skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just ship the .so files? It's what most commercial software and things like Firefox do. Just run it via a wrapper that sets LD_PRELOAD.
I appreciate your kindness and good intent and accept it in that spirit. Thank you.

I don't think lying about beheaded babies is ok. I employ the Principle of Charity whenever possible, though. I don't automatically assume someone is lying unless I have evidence for it. Just makes life easier. It means that sometimes people will get away with lying to me, but as a teacher and father, I'd rather that than assuming an honest mistake is a lie. However, when there is a lie, I'm certain, because I have eliminated all other possibilities first, so I have no doubt.

I don't assume 40 beheaded babies was a deliberate lie. Maybe you have information I don't, but it seems to me that while some people might say such things to be malevolently deceptive, I think in this case that particular untruth reasonably could have been down to shock + rumor + "the game of telephone". Do you have clear evidence that it was a deliberate deception?
> its very rare a person goes homeless because the prices in downtown Seattle are expensive. if housing goes up, you move to a place its more affordable - not to the street.

Research disagrees.[1]

[1] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/...
I have come to the conclusion that lots of humans have a religion-shaped hole in their psyche. It is far better to fill it with a stable, local, hope-giving religion.

Hymns are a better opiate of the masses than fentanyl.
Do you know of any free and open source voice cloning models? I once read a suggestion to use a recording of one's own voice as an alarm clock, as we respond strongly more our own voices. Perhaps there is some nascent narcissism of mine to be developed for fun and profit!
LangChain is an API layer wrapping huggingface and/or pytorch. Huggingfacetransformers and pytorch solve a different set of problems than what LangChain solves.

I understand that, but most programmers want the simple `pip install` `gem install` flow to work, without needing to create their own bindings code.

torch-rb offers the barebones. You'd still need to re-implement the model from whitepapers or translate the python version.
One thing I really want to do is a front-end for Grafana for Tektronix 4014 terminals (and the lesser compatibles).

Not terribly useful, but certainly cool.
> Apes don’t carve logs and notch them to build structures.

The builders were much closer to us than to apes. We separated from great apes (chimpanzee ancestors) 7 million years ago (mya). This structure is from 0.5 mya and Homo sapiens first walked the Earth ~0.2-0.3 mya.

> While not “modern humans” it’s important not to fall into the trap of thinking those who came prior to us had some degree of lesser intelligence. Truth is they probably just knew different things that were important to their lives then.

What makes that 'truth'? Evidence: It depends on how far back you go, of course, but between ~7 million and ~2.6 mya (with some uncertain evidence from 3.3 mya), none of our ancestors figured out how to make or use tools. Around 1.8 mya we figured out Acheulean tools, which were made by finding an appropriate hand-sized rock, knocking flakes off one edge to sharpen it, and voila - a 'handaxe'. Acheulean tools, arugably the most relatively successful technology in history, dominated world-wide Homo tool market for a long time: We didn't improve on them for about 1.3 million years, when we figured out how to use make tools from the sharp flakes, and to attach the tools to hafts.

That's just one example, and it all speaks cleary to ability. More importantly, there is no evidence of ability approaching ours, afaik.
iOS Messages is a terrible SMS app!

It doesn’t support delivery receipts (my old Nokia could do that in 2003!), doesn’t let me send texts to a specific number of a given contact, doesn’t let me pick what number I want to send texts from (for dual SIM), and most frustratingly I can’t send an SMS to any contact it believes to be on iMessage.
Sounds like bullshit has replaced a once useful physical measurement. They should've found a new, real and objective measurement or just given up and used a date or arbitrary version scheme.
It's pretty ominous to see "Death under Singapore Law for Drug Trafficking" printed on their declaration forms.
No, hindrance to their ability to engage in such forfeitures makes it harder for them to take stuff. That's not what their jobs actually are, though.
This fits the level of intelligence of the TSA.

On the plus side, this might reduce theft from crooked TSA agents who are just there to rob passengers.
You have to travel to the the northern border to get Nexus right?

