skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I can't say I'd be happy about a 7-11 selling heroin or meth.

While no one is advocating for that, but it used to be like that, in that you could go to a drug store and get opioids and what not. Coca-cola used to have cocaine in it, and so on.

In the past we were better off than today. People were not shooting up in the streets, yet heroin was readily available. The past is not the ideal path forward. We can do better than the past, and we can certainly do better than today.

A middle ground needs to be found (a global maxima) between de-regulation and over-regulation. I personally think having to take a test so you're an informed consumer is an ideal amount of regulation, but others might disagree.
80% of all antibiotics in the US are given to livestock. The majority of infectious disease in humans originate via zoonosis. The agricultural industry is responsible for antibiotic resistance, not people being prescribed antibiotics.
I used armodafinil for a while, made me want to have a drink after work even more. That said I was efficient/focused during office hours, although more annoyed at stupid people than usual. As long as I was able to focus on my own work it was great.

I wouldn't say it had a positive effect overall. The effects lasts long enough that you can't really take any more after early afternoon if you want proper sleep, and once the effects wear off, well, you want a drink...

Just my personal experience though.
Already contacted Postman customer support :)
My general rule is that I will not take any vaccine which has active patents. If doctors are recommending it way past the patents have expired, it is very likely that it fares well in terms of risk/reward.
https://www.stopify.org/
So like Podcastindex.org, but not free?
India's WhiteHat Jr Is Startup Hell
Except when driver decides to take couple days off and you can’t get anywhere or their cars breaks down for a day and they say it’s still within slo because the radio still worked (looking at you GCP)
>This is literally the opposite -- providing benefits to private interests.

While true in many cases, I don't think it's always initiated this way. Many subsidies start as a social good and then perpetuate based on lobbied interests.

My favorite example is the subsidy for alpaca wool. This was started as a social good to ensure there was enough cold-weather gear to fight the Korean War. However, this subsidy continued into the mid-1990s.
In practice, I don't think the discovery aspect of app stores matters that much for anything but utility apps where you would search stuff like "docx viewer". It does matter for all kinds of apps when they feature something, and that's about it. Almost all developers have their own ways to drive traffic to their apps.

I mean, I've been making Android apps since 2011, and I think that the role of app stores themselves is vastly overrated too. They have their place and they're nice to have, sure, but it's silly that OS vendors are allowed to have their own ones and either demote or outright ban anything that doesn't go through them. The transition to "always-online" was supposed to be more empowering, not more limiting.

"But people would install malware..."

It's okay for new technology to require education before one can make use of it. It's about time we get over it and stop treating users like children.
I use nov.el in Emacs. I think it looks quite nice, but YMMV.
Online survey and analysis web platform
We are building an online survey platform for small businesses to collect feedback and increase customer satisfaction. Currently have an MVP and planning to go beta. looking for test users to give us constructive and honest feedback.
I only have a quad-core rn, and found that NVENC has lower latency than Intel QuickSync.

But yeah, my next PC will prob. have the power to software-encode. Are you sure about the lower latency though?
Getting access to the Unreal Engine source code
> suddenly when it comes to tech bros who are seeing a pay cut, we are all up in the arms?

I think you cut right to the heart of the issue here. As a software engineer, for years I've heard "If you want to make the big bucks, you have to move to the bay area" or some variation of that. No one on here seemed to have a problem with location based comp when it worked in their favor. Now that it's not people are up in arms.

Let's be honest and call it like it is. A lot of people in major tech hubs see an opportunity to game the system and are just hurt that companies aren't going to let them.
> you can't complain that the payscale is different for atlanta vs sf while maintaining that it's totally fine for you to make 5x as much as the cashier at 7-Eleven.

