skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, it was just a much larger shift in the US, especially demographically. It went from 44% of adults (stats not gathered on younger folks, but anecdotally it was ‘cool’ and a lot of highschool age kids smoked) to 13.8% for adults (anecdotally many quite old) and only 8.8% for younger folks.

Traveling outside the US to Europe or Asia (eastern/southern Europe or China in particular) it’s very visible, where in the US outside of a few locations it’s almost invisible now and notably uncommon.

Especially for educated or higher income folks, too.
Australian internet is low quality as the conservative party (confusingly for Americans named the Liberal Party) stopped investing in it and it never recovered.

They also produce good CS research and can't seem to productize any of it; the best known tech employer is the company that makes Jira.
I am using the Google keyboard, android 13, and I cannot go vertical only horizontal.
DMARC's Impact and New Threats from Language Models Like ChatGPT [video]
Mike Jones of Fortra Agari Discusses the Evolution of Anti-Phishing, Role of DMARC, and the New Threats Posed by Language Models like ChatGPT. A deep dive into email authentication and its future challenges.
The EU/GDPR solution to that is definition of "freely given consent" where such discount treatment means that the "consent" doesn't count as a valid reason to permit processing data, as it was not freely given; and also by the requirement to be able to withdraw consent as easy it was to give it, at any time, and without adverse consequence, for example, one minute after receiving that discount.
That’s GDPR evidence for not having informed consent isn’t it?
The decadence of the public services happened within the existing, non-libertarian legal framework that provisioned the publicly-funded police, the monopoly of land, and the public ownership of roads. The input into this model was the starvation of the government by means of cutting its funding, the output was its decline without a viable replacement. No libertarian theory that I've read proposes that social elegance emerges out of the mixture of the new and the ancien régime. Local policing and national defense are often theorized as funded by property contracts, rents, and fees on consumption and on fuel. The distinction from the usual taxation is that the individual retains the freedom to change property and location, and opt out.
Bush bailed out GM and Chrysler.
This thing is terrifying.

It's like a Trojan Horse (the weapon of war) and. Trojan Horse (the malware) both in one
This is literally the HN submission you're commenting on.
People that are wildly successful are lucky. They may have "made their own luck" by working hard, being smart, etc., but those factors are at most prerequisites, not predictors of success.

The people wasting their lives at megacorps, were they to quit and follow their dreams, would overwhelmingly be worse off objectively (one can debate whether they are richer in spirit).

I think that they've all confronted the fact that they are unwilling to risk a great deal at a small chance of success. I applaud those that risk like this and win, as well as those that fail. But let's not pretend that greatness is guaranteed by hard work or intelligence.
Because if you don't want Google analysing what you do on the internet, of course you're going to trust a Google-supplied add-on to manage that in your interests, and not in Google's.

Wat?
The data is old. In the account of increased population, traffic and pollution, the study should be reconducted just to be safe. The muffin factor probably has changed a lot since then and even we should propose to include his new favorites.
See also this previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16542395
Sounds like they were inspired by Russia. Unnecessarily aggressive. There must be accountability.
I think we're talking past / agreeing with each other? Anyway, there are such amazing clothes out there in all price ranges, and people can look so good in them that I feel if people are wearing logos they haven't "read the user's manual". Just aren't even trying.

I know my attitude puts some people off, and I really do understand why, but it's not out of class snobbery, it's that I find advertising so visually repulsive.
For running queues on Postgres with Node.js backend(s), I highly recommend https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss. I'm sure it has it scale limits. But if you're one of the 90% of the apps that never needs any kind of scale that a modern server can't easily handle then it's fantastic. You get transactional queueing of jobs, and it automatically handles syncing across multiple job processing servers using Postgres locks.
NATO defense spending targets aren’t an obligation (well, they aren’t a spending obligation, just an obligation to make it a policy goal to move toward a spending target) and aren’t “funding NATO”.

That’s a double-misrepresentation popularized by Russian propaganda proxies seeking to sow discord in the West.
John Waters gets his Hollywood star
> A parasite can make a host less healthy and less likely to reproduce. This all lives on a gradient where parasitic relationship move the likelihood of reproduction down a little while symbiosis is the most extreme state where reproductive success is only positively effected.

Whether or not the host is destroyed, that symbiosis is the end game is not reassuring to someone whose mouth has gotten worse as a result of the treatment.

I'm not saying it won't work and isn't worth a large scale trial, I'm just saying your arguments based on evolutionary theory aren't a sound basis for medicine. I would not take a tapeworm into me on the grounds that someday tapeworms might evolve into a symbiotic relationship with humans.
In the beginning was the Word ...

Though also: of the making of books there is no end.

