skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can trigger deep psychosis which can take people years to come back from, or even permanently 'break' personalities and make people worse human beings. Imagine having very dark bad trip for the first time, on high dose, with nobody around to help.

My opinion is that those people could end up there via different ways (alcoholism, mental shocks like car crash or other mental traumas), but this is definitely one way.

It is extremely powerful substance and can take you very far from common reality, not something most folks are prepared for. I know I was not, and having every single aspect that makes me me taken away, both on physical and personality level was by huge margin the most intense experience of my life.

I believe it should be legal (maybe with some huge warnings/education about potential consequences), but from all I've heard LSD is just synthetic variant of the same - why would that be illegal then? If that is OK, what about mescaline, that's also just a plant? Ayahusca? Cocaine is also a plant extract, and so is heroine (with some chemistry on top of that, but coca itself has quite an effect on its own). A bit slippery slope...
Please do. I was also impressed recently by her Ted talk and bookmarked some of her publications to read later.
[Tool] a Gradle Plugin to Generate Your Android Networking Code from Swagger
Pending legislation? Environmental, economic peril?

Our ability to react to news is often personal, but it can operate on a macro level as well.
The Good Decision Maker Manifesto: Getting More Done Is Never the Answer
I made the OSS https://github.com/rynop/aws-blueprint partially to address this problem. Easily migrate from Lambda to ECS (remove lambda lock-in). It abstracts all the difficult & time consuming to learn aws idiosyncrasies in to a best-practice production ready harness.

You could argue that if you have lots of lambdas, this is non-trival. I would argue that tons of lambda is a poor architecture. What you gain with isolation you lose
management, complexity, nimbleness, attack vector surface.

You could also argue my harness locks you into AWS as it is aws specific. However I'd argue that it is the other aws services locking you in (ex: Dynamo) or your code/architecture.
Roger McNamee advised Facebook. Now he’s certain it’s destroying our democracy
I haven't used lambda but it sounds remarkably similar to a Django function.

In Django urls point to a function. Your request matches that url, that function gets run.

Lambda must have some similar sort of mapping of urls to functions, so what exactly are you saving with it? Ok, Django includes an ORM, but if you are using any sort of persistence you will need a database layer as well.

Can someone explain what all the fuss is about or what I am missing?
I hate roundabouts, at least partly for this reason. Whenever I'm taking anything other than the first exit, I'm moving round just praying that no-one's going to join or drive up alongside me...

(And don't get me started on driving lessons. Here, in the UK, they're an absolute joke!)
I agree that Google's description of reCaptcha is deceptive.
i don't see any kindness, it's just another threat. "tell us or else" basically.
Recommendation to read: https://codewithoutrules.com/2019/01/18/negotiate-like-6-yea...
This. People need to understand that the root cause of life being as terrible as it was under Soviet rule was not so much the atrocities that got reported (that, of course, had to do with it too, but it was not the direct cause of daily life being so unbearable).

But day to day, what really killed every initiative, every improvement, every little bit of relief that might have been is that bureaucrats controlling the platforms were forced to take a 0.00000001% chance of terrible personal consequences every time they said "yes you can do that".

The result was: no to EVERYTHING. Absolutely every, every, everything. This law works the same way. Youtube will be forced to do deny everything. So will facebook, reddit, ycombinator, ...

Copyright can only exist if ALL the rest of society is constantly on the lookout for violations. Sorry, but that's just not worth it.
Decriminalization is akin to a parking ticket, it's still illegal, but is not a criminal offense. It literally is what the word means, not a "spin word". Both things serve very different purposes.
That also describes my (very small in scope) PHP and Javascript things. They all still work, and I love that to bits. Admittedly, the price of that probably is keeping it simple, but if I needed to update it all the time just to keep it from not sinking under its own weight or the ground shifting beneath it, that would be no fun for me.
Ask HN: Did offering a money-back guarantee help your business?
I assume it will boost initial conversions significantly, but does it produce a long term net gain?

As a consumer, I've seen approaches ranging from very generous "no questions asked", to "you can have a refund if you jump through 100 hoops", to "all sales are final". Are there any guidelines around which approach to use?

I'm specifically concerned about one-time digital purchases, where once the customer has the file/valuable info there's nothing to stop them from keeping it and requesting a refund.
I thought Ketamine was considered a rape-drug and thus prohibited.
I find very few photographers obsess over "image quality", instead they care about if a photo is a good photo or not.
The admin is not asked for a birthday. IIRC, it's largely optional - YouTube will require it to watch a violent/sexually suggestive video, at which point you may get locked out if you give a sub-13 one.

