skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing the point. If you're a politician, "making drug addicts not poison themselves" is a nice-to-have, but "making drug users not victimize others" is basically mandatory. Zero political parties are going to win on a platform of "its ok that drug addicts are making the streets unsafe, the real problem is that their drugs are not affordable or high enough quality."
You can add a repository containing whatever apps you want.
More of HN uses iOS than Android.
Back up, according to the Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/11/23997733/netflix-is-down...

I really hope to read the postmortem on their engineering blog
there is no sanction in the US for monopolies if the market chooses that, you just cant do anticompetitive things in the process or while you have one

so simply being in the exact same position is not enough, the details of exactly how you navigate it are more important

with that in mind, Apple is still vulnerable based on their behavior, but its not a slam dunk by mere nature of being in the same position

for example, revenue splits were always high in app stores, they didnt jack them up higher and in fact have come down periodically as if there was competition, and the market still chose to use them. app stores have always had heavy handed selective moderation approaches, it didnt get worse its gotten better in some regards. makes it very hard to prove antitrust just because the market kept subjecting itself to these
> It's really a shame that Microsoft gave up on mobile,

Nokia's Lumia phones were so good at one time. The hardware was top notch (including cameras). The software was smoother than android and more intuitive than iphone. It was just a solid platform.

I would buy one in a blink if it was available today in the high end segment. I'd not even be bothered about google's anti competitive behavior wrt youtube and other apps.

Massive shame we lost Nokia and windows phone both due to the de facto duopoly that has taken hold in the market.
OMG this makes me so happy.
Apple has published research on using AI to clone apps. It can't get worse
source: https://blog.ml.cmu.edu/2021/12/10/understanding-user-interf...
Yes there is a difference - most services don’t go through the App Store for payments
I thought they only allow you to guild/sign your own apps if it is a reproducible build, and they verify that the version they build is identical to the one you supply.
Why? neither MSFT or OAI are monopolies in the AI space.
> If you consume, only in particular establishments or at home,

I think you're imagining a hypothetical scenario that doesn't match the problems described in the article.

Portland isn't having problems with crime and homelessness because responsible adults are consuming moderate amounts of drugs from the comfort of their homes on the weekends.

> If someone breaks those regulations, then they face similar kinds of penalties as people who produce and consume alcohol would.

I think you've missed the point of the article and what's being discussed. Decriminalizing drug use means removing those penalties, which has resulted in widespread public drug use in those cities.
Qualcomm blew it on 5G. The math is so beautiful! It's more than patents.
Azerbaijan wins regional backing to host COP29 climate summit
2nm is a commercial name that doesn't have much to do with actual nanometers. The actual distance between transistors (gate pitch) in the 2nm process is expected to be 45nm.
This rhetoric has only increased the suffering in the world and filled cities with an underclass of vagrants too drugged out to tell you the day of the week. People shouldn't go to jail for weed, fine, fair enough. But all you see in cities that have decriminalized harder drugs are frozen in time drug zombies. It's a terrible policy every time it's implemented in the States, but people are more concerned with the feel-good vibes of the policy.
They said they made ‘beeper’ free, not ‘beeper mini’ free. Unless they combined them since the last post. But maybe they should say beeper mini is free.
I'm not sure if it was recorded, but I think Don Knuth's Christmas lecture last week was on a related topic. It's a follow-up to his 2018 lecture:

https://online.stanford.edu/donald-e-knuth-lectures
People who are in prison are not out committing more crimes.

We do need to reduce the prison population, but by the time someone has reached the point of heavy drug use and street violence the odds of rehabilitation are very low. No other country has a good record of rehabilitating those people. So, the only reasonable way to reduce the problem is further upstream with better opportunities and support systems for youths.
609 while we're at it. Why exclude third parties?

And yes, that would be way more useful.
AI Act deal: Key safeguards and dangerous loopholes
"That said, EU lawmakers still decided to introduce major loopholes to again allow for such misguided uses through the backdoor. AI systems that are used to ‘recognize’ the emotions of asylum seekers or AI used to identify the faces of people in real-time in public space with the objective of searching for a suspect of crime are legalized through the loopholes and exceptions that the list of bans apparently foresees. Thus, the level of protection these bans actually provide can only be assessed once we see the final text."

To put all other things aside, the thing is; they've now basically legalized pseudo-science, i.e. stuff that makes erroneous inferences at best and dangerous ones at worst.

"The final list of bans is considerably longer than in the Commission’s original proposal, containing also a partial ban on predictive policing systems, a ban on systems that categorize people based on sensitive data (such as their political opinion or sexual orientation) or a ban on emotion recognition systems used in workplaces and in education. All"

Already prohibited by the GDPR, but maybe a double prohibition is desirable, who knows.
More than that even!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minivan#Predecessors

It's definitely true that it was the VW's breakout success in the US which - on top of inspiring the Chicken Tax - cued a full lineup of competition from all of the Big 3 (two from Chevy!).

