skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Between March 2018 and March 2019, there were 32 gun homicides in the whole of the UK (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...). This is not consistent with the claim that drive-by shootings are a commonplace event. For comparison, there were, for example, 326 gun homicides in NYC alone in 2019 (https://efsgv.org/state/new-york/#:~:text=More%20than%20800%...)
Or people will realize the service isn't as valuable as what's being charged. No one asked for 80% of facebooks features, it could be run/maintained by a much smaller team.
> Oversupply is bad because growers become less profitable, and are more likely to sell on the black market as a result.

Why would the black market be more lucrative? Why does a black market exist when there is a cheap legal market? Is the implication that the black market exports to states where it isn't yet legal and thus prices are higher?

> Most importantly, full traceability from the retail store to the producer prevents organized crime from supplying the retail locations.

I like this mechanism.
Was this a work colleague? If so, isn't your relationship transactional and just part of a larger transactional relationship. That between each of you and your employer.
U.S. Surgeon General's Misinformation Advisory [pdf]
Even though there are far more sites, it's a matter of incentives:

* ISPs and other intermediaries have the wrong incentives: reading and modifying plaintext traffic can be very profitable.

* Sites have the right incentives: they don't want to be messed with or snooped on.
I worry more about your mental state than I do his, quite honestly. That's quite an insane leap you've taken.
Yes, absolutely. A few apps (notably chrome) use secure dns by default, and given the state of that ecosystem they default to their own provider. You'll need to set up secure dns on your pihole and tell chrome to use that provider (or disable it in chrome).
Dear Twitter,

Please follow Spotify, Netflix, YouTube model. Make an ad-free premium version, no selling data to others. The product is the product. The users use it to add value to the lives. Not the other way around.
That is a non-sequitur; GP states drugs are not liberalized and you ask after liberal drugs laws. Immigration laws are a European matter, we are a Schengen country and can do little about internal European travel; at the European frontier, even illegal pushbacks are done in a vain attempt to keep people out.
>Felt like I was in a kids casino with no regulations.

Exactly. At least casinos are regulated so that, even if the odds are bad, they still have to be “random chance”. If I put my money in a slot machine, there is some percent, no matter how low, that I could win on any play. With this machine, and likely many others, its literally a 0% chance for some ridiculous number of plays. That is the difference between a game of luck and a scam. And that’s not even getting into that the game is pretending to be a game of skill, while actually being a scam of a game of chance.
If you are asking for my opinion, I'd suggest not going anywhere near PII without legal consultation.
I've met people who agree, and people who disagree, but I've never seen anyone change their minds.

I've had the same experience. There are people who will not give up (or even reduce) meat no matter what - they are fully aware of the effects of the meat industry on the environment. It is pointless to even engage them in a conversation. Instead, it is better to spend the time and energy on people who are not aware of the effects, but I'd guess these are smaller numbers compared to the I know but I don't care group.

Nothing else holds a candle to the beauty, the wonder, the awe that the living world engenders.

Much of the urban population hasn't seen this beauty, except on TV. I guess it is hard for them to have that personal connection to nature, when all the animals they know (except perhaps the ones they keep as pets and some urban dwelling birds) they have only seen on TV.
I really do not care why is something in fashion / not. There are many software paradigms and one simply has to know which one is the best for particular situation. Trying to bring everything down to a "there can be only one" level is not very wise. Unfortunately for some reasons many programmers get really religious about language / framework / paradigm / whatever.

Also writing confusing code is incredibly easy in any language / paradigm. One just has to be inexperienced thinker.
Enjoy - https://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/11993-vl-1...
Fun fact: search mars.google.com for "Jezero Crater", where Perseverance landed.

"No results."

I'm told that that's because who knows how that site works is still with the company.
This is nonsense. Evolution can radically change a species in just one generation if the selective pressures are strong enough.

For example, if the world governments sterilized every human on the planet except dwarves, in just 1 generation the average human would be half as tall. With strong selective pressure, 1 generation is all it takes for the species to change radically. Evolution doesn't care about your timelines. Again, it's cleverer than you are.
All societies have a drug problem. The only question is, which policy minimizes that problem while considering all related problems (pareto efficiency). There's no "one size fits all" solution.
> Biodiversity is simply the best thing in the known universe. Nothing else holds a candle to the beauty, the wonder, the awe that the living world engenders.

If the beauty argument doesn't sway others, there's a very strong argument to be made that biodiversity is one of the biggest strengths life on earth (or anywhere else) has. To the extent someone cares about the process of life persisting onwards through time, they should care about biodiversity.
That IDE looks amazing, but it looks like I'd need to be proficient in Smalltalk to use it for any language. Watching the video on the site and it's impressive what the presenter is doing with live representations of code.
Thank you so much Leonard for the support and wishes :)
Companies don't want people who have side projects and open source contributions worth looking at. They just want people who have side projects.

