skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heroin can't be prescribed in the US, but if it could, or if other opioids could be prescribed for addiction rather than just physical pain, it would help immensely. If it was supervised, it would end overdoses, needles on the ground, and a ton of other needless suffering and death. The addicts might even decide to wean off with help, get jobs, and start leading normal lives. That's what's happened in places that have tried this, including southern California before prohibition. Of course with people advocating for solutions that have been proven now for over a hundred years not to work like yours, we won't be solving this problem anytime soon. Of course, when most people can't be bothered to think or research, they'll just spew out this type of uneducated, stupid bullshit because that's what everyone else is doing. And that feels good. All the while their neighbors are dying or sent to jail so that people can feel righteous in their stupidity.
Its pretty obvious what’s spam and what isn’t. “Fake news” is extremely subjective, so try not to anger half the country :)
Are you large?
That's correct. Bitcoin actually accelerates the adoption of renewables because it provides an instant economic incentive to build e.g. solar in places where electricity demand doesn't provide high return on the investment.
Related: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703148/
Using personal time to work for my employer instead of investing it in myself.
We should all move to gps coordinates
> you can employ professional programmers and create open source / free software

And how would you pay the 'employed' programmers that created the software if not by charging for the software
You can now. You can create a filter matching whatever criteria you want (including from:foo@example.com or a catch all), and specify matches 'never get flagged as spam'. Its not obvious, but it is there. And the usual limitations of filters apply, such as not being able to match arbitrary headers.
Or they are just trying to get ahead of the argument and shut it down before it gets really uncomfortable.

I don’t know how many times I have seen the “don’t do this” argument being propped up by a due to “can’t do this” argument.

If you let these things run it’s course then it always ends up at the genetics/skull. And it’s always by people who clearly have no idea about what they are talking about and can’t actually point to any biological differences that would cause it, other than child birth...
So it ends with “must be biological” because reasons, so “don’t do anything”.

Seeing the same argument play out over and over, always ending at the same spot with no evidence is infuriating.
Knowledge-Based Biomedical Data Science 2019
There’s something fascinating when you equate penis enlargement spam with political speech.

Btw, laying in politics has happened for like forever. Is there any evidence that it’s worse than in the past?
PlushBeds+Best+Value+On+Mattress
For building construction that is substantial, a 50 foot wide flange section is probably going to be 1.5 to 4 times heavier than your 4000 lbs, in my experience.
Put it in a laptop already, geez.

(Edit: an A series chip.)
I can see your point, but letting those slide can cause trouble down the road. Today I had trouble with a codebase where the `Configurator` class was not doing any configuration. When the purpose changed, no one bothered to change the name. Careful naming prevents leaky abstractions, or at least they leak less. Call me a lawyer, but I appreciate precise use of language.
I don't see how this argument can coexist with the reality that during the same time, women have achieved equal numbers and majority status in many other lucrative careers in medicine and law etc.

Highly talented women are not having to work as nannies and school teachers because they're kept out of tech. They choose other high paying careers and do very well in them.
> I don’t think there is anything preventing them from defending him or EO13769 is there?

The new ban on politics would ban them from defending Trump or EO13769 in the workplace. Before the ban they could have defended Trump and EO13769, and the following discussion would have likely devolved even further than just "'F* Trump', written out".
Bitcoin is China's way of exporting subsidized coal via the atmosphere.

https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/mining/china/#reason-2-e...

Reason #2: Excess Coal

Coal is the cheapest power source but also the dirtiest. It’s well-known that China has comparatively lax environmental policies. Major cities like Beijing are notorious for their high levels of smog, produced mostly by burning coal.

Energy producers can freely burn coal and use the energy for Bitcoin mining. Instead of physically transporting the coal, it’s easier and more cost-effective to establish a Bitcoin mining operation near a source of coal and convert carbon directly to crypto.

