skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Insomnia and ADHD medication are a dangerous combo

A few months ago I started taking 15mg diphenhydramine every night just to make damn sure I always get enough sleep. I had taken it occasionally in the past, but didn't like the lingering effect it had the next morning. Then I had a conversation with my sister, who said that she takes it every night for the antihistamine effects after a doctor told her it's fine. The morning after effects seemed to fade (or I got used to them) pretty quickly once I started regular dosing.

Of course I have mixed feelings about ratcheting up the number of medications I'm taking daily, but to be fair OTC allergy medicine is a far cry from using something like Ambien or benzos to manage insomnia.
> This means once one happens the chances of it happening again soon are greater than before it happened.

or more likely, it happens, but because of prior experience, the event is no longer as calamitous as the first time.

Looking at the GFC in 2008, the monetary policy back then was too tight (hindsight 20/20 and all that of course), causing the recession to be extended longer than it would've.

This covid disaster would've caused a similar problem, imho, if the Feds did not loosen up like never before. It "solved" that same problem the GFC produced. Had the GFC not occured, the pandemic would cause a double wammy - a medical problem, and also a monetary problem.
For a common man like me it feels like: too much bad publicity change the identity!
For me, both iOS and Chrome on Windows resolve .local.
“Individuals who have had two vaccine doses can be just as infectious as those who have not been jabbed.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59077036
Colors have many shades; Beethoven was often said to be 'swarthy' (dict: dark-hued or dark-complexioned) by contemporaries, sometimes called 'Spagnolo' or 'Moorish'. Gossip aside, tells us nothing useful in the context of his achievements.
I'm not sure how that works? you connect the pi to your laptop and use putty to login?

This would also require one of those tty-to-usb cables?
I wonder if the inconvenience posed to corporate America by shitty consumer ISPs will force the latter to improve.
My mother doesn't associate facebook to whatsapp, although I have explained several times.

The day facebook went down for some hours, she woke me up complaining "the internet was down"
I think the hybrid model is just because of inertia. Working fully remote will be the norm for most software companies. Not sure about other industries.
I'm in New Zealand and I've never heard that; I feel like I might have heard it somewhere when I lived in England though. There are definitely oddities in NZ though; the NZ press uses the word "trespass" in a very strange way that seems to be somehow backwards: https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/126753711/timaru-...

One I've noticed that is US vs UK/NZ/AU/...: "bring him with you" vs "take him with you", which has a directional component in British usage that I can't quite explain (away from the speaker maybe?) that the Americans don't do.
Why do the reasons for it matter? There's an office for the company and you don't actually do work there. You work remotely for the company vs in-office. The whys do not matter in the definition of you working remotely from the office do they?
He was as of a month ago, and it doesn't appear that anything has changed since.

I have lost a lot of respect for Carmack with how nonchalant he's been towards working with somebody as dubious as Zuckerberg
Indie Hackers basically does this (and some are verified by stripe integration), although most of the companies are probably product-based. If they don't have it already, an "ad-supported" tag would be useful.
Because you can be asked/expected to come in to the office at any time — so you have to live nearby.
We can do what Israel does, and assign a risk rating to everyone entering the airport:

https://www.businessinsider.com/israels-ben-gurion-airport-s...

However, this system basically automatically applies increased risk to certain nationalities and cultures.

Are we willing to trade political correctness for a better security system?
This might be fun to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOD1AQGqEg
So perhaps you could consider publicizing a suitable mechanism? GitHub sponsorship? Patreon? Something else?

Is X.org interested in administering this process?
“Meta Unceremoniously Kills Off Oculus Brand” - Meta: The New Meta. Facebook pretending to be self-aware is the new meta. No that’s old-meta. What’s the take? Hmm. Pick a New Name: The Easiest Meta. Introduce Meta to the popular discourse. Let the masses use it freely. Embrace the freedom of missed interpretation. It’s not Fake, it’s Meta. It’s not Facebook, it’s Meta. You wouldn’t understand, it’s too meta. How cool would it be if we just called it Meta? Metacognition. Meta-engineering. Meta-reality: it’s the business we’re already in! Have you seen the new Meta branding? It’s like the universe, but meta, and now we own it. It was so simple! The new meta, endlessly cyclical, and quite a long way from advice dog. Rush B. Trust Me.
Your own first link discusses this:

> In the first five years after drug policy reform, use of illegal drugs rose slightly among the general population but fell again in the following five years.

I remember looking at the actual figures, and what happened was that use of heroin in Portugal went down significantly, and use of all other drugs went up significantly, giving slight rise in total drug use on net.

> Use among 15-24 year olds fell throughout the decade,

This implies that use among other groups than 15-24 year old had not fell throughout the decade.

> and among the general population was lower in 2012 than in 2001.

