skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are decriminalized in other parts of the world, including places like the Netherlands, and you wouldn’t know it.
1) You’re responding to a point about you attributing no value to concept by doubling down on the importance of realist technique and ignoring everything else. Even pieces that truly don’t require technical skill can still have value, which you don’t seem to grasp. A realistic portrait is far less interesting to many than something abstract that makes you reflect.

2) Please try to replicate a Pollock. I think you’ll be surprised.
Like I said, it's a nice fit with the spirit of this community.
this is what gave us the pay.reddit.com loophole back when reddit https was for people with gold only
Speaking of gift-wrapping. Speaking as a guy who takes gift-wrapping very seriously (I even print my own paper). I have one word to say about "gift bags".

Shameful.
> in the long-run, nothing really keeps the masses in line.

Amen. What keeps a society stable for a long time is allowing the masses to go out of line on a regular basis without too much collateral damage. It's like letting some steam escape from a boiling pot so it doesn't boil over.

This is essentially what elections are for: to let people revolt against government power without resorting to violence. But if elections are perceived as not valid, or as ineffective, they can no longer release that tension... and to your point, eventually the masses will get out of line one way or another. The longer it takes, the messier it will be.

Authoritarian governments are not even really intended to create long-term stability. They are corrupt in a very essential way: the people running them know they can't last forever, but they don't care as long as they can give themselves a great life, and put off the explosion until after their (natural, comfortable, long-delayed) death.
A) Cloud backup solutions already abstract away replicating multiple copies for redundancy.

Unless Google/Dropbox/Amazon/Microsoft go out of business, you are not likely to lose data from your backup via act of god (aka data center fire)

B) The simple interface of web solutions is still ultimately that if you want redundancy, just pick 2 (or 3) different providers. Myself - I use Google Drive for backup of my most core files, and Backblaze for the whole shabang.
I remember reading something somewhere about the real issue with risk and playgrounds... that modern playgrounds often hide risk, whereas older playgrounds it would be more obvious. The idea is that there were clearly places (high up, requiring climbing skill) in the old playgrounds that kids would slowly work their way up to conquering. Because the risk was obvious, kids would approach it with caution and build up skills to get there. In contrast, a lot of injuries occur when 'safe' playgrounds have kids try to do things not designed for, but because of the way they are made don't appear to be dangerous bus actually are. Giving kids the ability to assess risk accurately, and develop the skill to take that risk, is the important part.
I suspect I am. Do you not think about what you search for on the internet before you do it? Sometimes I really have to think, "do I want google to know I want to know about this?"

Even if you use DDG, you go to a site with GA on it, google cdn, maybe facebook too, anything with those icons to share with a social media site.

Even searching for symptoms. I was searching for something my girlfriend mentioned the other day and now wondering if I'll start seeing some kind of ad related to the issue.

It's not good.
This has actually happened before. [0]

> An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the QR code scanning functionality of Yi Home Camera 27US 1.8.7.0D. A specially crafted QR Code can cause a buffer overflow, resulting in code execution.

[0] https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-20...
Cheeses generally keep for ages of they don't go rancid due to added oils, and this one is even more dehydrated by melting...
I think the language is too awkward there, and the meaning not super clear either. But of course it's all a matter of interpretation.
For me the walrus operator is an example of how things can take a turn for the worse. It's a bad idea. I have yet to see any example that justifies its existence. Put a different way, I have yet to see a reason for not extending "=" to add this behavior. This is how a nice language can be ruined and can become a Tower of Babel scenario. In some ways this is how J is a ruined version of APL, because it completely destroys what the language was about in the first place. Next thing we know we are going to end-up with 23 different assignment operators, one for each chromosome pair.

The other part I don't get is the religious insistence against not implementing something like a "switch" statement. This is one of the most useful constructs in all of computer science and Python rejects it due to what amounts to religious belief. In fact, one of the most powerful tools you get when moving from assembler to C is the "switch()" statement. If you've ever coded and maintained the equivalent in assembler you know exactly what I am talking about.

Because, you know, a pile of "if" statements is somehow better. Ah, OK, with "if" you can use data types other than integer. Sure, because we couldn't define a Python "switch" to work with anything other than integers...like a "switch" that could take a dictionary and route based on key/value matching, etc.

