skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. It's a split really. I was lucky enough that when I quit my job to go solo, some clients I'd worked with previously got in touch directly after my non-compete clause expired. Other work I've found through friends. I also do some contracting if I see a something come up online that's Vue specific. I live relatively frugally so I can usually afford to be picky with the contracts I go for.
While we commonly think of drugs as a sort of abstracted aggregate, in reality most of the drug trafficking in Latin America comes down to just two drugs: marijuana and cocaine.

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/R...

Marijuana is a problem that we are already addressing. A majority of Americans and Westerners in general have supported marijuana legalization for years now, raising hopes that the problem will be solved in some way. Our knowledge about the drug and experience with legal marijuana problems suggests that the downsides of legalization are not very large.

Cocaine is a little bit different. It puts severe stress on the heart because it inhibits action potentials in peripheral neurons directly via action on voltage-gated sodium channels and increases metabolic rate via CNS activity. The downsides of cocaine prohibition are massive, but in this case the downsides of legalization have a large uncertainty.

However, the severe death toll associated with a $30bn market puts the onus of responsibility on any conscientious American to want to put a stop to it.

Unlike powder cocaine, coca leaf has a long history of relatively safe use in the northern Andes. Widespread coca tea use is not considered a public health crisis of any particular concern in Peru and southern Colombia:

https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/uwoja/article/download/8770...

http://eva.fhuce.edu.uy/pluginfile.php/128760/mod_resource/c...

The decriminalization of coca tea in Western countries may lead to less gang activity as illegal cocaine manufacture economics shift from large-scale to small-scale extraction. The same situation occurs presently with DMT, albeit on a much smaller scale. Optimistically, addicts may substitute with oral formulations which are generally less addictive due to the relationship between reward delay and the intensity of operant conditioning. Cocaine also substitutes for methamphetamine, which may lower the street price of the latter.

However, there is also the possibility of increased crime associated with cocaine extraction, which poses another quandary. It is highly unconventional to enact a policy that will clearly empower certain types of criminals.

Nonetheless, I think we need to be open to ideas like these if we are to be ready to take responsibility for the role of US drug policy in destabilizing equatorial Latin America. The situation as it stands is not acceptable. It must be strenuously opposed.
I disagree. Or rather, I don't think this is about doing science.

In many aspects of our lives we rely on the advice of experts. Personally, as I am not a trained biologist, I am unable to reliably decide if the arguments here are right or wrong. I also believe the vast majoriy of people are in a similar position.

As a result, the only options are to look at:

1. The scientific consensus.

2. The legitimacy of the people making the claims.

It's too early for 1, so 2 is what remains.
Great comment, and insight on what most people spend. Thanks!

Segway should have quickly introduced a low-priced variant under $1000. Kind of like OneWheel has, although there is no shortage of OneWheel crash videos.
For the sake of argument, something like Einstein's special relativity had little to no evidence backing it up, but was still accepted simply because it provided a more elegant explanation of several concepts. Of course it also had a few weird, testable, consequences that where later confirmed experimentally.

All this is just to illustrate that it's not always easy to prove something right away with large amounts of experimental evidence. However if we consider the 'elegance' of a theory proof then we've abandoned subjectivity. It is a bit of a limitation of experimental science that it cannot determine the prior probability, which therefore must be assessed by evaluating the theory itself, which can only be done by experts, who are fallible.

When little to no experts seem to accept a theory then it's usually a bad sign though.
That's not easy, you need to set up replication.
Can you elaborate on how the report doesn't answer those questions? Raghu Chundawat is asking the question about the Ken-Betwa project and this report is exactly about that project. The fact that the report was out 8 years ago and Raghu Chundawat still says there is no data is surprising.
This is gonna get shut down so quick.
I think that's exactly the problem. Some things you cannot let become an automatic / unconscious habit, especially when safety is involved.

There's some good discussion here on the topic. Japan's rail workers point and speak, because it keeps the safety checks in the attentive part of your brain. When things go automatic / unconscious, you tend to miss or gloss over things. This is not what you want while driving.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952193

Even pilots are taught to point and say their checks out loud during pre-flight. And flying happens to be one of the safest ways to travel.
No, you just misunderstand what the presumption of innocence means. It means that people are assumed to be innocent and that it is the duty of the prosecution to show their guilt.

It doesn't mean that you can't arrest people suspected of a crime. That's how arrests work, FYI.
Is your comment implying that VPNs are only used for copyright infringement?

Primary use of VPNs I see is to get onto my workplace's network.
I think it's valid in a politically charged scenario such as this one to take into account the motivation behind the research as well as the research itself. At least in a forum like this one, as opposed to similar research papers. And I think the GP did it in an even handed way.
VPNs do have some legitimate uses. Encrypting traffic over malicious networks (e.g. your average airport wifi) is probably the most common one for the average legal user. Getting an IP address in a given country is another sometimes legal use.

