skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good write up. The US is really grappling with diseases of despair, and heroin/fentanyl addition is on of the biggest ones impacting the wellbeing of our society. A massive slice of talent and raw human resource is just dying every year, but the solutions that have worked in other countries are just impossible to implement here due because the the methods that are known to work are politically dead on arrival.

I'm a strong proponent of the US taking the approach the Swiss took to combat their opiate epidemic in the late 80s and early 90s. Anyone that is addicted to drugs can get the drugs they want, they just have to already be addicted first, and accept the drugs in a safe environment. It would be extraordinarily expensive, but cases like Jacks are already costing us much more than just giving him drugs, keeping him alive, then having healthcare professionals be there at exactly the moment he decides he's had enough. The effect on new users would be profound as well: as all the current users naturally age out of wanting to use hard drugs, the majority of drug dealers (other users themselves), won't have the capability to introduce new people to hard drugs.

However, we seem to have this huge moral hang up in the US about giving addicts drugs, even though we know that will save lives and money by reducing crime and lowering overall healthcare costs. For all the money Jack's parents spent on rehab, and hours spent watching him, none of it could prevent them burying their son the day he got a bad bag of heroin. For a case like Jacks, only safe drugs and injection sites would keep him and the millions of people stable before they are ready to move on.

The US is just not prepared to do what it takes to solve the opiate epidemic, and it's so frustrating to what tens of thousands of people die while we aren't anywhere near getting our act together. It's a Vietnam war in OD deaths, every year, and the Sacklers just walked with no criminal liability. Unless we do something drastic to reach these people, the opiate crisis is never going to go away.
Interesting to note that while it took apple 38 years to get to $1 trillion, they are now three years later sitting at a market cap of $2.46 trillion.
I see three issues here:

* Are you a real person or a bot / shill

* Are others able to know who you are when you post things

* Are you able to support others' opinions without any personal stake

And I think the answer to all of them is that it depends on scale, although I don't see any particular reason to believe (1) isn't always preferred.
I think all of us own the problem. Technology and progress are not going to stop, if not Facebook then some other company would have brought us here. I think connecting people is a good thing, and Facebook made the world a better place so far (just my opinion), but misinformation is becoming easier and easier with technology and it won't stop here without some innovative ideas or groundbreaking regulations.
That the dirty secret of all higher education. The value of the credential comes from the screening, not the education. Research shows people accepted to ivy league schools who don't attend have the same future incomes as the people who attend.
I've never met somebody informed and for decriminalization that isn't aware that the first few years, perhaps even decades, especially when just in a small region and not an entire nation, are going to be a bit of a shitshow.

Things take time to get better, and as others have mentioned, most places that have decriminalized haven't exactly bolstered all other services that need to be around once decriminalization happens.

It's sort of like the amount of people who are pissed about how Chinese tourists act. Their nation has just recently entered a point in which they're able to be tourists. Americans have had decades to learn how to act and are often still shitty tourists. Things take time.
So, to clarify, these people are not forcing you to do anything, but you want to force them to do something?
The UK/Ireland 3 prong duckhead is grounded. I have no idea why third parties haven't produced grounded versions, other than the obvious (no demand and anyone who cares has a solution, use the extension cable).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Replacement-Adapter-Duckhead-Universa...
I have them happen too (for no particularly discernible reason)
In finder,

View > Show Status Bar

You can click on any of the folders to go there.

In spotlight, cmd click on the file to show it in the finder.
What if it's members are secretly 70% shills and bots, and the community itself is somewhat of an illusion
it's a standard like Ansible. if you already have a great configuration management / deployment tool, then you likely wouldn't gain much
Ah yes, because as we know Windows CE was the pinnacle of mobile UI design.
Sudan woke up without Internet
I've heard good things about tailscale which does something magical I don't quite understand to get around NAT and allow access to your box in a secure way. I know (not so technical) people who have used it successfully.
What any the fact that Spotlight is terrible at finding files and is now just trying to be a bad version of Google?
I think he’s implying if he had that outlet, maybe heroin would have never been encountered.
Shipping so fast you end up delivering a bad user experience doesn't actually help the user.

