involved in a standard. They don't like to back everything that comes along. What is very interesting though, is that Meta isn't involved. Maybe because they're backing another horse, namely OpenXR [0].

[0] https://www.khronos.org/openxr/
I think this is the biggest mental shift to make when considering OpenUSD.

It allows splitting the data representation from the render pipeline.

On the data side, OpenUSD can support BIM just fine:

• Can store the geo representation, will render as long is there is a plugin written to render it (for systems that don't, the geo is still available to query)
• Can store additional information either on the same file, referenced in a different referenced file (ex.: In-wall pipe layouts can be referenced from the main construction file to keep it small)
• Can 'layer' additional information and resolve conflicts according to a well-defined resolution method, allowing multiple authors.
One theory I like is that when young, we see the world in "high FPS" (a rough metaphor for some neurological phenomenon). As we age, the "FPS" slow down, which makes everything seem much faster.

At least in my subjective experience, I can tell that motion seems coarser now that I'm 40. I can still detect the "soap opera" effect when motion smoothing is turned on in a TV, but it's a bit harder to tell than when the feature was introduced.
It's a tactic to convince a general audience, not meant to indicate how I feel about the addicted.

Unfortunately about half the population doesn't have empathy for anyone they don't grow up with, and some of those have empathy for no one at all.

I know a thing or two about these folks and they're all suffering before they started using. They often start by self medicating because they were traumatized or incredibly impoverished due to a series of unfortunate accidents.

So, yes, I believe it's the right thing to do to treat rather than imprison.
Renewing your passport seems to me to be an exceptionally anti-citizen task. You can't do it in person (unless you're abroad, ironically), you can't do it online (pilot program which ended with no production in sight), you can't pay online, you must pay with a money order or check. The website looks to be about 30 years old and is janky to say the least.
What is monomaniacally focused about maintaining a login page for $350k?
Internet Explorer is EVIL! (2002)
The most heavily abused drugs are the legal ones.

That is the primary argument against legalization / decriminalization. MJ legalization has led to a 20% increase in use already. It's a very good argument.

The only argument I have for legalization is the current situation we have with Mexico (and Guatemala, etc). Our inability to not control/treat drug addiction has led to a fundamentally destabilized country in a de facto civil war (against cartels we trained in the School of the Americas, an entirely different nutso side). Those cartels are supported by the economics of illegal drugs.

Not just that, with the fall of our puppet regime in Afghanistan, we will be enriching the Taliban regime by paying for the output of their poppy fields.

What is mindblowing is listening to all my right leaning relatives scream at the top of their lungs about the illegal immigration flood, but they are the ones supporting the side that most opposes dealing with the drug problem in a constructive way.

IMO the fundamental way to fight illegal drugs is to decriminalize, replace the supply / undermine the economics with medically or governmentally supply (at prices that undercut mafia economics), and make treatment zero-cost available as part of the drug availability.

Of course that will probably lead to something like Purdue Pharma and painkillers / Medicaid fraud.

But the War on Drugs has to end.
Did we read the same paper? This is a ceramic.
1. Licenses or prescriptions should be required for all drugs; either can be taken away. Also, people need education.

2. Start a better public works program. Employment is good for mental health.

3. Maybe require a month of service or something, just to have a way to resocialize people when they break.

4. Have people pick up their benefits somewhere not in the city. Some reason to move.

5. Forced rehab to those engaged in harm; nature and nutrition.

6. Need to avoid cultures of homelessness. Need good policy. Look to Amsterdam, a city with virtually no homelessness.

7. Make better drugs available? Fentanyl seems like the worst.
My dad did this once. We drove from Chicago to NYC in a 20’ box truck in a snowstorm. The truck was shockingly comfortable.

Even better, we bought a couple of big coolers and took a few hundred Vienna Beef hotdogs home!
https://archive.is/m4nhl
I have to say that I actually do like quite a bit of modern architecture. It certainly has unique qualities to it.

