skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investors give money to companies, with only some expectation that the money will be returned later.

The "Pied Piper" will mislead investors into giving money into illegitimate causes: people who sell $1 for $0.80 under the name of growth, with no real plan on actually making a sustainable long-term business model.

In the short term, investors are happy that other investors are piling on and buying the stock (increasing the stock price). But in the long term, when the company inevitably runs out of money, the investors will be left holding onto worthless shares.

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This has already happened with MoviePass.
Plus the constant nag to install the app on mobile, and sometimes even downright blocking access and "see in the app". (For now there's still "old." subdomain which works if you enable desktop emulation on mobile, but it can shut down any day).
> Without getting into details, the tale ends with the piper playing his magic pipe to hypnotize the town's children, who follow him out of town and into a dark cave, never to be seen again.

Uh, you are omitting the important detail that the town hired the piper to get rid of rats during the black plague, and the piper played his tune and the rats followed him to their death. After the town refused to pay him for removing the rats, he took his own revenge, playing again but for the children. Hence the saying that one must "pay the piper", as a reference to needing to pay one's debts, the connotation being that a community that refuses to pay their debts is literally jeopardizing their children's future.

In this case, we can therefore debate whether the piper is leading children or rats. As the followers are clearly investors, one can make a case for either interpretation.
> literal armies of drug addicts

Literal armies of drug addicts? “Quick, deploy the Third Meth-anized Division!”

California has a homelessness problem (largely a side effect of economic success without sufficient redistribution driving housing costs out of reach of the poor, like most states with above average homelessness — Vermont is the most noteworthy exception, with above-median homelessness without elevated housing prices.)

> How will this help?

Decriminalization reduces cost directed (usually, ineffectively) at suppression, and straight-up legalizes (and thus brings into the formal, taxed, economy) various ancillary trade like paraphernalia, increasing resources to deal with associated social problems by means other than criminal suppression, which hasn't proven effective.
Finding clean water is a major challenge in today's world, and I'm afraid I don't have any easy answers for you. You have to dig deep...

Not all filters can remove all the impurities added by today's water channels and sources...

Bottled water which is single-source, in bottles which leach less, AND has a short travel distance is rare...

In most areas, well water and other natural bodies is best tested regularly by a lab which will tell you the results...

I've heard of a few other methods of water purification, such as multi-step macro-process, but I've yet to try them myself.
All these drugs should just have their studied side effects listed on the back of the package like all the dangerous and deadly stuff on the shelves

Decriminalizing, to me, is just having an industry tell you they don’t want to be regulated or illegal, and that’s absurd!

A big step for research though!
"To that end, most of the time a philosopher spends writing doesn’t involve typing"

Most of the time a philosopher spends philosophising doesn't even involve thinking.

Bertrand Russel said that philosophy was very difficult, and even very good philosophers only succeeded in doing it for a few days a year.

Or something; I don't think it's from Problems Of Philosophy, and I can't lay my hands on my copy of In Praise Of Idleness.
People often talk about "faster" as if it's their main goal. For me, it's all about "more comfortable".

Not needing to move my hand back and forth means not needing to make a context switch that puts a little extra stress into my workflow.
A federal ban on paying ransomeware would reduce the incentive to commit these attacks.
Back injury statistics tend to be highly unreliable, as there is no objective test as to whether back pain is real or not. Hence a back injury is the go-to malady for malingering.

Yes, I've injured my back many times, I'm recovering right now from one. A significant part of my exercise program is trying to inure myself against further incidents. I'm not denying the existence of back injury and pain.

I was in a car accident years ago. I was coached in how to fake a neck injury to get a big settlement by several people who came to help, including a lawyer. The term they used was "jackpot". I didn't ask for the coaching, and didn't do it.
I'll need a good periscope man, deal.

Do you think they'll finance the sub with $25 down and two co-signers?
I'm not sure. Today on work there is so much personal safety gear (glasses, helmets, safety shoes, gloves ...) small accidents maybe just don't hurt a person at all. So you just end up with the really bad accidents.
Makes sense. I toured the Dell factory in Round Rock, and it was the same deal. I think all businesses attempt to limit information disclosure as a standard practice, even if there aren't obvious trade secrets, because there maybe unrecognized intelligence in them.
What a great idea! Thanks!

Do you know what kind of cloth is commonly used? I imagine it's something like linen, cotton, or hemp?
Perhaps you should bring it up with psychiatrists prescribing people antidepressant drugs then? They will surely benefit of your expertise.
Also, using a reversible algorithm for blurring.
Ransomware wasn't nearly as prevalent prior to cryptocurrency because moving that kind of money was much harder.

