skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There wouldn't be a drug business there any more than there would be any other kind of business once all the engines that enable commerce are silent.

This would conflict with US goal of reshoring manufacturing from Asia to NAFTA/USMCA.
Where do you keep getting banned and why?
The war on drugs in the 80s was focused on Colombia and disrupting Pablo Escobar's coke empire. That was successful but caused production to move closer to Mexico. Everything was stable until the national army took over policing enforcement in 2006 and now you have many 1000x more murders. Some of the murders that are reported as cartel murders can be national army murders. It's a different situation that resolves itself when demand drops.

Canada was winning best weed strain at shows but was never really supplying the US. The US was supplying Canada with weed/coke from Mexico and premium California bud if Canada was lucky. I'm sure some BC bud flowed south but everything was small operations.
Sure, but then it's not really something to be "betting big" on like the author says he is.
> it will get a swiss army knife of tools that help it do things it's not good at but it doesn't create general intelligence any more than Cyc did

How do you know general intelligence is its own thing and not just a Swiss army knife of tools?

> because the human mind is able to solve any math problem whereas any machine is limited by Gödel's theorem

Any machine can be programmed to solve any problem at all, if the proof system is inconsistent. Which is probably exactly the case with humans. We work around it because different humans have different inconsistencies, so checking each other's work is how we average out those inconsistencies.
I would normally feel neutral/good about this except Microsoft now removes half useful programs and preinstalls or at least shows the icon of total crap like Instagram in a clean install. I mean, what the fuck.
Isabelle is good at counter examples in ways few other proof assistants are. In general its automation is excellent, partly because it uses a less powerful logic (HOL instead of CIC; more expressive logics are harder to write automation for). It's not obsolete.
A fundamental principle in the US is that people are allowed use legal means to make money, even if that means others may make less money.

You may call that "opportunism", likely using the neutral definition "putting self-interest before other interests when there is an opportunity to do so, or flexibly adapting to changing circumstances to maximize self-interest" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunism .

If you have a problem with that, what then is the moral right to form a limited liability company? How are companies not just opportunism by the owners of the company?
If a day I decide to change note-taking app, I can do it by just opening it. With notes I have to figure out an export strategy and third-party export app.

There's something great about dealing with raw text files (and I say this as a happy Photos.app user)
If Mexico is a state ally of the cartels, why do they smuggle in their guns from the US?

China providing weapons to cartels is laughable.
CARDFILE.EXE has been long gone though.
> a few months later

> Which was exactly what I thought they had hired me for!

It's good to regularly update your manager with what you're doing and accomplishing, as they may not realize it at all.
Maybe one day they will even switch to UTF-8[1]?

[1] http://utf8everywhere.org/
There are a lot of people working with single-board computers, often retro projects like z80-based systems running CP/M.

For those people using the old tools is still kinda important, and useful. For everyone else perhaps not.
I actually looked this up, 76 is the average life expectancy for a male in the US.
Around that same time, my first job was at GE medical systems. The team I was part of was responsible for developing systems for digital X-ray machines. We were developing a new mobile x-ray product and it needed some new capabilities. As a fresher out of college I worked on some of the most critical systems capabilities and features and I got brilliant support from my seniors in software engineering and domain experts (radiology + image processing researchers). They literally taught me 3 different things (coding to professional standards, image processing, systems engineering) at the same time and we were super productive as a team. That set the bar for my expectations on how a team should function for a long time.

Luckily 2 years later I went a startup and similar great experience of team work and supporting each other continued. I worked at 2 more startups which grew a lot and were super successful and the culture continued.

Only in recent times, (post 2019) I have noticed that people are obsessed with performance rating systems and gaming them. I notice junior engineers are not as curious to learn or challenge-seeking as engineers a decade. And I notice recently promoted senior engineers are not as talented either. I used to think this had to correlate with dominant programming language – c/c++/go vs ruby/java etc. but I don't know if that fully explains it.
This is the advice for the ages!

However i fear it is lost on the current generation which is always looking for that quick/short article/blog/video/etc. which will teach and make them understand the subject as painlessly as possible. Everything must be "Fun and Enjoyable" (i don't even know what that means anymore!). They have forgotten the maxim "There is no Royal Road to Mathematics"(or any other scientific field). The amount of people (even on HN!) who espouse disdain for Textbooks is astonishing. By definition, the process of learning involves diving into the unknown and hence there will be discomfort/difficulties/effort/time needed and thus is not going to be easy. But the student doesn't want to put in any effort at all; everything is the fault of the Teacher(can't teach properly)/Teaching method(i am a visual learner)/Too rigorous/Mathematical/I have ADHD/ADD/Autism/Whatever.

