skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of the items in that list < 100 years old, the vast majority came about through violence via revolution, civil war, genocide, or regime change. That's a bug, and not a feature. Peaceful restructuring of government is rare, and when it happens, it’s noteworthy.

In contrast, peaceful restructuring of private enterprise (via startup incorporation, bankruptcy, or M&A) is just a way of life. People didn't die when PanAm, TWA, and Circuit City went out of business. People didn’t die when GM was restructured.
Surprised it didn't mention "The Little Mermaid." Ariel doesn't get Eric and sorta dies at the end.
Ask HN: How do you design/review/publish your back end API?
I'm in a process of finding right tools to design, collaborate with my team and then publish documentation about my backend APIs.

Share you experience & great tools you using for API design workflow.
Adversity is the mother of progress. You can see it everywhere - biological evolution, societal evolution, technology, economics.

Perhaps a more merciful way to lose would be helpful.
330 million people living with their own well, septic, dirt road and water purifying UV filter.

Seriously?
“The launch of OxyContin Tablets will be followed by a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition. The prescription blizzard will be so deep, dense, and white,” -Richard Sackler

Blizzards are always white, so why did he say it? Jewish supremacists like the Sacklers hate white people.
They also spent a significant amount of money convincing doctors to use opiates, and creating misleading or false studies about their safety.
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-- 123456 (Messiah Lutheran Church)

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This is my first attempt at a SaaS. This is also my first Django and Bootstrap project I've released into the wild.

My background/day-job is electrical engineering, but I've been involved in the programming/web-dev world for many years...though mostly as an advanced hobby. I typically shy away from front-end design work, but this was a solo project.

Would love any feedback, thoughts, etc!
Please don't use such bad faith arguments, these kinds are points are meaningless to the point of absurdity.
I'm not sure that Carlin is saying what you think he is saying. He's not saying there won't be climate change.

He's just saying that climate change is going to destroy humanity. It won't destroy the planet, per se.
Ah yes, the Sacklers were just selling opiates as paperweights and art pieces... they should not be responsible for people consuming them!
Projects like holo.host are almost ready for production deployment (months, not years), and hold the promise of helping with this transition.

Fully decentralized and distributed Holochain apps don’t even depend on DNS, so are even more resilient against freedom-hostile centralization.

Yes - exciting times are coming!
Lets. Any model that depends on intentional evil at every level is likely wrong.

The more likely reality is that politicians think they are doing what their constituents want by passing laws to address what they are currently complaining about. And constituents rarely complain about existing laws so the only natural way for the government to go is more laws and more regulations.

When’s the last time you heard a politician run on the platform of getting rid of laws? Even the Republicans who run on less regulation generates far more legislation than repealed.
1 is false for almost every person and drug, including alcohol and tobacco.
Xen on Raspberry Pi 4
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We generally trust doctors to give us medications and advice that help us, and ingest what they prescribe.
Reddit is not your house.
You think the root operators should just delegate part of the traffic of all letters' VIPs to google and amazon? It's not crazy, but it would mean the entire root would have a shared-fate failure mode.
This is a moot point anyway; laws can be overwritten with new laws. Perhaps requiring a supermajority (2/3) to remove would be useful, but even still, _having_ the laws put into question would be a remarkable use of time, keeping law orderly. I suppose the US Code might help with that effort; in the UK it's a tad more disorganised.
That is quite literally the opposite of what I said.
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I'd like to see independent (ie. Not made by government agencies) estimates of real world inflation.

Do they exist?
A judge wouldn’t give an arrest warrant for a deduction issue like that.
However glass is inert, whereas plastic is not
One could say it’s almost a new kind of science (tm)
Disagree. I think he’s a tool of Russia and got paid to tarnish America and diplomacy worldwide.
I wasn't discussing the employment side of WPA in any way.

I was talking about what they built and comparing it to contemporary big box store architecture.

