skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pizza quality varies wildly in America. There are a lot of places where the only "fresh pizza" you will find is something from one of the big chains. And there are a lot of places that serve pizza that just serve terrible quick food in general, so not surprising the pizza will be bad too.

Having said that, there is a lot of good Pizza in the US, especially in areas with heavy Italian immigrations like the north east. Obviously its a different style than most Italian Pizza, but its still really good.

I have only been to Italy once for three weeks to visit my cousins, but I read a lot about pizza. From what I have read/watched from Italian sources, even Pizza in Italy was in somewhat of a rut ~20+ years ago.
I don’t disagree the state has an interest in the health and well being of its citizens. I think it should promote that health and well being with education, access to healthcare, and other forms of social support. I’d also be okay with limiting the advertising rights for drugs.

I do not think prohibition improves the well being of citizens. Heroin is easily available in virtually all major US cities.
Mushrooms > LSD
I've heard similar regarding how they do things in the US, though your expression is more extreme. If true that has to be the most inefficient and corrosive way of improving anything.
>Yes. Traffic lights on a highway, in the middle of a city. As if the highway in the middle of a city wasn't annoyinh enough the traffic lights added some extra noise, fumes and pollution.

This is an all too common sight in small town America, unfortunately.

Highways running directly through small towns seems almost the rule, not the exception.
Most addictions are a social and healthcare problem. Criminalization is the problem because it makes on so many levels so hard for the people suffering from addiction to get proper healthcare.

I mean look at the opioid crisis. There is no insurance policy for addiction, plus, you are labeled as a dedbeat by the society. And only because doctor prescribed you something they should not have.

Without criminalization of addiction the opioid crisis would have been much easier to deal with.

You can use that as a template for other things as well.

Besides, I would much prefer people got addicted to mushrooms and cannabis rather than alcohol. The damage alcohol does to an addict is total and eventually lethal and irreversible.
> https://github.com/kstenerud/bit-tricks/blob/master/bytes_re...

looks like over-engineering of (bits + 7) >> 3
Did you actually _look_ at the repo? The author does not claim that this is the only way of doing it; and in fact, they seem to be quite aware of the existence of other schedulers. This is just a very simple one that does not require a lot of overhead and installation time.

In fact, I would go as far as to say that this scheduler is written in the spirit of Unix: make a task easy and provide a simple, chainable interface.
I believe Win10 recently added (or is adding) something equivalent to directory-level permissions, so that you can mark applications unable to touch certain directories (like My Documents) unless they've been whitelisted.
How would you have done this more efficiently?
Diantre quelle vélocité !
i have a personal kanban type page in ms onenote. one section is Waiting For... where I add things I'm waiting for like responses to questions I've emailed out. I can scan that in the morning to see who hasn't responded to what questions and send out follow ups or schedule calls, etc
Is there evidence to prove that illegal cocaine/meth/heroin being available for citizens would be good for society?

I fact I am pretty sure that since the alcohol prohibition era there's evidence that turning markets with a lot of demand into illegal markets is worse for society .
I have a feeling there is certain minority in any population that is quiet happy to live off the weaknesses of the rest. Whatever those weaknesses maybe. And they usually just migrate to the next weakness exploiting enterprise once one is shutdown. Just a feeling...maybe totally wrong.
The Girl Scouts sell cookies at the front door of grocery stores with an entire aisle dedicated to cookies. The stores give them permission to do so knowing the goodwill outweighs any loss in Oreo sales.

Google could make the same choice but doesn't for some reason.
Ask HN: How do I start a mens social group?
I just finished listening to NPRs Hidden Brain episode on male loneliness[1] and I want to do something about it, both for myself and for other men in my area. I think starting a mens social group in my area is a good place to start.

How do I start this group? How do I find men to join? What sort of things should the group do?

1: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/11/769538697/guys-we-have-a-problem-how-american-masculinity-creates-lonely-men
The only constant is change. Any attempt to cling to things as they are and hope nothing will ever die or decay will lead only to suffering.
You’re right, thanks for pointing that out
I’d like to second this comment. The only reason you can fly economy for so cheap is because first class is so expensive.
Didn't know we criminalized cash.
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Rayiner, are there costs due to regulations and bureaucracy? How much do other projects of this size cost in regions of the US that are less “regulation heavy” such as the South? Basically not the West Cost or North East.
Limiting the impact of unreliable randomness in deployed security protocols
I agree with your general point, but it's worth mentioning 2 points on the Empire State Building example:
1) Depending on where you draw the line for starting the ESB, it was 16 months.
2) Look at building sites in NYC today (which can still build skyscrapers effectively), and compare them with pictures from the 30s. MUCH better health and safety, both for workers and nearby pedestrians. At least 5, and as many as 14, people died during construction.

