skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Studies on laws limiting what interest rates payday loan companies may charge suggest such laws are net-harmful, because they reduce the availability of such loans, leading to people resorting to worse options, like bank overdrafts, or not paying rent being evicted:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1538-4616....

>>There are still prohibitions on drug use that most agree should still be upheld due to the serious harm they tend to cause (addiction -> crime, serious health decline) relative to their benefits

Prohibition is the reason there is a link between addiction and crime. In the absence of prohibition, prices would be as low as ground coffee, and no one would need to commit crime to support their habit.

Another example of the harm of prohibition is the effect it had on how concentrated the drugs were in the form sold. In the late 19th century before prohibition most of these drugs were found in low concentrations in the products that marketed them.

With the advent of prohibition, producers started to create higher concentration doses because such doses were easier to smuggle.
I'm imagine sunken costs fallacy applies too with the costs being tooling, supply lines, etc. Changing from smooth tin cans to stamped steel cans with internal liners does require a substantial investment in new tooling.
>>To me, it's clear from reading this comments that many people do not understand the economics of a restaurants. Which are far different than chain fast-food place locations.

How much clearer can it be than if the financial balance of the restaurant is not profitable, it is time to shift into a different menu and price points, or shut down all together and find a different avenue of work.

The restaurant owners are in the same predicament as their workers. If it's not worth pursuing for your time and money, then pursue something else more worthwhile. Adjust or die.
Well sadly, roads have a bad habit of being confined by physical time and space and cannot just be arbitrarily widened.
iirc Google does it, it's not ridiculous at all. You need a lot of automated tests and canary deployment to pull it off though.
And such help would not be useful, because these are problems of motivation. So to avoid such unhelpful help (which can often exacerbate issues - such are the mysteries of the self) I tell you everything is fine. Tally up my work at the end of the month and you'll be happy.
well it took me ~four years to comfortably quit nicotine from wanting to, to absolute zero. Weed is considerably easier to turn on and off whenever. I get that we're all weird but for some people there is a significant difference here.
It is an insane burden that wastes everyone's times. Communicate immediately don't wait until the next day. It is an anti-pattern, you end up structuring your work around status updates instead of the real problem.
I explicitly want all three things you list. I also would like to see Open Borders ;) https://openborders.info

For psychedelic drug decriminalization: the alternative is status quo, which results in tremendous amount of suffering (thousands of people in jail who are then disenfranchised by their "criminal" record).

You vaguely gesture at the possible good outcomes people like me want, but then boldly claim "that isn't the outcome [we] will get". I'm puzzled why you have such a pessimistic view of it all.

Portugal decriminalized all drugs 20 years ago and they are doing great (by comparison to surrounding countries that have not). Assisted suicide has become legal in several countries with presumably no negative outcomes you are warning us against. UBI has been successful and loved by Alaskans for decades. What problems are you worried about?
I wouldn't say those doses are micro. 25mg of psilocybin is equivalent to almost 3 grams of mushrooms.
I've been working on the inputs to mine for over four years now and it still hasn't picked up "blow nose!"
Also PUT.
I'm using it myself to run Whatsapp for the Matrix Whatsapp bridge [1] on a VPS.

[1] https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/go/whatsapp/android-vm-setup.htm...
Government benefits are competing with wages? Or are wages not competitive with employee's needs?
If it captures such a small facet of what it means to be human then its a very poor metric to optimize for. We don’t even know what trade offs we are making.
Tolerance just means you double the dose each day. People do it with LSD. Folks do crazy shit with drugs, in all honesty I think most people could hardly believe what kind of stuff drug users get up to.

I appreciate the newfound silicon valley, positive, scientific approach to drugs, but over here on the party continent it's a lot different.
Who is greedy? The one who is offering a service to people or the one sitting home not offering a service to other people while consuming resources?
McSweeney’s is one of those rare gems that's been going forever and is still great. I started my first site in 99 and still remember taking some inspiration from McSweeney’s. Though I wanted to be Slashdot mostly.
The key thing with regulating margin trade is that most home loans have less equity requirements than margin trading accounts - you can get homes with zero equity sans closing costs these days, while you have to maintain at least 25% equity in a margin trading account, and people don't have much of an issue with either.

As long as the economy, the financial, employment and housing markets behave somewhat reasonable, even extreme leverage is not a problem... but in sudden uncontrolled crashes, that amount of collective leverage explodes backwards and everyone has a problem.

I'm actually not sure if it is possible to regulate margin at all to a resilience degree that stands up to market depressions, given that debt and leverage are essential to the working of any economic system (including all the various forms of socialism!) in a scarcity-based world itself.
> It's important to use precise language when talking about addiction.

