skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alcohol is a red herring and serves no purpose in this discussion. The public has been made aware of the dangers of alcohol consumption.

> The relationship between cannabis and schizophrenia fulfills many but not all of the standard criteria for causality, including temporality, biological gradient, biological plausibility, experimental evidence, consistency, and coherence. At the present time, the evidence indicates that cannabis may be a component cause in the emergence of psychosis, and this warrants serious consideration from the point of view of public health policy. [0]

That's pretty solid, and far from "inconclusive." Animal testing have already confirmed that mice with certain genetic markers will develop schizophrenia if exposed to THC. [1]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24904437

[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317170.php
We present practical attacks against OCB2
an ISO-standard authenticated encryption (AE) scheme.

OCB2 is a highly-efficient blockcipher mode of
operation. It has been extensively studied and widely
believed to be secure thanks to the provable security
proofs.

Our attacks allows the adversary to create forgeries
with (almost-known) single encryption query.

What I find most fascinating is that OCB2 is a scheme for which there has been a security proof since 2003. I am neither a cryptographer nor up-to-date with the state of the art in cryptanalysis, but at first glance, it seems like most attacks discovered these days rely on some kind of side channel or unspecified aspects of the protocol that the implementations get wrong. Even djb (cryp.to) is spooked: https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/1057791485016526848
Except when Google blocks you from using the search engine until you've answered the CAPTCHA....
There’s a huge gap in quality between most onboard DACs and externals. It’s not necessarily because the onboard is worse at C-ing the Ds to the As, but because they’re not isolated from the noisy electronics that share the power supply.

My laptop emits different squeals when I scroll a window, for example.
Israel silent as Iran hit by computer virus more violent than Stuxnet – report
> The headline is not "racist"

The consequence remains the same with the people I mention that don't care about or are aware of the difference between:

> it just doesn't explicitly differentiate between the people of the country and the government of that country.

> Calling it racism changes the topic of the conversation without starting a substantive conversation about racism or the relationship between citizens and their government.

Ignoring the fact that we have a very, very large amount of shitty people that will start using this to do racist things is just as problematic.
I was planning to build my own system, I wanted a DAC + Tube Preamp + AB Amp. You can get a really good DAC board from https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/hifiberry-dac-dsp/ and for the rest of the system I was going to get it from http://glass-ware.stores.yahoo.net/newhardware.html.
So here's an honest question from an honest climate skeptic: how come every time we update our understanding of climate, invariably it turns out the climate change is worse than we thought before? I understand that science is never perfect, so with each discovery we re-evaluate our estimations about climate change, but it should be roughly 50-50. I understand a bit of bias in reporting, so I would expect to see 60-40 or 70-30, but how come it's close to 99-01? I will not pretend that I don't have my own explanations (such as big conflict of interest of climate scientists, who would see their career advance if their findings confirm the doom and gloom consensus), but would someone care to change my mind? (preferably without ad-hominem attacks).
You have a good point and I've heard of this before. The problem is that it depends on the artist/mixing engineer and production process. There is no guarantee.

It is ironic that higher quality mastering is done on a vintage outdated (barring recent resurgence) and objectively lower fidelity medium. It'd be nice to see CD's having great mastering and may be some of them do?
I'd be interested to check out a couple examples too
This Halloween, Consider the Unappreciated Beauty of Spiders
what does the phrase "google is down" even mean in this world?

I mean its the largest and most well spread internet service company in the world. "google" isn't just one service is a massive collection of services.

which part is down, in which area at which time and in which circumstance...?

It just seems like such an absurd phrase in this day and age.
How many Egyptologists are discussing hyroglyphics on social media?
Your statement that CDs have a very limited number of bits is false by every known objective measure (compared to any prior consumer analog medium). CDs afford a bit depth of 16, while tape provides at most 6, and vinyl at most 12. See this great video by signal engineers for more info: https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml

I suspect this is a classic case of "you think you want X, but what you actually want is your youth."
The 3e Audio board has jumpers to choose between single-ended and balanced I believe.
Been using this in production flawlessly! Big thanks to the maker(s).
Agora – National Digital Elections with Blockchain
Like others, I did the test and was rather disappointed at my score :). And yes, there seem to be a lot of rappers and Bollywood stars and movies in the quiz, that don't really appeal to my European sense of "culture". I wonder if instead of (or better, in addition to) page popularity it wouldn't be wise to use the number of translations of an entry in other languages. That should at least ensure that an item is considered important across local cultures- which is usually a good indicator of cultural importance. Did you try that?
To be fair to them, the finder interface for files is absolutely fscking mad and lead to me using a terminal for all file management for more than a year because it was completely opaque to me how to get access to the "real" filesystem.
My point in emphasizing is that there are no known physiological addictive components of canabis.

