skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh... knowledge dump on nitrites?

The line about this drug and smooth muscle relaxation and anal sex gets repeated a lot. The article to its credit doesn't just give us that old canard and run, but it still brings it up. It's quasi-mythical, in my opinion, and probably gets repeated mostly for its mild shock value. Actual muscle relaxants would work much better. And learning to relax mentally and just not trying to force something that hurts would be even better yet.

Still, why are they so popular for sex then? Because drugs are popular for sex, I figure. I am pretty sure it's from the psychoactive effects of nitrites as a drug. It is a potent, short-acting mild dissociative, with calming effects along with mild sensory changes, along with a strong body euphoria. So the user relaxes mentally, and then physically. (Quite a few of my friends use this drug regularly, mostly along with sex -- but including sex that isn't anal sex. And I've never once heard of someone who uses them as a sexual aid unless they like the "rush". But one gets the vasodilation whether they get, and enjoy, the mental "rush" or not.)

I'm not sure why this is almost never mentioned when poppers come up, but in my opinion from experience, in terms of subjective effect, by far the closest thing is nitrous oxide, laughing gas.

Poppers have also suffered the perverse incentives created by black market economies when a substance is prohibited. Isoamyl nitrite, the original vasodilator sometimes used in medicine, was banned for general sale long ago. There is a whole class of analogues with similar effect, though. Isobutyl nitrite works much the same and doesn't (appear) to be any worse for the user. So people used that for a while. But then, in the EU, that was more aggressively banned as well. No worries, isopropyl nitrite is yet another substitute. Except it seems that it may cause blindness more frequently.

I doubt these half-hearted bans restricted consumption at all. But the bans have probably resulted in cases of otherwise preventable blindness. It's honestly not so different from the problem with fentanyl in the street heroin. In response to the spate of blindness incidents, Australia is going to let doctors prescribe them as a "sexual aid" and France has decriminalized, both for harm reduction reasons.

If we actually do want people to be huffing fewer poppers -- and we should because they're not entirely harmless healthwise -- we should probably do a mix of education (how many people even think of them as a psychoactive drug?) and maybe go after the porn that introduces men and boys to this as a practically normalized part of gay sexuality, often in their teens.

Speaking of education, while nitrites might otherwise be only a moderately dangerous drug as drugs go, they are horribly dangerous in interaction with many other drugs that affect the heart and blood pressure. Probably most importantly considering the context, that includes the likes of Viagra and Cialis, the erection aid drugs. It is not a major public health worry in its own right yet, but there have been too many strokes and heart attacks in healthy middle-aged and even younger men lately from this.
That’s senseless unless you see the government as a profit-seeking entity, which is also senseless.

A purchase has a buyer and seller who are making an exchange, both of whom in the United States and the majority of the States are already paying tax on their income. The sale itself may be subject to sales tax. The surplus from the sale at a price agreed upon by buyer and seller, after expenses are accounted for, is profit. This profit becomes taxable income to the seller, and the tax rate set in advance of the reporting period by elected representatives in respectable countries.

The State, both the State of the sale and the United States but referred to generically and collectively as “the State” so as to keep this discussion open to other countries and jurisdictions p, is responsible for its own revenues to cover costs (military, education, or whatever) which include taxes.

So when a seller’s tax obligations are satisfied, which is revenue to the State to cover the government’s costs, what obligation does the seller retain to the buyer beyond warranty and prior agreed-upon support service?

If you want to discuss tax rates, that’s a whole other discussion and definitely not one I’m keen on. What I’m getting at is your idea that profitable businesses remain indentured to their customers beyond the point that their prior obligations are satisfied. They do not.
I am using Sinc (keeb.io) that has a Macro row on the left. I have use those keys mapped to F14, F15, etc. and use them for Keyboard Maestro macros, BetterTouchTool screen positioning and similar OS functions.
"Purchaser acknowledges...the long-term effects and efficacy of the Vaccine are not currently known and that there may be adverse effects of the Vaccine that are not currently known."