Agreed. Adding to this: GP characterized psilocybin's effects as "deliriant". This word has a specific meaning, and psilocybin doesn't fit -- it's a psychedelic, not a deliriant. There are some mushrooms that produce deliriants (e.g. Amanita muscaria / muscimol), but these are not typically consumed in the same context as psilocybin mushrooms.
Yes, that's a reasonable analogy. Now extend it with some crypto-magic that makes duplicating that picture impossible, that's an NFT.
Store timestamps as ISO8601 UTC with the best precision supported by your hardware.

Display timestamps however the user wants.

Do not roll your own timestamp code. See "Falsehoods programmers believe about time".
I was referring to the actual bored ape nft. And all the other scams following the same pattern.
I concur. Where are all the employees? Labour force participation has collapsed over a number of years, but where are all the people if not getting some unemployment somewhere? It seems every retailer I pass in every city has a sign up right now looking for employees.
> Despite these advantages, Persona failed. I don't see how a blockchain-based approach, with so many disadvantages compared to Persona, could possibly succeed outside of the blockchain enthusiast community. And, on a technical level, a federated approach seems innumerably simpler and less wasteful than a blockchain-based approach.

Sometimes it's all about being in the right place, at the right time, with the right amount of hype. Inferior technologies win out all the time.

That being said, if (major if) auth through web3 did take off, I wouldn't be surprised if over time it slowly creeped back toward a solution that doesn't use blockchain since a non-blockchain solution would probably be simpler, cheaper, and faster.
I think there was an attempt in FlashForward, but the series got cancelled.
> I’m curious how they avoid pushing changes that break the build.

By not pushing changes that break the build.
In other words: that does not work if you can't test (actually test, not just try to build) your code before pushing it to main.
My understanding is the cost of goods a parabola with respect to wages, where until an inflection point, the wages are not high enough to allow workers to have discretionary spending. But once wages are high, demand increases enough to cover the increased wages and cost of goods can come back down as marginal cost decreases.
If everyone was a sociopath it would fall apart pretty quickly. You can read up on evolutionarily stable strategies.
Raise the wages. Isn’t that capitalism?
> rfc2616 says:

“Obsoleted by: 7230, 7231, 7232, 7233, 7234, 7235”
Dupe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29795910
> farath.com was first indexed by Google more than 10 years ago

This seems pretty suspicious? Is it reporting the first time Google crawled the main domain farath.com? How is that relevant information?
For those curious, here's the article

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/10/ssc-journal-club-relax...
Chapter 10 Part 1 is out – Rust Zero To Prod
It would be quite hard to kill yourself with an internal combustion engine. I mean... it's probably possible (somehow spray yourself with petrol, and then ignite it?) but it wouldn't be at all likely. The same can't really be said of electric car guts.
> The distance is independent of anyone's skills. The complexity of the task does not depend on how skilled you are, that's why we're using abstract units, to measure the size, not the time.

So what is the point then? We can abstract away distance. It doesn't help you cross that distance.
> they might be able to lead you into thinking they can.

I can't help wondering if there is or should be some sort of law against corporations doing this. If they are trying to mislead you into not making use of a right which is legally yours, that feels a bit like fraud, or practising law without a licence.

I'm reluctant to suggest that the government should limit even corporate free speech so much that companies become afraid to put warnings on things, and corporate lawyers would probably just come up with even more convoluted ways of phrasing things to technically comply with the law (or maliciously comply with it to make people hate the law), but perhaps some well-funded consumer body should be able to name and shame companies that do this.
Ex: {n ∈ R ∣ n is odd}
Likely because it's a confused comment not having any relationship to the posted article, and it demonstrates lack of even a basic understanding of what econometrics is. (Source: I teach econometrics classes in a college of arts and sciences, which I share with math, statistics, physics, chemistry, and biology departments.)
You may be right, if the sites truly own original content that is then being displayed in the app. It seems that is often not the case though.
Yes to both; or it could be addressed in a different way too; that’s another topic though.
The set of prime integers is a strict subset of the set of integers, and yet both are infinite (they have the same cardinality even--that is, they are the same size, in one sense of 'size').
I don't know if the author is being sarcastic but:

> To that, I propose base-2 exponentiation based on the scale you care about in the first place, time.

> 1, 2, 4, 8. Hours, days or weeks.

I think this is actually a pretty good system. The point being that estimates get less fine grained as the size of the task increases, which is pretty sensible.
Just wanted to say that this sort of interaction is important. I'm glad people question what they're taught and I'm glad that you have responded with a reasonable answer that explains the why behind this social norm. I think the reasoning behind social norms are really important to understand. Not only because they might help reinforce a positive behavior, but we might also come up with a better solution when we discuss it.

Its possible that nose picking and similar behaviors by kids are important for helping build the immune system.
Ha! I live in Reston and mapped out some options on Goole Maps...