Every single state machine I have written in who knows how many decades --in C, C++, Objective-C, PHP, Verilog, etc.-- has had, at it's core, a single or multi-layer "switch" statement. Can't do that in Python, 'cause.

<rant off>
That's a corrugated steel panel.
This makes even less sense to me (as someone who knows only very little about drugs other than trying weed a couple of times), but doesn't cannabis also have medical use, and further have a lower potential for abuse, at least along the addictiveness axis?
As someone who bought on the dip in 2008, 30% cash is the sweet spot. 20% buying into the dip. 10% to keep you from having any cash flow problems that make you sell off to stay above water.
Sometimes it's something another moderator did and I'm just reporting it; sometimes it's something I did qua moderator, in which case I tend to say "we" because it's a team action either way.
> They said they were concerned ... whether China censors content seen by U.S. users. They also suggested TikTok could be targeted by foreign influence campaigns.

That reminds me of Soviet Union. Government choosing what kind of propaganda citizens should watch.

> He cited questions about why TikTok had “only had a few videos of the Hong Kong protests that have been dominating international headlines for months.”

Does politburo^W democratic government has a right to decide that a privately owned app must show Honkong protest videos? If yes, then what is the minimum quota of Honkong protest videos the app needs to meet? Should other apps, like dating or chess apps, show Honkong protest videos too?

> The company has said U.S. user data is stored in the United States

They should not. The data are better protected from such US senators if stored in China.

> Any platform owned by a company in China which collects massive amounts of data on Americans is a potential serious threat to our country

And what about US companies collecting data on foreign citizens?

> Chinese company may be censoring politically sensitive content

Some might call it moderation.
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Amazing how psychedelics might be legalized before housing in San Francisco.
Two brief thoughts

1) This is no way to treat kids that are already suffering from a dysfunctional society created by adults.

2) Even worse, to these kids, this is only going to normalize the idea of the surveillance state. But maybe that's the point.
A big part of the complaint is that injury rates & severity has stayed about the same. It seems the safer we make the playground, the more risks the kids take. It's called risk compensation.
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You should look at the pHash algo.
Here is what you need to do if you want regular cheese to melt similar to the ones that are usually put on a burger: https://aht.seriouseats.com/2011/09/the-burger-lab-how-to-ma...

It's questionable if it's worth it :)
This is a very difficult issue. It appears that the doctors had to rely on the patients own evaluation of his state, which is very problematic. The point at which the patient smiled wide and said he felt euphoric very well could have just been an absence of his normal mental problems. If you have anxiety, and it is taken away, yes, you feel euphoric. Because you don't know what you have been missing, and when you reach 'normal' it seems amazing. I had a similar experience when I first started treatment for social anxiety disorder. I very quickly came to realize that something I didn't even know what a problem or even knew it COULD be a problem had ruled my life for as long as I could remember. I had been warned that there could be sexual side effects from the medication. However, what had been described was lack of sexual interest, inability to climax, things like that. Yet what I experienced was the most intense spine-chilling toe-curling orgasms of wonder I'd ever had in my life. I explained this to my doctor and she let me know I was just having normal orgasms finally. I never could have guessed it before, but my pleasure level even during orgasm was markedly lower due to anxiety (even with masturbation).

Do not count on people with anxiety being able to recognize either anxiety or what they're "supposed to" feel like. It sounded to me like the doctor was afraid, actually afraid, of making the patient feel good. This sounds to me like a disgusting, cancerous viewpoint grown out of centuries of Protestant Work Ethic nonsense. Our stark, desperate fear of the destructive nature of pleasure is backed by almost nothing, and it benefits no one. When pleasure is paired with some sort of drawback - then point to the drawback. Not the pleasure as some kind of "it must be bad" that should be self-evident to post-Industrial era people. The whole 'deny the body and animal urges' notion was invented and promoted to get people into repetitive, grueling low-pay factory work and nothing more.
The thing you are referring to with open and closed files is called typestate. Check out its implementation in the Plaid programming language: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/papers/onward2009-state.pdf
That's not what I told you (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332308). The issue is repeating the same thing over and over at any mention of a triggering topic, or even (as in this thread) with no mention of it.

