skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a prominent doctor here in Topeka who was fired from the hospital for keeping folks on Suboxone. The idea of course is that you can have a nice gentle taper, same with methadone, but the reality is you can't "beat" withdrawal. So people stay on it. The euphoria from these drugs doesn't come close to heroin, so people are continually going back and forth. There's an added danger because buprenorphine binds tighter that if it's in your system it takes a lot more dope to kick the buprenorphine off the receptors, so lots of overdoses. This, I believe, is the reality.

Of course Suboxone and methadone are so much safer to use than street heroin. And doctors will help those who want to, to taper. I just don't think that describes most sub/methadone users.

I don't think the issue is a lack of safer alternatives. It's whatever is driving the person to seek out the effects produced by those drugs in the first place.
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For non-lookup csv-to-csv transformation, yes, I guess your tool can easily beat any SQL DB since it can work without any need for an external storage. That also applies to sequential-scan queries too. You make a good point :-)

Regarding the schema now, I’m not sure I get your point. I would argue the queries you want to make already dictate a schema (e.g. you want to compute an average ? Use a numeric column).
That looks really nice. If I end up staying with OSX, I'll give it a try. Thanks!
Let's all move to a system where, once someone has taken a fraudulent loan in your name, it gets put on a permant record that can't ever be changed or undone, what a great idea!

You'd think that crypto proponents would have learned after the first five major bitcoin breaches and millions of dollars of losses without recourse, that having trusted people with the power to change transaction history is a good thing.
It appears this only breaks part of the connection. I removed all Chrome data, created a new profile, activated that flag, signed into YouTube.

While I'm not signed into the browser, it has lifted my Google Account profile image into the browser, so it's still doing some sort of "consistency". It's clear the browser still knows my Google Account.

Image: https://imgur.com/hrEwPqX.png (Note, I confirmed that the about:flag "Identity consistency..." is set to Disabled before/after this screenshot again.)

I continue to be thrilled that I moved back to Firefox around Quantum.
Ohhh, you wanna throw down eh? Hmmm. This would be a fun weekend project to reimplement XSV in Python and prove this wrong. :)

Now, to make this a fair comparison, are you excluding pypy? Or is that allowed for our game?

How about LuaJIT or Node? Are those fair too?
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elon probably didn't smoke weed because of a lack of competition... probably the opposite actually. the man is in a complete burnout.
Not sure if you've ever worked at a large company but that isn't how it works. CEOs don't know most of the people at the lower levels other than at company functions e.g. roadshow. They spend 99% of the time with their direct reports and the board.

And even if Pompeo did know a Data Scientist who could tell him about NLP why would he ask them how to avoid being detected when writing a scathing op-ed piece ? You don't think that person would potentially leak ?
I'm having a hard time judging if he's serious when writing this?

E.g. the bit about preventing the slippery slope by having someone nobody likes pull the trigger.
Campbell said that psi powers (which are natural, and inherent in everyone), can be nullified by another party's strongly opposed belief in their non-existence.

Thus in any demonstration, there's usually someone in the audience who is more than a 'non-believer': strongly opposed to psi, who has the effect of damping or negating the demonstrator.

The other thing that's rarely mentioned is that most psi phenomena manifest themselves in moments of extreme peril or emotion, which (by their very nature) cannot be replicated in a laboratory situation.

Campbell also pointed out that, throughout human history, psi has been misunderstood, and ultimately maligned by religion, that most contagious of memes. So it's a subconsciously suppressed ability, and its suppression (and repression) is the cause of many human ills...

He believed that psi is an emergent phenomenon (like consciousness and intelligence), and - foreshadowing Penrose's "The Emperor's New Mind" - that the explanation for psionic phenomena lay in quantum physics and information theory. I've highlighted those last few words, because current information theory does not adequately cover phenomena such as complexity, synergetics and emergence. For a taster of what a new extended information physics should look like, check out Tom Stonier's "Information And The Internal Structure Of The Universe".
This might be a bit of a weird question, but

>a 5.5-ton meteorite found in 1784 [is] believed to have been lost

how exactly can a 5.5 ton meteorite be destroyed by a fire?
You could use the work profile you create exclusively for gmail and analytics, etc. That is, you could leave that profile pretty plain, not mainting bookmarks and plugins for it.
A single print statement? That is extremely artificial. I'd like to to see numbers wheb you're loading dependencies and on a real workload.

That's barely even making use of those languages runtimes as well.
Analyzing writing patterns to determine the author has been a tool around for decades and predates statistical techniques like TF-IDF.
Fuck the blockchain.

