skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love these early days of programming as I do it as hobby. What's pretty amazing is how much you can do without any multiplication or division at all. With add, substract, and shifts you can do a surprising amount on a computer.
Well, making it a standard would not have required capitulating to the admittedly terrible carriers.
With vim, "u" always moves back in time through the undo history, CTRL-r forward. "." repeats the last action which changed some text but not stuff like moves or going forward/backward through the undo history.

nvi sounds very weird to me.
But it doesn't. The troublemakers are a tiny percentage of the population. I guarantee the local cops know every single one of them. But there's no mechanism for diverting them from making trouble so here we are.
So what's the complaint here? That researchers research?

These folks wanted to make their own thing so they made their own thing. Eventually someone will make a thing that's far better than anything we have today.
I locked myself out of fingerprint unlock for something like a week on several devices after a limited amount of cleaning with citric acid and a scrubbing pad.

Fingerprints need fallbacks.
You put in a lot of effort and built something cool - a spelling error is absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about.
Zig was used because it felt like a modern C alternative and it had good interop with C, although some parts of Cyber is still written in C. Yes, it's for embedding into a host application but there is nothing stopping it from running on embedded systems. Since Zig can just target them through LLVM. The only issue would be adding a few build options to exclude parts of the builtin library so the memory footprint is lower.
Completely agreed. Legalizing drugs and gambling is important for cutting off the flow of money and social legitimacy to criminal operations, but the "nice" thing (from a marketing perspective) about addictive substances and activities is you don't need to try hard to sell them. For users, even addicts, the bar set by having to deal with black markets is so low that we can get them out of the streets with the truly blandest, unenticing solutions -- plain black and white boxes, black and white screens, beige halls. Just cheap enough to undercut illegal alternatives, with all color and marketing effort placed on the offramps: addiction treatment information and guidance framed in a friendly, empathetic, medical manner.
P2P is a methamphetamine precursor, not a drug in itself AFAIK

Edit: I did a search and can't find much. There seems to be a lot of bullshit but suspiciously little by way of solid info. The best I could find was this so-called super meth is simply higher in the dextro isomer which gives the high (the levo being less interesting effect-wise). But that's well known already so...?
The treatment / rehab / injection / addict housing programs (and more) that are required when you decide that having people use drugs isn't something that they believe they will be punished for anymore and no longer exercise some measure of self-caution to avoid falling into. The near-hospital-like facilities and salaries of people you have to pay for to replace that self- or state-policing, and now have to clean up after those who have been given free license to use drugs, and get them back on some productive life track.

As GP was alluding to, all the things that require spending $ on, which people aren't apparently willing to spend after the symbol of voting for decriminalization. Which, if they're a mandatory part of decriminalization, but people never end up paying for, mean that decriminalization isn't actually a viable policy.
If you don't also have Precheck, CLEAR does not give you Precheck benefits, it just lets you skip to the front of the normal screening line.
This is way better than views
Put me in the "ever let it start to begin with" camp, because I'm never having kids. That shit looks hard as all hell.

Having a kid that smashes windows when told to go to its room sounds like the kind of soul draining thing that causes relationships to end. Huge props to those parents for navigating through that.
From their website [0]:

> We currently offer a 7 day free trial, afterwards there is a $1.99 per month subscription. Beeper Mini is available to download today with no waitlist.

That doesn't sound free to me. Am I missing something?

[0] https://www.beeper.com/
Oregon shut down most of their mental health facilities in the 80's and early 90's. We literally have a federal judge letting charged criminals out free, becuase they have sat in jail for sometimes months before even being evaluated by the state hospital to see if they are competent/capable of defending themselves. They literally have 2 state hospitals for the entire state, and one of them is only 1/3 capacity, but they can't seem to staff it, and the other is well over 100% capactity, and forced to release people because of inhumane overcrowding. (and way understaffed, since it turns out people don't like to be beaten up by patients, with no help, protection, or training, for what is essentially entry level pay)
So in your worldview, all "helping" should happen voluntarily, with no state/federal assistance.

And if no individual is feeling charitable that day, then no help would be provided?
The problem is that the people using drugs out in public are already at rock bottom: there aren't many punishments you can use to deter that, short of putting them in jail and when they come out they're just going to be using drugs in public all over again. I'm somewhat receptive to the idea of mandatory treatment but as it stands, "enforcing some harsh laws" doesn't do anything to curb recidivism – temporarily incarcerating people falling out of the bottom of society is not a long term fix for society.
Haha, this is the right Realpolitik interpretation for sure
Like today, it was highly regional. The talk about Beeper Mini sounds ridiculous in the UK because literally nobody uses iMessage.

