skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I have a copy of Roberts Rules of order, the dejure meeting process has changed. Things come in and out of fashion, and top posting, formatted emails, etc have won out.

Personally, I like being able to include formatted code blocks in email
> Yet that's largely been cured. The vending industry has matured and such problems are reported to be largely extinct.

I beg to differ! Just last year, I was at the platform for Gleis 11 at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof trying to buy a drink at the vending machine. After waiting in vain for the VISA transaction to go through, I cut my losses and caught my train with only a few seconds to spare. I never did get my bottle of Fanta, and it's still on my to-do list to find out if the amount was actually charged or not.

In those brief moments between observing that the machine wasn't working and running for the train, I surmised that the vending machine's payment terminal was running some version of Android, probably 4.4 or 5.0 judging by the GUI, and had lost its Wi-Fi connection. That's rather sloppy UX in my opinion, and I've made a point of using the (somewhat) more reliable cash vending machines instead (human-staffed counters are even better!)
>I'm talking about withholding information about drugs, talking only about the risks they pose and all the reasons why nobody should ever take them.

And yet, I've never wtinessed a pro-drug speaker attach the caveat that any given street drug will damage neural architecture in a manner that makes it more difficult to function long-term.

>isn't just about telling people about the very real risks of drugs, it's about convincing people that these risks are all drugs are

In the wide world of warning labels, what other example can you give where the warning includes subjective benefits that users advertise?

The world does not have to cater to the psychology and perceptions of addicts that use substances that unquestionably lead to disaster on a consistent basis, anymore than it is morally compelled to advertise the benefits of anything else that it warns against for the good of society and the individual.

>That is trying to scare people so much about drugs that they avoid them purely on the basis that they are scary and risky and illegal.

Yes

>those that want to try a substance anyway are left completely on their own. They do not have a safe supply, they do not have reliable sources of information about the substance they plan to take, they do not have instructions or help to take it in a way that is safe.

Sounds like a good advertisement to not take street drugs.

> It can be a recreational activity that doesn't deserve the stigma that it has gotten.

No

>People could have access to safe,

Nothing is safe that damages neural architecture, at minimum.

> just like pharmacies have access to safe regulated supplies of potentially life-altering medication for things like ADHD.

Its not just like that. In people with true ADHD, meds make them feel more "sober "than without. Thee isn't a street drug in existence that does the same for anyone, aside from someone with ADHD taking a clinical dose of street methamphetamine. But that is already available via prescription.

People do have issues. They should get them prescribed for, especially if considering a regimen of street drugs as an alternative treatment plan.

>Fentanyl isn't anything like that by the way,

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Rust’s macro system is safe and hygienic, people have implemented lisps in it. I just did a google search to find an example, so I have no idea how well supported this is, https://github.com/JunSuzukiJapan/macro-lisp
uh huh, so are these so-called "woke social justice lunatics" you talk about in the room with you right now?
Overall giving communities more power to handle this situation seems like a good idea. It is important that we treat less fortunate people with compassion but there has to be some mechanism of where we draw that line.

Poor neighborhoods of San Fransisco look worse that some of the Indian slums and are taken over by criminals, theives and rapists not to mention drug dealers.
I mean I gotta give respect to Apple. They seem to have done the minimal technical compliance with the order. Users can make a purchase for their app outside of the App Store.

But at the same time they put in as much friction as they could, including reframing the charge to developer as a lead commission - and the net cost to developer is HIGHER than using Apple.

Of course epic is going to challenge the spirit of the implementation but this definitely makes it murkier - can you still claim a monopoly if developers can technically allow purchase outside and have a choice?

In any case it buys Apple more years of high rents, and possible indefinite victory (forever rents).

Ultimately not great for users (as any monopoly isn’t) but I don’t expect a large business to act any different. I can respect though how they approached a potentially large setback for their business.
nah, I meant more in general. Any of us running uBO or other things in our browser to block things are basically futilely resisting. there's plenty of ways to fuck with the system that doesn't
According to gsmarena the size of the smallest S24 model is 70.6x147x7.6mm which is comparable to my Samsung A40. They are the two smallest Android phones on sale now. Unfortunately the S24 weights 168 grams, 28 more than the A40. I wonder what they put inside that volume to increase the weight so much. Some extra RAM and storage, one more camera, the battery is 4000 mA/h up from 3100. So maybe it's the battery. I'd take less performances for less weight.

https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s24_ultra_s24_plus_s...
I just finished reading a book that used this example (and the concept of absolute space) as part of their theory of the universe: an inviscid fluid made up of quanta, or discrete energy vortices. Brilliant book.

https://www.amazon.com/Einsteins-Intuition-Visualizing-Natur...
I think your point is, that copyright is whatever we decide it to be, as with other things we use in society, but we should decide by what is most useful for the society as a whole, in this case it might be that, we have to not care about it, because it might be societal danger to block AI evolvement as competitors who don't care will get ahead. This might override the usual benefit of protecting people's output so they would be more incentivised to share and create their output in the first place.
My favorite is when they claim rural areas means destitution and also that public transportation can replace vehicles.

