skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, hello hyperbole and loaded terms. If we can’t even agree on basic facts like the very existence of a war, then there’s simply no point in discussion.
Thanks for the extension, looks great!

Sadly doesn't work with the https://news.ycombinator.com/rss feed as it forces the download IIUC.
I guess it's kind of like doing all the things a join query would do, like mapping rows together, filtering, sorting, and grouping, but the final output is denormalized into several "tables" without duplication. From what I gather, the main "win" is the size reduction in the result set, which can impact network and memory usage. Yes you can do this yourself by running multiple queries, one on each table. Presumably by paying the latency of multiple round trips.
https://www.vox.com/2015/10/31/9650030/denmark-prime-ministe...

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/11/28/in-sweden-bill...

I'm always happy to learn from countries which have succeeded at something, but insofar as Europe has succeeded at things, it hasn't been a simple matter of "end capitalism". The devil is in the details.

Also remember that Europe freerides on the US a great deal. They get bargain prices on drugs+health innovations discovered by US companies, and have an amazing defensive arrangement in NATO that comes at low cost for them and the US hardly benefits from.
Wow - wordstar makes a mention on HN. During the college days mid 90s some of the admins in our lab used Wordstar. For us kids it was Framemaker or Word. We couldn't convince the admins to move to a Windows 3.1 based hot modern UI :-)
> secret government court to piss off technologists

Pretty sure nobody cares about what "technologists" think about it. Technologists will do what they're told, for pay. "Unaccountable secret government" is an obvious aim in itself, for people who think (or know) that they will be insiders.
I hope they stay in it because I love my 1 Gbps Google Fiber service. Install was great, it's super reliable (compared to Spectrum cable Internet), and the price is nice. I don't even own a computer or switch with network ports that can do > 1 Gbps, but 20 to the home is impressive.
Murdering people does make them go away yes.
I'm always a proponent of rooting for the underdog. But, in this scenario I am finding it hard to justify doing so. Beeper isn't doing this for some mystical enthusiasm for hacking and exploiting or sticking it to the man. It's motives are purely incentivized by profit which makes it hard to for me to root for. If this were a small time hobbyist providing a solution for an existing problem, sure I'm all game for that.
How can someone pushing themselves to the limit of heroin od have anything sustainable.
For drug dealers, I would argue it's not nearly extreme enough.
I wonder how frequent are (much longer) occultations of nearby stars with planet candidates. Would be a prime opportunity to make direct observations.
These are often devices or services used in the enterprise that do a lot of things that would surprise you, and just break applications willy nilly. We often have to request that exceptions be added for specific endpoints that use some of the aforementioned methods and are why I would shy away from them.

It's always fun to Response.Flush() in your server side application only to find the client receives nothing. They typically have limits to the amount they buffer, yes, usually pretty low. However, when all your trying to send is something as simple as "<script>Report.Progress(30)</script>" "<script>Report.Progress(35)</script>" that's part of some legacy code, you often see a sudden completion or jumps in the completion that are not representative of what's happened on the server side.

The best ones are the ones that try to handle mobile connections by holding open connections in weird ways, I'm talking about you NetMotion....
The Great Transformation (1944) [pdf]
git log <base-branch>..<branch>

I often need the count of commits, usually for build IDs,

git rev-list --count <branch> ^<base-branch>

I usually use gitk for visualizing branch commits. CLI equivalent is

git log --graph --oneline --all
FYI there is an orange RSS icon in the header
Yes, big tobacco is all out trying to wipe out vaping.

No I would not agree re overall health outcomes becoming worse.
Much of the cig consumption reduction came exactly due to them being replaced by vapes.

I can't think of where do you get that "health outcomes are becoming worse" because of vapes replacing cigs except from the big tobacco propaganda maybe.

