skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1.6% of the state prison population is in for cannabis, and 2.2% of the federal prison population.

Hardly what I would call a “good chunk”
I dont think so. It generates stereo images from 3D (not takes them as an input) so it is exactly related to blenderproc and other tools.
I hate to break this to you but what you’re describing is capitalism.
Something something neurodiversity, evolutionary traits, situational advantages.

Something something society labeling as a dis-order anything which doesn't suit the order.

Something something choosing between no treatment and risk of involuntary commitment, overmedication, and life-long stigmai if diagnosed on paper.
Silly me. I foolishly thought that careful investigations and analyses of situations like the ones described in TFA could help us figure out what "the problem" actually is.
I would place myself solidly into this category of people, although I try to avoid the negative behaviors that you validly point out.

In response, I ask: how confident are you in your (as I see it) perception/estimation that psychedelics do not (or, are highly unlikely to) have some genuine (in fact) quality that could bring immense value to the world? If we were to find a way to use them in the proper ways (which would include close integration with scientific study of the ongoing process), does it seem reasonably plausible to you that some sort of a significant achievement could be achieved?
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> think so too. The government has to pass a budget every year. Would it really be too much to ask of them to reaffirm old laws every 10-20 years?

You realize the federal government shuts down every so often fro days to months because they cant get there act together on the budget. can you imagine the chaos that would insue in the current political climate if one party or the other thought they could hold a major law hostage to what ever cause they want.
It has rather less to do with post-colonialism than it does with having a very unethical dominant church for hundreds of years, honestly.

We're the only horrifically-bent country in northern Europe
Probably never. People like to go out for the experience. You might as well ask when pubs will converge into people just drinking in their kitchens.
> An example of some common differences can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English.

No we mean the same thing. The Wikipedia article you posted even links to the report I posted as a reference for what they mean!

That’s an EU report, by the way, criticising EU English as confusing and not understandable by citizens of any country unless they’re EU officials. That’s not a useful shared dialect!
Neither is glass, which I'd hazard lasts longer in the environment as well - although glass at least doesn't float so it can't "wander off".
> What does prevent such a thing from meaningfully existing for software engineering is the fact that it's not a regulated profession with a professional licensing and enforcement body.

You're mixing up the Hippocratic oath with actual standards and regulation on practitioners. The Hippocratic Oath is only a tradition. It just happens to overlap to some extent with the actual enforceable laws for medical malpractice.
I'm not sure there's is actual disagreement here?

Strong towns I'm pretty sure intentionally chooses it's rhetoric to try to be more Republican compatible. (Strength, budgets, irresponsibility, etc.) But ultimately they are asking for a big pile of federal dollars, to rebuild cities/towns to be more compact and efficient, just like most everyone left of center.

I think it's good to point out we shouldn't just densify everything --- we already use too much land area. Some places need to densified, and others need to de-densified (remove housing and use for other purpose).
Hey, I thought Episode 1 was good. It was the only prequel that could stand on its own as a complete story. The others were "Oops, I forgot to plan this out better so let's just add a ton of fighting and action to hide that fact".
Can someone please give a tl;dr of the main argument?
Hm I don't know. I know "we technical people" sometimes have the feeling that users don't understand anything, but if you teach someone how to write yaml they'll pick it up quickly (I just did that to my designer colleges). I don't like the idea of having so many very similar data formats, it just gets more confusing.
Reminds of this podcast below which sheds light on the theory of cognitive dissonance. About how people justify their actions to reduce cognitive dissonance - basically sleep at night.

Link: https://peterattiamd.com/caroltavris-elliotaronson/
Engines running on biofuels equivalent to benzine are still significantly less efficient than diesels. They also require significant modifications, whereas diesels run on vegetable oils with little to no change.

Hemp oil powering diesels is possibly the most efficient locomotion path we have, only really competing with electricity generated with little carbon emissions.
If you add any dependency to your project, you Am are taking a risk. It's partially mitigated by open source because you can make downstream changes, but you would be better off writing from scratch many times if you know ahead of time the project will be abandoned.
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Awesome project!

> When I find a bug in this compiler, I go back to the original commit that introduced the bug and rewrite the commit history as if there were no such bug from the beginning. This is an unusual way of fixing bugs, but as a a part of a book, it is important to keep every commit bug-free.

Ooo la la! "Chibicc Vol. II, The Bugs" !?

In all seriousness, a book about the bugs would be (IMO) even more fun to read than the compiler book.
Speaking of tolerance, I really wish there was an “antidote” that could be taken at night. It would encourage better sleep and I would think would help fight tolerance a ton.

