skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or... we can do both ? I'm fit, eat clean, live frugally, yet I still see how these organisations are absolutely fucking the system by making people overeat, overspend, &c.

Do you think people wake up one day with the bright idea of becoming obese and dying at 45 of heart issues ?

You can only make decisions between the choices you're being provided, and if half of these choices are engineered to be addictive, on a global scale you're fighting a losing battle

> is more responsible for people making bad choices than engineers at facebook.

But... they're the same mentality, don't you see it ? It's been studied and developed by marketing people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_sciences

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_behaviour
> For `constexpr` replace `std::string` with `const char *`.

Or string_view [1], since it's a literal.

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string_view
Caffeine is an important part of the taste, so I'd guess it's largely a taste-based decision. Probably doesn't hurt that caffeine is highly addictive and habit forming
I think it is because this is the few times where mysticism and science meet and wrestle. How to communicate something inherently transcendental without talking about this inward journey through consciousness? It might take sometime to separate fact from fiction, but at this point we are in, untethered exploration is essential.
How?

You're going to study autism in lab rats? (Only recently has anyone come up with markers, and even then the predictive quality is suspect.)

Artificial sweeteners have been labs tested many times, but not for autism.
There also other cloud companies to depend on that have been more sane. I doubt that in practice this will cause huge insurmountable challenges, but it's a headache and not a ton of fun.
My expectation would be that anything other than Microsoft offers higher risk. They will most likely be around for a long time, and they keep their products around for a long time, with proof of focussing on backwards compatibility. Is it without risk? Probably not, but i doubt you can show me a IT company with lower risk.
This reminds me of the new Apple movie, Fingernails: https://www.theverge.com/23890999/fingernails-trailer-apple-...
This is anecdotal but I strongly disagree with "likely a deeper connection." I really do think girls are just severely under diagnosed. I have several adult women and AFAB friends who all display autistic traits and, to me (an autistic man), are very obviously autistic but it's been so hard for them to get a diagnosis even when they want to. The system is really set up to diagnose young boys with rich families only. Getting diagnosed as an adult is expensive and arduous and most people in the field appear to be biased against diagnosing women. Granted, autistic traits are presented slightly differently in women due to cultural norms but I do believe they're easy to spot with practice.
Well, who made them the gatekeeper? OSI bought a domain, they are not open source.

Regional licensing is pretty standard in general though. Especially for things under copyright.

Or "No use if use implies X constraint". There are surely ways to word it that focus on how using it impacts the software, without having to mention a specific group.
It isn't the regulatory restrictions that improve that in Europe, it's the high taxes and spending on services.
I think it's misogynistic to think that women can do no wrong. Gino certainly can stuff her shit where she found it.
A much-repeated finding in surveys is that childless adults are happier than parents.
> Compliance isn’t evidence of success.

If I could facepalm any harder, my hand would pass through my skull and hit the wall behind me. Your definition of success is relative, and judging from every piece of evidence you have presented so far, it's also quite petty. Not the same definition of success the EU is using. So... you're welcome to disagree, but nobody is using your metric of success.

> Suddenly me having to buy one is no biggie?

Quite literally, yes.

> It’d be much better.

I'm going to tear my hair out. This is the reason nobody takes you seriously.

> I commented elsewhere in this thread that Apple’s requirement to only rent Macs for 24 hours at a time in VPS services is silly and shouldn’t be enforceable.

Congratu-fucking-lations. Next you're going to have some prophetic vision that their relationship with China is somehow harmful, or that the Butterfly Keyboard hurt your fingers. Maybe you are the expert market correspondent you claimed to be, shuckles.

> You seem to be focused on whether it’s a sick own

You know what? I am. Apple spent the last 10 years playing their own game of sick ownership, now it's only fair that they should be forced to choose between first-world market access and fair play. If you want to question the efficacy of user freedom, use actual examples and arguements. Here's the chart again if you need help: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qgQR5VUoGDU/UzV5nP4xKnI/AAAAAAAADo...
I wouldn't switch because I don't think they're different enough to see a point, but unless there's a specific feature in MySQL but not MariaDB that I anticipate needing, I've been tending to default to MariaDB for new projects.
It really wasn’t meant to be in a totally radio silent area, but that just happened to be another advantage. The main point was the bowl-shaped area which is somewhat unique. You don’t need that kind of geology just for an educational center.
No. The main audience for this article already know what a DAW is
And Google is making exactly the same calculation. Maybe they'll do something to fix it after a hundred people die because they can't call 911 and it blows up nationally.
First, I have no idea what you are talking about. Bad open source software has never hurt me, best I can tell. Your claims seem farcical & ladden with over importance.

Second, the level of entitlement in display here is revolting. Why do you think you are owed perfection?

