skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a heart-attack in Nov of 2014, and in the immediate aftermath of that, I had a lot of anxiety issues. To the point that it was keeping me from falling asleep at night (it probably didn't help that I had the MI while I was in bed, in the wee hours of the morning). Anyway, my doctor prescribed me some klonopin, and it absolutely worked great.

Then I went to work one day a couple of weeks later, and found a copy of Rolling Stone laying on the break room table, with an interview with Stevie Nicks. I read the article, and she talked about how she got addicted to klonopin when they used it to help treat her addiction to cocaine. Except she described the klonopin withdrawal as "worse than cocaine"[1]. Jinkies. I did some reading up on klonopin and immediately went back to my doctor and asked for something different.

Luckily for me, my anxiety issues eventually disappeared and I don't need to take anything for that any longer. But yeah, be wary of klonopin and related drugs. I'm sure they have valid uses, but I'd prefer not to mess with the stuff personally.

[1]: https://benzo.org.uk/nicks.htm
>But my question is, "why?"

Because they view the issue as being conditioned by today's society; while I admit it's not best to jump to such a conclusion without serious critical investigation, I find it tiresome that you call it "ideological" - as if an explanation which specifically seeks to avert any critical view of the development of Western society isn't itself "ideological". Is it the result of the sexism of patriarchal society? Let's find out by consulting sociology, critical theory and philosophy. A critical understanding of the issues wouldn't stop at merely controlling for the pay gap, for instance, it would ask why women negotiate less, why they tend to work fewer hours etc. Roswitha Scholz put it well:

>We have also to account for the fact that under capitalism reproductive activities emerge that are primarily carried out by women. Accordingly, value dissociation means that capitalism contains a core of female-determined reproductive activities and the affects, characteristics, and attitudes (emotionality, sensuality, and female or motherly caring) that are dissociated from value and abstract labor. Female relations of existence — that is, female reproductive activities under capitalism — are therefore of a different character from abstract labor, which is why they cannot straightforwardly be subsumed under the concept of labor.

>[...] Prior to this, women were largely regarded as just another variant of being-man, which is one of the reasons that the social and historical sciences have throughout the
last fifteen years stressed the pervasiveness of the single-gender model upon which pre-bourgeois societies were based. Even the vagina was in the context of this model frequently understood as a penis, inverted and pushed into the lower body. Despite the fact that women were largely regarded as inferior, prior to the development of a large-scale modern public, there still existed for them a variety of possibilities for gaining social influence. In premodern and early modern societies, man occupied a largely symbolic position of hegemony. Women were not yet exclusively confined to domestic life and motherhood, as has been the case since the eighteenth century. Women’s contributions to material reproduction were in agrarian societies regarded as equally important as the contributions of men.
Yep. Huawei didn't do anything except probably insert spyware on their devices, and they're being charged with crimes. Boeing killed hundreds of people through criminal negligence, but I'm sure we won't see any executives there charged with crimes in the US.
I think its harder to maths out.

It's pretty easy to separate people into three groups of smokers. 0 smoking, 5-10 smokes a day, 15-20 smokes a day. Many people are very very consistent for years.

How does that work for sugar. You can have soda for not soda drinkers. But much added sugar is hidden. How many G of sugar do you eat per day? How many did you eat a month ago? 5 years ago? 10 yeas ago? Have you managed to eat the same G of added sugar over a long time?
Sure, but the same thing happens to landlords. If they can afford the buy in, then they keep their properties and charge as high a rent as possible. Usually you find landlords slowly expand their holdings over time, and if your city can't support enough private buyers, then it becomes predominantly landlord owned and there are no affordable places anywhere.

So the question becomes, if not rent control, then what do we do to keep our cities livable to a range of people?
Please, can you comment on which app you use to control your medications? From your brief description it sounds much better than mine, which forces me to go into the app, wait for a prompt, and then confirm that I took the medication. Thanks!
> the government should pay market prices out of general tax dollars.

That a horrific idea, that destroys the incentive to make low cost cellphones. Smart phones can be sold at a profit for ~20$ No need for any kind of special government intervention.

If you feel people deserve a minimum quality of life then hand them enough money to do so and they will choose a lifestyle. Picking some set of goods as some god given right ends up with a host of horrible incentives.
Sounds exactly like the USA in the 1800s. They ripped off all kinds of stuff from Britain.
For the lazy:
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Banking in the US is definitely worse than banking in Europe. People still use checks, are you kidding me?
> Prices are dictated by the government, which will arrest anyone besides the patent holder who tries to sell.

I'd like to challenge this. Yes, the patent system allows for a time-limited monopoly for the inventor of a drug - but it does not, to my knowledge, in any way "dictate prices" for that drug. That is up to the owner of the patent, who rationally will optimize for profit.

