skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the article states that Carl Hart makes a claim that 70% of drug users don't meet the criteria for being a drug addict. I'm wondering how you could even get a reliable number for this for a drug like heroin, given the stigma attached to this drug and the fact that users themselves may be in denial that they are dependent on the drug. Someone can be meeting all their obligations in life and still be struggling with a drug addiction. If asked, I would imagine a lot of high functioning addicts would say they can stop whenever they want to, they just don't want to. Anyway, I may just have to give his book a read, it sounds interesting.
This rose-colored-glasses take directly contradicts everything stated in the article, such as:

Further, almost all of the debt issued in 2020 was to deal with present circumstances rather than to invest in forward-looking projects or growth, making future investments in such projects more difficult and potentially more costly.

(Also: Revolution tends to be financed with debt. So while you may not build a shopping center in the middle of a Civil War, the existence of debt is not some sort of evidence of peace and prosperity.)
Well maybe, having the name "in the public" like that will make it more likely that people will stay aware of the history. If the name is removed from the public and found only in books that are dusty on the shelves of an archive, that's less likely.

Maybe the answer is a somber monument, "Horrible People in Our History" somewhere on campus.
It seems we are generally unwilling to pay for a higher level of availability-- that the current level is generally speaking good enough. We prosthelytize that we must do better, but voting with our pocketbooks is another matter.
What hedge ratio would you assign to BTC portfolio in 1mm USD equivalents, assuming you can hedge it with a liquid options market AKA DB? Would you change it if you move that to a total portfolio holding of 10mm, 100mm, 1bn, 10bn?
DoorDash – Django at Scale
I can't find any articles that highlight what that component that "flies away" after the landing is going to do next. Does it just get dumped somewhere? Does it go back into orbit?
To be fair, Lockheed's logo is also iconic. So much so that it was used as the logo for Stark industries in Ironman.
> which is an insane idea

Swiss American here. It's not insane [1]. The state of healthcare in America is so poor, I would caution us from referring to anything as insane without empirical evidence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland
Why do anything. Why not just use whatever resources you can get your hands on and burn it all.

The concept of some sort of future is why some people do more.

You mightn't care, perhaps having kids is your thing, perhaps is extincting a species or designing a better ice cube, everyone's different, for some people it's buildings.

I think a lot of people are realising giving money to universities instead of building a bigger boat is a bad idea. They are probably right.
Visa seems like a better comparison than the US military when talking about digital money.
I haven't touched an ORM in over 6 years, but unless they've improved since then, I honestly can't think of a single reason why anyone would choose to use one.

They're clunky monstrosities that act only as guard-rails for inexperienced developers. Far better to invest a few days (which is realistically all you need) to improve their SQL skills and/or code-review practices.
>Poor regulation and deregulation are not the same thing. Do you really think that talking about grid preparation for winter will get any anybody elected?

No, but I would hope this type of thing could get somebody unelected now.
But the appropriate price of solar is not 0 but the present value of the capital expended to build your system.
How is this constitutional? Even for wifi, I don't get how Congress can regulate this(or attempt to)
A humble request to folks making benchmark or other graphs - please understand that thin coloured lines are not easy to visually parse .. even for folks like me who aren't totally colour blind but have partial red-green colour blindness. At least, the lines can be made thicker so it is easier to make out the colours. Even better, label the lines with an arrow and what they represent.
I don't know what the comment you're replying to said, but guessing at its contents, I'd also throw in Ghana, Cape Verde, Mauritius, and Seychelles to round out the usual list of well-governed Sub-Saharan African countries.
As an aside, I think I wouldn't mind if a programming language would include two commenting syntaxes, one for ordinary comments, and another for commenting out. These are two very different use-cases, and distinguishing them syntactically might facilitate certain kinds of work-flows.
Yep, it isn't cheap, but compared to the peace of mind of knowing you won't die from ingesting some crap, $20 sounds like a deal!

Kidding aside, I'm not sure what margins they are running on. I can't imagine they are selling enough kits that lowering the price wouldn't it make it impossible for them to exist.
How can the supreme court uphold it?
John Deere Promised Farmers It Would Make Tractors Easy to Repair. It Lied
>Texas is the leader in wind power in the US

Not per capita, it isn't:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_North_Dakota#/me...

This is important given the shear size and consumption of Texas compared to other states.
Netbeans has had this feature for about a decade and I use it all the time for exactly the reasons suggested. I was pleased to see that IntelliJ has the same feature. The resolution doesn't need to be more than a couple of minutes. Netbeans will keep a couple of weeks of local history and prunes the old history down to one or two snapshots a day. It can get a little confusing if you are checking out vastly different versions of the same file from different branches since it doesn't record what branch you were working on at the time, but it nonetheless very useful.
Who makes long johns of down?
> He also created the logo for this: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/02/18/obituaries/18blac...

