skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was taking 3mg Lorazepam nightly for almost three years. Weening off of it safely took almost an entire year of miserable work, and the final stages I had to do while I had no other significant life responsibilities because of the incredible rebound insomnia and background anxiety you experience withdrawing off benzodiazepines. The only upshot is that when you finally do manage to get yourself off of a drug like this, you sort of feel like you can tackle most other challenges life throws your way.

So yeah, this stuff is serious. And of course, my Lorazepam was prescribed legally, by a responsible, well regarded psychiatrist, with very little warning regarding how quickly one builds both tolerance and physiological dependence on this chemical.
It is incredibly, incredibly dangerous to mix benzodiazepines (Xanax, Ativan, etc.) with Methadone. This is common knowledge amongst opiate addicts, at least everywhere I ever went in the US back in my wilder days. I have 3 close friends whom I grew up with that all died before age 30 from abusing that exact combination of narcotics, and know of countless more just in my home state alone.

Benzos are a respiratory depressant, and when combined with Methadone it amplifies it to the point where you stop breathing in your sleep and never wake up from respiratory failure, lack of oxygen to the brain, or your body freaks out and has a coronary episode, etc. it's really really risky -- no joke & no exaggeration. If alcohol is in the mix too then it's even worse.

And I'm not going to pretend like it's not enjoyable -- because it is. It's a great fuckin' buzz if downers are your thing. IMO it's better than heroin (no 'rush' to it, but the effects hit you like a ton of bricks and it lasts all night long. And it's a cheap buzz too), but it's also asking for your life to end.

methadone clinics know this and every one that I've ever seen, heard of, or been to personally Benzos are their one big 'no-no' [as in: if we find it in your Whiz Quiz we kick you out, some won't even give you a second chance and most clinics have mandatory urine screening twice a month, some every week]. You can test positive for damn near anything else -- and they expect you to test positive for opiates -- but if you have benzos in there then you kick rocks.
yes - i don't think your chat backups are encrypted, so now google and facebook can read them
As a long-time Mac owner (just bought a refurb one from Apple) I agree with the parent poster... their "pro" stuff is just too expensive.

I don't mind paying a bit of a Mac tax on my hardware. Honestly, I feel that up to perhaps 30-40% is fine. Macs have generally high build quality, contain some bespoke hardware, and I find they have a lower cost of ownership than Windows.

(Also, traditionally, Macbook Pros often priced pretty similarly to high end Windows laptops like Thinkpads anyway)

But, even as somebody that writes software for a living, it's tough to pay astronomical prices for "pro" hardware.

I'd love a nice beefy i7 or i9 Mac with a 512GB SSD on my desktop. On the Windows side I could get one for around $800: https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N...

I understand why those pro models cost so much; they use Intel's Xeon chipsets (ECC RAM, etc) and bundle very pricey GPUs. Thing is, those features simply aren't that useful for a lot of "pro" buyers like most software developers. Even most design apps don't make much use of the GPU IIRC.

On the Mac side of things, I'd be looking at paying a minimum of $3K (Mac Pro) $5K (iMac Pro) or $2K (iMac) for something comparable. Now obviously, the iMacs include a monitor (duh) but I already own nice monitors.

Now, what will Apple charge for this "Mac Mini Pro?"

If it's a few hundred bucks more than a high-spec Intel NUC that sells for $1K, fine. I'll pay it. If it's $2K, they can go take a hike.
Just Read the Book Already
Eh I used i3 on my personal laptop and work desktop for about two years but eventually traded it in for Gnome and don't miss it.

i3 does make me feel more productive but I don't think it actually made me more productive. The idea that switching between windows in a slightly suboptimal way decreases productivity significantly is just not true in my experience.

What drew me to Gnome was that the font rendering looked better and it's the default option for Fedora and now Ubuntu, so setting up a new workstation is super easy.

