skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least twice, I had doctors describe me as having an "addictive personality", and saying things like "that's just how you're wired". I never went back to those doctors, as I refused to accept that's what I was stuck with being.

I'd been an excessive drinker from my late teens through to my early 30s. "Alcoholic", I'm not sure about; I've seen others who were formally diagnosed alcoholic, including one friend who ultimately died of it, and I wasn't that bad, but I was at least very socially dependent. I also smoked tobacco heavily and dabbled in some substances - not the most addictive ones, but it could have gone down that path if I hadn't seen the warning signs.

At 33 I stopped drinking and smoking completely (I'd quit smoking a few years earlier but had started again that year). For two whole years I didn't have a drop or puff, and focused on eating a very healthy diet, cleaning up my body and getting my career and relationships in better shape.

Along the way I found some deep emotional healing techniques. I started doing them regularly, and have continued doing them consistently for nearly 10 years since.

These days I can drink regularly for pleasure, and I never have a problem with it. I barely ever get drunk unless it's a major celebration, but if I do, I bounce back fine and have no temptation to do it again any time soon. And I'm never remotely tempted to smoke or use other substances when drinking, even when around others who are.

One of those doctors expressed shock that I'd gone to all the trouble of quitting my old ways, only to start drinking again. He couldn't believe that it would be possible to go from the way I was to having a healthy relationship with alcohol.

The most significant factor that's made the difference has been the emotional healing work I've been doing. It's a practice that methodically finds and enables releasing all traumas, complexes and sabotaging beliefs/patterns from the earliest times in life.

So maybe it's valid to say one can have an "addictive personality" and that I was one of those people. But we assume that "addictive personality" equals "hard wired", without realising that personality is very alterable if you work at it consistently over a long enough period of time, with a focus on the deep subconscious/unconscious aspects of personality.

I think organisations like AA do great harm when they tell their patients that you're an "addict for life". It's such a disempowering belief to have about one's self, and it's little surprise that people relapse when they're given no hope of ever being completely free of their addiction and able to live like other healthy people.

These days, I have a young child, a great relationship with my partner, family members and friends, my career is going fine, and my physiological health continues to improve. The doctor I see these days, on the infrequent occasions I need to see him, says "whatever you're doing, keep doing it".
More monitoring of the normal citizen
I've used one or two of these before, would be interested in more patterns that use, methodcaller (I think in the example given str.strip would have worked too).
I have, in fact, worked for multiple manufacturers of serialized products.

My point is that even though there are multiple points where the serial number "should" be checked, there are also multiple points where that could fail for one reason or another.
Alcoholism in one person isn't contained to just one person. It affects everybody around them as they need to live with the fallout. An alcoholic will do anything to get their next drink and restricting cash access leads to horrendous consequences sometimes.

When you live with that in childhood then you make sure you don't get exposed to it in adulthood. I drink socially but made sure to marry somebody who hates alcohol. Living with an alcoholic as an adult isn't good for your mental health.
Removing the Russian segment from the ISS isn't feasible, as it has the only module capable of GNC, and Progress is the only currently flying craft that can raise the ISS's orbit (which, being in LEO, slowly decays).
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Both? The calcium to make the limestone has to come from somewhere.
This is terrible overreach and a good example of magical thinking about the abilities of AI.

Even if the false positive rate of such a system was only 0.1% per driving session, an extraordinarily ambitious goal for any AI system, that still translates to an incredible number of false positives across all drivers. Someone who drives twice a day for work would be expected to hit a false positive every couple of years or so. Do we really want our cars randomly flagging everyone as drunk every once in a while?

Obviously the people writing this bill assumed that perfectly correct AI could exist. They did their job, now the problem is punted to the engineers.

Ridiculous. I’m sure this will get removed eventually, perhaps with further legislation.
Hah! The jam is out of stock.
It might have been worthwhile to include a discussion on how to safely escape the shell strings, in case there is no API that receives a list of arguments.

On Unix, it is not very intuitive because you cannot use backslash inside a single quoted string. To quote "o'neil" we have to write

'o'\''neil'
I still remember Tzar fondly for it's in game cut scenes. Also, it's one of those games where assassins could could climb walls so even completely turtled up you couldn't be 100% sure that you are safe.
While I love the FLOSS ecosystem I don't see how it's anything but a rounding error for consumer electronics. Unless there was a massive societal shift I don't see any future that includes a plurality of users owning FLOSS PC's or phones. The best place to start would be to get software freedoms included in the school curriculum.
Re:Captcha uses your IP and Google account to try to determine if you're a real human or a bot. If you're signed into a brand new Google account, or logged out of one, it'll be more likely to prompt for Re:Captcha.
Correct - there's a big difference between growing standard weed and high grade shit.