Some of the reasons things take longer today are actually good!
There is a difference between decriminalization vs making something readily available. They are not the same thing.

Look at Portugal. They treated drugs as a social issue and are making great progress.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...

https://time.com/longform/portugal-drug-use-decriminalizatio...
It strikes me that the example is a bit contrived: why is howmany decremented unconditionally? The first loop populates out with howmany numbers. The second loop may set none (other than the ignored value that you point out). I suppose you can use the same trick:

howmany -= (val bitand 1);

But that might complicate the benchmark.

Coincidentally, this was the subject of the first Stack Overflow question Bjarne addressed in an interview the other day:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processi...
> Except the "smiley face in the top-right to Send Feedback" can't be found anywhere on the page.

Because it's the smiley face in Edge, not in the page.
Fireworks are nice if you are watching an organised display. Fireworks are not nice when your flatmate, tripping on mushrooms, is setting them off anywhere near you.
I can't find it, but xkcd also had a take on it.

https://xkcd.com/167/
Its already readily available. The only difference is that a lot of people die to make it available. People who want to get high will find a way, be it by purchasing illegal drugs, huffing glue, or drinking legal alcohol.

Now imagine if we took all the money we dump into stopping people from getting high, and put it into helping people with addiction issues. Not saying it would work, but it seems like a good thing to try given that the current approach is a failure
Try it. If it doesn't work, try something else until you find something that does.

I don't care for memes, but I also don't use Twitter.

Your homepage makes me want to use the app. I've been in a few retros that felt like we struggled to track complaints or reach action items. This seems useful for fixing that.

I'd suggest promoting on Reddit r/agile and similar.
How do you guys think this relates to Cognitive Therapy? What I mean is:

My father was a therapist and a big advocate of the idea that people can be happy regardless of their circumstances and that emotion comes primarily from what someone thinks. There's a lot of truth in that, and it seems clear that Cognitive Therapy is an important treatment for depression.

However, he sometimes seemed to de-emphasize the importance of circumstances. For example, he was opposed to the idea that moving to a different part of the country could make someone happier. However, doesn't that ignore that fact that different places have different rates of depression and suicide?
Never heard of this lang before. How well known the project is? I saw it has a lot of starts on GitHub, but are people out there actually using it?
Correction: the innergie does not use GaN
>>>I remember asking a vet what the communication style was in the military and he said, "Someone who outranks you tells you what to do and there is always someone who outranks you." Now, I don't know how representative that is of the military as a whole

It's very accurate. ^_^

>>>but it got me thinking: how would that vet respond if he were to tell his wife what to do and she said no?

You have to foster "buy in". That's when leadership uses charisma to convince personnel to internalize the importance of the unit's mission. The husband needs the wife's participation in executing a task, that she should take ownership of her piece of the puzzle, in order to benefit them both. As a team. Shoulder-to-shoulder against the world. Hmmmmm, actually since you brought up relationship communication, the NVC process makes me think of parallels with some PUA principles and techniques....

>>>but perhaps it would work better in the lower-stress, lower-urgency situation with a flatter organizational structure, and that it could be useful to speak the two languages, so to say.

I think I understand your insights and comments on the scenario I posted. It's possible the key factor is the flatter organizational structure in many business environments, or cultures with less-transparent power structures (many Japanese businesses have a "soft power" leadership that isn't the official manager, for example).
To paraphrase Alan Watts, don't trust anyone who isn't in on the Great Cosmic Joke :)
Not the original person but: In one company I had built a reporting system. An end user generated a report and contacted support. The report contained a column that they didn't understand the meaning of..... The column was "Date" and it was the date that had occurred. They suggested that we explained that in the generated report because it was confusing. This was a medical professional.
Better mass transit needs straight lines to run on more than density. When the bus has to go down every long cul-de-sac nobody will ride because the bus takes so long, when it doesn't few people ride because of the long walk to the bus. If developments has more long straight streets down the middle there wouldn't be a long walk to a bus that runs a reasonable route.

As you said, closer isn't a measure of only distance it is also a measure of time. If the transit system can isn't too far to walk to, runs often enough that people don't worry about when it comes, and doesn't waste time going places the rider don't want to go: people will take it. When transit is inconvenient to get to, doesn't run when/were individuals want to go, or takes too long to get there: people won't take it.

