skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is fantastic - I'm very glad that the people of the Rust project were so forward thinking. Thanks for all of your work so far - I know it's helped me and so many others get started using Rust, which I managed to be able to use for a new project at work, where it has been a joy.

All the best, and I hope an even better opportunity comes your way!
The vast majority of Americans don't know/care what the active ingredient in Tylenol is because its effects have been extensively studied and tested and there's strong evidence consuming it over long periods of time has minimal to no harmful health effects.

The same cannot be said of marijuana.
> "Free software changes more often, but when it does, it is not that big of a problem because you have both control over code and the code that your code interacts with, because all code is accessible."

This is akin to saying "When you're bleeding internally it's not that bad because all of your blood is still on the inside."

Games are a hit-driven industry. In most cases, it is strictly better to be working on a new game than to improve incredibly niche support for existing products. It would be one thing if fixing Linux bugs effectively future-proofed it from more bugs down the line, but that does not seem to be the case for most of the devs I know who've shipped on Linux.
You shouldn't make broad statements like that. In my personal experience, I have found Javascript much easier than C++. If I want to install a package, I can just do "npm install <package_name". Also, 0-configuration bundlers like Parcel make building complex projects very easy.

Now, I'm sure some people have an easier time with Makefiles, but I've found it even easier to get up and running in Javascript. Most of the tools in Javascript (create-react-app, Webpack, etc.) are very user friendly, making setup trivial.

It is best not to speak with such authority/certainty that C++ is easier to use than Javascript.
In my current role, I've seen the company go from 6 to 120 people, and it's absolutely true that there are some people that are really amazing at a 6 person company who can be extremely counter-productive in a company of even 30 or 40.

Also, startups, since they are often run by people new at running companies, are often slow to respond to these kinds of folks. It's also rare that folks recognize this in themselves. I very nearly quit my job when going through a bunch of rough patches, because I thought, maybe the company finally scaled past me. I'm glad I didn't because it's smooth sailing again, but it's always important to reflect on yourself and ask if you are really doing the best you can. It's really hard to quit a role that is going poorly, let alone going passably well.
Good questions! I approve.
Sometimes, devops, admins, DBAs, etc are there for QA. It's not that they don't know how to automate everything, it's that they know if you permit someone to do a dumb thing, they'll probably do.

It's one thing to talk about good practices and another to build a large development team that can understand and follow them. By moving the responsibility to devs, you tax your senior devs, who have to monitor middle and junior devs more closely and sometimes micromanage them as a consequence.

A few schema changes a year are more easy to test, justify and —most importantly— track than many small ones going on at the same time. How do you even manage the schema version when there are multiple branches that require changes and you don't know the order they will be merged in? Instead of a version number, you start to use flags. How about deprecated features? How and when do you clean up?
Something else that might be important, are performance optimizations.

I agree on the suggestions of the article and it's the way I try to write code that uses a SQL store, just saying that sometimes in real life you have to make things harder in order to stay safe.
If cannabis displaces alcohol in recreational drug use, it is hard to see that being a bad trade-off, even in all but the rarest individual cases.

There is also a massive amount of quack medicine out there "treating" cannabis users because that's the alternative to going to prison. Those quacks are not going to give up their gravy train without a fight.

Overall the article is disappointing especially coming from Gladwell who I expect would delve into Drug War quackery and scientific fraud. He points out that cannabis is unstudied, and then goes on to the scary anecdotes.

His omission of the harm reduction aspect of cannabis is highlighted by his use of non-cigarette nicotine products as an example of hard reduction that is sometimes the object of moral panic.

There's no sense of perspective. Are we looking at a hidden public health crisis or a "D&D is harmful to some people" level of concern?
@mds101: I've added a $10 balance request for first donations if users get up late. Will monitor acceptance level and look forward to additional feedback!
I'd recommend a clear picture of an assembled board displayed more prominently on the main page.
Overall I agree with the article, and would gladly trade my high paying job for one that I actually enjoy, as long as I could be sure that I can make ends meet. The one disagreement I have is the assertion that we should be happy making "just enough" money that we need. "just enough" can change due to circumstances outside our control, so earning more than enough gives you some cushion for when things don't go as planned. For example, a couple of years ago I was laid off due to budget issues at the company, and since I had been earning more than I needed, my wife and I were able to still live comfortably off savings while I was unemployed for a few months. If I had been earning "just enough", I might have lost my home when I suddenly started earning nothing.
"1920s: Cyclists would smoke cigarettes while riding to reportedly ‘open the lungs.’"

https://www.bicycling.com/health-nutrition/a20040926/timelin...
I think you could. I've been working primarily in C++ since 1995 and I think it's easier than ever to pick up enough to be productive.
Right on. It's the difference between temporary joy/contentment and true happiness.
This is a reasonable salary for the role and in the Bristol area.
Pointy Haired Boss, from Dilbert (https://dilbert.com/)
> What I saw in Rust was something that the world really needed. And I wanted to help it get there. Beyond that, the only real way to get a job working on Rust was to work at Mozilla. And independently of Rust, that was something I’m really excited about.

