skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If by professional you mean specialist, then the set of all non-specialists is very large. There are certainly many professional people within that set who are out-of-field but smarter than the people within it, given the tiny size of most academic fields.

I think anonymity for reviewers and cash incentives are a great idea, but that already exists, it's a market. I don't think we need any clever or new solutions here. Simply stripping science of public funding would force it to convince large numbers of people (via markets) that the science is being done well and actually going somewhere.

It would also bring scientists within the purview of all the mechanisms that have evolved to handle fraud in the private sector, mechanisms like prosecutions, lawsuits, regulators, consumer reviews, trademarks and so on. Consider the huge difference between how Theranos was handled vs how the fraud coming from universities is handled.
1. Some of their costs scale with the number of purchases or revenue made through the shop (traffic, support, payment processing fees)

2. Fixed costs, like development effort, need to be distributed across their customers. Fixed fees will be negligible for big customers and unaffordable for small customers.

3. They're gatekeepers for these devices. If you want your app on a device they can control you need to pay their fees. So as long as the fees are not big enough to deter a developer from publishing their app for that device, they can charge whatever they want.

I think revenue sharing is the best pricing model for an app store, but without abusing the gatekeeper status the fees would likely be significantly lower.
Are you big game hunting or dialing for dollars? Different set of criteria
A better question might be is there more net harm to society from prohibition of those drugs or treating the issue as a medical one?

Whether you like it or not the substances are available to everyone either way, as the better part of a century of the war on drugs has taught us.
Even if housing issues has led to homelessness, the rampant drug usage is sort of orthogonal. Have you been on streets in SF compared to say Singapore or Tokyo? "Soft" approach towards hard drugs isn't clearly working. The idea is not criminalize people that are already addicted. The idea is to not get the public addicted in the first place with strict enforcement of hard drugs such as heroine, meth, etc.

Try doing drugs even as a homeless person in Singapore and see what happens. They're sort of orthogonal issues.
To the banks, it's a debt and hence a liability. If you put money in your bank account, then the banks owe you money.
I'd say that main value was that we opened doors for people (got them opportunities they would not have been considered for without us). I don't think what we need to be gatekeepers to do this. Yes, not everyone can succeed (get a job at at top company). But we can help everyone show their skills in the way that's best for them. We can fight ghosting and lying and create a less hostile process. We're keeping our quiz (so that people who do well on tests can get opportunities that way), and also creating a job search process for people who do not want to do a quiz (the majority of engineers). The idea is that they will show their skills other ways (past experience, side projects, open source work). By us not being a gatekeeper we open these other paths.
A definition so broad it's meaningless. There was no Bernie Madoff here, no fraudulent scheme, just very poor design and outright mistakes.

What you're describing is what they tried (and failed) to avoid. How can you make it to the "I’m wondering if this can last mathematically?" part of this article and still think there's a mastermind behind all of this?
Technically it's a way to keep governments in check but the point isn't that you use an emergency solution all the time.

Homeless people buy a tent as a fallback for a house. That doesn't mean they want to live in a tent for the rest of their lives.
"I doubt we'll ever reach that point with cocaine or heroin though and they'll never be up for medical/recreational consideration."

Never say never.

I'm frankly shocked that virtually legal medical and recreational use of cannabis has become so widespread in the US in my lifetime.

For decades, other countries have had programs where heroin addicts could either use heroin with a prescription or are allowed to go shoot up in clinics where they're provided clean needles, and heroin use is effectively decriminalized.

I could see the same happening in the US, particularly in states which have taken the lead in cannabis legalization.. and after they do it and some decades pass without the sky falling and there is clear evidence that this is a much more effective way of dealing with addiction, we'll likely see other states follow suit.

The way will be smoothed by the mainstream culture's realization that they've been lied to by their government about drugs for many decades, as is becoming clear by the fact that the states which have legalized cannabis haven't turned in to real-life versions of Reefer Madness and also by the widening familiarity of members of mainstream society with drug users who are otherwise upstanding members of their societies, and by the relatively positive press about cannabis and psychedelics.

There's always a chance that the press will shift towards negative coverage, as they do love sensationalist stories and there's still psychedelic abuse which leads people to go on power trips, have delusions of grandeur, or massive paranoia, but I am cautiously optimistic that the medical use of psychedelics will win out this time around.

Finally, there's the potential for constructive psychedelic use to help the society in many positive ways, and that could lead to greater tolerance and understanding of users of other drugs, along with (eventually) there maybe less reason for people to self-medicate and try to escape their miserable lives.
Is that to say you don't think right wingers are capable of genocide? Or that they wouldnt do it to people in cities?