It's that the "equal work" part? Comparing one cashier to another cashier (assuming same hours, same responsibilities, etc) is equal work, so is part of an "equal pay for equal work" conversation. Comparing a cashier to a software dev is a wholly separate conversation.
UCSF Launches New Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative with $30M Gift
Not OP but:

IDE: Use IntelliJ Community Edition (or whatever Jetbrains IDE matches your project). Print out a keystrokes cheat sheet and tape it on your desk. Try to do stuff as a series of snippets, autocorrects, autocompletes and refactorings rather than pounding out the code (this is especially relevant in Java where it can save you like 90% keystrokes).

Example: don't start a new method by writing the new method. Start it by calling it somewhere with arguments, then alt-enter (auto-correct) to create the method, with the types and arguments already filled in.

Chair: get Herman Miller Aeron or Mirra (cheaper), second hand

Standing desk: I use cardboard boxes on a regular desk. I take sitting breaks when I'm thinking but not actively typing. Pomodoros also work (stand 20, sit 5 or 10). Don't use your phone when you sit.
> everyone gets 100% of the vote (i.e. veto power) when it comes to how they use their own labor and resources

Yeah, so uh... not democracy.

I'm not going to relitigate the entirety of Anarchy, State & Utopia in the HN comments section, but suffice to say that these ideals are far from objectively "egalitarian" and the idea that other's negative, non-inferential side-constraints must be sometimes violated in the context of social cooperation is actually foundational to republican (as in the political philosophy) thought.
The powers that be will ban alcohol and encourage replacing it with weed. Bezos & co. will swill their wine much more contentedly when the population's nice and doped up, rather than drunk and wild.
> And similarly, to encourage others to decrease their meat consumption by letting them know that by buying meat, they are very likely going against their values

Well, people know. Maybe they don't KNOW know, in the sense of actually visiting a slaughter house and smelling the blood, but I'm sure most people know about animal shipments, tiny cages, and that gassing or slashing animals throats isn't a picnic.
Personally I donate money to an animal protection program (probably don't donate enough). Conversations I have with people in my life about this are overwhelmingly futile and people become quite hostile when you talk to them about this.
~3% boost to margins is very welcome for a cloud company (would be amazing for a retailer). But what about the risks? What if you need to scale down the operation? What if your hardware team ends up costing more? In particular, the R&D department (cloud providers depreciate hardware over 2-3 years, which matches the progress of technology and the speed at which things become obsolete). $35M per year only pays about 50-100 salaries. What if your setup turns out not as good as expected? You can't easily jump ship once you sink in the capex. And I don't think that already big (in terms of revenue) startups should be adding much to their risk profile.

It could also be that there's just no other way to cut anything from their enormous opex (for example fire people or buy less ads). I find this hard to believe but may be true.

One very good strategic reason to do this, I think, would be to gain independence from cloud providers, who unfortunately happen to be your major competitors.
The Ada Academy in Seattle is free AND offers a Paid internship and their site says 78% of interns receive full-time offers from their company. If they can do it, why can't Lambda?
Guided Linking: Dynamic Linking Without the Costs
That's just gfycat's adult-only bantustan.
It’s a nail and wax salon, probably an easy target as they are typically owned by Asian Americans (which is our case). It’s easy to scare someone with heavy rhetoric when English is their second language.
I'm really glad you enjoyed it :)

It's funny, I had the same reaction as you. I watched it once without taking notes (because it's so damn engaging!) and at the end of it, I suddenly realized that I would need to take notes if I wanted to learn this stuff!

I really don't understand why I wasn't taught this in school. It's borderline criminal.

P.S.: the "fencing in the idea" is something I do all the time now.
> open Linux drivers

+1 THIS!

The linux 5.10 kernel will support this new series.
Which AAA titles?
Participants will continue to be monitored for the next 2 years. This just marks the point at which Pfizer can claim their vaccine to be more than 30% effective.
How Salesforce Closed the Pay Gap Between Men and Women
> But the M1 chip isn't competing with discrete graphics, at least yet.

I understand that. I was responding to a comment that referenced a near future in which the Apple chips would compete with discrete graphics. Observing the distance they have to go is relevant to that speculation.
You may! Thank you so much -- I'll be following this religiously.
DEA has never successfully 'done something' about any drug.

