skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean for many of them being wealthy with global warming’s consequences is better than being peasants in a better world. There are no incentives for them to cooperate. The sooner we accept that they won’t go willingly, the better for our future.
> You may say it limits innovation. But it also protects smaller players from investing in innovation, by de-risking that a big customer might copy them and destroy their business. Which is mostly this scenario.

Who is the "smaller player" in this scenario? $150 billion QCOM?
You should watch what is happening in British Colombia, Canada right now.

They have decriminalized possessing less than 2.5 grams of

- Opioids (such as heroin, morphine, and fentanyl)

- Crack and powder cocaine

- Methamphetamine (Meth)

- MDMA (Ecstasy)

It's a trial basis from Jan 31 2023 until Jan 31 2026, so we should get a good amount of data and evidence to see if this leads to better or worse outcomes for people and society as a whole.

[1] https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/overdose/decriminalizatio...
So you're not even interested in hearing people that actually have done research, you're just going to run with your assumptions?

That's a rather emotional place to make an argument, in my opinion.
Emacs support for syntax highlighting of .templ files would be helpful.

https://templ.guide/commands-and-tools/ide-support
The only time I've ever been on fentanyl was in a hospital, and the nurse described it to me as the "Michael Jackson drug". I actually enjoyed the gallows humor of the nurses, as I felt it brought down the tension in an otherwise serious environment.
I didn't read the story as the plexiglass working for anything other than eliminating recurring bills of replacing windows. Clearly, the tantrums did not stop as the plexi was all scratched up. So to me, your hard time rationalizing is probably because it's not something that needs doing. Sometimes, you have to stop the bleeding before you can fix the actual issue.
Ursula K. Le Guin – A Rant about "Techonolgy"
Yep, as a web app developer I can't see what that has to do with privacy, it'll just slightly annoy the user into redoing the login within the new home shortcut(I don't use cookies for Auth)
When was that? They had naming rights to a Major League Baseball & football stadium from ‘97 to 2017. Maybe good for recruitment but seemingly pointless on the consumer side to maintain the contract:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_Stadium

But I get it that in sports, sometimes the big cheques are written because you can.
> Then they’re out of the way.

What are your thoughts on the death penalty in Singapore?
"We’ve made Beeper free to use. Things have been a bit chaotic, and we’re not comfortable subjecting paying users to this. As soon as things stabilize (we hope they will), we’ll look at turning on subscriptions again. If you want to keep supporting us, feel free to leave the subscription on ."
Not at all in my case. I have no beef with their politics. Kotaku is just a terrible website due to its shallow reporting and almost all its content has a better source that is often linked in the article. They are also needlessly inflammatory and not at all careful in their journalism. Again, this is 1000% not about politics.
I've been working on an editor (not text) in C++ and pretty early got into undo/redo. I went down the route of doIt/undoIt for commands but that quickly got old. There was both the extra work needed to implement undo separately for every operation, but also the nagging feeling that the undo operation for some operation wasn't implemented correctly.

In the end, I switched to representing the entire document state using persistent data structures (using the immer library). This vastly simplified things and implementing undo/redo becomes absolutely trivial when using persistent data structures. It's probably not something that is suitable for all domains, but worth checking out.

https://github.com/arximboldi/immer
C can't represent lots of information that would be useful, e.g. while C99 has a limited "restrict" function, you can't express any more complex detail of "these things can only alias under these circumstances". If the hardware supports doing anything useful with sum types (e.g. atomic operations), there is no way to expose that in the C model. C specifies a concept of trap representations but anything you would actually do with them is undefined behaviour, so you can't write code that e.g. safely errors out when someone tries to use an uninitialized pointer. Even for arithmetic on standard hardware, the ability to fully express even quite basic things is limited - you can't write code that e.g. permits signed overflow to occur and handles it if it does. You effectively can't use any floating point rounding modes except the most broken one, at least not if your code ever uses threads. I'm sure there's more.
They could take it the other way and start suspending accounts that use a spoofed device id. For me that's my main hesitation, I don't want to have my apple accounts suspended for violation of ToS.
Wow, I don't remember this at all. It seems (according to WikiPedia) that the email password was revealed in the studio on a hot mic. Someone in the green room revealed this to an external party, "Oz and Yug".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Live
Out of curiosity do you have stats on that? Until recently 100% of the people I knew with precheck don’t have global entry. Right now global entry interviews can be over a year out.
Its very different, in that I can walk in off the street and buy alcohol. As far as I know, there is noplace I can legally buy fentanyl without a prescription.
"Most people get precheck by doing “global entry”"

Citation needed. At least in my anecdotal experience, very few people I know have Global Entry while very many people I know have Precheck
> Code reuse techniques (ROP, JOP, etc.) aren’t impacted, right?

