skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thinking goes that cocaine has use as a medicine for end of life care (milk of the poppy and all that). I worked with a guy who used to be a pharmacist that would mix it for end of life patients. They got raided by the DEA once, despite being above board and not breaking any laws.

Marijuana is seen as having no medically accepted use, therefore it’s more illegal than cocaine.

This just happens to work out for those with more money who are more likely to do cocaine than they are schedule 1 drugs like marijuana and crack (which is basically refined cocaine)
This is something https://twitter.com/MagicRealismBot would say.
Oddly enough that's also how roman emperors handled dynastic succession[0].

In a world with 40% child mortality, it was more of a sure thing than gambling on having a biological heir.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_in_ancient_Rome
If you plotted a juggling routine with time as the 3rd axis, the balls would trace out the braid.

I remember having this realization randomly while doing a standard 3-plait braid (I don't even remember what I was braiding) and realizing I was doing the exact same motion as juggling. Super weird
Isn't it pretty well established[1] that COVID-19 causes blood clots? Blood clots can kill tissues in ways you might never recover from.

For example, if one happens in your brain, that's a stroke. Which is known to happen with COVID-19 patients[2].

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[1] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...)

[2] https://www.thelancet.com/article/S1474-4422(20)30272-6/full...
Yes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/05/29/wisco...
I always posit that the proper analogy for "smoking weed" is not "consuming alcohol" but rather "getting drunk" because relatively few people smoke weed without intending to get high (yes, this is an unpopular view; hit the downvote button and move on). If you can buy that, then then there's no inconsistency between serving alcohol at a state dinner (provided getting slammed is taboo) and not serving cannabis.
> These are all very difficult attacks that require the attacker to have recorded your traffic off the network.

The entire premise of encrypting the traffic passing over the network is that an attacker may have access to your traffic off the network.

> I don't see how forward secrecy would change things for this situation.

Suppose there is an attacker capturing all your network traffic, waiting for an opportunity to decrypt it. You backed up your phone in 2015. Then, today, the machine containing the 2015 backup of your phone is compromised, e.g. because you discarded it without sanitizing it. The attacker now has all of your messages from before 2015, because they're in the backup. But without forward secrecy, they also get all of your messages after 2015, because they could use the long-term key from the backup to decrypt all your captured network traffic. They would also get any messages from before 2015 that you had deleted prior to backing up your phone.
Honestly, that is the sort of solution I would expect the legal department to suggest as a counter-offer, with Google paying the difference. Having the legal department review contract changes is something I would expect to be standard for them, not a deal breaker. It is the reason for having the legal department there in the first place.
Cambrian explosion of user interface creativity during that era.

Also worth watching: WinAmp Skinparty by Silvio Lorusso & Adriano Vulpio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJTUiO6f1-8
That’s not quite it either as opioids and pot have medical uses. The list is in effect arbitrary.

(a) Schedule I shall consist of the drugs and other substances, by whatever official name, common or usual name, chemical name, or brand name designated, listed in this section. Each drug or substance has been assigned the DEA Controlled Substances Code Number set forth opposite it.

(b) Opiates. Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any of the following opiates, including their isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, esters and ethers, whenever the existence of such isomers, esters, ethers and salts is possible within the specific chemical designation (for purposes of 3-methylthiofentanyl only, the term isomer includes the optical and geometric isomers):
Ask HN: How do you make time?
Every day I feel like Henry Bemis from The Twilight Zone... surely someone here has tackled this problem in their life. Time just seems to disappear, each day I wake up and I have to do things and it feels like my time for the day was already sold off while I was sleeping. In need of life hacks..
I didn't realize that Zoom Rooms in our office displayed the name of the meeting on the door outside the room. One time I jokingly named my meeting "HOG THE ROOM" until my team made fun of me.
See also https://cavesrd.itch.io/newzealand
Is out? Since when has Google been good at branding? Look at Google/Android TV’s history. Or even Google Play.
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I don't believe any of the three when they say they aren't recording everything.
I knew that as well! I was sitting there thinking, federal doesn't make sense but I can't remember what the right word is. Thanks for that. :)
Let’s Skim the Slack/Salesforce Press Release
A bit sad that despite Slack being (or being built) on top of PHP, there is still no official PHP SDK four years later.
> Now you can mispronounce it, that’s the only leeway we get.

