skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Criminalization is the problem because it makes on so many levels so hard for the people suffering from addiction to get proper healthcare.

Can't you argue that by making it illegal, you make it less available, therefore ending up with less people addicted?
In a few months, it's not so far away. If you can share your database code (data is not important), we can make sure that our parsers and translation layer work with all the code constructs you use from day 1.
I have given up on understanding it. I will say something that I think is a straightforward observation, or serious advice, and people will chuckle and laugh and say, "yeah, good joke," or "that's funny." If I ask to be taken seriously, then people are suddenly horrified, mortified, or freaked out.
The Myth of 10,000 hours
So like, what's the deal? Is that level of efficiency common in Netherlands/Europe or were they just as surprised?

What are they doing that they can end up with such a disparate outcome with regards to what most people expect from an ambitious public infrastructure project like that?

Like, I don't even think it's cynicism at this point that when you see they want to do something with the MTA or the Metro, they'll say it'll be X Billion and Y months, and you already know going into it that they're low by a factor of like 2-10x.
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Saved you a click
I understand, but completely disagree. I think the idea that physical harm is real but psychological harm doesn't exist is just wrong.
And your site doesn't show who you are, where you're based. Identification Nr, nothing.

Not very trustworthy
It would be (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5316) in that amount, but that isn't my point.

The point is that the totality of their actions are not supporting their story very well.
I love the idea of Cilium using BPF and XDP. They are the right tool for this type of software. And they extend it to do really cool things with it.
I've heard that. The online/market ones seem pretty legit though...
I know one person who works remotely in transcribing and one in editing. They have specific numbers to meet in terms of lines and pages. In fact the transcriber is paid by quantity.
Seems like certain pieces of land are valued low enough that they get sold between different countries repeatedly. Greenland, for example. I wonder what the buy-price would be for one of the small pacific islands currently owned by the US/Britain/France? I wonder if their lack of a price is just because nobody has offered who these countries would be okay with owning them? (And Japan is probably such a country, given their arrangements with the US military.)
It's actually somewhat more complicated than that even: clicking an "empty" custom colour (I put "empty" in quotes because it actually has no concept of empty, they're just white -- it keeps track of how many colours you've added since opening the dialog but it does not know if the colors you're overwriting are "empty" or not) selects the starting point where you want to start overwriting the list. So clicking multiple times will keep overwriting your colors, you just get to choose your starting point. So there is kind of a way to use it but it is non-intuitive and backwards as all heck.

What the "add" button does, then:

1. overwrite colors step by step in the list (with no undo),

2. in order from top to bottom and then left to right,

3. starting at the most recently clicked custom color,

4. or at the first color in the list if no custom color has been clicked since opening the dialog

Easy! :)
It's interesting that this health hazard, which is highly localised, gets the adjective "massive", while the regular pollution in London which is also hazardous to health doesn't. Pollution isn't even classed as "violence" by almost anyone.
IANAL but have worked a lot with GDPR. If the pricing is based on, for example, user browsing habits then that would constitute usage of personal data. At a minimum this would force the company to disclose that this kind of processing is going on in a clear way to users (if the company claims it has a legitimate interest to do so). The other case would be that explicit consent would be needed and I guess no one would be consenting to that. With the upcoming ePrivacy regulations I suspect many of these legitimate interest cases will also become illegal.
keeping my realist comments to myself took me more than two decades to become competent at. it'll take me another two decades to master.

the trick is to understand that all people live in a marginal headspace where engagement with the nature of the world is heavily filtered and limited so that their psychology can continue to mostly function on a day to day basis. this is true whether you are a "realist" or "pessimist" or "optimist".

piercing the veil is uncomfortable and unwanted for most people, and it doesn't necessarily provide them with any value to have their comforting or familiar illusions destroyed. in a sense, it's rude if you pop their bubble. in other words, some people don't see the humor in dark humor because they are unfamiliar with darkness, and it scares them.

for me, graveyard humor is the best way to tolerate things. but it's important to know your audience.
Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You to a New Home
Not exactly. Being a monopoly is fine. Google is a monopoly in search for example. It's not fine when you use that monopoly power to either stifle competition (like what MS did), or to demonstrably harm the consumer (very hard to prove).

Just because Google Play is a monopoly, it doesn't mean that it's illegal or should be fined. Especially since there are other options, like amazon's app store, or manual installation of apps.

Especially compared to iOS, Android is a paradise of freedom.
Yes, I know. The article says also the Web.