#Bitcoin enables Chinese entrepreneurs to export coal by burning it and using the energy to mine.

https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/623178828727361536

#Bitcoin enables Chinese entrepreneurs to export coal by burning it and using the energy to mine.

— Emin Gün Sirer (@el33th4xor) July 20, 2015

FTA:

Carbon footprint

Bitcoin’s biggest problem is perhaps not even its massive energy consumption, but the fact most mining facilties in Bitcoin’s network are located in regions (primarily in China) that rely heavily on coal-based power (either directly or for the purpose of load balancing). To put it simply: “coal is fueling Bitcoin” (Stoll, 2019).

https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoins-climate-impact-global-c...

Bitcoin's Climate Impact Is Global. The Cures Are Local.
To measure bitcoin's contribution to global warming, you need to know where it is mined and where those computers get their electricity.

...

Not so fast, said county officials. They pointed to a different culprit: a giant coal plant halfway across the state. If energy from the dam went to bitcoin mining, they said, the county as a whole would wind up using more coal. In April, officials required all future mines to build their own renewable power.

Missoula County was on the right track, says Christian Stoll, an energy researcher at the Technical University of Munich. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Joule, his team takes a closer look at the energy consumption of bitcoin mining, based on where miners are located and the types of machines they are using. “Coal is fueling Bitcoin,” he says. “The question is how to prevent it, and that’s up to local regulators.”
Yeah. At most companies, you have to move mountains to even get a 6% raise, unless you get a promotion.
Wonder no more.

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." [27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
I would say that snapping is definitely an incidental gesture for some people, and it's also highly inaccessible (while many gesture controls aren't perfectly accessible, audibly snapping is difficult for many more people than those who waving is difficult for)
That link goes to "A Stellar Jewel Box: Open Cluster NGC 290".
And some animals still use archaic unit systems.
As others have noted, this is a somewhat dated article. Indeed, the github page for llvmpy (https://github.com/llvmpy/llvmpy) recommends to use llvmlite (https://github.com/numba/llvmlite) instead.

See also http://llvmlite.pydata.org/en/latest/user-guide/index.html and in the context of the original article, in particular these two pages:

http://llvmlite.pydata.org/en/latest/user-guide/ir/examples....

http://llvmlite.pydata.org/en/latest/user-guide/binding/exam...

Hope this helps! :-)
An important point is that it doesn't just passively collect location data, it actively moves players to locations.
For some reason, this feels like a real tragedy.
Which is absurd. Putting that kind of censorship control in the power of ATT is dangerous. That’s why we have laws and elected officials.
It was, in fact, fun.
Sure, there must have been a bootstraping effect, where a little better tools promoted 2 leg mobility a little, which promoted yet better tools and so on.
I recently feel like I want people to be left alone. Everyone always seems to be intruding into communities that don't want to be intruded on. I disagree with this.
counts Lisa Su of AMD in as well.
Google’s User-Tracking Screenwise Meter Returns to iOS via the App Store
Trying to improve buffet lines using simulations
This looks good but some of the background has the air of the kind of artificial problems presented in late night infomercials:

> It’s impossible to split a single payment into multiple payouts, since there is a many-to-one relationship of payments to payouts.

So your model used a many-to-one relationship when you really wanted a many-to-many?

> Since this is just a SQL database, there’s nothing preventing the payouts from becoming inconsistent.

Preventing inconsistencies by enforcing constraints is a key point of an RDBMS. This is literally why people use SQL DBs.

> The payout_id can be ensured to be a valid foreign key, but nothing is stopping it from being nulled out.

You mean, like a NOT NULL constraint? Or, if you mean zeroed out, an appropriate constraint and/or before update trigger protecting the amount?
I've been managing my personal finances with Beancount since the summer. I've been enjoying it a lot. I also use Fava to explore the data.
Now no one knows why god can walk.
But was it a version with the donation link removed?
Thus the change of name, dropping "search".
Correct. Elastic competes more with Splunk or Sumologic than it does with Algolia or open-source Lucene/Solr. It's nominally a traditional ecommerce/enterprise search engine as well, but it's not terribly good at it.
Weird how it still mentions Caviar, even though Square sold it. I guess the blog post was written some time ago.
Was a player, but to this day I still can't figure out why "Go there, take pictures, and 'capture' a location" can be THAT beneficial when it come to map software optimization.

