skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not just make it outright illegal to advertise substances manufactured for medical or recreational consumption?

I think it would lead to a better common ground to legalization of recreational drugs.
Perhaps even more interesting is Knuth’s Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About which goes into a bit more of his religious life and how he applies some mathematical techniques (particularly Monte Carlo–style random selection). The genesis of 3:16 (so to speak) is discussed as well.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/157586326X/donhosek
Eat more diverse foods. Large monocrops are a huge part of this problem, both in the field and in the farmer’s pocket book. Commodity crops are are the mercy of many more forces working against the farmer, and the narrow margins help push people into expediencies. Four commodity grain crops are most of our volume, and if one develops a pernicious enough pest or pathogen we are truly fucked.

So eat weird fruits, vegetables, legumes. Get used to multigrain bread.
Will do. I'm so new to Onivim that I wasn't even sure if it was "a problem" or "my problem", or how to get more info on it. It could be a problem with my setup, I try to keep my workstation fairly clean, but it is a working setup so it's no plain vanilla. Thanks for the reply.
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USB serial adapters will give you a standard usb port at /dev/ttyUSBn, usable via minicom etc.
... And yet I've worked with them a few years ago, and they were fragile little beasts which easily broke and stated drifting without warning.
The much demonized Roundup actually greatly reduces pesticide volume needed compared to older pesticides. Save the environment, love Monsanto.
On a site like HN I assumed everybody’s birthday was Unix epoch 0
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My friend developed schizophrenia and killed herself after taking ayahuasca. I know a lot of people think these drugs are great but I’m much less impressed with them. I did LSD once, a microdot on my first go and while overall the experience was good it remains up there as once of the most extreme things you can do. It took me weeks afterwards to integrate the experience and I still think about what it showed me daily. If I’d have had a bad trip I think I would probably have PTSD or something close. The “jaw dropping void” my friend talks about is real, being able to place your mind almost anywhere requires a lot of care. Before doing it a friend with a lot of experience said “if things are going down a bad tunnel move your body or change/lighting/scenery/indoors/outdoors and you should come back from being trapped in the matrix”.

The research on micro-dosing seems to suggest it just makes you feel cleverer (and actually worse at tasks) and as my friend said at the end of our trip: “it’s not exactly what you can call recreational”. I agree.

I wouldn’t legalise them, not even for psychiatric work as it’s too difficult to know if they’ll help.
It kind of makes more sense to get a drug test when you’re applying to work at a company that deals in drugs.
I live in Canada on a busy urban street, and I don't smell it any more often than I did before it was legalized here. (It might help that our smoking laws disallow smoking anything near building entrances.)
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Not at all, it supports its own way of doing modules with header maps.

Proper ISO C++20 modules are yet to be supported.
I'm willing to bet it's less bad than the status quo.

Sure, bad things will happen with a few GM crops, but worse things will probably happen from existing non-GM farming practices. I think most experts would also agree with that assesment.
Both initiatives are indeed quite drastic, but so is the decline in biodiversity. Double yes from my side!
There could be unintended consequences associated with any crop protection approach - synthetic, organic, whatever.

However, the active ingredient, double-stranded RNA, is ubiquitous in nature without obvious adverse impacts. It degrades very readily. It doesn't impact gene expression in mammals, even if completely homologous to a transcript (which is why in contrast to synthetic short interfering RNAs there's no obvious use as a therapeutic). It's an extraordinarily narrow spectrum approach, which is quite different to anything in the past, and why the approach is receiving a lot of interest and investment.

There's ongoing synthesis of data on environmental impacts. Have a read:
https://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocument...
Weed smell dissipates way faster in my experience since it doesn't tend to cling as well to fabrics. You smoke a bong in your apartment with the window open, an hour later someone can walk into the room and probably couldn't tell. You smoke one cigarette inside and everything from your clothes to furniture reeks for weeks.
If they don't test weed, how do they know they're getting the best strains?
You don't hear Sinopec going off-line or GazProm.

