skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for one i am glad they did. i have no interest in paid events. and even less in a rent-seeker who takes a cut from the event organizers. when i went to visit a place recently, i looked at eventbrite and meetup for interesting events. i eventually gave up looking at eventbrite because there was nothing of interest. all the interesting community events were on meetup. sure, there is demand for paid events, and eventbrite may be filling that niche. but i believe if meetup would have taken on that feature it would have ruined the ability to have community events there. i am not interested in running into people who are trying to sell me something everywhere i go.
The equivalent would be banning all alcohol because sometimes people get drunk and do bad things.
So often it's "buyer beware" when it comes to consumers, it seems like it should likewise be the job of the investor to be smart about what companies they invest in if they want to avoid a CEO who would run a business into the ground just for funsies. The risk of potentially losing your entire investment is something every investor has to accept as being possible with carefully considered and wise investments making it less likely to occur.
Helium hotspots go live in bid to turn Miami network profitable
The only where left to go is up (in price). Its cable all over again. One day people will look up and wonder how we got to $100/month bills for streaming services with ads and no binge watching for new content. And then we'll speak fondly of the good ol days like how people talk about cable TV in the 80s.
They're talking about the immigrants kids who are replacing you.
>Using meth is as victimless as using alcohol

Just because it's legal, doesn't mean there's no victim.

>and I think it's pretty silly to say there's a victim when I have a beer at home after work.

This is getting into hair splitting territory. Meth has therapeutic value. It's available as a prescription drug under the name Desoxyn, and it's indicated for treating ADHD and obesity. It's possible for someone to get illegal meth and use it to self-medicate their ADHD responsibly, but that's not the typical use case. The typical use case is someone taking far above the therapeutic amount, getting tweaked out, and engaging in harmful behaviors that hurts them and their community. Sure, you could argue that using the drug itself isn't harmful because theoretically you could be using it responsibly, but it quickly leads to a slippery slope. Is driving drunk victimless, because if you don't crash nobody is harmed? Is violating health codes victim less as long as nobody gets sick?
That was almost seven years ago now. It has been the String API twice as long as it has not been the API.
> I guess when you cannot get timber

i thought timber wasn't the bottleneck here, at least not in the US? from what i know, US timber has a glut of supply, something like 40 years worth of inventory.

maybe you meant "lumber"?
> These things are awfully loud.

Roads.

> I think they are also very disruptive for the ecosystem

Roads.
Unicode being an utter cluster fuck is my takeaway from this as well. Are there any alternatives to Unicode? Maybe something which has a single grapheme code point and uses utf32 for the encoding. Or anything else saner than what we have today?
Its a lovely read for me, because in the quest to teach digital self
defence I've long realised that a sure way to communicate to most
ordinary people what must be said about cybersecurity, cryptography,
systems.... is via literature, poetry, drama and film.

An ongoing quest for me is to find short, powerful and accessible
pieces. The romantics are good; E.M Forster, Mary Shelley, H.G
Wells.... The Greeks are useful too, but one has to go carefully so as
not to scare-off people. Wrote about it here some moons ago;

http://www.icicte.org/assets/icicte2019_5.4_farnell.pdf
Hmm, I'll send a message and check it out.

Thanks!
ffmpeg has a great many of its own decoders though, and I suspect that they will eventually be implementing their own replacement for libvpx eventually
One thing of pre-pandemic, is that people were already in the city center after work, so it was easy to go to a bar to talk about python, use some meeting rooms some company had for toasts or whatever. But now, most of the senior devs and engineers that organized these stuff moved to fully remote so there isn't a good easy to go place, so the effort to attend a meetup now is higher.
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While El Salvador's method has certainly been effective, I'm not sure it's something to discuss in the context of the average developed country. I don't know much about it, and while it was probably an improvement over the old system that resulted in so much homicide, it seems to me like the new system is a dictatorship with fascist tendencies.
I’m 100% in on Postgres but what you describe sounds awesome.
Addiction potential is heavily tied to one's circumstances. The more desperate the circumstances, the greater the abuse potential. For example, you specifically listed crack as opposed to run of the mill powder cocaine. The only difference between them from an abuse potential perspective is the purchasing power of the user. Likewise, the raver who's popping some mystery mix of amphetamine, methamphetamine, and MDMA at a party once a month is far less likely to succumb to addiction than poor sap living in Redding where the only thing available for entertainment is smoking meth. Opiates are self-selecting in this regard: they're not that pleasant relative to other drugs, except for their ability to make you content, which only really appeals to the desperate.

