skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He went off the rails before he even got started:

"One reason—among several—is that as soon as subcultures start getting really interesting, they get invaded by muggles, who ruin them."

Many of these subcultures come into being when people working from an unusual set of values and perceptions find each other. We're all mainlining the same Netflix/Facebook/Twitter/etc now. How much harder must it be to end up that unusual in a global web-based monoculture?

I guess we still have subcultures in some sense... it's just that they now have world-wide membership and the populations of small countries.

That, and year 2000 was just around the time most westerners plugged into the matrix.
The only thing I know about is http://nyuzi.org/
I'll always have mixed feelings about Pebble. Their hardware was great (I still wear my Pebble Time Steel every day) and their developer support was awesome, but their attitude towards customer privacy was awful (the privacy policy basically said, in a very sneaky weaselly way, that they would record anything they wanted off your phone, store it for as long as they wanted, and use it for whatever they wanted, including selling it to third parties if they wanted.) I ended up never using the official app for this reason and it definitely reduced the usefulness of the watch as well as leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

This is also yet another illustration of how vulnerable "IoT" / "cloud"-based products are to changes in the market. The producing company crashes or gets bought out and your toy suddenly doesn't work any more.

Still, it's awesome to see the platform being opened up. It looks like at least some of the original engineering team are there, maybe there's a future for the platform after all.
Exceptions and Other Error Handling Techniques in Scala
Didn’t read the article - lul - but sometimes you gotta just enjoy verbose articles for the verbosity
I work on an image/video analysis type project. Internet connectivity is over (sometimes flaky) LTE. We could not live with a «thin device» unless we had a fiber link to the cloud.

Even if you do simple point measurements (e.g a weather station with temperature, pressure etc) it might make QA sense to perform multiple measurements and reject outliers, take an average etc before reporting to The Cloud.
Writing this from Lisbon. Is there any evidence that Portugal's policy has had a negative effect? Based on the New Yorker article about the issue a few years ago, I was under the impression that drug decriminalization in Portugal has been quite successful.
Neither article supports your assertion.

[0] is entirely about how safe psychedelics are. It opens with an anecdote about eight people who took several thousand times a normal dose with no adverse effects (then later mentions that alcohol's ratio of lethal dose to effective dose is ten).

[1] is about experiencing bad side-effects (while you're high, not lasting) from marijuana. It makes an unlinked reference to conflicting studies about association with schizophrenia, but that's it.

I'm not saying that all drugs are great and people should just have at it; our policies on drug use should be focused on harm reduction. In order to do that it's critically important that we have real empirical data about how drugs are used and can be abused, not more baseless scaremongering about people "succumbing to the spell" of drugs.
Out of curiosity, I wonder if this data dump includes "sensitive" buildings? eg things that would generally be blurred/missing/etc on OSM for various reasons.
I guess it can depend on your body type which unfortunately usually genetic. This is why its not good that fat people are stereotyped as lazy. When it can often be genetically pre-determined.
Drugs desensitise people to life's "regular highs" which makes them seek out stronger, more stimulating experiences in their lives, which makes them want more money (since these experiences tend to be expensive), which makes people more competitive in the workplace/marketplace (and more likely to be dishonest and prioritise short term gains)... This makes it harder for non-drug-users to compete in the workplace/marketplace.

Legalising drugs would essentially force everyone to use drugs. That's the same reason why drugs are banned in professional sport.

From my experience, drugs make people less altruistic. Although it does also make them more social (but social != altruism).
Isn't this article 10 years too late?

Today people need youtube tutorials to show them how to edit a 10 line configuration file. A (video) tutorial explaining to them how much time they lose watching videos instead of reading would be more appropriate.
When you place the cursor on >fdef or >defn – which Cursive doesn't know what to do with out of the box – a light bulb appears right next to it. This is IntelliJ's quickfix feature for errors it can easily correct. You click it, select 'Resolve as...' and then 'defn'. I think the default shortcut ist Alt+Enter.

EDIT: I'll update the docs to make this clearer.
> That was the “introduction in the Suruwaha’s symbolic universe of a possible resolution to a problem, in their lives, by means other than those under their control by traditional practices.”

There is the general point about how indegenous tribes are handled. As I understand from the article, they are set as communities that are independant from national and international laws, can keep their traditions and set their own rules.

But then there is all the “protection” layer where external influence is also shun, and people need government authorization to live with them.

I am confused/bothered as it looks like these tribes are treated like children (“we won’t let people taint you”) and grown ups (“do what you want at your own risks”) at the same time.

If they decide of their own rules, why shouldn’t they also decide by themselves what traditions to keep, what not to keep, and how they want to elvolve ?
We may have answered the Fermi Paradox: We are alone in the universe
I don't want to remember more of what I read; I want to have access to a breadth and depth of ideas I can justify with evidence.

