skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The irrationality of modern drug laws, in one chart
Wow! This looks so cool. I really want to try this now, just for something trivial.

I get the sense that it wouldn't work as well with less than hundreds of pages though...
Those same 200 years have seen an incredible concentration of wealth towards the richest in society at the detriment of the poorest - and it still continues today. It is not unreasonable to ask if there is a better way to accommodate change.

I'm reminded of the quote by Ronald Wright that is perhaps better suited to today's discussion about Switzerland vs the US, but still feels relevant (and, as an immigrant to the US, very true):

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
Against local companies (like for in Seattle), it also creates an issue of competition for employment. In Seattle, every job I'm applying to is also being applied to by ex-Microsoft and ex-Amazon employees. It's a much harder competition to land jobs, but in the smaller markets you could find work much more easily.
Every person I know prefers reading manuals in paper book form.

Unfortunately with the computer taking over and with price gouging on books has more or less forced the majority to "put up with" reading on screen.

The system has failed us in not providing on the "promise" of localised (where you live) instant printing and delivery of cheap books from online.

In my view we have essentially gone backwards because of the advancement of technology.
Up, up and away
> That is because jobs aren't a hand-out.

There is a vast difference between government policy intended to help its citizens (and thus, the nation as a whole) prosper and grow and adapt as the economy changes, and "hand-outs."
Non-mining nodes do not have the ability to change the block chain and therefore they do not affect the rest of the network.
Sometimes I wonder what percentage of the people talking about all the things one can do with bitcoin in Zimbabwe have been to Zimbabwe and done those things.
This is a great idea and I’m going to order one for my parent’s rental house. Really nice job!

As constructive feedback I really wish the favorite places list showed the address of each location rather than the location type. I think the address would be much more useful information and the type is obvious from the name for each location I added so it’s kind of superfluous. I also wish this secondary text didn’t awkwardly wrap onto a new line when the location name is long—I think ideally each place would have its name on its own line followed by its address on a new line directly underneath it.

But that’s just a quibble—this is awesome!
It's cheap to freeze your credit report.
Right. You’re half way to getting the point.
The core idea is the same, but "almost verbatim" is a gross misrepresentation.
I imagine there are "people diagnosed with clinically depression" who could cure their depression by exercising and/or changing their life in some way.

However, I know a couple people who do not fall into that bucket. Both of these people suffer bouts of totally debilitating depression. They are both respected within their communities, smart, successful, and have full lives. Both of them get a lot of exercise, both are extremely fit and have been their whole lives.

In my opinion, the way to look at this kind of depression is as a chemical imbalance. Theorizing that there's some missing piece in their lives seems ridiculous to me. And yes, antidepressants work.
I wonder if there are longer records using drugs like modafinil; I know that the USAF used modafinil to offset losses to mental acuity for wakefulness on the order of 48 hours.
I mean one of the main cryptocurrencies attraction points - it's unregulated and you can move money cross borders freely. And guys from localbitcoin don't ask many questions. There are other ways also, I suspect.
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>"It wasn't very expensive (started around $300/month in WA), but was going up about 20% each year, so this year we switched to a high deductible plan."

This is what bugs me to no end about insurance. They get you with a low intro rate, then jack it up a massive amount annually, and leave your option as basically switching (if there are better options even available), or shouldering more of the risk by moving to a high-deductible plan (which makes them more money).

Are there no good, consistently-priced insurance options for those who are not full-time employees with benefits?
I like the toggle idea. Added to the list and thanks for the suggestion. I think we'll probably introduce different formats/configurations.
Thank you. The info on PGP is helpful. There is enough criticism of BART online that I can get the general idea that comparing something to it is not likely to be a positive.
I'm sorry but I do not consider experiences pursued to create art to have any intrinsic value for the final piece.

Cool, he has an instrumented emulator, but really, does playing a retro game for five seconds have ANY intrinsic value beyond worthless nostalgia?

In art all that matters is creation and output. A piece of art should not have to come with an explanation or hidden information in order to justify its worth. While it is important to fuel inspiration and artistic experiences, it's a fucking joke that I am expected to pay extra for the "experience" that lead to producing the work when it has no value to me, and especially when said experience isn't as unique as it is being made out to be.

Out in the real world people will judge art way more harshly than I. Real artists don't mind that.

Aesthetically they are nice posters and art-pieces. It's just that some of us are unmoved by the accompanying story.
The reason is that life is not really that simple. People pick people/assets/things based on reputation and popularity and not technical or practical merit.

Gold is used as a store of value despite the fact that it is 1. volatile 2. hard to store 3. hard to buy/sell and 4. hard to transport.
Moritz is right: Silicon Valley should be terrified of China
That's one of the automatic functions of the tensor tympani muscle. It also does it when you talk, and as part of your startle reflex.

