skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sort of question the framing here? Not yours, but the article's. There is exactly enough demand, because however much people want of a mostly harmless plant is how much people should want of that plant. Nobody turning a profit should be no surprise: farmers barely turn a profit either, because selling commodities is not a means of getting rich quick. Considering how low-risk buying pot was before legalization, it boggles the mind why anyone thought there would be a huge growth in consumption, especially when the legal product is priced so much higher that it might as well still be illegal.

As far as why such a low fraction of transactions are in the legal market: the only way to move pot transactions out off the black market would be to either make it substantially as convenient to buy it legally, or to dramatically increase enforcement against black market transactions at the same time that weed was legalized. It seems Canada did neither.
There's a wikipedia entry--can't speak for its accuracy[0]. There's likely more official/accurate lists elsewhere that shouldn't be too hard to find if needed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
> The security provided by most door locks is completely illusory. You can break into most homes very easily. Most people have unsecured windows on the ground floor.

Maybe in America but that's definitely not true in the UK. Modern windows, doors and locks are really quite secure. It's definitely not completely illusory security.

If you watch LPL's videos many smart locks are designed with very little consideration for physical security. Exploits are often as easy as drilling a hole in a zinc casting and pressing a reset button, or even just removing screws.

That's way easier than drilling or snapping a lock with drill/snap protection or trying to lever open a composite door with multipoint locking, or even breaking through a toughened glass window, all of which my house has (and it's not at all an outlier).
I was one of your younger coworkers more recently than I would like to admit. Give the younger generation some time, we will see the light eventually.
> incidentally adjacent

I don't think that's an honest description of what's in that email. It says:

> Caldera believes an open source code model benefits the industry in many ways

So they're already using the phrase 'open source' as a compound adjective.

> The One that is always held up as proof

Well it's not just one email. For example here's another, from 1993:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.wi...

It uses the term with the same meaning:

> Open Source is best for everyone in the long run.
Does this depend on the field you are studying? I have 2 bachelors and a masters, all from in-person schooling when I was in my early to mid 20s. I’ve never had any contact with anyone I knew or worked with since leaving the university. Looking back, I can’t think of anyone I would have wanted to keep in touch with.
Both you and I know this is provocation, so there's no point in pretending otherwise. But sure, it is an argument in favor of the confessional state. Liberal societies are de facto confessional states anyway, it's just that the liberal religion (which Rawls can't quite seem to acknowledge as one, but deploys without scruples) by which all others are measured and restricted is not named as one.
> Explain that they just broke the product with a remote update that you had no choice in...

Except when you turned on the phone, you agreed to automatic updates. Contract law isn't on your side.
It's not suprising that China acts like this.

The message of the article is that a renowned Swiss university cowardly bows to China's oppression instead of guaranteing their students (not legally, but morally their) their democratic rights. Cynics might say not suprising either. Switzerland is somewhat infamous for its silent Nazi support while formally neutral in WWII.
While this is certainly true, facebook, google, Microsoft, and a bunch of other hyperscale cloud providers still regularly dump hardware on ebay for great prices.
Physical (Units)
One did not have to lead from the front line to expand territory. But I will grant you that many a ruler certainly wished to be perceived as having an iron will. These people would have had monikers such as "the Great" or "the Terrible" rather than the contrasting "the Wise" and the like.
What Is IP My Address?
Oddly enough, "one billion" can mean different amounts in different countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale
> And most of us are very happy to support supply management! "Cartel" has very negative connotations.

Exactly. Having a stable supply of food is more important than having an economically efficient supply of food. Of all industries, the food industry in particular should not be left totally up to market whims.
It would be nice to have an algorithm that shows you before clicking the link. Eg grays the text, and/or adds a moneybag unicode symbol.

However... this is muddied by the presence of workaround links like outline.com one in the comment you replied to.
what about Lies, Damned Lies, and Cloroquine Statistics?
Does an online master degree allow for an easier H1B visa? Genuinely asking.
Swap out “framework” for “inversion of control” in your head and you might find the article more useful. It’s nice seeing these options listed out.
> It reminds me of Joe Rogans bit about how in order to buy this harmless plant you have to interact with a criminal. Oh, and commit a crime. Legalization is 100% the right thing.

I'm all for legalization but that's just a really bad take. The whole point with it being criminalized is that you SHOULDN'T buy the plant. Anyone pro criminalization would also probably not call it "harmless". Making it inconvenient and illegal is the point.
So they consider white people to still be slave owners?

Sorry I think it is racist, no matter how you turn it. I think it is a way backwards, not forward. But again, if that is what they want, OK.