I take stimulants for idiopathic hypersomnia and I know things are a bit different for ADD folks, though.
You and I want that, but let's not assume anything about the people who decide these things.
The article talked about a “big pot of money” at the federal level but it seems that even if it addressed the backlog the problem would remain.

Why does infrastructure seem to work in Western Europe? Even little towns in Germany have good roads, water, electricity etc.
You could not sell your users data, then you don't need to collect it, then you barely need to worry about GDPR.

You are allowed to sell coffee without invading your customer's privacy. Shocking I know /s.
Yeah, the conclusion I'm getting is, how do I sign up to be a root? Chrome's NXDOMAIN detection is good for the world and it sounds like handling 50% of root server traffic would not be that hard.
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In a decade there will be threads wondering why only big chain restraints are left. And they'll blame capitalism and cry for more regulation never realizing how their regulations are what made it impossible for independent shop owners to compete.
RSS reader has a category for threads called “Gas Chamber”. Seriously?
That requires (1) the failure to be visible and self-evidently the result of political processes and decisions (2) people to act on (1) and actually vote (3) alternate candidates that have a genuinely different plan.

It's not that easy to ensure that all 3 happen.
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Presenting arguments isn’t bad if it’s about something important, but I think by “Hey, I’ve argued about shit all my life!” the GP takes issue more with the “shit” than the arguing.
$60k for a single year? I can’t help but shake my head as the absurdity of that. We’ve done a disservice to younger generations if it cost that much for a single year of education.
Almost all organisms evolved to kill or be killed.

The entire universe is chaos and continual destruction and creation.

By ignoring the innate human nature to struggle and fight you are not removing it or making it go away. You are merely making it more likely that your society will inevitably fall to another that is more aggressive, assertive, or war like. In all of history decedent societies continually fall to more barbaric and less advanced societies.
Does work in other countries with similar specs, so it's hardly a technical limitation. It's money, public money, and therefore politics.
Depends on what defunding means. If it’s the textbook definition of stopping funds entirely [1], then it’s definitely going to increase crime. Only a fraction of criminals turn to it from necessity.

- The Kansas City mob is not operating out of necessity.

- The Mexican cartel is not operating out of necessity.

- Child traffickers are not operating out of necessity.

When someone hears their drunk neighbor beating his spouse, who should be called if there are no police?

1. https://www.wordnik.com/words/defund
Well, I'm not gonna lie, I'm already doing that an order of magnitude more often than going to a movie theater. But then again, maybe that supports the point - now that huge TVs are so common, is there anyone who wanted to watch movies at home that wasn't already doing it in 2019?
that is an understatement. AX.25 is a guaranteed-delivery packet-forwarding protocol with indeterminate latency. For audio streaming you need a low, predictable latency and accept drop-out to achieve that.
Six years ago I needed to non-destructively reverse engineer a multi-tapped toroid inductor for an Ampeg SVT preamplifier clone that I was building.

Starting with the inductor's nominal inductance, the physical diameter of the magnet wire and the dimensions of the wound inductor, I was able to determine the ferrite material and standard core size, the length of wire, and winding recipe without disturbing my sample of the factory part.

All of this was for an audio frequency application, so the RF properties were not relevant. However, it was satisfying that my DIY inductor worked as expected, and I was able to determine the unknowns in the recipe with simple algebra.

I documented my build story here:
http://www.frontiernet.net/~jff/SonOfSVPCL/DIYSVTBassPreampI...
This is a talk by an ex professor of mine, Marty Sereno, which I was reminded of by a recent post on HN about birdsong and language. Marty's a really smart and engaging speaker. I remember his PowerPoint-less and notes-less lectures with fondness - he just really knew his stuff back to front, having starting dissecting the visual cortext of monkeys and moved on to fMRI imaging, including writing his own analysis software from scratch.
No, this happened because our major institutions have driven out people that are able to think originally and avoid the herd mentality. This has happened because of embedded growth obligations that affect all of our institutions, both public and private.

If you are suspicious, don't tune out. You might be surprised to hear that the solution to this problem is to give academics MORE funding.

If you have never heard of embedded growth obligations, or the Great Nap, watch these two videos.

The first is the first 35 minutes of Eric Weinstein's Portal podcast on his proposal to find a unified field theory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7rd04KzLcg

The second is an interview he does with Lex Fridman, calling for MIT to stop killing people like Aaron Schwartz (who faced a 35 year prison sentence for his attempt to battle Elsevier, yet received no support from MIT!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZJNe7YtE
What else do you call a fluid market change in reaction to a obstruction in the form of collective action undertaken by the State? The State doesn't exist separate from the Market, nor does the Market exist separate from the State. Both underpin the others existence. To see it any other way is folly, or at least the least conceivably useful way of trying to forecast probable outcomes on any scale appreciably large.

