skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very easy to make an argument alcohol is more dangerous than heroin. especially in a regulated market with clean well dosed drugs.

Alcohol already kills more people than heroin. Sure you could argue maybe perhaps more people will do heroin if it's legal, but I highly doubt that.

I 100% agree on the puritan social preaching being a hinderance to support. People don't want to "support someones addiction" which means basically no resources.

I'm for full legalization personally.
I think the first issue is people treating differences of opinion technical arguments where a "fact" will suddenly win the day. If you're debugging something, and a fact comes to light that points to a different problem ("oh, that code isn't even being executed") you surely change your mind.

If someone tells you they don't believe CO2 causes climate change, but their genuine belief is they they dont agree with a wealth distribution policy you're advocating, they are not going to be swayed by a graph you show them. My point is it's less about related facts, and more about making sure you're addressing the real issue
Google Chrome, Firefox, and Slack select the next suggestion on tab from the url/search bar. That's a pretty big precedent. I like it... my arrow keys are far away from the home row but tab is not.

Anyway, we can disagree about proper tab behavior here. My intention is to support the article by highlighting sloppy behavior from Maps.app. A case in point, the arrow keys don't work either.

To see, type a few characters in "Search Maps" until suggestions appear, press down arrow key, ... no suggestion is select, instead the search box looses focus and the map moves?! While messing around with this... I noticed that pressing the right arrow before pressing down arrow (sometimes??) begins selecting suggestions. Seriously, go mess around with it... but it's super finicky.

This is the state of Apple UI polish and consistency today.
https://www.norden.org/en/publication/nordic-nutrition-recom...
Weirdly I have something like this called SOPys (usual python joke). It is pretty much that for pretty much the same reason only this is waaay better explained.

So - got my external validation . Will expand that repo when i get my own time back
To your geography point: If the numbers I've found can be believed, Canada as a whole has 81GW of hydro generation capacity. This would beat out the US, despite Canada having ~12% the population.

Now, some people associate hydro with mountains. BC, admittedly, has something like 15-20% of the hydro capacity of all of Canada. Washington is similar.

Still, he biggest generator isn't actually BC, it's Quebec. Quebec has the largest hydro dam in Canada. It also has a greater total hydro capacity, and percentage of power from hydro, than BC. This despite Quebec not being particularly known for its mountains. Why?

Well, geography.[0] The Canadian Shield is pretty good for hydro. The mountains are more of hills, these days, but they were mountains once, and the corresponding rivers and height changes still exist. Also, you know that wonderfully cold Hudson Bay, especially the attached southern bit, James Bay? Yeah. It's cold. No one wants to live there. But water? Water wants to get there, so Quebec built dams, and now generates a bunch of power there.

Ontario, on the other hand, went mostly for nuclear. I'm not sure whether that's due to some inherent unsuitability of the land or rivers on the Ontario side of the Bay, or something else, but Ontario has several nuclear power plants, and relatively few hydro facilities.

[0] Okay, so I dramatized this paragraph a fair bit, but the message stands. Quebec has a very large amount of hydro generating capacity.
Good riddance, I hope this company burns to the ground

The software developers working for this company knowingly tried to make algorithms to flip and profit off of something that should be a human right

Replacing carpets and painting walls, trying to flip for a 20% profit, the people running Z must be geniuses

As a millennial looking at 2 bedroom flats selling for £575k (780k usd, not far from a million dollars) in my area, I cannot help but have tears of joy when corporations who hope to profit off of our desperate housing situation get hit by reality straight in the face

Ask yourself who benefits from housing prices rising. If you lie to yourself that it's people who are trying to move up the housing ladder, remember that your flat appreciating 50% in 2 years means the house you want to move into by selling your flat also appreciates 50%, so you win nothing

It's the rent seeking leeches of society that think that by buying a "portfolio" of houses, they can live out their lives without contributing society in any way

Anyone arguing against this has either a dog in the race, or loose screws in the head
Not the case. In the US you can normally get investment (rental property) insurance with a vacancy rider that jacks up your rate a bit. I've had to do this once or twice during extended periods between tenants. There may be time limits on it though, which I don't recall.
Only since 2008 really. We still haven't allowed the market to correct from that mess. Now we're just printing money to keep things alive another day.
> ccTlds tend to be localised such that you don't see them unless you're in the country.

In Google results you mean, or by the site operators themselves?

I agree if you mean in Google results. I don’t so much agree if you mean by the site operators. At least not for European cctlds. I find it far more common that sites from the US are inaccessible to Europe, than to see a site with a European cctld inaccessible to people in other countries.