Just issue public/private keys to citizens. They sign with their private key, banks verify with their public key. Anyone can request your public key from the Social Security Administration via API. Done.

The SSN acting both as the identifier and the password is the real problem, and throwing the blockchain into the mix just complicates things more.

We still need a central agency. It's the authentication method that is pathetically worthless.
I'll go through what happens without replaying. The emulator runs, and the guest OS inside it boots up. For this example, suppose it is DOS running a multi-user BBS with 2 modems. This is not a UNIX clone; there is no /dev and there is no shell.

The emulator needs to pop up 2 terminal windows so that we can log in to the BBS. We do that, and a colorful menu is displayed on each of them. At this point, we save a snapshot and shut down the host computer. Later, we start the host computer, then start the emulator, and then try to resume the snapshot. Each terminal window remains blank, which is not the correct state. The guest OS (a DOS BBS) is in the state where it is showing a colorful menu, but we can't see it at all. Our terminals, being separate from the emulator and without an ability to save/restore snapshots, are inconsistent with the emulated guest OS.

In the above example, the guest OS (a DOS BBS) never did any kernel syscalls related to PTY operating mode. It directly acted on serial port hardware. There is no PTY, and adding one (where?) doesn't help.

Fundamentally, the emulator needs to be able to save/restore all terminal state. That even includes stuff like incomplete escape sequences, such as when just the first byte of the escape sequence has been passed to the terminal.
Immoral or illegal?
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Why load dependencies when the task is text transformation? It’s not artificial.

Importing the regex libs won’t affect the results by more than a rounding error.
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Then again stylometry would be the thing you'd expect to change most between a tweet and an article published with style checkers and editors.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17943416 ...
Yes, this move is a deal breaker. Defaults matter, so I'm switching to Firefox.
That would be the definition of an abstract concept, I believe.
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The op-ed was a plant, personally approved by Trump. This has literally been his standard MO for decades: plant fake stories and weaponize the press for his own use. And it works. He effectively ended the entire Manafort/Cohen news cycle overnight.

Think about the plausibility of this story for even a moment. There's a list of less than 10 people that could have possibly written the op-ed, and what it amounts to legally is a written admission of high treason, a felony punishable by death. Do you seriously think any reasonable person would ever do that and assume they would get away with it?

The entire administration has been one massive psy-ops campaign against the American public. Don't listen to a single word they say. Just watch their actions, and react with your own judgement accordingly.
Well for starters you know it's much less likely to leak memory, segfault, or experience buffer overflows. Not necessarily relevant to xsv specifically, but speaking of rust tools more generally.
> Regarding the schema now, I’m not sure I get your point. I would argue the queries you want to make already dictate a schema (e.g. you want to compute an average ? Use a numeric column).

Yeah that's fine. I think we're just missing each other, that's all. I'm not sure what kind of CSV data you've worked with, but from the stuff I've seen, it's rarely clean. `xsv frequency` and `xsv stats` are great ways to look at your data as it is. For example, a column might be named as if it were a numeric field. Maybe it's first hundred rows are even numeric. But there might be a row where it isn't numeric and isn't even empty, but has some kind of weird value in it. Like, say, 'N/A' or 'null' or 'none' or whatever sentinel value someone decided to use to indicate absence.

Data types can be richer than just primitives too. For example, one field might be an enumeration of a fixed set of values, and I can think of at least three different ways you might want to represent that in your schema.
I was speaking a little loosely, but if you want to advance an argument for the empirical existence of abstract concepts, I'm sure I'd be interested.
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> As a shareholder of TSLA, I don't want to see Elon Musk smoking weed on YouTube anymore

But the whiskey was ok with you? Should CEO's have to hide their recreational drug (of which alcohol is a subset) use?

FWIW I also hold TSLA and want to see them succeed but a puff of weed (that he didn't inhale) is the least of our concerns.

That said, we can probably both agree 3 hours of sleep rather than an interview with Joe Rogan probably would have been the smart move.
Once you are hooked they can steal your refills...
While it us technically possible to optimize dependency relations to minimize the startup cost for minimal tasks, it is very hard to do in reality. In the "oxidation" plan of the Mercurial SCM [1] this problem was directly addressed and one of the first suggested targets to switch to Rust was an alternative CLI frontend.

