skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The former is the crown jewel of France and a historic world-class city.

How is this relevant to my point, which is that in Paris (and most of major European metros), the prices-to-incomes ratio is much worse than in Seattle, and pretty much anywhere in US? In what way it is a crown jewel, if, by US standards, 3/4th of the population barely makes the ends meet?
>Very true, alcohol is much worse by most metrics

>I've met good people addicted to heroin. They've been through more hell than the rest of us can ever understand, almost entirely because of those times when they couldn't access it. If I could press a button to forever ban them access to any opioid, I'd press that button; they'd get over it in a few months and thank me. But that's impossible. The second best option is to allow them access to a clean, low-cost, prescription of it for the rest of their life.

How can you say both of these things? People who try to act like alcohol is worse than Heroin do more harm than good, but you even seem to understand it is worse with your last paragraph.

Of the hundreds of millions of users of alcohol, surely we don't even have to look up a study to find that the percentage of people who "been through more hell than the rest of us can ever understand, almost entirely because of those times when they couldn't access it" is less than Heroin.
I'd be somewhat concerned about an overzealous officer with a gun who "stops" me before I can pull out the paperwork.
I think this is a false dichotomy of what it means to be "smart" or "good at math/studies".

Someone can jbe bad at arithmetic, but good at writing proofs. Hell, plenty of mathematicians say they are bad at arithmetic!

More importantly in the context of education, someone can be completely unmotivated by arithmetic, but be more motivated by something else, leading to different amounts that they apply themselves, leading to different outcomes.
I guess the best way nowadays are the FPGA consoles, in the retrogaming scene.
A Priori, how can you know something (may) impact you, if you are unware of it until it impacts? Did you not wish the opportunity to avoid it? to engage in it?

"I didn't know the Stones were playing that gig" is big in this. If the stones decided to play the gig 24h ago, and you're in the city, the FOMO may be worse than the other choice.

Look I'm not dying on the hill on this. I think some amount of engagement is wise, beneficial. Too much is definitely bad.
Which is what I said above:

> continue using something forked/continued from the android core as it is "now"

It seems quite unlikely that vendors like Samsung would just give up on their customisations.
This description makes you seem like a slave to your own technology
Yes, please use Open Apply.
Well, we had two recent presidents. In all honesty, I was totally willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt; like he was talking a big circus, but sometimes for a politician that's just "dazzle and chaff" to distract the media.

In and among the nonsense there were a bunch of great promises, like pulling us out of China, getting massive infrastructure projects, resourcing a ton of our manufacturing from Mexico, maybe finally taking out the Ayatollah. Legitimately good shit!

So like; honestly if he was gonna do any of that, I'm game, man. We need it.

…

If I sit back and objectively look at it … he did a couple of tiny "token gestures", like saving a few hundred jobs at the Carrier plant, or whacking Soleimani. But for the most part … almost none of it got done, and not because of "Democratic obstruction", but because he just didn't even try. At all.

Really had me bummed, because damn if he wasn't -saying- all right stuff, but honestly I feel like I just got taken for a ride, you know? Like he said all that stuff just to get elected, and then just forgot about us.

Meanwhile Biden's doing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/06/09/biden-administrati...

https://fortune.com/2023/04/17/biden-manufacturing-chips-com...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2023/12/08/watershe...

…

I don't care who delivers, but I do take note of who chose not to do so, and don't vote for them a second time. "Fool me once".
Well a lot of reasons people turns to drugs in the USA is because doctors and pharmacists give them strong painkillers way to easily to begin with.

For instance oxycodone and many powerful painkillers are afaik not available as tablets in many countries, only given through IV's and injections in hospitals for serious enough conditions, or under serious constraints like palliative treatments. If you are recovering from an injury and are allowed to leave hospital, all what you should be allowed to take is paracetamol or ibuprofen for a limited time and that's it.

