skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sh*tty if you don’t land a coveted salaried position out of college. Seriously, read up on the generation of workers who can only get part time work, they feel like outcasts in their society. About equivalent to our Gen X and Gen Y. When Japan’s economy was booming everyone got salaries jobs for life. Now only the most qualified do and everyone else is forced to scrape by on part time work that’s highly regulated by the government in terms of hours worked.
Heroin habits tend to be incredibly expensive. Most people simply can't afford it, that's when the problems arise.
No, the Celtic Scots did not descend from the Scythians. The Scythians were speakers of the Iranian branch of Indo-European. The Celtic Scots were speakers of the Celtic branch.
Diceware Is (Slightly) Overrated
This is a wake up call for modernizing the USA grid. Not including Texas of course.
How Will Linux Handle Quantum Computing? (2017) [pdf]
It depends on the addiction. Opiate addiction comes along with flu like symptoms, insomnia, restless legs/arms AKA crazy legs, and an ever present anxiety that you really really want some that will make you do some weird shit just to get it. Other addictions are more subtle, some worse, but all of them I've experienced have the same feeling of stress/anxiety that can only be cured by the vice they are caused by. Many are all in your head, or, can be overcome by willpower, but definitely not opiates
You can't really discuss usury in a modern context without taking into account, the entirely modern notion of what money is. I.e. the instrument of today's national currencies are entirely detached from what used to be considered money, which was what the concept of usury applied to.

More specifically, when the government openly inflates the money supply by a certain percentage every year, then investing your cash into T-bills could suddenly be seen as merely a defensive move, to protect your holdings, rather than a usurious transaction with you as the benefactor.

I am not arguing that point or another, but this is just one example out of many where the issue gets confused by the complications of the modern financial system. It could well be argued (and many do) that large swathes of the financial system is incompatible with Islamic principles, and that the only acceptable option is a radical reimagining of these structures. In that, they would agree with a growing secular movement who are increasingly discovering that the monetary and financial system is stacked against them, and enriches the few at the expense of the many.

I guess what I'm saying is that it makes little sense to rail against 'usury' while ignoring the realities of the 'modern' nature of money.
semi-conspiracy theory: the main goal of this rewriting is to have less and less infrastructure depending on GPL and AGPL-licensed code
That's a fair and accurate assessment, I think.
We can just as easily say that from an African perspective there are no right wing publications or politicians. After all in most of Africa homosexuality is still criminalized. In many places, witchcraft and apostasy still is.

And Africa has about triple the population of Europe. So what makes Europe the default point of comparison? (More reporters having done a semester abroad at Barcelona than Lagos is not a valid answer.) Heck why restrict ourselves to the present? How about by the standards of all of human history? Even Fox News would be left wing in 1750.

The simple answer is that it’s very dumb to arbitrarily compare against a different society, with a different history and different culture. American institutions should benchmark on American mores, not grasp at politics from entirely different continents.
I think there is a key point to this:

Being a startup in a large corp works if you are the "famous" manager inside the corp and get your personal playing ground (skunk works?) project and are building something new.

It works less, when you are being acquired and want to keep your independence. When acquiring the acquirer will look close at you to align the acquired product with the corporate interests.
It did not take a while to understand all drug experiences are deeply fake comparing to living full life. And if they enrich you, you life is probably fake.

Like in Russian group Splin lyrics:
"Я наяву вижу то, что многим даже не снилось, Hе являлось под кайфом".

Rough translation: "I see the things in reality, others don't even when dreaming, when getting high"
Mechanical doesn't have to imply noisy, though it's inappropriate to choose a noisy/clicky one and take that to the office.

My keyboard has "silent" switches (tiny rubber bits so bits of plastic don't hit together), and is comparable to Apple keyboards.

(The first time I took one to the office, I checked with my neighbours. Between about 6 people, there was no consensus on which of my keyboard, an Apple one, or an old Microsoft one was loudest/most annoying.)
Death comes from _mis_use, which usually stems from _mis_information ("drugs are bad, let's not talk about them").

People die when they over-dose (which more often than not happens because they don't know exactly what they're getting, or the purity of it) or mix with other substances that they shouldn't.
Moiva.io v3: a universal tool to Evaluate, Discover and Compare software
Thanks for pointing out my brain fart :)

If the author of the library is reading, I think it would be a great addition to have a section discussing the benefit vs writing your own one line checkers.
It reminds me of “sudo make me a sandwich”

The idea that I tell a pharmacist an arbitrary number I found on the internet and the price of the medication suddenly drops 80%…

Good on GoodRX for making this process less obfuscated, but wow the market is broken if that is how it works.
Agreed 100%.