Repetition and flashcards will help you remember the content, but it won't help you understand it. That's only done by actively engaging with the content and connecting it to and comparing it with other facts and ideas.

The summarising, keeping lists of questions, and writeups will help you understand the content, and I think is the only valuable part of this process. Why rote memorise when you have lovely writeups you can refer back to.

I find Luhmann's Zettelkasten method, as described in 'How to Take Smart Notes' more persuasive. As you read make bibliographic notes in your own words (on page X it says Y), store these in one place for everything you read. Also note down key ideas as you read with cross references to the bibliographic notes, and to other key idea notes that are relevant; store all these notes in another place. When you're filing a key idea have a look for similar ideas already noted; is this the same? Supporting? Contradictory? These questions help engage with the content. Over a lifetime you can amass a treasure chest of ideas that you can refer back to at your leisure, as Luhmann did.
We cool.

After some quick googling, skim reading, it looks like your govt has tried harder to preserve your salmon runs. Honestly, that's pretty encouraging. And the restoration work on Vancouver Island is exciting.

Since the Columbia (Basin) is also used for irrigation, agriculture, it's been hard, slow work balancing the needs of all the stakeholders. Just guessing: Maybe that's less of a factor for your govt.

Aside: I do think we'll need to be build more reservoirs, cisterns. Higher up. As you know, the snowpack, which used to hold the water, has all but disappeared with climate change. We'll need something to replace that functionality, capacity. So even as an EE, you'll still have a lot of work in the future (assuming you stay with hydro).

Peace.
This doesn’t seem to apply at busy metro stations, sadly
> I'm using nntp for some things it wasn't designed for (mailing lists, RSS/Atom-feeds), but which fits nicely.

Do you have any recommendations for server-side software/libraries, or docs beyond the original RFCs? I've idly contemplated various uses in the past, but never really fully understood how the various bits would go together.
> I've sometimes thought that it would be a neat addition to a performance car's instrumentation to have a gauge that showed where you were in the traction circle.

Didn't the Nissan Skyline GTR have this?
PDF internally contains compression (though your particular PDF may not use it). Running a well optimized PDF over 7z is like compressing a movie with 7z: you get no space reductions.

One interesting trick I've tried, however, is to first remove all internal compression from PDF streams, and then apply LZMA to the resulting PDF. This can be a good way to compress PDFs losslessly.
The abstract seems to be comparing having to search an entire problem space for the most optimal result ("the current approach") with an approach using sampling for a good enough result?
It's so much easier to imagine that there is a grand, fantastic, and amazing conspiracy, and that ultimately when the curtain is pulled down it will all make sense and the truth will be clear. No more confusion, no more enfeebled helplessness, no more spinning around in a universe where directions are meaningless. The evil will be pushed back and things will go back to how they ought to be, in perfect harmony.

By romanticizing the world this way, it all becomes so much easier, it's an easier pill to swallow because it's a bitter taste that we are familiar with. And there is an allure of sweetness behind the taste, the idea that ultimately there is an inherent wonderful good truth waiting, just around the corner.

But it's ultimately an illusion, there is no grand conspiracy, and when there carpet comes down we find only empty space behind it. It can be both terrifying and liberating to accept that.
Chinese school Big Brother was watching students – charting every smile or frown
> It's no accident the world was told to be round in the 1500s

I'm actually confused about two things:

First are you implying the world is flat or some other theory?

Secondly, Why does a round earth imply we are insignificant. It seems the shape of a rock in space is irrelevant to our importance.
No need to assume malice. If someone got 90% in an essay they’d be top of the class, from what I remember at school. What would journalists score if tested the same way?
Nginx: tuning https for faster ttfb/latency
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Zotti

This makes it pretty clear ;)
What’s so cruel with the situation is that there are middle paths, for instance the tribe banning members it doesn’t want instead of killing them, and the rest of the society adopting them (like what happens with the Suzuki couple).

It seems like a good compromise, but there is all that “traditions must be protected” mantra, coming from outside these tribes, that brings massive inertia.
Breaking Bad was (and still is) on Netflix in the UK at least.
> In other words, according to Almeida’s report, the Suzukis had done irreparable damage to the Suruwaha way of life by showing that certain physical disabilities didn’t necessitate killing.

[...]

> Because of what happened to Hakani, Suzuki says, other parents began to seek help. In 2005, two Suruwaha families requested medical assistance for their children.

[...]