Would it be beneficial for the black community if other communities started doing the same? So white people would prefer to do business with "white owned" businesses?
Apple criticised for system that detects child abuse
Could also prove to the rest of the world that nuclear can be done safely
What an amusing comment! Fiat is worthless and everyone knows that. It's just an entry in a balance sheet. Wealth doesn't exist in the balance sheet. The balance sheet merely allocates wealth. Inflation can only hurt the balance sheet if it results in people abandoning the instrument. Inflation doesn't destroy real wealth. Deflation doesn't create real wealth.

Inflation causes people to flee into the real world. They instinctively create durable real wealth as a result of inflation because the real world degrades slower than money.

Deflation causes people to flee the real world and seek safety in the balance sheet. Their allocation of resources increases simply because the rules of the balance sheet say so. In fact, people are incentivized to destroy real wealth early as the balance sheet lets their allocated share of wealth grow faster than if they put in the effort to create real wealth.

It's the gold standard that collapsed under deflation and if fiat were to collapse today, it would again collapse under deflation.
How do they get an exemption from the "strict liability" of possession of illegal images?
The smoke plume stretches all the way to the Dakotas this morning.

It’s a startling visualization.
Second link was really helpful. I found this part interesting and potentially relevant,

“reducing the risk of death for infected hosts reduces the cost of virulence, causing an evolutionary increase in virulence (Gandon et al. 2003, 2001b). Vaccines that either block infection or block transmission, on the other hand, have no effect on virulence evolution”

Especially considering Dr Fauci’s recent statements on how the COVID vaccines do not block transmission.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AuO_OfjlPUI

Putting these together then it seems like we should expect the result of our vaccination efforts to be increased virulence in strains such as Delta variant. Is it possible the Delta variant itself was somehow the result of our intrepid and swift vaccination efforts? I’m having a hard time understanding why more people aren’t talking about this given the obviously well established scientific literature you’ve cited.
Missing is the analysis of the amount of entropy in an unaided "three random words" password.

I'll try: people are lousy at random picking. Their choices are highly likely to come from the most common 1000 words, and very very likely to come from the most common 4000 words. If this is true, it gets you an entropy of 30 to 36 bits.

BUT

Just for curiosity I checked out NIST's current guidance on passwords; they actually allow 6-digit passwords (PINs) [with about 20 bits of entropy], as long as there is server-side rate limiting of authentication attempts [edited to add:] and are uniformly chosen by the server. They recognize that this does not mitigate offline cracking attempts. Since even choosing a random "top 100" word would meet the same entropy bar, perhaps my initial reaction is an over-reaction. [https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#appA]
An adjustable desk that goes low enough to kneel in front of it would be interesting.

It would be quite difficult mechanically however. In a normal adjustable desk you only go from 1x to 1.5x height, which is trivial. With a table you can use while kneeling you would need to go to 2x height to sit in front of it or to 3x height to use it standing, all while maintaining the stability we expect from a table.
Or disable JavaScript, or use the reader view in Safari.
You answered your own question and still don’t get it.
Sounds like you've got a great post to write.
I hope no one will think it too unorthodox if I respond to my own comment just to add that given these constraints on land use patterns it’s obviously the case that Americans choose to drive automobiles. It’s fairly common to hear people describe this, too, as another kind of “revealed preference” for driving over the alternatives. But it’s a revealed preference in the environment as it exists today, which is the only environment that’s legal. If people were allowed to build other kinds of environments, then they would build other kinds of environments and in those other kinds of environments they would make other choices about transportation.

If you only look at people on the beach, you’ll find a revealed preference for flip-flops. But in other kinds of environments, people wear other kinds of footwear. If you only looked at people on beaches, you’d draw some funny conclusions about what people like to wear on their feet.

The big takeaway here is that the suburbs are the result of big government social engineering on a massive scale. You really can’t look at anything about land-use or transportation and conclude basically anything useful about “revealed preferences.”
> - Compiled languages shouldn't be using text file imports as modules

Zig doesn't use C-style textual includes, if that's what you mean.
Sure, largely similar patterns just more zoomed out. There are well known ways to generate a coordinate conversion e.g. from http://www.survo.fi/demos/index.html#ex51

x(n)=x(n-1)+sin(mod(int(sqrt(4*(n-2)+1)),4)*pi/2)
y(n)=y(n-1)-cos(mod(int(sqrt(4*(n-2)+1)),4)*pi/2)

Which can make something like generating enormous spirals very quick with a simple GPU shader.
100% not fair. Good catch! And deeper I wondered if the comparison example really broke in terms of the “sidededness” of the market or whatever the term was in the (AndersonHorowirz linked?) book on evaluating marketplaces.

If anything the “manual” feel of the minors onboarding looks so much like AirBnb, etc, you have to wonder if the company is sort of bound to succeed due to start.

