skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>By holding off until 21 you can reduce the amount of long term addiction.

This is empirically completely and utterly false; the US has far more alcoholics than many countries with a lower legal drinking age and responsible drinking cultures.
SwiftKey is the best I've used, but even it has some annoying bugs that means it learns wrong words and will routinely prefer them over the correct ones. For example, I can't for the life of me get it to prefer "my" over "NY".
It happened before by it being on phones for a long time.

The correct answer is that it will be proven in markets that promote the sort of competition that got us modern smartphones in the first place.
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Perhaps, but the above is not a point about Japanese growth, but rather competitiveness. I'm not sure that population decline connects directly with Japanese hotels, razors, and toothpaste becoming rapidly more globally competitive, even if it's just Japan treading water while the rest of the world gets more expensive. Usually you'd expect it from a country with a strong "demographic dividend" of a young working population. An increase in competitiveness can apparently happen with or without population growth, with or without inflation, and with or without increasing wealth for Japanese families, and with or without inflation.

For example, Japan was also getting more competitive in the 1970s-1980s, but at that time it happened alongside a population boom, young workforce, economic growth, inflation, and a strengthening Japanese consumer. This time, it's more like Japanese companies getting internationally competitive while their economy declines and their workers accept lower wages and lower standards of living, with high rates of industrial production amidst shrinking domestic demand. Again, not so good for Japanese families perhaps, but that's not what competitiveness is necessarily about.
The point is that it's not very good regulation.
Not necessarily. One of the Jhanas (states of mind attainable through meditation) is "Neither perception nor non-perception". This can be described as not being aware, but it's complicated.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231024232529/https://www.newyo...
Lots and lots of meat, fat and fish, with some stuff like berries and preserved summer vegetables mixed in. Meat and fish are preserved by drying or mixing with fat and berries/herbs, sort of like pemmican. Fresher meats tend to be boiled and dipped in the melted fat, but you couldn't really eat those on the go.

In many ways, it's similar to the Inuit diet, adapted to similar conditions.
That is certainly very recent, although I agree with your core point, that we are but an instant on an evolutionary timeline. Life has normally been much more dangerous than the past 70 years. We don't know how long it will last either.
I'm definitely not assuming that homeopathic medicine is incapable of harming people, but for the sake of this specific argument I think it's reasonable to assume that we could find something that isn't especially harmful to fill the role of giving people who don't read the labels something to take.
Why do they need more food when it gets warmer, I would expect the opposite, do they need to run airco for some reason?
While I agree with the general sentiment, poverty and inequality are wildly different problems (e.g. modern capitalism tends to increase inequality but also decrease poverty).
I like to think the comment was down voted because it barely (if at all) answered why the crabs died. I hope the comments and discourse on HN are better than one word answers.
Why Arc–not Chrome–is the best browser out there
They’re cold blooded so their “clock speed” is roughly the same as the ambient temperature.
> I can't compile code in Rust I wrote from 4 months ago

What code? I have never observed this
Considering how global warming has been happening for close to a century, but the crab population "boomed" in 2015 suggests it's not so simple.
Ideally, no matter what the size of the platform is, if it's genuinely impossible for the people running that platform to not harm children, that should be their problem. If they can't figure out how to not be harmful to children, they don't get to exist. That's how it's supposed to work.

In practice though, it's not unreasonable to say that we should expect more from companies that can cause harms at a much larger scale. Perhaps there's some kind of threshold where we can accept some harm being done at a small scale while still not allowing harm at a much larger scale. Seems fair enough.
> I mean we can see a demonstrable and quantifiable MASSIVE decrease in meth usage and overdose circa 2005 when the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act went into effect.

It’s now synthesized in industrial sized cartel owned labs in Mexico using Chinese precursors and smuggled into the US, there’s no reason to keep pseudoephedrine restricted when it’s easier and cheaper to just buy the plentiful and cheap meth on the street.
Same. It has worked for me, and without the jitters and anxiety from pseudoephedrine (which is available OTC here in Canada still)
> “I pulled both emergency shut off handles because I thought I was dreaming and I just wanna wake up,” he allegedly told officers.

Just think, if there were fewer people shilling psychedelics on the internet this likely would've never happened
Grocery stores here use eink for prices. It appears sharp, need to look closely to observe. It kind of did not occur to me this could lead to dishonest behavior. Not sure why they use them even. Those Waveshare ones are cheap esp in bulk.
If it keeps going up. There’s a good chance it’s going to decline, and by 2030 China (probably sooner) will be in economic freefall. They just don’t have the demographics to sustain economic growth.
>My guess is social media, but maybe it’s environmental pollution or something similar

There are plenty of other countries that have just as much social media usage as the US but don't have the same widespread emotional dysfunction, so wouldn't that suggest that social media isn't to blame?
Afrin is so incredibly addictive that I highly recommend never using it… use it once and you’ll be hooked for years, trust me!
What do you mean by this? I’ve been using Afrin to deal with nasal congestion when I get a cold for 10+ years now.