EDIT: assume pure nicotine consumption is not decreasing.
what would you prefer -- smoke or vape? This is the question. Because otherwise you have to prohibit nicotine itself, and we know where this particular rabbit hole leads.
OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B is better than GPT-3 (and scores even better than GPT-3.5-Turbo in human evaluations) and can even run on a raspberry pi or in the browser. On a laptop CPU it uses about 5GB of RAM (in 5bit) and runs around 20-30 tokens per second, which is very fast.

I recommend downloading and running OpenHermes inside LM Studio. https://lmstudio.ai/

In LM Studio, search for OpenHermes. Pick the Q5_K_M version (this is the best quality/speed trade off). Then go to the chat tab.

On the chat tab, set the context length to 4096 (or up to 16k if you want longer context) and set the number of CPU cores you have under "Hardware Settings."

Select the model from the drop down and start chatting!
Singapore has been successful so clearly we’re doing it wrong and focusing on the wrong things.
I think other cities bussing and flying homeless people out west outweighs every possible policy change.

We’ll never know if any of these policies stood a chance due to the USA viewing the west coast as a dumping ground for homeless people.

Next time you’re passing by these people, ask them where they are from originally.

Locals are like 20% of the problem.
Your post is a prime example of the classic engineering approach of efficiently solutioning the immediate technical problem without solving the actual root cause because it's too complex or messy. I mean, CPAP machines for drug addicts because street fentanyl is too potent and inconsistent?
> Love to see recognition of inputmode. Remember, the one true ZIP code field is

Would that allow me to enter my alphanumeric zip code on a cellphone?
It has knots and smells like patchouli
Getting your patents into standards is the fundamental business model of many patent holders. Not just for big business either, I’m friends with a bunch of PhDs/researchers who all have patents in their respective fields, they all know that they’ll only get paid for the patents that end up in standards, and devote a non-trivial amount of effort to pursuing that outcome.
> No. It does not return a copy of the database with the updates applied.

At first I thought you were talking about Datomic (which does, indeed, "return a copy of the database with updates applied"). But you are talking about the paper, which is about something else apparently.

Carry on…
Are many of them going to care? I imagine testing would be useful for pill-takers at festivals, but something that is a daily addiction dominating life seems a different case.
> 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.

Anyone knows that who followed current events during the opiod epidemic and read some Wikipedia on it.

And actually, it's not just fentanyl, but fentanyl-like compounds that, even if controlled to the same concentration, have varying degrees of strength.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fentanyl_analogues

"The structural variations among fentanyl-related substances can impart profound pharmacological differences between these drugs, especially with respect to potency and efficacy"

You don't know which fentanyl analog is in that heroin dose, and how much of it.
Only Google Messages supports end-to-end encryption. E2E is not part of the official RCS spec, instead it's Google's extension.
So much sympathy for drug users and business owners, but what about the private citizens who get victimized by these drug users?

I was beaten nearly to death (in broad daylight, in a residential neighborhood) in Seattle in 2020 by two men enabled to descend into meth addiction by permissive policies. In my victim support group I met so many people - innocent people - permanently injured & disfigured like me, or raped, or psychologically destroyed by meth users who had been allowed to live in tents in their neighborhoods and use hard drugs undisturbed until it was too late.

It's easy to treat this like a philosophical topic when you've had the privilege not to pay any personal price. For some of us it's more than an argument on the internet. If you think we should allow people to sell/buy/use meth please have the courage to attend a support group for victims of violent crimes. I doubt you'd claim a moral high ground for decriminalization to the faces of victims like me who have had our lives destroyed by meth users.
"In addition to whatever else it's used for" is pulling a lot of weight there. People excited about it just for not writing JavaScript just aren't aware of what's out there. There's so many ways to avoid using JS these days. The value add of web assembly has always been portability and sandboxing. This is a big deal for software preservation.
I did the conversion wrong! My mistake!
Stop Nesting Ternaries in JavaScript
I was pouring concrete a bunch this past summer for a project around my house. Even wearing gloves, the concrete wore down my fingerprints to a smooth texture (and I had scabbed over wounds in spots too, thankfully no scarring). My fingerprint readers on my devices didn't work for much of the summer.
AFAIK there are drug addicts all over the world, including in the Middle East and Philippines where drug addicts are met with severe punishments. The problem is IMO more the availability of drugs vs the potential punishments people face. People are willing to take risks to do drugs. Unless a government completely controls everyone's private life there remains an ability to evade detection and take drugs while telling oneself that one will not be caught.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/02/middleeast/saudi-drug-capital...
What is your actual technical criticism?
Until recently Portland had a shitty local government structure that voters recently approved to modernize.

