skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the drug.

For opiates and benzos it might manifest as stress and depression. For uppers, drowsiness and inability to focus.

It's compounded by the fact that the reason you started is usually that you suffered from those things to start with.
Well, up until about 1,000 years ago. I would think major population shifts were pretty steady after the Norman conquest.
I’lol also add that someone hiring a green person for entry level work may be looking for enthusiasm, aptitude, and general excitement. Stripping all that away may be detrimental. There was definitely a time where I had no real experience to speak, and plenty of times I feel like me experience isn’t worth the time I spent writing a resume, and if I’d stripped out the passion I had, I’d might still be doing crap work. If you have little experience to focus your focus, some enthusiasm sounds great to me!
How do you "fix" C?
>Just imagine what could be done if energy was essentially “free”.

Overheating the planet, for one.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
This isn’t true. The digital service team for the US Government is indistinguishable from a high quality startup/consultancy that goes around and solves pretty cool problems in modern ways.
The main strength of a memory-safe language is that the safety mechanisms are opt-out, not opt-in: you can confine the unsafe behavior to a small, manageable portion of the codebase. And trying to "fix" C to become a memory-safe language would probably just result in something like a Rust dialect that merely bears more superficial resemblance to C. In any case, thorough re-writing of existing codebases would be required. You might as well re-write in a language that currently exists, rather than add creating a new language to the top of the to-do list.
Do they also have a study what the cost is of reimplementing an existing project in a new project regarding feature parity existing bugs people might depend on?
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And? Google can't decide to fund organization that rewrites open source projects, or what? How is that different from forking the projects - apart from Google not taking anything at all?
I think it does, for two reasons.

Firstly — it shows value that Facebook was providing.

Secondly — that’s what the law says. Those sites include “content that reports, investigates or explains current issues or events of interest to Australians”, and so, as per the law, are news.

If the discussion were ‘Facebook stopped people from sharing Guardian articles on Facebook because they don’t want to pay for them’, there’s no obvious ‘villain’ in the discussion.

If it’s ‘Facebook isn’t allowed to let me link to the NSW government’s public health orders without agreeing to give News Corp money’ it’s a bit more obvious where the issue lies.

There’s no reason why Facebook would pretend the law is more reasonable than it is.
You don't get cramps from nicotine withdrawal, it's more a nagging discomfort and unease.
Considering how early in the bitcoin days that SilkRoad came along, it makes sense that it was a more technically-minded crowd to begin with.
I'm meaning the sense of Britishness which brexiteers and the right speak of doesn't exist
The EU and NATO have a vested interest in making Belarus seem like a scary, dangerous place that needs regime change.
The question posed is: does the word “America” always refer to the US first? As a citizen of the USA, I rarely use the word America to describe where I live. I think it is more common for Europeans (perhaps others as well) to refer to US citizens as “Americans” and the country as “America.” I call citizens of Deutschland “Germans”. The US is the dominant power and economy of the past 100 years. Great Britain preceded the US in that role. Over time, US hegemony will wane (as it is waning now), and we can all complain about the new power instead of worrying about the US or what to call it.
I sometimes start with a password chosen by other means, then I flip a coin for each character to decide if it is lower or uppercase.
All the luck to him. I have seen enough of heroin use second hand to know that this is how it starts and is rationalized for many. Some people spiral immediately, others after a few years, others after a decade. Eventually, if you keep using, it will catch up to you and you risk losing everything.
Rewrite it in Rust!
Consider a couple of things:

1) 1929 bears no resemblance to 2020. They are completely different economies, and economic factors. It’s a non-starter to compare the two time frames.

2) Inflation != hyperinflation. We can handle inflation just fine, it’s a 5% change, a 10% change, etc. Hyperinflation leads to a collapse (Venezuela, or Zimbabwe or similar). If the United States collapses, you better have stocked up on lots of beans and ammo.

3) We should really only look at historical financial crises as unique events with unique circumstances, not as comparisons. It’s like people looking at home prices now and saying “it’s all going to crash, it’s 2008 all over again!” which is a surface-level analysis that doesn’t take into account how 2007-2008 happened. 1929 - Dust Bowl. 1970s - oil embargo. Etc.

I enjoy reading Lyn’s commentary as well, but the comparisons are non-starters. There isn’t, or so far hasn’t been any predictable events that have taken place. You can’t look at history and say “this thing is the same thing as this other thing”. They just manifest differently.
Switzerland started a program in 1995 where they give medical grade heroin to people suffering from addiction. From the people taking part in this program, none have died from heroin overdoses or due to toxic contamination in the drug.

So heroin is actually pretty safe if used correctly.
> As a gay man I wonder how I can avoid my colleagues thinking this.