Finding someone who'll learn new things in their spare time for fun is much cheaper than training.
These fitness trackers aren't just "fitness" trackers. They can tell if you're depressed. They can tell when you're sick. They can tell when you're having sex. Some have gyros that augment the heart rate sensor, so they basically know what you're doing with your hands at all times. Even ones without GPS can use Bluetooth to figure out where you are. And of course they upload it all to the internet to be stored and profiled for all time. We all know it's technically possible to have end-to-end encryption for the data, and so we all know the reason that they don't do it: to mine your data and create psychological profiles. Today it's just for ads, but tomorrow it could be for health insurance, credit scores, life insurance, some kind of "homeland security" or any number of things.
It will be probably easier to monetize.
I can hear him vigorously raising both arms and shouting "WELCOME TO BAD GEAR, THE SHOW ABOUT THE WORST AUDIO TOOLS"
That's not exactly a reliable source. I see somewhat conflicting results in the meta-analyses. It looks like there may be a 50% reduction in mortality, but the evidence certainty is low.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=iver...
I often wish I could just maintain a couple dozen apps that do very specific things instead of one. I am quite certain it would also be way more profitable. People are quite ok with paying $1 for single use things, like zipping files or turning B&W pictures to color

But maintaining any app on the app store is so time consuming that I just don't have the time for it

Regarding your question, the app's main purpose is to work collaboratively on shared organigrams and family trees. It also includes an E2EE chat that I developed purely as a hobby (no chance competing against Whatsapp or Signal). That is the free bit

I monetize by offering optional features like shared calendars, document drives and cloud photo galleries. Apologies if the app's purpose isn't clear and thanks for the hint seems I might need to simplify)
Doctors are refusing to use Ivermectin because they can get in trouble with the medical boards for prescribing an unapproved covid treatment.

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2021/06/16...

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/9241...

Who's running the disinformation campaign?
Thank you, it can be in some way patent or license substitute.
> Assume $100/kWh

Batteries are not that cheap in 50kWh quantities.
Yeah, I'm having trouble with Pharolauncher too on Windows. Trying to launch any image (downloaded in launcher, or manually) results is an error. e.g.

Retry?
Error downloading 'https://files.pharo.org/get-files/90/pharo-vm-Windows-X86_64-stable.zip'
Cancel
Retry

(The link is a 404, so that's something)

Edit: "Templates: Pharo image (stable)" works (32bit v8)
I may have to look into this. I was already feeling pretty good that I was able to send http requests to my app. But I guess this solves the “how to connect this to the world” side of it? I haven’t looked at it but I assume you still add your logic right?
Moat losers will have made an equally skillful shot, and the ratio of losers to winners is >> 100 : 1 because that's what the device has been programmed to do.
By "gave up", do you mean the shared-folder idea, or the whole thing, i.e. using a Linux VM for dev from a Mac / Windows host?
I'm seriously pondering not having to deal with re-installing my dev environment on the Mac because even with Homebrew and rbenv and such tools, dependency hell is around every corner.\
It can not - josh can do many arbitrary kinds of (reversible) transformations on the repo, which allows you to have different external "projections" of your monorepo.

Imagine a company that develops strongly interdependent software in a monorepo, but needs to publish different subsets of this software to external entities which also expect a coherent version history.
Now do we believe the word of a progressive who claims they saw these things given how much lying that crowd has been doing in this very comment section alone.
Facebook has x billion users. What you do have net 0% impact on them, but a large impact on you. So people block ads and use Facebook anyway.

But a more direct answer to the question is they don't think about it, they don't care about it, or they don't want Facebook to stay in business. If Facebook crashed tomorrow I would need to start emailing a bunch of people to put together contacts but other than that it would be a net benefit.
Maybe it's because I am hiring in data science, but that's the first place I go to in order to be able to ask deeper questions about what someone knows about. There are some interesting aspects of co-authorship though. A few years ago, I ran into a guy who did not understand the key aspects of a network security paper where he was the primary author. As I kept asking him about, he admitted he didn't know much about the topic!
When GP says 'you can use the advanced features', 'you' refers to the person developing the ORM, not to a developer using the ORM.