I honestly don't know if you can do this with your average commercial vpn, but the technology is also good for many things like setting up virtual networks (hence the name) so you can do things like access your home computer from anywhere without exposing it to the internet.
> I never understood why people working in tech would ever trust a VPN service?

It’s not that I trust them but I’d rather some random company across the world has my jerk off logs rather than my ISP who hands my habits to my government and all its favoured cohorts.
Surely your company is not using a consumer provider like NordVPN or this UFO VPN company though?
> I'm not a biologist but I do find it strange that COVID-19 is so infectious in humans. How can a virus which supposedly 'naturally evolved' in a totally unrelated animal species (bats)

Bats are mammals, and so far from “totally unrelated” to humans, but...

> be so well adapted to spreading between humans?

So, Spanish flu wasn't of avian (far less related to humans than bats) origin but was also a man-made bioweapon?
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I don't mind lead or gold.

But in 2011 it was claimed they kidnapped and killed 12 technicians

https://www.npr.org/2011/12/09/143442365/mexico-busts-drug-c...
> BTW, go look at 2019 all-cause mortality compared to 2020 all-cause mortality. They're almost identical. So no, statistically this is not something super crazy.

This is just a flat-out lie.

According the the CDC [1] the all-cause mortality in 2020 is currently 155,446 higher than the equivalent date range in 2019. This despite the fact that recent weeks for 2020 are definitely undercounts as it takes time for all the data to come in.

[1]:https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
This is considered newsworthy because, prior to world war 2, (elected) far right extremists were stockpiling massive amounts of munitions via various coverup schemes. It was part of a secret government plan to prepare for world war 2 in spite of treaties forbidding these actions. It makes for some interesting historical reading, and is probably why the government will be so eager to show it’s investigating and preventing it in the future.

That said, 60k bullets is not a lot. It would be only really be newsworthy if they actually found evidence of theft. In 1 year there will be some report about sloppy accounting during training exercises for that particular unit
The execs getting the bonus know that other USA execs won't frown on this.

The execs getting the bonus know regulators won't come after them.

The execs getting the bonus know the media won't name and shame them.

The execs getting the bonus know that nobody in their social circle will shun them.

The execs getting the bonus don't even think this is wrong, as the main aim is to grab what you can when you can, and if it's immoral, well someone should change the rules.

Yes laws need changing, but laws are set by culture, ultimately.

This is a deep, deep cultural problem that is killing the USA, and I've yet to see it acknowledged anywhere in the mainstream.
"Innocent until proven guilty" does not prevent a suspect from being arrested. Being released with no charges is not a statement of innocence or guilt, but of whether the prosecutor believes there is enough evidence to go through with prosecution.
A mid-range gaming laptop can do much more and better in 2020 than in 2018, thanks to novel available batch functions, a number of preliminary hacks and much hw-friendlier frameworks.
Putting "all scientists agree" in quotes when that isn't in the source material is highly misleading.

Edit: op edited their post
Yes, lie-flat beds make great sense. And bunks in economy class would make sense too. I'm not talking about giving customers space and real comfort. I'm talking about the 'luxury' pantomime.
Being a scientist and saying it's man-made would get someone a lot of fame in the nutjob community, which they could probably convert to money.

I say nutjob, maybe the rest of the scientists just haven't been convinced by the data yet.
Note, webRTC "over" http or https is not a thing. What is a thing is a page that is served over http or https initiating a webRTC connection, which goes over UDP and is peer to peer, unless there's relay servers, in which case it should still be over UDP.
What are the “reams of evidence” that the virus did not come from a lab?
I wonder why it doesn't work in Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 GB. What
(you think) does it make the difference with the 4 GB?
We ran into the same exact issue at my previous employer. It's scary how similar it was to your situation given we also moved our site over to Next.js and we were a competitor to Opendoor. It also wasn't the first time I've run into bad metrics in a legacy app making it appear to convert better than a new version.
The only standard you can really trust is when they actually get subpoenaed and don't have anything to give to the court. An example of this is Private Internet Access.
Scientist proposes the first crewed interstellar spacecraft
Here's the CDC's data on this. You can download as a CSV for more details. (This is only for the US.)

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Discord wants to attract communities beyond games (e.g. python developers). Their name means a disagreement between people. I think they will aim for a name more like "Discourse".
Funny, I tried to use your site because the website I was trying to access stopped working. But your site was also down so I figured it was just my internet being cranky :/
There's a lot of money to be made converting industrial processes to be usable with intermittent energy sources.

https://www.aztlanchemicals.com/
I’m not pro this or trying to justify it. But I just had a thought.

Maybe they want to retain the execs to fix the mess?

I think most people would start looking for a new job as soon as they heard that the company they work for is filing for bankruptcy.