You're making an implicit claim that the labor was used inefficiently, which may be true. But unless that takes longevity and less easily measured attributes into account, I'm not sure you can prove that.
This could be much more direct. 30 paragraphs in and I don’t really see anything of substance.
the source of America's infrastructure problems is subsidies from higher levels of governments (e.g., federal) to lower levels (e.g., cities) for infrastructure

That doesn't follow from your quote. The quote says that the problem is that those subsidies were used for horizontal development (i.e. sprawl), which rapidly expanded the infrastructure. You are correct that future maintenance wasn't budgeted, but if the city had expanded vertically (i.e. denser urban cores), the infrastructure costs wouldn't have risen quite so dramatically.
Wow looks really nice.
Was looking for something like it or maybe build it my self but then with the matrix protocol and profiles.
But still need to dig in to it, don't know if it would be possible with matrix.
Cellulose films are supposed to be in this category but I've never understood how a consumer is supposed to distinguish it from plastic
> going into places closed to the public to surreptitiously install hardware directly on the MIT LAN

I think that's a line few hackers cross. I mean physically breaking and entering a server room to help with exfiltration all whilst being monitored by CCTV is pretty bold stuff.
A group of distracted drivers runs a red light
Oh cool, the gun argument except with drugs. This is not wisdom, friend. It's willful ignorance.
I had a side project called https://Apility.io while I was working full time at Microsoft. It started as a side project but soon I realized it got traction and hundreds of user used it on a daily basis. I added a subscription model to the existing community/free service and I got a good bunch of customers.
Last year I had a dilemma: keep on working at Microsoft or leave and dedicate full time to Apility.io. But then Auth0 came up and offered me an acquhire. So now I’m full time (among other things) dedicated to Apility.io inside Auth0. Happy ending.
The US is not the bar you want to compare with here. The response was essentially “let each of the 50 states decide what to do”.
Somewhat related:

Why Do Parrots (And People) Eat Clay?

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/07/547981850/wh...
Lightbend’s Cloudstate Builds on Akka to Offer Stateful Serverless
>diplomacy
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The stack ranking is turned upside-down in academia. Only a small sliver at the top will make it to a secure position.
As I understand it, the USA isn't after Assange for publishing, mainly because other (friends of the state?) entities have done similar (e.g., NY Times). Assange is being charged with conspiracy to steal said secrets. That is, he was a participant in the "theft." Uncle Sans case isn't focused on the publishing.

Again, as I understand it (which I believe is based on other comments from previous threads on HN).
Do you have an example of someone thinking both of those things? Where drugs == opiates (which are already legal in many forms)?

Different drugs have different risk profiles. Most people I have heard from want to decriminalize heroin, not legalize it.
Original research is much riskier than a job at your typical public company. Or, it should be. "Publish or perish" encourages breaking research into "minimal publishable units" which produces gobs of churn for everybody involved.

I've known a few professors that publish paper after paper with similar results and similar methods. I suspect each of having a much deeper theorem, either under their hat, or (more generously) at the tip of their tongue. If they'd take a bit of a break from the churn and focus on the deeper theorem, their actual impact on the field would be significantly more value. We'd all get to read, write, or review, a small handful of papers instead of dozens.
I believe it was spacechem that made me long for testable components in the game, since the stage was conceptually getting several submodules to work, and then orchestrating their outputs into the final product

When I started longing for unit testing in a game, that was the end for me
I think they both aggressively pushed the sale of Oxycontin, and advertised it to be used in a specific way, so that the outcome of those two things was very likely to cause addiction problems in a large number of patients.

https://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/
He simply tarnished certain federal bureaucracies, not America at large.
Both require evaluation against some standard of good performance. I guess the difference is the definition of "good performance." If it's a function of # of papers published, and you don't care about publishing papers for the sake of publishing papers, I can see see why someone would want to jump ship.
If the reality of what we are doing to our citizens tarnishes our reputation, then we shouldn't be doing it.
I'd prefer to be in a battle of multiple world-policemen.

I'd like local law and international laws from foreign states to conflict sometimes.

I'd then like my local government to protect me from the foreign government when I (inevitably) break one set of laws.

In turn, that reduces the effectiveness of world-policing
Laws are source code. Currently it's all spagetti and applying even simplest proven tricks from software domain would yield immensely good results. Like, duh, removing goto.

Software is crap, law is so much worse.
It'd be nice if they could do the same for protein synthesis, but that's obviously a much harder problem.
If physicians aren't responsible for safely prescribing medication, why do we bother having them?
Interesting, I'm wondering if you can share your favorite tools?
Photoshop is pretty much the only thing I miss from the proprietary OSes, never managed to match the workflow with Krita or Gimp.
> I wonder if this couldn't easily be fixed by using this license: https://opensource.org/licenses/NPOSL-3.0

> It is open-source, but disallows commercial for-profit use.

The NPOSL is not disallowing commercial use, it is claiming that the source of the software is a non-profit, derives no revenue from the software (including hosting), and provides no warranty for the software.