Good luck on your ramp!

Is there a to email/contact you privately? I have a case study that’s very very close in big famous investor funded adjacent market that went sideways due a tiny detail; it’s public but would be more considerate to talk 1 on 1.
Ppl have been calling it unsustainable since 2013. As long as the college wage premium keeps widening, and there is zero evidence to suggest it isn't, then demand and tuition will keep going up.there are plenty of ppl here and on reddit making solid incomes and paying off student loan debt and also own home and other investment. Not all poverty as media portrays it.
Have you watched spaceship earth, the biosphere 2 documentary? I remember learning about it in science class in middle school so it had an aire of legitimacy to it, but that story is nuts, including the fact that it was basically started by a cult with a billionaire best friend and Steve Bannon(yes, that one) being Director of the project for a while.
There have been cases of US deportations for even having US critical posts in your feed without making them.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/8/27/incoming-freshm...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/02/denied-entry-united-states...
I thought the milk destruction during the pandemic happened because the processing facilities for the milk were closed and there was no way otherwise to use the raw milk? I.e. we can't stop producing it, because cows need to be milked, but raw milk is useless without further processing.
We’re posting links from The Blaze now? Really?
What's the advantage of handing out these licenses to companies that will then be run like a Silicon Valley start-up?

Why not just allow dispensaries to grow a small amount of their own stuff on premise, say 20Kg / month? Limit each customer to a 5g purchase. You just need a proper space and half a dozen staff (if that). No need for massive investments and all this maxed-out capitalist accounting trickery.

Legalisation should put dealers out of business on day 1. There's no way I'm going to engage in criminal activity, texting a dealer and waiting on a street corner if I can just walk over to a bar and buy what I need, super chill like it is in Holland.

Unbelievably sad they managed to screw it up so badly.
On a gram for gram basis, legal weed may be more expensive. But most people don’t appreciate that legal weed is significantly more potent. (Not to mention the health benefit of smoking less plant material.)

The average THC content in illegal states is around 10%. High quality legal strains regularly clock in above 25%. So even if you’re paying twice as much per gram, you’re getting a better deal per mole of THC.
> they've NEVER asked me for an id at any of these places

Nobody ever carded me in Amsterdam coffee shops when I was 14-15, I don’t think it’s a common practice.
Patent Potato
And then people wonder why people get angry and want to burn the system down. This is the fault of universities not setting the right expectations. Drive students to where demand will be not fields with artificial cachet that have little return on investment.

These kids then sulk and bemoan society while they work at a coffee dhop that affords them higher pay than the degree they studied for affords them.
When it was legalized in Canada, the legal prices were pretty bad. There were also restrictions on only allowing the sale of flower (ie no edibles or concentrates IIRC).

Since then, the government has pulled up their socks. The prices are competitive, the quality is fantastic, and the doses are accurate (as opposed to a “300mg edible” actually having anywhere from 50-500mg THC).

As a result, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t buy from legal dispensaries. There still exist some grey area mail order services, but the concept of “texting your dealer” is largely extinct.
The GP reads like concern-trolling more than anything else. It doesn't seem sincere to me at all.
Actually Tesla's do client side machine learning. When tesla needs training data of a bike for example, they can remotely "query" all the cars on the road and have the cars do client side detection of the stored footage and driving data and send over only the data that contains bikes.
APL, among its other advantages, does have a steep learning curve: you can learn it very quickly.
Are these people you're witnessing employed as well? That would do it as well. For example, in the US military, to make major you used to need a Master's degree in... anything. So, everyone would do an easy one online in his or her spare time, to get promoted.
“ detractors cannot provide actual evidence of their theoretical disadvantages.”

This is the concern. The system is hidden and you have no way to challenge. You are simply “trusting” that this system is working well

Who watches the watchers?
Needs a title update: only applies to the US. In almost any other civilized country a master degree is (nearly) free.
Engineer building home cinema the hard way one wire at a time..;-)
> In some cases I had to chuck a "!" on the end to meet a "must contain a symbol" requirement.

Put the "!" at the front or in the middle. That way if you accidentally type or paste the password into bash or zsh it won't end up in your history.

That's because "!foo" or "bar!foo" are parsed as requests to substitute the most recent prior command that starts with "foo" in place of "!foo". Assuming you don't have such a command in your history this fails with an error about event not found. No command is generated, and so there is no attempt to run a command, and so nothing goes into history.

"foo!" on the other hand is parsed as an attempt to run the command "foo!". Command attempts do go into history.
From the video, the question is, in effect, “Why don’t they make movies like they did in the 1990s any more?”
Depends Apple is on my "call first list now" on my CV along with Chem and Bio weapons and payday loan type companies.