For example: https://sunpig.com/martin/2011/07/03/google-made-my-son-cry/
Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish
If you have 200 meters of road to zip, you have more possibilities to merge and can find the best spot to merge into. Also, multiple cars can merge in parallel.
We used Mandrill for some time, then moved to SendGrid, and just recently have moved again to Postmark because we were seeing delivery issues. FWIW, Postmark has been fantastic.
As a programmer I still attribute a bit of weight to Sapir-Whorf. I understand there's nothing magic about it, but it's still a useful concept to know about. Point of view matters in your understanding of the world, words are often ways to massage said PoV.
This is a flamey and unsubstantive comment, and we're trying for better here.

> Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

> Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
While the trim is not too far down, you can still counteract it with elevator (pulling the yoke). But then, MACS kicks in again and pushes the trim further and further down, and if you don't trim up and/or switch the trim cut-out, then you get into the situation where you can't recover anymore using the yoke.
So, what's that button click trying to convey?
> It can trigger deep psychosis which can take people years to come back from, or even permanently 'break' personalities and make people worse human beings.

No link found between psychedelics and psychosis:

https://www.nature.com/news/no-link-found-between-psychedeli...
But does that incentive need to be so huge? Would innovation not happen anymore when the incentive was reduced to say 1%, 10% or 25% etc?

My motivation for doing what I do (which I'd classify as innovative) is not (just) the money. The money is nice too, but I don't think I could work in e.g. finance because I like technology and developing new stuff.
> That git works as a blob store internally (through tree objects) is, to the user, an irrelevant and hidden implementation detail.

1. Sorry, I get that you might be angry at Pijul for some reason, but this is simply not true. The lack of associativity of 3-way merge is absolutely not hidden, and gets merges wrong sometimes.

But more fundamentally, the fact that commits must be ordered is not an implementation detail, it becomes fairly clear if you try to cherry-pick more than twice from the same branch, and find conflicts on the way. Or when you want to "undo" a merge, and push that undoing to a remote repository.

Conflicts in Pijul are detected correctly, and a conflicting state is another valid state, whereas in Git, a conflict is a failure to merge, and the user must solve the conflict before doing anything else. In particular, this implies that a conflict resolution in Git can be propagated to other repositories only if the two conflicting commits were merged at the exact same time in all repositories.

2. Working on parts of the repository in Git only works for checkout, you still have to clone the entire repository, and Git still has the entire repo, even it is not shown to the user in its entirety. This completely defeats the point of partial clones, and prevents, in many cases, the use of Git on monorepos. That said, I'm not sure why this is the case, Git could very well produce a commit using a tree whose blobs are not all downloaded, just like when you commit from a shallow clone.

But even if this worked, Git requires you to send the entire history of the full repository if you want to clone it to a remote machine, whereas Pijul lets you select the patches relative to just a part of the repository. This is because in Pijul, patches commute! If you place your patches in a sequence, you can reorder the patches you want to send (without changing their identifier) to be the first ones in the sequence, and then send just a prefix of the sequence. All this without any extra operation, rebase or anything else.
> It’s the networks right?

Nay, it's the limitations. On Facebook you can share dumb articles from news sites and meme sites, articles that you never read, you just agree with the title. On Instagram it is not so easy to do this, so people share real stuff about their lives instead.

Even if it is a curation, Instagram is at least about my friends, and not about dumb news articles and memes. (Facebook was not always that way, I used to love it when it was essentially a book of open letters to friends. Alas, article/meme just turned it into an even-worse reddit.)
I assume that his version of the internet is boring. I will say the majority of the popular internet or applications are similar in some regard.
My kid is disabled and I have severe anxiety and suffered depression. I live right in the middle of the US. I didn’t start my tech career until 28 because of all that, but I’m doing ok. I live in a big house with good schools.

From what I’ve gathered of non-US (European) tech jobs, I’d never have gotten an opportunity to work as a programmer because I never got a bachelors degree. Maybe it isn’t like that everywhere, but it feels good that a high school dropout can make 6 figures and live in a 2000 square foot house and easily support two kids and a stay at home wife.

I’d also likely never have learned to control my issues and gotten proper treatment if I hadn’t been left almost homeless when my family kicked me out for dropping out of college. As long as things were “good enough”, I poured my heart and soul into noble ventures like my World of Warcraft career (300 days played)! and League of Legends. I know I’m not everyone, in fact I’m likely an exceptional case, none of my friends who grew up similarly to me ended up achieving what I have, but if the safety net was too comfortable I doubt I’d have ever felt the need to climb out of it once I fell into it. I’m personally glad to live in the USA despite its flaws.
Without IP, governments could set innovation prizes and opensource the output
> People that downplay the democratic legitimacy of the EU really, truly, unequivocally do not understand what they are talking about or have a malicious intention.