And yet so many people cannot understand why other are hesitant to take a new tech mRNA untried-before with unforeseen and unknown long-term side-effects 'vaccine'

Assuming this leak is legit, of course
Do you have source for that claim?
I tried to find that recommendation, but all I came up with, was this fact check [1]. According to the fact check the CDC did NOT change cycle threshold, and the thresholds used to decide if test result is positive, are not different for vaccinated and unvaccinated.
The quoted 28 cycle threshold is apparently only used for deciding if a sample can be submitted for sequencing.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jun/03/tweets/cdc...
Medical advertising is obviously heavily regulated, save for supplements.

Arguments specifically against advertising medical devices and drugs are patently absurd. Prescription drugs and medical devices are literally the only ad on TV that requires an expert with a decade of training and a fiduciary duty to you to approve it before you can purchase.

Bans on things that are deadly like unhealthy foods, or things with proven negative ROI and for which debt cannot be forgiven (student loans for liberal arts degrees) don't even enter the conversation.
Instead of the $150 hammer and $800 toilet seat, we get a
$10 dollar hammer and $20 dollar toilet seat with $25,000 of ECNs and requirements changes.
This is good. The EU and the UK already mandates CCS for electric cars. I believe some day one will be able to circumnavigate the world using only CCS and rapid charging.
Another useful site with a lot of different layers is the #FireMappers one.

https://napsg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?i...
"a retired police captain"
Consistency is boring, and HTML makes it entirely too easy to do entirely your own thing. The result is most modern designers are trying to make a design that wows people at a glance, which is often at odds with actual usability and discoverability. UI design is basically fashion now, with passing fads and everything. Conforming to any kind of standard makes you look dated.

I wish we could somehow force people to use a standard toolkit again, but I think the cat is out of the bag.
Try KeyboardMaestro for Mac, it’s amazing. I was a long-time Textexpander user and switching for KeyboardMaestro was very worth it. I think it’s the best software of its kind, wish it was available for Windows
One wonder how it compares with the Mac OS 7 in terms of obviousness?
My understanding is that you still use docker images, you just don't use docker, but containerd instead.
You could probably make an argument that it's a parody/satire.
A cynical take on these regulations is that they're a power grab by the CA and WA based big cloud vendors since users of powerful workstations will effectively be forced to offload their workloads to the cloud or buy a server if they want high performance with commercial business support. Well as it turns out, CA/WA is only a minority player in the desktop market, but they're significantly bigger in the cloud/server markets.

Netflix 4k isn't illegal despite being a completely frivolous use of electricity, but somebody professionals buying their own workstations is. Datacenters use 1% of power usage globally, the focus is on desktops.
> I currently don't use a Mouse (Laptop/Touchpad).

Wow you must be really skilled at using the keyboard!

> I would at last map navigate

Ah.
Like this guy?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27915846

Classic :-D
Can you start a business to sell it for less and make a profit? If so you should. You will take the market. Capitalism is great.
Apple Won the Share Buyback Debate
No. I hardly ever use any of these additional features that we've had for almost two decades nowbl. At most I sometimes use the back/forward buttons of my mice but that's it. Not for gaming, not for coding.

My Steelseries Apex Pro has all kinds of features but I mostly use the actuation point adjustment. Fingertips hurt? Make it so that keys are activated by your breath if you can forgive the mild hyperbole
For a long time, people also had a "natural desire" to eat their enemies.

We stopped doing that because it was harmful. In fact now we think it's just gross.

At some point some of these practices stop being "natural" and start to seem barbarous.

In the case of inherited wealth, it's usually around the point where it becomes obvious that extreme inherited wealth/privilege + narcissism and/or sociopathy are incredibly toxic and damaging to democracy, economic stability, general well-being, and potentially even species survivability.

Of course you can still get bad actors in a meritocracy. But you don't get highly privileged and powerful bad actors born into situations where they can avoid accountability.

