skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was responding to somebody who lumped all 'drugs' into a single category. Talk to them about a lack of nuance. FWIW, I'm all about safe, regulated supply and harm reduction -- nicotine products included.
This is basically as far as I got as well. Instead of sitting in an office telling people how not to do their job (I'm a security consultant), I feel like I might have more fulfillment doing basically any human-facing job. Perhaps cashier is stretching the idea a bit too far, but anything where someone gets something personally useful to them.

Now the problem is how to do that.

I've done some IT support but this basically comes down to reinstalling Windows a bunch of times (e.g. after ransomware) or telling people they should, after ten years, really be upgrading to a new computer (for which they don't have money) rather than trying to get me to fix it up. Wasn't that fulfilling and the pay is pretty mediocre even for student standards.

I'm good at two foreign languages, perhaps I could teach people that?

Or rather do volunteering part-time? Question would be what to do, but not getting paid would probably make it easier to broaden the scope beyond specific competencies.

How to go about the actual execution without a huge pay cut is where I think advice would be most helpful.
It wouldn't surprise me if this is a pay-for-study type result. Veritasium did an exposé that 90% of published papers are just plain wrong.
I'm finding the website much more exciting than the tool itself. Which is not a criticism of the tool - the website is just really neat!
This thread (the HN comments) is quite interesting, as opposed to the article which says pretty much nothing and is an email harvesting exercise..
If you're going make a statement such as the title (particularly prefixed with I) then you better say something about your own experience and why you believe your 'title proposition' is true.. if not, and you're not just 'fishing' (for hits and/or email addresses), why bother?
Is there any list of Made in Lithuania products that I can buy in the US to show my support?
no chance this guy has kids. ppl said this same thing about television. if you read newspaper clippings from the early 20th century you can find letters to the editor about parents concerned their kids read too many books
Leave out the ad homs please, this is not reddit.
Reform is clearly needed. Possibly moving toward more market based approach, allowing bankruptcies or hugely limiting allowed amounts.

Bailouts just look like rewarding poor decisions...
Ha this is like the Daily Mail comments section. Did you think at all before writing this?
well, at least it seems like you understand why people flagged your comment in the first place. Maybe in the future don't bring up unnecessary generalizations that muddy the discussion?
Lots of people who aren't old or otherwise sick were killed by Covid.

Regardless, having overflowing hospitals is bad for children and every other age group.
Maybe portugal and the likely reason in any answer will be hospitalisation rates.
Yeah, they’re making 140-160k at both jobs which are with startups that have raised a few rounds.
I don’t remember the source of the study, but commutes are one of the most important factors in happiness at work. Optimize for short pleasant commutes on bike or train, as opposed to bus or car.
I think so, it depends on the firmware version and if you activated it as a 'thing' I think. I have one pair that does it and my significant other has one that doesn't but it's not being used as actively and not in Find My either.
The worst part of this is, if you don’t have an iPhone, you’ll never know if you’re being tracked.

Edit: Yes, I know there’s an app. Do you think more than 1% of victims will have it installed?
> All blood lead is bad and levels well below guidance have measurable cognitive effects in children.

Oh that's good to know, do you have a source?
Yo mama's mama's mama's mama: our understanding of human origins
Is it me, or this AirTag did not have its battery connected? We see this thin paper/plastic separator on the photo.

Moreover, don’t these alarms start after some hours after being away from the owner?
That is correct. But as I said: Taiwan is being used by the US as a strategic military location to contain China. As long as this situation persists, China can't accept any other situation than Taiwan being part of the same state.

Were this danger to disappear then I foresee much greater chances of Taiwan emerging as a independent state, probably as one that is aligned with PRC in the same manner Canada is to the US.
Nicotine is fairly non-addictive (in gum and patch form. Vapes, may be slightly more addictive due to oral fixation -- but still nothing compared to actual tobacco).

Benefits are mostly in appetite suppression (if one is prone to overeating/unhealthy binging), mental stamina (usually due to the aforementioned appetite suppression), emotional anti-lability, and greatly improved saliva production (from nicotine gum, ergo oral hygiene).

Tobacco itself contains a lot more psychoactive chemicals (MAOIs, and such), and are definitely more useful in the emotional-regulation department. If you're going through severe, inescapable emotional and physical hardship, tobacco generally keeps you from losing your mind and having a breakdown. And generally, I believe this is the most addictive quality: it keeps the stress to a manageable level (that becomes unmanageable once you stop tobacco, but don't do anything to change your environment).

