skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... don't have random keybindings triggering stuff.

As a long time Emacs user, I feel that this is slightly unfair. When I first started out, I found that my documents from Emacs were far more common than in other editors. It took me two years to realise that I was often bumping C-t where trying to hit C-r or C-y and silently transposing two characters. In over twenty years of Emacs usage, I have never once used C-t on purpose. I feel that this perfectly matches the "keybindings triggering random stuff" experience and it is fully there in vanilla Emacs.

With twenty years of experience, I have my own, esoteric init file that I would not recommend on any newbie. However, I personally feel that Emacs has succeeded despite its default keybindings.
first thing I thought of lol.

I can't believe South Park is as solid as ever when it comes to capturing the absurdity of cultural phenomena.
It would at least give people some options and some would choose less harmful ones.
But it seems to me that the people that are most focused on being productive and optimal in this weirdly obsessive way are pretty high income -- they are not just scraping by to pay rent. I work with a company that does manufacturing here in the US -- it is pretty clear to me that the group of folks in our company that are skilled labor, hourly employees that are pretty well compensated, have more fun and make more time to experience joy and wonder than folks (like myself) that are more highly compensated and in the white collar world. This does not hold true for the lower end unskilled labor folks who have almost unavoidable material financial concerns due to income level. Now, I acknowledge this is very small sample size, but it makes me think.
Thanks for sharing that link to USA Spending! Seems like a lot of interesting information is buried there…and they have an API!
Those coconuts have definitely got blood on their hands:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_coconut
The Cambridge startup tracking Covid in America’s wastewater
Right. I keep forgetting that it's the token that's special, not the item (if any) that exists at the URL it's associated with.
He was known to have said that it's the 4 percent water that's going to kill him.
The guidelines are probably wrong. All recent scientific data I see shows that, like most poisons, the best amount to intake is zero.

Here’s one for brain health.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.10.21256931v...
Keynes advocated government borrowing and spending during a recession to cushion the decrease in aggregate demand. Critics of this deficit spending claim that the market should in the long run correct itself to which Keynes famously responded "In the long run we're all dead."

The U.S. government did this type of deficit spending in 2020-2021 printing and spending a large amount of money/debt which moved future spending to the present.
What use cases would likely make it hideously expensive, in your view? Like, what are the red flags?
An addict can become not an addict. A person killed by police cannot become anything other than a corpse. The severity of the harm has a temporal component due to time preference.

EDIT: Also, dying of overdose is both a symptom of illegality and of the addiction. If a thing is outlawed the production isn’t exactly regular and therefore strength/purity of the substance varies.
> There are plenty of studies showing benefits.

Yes. And these studies are being exposed as the product of alcohol lobby.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/3/21/17139036/he...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6055701/
The relative risk reduction for potentially catching covid-19 vs actually having cancer are radically different. Long to medium term risk of adverse effects from mRNA therapies are probably not weighed heavily against imminent eventuality of short term death with cancer. Edit- that's not to say I don't disagree with you on us knowing the long-medium term risks of mRNA therapies.
There's a ton of alternative kinds of sugar that are marketed as healthier than sugar but are in fact just sugar extracted from a different plant or other source. Sugar is sugar.
Amazon Style - Amazon's first-ever physical fashion store
I don't know other registrars offerings, but OP was particularly concerned about using Gmail (or something like it) and having good deliverability, which makes Google Domains + Gmail the right solution in my mind.
I'm creating a free Japanese course that ships as a flashcard deck for Anki. It completely starts from zero, maybe it helps you: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/911122782
I guess this format is similar to what jpdb offers, maybe you can even import it there. The deck currently covers most grammar and a little more than 800 words on ~1800 flashcards. It's mostly based on anime though, so at least some interest in this is beneficial ;).
It's legals mistake. Ads have to be run by them. They should have caught it.
Session Management – Fundamentals
It sometimes seems to me that there's this idea that unless you're customising Emacs and gaining complete understanding and mastery of its primitives, there's no reason to use it over another editor. As if the core editing experience is so horrible, why would you go through all that if you're not going to use the superpowered bits? I think this is doing a big injustice to how good most of Emacs and the packaged up versions are, even without a line of elisp.
I would still need Docs, which is “core”.
I use classes quite a lot. And I’m kind of a FP zealot. I generally treat class as a struct value type, and I also generally go to the trouble of marking every property readonly. They’re useful for several reasons:

- Abstract classes are useful for defining nominal interface types

- Classes are a clear signal that a set of methods are designed to interact with related data types

- The prototype chain can be helpful for debugging where POJOs may lose information in the call stack

- JS runtimes can sometimes optimize classes in ways they can’t with POJOs
These are what I consider to be the strongest reasons why my child shouldn't do cocaine in my country right now. If they go to a country where it's well-regulated, then the cost/benefits calculation changes quite a bit.
I got terribly motion sick. Nausea and head spinning like being on a small boat in the fog. It was very unpleasant, sadly.