> "You abandon us, you pretend we’re invisible, since we’re way out there in the middle of the jungle. You pretend that we’re nothing and use the culture excuse. I ask you one more time to rethink that. We’re here.… We’re screaming for help. We’re screaming for rights."
I guess it only applies to traditional cultures, which the Nazis weren’t.
7 billion people are not going to think in a critical way. It didn't happen when we had 1 billion, nor 2, 3... And the difficult is growing. To deal with it is the only reason politics was created.

PS: we are asking the same: better regulation and education (and more boards of discussion) is the foundation of a great state.
I do not believe you at all.

This kind of puritanism and any abstaining (from coffee, tobacco, alcohol, sex, drugs, entertainment, etc) should be a personal life choice. Not mandated by law.

Drugs have been since since forever, and prohibition never really worked. It even has not so hidden racist logic baked into it, targeting minorities, civil asset forfeiture, covert wars by letter soup agencies. It must end.
If only there were a good iOS quassel client. iQuassel is hot garbage. Quassel-webserver would be okay, if only iOS didn’t immediately reload PWAs when you reopened them.
Well, it is obviously not one person, but Ed Zotti is the 'editor in chief' and has been for a long time. He is definitely the "heart" of Cecil Adams as I know him. Sure others are involved, but, Ed has admitted he writes most of Cecil's words.
This isn't true anymore. I just logged on to check, and they support payment by:

* Bitcoin
* Bank Transfer (from select countries [0])
* Major brand gift cards
* Checks/Cash through the mail
* Prepaid Paysafecard
* Przlewy24 (Something available to people with a bank account in Poland)
* Interac e-Transfer (Something available to people with a bank account in Canada)

[0] US, European (with a SEPA supporting bank), Australia, New Zealand, Dutch (with iDEAL supporting bank), Austria (with EPS supporting bank), Germany (with giropay supporting bank)

No idea about the usage though.
To be clear, if it's an emergency door in a large building where a crush could occur, it will open outwards. But most residential buildings aren't big enough to require that, except for large tower blocks.
I wouldnt trust google with anything anymore. Their customer support (entreprise or not) always sucked. They're always "right". You can only suffer the damage silently unless you're worth millions for them.
People should come to realize that it's been years google is NOT your friend.
programmers are exceptionally slow to work in too, the same guy after a year is going to be way more productive. i would get rid of anyone who does not seem interested in tackling difficult problems and try to spend all their time on scrum, meetings and documentation. you would need close tabs on the team to be able to distinguish these from the rest.

hire cheap, fire slow and give out raises generously is the best way to win the tech HR game.
"Whether it should be standardized is a matter of debate."

In the same way that vaccines are `debatable'. To export an accurate, up to date model of roads (and road data) and optionally building layouts should absolutely be the norm.

Nor does a standardized export format necessitate using a single uniform GIS solution, of which I've had to inter-operate with a number.

The real world digitizes spectacularly well, a lot of people just make poor choices and make excuses (or worse, buy nonsensical excuses) for not helping in getting there.
"One reason—among several—is that as soon as subcultures start getting really interesting, they get invaded by muggles, who ruin them."

Yes. Nothing is worse than when normal people ruin your quirky, exclusive niche thing by liking the same thing you like, contributing to it and making a part of mainstream culture.

I'm going to go watch anime on the web and work on Unity projects now.

Reeeeee.
It was produced for AMC.
are you refering to this ?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26181615

> Under the Dutch conditions, a patient's request for euthanasia can be fulfilled by a doctor if the request is "voluntary and well-considered" and the patient is suffering unbearably, with no prospect of improvement.

These are conditions that are not fulfilled in the case of the traditional killing done by the tribes.
I recommend looking at fusion calculi, which are based on the idea of input/output being symmetric. They were invented independently by B. Victor together with J. Parrow, and at the same time by Y. Fu. See [1] for some links. NB this is an old page, and I don't think anyone currently works on this.

When it was first released, Microsoft's
BizTalk was based on a generalisation of Fusions. (L. Wischik, the author of [1] what on the BizTalk team.)

[1] http://www.wischik.com/lu/research/fusions.html
A nipick:

The ergot fungi are that, not bacteria!

Also LSA is lysergic acid; ergot infected rye contains more complex biomolecules fused to LSA or ergoline. So little pure LSA in these plants!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergot

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergoline#Peptide_alkaloids
How can probablility theory be based on LL, and why would this be interesting?
What kind of value? I still don't see any value a SEO person provides that a competent developer doesn't already do. SEO is not black magic (despite what the SEO scammers want you to believe). Google even gives you quite a bit of documentation on how to optimise your site for them.
Isolationism and reduction of freedom.
I've tried maintaining a zettelkasten (zettelkasten?) Using software, but all available software just seemed overly convoluted and weird.

Another huge problem was that I read everywhere, anywhere and anytime. Maintaining a zettelkasten required me to be at home, near my desktop.