The reason they pick year 2012 is because it's convenient to their argument, and they give out the game later:

> However, consumption trends in Portugal have been keenly disputed and often misrepresented. While drug use during individual lifetimes among the general population appeared to increase in the decade following reform, use within the past 12 months fell between 2001 and 2012. Both the World Health Organization and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime consider use in the past 12 months (recent drug use) or within the past month (current drug use) as better indicators of trends among the general population.18

> Since 2012, past-year use appears to have risen, particularly among those over the age of 25.20 This is, however, based on relatively limited data from SICAD (the Portuguese drug dependence agency) and only one further dataset — in 2016.

The lesson here is that there has been a lot of very dishonest reporting about the results of drug decriminalization in Portugal. You are just another victim of it. Omission of critical facts, cherry-picking groups and dates, and flip-flopping between different ways to measure as needed, are all very common techniques in crafting narratives, misleading people into believing falsehoods, without actually stating them outright, so that they can't easily be caught with blatant lying -- the blatant falsehoods then are repeated by people who were tricked into believing false narratives, which facilitates spreading it, while allowing the authors to wash their hands.

Of course, you don't need to trust some random guy on the internet who's too lazy to dig up relevant statistics, you can keep believing the non-profit industrial complex. You might spend some time looking up these figures yourself, but why bother, after all these non-profits would never lie to you, would they?
yeah dont know what my unenthusiastic non-national stance was. agreed. thanks. this is accurate & correct.
I think he's talking about the weird VR meeting software with cartoon avatars, not the hardware itself.

The Oculus is great, but the way it's actually used today (games/social VR chat mostly) is still pretty niche.

Facebook is really pushing this new metaverse use case that blends VR with work/meetings/etc. I personally think it's a non-starter, they seem to be trying extremely hard to manufacture a trend, rather than capitalizing on an existing one.

But I've been completely wrong about Facebook twice before, so what do I know.
Gmail also ignores periods in the address. foo@gmail com, f.oo@gmail.com and fo.o@gmail.com are all the same address.
No, unrealized gains are not income.

We 'don't want it' to be taxed because it doesn't make sense.

Also, you'd have to provide a tax shield for the losses as well.

There are so many things wrong with taxing on 'mark to market value'.

We can barely get away with it in real estate, but that market acts more rationally, and most of it is about rent extraction.
Another factor is just sleep deprivation. It's been shown that sleep deprivation increases the likelihood of mania, hallucinations and psychosis. You force someone to stay awake long enough, they will inevitably act crazy. Amphetamine users tend to go on binges and stay awake for days. Keep taking drugs until they pass out from exhaustion.
> yet they're implying it's something that anyone could easily do

I don't think they're implying that. In fact they said "It can be impossible if both of you work" which you can extrapolate to "It can be impossible if you're the sole caregiver".

Of course if you are the only person home, you can't expect a 4 year old to let you work uninterrupted for long stretches of time. I don't see anyone trying to argue that point of view though (certainly I would never say that).
https://www.appinchina.co/market/app-stores/

Or any of the other user count indices.
The speech Zuckerberg gave onstage with pomp and ceremony said, "Our apps and our brands — they’re not changing." Contrary to this claim, the Oculus brand was killed offstage in another executive's Facebook post. I'd say that was unceremonious.
“can be” in that sentence just means the range of potential degrees of infectiousness overlap, which is not quite literally semantically null, but close enough as to make no practical difference.
Describing the bull case for CoverBuild, which just raised a $60m Series B
So Apple is “abusing the hardest” even though to develop a first class console game you have to pay much more to develop on it up front than $99 and you have to pay a license fee for each game sold either physical or digital? All of the console makers make it much harder to develop than Apple or Android - yet you bought an XBox One from Microsoft.
An S-Corp is the structure made for that sort of spread to a limited number of stakeholders. Not to say it's viable in some states with current regulation.

Also, LLP is a limited liability partnership. Wholly state entity, though, so the same caveat again. Member limits, etc.

And that's the USA of course. Your country may vary.
Lowercase just runs it through the assembler, upper case also runs the C preprocessor
This whole 'general purpose' term is meaningless. If you're talking about NoSQL vs SQL (ACID), you're just looking at trade-offs. Data integrity and distributed systems are always in contention. Of course, the moment you don't rely on types and structure constraints, you can have more performance and easier replication. You can't just solve this problem through evolution, until we have quantum computers, but all living projects are evolving towards some overlapping features and happy mediums.

