skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Columbia University researchers found that opioid addiction had tripled over a 10-year period, with the proportion of Americans reporting abuse or dependence increasing from 0.1% of the population in 1991–92 to 0.3% in 2001–02."

It's true... in a population of 350MM (the USA), that's over a million people reporting abuse or dependence. Though I'd like to see a further breakdown of what abuse means in this context.

Of course, the question that needs to be asked: how many of those began as legitimate prescriptions and ended in dependence? Certainly not all of them, perhaps even a small fraction. But a well-to-do person become addicted after minor surgery tends to get more attention than poor people substituting fentanyl for heroin.

Finally, there's a cost/benefit analysis. Painkillers have an obvious benefit for people who need them - whether to treat chronic pain or temporarily after surgery. What is the cost to restricting access to those who have a legitimate need for these drugs?

I don't have answers to these questions. I will note that public health policy has a checkered past when it comes to unintended consequences. Our attempts at wide-scale social engineering, particularly that driven by outrage and headlines, rarely work the way we expect.

To whit, I can't help but think that the crackdown on prescription painkillers in our recent past (central registries, jailing physicians, imposing production ceilings on opioid manufacturers) has directly lead to the rise of synthetic alternatives we're seeing today.
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Which BSD are you using for development?
I am wondering if someone actually uses BSD as their daily driver. Which one do you use and why?
With the housing shortage, I'm surprised that no one has built condominiums on this condominium.
There was a scandal a while back where Kraft was calling a dip 'guacamole' despite having barely any avocado in it: http://articles.latimes.com/2006/nov/30/business/fi-fakeguac...

"We think customers understand that it isn't made from avocado," said Claire Regan, Kraft Foods' vice president of corporate affairs. "All of the ingredients are listed on the label for consumers to reference."
One of the things I like a lot about plan9 is that it doesn't use GCC.
Considering how very little sex happens in and how many surplus males there are in the Bay Area, it’s probably not such a bad move.
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Was proud to find out that the Haas avocado is from Southern California, where I grew up eating them and guac on just about everything. Other states used to make fun of that for years, implying we were all yoga hippies that put avocados on our salads FFS. Guess it’s finally caught on elsewhere.

Was pleased to find a great selection on a trip to New Zealand recently, though kiwis still have trouble with the concept of guacamole and cal-mex recipes in general. Stiil good with just a spoon and black pepper thankfully.
I would suggest you don't.
I addressed depression in the later paragraph. Kids are facing a pinch. If they do the socially expected thing and be “dumb” they face dismal employment opportunities. If they buck the trend they face harassment and still bad employment opportunities. Faced with no way out people feel depressed. And I’m just singling out a couple stress points there.
oh shit. ok, I see. wow
With a $300M loss...
During the great lime shortage I continued to get a great deal on limes from 99 Ranch. The whole thing was a total joke.
OK, I get that. But there's no option for zero filtering.

I'm thinking of the old talk.masked Tor onion service. Except near the end, there was zero censorship. But users could set their own filters.
At some level, if we take scientific theories seriously as descriptions of the world out there, and not merely tools for prediction, then we have to assume some sort of isomorphism between the map (our theory) and the territory (the world), even if they're not the same thing. This isn't only for quantum theory.
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> if we assume that people are capable of rational discussion and debate they will eventually see where their beliefs or statements were in error through their reasoning

I think it's pretty obvious that many people aren't capable of that.
but you still like MWI, then the question becomes: why did I end up on this branch rather than another one?

If you like MWI, then the answer is you end up on every branch. It's like another invocation of the hateful anthropic principle - in every branch you are asking about the result you saw in that branch. You are asking why you ended up in this branch because this is the branch in which you exist to ask that specific question.

The real question of MWI for me is, where the heck are all these squillions of universe copies every second and where does the energy come from and go to making squillions of universes worth of matter and creating universe sized places to put them and how does you interacting with a photon on Earth cause a copy of the Andromeda galaxy anyway?
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The console dump was super useful, thank you for that!

I think it might be because you have third-party cookies disabled [1], and the Google Auth client uses an iframe with cookies to do its thing. I replicated it myself by disabling third-party cookies and the results were similar to what you described.

I'll look into what I can do about this on my end tomorrow. Thank you again for your time!

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42806178/1101070
> Does MySQL not have a TEXT data type

It does, but it's still length limited--more precisely, there are several different TEXT data types, with different length limits. This bit me recently on a project, where I was sending strings over the length limit to a TEXT field and wondered why they got truncated until I read the spec more carefully.
Say your customers are us tourists and they send from a coinbase account to some ether address. Dunno how they'd track that.