I'm on Windows most of the time now. Still have a laptop with Fedora and Gnome for when I need it though.
I was perfectly happy with the Macbook Pro line until they introduced he touch bar/removed magsafe.
I was wondering how Builder handles this when I wrote my reply, but I assumed it'd do the same thing. Thanks, I'll take a look.
It's stabile now. Just forget the alphas and 1.X ever existed. If you really want to get a hang of it, don't use Visual Studio. user VS Code, and the CLI tools:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/?tabs=net...
America can lie about its drug problem, but its sewage can’t
I see, yeah.

Maybe you can convince them to stay the course by citing their own tagline? It says legacy right there.

We provide a universal authentication & authorization platform for web, mobile, and legacy applications.
The cost to settle a transaction is prohibitively high on GPUs, so is mining. Crypto might be fine with ASICs after this downward movement, perhaps, but GPUs are quickly going out of the loop due to cost/performance ratio.
But it’s his employees that he’s making work more hours, so that doesn’t make any sense
Subprime is a great way to make money if you can manage the risk.

Before the crisis, people figured out that if you bundled a lot of them together and sliced up the bundle in clever ways, you could shuffle the risk around and manage it better. People who wanted riskier assets could get them, and people who wanted safer assets with lower returns could get them too.

Except this only works if you actually evaluate the risk correctly. If you underestimate the potential for large-scale default due to, say, a sudden drop in house prices, then everything gets screwed up, and people who bought “safe” assets suddenly find themselves losing their investment.
"within about 50-100 years"

That's how bottlenecks work, but not evolution. No species is going to evolve in the next century which will be able to suddenly break down plastic and turn it into energy/nutrients.

The ones that do, mostly bacertium and fungi, were pre-disposed to doing so, and didn't suddenly X-men their way into consuming plastic.

As for organisms such as the Chinese mealworm that "eats" plastic bags, jury is still out about whether it's actually chemically converting the plastic or merely biting it into smaller bits.
It's important to note that the CEO makes pains to specify that it created a lack of work ethic in him:

https://youtu.be/CJcTdA55aWA?t=65

Whether or it meant his employees were delivering less work wasn't mentioned. He felt like he had less of a work ethic, so it seemed to be nixed.

Which is kind of shitty tbh, if it was just him. Because I think it's also reasonable to say that the CEO/founder of a startup will probably need to put in more hours than their employees. It's not fair maybe, but then, the CEO/founder is also reaping most of the rewards.
I think the worst change I made after I began regularly smoking was ceasing my regular workouts. I felt that I was making more intellectual and emotional progress with regular meditation while high than I was with my body during workouts, which I struggled with at the time for various reasons. My life has become much busier since I began smoking (much of which I positively attribute to the creativity I felt while smoking), and I haven't been able to get back into a regular workout schedule, despite not smoking often anymore. I am thinking now that the biggest detrimental impact on my memory and happiness came from losing my exercise routine more than the marijuana itself.
Repeat after me: Elon Musk is not the solution to all my problems.

More seriously though: its easy to bank all your hopes on one person that seems to deliver things but this isn't how it works in real life. We need a system where its easier to plan and build infrastructure. Not to accept the system as given and wait for superheros who will fix it all by themselves.
Who Benefits from Gender-Neutral Tenure Clock Stopping Policies?
Edit: If this sounds like a off-place rant, it was not my intent. :)

If you haven't smoked from dawn till dusk day in day out, you can't really say people can achieve responsibility with it.

What I am saying is not to disagree, but to state that if you're a person who ends up smoking 12-16 times a day, there isn't much willpower left to handle anything but immediate responsibilities.

You may not use much, and you may not notice how your pot use affects you. But of you ever end up using more regularly, more pot per unit of time, do not fool yourself and believe it doesn't have its adverse effects.

But if you do really think that pot doesn't really impede your motivation, drive, social life etc., then show yourself. Quit for a while, if you can. If you've been deep enough into the hole, coming out will feel like a constant mental overdrive. I've heard it feels kind of like similar bliss people say they might get from meditation, or if you were under very mild psychedelics. Ideas, people, arts, everything feel more innately interesting. As if depression lifts, and the whole experience of being feels more vibrant or vivid. And slowly but surely it all fades away, if you go back to regular smoking.

