skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very interesting how this whole period of cannabis prohibition has played out. First the UN says cannabis is bad on advice from the US. My country, Sweden, bans the THC cannabinoid. And institutes a zero tolerance policy.

So CBD was never banned and people have been selling CBD oils in shops, and even pharmacies, for a while now.

The US leading the way in decriminalization apparently banned CBD on a federal level.

This just shows how little governments knew about cannabis when it was banned.

And finally; I used to be dependent on cannabis. It has been a very hard struggle to stop smoking so much cannabis and focus on working, sober instead. I can't imagine what that struggle would be like if cannabis was being sold for recreational use where I live.

Someone somewhere once said that cannabis makes it fun to be bored, and that's the real danger with it. It's not toxic, it's not terribly addictive but you get addicted to feeling good when doing nothing at all.

Edit: Just to clarify if anyone is curious, CBD was being handled by the Swedish quivalent of the FDA. While THC was being handled as an illegal narcotic. So our FDA could approve the use and sale of CBD based products without affecting the legal ban of THC.
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There is no discussion if the language is good, it's already quite convincingly proven it's good. The question was if generics would make the language even better. Some people think that's a no brainer, others are not so sure, and the latter group included the core maintainers.

People use the language because it is good, I think at this point one can state that as objective fact. Once people use it, they'll complain when something is not as nice as it could be, like the error handling, and like the generics.

I wonder if in 2000 people felt the way about Java 1.3 people feel about Go now. Java had a similar rise to prevalence, and it also lacked some features we now consider crucial, such as generics. I personally would never want to go back to Java 1.3. I feel I'd much rather code in Go instead, even if it lacks generics. But I still think it's worth considering if Go would turn out to become Java, if it now embraces generics.
I love how childish it is to think that his personal experience of learning arithmetic, is worth anything regarding syntax highlighting. In some way it even undermines him.

Why did he use coloured rods as a child? Because it helps reduce cognitive load! To define easier things as childish and harder things as adult, is elitist and hostile to other people.
in our minds and hearts
How strange to see a night I remember well as a teen in 1988, and I left the show half-way because me and Jason were talking about something, and we went back in and the smoke didn't bother us and the pit was great and it was aggressive but welcoming, and I can't even remember what girl I liked. But there it is... that night, a single dated entry on a web page.
Anyone know if ML.NET will be capable of online anomaly detection?
Per the article, the police then got legal rights against the patient's right to refuse, which means nothing to a doctor when it comes to an obligation of inaction.
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Except that voice assistant are not self-discoverable (in addition to being very unreliable and sluggish, which granted could be improved over the long run). And it forces me to memorize commands. Not just "switch on x". But like I want to play that song from that band I don't remember the name of but I remember it is a blue album a few songs after that radiohead song in my playlist. I don't want to have to memorise all these names.
I run Torchbox, a small, private tech agency in the UK. We were commissioned by NHS Digital (the state sector organisation behind these tools) to support two related projects: moving NHS.uk to https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail and setting up https://beta.nhs.uk/service-manual/ on Wagtail.

NHS Digital's procurement processes are tight and focused. They have an expert in-house team of developers and delivery managers, and they only used us on where we could accelerate the project.

As a business owner, I would have liked a bigger contract. As a tax-payer and frequent user of the NHS, I'm very happy with their efficiency.
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My point isn't a technical one, but more a cultural/political one.
Sure.

Nazis were more aligned than unaligned with the rest of the western culture.

The worst part when discussing pre-world war 2 germany is highlighting how racist and xenophobic they were - while politely glossing the issue that everyone was xenophobic and racist back then. It was totally ok in polite circles to consider eugenics as fine possibility to make progress forward in any western country back then, I think.

Nazi's didn't invent half of the horrors we know them for. They just took a few of them to their extremes. I think people understood from their example what parts of popularly held ideas were really not tenable since they were so strongly associated with Nazi attrocities.
> Ever heard of the concept of "jugaad"? It's a Hindi term meaning cheap innovation.

Let's use this word in English as well, as it allows to direct our attention to jugaad immediately.
I respect the OP is in charge of his own life. I’m simply offering some input that may not be obvious to someone younger. People helped me out in a similar way. I’m so happy they did.

Can you elaborate as to why you are aggravated?
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Maybe not both at the same time?
London has an amazing Java community. They organise a lot of interesting talks!
Let me just re-iterate practise, practise, practise. After you have done this sufficiently often, following things happen

1-You'll notice how similar interviews are and develop a routine

2-You'll become better aware of what you want and what your strengths are which will help you to sell yourself better

3-I believe each human being has a threshold of "capacity to being bothered". At some point, you will care less about how interviews go. Just imagine you had 5 interviews per week for four weeks. In no way will you be as nervous in your fourth week as you were in your first. You get used to it.