I've tried many, many, many things, and have written like 5 different note-taking programs over time, nothing ever really worked for me. Even keeping a notebook with me at all times wasn't working out well, I always lost my pen, realized too late that my notebook was full, etc (adhd forgetfulness ;c)

Now I own a remarkable tablet, and while it's not the perfect note-taking system, at least I I always have the pen with me, it has all my notes, and it's this weird mix of being simultaneously sort-of analog and digital.
Please drop the hyperbole of your last three sentences. HNers are smart enough to read your words without a classic "but you won't listen anyway". It adds nothing. Now then. This question of purpose is the same now as it was for the ancient Greeks 2000+ years ago. Not a lot has changed about the human condition, even in the modern age of consumerism. I would implore you to look at how the ancient philosophers viewed their world. This rant could have been written by one of them.
Isn’t sugar replaced with edulcorants ?
Technically you are right, but I can’t imagine it’s better than just coffee.
If it is visible in the imagery they analyzed it wouldn't be intentionally left out of OSM without some superseding information that it didn't exist anymore.
The total lack of incentives aside from ‘doing the right thing’ perhaps?
Actually, they’re trying to add a “Pro” type service with Google One[1]. I don’t know what “access to google experts” entails but hopefully it means actual human support.

[1]: https://one.google.com/getupdates
Speaking of newsletters, this is probably one of the most useless and delusional industries there is. They consider a 20% "open rate" on their garbage as "good" and anything above is exceptional.

I don't know about you, but if I was running a restaurant and only 20% of people actually bothered to eat my food, I would close up shop and rethink my life choices. But the newsletter/spam-letter guys apparently think 20% is good.
Perhaps not, as computer games were probably unknown to lawyers at that point. But this sort of thing (even when done totally not for profit and purely out of love of a franchise) gets shut down quickly today -- there are many mods and such that were given cease and desist notices for using characters from Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, etc.
Coca-cola zero - even more harmful [1] [2]

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23088901

[2]: https://diabetesmealplans.com/10509/coke-zero-and-diabetes/

[3]: http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/review-ex...
I now wonder if there are any psychoactives produced by bacteria. Or how hard would it be to transfer some metabolic pathway to get drug-producing bacteria (DMT biosynthesis seems pretty simple, just two proteins...).
I remembered enormous amounts of what I learned in college and grad school. My friends are often shocked (or claim to be) at how much I can recall years later.

Now, I did take notes and we did write papers but I think the key to it is really: I explained it to other people. Either in class or socially (probably some people considered it boring but it was a nerdy school and it wasn’t uncommon.)
Makes sense, thanks. :)
> Repetition and flashcards will help you remember the content, but it won't help you understand it.

I use flashcards in a very similar fashion to that described in the article, and what I have found is that it is something of an art form. Done poorly, it's an exercise in rote memorisation. Done well, with well phrased and thought provoking questions, it helps you understand. Moreover, it periodically engages you with the content and key ideas.
whatever though? we have thousand of bacterias in the body ad at the end of the process LSD is just a molecule.
The humanist factor
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Not really

Arizona and Croatia have the same population, but look at the aerial maps...
Completely made-up and arbitrary though, so the justification is just shifted somewhere else - the "reason" is none. It's like explaining anything with "higher forces", all it is is not explaining anything at all, instead putting the issue under the rug or on the shelve of "stuff we just accept without giving it any more thoughts". Which I think is actually okay depending on the context, since every human does it to a large extend out of necessity. Only when it extends to preventing others from looking deeper does it become a problem. Here it's a problem when it's used to set standards used to justify how to treat different people.

I proofread the Ph.D. thesis of a friend of mine who wrote on transfer of organizational culture. The example was Western companies doing business in countries with a different culture. To cut a very long story short, the conclusion (well-supported by the evidence he had collected) was that instead of accepting the local culture at least in the examples he had looked the ones that succeeded by a big margin were those who imposed their own values from their home organization. The "details" matter of course: What did not work was imposing those values. He found that what worked best was to take a number of core people, bring them back to the country of the source culture and let them work there for a time and absorb the organization's culture (an active process, and that culture must be attractive and demonstrably be successful, or why would anyone want to adopt it in the first place). Then let these people build the new business. Don't give them direct supervision, i.e. no boss(es) from the source organization. Well, there are a few hundred more pages, but my point is that trying to always accept all kinds of cultures as the "best" way is just not true. We humans have "transferred cultures", often by force, for a million years, and in the realm of nature keeping everything as it is, forever, is not exactly a proven success story or how anything works.
Having decent bread at any corner of a street.

All movies are dubbed.

Only cops have weapons.

On the road, roundabouts have only one way.

You have an old money and a new money and you need to help old people with it.

Pubs and restautants should give you free water.