In seriousness, however, I had in mind the ... less than fully-voluntary publication and distribution of such works, as compared with commercial publications for which, presumably, there is some general demand amongst the population.

Then there's the realisation that some EULA from Facebook or TikTok is probably the most-published text in all history.
I think:

> It provides an ahead-of-time compiler using C++ and gcc/clang as the backend

Which is kind of the new "in" lately.

EDIT: If you see the the animation in the GitHub repo, you'll see at a certain point a file named "bs" (which is a binary file). I guess the standard Ruby compiler doesn't allow you to spit out binaries out of the box (?).
There are alternatives to “decopyrighting”: a government-sponsored development effort, open source from the beginning, for example. Or a government buying an existing piece of software to a willing company. Or sending money to that company in exchange of them publishing their source code.

The OP did not say anything about taking ownership of already-existing software without its owner’s consent.
Apparently one of {Croatia, Serbia}. I think we need to consult the axiom of choice on this one.
Building Clocks: the mindset for operational autonomy (2019)
> Croatian bureaucracy and petty corruption

ok, but you get Kentucky Fried Chicken and 7-11 stores in the current version of things.. right?
Bless your heart
If the goal was to increase recycling and reduce legal costs, I would agree that seems like a failure but I can't see that being the case. Nor was the goal to reduce the number of sex offenders or homicides. It wasn't to increase the welfare of bears.

The goal was to move there and influence the government towards their own policies. The fact that all these problems showed up is a measure of their success.

If they were inept they would have caused the opposite thing to happen, Grafton would have become more restrictive and the bears stay in the woods.

It doesn't seem at all valid to critique someone for the amount of snow on the roads if they organised as a group specifically to remove snow plowing.

This is as ridiculous as measuring the original Woodstock by its sound quality, or available amenities. Are people who call it the best concert ever wrong? Are they allowed to have a different definition of success?
Canada's broadcast regulator fights spam and phishing in 2023 [video]
In June, I interviewed Steven Harroun of the CRTC (Canada's sort-of equivalent of the FTC), exploring the complexities of Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, enforcement against cyber abuse, and the challenges AI brings to the table. We also covered the CRTC's latest policies, net neutrality, and strategies for managing new threats like botnet traffic.
Microsoft has added basically the same functionality to Power Toys, called Run[0], taking heavy inspiration from Everything. But yeah this should be a built-in utility.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run
25% of the 13 minute journey from Whitechapel to Paddington is spent not moving
Oddly related: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-...
Oops! I forgot to make it public :D
It should be available now
Register via our TG bot: https://t.me/+0YOeSWFoceAyYjBi, after registration our bot will send you credentials to access our endpoint.
Gordon says. “We get crashes on Wall Street about every 20 years, because that’s how long it takes people to forget what happened the last time. A generation of new guys think they’re as smart as they come, and then it turns out that they’re human, like the rest of us.”

Sounds familiar, just can’t put my finger on it.
It isn't even something that only corporations do.

It is something all human organizations do
I agree that we need more transparency on pay and how it impacts the bottom line, even just being able to publicly post total comp on all employees would dramatically change the tone of the conversation.

That said, I don’t think there’s anything dishonest about forcing employers to pay living wages, particularly with inflation as it’s been.
That’s still a thing among the folks who adhere to a paleo diet: no dairy, no nightshades, no grains, no legumes. I believe the theory is that they are all recent additions to the human diet (Neolithic) and therefore more like to cause problems.
No, just update set taken=1. If it was a change to the row, you updated it. If it wasn't, someone updated before you.

Our tasks were quick enough so that all fetched tasks would always be able to be completed before a scale down / new deploy etc, but we stopped fetching new ones when the signal came so it just finished what it had. I updated above, we did have logic to monitor if a task got taken but never got a finished status, but I can't remember it ever actually reporting on anything.
Yes, but I think it’s fair to assume it’s true because any investigative work takes effort.

Real investigative journalism is costly, for example, and fewer outlets are able to do this today.

Our society is the poorer for it but there seems to be too many interests and market forces against this.
I've been looking for a solution to easily search through prompt history, any good extensions? The ones I tried were extremely bloated with unnecessary features.
I cite an example from 1170 and you pretend I'm claiming it's new? Maybe you should direct your comments to my interlocutor, who claimed not to know the term in 2023. Using "this isn't new" as your standard opening - three times in this discussion alone and all of them a bit spurious - isn't very good for curious conversation.
The Russo-Ukrainian war started as a large scale invasion of Ukraine, largely from Russias leased bases (inherited from the USSR and granted leases as part of thr settlement of the breakup of the USSR) in Crimea, leading to the seizure and illegal annexation of Crimea simultaneously with large scale fighting in the Donbas.

