skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is more than one way to take heroin, and folks do use occasionally.

My anecdata contradicts this.

I know a lot of musicians who say "Yeah, they lied to us about pot. So, I assumed they were lying about everything else, too. And they were--except heroin. Do NOT do heroin--that's a path you do not want to be on."

I don't know of any who use it "recreationally" and control it. It just doesn't seem to work that way.

> All drugs I wouldn't take are safer if folks know they are getting, strength and purity are verified as much as possible.

I agree with this 100%.
Well, the latest AMD Epyc has 256 MB L3 cache, so we're getting there.
To reward traditional and discourage tracking ads - although if Google and the ad networks detect a barrage of clicks from an IP with this plugin it probably goes right on an ignore list anyway.

Re: pay per click model, I don't know. Impressions, clicks, site owner honor system about their traffic numbers, guess there's different ways to do it.
Looking from afar, paranoia seems to have been a mainstay of the American right since the 1950's. What's changed in the past 15-20 years is it appears to have become a mainstay of American politics in general.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_Style_in_American...
Looks like the just announced 13" MBP only has 2 usb-c/thunderbolt ports and they're both on the same side.

Never occurred to me they would go backwards on this, I bet this is one of those overlooked details that will get a lot of notice once people actually start receiving these new laptops.
The architecture you've proposed here has many overlaps with q/KDB (or Jd, Shakti), which does not (AFAIK) have a decent open source alternative. Looking forward to see what you build!
The "sandboxing", as I understand it, only applies to the filesystem; processes can still see other processes run in different firejails if they are being run by the same user.
Show HN: Notebook (like Jupyter) to build internal tools that read like docs
This is not treating them like children but more like focusing on the fact that a lot of them are naive and emotionally desperate guys who are not aware that it's all a game and are vulnerable to be preyed on by somebody who is willing to give them fake personal interaction and affection for their cash.
They're not really "gone", they've just been put to use because there's no point in leaving RAM empty. You can do much more than run a browser and Spotify with 8GB of RAM.
Which one of Cohn's swing state predictions are within "polling error"? If you can't even consider the possibility that the polls were pushed to demoralize, that's not on me.

Here... Let me give you a source of pollster who explains just how crazy Cohn, Silver, Wasserman's polls were and how drastically they overshot.

This guy is right leaning, but no fan of Republicans, but the view here is that he's pissed about how poorly everyone did this and how it's incompetence or malice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLHe3u4zZfY7K1N04z6Xu_JbY...

Watch from 30min to 40min. That's 10 minutes that I think will make the point with numbers that I can not make here.
To be clear, what the RIAA did isn't illegal. They sent a letter. I'm allowed to send a legal demand letter to you demanding 5 donkeys and a cow for having an insulting username, and even phrase it in Very Intimidating Ways. You're also welcome to ignore it. I can even file a law suit. I won't win (and you can then ask the judge for legal fees), but I'm not doing anything illegal.

What github did probably wasn't illegal either. Most companies can fire a customer for no great reason, which github did.

A perfectly reasonable response, I suspect, might be to start sending github large numbers of inane takedown letters similar to the RIAA one, alleging that random tools can circumvent copy protection. For example, vscode, cpython, and many other projects live on github, and can be used to circumvent copy protection too. That's a true statement.

github is welcome to ignore those letters too, since they don't conform to DMCA requirements. Or they can follow them.

In either case, I'm kind of curious what github would do. I suspect if they randomly kill projects, most projects will go somewhere else. github won't be considered a reliable service provider. Or github will re-evaluate their policies to be more reasonable, and not take down projects willy-nilly, which would be a good outcome too.
People who hold controversial ideas may also not trust a computerized system. It isn't just about the person on the other end of the phone judging you. It's that someone is recording what you believe, and you may not be as anonymous as you think.
I too have found this, why do you think meditation/sitting has this effect?

Also thanks for the direction, does the following sound like what you're referring to:

1. Temperance: Eat not to dullness. Drink not to elevation.

2. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself. Avoid trifling conversation.

3. Order: Let all your things have their places. Let each part of your business have its time.

4. Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

5. Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself: i.e., Waste nothing.

6. Industry: Lose no time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions.

7. Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit. Think innocently and justly; and if you speak, speak accordingly.

8. Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

9. Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

10. Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes, or habitation.

11. Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

12. Chastity: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring; never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.

13. Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
“ San Francisco had four times as many deaths from overdose this year as it did from the COVID-19 virus.” - that says more about the handling of the epidemic (by far the lowest death rate of any city in the nation) than it does about the drug problem.
I do wonder if it was a mistake to have a kid. They do bring some joy, and especially a lot of joy to the grandparents. But what kind of life will they have in this world?
How is the value of dating women determined by buying sexy videos/images online?
The headline here says it all really: https://www.wired.com/story/remote-work-perks-until-want-pro...

