skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point it looked like people were following my account and downvoting it. Everything I'd post would get to -2 or so. I think it stopped?

Apparently some twitter uses do not like HN, it is/was not just myself, someone else told me about it.
Yes! I'm sick of "de-platforming." Free speech is a much bigger concept than the First Amendment can provide for. If we believe free speech to be an important "Good," it deserves more protection than the limited protections the First Amendment offers.
Even if it doesn't lead to a medical treatment, the impact of CRISPR on everyday biomedical research has already been enormous - it's probably the biggest advance in molecular biology lab techniques in the past decade. Getting it to work in humans is of course a huge project, and we can expect many failures along the way, but genetic modification is vastly easier than it was 10 years ago, when we barely had any idea how to make these kinds of changes. Every improvement to the technology makes it that much more likely that we'll see a human application in the near future.
So, Dissenter.
We should leave the EU because it was voted for by the majority
Worth noting is that there is a v2 branch of Ogre, which is a near-full rewrite aimed at fixing these issues [1].

It was, I think, more than 5 years ago that Matias Goldberg wrote the first demo of what speedups are possible in Ogre by following a data-oriented approach: contiguous structures, eliminating excessive branching, structure-of-arrays layouts, etc. I'm happy it's grown into something pretty usable today (from what I see).

Now it seems that all this is the standard industry wisdom, but I feel like at the time people were only slowly realizing the real cost of all those vtable lookups and abstractions.

[1]: http://wiki.ogre3d.org/tiki-index.php?page_ref_id=2191
> I remember having a fun debate over beers on why more companies / startups couldn't operate in that manner.

Because it would complicate having multi-billion dollar exits. The VC's don't care about creating sustainable businesses that create value for their users. They care about creating runaway hits that they can make billions of dollars on when they IPO.
My mental health is okay at the moment. I spent the last few years in therapy, which helped me work through a lot of intellectual and emotional scar tissue. I'm no longer on antidepressants, and it's nice not having a dry mouth all the time.

I have little questionnaires and signposts that I have developed for myself. I write a weekly-ish email to a list of friends, and if I don't have anything to say, I know that I haven't had enough time for reflection, which will make everything else cascade. It's not the reflection itself, but the absence of reflection is a good proxy. Similarly, I try to stay aware of how "tattered" my mental state is.

Sleep, diet, enough space in my life where reflection occurs naturally, and enough physical exertion that I don't feel awful are the biggest factors at this point.
I am an Air Force brat. We didn't live on the base, but it was a bit of a drive to get to the base. All our grocery shopping was done on the base. Since it was a drive, maybe 30 min, we'd buy 2 weeks of groceries at a time.
Decriminalization /= Legalization

Decriminalization means an activity is no longer criminal, but it can still be punishable as a civil infraction, like crossing a red traffic light.

When it comes to hard drugs, some people advocate for decriminalization but not legalization. So in your example, fentanyl will still be illegal.
From the original article:
https://medium.com/dartlang/dart2native-a76c815e6baf

"the executables created with dart2native are self-contained, they can run on machines that don’t have the Dart SDK installed. And because they’re compiled with Dart’s AOT compiler, the executables start running in just a few milliseconds."

and some fun stuff:
"Using Dart core libraries, dart:ffi, and the dart_console library, we can create pretty interesting console apps. The dart_console package includes a full demo of kilo, a console text editor written in just ~500 lines of Dart code. The name kilo comes from its origin, kilo.c, which was a C implementation in roughly 1000 lines of code."
then tough. If someone is to the stage where however much pure heroin they inject is not enough, then the the medical care on offer at such places is put into place way before this becomes a problem.

