skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a fairly heavy dose where you will k-hole. I get 1ml/kg, I definitely dissociate with it. They hook you up to a crash cart to make sure your blood pressure does not go too high, you put on some eyemasks and headphones and drift into it.

No clinics will recommend driving afterwards. The one I go to won't even allow me to Uber home, I need to arrange a medical transport or have a friend/family member there.
That's why having friends with similar goal is important.

A lot of people have "friends by default", the ones they gather on their way through life.

But it's important to try actively to make friends, friends in social circles we seek or with interest matching out goals.

It seems artificial, but a non natural encounter can turn into a good relationship if nutured, and it will help ones to grow.
or rebind it to ctrl if held, escape if tapped, making it even better for RSI purposes
It's interesting to note which social science papers hacker news decides to treat with reverence vs skepticism.

It's not a coincidence that a website which treats economic success as the apex cultural trait would cling to a study that validates their own feelings.

The startup narrative is a nasty one. If you don't see the economic results you expected it's easy to look outward and try to rationalize why video game playing losers seem to be content or indifferent while you struggle to solve the Big Problems only to be met with mediocre success.

The lack of introspection and wholesale othering that leads to completely subjective statements such as: people who play video games are "not accomplishing anything with their time" and they "will have little to show for their time when their older" - are worse than depressing, they're the seeds of resentment, anger and aggression. Ironically it's this irrational hatred that's a social illness worthy of study.
I'm really hoping you're moving to LA so you can experience what real traffic hell looks like.
I already bound it to Ctrl.
yeah, my hair is way too greasy for no shampoo, except i prefer bar soap for my hair, not shampoo.

i'll leave visible greese stains on a fresh pillow case.
You're right about the home defense thinking. There's been a break in at night at a neighbor 2 houses away from me. Nobody called the police, they arrived the next day with questions. No one was home, but what if they were?

But take away the legality of guns and all I have is the phone, the police, a few kitchen knives and me. A gun would be a huuuge advantage. However, since few have guns, any potential assailant is also likely to not have one.

It's really different for the US right now, because even if a ban was implemented, anyone with criminal intent can have one fast, while the rest can just hope the police arrive fast enough...

It would take decades, a generation even, to completely remove guns from most people's lives.
It's considered off label use, so insurance won't pay for it.
An Engineer's Guide to Sexism
My comment is regarding Meltdown which affects Intel CPUs almost exclusively. The wording used takes the same strategy as Intels own PR statement by blurring the line between Meltdown and Spectre in an attempt to play down how Intel specific the Meltdown vulnerability is.
Don't accuse a system to be broken if you don't use the system properly.
It's supposed to show you that excellence like Einsein's does not fit into the narrow grid modern universities apply. Since people on hacker news often have a) delusions of grandeur and b) are misfits, they will immediately identify themselves with this scenario, i.e. that their excellence is underappreciated by the institutions.
OTOH, doesn't the [sic] come after the word? Never seen it like this.
You laugh, but...: https://www.courthousenews.com/dehumanizing-body-cavity-sear...
Not my thing politically, but very interesting and rational and well worth listening to IMHO. (Speaking as an anti-gun Brit!)
How security became more important than convenience
Anyone who claims to be offended by an honest question on behalf of some unnamed party is a snowflake, in my opinion.
Facebook is tracking everyone including non users. That's what those Like buttons do.
Depending on the level of control (and competency) the government has over telecom systems, they could easily block SMS transactions by scanning the data stream (SMS is sent in the clear over the network).

> I could send the transaction via carrier pigeon if I really needed to. I can encode them however I please.

For fucks sake, this bullshit needs to die. People have made claims like this for years now. It's bullshit. People used to say, "I don't need a network connection, I can conduct transactions on paper." Leaving out the detail that at some point it has to get into the bitcoin network itself.

Bitcoin is essentially useless for people without an internet connection.
Can you practically view those terms without loading one of these buttons beforehand?
Because it is in accord with my experience and my general sense that people should know what they are doing in the areas they are are given responsibility over. That generally requires experience, and at high level probably extensive experience. It's hard to see how a lawyer with no real tech experience can make good choices in the area of technology.
Any idea how is the performance vs pytorch?
that's a whole lot of orangutans
I have foreskin and asshair: if I don't wash penis and booty daily I'm going to have major funk.
But only if you doing the killing for me
I completely agree regarding the media being terrible at discussing risk. However, I do think the attention is somewhat warranted because every other developed nation in the world has solved this problem (as is made abundantly clear in another thread in this same post). If the solution is so obvious, why not implement it and start saving lives?

Lastly (and somewhat pedantically) I'm not sure about your "several orders of magnitude" remark. Could you elaborate? Wikipedia[0] says that about four times as many Americans die in traffic collisions each year as die from firearms (once you take out the 2/3 of firearms deaths that are suicides).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventable_causes_of_death#An...
My first computer was a VIC-20 (I later got a Commodore 64), where you also start with a BASIC prompt. I too have been thinking about to the barriers to starting to code.