Unless I'm mistaken, this should restrict what you can do with ROP gadgets that contain syscalls. You will only be able to use the gadget with its intended arguments, since other syscall types will be disallowed.

> I would also think this would cause problems for JITed code

They can probably just jump into precompiled code that performs the needed syscall. Also, making syscalls directly from something like JITed JavaScript is generally avoided anyways. AFAIK browsers don't even let the processes that run JavaScript touch much of the system at all, instead they have to use an IPC mechanism to ask a slightly more privileged process to perform specific tasks.
The coolest feature of Vim is its macros. They bring the entire UX into one cohesive feature. The keymap has meaning, because every key symbol is a character, and a macro is just a string. You can paste them, edit them, copy them, then play them back; all without ever leaving Vim's primary UX. Macros are stories written, not in vimscript, but in the language of Vim itself.

Macros are also the reason I don't use Vim anymore. The keymap has meaning, and it shouldn't. Want to change your keymap? Good luck.

I spent years in Vim. I conceptualized all of it. I built my muscle memory around it. Then I learned a new keyboard layout.

I tried remapping the keys. Not only was that impossible (circular dependencies), it broke the conceptual map, too. I have offended the beast, and am welcome no more.

What I really want is to start fresh. No defaults: just user config. Give me the pieces, and the glue to hold them together: I'll do the rest.
FTC wants Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI under the microscope
I'd think that but GP sounds just as sarcastic to me.
> getting it to do a second thing midway before finishing doing the first thing

I'm not sure this is the kind of failure idempotency is design to tackle.

Idempotency tackles the issue of handling multiple requests for doing the same thing, isn't it?
I just tested it in a group MMS with an iPhone user running iOS 17, and alas no, this is incorrect. Neither thumbs up (like) nor heart (love) apply as tapbacks when the tapback originates from android.

Unless there's something I'm missing, only Android users get cross compatible tapbacks.
well Postgres does not need to do anything you can start a transaction and you have exactly that.
Are the 5G patents licenced under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms?
In my bubble I switched everyone to Signal. I acknowledge that this is an anecdote and don't propose this as a solution. However, complaining about features in different apps is even less of a solution.
There are people with substance abuse problems and addictive behaviour that goes way beyond any particular drug. It's often a condition that needs treatment.

"Given the legal opportunity to purchase X, some people will absolutely overdo it." This goes for some ridiculous things like Pokemon cards or collectible shoes as well. Should we ban those?
Consider that the effort of getting an update is less than your state DOT changing the legal maximum - and that people will be highly motivated. It’s not like they need to do this every day - in most states they’ll never do it in the life of not only the car but the driver!
> give people housing for free (or throw them in jail.)

This is a false choice.

>Would you rather be right, or live in a city without homelessness?

I can be right and also live in a city without homelessness. I'll just ship them to wherever you live, because you're so nice that you are volunteering to take care of the problem.
> failed to stop it

I don't think that's the goal. The goal is to attempt to reduce harm of something that removes freedom. Try asking a drug addict if they want to keep taking drugs. I suspect you'll be surprised at the answer. Stopping drugs would be like achieving abstinence as the primary form of contraceptive. Both are impossible because they work on the same soup of chemicals, but one has evolved with some form of continuation in mind. The other is a direct injection, orders of magnitude stronger, that just fucks up all the machinery of the brain.
Uh, I'm sure the artist has heard of monoprints. The article makes it pretty clear that they like doing woodblock prints.
> I imagine testing would be useful for pill-takers at festivals

And many people bring test kits to festivals and raves and clubs and bars already. So this is 100% a proven solution for light recreational party usage.

I agree with skepticism about addicts (especially someone living on the street, etc)
Everyone always says this. In fact, I was in Google's patent litigation division, and I can tell you firsthand that there is WAY less of this than you think. A cross-licensing deal is incredibly hard to negotiate.

So if you could back this up with some links, it'd be appreciated. Otherwise it's just an urban myth.
I don't think the claim is video games are (only) for children, but the claim is that a not insignificant number of the viewers/players are children. Advertising cigarettes in a superman comic doesn't mean comics are only for kids.
Being able to print edge-to-edge is not necessary, and is mostly to do with practical feeding limitations. Alignment on the sheet is also allowed to suffer. But of what it does print, I’ve printed and observed printed a number of precise things on several different printers (mostly lasers, but at least one inkjet and a phaser, way back) with no visible warping. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I disagree.

1. I don't think an IP is particularly identifiable information for a browser vendor - the information they have is "this device currently associated with this IP uses our browser", which is not significant.

2. Just because the IP is sent doesn't mean it's collected and stored. They may drop it as soon as the data gets to the server - meaning that the IP may have been transferred but it in no way is analyzed to attribute any information to you.

