skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are plenty of things that kids do not recover from and we now know that moderate marijuana use is not one of them.

That is a ridiculous overgeneralization.

This article supports the opposite.

While it is never good for kids to do drugs (including alcohol, smoking/nicotine or too much caffeine), the article takes the reverse point that you are taking here, cognition quickly improves after which is obvious as it would with alcohol, eating less fast food, doing more homework/study etc.

Also, that is a broad generalization to say kids never recover... kids were doing more marijuana in the counter culture of the 60s, did those kids never recover who are now adults? You would be hearing about that if so.

What needs to happen to protect kids is full decriminalization and legalization because the legal/regulated market handles harm reduction better than the black market, and does a better job of keeping drugs (including alcohol) away from kids. Alcohol for instance would be more dangerous if it was still black market for both kids and adults.

Marijuana is a rare drug in that for users tolerance completely resets as the CB receptors are blocked during heavy usage.

> If you continue to consume THC, it will have less of an effect on brain functioning because there are fewer receptors for it to act on

Those receptors repair themselves after tolerance reset.

> Compared to other recreational drugs, cannabis is unique in the speed at which the brain “recovers” following a period of abstinence. Recovery is notably difficult to measure, but we can look at changes in behavior, brain function, and brain chemical receptor levels as a proxy.

> A study of daily cannabis users reported that users had reduced CB1 receptors compared to non-users, which increased to around-normal after just two weeks of abstinence. Importantly, this study didn’t assess whether CB1 receptors remained desensitized. However, additional studies demonstrated that withdrawal is more intense when there are fewer available CB1 receptors for THC to bind, suggesting that tolerance is indeed the internalization of CB1 receptors.

> Since internalization of CB1 receptors is the predominant consequence of excessive THC consumption, it helps explain why there’s faster brain recovery with cannabis abstinence than many other drugs of abuse. At worst, CB1 receptors become internalized and broken down, in which case they must be reproduced and sent back up to the cell’s surface to recover normal brain function (it should be noted that there can be additional repercussions with substantial use on other brain chemical systems).

Alcohol and fast food cause permanent damage to liver and circulation as well as contribute to obesity.

Additionally, cannabis may also help against fatty liver diseases [2] and fatty alcohol liver diseases [3].

[1] https://www.leafly.com/news/science-tech/thc-tolerance-heres...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28441459

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29341392
but its better chances than trying to reach averageness.
What I make of it: "I'm quietly being productive with $LANG in my day-to-day job and loving it" doesn't move a language up the ranking.
USGS is fairly big since they ended up with all the BIE (Bureau of Indian Education) lines. I get the feeling the person who did this doesn't have a problem getting around the firewall / web proxy since they control the thing.
Completely agree :-)

(And no apology needed... I shouldn't take things so personally.)
Not true - the whole point of burst discs etc in MRIs is so that if a quench happens, the patients and any technicians in the room survive

Venting even a full MRI's worth of LHe (~1500l) as most will make you a little lightheaded for a few minutes

The risk of death from quench events is effectively non-existent
> you can barely afford to survives yourself

Italy is a modern, advanced, wealthy economy - I would guess they are more wealthy than any country in the history of the world before 1970. They can do far more than afford to survive, and they can help those in need. Current people in Italy benefit from a long history of 'humanitarianism' by their predecessors; it's not an exceptional behavior, it's the norm.

Human beings are more important than money. Also, those human beings will grow the economy in the future - in the near future. In the long run they also keep the demographics from getting exceptionally old.

> The assumption that all immigration is good immigration is not true.

I'm not sure what that means, nor did I hear anyone say it.
That's an amazing project, and I loved reading all the ways you worked through the problems as you encountered them.

There was just one final problem: occasionally items would pop up that were definitely NSFW, or just made you feel icky when reading the description. To make the quiz more family-friendly, I filtered out anything related to adult entertainment (quite a few porn stars in the top 10,000), as well as contemporary people notable principally for violent crime (whether as perpetrators or victims). There are just… some things you’d rather not read about while eating lunch.