Do people continue to use the stuff once they have recovered or something?
To be more clear: if a 16-bit instruction is 32-bit aligned, then you might want a 16-bit noop so that the instruction following the noop is also 32-bit aligned. But, in that case, you could just use a 32-bit aligned 32-bit instruction at the same location. No padding, one instruction saved, and the following instruction is still 32-bit aligned.

If the 16-bit instruction isn't 32-bit aligned, then the following instruction will be 32-bit aligned with no padding.

So, equivalently: "I don't know why you'd ever want to add padding after a 16-bit instruction in order to force the next instruction to not be 32-bit aligned." Is there such a use case (other than the obvious use case of checking behavior/performance of the sub-optimal case, or writing a noop-slide for an exploit payload)?
Other way around, IIRC reddit was using Postgres as a kv/nosql store.
Not saying I think it's a good outcome but I don't see why it's relevant what the "original architects" thought. This is just a variant of 'argument from authority'.
The intent could be either confirming the deletion of the data... or trying to find evidence to charge you with some kind of crime for having the data in the first place... or trying to dig up random dirt. Services which Kroll conveniently seems to also provide.
This is fake news, China's GDP has never overtaken the US. It's coming close though and may in the future, but that's not the same thing, and the future has yet to happen.
Really? It bankrupts its users? People can't hold a job because of it? People will rob stores to get more money to use more social media? It causes families to painfully detach themselves from addicts?
It’s hardest to stay healthy when you’re trying to jam it into an unhealthy life.

Are you sure you need that job? You’re suggesting 11-12 hours at the office every day, plus whatever your commute is. And apparently this job insists on you being continuously deskbound during that time.

Your upper middle class peers may be doing the same thing, and you may feel obliged to that job because of some fantasies about where it might lead, but on the facts themselves it is grossly unhealthy to sit for 12+ hours in a row.

You’re making an explicit choice to be an ambitious young urban professional (for an exploitative employer) rather than a healthy person. Maybe double-check that choice and make sure it’s the one you want to be making.
You probably should. Many of my school friends started experimenting with tobacco and marijuana in elementary school, which were the prevalent vices of my time.

Kids are autonomous humans with free will, and despite what many adults think, they have opinions worth listening to.
Actually on the keynote, there was screenshots of these running Debian Trixie/sid (Linux 6.5.0-rc1)
I think the problem is that you're just working too many hours. If you're getting into the office at 7:30 and leaving at 7 that's almost 12 hour days. Then you add an hour for commuting, another 30 minutes for getting ready in the morning, plus cooking, house work, sleep and you're basically out of time. If you were doing a 9-5 job instead I think you'd find it a lot easier, since you'd have another 2.5-3.5 hours to fit things into each day.
Applied for a few positions so far just to see whats up. Only one gave me a rejection. The rest ghosted. Moving state next year and need to find a new gig before then. Sounds like I'll need to start applying a lot more
The prohibition on selling alcohol and drugs has clearly had no effect on their availability. So I'm not sure what you are trying to argue.
It's nice that in an imaginary future that code would be shorter, but it's unfortunate that the conceptual understanding needed to write it isn't. You'd still need to know how to juggle a whole bunch of related concepts - ReadableStream chunks, Uint8Arrays, ArrayBuffers - to write that transformation.

Why does de-chunking a byte array need to be complicated:

new Uint8Array(ArrayBuffer.of(...chunks.map(chunk => chunk.buffer)))

esp when chunking is specified by the platform in ReadableStream?

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You have made me realize I don't even know what the right venue is to vote on stuff. How should I signal to TC39 that e.g. Array.fromAsync is a good idea?
Watterson is harder to find than Satoshi Nakamoto.
Destroy them and start again? Like the internet always has.

Except the platforms eating them (Discord, Telegram) are terrible for forum-like discussion. Honestly, I think the internet is going into a dark age, where good information is siloed or just not posted and cheap engagement (like Facebook platforms or the lesser parts of TikTok/YouTube) tends to dominate users' attention.
It's harmful for emotionally damaged people; the rest of us shouldn't have to suffer because a few people never learned that envy is a flaw to be overcome not a virtue to be cultivated.
"If this knowledge is valuable, the best way to show a support for it is hiring somebody to work full time on this problem."

Why not have both? I.e. academics and students dedicated to the fairly monastic career of being a professional historian (which I am), but also prizes which seek to bring in experts from other fields with different skillsets who may approach the problem in an original way.

Obviously there is a limited amount of funding for anything. But surely some of the billions being donated every year to the general funds of elite universities like Harvard would be better spent setting up specific, goal-oriented prizes modeled on the Vesuvius Challenge.
Do you know it was pseudoephedrine?