Did anyone else have this, or have ideas about avoiding it?
> users had to re-add 2FA

And you are not asked to do this while logging in again. It is assumed you know why you have to reauthenticate and that you have to re-add 2FA in your app settings…
Life on the Edge: Monitoring and Running a Large Perforce Installation [pdf]
Which vehicle will do more harm if freely available to all children? Car, tank or crane with wrecking ball?

I would suggest that children shouldn't be driving at all.
Unless they were working on this already for other reasons, I imagine a lot of corners were cut to make it happen so quickly. We might be hearing from crypto.com again soon.
I’ll grant you that 7 years of working remotely have slightly warped my idea of what people do at office parties.
More apt analogy than one would think. lighter fluid and any product specifically labeled a fire starter do not really help if one has a basic understanding of fire except in extreme cases like for some reason the wood is soaking wet. And they have significant downsides in cost. lighter fluid is just gross. With even a modest understanding of how fire works all one needs is wood. Newspaper is good for charcoal.

“Fire starter” products are mostly only useful to people who don’t know what they’re doing or aren’t actually using it to start the fire but want to squirt in lighter fluid just to see big flames.
Still All on One Server: Perforce at Scale
the parent said "one of the worst" not the worst.

also, at least for now, cigarettes are legal, which just bolsters the point above.
I don't know who's telling the truth: https://news.yahoo.com/5-152-power-bill-texas-192316981.html

Edit: Perhaps in the end consumers didn't have to pay. I haven't found anything saying they didn't.
I've wondered for a long time if the studies showing health benefits from alcohol are being confounded by the health benefits of socialization, which often involves alcohol in many societies. People who drink less might (statistically) socialize less.
That’s surprising to me, I consider DynamoDB to be far simpler than any relational DB including the alternatives you list
Antichamber too
https://store.steampowered.com/app/219890/Antichamber/
Smoking cigarettes actually has a protective effect for contracting covid. You’re less likely to get it but if you do the outcome is worse.
This is why I've heard the argument (presumably from Stephan Kinsella, who wrote a book against intellectual property) that the patent system is unconstitutional - it is dubious that patents "promote the progress of science and useful arts."

The economist Fritz Machlup did a study in the 1950s on the economics of the patent system in the US and in his conclusion came to: "If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one."
There certainly were doctors and scientists who saw the harm of smoking prior to the general consensus. It seems as though this consensus is a result of both mounting medical evidence and a fundemental shift in the way medicine approaches disease, with the field of epidimiology expanding from the study of infectious disease to include a variety of chronic disease and cancers. IIRC, I've read references and anecdotes of smoking and tobacco having obvious negative health impacts as far back as the US Civil War (1860s).

There's a good record in "Research on Smoking and Lung Cancer: A Landmark in the History of Chronic Disease" (The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 1989) [0]:

> By the 1930s, some evidence had been obtained that the
incidence of lung cancer among males was increasing. The evidence came from three sources: official mortality statistics, pathologists' reports of autopsy findings, and the observations of physicians who specialized in the treatment of lung disease.

> Speculation about these factors continued, but there was also much criticism of the view that the reported increase in lung cancer was credible. . . . Factors which were listed as likely to be responsible for an artificial increase were better diagnosis of the disease and increased longevity of the population.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2589239/pdf/yjb...
"it’s not a source of empty calories"

Until you get the munchies...
YouTube Accounts, Websites Against India Will Be Blocked, Says Minister
tornado.cash is a legitimate service, that happens to be used by hackers that steal ethereum.

Check out their code on github.
Just to show how facile this reasoning is, let's flip the bit:

"Alcohol is one of the worst 'drugs' on a personal/societal harm scale - if we're going to tolerate this at large, we should make sure we keep other drugs illegal by default unless shown individually, through decades of research, to be safe. Otherwise we will burden our healthcare system and create a national catastrophe. As evidence of this danger, I submit the history of alcohol abuse, drunk driving, and liver disease, and their effects on our healthcare system."

I offer that you can only do one of two things now:

1. Argue against my advocacy for inconsistency using personal incredulity

2. Provide a deeper argument that relies on something more than an appeal to consistency

Edit: added a clause to sweeten my argument for inconsistency
This reminds me of something a friend once told me. This was about 10 years ago, he was a commander for the navy at the time.

In the navy, while at sea, you are expected to drink during social events. Alcohol is considered the 'social engine' of the ship.

Now I must disclaim that obviously the crew wasn't forced to drink. Those on guard, or who had any medical, religious or other objections were dismissed. And naturally they have very strict limits, as getting intoxicated on board of a operational warship would be very dangerous.

