skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The world” is not just US and UK. Here in Switzerland, you can register as e.g. a heroin user, and be provided with cheap Swiss pharmaceutical quality heroin, for the nominal price, in specialized centers for drug users (you obviously can’t take it away, consumption is only allowed on premises — where medical and psychological help is available, and counseling programs for quitting drugs are advertised).

The program is immense success, there are no drug dealers on our streets anymore (can’t compete with cheap drugs from the government), drug-related crime has plummeted, and drug users numbers are falling down too (due to these counseling programs).

And yes, marijuana is now fully legalized (up to some percentages of THC) and you can buy it with grocery stores just like cigarettes. Nobody seems to be particularly interested, there were no significant changes in consumption culture, etc.
Are you saying that Steam/Valve doesn't have any lock-in contracts? So, if my game is sold on Steam then I could let people 'port' it to another provider?

That would surprise me, but it would be great.
> There are people coming from nontraditional backgrounds into technical roles, and they, I assert, probably want a different book than the types of books O'Reilly generally publishes.

... and "the for Dummies" does not cater to them ? Or are you saying that O'Reilly should become somewhat more like the "Dummies" Series. Regardless of the name some of those books dont speak to the reader as if the reader is a dummy. Then there are those "21 days", "Unleashed".

I like it that O'Reilly speaks to me more than the "21 days" variety. Each to his own. I have been happy with Apress (other than Practical Ocaml) and Manning too. Packt is mostly an abomination.
That’s a quote from Wikipedia where the footnote references an abstract which does not include that statement.

Here’s what the abstract does say;

> Following the three randomized trials in Africa demonstrating the protective effects of male circumcision on HIV infection, studies have reported other benefits of circumcision including protection from certain STIs, including human papillomavirus and herpes simplex virus 2. With data accumulating on the public health benefits of circumcision and the endorsement of circumcision from WHO, investigators have begun to evaluate the feasibility, safety and cost of implementation of large-scale circumcision programs. Limitations of circumcision have also been explored.
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I think this is pretty natural / universal. There’s a lot of “ways” to deal with the emotions you’re feeling (“seethe”), for me the important inflection point was realizing that what was driving that was internal conflict between where I wanted to go & how I was going to get there. So looking more inward and less outward was key, and filtering out all of that “noise” to focus on tangibly making myself better was key.

Here’s where it gets more fun — that process made me realize that where I “wanted to be” was not where I wanted to be. And this post was fun to read because I reflected on how far off I am from when I felt the same way, and yet I’ve achieved different successes than I had imagined, experienced different failures than I had dreaded. It’s a wild ride; take time to reflect, work to improve yourself and set goals, but balance it with enjoyment of the ride.
i certainly hope not. because it's inherently unfair. not everyone can afford to work on FOSS in their free time.

this hits especially women who are still most often made responsible for housework and childcare, but it also hits others who maybe have to care for someone or value family life over their career.
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http://www.paysdegrasse.fr/sites/default/files/webform/directmatchtunisie-senegal-en-direct-live.pdf

http://www.paysdegrasse.fr/sites/default/files/webform/senegal-tunisie-en-direct-streaming.pdf
http://www.paysdegrasse.fr/sites/default/files/webform/senegal-tunisie-en-direct-tv02.pdf
http://www.paysdegrasse.fr/sites/default/files/webform/tunisie-senegal-en-direct-tv01.pdf
http://www.paysdegrasse.fr/sites/default/files/webform/tunisie-senegal-en-direct-tv.pdf

https://qiita.com/f1-live-tv/items/d7f15a7496b02f0bc076
The device is not 1 cm, it is 'microns each side', right? That should make it roughly 10000x faster than 20 GHz, which is quite mind blowing for me. Especially if you imagine multi-layer superstructures for resolving very complex tasks with small amounts of energy.
responsive sites and mobile apps have led to the mobilification of desktop sites. there is absolutely a branding/marketing/design trend pushing shiny over usability. ive noticed it 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.

https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-i-love-ugly-messy-interfaces-...

