skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's not true.

The Portuguese are NOT having second thoughts on the matter.

There is a poorly sourced, vague article on the Washington Post.

I've just read this article.

It contains two "criticisms".

First Porto's well connected mayor, Rui Moreira, and his people, saying that the problem is out of control. It very likely is, in Porto. I live there and it's kind of shit since the pandemic.

The second one (and in my view the only one that matters) is by the architect of the program Joao Goulao.

"João Goulão — head of Portugal’s national institute on drug use and the architect of decriminalization — admitted to the local press in December that “what we have today no longer serves as an example to anyone.” Rather than fault the policy, however, he blames a lack of funding.

After years of economic crisis, Portugal decentralized its drug oversight operation in 2012. A funding drop from 76 million euros ($82.7 million) to 16 million euros ($17.4 million) forced Portugal’s main institution to outsource work previously done by the state to nonprofit groups, including the street teams that engage with people who use drugs."

So yeah here's the thing.

No one is having second thoughts about the program, they've just massively defunded it to the point its architect says it barely works, and the Porto mayor got to complain about it to the Washington Post, likely because he has a really good PR company.

Rui Moreira is not part of any major political party.

No major politician is ever quoted in the article.

No data is shown on the topic showing that the Portuguese population is turning against the program.

So the statement that "The Portuguese are having second thoughts on the matter" remains completely unsourced.
It suffices to be on par with other dynamic languages with a JIT.

I am also curious how Mojo will turn out, from the last LLVM developers conference talk, it is quite interesting after all.
They are certainly doing that. But that is only a solution to the select few who are chosen to be vertically integrated with!

They have also vertically integrated in the opposite direction: by making deals with large media corporations, and also by implementing DRM (to appease those media corporations).

So at this point, there isn't much vertical integration left to be had. Any more deals with individual artists (or labels) would really just be horizontal integration.

> So yeah their current model may be limited but they have a lot to work with.

That limit is practically the entire worldwide music industry. They are very close to that limit, and seem utterly ignorant about it.
Well, this is exactly why PDF was invented and is doing its job so well. To preserve a desired layout and very specific information on how something has to be outputted.

That comes with downsides, yes, but at its core it's just working fine.

edit: Third option would be to render your content as an image, but that comes with its own downsides.
Nice one, the AI agents are actually communicating with each other
I was excited to read your project description. It would be really great to automatically align the security policy for each component with the intent of the component's author. Tightening an overly permissive policy is an awful job. I think that it often has to be done through a long trial-and-error process; remove all the permissions, and add back permissions one by one in response to observed program failures. So it's great to see another way to avoid that tedious chore.

A challenge with Slauth will be to organize the generated policies in a way that makes them legible. I would like the IAM policy to help clarify its intent. Allowing each in-use API endpoint is technically required to let the service work. It might be technically following the principal of least privilege. But the endpoint-by-endpoint rules do a poor job of summarizing the purpose of the policy or how it relates to the service. One way that we do this is by having resource providers declare managed policies that allow use of the resource. So the "encabulator" provider also defines a "mutate encabulator" managed policy. Then services that need to invoke "mutate encabulator" can reference the managed policy. They don't need to compute the ARN of every endpoint. The dependent service doesn't end up with an inline policy that has detailed dependencies on the implementation details of each target resource.
that's a false dichotomy. there are approaches to this problem that are powered by neither humans nor LLMs -- see https://github.com/Netflix/Repokid as an example
"João Goulão — head of Portugal’s national institute on drug use and the architect of decriminalization — admitted to the local press in December that “what we have today no longer serves as an example to anyone.” Rather than fault the policy, however, he blames a lack of funding.

After years of economic crisis, Portugal decentralized its drug oversight operation in 2012. A funding drop from 76 million euros ($82.7 million) to 16 million euros ($17.4 million) forced Portugal’s main institution to outsource work previously done by the state to nonprofit groups, including the street teams that engage with people who use drugs."

From the Washington Post article.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230816172031/https://www.washi...
That's the thing. Every PC, Mac, Android, iPhone can display PDF files. You can capture all elements of a website on one.

It just works.
@mcielecki can it be connected to CodeLama or Claude 2?
Yep! We have a static recap on bfcm.stripe.dev and a text-based companion here in case you're curious: https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/bfcm2023.
Zilog make loads of 8 bit microprocessors still: https://www.mouser.co.uk/c/semiconductors/embedded-processor...
>Yes and no. I know that there is no word "understand" in the dictionary, only "under" and "stand", but other than that it is just a large table with probabilities to see tokens in specific context.

The training data is more important then the dictionary because the dictionary is designed to be able to form every possible combination of words and sentences that can be formed. It is not limited to specific words it is building words and sentences from building blocks.