Last fall, I helped in my son's grade 8 class to teach them python programming. There we wanted the students to be able to start coding with minimal effort, and minimal magic. They already had MacBook Airs, which had python 2.7 already installed, so there was nothing to install. Then we concentrated on a few core programming constructs (no classes for example), and no libraries. This was an attempt to recreate the environment I had when I learnt to program on the VIC-20.

I think it worked really well. The students were able to write fairly advanced (a few pages full of code) with that set-up. If you want to do more advanced programming, you'll need to install more, but for a start it was really good.
I've written more about it here:

https://henrikwarne.com/2017/12/17/programming-for-grade-8/
Could you please specify which part of his explanation is incorrect?
I have found it to cause some memory issues for the following couple weeks, but it mostly recovers. It's certainly better than the memory issues when I'm in the throes of depression itself. It also spikes my blood pressure up quite high during treatment.

You feel sorta light headed afterwards. For the weeks after I just notice myself doing more stuff. Waking up early, having lots of energy, just feeling pretty good.
It takes a bit of something-something in terms of communications, which I probably lack. I once asked a person (nicely, I thought) with BO, loud chewing, and unfettered burping to reconsider and he started screaming at me instead. Be careful, is all I can say.
No, not funny at all. Thank you for posting it. Under some jurisdictions, this would qualify as sexual assault and it's horrible.
This looks nice. We are developing another alternative focused on nice ui and starting with a free premium package for all beta users...

https://www.coinapse.io
I worked in a shop shortly after leaving school. Asking someone if they need assistance is almost certain to lead to one single action - the potential customer walking out of the shop at the next available opportunity.
> Shun IDEs

Well, I don't think anybody is "shunning" IDEs just to be difficult; it's just really, really hard to describe something in the context of an IDE. For one thing, IDEs are (obviously) graphical, so you have to include a screenshot if you want to refer to something. Worse, IDEs change things around a lot (sometimes for no particular reason). Then of course, there are no standards in this area - in Java you have Eclipse and IntelliJ, so if you want to describe something in terms of an IDE you either pick both and double the explanations, or you pick one and freeze out the others... or you just do everything on the command-line which is unambiguous. And don't forget, eventually you're going to have to get out of the IDE comfort zone if you want to interface with a continuous integration system.
Just anecdotal experience, but I think our increased transit use and decreased SOV come from a variety of factors:

1. Geographical limitations (we literally cannot build more freeways) -- we're on an isthmus.

2. A newfound willingness of the public to vote for transit (ST2, ST3 etc). Some of this is generational, some is new yuppie residents (i.e., AMZN employees) (this is not intended as an insult, just a demographic observation).

3. As a result of (2), light rail. Light rail is a commuting density godsend and we're building more of it as fast as we can.

4. Benefits for HOV carpoolers in the city — access to expressways and HOV lanes.

5. Parking lots downtown are too expensive not to sell to developers, and even if there is a mandatory minimum parking on new construction, it doesn't seem replace existing supply. So, to put it another way, parking pressure / increased expense makes driving less appealing.

6. Rapid ride / BRT ("Bus Rapid Transit")? Some buses are at least supposed to be very frequent and have fast load/unload. Supposedly they have dedicated lanes and access, too, although this doesn't always work out in practice. Still a lot better than the historical Seattle standard of buses every 15-20 minutes that would arrive within +/- 20 minutes of their scheduled stop time.
That's awesome! Are you only using the backend, or are you using the mobile clients, too? I'd love to talk with you more about the Detroit deployment as this is the first I've heard about it. Can you email me at aaron@brethorsting.com?
face-palm

Okie dokie, forget what I said. Sorry.
I've never used Zelle and was quite annoyed when they were injected into my banking data. Very shady nonsense from the big banks. I ended up closing my Bank of America account for other reasons, but suffice it to say BofA is horrible. All major banks are engagd in rampant thievery with their high fees and perverse incentives. The Wells Fargo scandal demonstrates that perfectly.
I use Liquid Rock from Kiss My Face and it works well. I did use an actually rock salt stick deodorant for a while. It was hit or miss.
Computing and Moral Responsibility (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Regardless of whether this is a good idea or not, how will it possibly be enforced against a multinational giant like Facebook, with private source code and machines to store data all over the world?
I'm a relative newcomer and didn't have a problem downloading Android Studio and setting it up on Ubuntu to run an emulator to develop React Native apps.

Learning to program is getting harder because the programs are far, far more complicated than they were 10 years ago.
In 1992 Brazil faced similar inflation numbers (80% per month, or 1156% per year compared to what the article claims 1219% for Venezuela). I'm surprised the author does not reference Brazil in their article. The NPR Planet Money podcast/article does a good job of summarizing the events of 1992 [1].