Another interesting shift is that complete administrative takeover is often less compelling: Software is more secure covering administrative functions, but users, which have access to all of your business data, are vulnerable as ever.
Plus the US has illegally killed US citizens, like Anwar al-Awlaki, with drone strikes. Then a few years later they killed his 16 year old son with a drone and his 8 year old daughter in a commando raid. All Americans. [1]

Or when the US has drone striked a wedding. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack/at-lea...
SO is OK for very narrow questions that have concrete definitive answers. Unfortunately, SO's self-appointed police force will shut people down for any deviation from "the rules" (as they interpret them), or sometimes for no reason at all.

Github issues, on the other hand, seems to be receptive to open-ended "why" questions which would be smacked down hard on SO. Github has a higher barrier to entry. You have to know where to go, but if you're in the right place it's a much nicer community with more classy and professional conduct. Also, it doesn't have a gamification aspect to it, unlike SO, and thus fewer irritating/persnickety types are attracted to Github because they can't really score points.
The only fallacy being employed here is your own. You have to provide evidence that psychedelic use is somehow morally wrong, or that it causes a problem. So far you have presented no evidence to that end.
Which of the two countries has more invasions, coups and occupations in its history? Which one is still occupying several countries and has military bases in many others?

It’s the US the rest of us fear, with good reason.
Uh - because he may be ripping people off or people may file claims for a refund, and if they give it to the scammer it's hard to give get it back to make folks who got ripped off whole?

This is 101 stuff. Credit card companies do this routinely as well. I'm hearing fyre festivals will be harder to get immediate payout on.

Travel does this when businesses are near bust - credit card companies will hold funds.
Now I can zoom around the warehouse on my forklift while drooling baked.
Unfortunately, they usually have plenty of acceptable places to defecate. The fact that they are not always used is mostly due to the effects of coming down off of opioids. See the Trainspotting toilet scene as an example.
Usenet didn’t do any validation on headers so it could have been either an attempt at spam control (it wasn’t uncommon to download headers but not bodies to reduce network traffic) or possibly that they had an internal news hostname which leaked due to a configuration error?
actually more beneficial to their workers than the "burnout box"
Yep, either the military or a defense-type contractor taking their new toy out for a spin. There could be a lot of reasons they didn't privately fess up afterward (at least that we know of):

* The flight was an "ad hoc training exercise" that wandered a bit too far (ie not specifically approved by higher authority).

* It was a capabilities test to see how well it could do stealthy observing of energy infrastructure in a civilian controlled airspace. While the US doesn't need to spy on its own infrastructure, it's convenient to trial run locally before deploying the capability over Crimea or Venezuela.

* It was a penetration test to measure response to a potential terrorism scenario. If they had warned the airport or police in advance, it wouldn't be an instructive test.
Maybe you don't know, but Purism tends to publish misleading information.

Most of the stuff in that product listing is trivial stuff to produce. The PCB/PCBA entries can basically all be ignored, and all the ICs on those PCBs can basically be assumed to be made in China, except for the NXP i.MX8M which is made in Korea
> Before SO, when I googled a problem I would often find a solution on a blog, personal website, or some community's PHPBB/vBulletin forum.

Even more likely, you would get links to Experts Exchange, which was ad-riddled with the actual answer behind a paywall. I'm glad that SO was able to at least kill that business model. Someone should do the same for Pintrest and their dominance of Google Images.
Of course that will be the case. That’s usually the nature of spending money. It’s why currency and the market are such powerful things. They permit a weighted aggregation of preferences.

For instance, I think that money spent on Porsche Panameras could be put to better use.

The fact that different groups have different preferences doesn’t seem all that interesting.
> We’re not talking about legalizing and taxing drugs, just not locking people up for victimless crimes

This bill isn’t. I am.
Susceptibility fuels conspiracy theories.

These substances can make you more susceptible.
Same for Ukraine
Nope, no point banning the thing the criminals use, because they don’t follow the law anyway.
Ban paying ransoms, the corporations are much more likely to follow the law.
"If I were a Jew", I'd be fed up of people demanding I personally answer, distance or apologise for a country that calls itself Jewish, irrespective of my lack of link to it.

Seriously, the whole thing is based on this trope that all Jews answer for the failings of other Jews. Yes, we also frequently demand the same of Muslims whenever somebody does something in the name of Muhammad, or an "Islamic" country.

It's racist.

