skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are different kinds of weed smokers. There are those who use it to get "stoned" and those who use weed to get calm and focus.

Stoners do bong hits until they are so stoned they fall asleep or run out of weed. I've never made a habit of that. I use a small pipe that holds about one bong hit and load the bowl just a few times a day and take tiny tokes off it when I take a break from coding.

I've been using weed like this since I was 12 years old in 1971, so for more than 50 years now.

During those years I learned how to design and engineer and build custom cars from the ground up. My father worked at "Barris Kustom" and I learned from him and others who worked there. From there I went on to work building advanced driving systems for C4-C5 quadriplegics, and the mod needed for wheelchairs they used.

In my late 20s I decided to learn how to use computers with the intent to learn how to code. I made my first "app" in the late 90's. Made my first website in `99, and my first web app for a single user in 2001 and released it as a multi-user app in 2002.

I'm 63 years old now. A couple weeks ago my wife asked me to go look at a friend's car. It had been sitting in their driveway for over a month because it wouldn't start. The car belongs to two guys who are a couple. Neither of them smoke weed. They like to drink on occasion but they're not everyday drinkers. They're both in the early 30s.

So I grabbed a few tools and went and looked at their car. When I got there the battery was dead. So I hooked up some jumper cables and after getting enough of a charge to get the gauges to work and the engine to turn over I tried to start it a few times and then told them what was wrong with their car. "It's out of gas".

I am sure there are those who'll dismiss it because I've been dismissed on this subject most of my life, but there's a point to found in that story that is relevant to this topic, which I've also seen come up over and over most all of my life.

Studies like these that attempt to find a link like this will most always conclude they found one because they're akin to wearing blinders to everything else that might also be a cause for the effect they cite.

If those two guys smoked weed the first thing most people who don't smoke weed would conclude is that is what caused them to not realize their car was simply out of gas.
I should probably do that. I've always hesitated because the paranoid part of me thinks they'll catch on to it being digital if I have to sign in ten different places and they see that the signature is literally identical for each one. My Krita solution, while annoying, allows for me to have a slightly different signature for each one, for each form I sign, allowing it to pass all but the most judicious level of forensics.

Granted, no one is going CSI on anything I sign. I should probably just make like ten pngs of my signature and paste those in.
Every hot water bottle tells you not to use boiling water in it, but at the same time everyone I know who regularly uses hot water bottles uses boiling water from an electric kettle.
Outsourcing has been attempted and is still occurring for the past 30 years. Yes, sometimes you get great employees like yourself, but it's a mixed bag and for some companies they just don't want to deal with the additional risks and headache.
Edmonton average January low: -15C

And there are people that go around in shorts in the winter there too.
What's the point of this?
So are bugs and birds and planes and dust particles and uneven temperature gradients, that all have to be corrected for already when you use ground based telescopes.
I did 235711*13 - 1
Ah yes, Google Wallet, I mean Pay, is nothing if not "orderly" and "accountable".
15A outlets are only rated that for instantaneous current. For continuous current, appliances are only allowed to pull 80%. So kettles in the US are 1400W, half that of British kettles.

Like many modern kitchens, I have 20A outlets. Current code says that you either have to have 20A circuits in the kitchen or split 15A circuits. What the electrician chooses to install depends on whether 14/3 or 12/2 wire is cheaper that day.

One of my pet peeves is that I can't buy a 20A 1900W kettle. There has to be enough market demand for one? Put a big picture of a NEMA 5-20 outlet on the front so that fewer people get confused.
Now I'm wondering what other books of poetry this has happened to and I didn't know it?

Altering a poem is a whole different animal than editing a book or a movie, for instance.
...but everyone does. I just let it go off the boil and then use it.
Who remembers waterbeds from the 1980s? Basically a big water bottle (some had heaters too). I assume they were uncomfortable as heck to sleep on, but as a kid they were sure fun to play on until you got reprimanded.
They're not blaming on green energy. They're blaming it on utopian Energiewende pedalled by shortsighted anti nuclear Greens. We'll see how their eco hipster green foreign affairs secretary handles this Russian crisis.
This was not an IPO, it was an SPAC.
What's not obvious from the discussion here and elsewhere is that this was not the only change coming from ASDF to this same maintainer. The maintainer in question is also an SBCL developer, who is responsible for upgrading and shipping copies of ASDF with that implementation of Lisp. So it wasn't his first rodeo dealing with ASDF changing behavior (and, sometimes, breaking his users' code downstream). Finally, this wasn't one change to one project; this was one flavor of change that was being sent to the whole "edicl" collection of projects.
Those HCQ studies were retracted because the authors were lying about their data.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/health/coronavirus-hydrox...