Because Wikipedia overlooks it in that section, here's the Dodge offering from that period:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_A100
Well, it’s common law, not civil law. So lawyers, juries, judges and so on all heavily influenced the Epic Games v Apple outcome, as they did in Epic Games v Google.

The next time someone sues Apple for this, there will be precedent. But then again, Epic Games v Apple might be used as precedent in Google’s appeal.

EDIT/correction: Apparently, only appellate and higher courts can set precedent for case law. So it might take a bit longer for Epic Games v Google to set a precedent, while Epic Games v Apple has already been dealt by a higher court. The next time someone sues Apple, there might not yet be precedent set by Epic Games v Google.

In theory. I’m not an expert on this. But this doesn’t happen as often in civil law countries I lived in (EU), where the law doesn’t apply before it’s written, and when it’s written, it applies universally.

Things will even out in the US over time, I think. There will be case law for what’s allowed and what is not for everyone.
The World Excel Championships
I do find her website a little bewildering so I can see why you would react with such a mindset. But a minute googling answers most of your questions:
https://tamararubin.com/2016/12/ask-tamara-what-do-you-use-t...

It seems like there's a misunderstanding about the technique being used. An XRF gun is a portable device that works in the field and does not require to be operated in a lab. For most of the consumer goods she is testing she is already using a highly sensitive piece of equipment that measures ppb- it wouldn't make sense to "send it to a lab". She is certified in using the equipment and probably one of the most experienced at using it to test consumer goods. The gun she is using is self-calibrating to begin with, but still calibrated for each test.

I actually think most of the problem here is that her website has an unprofessional appearance. If it had the professional appearance you were expecting and she had a university degree in chemistry or material science but posted almost the exact same information with perhaps a few minor edits and a slightly different style I think it would have the scientific look and feel you and others are looing for. But the underlying science of using an XRF gun to test for lead seems quite sound.
You don't need to be a monopoly to be engaging in anticompetitive practices. The ideal time for an antitrust action is before the trust has successfully eliminated all competing businesses.

I'm not even saying that OpenAI/MSFT are being anticompetitive, but I certainly see no problem with the FTC keeping an eye on them, especially given Microsoft's track record.
Yes, this is exactly what this shows.

I think the authors' work is interesting but they shouldn't have said 'relational database' in the paper, just 'sql database' instead ("We keep an SQL database storing information about professors ..." and so on).

In "industry", I don't argue with people saying Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL are relational databases because that would make me an insufferable colleague and would hardly add any value to the discussion, but for an academic paper on databases, I would prefer more accurate language.
Stay strapped. Sorry to be harsh, but it’s not policies that keep you and yours safe. You need to protect you and yours and government policies aren’t going to protect you from hard drug users. Sorry you had a terrible experience but since ancient times people have weapons to defend against any enemy.
But they are not in the exact same position - Apple has a much tighter grip on their App Store than Google, and they don’t even need to: they make money selling the devices.
> And if you're dealing with what would be an overly-large amount of repeated values, you just run multiple queries yourself instead of one.

It is a bit annoying to do this though. It would be nice if it was done for me automatically be some db driver.

> And if round-trip latency is some kind of issue with running queries sequentially, you can always issue queries in parallel instead.

Some languages or frameworks don’t provide great parallel ization features though.

I guess at the end of the day if it’s an extension to SQL that you can optionally use, then I would have some situations where I would use it.
Well I guess in a scenario where Google decides to stop working with other hardware vendors and just makes their own phones running their own software, their existing hardware partners will have three options: exit the phone business; continue using something forked/continued from the android core as it is "now"; or move their phones to a separate platform (ie webos, or... Samsung had one too, tizen?)

Unless every single existing android vendor stops making phones, the result is more actual competition.
In India's Mobile-Payments Boom, Even Beggars Get QR Codes (2022)
Car Manufacturing Process Overview [video]
You might like this list[0] of tools that i find interesting (not cli specific though), this was before github allowed stars to be put in category buckets.

0: https://geekodour.org/docs/tools/secondary_toolchest/
It's not a myth, I've been involved in these sort of negotiations. The particular industry was maybe 10 years older than Google, but the number of patents, rather than their quality was the key factor.
The Golden Age of CVEs
How do you query that database?

With SQL?
Just take away their meth. That's it. All the rest of what you wrote is just pointless exaggeration.
Is Linux free? I have a computer that won't run it.
True but it only takes one or two to become a problem, unless you really have a small circle of friends.
But then they would move in the same general direction every day, if it was that easy it would have already been solved.
Not a single good picture of the dam.
>Conservatives and moderates refuse to allocate spending for treatment programs or expand what social programs cover

Democrats have complete control of the entire west coast of the United States, they run basically unopposed. I actually don't understand what is standing in the way of them allocating money for this stuff. California is currently formulating a plan to spend an incredible amount of money on reparations, so presumably they have the power to spend the kind of money in the way you are suggesting.