I understand why people say this. The population have not directly voted for these commissioners. They can't simply vote them out. It feels like a step removed from the democratic process, and I'm not sure that's beneficial.
> A modern full-frame DSLR sensor has greater resolving power than normal medium-format film.

This really depends on the film and MF lens. I've shot 6x6 Provia on a Mamiya 6 and had it scanned at 40MP and 80MP final output sizes; the latter was clearly better. Resolution can be even higher with modern fine-grained black and white film.

> You still want to shoot handheld, so you want a really fast lens to minimise the impact of camera shake.

Or image stabilization, which also adds weight and size.
Mostly just Scottsdale does that and it does cause a bit of confusion when people don't expect it and are playing with their phones but overall it's better since people don't clog up the left turn signal running the red.
> Maybe you want weed, because it’s harmless? How about magic mushrooms? Where do we stop?

We could stop wherever there's actual evidence of harm. I know, radical notion.
This article is right on.

- Avoiding the daily news likely will NOT make you any less informed.

- Avoiding constant media consumption will NOT give power to a central authority and reduce your rights.

A lot of the counter arguments here are seemingly from individuals defending the amount of time they spend consuming content.

To those who read the news religiously, what was the last news item that you, personally, took action on?
Can you remember it? Ok. GREAT!

--> Now, be objective with yourself. What % of news items did YOU take action on? Did it give you a >0 return on invested time?
Not even remotely. You're thinking of GHB.
From the title of the article: "Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio". Emphasis mine.
By the way, that guide is not from the authors of Pijul, even though as an author myself, I'm happy to see people understand it, use it and explain it.

I believe a more gentle and constructive way of discussing this is by starting a discussion on their page [1].

[1] https://nest.pijul.com/tae/pijul-for-git-users/discussions
> This gives me the sense, personally, that economists aren't interested in making accurate predictions about the world. Other fields would, I think, test their theories against observations.

You say this as though using mock-up data to teach techniques isn't a universal practice in literally every other discipline.
Search allows filtering by story ID and timestamp, https://hn.algolia.com/help

Not sure it will fit your use case because I didn't test it.
> It's probably still better, but it would be far more effective if all drivers would actually cooperate.

That's the issue with most of solutions to traffic though.
Clearly the intent of that line is just that people should feel encouraged to report any hate speech.

I don't really understand why you've taken such an objection to the very concept of keeping hurtful comments to yourself on some specific public forums; but in any case I get the feeling that you're now just arguing for the sake of arguing.
I have written more than a few applications on lambda for several years, and I have gotten this email exactly once, for one function.
We use Mandrill to get inbound emails into our support ticketing system. This incident has pushed me in the direction of switching to ZenDesk or something... but according to their status page, they also lost inbound emails yesterday. Coincidence or is it Mandrill all the way down?
How many extra plants would you have to grow and use as fertilizer on plants if you didn't have animal fertilizer? Or do you want to rely on non organic farming methods for your plant only ethics based utopia?

- subtext that you missed is yu can't achieve the crop density with organic farming methods
Google’s new Chrome Extension automatically checks your passwords are secure
not to mention drunk fathers still exist, as they did during the prohibition of alcohol.

stoned fathers still exist, during the current prohibition.
Is that the current proposal or a hypothetical Gedankenexperiment?
But using Matrix, cant you more easily have multiple users posting from the same account?
Udacity sunsets its mobile apps
more like we're throwing you in jail to protect the rest of us from your addiction. Anyone who has ever crossed paths with an addict short on money to feed their addiction knows this all too well. Also, finding syringes on the sidewalk where kids play isn't good either.
Amen to that - more than this, I worry that "we" didn't decide anything, but rather that keeping people in a state of imagined scarcity proved handy for preserving the status quo in terms of concentration of power.

What would a population do if people were able to act freely and do the things they cared about? How many folks would be fighting climate change but are _instead_ doing Dumb Shit That Doesn't Matter (most jobs) because we have to pay bills?

How many people work a job that is at best a net neutral to society, and at worst parasitic, because it personally enriches them, but makes everyone else poorer? How many are doing that only because they decided to buy a house close to work, so now they have a pile of debt, so now they _have_ to spend their time working for the last owner of the house instead of for themselves?

Why do we make it so goddamned hard to live cheap? Want university? That'll be an arm and a leg. Want a house? Expect to pay many, many years of income for it. Decide you're ok with a small home and riding your bike or taking the bus? Screw you, that's illegal, build a damn parking spot and make sure you meet minimum size reqs and oh btw you're not allowed to build in this old neighborhood because the existing homeowners' cartel made it illegal.

You can build a modest home for ~$40,000. It's expensive because we made it (mostly) illegal to build new homes anywhere near jobs. Not only that, instead of putting homes where they're cheap to serve (close to electric, water, etc) we push everyone out to the middle of nowhere where it's massively expensive to provide services. Not to mention that instead of relying on your feet and a $300 bicycle to get around you now need a gigantic money incinerator (a car) for basic mobility.