If we follow your "it's illegal because there's a probability" theory of law enforcement, then it should only be illegal to do drugs while poor, which is pretty much where the law stands today without the deceptive veneer of equality. Now, that should sound like an absurd legal take, because it is. The reasonable response is that it's poverty that's the problem, and it's not a problem we solve by throwing all the poor people in jail.
Nope, their TOS prohibited commingling. An LLC isn’t a license for fraud requiring government regulation.
I've never read a series that I loved so much and then hated so much. Some of the books and the world-building are just awe-inspiring.
> On one hand we have folks like github who can't change the version of zlib because people rely on identical .tar.gz.

People rely on the same checksums for the same files. They’re perfectly fine with changing the method for new files.
Dang downranks anything that makes cars look bad.
>Diet Coke, which contains significantly more caffeine than regular Coke

It is true that Diet Coke has a higher caffeine content. Though I would not say it is significant:

A 12 oz. can of Coke contains 32 mg, Diet Coke contains 42 mg

A difference of 10 mg is not significant in this context.
There are reasons science tends to work this way. First, there are cranks out there. The Society for Neuroscience used to continually receive abstracts from a guy who claimed black people's brains are more like monkeys' than white people's. Is that a topic that they need to be open-minded about, or can they just dismiss him as a racist crank?

More seriously, there are organized efforts by well-funded groups whose purpose is to sow doubt about science that could hurt their profits. The fossil fuels lobby is the best example, but the alcohol, sugar, and various polluter lobbies are out there too. They fund scientists who will do research designed from the outset to be favorable to the funders.

Faced with an organized bad-faith effort to corrupt the scientific endeavor, journal editors and grant reviewers naturally start applying more scrutiny to anything on the "wrong" side. Then the lobbyists complain about "preapproved narratives" in the Wall Street Journal.
If you mean the retroreflective stuff, that's because it requires a bright flash to work. Modern digital cameras now are generally good enough to not require flash for a good picture, even in low-light conditions, so paparazzi don't use them near as often.

Clothing or accessories that shine IR are a completely different functionality and while they could be stopped by paparazzi buying better IR filters, that requires an additional cost on top of the camera
Nobody thinks or reasons like this. Penalties are set by politicians. They are more a political decision than anything else.
Ask HN: Were there any Reddit instances before it got closed-sourced?
TIL that Reddit used to be open-sourced. This got me thinking, were there any Reddit instances prior to the source-code archival?
Rapidly getting fed up with them anyway. Their shit DRM errors out about 50% of the time on launching netflix on my desktop. Bog standard win10+edge+nvidia+samsung panel.
I've preferred using libtorch for translating python to C++.

I feel this effort is poorly differentiated compared to previous efforts.
I'm an American, and I live in a rural area near wind turbines.

I love seeing them. It always makes me feel a little more hopeful to see the concrete proof of genuine efforts being made to rid us of the fossil fuels that, if left unchecked, will cause (even more) catastrophic climate change.

I've never heard of anyone in my area being harmed by the wind turbines, and there are certainly enough far-right coal-rolling drill-and-burn folks around here who would trumpet it to high heaven if there were.
Clicking links in your (wildmoose.ai) stack menu on the site doesn't close the menu on Android Chrome. The link location loads underneath though. Just a friendly heads up.
Requiring companies to charge more for shipping doesn't seem very pro-consumer to me.
Probably easier to think 'what's a thing to post that would be interesting to HN users' rather than 'what are the precise conditions for maximum posting frequency'. 'We're iterating very fast and have some new features' is usually not interesting enough to get around the 'about once a year for reposts in Show HN' standard.