That is entirely respectful of user privacy.
In my text editor (https://github.com/alefore/edge) I keep the undo/redo history always linear, which I find works pretty well.

So suppose the user does the following operations:

• Insert "Hello"

• Insert " world!"

• Undo once.

• Insert ", Cameron!"

At this point, undo operations would gradually transform the buffer thus: "Hello, Cameron!" => "Hello" => "Hello world!" => "Hello" => "". Obviously, one can redo at any point. The undo/redo days structure don't preserve the state, just the transformations (which are reversible).

The gist of it is that when you apply a modification to the buffer and the redo stack isn't empty, the redo stack gets flipped and inserted into the undo stack. If you undo a long list of transformations and then make a change, that long list is duplicated, but this hasn't been a problem in practice.

In case someone finds this interesting, this is mostly implemented here: https://github.com/alefore/edge/blob/28c031230a8babe888ffe1a...
>> decriminalization is not enough; drugs need to be legalized and regulated.

This has been an increasingly popular argument here in Portland since decriminalization. It's deployed, generally, in terms of re-criminalizing hard drugs until there's a well thought out framework for safe, regulated legalization.

While I agree in principle [edit: let's say I did agree, but my views on this subject have shifted radically since I voted in favor of decriminalization - and I'll admit I was naive and wrong], I think that while decriminalization without regulation is clearly catastrophic, legalization with regulation would also not be desirable so long as it's confined to one local city, county or state, in the midst of a nationwide fentanyl crisis. Portland simply does not have the capacity or infrastructure to accept further waves of addicts from all over the country who come here to live on the street. Legalization means more regulatory burden, more services for out of town addicts paid by a dwindling local tax base that's quickly being displaced and/or opting to leave.

To do that experiment and do it right, it needs to be nationwide. In any case, Portland can't go it alone anymore.

And remember - we did have a long experiment with legally prescribed opioids, and their widespread availability contributed to the current addiction crisis.
> There is no such thing as a functional heroin addict

I don't have time to really get into the weeds for this discussion, but I can at least do the weaker refutation of this very general claim by way of a counterexample. Professor Carl Hart is one such example that came up in a seminar on substance use disorder during my undergraduate program in integrative neuroscience. [0]

I'm sorry you're dealing with someone who does not have a functional, productive relationship with a substance. What you're describing is true of a lot of things though, not just "hardcore" drugs. If you've lived with or know a gambling/sex addict you know exactly what I'm referring to. How these things hijack our neurology is really complex and it unfortunately boils down to more than "avoid these high risk things". Not sure if you have access to academic journals, but public libraries often can provide access to reputable research on substance use disorder in humans, as well as actual experimentation in animal models such as mice. There are a lot of people whose incentives align with yours for tackling this problem, and the solutions they propose are worth a shot. Clearly the war on drugs has not worked and we agree on that at least. What are we going to try next?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/06/meet-carl-ha...
> ^QJ is goto line

How does that work in every program?
It's my understanding that street drugs like Heroin were frequently cut to varying, sometimes unpredictable degrees prior to the introduction of fentanyl. So you could still easily misjudge your dose and OD due to the lack of any kind of consistency. Presumably this would also make it even harder to try to taper off the addiction gradually.
Killing them is not extreme enough?
I will place a bet with you, if you like, that will be very easy for you to win if you're correct in your comment.

The bet goes something like this: Pick a group chat you're in of 10 or more real-life acquaintances who all currently only use a single messaging platform, and convince them all to move the group chat entirely to a different messaging platform, and delete the old group chat.

It doesn't matter which messaging platform you're moving to, any will do, and as you mention there's many to pick from -- some of which are probably better and more feature complete than the one your group chat is currently using.
You may have an alphanumeric postal code but as far as I'm aware there are no alphanumeric ZIP codes.
I was alive and recall the reporting at the time? I don’t have the energy to find sources right now but my memory, while not perfect, is pretty certain this isn’t the Mandela effect.

I also worked at Apple in 2008, and recall the discussions then too.
How about doing something about the graffiti? The city is such an eye sore.
Pardon me, didn’t Apple win the exact same suit by Epic? Apple’s app store is fine, but Google’s isn’t?
That same thread seems to indicate Repose's code is mult15.a, which indeed holds the cycles record at 206.60.
You won’t be saying the same thing when it’s your kid that’s “out of the way”. Making heroin easily accessible means someone that does it a handful of times is truly hooked. Your life is essentially a struggle from that point out.
But do you have to say "Send a WhatsApp message to X" or does it work with "send a message to X"?
> I've never been high on opiates, but I've heard it described as "an orgasm over your whole body".

1) Not everybody reacts that way.

I've only ever been given high-end opioids when in extreme pain, but I hate the sensation.

My brain feels like it's encased in concrete. A higher dose simply puts me to sleep.