God help you if you get sick or hurt. A broken wrist could bankrupt plenty of people in the wrong circumstances.

How many people make six figures (yes, that's a lot of money relatively speaking - try leaving SF before sneering) and still manage to somehow worry about money? How the fuck did we decide this was the best way to build a society? Why did we make everything so goddamn expensive?

Building supplies and calories are cheap after all - practically free.

Maybe it's because keeping a population in fear ensures they can't organize to better their situation at the cost of tearing down existing power structures.
The subthread we are commenting is about all autoplay, starting with a commenter saying the audio-only ban was not enough, and then being told that silent autoplay can also be turned off, but many users probably want it.

> Muted autoplay is still allowed. WTH Mozilla. Just stop. Stop the stupid auto-playing video. Nobody wants it.
> That commit id is a snapshot, even if it is stored as a patch.

I agree with your argument, but Git does store "blobs" only (plus "trees"), and never patches. When you can ask it to show you a diff between two snapshots, Git computes the diff on the fly.

More almost-accurate info here: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
Flat Earth rising: meet the people casting aside 2,500 years of science [video]
If transaction speed doubles every 2 years, then just imagine for a sec, if you could also increase the word length by 1 bit every 2 years. So in 2 years you increase the transaction ID from 64 bits to 65 bits -- you've now just DOUBLED the number of transaction IDs available. In 2 years times 64 additional bits, or in 128 years, and I would say long before 128 years, it will begin to seem like a no-brainer to just move to 128 bit transaction IDs, since by that time a simple 'int' will be 256 bits and a short will be 128 bits. Machine instruction sizes will be long enough to encode machine instructions in ASCII making assemblers / disassemblers unnecessary.. The number of bits per pixel will be a steganogropher's delight. We could increase the bit rate of mp3s from 64 kbps to 96 kbps which should please all audiophiles everywhere. Dial up internet speeds should reach 128 kbps by then. Colonies on Mars, but still no male contraceptive.
Or it could be that you sense that humanity is sliding into ignorance and falsehood and you make a heroic keyboard attempt to save it
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I buy my muggle mushrooms even though I could grow them myself. I sure somebody actually makes a profit when I do so.
Man, I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for these visualizations.

Extremely useful learning aids :)

I remember back in the day when they were Java applets :)
I enjoy software engineering for about 8 hours a day
Yeah, that one was blatantly biased. It is a dark pattern trying to dissuade user from clicking that button - which honestly is just a bad design.

Some of them are genuenly good - the alignment ones for example, but others are open to interpretation where you have to pick the most 'in' option.
TRON's Justin Sun's Great Deal on BitTorrent
and who are you to tell others how they should find happiness?
Arrogance is hip at many tech companies.
I work in tech. My wife does not. We came to the EU and I noticed that I make a good deal less, but she makes more. Even more important, though, instead of me getting lots of vacation time and her getting almost nothing, we both get a month off a year, protected by law (no bullshit "unlimited vacation" policy can take it away). We can finally take proper holidays together.

Life is better here.
If you're dealing purely with web requests, then yeah, API Gateway + Lambda sounds pretty similar to a Django function. But having used both, it's a lot easier and faster to setup API GW and Lambda than it is a Django app.

And if you're not dealing with purely web requests, then they're very different. Most of my lambdas trigger off of Kinesis, SNS, and SQS events. Work gets sent to these queues/notification endpoints, and then the Lambda function does work based off the data received there, and scales to handle the amount of data automatically.
Worldwide I am in the 1%. Doesn't feel like it but apparently I am.
our MongoDB is running on mlabs.
Not really sure what the author thinks he got right about Zuckerberg
Seems a lot like Magit...
Professional criminals in criminal organizations almost always do this.

It's mostly futile to try to interrogate members of Hell's Angles for example. The shut up and do the time.

Most low level criminals are criminals because they have drug/alcohol dependency, neurological problems, etc.. that lead low impulse control. They are easier to deal with.
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You also have access to the top through just being born a certain person. Is that not demoralizing to others? Why would they try?
Try telling that to people who don't understand anything and don't care to try. The people who are OK with a life sentence for three strikes of weed possession because "just don't break the law." That's who the parent poster was talking about taking up those arguments.

Yes, the logic is faulty, but guaranteed you'll see it on social media memes and the evening opinionews.

And if you don't know anyone who thinks like that, consider yourself lucky, then know that they are out there and they vote in force.
There aren't really any editors that have no negative qualities...

vi is a very good editor. You have to learn about three things to use it effectively. It's really not a high bar to entry.
Apple just endorsed AT&T’s fake 5G E network