What would happen to a company if all good people left?
That is one of they many ways in which you can add money to a Mullvad account. You should try creating an account; it only takes one click.
Yes. Jukebox model was trained on 512x V100 GPUs for 4 weeks. Try doing that on a $8k workstation.

Not saying it wouldn't be a worthwhile goal to improve the algorithms so that it becomes possible. At least on a 8x V100 machine, for Christ's sake. Because that's all I got.
Why not just use Bitcoin or gift card?
Except the agency has declared itself: DHS made the announcement, making your position void.
Seeing as heat dissipation is a hard problem in space, probably never.
> But, if ads were needed for monetization, wouldn't you choose personalized vs non-personalized?

No. I simply do not ever look at ads. I've never, in 30 years of browsing the web, intentionally clicked on an ad.

Furthermore, I don't want a company keeping a dossier on me. The exchange of seeing ads for something I might want isn't worth the assault on my privacy, if it worked. And it doesn't work, so no thank you.
Eh, I think we all did fine.
That's because it's exhausting to debunk idiots & those operating in bad faith (often both); it takes several orders of magnitude more work to respond and debunk that unicorns don't exist than it does to post that they do.
I don't think anyone is arguing that Sweden's outcome is better than Norway's. I'm certainly not.

What I'm saying is that you can go without a lockdown and avoid the doomsday scenario that was so proffered about. Everyone was pointing to Sweden as though they were a cautionary tale of a state that was about to wipe out 10% of its population.

Yet here we are and that didn't play out. So the narrative switched to "but against its neighbors!". Yeah Sweden did worse, but they also showed you didn't need to go into hiding to get the same result the rest of the quasi-lockdown camp got.

What you're implying is that if the United States went full no-lockdown strategy our outcome would be different than Sweden. Whereas logically a virus does not care whether the host is Swedish, Ugandan, or American. A human is a human.
What an amazing set of photos! Thank you for sharing them.
> Holy crap I am thinking either there is some magic or everything we are doing in the modern web are wrong.

It doesn't need to be crazy.

A static site on DigitalOcean's $5 / month plan using nginx will happily serve that type of traffic.

The author of https://gorails.com hosts his entire Rails video platform app on a $20 / month DO server. The average CPU load is 2% and half the memory on the server is free.

The idea that you need some globally redundant Kubernetes cluster with auto fail-over capabilities seems to be popular but in practice it's totally not necessary in so many cases. This outage is also an unfortunate reminder that you can have the fanciest infrastructure set up ever and you're still going down due to DNS.
> how do you measure VPN services?

It's pretty difficult. You can't say anything for sure, it's all trust. That's why you should be so strict.

When you host your own end point you still have to trustits provider of course, but of course the incentive (concentrated, specific user traffic data) for abuse is much reduced.

But how anonymous are you actually? Are you sure your traffic can't be connected to you? Certain you set everything up correctly?

With my provider of choice, because I trust them reasonably much (sure feels like jinxing it), I don't have these worries.
> It’s the states fault that there weren’t any test kits, tracing and isolation infrastructure, etc.

Why exactly is this the states' fault? This seems like something that would be far more effective at the federal level. It's the exact same argument as the parent comment, it shouldn't be up to states to create tracing and isolation infrastructure, test kits, etc.

Putting that burden on the states is exactly how we got to the place we are in. Without effective federal support and direction, no solution will be effective since inter-state travel exists and there's 50 different states that will come up with 50 different solutions, some more effective than others.

It makes zero sense to force states to individually do all this when a single entity would be far more effective.
Depends what you mean by mainstream, or acknowledged. That's one of main talking points of Bernie Sanders, which was almost there as the Democrat candidate. I feel like everybody had the chance to see it, so it was mainstream.

Acknowledged in the sense that we recognize this an as actual, structural and cultural problem? Yeah, not happened. Not in this country, where "the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires".

I at least hope people understood being rich and running a business doesn't automatically translate to being good at public office.
Do we actually trust twitter with any data? I don't use twitter much but I can't think of anything on twitter that isn't already public.

The only thing we trust twitter to do is to provide some notion of authentication for well known users. That's still very important and not something Twitter can afford to lose, but it's not trusting them "with our data", I feel that is a very heavily overused phrase these days.

If these hackers had been more subtle and somehow made the confusion last a long time, it could have been a lot more serious. If people can't rely on Trump being Trump and Musk being Musk on Twitter, then Twitter is just an overgrown internet forum.
From 1720 to Tesla, FOMO Never Sleeps
I don't see how the moneyed interests really have much to do with the COVID-19 response in the US (or lack of it). Few of the people refusing to wear masks belong to the idle rich.
By the same logic, was the H1N1 spanish flu designed to perfectly flourish and kill possibly 10% of hosts?