The real tragedy is that used Books are now so easily/cheaply/universally available that there is no reason not to have one's own library of books on subjects of interest; it is "food" for the Mind.
If you live an unusual life, you may need unusual tools. Also, there's probably more than a little low-key play acting, like when a normie wears "aviator" sunglasses. When I was a young kid, maybe 8, and home alone, I walked around the house in a terry cloth robe and a 8" chef knife in one of the pockets. Same thing.
A couple things I haven’t seen mentioned:

- a keychain sized measuring tape I got as conference swag years ago

- a geologists’ hand lens. I’m not a geologist but it is useful on rare occasions when you need to see really small things. Though to be honest the phone camera magnification mode probably obsoletes it.
Largely agree, but it's not clear at this point who will control the AI future. SV elites today are like NYC/NJ/Philly elites of the 1960s. They have the momentum and the capital but the cost of doing business, red tape, and wages are too high. It's not clear they will control the next tech revolution.
Simple, Non-Commercial, Open Source Notes
The would be less important than legislators not having their children kidnapped by cartel henchmen and dismembered.
> I will make it myself as a side project and opensource it if enough of you have faced this challenge. Please let me know.

You will find out that your solution won't be better than the available ones, at least not in the beginning. What you described is the "curse" I've been seeing in many AI projects. They seem impressive at first sight but later UX is terrible, consistency is nil.
The Golf Ball Paradox [video]
I think this is an important perspective - in the end you need to do what the company asks of you and not what you think is right for the company if the two are in conflict.
Why is the CPU benchmarked against AMD laptop CPUs? This Mac is a desktop, why not benchmark it against actual desktop CPUs?
Animals' “active” sleep phases look much like REM
you can decide to go unemployed for a while if you find your current job is unethical and demoralizing
I humbly suggest that the Canadian government should pursue prosecution against the media outlets who irresponsibly, recklessly, and maliciously promoted this fake news, because these stories have become an incitement to hate crimes of terroristic violence, torching and vandalizing Catholic churches, and even extracting spurious apologies from Pope Francis for so-called "atrocities" which never transpired.

I hope these journalists are ashamed of themselves and I hope they are at least sacked, with their careers relegated to selling poutine all day.
I'm on my second oxo kettle. The handle fell off the first one right after the warranty expired. The second one has a different handle design, but neither has a good weld. This handle will eventually fall off as well. It's a shame that Oxo doesn't sell replacement parts like Baratza does.
I’m assuming that sanctions like these are intended to bite over the long term. The real test for China (and U.S. foreign policy) will be in 30 or 40 years - are they competitive with Western technology in 2065? Or will they stay stuck in the late-2010’s?

I’m sure that the State Department will be referencing their old Soviet playbook carefully, hoping to see the same result play out again.
Bro, can you read?

I said

> I buy my bitcoin with cash, no kyc

and you write:

>> using card to buy bitcoin ... isn't private

I don't use my card to buy bitcoin, that's the point. You've got the attention span of a tiktok addict.

> So you can be traced. Not private at all, exactly.

See my privacy argument that you keep ignoring. LMAO. Almost anything can be tracked, but it's well within my threat model, so private against anything but the most well funded attackers is private. Your argument is;
"Why have a door? Someone could just use a tank to knock it down".

Welcome to threat modelling, buddy. We're glad to have you!

> So someone volunteered to get mugged after their cash got stolen?

Did you have a stroke while writing this? Take a break from the internet, my dude, your mental abilities are declining with every comment.

During a mugging your cash gets stolen, I was making sure you understood that, just in case. It now appears you really need it all spelled out to you.

> How do you pay for your crypto ransomware to someone quickly overseas when the scammer is telling you to use crypto?

How do you pay for a cash ransom when someone is holding you hostage?

Oh wait, you can do it normally. [1]

> coming regulations will compel those

Uh... ok dude [2][3].

> The internet is not the real world

Tell that to Google, Microsoft, Apple... etc [4]. Welcome to the age of technology.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/world/africa/ransoming-ci...
[2]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/sec-loses-bid-rippl...
[3]: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/14/ripples-court-battle-with-se...
[4]:https://intheblack.cpaaustralia.com.au/economy/how-much-is-t...
https://insightcrime.org/news/chinese-money-launderers-mexic...

> While the involvement of Chinese money-laundering rings in handling drug proceeds from Mexico is nothing new, a number of recent court cases in the United States have revealed crucial information about how these schemes work ... weekly pick-ups from representatives of Mexican criminal groups, made in cash ranging between $150,000 and $1 million, with an average of $500,000. These were made in large cities including Chicago, New York and Atlanta ... network of Chinese-owned businesses in the United States and Mexico ... transfer a correspondent amount of money through Chinese banking apps. This happened entirely through the Asian country’s domestic banking system.
One "cheap" performance boost you could probably get is replacing your HashMaps with FxHashMap, https://docs.rs/fxhash/latest/fxhash/, which uses a much cheaper/faster, but also not cryptographically secure, hashing algorithm. For these purposes, I doubt the hashing algorithm weakness would be an issue.
Ah, how many of these do we need?

https://quickviewcalendar.com/
Polish Men Arrested for Radio Hack That Disrupted Trains
The location might not be "mobile" though.