Diversity hiring has the same vibe as nepotism. Sometimes you look at someone's output (or even job description) and can't help but think that this guy wouldn't have a job here if he wasn't someone's nephew. Unless this is something that can be said about you (with "gay" replacing "nephew") you have nothing to fear.
I have used Ginger! There is a Pet Paradise in my city we used to go to, and I booked through the app all the time. Small world haha
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I think this misunderstands the process by which any project gets funded. There is not a nice orderly process where the CEO says 'right we are now going to build a website so users can track their order - here is the spec, and the cash go do it.'

The CEO (or other CxO) picks from a multitude of projects that already exist in different forms of completion - both internal and external.

For every conceivable project in a large company, there are already 5 different unofficial versions of the project - two spreadsheets on an analysts desk, one knocked up by a senior lead who needed a solution and 2 being hawked around by a MD who had some spare cash and let someone run with a side hustle. On top of which there are 3 SaaS options and Oracle probably has one to sell you, and McKinsey will do a demo next Thursday.

I will lay good money that when they bought Waze there are two projects in Google already that did the whole 'tell us what is on the road ahead' thing.

But the CEO picked an external buy - and those projects went the way of the Dodo.

By time you have big co sign off to do a 'internal' start up, you have basically hit Seed / series A level. Someone with money believes in you. You are past the major points of startup failure (I don't know what the stats are for failed before raising A and after but I bets its waaay lower)

I have been in both sides - the small scrappy start up, the funded start up and the getting something off the ground unofficially in a bigco.

And they all feel the same until you get 'blessed from above'

The Series A slowdown - this is point where all the crazy starts to slow - you actually have lawyers to read things, etc etc, someone starts to consider holiday pay and HR stuff.
In a bigCo this hits all at once - all compliance needs to come in. People look over your shoulder. But its not that different to the Board suddenly asking new questions.

So, yes entrepreneur startups are different to 'intrapreneur' startups, but not that much. Its a fight to get anything off the ground, usually in spare time, and internal politics looks a lot like marketing plus who you know in the real world.

Finally - yes if google is giving out equity for free, then yes incentives are misaligned. This seems to be a google problem (one exacerbated by the fact that most previous tech giants had smaller tech giants after their lunch within a decade or two - we don't seem to see that in FAANG.)
Vanished 150k elderly residents raise doubts about Wuhan's Covid death toll
One wonders if best efforts has a higher expectation when 2 of the four factories are in the UK
Slightly apples to oranges comparison.

The brain has an incredibly complex architecture, which evolved over millions of years. On top of that, it then develops throughout a human's lifespan. The brain we observe is a "finished product", and even then it has ~150 trillion synapses to do computations [0].

Even massive neural networks have a relatively simple architecture before they are trained. Part of the training process is effectively learning more complex architectures, which are manifested by changing weights.

What I'm getting it is that artificial neural networks aren't equivalent to the brain - ANNs are both learning their own structure, on top of the circuits actually doing computations. They are doing the work of millions of years of evolution, genetics, developmental biology, interaction with the environment etc. Perhaps it's to be expected that ANNs will need orders of magnitude greater number of parameters than a brain.

An interesting development is meta-learning, where we separate the process for learning the architecture (this could be using deep learning, but not necessarily) with the network actually doing computation (equivalent to the brain).

> A language model must be based on the fundamental notion that there are nouns (things), verbs (processes) and adjectives (attributes).

I agree, but how does the brain represent these concepts? Some would argue that ANNs do have these concepts, just hidden away in abstract vector representations. Take the visual system, which has been extensively studied - we see the brain represents contrast, edges, shapes and so on very similarly to convolutional NNs.

[0] It's likely that this number doesn't come close to capturing the brain's complexity, as it doesn't incorporate parameters like long-term potentiation/depression, synchronization, firing rates, habituation vs sensitization, immunomodulation and likely so much more we haven't yet discovered.
If all Google wanted was GPL- and AGPL-free code, they're quite capable of assigning their own engineers / contractors to work on it rather than the more tortuous route of going via a 3rd party
Isn't it purely about ID?

Uber/Ebay/WhatsApp don't want you behaving badly, getting kicked or low ratings and then just binning that login and starting over. Phone numbers (and banning prepaid or temp numbers) are the best way to make that hard and to link one actual human to one account.

I'd like to see some alternatives, but so far this is the easiest way to make sign up rapid/easy while still making sock-puppetry hard.
Who would pay $50 to have a registered legal letter cancelling your subscription or service physically mailed to these organizations, and then with a registry of case numbers for credit reporting so that when collections buys the "debt" from the company, they can reference whether the person has executed this cancellation or not?