Try to not take any of this personally. It's a game anyone can learn to play.
I think when someone's goal is to go back to "life under my parents' roof", calling them a man-child is perfectly appropriate.

> I'd rather be poor and happy than middle class and miserable.

Those aren't your only two options though. You can set up a life that includes responsibility and is incredibly rewarding. In fact, being able to handle the responsibility is often where the sense of doing something meaningful comes from.

edit: To put it simply, the better reaction to realizing that "this is a raw deal" isn't to ask "How can I run away from this?", but instead ask yourself "How can I become a person who can handle this and thrive?"
Was that the new service in Beta https://www.moneyclaims.service.gov.uk/eligibility

Or the old one?
https://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/web/mcol/welcome
What does the backend stack consist of?
I am not sure if that is evil or pure genius. But why is the subsidiary allowed to release it to WeWork?

I mean by that theory I could open up 100s of Restaurant and close each of them that is not performing?
I'm sorry, did I misunderstand your point? I'm not saying these things to troll, this is my honest opinion.

I'll admit, Haskell is probably a poor choice for other reasons, but in many ways I think Rust and Swift are better languages than Go for the things Go is commonly used for.
> Someone somewhere once said that cannabis makes it fun to be bored, and that's the real danger with it. It's not toxic, it's not terribly addictive but you get addicted to feeling good when doing nothing at all.

Well, like social media or watching TV. It is not clear what is your point.
You need a bouncer if you need access to history, that is a deal breaker for most people. Also, being able to ping somebody via a push message on their mobile is also a nice thing when working in a remote team. Apps on mobile are also not that nice.

That being said, I wish there was a better open source alternative.
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It it is underway it is not solved. Go is crap.
There is a saying in German: "Bei Geld hört die Freundschaft auf", roughly translated to "don't mix friends and money". Let me tell you: it's a saying for a reason.
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Hemp farming is a win aside from just the CBD product possibilities.

Hemp can be more lucrative for farmers [1] making feed instead of alfalfa/others.

Hemp also uses less water than other crops [2], it can help with water usage in agriculture heavy states that are tighter on water in the west (CA, AZ, NV, UT).

Hemp for textiles is also more efficient than cotton which uses 50% more water and requires more land [2].

Hemp oil possibilities are also interesting to restart and explore.

Hemp being legal opens up farmers to switching to it more and give them more markets for a crop that us more lucrative and uses less water. It was used like this a hundred years ago, sad it was caught up in the drug wars for so long. Much farther to go on the ending drug wars but this is a welcome market opening back up that has benefits all around in hemp.

[1] https://psmag.com/environment/hemp-is-the-future-of-agricult...

[2] https://slate.com/technology/2011/04/hemp-versus-cotton-whic...
Youre okay it's 5 am I've been up all night. I agree with the thoughts that Rob Pike can be opinionated, and that can be good and bad. There was a website cat-v I used to go to and cat-v harmful stuff software.the site really likes plan9 and go and Rob Pike.

I feel it gives some insight, but I think it's bad to be too opinionated as this cat-v site can be
Hey, science is adversarial. Climate datasets are publicly available. And there are mechanisms to detect and punish cheating.
Looking this up led me to Open Pediatrics, a lovely idea:

https://www.openpediatrics.org

A video going into more of the detail, on reflection the big idea seems to be the air pressure oscillations

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rjmdNspYoy4
The language is crap. Just because people are using it does not mean it is good. Take a look at javascript. Same deal. You did not state any "fact"s why Go is good. Maybe it is good compared to Cobol or Fortran, but not compared to pretty much everything else.
Beyond even. A while ago Debian dropped support for Alpha, IA64 and PA-RISC. Even SPARC isn't supported anymore.

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en
The only thing is that trade dress is being used as a proxy for copyright, and trade dress isn't supposed to protect things that are considered functional. I would say having smoothed corners on a device I use with my hands and hold near my face is very functional.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696291
For quite some time, I’ve taken to wrapping the most common err case with a simple function:

func dieOnErr(err error) {
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
}

It makes the code much easier to read (due to efficient use of vertical space) and much less tedious to write:

dieOnErr(foo())
_, err := bar()
dieOnErr(err)
Regarding it being worth it for you, that totally depends on finances, and if you are able to find someone to crash with for the duration of the course. If money is no (or little) matter, then I think it'd be worth it.

I signed up for Jaunty after being in a social rut for years. I tried books, videos on YouTube, online courses, and 1-on-1 coaching with a life coach. I didn't feel I was getting results that I wanted.