You see a market failure, I reject your perception of a particular vein of economic activity remaining worthwhile in perpetuity as an accurate understanding of a Market to fail, and instead accept that all economic activity is fluid and necessarily reactive to physical and political constraints.

Just look at Turnips or Onions to break yourself of a mistaken belief that Markets don't inherently rely on the State to price in what's practical; and hell, half the point of a State is to make the effective price of something so high, people don't do it.
> The solution to exploitative journals gatekeeping access is better journals, not stealing their articles.

Self regulation doesn't produce resounding changes. Some systems have to be violently shaken in order to do that.
I'm not really anti-copyright, though the timeline should be dramatically reduced back to something similar to its original 14 years with registration (maybe less).

The goal of copyright was to promote the progress of science and useful arts for the benefit of the public, giving limited time monopolies to creators is a means to that end. It was meant as an incentive to create, not some way to perpetually enrich creators (or corporations that buy the rights) forever at the expense of the public.

It's been distorted to basically give creators/companies rights forever automatically (and even retroactively) by continuing to extend it each time it comes up for expiration. It now serves to do the opposite of its intended goal by limiting the ability for people to create things because they could be violating copyright.

I think the issue here is not the existence of copyright itself, but how it's being applied to publicly funded research because of an existing incentive structure where universities and academics are locked in a battle for prestige that's doled out by these journals that then control access.

If the public is funding the research then the public should have access to the research.
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Thanks for the info. I'll check that out.

I wouldn't hold my breath with ReactOS. It seems to me there's so few developing it that it'll never reach critical mass. Shame really, as alternative non-MS O/S that runs x86/64 Win APIs would be useful.
How can that be a useful model for building and maintaining roads, water supplies, sewers and so forth?
There are a few sites that show step by step how you can run Mac on a VMWare on a PC. Yes it disregards some T&Cs but the dev will avoid the $1000 apple-tax.
Strong Towns covers this: The whole “the suburbs are fine/better” is part of the pyramid scheme. Sure, they’re fine for the first 20-40 years. But then they deteriorate and the maintenance costs pile up. Tax rates increase to compensate. Wealthy residents who basically run their lives on tax avoidance simply move to a more recently developed suburb and the rest stay and suffer through a broke government, forced to do things like rely on police fines to sustain the budget (Ferguson, MO).

The “ring of wealth” moves around over the decades due to the pyramid scheme effect.

It isn’t hard to find suburbs with far worse roads and infrastructure than the city of Chicago. Maple Heights, OH, Parma, OH, Euclid, OH. I’m sure Chicagoland has plenty of them, I’m just not familiar with them. You also won’t see any upper middle class people living in these suburbs, not anymore.
It's not "gnolling," the troll word that didn't catch on, but it could be.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gnolling
I read about keto diets being helpful in schizophrenia and such. It should be easy to find.
Thanks a lot, this is an interesting conversation.

I've worked in commercial tech most of my career and agree that industry has done a good job of making software collaboration effective.

Now I'm building applications based on open source software, and (as with commercial development using OSS) sometimes that means that clearing roadblocks or improving application functionality depends on making upstream changes.

I tend to be a bit reluctant to spend time in meetings because I find text-based conversation easier and more accurate.

Also since there are multiple dependencies and projects involved, it's tricky to divide time between developing all of those relationships. It's still valuable to do, certainly, but it can be challenging.

In this scenario, the approach I've adopted is that I'll spend time to fix the problem 'locally' (in a fork if necessary), offer the patch upstream (to feed back improvements, which aim to be generic -- but also with selfish motivations to reduce maintenance burden), and then move on.

Anecdotally, that's working fairly well so far - approximately an 80% merge rate over ~100 pull requests. I don't have great stats on how much time was spent on each, nor how complex each one was. A few definitely took some detailed puzzle-solving and investigation.
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They don't want to use the word 'arbitrariness'. Instead, they say "discretion". Discretion helps institutions make right decisions, they say.
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It's not racially tinged (except inasmuch as all forms of elite society have been historically closed to racial minorities until quite recently), but a "white-shoe"[0] law or accountancy firm refers to the companies that make up the very crème de la crème of those industries.

These are firms staffed by wealthy and well-connected Ivy League graduates who provide services to help even wealthier and better-connected Ivy League graduates get what they want and make and keep enormous amounts of money.