Co-incidentally the FDA is fighting an FOIA request to release the data they used to approve the vaccines saying it will take 75 years.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/paramount-importanc...
Are you suggested that the number of people being stalked has remained constant but the now a subset of those people now know they're being stalked?

I would expect the number of people being stalked to starkly rise. I'd be more curious about the number of people being stalked with AirTags who don't realized it.
Nothing in this article convinces me the problem is contained to optimized C. The strict type aliasing is a general problem, right?
While sibling comment is correct that the simple answer is "yes", I'd like to add that Google uses Clang as the preferred compiler for Android. There's a little bit of drift between Android's version of Linux and mainline, but the effect is still that building Linux with Cland is being extensively used and tested.
Isn;t one of the problems that not everyone is a net benefit to society so if they already cause 70 years of disturbance, who would want them living another 70? It;s one thing for an Elon Musk type who has loads to do and never wants to die but I can't really see this happening unless, I guess, it is an option.

"Dear Mr Smith, you are getting a bit old and to be honest, you haven't made a great stab at life. However for only $299.99, you can have this injection which will give you another 50 years."
That was my first thought as well, but the article is pretty thorough about the relative benefits of using a hot water bottle, also asserting that the intent isn't to replace central heating.

It's an option with some cultural history behind it, and might be just the right solution for some use cases.
That is a whitewash of what the early wuhan lab leak proponents were doing. At a time when very little was known about the origins, lab leakers latched on to the hypothesis not due to facts, because there were none, but because they acted as if they could absolve themselves of pandemic measures and our own poor preparation.
Science may not be there yet but throwing money at it will help in the long run.
I have snake oil for sale
56843 was mine, for similar reasons.
Researching immortality or unnatural longevity isn't worth the investment for a society because a society of immortals becomes either stagnant or unsustainable. But making individual billionaires immortal is something billionaires might find worth investing in.
> can't be shared between Apple IDs.

Even with Apple family? In Find My app, my partner and I can see all of each others' devices.
Lenovo won't activate Pluton by default in latest ThinkPads
I've noticed that the court documents issued by civil courts in Turkey have electronic signatures with signed hashes for each of the signatories (judge, clerk and all else) in every document. To make people not freak out, they seem to have also added a PNG image of a slightly smeared generic wet-ink looking signature above the hash so it looks real on first sight. But if you look closely the signatures are all the same, and the signature says e-imza (e-signature) in cursive. Heh.

Another cool thing, the whole document itself does have a hash where you can go to the website of the ministry of justice and input the hash to verify the document. It was unexpectedly neat.
I always was impressed at the quality of SO jobs. Every interview and offer I had through SO jobs was a great experience. Developer story was kinda lame generally speaking. It had potential but I don't think anybody read them nor cared to over a resume.

What I never understood about SO is that there are so many ways to help companies & contributors connect. Why stop at job boards?

What if you're a company that really needs a certain type of developer and you wanted to send a targeted email/notification/etc to those in the top 5% answering those questions? I know from being in the top 3% myself I'd love to opt-in to this feature.

Or perhaps a referral system in which somebody might come across your profile via an answer, comment, etc and would have an option to say "Ask if interested in work?". Again, would love to peruse offers.

What about a bounty system that allows companies to sponsor / put real money on questions instead of imaginary internet points? Bounties always were so unrewarding. I'd answer a question for $25-50 instead of 50/500 internet points if it didn't take too long.

Stack Overflow has somewhat failed the contributors just like other big platforms like YouTube/TikTok/etc have in the past. If 90% of people consume content on the site, 9% contribute, and 1% create, why is there not even consideration for incentivizing those in the 10%? Job boards was a start, but sadly now it is an end.
Quark XPress used to be the best publishing software; then their CEO made a number of very bad decisions and they almost disappeared from the scene. The standard is now InDesign. It's very good but very expensive. Affinity Publisher is ok, lacks some advanced features, but is so cheap compared to InDesign it may as well be free. MS Publisher, I'm not sure. Never really heard about it in good or bad.
Like, I almost want to say that vector should be the native format for anything created on a computer, even in "paint" programs (which might for example cache a rasterized version too)
Congrats, Kevin and Pierre on the success. You've all been such an inspiration and model for us in the TinySeed community.
>But to me, bootstrapping VS "VC road" is much more nuanced than this.