Presumably, the op knows the same, hence specified mentally addictive, but is confused because they don't think peanuts have the same, but they do. Mentally addictive only means you like the way it makes you feel so you keep doing it, not that your receptors actually need it or stop functioning without it (chemical dependence)

Cannabinoids have similar addiction pathways (dopamine receptors) as sex, sugar, and, for this example, salt.
That's a very good point, assembly does work as a good analogue for more primitive textile manufacturing. but as a CS student that hasn't yet learned assembly, is a programmer using a compiler so much faster as to be analogous to a spinning jenny? or a modern loom?
The increasing use of walled garden things like iOS which abstract the file system away from the end user, making it impossible to know what the system's actual directory structure looks like, certainly doesn't help.

"where is your data?"

"uhhh, it's in the app, or in the cloud"

"yes, but specifically where?"

"i dunno"

The comment here nails it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18350671

Children and teenagers these days spend a lot of time using passive media consumption devices. An iPad is great if you're watching youtube or netflix passively, not so great at all if you want to create your own content, edit it, manipulate it, back it up, transfer it places, etc. Touchscreen devices and phones are great for browsing web pages. It's a media portal with a walled garden app store, not a real computer, though its hardware may be capable of more than its operating system allows it to do.

This comment could easily devolve into a "get off my lawn" rant, but I seriously believe that people who learned how to use x86 type computers from a command line first are much more capable of understanding what's going on underneath a GUI. If you spent time mucking about with config.sys and autoexec.bat settings in MS-DOS 3.3 and 5.0, a long time before you saw a Windows GUI, you could immediately grok what was going on when you did install Windows.

I am not a big fan of Arch Linux, but in the modern era there's a lot of value to getting people to learn what is going on when they do a brand new Arch install on an empty disk. What's happening with fdisk, partitioning, formatting, grub2/bootloader, etc. And why it's happening. If you don't want to go that far in an educational environment, start people from a debian stretch barebones install with CLI only + sshd.
I personally miss core pattern namespacing. I would love to give some of my containers a custom coredump handler, but this is impossible.

And in general, a sysctls settings namespace would be really useful. Sure, sometimes it makes no sense to namespace a setting, but net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control for example? I'd love to be able to change it without modifying the code.
I believe it is pretty uncommon, mostly because the inventor patented it.
You didn't limit your point to what is and is not illegal under sexual harassment law. You said the whole "line of reasoning is pretty poor." A lawyer dating a client or a doctor dating a patient is not illegal either. But we apply that "line of reasoning" to make it a violation of professional ethics rules.

Likewise, it doesn't matter if dating a subordinate is illegal. It's wrong and should be against corporate policy. Corporate policies allow us to address lots of antisocial behavior that doesn't rise to the level of illegality.
Unpopular opinion: Relative paths (paths in general, really) are a terrible thing, and it's excellent that people are able to get by without that knowledge.
JavaScript can be a delivery mechanism for a certain class of payloads

That's exactly what I'm saying --- in the real world, exploits tend to be wrapped in JS even if they don't technically need it.

but it's not the substantial weakness in browser vulnerabilities

Then what is? My real-world experience also correlates.
The obligations and interdependence of pair bonding partners, and the complications that result, are usually more consequential than those of bowling mates (or any other relationship short of parenthood).
Back in the 90's I had a computer...a 386. It had Windows 3.1 but still I used a lot of DOS. I also played BBS games where there's multiplayer chat...so I typed pretty fast. I was fastest type in the class in middle school, even better than the teacher in our computer class. A year or two later, everyone gets computers, AOL...AIM....and the classroom is now clickity clack, full of fast typers.
A lot of recent updates showing more severe consequences for not addressing global warming are due to prior models making optimistic assumptions that we keep needing to strip away, and there is a lot of guess work here... Macro-climate science isn't the sort of thing you can experiment on and the historical data isn't very easy to discern and doesn't include a lot of the modern day factors.
I can speak from experience regarding FastMail because that's exactly what I did. In fact, I migrated off a grandfathered Google Apps account with my custom domain to FastMail with that same domain. Yeah, it's a bunch of steps, but I'm very comfortable with making DNS changes. My wife and I have an account; it's worth every penny.

