skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why on earth I would want my car to take over the full functionality of my phone is beyond me.

I've owned several cars thus far in my life, and so far, the functionality of every single head unit has been changed exactly zero times since the car left the line. When CDs became a thing, I had to add a CD player if I wanted to listen to them. When XM and Sirius came out, I had to add something to use them. Who knows what's going to come next? But if my phone is in the driver's seat, so to speak, then I can expect new updates just about every year now going forward, with new features coming this Fall with iOS 11. My 2017 Civic at least has a chance of being updated since the head unit runs Android underneath, but odds of Honda ever updating it are pretty slim.
so the study compared international students who didn't have access to pot legally versus students who were citizens? Am i misinterpreting something? It seems more likely that international students are simply better students. I doubt it would be that hard for them to get weed anyway.
> Abiogenesis seems to be the least likely scenario in the formation of life

Yet we know it happened, because life exists, and it didn't spring from magic so it must have sprung from non-life. Random chance is a hell of a search algorithm, abiogenesis is simply the inevitable outcome randomly trying every possible combination over hundreds of millions of years. There are no more likely scenarios.
I disagree.

> a bias toward publishing positive results ... fishing for significant-looking results from a huge number of hypotheses

If we accept a lower p-value as significant, there will be fewer hypotheses that have positive results, and therefore less to publish.

Should we really do nothing at all until we can come up with a perfect solution to all aspects of the problem? This won't fix the real problem, but it will reduce the number of pop-sci articles spouting bullshit results that don't reproduce next week.
[Shocking]+Mum+Seen+In+Google+Earth+Days+After+Her+Death+By+Daughter
Exactly. You could probably do the same thing for alcohol. Or video games.
I wonder if this is a small glimpse into the future.

Instead of 99% of the revenue in entertainment going to the very top 1% of content creators, it's more dispersed. More content creators -- game developers, artists, storytellers -- are able to create specialized works for just their small fan base and make a decent living doing so.

The internet and it's wide, cheap distribution model, plus applications like Unity (and, apparently, Roblox) can help make that possible.
Cost is part of the value. If I can't afford a BMW, it has no value to me. If I will never become fluent in a language, it has no value to me (at least in some senses).
It seems like one of those stupid brain teasers tech companies used to ask that are not very correlated with success but act as arbitrary filters.
I am naive in this area, but if the creditors freak out, what does that mean? Seems like a "freak out" would mean higher interest rates, and when those rates cross the return from the cash stockpile, they just would stay paying down the debt more aggressively?
As a counterpoint to some platitudes expressed here, let me say this: I unequivocally hate my dad. The reasons are complicated, and personal. But there is something I know with absolute certainty. Everything he ever did in relation to me was with the best of intentions, and he always placed my well-being (as seen by him) before his.

Sure, I mostly feel like an ungrateful wretch. And yes, now that he's an old man, I do treat him very poorly and wish he were dead, mainly because it'd save my feelings of guilt with how I treat him.

I wonder if he resents having me. I will never ask him. I fear his reponse, that he'll deny it.

If you're willing to have a kid, I'm one of the ugly corner cases.

I don't have any kids. I'm beyond the age where they're on my radar. Perhaps a relationship with someone a fair bit younger would change that, but I doubt it.

Good luck.
Not entirely.

The students who were banned were those visiting from out of country so it's possible to argue that the students performance is increased by preventing them from being drug-tourists. Not sensible, but possible.
And surgery, and injections, and stitching wounds, etc.

Obviously it's net harm, not no harm at all.
Switched roughly two years ago: https://www.gentoo.org/news/2015/08/12/git-migration.html

It was an interesting migration project to follow seeing how the portage tree is huge.
I've found the opposite - certain strains have been remarkable for my ADHD (although out of reach for anyone in a non-medical state). The strains I generally use have low psychoactive properties and alleviate anxiety without sedative effects.
While you’re watching Disney’s films at the cinema, Disney can now watch you
I think the argument comes because your initial statement was "The original LISP is pure functional," which isn't true. McCarthy's original idea of Lisp was not purely functional and the original Lisp implementation was not purely functional. I think that it is true to say that the first real description of a purely functional language came up in the context of work on Lisp, but what you and Paul Graham seem to be doing is saying that that pure Lisp is the real Lisp and what was called Lisp before that (in theory and implementation) was still just a lead-up to his "discovery" of Lisp.
It's the result of people getting creative to save money.

This kind of thing happens in all industries if it goes unchecked.

Not that I particularly advocate for it but in other disciplines regulation, unions and certification bodies and similar structures collectively put the brakes on things like this.

In software it's the wild west.