But, with moderate use, alcohol was (at least back then) viewed as an efficient method to prevent stress and mutiny among the crew. It probably is still today.
Since lots of couples in wealthy, developed nations are choosing to not have kids, I wonder how this will impact things in the future.

Especially in countries where it has been traditionally implied that your children will take care of you when you grow old.
Alcohol consumption increases cortisol production, so I'd say the opposite is true.
Now count how many people are sitting in jail for marijuana possession and the impact that arrest has over the course of their lives.
Most of the positives you list were achieved by people long dead. The generation that fought WW2 are now (at least) 95. They have my respect.

Below them are a much much bigger block of 60+ old people. They dedicated their lives to the opposite: narrowing educational access,destroying the generous labour market they inherited, stopping people accessing housing, some are even trying to reintroduce Nazi-ism.
Absolute insanity.
Correct, I did not know about 'C-h k', very nice !

very nice write up
Stranded dog saved from rising tide after rescuers attach sausage to drone
If you have the interest you can go after declaratory judgment yourself. Look in your State laws and line up COMPLAINT with every requirement in law. If you don't ask for money, a pro-se can get this started. It's mostly a process. Rights are available to those who individually enforce them.

The attorney's bar club just protects the club members. But malpractice insurance companies know the game and rate the policies based on number of complaints against each attorney. Several complaints significantly increases malpractice insurance cost.
And raise the voting age to 21 too?
Distributed Computing with Mac OS X Tiger [pdf]
Ask HN: How do weigh the financial outcome when starting a startup?
When starting a startup, there's typically a slog time where you got some funding but the startup progress is kind of slow.

This time period can be short if you got lucky with your parabolic growth. But often times it could be multi years.

How do you shrug the self doubt that tells you: You would have done so much better financially if you just keep your FAANG/Unicorn job.

Financially, the probability of capturing the upside of making a startup seems small compared to just keeping a day job. I am having a hard time justifying it in my head.

Any opinion or suggestion on how to overcome that feeling?
Most reds are meant to be served a good notch below room temperature, but not quite as cool as whites.
While I disagree with some victimless crimes, like drug possession, victimless crimes that put others at risk does victimize them.

It’s the reason that shooting a shotgun down a busy street is (and should be) a crime even if you don’t hit anyone.

Also, many violations of regulatory requirements are “victimless” but are entirely necessary cooperation for things to work properly, or to prevent consequential harm. Particularly for things where shared resources are used, like spectrum, roads, airports, the air we breathe, etc.

Who is hurt when I blow a little bit of lead dust into the air? Probably no one, and certainly nobody identifiable. Who is hurt when everyone blows lead dust in the air? Potentially many, and still likely unidentifiable.
Doesn't matter. People don't invest exclusively in one of stocks or bonds, but diversify. A higher interest rate might make bonds slightly more attractive on a continuum.
I feel like alcohol consumption isn't taken as seriously since its been legalized, but its incredibly destructive. The only thing I've really seen get talked about is driving while drinking.

This hits very close to home to me because I am currently taking care of our kids while my wife had to fly across the USA to help with her Uncle's funeral. He was a high functioning alcoholic for many years until he joined AA and cleaned up. He was a very active member of AA and lead his local chapter. He had just come to visit for the holidays and passed a week and half later from a heart attack.

My mother's side of the family came from a long line of abusive alcoholics, and she was the first to break the cycle. So I made the personal choice to not even try it to keep it going. Sometime I do wonder if I'm missing out, but I don't want to take the risk of getting addicted.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29845208
How we made Git fetch performance improvements in 2021, part 1
Bob Dylan was a poet, not musician. He wrote great lyrics, but did not have a shred of musical talent to make them into proper songs. That's why all his songs only became hits after someone else covered them.

For reference check this:
https://youtu.be/jzgLavD4vD4
vs this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFDOSIecALU
Yes, I agree that we should do more about unhealthy foods. Not restrict access to them (after all, smoking is also not illegal), but set in places incentives that nudge people towards healthier foods (these can be financial, educational, psychological, etc.).
> So DynamoDB is pretty great. But to get the the best experience from DynamoDB, you need to have a stable codebase, and design your tables around your access patterns. Because joining two tables isn't fun.

More than just joining--you're in the unenviable place of reinventing (in most environments, anyway) a lot of what are just online problems in the SQL universe. Stuff you'd do with a case statement in Postgres becomes some on-the-worker shenanigans, stuff you'd do with a materialized view in Postgres becomes a batch process that itself has to be babysat and managed and introduces new and exciting flavors of contention.

There are really good reasons to use DynamoDB out there, but there are also an absolute ton of land mines. If your data model isn't trivial, DynamoDB's best use case is in making faster subsets of your data model that you can make trivial.
Why am I forced to choose any or just one? Why do you think alcohol does less harm then any of the others?