Fixing that isn't easy though. Roads/streets need to be designed for transit. Enough people need to ride that the system isn't mostly empty. It needs to go more or less direct routes to where people want to go, not take long detours to other destinations. Only the middle depends on density at all, if you fail the other two density won't give your transit systems many riders. Pass the other two and you can still get a lot of riders despite not being very dense.
Both. Give it time. See where it goes. Learn what fits you. Learning both is the same amount of work...or maybe less because knowing one means you will struggle when and where it meets the other.
It's readily available already. Anyone that wants some can get it quite easily.
Not for profit status is susceptible to abuse so I'm glad the process is strict. But you're proposing that app developers should be able to self-describe as charitable in order to dodge fees? And how well do you think that would work exactly?
>And that is totally stupid, why does every platform has to be political? Or rather, being forced by a subset of people with political agenda?

Being able to be apolitical is a luxury and a privilege. Some people are not afforded this, and have to be political to attempt to protect their way of life. That there is nothing in your life that forces you to try and affect a change means that you are lucky.

The same cries of "Subject X shouldn't be political!" have been around since the days of slavery, civil rights, and suffrage. I expect they go back even further. Transgender people are murdered at appalling rates today - should a transgender person not talk about the fact that they are in significantly more danger than a non-trans individual purely so that someone else doesn't have to read or hear about it?

When you're dealing with real human beings, that entails a lot of baggage. Asking for all of that to be dropped at the door for your benefit is unreasonable.
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I don't believe that is correct. All you need is adb and the various Android command line tools. Those are all first party. If you downloaded a third party tool to make it easier, that's fine I guess, but it's not a requirement.

Some of this I can understand. Root permissions does introduce some additional security considerations. We haven't fixed this in decades of computer usage in a way that preserves security, ease of use, and giving people easy access under the hood.

My mother would click any number of scary UAC prompts in Windows just to get to the webpage she's trying to get to. That's not Windows' fault, but it is reality.
Sounds like the author hasn’t heard of liquefaction
So what do working parents do after school? Schools starting early also end early, I assume. If kids can't go to school on their own, I guess they can't come home on their own either.
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How many shoppers know or care about Girl Scouts compared to the number of mobile phone users who know or care about open source?
Learning a Prior over Intent via Meta-Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Starred.

Aside: If this is appealing to you (automated typing in REST) I think you would love GraphQL.

Typing is baked into graphql (https://graphql.org/learn/schema/#type-system). You can do it with graphene (https://graphene-python.org/) and django's graphene-djanago (https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene-django) which handles ORM wrapping and a view baseclass.

Having experience with it, one major downside is how exception handling works in graphene. There is a strange implementation of promises which doesn't translate well into python IMO. It ends up hijacking error resolution, making it hard to control execution.

On the other hand, being able to get instant documentation from graphql is a big benefit. Everything generates nicely to a schema.graphql file.

Instead of POST and PUT, graphql has a concept of mutations: https://graphql.org/learn/queries/, GET would be a query.

Also, graphql has built-in pagination via Connections: https://graphql.org/learn/pagination/

I still use REST in many places, but graphql has been one thing where the learning curve paid off. I wish REST had typing baked into it from the beginning.
What’s wrong with letting people take it in their homes?
Cheaper solutions;

- High speed rail through the mountains to places like Modesto, Keyes etc.

- More building up in Oakland, Richmond

- Allow more remote work

- Second headquarters in other major cities
Are you trying to imply Chomsky is actively working for the interests of the Israeli government? He's been banned from entering the country.

I'm not sure how to respond to your comment only to suggest you might apply some of the critical thought you condemn others for supposedly lacking.
Chomsky has always been very concerned with media abuses by states. most of the book is about the relationship of establishment media to the government as it pertains to geopolitical incidents in the 60s-80s. You’ve got him wrong there, even if it was true that he talks more about corporations in the interview.
That's certainly a hazard to look out for.
good news, but:

where is the control group for 'going into a special place with the expectation of a spiritual/transformative experience and spending several hours meditating on letting go of the problem'?

pretty sure that might also have a nonzero statistical success correlate.
Are these issues documented anywhere? Otherwise it's kinda hard to fix.
I'm a super disorganized introvert but I'm puzzled by this. Do people on HN have actual systems to organize people they meet in lists and take notes about them? Is this like for sales calls or normal people also do this for regular social events? Is everyone else doing this?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if that's happening to the same person(s) all the time, they need to find a different solution than expecting you to immediately bail them out on request.
Fourteen people dying to lay ten and a quarter million bricks and thousands of tons of steel is not much of a butcher's bill.

I'd bet that more people would die in car accidents getting to the work site over the extended construction time today.
You have to declare more than $10,000 IIRC when traveling over the border. When taken into account with all the other suspicious activity, it's worth a mention.
Do any of these sources address the specific concerns raised by Robert Fisk?

