skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> i think you are not mentioning meth and heroin, despite them being on the RAND report from 2012 (one may suspect that order/rank may have morphed significantly since then), because the conversation around legalization around them would be an immensely unpopular sell in the US.

Heroin, mostly, comes from Asia, so I did segment a little there. In particular, a lot of heroin comes from Afghanistan, specifically, and American interventions there may have contributed to the opioid crisis. See e.g.:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47861444

Really the post was just too long and I was tired of writing. Opioids will indeed be another problem we have to deal with.

In the case of methamphetamine, there is some hope of substitution with less dangerous drugs like amphetamine, methylphenidate, et cetera. One of the biggest reasons people start using meth is that it's cheaper than other drugs; it's by far the easiest for chemists to make. It's heavily ingrained in various "party" subcultures for this reason, and also features in stories of rural poverty. But that also means that even a strikingly different (hopefully safer) drug could potentially take its place, if it were stimulating and pro-social. In that case we have no appeal to tradition; we have to confront the question of whether "party drugs" can have a place in legal society, which is another matter entirely.

Luckily, the market for methamphetamine is significantly smaller than that for marijuana or cocaine according to the RAND report, and I think this is because demand for meth, which we might call the "ramen noodles" of drugs, is more price-sensitive than other drugs. If the power of cartels is reduced by decriminalization efforts targeting the marijuana and cocaine markets, the price of meth may not be able to rise so easily without impacting demand.
> Safe Handling of Aliases

Er, why wouldn't you just use automatic storage duration? That would look even simpler than the Vale implementation and have the same benefits:

class BigClass {
A a;
B b{&a};
C c{&a};
D d{&a, &c};
};

You could of course explicitly write the constructor if you choose.

> Destructor Parameters

This can be done in C++: both unique and shared ptrs can take a deleter instance. So for the rollback example:

std::unique_ptr<Transaction, Transaction::RollbackWithMode> tx(
new Transaction(), Transaction::RollbackWithMode(mode));

But my question is -- why? At this point you are losing one of the main benefits of RAII IMO: scheduling cleanup work right next to initialization work, allowing you to assume it is taken care of as you read the rest of the function:

Transaction tx(conn, Transaction::ROLLBACK_MODE_TUMBLE);

...

if (ok) { tx.commit(); }
return;

Similarly with the Future example -- IMO this is far clearer:

void Producer(Future<T> future) {
auto auto_reject = AutoRun([&] {
if (!future.ready()) future.reject();
});
...code, including potentially many branches....
}

where AutoRun is something simple like

template <typename Functor>
auto AutoRun(Functor f) {
class AutoRunner {
public:
AutoRunner(Functor f) : f_(f) {}
~AutoRunner() { f_(); }
private:
Functor f_;
};
return AutoRunner(f);
}
So this is your design ? Have mkbhd zip his file and send it to his million subscribers ?
It saves on bandwidth $ costs to EBS (AWS block storage)
Oof, bad example there. Airbnb is cancer. It’s enabling people to run illegal hotels in residential neighborhoods, allowing people to cash in when their neighbors pay the price and driving up rents.

And no I don’t care if you’ve had use out of it or you feel like “it’s my property, I can do what I want with it”, which is an entirely self-serving rationalization that doesn’t stand up any sort of scrutiny.
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Another article on the topic: https://techxplore.com/news/2020-06-amorphous-boron-nitride-...
Launch HN: Jupiter (YC S19) – Groceries, on Autopilot (Need Recipe Feed Testers)
Hi HN team!

I'm Chad, Co-founder & CEO of Jupiter.co. We are building an automated grocery experience. We allow people strapped for time, like families, to put their entire grocery list on autopilot.

How it works,
- You sign-up, we predict your first cart
- You add your favorite items to an autopilot list.
- Our model learns as you order week to week.
- The model runs weekly and proposes your cart then after modifications, we submit your order then deliver it.

We are looking for some new users to test out a recipe creation and sharing feature. Imagine Pinterest with a grocery backend.

People save their recipes on Jupiter and add the required grocery items. This saves them time on the next order. Once a recipe is saved, all users on Jupiter can use it.

In one click, you will be able to add all the ingredients for recipe you saw with all the items to your cart.

If you are interested in testing. Hit our waitlist @ Jupiter.co and use the code "RecipeTester"
Note that the article being discussed here is about gameplay loops; not a game engine loop.

I only mention this because this comment primed me for a discussion about game engine design instead of game design.
This is not the same thing IMO.

Imagine Russia announced last week they had a airplane hacking tool that could crash any 747 by using sonic waves to rattle some bolts loose making the wings fall off the plane.

If tomorrow, 3 different 747s crash all because their wings fell off, would that be suspicious?

You could say "well it was a plane crash, something had to go wrong". But things went wrong in a very specific and unique way that is directly linked to another nation.

