skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, much of the 'opioid crisis' is entirely manufactured by how we've dealt with things. If doctors had recognized opioids as habit-forming and planned ahead of time to wean patients off of them with a long period of gradual tapering down in dosage (so if it takes 6 months or more, so what?) before quitting. Instead, they decided 'addiction' was a moral failing and simply stopping giving anyone prescriptions no matter how legitimate the need.

One thing that rarely gets mentioned is how abundantly SAFE opiates are. If you know what you're getting, know what dosage it is, and know it's not adulterated with other substances, you can use opiates for decades without significant health complications (aside from constipation). Overdoses primarily happen with people mixing medications, trying to use unfamiliar medications recreationally (nothing can save a stupid person who wants to get high but can't be bothered to figure out what the right dose for that is for their body mass), or, most often now, having to get things from a black market where the supply is unknown potency or contents.

Fundamentally there is one group of people who is angry that other people are using a chemical to feel good because they feel that if other people aren't suffering as much as they have then they were cheated somehow. And they've been driving policy since the 80s, costing countless lives and monumental amounts of resources. Just to make sure no one has an easier time of life than they had.
The book to read about the opioid crisis is Dreamland by Sam Quinones.

It is really well written and researched and lays out the several separate events and trends that converged to make this perfect storm happen when and where it did:

https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidem...
This is actually a really hard problem to solve. At my company we have been working with several social data enrichment providers and even the "best" have a pretty high degree of error.

For what it's worth we just typed in a few "lesser-known" emails/twitter handles and it picked up relevant and accurate data.

I'm going to signup for an API key and fill out the contact form so we can talk to you guys. Is there any plan to support Instagram handles? Twitter seems to be the network of choice among services like these but I would argue Instagram data is much more valuable, especially when it comes to influencer marketing.
it's too far away
Re the Go thing: they give you a go package: https://github.com/nginx/unit/tree/master/src/go/unit.

Note that it's actually CGo (which is not Go), and it uses a non-standard build process to install it: http://unit.nginx.org/docs-installation.html#source-code.

I don't like it at all :( I usually put plain nginx in front of my app, to handle static files and simple load-balancing, but this seems to be oriented towards handling issues best handled elsewhere.
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Usually it came down to the game CDs themselves acting as actual Redbook CDs, though not fully standards compliant. It was easier just to store some normal songs like that then use one of the rather poor compression standards of the time
I think if we're talking about compilation as an analogy we're talking about being able to customize the phone to very specific specifications before it's manufactured (battery size, camera type, headphone jack, etc) and then having the phone constructed in the same sealed kind of way any modern phone is made. That might be interesting if the manufacturing process could be made cheap enough.
> for any application of geoengineering there will be winners and losers

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/ice-stupas-himalaya... comes to mind as a project where there doesn't have to be a "loser". They are trying to replicate the previously naturally occurring process and the water still works it's way through the watershed.
I'm surprised I've not seen the phrase "close the analog hole", which was a popular one in the early days of MP3s, used to describe the end-goal of this design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
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I'm not denying how markets work... I'm denying that we should rely on them in a crisis like this.

>We don't need to bring coercion (AKA govt) into the equation, you can meet your own needs for creating a world that seems "fair" to you without resorting to violence.

Oh put the talking points away. Why don't you go ask some disaster survivors which is more violent: $100 for water sold privately by a gouger or government provided water? This is exactly the situation that government is created for.
Methane goes away pretty quickly on its own, so that's less pressing. CO2 is needed in the atmosphere, but not nearly as much as we have. Pre-industrial levels were 30% lower than current levels.
I love the design of that double wine glass; I imagine that it'd only make sense for two headed ogres :)
>I wrote this tool because I found a lot of the Ethereum tooling opaque and difficult to understand.

Thank you, I don't feel alone now.
Show HN: Help DREAMers find jobs and new countries
Since the announcement that the DACA was going to be repealed I was feeling quite
depressed about the way our country was treating so many people. I'm incredibly
hopeful that the courts will protect the DREAMers, but leaving the fates of so
many people who really are a part of the fabric of America is too reckless for me.

To Dreamers, I hope I and the community can help, and I'm really sorry.

To other hiring managers, companies, and recruiters outside the USA, and especially
to other American expats like me looking in, please take just a moment to consider these
people even if you wouldn't normally make an offer for relocation.

To other HN folks, please let people in your life who might need this know, and I'd
appreciate any comments or improvements you could suggest. The source code is here
https://github.com/estsauver/Dreamon and I'll be attaching an open source license shortly.
Also here: https://github.com/doshea/nyt_crosswords and a couple of other repos on GH.
I dont think it's political.