All they do is partially constrain the supply, increasing the price and thus profitability of smuggling the drug in.

The best way to fight "Chinese fentanyl" is with non-DEA harm reduction measures: free drug treatment, education, and creating a social safety net so addicts don't have to resort to crime to stay off the street.

Want to beat Chinese fentanyl with a single stroke of the pen? Make a program where addicts can go into a center daily to get pure government-paid-for heroin. The vast majority of societal harms from illegal drugs come from the effects of prohibition: free clean drugs would make smuggling no longer profitable, would create a centralized location for social services to communicate cessation options to addicts, and remove the "I need money for drugs" cause of the overwhelming majority of drug-related crimes.
Universal Programming Language
Yes, released on October 17, 2013.
Interesting home computer setup: PC:Raspberry Pi 400 – OS:urbit – Monitor: eInk
Reliability concerns make datacenters resilient to commoditization. A datacenter that’s available 90% of the time is worth vastly, vastly less than 90% as much as one that 99.95% of the time. Commodity businesses are largely built on presumptions of linearity. Produce 90% as much corn/iron/wood/widgets as you expected and you’ll probably make something like 90% of the money you expected. Produce a 90% available datacenter and you’ll have a hard time finding anyone willing to pay you anything. And that’s just availability, not to mention data durability, which is even more critically nonlinear.
Good news, you don't really have to do the math to get an intuition of what's going on... which will likely get you through it.

Try out GNU Radio... you can just use your audio I/O instead of messing with RF, etc. Build a few graphs where you use complex signals, multiply them together, etc... and you can get the hang of it, for no $$ and only a few hours time.
I went to one of the best rated public high schools in my state and also the country. While the academics were top notch compared to basically any other public high school around, it definitely did not prepare you adequately for (formal) engineering school. That includes the advanced courses that you had to take. I suspect that there are very few public schools that prepare you for those actual demands. Additionally, it was extremely competitive with respect to academics (in terms of grades/rank) and developing extracurriculars. It was no way representative of real life.

While I was not a good student in high school, and basically saw it as “doing time”, I was forced to get my act together academically when I became severely chronically ill my freshman year at university. My work ethic changed completely because not being a full time student meant no insurance. Also, if I did not have a job in the future with good benefits, it literally meant death (I require a blood product to survive). So, engineering school it was. But now I don’t live in the USA so this is less of a problem. It is nice not to have to worry constantly about healthcare and having to work a job just for the benefits—-as in to actually be free.
> ... and not necessarily all that frequently.

Did you miss where AWS reduces prices multiple times a year? I don't know the latest figure, but as of 2018, they reduced prices 67 times since launch in 2006.
Your compiler was broken; I didn't break it:

Verbs are not always required:

"Why?"

"Because."

"Dude!"

"Kinda?"

"Just no."

Contains too many nouns is not a thing. Your compiler should have errored on a mismatch between discrete and continuous quantities (much thinkings should either be many thoughts or much thinking) and then on a compound noun without hyphenation.

Creative punctuation is normal; really, we've only standardized on punctuation since the mid-1700s or so.

Capitalization is, again, stylistic: e.e. cummings, notably, was against it. So was Archie.

And you broke on == and !fits, but the context of reading Hacker News ought to equip your parser with adequate sidechains.
You are correct; you can't direct money to Mozilla to develop Firefox, by way of the foundation. You can fund OSS contributors, not Mozilla staff (and they are well funded already, to work on Firefox).
CMake 3.19.0 Released
This may just be exactly what the doctor ordered. Thanks!
I've seen some incredible things built with Tailwinds, but it still hasn't clicked for me. It seems like you're learning a completely different language for styling and layout. I also have some gripes with optimization in that the suggested solution to eliminating unused CSS is to use a tool that finds classes in HTML files, which is a pretty rudimentary way to accomplish that. (However, I'm sure in more advanced codebases, particularly JavaScript ones, there's probably a better utility to use.)
I have questions about OSM:

1. Is there any decent OSM app for Windows10 (good UI and offline capabilities is a must-have)

2. How can I display Russian/Chinese/Arabic city names in English?

3. If I create an OSM account will I be able to save routes and addresses?

Edit: Thanks for answers.
People want to drink, and those who want to drink the most will also be the least reserved about what they drink. It's the circle of life!
>My definition includes creating massive stockpiles of enriched Uranium,

Something this thread seemed to agree restarted in 2019.

