skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what kind of weed you smoke but a lot of weed on the streets of the US today has a dramatically higher level of THC than it did in the past

This is a good point. I live in Switzerland, we have a healthy cannabis market that is mostly dominated by growers from the 80s and 90s. We do have the "killer weed" the youth likes to smoke, but the majority of stuff i come in contact with are classic, medical or at least CBD heavy strains. Nobody in my circle likes getting super high, we all just enjoy the good ol' buzz.

> So I think the bottom line here is that you need be careful and be mindful that weed is not "harmless."

You are absolutely right. I also have a little hate for myself for starting way to early which surely didn't help my mental development.

However i am way more afraid of Sugars and excessive Chemicals in my food that are slowly poisoning me. So for health perspective i would rather spend my efforts quitting sugars or cigarette smoking for a start :)

> I hope that helps you...

It did, thank you for your input!
Thanks for the great convo, it’s so rare on the internet!
Laptops are completely commoditized, of course you would struggle with profitability there. For a company the size of Valve, building these devices probably carries very little risk. The biggest risk is the software, which they were going to tackle anyway.
It just depends on your agreement with the company. There's no reason that by default they own everything you do, beyond the fact that business has normalized it (and many other practices with the magic words 'it's just business').
I had a similar experience with my grandmother. Her motivation and curiosity left her. I tried to interest her in new things a number of times, thinking she'd be so much happier. The data, though, led me to decide she was in fact happier when I just accepted who she had become.
You're coming from privilege. Just because you can afford it doesn't mean everyone else has money to spend on entertainment.
>The main idea of the non-compete agreement is that employers want to stop people from walking off the job and taking trade secrets to rival companies.

I don't think this is quite right. The main idea is that hiring and developing employees is hard and expensive, and companies want to have a claim on the future labor of the employee because of the investment they made.

In the tech industry, recruiting fees of 25% of the first year salary are common, which is an enormous amount of money and shows how valuable anything that accelerates the hiring process is.

Banning non-competes is a good idea for essentially the same reason a low unemployment rate is good: companies have to compete against each other to be the best place to work, which improves compensation and conditions for workers. It's easier when your only competition is poverty and unemployment, but that's not a good outcome for society at large.
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On our property in northern Oregon we’ve been working hard to reduce fuel loads in the forest. We’ve also invested in limbing trees — removing the branches below 10’ which helps lower the risks of ladder fires (fire jumping from the ground cover to the trees).

Around the farmhouse we’ve torn out a ton of shrubs and flammable trees to create a more defensible fire zone. We’ve replaced them with stone, more fire resistant species like maple, etc.

It’s time consuming and expensive. And this is on a property that’s about 80 acres. Small by farm standards. People have no concept of the scale of federal forest land. Nor do people have a concept of the scale of modern firestorms.

Yes, the 20th century policy of suppressing fires has led to hazardous fuel loads. Yes, wildfires are a part of the ecosystem. Yes, building right up to the wilderness’s edge makes the destructiveness of these fires ever greater.

But climate change is real, yo. You can see the trees drying out. The Douglas Fir which are so iconic to the state of Oregon are more stressed every year — and dead trees are more flammable. Greater heatwaves, longer and deeper droughts — they have very obvious consequences in regards to fire. You have essentially rain forests in a lot of regions drying out, creating massive fuel sources. How do you even begin to deal with that through forest management?

Controlled Burns are great — but they’re not always feasible. Nor are they without risk — in this climate they’re getting harder to do safely, in ever-shrinking seasonal windows. And again, the scale of land we’re talking about is hard for people to comprehend.

If you want to wait for the peer reviewed study that links every specific fire to climate change, you do you. But these events are exactly what the science has predicted, and despite the armchair quarterbacking, there is no easy solution.
Yeah I would be careful about drawing conclusions and assigning blame in this situation because it's hard to know all the factors leading to his dismissal. At the least, it sounds like there were problems with his leadership for months before this:

> Employees who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, said the frustration with Awadallah’s leadership style had been building for months, leading up to this week’s all-hands meeting, where employees confronted him about their discomfort with his manifesto, working with him and the leadership attrition of his reporting leaders.

At the very least, if your job is dev relations you've got to be somewhat adept at how to communicate publicly. It sounds like his manifesto didn't hit the mark.

And I'd have to question why he decided to do that in the first place? Did something force his hand? I feel like many people have had the experience of growing out of past prejudices but posting a manifesto about it is not something I've seen too often, certainly not in the workplace.
LAPD budget is about 15% of the total LA city budget.