I can't help but think it would be fun to take the version with NSFW content still in, or even limited to only those items.

It would be really interesting to use that to see how certain subgroups are aware of this content. E.g. Certain subreddits and 4chan...
Partially inspired by FairPhone (mentioned in the article), Luke Leighton designed the EOMA68 standard to create modular open-source computers. The project was fully funded on crowd supply [1] a couple years back and is currently testing a batch of 100 before producing enough to cover everyone's orders [2].

Luke wrote a whitepaper on the importance of ecocomputing in 2015 [3] and it's well worth a read if you're interested in modular computing/reducing electronic waste.

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

[2] https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/tes...

[3] http://rhombus-tech.net/whitepapers/ecocomputing_07sep2015/
I've done that course, and some these files look very similar to the boilerplate code that you have to modify/complete for the weekly coursework. Comments seem to have been removed and some refomatting done.

Edit: As jszymborski points out, there an attribution of the source in the readme.md.
>and I couldn’t be happier.

Even with the keyboard? May I ask how fast you type (roughly) and whether you use it much for text input (such as emails) or programming?
We do have comparisons, but judging by their Medium read times some may not be considered "quick" :)

* Influx: https://blog.timescale.com/timescaledb-vs-influxdb-for-time-...

* Cassandra: https://blog.timescale.com/time-series-data-cassandra-vs-tim...

* Mongo: https://blog.timescale.com/how-to-store-time-series-data-mon...

We also released a tool called Time Series Benchmark Suite (TSBS) here that someone just submitted a PR for Clickhouse:
https://github.com/timescale/tsbs/pull/26

There is also this spreadsheet that compares a bunch of different time series databases, including TimescaleDB:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sMQe9oOKhMhIVw9WmuCE...

Hopefully some of that is useful :)
How are you going to enforce your eugenics program when a sizeable chunk of the population resists it?
Anything that resembles RStudio for python makes me really excited to shift working from R to python for projects running in production.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307524

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18329518

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18284313

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18325220

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18330629

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18326512
What difference did it make? You basically just said the equivalent of "I gave up beer and switched to liquor. Big difference for me."
>When you install a new unit you use additional helium that boils off just to bring it to superconducting temperature.

Nope - well, not with any of the ones with which I am familiar: they're shipped full most of the time
I used to have the 13" MacBook Air but am now on a 15" MBP. What I found is that whereas I'm reluctant to pull out my MBP on the couch or bed; I used to do that without hesitation with the MBA. There seems to be some threshold of weight/size that produces friction and makes me keep the MBP on a desk instead of using it like a (more) mobile device.

This is bizarre since the 2 machines are not immensely different in sizing, but it's something about the feel. Obviously this is highly subjective but this is making me consider a 12" MacBook to have as my personal, non-workhorse machine.
>As far as $200K being high adjusted for COLA, in the burbs where I live. $330K gets you a house - brand new build in a top rated school system with five bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 3000 square feet with a yard, two car garage, and a separate nice size office. What does that get you in SV?

Nobody actually plans on retiring in SF. When I'm done working here for 10 or 15 years I'll have enough to move and own a mansion in whatever town you live in and retire. After 2 years of working I already have $170k in savings.
> 3 character file extension limit when that is a throwback to FAT32 on pre-Windows 95

The 3 character file extension is much older than FAT32. It was part of the original FAT that was created nearly 20 years earlier, and later part of FAT12 and FAT16. But it predated all that in various other microcomputer DOS, as well as minicomputer systems going back into the 60s.
What pros are there? I havent found any personally.
Looking through the issues list you linked to, lack of conda support [0] looks like a pretty big deal for most people doing heavy analysis in Python.

