skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of worse than this - a virtual function call is a load (from the object) to get the vtable pointer followed by a load from an offset of that followed by a subroutine call from that pointer - it's kind of the worst thing you can do in a high performance microachitecture - because you're going to predict that branch (call) and often get it wrong, but you wont know you got it wrong until you've done the two loads (which can't be parallelised, because the address of one depends on the other). By the time you've resolved this you may be throwing away tens or a hundred instructions from your pipe if the prediction was wrong
Blanket legalization without any supporting infrastructure seems dicey. Portugal had fairly promising results early on when they had funding for all of the assistance programs, etc., but this money ran out and the taxes raised as part of the change did not provide enough funding to support them. The PNW implementations are scattershot messes, so no surprise things are going poorly there. (Though I don't think as poorly of harm reduction practices as many do)

I think there are quite a few things we could broadly legalize, like marijuana, lsd, shrooms, dmt, etc., and have little cause for concern. Opioids, amphetamines, cocaine, etc. have enough abuse potential that we do probably need real programs to help people get clean and away from the situation that led them to begin abusing in the first place before we make them broadly legal.

Though, at the same time there are legitimate arguments that we would see significant benefits in some areas by legalizing, if only because we could bundle naloxone with opioids and ensure consistent dosages and purity, which would save a lot of lives.
Counter anecdote - THC basically ruined my sleep for a while. Granted, it was mostly my own fault, but I've just become wary because I've seen so many advertisements promoting CBD and THC as cures for basically everything that I think it's important to be wary of the risks.

In my case, I just ended up doing way too much THC in the evenings and at night so I would essentially pass out. I would sleep, but my sleep quality was really bad and I felt "groggy and foggy" the next day. When I tried to go off it, for a long time I would wake up every night around 3 AM and couldn't get back to sleep.

To be clear, I totally agree THC does have medicinal uses, but lots of medicines can cause a host of side effects and other problems (and sleep medicines in particular are a notorious bunch for dependency issues). If you go the THC route to help sleep, just be more careful than I was.
A lot of R's popularity and usefulness has to do with the libraries that are available in it. I would put up with almost any amount of BS from base R to use ggplot and the tidyverse, and ditto for a number of modern stats algorithms. In many cases, Python implementations of the same techniques are either woefully outdated or completely nonexistent.
Unless I’m mistaken it’s plaque that causes cavities.
> I think it was only when technology became a simple glass slab with no buttons (and their kids/grandkids photos) did you see them start to adopt it.

I’m not sure it’s reasonable to criticize a generation for not adopting technology until they had a real reason for them to do it. Why would they?
degree of effect. marijuana and ecstacy are "soft" because, in common recreational doses, they have less radical effects on one's personality and coherence. heroin, acid, and psilocybin all have more significant effects, microdoses aside.
I think so. The site says

>Original quality - Store photos & videos with no change to their quality

>Storage saver - Store more at a slightly reduced quality

but I haven't really checked.

It did seem to not preserve some of the special iphone format stuff like if you edit a photo on an iphone it keeps the original and the edit wheras on google photos I just got the edited image.
i think it plays into the whole “men are scared of smart women” trope
49x19 is life!
You have to wonder how long this will last, especially now that they're public.

One day, they'll need to squeeze a few extra percentage of revenue to meet their quarterly target and decide that dropping old.reddit.com will move enough people to their revenue optimized new page to get there.

Or there will be a breaking change in the API and they'll decide they don't want to bother supporting the old one anymore.

In any case, the days of old.reddit.com are counted. I already stopped using Reddit on my phone after they shut down third party app. Just waiting on old reddit to disappear to finally say goodbye to this website
> Guess which kind NYC MTA Metrocards are :)

None anymore! They're being phased out as we speak. They were supposed to be end of life last year, though they pushed back end of life EoY 2024, because the MTA is never on time, all the time.
It just sounds somehow so wrong to me, I'm not a native speaker though.
> Like anything, weed is only an effective medical tool when used in extreme moderation.

and I just wish it would be subject to the same per ailment clinical trials that other substances are. so that for each specific thing people claim it helps with, there are specific side effects listed and studied.

zero of these state level efforts have that and we are still stuck in the medieval age of anecdotes, its embarrassing
Serious question. Why is it though, despite forming over 40% of the smart phone market in the US, Android users only spends 5% of the money? It can’t simply be about control, otherwise Nokia or BlackBerry should’ve accomplished that in their hay day.
Is there a precedent for banks having this much power?
> There are plenty of components that most programs call out to the OS

Sure - user input handling, raster graphics, text formatting... HTML rendering and browser technology though? Apple made WebKit using FOSS desktop libraries, and then turned around to deny users FOSS desktop-grade competition. They TiVoized your browser.