A company shouldn't design its website with Google or Apple's visual branding as if it were locked into a closed platform. It also appears to be a problem with things like Flutter, though I haven't looked closely.
Does one person have the right to define what another does with their body in a country that prides itself on the freedom of the individual? If they commit crimes while on drugs, punish them for that.
How many of those injuries and deaths were due to a car?
Correct- as usual the annotation indicates intent, but is not enforced at runtime.
It's hard when American culture seems obsessed with houses rather than flats. You can build in straight lines, but if each 4 people dwelling takes up 400 square metres of horizontal space, there is no way distances will ever be walkable- often not even those between two bus or tram stops.
"British" is quite a wide spectrum these days.
It still made more sense to me more than foldl vd foldl’.
I think it's excellent that they're restricting the Iranian leader's tweet where he says that Rushdie's death sentence still stands. I think it is equally wrong not to restrict Trump's tweets where he threatens to destroy countries like Iran or North Korea, which is obviously the threat of a terrorist act, involving the murder of millions of innocent civilians. That being the case, it seems clear to me that Twitter is not impartial.
Actually the link SamBam has provided, i.e. to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_colours_of_Italy , explains the tricolour better. It also says "An apocryphal story about the history of pizza holds that on 11 June 1889, Neapolitan pizzamaker Raffaele Esposito created a pizza to honour Margherita of Savoy, who was visiting the city. It was garnished with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil to represent the national colours of Italy, and was named 'Pizza Margherita'".
Not necessarily. David Deutche argues that theories can be argued as having merit based upon if they are good or bad explanations, regardless of application. A good explanation is one that fits the data and is hard to vary. The flat earth theory fails on both.
Correct, the more precise term here is extortion, and I can speak to that having had to face that exact criminal charge before. It follows pretty much every required element of the crime.
Money buys far more than campaign and PAC ads.

Money buys newspapers, TV stations, etc. The fact that it can also buy unlimited amounts of direct advertising is just plain gross.
usually I don't say anything since this usage is so prevalent, and I typically hate being pedantic about grammar, but since this is a journal title:

it is not 'a' software. not here, not there, never.
the construct <category-of-material>-ware is plural. period. therefore there can never be 'a' of them.

it is 'software' or 'a <noun describing unit> of software', e.g. 'a piece of software' or perhaps '<quantifier> software' as in 'some software' 'this software', 'malware removing software', etc. 'a software program', which can be shortened to 'a program', etc, is fine, because the 'a' refers to 'program', which is implicitly in the singular.
The ultimate good-for-you background activity would probably be some movement equivalent to climbing a tree (pumps your whole lymphatic system; suspected of being a causal factor of the health of people in “Blue zones”, as said zones all contain a lot of orchard workers; something our bodies probably expect us to do a lot of, given our evolutionary roots; etc.)

I’m not sure how you could combine it with typing, though!
It's best to avoid analogies. Computing devices nowadays contain all of one's information including sensitive photos, passwords, ability to authenticate, location data, and other security risks that a car doesn't pose.
This is interesting, and reflecting a bit, it show to me why I like remote work. I train a few times a week in a gym setting that is very social, I have 3 roommates, I call my coworkers quickly if I need something, I'm pretty outgoing and friendly when I go to a coffee shop or market. Overall, I feel like I have other paths to get my social interactions from, so the ability to isolate myself for hard work gives me a lot of relief from the negative parts of work, without feeling like I miss a lot of the positive ones.
Basically, yes?
So, even stuff like Meth that is instantly addicting to some people? If it weren't harder to get and illegal, I'd hate to think of how many 18-21 year old kids would decide just to "give it a try" only to have it ruin their life.

Then when something is that addicting and you can't afford it anymore... then what? Wouldn't it create more crime, more robberies, thefts, possibly murders in the process?

I think we have a pretty good balance, and some drugs are slowly becoming legal as we learn more about them and we can setup systems to control their distribution.
The president is just a figurehead. Seeing the money flowing between corporations, lobbyists, and our representatives is much more indicative of money and its influence on our laws.
You can only realistically look at one person's screen at a time, but if you really need this feature, Zoom supports it: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115000424286-Shari...
>And if we at least somewhat agree that this had to have consequences, why .. does it matter?

This might be where our views diverge. If you don’t think it matters whether a US company punished a Hong Kong national, in Taiwan, for political speech in support of democracy out of fear of potentially offending China, then I don’t think we’ll find much common ground.

>that seems very American to worry about

It is, and that’s the whole point. If this were a French company punishing a Romanian caster for potentially offending the Bulgarian government, no one would care (other than mild confusion, probably).

This is one very small battle in a global struggle between the US, where democracy and political speech are supposed to be sacred, and China, where they are supposed to be taboo. Blizzard brilliantly got themselves caught right in the middle.