I don't think it's a lag thing - decentralized cryptocurrencies are just hard for governments to stop. Similar how governments would like to stop people paying cash in hand and avoiding tax but have never really been able.
They remind me of the portals of yore: Excite, Yahoo!, Netscape, etc.

Likely density of meaning per char would enable this layout --even in newspapers.

Anyhows, it's functional, if not beautiful, and it works for people. No need to "refresh the look and feel" of their web properties every so often.
The Chinese community has their own sub-market:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-fruits-and-veggies-are-so-c...
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Not true -- it has a definite cost, power.

Plenty of perfectly fine working rackmount servers are replaced every year because for their power/space footprint you can put something that's about to do 50% more work.
Add some salt and lime juice, maybe ancho chili too :)
Is the faux social networks that sells vanity and likes over real substance and relationships
Well it's illegal in all countries I've lived in. I guess that explains why your president can get away with it.
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Ad spent estimate seems to be very low. Most players operating out of Russia often spend 10-20K a day, so 200K is just 10 days worth of adspend. But such guys often have 10-20 people working for them on <$1-2K monthly wage. (For Russia/Eastern Europe or heck South Asia it's quite good)
ROI on such campaigns can be anywhere between 150-600% or even more.
Tivo era, mostly before satellite TV... who in a Comcast area was able to pick another provider?
As human as that anecdote is, there are a long list of issues here. In particular, was the original idea that it would be a valuable part of the recovery in error?

It is easy for me to imagine a pain that I would never voluntarily experience or inflict (this isn't even a very profound level of pain, I don't like suffering even in small doses). This threshold is regularly breached and I often come out of it as an improved person.

Sometimes, and I'm thinking doctors and the military when I say this, people end up in situations where choices must be made. The situations are not emergencies and the choices affect other people in ways that the decider might not willingly accept for themselves. This is an unfortunate fact of the world not being a nice place.
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On iOS Safari I only see a huge ad overlay, cannot scroll or read the article.
Relevant EFF articles:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/eff-court-accessing-pu...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/ninth-circuit-doubles-...
This reply is fantastic. The field I'm looking to get into is a little different from straight software dev, but I think what you've discussed here is applicable regardless. Thank you.
You ask how? I accept that any search for meaning in life is founded on a categorical error. Life is not the sort of thing that can have meaning. Then, I just get on with the business of trying to find some modicum of happiness while I still breathe.
No, they are in the same category. People will absolutely be choosing between these products; they compete. However, they prioritize different features. John Gruber had a good piece on this recently.
You’re drawing a false equivalency. Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are more like a public squares rather than restaurants or stores. It’s a space where free speech should be defended. Because free speech protects our society from authoritarianism and violence. It’s authoritarians who want to limit free speech, because their ideas have no merit and can only be enforced by violence.
And at least the affair is with the avocado itself and not the color as it had been in the UK[1]... Of course now, an avocado bathroom will cost you 5-8000 pounds in resale value, so better spruce up the 70s chic before listing[2]. On the other hand, it apparently is making a retro comeback.

[1http://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/interiors/bathroom/avocado

[2]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4282662/Avocado-bath...
People sometimes get unreasonable about the things that they love. I just assumed that he was attempting to deflect her potentially unreasonable reaction.
I think watching videos where normal people die in some sudden unexpected way has taught me how to be more perceptive of potential danger, even when a situation seems perfectly normal. I would say it serves a purpose, and if people must watch a gruesome video, I’d say those are the ones to watch.
If you think those prices are bad, don't go to New Zealand.

I have no idea why, but limes are extortionately expensive in New Zealand, even for imported goods.

They're currently NZ$35 per kg (over US$10 per lb).

It's standard to get a slice of lemon in your Corona (which are also extortionately expensive in NZ)
Also, there’s that troublesome word “eventually”.
Google Project Zero researchers discovered this bug in May, 2017. They notified Intel, AMD, ARM and likely other chip-makers (Qualcomm, Broadcom, Marvel, Microtek, Huawei etc) directly. Intel is just the lead actor in this mega-production.

See this bug report by Jann Horn: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...

Then each of these chip makers would have notified their direct customers who make original equipment (motherboards, SoCs, Add-on card etc). Then they would have to notify their firmware/software partner/vendors who have to fix the issue.