Yeah, anecdotes from some other life.
I always wondered[1] if shorter days would be better for folks than fewer/longer days would be. 5x6 instead of 4x8.

I figure you would have shorter "monday/friday syndrome" days. Longer hours also make you more mentally tired, etc.

[1]: I have /absolutely/ no evidence to back this up.
The CCNA & CCNP curriculum will give you a solid base in networking as it relates to actual network engineering. Skip over the cisco specific stuff if you feel it's not relevant.
There are literally hundreds of papers on BPA and its links with diabetes. The only difference now is that we have the molecular culprit behind the trend.

https://www.ucsusa.org/our-work/center-science-and-democracy...
It was unclear to me from reading the article whether the thirty-two hour week is still in effect for employees or not. He's abandoned it, but has the rest of the company?

It seems reasonable that a schedule that suits the deep focus and creativity required for knowledge work is not as well adapted to the demands placed on a CEO.
Ask HN: What does your contingency plan look like if you are stranded?
This week I was stranded with two small kids on a lake in the urgent need of calling a family member to pick us up, but I didn't had a working phone anymore.
Since I don't remember any smartphone number I needed a device with internet to login to my Google account. I asked the first guy for his phone and internet access, but his data volume was throttled so Google run into a timeout. The second guy had decent mobile internet, but Google didn't recognise the device - who knew! - and asked for a second factor.
Long story short: I couldn't access any of my data (quickly) and I was carrying two kids while hiking home.

I have two questions for you. First one is: Do you have still a way to access your data (contacts) quickly if you only have a mobile device from a stranger and would you mind telling me?

Second question: I had the idea of a GitHub hosted page that stores my emergency contacts encrypted. I have built up a prototype [1] but I am by now means a security expert and I am not sure if my encryption method is secure (enough) to host contacts online. Anyone mind giving me some feedback?

[1]: https://github.com/jwillmer/emergency-contacts
And it's likely you got kicked out of the competition's country for being Jewish. America got super lucky.
oh cool so now i can share my unencrypted chat history with both google and facebook at once!
>A study published in 2016 in the American Journal of Public Health finds that from 1996 to 2013, the number of adults in the United States filling a prescription for benzodiazepines increased 67 percent, from 8.1 million to 13.5 million. The death rate for overdoses involving benzodiazepines also increased in this time period, from 0.58 per 100,000 adults to 3.07.

In the first link in the article
>the quantity of benzodiazepines they obtained more than tripled during that period, from 1.1-kg to 3.6-kg lorazepam-equivalents per 100,000 adults.
"There are literally hundreds of papers on BPA and its links with diabetes."

There are literally not. The review you've linked to cites a handful of papers involving minor effects observed in mouse studies.

Moreover, the paper you originally cited proves nothing even approximating a mechanism. I'm not suggesting anything about the safety of BPA, but it's utter nonsense to claim that it is a more plausible explanation for the diabetes epidemic than sugar consumption.

A few mouse studies do not change 50+ years of established science on the relationship between sugar and diabetes.
I think dancablam's point with regard to the proxying is that, if the email sent to you contains img5_135986213.jpg, and 135986213 is unique to the email sent to your address, then when the Gmail proxy pulls that file, it still registers as a hit for the email sent to you.

Your point, in turn, would be that if you never give Gmail permission to load the images for the email sent to you, then Gmail never tries to access that image file that is, by filename, linked to the specific email that was sent to you.

dancablam's point is separately valid. If you think Gmail's image proxying is going to hide your reading (with images) of the email, well, these days not so much, depending upon the design of said email and corresponding tracking.

Maybe Gmail still catches crap/malicious metadata in viewed images, including stuff that can be escalated/elevated by parsing bugs and whatnot. As long as their detection is updated to catch whatever's being thrown at you in a particular email.
There is an almost 100% chance of me buying one of those when they come out.

I already have a Windows desktop and I'd love a small Mac desktop for iOS development and Unix stuff to keep on my desk too.