Repetition spoils curiosity. When users repeat the same thing so often that it starts to sound like an idée fixe, other users get upset and call it spamming, and eventually we have to ask the person to just avoid that topic. Google isn't the issue; there's plenty of criticism of Google on HN, as of every other big tech co.
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I would think a stronger indictment of the external validity of the study is not the sample (I have no reason to believe people slightly older/younger are materially different than college students, and to the extent that wealth is a confounder I would expect the direction of confounding to attenuate the study as presented), but rather the design: the way people perceive "prizes" won from participating in a study is materially different than the way they appreciate gifts given to them by people they know and have a bond with.

There's also an internal validity argument to be made that the effect size is trivial in substantive terms. 7.06 versus 7.82 on a 9 point scale of satisfaction for a mug? Who gives a shit? I would interpret both 7.06 and 7.82 as "I like this gift, it is a good gift". And also, who cares about getting a mug? If a mug is anchored at a 7-7.8 for me, then every gift I actually get from loved ones is going to be about a 500 out of 9.

Study 3 is meant to deal with the social-emotional element of giving a gift, but that's the only study where people don't actually get a gift. They use MTurkers and ask them to imagine. I would completely ignore this part of the study.

The more interesting takeaway here is the 1.5 point spread in anticipation between neat and sloppily wrapped gifts in Study 2. That's a way bigger effect than I'd think.
The Wikipedia article sorts by sales. Not sure why the years are like that, but the relative values are similar in 2019. [1] [2]

> for some reason neither Apple nor Amazon are software companies?

Because they aren't software companies? Or at least principally software companies.

Amazon is categorized as an retail company. [3]

Apple is categorized as a computer hardware company. [4]

Nitpicking aside, I think my point stands about a $800B+ company.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/companies/alphabet/?list=global2000#5...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/companies/microsoft/?list=global2000#...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/companies/amazon/?list=global2000#2c4...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/companies/apple/?list=global2000#3d04...
Then make it Russian Roulette; most of you will survive, and any one of you is enough to count as all of you.

Now is it any different to stepping into the teleporter?
There are some drugs about which good arguments can be made on both sides of the legality issue. Highly addictive ones do indeed ruin lives, and while there is an argument that that should be the person's choice, the other side can argue that the government is there to better the common good, and that can include protecting people from their own bad decisions. I have mixed feelings about the legality issue when it comes to cocaine, meth, heroin, prescription opioids, etc.

With psilocybin mushrooms, though, I can't imagine any reasonable argument that people need to be protected from themselves. They aren't addictive by any definition of addiction I know of. And they can do some amazingly positive things, especially for those who are facing death due to illness or just old age. I would go so far as to say it is tragic that such people are denied relief from the horrible feeling of impending death that mushrooms can provide.

Not that I am against people just doing them for kicks, either.
Containers are great for testing on a distro you don't use.
What about freedom of speech? Or it doesn't apply to Chinese mobile apps?
Maybe I'm missing something. As far as I know Firefox only allows you to disable a subset of CORS checks.

I just fundamentally don't agree that taking away extension functionality means taking away user freedoms. Even if Firefox developers are completely wrong about security, I have no moral right to make their project execute my code. My user freedom is to develop and run a modified version of the Firefox code, which Mozilla does allow by making Firefox free software.
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It is a very fair point that Snowden's revelations definitely had an impact. However, the impact you note was mostly technical.

The public backlash to these revelations is what seems lacking. It had very small political effects, and seemingly very little effect on the NSA. They did not change their stance much, and their weren't really consequences for what the NSA was doing.
> They don’t claim end to end encryption by default though. You make it sound as if there is a revelation you made here.

They don't claim e2e encryption by default, they just use some very tricky words that non-technical users will assume as encryption.

From telegram.org:

"Private: Telegram messages are heavily encrypted and can self-destruct."

"Secure: Telegram keeps your messages safe from hacker attacks."

"Encrypt personal and business secrets."
I agree with you in the sense that refined sugar in processed foods should be highly regulated, as society pays an enormous cost for it.
More colorful homes and clothing.
> The debt to GDP ratio has also been increasing since the end of the Cold War.