Sadly everyone expressing concerns like this will be dismissed and everyone is going to once again hail google for being community friendly and supportive of FOSS.
One source I've found about the long-term effects:
https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/hero...

"Repeated heroin use changes the physical structure and physiology of the brain, creating long-term imbalances in neuronal and hormonal systems that are not easily reversed. Studies have shown some deterioration of the brain’s white matter due to heroin use, which may affect decision-making abilities, the ability to regulate behavior, and responses to stressful situations."

I expected something more damning. Unfortunately, I feel that we don't have enough studies (incl. long-term ones) when it comes to recreational drugs.
Do insulin users have a drug problem? I think at the core of the issue is that our society generally regards psychological ailments as a personal flaw, rather than a health issue. (I’m talking generally, not about the professor from the article)
And so it begins - https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-02-18/facebook-news...
Can someone please fix the title to the original in the blog ('Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software'), because the current title is not at all representative of what the blog is actually saying.
> In other words, Swiss banking is not anymore the one described in movies where you could come with 1M€ in cash, open an anonymous account and be done.

what you say reflects what I've read in the past few years on offshore tax crimes[0][1]. the OECD white/black/grey-list regulations are in reality a way to shift power from existing jurisdictions to US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_as_a_tax_haven

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Islands:_Tax_Havens_a...
It's only a problem when you don't have any right?
> how can you do anything when you're high on heroin?

It is a straw-man to assume that drug users are high during work. There are plenty of hours in the day. Erowid puts the duration of a heroin high at 2-4 hours.

https://erowid.org/chemicals/heroin/heroin_basics.shtml
How does that article support your claim?

I'm convinced that the primary purpose of Starlink is funding SpaceX's R&D for eventually going to Mars. Providing internet service to the public helps, providing internet service to the military helps too. I don't think the really prioritize one above the other.
The distance between the plants is not the point - the point is that the Ignalina plant was in a sparsely populated area ~150 km from Vilnius (and subject to EU regulations), while the new plant is only ~60 km from Vilnius (and subject to Belarusian regulations).
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Yeah, and he's putting out his experience as an example for others to point to and say, "If that guy could do it, so can I!"

Personally, I've always felt I had a personality that is prone to addiction, so I've stayed away from even alcohol on a regular basis. (Though at one point I was having my favorite alcoholic drink every night... I stopped when I realized what I was doing.)

Even breaking away from caffeine (again) is tough for me. Soda was also tough, and I ended up on soda water instead and still drink way too many of those.

I've also spent too much money on mobile gacha games, but because I know my personality, I managed to keep it from spiraling out of control. (Some people would even say the amount I spent wasn't a big deal, but it was far more than a single game is worth, so it's a sign that I was going wrong.)

Someone else asked how addiction feels, and I almost answered there, but didn't because I'm sure they meant hard addiction that you need help to correct, and I haven't been there. But as far as I've been, it's an almost-uncontrollable desire and subsequent rationalization and then capitulation. Each time. Fighting the feeling is depressing, even if everything else is going great. I only ever escape when I make myself feel worse about doing the thing than I feel from not doing it.
This'll get downvoted, but it strikes me how hypocritical it is that you can say you don't feel comfortable in your body they'll put you on test blockers and estrogen replacement to help you look like how you identify, but saying you think you need to look like Adonis is illegal.

Controlled use of anabolic steroids is demonstrably safe and effective.
Sorry for the late reply, but I am looking to understand how applications like Blender / Godot / Unity work at a lower level, specifically how they render 3D objects.
Would not be cheaper to fix those unsafe languages, such as C, and offer safe mechanisms that could be used upon need?

Why spend thousands, if not millions of dollars, on rewriting existing codebases when they could help fixing the existing toolset and make it safer?

I don't get it.
I’m not sure “hijack” is the right word. They are using money to entice projects to rewrite in memory safe languages.
What if any requirements are there on the licensing of these reinvented wheels? Specifically would GPL or AGPL be acceptable?
> Switching to Rust breaks things for anyone who steps even a toe out of the norm of Linux/macOS/Windows on x86_64 or aarch64.

That's one way to see it. I much prefer to think "it doesn't work yet".

I mean, if it doesn't work in C too, Rust certainly didn't break it . If it works in C but there is no native Rust solution - just use the C code. Again, nothing broken.

Are non-native libraries a problem? Yes, but they are a perfectly good temporary solution too. The C world wasn't made in one day either and we will come to that - as long as we develop and change and unfortunately that means that we sometimes break things. At least that's how I see it.
>It feels more like they want to persuade me to hold a set of opinions (which shifts rapidly), rather than informing me and letting me form my own. "Persuade" is even the wrong word; more like "pressure" or "coerce".