With Jaunty, the course is organized in eight 4-5h class once a week. We met on Mondays at 6pm in SF. There were 20-25 other people, both men and women, in the class. Some were from tech, but not all. When I took it for the first time, I was 27. There were people that were younger than me, and some that were 40+.

Each week, we did some theory in the class, and then exercises related to them. We all had homework, and an "accountability partner" to keep us on track. We also organized events to practice stuff we learned in class.

Looking back, the stuff we covered is very basic. But for me, at the time, it didn't occur to me naturally at all; it took practice for them to become close to second nature. We worked on eye-contact, slowing down, listening, humor, accepting and giving compliments, being assertive, etc. We also practiced basic approaches, and starting up and keeping a conversation going with complete strangers.

I still go back and look at my notes from the class. It helped my career at lot. I am better able to connect with colleagues, and more importantly, with managers and recruiters, and ask for more during reviews.
Not the original poster, but have used CBD - it works both topically and orally. Shop around, the vast majority of outlets for the paste are rip-off merchants, so do a deep dive and find one that is "honest"
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In a big city it's generally considered bad form to look at others too much. Making eye contact is something I would avoid, but mostly because it can be seen as threatening (I'm assuming you're a guy) and can lead to you being ganged up somewhere dark if you do it to the wrong person.
It does, that's why people do not usually use bitcoin (/other coins) for everyday transactions.
That's not constructive advice.
Facebook has a ton of merchants already using pages and groups. Also, their 'marketplace' feature has more or less replaced craigslist and ebay in my city.
> How about for a change designing a language where generics are part of the initial design instead of just getting bolted on later?

Muttering about Rust at this point.

Exactly. Generics being there from the get-go makes a difference to the language design. The most visible example being how values are returned from functions, when the result is tuple return for success case or error case. Bolting that on later is unlikely to work well.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/
$760M bond is mind blowing.
Hmmmm... I wonder you have some super powers of knowing things before :P
Check out "The D-I-Y Data of Fugazi" by Matthew Conlen author of Idyll: https://idyll-lang.org/gallery/the-d-i-y-data-of-fugazi

It has a great interactive map as part of the experience.
In my german 80‘s childhood I learned this too. Vegetarians don‘t eat mammal‘s meat but fish is okay. For whatever reason.
I've not heard the term "buzzword bingo" before. Quote of the week.
*That's because you havne't considered how big the US is and you haven't considered that the US is mostly a land of immigrants not a land of people who lived their almost all their lives for several generations."

I'm American. The first one is easy enough to consider. I can drive to Sweden in the same or less time than it would have taken me to get out of Indiana. I know it is big. I just don't see how that is an excuse. It isn't like you can't customize health care to a geographic area so it serves the needs of the people best. There are multiple ways to do that.

And that bit about immigration? That's propaganda 101 in school. Trust me, I'm aware. I fail to see how that is an issue. Most folks in the US aren't new immigrants: They are at least 2nd to 3rd generation. Even if I take the higher numbers I saw - around 25% - most folks are still just Americans. I don't really see how that affects anything. Don't most folks still want healthcare? Do immigrants avoid health care? Don't most of these families have at least one working adult paying into the tax system?

And of course it would be expensive - the current system is expensive. But it isn't efficient now, and that can easily be changed. Just because you haven't seen a proposal you'd be happy with doesn't mean it can't work. Most of the proposals I've seen in the US are more focused on preserving health insurance companies instead of focusing on getting health care ot everyone.
They way English rifles through the pockets of other languages looking for vocabulary, just start using it and see if it sticks. :)
I had an ancestor who was a lawyer and a competitor to Robespierre before the revolution. Apparently he just escaped the death penalty with the death of Robespierre.
I would argue that Swift, a compiled, strongly typed language, is more a C++ replacement than it is comparable to Python or Ruby. The only "higher level" aspect would be largely hands-off memory management, but go is in the same boat there.
This article is a bit outdated and has invalid claims and a lot of ad hominem and other fallacies, so I'd recommend to stick to the textbook for complaining about Go for maximum clicks:

https://divan.github.io/posts/go_complain_howto/
Fingernail Sensors and AI Can Help Clinicians Monitor Disease Progression
Eh, I tend to translate jugaad to hack.
Tenable Report on Logitech Harmony Hub Multiple Vulnerabilities
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D is a mess, Rust maybe no, but seeing how firefix is lossing browser share, I doubt in 5 - 10 years, there will be any company behind it anymore, same for kotlin, with vscode beating jetbrains.
How are things inside Facebook after so many scandals?
“wannabe gluten pretenders” are harmful to vegans as well. A lot of times I see gluten-free vegan food when I don't care about the gluten. It is like I am subsidising a fad although I am happy that people with actual allergies can now afford gluten free alternatives due to the fad.
Adding it to Pocket, then lets you read it.
Is it really so that even a company cannot protect itself against a state sponsored attack? I am asking sincerely, is it really the state of IT security today? I mean, it is somewhat clear that since Snowden we all know that we could not even dream up in our nightmares how far NSA is going. But I was thinking, that since then at least companies with strategic data started to work on protection.