I'd think a common use case is traveling/remote workers. Request the ride before you log out of your workstation for the day, and the car is at the building by the time you get to the front door.
The internet recommends boiling outside to avoid poisonous vapors.

It must taste incredible.
Very likely just chatgpt output.
I love the idea and it stimulated a few more ideas:

1. For a site with many people active on it, what if you could filter by the link / website that brought them there (eg, there's a popular wikipedia page or article, but somebody might rather talk to the people who came from newsletter or forum X as opposed to newsletter Y)

2. What if you could see where people had been over time? Have a page develop wear over time showcasing the hot spots
Also, there's probably more than a little low-key play acting, like when a normie wears "aviator" sunglasses.

Sure thing. I freely acknowledge that the probability of me needing to use a ferro-rod "in anger" to start a fire in a survival situation is relatively low. Carrying it is more just a part of my identity that anything probably at this point.

That said... I've been caught out in flash "pop up" thunderstorms before, gotten rained on, and found myself feeling cold, while quite a distance from my vehicle or anything, while out fishing or doing similar things. At least once I was caught out in a storm and was on the verge of hunkering down under a bridge embankment and starting a fire, right when the rain let up. So it's not purely an affectation or prop or whatever.
Not the trunk, the frunk. That's where the fuses are located on the Tesla Model Y isn't it?
Or were the videos I watched were wrong?
The latest version of LibO, 7.6, loads considerably faster than it used to. I now use it almost exclusively but I've MS Office 2007 still installed as there are times when I still need it. LibO's Write still has many bugs and can become incredibly slow when loading large tables (60 to 100 pages or more). To get myself out of trouble I've exported the .ODF file to .DOC and used MS Word to continue.

Nothing irks me more than having to do this, I wish The Document Foundation would address this instead of adding new features. Damn it, MS Word has bugs and quirks but it's much faster and than LibO when dealing with large tables and inserted images.

If LibO were fixed properly it would then be a true competitor to MSO.
This is obviously the right take on LLM "hallucinations." It's an inherent part of how they were able to acquire the emergent cognitive capabilities, not some weird flaw that needs to be patched.
>It would be helpful to know the time when Apple’s reply was sent to deduce whether Apple had time for additional deliberations before writing the email to Gardner.

In the old days, and I assume it is still the case, judging from observing Apple for the past 20+ years, every single public response has to go through Apple PR. Even public interview before hand they were given lots of preparation.

It is likely Apple has this prepped for a long time. Or even it was another PR case scenario [1] where the CEO was baited to send this email before a response was given and somehow "leaks" to the press.

[1] Read Submarine PR by Paul Graham.
Wow, thank you. I am grateful that my comment attracted so much thoughtful discussion. But your comment is the one that really touched my heart.

I was reading it to a close friend just now, and I have to confess that I choked up a couple of times reading it.

So again, thank you, my friend.

p.s. You don't happen to be anywhere near the SF Bay Area? If you are (or even if you're not), please drop me a note at the email address in my HN profile.

Anyone else who is in the mid-Peninsula area, feel free to do the same. It would be nice to meet up with people who have an interest in this topic.
Yes, T-Mobile and a few other carriers support videocalling right in the Android dialer.

https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/t-mobile-vid...
It has little to do with politics except how political parties (yeah both) will manipulate it. It's a societal issue. It's a pity everything is politics and polarisations these days.
Can we please stop it with the victim blaming? This is the cartel's fault and no one else. I've never seen people as self-hating as liberal Americans. Only the English come close.

I mean, it's great to be introspective and self-aware of what your country is doing, but not to the degree that you put the blame for drug crime on the people trying to eradicate drug usage. The problem with the war on drugs isn't that it exists, it's that it's done limp-wristedly (mainly because of objections by bleeding hearts), instead of being waged ruthlessly.

The end result of social libertarianism results in the same thing as for economic libertarianism: misery for the majority.
One I haven't seen mentioned - this little plastic box I got from Daiso which contains chop sticks, collapsible spoon and fork very useful when out and about and want a snack, also snacks. Daiso has lots of useful things for back packs (not affiliated in any way), have an iPad cover from them, various little hard cases for batteries and earphones etc.
How I heard it reported before is students in that part of Mexico have the custom of commanding buses for free rides to nearby towns

Local cartels know and use students to smuggle drugs, weapons, people on these rides

Police and another local cartel were aware buses coming into their turf
Why would the air move 1000X faster than the hands are moving?

