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Yes, it is such a great motivator people will literally kill, die, and destroy the planet for it.
Could be automated by using a captcha service, I think just a few pennies per thousand of verifications.
Yes the comment I responded to said that, but after the word "also," implying it wasn't the only or even main reason.
I feel stupid asking this, but what is the point of this exercise?

Seriously - I don't understand what I have achieved by choosing a word and being designated a tribe - beyond the literal interpretation of that.

No snark intended, I've returned to the site but there's no about page.

I've chosen a word as per the site name.

Mission accomplished?
Tl;dr: About 80% of heroin users started on prescription opioids. This sounds bad, but actually the conversion rate from opioid on-label use to abuse is pretty low and the conversion from pill abuse to heroin is even lower.

* Rate of conversion from on-label opioid prescription to addiction ("opioid use disorder") is lowish; this metastudy[1] claims 8-12% on average, but the 95% CI is anywhere from 3-17% and I'm not sure what they're measuring the percentage of (i.e., long-term prescriptions might both be more represented in the data and have higher conversion rates) — I doubt 8-12% of people who get 3 days of vicodin for their wisdom teeth extraction develop an opiate use disorder. They also point out that some studies showed misuse rates below 1% and "significant variability remains in this literature." We should expect these rates to fall as tighter prescription quantities from the last several years impact "leftover" pill rates.

* The rate of conversion from prescription opioid addiction to heroin is low; 4-6% per the government.[2]

* Overall opioid-involved overdose annual deaths in the US rose from 8000 in 1999 to 47600 in 2017; of those, the prescription-involved number rose by 13600 deaths (+300%), from 3400. Conversely, the non-prescription-involved deaths rose from by 26000 deaths (+465%), from 4600.[3](Figs 3-4) 26000/39600 = ~66%. (The population has also grown about 17% over that period, but that doesn't change the calculus too much.)

* Therefore: the overall growth pattern in opioid deaths in the last two decades is largely accounted for by heroin and other non-Rx use, which are a tiny population with a very high (and rising) death rate. The rising death rate is mostly due to the surge in black market sale of fentanyl as "heroin."[3] (esp. figures 4-5 and associated text) (Perhaps as a result of DEA and other restriction on the supply of the relatively safer, but less dense, heroin, and restriction on supply of the vastly safer prescription opioids.)

* Notably, the number of non-fentanyl-involved prescription opioid-involved deaths has actually been in decline since 2011![3] (fig. 4.), despite a rising population. Let me echo that since it's really important: prescription opioid-involved overdose, ex fentanyl, both in number and per capita rate, HAS BEEN IN DECLINE SINCE 2011! Why doesn't any news story on opioids in the US headline with that? The primary reason the overall prescription opiate-involved death rate hasn't tracked that decline is rising co-(ab)use with illicit fentanyl, and its relatively higher death rate.

If we could wave a magic wand and wipe (illicit) fentanyl off the earth, our annual opioid death rate would fall by something like half.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25785523

[2]: https://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/opioids/opioid-overdos...

[3]: https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...
Wonderful write-up.

> Aside: Sublime Text was an unauthorized (and for at least the first few years half-baked) rip-off

This puzzles me though. What "authorization" should Sublime's author have sought?

I don't know why application XYZ would/should need permission/blessing to be compatible with application ABC's plugins.

To me it's just a completely sensible decision; why would the author(s) of application XYZ want to force users to reinvent the while to write a plugin to do Ruby or Javascript or HTML or whatever highlighting, when this work has already been done so many times over?

> In the early days many of them came to complain at us about TextMate bundle items which didn’t work in Sublime.

Well this was certainly exasperating I'm sure. Sorry you had to deal with that.

> In my opinion the Sublime author profoundly missed the point of what TextMate was about and why it was special

Sublime's author has never really engaged the community much like Textmate's author, which is a shame. Though I would have to point out that a small team (both were single-man teams for most of their lives) can only accomplish so much, and I would say that ST's development has greatly outpaced TextMate's. Also I think ST has somebody working full-time on package management stuff now, not sure.
Unless there is something unique about you I don't see the point and it's a lot of work. The other way to approach this would be to craft the persona you want to show. Strategically, use information you would like to be public to build a profile that you'd like others to see, do other stuff in protected ways so they don't affect your public persona. Be the Grey Man [1].