It's a little amusing to see liberals trying to describe this for the first time. Harper's is unequivocally further left than NYT. It's also less grating.

To me, that's because the "left-ish" bias of NYT takes the form of telling the reader to be afraid of certain people or groups of people, whether it's Tom Cotton who wants to "send in the troops" or some little-known blogger. Which stands in direct contradiction to the ideals of what most people think of as leftism.

Bias is tolerable and probably inevitable; a politics of fearmongering is not.
Another common cause of overdoses which stems from a lack of education:

A person quits for a while, decides to start using again and shoots up their usual dose for which they no longer have sufficient tolerance.

If that person knew that this is a common way people end up killing themselves, they probably wouldn't make this mistake.
and abandon it right after they become technically uninteresting. seriously aside from not supporting current GPL licence on these open source projects I dont see a reason to not support them.
I think that only works if `result` is a list
Did you use Netflix on any devices? Maybe one of those was trying to connect.
See also:

https://docs.github.com/en/github/using-git/about-git-subtre...

https://git-scm.com/docs/merge-strategies#Documentation/merg...
I think in both cases we took designs that promised to be totally impossible to meltdown and then through either incompetence or bad luck melted them down. So how can we KNOW that today's "totally impossible to meltdown" design is not just safe, but safe when run incompetently and during an external disaster?

This is the core issue with nuclear: I don't really care about the factory or power station 1km from my house because if it burns down, it will be a small inconvenience to me. But a nuclear plant, even one 50km away, has the potential to kill me.

How do you manage that risk?

I worry that right now a lot of the push is basically an appeal to authority ("engineers know how to design reactors"). But those same authorieis are undermined by both their source of funding and their historic record. That's the real issue here: we used up our credibility and don't have any left and can't work without it.
I'm not sure, I agree it sounds like pop psych crap and you'll develop physical dependence of course, but I suspect there's a big difference between people who can pick up smoking weed on a weekly or monthly basis recreationally and people who find a need to be high every waking minute of their day. People who take to drinking a bottle of vodka for breakfast and those who keep it to the odd occasion. I don't see why we wouldn't see similar for other, even more physically addictive drugs.
Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM
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We handle all paperwork, compliance and payments so onboarding new people is really easy. And most importantly, everything done legally, by the book, so that companies are always due diligence proof.

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> - wrong arguments types (mostly solved by libraries such as fmt tho): printf("%d", 0.5);

> - too much / not enough arguments passed: printf("%d", 0, 1);

-Wformat

> - passing unsanitized strings as template argument: printf(some_string_i_got_from_the_network_lol, arg_1, arg_2);

-Wformat-nonliteral
I am Coca Cola and coffee user. I am not addicted. That is, until I try to leave it for a while and then even if I succeed it still takes a lot of willpower.

Addiction is a force that counteracts your will power. You may not have drug problem but you are an addict if you feel compulsion to use the drug.

Today you may have enough willpower to counteract that force to consume more alcohol or drugs. But the next day may be worse, you may find some family or work problem and your will power may decrease enough that you will run into drug problem and have really hard time getting rid of it if at all.

It is called slippery slope for a reason.
As many others here have noted, terse syntax for things like `repeat` loops or normal `for`/`while` loops or shell var expansion can all be addictive, but some specific things I miss in Bash that are easy in Zsh are:

1) auto cd to any evar just from its name
e.g. lb=/usr/local/bin; lb
($lb works in bash, but I always forget
the $. I know I could do aliases...Yuck.)

2) auto cd does not seem to use $CDPATH
this is a real pain since I am used to
never typing "cd ".

3) **c instead of **/*c for a recursive glob
At 2 vs. 4 chars (or 3 vs. 6 keydowns) it
may not *look* much briefer, but it feels
much easier to type once you're used to it.

4) On the fly command line colorization along
the lines of zsh-syntax-highlighting.
Spot syntax errors/missing cmds *before*
you hit <ENTER>.

5) vared MyVar
Use the ZLE to easily modify any evar.

6) Zsh's REPORTTIME
*automatically* report time/memory of only
"expensive" programs/pipelines.

7) Zsh's extended history format that includes
both the time started as well as *duration*
of all my commands.

8) Floating point arithmetic and $[]
forget all this calculator jazz. I just
do `alias ec=echo` and go `ec $[1234./56]`
or even just : $[1234./56]<TAB>

9) glob qualifiers (forget `find` or `fd`)
My main use cases are *(.) *(@) & *(/),
sometimes with a ^ for "not" in there,
e.g. *(^/). The codes are mostly the
old ls -F codes to be easy to recall.