[0]https://github.com/lorenzo2897/vscode-ipe/issues/162
Ask HN: Can the NSA force Signal to backdoor it's software?
I have been reading about the FBI's gag order that it placed on Signal a few years ago, which Signal successfully fought with the help of the ACLU and were eventually (many months after the gag order had been applied) able to legally speak publicly about the matter. [0]

Which got me thinking about other tricks that powerful 3 letter agencies might have up their sleeves.

Is it possible that the NSA could serve Signal with an NSL forcing them to backdoor their software? Just like they did with all of the other major tech companies with the whole Snowden/PRISM debacle?

The open sourced Signal protocol can be as trusted as the Queen of England, but if somebody is backdooring the software that everybody downloads and installs on their phone...

Thoughts?

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/fbi-demands-signal-user-data-but-theres-not-much-to-hand-over/
If I may ask, how did you move from embedded to data processing? I'm interested in doing a similar move since the market for embedded is really poor in Europe and shows no signs of getting better.
Previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18163433
I wonder if training works for developers.

I've never seen any company offering developer training, so i assumed training developers doesn't work.
Is this built for Python 2 or 3?
Do you have any idea why embedded got so poorly paid?
> I can take all sorts of books with me and the reader remembers my place in the book

This is by far the biggest reason I'll continue to use my Kindle. I still buy certain physical books, but being able to take my entire library with me is so useful.
I'm interested in checkin this out, but the site won't load for me.
I wonder if you're mostly measuring someones interpretation of "uniquely identify" and "already knew existed"?

Did you consider making it an actual quiz with options to verify if someone actually knows what they claim? (Only skimmed the article, sorry if you mentioned it)
Who said anything about a program enforced on people??

Also, you're assuming it would necessarily be something people resist. Remember that this could be quite a fair way into the future. By that time our understanding of things like the human brain and how it works (and of all its limitations), and of how to change details of our bodies and brains, may be very good and well-accepted, such that it's not a big deal.

And, regarding "How are you going to enforce your eugenics program" (emphasis added), grow up.
Can u tell me which company offers such package i am really surprise as to wat role and company and wat skills ll get such package.

can u share any way to connect with you?
I believe HN has "hugged it to death".
Yeah, sorry about. Hashish : light high. Contemporary weed : heavy stoned.
Given taxes, bench/beach time, risk premiums (unexpected downtime, search costs), that may well be too low.
> Still don't think it's wise to adopt a burying one's head in the sand approach.

No one is suggesting that, so I'm not sure why you are beating that strawman.

> It just leaves the participants unprepared when confronting this "bigotry" in the real world, as inevitably they will.

Just because I'm quite prepared to (and used to) dealing with inclement weather in the “real world” doesn't mean I forego HVAC in my home or places I rent for social gatherings where that weather isn't conducive to the purpose of the gathering.
Yeah, I did, which is why I'm asking.
I never saw anything saying that women were inferior to men, or that "his co-workers are biologically incapable of doing their jobs"

Can you point it out?
Think that through then - what do you want the government do to in that situation? Start to police culture? How would that go? Are you sure that won't end in unintended consequences?
Isn't it likely that the rails were put in place as a response to people not keeping a safe distance from the edge of the cliff?

I often see this assumption that regulations appear from thin air as a way to keep people down. It seems more possible that they primarily come as a result of witnessing the reality of what happens with no regulations.
Like alcohol, if weed is taken close to bedtime it will interfere with the sleep cycle. I wonder how much of the cognitive impact is sleep related?
Neurotypicals can hyperfocus as well, and personally for me (ADHD-PI) I hyperfocus very few times at work, but more frequently at home.

I would argue that hyperfocus vs inattention is a net-loss for my employee
It would be interesting to test pot + Ritalin on ADHD and non ADHD teenagers and adults.
Thanks a lot, this is useful for comparing.

Edit: did a quick search and the discussion for the first link is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766566
>Yeah until you get censored by Facebook, Google, Twitter, PayPal, Visa, CloudFront etc. - censors / opponents of free speech have a lot of market power these days.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube are all advertising companies. They allow you, for free, to post your content on their advertising platform. They have every right to sensor you.