I went to the "TinySeed.com" website landing page and I do see that they prominently advertise "The First Accelerator Designed for SaaS Bootstrappers".

And then their FAQ page has these example financial terms:

>TinySeed invests $120k for the first founder, $60k for the second, and $40k for the third. Our standard terms are for 10-12% equity. -- from
https://tinyseed.com/program#program-faq

Well, if founders accept those terms, they are no longer "bootstrapping" as people generally understand that word. Yes, you may have been bootstrapping right up to the point _before_ taking TinySeed $180k but after that outside capital infusion, "bootstrapping" literally no longer applies. It doesn't seem like any nuance is necessary. It's quite a binary status.
Well, the database was lying to Perl, perhaps.

But I'm not sure the author's diagnosis is correct. The mangled text has only one "?", Which means that whatever software did the mangling knew that two-byte sequence represented a single character. Maybe whatever was reading from the database was(I'm assuming MySQL since 1990s vintage) using a non-Unicode-capable connection?
Pretty simple. Fixing all of our diseases is actually low hanging fruit.

Head transplants onto monoclonal human bodies grown in a lab. Gestated in chimeric pigs, genetically or surgically decephalized before birth, electronically innervated and artificially sustained until use in science or medicine.

Bodies are O-, HLA neutral, and do not require immunosuppressants.

Transplant beneficiaries receive a new and healthy thymus and immune system, unaged cardiovascular and pulmonary system.

Not only a fix for aging, this would solve heart disease, organ failure, AIDS (flush existing cells), and most non-brain/non-blood cancers. It's the fabled cure all.

Brain age would still be an issue, but with a renewed cardiovascular and immune system it may be prolonged or even rejuvenated to a degree.

The technologies are here today. We just have to assemble them.

After delivering on the health promises, there's all sorts of optimizations. You could give people the body they wanted. Male, female, short, tall, strong, athletic, skinny, tan, whatever. Even transgenic with all sorts of modifications. No body odor, big muscles, fur, new skin and hair colors... there's practically unlimited potential.

If I ever have a billion dollar exit, I'm doing it.
Your post seems to imply that because the science isn't there yet, it doesn't make sense to throw money at it.

But isn't the whole point that you're using the money to bring on the scientists and give them the resources in order to develop the science?
Software nudges (e.g. Square). This scales social behavior very quickly.
Europe calls for ban on political microtargeting
Fortunately one of my 5 has an Apple device.

I haven't gone through the process yet, but it additionally looks like I will need to borrow a Mac or Windows machine to start up iCloud Email. Once it is enabled I should be able to use IMAP or their web client.
> If Facebook removes their app from the App Store (or cripples it), and says you have to side load this app, most Americans will do so. Even if that app violates a number of user-friendly policies. The OS, of course, could enforce that at a technical level, which weakens the argument significantly.

The OS, in iOS' case at least, does already do this. So the case is weak right now.

The #1 reason for the app store is to take that sweet cut. The #1 reason to sideload is so those apps can bypass the store's cut. Follow the money.
I got a popup 'Not a 5 digit prime' on my first try and it wouldn't let me try any further. Not sure if I'm dense or if the UX is just terrible

I had tried 18141, by the way, which I modestly think was a pretty good guess in hindsight given its only two factors are 3 and 6047. 19141 would have been a prime, but perhaps not the one I was supposed to find? I don't play Wordle so I'm a little confused
I was always for idea of defeating aging, and moving on on your own terms.

Until I watch Altered Carbon, I think it premise of rich capturing the technology and using it to divide haves from have-nots is pretty realistic.
The fact that this website is solar powered is very, very cool to me. I will have to come back in a few hours and see if the Spanish night has taken it offline.
To me, it's really important that the tech community define "bootstrapping" as no more and no less than "having a plan to reach profitability with total investment on the order of what a [not-outrageously-wealthy] group of founders might invest," and to frame it as a good thing.

With TinySeed's round at "$120k for the first founder, $60k for the second, and $40k for the third" (https://tinyseed.com/program#program-faq) this is very much along those lines.