Not a bad option. I would much prefer asking 19th century Russian author, Nikolai Gogol, to turn on the lights.
iOS offers 'work profile' support for this as well, as of mid-2018. Specifics can be found on page 8 of https://www.apple.com/business/docs/resources/Managing_Devic...
This is exactly what I am saying. They aren't new. Lysol used to advertise that it killed the corona virus on its disinfectants back in the 90s.
Even if Democrats win the two GA senate seats and are therefore the majority (50 + VP), this will not pass.

As a country, we are not there yet. 2022 Senate races are far too important to be trying to get ahead of where the country is. You lose suburban moms.
The UN isn't a government, it's a meeting forum.
Given how aggressively they've pivoted their communications away from the esotericism, I get the impression that they're pretty cognizant of this. They seemingly have their fundamental platform somewhat pinned down, given their release of OS1. I've got my fingers crossed that as they increase accessibility on the frontend, they'll also be working to make the dev experience friendlier to those of us who didn't buy into the cultishness of Urbit early on.
Is it actually just "Siri" or "hey siri?"

How is that much different from "Hey Google", both are 3 syllable. Alexa is too though I agree just saying the name flows better.
It's entirely appropriate that this link 404s, since the best practice for SMS OTP is "don't". Use TOTP or webauthn or FIDO2 instead.
> The listed nuclear price is $155/MWh.

Getting the price down for nuclear construction and maintenance is important. Keep in mind that these plants were built in the 80s or earlier.

> Nuclear in 2020 doesn't make any sense. It's far cheaper to over-provision and use storage.

What storage? That's the point. You can listen to what Bill Gates said about this last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xe3BWPsBTU
I want the one with the bigger GBs.
That's an interesting - and to me unsurprising - side effect. Weed is such a generally low-key anodyne that is basically tantamount to alcohol in effect.

Take away the mystique of its illegality and it suddenly becomes a lot less interesting to teenagers.
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Why would you burn that sort of access when you can at the very least resell it?

- https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-07/Langlois/Presentation/bh-eu-07-langlois-ppt-apr19.pdf
- https://0x00sec.org/t/into-the-wild-gaining-access-to-ss7-part-1-finding-an-access-point/12418
FYI its great you are passionate about something, but this Congress has passed a historically low number of bills due to its ideological dysfunction, while having a historically high backlog of bills.

Everything in committee gets erased in 30 days, and will need to be reintroduced which requires your representative to: still be in the next session and still care about it instead of something relevant at that point in time.

Your bill is dead in the water.
Or, was it prescient branding?
> the UK is named after the Isles

Great Britain may have been named after one of the isles, but the controversy arises because the UK spans (part of, but not all of) the two main isles.

> Has anyone proposed a viable alternative?

I don't know what would count as "viable" if you reject "Britain and Ireland" and "Atlantic Archipelago".
Process engineers know this as "alarm fatigue":

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

And it's a real thing. It kills people in hospitals because nurses tune out the constant beeps of machines.
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Better to win a partial pot than none at all, yes?
This was funny - upvoted!
There's like 20 options there. Do you know how to just disable 2G (keep LTE/3G enabled)?
I'd love it if people questioning vaccine safety had actual numbers, instead of empty platitudes like '>50% of people who get COVID don't die'. (And if they made an apples to apples comparison with the numbers of not vaccinating. They never do, though, because the numbers don't help their argument.)

Most people who play one round of Russian Roulette don't die, either.
I think Americans should be aware now that drug problems don’t go away with legalization. They only get worse.

Many of the drug dealers just move on from marijuana to other illegal drugs. They don’t try to establish themselves with the drug they are selling.

Watch Hassan minhaj patriot act on the marijuana business. None of the benefits that marijuana legalization supporters rant about occurred.

If any benefit happens, it’s more people use the drug and that doesn’t benefit anyone.
Prop 65 cancer labeling did actually reduce the incidence of many of the more potent carcinogens in products when it was first enacted. So in that sense it was very successful.

But because of the wording of the measure (no penalty for falsely labeling something as having carcinogens when it doesn't), and how many things can be considered carcinogens (caffeine is just one example), the effectiveness of the label was diluted dramatically in people's minds.
That's not how probability works. Each draw is an independent event from every previous draw, doing a draw with a 1 in 20 million chance of a given sequence 20 million times will not draw every sequence once.
Is there anyone else that has every bypassed this step, but wasn't fired? What's the definition of an emergency?