What can you say... the man liked worms.

:)
Think on it like a middleware that wraps a transaction. It's fine, till you start consuming other Io based services (elastic/solar/...) And you find that this blocks one connection per request..
If you are in the UK, has Brexit affected your ecommerce business?
First User Interface for Ethereum Diamonds
Are you guys hiring?
I feel like I'm fulfilling a stereotyped HN commenter role by asking this, but isn't "prediction based on historical data" actually, you know, an estimate?
Sad to see so much judgement in this thread from developers who can't fathom why others would need this. "Sounds like trial an error." "Develop a better memory."

Programming is not black and white, there is no right or wrong way to do it. OP discovered a problem they had and wrote a solution for it, believing that others might need to solve the same problem. Clearly they were correct based on plenty of others chiming in with their own anecdotes, or tools they've discovered that help alleviate the same issue in other ways.

If you've never had to UNDO/REDO a block of code to revisit a previous state before moving forward again, kudos. But suggesting those that do are somehow going about programming in the wrong way is not constructive.
Yes I understand. Imperial is awesome because you can divide a foot by exactly 2, 3, 4 , and 6, which of course, is the main problem everyone has every day. Metric on the other hand sucks because none of my measurements will ever be nice round numbers.

The hardware doesn’t think in base 10, but having more than that in imperial makes it better?

Your document lists 12 mass units alone. I rest my case, what could possibly be more logical, convenient, and need less conversion.

If communication was your major goal, then the system that is used by 7.3 billion people on this planet would be your choice.
Caltech's president said Millikan lent his name to views discredited even at the time.

Not honoring someone isn't vomiting on them.
Lol, I guess I was wrong to assume this was obvious? Like, I could be the most baseline "all I want to do is stay at home and eat ice cream and watch TV and not hurt anyone" and my ethics are already better than Apple, who contributes negatively to climate change and participates in industry practices that lead to people throwing themselves off the roof of factories in China. That's before we get to their opposition to Right to Repair or their fights against the Free Software movement.

If you're gonna downvote me, I mean... I really feel like the burden is on someone to demonstrate how Apple is somehow more ethical, rather than on me to demonstrate how I'm more ethical than apple lmao
To be fair to Google & Uber, this rule is well-known amongst Android developers. You can only use names like "X for Brand", while "BrandX" "Brand X" "X Brand" can result in take-downs.

The author can simply rename the app to "Cheats for Uber" and the app should pass.
It was coined by Akesegawa Genpai, in his 1985 book Hyperart: Thomassons. He got the name from an American baseball player Gary Thomasson, who was traded to the Yomiuri Giants where he ended up on the bench for a lot of the season. The general concept behind a Thomasson is that it is useless but still maintained, and so it's a sort of mean analogy based on Gary's bad season.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thomassons/
This (to its logical absurd extreme) would mean that compiled binaries are not copyrightable and only source code is.

The GPL is clear here: you must release sources in the preferred form of the work for making changes in it. For a neural network, that is the training data, models and scripts - unless you really are just editing the final weights.
ska says >"Of course no individual event is "proof of global warming", but this is entirely consistent with it."<

But one might just as easily say that this event is entirely consistent with "proof of no global warming" also.
> It can get a little confusing if you are checking out vastly different versions of the same file from different branches

I see that as a feature, not a bug. I’ve been saved countless times when I accidentally messed up my git or local state.
Wow thank you I’m honored
Shortages, Challenges Engulf Packaging Supply Chain
The situation is highly regional. Walter's experience is specific to Seattle, but he's right that each region has its own infrastructure problems. Denver metro area (my neck of the woods) has mostly buried power, but a long-term fresh water problem.
Robinhood gave privileged information regarding the details of securities to various capital groups, who directly benefitted. The 'exactness' of meeting the definition is a moot point. They certainly meet the spirit of the definition, and if we want to argue semantics, then yes they meet the exact definition.
As a dirty gora, Indian stand-up comedy is one of the most infuriating things in existence.
Video title in English. Start of the routine is in English. Then just before delivering the punch line, the comedian invariably performs a full 180 and switches language to Hindi or Telugu or something. The whole audience erupts into laughter and you're left there not even knowing why.
Forms used to be a big pain in React but React Hook Form is a huge improvement. Easy to implement and built in validation.

https://react-hook-form.com/
I’m beyond offended that anyone thinks it’s okay to decide that some spiritual practices are okay for certain religious groups or ethnicities and not others. It’s racism.
Im curious to know how much more in taxes you think I should have to pay on my mining profits above and beyond the capital gains taxes I already have to pay.