Or did you mean sites that redirect to an international version of the same content? Sometimes that happens but usually only with sites belonging to big multi-national companies in my experience. And even then they often ask whether you’d like to stay on the version you went to or go to the version for another region or country.
The sort of geological activity needed to create a large seamount (especially within mere decades) would be obvious to any country with a few seismometers.
I don't disagree with backing up, but you don't think that will repeat again do you? What brand was it? It sounds like one of those cheap $19-$25 128GB ones with no cache and made with the worst quality, was it one of those? Cheap SSDs are notoriously low quality and unreliable.
> So the rules can be codified sufficiently to test people on, but they can't be codified for a computer?

I mean, given the halting problem alone, and the absence of general AI, yes, I'd say that...

I'm not sure what to tell you otherwise. I've worked at a place with such strong coding style guidelines, and even though I personally did not agree with every individual point, I accepted the tradeoff because being able to count on consistency in a very large code base was extremely helpful.
No, no. This sounds completely different. You searched out all the information you could, and still had no idea. That’s great (I mean, not great, ideally the necessary information would have been available, but that’s on the people providing the information).

The problem is people that have not searched or tried at all, and then ask their senior to please do their job for them.
Ask HN: What are your favorite startup demo videos?
Hi guys,

The last questions on this topic that I could find were from nine and eleven years ago. A long time.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1564651
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3843448

1) What are some of your favorite recently launched product/service videos?

2) If you are offering advice to startups which are trying to create their own in-house low-cost videos, what tips would you offer ( concerning software, story-boarding, pure screen-casts etc)?

3) If you are advising startups with a $1-$4k budget, how would you outsource the video production?
No. According to international maritime law ships propelled by engines give way to ships under sail. There are no specific rules for sizes, so theoretically if a triple E class Maersk containership catches up to your dinghy powered by a 5 hp outboard it has to give way (because it approaches from behind).
I'm not sure I agree with this. In the past, software development and how things were deployed etc was the wild west. Every company and team had completely different standards and methods etc and lots of it was manual and little to no testing etc etc.

Now, with things like AWS, Terraform, increasingly converging popular programming languages, frameworks and best practices like tests, code review etc, in some ways things are less complex.
Note that containership capacity is specified in "TEU" (twenty-foot equivalent units), based on the original shipping container specification, but that the vast bulk of containers are forty feet in length.

So the Maersk E-class capacity of 10k--14k TEU translates to 5k--7k containers of the size you're probably used to seeing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-class_container_ship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit
Yes, energy balance is absolutely, unequivocally true. That said, focusing on energy balance may not be the best therapeutic approach to obesity, which is what the OP was quoting.
I don't know if promotion really works. I think a book has to have a "moment" to be a runaway success.

(There's this French author I follow on Twitter, who just published a new novel; he's enjoying an incredible amount of press coverage, with raving reviews from so many critics. Yet his book doesn't seem to sell much, or at all.

My book is called "L'archevêque de Cologne" (it's in French). It's the - real - story of a priest in Paris during WWII who would pretend he was fighting the Germans, while he was in fact working for them, and giving them names of resistant fighters.

Most readers or prospective readers think it's a "historic" novel, and there are only so many people interested in yet another WWII story.

But it isn't.

It's about truth, and how much you can lie to other people and to yourself until you dissolve your soul into your own lies. It's also about hubris, ambition, and morals.

This is difficult to convey, even in conversation.
There is a global surge in housing prices. There are cities like Vancouver and Toronto where there has construction of 1000s of units has accelerated for decades, but the same crises exists.

Are you sure you aren't just thinking within the box of the United States?
Their UI looks like it's from the 90s. The technology may be modern, but the things users actually interact with and see is certainly not.
>the classic Apache-style paradigm was to have "the server" be generic and explicitly support certain application languages

The first wave was cgi-bin based fork() and exec() a process.

Followed by what you're describing...things like mod_perl and mod_php, where the app code was running inside the apache process.

Then, later, a separate daemon that kept some pool of processes running for apache to open up connections to, like fastcgi.
Oh man, this is so irritating. I've been pushing for changes for years, and told, "No, it can't be done!" Then the New Guy comes in, recommends the same damn thing, and suddenly management is like, "Hey! That's a good idea!" I mean, I'll take the win since the change finally happens, but what a great way to demotivate your existing staff.
I'll accept being wrong here.

I hope we get to a point where artists can serve fans directly, but that might be a long ways off.
Categorical theory of complex system design
My SO taught in some inner city schools while we both had attended suburban schools. The issue is complex, though parental circumstances and starting points vary widely. When a relatively young school system is filled with kids whose parents have time and energy to develop their kids then those kids will thrive. When older systems are flooded with overworked parents they cannot succeed without massive changes.