It's the same here. The researchers are showing incredibly specific modifications to protein structure and DNA. It's not just "oh wow, this virus is very virulent". It's "oh wow, this virus has a handful of never before seen mutations, all of which were being studied in Wuhan, where the virus began".
Hackers Accidentally Exposed Their Training Videos Online
Citation for protestors in Portland murdering people?

Citation for "millions of dollars in damages"? Yes there have been broken windows, and there were significant riots in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's murder. Since then (and absolute in the last 6 weeks) the protests have been peaceful with the exception of a few broken windows and some graffiti. Absolutely not millions of dollars in damage.
No doubt there was extreme fishiness involved. One common trait of most corrupt societies is the concentration of power at the top of the pyramid, and how the same few names and families keep popping up all over the landscape.
Good point. Too many important points are drowned by overly complex speech. Bang on.
Trump had enough time and leverage to put pressure on him, so if that's your hope, well I don't think anything will come from it.

OTOH, I may not really think highly about how AMLO has done things, but I do applaud him for following a strategy to act against the structural causes. We have enough history on how the Militar strategy doesn't work, and actually a couple of examples where the "tough on drugs" guy is actually colluding with the drug dealers.
Here's his own quote:
"I downloaded this file with the intent to use it for the benefit of someone other than Google,"

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/former-google-self-dr...
Wow, that article was really short. I was hoping there would be an actual example of Feynman doing this...
I was on a call with an investor and an employee mouthed to me, silently, "everything is down!"

Immediate hot flash.

After I got off the call (thank god he had an appointment to run to), I checked it out. Our internal dashboards were all green so we realized it was a DNS issue pretty quickly.

Since we couldn't get into Cloudflare we searched Twitter and realized it was their issue and I stopped worrying.

One of the benefits of CF and other major internet vendors is that when they're down, you can kind of shrug it off and tell your customers to wait a bit. Not so if you're using a smaller/unknown CDN company.
Yep. Feynman technique.
F-droid sometimes lags a couple days behind the latest updates. Usually the parsing errors are fixed within a day or two and made available on the official site before f-droid. As far as I know, those are usually caused by updates to youtube itself.
The efficacy and amount of evidence definitely varies per condition - I wouldn't say it's a pancea for every health condition and there's more research to be done for sure.

As we build these programs we'll focus on where there is the most evidence and conduct our own research to further back up the work we're doing. Thanks for checking it out!
> .docx files don't have macros, only .docm files do.

As if a filename extension means anything at all.
there is plenty out there. google "feynman technique"
IIRC he allegedly also tried to wipe all evidence of it which is why it was hard to prove. So it seems he knew what he was doing.
>One law enforcement official said it “looked like a professional job.”

I wondered about that quote.

What are the odds a given law enforcement offical would ever even see / know the results of a "professional"?

The few "professional" folks I can think of historically, usually also dispose of the body...
it's very noticeable in duck hunt, but I always assumed it was a deliberate effect.
Yes but... and I'm sorry to point out the obvious, but these executives haven't been murdered by Persians. They've just been paid a relatively trivial amount to do their jobs for a few months.

And who's to stay the internally-promoted folks will demand any less payment?

Anyways, sounds like you're just opposed to these payments fundamentally despite all of the rational arguments that have been elucidated in this thread in support of them.
Trotsky was wrong on a lot of things, but the necessity to hold power in check is something he got preciently and very right.

One should always indeed challenge those in power, if only because it leads to better outcomes for all.
Which players are going to aggressively lobby for this? Only ones who are in the early stages of declaring bankruptcy (not the deepest pockets). Whereas creditors (big banks) probably have more sway, and would benefit from chapter 11 to be weaker.

What you're saying is intellectually lazy and bordering on /r/conspiracy. You shouldn't stop identifying, understanding, and petitioning to fix the problem simply because you think you might get some pushback.
> Underpinning it all is the 2nd Unix philosophy of text outputs, so the data one app exports can be imported by another. That’s how you can export your address book from Outlook and import it into Gmail, and it’s the same principle that lets web APIs connect software with built-in integrations and connection tools like Zapier, IFTTT, Segment, and more.

Looks like author mentioned that. I guess, the change is in the name - and perception.
My understanding is Feynman was a great explainer partially because he despised jargon and specialized terminology in general.
Everyone has a massive incentive to look for actual, concrete evidence for a lab escape before they draw any such conclusions. Leaving aside the uncomfortable geopolitical angle (US policy is to respond to deliberate biowarfare with nuclear weaponry), extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
FileBin. Really?