The thing that seems to be happening over time is that those who optimize for performance, want integrity, and those who start with transactional guarantees want performance. So I guess, there could be some hype train pendulum swinging.
Just got approved for permanate remote last week. The thought of going back to a multi-hour commute and having my physical location dictated by a job just sounds absurd at this point. Never again.
If an intelligent modern person with some knowledge of history was sent back to 70,000 years ago (70 kya) we'd probably be able to bring significant help to the group - assuming we were accepted into the group and not immediately killed by our ancestors in peak physical condition. Personally, I'd attempt to introduce:

- art and culture from the far future (flutes, 42 kya; figurative art, 40 kya)

- Simple ovens (29 kya) and pottery (20 kya)

- Rope and various ways to use rope (nets, clothes, bags) 26-28 kya

- Saws (20 kya)

- Dugout canoes (8 kya)

- Basic knowledge of health and disease (concept of potable/non-potable water, "fertility awareness" method for contraception, warm clothing, prevention of injuries, etc)

- Food preservation (salting and drying meat, fermented foods, perhaps sealing things with pitch?)

- Wheeled carts (3 kya)

- "Water bottles": animal skins sealed with pitch

Each of these can probably be made/demonstrated over a period of days or weeks and would likely impress the group. If I was really successful and managed to lead the group, I'd probably try to at least get us on our way to these things (would likely take generations):

- Attempt animal domestication (13 kya)

- Cultivation of barley and wheat (10 kya)

- Water wheel (2 kya)

- Migration to fertile region (Fertile Crescent perhaps?)
> the more interesting question

No, going back to your original premise the only thing 'interesting' for me about Facebook is how dismally awful the company is and how nakedly sociopathic Zuckerberg is.
Could you share which company?
Why anyone would want to introduce modal editing into Emacs will always remain a mystery to me.
You should be using ShellCheck or an equivalent linter on your shell scripts in POSIX mode if you want them to be portable; in POSIX mode it warns when using "which" instead of "command -v", and I think it also warns when using "whence" or "where" outside of zsh. There's a host of other Bashisms/GNUisms and other noncompliant antipatterns it checks for too.

It's also worth reading through the POSIX manpages for POSIX sh if you want to be a good shell scripter.
If this was posted as a joke about the supply chain problems, it's not as funny as you think it is. I assure you, it's much, much funnier.
Reasons Truck Drivers Walk Out the Door [video]
> For all the BS surrounding the "systemd vs. whatever-else-the-other-thing-was", I found the former made my life as a mid-tier Linux user and home-grown server admin much easier, too.

Yeah, I'm sympathetic to some of the anti-systemd stuff, but I've found writing systemd units so much easier and more reliable than upstart or sysv init scripts. And sd_notify is great.
Does it mean they don't also inhibit LSD effects like Venlafaxin does?
The routing path is the same regardless if you do NAT on your internet edge or not and there is no double mat in the case of IPv6, perhaps v4 if your carrier was doing cgnat due to address exhaustion.

The benefit and aim of the large space is that all devices can get unique public IPs not that all devices can get static public IPs. This prevents the need for cgnat on the carrier side which creates all sorts of problems and even prevents the need for complex NAT punching for user p2p such as games or real time communications. It also prevents the need for paying millions of dollars just to have IPs to serve one town due to scarcity from a small numeric field.

I'm not sure what is more difficult about getting a /48 from your RIR today than was getting a /16 in the early 90s, in each case you just register and say "I've got a business using IP" and are approved. I've never been denied, even for my personal LLC. I even had 0 pushback getting a /32 assigned for a large org I worked for 2 years ago - that's an entire IPv4 worth of /64 prefixes assigned without question or selling a kidney like on IPv4. I've also never had trouble registering dozens of businesses for static IPv6 blocks from their carriers for when they didn't want to manage the internet handoff.

For the average person they don't know what a vlan is or a static address or what IPv6 is for that matter, and they don't need to, which is what is so great about IPv6. For those that do know what VLANs are PD is great and comes out of the box on every ISP for $0 instead of paying them for more public addresses like in v4. For businesses static handoffs really are 0 difference to arrange from the old.

Google was amazing with the V6 efforts early on but GCP was God awful. In fact to this day it still requires dual stacking GCP VMs on the internal side otherwise everything breaks and you can't access GCP APIs via v6. Both Azure and AWS have been light years and decades ahead of GCP on the V6 front.

As for AT&T being a general money sucking PITA to deal with yes, they are generally recognized as the worst large ISP to deal with and will make you want to pull your hair out. They won't do it with U-verse they'll push you to ATT business fiber, charge an arm and a leg, and take 6 months to do it. Again though your beef is with ATT's business offerings not anything to do with IPv6, there is nothing stopping them from doing the same thing they do on consumer IPv4 connections they just choose not to.
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Hifiman Sundara Review 2021
Hitting a partially submerged container at night in a sailboat offshore is exciting.
What do you mean, "not sure?!"