In other words, the NPOSL has modifications from the OSL that further protect a non-profit from being sued. A judge (depending on jurisdiction) might look askance at a complete disclaimer of warranty if an implied commercial relationship can be construed between the entities that provided and used the software (for example, through a donation, or perhaps by contributing employee work).

There is probably case law of non-profits being sued for something they provided for free, the NPOSL is trying to protect against that, given that compared to for-profit companies, they are likely to be resource constrained.
I can't answer to the comment that got flagged so here's what I wrote (sorry for the murder of the English language):

> I was working for a regional public agency but as a contractor not as a civil servant. My job was budgeted and paid for by a a higher up federal/state agency (country level).

> This job was part of a broader state program to bring some specific skills to some lower agencies and ease the connection between agencies (on a networking level and on a per project basis level).

> This year, that regional public agency was supposed to be absorbed and merged into a sister regional public agency. All those agencies are managed and run by politicians (public sector). So I got my end of employment paper at the beginning of the year, kept on working for three months and then I was supposed to be transfered/rehired - still as a contractor - to the new agency (which is in the same building, do the same work, with the same people, it's just label shuffling).

> Except one week before that I got a call from one of the cronies to let met know that they had budgetary problems and rather prefer to use the budget to pay someone who is already there. That person being - ohohoho - the best friend of our new agency director. It's a public agency, they don't bump into budget problems in march. I cost them 0 bucks because it's financed by another state agency. And yes, that person was severely lacking the necessary skills to do my job and to follow up with the current projects.

> I alerted the higher up agency, they didn't take it well at all because the budget was also used to pay for certifications (which the friend of the director should retake), there were some projects at their level where I had the networking and relationships needed and really they didn't like that the lower agency got rid of one of their element like that and that the lower agency thought they could whatever they wanted with `my ` budget. They don't like ton invest into people for years and see them go, whatever the reasons.

> To be honest, that program was on shaky legs but I was one of the good elements. From the people at the top of the chain (remember I am talking public sector, I went to the highest point) I was told that they had done everything so that our team wouldn't be unemployed in the middle of a pandemic. They had budgeted things so that we didn't lose our job in very difficult times. That's why I use the word `robbed`.

> So now the whole program is scraped, that director's friend is still on half time and the lower agency has a hard time getting their project's budgets approved by the higher up agency.

> And I find a new job, half time though, and I am starting tomorrow so I got that going for me.

> But I am really bitter because I loved that job and the projects were really specific and I was fast tracked at some point to be fully employed as a public servant by the higher up agency which would have meant a much stable life and perspective to buy/build a house, have a baby, etc.

> So, that's how it works.
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Just find out what the logs look like and write a script to randomly generate them.
No one can accumulate billions without decisions that the average person would describe as clearly immoral.
And bond movie delayed to allow more greater chance of cinema returns yet there might not be many cinemas left!
good quotes:

> Two thousand, five hundred and sixty-one individuals ... completed an online survey about their single most memorable entity encounter after taking [DMT]

and

> More than half of those who identified as atheist before the experience no longer identified as atheist afterwards.
Fountain of youth – is a fecal transplant?
Wouldn't he have flown straight to Moscow if that was his plan from the start?
> If a large company were to give an IQ test to every applicant, they would get sued and asked to prove it does not discriminate against a protected class. If a large company hires only from Harvard, they just say that Harvard is non-discriminatory, so that policy is as well

It is just as easy to prove that a pro-elite-university hiring practice has a differential impact on a variety of protected classes as one that uses an IQ test, and there's probably better evidence for lots of jobs that performance is predicted by IQ test results, to overcome the presumption of disparate impact discrimination from the differential impact.

IQ tests, however, have a greater cultural awareness of the potential for illegality, which probably translates to a greater risk of an employee talking to an attorney and thus a suit being filed in the first place.

Hiring from elite universities exclusively is a safer way to discriminate because there's less chance that the victims will seek redress, not because it outsources responsibility.
I was looking at my resume feeling real fresh today

They rewrite history, I don't believe in yesterday

https://genius.com/Kanye-west-gorgeous-lyrics
Congrats! Amazing. Was it any kind of a life-changing amount for a Microsoft engineer?
No, pi-hole delegates to other resolvers, by default Google 8.8.8.8.
Saving the airlines could cost the Earth
It sounds like you're confusing Assange and Snowden.
I was just going to say the same thing.
I’m glad this was posted. I’m writing my personal statement for applying to PhD programs right now, after spending a few years in big tech and both the concerns as well as the benefits resonate with how I’ve modeled my expectations.