If anyone knows how to make Bash do any of those, I would appreciate the tip. Otherwise, maybe they count as "killer" features to someone.

Also, I tend to use a global alias "/n" for "/dev/null". I know I could just use $n with n=/dev/null, but I enjoy having it look like a path in / that never actually exists.
Most of those project authors refuse to rewrite or adopt memory safe languages in their projects.
*to entice projects to rewrite other peoples projects
You mean you were thinking US might invade China? Yeah, that was never a possibility.

The US might be able to cut off China from a lot of trade by locking its seas and sinking its ships, though. China is still playing catch-up on maritime supremacy.
>When you’re at a wedding reception, alcohol serves as a social lubricant. People are more gregarious. They talk, they interact. The same is true with cocaine at parties, heroin among friends, or opium among friends, NDMA among lovers. It enhances empathy, openness, and forgiveness, all of these pro-social attributes.

Please, don't take this horrible advice. Drugs are harmful and can do fatal damage to you and those around you. I mean, is this guy advocating drug use? It sounds like he wants to justify his dependency.
Yep, function keys and mostly also the arrow keys. A full keyboard is too large but I need the extra arrow keys. (Ironically, I work in Emacs most of the time but I need the arrow keys in other applications.)
The real deal is what happens if Google blocks traffic to all Australian news site. That would be huge.

It’s pretty scary that a few people in parliament can sign a law that only serves a few rich and powerful people at the expense of its citizens.

What is the future of governance? Because 2021, it feels still like a drunken king doing what “feels good”
No reason no exclude them in the first place.
I went through a similar process with the WSJ, except it was made worse by the fact that I had to call them to get it done. I'm not from the US; no such thing as a toll-free number for me.
Black market incentivises dealers doing things like mixing fentanyl into heroin in order to make it vastly more profitable (fentanyl is cheap and incredibly potent), with the side effect of increasing its deadliness massively.

Users often mix heroin with benzos and/or alcohol which increases the level of risk enormously. The vast majority of overdoses are caused by mixing CNS depressants in with heroin, not by heroin use alone.

If you can't get a steady supply then withdrawals are vicious and can cause a host of other problems (crime in order to get money for more heroin being a commonly cited one).

One of the ways that heroin itself can cause overdose deaths is relapses - users may take a dose that they were previously tolerant to. I believe this is still far less of a danger than combining with other substances.
9M Haven't Received Covid-19 Payments Six Months After Cares Act Passed
I just stopped fighting it and start my day at 11AM. I am much more productive, healthy and can concentrate better at work.
One early meeting a week is not a problem. I still need my alarm clock most of the time or I'd just keep dozing until 1PM.

Some colleagues are the complete opposite and start to become tired after noon.
It's weird how people are different when they aren't forced to all start at the same time. Forcing someone to be awake should be a human rights violation and illegal.
Also recommend the fzf vim extension. I use it to navigate my Vimwiki Zettelkasten.
Veterans who are given an opioid for pain, rarely got addicted if they had a warm and loving childhood, and lived a life with community and friends.

Veterans who had many Adverse Childhood Experiences (A high ACE score), such as coming from a broken home, or faced neglect and isolation growing up, were much more likely to become addicted to the opioids they were given to treat pain.
Any why shouldn't they?
Yeah. I am disappointed in Nautilus presenting such a controversial position with no scrutiny and very few probing or challenging questions.
Your missing what the two parent comments are driving at. Google says that's what it is doing, but this money is going to "an organization" that will seemingly get it's money from Google, giving Google control over whatever open source projects they target.
I meant establishment more than old England. Which id define as a mix of old families and imperialism
That's not a side effect of heroin, that's a side effect of overdosing. Death is also a side effect of overdosing on acetaminophen, and alcohol. Imagine if when I went to my local wine shop they made a mistake and sold me something that was 80% abv rather than 12-14% and I drank the bottle. Or my pharmacy gave me 5g acetaminophen tablets instead of 500mg, and I took 2 of them every four hours for a few days. Or my finely ground table salt was cut with some form of rodent poison. I'd be pretty dead in those cases most likely. Most illegal substances you have absolutely no idea what you're buying or how much you're buying unless you test it yourself. Yes, word gets around but that's no use to you if you accidentally take 10x a dose, or something that is just not what you were told it was.

Legal substances also have lots of information readily available around them - if I go to my pharmacy and ask for ibuprofen, they will tell me the dosages in advance. If I go to my doctor and they put me on oxycodone, they will give me a dose that they think is safe, (and in theory, a plan to reduce my dependence on them) without judgement. If you develop an opiod addiction, your support options are much more limited.