I'd understand if you wanted all economic activity to have to figure in the negative externalities before a profit could be realized by stake/shareholders, but your comment implies to me that crypto should have some kind of special tax because you're upset you cant buy a gpu.
Many of our homes are heated with gas furnaces and gas water heaters. Works well into -40. I never even thought got about it.
It is rare I think because of the parent company's CEO and founders don't like to really lose control to someone else.

A child company is not easily managed (and they shouldn't, but that's scary and risky by itself. The parent company need to have the know-how of an a serial startup builder investor)
Apple will sell you a low-profile chiclet keyboard that feels a lot like an older Macbook Air. I have one at work. I've got a daskeyboard (Brown switches) at home.

I think both chiclet and mechanical keyboards give me tactile feedback I'm comfortable with.
Facebook Surprises Australians with News Blackout
That is a pretty bold wager! I'm curious as to what your experiences have been to come to it.

Anecdotally speaking, most of the folks I've worked with in tech (including myself) have come from modest means and worked low wage jobs at some point (blue collar jobs aren't necessarily low wage, and what's considered blue collar can also be tech). The disconnect you speak of I think is more of a disconnect in value systems between folks, and hell even those value systems can be disparate across folks with similar incomes. I think value systems follow people as they gain wealth (more or less), and there are plenty of people at the bottom fighting for the people at the top in the USA.
Piazza represent
You’re wrong, within 15 minutes you have Grant Park, Centennial, Freedom, Candler, Chastain.

If you drive 30-60 minutes you get to dozens of bike and hiking trails in big parks.

Not to mention all the trees everywhere and pocket parks.

The parks aren’t necessarily the best in the world or anything, but there’s lots of space and more than most major cities. One thing is that the parks aren’t built up around very much like other cities.
What ?? None of that was mentioned in the article. The above is a summary of the article.
> gold was created by a supernova

This is a tangent, but it's more fun than the usual Bitcoin fetishizing and bashing.

There is building evidence that neutron star collisions, not supernovae, are the primary source of the universe's gold [1].

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/did-neutron-stars-or-supernov...
Still rocking my T430s bought used on eBay about 6 years ago... the hobby community around these devices alone is worth the cost of ownership, especially when it comes to repair and Linux support.

Installed a community made eDP converter for 1080p screen upgrade and flashed custom EC firmware for 3rd party battery support, replaced a cracked palm rest and odds and ends for a few bucks on eBay etc all pretty easily thanks to great hardware documentation. With an ssd and decent ram it runs arch + gnome as well as my modern desktop does, but costs next to nothing to repair, is built like a tank, well supported in Linux and has a great keyboard. 10/10!
Stopping trading for certain groups while selectively giving privileged information and allowing trading for groups of friends is not the same thing as stopping trading for everyone. It is unethical at best, and more likely against the law.
we are very screwed if they find life on Mars. It means life is incredibly common and thus the Great Filter theory is true and we only have a few years left as a species most likely.
Wow thank you. This is the sort of content I come here for.
I think people that have been poor / hold minimum wage jobs are more likely to not care about poor people. I fall into this camp. On the other hand I think hacker news is predominantly liberal and seems to care very much for poor people.
Very interesting but nothing really new here, this what IoT and big data is all about. I think the article is even misleading by saying that Shannon's work is not about the content of the information. The statement of not focusing on content the article is referring to is due the scope and context of the communication paper. Of course it will not focusing on the content at the physical layer but his other works really do (see networking layers below). He is highly regarded as the pioneer of information theory and AI including the earlier machine learning e.g chess machine, mouse thru mazes, etc.

For more complete hierarchy of knowledge it is the data -> information -> knowledge -> wisdom. For more meaningful in the age of AI and data analytics point of view it is the descriptive - > diagnostic -> prediction -> prescriptive [1]. As you can see the information content referred to by Jane Austin's novels mentioned in the article is even at the lower part of the hierarchy. It is the job of the information theorists and practitioners to develop inference engines (e.g. GPT-3) that can provide the higher level of understanding and proper prescriptions. In addition even if the inference engines are not that capable yet, human-in-the-loop system can be deployed to significantly reduce the cognitive workloads of the human expert (e.g. cardiologist) to perform the better diagnostics for more accurate and timely prediction and prescription.

From data centric point of view in electronics and communication engineering Shannon's famous theorems on sampling and communication is a subset of data conditioning (to remove/overcome/mitigate noises on system) and data transmission (to remove/overcome/mitigate noises during transmission).

From TCP/IP networking point of view Shannon's theorem of communication, albeit a very important concept, is mainly at physical layer not even at the data link layer and the layers above (networking transport, application). The more universal information theory and entropy partly developed by Shannon is mainly belong to application layer including the AI and data analytics. For more complete treatment refer to the book by the late Dr. David J. C. MacKay entitled Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms [2]. The author has made the book available from the website.