There are a _lot_ of people on this site who have no idea what actual rural looks like.
Technically correct but not a very realistic request / approach.

The general idea is to get as good of a mastery of language as possible, generally, and then fine tune to specialize on tasks
> You are forced to use Apple IAP system

only if you want to release your app on Apple's platform; you're free to release it on Android, Windows, Linux, Unreal, etc., each of which has their own set of fees (or none)
> I would filled up twice on a trip between Ottawa and Quebec City in a gasoline car in the winter.

Why? A 275 mile drive should be easily done in any gas car without stopping.

Even my smallest tank car can do ~325 miles, my other cars can do ~425 and ~500 miles on one tank.
Utah Attorney General Reyes Announces ESG Victory as SEC Withdraws NAC Rule
I would never participate in such a conspiracy against the publick.
Did you reach out to the creator? They know there are some QA issues and claim to be good at sending replacements or fixes.
you are thinking of M.G Siegler.
Sorry, for my benefit as well, I understand what you've said from a technical standpoint.

Do you mind elaborating on what this means real world in terms of what that allows you to do?
I used to believe that the TrackPoint was the ultimate mouse input, but that belief has been shaken by this concept.
The problem is so severe that a single city or even a large city, like Los Angeles, is basically helpless to stop it. This is a federal issue and needs to be handled on the federal level.
I'm probably not as cynical about the Court. Their decision not to hear a challenge earlier can also be rooted in "ripeness". If you have a lower court system that can expose some deeper consideration and debate on the attributes of case before it gets to you, it's best to let that play out as much as possible.

But obviously there's something in the 9th's position that a consensus feels is worth reviewing. I wouldn't for a minute assume that means the cities get everything they want. Remember that whatever they decide will be the law for five times as many states as the 9th oversees. But likewise, I don't see the 9th's position as very practical in terms how any given city has to implement it. Let's start by recognizing that some homeless are not victims of circumstance. It makes me want to hear the best arguments on both sides.
Fair enough rule! Edited.
I was particularly impressed by the clear explanations in 'statistical physics for babies'.
There would be more room to drop your prices, not saying that people necessarily will. And if they don't, the extra profit goes to developers of the app you are purchasing, rather than the (second?) largest company in the world.
I don't think literal cannon fodder scares anyone, and doesn't represent any definition of 'might'.
But they won't if it's going to threaten their military capability vs other actors like China, Russia or otherwise.
The only humane solution is to bring back mental hospitals, even with involuntary commitment. The severely mentally ill and/or drug addled are incapable of taking care of themselves. Giving out free needles and making it easier to live in an alley like a stray dog is not humane. What do you think about this?

The "move it along" policing at least has the effect of making it less easy to be homeless which I think ultimately is a more humane strategy than subsidizing a sub-human life.
The post you are replying to is poorly-worded.

I think the post is making reference to the "thing" which made Google stand out in a sea of existing search engines.

"Using the idea of relevancy, they built Google in a way that - in comparison to other search engines at the time - was simply better at connecting users with more pertinent results.

"A query typed in Google provided more utility and relevancy than did Excite, Yahoo and other search engines.

"To put it simply, Google had a superior product.

https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/125-why-google-won.h....
> I mean I gotta give respect to Apple. They seem to have done the minimal technical compliance with the order.

it's borderline contempt of court

> I can respect though how they approached a potentially large setback for their business.

I'd be pretty mad if I was the judge, they might like my 2nd ruling even less
His writing has never been objective. I’m not sure we should assume it is now.
https://archive.is/TH2Pr
I'd say before the UNIX lawsuit[1] of April 1992, BSD was the natural choice for a UNIX derivative . This lawsuit delayed the release of 4.4BSD, and since Linux was from scratch, it had no cloud of legal uncertainty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories%2C_In....
I've driven through that campus... very interesting and creepy
That leaves an opening for someone to exploit with a market clearing price.
This sounds even worse for Apple. If it’s too easy to make an in-app purchase, why don’t they make it harder to complete one by adding password requirement for payments through their App Store? Of course they won’t do that because it hurts /their/ bottom line. Following this logic, letting people complete payments outside of Apples control should absolve Apple of the legal liabilities between payments made between the user and a third party. If this is not the case, can you sue Apple for unauthorized payments made over Safari?
You can find all the code I've ever written on Github, licensed MIT. I only wish I could do the same for the code I've written for pay. I cannot release that, because people more powerful than me have decided that I don't own it.
Fair enough rule, edited out the accusation.