The hypocrisy of the modern software management is that they demand the outcome of a precise engineering effort but they don't want to pay the bill for such an effort.

So you end up creating this environment and culture that kind of on the surface pretends to be science and engineering but in practice zero effort is put into stuff beyond "now it works".

In other disciplines, say if you want to build a bridge, you can't put an ad on Upwork and be like "budget is tight ... just modify this existing bridge plugin ... shouldn't take more than a few hours".

In software this is the norm, not the exception.
For as much propaganda as I see about ZFS, I've never once encountered it in the wild.

Most of the companies here I've never even heard of and the ones I have heard of aren't companies I would take into account when choosing a file system.

http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Companies

In all my years I've never encountered or needed this file system, and every time it's mentioned it sounds like it's more trouble to run it than its worth.
Hmm. Including myself, anyone with an IQ less than 2.5 sigmas above average, or with strong enough emotions to make bad decisions that contradict correct analyses, or with not enough ambition to want to attempt anything useful with their high IQ in the first place ... is thusly "debilitated" and should have been allowed genetic engineering.
Esperanto is certainly easier for someone who already knows a Romance language. However, even for a non-Romance speaker, it will be easier to learn than other Romance languages.
Ask HN: What's the most impactful job you've done?
I've had several jobs which I felt I was positively impacting society in a noticeable way. And my actions made a difference to not only the business but also the end users.

On the flipside, I've also had non-impactful jobs. I felt I'm just a cog in the system. If I weren't there someone else would happily come take my place and the company would be fine. (Current role is backend dev for large SaaS app).

What are some impactful job's you've had? How can one optimize for impactfulness when job hunting?
My kids are always awesome, even if they're occasionally a little _less_ awesome. My wife and I had our first child in our mid-20's after being married for not quite 2 years.

We've both found ways to nurture our careers while we raised a family. There was one 5 month period where our infant daughter would fall asleep around 8:30 PM, so my wife would head to bed also and I'd open the laptop. Between 12:30-1:00 AM, like clockwork, my daughter would wake up needing a dry diaper and a bottle. I'd close my laptop, care for my daughter, and head off to sleep. She'd wake up again before 6, but my wife would get up with her and I'd sleep in until 7:30.

Lots of detail, but you find new rhythms and ways to get things done.
"The most rigorous study yet"

I searched the article for placebo and didn't find any mention.
Laser powered ISPs anyone?

I kid, but is this a possibility?
You are a large bag of molecules. You self replicate and generate a variety of structures. You are great evidence that complex systems arise out of simple phenomena. Wolfram's initial explorations dealt with this in particular. This is also the reason for developing systems like Conway's game of life. Simple rules. Complex outcomes.

The pumice stone you use to scrub yourself with has a particular distinctive pattern to it, not caused by life, but rather by volcanic and non-biological forces. When you wash your hands with soap and water in front of that bathroom mirror, the you construct a reversed lipid bi-layer, a self organizing structure that occurs as a result of polarity. This set of forces is the same as those that self-organizes your cell walls.

I think there's plenty of evidence. You just need to do a bit of learning to understand what you're seeing.
I'm talking from personal experience. Your ability to keep a train of thought is impaired, you struggle to build the house of cards in-memory to do any kind of extended analysis, the cards you put down simply vanish from memory. You feel empirically dumber.

At its worse, you start to talk about a topic, branch into a subtopic, and are unable to find your way back. You find yourself asking people "what was I talking about?" all of the time, imagine doing this in the middle of a presentation or while talking to a client.

Relevant Study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3931635/
How to write a decorator for generator function in Python?
I approve of shedding anonymity (in most cases) but I'll also note that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Certainly not a complete picture. More of an unfinished amaetur impressionist water color.

But something along the lines of the dynamics seen in reaction diffusion systems.

Once you have a "metabolism" where interacting chemicals produce one another, you have a system that can sustain itself on it's reactants.

In a mess of random reactions, order will emerge through feedback effects, chemicals that are used up are used up, those that are replenished will increase in concentration.

Various regions will have different ratios, and different impurities giving a landscape in which versions of the metabolism may specialize or interact.
...
Some regions produce molecules that self assemble into things like walls and membranes.
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RNA, likely around as a component the whole time, at some point it is specialized into an information medium role.