In the Brazil situation the country had control of both currencies and could set the exchange rate. I don't see how using Bitcoin would eliminate the problem that the country is experiencing: an unstable currency. Most developed countries target around 2% inflation. Bitcoin has not had that kind of stability recently.

Additionally to be a good currency you want people to think in terms of it, e.g. I'm paying for this coffee with 0.005 bitcoins, not I'm paying for this coffee with $5 worth of bitcoins.

[1] - https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-...
Your comment makes it seem like population growth is inevitable. I don't think that's true at all. The city can manage their policies (for example around permitting) more reasonably, to slow down/disincentivize unchecked population growth, to protect the quality of life for folks already living here.

Things are not just "a little less convenient" for people who use a car. That's minimizing what has been a much more real impact to me and many others I know. There was a time even only a few years ago when I could zip around the city and do many different things in one day, making the most of the limited time me, my family, and friends have. Now a lot of that way of life is simply not possible due to the amount of planning/time it takes to get around - we can't casually expect to be some place at some time, and in the end we just plain do less and live a less-enriched life as a result. That's a lot more than a slight inconvenience to us.

And along the same lines, certain neighborhoods in the city (e.g. Capitol Hill, Ballard, etc.) are downright inaccessible to anyone who doesn't live there, whereas previously it was possible to drive there and find parking (even if it took a little bit :D). I'm sure someone is going to mention there is now light rail to Capitol Hill, which I'll head off by saying that the nearest light rail station for me has no parking, and taking a bus to get there and then waiting for the light rail basically adds 40m+ to the trip and just makes it not worth it. ST3 is also not a panacea. It will take years for it to reach its intended coverage (whereas the population is growing _now_), and there's also a good chance that it will not be enough by the time it is ready.

Lastly, I think saying we have to "create the most value for the most people" is also more of an opinion than a fact of life IMO. From my perspective, the city government exists firstly to protect the quality of life of its existing constituents. It is plainly failing at that.
I’d guess that diet and genetics play huge roles, and those are two factors which are likely to be different for primitive people’s.
The dose is based off of body weight. Some do it off of "ideal" body weight while others do actual body weight.
What data do you propose as a convincing argument and how do you expect someone on hacker news to have a silver bullet? If this data were easily available and accessible in a transparent way, there wouldn’t need to be a long ongoing national agency level investigation.
My SO is a teacher and has them monthly, randomly scheduled. They just lock the door, turn out the lights, and play with their phones in the corner until the all clear bell. It messes up the curriculum and learning to just stop-drop and chill for 30 minutes.

'Fortunately' the largest concern they have is the suicide cell currently working it's way through. Turns out, suicide is pretty contagious: http://www.newsweek.com/2016/10/28/teen-suicide-contagious-c...
Yup. Seattle is terrible compared to some hypothetical ideal that doesn't exist anywhere in reality. Portland? LA? San Francisco? Chicago? New York? Driving in any major city in the US during rush hour is an unmitigated nightmare. Seattle doesn't have the geography to add a bunch of a bypass highways or to increase the number of lanes on major highways (even if those things helped), building out transit is the only way things get better.
Obviously I would pick any crypto or any other currency everytime over VEF but thats just wealth storage.

It doesn't fix our economics problems, it doesn't fix our social problems.

And thats what this post was about, the guy intends to fix our economy or "Solve Venezuela’s Hyperinflation" by just giving away free bitcoins.

P.S: Me (and every other venezuelan) would gladly take the free bitcoin. But it will just make me have some extra $ held in some bitcoin wallet, I won't ever use it to go "buy coffe", most likely every young venezuelan who gets free bitcoin will use it to leave the country and scape from this madness
I sort of get the comparison, but my experience between Go and Angular has been completely different. Angular reminds me much more of something like Spring. Go on the other hand, while not particularly exciting or expressive, is mostly out of my way and lets me just get shit done. It’s a bit of an overused point now, but it’s boring in the best way possible. That’s pretty unique IMO and is a much different experience than you get from working with Angular.
There are a lot of useful skills. Teaching people how to fix a flat tire would also be rather useful.

Basic computer administration falls into that huge category of useful skills that are not worth teaching to a general population who have completely viable alternatives.

Specialization is extremely valuable for society and having more competent doctors etc is worth doctors having a more narrow focus.
So it's like Niel Bohr's horseshoe that he hung above his office door. When asked if he thought it brought good luck, he would reply "No. But they say it works even if you don't believe in it."

Perhaps I could kill two birds at once by selling stainless steel horseshoes for bathing use? "Uncle Bohr's Lucky Stainless Steel Bathing Horseshoe" or such?
It goes deeper than this but yes this is the right track.