[1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/OxidationPlan
Unless "gutless anonymous" is a fool, they got someone else (e.g. NYT staffers) to write the actual text. Better to look at individuals who had recent physical contact with NYT senior level employees since they would certainly avoid telephone calls and email. Fairly likely the manifesto was written on a Remington or Underwood.
Centuries of case law on negligence, recklessness, and torts sort out the nuance. It's not a 1-bit function.
I heard rumours this might be fixed in FF64 or FF65. It's certainly very needed!
In 150ms the other tool would be finished before any of those had even begun. Plus, this is for a print statement, you'd have to factor in dependencies as well to get a real idea of how long it took.
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Even though Vivaldi occasionally releases tarballs, the main browser is a proprietary product. See https://vivaldi.com/privacy/vivaldi-end-user-license-agreeme...
This is definitely interesting. However, I have assumed from the beginning that, protests to the contrary notwithstanding, this op-ed was thoroughly edited by someone to prevent such an analytical outing.
Storing the running state of the program that's writing to the... serial port or whatever... is a solved issue. Most emulators and virtual machines can do this. For example, VMWare Workstation can do it. Simics can do it. Qemu can do it.

The state of an entire OS, with all running programs, gets saved. It's more complete than when a laptop/notebook does suspend-to-disk. The emulator saves the CPU registers, the RAM, the disks, the parallel port mode, etc.

The trouble is that a connected terminal is not included in that list.
the ESP that you're talking about might have been a response to broadcast (color) television, which has always been about controlling public psychology and behavior. the classic text on propaganda was written in 1928, it would be a bit strange if anxiety about secular religion (i.e. politics) didn't ramp up during the decades that followed.

with arguably the biggest scandal of this year being Cambridge Analytica/Emerdata, seizing control of other people's minds was correct in its precociousness.

more broadly, sci-fi inherits from religion (really religious fantasy), which has always been about control of group behavior and group think, power and identity, the relationship between creator and creation, etc. "we shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us" was said by mcluhan, but it may as well have been said by victor frankenstein or any other critic of science and industry.
your anecdata doesn't account for the range of experiences that can lead others into trouble.

different people have individual relationships with opiates. Some have no trouble keeping recreational enjoyment occassional. Some are able to use them therapeutically then taper off. Others are more susceptible to problematic abuse, irrespective of whether they were prescribed or sourced elsewhere.

your anecdata is as much about good luck as a morally superior appreciation of responsibility.
It is offered but the student must elect to take the course, it is possible to pass through an American public school system without taking any advanced topics. Someone who does not enroll in courses of at least college prep level will arrive at university and be required to take some remedial credits to catch up with their peers.
That's eminent domain

Cibil forfeiture would be seizing the assets of these drug cartels for their intentionally criminal behavior of bribing doctors and lying to regulators.
It means the one you got is not interchangeable with the one anybody else got in some non-frivolous way. It's not personalization when fifty other people got exactly the same thing. Buses aren't personalized just because they each go to a different place.
The concept of the 8h undisturbed ride is a bit generous. Studies have shown that the 1st night away from home is not an undisturbed night of sleep. From my travels, I can say I fall into this category. Maybe it'll work for some people, good for them. I consider them lucky.
I think the tools speak for themselves. They get use and then they get included in repos, not just by virtue of the fact they were written in lang X.
Step 1: write the Op-Ed
Step 2: using google translate, translate the article from English to a different language, let's say German.
Step 3: still using google translate, translate the German version into a different language, let's say French
Step 4: translate from French back to English
Step 5: have someone else re-edit it back into English
You shouldn't, and I write Rust all the time. Don't implicitly trust it because it's written in Rust. There could still be errors, there could be uses of unsafe, etc.
The government is actually required to create a Post Office in the US Constitution Article I, Section 8, Clause 7. I would imagine a monopoly argument would be not get by the courts.
If everyone is sociopathic, everyone is worse off. It's right there in the name, "socio". It's what separates us from lesser animals.
I'm not sure, perhaps if he had been presented with briefings containing evidence derived from these techniques he might be aware of their existence.

At any rate, I would expect him to be familiar with the idea of analyzing a text to find a leaker. It just seems like he in particular would be more careful.

But who knows? Speculating about this stuff is fun. You have some great points, remember how incompetent Manafort was?
thanks for that article. this was the money quote for me:

"... a central riddle of the 2000s: from 1999 to 2009, the economy had added zero new jobs. Even before the real estate bubble burst, growth was historically weak. Explanations like technology and offshoring didn’t quite add up.

