skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if all of our ancestors were potheads until weed was made illegal

I wonder too, but I believe not. Apparently cannabis has been used here and there at various point in history, but I didn't find mentions of widespread use or a pothead culture. It's surprising given how easy it is to grow and consume this plant. Maybe people at the time had other prerogatives or they had more fun with opium and alcohol?
I'm a mastodon user, so I might be a bit biased, but I find it a lot better than twitter. Different servers can also carter to different cultures or groups so you can find your own niche there.
FWIW, base64-js and similar libraries are still needed (though probably not in this case...) because window.btoa() only works on latin1 ASCII strings. Try giving it some arbitrary UTF-8:

btoa("\ud83d\ude0b") -> Uncaught DOMException: Failed to execute 'btoa' on 'Window': The string to be encoded contains characters outside of the Latin1 range.

(Edit: apparently HN doesn't either; changed to \u...)
Will Canada Be a Pioneer in Crypto Economy?
Rarely is one at fault when two argue.
>Or maybe they see it and think it'll make the sick well again.

I actually thought about that possibility. Figuring civilization will have collapsed several times, there's a good chance most people could look quite disfigured. I mean, post-apocalyptic wastelands can be harsh. At a minimum nobody will be exfoliating on a regular basis.

Then, if the meaning of certain common symbology happens to be reversed (e.g. arrows pointing away from the subject of interest), that's all it would take to mistake that image as marking the location of a miracle cure—a radioactive fountain of youth.
Understood. Here's a little overview of what happened in India: https://www.quora.com/When-and-why-was-marijuana-made-illega...
I think most leaders in these companies have a greater degree of self awareness of the unintended consequences their corps can have. This degree of self awareness did not exist in the mega corps of the 60s thro 90s. The levels of information asymmetry and mastery over scale that exist today has never existed at any prior time in history. What to do with these powers is basically unchartered territory. People who have serious experience in ecology, history and sociology will have much more constructive uses for these powers than any business, tech or political leader. But this hand off of power from traditional "growth" based leadership to "sustainable/equilibrium" based leadership is asking quite a lot from our existing leaders.
But I see signs off hope in Zuckerbergs speech on providing ppl "purpose and financial stability". This is a much harder goal than providing information to everyone or a better phone or better blockbuster entertainment. But it is a goal I actually respect him for putting on the table. He didn't have too. And that's leadership.
Did anyone else hear joint venture between the boring company and tesla? Volcano powered cars!
They're probably going for native advertising.
Perhaps it would be better to submit https://joinmastodon.org instead of the flagship instance. The project homepage has links to all the info as well as a directory of servers (instances), which might spread out new users better.
Adopting this scheme might really lead to improved code quality.
Common Lisp is reasonably standardized -- that's the whole point of Common Lisp, though it is hardly dominant. Among general Lisps and Schemes, readers are not standardized enough to say "kill XML, we'll just have S-Expr" (though I'm not sure what percentage of XML parsers out there follow the XML spec to the letter either).
People move home, particularly in the US which has a quite mobile population. Many people have many variants of their names, including middle names or long composed last names, and you have a huge number of homonyms. So while you may get a 90% hit rate on two, perfectly current, and breached at the same time datasets, I would expect that number to reduce greatly in a typical real world breach.
Infinitely more things than yellowstone can go wrong
I think comparing pot growing to slavery is a bit much.

Regardless, the people of California have voted by majority to decide how pot should be grown, sold, and taxed. You can disagree with it all you want, but unless you want to change the minds of the residents of CA and get it changed, this is how it is.

Illegal pot farms have been damaging public and private lands in northern CA for years, and now we have a legal framework to let people grow in an environmentally-sound way. There's also been a ton of violence involved in illegal pot farming. A legal framework could, and most likely will, make that safer.

It would be great if growers could get their work done in a sustainable, non-violent manner, but apparently they can't. So they get rules. And I have no problem with those who don't follow them getting fined or jailed.
Ask HN: What are the greatest books on stoicism?
if you click Topics -> News[0] it takes 2.7 seconds. They should throw that subdomain behind https://memcached.org/ (and not use php lol).

Unrelated, seems like I can't listen to podcasts. There's an <audio> tag (which doesn't use data unless you click on play if you set preload="none" [1]), so that's an interesting choice.

$ curl http://thin.npr.org/t.php?tid=1001
[...]
Total wall clock time: 2.7s

$ ping thin.npr.org
[...]
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 76.407/78.359/86.985/2.442 ms

[0] http://thin.npr.org/t.php?tid=1001

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/au...
I think the reason for this increasing complexity comes from efforts to be satisfy every single use case. When everybody starts pitching in in the creation of the standards with their weird corporate use cases and actual specification writers try to satisfy each and every one of them. There is no reason schema specification has to be very complex. Instead, it can be made open for extension but be very concise and with clear boundaries itself.
> curl -L https://git.io/fix-my-dns-plz | sudo bash

curl... sudo...