Since this was such a serious issue and at least 2 quarterly results were posted by all these publicly traded companies, I'm sure their lawyers, their external independent risk consultants, key members of the board and key investors were also told - especially as CYA when deciding to keep it a secret while giving market guidance (which had to be knowingly false?).

Each of these disclosures would have gone with boilerplate embargo legalese (bad things will happen to you if you speak about it). But all of them would have taken actions ranging for good to bad to evil (from insider stock trading to actively looking for ways to exploit the bug for competition spying).

While all this is going on, why would government not have known about this? Wouldn't one of the government certification programs like NIST FEDRAMP mandatorily require them to be notified of any vulnerabilities monthly?

And of course, all govt spy agencies would have surely known about this vulnerability as early as July/August given the amount of cross-continent communication that would have happened on this topic. And it's a whole another matter if they used the exploit for any operational/tactical advantage for any ongoing operations or as a backdoor installation for future operations, it's anyone's guess. If they did do that, we cannot be surprised because that is definitely their job. Thinking any other way is not part of the security mindset. It's not the trust everyone kind of thinking that lead to discovery of this vulnerability in the first place.
If they're too unripe, or too bitter, I agree. Otherwise, there are at least some times that it just adds some pleasant richness to the other flavors in the roll.
And bikes. They're working with cities around the Bay Area to sponsor bike shares. I can see the biker/trip data also feeding into their data lake. If they can make meaning through all that data, it seems like a good long bet.
Not nearly enough
In truth, _all_ iOS apps were web apps in the beginning. Steve Jobs wanted all apps to be based on HTML5, but developer pushback forced Apple to change its mind. iOS didn't get native apps until almost a year after the iPhone was announced.
Whoa, seriously? Actual medical doctors will prescribe government-paid homeopathy?
> If, tomorrow, we decide that each unit type needs a `minSqft` and `maxSqft`, I can add them with no database migration.

Only if they're optional, though, right?
Standardized testing is effectively that.
Interestingly the original German title is "Drei Monate Hölle" (three month of hell). I wonder why the English title focuses on the learning while the German one focuses on the suffering.

Note that it was translated from English to German and not the other way around despite being about someone who works for a German company that does the "content moderation".
I'm not even sure there's a real objective definition of "hate speech" - there's certainly speech you hate. And speech I hate. But its all rather subjective. Best we can say is that some speech grossly offends a shared, widespread, moral consensus, and so seems hateful from that perspective. But... lots of genuinely progressive speech is also this way.

Free speech policies that would effectively harbor hate speech - also protect your speech from being labelled as such, and then censored, or worse. There are a disturbing number of places still left in this world, where controversial speech can get you jailed, or killed - with the blessing of, or by a government.

Humans can't be trusted, by and large, to be benevolent censors.
>There are structural problems in a society where expressions of love are rarer than violence.

You mean basically every society ever?
Oops, sorry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc
Isomorphism, yes, exactly—that's the basic principle of a map: it's a description that enables us to make predictions about the territory, because it's possible to put the two into systematic correspondence. However once you start considering the 'representational' features of the map, which aren't an essential part of the isomorphism, as equally real (because you've made the simplification: dealing with the map is the same as dealing with the territory—our minds are predisposed to do this in many cases)—then you're in trouble.
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Do you own production or just distribution? You might just need a generic name. Lookup Manwin/MindGeek
> So is it random or is it not, in your view?

It depends on your perspective. From the perspective of a classical entity, yes, it's random. From the perspective of the quantum wave function, no, it's not.
Sorry about that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc
> Any online open forum would have the same problems no matter how hard they tried to prevent it.

Then don't make it open. Make it auditable and tied to your public identity, not to an email address you can invent at any time. The OP is right, FB is making huge profits by punting the costs onto society.
Out of curiosity do have a citation for that? It's something I'd like to look into.
Whether hate speech should be censored is also decided by whoever is in power at the time. The Adolf Hitler regime isn't going to be prevented from rounding up dissidents just because Weimarbook decided to be supportive of nazis.
Don't center the circle on where you start your tracking. Create multiple overlapping circles to further obfuscate.

And ride / run through the circles on occasion. These will show up in tracing confusing the analysis.
None. I am using linux for a long time yet font sucks on vscode. I'll buying a macbook pro soon. (when i get some time)
> I'm not even sure there's a real objective definition of "hate speech"

Speech promoting violence against some group of people, and not for defense purposes. No subjectivity there.
Strange how the policies posited by conservatives to stop "terrorism" never apply to school shootings.

