skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The boundary between drugs and non-drugs is murky. Even refined salt, sugar, and flour could be classified as "drugs" -- your brain gets affected by them, potentially permanently, and they are hardly natural -- and even less people consider them as drugs.
I disagree. Farming is surface mining.

Maybe aquaponics and hydroponics are only reliant on water and nutrients. And we should probably switch to soilless farming more..but soil based farming is most certainly surface mining and the most destructive thing we can do to this planet.
Are you serious? That 2 trillion dollar estimate is including decommissioning costs of nuclear power plants which have to be paid even if you replace old nuclear power plants with new ones. Suddenly "50x less" turns into at most 7x less and we haven't even paid for the construction cost of a single nuclear plant yet. 50x less is 40 billion which barely covers the cost of a single reactor.
I like this kind of decentralized social tech a lot. But, IMO, a social network built like this just won’t work if the default instance you see is a hive of scum and villainy. It tells you exactly which way the leadership leans, and I doubt many people want to participate in a community mired in far-right “politics”. For there to be any adoption, the front page of these kinds of services needs to be friendly and tightly moderated, à la Mastodon. No amount of being the change you want to see will help if the roots are rotten.
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Doesn’t happen a ton but yah it sounds rough if it does.

Maybe similar risk profile to local government bonds. Common case you can a few %. If your town goes flint you take a big haircut.
Very few of the millions of people are conspiring together in a single group. They conspire in small groups to achieve their individual goals which may directly contradict the goals of others within the system on a case by case basis.

It's not like some secret cabal where they sit around in black robes and vote on how to maximize false arrests for profit.

Do you think out of every one of the millions of people in that system that literally every person has absolutely no intention other than profit? Yes, some people within the legal and even prison system have good intentions. To think otherwise a pretty cartoonish world view.
When it comes to DRM and content hosting, the recent closure of the Microsoft ebook store comes to mind.

If a marketplace is underutilized it risks becoming obsolete. And, unfortunately, sometimes that means loosing access to content.

There are additional considerations, of course. Steam is also a social network of sorts, so fracturing gaming communities is also of concern. But it could also just be that gamers are accustomed to Steam; they like it. And they don't like platforms that don't play well with it.
Newton's Rings
It ironically almost proves their point
very cool, and also the most 90s looking piece of electronics i've seen in a while
Why not call it "Symmetry: A Colouring Book". The title is misleading given that you won't learn much about the standard results of group theory from this book.
Python's lexical closures are still crippled even today, no?
They are memorizing (most of) the meanings as well as the roots, patterns in the languages of origins, etc. Why else do you think they always ask the pronouncer for the definition?

Commitment to a years-long slog of seemingly endless and pointless repetition and stressful competition? If that doesn’t scream doctor/lawyer I don’t know what does.
This is in the category of "outrage outrage", where we are outraged that other people are getting outraged about things.
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Here is the Hasselblad press release at the time: https://cdn.hasselblad.com/e407a3b3-714b-4efa-aa74-06cd9083e...
I disagree, the problem is that status quo problems are "acceptable". If a politician legalizes drugs they become personally responsible for every death from those legal drugs.
There's FDA approved CBD drugs like Epidiolex to treat seizures. There's also evidence it alleviates anxiety (it certainly has helped me manage mine at times). Yeah it's not fun like THC but that doesn't make it useless.
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This seems like an appeal to authority, supposing that Craig is an authority on internet outrage.

I don't see any data to back this claim up, but maybe I didn't read the article deeply enough.

I'm also suspicious of the folks who label criticism as 'outrage'. I suspect that it's a mechanism for dismissing critics for their tone rather than engaging with their arguments...
thank you - this is very useful information!
Yes, this sucks. I have an old Ubuntu VM for running Mozart 1.4.
I'm not entirely certain this is necessary. If any article gains any traction at all, you can simply pull tweets from random, completely normal humans, and spin that to make whatever point you're trying to make.

It's... kinda discouraging both how easy this is to do, and how credible it appears on the surface with the right framing.
Deciminalisation first. Stop treating everybody like a criminal. It is so mf oppressive, to everybody.

"In many ways, the law was merely a reflection of transformations that were already happening in clinics, in pharmacies and around kitchen tables across the country. The official policy of decriminalisation made it far easier for a broad range of services (health, psychiatry, employment, housing etc) that had been struggling to pool their resources and expertise, to work together more effectively to serve their communities."
Oh, I have this bad habit of going down the rabbit hole of fundamentals if I feel I lack the basics of a concept. While I still haven't grasped the need for calculus in language design, I've come across pieces on how Lisp is based on lambda calculus vs Haskell based on typed lambda calculus. Also, that any problem that can be solved with turing machine, can be solved by lambda calculus as well. While not much about compilers, I guess it will solidify my understanding of language designs?