And I wont be buying the ipad I was thinking about.
Interesting, that makes a lot of sense! However, I imagine crouching/squatting might be better still no? The classic "lift with your legs" advice.
Iv heard John C. Reilly is available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdha2OfhGzk
> Rights aren't "social constructs" if they're natural rights, that is, those that follow from the nature of what it means to be a human being.

Are you saying that you have achieved perfect understanding of this? I think that implies a sophistication way beyond were we are as a species today.
> P.S. ty for LangExt :)

My pleasure :)

I’ll share my AHK script when I’m back in front of my PC.
If you own AWS or GCP or Azure is a better example of owning means of production. A laptop cannot make you enough money to live by means of renting it out.
It might also depend on your school. My school has a great alumni culture, so randomly messaging other Queen’s alumni to get job intel and a referral is fairly common.

My friend at a different school has rarely received a reply doing that. There is no shared bond between U of Toronto people.
It feels like a bit of overreaction from the professor, unless there were other emails or calls from the Chinese government.

If it was just one email, it could also be possible that she just wanted him to find a different advisor and didn't realize that breaking her advisory relationship with the student would leave him in the lurch and without a PHD.

All in all a really bad incident for the kid.
I don't see battery storage as a problem for the first outpost, but yes, kilopower reactors were made exactly for this.

Another option for early missions is just to limit them to 14 days.

Heating of the base can be achieved by preheating the regolith deep beneath the surface. With regolith density we know, it should be well feasible.

Thermal insulation can be made very efficient in space because there is no atmosphere.

I see a nuclear/rtg base power for life support, and solar powered regolith smelting following the 14 day cycle.
Inflation has been at roughly 2% for 20 years. It's been below 5% for at least 40 years. If high inflation is really that bad for the "low class" then how come they are doing so poorly despite avoiding it for so long?
It certainly does help find the perpetrators and prevent abuse. Unlike videos of many other kinks, CSAM distribution is not one-way from a small number of producers to a large number of consumers but is often based on sharing "their own" material.

When we arrest people for "consuming" known old CSAM, we often find new CSAM produced by themselves; the big part of busting online CSAM sharing rings is not the prevention of CSAM sharing but the fact that you do get a lot of actual abusers that way.
Under "convention over configuration" is this bit:

> pytest also goes further and inspects the arguments to functions to figure out more things.

I think this pattern deserves its own category. I think of it as the Python world's variation on "dependency injection" and I really like it.

In pytest you can use argument names to request that specific test fixtures be made available to your test function: https://docs.pytest.org/en/6.2.x/fixture.html

I use it in Datasette to allow plugins to define their own view functions, which will be passed the specific objects that they declare a need for in order to process an incoming HTTP request: https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/plugin_hooks.html#regist...
I was looking at gTLDs when getting my own domain. I think I got lucky with the timing because all the desirable ones had already classified the name I wanted as being premium. Around the same price you're saying your renewal would have been. I ended up going with firstnamelastname.net.

I don't thing it's a good idea for anyone to use a gTLD for anything serious. Even without the prices being uncapped, there's no guarantee that a gTLD will stick around. Would be crappy to lose a domain because the company who owns the gTLD went out of business or just didn't want to deal with handling domains anymore.
Are students really being driven to film or are there just enough people who want to be in film that they will do and try anything to succeed in it, no matter what it costs?

I have a really hard time believing Columbia made a credible argument that you can make a good salary in film.
I still don't understand what risk the unvaccinated pose to the vaccinated that justifies these extremely heavy handed mandates.
> Leave my kids alone.

> If they want to share photos of themselves naked, it's none of anyone's business

What about if adult sexual predators want to share sexually explicit photos with your kids?

My understanding is that this feature isn’t about stopping kids from messaging each other - it’s about giving parents a warning if strangers are trying to groom them.

Also:

“ The Messages feature is specifically only for children in a shared iCloud family account. If you’re an adult, nothing is changing with regard to any photos you send or receive through Messages. And if you’re a parent with children whom the feature could apply to, you’ll need to explicitly opt in to enable the feature. It will not turn on automatically when your devices are updated to iOS 15.”

So basically the furore is based on a misunderstanding.
What about parking? In major cities that’s is frequently the biggest expense at ~£100/month it really adds up.
https://www.denofgeek.com/games/mortal-kombat-best-selling-f...

Edit: Mortal Kombat’s major advantage over Smash is that it’s available on every platform. I think Street Fighter’s problem is that Capcom doesn’t bump the version, so it’s non obvious how Super Street Fighter V Arcade Edition is different from Street Fighter V (which also had a bungled release).

Of the three SF would be my preferred franchise, but sales suggest WB is doing something right.