skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good write-up, thanks for posting.

Some of the frustrations definitely hit home. I think for small teams and indies React Native is an awesome piece of technology that can enable them to target both platforms where it would be nearly impossible otherwise. I can understand how orchestrating the work of a huge team could introduce new issues though.

It would be interesting to know why some of the infra layers that the article mentions (i18n, networking) were behind bridge when they seem like prime candidates for js implementation.

What I'd really like to know though is how other teams are managing the design pipeline (getting from psd/sketchapp to code without hand coding flexbox styles). We've looked at some tools like supernova.studio and BuilderX, and while showing promise these seem like they have a long road ahead.
Meh. Faraday mesh hats work much better.
Full stack serverless web development with JavaScript
https://www.soils.org/discover-soils/story/lead-contaminatio...
It's essentially "legal" in Canada already so no one really cares about it that much.
I dig this, and want to have a crack at a short story for it. Do you mind?
Personally I discovered this website around 2014. I saw it mentioned in an article about a serial swatter from las Vegas who was said to visit this website frequently. Intrigued by the name, I visited for the first time. Recently I have noticed a huge drop in the quality of comments.
Good luck convincing the Supreme Court to upend the basis of a huge portion of federal law and decades of judicial precedence in favor of very broad readings of the enumerated powers.
The article states that age is a factor and children and teens are at risk. Marijuana age of consent is 19
Are individuals successfully transitioning from opioids to cannabis, or does legalization primarily affect the ratio of new users?
Erdogan cant stand Real Analysis. Giggle
Hey, I'm a SWE at Google currently hosting an eng resident. I'd encourage staying through the residency in general, but I of course don't know your specific situation. (I'm also not sure which rotation you're on, but it's worth noting that even if one of your rotation teams doesn't have headcount the other might, and that even if neither does right now they might by the end of your residency.)

If you want, feel free to contact me internally and schedule a 1:1 so we can chat in more detail. My google username is the first 5 characters of my HN username.
If you want to make the meeting private, that's absolutely reasonable. I will not mention anything about it to your team or manager unless you ask me to.
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It’s not the 1800’s. Having the same immigration policy as back then makes no sense.
Somebody who is in your building, is doing work under your direction, and has not been told they are fired hasn't been fired.

They might be, or might not be. Constructive dismissal is a thing.
Stable coins are a terrible idea that one day people will realize as such. The economics of a stable coin make no sense. All it takes for it to be totally useless is just enough people to refuse to accept it or the market crashing to the point where trade volume is so low you can never cash out. Just because there is 1 for 1 fiat backing, doesn’t mean you can actually claim your money.
To quote some random other person here:

> It's awesome until your private key gets stolen and suddenly a hacker in Russia owns your house.

I like the legal system. The transactions I'm involved with are already cheap and the non-cheap transactions aren't made cheaper with the blockchain.
Thank you for saying so. There are more of us then there are of them. Empathy and equality under the law will prevail.

This is insane, and it is a tipping point that I hope all of us who have studied history will recognize as the moment where we have to act. We are one major terrorist act away from our own Reichstag fire; this democracy is fragile.
Sucks to be you.
And, annoyingly, if you check the disable box any time you close the dev tools it resets to unchecked. If you reopen dev tools it still remains unchecked.
In actual practice TONS of people ruin their chips or regularly run them while doing stupid things like holding onto the card and bending it slightly or pulling it out early. When it fails to go through because they couldn't follow directions or because its outright broken they keep using their cards for months or until they get a new one expecting the retailer to deal with their half broken credit instrument and complaining energetically if it doesn't work.

Since a relatively small number of complaints ruins the parent companies perception of how well the individual store is doing as far as customer service the store level doesn't want anything to inconvenience their customers especially since literally 99.9999% of swipes are from legit customers not thieves.
The funny thing is that plenty of rights were won by legal system procedural shenanigans too...
If you read any weed forum you’ll find endless posts of people who can’t smoke anymore because it causes paranoia and panic attacks. Same with me, used to be fun and now it causes anxiety. There are definitely some long term effects and changes to the brain that have not been sufficiently studied. Luckily it will be much easier now to do those studies.
> It appears to me that if cannabis was a food additive or sweetener with the same risk profile, no one would think it should be legal.

It's not. It's a drug similar to alcohol and will be regulated as it should be.
You're being downvoted because it's Trump, which is bullshit.

It's the first time in modern US history that a sitting President has come anywhere close to declaring support for or proclaiming he'd be ok with the Federal Government legalizing recreational marijuana consumption.