Also it seems reasonable to me her complaint that this hurt her reputation, after all you're a Google employee and here you are smearing her in a public board. I know you're gonna say "I don't speak for my company", to which I will reply: It seems you're a Google employee, and you're speaking as a Google employee. It's distasteful that a Google employee find the need to accuse her in public like this. Is that a view shared by your co-workers? Do you all usually go in public boards to speak ill of past employees? To reveal why they were fired?
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Also, everything in Congress right now gets erased on January 3rd at the end of the 116th session.
(Not that I'm for recreational drug legalization, I may get downvoted to death¹ but I don’t actually think Prohibition was necessarily a bad idea, perhaps just badly implemented — it should have been phased in over decades like the Founding Fathers had hoped to do with slavery, and a local issue.)

¹Edit: interesting, about ten minutes after my higher post and 4 after this, this still has 1 point but its parent lost ⅓ of its peak 6.
IMHO, it's not any more of a security risk than a keyboard and mouse, which is literally what it is.
That's OK to me. It helps normalize the idea by getting media attention.
Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science [pdf]
I assume you're aware that it is likely that Snowflake will be able to identify you based on this story and there may be a non-disparagement/non-defamation clause in the contract you signed, should they want to enforce it.
It's called slack, after all
Maybe the problem is not that any one person can't deep dive whenwhere needed, but rather that as a group we are having more situations where we can't steer the complexity we have created.

For example, it is understood how to safely run a nuclear plant. But human nature being what it is it might not be possible for that large a group to correctly and consistently do so. Someone is going to be lazy or greedy. More processes and controls are added, making it more complicated, etc.

Another example is voting for president. We've made a political system that puts so much authority and influence in the hands of one person, over such a complex society and economy, and we ignore all of the important issues of the day instead squabbling over irrelevant details.

In practicality things keep becoming more complex and the risk of major incidents increase because of this, incidents that nobody sees coming and nobody knows how to fix right away. A serious problem.
OP here, for some of the common themes/FAQs, because I am going to hop off but the original post doesn't have enough character space for me to be clear.
1. No, we obviously did not know the min. sales conditions to issue new contract after the year and the rep never mentioned this even though we explicitly discussed that we could not finish the contracted amount even at our pre-covid usage. The rep portrayed the roll-over process as simply issuing new paperwork. Had he said this is done with min. sales conditions, we would not have signed. I looked up what they have written publicly about their own roll over policy and I can only found this on their SEC filing "Customers have the flexibility to consume more than their contracted capacity during the contract term and may have the ability to roll over unused capacity to future periods, generally on the purchase of additional capacity at renewal".

What I want to point out is that the last clause does imply that some people at some point could roll over without purchasing additional capacity, so it may be that the policy of min. new purchase was made after we signed, or the rep didn't disclose the policy, or whatever. All this is to say their whole roll over policy is obviously in flux so you are at their whim even if it sounds great. The rep (I guess to convince me that the min. policy is not that bad) said newer customer are in a different bucket where their roll over can only occur by signing another purchase at the same price or higher (so if we signed later, we would have to pay 10K more to retain the 9k and so on). Hopefully these newer customers were told this or were savvier than me and got it in writing in their contracts. If you are interested in the exact text of the contract where roll over was mentioned, I posted it in a reply somewhere.

2. We signed a contract for a few reasons and the discount wasn't even the main one. We always prefer the flexibility but Snowflake promises engineering support only for those on contract, though we ended up not even needing this as we solved problems that came up ourselves and the product is pretty self explanatory. Again why I say go on demand. The discount offered for contracts is really small, much smaller than AWS for example where it's like 70% off for 3 years etc. AWS is super clear that those expire in 3 years but the discount is huge to make up for it. In Snowflake's case, I don't see the upside since roll-over is really a pain and the discount is tiny. I don't have any experience with the support to say whether having a contract is worth it for this reason, but I suspect you can probably go through generic support or solve your own issues without too many problems.

3. I have no problems so far with Snowflake as a product by itself which is why I still say if you want to use it, I just recommend doing it on demand. Especially because a lot of smaller orgs are probably drawn to their positioning of being more flexible and only pay for what you use computing, they clearly are trying to figure out how to maximize their top line and changing policies around so you are probably better off on demand.
Can you explain how I'm mistaken?

The science of nutrition is still in its infancy, with very basic questions still unanswered, and we're very, very far from having catalogued all the nutrients in meat and vegetables and understanding their effects on our body.

I mean, even with macro nutrients, just look at the flip-flopping and debates over the past few decades on saturated fats, trans fats, carbs vs fats, etc. Then when you get to micronutrients, we don't even know what we don't know.