A big part of what drew me into Rust is that the people behind it have reasonable ideas which are very well documented. I know this doesn't sound terribly exciting but the older I grow the more I appreciate that as something very valuable - and amiss in many projects.

Besides other things Steve contributed a lot to these values by writing documentation and first and foremost by being there and answering questions - online and at the conferences.

> Well, the first thing is that I don’t plan to stop working on Rust. How much I’ll be able to depends on what’s next, but that’s the great part about open source; I can continue to help the thing I love, even if it might not be full-time anymore.

Glad to hear that he continues working on Rust. I really hope he will find a job that allows him to work on Rust full-time though. Having to split ones attention isn't often going well. Maybe this is kind of litmus test for Rust even: As much as it hurts me to write this but if there isn't a well paying full-time opportunity in the Rust space for someone like Steve then maybe Rust isn't going anywhere.
Apple's privacy stance is based on the fact that they can make money just selling hardware. The recent news of 'pivot to services' suggests Apple's stance would loosen on privacy.
Thank you for sharing this. I have been wondering about bamboo's utility for paper & packaging, to perhaps displace some plastic. This article has a better roundup of the state of things.

FWIW, Last time I asked about this, I found Ecoplanet Bamboo Group is trying to address some of the short-comings:

http://www.ecoplanetbamboo.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoplanet_Bamboo_Group

http://www.ecoplanetbamboo.com/fsc-certification
I'm sure they would have welcomed patches.
That's good! I don't doubt that the same thing that could hurt someone could help someone else. The mind is a really complex thing. I think cannabis does have a lot of medical merit.
By misappropriated trade secrets I'm referring to the fairly well documented hacking of Nortel, not the willing hand-over of IP. [0][1][2]

I also think it's simplistic to say their cash issue was purely an issue of poor management, as it resulted in part due to the unforeseen financial collapse at the time.

Of course you can try to define both of those as "poor management" as well: Nortel should have protected itself better from hackers. Or they should have been prepared for a financial collapse on a scale not seen for 80 years.

Under this type of reasoning, any problem at all for any company anywhere could be defined as "poor management" and that all companies fail from poor management. The problem is that this overly simplifies rather complex issues. It's a bit like saying "Everyone dies of heart failure." Because in every instance of death the heart has stopped beating. In every instance of a company failure, its managers failed to act in a way that might save the company, therefore management was poor.

It neglects the difference between proximate causes and distal causes. It ignores that, for example, the heart may have stopped because a bullet hit an artery and a person lost too much blood. Back to companies, it ignores the difficult questions of "Why & How did management fail? What, if anything, could they have done differently given the knowledge they had at the time? Would those things have been enough?"

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/report-ch...

[1]https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/15/nortel_breach/

[2]https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nortel-collapse-linked-to-c...
Everyone has a QA environment. Some people have separate production environments.
This is "WhatAboutism". Not all dangers are equal and therefore should be treated differently. In society we try to limit danger to whatever we think is an acceptable level (which is totally made constantly up for debate). Saying that the universe is dangerous and so any other danger is irrelevant doesn't hold.

I'm not really expressing an opinion on weed or anything, just the flawed logic.
> The MS-20m kit's sales were slow enough that they had a blowout at the end of production

Really??? God how could I miss that :(
Air Traffic Controller. Saw it mentioned in a similar thread and sounds like decent pay for the trade off of high stress and crappy hours. Still it's defiantly something worth looking into if you are willing to make compromises.
>people have treated me poorly because I was a dad with his kids.

That's interesting. Honestly, I've found that I get passes for many mistakes, because the bar to being a good dad is set so low in most peoples' minds. If I'm not hitting them and basically know their initials, I seem to be a success.

What has your experience been? If you don't mind me asking.
Aren't you agreeing? If the only way you can legally study marijuana is to use strains that are unrepresentative of commercially available medical and recreational weed, then isn't that pretty much the same as saying it can't be studied?

That seems kind of like the government saying that wine consumption can only be studied using samples of vodka produced by one lab since the active ingredient is the same.
I have a motor control disability.