If it saved you a couple of hours on the phone, was legally compliant and protected your credit, and forced the company to stop, and was just "point and shoot," would you use it?
Ask HN: Practical applications of algorithms and data structures
It's easy to find information about algorithms and data structures. But where can I find books or articles about the practical applications of algorithms and data structures to solve a real-world problem?
For example:

- Building secondary indexes on ordered sets (with Redis, but valid for any implementation of ordered sets): https://redis.io/topics/indexes

- Building a graph database (hexastore) on top of a ordered key value store: http://nodejsconfit.levelgraph.io/

- key-value store using the append log data structure: https://www.poeticoding.com/build-a-simple-persistent-key-value-store-in-elixir-using-logs-part-1/
“Drop the mic” is a phrase that is borne out of “Coming to America” a raunchy romantic comedy from the 1990”s.

If Fellini had a hand in its making it would be a masterpiece, rather than an excuse for an upcoming money grabbing sequel.
For what it's worth, I reached out to the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) after their press release on "Securing Critical Open Source Projects" [0], because my open source project is on their "critical list" (Python top #200) [1].

After some clicking around, I was directed to the OpenSSF mailing list [2].

…where my request was left to rot, without any response.

Made me wonder whether this is just a PR stunt / corporate power grab.

[0] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/12/finding-critical-o...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25381397

[2] https://groups.google.com/g/wg-securing-critical-projects
I'd say that cigarette addiction doesn't really feel like anything. Mostly it's just like a feeling that you forgot something. Or a feeling that you didn't complete your to-do list. Then you get satisfaction when you're able to complete it.
The India-China border is basically the Himalayas.
I'm really not sure what you're trying to show here. They are left-leaning centrists and your comment doesn't challenge that. The fact they introduced gay marriage, divorce legislation, doubled public healthcare spending and introduced additional standardised taxes indicates they're not bible-thumping conservatives as the parent comment tried to indicate.

Saying "they're pretty far right" and the parent's comment suggesting the PM is a "fairly hard religious conservative" when there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary is literally just political propaganda. Trying to say "but they're not [far] behind" a party headed by overt racists is exactly the type of entirely fabricated, exaggerated American-type political b/s that we need to get washed out of mainstream Australian political thought ASAP. It's entirely the type of cancer introduced by state-funded rags like ABC who make it seem like anyone who isn't a brown vegan lesbian is literally Hitler.

Repeat after me: Australia is not America, Australian politics sees no reflection in American politics. The two political systems are entirely different, the political atmosphere is entirely different and the two parties that dominate are closer to classical socialists in every way more than they are right-wing religious conservatives.

The day that the Australian Liberal Party compels you to pay tithings to the Church, removes the socialised healthcare and bans abortion is the day you can start to argue that they've gone "far right." Until then you're going to have to face a cold, harsh reality: Australian politics is not that interesting. 95% of the political goals have bipartisan alignment and the disagreements are only about the implementation details, not about the policies. Sucks, I know.
I urge you to read her own remarks. She does not sympathize with Polanski, and she would not feel bad about whatever he experiences. But she finds it an act of violence against her, an opening of the wound afresh, when third parties opine on the case.
Thanks, I didn't know!
It does, a bit. If I wanted to make a rubber some keyboard, I'd have startup costs in the thousands of dollars range for molds and such. But I can make PCBs for a mechanical keyboard for only $30.

The cost of mechanical keyboard is far lower in low quantities.
Things to Take Care of Post Startup Funding
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Oh, awesome! We love Pet Paradise- they run a good business and the leadership really does care about pet safety.
Thank you, that’s something I was hoping for as I read the article.
Even this comment section alone demonstrates that this is a very loaded topic and that's one of the main reasons purely logical argumentation won't help drive the discussion far. If someone has a person close to them that's had (or has) issues with drug abuse, it won't be easy to have a neutral discussion on the matter. What I find contrasting though, is that this doesn't seem to be the case with alcohol abuse. This probably stems from a number of reasons, normalization of alcohol being one of the largest, but I would also argue that lack of education is probably one of the highest contributing factors. Without delving into the subject of whether regular heroin use is or isn't healthy, as I simply don't know enough about the matter, I think it's good to educate people on the topic. Educated people make better choices, regardless of what they choose to do in the end.
Curiously, my wife and I tried to 'cure ourselves' a few years back. We bought field guides, studied classes of wild grasses and such that might be common in the midwest. Then we went out over our 80 acres of fallow ground and tried to identify everything we could.

We came up with four (4) different plants. The brome grass we'd planted as a cover crop, Queen Anne's Lace, ground cherries and the occasional thistle. That was it.