I remember you could buy bottles of mini-thins at the pos of pretty much every liquor store in the country in the late 90s/early 00s. Used to be sold in bottles of 100 for like 5 bucks.
The law in Utah exists to prevent young people from communicating with like-minded peers in communities like r/exmormon or r/lgbt.

The issue is billion dollar companies manipulating people for profit, not that people are able to communicate with each other over the internet. It's entirely possible to host communities that aren't corrupted by investors who want 1000x returns on their investments.

However, the Utah law defines social media as any online forum belonging to a site with more than 5m users that allows people to register accounts and interact with others[1]:

> (9) "Social media company" means a person or entity that:

> (a) provides a social media platform that has at least 5,000,000 account holders worldwide; and

> (b) is an interactive computer service.

> (10)(a) "Social media platform" means an online forum that a social media company makes available for an account holder to:

> (i) create a profile;

> (ii) upload posts;

> (iii) view the posts of other account holders; and

> (iv) interact with other account holders or users.

The law uses broad strokes to ban much more than just social media, it bans any group or community that might belong to a parent site that has a moderately-sized user base.

In effect, the law isolates anyone under 18 who might want to find community outside of their potentially abusive or extremist parents.

[1] https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title13/Chapter63/13-63-S101.html?...
Yea, all this cancer and burden on the healthcare system caused by social media. Just like tobacco.
> There are plenty of other countries that have just as much social media usage as the US but don't have the same widespread emotional dysfunction

Are you sure? A quick search says otherwise. E.g Effect of social media on youth in [country].

I guess my search term is favouring a conclusion but not sure where / how to find proof of your claim.
If you look at history, the biggest changes that allow people more free time to spend with their children or otherwise, are technological ones.

Look at the mechanical loom (industrialisation), pesticides (agricultural yield increase), penicillin (life expectancy increase), painkillers (life quality increase), clean water (wide-spread infrastructure), cheap microwaves (overseas slave labour), reliable vehicles for all (fossil fuel infrastructure).

We need to continue this trend to fix the problems. The billionaires aren’t blocking us. Yes, it’s unfair that they hold so much wealth and power. The world has been that way for a long time.

When electric lightbulbs came to the masses, it made some rich people even richer, but that’s not the important part. The important part is that the masses’ lives were better.

Next steps for us:

- Find manufacturing processes that don’t require overseas slave labour

- Agricultural processes that don’t need as much pesticide

- Better, cheaper medicine (recent developments in quantum computing suggest we may be able to crack protein folding within 10 years, which will lead to an explosion in medical research)

- Automated construction (see Hadrian X)

- A replacement for fossil fuels (if we crack fusion, we can use that for the grid and we can create our own combustion juice for vehicles using the enormous amount of energy available)

- Protocells that allow extremely precise manufacturing at scale (protocells are programmed cells or completely custom cells that we can equip & program for certain tasks, like “remove all the iron ore from the ground here” — they will change everything)

These are the things that will bring the rest of the world out of poverty. And, depending on how we adapt to the irrelevancy of capitalism as these technologies develop, it may solve the inequality/unfairness problem too.

Taxing billionaires won’t accelerate any of this.
It sounds like you really don't need to fill the position, is that true? I know when I hire it's because I need someone yesterday not in the next year. The multiple interviews and hoops that applicants have to jump through are akin to fraternity hazing not a interview process especially for non-entry level positions. My last three positions I was hired during my first interview, my guess is that today that would be unheard of, again I question if there is really a need to fill the position or the company is just adding another worker.
Is a constant dopamine hit not addictive?
> (Also, Adderall is great for colds)

Do not go around saying this, even if it’s true. We’re experiencing a huge Adderall shortage, and the last thing we need is people who were on the fence deciding to get a Rx because it might help them with cold symptoms in the winter.
I don’t hate them, and never said I did. I find their childish antics annoying.
A Humanist Manifesto
Alchemy, Mythology, and Artificial Intelligence
There are many things in life more harmful than Facebook that we don't ban. Just because you don't like something or it has some negatives doesn't mean it should be illegal. Indeed given that it's impossible to specifically define "social media" such a ban wouldn't even really be legally feasible given 1st amendment issues.

Now personally I don't use alcohol, don't do drugs (including caffeine), don't gamble, and barely ever use social media (except HN, my one guilty pleasure). But I still think those things should all be legal.
HCL makes this an instant pass for me.

Don't get me wrong - I love the idea of a declarative language for config. But HCL is just not pleasant.

Actually decent languages for that would be nix, jsonnet, or starlark.
Yes everyone wants to sell more, but social media companies purposefully try to make their product addictive. There are entire teams of psychologists and behavioral experts figuring out how to maximize engagement through manipulating your emotional response to stimuli.