We shouldn't have to enter war against pain. Pain is not necessarily harmful, they are useful signals that can let people assess their recovery and physical state. Trying to avoid pain is trying to avoid reality. It is deemed to fail.

Nobody should take opiods painkillers for minor injuries and ailments, it just doesn't make sense.
I'm not. Texting as a form does not lend itself to the kind of high thought letterwriting does.
AOSP has effectively been dead for a long time. You need Google Play services for almost everything now and more and more creeps into the proprietary portion.
Seems like you could make that apply to any product right? If you can define the market as literally just your own product? Like if Joe's Coffee has a dominant market position in selling Joe's Coffee it would be monopolistic to use that to advantage to sell donuts?
Postscript: This isn't too say constant notifications aren't bad for people's mental health, and might not exacerbate people's ADHD. Only to say that neurodiversity is a real phenomenon and that the technology isn't the primary cause.

The Slack chime is a master stroke on this skit. A coworker once told me their mental health improved after they disabled the chime. (They were still responsive to messages, to be clear.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ
> the characters that got unified do share the same semantic meaning across languages

It doesn't in practice. For example: 机 in Japanese means "table", while the same codepoint in Simplified Chinese means "machine" (i.e. 機 in Japanese).
:| I am not trying to get involved in the “iMessage makes incels” debate, but you’re wrong. Those iPhones aren’t free. You have to sign up for a multi-year contract to get the “free” iPhone and the base monthly price is increased by (iPhoneValue/LengthOfContractInMonths). It’s a loan.

A Moto G 2023 is $100, unlocked. With a competitively-priced prepaid MVNO, it’s $10 a month to maintain the line if using data becomes unaffordable for that month.

I’d love to know where I can get a free iPhone and get the same economics as described above. All I see is iPhones for $x00 with a $60/month/line minimum. Even on MVNOs.
In a former life, I spent quite a bit of time shooting 3D with various rigs, but ultimately, the resulting video was just never anything much more than gimmicky. Without 6 DoF type of movement, the 3D just had the look of flat objects moving around on flat planes. It's just 2.5D animation in realtime. So much work and effort goes into getting it shot correctly, posting it correctly, delivering it correctly, and then viewing it correctly. All for such meh result.
23/32” is quite common, to the point where they make sets of 1/32” undersized router bits for cutting slots to fit undersized plywood

https://www.woodcraft.com/products/freud-89-670-3-piece-unde...

- Creates perfectly fitted grooves and dadoes
- Ideal for 1/4" to 3/4" plywood
- Includes 7/32", 15/32", and 23/32" diameters
If you own a device you can do whatever you want with it. Can you install surveillance cameras in your own home? If yes, then I don't know why you can't install surveillance software on your own device.
It is like Xerox and ETHZ use of memory safe systems languages for graphical workstations, monetary and human issues hinder adoption of great research ideas.
Globalization in a nutshell.
I think there are tradeoffs to each approach, and if it had gone the other way, there would be different problems For example characters for languages would be split up between blocks. Among other things this would make collation even more complicated and locale dependent than it already is. And people might complain that it is "western european elitism" that A is in the latin block instead of the greek or cyrrilic block.
> A very tiny fraction of population will ever be pure mathematicians. Most just need to know enough to “get things done”.

I agree with this, but I want to point out that the few "pure mathematicians" are not the only ones who can enjoy the beauty of math, similar to how the few classical musicians (or classical music experts) aren't the only ones who can enjoy classical music.

In fact, looking at the success of various YouTube math channels, or Science channels, etc, there are clearly orders of magnitude more people interested in material on Science and Math than there are people who actively engage in these fields professionally. (This is true of probably every field, btw.)
AI chatbot fooled into revealing harmful content with 98 percent success rate
You can't decriminalize or legalize hard drug use without first tackling the reason people use drugs. Otherwise they'll just end up in downtown again, shooting up in public.

And you can't ban public drug use unless you want to build a lot of new jails.