So the ORM author can do the hard work of allowing advanced features to work across databases. And it's transparent to the developer using the ORM.
It's a completely reasonable question. Blood pressure is a function of many variables, including vascular resistance, compliance, heart function, and --yes-- blood volume. In fact, one of the treatments for blood pressure, though rarely a first line, is to use a diuretic to reduce fluid volume. As other posters have commented, the body will compensate this to some degree, and it is not a very lasting or well-controlled effect, so the doctor is correct that bloodletting is not the standard of care for hypertension. But a mental experiment on the extreme margins can help address the question intuitively as well: suppose you removed all the blood, or else suppose you 100x-ed the blood supply. Would pressure fall and rise respectively? Of course it would.
Sampling was very fun, but it had a really nice synth brass sound.
To not get involved in crypto, because of the effects it has, who is pushing it and why.

It sounds like he's (successfully)advocating against participating in crypto to me.
You are confusing the market of people who say that want something with market of people who will pay for it.
Intel Ice Lake Xeon W to Challenge AMD Threadripper with 38 Cores
Exactly. On instagram, I follow and like content on the d&d and 3dprinting hashtags, so show me related ads. But don't try and follow me around the internet to see what other sites I visit. This allows them to still personalize ads without me feeling that there is a private investigator tailing me everywhere I go.
jQuery SSL Cert is bad
So, Smalltalk is radically different from other programming languages, and has a very different vision for what it means to program.

Imagine that you download the binary for the programming language, and then you don't know what to do with it so you double click it or try to execute it from the shell, and you are very surprised to see a window open up, showing something looking like a blank desktop.

What is this? You go off to read some tutorials, they show you some ways to click inside the window and so forth.

It slowly dawns on you: this is your program. It is running as we speak. You are livecoding it, those button clicks are mutating it to do new things. The reason it's not doing anything is you haven't written it yet, and it's inviting you to, and when you do it'll recompile and show you the new thing instantly.

So your programming languages have always been designed like a circuit board or a 3D printing rig. Lots of files of blueprints, and then the robots will assemble it for you. Smalltalk is different, the mental model is more like clay or Lego, the thing is already built and running in front of you, what are you going to mold it into being?

This different vision means that usually you are editing text not from vim or emacs or VS Code, but from the editing widgets inside of the programming language. Those are part of the clay, and are editable too. Similarly, Smalltalk version control was typically exposed inside of the running system rather than outside.

My favorite example of this, the thing that is maybe the most outrageous if you're in a normal programming language, is Object.become().

This is a runtime dependency injector. “I want to instruct the programming language to take all of the traffic that it was sending to that object, and send it to me instead. I will become that object.” If you are used to Java where my constructor instantiates some dependency object and I save it to a private variable in this object, surely you see this as a safety violation. “What do you mean, that anybody who gets a reference to this object can tear it out of my private property and replace it with some other subclass? I made it private so I could control when that field gets set! How dare you?” It’s not, of course.

And this is available for every object in the system, which is why you can do this modeling by clay. They tried to write as much of Smalltalk as possible in Smalltalk and so you can just see the source code of the programming language in the source code browsers that you can call up from this window, and you can live edit any of that, and Smalltalk will compile your new object and swap it into where the built-in object was.

Put a different way, it's not a safety violation because this is how modern development with microservices and kubernetes actually works. Security is people's ability to surprise you, measured in dollars: part of this definition is, Smalltalk developers are not surprised by their ability to do this. Every “object” is thought of as a separate server with an API, and of course I will replace old servers with new ones and tell the load balancer to send traffic my way.
Interesting, because Twitter didn't sell to shady advertisimg company, they became shady advertising company with PII gobbling and dark practices.

It is also interesting you say about givernment (although my beef isn't with USG), because my givernment has tons of shady apps that leak sensitive PII left and right, and nobody cares..
I'm not sure anything is 'clear' in the situation.

He could have had some implementation of some kind of basic messaging functionality, which for any number of reasons they may have decided to implement themselves, which is pretty rational for a whole host of reasons.

If an employee is trying to sell a 'side project' to a Corp. they are acting effectively as a 3rd party and should expect to be treated as such.

If there was some material, core IP that was infringed upon, maybe there's an issue, but otherwise some kind of independent implementation is probably within bounds.

I can't speak to what extent there was 'carbon copy' of features, or even if that is lawful or what not.

Think of it like this: company ABC pitches their app to Airline. Airline decides to roll their own, and the feature base seems quite similar. That's pretty normal.
> The same way ads work in print media

Do adds in print media not "monetize people's eyeballs" also?

> The publisher doesn't have as detailed targeting info for the advertiser, and presumably would charge less.

Okay but I was responding to a claim about adds not tracking.
If you just say "no" and don't show signs, they can't. If you say "only in my bloodstream", they can and will.
> It's like replacing the engine of an ICE car

I downvoted you because that's not true. It's far easier to replace batteries than an engine. It requires minimal skill.