Apple is going to have a tough defense, if they decide to steelman that particular point. The writing is on the wall, competition is coming with or without Apple's approval.

> "Apple sabotages webkit for other Browsers" is a different—and to me at least, much stronger—argument than "Apple requires other browsers to use Webkit".

Strong is an appropriate word for it. Many developers are starting to lose their nerve: https://mozilla.github.io/platform-tilt/
THC edibles or CBD ones?
> salvia

you couldn't pay me enough to touch a deleriant
> At some point, isn't there some responsibility that rests with manufacturers for choosing to continue to support known-insecure standards?

There should be. Also there should be liability for access control system customers for choosing low cost, insecure solutions. But just like in the InfoSec world, there are simply no consequences to companies that cheap out and fail at security. These companies just issue a press release saying “we take security very seriously” and continue on with their business.
I take an edible that advertises it came from an Indica strain, where I take it in a dose of 20mg of THC and 10mg CBN. It costs me around $150/month, which I suppose it depends if you consider that a large amount of money. It's not as cheap (from the perspective of my wallet) as my prescribed medicine, granted, but works much better. And correct, I just buy it at a local dispensary, no prescription.

My prescription drug is Trazodone, which so far has worked better than nothing. But it's a bit more involved of a process of winding down, for me. I have to make a conscious decision to stop everything I'm doing with it, and concentrate on just getting sleepy. Which is both maddening and a horrible waste of my waking time, in my opinion. And then every moment that I lay in bed, I have to make sure my mind is calm, or it's like I instinctively fight the drug and end up awake. On the edibles I just AM calm, I don't have to try to be anything.
while I love to see the government finally getting a sliver of an appetite to go after monopolies, why Apple when there's so many others that are so much more insidious?
There are three. The third one being "one not knowing what one wants".
It definitely started years ago, probably around the time I really started using it. I visit /r/games sometimes and they have stickies around what you have been playing or game suggestions and without fail someone doesn't even read the topic at hand and just posts a random question.

Apps were mostly bad at showing sidebars too, they wanted to streamline the main view. They were there but I think a lot of users didn't know.

Anecdotally I seem to notice a trend on how grammatical/spelling corrections are received. If people generally accept them in good grace as a chance to improve, discussion quality can be decent. If they take it as a personal attack, or other people pile on (often with the classic "no one cares") ... well that's Reddit these days usually.
This is very cool and the demo is exciting...but I still don't know what this actually is.

From the repo[0] they refer to it as an operating system, but in all the install instructions and code it appears to be a program that still needs an OS to run, although I'm not clear what the requirements are. The demo makes it appear as if it were an LLM powered program that can interface with an existing OS, or is the actual product the voice device?

0. https://github.com/OpenInterpreter/01
What only for MSFT usage? It looks like it's MIT licensed and.. Written in C# which is very interesting.
> Kratom is not similar or in the same category.

Not only is it an opioid, but it has SSRI-like effects [1][2][3] (similar to tramadol). If you get addicted to it (like I did) for years, you could have protracted withdrawals resembling SSRI post-acute withdrawal syndrome. The actual opioid withdrawals were a walk in the park (lasting only two weeks for me), but I spent 6 months unable to function with extreme, extreme anhedonia. I just watched TV on the couch for 6 months, feeling nothing.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35840540/

[2]: https://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/citation/2024/01001/1342...

[3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7309668/
FWIW, as a happy user, I'm mainly happy that it exists at all. In the short term, it reduces the work supporting M editors and N languages from to M+N. That's nice. More importantly, it puts a bug in everyone's ear that this is a good and achievable thing. Maybe the next step will be a tree-sitter-API-compatible replacement that fixes some of those problems and we can all migrate onto that.

That is, the big win is getting people to buy into the concept of syntax (and analysis) as a library and not as a feature of one specific editor. Once we're all spoiled by that, perhaps a better implementation or an nice API will come along and astound us all.
Thanks for this, that was exactly my experience, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39786167. In the long run I think THC made my insomnia issues worse, or at least prevented me from addressing the root cause sooner.
Probably not what you want but I use rclone to mount my hetzner NC instance and have syncthing that points to that mounted folder. It's been pretty hands free solution for me since I don't have a computer at home that's always on. It all started because I didn't want to keep getting sync conflicts with my obsidian notes between laptop and phone.
Customize the CV with an intro that's directly addressing the company and the role requirements for which you are applying.
says the man that has nothing to hide, except his lack of trust :-D
Sure thing. I looked a few local (in my city, Brisbane, Australia, within ~1.5h of commute). I want to do a combination of dry and wet labs, so I need to be able to attend in person. I cannot relocate (have family).

