skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, we don't have to propose an imaginary conspiracy to acknowledge the reality of how we came to think about drugs the way we do: it is documented that the intent of the controlled substances act was to justify criminalizing the political opponents of the Nixon administration. But the downstream effects of this, aside from making medical care much more difficult to access, has been a large amount of money funneled into propaganda that blames drugs for a wide swath of society's ills while also needing to claim that the act of using the drugs was a personal moral failing, in order to justify the carceral approach we have taken to violations of this law. The "evil organization" that puts out a lot of this stuff is only loosely affiliated, usually local law enforcement orgs, though usually federally funded to some degree, the motivations for scaremongering in this way are obvious enough that no conspiracy is necessary there either: they benefit from the fear of the poor, the homeless, and the drug-addicted in a direct, financial way. By now many of them are staffed entirely by people who have grown up in this propaganda-filled environment.

Scapegoating the poor as depraved criminals is a time-honored way of muddying the waters about economic issues that need resolving, and while doing so openly has fallen out of fashion, most people alive today have consumed enough fearmongering and misinformation about drugs that tying drug usage to issues of poverty is an easy way to launder that kind of messaging, and so that kind of messaging is pervasive. So pervasive that you don't even believe that it comes from anywhere, just that it's the obvious truth. In reality, there are tons of high-functioning drug addicts, and the high-functioning part has far more to do with affluence than what drugs they use, just like homelessness, in turn, has more to do with the housing market than it does with drugs. This would seem obvious to me, but what is "obvious" is not a function of some objective universal reality, and only really comments on the subjective context of any given person claiming "obviousness", including both what they've experienced, and what they've been told

When the incentives are strong enough, no conspiracy is necessary, especially when the tricks being used are old and battle-tested ones.

Also, as far as spending other people's money goes, I'd much rather governments be spending mine on mitigating the housing crisis and its downstream effects on individuals than funding law enforcement to harass and make life difficult for society's most downtrodden. Police receive outsized budgets to "clean up" homeless encampments and endlessly violate people's privacy, autonomy, and often bodily integrity in the name of an endless draconian crackdown on the contraband that you would have me suppose is responsible for the existence of the homeless. Even an inefficient approach like funneling some of that money directly to individuals stuck in poverty traps seems a lot more likely to actually make a dent in the problem, rather than constantly exacerbating it. I bet it would be cheaper, too
The "security vulnerability" you refer to is that somebody who steals your device can brick it.

https://xkcd.com/538/
If this were true it should be trivial to point out specific laws that went into effect around the time of the drop off.

My armchair economist opinion is that we are still dealing with the effects of the 2008 housing crash.
In cosmology, "horizon isolation" refers to the phenomenon where regions of the universe are completely cut off from each other due to the expansion of the universe exceeding the speed of light, preventing any exchange of information or causal interaction.
I would say spam applications to names that you recognise, then treat eventual interviews as if it’s the only one you’ve got as in taking it seriously. Apply to stuff you may not be directly knowledgeable about but bullshit your way through and learn it on the job. And look for position ads that may be in the niches as in platforms that people normally dont scour, some big names have weird partnerships and advertise positions where noone will actually look, so maybe look through not just the first page of google but check if you want to apply to something you see from a website on the third page of google as well.
You make a good point. To clarify mine, though: The treacherous thing about phones is not so much the phones capabilities, it's that the software deeply (but often subtly) disrespects end users. It's a normalized part of the industry. There's constant pressure from app-makers looking to shove content on you or to exfiltrate data about you, even if it's just recording a simple interaction. There's some of this on mouse-and-keyboard computers too, and increasingly so, but not to the same degree.

For one example, the push notification system is absurdly abused, and it's difficult to get the right balance of awareness versus distraction. Trying to get the notifications settings how I want tends to fail in one of two directions:

1. I miss an important/urgent email or message (terrible), or fail to respond to a dating app message in time. (Not responding quickly to messages is offensive to some...)

2. I'm just constantly annoyed by irrelevant updates or even blatant SPAM.

Ultimately, I disagree that the problem with phones lies with how users choose to use them. It's that the environment provided is overrun with software that's hostile, geared towards unhealthy usage. With new OS updates and new apps come new pitfalls and additional effort needed to get everything behaving how a reasonable, tech literate, self-respecting person would want. Some will jump through the hurdles to get things under control, but most just default to being abused, and I strongly believe it's asking too much of people, especially younger people, to understand what's at stake and to make all the right moves. When I point to phones as a source of problems, that's really what I'm talking about.
> I'm disappointed that HBO Max decided to abandon their simple A-Z listing of everything they had in order to encourage people to depend only on their algorithm.

I wish Netflix/Comcast/Prime had a ribbon called "randomly selected" that was like shuffle play on my stereo, and have it change daily.
All these prompt to video (VideoPoet, Pika, Runway, etc) are going to turn TikTok and other short video sites into toxic wastelands where everything and nothing is real anymore.