One cigarette/cigarillo every few days is nothing in the grand scheme of things. It becomes a serious problem when you're smoking a pack a day, every day, without giving your lungs any time to heal and clear out (i.e. once the sharp perma-cough comes in, it's time for a break). Even having a cigar once a month (and even inhaling it), it is basically nothing, if you're perfectly healthy otherwise.

For what its worth, if the U.S. stopped selling tobacco completely, the economy would fall apart. No one would work all of the absolute dogshit jobs that "underpin" everything else (see: low-skilled, manual labor, etc.); and weed would not be able to fill the void.
A lot of people without VP9 hardware support just use h264ify.

Otherwise it's not really feasible to watch high resolution, high framerate videos on a laptop. It absolutely murders battery life.
https://news.mit.edu/2014/scratchjr-coding-kindergarten

https://pbskids.org/learn/scratchjr/
This is silly. What if you chose to go to a smaller school so you paid for college out of pocket? Should you get paid for the opportunity cost of not going to the expensive liberal arts school?

Forgiving debt isn't about you, it's about unburdening an entire generation of working people so they aren't forever under the thumb of financial institutions. Undoing federal guarantees is also about rightsizing academia, which has bloated itself on these ever growing loan numbers.
People thought real estate was a can't lose investment back in the run up to 2008 as well. While real estate can be a good investment for many people, a lot of places are well into bubble territory (Canada, Australia, and China come to mind).
Antivaxxers tend to use scientific/rational language though, as opposed to new age vibes or what they heard from their priests. They’re using a modernist mindset, they just happen to be wrong.
Once you are earning so much money ten another $10k here or there makes no difference. When you hit 30+ you start to see that you're mortal and time is more important than chasing the $$$. I value my time more than doing any overtime in any job. So I don't. No overtime for me. Sack me if you want. I don't care. Time off is incredibly important as you get older.
I am not making a whataboutism claim. I am merely trying to figure out what our standard for "bullying" behavior is. If the standard for "bullying" behavior happens to also apply to the US and is the impetus for why Lithuana evacuated its embassy, then I would suggest they should evacuate their US embassy as well.

If there is a reason why Lithuania hasn't evacuated their US embassy, then I am just seeking to figure out what the standard is that makes China's behavior uniquely bad.

I think it is pretty undeniable that jingoistic rhetoric has increased in both China and the US in recent years.
> I bet a similar delaying effect is happening for adolescent kids who would have started being interested in the opposite sex but all they could do was Zoom into virtual lectures while being alone.

So in your opinion, attending class is about finding a heterosexual romantic partner?

I know lots of teenagers had virtual lectures, but I don't know any teenagers who were 100% socially isolated from their peers for very long.
But you heard of google vs oracle, right? The curt didn't answer the question if reimplementing the api was copyright infringement.... It only ruled it's fair use (under the assumption it was copyright infringement).
On the other hand, we don't really have any business being there. So why would we. We're not the world police.

In the EU we view the "Department of Defense" as a tool for actual defense. Not for invading the middle east for corporate benefit. We've been dragged into this several times by the US in the last decades and it's always been a huge failure and has sometimes led to worse threats (ISIS for example which was much more of a threat to us than Saddam Hussein was)

A land war against China is not winnable anyway. I do think we should help Taiwan if it comes to it. But this should just come down to strategic deterrents. There's no point sending armies. By the time they get there it's too late anyway.

Our main threat right now is mainly Russia. And mainly so because they view us as enemies. But having entire tank brigades like in the cold war won't do us any good. This is not how the next war will be fought.
https://mindmedicineaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Long...
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Ask your boss if you can work less?

I vaguely remember hearing that it's actually illegal for your boss to deny this without some good reason, but I suppose it might not be that hard to come up with some excuse either.

Sometimes jobs have a minimum number of hours per week posted, but most of the time it's simply part of the benefits negotiation. Paid days off per year, public transport pass, salary amount, how many hours per week, IP of any open source projects I work on, it's just part of what I talk about when negotiating my contract. And it doesn't have to be at the beginning of your employment.
There is CLANG environment support for MSYS2 - https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments/
>That doesn't make their decision irrational, except to the degree that all complex decisions are made on the basis of incomplete information. You make the best possible induction from limited information. It becomes irrational when one believes they are making infallible deductions, which is false.

You're missing the point. With the incomplete information available one still needs to make that decision/assumption. And deciding not to date is not an infallible deduction but a thought out process for some people that decide that the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

>But it's misleading to attribute it to facts which may be false or incomplete, and leads to problems with other human interactions.

Again, it still misses the point that the individual might prefer not to partecipate instead of waiting on all the "complete and true" facts/information
It's an old rhetorical tactic to pitt one class of poor vs the other while ignoring the elephant in the room. For eg - Pitting rural white Americans against Mexican immigrants. You could just raise the minimum wage - a solution that would be "class warfare".