Think about how crazy that is. We were in a multi decade arms race with a super power and after ‘winning’ we never bothered to slow down our military spending.
I don't think I know many people who insisted on strong privacy/encryption. However, after the Snowden revelations people did consider it a preference. In that sense, it helped.
> However they were slower - but not much

Depends, we went from CVS to Git and nightly jobs tagging the repository went from taking hours to being almost instant.
I just brought up a fresh version of Asterisk. There is definitely a lot of terms to get use to but for someone who has some background it isn't too bad to pick up.

However I can see how confusing the world of telephony can be with all the crazy acronyms.
Ugh. Need help?
Please bear in mind that the origins of drug prohibition had little to do with "protecting" people, and were instead instruments of oppression.

Drug abuse a health problem, not a criminal problem. We spend orders of magnitude on the criminal side and, guess what? It only makes things worse.

Legalize.
Regulate.
Tax.

It's very simple, and is the only correct answer.
The result is not the same since government censorship is enforced through violence whereas corporate censorship is not enforced except within the confines of private property owned by the corporation.
Blizzard says “we failed in our purpose” after Hearthstone Hong Kong controversy
you can also use cash.
Surprises me that YouTube videos don't use them - instead the YouTubers say: "click the link in the description" but I am always using a console to watch YouTube on TV from my couch, so I never click their link.

Also free to air television never uses them.

Also I've never seen one used on the giant screen at a sports game or concert.

Also they could just be used for paying for anything at the checkout.
>>>This isn't a small group of criminal gangs who are doing this. It's the middle class and upper class of a first world nation, who are literally recreating slavery in the 21st century.

>>>I don't understand how this isn't being cracked down in the harshest manner

Your second paragraph's question is answered in your own first paragraph. The power structure in the country isn't going to undermine a system that it directly benefits from. Especially given the culture in that part of the world, that has a very non-Western perspective on things like "submission" and "human rights"....
In Scotland, the north of England, and Australia, you'll often hear 'cunt' used as a term of endearment between good friends. It's a banter thing.
~$ ./visual ./visualnc64.im -nogui -doit "Stdout nextPutAll: 'Hello world'; cr. ObjectMemory quit"

Hello world

~$
Housing is far more complicated, obviously. To claim it isn't "legalized" is using a very weird definition of the word.

Luckily, the city of San Francisco can work on multiple problems at once. They don't feel the need to wait for the homeless problem to be solved before they fix a pothole on the street or apply a fresh coat of paint to a piece of playground equipment.

This is a simple issue that can improve lives. Sometimes in dramatic ways, such as for the terminally ill. And it can be changed without a lot of money or effort being spent.
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https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/

TL;DR the "web" was invented in Europe. Amazing what happy people do when they can think about the future rather than how to pay for medical bills or college loans.
> Technically, almost every expression imaginable could be used by somebody who is racist.

you seem to be having a hard time with this. Let me paraphrase something that, if you have an open mind, might help elucidate the issue.

"I'm not saying that everyone who says, 'illegals' is racist, but an awful lot of racists like to say, 'illegals'"

> Yah, this very time.

no, you.
but now that could change
Agreed. I apologize for the way that came out. But will you conceded that saying a 3 year old could to that does come off as dismissive. There is skill and technique in what Pollock did even if you think the end result is shit.
> They pretty much confirm that the sole point of QR code was to sidestep Apple and Google.

The QR code has been around since the mid-90s and had nothing to do with payment. That's a much more recent application.
>Lending someone money doesn't cost you money, it earns you interest.

In the case of government bonds, barely.

>That may be true, but the interest payments are still flowing in a specific direction.

Sub-inflation interest payments mean that wealth flows in the opposite direction.

>That is increasingly not happening because people are living longer

Life expectancy has dropped for the 3rd year in a row.

>Which would be true if it was mostly being used to pay for national assets like infrastructure, but it's mostly being used to expand social security and medicare.

I think you misspelled pointless wars, but yes, it would be better if it was spent on infrastructure instead...
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. That breaks the site rules. Regardless of what you're battling for or against, using HN this way destroys the curiosity that the site exists for.

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