The reason for that, is because Trump is an aggressive populist that doesn't particularly care about entrenched, ancient political live wires. He'll feel entirely free to respond to the Trump voting base as its opinion gradually changes in favor of legalization (as it largely has).
States starting to legalize it was likely a big part of why the Canadian government became comfortable with the idea of legalizing it. The idea of legalization, or at least decriminalization, has been floating around in Canada since the 90s, but a major talking point against the idea has been that it would compromise Canada's relationship with the USA. Obviously as internal parts of the USA are legalizing it this is no longer so much of a concern.
In this case the author is talking about using the 14th amendment to strike down state laws, but I was just talking about federal law. E.g. if the federal government allows people in DC to do something, then it has to allow everyone else to do that thing also.

The author is right that strictly speaking the equal protection clause only applies to state laws, but the supreme court has also retroactively applied it to federal laws as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolling_v._Sharpe
I would suggest staying at Google unless you have a legally binding contract in your hand from another company that virtually guarantees you buckets of money for leaving Google.

Bird in the hand two in the bush etc
> The other hurdle is approval by the legislature. In Ohio it's not as simple as "get signatures, get on the ballot".

I'm open to more specialized information, but the description on ballotpedia strongly implies that it is that simple. Specifically, it says that the steps are:

1. Get signatures.

2. The legislature must consider the initiative, either approving or rejecting it.

3a. If the legislature approves the initiative, it becomes law without having to go on the ballot.

3b. If the legislature rejects the initiative, it goes on the ballot.

Thus, once you have signatures, the worst case is that you go straight onto the ballot, and the best case is that you become law without needing to. Theoretically, it could be possible for the legislature to sit on the initiative without ever approving or rejecting it. All I'm working off here is a cursory description of the law of several states including Ohio. Do you have relevant knowledge of Ohio law?
Also check out https://cronally.com -- you can schedule HTTP requests or hook directly into SNS.
Alcohol, maternal stress, and gluten (according to about as many studies as identify cannabis) can also be contributory factors to the onset or kindling of schizophrenia.

If prohibition is our answer to anything increasing the risk of development of schizophrenia, we’re going to be banning a lot of things.
I agree, I think that it should have been decriminalized instead (similar to how it is in Portugal).
One thing weird for me is I've had issues with Javascript UIs on different platforms but Java backends running on different platforms actually have been pretty consistent. Is there something about javascript or UIs (or both) that make cross platform support difficult?
Alcohol has a risk of brain damage[1]. Acetaminophen increases the risk of liver damage and death [2]. There's an argument that we shouldn't allow risky chemicals, but if were being consistent then the risk of schizophrenia from pot use is right up there with the risks of lots of legal, over the counter chemicals

[1]https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/types-dementia/...
[2]https://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm168830.h...
> Should any substance which enhances the risk of schizophrenia be legalized?

Yes, of course. Substances that enhance the risk of death are legalised, after all. :)

I think what you may mean is "does this specific substance present unacceptably high risks relative to the benefits?" And the answer from your link seems to be "no".

Any attempt to make policy while only looking at the costs (or benefits) in isolation is doomed to failure.
It's not that uncommon - promotion takes so long and has so many moving parts - you might as well interview somewhere else, since if it doesn't succeed you'll just be doing the whole thing again in six months.
This is where good logging helps.

The lifehack is to throw all your spices in a box and only pull hthem out when you need them and then leave them on the rack. Then throw away any spice you haven't used in n months and add it to a blacklist. The ones you use frequently should be prominently displayed and texted with extra care and possibly set up for autorenewal from the grocery.

Only introduce new spices when there's a recipe, and buy just the amount you need.

So too with code. Log your code paths, prune little used features, optimize the hell out of the most frequently used ones, introduce features sparingly and with purpose...

I like this spice metaphor, thabks for it.
The question when considering legality of any substance isn't whether it's harmful or not. It's whether or not making it illegal prevents more social harm than it creates. At this point the evidence is in that criminalizing marijuana does far more social harm than good.

It doesn't make sense to compare psychoactive drugs to food additives because people don't use food additives recreationally.
>Should any substance which enhances the risk of schizophrenia be legalized?

Sure, as long as the risks associated with legalising it are less destructive than keeping it illegal.
I don’t disagree. Do you have any examples of where Reddit got blockchain all wrong? While I have said many critical things that get me downvoted to oblivion on Reddit, I wouldn’t say everything I read on a sub where I understand the subject matter well is wrong.
placement new lets you choose where to construct an object.

It‘s somewhat arcane, though. Few application programmers even know about it (although their C++ books all dutifully mention it, usually without more than a single sentence).
I'd say yes. I think my own right put whatever substances I'd like into my own body is an inherent good that outweighs whatever other negative consequences there may be. (So I'd also like to heroin, meth, etc. legalized.)