I feel like this needs to be strongly emphasized for the agile crowd that knows what speed is but sometimes forgets what quality is.
this seems amongst the first actions that modern dictators do when taking down democratic regimes.

... and that will be much more difficult in a few years when technology and providers like Starlink are more widespread.
A new and deadlier 'rona wave comes by May and ...
For me it happens when I have >2GB of swap, pretty consistently, which also coincides with when I have Civ 6 running or tons of tabs open.
You’re feet are older than your head for relativistic reasons, as you say. But not “a lot” older.
Python dependency management is quite adequate for teaching - all you need to know is how to pip-install packages, really. The real headaches don't show up until you have a large app with lots of dependencies.

The other thing about Python is that, because it's already so popular for teaching, it has an ecosystem of tools around that. E.g. it has turtle graphics in the standard library (!), which is a very good way to explain loops, recursion etc for visual learners. There's also IDEs like https://thonny.org/ that visualize program execution step-by-step.
I've always enjoyed the spaces feature. Tried to get into it as my main way of interacting with apps, but it never fully stuck. That might be because I'm often using preview windows and everything is chaos.
Or iphone/apple have "sealed their fate" by not doing something like the headphone jack or a replaceable battery or whatever.
BNPL firm Klarna buys travel platform Inspirock
Negativity formulates and spreads from one negative experience to another experience which makes itself a negative experience.

In my case it came from multiple instances of targeted harassment from Tesla people. Should I pass this negativity on? Clearly no but at the same time I reserve the right to express my feelings about what has transpired over the last few years.
The only reason heroin is illegal is that it was invented after alcohol. And this is not a defense of heroin.
I'm a sponsor of the Homebrew project on GitHub. My Macs are running macOS Mojave 10.14.6 for reasons that aren't relevant here. I have no interest in upgrading.

The announcement states that Homebrew is "dropping the support for Mojave due to us only supporting 3 macOS versions." I'd like someone on the core team to explain exactly how this will affect my use of Homebrew going forward. Thanks.
Yes, I don't understand why any brand would like to taint their reputation by using these middlemen.
I think you want a Synology or QNAP device at that point. I bought one of these for $550:

https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-932px

5 HDDs and 4 SSDs for caching, with 10gbit fiber or 2.5gbit ethernet.

I have 40 terabytes of storage in mine(21TB free). If I ever fill it up, I'll probably buy an actual storage server with ~500TB of drives.
Facebook won't need to resort to such crude methods. They can algorithmically suppress positive stories about a candidate, boost negative stories, and do the opposite for his opponent.

Without a leak from Facebook, you wouldn't even know they did anything at all, let alone be able to prove it.

Story choice in traditional news media has a similar bias.
If this were true, there would be a lot more similarity between the CV1 and the Vive. From my medium-depth technical understanding, they seem about as dissimilar as it's possible to be while still both being PC-connected VR headsets and both being compatible with the same third party Unity/UnrealEngine games.
It’s kind of interesting that it’s not a code requirement. I presume that the power charger is double insulated, hence the option for 2 prongs, but the laptops sure aren’t double insulated.
TIL. Thanks. I love how I keep learning new things about vim after years of daily usage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LWNY70Oj4A

Recently heard this podcast with Lex Fridman and Carl Hart (author of Drug Use for Grown-Ups) and talk about this
> Source control is not in the domain of computer science.

Yep. Its not.

And the fact that modern day computer science institutions do not teach it, is a huge failing on the part of these programs, and is something that they should be strongly criticized for.

People go in to CS programs, believing that they are going to be taught basic skills like that, and they are tricked by these unstated lies.