You can see the other comment I made on how, for example, we know chicken soup helps fight colds, but don't have the slightest idea what compound is responsible. Will lab-grown chicken do the same?
The country is actually way ahead of the politicians on this stuff though. Red states are getting there ahead of blue politicians.

I think it's more of a generational thing.
Yeah, I have. Although never as the only thing I eat for a longer period. So I suppose that would be an interesting experiment. I actually really like the impossible burger, not as much as a real one, but I have ordered it on multiple occasions. Beyond is ok. And I have had some great black bean burgers, but they don't quite hit the spot.

I also probably don't have the correctly balanced diet when I have done that in the past. And I have found a protein heavy diet is what my body prefers, and carbs are not super great for me. End up heavy and tired. And the vegetarian / vegan stuff we have done in the past have been far to carb heavy for me.

And I love cheese. Mac and cheese, alfredo, things like that. And I have yet to find a substitute that is acceptable to me in the cheese department. Although I have been able to cut back on the dairy the last few weeks, so its possible I could eventually cut it out. That just hasn't been on my priority list.
I had a job once where the person tasked with training me would only do so over Slack, even though they sat 3 feet in front of me. If I spoke up to ask a question, they would angrily turn around and tell me to message them instead.

Needless to say, I quit after 2 weeks.
Wow. Absolutely bonkers story, can't believe the investment company kept shoveling money into it after the coup.
> Isn't this kind of silly at this point?

Yes. Fortunately we're almost there. In the US we have majority support (68%) and is just a matter of time before it's fully legalized.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/323582/support-legal-marijuana-...
Making playing cards, IIRC. Was that considered tech back then?
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> The question is whether this will ever get through the senate

“Ever” being sharply limited because the current Congress ends in a month and a day.

Also, no, it won't. Nor would it likely be signed into law even if it did.

A similar bill in the next Congress might have better prospects, maybe.
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Do shops like these mostly inherited? I'm also aware of Japan's adult adoptions. Is there pressure on the next gen. to take over the family business? I would think yes.

In my mind, just imagining operating for a Millennium, these institutions are more temples than businesses. Brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it. Thankfully the practice is not very widespread as I could easily have found myself taking care of a breakfast place by a moderately busy highway in Southern India.
I would be shocked if any state made vaccination mandatory today (and I'd probably also be surprised if any of those SCOTUS decisions would be upheld/made today although, given the circumstances around Korematsu, who knows).

But might universities and workplaces make it a requirement once a vaccine becomes readily available? That wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. And that may force some tough decisions on skeptics who would have liked to see more time. (Which doesn't include myself.)
Nor has the UN or it’s blind followers even sent a strongly worded letter.
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Plus, how many distinct 'interesting patterns' are there? 1,2,3,4,5... 2,3,4,5,6... 10,9,8,7,6,5... if there are a hundred patterns that make people go 'wait a second', the odds of getting _one_ of those is a hundred times larger.
3D printer doesn’t gloss over the details
When someone tries to tell my hypothetical intern about the Hyatt Regency I'm gonna use that to teach them a lesson about bike shedding. The gist of the lesson will be that "had the person who brought it up actually meant to be helpful instead of just showing off about how much they care about Safety(TM) they would have brought up that jet liner that kept falling apart because of the square corners in the hatch or some other more relevant failure story even if it is a less flashy one. We've all seen this kind of ass-kissing behavior. Some jerk does a reply-all to something with a low effort (and usually obvious) comment about how approach X would be better for <insert corporate initiative or buzzword of the month here> and everyone else has to try and hold their tongue.
Recreational marijuana use is a net negative on society. I've seen so many people in my life become addicted to it. It hurts to see it portrayed as cool in modern pop culture and it hurts to see people who want to legalize it ignore the long term down sides. It may not cause liver damage like alcohol, but it still has the same dark impact on your psyche.
He passed a reference, not a copy. He doesn't need ownership to do so.

(a little Rust humor)
Cocaine is one of the few combination anesthetics and vasoconstrictors, so it has valid medical uses.
I was in Uruguay when cannabis for recreational use was legalized. The result was that downtown Montevideo was drenched in the smell of smoke, sometimes enough to make a passerby start coughing. Generally the smell of cannabis products doesn't bother me, but I know that many people find it rank and would prefer to avoid it.

I did think it was odd that while some countries are gradually attempting to wipe out tobacco smoking in public – you can smoke somewhere theoretically, but not in the park, on your balcony in a block of flats, or (if children could be present) in your own home or car – a change had been made in Uruguay that only increased the amount of public smoking.