skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Obviously this didn’t work.

There are two things here to challenge.

1/ is it absolutely maybe has. Just because something was out of sight and out of mind before doesn't mean the problem was less prevalent. It all depends on the definition of the problem.

Is the problem: "There are people in poverty, in drug addiction, and they're dying?"
Or is the problem "Sensible moderate tax payers have to interact with icky drug addicts in their day to day life"

The truth is because of Fentanyl both problems actually got worse. But in theory treating addiction as not a crime probably DOES save lives relative to the alternative.

But make no mistake, we're not now challenging the status quo because of problem 1 and the fentanyl epidemic. There's a backlash becaue of problem 2.

Truth is, people don't want to see visible poverty or addiction. They associate with crime and feel unsafe (even if it's illogical).

People agree that you shouldn't have to go to jail for doing heroin, but when faced with the choice of passed out heroin users in their alley regularly, or have them in jail, most are happy to find the excuse to get them out of their sight and into jail.

So 2/, the real reason decriminalization didn't work is because decriminalization isn't enough. Decriminalization is "cheap" to implement. But it's nothing without more social programs to help people get out of poverty, subsidized housing to get them off the streets, and mental health support for those that need it (a huge % of homeless addicts). But nobody - even in progressive places like Vancouver - wants to fund those enough. So, we try decriminalization, watch it fail, and then roll things back. And so the pendulum will go back and forth.
Waits until halfway through to tell us he's a Brexiter.
In that analogy, the /64 is their specific apartment, not the whole building. That is, they wouldn't get banned for something their neighbor did, because their neighbor would be in a separate /64.

That is, the whole /64 is equivalent to the single IPv4 address they have in their home router, not to the CGNAT which combines several home routers into a single IPv4 address.
If someone told me they wrote a C library that took a string of C code that could be compiled and linked back into the program, I would suggest there might be a better solution. Einsum does not seem to be respecting the Zen of Python.
What if we were talking with each other and the right answer for me would be to kiss you on the cheek? Then what?
There is a big thing in the reporting your phone lost & asking for a replacement that says it will wipe it...
That's like talking about "removing the option" of slavery. Nobody is proposing keeping you from working for free, or from strictly using apps approved by and distributed from Apple.
I think one should feel comfortable arguing that AGI must be stateful and experience continuous time at least. Such that a plain old LLM is definitively not ever going to be AGI; but an LLM called in a do while true for loop might.
Retrieval Augmented Generation.

The best explanation I can give as a non-expert is: it's used when you have a general-purpose LLM but want to give it some domain-specific knowledge. The query sent to the LLM is run through what's effectively a search engine that catches relevant terms etc, to find useful snippets of knowledge to send to the LLM alongside the query, so the query is _augmented_ with potentially useful information for answering the query.
Do Europeans really return their rental cars washed? The only time I've ever washed a rental car in the US was when I drove it off paved roads in violation of the terms of the rental agreement and needed to hide the evidence.
I suspect fewer people putter around a location though. At one point if I was just doing a trip with some stops in core Silicon Valley I’d have automatically rented. Generally more likely to Uber it these days.
EVs are only practical if you have a garage and can charge it overnight.

(Outdoor chargers don't work because thieves steal the copper wires.)
I hope you realize that these federal agencies are funded through revenue collection - i.e tax code.

Unfortunately, Your simplification isn't really a simplification.
I smile when I read info like that because you imaging to get privacy from a state actors using a device you do not really own.

Anything on a smartphone is in the hand of their vendor, if a local cop can't access stuff but have the right to, your data will go to the police, if there is no right to but some State actors do want they'll get your data as well.

Things on such devices are in the GAFAM et al hands, there is no protection.
i mean urban geographies are for the most part a bubble.

I could see even in different parts of the US wildly different EV adoption rates. They're very common in Seattle but I think I would be surprised if I saw too many of them in Boise. US states are often the size of European countries.
Where I live, the most common payment method for such services is direct debit from your bank account, where the details never change unless you switch banks; and in the rare event that you switch, you can make use of a service that banks are legally required to provide for transferring debit mandates to the new account. I bought my first domain about twenty years ago and never had to change anything regarding payment.
Is Voice of America good enough for you? https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-pulls-us-provided-abrams-t...
Why rely on Daddy Google so much in the first place?

A couple of months ago, I was puzzled enough by the lack of large scale urban history services in the West to post this question (with examples of what was possible):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38090473
Show HN: Equimake – a 3D Web platform for learners, gamers, artists, and coders
Hi,

It has been 72 hours since I released an MVP of my platform.

Equimake is a web app that allows users to create and host 3D web experiences for free. It is aimed at learners, artists, gamers, and coders. Say you wanted to build an art gallery, visualize data in 3D, hang out with friends, or learn 3D art - Equimake is the right tool for you.

