jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Most of the issues that afflict drug users stem from their illegality.

1. Drugs are frequently adulterated because of lack of any regulation. Adulterants are responsible for most of the side effects of heroin use. The only side effect of pure heroin is constipation.

2. Again, purity of drugs varies a lot, so there is no proper information available about dosages. This leads to overdoses.

3. Drug users are denied jobs and treatment, so they cannot get their lives on track even if they want to.

4. Money from drug sales is entirely in black, and is used to fuel further illegal activity.

5. Drug users don't have access to clean needles and safe paraphernalia, which leads to spread of blood-borne diseases and injuries.

All of these problems simply go away with legalization and regulation.
RT superconductivity has been discovered? When/where/what?
I see; I missed the part where the resource request was executed every 2 seconds. The alert essentially would make the page unusable. From my understanding that Baidu is Google for china, the amount of productivity lost since people not being able to search, would mean the hack backfired spectacularly.
They’re only reporting other work: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5
Racket always seems keen to reinvent systems and produce new tools and components. But, innovation notwithstanding, a raco install can take several minutes on modest devices. It’s unbelievable to me, but maybe I don’t understand raco that well.

I’d love to see smaller pkg sizes and faster installs. Maybe this build system is a step towards that?
That kinesiology tape is an esoteric thing, isn't it? Even though many people seem to use them I have a hard time believing that something like this might work.
As far as I am aware the water content reducing flavor is a myth. For fruits and vegtables it comes down to ripening and temperature control. The majority of fruit we purchase from the super market is picked far before it's rip and is either sitting in storage/transport long enough to get acceptable flavor, gassed with certain hormones to speed up rippening before final arrival, or just straight up dyed.

Oranges from warm climates are actually green and are dyed in a lot of cases in the US. A cooler climate is needed to kill of the green pigments in the fall turning them orange.

Fate of food is an interesting book on the food supply chain:
https://www.amandalittle.com/fateoffood

Food dying and our perception of flavor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FPnag_rvU8

A fun video with Paul Hollywood trying the most expensive strawberries: https://youtu.be/895DfGuoqvU
The vast majority of white Americans can trace their heritage to oppressed people in one form or another and do not have heritage that participated in the transatlantic slave trade.

That’s not the basis for conversations around white privilege (at least not to anyone whose spent even the barest amount of time reading about it).

The issue is that all that history has created a systematically biased culture, one where a Finnish immigrant in 2022 will be treated better than a black person who can trace their American heritage back 300 years to forcible bondage, based purely on the color of their skin.

As a middle American born in the latter part of the 20th century I’ve participated in no more colonialism or slavery than you have. I’m not personally responsible for that history. But I’m cognizant that being white gets me a leg up in many places including Finland.
You don't need a game for that, any website will do, specially with background workers.
You've always been able to have type holes at the ghci prompt - wrap your expression in a lambda and see what's inferred as the first argument.

That's not to say the ability to do it in the middle of a program isn't huge - it is! - but just a technique I have occasionally found quite useful that's available to those stuck on older versions of ghc.
I was referencing vayarajesh's comment, not hnnewguy's.
> You are suggesting using screen space for the use case of a new user. Some people optimize for people that are already familiar with the program.

It's a landing page, man. Unless you're a celebrity, you should "optimize for new users".
I also enjoy a good cheese, but living in Scotland I stick to Whisky when it comes to spirits.

But my main hobby is photographing cute people.
That blog post series is highly informative and interesting, and goes over a lot of cool technical specifics. I highly recommend reading it to anyone who hasn't.
5.4.3.2.1.0 but then nothing happens :(
Not OP but generally poorer folks in US especially in rural parts vote for right which protects much more the rich. Its sold to them for generations under guise of 'American dream' and if you are not yet rich, well you just didn't work hard enough and should be ashamed and go back to work more and harder. Which is bullshit on many levels. Everybody in society benefits when poor are helped a bit and not kept poor and desperate. But that would require skimming a bit off the top, reshuffling few things and bottom jobs would still have to be paid livable wages without exception.

Compared to places where social inequality is much lower (ie some parts of Europe), US has some deep societal issues that I don't see going away soon, in contrary. Marketing has been very effective in branding any other idea as socialism/communism. And here is the media role, be it Hollywood, news etc - resist any change, our way is the best, it was and always will be. Don't think hard if its best for you, or you are not a true American.

Or it could be the opposite - from US conservative viewpoint those leaning left are harming themselves and US society in the long run (not that I agree with this, but I can understand why certain people would hold this opinion).

