skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People on the Internet are extremely pro-drug

I think that's a reductive reading - the war on drugs and in particular as it relates to marijuana has been under a lot of scrutiny. And public acceptance of marijuana is steadily growing.

This more suggests to me that a critical analysis of the criminalization of marijuana has tended toward a verdict of "folly" (in the best case scenario) or "targeted mode of oppression" (in the worst).

Reading that as implicitly pro-drug is simplistic in my view.
I didn't see it, but "who is the third party vendor?" is my key question, since this could be impacting anyone working with that vendor.
You have quite a bit of fortitude! If I got an email similar to what you recieved, that meeting with the VP of Devices would have been skipped.

Building skills working with WiFi drivers is also pretty tough, I know one Seattlite who has spent nearly a year to just really get to grasp Linux's wifi drivers and start to alter and fix them.

Part of how you were treated likely comes down to the "intern" effect, no one (besides your boss) wants to put effort into building a relationship or mentoring an intern, thus all the positive reviews up until right before you depart.
This is the commit containing the code that Elastic says was copied by Search Guard:

https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-enterprise-modu...

In particular, the change to getLiveDocs(): https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-enterprise-modu...

and numDocs():
https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-enterprise-modu...

EDIT:

At least in the case of numDocs(), both Elastic and Search Guard's implementations seem to be based on this bit of Apache-licensed code from Lucene (or perhaps this is just a common pattern for counting live documents?):

https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/branch_6_3/lucene...
This isn’t a matter of whether you think you’re paying attention.

It’s whether you actually are - and that’s very different from what you perceive. For example i would be curious to see how eye movement of regular autopilot users differs when they are using autopilot vs when they aren’t.

Based on all prior studies of attentiveness I suspect you’d find dramatic reduction in active scanning, etc.

Part of the reason for the many curves in I280 in the sf peninsula was apparently to ensure drivers had to actually do something while driving. I’m tempted to investigate whether that’s a myth or fact, but the nature of the internet means I’ll probably just find that i280 gave me cancer :)
To your third point, I think we're comparing apples and oranges. Apple grants an OSX license to each macbook purchaser.

The equivalent example would be Microsoft releasing WinX which is just a straight line-for-line rip-off of OSX and Apple not doing anything about it. Then when someone else starts distributing OSX and gets sued they'd say "Apple already let Microsoft devalue OSX by distributing it". The distribution might have to stop, but Apple's lawyers are going to be fighting an uphill battle for significant damages. The same would be true here for Elastic if they didn't pursue this lawsuit.
> The burden of proof should be on the side trying to restrict the rights (the judge)

That statement seems to beg the question, in this case.
Until the big changes land, you can have Firefox opt out of window scaling.

Get info on the Firefox app and then check ”Open in Low Resolution” on the get info panel, then restart the app.

You can pick up more energy savings by telling Firefox to stop using transparency.

Go to about:config, and set gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque to true.
... but the driver was the car...
Makes sense... I used to smoke pot with Johnny Hopkins in high school
I'm pretty sure that's they're main advantage over other toy block companies now that their patent has expired. (It might have more info in the article but I don't know because the paywall.)
As a resident of a state deemed "flyover country" let me just key all you California residents in on something you may not know: if you get rid of the electoral college you also get rid of the consent of the Midwest to be in the union. We refuse to be dictated policy by a bunch of coastal high population states that can't even keep human feces off their major cities streets.

Getting rid of the electoral college is a good way to start a civil war.
Does GDPR only apply to individuals, or can I find out all of the information that is being held by Google (or anyone else) on my EU-based business?
This is a good idea. However what about phantom businesses which commit the crime and would not have real revenue.

My problem is with fines that they don't really force the PEOPLE in the businesses to play fair.

What about required & [RESPONSIBLE] roles and jail?

I am asking that in general because I am fed up with our business-entities made world where committing a crime is basically RECOMMENDED if the numbers and percentages say so.
You don't really seem to have anything of substance to say so I'll just wish you a good day.
No action creator is a serious refactor concern.

Let's say you need to update your function signature with an additional, optional parameter with a default value. You can go to the definition of the action creator and change it. Since you've defined an interface for the action object, finding reducers that use it will be reliable and easy.

If such a creator doesn't exist, you must grep your codebase for every instance of the object and ensure they deal with the optional bit. Murphy's Law guarantees that someone will have decided to procedurally generate the object making finding every instance very hard. Next, you have that reducer lookup, but you don't have a shared interface, so you're stuck in grep land once again to find all the reducers.

