skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are your most pressing problems?

Do you have enough food, shelter, and money to carry you through the next few months? If not, that's probably the first goal.

Do you have an income, from steady work or from another source, that allows you to maintain a basic standard of living? If not, that's probably the second goal.

Do you have an income, but your job sucks, is unfulfilling, or you want a higher standard of living? Changing your work or primary activities for more money or more fulfillment is probably your third goal.

Do you have enough people in your life to meet your emotional needs? Do you have some creative outlet or spiritual practice? If not, finding some sort of fulfillment is probably your last goal.

4/4 is quite hard to do! Start with where you are now, and try to make whatever progress you can.

If you've got physical health problems, you've gotta do what you can with those, and if you've got dependents you've got to take care of them too as best you can.

Last, the way you phrased things sounds similar to the way that people in who are depressed talk. So I'm going to go out on a limb: Depression fucking sucks in ways that people who haven't been depressed struggle to understand. If you're depressed things are going to be harder and take way longer than you'd like. But most people who get depressed are not depressed forever. Most depression comes in episodes that eventually lift. Many who get depressed are able to eventually build fulfilling and happy lives. There's hope. If you're in the pits you might not be capable of feeling hope right now, but it is there, and it is possible for things to get better.
Because AI media generation can scale up way past human media generation, and probably will.
Yes, this is why I asked you how you would test your definition. All of our tests of understanding are performances.
Using javascript... To simulate an entirely duplicate DOM structure and then diffing it to update the real thing.

JavaScript is fine it's the massive frameworks that add 20 extra layers of abstraction that has to be processed that's the real problem.
(most) Opiods are already legal and regulate - they are mostly medical useful drugs.

The current opiod crisis was largely created by over-prescription of legal, regulated opiods and subsequent rejection of further prescription; something that led many addicts to search out alternative sources, which grew a market for gray and black market opiods, which grew into whatever you want to call what we have now - tons of unregulated and often 'dirty' fentanyl and carfentanil flooding the system and ending up in everything.

I guess I'm saying I know where you are coming from, and increasing usage isn't going to be a great idea. On the other hand, felonization of it and the halo effect of street crime etc. absolutely is causing massive harm, arguably worse than the scenario you describe. It's not an easy problem to make real progress with.
I am so glad that they picked an acronym so obvious so as to not confuse anyone.
Oregon basically made it a $100 fine or you could get treatment...<5% of the people arrested chose treatment. Portugal had more rules requiring treatment which is what made it effective...Oregon did not choose that route.

https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2023/04/22/economist-magazi...
Is anyone familiar with copy protected dynamic qr codes?

Ticketmaster is making use of these. They have a strip of fluctuating color around the outside.
The developer has been missing on GitHub since 2020 [1]

[1] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/issues/845
Any performance benchmarks compared to other LLMs? Also, any performance increases on the orig Falcon model in inference speed?

We ditched most of our focus on Falcon 40B after Llama 2 70B came out, both the tokens per sec and quality of results are not even close.
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If you are interested in professional sports, this is a chance to contribute to the results you see on the field. Our team is fairly small, there is tons of opportunity, the people are awesome, and we work hard on interesting problems.

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Because it's much easier to remove a cryptographic signature than it is to falsify one, and there's a greater incentive in passing a generated file as being created by a human than the opposite.
AMD Reports Second Quarter 2023 Financial Results
> If drugs were legalized country-wide

No thank you. I don't want to catch what SF has. I'll vote against anyone who suggests we need to legalize in my area.
Around the same decade I did a similar thing with an athena vaxstation under X; I noticed recently I still had the same hacks in my emacs startup to keep M-x shell from starting another emacs (I didn't use the trampoline trick, just literally chsh /bin/athena/emacs.)
Sure, you can write or run your own fediverse server that renders HTML-only page, and every time you see a Mastodon link you paste it in your server's lookup form and browse it from there. Honk (https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk) is HTML only and very minimalistic. I'm sure there's frontends or clients for Mastodon that use less HTML as well, so you can also swap out Mastodon's default frontend for a less heavy one.
For kids:

My Neighbor Totoro

Spirited Away - (3 year olds might find some moments scary, lost of strange creatures and scary moments for the protagonist but not for too long.)

The Secret World of Arrietty

Depending on how they handle those you could try others.
Why/how did Git's UX become so bad?
This is interesting, I'll take a look. My main concern with running this in production is that there is more text data in the world than code. Further, a pure tree-manipulation model has less explainabilities since you can always ask GPT-4 what it's thinking.
For an intelligence officer, I would say, yeah, you should probably never be high or drunk. Maybe "never been high/drunk" is too strict.