However, I feel like people in the thread are slightly overstating how hard it is to learn how to grow good weed. I live in a country where smoking and growing weed is illegal.

I know people (yes, more than 1) who grow their own using best practices learned from YouTube (and others). pH, heat, nutrients, CO2, light levels, everything is monitored and tweaked. I've been in grow tents with 2 plants inside and grow houses with >50 (highly, highly illegal).

It's really not THAT hard, especially if you can follow basic protocols (I.E probably most of HN). It's not exactly rocket science! There are (genuinely) illiterate people doing it as we speak.
Brassica and domesticated dogs diversified because of controlled breeding. Unless you get a bunch of totalitarian eugenicists with differing goals, I dont know how this could happen with people.
That honestly makes it sound even worse. I’m confused as to how people think it doesn’t.

Also it’s perfectly valid statistics.
Work from home during the worst of covid was the best time to threaten a strike.

Everyone loaded up on extra TP, a work stop was all of not opening laptops for 35-40% of the country.

But feudal exploitation by the rich and each other locally is preferred.
That’s not 100% true. Exhaustion is real. Can you watch the same Marvel super hero movie for the n-th time, even though you loved the first few? You can’t, you just get tired. Burn out is real even amongst addicts.

You literally get tired of this shit. Before I became an addict, another legitimate addict told me why he stopped - he just got tired. I’m talking years of daily drinking, and all the consequences that come with it (every bridge burnt, every path destroyed, credentialed as a true fuck-up). Exhausted.

That’s the thing about abuse. If you took one hit of cocaine, and you die, that’s the end of your abuse. Addicts can take hit after hit after hit, and still live. That’s scarier than death, and extremely tiring.

I am tired of it, pure exhaustion is a way out. The implication of that is that you yourself are such a piece of shit that you didn’t quit until you yourself got tired.

It’s shameful.
There was some structuring in 2005. But Ito Yokado acquired majority control in 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_%26_I_Holdings

https://apnews.com/article/d5e836d5edac5600bbf626c97d8a2da3
Might the {\rm text} notation be LISP-inspired syntax? Replace the braces with parentheses and remove the slash and you get `(rm text)`
I didn't want to respond to the $100 ounce comment because I haven't hit Portland or other larger cities, but I have to agree with you. I can't find even 1/2 ounces for $100. There are shops in Bend selling $75 eighths.

It's greed. It's collusion. I don't believe the “No one's making any money” nonsense in the media.

We're not making any money, but look at that $156,000 Mercedes SUV parked outside in the reserved spot.
I had a personal website where the URL was literally my full legal name. The domain would be of no interest to anyone other than me. I let it lapse around 2019 because I didn't want to pay for renewal, and figured I'd be fine leaving the site offline.

Immediately upon letting it lapse it's bought by someone who I believe lives in Russia. They took my website, rehosted an old version found on archive.org, and then put advertisements on the site. It was not rehosted well, half of the links were broken. I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to embed malware on there too.

I emailed the hosting company (DigitalFyre) with a DMCA request to get it taken down. Their support assured me they'd take it down but they never did.

After a year of it being up the domain expired and I bought it back just to prevent someone else from doing the same. I figured it wouldn't be profitable for them so I made the decision to wait them out early on.

I'm thinking the entire process is automated, where they'll buy up expired domains, rehost archived versions, and hope for either the previous owner to purchase it back or for ad revenue to make it worthwhile.

Absolute scum of the earth.
Indeed, that thought occurred to me as well.

It's a risky bet, though: if somehow that intermediate layer fails and you find yourself locked up and accused of storing/disseminating CSAM material, it's not like the civil rights era when your friends and neighbors (and hopefully employers) will understand you've been arrested for a peaceful protest.
Goodluck getting a promotion if you never arrest anyone. I know some cops who plant weed almost every spring, just to "bust" it every fall.
I do believe this anecdote provides a comprehensive answer to the question posed in the article.
Epic copied id

Epic copied Valve

Epic copied PubG

Epic is suing to stop others

Epic isn’t a very novel business

Edit: thanks everyone. Was in the dumps due to rain at the beach. The downvotes have made me feel alive on an otherwise boring day stuck inside far from home.
Someone once told me that just up and quitting alcohol or other things without treatment, drama, etc. was kind of the norm for the generation that fought in WWII. I have also read that Vietnam vets did a lot of drugs while in Vietnam but most of them quit when they returned to the US and did so without any kind of treatment.