I have news for you. The file itself is real but it's also acting suspiciously like malware. (Opens a second document showing a "hire me!" message and downloading another file)

I was lucky to spin up a VM, open it and I saw that message.
Thank-you for your reply, tbh I couldn't understand it either and it was quite savage initially, particularly given the effort I went into to walk a straight line (and yes, certainly not going to be heading to Sweden anytime).
Perhaps the highly political nature of the subject matter? Maybe I shouldn't have used the word dangerous
in fact, legalization of class A or B (schedule 1 and 2 in the USA) drugs would generally mean expulsion from the UN of that country for breach of the charter. that's why e.g. the Netherlands have only decriminalised certain drugs. technically they are still illegal. in fact, if Canada was a smaller, non Western/developed country, im sure they would not have legalised cannabis, and even so they definitely won't legalise wholedale trafficking etc. it seems the UN got a bit upset but couldn't do much? [0]

0. https://news.un.org/en/audio/2018/10/1023212
That's... insane.

The point of chapter 11 is that the company does NOT liquidate. Most employees DO NOT LOSE THEIR JOBS. Liquidating a functioning but indebted company destroys any remaining value (there is huge value in the structure of a business -- it's not the sum of inventory and real estate). And most importantly...

EVERY SINGLE EMPLOYEE LOSES THEIR JOB

There is absolutely no societal value in forcing companies to sell themselves off piece by piece, and sending every employee onto the street. Let the shareholders get wiped out. But don't force the company to fold and collapse unless it's unavoidable!
the pandemic may not have been, but the scale to which businesses were shutdown was.
Thanks! The low FODMAP diet is a great option but there's many people who would prefer not to have to restrict their diet (myself included).

That's really great to hear! Let us know if he has any feedback.
The evidence does not support this PR narrative propagated by unions and unionized workers.

The evidence suggests that the largest factor causing a slowdown in wage growth since the 1970s is a slowdown is labor productivity growth:

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/sources-of-real-wage-stag...

This slowdown can be attributed in part to the loss in economic efficiency and competitiveness brought about by society empowering unions with laws suppressing contract liberty.

With a few exceptions, like the Screen Actors Guild and the movie industry, industries where unions took over became less competitive and contracted if they failed to outsource. This extends from US Steel, to the US passenger rail service (which the "brotherhoods" bankrupted), to the Big Three US automakers.

With respect to the last point: Detroit used to be the US city with the highest per capita income. Today it is completely dilapidated. That is the real legacy of the anti-competitive unions and the stranglehoods labor laws gave them over capitalist enterprise.

The new successes of American industry and sources of US export growth: Tesla and Amazon, are next on the chopping block for the social activists pushing for unionization with the labor union movement's victimhood culture narratives.

The monopolization of a workforce by a union is detrimental to efficiency/quality and the accountability of workers in every endeavor/industry, not just policing.

Here is evidence of the detrimental effect of teachers unions on education:

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/111/3/671/1839...

>>Police unions are very very different from any other union - to the extent that the most common interaction between the police unions and other unions is when police come in as violent strike breakers.

Source?

Police were NOT unionized in the 19th and early 20th century, before unions got the backing of government force (labor laws), when they had to resort to illegal violence, like picket lines that were enforced with physical assault, to shakedown employers.

Since the unions' suppression of contract liberty got government backing, strikes involving illegal violence have become unnecessary for the unions to engage in, and violent clashes between unions and police have all but disappeared.
What a gift. I love how he just squirms with enthusiasm.

We have a couple large fields by our home that alternate yearly between soybeans and corn. The amount of biomass that accumulated in a corn field between mid June and mid July is remarkable. Knowing that nearly all of that mass is from the atmosphere and not the ground is quite a prospective shifter.
How is it atrocious exactly?

I mean it’s decidedly not React to be clear, but I’m not sure what makes it atrocious
Neurodiversity and the Dignity of Work
Eugenics is a dirty and ambiguous word.

Mass killing of people based on criteria? Let’s not do that.

Reducing opportunities and quality of life for people we don’t want to breed? Let’s not do that.

Forced sterilization of populations? No.

Rewards for voluntary sterilization? (This selects based on socioeconomic status and moral values.) I don’t like this. You might be surprised to hear this is happening in India right now.

Fines for having too many children? (Again, this selects on socioeconomic status and moral values.) I don’t like this. You’re probably already aware this is happening in China.

Removing existing monetary or tax-break incentives that encourage having more children? We have a lot of child support/relief programs in Australia. They cause a sort of inverse selection by socioeconomic and moral values. I’m not sure how I feel about them. They really do improve the quality of life for the parents and the children, but they make having a child a less scary decision, which undoubtedly removes some of the hesitation that may have otherwise made a more reckless person think twice.

Researching genetics, culture and education and building programs that help people understand how nature and nurture will affect their unborn or young children. YES! These programs should be available to everyone. It should be mandatory to get a “child report” before having a child. But the exact contents of the child report should not be available to anyone but the prospective parents. (Aggregate anonymized should be available to all, though, to help with society-level planning.)

