skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always had a bit of a paranoid suspicion, and trust me, I know there is no evidence for it, and I wouldn't make it out to be more than just a feeling:

That the elites of the world are happy to have drugs being illegal, as it is a way to channel unemployed, violent youth who want to make a quick buck.

I mean, think of it this way: If you are a poor, violent and traumatized youth, and drugs were legal and you wanted to make a quick buck, you'd turn to robbery or worse, kidnapping/murder. As long as they prohibit something that people want, that cohort will always have a way to make a quick buck without turning to robbery/kidnapping/murder.
It doesn't matter what we SAY about the shape of the Earth though, does it?

It only matters how we use/apply those theories in practice.

Practical errors have consequences.
Theoretical errors don't. It's just lip service without follow-through.

I can SAY that the Earth is triangular and nothing will happen. Q.E.D If you insist that it is in (some way) wrong or incorrect for me to say that the Earth is triangular. Well. The best I can do is to tell you to mind your own business.

I can't remember the last time the Earth's shape mattered to my practical, decision-making process.
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>I’m SUPER interested how protectionist capitalism has helped the working class.

Australia is an example of a protectionist capitalist society: in fact, its first federal government was formed by a party called the Protectionist Party, with the support of the union-based Labor Party.[0] Unions are relatively strong there, compared to the rest of the world, and Australia's immigration policy is pretty tight, which protects workers there from foreign competition. Consequently, workers have some of the highest (minimum) wages in the world, and enjoy relatively excellent working conditions. The economy has also been doing well since the 1990s, despite the GFC and everything.

The EU is probably another example: strong labour laws with stringent labour market tests and excellent working conditions, as well as stringent requirements on a wide range of commodities that has to be satisfied by imports.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Government
Home internet speeds have improved dramatically in the last decade, especially outside of the US. Most of the EU has gigabit available, and in many countries it's crazy cheap.
If he had just incorporated himself he could do that legally along with all the other predatory "companies" doing this to YouTubers.
Totally agree. They are requesting feedback so maybe you can let them know about these points.
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How is "the voters are just stupid" an unpopular position?
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Unexpected gorilla snacking behaviors question what we know about early humans
“... allowing people to live closer in is the most powerful way to address sprawl.”

“ The second biggest is that BART doesn't have enough coverage to make living without a car practical in most of the area. ”

I don’t know about the land, maybe it’s a good idea. However, this really comes down to building better mass transit.

“Closer” doesn’t need to mean distance, it could also mean time. Could Oakland be turned into “Manhattan“ with better mass transit?
Not to say that it's okay to detain people with an infant in reportedly (and believably) poor conditions this long but the whole story is very strange.

They took a different road to avoid an animal? Was there a grizzly attacking their car or something?
Then the Canadians refused to allow them back.
Suspicious to say the least.
> A more modern approach has become the Pre-fab homes.

This isn't just a modern approach. See the Sears kit homes of the early 20th century.

My parents built their ~2800sq ft (not including basement) two story house back in 1976, and it came as a kit on a truck. My dad and uncle, with help from friends, built it, farming out specialist jobs (plumbing, including septic system, etc) as needed.
We also need file hosting and calendars in a single integrated service so an email list doesn't meet our needs.
Thanks for the link.

I'm into hardware synthesizers and there was a lot of groups exchanging patches, utilities, fixes, repair tips, mods and what not in these groups, a LOT of extremely useful information is going to be lost, unfortunately.

This is a terrible news.
The red, white and green were commonly used as the Italian colors from the end of the 1700s.[1] Queen Margherita was born in 1850.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_colours_of_Italy
> It is important to understand your platform all the way down to the CPU, including things like branch prediction and caches if you want to have performant software.

I would agree it can be useful to understand the lower levels, for the majority of developers macro optimisations are far far more important. Things like not forcing unnecessary redraws client-side, or excess DOM manipulations in general, caching values and references instead of rederiving them on each iteration of a loop, avoiding excess database hits, not using a naive sorting method, being aware of network latency issues, not properly indexing the database, and so on, will dwarf the effect of micro-optimisations for branch prediction and CPU caching if you get them wrong.

> understand your platform all the way down to the CPU

Which platform though? Not everyone is a back-end or embedded dev with constrained hardware to support. Are you targetting amd64 or ARM or something else? Any particular generation of CPU? In many cases an optimisation for one will have no effect elsewhere or worse will make others slower. Unless you are doing much tight-loop number crunching, is faffing around at this level really worth your time? Some understanding of cache concepts will help with overall algorithm design but most of what that knowledge will help you with generally (rather than for specific CPUs) is good practise for other reasons too.

