skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but...

That can also mean "wipe the device of the OS, and install your own".

Ownership of hardware, has never implied ownership of software. Usage rights, with first sale in most countries, but not ownership of the software.

But where do usage rights end, and where does "right to use the device as purchased" start? Certainly, Apple advertises the security, safety of their locked down ecosystem.

I suspect Apple's next move might be disabling their apps, and ecosystem, leaving a bare OS, if you move to a competing app store.

Or maybe leaving core apps, and prohibiting installation of other apps while removing their app store.

They might have a case for that. And Google for the longest time, will not allow the play store in a legit way, unless the OS is validated by them. So in this Apple wouldn't be an outlier.
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We are still dealing with the fact that SQLite still HAS the n+1 "problem", it's just fast enough that it doesn't suffer from it.

It's a very important distinction because, as you say, there are problem domains where you can't just "join the problem away".
Washington State does cap and trade on industry. And yes, it has just become a 'standard tax' on individuals passed from industry to the pump to the tune of 40-50 cents/gal. While I agree that it is important to reduce consumption of fossil fuels, the infrastructure isn't there to enable people to commute from lower-cost areas of living to higher-cost areas of working.

This will likely be repealed by voters via initiative[0] this fall.

[0] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/initia...

More fun reading on our defacto gas tax:

https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/former-wsd...
You can just be in the wrong place at the wrong time. If a company decides to cancel a project or reorganize business units, they're probably not going to waste a lot of energy figuring out whether they're laying off (or keeping) exactly the optimal people for the reorganized company or not.
That’s a good insight right there. I journal and use futureme and the biggest takeaway is how we really are different people at different times in life. (But with common threads you have to squint to find.)
Somewhat related is Dan McKinley’s Choose Boring Technology.

https://boringtechnology.club/
ok, very good, thanks.

So, (sorry I probably should read the docs, and I will, but I'm pretty curious now) the day we implement it, we have to plan to add all our data by hand, am I right? (IP, subnets, details on routes/routers, switches, login URI, notes, locations, ecc ecc..)
Outside of the northeast, most large research universities in the US are state schools.
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IANAFinancialInvestigator, but skimming through it sounds like:

1. Fraudulent applicants come to the bank with crazy stories to ask for enormous loans/mortgages toward a Toronto house, allegedly to turn hyper-suspicious big piles of cash into a more reputable-looking asset.

2. HSBC goes along with that because they want to suckle on the sweet regular payments of suspicious cash, even though they ought to damn well know that these customers are just a front for an organized crime ring.

3. As a bonus, this locally-concentrated money-laundering/speculative-investment thing screws up the property market for Torontonians. The local multimillionaire babysitter is willing to buy at almost any price because their secret financial goals are very different than yours.

While looking for other articles, I notice it's been ~16 months after the end of HSBC 10-year tangle with US regulators over their business with Mexican and Columbian drug cartels. [0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-fed-terminates-e...
I think ChatGPT may be an equalizer in college applications -- rich kids have been having their applications "polished" by college counselors and family for a long time.
I gunned it, got up for coffee, and came back 200 years later having traveled over 6 million light years.

I am now in the galaxy NGC 300, very similar to the Milky Way.

Everyone I ever knew is gone.

I am sad and alone.
Michael Stonebraker invented Postgres and has long said 'one size fits all' is an idea whose time has come and gone.
https://cs.brown.edu/~ugur/fits_all.pdf

the relational ACID model is overkill for mostly-read data warehouse and verticality helps; streaming is different; graph dbs are different.

Postgres may not be 'all you need', it will take you pretty far though, maybe it's 'all you need most of the time'. 60%+ of the time it works every time.
I just use text files, with the dates stored in them. I make sure my folder is always backed up.

I have a few that go back to 1999. It's always a trip to go back and reread them.
I agree it has something to do with responsibilities and/or "getting caught". As a young adult I had a lot less going on and cannabis was a wonderful tool for creativity and getting things done. Older, I find myself worrying about more things and cannabis can bring in introspective thought loops which manifest as anxiety. Fortunately I'm better at separating that out now and it doesn't affect me as much - but I know if I was chilling in a hammock in a wooded area somewhere without deadlines to meet, I'd be a lot less anxious.