Stir continuously, simmer for 1-billion years or until it photosynthesizes.
No, Scandinavian countries are capitalist and in fact more economically free than the US. They have little or no nationalization of industry. The Scandinavian socialism meme needs to die.
>Every time there is some inkling of negativity the panic sets in, they criticize the study

Source? Is there any empirical evidence that this is happening or is this just what you're telling your self? IMHO, it's quite the opposite -- anytime cannabinoids are shown to have medical value people claim "correlation does not imply causation" and "we need more studies" and "this only works in a lab!!1".
What if pot makes people crave & consume more refined sugar products?
In Firefox I can hit / or ' to type the link I want and hit enter. When sites mess around with keyboard shortcuts it makes my browsing experience inconsistent and disorienting.
The SWF specification has been open for many years.
Back in the 90's there wasn't a good migration path. A lot of the migration technologies have only come recently. Some examples:

NAT64 - October 2010

DNS64 - April 2011

464XLAT - April 2013
The rabbit part is pointless. It has to be a perfect rule-following rabbit that lives arbitrarily long. i.e., not an actual rabbit.

I'm not sure what the impossible rabbit adds to the argument, and it certainly takes something away.
Standing desk. Skip lunch. Green smoothies.
I think what this doesn't address is why fatigue is more of a problem is JS than in other languages. You rarely hear about Ruby fatigue, Python fatigue, etc. Is the insane turnover rate of JS tools really essential to writing great software?

I finally started to feel the fatigue with the React and Webpack takeover. I was really into them at first, but I realized that while I was constantly learning new tools, my software wasn't really improving, in fact all the constant changes with upgrading tools was causing a lot of headaches and bugs. And at the end of the day, a good dev can create the same app with react and webpack, or coffeescript and ember, or plain old JS and jquery.

In short, JS fatigue game me premature "get off my lawn" syndrome and I actively avoid front end work now.
Sure, but read the link.

> It is often said that the phrase "First do no harm" (Latin: Primum non nocere) is a part of the Hippocratic oath. The phrase as such does not appear in the oath...
Not at all. HN is a Silicon Valley echo chamber while at the same time being an accurate reflection of the tech industry: predominately young, white men with vocal but shallow opinions on anything outside of tech.
Once weed is legalized, as it should (obviously), these kinds of studies will be less political. Until then, you can't blame people.
Are you talking about ZFS on linux or just ZFS itself? It's pretty wild to say "it's more trouble to run it than its worth" just about ZFS when you run it on FreeBSD or Solaris.
That sounds like a top-down policy of required gene editing, which is a strawperson.
> Taxpayers are actually not funding any of this.

Today if you buy an LCD monitor from Foxconn, they have to pay ~5% Wisconsin state sales tax. Under this deal, they get the rebate. So, taxpayers are paying with revenue they would otherwise have gained.
Well, it's hard to be specific since nobody ever mentions which patents they're talking about. But I would assume that somebody at AMD has the skills to determine whether Nvidia uses the "good matrix" technique, or whatever it is people are assuming AMD patented that Nvidia is trying to hide.
Or novels, or nonfiction.
> a global communist state of society where human nature no longer applies and people are no longer self-interested.

Until 300 generations back, all of human society was "a global communist state of society". Over the past 300 generations, domination by an idle class of heirs over the working people of the world has spread.

How is "a global communist state of society" a place where "human nature no longer applies", when that was the only form of society at all 10,000 years back to the dawn of humanity, whereas the current dominant economic system has only been predominant for the past few centuries, and has endured massive crises, recessions, revolutions, depressions etc.?
Thanks! I'll take a look! I have an AstroHat on my Pi and I think it should be straight forward-ish using one of these.
You don't want to work anywhere where certifications are valued that much to the point that simply having a cert gets you hired. It's an extremely bad reflection of the management and technical staff there.
> Software solves business problems. This is it. Software does not exist to please us as programmers and let us write beautiful code.

Code is a machine, and elegance will always be important -- bottom-line important -- to making good machinery.

I see programming as a divine pursuit of truth that, as a side-effect, will automate the solution of all our problems (except for over-population. That one's on us.)

At this point the total amount of code in the world should be contracting.
I'd never heard of the UF[1]. That is totally fascinating.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidad_de_Fomento
Occasionally I like to reread the introduction in the Corbato, Vyssotsky Multics paper from 1965. It's amazing how long these kinds of ideas were around.

"Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) is a comprehensive, general-purpose programming system which is being developed as a research project. The initial Multics system will be implemented on the GE 645 computer. One of the overall design goals is to create a computing system which is capable of meeting almost all of the present and near-future requirements of a large computer utility. Such systems must run continuously and reliably 7 days a week, 24 hours a day in a way similar to telephone or power systems, and must be capable of meeting wide service demands: from multiple man-machine interaction to the sequential processing of absentee-user jobs; from the use of the system with dedicated languages and subsystems to the programming of the system itself; and from centralized bulk card, tape, and printer facilities to remotely located terminals. Such information processing and communication systems are believed to be essential for the future growth of computer use in business, in industry, in government and in scientific laboratories as well as stimulating applications which would be otherwise undone."
Unless you have a valid need to write low-level code (something you would have done in C or C++), choosing Rust for your next project will destroy the productivity of your team.
>which is why it is extremely important to know the problem domain we are working on

To a point. Time spent learning the business domain can't be spent on finding new tech products. If you don't explore new tech products, you are potentially missing out on something that would further allow you to maximize revenue and minimize cost or generate new revenue streams or offer some new service that the business wants.

