skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with any of that but I wanted to clarify my point - it's that social media is our way of (mostly) removing the editorial filter from the process - so we're essentially reading all the news - as opposed to "all the news that's fit to print". I'd imagine that twitter's trending section doesn't look all too different from an editor's desk with random unsolicited story submissions along with press releases from companies all flooding in with a good portion of them being just entirely false and a larger portion being exceedingly misleading.

Instead of relying on a professional to filter those down and potentially remove some stories we'd really like to see (i.e. some stories critical of the War in Iraq that countered the yellow cake and WMD narrative pushed by the administration) we now have to sort through all the crap - aided somewhat by the decisions of others who have expressed their opinion on whether a thing is a real story or not by engaging with it. Part of my interest in the story also comes from the fact that 50% is probably far higher a proportion of "true news" than what would actually reach the desk on the editor.

And, I'd like to reiterate that I'm still very much on the fence about which system is better.
> to respond to greyface- below since I am not longer allowed to reply. what you seem to be hinting at amounts to reasoning by extremes, a trite fallacy

The word "degenerate" is reasoning by extremes. It signals puritanical zealotry from a palingenetic perspective.

Whatever glorious past you think society is de-generating from is a myth composed by people with rosy-eyed memories and an agenda that, were it not for the justifying myth, would be obviously absurd.
>In 2001, Naspers made an early, successful investment of US$32 million, in Tencent. As of 2018, Naspers had approximately a 31 percent stake in Tencent, becoming its largest shareholder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naspers

its probably because of their early investment in Tencent.
You can’t cut someone’s hair in California without a license.

You can’t sell corrective eyeglasses without a license.

You can’t buy (or sell) penicillin without licenses.

I could go on.

California has thousands of ridiculous, out-dated, laws.

Yet, I see no groundswell of support for getting rid of them.

My point is, this isn’t about generic ‘decriminalization’ or libertarianism or personal liberty.

Rather, it’s about intoxicants.

It is worth stopping and wondering what is behind this trend of increasing the number of intoxicated people (whether it be through recreational drugs or prescribed drugs.)

I don’t know the answer, but you’re whistling past the graveyard by telling yourself it’s simply about cleaning up or reforming the criminal code. If it were, we would be starting with truly harmless activities such as taking money to put a weave in your girlfriends hair without a license (misdemeanor).
How many bits are in the NFC token? Or is it more complex handshakes?
> they don't know that

Isn't that already covered by

> first time we have heard about
I actually like the smell - depends to some degree on the strain, but it generally it reminds me of pine and juniper.

Also, isn't vaping more popular than smoking these days? When vaping, the smell is greatly reduced, and dissipates in seconds.
My best presentations were made directly on Gnu IMP.

Takes a bit of practice to get into a rhythm, but the result is unmatched.
They can easily ban all exchanges which convert USD <-> BTC from operating within the US. If that is enforced, Bitcoin will effectively be dead in the country.
If they're asking for donations and the middleman takes it all then yes, that feels exactly like the music business.
To be honest, Google returning SO answers for something that is exactly not what I am looking for instead of language/library reference documentation as it used to is one the most annoying things for me as a developer today. Though I think that's mostly on Google "optimizing" my queries by dumbing them down.

As an example, try looking for "python setattr" in your search engine of choice, and look for python.org documentation: none of them show it on the first page for me.
Do you have any actual basis for claiming people with schizophrenia will have a "total break"?
So many conservatives smoke pot now, especially here in Florida. Weed used to be a "friendly" signal, but not anymore. For example, my pothead sister is a HUGE Karen. Ie can't where a mask because "breathing issues", but that doesn't stop her from smoking joints! Her BF sells weed illegally. And she manages to complain about pride month. I'm 30, and she's almost ten years younger.

Point is, sadly, weed smoking doesn't mean liberal.
No, I mean in total. US energy consumption across the board has declined. Even in total energy consumption (every plane, train, automobile, factory, office, microwave, etc) the US is currently about equal with 2000. I mean, it was equal before COVID hit, and is measurably lower now (which will likely continue as fewer people commute)

21 years later, with an improving quality of life, and almost 50 million extra people (almost 20% more), aggregate energy use for the entire nation is static and declining. There remain enormous opportunities for efficiency, a lot of it simply in normal ongoing modernization.

Wind and solar are already cheaper than any other source but natural gas, which itself is a precarious source that most nations aren't in a geopolitical situation to rely upon.

I find it odd that you question my facts given that there is literally nothing that claims otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
Holding the money hostage for half a year on a 20 year old account? Not surprising. Paypal and their other entities like Ebay are pretty shit when it comes to nuance and their impact on others.

