skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But you need some strong incentive structure to not start doing heroin in the first place.

You really don't. You seem like a straight-laced individual, if I told you heroin were legal in the US tomorrow would you go get some? I seriously doubt it. Anyone who wants it can already get it. Anyone not using isn't going to start due to legalization.

You know what legal thing I hear is fun but bad for you? Autoerotic asphyxiation -- but you don't see me hanging from the ceiling fan.

I urge you to research the Portuguese model, where all drugs were decriminalized to massive success [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
Nope - they're creating beyond dolphin meat and adding to the cans to mimic the real thing.
We should really do that across the whole site (on comments, for instance, and stories), not just in user profiles.
What bar is going to be quiet enough for sound fingerprinting to work?
> Not having so many plug-n-play abstractions that you’re so strongly encouraged to use to “not re-invent the wheel”.

Inventing the wheel, rather than re-inventing it. There was a lot more "doing something for the first time" and less "doing something for the Nth time, slightly differently".

(Or so it felt to me. But there was still a bunch of "doing what the mainframe people did a decade ago, but doing it badly". Still, it felt different.)
Network hardware isn't at the point where it's something you can iterate on as needs emerge. It's largely fixed hardware with a long deprecation period which is expected to connect a bunch of fast changing clients. People/applications are also adverse to changing network abstractions vs buying something that is compatible with what they have today but enables new things.

My guess is what you consider unused complexity is just something you don't see/deal with on a day to day basis so you wonder why it's there. This doesn't make it useless/inefficient it just means you don't use it (or don't interact with it directly even if it is used somewhere in the network path)
Harvesting Lightning Energy
The DOJ seized tens of millions of dollars from him. I don't care where he lived.
I had always heard that it was because it enforces the denomination of oil trade in USD, and so enshrines the USD as global reserve currency.
Thanks! Let's continue on that issue page.
Tangential question for HN vegetarians: Would you eat lab-grown meat if it was affordable?
Sorry, that doesn't involve killing something with a face.
I don't think winning in a game has to involve "feeling superior". Many games of chance are also fun. In other cases, somebody might actually be superior (the better player). Then what - nobody should be better than anybody else in anything? Maybe the "loser" can try to become better, for example.

And it can also train emotional intelligence to win or lose gracefully in games, and try again.

What will your kids do when they encounter somebody who "feels superior" later in life? Like an actual superior, perhaps?
At this point I think it depends on what type of security clearance you're talking about now. The above sounds more like checks done for a CIA analyst than for a embassy drywall contractor...
You or your grandfather could make a report to the DMV, or contact her doctor, who could do the same. (Googling around, a doctor's request to the DMV has special status.)
As I understand it, assuming we are talking about carbs, fats and proteins, as in their whole-food forms, not as in say a cookie, no, it's easier/quicker for your body to store say fat as fat than carbs as fat, which it will have to transform into fat first. Carbs are also loaded with water and fibers which makes digestion even slower to make this effect even better.

> Carbs and sugar are the culprit behind the obesity epidemic, not meat

Processed food as well as particularly overeating of delicacies like meat, cheese, eggs, fish, and oil and sugar prepared plant-foods, is the mayor culprit, I believe.

Nobody got fat from eating plain potatoes, beans and apples. It's also very hard to overeat on those kinds of foods because of the high water and fiber content. People get fat by eating too much dairy, meat, eggs, and plants prepared in oils, or other highly processed plant-foods, which are easy to overeat on.
Show HN: Forward Heroku logs to AWS CloudWatch for analysis using serverless
Pff, everyone knows all you need is an old IBM computer, a hot pocket, and a circuit-bent microwave to outsmart CERN.
Personally, I would go for it! I would appreciate it if I were in that situation, and if for some reason she took it poorly, hey it's one ride of your life :)
If you had to chose between supporting Saudi Arabia and supporting fracking, which would you chose?
The article is misrepresentative. This was way back in an era where fb had slightly more open apis.

Of course some people were going to exploit that and break fbs own policies.

Cambridge did that and broke fbs rules.

Once it became more obvious that 3rd parties would break the rules fb adjusted their policy and closed the loophole.

The open nature of the policy was known to everyone on the planet including the ftc at the time. If those policies were problematic why wouldnt someone at the ftc say something?

Those whose job it is to regulate just sit there and watch for a decade before doing anything?

As someone mentioned above this is a systematic issue and a problem with the business model.

This is not some sneaky thing fb did on the side or behind closed doors. The apis were there for the public and everyone to see the whole time. Though there wwtr a few voiced concerns there certainly was not outrage.