In the last 72 hours over 300 users joined 30% of which have built their first 3D experience, the others chose to explore.

Lots of people came to my platform then built something, and then churned. Some stayed to build an art gallery or a very creative 3D scene. I spent last 72 hours talking to the users and understanding their needs.

Please see my update video to understand what Equimake is and what is new on it
https://youtu.be/9mHAwhthbbc?si=iaibc0JVBmoJbHP8

Or, even better, come try it yourself for free without any signups needed.

https://equimake.com/get-started
It was bound to happen. Think about it. What was the last big application on the Desktop? Chrome in 2008 is probably the last.

The last really big advance in apps? Big new social media as you said? New communication paradigm.

Heck Smart watches where the real last big technology device and. Their sales while yes in the hundreds of millions are a shadow compared with things like smart phones.

I think we are seeing the entire industry calcifying around us. And a lot of folks know this. Thus the rush from a subset of folks that are trying to get in on the ground floor of anything tech like that they can possible pump and dump their way to riches. Crypto, NFS, AI over hype, VR, AR, Web 3 etc.

Soon we may have to accept that we are going form the fun fresh upstart stage to mature stable and boring faze. The entire tech industry will be IBM.
I wonder if this would run properly on a moded Atari Flashback 2...
The path from wind powered generators to an Intel 4004 is long, especially without plastics, which we would never develop and for which all alternatives are still, with today's technology, very limited

Realistically we probably wouldn't even need cpus and would have much more important things to work on, good luck smelting iron with biogas...

Nuclear power plants need constant maintenance, France had to shut down a good parts of their reactors during covid because they couldn't work on them due to covid restrictions, and that's very far from an apocalypse, let the rot 100 years and they'll be unusable

Doing what we did without virtually unlimited free energy is like sending a kid to climb the everest, naked, before you taught him how to walk. Petrol is the backbone of everything, medicine, agriculture, metallurgy, &c. We haven't found alternatives for a lot of use cases and that's with out current tech, a reboot would be game over
Good luck! Feel free to submit a Show HN when you’ve made something that people can try out (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html).

While you’re thinking, this might be a decent place to start: https://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html - “look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.” Basically, solve problems you actually have and would pay for if an solution existed. This is much easier than coming up with things that you don’t want, but you think other people might.
That's absolutely not the same situation and is irrelevant here.

Homeless people injecting heroin in bank vestibules, bleeding on the street, or smoking crack on sidewalks != middle class people smoking cannabis at home.

But Thailand is an extremely conservative country, and this decision is ultimately rooted in a moral judgement, not based on impact to the rest of society:

> “We drafted this law to prohibit the wrong usage of cannabis,” said the health minister Cholnan Srikaew, reported Reuters.

> “All recreational usage is wrong.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/10/asia/thailand-cannabis-revers...
I assure it is not imagined as I attended public high school in the United States.
This is literally what Broadcom does - it's just the first time most of the HN crowd has been subjected to it. See: bluecoat acquisition, Symantec acquisition.

Drop any pretense that you want to service any customer outside of the fortune 500. Then increase prices by several hundred percent because you're so imbedded in those fortune 500s, even if they want to run from you it'll take them 5 years and you can make all your money back in that window.
I've only read the abstract, but also find this strange. I wonder if this is just tapping into the computational chains that are already available when tokens are further away, due to the positional encodings being trained that way. If so, that makes the reasoning/modeling powers of LLMs even more impressive and inscrutable.
And why are they adding RCS?

Because the EU is starting to regulate them so theyve stopped dragging their ass on this.
Most bugs are found at runtime. The static analysis mostly finds silly errors that are easy to fix. A great type system do make it easier to write spaghetti code though, and you can have one letter variable names - naming is difficult.
Take a look at the black market for marijuana. Much stronger.
> But you save a lot more time traveling with a gas car since you're not looking for charring stations along the route every 150-350km and waiting hours to charge.

While I'm sure it happens, that's never been my experience. You plug your trip into the car's navigation system and it'll plan out the charge stops for you. It's quiet frictionless. Tesla's is really good as it will even plan on sending you to less busy charging stations vs more busy ones (and reroute if that changes).

> Also, charging at public chargers isn't that cheap or frictionless.

Depends on the network. Tesla's isn't terribly expensive and is extremely frictionless. Electrify America is horseshit, both on cost and ease of use.

This is a solvable problem.

> Not compared to filling up with gas and being on your way in less than 5 minutes.

Behavior ends up changing here if you road trip with an EV. Rather than just getting fuel then going somewhere else to eat you'll usually charge while you eat, use the restroom, or go for a walk. If you really don't have anything else to do, you'll probably just catch a tv show on your phone.

That coveted 5 minutes ends up just not being a big deal because you are multitasking with the charging. (Which for me is typically 20->30 minutes).
$20 Minimum Wage Backfires as Restaurants See Orders Plummet
> All they did was put an optional message service in the same app.