I can't not drop things.
Nearly every Humble Bundle release of games shows that Linux users spent more than Windows or Mac.
Using propeller in the "beta" range for improved short-field operations and power recovery is a definite benefit to the Pipistrel. It's also an airplane that can't legally fly 95 miles/150 km and achieves those power recovery numbers only in pattern operations. I don't see that as representative or substitutive for even piston airplanes use cases.
Yeah, what I mean by this is that after his exit, management hasn't done much to help Mozilla, not that the act of his exit was a result of incompetent management.
It is a subtle change. In the past, a patrol was expected to move in stealth. The goal was to find the enemy and then decide whether to engage. That started to disappear in Vietnam. Today, patrols do not focus on stealth. They move in the open. Often the goal of a patrol is to be seen. First contact isn't 'finding' but being fired upon by the enemy. Being ambushed isn't considered a failure. It is the plan, the primary means of identifying an enemy position. Under that mentality, every soldier becomes a tank.
I feel like "Get a job, get married, have kids" meme is also just that, a meme. Of course it's a meme supported by biology/genetics, but why is that the path to happiness?

On the other hand, we learn to be happy with what we have, according to these 2 authors (who happened to have TED talks):

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfcro5iM5vw
I agree with all your points. On the TV issue, put an SDR inside the phone. Let developers use it to decode the many signals around us, like digital broadcast television. The potential for interesting apps is enormous.

Are you listening China? Want an iPhone-killer?

Apple has descended into mediocrity at this point. Their devices are more about form than function because they have sacrificed functionality for thinness and style. They kill background processes to save battery so we can’t do anything cool.

Also, they need a company-wide press to fix the goddam bugs in the APIs. Bloody new network framework doesn’t work worth shit. I can almost forgive leaving broadcast out of IPV4, although it is crucial for many technical tasks, but leaving multicast out of IPV6? You absolute effing morons!

And geofencing is the stupidest non-functional horrendoma ever conceived by humans. You dipshits, we don’t want to know that we passed the geofence ten minutes and a mile-and-a-half ago, we want to know right-the-eff-now. What is wrong with you people?

Seriously, one of the major applications for geofencing is security. I want to draw a precise perimeter around my kid’s school and get notified the very actual moment my kid crosses that boundary. Not ten minutes later when they’ve already been picked up in a white van are are in the process of being disssembled.

And you changed the compass so that it is corrected by GPS, but you didn’t tell anyone? What is wrong with you, Apple? Are you insane? The way you do that is to create a new method, “NSHeadingWithGPSCorrection”. You don’t just change the way the existing compass heading works. You want planes to crash? Cos that’s how you get planes crashing, ya idiots.

So they need both hardware innovation and software innovation that works properly. And someone like Steve to yell at them and make them feel bad when they are being twits. RIP Steve.
Exactly. I used to be a heavy marijuana user and it’s definitely not innocuous. But I still think the evidence is clear that the societal effects of prohibition are worse than the drug itself.

Also, there are clearly medical benefits to the drug for some people, although I do resent how the industry as a whole is trying to act like it’s medicine for all people.

These kind of articles make no sense when we see how much damage alcohol does each year. And no sane person would propose alcohol prohibition again.
Where are you looking?

For Cisco, their press releases seem to be here: https://newsroom.cisco.com/pressreleases

I haven't looked through all of them because I'm lazy, but scrolling through them I haven't yet found one that isn't in the 3rd person.
You don't even need an actual trailer, just something like a hitch mounted cargo platform.

https://www.google.com/search?q=trailer+hitch+platform&clien...
> Why should they change the way they develop games for 0.1% of their sales?

Have you seen how tight the gaming market has become? You need a niche to get any attention. Coming out with a truly cross platform game that has Linux as a first class citizen would buy tremendous free publicity. It would be on the front page here a lone, a site with an enormous audience at minimum once a quarter. It would appear in countless tech related subreddits, twitter hacker-verse would take off. The “maker culture” would adopt it as its son or daughter.

Sounds like a tremendous opportunity.

We are not representative of the culture but we are hackers and developers and eventually one spark is all you need to start a fire. I have the perception that gamers are dying to get off of Windows, but I could be wrong, I certainly was when I was a gamer.
Also: extremely limited availability of the require isotopes. Even NASA has had to redesign missions to use solar instead because their supply was running out.
This is actually a project I was looking to take on myself! I love preserving my family's history (photos, stories, memories) and it's very important to me. I'd like to develop some sort of central collection of everything that my entire extended family can peruse, and that the future generations of my family can maintain and update. I'd love to know what you're working on in that space. Mind sharing? :)
1. What happen to the Ruby and Rails part of the History?

2. How on earth did you came from Pizza to Tech?

3. I read it as if you were working on Firefox Pre 1.0 and Rust in Mozilla. And I don't think that is the case?

4. Finally someone pointing out the problem with Mozilla. ( Far to often they want to play themselves as the Saint or as David vs Goliath )

5. Have you thought about doing something with Rust and BlockChain?

Anyway Best of Luck.
HA! https://github.com/stackblitz/core/blob/master/build/jake.js
Anecdotally, marijuana has been an amazing improvement to my mental health.

