skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to reach 3, or 4, or 8 to render swathes of the world functionally uninhabitable. At present trajectories Dubai and Miami will reach lethal wet bulb temperatures within my lifetime.

Science refines models, you seem to be under the impression that makes it hysterical. Isaac Asimov might disabuse you of that notion: https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

Also it's really cute to try focusing on, say, sea-level rise when that's probably the safest consequence of a warming planet. Crop yields are already decreasing, refugee crises will become more common, drought is already becoming a permanent facet of life for the west coast and Midwest, nitrogen and phosphorous cycles are presently unsustainable, etc.

Maybe we could just talk the economics of it since that's the only language seeming to motivate people. If you don't care about a planet that supports human life maybe consider the impact to GDP
Patents actually incentivize innovation - not hurt it.

Useful innovations are those which help society. Things that enable "standing on the shoulder of giants". Society values those innovations.

Often, the simple innovations are the best ones - yet, the simple innovations are also the ones most easily copy-able.

But, if something is easily copy-able, then one hesitates making those ideas public - for fear of copying and undercutting by competitors. Studies have shown that typically ~80% of R&D ends up as wasted effort (those 23 forks embarked on to realize #21 was the best).

So how can society encourage innovations to be made public? By providing incentives - such as patents - which are a limited time monopoly in exchange for fully describing the idea. Once the limited time monopoly expires, it is free for all - but in the meantime, others can read and understand the innovation - and either workaround (and provide society ANOTHER idea) or improve upon further or simply spark another idea.

Open societies out-proposer closed societies.
All Teslas are equipped with FSD hardware. The upgrade turns on the FSD software. Hardware or not, you don't have FSD unless you pay for it.
Or be dick parents to your children so that you have no relationship with them later on.
Don't forget that studies looking at drinking often fail to seperate out former alcoholics who usually have long-term health problems from drinking from teetotalers
A bit of a grandiose article, but yeah, they actually do mess with your head. Maybe not as woo-like intensity as OP elaborates.

I did one and it took me a long time to feel anything, and suddenly I couldn't tell how big my body was, or where my limbs were: my proprioception disappeared. But that was all I got. That and a bad case of the runs because I accidentally splashed some of the water into my mouth and swallowed it.
Polanyi’s work on intuition is incredible. The tendency (which I think came from Kuhn’s reading) to view Polanyi as some kind of relativist is a complete reversal and devaluation of what he actually wrote.

EDIT: in my view, the most rigorous examination and definition of intuition comes from Rosmini, and overlaps with that of Polanyi, but the latter is much easier.
You can drink alcohol after work with colleagues though. It’s far more helpful socially than party drugs due to its ubiquity.
Cars don't cause impaired judgment and withdraw.
SpaceX Wins $102M Air Force Contract to Rocket Cargo, Aid Around World
I'm advising people at the executive level. They do not care about the details of hashing PII, they want to know how likely it is that they will be targeted and how likely that attack is to succeed. And the fact is that an insurance company gets targeted far less often than crypto companies.
>From the announcement, it looks like Crypto.com is making the users whole again;

>> No customers experienced a loss of funds.

Let's believe that when we hear someone other than the company saying it.

> File a police report and provide a copy of it to Crypto.com

Yeah, I'm sure tons of crypto holders will get right on that.
Well now pretty much half of the country refuses anything the CDC says.
Hard agree.

My first job was a pizza place where we had "Pizza of the Month" deals which were unusual pizza's. Street taco pizza? Amazing. Thanksgiving pizza? Amazing. Spicy honey + fresh mozzarella? Amazing. Baked potato pizza? Amazing.

Just gotta remember to not use tomato sauce for some of those.
Exactly. It is the same dynamic with BAYC or similar NFTs. If I want to digitally rub elbows with some hot shot VC or CTO of a tech company, it's an easy way in. And for the ETH early adopter with cost-basis of ~$10 - it's play money.
It is true. It allows some people open up in ways they wouldnt before. Your point could apply to psychedelics, are they necessary for personal growth and changing perspectives? No. Can they help & accelerate the process? Yes.

- anecdote from someone who doesnt like drinking much
Scientifically speaking we know nothing at 100% confidence level.
Agreed. Banning it has been tried at least once, in the USA, and apparently it didn't work very well. There were too many people that wanted alcohol and were willing to defy government to have it. Government is at least partially (more in some countries than others) by consent of the governed.

But also on the contrary to your "none of the other drugs" point, I can't think of any possible reason why cigarettes weren't outright banned 40 years ago, except that they have exactly the same mechanism keeping them legal.
This is one of those things where different countries take different approaches (or at least have different pointes of emphasis). But the classic example is a security camera you install on your own house (or these days, a doorbell camera). If it can only see your own property, that's a household activity and is not covered by GDPR. If it records video of people walking on the public sidewalk outside your house, then GDPR applies to that recording.