Now, we may still have been 'plant blind' and not capable of recognizing or even seeing anything else. Or, 80 years of monoculture followed by 5 years of letting it go fallow weren't enough to permit much else to grow yet. I don't know.
I don't know how well that would work. For example, my understanding of Rust's bounding checking for slice indexing is that often the compiler can prove it's not needed and the check is optimised out because of the type system. This woulnd't work in C because of C's lacking type system
Your comment is not very credible at all. In Lithuania we have democracy and we have people having different opinions. We had actually idea here in Lithuania to build Japanese Atomic Power Plant but because of politics this has not happened. In result we have Russian one 50km from our Capital. If there is one thing Lithuania is upset about it is Belarusian dictatorship not following safety regulations while building atomic power plant.
The more I look at Rust the more I realize it’s going to become the next standard language.
The article says that Google is committing funding to the ISRG (https://abetterinternet.org). It isn't really clear whether that is one-off funding, or the start of an ongoing relationship.

The ISRG seems to have two projects of this type mentioned on its website: an improvement to curl (https://www.abetterinternet.org/post/memory-safe-curl/), in which the ISRG funded the curl author directly; and an improvement to httpd (https://www.abetterinternet.org/post/memory-safe-tls-apache/), in which Google (via the ISRG) are funding an httpd committer.
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There's a good book on this called Better Than Well that discusses the use of medicine for life improvement rather than treating disease. One of the most interesting chapters was on amputees by choice, people who want to cut off a limb to become handicapped. Doctors were left with the painful decision of helping these people achieve this or having them do it on their own in a much more dangerous way. While most would agree the behavior of amputees by choice is in some way pathological, it presents an interesting question about whether people have the right to do to their own bodies what they want and the role of medicine in helping them achieve those aims.
If such changes had been planned in the project all along and the money injection can help speeding this process up that's fine. But I can't see Google security people getting involved being a good thing otherwise. They come across as prioritising security problems over anything else (e.g. "if all you have is a hammer...") and I'd be surprised if this sort of extremism will be healthy for a project in the long run. Memory safety is just one of many aspects to juggle in a software project.
> The ISRG's approach of working directly with maintainers to support rewriting tools and libraries incrementally falls directly in line with our perspective here at Google.

Incrementally – that means in-place. You can't fork and rewrite incrementally since there will be no adoption/users of the fork.

Also they talk about maintainers of the projects. I think that largely means original authors and maintainers, not forks.

I don't see how you come to that conclusion. Could you clarify? Thanks :)
Good way of putting it. It’s in the chest for sure. I’ve always thought of it as something missing in your chest - a type of emptiness. “Thirst” is a good metaphor.
Imagine how far the technology could go had we sent 10 times the missions we do now.
> Try not to look at the map of Europe as a driver of a vehicle capable of >100mph.

So I live in the Hudson Valley, upstate NY. I noticed some local place names that were surprisingly Midwestern: Mount Illinois, Ohioville, etc. Weird, I thought, I wonder how that came to be.

Turns out it was groups of settlers traveling from slightly further east -- it's only about 200 miles to Boston, the furthest-away those settlers could be starting from, on land -- hoping to colonize the fertile lands of the newly opened Northwest Territories after the Revolution who just gave up and settled here.

Now, the Northwest Territories were another 500-1000 miles west of where I'm at, and where I'm at was colonized in the 17th century, so there was no mistaking one for the other. What must of happened was, one tenth to one fifth of the way in to their journey, these settlers got their wagons stuck in the swamps here, looked around at the rocky, unplowable mountains around them, and said "fuck it, we'll settle here", before naming their town "Ohioville" so when they wrote back to Boston they could pretend they reached their destination.
> I am often wondering about how addiction "feels"

It highly depends on the "thing" (it must not really be a thing). I would say "its the desire to plug a hole".

Do you drink tea? Why dont you drink tea without sugar? There are lots of answers to this question. It can be "it tastes better". Thats what your mind is telling you. It probably would be more healthier to drink tea without sugar but you still add sugar to it.

Thats addiction. And there are tons of other examples and its hard to determine it for every case. Addictions are deeply implemented in our brains. Eating, the urge to be close to people, getting complemented for things you do, all this is kind of an addictional behaivour.

Drugs can basically fill this already existing but empty receptors more efficient. Then your brain tells you to do it again. It will find reasons.

That was harder to explain than i thought. I hope it makes sense.
Ultimately, they are sufficiently confident in their indoctrination that they are unafraid that exposure to other ideologies will lead to a rejection of their own. Where they are not confident, they do limit travel. See their cancellation of passports for Hong Kongers.

I will not respond to your whataboutism argument as it is beside my point.