But the real game-changer is going to be on-demand personal entertainment based on a prompt, and all the pieces are falling into place.
Print on laminated paper.
If there were more controllers would that change anything?

The volume of flights and their chaining flights wouldn’t seem to change in that case would it?
Reasonably sure the passengers all had to stay on the plane
Ask HN: Best Hackathon Prizes?
What are some of the most interesting hackathon prizes? Interesting = unique, useful, quirky, silly, expensive, great developer utility, anything counts.
@dijit what server hardware did you get?
Twice I've had a similar sensation. DMT was involved.

I tripped in the same place twice exactly a year apart (four trips, two places). On the second of these I had a sense that time looped around so I could hang a left and go re-live the past year, or I could take a right and move on to the future.

Not sure how many lefts I made, but the most recent pair of choices were: right, right (as they'd have to be in order for me to be in this now).
How did you notice? Don't they just look like normal cameras with the AI facial recognition running on the backend?
By consuming that which maintains its identity, like all things. Otherwise it would cease to be a flame like we cease to be people when we stop consuming that which keeps us from becoming dirt.
The ESP32 comes with SBC built in, and the (open source) software is still under development, so presumably it'll get added later.
Concomitant is the erosion of spirituality and its replacement with other forms of tribalism. Atheists now donate to politicians at incredible rates—more than any other group.
> some people find hard to differentiate from the truth.

Oh well. This recent obsession with truth is quite strange to begin with[1].

Enlightened minds do not concern themselves with absolute truths, but rather focus on establishing models that can stand up to experimentation. The model does not even have to follow truths as long as it provides sufficiently accurate results.

[1] On second thought, it is not really that strange that we've seen that recent emergence. It is a great social device for nefarious actors to sway opinion in their favour – "I don't need to experiment because what I have before me is the truth!" There is a lot of incentive by those nefarious actors to promote truth seeking as being virtuous.
No, it's not PPG. It's PPM/PPC. (Powered Paramotor).

In the olden days of the 80's, ultralights were the rage but were difficult to store and transport the wing. PPM/PPC has the problem of transporting a cart. If you're able-bodied and can run and fall correctly then PPG, otherwise PPC.

Disclaimer: Purveyor of PPG.
20 years ago, we’d talk each Monday about this week’s Simpson or X-Files, and we knew that 95-100% of the people in our group watched it on Sunday. We don’t have that today.

I think Sportsball news is the last vestige of “shared culture” you can talk about over beer after work and be reasonably confident 30% or so of your mates can follow along. It’s so weird. 10 people who work together, around the same age, same social and economic class, and nobody can think of a topic that more than one of them know anything about, until someone says “How about those Warriors?”
European here; what’s so special about Oakland? :-)
Right, but ultimately they don't really matter. What matters is where your friends and family want to chat. Overwhelmingly, that's platforms like iMessage, Whatsapp, Telegram, etc.

Small players use open protocols and even sometimes federate because they're small, and that sort of thing can be seen as a feature that people might care about. Large players don't have to care. They already have enough users that they don't need to play nice with others. And that's where only legislation can change things.
This is exciting, I’m hopeful that we get distributed SQLite via something like Turso that can hook into this to stream subsets of data into SQLite edge-caches that can be pushed through the edge onto devices via something like embedded replicas. I know experimental work has been done here with pg_turso (I recently wrote my first few lines of zig to add support for some additional data-types for it) and this bodes well with the recent announcement of Postgres coming to fly.io, I dream of a day when I can make Postgres and SQLite play nicely together.
How did you know it was facial recognition system and not just a regular security camera that was recording?

Trying to understand what to look for..
stumbled on this thread, my device just got blocked by my at home router. My dns is 192.168.1.1, any suggestions for how to troubleshoot this?
That’s basically dependency injection
Looks like another PowerVR case
With no intention of one-upping the original post, people who find this enjoyable may also check out https://secretgeek.net/dod_intro
If I recall from listening to the ATC conversation back at the time, the ATC acknowledged that they had received this information from Lufthansa in a phone call far ahead of the arrival.
Water leak detectors are handy. I've got one under every sink and near every toliet now. Should help prevent a small leak from making a huge mess.
What do you think about Carbon[1]? I am hopeful.

[1] https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
37Signals Left the Cloud
The most live viewers of a TV episode was the season finale of MASH in 1983[0] with 106 million.

Unless the population rises to a trillion, it seems hard to imagine there will ever again be so much cultural consciousness directed towards a single show. I do not even know what is on broadcast TV any more.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_televisio...
Alright, you don't have to engage. I thought maybe I missed something before my time.