But even if you don't subscribe to that belief, it's pretty obvious that the ills of prohibition of cannabis far outweigh its very mild negative side-effects (which are far more minor than those of alcohol). Ungodly amounts of violence and suffering have been caused by drug cartels ability to monitize prohibition.
The supreme court has never ruled against the use of drugs for religious purposes in a broad sense, so there's that at least.
The parent post was arguing that it would be hard to prosecute marijuana possession under federal law because federal law allows possession in DC. The link argues that state laws against marijuana are not affected by federal law. So in Virginia, you won't be able to escape prosecution for marijuana possession under Virginia's law just because it is not illegal under federal law or another state's law.
I agree with your latter parts. For example, the Iraq war takes a lot of blame for the refugee crisis in Europe. For the second sentence, I'm not sure the first bit is true and paints large swathes of people with the worst examples of them.
Anthony Bourdain did an episode at one of those agriturismoes. Looks pretty cool. I didn't realize some of their ops were subsidized by the govt, but it makes sense.
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It’s one of the most beautiful places on earth, so should be in your bucket list if you like to travel. Visit Şirince, stay in Nişanyan Houses and see Math Village.

Here is a few photos I shot that time;

https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16340854491/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16155210870/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16340854491/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16156704877/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16327089302/

Note that Şirince is near Ephesus:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16150595997/

P.S Şirince wine is a scam. Mr. Nişanyan explains it in his book Aslanlı Yol.
Source on rapid rise in land prices? This [1] is from the USDA showing land prices at least from 2011 to 2015. Utah land runs an average of $2050 an acre and seems to be rising more slowly than most other areas, up from $1800 over those 5 years.

[1] - http://www.usda.gov/nass/PUBS/TODAYRPT/land0815.pdf
I agree it's very unclear whether it'll ever mass consumer appeal but it definitely has current viability in more niche environments. If you call "business" a niche ;).

B2B++
B2C--
Customers pay money. Users provide data and marketing.
Not to point fingers, but I feel like some generations were sleeping hard on the government. The Constitution is almost entirely built to give citizens the power, and to limit the role of government as much as possible. And now society has fallen into a trap of misinformation and distraction. Can future generations push out the corrupt leaders after they pass away? #termlimitsoncongress
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Meanwhile in Britain, the former leader of the Conservative Party, William Hague, spoke out and claimed that the war on cannabis had been "irreversibly lost".

He was quickly shut down by Theresa May, who categorically ruled out legalisation or even decriminalisation [1].

I don't understand how politicians can stand up and claim that legalisation would have substantial negatives, when every experiment with legalisation has been a success. It's the same blinkered thinking as the anti-gay marriage politicians claiming that it will cause the breakdown of families, or politicians claiming that universal healthcare in the USA clearly wouldn't work.

Drug prohibition has been a categorical failure in every outcome it was intended to achieve. It has cost governments trillions of dollars and incarcerated millions, funded terrorism and civil wars, and caused the deaths of millions of people from both violence and drug related harm. Plus the harm caused by the demonisation of drugs that have potentially powerful positive effects as part of psychiatric treatment such as LSD and MDMA. All due to some concept that taking "recreational drugs" is a moral failing and hence should be illegal.

At least society in genera has finally come around to realise that drug addiction and drug use are not moral failings (although my parents aren't quite convinced).

Obviously we want to restrict access as much as possible to particular drugs, such as heroin or methamphetamine, which are so harmful and addictive that nobody should be using them, or GHB, where the potential for fatal overdose is so high. But penalising the end user is not the solution. People who want to take drugs will take drugs. I have never met somebody who has decided to not take a drug because it's illegal. Whether it was alcohol when underaged, smoking a joint, injecting heroin, or snorting cocaine. I know plenty of people who don't take drugs as a personal choice or because they get drug tested at work, but never was the law a reason why the abstained. It doesn't restrict supply either. Drugs are easy to find and readily available practically everywhere in the world, all that prohibition does is push up the price, fund criminals, and increase harm due to poor quality control and cut drugs.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-44526156
I have come to same conclusion. Have few production apps and an ongoing one in react native. Dealing with native code has been frustrating, additionally plugins would not be up to date as well. Going native would be a better choice.

I would though love react jsx syntax for building native views in swift/Kotilin.
How has making it illegal worked out or the entire “War on Drugs”? The only thing it has done is give more power to the “justice system” to lock up poor people and minorities for non violent crimes.