That said, I don't see why people keep putting "random block with geometric patterns" everywhere. It is the least imaginative style I can think of and its sheer ubiquity and blandness make them offensive on their own. It gets even worse when the building is begging for attention by contrasting itself with the buildings around it, that just makes it one step more offensive.
Hot take: there should be more VC-backed war startups. Call it "wartech". We spend an epic shitton of money per second on the military industrial complex, it would be nice to see a few startups actually try to make things less expensive somehow.
Thank you for your honest feedback. Our goal is to make ProseMirror with Tiptap even easier to use. The demand for modern content editing continues to grow. Tools like Notion have raised the bar. We don't want to hide ProseMirror, we want to complement it.

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It seems it got hit this year ( visiting as tourist). Rome and Milan too (visiting family).
> So, can we finally say a "JPEG" or "H.264-in-MP4" for 3D content is coming?

Both of those are generally considered distribution formats, where my understanding is that USD is an authoring/interchange format. In that case, somewhat more analogous file formats might include TIFF and PSD for images. or Motion-JPEG and ProRes for video.
> That reminds of how Salt Lake City recently found out the same thing with its success in curing homelessness. The problem never ends.

It's funny that you mention Salt Lake City, because that example is commonly misunderstood and actually illustrates the exact opposite of what you're pointing out.

Utah set out to solve chronic homelessness. The causes and effects of chronic homelessness are completely different from transient or episodic homelessness, and the three require different approaches. Utah eliminated 91% of chronic homelessness within ten years, using a Housing First policy. After they ended the policy, total (not chronic) homelessness increased. The majority of that increase was from non-chronic homelessness, which was not targeted by their policy and which was increasing even before that policy ended (because it was, well, independent of a policy that was... not aimed at addressing it). Chronic homelessness has increased in Utah since the end of the program in 2015, but the overwhelming majority of homelessness that's reported on in Utah is still not chronic homelessness, because chronic homelessness makes up less than 20% of the homeless population.

It's odd to look at that as "the problem never ends", because the problem (chronic homelessness), did very nearly end, until the state decided to end the program and go back to their own ways.
My dyslexic arse thought this read OpenBSD for a brief second.
EU regulation has gotten far more right than wrong when it comes to tech.
My Lenovo Yoga slim from 2023 charges fine with my pixel 4a charger. Though it's barely enough power to break even while watching YouTube on Firefox. Though the Samsung charger from a 2023 Samsung A series phone can't charge it.
Who said anything about picking something just because everyone likes it? No, the statement was about trying something because everyone likes it.

If everyone thinks A > B, and you seem to be the only person using B, then it might be worth your time to try out A. Sure, maybe you're happy with B, but there might be something you're missing that you don't know you're missing. If you try out A and decide you actually do like B more, that's fine.
The way I think about it is by making an analogy with sleep: We perceive time to be fastest during sleep, i.e. when there is no sensory input. So the perception of time is actually linked to changes in sensory inputs. My hypothesis is that as we grow older, we become less and less sensitive to stimuli due to familiarity, so we perceive time to be faster.
Otherwise known as "Build one to throw away".

The article is good as far as it goes. Yes you do start off knowing nothing about a project. Along the way you run into roadblocks, and you learn something when you work your way around those roadblocks. Then you strike another roadblock, and work your way around that one too. Rinse, repeat.

By the time you're a good way into the project, you will probably think "I should have done all that foundational work at the start differently".

It's often said that you should build three houses before you get the basics right enough. Been there, done that. I built one large, expensive house. Made so many mistakes that I won't do that again. Hence the reasons behind 'Build one (cheaply!) to throw away."

We all should have a 'pet project'. That's a project you do for fun and learning. Every now and then you haul that project out and rewrite it from scratch.

You may rewrite it in a new programming language or two, thus adding whole languages with their good bits and 'gotchas' to your repertoire.

You may rewrite it several times so that your project changes at every stage from being a plain old text-based project that writes to a terminal, to one using curses and different ways of writing and displaying stuff on a 'panel', to being a GUI-based project using GTK+ with call-backs, bitmaps and idle-timeouts.
Sure but I very much value my kids over strangers engaging in destructive behavior on the street. Why risk myself and my family for them?
Pretty much anything with 32GB (?) total RAM+VRAM:

https://github.com/cmp-nct/ggllm.cpp

But its going to be slow without even a small Nvidia GPU (a 2060?). CPUs are really slow at prompt ingestion, and that can't be hidden with streaming.
The boom & bust cycles of the airline industry is the fatal problem. Entry level pilots are paid dirt wages while having to self fund massive training expenses. The last time I looked, the training ran far in excess of $100k with entry level jobs at regional airlines paying around $20k/year. Since then, the FAA has required much more hours of flying time before qualifying to fly passengers.