Former city council members often railed against it; as a member they’d be assigned city bureaus (fire, police…) to basically manage day to day.

Former members complained they were so busy dealing with office work rather than understanding Portlands problems in the abstract and crafting legislation. Also the mayor was on the council and did the same job.

The hope is the new system (mayor and council are now separate entities, city manager oversees bureaus so mayor and council can focus on legislative matters).

Also I’d like to point out every city in the US is a raging dumpster fire of homeless, collusion, graft, fraud… Portland isn’t unique and it’s hardly as bad as say PA cities. America is a shithole country full of FOMO obsessed fast fashion clothes, food, gadgets, and media and gives zero fucks about setting that aside to clean itself up. Garbage in garbage out
That sounds a lot like the P2P file sharing companies' argument that didn't hold up in court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Studios,_Inc._v._Grokster,....
> The statements suggest that they are pursuing revenge on the whole Gaza strip, and aiming to inflict as many casualties as they can get away with without losing the protection of USA in the UN security council.

While I’m skeptical that this is actual formal policy, this is at least a position that I can take seriously, so thank you for elaborating. I would not be surprised if the IDF is currently conducting strikes with a lower threshold for confidence than usual, and if the protests were merely aimed at pressuring the IDF to take greater caution with civilian casualties, I would be a lot more sympathetic to them.
What works better? The drug crisis has continued for decades, through 'wars', etc.
Why is this a bad feature? I quite like not having to jump back and forth between my browser and messages when I get a 2FA code.
Man, even Friends of Trees! Literally planting trees for free got cancelled by Portland because of back-room nonsense:

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/07/11/portland-oregon-tree-...
Some points that often get left out of 'undo' discussions:

* The usual linked-list (or tree) implementation is very cache-unfriendly if you're undoing several steps at a time. Using "linked list inside a buffer" is better; this does not preclude trees, the back "pointer" just has to specify the offset as well as the previous buffer (when you reach the fixed-size allocation you will also have to do this). If you undo across a buffer change you'll also need to update the "most recent redo" backlink from the new buffer.

* SSO strings will usually beat external strings for small edits (this can be variable-size in the linked-list-in-a-buffer case); for large edits see if you can just incref part of the main editing buffer rope.

* It is highly useful to expose a few "shortcut" undo commands: undo to previous save, undo to previous build, etc. Manual tags is probably not very practical most of the time, and "save" is essentially one anyway.
>> flood prisons with substance abuse treatment programs

As a tax payer it's perfectly reasonable that I don't want to pay for that, though.
No we don’t! Consider this. I want to send a picture to my friend.
If iPhone, I can iMessage it to them easy, no compression and fully encrypted.
If android, I can text them but MMS will degrade the quality. I can send it over instagram or Snapchat but that will also degrade the quality. I can send it through google photos but wait!! That also degrades the quality. Not to mention none of these methods are e2ee.
The only lossless option is email. No one in college is emailing me photos btw. So if they don’t have an iPhone generally I’m out of luck
Are Apple device serial numbers hashes, though? Suppose you look through a factory-packed box of iPhones, the kind that Apple resellers get delivered, would their serial numbers not be sequential or at least numerically close to one another?
Somewhere in between imprisonment and flooding prisons with substance abuse treatment programs, we'll have to stop flooding prisons with substances in the first place.
At least in my experience, it really helps to have one senior person lead the way.