It didn't start as small scale fighting over borders in the Donbas.
Lol, same here, I've been using Android since 2011 and had no idea it was trappable
> enums flawed

I like Typescript enums generally, my only complaint is that they are kept in the final build as big objects, especially in the scenario where you don't enumerate them. I use a replace function with terser to replace them with inlined constants to make my fine build smaller.
Another point is that task queue technology is highly fungible. There's nothing stopping you from starting with cron, adding in Postgres/Redis, then graduating to Kafka or something as need arises. And running all three in parallel, with different jobs in each. I would be surprised if the average Kafka shop didn't also have a bunch of random cron jobs doing things that could be implemented on Kafka or vice versa.

At some point you may want to refactor things to reduce tech debt, but it really is a "and" rather than "or" decision.
No idea what’s happening in Crazytown, but Toyota is already selling vehicles as quickly as it can make them, with quite a waiting list for custom orders. I get the feeling Honda is in a similar place with most of its vehicles.
> The fact that such a simple endpoint-only control loop (mostly) just works is one of the most amazing parts of the Internet to me.

Me too. We really don't know what to do about congestion in the middle of a pure datagram network. What saved the Internet was cheap fiber backbones. If backbone bandwidth had remained expensive, this would never have worked.

When I was working on congestion in the early 1980s, our goal was to run at about 70% long haul link utilization. We would back off quite a bit if things got anywhere near saturation. This was fine with the DoD people who funded us. They wanted reliability under stress, not maximum performance at minimum cost. Much of the work on congestion since then has involved trying to squeeze out that last 30%, at the cost of much-increased complexity.

The "bufferbloat" mess is embarrassing. If you use FIFO queuing into a bandwidth choke point, latency is going to go way up. This is well known. It is still ignored in most cheap routers. Every home router feeding limited bandwidth should have outbound fair queuing. Looking at individual flows near the network edges is a big win.
I think, they are arguing from a deregulated/free market capitalist perspective.

Supposedly workers can freely chose to whom they sell their working capacity and thus can negotiate a fair share of the value created.

I personally don't see that working, at least not with strong union laws or even complete syndicalisation of all means of production; the global worker pool and the mobility of companies (vs. the immobility of workers) gives companies just too much of an edge in this negotiation (at least outside of bourgeoisie knowledge workers).

As evidence I point to the decoupling of company earnings vs. labor income share since the 1980ies.
Read very carefully what I wrote.
You could even use a timestamp for handling what if this task was never finished by the worker who locked the row.
The employees of which are currently on strike. However you feel about the auto bailouts, there's no reason to think that the US would allow them to fail today.
It makes a lot of sense! In fact there's a number of open source projects working on just such a model right now. Here's a great example: https://github.com/XueFuzhao/OpenMoE/
I like the concept of simple monitoring. Simple means it is simple to install, simple to maintain and simple to use.
For me, this is netdata. Netdata could be much more, but I just install it on whatever machine and never think about it again. And when something is strange on that machine, I go to http://localhost:19999 and look around.
Built Shadcn UI for Swift
twitter post : https://x.com/0xSuman/status/1705823334586593381?s=20

Inspired by @shadcn UI, swiftcn contains SwiftUI Components that are beautiful and easy to customize.

Docs :
https://swiftcn.mintlify.app/introduction
The bug was caused by Boost.Context manipulating OS data structure fields that it has no business changing.

And yes, those fields do now have to be maintained for backwards compatibility -- because libraries like Boost.Context hardcoded this into applications, unbeknownst to the users of that library.
They test two fine tuning tasks in the article - reliable output formatting and custom tone. These are two tasks (reliable output formatting in particular) that are advertised regularly as areas where fine tuning an LLM should work. The goal is not to change what the LLM knows, but to change how the LLM communicates what it knows. In theory the user wants to leverage the LLMs knowledge base and using the different output format is more useful to the user.

The hard question IMO is the question of when does it make sense to fine tune an LLM to update it's knowledge and how much data is needed in this case? I have not seen anyone show a real example of succeeded in this case and wonder if it's close to as difficult as training the LLM from scratch or if it's a feasible fine tuning use case.
Too bad the link to the original is now dead.
I don’t think stylus is the answer on phone for text input. Maybe on a phablet. I haven’t experienced it being better and only use pencil on my iPad when in a meeting where typing or using a laptop would be obnoxious.

The Apple Pencil doesn’t work on the phones. But even if it did, it would be ridiculous and un-Apple given that the pencil is disproportionately huge compared to the phone itself. I personally wish they would do something for the rare customer who does need it (e.g. for precise drawing on the go). But they’d need a separate Apple Pencil Mini product.

