skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, well. If we go to SO we see that a "matsemann" has been a member for 11 years, had 20,000+ reputation points, and is a "publicist" and a "steward".

Maybe that's not you, of course.
tbh i was wondering the same thing, I wasn't sure if people use that for datasets now
It’s good to have rest days, but you don’t need a rest day after every single run, especially if it’s only a mile. A moderately healthy person should be able to run a mile every day without any problems. And if you do it every day then your body will get used to it very quickly.
That works up until they realize you're leaking false information and you wind up having a bunch of polonium accidentally show up in your bloodstream.
> until they get their car back and there's puke in the backseat

Super-strict reputation scoring solves this. Also, if you're paranoid, burgers don't puke.
'A company founded by his father in law' is not '[his] family firm', the article doesn't improve from there.

Whoever heard of 'The London Economic' anyway? Seems like a digital tabloid. Flagged because of above, and I can't see what decent discussion can possibly be had between the inevitable political flaming.
Indeed, there are folks who seem to seek out a problem in everything they read - usually to present themselves as smarter than the OP.

> Can you point out some of the flaws with your argument?

I think the only argument against what I said that is reasonable, but also applies to the person I responded to, would be that it is an over-generalization and not the case for the overwhelming majority of people who perform some activity.
This is how people end up with drawers full of dusty Arduinos and Raspberry Pi's :-)
Run Llama 2 on your own Mac using LLM and Homebrew
X sues hate speech researchers whose “scare campaign” spooked advertisers
Interesting. I have the opposite intuition. With a push-based model you end up needing some sort of back-pressure mechanism which gets complicated in a hurry. With a pull-based model you get back pressure "for free"
> I think it's misguided to think that there aren't many people force themselves to work in that and worse conditions. Why? They need the money.

This may be unintentional, or I may be misreading you, but this seems to represent a serious misunderstanding of clinical depression.

I did not observe a prior post claiming that there aren't many people who force themselves work, whether for money or any other perceived gain.

Lack of perceived gain is a typical part of clinical depression. A more likely motivator is aversion to perceived worsening; even this can fail to motivate because of tendency to evaluate the likelihood of success of an action as minimal or non-existant. With clinical depression, a frequent observation is that having completed something successfully, or being rewarded for a thing (even as simple as being given or biting into a food yow enjoy) may produce no improvement of mood.

> It's seriously misguided, to think you can have any successful career without being able to force yourself to work. Quitting work everytime there is a hicup will not generally lead to a successful career. Not being able to work at all because the sun is out, your kid is long term sick, your wife had an affair, etc will generally not lead to having a successful career. There are many scenarios on a daily basis where people force themselves to work.

Yes, clinical depression does tend to cause serious misguidance. The likelihood of a successful career, regardless of efforts may seem maximal. The condition does not seem occur in response to a hiccup of circumstance. It tends to result from prolonged exposure to a series of negative events, producing a situation in which the expectation of those events ending, or of those events being replaced by positive ones, does not exist.

Based on what you've written so far, I tentatively hypothesize that you have had a fortunate life[1]. This is generally good, though tends to lead people to conclude that depressed people just need to try more, or are just in a temporary phase, or just need decide to cheer up, do something useful, knuckle through it…

Getting out of clinical depression usually requires external changes. Some people are lucky enough to experience periods of partial remission sufficient to perceive the benefit of seeking help or changing their circumstances, which can lead to full remission.

[1] While acknowledging that getting through some manner of adversity does not automatic'ly require that one has had depression during that period.
> In Amsterdam when you go to a music festival you will not see a lot of pod heads

I could be wrong, but I don't believe marijuana is as-legal in Amsterdam as it is in California for example. In CA, there's very few enforced restrictions of where you can get it and where you can use it.

> Look at Portugals drug history. Legalization saved that country!

It doesn't appear so[1]. It appears they are struggling with the same issues - dramatic rise in drug use.