Also, quitting caffeine cut my anxiety in half.
Ok. I get that. But to play devil's advocate: with that mentality we'd never learn a new technology and still be stuck on punch cards. And I don't have the time anymore for hobby projects. I'd say it's ok to introduce something new as long as it's one thing at a time and not an entire new stack in the "a rewrite will solve all problems" projects
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I am still tremendously bullish on AT, as well as BlueSky. I think AT solves a lot of problems that have plagued federated systems, and I think BlueSky’s focus on product concerns first and technical concerns second, while somehow still nailing the tech, is the right way to go.
So the study is actually called "Development of an anxiety disorder following an emergency department visit due to cannabis use" and you can check it out here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

The study isn't establishing a direct link between cannabis and anxiety, it's looking very specifically at anxiety diagnoses following an ER visit. The findings are interpreted in the study as the following: "ED visits for cannabis use were associated with an increased risk of having an incident healthcare visit for an anxiety disorder, particularly in young males."

What exactly that means on the broader context of cannabis use isn't the focus of the study, but it invites further research to explore the implications of their findings.
The problem is extremely public here in the western US.
Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous.

On the other hand, the benefit of decentralized services is that your handle being taken shouldn't (eventually) matter, because you can just find another server.
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It's quite bizarre any jurisdiction would allow someone to buy housing there when they can't legally live in it.
If the costs are paltry, and you have a government who even remotely cares about this topic, then why wouldn't they simply pay for the costs? We're $34 trillion in debt, and rapidly growing. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars on ever more inane ventures which are frequently unpopular, and probably making the world a worse place. But the only solution, to pay a "paltry" sum to solve climate change, is to raise taxes?

For instance they could easily print money, in the normal way, by issue special 'climate bonds' with a promise that all revenue from said bonds would be spent on whatever you see as this affordable solution. Those bonds would certainly sell well, people could get their virtue signaling on on social media showing them off, and - best of all - absolutely 0 divisiveness. Even somebody like me who thinks our debt's become catastrophic would just shrug, since we're probably already way past the point of no return.
ok this explains why 90% of college age kids in my neighborhood are in canada now.
We live in an era defined by information and science. It may seem natural for us to adopt a skeptical stance and question long-standing myths, as we've been encouraged to do so—it's ingrained in our education system and our culture. That certainly wasn't the norm in the medieval times when people lived a restrained rural life without access to education and under totalitarian regimes.
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On what platform? It's not true on bsky or twitter.
> deep in the Amazon

Is there still a "deep in the Amazon"? Or does that mean 10 mins walk
from the nearest road used by logging trucks?
Agreed. That's most AI research though. They are a mechanism whose entire value proposition lies in laundering externalities.

Not that this isn't exactly what all the big "tech innovation" of the last decade were either. It's depressing and everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves.
It‘s not at all practically unworkable. I don’t really get why you think it is?

It would be perfectly sensible to force large platform vendors to let you install arbitrary software. No problem at all. Doesn’t mean that also has to apply to, I don’t know, refrigerators with WiFi. Or cars.
Because it pisses me off when people try to 'argue' by stretching the commonly-understood meanings of emotionally-charged words like "slavery". Argue the merits, don't attempt cheap rhetorical legerdemain.
This is because you're trying to actually achieve your OKRs. Everywhere I have ever worked we understood that OKRs are frequently not achievable, fudged the numbers are OKR grading time and the still frequently had red OKRs. At one point I used to push for actually specific, measurable, achievable OKRs but I quickly learned that nobody cares and it's a waste of effort.
Ah yes, wokeism. The reason games have loot boxes, battlepasses, and NG+ locked behind buying the "deluxe edition".

I'm forever baffled how gaming consumers are able to muster such anger at changes in representation and character design while continuing to get nickel and dimed by monetization experts at these companies. I don't think this is intentional misdirection on the part of gaming publishers, but if they did want to channel anger away from the core ways they're exploiting their audience they would be hard pressed to find a better distraction.
The difficulty, as I understand it, is largely that doing these actions are not themselves risk free. And the risk is not at all easy to insure against, such that people do what they can to avoid taking on any actions that could lead to liability on them. Which leads to nobody having the courage to do it.
I have tried to get this to work. The problem has to do with the material UI Select component used. I think the problem is that the return key is already used to select an item from the select.
Haha wow it's actually asking me to sign over LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY. It's optional but says it's recommended. That's a nope from me.
> > Wouldn't it be nice to be able to write a trigger that called a web service?

> Rather you than me.

Yes, don't do that. Instead consume notification streams or logical replication streams and act on those -- sure, you'll now have an eventually consistent system, but you won't have a web service keeping your transactions from making progress. You don't want to engage in blocking I/O in your triggers.
The full report is here:

https://www.ncsc.nl/binaries/ncsc/documenten/publicaties/202...
If you are using clustered storage (Ceph, for example) instead of a single RAID5 array, ideally the loss of one node or one rack or one site doesn't lose your data it only loses some of the replicas. When you spin up new storage nodes, the data replicates from the other nodes in the cluster. If you need 'the university storage server' that's a pet. Google aren't keeping pet webservers and pet mailbox servers for GMail - whichever loadbalanced webserver you get connected to will work with any storage cluster node it talks to. Microsoft aren't keeping pet webservers and mailbox servers for Office365, either. If they lose one storage array, or rack, or one DC, your data isn't gone.