I reached out to a few people in my network who did related study at the universities. In general, they all had good things to say. I ended up going with the one I thought had the best reputation both locally and nation-wide, which is UQ. Link: https://study.uq.edu.au/study-options/programs/master-bioinf...
I think we should lead with the fact that cell phones became the new personal computing device and they should be turn into open platforms, like computers. But the same thing should apply to gaming consoles, TVs, and other software heavy platforms as well. Otherwise, it sounds like an arbitrary anti-Apple regulation, not pro-consumer or pro-free-market regulation.
See https://www.reddit.com/r/KarmaBotKillers/wiki/index/

> Couldn’t Reddit solve this simply by making karma worthless, like HN?

Why would they solve this? These bots create engagement. Until some bot farm is weaponized to organize some sort of IRL 'bad thing', I bet nobody at Reddit actually gives a fuck.
>chiefly among them the reduction of tax benefits for that talent, and the housing market

Which is a problem everywhere around the world. Housing Market is the biggest problem if not the mother of all problems in modern economy and society. But not a single government or politician on planet earth is willing to tackle it.

I do wonder though, I assume leaving Netherland would only mean its legal HQ moved to somewhere else and not having the "whole" company including manufacturing moved?
you realize that "decriminalization" is the same as 1800s snake oil salesmen at the world's fair right? the exact reason the FDA was created

these substances need to go through the FDA with per ailment clinical trials and side effects listed just like other substances

reach parity with other approved drugs, alongside licensed distribution (like other drugs), treatment programs and education

make options for consumers - like we're already doing at the state level with marijuana - but better options so they don't chose the black market supply
I still want to see Matrix get adopted for messaging by default. Purism actually did it with their Librem 5 (probably one of the few good things about that company, but that's a rant for another day).
Thank you!

I wrote a bit on why Nextcloud a while back, I'll link it here (see point 5 in FAQ): https://memories.gallery/faq/#faq

As such, Nextcloud doesn't really lock you in; it just provides a framework for the app. You can, theoretically, continue to use Syncthing to sync files while running Nextcloud on top of it (probably not ideal though)

I want to note though, the "no lock-in" philosophy refers more to being able to move out of Nextcloud/Memories at any point if you want. Nextcloud still just stores everything on your disk as folders and files, so you can just decide to nuke it one day and still have everything (not fully true yet, you'll still lose some things like tags and albums; exporting these out too is WIP)
Metamoderation was an elegant way to handle slashdot scale, particularly given that they didn't have anything like subreddits. I suspect that partly kept it "narrow" - if you weren't into tech news or whatever, then you wouldn't enjoy slashdot. For a while there was a whole family of sites using the same codebase but with a different community feel, like Plastic and I think maybe K5?
That obnoxious FB feed style ui they try to force you to use.
Stuff like Apple Vision Pro where you need an iPhone to scan your face is annoying. If you want a Apple Watch but have Android phone it's pretty much pointless. How does Apple get away with that?

Worse than that from hardware to browsers over the years it all seems to be less open or to work with other systems, apps, OS. Linux being the exception of course.
The gp here was referencing a weird little bit of accountant jargon that uses a corruption of roman numerals to indicate million as a product of thousands. It's a terrible idea, but crops up in software circles occasionally due to the number of folks stuck writing financial software.

AFAIK, even accountants are slowly moving away from it for ... Obvious reasons.
Can you save me the rabbit hole time dump and tell me what makes cellophane so much better or potentially not viable in your opinion?
See Peter Watts' Malak for a computer trying to preserve the mission by znxvat n pbzznaq-hanagvpvcngrq vasrerapr ertneqvat "pbyyngreny qnzntr": https://rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Malak.pdf
I'm sure there will be a surge of unoriginality (like when auto tune was hot), but hopefully it'll drop to a murmur.
Can anybody explain me (or recommend any resources that explains) what benefit does it have to make it illegal to have these substances?

From my point of view, it does not fix the problem of having people consume them, and it does harm the time it takes for us to have serious scientific tests that assess if they have any good benefits at all.
It wasn't only Carter who thought we had hit or were close to hitting peak oil production. There were members of both parties who thought it likely. Also, you cite this as an example of him being wrong about an environmental issue, but that was more of an economic issue. I'm surprised you didn't cite his opposition to nuclear power as an example of where he was wrong on an environmental issue - yes, in hindsight we now know that wasn't the way to go, but we have to remember that in the 70s anti-nuke was the environmental position, while they were starting to know about climate change, they didn't yet have the idea that nuclear power (which was becoming increasingly unpopular) would be a good way of avoiding that.

The other thing to remember is that Carter was warning that being dependent on foreign oil was bad for US national security. This was why he was doing what he could to get us to reduce our energy consumption. As for the thermostats, I don't recall that we were being mandated to turn down the thermostats in our houses and I was there.