> JavaScript developers

JS and other JIT compiled languages make tweaks for specific platforms even less important. For the most part let the optimising compiler worry about that for the platform it is compiling for at the time or consider a lower level language.

> never written in a low level language

I've written in assembly in the distant past (6502 & related, Z80, early x86 and a little of later x86). I did once used knowledge of cache sizes and population behaviour to optimise a little image processing (having the routine work on blocks of the pixel data that were small enough to remain in cache for longer than they would if not dividing into smaller chunks or if jumping around more randomly) done in inline assembly because Delphi's compiler produced a massively less optimal result if it wasn't.

I have enough low-level knowledge to feel safe saying I know that most developers (especially junior devs away from embedded (or other low-resource) systems) don't really need it, at least not in as much detail, in the current multi-platform world. They aren't working on code where the benefit of optimisations enabled by that knowledge aren't dwarfed by many other factors.
Second this. The only annoying thing about it is the number of false positives. When I leave a large build running overnight, it randomly triggers the check and halts the entire build.
Heh, glad to hear that you've found someone you can manipulate and intimidate. That would be a perfect setting for a sociopath.
It does, in alpha.

Soon to hit beta though: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/508

Most internal networks still run IPv4, and will continue to do so for a long time.
> I can't be arsed to improve as a person so every one else has to dumb it down for me

Do you apply that to yourself out of tech ? Are you literate in art, philosophy, astrology, history, chemistry, medicine, &c. (more than surface knowledge) ? Where do you draw the line ? Is using google maps without knowing how the GPS system works in details an issue ? What about cooking ? Do you know which chemical reactions create tastes ? Are you buying food from supermarkets, why don't you hunt and grow your own ?

> The baby boomer attitude

As if millennials+ were better. Using a pc/smartphone daily doesn't mean you're tech literate, it's a prime example of familiarity != knowledge.
The bird sanctuary takeover was Cliven Bundy's son and several of his friends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_Nati...
>In the US, public companies "have an obligation to their shareholders to be profitable", and China is a gigantic market.

This simply isn't true and I wish people would stop repeating it.

https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/academics/clarke_business_...

> "modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so."
I am rooting for two Rust alternatives to Elastic stack - Sonic[1] and Vector[2](logstash alternative). Too bad they currently cannot work together[3]. Java is a poor choice performance-wise, and in a scaled applications it can make a huge difference.

[1] https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

[2] https://vector.dev/

[3] https://github.com/timberio/vector/issues/988
There's a path to getting people off hard drugs like heroin that the war on drugs doesn't address at all, in fact it exacerbates it. Getting people off hard drugs is not the intended outcome, the war on drugs fills up private prisons with inmates and generates a lot of money.

https://www.mic.com/articles/20186/war-on-drugs-how-private-...
Very well put! Thank you! I agree.
Having powerful opponents is inevitable. If a system of government can't stand against that then it is not a viable system.
> I look forward for the US to decriminalize all drugs.

Is there evidence to prove that legal cocaine/meth/heroin being readily available for citizens would be good for society?
Yep, it is easier to update the compiler than doing manual clever tricks, specially if the compiler happens to be an AOT/JIT with PGO feedback loop.

Most people aren't able to outsmart their compiler optimizers.
May I ask you what did you use to approach meditation?
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That graph is a known fraud. See: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

Don't trust the CATO when it comes to climate (at the very least). They are known negationists. If you understand basic level physics, read the IPCC reports and the realclimate blog.
I don't know the full story here, but there's more going on than the family is claiming. The first thing the American border guards tried to do when this family "accidentally" entered the USA was to return them to Canada, but Canadian border officials denied them re-entry: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/arti...
Some people are unprepared to consider their own death.
Thank goodness F-Droid exists and allows additional repos to be added, and even put donation links in the app listing when possible.
Love the idea, but I just can't get over that price tag - 604m USD. For comparisions, here in Vienna they build a similarly ~2km long stretch for pedestrians for only 25m EUR.

Does any SF resident know more about the included building projects here?
Because ipv6 is not a simple addition, but a complex suite of new protocols meant to replace v4, except that is never going to happen in our lifetimes.

v6 should've simply been v4 with more bits
There's a video from Hong Kong that went somewhat viral showing a protester jump kick a police officer in the face who was trying to drag and arrest another protester lying on the ground.

The video was widely shared by protester-friendly accounts celebrating the act because several arrested protesters had recently turned up dead or disappeared.