PayPal and Visa are financial companies, they have to protect themselves from high risk activity (pornography, drugs and drug precursors, money-laundering etc) and are allowed to refuse who they want for any number of reasons.

CloudFront... a CDN has the right to refuse to deliver content that they find questionable or flat out illegal, they could easily be drug into a costly legal battle and intrusive investigation if someone is say distributing child pornography, content advocating terrorism etc.
They launched this format, calling it "Flipbooks", in the UK in 2011: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/20/could-this-kil...

It wasn't a success. In all, it looks like they only released a handful in the initial 2011 launch period, then didn't release any more.[1]

I had a copy of Cloud Atlas in flipback format, and it was... okay. I bought it in that format purely for the novelty of it. It felt a bit like reading off a pair of playing cards hinged together, but wasn't entirely unpleasant. Reading a fullsize paperback is nicer if you like the paper reading experience. The paper alone makes a difference; it's very thin and crinkly, like old onion skin paper, or the paper in a Bible, or the paper you buy to roll your own cigarettes.

The main advantage it has over a Kindle or Kobo is that the book itself folds down smaller -- a little bigger than an iPod Classic or a pack of cigarettes -- and it won't run out of battery power. In most other respects, the eReader has the advantage.

I don't know anyone else who's ever read one.

[1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?rh=n:266239,k:fli...
Very true. There is less charm to e-reading and that is why I was hesitant to start reading this way. In the end, though, I think e-reading offers many practical benefits over paper and these allow me to read more. So it becomes reading more with less charm vs reading less with a bit more charm. In the end, reading more wins.

I was very proud though when my then 13 month old daughter pulled 1984 off a shelf and walked over to me proudly carrying it. "She is woke already" I said. An e-book can't beat that.
The zip offset fields would be wrong, so your unzip must have some error correction. Use "zip -A zipfile" on Linux to fix them. As mentioned though, image upload sites would likely scrub out the extra data.
Joe Stiglitz observes that information generally is a public good (in the economic sense).
This is whataboutism in an attempt to distract from moral turpitude of Chinese actions with "what about the US?"

It is bad either way.
I can't tell if this is a joke or not. Immediately upon landing on the page I get hit with a Sign Up/Sign In modal that I close then another modal for Stay Up-to-date that I have to close then the whole thing stops loading and gives me another popup for server not responding.
Human Pressures Have Shrunk Wildlife Populations by 60 Percent
This thread's making me feel much better about my starting salary of $35k back in 2011. It always seemed to bug me, the nagging feeling that I had way under billed myself for the first two years of my career (looking at all the big salaries everyone was always claiming).

My salary's pretty much followed the same progression that other's have posted for outside of the high-cost-of-living hubs.
Emotet Awakens with New Campaign of Mass Email Exfiltration
Burner account, all in USD

1995 - $10/hr web developer at NYC area digital agency, paid high school intern
1996 - $15/hr - raise
1997 - $20/hr - raise
1999 - $70k salary - web developer at NYC digital agency, sys admin
2001 - $110k salary - raise, promoted to VP engineering
-- in here started doing a lot of freelance work on the side, eventually doubling my income with salary + freelance work
2005 - $250k/yr+ in contract / consulting work - many clients
2006 - $325k/yr + $50k bonus + equity as CTO at startup
2007 - $340/yr + $75k bonus - raise
2008 - Exited above at buyout incl sale of equity
2008 - $200k/yr in contract / consulting work, 2 main clients - partial year
2009 - $350k/yr in contract / consulting work, 2 main clients
-- came to realize that all the hustle was not worth the dough and shifted to a balanced work/life --
2010 - $180k/yr salary, VP engineering at NY media company
2011 - $140k/yr salary + sick bonus and benefits at NY finance firm
2014 - $175k/yr salary + variable bonus, CTO remote work at a digital agency
2015 - $180k/yr - raise

I worked my ass off for that 2005-2009 period, risking a lot in work-life balance. I now enjoy a very nice and even-keeled work-life balance and lifestyle with my family doing what I love.
Current models have six live tuners. All running a buffer for whatever channel is tuned on each. Works fantastically well. There's a "Live TV" button on the remote than cycles through them, or you can manually poke through a quick submenu to jump right to one in particular.
That’s true of most people who don’t smoke up too.

