skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Heroin is not a party drug while alcohol is. Cocaine, Meth, and MDMA I would expect to see increase in usage for the party scene but heroin specifically wouldn't see that increase, it would a small increase at first but overall that would go down.

Given how strong the heroin high is and how quickly and strongly physical addiction is, I would not be so sure about that.

> Portugal has shown that if you legalise the drug and make it a health issue

Portugal has not, in fact, legalised any previously illegal drug, or even fully decriminalized it. Not even cannabis.
You are a "quirky" fella to say the least. I think you would feel at home in "Japan"
Gemini is launching a credit card with Bitcoin rewards
We’re already mining landfills actually. Pretty interesting concept if you ask me. The concentration of valuable elements is far higher than what you’d find in the wild.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_mining
I left my country about 10 years ago to come to US. I talk to my parents and friends every once in a while, so my native language is sharp but that's my only interaction with it (I read, write, speak, think, dream etc in (sometimes broken) English exclusively). But a couple days ago my mom was watching TV and I overheard the conversation (by teenagers) in the show she's watching and it blew my mind how tiny tiny little things were different in their accents. I cannot put it into words exactly what was off about them, probably something to do with stress, but it was a shocking revelation. I asked her about it and she said she can't notice any difference. I asked her to switch to some other shows to see if it was idiosyncratic style of these people, but other shows had similar differences. I guess 10 years is long enough for tiny changes in languages.
It's a reminder of how ancient our brains really are, despite our advancement of the average state of society as a whole.
I have been using DDG for roughly 2 years now and I always search for things technical or non-technical there first. If it does not give any result or when I know it's very technical I simply add !g to the end (but you can add it anywhere) and it automatically searches the same thing in Google.

Some examples of things I personally thing DDG could improve / is different then Google:

- DDG gives the feeling they prefer wikipedia over stack overflow. Stack overflow ranks often second.

- GLSL shaders. DDG does not index websites such as shadertoy. Example search for "Gold Noise Uniform Random"

- indexing Youtube and other videos. It takes up to 2 days before new youtube videos show up if you search for a video. Example a mcdonalds burned down in my city a few weeks ago so I searched for videos and photos. It did not find any videos only photos and articles. Google found a few videos including once on a dutch news website.

- Visual search and reverse image lookup is not that great. Only in Bing you can search for a video based on a image DDG and Google both can not do that. So both could improve that.

- DDG sometimes gives the feeling not enough people have searched for something, This feeling is more a feeling then a real thing. This is mostly because Google finds a lot of spelling / typo's in your search query and DDG appears to only repairs it until it contains valid words. Example search for "A apple a day keps the", Google corrects AN and KEEPS but DuckDuckGo only corrects KEEPS.

- Old websites are not indexed that well. Example if you are developing a gameboy advance game it takes a while before you find Tonc (one of the best resources regarding GBA development). With google this experience is terrible as well but it takes less time to find some good things.
Word Ladders and Equivalence Classes
I believe there was a study that found that sports fans' testosterone levels were lower after their preferred team lost.
Marinara bias?
None of these companies should be proud of inventing narcissistic addictive UI elements, it's harmful to society. These companies are so narcissistic, that they want to fight over who gets credit for inventing these narcissistic addictive UI elements... the like button is not a genius invention, it's a simple idea that has been exploited for psychological addictions.
I seem to be using the Google bang command less past few months. I started using DDG in Dec 2018 after a story here showed (with evidence) that Google invited a female inventor out for an interview & then stole/patented her work.

Overall using two search engines provides solid results with DDG being my main engine.

It was cool to see DDG browser app in the top 20 iPhone apps this week!
Even if you sell it as a divestiture plan, that constant pressure has consequences on the stock price. I think in some cases you can list stock holdings as collateral on a loan, in which case you can derive a similar cash benefit from the stocks as you would get from selling it, meanwhile not incurring the social and political consequences of selling your holding.

Bill, as I recall, had a much larger percentage of MSFT when he retired. Microsoft used to dilute their shares via employee stock grants, so I'm not sure how much of that is attrition and how much is divestiture on his part. One source on the internet says he was estimated to owns 4.3% as recently as two years ago. And I see another article from March of last year talking about him leaving the board of directors, and owning 1.36%.