Optimizing for profit does not mean "charging as much as possible", either; it means "charging the amount resulting in the highest net profit". There is the supply and demand curve to take into account here.
It could be made to work, even without error correction. See for example https://www.hobbyscoop.nl/the-history-of-basicode/, which describes the Dutch way to broadcast (portable!) Basic programs over radio.

I think they broadcast every program multiple times, though.
It did make me wonder what it's like to be him.

One possibility is your coworker is in a constant state of panic due to social anxiety or work pressure or something and does anything possible to get back to their known space quickly.
Let's Talk About Capacitor Failure
Tesla website traffic is up 75% in March
"Apple makes money off of dongles" is such a ridiculous argument though. And to imply that they would make major changes to their flagship hardware just for that is way on the wacky end of conspiracy theories.

These decisions are based on focus groups, user analytics, and reducing manufacturing costs. Nothing more.
>Their interests lie primarily in furthering their own political and military power, and secondarily benefiting their own population.

How exactly is that different from the US? I don't see US politicians in power trying to do things to benefit their own population, such as by providing universal healthcare.
Chinny Run: Raisin Chase the Microgame
It's also noteworthy that this has been the policy of the current government for the last two periods, but it's good that arbeiderpartiet finally landed on this too as it cements the decision.

It's also worth noting that these rigs would be much closer to shore than the current rigs outside of the west coast. I would be able to see the rigs from Lofoten where much of my family is from although I don't live there myself. For me personally putting up rigs would have been a disaster even without the oil spills.
Title doesn’t make sense ending in a question mark.

How I imagine it in my head:
Person A: “What should we call this submission to HN?”

Person B: “I’m not sure. How I lost $10k building an African Netflix?”

Person A: Great! Let me copy that verbatim, including your question mark out of context.
A known quantity is offering you a 20% stake, that's huge. However, they aren't offering you control; those seem like the terms. Previous success is correlated with future success - so, the opportunity is sounds great. If you can't live with that, don't do it.

The terms are great, but it doesn't sound like what you want. Realistically, a board seat is a huge ask, and 3 people from the company on the board, isn't typical, especially at this stage.
I offered the Ketamine example of how a company will try to patent a new delivery system of existing generic drugs as a way to increase the price.

Ketamine as a generic work and is available in lozenges, IV, and other ways. This nasal spray is being marketed as a breakthrough for depression (even though it isn't), costs more, and because there are no marketing dollars behind the other equally effective method, people will likely end up using this branded version.
How many times have your circles imploded?
I created the article! Trust me when I say I'm not cataloging this discussion or actively manipulating it.

(EDIT: deleted "with my colleagues" because another commenter says it sounds like something other than reporters working with editors to put out an article.)
Google poured billions into their search engine for two decades to make it better. Now that have a ridiculous amount of money and power, the search results get.... objectively worse. Which brings us to the elephant in the room: what are Google's motives behind this (clearly intentional) change?

Could something as innocent as training a new neural net or testing a buggy version of the algorithm on subsets of users. But it could also be as sinister as driving traffic to those in bed with Google, silencing opposition, or effectively whitewashing the entire internet...
Elementary OS, Void Linux, Deepin, Antergos and Tails are a few notable ones off the top of my head. Void has been around for a minute but has become a lot more popular recently.
>People still use checks, are you kidding me?

Checks, magstripe transactions and signatures on their card receipts..
I would like to propose something that has long been simmering in my mind: zero tolerance to toxicity from the open source community at large. Too often I see entitled developers show up in these forums and just hurl abuse at the people who provide these wonderful tools free of charge. I propose that, if the request is anything less than respectful or if they, say DM a maintainer with abuse or what have you, they get banned. Shoot I'd say they not even be allowed to use the damn software anymore (although that would probably be difficult to manage). If what I am proposing sounds impractical, thats because it is but that doesn't mean we shouldn't start setting precedents. You don't like the new Mint logo? Fine. Tell them but do so nicely. Shoot maybe offer up something substantive and actionable. Whatever you do stop yelling things like "new logo is terrible change it back NOW". There's no excuse for going after someone to the point that THEY ARE CONSIDERING QUITTING MAKING THE SOFTWARE YOU CARE SO MUCH ABOUT. We all know how hard this job is. We should be lifting each other up and ejecting anyone with extreme prejudice who thinks that treating people in this manner is ok. </rant>
My friend made this game and I really liked it. It's simple but she has a cool write-up about how she made it. She actually took video of their chinchilla and somehow converted it to the images used in the game.

https://astra.design/chinny-run-raisin-chase
You obviously haven't read past the first line of my comment.
Soft rubber eraser works too.
Only one thing I don't like is infinite scrolling.
The purpose isn't to convince people to switch to wireless headphones. Most people were already using bluetooth headphones when the iPhone 7 came out.