(I don't have a personal stake at this, just presenting an outsider's, potentially flawed view. When deciding where to settle around the globe US went quickly off the list for quite a few reasons, overall not a place I wanted to raise my kids in but that's another topic. That was despite obvious strengths of US society and location, as strengths don't cancel out weaknesses in my opinion).
It's possible to change the DNS server on Android without a VPN or app since Android 9 Pie. You can set a custom DoH or traditional DNS server system wide from the connection settings.
All I see is the text "‰PNG IHDR [ $‘þVœjawh". MIME type screw up server side?
Solr is something you can implement faceted search with, but I'm not sure what you'd want from emacs integration...

Faceted search typically helps you drill down to find a set of objects or other discrete entities; not really for searching within such an entity.

In other words you need to have a set of objects/entities that are already fairly well-structured or have reasonably coherent attributes on them from which to build the facets.

In the worst-case, a faceted search view of your computer's filesystem might only be able to show you facets based on datetimes (created/modified), filesize, filename extension, permissions etc. but nothing about the content of the files.

If you've drilled down to a collection of .mp3 files, your faceted search engine might then be able to offer facets based on MP3 tag data.

A good example is RS Components and Digi-Key. I can't pull one up now, but sometimes I find that these suppliers won't show you many facets until you've drilled down into a subset of their product range that has a common set of attributes - at which point you can suddenly filter by current rating, voltage, MTBF, etc. whereas at some broader category view you might only have brand-name, stock status and lead-time facets.

See down the left bar here: http://au.rs-online.com/web/c/semiconductors/processors-micr...
"The Linux kernel" makes sense. Real language, particularly names, do not have to follow strict grammatical rules.

Although, now that I think about it, there probably is a name for this sort of thing, because we do it often, particularly with brands. Marlboro cigarettes. Pepsi soda.
He is sadly correct. I've made the same experience with Perl. Most of the popular and wide-spread Perl books are written in the 90s, and since then we've learned as a community that many of the things they teach are outright dangerous to newbies and should never be found in anything but the worst throwaway code, because they're both harder to read and sources of errors.

There is a number of great, recently written books, that teach Modern Perl. A Perl style that makes code easier to read and more correct.

Yet time and time again there are people who will recommend Learning Perl 4th, because they read it, and when told about the new ones and the bad properties of the books they recommend, they'll dig in and argue, often ending in: "They teach Perl in an entertaining manner, so they're fine to recommend."

You simply cannot "help" such people. To "help" would amount to destroying large parts of their world view in a "you have been doing things wrong for decades" manner. Many minds are neither able nor willing to take that and will reject it as strongly as possible.
Yes, that is why this password is called a Pre-Shared Key.
Not really true at all. All of their Server and Tools Division grew to a multi-billion dollar business long after MS Office attained dominance. SharePoint, a $1 billion+ product is just one example.
Why did you put an "or" into a question about two things that go together so nicely?

I'd highly recommend starting your own software company. And I'd highly recommend traveling around the world. I've been doing both for the better part of 10 years. At the same time.

So my advice is to do a quick search & replace on your question. Switch "or" for "and", turn it into a statement, then go do it.
Yes. It is all about writing business plans in advance: i.e. have the poker-face to promise in advance to the funding agencies' excel-wrangling paper-tossers, that you will make that given discovery [WTF!].

It is like raising VC capital: an agency is likely to be more friendly, if it sees another take some of the initial funding risk. So you sell your idea, and manage the project -- not unlike a feudalistic landlord.
Just a friendly reminder to whoever downvoted me: you're really not supposed to downvote on HN for differences of opinion. I understand a lot of people have a lot invested in Apple, but having used and developed for both devices, this is my best, somewhat educated but possibly incorrect, guess as to the future of these platforms. And none of this is really new. So rather than anonymously downvoting, why don't you venture an opinion of your own?
More streams: http://27c3.fem-net.de/
Quick link to the keynote (live right now): http://saal1.h264.27c3.fem-net.de/
If Google is a company run and maintained by the Protoss, their servers are Zerg technology: weak individually (hardly able to serve one youtube video slice), short-lived (due to overheating) and controlled by a hive mind.

Microsoft is a company lead by Terrans, running on state-of-the-art Protoss servers, selling Terran technology to Zerg corporate drones from other companies.

Oracle are a bunch of Protoss mercenaries, selling Terran, Protoss, Zerg, Xel'Naga and Hybrid creatures to anyone else. IBM are like that, only they sell custom-made spaceships.
It's entirely possible I've mostly touched 5.6 systems, now that I think about it. Looks like this changed in 5.7(.5 specifically): https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/group-by-handling.ht... vs https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/group-by-handling.ht...
We said that about 2008 crisis as well....ahahaha
A simple expense tracker (https://pocketpatch.io). I built it for personal use when my spreadsheet just wasn't cutting it anymore. I am now trying to turn it into a small product.
Making a CNC machine that makes string art https://www.instagram.com/string.art.bird/
I'm building two things:

https://repocounters.com
This is a tool to track download history for Github releases over time. I'm working on adding support for Github packages. And Docker is next on the list as well.