If I say I support Israel, or more traditional terrorism, come at me for that. But this nonsense is racist.
In most of these warehouses I bet the employee also had a quota which couldn't be physically met without flouting some safety rules.
Your comment is so convoluted. Not really related to what is said.

I am just talking about paying your credit card bills on time. Many people I know do this successfully without fail.

I am not writing a thesis on bigger implications of debt.
IMDB is owned by Amazon. I would assume that's why nobody else has something similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb
>Well, your response appeared to assume that the contents of the article were true

I guess it might seem that way if you were going out of the way to read it uncharitably so you could be correct about something, I suppose.

A more charitable reading would be, "monitoring social media is a natural response to the demands of the hive mind, and outrage at it would reveal a double standard."

If you're "refuting" that -- if you're negating the relevance of the entire argument -- then you're effectively claiming my point will never be relevant on this topic at all: that, because this one university isn't actually doing it (probably because their trial balloon went badly), then no one will ever do it, and we never have to deal with the implications of universities (or large orgs) monitoring social media, or think about the pressure they're put under when they're associated with someone who said something bad on social media.

That would be the wrong lesson to take.

>In general, when I receive incorrect information and respond to it assuming its true, I appreciate when people inform me that its not true. I assume other people on HN share that desire.

I absolutely do! That's why I insist that you do post it, in the place where it's the most relevant, with the appropriate caveats: "Hey, even though this might be an issue some day, it looks like this specific university isn't doing it." -- as a top level comment, directly on the story.

Were you planning to respond to everyone who discussed the merit of "universities monitoring social media" by saying "well akshually this whole issue is irrelevant because this one university halted its plan to do it and insists there never was one"? Then what do you think you were accomplishing by raising the point one time (well, two times it looks like) in a subthread about an orthogonal issue?

It's great if you want to take the tack of "hey, I'm just trying to be super-rigorous and care about the Truth, man". But the other side of that is making an effort to post it where the opposite claim is actually asserted, not as "late hit" in a subthread where it isn't relevant. And not in a way that implies no one should care about the general issue.
Don't be too hard on yourself, it's next to impossible to guess which things are going to be transformational and which aren't. Look at some of the early early emails from Linus Torvalds on linux. In his mind the original linux kernel was just a cool toy that other devs could play around with. He invented linux and even he never saw it becoming the OS of practically the entire internet.
Sure, the company has selfish incentives like that. But the union has selfish incentives, too. Unions are not disinterested, unbiased parties.
> I'm not certain that drug overdoses directly correlates with homelessness,

No, but it does correlate with drug addiction.

> which is what I think the parent was highlighting.

They were attempting to insinuate that the homelessness problem.in California was due to “literal armies of drug addicts” and not prosperity combined with economic inequality resulting in housing price out of reach of more of the lower end of the working class than is the case in the country as a whole.

The real nature of California’s homelessness problem makes this law largely irrelevant to it, and vice versa.
I absolutely agree with everything you say... And yet it doesn't change the facts that 1/ some clients are a pain and 2/ it's usually the ones you can't aford to do without.

(And yes, you should not depend on just one client.)
You're right, I agree and I can't think of anything to add at this time.
Easy. Asians are "white adjacent" and are beneficiaries of "white supremacist model minority ideology".

Therefore, they may be treated as white for the purposes of "antiracist" hiring.
Well, there's Codidact (Community Interest Company): https://codidact.com/

And TopAnswers, which isn't yet a charity: https://topanswers.xyz/
My hope is that when Sander van der Burg finishes drafting his RFC for mainlining his process management framework [1], which abstracts over ways to manage local services from systemd to supervisord to Docker, we can actually unify the module collection in Nixpkgs with its clones in nix-darwin and home-manager, and offer a more complete Nix experience as a configuration/service manager rather than just a package manager on non-NixOS.

Fwiw, you can already have nixos-rebuild read the home-manager configs for all of your users and deploy them as part of the normal NixOS config update process using the included NixOS module.

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1: https://github.com/svanderburg/nix-processmgmt
By the way notice the tree keeps reoccurring in other case of interfaces:

- All computer languages are code, which expresses a set of nested statements and expressions (which form a syntax tree).

- While XML was replaced with JSON for data exchange, that's also a tree, not a graph (some implementations exist to describe a graph, but I'd argue that doesn't help serialization etc. concerns).

There's something about a tree that makes it very suitable both for computer and human comprehension.