I'm not sure. I'll rather learn and hope the dots will connect later than ignore the subject altogether.
> You can't train for a marathon while also putting in the long hours to be at the peak of your technical field for example.

Why not?

I always try to tackle big challenges at work, switching teams / companies when finding challenges becomes the challenge. Hands-on learning 9-5 is enough to maintain my personal maximum sustainable career growth - any more would lead to burn out.

Commute jogging (10mi/day) and weights at the gym takes 2h/day.

That leaves another 6 hours/day for happy hour, cooking, movies, guitar... excluding all the free time of weekends.

What are you doing with all that time?
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That's how it should be. The fact that the voters overwhelmingly voted for the green party during the EU vote despite the high electricity costs shows that supporting renewables is a priority for German citizens.
Valter Longo - The Longevity Diet

Brilliant book.
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Flipping the curve is not enough for orange-brown coated negatives. Doesn't apply if you want a blueish/cyan looking picture.
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I did a talk about this years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlt4XKhucS4
It could just as well be argued that the researchers who choose to publish there ought to be publicly shamed. Elsevier is nothing without an army willing accomplices.
That's certainly part of it, yeah. But even that is a view that removes drug-use as a valid choice. I certainly agree that those suffering from addiction need help, and we should provide it generously, but not everyone that uses drugs needs help. Similar to alcohol, which a lot (most?) people are able to enjoy responsibly. It seems that there's still the idea that you'd try mdma (or lots of other drugs) and will immediately find yourself in a downward spiral, completely out of control.
Blaming Craig Newmark for destroying journalism is, in a way, accurate, but, in an important way, inaccurate. Sooner or later, someone on the internet was going to make a free "classified ad" and distribute it. If it wasn't Craigslist it would have been MySpace or Facebook or someone else. Maybe the newspapers themselves would have done it.
Personally, I've definitely noticed a large improvement in mood and burnout symptoms by reducing focus on work and moving focus to "useless" hobby pursuits (the further from my day-to-day work the better).
Here's my journey of exploration in Elite Dangerous:

https://i.imgur.com/iteL09L.png

That took about 2 months of real time, playing 1 or 2 hours a day. It was pretty epic, I loved being able to discover these completely new systems, placing my name on them for as long as the game lasts (which I hope is a long time).
Taken another way, would this mean if I pay taxes for a war I think is unjust I'm personally responsible for every death?
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Lambda calculus nor regular calculus are going to help you write a compiler. And certainly regular calculus isn’t going to help you design a language...
Stadia is an audacious attempt to demonstrate technical prowess of Google. Failure of Stadia would cast doubts on Google Cloud's efficacy. I am sure Google will put all its might behind Stadia. I, for one, is rooting for its success. That does not mean others would go out of business. It's a huge market and everyone can benefit.
I really wish podcasts, radio shows, &c would include archive- or collection-based torrents for those of us who want to mass-download episodes to local for offline on-demand.

RSS is wonderful for upkeep but having to perform a manual click-and-save across hundreds or thousands of episodes is a questionable use of time and it's not always easy to web-scrape the .mp3 files via a script.

Maybe I should just go get a smartphone with a monthly data plan just for podcasts, but I really shouldn't have to.
This is true enough (in some markets and some circumstances, yada yada), but sort of missing the point. A world where all the Good Liberals are trained to recycle everything into hand sorted artisinal bins that they keep next to their compost containers is one where people think about what they purchase and push for public policies that worry about resource consumption in ways that benefit all of us.

A world (we live in it) where libertarians tell everyone that "landfill is underrated" is one where people buy and dispose of way too much junk, and create the problems all us communists are vainly trying to solve via personal recycling.

I mean, sure, a world of scientists might be able to handle rules like "recycling that aluminum can is a big win, but the polypropylene bottle with the same product in it is mostly a wash". A world of real people is just going to hear "throw out all the things".
Also Google Docs/Spreadsheet/Forms/Slides, Google Calendar, Google Translate, GMail, Inbox, Google Analytics, and lot of internal tools.
I’ll take the moving goalposts as a positive sign.

Here’s another one that appears after a quick Google search;

Male Circumcision Reduces Risk of Genital Herpes and HPV Infection, but Not Syphilis

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/male-circumcis...

When you google for circumcision risk of death, on the one hand is CIRP claiming over 100 infant boys die each year from complications arising from circumcision, and in the other hand the CDC saying they looked at every single infant death in 2010 and could not find a single one related to circumcision.

So I’ll be done with this topic for the day!
Corporations actually have a reason to be pro legalization. They’re just not always the same corporations against them. There’s lots of industry to be made around medicinal and recreational uses of drugs. It might even make jobs in rural America in the form of additional cash crops.