You say it in your second paragraph. You're no biologist. But you find it strange. Very few biologists find it strange. They have in fact been warning of a ticking time bomb [0 for brevity, 1 for article].

May I respectfully suggest that you stick to your lane regarding the science? WHO ups and downs and political bickering to one side, science is a messy process of honing in on the right answer and lay-people have a hard time wrapping their heads around that when other answers fitting in more closely with their world view abound. It would be nice if scientists could come out on day 1 and tell everyone exactly what to expect but that isn't how science works.

[0] https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-warned-that-china-was-a-...
[1] https://cmr.asm.org/content/cmr/20/4/660.full.pdf
Some vocabulary info would help. As a beginner, words like "hatha" and "ashtanga" mean nothing, so hard to select.
This sort of thing ought to be grounds for a lawsuit from shareholders, or other creditors.
While I agree that the common populace of the US has mostly reached an understanding that marijuana prohibition has far higher costs compared to gains (and was initiated for extremely unjust reasons) - we aren't there yet. National legalization is unlikely to happen regardless of who takes the Senate+House+Presidency in the coming term with a possibility of it happening if a lot of pressure is applied on the Democrat side (and assuming they hold significant political power).

The fight isn't over. While the populace has coalesced the political will is still lagging behind.
A lot of the time, life intervenes. And a lot of the time, they say that just to shut their friends/family up about an issue.

Aziz talks about commitment-phobia, but on the other hand, one of the most frequently given personal growth advice I've seen in the last 20 years was: learn to say no. Stop trying to agree to every single thing someone proposes to you. I suppose they're flip sides of the same coin - say "yes" only when you mean it, and say "no" otherwise.
Did you just confidently pitch that you have the cure for fear? What a joke... How do you know fear hasn't manipulated into this view you're proudly suggesting others should adopt? There are no new viruses.
Yes, we value money too much here and don’t care enough about sustainability.
There may be more polished products from other companies, but fact is they do sell many other services, which perhaps in aggregate turn good profit?

Like: Drive? Android (e.g. Play store)? Photos? YouTube? Google music?
It's completely rational. The company is going into bankruptcy. The money can be mine or someone else's. If you had a chance to get $1,000,000 or the bank takes it with no consequences what do you do?
They do, you can see them on closer videos taken.
it's 2020. if you're still relying on vpn connection to provide encryption, you are doing it wrong. (I understand there are certain cases you have to deal with unencrypted traffic, but those should be really rare now).
Extensive discussion of the outage at top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875692
Better link with context https://www.minervanett.no/angus-dalgleish-birger-sorensen-c...
Isn't the standard answer that most programmers on the job market are bad, and those who are good are already employed and thus rarely on the job market?
Are you implying VPN services are only good for piracy? I personally use mine for privacy (sounds similar, is a little different).
Yes to both. Number of rows and columns does not impact performance. Every calculation is within the viewport bounds
As a percentage of total traffic, a 'minor' outage for Cloudflare probably equates to a significant outage for a non-trivial amount of the internet.

It will also be especially noticeable to end-users, because sites using Cloudflare are typically high-traffic sites, and so a 'minor' issue that affects only a handful of sites is still going to be noticed by millions of people.
Do you also read all the ads on websites, and remember them too (because by some definition of "consume", that would be necessary)?

I hope you enjoy being force-fed content, because that's the future you're advocating for.

It's extremely disturbing to see people essentially advocating for the loss of control over their own minds and senses.
In science (as in politics) it is important to understand the reputations of the people who have produced research. Andrew Wakefield being a terrific example.

It's also important to point out that this is pretty much an opinion piece.
Would IRC be down?
There are (probably) various degree of success.
Let's say that some X.Inc in China managed to manufacture EUV machines in 5 years. However, it's 3 time more expensive and only quarter of lifespan compared to ASML.
That's still a win since PRC gov can easily subsidize both fabricators to buy them and X. Inc to do more research. Of course it won't be competitive, but that's another goal.
My team’s bread and butter is integrations between enterprise systems. So I can quickly make prototypes of system A and our own software working when a webhook is triggered on A. Quick feedback plus tweaks before we do formal dev keeps us from having nasty surprises at the end of integration
I found Mullvad pitifully slow, even with Wireguard.
I don’t agree. Political, overconfident language is not scientifically appropriate, especially for a paper purporting to overturn the scientific consensus.

Sounds like this is language that was in there before peer review but that was removed before publication. Makes sense that part didn’t pass peer review as it’s improper to make such overconfident conclusions and claims in a scientific paper.
My prediction is that commercial real estate is in for a bad time. The shift to remote work appears to be sticking enough that plenty of businesses are going to be really questioning thier facilities budget, and I doubt food or personal services are going to fully recover quickly. I have no idea what retail will do, but it had issues before the crisis.