As for poor parents being "incapable" - that's a wholly circular argument. Who knows how capable they would be with more resources?
That’s why we need Neuralink, so Elon can be in two places at once.
sorry, man, you did misfire here. There is of course no question about antisemitism in Russia, it is just that the Russia of Peter the Great didn't have a number of Jews, especially not converted ("religious jews, forbidden by law to shave their beards"), to speak about. The beard tax was really a symbol of breaking the conservative Russian opposition (like that top nobility - "boayre" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyar#/media/File:Bojaren.jpg).

FYI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Russian_Em...

"Before the 18th century Russia maintained an exclusionary policy towards Jews, in accordance with the anti-Jewish precepts of the Russian Orthodox Church. When asked about admitting Jews into the Empire, Peter the Great stated "I prefer to see in our midst nations professing Mohammedanism and paganism rather than Jews. They are rogues and cheats. It is my endeavor to eradicate evil, not to multiply it.""
> They wanted it, they didn't want the muddied down overly protective version

At some point it becomes an exercise in futility to try to separate (in a way that 99% of everyone will accept) honest criticism of a woman's work by a man, from "mansplaining", and that to me is the problem
If you have to, you can store it in underground mines.

The result effectively reverse coal mining.
I have a hard time to find a easy to use thread base discussion, in lieu of the craziness of using WhatsApp for non IT group chat.

This might be it.
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Given that almost all previous Intel foundry customers have failed, why should we expect a different result this time? Achronix is perhaps the most telling as FPGAs are incredibly regular and should have been a natural fit for Intel's manufacturing capabilities, but even Achronix ended up moving to TSMC.

Right now Altera FPGAs seem to have the same supply constraint issues as Xilinx at present (my favorite check is to look at stock levels on Digi-Key), so I'm getting the impression that Intel is unable to crank them out any better than other foundries. Furthermore, if Intel really was determined, I'd have expected more than just a handful of Altera's SKUs to be on Intel's process 5.5 years after acquisition.

My faith in Intel is not strong on this front. Does anyone else have reason to believe this time will be different?
I don't think Singaporean politics is particularly well regarded within China. In fact, it reflects the same issues as with the CCP and its authoritarian system. The Singapore system is seen as a necessary evil given the geopolitics of the region and the racial makeup of the city-state. The CCP is seen as a necessary evil to propel China into advanced economy status. This is just how things are.
I would have preferred some lighthearted ribbing. Again, it can be interpreted as a sign of intimacy. I don't know how else to explain it. One of my best friends actually ribs me a lot. And because I am self-confident and candid, I can take it.

Heck, my significant other and I rib each other plenty. We know each others' strengths and weaknesses. It is arguable that being fine with some ribbing is proof of comfortableness with oneself and a lack of insecurity.

But, yes, people like you exist. I once teased a former boss for his fear of puppies (yes, puppies. Not just "dogs"... Puppies) by playing a prank where some puppies barked from behind his desk. He jumped. It did not fly very well. Actually, in hindsight, perhaps don't tease your boss, even if you think you're on good terms with them...
Greetings professor Falken.
Would you like to play a game?

-Checkers

-Chess

-Poker

-Backgammon

-Falkens Maze

-Fighter combat

-Desert warfare

-Theaterwide biotoxic and chemical warfare

-Global thermonuclear war
did you figure it out ?
You totally can create bytecode and jump into it from Python, no .py files needed. See https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/seven/dragon-taming-wit... where types.CodeType gets invoked.
How do I ssh
Windows RG was fun at the time (sadly built using flash so unusable these days)
LibreOffice comes to mind immediately as the most high-profile one I can think of.

That aside, any permissively licensed library used in a GPL program would technically fall under this situation, as it ends up distributed under the terms of the GPL. It just so happens that usually the libraries aren't modified by the application developer, so you can typically go find the original source.