"If you can't change the product, change the packaging."
You would too, for a salary in the 8 figures.
A Windows PC?
well, hoping that they really meant people who do evil, but if it is normal people who are not feeling good about how things are going because they believe in freedom and democracy then, that is pure evil.

obviously stating the obvious but some people conclude or do not think things through and just go with the flow, no matter how oppressive things get.
This is really weird!! Oculus has a great branding. My only theory is that they want to make it tighter to Meta so as not to get into any antitrust issues. But even then it doesn't make any sense to me...
Map Compasses (Part 1): Introduction
The HN rule about not being able to ask if someone read the article or imply/suggest that they did not is the worst rule on the site, because it encourages this behaviour :(
> As far as I know, these are not optimizations a compiler is capable of.

If <some code> has side effects I don’t want the compiler to make that optimization as the order might be important and there is no way to tell.

(If there are no side effects the compiler can optimize — by removing the loop!).

You can tell the compiler you don’t care about order by replacing the for loop with an algorithm like for_each which is allowed to do this kind of thing, and can take a parallel policy too.

(Though is there an implementation that uses execution policies?)
Carl Icahn parlayed his poker winnings during his army service into a $17 billion fortune.
I think it’s not just shitty ISPs it’s also pretty bad corporate VPN or “security” features that really just break the internet for home working people… we encounter one network that is like a proxy of sorts… it times out all connections after like 4 minutes- a really shitty feature for voice applications
This is very much false, and completely contrary to the actual history. War on drugs only happened because of greatly increased social dysfunction due to drugs, not the other way around. It enjoyed wide social support at the time it was started, precisely because people saw how damaging the drugs are to their communities. The idea that drug-related social dysfunction is an effect of war on drugs is yet another of those "wet streets cause rain" ideas.
I didn't claim that he "accidentally" did that.

But he has uncontested control because of an unusual dual-class share structure. And isn't the explanation for Facebook's founder-favoring structure basically that Peter Thiel wanted it that way?

My recollection is that founder-favoring share structures go in and out of fashion historically, and that Facebook rose during a period when that was popular. So yes, props to young Mark Zuckerberg for pushing for that when it was achievable.

But even Mark Zuckerberg describes himself as lucky in this regard:

“So one of the things that I’ve been lucky about in building this company is ... I kind of have voting control of the company, and that’s something I focused on early on. And it was important because, without that, there were several points where I would’ve been fired. For sure, for sure,” https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/03/zuckerberg-if-i-didnt-have-c...
Their most expensive tv also has ads. That’s such a poor excuse. They do it because they can and because literally every tv company does it consumers don’t have a choice except buying computer monitors or very expensive industrial grade displays.
Legality aside, your web hosting provider may consider it as malicious software / cyberattack activity that breaks their TOS.
To be fair, nobody outside of a tiny niche of PC gaming enthusiasts has any idea what Oculus is (or was) as a brand, nor do they care. That it didn't even seem worthy of mentioning to him isn't really surprising.
Which is somewhat fine since you can use an anonymous prepaid SIM card. Oh wait, the amount of countries where you can still get a prepaid SIM card without ID is diminishing, all in the name of "fighting terrorism". The internet is not going in a great direction.
There's a subtle, but important difference.

"Work at your home office" culture still expects you to be in a predictable location and working predictable hours. Very similar to showing up to an office everyday.

"Remote" is closer to, "your location doesn't matter as long as you can perform your job".
Someone like Carmack could make 8 figures doing their own thing.
Yep -- Darwin has had an implementation of memory compression since OS X Mavericks.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/os-x-10-9/17/
Any potential explanation would have to account for the fact that this happened around the world, not only in certain sub-populations. The article isn't clear on whether it began at different times in different places, possibly because the data isn't complete enough. A start date of 70,000 years ago suggests it has something to do with human exodus from africa that occurred around that time. The difficulty is that even southern africans see the change, suggesting that it wasn't particular to the emmigrees.

I would therefore propose that some event occurred which pushed humans out of africa, which lead to those that remained having smaller brains, and ultimately lead those that left to the same position. Perhaps that explanation is simply population density. Populations tend to expand geometrically, such that the largest portion of population growth occurs in the latest generations. We also know that all modern humans are descended from a very small set of people, maybe as few as fifty (?).

So humans began at that population, slowly expanded across africa for a few tens of thousand of years, started running out of space and were forced to migrate away from africa, then shortly filled up the rest of the earth. Having no where else to escape to, we were forced to deal with increased population density. This lead to lower food availability to support large brains, as well as increased need to reduce aggressive behaviour, achieved via more juvenile brains. Thus, brain sizes reduced across the globe.
1. People often struggle to target the things they write well towards a specific group of people and that often leads to this sort of thing.

2. I think when I came across this when it was posted to hacker news 5-10 years ago, I didn’t know any Haskell or any ML language and I didn’t know the maths but the program was small enough and direct enough that I think I managed to puzzle through a lot of it just by trying to match the code to the type signature (though this isn’t really sufficient to get a good feel for what is going on)