A colleague moved to an office in boulder. Everyone there is senior, and not leaving. No space to get promoted. All the big stuff that could get them promoted is already taken up.

A different friend moved from a satellite office, and has now been promoted twice.
Analyzing Voting Systems
There's also the 'delay' setting that you can set in your HN user profile, which gives you 1-10 minutes to edit your comment before it becomes visible to others. This has saved my bacon on many occasions.
Also, it just occurs to me - I wonder if Josh and Baremetrics have _already_ helped these the VC firms our with enough deal referrals, contact, networking, and deal closing ammunition (and I suspect not, but given this is SV, data on other startups that was not publicly available but that Baremetrics was collecting?) - that made it an easy choice for them to say "Sure! We're totally happy with everything you've done for us overt the last 7 years already. Thanks man!"
> Do you need 16 cores to run Word and Outlook

No, but for that, I don't need much more than a Chromebook either. Are we really saying an Surface/Surface Pro can't run office for 99% of the use cases and workloads people use it for?

> if you're using a laptop is for work is run out of battery

Majority of people I know how have Macbooks have them plugged in when at the office or at home. And many offices have power-bricks in conference rooms pre-installed, especially with USB-C charging, your laptop can charge just by plugging it into your monitor, or in any standard USB-C port in a conference room.

Unless your office is Starbucks, let's face it, for most of corporate America, and home work during COVID, people are plugged in a majority of the time.
Would most people here agree that .NET is a much better platform for developing applications with a plugin-based architecture (which, I think, more or less, implies following Hexagonal aka Clean Architecture / Ports and Adapters Pattern [1]) than popular alternatives (e.g., Python, TypeScript/Node.js) due to a diverse set of comprehensive dependency injection (DI) implementations [2]? While it is possible to use a manual / non-DI approach [3], the trend seems to be in either extending this approach [4-5], or - an arguably more elegant and flexible solution - using DI [6]. Would love to hear opinions on how you would approach developing a heavily plugin-based application (including an ability to use virtualization containers, such as Docker, as functional plugins).

[1] https://www.infoq.com/articles/advanced-architecture-aspnet-...

[2] https://www.claudiobernasconi.ch/2019/01/24/the-ultimate-lis...

[3] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tutorials/creat...

[4] https://github.com/natemcmaster/DotNetCorePlugins

[5] https://maartenmerken.medium.com/announcing-prise-a-plugin-f...

[6] http://ewer.com.br/plugin-architecture-with-di-containers
I agree. Being the tiniest cog in an enormous machine is not for everyone. It can be hard to find a sense of purpose.
> I can’t tell you the reason, but people are just obsessed with this “end of San Francisco” narrative despite a ton of hard evidence to the contrary. I studied CS after the dotcom and people were convinced all programming jobs were going abroad since programming can be done anywhere, instead Bay Area engineering comp quadrupled. Now instead of going to Mumbai it’s going to Denver or Montana, doubtful.

I think this depends on your personal definition of San Francisco. Toward the end of the last wave of tech (2017-2019 I estimate), a lot of the folks moving here to work were more interested in the income and prestige of working in a "cool SV company", along with the social-status effect of working in a "hip city" rather than actually doing interesting/hard work with interesting people. These folks can still brag about their prestigious employers and their fat salaries if they work remotely. These are the folks for whom the "end of San Francisco" is welcome, as they weren't particularly interested in the location anyway, and with a pandemic going on, there's no social status to be gained by living in a "hip city". For folks that are here for the weather and the intellectual, cultural, and racial diversity and prowess, I doubt the Valley and SF will be overshadowed any time soon. I don't really hard hard numbers for this though, so I could just be full of sh--.
This joke is frightening hilarious
I'm with you man. It's brutal, and isolating.

What is the yowling technique?
> So your rich life became a little richer?

Sure, it did.

> ... don't care where they live ...

We loved the bay area when we arrived in 2009, and we still do. I spent the first 23 years of my life in Southern California, and while I'm not personally a fan of socal, I think the state of California is one of the most amazing, remarkable places in the world.

> don't ... care about crap like family values and property ...

I'm not sure what you mean? When you say 'family values', can you be more specific?
SRAM is 6 transistors per bit, so you're taking about 48 billion transistors there, and that's ignoring the overhead of all the circuits around the cells themselves.

DRAM is denser, but difficult to build on the same process as logic.

That said, with chiplets and package integration becoming more common, who knows... One die of DRAM as large cache combined with a logic die may start to make more sense. It's certainly something people have tried before, it just didn't really catch on.
> There is understands skepticism “this time is different.”

