skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't. The central pillar of democracy is a press that follows the guidelines and ethics traditionally associated with the institution. A press that deviates from those ethics and guidelines is no longer such an institution except in-name. Without the traditional institution, democracy either fails or was always a false promise. Depending on one's view as to whether or not the Press ever adhered to such principles.

I'd argue that a Press that that acts as a political bully and overwhelmingly a propaganda organ is the most powerful branch of government, given that the government can be almost wholly corraled by the Press. The Press is unelected, which implies that an unmoored Press reveals an inherently undemocratic society.

Case in point: as we saw with the 2019 riots, the Press has the ability to incite riots wherein people are murdered, grow and contioue those riots at will, and protect people from being widely arrested or prosecuted for those riots (especially those who incited them).

One cannot resolve such a Press institution, which has the ability to threaten murder with impunity, and a free-market democracy.

In-fact, the pressure campaign in question bears the deeply felt context of and ability to threaten those recent riots.

The Press is not the same as an individual, in terms of the ability to resolve its rights with democracy. Just as an individaul is not an institution.

In order for a Press to maintain its central role in democracy and therefore do its part in maintaining democracy, it has to adhere to principles which keep it from threatening the populace and other institutions. Especially when in the midst of advertising its power over lawless physical destruction.
Was glad to see some facts about using ISDN for voice acting in there. When I was a teen, my interests were split between computers and theater. I was SHOCKED when I found out some of the actors I got to work with had ISDN, and not for internet!
Ask HN: Batteries-included Framework for MVP in 2024
Let's say you're an experienced developer, but any of the following frameworks & languages would be new to you.

You're wanting a batteries-included framework to build out an MVP and focus on shipping features rather then re-inventing the wheel over and over for non-business specific features (migrations, mail, jobs, caching, etc).

Which do you think is the best to invest time in, in 2024? A lot of previous discussions focused on "build with what you know", and I agree with that, but am curious what HN thinks is worth investing the time in with regards to heavy duty frameworks, in 2024.

- Rails - Ruby

- Laravel - PHP

- Django - Python

- ASP.NET - C#

- Pheonix - Elixir

Something else?
I'm repeating myself, but the letters are one of the jewels of literature.

As far as the review goes, I'm always disappointed at how many of these pieces struggle to get past the cliche of Flaubert as shut-in, ignoring his North African sexfest and only skating over his endlessly dazzling intellectual chatter.

For anyone able to read French, Rouen University has a magnificent repository of the letters, many with scans. https://flaubert.univ-rouen.fr/correspondance/correspondance...
Exactly what happened in Texas in 2021.

The parallels between Alberta and Texas always amuse me for some reason.

Wishing you best luck during this event!
How much of this is just money? Waymo has been operating for a decade and a half and has spent billions upon billions. Probably it's spent more than all the trucking startups listed put together. So it'd not be surprising if they are doing much better.
Earthlings take note: The sun will be its most active in two decades
Sure, that does seem to be a race condition that can crash. I'm not sure how valuable this example is though, because it's not very intricate at all: a Weak reference can be invalidated (duh!)

The fix is trivial: just use an Arc instead of a Weak. In addition, `upgrade().unwrap()` should be a sizable red flag (like any unwrap, really) since fallibility is kind of the entire thing of Weak.
https://archive.ph/Sdb4Y
it looks great. keep up the work, i would like to use it
"Never" is a very long time.

Maybe it won't happen as soon as many predicted but I'd say it is likely to happen at some point.
The effects of LSD and psilocybin can still sometimes result in some degree of psychological addiction, just not physical dependence.

MDMA can cause permanent tolerance and brain damage, and even though there has been plenty of research and testing by harm-reduction communities (like Bluelight), it's still not fully understood how this works or how to guarantee the substance's safety. This is probably why it should stay banned, at least for now.

LSD and psilocybin are much safer, in my opinion. I would probably say LSD is the safest, since high doses of psilocybin can render me unconscious, but that could just be me.
I think it's much more fun to compress stuff in lossy ways and see how glitchy it becomes! I made a fun thread on Mastodon on compressing images with MP3 and OGG Vorbis: https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/111755539584965220
SimCity Planning Commission Handbook
The HID protocol used by keyboards to talk to the OS doesn't support Unicode.

In fact, it doesn't even support letters: you're sending key positions instead. If you press the letter "A" on an Azerty keyboard, your keyboard will essentially send a "Q Down" event - because that "A" is placed in the "Q" position.

Getting Unicode out of that is really tricky due to half a dozen abstraction layers, most of which are unique for that OS. Mapping a specific Unicode character to a position isn't too bad (just use a custom keymap), but adding generic Unicode support is a nightmare.
>> does taking psychedelics have a general positive or a general negative outcome?