It's not really effective to just simply legalize all drugs. I agree with most, we shouldn't throw people in prison for drug use. No, instead we need to throw them into mandatory rehabilitation programs.

The goals of a decriminalization program shouldn't be to increase average citizen's drug use. But that's what happens without some sort of rehab/treatment program.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-dru...
> Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) defined as: Any substance that contains at least one fully fluorinated methyl (CF3-) or methylene (-CF2-) carbon atom (without any H/Cl/Br/I attached to it).

It sounds at least like they're not going the terrible US route of allowing substances until proven toxic.

Perhaps we've hit enough technological development that any new chemical actually needs to have approval before it can be mass produced (of course giving labs freedom to experiment in developing new materials).
Ah yes, what we need is a Leni Riefenstahl for climate propaganda.
“Web Environment Integrity”: Locking Down the Web
Where else are you going to put it?
FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal
Electric cars are not intrinsically more expensive.
Because EVs are simpler mechanically they will be cheaper to make than ICE cars once the battery packs get cheap enough. It is an ever-descending cost as the technology improves and the volume goes up.

I agree that greedy Ford dealers helped cause this problem. I looked at the Ford Mach-E but was turned off by dealer markup, got a Tesla instead.
AI has received considerable media attention and hype, which has lead to both heightened interest and skepticism among investors. Some might be cautious due to concerns about overvaluation or the actual viability of certain AI projects.
> mean, obviously whatever happened happened. It just seems strange to simultaneously claim to have discovered something 24 years ago, and to have been rushed into publishing prematurely.

Probably there was a big team. Somebody with a low rank worked his/her ass off on the breakdown, but then noticed their names would be filled off or put only in acknowledgements section, to be replaced with some senior lab manager that did just administrative paperwork and barely knew the work. So they said screw it and just published whatever they could before the laurels were stolen.
Real intelligence gathering isn't James Bond.
Like all workers, federal employees need to get back to the office
In my experience the human should do the gross optimizations--choose the right algorithm. And beware the operator--I've had multiple things where an O(n^2) was perfectly reasonable (and probably the fastest runtime given the lack of overhead of setting up better answers) given the original problem--but then n blew up down the road.
It looks simple but in a typed language it's actually somewhat tricky. The compiler needs to infer that the 1 is a float type, 2 is a byte, and compile it appropriately.

Previously Nim didn't do any "reverse" type inference so you'd need to say `@[1'f64, 2'byte, "abc")]`. That was because it's a constraints problem that can become exponentially expensive to solve. Exploding compile times in Rust and Swift are good examples of this. But there's limited subsets which can still be quick and are helpful like this case.
As a resident who was born here and left and then came back, I’ve had this idea kicking around in my head of “California is a luxury product”.

If you look at the entire US, and assume you have the ability to move and live in any state, there are lots of options for everyone at every income level. (Disclaimer that this doesn’t address poverty, DEI, and other limitations to a good chunk of citizens).

From the Gold Rush, to Hollywood, to East Coasters moving to health spas like Carlsbad or Calistoga, some moved here for necessity but many out of choice and luxury.

A lot more to unpack here but I think it’s interesting.
That line is particularly frustrating to me because I'm an American who has never liked or wanted an SUV or crossover. I don't have anything against people who want those kinds of vehicles but I've always been more of a fun coupe kind of guy.

There's already an endless array of electric SUVs and crossovers to choose from. Why can't there be other classes and sizes of vehicles for other needs and tastes?
Enamel cookware is nonstick.
Companies were fined because they had accept all without reject all. Report any violations you see.

Strictly necessary means necessary to provide the service the user requested or comply with other laws. It is stricter than your suggested no tracking standard.
I was careful to say fundamental physics - there's great stuff happening in materials science.

We are in a world where exponentially growing amounts of energy are needed to confirm/deny an increasingly small slice of the standard model. We still don't know what dark matter or energy is (almost literal holes in theory), we haven't figured out how to scale up quantum computers, and we don't have scalable fusion reactors. The cost of progress is growing and the rewards are diminishing; I call that an impasse.