1. That parsing is valid. Though unlikely. The choice it made is not incorrect. Thus not a sign of lack of intelligence.

2. Not often. But if you ask chatGPT to reinterpret the word in another way that is grammatically correct it will find the rapist. It shows definitively there is no censorship of the word.

3. I actually didn't see the alternative myself for some reason. Therapist jumped out at me and I didn't see what you were talking about for a good couple of minutes. I mean, unless you want to think of me (a human) as not "intelligent" then clearly it's not a factor here.
It's not a constitutionally-protected right to privacy or legislation extending that right to privacy to interactions with private parties, so what's the point?
The Do is explicit in some languages like Visual Basic: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/langua...

Now it's a bit confusing if you're used to other languages, because you might think "while" is a test-at-start and "Until" is test-at-end, but actually while and until can both be tested either at the start or the end, and While and Until are just testing the negation of each other.

It can also be extra confusing, because there is a separate While.. End loop without the Do that can be used instead.

There's a reason Visual Basic died out, and it isn't just the snobbishness of seeing C# as more of a "real" language.
Our warships were apparently (escorting? defending? wink wink? wasn't super clear to me) the Israeli merchant vessels. They weren't exactly neutral bystanders, especially not to Israel's enemies.
I like the demo video, mind sharing what tool you used to create it?
> When writing in a higher language such as e.g. C, you can use code obfuscators to make your C code extremely hard to read.

Obfuscating C code shouldn't have any bearing on the decompilability of the output.

> If you want to make it (virtually) impossible to even disassemble the machine code, you could encrypt your binary itself except for a small bootstrap that will unencrypt the remainder of the binary when it runs.

Unencrypting the binary at startup is somewhat easy to hook into. It's harder to decrypt each individual function when that function is called and then re-encrypt it after the function ends. Bonus points if you re-encrypt after each `CALL`.

This is stuff which was available back in 2003 -- that's when I first used techniques.
What made Julia so difficult to package? I'm genuinely curious.

> ... because of how little they care about increasing the safety in the language (like Rust or Ada).

I think it's a bit harsh to compare Julia to Rust on that front.
Julia has completely different design goals. Compared to Rust's borrow checker and C++'s move semantics, Julia's immutability-by-default (+ clever compiler optimizations) gives a good trade off between performance, safety and ease of use. While Rust goes for safety + performance, Julia goes for performance + ease of use (respectively dynamicity).

Nevertheless, I miss some features related to type driven development in Julia, which would improve safety:

- A newtype idiom
- Sum types
- Explicit, type-checked interfaces : I actually would prefer something like C++20 concepts (a blacklist approach) to Rust's trait (or typeclasses, a whitelist approach), because it would be a better fit for Julia's design goals.
What is weird about this situation is I can't find any public information about Hans holding any special powers in the project. He's neither the original creator nor an officially appointed BDFL. Maybe he just happens to hold important access rights in the system that let him block people? Or is more assertive than others? Hard to tell
Sending you on a train to nowhere in deep Douro wasn't enough to prevent you from returning.
I would say drug addiction is partially a health problem. But, if you’re strung out on the streets then it’s also a different kind of problem. And what about before addiction or even first use? What kind of problem are drugs then? The fact that kids (16+) have easy access to drugs is yet another type of problem. The focus on decriminalization is misguided, in my opinion. Not because doing drugs as an addict is inherently a crime, but because addiction occurs way too late in the cycle to really do anything about.
Yes, this has been discussed a lot recently in the Julia community and some efforts have been made to make it happen, there will be more about this in the 1.11 release. Standalone binaries are next.
this combo technique sounds useful, is it something like reviewing memory palaces with spaced repetition, instead of reviewing standalone information?
Just to say it, running an all Wayland machine works fine on steam deck.

I'm doing it with NixOS.
Thank you. Finally read it, and like I thought, it's completely incoherent with the idea that "The Portuguese are having second thoughts."

It's mostly a complaint piece by Porto mayor Rui Moreira. Joao Goulao, the actual architect of the program points to what actually happened.

"João Goulão — head of Portugal’s national institute on drug use and the architect of decriminalization — admitted to the local press in December that “what we have today no longer serves as an example to anyone.” Rather than fault the policy, however, he blames a lack of funding.

After years of economic crisis, Portugal decentralized its drug oversight operation in 2012. A funding drop from 76 million euros ($82.7 million) to 16 million euros ($17.4 million) forced Portugal’s main institution to outsource work previously done by the state to nonprofit groups, including the street teams that engage with people who use drugs."
Meh beef emissions are 3% of the emissions in the U.S. That and they could even be far lower with food additives. Globally it's higher but that is because of poor farming practices and very loose/negative regulation.