I wonder if anyone has analyzed how much of the MSFT stock stagnation that occurred after his retirement could be attributed to his divestiture plan, rather than Ballmer's fault.
How can you consider a crypto (or other commodity) to be "artificially" inflated? It's not backed by anything; it's worth precisely what people are willing to pay for it, with no strings attached.
I guess the garbage trains from New York City would have to go further.
S/He's dismissing the idea of snowflake culture, not the testosterone study.
buddy, People in Australia were literally only allowed to leave their houses 1 hour a day. It wasn't fucking masks.
Always good to see NE residents on HN...one of maybe < 100 i'd guess.
+1

An incubator focusing on those who can’t drop everything on a moment’s notice seems like a good idea.
Data scientists do not pull that kind of bonus. Today many of them get paid less than the data engineers do.
You wouldn't have to keep spending that amount every year though. A solar panel lasts for several decades and maintenance (especially at scale) is way less than a percent per year. I included 30 year depreciation in my calculations for a reason.
Open in the sense that anyone can pay to take their courses
"si vis pacem, para bellum"
I'd argue if you own a significant fraction of a large company, you have a significant effect on it's decisions. Controlling a giant company and all it's connections, levers, abilities, etc is way more valuable than just a hundred billion in hard cash
Cash, or gold, artwork, whatever... Sure you can purchase with stock. But you can't easily purchase with $180 billion in stock without affecting the stock price.
I see this study referenced frequently, and it's always seemed dubious. Why would there be a spike at exactly 7 days of abstinence, before returning to baseline? It's possible that the measuring apparatus was improperly calibrated on that day. Has this study been reproduced?
I don't know why this was voted down. We've been performing in vitro fertilisation en masse since the 1980s. All of a sudden, men with non-motile sperm are fathering children.

So as a single cause it's not that massive, but at 1% of all births, the effects will soon stack up.
The best part, some degree of socialism would help these people... yet they're opposed to it because it would help `other` people.
I hope that places like Austin are forward-looking enough to absorb the new people without running into the same issues as SF. To be fair, it's pretty hard to actually do worse than SF, but there are still issues to watch out for. The biggest thing is housing. When tons of people suddenly show up who consider a million dollar house affordable, it can really do a number on people who don't earn tech salaries. It looks like Austin is still working on getting away from the exclusionary zoning paradigm, I hope they're successful.
The paper doesn’t show a steady decrease.
Poshmark’s Stock Price More Than Doubles in Market Debut
Doing fine, enjoying the loss of the forty-minute commute each way.

I do regret that the time-saving came at the cost of such damage to the economy, and to people working e.g. restaurant and hair salon jobs.
I like to think that a long time from now, people will marvel that we overlooked the (as of yet undiscovered) utility of used scoopable cat litter, and just threw it out with the trash
I completely agree with your overall point, although there are definitely a lot of intracicies here. Overall liquidity is definitely important though.

> Musk's shares in Amazon times the current share price

This is clearly a typo/copy-paste error since you got Musk/Tesla right in the next sentence.
For some values of "could". If your country hasn't built a working public nuclear power plant in several decades, at what point should we switch from "could" to "couldn't"? The UK built several in the 1960s, now we have one in progress built by France, which is 10x more expensive, overbudget, delayed, and I wouldn't be certain of it ever being finished until I see it.

Last time I looked, the USA was in a similar position. Hasn't started building one in at least 40 years[1] and the one I saw on that list finishing in 1990 (Seabrook) I thought might be more recent, says it was permitted in 1976, took 14 years to get Unit 1 working and Unit 2 was cancelled due to delays, and cost overruns. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.

The current 92 of them provided 20% of the USA's electricity generation. So you'd need another 368 to do the other 80%. How long will they take to build, 15 years each? 55 years to go all nuclear, assuming you build ten at a time. How do you get from "we haven't built a nuclear power plant in 40 years" to "we could build 10 at a time continuously for the next half-century" in a convincing way?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_St...
I think there is another level to what this guy is doing that's hard to see if you just believe what he says about himself on its face. I feel like to be able to listen to and or be with someone while they do whatever and have no judgement, criticism, or suggestion requires you to have a very high level of Zen. I would probably want to correct or assist or do something in most situations. He's operating on the level of a therapist. But it's hard for people to admit sometimes that they need a therapist. There is a stigma and a feeling like there is something wrong with you that you have to get over just to ask for a therapist. This guy skips over all of that resistance by having, by all appearances, no ego at all. He's saying 'I don't have any skills so I can't possibly criticize you'. But having no skills doesn't stop most people from making suggestions or being critical. He is providing high value assistance to people and presenting himself in such a humble way that it's easy to ask for his help.
This article uses loaded language to make a defamation claim against Nick Fuentes. Nick Fuentes is still on Twitter, and pinned to the top of his page is photo evidence that shows the person they are asserting was in the Capitol is not him. He was wearing a suit. The photo of him at the steps of the Capitol is not incriminating in any way. He was protesting along with 250K+ other conservatives in Washington DC. It's not a crime to hold a megaphone in front of the Capitol. It's literally his First Amendment right. This article is false, baiting, and loaded. Please remove it.

https://twitter.com/NickJFuentes
Monero can be traced with CipherTrace.
Good point :) My mistake!
> No one in finance is doing accounting or model estimation using Python's floats

We are. When your input data only has five significant figures, and probably less than that of real information, numerical accuracy is the least of your worries.
The "real" measure of how fat you are is body-fat percentage, which can vary at a given BMI level. It's not hard to imagine that people have gotten fatter at the same BMI level, as well as people being at the higher end of the "normal" range.
Preach. Cancel Paul Graham. Defending Sci-Hub is a dog whistle for people who want to preserve hate-speech! That's literally defending fascism!