Our company hired a greybeard with a rock solid condition of his employment being a four day work week. After that, it was much easier for "normal" employees to switch to it since management was familiar with the idea and saw that he was a very productive employee.

I switched to four day work weeks when I was 29 (based on his example) and have been very happy with it.
> someone has a viable option for not living on the street

I guess it depends on how we define viable. In my experience working with the homeless, there are a lot of valid reasons shelters are avoided; they can be more dangerous, don't allow pets (who are sometimes the only companions they have), and don't allow families or couples. Whether that is viable or not depends on how you use the word.
from the video its like 8 in 10 youtube/twitch streams on the games: who do you think watches?
I believe MS didn’t get nail on integrating IE into Windows - at least in the US - they got nailed on threatening to increase Windows prices for OEMs (which will ruin them in the competitive OEM market) that bundled Netscape, i.e. abusing their Windows monopoly to harm a competitor.

WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger are all free to download on iOS - heck it’s offered for download at Apple’s expense; since it’s from their App Store servers.
The US is a very young country, with a burn it down and see what happens culture. A frontier state.

It is amazing to watch the speed run of recreating basic civilization from first principles. Why do laws exist? Why do we need traffic signals?

You think I am joking?

Portland disbanded traffic law enforcement! After quite a lot of traffic deaths, mostly minorities they tried to protect, they just reinstated traffic cops. More black people were killed by this decision than by cops in Portland...

Source:
https://www.opb.org/article/2023/05/09/portland-oregon-polic...

"Portland has experienced record levels of traffic fatalities in the years since Lovell emptied the traffic division. In 2021, 63 people died in traffic-related deaths in Portland — the highest number in at least three decades. Portland matched that count in 2022."

https://www.koin.com/news/pbot-to-address-street-safety-as-c...

"Multnomah County Public Health Manager Brendon Haggerty said. “The third reason this is especially alarming for public health is that we see racial disparities.”

He added, “in Multnomah County, the death rate from traffic crashes among the Black population is about twice the rate of the non-Hispanic, white population.”
> Personally, I'd rather criminalize the negative behavior, rather than the drugs themselves. Like DUI laws, for example.

How do you punish a homeless drug addict living on the streets with no assets or income?
When people say stuff like this on Hacker News, it makes me think even more they haven't done a lot of work with government, or at least not the parts of the government I'm familiar with. Obviously, there are a lot of governments out there. But the FedRamp private enclaves with IL5-certification for CUI handling offered by the major cloud providers are a hell of a lot more secure than OpenAI's servers, and for workloads that require it, the classified enclaves are probably close to impossible to breach if you're not Mossad. Data centers on military installations, no connection to the Internet, private DX hardware encrypted on the installation with point-to-point tunneling through national fiber backbone only, and if you get anywhere near the cables, men in black SUVs suddenly show up out of of nowhere to bring you in and figure out why. I'm not even just saying that as a hypothetical. I've literally seen it happen when AT&T dug too close to the wrong line they didn't even know about because it was used for a testing facility the Navy doesn't publicly acknowledge. And the data they really cared about didn't even use that. It was hand-carried by armed couriers who kept hard drives in Pelican cases.

They may be tedious as fuck to implement and make what should be simple work take forever, but there are plenty of compliance checklists out there that really do give you security.
This kind of attitude (eventually) gets the government involved.
This is well before TSA but plane hijacking used to be common occurrence: "Between 1968 and 1972, more than 130 American airplanes were hijacked. Sometimes there was more than one hijacking on the same day. "

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11326472/hijacking-airplanes-e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings#19...
OPT hires are easy. You’ll just do an at will contract as you would for any employee or consultant who’s not a foreigner. In other words, nothing needs to be filed or done by you.