West coast states are also incredibly rich, they collect a huge sum in taxes each year. All of the ingredients seem, to me, to be present to implement the idea you are talking about.
> I'm sure the marketing for legalized Meth will be more responsible

Doctors already know how those work, and we don't have to allow marketing them.
You're the one who proposed the regulation ("particular establishments or at home"), and now you are already second-guessing whether it should actually be enforced (asking if it's "genuinely dangerous... maybe").

Regulation sounds good, but it doesn't just happen because it's written down. Enforcement is the messy part.
The COPxx are just a sham. The next COP, COP29 will be hosted by Azerbaijan, another oil producing country.

They should rename it FFFTW: Fossil Fuels For the Win or something like that.
Related:

The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32417534 - Aug 2022 (153 comments)

Excel World Championship Finals - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29521324 - Dec 2021 (36 comments)

Yes, there really is a world championship for Microsoft Office - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14954536 - Aug 2017 (2 comments)

UK student wins Microsoft Excel World Championship - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847334 - Aug 2011 (2 comments)
I'm thrilled to learn we've run out of real problems to solve.
You appear to have skipped the introduction (which comes before the statement about this being useful for non-human operators like bots) where it says:

>> This request code may be used to provide visibility in cases where one or more valid requests create a dangerous situation, there is a pattern of erratic requests with the potential for danger, or the requester is otherwise detected as impaired.

Why this is considered necessary is explained in the next sentence:

>> Network-controlled devices are being used for beneficial but potentially dangerous activities such as construction and remote surgery. Identifying requester impairment is important for both accurately assessing the risk a given requester presents and preventing damage caused by a high-risk requester.
> States distribute funding on a literal per capita per day formula.

I am not a libertarian, but it is startling to me how many offensive facets of modern life came about due to perverse funding incentives from the state. I've been reading "Deschooling Society" by Ivan Ilich, which I think only thinly supports its own premise, but the pattern he describes in which formerly citizen-led components of society are institutionalized by the government and then experience a massive decades-long degradation of quality seems to ring true for everything.
Yeah...it's all fine and good until you get slapped in the face by reality.
Very young courtry but most successful in the last 200 years
What do you mean by young?
Roman Empire young? Relative terms like young/old when applied to a country that’s a melting of all others let’s me believe you’re not an American or have studied American history in depth.
Is there a way to report apps that violate this?
Yes, not via the normal browser referrer stuff, but Google Ads runs as JS into the site.
A short URL is no better. Long URLs are ugly and have poor usability.
Well seeing that consumers in the US prefer iOS to Android and pay more than twice as much for the privilege, may they care about different things than side loading?
Where? Can you please quote the victim blaming?

All I see is a claim that harsher drug laws would not have helped this victim.

Also rudeness, but being rude is not victim blaming.

Edit: Pretty please someone explain? Am I missing some obvious implication?

From here it looks like people hate the grandparent comment so much that even incorrect criticism will get treated as true. Which is really bad for a discussion website. I hope I'm wrong about that, but I'm failing to find another way to read things.
East Asia and parts of Europe have quite a few people who are entirely apathetic towards religion. Drug addicts aren't out and open in those regions.

I've really only witnessed such open drug abuse in countries with strong Christian influence, e.g. the US and Latin America. Might be worth investigating why widespread debilitating drug abuse stems from that background.
These are alive and you can see them moving from day to day.
Arc Browser for Windows Built Using Swift
since I've been watching Mythbusters:

this one is not "confirmed." It's "plausible."

There are some, but it's nowhere near universal.
I’m aware such places exist and my point still stands. By your own logic they dont need anything beyond webflow, squarespace or the like and shoudnt be messing with dbs (and this includes postgres)
Hmm go to North Korea and let me know about their drug use and violent crime; internet arm chair comments like these just show how out of touch most people on HN are
Singapore indicates strict prohibition and punishing laws can and do work. The problem wasn’t that prohibition didn’t work, it was the lack of enforcement.

I don’t have any philosophy towards the idea of drugs. I don’t think the world would be worst off all fentanyl sellers were all dead. I don’t see a point to say we should treat heroin like weed and cocaine like Xanax.
hopefully this doesn’t sound insulting - have you considered cities outside of the US, like Tokyo or others in Japan?
Ditto. Add signal. Never
It's a difficult security model when the threat actor is a parent who presumably has access to the device and in an unlocked state along with permissions to install anything from anywhere. It's not like the threat actor realistically couldn't (with some effort) see everything the child was doing already just by asking so I don't really see this as a very good threat model.