FWIW Im a happy Apple user as well.

Just perplexed at how fast any (even well balanced) critique on Apple is so quickly down voted here at HN. Maybe more people prefer brand over reality than I thought.
Well, part of it is a pragmatic understanding that there are areas with encampments that are for many reasons terrible spots for having an encampment. City of LA passed an ordinance recently barring encampments from within 500 ft of schools, near things like fire hydrants or driveways where sight is blocked or other certain road configurations where it would be very dangerous for pedestrians either living in the encampment or trying to navigate around the encampment thats blocking sidewalk access by walking on the street. I wouldn't be surprised if ADA considerations are being factored in with these site selections, now that the city has endured a number of lawsuits from people getting hit trying to sidestep an encampment now.

You can enforce these common sense safety rules today while you wait for money to be agreed upon and earmarked, planning to begin, contracts awarded, construction to take place, etc. Even if the stars aligned and all relevant power brokers agreed on starting a homeless shelter tomorrow, it could be ten years before one person is helped with that act.
2020? their main customers are banks!

at some point we might upgrade to java 8!
best of luck, Ben. I spent a few days visiting the Chicago office (when it was opposite Marina Towers), so maybe we met.
> These findings provide evidence of differences in brain responses to texts presented in print and digital media, including deeper semantic encoding for print than digital texts.

I wonder if the effect diminishes if the digital media is more like paper, as with e-readers, or if it is due to other differences like scrolling versus page turning.
in this area 300k will get you a very nice, above average house and moving outside of the city will get you even more house for that price.

I'm all the time telling people who claim they can't afford housing because it's 1-2 million to move.
HAS dropped, way later. Not to mention that this is correlation, not necessarily causation.
Because that is the estimated cost of college in 18 years. :(

Over the last couple of decades, tuition has gone up 2x inflation, which means figure 6-7% increase in college costs per year. That sadly adds up to around half a million.
> People are happier doing what they want, instead of delivering food (that a robot could deliver) just to make rent.

They're delivery food because it's all they can get/interview for/network with... It's not, "Oh this robot is delivering food now so I can go get that job at FANG."
Even more interesting is the implication that the Rust project governance and structure is somehow more socialist than other large OSS projects.
How come London has this sort of problem, but Tokyo does not?
For anyone interested, I think I tracked back to the original study.

Edison Research’s Share of Ear is a quarterly survey of Americans who are asked to keep a detailed one-day diary of their audio usage. Share of Ear utilizes a nationally representative sample of those age 13+. The sample for this study was 4,118

https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-spoken-word-audio-report-...
or
https://www.edisonresearch.com/solutions/the-infinite-dial/

https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/06/apa-report-audio-...

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/a...
I've created an alternative to Blazor, here is why
Absolutely. Not blaming the Fed at all, because you're exactly right: Nobody else was doing anything except waving their hands and feigning helplessness.
This actually happened to me at Google in 2019. My position was eliminated and I was given 3 months to find a new role before I was axed. HR was extremely accommodating during this. I had a person to contact and to help keep me on track. I interviewed for a wide variety of teams, and there were tons of openings back then.

Ultimately I found a transfer role, but it was a bit past the deadline. With a couple days ago I went to HR with evidence that the transfer was in-progress and on track, and they extended that time for a couple weeks.

The funniest part was when I asked HR if I should come into the office while I was looking, and HR was like "I don't see why you'd bother".

The infuriating part was that my position was eliminated because the team lead didn't like me. Three weeks after my transfer deadline the position was re-opened. HR didn't really do anything about that, and my new manager asked me not to push on it.
One thing that has been fascinating about "The Law" as I get older: You can literally rule on most things whatever way you want, and change your mind and thats cool too. Have seen too many "set in stone" decisions change to feel otherwise.

One example is the debate over whether Trump can be prosecuted. One side argues: Well, if Biden assassinated Trump with a predator drone, wouldn't you want him to be prosecuted and not protected by executive privilege? If not, Trump should be prosecuted.

That is a standard that is completely arbitrary and you can rule either way depending on what you feel like any day of the week. The argument that executives should be protected from doing the shady stuff they usually do in office (Obama assassinating arabs with drones all day long) is a kind of coin flip, both arguments are solid.

I am truly convinced even the law is political behind the scenes, and applied at will based on which way popular opinion or political pressure / expedience is blowing at that moment.

For example: Commercial Real Estate is collapsing. Cities are finally being destroyed. Guess what happens? Suddenly all employees mandated to go to work (how convenient for commercial real estate sector that every employer is forcing employees back to work ... its almost as though a capitalist / finance conspiracy is happening behind the scenes to try to help out real estate owners).

And now another "pro commercial real estate" ruling. By the Supreme Court.