Fun fact: some people have conscious control of this muscle and can voluntarily "screw up their ears" (at least that's what it feels like, it also makes a roaring/rushing sound) to dampen sounds.
Just tried it out on FireFox 58. I already have Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere and uBlock Origin previously installed.

It appears that this combo causes the DDG extension to return a blank dropdown when I click on the DDG icon.
Thanks - same print source it seems, maybe different radio story - that's dated today!
South Korea now sounds like Japan of a few years ago before China got in the WTO, Japan was the "big threat" to US manufacturing/exports of that time, so Japan got a close examination for things the US could learn to copy. But it also sounds a bit like US today or maybe it's all around the world - the college grads not seeing a lot of opportunity for the average or even superior college experience from those examples. It feels like the world is in a lot of trouble if this is true for most college grads everywhere.
Well, there is significant investment in this space (har har), with timelines much closer than a century making investors open their wallets today. And costs aren't really relevant in isolation, it's the ROI that matters.

Space mining is not the answer to things we can find otherwise on the ground. It is the answer to how we build things in space, and get things we can't get in bulk down here. The right rock could reshape our relationship to some of the rare earth metals, for example. Mining en masse in remote regions is no picnic, so if hundreds of millions invested in going up can bring many billions down on demand, the economics will make sense. Mining Antarctica for hundreds of millions of tonnes for a not-so-interesting minerals offers an upside that pales in comparison to the amazing nuggets we have floating around the solar system...

And if the economics are sound, technologically: if you combine a UAV and a brain about as good as we get in a Tesla you're just a few rockets away from some insane riches and the power to crush terrestrial markets on a whim... No soup for you <mineral producer>... that's the kind of thing Billionaires dream of.

The promises of low and micro g manufacturing, the decreasing weight requirements and increase intelligence systems, and holding the economic 'high ground' for humanities next step offer the potential to move the needle more than a little. Launch tech is the big bottleneck, so keep an eye on SpaceX :)
Id like to also add that there are an order of magnitude more transaction options provided by cryptocurrencies than there are for fiat payment systems. Id bet money that, collectively, the cryptocurrency ecosystem is able to process more transactions per second than all of the leading fiat processors combined.
I was a fan, and we got an Enterprise license when it was the only tier offered.
Now there's two tiers above EES with insane price jumps.
I can only assume there will be even more tiers introduced so we decided not to upgrade.
We use GitLab as a platform for the whole company, but only a handful will use EEP/EEU features. An upgrade would be inhibitivly expensive or we must reduce the number of licenses to a fraction of the employees.
It's not a binary choice. The sweet spot is in the middle.
For you, maybe.

Attitudes like this are why it's okay for websites to have a 1 MB javascript payload.
Employees at Practice Fusion got nothing as execs pocketed millions
Thanks, and much appreciated! :D
I wonder if young folks in the same situation in America are doing the same thing.
Poverty impedes cognitive functioning:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0103...

i.e., being poor is harder than it looks ...
Bitcoin's strategy is exactly that. And it would be a GREAT strategy if there was something about Bitcoin that made it the best "digital gold" available.

Sadly, the only property it shares with gold is that it's hard to move. In fact, Bitcoin Cash is functionally identical to Bitcoin and it's easy to move.

That's ignoring the hundreds of other digital currencies not named Bitcoin which make a better "digital gold".
I lived in Switzerland, paid 12% taxes and 5% for AHV (public pension fund, you don't get this money back), lived in a 100sqm (1000sqf) flat for 1800 chf a month, 25 min to zurich by train but only a 15min bike ride to work, ~110k salary
>I must be weird. At no time has the idea of a line ever influenced my decision to go into a convenience store.

I've walked into a store to buy something in the half hour before some large lottery is about to close (and everyone seems to be buying tickets), and walked right back out again.

Lines are also the primary reason I don't shop at certain stores (e.g. walmart).
What were the sentences?

The book also had a big effect on me.
I'd like to see a search engine where a trusted/verified set of users are allowed to categorize websites and the categories thus derived can be used by everyone to help filter their searches.

So when a categorizing user does a search and clicks on a result that takes them to best-auto-parts.co.uk, they click "Shopping" on their categorization toolbar. After one or two matching categorizations, that site gets excluded from searches which have "shopping sites" turned off.

You could also turn the categorizing thing around and decide that you only want to search within web forums (phpBB systems and similar), where you'll often find people posting rather esoteric knowledge about whatever esoteric car you're searching for.
R.I.P. a true loss

If you aren't familiar with her work, "Left Hand of Darkness" right now is on sale at Audible for $4 and the narrator is George Guidall. I didn't add a link because I'm not looking for some kickback, just a rare combination of two all-time greats on one book and for very cheap.
I just think this is the wrong place to ask this :)

You can try this out: travel.stackexchange.com
What about coins forked from Monero?