Sure, Apple might prevent you from installing such applications on devices (though they offer monitoring app usage and websites for parental controls), but that's just because they have a walled garden that could disallow such apps and it's less clear how to weigh app freedom against user safety.

If you're worried about zero days, Android exploits are priced around the same as iOS exploits apparently so take that how you will.
No, he isn’t. We do that with a 400Mbps connection at home. The hospital system I admin the network for doesn’t even see that, and we move a lot of data.
Really? What’s the issue for not having a known target to optimize for?
I've never cared for Apple as they've always had a more closed ecosystem approach than others.
Apple’s app store policies product users. One thing Apple has done which is very good is regulate iPhone app decelopers.
> shelters are very often half-empty

Shelters have a lot of restrictions that keep swaths of homeless out. For instance most don't allow animals or carts. If you're homeless and don't want to abandon those you're stuck on the street. There might be reasons for restrictions but they exist and homeless are excluded from shelters because of them.
> And yes, that would be way more useful.

...that sounds like an example use case for the proposed status code.

420: Requester Impaired - Infinite loop

It would allow you to signal to the requester that while their individual responses are fine, their session behavior is incoherent.
Yeah after writing that I thought of a bunch of counter examples.
I think it’s tough to guess what would have happened if Google had been more proactive about locking down some parts of android earlier. Though I will speculate that android would have seen much less widespread adoption if they had been more restrictive
Think your parent was overly harsh but your reply highlights why I don’t know what to think about her results. My point still stands, she may be finding actual items but her lack of easily digestible information and constant self promotion makes it hard to know if the results are real? I would ask again, what about the KitchenAid mixer scare? Was it real or not? She makes a large number of claims and it’s hard to understand how many were truly accurate.
> but yeah its just one giant megacorp winning against the other for their own gain

Going by valuation, Alphabet is 52 times larger than Epic. That difference might justify putting them in separate size categories.
Nice. Bonus is that it doesn't use self modifying code and another plus one for using ldx(labs0),Y - Looks like this one can also be optimized for repeated multiplication by the same factor by skipping the first 4 instructions.

Did you write this one?
Definitely needs a map of the dam site and photos of the dam itself!!
No I haven’t heard anything else is the point
The jury found that Google has a monopoly on the Android platform. That would extend to Apple and iOS, but I’ll be shocked if that finding is turned into a legal precedent that is upheld on appeal.

For one thing, the jury is probably more technically savvy than the judges that will ultimately decide this case.
You create a web app or website.
>>"Android and Google Play provide more choice and openness than any other major mobile platform." —— Wilson White, VP, Government Affairs & Public Policy

That's the most he can say? Pretty damn low bar to beat Apple's walled garden at 'openness'. Sheesh

With losing on EVERY point, there may not be a lot of room to appeal, as appeals rarely overturn findings of fact. But it will create delay.

Maybe we'll ultimately get some relief.
Bah, don't listen to 'em. Inexpensive set of jeweler's screwdrivers, and pair of precision tweezers, some sort of magnifying device, and a couple oils (use Liberty oil for the pivots, it's cheap but good enough to start). Cheap oiler tools off eBay or amazon. I have maybe $50 in tools.

Buy some cheap movements off eBay, and dive in. Yeah, you'll lose parts and break things but you'll learn a bunch.

I have a couple Westclox watches from the 60s that I bought for $10/each on eBay, and they both now run at +/- 2 seconds a day.
Caltech at least will continue studying the performance of their cohorts through the moratorium extension (including a graduating class). I find it fascinating that two of the supposedly most rigorous academic American STEM undergraduate programs arrived at completely different conclusions from their internal studies (thus far).
> for at least the ones who are susceptible to it (as you pointed out, not everyone becomes instantly addicted).

And, see, this is the crux. You are banning something for everyone even though only a smaller number seem to be susceptible.

The problem is that this applies to a whole bunch of things: porn, gambling, alcohol, etc. Why heroin and not alcohol which, in many ways, is much worse than heroin?

I agree that the base problem is that life sucks for many people, and we need to fix that. However, that problem is going to be slow in fixing, and we need interim, probably sub-optimal solutions in the meantime.
> and the jury is composed of a group of people who are chosen by both sides to prevent it from being a biased decision.

No, it's not.

It's chosen at random, and they have a chance to rule out people they think would be biased - and you can't just toss anyone for any reason.

It's not like Google can toss anyone they see playing a game or using an iPhone or something.

And it's definitely not like Google gets to pick 6 Google groupies and Epic picks 6 Epic groupies to be on the jury.
Because they are rapidly looking to build a monopoly. We are starting to see capital just take whatever it wants in all spaces. Early law didn’t anticipate this to this degree.
There are photos and more info here.

https://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/nt/woodbuffalo/nature/beaver_gall...