So the answer is to put all drug users into one place, like The Wire. It'll be the nastiest place on earth, but at least all other places will be prettier.
> These things are designed to be taken apart

This is so true. I used to repair phones and other gadgets before starting with watch repair... and I was kinda scared to take apart something filigree like a watch because it surely would never go back togheter properly.

But no, everything goes back togheter fine without having to apply any kind of force. If it doesn't it's 99% my fault. E.g. even tiny screwholes are slightly tapered so the screws kinda fall in there automatically.
Yet ~ nobody uses PyPy by default. Speed is clearly not the top consideration for most Python programmers.
The scientific research you refer to is basically looking at the equialent of a single keypress, or a specific delay to a frame or similar. Once you have a whole burst of sequential keypresses with an interactive interface, it becomes very evident. I'll see what I can do in terms of the experiment.
You are right if to speak about access control, but TSA, police, and the likes have other goals. They want to establish firmly one physical person <-> one DB id relation. People checked may for various reasons try to thwart such attempts. In such circumstances it's hard to come with a solution which is not bio*
I genuinely don’t understand why this is a problem for some people. It charges in under 15 minutes while I shower each morning. When I’m traveling I do always forget the charger however.

Robot vacuums on the other hand are awful for me. I always leave small cables and things on the floor like a jacket on the back of a chair. Also it does a poor job of transitioning from a hardwood surface to a thick rug. It frequently fails to charge even sitting on the dock. Also it is louder than even my shop vac.
What new title did you pick?
You can choose either one, or any other phone operating system. Nobody's obligated to make a popular phone operating system that satisfies all your desires.
Pixel + grapheneOS is the best middleground if you want.
If you got a few hours or weeks to kill, Raylib is really fun. Highly recommend.
IMO, the step analogy breaks down fast. Almost like comparing dancing to hiking. Eg: you can take a lot more steps dancing and get nowhere…

Knowing where you want to go and keeping your focus on that direction is probably the most important aspect of any environment. Iterating fast is a double edged sword that both allows quick fixes to happen while also encouraging an environment where those quick fixes are needed.

Iterating more meticulously feels a lot slower but can produce just as fast… sometimes a lot faster. For me, there is also an inherent stability component to slower iteration.

Perhaps, the best is neither approach on their own but a clever combination of the two?
The ChatGPT web ui system prompt includes the current date. You can see the default system prompt at https://github.com/LouisShark/chatgpt_system_prompt/blob/mai...
Go off-piste and depend on unknown third parties running builds based on AOSP.

But, some things "blobs" mainly, are probably unavoidable.
Isn’t this site supposed to have at least semi-intelligent people?
Do chromeos thinkpads or windows thinkpads have better coreboot/libreboot support, on average?
Oh you’re right - sorry, I forgot that everyone knows that the key ideas of the article are correct so they don’t require any evidence.

To drop the sarcastic frame - the article either argues something that could be incorrect or it makes a meaningless argument. If it’s arguing something that could be otherwise then it needs to give evidence for the things it’s saying. It doesn’t and treats everything it’s saying as completely self-evident. But these are empirical assertions that need evidence to be proven true or false, and the article stands out in using zero evidence. Personally, I think that this inadvertently reveals the disdain for news is really part of a broader undervaluing of evidence in general, but I don’t think that’s provable really.
I think the PC model is the best. You can install whatever you want from wherever you want. You have countless hardware and manufacturers to choose from. You can repair it.

I think smartphones should be more like PCs.
Because its the Hacker ethos. People need to be able to modify any software to suit their requirements and not have to blindly follow the prescription of a company whose interests may not align with yours.
That being the case doesn't negate the fact that cigarette users are not turned into some version of the walking dead but who'd do literally anything for a fix.

Tobacco has a lot to answer for but it isn't the same kind of issue at all. It doesn't destroy communities so directly.
> There are also a lot of good philosophical and practical arguments to giving a majority power.