What about other privacy coins?

Are certain cryptographic algorithms going to be banned when used in a cryptocurrency?

These are all loopholes they'd have to tie up if they want to go down that rabbit hole. It will cost them millions of dollars and man hours to stop it. You're baiting the government to play a neverending and increasingly complex game of whack of a mole. It seems like a beyond awful use of tax dollars to me. We cannot let our government get sucked down the black hole of trying to regulate the unregulatable. They need to come up with solutions to co-exist with it, not outright ban it. That will be a disaster in the making on par with the war on drugs.
On the other hand, Trademe has never managed to penetrate markets outside New Zealand with any of its products, which limits its value.

Xero, however, has massive potential for growth, because it's international.
To save battery life I'm trying to switch to Safari (from Chrome -> Firefox) but container tabs in Firefox are amazing - the ability to automatically open a domain in a container is perfect.

Is it possible to whitelist cookies per domain in Safari?
A lot of comments feel like they are because Linus

I want to observe this is somebody who used to work at Transmeta. They were not a large company, and whilst I don't think he directly did VLSI, he very probably understood the interaction of instruction set, chip level behaviour and upper system (specifically operating system and compiler) implications of what a chip does.

I am interested in his response to Intel on that basis. I'd prefer he was less overtly rude and aggressive about it, but I think he manages to convey a real sense of anger and concern about things: How did Intel arrive at this fix. How did Intel discuss this fix with people who have to modify systems to work with it. Qui Bono.
To me, it's not really the control of activities that will be transferred away, it's the information that people can glean from (for example) the usage logs which can be used to build a significant profile about your movements.

For example, the kettle boiled this amount of water this many times a day. The kettle isn't boiled between 6am and 6pm so we can deduce that nobody is home during those hours, but the autoboil function initiates at 5.30am on weekdays so we know the owner gets up early. On some Fridays it's later, so they either work more hours or they're off socializing. The quantities boiled suggest that only one person is drinking a hot drink most days. More water is boiled on Saturday mornings, suggesting that someone else spends the night on Friday. External access from the smartphone app comes from $provider but two different phones, suggesting that the drinker has access to two phones.

Now add in a name, phone number, and credit card usage data obtained from a third party, and suddenly you have something that someone will want. If it proves valuable enough, other manufacturers make a similar product, and suddenly a "dumb" kettle becomes much harder to get.
I'm pretty sure the hit-to-miss rate on Show HN heavily favors "miss"
> The entertainment industry has always had pop culture icons making more than skilled-professionals.

And vast hordes, often indistinguishable but for luck, making far less. But they are less visible, inherently.
I hope you find some happiness post-software career.
Now how about an evolutionary purpose for cancer?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030698771...

"A tumor is an organ that has the function of killing the individual"
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Search isn't an alternative to advertising. It's what generates the advertising.
You have to strike a balance. If there's no personal ambition then there's no wealth to redistribute. If there's no fairness then one person takes everything and the whole thing stops. To that end, why shouldn't people fully invest themselves in their role? Expecting CEOs to manage social fairness would be a massive conflict of interest - so we should probably expect other people to keep tabs on that.
Not just that; they keep changing the plans, so that the plan you are currently on may not be available next year, but there is a "similar" one that is 20% more expensive and has worse coverage (and/or higher deductible).

Those contractors that have LLCs may look into group rate insurance, as those are generally cheaper than individual ones (but you may need to have more than one employee to qualify).
Awesome! Thank you very much for your time and answers!
This is really cool, and something I will definitely want to buy whenever I own a home and have Airbnb guests. Nice job!
Would love to see link referrer cleaning! Haven't heard of Decentraleyes, but it looks really cool!
And what is jewelry’s worth? What is fine arts worth? What is fiat currency worth? The world is chock full of goods with no inherent value. None. Fine art is worth a lot BECAUSE it is worth a lot.

Kim kardashian is famous for being famous. It’s clear the world is not utilitarian.
Gold has value because it's shiny, doesn't oxidize, is malleable enough to easily form conspicuous jewelry, is much rarer than base mining elements, and is not cheap to extract.

The not oxidizing and rarity are key. E.g. platinum is also not cheap.

Aluminium is close but it's orders of magnitude more common, and still oxidizes a little.
> I honestly don't know what use-case remains for Bitcoin.

There's a great use case in suckering honest people into holding your bags using the promise of instant wealth.