As noted elsewhere, most of the fines against private individuals have been issued by Spain. And my mediocre Spanish literacy leads me to believe several of those fines are for posting videos on social media.
I’m sorry but don’t you see the irony here?

This Snopes fact check goes into a measured analysis of the claim. It presents all sides fairly. It arrives at a conclusion that one aspect of the claim is subjective, and they aren’t wrong about that. Therefore they give split rating with caveats and context.

You and others are arguing an absolutist position that removes all the nuance, and blurs technical crimes with subjective interpretations of those crimes. Moreover, you claim those who engage with the nuance are weasels playing fuck fuck games (I know you didn’t say that but you endorsed the comment that did).

For example, I could say that the people who invaded the Capitol on Jan 6 were terrorists. Hundreds have been charged, some convictions are coming down, none of which are terrorism. Would it be fair for me to say they are convicted terrorists? No, there is a lot of nuance here that is lost if I do that.
"People with as yet undeveloped pre-frontal cortexes to limit their inhibitions, and analyze, second-guess and evaluate their actions before they take them, don't need a drug that specifically suppresses the executive functions of their PFC, so why do you?"
> constantly reminded

Now, yes.

A couple of years ago? Every fifteen _minutes_.
My personal experience—I've done it about 4 times. The first time was pretty incredible. Not OBE or anything, but it was one of the few times I've experienced the detachment from self I hear regular meditators talk about so much. The world seemed bright and harsh afterward—I felt like a newborn. The other three times felt like nice epsom salt soaks, sometimes with sleeping.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not really, at least right here git mv does not fix structure of `.git/modules` and the submodules break. Just tried it again.

EDIT: apparently git on mac is just too old. Time to brew it. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4604486/how-do-i-move-an...
Unfortunately, to make the whole thing work, all of the categories the author listed need to be at maximum priority. There's no stack-ranking them; fail in any and nobody cares about this platform.

If the goal is to provide an alternative to iPhones and Android devices, the table-stakes is huge. It's an extraordinary amount of work to get a new mobile platform even as far as the "not as painful to use as a Blackberry" phase of polish if building it out from scratch.
There is such thing as a slippery slope and a dam that overruneth.

We’ve inherited use of alcohol over millennia —it’d be an uphill battle to rid ourselves of it short of fundamentalist dogmatism.

Some places in Central Asia have socialized opiate usage —but they too have unwritten rules about usage, or at least traditionally had them observed (it was a ‘luxury’ of old age).

If you allow an anything goes policy, you’ll end up with a decaying society. While I don’t propose prosecuting consumption because it’s the wrong focus, we should prosecute production and distribution of hard drugs.

Else you may end up with the likes of XIX century in China, or huffers in metro Manila.
I personally replaced tailing logs with lnav (lnav.org, also in Debian repos). Coloration, decompression, filtering, etc. with no learning curve made it an easy transition for me after hearing about it on HN. It isn't nearly so featured as a log aggregator like splunk, but it was a total tail replacement for me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29989613
Bootstrap Creator with Heart Attack
It's at least encouraging that it was caught and shut down.
> If people would have boiled their drinking water, it would have been safe to drink.

For a limited time. The live cultures and then alcohol in fermented drinks keep the bad bacteria at bay.

Keep in mind in the past, not everyone had a convenient source of heat in their homes.
When I first moved to Singapore my apartment was next to the motorway and port which runs 24/7, so it was quite noisy to listen to the cars and trucks and the odd container being dropped or banged.

When I moved the apartment block was dead silent with no road noise. I couldn’t sleep properly for about a month because It was so quiet. I couldn’t relax and ended up taking sleeping pills a few times just to sleep.

Since moving again I’ve always had background noise. I’m scared to move again to a silent place.
> But, most likely, they have metrics on average withdrawal amounts, deposit amounts, etc., hooked up to something like datadog, with an off-the-shelf anomaly detection monitor.

How are we estimating the likelihood here? I agree that would be desirable. I agree a very together company might have something like that. But given the average level of competence and professionalism in the cryptocurrency sector [1], I would not bet against EMM_386's theory in this case.

[1] See, e.g., https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ or https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/36-bitcoin-exchanges-that-...
If you bought a moderate amount of TSLA,

and didn't know Musk has been folding every dime he has on paper into itself since the PayPay days,

then you missed about a half, or full day of due diligence.
They already have PAC, although not exactly the same.
sure, but its not really socially acceptable to drop X at the company happy hour. also mistakenly falling into a G Hole at the local BBQ is generally frowned upon. Having a couple beers is unlikely to lead to career or social suicide.
The first time I started to wake up to government one-size-fits-all health policies was back in my 8th grade health class when we were being taught about the food pyramid, and this one kid asked the teacher why hamburgers are considered junk food when they pretty much fit into the model food pyramid. I remember the teacher being stumped and uttered out a barely comprehensible response after an awkward moment.