The only caveat is for the OPT graduate (I assume your friend is no longer in school). They will lose time against their OPT allocation that they could otherwise save.

That being said, it depends on the details of their OPT and the kind (pre / post completion, etc) at which rate their remaining time in the US gets deducted when they don’t work. You can look up the details online.

This means your fiend needs to evaluate whether it may be potentially better to be able to stay in the US longer and not work vs. working for you and getting something in their resume but that work time may potentially deduct from their OPT allocation faster.

Not a lawyer, just a former student who worked in OPT a few times. This stuff has changed since I went through this so don’t take my world for it.
What has not changed much is that OPT is pretty easy for employers (as opposed to, say, a visa) - because that’s the point of OPT.
Rewind? As in a non-automatic mechanical?

Admittedly, all the mechanical watch issues I've read tend to be pertaining to the automatic variety.
Seems like a decent amount to me:

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/08/29/china-biggest-iphone-ma...
<p>You can get a kind of self-close with this.

<p>Although it only works on some elements.
re: part 3 follow-up to "From Memex to Hypercard" commentary:

Could call l-systems the electronic/virtual version of 'tally sticks'[0]

[0] : https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/roman-philosop...
If Schiller had to make those points in what sounds like an internal debate, and the plan of record at some point was iMessage on Android, then it follows that Apple didn’t see it as that important.
Title is misleading.

“Everywhere we tried” does not include actually beating the performance (or getting particularly close to) sota transformers of the same size. That said, these models were trained for less time than the sota models so there is promise.
No. You have taught me quite a lot today. I really appreciate it.

The expropriation of land seems pretty sketch. I'm glad that Arab Israelis found their voice though, at least according to the article. What are the prospects for this kind of thing ending?
The source is my personal experience dealing with individuals involved in addiction. No amount of "experts" claiming we need to legalize hardcore drugs is going to change my opinion, thats for sure.
Even if one ascribes to this nihilist POV, it isn't an answer. We see the negative effects on communities, families, and people around addicts. Even if you don't care that people are destroying themselves, when they take out the surrounding area it is a problem we share.
Epic vs. Google: Google Loses
Yes, I turned the flags off a while ago.
It's promotional: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=simplypeter
At my last house, we had a private well and, later, a private company laid water pipes in the street and offered for us to connect to them via their own meter. I don't think anything was illegal about that company offering for me to rent a meter from them for the ~$10/mo connection [aka "meter rental"] fee, and use whatever mix of water that I wanted from their metered source or my own well, provided I had a backflow preventer to prevent any of my well water from entering their metered water lines.

If someone chooses not to rent an Orange water meter, they can't have Orange water. That seems like a choice that Orange can make. Changing Orange to Apple and water meter to smartphone messaging, I don't see any inherent reason why the rules should be different.
The Netflix status page helpfully shows a giant green checkmark with the message "Netflix is up!"

https://help.netflix.com/en/is-netflix-down
> Net-net, shifting toward biometrics is good

I disagree. It's a disclosable but non-revokable authentication mechanism. If your fingerprints leak, there's no way to revoke them. If your fingerprints change, like with your friend's kid, you'll find that the systems are not designed to handle updates. It's an ID that you cannot discard but might accidentally ruin.
Wow, just wow! 100x simplicity accomplished! THANKS a TON!!! <3
Forcing people into your religion is highly unethical in my moral framework. Even though it's criminalized here in the west we still see people finding ways to do it.
Yes. But we are already paying more to many keep these people out of prison than in. $100k/year per unhoused neighbor on fent is hugely expensive, and they aren't even getting treatment in most cases.
you mean like smoking and drinking?
AI used as excuse to neglect old folks
Nobody is doing that. Doesn’t matter what i do. In Europe you have a mess of country codes and to be charged fees by network provider based on the countries you’re talking to. In the US that has literally never been an issue. We never put the country code in because we’re in the same country. Lol.