skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>“These charges are a warning to drug traffickers worldwide that neither the shroud of the darknet or of virtual currency can hide their illegal activities from the vigilance of U.S. law enforcement,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin for the District of Columbia.

The real warning to heed here is that we allow some countries to arrest citizens of other countries who committed crimes outside of their borders.

I know what extradition is, but the concept of spending your whole life in country A, and having country B decide it's time to arrest you and charge you within their jurisdiction makes me uncomfortable. I think more people will oppose it once global power balances start to shift this century.
I replaced my 2012 15" MBPr after 5 years with a 2017 only because it kept overheating and throttling, but in day-to-day use, the performance difference was really hard to notice. Biggest difference was probably in graphics performance when using an external display.
For anyone doing typescript, there are just a number of tools you need to work with on a project. And then there's value added with things like eslint and prettier. Most of these configs are set and forget.

There's lots to complain about in JavaScript land but IMO having a bunch of config files in the root is a feature, not a bug.
Life hack: don’t throw Molotov cocktails at police cars.
> soon there will no longer be the one internet. There will internet one for the USA and the "west", internet two for China and the "east" internet.

Soon? How about years ago. The Great Firewall already accomplishes what you describe. You can't use Google in China, and you wouldn't want to use Baidu's censored search in the US.
So like what happens if you inhale wasabi?

The article on Wasabi says smell, smelling salts are not actually olfactory.

The article was a few paragraph press release meant for mainstream news, not a technical description.

Elsewhere you can find more details:

Wasabi has a pungent odor that irritates the nose, and it was this property of the plant that was used for the fire alarm

...

When wasabi has been grated, the allyl isothiocyanate contained in it is broken down by an enzyme and becomes a bitter gas that stimulates the nervous system. Surprisingly, it can wake people up, both hearing-impaired and non-hearing-impaired alike, within a period of 10 seconds to two minutes, according to the experiments

https://web-japan.org/trends/11_sci-tech/sci120315.html
You are right. I will do better.
I think the answer to the trilemma is simply more people in the ecosystem. As products grow to become multi-billion dollar platforms, complexity becomes inevitable.

Some developer user stories may remain simple (e.g. making a charge, sending an SMS) but a lot of the value will be created by systems integrators / service partners who understand the platform's products deeply.

Having good self-service products and documentation for the impatient developer is a necessary (but not sufficient) step to create this integrator ecosystem. Much of the work is on the business side to convince integrator managers that there is a viable market opportunity on your platform. This comes with all sorts of other considerations, like certification, co-selling agreements, reseller pricing, etc.

For all of their faults in product, Salesforce, Microsoft, and AWS have achieved their dominance through successfully building the integrator ecosystem. Hoping Stripe's service partner program takes off in the same way as the platform grows.
I wonder where most of the harm is coming from with opioids. Do the opioids themselves cause more harm than society does by making them illegal?

The cases I've mostly heard about seemed to be that people hot addicted to opioids and the only way to keep it going was to break the law. That eventually got them in trouble. For some drugs it does seem like the government trying to protect you from the drugs do more harm than what the drugs themselves do. Are opioids among them?
Modern open source projects, like all organizations, need to have an underlying business model to be sustainable.

I'm with an open source crypto trading bot project (https://github.com/coinalpha/hummingbot). Our business model is to give away the tool for free and get paid by the exchanges and protocols that benefit from our users' collective trading activity. It's still early, but this model works; it allows us to staff a growing engineering team as well as 24/7 tech support for our users.
Once there's knowledge of the possibility, it becomes inevitable.
My head hurt thinking about how much efforts and coordination across multiple ecosystems required to pull it off. And if they do manage to pull it off, the reward is... slightly cleaner project top directory?
I have been spat on called a "white cunt" by a person of color for just sitting on a bus doing nothing.

However, black people can't be racist. And all white people are racist. And if a white person denies it, it is proof that they are racist.

So it wasn't his racism. It was entirely my fault for being white. I should have been born to parents of different skin color. Then no matter what I did I wouldn't be a racist.
Wow that was informative. So ES Modules is really about the Red functions [1] getting module support.

I find it fascinating watching our understanding of async computation mature over the years.

[1] http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...
Is it "staggering" though? In the short term, it is more simple to point to human lives and deaths. In the longer term, the more complex contribution of industrial forces is easier to understand. At least some shift in public opinion is natural.
I’ve used it for 8 years now and it’s fine, don’t think the UX is bad at all. Want to know for yourself? Go ask 10 non-developers.
If this is an honest question, Snopes has a good rundown: https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/07/30/americas-frontline-do...