IIRC AIM was popular in America and MSN was popular in Europe.
Also the clojure guy Rich Hickey has done a ton of SQL stuff
I've used GPT-4 and CoPilot for a number of different projects (web + mobile). It's replaced 90% of my Googling, Stackoverflowing and looking up docs and I definitely type out less code.. but I am still leading the whole process. It cannot just generate what needs to be done. Most non-technical people could not use it to generate code - they wouldn't know what to do with it.

I think LLMs are a powerful tool for programmers to use.
This is not standard procedure in Europe. I’ve never seen anything like it. Must have been something special going on that day.
Also from NL, was using ICQ at first then everyone switched to MSN. I do remember using AIM a little bit to chat with some Americans. This was the late 90's.
This is the problem with SQL queries and Django Forms I am talking about

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17330158/django-how-to-u...
That's a fair question, I assume it's milk production tracking, health status of each cow, etc. That's a bit out of my wheel house. This was previously 2 different farms owned by two different families, but after 2020 a lot of these places sold off their farms due to financial hardships. I lost a ton of clientele over the course of 2020 due to mega farms buying them out for pennies on the dollar.
> it uses the exact same authorization mechanism as a real iOS device and grants the user access to no more than a real device would.

And a hacker that social engineers someone's bank password is entering just like the account owner would. "Hacking" doesn't have to involve exploiting a technical vulnerability. It's just unauthorized system access, regardless of methodology
Upstream vs. Downstream Services
Most parents would tell you that having a child learn how to deny satisfaction is a huge detriment. If they learn it from a parent it’s almost impossible to constructively address.
When I was in high school and not rich enough to have a cell phone, I had to wait until midnight for my BBS to dial the upstream FidoNet host and exchange messages.
Both iMessage and RCS require carrier services to register phone numbers. In iMessage' case it is an activation SMS text.
Programming is communication. Software engineers communicate instructions to machines, and LLMs are powerful language tools that can translate rough requests to instructions in a precise format (including computer code). This will add a fuzzy interface layer on top of programming, but computing will still require precise low-level instructions.

The current breed of LLMs will likely make software engineers much more productive, as they help with the most mindless parts of creating software. This is bad news for tech workers whose job is limited to simple programming tasks. However, there will always be a need for engineers that architect, design and implement complex software systems.
Isn’t signal’s client code open source?
Sale of United Launch Alliance is nearing its end, with three potential buyers
So, if they were robbing Peter to pay Paul, how is there still 90%+ available for payouts? That seems shockingly frugal of Bernie and Co.
Good data. I'm not sure if it proves my point or not or what point I'm even trying to prove about US + engineer salaries + cost of living

One nit pick:

https://www.apartments.com/ann-arbor-mi/

Under $1k is living pretty 'not so great' in Ann Arbor
Because we have a dysfunction congress and recent history has shown us how gov't over enthusiastic regulation has made things worse
Seven million open research objects and counting
Military Science Fiction Author David Drake, Passes Away at Age 78
Someone said they are embedding Apple binaries for crypto stuff. Clear copyright infringement if so.
Scaling...every business must share your data and the data it has about you with the government.
I commissioned a guy to make a small game for me last week, it can be just like working with any other artist/individual business

the unfortunate reality is that an hour of software labor doesn't go far, and software labor is super expensive
What about dbms system call wrapper to advanced OS concepts? aka meet on mountain slopes to spin up herds of select ram (disk) copies.

The dbms version of OS dining philosopers.[0] Lot less haskell.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem
The last time I was there it was still TSA. How is it? Are they more courteous and/or efficient?
Coffee meets keyboard moment.
Ars Technica is usually pretty good, but this article fails to explain the logic or motivation behind Tesla's restriction. I've never heard of any such thing attached to a purchase of a consumer good and I'm at a loss to understand why.
> Vim's modal editing results in the user explicitly defining undo/redo points.

? How? Does switching to normal mode create an undo/redo point? Someone asked me if the granularity of Vim's undo/redo could be increased (i.e., more frequent undo/redo points). In what they demonstrated, Vim's granularity seemed less than other applications (i.e., undo/redo acted on relatively large chunks of input); in some brief research, I didn't find a solution.
Reading the abstract... it feels to me like the author doesn't know what a relational database is.