The purpose is to reduce manufacturing cost and complexity.
>The headphone thing is like dropping the floppy drive on the original iMac.

What? That's the type of case GP was talking about. Everybody still uses wired headphones these days, they're not going anywhere. Professionals/musicians will never stop using wired headphones, and most casual users just buy the cheap ones, which are wired
You aren't going to.

Even assuming, for the sake of argument, that such a relationship does exist in the first place, the feasibility of producing a compelling study that compares the health of people who consume added sugar to people who don't would be basically impossible.

It's difficult in the extreme to avoid added sugar. So much so that people who do manage to do so are simply not going to be comparable to the rest of the population. Not even remotely.

What you could do is an observational study that looks at overall sugar consumption and looks for some sort of correlation with the magnitude. But countless studies like that have already been done, so one must assume that they aren't providing the kind of results that you're looking for.
Very interesting indeed, and that makes a lot of sense. I wonder if the Elon Musk style reasons would kick in (such as Earth is no longer hospitable to us because AI has completely taken over), which would definitely change the fact that Earth is a thriving environment for us. But short of that, I could definitely see you being right.
Can you elaborate on your opinions about frameworks? What are some tech stacks that are mediocre, and why are they mediocre? What makes an alternative better?
Your terminal is not a terminal: An Introduction to Streams
That's interesting, it's very similar to the way many comics are done -- one person does the drawing and inking, and it's often colored by a different person (or at least as a different process if the team is small).
I can speak from the enterprise side of this.

Typically this is done because the work required to certify a new version (either internal or external certification) is prohibitively expensive.

For core, business critical systems, a lot of large, non-technology businesses simply don't have a mirrored QA setup with enough coverage / integration simulation to work up through.

So... faced with a heavy testing price to upgrade, risk due to incomplete testing environments, and known current version behavior... a lot of businesses punt and say "We want our version + only the fix for this issue we're experiencing."

It's annoying from the software vendor side (QAing old_version + patch_x2 + patch_q5), but it absolutely makes sense from the business side.

The summary reason is: because the customer doesn't have a flexible and testable infrastructure configuration. And that's not really something a software vendor can change.
The root problem is that it is in the interests of everyone, from the doctor, to the pill manufacturer, to the hospital, to the insurer, to bilk patients for everything they are worth.

The insurer makes a profit as a % of money spent on healthcare, the doctor needs to pay the million-dollar student loan (his education cost a million dollars because the student loan underwriters know his patients will pay), the hospital makes a profit as revenues - expenses - it's not like patient can price-shop.

Pointing fingers at the supply of doctors ignores the other five elephants in the room.

Markets simply don't work when the person who has to pay can't price shop. Please, come to your senses, and either make healthcare an actual free market, or, more sensibly, single-payer.
You sometimes need to be careful, depending on climate and construction specifics, what sort of paints you apply to the walls in modern buildings. Using vapor-closed paints (or worse, vinyl wallpaper) will not allow the drywall to dry to the interior and can result in mold and mildew growth.

I don't know the characteristics of acrylic artists' paint, but there might be reason to be careful.

One thing I've also been wondering about is if repainting every other year, even with vapor-open paints, would have a similar effect. So many rental properties just end up with layers and layers of paint.
> People who push "mostly working" code are hell on earth. Sure you spend 5 hours less on it right now, but it's going to cost literal days or weeks down the line.

Wildly exaggerated, but I'll bite: it's still better to save 5 hours while you are bleeding money (before your product works) and spend 1 week to improve the "beauty" of your code while it's already paying your salary.

> “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.” ― Donald Knuth

That's a fine attitude for someone who wants to teach CS or explore programming as a hobby. For professionals, programs need to execute correctly and go into production ASAP. Emotional and mental cost to the programmer is of less importance.
I think you were emphasizing the participation part? And I agree, but curious to where do you draw the line on what constitutes participation?

Some argue simply paying taxes. Others say it is a list of things perhaps, called "civic duties". Finally, some more extreme believe you have to do it all: attend the town halls, keep up with the times, understand the various debate points, otherwise you are somehow disqualified from playing. (A side note, it has become impossible to keep up with all the ways government affects your life, and this is one of the exact reasons the founders were for limited government. They argued as the responsibilities and roles of government increase, it becomes impossible for the "commoner" to keep up and stay engaged, thus becoming a form of tyranny in of it's own.)