If everyone took them in a context conducive to healing/therapy it would be positive. Unfortunately that's rarely the case (though it's becoming more common).
I have both an Ergodox and a Ferris which are both now gathering dust. In my experience, columnar layouts are not worth it for me as a developer, because there is nothing that I can gain from a layout that changes the position of the {};'<>() keys that will ever offset the productivity and familiarity lost by those keys never being where I expect them to be.
I used I think 5 dishwashers of 3 different brands in my life to-date. All 5 did a good job.
> Imagine if instead of resolving a name to an IP address, it resolved to a phone number. Loading any modern webpage would take a week of dialing to fetch all the ads and trackers.

FYI:

- Minitel (France): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel This service was quite successful

- Bildschirmtext (BTX, Germany): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildschirmtext Less successful than Minitel in France, but also had its users
Then I’m even more confused what the problem is. Do you have so much laundry that you keep both machines perpetually running in parallel? I can only imagine that happening if you have a household of 8+ people.
Having cats specifically for rodent control is an exception but it's also important to recognize that it makes you and your cat a 1/20,000 exception. The vast vast vast majority of people who own outdoor cats are not doing it for rodent control.
I should be able to modify the software on my car, because I am exactly as credentialed to develop that software as the person who actually did. Hell, my high schooler nephew holds the same credentials:

There are no professional software engineering licenses. If some software is too important for Joe Public to wrench on, it should need to be signed off by a P.E. who can vouch their livelihood and professional standing on the quality of that software, representing not the company's "maybe some people will die, but we can afford it" interests, but the public's "we don't want manufacturers planning to kill people" interests.

Until then, I've got the same qualifications as that person. Let me at it.
Microsoft Wants Your Driving Time to Belong to Your Boss
What stands out to me from your comment is the extreme differentiation of men & women as if they were different species

It’s just a genetic bit-flip in the womb - let’s not get carried away. We are in the same league just drafted into different teams.

Your post catastrophizes and over-generalizes to reach a worst case outcome

- Man unable to care for his family: Temporarily? Forever? How many men can’t get a job ever again ? Not many

Reality: people have ups and downs. Wherever you are in life there’s people doing fine with less than you

- Woman with “options” leaves - whatever that means - another worse case scenario thinking: oh no she leaves!

Reality: free people meet, and break up all the time for a multitude of reasons. Not the end of the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion
They have single digit operating margin so yeah they're absolutely losing money on -40% offers.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/hellofresh/operating-margin/
If you haven't already seen the video don't bother. There is no interesting visual of frozen gas pumps, just stock footage of gas pumps and people using ones that aren't frozen while a voice over says that some were freezing and that nothing could be done but to wait for them to unfreeze. The video adds nothing.
Most folks would say "FCKGW-...".

What's the story behind your key?
What does "cloud-native" mean in this context, if anything? When I hear the term, I think of things like CoreOS, whereas this looks rather desktop-focused.
From the landing page (and trying a few tutorials):

https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.11/index.html

I couldn't quite determine the reason of being of the Crystal language. Could someone with experience with the language explain what is its appeal, and why it would be worth trying/learning?

Thanks!
>Albert Einstein was working in a patent office where he saw a conga-line of patents discussing how to standardize the measurement of time across vast geographies.

I don't thik this was a relevant factor. Certainly not as much as reading Poincare's work (which anyone had access to).
I just create one markdown file per day. I wrote a custom obsidian plugin that displays the "timeline" as if it was one open file and creates the files in year/month/week subfolders.

But I don't use linking and all the other complexity. But if I ever needed it I could.

Then it's synced with next cloud and also available on my phone.

I like this the most because just as explained, the time line is the most accurate representation of reality. And I can very quickly scroll back to see what I did last week or do full text search.

Simple and useful!
What do you think is happening if he is using falsely inflated statistics?

What is the goal of drumming up hate using false data, to rile up his followers?
Is it really to promote 'valid' immigration? Wouldn't it be better to discuss 'valid' immigration, if that was in fact the goal?

I think you have swallowed their dog whistle.
> PNG uses deflate. General byte-level patterns. It does not do bespoke image-specific stuff.

That's exactly what I meant, sorry if I wasn't clear. It's not "finding patterns in images". It's finding byte-level patterns, not visual (image) patterns -- which are inherently dimensional in a way that a stream of bytes isn't.

Which is why the post doesn't make any sense. Its entire premise is that there's something about lossless image compression which is different from zip/deflate and similar byte stream compression algorithms.
That's why I didn't get an EV until I bought my home.
There are well known risks of psychosis and schizophrenia associated with psychedelics. Just because your friend can drop a tab and go to the bar doesn't mean that it's a good idea for everyone to be doing so.