i liked the old reddit BECAUSE it was a simple list of links that all behaved exactly as a link should when i click it, and didnt attempt to put visual flair over usability.
My opinion: rolling your own does have a higher initial cost, but it can have a much lower long term cost. Consider the case where you need a very small modification to the dependency. In many cases that will require a much greater investment because you will now have to a) understand the dependency, b) make and test the change and c) support the change long term (unless it is folded into the mainline). Also consider the case where some dependency or specification changes (way too frequently) or there is a bug that you desperately need fixed. What do you do then? Technical debt. For me then, understanding the probability and consequences of events like that is important.
I'm surprised you consider Microsoft's data collection practices to be worse than Google's. Would you be willing to elaborate on that at all?
This is a great one. It's actually so important it's a separate item on my short list of top skills. I have it as "ability to debug", but "ability to decontruct" is a better and more general category. Thanks!
Drug use is self medication in order to seek relief from an illness. That illness is usually mental which some view as a personal failing and not a legitimate medical condition. That or they deem it unimportant enough to care about.
Public schooling is a waste of time and not where people learn foreign languages. I learned my second and third language purely through the Internet. One of them I also had in school, but like I said it was a waste of time. The method is just completely wrong, since in school they do the two things that are the most detrimental to learning a foreign language. Those two things are correcting mistakes (since the emphasis will be on the mistake, which will be remembered) and learning grammar. Grammar is useless overhead when learning. Once you know the language you can bother with grammar, if you care. I never did.
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Heroin does seem to be a problematic drug.

I read that only 10% of users get addicted. But are there places where heroin is used where it doesn't become a problem?

(I am from the country where the film Trainspotting is set).
You're probably not an ignoramus. You're probably just new here. No sin in that.
I think most people who believe they don't care about fashion do. Cargo pants, t-shirts and hoodies might not be the typical image of fashion or putting effort in one's appearance, but me wearing them at work and free time is still a semi-conscious social marker.

I don't think I put much more or less effort in my appearance than someone who's everyday attire includes button up shirts and designer eyewear, but we will signal different interests with the way we dress. They say to dress for the job you want. It could be that you don't actually base your respect on the effort someone puts in their appearance, but rather the kind of appearance you value.
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In other words, volunteering and helping the needy brings happiness to everyone involved and sets up paths to success for all.

Keep some old shoes or take your restaurant leftovers with you to give to that next homeless guy at the intersection
It is also, like many things in hardware, a software problem. The purpose of a keyboard is to interact with software. And that software is biased towards certain layouts. It is hard to change the layout too much without quickly becoming a niche product. Add to that the barrier to entry to making a hardware product is still quite high, and relatively costly.
> as I’ve seen people get pretty exited about the new—rather than the old

Hardly a trait exclusive to hackers.
> while also putting in the long hours to be at the peak of your technical field

I think this association is believed to be true more than the evidence supports, helped in no small part by companies which profit from employees donating unpaid overtime to the bottom line. You need to put some time in but diminishing returns set in pretty quickly, and creative work often significantly benefits from a balanced lifestyle.
I think you're engaging in the kind of argument my happiness and joy would be greater without.
>There is no grand conspiracy to keep drugs illegal

Many people working together to keep something illegal in order to profit is not a "conspiracy", it's lobbying.

>semi well intentioned system

How is valuing money and power over millions of lives "semi well intenioned"?
Perl was extremely web-friendly: large amounts of the early web were written with CGI.pm or even Apache mod_perl.
Well, it turns out the protective benefits are rather durable after the procedure is performed.

Similar to the HPV vaccine which is given to 9 year olds, presumably long before they have started having sex.

I’m really not interested in ideological battle here.
This includes The Guardian opinion pieces.

I am surprised their isn't outrage as a service on twitter. I writer needs 10 twitter accounts to say something controversial so that can write about the "backlash" to some event or celeb. Maybe this already exists, just not obvious yet.
Not OP. Microsoft gave away windows 10 for free and then added tracking to everything you do. I believe they even started showing ads on the start menu. It’s free no longer but the practices continue. You’d probably have to upgrade to business or enterprise to remove it.
GOG Connect may be along the lines of what you're describing. The compatibly of games is on a temporary basis set by the publisher, but, yes, it does allow you to activate Steam purchases on GOG.
> But notabug, at heart, is about not censoring. Even for people who suck and say shitty things.

Then you can keep it. What I look for in a social media site is learning interesting things, and having rewarding conversations with people. Notabug sounds like it's neither of those.
I'm pretty sure my love of parody and irreverence for all things official came from reading MAD as a kid.
“Big company” developers: do you call yourself “Unit 3829” or “autonomous drone 283”? Because seeing comments like above so frequently, you’d think developers are sacred and never do wrong but have no free will or input.
Yeah, I see your point. But I think the 10X is still yearly. For a founder, that might not be much. For a funder, that might be a considerable benefit.