You can have the rich pay for undergraduate degrees instead of the poor - as you have conveniently assumed. A rather hilarious assumption given that tax slabs for the poor are the lowest.

Pitting one class of poor/middle class against the other is a fairly well known conservative tactic. Intraclass "warfare" is what conservatives want to focus on, instead of the big elephant- interclass "warfare".
The photo is an example.
We often exclude obvious apects of natural selection in these studies. In this case, the decision to have children during a pandemic may be indicative of a predisposition to poor mental functioning in the parents, which would naturally result in poorer cognitive function, on average, in the offspring.

More intelligent people would recognize the potential downsides to reproducing in a pandemic, such as (a) unknown effects of the novel coronavirus on the developing fetus, and (b) the role of excessive population density in fueling the pandemic. These more intelligent parents would tend to make the logical decision to avoid reproducing in adverse circumstances.
The picture is provided as an example, since the removed AirTag was discarded.
Since when is "MVP" an engineering term?

Also, if you're modernizing / migrating your stack, aren't you effectively NOT talking about an MVP anymore? I thought the first MVP was supposed to be a throwaway prototype used to validate (market, technical, UX) feasibility, and once you've validated, you can't consider it an "MVP" anymore?

I think there should be a new term for what she's talking about — maybe a "minimally stable product"?
“Stronger” is a term than can mean a couple of things. The two main properties of “strength” are hardness and break resistance. The problem is that usually, when you you increase hardness, you make the glass less resistant to breaking. The glass becomes more brittle. Phone makers have to balance those two properties when designing their phones.

Making glass thinner would actually make it less likely to break as it allows a little more flex to the glass. Making it thinner might compromise some other property of the glass so I’m not sure why they don’t use super thin glass.
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I was about to submit some objection but it turns out you've posted quite interesting links so I'm going to ponder that for a while. If I don't edit this post consider that you've successfully convinced me and changed my mind. Thanks for the pointers!
Masks that are worse than a well-fitted N95 help with limiting spread when you go into a shop for 15 minutes. When you spend 8 hours in a crowded building with no ventilation, they do exactly nothing -- you will get full exposure regardless. Masks in schools are health theater.
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Despite the somewhat goofy title, this is actually a great academic summary of the current state of human origins by Razib Khan.
Apple made an Android app for this.
For a few years I did most of my side-project programming on the commuter bus. Ergonomics is horrible of course but it helps to turn of the trackpad and embrace the keyboard shortcuts.

Internet was spotty so I pretended to be competely offline... Devdocs.io + saved pdf prints of various pages for offline docs.

Even though it was only 2x30 minutes 5 days a week, quite a lot got done.
How hard was it for you to find a client ready to pay 130$+/hour?
Ask HN: Is Visual Studio Code a New 'Java'?
I have been trying to figure out Microsoft's investment in Visual Studio Code. They spend a lot of time and energy working on the system and expanding it and given that they are a publicly traded company it isn't just because they heart Open Source so darned much.

I think that the recent efforts to make Visual Studio Code run in a browser are the first steps in MS making a modern 'Java' that not only allows you to build Mac, Windows and Linux apps but also web apps that look and act like desktop apps.

MS has Typescript and via Github it has Electron. So it has a language and a 'platform'. It doesn't control Node or Chromium though so the entire delivery chain isn't under their control but it looks as if they are working on a system that will let them promise 'write once' by removing the underlying OS.

What does everyone else think? Likely?
If you are researching colleges. Maybe we should already expect the students to do some basic research outside it. Or in general on college level education. Finding lot of discussion about loans and employability has been entirely possible for years now. There is no excuse not to do this research for one of the most important decisions in their life.
They already try to detect and ban poor performing ads, but it is hard to do perfectly.
There is this one:

https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids
Apple for a long time had WebObjects, a server-side Web Framework in ObjC, later Java, inherited from Next. Judging by URL structure a lot of Apple infrastructure likes the stores and iTunes Connect were build on Webobjects and possible still are.
Some antivaxxers are just afraid of needles, so if we had a nasal spray vaccine they’d take it.
Being able to delegate stuff to others is also a boon. Keep the interesting stuff for yourself then delegate if you can. Love doing that.
> Letting ads run arbitrary JS is the policy, right?

I mean, anything on the Web can run arbitrary JS. The entire point is that it's a sandbox environment where arbitrary JS can't do any harm (excluding cases where vulnerabilities are found).

If you're not comfortable with arbitrary JS running on your computer, you'd have to either (a) not use the Web, (b) disable JavaScript, or (c) only visit sites which you have vetted and deem to be trustworthy. None of those are particularly practicable.