If you're mopping the mess hall, you can probably go home and have a six pack if you want. Just not on the job...
Depends. A single battery cell would have nontrivial resistance, yes.

But a big bank of batteries, like are in an EV? Very hard to give them enough current to heat them up. Most of the "heat problem" is from the bottlenecked current path into the car; once you fan out across all the individual cells, each individual cell isn't receiving much current.

And a bank of supercapacitors? You could charge it effectively instantly.
Even just OpenSD would be a vast improvement. Presume the "open" replaces "universal" (which isn't a 1:1 mapping, but still works as a branding exercise) and you DON'T have what literally 100% of the non-graphic-artist HN commentariat thought: that they're weirdly doing a stablecoin.
In US media is very common to have a character take a single bite to the food, then run away. I dunno why, but I hate that. In Korean tv the characters are always eating, full bites, empty glasses, etc. I love it.
What kind of speed up did you get?
> Most people who use drugs eventually end up not being able to live like normal adults

Is this true? The US consumes a lot of hard drugs, but my perception is that most users not have their lives fall apart as a result. Curious if there are estimates on the % of e.g. cocaine users who are recreational vs those who eventually end up on the street as a result of their use.
Emacs Enthusiasts unite https://youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc
As someone in and out of the USD ecosystem for years (starting around 2014 or so), this comment is especially hilaruous.
Interesting, I'm a fan of Tom's and agree with this take but have not known about it before now!
> I'm still embarrassed when I have thoughts related to that book

You shouldn't be. The book is rightfully considered one of (if not) the defining works of behavioral psychology and you dismiss it because one chapter's methods came into question?

Read his explanation of the "debunk": https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-...
Location: C-Corp from Chicago
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Scala/Scala.js, Java, Rust, Postgres, Pulumi, Ansible, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Ruby, Blockchain.
Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/in/alexis-hernandez or github.com/AlexITC
Email: hn at alexitc dot com

> Alexis consistently proposed solutions that were both practical and innovative, illustrating his commitment to our project's success above his own billable hours

I grabbed a piece shared by one of my customers, there are more comments at https://wiringbits.net (you can ring my phone from there).

I'm generalist that commonly deals with tricky problems, broken projects, flaky infrastructure, etc.

My goal with projects is that they work smoothly without much maintenance.

I'm looking for part-time work to fund my own product, I can increase my commitment temporary to deliver important milestones.

I have worked in anything from tiny companies to even enterprises where we delivered projects to FAANG.
Yep, and it took effect 13 weeks after voting it through. No possible way to get things in order in only 13 weeks...especially at the state level.
Battery packs don't seem to be the problem at all in the used market. The number of used EVs that have entered the market that needed a battery pack replacement is statistically insignificant for most models. In fact, the current argument is that battery packs are "too good": The used market doesn't seem to be growing at the same rate of ICE turnover because of fewer maintenance costs over car lifetime. The median EV owner is keeping their car for 7+ years, which is an incredible jump compared to the historic 3- year first owner lifecycle of ICE.

We are just about past the "early adopters naturally have higher attachment rates" line and there are some interesting questions if the used EV market will always look weirder than the used ICE market.
Not in the post, but I think there's still some pretty large savings.

Pretty much anything SaaS based is ridiculous. If you can swing self-hosted ( managed but in your account with there's potential for a discussion, but with many products, it's the actual integration work that's the real work.

Don't get me wrong, there's specific "always going to be small" where it likely makes sense.
> People don't even bother getting it on the black market anymore where it is legal.

The unlicensed weed bodegas popping up on every other block in NYC beg to differ. People might not text a delivery service anymore, but they're definitely not going to legal recreational dispensaries here in NYC.
Yes, once they're addicted no amount of prohibition will dissuade them. And we already have lots of addicts so the prevention ship has sailed. It's time to address the negative effects of black markets and drug impurity. During alcohol prohibition people used to die from the adjuncts or improper distillation. Now you can still become an alcoholic but at least can rely on the quality. And no gangsters make a living from rum running.
If Scheme implementations count as a tool, then (Tigger voice) comparing implementations by the dozen is what Schemers do best!

I'm partial to Guile and Gambit. Guile because it has comprehensive POSIX support and is an awesome glue language. Gambit because it has a compiler that emits fast code and an easy C FFI.

I prefer Emacs to all other text editors, but I frequently use whatever vi version is hanging around for quick edits and config changes.

VCS, the order goes Darcs, git mercurial, the rest.

Image editors, I dunno. GIMP, Krita, and GrafX2 I use at different times for different things.

8-bit micros: C64, TI-99/4A, VIC-20, everything else.
True, taxing and inflation hit the middle class the hardest.
The upper classes don't have "income", they borrow funds based on their assets and have tax specialists that can launder any income. They don't have mortgages either.
> Decriminalization actually would mean you see more of them out on the streets because they're not being locked away in prison.