If it's purely informational for people who don't know what the Khmer Rouge is, it'd be handy to include why its a comparable situation
>>There are other substances that most people really don't think should be accessible to everyone. Is it even possible to be a responsible Heroin user? Or even Meth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF-RQLP530M
The crack vs. cocaine comparison is no good, we should stop using it. Free base is a very different drug than cocaine. An equivalent "white" version of crack would be crystal meth, which has had similar sentencing guidelines to crack.
> Building fusion reactors wouldn't impact nuclear proliferation at all. I really can't think of a single fusion reactor design that produces "nuclear weapons material."

Since a fusion reactor would produce an intense neutron field, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if you line the reactor vessel with natural uranium, you have a device for producing plutonium. That is by no means a showstopper, but it means fusion plants will need 24/7 security, IAEA inspections, worries when/if suspicious tinpot dictator states decide that they will need their own fusion power plants, etc. etc. Even if we'd magically solve the technical challenges in fusion, we won't be seeing things like dinky fusion-powered ships sailing around the oceans (for larger ships, one could envision some kind of IAEA monitoring system for those).

Of course, if someone figures out aneutronic fusion (pB11 or such), these proliferation concerns would evaporate. That's a pretty big if, though.

> dealing with extremely toxic metals.

Spent fuel, in particular, is certainly radiotoxic, but chemically, no, not that big of a worry. Society routinely deals with other toxic heavy metals like lead as well, not to mention all kinds of other extremely toxic compounds.
Yes. It's roughly as indefensible, though.
> Lisa Murkowski has been more independent and she may well lose her seat because of it.

Luckily, Alaska passed a ranked choice voting / open primary proposition in the last election cycle so it won't be possible to primary her out of the election (as was done in the past, forcing her to run and win a write-in campaign.) Still, We will have to see how much the administration drags it's heels on implementation...

Ironically, Lisa has been one of the better state representatives from Alaska (many others have been very corrupt). This is despite her father literally giving her his senate seat when he was elected governor.
True enough. I guess maybe the site could be made to let me share my current pain points?
Not having municipal broadband is different issue than having municipal broadband outlawed state-wide.

https://ilsr.org/washington-state-removes-all-barriers-to-mu...

Seems to me the Democrats in WA have worked to allow municipal broadband to exist whereas the Republicans in OH are trying for the opposite outcome.
I think that's probably the case in many scenarios. IMO people are often more resistant to change than they are drawn to improvement. That's why I think it's important to be careful what you base your identity on.
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PHP is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software.
Future versions of macOS will not include PHP.
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so, 7.4 or 8?

I'm still using 7.x due to limitations.
unsigned integers cause more problems than the additional range is worth.

If you ever run into negative prices you want them to be negative, not positive in the trillions.
I think the larger sentiment (and you're welcome to correct me if I'm wrong) is that dealing with depressed people is tiring. I have a few friends who deal with chronic depression, and getting their input on things or checking up on them is always a production. I still greatly appreciate their position in my life, but my sanity (and patience) is finite. More often than not, I'm equally (if not more) helpless, which makes it extremely difficult to disengage or move the discussion forwards.

I welcome an honest dialogue around mental health, but a dialogue requires two people to be dynamic. If the two become mutually incompatible, then there's effectively no way for me to contribute.
It's an example of a scenario where you can't sign certain rights away. Not specific to TITAN.
This is false. Arrest drug dealers day after day for a generation, and the demand will lower because new generations won't even know what drugs are, or when the effect of heroin is, therefore they won't chase it.

Demand for a good (or drug in this case) it is not inevitable. It can be disrupted too, it's not a given.

But the demand for any good cannot be disrupted without first and foremost removing the supply. So we must start disrupting the supply, which shows up every day at 6am on our street corners.
> Such an occurrence would send a very unexpected signal to markets and could result in panic as investors see the value of money market funds shrink for the first time ever.

Not the first time ever. At least two money market funds "broke the buck" (that is, lost value) in 2008, IIRC.
https://www.asyncapi.com/ is in its infancy but is attempting what you describe.

(I view OpenAPI as a near-failure, but, good luck to everyone trying.)
Live feed camera with a timestamp turned on then? :) Could double as a security cam for the car when it's in the garage...

The real fun one is if you need to stare at the latch as well, just in case it looked closed, but wasn't...

That said, this particular story has been repeated a bunch, or at least I've heard it before but I can't quite remember where. I'd be interested if anyone's found a proper source for it, but not quite interested enough to go hunting myself. :)
> Is it even possible to be a responsible Heroin user? Or even Meth?

Of course it is. The issues that you equate with the image of meth and heroin users are not as a result of the drugs; they’re nearly always a symptom of the problem, often mental health related.