Most of us operate on the generally-reasonable assumption that the sandbox is effective, and therefore that we're OK to [click on that random link from HN like you did just now / open that news site which pulls in a bunch of tracking scripts / etc].

Either way, this is not somehow a problem that's specific to Google Ad Manager in any way at all. I don't know what else you could really expect of them.
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The knock on effects of fines and the damage the systems cause when someone can't pay a fine are far worse than the effects of smoking.
Honestly, you might be right. The way that pre-Colombian societies used it was totally different than the methods Europeans adopted upon introduction. And this is kinda interesting because the native cultures had thousands of years of experience with this stuff, and Europeans, even now, have about 500. Now as for scientific rationalism being applied in those communities, nobody can really say, so an argument positing that they did some actuarial science over the subject in such a long trial may or may not be spurious, but the long-range experiment being conducted may well have yielded plain and visible results. Maybe there was a reason they hadn't adopted alternative methods.

"Everything from effigy pipes topped by exquisite animal carvings (used to smoke a variety of tobacco strong enough to induce trance-like states"
Graeber, via Goodman et. al - Consuming habits: drugs in history and anthropology

Evidently the Amerindians smoked high doses from pipes, enough to induce a trance-like state. Having made use of pre-rolled filtered Tobacco extensively, I'd surmise they were either using it infrequently, or making themselves use it infrequently. In the first case, they show enough self-restraint to forego daily use, which allowed them to remain sensitive to the drug. In the latter case, they frequently poisoned themselves by indulging in a very high level of consumption - I suspect this would discourage frequent use as the side effect tends to be nausea and sudden onset anxiety. Of course, my perspective on this is limited, as my exposure is largely (near-exclusively) that of commercially treated tobacco with its various additives and mode of transport - paper. They were smoking I imagine largely unprocessed tobacco out of pipes.

Altering the cultural fabric of smoking itself might actually yield better outcomes. I'm not so interested in the topic as to find statistical demonstrations, but I suspect at least a portion of the damage that smokers can be directly attributed to the physical characteristics of the smoke, and the frequency of use. Cooler smoke inhaled through a pipe constructed with a conductive material like ceramic or stone done for ritual purposes might well yield a better social outcome than what our current smoking modality does without infringing on human rights and wholly eschewing the use of tobacco and all of its cultural complement.

Something to think on in any case.
> end federally backed student loans

Unfortunately, higher education will be completely opposed to this plan, because they get paid upfront, take on zero risk, and can charge whatever they want. (Yet another example of moral hazard. When the loan cannot be repaid the taxpayers foot the bill. Remember, “gains are privatized and losses are nationalized.”) Also as incredibly flawed as the present system is, I wonder if it provides an avenue to higher education to students that would otherwise have no such path. I propose that the universities should be financially responsible (instead of the federal government) when the student cannot repay the loan. That would provide a strong incentive for universities to have A. the student graduate B. have a manageable amount of debt with respect to future income.
Houdini and ORCA immediately spring to mind as having intensely talented communities building things with these bleeding edge tools.
"President" is not exclusively the title of the head of state of the US.
Sorry, I should have used the word "can" instead of "should" - As simply as possible what I was trying to convey is that cultural genocide can be discussed next to the holocaust in the context of genocide, the way an orange can be discussed next to an apple in the context of fruit. What I was trying to say is some people would say an apple is equally an orange in the context of fruit, not that some people might like orange more than apple, if that makes sense.
I derive a small amount of pleasure from clicking the little x every few days. I have no idea if it does anything, and I imagine at some point they'll just decide I've accepted anyway but I have no intention of agreeing willingly. I like to think that somewhere in Facebook's offices there's a dashboard that shows acceptance rate and I'm doing my part to keep that small % of resistance alive.

I also stopped sharing my contacts with whatsapp around the time the whole fiasco started.
I’m not convinced this is a priority for police. Air tags seem to be a net negative for all.
and the necessary addition: you can use VSCode or Atom or Sublime or Jupyter notebooks with good to very good plugins for CL development, you are not tied to Emacs or Vim (anymore) \o/ https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... & https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/vscode-alive.html
Who said anything about blaming google for users clicking “ok” without thinking about it?
"Decimate" is kill one in ten, which is probably a not uncommon number for those who had atleast one fatality in the family.
And also punish those who choose or were not able to get these loans or education in first place. Should they also get same amount of money?
Thanks for your response. If I may continue to pick your mind, can you elaborate on what you consider new tech? Do you refer to new languages, frameworks, programming paradigms? Also, what is your suggestion for learning algorithms and data structures?