I think Apple’s answer is that you should use speech-to-text or just serve voice messages, both seem quite popular with the crowd that isn’t on HN.
Fairness issues aside, why on earth would you connect your critical infrastructure (such as house controls, car controls) to an open Internet, and give the controlling keys to someone else!?

This “cloud infrastructure controlled by someone else” idea has to stop at some point. You gave you pictures to Apple/Google? You are asking for trouble. How? I don’t know and I can’t predict the future. But I will say that this is a critical infrastructure risk for a person or a company.
It cost the honoree $75,000 to have that star, but I'm sure other people probably put up the money.
At least for SwiftKey, it's one of the settings you can enable/disable.
What makes this weird is that Croatia says this land belongs to Serbia, but sent police there to enforce Croatian laws against people there.
You are not Microsoft apps unit, the subject of what is being discussed here.
They are general rules that we've set up to manage society, but unless you have the ability to back up your stance with force, who to convince someone else to back you with force, "legal positions" are meaningless.

These "market anarchists" have an odd need to believe that the literal interpretation of human-dreamed-up laws would will be sufficient to protect them forever. It seems like this belief goes with the need to believe that in their future "selfish-market-behavior-creates-mutual-benefit" society, the stronger won't use their strength to subjugate the weak.
Luxembourg is a founding NATO member.
I would set the taken field to a timestamp. Then you could have a cleanup job that looks for any lingering jobs aged past a reasonable timeout and null out the field.
From another Obsidian junky to another. This is great! I will for certain try it out. Thank you for sharing.

Edit: Would it be feasible to have this setup as an Obsidian extension as well?
High-speed trains in Spain also have a security check; luggage is x-rayed. It is a bit simpler than the London-Paris/Brussels check, as it isn't combined with a passport check.

(And also in China, though there they also have similar checks at some metro and other railway stations.)
Don't need it if you're using Cromite, as it uses AdBlockPlus filters by default: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt
I find this site so bloody confusing. I was on here recently while looking up something I was stuck with on Zelda, what a shambles. I got pissed off and left before I found what I was looking for, it just seems like such an incoherent mess
3D touch solves some problems for touch interfaces, but sadly Apple killed it (everywhere except Magic Trackpad, for some reason).
Ask HN: How do I profile my Postgres database?
I am running a t3.micro instance -- and doing about 8 queries / second. Not many, but it seems like queries are consistently taking 1-10 seconds to respond, and as a result, the site is going down.

I'm having a hard time telling what the problem is. Are some of my queries really slow and inefficiently designed? Is is it just that my database is too small and I need to upgrade it?

Is there something I can attach to my database that can easily tell me what the bottleneck is? (Disk, CPU, memory)
I guess there are places on the internet where I have seen people being able to build some versions of Windows from source.

Since this is illegal I can't say a lot more about it.

There's always the ReactOS project, I wonder how good things will be if we just slipstreamed their DLLs into Windows. That would be a good way to do this.
> that’s sweet tea for y’all in the north

Bless their hearts.
> The most surreal being Monaco's sovereignty saved by Grace Kelly's fame as an actress moving American public opinion to pressure France not to swallow it.

I'm not quite sure that this was the case. Monaco was independent long before Grace Kelly married the incumbent prince.

The country is a tax haven, which seems to be enough for many micronations to survive.
I think this is a much better solution for that problem and many others: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
I agree intent remains the same in either case. In this case the intent is desiring to create a nude likeness of an individual using some degree of original material so that the final creation appears indistinguishable from a genuine product.

In terms of law the technical solution used to accomplish the likeness should not be relevant.
Any tips/ideas on what you could do with these exports?

I bet Code Interpreter could give some good scripts to analyze and visualize these.
A crappy workaround: the official mobile app allows you to do that, with a search field in the History menu.
I wonder if this is all too little too late. Oz politicians had many chances to speak up since Assange got stuck in the Ecuadorian embassy, but I don't remember too many of them doing so.
Impossible Objects
House and Senate being jealous of their prerogatives is kind of a myth. The US Congress has punted on declaring war, for example. We've had plenty of wars since 1941 without such a declaration.
Sure, but the article focuses on "the booming popularity of countertops made of engineered stone", without specifying what that actually is.

How can I avoid buying these products or reduce exposure to these more dangerous materials if I'm a worker? Is porcelain "engineered stone"?

They should have ppe for any cutting, regardless, I agree.
> with ample time left over for nature walks, rock climbing, reading, and more.
> Unlike these authors, the money I make is not the most interesting part of my story

You're deluded if you think anyone (other than your mom) is interested in your walking, climbing or reading.