(Arguably we could call the ongoing advances in materials science cases of applied quantum mechanics, with some blurry line with fundamental physics.)

You are right that I'm not a physicist - I'm trained as a mathematician, and these days work in the intersection of machine learning, acoustics, and ecology. Having looked around a lot with impact-colored glasses, I don't see the argument for fundamental physics, but am happy to be wrong.
So he outsourced to someone who outsourced to random ghost kitchens in markets he was interested in and is shocked, shocked I say, that a lack of oversight has resulted in an inferior product.
Not GP commenter, but I've used Apple Notes, emacs org-mode, Evernote, Notion, Coda, Obsidian, and Google Docs. I prefer Apple Notes for personal notes, and Google Docs for shared notes, and Notion for ones that I publish as web pages.
Weed is ubiquitous enough in American culture these days that it’s not unreasonable to associate “I’ve never tried cannabis” with religious orthodoxy or some other conservative behavior-limiting values. It’s not uncommon to hear something along the lines of old DARE talking points about gateway drugs or schizophrenia from people that have refused to try it, which can make a person seem like a… square.
> It lacks proper sum types

We've talked about this before! You know it has sum types, just not the variation you want.
The people I fear the most are people who are 100% sure they're doing the right thing. This comment section is full of that - "no, this is a good policy and it's just the implementation that's wrong."

Sure, maybe? But maybe it's just a bad policy? Maybe we could adjust the implementation? Maybe we can look at other places were things are better?

Maybe a bit of shame could be helpful, too. SF and Portland have turned into a national punch line. That's shameful.
The trouble with this approach is that people with less money then only get the things that got made for rich people and then set aside.

When I got my first car, the thing many of my peers ended up with is the land yacht: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_yacht_(automobile)

I was very lucky to get a hand-me-down Japanese economy car. It was efficient and reliable. But my peers had to spend a lot more on gas and deal with more frequent repairs. The land yachts were expensive to operate because they were made for rich people but cheap to buy because they were out of fashion and not a great deal in the long term.

I'd much rather see us producing low end models that people of modest means can buy new, ones designed for that market.
People said the same about Japan. The '80s and '90s was a bunch of media-fueled "the Japanese will run the world" hysteria.

Japan is a technical powerhouse but that doesn't inevitably lead to ending hegemony. It requires a lot of other work too.
Monetary policy isn't fiscal policy. Perhaps monetary policy is preventing politicians from facing the consequences of bad fiscal policy, but the alternative is suggesting accelerationism. It's not countries that relied on gold never overspent themselves to ruin.
>The last one is the worst crime. Property Taxes are designed to keep poor people poor...

Most places have a homestead exemption for this very reason. But you're right, it would make more sense to have a progressive property tax rather than a flat rate.
OCaml removed GitHub issue history so issue references are broken
I originally submitted an issue which I was referencing today, based on the Ocaml.org open source website source code. I was quite surprised when clicking on the link and saw someone elses issue. The wayback machine shows the original issue in the tweet. It looks like they removed the entire project, then added a new one. I wonder how many references to Github will be broken or out of context (similar to link rot on the general web).
Oregon voted to decriminalize hard drugs in the 2020 election, according to the article.
(Replying directly to increase the chances you see this.) I received a couple more responses, from Sunil Sarin and from Mark Dewitt. Sunil had this to say, which was certainly surprising to me:

> John, I'll have to look in my hard copy archives, which are very disorganized and will take me some time. But I don't believe you need this exact paper. I can probably point you at other papers that were in fact published (and are not just company TRs).

> Furthermore, our concoction of the acronym SHARD is different from "database sharding" as currently used. We were referring to the network, not the data, being "sharded", i.e., partitioned, and ensuring high database availability (with some loss of consistency - see "The CAP Theorem").