'Cattle' is the idea that if you need more storage, you spin up more identikit storage servers and they merge in seamlessly and provide more replicated redundant storage space. If some break, you replace them with identikit ones which seamlessly take over. If you need data, any of them will provide it.

'Pets' is the idea that you need the email storage server, which is that HP box in the corner with the big RAID5 array. If you need more storage, it needs to be expansion shelves compatible with that RAID controller and its specific firmware versions which needs space and power in the same rack, and that's different from your newer Engineering storage server, and different to your Backup storage server. If the HP fails, the service is down until you get parts for that specific HP server, or restore that specific server's data to one new pet.

And yes, it's a model not a reality. It's easier to think about scaling your services if you have "two large storage clusters" than if you have a dozen different specialist storage servers each with individual quirks and individual support contracts which can only be worked on by individual engineers who know what's weird and unique about them. And if you can reorganise from pets to cattle, it can free up time, attention, make things more scalable, more flexible, make trade offs of maintenance time and effort.
Yeah - that could be solved by a one way fuse that unlocks the bootloader but prevents you from ever reinstalling iOS. I’m not actually kidding. I’d be quite happy to be able to install Linux on my old iOS devices that Apple no longer supports so that I can repurpose them as hobby devices.
I said it before, I'll say it again: where there are rules there's a game, where there's a game, there are players and the players will play the game.
We already have cheap domestic labour, we fly in Mexicans and South Americans and squeeze them in share houses to do cheap and dangerous migrant labour work on a seasonal basis.

But you're suppose to keep that unsightliness away from cities / urban dwellers. People start to question when one bedrooms become unaffordable and basements are housing 8 students / food couriers whose bike just exploded in the subway and now no one can bring ebikes on transit. Cheap labour is suppose to make us feel richer and be invisible.
> you can't ask a question, you'll have to wait for the live session to do so.

Or check on one of the gazillion resources you have in 2024.

The whole idea is that instead of having the teacher spend their time teaching the basics (which they can record once and let you watch together with all the resources you have), they spend time exclusively talking with the students.

In the end, the students have a lot more time to ask questions to the teacher, and they don't have to feel stupid asking them because they have actually studied before.
"A solution to a vanishing edge case" is a wild-ass statement to make about progressive decoding.
I was a regular TikTok poster in 2020-2021.

I had a few mini viral videos. It was incredible that I could reach so many people with my phone.

That feeling is totally gone now. I see many accounts that I follow that use to get hundreds of thousands to millions of views per video now are lucky to break a thousand views per video.

The feeling that it is a platform for creators is gone.

Tiktok had the lead in short form video, Instagram Reels and YouTube shorts were just copying their lead.

You can feel that the content on your for you page is not as original, quirky, and authentic as it was.

TikTok positioned itself as a mobile app you could create video on. They even own the video editing app CapCut.

Their move to focus on long form video will be a failure in my opinion. People are not going to create and edit 30 minute videos on a phone. Only those with dedicated computers for video editing are going to be able to produce 30 minute videos.

And the audience? I for one would not watch a 30 minute video on my phone. If I want to watch a 30 minute video, I go on my PC and watch it on YouTube.

I think someone with the right funding could figure out a way to create a 2021 version of TikTok where people on a phone could go viral without anyone's thumb on the algorithm.
For the home-gamers without a strong grip of DNS, note that you can't enter a domain name into your resolver fields, you have to use the IPs:

94.140.14.14
94.140.15.15
2a10:50c0::ad1:ff
2a10:50c0::ad2:ff

Also, it looks like https://dns.adguard-dns.com/ redirects to https://adguard-dns.io/ which is a paid service for more advanced DNS filtering, a la NextDNS.
It's a matter of framing. We just have to move the discussion from "global warming increases wildfires, buy more EVs" to "global warming increases wildfires, let's improve our forest management to manage the impact (while also fighting against climate change)".
If the goal is to conduct intentional geoengineering to reduce global warming, there are better things to inject into the atmosphere than sulfur dioxide. Basically just reflective dust.
> For Christ's sake, democratic support is the only reason there is any consideration for the environment at all. No corporation would ever give one single solitary shit about climate if it wasn't for "democratic support".