Changing jobs as a pilot sets you back to square one with seniority and pay. There's no way to change companies and get raises - like one can do as a software developer.
They have low losses when storing power, but power has to be stored in the magnetic field. They have a limit on acceptable magnetic field strength called the critical field though, above which it stops being a superconductor and bad things™ happen. Current SMES systems have an energy density of about ¹⁄₅₀th of current Li-ion batteries.
https://archive.is/WfDJh
Yes and no. It appears they are using it correctly but it was initially used more specifically as "unverified at best". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid

> A factoid is either an invented or assumed statement presented as a fact, or a true but brief or trivial item of news or information.
How does marriage vary by state?
I guess for you that might be an upside of the American Healthcare system - fat people pay more for health insurance, and have to pay money out of pocket for their surgery and medications.
It probably helped that Pixar was the developer of the technology. I'm sure Tim Cook & Apple writ large think very fondly of tech developed by a company run by it's old CEO.
This was my immediate thought. I reckon this will be one of the early steps in getting to automated movies.
Google reshuffles Assistant unit to ‘supercharge’ products with A.I
Study: Insect protein slows weight gain, boosts health status in obese mice
Can we all just be honest and just agree that prohibitions do in fact make access to the prohibited thing harder and reduce the prevalence of it. This is true whether your topic of choice is drugs, guns, abortions, alcohol, some form of sex, vpn access or whatever you want to talk about.

Sometimes the prohibition can make obtaining illegal things more difficult and risky, and many of us are too lazy or risk avoidant to push through that. Sometimes accessing a prohibited things requires social contacts not everyone has access to. Sometimes people will just straight up respect the law and not obtain the illegal thing even if it is easy or avoid providing it. Prohibitions can be very effective in reducing the incidence of some thing, especially if enforcement is draconian

Prohibitions can have negative effects, obviously especially for those who like the thing that is being prohibited, but it just seems dishonest to try to pretend like prohibitions don't change behavior whenever that happens to suit some political preference
Almost all discourse around HATEOAS is in the context of APIs
The US' stated policy is global freedom of navigation and that has been the primary policy aim that they enforce since UNCLOS in 1982.

So no, they do not control access to the oceans.
They serve different roles, glTF is intended to be an asset delivery format that aligns with how GPUs work so it can be loaded onto one with fairly minimal overhead. USD is intended to be an interchange format for moving assets between editors and renderers. They're kind of analogous to JPG/PNG and PSD respectively, if PSD were an open standard.

What Apple is doing with USD might have been better served by glTF, but glTF is a Khronos standard and Apple refuses to work with them for unspecified legal reasons.
Looks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36960625 "won" - I'm not sure which article is more informative here.
Or Brave could just do what they should have done in the first place and develop their own browser engine from the ground up - by now they ought to have the resources to do so, and the world could really do with more than the handful we have now.
In some sense, it is. Barring random sobriety checkpoints (which are generally avoidable).
At least according to this wikipedia chart on superconductor discovery timelines[1], it seems like most discoveries aren't one-off.

I have no knowledge in this area though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_superconductivity#/...
When the android version is no longer supported but can run Linux inside it is it still safe to use or subject to the android security problems a legacy version would have?
> Literally any setup that does the job is fine when you're just getting into it — you don't know what you don't know and having a cheap entry point is a good way to figure out if you like it at all, what kind of a workflow works for you, etc.

Lifting isn't a good analogy. Learning guitar is a better analogy.

Sure, you can learn on a $100 guitar, but it's gonna suck. And, it's going to impair learning to play guitar. The action is going to be high and stiff. The frets are liklely to be finished badly and the fret ends are going to be sharp. The pickups are going to be crappy. The finish is going to either be thick or non-existent. The tuners will probably not hold tune through a single song. Strings will buzz because alignment is off.