Why do you imagine that software developers possibly could foresee every possible issue that might arise? How could they project & comprehend every way their library might be misused by another?

There's nothing less hackery than those so polarly demanding hard fast answers to alleviate & end the hackerly search for meaning. We must thrive with uncertainty, must learn progress & advance, with eagerness & inquiry; to demand that we have only certain assured things is a sad folly of weak spirits. The ask is impossible; no creatures nor artifice on this earth are so perfect. Thise who are close to the machine know that the fathomless depths of computing rapidly go beyond what any mind might imagine, and it is absurd & pompous, an insistence of those who don't get it at all, to demand everything be perfectly concieved & known.

We are still learning so many mysteries of the universe. Demanding that no more mysteries ever be created, demanding only certainty from here on our; that is so far askance from the bravery of what has risen up thise species & what continues to improve it. We flourish by struggle, by going forwards, and letting progress be forever snubbed by fear is the enemy.
> but is inhumane

Is it more humane to launch it without testing, producing the same effect for a much, much larger group of people than would have been involved in the intentional study? This seems to be a fairly gaping hole in the definition of humane. It reminds me of people who see an accident and don’t help because they might be held liable for the accident and they don’t want to get involved.
For older hardware I understand 86Box to be more "sympathetic" to hardware quirks than QEMU.

https://86box.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Yeah, I found this too. For our specific workloads (data science) m7i-flex works well enough that I don’t mind, but it was not an obvious upgrade from m6a like I expected it to be.
Why would anyone know what aspartame is? There are often a dozen chemicals listed on the package -- is someone supposed to know what all of them are?

Do you avoid food containing Disodium Inosinate? Why or why not? What about Agar-Agar? What about Calcium Propionate? Cyclamate?
Why discourage people from any behavior without evidence or good reason?
I think financing and assisting reforestation projects is a worthwhile thing to work on, but selling carbon credits directly enables harmful behavior that more than offsets any potential benefits. I wish it were possible for this company to be funded by government grants or the UN or something like that.
As long as you keep you do not give your server side software to other people, GPL should be fine, right?
Yes it does, as a subsidiary.
Scale, violation of locality, and Third Party Doctrine.
Yes, it is basically a prosumer version of the Epyc server CPUS, limit to a single socket, and with higher clocks.

What frustrates me is that in the last 2 or so generations, you cannot simply buy a CPU. One has to buy an entire system from a vendor like Lenovo or HP. When I built my box in 2018, the 2990-WX was available for ~$1900. Which is a lot, but doesn't match the $5k->10k prices for the entire systems.

There just aren't that many affordable, reasonably efficient ways to get >= 32c these days. (and by efficient, I'm excluding used server-class boxes from older generations that are power hungry).
Yes, misleading people for their own good is such a great strategy, it always works out just fine.
Your comment gave me a headache. To which address should I send the bill for this bottle of ibuprofen I used to treat it?
How do we solve a problem like Canada’s creaking bureaucratic systems?
I guess that’s good in theory, but there isn’t a secret “causes harm” test we can do to say for certain something is harmful.

If we want to “change the introduction of new chemical compounds to our environment at a mass scale”, what do we… do? We can require more research before something is offered up to the market, there’s dimensioning returns on research. The only way you’ll know FOR SURE that something is harmless is universal consumption, after many decades.

Now, I am taking you saying “ensure that [new materials] are safe” to mean, we stop fucking up entirely. That’s probably not what you really mean. More publicly funded research to LIMIT harm further than we currently do, is a noble goal! Most nations have some entity that researches new drugs/additives/products before going to market. Greater funding (harder to bribe) and power (full power to stop untested substances being used) for those is a good step.

But humanity will keep poisoning itself, no silver bullet there.
my money is on the effect of aspertame on the gut microbiome. probably starts them off with a bad bacterial starter.
> What is the philosophical difference between this and an algo doing it?

For one, my village grocer isn’t chatting with my travel agent to correlate my income bracket to then price discriminate more effectively.

Another big one is scale to gather accurate information on billions of people and then create even more intricate targeting mechanisms.

The gathering of disparate datum from different sources (often in a sketchy manner) is a huge difference.

Scale is actually the biggest though and changes lots of things. As a simple example? burning a little bit of whale oil for your night light? No problem. Every human in Europe doing it? Whale’s go extinct. Burning a little bit of coal for your steam engine? No problem. Everyone burning coal at a massive scale in your area? Acid rain, cancer, etc etc. Burning gasoline in your car? Not a problem. Everyone burning huge amounts of gasoline for every facet of running society? Global warming.

