skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Useless? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10055475/
I think you are falling into the trap of thinking everything looks like a nail when you have the most familiarity with hammers
The committed cannabis smokers don't want to spend the extra money, and the rest of us don't care about it enough to keep all these businesses alive.

I live near an ex-urb/suburb of about 20,000 people. There's about 5 Tim Hortons franchises, and I think about 7 cannabis retailers at last count. I strolled into one the other day, a saturday afternoon, and it was a ghost town. Not a person in sight. At least the Tim Hortons have a line-up of addicts at the drive-thru.

I suspect anybody who is serious about smoking the stuff either grows their own (you're permitted up to 4 plants, which is a lot really) or "has a guy."

I live rural, and I have neighbours on one side open-air growing a bunch of plants. Eagerly awaiting first frost, because right now it smells like a college dorm room outside.
Stand on their shoulders instead.
It's arguable. First it will be grown professionally and not in someone's garage so you get some quality standards there. Then there's the enforcement of THC and CBD levels per price tag, which is something the street won't even bother measuring. There's also the strains: there's pretty good variety at official dispensaries, much more than your local dealer has - but it's all designed for occasional users or first timers for acquisition. Store employees also aren't allowed to recommend anything because effects may vary. So there's this whole attempt at making it like a liquor store (which are also nationalized, btw) but without the same... respect for the product or the user I'd say. Liquor stores have pseudo-sommeliers on staff and special origins and shit.
> Bandcamp has been successful because of the trust they have within the internet music community.

Hahaha I don’t think that they have as glowing reputation as you think. I’ve heard creators complaining about lack of transparency, lack of communication, poor customer service, arbitrary decision making with no reason given, etc.
Interesting that the original publication this is based on (that won the SIGGRAPH 2023 best paper award) didn't get a lot of attention on HN at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36285374
EP 137: Predator
Claim you work "like open source", proceed to have six disparate systems I have to log into every day.

Have useless stand-ups at the ass crack of dawn "just so everyone sees each others' face, isn't that nice?".

Change the priority of eleven different projects every week.

Lie about finances and runway, miss paychecks the week after doing so. Ask employees to work extra hard so it doesn't happen again.

Favor one employee due to $personal_reason, ignore the other engineers you've hired.

Completely isolate customer feedback from people working on product and engineering.

Make product decisions without discussing with engineers.

Go to fancy talks and banquets on the company dime every month and never be in the office. Blame employees for not "letting you know earlier" when they finally get a chance to tell you something is on fire.

... I could go on.
Yeah. It’s a worn out political bullet point. The dispensaries are reasonably priced as long as you’re a smart shopper. A lot of the edibles are bad-tasting gimmicks at bizarre price points for how much THC they have. Just don’t buy the junk. I’m sent to the moon on 90 cents worth of THC capsule.
In general rural areas are poorer, and poorer people consume less.

It may be true from a theoretical viewpoint, but in general cities are richer and consume more.
Can someone help me understand what this is actually doing?
> Which is why I have gotten rid of getaddrinfo() calls in my server code, and rather resolve DNS directly reading the DNS server setting from the system.

This works as long as you don't need support for mDNS or LDAP host resolution, which depends on libnss/nsswitch on glibc-based systems. Which is fine, but should be a well documented limit of this of approach.

(this is also what the Go runtime does by default, but they automatically fall back to the glibc resolver in any more complex case: https://pkg.go.dev/net#hdr-Name_Resolution)
To avoid the intimidation factor, skip the notebook. Use the back sides of printed pages. Use cheap scribbler-type notebooks, if you can buy them where you live. And play with a few pens. I prefer fountain pens, and you can buy some very good ones for under $20, perhaps under $10. If you get a reloadable fountain pen, then you can save on the waste of plastic cartridges, and buy bottles of ink, which is where the fun starts.

As to what you ought to write, maybe start by transcribing some of your favourite poems, song lyrics, quotations, etc. Don't wait until you have some "big thoughts" that are "worthy" of a fancy notebook. Your first step is to see if it feels lie fun to you.
Pay for YouTube. It’s worth it.
You’re right it’s not a good reason for an individual to have kids. but it is a good reason why even childless people should be motivated to be part of a society that invests in people who do raise children.
Dynamic compression of water to conditions in ice giant interiors
LibRedirect – Extension that redirects websites to privacy friendly front ends
By all means please tell us your salary in a public hn comment then. Nobody is stopping you
Am a manager at Microsoft so I can see where the policy-based midpoints are once regional adjustments are made. The base numbers look low by a rough 20% compared to what a Redmond HQ dev would get paid at the given level number. Bonuses are based on a level-dependent target percentage which you can find if you search for it.

