skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minors can't buy Juul legally from stores either, yet Juul usage is skyrocketing among minors. I think it has less to do with the legality alone and more to do with fashion/image/etc (which is enabled by legalization).

Marijuana might be down now, but I could see THC Juul pods or MJ pills or some other form of legal marijuana becoming a fad among minors in the future and usage skyrocketing. Legalization is the enabler in this case.
> To illustrate my point, it would be like saying "legalizing marijuana makes it 50% harder for minors to buy it!" but leaving off the "(but also legalization would increase the number of minor users by 10000+%)" part.

Why would it increase that number?
I think it's because for many years anecdotal reports from clinical psychologists and psychiatrists drove a narrative (convenient to pro-prohibition authorities) that cannabis caused psychosis. Large epidemiological studies now suggest that's probably not the case, but the original narrative is often parroted uncritically by news outlets and others.

There are almost certainly risks from taking cannabis, but they are almost certainly an order of magnitude smaller than the risks of drinking and smoking (individually... not just becase A and T are more widespread)

i) clinical psychologist
I love the concept of a zero-waste, entirely sustainably sourced and operated car [1], but the total cost of building, owning, and, at end-of-life, disposing of one would easily run north of a hundred thousand dollars.

Multiply that by the number of people in your city, and consider whether or not personal automobiles are the best use of that money.

The future of transportation is not an electric car. It is the electric train, the electric bus, and the electric scooter.

[1] Also, no such vehicle exists on the market, and even if it did, it's not clear that we could scale the concept into billions of vehicles.
Not sure why this got downvoted. The college admissions scandal is about something that has been going on for years with no consequences, and most insider traders get away with it at will, not to mention all sorts of tax evasion, payroll fraud, etc.

Notably, an employer committing payroll fraud was recently brought to justice in Michigan by the new AG. It made headlines because such crimes are virtually never subject to law enforcement attention.
>Print money
Taxing isn't printing.
You can do this with Android Auto - no need to swap to Apple!
As a counterpoint, my VW in-car navigation integrates with the second screen, so I get glanceable navigation behind the steering wheel.

And, in Australia, it's very easy to lose mobile reception. Having usable maps on device is a must.
I’ve only recently begun my Kubernetes voyage of self study and knowledge acquisition (as it’s becoming more of a demand in job requirements so I’ve begun studying) so pardon the ignorance, though that’s what motivates the question:

Is k8s an indicator of that convergence happening or do I misunderstand this tooling?
This. And its depressing. A walkable city is much easier to be in a good mood in than a car-centric city.
I agree thet debate is polarised. But I sympathise with the irritation caused by the focus on poor quality evidence linking cannabis to psychosis when the widespread harms of alcohol and tobacco are basically ignored.
I was comparing with ranges, sorry should have specified. Equivalent cars with ranges. Though maybe this isn't the best because a model S is a sports car (I guess they are heavier than I thought). To better compare I think that Audi is a good comparison (price, style, luxury).

So though they're weights are similar the Audi has a range of 424.6/559.9 and the Tesla has 285. That's 50.1%-67.2% of the range (let's say 60%).

Yes, ~300mi is a mostly comfortable range, but it's the same weight for 60% the range (and 5k more). To get the same range we'd have to add a ton of weight, which would probably push us to 2x (maybe the original comparison was decent enough?).
The RAW format is probably using e.g zlib for compression internally. You can check by calculating how many bytes in total a truly raw image is: 12-16 bits (1.5-2 byte) per pixel.
No, it’s a special 180% car tax, plus 25% VAT on top - 1.8*1.25 = 2.25.

Yes, you have to pay VAT on the tax, too. It’s bananas.

They did reduce it slightly a few years ago, I think it’s more like 180% in total now.
do you mean "why I felt this was needed"? then this link should address your question:
https://connective.dev/docs/connective-v-rxjs

if you mean "how I got to doing this?" well I was thinking of writing a piece on it, but short story is that I was trying to extend what I was working on before (connect-platform.com) to front-end in a really efficient manner (as I realized the paradigm shift on front-end means much less need for constant performance overhead of mechanisms like VDOM) and hence ended up here.

and about the docs, thanks, I am perhaps going to also independently publish the code responsible for generating it on github pages as an NPM package alongside my next project.
That combination of positions is incredibly common. Their argument generally stems from a belief that natural things are inherently good and artificial things are inherently bad.
> We should also watch, very carefully, how our children use it.

Is anyone even arguing for "children should use it" at all?
I am also in agreement. I want the car to be as mechanical as possible. The ideal phone-car integration for me is a 3.5mm aux jack that lives in the glove box somewhere. I am the kind of driver that will not look at their phone in the car, even at a stop light. Everyone who knows me knows that if I am driving, they should not expect any sort of response from me until I have parked safely. It's sad this has become an exceptional and even controversial stance.