Vietnam was really ugly. Women and children were acting as suicide bombers and it was an unpopular war, so we did one-year tours and most people going were about 19 years old (compared to mid twenties for average soldier age in WWII) and you are most likely to die in your first battle. If you survive your first battle, your odds of surviving the war go up.

So there were a lot of people seeing their first battle at a young age and it was a meat grinder. It was ugly even for a war.
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html is great for time trials/expiration dates
I think they got all of us!
It's _extremely_ weird that there is a commonly sold food, and no-one can figure out what it is. In particular, the vendors are unwilling to talk about it, and where pushed vaguely claim it's an agave, but the agave expert says it's not (of course, maybe he's wrong).

The whole thing is fascinating. It's a low-stakes mystery, but a mystery all the same.
A lot on yahoo lately. Need to find another email provider.
You seem to be operating old information and/or bad assumptions about the typical standard (LEED). It very much covers the criticisms you claim it does not include. It isn't simply a bunch of check boxes for no reason.

https://www.usgbc.org/leed/v4
At no point on that chart does it go lower than about 200ppm.
American opinion on food: automatically discarded.

This is a simple heuristic I live with.
Instead of televised debates with only questions about policy, how about interspersing basic factual questions like this? Maybe even ask them to “show their work,” either aloud or in writing, to demonstrate they know why a particular answer is true?

Allow viewers at home to also answer the question. See how the collective audience does against the candidates.
Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it better? (2012)
The ISS has always been designed as an integrated station of the Russian and US segment. There was never any need to duplicate functionality between both segments, as independent operation of each segment is non-goal.
Apple claims without math that it's a 1-in-a-trillion chance that your account will be incorrectly flagged.

And even then... what happens? Does the FBI actually smash down your door with a SWAT team for CSAM? In most cases, No. They go and arrest you the normal way. Unless you had a ludicrous amount of false flags (in the thousands) showing you were a dealer and had a previous history.
> In fact, the classist connotation of 'redneck' implies that there are different types of 'whites' that take into account their background and behavior. The n-word, or similar slurs, reduces a person to only their race.

Some years ago I had a (US) southerner explain the same distinction between their using both the terms "n---ers" and "black".
I would also point out that today it is not possible to form new large scale coal/oil deposits.

Coal/oil deposits that we are using up now formed because at the time there was no bacteria that could digest dead plant/plankton matter.

This is also why all coal/oil deposits are very old. There is very little deposits after bacteria has evolved.

Nowadays there needs to be special circumstances for a piece of biological matter to not be digested by bacteria. For example it would have to be covered by permafrost or drown in oxygen-deficient lake for a very, very long time and then covered by soil.
This is the same for all parts of the economy and human condition. A small percentage of people produce nearly everything of value.
I know it logically follows that some people have that limitation; it's a function of the nervous system that can be limited or absent, just like one's senses or mobility. But my experience has been that blind people in particular tend to be underestimated and not given enough of a chance. So I guess my inclination was to expect that this would be the case with Kristine as well. You actually worked with her, so if you tried to explain things to her and she just didn't get it, then of course I have no reason to doubt you.
Google would block access to its services from that os. Just like they did with windows mobile. And that would be the end of it.
Not sure if article said it, but you'll need to have trademarked your name prior to the domain registration date.
I would definately class alcohol as a drug,

but I feel like almost anything food/ drink could be a drug (to me), since if I like it, it makes me want to crave it - for many days/ weeks after.
Seconded. I now store timestamps as the number of microseconds since the epoch. It may not be as fancy as an actual timestamp type, but at least it works without surprises.
I know editors of journals and they all get paid. However it is recognized that it is low and not expected to seriously complement their income. Think in the order of $2-5K p.a. All of whom I know have permanent university roles.

It is considered prestigious for the editor/reviewer in the sense of service to their intellectual community, and to their resume; and their university to have their brand in positions of influence. Most tend to leave after only a few years and this is considered normal. The role of reviewer/editor is not significant enough to earn promotions - this must come from their research & teaching.

They are required to declare any conflicts of interest for any papers under their review and they are simply passed to another editor. While the person who reviews your paper is usually unknown (through the review software/pool of reviewers) there's really little incentive to cheat on this as there exists sufficient high quality readers who can call out obvious bias/unusually low quality publications for the tier of journal.