For others and historians :) … some efforts were made I think around 2008 (by Brad L. and/or Mark F. … I don't remember so well). A shortlived GTK widget was attempted at some point.

But this lead to nowhere because… well, it's hard to bend Gecko that way, because, again, Gecko was not designed to be embedded. And also because leadership was not pushing into that direction.

About the "not designed that way", what I mean is this:

We had many abstractions for sure to make it multi-platform (and that was amazing achievement, really) but embedding requires mechanisms to hook the event loop and the rendering pipeline into the embedder, in an agnostic way. Which is the part that was missing in Gecko.

Webkit had a proper, well designed, embedding story.

We didn't.
If it's entertaining, great. If it isn't, then why would it do any better than all the other crappy videos? Just like photoshop doesn't magically make something look good, neither does this. You still need to have an interesting idea that people would want to watch. At that point, then this is just a tool that helps you achieve that idea faster.
I don't like to use the acronym LOL on this site, but here I am. As someone from the Third World, where gun violence is a problem. The USA is still mocked for its rampant gun violence, mass murders and police violence. Let alone for being on the precipice of democracy and tyranny - as seen by Jan 6 and the possibility of Trump being re-elected. That and the USA being responsible for much of the descent from democracy into tyranny in so much of the global South. So there you have it LOL.

I do believe you are living in a bubble, whereby your viewpoints are selectively backed up by "world events" that actually do not walk the line between democracy and tyranny.
Apple Is Suspending Sales of Its Newest Watches
How dare you, for a good decade there I forgot that IBM Clearcase exists.

Now I'm ruined, again.
Don't be fooled by serverless (if you need all the computing cycles)
Personalised gift site made in laravel
I made a website which can build up personalised gifts and send them to print all automated. Let me know if you have any questions
Wow, I didn’t see that one coming. Can’t believe they just told you tough sh— on the headphones!
Serverless has its use cases but most of the time a normal vpn is fine
The podcast boom is only over if you consider the boom to be the money in podcasting. Of course investors aren’t too keen on podcasts seeing how many attempts have failed. Of course advertisers don’t want to pay to put their ads in podcasts when those ads are just skipped, and they can’t even reliably track downloads, listens, or anything of the sort.

But you know what’s not over? Podcasts themselves. There is still a huge audience of people that listen to podcasts. There is also still a tremendous amount of people who produce podcasts. Some of them keep it simple with just a Patreon or similar model. Many do it with no ads and no revenue whatsoever.

The fact that nobody has found a way to achieve wild business success with podcasts is actually what makes podcasts kind of great. They’re built with free, cheap and open technology. Proprietary platforms haven’t been able to compete with that. If you’re looking for the part of the Internet that isn’t tainted and enshittified, grab an RSS reader and try a podcast.
I wish this worked for Firefox
>> I have a few younger acquaintances/friends IRL, but they would be the first ones to admit that they don't feel like they fit in with their peers, and even a apart from that its generally best not to project too much based on interactions in my own bubble.

Sorry to say, but this is the akin to the “We are all different” meme. The quintessence of the internet and social apps is to organize individual and hence form large quantities. This is called a bubble.

Honestly, we all still get up in the morning, eat, drink, sleep and nowadays you have to draw distinctions by what kind of apps the kids use, what values they share.

>> I feel like every decade of the 1900's had pretty distinct cultural trends and identity, and even subcultures and counter cultures of the past were more public, but now it's all balkanized. I have no idea if that is a bad thing, but it is certainly different.

You may be tricked by the phenomenon called media. Only because it is shown on TV doesn’t necessarily mean changes in behavior. Same goes for apps nowadays. Perceived importance vs actual is an old phenomenon.

In Germany for example at the height of the so called student revolution in 1968 a maximum of 10% was actively engaging in protest activities. Imagine that. These “revolutionary people” tried to engage with media and organize accordingly.
The air Canada issue can still be mitigated, even on a visual approach, by programming the plane for the runway’s instrument approach (ILS or otherwise) assuming one is available.

Many pilots do this, and you don’t need a special ILS clearance or its corresponding separation to do so.
'Yes, and...' Helps You Collaborate Better
AI Blog Series for Non Techies
AI's moving fast, and it's important we all keep pace. AI understanding divide will just create another form classism in society. There is too much noise on internet and people in general are skeptic to learn. Starting a small 14 day blog series on twitter to help people get a basic understanding of AI and realign their world model.
https://x.com/kapeed_jha/status/1737326729503654399?s=20
What else would you suggest I should cover?
Why isn't there more innovation in housing construction?
> given how brazen shoplifting has gotten in tons of places over the past 3 years

Most recent view is that the claims of brazen shoplifting were not fundamentally true.