Even the electronic safety nannies that are exclusively part of the car get in my way sometimes. I will intentionally disable stabilitrak and traction control on my car every time I start it up, unless the weather is bad. I also feel safer and more in control if I can feel the road through the steering wheel and don't have things like fly-by-wire keeping me isolated from the physical reality unfolding around me.

I've heard lots of complaints regarding things like lane keep assist being too aggressive and making steering non-intuitive or annoying. Good luck disabling that on a 2019 model year vehicle. Everyone wants to be so goddamn comfortable and disengaged while they are driving their 4000lb death machines around. I really don't get it anymore. What are our priorities?
Does your VW have a microphone button? My 2017 golf does, and it works reasonably well with Google assistant.
“Number of competitors in that space” is not unrelated to “and still get away with it.” If this (monopolistic) behaviour could be corrected by competition, why hasn’t competition with Apple corrected it?
Beards are linked to hair patterns, for some, beards don't really begin to sprout until you start losing some up top. A lot of european-descent men (and others) can't really grow a full beard until their 40s, that is very common.
It's real old and out of date now, but the STD grammar of Perl 6 was written in Perl 6 ahead of time and the Pugs implementation worked against it https://github.com/perl6/std/blob/master/STD.pm6

Rakudo (the current major Perl 6 compiler) also uses grammars to actually parse Perl 6 programs, but from the bootstrap language NQP https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/src/Perl6/Gramm...
ADB/command line is also not required unless you need to do more than simply install an app. You can open an apk directly on an Android device and be prompted to install it (provided you haven't associated apk files to be always opened with an app other than package installer)
This is cool, but I found this things called MQTT protocol and Emitter.io is one implementation of it. You can build your own notification system on top of it for a much cheaper cost.
Reporting relative odds or risks without a baseline is very misleading. The absolute risk in either case is still very low. People aren't downplaying risks.. they are setting them in a proper context (where other legal recreational drugs cause substantially more harm).
Because when it's legal that destroys a lot of the market for illegal sellers.. so there are less illegal sellers around.
The free market doesn't leave people helpless, it empowers. With enough effort, you can do nearly anything. Additional regulation usually makes it harder for small business to operate.

Actually, let's just make the minimum wage $30/hr and everything will be great.
1 million events an hour is just 278 a second, which is a much more surmountable number than 1 million.
that suction cup will not hold in the event of an accident and now your phone is a projectile. always put your phone away in a compartment and use handsfree.

no one will follow this advice, but no one will think they will be in an accident until they have a huge welt on their head and can't figure out why.
So the money I thought that I had donated to a content creator goes to some random people instead and that's somehow okay?
UpCodes is hiring Startup Engineers using Netflix model
After eight years of Bush, people were prepared to believe just about anything would be an historic watershed of honesty and good governance. For the last of the Bush years, every day seemed to bring an unprecedented new scandal that overshadowed all previously unprecedented Bush scandals by such magnitude as to render them meaningless. Finally, we had the Attorney General of the United States testify that he could remember nothing to do with why he fired numerous US Attorneys on the eve of an election. And then Cheney shot somebody and his victim apologized. And so many other things. It was easy to believe that Obama wasn't controlled by the exact same people.
Are there many people out there who think drinking and smoking are great ideas for your health!?

Plus, I think we'd all much rather deal with a stoner than a drunk.
Imagine a car infotainment system which is open source based.
With open hardware, then you could upgrade it.

The software and computer inside a car gets older much faster than the mechanical parts.
I have experience with a fully-analogue auto, with a radio and CD player, and a newer model with an in-dash display, "programmable" cabin climate controls, and Bluetooth connections.

Being able to pair my Android tablet for listening to podcasts is neat. But an FM broadcast dongle had solved that problem for the earlier vehicle, as would an AUX IN port, though it lacks that.

The earlier car had come with a pricey GPS option. My reasoning in rejecting that was that the hardware and software were likely obsolete on installation and would get no fresher. That's proved accurate, and a year later, I had my first experience of a long road trip with the Internet in my pocket. Pre-iPhone era, having maps and Google search was a game-changer, though could be distracting. An assessment I've maintained to the present.

I still rely largely on my own navigation capabilities and mapreading skills. Paper rarely crashes, reboots, or experiences flat batteries.

I read stories such as these with mild bemusement, until the thought registers that I'll likely be unable to find another vehicle as suited to actual transport as the one I own presently.

Pity, that.
Silver still running on rocket fuel and Gold prices are up
Ruby's Pipeline Operator Reverted
Eagerly awaiting the next fashion trend:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koteka
> I don't think we have sufficient understanding

This is correct. But we do have sufficient statistical evidence to rule out _large_ negative effects. We do know that cannabis is very unlikely to be as harmful to physcal and mental health as alcohol.
Anecdote: I have only used CarPlay in rental cars, and every time I start driving while my wife connects her phone and gets directions and music going. It’s annoying that the map disappears when she checks her messages.
Are the tokens released back to the original payer or a pool account?
I have an unconditional credence of degree 1 that taxpayers money, for which this "research" was granted, could have been used in a much better way.
Hey HN! I'm one of the founders of Consider.