The name comes from a certain style of shoes that used to be fashionable among a certain class.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-shoe_firm
why do you need logs?
“I’m sorry but this game is not available on mobile devices”

What a short sighted approach to making a website. Just because I am on a phone I don’t get to even read about the game on the site? Fuck me for using a mobile device I guess.
Yeah I agree. In the movie they say that JSTOR didn’t prosecute though, and that it was some government entity that wanted to make an example out of Aaron. Sorry I don’t remember which one - I’d have to scan the subtitle file. I wrote this because I’m quite against the current Intellectual Property system (the US one, and the US-inspired global one: TRIPS).

My comment was intended more as a critique of the fact that the IP monopoly-granting system is part of American state yet it undermines democracy. I see it as a violent, anti-human and oppressive configuration (despite many claiming it’s a free-market) [Kevin Carson and Guy Standing do a fantastic job of critiquing this fact].

It was a bit careless of me to say ‘government’ because it can undermines the great work many governments entities do do.
How about law as a subscription service? The maxim is if it has value in people’s eyes, then people should be willing to pay a monthly fee for it, voluntarily and without coercion.
> Iguanas are at the mercy of evolution. We aren't.

Not being at the mercy of evolution is an illusion caused by being at the mercy of both genetic and memetic evolution. If we do things that are at odds with either our biological and social adaptation, we tend to not replicate as much as otherwise.

For instance we can chose not to eat or have sex, but that just edits our patterns out of the population as it always has. We can change society such that acts that were adaptive are now maladaptive, but that just changes evolutionary pressures rather than eliminating them. Even as we master evolution it still masters us.

It's like the illusion in orbit that you have escaped gravity, but you're just falling continuously.
> How ferrites work is that they are actually resistive at high frequencies (in addition to boosting the inductive reacatance of the conductor).

I don't quite follow. I think you just mean reactance at higher frequencies (since resistance is DC), and total impedance is then DCR + frequency-dependent reactance.

Then the ratio of impedances determines attenuation, like you say. Which I think makes sense it works against interference, because I would think that the effective source impedance of radio interference is relatively high, so a half-turn (just passing the cable through once) can provide meaningful attenuation.

Considering this, 3-8 dB attenuation against a low-Z (50 Ω) source with just a half-turn actually sounds good!
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And this is the flawed "it happens more to the poor, so it should be abolished" take.

Something being done disproportionately doesn't mean it's wrong. It's a way of diverting away from the core point by appealing to victimhood.

Though at the end of the day this all comes down to a fundamental disagreement between people who embrace human intuition and pattern recognition versus those who think those things are somehow uncivilized or evil -- a delusion orangutans, I'm certain, don't share.
Men with guns threatened to go to his place of work and close it for them if it didn't close on its own.
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I think you're starting from a false premise. I've rarely found in-person conversations to be as helpful as asynchronous conversations over a chat medium (or PR comments, etc). I think the main reason is that during in-person conversations, people don't leave lengthy gaps to think before speaking. So for technical subjects, asynchronous communication is much better suited.
The fact that the Sacklers are going to get to keep the billions harvested by ruining the lives of tens of millions of Americans bespeaks a morally bankrupt civil society. The Sackler family literally belongs in prison. Instead, they're going to use their billions to control politicians and ruin countless more lives. The sanctioning of "white collar" criminality is a major component in the USA government's increasing loss of legitimacy.
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I live in Toronto: Runnymede station specifically is in a very built up area, and there's not a lot of elbow room to work. Do a Street View of 265 Runnymede:

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/265+Runnymede+Rd,+Toronto,...

* Opposite end: https://www.google.com/maps/place/260+Kennedy+Ave,+Toronto,+...

The subway in that area was built in the 1960s using (AFAIK) a cut-and-cover method, so it's not every deep below the surface:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_2_Bloor–Danforth#Subway_c...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel#Cut-and-cover

The original criticizing GP also assumes that it was a "simple renovation": is this a valid assumption? For example, how do you get a bunch of new elevators installed:

* https://ttc.ca/Service_Advisories/Construction/Runnymede_EA....

Drilling multiple elevator shafts seems more than a "simple renovation".
> When I'm humble, this means I don't think of myself as a rockstar ninja developer. I'm fallible just like the next guy. Right?

I tend to think that "rockstar ninja developers" are just as fallible as the next guy too. everybody makes silly mistakes sometimes.
Sure thing, but wouldn't it be better to then just say "I feel sad, angry or bitter about the job I thought I could have for an indeterminate amount of time"?

Using words like 'robbed' just hides both facts (no the job was not robbed, yes you are sad/angry about the situation). And by hiding facts like that we end up with populism and lies.
Hard to tell. Maybe some die hard fan could shed some light