Let's give this little gem the highlight it deserves.
Agree. IMO it takes a certain personality to enjoy it and make the best of it. Others will find it an awful experience and never touch it again. Nothing wrong in either case.
Incentives. Lots of incentive to ride the horse to death while the money's still available. You get free stuff, get to live the high life, gain celebrity, get interviewed, make social media posts people pay attention to, get invited to fancy parties like Davos. No bad publicity.

Probably get more money on the next startup as a result. WeWork is an excellent example. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/business/dealbook/adam-ne...

In a lot of cases, it seems like the real incentive is "pretend to have a really desirable product, make demo after demo to draw in investment, party as much as you can while pretending to make something, lateral to the next company while claiming external market conditions." Live the Wolf of Wall St. life while the Titanic sinks.

Still think the main Pokemon advancement for companies is mostly -> Bankemon -> Casinomon
His research looks pretty interesting:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/about/people/phessburg
Dose level, too. I find being very-high terribly anxiety-inducing. I don’t like it at all.

But ~5-8mg of gummy is amazing as a sleep aid (which is largely, for me, about shutting down anxiety hard) and ~3mg (as needed, and rarely, for me) to take the edge off daytime anxiety. Lower doses are quite effective if it’s “full spectrum” and not just isolated THC. The higher (ha, ha) end of that range does “get me high” but in a pretty mild way, like having a really solid alcohol buzz but not being an unfortunate level of inebriated.

Meanwhile, I’ve given myself a very unpleasant half-hour with a single too-large puff on a strong vape pen.

When I was first getting used to it, 5mg sent me straight to bed, do not pass go, hope you didn’t have any other plans, and was a little too much.

I wonder how much of this is from people using it to get very high on purpose, or from novice medicinal users dosing too high.
Dorsey isn't running Bluesky, he's just one member of the board.
Are we? "Suffer" was the word used right from the beginning for good reason. Computers aren't magic. I find no importance in pointing out that fact. Presumably everyone here already knows that. And if it turns out that they don't, who cares? That's their problem. Makes no difference to me.
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how can you know? you'd need to stop to experience the withdrawal symptoms of the psychological dependence..
No. (You don't want to cause blocking I/O in transactions.)
Well, but it is a difference, if the focus on what to drill into the common soldier is on following orders first - which is what I believe still most armies do - or to emphasize to also question those orders.

But sure, I am not saying that modern german soldiers won't be capable of war crimes. But I am saying, it is a different culture now. Opposed to the Wehrmacht - they learned to literally follow any order.
Thanks. This is the first real test apart from a couple dozen test users. I've received hundreds of prompts in the past 24 hours from Hacker News users, mainly from my suggested questions buttons.

The actual questions I got did not provide a response that is to my liking. Most of that is due in part because I'm using gpt3.5 since gpt4-turbo is a lot more expensive, and I can learn a lot more by using an inferior LLM.

For example, using an llm router to analyze the query and route to a specific helper function with a specific prompt would be helpful. Sometimes a user starts with a greeting but the response is a pre-written "Sorry an answer cannot be found". Questions are typically grouped into a category such as skills, experience, project, personal (ie: where are you located), preferences (ie: favorite language), and general interview questions (ie: why should I hire you). Questions in categories can be better answered by using a different prompt and/or RAG technique.
I get a strain at the dispensary that's 1:1 THC:CBD. It's a lot better for me than the high THC stuff; I can't handle those.
That literally contains confessions of sins; things you might say to a priest in a confessional box.
I played some games with QuickTime when I was at Apple, loved the format, even loved the stack, as creaky as it was in (gasp) 2004. The idea that the file can carry tracks that the given reader might not understand allowed me to, for instance, put codec metadata back into intermediates that would otherwise be lost, for PQ analysis purposes.
Hey, this will be random but I have happy childhood memories of sitting in my dad's lap as a little one and causing absolute mayhem in first IndyCar and later NASCAR racing. Usually by turning around and playing destruction derby going the wrong way. So, thanks for that!
>it's practically unworkable

I'm able to install whatever software I want on my mac, windows, linux, and android device. What exactly about it is "unworkable"?
PGO (both static and dynamic) is something that is offered to you in the FOSS form in .NET land.
>It's unfortunate that bitcoin became a hoarding/speculation thing, rather than a useful thing.

Brave tried to do this with their Basic Attention Token, but they seem to be focused on adding generalized crypto features like wallets rather than developing how it could work better.
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Please forgive me as I'm just creating this project and there is little to show.

That said I wanted to get it out there for a number of reasons.

#1 I may not be around long enough to see it finished.

#2 I'm not doing this for just me

#3 I think we all have had this idea
Approximately anyone can buy a US-based REIT, even if they're ineligible to enter the country.