Seattle is a competitive market, which is slowly trending towards SV, SFO.

A 2nd HQ makes a ton of sense for Amazon.
On a side note, can you believe it's been 10 years since 2008 economic crisis?!
Maybe English is not their first language?
Marijuana seems to be approaching the peak of inflated expectations of the Hype Cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle. Pretty much nothing can't be healed by smoking weed. Let's hope it soon goes back to normalcy.
>I know this!
Velociraptors are always the real enemy
Translation from corporatespeak: "Our AI frameworks are losing developer mindshare to TensorFlow, which is controlled by Google, so we are joining forces."

Corporations like Facebook and Microsoft do not like interoperability... until and unless it's in their best interest.

The goal here is to make AI frameworks easily interchangeable: build your model with whatever framework you like; it will run unchanged on all other frameworks/platforms/stacks.

Regardless of the motivations, I actually think this is GREAT NEWS, and I hope that Amazon and maybe Apple, and eventually hopefully Google too will introduce and promote compatibility with this standard.

We all benefit from more interoperability.
> For a big state, that might make have a bigger impact and make more sense, especially since you're not going to find 50,000 software engineers in Montana.

I bet you would if you announced next month that Amazon was opening an 8,000,000 square foot facility in Montana and would be hiring software developers at Amazon wages.
A bit of humorous pedantry: We seek to prevent reckless driving. "Wreckless" driving is what we're trying to promote.
I think it would be more constructive to base environmentalism on rational arguments (of which there are many), rather than chemically flipping some switches in the brain to make everyone love nature.
I see people advocating the implementation of quantity controls as a means to control hoarding as if those words had some intrinsic magical merit. Think about it carefully for a moment and you will realise there is no actual way for a single monopolistic store (let alone competitive stores, plural) to fairly ration something in who supply.

Is the rule one per person? What if I go back to the store N times? What if I have kids or aged parents that cannot come to the store themselves?

What if I buy a few per store?

Is it even fair to preclude these courses of action?
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Critical evaluation does not depend on linear rankings.
And this is "suspicious as hell" because ... why?

Your points #1 and #3 were true even before he had the background checks for both working at an airport and for a global entry card. Why should they not be suspicious before, but be enough now to change his status?

How many other people meet those three criteria?

Are you sure you aren't selecting these three criteria post hoc? For example, after the Madrid bombing an Oregon lawyer was arrested on suspicion of being involved. Quoting http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5053007/ns/us_news-security/t/fbi-... :

> As additional evidence in support of Mayfield’s arrest, the FBI pointed to Mayfield’s attendance at a local mosque, his advertising legal services in a publication owned by a man suspected to have links to terrorism, and a telephone call his wife placed to a branch of an Islamic charity with suspected terrorist ties.

> They also noted that Mayfield represented a man in a child custody case who later pleaded guilty to conspiring to help al-Qaida and the Taliban fight U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

The FBI seems to have thought that lawyer was "suspicious as hell", but wouldn't have started looking at him if the fingerprint hadn't been wrongly identified as being his. I believe you are doing the same - thinking that someone is guilty then looking for things that confirms your suspicion, without considering how the process itself biased your answer.

Without a background rate, which includes other criteria you might come up with for other people, you can't really know if those three criteria really are suspicious.

As someone with odd behaviors, I don't know how to interpret your #3. It sounds like people who don't conform to what you think of as normal are not to be trusted.

The practices like not shaking hands with women are, as the article says, common to people from Mali. The reason for his wardrobe choice is also not that uncommon; it's called "dressing for success." Many people do it.

Also, others dress up for different reasons. http://mashable.com/2015/08/08/black-men-dressing-up-police/ points out that some black men deliberately dress in a suit because it's physically safer and it deflects prejudice. This practice is over a century old. How unfortunate that you might find this "odd behavior" done to avoid suspicion itself suspicious.

What do you consider to be an "odd place"? The only named travel was to Germany, for a conference. How is that odd? Am I odd for having traveled to Africa? Does that make suspicious in your eyes?
> It doesn't stop p-hacking, it just makes it harder.

I could see the reverse happening, where higher p-value standards lead to normalization of deviance in the form of worse p-hacking.
I mean for people you havent and never will meet; I can somewhat understand for people that dont actually exist yet.

I'm not thinking of personally being aware of them and i can even rationalize not finding strangers to be tangible. I understand the bystander effect and all that. There are any number of ways I can accept not doing anything, but the idea that someone could legitimately just not care is deeply unsettling.