If one further gatekeeps the label with "but the founders need to invest this personally or it doesn't count..." that restricts the label to a very small segment of privileged individuals. And in a world where there's a (false) narrative of a "bootstrapped or VC backed" binary, that gatekeeping reinforces the notion that less privileged founders have no choice but to go the VC route or do nothing at all. I would hazard a guess that great ideas and great societal impacts have been lost as a result of this framing.
I meant that you can't rely on platform/implementation specific behavior to save you. It's the worst of both worlds: you don't get performance benefits of UB and you introduce a disaster waiting to happen once your code runs on another platform or is compiled with another compiler.

I know what UB is. I think the idea is brilliant and saves millions of dollars of burnt coal every day. Sometimes security matters more and then you compile your code with every flag/sanitizer you can find to exchange performance for security.
https://archive.is/ZpByJ
Bit disingenuous to demand fiat currency to write smart contracts…
I see lots of note taking/personal knowledge info management apps being announced and criticized on HN, but I think it's great that we are exploring the space.

Eventually, things will probably whittle down to a handful of successful options, a la survival of the fittest.

I wonder if there's an example of a software category that went through something like that?
Briar is p2p/offgridy/meshnety and Matrix is federated, always on internet connected.
> Does that mean that any Rust program compiled with any affected version of the standard library is affected?

Most programs don't use `remove_dir_all`, and a smaller fraction of those use it on a directory that untrusted actors can write to.

But yes, tracking down those that do is a challenge.
I just assumed they never took off here because tea isn't as popular in America. The only people I know who own kettles in America are people who regularly drink tea, including myself.
I had another version of this at the DMV. They needed to see bills that offered proof of my residence (ie power/water/etc). Turns out they wanted them to be mailed to you, which wasn't going to work because I do paperless billing for everything. So I printed them out and tri-folded them as if it had been in an envelope.

People in front of me in line got turned away for using printed bills, but mine worked just fine.
I'm not sure if it's really well-understood beyond specific social circles. You would have to substantiate this claim.

Even if it were, just because "the meaning of something is obvious," it doesn't follow that the words are standard or even well-formed.

Native speakers of any language, and speakers of English likely even more so, generally have the ability to parse through malformed utterances of all sorts and recover most, if not all of the meaning, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy. [1]

Besides, the meaning of many things is obvious even without the ability to comprehend the language. If I kick you in the ass and you start shouting at me in a foreign language I don't understand, I posit that the meaning of it would still be fairly obvious. We can even verify this experimentally if you are so inclined. Count me in for the test, I'd be glad to contribute my part for the advancement of science.

Regardless, any of the above does not invalidate my point that you cannot succesfully construct the standard plural "boxes" from "box" by following the pattern of "oxen" from "ox", and no amount of pedantry and nitpicking can change that.

However, even if you exclude two of the three examples I provided, then the remaining one still stands (and many more can be provided obviously). So I'm not really sure what is it exactly that you're trying to argue here. If it's just that my simple examples did not live up to your expectations, then I concede, and let's move on.

1. https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/
https://archive.is/0OVBt
Top hedge funds earn record $65.4 bln for clients in 2021 – LCH data
I wonder how much of this problem is of Apple’s own making. As far as I know AirTag competitors, find my phone, etc never included these “anti-stalking” features. Hell, if you have an Android Google has probably tricked you into letting them stalk you by the hour for years. Yet Apple makes it really easy to tell if there’s an AirTag close by and now anyone with that notification thinks they’re the hapless victim in a Liam Neeson film.
This is one of my favorite YouTube channels. Not quite "low tech" because he has a ton of tools he powers off grid, but he nails the quaint cabin feel with the house he built.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zh29DJI_wE&list=PLEZ2hvCDKU...
Wired: The US says 'meh' to electric cars
You can still be portable between compilers; Linux builds with GCC and Clang, and used to build with tcc (although that probably required patches)
Rust Port of Linux's RamFS File System
Peloton pauses production on bikes, treadmills
> sometimes

Thank you for being generous :)
It is indeed the fountain pen ink that I use ;)
Peloton reportedly pauses bike and treadmill production amid slowed demand
Fantastic series, full of pragmatic cynicism like YM but completely completely different world.
In this case, so?

Like I said, you're not being charged anything there. It comes out of the purchase price.

It's the agent who is listing the house at a price and sourcing the various inspectors and appraisers. They're putting in the work to sell your house at a price point.

So, if the agent can manage to move your house for $2 million rather than $1 million, why shouldn't they get a larger reward?

It's a different scenario from servers. Servers can't convince you to pay more for an item or for the business to sell that item for less. Real estate agents can.