Addiction is always a public health issue, no matter what form, whether it’s gambling, food, alcohol, drugs, …
"Controlling the message" is what you do when you get into public health.

You go into public health because you want people to be healthy. A goodly chunk of that consists of convincing people that they want to be healthy. They've been doing that for decades, on hundreds of diseases and conditions, long before COVID-19 was a twinkle in some bat's eye.

That's aggravating, frustrating work. It sucks, and you don't get a lot of big, obvious wins. But you do it because you think it matters.

There are a lot of things that they can do. It doesn't turn around millions of people overnight. But it does change minds -- they can see it in the surveys they take and in the numbers of people showing up in clinics.

Figuring out how to get the message out in a way that people accept and act on is real research and real science. Real research that saves lives -- even if they're not grateful about it, even in the face of an opposition intent on being obnoxious, even if the only way they can tell is in the ticking of a graph.

Because it's important to them that people not die.
Another option is to legalize buprenorphine so it can be distributed cheaply over the counter without prescription. It outcompetes receptors to exclude heroin and is often prescribed for heroin cessation.

If heroin addicts had an easy option to not feel sick without that was cheaper and more available than heroin, I believe many would take it, and the heroin market would shrink - leading to lesser availability and fewer future addicts.
Further in this direction. The neighbor that doesn't use this internet will still benefit from the value of new jobs and opportunity that it will bring.
“Man and his Spaceship Earth” theme show for EPCOT by Ray Bradbury (1977) [pdf]
I don't like the dogmatic absolutism as well. All meat? I can't eat sustainably farmed, smoked mussels? And if we are talking vegan I cannot eat sustainable honey or cheese? It's asinine and arbitrary. The vegan/vegetarian cause would create more pragmatic change if it were more welcoming and respected those who are willing to cut back.
Which bit is confusing?

Imperialism as a stage of capitalism is alive and well. Rich countries remain rich by extracting wealth from poor countries, generally in the form of exporting capital to exploit cheap labour.

Communists are anti-imperialists and if elected in all of India would fight against British (and US and Western European) exploitation. The British state propaganda arm would of course be opposed to communists in India, so as to not threaten the profits of the British ruling class.
> to do recursive SQL queries (needed for the types of queries being performed) was annoying. Things worked well enough, but a graph database would have resulted in a much more logical representation of the data structures being used

I think there's plenty of room to disagree with this view that modeling graph data in SQL is not "logical enough". Though to be fair, there seems to be some ongoing work on adding some "property"-based layer to bare SQL in order to make common graphs-and-properties oriented queries a bit more ergonomic.
I think your analogy with restaurants is flawed. There's a reason a lot of newly started restaurants fail.

You most definitely need some form of experience from the restaurant business to succeed as a restaurant owner, unless you are really lucky. Your analogy make it seem as being a chef is the only job that exist in the restaurant business.

Sure, you can succeed without experience, but your chances to do so increases dramatically with experience.
I've had bad experience with Neo4J's memory consumption so I'm wary of that to be honest. I don't disagree that it has those things but we actively chose to go against it because of past issues with resource usage.
Can be, yes. Seamless, no. In the best case where the api uses very old fashioned c without many pointers it's an extra afternoon at least. (I've written high level bindings for a few small libraries for hobby projects)
> Citizens are free to complain about ads if they want to, and companies are free to to respond to market pressure by relying on more or less advertisement.

I agree, but I wasn't commenting at a societal level. I'm saying that at an individual level I see it as a waste of energy to get stressed out about something like ads in video games. There are so many ways to enjoy life, and stress is so bad for health.
it doesn't have to be violent. structures feel nothing.
> "tiger-lillies--what": G docs 1 word vs OpenOffice 2 words (IDK what this should "really" be)

i think 3 words.
The tiger lily is a type of lily. plural is tiger lillies. Fair to say hypen is stylistic (& after a quick web search , I can't find any other usage like that).

That aside, I can't believe how simplistic Google Docs word recognition/count engine is.
Interested in hearing more about your browser game. Another dev and I are working on a next gen HTML5 gaming platform using WebGL/WASM, and we're looking to back developers creating interesting titles. We provide access to our suite of devtools for optimizingprojects for the browser, and deploying on our platform.

Link to our Discord if you're interested in discussing this further: https://discord.gg/zUSZ3T8
A great deal of the credit/blame for the modern drug war goes to Harry Anslinger[0]. Imagine being the nation's top enforcer of Prohibition - what do you do when it's repealed? Just close up shop, fire everyone, and turn the lights off before you lock the door?