Of course, you can, as you point out, post outside Show HN but the same applies - the promotional effect has to be a consequence of interestingness so if you focus on interestingness, you get both and everyone wins.
>but more on the practical level, the community as a whole should have mechanism to deal with unstable members.

Right but what does it mean in terms of legality? We have mechanisms to deal with store theft (eg. anti-theft systems, insurance), does that mean it's okay to steal stuff?
"musl (used by default on Alpine and Chimera Linux) and the BSD libc's on the other hand are much more minimal and conservative."

Also available on Void Linux.
That's been tried.

It did no go well, and was hated by both crews and the public. Rode extremely rough because it turns out it's a very different optimization needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacer_(British_Rail)#Analysis
Are you for real? I'm also not trying to be snarky but...

$ cat $(find . -type f | grep -vE LICENSE\|README\|BUILD\|bazel\|git\|docs) | sort -u | wc -l

8360 unique lines scattered across more than 100 files. Good luck deciphering that in a single day!

By the way, the first issue in the repo is a "Request for a more verbose README", which I agree with.
Oj Is on Tap
The Oj JSON parser and data extractor is now available on brew. The oj application is similar to jq but relies on JSONPath instead of the jq language.

brew tap ohler55/tap
brew install oj
I liked the one that Apple used to use in the MacOS 7/8 era: “How razorback-jumping frogs level six piqued gymnasts!” (Might be slightly off but its unique enough that I remembered it at least 20 years after it disappeared from MacOS).
Of course owners don't get all of the value. Otherwise, there wouldn't be employees or customers.

Everyone shares.

Company actions maximize company value. Employee actions maximize employee value. Customer actions maximize customer value.
Turbines can be reconditioned. Solar panels retain about 80-90% of their efficiency after 25 years. The majority of materials in a solar panel (aluminum, glass, semiconductor materials) can be reclaimed and recycled.

We haven’t stopped anything in the nuclear space. Small nuclear and other novel technologies get reasonable funding given their maturity and regulatory friction.

Nuclear won’t take off until we get past the regulatory burden. We can’t sit around burning dinosaur juice hoping the government will modernize nuclear regulation. But we absolutely can pursue every avenue at once.
I have this bookmarked and it looks really well done, but feels like an anti-pattern.
Poppler and its integration with Emacs via pdf-tools has dramatically improved my PDF reading and annotation powers. Since I started using it about 5 years ago, for the first time in over 30 years I prefer reading and annotating papers in digital form (as opposed to just storing and searching, which happened over 10 years ago). Recently I started using Amazon scribe as well, though I wish it was a more hackable hardware (without Amazon as an intermediate) so I could further optimize my workflows.
First 10 hires across top B2B startups
Grass and other vegetation cools itself and with that the surrounding air by evapotranspiration, solar panels do not. Parking lots are warmer than meadows, built-up areas warmer than forested areas.

If you're inclined to experimenting and you happen to have (access to) a multimeter with a temperature probe you can test this for yourself. On a sunny day find a spot where you have bare dry dark soil close to vegetation-covered soil. Put the temperature probe (generally a thermocouple) on a stand ca. 2 cm over the bare soil and leave it there for a minute, then read the temperature. Do the same on the vegetation-covered soil and again read the temperature. You'll quickly find that the temperature over the vegetation-less area easily rises to 90°C while that over the vegetation-covered area does not tend to climb much over 40°C. Now add some convection - wind or natural convection - to move that hot air from that soil or from under those panels to a neighbouring area and you'll find that is does have a significant impact.
So get a job delivering pizza in the Hamptons for 5 years, van life it, and retire to Appalachia a multi-millionaire? Sounds good to me.
Hmm don’t think I said profit is wrong. I said owning an asset in limited supply with growing demand and then selling later is not particularly risky. I made no moral claim.