The video puts people in danger by telling them to not wear masks and instead take zinc.
Rip it out of your site. I hate it.
>You're trying to reduce abstraction to statistical pattern classification, but that doesn't work because statistical measures are inherently bounded in generality, indeterminate and ambiguous

A substrate with a statistical description can still have determinate behavior. The brain, for example is made up of neurons that have a statistical description. But it makes determinate decisions, and presumably can grasp concepts exactly. Thresholding functions, for example, are a mechanism that can transform a statistical process into a determinate outcome.

>doesn't mean it's grasped essentially what it means to be a member of that class.

I don't know what this means aside from the ability to correctly identify members of that class. But there's no reason to think an ML algorithm cannot do this.

Regarding Feser and Searle, there is a lot to say. I think they are demonstrably wrong about computation being observer relative and whether computation is indeterminate[1]. Regarding computations being observer relative, it's helpful to get clear on what computation is. Then it easily follows that a computation is an objective fact of a process.

A computer is at its most fundamental an information processing device. This means that the input state has mutual information with something in the world, the computer undergoes some physical process that transforms the input to some output, and this output has further mutual information with something in the world. The input information is transformed by the computer to some different information, thus a computation is revelatory: it has the power to tell you something you didn't know previously. This is why a computer can tell me the inverse of a matrix, while my wall cannot, for example. My wall is inherently non-revelatory no matter how I look at it. This definition is at odds with Searle's definition of a computer as a symbol processing device, but my definition more accurately captures what people mean when they use the term computer and compute.

This understanding of a computer is important because the concept of mutual information is mind-independent. There is a fact of the matter whether one system has mutual information with another system. Thus, a computer that is fundamentally a device for meaningfully transforming mutual information is mind independent.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/bviafb/what_...
I wonder if Amazon will sue based on a non-compete?

Since they did that earlier this year:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/11/aws-case-against-worker-who-...
They are extremely addictive. No one disputes that.

The actual drugs here - I’m talking pure, regulated pharmaceutical versions - are pretty benign physiologically. Constipation is about the worst of it.

The combination products (opioid plus something else) are a bit worse - but in those cases it’s the other thing (usually Tylenol) that’s actually hard on your body, especially the liver.

Although it’s much less common these days due to all the regulation, many doctors kept a up successful practices for decades while self medicating heavily.

What gets people killed are either things sold as other things (e.g. heroin laced with fentanyl, which is much stronger) or propel who quit for a while and then go right back to their old dose and OF because their tolerance is gone.
In two-and-a-half months the last 5 stable releases on Node, the last 2 LTS releases of Node, and all current major browsers will support standard JS modules.

It's time we all published standard JS modules and only standard JS modules to npm.
Who cares? The obsession with hierarchy is silly. Good search beats hierarchy.
It doesn’t violate thermodynamics; it’s the conversion of mass to other forms of energy. Nuclear fusion is the source of energy from the sun, but the sun has the advantage of its enormous gravity keeping things confined. The attempt to extract usable energy from controlled fusion on Earth is the attempt to, in the absence of this helpful gravity, find some other way to get enough nucleons close enough together. Nature makes this practically impossible, which is why we don't have fusion power after 70 years of trying. Fortunately, we don’t need it, as we can now use the sun’s fusion here on Earth.
Such as, fishing reel.

I'd actually forgotten it was the word for the thing film went on.
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> Even better, these days you can allocate a unique local address to the printer (RFC 4193, fd00::/8) and eliminate Internet access entirely.

I.e. essentially what we already had with IPv4.

> Because of how difficult it is to port scan IPv6, as long as you don’t manually allocate a low-entropy address to the printer, it won’t be easy to get to it.

Security provided by 'the attackers get bored'....
This is already starting to happen.

A bunch of countries suspended extradition to Hong Kong after all the recent power consolidation by China because while they trusted an independent Hong Kong to have reasonable limits on its judiciary they do not trust China to do the same; after all this is a country that dismisses "rule of law". And in fact the whole protest situation was caused by Hong Kong's Government introducing a poorly worded extradition bill that would've essentially given carte blanche for Chinese extradition. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/world/asia/hong-kong-extr...
My try at processing large files in Node.js
Had to recently process large csv file (~15 million rows) using Node.js at work. The link below is my blog post describing my solution. Feedback is welcome!

https://www.vinaybhinde.in/2020/04/processing-large-files-in-node-js/
Location: Vancouver, BC
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Technologies: video cameras, industrial UI design, Javascript /
ECMAScript, HTML5, CSS, Node, Bash, Linux, Python 2/3,
Git, Anura FFL, GNU Make, Scrum / Agile development,
technical writing, Unicode, API design, mentoring, etc.
Résumé/CV: https://ddr0.ca/files/personal/resume.pdf
Email: d@ddr0.ca

I recently finished a stint at Krontech, home of the Chronos 1.4 high-speed camera, where I designed and implemented a new UI and implemented the remote HTTP API. (I was originally hired to make a web app for the camera, but the tech was not there at the time.) I also rewrote the 2018 manual, and worked an industry trade show while I was there.