Anything that takes a weapon out of the hands of law enforcement to unfairly lock up people, I’m all for.
Ripple and XRP have actual Banking software actually used by money transfer firms and banks
Thanks, we'll need it.
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It's not that arcane, we used it all the time for pooling, particle systems, in-place loading, etc. Super handy but also like most things in C++, dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.
Is this new? I thought companies were already doing this for a while...
They don’t want to scare the piss out of their current silicon partners. Who knows what will come of this, but I’m doubtful it’s nothing.
Yeah, this is definitely the best counterargument on this point. I do agree that it's very difficult, but it's not like the other alternatives are easy in any way (see the current debacle as exhibit A). If I heard politicians talking about how they've tried and failed to attack this side of the question in different ways, I may be more sympathetic to the alternatives. The deafening silence on this point makes me very skeptical.
This is an insufficient explanation. When I pay you money I expect to get something in return. I have zero insight into who dropped the ball nor do I care. Your obligation wasn't to drop something at the mail it was to provide the customer with product whether this involves a rocket ship, fedex, or literal magic.

Every real merchant who deals with the public at scale accepts this and refunds in such cases. Presumably they eat the cost or THEY purchase insurance for the shipping and roll this into the cost so they don't have to tell customers I'm spending YOUR money on drugs and hookers and don't care if you actually got anything for it.

Such interactions absolutely destroy relationships with customers and the customers bank is likely to issue a charge back to protect their relationship with their customers.
This is why salvia is legal to buy.
Each user maintains its own copy of the tree. All paths through the tree are followed and scored. The path with the highest score is designated as the active chain.

The active chain is what many people think of when they use the term "Blockchain."

This is where many people falter when thinking about blockchain. When you tell them that their esoteric blockchain needs to ensure lowest possible latency between peers (nodes), they blank out. They had never heard of the terms fork or the highest amount of work (at least if the chain is secured via PoW).
Sustained historically low interest rates?
We know that good devs can pickup new frameworks quickly and easily. But, when we're charging our customers top dollar they want devs who are experts day 1, and (unfortunately) we can only charge top dollar if we bring those people. But, that's just our business model... I know some other consulting companies that charge lower rates and hire people with less experience.
How is that a broad reading? Under what reasonable interpretation of the Constitution does the federal government have the power to tell you not to grow plants on your own property for your own consumption?
You didn't answer the question at all.
This might not be possible if the "system software" doesn't cooperate, but it's possible to encode videos such that you can keep them "warm" without decoding all frames, for example in a IBBPBBPBBPBB structure where all B-frames are not referenced by any other frame (other arrangements are possible). Forcing this structure has a cost, but it's much smaller than having more I-frames. You can then alternate decoding 3 such streams (each one offset by 1 frame, including the I-frames - this is not a problem, is just means you'll not be ready to output anything for 2 frames after a seek) for the cost of 1. Switching to 60fps is then "instantaneous". Old iTunes used to code h.264 video like this (with a PBPBPB structure, so it could play at half-rate, which it did if the CPU couldn't keep up). Note unreferenced does not imply B-frame nor the other way around.

Another (admittedly crazy) idea, for a setup with a lower-res version and a higher-res overlay, is trying to store the difference only, affording a (significant?) bitrate reduction for the high res "patches". This is very tricky to do in practice, though (needs larger range or losing the lsb; the codecs aren't really designed for this). I don't think it has ever been done.
Would you prefer cabal? It was a certain group of a limited number of people who could grow, with nothing in the lines of allowing private growers to create startups.
Can you explain your comment? I don’t understand how the class syntax isn’t composeable? You instantiate a class the same way you instantiate an object, eg ‘new Date()’ or ‘new Set(array)’
What is interesting is that the new breed if timing attacks show that the the pretense of ordering isn't as tight as we had imagined. So maybe we might once gain prefer processors like this because the software is going to have to deal with that complexity anyway.
I will be watching carefully for another group to make this switch, because the most important person in forming a crowd isn't the leader, it's the first follower.
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Nice work! I built https://cronally.com a few years ago for a similar use-case.

Keep it up!
I think the issue is more complex. Take an average college grad, put them in a "good enough" company with a shitty manager and less than interesting work and I think there's 10-20% of those grads who get comfortable and enjoy the paycheck and low stress. At some point, they start to think about the future or compare themselves to their peers, but turns out they don't have the skills to get a new job, let alone match the paycheck Dave's getting. There's tons of companies out there trying to maintain OLD OLD stuff. They're hiring too.

There's also a category of people who prefer work where they can come in, do their thing, and leave at the end of the day. They're not looking for more responsibility and there's nothing wrong with that, but they too are left with a skills gap.
Treat addiction as a problem and offer treatment. Oh wait, we don't even have real universal health care. Rehab centers are stupid expensive. In America, only the rich get afford the $2k to $5k up front for the cheap rehab. That's why they end up making so many music videos about it.