NYPD is about 11% of total NYC city budget
I'm also confused as to why wages are lower here. I'm with my family at the moment so this is a university town only in that there are some satellite campuses here. Most people here are well-off, and I think my anecdata might be partly tainted because I know my friends who have jobs here pretty much took the first jobs that they found.

I personally have a remote sde job, so all of this is anecdata I've collected from those around me, alongside seeing job postings out and about.
The vibe I get from growing up around unions, having friends and family in union jobs now, working with unions, etc is that enterprises and larger companies feel slow and lumbering if your experience is startups or growth-stage companies; however, (American) union shops and government agencies are in their own league. I'm not solidly opposed to unions in general or in the Amazon case in particular, but I do think there's merit in the idea that American unions (I hear European unions are organized differently and don't have the same problems) lead to the most bizarre, inefficient, and counterproductive work environments.
This is the easy solution, just fire the guy and go back to being a Happy Corporate Family.

But then again, he seems to be lacking in leadership skills if he keeps getting "misunderstood" regarding his manifesto.

Protip: your VPs should never write any kind of manifesto involving jews in any shape or form. Stick to banal business management tropes like anyone else.
> why is 2^68 0% of the "numbers that need to be checked"?

The vast majority of natural numbers are larger than 2^68. Only 2^68 of them are less than 2^68, but infinitely many of them are greater.
6 hours ago, 17 points, 3 comments. In short: Cars - (almost) nobody's interested.
It may not be that simple.

Imagine if each of your cells had individual rights or every bee in a hive has freedom to do its own thing.

Sometimes (most?) having centralized systems of power can be misused but that doesn't mean that centralized systems shouldn't be tried, there are evolutionary advantages to them.
They solved this with natural gas pretty easily by adding an odorous gas.
Classified Challenger tank specs leaked online for videogame
Why dont they just give others to do their work? Last I remember india sent a probe to Mars for less than amount it took for making the movie Mars featuring Matt Damon ?
> I use it like permanent bookmarks.

I create browser bookmarks regularly but I wouldn't be bothered to SSH into my server to also tell it to grab a copy of the URL. Automating this with a browser plugin would be cool.
> the number of unarmed people shot to death by police in the US is a double-digit number across all races

It is often a quadruple-digit number. Here's an example for 2016:

https://www.newsweek.com/how-many-americans-do-cops-kill-eac...

and 2019:

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/

it seems you are not quite familiar with how the US police treats people.
Admit you first falsely denied that he made that remark, and falsely accused other people of making stuff up, when it was you who was making stuff up, before you ever backtracked and claimed that you don't actually take his remark literally, and implied that nobody else does either (including naive Bitcoin investors who don't bother to do their own research, but instead trust people like him).

It's pretty disingenuous and intellectually dishonest of you to make a broken metaphor about sports and murder and claiming he said different words, when he actually literally used the exact same words somebody claimed he did, that you denied, that the video proved he did, and that I quoted him saying.

And how when the context was SO EMPHATICALLY STRONG in support of him meaning exactly what he said, that you had the nerve and dishonesty to accuse me of quoting him out of context, when I actually transcribed the entire context. Stop the gaslighting. Everyone can see quite clearly what you're trying to do.

If you apologize for your dishonesty and gaslighting, should I take your apology literally?
Is this not general control of an estate? Seems entirely within what we in the West consider normal. Whether it's "creepy" or not doesn't really factor into all the other decisions made on the behalf of a deceased person.
It's a MSI-GF65 Thin which has excellent cooling. However with TB enabled both Ubuntu & Windows randomly starts a process (usually updates) which hits the CPU hard and consequently all the fans spin up.

At base clock, I see no visible loss in performance and a much quieter workstation.

The performance loss in compilation is offset by continuously compiling (watch) which I can do with TB disabled but not with TB enabled.

For gaming, I limit the turbo boost to 3.2Ghz and get a more consistent performance with no sudden drops.
Patents if they are really secret sauce. If your startup fails because someone finds out what you are working on then you are already doomed.
> But why come to for-profit company and demand that company to stop making profits? It does not make sense to me.

I agree this is foolish, but at the same time don't blame people for trying. I'm glad these companies have at least a few people applying pressure, potentially making it less profitable for companies to do the 'wrong' thing.

> I imagine employees may say, we must fight climate change, so we must replace our trucks with electric trucks. This is definitely moral, but this might be not sustainable, and this might be a way to make a company bankrupt

At the point we are right now, I'd prefer the company go bankrupt if they can't afford to not destroy the environment. I know it sounds extreme and if this happened at all such companies could cause a considerable economic/societal collapse, but I'd prefer societal collapse over societal collapse and destroyed planet.

