skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edibles are... well there's a lot more options out there than there used to be, that's for sure, and I can't claim to have tried them all, but I can't see working them into a sane consumption schedule. I don't get the feeling that I want, meaning a perceptible but minimal level of cannabis euphoria, unless I go over a certain amount at which point I'm committed to a deep if not intense high lasting some hours. I could see it as a weaning strategy if I could keep it to small amounts but when I've done this before I can never stick with trusting the half or quarter doses to do the trick and always nudge myself over the line. For all-day hikes, bike rides, etc it's my preferred method but otherwise it lacks a a sense of precise control over my levels. Perhaps that sense is something I'm hooked on in its own right...

Thank you
> This is gonna blow your mind, but I have seen an absurd amount of racism from the Chinese diaspora. Things like Taiwanese people calling Andrew Yang (who is himself descended from people from Taiwan) a CCP agent for having a completely milquetoast position on Taiwan for an American politican.

How is calling Andrew Yang a CCP agent racist? What does it have to due with race at all?
Markets also don't play the company, they play the other participants: even if you thought Facebook was overvalued, you're still incentivised to wait till everyone else has figured this out.
Funny enough all of those things wind up being true in large metropolis areas as well but then also with its own basket of downsides.

Instead of commuting two hours to get to better paying work, you end up commuting two hours to afford the house you want. Doctors you can't get ahold of because their office is too busy to see you, wait 7 months, etc. Universities are impossible to get into because there are too many applicants, or the cost is too high. You can work or be educated over the Internet. Instead of having no culture in the city, you can develop or embrace your local traditions or cultural aspects. If there are none, then you can be the first one to start (building cultures is hard work, like maintaining government).

You can have a bucolic fantasy just as you can have an urban dream. Both can be ridiculously romanticized.
The government cannot build a competent identity solution because a majority of voters believe that to do so presages something from genocide ("Papiere, bitte!") to the literal end of the world (“Mark of the Beast”).
We couldn't get in last year's batch. I'm thinking we will re-apply this year. If any CZI team members read this at some point. Any pointers for the future would be a great help.
I think that's a reasonable position, with Xi serving as a stand-in for the selfish nature of the CCP bureaucracy as a whole. I'm not a fan of the guy at all, but I don't think he was responsible for local attempts to try to hide the outbreak from, well, more-or-less him. If there is anything suggesting that a coverup was also ordered on the national level, with the intent to harm other countries (or, more likely, without regard for the well-being of other countries), then that would be really interesting to me.
>He has also been seen as the contrarian who has Mr. Zuckerberg’s ear, championing unfettered speech across digital platforms. His conservative views also gave Facebook’s board ideological diversity.

What a fawning, iconoclastic corruption of "diversity." The New York Times is blatantly courting Thiel's fascist endeavor.

This journalistic abortion glosses over exactly what kind of speech Thiel's cohort seeks not just to "unfetter" but to blast loudly across all mediums:

Xenophobic, genocidal conspiracy theories to the very front of the line.
Sequoia makes a big bet on Web3, leading $450M investment in Polygon
It would be nice if it didn't require a phone number. My daughter doesn't have a phone, but I would still like to use Signal with her when she's on a wifi-connected iPad.
For those searching for this title:

Author’s full name is William Kent (updated by Steve Hoberman in 2012 ed).

Title is: Data & Reality …(2012)

The original was published in 1978 and is very expensive (on Abebooks) at $242 minimum, but the new version reasonably priced.
Is is really that bad?

I'm not very up-to-date with JS frameworks, so please bear with me. I know that new libraries pop up here and there, but if I'm not wrong, React is by far the most popular, and React has been around for almost 10 years. Vue's not much younger, and now it's 3rd major version.

Is there such a big difference between JS front-end frameworks and the rest of the world?
This is beautiful, hope it doesn't affect his confirmation though!

I think this has been going on for the last 100 years.