I have several problems with fb but this specific issue is being misrepresented.
Code bases that were small enough that printing it out was a realistic option.
I've mostly given up trying to keep up with RSS. I feel like if I subscribe to "top story" feeds, I'm missing out on a lot of interesting stuff. If I subscribe to the information firehose, it's too much for me to consume. After years of trying tons of readers and configurations I've just settled on a subscription to a local online publication and a few strictly moderated subreddits that are relevant to my interests. That said, of all the readers I've tried I liked Newsblur the best.
Out of curiosity, what's the benefit of me doing bad things in a VM, instead of on my own machine - assuming the VM has full access to the same networks and data as the physical machine?

Unless the VM is somehow sandboxed it's just another box on the same network. So the same reasons for me not being admin on the physical machine (e.g. to not be able to download and run untrusted software because it might spread something on the network) should apply to the VM?
Start a ground breaking project that will be amazing in 2 years.

Get promoted/leave for more money after 18mths.

2 years rolls around, everything is on fire but the guy with the matches is nowhere to be found.

Sounds very very familiar to me.
Hi PKMishra - Paid premium tiers will be introduced in July. You can request "whisper pricing" which is discounted by opening a free developer account (https://www.macrometa.co/start ) and using chat to talk to JP . He can send you the information you need.
I would like to know more about Anton, and the irascible Qc Na.
Politicians always seem to set lofty climate goals far in the future, or at least beyond the 'next two elections' horizon, while at the same time completely failing to take any action in the present.
Then when the date finally rolls around, remember talk about '2010' and '2020' targets, they again stress their solid intentions for the next decade or more, while going on with business as usual in the current term.
Some people say that it's payback for the Opium Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
This is a myth: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/the-40...
> would the outcome be better?

Yes. The world would be a better place if people did the right thing. It's not complicated, really. In this particular case: see a regime that dismembers journalists and hunts women who "run away"? Don't deal with that regime, or anything that is related to it.

To point out the obvious, invading other countries, bombing "terrorists" without due process, meddling in affairs of people across the globe, increasing oil production and doing nothing about the upcoming climate catastrophe should all be considered as "NOT the right thing to do".

Of course, with a statement like that, there will always be plenty of butsayers. "But..." [and here goes a list of various muddy reasons why everything is relative].
well the same should be said about China but we have many companies producing product there and I can guarantee most here have a phone, tablet, or computer, made there.

there are many undesirable countries to do business with, so what is the distinction to be made? To be honest businesses that work in either should be challenged both at investor meetings and online.
In that case don’t spare the users of FB either. They could carry their content elsewhere but they chose to feed the monster even more.

Or - accept the fact that people consider a fair deal what seems to be exploitation to you. If you don’t believe that people are able to make a reasonable, conscious choice then the end of democracy has come (for you).
Wow, do I ever not miss that!
> imo this is one of the major reasons windows 8's GUI, Metro, failed. They didn't go all in.

Not sure we'd liked it better if they'd made it completely unusable ;-)
There is quite a big difference between the prescription Fentanyl patches and the crap coming out of China and co. It is actually a very effective pain medication for those who need it, I've taken it before and lived to tell the tale.

What poeple don't talk about is the damage that UNDER-prescription does, politicians (not doctors) are taking away what quality of life people do have left. People receiving pallative care are often being denied pain adiquate pain medication, I wouldn't call that civilised.

This opioid chrisis stems from doctors carelessly prescriping pain medication and patients (who haven't been educated), being just as careless. The term 'pain killer' has done a huge amount of damage, if you try to kill your pain, you're going to have problems (very fine line between no pain and high), the goel is to be able to function, simple things like be able to sleep.

I don't think Naloxone is helping matters, it provides a safety net allowing adicts to take ever higher doses.
System Extensions and DriverKit – WWDC 2019 [video]
Coping with Gender Disappointment
> My guess is that outside the tech industry, new ideas are relatively rare so even very simple ideas feel incredibly valuable.

Are they not rare even inside the tech industry?
Except it doesn't actually get the reasons right. The complication is because IPv6 is optimized for implementers, not for users or students.
That does not seem right. According to https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/st... beef/pork/chicken consumption is much higher than fish.
> The Observational capabilities of the WebRequest API aren't being deprecated

They are being severely curtailed.

https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/1138889508512866304

> Yes, but network requests won't be observable without permission on the relevant hosts. And host permissions are changing significantly in Mv3 (e.g. they can't be granted as blanket install time permissions).

> The underlying issue with blocking Web Request is that it is effectively a UXSS, which could not be bound by origin-based host permissions like the rest of the API can.