I’ve seen HGTV. I’m familiar with house flipping, I know that the markets are local. I don’t really need an economics lesson to understand that low interest rates spurred buying. Don’t kid yourself into thinking it takes a genius investor to buy something in low supply relative to demand and resell it for more.
Just like temperature. F is easier for me to relate to. 0 is very cold. 100 is very hot. We like it pretty warm, so 70-72 is great. Also F has a much finer scale for adjustments. I don't have to set my thermostat to 22.5 degrees to be comfortable. I don't really care about the boiling point or freezing point of water in my day to day life.
easily done by _someone else_, I assume?
?? The basis of my argument was that the govt can save 1 person with a million dollars (by helping drug addicts, people with mental health issues, suicidal people, etc).

People aren't money but money can be converted to saved lives.
i'm pretty sure the limiting factors are the materials and machinery, both of which AI cannot help with
Are you familiar with UltraCluster? https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ultraclusters/
It's a product directly intended to compete with other HPC fabrics. I believe it was launched after your paper was published.

Even before then, AWS had ways of placing all your jobs on the same rack, which used same-rack switching. Whenever AWS told us stuff about HPC we tested it carefully, and I'd say that before ultracluster, AWS was being misleading about performance, although Azure was not.
Up scaling the image in chunk creates loads of semantic issues. For example, bottom of tree might look further in the mountains but it's top will be near you. You don't see problems like these in non scaled images.
Bollocks to the car. It's the rest of us innocent pedestrians who need
to take cover. :)
Chipotle robots may soon construct your salads and bowls
There must be some rationale while setting penalties. As for reasoning, what other reasoning is there except arbitrarily deciding penalties? That's just guessing the punishment for various crimes. There must be some math behind the decision.
Hmm, it appears that they relied on the quality control of forum moderators but didn’t do any of their own QC?

From the methods section:

> The database of drug narratives from Erowid’s “experience vault” is entirely anonymous. Rigorous quality control is conducted by trained experts with careful consideration given to “quality, credibility, and focus on effects or outcomes” (www.erowid.org). By means of that mechanism, all reports that provided the basis for the present investigation have successfully exceeded a standard quality filter.
What the fuck is this article? It's like it's written for two-year-olds.
Is Retinol the only skincare that works? (Study)
Yes. I think the fine-grained differences of meaning here matter. Good call.

I am less sure why the same thing happened here in Australia because we have a huge logging, processing and distributing system domestically and for export, but we also had massive shortages of framing supplies. I suspect it was the timber/lumber distinction, maybe the woods available on-shore weren't being directed into framing and this depends on cheaper sources off-shore, which just disappeared.

Our cost of construction has gone up so much a lot of builders are going bust. It's causing angst in a hot market, house prices and rents out of control, and the government intervening but the industry says it can't build that much more than is on the table, its not lack of desire, it's lack of capacity in construction overall.

Most of the fixes simply increase housing cost inflation. But this glitch on framing wood and related products, was really bad for us.
Yup Cloudflare Post-Quatum key exchange connections to my Nginx origin working nicely https://blog.centminmod.com/2023/10/03/2860/how-to-enable-cl... :)
Ask HN: What are your favorite alternatives to Postman and Insomnia?
Looking for good alternatives to local API development tools like Postman and Insomnia.

Postman has gotten bloated and slow, while Insomnia just rolled our the requirement of maintaining an account with the platform to use the tool.

Ideally something light weight, no account needed, and can export/import OAPI specs.
Changing society to cope with climate change functionally means picking which humans get to survive it.

The pure amount of projected arable land is insufficient to feed even 20% of the projected global population, let alone all the social instability mass climate migration will/already is kicking off.

Dealing with that reality via the proxy of some global body like the UN just means ceding the power to decide which groups live and die in what numbers to the global majority.