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/02/01/dont-be-the-gray-man/
That makes sense (although the microphone is only a simple target if you ignore the unknown unknown of deconstructing the sound :P). I'm very much looking forward to your progress!
I broke my leg a few weeks ago, tibial plateau fracture due to skateboarding if you want the details, but I have been laid up. I also have fairly major research projects underway (yes, you can skateboard and lead multi-million-dollar research projects).

I have found that when I first sit down, I dread starting the work. Whether I'm working through an algorithm, a project proposal, a hiring process, reading a paper reviewing a grant application, whatever. But I just sit there, because my knee has made all other options even worse. Give it about 30 seconds, maybe a couple minutes, and I've gotten over the dread and just start doing. That's the only thing left to do.

This is the same experience I had as a child, on that long road trip, in the back seat, that far back, rear-facing seat in the Buick station wagon, with the red vinyl seats. On I70, on the way from Omaha to Denver. You're just stuck there. You have to do so something. You start staring out the window, imagining what must be happening in the corn fields, the streams that must be in the veins of trees that occasionally interrupt the fields. The fish in the stream. The dirt at the bottom of the stream. How come that dirt hasn't all been washed away? How does that work? what's this little bit of dirt right here on the floor? It looks like the dirt in my shoe. I wonder if I play with this dirt maybe I'll understand dirt.

Dirt. Miles of dirt out here. How much of life is dirt? Ow. There's a rock in this dirt. Is the rock part of the dirt? How much of dirt is just rocks? How small is a rock before it's dirt? What else is in dirt?

Dirt.

Nothing, not even boredom, can suppress the mind. Not as long as there is dirt.
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Are you of the opinion that opioids have no legitimate medical use? How else could suing generic manufacturers be justified? The issue with Purdue is that they lied about the risks of the drug. Presumably, they lied to the generic manufacturers as well.
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I use Stencil, made by the ionic team: https://stenciljs.com/

It’s also a compiler for web components like Svelte and a lot like React. You can add the ionic code web components to get animations etc. Try it out, especially if you like TypeScript.
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"One architecture". Like Linux on x86-64? That's the only one that matters for 99% of us.
Because a preponderance of actual evidence supports the former.
I see Americans are now exporting Hustler Porn to Asia.
It also costs $30 a month if you want to use it with more than 2 apps. And I think Cloudron is an excellent project and I would be happy to pay, but paying 3x or 6x the cost of my VPS for an easier way to run apps is just too rich for my blood.
Sure, whatever lie makes you sleep better at night. I am not taking that from you.

However, if we were to be honest, that would be something pretty naive to trust, given first the current president political history and second his current actions, portraiting a figure that has not only no interest in the well being of the country, being that in international politics or in internal affairs, but also no interest in continuing the aforementioned investigations.

A quick look in the current unfolding events from the past months can show that.
X people who've favoured a particular word out of n words in the first list.

So n (possibly) different base perspectives. And are the secondary word lists the same in each case?

I agree with the parent comment - the values will bias the decision on next word, but then I don't understand the point of the exercise yet.
I mean, isn’t array vs linked list similar? In theory linked list has a lot of good applications, but in real life it doesn’t.
> that recommendation in the first place was an act of bad faith.

This seems a bit of a stretch to me.

The doctors prescribed it, even given readily available research, the FDA approved it, knowing full well this was a risk. Those are the guilty parties here. Purdue filled their role just fine, they just happened to be making an opiate and so they're getting chased for it now because China is dumping fentanyl. Pretty ridiculous really.
Larger scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdkWqMIqEbo
You forget inheritance tax.
I think code review embedded in git would be more likely to work than issues for this reason.
True, but I added a little more nuance here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20981382
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Neither of them.

Qt, Xamarin, PWA, C++ with native views would be my picks.
Assuming Epstein was killed, he was killed while he was in prison, both things hardly make him seem untouchable.
13 billion won't be nearly enough. The damage to people, to families, and to communities has been extensive. And it's a big problem in most counties across all 50 states.

But also the Sacklers are only like 8% of the problem. All the rest of the opioids, (92%), came from other companies. So, theoretically, if we confiscated all of the wealth of all of the owners and stockholders in all of these companies we'd get the money we need to at least ameliorate some of the carnage. Because we'd have at least 90% more than we'd have by just confiscating the Sackler wealth alone.

All that's just theory though. I don't even know if it's possible to hold ownership responsible? Because wouldn't that put people who buy stock in whatever company at risk if the company was doing something sufficiently untoward?
Not sure I get it..?
> nvim_open_win: create floating windows (and external, for supporting UIs)

I've been running 0.4.0 since it came out for this feature.