Can we please move beyond stupidity here?

At least use curl's pinnedpubkey flag. Anything other than a raw get piped to sudo.

---

And on another note: https://git.io/fix-my-dns-pl

> No url found for fix-my-dns-pl
A great many of the illegal pot farmers damage public (and private) lands, screw with the water supply, pollute rivers, and leave trash behind. Not to mention growing country has a higher rate of violent crime than even LA County. That's where the asshole part comes in.

(All of this is right from the article.)
Anything collected will eventually leak.

The issue is that companies shouldn't be collecting ANYTHING, and what they do collect should get purged ASAP.

The problem is that every company got addicted to collecting information and nobody made them pay the price for doing so.
Mom and 6yr old daughter singing Little do you know cover
https://youtu.be/P3hcFvsZRS4
And the social security system would become the paypal of identity. I don't know if they want that.

But an ID card is exactly that. It is a time limited, physical token issued by the state that identifies you to third parties. You could make it more secure with public-private key cryptography, by signing the information on the card, including the photo, such that forgery would become impossible (under 21 kids would hate that).
The `[@@blah]` syntax refers to the extension-points feature that was introduced in Ocaml 4.02:

https://whitequark.org/blog/2014/04/16/a-guide-to-extension-...
https://blog.janestreet.com/extension-points-or-how-ocaml-is...

These can be used to do the sort of metaprogramming that people used to do with camlp4. If you want to search more, the other keyword for googling would be "ppx".
Please consider using Python 3 instead of Python 2.

In particular, in Python 3, the expression 2/3 no longer gives 0, but 0.666… Much more intuitive.
No, but just saying so doesn't make breaking this law somehow ok. You disagreeing with something doesn't make it immoral.

Look, these people have been growing for a long time, illegally. I don't have a problem with the growing itself, but they've been making a mess of Mendocino County for years, and they're not exactly all nice people (violent crime rate up there is pretty high). Now we have a legal framework for growing, for actually doing it in a legal way. Sure, some of the new requirements will hurt. But overall we'll end up with a safer growing situation, and things will be done in a way that doesn't damage the land.
I thought your description must surely be hyperbole. So I read the article and found that you described it exactly as it was. I'm speechless.
They don't want fairness either, they want "fairness".

The difference between fairness and "fairness" is that "fairness" works out a little better for people like yourself than fairness does.
Numerous states had already sued the Obama administration in the other direction. (DACA being unlawful in the first place) Due to those still-ongoing lawsuits, DACA was probably about to go down in flames already.
I understand - I'm not aware of an asset class like bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies, so I have to go with opinion and extrapolation for a lot of the thinking. :)

It sounds like what you said is that the singularity may not happen because cryptocurrency deflation will make cryptocurrencies more attractive to hold compared to inflationary fiat. I'm fairly certain I understood it wrong.

Won't people move more of the money into deflationary currencies if they are accessible and exchange friction between the inflationary one and deflationary one is acceptable?

I appreciate the appreciation!
These acts are pretty much equal in terms of biological reactions and processes. Your hormones/instincts don't care where you "put your load", they only care that you did and normalized hormone levels.

It's also not something unique to humans, lots of other animals hump inanimate objects due to reproductive drive/hormonal urges, some primate species are actually quite infamous for their "lewd behavior".
Was it the farmer or the field? The fella that used to farm here wasn't so efficient or modern, but he paid the lord of the manors tithe, the new person is growing lots of new things, she's selling them cheap in the market.

Her toys are nicer than the family who live at the manor have ever seen, let alone owned.

She's kind of a loud mouth, keeps telling the peasants and the Baronial family that they need to change, that their ideas about life, culture and fairness are all wrong.

How does this story end.?We note that the Barons have swords, pikes, bows and arrows, a long track record of setting fire to houses and decorating them by hanging up the occupants. Perhaps though, this time, they'll simply chillax and go to the seminars that the new woman is running.

If they use option a. I expect that the next peasant in charge of the farm will be much less ostentatious, opinionated and will adopt all of the shiny new practices introduced by the last farmer. They probably won't invent many new ones... but then again are there lots of new ones to be invented now?
Yeah, but does it run on blockchain?! :)
Anytime the topic is brought up I bring up the term "stoner" and leave it at that. Something about too much use of the stuff is definitely wrong and not researched enough.
Ah my bad, even the wiki link I posted said it is layer 4. I guess both solutions could be utilized then, perhaps it was IPVS then since it would be more performant than HAProxy.
You don't know how to block these?
tl;dr = consumers
And for no benefit it all (or even regression), that's what maddens me.
> Maybe people at the time had other prerogatives or they had more fun with opium and alcohol?