Further, imagine the societal impact of removing the money for cartels. I think Mexico and central and South America would become dramatically less violent over night. Farmers wouldn’t need to work with cartels to sell now legalized crops. The US would see fewer refugees.
Nope. I was circumcised and think it’s a fucking barbaric procedure and the supposed reasons it is done seem to coveniently change every couple years.
Just to clarify, you do realise that lambda calculus is an entirely different field to the calculus of mathematical analysis? They really have very little in common apart from the name.

Sorry if you already knew this, but it seemed like you were making a connection that wasn't there.
Yep that’s fair criticism. It’s definitely anecdotal.
Have never experienced this and we sold a huge number of our app using celery. Based on other replies one should pause, take a step back and consider if their code or design is to blame..
To second rjurney’s comment, I’ve also recently had the pleasure of working with Mike Loukides, and his feedback has always been hugely insightful and valuable.
> you’d think developers are sacred and never do wrong but have no free will or input.

Developers who express their free will strongly risk getting fired. It pays to keep their mouth shut and let the firm torpedo itself.
Let's clarify here: "Calculus"[0] and the lambda calculus have almost nothing to do with one another. They just share a word in their name, like the Department of Mathematics and the Fire Department. There are several different things called "the X calculus".

[0]:Could be called "numerical calculus" or "calculus of integration and differentiation", perhaps.
I absolutely disagree with it. OK it maybe that oil companies are slowing down progress of renewables/preventing acceptance of climate change, because thing has enough money for that. But that opioid crap is simply too cheap to matter on a national level. It's just a bunch of doctors getting some new BMWs writing made up prescriptions and some corporate execs getting a few million extra bonuses for boosting opioid sales. To matter that much to impact politics in the plain view of millions people suffering, it must be a trillion dollar pie. Like oil, or military-industrial complex, or like Microsoft at the very least. It absolutely isn't.
Would you prefer it had a barrel jack for power and no USB-C?
I think we already agreed there’s not “zero benefit” so I fear this is no longer a productive discussion.
> Plastics come from oil, which we are gradually running out of, though not quickly.

I guess it depends on your definition of "quickly", or it would be good to see a citation on this one.

Personally, I believe that if we encourage recycling more, that creates an opportunity for companies to innovate in that space and come up with better recycling methods. So in that respect, I'd prefer to over-recycle than under-recycle.
Sorry, by reasoning I meant the reason why you consider a particular vendor worthy of being associated with quality and performance. The internet currently seems lacking in anything approaching a longitudinal study of hardware vendors - it’s all a sea of opinions.
Google would need to solve speed of light problems for Stadia to be successful. It's not that people are betting against Google, they are betting on their understanding of physics.

Stadia is going to be the luke warm product that OnLive was and then Google will shutter it. AT&T also tried to do this kind of service in limited markets with fiber optics to the home, servers near the last mile, and a partnership with nvidia for rapid decode/encode. Didn't stick. Why will Google be successful?
Thanks, it was hyperbole rooted in missing the latest information (Epidiolex being approved only in June 2018)

My main point is about whats available in Europe
A few thoughts. (Needless to say, this is all personal opinions and not those of my employer.)

- Products that are doing well have more folks working on them, I assume.

- There is plenty of mobility at Google and no shortage of things to work on.

- The churn rate of products is probably lower than the perception, at least relatively speaking. I perceive Cloud as being pretty stable.

- There’s a lot of tooling that is not specific to any unit or product, like Bazel for example.
The immutability of the OS is not, alone, meant as an in-depth security measure. Don't run malware as root. If you want a fully trusted boot system, you'll have to use features like Secure Boot to verify that the BIOS and bootloader have not been tampered with.

ostree supports signing commits and trees with GPG signatures, and like git, all objects are content-addressed by SHA256 hash, so it is possible to verify that the entire root tree and all objects within it have been signed by some trusted party.
I want to learn front end web development in 3 month it is possible?
Why hack something instead of using gprmc which is designed to handle the backend for exactly what you are looking for?
I'm not sure you should put blind trust in your doctor. My doctor recently prescribed a medicine I hadn't heard of before. I told him I wanted to research it first, but I'd take the initial prescription and let him know if I decided against taking it. Barring a situation where you're not concious, always do your own research and get a second medical opinion if things seem confusing!
pleas look at my learning plan and suggest me your thoughts.
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What's the story of multitenancy in Kubernetes? Is it true that it does not provide sufficient isolation between services by default? Is this something that could be handled by configuration only or is it a bigger issue with Kubernetes design?