#cancel_pg
Reading HN comments yesterday I learned that if I can't quickly devise an algorithm to lay out stars evenly on a flag, I'm worse than programmers in training.
I’m skeptical re: point about keeping men and women separated.

As a gay man does being around women increase or have no effect on my testosterone levels?

For straight men, can it be any woman (your mom, your aunt, your daughter, the unattractive neighbor)? Or is it about a sexually-relevant female? Do they have to be attractive?
If you don't mind using IRC, there's a lot of people willing to help you get started with this adventure in #alpine-devel on freenode.
once you've started on Idris you've crossed the line over from kinky to deviancy

source: there are several people in my weekly support group for exactly this reason, it gets out of control
Apparently yes, for most of that time period.

"A reconstruction of the sea-level history of the region indicated that a seaway existed from c. 135,000 – c. 70,000 BP, a land bridge from c. 70,000 – c. 60,000 BP, intermittent connection from c. 60,000 – c. 30,000 BP, a land bridge from c. 30,000 – c. 11,000 BP, followed by a Holocene sea-level rise that reopened the strait.[22][23] Post-glacial rebound has continued to raise some sections of coast."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia#Geography
'vibe' seems like an odd concern what with the imagery of an extermination camp
Linking piped water, health and gender equality
I think it depends on what you want _out_ of the system.
For many, they want people with "ready job skills", which can be a challenge to give learners (budgets, always moving targets, etc). If you want to build good theoretical understanding and critical thinking, that requires the learners to work a lot, and is harder to quantify and test, but allows you to keep the material consistent over a long period.
Also, different subjects can lend themselves better (or worse) to a distance learning situation.
The OP mentions kids moving at different paces -- but that happens in person too -- they just don't notice/see it.

I think one issue is the idea that you can take a few pieces of quality "content", thread through them and have a meaningful course.
Mastery is a great thing to talk about -- what is it exactly? For most, it's doing well enough to get a certain mark on a test. But I'd argue what you want is to ensure that learners use concepts they have mastered in a demonstrative way -- but again, this is harder and will cost more.
It would be great if education was concerned about deeper understanding, but right now the focus seems to be "will this be on the test".
They also serve who only stand and wait.
Many legitimate uses of BTC have been accounted for.

Are torrents also bad because pirates often use it?
USDA estimated farmers received $46.5 billion in direct payments in 2020. Where did this money actually go?
As someone who also did French Immersion in Canada, I'm very surprised that most of your teachers were from France. Over 13 years in school, I think every single teacher I had that spoke french was Quebecois, and taught Quebecois.
> I'm guessing at the specific knowledge some of these employees have is valued, and they probably wouldn't take kindly to having to study for a coding test just to keep their job.

Genuine Q: even if the employees don't take kindly to it, does it matter?
Few things:

1. Legally, you will be a freelancer anyway unless the US Company has a local office/subsidiary/branch office. Most likely, you will invoice the company say once a month and you take care of all taxes etc on your end depending on local laws.

2. Timezone is not an issue as long as you can agree on a good overlap that works for both parties.

3. yes, it is cheaper to hire from Latin America or Eastern Europe. Don't compete with them on cost only because you will always lose coming from Western Europe. Focus on value and why they should hire YOU. If you are as good as a local American developer and are more cost effective (a bonus), it is win win.
There's another thing that I think is often glossed over in discussions of Marsh v. Alabama (I'm not a lawyer though, and Ken is probably smarter than me anyhow).

But that is that Marsh v. Alabama had the company wanting to use a state law to kick people out (and this was repeated with the California case Pruneyard). "The state doesn't need to actively help you kick people exercising their 1A rights in a place you don't want them to" is very, very different from "The state can prevent you from exercising your own autonomy to prevent someone from re-accessing your property".

If the company town put up a fence and a gate, they wouldn't be forced to let anyone in.
A front-ender's stumble into hybrid mobile apps
That would just delay the same process that has allowed these larger landowners to own most of the land in the first place.
Yes, that is a possibility. There is also this fairly extensive meta-analysis over a period of 20 years, that finds a "consistent and strong association between the exposure to fluoride and low IQ". [1]

There is, in other words, an undeniable correlation. The more interesting question is -- are there any safe levels of exposure, and what are the effects over time?

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12011-008-8204-x
Yes, but it's still remarkable how common in Japanese fiction the socially awkward, uncomfortable protagonist, meant to be relatable to the audience is.