I'm not sure if the Founding Fathers didn't create the whole electoral college explicitly to prevent this simple rule of the majority, from being a thing? After all "we" know better than "them" - with "we" being whatever group thinks they're morally superior/better/richer/more religously righteous etc. etc.
Home Alone: A Post-Incident Review (2020)
No one is forcing you to sell. There are lots of people that are perfectly happy in the Walmart free town. There are people that are coming because it has no Walmart. And there were no contract signed that there would be a Walmart in the vicinity.
Which can be seen as a benefit considering the dumpster fire that is contemporary UEFI implementations...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38515571
That's not google being open though, so I feel like this line of conversation got mixed up somewhere.

Anyway, yes Samsung could do that, but do you think they value their custom apps more than youtube access?

Let's assume Google will still allow UI customizations. So Samsung can keep 75% of their work either way, the choice is between the remaining 25% or access to the Google ecosystem.
Not to be a spoiler but in 2000 I was flying back from Las Vegas. In the airport terminal (after we passed security ) we decided to have lunch - steak lunch. I would not have realized myself, but one of our buddies made the comment :”these are real steak knives”. The rest of our lunch had many college-age jokes about kidnapping our upcoming flight :).
> but a larger portion of our population creates things

Any data supporting this? USA still runs a trade deficit against Europe.
The ol' three-swipe-salute as it's known in some parts.

Maybe asking siri for help on this is the apple way.
BF-SYS: A fantasy computer that uses Brainfuck as its instruction set
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For that example, in Chinese 机 is an alternative orthography of 几 (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9C%BA#Etymology_2) as in e.g. 茶几 – it's not perfect, but language is messy and I don't think Unicode did the worst job of a messy situation.
I don't actively follow the news, as I found it had a negative impact on my mental well-being. However, this doesn't mean I'm uninformed. I still stay updated through conversations with family, friends, and colleagues. This approach might've even improved my listening skills and relationships. Without being bombarded by every viewpoint on issues that often have little relevance to our daily lives, I avoid falling into the trap of lecturing or debating based on half-informed opinions.

We are figuratively being bombarded with information nowadays. It's not good.
And almost all of the news we consume doesn't significantly affect our personal lives. And it's all like propaganda, even if it wasn't the intention.
Rust brings niceties, but this implies no requirement for considering Rust.
There is a difference between selling donuts in the coffee shop and preventing anyone who drinks your coffee from buying a competitor's donuts.
Or he accepts the tradeoff of current battery technology vs utility. (Personally, I just charge it at night with my phone and its never a problem.)
"UniGreek" didn't happen because character encodings already existed that encoded Latin, Greek, and/or Cyrillic separately. Round-trip conversion is a non-negotiable requirement of Unicode, so merging any of those characters was impossible. There were no encodings that treated Japanese and Chinese simplifications of the same characters differently, hence why UniHan was allowed to happen. For similar reasons, we have twelve meaningless kanji in Unicode that exist purely as typographical errors during the standardization of Shift-JIS[0].

Furthermore, the primary motivation for UniHan wasn't to 'clean up' similar orthographies to avoid encoding homoglyphs. It was to stay inside 16 bits of coding space. Unicode was fighting a civil war against UCS, which proposed a 32-bit codepoint space, which would mean 32-bit characters, which the entire industry NOPE'd out of. Turns out, UCS was right, 16 bits was not enough, and the result is that every system that jumped on the Unicode train early[1] is now permanently cursed with improperly handling less-common kanji and most emoji.

For the record, I consider both UniHan and the hypothetical "UniGreek" a mistake. What characters get encoded in Unicode should match what speakers of a given language would consider distinct characters, not what we can arbitrarily merge to fit under a given coding bitrate. The only viable long-term solution for internationalized text was 32-bit codepoints encoded using a variable length encoding compatible with ASCII. We wound up with 20-bit codepoints, but I suspect at some point we'll need to break UTF-16 some more.