(B) 10 times the aggregate adjusted bases ... during the taxable year.
Couldn't see much about marijuana legalisation in Switzerland, most articles refer to recent trials and such. Any sources?
And makes a difference in tenure decisions
I built a Nyquist from keeb.io parts (and zealios 67g switches). It was mostly to learn how to flash QMK to a microcontroller, solder the components etc., but I used it for a few weeks and it was surprisingly comfortable, better than my usual topre novatouch.
> In 1971, as the Vietnam War was heading into its sixteenth year, congressmen Robert Steele from Connecticut and Morgan Murphy from Illinois made a discovery that stunned the American public. While visiting the troops, they had learned that over 15 percent of U.S. soldiers stationed there were heroin addicts. Follow up research revealed that 35 percent of service members in Vietnam had tried heroin and as many as 20 percent were addicted—the problem was even worse than they had initially thought. [...]

> Lee Robins was one of the researchers in charge. In a finding that completely upended the accepted beliefs about addiction, Robins found that when soldiers who had been heroin users returned home, only 5 percent of them became re-addicted within a year, and just 12 percent relapsed within three years. In other words, approximately nine out of ten soldiers who used heroin in Vietnam eliminated their addiction nearly overnight.

From https://jamesclear.com/heroin-habits
150k would be nice! Personally I was investing over 50K/year for 10+ years.
Actually I said NULL isn’t an issue in some languages with looser type systems, not that other developers wouldn’t have encountered a NULL before.

Eg Perl doesn’t have a nil type like Go, so variables passed to DBI which are NULL in the returned SQL query will be undef’ed instead. Effectively a bit like NULL but it only causes a problem if your running with strict flags (which you shouldn’t do on production systems anyway for various reasons; but that’s another topic entirely) otherwise that value falls back to the language default of “”/0/false.

With languages like Go you can easily end up with a panic if you’re not careful (where you’re trying to cast a nil interface{}). Which, I’m guessing, is why this Go library being discussed here does it’s own NULL checking.
It's a myth that you learn languages easier earlier in life. Mastering a language takes about 10 years, it's just that when you start at age 6, you could be done by age 16.
There is a distinction in biology between sensory perception of noxious stimuli (nociception) and the experience of suffering in response to noxious stimuli. The distinction is in higher order brain processing. An organism does not need to experience suffering to react to noxious stimuli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_reflex
I did not see the latest statement on their site! Did I miss it? I have no qualms at all with presenting the historical timeline, as long as the latest factual and science-based statement is included and given the most weight.

It appears the link to the most recent statement is broken (404) which could be why I missed it.

However, the way the timeline is presented also raises eyebrows;

> In September 2002, under the lead of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), Paediatrics and Child Health Division, six major medical societies of Australasia developed a unified position statement on male circumcision. All six medical societies (...) have now corroborated the Canadian Paediatric Society, declaring that circumcision of newborn males should not be routinely performed. The new statement firmly declares: "There are no medical indications for routine male circumcision." This statement was slightly revised in September 2004. This statement was retired in 2010.

“All six have now corroborated...” is a peculiar way to describe historical statements which are no longer considered medically accurate.

That’s a particularly odd way to conclude that new studies have provided compelling evidence of important health benefits of circumcision in certain contexts.

The fact that many commenters here seem to be entirely unaware that there do exist some demonstrable medical benefits in terms of resistance to and transmission of STDs and STIs reflects this.
1000kwh/pa sounds reasonable.

My household averages about that and we have 2 fridges and 2 freezers and electric oven. Hob, hot water and central heating are gas though.
Mostly I agree, but it's not always an illness, sometimes it's just a really hard living situation. (E.g. you're dependent on an abusive partner).
you're right about that, so I think what it could help us with is to provide a sort of guidance when we have a particular end-goal in mind.
In the book, the "safe" oxidiser they settle on is ... red fuming nitric acid! After discovering that it can be safely stored in stainless steel tanks with the addition of a small amount of the even more dangerous hydrofluric acid, which forms some kind of iron-fluoride compound on the tank inner surface.
Looking at it on an iPad it insisted I go from landscape to portrait, a tad impertinent.
Its very significant to me

“Decriminalized” is the same level as when literal snake oil salesmen were going around fairs in the 1880s selling unknown substances that killed you

“Legal” is when the quality is regulated and analyzed for a specific purpose and consumers know what they are buying and sellers face consequences for violating that
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For obvious reasons, I think many people would be against the suggestion that if more people were suffering from life-destroying drug addiction, a turning point would be reached and the problem would be solved faster. Surely there is a way to push back the spread of drugs and addiction, without letting it overtake society first.
> For most intents and purposes, the difference between legal and fully decriminalized is not significant.