At first I thought that kid was a smartass, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that he wasn't wrong. I've you've got an American hamburger with all the fixin's, although its proportions aren't exactly like the food pyramid, it's close enough that it's hard to classify it as being unhealthy unless it's laced with extra cheese and barbecue sauce and whatnot. Yeah, there's fat in the patty, but the whole fat being bad thing is pretty much one of the biggest forms of bullshit ever invented by health policy.

This isn't to say that I actually think hamburgers are health food, but that the food pyramid is kind of a farce, especially in the sense that it implies that grains are some sort of nutritional necessity that should be consumed in greater quantities than everything else.
I don't know how to clearly capture my sentiment. Is there a logical fallacy for completely missing the intent of the argument because one aspect of it can be legalistically interpreted as completely invalid?

I am reminded of how Orthodox religious folks manage to get around scripture by fixating on a few qualifying words and weaseling (for lack of a better term) out of what seems to be intent of the law.
Before talking about what amounts are good or bad, the cultural phenomenon of drinking has always been mysterious to me. Alcohol feels overrated. It seems like no more than symbolic association with social life, or celebration. I love socializing and celebrating, but when I want to seize the moment, I want sharp senses - not the opposite. Also, I find it not tasty honestly.

I trust people to like having me as their company even when not participating in drinking.
I think about this plan a lot. It feels like a way to "hack the system".

And yet, if everyone does it, then Asian countries will also end up with no community -- because all the young people will be in the West.

Already, rural parts of China and Thailand are depopulating as young people go to cities. The same in Eastern Europe. And the same, come to think of it, in the United States. What were once small towns and farming communities are now empty save for a Dollar Store and a few 50-year-olds. This would be a global-scale version of that same phenomenon.

The other issue is that this plan probably means you'll only be able to have a small family, simply because you're starting later. Over time that would also break the model. Hard for the kids to care for grandma when there are as many grandmas as kids.

But for an individual it seems like a decent plan. Except --

Well, it's a little more workable for a man, since in principle, if he's lucky, he can marry a younger woman and still have a family. But that has problems: An equal relationship is less likely, and she will be left a widow at some point. It probably just won't be as good a marriage as if you'd married your highschool sweetheart.

If you want to do geo- and cultural- arbitrage, it seems like, while harder to pull off, it might be better to do remote work and go to a traditional/low-cost country when you're younger.
Only it's not very easy to make an exact copy of the baseball player. The digital art, on the other hand...
> Same could be said about "widespread voter ID fraud". Given that there are no such examples of this,

I could make many comments here about the actual election system and how recounts are designed to be worthless, but my biggest argument that I think is completely unassailable is simple: credibility. Do you want to have a credible government or not?

Here's a poll from early in 2020 that says that about 59% of Americans distrust the election system. I'm sure you could find many other polls from before and after that show that a non-trivial percentage of Americans have doubts about the election system's honesty.

https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2020-02-13/ma...

Why wouldn't we want to take the concerns of a non-trivial group seriously and work to address them? The mere fact that there's such establishment resistance to enhancing the security of and ability to audit the election system only adds fuel to the fire that there's something that they want to hide.

> why would anyone want to push for more stringent voter ID laws?

As long as we're not preventing any valid voters from voting (a legitimate concern of course), what's the argument against making the election process even more credible and secure? Please help me understand that.

> Anyhow, here's an example of why and how such laws target minorities and lower classes: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r...

Let me start out by saying that this article did not meet my stated criteria of asking for a specific name of somebody who was unable to get an ID. I was very specific in asking for a name because even just one real verifiable example of a person can illustrate the issue.

Anyway, I agree that the article does highlight some theoretical issues with applying unnecessary hoops to people. I sincerely hope that all people in uncommon living situations (such as those with nonexistent addresses on an Indian Reservation or living out in the sticks somewhere) have the legal ability to vote.

To play Devil's Advocate and be a bit contrarian however, I have to point out this article was a one-sided polemic. The best anecdote from the article about the grandma showed that she was able to vote the same day once she got a little assistance. And the article made a big deal about the distances that poor folks had to travel in order to vote, but the phrase "absentee ballot" doesn't even appear in the article. The article does mention the difficulties with rural mail being slow, but doesn't give even one example where this prevented somebody from voting. I'm certainly going to keep an open mind about the struggles involved in getting ID and voting and I fully agree that any election system that exists should be easily accessible to all valid voters, but I'm not convinced from this article that there's 1 legal citizen out there who can't figure out how to ultimately acquire identification.
It's a matter of degrees (!).