That's not you, and it definitely isn't going to be your kids if you even have any.
> So often it's "buyer beware" when it comes to consumers, it seems like it should likewise be the job of the investor to be smart about what companies they invest in if they want to avoid a CEO who would run a business into the ground just for funsies

It's pretty much like that already, the CEO can run the company into the ground for funsies if they are insane.

But if the investor catches the CEO doing this they have the right to sue to prevent it from happening and the legal system and shareholder primacy are what allow for this. Otherwise, what does the concept of ownership even mean if the owner can't decide what is done with the business?
It feels arbitrary because much of it is. Part of the issue is that choosing patients who are doing functionally "well" (defined by RECIST scores, which include things like : can you climb a flight of stairs? perform ADL's?) and have no signs of end organ damage or other comorbidities selects for patients who will produce fewer confounding symptoms and side effects that would worsen data. "Better" data means better study outcomes, which also means a higher likelihood of a medication being given a fast tract distinction and ultimately FDA approval. And that is money. The trials are really for the drug companies and for future patients, not for the patients currently enrolled in the trial. The patient actively in the trial has the opportunity to be helped as a side effect but not a primary endpoint. Though, if they can get into a phase 2 study with efficacy as an endpoint then it is trying to help them in order to help others, which is a better position to be in.

The truth is there is also a lot of arbitrariness. For example, brain mets are often used as an exclusionary factor for studies, because, although a drug is evaluating mets as part of asking "will this drug work for cancer throughout the body?" a drug company will LATER have a study that focuses on whether it works on brain mets, thus excluding a huge swatch of patients. If a cancer tends to met to the brain, it really doesn't need a different study. It needs to include real-world patient populations. But that's because the studies are meant to get a drug to market.

I feel strongly that policies need to change. The FDA plays a big role in making the process problematic (a longer point for another time), but, curiously, the NIH actually is one of the most functional (for patients) research centers.
> Doesn’t actually matter here because those fan blogs are also derivative works.

Not necessarily. To be a derivative work it has to contain copyrightable elements, not just a small number of words in the same order.

> ChatGPT can argue for a fair use exception, but combining lots of derivative works can be copyright infringement even if none of the things you directly copied where. IE: If you copy a lot of excerpts from a poem and recreate the poem that doesn’t mean you can now use the poem.

This is the argument for why the model itself isn't infringing, isn't it? All of the excerpts as presented in their original context isn't the same thing as all of the excerpts purposefully rearranged back into the original work.

It's like on the one hand arguing that a dictionary is infringing because it contains all of the words in Harry Potter, and on the other hand claiming that you can reproduce the text of Harry Potter without liability because you reconstructed it by rearranging the words in a dictionary. One of these things is not like the other.

> If a US company is sued in Australia for copyright infringement they don’t get to move the case to the US.

If a US company has no operations in Australia, how does an Australian court have jurisdiction?
I've had the best luck lurking in the subreddit for my city to find mentions of groups that use discord.
Are crimes of opportunity rational crimes?

What about rage/emotional violence? Is it a deranged crime?
The person was asking about why they should care about repair-ability as an iPhone user. I wasn't trying to do a cost-benefit analysis of iPhone vs FairPhone.

I personally don't really care what FairPhone does. I care about general repair-ability of all tech and what benefits that has for flexibility, affordability, and competition in the economy and for the end user.
Also, what does this say for the ethics within the community at Stanford?

She was a teacher, she probably taught some people some things. Maybe they were bad things? Was she the bad apple that ruined the bunch?

Is this Stanfords MiT media lab moment?
> Nukes are not that useful for stuff other than extremely destructive explosions.

I would like to mention that in the Fallout series, a game that depicts a different version of history where nuclear power was widely accessible, cars and robots have their own nuclear generators. The reality is that if nuclear power was common, we would not have any problems with energy or a power grid.
Just bounce a graviton particle beam of the main deflector dish.