We just shipped Groups. I'd love to hear what you think. We've been using it in our company for several months, and it's greatly improved our communication culture.

Read a bit more about its origin here: https://medium.com/the-consider-blog/the-next-piece-of-the-p....

Finally, if you're hearing about Consider for the first time – it's also an email client you can adopt just for yourself (although it works even better when multiple folks on a team use together!). Overall, we've tried to design for focus and flow throughout, and almost all features apply to your own private mail just as much as shared/team-level stuff. See more at https://consider.co/.

Happy to answer any questions.
Two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.
Do you know anything about any of those cases you just linked? None of them show that Apple prevented someone from trying to get their device repaired. All 3 of them are copyright issues, not having anything to do with the repair of devices.

1. DHS seized the screens from Jessa because they came from China and beared Apple logos. Apple doesn't sell any display parts so their copyright extends to the parts that bear their logo. Apple wasn't involved in seizure in any way except for holding legal protections for their products and logo. The article linked even says that she bought them from "grey market" shops in China.

2. Apple did not lose the case. That's misrepresenting what happened. The lawsuit alleged that the repair shop owner was advertising using genuine OEM Apple parts. According to the archive.org archive of their site, this is true and the archive is still up so you can see it. The court did not rule in favor of the store, it dismissed the case because it determined that the logos that would mistakenly identify the parts as "genuine" Apple parts would be on the insides of the devices and not viewable by consumers once repairs are completed. They made this ruling under the directive that the shop owner had to stop advertising as using genuine OEM Apple parts and he has since removed that language from his site. Apple is appealing the dismissal because they believe that someone seeing the Apple logo may be convinced that the parts are genuine Apple parts when they have, in fact, been replaced with inferior parts including digitizers, glass, and displays.

3. This is the same situation as the first one and, of course, you're only proving my point by linking to a Louis Rossman video. Apple didn't steal his batteries. Customs seized them because they bear Apple's logo on them but aren't actually sourced from Apple. It's a copyright and trademark issue, not a RTR issue.

The fact that you can't argue against what Apple's doing without wildly misrepresenting each of these cases is telling. If you actually read the bills being proposed, it should be obvious why they're not pro-consumer nor are they fair to companies like Apple. The main exception is John Deere who software locks all repairs and prevents machines that have been repaired by third parties from starting or being usable. Apple not only doesn't do that but they warn you when third-party components force them to disable components like Touch ID and Face ID which, in my mind, is very pro-consumer. I don't ever want there to be a chance where Touch ID or Face ID are considered genuine when there's no mechanism in place to verify that the hardware chain is still secure.
In iOS 13, manufacturers will be able to integrate the second screen with CarPlay. Whether or not they will is too be seen.
Unless the federal government wants to get into a serious fight over state’s rights, weed is effectively/wholly legal in states like California (I don’t know the specific laws outside of CA)

If you’d like to argue that the federal government - through the supremacy clause - has the power to override States that legalize marijuana, perhaps you’re right in theory.

But I think it’s a fantasy that the federal government will want to die on that hill. There are politically valuable reasons to avoid addressing the tension between state’s rights and the federal government’s power.
Complexity.

Start with something where you can substantially wrap your head around the whole thing, like XV6 or Minix, and it's vastly easier to look at chucks of something like Linux and see "oh, this fits into the mental picture here". For me, in the mists of the old days, learning Unix V6 out of the Lyons books (very slim volumes of annotation...wonderful stuff) make it easy to understand what was going on in V7, which made 4.2BSD and progeny accessible, which made SVR[234] somewhat weird and different, but still conceptually understandable, which made most everything Unix-ish afterword (including Linux) something you still had the vernacular to understand.

Now...to be fair...this leaves out a lot of really valuable OS knowledge. There's no IBM large system OS (e.g VM/370->z/OS, VM/CMS, TPF). No Seven Dwarfs OS (DEC VMS, Burroughs B-series, DG Nova, CDC NOS, etc.). Nothing for the really interesting Lisp or Smalltalk machines, the Perq or the Mesa/Cedar workstations. No interesting small systems OS: OS/2, classic MacOS, OS-9, much less the Windows NT family. Much less any of the embedded/RTOS world.