Racial profiling (most of these school shooters are white!!), extreme unfettered surveillance of children, running sting operations to offer mentally disabled children $250,000 to agree to commit school shootings and then arresting them (as in the Newburgh Sting Operation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Newburgh_Sting). These should all work just as well, right?

Why does the US, particularly, have a problem with suicide attacks like this? No other place in the world has a problem like this with the kind of political and economic stability that the US has (regrettably, in countries that are constantly in war or political flux, these kinds of attacks are more common, see Ireland during the height of the IRA for example).
Avocado is a high fat fruit. So for vegans or people on low fat diets they're especially delicious.
Avocados are delicious, and it seems that demand will continue to rise for the foreseeable future, especially as Latinos become a larger portion of the U.S population.
Firefox on Android supports plugins.

:-D
I didn't mean to imply they were totally useless just that too much might be read into them. I guess i did use a bad comparison.
How many pounds did Soros accumulate and later sell off to be able to break the Bank of England?
> It’s authoritarians who want to limit free speech, because their ideas have no merit and can only be enforced by violence.

Let's not be disingenuous: democracies also want to limit the speech of authoritarians. And they probably should, because every idea that's broadcast will garner some following. It's human nature. Your knife doesn't only cut one way.
Is there any service which will help you architecture your web app?
Let's say you've a set goals and you came up with an architecture to meet those goals. But is there any way to get a second opinion on it? maybe some guy has already done it and knows what's better/cheaper? I wonder if there is any such service! architecture my web app!
Now can I get it with the fancy gpu? :(
You'd have to be a total fucking moron to give your child turpentine.

So incredibly sad for those kids.
The jagged, toothed edge is called an "indenture", which is also where the term "indentured servant" comes from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indenture
No, the crazies finding each other and organizing is entire FB's fault.
If you do online check in with a japanese airline like ANA or JAL its kind of hilarious how many things you have to click to confirm just about everything... "Click here to go to online check in", then you are there and its like "click here to start checking in online"... then its like "type confirmation number here.." etc.. all on separate pages like we are engaging some kind of nuclear code sequence that requires multiple stages of fail-safes where you can go back at any moment.. yes the webpages in japan are hilariously over complex for a non-japanese audience all with the goal of ensuring you don't accidentally do the wrong thing.. the idea of one-click buying on amazon I have a feeling either rarely exists or is probably actually 2 clicks somehow..
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Those following along in other countries should also know that, amongst younger people, an Avocado is a typical house warming gift to friends who have recently purchased a house. Which, when you stop and think about it makes even less sense that the original proposition.
If traders lose confidence in Tether, won't they sell Tether to buy other cryptocurrencies, thereby driving the price of Tether down and the price of other cryptocurrencies up?
Not yet in this thread has anyone discussed the design concept that the community at large could use to help moderate: a dislike button.

Hacker news comments is a pleasure to read (A) because of the community, which (B) is curated by the ability to down vote horrible posts.

Facebook places value on these horrors, inadvertently I guess, but they are not empowering the users to shut down bad stuff. Imagine the possibilities.
> Should paper manufacturers be responsible for the content that’s printed

No, but publishers should be, and they are. FB is a publisher, a distributor of content. They are not the creator of electrons or LED displays via which your content is distributed, which would be the closest analogy to your paper and ink manufacturer.
Would anyone with actual children who are living in the smartphone era care to comment? Blanketing "access to information leads to nihilism" removes social exclusion, FOMO, cyber-bullying, etc. from the conversation, imo.
You make some good points. It's curious to see people attacking Facebook so vehemently, as if using it were somehow obligatory. I don't see much appeal in Facebook myself, but I don't feel the need to force my views on others. Is the Overton window shifting toward outright censorship? It's an interesting question.

Your comment was downvoted a lot though. Must've hit a nerve :-)
Quantified sickness when you have OpenAPS and the flu
We're keeping jmap.io up-to-date with the latest spec (including the calendar and contacts bits - calendar is partially underway through ietf calext - contacts are not yet on standards track)

Also:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jmap/about/

Has links to the latest revisions of the drafts - and to the github repo where issues are being tracked.
This is interesting. However, I don't get how stuff in the cloud can be considered secure. Unless you trust them, anyway. And also, I'm reminded how little privacy seems to matter for Qubes devs.

Edit: OK, I take it back. Replacing VMs with discrete devices on local networks is very cool. I just wish that they'd emphasized that, and then talked about using cloud resources. Indeed, what boggled my mind is that someone would go through the hassle of learning Qubes, and then put some of it in the cloud.