[0] This is known as "yurei moji" in Japanese

[1] Windows, Java, and JavaScript[2] all mishandle codepoints outside the 16-bit basic multilingual plane, which were encoded as pairs of 16-bit surrogate values in a special range of non-codepoints. Modern UTF-16 handling is supposed to treat these as single astral characters and reject broken surrogates, but the systems in question retain Unicode 1.0 era quirks for backwards compatibility.

A few years after the Unicode/UCS wars, Ken Thompson and Rob Pike would propose UTF-8, implementing it in Plan 9. This encoding was and is superior to UTF-16 in every possible way - including support for 31-bit code points, which UTF-16 surrogates can't do. UTF-8 isn't mangled by anything except the above programs... and MySQL, which had to add a second "no seriously it's UTF-8 for real" encoding.

[2] ActionScript inclusive. Yes, Ruffle has its own wide string library because of this.
Not sure how you reconcile (il)legality of something with libertarianism - by definition bullying is legal there?
I think you have mistaken "normalization rules" in this context with Unicode normalization algorithms. I'm specifically talking about documents like [1], which are essentially more detailed and concrete versions of the original Han-unification rules.

(Note that normalization rules themselves are distinct from the eventual unification. It takes further works to actually decide whether the unification is possible or not.)

[1] https://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg53/IRGN2420_KRNor...
And what if Beeper open sources their client? How is Apple going to stop that?
Nassim Taleb, in his incerto, makes the argument that:

- Most news is actually entertainment disguised as information.

- You can't act on the vast majority of news.

- Most medias, including specialized ones, can give a very good appearance of competence while actually knowing nothing of the actual situation.

- Medias, of course, have agendas and allegiances.

- You don't have neither the skill nor the resources to verify what they tell you. And dig a little once, you usually find out how alarmingly distorted the story is, suggesting you should do it thoroughly every single time.

- The volume of news, and noise vs signal ratio, is increasingly playing against you.

- It's fine to not have an opinion on most things. You opinion is worth zilch on most topics anyway and your decisions suck.

- It's exhausting and bad for your health and happiness.

He still reads some news, but consider it a way to entertain himself rather than being informed.

Tim Ferris has a similar view, and get most of its news from conversation with others, assuming that if they are in the mind of people, the filter of consequences on his life has already been applied.

n = 1, but I've seen my father has been watching an analyzing the news every single day for all my life. Thousands of hours of consumption, reactions, debates, bad moods and judgement.

I never saw him ONCE make a daily decision based on the news that made his life better.

Personally, I've found most medias content to be very low quality, and the propaganda everywhere. The time and energy it takes to untangle all that is not worth it.

I find way more interesting the reports of individuals with skin in the game. That's one of the reason I'm on HN.

And still, I know that even HN is most of the time, entertainment for me.
People outside of the SV bubble aren't swayed by the equity nonsense and prefer to be paid actual cash.
Plenty of other precursors to use if you can't get pseudoephedrine at scale. Trying to control ultra-small scale producers doesn't accomplish much other than sweeten the cartels (and purity/yields, so I guess that's a positive).

Opioids being more dependence-inducing than stimulants would better explain a production shift.

Big legitimate trading volumes with China (and any other large producer of goods/inputs) make a customs-focussed effort at controlling supply basically impossible.
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It seems like this is just plain old stereo video. Probably why they don't explain it, keeps the "magic" alive.
Uhhh that is actually looking fantastic. Especially for slightly advanced beginners to the space.

It has now been 8 years since I went through the Elements and Bishop Books in Uni. Now I want to read this over the Christmas break.
It sounds like the primary benefit is reduced ODs for the drug addicts. Does it do anything to benefit productive members of society? Do libraries go back to to being libraries? Do parks once again serve as a place to relax and recreate with family or friends? Does it clean the sidewalk and make them disability-accessible again? Does it stop the property crimes that are committed to buy drugs?

It's an absurd level of misdirected empathy to redirect such massive parts of the society's collective effort to benefit a few people who had some amount of agency in ruining their own lives.