But, if we really want to keep with this "cs"/software engineer distinction, then fine. Lets stop lying to students, and lets, as a society, attempt to convince people to go into software engineering more, because that is what most of these students actually want.

And lets relegate "computer science" to a much less prestigious, and much more "esoteric" field of study, that is looked down upon, in comparison to what students actually want, which is to learn software engineering.

But, unfortunately, modern day "computer science" is currently held up as the "prestigious" field of study, when it actually does not deserve that prestige. It deserves the ridicule, that modern day academics currently put on "software engineering" or "information systems", that are currently looked down upon as the fields of study that people go into, if they can't hack it in CS.

> we apply the concepts that we learn from CS in our jobs.

> that data might be useless by the time you graduate.

I am not sure where this myth comes from, that software engineering is just about some specific language, or tool.

Learning about the "concepts" of source control, or documentation, or working with a team, or writing readable code, or designing good APIs, are things that have little to do with CS, but goes beyond just "learn this specific tool".

Algorithms, and math, while can sometimes be useful, are still only one very small part of what it means to be a software engineer.
My only advice would be not to take advice from opposing council; seek your own legal advice from lawyers hired by you.
This behemoth is unstoppable. Join or die.
Is this a thing on the smaller ones?
[Disclaimer: OutSystems employee here] I think OutSystems as any of the other players in this market do the opposite of thinking in the "traditional development". If we did, non of these players would be here today.

Our focus is exactly the opposite: breaking from traditional development: focus on productivity, focus in what matters.

Now, OutSystems has a specific way of looking into the problem, others players have different ways. And that's ok. We are probably focusing in different use cases.

For OutSystems we are all for building critical apps, that are able to sustain the pace of change of the business
> I never understood Facebook

What part did you not understand?
Is Malthusianism even believed anymore? The recent statistics I see show the world population slowing down greatly. From what I understand, America and most of the developed world needs more reproduction and immigration if they hope to sustain their economic growth. China raised the one child rule and no one took the bait, citing the same reasons everyone else does- having kids is really expensive and the future of the world with regard to climate change and environmental concerns, etc. is quite shaky.
It works with several streaming providers. The API is opt in though (Coordinated Media Playback), so the providers need to implement some hooks to make it work, meaning they've decided they have the rights.

Notably, Netflix doesn't allow it, but Disney+, Huly and HBO Max do.
That's back when people still wore DeCSS on tshirts.
This seems optimistic.
In Dublin, Ireland, I see about one/two events per week that make into newspapers.
While I do think many media sources have an obvious self-interested bias against Facebook, I think Luckey is biased himself in how he portrays this affair in his tweets. He talks about how the press covered the filing of the lawsuit, but neglects to mention that it was originally filed in 2015, and has been through numerous twists and turns since, being dismissed, reinstated upon appeal, etc. before finally reaching a jury trial.[1]

Coverage in general has declined as the years have gone by, and this latest trial garnered little attention when it started. It wasn't as if there was minute-by-minute reporting that went dark as soon as the verdict came in. Yes, a loss for Oculus would have been an interesting story, and would have been reported on, but the reality is that Oculus and VR are simply not the zeigeisty topics they were in 2015, or even 2017, and so a "Goliath beats David after six year legal slog" story was never likely to be make headlines.

As someone who spent years fighting against a meritless suit, Luckey is entitled to feel aggrieved, and to wish that its end would be as big news as its beginning. But objectively its easy to see why it wasn't, without necessarily ascribing it to an industry-wide conspiracy of silence.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/10/oculus-catches-a-break-as-...
>It's amazing the level of defensive outrage this event generates 50 plus years on

That's the thing, though. About trying to make something of it now. Isn't it just anachronistic?

I have the impression that people obsess over it because they believe that all that keeps Israel going is US support and if they just get people to believe the "truth" about the USS liberty then magic will happen.

But the event was from back when the US wasn't a close ally. If it was intentional, how is it at all mysterious? What is there to say about it? They could've thought that US surveillance would give them away to those they were actually fighting.