I'm fairly libertarian on drugs, but I do think there is a big difference when it comes to psychedelics. The potential harms aren't only to the person doing it, but for people around them who might be victims of their psychotic break. It's safest if there is someone around to administer a benzodiazepine or antipsychotic if necessary.
Precisely. I suggest a healthy dose of "What other people think of me is none of my business", 2 or 3 times a day until symptoms diminish.
Maybe that dog lifespan prolonging startup should pitch in. Kinda like how tech startups don't pitch in to fund the open source projects they rely on
D's ownership/borrowing system does not require any language changes. It is opt-in at the function level to preserve compatibility with existing code. It does not break backward compatibility. It works as a prototype now, you can try it out.

It does decrease compilation speed, because O/B requires data flow analysis. However, this is speed slowdown only happens for the functions marked as being O/B functions.
> If anything driverless helps dramatically on this front. If you can run trucks 24/7 without stopping then you can cut their speed say 33% or whatever and still come out on top.

I think that this line of reasoning misses the forest for the trees. If the promise of a silver bullet is a mode of transportation that can safely and reliably work 24/7 day and night with limited to no human interaction and be able to move large volumes of goods, then we already have that: it's called railway.
Ancient DNA reveals reason for high MS and Alzheimer's rates in Europe
I think when people say "Seattle", they are generally referring to the Seattle metro area which frequently encompasses Seattle, Everett, Tacoma and the eastside (e.g. Bellevue), but for some conversations Tacoma is considered a separate metro area.
>I did not advocate for denser housing.

I thought you did when you said this

> build out public transport such as buses, trams or subways to replace individual transportation.

Denser housing is a prerequisite for this?

> I advocate for strengthening rural areas

rural areas with trams, buses and subways?
Indeed there are multiple such optimizations. One that occurs to me is a hub/spoke model where inter-city/state is driverless, from/to truck "yards" on the outskirts of cities. Then human drivers take over and drive the last few miles. Drivers get to go home every night and lead normal lives instead of living on the road.
About six years ago I saw a tourist ordering in a restaurant by writing on his smartphone, translating, and using a classic text-to-speech function while showing the screen to the waitress, and it worked him pretty well for ordering. Since then the people I saw using it increased. Common sentences are used.

The problem would be in a conversation between two persons. Nowadays automated text translations are not reliable, can introduce even opposite meanings and they are not aware of nuances; it needs active supervision at this moment (and the following years).

With voice, a time-delay is needed for to acquire sentence context if the sources and target languages share structures, or a mandatory time-delay when the language structures are different, and also a general time-delay would be recommended for to avoid the interlocutors to listen two voices at same time. I'm not sure the real-time can be done like the ones we see in Star Trek (with voice to voice at least).

Important note: I would not recommend to popularize the synthesis of our personal voices. Variations from some reference models would be much better.
because the GNU linker is like a 100 MB download, and Visual Studio is like 10 GB
You don't think that the kind of person who can afford an electric car can afford a garage to put it in?

Most, if not all new builds have attached garages in the Edmonton area.
Foliate: An e-book reader for Linux – maintainer interview
This question comes of up frequently with these and it's premised on the hypothetical value of the bug on 'the black market'. The vast majority of such reported vulnerabilities have a 'black market' value of roughly zero, though, including this one. This doesn't say anything about the quality of the research, just that it's pretty hard to get monetary or other value out of most vulnerabilities.
The problem is that if you have safer than human systems but you don't deploy them it's basically killing people. If you had autonomous driving that was 90% as deadly as the average human driver, not deploying it would cause 4000 deaths every year in the US.
I had a revelation that my ideas are worthless and the notes I took are also going to be worthless once I get familiar with X.

So I completely stopped taking notes. A to-do list plus a Google Drive for my son and our stuffs are good enough. The only problem is that we are not comfortable to put sensitive information on GD so probably build a NAS for that.
This is my biggest issue as well. I love small cars and would love to have them again but you just can't see anything out of them due to every car around you being three times the size and two times higher. Can't see anything.
Some fields attract higher levels of intellect and employ more rigorous methodologies than others. This is mostly a consequence of the economic value to be gained from working in a field, rather than anything deep about the nature of the problems in that field.

There is plenty of low hanging fruit for smart people to pick by jumping over to a field that has less talent, and less sophisticated methodologies. For example many of the social sciences struggle to reproduce findings, and properly deploy the scientific method. There is no such crisis in experimental physics.
I read this article and ended up with the exact same question. Does it mean that it wants to imitate Chromebooks, where the most important app you use is the browser, and all of your apps are in the cloud rather than on the desktop?
Too low carb can actually slow down thyroid and end up increasing both LDL and A1C because overall metabolism slows down too much. healthy carbs combined with lots of exercise works.
No I literally mean build a giant wide railroad and make something the size of a container ship, which has the capacity. That's what goes on the rails.

We're talking about Mexico right?
As I understand it, classic station wagons are classified as "cars", while SUVs are classified as "light trucks". [edit: in the US]

Different regulations apply to the two categories, in particular fuel economy. From what I'm seeing, a manufacturer's current line of "cars" has to average over 40 mpg, while their line of "light trucks" only has to average around 30 mpg.