While learning the business domain from people, you're taxing people who could otherwise be working on business problems. There is communication overhead you can't get rid of. You can fatigue someone with domain questions as well. I can't go bother a surgeon any time I feel like it for surgery software feedback -- the guy's likely busy saving lives.

If you're lucky enough to get a mentor who's willing to spend time to teach you the field from an entry level, great, but realize that person could be addressing problems with their expertise and are paying an opportunity cost to teach you, which could translate to revenue or reduced costs.

If you're going to teach yourself to be good at two entire fields, programming and your problem domain, then you're spending a lot of time on that. There might be jobs to tide you over, but again, what else could you be doing with this invested time?
Perl 6 carries 2 pieces of baggage from its predecessor - prefixing variables with "my" to create lexical scope and the obligatory "use v6;" at the top of every script. Why can't an advanced language like Perl 6 scope variables without littering "my" everywhere? You don't see it in any other mainstream language I can think of.
I see a lot of people focusing just on the 3k jobs, but isn't building the multi-billion dollar plant going to inject some good money and jobs into the economy as well?
Anyone please explain what is the utility of FB. The newsfeed quality is terrible, with lots of spam and inaccurate content. I stopped using FB a while back, I don't get why a Billion people are still hooked on to this social media trap.
Some people believe that a lower bar is more achievable, and will provide learning, feedback, and encouragement to surpass a higher bar.
I think the parent poster is just referring to negativity in this thread, not claiming a statistically significant sentiment trend in comments sections about marijuana studies.

I agree that among policy makers, unfounded anti-cannabis bias is predominant, despite the studies you mention.
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Same, except the only people in that dorm were kids who had super strict parents and who often were placed there because their parents were worried...

The 'drug and alcohol free' floor was probably among the worst in terms of drug use, alcohol use, partying, and worst of all, floorcest.
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I currently use zerodha for investing in mutual funds. Both offer direct funds. There are no transaction charges with zerodha coin, no demat charges either, but they do charge a flat monthly fee of Rs.50, regardless of the number of transactions or funds you invest in. With piggy, as per their website, the fee is Rs.30 per transaction for every time you buy a fund, and Rs.100 per year for every fund you SIP. RS.3 for every time you buy a liquid fund.

So piggy turns out to be cheaper for most people who would start an SIP with 2-3 mutual funds. Since I guess most people won't have needs that extend beyond this, piggy is probably the cheapest platform to buy mutual funds. However, for someone expecting a larger number of transactions or SIP with more than 6 funds, zerodha would turn out to be cheaper. Also, if instead of an SIP, for some reason you wish to invest a different amount every month, zerodha would turn out to be cheaper.

A big advantage of having a zerodha account is that I can also invest in index ETFs which I feel are much safer than mutual funds for the long term. Index mutual funds have very high expense ratios of more than 1%, but in comparison the index ETFs have lower expenses, like the NIFTYBEES etf has an expense ratio of just 0.1%. The SBI NIFTY etf has an expense ratio of 0.05%. There are no exit loads or transaction charges. These are passive funds that just track the basket of companies in the NIFTY index.

I think index ETFs should also form an important portion of a person's long term/retirement investment portfolio, apart from mutual funds.
Proprietary drivers, firmware blobs and ASICs are a national security threat. Without open code reviews, auditing and functional verification it's impossible to trust there are both a minimum of exploitable bugs and/or backdoors in a given software-hardware stack. This may require some sort of confidentiality rubric but there's no shortcut to getting around this vital need.
That was a typical embellishment by Alex Jones. The actual story was that the males of a certain species of frog became transsexual when exposed to Atrazine weedkiller.

There was also a story going around some years ago about the same thing happening to a species of fish, but I don't recall the details.

The point is that some of the chemicals we use have an effect on biology and we need to pay more attention to what is going on. Alex Jones might be hyperbolic, but he's touching on an important topic that many supposedly more kosher news outlets barely discuss.
Also if this is used for business and all participants are employees and/or in single-party states/jurisdictions then there could be anyway for a company to indicate it has the consent of all parties.

And recorded transcription plus automatic realtime transcription of non-authorizing parties might embarrass them into allowing it. I've become persuaded over the last decade that two party consent no longer makes sense (though that means the law should change, not that there should be civil disobedience)