Also I recommend you check out coc.vim for the best completer. It uses the same language server protocol that VS Code uses (and many of the plugins for coc.vim are forked fr VS Code plugins)
Ah, the NYT. Totally just a newspaper /s

https://i.imgur.com/VUdcIou.jpg

https://gawker.com/here-are-some-top-n-y-times-editors-and-s...
I'm working remotely for a telecom, which has a strong remote-worker culture. Some people do go into the office periodically, often in a "hotel" arrangement where your desk is for the day, but I don't. There is an office near-enough that I could, but nobody on my team or related would be there.

I had three interviews, four if you include the chat with the in-house recruiter I started with. The first of the three formal interviews was the hiring manager, by phone.
Second was in-person, with a future (possible) colleague. The third was with the manager's own boss, Director in this case, again by phone.

It all went well enough apparently, though have met many of my colleagues in person since then. As a rule though, I'm remote by default. It's all online chat, conference calls, screen shares and so on.
They’ve had multiple large DNS outages during the past couple of years.

Stable is relative, of course, it’s still going to be online more than 99.9% of the time, but compared to e.g. .com or the myriad of other ccTLDs they’ve been fairly unstable.

We ended up switching domain for our service, because they (.io) caused our only two outages during a one-year period.
No it wasn’t. I wasn’t working when I was in Munich and not using my Amex.
Actually, this makes me think we should be going after doctors too.
A relevant book: Silent Invasion: China's Influence in Australia

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36586726-silent-invasion
If you are really paranoid, then why not use their Tor VPN?
There’s a pretty big jump in brain development between 7 and 17 wtf is this comment thread.

I expect higher quality, fact based commentary from hn.

This whole thread read like something off a trash subreddit.
> Jerkish wasps are always trying to get into my beer, especially in the UK - they are really aggressive there.

Inquisitive is probably a better qualifier than aggressive. In my experience european wasps have low aggression: they're not going to sting you out of nowhere, but they tend to buzz and stay around and investigate pretty much anything that looks edible (foods, drinks, people, …), leading to people trying to swat them, and that's when things get iffier.

Even european hornets are not really aggressive, but they're big enough to trigger a more primal terror even in people who are generally fine with insects.
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Plenty of people already descontructed that post.

From the "lack of open source" C++ libraries or how hard it is to find C++ devs (assuming one actually wants to properly pay them).
Very interesting. I always disliked that internet meme that Wasps are useless and made to annoy humans, as if anything that doesn't look pleasing to us or is a bit dangerous has no place in nature. It should be obvious that Wasps have a purpose in our ecosystems, as do most things, of course.
As for 2, Focos app has recently added the fake depth blur, and it is both absolutely impressive (oh my! It gets most of the image so right) and discernible (we are so sensitive about the visual that one wrongly estimated region - often a 'hole' like the ground between the legs - is enough to ruin the magic).

http://focos.me/
Lmao the local councils have been left to run their own web services and they are painfully backwards and outdated, payment portals for council tax from the early 2000’s, sites that are not responsive by default, dead/missing links.

From what I have seen they are left to do their own thing a little too much.
Quite the contrary, what I have seen around here is that what would have been a Cordova/Ionic project, nowadays is usually done as PWA.
Indeed, this is why for C++ people are generally told to use std::vector (i.e. arrays) when some other data structure may in theory be more appropriate.
I think you underestimate the size of the problem.

But again, the Sackler's are only 8% of the problem. So if you go after them, and the owners and stockholders of the companies that provided the other 92% of opioids, and the doctors who wrote the prescriptions in bad faith, you probably come up with an amount of money that could make a dent.
Don't you find it just a little odd that you are so sure of something you can't source?
The Houthis managed to retrofit an air-to-air missile into a truck-launched surface-to-air missile in order to damage an F-15. [1] Their ability to hack hardware might surprise you. I honestly dunno how they are pulling it off either.

[1]https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/now-we-know-how-houth...
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Are there any screenshots? What exactly is a "floating window"?
"The idea that rainbows are a computer?

The molecules have chemical reactions which function as flux capacitors yes?

Are you confused by how the astral planes vibrate? None of this is controversial."

Maybe that was a cheap rhetorical tactic but just squashing together words next to assertions does not constitute an argument.

This sounds more like something I'd expect to hear from some college freshman who's strung out on too many psychedelics.

I'm not even saying whatever your saying is wrong, I'm saying it's not coherent enough to figure out what you are saying.