What's the best way to make Kubernetes the layer that isolates tenants in a multitenant platform?
This is an anecdote -- not data.
Since Python 3 added the nonlocal keyword, they seem to be fine, although I haven't examined them too closely.
> Edit, to clarify, I'm talking about a legit copy of OSX purchased properly, no piracy whatsoever. I just want the creature comforts of OSX on a machine with ports! (and MagSafe too, if possible)

Technically, by installing it on a computer that isn’t a Mac, you’re violating the EULA. So it doesn’t matter if you purchased it, it’s still illegal to use it for that purpose (but no one’s gonna stop you)
As I get older I don’t often feel that I need to find the little things to invalidate them. But, I have to admit that I still feel very reluctant when I am asked to write good promotion feedbacks for them. In the back of my mind, I always have this thought of “not good enough to deserve it”.
Jealousy in no doubt had destroyed a few of my good relationships with co-workers I called friends.
Gut feel. To me, photography is now a software game. If you can put a reasonably cheap lens in front of a sensor and apply enough computing horsepower, I believe that the old one lens and one sensor will be like the mainframe of cameras. They will still be around, but smaller, modular ones put together via software will dominate.
> But where are the gummies! The edibles!

Amsterdam? I don't know if the culture compares, but there are edibles, and it certainly felt casual and relaxed to me when I visited.
Markets haven't been doing a good job of it so far, why would they in the future?
I guess... Well, maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but I just want to be clear that you know that the branch of math most people call "calculus" is almost completely unrelated to the branches of math called "lambda calculus", and "typed lambda calculus." The former, which this link is about, has very little to do with language design. In fact, there are all different kinds of math called "X calculus" and "calculus of Y", each of which has nothing to do with the other.

Just "calculus" is short for "differential and integral calculus," which is about the local behavior of functions and the measure of objects in continuous spaces. Many people study this in high school (and earlier), since it's the underlying mathematical technology for much of the physical sciences. "Lambda calculus" is a logical system for manipulating symbols representing functions, and is indeed equivalent to Turing's symbol-manipulation system. So they both have to do with functions, but that's about where the similarity ends!

I hope I'm not coming off as brusque or anything, I just don't want you to spend loads of time on something that isn't what you think it is! That said, lots of programmers are surprisingly weak in (differential/integral) calculus, and could use a good dose of it anyway :)
If you think I'm crazy.

Phys.Org: A connection between quantum correlations and spacetime geometry.
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-quantum-spacetime-geometry.htm...
In the article consider aproach with the `dataobject` from `recordclass` library as a base object in class definition. This seem can produce less memory than PyPy.
only maintain a separate codebase if the feature is accepted, that way there is a finite timeline on having to be in the build business. As someone who maintained a forked openstack distribution for 5 years as a company selling openstack tooling... we wasted significant time tracking down integration bugs rather than working with the community to integrate our changes upstream
This is somewhat myopic -- there would be no incentive politically or monetarily for a publisher to a) track these licenses to the individual or b) give out new licenses to previous purchases.
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> in banks in the last 5 years, where they have replaced dense powerful beautiful text based interfaces with giant versions of their mobile apps. huge buttons, minimal screen density.

You forgot to mention that they load progressively and you never know when the page layout is done and stable, so when you think you click on something, your click ends up being received by a button/link which popped up in between, and there we go, launching a new page or performing an unwanted action, and then going back to the previous page (well, you've got to find the way to go back, because of course it may or may not obey the standard "previous page" command, or it may or may not be a one-page app with a specific way of going back [a cross, a link, a button, ...] placed in a specific place [upper right corner, upper left, bottom row, bottom left corner, bottom right, in a window, in the full page space, etc.]), and waiting for the original page to reload completely one more time...
three main issues: 1) yes the Earth is huge but cities really don't have easy access to landfill, and many are in fact running out of it because transporting garbage is expensive. 2) podcasts aren't convincing sources for a debate. 3) the real debate is "how do we reduce waste", not "landfill vs recycling".
I kid, I have respect for Pentax glass - just never used it. It's sad Pentax couldn't make the leap to digital as fully as Canon and Nikon did.

And the mirrorless bodies have really led to adapter heaven!
It's hard to put in less effort than swag t-shirts, jeans and flip-flops.

I don't feel the same as OP, but to say that people are putting in the same effort seems off.
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I try to be skeptical about medical claims, especially around alternative medicine. But there's a good axiom: the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Considering that doing "gold standard" FDA approved double blind tests has long been illegal for marijuana-based therapies I kind of had to trust myself and others (for example a cancer survivor who claimed CBD moderatated their headaches) that there were some therapeutic benefits. This was especially true as some people claimed that after using traditional therapies it just didn't work for them or the unintended side effects weren't acceptable.