Decriminalization means the government cannot mandate people enter treatment. If people are out on the street and addicted, the government needs some teeth so they can treat even those that are in denial.
Ask HN: What advancements will be enabled by room-temperature superconductor?
Suppose in the next few years we tackle the issue of large-scale manufacturing of room-temperature superconducting materials, what are some interesting and impactful changes to expect and why?
I allways assumed it was put on heavily downvoted posts to kind of "hide" low quality content. TIL I suppose.
Weird Parts of C you probably never heard of [video]
Decriminalization is mostly pointless step and won't work to fix the "drug" issue. It only solves one piece of the puzzle, jailing non-violent people. You still have black markets, you still have stigmatization, you still have unknown and mystery substances (users don't know what they are actually getting).

To "solve" the drug issue we need full legalization and regulation of all drugs, and safe centers/locations where drugs can be used under medical supervision.
This is a big deal. I used to work at Autodesk, trying to build software that made 3D blueprints available to everyone, everywhere. Rendering things on mobile is hard, in part because you need to writer bespoke renderers, and in part because the data formats for the assets are not aligned.

Pixar developed USD, and it should really help to standardize 3D tech. In particular, I hope that USD can help make it easier to build high-performance rendering tech for a variety of applications that might not receive so much attention from the 3D graphics people (this is one thing video games do quite well, from a CS approach!)

Having some big names behind the standard should help, but of course, the proof will be in the pudding as to how meaningful their contributions are, and how much their involvement pushes the adoption of the standard.
Spirited away is pretty scary for a 3 or even 6 year old. Perhaps Kiki? Or Arrietty?

Spirited away is one of the best.
I'm one of the people who's leaning towards the small web, yet I don't go to these extremes.

I use no adblockers, yet I use services that are part of the small web. I host my own webpage. However, if I need to use some part of the "common" web, I use that part. It just doesn't get used anymore.

Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, many news sites are distant places. I have nothing to block them, but my lifestyle pushed them out of my life. I'll continue scaling down until I hit that optimal point, but I won't go to extremes just for reaching that limit.

Also, seeing the bad practices and anti-patterns help me to keep my knowledge about these things up to date. This way, I can recognize the patterns and I don't re-implement them get blindsided.
US intelligence did not support Bush's wars, which is why they had to go and make up new intelligence in order to start them.
BTLM-3B-8k: Small LLM that fits within 3GB of memory
For a great, under appreciated (in the west) Miyazaki series pre-Ghibli, check out “Future Boy Conan”[0]. It’s my personal favourite, and all 3 of my boys (and my wife) have watched it multiple times. It’s the source of a lot of Ghibli tropes, and I think they were expertly executed.

Of course it’s nice that it’s a TV series, so you get to spend that much longer in the world with the characters.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Boy_Conan
> It's not so much a competitor (in performance or clarity) to Odin or Zig as it is a competitor to Go or something

That seems accurate. Dealing with raw pointers as one does in Odin or Zig is very much de-emphasized in favour of dealing with safe references, and a lot of effort is put into optimizing out all the overhead of those reference checks (hence ARC/ORC) and writing code to evade them. The manual memory management features of Nim are there for flexibility and fallbacks and are not really the main way to write code: even for embedded. The stuff that Zig (and Odin?) do surrounding allocators and alignment, and constructs for slightly-safer pointers, are really very interesting yet are most helpful if you are indeed working with pointers and worrying about offsets: which you usually aren't in Nim.

I am curious as to what you mean about comptime, though. I have gotten the impression that equivalent constructs in Nim are more powerful. You have `static` blocks and parameters, `const` expressions, `when` conditionals, and then also both templates and typed macros operating on the AST (before or after semantic checking)... `when` even provides for type-checking functions with varying return types (well, monomorphized to one type) via `: auto` or the `: int | bool | ...` syntax.

I will also defend "naked imports" as a feature that works very well with the rest of the language: functions are disambiguated by signature and not just name and so conflicts scarcely occur (and simply force qualification when they do). And, this allows for the use of uniform function call syntax - being able to call arbitrary functions as "methods" on their first parameter. This is incredibly useful and allows for chaining function calls via the dot operator, among other things. Besides, if you really want you can `from module import nil` and enforce full qualification.