Algo’s let you scale “personalization” to crazy scales and advertising is the toxic byproduct of funding the internet.
Autism diagnosis are based on nothing more than behavior. The facts here are that one child behaved in a manner consistent (enough) with the criteria for ASD. After treating a fungal infection, the child’s behavior changed.
I think it’s a stretch to associate fungal infections with autism. There are probably many ailments that could trigger typical ASD behaviors.
How to stop junk mail and opt out of all this paper waste
The tech is no doubt, impressive. If we liken it to a Cambrian explosion however, there is no guarantee it'll settle to a local optimum, just as the smallest genetic differences would prove it difficult for different genealogical branches to produce viable offspring.

But as you said, it might be the quickest way to explore the solution space. We may just see a lot of unviable branches in the mean time.
We should seek sustainable human population on this planet, rather than pursuing the conventional approach of relentless growth.
For a trivial example, let's say I have some message type that has multiple variants with differing fields:

enum Message {
Action1(String, Option<Mode>),
Action2(String),
}

Action1 and Action2 are variants not types and I cannot make functions that take an Action1 or an Action2 as a parameter. To get around this people will often make each enum variant just a container for some struct with the same name but that's more verbose and matching becomes slightly uglier. Code like this is fairly common:

struct Action1(String, Option<Mode>);

struct Action2(String);

enum Message {
Action1(Action1),
Action2(Action2),
}

Ideally I'd like to be able to succinctly say something like:

type A = B | C

and have A be dependent on B and C but have both B and C be completely independent types.
For those wondering, it’s not live yet. Chrome Canary just shipped it (behind a flag?) but it’s still up in the air, even the property name itself.

Follow: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7542
> other than the quality of the music

The ‘quality’ of a pop song is how much popular appeal it has. That’s the basis of the genre, even reflected in the name.
You gave your 9 year old a smartphone?
PreSonus Studio One has what you're describing. Im switching from logic pro to a new DAW and so far studio one has the most of my boxes checked.
This is how it already works for major insurance groups around the world. The UK and Canadian national health care systems negotiate prices for all kinds of products and services, including drugs.

The fact that pharmaceutical companies can arbitrarily raise prices and people are forced to pay them to live is a failing of an economy, even in a free market economy. It's the ultimate extortion - pay us whatever we want or you don't get to live. And no, that's not hyperbole - many of these medications are the difference between life and death for people using them. Many of these same medications were introduced decades ago at reasonable cost, but greed knows no bounds, so companies keep raising prices. For one egregious example, look at the narcolepsy drug Xyrem, which was created in the 1800s, used widely, eventually regulated and orphaned, them bought up by Jazz Pharmaceuticals who has jacked the price by an order of magnitude and fully admits that it will continue to raise it so long as governments and insurers don't fight back.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-a-sleeping-drug-company-inc...
> Don't blame me for not building the house to code, blame the guy who made my nails, fasteners, and lumber.

I'll blame you for using poor quality nails, fasteners and lumber.
Regulating AI: The case for a mechanisms-based approach
By defending this legislation you are.
> The observation is from 1998 which I believe has relevance that would be curiously missing from the article?

What you're missing is that it's not an article, but an educational resource for kids in grade 3–12.
I think people are overthinking this.

In Asia, you kinda just assume as a tourist someone is going to take advantage of you or try. You can't be naive about reality, once you accept that you can then figure out what you want to do about it.

Eventually new groups will forms as the old ones dies probably violently as they fight to protect themselves.

I think 100% the institutional corruption has destroyed public trust in them, and the public is right to believe they are untrustworthy.

The unity debacle recently shows how easy it is to loose trust, and how difficult it is to get it back.
I was 50:50 on this being sincere. It’s hacker news after all.
I welcome you to debate it.
Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech
My bet is on Google doesn't give a shit. The pixel 4a is a second tier device with constant ui crashes, glitches and design obviously not made for it.
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I do this.

And not just for OS updates.

For example, I have noticed that if a new model (or generation of and existing model) of a car comes out, it's better to wait for a year or two for them to iron out the issues.

(No I don't purchase cars frequently; just an enthusiastic who keeps track of the industry).
You're just trying to argue for the sake of arguing at that point.

And yes if you're on this forum chances are you're above average, if you're college educated you're already above average, it's not that hard really. I think you're overestimating what the average human is and underestimating what the top minds of google &co are being paid millions for.

> I suppose it's pure selflessness that leads you -

What about lobbyist ? The tobacco industry is run on goodwill too ? After all cigarettes were advertised as improving your lung capacity, why don't you smoke ? Don't you want better lungs ? Why would you want kids not to smoke ? Are you anti freedom ?
How do I trust my car? I see plenty of cars of the same model being driven around. I assume my car will act the same.

Electrical wiring and water pipes? When my house was being built, I visited the site almost daily, took tons of pictures and read a ton how the things should be done properly.

Medicine? Read multiple sources upfront and possibly visit multiple specialists. I and my relatives were burned multiple times by not doing this and trusting first specialist they bumped into.