I got (Global Entry, Sentri, Precheck) since I live near the southern border.
I've been waiting to see a response to Nvidia's NVLink switching in the hubbub from AMD like this, as NVLink is what makes them viable across large clusters.

I've still not seen what a physical NVLink nic or switch actually consists of either in production beyond flashy marketing stating a 400/800G phy, I assume it's just a proprietary optimized Infiniband, but it would be nice to get some more info from some industry insiders building these "supercomputer" clusters, as it'll be a while before they start hitting ebay off-lease I think.
Patents are inherently a bad idea because stuff can be invented independently by many people. This has happened many times in history.

Also, we don't need patents for innovation; just look at Open Source for a good example why. Stuff will be invented anyway, patents or no patents.
Both Ardour and Cubase (both DAWs) had branching undo/redo systems in the mid-2000s. Ardour and I think also Cubase abandoned it before 2010 because almost all users could not deal with the complexity.

Maybe for programmer-oriented text editors the user reaction/experience might be different.
Goes back further. Look up Third Party Doctrine, pen registers, and Katz &White v. United States.

https://verdict.justia.com/2020/06/17/the-third-party-doctri...

Behold the utter schizoid nature of your legal system citizen, and gasp!
I think the average person (including myself) is just skeptical this is a problem worth having. A rube goldberg where everything has to go right.

It seems like the best case scenario is "We legalize drugs and then raise tax dollars and then use that money to fund programs so that people that are addicted aren't harmed too much in the long run" just seems not ideal.

I get the arguments for personal liberty, but we wouldn't allow other risky behavior that has a such huge societal cost.
I'm not disagreeing, but I'm making a separate point. I'm familiar with CYA, and need to use it myself, but that doesn't affect my previous point.
Those are just a bunch of unproven claims. An alternative theory is that Apple rejected RCS in favor of iMessage because vendor lock-in boosts their US profits.
No, F-Droid builds almost all apps from source. Even some open source apps don't make it to F-Droid if the F-Droid maintainer doesn't manage to build it themselves on their build server.

Additionally, F-Droid signs every app themselves.

[1] https://f-droid.org/docs/Building_Applications/
COP28 is making headlines. Here's why the focus on methane matters
I've gone through several periods where I had no fingerprints (and probably will again), as a side-effect of some hobby project or another.
If we made getting sick a crime, you could reasonably argue that it's a victimless crime, even if we choose to spend money to help people avoid getting sick and help them get better.
I used an editor with a redo tree, DeScribe (I believe) word processor on OS/2 and Windows. The redo tree was pretty cool, but I'm so used to losing my stuff on change after undo that I don't miss it. If I really cared to save a version, I would've committed it to my local git.
There’s got to be some middle ground between locking up people for substance use disorder and allowing people to make public spaces unusable with their antisocial behavior.

In my mind it’s something like “drugs are legal but public drug use and public intoxication are strictly illegal.” It’s just hard to enforce that when people don’t have a private place to use in.
Are you saying everyone in your social circle willingly vendor-locks themselves by using an app that is available only on a specific device? That sounds just comically bad. Where is that? USA? I just checked, the iPhone market share appears to be around 57% in the USA, which is sure a lot, but still it means that every second person does not have the ability to use this app. So how comes it ends up being inconvenient for normal people, and not for iPhone users? Weird.

Seriously, I'm struggling to imagine that. It suddenly reminds me of when Microsoft had to offer users to choose something other than IE because of anti-monopoly legislation. What you are telling me about iPhones sounds way, way worse than that. After all, it's not like people had to use IE before that, they just didn't know better. There was no network effect and vendor-lock with IE.

Also, what's even so special about this app? I maybe could understand that, if it was unique. But come one, WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, plain old SMS after all… And I'm not even talking about older VoIP/messengers (Skype, Jabber), community-centered apps (Discord, Slack, MS Teams) or some fringe messengers nobody uses even though they are clearly better than everything else (Matrix). By no means there is a shortage of messaging apps and protocols…
I thought some more about your reply - will colleges transition fast enough?
It would have been encrypted by now (at least for hangout to hangout chats) had it hung around.