As for the inflation, he inherited a lot of that from the wartime spending expansion of his predecessors - Arab oil embargoes didn't help. And he did name Paul Volcker to lead the Fed even though in his interview Volcker told him that the only remedy would be to drastically raise interest rates. Volcker thought that he definitely wouldn't get the job (it was the year before an election year) so he was surprised when Carter picked him. So in that sense, Carter played a key role in killing the 70s inflation (which had been a problem even prior to Carter being elected - Remember Ford's WIN - Whip Inflation Now - buttons?) In the end, Volcker did what he said he was going to do. 10 year treasury rates hit ~15%. The economy swooned and it was a big factor in Carter not winning re-election, but that ended up killing the 70s inflation. He had the guts to pick Volcker even though it would not be good for him politically, but he knew that it would be the best choice for the economy in the longrun.

Also in regards to inflation, it should be remembered that Carter was a fiscal conservative trying to reign in spending, but his own party faught him on this. It's why Ted Kennedy primaried him in the 1980 Democratic primaries: he considered Carter to be too much of a tightwad.
Redis frankly just isn't that complicated.

I've personally built a little really bad version with only a fraction of the command a couple years ago for fun.

Amazon can absolutely build a fully API compatible service and have that up in no time. It's just silly to try to do this.
"Bollocks:" Toyota ignored EVs expecting a lithium shortfall. There is a glut
What laptop do you have? I've worked outside in peak 105F heat and my MacBook has done just fine.
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Check your account here [1], you probably have removed comments you don't know about. Or comment here [2] to see how it works.

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This may shock you but environmental impact does not directly relate to safety. Unless you're talking about the safety of the species, which no one does. It's not unsafe to walk alone at night because humans will be eradicated.

Red meat is not bad for you. Now that's hilarious. Several animals live off red meat alone. They seem to be doing okay.

Sounds more like a little person crying that people are doing what they have done for ages. If you want to cry about environmental aspects of red meat, sure, do it. Most agree with that, but don't collate it in with your emotional falsehoods.
I don't understand how you can say the code size has nothing to do with GLR and the explain that it is due to the formatting of the parse tables. The point is that table driven parsers are almost always huge compared to their recursive descent based alternatives (and, yes, recursive descent does have problems). The code size of the final binary is not all that matters because the huge c programs cause insanely slow compile times that make development incredibly painful. So that statement only holds if the time of grammar writers doesn't matter.

I was too vague on unicode. I meant unicode character class matching. Last I checked, tree-sitter seemed to use a binary search on the code point to validate whether or not a character was in a unicode character class like \p{Ll} rather than a table lookup. This lead to a noticeable constant slowdown of like 3x at runtime if I recall correctly for the grammar I was working on compared to an ascii set like [a-z].
It's all about economical fair play. If you create a market, but position yourself as the de-facto winner, it will not be a healthy one. It was all good, especially when default apps provided by Apple were free, but now with Apple Music, Apple TV, and iCloud being paid services, competitors worry about being not able to compete.
Whatever an "antivirus firewall" does, it sounds like something that should be tied to permissions or not have an API for it, either way easy to stop all apps from doing.

And I'm skeptical that governments would stop Apple from enforcing a rule that says apps have to let you refuse permissions.
We need to envelope the planet in weed smoke and put shrooms into the water supply instead of whatever they’re putting in right now!!.!!!! Whose with me
The card machine at the front desk writes a message onto the card, which says: Hey, lock #301, this card is authorised to open you as of timestamp X, and all cards before timestamp X are now invalid. Most older e-locks are powered by a 9V battery and are not wired to a central server.
DOJ calls out Apple for breaking iMessage-on-Android solution, Beeper
That's a lot of organ replacement done when you've only got your original head left. ;)
(Fiscal) income multipliers don't really exist (ie they are one) in an economy with a competent central bank that targets eg inflation or nominal GDP.

If whatever fiscal policy you have makes overall nominal spending go up (or down), that would have an impact on inflation, so the central bank will remove money from circulation (or add money to circulation) to counteract.

Thus neutralising any multiplier, you might naively expect.

(Also keep in mind that when you don't tax some money, it also gets spend or invested etc.)
The most obvious problem with it is that he used an official classroom forum to dispense dating advice specifically to his students. Students who were just there to learn couldn't really avoid it.

The student asking for the advice probably shouldn't have been doing it on that platform either.

But due to the Professor's unprofessional remarks, what could have been a friendly and valuable teaching opportunity about workplace norms in the US instead turned into a gross objectification of a section of the students.
I would argue that MDMA in common recreational doses has about the same level of radical effects as psilocybin. Different effects, but similar "level" or intensity of effect. And MDMA is much more dangerous for your body.
Some of today’s big corporations and mega hedge funds are almost bigger than the good old British Empire. Are we definitely sure that they will not just use that power for their own good only.
We also didn't require you to enter recovery programs.