> Moral reasons is a slippery slope. What is moral to one group or people is immoral to other group of people.

Overall I think I understand your point more now. I'm curious if you'd agree with the sentiment of the 2 points I just made in this post though. I do feel that just about any moral claim is debatable, but certain things like climate change I'm confident enough in my own beliefs to justify acting on them. The way I see it, we don't know anything 100% for sure, moral or not, so as humans we have to draw the line somewhere and act on the things we have the most conviction for. Other people might have opposing morals and I won't intentionally infringe on their rights but I'll still oppose them on whatever issues we disagree on. I don't claim to be the arbiter of truth but I'm also not going to disregard morality because other people have different views and I might be wrong anyway.
My point is that I think the law should only honor non-competes that are in that form.

This is how California's law actually works.... non-competes are only allowed if they are paid in this way.
> Access to modules inside Hubble was never meant for robots with very limited dexterity either.

It was also never meant for humans with less limited dexterity.

I recall one of the Hubble servicing missions I watched on NASA TV, in which they had to bolt a special adapter plate over a cover, unscrew over a hundred tiny non-captive screws (which the adapter plate was designed to catch, so they wouldn't float away), and only then could they open that cover. That part of the telescope clearly wasn't designed to be serviced in space.
I did so much with Print Shop in MS-DOS. The Apple II version looks a bit different, though part of that could also be that I always had Print Shop Companion as well; I can't remember what was added with that.
That video is great, but these guys sum it up a bit more succinctly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgWHrkDX35o
> Most women spend only a tiny fraction of their lives pregnant, but they still identify as women the entire time

After giving birth, women are also mothers for the rest of their lives. Even in the picture of the article you cited, the trans man is breastfeeding the baby because the trans man is the mother. Taking hormones to grow facial hair and playing sports doesn't change the mom into a dad.
I'm sure Stadia will probably run just fine on it, too. That only requires a Chrome/Chromium web browser.
Inspired, I presume, by those awesome ray-traced animations from the early oughts? I had started sketching ideas on how to make that a reality (pneumatics and magnets mainly) but never got beyond concept.

Specifically this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyCIpKAIFyo
GM, Ford, and every other car company enter the chat.
"It's impossible to make electric vehicles work. There is no charging network, it's too difficult to build, no one likes it". Blah blah blah.
Boing enters the chat "rockets that land on their arse are impossible. it can't be done." blah blah blah blah.

Excuse me if I could care less what old industry experts have to say - time and time and time and time and time again, he has proven them wrong.
As I understand it based on secondhand knowledge from two people I know who have recently come back from the US, everyone has to quarantine until they have a rapid test that shows negative for COVID, or wait a certain duration in quarantine (I think down to 8 days now). No need to quarantine in hotels from what I’ve seen.
This isn't necessarily true; you can also limit which sets are valid sets in a way that guarantees that choosing an element from these sets is well defined. For example, the Axiom of Constructibility basically limits which sets exist, in a way that allows you to always use the Axiom of Choice because your sets have a specific fine grained structure you can use to well-order them.

For example, if I were to require "all sets are finite", then the Axiom of Choice is trivial. The Axiom of Constructibility still allows infinite sets (and even uncountable sets), but it's still limited enough that the Axiom of Choice holds.

You can almost think of it as requiring all sets to have source code, and then just alphabetizing the source code in order to pick a set.
In the USA at least, a very small portion of the population lives in environments without dedicated parking and also own cars. There are cities like New York and Boston where you'll have folks just slumming it on street parking with no dedicated parking spot, but that's such a small portion of the population compared to urbanites with no car, urbanites with dedicated parking, and suburbanites/rural folks with their own garage.
I share your concern but modulate the concern with two factors (you may not agree):

1 - if you work at a company like that (faang, basically) you probably have a choice of working elsewhere and they are paying you handsomely to give up the ability to have almost any software or electronics side projects (my gf wants me to go work at one of them and I have decided it’s not worth the money, though I can understand why others can reasonably think otherwise).

The first section of the article talks about this: US labor law is pretty firmly rooted in freedom of contract doctrine even though for most people there’s such extreme asymmetry of power that any “freedom” in this area is illusory. But if you’re a FAANG developer you aren’t one of those people — you have a choice.

2 - every such agreement I have signed has had a “carve out” clause: you can list things you’ve been working on (which is vague, I have listed areas I’m interested in and have looked into and counted that as ”work”) and exclude the stuff listed there from the agreement. Of course the new employer can disagree with the choices (“ARM CPU designs? That’s what we’re hiring you to do!”) but again, if that were you, you pretty much would have freedom to negotiate. I think such an objection would be pretty fair for an employer to have in that situation.