This is a somewhat partisan issue and I'm far from unbiased, but reading his wiki page will convey most of the story better than a screed.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger
Is there an obesity epidemic? Or has it been created?
The War on Drugs was and is:

- Virtual signaling ("tough on crime") of the worst kind as it capriciously incarcerated minorities to the tune of millions of man-years;

- Fear-mongering for political power;

- Suppression of minorities, hippies and the anti-war movement; and

- Yet another form of voter suppression that has plagued the US for a long time.

It's like we learned nothing form Prohibition.

But the damage this has done goes well beyond the mass incarceration of minorities. It led to the enrichment of drug cartels and thanks to the ready supply of firearms in the US, the US armed the drug cartels and enabled the massive bloodshed that caused.

It's quite literally drugs into the US, money and guns out of the US.
> Somehow you are not wary of an organization that is 90% directed by one entity.

I'm wary about building on a project from a company whose CEO doesn't disclose they have a pre-existing grievance with the Bytecode Alliance related to:

1) Attempting to trademark "WebAssembly";

2) Inappropriate behaviour.

And who has previously:

3) Used sock-puppet accounts on HN in an attempt to Boost their project.

All of which I learned as a result of reading this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24900186
That is very true. This would best happen if the level of government above the elections in question requires they all work the same way. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Representation_Act_(Unite... would require that all the house districts go SVT PR at once. Likewise, a state could reform all their state legislature districts at once.

I can't wave any magic wand for gridlock at that level, but that bypasses the coordination failure by not requiring coordinated steps at all.
I would imagine mining in a datacenter is more efficient than mining on a desktop.
Sigh, don't take your use case of GCs and apply it as a rule to others.

I work in telecoms on the layer just above the FPGAs/DSP: even a 1ms 'pause' would be totally unacceptable here..
In the case of inflation, your purchasing power will decrease. For example, there was a period during the 1940s (1941-1951) where if you held cash, t-bills, cash in a bank, or t-bonds instead of equities, you would have seen your purchasing power decrease by 30-50% over that time period.[0]

[0]: https://www.lynalden.com/may-2021-newsletter/
In the case of people who needed us to vouch that they deserved a job, yeah. But:

- In borderline cases, we didn't want to risk our credibility and companies didn't want to skip tech screens. So competent-but-not-amazing engineers got shut out.

- Our quiz is not perfect, so engineers who didn't fit what we were quizzing got shut out.

- Not everyone needs us to vouch for them. Companies (reasonably) trust that someone with a degree from a top school and years of prestigious experiences can probably do fizzbuzz, and demanding that they prove it was a barrier to them using Triplebyte.

We think it's better to have more granular ability for companies and engineers to decide what mattes to them. A prestigious company can say "we'll only talk to people who took the quiz and got a top score" (and that score is us saying "this person deserves a job"). One that desperately needs the headcount can talk to the borderline cases or decide they don't want to put the extra barrier of a quiz in the way.

Like most markets, we think the hiring market on our platform works best when it's able to respond to local conditions.
"Given how addictive heroin is how do people supporting decriminalization suggest dealing with hard core addicts that can’t afford the drug?"

Cigarettes are even more addictive, and yet we aren't freaking out and throwing cigarette smokers in jail.
It would be interesting for ISPs (especially municipal or small ones) to have a live graph showing ingress/outgress on their various routers and lines.

There’s also “soft” limits (currently we pay for 10G on this fiber line that could do 1000G) vs hard limits (we are at 1G on this 1G copper connection).
U.S. Housing Market Needs 5.5M More Units, Says New Report
>But, it has provided many with an excuse to pass restrictive laws, to win elections, to gain contracts with the government.

And militarize the police.
How to Quit Your Job, Follow Your Passion and Build a Media Empire
If those are the parameters, you can safely abandon hope now.
I've quit a job because I was going through bad depression before and I didn't think I could do a good job. I even asked for part time work, so I understand where she's coming from, but..

In my opinion, this attitude she's portraying is a dangerous attitude to have. This victimhood seems core to her identity. I'm not trying to shame the condition, I'm trying to say that the condition shouldn't become some core part of your identity. Real phenomenon: Have you ever heard of cancer patients becoming depressed after they've gone into remission, because being a "cancer patient" essentially became a core of their identity, and once they no longer had it they became lost? You don't want your identity to be "depressed person", because the last thing you want is to start feeling like a fraud when the fog starts to lift.

Also, I'm just going to say, it's ok to want your employer to have empathy for you, but you also have to have empathy for them. If you're consistently telling them "well, so, I'm a good employee, but I might drop off the face of the earth for 4 months at a time".. what are they supposed to do?
The Fed Cannot Control Its Easy-Money Monster
Except that it’s opt in based on liquidity needs, which is very different than tightening.
It's not definitive proof, but without any statements against the provision, it is a reasonable conclusion to draw.