I did keto for 8 years and it was fantastic. I am no longer on it for other reasons that have nothing to do with the diet itself.
The way autocomplete works in browsers is absolutely infuriating. Because a bunch of misguided orgs went around disabling autocomplete on login fields, now browsers aggressively ignore attempts to disable it and there's no elegant way to turn it off when browsers are wrong i.e., when they're autofilling user login data into database credentials.
InfluxDB /delete endpoint is disabled on InfluxDB cloud
I'm not sure about memory, but I've found that thinking through problems is easier using a pen tablet. I use a Surface Pro X mostly, but sometimes my Samsung Fold phone if that's all I have with me. If I use paper, I lose the paper.
I know two people that went this "all-meat" way for whatever reasons - one definitely damaged their stomach and GI tract in a serious way.
You are not quoting me.

Please check who you are replying to.
Why would we exclude child mortality? It isn't clear to me that isn't an indirect product of culture any more that any other longevity indicator.

Blue zones seems somewhat ambiguous but if I'm understanding correctly, they are small areas of people who live more traditionally surrounded by mostly modern people? Seems like by definition those zones are made up of cherry picked people and it's unclear to me that those aren't just outliers.
Sometimes the best way to hide something is in plain sight.
Western Design Center (Bill Mensch's firm) still offers physical 6502/65816 and supporting chips, too: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Western-Design-Center-W...

(Most of his money is made in licensing the soft core, but I love that he continues to support the hobbyist market by making ridiculously obsolete 40-pin PDIPs!)
There was a rock stacking robot on HN a couple of days ago.

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-new-monster-robot-can-...
Post-pandemic, the trend of Corporations raking in higher and higher profits, while needing fewer and fewer staff scares me.

The most obvious and likely outcome is it drastically separates the ultra wealthy from middle class.

With rise of AI and automation, that trend will likely accelerate. The top 10% hold more than 50% of wealth. It's likely in a few decades, the top 1% will hold more than 50% of the wealth. They already hold 28% of wealth.

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2022/10/the-wealthiest-0-1-o...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=UdXz
Generally I agree with what your saying, but

> I've seen their cloud bill and it's significantly higher than 1,600 peoples jobs

An apples-to-apples comparison requires looking at all associated costs of switching to on prem (salaries, hardware, etc...).

I've only been a part of this analysis at a company dealing with a cloud bill in the low tens of millions, nowhere near the scale of Spotify (and I'm still relatively new to all of this).

> And cloud has a lot more lock-in than most employees.

It's a shame there are not better abstractions to facilitate moving to and fro.
Those who find stuxnet interesting, might appreciate some older art, just for fun to see where malware technology was in 2001:
http://pferrie.epizy.com/papers/zmist.pdf?i=1

Author mirrored web page:
https://z0mbie.dreamhosters.com/
> I think the correctness concerns had to do with ambiguous composition of disparate components due to vague interfaces. I think this has to do with multiple dispatch in Julia

You'd have to be more specific. Currently ambiguous dispatch throws an exception. I don't think this is a recent change either.
"The filing raises questions about the potential conflict of interest created by Big Tech’s influence at research institutions that are called upon for their expertise on the industry."
It depends on your use case. If you just need storage as a backup for a single device, then there's no need for a NAS, but if you're backing up multiple devices and/or want to share data between devices, then a low-power NAS is a good option.
Tried not to. I know God implies monotheism and the Michelangelo painting suggests Christianity but I hope people can look past that if they don't like it.
"for a few months" - so you went back. Honest question - what is Spotify doing so well that you went back rather than just sticking with, say, Apple Music?
There is no source for this, and it does not say the police want to change the program at all.
Sounds like a profitable SaaS business model!
It became controversial because Big Food co-opted "balanced diet" in the mid 20th century to demonize animal fat and lionize agricultural fat and sugar. All the extreme diets you see are a reaction to that. There is absolutely nothing wrong on a dietary level with the majority of "traditional" diets--whether that is the fish, miso, and rice of Japan or the English meat and two veg. The problems come when you get to introduce a million cheap, tasty calories in the form of added fats and sugars.
It's not the software developers. Companies and processes aren't run by software developers. I wish you were more curious about the gap between your understanding and others, it'd be a much more enlightening discussion with your interlocution, as it stands, we keep circling back to "all companies with long launch lead times should fire 80% of their software engineers"
And then there are the Sea Peoples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples
I feel like you're overestimating the impact of AI on the current wave of dismissals. It's hard to say without any actual data, but there seems to be a lot of FUD regarding AI replacing white-collar and CS jobs.

I don't have better data than you, but I'd be very much surprised if AI would replace computer scientists rather than being a tool which will change what we'll have to be good at as computer scientists.

There is a lot of digitalisation to be done and AI might change the price of doing that, but it won't make a whole academic discipline obsolete.
Regardless, it was done, turns out C# can't do everything on a foreign platform.