The other project is Stilton. Not available yet. It is a centralized certificate issuance server for ACME protocol, primarily targeted for organizations running large number of domains and need TLS certs for them.
Maybe, but I never did this before I tripled my reading volume while attending grad school. I thought skimming entailed some degree of horizontal scanning and actively reading clusters of words. In contrast, I don't even read clusters of 2 words when I do this and I don't aim to comprehend the skipped passages. I just automatically detect that they're irrelevant with basically zero reading.
Yeah splitting by time is incredibly important.

I'm implementing the segmenting based on time + a sharding key to group together records of the same domain on the same shard. By sharing the shard with other domains it prevents having an overly large number of segments per time interval allowing them to be bigger and get better index density.
Which is in important factor in my indexer design which amortizes the cost of the indices over large number of rows.

Storing logs in sqlite is definitely a neat way to go for smaller scale stuff, hope you make something cool out of it.

For me though I have faced this logs problem at very large scale numerous times in my career and have tried all manner of commercial and OSS solutions and have yet to be satisfied so my project is definitely geared to solving the sort of problems you have when everything else just either stops working or costs more to run than your actual app.

Not saying it won't scale down very well. I think my software on a single machine should easily handle atleast 20k+ logs/second (prototype is much faster atm but lots of features need to be added) and be able to serve queries concurrently with that on just a few cores and ~8-16gb/ram for say at 200-400GB dataset.

I think the 3 deployment sizes I will optimize for are single node for demo and benchmark purposes, 3 node for realistic small deployment and 6-10 nodes for high volume logging environments like my $DAY_JOB.
America is a huge fan of socialism, and by that we mean socialism for large corporations and the wealthy.

Hard to imagine we have anything close to a competitive free market if the minute a business gets into trouble it's just bail outs.
No, satysin said it was interesting generally, and especially for Brits/Europeans and Americans. You're free to disagree, of course.
Thanks, this is a creative idea. So you have experience selling to medical practices from before?
What book was this? I learned this same technique from Sekida's book called "Zen Training".
I doubt he'll bother, but I would love to know Knuth's reaction to this article.
At least for me, the decision to not seek funding sort of answered itself. I didn't know who or how to ask for money, but I did know to program the tool I envisioned. Fast forward 3 years and I've got a moderately profitable business, and no investors. The work is fun, and no one tells me what to do.

I'm just always curious about others who seek the go the investor route. Do most of them actually get funding? If so, when? How? In most cases, I see people talk a lot about investors, but I very rarely see anyone actually get investment money. I'm skeptical that it even exists for the typical first-time entrepreneur.
I think his projections are absurd, but honestly, the man has a dream and a product, so I don't begrudge him his enthusiasm.

That said, I live in Philadelphia, and I used to live in NYC. I have a license and have driven in both cities, but I don't own a car now and garaged it with my brother when I was in NYC.

Driving in what most people would consider "downtown" is a pain and brings along expenses and difficulties you don't have in suburbs. Like others have mentioned, cheap parking is hard to find, and easy parking is hard to afford.

But what people who haven't actually lived for long periods of time with out a car tend to ignore is that there are times, even in the densest parts of the city, where having access to a car is almost indescribably convenient. Making multiple trips to the grocery store every week because you can only hold X bags in your hands/on your bike/in your granny cart is a pain. Walking a mile to work (like I do) in the rain because all the cabs are taken is a pain. Biking home from the beer distributor with a 30-rack in your messenger bag can be a pain :)

So I think the real task isn't making cars unnecessary for city life, but making cars easily accessible for the time or two a month they'd be convenient. Thankfully for me, innovators like Philly Carshare and Zipcar are already operating in this space. Even Home Depot will rent you a pretty well equipped work truck by the hour.

I don't see what problem the Segway solves--it's not particularly faster than a bike, it's not as convenient as just walking somewhere for a short trip, and it seems like people with mobility issues would be better served by a traditional scooter or wheelchair. It doesn't protect you from rain or give you extra cargo space.
If your business model includes charging your customers (designers) directly for a service that improves their ability to earn money, you can totally do it, if you just put enough elbow grease into it.

If you don't charge your primary audience, if you get into some whacky convoluted business model that doesn't involve charging them, you're almost surely going to fail. You reduce it from skill and effort (create value, charge directly) to depending largely on luck.
From the description ("… designed for web applications over serving files") it seems that you still need a web server as proxy in front of it for mid-sized projects; to serve static files. (Bigger projects use a server/CDN just for static files.)
AFIK you just have to publish the source to the changes you made to mongrel2 itself if your server is public.