If the laptop is cheap and fast enough, I might instead replace my Thinkpad x220 running Fedora because I do occasionally want to do some computing away from my desk.

Either way, good on Apple for expanding the product line. That's what everyone's been asking for, but I'm sure that because it's Apple were talking about a vocal minority will be out in force to tell us why this decision sucks.
In their defense, if they remove enough lines, eventually the segfaults will go away.
Hmm, I understand your hesitation. Treehouse is famous for their "awesome" work/life balance perks, and a lot of that has rippled through the tech scene. Clearly, he's seen issues with them.

He never called employees lazy. Treehouse went through layoffs, and they felt it was unfair to lay off 22 people and still let everyone else take Fridays off. They also removed their "no managers" rule. It sucks, but a company has to make money to pay people... and if this perk was keeping people from doing their best work, Treehouse had no choice but to fix it. It's not like he's forcing everyone to work 60 hours; he's just admitting his perks didn't work.

I think it's good that he's walking back things he no longer stands by, rather than leading other companies down a bad path.
Because plastic is so cheap, producers will pay the tax, continue using plastic, and pass the costs onto consumers.

Given the higher cost of other materials, changing consumer behavior (which is not easy, but it's happening right now, and achievable through further exposure and education) may be the only way to change producers' behavior.

While a tax seems like an easy fix, it may also cause the government to come to rely on income from plastic acting as a deterrent to law-making which discourages the use of plastics.
I agree and I think this is why OP said to be careful -- there are so many engineers out there who do not separate the ideas of code and functionality. When these people write unit tests, they are essentially just checking that the unit behaves exactly as it currently does (white-box style), instead of checking that the unit behaves as desired (black-box style). Every subsequent change to the codebase requires a corresponding change to the tests, even if the external behavior of the unit remains the same.
Please don't reply to a bad comment with another bad one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Exchange rates fluctuate, often it’s been ~1.05:1 which is a long way from covering the 20% VAT. Add some uncertainty, stronger consumer protection laws, and smaller markets and the price difference is relatively small.
Benzo withdrawal can, in some cases be even riskier than opiate withdrawal. You also build a tolerance to them very quickly, which makes addiction even worse.
No, I don't think TV, video games and the Web really count as sitting "still". They don't fulfill the spirit of that quote. "Sitting still" in this context is about being contemplative, not being distracted by a glowing box.
I never said it was collapsing.
Radia Perlman's books ("Interconnections" about switches/routers and "Network Security") are great at explaining why with a sense of humour.
I'm missing something. Why a refinery in Galveston?
That’s a really interesting point and I’m sure it has a huge impact, but it can’t be the whole story. For example, the DC Metro suffers from this inability to get much done, and absurd costs and timelines when it does, yet most of their projects are underground or use existing rights of way.
Austria’s far-right ordered a raid on its own intelligence service
React is not "batteries included". Angular is.

This isn't a weakness in React. I prefer react's approach. But it does mean the developer needs to make more decisions.

Angular comes with stuff like RxJS and a wrapper around XmlHttpRequest. React doesn't. Again, this isn't "correct," it's just a different approach. No one is being combative here (except you), just descriptive.
Maybe interplay between both ? too much carbs and too many toxins making our bodies even worse at handling the load.
I work 12 hours on Wednesdays and only 1-2 hours the other days. I’m plenty successful, and most importantly, ridiculously happy.
This is a problem that does not need a tech solution. Put a piece of paper in your wallet with a couple of family member's phone numbers on it.
In reality, it's just gatekeeping. Those people can't possibly appreciate the thing they have, so they don't deserve to have it. I see the same thing with so many other things: that "soccer mom" doesn't use that Jeep for off-roading, so she's not a real Jeep owner. That old man can't drive his Corvette the way it should be driven so it's a waste. That amateur guitarist doesn't deserve that Gibson Les Paul, he should have the Epiphone Les Paul Jr.