And yeah, the Levels.fyi base pay distributions are closer to the truth.
If only YouTube gave the creators a reasonable share.
Anonymous readonly classes in PHP 8.3 [video]
PHP 8.3 is bringing "readonly" to anonymous classes! Anonymous classes, typically used in your Laravel migrations or in testing with stubs, may now be "readonly" too. This makes the language even more consistent.
I’d like one please. Email in my profile.
Nothing. In the UK is the more you pay the less you get.
And how is tech compensation in Norway compared to the US? That's what I thought...
Yes it depends on those things, nobody is denying it. But most managers are still useless, that's statistically observable, just chat with any random programmer outside of SV.
The payments will increase until we get ads with them
Note: you have to disable Ublock Origin in order to be able to use this.
The ugly truth is that propaganda works, especially over long time periods. The fossil fuel industry has been funding propaganda for decades now, longer than most people have been alive. They commissioned studies about climate change in the 50s and knew exactly what was going to happen and how it would affect their businesses so they got ahead of it with continuous ad campaigns and political activism.

This has been going on for so long we are now in an era where for a sizable percentage of the population truth no longer matters. That was the long term goal all along, once climate change became otherwise undeniable the people would be disassociated from reality and still support the fossil fuel industry.
So you would rather have your own compensation package be lower if it ensures that your coworkers packages are also low?
The x% does not value with the use of the land. An apartment block owner would self assess their land as much more valuable, and then also pay back x% of that much higher land assessment in taxes each year, yes. And if someone came by and decided that e.g. that $5 million apartment land unit would be better as a $5 million parking lot, they could certainly pay them $5 million to do so.

But they may later find out that the parking lot isn't really worth $5 million, because it's harder to make the money to justify the x% of $5 million tax you're paying on it with a parking lot than with an apartment complex. They may then drop their valuation to $3 million, or $2 million, to reduce the total amount they pay in tax each year. But then of course they may run a greater risk of being forced to sell themselves -- perhaps even back to the original apartment runner they paid $5 million to before.
What exact date do you think "New Year's Eve of 2000" is? 2000-12-31?
Not quite as bad as the Red Cross? I’d take that as a commendation any day of the week.
Which is precisely what people are trying to make happen at the snails pace of the us justice system. Government being captive to the industry, using weak safety obligations as a get out clause.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-court-hears-challenge-lack-...
The first thing capable of evolving was inorganic.
> On the infrastructural disadvantage, that’s true, but we also have the advantage of … we don’t have to be full of shit. We’re not actually a surveillance company. I’m not trying to pretend Facebook is good. I don’t have to toe a party line that is divorced from reality. And we aren’t Big Tech.

Quite bold statements in this article. I hope they figure out ways to pull off the domain fronting she mentions despite opposition from companies like Amazon with Cloudfront [1]:

> Our hope would be that we can implement Signal in a way that [would require a government to] cut off all of Google or all of the internet if you want to block Signal. And thus, we have some level of cover there. This has been referred to as domain fronting. I won’t get into detail on how we use those because there’s an advantage to not [getting into it]. We are actively working on it.

[1]: https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/
The land can go negative in value; does the LVT start paying you at that point?

But that would make the land valuable again …

It’s quite possible to have a plot of land (especially in more rural areas) that is “worth” $10k but has state mandated cleanup required that costs $60k.
Did the government set prices as well as provide all the packaging? Or do you mean the taxes are so high that there’s no way for a business to break even without a total price substantially higher than the black market? Regardless it sounds fairly successful if 70% of the market is now legal.

I wonder how far off the Canada prices are from the California ones I’m familiar with.
It's a pity that using uBlock Origin means I'll never see this.
Cannabis at the store costs anywhere from $90 to $500 a oz, with $120-150 a oz being the average AA grade. The same prices for a "gray market" is typically around $30 to $90 range for a oz of AA grade. Most of the "gray market" cannabis is grown by private individuals or native reservations (which have exploded as nobody will police it). It is typically sold at a store on the native reservation or via mail to order websites.

Now in order for you to grow cannabis to sell to the store you have to meet a set of extremely strict criteria that range from a specific amount of acres to soil quality, to harvest techniques and warehousing. You can't grow plants over X height, need permissions from neighbouring property as flowering can be aromatic, you cannot spray or use any non-organic fertilizer, and you have to go through a series of reviews, which cost a lot of money. After that you can then grow cannabis which could be sold to a store. A store then takes that and puts it into extremely expensive special packaging that is child safe, keeps the cannabis hydrated to 65% and all kinds of stuff like that.

Now stores tend to promote CBC + THC combinations where you are balanced rather than extremes towards one or the other. As well as beverages which is where I assume they make their actual money. I have no idea what kind of up sale is the average, but you don't really make much off a few people buying 3g or 9g of cannabis in any format minus beverages. Since most of it is taxes anyway.

So you end up with a strong "gray market" that grows faster, and cheaper as there is no restrictions and they can spray and use what ever to grow the product faster. And they don't pay taxes.