Haha who knows. I guess a global cultural/and social change probably made people less "responsible". So this mandated a ban? Doesn't look so sound.

I guess there are some issues which most people don't wanna touch on. The constant demonisation made it a taboo.
If some people feel there's some vested interest behind it, we don't have solid proof. But feelings/intuition doesn't need such proofs ;)
Yes - it must be this way round. If there is a clear level playing field then things will sort themselves out in the medium term. While there's a lot of nonsense and confusion bad outcomes will arise.
For the French or German speakers here, there is an interesting 2013 Arte documentary on the subject:

French: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/046598-000-A/le-sable-enquete-...

German: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/046598-000-A/sand-die-neue-umw...

(I didn't find an English version or English subtitles for it, sorry...)

It's available until September 18.
You literally cannot make this up! The CSO is a graduate in music ffs! The website notifying customers about a security incident has an invalid certificate. The mind boggles how such companies are running day-to-day.
I dunno man, if you step away from the internet's constant drip-feed of doom and gloom articles and go for a walk outside, society seems to be doing fine.
Previous discussion of Mastodon here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303346
For everybody who isn't acquainted with how Social Security Cards work in the US and how they came to be I highly recommend watching "Social Security Cards Explained" by CGP Grey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus

He also explains why US citizens don't have an Identity Card as opposed to many European countries.
XML is not a serialization format. It's a structured document format. For, you know, human text and stuff.

When used as intended it is wonderful.
People in the UK voted to join the EC, not the EU. British leadership (Margaret Tatcher) was very straightforward from the begining about not joining the EMU/Eurozone.
From what I understand they will rebate your tax based on the local taxation you have paid, provided you can prove that.

Alternatively you can give up your citizenship... I think very few people with US citizenship ever do that.
Spinnaker is a really interesting piece of kit, though when I last tried it 3-4 months ago the docs were in a state of flux and it took quite a lot of fiddling about to get things going.

The one thing I cannot find any details on, and it's not specific to Spinnaker, is; how do you perform your database changes as part of your deployment system? I figured it would be sensible to have one-off tasks you could run inside your containers as part of the pipelines, but I've not found any guidance on doing that with any CD tool at the moment.
I don't see the point of this.

Children will be better off using interactive teaching aids on a computer.

Adults are more appropriately served with the same, or a decent textbook on the subject.

Why would anyone want to print this out and colour it? I suppose it might appeal to immature manchildren, but hopefully that is a smallish market.
I expect that if the proposition put to vote was simply to removing any existing laws around marijuana growing, sale, and possession, there's no way in hell it would have passed.

We all think of CA as this true-blue state, a bastion of progressive thought. But once you get out of the SF bay area and LA, you see a lot of red.

MJ isn't lettuce. It's a drug, just as tobacco and alcohol are drugs (yes, I know they have different effects and safety factors; that's irrelevant). It would seem unsurprising that it would be regulated in similar ways.

If your position is that tobacco, alcohol, etc. shouldn't be regulated at all, then ok, that's a fair position to have, but it's an entirely unrealistic one to expect the populace of any state in the US to get behind.
Do you really though, since your decisions are still going to be fairly simple like "more hidden layers" rather than solutions to differential equations. Couldn't you become competent just from having a broad experience training many networks for diverse purposes.
> And yet without Jill, Sam would have nothing to play with

And yet in the current system, without Jill's collaboration, Sam would have nothing to play with. Ftfy. This indicates a flaw in the system, if someone who isn't a productive member of society in any sense holds the nuts and reaps the lion's share of the profits.
Even if they don't have them now: Facebook is acquiring many companies. Hard to predict which parents they are going to have in a few weeks time.
Sanitary workers do get paid decently for unskilled workers.

People don't and shouldn't get paid based on some nebulous "how valuable their job is to society". That ignores supply and demand. The fact is we have more people that WANT to work as janitors than their are actual janitorial jobs, and so the wage gets driven. Whereas there are tons of people that need investors and can't find them (as anyone who gets even a modest windfall will quickly find out.)

Or in other words, remove a random janitor from the world and the job will quickly be filled and life will go on. Remove a random investor and entire businesses will disappear/not be founded and the world will be noticeably worse off.
We have extremely influential labor unions, the public sector is a leading job provider (even a majority employer in some areas), healthcare and a lot of infrastructure is nationalised, huge welfare programs, free public education for all...