A $500 guitar, however, likely won't have any of those issues. The action will be lower. The frets will be finished properly and the fret ends will be filed off. The tuners will hold tune for weeks--your strings stretching will be your only tuning issue.

The difference between a $100 and a $500 guitar is like night and day. The guitar becomes enjoyable rather than something to be worked around.
Xylazine is a non-opioid veterinary tranquilizer not approved for human use in the U.S. It is used for sedation, anesthesia, muscle relaxation, and analgesia in animals such as horses, cattle, and other non-human mammals.
nothing, why? It's a weekend

I drink beer, hang out with my wife or do sports
Cookie law is how many years old? 10? 15?

For how many years they can pretend to be dumb and act like they dont know?

They just want to do shady stuff with the data, that's it.
Companies House (part of UK civil service) | Senior Developer | Full time | Remote in UK or Hybrid in Cardiff | Can sponsor Visa to UK

We can offer an incredible defined benefit pension and an extremely family friendly flex system (You can work your time anytime between 6am and 8pm with no core hours, just clock in and out). If that sounds interesting you should apply.

We are Remote first with the super majority of people working from home most of the time.

We do a lot of training including free Pluralsight and other courses throughout the year.

I like to be perfectly frank though that we can not offer London salaries.

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The EU does not mandate popups. The EU mandates consent to be tracked. You could simply not track and then you wouldn't need consent. Or you could do it without a popup.
What's the goal of having a MacMini running off an external battery? I mean, it seems less cost effective than just getting a MB Air and not using the screen...
I live in an area of Bayview where the only restaurants open after 5pm are a 30m walk across a risky pedestrian intersection. There’s something to be said for the cost of rent vs these other addon expenses with living in such an area I’m sure. We try to cook at home a lot. But, the only grocery stores are the outlet bargain mart or getting on the highway.
I bought a chocolate treat once, and it was small so I ate the whole thing. It didn't occur to me at the time that there was a cross imprinted on it for a reason - it was meant to be divided into 4.

So it was 40mg. I was super high on the bus on my way home, I cannot deny. Thankfully I could still handle and enjoy it. I think if it was 50mg, it would have been a whole different experience.

In my comment above, I meant to say 2 10mg doses, since we were talking about adding up to 20mg. It's the kind of mistake that's fine as a typo, but quite a different thing irl.
Seriously, has anyone ever made a non-toy implementation conforming to the idea of HATEOAS?

A REST client needs little to no prior knowledge about how to interact with an application or server beyond a generic understanding of hypermedia.

Nothing but a generic understanding of hypermedia? You need some substantial understanding of language and the world to figure out where this link will take you.

<a href="/accounts/12345/close-requests">close-requests</a>

Sure, English is not my first language and financial terms are probably a real weak spot, but I have at best a vague idea what this will do. Can I request to close my account? But why would I need requests for that, plural? So maybe it is not about closing my account but instead a close request is some financial term? If it is, I still have no idea what it is good for.

For consumption by humans, developers poking around in a new API, HATEOAS might be nice. But how on earth are you going to write software that can consume such an API, dynamically discover, understand and use available operations? Maybe you could use ChatGPT to do this. And how are you going to build an UI for this that is any better than what naked objects [1] can deliver if you do not even know which operations the API has to offer?

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Objects
Decriminalizing drugs doesn’t fix the supply problem, which makes drug use such a budensome expense that there are all kinds of knock on effects (theft, poverty, etc). Someone commented on how rich people don’t see drug use, but sure they do. Aside from the fact that most everyone here is pretty rich and complaining about addicts, I come from an upper middle class suburb with a ton of addicts. Lots of people I went to school with died of overdosed. But it’s not immediately visible because people’s families reluctantly take them in, they generally have enough money for drugs, etc.

Not arguing for outright legalization—while I once did, I now think it’s naive. And I’m not sure we could pull off a Portugal style system in the US. But descriminalizariam doesn’t seem to be working that well.
There are many things that seem like electrical resistance but are different phenomena. Capacitive reactance, inductance, "radiation resistance", etc. Superconductors don't prevent any of these effects. But, these effects are usually smaller than ordinary resistance.