skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a friend that has chosen the pursuit of crack cocaine all the way down. The job went a few months ago and yet the dedication to crack cocaine continues.

Note how the crack cocaine is the drug here, after an unknown time on normal cocaine the nose got so bad that crack was the only way. Next there will be the mix with heroin, if this has not started yet. Then payment - said friend is blessed with a vagina so along with everything else this will be rented out for crack cocaine.

Coupled with this costs go up. As the addiction continues more crack cocaine is needed to get to baseline normal.

Along the way all friends and family get reamed out. Borrowed money is not returned. Then every line of credit is used, e.g. payday loans.

Moving in to a lover's pad means no rent and food doesn't matter by then.

There are jobs in the black economy for instance babysitting, for your dealer, for crack cocaine as payment, what could go wrong?

I have desperately tried to change the outcome for my friend but know I have as much luck with that as praying for my mum's arthritis to get better. I enabled too, I did lend her money to move flat share before I knew of the problem.

My friend does come from a background of poor single parenting and that gives rise to the so called addictive personality. All it took was to meet the allegedly cool crowd and get partying. It was great at the start but the price was addiction.

This is how a typical drug junkie should be - childhood narcissistic harm due to a lack of love. But we have not got that in America with the pill epidemic, that was a culture of greedy over prescribing by doctors. It has been a stupid epidemic, creating drug addicts. These people just get caught up in it like my friend and end up doing things they would never do just to pay for this descent into hell. It is just a matter of time.

My friend had a good job with great prospects, a lovely flat, a car, many things. Everything is gone. Paving the streets with gold would not have changed things. Making the drugs free would speed up the decline but I think this stuff is a lot cheaper than beer in a restaurant for your minimum next hit requirements. Begging can cover that, eventually.

It is easy to blame social economic matters but that is to miss the mark. The opioid crisis is a really bad deal and I believe that the numbers in the article are acceptable guesses as to the harm done.
So...HipChat?
Seems unlikely. Say a hedge fund calculated out that they could get a 20% return by buying warehouses throughout the hurricane belt and filled them with bottled water to sell at a huge mark-up (price gouging) during a disaster. Seems like more people would get the water they needed, if this happened, but it seems unlikely that the hedge fund would not be prosecuted for something after the public outrage at their actions.

I think having people default reaction to rare events of scarcity to be sharing any surplus, instead of grabbing all they can get, is a good one. Try to encourage a more rational but complicated reaction is unlikely to be successful. Who can know in such a complex system of millions of people and a disaster the best way to minimize harm. If everyone just stored a 5 gallon jug ($20 for a really nice one at Home Depot) of water for each person in their home, that would go a huge way to preventing dehydration during these disasters.
You're suggesting there are networking standards that compete with IPv4/IPv6? What are those standards?
I'd add RAII to this list. Also, I find simple template functions to work as an incredibly powerful macro system.
marketing is it really.
I am not sure if I could sell a tool where I am working when it states it is for gamers.

But maybe my marketing skills are just not up to the task.

I use both in a very similar way though.
> It's a moving metaphor but of course cells within us have the same genome whereas different humans have different genomes. So it's hard to consider them part of one living system, unless one accepts the Gaia Hypothesis.

Except recent studies have found that even our own cells often have different DNA from each other (not just due to mutation), and that what makes us function is a careful dance of countless microbes.
Oh hell no
externalities are inherently costs/benefits, the only thing that's different is who is affected.
Rising poverty, loss of manual labor jobs, and permanent injury from manual labor jobs.

The men aren't working because they're either injured or unemployed. Then, because their life sucks, the are more likely to turn to drugs.

Saying "opioids explain unemployment" has it exactly 100% backwards.

The average guy with a job, a house, wife, and 2.2 kids isn't going to get hooked on opioids. His life is already full.
HTC is the device manufacturer for the Google-designed Pixel phones. The easiest way to look at this is just a straightforward vertical integration. I don't see that there needs to be much strategy involved beyond "we think Pixel is going to sell well and want to make more money on it".
And really "Cloudflare as a CDN" was the most important. It absorbed almost all of the traffic:

Between August 22 and August 30, Cloudflare served over five terabytes of cached Space City Weather content via Cloudflare’s CDN. Only about 145GB worth of requests had to be served by the Space City Weather Web server itself. [...] Looking at raw requests instead of bytes, Cloudflare handled about 88 percent of those, too, with only about 12 percent of requests passed back up the chain to the origin server.