A black swan pandemic highlighting the inadequacy and fragility of our public health systems will do that.
>Why else would most Trump voters come from rural areas?

Because the political and cultural interests of rural areas are different than the interests of urban areas? The economies of rural areas have crumbled. But 50% of the population live in cities and so economic policies that benefit the "majority" of the population will completely miss the issues rural areas face. Trump's support is because he at least pretends to care about them.
Not sure about that, plenty of deprecated things removed, plenty of modules removed, plenty of things moved about, ANGLE no longer supported on Windows...
Some are earlier than others (biotech is already a hot investment market, for instance), but I think we've been there for awhile. Just look at all the self-driving firms, car manufacturers, airbnb/housing startups, and agtech around the Bay.
The orthography for Gaelic, which is an innate language of the british Isles (Ireland, Scotland, parts both) comes to mind here.

Or, the 1911-> history of Sütterlinschrift -These initiatives have consequences

The Polish one, is obviously more politicized because of partition of Poland by occupiers who used Cyrillic, but it is notable that Turkey survived a re-othrography, and China seriously considered it.
"If Microsoft try to really force Store only app distribution on all users, I think Valve's time would likely be better spent in the courts than trying to get hundreds of millions of users to install Linux."

Valve has fuck-you money, they'd do both. Having Linux Steam development on a trickle gives them a massive time advantage, in that they already have a few years of experience with the project on day zero of the "we need a Windows-par Steam Linux client" focus.
There has been a lot of posts on the front page recently about vitamin D deficiency and covid. Surely most multi-vitamins have D in them?
Hmmm... What is the day 1 ability for, say, a systems programmer to run VSCode/golang development locally? It'd be neat to find out. The fact that they don't say doesn't tell me much, either it's "not a problem" or it's "such a problem we won't talk about it".
That's a very nicely written and interesting article, bravo! Exactly why I come to Hacker News!

I always felt that Polish words were just too long because some many consonants are required to transport all the different sounds! I personally felt that Cyrillic would be a better fit, but obviously don't know the specifics having never learnt Polish (only a bit of Russian).
The choice of the old church symbols seems odd to me because they are so unwritable in handwriting and --- checking Wikipedia --- unsurprisingly evolved to look very different in cursive.
It's a long story, but in summary: they pulled sponsorship without notifying me, charged me for hosting while I asked what was going on (they took forever to respond), and shut down the site for a few hours during discussions when they assured me they wouldn't. I have been unable to reason with them and decided I cannot promote a company who does business in this way.
Cannabis could gain from more efficient use of their electricity.

Currently, most indoor and greenhouse grows will have the lights on during the day and off at night, exactly opposite of when energy is cheapest. Batteries (any type, whatever works) could allow for purchasing energy at cheap levels (at night) and using that energy during the day.

An alternative would be to hire a night crew and operate entirely when enrgy is cheapest.
That depends on it working. If I've already been open and honest, then what more can a therapist do? The only thing I can think of is the therapist using authority or shame, and that's not allowed.

To me it sounds like me paying money for someone to facilitate a conversation. We aren't hostile, so I don't think that's necessary.
500nits vs 400nits is only difference I'm spotting.
I didn't say it was the highest perf. Just that it is that abstraction layer that runs everywhere.
No. Why would that matter? My issue isn't who wrote it but rather its lack of any good arguments. It presents a narrative that the author tries to tie in with a Biblical story, which seems really superfluous and makes the whole piece feel very bombastic. PG's writings tend to be very "compact" and dense. The reason the comparison came to mind is that both writers are VCs and are talking about general trends in SV. Could be that I just prefer a certain style of writing.
Yea, I hate the way the background blur feature in google meets suddenly make my face way brighter and "pop" in the video. With winter coming, I'm getting a lot less natural light in my work area and my videos just look dreary.
Not slower, with USB/SSD speeds today.

Do you need a 512GB boot drive?
Ask HN: Any suggestions for startup friendly law firms on the west coast?
I am looking to onboard a legal counsel to review participation and stock purchase agreements. Are there any law firms you worked with for your startup that you would recommend?
And you'll be right, unless all these SIGs are somehow similarly aligned.
The New York Times is simply the propaganda arm of the permanent political class. That's all it is.
They brought back the escape key which is what really matters.
This happened to me, slowly.

I didnt realise it at the time, or as it was happening.

I have ADHD, and can be amazing at work. But over time corporate offices destroyed me. I sought help for depression, and my ADHD. But no one suggested burnout.

I had to have a fully nervous breakdown and six months off work to even work out what was going on.