I know the game certainly records my location which maybe good for discovering walk route, but other data they've collected seems (I guess) useless. How can picture of sculptures improve map quality? Kind curious.
I don't support or discourage your argument in this case. I'll just make a very important point that many young folks take (and my younger self took) a while to grasp…

There are a number of sensitive issues where stark logic and "inconvenient" facts are very much not appreciated. Best to avoid them in polite discussion.

Given that most social issues are not cut and dry, there is difficulty in finding the logical answer anyway. Rarely do we have all the facts available, even if a correct decision could be made with them. Rather we have mostly personal anecdotes which are not sufficient.

So the unpopular technical point of view is rarely worth giving, while also potentially a CLM (career limiting move).
Toru Iwatani, 1986 Pac-Man Designer
Social Media and the New Age Dancefloor
mammalian dive reflex https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex seems common to mammals - is there really an exception for apes?

BTW Apparently out of favour, but I like the aquatic ape theory too. Shellfish are high protein, support brain development; coastal settlements found.
Honestly no I don't. Locking them out will just lead to false positives and a forever shifting window of what is acceptable. Obviously acceptability shifts with time but if the response to someone genuinely saying "Wait but what about X? Don't BAD PEOPLE hve a point about X?" gets banned for it they are more likely to side with said BAD PEOPLE
Beancount is a Python port of ledger-cli

https://www.ledger-cli.org/

https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki/Ports
To pay for it, they should clawback Steve Ballmer's pay. Useless.
I think it’s because some animals still use archaic legislative systems.
> Every bitcoin exchange I’ve used required me to physically write something on paper and show it to a human

I'm curious - what did you have to write? Is it just part of proof of identity, or something more?
It’s cause they learn when they are a small baby, so that they can get around.
Pass through tax liability.

Let's say you did your accounting wrong and your company owes a bunch of money. These accounting mistakes usually account for double digit percentages of revenue.

If you own an LLC, you get the benefit of only paying taxes once unlike a double taxed C-Corp. The cost is pass through tax liability. If your company owes taxes, the owners personally owe taxes.

Let's take a real world example that happened to someone I personally know. They owned a dispensary, made some money not too much, everything going ok. IRS comes and says 4 years ago you did your taxes wrong. On revenues of ~$2.5M, she owed $400K that she deducted incorrectly due to 280e. In a day, she almost had her life ruined. She's back and opened a couple more dispensaries. She managed to survive others didn't.

If you had created a C-Corp, the business goes bankrupt. IRS collects what it can. You go on your way.

https://investinganswers.com/dictionary/p/pass-through-entit...
Just watching the Microsoft Flight Sim pre-alpha the other day really shows how much Microsoft have changed their image and are still managing to do very cool stuff after all these years.
Definitely agree. Roberts court aside, I remember during oral argument some justices being very uncomfortable with the ramifications of a strong ruling on either side.
Forget Gen Z. This Is Generation Surveillance
> In some, ways, it seems like Yvon's trying to undo the damage Patagonia did in its earlier days. Like... some sort of good act to absolve it and him of his "environmental sins".

I don't know too much outside of reading his book (which is, of course, biased), but it sounds like very early on (before Patagonia was founded) is when he had a change of heart. Wikipedia quotes, "Around 1970, he became aware that the use of steel pitons made by his company was causing significant damage to the cracks of Yosemite. These pitons comprised 70 percent of his income."