As a recreational drug, heroin is much more desirable than fentanyl. The problem with street heroin it is cut to nothing and expensive (relative). Fentaynl is pure strength, shorter lasting and less enjoyable.
Clever yes, but I wonder about the legalities of it
You have misunderstood the requirements of the GDPR. CNIL, for example, has made it explicitly clear that so long as an effective retention policy is in place then PII does not need to be removed from backups on demand.
Well, I found UdeM pretty awful, difficult to talke to anyone, took a long time and really screwed me around. In retrospect I would say hard avoid based on the incompetence of the admin (DIRO specifically). It seems like if you're coming from overseas they really don't know what to do, and its impossible to get past the admin. In retrospect, talk to professors first, do admin process second, and allow at least 12 months for the process.
My first programming job I made a whopping $28k a year, back in 2006, in Chicago. That's $35k in today's dollars, and ~$55k taking the cost of living of NYC into account.

Hell, you're currently making about what I do after 10+ years of experience even taking cost of living into account (of course I stupidly never left Chicago). Use that salary to leverage a better trajectory than I ever got.

Assuming your love is on the west coast somewhere, you should be able to find something close to her that pays comparably well.

Just do your best to stick it out and keep looking. A year really isn't that long. I've hated my current job for the past two years but I'm still here (well I desperately need to leave, but it has some perks, like working remotely, and it's hard to find a new job when you're planning a wedding, which thankfully is done now). Having that job on your resume will help you negotiate down the line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number For those who are interested.
Well, to be fair, and we're on course to veer right off topic -- a large majority of gun deaths are suicides.
It's late for clarifying, but I was speaking much more broadly; as in through the entire life of a child.

Though thinking of it, a new new deal would also help the parents, and a structured environment that has 'secondary parents' to assist with raising a child to common standards for society would be good for everyone. That'd be more like schooling / social support without bounds, possibly a good use of human resources when automation finally eliminates the drudgery jobs.
Even given your perspective, it might still be interesting that Mr. Dalio, from his perspective, sees things as being unsustainable. Addressing climate change is not going to be easier if there is an economic collapse.
Scorsese struck a deal with Netflix for The Irishman and cinemas aren't happy
Yes, but we already know these positions tend to select for mildly sociopathic behavior in the first place...
The same as some who writes an application like wordpress.
And Amazon sellers API (Amazon MWS). Rarely seen such an inconsistent mess of often poorly documented SOAP-ish calls, that so many external partners base their livelyhood on.
Just like Amazon the on site ratings were normally pretty useless. Outside info sources like forums and Reddit normally had better results but were still full of constant FUD.
There's still the need for logging and assertion functions, where you want to test the debugging level or some other value before you evaluate the arguments to the function. Right now, you need to use a macro, but there's a proposal:

James Dennett and Geoff Romer. P0927R2: Towards A (Lazy) Forwarding Mechanism for C++. ISO/IEC C++ Standards Committee Paper. 2018. url: https://wg21.link/p0927r2.
Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say
Why should we be subsidizing rural communities with free services that are terrible for the environment? If people want the benefits of modern civilization like air travel and grocery stores, they should move to cities. We are doing enough harm to the world in cities, we don't need to encourage sprawl even more.
> here's no widespread perception that C++14 or later bring compelling language improvements.

C++14 didn't add a whole lot of new things; it mostly improved on existing features.

C++17 adds a number of new things.

I would use it just for std::optional and std::variant though.
The reason the state doesn't own the poles is that by allowing a private company to own them, the state doesn't have to finance their construction up-front.

The downside is that the taxpayers are now forever on the hook of paying shareholder dividends for electricity.

The best outcome in this whole situation is that PG&E is sued into bankruptcy and nationalized, leaving the shareholders with nothing. Owning a government-protected monopoly-utility that is bad at its job should not be a license to print money, regardless whether or not you ponied up some cash up front. Sometimes, you make bad investments.
that's also what they said about residential mortgage debt in 2007. never underestimate the bankers' ability to use one large batch of shitty loans to back an even bigger batch of them.
> in that case surely it doesn't matter whether it's actually fentanyl or something else, any opiate of this strength is too dangerous to be out there, no?

I don't see why.