Finally, copy-pasting an object literal all over generally results in a larger bundle than reusing an action creator which is smaller and also minifies better.
Curious to hear from CircleCI how their FedRAMP authorization played into what was (or wasn’t) compromised and if it improved their response.

https://circleci.com/blog/modernizing-federal-devops-circlec...
Autopilot. By design it encourages drivers to stop paying any attention - the fact that it has a “signal the driver” to try and maintain driver focus indicates that the core design produces this behavior.

If the core design produces the same behavior, in a large enough portion of the user base to require such a feature, that’s a fairly good indication that the core design is causing a problem.
That's pretty much a false dichotomy: a site must either support itself via ads, or cease to exist.

There are other ways to get money to support your work, and if those ways are too painful right now, that's just an opportunity for disruption. Even better, it's an opportunity to prove that disruption doesn't have to be exploitative.
Lego is also widely (and IMHO not incorrectly) viewed as "educational" in a way that virtually all the branded crap sold by Mattel & co is not. And who buys most toys? Parents, not kids themselves.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20882567, which was posted earlier.
I don't know what it's like to work at Microsoft, and it's true that everything with internships is necessarily on an accelerated time scale, but it's not good that the lack of an offer was a surprise for her.

She's right though, it will be ok. She went to Cornell and seems to cultivate some kind of online presence around being a coder, plus she's approaching all this with a great attitude, externally at least. I'm sure she'll land on her feet.
Join a co-working space / incubator / accelerator.

I've joined a co-working space and later on an incubator and it definitely helps
Audiences vary, and many listeners of audiobooks are visually disabled who may also have hearing problems. Pitching the default to these seems a fair deal, particularly as speeding up is so straightforward.
> The original intention is irrelevant for today.

This simply is untrue unless you operate in temporal vacuums. The intention has affected and currently affects public perception and legislation even today. What you suggest is similar to people who argue that there was a clean slate after abolition or even the civil Rights acts.
I'm not a fan of seeing web assembly spread outside the browser. If you want to sandbox binary code, there are many much more efficient options, eg. Linux containers (especially with tools like gvisor) or VMs. Vendors that only allow use of WebAssembly are leaving performance and compatibility on the table.
The manager's letter to the intern sounds a bit blunt for my liking. It is difficult to evaluate an intern's work when they are a member of a team with ongoing requirements.

Whether the intern in question produces good work or not, I would simply prefer to say that "we do not have the ability to extend an offer at this time for this role, and we thank you for your efforts this summer"

as opposed to "the work delivered did not meet expectations, and for that reason we are not extending an offer. this isn't the result we wanted."
> At least the "techy" parts don't have assigned desks.

Can’t tell if you think that’s a good thing or you’re being sarcastic?
Another option is to join YC Startup School, there's a big community of solo founders : https://www.startupschool.org/
Not OP, but I am currently on Reaper's Gale.

Malazan quickly became my favourite book series (and I am not even a fan of fantasy). It was hard initially. But it gets better.

However, I think that re-read is a must if you want to fully grasp the whole thing.
How is this related to the problem in the article? They insertes successfully some gene, but they also inserted more genes by mistake. The additional genes are the problem, not something unrelated like the "structural topology".
But don't worry, we got those opiates, A++.
It sounds like very bad management,

> “That meeting allowed me to see what he thought of my work during the internship and how he interpreted it all. There were discrepancies between what I thought and what he thought, which sometimes was frustrating, but it showed me how valuable effective communication can be.”

This type of expectation discrepancy should have been surfaced sooner and in smaller, iterative and isolated pieces that could allow the intern to take action to rectify it while any given item was still small.

It’s the manager’s job to prevent it from adding up to a big surprise that it wasn’t considered good enough. But the intern is being made to pay for it.
Would you seriously argue that "works most of the time" does not describe C? Or are you just saying that accepting it for another language is not okay, and anything new allowed into the kernel needs to be perfect instead of just better than C?
> NIT has a major flaw which is a disincentive to work.

NIT in general does not, other than the extent to which progressive income tax provides a progressive reduction in incentive for additional work. The particular NIT-inspired policy in the US (EITC) has a weak form of it because of the phaseout, but not as strong as other means-tested welfare programs.

> So UBI is basically just NIT without the flaw.

A tax-funded UBI is equivalent to an NIT.
If you want a collection you can count on, you have to pirate it [1], unless it is somehow sold DRM-free.

[1] https://xkcd.com/488/
For what it’s worth, return offers are not everything! In an ironic twist of fate, the company I interned at didn’t give me a return offer, but I ended up landing a much better job at a much better company.

So don’t let it get you down. Think of it as an opportunity to explore more opportunities.
FYI, Danny Hillis is a pioneer of large scale parallel computing ("Connection Machine", he hired Richard Feynman to help him with that project), the author of the book that got me interested in computers ("The Pattern on the Stone"), and a researcher in evolutionary programming ("Co-evolving parasites improve simulated evolution as an optimization procedure")
Have you even heard about the Beer Hall Putsch?