I am open for contract or hire.
Right!?! Legalizing drugs would solve a lot of issues and let people actually address and talk about the real problems which is often mental health, however there are a lot of things like mushrooms and LSD that may cause people to "wake up" and not want to be a slave to the system anymore and I think that is mostly what they fear. People realizing they have more choice and power than they've been led to believe.
> How did this man get so numb to selling products that he knew were causing so much pain and suffering to others?

If I had to take a guess, his income as the vice president of sales probably helped with that.
> but I still just think about fishing reels every time I see it.

The goal is to hook you after all...
NASA is designing an engine that uses heat from a nuclear reactor to heat a propellant and expel it for thrust.

https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-wants-to-send-nuclear-rocke...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a18345717/n...
Now, half of them are in ~/.config This is better because it means you have to look in more places.

Similarly, things also like to hide state in ~/.cache

If they didn’t then rm -rf .appname would restore it to default settings, and we can’t have that.
I think it's legit:

https://9to5google.com/2020/08/04/many-receiving-settlement-...

But the max award is no more than $12, so I'm not going give them enough personal information to find out for sure.
Basic science is done in the open, but science relevant to military goals is still kept secret. For example, do you know how stealth fighter jets are made?
Isn't that what every early stage SV company does? Spend investor money to acquire and engage audience?
The private industry notification:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7013778-FBI-PIN-aler...
Scary. I'm going to pay with cash again out of principle (which I stopped doing due to the pandemic).
You would probably like Spinoza, pantheism, and panentheism. Spinoza's concept of God is really intellectually beautiful.

"I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings."

- Albert Einstein

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pantheism/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panentheism/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinozism

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/spinozas-...
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This is very true, in his about me page, he says that he does not rely on any type of cloud and hosts through his own servers. A very unique approach indeed.
What extradition "is" has almost nothing to do with the concern, it's all about the clauses in the extradition treaty about how it must be done. In the case of Costa Rica and the US it requires dual criminality, can't be a political or military crime, can't have passed the statute of limitations, and can be denied at will if the person is a national of the requested country.
Street oxy is super expensive. Heroin is a lot cheaper. 5-6 times cheaper where I’m at.

Why’s it expensive? Because of the ridiculous war on drugs.
Do players get to share an entangled particle beforehand?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22488927
Yes - dunno what GP is talking about because there are tangible milestones for working self driving:

https://www.synopsys.com/automotive/autonomous-driving-level...
" “what is the largest number anyone has thought of?” I would have to interrogate your motives to know why you would want to ask such a question..."

I ask because it's absurd. A particular large number is a logical thing regardless of whether a person thought of it before or whether it describes a distinct natural phenomenon. This follows from the set theory axioms, as well as Real numbers and infinitely many other number systems. To restrict our capacity to think of numbers to only numbers that people can enumerate or numbers that describe natural phenomena seems arbitrary and onerous. We construct the Real number simply by considering the limits of convergent sequences to be numbers. I don't see anything transgressive about this idea. Sure, some numbers are not computable, and other numbers can't be represented with marbles; they still have utility and there is no reason to make the concept of "numbers" exclusive.
Unifying the iPad and MacBook
When I see a wave foil I wonder how that doesn't make more drag than power...is this similar or something different?
One of the interesting caveats about extraditions treaties is that they generally only apply to things that the country doing the expediting consider to be criminal.

With that in mind, someone spends their life in country A and does a bunch of things country A considers illegal and involve country B. This isn't an obvious caveat and isn't discussed much, so I can understand where nothing here would surface it.

Extradition treaties mean that things don't become de facto legal because an international border is involved. Though I understand if some might consider such treaties to be simple abuses of hegemonic imperialism.
Ask HN: What are the Upcoming virtual conferences worth attending?
Curious as to which upcoming virtual conferences are you attending and would recommend for software engineers / developers / SRE & engineering management, development methodology related topics
Not (always) beeing able to smell during sleep is precisely why we have smoke detectors.
In theory anything lighter can fuse toward Iron. Anything heavier can fission the same direction. Splitting or fusing Iron requires input of energy even in theoretical scenarios at 100% efficiency.

In practice a great many nuclear reactions are not chain reactions or don't yield enough energy to be useful. Really large atoms kinda want to fission due to the speed of light: forces can't propagate from one side to the other fast enough to completely balance out. So splitting Uranium is a lot easier to make useful because we have a head start as it were... if you leave it alone in a box some of it will go ahead and split in pieces for you for free.