The primary issue with fentanyl today is not that the people who need/want it are taking it, it's that it's being used to adulterate other drugs. Many people die from fentanyl having no desire to take it, nor any knowledge they are taking it. Others die because of incorrect labelling or unexpected purity. Regulate the market as we regulate other markets, and these problems go away.

My local supermarket sells a lot of things which would kill me if swallowed in relatively small amounts (acetaminophen and caffeine tablets, for example), but there's no crisis of people dying from taking a box of No-Doz because, well, why would you want to? Fentanyl overdose is a pretty baroque method of suicide in a hypothetical world where all drugs are legal and safe.

(I'm not especially against the idea that, even if heroine is legal, fentanyl should still be prescription only or whatever for some reason! I just don't see any obvious reasons why it would be uniquely dangerous. Most things will kill you at a sufficient dose; they're problematic only if you're at risk of accidentally taking that dose. And the obvious problems with fentanyl today would not apply so...)
Facebook says 100 software developers may have improperly accessed user data
You're responding to someone asking about developing open-source software, not deploying and operating it.
Maybe its just me, but these "dumbed down tools" are working fine over here. What fantastical brokerage experience are you guys expecting here that Robinhood doesn't support?

Are some of you actually concerned that your money is going to disappear overnight because it's in RH? I can assure you this is not a thing, unless you legitimately made very poor investment decisions with said money. Also, if this is the case, any of the above platforms will provide a virtually identical journey into poverty.
Not OP, but I'm fairly certain he meant the latter. And I think his point wasn't so much they'll be worse, but why do we believe they'll be better?
> (And if I hit "darn, I can't do what I need to because I have an ARM chip", that's not a knock on Linux as an option.)

Some binaries might not be available depending on what you do or what distro you use, but generally you could always compile the software yourself, it could take a while so as long as you are not in a hurry.
Yeah, rending infrastructure and operational authority to 3rd parties seems like the best compromise IMO.

You can not renew contracts when service is not satisfactory and any lawsuits are on the operator, not the taxpayer.
Here's a url for the other 20% of cases:

https://m.facebook.com/events/east-brunswick-hotel/weekly-we...

Does not work as intended, good work anyway I'll be using your tool for sure ;)
Cppreference is great, but it is not the best place to learn the language.
Spain's Sanchez says there will be no 'online' independence for Catalonia
Yes, and then they often blame "the system" (could either be corporations or the government, or both) for the natural outcome of living in an area without many people, which is that there are fewer useful services around, or that they're more expensive.

Rural America as it is, is already heavily subsidized by urban America, but it's common for people to say that we're leaving them behind, when even as it is they're being carried along. Collectively speaking, rural Americans are extremely dependent people.
But I’ll be damned if everything on the shelf isn’t cheap as dirt. Wouldn’t do my grocery shopping there but mine was a solid improvement on the CVS nearby.
Billion has meant 10^9 in both the US and the UK in most common usage since the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#cite_not...

There is no modern British definition that is different from the US definition.
Yeah, I'm not expecting a ton given the price point, I have my "real" machines for work.I would like an open and functional option for traveling, conferences etc though. Maybe it is because of delivery timelines or something, but I don't see many people reviewing these outside of initial unboxing type details...
> it's because they want money and a lifestyle that comes from working for a coporation while also claiming the moral highground

If you think people work at a corporation for money and lifestyle, then you are living in a bubble. I'm betting most people work at a huge company are doing menial labour and hate it.
Do they mean kilobits or kilobytes?
California's stringent green energy initiatives and regulations have cut into the budget allocated for updating transmission lines. The same people that pass those laws, also pass laws limiting the maximum profit of a utility to 10% and then lambast them for being greedy and not updating their lines. Yet if you look at the balance sheets of PG&E there isn't much net profit.
> What features make a private website a public square?

* The fact that that's what these sites bill themselves as (a place to connect everyone).

* Their user base cross-cuts most demographics (even if the samplings are always representative).

> Would people feel differently if platforms were honest and direct about being a private club of some specific kind?