Had a 15 year old Paypal business account (parent started it and I took it over ~7 years ago) and last year they shut it down because I, as the new owner, was not 18 when the account was created. Nothing from the support but "computer said you bad, nothing we can do".

In Ebays case I sold an item, got the regular email from Ebay (DMARK/SPF/IP verified) that they had received payment and was holding it until the item had been delivered. Then a week later I got another email from them saying they had blocked the buyer for abuse (i.e. a fraudulent transaction to them) and that I shouldn't ship the item they told me to ship a week ago. After 2 months of trying to get through to the support they just claimed that someone spoofed their DMARK, SPF, and servers IP. After explaining how impossible that would be their 'proof' that it was 'spoofed' was that there should be a copy of the message in the Ebay inbox where, after the reply, all messages about the auction ever existing were suddenly gone.
Ooooh. So it's after angels, VC, REITs, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds pass to get to "IPO" crowdfunding-style.

The platforms mentioned are like crowd angels.
I've seen many angles on how Facebook's kind of repeating history, including the parallels with tobacco's history. It's a very strong stance that I believe will be proven over time, and I'm worried about the negative impact Facebook will have on many lives in the meantime.

If the commenter's sources are legitimate, I could see this being the start of real progress to create change. Facebook is dodging questions and, possibly, hiding research which is deceptive and disturbing. I'm not fully bought-in on the financial incentives outlined here. I agree with the limit on the negative impact (ie. reduction in addiction outcomes). My biggest question is -- is there a reliable scale for social media addictiveness and depression/anxiety impact? It seems like figuring out this piece is critical to the FTC being able to enforce a fined threshold.

In the end, Facebook is a company driven by metrics to an extreme. Tech is incentivized to optimize for engagement and ads revenue, and these employees are not only incentivized with more influence but with money through promotions and bonuses. I believe they're good people, but at times the wrong incentives. Given Facebook's audience size, any small "optimization" on their end for money can be devastating for a large group of people. I hope the FTC does something about this, and soon.
My concern is that it creates a false sense of reality. As people become more consumed by technology, the content of the technology becomes their reality. To be delusional is my greatest fear.
Lumping postmodern and continental together is a sure sign that Mr. Aaronson doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
What bigger issue were you thinking of? The odds will be good that whatever you come up with, there will be a "bigger" one that you're not thinking of.

It's turtles all the way down. Choose your turtle carefully.
I remember listening to the podcast where they announced Stack Overflow, and cited exactly the problem of walled communities like Experts Exchange as who they wanted to drive out of business.

Stack Overflow ain't perfect, but it's amazing to see how impactful it's been. Especially the unix/superuser stack exchange sites for having useful tips that would be a pain to find elsewhere.
> you didn't know for sure where to post your problem

It depends on the topic/domain, but I have fond memories of being on various mailing lists, and there was also usenet.
If we presume that the entire US became gradually powered by nuclear (along with solar, wind, and hydro), we probably wouldn't have ever seen an actual global decline in fossil fuel usage at any point other than perhaps coal by a little. Total fossil fuel usage today would be lower though, but this would make oil cheaper for the rest of the world which would lead to greater oil consumption in the rest of the world than what we have historically had. The US would also need to lead the rest of the world to adopt nuclear as well.
thanks for your explanations, which might make sense from my view.

But: Racism. https://www.britannica.com/story/why-is-marijuana-illegal-in...
At least their undocumented warehouse workers can salve their injuries with 100% legal biden-bud.
"The Breitbart Doctrine is the idea that "politics is downstream from culture" and that to change politics one must first change culture.} [cited from Wikipedia]

Andrew was a man ahead of his time.
Stop playing up one problem over the others just because you believe it's more important.

See what I did there. People have differences of opinions. You don't need to attack everyone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27372152
Difference between client side and server side programming
Well I'm not even allowed to purchase beer or liquor on Amazon, even when Whole Foods sells beer/wine so- not for awhile?
Please don't take HN threads into tedious flamewars.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27372101.
26 is for theories with bosons only. If you want fermions you need 10; 11 in M-theory as GP suggested.
A rethink of US drug policy, particularly regarding psychedelics, is long overdue. It blows my mind that LSD is in a higher category (i.e. considered more dangerous) than cocaine.
More likely we’ll see Organic Fair Trade Sativa priced at three times normal at Whole Foods.
You don't need to. Absolutely, if you ban cryptocurrencies, only criminals will have cryptocurrencies. It will, however, add friction - and make it harder to acquire and launder the funds involved.

I think a complete ban on cryptocurrencies is unlikely to succeed, for much the same reasons that the US hasn't banned guns and that the war on drugs is such a shitshow. A punitative tax: 10% of every transaction, for example, would still make cryptocurrencies viable for some extreme schemes, but would make the practice much harder and help establish the "real identity" -> Bitcoin address audit trail. Al Capone was busted on tax evasion, after all.
AGF Malami Asks Buhari to Declare State of Emergency in Nigeria
>It's why so many people are moving to Texas. They understand the wisdom of small government.