Parent talked about profit, but in Portugal the production, distribution and sale are still a crime, and therefore the people profiting from those activities are still the same.
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It's recently started triggering the 'a webpage is slowing down your computer' message on Firefox for me, which is a pretty good sign they're doing something crazy.
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I don't get the Gross love. She's so very wordy. Likes to use 40 words to ask a 5 word question.
This is what the article touched on. The culture has to shift to viewing drug addicts not as "druggies" but as someone with a problem who needs help. They changed the language they used to call them. Once this shift happened it's led the path to actually helping them instead of vilifying them.
Early in life, imho much of fashion is just necessary for attracting a desirable mate, much like plummage on a bird. Excess can be excused.

Once past that stage, fashion seems to fall into two categories - 1) the selfish need/desire to impress others of similar social class (or a class you wish to join) or 2) the genuine unselfish desire to look nice for your friends benefit in some social situation.
Related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20351524

And a tribute to Al Jaffee, who has been with MAD for 54 years and at the age of 98 still does every fold-in:

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2017/03/al-jaffee-the-gen...
Not particularly a case of outrage per se, but what's up with articles quoting a couple of ~10 like tweets and pumping some small thing as if the "whole internet" is arguing about it?

Lazy authors, or does it make money?
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Is lisp really more functional than, say, Rust? I've tried it for a while but find Haskell much more pleasant to work with.
I’m assuming the parent comment referred to “legal” actors lobbying to keep drugs illegal, as opposed to the cartels themselves.

Do you think cartels have an interest in drugs being illegal, and if so could you explain why? I’d expect cartels to welcome the change as they can do away with fighting the law (where they no doubt pour a lot of their resources into) and start operating as legitimate businesses.
You are right, but just to give a better picture of Portugal: We still have a lot of illegal drugs coming from Morocco, it's not a solved problem yet.

When this law was approved (2001) Portugal (Casal Ventoso) was the major Europe's entrypoint for heroin and everybody knew someone who was addicted, and it was impossible to walk in any city's park and not see an used syringe on the ground.

I think what's happening in the US with the opioid crisis is a bit different that requires a different solution. Regulation vs Decriminalization.
And in the UK that also started happening at about the time they deemphasised nuclear (and fossil fuels, wow!) and started to roll out serious wind power [0]. This isn't compelling evidence that renewables are the more cost effective option - we know nuclear was cost effective at some point, it got to 10% of worlds energy largely through market forces.

I'm not sure what 'deindustrialising' means to you, but it sounds pretty scary to me. Those numbers are like not having electricity on Sundays.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UK_electricity_production...
If you were going for hard sci-fi you wouldn’t even have human pilots at all, the drone would be doing the flying.
Guess it's time to check in with the hydroponics scene and see how things are coming along.
Yeah, Gardener looks like it's meant to address one tenant on multiple k8s clusters, and k3v looks like it's meant to address multitenancy in a single k8s cluster.
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It.s on top of http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/: Circumcision of Male Infants. Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 2010.
Seems like a handy resource but seems the navigation is a bit annoying to deal with. Quick hack with `wget --mirror` + `pandoc` for joining the documents, I got the following single-page layout: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmZetPzAP5bC3uXVmNUKU2DU22L...

(I take no responsability for any formatting errors. Math seems to render correctly, but probably some links are broken)
Microsoft Word Hits 1 Billion Installs on Android
From the vision document:

> This fundamentally changes the equations that drive the app economy, turning it from one where a few players build monolithic services that chase billions of DAUs, to a creator economy where everyone is empowered to use tech to solve their own problems and express themselves creatively.

I question this premise. The internet of today != the internet of 20 years ago. Traffic is primarily driven by progressively fewer and fewer sites.

The problem of an app "surviving" today isn't about the cost of app development. It's blitzscaling. You need light billions of dollars on fire to maintain your position as an Uber. No SWE can quit their FANG job and make that happen anymore, with their own money. They'll need VC Money.

Also, the average user downloads 0 new apps per month. I know I'm definitely the average user. Because all the apps are competing for my attention and send garbage push notifications, I turn off push notifications. As a user, I want less apps, not more.
> Finding materials in nature (e.g. an untouched-by-humans forrest) vs in society (e.g. someones cabin) is not much of a difference if you are not a part of society. You go out, shoot a deer to survive, chop down a tree, and head home and you got some food and supplies. You go out, find a cabin, take some food and other stuff and head home and you've got some food and other supplies.

Or "You go out, eat the wrong food and die", like Christopher McCandless.

Thinking there's little or no difference is a gross underestimation of the difficulty of living in the wild.

McCandless would have survived if he had cabin food at hand, which means, there's a hell of a difference - a life and death type of difference.
Its absolutely amazing finding....it teaches to trust more and be little more secure someone out there will take care of me if in trouble. That kind of gives so much sense of hope and debunk that "fear stranger" or "no one is gonna help you" myth which pertuated for decades.
Great minds think alike! I linked to a single-page version here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20434118