Home to IAD by car: 5 miles, 9 minutes

Home to IAD by transit: 40+ minutes across 2 bus lines

Home to IAD by foot: 10.9 miles, 3+ hours

Home to WAS by car: 24 miles, 29 minutes

Home to WAS by transit: 90+ minutes across 1 bus line, 2 Metro lines, and a few walking segments to link them.

It's sad that walking to the airport is twice as far than driving. It's also sad that I can drive to a airport further away than I can access my closest airport by transit.
Let's give OpenSea the benefit of doubt and say they don't know their platform is being used to illegally sale things the distributor doesn't own. I see no reason they shouldn't be held to the same copyright rules that Youtube is after the Youtube vs Viacom judgement that says Youtube has to put forth a good faith effort to upholding copyright on their site. As far as I know OpenSea has no tools to do. If they are seeking a 13B valuation then they absolutely have the resources to implement tool for artist to more easily protect their work and seek compensation if their work is stolen and sold. Also people saying "I see no difference between OpenSea and eBay" are naive. The dose makes the poison and it is much easier for me to steal some artist work and sell it as an NFT than it is for me to steal my neighbor's phone and sell it on eBay. There is a huge risk in getting caught and both eBay as well as cell phone manufacturers have tools in place to reduce theft such as blacklisting the stolen phone's IMEI.
This article smells like it’s coming from a well off person pretending they have it bad and pointing to bullshit reasons.
Do you have a good relationship with your boss? If you do, just talk to him. He's a person and he probably wants to keep you around.

"Hey, I feel like I'm doing a lot, I want to do more, and I'd like to make more money. Can we talk about it?"

Prepare what you feel is a reasonable title/salary and any documentation you can give on that. From what you have written, I'd ask for Lead Engineer and see if you can find a salary range online. You could even suggest that your boss asks the bigger company what their pay range for the title would be. Also, this needs to be a realistic number. Don't look at Google salaries and expect to match.

The worst way to approach it is a "I want X, give it to me". If you want to put more pressure on it, mention the LinkedIn offers you're getting - "Hey, recruiters keep reaching out to me on LinkedIn and the salaries are pretty high. I really want to stay, can we talk?"

The big take away needs to be the value you have brought to the team and will continue to bring.

There's only a few times I've ever straight denied a request like this. 1) We just did raises and they want more, but don't deserve it. 2) They were at the company for <6 months and their current pay was above the median. Especially when your responsibilities have grown, this should be an easy conversation. The hard part will be getting a good number.

Best of luck.
Sorry to respond a second time, but another thought occurred to me. The frauds took place a while ago. Even if she had invested half in an index fund, she should still have 2x+ of the funds left. I don't know what if any interest is charged, but she might be able to repay the original investors at 110% and still make a tidy amount of cash, depending on what she did with the money.
Also consider copyright holders are free to choose who they enforce their rights against. Same applies to licenses.
How do you restart the load balancer though, without dropping traffic?
I have zero problem with the lowest paid members of society holding out for more. I have a hard time calling anyone greedy who is looking to make a living wage.
I’m ashamed to have ever worked for Symantec. This is beyond ridiculous.
Absolute abuse of trust.
The author has been doing a great job of keeping the book updated, and constantly emails news and progress reports. Kudos to his interaction with the community!
QA departments are expensive. Execs in their infinite wisdom opted to dump that task on developers who earn 3x as much as QA people. Synergies!
Russia’s Military Buildup Near Ukraine Is an Open Secret
I've taken it multiple times. Science is still the basis for my beliefs. I know I'm n=1, but I'm also a counter example.
At this point windows defender is the principal threat to the normal functioning of my computer. It takes 100% CPU frequently, blocks my own programs based on some obscure ML rules, it re-enables itself when you disable it. It is indistinguishable from a virus.
No wireless. Only five planets. Lame.
I use one of these password managers that folks have been sharing here but I'm curious why folks don't like using the ones built into firefox/chrome. Chrome at least allows you to provide a separate encryption password so they don't have any visibility into what the passwords are.
I wonder how much of that is addiction and how much is just forgetting what something is like. I have 1 cigar a month (never more, occasionally less) and have done so for about 12 years. I suppose some may say that means I'm addicted. Or does it mean I simply enjoy a cigar? I honestly don't know the threshold. When I see a cigar I'm usually reminded of the enjoyment; I guess that is some addiction in and of itself. It calls into question, what is a memory in and of itself -- and if memories and the desire to relive them are just an incarnation of addiction.
https://archive.is/yXCsA
And it’s not just that the wheel well needs to be in front of the passengers, but also the front crumple zone is very important to passenger safety in many of the most common crash scenarios.
My method of improving search results is to not use Google.
Physiological addiction is more real in that your body forms a physical dependency on something that can kill you if you don't have it. This is CRUCIAL to understanding why we need stuff like Methadone or Kratom to help ween people off of Heroin/opioids.

Mental addiction is treated entirely differently and is far less severe.
Do you reject the idea that you and I are both the universe experiencing itself? You seem overly concerned with how often people decide to engage in the positive and apparently harmless practice of indulging in the idea. Are you this scrutinizing toward other spiritual practices such as Christianity or Islam? Not trying to do a whataboutism or anything, just trying to get a good read on exactly how humorless you are.
So, the Germans made a can that was easy to fill, easy to carry, easy to stack,
didn't leak and didn't break easily.

Then the Americans copied it and made a can that leaked (because it didn't have
the recessed seam of the original) and needed tools (spanner and funnel) to
fill.

The British had an early version that split in transport, punctured easily,
leaked a quarter of the fuel they carried over rough roads and "gave vehicles a
propensity to catch fire" (!) but when they saw the German design they
immediately cottonned-on and made several improvements (cam lever cap release,
air pocket and air pipe for smooth flow, gasket to leak-proof the mouth).

Finally, the Russians copied the German design, presumably without changes.

There is a deep lesson in all of this about the engineering practices, or
perhaps the engineering traditions, of different nations. I'm sure there is.

I just can't get past the "gave vehicles a propensity to catch fire" bit.
I keep a few moving blankets in my trunk. Good for protecting my car/items in trips to the store, cheap enough I don't care if they're ruined, and they'll also come in handy if something like this scenario ever happens to me.
if you can log into the machine and replace the nginx executable you are probably capable of running it too
I have noticed that Google and Bing seem to present results which link to sites like stackoverflow.com where the questions and solutions are absolute FUD.

I think someone or an entity has been engaged in a consertive effort to manipulate the results if its not something more nefarious in Google and Bing's domain.

Very few entities have the resources to do this either, its not something a ragtag band of goat herders could, thats for sure!
Indeed. Thread is about Peter Norton and McAfee was only mixed in -- I meant McAfee, my fault.
Take all the even numbers. That's a subset of all whole numbers. Is it a finite set? Clearly not. Both are infinite; the population of even numbers is 50%. Sometimes infinity/infinity = 0.5.
I'm leaning toward Strongbox on iOS as well. I'm struggling a little with finding a good Mac experience. Strongbox doesn't support KeePassHTTP or any other browser integration beyond macOS/Safari AutoFill, and KeePassXC seems a little rough around the edges. I might try MacPass.
This comment is totally uninformed and completely wrong.

Econometrics is the study of making inferences about economic models from data. Making inferences from data is fundamental to everything economists have done for a long time. Econometricians are essentially applied statisticians. Indeed, I can think of many econometricians I personally know who have joint appointments in university statistics departments. Your claim that they are "hidden in business schools" is completely incorrect.

Econometricians are unlikely to have made predictions about NAFTA. You provide no source for your claim that they did. Nor are they likely to have advocated against Glass-Steagall. You provide no evidence for this claim either.

If you think econometricians have no training in science or math, you are also totally and completely wrong. (Again: do you think so many econometricians would have joint appointments _in statistics departments_ if that were true?)

I would also invite you to visit any seminar in a prominent university economics department in the United States, not just the econometrics seminar. Outside of pure game theory, every seminar series in every department is thoroughly empirical: what is the data, how are the parameters in the model identified, etc.

Or go talk to the economists who work at any of the large tech firms! Facebook, Google, and Amazon all have economics groups. Amazon's is to my knowledge the largest. They hire many econometricians every year and have consulting relationships with many of the leading academic econometricians. Would they put so much money into "one of the most discredited branches of academics that exists"? No, they would not.

You don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about.
You should really consider watching those movies again because I think you've missed a lot there.

I have watched The Matrix probably 100+ times (and the sequels a good 30 or more times each). I really doubt that I'm the one who's "missing something" here.

Anyway, if you see it differently, then you see it differently. That's totally acceptable. Two people can watch the same movie(s) and reach different interpretations. Nothing unusual about that.
About your step #6, finding an existing product can signal that your idea is already validated and that there's a market for it. You could improve an existing product in many different areas, e.g. efficiency, pricing, better integration, UX, localization etc. I'd personally suggest dropping the search for "something that someone has never thought of".

On a side-note, even though you don't mention having analysis paralysis at your step 3 & 4, something that held me back during pre-development was always trying to decide which language to use and which libraries/frameworks to go for. I've heard this from my peers as well, so I thought I'd mention that as well.

My solution to this problem is to treat the language and tools I'm most familiar with as if they are the only ones that exist in the universe. I learned this from retro game hackathons that apply artificial limits on color palette, sprites, available memory size etc. For some reason, I'm much more creative when a set of these decisions are already made, in this case by my past-self.

When I want to just play, learn, experiment with things I can choose whatever I want. But when it's building a product by myself, then I always apply plenty of artificial limitations from day 0.