Again, it seems anachronistic, taking something from before the relationship as if it was a betrayal, to try to break up the relationship. No amount of rhetoric can move it forward to today.
> from living here

I don't think you are living here, I think you are just visiting.

And actually, now that I think about it, I'd be skeptical re-admitting you in the country after having spent several months in one of the most expensive cities in the world with no (legal) sources of income available on your current visa.
type name:nameoffileIwant or just start typing and press down arrow then enter to select and search the Name matches:blah blah option that appears usually straight away.
Is govt doing a good job with this stuff off of facebook? I know plenty of folks who really had trouble getting even govt action on all sorts of harm (revenge porn / various internet scams).

I really hope at least govt can deliver on this stuff reliably - the risk is folks will lose faith in govt rather than these big companies (google / apple / whatsapp / instagram etc).
It is: https://github.com/LunarVim/LunarVim/blob/rolling/lua/lvim/p...
I bought a rockpro64 and a NAS case with space for 4 drives, I added a 4xSATA PCIe card. Right now it's a 4x4TB ZFS setup that has been running as my own home storage for over a year continuously. Very happy with it.
> Guns are excellent tools for self defense.

Not really. The research generally points towards defensive gun use being rare and, when it does happen, are associated with escalated arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal

Survey Research and Self-Defense Gun Use: An Explanation of Extreme Overestimates: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1144020

The epidemiology of self-defense gun use: evidence from the National Crime Victimization Surveys 2007-2011 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25910555/

Gun Threats and Self-Defense Gun Use: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thr...
Please. It’s so (seemingly) obvious that I don’t understand why it’s not a thing yet. These people aren’t idiots, are they? This is obvious, isn’t it? Is it organizational failure? Or is the technology really, actually, not there yet?
Presidents are tricky because (recent circumstances excluded) US voters don't tend to reward people who have been in the public eye for a long time with the presidency. Looking at recent presidents, almost none were in nationally visible political offices 20+ years before their elections (though a number were famous outside of politics). The 20th/21st century presidents, and their situation 20 years before election (it would have taken a hell of an eye even identify any but Biden, Trump and Reagan):

- Biden (2000): 27th year in the US Senate

- Trump (1996): Tabloid-famous real estate developer

- Obama (1988): First year at Harvard Law School

- W. Bush (1980): Oil executive son of the VP-elect

- Clinton (1972): Arkansas Attorney General-elect

- H.W. Bush (1968): 1st-year US House Rep

- Reagan (1960): President of the Screen Actors Guild, movie star

- Carter (1956): Farmer, son of a briefly seated US House Rep

- Ford (never elected, 1954): 5th-year US House Rep

- Nixon (1948): 2-year US House Rep

- Johnson (as elected VP, 1940): 3-year US House Rep

- Kennedy (1941): US Navy Officer, son of Ambassador to the U.K.

- Eisenhower (1932): Executive officer to the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army

- Truman (1924): Former county court judge

- F.D. Roosevelt (1913): former 3-year senator, Assistant secretary of the Navy, Ex-president's cousin

- Hoover (1909): Successful mining engineer

- Coolidge (1900): City Solicitor of Northampton MA

- Harding (1900): 1st-year Ohio State Senator

- Wilson (1892): Head of the Princeton Political Science department

- Taft (1888): Judge in the Superior Court of Cincinnati, son of an ex-cabinet secretary

- T. Roosevelt (1880): New college grad, heir to a family fortune.
My condolences to anyone who's lost a friend or relative to addiction - thanks to the human vultures who reap the rewards.

It's possible that by vigorously pursuing and prosecuting the people who can afford to purchase and disseminate hard narcotics - instead of the users and a pusher or two - most of the problem would dry up.

I'm not optimistic about that happening. The little guys are easier to catch, and caps are feathered. Meanwhile, the big guys have contacts and probably political connections.
Sure there are rich people that go to school for shits and giggles.