Currently far, far more children die due to alcohol than the others, and while that's definitely due to availability it's not obvious that wouldn't still be the case if all were legal.
Parts of Texas will go from 80 degrees and sunny to an ice storm in 36 hours
The Cult of Masked Schoolchildren
This is myth which was debunked countless times already, people always drank water (even in the middle ages).
Sorry but no. Augusta was created specifically for the Masters. And I'm pretty sure the people who play golf on the course don't find it useless, weird power broker rant aside.

Once again, you can actually play golf there. It's not useless. NFTs are useless. Bad analogy.
I do see it as a good quote and wasn't puzzled. Perhaps we simply disagree?
Nutritional yeast tastes completely different, though. There’s a reason it is used by vegans for cheesy dishes.
Ha, hadn't seen lnav before. Looks interesting. Proves my point, tailing will never die. :-)
Critically, lots of these things are viewed through a political lens. So the same exact acts can be interpreted differently depending on how the politics or motives of the actor are interpreted.
While smoking is harmful overall and I certainly wouldn't advise anyone to smoke, the nicotine it delivers does have some merits. So there is some nuance to the issue.

https://peterattiamd.com/ama23/

The dose makes the poison. For some poisons there is a minimum threshold dose below which there is no detectible harm. For others that threshold is zero.
I see this a lot, and I somewhat empathize with you for wanting there to be something interesting there. But what you're describing is just nonsensical. There is no such thing as a digital "THING". Any digital "THING" is only a thing via interpretation by a computer program that musts be TRUSTED to interpret it correctly. That fact makes the concept you're describing dead on arrival.

Cryptocurrencies and the very most-boring versions of "smart contracts" are the only things blockchains can do. Any time you're dealing with anything that's not:

1. Tokens themselves
2. Rules for transferring the tokens themselves

blockchain is purely worse than a non-blockchain alternative. Because you're necessarily involving 3rd-party trust, which is antithetical to the reason blockchain exists.
Existential dread? It can be a pretty exciting feeling. I like how the Kurtzgesagt educational channel on YouTube has it permeate their cosmology/astronomy videos. They even addressed it explicitly in their "nihilistic optimism" video.
> Who thought that Alcohol is actually good for the heart?

I remember studies in the 90s (the ones I can find specifically were done by Eric Rimm) that touted health benefits from a glass of red wine. These weren't randomized control studies, they rarely controlled for anything that might impact someone's drinking or what they drink, and they've been torn apart in the years since.
I don't quite follow. E.g. at work with have feature branches with dozens of meaningful commits that we worked like 2-3 weeks on before merging to master.
My point was that I don't want to squash the information contained in all those commits.

I assume people here have different workflows, where they work alone on small features for maybe 1-2 days and then just squash all their tiny WIP commits into one?
Calling crypto.com anything near "apex of the cryptocurrency industry" is a very broad lie. Crypto.com is for people who just "wanna invest in crypto and get rich", others who are actually involved in the space (developers, companies and others) are nowhere near crypto.com as they have proven time and time again they are not serious about anything, even the basics like security.
Mental Models for Learning
Not necessarily. Driving for example is dangerous, a fatal crash can occur even if all parties involved are driving safely and are in complete control, and for that matter anything has a risk carried with it, but you balance out the risks and the rewards, just as you would with alcohol
Yeah. It seems like alot of things within the practice of medicine are brutal and crazy looking back.

I wonder what things from present time future humans will look back on and marvel at how insane they were.
Sure but if you are stuck at home because its 8pm on a tuesday because you work all day you can’t exactly go hiking. If you have money and time its easy to entertain yourself.
You know what's worse than drinking alcohol? Sitting in a chair all day staring at a screen.

Why do we need studies for things we've known for centuries? Drink, eat, exercise, all in moderation. Get outside and move often as possible. It's not rocket science.
I imagine the OS is on the IDE disk and the floppy disk contains the files for the website
Asia stores have it, Amazon sells it in bulk (I usually get 2.4kg at a time, I love MSG :D)
This description assumes that a neutral in intent system is unfair, this assumption is specifically woke bias since it prefers equality of result.
Well, now that I look it, maybe it's not exactly a tailing tool. Interesting nonetheless.
I am not sure where I fall on the all drugs should be legal argument but I do know that because I spent ~$400 to get a medical marijuana card I can legally buy pot at the local dispensary in my state and smoke it with zero repercussions. In the mean time the jails are absolutely full of people who are there because they did not spend the $400. It is morally insane for that to continue. People are getting rich off selling marijuana in a dispensary while others are serving life sentences for selling it out of their home.
Seems something was said of it. Most being unlikely, indicates that the remaining cases are likely to be caused by say national agencies.
I wish stories like this would inspire more techies to support universal health care in the US.

People should not have to beg for more money for their services or goods because they end up with a disease.

Everyone deserves health care, not just people who are visibly successful/popular.