They did a bit more than that. There were the glory days that if you ever left the Apple ecosystem, but iMessage ever had an awareness of your number, no other iMessage users could reach you until or unless you did some incantations that Apple didn't make obvious, ideally from an Apple device (that you may not own anymore), to allow your friends to keep sending you even green bubble messages?

I know multiple people who had to go to Apple stores to try to do this process.
Damn that sounds like a dream gig! Thanks for sharing
83% of the US population lives in an urban area, it's the rural dwellers in the "bubble".
It remains an open problem whether this generalizes 4-dimensional surfaces as well.
Do you also believe we get the government policies we voted for?
TF over bifunctors.
How much extra state and computation is it per token exactly? Can we account for the improvement in just those terms?
Hardly. CO2 doesn't care where it came from.

1. You preferentially close TPPs in CA, while still offsetting the whole country's emission.

2. Transmission lines are a thing, including HVDC lines

3. There are how many massive metro cities within a 200 mi. radius of LA? Some of them growing. There's plenty of demand.
"Livable wage not tennable as restaurants find out they can only operate on sub-substinence compensation" would be a better title
Yes and no. A modern house is ridiculously bloated compared to what my ancestors lived in or even a tent but I wont give it up.

You only really need a kitchen and somewhere to take a dump (defecate), separate from the kitchen. The kitchen gets you warmth and shelter from most weather in temperate to arctic climes, shade in warmer climes. The bog need not be "inside" but should be separate for obvious sanitary reasons. Oh and you'll need clean water, something to eat and something to burn for cooking and heat.

Tesco and co (supermarkets) can bugger off for being too bloated. I'll be going in with a knife (veg and fruit), spear and bow and arrow (food that moves). Mind you the bow is a bit excessive unless the food that moves is dangerous at close quarters 8)

Having said that: FAANG n that really is bloat that could be excised with little of importance lost from the web sigh. How on earth have we found ourselves in a world where "going viral" is a stretch goal and an indicator of success? GOPHER and WAIS and USENET were good enough, back in the day. We still have email for some reason and I can still run my own, from home, but not everyone can.

In around 1994 I was asked by my boss to investigate this new web thing. I had a Windows 3.11 PC. I telnetted to my departmental VAX. From that I telnetted to the organization's X.25 PAD. From that I could get from JANET to some exotic American NIST related thing ... then I would hit a GOPHER menu (I think) and after a bit of jiggery pokery I hit the web.

I could not really tell the difference, as an end user, between WWW and GOPHER/WAIS. The hyperlinks were simply distributed (through the text) instead of a list of menus. Instead of a page of a menu of links you got text with links in it - all a bit chaotic. Basically, a tree becomes a web. I told the boss it looked a bit better than the menus of G/W but nothing really new. I think I even said to him that the status quo is organized like his hard disc and hence comprehensible but the web is a bit mad and freeform.

Do bear in mind that this is in a console, the browser was yet to become mainstream.

I'm not an important commentator on internets for obvious reasons! I completely missed the point that free form and a bit mad is exactly what was required for the web to go viral in no uncertain terms.
I've felt that way about the word, "declarative" since 2016.
I'm not sure that it will ever go 'mainstream' but it looks like it will have a vibrant and stable future ahead. It is taking the slow boring but reliable path upwards. Better than crashing and burning.
Daily showers could be harmful for skin health, some experts claim
Potato Flowers in Full Bloom is a recent indie turn-based dungeon crawler and it's really, really great.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1601280/Potato_Flowers_in...
I've never washed a rental car, and I've never heard of anyone doing so.

(Fortunately, last time I drove one on a dirt road there was a heavy rain storm the next day.)

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The following are drugs [0]:

* Heroin

* Meth

* Crack

* Cocaine

* Cannabis

* Cigarettes

* Alcohol

* Coffee

* Sugar

There is also fat and salt which while necessary to life, are also habit-forming in the excess and negatively affect humans.

Pray tell where you would like to draw the line of which drugs you would ban for the benefit of society.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug

> A drug is any chemical substance that when consumed causes a change in an organism's physiology, including its psychology, if applicable
You ignore that for a while that actually wasn't the case. If you left the Apple ecosystem, for multiple years the steps to get your number/account disassociated from iMessage so your contacts could reach you by SMS again were not default, not obvious, and not disclosed.
Highly, highly misleading title.

This is app delivery companies. Restaurants themselves are fine.

IOW, these app delivery companies are unable to sustain their business and should go out of business due to their inability to pay their workers a wage which doesn't require taxpayer welfare.
In USA it is quite easy to get above 200k USD. In Europe the comparable salary would be around 180k and it almost never reaches that point.