I think I’ll end up in a similar place - hyper-focusing as a graduate student and then transitioning out of academia after. One understated part of academia is that for a lot of fields (Such as the bio-adjacent fields I’m interested in), academia is one of the few places willing to take on trainee risk. I hope we can keep academia as a place where we’re willing to take risks to educate, which I think starts with reforming the processes informed by the critiques this post levies.

One thing I would advocate for is forcing pre-registration of experiments. Publishing a design for experiments with an intent, a hypothesis, and a afterwards a quick summary of the results. That process for FDA trials has naturally led to a large buildup of both positive and negative results, while also inhibiting post-hoc statistical baboonery.
I think you're missing an idea I'm trying to get at. I think we can agree that psychedelics do weird things (you may have not a whole bunch of first hand experience, and I can report from tons of reading that the variety and nature of first hand experiences is highly variable).

You have noticed (directly &/or read anecdotes & "beliefs" of users) some sample of the results (a subset of all user experiences, which is a subset of all the experiences that are possible in the space), and logically formed some sort of a conclusion about what psychedelics do/offer. I am speaking of that which is beyond - the far more rare experiences of people who have used them very deliberately as a tool (practices & results you are not aware of), and then also that which lies beyond anyone's experiences thus far. Might there be something important within these spaces (think from the perspective of a Venn Diagram), of which you have no information, but does in fact exist (or, could exist)?
I mean. If these shoes are white, then they are made of white people skin.
Sonos is spying on me (and you)
I would look at the LLVM tutorials, and maybe the insides of your favourite languages compiler (other than clang)

When it comes to both parsing and emitting IR, keep it simple (stupid!) - the difficult bit (on a day to day basis) with the compiler is almost always the language semantics, the backend is more theory-dense but to just implement a language you can use LLVM as a black-box.

If you minimise mutable state and utilise lowering (you can implement foreach by lowering the AST to a for loop, for example) your compiler will be much easier to debug.
The fact remains that the ultimate responsibility for what goes into the body of a functioning adult who is not coerced in any way lies solely with that adult.

We fault the individual when they don't take their medicine. Why do we fault their physician when they do?

State licensing has confused the issue and made most people misplace the "authority" in this chain of events. Your doctor is NOT the authority on what goes into your body: you are.
A prosecutor wanting to give someone a hard time would choose tax law as the mechanism only if the amount in contention was large, e.g. it was against a business owner. You don't think a judge would issue a warrant in a case alleging million dollar intentional tax fraud?
Why Cursive Handwriting Is Good for the Brain
History is being rewritten all the time. Fake videos are no more of a threat than partisan Wikipedia editors, Internet Archive wipeout campaigns, and state-sponsored school history books.

Can't see the benefit of keeping hashes if you lose content. Decentralized content preservation seems to be much more important.
> Glass production in construction also comes with a heavy carbon footprint. Manufacturing emissions are approximately 25,000 metric tons per year.

Actually I think it’s closer to 50 million tons (0.5 tons of CO2 per ton of product times 100m tons of flat glass per year).

Relatively we’re talking about ~0.1% of worldwide emissions. Glass production used to emit closer to 1.3tons/ton, but it’s gotten a lot more energy efficient over time.
I have far more spontaneous conversations since I’ve been working remotely. We use Pragli and anybody can start a conversation with a click (we are strongly discouraged from marking ourselves as unavailable, or turning off the feature that shows recent activity).

It’s very distracting, actually. In an office, it’s easier to say come back later and you’re less likely to be interrupted.
There is also the idea that wealth is a reasonable measure of one's contribution to society. This way, any personal wealth that is acquired by legal means is not just morally acceptable, but good for all.
I don't argue against STEM fields typically yielding higher paid careers. But there is more to consider than finances: For example I think mental health is a major issue (suicide, prison, depression, etc). I don't see encouraging men into other fields where they learn to express themselves as a detractor. Putting more men into the arts for example doesn't mean less men in STEM fields.

A lot of the male prison population usually have mental illness, sexual assault histories, were raised by a single parent (often the mother) or more generally a broken home. It's not ideal, but if we encouraged more male teachers into the early education system, perhaps young boys would have a good male role model to look up to.
Anyone have a rough estimation of the laws made vs laws repealed? This is what I wonder and worry sometimes. It seems we're constantly making far more laws than repealing and slowly but surely caging ourselves in. Our parties seem to be in a blind race downhill to see who can implement the most laws to block the other parties but I feel we're just "cleaning" ourselves into a corner.
Is this the post you refer to?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21002745