The origin server ended up seeing peaks of 50 RPS, most of that was absorbed by Varnish. I guess 50 RPS is a lot for WordPress, though I'm surprised given the origin server is a decent box:

The server has a quad-core Xeon E3-1230 CPU, 16GB of RAM, and mirrored R1 SSDs.
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Alright, well I'm sorry about your property but I'm still gonna ask you to go to those bad areas and ask them which is more violent, price-gouged water or government assistance.
Yes, they address this:

> Although correlational in nature, results suggest that lifetime experience with psychedelics in particular may indeed contribute to people’s pro-environmental behavior by changing their self-construal in terms of an incorporation of the natural world, regardless of core personality traits or general propensity to consume mind-altering substances.

and

> Rather than psychedelics promoting nature relatedness, for example, it could be that people who feel more connected to nature are more likely to consume psychedelic drugs. But the researchers do not beleive that this is the case.

> “As the relationship we found remained significant after controlling for demographic variables and personality traits such as openness to experience, conscientiousness, or political attitudes, it is unlikely that the association we found can be entirely explained by a collection of personality traits stereotypically associated with psychedelic users (e.g. being of the ‘hippie’ type).”

from this interview with them: http://www.psypost.org/2017/09/study-suggests-psychedelics-p...

Also note that the paper/title say 'predicts' not causes, which is accurate, it's a correlation and X being true does predict Y being true, but we don't know if X causes Y, even if the authors suspect that it might.
Did you read the article? The pellets _are_ the oil -- the outer shell is hardened bitumen, the inside is liquid.
Please define coercion.
Misread this, I thought this was Neural Language Modeling in Scratch, the visual programming language.
This is actually something that I have sort of encountered/pondered in my own life; while my family has never been wealthy by any degree, they have held a bit of land. But in just couple generations the original "estate" has been splintered into huge amount of small pieces, especially with the bigger family sizes of past. Such small pieces are not really that valuable, and can get "lost" (sold more or less voluntarily, or reach a dead end in family tree) more easily. My father has been trying to counteract this arguably destructive force by offering to buy some lands to keep them in the family, but of course his resources are limited and not everyone sees the splintering or the damage caused by it the same way.
The point I was trying to make is maybe you and the parent aren't that different you just talk about it different ways.
We still have paper ballots. This whole story is only about the software that calculates the numbers announced on election night (i.e. does a bit of summation of the manual counts).
The US situation varies by state. Most states do have paper ballots.

https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat...
It's a race to the bottom. It results in one state or city that pollutes for the whole country. Governments should set things up so the whole economy benefits, sometimes that means banning defections so that game theory doesn't fuck things up for everyone.
Found a similar system off a recommended video from that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF-DuVkQNQQ

Accompanying paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.07238.pdf

This stuff is pretty damn cool!
Thanks for posting this, but not all data is created equal. These crosswords only go back to 1976, are in .json format, and require nontrivial processing to get into a useful format for data analysis. By contrast, I very meticulously designed the formats available at xd.saul.pw to be easy to use. You can even extract some interesting results with just e.g. `grep` and `wc`.
I know good ol' boys who stick to beer, whiskey, and a little weed who regularly cull the duck, quail, deer, and wild pig populations to keep them from overbreeding. Mostly, they leave the coyotes alone because they keep the rabbits and prairie dogs in check.
> effectively no way to distinguish messages by priority or time-sensitivity

How do you do that with Slack?
Remember: this is an opinion piece, not news or editorial.
I'm not arguing for a ban, but here would be the argument: It's clearly unethical, undesirable behavior, but even if a particular municipality didn't like the game, it's tough not to play (much like taking corporate donations for political campaigns). So instead of trying to live the libertarian good life of "Our city is better than that" and losing because someone else has fewer scruples, it is proposed that the practice be banned.
there is an international airport in Kitchener-Waterloo (YKF)
It won't let me respond to your comment below ("Alright, well I'm sorry about your property but I'm still gonna ask you to go to those bad areas and ask them which is more violent, price-gouged water or government assistance.") so I'm doing it here.

Again I ask you to define the term violence. Because you're saying violence, but I don't see what is violent about charging a high price for something, so that's why I'm asking you to define violence, otherwise how can anyone have a reasonable debate about what's actually occurring?
I recently switched from zeromq to straight libuv sockets with jsonl (\n-separated json) payloads. Because I'm working inside a Node process, combining zmq's threading model with Node's threading model was a pain. Now, there's a single IO thread which is the same as the Javascript engine thread, and I can use uv_work to run CPU-intensive tasks on multiple cores.
The article mentions using rail cars to transport the bitumen balls -- but given the nature of the material, would they not stick together into clumps / semi-solid layers at the bottoms of rail cars? Coal is solid / brittle, almost slippery. These things seem to be the opposite.
To be fair, Ayyadurai has a BS and PhD from MIT, is a Fulbright scholar, founded and runs at least one software company, and is ahead of you on the frivolous lawsuit front.
The more I read what people today say (or worse: think) the more I worry that Atlas Shrugged is no longer fiction...