All my searches are only turning up the most recent news about the most recent pipeline hack, but I seem to recall reading that the US hacked/sabotaged an eastern European oil or gas pipeline decades ago.
Do you think it's stealing your power too?
"God" with "the space in which we exist", if these are equivalent for you, so be it. I have little patiences with people definitions of what god is or isn't and the last place I expect to grapple with such whimsical notions is in a paper like such. I'm reluctant to "glorify God," "or even have the hubris of doing such in such a place or setting. I'd rather not grapple with a stranger's idea of what is (or isn't!) worthy of worship. Forgive me, I shut down.
Maybe a coastal thing, since they don’t want to lose a really good percentage of their good developers.
I don't like these kind of arguments (see doomsday argument) because they do indeed have a deep logical flaw. They use definitions and mechanics from probability theory for phenomena that are not repeatable.

For instance, my blood type is not a "likely" or "unlikely" choice out of all existing blood types. It is predetermined to a large degree by my parents. So is my country of birth.

Of course, if you pick a human at random, or repeat the test with many different humans, the argument is valid again. But this shows you why the extrapolation to aliens does not work. We don't have any aliens in our sample set.

Without postulating a quasi-randon mechanism that made you a human instead of an alien, this argument simply doesn't work. Or rather it doesn't have any meaning.
I've been building a few nodejs + vuejs apps in order to round out my typescript skills lately, but my real side project doesn't involve a single line of code.

I'm writing a book about career advice for programmers titled "Junior to Senior" that will be published later this year by Holloway[0]. It's been years in the making and there's still some work left, but it's been encouraging to hear the positive feedback since I announced it publicly.

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Try to get the source code of Android for your own device, most SaaS applications or most embedded appliances.
This is about achieving Deep learning on Neuromorphic hardware. Large research teams have been working on it for decades. Billions of dollars/Euros/Pounds must have been poured into it. Still, their devices and algorithms get blown out of the water by an off-the-shelf GPU plus tensorflow, pytorch, what have you.

Hats off for the authors' achievement, this is no small feat and something that has been tried for years. But IMHO it's time that field moved on from running after matrix accelerators and focused on the real advantages of event-based computing: asynchronous, low-latency, event-based signal processing.
Favioli is a good solution to this problem https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/favioli/
Compared to Neovim 0.5, this doesn't seem to bring much on the table. Surely, some things work out of the box, have nicer UI elements and there are a few new features. But with a huge cost of no big ecosystem.
no, you're misreading this. First, you can't extrapolate that out, the sample was of cortical tissue which while expansive is just a thin layer. Second, thats the size of the imaging data, it doesn't mean anything about human compute in the slightest.
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Seems like a nice app, but has not even begun to demonstrate enough value for me to upgrade to “premium”. The whole page is pretty focused on getting enough engagement to provoke an upgrade.
It is called SaaS and digital stores nowadays.
I understand; but, to reiterate, that is not a mainstream problem involving modeling a service.

And, by the way, that specific example is doable (somewhat) in languages with static dispatch on multiple arguments, like C++'s function overloading.

We're just stuck with a statically determined result type; C++ won't statically model something like that an division of two Integer classes yields an Integer, otherwise a Ratio. If we don't need that, we are good to go:

// no OOP dispatch to see here
quaternion mul(const quaternion &left, double right);
quaternion mul(double left, const quaternion &right);

Static polymorphism may be good enough for a good many use cases, and runs fast too due to all dispatch being resolved at compile time.

Multiple dispatch will not save you from the fact that if you have N different kinds of numbers, you may have to code all N*N combinations of some operations that don't commute, or N(N+1)/2 for those that do. It will give you a minimal-boilerplate way to write that though, with accurate modeling of situations where the result type depends on properties of run-time value.
> We want Apple to go back to the situation that existed at the time when we joined the App Store

He seems to miss a key point: apps (and games in particular, the largest app category) largely shifted from paid to "free" with DLC/subscriptions. Take away the DLC/subscription cut and the Apple Tax revenue drops to zero – which Spotify might like but Apple is presumably less excited about. Except that Spotify can already dodge the Apple Tax by selling subscriptions on its own web site, which it does.