But most importantly to the (joke) argument that we're the last communist country there's a massive popular adhesion to the points listed above and for some reason a deep seated mistrust of the wealthy.
> On average, customers go to physical grocery stores 3.2 times per month

This seems crazy to me -- not only must be purchases be enormous, but fresh meats and vegetables don't keep for 9 days between each visit. Am I missing something?
Default to Yes or how I refused to dine with Scott Hanselman
Local jury of peers, taking into account community needs and individual factors?

Like if we want to go full hippy and consider the global situation on this, the reasonable argument here is that children are owed f-all after education and insertion into society. That's fair, right?
yes, but you have to manually select which objects to watch, eg in your script, it goes through the window object and adds the Proxy observer to a set of classes. But Iroh doesn't use Proxies. With Iroh you can trigger an event for example "Iroh.MEMBER" and check if the property is undefined.
Show HN: Find which Game of thrones character you are based on your GitHub
4) What license do you plan to use?

5) Do you plan to support the Matrix protocol?

6) Do you plan to made income on it? If so, by donation or else (cost, ads, etc.)?
Lungfish can survive without water for 4 years
Imma crawl the shit out of this
The article says that we don't want to drill in the national park itself, which is too close to the magma chamber and might trigger an eruption. Instead it says we should extract the heat along the periphery, well outside the park's boundaries.
That is because there is a cost associated with renouncing US citizenship. You'll get hit with an exit tax on all your assets, making it extremely painful. The US really does not want you to renounce, because then they can no longer tax your global income.

They essentially punish wealthy people (financially) for renouncing.
I'm looking forward to platforms that are decentralized as well as allow rich media content (photos, videos, etc.) to be embedded/uploaded. Such platforms would have some chance of being an alternatives to centralized walled gardens like Facebook and Google+.

Edit: As pointed out by daveid (thanks!), Mastodon does allow uploading photos and videos. So my statement referring to it as text-only was incorrect, and I've removed that part.

Update: I created an account on an instance and it looked like Tweetdeck's web interface, which is something I do like during the rare times I login to Twitter. I personally would still like to see something richer and more familiar to people who use Facebook and Google+ in terms of the interface, features like groups, etc. I struggle to keep up with Twitter, and I find groups to be the best place for me on social networks. I also like that longform articles can be posted on Facebook with Notes. The 500 character limit in Mastodon seems a lot better than Twitter, but is still a huge restriction.
The average consumer doesn't buy fresh produce, but buys things that are frozen or canned.
You seem to have jumped over the question of identity theft for applying for lines of credit. I believe this is what most people are concerned about.
Minorities don't hoard wealth to the detriment of others. Minorities don't encourage and profit from a reckless, agressive, all-consuming consumer capitalist economy that's wrecking the planet. Minorities don't manipulate your mind with endless propaganda and advertising. Minorities don't lobby government to write laws that favour them. Minorities don't dodge taxes. In short, I have no valid reason to be angry at minorities, I have plenty to be mad at the privileged few in the current system. Honestly? If I have to spell this out to you I don't think this conversation is ever going anywhere.
The real crisis here is that Equifax isn't being held responsible for providing meaningful fraud protection beyond one year. When I lived in the UK, the banks were constantly trying to sell me "fraud protection" and "identity protection" - trying to argue with the salesdrones about why you think it is insane that they are trying to sell me protection against their own shoddy information security practices was useless.

I'm not a big fan of over-regulating, but this is a specific issue that requires a significantly heavier hand then "i'm going to another bank" as they are all as bad as eachother.
It's phenomena like hikikomori, social shutouts who can't cope with the immense pressure of Japanese societal hierarchy, which has become a far more viable lifestyle (than it already had been) due to advances in technology.

Along with that came the emergence of the "herbivore men" in Japanese society, partly also a reaction to the immense pressure put on Japanese men to be "successful" in an economy that can't supply "successful jobs" to everybody. Japanese men pretty much invented that whole mgtow-thing before it became popular.

The scary angle is a comparison with John Calhoun's Mouse Utopia experiment [2].

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM
The US is probably also realistically the only country in the world that would be able to do this and get away with it.

(Pretty sure Eritrea isn't collecting much from abroad..)
I worked here
I think that all relies on a lot of judgement and perspective. I think that the way to fix things is to shrink down (or expand) the letter of the law so as to catch the corner cases and to protect people appropriately (from the application of the law).

I think that the letter of the law must be applied generously and sparingly - but the rapid expansion of egregious evasion should be addressed because it is having corrosive social effects that will compromise this attitude and the norms that underpin it.
Same; mostly for it not letting me tell it to ban any news provided that put up paywalls.