Google's privacy argument is correct.
i was able to do this. i had one side project/app published in the app store and one freelance contract. those alone got my foot in the door for technical interviews... from there, there is no free lunch, however: study nonstop to pass technical white boarding and screens. you have to run through the gauntlet of technical interviews to get hired.

do you have any formal education? bachelors in anything?
What's amazing is that Google has had this functionality for a little under a decade. No other company matches the real-time editing still
Probably because they noted the terrible time they were having getting people to migrate from IPv4 to IPv6, and had no desire to repeat it.
While AMD claim it can be overclocked to 4200 or 5133, it doesn't invalidate my claim that officially it is spec'd for DDR4-3200 according to the product page: https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-9-3950x

Note I am not playing down the 3950X's performance. It is overall a processor superior to Intel's counterparts in most aspects.
Pika CDN
Lincoln eliminated that. When unions kill car companies and set up the scenes for Japanese, Korean and European car companies to decimate USA car sales. The strikes forced a high degree of automation on US car makers = 75% of jobs gone over 40 years. Japanese, Korean and Eurpoean car makers delevloped huge RoRo car carriers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll-on/roll-off). In 1960 cars were lloaded by cranes on slings and 10% had damage and each one took an hour os so to load/unload. The RoRo were built like parking lots. Drive the car down the long ramps on 7-10 levels, 5-10 cars wide. Park the car and go for the next car on foot while a rigger tightens chains to hooks on the car. Now you know what those hooks are for - RoRo loading. A ship could be loaded in a day, and unloaded as there were many drivers and ramps going at the same time.
Unions killed US car industry, it is true. They struggle on byautomating and eliminating jobs and fasteners etc. Often woder why things are not repaired any more? Automation in assembly eliminated screws = now welded or rivetted = no repairs possible. They hate Tesla and want the unions to ruin Tesla so they can force their lame electric cars on you. American electrics have failed because the car makers built in huge dealer work potential. Ever wonder why Tesla has no dealers? Electric cars do not need dealers. Do you have a toaster dealer? Take in your toaster every few months for service etc. The whole car industry will be wrong out like a chickens neck by electric cars as allmost all dealer work will be gone. No engine work - electric motors run 1 million miles. No mufflers at all, brakes last 5 times as long, tires can lasy 500,000 miles if made with urethane etc. on and on. Tesla is your greatest friend. Conventional Car makers are spending millions in bribes to kill Tesla via crooked politicians....(yes, I mean paper bags of cash - the political donations by cheques are small and are within the legal limits)
> How related is "car camping" to Seattle's homeless?

In Seattle, there are a lot of people living in tents, cars, and temporarily-parked RVs. They all get lumped under "homeless" because they don't have permanent addresses or access to municipal services.

> The only remaining argument is basically "this encourages already homeless people to move to Seattle", which I can see being a problem, but of a different kind.

It's really hard to get good data on this, but, yes, there is a widely shared belief that Seattle gets more than it's "fair share" of the country's homeless epidemic because we have a lot of compassionate people, services, and, increasingly, lax law enforcement. Talk to any local and they'll tell you anecdotes about other counties or even states buying people one-way bus tickets to Seattle so that it's not their problem any more. It's hard to tell how much of that is urban legend.
>it does cause violence but drugs are so bad that this violence is worth it.

Generally once you want to make something illegal and use the threat of execution to force people into cages for engaging in it, then you have to accept that it is worth the violence to stop it.

I do see a lot of people who want to make things illegal but don't consider what that actually means for the perspective of someone having the law enforced against them. For example, people who want to make abortion illegal, but when you ask them about what penalty it would be enforced with, they don't want one. Personally, I consider these people to be in a state of still deciding their views on the given issue.

Once an individual has decided that someone in possession of the wrong plant should be locked in a cage for years and using physical, potentially lethal, violence used if they resist, then it seems quite reasonable they will feel the same about other uses of violence for the same reason.

> E.g. we think DUI is bad and must be stopped, but clearly not at the cost of making alcohol locks mandatory on every car in circulation.

Based on the numbers of deaths from alcohol and compared to other movements to restrict rights based on deaths caused (restriction of privacy in the case of terrorism or gun rights in the case of mass shootings), I find it quite surprising there isn't an effort comparable to what you suggest. It makes me begin to question the honesty and sincerity of any held political position.
DropBox is the Electron client of file sharing. They could make native apps that use native apis and get vastly better performance in time, power, cpu, and probably memory — but then they’d have to create and maintain a bunch of native apps. I know it’s common to hear HN comments like “they have the money/skill/opportunity to trade up to a better platform for more effort”, but everything I’ve seen says that it’s much harder to make that choice than to stick with the tech-debt you already have.

Note: I’m not saying it’s literally an electron client. It’s an analogy. :)
Just bought a home half a year ago, fees came out to nowhere near 10%. It was just around 2% that came from my pocket, and the seller paid the rest, but even then I doubt they paid 8% to get that 10% figure they're suggesting.
Popularity of Manually Installed *Nix Shells on macOS According to Brew
Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth
Of course that's the real question with the actual story in the actual article -- could they have implemented their security on the temporary infrastructure, or "good-enough" security, if the CIO knew about it?