Interest in proper structural pattern matching sparked back up again recently and some complementary RFCs were proposed: https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/525 and https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/527.
The EMDrive didn't pan out.
So you would trade Teflon for a known carcinogen that’s linked to lung cancer? Also it’s more work to maintain a cast iron pan, you can’t exactly throw it into a dishwasher.
Seems like a biased opinion. Brave and their products innovate a LOT. Browser, (good) search engine, crypto as a way to keep websites profitable, etc.
how do we find out who's working on replication so we can follow their progress?
"We are a fork, have been all along"

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1684561924191842304
> you don’t see that kind of thing

> on the streets of Lisbon.

Actually that is exactly what I saw on the streets of Lisbon. Please do visit by yourself.
It's an old idea, I think it rarely works as well as you'd wish it did.
I'm sure IronOS is great but not sure I agree TS-100 stock firmware is crap.

And reading through all the listed features I get no urge to upgrade my TS80P. And though the features specific for TS-100 seems nice they feel quite niche.
What I was trying to say is, with some battery chemistries, the current (heh) limiting step for charging speed is the wiring into, and of, the battery, rather than the safe reaction speed of the battery chemistry itself. We could safely "crank the chemistry" by an order-of-magnitude or more if we could get the desired current into the battery without the wires+electrodes conducting undue amounts of heat into the electrolyte.
Do you have any experience using Wiktionary, and if so, where does it fall on your spectrum? I personally use Wiktionary a lot because it seems adequate from what I tell and it covers all the multiple languages that I'm interested in.
Ford would have to find a way to "fire" most of their shareholders first given how many of their most vocal shareholders are dealers.
https://wagwalking.com/bird/condition/teflon-poisoning
https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/teflon-polytetrafluor...
https://www.petinsurance.com/healthzone/pet-health/pet-toxin...
https://www.ewg.org/research/canaries-kitchen

I know we live in an AI post-search-engine world but...
Maybe this is the new anti-crypto meta - we proactively take away the best acronyms that the crypto community would want to use.
I also thought this was crypto related and felt it was odd Adobe, Pixar, and Autodesk were involved.
With increasing rampant xenophobia and anti-foreigner sentiment, this can only mean good news.
There are actually three separate computer systems in the probe: two with 4K and one with 8K memory. Each computer system is a fully redundant pair, so in total there's actually 32K of memory in the probe.

During certain parts of the mission they ran some systems in a non-redundant mode so they could double their processing and get more science done.

What they did with the Voyager 1 & 2 probes was amazing.

Edit: actually I am mistaken. Each probe had around 69KB of memory. I confused word capacity with kilobytes when looking it up.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/multimedia/vgrmem...
Why is there something to do? Your questions seem predicated on a false assumption that no one likes to say out loud: Drug users have a better life waiting for them after they stop using.

Daily drug use may actually be the correct way for some people to maximize the integral of happiness over their lifetime. Especially for those at the bottom with limited prospects. I don't think most of HN can fathom what it's like to actually be completely useless. You're delusional if you think the homeless problem is a bunch of software engineers who tried heroin once, and left FAANG to get high every day.

> Should we require drug tests for homeless people to receive government help like SF CAAP payments?

This is a great idea. If you want society to invest in you, you have to take basic steps to be a worthy investment. But even this is predicated on the idea that what these drugs users are doing is wrong, and that they should instead do something that lets the rest of us reap the benefits of their productivity. Who are we to demand someone be more productive for our own benefit? We're right to want something in exchange for our investment, but there's no place to stand and say a drug user is wrong for not taking the deal.
They aren't inserting the bodies of the articles into the feed. It is like when I hit a paywall site and they tell me what I could get if I just paid for the subscription.

If they were scraping complete articles and re-publishing those, that would be a totally different thing.
Heroin is one of the few drugs where "once is enough". Many people go through phases experimenting with drugs in specific party contexts (e.g. raves) but that doesn't carry over to daily life. The people who carry it over are the ones looking for an escape as parent describes.

Edit: And of course it doesn't require that they have obviously impoverished hopeless lives. Part of the illness of our society is the huge numbers of depressed/lonely/etc middle class people who otherwise seem to have a life "on track"
Do you have experience writing for a publisher? I've written a book before, and self-published, but the idea that the publisher would prefer the barebones is new to me. Does the author usually have input into the final design?
Even if it is, it is not an accessible solution.

Edit: except it can’t be, since HN doesn’t actually allow downvotes on posts, only comments.
This is backwards. Vehicle quality has gotten much better, and that means used vehicle quality has gotten much better. Since about 2012, used vehicles have taken over the low end of sales, and now manufacturers in the US are beginning to cede that market to used. For the price of a subcompact, you can get a pickup or SUV with low miles, and Americans prefer larger cars. That’s why average new car price is so high.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=17uXw

https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/49663329-trading-places-r...
It's hard to film an eating scene. You can only do so many takes, the actors don't want to get full, and the food looks better if it's fake.