It was pretty clear from that incident that Hitler was campaigning for violence long before the first election the Nazis ran in.
> it's obvious to anyone used to thinking in terms of systems that index funds can't work after a certain amount of the money poured into the system is managed by index funds

How so? I can certainly see "lost opportunities" where good stocks are undervalued just because they aren't in the index funds, but I don't understand why you think index funds can't work. Can you elaborate?
That's an interesting point; it would seem like the stocks Michael Burry, the Big Short investor, likes would be in the same boat.

Or maybe he's counting on their low volume? :-)
The initial reaction is to TL;DR as weak passwords and no MFA but I am equally/more concerned that the policy granted to vendors allows them to access more data than they really need, or the data they must have access could be better de-identified. For example they could hash/uuid the email and the git repo and branch info.
Hacks are going to happen; no password or MFA will prevent it. Zero trust in your policy/schema design minimizes blast radius in these inevitable cases.
I think the commenter above was trying to say that the "you have to enforce it every time or future cases are weaker" applies to protecting trademark rights and not copyrights. (They weren't saying this is a trademark case, they were saying that because this isn't a trademark case,
trademark rules don't apply.)

The "you have to enforce it" thing is about genericized trademarks: I can sell a painkiller under the name "aspirin" because everyone forgot it's a trademark and so there's no argument that there's an intent to cause market confusion with Bayer. But the copious pirated copies of Windows don't let me sell it without licensing it from Microsoft.
Great article and history.

Here's a short on JB in Chicago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcNWS8dsxIg
Seems reasonable, from what is known about the capacity of speech, although extra cool if there is really some universal number we converge on. Kuyk and Kleijn found the upper bound of the speech channel to be 100 bits per second, in agreement with the lexical rate of about half that in "ON THE INFORMATION RATE OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION" (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7953233) using an interesting method based on mutual information.

Some highlights from the introduction that are relevant:

Broadly speaking, two approaches to measuring the information rate of speech exist: the linguistic approach, and the acoustic approach. The linguistic approach describes speech as a sequence of discrete perceptual units such as phonemes, words, or sentences.
Taking the average talking speed as 12 phonemes per second [3], and using the English phoneme probabilities tabulated in [4], the lexical information rate is approximately 50 b/s. When the dependencies of the phonemes are accounted for the rate will be decreased further. The lexical information rate does not include information about
talker identification, emotional state, and prosody. However, these variables vary relatively slowly in time and contribute little to the overall information rate. As an example, [5] estimated that the total amount of talker-specific information (e.g., age, accent, sex) was of the order of 30 bits
Women sue Lyft for allegedly mishandling sexual assault and rape reports
How this is more true of Rust than modern C++?
Carve your own path! Get some users, and then once the timing is right ask them if it makes sense to have a phone call about the higher tiers of features available.

It's a very different process compared to Enterprise Sales which has a lot of weird social patterns to navigate, in addition to dealing with competitors terms/pricing.
It sounds like she was surprised by not getting an offer. That's not OK and the responsibility clearly lies with her manager for the failure to communicate this earlier in her internship.

From reading her blog, it seems like she's taking this in stride, and I hope she takes what was good from her experience at Microsoft and finds a way to apply it to her next adventure.
You’re trading one issue for another. By holding x% of a small cap fund, where x does not equal the actual market proportion for small cap funds, you’re choosing to over or under weight that asset class.
Show HN: New Parapet RC has been released
Parapet RC2 has been released. I'd like to thank everyone for supporting the project on Github. It's wonderful that you found the time to do that. It motivates me to go further. I'll do my best to keep the project growing.
You can get familiar with a new set of features by following this link: https://github.com/parapet-io/parapet/releases/tag/0.0.1-RC2
Assume for a moment that vaccines could actually cause autism at a small rate.

Your argument applies there. "Yes your son became autistic, but someone else's son somewhere else didn't get measles and die."

I understand there are human emotions involved, but my opinion is that significantly reducing death count is still a better outcome. If we can't accept that noticeably better systems will still have faults, and that those faults will result in a different, but smaller number of deaths, then we're content asking for more deaths than necessary.
There is no privacy benefit to v3, since it still allows dynamic notification of requests made by the page, it only removes the ability for addons to inject their own responses.

It's almost like someone sat down and asked "How can we get rid of ad blockers, without impacting spyware?".
> Whether the intern in question produces good work or not, I would simply prefer to say that "we do not have the ability to extend an offer at this time for this role, and we thank you for your efforts this summer"

This would be incredibly infuriating and is absolutely the most frustrating part of the interview and internship experience today.