EDIT: Added quote
The language about "purposes" in evolution is metaphorical, and I'd argue no more metaphorical than in any other setting. Good luck defining the notion of a purpose in terms of particle physics, and yet it's clearly a useful notion in a theory of human behavior.
I would argue it is zero sum ("you've got some fraud" vs "you have no fraud") if there is any great volume of transactions and what's being sold is valuable, and/or marketable at a black market price below retail, and/or offers fraudsters liquidity options. I am skeptical because an untrained system is going to make mistakes out of the gate, even if it's trained on oodles of transactions from other businesses. Anti-fraud isn't a one-size-fits-all game.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mental-illness-metaphor...
This might not be the best time to put this comment, but quite some years ago I attempted reading Dispossessed, because it is such highly rated novel and Le Guin even more highly respected author. But I didn't get very far, the whole Communism vs Capitalism aspect felt so hamfisted and overbearing that I lost interest. That cold war did end, as such the context of modern reader is quite different. The political nature left kinda bad taste in my mouth when I was expecting more of fancy futuristic/scifi stuff.
Where Planes Go to Die: A One Way Trip to the Mojave Boneyard (2015)
I think I have it in "The Winds 12 Quarters"
>"I think one of the biggest challenge for Switzerland tech scene is that there is no viable immigration path for a non-EU citizen"

This is not true. It's up to the local canton to grant citizenship[1]. It has noting to do with EU vs non-EU either. Switzerland itself is not actually part of the EU[2]. For someone who visits so often, it seems odd that you don't know that. In fact even in the video in your link says that the same committee that rejected this person's citizenship awarded it to a Turkish individual and Turkey is not part of the EU.

>"Do not have world conquering ambitions"

Yes in the majority of the world this is actually considered quite normal and acceptable. Many would even say "preferable."

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/becoming-a-citizen/29288376

[2] https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/countries/member-c...
Ask HN: Which programming language has the best documentation?
Or just use Crystal https://crystal-lang.org XD
I was laid off in late 2013, shortly before the ACA took effect. When I was laid off, I had the opportunity to keep my existing plan on an individual basis through COBRA. My savings and cash flow would not permit such. Some web searching lead me to believe that I'd be facing similar rates if I went shopping myself, so I opted to go without, and see what happened when the ACA took effect. In the beginning of 2014, I looked at my state's exchange. The plans were now even more expensive, and per the questionnaire on the exchange's site, I was ineligible for the subsidy to make it less-unaffordable because of how much I'd made in the previous year. So I said "fuck it", and opted to eat the tax penalty when I filed my taxes in the following year.

So, no, in my experience, the ACA did not decouple the affordability of a health plan from one's employer -- it made it worse.
Because they don't have any leverage in this situation. I read the article, I don't see how this fundamental reality can be worked around. City Y has no disincentive to undercut City X until the NPV of HQ2 is equal to the cost of their incentive package. This is just a reverse auction process.
Are you talking about the rumbling sound you hear when you yawn with your mouth closed?
Isn't that what Fedex/Kinko's/etc sort of stores do? Printing, organizing, presentation, that sort of thing? Cities tend to have a number of small businesses along those lines, too. Beyond printing, they can usually do different kinds of simple bindings, although it's not quite up to the level of quality you'd see in a glued codex like this post.

I've also had good luck with libraries, for things like spine repair and binding advice. Larger branches will probably even have their own equipment for book-binding sitting around somewhere.
yes sometimes they are - because they are poor. The reason many poor contractors can't afford things like disability insurance is because they don't have the money. They have sub optimal spending habits thanks to poverty traps when they have much less income to begin with.
> We’ve proven that this public/private partnership is basically the most effective growth engine we’ve got.

No one has proven this. There is plenty of evidence pointing to the opposite conclusion.

> It’s completely irrational anti-capitalistic knee jerking to whine that cities shouldn’t be working hard to support HQ2 in their backyard.

On the contrary, it is 100% rational for cities to want to get HQ2 and give away absolutely nothing, and possibly even get some concessions from Amazon itself.

They have to have another headquarters, and there are less than twenty cities that make any degree of sense for them to move to. I would bet that there are only two or three serious contenders, and the only way they're not going to go with whatever first choice they have currently would be a truly enormous handout. The whole bidding war going on here is, in my opinion, to try to get a sweeter deal from whoever they've already picked.
FF should put up a "red flaming" icon on the tab with high CPU usage - similar to audio icon on the tab with audio output.
I don’t get it either. I’ve been a developer in Chicago for 6+ years and have always worked from 9 - 5, aside from the times I did some contracting and was paid to work overtime. Most developers I’ve worked with came in to the office around 9:30 or 10 and left at 4:30 or 5.
I spent about an hour yesterday learning all of these amazing insights about the solar energy industry, thanks to Hacker News comments.
What causes the rushing sound? Blood?
Hardly. I live in Germany and I was able to upgrade to 50,000kbit/s, of which I effectively get ~35,000 most of the time, only last year. Before that it was 5,000 for a few years and before that I was happy to have 1,000.

And I don't live in the country either, I'm a 10 minute walk away from a technical university und multiple research institutes.
I don't necessarily want to leave. I was just asking what the best way is to privately apply for jobs. :-)
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