But you can still learn alot.
Theres a huge assumption about the wisdom of crowds. That the individuals have reliable info on said subject. I'd also say, are competent to use said info. The idea came from a dude back in the early 1900s who surveyed everyone at a county fair who was guessing on the weight of a cow or bull. The average was off by one pound, easily to be considered a successful test of that idea. However, let's get the same number of folks, but not farmers, instead... let's say silicon valley app engineers. Same rules as the old school, all you can do is look at the bovine and make a guess. Do you honestly believe they're going to have the same crowd accuracy? Especially without tech.

At the end too, averaging and voting doesn't change reality. If a group of people vote if an animal is a rabbit or a crow, but 75% vote rabbit, is it a rabbit even though it's a crow? Wisdom of crowds needs to be taken with a fistful of salt.
Good, that's one of my biggest pet peeves for CarPlay.

I'm also not a fan of Siri, would love to keep it disabled as I normally do, but CarPlay doesn't even start without it :/
Nobody who's looked at the economics of self-driving cars realistically thinks private ownership is an option: if you're putting that much capital investment in a vehicle that could operate 12-16 hours/day, your amortized costs go up by a factor of 6-8 if it's only operating for 2 hours/day. If we get self-driving cars it'll be in the form of ridesharing or rental services.

Agreeing on a standard protocol for both connectors and communications is a relatively easy problem if you have an industry with a dozen or so operators rather than 300 million private owners. It also solves the other major reason trains don't regularly crash, which is regular maintenance.
>What’s with the MGTOW/redpill language?

I don't think it helps to jump to conclusions and start slinging labels. Doesn't advance the conversation. Like if someone expressed some innocuous belief held by republicans and was accused of being a white supremacist because some white supremacists are republicans. That's the death of civil discourse.
Let’s Build a Web Server. Part 3
the central flaw of browser javascript cryptography, which is that to use it, you have to continuously and durably trust the server

What do you think of doing JavaScript Crypto in a browser extension? An extension runs code in the browser without persistent trust of a server (at least in the traditional webapp way; you have to persistently trust the extension update server, extension authors, chrome update server, etc). You could do things like quickly, interactively encrypt chunks of text with a symmetric key. Presumably you'd use an extension UI to enter your keys, to avoid keylogging.

I think it would be illuminating to have a small suite of well-implemented cryptographic primitives, curated by a well-known expert, installed and ready to use on any string in the browser.

(BTW why don't we see more random chunks of cyphertext everywhere? It would seem to me a good channel, to use a combination of public forums to transfer short bursts of cyphertext. Where are the encrypted Twitter broadcasts??)
The UK govt has a strong track record of ignoring scientifically literate advice on drug risks
"while on a trip" - Uber PR.

Not per hour worked. Not when going to a pickup. Not when waiting for a ride. Only "while on a trip". That alone probably means about 1/3 off. Which puts them below SF's $15/hour minimum wage.

Then, Uber counts the entire amount paid to the driver as "wage", not including their renting the driver's car. That takes off a substantial amount.[1]

And if drivers were employees, Uber would have to buy the bottled water.

[1] https://www.ridester.com/uber-lyft-driver-costs-and-expenses...
Is the booze industry doing that? Or do people do that as a form of rationalization to convince themselves that they aren't regular drug users?
I personally think it's the latter.

There are estimates that 60-90% of schizophrenics smoke cigarettes, which is 2-3x the normal smoking rate. I think schizophrenics are more likely to smoke marijuana around the time the disease begins to manifest. It's a lot easier to look at your child/brother/uncle/whatever and say "weed did this to him, it's all weed's fault" vs "the disease presented concurrent with a time period where person used cannabis".

I'm not even slightly convinced that weed induced schizophrenia is real.
Replacing it is about 8 months away, so I haven’t done much research yet. There’s no shortage of options, though.
7z is a generic lossless compressor. These algorithms tend to specialize in exact repeating patterns in sequences. Good for english prose, but images tend to have non-exact patterns in two dimension. A dedicated algorithm like FLIF will be much better at picking those up. I would expect an order of magnitude difference in performance between 7z and FLIF.

For the curious: the way these non-exact pattern compressors work is by subtracting out the predicted pattern and then storing the remaining signal, which will be smaller numbers and therefore take less bits to store.
> That really depends on where you are. It’s all relative.

No, it's not. As anyone who's paid attention in their driver education can recall, safe operation of an automobile requires at minimum a 2-second gap between you and the vehicle in front of you. (3 seconds in rain, or at night, 4 seconds in rain and night).

At city speeds, that is a 20-40 meter buffer between you and the vehicle in front. At highway speeds, it is a 60-120 meter buffer.

We're talking about a hundred yards of pavement, per vehicle on that pavement. If that vehicle carries only a single driver, this is an incredibly wasteful and expensive use of our roadways.

This is also why the HOV/dedicated bus lane of a 4-lane freeway tends to have a higher throughput then the other 3 lanes, combined.
What do you suggest instead?

Is there a nice how-to for setting up emacs with evil mode and a reasonable set of defaults that don’t require endless tweaking?