Also, FastMail allows for subdomain handling. I use this feature with nearly every site. You can have *@<YourFastMailId>.<YourDomain>.com route to <YourFastMailId>@<YourDomain>.com just as you'd expect. The way this handling works is even configurable.
This is bollocks:

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“The idea was that everything would be awesome if we are all connected,” Ferguson said, in regard not just to modern social networks, but to inventions such as the printing press.

“But that is a deeply suspect idea,” he said.

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The rest of the article just about holds up but the above is ... ahhh ... I've skimmed and read the rest and after reading this: "Fighting the social network addiction"

This article was clearly written by an algorithm and not a person.
Protnmail requires JS, or offers an app (Android/IOS). But it doesn't infect uncountable other websites.
I had a similar experience as well- I attribute most (if not all) of my typing ability to an unhealthy Runescape habit in my younger years.
??

Not sure what you are trying to say.
In addition, on mobile you have on-screen keyboards, so you can never practice touch-typing (which entails being able to type without looking at the keyboard).
It's not so much all audiophiles as all humans. Confirmation bias is very real. Sometimes it matters. Sometimes it doesn't. But we all suffer from it.
Here is one example of what your looking for https://e360.yale.edu/features/air-pollutions-upside-a-brake...
I agree that it is a great site. This is the kind of thing the Internet was, or at least should be, made for. I would also encourage people who like this kind of thing to think, or take it, one step further. Because even in countries where salaries (tax returns really) are public information getting a decent, or even predictable, salary remains a problem.

Some of this is that there is a difference between data and information. Even though you have the data, the information asymmetry remains. After all your interests are often at odds with people whose job it is to look after the company's interests and sometimes with other people in the job market as well. But maybe most of all it is a practical problem. And it isn't usually information that solves practical problems, but what you do with the information you have.
That’s exactly how I felt about a previous book of his, The Ascent of Money, which was released at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and then rushed into production as a TV documentary. One review accurately called it “rushed and uneven”. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Money)
I would guess that scientists are conservative in their predictions, so that they don't over-estimate effects. As new information comes in and predictions become more accurate, it's more likely to lean towards worse outcomes because the earlier predictions were already biased the other way.
I'm sure tracking everyone and controlling exactly what they can do will make them safer. Why don't we put surveillance cameras everywhere and make them record 24/7 too? 


Authoritarian ideology like this is what turned me off the whole "security industry" years ago.
> The people != some random group of people who aren't part of the government. The people should be understood as all the people of the nation. "People," by itself, could be a small (or large) group of oligarchs. Those are very different things.

That’s the thing. Anyone can be a shareholder of a corporation. There is nothing preventing anyone from buying shares. You just have to be willing to risk your money to buy said shares that may or may not yield any returns - i.e. risk throwing away your money.

> Democracies have a lot of experience with representative bodies that can support faster decision-making while still having some accountability to the people. It's a straw-man to to present worker representation as being direct democracy for every decision.

On a separate note, THE people already have democratic control over the most powerful organization in the land, their government.

The government can unilaterally (corporations have no real say) set laws and even break up corporations or even just outright seize them (i.e. nationalization).
Interesting comparison - how important firing (actually, relieving) high numbers of generals is in war, when the rubber has to hit the road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxZWxxZ2JGE
Agreed. New schools give ipads to students in lieu of laptops. I think typing is very important, and schools should continue teaching typing as a skill.
Still a big gap. Random read time from NVMe Flash is on the order of 100µs, whereas service time for reads from this medium are lower. You can get an idea of how much lower based on the QD1 numbers of the SSDs based on it at https://www.anandtech.com/show/11953/the-intel-optane-ssd-90....

On top of that, the DRAM-like form is supposed to much further lower latency by 1) getting rid of NVMe and software overhead and 2) letting you read/write as little as a (64b) cache line at a time. We still don't know what the exact remaining latency is, and I bet the few with access through this program will still be NDAd from talking about it. We also don't know about the price/GB.

Those numbers, esp. price, will have a lot to do with how broad an impact this has at first: you can imagine a scenario where most folks currently building large DBs would find it worthwhile to replace 2/3 of their RAM with 5x as much of this stuff for the same price, though that seems kind of unlikely to be imminent. Or we may find out it's only going to be worth it in some niche applications and the rest of us have to wait some generations before it reaches us (if it ever does).