But “job benefit” isn’t exactly the same as “job placement”. I went back to school for improve my own CS fundamentals but not to immediately get a job. And many people do the same (go back to school for a promotion or for a raise).

And since those people exist, comparing job placement rates won’t tell you much since the data isn’t comparable.
At the same time it provides power to the previously powerless. Whether it is true power remains to be seen.
In Notepad, you can save the file in a simpler character set (save as).
I hope Apple will make a 25th anniversary edition of the iPod, with modern connectors and internals but a physically clicky wheel like the original.
> I happened to hear a Steve Jobs clip the other day, where he said: a great idea is only 10% what you think it's worth; the 90% is the implementation details and craftsmanship that goes into it.

I like your comment, and I would LOVE a source on the quote!
I can speak from experience when I say it's not trivial.

Although doable, but very time consuming and prone to error.
I had a look at the wikipedia page on transistors before I posted, but even had I not done that, it is obvious from where we are at now that a transistor had potential to be better than vacuum tubes.

Going from a screen without a chunk out of it to a screen with a chunk missing from it is not an advantage in any way.

A missing chunk of screen has no potential to be better than a complete screen. Complete screen > incomplete screen, simple as that.

It's not simply an unlikable aesthetic, it is functionally worse in every way. It takes up the same physical space as a full screen, with less functionality. No amount of Apple fanboyism can change that fact.

We are talking about this product, not some hypothetical future where that missing screen space is used for something more useful than a screen.

They've gone in the correct direction for a few things in this product (HDMI, magsafe), but the screen chunk is a clear and obvious step backwards. How anyone could argue differently is beyond me.
Instagram and whatsapp have to be growing.

Facebook itself? I think its dying personally.
It's classic clickbait - not attempting to be appropriately descriptive.
Why do you think free speech absolutism is very badly flawed?
Can I assume you've never had the privilege of knowing a hardcore gambling addict?

I'm not taking about weekend poker players, here... I mean people who've lost their wife, kids, house, and job to a gambling habit. They have zero savings, mountains of debt, and if you lend them $20 to get groceries, they'll go hungry after gambling it away?

Modern video games are designed by highly paid, PHd-level behavioral scientists to be as habit-forming as possible. If you're vulnerable to it, you're going to have the same kind of struggles getting away from video games as a heroin addict would from junk.

The lack of immediately lethal consequences is only part of the problem... Addicts can ruin their lives, and take their families and friends to the point of no return, even without the possibility of something as serious as an overdose.
The same was true of early Firebase. (Which Google acquired.) Sometimes a "general" backend/datastore just sucks independent of scale.
Basically transcribe everything and make it searchable. Wish that was more common for podcasts and videos.
FB? how about applying to startups
He was first prescribed opiates for an injury.
Are you sure?

https://thisbeast.com/how-to-avoid-electric-charge-on-macboo...

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/17575/how-to-prope...
> The FTC claims of monopoly are laughable?

I agree that the regulatory question of whether FB meets the technical requirements of being classed a 'monopoly' is unclear. However, I see the real worry for FB here as going beyond one anti-trust action, it's the building cultural consensus and growing political momentum to "do something". That kind of tidal wave is hard to reverse and difficult to escape unscathed.

I also agree that as pervasive and pernicious as FB is today, it is under serious growing threat from alternatives as well as already "jumping the shark" perceptually with young users. Together those twin storms on the horizon comprise a long-term threat to FB's dominance and relevance. That said, FB's revenue will likely continue 'up and to the right' for several years before the impact is seen in their financials.
Turning bluetooth on and off doesn't reset anything, so it doesn't help when people have deeper problems with their Mac's bluetooth.
Tailscale is great. It's really changed my world and it's so dang simple.
And that doesn’t just mean legal had the reigns. It means a weird percentage of the top leadership were literally D.C. attorneys.
Universal Control isn’t even out yet in beta.