Fusion is just more difficult. If you leave hydrogen atoms confined in a box approximately none of them will spontaneously fuse to form helium.
You are and I thank you for that!
What's wrong with Intel, and how to fix it: Former principal engineer unloads
Not pc, but they did an episode of "How I built this" that: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/06/812853591/stripe-patrick-and-...

I don't remember if they answered exactly what you are asking, but my memory of the episode is definitely positive!
Video Simulation After 3 Gorges Dam Collapse
> JioMart.

Recently ordered a few items on it. A toothpaste, some Almonds.

It came in a paper bag, wet from rain, soggy and a mess.

However there are two things that are massively in favor of JioMart.

Reliance already has about 11,000 stores in over 6700 cities. These are called "Reliance Fresh" and are quite popular. JioMart is using these stores to send orders to and deliver them.

The costs for capital and expenses for these stores are already done and most of them are profitable.

All JioMart is doing is to consolidate the stock information, take orders and push orders to appropriate stores.
The small ship with the orange deck appears to have been blown onto land (look above its docked location in the after picture).

I saw a live feed from later in the evening after the blast and there was a ship in that approximate location that was on fire.
I think that's what's implied in

> Momentum for the Clean Network program is growing. More than thirty countries and territories are now Clean Countries, and many of the world’s biggest telecommunications companies are Clean Telcos. All have committed to exclusively using trusted vendors in their Clean Networks.

Seems like the idea is to form a network that's "clean" of PRC influence.
No different from lobbying efforts in the US.

Case Point : TurboTax
Well, you exceeded that in 5 minutes yourself by just existing.
Thank you for doing this. I once knew a guy who said it should be your goal to give over a third of your lifetime earnings to charity (I think it was a third, somewhere between 10% and 50%) and this reminded me instantly of that. Great to read about something super positive in these times.
Well your desire is paradoxical because people who get addicted to pharmaceutical pain killers are the ones that end up consuming street heroin when they cannot get pharmaceutical opioids anymore.
American adult women have approximately 4 hours less of leisure time per week:

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/03/14/chapter-6-time-in...
Definitely travel to Japan! Do it while you're young.

You literally have your whole life ahead of you - 1 or 2 years in Japan will give you experiences you've never even thought about!
Indeed. Phoenix is one of few places in Arizona where the uniqueness of the area is neglected. It's full of the damn non-native palm trees and overuse of swimming pools, air conditioning, and misters. It's just another consumerism-driven major city.

The people are great and a lot of people love it for what it actually is, and not what developers try to turn it into. It's a difficult battle to preserve its character though!
Interesting. Semi-convincing. Adjusting priors on the mask thing downward slightly.
> The real warning to heed here is that we allow some countries to arrest citizens of other countries who committed crimes outside of their borders.

> I know what extradition is, but the concept of spending your whole life in country A, and having country B decide it's time to arrest you and charge you within their jurisdiction makes me uncomfortable.

That's not a very accurate description of what was alleged to have gone on here. It's more like someone spending their whole life in country A, while running a smuggling network in country B, and only then having country B decide to arrest you for organizing the smuggling of illegal items into their country.

This indictment wouldn't have happened if these guys had restricted their opioid sales to their country of residence.
Work environment stories are typically bad. They have a reputation of being a "chew and spit" model.
I can’t understand why tech’s biggest players are obsessed with it. I mean, I know what they may be thinking and why they’re salivating. But I believe they’re just behaving as if they don’t want to be left behind and seen as losers, whereas the truth (IMO, and take this with a big pinch of salt) is that this looks like the seemingly limitless amount of money pumped in by Uber or SoftBank in the hopes of “capturing the market and making boatloads of money”, only to realize later that the underlying proposition and the model were defective, which they will never admit.

Reliance has a lot of political backing (and Jio is what it is today because of concessions), but again strictly IMO, I think all these tech companies “investing” in Jio will be left holding the bag in a few years.
Would you eat that stuff? It might have a little fertilizer in it. Maybe more than the FDA limits.
It definitely wouldn't need to be at the top level. Remember, this is an interface, so

func (f SomeConcreteFS) WithContext(ctx context.Context) fs.FS

could hold a reference to the underlying filesystem and call appropriate read deadlines, timeouts, etc.
iOS 14 Catches Data Grabbing Apps
No Go 2.0 release is planned. Go2 is a marketing label (I guess?) meant to imply that the Go 1.x language and stdlib are still evolving.

The term is a mistake, as it creates the impression that a backwards-incompatible product is in the works.
This is very cool. I love it. These canals are not particularly pretty so I think the panels are an upside in aesthetics. Look very futuristic.