Wide-spread education on life planning? Openly marketing “Don’t have children before you’re ready!” ? Researching happiness and success metrics and publicizing the results in an accessible way, to help people realize the consequences of having children? Yes, yes, yes!

mrmuagi’s comment captures it well. If you look at a child in isolation, there are definitely preferable genes, cultural aspects, and educational aspects. For example, you want them to have a college-level degreee. You want them to not have asthma or eczema.

There will be children. How can we sway the forces of nature — in a way that most of us are okay with — toward preferable genes, culture, and education?

If we don’t steer the boat, we may not like where it goes.
don't you just exchange that with apps your carrier forces on you?
One less act of defiance to brag about on internet forums?
> make massive archives shortly before quitting your current employer

What's the rule on this? two weeks? three months? two years?
I believe so (as long as there is no insane styling issues), aside for the monospace font being somewhat annoying to read (compared to a serif), on mobile devices one would need to zoom and scroll back and forth to read it with a reasonable font size.
Which is not an accusation of research done in bad faith. The linked paper referenced 4 others as evidence. It doesn't say that those 4 were somehow done for evil - just that they were done.
Compare this to Facebooks SDK “postmortem” and you can tell which company cares more about its customers.
Slightly off topic but do Indians generally find Westerners doing Yoga cultural appropriation when it’s stripped from its original context? I actually see Yoga and Hinduism more broadly like open source software with its many philosophies as branches. As such developing a free app is in the same spirit of making (formerly) esoteric practices more accessible
The platform-specific stuff is not where most of the bugs have been found, so your assertion is misguided. Portability is one of the greatest strengths "keeping crypto freely accessible for all" and the fact that e.g. with a suitable C89 compiler I can create a binary that will run on an original 8088 IBM PC and perform SHA256 or AES should not be underestimated.

To a first approximation, crypto is pure maths. The rest can be taken care of by the standard C library.
I think the “hypothesis of zoonotic outbreak from a wet market in mid-Dec” is still very relevant, and the few papers claiming to have evidence of SARS-CoV-2 prior to Dec 2019 outside China are still very questionable. It’s not like they tested old samples in a few places and the virus promptly showed up. Rather, lots of old samples were tested all over the place, and the virus almost never showed up, except in a very few instances that night more parsimoniously be explained with false positives.
Certainly. [1] gives a good overview, on how Devos pushed for more and more charter schools, without any requirement for credentials. [2] is some focus on the history of charter schools in Michigan, Devos's home state. [3] is a local news story (tracked down from some articles that reference it), going into a lawsuit about the poor performance of schools in the Detroit area, following the siphoning of funds to charter schools. The state didn't even attempt to argue that the schools were well-run, and instead argued that "there is no fundamental right to literacy".

Maybe I could see charter schools as a reasonable option in some cases. With Betsy Devos at the helm, they should be fought at every turn.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/12/...

[2] https://www.michiganadvance.com/2019/02/12/how-25-years-of-c...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20170217112809/https://www.fox2d...
Scion is such an effort: https://www.scion-architecture.net/
Well he was also interrupted while cleaning up.
I actually believe this to be the case. From what I have read researchers often do something called gain of function research. In this research they add genetic features to viruses that could make it more infective. This is done, at least in part, to help learn how to protect society from such a virus if it were to evolve naturally. I thought I heard somewhere that one of the functions coronavirus has that its closest known relatives do not have just happens to be something that virologists frequently add.

All this leads me to believe it was created in a lab. Likely for altruistic purposes but still. When this escaped whoever knew that it was from a lab should have disclosed it ASAP to help the world prepare.

I have no experience in virology so don't trust me.
"Plata o plomo" (silver or lead)
There's actually a chance it added capacity.
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I don't see the CPB supposedly identifying their agency as alleviating the first issue your parent mentioned: habeas corpus. The litmus test is: can a family/friend/attorney reasonably find the arrested/detained person within a few hours?
> However, it also seems reasonable that features of viruses researchers study because of their likelihood to increase human transmission would show up in a naturally occurring virus with a lot of human transmission.

You are letting language get in the way here. Researchers at Wuhan weren't studying "features" of viruses, they were studying what happens exactly when you insert X amino acid at Y location and how that can affect the structure of Z protein. And that exact, one in a billion, never before seen mutation happens to occur randomly right next door to them?
The rule is never. You're never allowed to steal a massive data dump of your employer's IP.
Dictatorships never accept getting over anything.
Not who you asked and I’m not up to date when it comes to the world of video streaming but personally I’d prefer a web where content creators would have to pay to distribute their content. Pay as in have some server, domain, bandwidth and whatnot. It’s then up to the creator to decide how/if to monetize their content. Just like the old days.