X is a computer. What does that even mean? Let's Google the definition of computer:

"an electronic device for storing and processing data"

Surely astrology fits that reasonable definition.
Can coc.vim be used for vim?
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Have you tried it or do you follow the proof by assumption paradigm?
Might be worth using a more "normal" username. There's probably more information in a name like the one you've chosen since most people don't choose usernames like that. Probably an over-optimisation for the average person but it sounds like you're trying to decorrelate your accounts.
That may indicate vim users googling for how-to guides.
The resources from the lawsuits are designated to go toward preventing and treatment of opioid addiction. The purpose of the lawsuits, I think, is not to punish manufacturers but to fund needed health programs.
I used them a couple of times, for that kind of user experience I rather use a PWA.
Is it possible to not overcome boredom? Eventually you start imagining something entertaining or you fall asleep.
True. I just run into these situation too much because I functional style code where there is very little internal state and try to use pure functions as much as possible. This narrows down the code that has to be written on a more testable way.
That's not overprotective, at least in my understanding. Overprotective means that you are putting pillows around your child's body so that when she falls, she won't hurt herself, and of course you would monitor her every step along the way so you could catch her mid fall. Overprotective means you would feed her only liquid food in tiny doses so that she doesn't choke. And of course you would never ever let her go out on a date without a 24/7 gps tracker so that you know at every point in time where she is. This is what being an overprotective parent means.

First, your family is trying to help you. That kind of help in the first few months is super important because you (as parents) will get exhausted and deprived of sleep. So try to keep the good relationship within the family.

Second, if you as a parent do not agree with the suggestions on how to raise your child, simply ignore them. Make your own mistakes. It's your child, not theirs. You will likely hear a lot of "I told you so" as the years pass by, but still it's your child and you raise them however you feel is right.

Later in life it will be harder, especially when you leave your child with your relatives for longer periods of time. This is when they will do everything differently. Just have a serious but friendly talk with them explaining why you think it's wrong, why you're doing it differently, and assume they will still not listen to you and do the way they raised you. That's just the way it is :-)

In the end, it's always best to explain to your child why they shouldn't do something even if their grandparents insist on doing otherwise.

You'll get used to that
Might have to take a deeper look at it. Thanks!
I disagree wholeheartedly, this kind of sentiment is what results in sickening concepts like 'stress casualties' becoming commonplace and even an accepted norm.

The concept of a work life balance exists for a reason, because people need downtime.
Because VW is so much more powerful than Google?

Well, at least Germany can get a jump on banning automated driving development. Hopefully BMW, MB, and VW are all banned from working on it since it's still early enough to prevent bad things from happening.
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To me, wasps are strong evidence that if there is a creator God he is indifferent to cruelty. Almost all wasp species, to survive, implant their young in hosts. When the young are born they eat the host alive from the inside out. This is the natural order and the order is fucked.
I'll just leave a shameless plug for my neovim GUI project here: https://github.com/vhakulinen/gnvim. It has a WIP PR[1] for implementing multigrid support, which would allow features such as scrollbars.

There are many other GUIs too, such as oni/oni2, gonvim, neovim-gtk and neovim-qt. Extensive list can be found here: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects#gui

1: https://github.com/vhakulinen/gnvim/pull/95
The theme editor is a nice example where it makes sense.
this is so cool! ️ where can i know more about the team behind feathers and how it is run/funded? i love learning how long running OSS like this operates.
I mean isn't that in reality of actual usage defensive hacking though?

The US isn't waging aggressive offensive hacking wars against other countries beyond targeting weapons r&d. The same can't be said of Russia, China, etc.

The US does have such capabilities but has been far more restrained in the use of them than its enemies.
Floating windows:

- Are real windows showing real buffers. No shortcuts, hacks, or compromises.

- Can be (re)positioned, anchored, or "external" (if supported by the UI).

- Support all features and API of normal windows, plus more.

Screenshot showing floating window with 'winblend':

https://twitter.com/Neovim/status/1145446583573594112

Yes, that screenshot shows Nvim in a terminal. The 'winblend' feature works in all UIs, including the TUI (all terminals that support RGB colors).
Here’s an example of it used for populating some completion menus (like docs) on LSP completion in coc.vim:

https://mobile.twitter.com/neovim/status/1101893773561348096...
The ability to dazzle an attacker or prey seems useful when one is hunting the other.
Note, most were not actually prescribed those pills.
We have come to the point where 'Informed consent' has become so perverted that it should no longer hold up. Mostof the trickery companies seem to find acceptable obtaining it would be outright frauduleus and clearly a scam in other contexts.