It’s similar to the superstimulus effect in junk food. The stuff is designed to hijack your instincts without providing much in return. We think we get more value out of social media (or a bag of chips) than we actually do because it’s purposefully designed to make us feel that way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
There’s some places where you can’t get it at all without a prescription.
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Does anyone actually make these arguments? I can easily see someone arguing that if you trust your developers then making them make pull requests instead of just allowing them to push changes is an unnecessary extra step (or two). But how could anyone argue that a tool designed for a low-trust environment must be unsuitable for a high trust environment simply because of its origin? Couldn't such an argument be refuted by saying "that's just stupid"?

And who says the web should not be used for apps?
By that logic I guess we shouldn't have rules against companies selling children food with ground up glass in it. If you can't trust parents to keep their kids from buying food with ground up glass in it, why not have the government ban everything that could be bad for kids right? Personally, I'm very much glad that the government doesn't allow companies to sell food to children with ground up glass in it no matter what individual parents do or don't allow and nothing about that ban on ground up glass in food means that we should also ban soda or candy.

We can absolutely look at products and services that are actually harmful and deem them unacceptable for children without banning every other thing on the planet that might possibly be bad. Some states feel that Facebook has risen to the level where it's harmful enough to do something at the government level. I think that's probably what's needed since facebook has demonstrated that they're unwilling or unable to stop the harm they're causing without government intervention.
it does because it eats away all valuable time and turns people into slaves and consumers instead of creators of value
These only apply to the new generic TLDs.

Country codes can basically do whatever they want.
i was going to say, what planet are you on where you have to wait 60 minutes at the pharmacy, and what you need more than 24 pills for?

you're either Jesse Pinkman or sicker than a vintage Jimi Hendrix lick
The sister comment appears to be somewhat confused. The "virality" of GPL is that if you "link" a GPL program then your license must be compatible and the combination as a whole becomes GPL. Importing a library may count as a derived work/linking.

The LGPL was created to avoid this limitation and is a natural choice for programming languages and interpreters.

As an example, GNU Guile, an interpreter for the Scheme language, is LGPL licensed. Writing any nontrivial Scheme script requires importing code from Guile. If it was GPL then all scripts had to be GPL compatible; but since it's LGPL, programs using Guile modules can have any license (even proprietary).
The hard part of Uber style driverless EVs being great is having extra roads to handle the extra traffic not actually building the self driving bits.

People in NYC don’t just save money using the metro vs a Taxi they save time.
Isn't "FSD" the thing they're no longer allowed to call self driving because it keeps killing cyclists? Google suggests lots of Tesla+cyclist+dead but with Tesla claiming it's all fine and not their fault, which isn't immediately persuasive.
Just 1% of Netflix subscribers use this perk
The mushroom thing was between 6 months ago and now, its not clear from the affidavit when it was.
California supervolcano is cooling off but may still cause quakes
It's unclear if even the porn site verification laws will be allowed[1] so I'm not sure the chances are that good in terms of requiring age verification for all social media.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23854369/texas-porn-age-v...
Obviously retail pseudoephedrine was never a substantial contributor to methamphetamine production (tell me again why that’s illegal?).

Which raises the question, what what the real goal in preventing people from buying functional medicines?

Frankly I think the specific intent was exactly this. The main effect was to cause human suffering and Occams razor tells me the main effect was probably the intended effect.
Can any engineers in the field comment on whether the [very cool!] Waymo vs Cruise performance anecdotes being discussed here would have been the result of Google's millimeter-level scanning of SF? Or is it just better algos only? Or both?
You seem to be saying that you are a "non-discerning customer" when it comes to this type of work, and that's fine if it works for you. Others find works produced only for money to be lower quality or heartless. Maybe you similarly care about stuff in some other aspect of life (food? clothing? music? personal relationships?), just not for movies/comics.
Thanks for all the utility belts you've provided to the ecosystem.

It's insane to me that something as simple as concatenating an array needs a library, but as I've shown upthread, Uint8Arrays are way too complicated to work with.
The First American Murder
> Yes, but they are s4d.

Wow, this works both as numeronym and 1337. And in both senses, I agree. Kudos!
Could they have used AI to create representative photorealistic images of what they looked like?
“All this amounts to the steady evisceration of the moral norms that can make our planet a decent place to live—and their gradual substitution with distrust, aggression, and rage.”
This is actually a fear of mine. It often makes me hold my tongue because I need to think "should/do I already know this?"
Does this have merit? I don’t know if a single kid on Facebook.
Maybe instagram. But primarily they’re all on TikTok and Snapchat.
You can scrub your personal information from Google searches
I think there is something wrong with your lobster?
I'm in my late 40's and I agree with you 100%, more now than I would have at any point previously, and I certainly don't consider myself a bleeding leftie. Might be interesting to see how the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" HN/SV crowd react to your comment.