At one school my SO saw the whole district being reorganized, subdividing overcrowded or otherwise troubled administrations into new smaller administrations and schools. Community challenges remained though.
The problem with this is simple: A lot of people have agreed marijuana and hallucinogens are harmful, and only alcohol classed in recreation. Prohibition was obviously when alcohol was also considered harmful, and arguably it only crossed the bar back into recreational because enforcement failed so spectacularly.

Which is to say, your idea only makes sense as long as everyone agrees with your classification, which has generally not been the case.
My read of that ticket is it's a bunch of people saying "this looks hard, I don't want to do it." But if someone wrote a (good) pull request, I expect MacPorts would accept it.

The thing about MacPorts is that it's a very community-driven project. Things happen when someone decides to go do them.

(Individual maintainers are sometimes opinionated, but I wouldn't say they speak for the whole of MacPorts.)
i wish. in that case, this criminal would get 5 years to pay restitution - with market access open to sell even more meth to make up the penalty in excess profit!
This is already 6 years old:https://cei.org/blog/study-wounds-the-carbohydrate-insulin-t...

Basically, as long as proteine is controlled for, there is no long term fat-loss difference between dietary compositions.

See here for a longer and more recent explanation: https://www.performancelab.com/blogs/nutrition/carbohydrate-...
People used to dress up more, possibly because they lived in colder environments.

This said - it's probably just a TV thing here.
I expect the prompt is there to neg more than nag. I presume the only people who click “no” on the “Are you sure?” prompt are unsure as a result of the prompt itself. In other words, the role of the prompt is to make them second guess themselves and feel inferior to the OS. “I better just not mess with it, I guess.”
Just to reiterate, that’s not what happened, no proprietary code was exposed externally, as the OP is based off of Java clone of the Quake2 code both of which were released as open source.

I don’t know what the policy of Google is with respect to hosting stuff that’s proprietary or sensitive on AWS but I imagine it requires approval just for lawyercat reasons, especially if any PII is collected given all of the regulations these days.
> #1 is less risky, since mortgages have to be collateralized.

Less risky, yes. Less risky to the tune of 5 or more percentage points? Not so sure.

> #1 is also less volatile

That depends on the housing market, which can be subject to large fluctuations that have nothing to do with the underlying value of the assets and everything to do with the availability of newly printed money for mortgage loans. The years leading up to and including the 2008 crash showed how volatile a manipulated housing market can be.
This was my understanding as well. In many ways, it feels like the "metaverse" is already here and has been for a while, it's mostly Facebook and their ancillary apps + Twitter for me.
Shorting it isn't a bet they'll fail. It's actually a bet they'll fail and the market will realize it, and in that time the value wont value the company higher to liquidate your position. See Gamestop for an example!

It's also a bet that they will fail quick enough to make this the best opportunity for your money.
Epidemiologists have been saying for some time that the virus is now endemic. It's like the flu, it's not going away.
What % of the market were Zillow purchases? And what effect has it had on prices overall? I mean one comp sale can effect 5, 10, 30+ homes, yes? All therefore also overpriced, and so on.
I suppose ai should stick to crappy chat support bots and deepfakes for a while. Prepare for more colossal failures like this one. Self driving cars killing people are not painful enough but once money are lost investment will dry out.
GoT was also a Hero's Journey story. The difference is that it involved more than one character i.e. the Starks, etc...
That’s like saying cars are death traps for the occupants, then responding to evidence they’re regulated for safety by asking someone who drives if they’d drive into a harbour. (And to continue the analogy, your other comments would be “Nobody would ever buy these! They’re expensive and worse than running!” while ignoring the demonstrably large market. And I guess I’d be a cyclist?)

I’m happy to eat only things that are regulated, even if not to then further limit myself to the specific subset your tangent is going to now. Don’t put words into my mouth to try to argue against something I didn’t say.
They started ZO back in 2018. I think the bigger concern was the amount of growth and threat Opendoor presented them. There was a vision that they will fundamentally change the sector and make Zillow an equivalent of what the White Pages is to Google.

So yes it was FOMO, but not based on quickly appreciating real estate.
True, true. The mention of J2EE did just made me shudder a bit. ;)

But at least, then, I could write code, run it, make changes, and run it again! And see results! Quickly! My main objection to this "future world" is the vast number of layers of abstraction that you need to fight through just to get your first result.

As you can surely guess from my biases and opinions, my happiest engineering projects are those that only require me, my thinkpad, emacs, some man pages, and a C++ compiler. :D And those are the ones I do in my spare time.
Funny I felt CDE was too clunky even in... 1996? when I last tried it. Pretty soon I moved to gnome from the redmond/twm thing once gnome hit 2.0ish. Used SGI 4dwm a VFX job. Still using Mate.