I understand that journalism can't be all about debunking conspiracy theories, but Fisk does seem to have some clout.
Can we just stop distributing "donation-ware" FOSS and use F-Droid for that instead? It is not as if Google Play Store is a credible source anyway given all the hostile content (for both privacy and security). Today I learned they even remove the orig. signature [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268717
Thanks for this. We felt they'd be a little polarising! We're putting more product detail into the homepage to try to make it clearer "what" will happen on starting to use it, as we're aware it's an ask to do the github / gitlab integration.
> Who's calming that it is a cure-all?

I never claimed they claimed it was a cure-all.

> It might be expensive but so is smoking. Between the cost of cigarettes, healthcare, and lost productivity, I'm sure smoking is more expensive.

I don't know, the cost of the entire treatment wasn't mentioned in this article.
While

> at the same time the state has a vested interest in not allowing its population to fall victim to life-destroying drugs, especially when those drugs target the most vulnerable members

the current strategies don't work. The root cause of why people seek drugs is a complex topic and none of the strategies to keep people off drugs seem to address the root causes but to simply ban and punish.
I agree with toxik below with caveats. [0]
Specifically I was referring to how the Minister of Justice just casually called the Police and ordered a raid. This is not just frowned upon in Sweden, it's against the Constitution. [1]

[0] The Assange case has the veneer of legality. The Swedish law against statutory rape is actually very strict, stricter than what you might believe. It's just about everything else in the whole sordid affair which is horrible.

[1] Yes, Sweden has a constitution, not as neatly cut and well defined as the US one, but it exists. The point is ministers must not push their departments around, but let them follow the law on their own. It's even got it's own name "minister rule". ("Ministerstyre".)
Google Play In-app Billing does not support donations [1], so open source developers should be allowed to link to their own donation pages. Google Play policies do not spell out that linking to donation platforms such as Patreon is forbidden.

Disallowing developers from using in-app billing for donations, while also barring them from linking to external donation platforms, puts open source projects in a difficult position, and appears to be overly hostile towards funding open source development.

Google must clarify their position on whether they allow donation links in apps published on Google Play. The app takedowns [2] of the last few days show that this is a significant development, and it is of great importance for all open source developers.

It's best to publicly document the messages you receive during app takedowns, since app store policies are often vague, it's easy for reviewers to make mistakes, and having a clear reference for these decisions also helps the public assess the validity of the takedown.

[1] https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/

> Here are some examples of products not currently supported by Google Play In-app Billing:

> One time-payments, including peer-to-peer payments, online auctions, and donations.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268389
The reason people don't like remote workers by instinct isn't because they don't realize that they people COULD be more productive at home.

Its because they worry that it creates incentives that could lead to a decrease in productivity over time.

I think the root of it really is the first line Management. These guys need to be really good at their job in order for WFH FT to be more productive. If these aren't all that efficient to begin with, that will make it much more visible in a WFH situation. I think all parties intuitively feel this.
> It does not "add" colours, it overwrites the first colour in the list.

It's not bugged. It's just non-obvious. Select the empty custom colour first, then select from the colour box the colour you want to add, then select 'add to custom colours'.

Simple really. /s
Seems to me to be the usual un-environment friendly corporate drivel. We don't need more people in San Francisco. They are the 13th ranked city by density in the USA.

"The world is very large, and cities are a very small portion of it. The land we set aside for animals should be outside of cities, where far more land is available at far less impact to people."
The Dutch made about 1400 km^2 of new land in the previous century:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevoland
Why do you consider riding a recumbent bicycle an insurmountable hardship?

In icy conditions, it's likely safer for most citizens to have delivery done by bicycle. They're slower and lower mass compared to a van.

In cold, the delivery person can just add layers. And, they'll be moving more, so in all likelihood, the additional layers required is minimal. It's not like a UPS van is super warm inside - not with the driver constantly opening the doors and hopping in/out.

It simply boils down to priorities. Do we want cheap/easy delivery to merchants or do we want safe pedestrian and bicycle zones for customers. Or, is there a magical balance point in the middle?
I would like to have a java to D, because a lot of scientific libraries are done in Java. If the interop is easy and can automagically create Java compatible libraries from D, it is a big win. Hopefully it is in the roadmap. C++ interop not that much for me.
Furthermore you are arguing my point. Relativism.

>some things are more correct than others.

On the relative scale of "very incorrect" to "very correct" descriptions of Earth's shape where does "real" start?

In relation to the geodesic systems (e.g ETRS89, NAD, WGS84 ) "round" is a very imprecise description of Earth's shape.

Is WSG84 more 'real' than ETRS89?
In a way, Linux embrace and extended the Unix standards. New third party software required new versions of the GNU tools, not the ancient tools and libraries shipped with SunOS.

To make anything work you’d have to install the whole GNU ecosystem in a build root which became old pretty quickly.