Chris Date does discuss the concept of nested tuples / relation-valued tuples of some kind in his books as an extension to the relational model. But that's something else entirely.
Ah. Perpetrators are minors and will get lax sentences.

They will likely kill again as adults before any effective legal action is taken, and maybe not even then (see Darrell E. Brooks Jr. and Jason Billingsley)
I think the answer is a "follow up lawsuit." The administration had a duty to follow and implement the law as it was passed. They very clearly failed to do so, to the extent that I think it would be appropriate to begin a criminal investigation.
Jokes on them. My bank account is already empty.
You can get PreCheck separately. I got PreCheck and Global Entry as a side benefit of Nexus. Which, btw, is the cheapest way to get them all.
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Ask HN: Working with CPG Retail Data
I work in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. Specifically the US market. Think of the sorts of items you buy on a consistent basis at a grocery, big box, club, or drug store. Everything from bagged salad to cough syrup.

Over the past several years I’ve worked at a mid-size company and moved from a basic analyst role to wearing several data hats. Mostly taking on data engineering and business intelligence tasks. The hot thing right now is Power BI reporting, so I build out data pipelines, create data models, and design Power BI reports. This has lead to a lot of career success at my company, but lately I’ve been more and more frustrated by the seemingly antiquated data practices in the CPG industry.

My company is a bit unique in that we are not a single retailer or manufacturer. We work with CPG brands and retailers across the entire country. This means we rely heavily on syndicated retail data from providers like Circana (merger between IRI and The NPD Group) and NielsenIQ (NIQ). They get retail scan data from almost every CPG retailer in the country. Except some retailers are exclusive to one platform, so you’ll never have a complete picture without both.

However, Circana and NIQ do not make it easy to extract what I consider medium-size data. Everything is a portal with data presented across various “dashboards” and rudimentary no-code report creator web apps. The minute you ask about an API or data transfer service they wonder why you would ever want to leave their platform. And when you do convince your company to purchase large data extract access or similar (why do we need that when we have “analysts” who can extract hundreds of small data pieces through the web portal?), you find out it’s incredibly fragile, inflexible, slow, and unreliable. The pricing for access is never transparent either.

In some cases, I can access a retailers’ data directly (for the manufacturers my company works with) though their web portal and reverse engineer an API. But that’s typically a limited data set and more supply chain focused.

Has anyone developed a successful data strategy in the CPG realm? Is there an opportunity here to solve these problems? Are these normal problems in tech/other industries?
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Sorry to hear of your sense of frustration. Can you please elaborate on what you believe was “working correctly,” and the associated superior cost-benefit tradeoffs.
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I feel like we could build something like this with SQLite, application defined functions and in-memory DB pretty quickly.

But then I ask myself... Why would I want to do any of this? If I do Database=>sql command=>Database... Don't I have to write yet-more-SQL (or something approximating SQL) to get at my final items? I can't write a foreach loop over pile-o-tables. Virtually all programming abstractions expect some serial flow and enumerations of types.

At some point, you are going to have to map A to B, and I'd argue adding another database in the middle probably isn't strictly headed in the right direction.

If you want to select 2 different result shapes, just write 2 different queries. Use some lateral concepts in your programming environment to make the SQL part not suck. If you stand on some weird "one query only" principle every time you have to populate a practical view, you are going to have a super rough time with life.
Creates chat rooms and posts sharing tutorials and tips on programming
This is by design. The government does two things

1) Requiring businesses to record certain pieces of information, but keep it as business data, but not send it in realtime to the gov.

2) It declares that business data is not protected personal papers, and can collect it without a warrant.

I believe both of these concepts were codified in the patriot act.
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That's cool! I've been a fan of your projects here since redbean was released, and if I understood C I would be more excited about the underlying tech that runs all these tools, but I'm more of an algorithm designer and back-end data processing system programmer (I use Python), so watching the progression of your technology is very impressive but I barely understand how it works :)
Thomas More once (I think in the often unread first half of Utopia) that the only fair system of laws is one simple enough for the average citizen to understand. Once you need legal professionals to understand the laws or to navigate the justice system, you're holding people accountable to standards they don't know, and that's fundamentally unjust.
iOS does attempt to properly inline Android tapbacks and has done so since IIRC iOS 16. It's not perfect, though: if the tapback isn't one Messages recognizes, then you get it in message form, e.g. ":smile: to 'Have a nice day!'" (only with the actual emoji). It also fails all tapbacks if it's an image, presumably since it can't know which image is reacted to.