Yes. You don't hear much about the government wanting to regulate Reddit, do you? It has roughly comparable number of monthly active users in the US as Twitter (26.4 million vs. 68 million) but it's built around the idea of independently moderated virtual clubs.

> If Twitter came out and said they wanted to be a private club for people with progressive views to discuss politics and sundry, would that dampen the criticism of censorship?

I think people (and advertising revenue) would move to a different platform.
I absolutely disagree. Taken categorically, your point here would effectively silence any critique or analysis of Soros' intentions, character and actions. You're right that he is a contentious character subject to many conspiratorial accusations. The low quality of some of the more outrageous accusations however should not be a reason to spare him any further criticism.
I'd also question the notion of 'bad faith' in this discussion that you raised. If someone brings up valid points regarding Soros' character, I don't think their political beliefs should be relevant if they're not part of the discussion.
For what it's worth I don't like Soros or his actions, however I think the reality is much more nuanced than the more conspiratorial accounts suggest.
Writing open source software designed for the .onion network is different than running a drug platform over the darknet.

Writing software doesn't get you in trouble. Choosing to stock ads for products like guns/drugs might.
What some of these outfits are up to is more than just barratry, it’s extortion and racketeering. I’d like to see them brought up on RICO charges.
Getting It Right: Truth vs. Accuracy
No because of the increased risk of death means you might get a worse reputation if people OD.
Try interval swimming. Go into it fully, explore different movements, sweat it out and stick to it.

Look up ghostlighting, make adjustments.
Which just moves the question to "why more companies / startups couldn't avoid the toxic VC influence on their business"...
Probably? Hospitals use fentanyl all the time and I’d imagine they have no problem with dosing. It’s probably pretty great to have enough pain killers on hand for an entire hospital and not needing 100x the space (or whatever the scale is)
Rethinking Productivity
Does the function argument (i.e. the template string) get evaluated regardless of the optional chaining or does it match up with the “roughly equivalent” code?

log?.(`Request started at ${new Date().toISOString()}`);
// roughly equivalent to
// if (log != null) {
// log(`Request started at ${new Date().toISOString()}`);
// }
I’ve actually just started a new podcast on discussing mental health in the software development industry. It’s called Happy Dev https://happy-dev.transistor.fm

Episode one will be out tomorrow morning!
Dell's $2000 27-inch Thunderbolt 3 UltraSharp monitor has a built-in colorimeter
If you look at the about page, it's running purely on CPU (!).
The optional chaining and null coalescing operators are very nice. Dart has had those for several years and they really do come in handy.
AFAIK PG&E works on "guaranteed profit" model, i.e. they can raise prices if current prices do not cover for expenses plus predetermined profit margin. So suing it, unless it's currently hugely profitable way beyond the margin (which AFAIK it is not) would only end up in "suing ourselves" anyway.
An association of municipalities that invested like a pension fund would be a very interesting vehicle. They could buy infrastructure, but their mandate would be for productive assets.

Public energy utilities in Canada just got loaded with off balance sheet debt and used as a general revenue slush fund for “infrastructure,” and built by unions on double time and a half, but it would be harder to get away with that today. A municipal wealth fund like a sovereign wealth fund would be worth exploring.
Ah. Yes, I wasn't the one who had to get Boost into Buck, so I don't know the pain. But I also have been told to avoid Boost for modern C++, so...
I doubt there'd be much demand for fentanyl if other opiates were available but the problems with it are caused by unknown quantity and quality. Solve that and overdoses get a lot rarer. "This amount is what you need to get high. More than that is dangerous."
What about SDG&E? Why should the people of San Diego have to pay taxes for a public utility they don't benefit from?
Interactive Neural Signaling Simulation
They provide samples: https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/papers/GPT_2_Report.pdf#...
But guns in America are not regulated. In most countries guns are legal just heavily regulated.