If they start building them into the body that may change though.
No. Free certificates don't mess with the price when there is a predefined cap (as in cap in cap-and-trade). Trade afterwards is the price discovery mechanism.

What messed the system was the reason I mentioned.
I agree it's unfortunate. I don't know of any alternatives to globalism and capitalism that aren't worse though.

But it's important to recognize where capitalism fails (tragedy of the commons situations, negative externalities) and address those.
If genes are affecting behavior [I assume you mean variation within the species], then why wouldn't they be relevant? Relevant to what?

I agree culture is the biggie (education is part of culture).

Your example gets at a correlation that can be used to make good predictions. Better-than-chance bets. The example I gave with drug addiction supposes the reader already believes that genes have a causal relationship with drug addiction. That is, a propensity to be, say, an alcoholic can be in your genome and not a result of environmental factors.
Agreed. And I have to wonder if online extremism would be less of a problem if sites like Facebook switched to a payment model. State-sponsored troll farms might be willing to pay for access, but most regular-Joe crazies/griefers probably would not.

(Making social media harder to access cuts both ways, of course; it's entirely possible that limiting social media to those who can pay would only amplify the voices of bad guys with money. Does make me wonder how much social media toxicity is related to these sites being totally free, though.)
The EU should have done carbon border tariffs 20, 30 years ago. But better late than never.
cant they track by just ip address? for most, the ip address is quite unique. Apple only disallowed the unique id from being passed around right?
Which geographical regions is this open to? I am in Canada, but got "It's great to see you here but unfortunately we are just not in your geographical region yet."
>I really am impressed you found relevant stuff on instagram

It's mostly been small alternative-type stores, typically for clothes which I'd have never even found out about otherwise but match my aesthetic presumably because they just advertise to a niche audience like me based on the data.
Strange. I've worked in startups my entire career, hired over 100 developers and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of cover letters I've seen.
One big advantage of a monorepo is that when you check out the tree you automatically get the versions of all the files that work together (assuming there's some CI!). If you want to refactor an API you can refactor its callers easily and check the whole thing in. Etc.

With each project having its own repo, then you have to track the fact that Foobar 2.2 works with baizo 1.6-1.8 but not more recent versions.

Also conceptually it's easier when you are working with the client and the server at the same time, or the two mobile apps, and so on.

Of course people manage without this when the project has stuff that doesn't fit in a software repo (CAD designs, artwork, etc...there's a reason why that POS Perforce survives, for example). Solidworks has its own proprietary RCS that doesn't work with anything else.

IMHO if the project is relatively small (say <500K LoC) a monorepo is almost always the way to go. But with a big project it breaks down.
In the same vein, https://selectstarsql.com/
A vaccine can't have a sample size. A study can have a sample size, but I'm not aware of any that have administered hundreds of millions of doses. If you're referring to the general rollout of the vaccine, then that is not a randomized, controlled trial.

And IIRC, the "wonderful chart" you're referring to (I assume you mean PCR positive tests or "cases") can not be credited to the vaccine rollout. It peaked when only 8 million doses had been given, and the age distribution of the decline in cases did not match the vaccine recipients' age distribution [0].

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[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-19-cases-plunging-to...
Human relationships just can't be boiled down to a single term in that way. My relationship with the cashier at the grocery store is obviously transactional, yet we can interact in a variety of ways, and how we do so will affect how we feel, how satisfied we are with {the job|the store}, etc. There's always room for two people in an interaction to be more or less trusting, compatible, enjoyable, etc.
Yes but you're talking about a country with ~ 0.6/100k murders per year

The US average seems to be 5, worse cities can get to 20? 40?

The problem exists but let's not take it out of proportion
The problem with this kind of thinking is that if Cable TV is any indication, things that start as subscription services will slowly begin to double-dip and you'll be paying money upfront and watching ads anyway.
Looks like the cert was issued to jquery.org.
The biggest issue _I_ had as a user was getting redox to compile itself.

It is fun as a toy but developing on it is difficult.

Or I missed something.
Nothing will change so long as we continue to stick with the outmodded, hypercapitalist notion of an economy defined purely monetarily. Money erases all actual social values and establishes only exchange value (abstracted from things that are actually important, like the fact that a vast majority of exchanges are destructive for the species and probably shouldn’t be happening) thus we’ve let ecosystems basically reach the point of collapse.

A proper economy needs to be general in Bataille’s sense. It needs to incorporate social goods as its measure, not just abstractions like gdp and exchange value.

This article is right that society has failed to adapt to rapidly proliferating digital technologies, leading to the complete erosion of social structures, without sufficient replacements, but in my estimation it does not go far enough

Much of Bernard Stiegler’s work centers around establishing such alternatives: https://arsindustrialis.org/manifesto-2010
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