> they saw that they were not going to be able to keep up with Android unless they opened up the App Store

Citation?
I've written a lot of things that are "hopefully competitive" with something else, but generally benchmarking is the ideal. :-) Hard to benchmark PEG vs regex fairly. Not dismissing it out of hand, as I've had many years to observe the weak spots of regex at quite a short distance.
There are other political reasons for the ban... Do you want your whole food supply dependant on licensing from another nation who is an ally today, but could use this as a bargaining chip to "do as we say or we'll stop licensing you corn and destroy your agriculture industry".
Wait, does Google really have a "whiskey room" stocked with "a blow-your-mind collection of single-malt Scotches"?
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I really want the state to get out of the game in messing with drugs. Marijuana shops in California all use advertising to find customers. I’m not sure what we would gain by making that illegal.
You never wondered why rain is wet? But it's so interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetting
Mm. Seconded. I had an unhappy childhood, but there was one teacher in particular at my boarding school who looked out for me - he was kind, when nobody else was - he didn’t beat me as the other masters would, he’d have me and other boys who were having a hard time over for cocoa and board games in the evenings. He’d take us swimming at the lake on Sundays, where we’d all do our best to out-daredevil each other as he took pictures.

He was sent to prison the year before last, as it transpires that he wasn’t just a nice old man, he was a pederast, grooming his prey.

That, more than anything else, has bought me unwelcome trauma - the one thing in my childhood that didn’t suck, turns out to have sucked after all - and it changed the context from childhood fun to “actually, that was weird”.
My next project is going to be a (hopefully simple) fuzzy search database, and I'm seriously considering using Nim.

Thinking about calling it Gramcracker (ya know, for n-gram).

The idea is to store lots of data with little memory usage and have predictable performance, by having an on disk index similar to sqlite.

The goal being to get rid of the existing in memory search engine that fastcomments uses, since it's rarely queried but data size keeps growing.
Was looking for something like this for a project, they are neat, thanks!
Odd that this article (and this comment on it) use a definition of “self employed” that still involves having an Employer. I’ve always considered the term to mean running your own product business. I certainly never used it to describe my consulting work.

The author’s points all hold up, but it would make more sense to change the title so that it was cleat that it was comparing W-2 salaried positions to 1099 contracts.
Which depending on how your expenses are, can be fine? Keep the money in the company itself and use it for car and travel as long as it can be substantiated as company related (don’t lie, but surely you can vacay and meet a client in Hawaii as well). This assumes you have a large nest egg that can supply your part mortgage payments in this time though.
> I’ve never fully understood why the events emit a value of some message type

In Elm, the Model can be updated faster than the DOM. In other words, the view is rendered at the speed of requestAnimationFrame but the model can change in between animation frames. This means that if you handle model changes inside the view you might get out of sync with the model.

Here is a program [1] that shows this problem. If you click "SnapShot" you will sometimes get the same number but sometimes get different numbers.

[1] https://ellie-app.com/dmddFd9whtYa1
I was prescribed desoxyn for adhd - didn't seem particularly hard to get...
Depends on your level of paranoia and the age of the CPU.

The ME has had many security vulnerabilities and probably more to come. For an appliance some old CPU might be good enough, but it does not get security updates. Some claim the ME might contain a NSA backdoor. That the ME can do networking certainly doesn't give confidence. The US government can order CPUs without ME, but nobody else can. Does not raise confidence either.
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Surely it's better to replace indiscriminate spraying of substances known to be harmful with GMO crops carefully bred to have the smallest changes possible?
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interesting. where would one start reading about all this?
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So you're saying the doorbell that uses machine learning to detect people and objects and the send me videos of them is a dumb device? I'd love to see a smart one!
That’s what already has happened
And yet 5 million humans swarmed in and Singapore is among the highest nominal GDP countries in the world. Shows that there's little hope bringing balance between humanity and other species in the current economic system.
This was super enlightening. Thanks.
With all do respect, this occurs in a tiny fraction of cases and almost exclusively in the obese/elderly. The risk to a healthy person is overstated, while the potential risk of a vaccine is understated.