Kicking homeless people out of downtowns is great for cities. suddenly a random change of heart linked to a meltdown in the sector. That doesn't seem like a coincidence.

What on earth would make the supreme court, which has an unlimited list of things to do, decide to randomly revisit an 8 year old ruling which just so happens to benefit commercial real estate?)

I am pretty sure the courts are political and highly influenced by capital and it is done behind the scenes, and they can change their ways at will, like this. It all feels way too synchronized.
In California, it costs over $106k/year to house each inmate. About half of that go to paying prison guards and admin. Those are 2021-2 numbers, it is certainly much higher now. Imagine what else could be done with that money.

https://lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost
You have a choice to use a different engine to build your game (including rolling your own). You don't have a choice to not use the app store to distribute your iOS app.
To an eyeball or two, at least!
Apple Hongdae to welcome first customers this Saturday, January 20
Swedish probably got the word from German, but u-båt is short for the Swedish word undervattensbåt, which is pretty much a straight-forward translation of submarine boat or Unterseeboot. The U- is not from German.
Amazon absolutely does have a monopoly, which has been evident in how their free shipping guarantee has warped prices to factor in the cost of shipping as a hidden fee (see: previous discussion [1]) across the board.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27333933
Legal in Switzerland, even with copyrighted games, even if you've never paid for them. Same for music, movies, etc.

But Switzerland is a bit weird in that regard.
Yeah this is the sad part, it is really a good simple idea, and the diverse developers involved are passionate about working on it... but the slightest attachment to cryptocurrency messes everything up in such dumb ways
Yes. Seems like they've never interacted with the "servant" class and love to only mingle with those in the company cafeteria.
It's legally settled, so, from a US law perspective, it's clearly not ant-competitive, and the US will need new legislation if that's not good enough.

I figure you probably see this very clearly, but the problem is that a lot of people don't see it that way, and the law doesn't. Clarifying what is anti-competitive in your view, and crucially what other economic and competition trade-offs you're willing to make to realize that rule, is what will really move the conversation forward.
Interesting, I have a kindle paperwhite and I much prefer real books, especially for non fiction. I don't know why though, I have no inkling of what it is I find better.
Could it be a word play? Axe -> Axis -> Y
AI could develop VR for people to either keep the World seemingly as is for people, or it could just not affect any change to the shape of the World, as Sam mentioned, unless it for whatever reason wanted to please flat earthers, but what are the odds?
Wonder if you could use this with something like blender or unreal. Take 1 extremely high quality asset and apply these techniques to create all variations of an asset so you don't have the issue of a scene looking like your reusing the same asset (field of flowers or grass) or a forest
"Yellow handled axe" is the kind of answer that has seen me banned from playing Scattegories with certain people.

("Poo-Brown" as Colour starting with 'P' was the actual instigator)
> any sort of enforcement policy that mandates private citizens must purchase and drive EVs would quickly get shot down in court.

Citation? Have any been shot down in court? There are plenty of locations that have passed laws that all new cars be EVs after year 20XX (for example 2035 in California).

I suspect most of those will be reverted as overly optimistic, but for now, they are in place.
I don't even know what that means. It's a like a "move it along" policy to your problems. I hesitate to even ask: what tools do you imagine the feds have to fix homelessness, outside of driving a good economy, and perhaps protectionist measures to build low-skill industries back in the US (and all that entails)?
> Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower...

. . . it doesn't like it.
A top level comment is this actually helps with movement/ADA at the same time.
Redistributing wealth is also called "stealing". Most wealth has to be continuously created before being stolen and current societies collapse when people stop creating wealth(as they are stolen blind) or just leave.

Look at what happened in Venezuela. The country had great engineers extracting oil. Then Chavez happened and started "redistributing wealth" and putting its generals into stealing as much as they could putting his (incompetent) families and friends on all companies like PDVSA, controlling the gold mines and everything else.

They extracted as much wealth as they could for their selves in the shortest amount of time.

All the great engineers and doctors and technical people leaved the country. PDVSA output remained stable for a while, while the infrastructure laid by the engineers lasted until it started collapsing by lack of maintenance.

I went to Venezuela two months ago. It is accident after accident. Oil spill after oil spill by obsolete infrastructure and lead by incompetent people.

Now a small country like Guyana extracts as much oil as Venezuela.

>based on how inefficient the government is,

If you believe US or any western country's Government is inefficient, you have to see socialist countries to really see orders of magnitude more inefficiency.

In Russia, China, Venezuela or lots of other countries in the world have at least 50-60% corruption rates. You pay X millions to develop radar defense systems and most than half of the money goes to corruption.

Sometimes it is the Government(China) itself that forces you to accept bribes so it has a weapon against you in case you become too powerful for the people in power.