This has probably changed a bit... the most current numbers I see are for the 2020 model year.
CTRL-F or grep seem like they would work well
It seems that there are some popular attention methods such as relative embeddings and rotary embeddings (rope embeddings?) that are not possible to implement using pytorch's implementation, if I understand correctly. Do these then require the "slow path" versions that can be more easily modified?
It’s covered to a fair extent in Jon Ronson’s
The Psychopath Test. I believe this is the retrospective study on rates of recidivism:

https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02352266
You might go to jail, or there are any number of methods to disqualify yourself from service, for instance through mental or religious reasons (which you'd presumably fake).
Rockets haven't changed much since the 60s. This doesn't explain all of the launches since the Space Shuttle, for example. Furthermore, SpaceX clearly innovated with their reusable rockets, but this is exactly the kind of cost constraint that commercial ventures prioritize which government ventures often don't.
And companies don't have a choice?
Just wait a couple of days and you might be saying Texas in 2024. We've made minimal changes to our grid since then.
I just want evidence for the claim, but nobody wants to provide it, or even consider that requesting evidence is a valid response.

This is the exact kind of behavior that gets the psychs-solve-everything crowd dismissed.
Maybe colour lenses that have different colours and "stretch" out random lengths in different directions. Colour to confound determining what the pupil is and random stretches to make it harder to determine where to eye is looking.
Elixir/Phoenix, no question. I'm more productive with Phoenix than I've ever been and it's an absolute joy to work with.
And when there is a railroad to every warehouse in the country, it will replace trucks.
Lower latency native calls in Python would be extremely useful, thank you for your work! Is the following GitHub issue the right place to monitor progress? https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/546

I'm open to doing some benchmarking. Several of my libraries have pure CPython bindings (StringZilla, UCall, SimSIMD), and all perform low-latency SIMD-accelerated ops, so might be a good testing ground :)
I use nix-shell, and mostly I love it. But it’s important to be aware that the above means “Go get the latest(*) versions of python, pillow and ansicolor and run this code in an environment where they’re available.” It doesn’t do any version-pinning of your dependencies. That might be what you want, but maybe not: it’s frustrating when a script that worked yesterday won’t work today, or will only work after some big download.

My own rule of thumb is that nix-shell is great for quick one-offs and for sharing environments. For local tools and anything else I’m sharing with my future self, it’s usually better to write a nix expression and install it, which gives me access to Nix’s (excellent) rollback system, and lets me upgrade on my schedule, not upstream’s.

* - ‘Latest’ according to whatever Nix channel checkout currently applies. Which you can change, of course, but the point is it’s external to the script.
Really the bar for humans to legally operate a vehicle is whatever licensing process is in place in a given state. We don't make them pinky swear to not do anything dangerous or illegal.

If an autonomous system can get a CDL, it's probably gonna be more effective at continuously meeting that standard than a lot of the humans that do the same thing (but are distracted on a given day or have started using substances, or didn't sleep well or whatever).
> made the customization much more comfy, without the need of recompile the fw

Get someone to write a profile for https://get.vial.today/ support.

> add a damn service to print easily custom keycaps

https://www.wasdkeyboards.com/custom-text-cherry-mx-keycaps....

> please STOP making cherry, OSA etc profiles

They are making them because people keep buying them. Turns out most people actually like typing on them.
> If the false positive rate is not 100%, their next try is likely to succeed

Assuming they’re randomly distributed. If it’s 20% of cats getting rejected 50% of the time, that could be a problem.
While true, and I agree that everyone is human, Walter isn't the only one here who cares about D. If the project would thrive under different leadership then that's something that needs to be considered. I for one really hope for a D comeback, it's by far my favorite language. It's not an attack against Walter, or anyone else. Just people trying to save something that they love.
You haven’t any provided evidence of your claim that people are calling legal immigration illegal, or that anyone wants to prevent legal immigration. Please do so, or stop claiming it.
You can create this type of thing (a self-contained single-file project) for any language or infrastructure, with or without a clever shebang. All you need are heredocs.

For example, here's the same app but packaged as a regular bash script:

https://gist.github.com/lwneal/a24ba363d9cc9f7a02282c3621afa...
Same: it has touchscreen, EMR pen, it's portable, and comes with an easy to carry case- that's a steal at this price!
More like rental cars at an airport. There are Park n' rides, taxis, busses, bikes, scooters, friends with a car, etc. fully capable of delivering the last mile.

The last mile is only a shortcoming in underfunded transit systems of sprawling suburbs.
Are you suggesting there is some kind of an issue with this? This is a very detailed list, complete with the points earned.

This is the first time I see this article and really liked it. I would not have seen it otherwise.