A burst pipe will leak water when the pressure is restored. This can leak inside a wall cavity causing a great deal of damage in a short amount of time, including follow-on problems like mold and rot if not fully dried.

A frozen/burst pipe (even with pressure) will rarely leak while still frozen. The leak begins when it thaws, and yes that can be catastrophic if everyone is asleep (rare, due to nighttime temperature) or if no one is home to notice.

If the pressure is OFF when the burst pipe thaws, unless the system is drained in advance, you'll still have many gallons of water in the system that could leak, depending on location of burst. Again if you are not aware when the leak begins, you can drain a large quantity/most of the system contents.

Even a few minutes of leaking can require replacement of a lot of drywall, wallpaper, etc.
> from either UID matching exactly X, or where inheritsFrom/inheritsTo is set to UID Y.

I already gave the example where the US government has fallen, and "New United States" does not inherit from US government.

> Just has the court would have to think about the right interpretation, a contract would have to think about the right implementation

My point here is that not everything can be foreseen. Not even every mistake in the contract can be foreseen. And that is why it's more important to be able to make these interpretive decisions after the new information comes in, and not be tied to a codification made on bad or incomplete data cementing an interpretation no party wanted, and no person would ever think was the intention or even common-sense interpretation.

In any case all smart contracts contradicting actual contracts or laws are moot. Say a smart contract says that Amazon can't sell to nuclear plants. There's absolutely no way for a smart contract to prevent this.

Even if 100% of the economy was transacted on the same blockchain there would be nothing stopping Amazon giving software to a nuclear powerplant and that nuclear powerplant sending them money. At most they'd have to create a subentity, like an ice cream truck, that they buy one ice cream from, for $10M.

Hell, the nuclear plant could reclassify itself as an ice cream truck.

It's not the ink in the contract, nor the code in the smart contract, that prevents breach. It's the law and legal system. Because ink and code can't.

> Sure, both of tradeoffs, but such is the world.

I don't think there is a tradeoff. At best a smart contract is more efficient. But in order to actually be useful it needs to be overridable.

Just like how a handshake deal or verbal contract is more efficient. But we all agree that courts decide. You can't make a handshake deal and expect courts to say "well, slavery is illegal, but their palms touched so there's nothing I can do".

Handshake is more efficient than smart contract, and as long as everything goes 100% according to plan a smart contract is more effective at execution/enforcement. But when it inevitably goes wrong it's many orders of magnitude harder to fix.

Children and some mentally disabled people cannot legally enter contracts. Smart contracts will never be able to codify these things either. Smart contracts are completely missing the point about what's hard about contracts, and instead make things worse.

> Slavery is something physical, smart contracts only deal with concepts in the digital realm.

A person's ownership over another can be on the blockchain. In this scenario Amazon's ability to sell software or service to certain customers is on the blockchain.

Why is one more real than the other?
Can anyone find any research in the citations that my glass of red wine in the evening - although it may increase atherosclerosis and have other health implications - doesn't have benefits that offset the drawbacks.

https://world-heart-federation.org/wp-content/uploads/WHF-Po...

How much do the social, relaxation, and stress relief benefit my health. In the same way that taking a walk in a polluted city has pros and cons or the enjoyment someone might get from sky diving or taking up motorcycling.
I used to hate drinking and only drank very small quantities of alcohol at parties/gatherings. That's changed somewhat in the past few years. I've only been drunk 3-4 times in my life (I'm 29, male, living in a Western country), and even then it was mild (no blackouts, hangovers, feeling sick, etc.). However, I believe that when I do drink for social lubrication purposes, it does help. I'm quite introverted/withdrawn usually, and a few drinks definitely help with altering that balance a bit.

Of course, I've not done control trials on myself, with placebos and so on. It's just anecdata.
There's no centralized system to track stolen dollars (at least not in the sense you're talking about), so I don't know why crypto would necessarily need one.
Two bad things is worse than one bad thing unfortunately, but yes I agree that alcohol is one of the worst
Agreed. I'm not against alcohol but I find I can get 80%-90% of the benefits by following the "ritual" of it with a mocktail and simply setting aside time where I give myself permission to relax and socialize. Alcohol is fine in moderation but its not as necessary as folks think to having those enjoyable experiences.
Counterpoint regarding Manjaro. It just works. My install experience of Debian vs. Manjaro on the Framework laptop was that Manjaro was a snap while Debian asked me for driver info.

Also, Valve’s recommendation for Steamdeck developers was Manjaro. (I don’t know if they’ve updated that guidance with other options.)

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/valve-adds-documentati...