2) What gives you the right to tell people to not do something pleasurable?

Really. Many people have rough lives. We should help them find joy somewhat safely rather than shunt them into the dark.
SMS is too underpowered in 2023
I understand that you would think that given the assumed context on this website but I'm not even American and the gamer gate thing was very distant from me, something foreign I read about in the news. I have absolutely no issue with this website's politics or any kind of agenda. Kotaku took a turn for the worse specially after the departure of Jason Schreier. I've read Kotaku for years, and I largely agree with Kotaku's political views and I was never part of any ridiculous gamer gate movement.

It's just a shallow website that is largely made of reposts, low effort sensationalism, poor journalism, and articles that could have been a Tweet. I do not repost it because it is extremely low quality even when it is the original source. But that subject was interesting so I wanted to find another source to share.
I dunno, I would rather be homeless in a city I know then to be homeless in a city I don’t.
The headline doesn't cover the main thrust of the article, which is:

> "...like other semiconductor majors, the San Diego-based company also protects its inventions with intellectual property. But Qualcomm has a unique model at the heart of the way it uses those patents"

The article dives into that model.
>you're just going to run with your assumptions?

They're not assumptions if they are his/her lived experiences.
Where I live (central Oregon), this is not the case. More than 80% of our homeless population are people that were born and raised here, and were priced out of housing and onto the streets due to housing prices skyrocketing to eyewatering levels. It has tripled in the last ten years, with a 1-br apartment going for under $600 in 2013 now going for $1700. The homelessness here is homegrown, not imported.

Portland is better housing-wise, but not by much. Considering how most people who are both homeless and on drugs were homeless first, then turned to drugs, I think this is a strong confounding factor. It's hard to saw what effect decriminalization has had on drug use when it's adjacent to a housing crisis that is manufacturing more homelessness and drug use all on its own.
I really doubt homeless people are good pet owners. Food scarcity, lack of medical care for your pets, etc, etc…
I don't believe Apple ever said iMessage would be an open protocol. It was Facetime that Jobs announced as an open protocol (as a surprise to everyone else inside of Apple), and supposedly that never materialised due to patent BS.
Michael Easter "The Comfort Crisis"

Michael Easter "Scarcity Brain"

Annie Duke "Thinking In Bets"

Annie Duke "Quit"

All were readable and yet informative and intriguing.

Rick Ruben's "The Creative Act" was also good, tho I felt it should have been more heavily edited (read: it was too long). That flaw makes me hesitant to recommend it.
If you're serious about "reforming" software and standards patents, you should first carve off that area from pharma and bio patents. Make software just plain not patentable.

Why? Strategically, you don't want those drug people as enemies. They have an extremely powerful lobby in D.C. and many "reforms" that make sense in software would get them up in arms. Choose your battles.
I got one patent while I was a Qualcomm for some fairly inconsequential software thing. I was awarded $3k USD. Had the patent been filed in other countries and awarded, I would have been awarded I think 1.5k USD per country. This is/was the standard deal at Qualcomm when I was there (2013-2021). I would not be surprised if core researchers are awarded more for stronger and more applicable patents.
Went to school in the US and don't recall getting exposed to this, and it's actually not that intuitive for me
If employees aren’t expected to come into the office often, hotdesking is a perfectly fine trade off for the people that spend the majority of their time at home.
Unsophisticated "Sophisticated": Old Age and the Accredited Investors Definition [pdf]
Two different cases, 2 different juries (OK the Apple one was a bench trial but you get my point) and neither one is binding precedent over the other.
Humans have absolutely stopped it in places with draconian laws. The use of heroin in Singapore, other parts of south east Asia and parts of the Middle East is essentially zero because they give traffickers the death penalty and jail the few users for a very long time. If you can truly secure your borders and you can’t grow poppy in your country there will be no heroin.
A starting point, Apple should be next.
Well we all better stop flying and driving if we’re set out to reduce human suffering.

But hey the toxic mess we leave for the future to suffer through won’t be our problem so shrug

This is the most disingenuous and self righteous thread I’ve ever been involved with. Traditional catechisms and stubbornness will win out against physical reality. RBG fans I guess.
That's my impression as well. Beyond messed up if true, Android as least allows sideloading.
Seattle's 2019 point in time counts says 84% local, 11% in-state, 4% came from out of state. San Francisco has similar numbers. Seattle excluded this data from their most recent report. Possibly because they out of state numbers have been going up, and it is harder to raise money and sympathy for non-local homeless? But even if you allow for that, it is huge majority local.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211022190558/http://allhomekc....
Didn't Apple effectively win their lawsuit while having an actual monopoly on iPhone app installs?

Can someone explain why Google lost despite android having all sorts of way to install apps while bypassing the play store?
Epic Games wins antitrust lawsuit against Google
But can Epic appeal then against Apple?