"The US shoplifting scourge is a lot of hype with little evidence" - https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/07/business/shoplifting-surg... ("There are pockets are of real increases in certain cities, but the national trend is pretty flat") HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38578764

"Is Shoplifting Really Surging?" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/briefing/shoplifting-data... ("The various sources of crime data — from government agencies and private groups — tell a consistent story. Retail theft has not spiked nationwide in the past several years. If anything, it appears less common in most of the country than it was before the pandemic.") HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38535662

"How the retail lobby sold a $45-billion whopper about organized shoplifting" https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-14/column-ret... -- HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38695985 .

The National Retail Federation, which was pushing this panic, has had to withdraw its claim.
Because there’s always some overhead during inference plus you don’t want to fill all your available RAM because you risk swapping to disk which will make everything slow to a crawl.
Amazing, please add an option to remove the input image.
I'm not legally barred from putting "driver" on my business card in any jurisdiction on earth, so I'm not sure if that analogy holds up.
> if the filthy rich don’t have most of the cash, who does? Who has 31 trillion dollars in cash, and isn’t filthy rich?

It's 2 trillion, not 31. https://www.uscurrency.gov/life-cycle/data/circulation

As to who has it, it's in circulation. It's being used to buy goods and services, and then the merchant does nightly drops to the bank, who credits it to the merchant's account, then hands out the cash for withdrawals and loans.

I would presume that much of the cash in circulation is in the untracked illegal economy, as the cash isn't traceable. Drug dealers hoard millions in cash because no bank will take it.

> If Mr Filthy spends a billion to buy stock from Mr Rich, now Mr Rich holds that billion in cash.

Using emotionally laden words doesn't make your case more compelling. Be that as it may, nobody buys stock anymore with cash. I've been buying stock my entire adult life, never with cash.

> it’s been for drugs

I.e. the black market, which I already allowed runs on cash.

> I’m pretty sure the kind of oil sheikh who flies around his arabian stallions and camel herd with him on his private 747 has a mil or two cash handy for whatever.

Speculation. But indeed, some rich people may have large quantities of cash on hand for use in the black market. After all, an illegal arms dealer isn't going to take your credit card. But that's not hoarding cash, either.
Sidewalk Dances: 14 Moondog compositions arranged by Joanna MacGregor, played by the Britten Symphonia and others, recorded in 2006

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-s3gc2pdV19MwYJJTe...
Doesn’t work on iPhones — the most common high quality HDR display people I know are likely to use.

I can’t use this technique to publish my photos to them.

I can use an Apple format to send HDR images to my friends and relatives with Apple devices.

I can use some other Adobe or Google formats to send pictures to my friends with Android (=Google) phones.

Etc…

We don’t have any new widely adopted open standards any more in today’s FAANG era of mutually antagonistic fiefdoms.

At best one of them muscles out the competing formats and that becomes a defacto standard.

For everything else we’re stuck with pre-FAANG standards established at a time when companies were smaller, didn’t “own” the whole stack top to bottom, and were forced to cooperate.

Google owns that hardware (Pixel), OS (Android), browser (Chrome), protocol (HTTP3, Brotli), codec (VP9, WEBM), and television itself (YouTube).

There’s an identical stack for Apple.

Why do you imagine it’ll ever be possible for Google user to send a full fidelity photo to an Apple user?

They live on opposite sides of a new iron curtain.

They’re not even permitted to text each other properly!
https://archive.ph/uETfT
All the most free, prosperous, and safe countries in the world have many fewer guns, and gun rights, than the US. The US is the outlier, and it's even the outlier now for its own history.

The US in 2023 is the outlier in time and place.
I had trouble with both.
I agree with you that the best thing to do is to relax the regulations for building (and permitting, etc etc). I was talking about fallbacks when building is not an option (either politically or because of a labor shortage or otherwise).

"New York University economics Professor Edward Wolff, a specialist in real estate statistics, said 4.48 percent of American households owned three or more residential properties in 1998, compared with fewer than 1 percent in the early '90s."

I wonder what that number is today...
That took me on for a rollercoaster ride.
> or 2) stores that operate like a vending machine... [..] they just need to implement it in kiosks in a lobby area of the store and have staff bring it out.

There is a Walgreens in Chicago that was recently redesigned into exactly that due to the amount of theft going on.
Something something no-cloning theorem prevents this (/s, since of course, we could 'teleport' the ships's quantum state onto the 'new' ship (/s)).
My bad. Yes they weren't in the first batch. But hot damn being in that first batch was pretty big. Being the right place at the right time is incredibly important. Also, to be the specific kind of person to do YC so early on should probably not be undersold either.
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Why Apple is stopping Watch sales and what it means for you
> Unless it's making fun of the people that seriously think Clinton's are killing people?

You nailed it the first time. It's second-degree meta.
That didn't use EUV and wasn't cost effective, it doesn't mean much of anything.
Sipeed's LicheePocket 4A Is the First Gaming Handheld to Feature an RISC-V Chip