The better way is to write Swift, or eventually Objective-C, when iOS is anyway the only OS being targeted, instead of adding complexity layers, just because one fancies C#.
It's interesting how when discussing neural networks "inspired by the human brain" always comes up when the brain, as far as we know, is emergent behavior from many little things coordinating, not architected.

"Top down" never really works for complex systems, the economy being an obvious example. But we tend to ignore that when thinking about neural networks.
Hmm my google chrome seems to correctly handle everything in English. It must be a combination of setting my machine locale to English and probably on my Google account as well, no need for vpns.
Rather not about this guy. If you look at his beginning remarks he literally just insulted anyone who uses macos. That's why I decided to say this stuff to him.

Talk about being rude and closed minded. So there's no point to be charitable with this guy, I'll make the narrowest stereotype and see if it sticks. It likely does..that's the sad part.

My advice for you is to learn to read subtlety in this conversation. The guy I'm responding to hates macOS with a passion and he thinks anyone who doesn't agree with him is stupid.

Or maybe you're that way too? I hope not. Then my advice for you would be the same as my advice to him. Understand why the majority of developers use MacBooks stop looking down on other developers like your some kind of superior ass hole.
> It’s government that provides the underlying mechanisms for the social trust essential to society.

It's not anymore. Surveys show that people nowadays trust businesses more than they trust the governments, in a major shift (https://www.edelman.com/trust/2023/trust-barometer)

We need trust because we want the world around us to be more predictable, to follow rules. We trust corporations because they do a better job at forcing people to follow rules than the government does.

This is not a change brought about with AI, it changed BEFORE it. (And just because an AI speaks humanly, doesnt mean we will trust it, we have evolved very elaborate reflexes of social trust throughout the history of our species)
> Sunlight into my eyeballs within 15 minutes of waking up? Forget about it between October and March.

Think outside the box, wake up at noon.
Not an expert in photography but I think phone cameras are more optimized for portraits than for long-distance landscape photography. You probably need specialized equipment for that not to be underwhelming.

It's easier when you are e.g. inside a forest and take a photo, those can be really good if the light is right and the phone is decent, but panoramic photos from afar, not so much.
Also for the record, 1.10 rc1 brings the time down to 1.1 seconds (from 1.9 seconds in version 1.9 on my laptop). There's still more work to do, but there's been a ton of progress on this in the last year or so.
The main problem with REPL/notebook approach is that it has an "invisible state". E.g. running the cells in different order or running the same line in REPL twice can cause different behavior. This leads to major issues in e.g. reproducibility, easily introduces bugs that even leave no trace and generally it's very much against very core software development principles. Pluto.jl reportedly solves this, gotta try it out.

My scientific/plotting loop runs from Bash (something not solved by Pluto.jl). This allows me to interoperate with a lot of software that's not in Python. I can version the code with e.g. git and the analysis pipeline tends to get refactored into libraries and CLI tools in the process. With Julia this is in practice impossible.
He's "Technical Lead"

https://f-droid.org/en/2023/03/20/f-droid-board.html
If you want the story of Stuxnet, Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter is a great book. I have it on Audible and I've probably listened to it three times now.
The Flask Mega-Tutorial, 2024 Edition
There's a lot of false information out there. Many people on low carb find their cholesterol levels improve and blood pressure lower. Also organ meats are far more nutrient dense than plants and not only that they are more bio-available.

I like the flavor of plants, so I don't do carnivore myself. But you seem to be a few decades behind on the research.
What I keep hearing from Canadians is that the healthcare system is systemically underfunded. This problem is not exclusive to addicts.

Here in the US, we have a different version of the same problem.
Absolutely agree. I’m not sure I can name another name brand Chicago tech company, which is devastating for their startup and venture ecosystem.
I've never used it, but there's a syncthing app that doesn't sync anything but allows you to browse what's in the share: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.syncthing.lite/
No need to spend hours trying to get the text extraction just right - pass the raw extraction into GPT and ask for it to give you the recipe.
There are obfuscators that also make decompilation difficult. See the "two approaches" section at https://www.star-force.com/products/starforce-obfuscator/
The problem in my town is NIMBYism. We need more cell towers badly, but the town is more concerned about how they look. The end result is that a large and well funded suburban community has absolutely awful cell service... but when I bike 20 minutes away towards a more rural area (which is less concerned about cell towers marring their skyline), suddenly I have full bars even on an empty forest backroad.
Creating Clippy?
One of the issues raised is that the Council approved maintainership privileges for one individual & Hans refused to grant them - this gives me the impression that 1 single individual has exclusive access to grant such privileges (typically "Owner" role): it seems pretty unusual for a community project to have a single Owner role. Even just for efficiency & them being a bottleneck / bus-factor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Droid

non-google app store for devices running android OS.