Like, for the bystander effect to apply a person has to care and then think "someone should do something". Its the idea that someone can instead just not care even superficially that is disturbing.
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Why do I have this feeling that most of these objects could be used to document the developers experience working with 'enterprise' Java constructions?
Sunday's word length slots in nicely between Thursday & Friday, which matches what I've read the NYT editors desire (for Sunday to be "roughly as difficult as thu/fri") ... and gainsays your hypothesis =)

Rather than the set of possible answers being U-shaped, maybe it's a size thing: it is hard to fit in N medium-sized words unless you have the extra space of the Sunday puzzle.

The top & bottom of Fri/Sat puzzles are often split into just two words (one long, one short), this might inform our developing hypothesis.
http://www.voynich.nu/writing.html
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but he's talking about peer pressure right? AFAIK we haven't evolved past keeping up with the Joneses. And if the Joneses aren't up to much well then that's one less thing motivating us.

I'm sure it's not the whole story but I think it's reasonable enough to assume it will be a contributing factor for many.
I'm pretty annoyed by Munchkins, and enraged by Alvin and the Chipmunks, so maybe there is a reason.
P = Park
> We could choose to spend our own money on gasoline to drive down and distribute water. We do not need to seek compensation for everything we do. We can choose to lose money to help people who are in need.

And many people do choose to do that and they may still do so. But I don't think there should be a prohibition on someone that does not have the luxury to help the needy at a great personal expense
Here are the top eng colleges in US: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering...

Do you see UoU and BYU there in the top 50? I don't either. For contrast, 2 of Silicon Valley's univs are in top 5.
Yes very good point. When I think about how ridiculously hard I've had to work just to maintain the lifestyle that my parents had and I compare that to how little my parents had to work (and how little ambition they had), it's very clear to me that the baseline amount of work and ambition required to get a decent modest lifestyle has become insanely high.

Giving up actually makes sense. Drugs give back that feeling of satisfaction that has gone missing from people's lives.
Or... you spend your time building something useful, leveraging skills you do have, and let nginx leverage its own strengths.

What you say, sounds like NIH syndrome to me.
Don't forget the tailings ponds that are constructed to park the waste and residue chemicals from extraction and processing. They are simply left there until time and eventual facilities decay allow them to leak into nearby waterways.
This seems reasonable.

Or would you recommend that the airlines lower their prices to $1 and then let homeless people fly away while the rest of us are stuck?
lol what the hell are you on about
When I read this, I just assumed he could see what was going on and just didn't feel like playing the game. But it could be that he was thick. At the very least, no more thick than the HR person on the other end of the conversation.

Por examplo: I get the arguments that Stanley was a bit of a buffoon, but at the abstract level, the HR person lacked the pragmatism and interpersonal skills to identify a possible problem with a job description, and at the very least run it by the hiring manager if they were not allowed and/or comfortable adjusting the must-fit qualifications themselves.

I see a few people like this in every company and they most definitely hold up progress. Most of them get fired, rigidly filtering resumes by well-defined criteria isn't the only facet of being a recruiter. Working to help build teams is a mix of being assertive when its important and bridging the gap between what was said and what is desired, much like life. A failure to distinguish between the two types of situations is a pretty big flaw for anyone who will be working as part of a team.
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>If the price is too high to be bought, the seller can't sell anything.

This is the trick in your sentence. We're talking about aggregate demand and aggregate supply but at the individual level there is certainly the possibility that the price is too high for someone to buy.

Here's the problem, economic utility cannot be a moral guide in this situation, look at this example:

(1) Water is normal price but with a limit per customer or lottery.

(2) Water is very expensive and the richest person or people in town buy a lot and hoard it.

#2 generates a lot more economic utility, but we can all agree that it's not an optimal situation here.
But can I use Perl 6?
Note that you would not have an encoding for negative numbers then, and you would have to use the alternative base64 table,

+/0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

as the normal one is not order-preserving. Otherwise yeah, you could probably do that--and of course there are many ways to patch what you've got to handle negatives, e.g. by noticing that it is slightly wasteful (the base64 prefix ++++++++ is never used) or by using a leading character lower than + (so - is out but ! for example is available) and then encoding the rest of the string in an "ascii-reversed" way.