The most burdensome class of problem is the mass of papers submitted of insufficient quality for publication in the journal. These are quickly rejected but the volume is so high, and rejected authors often attempt to challenge. Sometimes they are rude. (I can't estimate the size of this from memory, sorry.) The upside is fortunately these don't require deep/secondary review.
Oregon State University develops first-ever bipedal robot that can run a 5K
Link below to the behind-the-scenes article. I have no experience using the Linux app so I'm not sure of the performance but a lot of the core seems to be written in Rust compiled to WASM which is the way it's now being done for their browser extension. Personally everyone keeps cribbing about electron but I hope 1Password has found a way to make good on performance

https://dteare.medium.com/behind-the-scenes-of-1password-for...
I've been self hosting 1Password for about a decade without any issues. There's always been a way around the subscription stuff. I honestly don't mind paying the subscription pricing, just didn't like the idea of storing my passwords on their service with everyone else's.
It’s truly horrific that as an interested layman I am completely UNABLE to read most scientific papers. And to think about what they did to Aaron Schwartz…
I'd say give it another try sometime! The mobile app (I've only used the iOS version) is very usable and has FaceID support for those that want it. Also, safari can work with the app to pull passwords quickly.

I'm just really grateful this project exists. I've tried most of the major password managers out there and I feel like BW/VW is the clear winner, especially if you're willing to host your own server. If not, their pricing for an annual personal account is incredibly reasonable.
The Fastest Programming Language? ‘Dave’s Garage’ Seeks the Answer
Currently, there are four (more or less relevant) android app stores as far as I know:

- Google Play

- Huawei AppGallery

- Samsung Galaxy Store

- Amazon AppStore

But Google Mobile Services (GMS) are so widely spread and often pre-installed on the devices that there is no real competition for Google.

Currently, the most promising alternatives for GMS are:

- Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) [1]: more widely used now because GMS was banned from Huawei devices since US-China trade wars

- Amazon + Microsoft [2, 3, 4]: Microsoft is planning to serve android apps in Windows Store with Windows 11 in cooperation with Amazon

[1] Huawei Mobile Services: https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/hms

[2] Amazon in-app purchases: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/in-app-purchasing/iap-over...

[3] Amazon push notifications: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/adm/overview.html

[4] Windows 11 and android support: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/24/22548428/microsoft-window...
Some areas maybe, but I'm seeing brisk competition across the product board without the related price competition you would expect. Prices are not going down in a surplus market. That's greed.
https://skimfeed.com/
$145 a month just for being born a woman and taking a few pictures. Basically free money. Who wouldn't do it?
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Yes, alcohol sales are set by the individual state (and sometimes county) in the US. Here in North Carolina, you can buy beer & wine in a restaurant, supermarket, movie theater, etc. (subject to licensing and state Blue Laws [0] governing times when they can be sold), but hard liquor is sold in a state-run Alcohol Beverage Control [1] store. When you hear the phrase "Dry County" that's a county which does not allow alcohol sales at all [2]. Today, North Carolina has just one dry county - Graham, near the Tennessee border.

So if you live near a state border it's not uncommon to do your alcohol shopping in the adjacent state if the laws and taxes there are more lax. But there can be personal-consumption transportation limits, which if you exceed you can be charged with bootlegging [3].

Story time: There is a discount liquor store in South Carolina just across the state line, south of the city of Charlotte. Many years ago the North Carolina ABC department sent an agent to sit in their parking lot and radio the license plates of cars that had large alcohol purchases to fellow agents waiting along the highway. Those agents would pull those cars over and charge the drivers with bootlegging. The South Carolina highway patrol took offense to this impingement on their authority and sent a couple officers to discuss matters with the ABC agent, and explain to him how he did not have jurisdiction in their state, and to please go home now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law
[1] https://abc.nc.gov/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum-running
> limiting opportunities for real ideas and websites to be made

I can't imagine this being the case. There are plenty of TLDs to choose from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
I think a lot of the proponents for these sorts of rules/restrictions tend to be anti-car and/or throwing bones to their various transport unions, and don't care that they are overreaches or impractical.
It won’t be the first time in history, Americans and with them the “western” world turned a blind eye to who’s backs their hedonistic party was carried over.

If you look at what was life like. What people cared about. What songs sang about. What households looked like. War was as far a concept from the average American.

Sure we had the gulf war early 90s. We had Bosnia during Clinton years. But most Americans were more concerned with becoming stock traders from home, saving willy and the earth and how Clinton’s cigars were used.

Americans bombers dropping bombs by the ton to the backdrop of western advancement has almost become an expectation in our campaign of spreading our brand of democracy and its freedoms or else.
That depends sometimes the work of the bureaucrat is to verify things that shouldn't even be required. For example in some cities the color you paint your house is limited, thus eliminating your right to live in an ugly house.
It is most certainly not, when your economic survival is dependent on these services. It is a false choice.

I challenge anyone to try and live a normal life completely disconnected from the servers of Amazon, google, Facebook, and Apple. It is impossible.
> It's absolutely an accurate use of statistics

Nope, that's what phrase "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is about. You're a manipulator.