By the way - I’m not American either, I’m watching this from the sidelines just like you.
In small town america, the towns usually grew on the side of the highway. That's where you put the businesses, because that's where the customers are. Then, that's where you put the houses, because it's close to everything. Small towns exist away from the highway, but you're unlikely to see them, and they're more likely to be on the decline, because they're hard to get to. See also towns that die when the highway is moved.
OpenJDK
One of our apps (https://Yang2020.app) were rejected by Apple for the same reason - having a Donate link. Ultimately we removed the link on native apps (kept it on the Web) and the app was accepted.

However, before doing this, we corresponded with Apple Developer Support / App Review Team and asked them about the Acceptable Business Models of their developer guidelines, which states:

(vii) Apps may enable individual users to give a monetary gift to another individual without using in-app purchase, provided that (a) the gift is a completely optional choice by the giver, and (b) 100% of the funds go to the receiver of the gift. However, a gift that is connected to or associated at any point in time with receiving digital content or services must use in-app purchase.

They scheduled a “specialist” to call us from Apple and discuss this. However when they called a few days later, they repeatedly declined to give a single example of how this paragraph would ever apply. We tried asking many different ways, but they kept saying we would need to submit the app with the business model to get it reviewed. They would not give a single example of an app they approved with this business model. I personally was on the phone and said that we simply wanted to be compliant and it was very expensive to build something just to be rejected, so we wanted guidance about their policies. But the representative did not know anything. I asked if anyone else on their team knew but they basically said no.

So Apple seems to have certain “platitudes” in their Guidelines which companies can’t take advantage of.

Has anyone here seen a single exception to the 30% cut? I know ApplePay may be used to purchase “real-life” items and where you can’t afford to pay 30% less to the vendor. But what about services, like booking time with a teacher? What about digital services such as hosting a videoconference? Apple takes a 30% but you have to pay Twilio. That means any web-based app would cost 30% less!

We were hoping that maybe there can be some link to buy things with Ethereum and since Apple doesn’t offer that facility we can try to argue that we need transactions to be non-reversible etc. Doesn’t Apple allow apps that allow the user to send and receive bitcoin payments to some address? BOOM!

Another thing we can do is micropayments, maybe, and tell users how they can purchase credits elsewhere. But that last part is against Apple’s rules, isn’t it?
How to Build a Bit Compiler for Svelte
I don't think the meme was ever supposed to mean it's safe to rely on the internet to preserve your data. Instead, it means you should never assume you have the power to delete data once it's out there.
Internet of Things (IoT) Is Always On, and Always Changing
Used to be that "secret" things stayed secret for 30 years or so.
It's curious how some people are the target of more outrage bait than others.
Oscar Wilde Painted over “Dorian Gray”
Decriminalization means that the thing isn't treated as a crime, not that it is legal.

Making an accidental error on your taxes is illegal, but it is not a crime. You're given the chance to fix it, or assessed a small fine.

Setting up a lemonade stand without a license is illegal, but it is not a crime. You're told to shut down, or assessed a small fine (or more likely, not bothered by the authorities at all).

This is why people advocate for decriminalization, not legalization. Keep it against the rules, but make it a slap-on-the-wrist civil offense, not a crime you can be thrown in jail for.

This is how illicit drugs were treated before the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 added production, possession, sale, and use to the criminal code.
Yes, this is quite a good workaround, though probably less lucrative.
The biggest animal in that area would be a deer, or possibly an elk a looooong way from home. Either one would run away.

Moose don't live that far South, and the bears stay near the mountains, which are vary far away from Boundary road near Lynden. But of course non-locals wouldn't know this, so they wouldn't realize how preposterous it sounds when they spin their tale to the police.
Illegal drugs are available everywhere. They're even available in prisons.

If you can't even keep them out of prisons, how effective do you think making them illegal has been on availability?
A proper business serves to improve the world and make money doing so.

Oracle serves to make money in whatever sleazy way they can get away with, improving the world has nothing to do with it.
> Those sorts of people need to exist - society would fall apart if everyone were so freewheeling

Is that really true, or are we just conditioned to think that? Basic sense and decency can still be made explicit.
Good one man. Trump stinks. He's definitely going to get impeached. He's definitely not an unstoppable God at all. He definitely won't win in a landslide in 2020. He has a low IQ.
As noted, bus scheduling. Because the US doesn't have a robust public transit system in most regions, it relies on dedicated school buses.

The really goofy thing is the schools are traditionally backwards. High school starts earliest (call it 7:30am), then middle school (call it 8:15am), and then elementary school (9am).

Physiologically, that should be reversed, as teenagers have a harder time getting enough sleep and functioning in the morning.

Timing-wise, starting ES earlier works out better for many parents, as a 9am school drop-off is too late for them to start their commute. So, one parent ends up time-shifting their work day in one direction (to drop off or walk to bus stop), and the other parent time shifts the other direction (to be home at the end of the school day). Failing that, the kid gets sent to in-school day-care before and/or after school.