Unless you're talking about something else?
many times CEOs cannot sell stock because doing so might signal to others that something bad is going to happen at that company. I recall a story of a company that was doing well, had customers, and good stock. then suddenly overnight the stock tanked. after researching for a while they found out what the cause was. one of the c-level employees / founder wanted to pay for his daughters wedding so he sold some stock. due to that some algo traders had programmed to sell stock if the founder sells. other algo traders programmed only to sell if both the founder and some other traders sell. well, this spiraled out of control until the market closed for the night.
Then narrow corridors can open up for tiny, induction-powered, two-person electric 'trams' that move at a walking pace, and follow sensor-detected 'tracks' to the requested destination.

If I need to get somewhere 'downtown' that's 12-40 blocks away, that buses don't go, that's a long walk. I predict that the space and demand for sane transport options will remain.
The Debate over Big Tech on the Democratic Debate Stage
In that event sourcing is largely inspired by accounting record keeping and how various accounting statements are traditionally implemented as computed functions of the ledger entries.
Mother’s attention may shape baby’s hormone system and temperament
One fact I noticed traveling through europe, the small quaint cities that couldn't accomodate cars well... were designed and built for pedestrians and horses in the first place.
> convert carbon directly to crypto

That's the coolest phrase I've read today. What would someone from before Bitcoin think about that?
The Gervais Principle VI: Children of an Absent God
spot on. I feel this is an abuse of technology. They want to take Touch to next level with gesture, but it is doomed to fail unless they solve other issues as you pointed out(just my opinion). Gesture might be good for gaming (ex:kinect). I worked on Hover touch in one of the big smartphone company. we achieved good results at different heights but eventually it didn't take off. After all Humans need a sense of touch to interact.
Well because back when God was a man, he was made in the image of his God, who walked.
That's awesome!

Though, I'd rather have LSDJ than Nanoloop (Nanoloop is cool, but I found the tracker interface of LSDJ more comfortable)...but, I guess since it's compatible with Gameboy games, it's compatible with LSDJ, so, it's probably just a matter of sticking it on an SD card and plugging it in.

Assuming that's so, I'll buy this just to not have to worry about my Gameboy's screens going out completely (both have several dead or dim vertical lines already). And, being able to program the FPGA sounds hella cool. I wonder if a handheld Amiga (or C64 would also be cool, without needing the resources of an Amiga) is a possibility...
I hope they also increase the pay of lower level individuals who contributed to Microsoft's success.
Even if they're committing crimes? What if the victims want your help?
The interesting thing about the article is that, by the logic it presents, there are at least three parties profiting from inside information:

1. Someone who knows what the IGRC is about to do

2. Someone who knows what the Hong Kong government is about to do

3. Someone who knows what Trump is about to do

I guess this would mean that numerous unscrupulous people at different international power centers have all figured out the same thing on their own? Otherwise we're in Thomas Pynchon novel territory.
No, I'm pretty sure that was always understood. What Wayland is doing -- breaking expected desktop functionality -- is not sensible at all. Window's permission model is more sensible as it actually accomplishes something.

Wayland's "fix" isn't one because on the vast, vast majority of systems any compromised program running under your uid can begin debugging another under your uid, completely circumventing any permission system Wayland tries to create. Have a root terminal logged in, or maybe open one later? Any program under your account now has root if it tries hard enough.

People started freaking out about the completely normal and expected things you could do under X11 and kneejerked themselves into the current Wayland. Maybe it will eventually be relaxed. If it isn't, I can't expected it to replace X11.
You are right.

I used to try really really hard to learn something or solve a problem and I found a lot of times just sleeping on it made all the pieces fall into place. Sometimes you have to slow down to go faster.
> "Sucks to be you, we're going to fuck up your entire field of study because we think we can make a buck here".

More like: "Sorry to interrupt your observations, but we are trying to kickstart a space-based civilisation here".