Regarding foreign reports and politicians, as I said, triage multiple reports. And I’m pretty sure vast majority of politicians have biases, either paid-for or ideological.
what is a harmful soda?
Why should institutions be trusted in the first place? Isn't it up to the institution to maintain their reputation/quality, perpetually? Since when did the public have to bear that weight? For what reason?
I would guess microbiome over any chemical or plastics being a major factor.
The problem is that autism is a vague term. There are likely multiple conditions that can cause behaviors that lead to an autism diagnosis. For this kid, they have a fungal infection. For others, there can be lots of things.
"harmful"... citation needed
>If humans could live on laissez-faire capitalism, the US wouldn't have 11% of its population living below the poverty line.

I think it might be a little more complex than that? "Living conditions in Europe - poverty and social exclusion" [0], "Poverty in Europe" [1]:

>"In 2022, 95.3 million people in the EU (22 percent of the population) were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, i.e. living in households facing at least one of the three risks of poverty and exclusion: income poverty, severe material and social deprivation and/or living in a household with very low work intensity (where adults work at less than 20 percent of their potential over one year). According to Eurostat data, this figure has remained relatively stable compared to the previous year (95.4 million in 2021, 22 percent of the population)."

I don't support total "laissez-faire capitalism" at all as I understand and think it's counter to the free market as well as bad for society, but I don't think you can just claim the opposite extreme has clearly better outcomes. It's not unreasonable to argue that both the US and EU go too far towards different ends of the spectrum.

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0: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

1: https://www.statista.com/chart/30411/share-of-people-at-risk...
Spleeter is a great open source model https://github.com/deezer/spleeter
Ableton has like a 3 month trial and honestly the stuff it comes with out of the box is way more than enough to determine if you want to continue with such a hobby or if it's not something you'd be interested in long term. The tutorials are plenty and easy to follow as well.

I use Reaper as well, but it takes a while to get that "useable" for modern(ish) music production. The benefit is there's plenty of free virtual instruments/VSTs to download. All of them have downsides though as does reaper itself. In Ableton I can make an EDM track relatively fast given the out of the box presets - especially synth drums - but in Reaper using a free VST like HELM makes it kind of a pain to use. YMMV.

No matter what you choose, I do HIGHLY recommend downloading Spitfire LABS though - the free instrument packages are massive and highly customizable. It's truly amazing.

Here's some good VSTs for Reaper:

https://plugins4free.com/instruments/ (when the site works)

https://web.archive.org/web/20181203014924/http://sonic.supe...

https://guitarclan.com/best-free-vst-plugins/

EDIT: oh also trying to master a track in Reaper with free plugins is frankly pretty bad for a beginner vs Ableton's preset limiters and other utilities. The Cuckoos plugins are messy to deal with in my opinion.
I think it'd be cool if you could group these together and have a modular hallway system with doors so maybe a significant other or even children could live in a more enclosed space and so ppl could lock up personal things. I imagine like having sliders you can side panels through to make an enclosure around a set of two or four of these. I think it'd be cool to combine with a huge commercial kitchen ppl could rent for food based businesses or use for communal dinners and maybe ppl tip the cook or something for residents.

You also could add outdoor activities and other amenities so people could have recreation without needing to travel too far, and a library of tools, washer and dryers, recreational vehicles people could rent or check out free (RVs maybe have a 10 fee per day plus gas), everything else is shared and maybe have a recycle clothing thrift shop that's free, I guess more like a clothing swap...

I'd love to open something like this everywhere rent is too high to see if it can cause prices to drop to normal rates because of over supply.
Where has this been published?

This is the first time I hear about that and follow our French news on a daily basis.
In practice you need both. Max Martin himself has produced and songwritten for plenty of no-names, but for an artist that has the requisite marketing support, bad or uncatchy pop songs can absolutely ruin an artist who would otherwise make it big.
Yeah and Ultima Online was the same. I’m not talking about 1999’s definition of an MMO, when people were still using dialup.
> Who is ever certain? How certain are you? How willing to endure false claims are you, even if miraculously you have convinced yourself the work is flawless?

If you're not certain and unwilling to fight false claims, just don't publish it for public use. It's kind of that simple.

> We think together with open source. Ideas are shared. The world iterates forward & we learn & improve, together

Indeed. And we have, and continue to produce plenty of resources for that.

> This is insulting beyond words

My sincere apologies that I insulted you by stating you shouldn't be allowed to hand out home-made fire extinguishers to the public and expect no repercussions
I've seen code bases survive three different ticket management systems. Meanwhile, the tickets never made it between the different systems, so if the 'why' isn't in the commit message, then it got lost to time.

I will admit that a lot of the really old decisions don't have much relevance to the current business, but the historical insight is sometimes nice.