It has nothing to do with any sort of "dealer client" relationship, I don't know a single person who calls up any "dealer" and gets cannabis. Everyone I know either goes to the store and buys it or gets it online mailed to them.
Function follows form. No animal's shape is arbitrary. It's the result of eons of evolution and generally results in morphology quite unlike inanimate objects.

When we see a sculpture of something alive - at least a representational one - we recognize it as the shape of something that was (or could be) alive. There's no confusion that it's indirect evidence of life - whoever made it.
Thanks, pruned my list to instances that allow DASH.
Apple allows Russians to use third-party payment systems in apps
If you've been paying attention to the industry you'd know we're going to have ads on the paid tier also

- Netflix

- Hulu

- Prime (coming)
"What does this do?

It replaces the text 'skip ads' with 'Fuck Off'. That's it "

Okay then. Fun for 30 seconds. :)
Way too expensive (unless you are able to pay in a currency of a third world country which is what I do). They still do tracking on you. You still get sponsored ads by 'creators', so you'll need Sponsorblock as well.

For Android, consider using "NewPipe x SponsorBlock x Return YouTube Dislike" [1]

[1] https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe
There was a contract from US government to develop the software that is now known as Tor. That was 20 years ago. The project has been ran in the open by a non profit ever since. No doubt the US agents still use the network but saying it's a "US military/intelligence project" at this point is silly.
You are almost correct, according to SBB [0], train is considered to be on-time if the delay is less than 3 minutes.

[0]: https://company.sbb.ch/en/the-company/responsibility-society...
When will YouTube pay me for watching ads?
App Store and Play Store Finance Analyzer – See What You Get
What ads is he talking about?
Not the govt's fault that all these businesses jumped in on what they thought was a get rich quick scheme.

In Ontario the Wynne gov't had what I thought was a better proposed approach in keeping the retailing under the same jurisdiction as wine/beer/liquor in the gov't run LCBO. When used-car-salesman-Doug got into power that idea got axed, and it seems like every strip-mall has a cannabis store now.

Finally, to your dig about "JT" -- the feds only provided the legalization framework. It's the provinces that administered it in their varying ways.

I'm not a Liberal voter, but I see this very often these days, blaming the feds for things (COVID policies, real estate regulation, etc.) outside their jurisdiction. It's a bit annoying.
Resources are for a certain quality of life are the same regardless of location. Unless, you are willing to for a lower quality of lifestyle.

These resources can be transported to high density living, or spread out across 100x - 1000x area. Which do you think is more efficient?

Building roads, water, electricity costs millions/mile. All this must be built before you even think about shipping resources to support. Then services (schools, hospitals, dentist) -- all of these and services only make sense at scale.
Does the precise value matter for anything though? I would say that any privacy intrusion happens with the range already.
Information asymmetry is a natural thing. It benefits job seekers too because your prospective employer does not know everything about them.

If all info was freely available knowledge brokers would have immense power.
Why does that matter? They should all be able to know each other's salaries.
The payments and ads will increase until morale improves
It's so expensive. I have multiple people in the house, and I already pay for music with Apple. It's a big price to just get no ads and nothing else.
If you insist that only tractable problems are decidable (or computable), you don't really get a nice or useful theory of computation. You need a more fine-grained hierarchy.

Almost all real numbers are uncomputable (computable reals have measure zero; in other words, the probability of an arbitrary real number being computable is exactly 0). BB(754) is uncomputable in this sense even though its definition is extremely concise. Still, its value could be computed by a machine stronger than a TM (but it would again be unable to compute its own BB problem).

Of the countable subset of reals that are computable, almost all are like 𝜋, in that computability does not mean being able to actually calculate or represent its exact numeric value in the physical world. Only that it's in principle possible to compute it to any precision desired – but of course this isn't possible in reality either. Only in math.

Then there are numbers that are unbelievably large, like 3^^^^3 or (the immensely larger) Graham's number G, which nevertheless admit an incredibly compact definition, and we can prove various properties of them. Yet their numeric representation would not fit in our future light cone (either in space or in time). Where do you draw the line? After all, G is an entirely ordinary natural number, and indeed almost all natural numbers are greater than G.

Complexity theory draws a line, somewhat arbitrarily, between polynomial-time and superpolynomial-time problems, the former being tractable and the latter intractable. But a number might be easily defined in terms of a tractable function and still be entirely unfeasible to ever calculate or represent in the physical world. (Such a number wouldn't even have to be particularly large if the function that defines it grows sufficiently slowly.)