Bill Hicks had a good bit about splitting your record collection into two groups: records made by people who did drugs and those who didn’t. Then decide which albums you wanted to keep. It doesn’t mean that everyone should do drugs, but it’s a good indicator that either drugs can be used to enhance creativity, or at least that highly creative people don’t seem to lose their edge on drugs.
Microsoft just announced an initiative like this (unfunded, community-based, likely at risk of becoming abandonware), perhaps you could combine your efforts with theirs? (The issue in their code that I'm personally most impacted by in lack of support for conda[0])

[0]https://github.com/lorenzo2897/vscode-ipe/issues/162
https://outline.com/https://www.wired.com/story/alternative-...
Don't ask me, I am not the inventor of such advanced technology ;). Apparently there is some benefit to server-side rendering of blog posts.
Well... they could learn to look "stupid" and be smart at the very end of the game
In that case you should check out Yhat's Rodeo IDE. Essentially built as "RStudio for Python".

https://rodeo.yhat.com/
You know why its getting hyped? Because its fucking illegal!

Have you ever seen a protestor doing a slightly active protest? No. You hype it.

Srsly make it legal, disallow certain ways of advertising it, done.
I would have loved to use Wikidata -- I actually first attempted a prototype of this several years ago using the similar Freebase as a datasource, until it was bought and shut down by Google.

Wikidata looked very promising, but I was worried if it would contain all the data I would wind up needing, or if it would be in the same format 2 or 5 years from now. Wikipedia is a household name and the information in it has a lot of eyeballs on it constantly, while Wikidata as a project I couldn't tell if I could be equally confident in -- so really just taking a conservative approach is the only reason.
The words 'edge to edge' do literally apply to the object in question, though. You can literally have an edge-to-edge display - see the Galaxy S9+ for example.

You can't just say "well even though the words could literally apply to the object and they do literally apply to the object in some cases in this case it's 'just a metaphor'"

It's not. It'd be embellishment if you want to be generous. But not a metaphor.
We're using it happily at Yieldbot. We're an ad network, and the core matching technology (which finds relevant ads based on the contents of the page and decides which one to show and how much to bid) is all Clojure. All the data science stuff is Clojure (it's been great with Spark and pretty good with Storm). The data pipeline is all Clojure now. The central database for ad campaigns and such is Datomic. The APIs for the frontends are moving to Clojure.

ClojureScript never caught on for the front-end work. There are some substantial services for which Elixir was chosen instead of Clojure.
Even if you don't technically become an alcoholic, getting drunk once a week for decades will absolutely have ill effects on your body. This is medically inevitable.
Please do not derail yet another discussion by posting a flaming comment. Not everything has to be related to sex, gender, equality and so on.

I wholeheartedly agree that they are critical issues, but that being said, there is a time and place and those are important issues but really..

This is not it.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18175910
WhatsApp to start showing ads in the Status tab
That's probably working only because of an unzip that deals with problems. You're probably seeing an error like "warning [foo.zip]: 12345 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile". The offsets in the zip header would be wrong. "zip -A file" would fix them. Most image upload sites would probably strip the data anyway though.
Interview with Pledgecamp Advisor: Hwang Sung Jae, Co-Founder of Foundation X
HN thread for that announcement:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18346198
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
Articles from various perspectives with many examples within:

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/29/in-europe-hate-speech-la...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/17/europes-free-speech-apo...

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2016/07/17113/

https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/01/13/germany-is-silen...