Even 100k is considered a lot.
Using meow:https://github.com/meow-edit/meow I actually got keybindings in Emacs that are helix-like, so I use helix for certain projects and Emacs for others.

The muscle memory transfers well.
I have no such examples for you, as I have no idea of your true intent, but I do have raw info.

You are creating a weird one-or-other scenario here.

For example, many people lease baremetal hardware, and use that. And that isn't "cloud". Nor is it on prem. Others still buy hardware, but still rack it at a colo... buying upstream egress and so forth.

Then there are things such as CDNs, so even if you host the primary site on prem, you might use a CDN for larger images or videos, which predates any use of the word "cloud".

My point is, it isn't as binary as one or the other.
I use evil, and prefer it to Emacs' native bindings. Evil overwrites some native Emacs binds, and the rest can still be used. This kind of a hybrid system is very useful IMO. For example, I can hit <F3> to record a macro. Instead of having to remember a register and being careful not to hit q, I can do practically anything. Being able to write your own functions is amazing.

I'd recommend trying to write small programs in elisp to get familiar with emacs.
- Message the current buffer's path
- run an async command
- copy the line in the center of a buffer and restore position
- make a simple transient for command dispatch

I'd start with doom-emacs and if you feel your config is too cumbersome, you could move to a custom setup with elpaca and evil. Doom is good enough for most people and has config for most languages. The leader bindings in doom are pretty decent, SPC f f is much more preferable to <esc>:e.

Making your own transient menu will be very helpful if you're planning on picking up Emacs IMO.

If you need something that works everywhere, then unless you're okay with the default settings you're going to have to lug your config around with you. Evil can be installed through package-install trivially, so that's not an issue.
You're right that lock-in isn't just about one application. Like a wall, it's made up of multiple bricks. But different bricks matter more to different customers: for some people (usually teenagers who have relatively little data invested in other apps) the blue-bubbles iMessage is the most important brick, for older users it's usually the piles of data in cloud services, password manager, photo library or purchased media. Typically companies use some features to bring people into their ecosystem, then gradually them in with all the others.

Unfortunately our anti-trust laws were written in the 19th century, so they deal with very specific types of anti-competitive behavior. Modern tech firms basically grew up in an environment where the goal was to maintain the absolute minimal level of competition and user choice that stays within the law.
Not available in my state but am looking forward to if/when it becomes available. I do my own taxes with the free fillable forms site. I would rather use this direct file service if possible. State of NJ has a free online site but NY does not for non-residents so I end up mailing in a return for them. It’s silly really.
Shorten Sentences AI
I haven't been able to find out, it isn't offered by any of the licensed pesticide services in my area yet.
It hasn't been derailed, it's been off the rails from the get go. I don't know who came up with that slogan, but it was designed to fail.
This is definitely a sound business idea, for anyone (not only the actual developer od the Open Source software) to pursue.

I disagree with the "needed only by huge corporations" part -- present and forthcoming regulation will make this needed by everyone doing commercial transactions involving software.
Is it actually common for high-performing union members to have better deals? In my (limited) experience, the unions tend to advocate for the long-term membership, who are often below-average performers.
free-file is entirely voluntary. You can still submit the forms yourself if you want.

free-file is estimated to cover 47% of Americans. we fund public schools even though a significantly smaller proportion of Americans are children. you would have a hard time finding any government service that applies to 100% of people
I’ve never ever washed then though I probably risked a cleaning fee. I’ve returned some very (externally) dirty cars that were in a bunch of forest roads though mostly not really off-road.
Sweden has never had secret ballot. The “Valmyndigheten” election authority themselves have criticized the lack of secrecy and general chaos with Sweden’s ballots. But what do they know? They only administer the elections.

Swedes have a highly developed superiority complex and ability to perform mental gymnastics about the flaws of their country and ways of doing things. No sane person from any other country in the world would consider a system where voters must, in public and under the active scrutiny of other voters and local election officials (who are themselves politicians and party members) pick ballots for the party you intend to vote for and then bring it into the “secret” booth. Any child or idiot can see that’s not secret other than in the most distorted and disingenuous sense of the word.
MicroSD is much worse performance than eMMC.
More on localized tech that we use directly day to day. All the things you mentioned are big scale things that need large economic inputs, some larger than entire small nations to get off the ground. While they can impact us, they are things that are much more nebulous and vague to experience.
> I wonder if there is a benefit to sticking with our intuition even if we are wrong in the moment

The evidence or your reading of it could be wrong, and it saves you mental energy.
Sure, if actually happens to someone, they're rightfully not risking it again. If for no other reason, it'd be likely that a fresh account would be detected and associated with the old one. Plus, whatever unusual situation of yours triggered the ban, such as border crossing or how you route your Internet traffic, would probably still apply. (I'm not saying someone is doing the wrong thing if those things are the case for them.)