If they are, those changes may be under the GPL, depending on whether the application developer kept the derivative version of the library explicitly under its original license, or licensed their changes under the application's license.
Sadly doom didn't work. I was able to pick a level but the slayer wasn't moving. Still really impressive.
The Slowdown (2012)
Infinite Personal Notes
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken

The saddest thing about articles like these is that they are so full of wisdom, but they can never seem to compete with the "hot new methodology."

Like it or not, the "agile" movement had a huge impact on the way people do their jobs, in part because it had a name, it had advocates, and it had principles that you could fit on a PowerPoint slide.

But good testing (like good design) just can't be encapsulated in a handful of principles you can teach to a newbie. Good testing requires wisdom.

I can write a lot of words about what I've learned about testing over the years, but it probably won't do a good job of conveying that wisdom to others. The best testers I've ever worked with have a strong gut instinct, developed by experience, for where the bugs will be found, and how to effectively spend our limited time-budget for tests.

Is it worth adding more end-to-end UI tests? What if they run slowly? (How slowly?) Is it better to add more unit tests? What if adding unit tests requires aggressively mocking out dependencies? Which parts of the product require more testing, and which ones have been adequately tested?

These questions don't have quick, easy answers, but the quick, easy answers keep winning mindshare, and we're all impoverished as a result.
There’s a difference between being “leg tall” and “torso tall”. If you’re the latter, it’s hard to predict what cars will actually fit unless you sit in them, especially if they have a sunroof.
No, it's not nostalgia. Modern UI is simply horrible, user-hostile and non-intuitive.
Is it really running Unity in the game?!
Once bootstrapped, the excess energy can go into kiln drying the input for the next batch.
This link should help:

https://old.reddit.com/r/KeyboardLayouts/comments/kpklnq/my_...

But your point still stands.
> A country choosing to adopt the ways of another is only evil if it is forced upon them by outsiders.

You are ignoring the fact that the ottoman empire had been invaded by european powers for hundreds of years and ultimately destroyed by european powers. And that european powers were threatening to destroy Turkey completely unless the turks "bent the knee".

You are painting a rather biased picture of what the "leader of Turkey" did. It was under duress - real threat of national disintegration and even genocide. It wasn't that Ataturk wanted to take Turkey in a particular direction, it was that external forces gave him no choice. It was either submit his european masters or cease to exist.

Neither Ataturk nor Turkey was in a position to take their country wherever they wanted. They were essentially a vanquished nation and pretty much had no choice but to do as the europeans powers ( and later on america ) told them to.

> Other countries are not museums needing protection from change.

Sure, but they aren't mimics either that exist to mindlessly copy or be forced to copy the world's biggest bullies.

In an ideal world, countries can copy from others what they choose, but that's sadly not how the world works. The most brutal force their "values" on the weaker.
yeah no don't do this
Very nice work.

Not sure if it's the intended behavior, but when opening the start menu if "Programs" is clicked, the start menu closes as if an executable option was chosen instead.

Same case for the sub directories under this menu.
What I don't understand is why this is not more common. I plan to build one for when my parents are unable to walk around independently.

Who wants to call a nurse everytime they need to go to the bathroom? An exoskeleton gives you some autonomy and dignity. The fact it is so uncommon despite a growing aging population with stash of money is a mystery to me
CDC mask reversal: Vaccinated should wear masks in many settings amid surge
You don't have to quote the LHS of the => operator, even if "use strict" is on. (That's the only way that it differs from a regular comma.)

> The "=>" operator (sometimes pronounced "fat comma") is a synonym for the comma except that it causes a word on its left to be interpreted as a string if it begins with a letter or underscore and is composed only of letters, digits and underscores. This includes operands that might otherwise be interpreted as operators, constants, single number v-strings or function calls. If in doubt about this behavior, the left operand can be quoted explicitly.