OF COURSE, all those trees end up describing graphs. Say our "syntax tree" at runtime is an object graph and so on. But it's notable that we describe that object graph by encoding it into a tree of rules.
Well, okay. I guess we’d have to read their minds to resolve this question. They might be less afraid of consequences for getting caught with weed, or caught while high, it being “just” a DUI.
You've rebutted an unrelated discussion about your motives without backing up your claims. What exactly makes taking psychedelics a degenerate act? What leads you to believe it is a result of degeneracy?
No shit your base isn't going to read long-form content.
Can someone enlighten me how SPACs differ from platforms like https://republic.co ?

Edit: or https://wefunder.com
Before cryptocurrency you had to buy things from shady online pharmacies or send/fund Visa gift cards. Source: https://www.varonis.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-ransomware/

Crypto is really what's made ransomware at the scale we see it now possible.
Marijuana legalization is massively popular across the entire political spectrum. It's legal in several states producing no horrible headline disasters as far as I'm aware. So why hasn't it been legalized federally? Seems like a slam dunk for any party. I'm old enough to remember all the rumors about how Trump would try to legalize it via executive order right before the election and at other times in his presidency (I have no idea whether that is actually possible/legal)
What an interesting idea! I'll have to try it, just to see what it tastes like. Thanks!
Brave New World vibes
There was a study which showed people have an "acceptable" level of perceived risk.

Your kids not buckled in the back and every time you take a corner hard your toddler rolls onto the floor? You drive more slowly.

Your kid in a child seat, five point harness, bolsters near the head? Fly around those corners!
Could you please let developers decide for themselves if they want to keep their tools free for public usage?
It does if you're homeless, but keep in mind that the homeless are effectively judgement proof [0] and this technique didn't work for me as an electrical engineer (in Indiana) when I was cited.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_proof
Any number above 0 is too high. I would bet good money they're still arresting thousands of people a year on psychedelics possession charges.
In the blue collar jobs I've worked, there was always a lot of pressure from management to do everything faster. They won't outright tell you to violate policy, of course, but if you don't meet their expectations they'll find someone who will.
Of course everyone wants the government to do something about climate change. They're not thinking about what they'll have to sacrifice in order to make it happen. Almost no one is willing to suffer even minor inconvenience in favor of stopping climate change.

Let's see the results of a poll that asks if people would be willing to take climate action that doubled the price of airline tickets, or that doubled the price of most fruits and vegetables in the supermarket. I would expect a very different result, yet this is what is necessary to offset the emissions in air travel and international shipping. (I pulled this "double" number out of a hat, but it seems to me to be far less ridiculous than your assumption that action on climate change won't affect prices.)

It's the same issue with domestic manufacturing. Of course all Americans want their products to be manufactured in America. But virtually no Americans are willing to pay a higher price for them. Stores long ago stopped bothering to stock American made products next to their cheaper foreign counterparts because no one bought them. What people say they want is irrelevant; what matters is what they actually buy.

> In the abstract I see no reason that global trade should breakdown if a significant majority of people in the world can agree about labor standards, human rights standards, etc.

If a majority of the world agreed on labor standards and excluded the rest from trade, there would be no need for protectionism. Manufacturing would be a level playing field so Americans could compete directly with foreign companies on price. Unfortunately this isn't the world today. It's not possible to compete in manufacturing with countries where laborers are paid under a dollar an hour, so as long as we have free trade with such countries our manufacturing will never be able to compete.
The U.S. is the same. The left has just always denied it.
Introduction to Session-Based Recommendation Systems
It's not hard to get clean and pure mushrooms if you take the time to learn how to grow them, or if you have a friend that does.
I've only heard of ransomware over the past 8 years or so. Crypto, has done a lot for making such payment processes more palatable to criminal orgs.
How do you define a moat?
For me it's anything that gives a company an advantage over it's competitors. It can be patents, tech, but also brands.
Take Coca Cola for example. Now obviously it has a moat right? Where is this moat coming from then? If you think about it it's mostly the brand, not anything to do with taste. Same can be said about different beers or about Nike, Levi's, Apple (arguably) etc etc.
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I don't understand. Workplace injuries are not a "shit happens" scenario - it is not good enough to consistently report high numbers and shrug your shoulders. The reporting is merely one half. You must make explicit efforts to avoid the proximal cause of these workplace injuries.

When some worker at Tesla gets hit by a robot arm, nobody goes "duh watch out for the robot". There is an inquiry why it was possible for a worker to be in the work area of the robot in operation and get hit.
I read someones comment that put this into perspective, here was the basic take:

In repressive regimes, social media is a boon for the general public to organize and resist.

In established democracies, social media has slow insidious negative effect on the general population, typically propaganda supplied by the disillusioned and said repressive regimes.