Lol. Yeah small government like banning abortions for millions of women or removing voting rights from more millions. "Small Government"

>If the government has the power to ban dining there is no longer a free market or a free country.

This is HN, not Parler.
Get real.
Russia wasn't part of the original dispute, so it's Russia poking EU and seeing if they will concede.

Can't allow bullies to bully.
>Depop has done a great job fostering a more human experience than other platforms.

You paint a pretty picture; the camaraderie of buying, selling, haggling in an online cobbled internet town square, make for an idyllic setting. The tug-and-pull of reuse/recycle, vintage vs fast fashion are noble principles.

However, there is a murky side, which is infused with extreme expectations, toxic and churlish behaviour e.g. Amazon Prime type service, petty haggling over a few pennies, sellers abusing their privileges, limited understanding of fees and/or how PayPal works, unnecessary spats and an appallingly high level of entitlement etc.

Nevertheless, there is synergy, but have doubts about long-term prospects ─ Depop might just become another case study in acquihire or perhaps just a blot, as there is no shortage of other contenders nipping at their heels e.g. Vinted.

https://www.instagram.com/depopdrama/
Operating machinery under the influence of anything that inhibits your ability is a bad idea and potentially illegal regardless of the substance's legality.
My question is: How is this benefitting Amazon? Which I would love to hear everyone's thoughts on why.

Is it a competitive/recruiting move to have unskilled workers prefer working for Amazon over Walmart/Target?

Do they believe it will increase employee retention?

There must be some business reason, otherwise they wouldn't lobby they would just allow it.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27372101.
Where are you getting your data from?
I see here [1] that energy usage is static now (but not since 2000), but it is not declining. But that means it is declining per capita. But again, I would like to see manufacturing outsourcing taken into account.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States
No way to know, really, but I'd wager the number of alcohol vs LSD users among the homeless on the streets is 99:1. Also, I've read a lot about homelessness and talked to a few of them, and I've never heard once that LSD, et al are even on the radar.
In Manhattan, public bathrooms are scarce and the ones that do exist close when the parks do, and businesses hire security guards to check receipts and make sure homeless people don't use their bathrooms.
It's always interesting to see what SO posts I participated in - either as an asker or answerer - that became popular over time.
Buy Legal Weed at amazon.com
You want to be careful with this technique when payload size dominates your application's performance, like on a webpage. I was looking into improving Emscripten's pre-execution behavior, but found that ended up making perf worse when factoring in standard download speeds. The functions it removes are usually smaller than the data they add, usually with worse entropy. So while JS is faster to execute, it's usually not faster than the transfer time.

It gets a bit worse if your initialization code is doing a lot of dynamic allocation, as you're shipping
It's been a weekly occurance for months now.
republicans uniformly oppose it. in practice it's the issue on which their supposed libertarian ideology is the most transparently phony (if the deficit spending, anti-gay fervor, religious power grabs, opposition of voting rights, etc weren't clear enough anti-personal-freedom stances for you), they literally held complete and total political power in the US during the first couple years of Trump and didn't do shit, and they'll vote lockstep against it if democrats bring it up.

and on the flip side some democrats aren't great about it either, but it's far from the lockstep opposition on the republican side.

personally I think democrats are fairly likely to bring it up as an easy victory lap before the 2022 elections but it's highly likely that republicans will filibuster it anyway to prevent democrats from "getting an easy win" .
and that's about the state of the things - republicans are just 100% against it and democrats are tepidly for it but don't really have the political control to break lockstep opposition, even if they were agreed within their own party. It's easier to work at a state level but obviously that leaves huge problems with federal enforcement and various legal logjams.

it's largely a problem of republicans, if there were only a few republicans willing to cross the aisle it could probably pass, but it's more important that democrats be denied political "wins" than to do what's good for their voters, and what their voters overwhelmingly want. Like I said, probably look for it to be brought up sometime in 2022, unless democrats lose their senate majority in the meantime in which case probably 5-10 more years (republicans ain't gonna do it, just like they didn't under trump).

would be the easiest possible "crossing the aisle" ever, if republicans were the least bit interested in good governance, but they're not.
You say that as if they don’t already have easy access to drugs.
Zerodium is a proxy for governments wanting to buy exploits. That niche IM client might be the software of choice for a child-exploitation ring or a high level ISIS commander.