You don’t need air moving at the speed of sound to create noise. I can gently scratch a table surface and create noise and it’s not because of a sonic boom happening.

If I gently tap my fingers together slowly in a quiet room I can hear the sound. It’s not a sonic boom clearly. Neither is a sonic boom happening when I scratch my elbow and can hear it.
Meanwhile it creates stigma around Indigenous = disadvantaged which a) is a terrible way to label a group and b) ignores all the other disadvantaged people for the sake of signalling empathy the 'right' way.
It's not just Discord. Don't ever base your business on the whims of another business under which you have no recourse whatsoever.
I expected it to be real.
Postgres: Continuous Archiving and Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR)
Ah you're right. There was a change a while ago that did seem to favour creators that made longer videos over shorter ones, but it's not as cut and dry as watch time = more money
I feel like I've seen the trick of estimating upcoming interrupts before somewhere...was it mednafen or higan?

Anyways cool post!

How come you don't consider conditional branches to be terminating instructions of your basic blocks?
I switched to paper filters after using a metal one for years. Maybe the metal filter degraded over time, but it produces a thin layer of "mud" at the bottom of the cup. It's unfortunate because it leaves a bad ending to an otherwise good cup of coffee.
I've seen it work _once_, around 8 years ago on a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S phone.

I don't think it still works, and/or it requires some strange confluence of events to work.
> Why does the war on drugs cause Mexico to fall apart and not Canada?

Does Canada produce Marijuana and Cocaine ? Mexico is an agricultural producing country

> I don't think Mexico's problems would be solved if drugs disappeared tomorrow.

Mexico was already in trouble before the drug trade kicked off

Low education, low productivity, limited opportunities

How many Canadians jump the wall to wash dishes in the US ?
Very true. But--Economic scales and incentives are artificial and must be tuned. For example, the USA has a badly regulated medical system that refuses to train doctors efficiently, so medical care is overpriced. 18 year-olds who want to become doctors go to college for like 36 weeks a year with maybe four or five hours of instruction a day. Massive waste of human potential. The legal system is very bad as well. Two graduates from different schools with the same score on the bar receive compensation varying by a factor of 3x dependent on where their degree was obtained. Going to Harvard law is indicative of having connections and the cognitive potential to engage in lucrative schemes well into the future, not actual skill. This does not happen in a country with an efficient legal system, like Germany.
Google wants a byte out of Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL migration service
Probably less PM2.5 rating
Real enterprises like YouTube, Instagram, Spotify, and even Reddit would likely politely disagree.
lockhouse, If you want your account deleted, please email the HN admins rather than posting the same comment over and over.

The email address is at the bottom of every page.
I rarely carry a backpack unless I am going to or from an airport.

Most of the time I only leave home with clothes, shoes, wallet, and sometimes a watch.

If I am at a conference or on a business trip I sometimes carry a small leg bag with a 10" laptop and charger, and a handheld radio to coordinate with a group.

I can trust myself to always improvise when required, so I rarely have much with me.
I'm just curious -- what types of mushrooms did you collect?
> This is a clear case of gross negligence by Discord.

I agree. This is clear because you’ve explained the context wherein you were posting those ASNs, and it is obviously not something anybody would have an issue with because
Ha! I moved out of Cambridge in 2011 to CA and as soon as I read "Memorial Drive, Cambridge" I immediately thought "that's going to be the one by Microcenter." Thanks for posting, brought back some memories :)
> The US Keeps its military and policing assets out of Mexico, the Cartels keep their violence in Mexico

The US also keeps its military and policing outside of the US

Nothing stops the gangs at the border
> You say this as if the only way this happens is through a big top down conspiracy. In reality it's several separate actors with aligned incentives that create unnecessary headwinds to the adoption of cost saving medical advances

I didn’t intend my comment as saying anything about whether this suggested phenomenon is “top-down” or “bottom-up”. I think my two counterarguments-“other countries exist” and “contrary to collective political self-interest” have about as much force in either case.

> To pretend that there aren't groups who will work to delay and limit the rollout of industry shattering technology like this is naive at best.

I never claimed such groups don’t exist - I’m sure there are some individuals and groups who (consciously or not) possess the agenda you describe. The real question is whether they will succeed in achieving that goal-I’m sceptical they will make any significant difference to whether or when these advances are achieved
Nothing about 'affirmative action' is inclusive. People just see it as positive 'because minority.' It can not lead to a positive outcome longer term (even now, where all-female teams are now seen as a positive but all-male teams are a negative, regardless of context).

What should happen is across the board equality of opportunity. While making sure the opportunity is truly fair, focus on stamping out prejudice and 'isms. You can't force immediate changes, but you can remove the barriers to equality to let the changes happen.
Fast tokenizers with StringScanner (2023)
It now has support for LF line endings and can save UTF-8-without-BOM.
Yes, the flamewar detector does that.