>OPEC gives a maximum export quota

Production quotas.

>It's usually Iran which inefficiently does the 'regular bombing

It is a fact that Israel regularly bombs Iran. What Iran does is a separate matter I am not defending, though if you blame them for weapons sales I hope you similarly blame the US and Israel for the results of their weapon sales.
Stylist, proper clothing and health/gym.

It seems silly, the more you feel like you belong, or general how people think you belong works better.

If you can do the work/job, even better.
Open EMR
Book Review: How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources
Any suggestions for alcohol-free things to do in Covid-era NYC after hours in autumn and winter when you live by yourself and have spent all day at your desk in your bedroom?
How do “woke politics” prevent you from doing your job well?
What benefit does having completely readable HTML offer?
I'd be interested in reading about your experience applying NVC :) What worked well, how did you incorporate more and more NVC, some successes, some failures, etc.
good. let the sheep suffer. if you wont fight for your rights and freedoms, you deserve none.
With this rationale no monopoly should ever be investigated, broken up, etc.

The whole problem with monopolies is that they actually harm the consumer by protecting their monopoly from encroachment by someone else. So yes people really think decisions are being made by a monopoly to protect their monopoly (and their profits). A chunk of those billions they have is actually money generated by these monopolistic practices.

It's juvenile to imagine them sitting at board meeting and discussing "How can we protect our monopoly?", that's like saying the NSA is discussing by board meetings "how can we further invade everyones privacy?". But they most definitely are discussing how they can protect their market share and how to edge out competition.
I’ve noticed similar recently with many paid book search apis out there and was also grossed out.

You’re not paying for a data source at all, you’re paying for an expensive embedded application.

I don’t see how it’s remotely reasonable. The person managing this api has stricter protections on this data (though they’re not even his podcasts) than we have on our personal data.
What kind of projects do people use Tailwind for? and what's the general role of the person using it? I haven't found a use for it myself as a predominantly front-end dev but I've met a few devs who like it a lot but found that they were generally less comfortable writing plain css without a framework. No shade towards Tailwind intended, just not a paradigm I've gotten on board with yet and trying to understand.
It's interesting because as an American I'd find "having its/their/etc. moment" more common than "having a moment"
Yes, stay home, consume product, and order your sex toys off of amazon.
It's the standard outcome of capitalism...
Improving the FNV-1a algorithm for optimal string shuffling
> But I'm not quite sure what we should do about drugs, if anything. It's easy to write off adults for making poor choices, but many drugs are highly addictive and addiction often starts with children.

Offer drug treatment and rehab options for those who want to quit. Most people absolutely do not want to be addicts because addiction makes their lives miserable. It is incredibly expensive to seek treatment for drug addiction in this country, and there is a shortage of beds and caregivers relative to the number of people currently seeking treatment in the US.

> I can't say I'd be happy about a 7-11 selling heroin or meth.

That's hyperbole, but government funded clinics that supply people with cheap and uncut drugs, and a place to do them, does a lot for harm reduction in the countries with such programs.
More signs to withdraw and degoogle my life.