NVMe Flash is, obviously, still sufficient for a lot of workloads and today is nothing like, say, 2004 when I was writing DB-backed apps and HDD seeks were my bane. Notably, if your OLTP DB can have a lot of transactions in flight at once, or your reporting workload is doing sequential reads, you can take advantage of the very high throughput of modern Flash SSDs when working on lots of I/Os in parallel.
Can you give an example of a project an L9 engineer would work on?
DVd so soon (3')?
Fundamentally, abstraction fosters illiteracy. You have an entire generation or two of people who grew or are growing up solely on touch devices, and many of these devices expose no native filesystem (e.g. iOS) to its users. And as the article says, these devices are used largely for consumption (media, social extensions), all by design. You now have to go out of your way to learn even the basic, trivial fundamentals, but kids handed a smartphone at age 9 may very well have no desire to do so.

Of course, and to use an analogy, not everyone has the time or motivation nor even reason to become an auto mechanic. But something like transportation has always been a means to an end. The difference with consumer technology now is that nearly everyone fancies themselves a "tech" enthusiast in one form or another thanks to proximity and thus familiarity. But at the same time, many (perhaps most) remain underexposed to the very technology they use as a lifeline. There's a pervasive "just works" mentality that has influenced everything, partially spearheaded by tech companies like Apple circa Steve Jobs. This wouldn't be so bad, if it weren't for people spending so many hours of their own spare time using technology, but simultaneously learning nothing. The equivalent time spend in a traditional computing environment would teach the fundamentals whether one is interested or not, simply through exposure. But there's little such exposure in modern personal computing.
> Why would google not at least have an incentive they'd have to work against, to add tracking into their sign in pages?

You're signing in. That's literally asking them to identify you across pages so you can have access to them.
Alright thanks! I thought I read that TimescaleDB doesn't support clustering yet, only single node Postgres installs, But I could've misunderstood it.
I've downvoted this because it seems like you're trying to be insulting to this person on the basis of an assumption about their gender. That doesn't seem worthy of HN.
UK software salaries are a joke.

I get a lot of feelers from agents looking for 5-10 years experienced, capable software guys and looking to pay in the range of your grad salary for them. The embedded world seems particularly bad for this but it's rife throughout. The US, Canada and Australia all pay far better, often multiples of what's on offer at home.

The only way I've found to come close to the pay I could get overseas is to become a contractor and try to land work in or around finance. Even then it's hard outside of London.

The problem in the UK is, AFAICT, that managers and company owners see software guys as grunts, floor staff, no different to hiring other generic office staff. They pay poorly, they have low expectations and they get people in who are broadly in line with that - demotivated, poorly skilled, unproductive. It's a viciius circle of low expectations and low rewards.
Can you add details, for which languages and when did you try vscode?
Following the instructions pedantically (e.g. emphasizing "uniquely identify," especially for the individuals) probably leads to an enormous biasing of the score.
It depends on the location and time. In the great English victories of the Hundred Years War many ordinary soldiers were killed whereas the French nobility were often spared. It did not hurt that the latter could pay fat ransoms, of course.
I often use the other ones to go directly to the search I want: !imdb, !w (wikipedia), !rt (rotten tomatoes), etc.
> but it should be roughly 50-50

Nope. That is law that don't exist.

In fact, do you remember "not bad thing come alone?". Things always can go wrong faster, and when things go wrong, them multiply and accelerate.

Think, for example, what happend if you lost your job. Then you get behind old debts. Then you get a lot of stress in family,. Then you think "lets drink a little / smoke pot" then you continue doing that....

When certains things go wrong, them multiply, amplify and create side-effects.

Or in other words, is like a computer crash. When the process get corrupted and you continue along without stop and diagnose properly...
Fair enough. This one I never saw, but I remember seeing one other article saying we now think there are more trees than we estimated before. But for every article like this there are easily 100 saying that whatever new thing we discovered points to a faster pace of global warming. Is my impression wrong?
In the late 90's & early 2000's, I bought a ton of vinyl. The majority of it was techno, house, and drum n' bass singles. It was quite literally the only format to buy it in.

Then, the "digital revolution" came to music, and you could buy it online. Which, for nearly every case, was better. Especially for people who weren't in driving distance of a major city.

However, once I started to get a digital collection going, the size was overwhelming. Especially in regards to dj'ing. With vinyl, your entire collection isn't always available. You make little stacks, shift things in and out, and it's much more organic. Digital misses that. Plus, I never really knew track names. I just remembered album or record artwork. It was easier to find things that way.