I think it's definitely a gray area, but the more participation, obviously, the better, while still somehow maintaining the ability to serve those who participate little just as equally. Otherwise you become a government of some people, not of all people.
Thanks for writing this. I wouldn't have known otherwise.
Facebook Bans Faith Goldy & Canadian White Nationalist Group in Latest Crackdown
Co-author here. We're planning to turn this into a series, with additional posts on how symbolic execution works at a lower level, how to present counterexamples to users, and ideas for future programming tools built on symbolic execution.
Mick Jagger's Heart Procedure May Be a Boon to Valve Makers
I haven't switched to it as a distro, but I've been defaulting to nix's package manager on top of whatever distro I am actually running.
Lyft Is Angry About Lockups
I agree that some folks often exaggerate the danger in HIPAA, especially for someone like OP with a relatively small operation. But, for companies with larger operations and reach it's definitely a non-trivial problem. Our relatively small organization has two people dedicated to compliance (and plenty of ancillary support) and goes through hundreds of audits a year. Not having a locked down well thought out solution, both technical and operational, can really put growth at risk in healthcare. Of course, that's not "HIPAA compliance", but it is "what it takes to reach scale in healthcare".
This is absolutely traditional for every country, though?

Samuel Slater brought the Industrial Revolution to America by memorizing the banned-for-export designs of water-powered spinning machines. The Brits nicknamed him "Slater the Traitor" for his trouble, but within a generation new industrial technology was being developed in the US off that basis.

British porcelain production in the 18th century was driven by the letters of a missionary in China, who secretly observed the details of Chinese production and sent them back to Europe. Mistakes in replicating that process lead to "bone china", the strongest and purest-white form of porcelain known.

Stirrups, famously (and debatably) a formative element of medieval warfare, originated in the caucasus. The Byzantines captured some of them in a war with the Avars, and within two centuries they were widespread across Europe. An invention that was at the time fueling mounted archery in Asia was combined with European iron reserves and metallurgy to (re)invent armored heavy cavalry.

Everyone excels at copying. It's much easier than inventing! That doesn't mean they won't invent further once they've caught up in a specific space.

And yes, it's possible to build infrastructure and education better suited to copying than inventing. That's not terribly surprising, and in fact downright sensible. Following WWII, both the PRC and the USSR focused heavily on replicating American nuclear and industrial developments, because they needed to not only obtain that technology but build up a core of technical talent capable of maintaining and modifying it. That didn't stop the USSR from later pursuing their own R&D to compete with projected American advances, and there's no good reason to think China won't switch to a heavier R&D footing in 10 or 20 years as current copies become widely used and understood.
I agree... BT is finicky, specially if you use your headphones on multiple devices. When I want to use my headphones with my TV I have to make sure BT is turned off on my phone and iPad before turning my headphones on.

If wireless headphones are the future we need something better than BT.
I wonder what the net change in weight and volume was with the removal of the home button and expansion of the display.
Where the heck is manticore?
For the large majority of Africans, Internet = Social media + YouTube because telcos have hugely subsidized access to social media at the expense of expensive data rate for everything else. So building anything outside of this wall, is a herculean task.

Also when he says African, I'm sure he meant Nigerian. Building an African product would require millions of dollars to even get it off the ground. Fragmentation of culture, language and even payment systems means you have a lot more work to do than a Westerner pursuing a similar project.

This project didn't really even kick off, I'm sure. With a curation of under 100 films, no one is really going to pay for it.

The founder would have been better off creating content for YouTube and promote his channel on both Youtube and Facebook. That way, with the release of any new content, you have an active subscriber base you may count on because there is no way to charge for this really. And there is nothing wrong with earning from YT ads till you figure your business model out.

If you choose a subscription model for your African video streaming site, you either charge too low, which still makes losses or too high which matches the likes of Netflix and even above irokotv.com, which is arguably the largest video streaming site on the continent.

Building an true African startup is hard.
A good friend of mine was in this entrepreneur's situation, where his technical cofounder had their own consulting firm which specialized in building out infrastructure for payment processors, and his only client was my friend's fledgling startup. Was it really worth X% of his company to validate someone else's technology and ideas? Was everyone's incentives actually aligned? My friend had a clear vision to build something to solve a specific problem, but he was ironically cursed to have an expert technologist whose vision was a system so generic that it could later be used to solve everyone's problem.

One more than one occasion I have had to emphatically explain to a non-tech founder that their "tech guy" has to be 100% in the company. I ask them to name me one successful technology company where there were no technical cofounders. There's a reason consultants are consultants and CTOs are CTOs.

In the end, scarcity of time and capital will prevail, so everyone being 100% committed is absolutely essential. In these situations the business cofounder is left with nothing, while the technical cofounder is still a couple lines of code closer to where he wants to go.