The US is a wildly inequal society. Each year it becomes more and more inequal and the latest tax cuts are going to dramatically accelerate the rising inequality.

Such widespread inequality has powerful knock-on effects and these effects are converging on these young (likely rural) males. Everything from suppressed wages to supressed business formation to extraordinary economic rents (housing, healthcare) all come together to produce more losers and less (but richer) winners.
If you look at the highly affordable and working class friendly cities in the midwest and Texas, the one thing that they all share in common is that they are all highly driveable cities. Rents are driven by supply and demand, so by allowing people to seek housing away from predetermined transit lines, supply increases and rents become vastly cheaper.
Facebook must stop tracking Belgian users, court rules
I can't recommend that. Elinks doesn't verify SSL certs when connecting to HTTPS sites. It hasn't had a release in five years. It also has worse support for web standards than IE6.
Fastmail is hands down the best email provider I've found. Been a customer for 7 years now, and I'll probably be a customer for many years to come.
Their web UI is exceptional, very fast and solid, and their IMAP support is top notch. After 7 years I'm still mind blown of how fast their IMAP is.
I believe it was Scott Adams who said that "the holodeck will be Mankind's last invention", and it's a hard point to argue with.
Mow the lawn, do laundry, clean the house, maybe maintenance on a vehicle with a trip to the dealership or self-work, rake leaves, take the kids to sports practice, run errands, pay bills, do taxes, deal with family problems, deal with being sick or having a child that is sick, fix a broken sink, pick your husband up at the airport an hour drive each way, fix the garage door motor that has been acting up, help your son improve at math by working with him for hours on it over the weekend, and approximately 807 other things that need to get done at some point with weekends being ideal.

Simplify life? Oh, sure.
Just like there are no “buyer protections” with checks or handing someone cash.

It’s an expectations issue, not a technology issue. Can’t get your money back with Western Union or TransferWise either if you’re not making intelligent decisions.

Edit: Do not send payments to a stranger unless it’s through a payment system that offers you protection. That is not the role of person to person money transfers.
The study[0] in ScienceMag this article revolves around seems to focus on on Volatile Chemical Products (VCP's) derived from petrochemicals.

From the abstract:

>We show that human exposure to carbonaceous aerosols of fossil origin is transitioning away from transportation-related sources and toward VCP's.

and from the study itself:

>Most organic compounds in soaps and detergents dissolve in water and end up in sewer systems (20), with negligible amounts emitted from wastewater treatment plants (21).

And my takeaway is:

e.g. organic compounds in the soaps used for dish-washing and showering don't VOC-off, but instead are carried away by the drain and are almost entirely captured in wastewater treatment.

So, when this article mentions soaps, I'd hazard to restrict that to spray soaps derived from petrochemicals.

[0]http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6377/760.full
Snohomish county is an exurb. If you work in Seattle and chose to live in an exurb, what did you expect?

The interim solution is the same as it has always been for suburb/exurb transit: the last mile is a drive to/from a park and ride.
Envoy Added to the Google Application Security Patch Program
I remember when I was first learning Java, whacking my head repeatedly against all these sorts of problems - WTF is a JRE vs. a JDK, why is it asking to install a browser toolbar, WTF is Eclipse and why doesn't it just let me run the file that I'm working on without going through half an hour of researching "Run configurations" and classpath BS first, etc. It was doable, but as a new person to the whole ecosystem, it was seriously painful to even get to the point where "Hello, world!" would run. Then I tried to get OpenGL working (I wanted to do games), and I probably blew an entire week futzing with configuration just to draw a rectangle on the screen. TBH it was harder than getting the same thing done in C++.

And compiling it all into a Real Executable that would run on Windows like a normal program? Forget about it...not even to get into Web Start, applets, Maven and JavaFX (remember that disaster?), oh my!

Then I discovered Processing, which bundled everything (Java runtimes, libraries, etc.) together in a nice tidy package, and its own IDE where you could just open up the thing, type in some code, and hit the big obvious "Run" button. Want a library? Download it from the nicely curated set that are guaranteed to work! Wanted to create an executable, click "Export", and it just works! All the nastiness of linking native dependencies, bundling the JRE, handling classpaths and linker flags, it was handled once by the devs working on that project, and end users could just focus on code.

Things are getting better with other technologies these days, but it's still rare that I see an environment as zero-config as Processing, apart from web-based Javascript playgrounds. All it takes is a pure focus on usability, which I think is something that as devs we often overlook because once we've gotten over the installation problems that we're familiar with ("well of course brew is better than MacPorts, and you'll need to install nvm and pick the right version before this library will work, except for this one dependency that's only available through RubyGems, and this other one that") we forget that they can be confusing and really off-putting to newbies.

Python environments are particularly bad, IMO because of screwy webs of dependencies that more often than not fail to install cleanly and the Python 2 vs 3 split.
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