The CDE dock kinda demands a 4:3 monitor as well, is no one ever going to learn and put them on the side? Make sure the widgets can handle the orientation?
> The first wave

Whoa. This is what made me feel old for the first time, ha!
Some Ph.D. programs are long, but this is excessive!
That alone isn't enough of an argument - see Google (pre ads), Uber, Amazon, or anyone else looking to dominate a market.

I'd be interested in what their strategy is and what they want to dominate. Corporate backups? The problem is corporate stuff is mostly in the cloud already. Home use it is handy but it is competing with Apple and Microsoft, and I use them mostly for the "Dropbox Reason" that they make it easiest to backup my drive. I never think about them and forget I am a customer. If they could backup iPhones simply I think that'd help but apple probably has that garden walled off.
> Would you call Google a moderately complex project?

Yes... but Google is my employer of well over a decade, so I might be biased on the complexity of the problems worked on here.

> Because Google is very much focused on individuals rather than teams. Because Google is very much focused on individuals rather than teams. Sometimes individuals works together, but it isn't required and you can spend your entire career just working on your own separate problems.

This is untrue in nearly all of my experience at Google. I'm not sure where you are getting your information from, but it's a big company, so maybe there are some corners where that might be true, but it's far from the norm.

ICs at all levels are expected to do a lot of intra and inter-team communication and collaboration. You could limit your opportunities if you choose to silo yourself.

> having a ton of engineers you can give a well defined problem and they will build a great solution without any extra input

This is what interns and entry-level engineering hires do at Google, with the strong expectation that they move beyond working on unambiguous problems into tackling harder problems with more ambiguous and often conflicting requirements.
damn they got the algorithm wrong.
>E2E encrypting the whole world is also the best defense against the government passing laws that make E2E encryption illegal.

The government doesn't need to pass laws to ban encryption (at least in America) since they design the encryption standards themselves. It's basically common knowledge at this point that everything NIST cranks out is vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis beyond the domain of public understanding. Apple, Google, Facebook and the other top dogs all help create the illusion of choice in exchange for keeping the SEC off their backs.
That doesn't sound like an algorithm mistake, just like a policy to match sales nearby at the same price because of the assumption that prices will just keep going up coupled with the stupidity of not tracking what you've bought so far - yikes! Oh, on second thought, I guess it could be algo as that previously bought nearby condo could have been priced using some crazy algorithm.
No offense, but this seems like unnecessary indirection harmful to script legibility, e.g. it would help me as a reader to see, instead, `scp.copy(files, host)`, instead of having to browse through a list of wish handlers to see which one implements file copy.
I think they avoid Linux support to prevent people like me from putting it on my Linux server. They also don't allow Windows Server to run it either. But hey, you can always use something like Goodsync and B2.
Browsing to meta.com takes me to https://about.facebook.com/meta

Ergo Facebook already controls the one most important thing to know about Meta.

Hard for me to believe that some little Arizona company would be able to trademark Meta "in relation to any technological use". That word has been in widespread use for quite a while.

When Google became Alphabet we didn't stop teaching English in grade school.
When I use Zillow and check the Zestimate, for various properties, it seems to be super far off. If they used it for speculative property purchases, I can imagine that would go terribly wrong.
If you want to have intellectually stimulating conversations then please avoid using hyperbole, that's not a way to have a discussion. You can just mention your reasons for disagreeing instead of claiming that a differing view is indefensible.
> COVID the pandemic ended back in May when the vaccine was widely available. What we have today is COVID the Culture War

So if you don't think the pandemic is over, you are on the wrong side of the "culture war".

> screaming about The Science, and narcissists showing how much better they are at following The Rules than you.

This could be Twitter people or it could be people wearing masks in public. You don't know what this person meant outside of the context provided here. Given how they think that all that remains is a culture war, I took it to mean people who don't think the pandemic is over, so they wear masks and continue to social distance (you know, because we want people to know we can follow rules). Regardless, it reads as though it was written to be intentionally inflamatory to people like me who do not think it's over, or, at least won't act as though it is until a plan is communicated. I think you know that it was inflammatory. So your reading of it to not not include me as its target of criticism is of no interest to me. If I said "idiots who respond to my comments" and you rightly pointed out that it's not nice to call people idiots, how would you respond to a third commenter saying "well, he's not talking about you, he's talking about idiots."
That's why the scientific literature uses the better term "ultra-processed" to mark the difference between, say a loaf of bread and a chicken nugget.
Typically the problem is that employees with the ability to just stand up random servers within an environment also have the ability to start using them to run production workloads, handle sensitive information, and just build little silos entirely outside the operating standards, and if regulated, compliance requirements of the company.

These things typically ride on a pendulum over the course of 10 years or so, swinging from high speed to high friction. As the costs associated with approaching one extreme stack up, someone eventually says enough and the direction reverses.