The protagonist of The 40 Year old Virgin is unique for it, and the series is not meant for 40 year old virgins.

There is a surprisingly high amount of fiction from Japan that follows a formula similar to this:

- The protagonist is socially awkward and nervous, but otherwise has no actual opinions or character traits

- The protagonist starts the story rather lonely

- The protagonist fairly quickly finds friends, lovers, family, who are very devoted to him

- Bonus points for the protagonist being transported to a parallel universe to escape the dreads of social pressure of Japanese office worker life completely — this specific plot device is oddly common.

It feels as if one play a first person corridor shooter with a silent protagonist, but it's a book or television series: the protagonist is dragged along with the plot but somehow does not influence it and barely speaks or has opinions: the point is for the reader to mentally replace the protagonist with himself, and experience the story from his own perspective, so he can feel less lonely, just as such video games have a big element of making the player feel like an action hero, but the power phantasy sold here is simply “no longer being lonely”.

It's really an oddly big market for such a seemingly quite specific thing. Rent-a-Girlfriend consistently ranks within the top 25 of strip volume sales in Japan, and it's plot is really little more than “Lonely, socially awkward young adult is now less lonely.”.
Also quoth wikipedia: "criminal penalties are still applied to drug growers, dealers and traffickers."

Which is what I meant with "not fully decriminalized".
Pesticides in our food?
Here's a fun video which discusses the phenomenon you're describing. Its a bit click-baity but does provide an overall summary pretty nicely.

Economics Explained - The Ranks of Global Billionaires: Not All Billionaires Are Made Equal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MeRN7LE1LQ

It even covers the oligarchy scenario :)
Depends what you are selling. It is not illegal to sell bread to criminals. Or cars. Maybe if done knowingly? I dont see big risks in accepting bitcoin as a payment method for legal goods and services.
Stop pretending that the current censorship is targeted at one party.

The censorship is rightly targeted at abusive, threatening and violent content.

Of one party is spewing more of that toxicity, then they'll get censored more.
I'm not sure... Scratch that. I'm extremely skeptical that either job descriptions or resumes can be scoured for subtle indications of fit between jobs and candidates. If your new job isn't quite what you expected or your new employee isn't working out quite the way you wanted, it's probably not because you didn't scour resumes and job descriptions minutely enough.

Resumes are a very impoverished indicator of a candidate's abilities. So you "have experience" with a technology. Did you make the original decision to use it? Or were you asked to use it? Or was it in place when you got there? Were you only a consumer of its benefits? Do you understand its internals? Have you had to extend it? A technical project may take months or years, but your resume will represent it as a single line of text at best. "Year NNNN -- Company Foo -- Role Bar -- Implemented X using technology Y." Until resumes are structured like interviews, interviews are essential for getting this level of detail.

Job descriptions are a very impoverished indicator of what a job is actually like. "We require N years of experience with X." Is that because this is your generic job description boilerplate? Or because your entire tech stack is inextricably tied to X? Will the candidate join a team that has inherited a legacy project that uses X? How is that team's morale? How is their turnover? If the candidate hates being on that team, how easy will you make it to switch? Are you hiring the candidate specifically with the goal of throwing people at a messy problem? Is it your responsibility to make sure the candidate succeeds? Until job interviews spend as much time revealing the company to the candidate as they spend grilling the candidate, back channel communication is essential for getting a job you like.

I can't believe that ML and NLP offer new insights in this exchange. If I'm not willing to tell you something, you won't get it from me using NLP either. I've reached a point where recruiters telling me about using "cutting edge AI" results in their email getting deleted immediately. The last such service I responded to (Celential.ai) spammed me for a long time, and every job they sent me was garbage. Garbage to such a degree that it was my first experience with getting on the phone with a hiring manager and one or both of us saying, "No, there's really no point in us having this conversation, thanks," and hanging up.
I've read that fatty tissue in the body triggers an increase in estrogen production, and that obesity can thus trigger a vicious cycle (insofar as estrogen triggers an increase in fatty tissue). Certainly, exposure to plastics and other environmental factors might increase estrogen levels alone, but given that we know that people (everywhere, I think) are fatter than they used to be, and that this seems significantly due to their being more sedentary and having worse diets (more processed foods, etc.), isn't that a plausible simple explanation? (Or at least one worth rigorously analyzing?)
Yes, gasoline is interesting because demand does seem quite inelastic, especially over short periods of time. If prices remain high for extended periods, you sometimes hear of people changing to more fuel efficient vehicles, but I don't think I've ever heard of people changing their driving behaviour in response to gas prices. I find it particularly interesting because it is one I naively feel like should be more elastic than it is.
Clearly he's been learning from Warren Buffet about how to buy stock through proxies.
I see, yes most default printer drivers do work, but I believe you still need software for scanners, and probably (atleast this is true on Windows) some printers allow advanced changes to settings only via their software.