Longman and Lynn had a novel theory: the rise in corporate consolidation was the culprit. Small businesses drive most job creation in the U.S. A monopoly, meanwhile, has little reason to hire more workers, because it can just charge higher prices."

people who talk about automation taking jobs being the problem or universal basic income being the answer should take heed of this, the central economic issue underlying today's societal and political challenges.

monopolies are anti-capitalist.
I’d say there’s a lot more risk in them not trying than trying. Where can a business go that’s currently hooked on selling thousand-dollar devices for which there is a gigantic maker and demand? They’re not going to make significantly more money than they do now by staying in computers/electronics. Cars are one of the only categories left that has consumers spending an amount of money that would be attractive to a huge company like Apple.
I prefer the SQLite option because it's faster when you're doing repeated operations. I load it in once and then run many queries on the same SQLite store. It's very simple and I know I can join etc. with a SQL syntax.

But I usually can figure out a schema for my CSV.
That is a long time, though. An eternity in terms of compute.
This is what I'm currently doing as a workaround, and it's still annoying.
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In general, when you write C, there are a multitude of ways to introduce memory related vulnerabilities if you don't know what you're doing, and historically and empirically speaking, even if you do (heartbleed comes to mind, but I'm sure 5 minutes of research would turn up hundreds of examples).

Safe rust prevents you from double freeing, dereferencing null, leaking memory, and a whole bunch of memory related bugs/potential vulnerabilities.

Now, programmers are human. We make mistakes. Why, a priori, should anyone trust the programmers of one particular project to be superhuman and never screw up? That seems much more like blind faith to me than trusting a language which has been specifically designed to eliminate these kinds of errors.
really? I find that usually automake systems, despite how disgusting they are to deal with from a developer-standpoint, almost always tend to 'just work' from a user-standpoint.

I can't really speak very much for C++ systems, as I understand the dominant build system for that is CMake, which personally I have found completely abhorrent from a user-perspective. (I once tried to build a 32bit program on a 64bit system, and CMake completely and totally refused to do so! There were no override flag that actually affected the program, and it didn't look as if there was any standard place to inject flags to the compiler, I still have no idea how one goes about doing it, to be quite honest).
Its a good theory .. it completely supports the deep state argumment and allows for Trump an excuse to root out moles.

I can even see nyt editor falling for it to sell newspapers.

Everyone wins, right.

Amusingly, the analysis concluded that Trump was actually behind it.

The whole thing is pretty stupid
Why are you hanging onto drugs that are illegal for you to possess?
Languages like Rust and Go are just really easy to cross-compile compared to working with lower level OS-dependent APIs in C or something.

There's nothing inherently unique, they're just a good combo of features.
> programming can be dangerous to the entire world.

Tell that to the google employees
Article starts by stating that DNS doesn't provide a means to guarantee integrity of the returned DNS data.

Then mentions DNSSEC as a protocol which exists to provide such guarantee and promptly dismisses it along with DNSCURVE and DNSCRYPT as protocols which have been so infrequently deployed as to be non-existent.

Further on states that DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS don't solve the integrity problem but that is ok because DNSSEC will provide that.

My head is spinning.
Terrible idea. If you try to force users to do key management, you've lost.

Keybase is the only one getting this right, and people are now claiming they're ignoring security in order to do it. It would be a dumpster fire to trust government agencies to get the design requirements right.
> This would be a fun weekend project to reimplement XSV in Python and prove this wrong.

I don't know as much about the internals or performance characteristics of XSV (though it certainly touts performance as a feature), but if you can reimplement ripgrep in Python and get anywhere close to the same performance, I'd certainly be interested to see that.

> Now, to make this a fair comparison, are you excluding pypy? Or is that allowed for our game?

PyPy is not available everywhere, unlike the CPython runtime or the ability to run compiled binaries.
I build (mostly) iOS apps as a freelance developer. From my perspective, I've had clients successfully gage product-market fit with just iOS, so as to not double costs building and subsequently altering both. It's cheaper, and as grezql says, it's simpler/cleaner.

This certainly depends on your business strategy and preference though, there are lots of good reasons to build for android, even first. But if you have done the business calculus and think you can get away with just an iOS build, you probably can.
I really wish some news outlet was circulating the headline “text analsysis shows Trump to be most likely writer of anonymous memo!”
It's not clear what they're adding that iOS or Android doesn't already have -- something we could have said just before Windows Phone 7 arrived.
In January, Nissan passed the 300,000 unit mark for deliveries of the Leaf worldwide. Tesla reached 300,000 deliveries across all models a month later. No one has a monopoly on electric vehicles.
Time to remove https://www.blitz.io/ from the list or add them to a dead-pool. Looks like they are shutting down October 1st, 2018. :(

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You should definitely do this. Personally, I strongly suspect you wouldn't prove him wrong if you did attempt this in any of the languages you mentioned. But if you're right and we're wrong, I'd love it! It would be great and eye-opening to dig into your implementation(s) to see how you pulled it off.
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