And at least it was cross platform but overall I agree that mobile messaging should be standardized and open. So while the Google messaging strategy has been an abject failure overall, they did eventually trip over themselves and stumble onto the right path.
That kind of collision is very unlikely to happen.

It is comparable to someone stealing your Windows license key by guessing randomly.

More on collision: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23253149/
This assessment contradicts all evidence we have on the homelessness in the US. Unemployment rate is very low in the US, shelters are very often half-empty. Drug-addicts and homeless people refuse help (unless it's cash or free drugs).

The idea that we just need to invest more and more into this extremely corrupt industry has no merit.
https://issuu.com/cmb321/docs/deep_learning_ebook
Almost like we are hard-wired for belief. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110714103828.h...
I guess it's for me, I've never worked at Qualcomm.
The EFF has a convenient tool too:

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-they-must-defeat-hp...
I’m reading there that fentanyl appears to be the culprit.

I realize it is a drug, but not sure if that’s even supposed to be in the drugs.

Is this really a story of drug dealers cutting the drugs that people wanted.. into a lethal concoction?

(Sorry I really don’t know, are users looking for fentanyl?)
did it change from a year ago?

for the last 1-1,5 years quality of explanations in quanta's publications had been aaawful - with situation improving to the previous level only a month or so ago

I don't think funding source is the main explanation for quality (tho maybe for _ability_ to have quality)
Something rather similar manages to work in Belgium. Sure, Belgian politics can be a crazy mess sometimes, but who would call a Belgium a “failed state”?

Regarding Lebanon-for all of Lebanon’s woes, it still survives, it hasn’t broken up into a new civil war; and for all the criticism of its political system, maybe its unique political system has been one of the factors preventing that outcome. And I think Lebanon’s biggest problem is that the national government lacks a monopoly on force, with sectarian political parties controlling their own militias beyond state control (of which Hezbollah’s is the most significant example.) I don’t think the “cantonalisation” proposal for Israel is going to lead to that, since all the versions of it I’ve seen have the military, intelligence, law enforcement, prisons, etc under the 100% control of the national government. Lebanon’s problem in that area is a leftover of its civil war; Israel is not going to have the same problem unless it has a civil war (which I still think is very unlikely)
The possibility of regulation hangs on the horizon over generative AI
It's so weird that an oligopolistic industry with the largest barriers to entry (your average CPU factory will cost $5/10+ billions, and that's just the factory) have the lowest margin, by far. Why is that so?
Right, you need a place that has Canadian border agents as well.

Seatac airport used to have this, but I think that was stopped during COVID and never restarted.
Italy also down ...

Status Page usless as usual
The article specifically refers to the patent division of Qualcomm which has margin of 68%
Lessons from Charlie Munger
> they can and would have built basic FPGA versions.

A lot of patents wouldn't be even filed if they required that kind of investment. This is not an afternoon of work.

I guess it'd be great if patents of ideas that were never reduced to practice never existed.
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> most frustratingly I can’t send an SMS to any contact it believes to be on iMessage

You can long press on a sent iMessage blue bubble to reveal a 'Send as Text Message' menu item. It's quite hidden but it's there.
Love to see recognition of inputmode. Remember, the one true ZIP code field is

<input type="text" inputmode="numeric">

Sad to see the invalid markup throughout. The input tag is void, it has no closing tag. Self-closing tags are not HTML!
This is slightly smarter. I have zero issues with people being addicted to whatever they want, so long as it doesn't negatively affect others. You do fentanyl in the privacy of your own home, then go to work in the morning? Cool.
The term "self medicating" doesn't imply that it works, just that they're trying to address an underlying issue that isn't being sufficiently addressed by anything else. It's closer in concept to "coping mechanism" than it is to "prescribed medication".
I think you're the only one who is baffled about an event that hasn't happened despite the doors being open on every single flight for 22 years.
I've been saying for years that patents and copyrights should be ruled out in communication protocols and communication formats, including file formats, file systems, languages, APIs and even fonts.
I see a lot of EVs in my (admittedly rich) European country, they're automatic.