If, what you are saying is reality, what consequences can it have and what legal recourse can a client (corporation or private) expect in such cases? Who can be hold as responsible if sensitive data disappears? Does it need a new type of contracts when subscribing to a service?
How do you like working at Apple store?
What a nice story about keeping things simple.

Also, damn, neonatology must be brutal to work in at times.
the amazon comment section for any technical books are littered with comments like yours(and i have declined to purchase books based on these comments).
I prefer to use a separated alarm, so I don't have to worry about battery charge and/or plugging my phone before going to bed.
If `myVar` is defined as private then it cannot be re-defined as public... It seems simple. It's the same as normal variables: what happens if you define myVar as `const` and then you want to redefine it as `var`? Well, you cannot, you'd have to work around it instead.
Imo ProtoMail is snake oil:

When you’re communicating with email addresses outside of ProtonMail, their servers will see your emails. Your emails might then be encrypted “at rest”, but they’ve passed through their servers unencrypted anyway.

To workaround it, for sending to email addresses without a ProtonMail account, AFAIK they also give the possibility to send a link to a ProtonMail interface for decryption.

And also web interfaces are inherently insecure for E2E encryption, which ProtonMail encourages.

This is not how email is supposed to work.

Speaking of email ProtonMail also doesn’t work via standard IMAP and SMTP. You need an adapter to use classic mail clients and that only works on the desktop.

In other words ProtonMail is anti-standards.

And for me standards are more important than promises of privacy that an email service can’t really meet.

Unless you’re doing PGP or similar, independent of the email service being used, then email is incompatible with encryption.
be that, but the fact that I didn't heard of it, I just need to get shit done, not experimenting.
Back when I was a super junior php dev I stumbled across a post by Cal Henderson about using bcrypt https://www.iamcal.com/2012-06/use-bcrypt/

His lib is can be dropped in to any project (that doesn't have something similar built in already) https://github.com/iamcal/lib_bcrypt

Anyone writing code has no excuse for not using this, it's not rocket surgery.
I read that, Rich exporters in India?
I only use it to spell words I don’t know the spelling of. :p

I speak with an accent so it was always hit and miss for me - although it had gotten better in recent years.

I’m also too lazy to talk ...
Well, I'm in my late 40s and I avoid Google Maps like the plague. Osmand or other off-line navigation apps are really easy to use nowadays. Also, I'm still not happy that my phone is leaking my location through GSM.
It's the best solution. Given how mindbogglingly expensive your product is, you could try your best at least.
It's the same when I was growing up in Poland.
German native speaker here with lots of assumptions.

For the first word, "spitze" can be "peak", but also the pattern/cloth as seen when you google doily. In this context, that's probably what he means. That means the "s" belongs together with the "parken", making it the English "spark". "sparken" could be "making sparks"

For the second word "Blinklicht" ist "blinking light", "Blinklichtchen" would be the diminutive, it's probably written "Blinkelichtzen" to make it look ever more German.

He appears to be kind of an unpleasant person.
> Yet to speak of anything even remotely similar gets you labeled a crackpot conspiracy theorist

This is likely due to how it is being discussed.

Too often, when secret societies are brought up, many people have convinced themselves that secrecy must mean something nefarious is at play, and many of these people are absolutely unwavering in this belief.

Considering that the HN community is privacy centric and generally rejects the notion of “You don’t need privacy if you’ve got nothing to hide.” it doesn’t surprise me that many people discussing secret societies are downvoted because many of the people discussing this turn into blithering crackpots the minute secret is brought up.

If a society wishes to have privacy, this privacy does not make it axiomatically evil. Some people, yes, even groups of good people, just like to be left alone.
I can imagine that people would be in a similar boat that I am in: I am charitable, I enjoy giving time and effort to good causes that directly help people (eg volunteer work in orphanages, feeding the poor).

When I want to donate money (I am in a position to do that far more than I do currently), I am left with the insight that actually there is no charity that isn't evil in some way. Examples of evil include very high CEO/upper management salaries, stuff like "fundraisers", performing acts of charity that sound good but actually do nothing (or actively harm), etc.

Every time I come to the conclusion that it's easy to do good, but practically impossible to donate to something good in an effective way. With the way my life has been progressing and how I suspect a lot of people's lives progress as they age (less free time, more relative income) this effectively means that charity stops out of necessity as time goes on. I would love to have a solution to this, as it does bother me.