Why should healthy people be forced to take on risk to protect those who do not take care of their bodies? Would you feel the same if the virus affected primarily smokers?
Sure, but licensing/patents are entirely separate from the environment benefits here.
Similar scanning services exist in Japan as well (ex. [1]). The difference is that they kindly discard the books for you once getting scanned!

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:-) Depending how they used the Music Brainz data could be – there are enough longer songs around on albums at least. (Though American Pie was actually published as a double-sided single, interesting)

While this is admittedly rather handwawy, even outside of this I have the impression that there must have been some lengthening: It feels like basically every Rock & Roll song from the 50s/early 60s mostly is around the two minute mark and very rarely even approaches three minutes. Afterwards however, three or four minutes doesn't seem that unusual to encounter, never mind those really long songs, too.
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Mind sharing the forum? - And for those reading this; in the vein of avoiding pollution, maybe don't forage next to a major highway.
How do you sell something that is not your time? Money is just crystallized work time. If you don't sell your time, you got to... sell other's time (by having employees)?

The idea of making something once and selling it multiple times (like software) is nice, but the way I understand the market works is that competition will push down the price so much that even with your one time work investment, you'll only get the "average" rate in the end. So that means, find a niche where there is no competition yet?
The state should be regulating the supply chain at the very least and treat corrupted drugs as an ongoing terrorist attack

Consumers need to know what they are buying and this is not possible under decriminalized frameworks, only recreationally legalized frameworks
When you are a consultant or contractor, you still have assess to kiss and jerks to take orders from. You actually have to work a lot harder at keeping the folks in charge happy. And worse, they can fire you in two weeks instead of 6 months

You can choose between the illusion of security or the illusion of freedom, that’s the choice
> Given this dependency on the "reputation" of "pythonic syntax", whom do you accept as "recommenders" for reputation? What constitutes a "good reputation" to your mind?

Do you actually disagree with me about the reputation of different language syntaxes? I don't have a specific list of influences, just a general impression from e.g. HN-like discussion sites, programming meetups, work colleagues...

> Do the importance of project, or perhaps durability of code have any value in this reputation?

No - we're talking solely about syntax.

> Is it enough that millions of other people use different tools? Literally billions of other people speak and write a language that does not have the "Englishonic" properties of English, for example. Some of these languages have a notation that is superior to English. [see GB Shaw on English notation]

I see your last two sentences as the demonstration that the answer to your question is "no". A language may become very popular despite having a very poor syntax, and even clear improvements to syntax are often not adopted.

> You say quite clearly in another comment that "C" is not a good language, despite its importance as a language and its influence on several other important, long-serving programming languages. I will just cite the TIOBE index as something tangible; if imperfect, it is at least not a mysterious allusion.

Sure, and I'm aware that this is a controversial view. I think few would defend C's syntax; rather they tend to claim that it has good performance or is close-to-the-machine (views that I disagree with, but would acknowledge the popularity of, and be prepared to argue my case against).

> Take one of these languages. Javascript, for example, is a very successful language. Apart from the "ecosystems" of languages, I assume you accept that the notation of Javascript is -- by any measure other than aspersions -- a successful notation system.

I don't accept that a language being popular means it has good syntax, if that's what you're saying.
Singapore has been trialing as well that since 2016. It's safe to say they haven't solved the problem yet.

https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/nea-release-wolbachia-...
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Both are fatalist ideals, so they'll likely accomplish the same thing in different ways.
Like most jurisdictions, they don't know anything else

Alot of people in Singapore arent happy with it