In that story, is the blame on the VP for going ahead instead of getting dialogue started between CEO, VP and CIO? Is it on the CIO for just saying "no" instead of recognizing the need and the value? Is it on the CEO for failing to empower the VP and CIO to get that conversation started themselves?

And then, it's all well and good to worry about the bottom line first, until you're sitting in Equifax's shoes right.
The Surprisingly Simple Method to Get Good at Anything
Adding this here as it may be of related interest for those who enjoyed the massive math cheat sheet on the front page recently.
Evan Chen, a math student at MIT, wrote up what would be considered field notes for higher mathematics. The full PDF is here[1], complete with a dependency graph showing what you need to know before reading any particular section.

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1. https://usamo.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/napkin-v15-2019022...
I think it looks pretty good; and in this case it's an inclusive effort: including more organizations doesn't harm anyone (well, except CloudFlare themselves). They have excluded some more sleazy organizations which tend to show up in lists like this, so I think they are paying attention to that.

I guess we'll see, if SAF or some organization similarly alien to Californian progressives, comes under attack, whether it is as you would hope.
While I absolutely believe that you get treated unfairly and that's a terrible thing, it has nothing to do with not wanting to step on needles or inhale crystal meth smoke. I don't even see why you're equating the two because one seems objectively horrible (hardcore drug use, with side effects, in public) and one isn't bad at all (being a trans person).
Jamie Turner from Dropbox gave a talk at a Rust meetup in 2017: https://air.mozilla.org/rust-meetup-may-2017/

Edit: at 30:05 in that video, he briefly talks about a forthcoming (as of 2017) "full redesign + rewrite of Dropbox's 'sync engine' in Rust." He claims it will use 10x less memory, and be 50x faster on key operations.
Pharmacists (at least in the US) can give intramuscular injections, but are not licensed to give intravenous injections. That has to be done by nurses, or M.D's. I'm unsure as to a phlebodomist.
Unless you're talking Oxycodone (sp?) or oral heroine (long release) or something of that nature. At which point, my point is mute =)
Ok, so you're walking down the street with a locked phone in your pocket. I send an Android Bluetooth 0-day payload to your phone. Nothing wrong with that, after all I'm just asking your phone if it wants to copy some bytes, and it says 'sure!'. Not my problem if your phone does something funky with those bytes.

Now I have root, and copy off all of your pictures and private data onto my device. Nothing wrong with that, just copying some bytes, right?

Finally, I have all of your data, no contractual obligations to you on how I use it. So I'll just copy some bytes over to Twitter or Instagram and publish your private photos to the world. That's all ok in your book, because all the time I'm just copying bytes?

Your point is so reductivist that it is absurd. It's like declaring that any human action is just wiggling of fingers or flapping of vocal chords, and what can be so bad with wiggling fingers or flapping vocal cords?
I have rarely found that they need admin rights on a day to day basis unless the tool is badly designed. I have one software delivery platform that requires full admin rights, it cannot write just to the user configuration!

However developers are very good at presenting it otherwise. Myself, I have run into issues where admin rights were needed, again always because of some poor installer. USB has been blocked as well and you can guess it, cannot do their work.

If they need admin rights all the time then put those particular machines on a protected network and not allow any other business work to occur there.
Yes, the linked article addresses exactly that:

The laser, beamed at a vein, sends energy to the bloodstream, creating heat. Melanoma CTCs absorb more of this energy than normal cells, causing them to heat up quickly and expand.

This thermal expansion produces sound waves, known as the photoacoustic effect, and can be recorded by a small ultrasound transducer placed over the skin near the laser. The recordings indicate when a CTC is passing in the bloodstream.

The same laser can also be used to destroy the CTCs in real time. Heat from the laser causes vapor bubbles to form on the tumor cells. The bubbles expand and collapse, interacting with the cell and mechanically destroying it.
"The Helium vision is the most ambitious we have seen in the blockchain space since the advent of smart contracts on Ethereum: Helium represents a fundamentally new approach—one with a radically reduced cost structure—to deploying and managing wireless networks at scale."

https://multicoin.capital/2019/06/12/helium-series-c/
Stuff I said at Kansas City StartupWeekend that sounded smart (2011)
[zipfile] WSLv2 Linux Kernel May 2019
According to the article, the women actually were along on the trip, they just were not in the initial group photo.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-...

They decide what news & ads get shown.

FB played a significant role in Brexit and US Presidential elections, enforcing filter bubbles, and running ads in violation of campaign finance laws (i.e. Russia).
"Any idiot can make a bridge that stands. It takes an engineer to build one that barely stands."
Exactly, well stated. In the end, the only reason a business cares about security at all is because if they don't, it will come back and bite them, hard; e.g., Equifax.
This is the sort of thing I would have dismissed as too over-the-top if it had happened in an episode of Mike Judge's TV series about Silicon Valley.[a]

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)