Mark Dewitt shared:

> Hi John, I believe that was an unpublished report we wrote for our DARPA funding agency. I may still have a copy, but it's currently buried under some stuff in the garage. There is at least one published paper that describes the SHARD architecture for a partially replicated database. It's not entirely obvious because I think the SHARD acronym didn't start getting used until after the paper was published in 1985. By 1987, Sunil Sarin had published another paper with Nancy Lynch in which they refer to SHARD and reference the 1985 paper.

> Here are the two citations:

> S. K. Sarin and N. A. Lynch, "Discarding Obsolete Information in a Replicated Database System," in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. SE-13, no. 1, pp. 39-47, Jan. 1987, doi: 10.1109/TSE.1987.232564.

> S. K. Sarin, B. T. Blaustein and C. W. Kaufman, "System architecture for partition-tolerant distributed databases," in IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. C-34, no. 12, pp. 1158-1163, Dec. 1985, doi: 10.1109/TC.1985.6312213.
So you're effectively arguing that quid pro quo isn't quid pro quo if you can't prove the counterfactual (that this contract would have happened without drilling rights)?

Doesn't that seem ... stupid? To put the onus on the people who have no access to any communications or details about what looks like corruption? It's my opinion that without forcing them to do everything in the open and prove to us that there is no quid pro quo, you're going to end up with Soviet USSR style government real fast.

I'm sure this is "business as usual" but ... maybe it shouldn't be?
Electric cars are still a luxury good. I can afford to buy a Tesla Model that equipped with AWD, and auto pilot (for me the marquee feature on the Tesla) comes in at 67,000 before any state & federal incentives.

To put it into perspective - A Toyota 2023 Corolla Hybrid SE Infrared full loaded with AWD will cost me 30K. A Toyota 2024 Camry XSE Hybrid costs $3750 all in with all of the upgrades.

Hard to justify 30K+ more for an electric vehicle - unless that is what you want an are willing to pay for it. But at this point - you can't justify the expenditure at all.
> Average car in the US is 12.2 years old. To offset cars purchased yesterday someone needs to be driving a 24.4 year old car to average 12.2 years.

12.2 was a year ago [0], 12.5 now [1], but you could also get to that with 9 at 13.9 years for each one today, instead of one at 25.

[0] https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/avera...

[1] https://fortune.com/2023/05/15/average-age-of-cars-on-u-s-ro...
I've found iron to be quite stimulating, it can make any couch potato get up and do some exercise, but the risk of tearing muscles becomes very real its scary.
> People are far too obsessed with static type checking. A lot of this time would be better spent invested in live debugging tools.

I disagree. Time spent debugging is time wasted. It's a non-repeatable sunk cost. Don't get me wrong, I love debugging - it's like solving a mystery in real-time - but the competitor to existing debuggers is not a better debugger, it's to obviate the need for one.
> Coming from a life time of Visual Studio

There’s the reason. It’s different than what you’ve been seeing most days of the last X years
Maybe (or maybe not - how much attention does the average person pay to California Prop 65 warnings?), but warning labels on consumer products won't do much of anything to curb their use in industry and non-consumer facing products.
https://archive.ph/dZIHT

> Tell that to the taxpayers who are footing the bill for empty floor space and the costs of maintenance, as the GAO emphasizes.

So close those offices. Why are you wasting my tax dollars?

> Tell it to the small businesses that are suffering, whose tax payments fund city services.

It's not my duty as a taxpayer to subsidize these small businesses.
Without legal sales, cartels will keep doing cartel things. Also where will money for treatment programs come from? It will always be at risk of being cut by fiscally conservative governments, vs legal sales that can be taxed to fund amelioration efforts.
Would we expect early results to be encouraging? There's a lot of inertia in something like this. The damage is already done for anyone locked up on a drug charge. And reallocating resources from prisons to diversionary programs will take at least a generation.
Overreact much? I had a friend who was a carpenter and did exactly that. Refused to work on his own house, though, so it looked like a dump. But he had no problems working out after putting in a full day of swinging a hammer.
They likely read "overloadable enums" and went "Oh Rust calls their tagged unions enums" so assumed all languages did.
Looks like you can get any category on any MediaWiki website as RSS. Neat!

https://mediawiki-feeds.toolforge.org/
The best density is 33.3 kWh/kg. That's simple physics.
This stuff isn't a joke. My wife has this allergy now. She started with problems eating medium cooked steak and it kept progressing from there until all dairy would cause a flare up. You wouldn't believe how much of our food contains dairy. Butter is in everything tasty.