I don’t want anybody else on the job.
The human would most likely quickly be desensitized and only output feelings of self hatred and suicide. But to be sure we should start a multibillion dollar startup that generates jobs for millions of starving third worlders.
Yeah, that's an absolutely fair take. To paraphrase a movie quote, he's not wrong, he's just an asshole.
“Natural born citizen” is the technical qualifier. Many natural born citizens aren’t born in the US.
Same way Garmin does it, I'd expect: specs and restrictions that would make your average web or iOS/Android developer cry and declare it's impossible to develop useful software for.
World Rally from Gaelco was released as freeware by its creators.

https://archive.org/details/arcade_wrally

Proof: https://web.archive.org/web/20090218020517/http://gaelco.com...
TIL about xantohumol. Very interesting, I will look into it. Thank you
What could parent complain about? I'm lost.
There exists a UN issued passport, the Laissez passer, but its not used for the purpose of leisure.
Sure - that's why Signal is for secure communication between individuals who have some level of trust. There's nothing stopping your interlocutor from leaking all of the messages you send to them, what's the big issue with them having your number?
Mainstream media is controlled by a select few. Powerful men/women from powerful families shape the stories.

Advertisers are picked and closely vetted.
Everything Leaving Netflix in February 2022
There was a time when government documents and quotes from primary sources were considered evidence. What point would materially change if it were distributed on CNN.com?
The sanewashing post linked in the article is hilariously ironic:

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/js84tu/how_did_...

> So with all that explained - I think it's pretty simple. Mainstream progressives 'sanewashed' the "Defund The Police" position because they'd acquired the position through social spaces that imply anyone who doesn't hold those positions are guilty. If you exist in social spaces like that primarily, you almost don't have the option to dissent. The incentives against it are too strong. And that's how and why people will continually push for completely dumb slogans and ideas like that, even when it makes no sense - and sometimes, especially when it makes no sense. Because they assume it has to, and will rationalize their own reasons why it does.

This is a post in r/neoliberal which itself is a subculture with its own rationalizations. It assumes that their positions are "right" and default because they've thought "rationally" about them. But ironically, all social spaces and especially social media spaces are subject to this same pressure. Look at this thread where the poster has negative votes and the reddit OP is responding to:

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/js84tu/how_did_...

This is the exact same pressures the reddit OP is decrying in left spaces. This is such a perfect encapsulation of liberals acting in left spaces, co-opting the space and making it moderate rather than listening and helping amplify left ideas and solutions.

> It's not devoid of argument, but the key call to action is "Listen to trans people" - in other words, really, an appeal to "you should be a good person", a condemnation of people who don't "Listen to trans people", and the implication that if you're a Good Cis Perosn, you will Listen To Trans People like the one in the thread. "SJW" spaces spread their desired information and views to sympathetic people by appealing to the morality, empathy, and fairness of the situation, but with a strong serving of 'those who do not adapt to these views and positions are inherently guilty'.

Left spaces have to appeal to emotion because "logic" and rational thinking itself are co-opted by everyone to the right who have made it this grey space where "logic" == moral correctness == my opinion. Maybe when people say "listen" they actually mean listen and stop trying to apply logic and rationalization to everything. Maybe you need to actually need to do emotional work and sympathize to understand where leftists are coming from. And really maybe you do have to internalize at least a shred of guilt to understand your position in the world and how you might be impacting someone's ability to be heard.
What about sending a letter to the registered address?
Yup. For those who don't know that is David Chaum's quantum-resistant messenger and he's an OG cryptographer (and he's mentioned in Bitcoin's original whitepaper, funnily enough).

> Full disclosure: I work on the infrastructure behind it.

Oh cool... I ran a node for many months during the beta (from home, fiber optic at home). I'm busy atm so I'm not running anything anymore but I do really hope that a real secure messenger that doesn't leak metadata left and right, and which uses advanced cryptography, shall eventually prevail.
How is Discord more convenient? I don't mean the question critically, but I wonder what a sophisticated user sees in Discord when Signal seems, to me, as convenient as texting and calling.
I mean I don't disagree. We could get past this with social reforms AND better police funding. I mean that's what would have happened when I was a kid. Compromise and both red and blue get something they want.
He seems to be admitting that inflation is high, and yet saying we should do nothing.