You almost directly quoted just now the excuse used by the looters in the book.
But it is true that in the past a lower-middle-class family could live on one salary, and office workers would often work less than 36 hours per week. Nowadays two salaries per family are required to stay just above the poverty line, and jobs require a minimum of 40 hours everywhere. This not just in America btw, the same happened all over Western Europe too.

It's ridiculous, because clearly automation and IT have increased output by huge factors; but clearly a number of forces (increased competition due to female candidates entering the workforce and lower-class candidates getting good education; adjustment of consumer prices over two salaries per family; etc etc) made it so that, on average, we "work" more for less pay. The work might be lighter on our bodies, and we all have running water in our homes, but apart from that we are not actually improving that much.
You should probably not shop for HTC right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/6nkks8/the_standar...

Granted, mistakes look to have been honestly made on the part of some, but the fact that this made it out the door is all I need to know.
Mono-repo or multi-repo? Why choose one, when you can have both?
I keep meaning to find the time to write something useful in COBOL. I've got a few ideas on useful things that would be a good fit for COBOL, but I haven't found the time to do so.

I mainly want to do this for the learning experience. New languages/frameworks/etc are cool, but old ones are special in their own way too.
Star Wars was art and had integrity. Unfortunately selling Jar Jar Binks dolls is more "profitable". The Bond franchise is art and has integrity, let's hope it can keep it.
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> 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.

To me, the idea that someone think "someone should do something" about that "something" is disturbing.

But this is HN, the place where those that make $100k/year a more wax poetically about the plight of poor people in third world countries while munching on the cheese and drinking the wine thinking that it is the waxing that counts.
Statistics arises from a set of axioms, assumed truths, which can be used to prove all other things in the field.

You can take a look at the three axioms people use to justify statistics. If you are willing to accept them, all else that relies on them (without using new axioms) must be true:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_axioms

This same logic is used to justify development in pure mathematics: choose a set of axioms which you accept as ground truths, and prove things using them. As long as you are unable to prove your axioms are contradictory, and the axiom choice seems acceptable, then the work that you've done (with respect to them) is philosophically justified.
I'd second C++ Primer. It's a great overview of the language and has been updated for C++11. Unfortunately it was written too early for C++14 and beyond so if there is a newer edition planned (I've no idea) it might be worth the waiting. In any case C++11 was the big change for C++ so the fifth edition is still worth while.

One word of warning though, there's a confusing similarly titled book called "C++ Primer Plus" which you should avoid at all costs.
You are absolutely correct.

Here's a data point: If we shoved the entire United States into the ocean and ended this nation as we know it, the reduction in GHG's (greenhouse gases) would be less than 15%, maybe half, if that much. A single massive wild fire emits more GHG's than the entire transportation and energy industry does in an entire year.

See "Emissions by Country" section in this report:

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...

Also,

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/6/1704.full.pdf

The paper explains, paraphrasing, how the issues created by carbon dioxide concentration are irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop.

Here's an excellent write-up on the conclusions from extensive experiments by Google:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-re...

From the article:

"We decided to combine our energy innovation study’s best-case scenario results with Hansen’s climate model to see whether a 55 percent emission cut by 2050 would bring the world back below that 350-ppm threshold. Our calculations revealed otherwise. Even if every renewable energy technology advanced as quickly as imagined and they were all applied globally, atmospheric CO2 levels wouldn’t just remain above 350 ppm; they would continue to rise exponentially due to continued fossil fuel use."
Paraphrasing: If the world converted to 100% renewable energy, CO2 levels would still rise exponentially.

Another point they made:

"Our reckoning showed that reversing the trend would require both radical technological advances in cheap zero-carbon energy, as well as a method of extracting CO2 from the atmosphere and sequestering the carbon."
> more tax revenue = better services for the citizens

Lol.

"When the government is able to collect tax and seize private property without just compensation, it is an indication that the public is ripe for surrender and is consenting to enslavement and legal encroachment. A good and easily quantified indicator of harvest time is the number of public citizens who pay income tax despite an obvious lack of reciprocal or honest service from the government."

--Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
Google made $31 billion in revenue from Android, according to court filings in the Oracle case.