It's taken a full two years of recovery, and now I guard my mental health like the crown jewels!

But I'll never be the same again. I'll never fully commit to another company, manager, workplace or team again.

I choose to validate myself outside of what makes me money, and choose my friends and acquaintances carefully. I don't assume people I work with are my 'friends', and I certainly am very careful who I trust! (which is never anyone at work!)
The people wearing it made it political

I think the message that police are all that keeps society from descending into violent chaos is inherently political.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/06/08/the-short-frau...
Bonsai – Data transformation library for Node.js (Advice and feedback welcome)
I thought about down voting this, but I want to ask you...why the hate, or it seems like it? The OP has a well paying job and a skill set that allows him/her to make this choice. They are placing their family above status of living here which seems like a reasonable thing. I do not understand what I see as hate in your comment?

I also hit the tech lotto, have a nice house, etc. and am planing to leave. I worked my ass off for 20 years (with the last 10 being 50+ hour weeks, 150K+ miles per year travel, 2 weeks a month not with my family) to have the opportunity to play in that lotto. Does that make me someone to hate?
Ah yes, nothing like exploiting teenage girls and pretending to be feminist liberal progressive while doing it!
There is no physical pimp in this case, but lots of viral marketing duping immature teenagers into believing they can make it by selling their dignity.
I don't care if some 30 year old person wants to make a life out of camming, but don't come here pretending like Onlyfans is some force for good.
And then you dare criticize people like me who call a spade a spade, instead of criticizing the people profiting from this scam.
Parler tops app store charts for first time
Initiative towards constructing a multi-cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope
I chose to decorate with a colour called "mushroom" as a mutual decision. We did brighter colours in the kitchen and on some ceilings. Feature walls didn't exist because we had a lot of books, huge fields of visual clutter. Beige walls were peaceful. they also worked with almost any colour we brought into the room.

But it is true we tended to a more muted palette by choice.
What in a basic office needs 8GB RAM?! I used Word 6.0 under Windows 95 with 64MB of RAM!

Have you looked at Activity Monitor to see what is butchering your memory?!
> without merely dismissing the whole site as toxic on twitter.

You are aware that he's not, not by a long shot, the first to have that opinion? There's _way_ more than an element of truth in it.
A lot of the common answers seem to amount to "it helps politicians and activists figure out what to say." Because apparently say whatever tests well is paramount.
Apple has always sucked when it came to cooling. The Apple /// and Lisa were plagued by “IC creep” where, due to heat expansion from inadequate cooling, the ICs would wiggle out of their sockets ever so slowly.
Victoria had an exploding case count that was set to match the rest of the world before the government did a hard lockdown. And not just the feel good ones they do in the US, the lockdown meant you could only leave the house for 1 hour a day for exercise within a 5km radius and anyone who absolutely had to leave the house had to show proof and wear a mask. The case count fell sharply only after these measures were put in place.
This is such a vague headline that it contains no useful information, given that clearly individual vitamins have benefits, and multivitamins can be a mix of any number of any quantity of vitamins.

That many people have no idea what they are purchasing is a separate matter.
> The government could, and any medium-sized corporation could as well. Ahoy, industrial espionage!

It's not actually that easy to tap into internet communications. Even without encryption it would be a huge challenge to spy on someone.

A government could obviously do it. A medium-sized corporation? Not likely.

> because the legislation rarely moves that quickly

Just legislate "encryption that takes no more than $80,000 to break, indexed for inflation", and it will auto adjust as computers get faster. (i.e. legislate the cost, not the key-strength.)

> the journalists and human rights activists use encryption to keep their correspondence concealed chiefly from the government. And there are other governments on this planet, not just US.

Those other governments can just outlaw encryption then entirely. My idea is specifically for governments that are gentle enough to allow normal people privacy. Authoritarian governments are not going to be limited by a law.
> Maybe that's true for Marxists but it's not true for "the left" more generally.

It's true of a lot of the non-Marxist Left, too.

> The environment it creates is ruthlessly competitive. Winners win big, losers starve.

Im struggling to see how you imagine a crackdown on voluntary sex work would make that better, except as a way of draining more resources from everyone (itself making more people starve) to guarantee that fewer people could make a living in voluntary exchange (making even more people starve.)

Sure, I think with genuinely left policies, there's be less people who felt that sex work that lots of people not doing it find unacceptably degrading was a net win, and so fewer people choosing to voluntarily engage in that; capitalism naturally is economically coercive that way. But there's nothing particular about sex work here, fewer people would accept agricultural field work at current wages, absent economic coercion, too. The fix for the problems capitalism creates index work has everything to do with capitalism and very little to do with sex work.