It's very easy to construct a narrative portraying the protesters as violent criminals if you start from the assumption that all police violence is justified and resisting any form of police violence is not.

EDIT: Oh and the problem with Pepe wasn't that "Pepe is racist because someone used it that way", it's that Pepe became popular on 4chan and was then co-opted for racist imagery and embraced by actual racists who then used it unironically, so it eventually became a calling card.

Likewise the "ok hand" gesture and emote was initially planted as a "hoax" white supremacist symbol by 4chan members but then actual white supremacists started using it, first ironically as a nod to the "hoax", then unironically to demonstrate their affiliations to others.

The problem with these "dog whistles" is that they're intentionally ambiguous and can be entirely innocent in the right context. Of course not everyone posting "funny green frog memes" or using the "ok hand" gesture is a nazi, but if someone who's already suspiciously copying far-right rhetoric randomly flashes the ok hand in a photo op, or uses Pepe (or the less subtle NPC meme) they're most likely trying to say something while retaining plausible deniability.
You might be interested to learn that heroin is actually quite a safe drug and safer to self-administer than paracetamol [0]. While you're right that the state has a duty to protect its citizens the war on drugs, all drugs, has the opposite effect.

Drugs are a public health problem not a criminal one. People are taking things like heroin primarily due to other factors in their life, which the state should address. For drugs like magic mushrooms lack of availability is increasingly looking like actively harming the availability/development of a positive treatment for many conditions.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/14/drugsandalc...

(tldr the negative impacts of heroin all arise from its criminalisation, while it is extremely addictive it's also extremely hard to overdose on when taken on its own)
When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50067575:

"David Connors, 30, and his wife Eileen, 24, said they were travelling with their young baby and family members - two more adults and young twins - on 3 October when, to avoid an animal, they veered on to a small road.

But CBP said that remote video surveillance captured the vehicle crossing a ditch before pulling back on to a road in Lynden, Washington state, and continuing west. The group was pulled over by a border patrol agent shortly after.

The occupants were arrested for illegally entering the US without inspection. During processing, records revealed the two adults that had previously been denied access to the US, CBP said on Tuesday."
I would not want to take a wager on whether this sort of project could be done in San Francisco. China, I am certain, could do it. If it were an Army Corps of Engineers project on the Mississippi or the deep South, I'd give it 50-50 odds.

We do seem to have no ability to do any sort of large scale projects. They built the Empire State Building in under a year in the 1930s, and meanwhile it's taken ten and counting to replace a bridge where I live today. The technical ability is there, there's just no will to get anything done.
> That the elites of the world are happy to have drugs being illegal

Well, if you start talking about Reagan in the 80s, there's significant evidence. Not as a way to channel unemployed, but to have extra governmental funding for covert operations.
TBH Google Maps was the killer app that smartphones needed to get off the ground. Out of 13 apps on my home screen, 7 are Google apps. Both Apple and Google did a little more than building the framework and then sitting back...

So how do you decide what a fair cut is? Over the course of a month, given all your app and system usage, and all the pieces of software you've touched or relied on, what percent of the engineer hours required for that stuff to work came from Google/Apple vs coming from third party app makers? Is that how you decide the split? Because I have a feeling the time it took to build the 15 third party apps I might touch in a month don't come close to the level of effort required to have built the system and first party apps.
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I don't think the poor HTML rendering and extra Microsoft code was what laurensr meant when they mentioned the lost features in the new Chromium-based edge; rather, it's the loss of Edge-only program features like pen/ink markup on pages. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027048/microsoft-e...
Why is such treatment being dolled out to citizens on other countries,wasn't this baby seperation thing only reserved for Mexicans and those who crossed form the south.
sounds like spiritual bypass. Maintaining a state of mind isn't the same as changing the relationship one has with daily experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_bypass
Thanks for the recommendation, Groups.io looks like a nice alternative.
> However: if someone dies of suicide within an organization, there is likely a serious (and deadly) problem within that organization.

People can commit suicide for any reason, it doesn't have to be due to the organization that they work for.
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You really don't need to know more than "it's technically true, but also completely useless for anything practical".
Nobody is adapted to asynchronous communication, it's always going to make you less productive. The key is that your immediate request is forcing someone else to put down their thing to help you, the same way that other people interrupt you when they message you. In optimizing for team performance, we don't get individual maximums.