I have suffered from insomnia my entire life. Then two years ago, my job got significantly more stressful and I began having panic attacks. I was perscribed Lorazepam in case of future attacks, but the potential side effects were terrifying (you may just suddenly die in certain circumstances), so I was scared to take it.

Enter medicinal marijuana. I’m now part of the “smoke weed every day” lifestyle, except with edibles because my apartment doesn’t allow smoking. 20mg CBD, 5mg THC, about 2 hours before I want to sleep. Accept that I’m not going out for the rest of the night, work on some side projects, watch some TV, and then go to sleep waking up refreshed, no hangover or grogginess.

Only real detrimental effect I’ve observed is a reduction in my short term memory. So I started keeping a proper notebook and calendar to compensate for that. After a couple of days of not consuming, my memory seems to return to normal, so I’m not too worried about long term effects there, but I would absolutely love to see more clinical trials around it.
I like the visual pun with the crow made of stone flying across the scene.
Bottoms up growth teams are the most effective growth teams at scale
How does it not affect others? 1. Vapours/Smoke affects those around you 2. Your behaviour change due to the drug affects those around you 3. Your behaviour change due to the need for the drug affects those around you
This was definitely not the case 10-15 years ago.
Could someone explain why this is downvoted?
https://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/25833504237

>Nobody half-understands a topic as lucidly as Malcolm Gladwell. Unless he's found one case study claiming the contrary.

https://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/big-data-vs-big-...

>And now, finally, just for fun, we have the Coup de Gladwell:

>“I think millennials are very trusting,” Gladwell said. “And when they say they’re not...they’re bullshitting.”

>And there you have it, folks. Who needs data when you have Gladwellian Pronouncements. The future is not the era of Big Data...it is the era of Big Gladwell.

I don't trust Malcolm Gladwell to fully understand a topic, much less explain it to the public. This particular article is also suspicious because he's been pro-tobacco for decades: https://shameproject.com/profile/malcolm-gladwell-2/
I agree with you. I assume you are being downvoted because there is a lot of polarity around the Eich exit at Mozilla from ... both sides ... here on HN :)

I find it quite disappointing that drive-by downvotes are what happen, rather than more discussion, but that's life I guess.
I don't think this article has advocated in any way that you should lose your choice to consume marijuana.

Rather, they are advocating that the fundamental conversation around marijuana legalisation--something roughly resembling "it's got no harmful effects and is a magic medical cure-all" deserve re-examining.

Marijuana has been illegal for so long, and the penalties so draconian for the substance, that society has naturally pushed back on that. But it could be pushing back too far--there's all sorts of marijuana discussion that is unwilling to consider whether it has harmful effects.

Alcohol is unsafe, I agree. And that matters. It matters for the car accidents, domestic abuse, and lives that alcoholism destroys. And if the conversation around alcohol involved plugging our ears and pretending it wasn't harmful, then people would routinely engage in unsafe behavior to the detriment of themselves and society.
I want to thank you, and say sorry for any snark you received in the past from me, which was usually (exclusively?) for what Mozilla did and does.

Once again, thank you for promoting Rust, which has so many benefits in so many areas, and being friendly and helpful wherever I encountered your presence.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/14/facebook-bans-...

They got banned a while back, not relating to this specific advert.
No -- the nanny state is what I'm not for, so my argument has nothing to do with pot but more with the perception that safety is a requirement for something to be legal/accepted by society.
There are a lot more projects you can't support than Tor and Signal if you think accepting help from OTF taints them.
Non-nullability is actually being actively worked on[1]. Currently language team is working on specifying the feature and figuring out the path towards it.

[1] https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/110
Actually HN built their own software for their own forum, and I think even released it. They aren't hosted on some huge centralized site. This is exactly what I'm talking about.

Would you also say "it's not about options" in other areas like net neutrality, telcos or banking?
You and I may be defining "everyone" differently.
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

That said, the actual article doesn't have a question. But they've been saying "Fusion is Just Around the Corner" since I was a kid so a solid "No" is probably applicable.
Here they are test driving the VW car (VW ID. First Drive from fullycharged) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Tqw9LX3QE
“We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.”
― Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
Six social leaders have already been killed so far this year in Colombia
And Chapel Hill is better than both! :p

All joking aside, colloquially speaking, I assume that "Raleigh" is shorthand for the entire greater Triangle region when speaking to, or in regards to, outsiders. Personally, I live in Chapel Hill, but I consider myself a "citizen of the Triangle". :-)