Base Android (AOSP) is free, but Google Play Services costs real money. Add in advertising & their cut of app sales, and Android is a huge profit center.
So in a deb I can run "pip install foo"?

I have this idea that deb is more file-oriented. Never looked into it properly.
For most of the tests, they used a dedicated ultrasonic speaker. However, they also tested it with a Samsung S6 Edge controlling an Apple watch; it worked. So you don't strictly need specialized hardware.

Whether or not it works for TV depends on the broadcast signal (processing, audio codec) and the playback device speaker. The latter should work out somehow, given that a smartphone speaker can do it. Most audio codecs go up to 44 or even 96 kHz, so the range should be there. But digital TV signals carry lossy audio, designed to save space by throwing away data not discernible by humans. I'm not sure how high the fidelity of AAC is beyond 20 kHz. Should be easy enough to find out.
I would be surprised if go did not use the 'sendfile' syscall that does exactly this, is there a go nut that can clarify?
As someone who lives in DC: I'm with you on the DC metro making some sense, but DC itself is probably out. There's not enough green space to build a campus the size of their Seattle HQ anywhere in the city, given how the severe building height limits here would balloon the total required acreage. They might have some options someplace in the suburbs (maybe Arlington, or out along the Silver Line), or they could look at Baltimore: still pretty close to DC, but much cheaper, and with a lot more industrial land ripe for repurposing.
You're the one who brought it up. Lay it out.
RFPs are due by Oct 19. My first reaction was "there's no way city and state governments can work together to produce incentive packages that quickly".

On second thought, it makes me wonder if they're shopping for local governments which can be that responsive with an eye on getting stuff done efficiently in the future (permitting, zoning).
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When people say they should be removed they mean primitive operations (like a standard 'length' attribute/function, or an array index operator) shouldn't exist for that type.

Just like it is better to have something like .nth(X) as a function for stepping to a numbered node, so to does a language string demand operations like .nth_printing(X) .nth_rune(X) and .nth_octet(X); to make it clear to any programmer working with that code what the intent is.
It's definitive that Thiel put Harder on retainer with a mandate to find people interested in suing Gawker. When the Bollea case proved promising, that got further support.

Regardless of whether Ayyadurai's cases got more support from Thiel, without Thiel Harder isn't there to do this in the first place.
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>Google and Apple could certainly afford to pay much more than homeowners.

Total private land value in the US is in the trillions.

Google and Apple could hardly make a dent in paying for a UBI.
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Amazon is planning to hire another 20,000 people in Seattle within 3 years, on top of the 40,000 they currently have there. Then another 50,000 HQ office workers at HQ2, so overall HQ staff is expected double within 5-10 years. (Even if some of the Seattle headcount shifts to HQ2, it'll still be close to a doubling.)

It's mind boggling to me that they foresee their HQ staff doubling; I lack the imagination to guess what all those people are going to be doing. Aside from physical retail, what markets might they be eyeing?
I upvoted you in principle, but working with a tighter threshold would also make choosing self-serving data samples more obvious, if not more difficult.
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Where is the lower quality-of-life locale in which less ambitious people can live in peace? I suppose there are some places (cue the Amish Paradise), but it might require relocation. That has to remain an option until people voluntarily decide to "progress up."
Yeah this is a consequence of the mechanism design we currently have. Large companies can shop around for better tax breaks.
> is much more widespread and insidiously damaging.

Is that "is much more widespread and is also insidiously damaging" or "is much more widespread and is much more insidiously damaging"?
The implication is that this will make your ML better somehow. Not sure why that would be.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15190148
I don't know why I had always felt that Apple would end up buying this.
Google has much stronger brand and marketing and will have vertical integration: new phone can have exclusive features like assistant, Google home, chromecast, Google VR integration etc.

Another question is Google didn't succeed with Motorola, what will be different with HTC now? Experience?
Where is a good place to learn about these things in the future. I'm a bit floored by all this but want to keep tabs on it all too.
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Opiates solve the feminism puzzle!
If this is interesting to you, I suspect you'll find https://www.crystalknows.com/ even more interesting. (No association with the company whatsoever, just a happy user)
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> On the contrary, this was an obvious power play by the recruiter

This may seem obvious to you, but it's not to me. Why are you assuming malice on the part of the recruiter?
Have you been coerced to give someone money or property under the threat of violence?
I'm seeing general social media links, but very little content other than that. Almost no personality data for anyone I tried. If I put in a reasonably well-known HN user, thomas@sockpuppet.org, I am struggling to see any insight at all being returned.
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It definitely helps blur the lines so that full-on fake news can more easily exist and be accepted.