OK, most new cars also come with pedestrian detectors...
...apart from in every country that does this and doesn't have lots of addicts?

It is quite strange because you go almost anywhere else in the world...no addicts, no-one uses drugs, they find it strange that anyone would use drugs...go to the US, you not only have drug addicts but a whole industry dedicated to offering very knowledgeable-sounding opinions about what should work...it never is explained why the drug problem in the US is so out of control with so many people who know what "should" work.

The only places where I have ever been that have had lots of drug addicts have been places that have tried to decriminalize (for some reason, almost always with help from the police who just want this stuff off their books altogether).
"mega study"

2646 distinct facial images of 969 individuals. Using deep learning, we find 82/349 personal attributes (23%) are predictable better than random from facial image pixels.

I don't think I need to elaborate on how ridiculous this is, but do want to add that this should be at the very top of the "irresponsible", unethical, not to mention incorrect uses of AI (deep learning) that people get concerned about.
There's two problems with these programs.

The first problem is that the people we're really talking about, the ones living/defecating/etc on the street do not want help.

The second problem is that in order to want to get better, an addict has to hit their personal rock bottom. Programs that keep people floating above their personal rock bottom are like family members enabling addicts. It ultimately doesn't help them.

It's VERY difficult to create social programs that help people want to not be ill, while simultaneously not letting them fall to their own rock bottom.

And then consider the position from the legislature of creating incentives for government programs/NGOs which align with the desired outcomes and it becomes expoentially harder.
Flights are unusually cheap to/through KLAS. I wouldn't be surprised if the gaming industry partially subsidizes flights to attract customers.
I remember having to prove Binet's formula[1] for a math class and then going back to my CS classes and asking why they never showed us that it existed. I'm not sure they knew it existed either

[1](https://orlp.net/blog/magical-fibonacci-formulae/#an-interlu...)
Code is shared here: https://motion-lab.github.io/AdaptNet/
Just a few of the problems:

* If your browser viewport is narrower than 1024px wide, the above-fold page section (i.e. the top, before you start scrolling) doesn't have a product pic. If the viewport is between 768px and 1024px wide, the main pic is left aligned and there's a chunk of empty space.

* Most people will view this page on a phone, which means that - unless there's a product pic - the headline alone has to do the initial work of explaining who this is for. The photo shows the ideal customer: a shopkeeper. It should be above or alongside the headline even when viewed on a phone.

* Top headline is about one of the main features but doesn't grab you with an obvious concrete benefit (e.g. time saved, not having to learn a complex new tool). "easily" is too relative. "Track your sales without any extra work" is more concrete (and I don't think it's a great slogan either, but it's better)

* The notice about "Unable to take orders" should be lower down the page, maybe on a separate page entirely. Let people click "Order Now" to see it, and you can track the clicks to see how well the page sells

* The Instagram videos are good but take up too much of the page, especially on mobile

* The YouTube videos don't explain anything well at all. The "Calculate Record Sync" video at least shows the ToHands in action but goes too fast and doesn't walk through clearly, step by step. There's a blue text bubble that had lots of text in it that looks useful but it disappears far too fast. This video should be at least a minute long and walk through multiple different steps.

There's a lot more to say about this and I'm not even a marketer, I'm a software engineer! But I'm happy to chat for a little longer about it if you'd like - let me know.
Here’s Why (2006)
So, all we need to do is to wait for all the initial claims to expire. Chances are they'll expire well before anything based on it is produced.
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Only if the message didn’t go out to Apple’s servers. That doesn’t help me when I know the recipient won’t be able to receive it (e.g. because they are on roaming or out of mobile data).
$1.3 billion statewide approved in 2021: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/HSD/AMH/Pages/index.aspx

This is in addition to the ~$1.3 billion the state already paid in mental health services: https://www.corvallisadvocate.com/2021/oregon-spends-on-ment...