However I must object to the idea that "real hardware" cannot handle the petabyte scale. The in-article recursive approach of using the algorithm:

function encode(number) {
//calculate some base number_string
return number < NUM_THRESHOLD?
number_string :
sigil + encode(number_string.length) + opt_divider + number_string;
}

is not a particularly bad one. The only thing that maybe I'd balk at is that the given encoding requires a human editor to use an ASCII table to lookup their string lengths, which is clearly undesirable... one might instead go for the most naive case where NUM_THRESHOLD is simply 10 and have the number 123,456,789,012,345,678,901 be represented as:

~~2 21 123456789012345678901

so that it's clearly "there are going to be 2 length strings" (hence two tildes) -- the first always has length 1, it specifies "the next has length 2" and then "the next has length 21."

This is also pretty easy to parse and one can use a leading - sign to encode negative numbers, for example.
Lol. At my work I am still eagerly awaiting the arrival of C++11.
I'm basically the opposite. I cannot stand email for day-to-day work discussion, because there is effectively no way to distinguish messages by priority or time-sensitivity. Email sits in the horrible middle road between synchronous (like a phone call) or asynchronous (like a physical mailed letter). I think email works well (and seems to be designed) for the latter use case, but at work there may be an expectation of prompt responses.

For me, Slack and similar work really well for small companies or teams (20 or less). I haven't experienced work chat in a larger company or team, so I could see it getting messy.

As for people getting mad at you for going offline to buckle down and get work done, that seems like a business culture issue that isn't going to be any better at the same company if they got rid of work chat.
Two words: headphone jack.
We have Noam Chomsky, who of course, has no idea whatsoever about this (it is very far from his field), but still has no issue supporting him:

https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/13/3082157/noam-chomsky-shiv...
There was no mid-90's Slashdot. It started in late 1997. I should know, I'm user #1484. :)
You say "the choice is between amazon + tax breaks and nothing" like the legal and cultural framework in which these processes take place is a force of nature.

The choice is between those things because Amazon says so, and government chooses not to stand up to them by refusing to cooperate country-wide, or passing federal legislation.

Amazon is not an outlier here: this is how all deals of this size in the United States get done. It's a national embarrassment.

It doesn't have to be that way, and it isn't in many other countries.
sorry but if i have to choose between a guy with an AK47 demanding $5 from me, and a shadowy power pulling the strings of a vibrant economy to extract 10% of my income, I know what I'd choose.
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More self aggrandizing?

We already have people with job titles like "Software Engineer" despite a lack of engineering degree. "Data Scientist" seems similarly bad, but at least most people claiming that one can justify the "scientist" part with a B.Sc. degree of some kind.

And then there's this gem: "Very seldom do we hear of buildings collapsing or people not getting into their house because of bad planning."

Directly insulting real engineers... We don't hear about problems, so engineering must be easy!

The level of arrogance displayed by rank and file programmers never ceases to amaze me.
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Hey HN, I've been hacking on Database Flow for the past year, it feels great to finally release it. You can find the source at https://github.com/KyleU/databaseflow
And it wasn't all just "strongly held beliefs" there were very real problems with upgrading parts of npm.

npm for a long time was built to do what npm did. There was no spec, no "rules" it did what it did, and changing that behavior was a breaking change. Everyone could agree that feature X needed to be fixed or redone, but doing so would break a significant number of packages/projects so it wasn't done.

Yarn was the solution, they could start from scratch, not worry about those older/undocumented/arcane edge-cases. They didn't have to care about backwards compatibility, or even reimplement the same API.

Every time this question is asked, I also like to point out that many of the Yarn devs were npm devs, and the project as a whole not only had the "approval" of npm, but also was in-part encouraged by them.

Competition is good, and it's "the javascript way" to have multiple competing tools that each prioritise different things. Yarn is pretty much a perfect example of that.
Most people understand the world emotionally. Although rational and logical analysis can lead one to the same understanding, the freedom of mind is a hard sell, whereas "here try this snack" is far more accessible for most. Expedient means come in many forms and fashions. In a world of so many narratives and rationalities, being able to open up somebody's emotional understanding to greater senses and truths is something absolutely wonderful.
I've used tombstoning as well. The biggest problem is that you have to let it run long enough to determine if anyone is actually using that method - and with sections of an application that are not oft-used, you could be waiting a very long time to find out.
You need to go where your community is. If your audience is primarily on IRC, you can't just ignore it.
Many companies and open source communities have migrated from Slack to Discord. How is it different, aside from marketing and playful copy?
I agree with you, but I would argue the opposite. If you wanted to tip over Texas (and make it blue), moving 50,000 progressive jobs is a great way to do it. I'm in Dallas, and we're a lot closer to doing this than you would expect. Dallas, Houston, Austin are already blue.

If you can turn Texas blue, it's game over.