> Otherwise, the "=>" operator behaves exactly as the comma operator or list argument separator, according to context.
Yeah it does seem to be a problem with the "bundled perks" approach to monetization, if I only need one of the features in the high tier bundles I need to pay for it all to get it. It's less of a genuine complaint and more of a "oh well" reaction to it.
I don't have anything to add, but your product looks fantastic and I can only imagine the joy it brings to patients and families. Nice work!
I was under the impression that with all they'd done to FaF performance was now mostly dependent on the least common denominator of whoever you're playing with's hardware (outside of a full game of setons with close to max units each or something) but I haven't actually checked in quite some time now. Sucks if it still does become a slow mess fairly quickly into a game.
> The bunched ones will be freshly launched batches of satellites that have not reached their target altitude, they will spread out in the process.

And seeing them fly overhead in the dark of night, all in a line proceeding across the sky is by far the coolest, most sci-fi thing I've ever seen.

Also rather surreal.
I have a Moonlander keyboard. Here is my layout: https://configure.zsa.io/moonlander/layouts/wEX6q/latest/0

Anyone care to share theirs?
Not sure that's the real cause, given the satirical $STARTUP websites that all use the same bootstrap theme.
Both Russia and China started using their vaccines in August 2020:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-claims-first-corona...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...
Try
https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=%22your+own+benchmarks%2...

Looks like we get 37 results, of which 2 are true positives.

Looks like "your" and "own" are both contained in the english.stop stopwords list. So you could fix this by removing stopwords from your dictionary.

While disabling the stemmer is relatively easy (use the 'simple' language setting for your ts_query), altering the stopword dictionaries is more involved, and not easy to maintain or pass between developers/environments, and not at all easy to share between queries.

And so the most common suggestion is to use ILIKE.

Lucene has no problems with any of this.
Share Buyback 101: An Examination of Apple’s Share Repurchase Strategy
It looks like raw HTML5 canvas with some WebGL (2D): https://ciechanow.ski/js/navarch.js with some helper functions in https://ciechanow.ski/js/base.js
Part of the reason why Mac OS 8 is so timeless. I could use it now if it had modern Apps and features.

I feel disgusted using Windows 10.
Nobody with a new battery is going to want to swap it out for a old, potentially degraded battery. But everyone with an old battery would be happy to try to swap their way into a new battery.

Great, this old schtick again. News flash: nobody cares whether or not they own their car battery. With modern BMS systems, you would basically pay by the coulomb.

But yeah, I think this particular ship has sailed, at least for the near-term future. Huge missed opportunity. Refueling an EV should be as quick and easy as swapping out a BBQ propane cylinder -- which is also something you don't care if you own or not -- at your local convenience store.
I'm not sure if it would help in your case, but could you process all categories at once with a larger SQL query?

If so, DuckDB can process bulk queries about 20x faster than SQLite per CPU core because it is vectorized and column oriented. Then with multiple cores you can easily reach 100x SQLite speed. DuckDB has node bindings and is an in-process DB like SQLite.

If reading from disk is your bottleneck, I would recommend storing your data in compressed parquet files and reading them with DuckDB's parquet reader.

One drawback is that indexes are not persistent to the filesystem in DuckDB yet, but full table scans are much faster than SQLite since it is columnar.

https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/tree/master/tools/nodejs

https://duckdb.org/
I’m not sure the LDS church would be too keen on funding an app named after a Hindu concept.
I don't really think he does much harm to GM as a board member but personally I like to think I wouldn't have swept it under a rug myself were I in a position to do otherwise.
Electrical Ballast
> I don't know if 'extremely valid' is good English but it's how I would characterize your assessment. I totally agree.

Completely off-topic comment follows, but I find lingustics interesting, am a native (Br) English speaker, and think it's worthwhile to reassure someone they're foreign language skills are fine.

Yes, it's good. (It's extremely valid :wink:). It has a slightly comical flair to it - not sarcastic, just certainly not formal. You could push it further to 'I extremely agree', which is more debatable but as long as they realised you were 'being ironic' nobody would say 'hey that's extremely invalid English' or anything.

Only one thing wrong: characterise (oxendict be damned!) and incentivise are spelt (not spelled) with an 's'. :British-trollface: