skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe you could move the other way: treat addiction as a disease and provide free, pharmaceutical grade product or methadone substitutes to all that request it, if they suffer from addiction. It costs essentially nothing.

This will not only kill the bulk of market and force dealers out in the open to find new, high risk recreational customers as opposed to cash cow addicts; but will also give a livable life to the addicts by preventing the financial and personal ruin brought by addiction to a substance that is made artificially scarce and expensive.

Most of the problems with addiction stem from this scarcity, not addiction itself: addicts take up a criminal activities to finance their consumption, lose all property and social capital, the product has high variability in potency and adulterants and is very risky to consume, they have to deal with criminals on a daily basis to get it etc.

https://time.com/6108812/drug-deaths-safe-supply-opioids/
I lost a sister to a drug OD close to 15 yrs ago. My belief is she suffered from depression, among other things, and self medicated.

That said, the opioid crisis in the USA has been largerly fueled by prescription drugs. If by little guys you mean doctors, and big guys you mean the manufacturers;well there's been some progress on that. But obviously and certainly not enough.

Let's also not overlook the convenient blind eye of regularors (read: government).
Don't know if their copy editors read these, but "Gallium Nitrate" is surely a typo for "Gallium Nitride" (GaN). GaN is a wide bandgap semiconductor, Gallium Nitrate is apparently some sort of drug.
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen calls for urgent external regulation
There is a difference between straight text and spreadsheets. I also like notes, but numbers are just easier to process mentally in tabular form. If they weren't spreadsheets would have next to no value.

If I use a product and find it handy and convenient I'll remember to use it next time. Likewise, if I use a product and find it obtuse and makes a simple task harder than it needs to be, I'll remember not to use it next time.
Another pandemic hits and it's not well-managed. Everyone, exhausted and resources depleted from COVID-19, don't respond to the new threat or refuse to see it. Nobody has the political capital to call for more lockdowns or rush another vaccine.

It could well be something like Ebola, with a r0 of 1.8, and a high fatality rate. A lot of people will decide that they'd rather risk death to a disease over certain death from poverty.
I stopped giving money to them a couple of years ago and have started to become highly critical of recent stances they've taken but every time I mention this I get berated/downvoted to oblivion.

It's sort of vindicating to start seeing others feel the same way finally.
For your sixth interview, we'd like you to write a program on the whiteboard that calculates the first 100 numbers of the Fibonacci sequence in Autocoder, then take this online personality survey that will determine whether you're a team player. Wait, where are you going?
This is on my shortlist of worst ideas of 2021.
One interview in which we proceeded without a camera, I started googling my questions immediately after asking them. These were open ended questions, explicitly not l33tcode. When I noticed that the first response’s phrasing was always from the first page of search results, I knew we were getting to “no”.

Thankfully, I don’t work now at a place that hires contractors.
> Has anybody explored <idea>

The answer to those questions is always “yes”, unless you’ve spent years of research to come up with <idea>.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_time_dimensions
My “fix” for this issue was to sell the damned thing and buy an M1 MacBook Air instead. Can’t have fan noise if the computer doesn’t have a fan.

I still to this day can’t believe it was never brought up in any reviews of that machine. Connecting to any external monitor causes the slightest stress to have the fans absolutely screaming.
> we seem to have this huge moral hang up in the US about giving addicts drugs

For many people, what you're describing all comes down to the law of love. It is not loving to give a person more of the thing that is destroying them.

Perhaps free methadone would be a better option?

EDIT: care to comment? I'd like to know why people disagree.
After talking to a recovering addict regarding heroin, fentanyl and the such. I did some research and found I could get half a kilo of iso (stronger than fentanyl) by the end of the week. It took me 20 minutes

My point is that stuff is so widely available and easily accessible that no sort of enforcement against the higher ups will do a damn thing

Treating the addict with compassion and diligence will be far more effective than attempting to dry up the supply. It of course won't be easy and actually will require a mental shift regarding users

Instead of headlines of law enforcement patting themselves on the back about some meaningless bust
> Maybe ML will help here with the right data.

Can you please elaborate? What kind of data would you need? What would be the learning task?
I have the same experience. As soon as I'm asked whether I'll need sponsorship, it's done. Thank you for sharing.
Actually, I was wrong when I said "it won't be as compact". It's even more compact: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc4/. $73, 2 hard drives.
Reminds me in the movie Se7en, the detectives get the library records of people who have read certain books.
I had one of those shirts.

Unfortunately even in my circle of nerd friends, I was the only tech nerd. Everyone else was either an anime nerd or a M:TG nerd.
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I used to live in Tillsonburg, so we were near-neighbours.

One thing also about the Amish is that they refuse to rely on things that can break down outside their control, and leave them helpless. The issue, for example, with gasoline is that if it runs out, you have a bunch of useless tools that only someone else (the gas people) can make work again.

In that sense, I haven't heard of Amish having issues with solar power (I could be wrong, though), so it just may soon be their time to shine.
I always found it baffling that it was too much work to put a tarp over the top. They forced the gravel trucks here to do so, as they kept cracking people's windows, but the total lost material must have been incredible.
oops I deleted my comment by accident, as I replied again to your reply - which has now also gone.

Anyway I do wish you the best with your concerns. I do believe prejudging people as little as humanly possible dis/regarding race, class, everything and in carefully focused anti-discrimination laws. But I feel there is considerable danger to do more harm to human relations and attitudes than good, with laws which prosecute too bluntly or frequently between individuals relationships. I think people should resolve differences through the courts as a last resort, as legal justice is very expensive and prone to error. So that would be why I have not been answering your prompts in the affirmative, though they have been stimulating :)

All the best'

My previous reply >
I expect it would often be very hard to tell in practice what the eviction is based on, as a community are unlikely to admit - sometimes even to themselves, that their conflict with the 'evictee is rooted in a particular banned prejudice. A common defense and rebuttal for a group accused of kicking someone out over their race - would be that they were aware of their race when they accepted them into the group (!) Perhaps that's why I'm not so alarmed at the possibility of people being uprooted by racists in these communities that you seem to be - where racism is a problem in them it will hardly result in evictions, it will result in barring entry. When you think cynically about what groups of others are capable of, there is no end to villainous possibilities, but others are capable of being better than we ourselves are, as well as worse.
According to the EPA: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

The largest greenhouse gas emissions come from these sectors:

1. 29% Transportation: (cars, trucks, ships, trains, and planes)

2. 25% Electricity (Generation)

3. 23% Industry (Factories, mining, etc)

4. 13% Commercial & Residential (Waste processing and heating homes/offices)

5. 10% Agriculture (Making food, does not count carbon sinks)

The only thing that really changed for a majority of people was commuting (cars + trains) and heating residential offices. We all still needed electricity, we kept many factories running (only pausing in a few locations), and shipping was even more prevalent (especially from online delivery services).

To reduce warming we need to do one of the following:

1. Reduce the amount of CO2 we produce below the amount existing life on Earth can consume.

2. Increase the amount of CO2 life on Earth can consume (make more living things that can photosynthesize).

3. Do both.

The lower amount of commuting probably helps quite a bit but it's only a start and wasn't really in full effect in the biggest polluters for the latter half of the pandemic.
I have no idea how Tailscale works, but it always does. I used to have a bastion host that I'd ssh into to access my home network. Now I just startup Tailscale and connect.
I know HN has a rule about using the original as-published title, but I've edited the submission to use a tweaked version of the article's alt-title(?) that's shown in the tab bar. Admins can change it back if necessary

The original (and vague) submitted title: "The Strange New Trend That’s Enraging Hiring Managers"
> why do places like forbes go big into covering it early

Forbes "sites" are just glorified blogs. They reflect Forbes to the same extent that some random Blogger blog reflects Google/Alphabet.

> They literally have tech journalists in courtroom for the outcome. But if it's not anti-facebook no coverage.

Facebook losing would be an interesting result that may carry repercussions. Facebook winning is.. business as usual.

> It is a bit weird.

Meh, personally this is the first time I've heard of this debacle at all, and neither of the sources you mentioned are particularly prominent either.

And even then, those articles were over a year ago. Priorities and interests change over time.
It's not popular here on Hacker News due to its libertarian bent, but I'm of the opinion that we should even more brutal to illegal drug production, trafficking, and selling than what we currently are.

I've lost 2 friends to fentanyl poisoning in the last 3 years, and I lost my brother 10 years ago to chronic meth use. I'm so utterly sick of this.
Introduction to deep reinforcement learning with Unity ML-Agents
First of all, I know a lot of people disagree with lesswrong's consensus opinions on some contentious topics, but comparing it to a UFO site is a stretch. Second, when you dislike a website but see an essay hosted on it get highly upvoted, the skeptical thing to do is to update your opinion of the site, not maintain it despite new evidence to the contrary.
Many rates were based on LIBOR, but LIBOR itself was used for nothing other than betting, no one was lending or borrowing at it.
I think this may explain part of why people tend to think of companies as "efficient" and governments as "wasteful": companies have more leeway to choose their metrics and externalize the unmeasured things.
I prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test#Inkblots myself, for how much meaning they evoke with such a restrained use of ink and color. The mark of a truly adept artist.
I think this wasn't even a lawsuit against Oculus/Facebook, as far as I can tell Luckey was the sole defendant.
not always. you obviously don't get to choose if you're unconscious and someone calls an ambulance for you. or if you get a concussion or injure yourself while intoxicated, you might not be able to fully consent to being taken to the hospital. even DNRs are not always respected.
"But other kids know from day-one that they have no future."

A lack of hope is a crushing thing. It can lead to drugs, crime, etc. It seems to get worse the more intelligent one gets (why am I a failure if everyone says I'm so smart? Or just being smart enough to know just how hopeless things are). It can be even worse if you know you'll never live up to your parent's level of success (look at all the sons of the older movie stars).
Maybe it's not common knowledge for you either? I don't own any iDevices but doesn't it say "Designed in California, Assembled in China"?
I think something everyone should be aware of as well: there is no legal requirement that Google not hand over this data to police. A warrant is needed to force Google to hand over such data, but they don't need anything at all to ask Google nicely. And if Google decides it's in their best interest to comply without a warrant, they are the legal owner of the data, so ...
Please tell me the plane won't crash if the network connection goes down.
Just to throw in my 2c, I’ve had dilaudid a few times for an injury and other opiates for various reasons, and while they feel great, they really never cross my mind much and I don’t hold them close to many sober experiences. Not even as good as other drugs, of which I could list 3-4 I’d consider as or more enjoyable.

The above comment feels like a really dramatic description of opiates. I don’t think most anyone with a moderately stable life is at risk of addiction trying them.
I know that blocks are supposed to be federated, but surely getting notifications from people they've blocked is the fault of the server of the blocker, no? It can't keep track of local blocks?
This seems to rather callously disregard the parent commenter’s lived experience. Perhaps, just maybe, not everyone is like you; it might be different for different people? Just a thought.
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Ditto. And then Paradox of Tolerance happened IRL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Banning speech and censorship are impractical. But something has to give.

Now I'm pondering leveling up defamation tort. Like how Alex Jones just got pwned for endangering the lives of the Sandy Hook parents.

Personal responsibility. Say whatever you want. But then you own it. Real life consequences.

All the Freedom Speeches™ zealots, pretending that bots, sockpuppets, and corporations are people.

Pretending that inciting a riot is okey dokey.

Pretending that life is fair, with no power imbalances. So my blog with 100 yearly visitors is the same as the outrage machine.

Parroting slippery slope tropes, eschewing balance and judgement, as though the train hasn't already jumped the track.
Also "ied package" and "eagle feather" according to the docs
(from different cases) linked in https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/04/googl...

Next up, "winnie the pooh" and "tank man".
Well this makes it sound like it's targeted squarely at developers:

"Finally, a NAS that lets you use a standard operating system that you’re used to, like Ubuntu or Raspberry Pi OS."
> BT itself seems like such a simple thing to get right too...

apparently its not, its a completely over engineered spec and is probably at the root of all these issues

good hn thread from 2017:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752719
>Is there any way to grow nutritious food that isn't just transporting water everywhere?

Dried tomatoes?
#ArrestFauci is trending #1 on Twitter
yeh it's the "lot" bit I'm confused about. like, aren't they always diverging, therefor the age difference should be a lot, right?
I heard a story - can't find the reference now - of a doctor who got addicts to replace their drug addiction with exercise addictions. From what I recall the program was quite successful at making the patients functional, but didn't really do much for the underlying issues - just made the addiction itself less damaging.
Certainly, I'm not a domain attorney. However, as someone who runs a domain name protection company, my advice is to one of two things:

- Log into your domain registrar and delete the domain in your account. That will make it available for registration again, giving FB a chance to register it.

- Respond to them and work with them to transfer the domain to them.

This is clearly, undoubtedly a trademark domain. Any UDRP or lawsuit that is filed would most likely not result in your favor. It's not worth your time, hassle, and money to continue to own that particular domain. I'd put your money into a good generic keyword rich domain name instead. That's my personal opinion.

But if you DO decide to seek the advice of counsel, whatever you do ONLY deal with a qualified domain name attorney. Domain name legal issues require specialized knowledge. Unfortunately there are IP lawyers and others that will give you advice but don't necessarily have direct experience dealing with domain names.
Every time I’ve seen a company bought by private equity, it spells the beginning of the end. The strategy always seems to milk every last drop of cash from the business, without any long term sustainable plan. As an anecdotal case, I visited Sea World over the summer and half the concessions and shows were closed. It was still expensive and crowded and and there were service bottlenecks everywhere. Long lines for a bottle of water. Midday I said to myself, I bet this place was bought out by private equity. I looked up Sea World’s ownership structure when I got home and low and behold, private equity is involved.
AFAIU, there are sound reasons to host containers with e.g. OpenStack VMs instead of a k8s scheduler with a proper SAN and just figure out how to redundantly and resiliently sync - replicate, synchronize, primary/secondary, nodeprocd - and tune given the CAP theorem and the given DB implementation(s)?

Here's the official Ansible role for Trove, which provisions various e.g. SQL databases on an OpenStack cloud:
https://github.com/openstack/openstack-ansible-os_trove
Extremely powerful 5 minute interview with an obviously intelligent homeless person addicted to heroin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ZFzEW7_Q4

Terrifying
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> I imagine that, as a prospective donor, I would certainly much prefer if there were some form of legal assurance that the Dog-Grooming Union that I would be giving money to will continue advancing the cause of well-groomed dogs tomorrow, rather than deciding that it would instead rather fight for the cause of creating salons for cats, or even completely turn around and say that it will now fight against human intervention in the natural phenotypical fur-styles of dogs.

How many pet-owning PETA supporters actually know that PETA believes that pet ownership is equivalent with slavery, wants to abolish it and that its shelters have the highest euthanization rates because they consider killing domesticated animals to be a mercy.

Support your local SPCA.
They will just pay a small fine and call it a day.
I need this so badly. True story:

I've been eagerly awaiting a new Macbook to completely rid myself of Adobe software.

Over the past decade I've considered installing Adobe software but always held back because of how intrusive and shady the software is (I checked on friends' computers). I've been able to work around having to edit PDFs and used Figma in place of Photoshop for my very basic graphical needs.

Well a few months ago I needed to fill out customs form 5106. This form uses some kind of proprietary Adobe PDF form creation software thing. In order to do anything with it I need Adobe Acrobat. At least that's how far my research took me before I buckled and purchased Adobe Acrobat. I was extremely busy that week and didn't have time to figure out a hacky alternative.

After having installed Creative Cloud all I can say is... it's straight up malware. I doubt I'd be able to get rid of all the junk it installs even if I wanted to. And what's worse is the products are extremely buggy. It's just a mess!

I just checked and Adobe has TWENTY EIGHT processes running in the background. A lot of them are running as root. And of course two of them are NodeJS servers.

These processes are constantly phoning home at such a ridiculous rate that it's impossible to know what to block and what not to. Looking at Little Snitch right now, there are 13 distinct Adobe applications that have been making HTTP requests since I booted my laptop 30 minutes ago. I haven't used a single Adobe product since boot.

I wasn't surprised when, after installing Creative Cloud and restarting my computer, next time I launched Chrome I got a popup telling me that Adobe installed an extension. THANK YOU GOOGLE for taking the time to alert me about this. At no point during the installation process was it clear to me that Adobe would be hijacking my browser too.

I was going to do a fresh wipe to get rid of this junk for good but I wanted to wait until the Macbook was released. Once that laptop arrives I'm never touching Adobe software ever again unless there's a way to completely sandbox it.
You mention Fiserv, Jack Henry, Fidelity, but not Thought Machine. Care to share why?

https://thoughtmachine.net/building-a-bank
Strictly speaking our own existence doesn't even tell us the probability is greater than zero. For an event to have probability zero doesn't imply it can't occur. If a number is chosen from a uniform distribution on the reals between zero and one, whatever the result is the probability of that exact result occurring was zero.
Back of the envelope calculation. Say you are really tall, 2 meters. That's "only" 2000 millimeters. So even additively, that's still only 0.00000000000002% difference between your head and feet. Let's say our two meter giant lives 100 years. That's a bit over 3 billion seconds, and for their entire life, their head and feet continue to age differently at this rate. If I haven't dropped a decimal point somewhere, that's still only a life time difference of less than a microsecond (6x10^-7).

So "adds up quickly" is relative (heh) in this case, and inconsequential in absolute terms, at human scale.
Just by running MS-DOS and not having that garish CGA font makes it already a winner.

A lot of companies thought that making a better computer was enough, but the PC was so poorly designed that people had to write software that directly used the hardware to make it run at bearable speeds. This nullified any advantage those who built better PCs had.
https://spinnaker.io/
The problem is the one-sided coverage.

There was coverage of the lawsuit filed against FB & Co. They got the bad press. Then once the lawsuit was ruled in their favor, there was no coverage. Whereas, if they lost, you bet there would be coverage.
“ 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”

Why do you believe this to be true?
In some programs (compilers included), removing the limits and relying on detecting OOM is not a bad design decision. In others (most notably network-facing programs, but there are other categories), it can be quite a big problem to not have limits on inputs.
Potentially we could decriminalize consumption, open treatment centers, but still go after the traffickers. People who sell fentanyl know that they are killing people.
It's still illegal for them to drive their buggies while intoxicated. Same for bicycles, motorized wheelchairs, etc.

But you are right - it's still safer for them to get home with the horse knowing well enough to not run into the ditch.
> I wonder if the push to scale out these programs meant lowering standards, since folks with the ability / discipline to finish are few.

This always seems to be the rub with for-profit education. When you need to grow at all costs eventually that means accepting more students...
I think it's most effective to prevent them from becoming addicts by addressing the hopelessness that drives so many to that (or crime). And through education of the effects for the others, of course.