Also if you decide later you want to write a stock app but hadn’t listed it, well, c’est la vie.
Voyager is not traveling a relativistic speeds. We could definitely defend against someone sending voyager at us.
I think the parent comment was downvoted because it's not really contributing anything besides pessimism.

As for us, I don't doubt the likelihood of a serious mass extinction, including possibly a severe drop in human population, but I can't see it being so severe as to cause an existential threat to us. No other species on this planet has had the ability to change the environment to suit it, or the ease of mobility to move where they can survive. Short of earth being entirely incompatible with complex life on the surface, I don't see humanity disappearing because of climate change.
This is fantastic. I'll never forget that feeling of excitement as my carefully crafted card started getting printed on my grandpa's dot matrix printer...
Cynical? It seems like a measured and realistic approach to me. There's no upside in getting riled up when there's every reason to believe you are missing important context.
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> as someone who works in crypto and is a very literal crypto rent seeker

What do you do? If you don't mind sharing.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27851234
> it seems strange that any state would want to wound its own economy by restricting employee mobility

It seems strange that a state would make laws that serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful?
What helped me overcome the dreadful empty mail window was using a brainstorming / editing approach:

1. Using a different editor to write the draft, to prevent the immediate negative reaction to the mail client.

2. Brainstorming my draft. That is, I wrote down the first thing that came to mind, no matter how ridiculous or nonsensical. It doesn't even have to be related to the message at hand. It only needs to remove the daunting empty page and get my brain into "write something" mode.

3. Edit and repeat. Read what you've written and select anything that actually makes sense. Use that as a starting point and start again.

I think an important aspect of this is to freely allow my brain to write silly things. It's not a fun task to write serious emails, but writing a silly outline and filling it in with more serious wording makes it possible, for me at least.
Years ago, I bought some software. Its serial number had quite a few digits. I found out later that I had been the first customer. I guess the idea was that customers might be more confident to jump in the water, if they saw others there already.
IBM ended up buying The Weather Company (Weather Channel, Accuweather) around the time when I was there. Lots of things were getting the "Powered by Watson" thing slapped on them around that time.
This issue I still have with satellite is the upload latency and bandwidth. I still want to pair this with a proper SDN solution and a second carrier, and then active-active load balancing and traffic smoothing.
Medium Raw was completely different. It was like he grew up, had 2.5 kids and a mortgage or something.

Totally different vibe.
The issue is in Egypt and other Arab nations they never meet any Jewish people at all. They just see the stereotypes, etc. When you never meet people you can view them as complete evil because you buy the propaganda.

This leads to the contact hypothesis as a means of reducing prejudice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_hypothesis
All devrels hate Jews.

Just go look at twitter. They all are anti-semetic as fuck.

It is way past time we, as an industry get rid of the scourge of the MARKETING people like devrel/dev evangelists. They don't code. They are just racists pieces of shit with a loud megaphone. At the same time, Jack Dorsey, known pedophile, should hang.

Sadly, half of the people on this site also hate Jews just as much as they hate the Cubans for wanting freedom.

There is a great bridge in San Francisco you can jump off of - go for it you commie fucks.
You have a good idea for improving the product at 10 am. You think about it between 10 am and 4 pm. At 4 pm you discard the idea, not gonna work or sth. At 6 pm you type it into your app at home.

Of course most people wouldn’t, but this is one narrow area where I think it is reasonable to limit employees.
because we know how solar, wind works and that is "reality".
Basing a model on some imaginary future technology that we don't know is possible or not shouldn't happen in my opinion. It is one thing to think or create different models with possible future technologies taken into it and other to be certain about that happening based on that imaginary technology.
Right, if you have the tech to allow you to course correct an object traveling at relativistic speeds you have the tech to defend against on by moving it out of the way.
I actually think leaving the wood where it falls is partially part of the problem in some cases. That said the wood could be used for all the things we use wood for (building house, mulch, etc).
Castings or forgings?
> All these other plethora of languages are all well and good, and I'm sure they all have their secret sauce, but is their secret sauce tasty enough to justify a switch?

the evidence of all the code not written in C++ and Python suggests the answer is "yes"
Well... no one could make electric cars work. He did.
no one could get rockets to return to earth. He did.
no one could build battery networks that actually contributed to an electric grid in a meaningful way. He did.

So, I don't know. It does indeed seem alike quite a few games have indeed been changed.