Some people have such a need to be unhappy or offended constantly. It's really not healthy.
And there are people who just find these stuff boring/mundane and also don't think it is worth to allocate months for preps. There are lots of other great opportunities so why bother?
Been hit on the freeway on my motercycle and was a long time smoker before.

Legitimately wake up with pain, especially now that I’ve had to stop for a job..

Just my anecdote.. as other people has said i am less social but that also lets me be less distracted feeling like I’m not missing out.

Tomuch and obviously you can get distracted etc
This seems like a very smart purchase, as soda bottle sales are flat or declining in many parts of the world.
I just Received the email.
"Thank you for applying to Startup School Online. We're sorry to say that your startup was not selected for the upcoming Advisor track."
Serious question: as we make opiods and now bezos increasingly difficult to prescribe, what are the alternatives for people with chronic pain or chronic anxiety?

I have friends and family members with chronic pain and, through them and their communities, have become aware of many people who use opiods on a long-term, occasional basis to manage their pain. A family member of mine who suffers from chronic migraine lives in fear that she won't be able to get an opiod which she uses as a last-ditch rescue treatment before she ends up at the ER (not to mention that she gets treated like a drug seeker when she does end up there).

I don't really see an alternative for acute intense pain; likewise an alternative for acute, intense anxiety. Meanwhile the crackdowns on these drugs also create a chilling effect for physicians. What do we do for people who fall in those categories?

(Edit: not to claim that abuse of these drugs is not a problem... It just seems like the people these drugs are inteded to help are being sidelined in the dialog on the topic.)
That was not the article I expected to read after seeing that title. Did the headline not read the rest? (Edit I am talking about the current title, not the old one).

It's technically accurate but in just two years the data shows a massive decrease in every area of concern bar one (which remained static). Headline should be that "internet users are give up remaining vestiges of privacy security and tact".

What's NTIA's goal here? To get us to the point where we fearlessly do anything online? Trust our big-data overlords? Being a little sceptical, a little fearful of these privacy-nuking business models is not unhealthy.
It could, but to the best of my knowledge the OpenGL(/es) Vulkan extensions for raytracing don't exist yet as standards or implementation. But most of the Shadertoy raymarching scenes could be implemented using the raytracing API and custom intersecting functions.
I'm personally curious about the performance on custom intersections with the new hardware. Shadertoy demos have a lot of flexibility and tend more towards procedural geometry, since polygonal ray intersection is hard. The new hardware raytracing will be highly optimized for polygonal geometry though, since that's the bread and butter of current realtime engines.
Guessing that you'll provide a simple bounding primitive for it to do the ray test against, and then it will fall back on more or less identical shader code to resolve the custom ray intersection.
>presently life in western society

Let’s be clear, this “kill the poor” precarity is mostly an American problem (maybe to a lesser extent in the UK and Canada). There are huge swathes of western society (i.e. European social democracies) that don’t fall prey to this insane ideology.
A preposition swap (s/as/after/) should do the trick.
I think those points could be applied to most languages. My personal favorite is "Make things embarrassingly obvious." I've been programming for nearly 20 years and I can say without a doubt that's one of the most useful things to keep in mind on large scale projects. Keeping things obvious allows me get through bugs, and get the product to the customer faster.
raywenderlich.com has some great, hands on tutorials and is well maintained by Ray and co.
I've written about this twice now. No one in the oil/gas industry is buying (no pun intended) the idea that Venezuela's Petro is anything but a sham.

I mean for crying outloud it's a commodity-backed cryptocoin on a private chain run by a country. How is that anything near the definition of a true cryptocurrency?
Drink your fish beer!
Or you can route the costs to the people who are incurring them and let them lay out the costs and benefits for themselves.
In this case it wasn't that Ubuntu's package lagged behind development. It was that Ubuntu shipped a version of the software a year and a half old in an LTS release.

Back-porting bug fixes isn't really an option at that point.
CEO Cost Amicus $500k
Sometimes. But now I can see it in perspective and some ideas came at wrong time or were horribly mistreated or implemented in the wrong way.