Comparatively a single hellfire missile costs $150k - plus $32 million for the drone to fire it from.
Free Software, Free Society [pdf]
They possibly could but a lot of executives would probably prefer that their soon to be ex-company took a hit than that they became personally liable for breaking a federal law.
A few businesses die. The rest get the message that security matters. The ransomware industry is deprived of revenue.
yes, i remember the tragic story of marcia moore

https://erowid.org/culture/characters/moore_marcia/moore_mar...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Moore
Glibly casting off an entire intellectual tradition as a case of the emperor having no clothes is, to me, a really tragic dismissal of an electrifying body of ideas.

Where do you get the impression that I'm merely being glib?

I'm not being put off by the language. I can make my way through that (though I do a lot better in English translations than the original French). But whenever I make the effort, I find that "there is no there there". And I have the effort on a number of occasions because someone I respected swore that a particular work was particularly important.

But the more I did, the more I found myself agreeing with Paul Graham in http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html. And I've found the hard way that whenever there is a topic of interest that both philosophy and science touch on, I always prefer to read what science has to say about it.

My reasoning is different than his. Whenever we think of something, our odds of being on the right path are low. We need feedback to steer by. And "applicability" makes feedback much clearer than any other standard that I can think of.
The Gods Were Right
Rule of law not being followed through abuse of law enforcement and prosecutorial discretion, violations of rights and protections, conflicting laws. Hard to find a bigger issue than the very foundation of the system being ignored.
From Zerodium’s FAQ page:

> Zerodium customers are government organizations (mainly from Europe and North America) in need of advanced zero-day exploits and cybersecurity capabilities.

Based off Zerodium’s origin and reputation, it seems an exploit is sought which enables a governmental actor to examine information that it otherwise could not. I am assuming they do not have a legal basis for doing so or courts would have granted/ordered such access.
> And I really did find myself buying a lot more programming books than I do now. When's the last time you picked up a book just to learn how to use a language - just the ins and outs of the syntax?

Perhaps this is an age difference thing? I'm 29 - I learned to program between 2003 and 2010 from online resources, mostly in the pre-SO era. I learned BASIC, Perl, PHP, and Python entirely online. My impulse was always to just Google things, although I fully admit finding results was more time consuming and frustrating back then. The only language I learned from a book was FORTH, and that's mainly because it's an older language and Starting Forth is one of the few good resources on the language even today.
That has more to do with how the Drug-Free Workplace regs are interpreted by HR & compliance managers.

One can have corporate policy stating the company is a Drug-Free Workplace, that employees are subject to testing for cause (w/ consequences for popping hot), and get your .mil/.gov contract just fine (BTDT).
I would have thought the same, but the existence of this "ask" certainly would suggest there is indeed demand from a market dynamic perspective. Pidgin is cross-platform, and you could conceive that it was being used by people for various activities with OTR or OMEMO end-to-end encryption. At that point, there's a bunch of potential customers looking to pay Zerodium for a good, robust, zero-click exploit that would give them access to exfiltrate and monitor messages sent through the client.
The zillionaires have houses there like Eric Schmidt etc…

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/23/photos-of-42-point-5-million...

https://www.thelist.com/226127/inside-barack-and-michelle-ob...

Important to subsidize them with federal funds requested by progressives like Markey and Warren:

https://www.barnstablepatriot.com/news/20200528/steamship-au...
Check Weather SG
> But Emacs is intrinsically slow as molasses. The nail in the coffin for me was the scrolling performance.

Just to play devils advocate (in reality I'm a die-hard-never-use-anything-else vim user, and have been since 1996-ish), I did once manage to set up vim with so many highlighting and display options that I made my i7 crawl whenever I tried to scroll.

(The main thing that pegged the core to 100% was ':set cul' with ':set number' and various different syntax highlighting for numbers, highlighted numbers, highlighted line, syntax-highlighting within a highlighted-line, etc).

So, yeah, vim can be slow too if you nerdgasm all over the config :-)
Focus more on business side, build connections.
> doing similar operations to a connected android phone

MTP is terrible[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol#Perfor...
Fair enough. I fully support legalization and deregulation of all "controlled substances"
Mostly inertia. I’ve been using it since 1.0.

There’s been a trickle of changes over the years going in this direction. This was just the last straw. It’s becoming increasingly Less useful to me.

I don’t like Chrome but it’s better supported and it and Edge are more widely available by default. There’s simply no advantage anymore to using Firefox.

I’m the kind of guy that installs Firefox on everyone’s computer when they ask me to “fix” it and that recommends it to them. But their whole strategy has turned me off. And it won’t gain them any other market share either.
Yup. Can't remote manage a system with encrypted boot disks.
The threshold is very low.

https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges

You need 15 points to up vote which means you need to have received 2 up-votes yourself on either a question or answer or have edited 7 questions/answers and had those approved. It's quite easy to hit those numbers. Once you have 1000 points (I think) on any site and you join a new site you get 100 points by default which means you always have those base privileges wherever you are.