Nowhere is there a distinction made between "computable in reality" and "only computable in math", because it's impossible to formally define such a distinction. Some numbers are obviously within our reach, almost all others obviously aren't. In between there's a huge gray area.
Smaller companies can just report whatever they're paying each employee that year, then?
If downvoting, please explain your disagreement. If I'm wrong about something I would like to understand why.
Configurability is good. Ruff has thousands of linter options to bikeshed over, a few for the formatter won't hurt much more.
Loving this.
Exactly. So there was a boom and now will be a bust.

Right now there seems to be 3 cannabis stores for every convience store, is it any surprise some need to close. And how is that closing a failure? It was a race to capture a new market.
From my knowledge a lot of YouTubers get paid by advertisers and they don't even let the viewers know.

The single view is not much worth - I estimate the streaming costs are quite high (think of all the bandwith you need for 4k/8k streaming with low latency).

Sadly I couldn't find numbers for YT profit.
I remember 2004, when ads on the web were incredibly annoying.

There was (loud) sound, and half the information was buried under ads for certain pages.

Me being a teenager back then, decided I've had enough after a late night gaming session with friends ended with a stupid website screaming in my ear to buy a new car.

I installed an ad blocker and since then my web experience is (mostly) ad free.

When I see ads I immediately know what NOT to buy. I feel I've already paid with my lifetime, so I am not going to add (haha) money on top
That vertical tab bar I would put under "a little bit of gloss" :) But I also use firefox with Sidebery.

But besides this Microsoft also added a lot of user-hostile crap to Edge, like the "buy now pay later" schemes and the coupon notifications.
Again, property taxes already exist. This is simpler.
I think that would be the way to start an implementation - have a generous enough homestead allowance that it really only affects investors and commercial interests.

Of course, remember that apartment buildings are commercial businesses…

Also excluding homesteads destroys the public schools, because they’re often in areas that really only have houses and a Walmart or two, and if the entire property tax burden is transferred to the Walmart it’ll just close.
Watching this play out on Twitter has been interesting. For days after the attack, there was almost unanimous support for Israel. Then the Harvard letter came out saying that the blame was entirely on Israel, infuriating most of Twitter. But then over the next few days, a steady stream of posts have been bubbling up which all carry the theme of making the reader question whether Israel is justified in its reaction.

Telegram has been a source of war content, both for the Ukraine conflict and this one. I’m not sure why it’s so much more prolific than Twitter, but it definitely is. It might just be a difference of public vs private. Watching the Telegram rooms, you get the impression that someone is reporting to you directly, and that there’s no chance the videos will suddenly disappear. You had to opt in to the room to see it at all. Whereas a bunch of videos were made inaccessible on Twitter when the accounts that posted them got suspended — videos that bubbled up onto the “for you” feed algorithmically, rather than being shared in a private curated channel.

It’s fascinating watching from a distance. Everyone likes to feel the social media forces can be controlled or shaped. To an extent they can be, but most of it is just chaos on both sides. Telegram shows that people will tune in to private channels, though their reach might be limited compared to default-public mediums like Twitter.

Apropos nothing, pg highlighted one of the more interesting takes on the whole situation a few days ago: https://x.com/paulg/status/1712097145770156458?s=61&t=jQbmCk...

One thing’s for certain: traditional media seems hopelessly outclassed by social media when it comes to influencing peoples’ opinions. The news blitz leading up to the Iraq invasion ("weapons of mass destruction…" rhetoric) might be the last time that such tricks will work for getting wide-scale public support for governmental actions. If 9/11 had happened today, one can’t help but to imagine what a Taliban social media presence would look like, or whether there would be a large scale surge of support in their favor.
You don’t even always need a third party. My wife works in HR for the government and part of her job is literally to contact neighboring counties and send them requests for their salaries for various positions and levels while filling out salary requests from other counties.

Of course, being government, it’s all public information anyway so collaborating in this way is seen more of a performance increase vs manually accessing each counties salary information but it’s the same premise.
He's indeed precisely one of the most qualified person around to opine on this subject.
YT Autogenerating Videos for Songs Advocating Expulsion of Muslims from India
I've seen some of the videos published by Hamas. Some of them are literally filmed with "gopro" or similar cameras during their attacks.

Generally I don't recommend watching these. These kinds of videos are incredibly disturbing.

--- Trigger warning: violence.

One thing that struck me is how horror-like all of it seemed and how invisible the opponent in such an engagement is. The invaders would often not see where the defenders were and would get shot seemingly out of nowhere. Vice versa they would shoot into small nudges and windows here or there and its often unclear whether they hit anyone or not.

My cousins who fought in Bosnia would often tell me similar stories. Their enemies were invisible most of the time, while sometimes someone would get hit on their side.

For reference: I once watched Full Metal Jacket with one of my cousins and there was a scene where suddenly, out of nowhere, the protagonists would get attacked in an urban area but they couldn't even see their enemies, just flashes of rifle fire here and there. He said: "This is exactly like war."

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I don't know what to make of it. It all just feels like pointless horror.