A completely black market for guns would lead to things that could blow up in your hand or explode at any time, the same as unregulated drugs
I tend to run into these when weaving a lot of SwiftUI + non-SwiftUI code together.

A simple example: [0]. There are workarounds for this specific issue, but trying to do complex stuff sometimes surfaces inscrutable limitations that I can't quite figure out. And with no documentation relevant to a particular case, no Google hits, not even on Apple's forums, and the uncertainty of error messages, I'm not even sure if I'm doing something wrong or it just can't/shouldn't be done. I have to try random things until it works...until it doesn't.

I'm currently experimenting with a SwiftUI layer for a game engine [1], and running into weird undocumented differences between macOS and iOS (like view backgrounds clipping at stack container edges on macOS but not on iOS) that I can't be sure if they're bugs or what. Still, I love SwiftUI.

Also see EmptyView [2]

[0] https://gist.github.com/ShinryakuTako/5a7b32bbf4f4c3874439c2...

[1] https://github.com/InvadingOctopus/octopuskit

[2] https://forums.swift.org/t/how-do-views-like-emptyview-confo...
I can't help thinking - what makes one suppose that California politicians would do a better job managing PG&E than whoever is doing it now who has been working under the aegis and in the full cooperation with the same California politicians as a monopoly sanctioned by those same politicians?
I totally agree with you, but FYI they're called "carets". Much as I like the idea of carrots in comments :-)
I'm not sure Santa Rosa is exactly in the woods.
> http://www.devsanon.com/rants/stupid-javascript/

> Until Javascript removes the stupid from it's language, it will remain an embarrassment to developers. Completely inexcusable.

From that link:

> > typeof NaN

> > "number"

> > NaN == NaN

> > false

> > Ok, so the type of Not a Number is a number? And it also does not equal itself? Oh, well. Let’s try equality with other stuff.

Compliance with IEEE 754 is stupidity that is completely inexcusable? That NaN is non-reflexive is certainly irritating but a standards-compliant language is expected to adhere to that.
I have show-dead on, and when I wrote this reply there are only(?) three dead root level comments. One is "Who is this guy" (which is unsubstitutive and seems like a Google search away), another is "Good example of why anyone should be skeptical of Soros. He is a profiteer with little regard for the damage he causes." (which I guess a case can be made for, but seems just a political/personal attack rather than particularly interesting).

The third tells people to read an outrageously anti-semtic, pseudo intellectual set of books. As one review of these books says: "the book is controversial, not only because of its theoretical approach, but also, and perhaps primarily, because of sloppy scholarship". It also recommends an author who "argues that mass killings of Jews throughout history have been understandable reactions to Jewish beliefs and behavior. He goes so far as to justify Eastern European pogroms and even the Nazi Holocaust on these grounds. As he wrote in a 2003 Culture Wars article, “[T]he Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews was a reaction to Jewish Messianism (in the form of Bolshevism) every bit as much as the Chmielnicki pogroms flowed from the excesses of the Jewish tax farmers in the Ukraine.”" This comment finishes with the statement "To grasp the truth and the bigger picture, you cant get it on controlled sites such as this, where truth is suppressed."

Needless to say, claiming "truth is suppressed" is a great way to appeal for upvotes..
Elizabeth Holmes' lawyers complain to judge that she hasn't paid them in a year
L.L. Bean's return policy was no questions asked. It was almost certainly heavily abused. Personally, I can't blame them.
The right place for a chill after work beer. Free peanuts, but don’t order “the other” in the name of science. Free peanuts, but don’t order “the other” in the name of science. The last thing you’ll see after work is a sign that says, “Sorry we are closed on Tuesday because we have peanuts.” The last thing you’ll see after work is a sign that says, “Sorry we are closed on Tuesday because we have peanuts.“
Surely reckless indifference as to the outcome of his actions must at some level attribute him some moral culpability for what he did.
Thieves might say that their intent wasn't to deprive others, simply to enrich themselves. Soros may well have just wanted to make a lot of money, but the manner in which he did it has consequences.