If ES started at 7:30am, both parents could start their day at the same time, and only worry about child care after school (if neither can be home mid-afternoon).

Or, we could just stop sprawling all over the darn place, build some transit, and start all the school at whatever time makes sense for those students.
Bulgaria vs. England: All eyes on UEFA after football's ugly night
I definitely snorted out loud at work trying not to laugh at this...
By users and visits, yes. By revenues and valuation, no.

Users and visits pose little loss risk. Revenues do.

https://www.feedough.com/reddit-make-money-reddit-business-m...

2019 Revenues: ~$100 million.

https://marketingland.com/reddit-us-ad-revenues-could-top-10...

FB 2018 revenues: $55 billion.
I suspect that this is always going to be the case. There are a lot of people literate enough to operate a computer, but not literate enough to understand the risks they're taking by running something they download off of scammers.ru. Exploiting these people will always be easier than actively circumventing OS-level security.
The "Noord-Zuid-Lijn" new metro line in Amsterdam was a classic disaster like so many others.

I guess the answer is "we have fuckups too but not all the time". Could it be the case though that the same holds for the US? I mean usually if something is on time and within budget it doesn't make the news just as much :D
The world doesn't revolve around cable television. Pick up a newspaper.
I think it does. These movements start out small but have vocal sympathizers who have some kind of gravitas via popularity or due to some other characteristic people grant some “authority”. Then media carry water for it, etc.

The mechanism is exactly the same. If the media didn’t carry the message and others wouldn’t grab in to that, it wouldn’t happen.

Why aren’t social causes not as prevalent in China? Because the media is controlled. Lots of feminists in CN lament that they are not allowed to influence people. And it’s true. The gov will not allow subversion of their power no matter how just a cause is. It will only happen on their terms.
People in charge do not have their eyes on humanity(I mean, this should be self-evident), they're mostly dealing with power and control. Society is much more an adversarial system than it is a utilitarian/humanitarian one.

Power should be challenged at all times.
Even if that were true, perhaps the answer is to reduce vehicle deaths rather than increase construction deaths. Just so you can get your bridge sooner.
Chewing tobacco.
Thanks for the follow-up. I'll definitely check it out!
>especially after the voice actress sided with China

Elise Zhang has not taken any sort of public position on the Hong Kong protests at all. Someone living in China and celebrating their national holiday while stating they love their homeland is not the same thing as taking a position on every policy and action of said country.

I celebrate July 4th and love America. That does not mean that I believe that America can do no wrong, or that I believe we are on the right end of every decision. I have taken to the streets and protested the actions of our leadership - does this disqualify me from loving America and celebrating it for the good parts?
What's far more terrifying about this practice is that it's a method of reprogramming the way someone thinks. This is "Clockwork Orange" level experimentation.

Imagine this being used in concentration camps or interrogations. Getting people to a mental state where they have no choice but to confess or conform because their minds will no longer let them "touch the cigarette".

This is very scary.
> What, your kid doesn't have their own computer at home? Tough luck!

Then it should be provided to the kids by the school. My girlfriend works at a poor school where a lot of the students don't even speak english and they provide laptops to all the kids whose parents cannot afford one.
Huh? The "hood welded shut" analogy has always been about proprietary software. That's 99% of the Apple/Play stores already. We're already there.
U.S., South Korea Bust Giant Child Porn Site by Following a Bitcoin Trail
But that begs the question that criminal prohibition of drugs like heroin actually reduces their use. If proponents of bans are responsible stewards of liberal society, they not only have to show that the problem is greater than the loss of liberty, they also have to show a causal link between denying that liberty by force and actually solving the problem.

Everybody agrees heroin is bad for the individual and for society, and that it should go away. What isn't clear to me is that putting users in jail and creating a hugely competitive profit incentive for violent gangs is actually effective towards that goal.

With heroin already illegal we see that a given portion of the population uses it anyway, so how much of the population do we think is not using it solely because it is banned? How does this compare to purely medical intervention?
There's not much anyone not in the know can say. We know Cyber Command and the NSA work together to penetrate adversarial networks. They are also very reluctant to share anything about their activities. They apparently wiped out the Iranian computers that were used to target the drone they shot down in the summer. We don't know how deep Cyber Command has embedded itself in the Iranian government's digital infrastructure. They have probably gone very, very far.
I've never had pizza in Italy, but I've had pizza from places in the US certified by Vera Pizza Napoletana.

It's truly delicious... and nowhere near my favorite pizza in the US.
Managers who tap aren't interested in work visibility. That can be achieved via a simple email. Managers who tap are only interested in hearing themselves talk at others.
Be careful if you are using their extensions package in a non personal setting, they changed the license so you can still download the package for free but they can charge you after the fact.
I think there is a component of selection bias here. Only productive workers will be allowed by their bosses to work from home.