Mostly, try to reduce switchyness. Not all input is blocking, sometimes you can put a question out early and have hours/ days/ weeks before you need an answer. Work on identifying potential hangups early and often. Try to handle your communication in batches. Respond to urgent messages faster, but spend time between deep tasks or in the lame duck part of the day doing email.
Not sure I understand

I can't hope about the past..
Nice to see an hyperbolic title that gives right away the intentions of the article writer.
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They are requesting feedback from within the application. There is no way for us to give feedback without installing Edge or Chromium.
Or they realistically assume that they have average ability but they have above average expectations. Most people will have to face the reality that they will never be special in some way, so if you aren't fine with just being another face among the masses you will be depressed. Or someone they care about just died, their expectations was that they would have this person for most of their life is now broken and nothing they can do can fix this, unless they believe in spirits and ghosts and ouija boards of course.
What I said goes for the current generation as well
I have to admit my ignorance of SF, my comment is a more general comment that city planners should be considering opportunities to share costs more. For that matter, if they have a subway, why dig up streets now - shouldn't the subway tunnels been made a little wider so the pipes are maintainable without digging? (this is a complex question - obviously a bigger tunnel costs more than a smaller one.
There is still a motorway with traffic lights: the A59 is interrupted for a few hundred metres so it can have traffic lights at Knooppunt Hooipolder where there is an interchange with the (more important) A27. A major source of traffic jams. It is not signposted as having a different road number, although I guess administratively can't have an A number for that stretch.
chaos has nothing to do here. Look, it's really very very simple actually. The higher the concentration of greenhouse gases, the more energy gets trap in the atmosphere. This changes the balance and warms up area of the planets that did not warm up for millions of years. Chaos is more important when it comes to weather, but climate is more straight forward. The only pseudo-chaotic aspect of climate change is the so-called tipping cascade and that should scare the bejeezus out of you.
I believe there are many studies, even posted here that lying down < Sitting < Standing < Walking. Lying down for long periods of time is worse for you. (sleeping excluded). Less activity with the body = worse for the body.
Except the "smiley face in the top-right to Send Feedback" can't be found anywhere on the page.
Did they have a return flight back to UK from Canada?

If true, why were they carrying $16k, and was it USD or CAD?

Obviously Canada's alleged refusal to re-admit them needs an official statement (and explanation) too, why did WaPo not follow that up?

Are their identities real?

I guess only the courts will flush out anything even resembling the actual course of events in this post-truth era.
Unfortunately, the Guardian article is missing some information from the Washington Post link. Chiefly, that Canada rejected their return and the suspicious behaviour reported by US officers.
To be clear, nothing in my comment suggested I support the war on drugs and mass incarceration, rather it was whether the state should have any "say" in my putting hard drugs in my body.
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Both stores require payment through their app stores for digital goods. Neither require it for physical goods (Amazon). The donation is for the software itself and so requires payment via Apple/Google.
If you believe that, then I have some vivacious Essential Oil pills for you.
I also have the feeling that this should be "easy" with a traditional scheduler. But could you (or someone else) point me in the direction of something that's easy to set up for a quad-GPU machine? I spent two days trying to get SLURM to work, at one point. Currently I'm running with GNU Parallel, but it's much less flexible of course.
The older I grow, the more I realize that, in its barest essence, we are all 'good' human beings. But, thanks to self-help advice of the kind that aspires to teach you to be 'powerful', 'assertive', 'effective', 'take no for an answer', we are fed ideas that we need to behave/talk differently to be successful.

But, it is not what we should be striving for. It is meaningful connections. By treating others the way you would want to be treated yourself. That is all. Everything else follows this, including success at work. In most cases, anecdotally, this has worked for me except when I encounter people, so bought into this corporate powerplay myths that they have instead become people who have changed their basic identity to behave in a certain manner.
They were also denied entry to the US on a prior occasion. Very strange indeed.
I really don’t understand what designers are thinking these days. Do they actually use the stuff they are designing? I spend a lot of time randomly swiping and clinking on my iPad in the hope of finding something I am looking for.
I'm still a bit starstruck by mildly comical terms like zygohistomorphic prepromorphism
That is roughly consistent with my experience.

When I was using the "pomodoro" technique, I first started with the goal of 14 pomodoros per day (14 x 25min of focused work).
My (fairly successful) friend who had done pomodoro told me that was not a reasonable goal. 10-12 seems a more reasonable
goal for most people.

When doing focused reading in grad school I could do maybe 8-9 hours on a good day.

Working on a personal project I enjoy at home, I can do maybe 7-8 hours of focused coding in a day
(but probably not multiple days in a row).

At work I probably do 4 hours of focused coding on average. This is partly because of non-coding tasks,
but also my attention tends to peter out beyond 4.5 hours.