One thing that blew my mind is Oreos contain no dairy!!
Right. As if half marathons are supposed to be something in a wholly different universe than running a mile a day? It's great exercise, and I personally wouldn't want to do more than a half marathon, since the health benefits seem to be kind of limited and injury rates start creeping up. But someone who runs a mile a day is in reasonable shape, and the distance in fitness from a mile a day to running a half marathon isn't so great.

In contrast, I know people who do ultramarathons, running 50+ miles at a stretch, and I simply cannot imagine it. I'm impressed with people who do: the training, the determination. You can't just wing that. You can't do it on a whim. A half marathon you can do a half-ass job preparing for, and it won't be fun, and you'll feel bad afterward, but it'll be doable. Different categories.
That’s a popular misconception. Running is actually good for your knees, assuming you aren’t particularly obese.
Because I don't care. I'm burnt out. I have lost motivation. I used to care but I let my bipolar disorder get the best of me and there were consequences. I fell off the wagon and it stuck. I started smoking a lot in the pandemic and it compounded.

I work a dead end job now. It pays a fraction of google and is nowhere near the prestige of SpaceX. I don't care at this point.
gold is addressed by Stolfi

> as a commodity, gold HAS a source of revenue besides the investors; namely, the purchases by consumers like jewelers and industry, who take gold out of the market (2/3 of the production) for uses other than re-sale.
Most of the contamination is from firefighting foams. Government agencies decided that the pollution was an acceptable cost for their added benefit to saving lives and property.

PFAS firefoam is still widely used, as governments still deem it necessary. However, training with real PFAS fireform is now more restricted than it once was.
As I kid who lived outside the US a couple of times and would boomerang back, I feel that way about the whole country. We have something like 8.8% of our population as millionaires so like 22M people. And I never have to hire guards for routine travel trips.
We started using Tiptap recently and was surprised that it was not a brand new solution! We like it very much so far
> This is just appeal to tradition.

It might be, but the arguement was that we don't do it because of git.

We haven't been doing it for a long time, but that's not because of git.
Every day? I’m checking like every half hour
Yeah. And dams can be removed (and as far as I can tell, nature is relatively adaptable and can recover).
> the threat of entirely destroying your life.

What do you mean? Since this is fentanyl, they are already destroying their lives, they will be lucky to still be alive a couple of years if something drastic isn't done.
The company was named ikos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_emulation
How does one pay property taxes on a car? I pay property tax on real estate property, not cars IIRC...
I interviewed at a startup building a product that was doing exactly that. Well, it was a sensor on the mains power but same idea.
As long as republicans continue to say no to that, it's impossible to do. Democrats basically never have actual control over the American Government, it's happened like 4 years out of the past 20, and that's not a new phenomenon. Even in the times they have had "full" control of all portions of government, republican senators are still able to "block" stuff through made up rules and "norms" that democrats don't want to break, because that gives republicans cart blanche to break those same rules in a way that can do a lot more harm. Also like 4 of the democrats that are part of the "majority" for various reasons like to be contrarians to the rest of the party, meaning even the few times there have been a majority of democrats in the senate, there has not been consensus in the party for basically anything since probably FDR.
TIL some states charge property taxes on cars.

https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/which-u-s-states-char...

> Virginia has the highest vehicle taxes, the report found. There, residents pay an effective rate of 4.05%, meaning an annual bill of $1,011.