And mongrel2 is not embedded. You connect to it. No linking. It's a server.
My reading of the discussion at https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-concurrency-roadmap/41611: the Google Swift team members expressed hope for a bit more community involvement in the Swift language planning, and Apple folks very politely told them to shove it where the sun don't shine.

My guess: Google concluded that investing in a language developed behind closed doors of another company is a bad deal.

I don't blame Apple, it may be a good business decision for them, and of course it is completely within their rights.
> last revised 9 May 2020 (this version, v9)]
We keep reporting antivax 5G content on Facebook and the posts stay up. Same goes for entire groups dedicated to discouraging people from getting vaccinated through a constant stream of false information. This cancer of a service is destroying the minds of everyone around me.
Author: please don’t harass me on Twitter.
Ponzi schemes can go on for much longer than 12 years. Madoff said that he began the Ponzi scheme in the early 1990s, but federal investigators believe that the fraud began as early as the mid-1980s[18] and may have begun as far back as the 1970s.. He was caught by confession in 2008.

Over approx. 20 years, Lewis collected around $311 million U.S. dollars from investors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Paul_Lewis_Jr%2E

In another ~20 years we can stop calling Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme, but speculative investment can fuel exponential growth for much longer than you might think.
> it's a " ponzi scheme" that has been going on for 12 years now, and there are no signs of this stopping. I think we can safely stop calling it a ponzi scheme

Not saying that calling Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme is particularly insightful, but if I believe Wikipedia, Madoff's Ponzi scheme had been going on for more than that when it was brought to a halt.
That's correct, and also prices increase (or inflate). The parent is saying conflating increase in prices and increase in monetary supply can be incorrect.
Blow up a couple of those and pirates would learn fast to not come anywhere near.
I was a Hotdog Pro user too. Eventually moved to Homesite.
Haha, serves the bastards all right. I'm with the VFX artists on that one, even if I live in a German city with a fairly prominent movie studio.
The ST builds mysteriously stopped recently (ST3 beta and dev), which is a bit ominous.
Oh lordy...this essay effectively summarizes the entire codebase of the lisp application that I work on with a team of 6 or so other developers.

I think what can work though is having an awareness of the power of the language you are working with, and then balancing the usage of that power with readability of code. You can write macros all day that save you precious typing time, but when someone else has to figure out those macros all that saved time is lost. Any language that allows the developer to define the syntax will always be troubled with this concept.
I remember a three legged version, with the inner leg out of phase with the outer two. This is a more refined two legged version, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2pAMe_5VeY .

Power here is gravity, in the form of a slight slope on the surface it's walking on. The walking form is all from dynamic motion, no electronic control.

It looks simpler than a jansen linkage, much more like the physiology of our legs. (and there's a funny story there, Prof Ruina had a limp when he taught the class, because he had implanted studs in the bones of one of his legs so that they could motion capture the bone motion when he walked. Not sure if the limp affected that.)
When helping people construct passwords I always guide them to use an acronym from a favorite line of a song (or bible verse, or poem depending on audience) and then add a symbol and a number. So for example if you really like Led Zeppelin you might take the opening line"

"Hey Hey Mama Said The Way You Move Gonna Make You Sweat Gonna Make You Groove"

and turn it into the password hhmstwymgmysgmyg!8

or "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep"

to become: twaldadbihptk$9

Easy to remember, relatively high entropy, pretty good compromise.
I totally agree on the music part. I tried a lot of different genres and silence, of course, but voice-less style electronic music has the biggest success rate for me. My personal recommendation is progressive trance.
Any recommendations on resources to learn/improve this skill?

I completely agree with you but it seems pretty hard to hone that skill if there's no one to give you feedback.

e.g. you write some internal docs but then no one lets you know how could they be more useful/understandable, until someone else comes and re-writes the docs.
> while your program sits and does nothing with the CPU

The CPU can run other threads while the hardware does DMA transfers. The thread just yields when the transfer is started, and a hardware exception wakes it up when the DMA transfer finishes.
can't google just threaten to pull out like they did in australia?
Actually they were litigated as part of the Lotus v. Borland suit which a distant cousin of mine (same name, common ancestor is like 4 generations back) was involved in, I sometimes get inquiries)

[1] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/int-p...
Hah! I wrote this app a couple of years ago as a lab for me to get some HTML5 examples done for my book. Turned out to be useful to others so I added some bells and whistles. And I love SASS.

If I get time, there will be CoffeeScript.
I haven't found that to be the case, but then I have my life set up such that I don't need work to fill a social outlet. I have my wife, two dogs, friends and neighbors to socialize with when I feel the itch.
Hi, Michael. I love Appleseed and give you guys mad props.
I suppose for the premium amount you are being paid, as compared to the Indian worker, being physically present is a requisite. I cannot say, I disagree with the logic myself.