[1]https://www.ciscopress.com/store/iot-fundamentals-networking...

[2]http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/book.html
I agree... It basically is a utility. But because they're is "competition" there is no monopoly regulation. Despite the fact that the companies basically have a monopoly. Either treat it like a utility and regulate it. Or treat it like a free market and allow anyone in.
Not only that, but, even if we were just talking straight solar, solar panels don't have to be built on arable land. There's a lot more land available for building solar panels than there is available arable farmland.
I think you are the one not thinking it through properly. Yes, humanity will use energy. But it is kind of by design that bitcoin uses more and more energy, and that just doesn't make sense. Sorry.

Bitcoin is not humanity using energy. It is humanity flushing energy down the drain.
Launch HN: Grayle – A community that's focused on finding you shoes that fit
Hey folks, my name is Kyle Moredock (kylemoredock), founder of Grayle (www.grayle.co) based in Portland, OR. Our mission is to establish a community that helps people find shoes that fit, especially when they’re shopping online.

I’m a big guy (6’5 ~250lbs) so it’s always been challenging to find clothes and shoes that fit. E-commerce shops, while convenient, make this process even more difficult because you can’t try things on. Like many of you, I would end up buying much more than I needed and returning the rest. This is a big burden on brands/retailers, losing a bunch of money on returns, and wreaks havoc on the environment. It’s also a giant waste of time for the consumer.

Grayle is designed to provide shoe fit recommendations via a combination of crowd-sourced fit data and biometric measurements (measurements of your feet based on a photo). That means we can provide you a standard measurement of your foot based on a scan (accurate to 5mm) and translate that into a shoe size. In addition to the scan, we also ask people to provide us with shoe reviews, sharing what size in various brands fit them best. The more info we collect, the better the recommendation gets. We’re working to combine the scan and review data to produce on optimal fit recommendation.

Data collection is our biggest hurdle because we need a lot to make this work. The goal is to build out a community that matches you with other individuals who share the same foot measurements, as well as the same shoes in the same sizes. This allows you to discover new brands from the individuals you’re matched with and make confident purchases because you know the size is right. It also solves a huge problem all of us face when we go shop – where do I find reliable, neutral information? Grayle enables you to get that info from the people you trust most – your peers.

Looking forward to your feedback! We’re also looking for a CTO if anyone has interest or knows of anyone.
That isn’t insurance. You don’t need low-risk people in the pool for insurance to work. Insurance premiums are technically derived from individual risk, not the risk of an arbitrary pool. Pooling is only done to reduce the tail risk of the underwriter, it doesn’t materially change individual premiums.

You do need low-risk people in the pool if you want low-risk people to subsidize the insurance premiums of high-risk people. That is not insurance, that is just socializing the premiums of high-risk individuals. These distinctions matter when discussing policy. Socializing medical costs may be the appropriate policy choice but lets not smuggle it in by abusing a term of art like “insurance” which means something very different.
> one of my colleagues remarked that he never thought to view the same file alongside itself

I do this all the time in Emacs, usually to see two parts of the file that normally are too far apart to be visible at the same time. Collapsible sections can do similar, but to me it's quicker, more natural and more flexible to just split the window.
That's still way more overhead compared to undo/redo
If you have not read the books by Dr Makary, I highly recommend you do.

They are full of actionable wisdom that the avg person can use.
Things you should do now (2011)
I've been using a (max'd) 2015 Macbook Pro as a dev box for... a long time now. I'm about 2 hours into the upgrade to an M1 air.

The difference is... jaw dropping.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobsen_v._Katzer

involved GPL code.
So in search of getting the correct answer to a mathematical problem and showing a written representation of your thought process leading to the answer is somehow 'racist'? and somehow, it is how 'white supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms'. This is getting ridiculous now.

Perhaps the authors need to realise that they are tackling the wrong problem and need to look and blame themselves for the issues in their own communities that are 'closer to home' rather than these frivolous 'excuses' and brainwashing attempts.

By their own excuses, theorem provers and optimisation problems are racist since you must show the steps to prove a theorem. Basic arithmetic instructions, algorithms, calculators, computers and equations don't care about your feelings nor do they care about your race.
Sufficiently complex software written without a framework becomes a framework, but one without the benefit of other users testing it for you.
I've never heard of anybody doing that with a Mac, and have never replaced a Mac laptop with less than 5-6 years of heavy use of it...

I type this on a Mid-2015 Macbook Pro, still working well but Mac OS tells me I need the battery serviced. I'll probably buy a new Macbook Pro 16" when they bring one out with Apple Silicon and then do the battery replacement and keep this one going as a spare machine (and for the old Photoshop and other Adobe CS6 apps that won't work on a 64-bit only OS which is why this is still running Mojave).