In addition to resources available at the county level ($2 million came from police defunding): https://www.multco.us/justice-agenda/budget-priorities
Nowhere in these comments have I see anybody take the position that decriminalization is not enough; drugs need to be legalized and regulated.

I have a close friend whose relative is a heroin addict. According to her, a lot of overdoses are due to almost no "heroin" actually being heroin, rather its fentanyl cut to varying degrees of strength. Not knowing what you're taking, and not knowing how strong it is, can lead to a lot of problems. If people knew what they were getting, and it was legal, you could have "functional addicts" that cause little or no societal harm. My friend's relative was a functional addict on and off for 20 years. She held down a job, paid rent, paid taxes, etc. She decided to get clean only when she had a close brush with death thanks to fentanyl.

Think of it this way: My drug of choice is tequila. When I buy a bottle of 80 proof tequila, I buy it from a state licensed store. I have confidence that its 40% alcohol, and that its safe to drink. It is sold by a reputable company with a brand reputation. What we have today with illegal or "decriminalized" drugs is the equivalent of people dying from drinking bathtub gin during prohibition.
It's definitely endemic, I was just commenting on a particular subset of extremism.
Why are companies allowed to arbitrarily break the contract by removing something you paid for, but you aren't?
> implies an entirely different world from the one we live in

I wonder about that. Pretty much everything around us apart from computers themselves already existed in some form before computers. When I walk down the street, or look around my house, the physical world looks much the same as it did in the 60s or 70s. Cleaner perhaps, and the billboards are now animated. Cars are sleeker, clothes are messier. Aeroplanes, houses, buildings, etc. look much the same.

I think the social world has changed more than the physical. In part due to the internet, but mostly due to the pill.
What a diaster of a response. The war on drugs was deadly failure that we should never try again.
> changing variadic C++ macros into arithmetic expressions

I don't know your exact use case but it sounds a little bit hard to me. I guess you want to change things like this.

```cpp

add_macro(a, b, c, d); // before

a + b + c + d; // after

```

It isn't that easy to do in pattern syntax. The pattern/replacement must support repetition and it isn't straightforward as far as I can tell from Rust's macro[0].

That said, if you need to support use cases like this, ast-grep has Python API to support programmatic usage[1].

[0] https://veykril.github.io/tlborm/decl-macros/macros-methodic...

[1] https://ast-grep.github.io/guide/api-usage/py-api.html
> does fire somehow selectively eliminate c14 but not c12?

Maybe, if we assume that C14 is not distributed homogeneously in the log; that is the logical assumption by default

As we know that C14 had spikes in production in some particular years, Is trivial to assume that rings formed in those years stored more C14.

The main question is if we have this years registered on our log or not. If we would have it; and they fall on the outer part of the log (AKA the partially charred part), then is perfectly doable
I'm just going off the abstract in my reply here.

I'd wager that any performance gains achieved by returning a database file instead of a (well-known, long-established, well-understood) resultset is going to be negated by literally the rest of the owl.

By that I mean, you then need to instrument loading the database file that is returned, applying specific local security and performance considerations that come with that choice, and then querying the normalized data within that returned file.

Could that be fast? Maybe. The best bet would be scenarios where the wire speed / bandwidth / system memory of the consuming device are very very limited. In those situations there's already an established way of handling it though: cursors.

A resultset is, for the most part, highly compressible already (barring scenarios where you're just returning blobs, which incidentally this is doing as well), so it's not clear to me this is even saving you that much in terms of the "data duplication" they're discussing.
I've not received a single spam message on Whatsapp or Signal for as long as I can remember.
Maybe more details about the used laptop type access? Through web browser or application? On windows or MacOS ?