I'm sympathetic to astronomers (I have a telescope myself), but I'd much rather go to space than just observe it.
Satya Nadella's Annual Letter to Microsoft Shareholders: Our Progress and Impact
Because it is not an article, it is essentially a press release for a museum exhibit.
But these things are already happening, such as forcing religious bakers to bake cakes for couples they don’t agree with
>I think its still fair to say that economics is not a science the way medicine is.

Which is very unfortunate, because like medicine, the practice of economics has the power to influence decisions and affect lives.
> Simplifying Nethack's interface may well make it a worse game but it's not the case that a simpler interface in another game implies losing out on the fun of discovery.

Sure. That's what I was trying to say in the second paragraph. It's not a matter one being better than the other in general, or even for roguelikes. It's that there are things to consider about how you interact with the system in every case, so it deserves some attention.

For Nethack, I think the game is better for the interface not giving you clues what you can and cannot do. For other games, that likely isn't the case (very few support both the breadth of unique actions and make discovering those part of the draw of the game).
Superman can convert coal directly to diamonds, but their value is artificial too.
In France it is straight illegal to refuse to sell to a customer without a legitimate reason. Whether a reason is legitimate is up to court interpretation but not liking the skin color or sexual orientation would not qualify. A racist tattoo at a shoot range would probably.

And it doesn't cause any trouble. B2B is not concerned obviously.
When Card Shops Play Dirty, Consumers Win
So... how’s the weather?
I picked up a TinyFPGA BX to make a VU-meter with strips of neopixels for a Halloween project (keystep+volca keytar with lots of reactive lights). You can do this with microcontrollers but I wanted to stretch myself and see if I could get a crazy-responsive 7-band meter working. I'm like 95% of the way there after several months learning verilog, testbenches, how a few modules off github work, the I2C protocol, and how to use a logic analyzer -- but I'm stuck trying to get a ADS1115 to do one-shot conversions reliably and probably have to implement the VU-meter with an arduino to get it done for Halloween. It's absolutely thrilling to be working with nanosecond-scale operations and totally parallel design though.
The fact that _they don't have to_ and you are resulting to _hope_ is just more evidence of his awesome performance – excepting that one of his stated goals is to "strengthen trust with customers"
> I wonder how possible it is to essentially sum together lots of pictures one after another where occasionally you would reject photos that had a satellite passing through them? Like is that how they deal with it now?

This is what LSST is going to do, sum the images to look deeper than just one image. There are a few commercial software packages that also do this co-addition (my friend has a large but still amateur telescope and that software does this).

The exposures aren't terribly long, so the idea is to add a bunch of them together, since the CCD wells can become saturated, and even "leak" between them. This is why the camera is cooled down by extra cryogenics.
Stroustrup: Why the 35-year-old C++ still dominates 'real' dev
or why an omnipresent being would need to.
Thomas Dolby’s Different View of Progress:Bridging Gap Between Music and Tech
> though if theirs is the deciding vote on a measure, a new vote takes place without them

Doesn't this mean they effectively can't vote? It seems they can only vote on things that would have passed (or been rejected anyway.
You spent so many words to say so little besides "my rude statement is right because my rude argument is right"... it was over well before you sent this final weak response.
Greed also creates apologists and false equivalencies in all venues.
The plural would be "Bäder", but I'm not aware of any town using that plural form. It would be very strange, too, because a town is a single entity.

Baden-Baden is the only one I know that comes close, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Baden#Name explains how it got that name. It's not the spa prefix, but part of the name proper.

Also, "Baden" is a region in the south-western state of Baden-Württemberg that probably has lent its name to other towns.

It is home to one of the two big dialect families in Baden-Würrtemberg: Badisch, the other being Schwäbisch/Swabian.
Show HN: Traffic Analytics for GitHub Repos
FPGAs are getting larger, more complex, and significantly harder to verify and debug https://semiengineering.com/fpga-design-tradeoffs-getting-mo...
I think this is perfectly acceptable, especially since they've announced it ahead of time.
Do/Will you also not have any children? Because that would probably make a better impact than not using Bitcoin.