I know you think you are lessening the blow but this kind of response is vague and doesn’t help anyone. What matters most after a rejection is understanding where you fell short. You will never improve if you do not know where you went wrong; as such, a response like that doesn’t help the career of the intern and doesn’t do justice to the effort the intern put in over the past N months, or the effort the interviewer put in to prepare for the interview.

Even the letter she got was vague. An acceptable response would list specific points of potential improvement and offer to hold a meeting to elaborate on them.
The article says that each entry has an ID associated with a Facebook account. What leads you to think that there are entries in this dataset for non-users?
That sounds great.

I went to a wedding recently and it made me think about my marriage and the thought that occurred to me was how insanely dependent I've become to my wife. It's like I've cut off a leg, given it to someone and said "Yeah, you use that and just give me a hand whenever I need to hop around."

Honestly that's not the weird part for me though. The weird part is that this woman I depend on so much surprises me so much. I've known her for 20 years. Almost every night I got to sleep knowing I can just reach over and she'll be there. And still she'll say something and I'll think - How can she believe that? Or she'll do something and I'll wish I was that kind. Or be happy I'm not so stubborn. :-)
I had a first time similar related experience with a startup in Tokyo. The company was focused on IoT related projects and started by purely business oriented individuals with not much tech experience. Their strategy was to hire as many "foreign" engineers to focus on the development while they push out for investment and business opportunities. Unfortunately, there was an internal clash between the engineers and the business side over code quality vs just pushing some buggy IoT related application into production which led to over half the engineering team quit in under 6 months I being one of them. Somehow though they are still afloat a year after using the barely working buggy app that we finished before we left.
As a parent whos been buying various blocks over the last decade I think the main advantage lego has is the level of quality.

When the characters we wanted were with other companies I would maybe buy a few but they never stuck together quite right, or would break too easily. So I wouldnt buy more, or if i did it was just the character and not the set.
As a slow walker I respectfully disagree on the energy to slow down vs speed up! Concentration may be equal however. I get absolutely exhausted keeping up with you fast walkers. :)
Meh... 50 years ago psychedelics were overplayed and used in inappropriate settings. Not surprising the backlash.

It looks like this time around the experiments are much more controlled and looking to get hard data rather than just "turn on, tune in, drop out".
Yeah but starvation probably isn’t a big concern for your average American lost in the woods. You can live weeks or months on your existing stores of food. Waters your top priority in a survival situation. IMO don’t eat anything you’re not 100% sure you can eat unless you’re in really dire straits.
Most of the good ideas are either massively competitive (aerial inspection/ag support/photography), a pain in the ass due to safety regulatory issues (drone delivery, passenger flight), or just bad ideas overall (consumer camera that flies around and tries to follow you).

There are occasionally bursts of genius in the field though. A few years ago I met a guy (Sergei at Fotokite, I believe), who was developing a tethered drone for photojournalism. Solves many problems at once: you don't run out of battery, you could control the drone via a stick or just pulling it around by the tether, people don't hate the drones as much when they can see the operator. He demonstrated it by deploying it in the reception area of an office building, probably 15x15ft. Now apparently they're developing a tethered drone for first responders that automatically deploys and gives you a 150' vantage point for situational awareness.

BTW: No relation to Sergei or Fotokite, just impressed with their tech.
I personally loved the office I worked in with no assigned desks. We didn't even do work on personal computers. (We had pair programming stations)

To each their own of course. Not everyone has to like working at every company. I've never been unhappier than when I was in my own personal office.
Back in the day, the Yippies nominated a pig (Pigasus) for President.
Raw biomass != fuel equivalent. There's collection and unification costs as well, and conversion to something suitable for fuels. Aircraft run poorly on cotton fibres.

In 1900, the US ran a largely biofuel-powered transportation network, especially for local "last-mile" deliveries, utilising horses, which can eat minimally processed feeds. About a quarter of all grain production went to horse feed, and in fact a segment of opposition to adoption of automobiles were farmers who feared grain demand would fall.

Henry Ford looked at an agriculturally-based fuel supply, based on methanol. That might have worked at the time, for a population of roughly 100 million, and widely scattered automobile ownership. It simply doesn't scale now.

The Boeing study claimed to be among the biggest breakthroughs in aviation biofuel in years, but fails to pencil out. I ran numbers on numerous other biofuel crops. None, save algael biofuels (which present phenomenal practical issues) pass the basic quantity checks, even for just aviation fuel.

Your supplemental hydrogen has to come from somewhere, that's not free.

Producing kerosene-equivalent fuels isn't all that much of a problem chemically, the processes are understood. It's scaling the processes.