Hopefully the experience is improved when they implement RCS, though I'm not sure if tapbacks are part of the spec.
In Germany you can get them nearly everywhere.

I'm surprised so many find it weird
Rage is the correct response to decades of systemic injustice and abuse of power.
I don't get why it is a paper? Just make multiple requests SELECT ... FROM TABLE. You can batch them if you like, or just send out multiple requests in parallel.

Infact this is what some shitty ORMs do when you don't want them to do this and you actually wanted a join. (Grrrr!). Sometimes you want the opposite. The complaint is more that ORMs do silly things and there is less control.

I am guessing the paper is really about some nice sugar for doing this?
No, I’m saying it’s irrelevant what businesses are sending you. And since SMS is fundamentally limited to 160 ASCII characters, I doubt the majority cares. Getting hung up on a default SMS client feels like a waste of energy. I get that, as a convenience, you’d want one location for all your messaging needs. For an alternative view, I like the separation that multiple apps provide. I’m not against iMessage being on other platforms either. What I am against is the pitchforks and bullshit reasoning around why this is anti-consumer/trust. The whole polemic is just bullshit.

Edit: in fact I'm annoyed at myself for adding to the pointlessness of what amounts to petty nerd-rage. I apologise to everyone...
CLEAR is more than ten times as expensive as PreCheck: $189/year vs $15.60/year. That's likely enough to keep the queues low.

PreCheck (or rather Global Entry at $20/year, which includes PreCheck plus immigration/customs priority) is worth the cost for me. I'm an immigrant, so the US has already done several checks into my background and has many, many copies of my biometrics already, so there's no additional privacy loss.

I could afford CLEAR, but the value just isn't there for me.
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The first facility expansion in the state opened this past September, with money from this bill that was passed in 2020. It has 16 beds.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/homeless/new-se-portl...
I’m writing a pinball game in assembly for the original Gameboy, and recently had to hand-craft multiply, division and cosine routines to trade off accuracy for spare cycles. Something like this would have come in handy!!
> Hacker News is getting a bit ridiculous with the utter disdain shown for sciences and academia.

Just to be clear, nobody actually said the social sciences are roughly equivalent to Enron. I used Enron as a hyperbolic example to emphasize that there are reasons for poor behavior other than lack of education. I was not implying that academic fraud is at the same level as Enron fraud, and after rereading what I wrote I’m comfortable with how I worded it.

> But every energy company had the same incentives as Enron. Not every energy company published fraudulent financial statements.

Accountants and corporate executives have substantial disincentives against publishing fraudulent financial statements, like going to jail. Academics mostly do not have similar disincentives against abusing statistics. There have been a few high profile embarrassments, but for the most part even people who are widely known to have p-hacked their way to dozens of questionable publications are still sitting comfortably in their tenured professorships.
Free was the price, client didn't want to pony up for any additional monthly fees. In the past I would've included it into my monthly "on call fee" but now I value my free time too much to the point where clients aren't interested in having me as an emergency line.

I'm sure I'm leaving money on the table, but I'm a one man show, and I have trust issues with relying on others, so here we are.
Apple has always made services primarily for the users of their hardware. They are a hardware company that makes their own software and services. The hardware purchase funds the software development.

Who decides which platforms get support, if it's not the company making and supporting the service? When BBM was popular, I know a lot of people without Blackberries would have liked to use it, but Blackberry didn't offer it, and no one was threatening legal action against them (that I know of). I don't see how this situation is any different.

There are a lot of exclusive services out there, which are locked to specific platforms. Affording legal protection to anyone who hacks their way into a system, and telling the company they can't do anything about it, would create chaos in the tech world. There might be some cool projects, but business models would fall apart, companies would fail, security would be worse than it already is, and I'd question why anyone would try and start something new when they wouldn't be allowed to control it in a way to ensure profitability. Having everything free and open is great, but at some point these services need to be paid for.
Well, what about the value of making clear to people that in case they fall over that edge and start using drugs, they will be punished? Police being able to arrest people and caution them, rather than being told to actively ignore it?

In order to stop them from tempted to try it or go further, and prevent more people from joining that group? Or the people who deal drugs? Which decriminalization basically removed any check function on?
It could be useful with ORM. For example, in Rails ActiveRecord instantiates the class for each row. But when you need to write complex query with many joins and instantiate AR models tree from it becomes either cumbersome or leads to n+1 queries. Still pretty niche usecase, but looks interesting
so, why 'one ton'/wanting more if have clojure?