Photos, Gmail, time to go.
You can use postcss and @apply tag to compose single classes that you can use in your html code like .btn-blue

.btn-blue {

@apply py-2 px-5 flex items-center bg-blue-500 text-white rounded

}

So I don't really see that as a problem. You are supposed to refactor your styles later to be more reusable. What tailwind provides is fast iteration and design. I love that.
IE 11 is no longer supported :)
Using `yarn upgrade tailwindcss` only brought me up to 1.9.6. I had to specify the version to get it to upgrade.
Not nitpicking but I had trouble understanding one thing: for higher should be spelled for hire I guess
Xiaomi has been making Lidar vacuums for 4-5 year now.
I am not a lawyer.

In the US, to qualify as an internship the student’s educational institution must meet certain standards. Internships meeting this standard may be unpaid. Student teachers are an ordinary example that happens at scale.

The legal strategy here seems to include calling the students “fellows.” Presumably, Lambda School does not meet the educational criteria necessary to provide interns. There’s probably enough fog around “fellow” that retained council applying ask-forgiveness-not-permission would write a memo to cover the forgiveness asking phase not improbable in the future given the similarities between the way this quacks and the unpaid internships Lambda School presumably does not qualify to offer.
Space Releases Alpha for First P2P and Dweb File Storage and Sharing Platform
According to the Dunning-Kruger effect a majority of people overestimates themselves, so if most people thinks they have impostor syndrome then a lot of them are wrong.
There's a very concise explanation for why someone would pay $4 for a cappuccino, and it's the one they teach you in Econ 101: it was worth at least $4 to the buyer, and it couldn't be found more cheaply from a similar (location, quality, convenience) seller.
> Doesn't mean that everyone would be fine with just mandating it everywhere

Practically speaking, often I enable it everywhere even on CPU (or similar options in visual C++). When more precision is needed, FP64 is the way to go. Apart from rare edge cases, you won't be getting many useful mantissa bits in these denormals, or with better rounding order.

> So which it is? Depends on the vendor.

Yeah, but on the same nVidia GPU, I'm pretty sure mad in DXBC does precisely the same thing as fma in CUDA PTX.

> just in a way that the DX11 implementation cannot detect

It doesn't detect much. If you want to allow shaders to arbitrarily read and write the same buffer, bind that buffer as UAV and you'll be able to run many of these shaders in parallel, despite a single queue.

P.S. AFAIK the main use case for these queues is high-end graphics, to send relatively cheap GPU tasks at huge rate (like 1MHz of them), from many CPU cores in parallel. In GPU compute, at least in my experience, the tasks tend to be much larger.
> Extra wide 2XL breakpoint, for designing at 1536px and above

Is it still common for folks to use pixels in their CSS? I moved to em and the rest around 1999 (I think). What is the reason to stick to pixels?
Yeah, at that point it comes down to "Do you want to own your product? Or would you prefer slightly less anti-consumer practices on some other levels?"
I'm just curious, are there capacity restrictions inside bars currently in AZ? Can people sit at the actual bar? Do they have to close early?

I've completely lost track of what you can do where in this country, and I think a lot of places are more open than I realize.
I'm not in the web or cloud business, but I've filled a rack with my stuff before. My impression is that hardware has become a lot more capable even relative to its tasks. With high iops memory, many cores and obscene amounts of RAM, I would expect companies of a much larger scale (in $, FTEs, or most other metrics) can be served by one 4HE machine, or by one rack, or by one room. Thus I would expect the knowledge of how to handle 5000 hard drives to become more obscure, naturally, but the skill to run a decently sized web application to remain almost constant.

Does this math work out, or have the tasks become more demanding at the same speed that hardware has improved?
Yes, please a new 11“ would be truly awesome.
hopefully the virus mutates so lots of people die.
Efficient Global Register Allocation
The US only ambiguously "acknowledges" the One China Policy.
Note though that it isn't clear at this point to what extent the vaccine confers sterilizing immunity.
Let's Encrypt warns 1/3 of Android devices will break with its certs as of Jan
So happy to see L1T linked here.
Indo the same idea but use a ZWave smart plug with power use monitoring with my monitors plugged into that. Watts > some number = I'm working.

Via zWave2MQTT and NodeRed it triggers other logic like throttling RClone uploads.