This is precisely what was said by policymakers in the early 1970s who were saying pretty much the same thing back then: we can't act on inflation because it will hurt the labor market.

This of course resulted in inflation becoming more and more firmly entrenched until their WAS a wage-price spiral that was very hard to break. It then look the new Federal Reserve chairman more than a decade of trying to get it under control, and ultimately, it was only done through sky-high interest rates that caused 2 bad recessions. Most of that pain could have been avoided had they just acted more decisively in the early 70s.

And now here we are again decades later with the worst inflation in 40 years and some people saying we should just 'let it ride and see what happens'! Well we already know what happens if history is any indication.
I imagine how hard this must be on you and your family and kudos for having the energy and wherewithal to try to organize. I think there are a few people/places that might be worth reaching out to in order to learn more.

1. AllStripes (https://www.allstripes.com/) -> It might be worth reaching out to them to get put in contact with other foundations that might be working on the same thing.

2. Reaching out to RareBase (https://www.rarebase.org/) or Ethan Perlstein (https://mobile.twitter.com/eperlste) to talk about how they work with similar foundations.

3. There is a new company called (https://www.vibebio.com/) that are working on helping fundraise for patient communities using DAOs. I think Alok Tayi is one of the founders there.

4. I know there are some tech founders with family members of rare disease that have gone through similar experiences. For example, I think Rohan Seth at clubhouse has one (https://www.lydianaccelerator.org/). They might be good resources to reach out too.
I don't think that's gonna happen. The same way modern browser's don't come with a java runtime to run servlets.

Something better (and different) will come after SPAs, and the cycle will start again.
Being born outside the US doesn't have much to do with it. The requirement is to be a "natural born citizen", and anyone born to a US citizen will qualify, regardless of where in the world that was. It's the same reason why Ted Cruz and John McCain were eligible for the office despite not being born in the US.

I have no idea about Thiel's specific case, and it doesn't seem like there's any info about it online.
What new framework is being widely adopted that was released in the last 6 months? The most recent one I can think of is Svelte which came out 2016.
Soooo...

There's this? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/storygen.php

And that is a wonderful way to get ideas. :D
Well yeah, depends which number you bet on roulette or whether you're the best poker player in the room too! Perhaps we could regulate startups like gambling and allow them to welcome anyone but only allow them to market the "thrill of gambling" like casinos instead of delivering very confident financial projections about how much they're going to make. But I'm not sure investment would be forthcoming then, because actually I think people want to put their savings into startups to get rich.

When gambling is restricted, gamblers generally don't argue it's a conspiracy to prevent them getting rich. The delusion that retail startup investment isn't the bigger gamble with worse odds (unless you're in the leagues where you can personally prod the founders on a daily basis) is why accredited investor rules exists. It'd be a lot easier to believe arguments relaxing them were sound if the people making them were arguing it was depriving them of fun rather than depriving them of the opportunity to get rich.
No, there's plenty of reason

Thiel has worked hard to earn that disrespect; there's no reason to deny him that which is due.
My understanding is that "hot" founders receive a tremendous amount of latitude from their BOD - so they wouldn't think twice about "generous" (by startup standards) executive comps.
>Also, why is Amazon still part of the FANG abbreviation when they have this culture across many of their organisations?

Because the term had nothing to do with work culture. The term was coined by Jim Cramer, the television host of CNBC's Mad Money, in 2013, who praised these companies for being “totally dominant in their markets”. The original definition still holds true.
Thiel recently hired former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who resigned from that position after a bunch of corruption scandals came to light. That should make it quite clear what direction he wants to take.
“People are paid based on value created and responsibility.”

Oh you sweet, sweet child.
The same accusation was not being levied against other contenders in the Democratic Party primary, despite all candidates having more or less the same position of official ambiguity (and Taiwan not being a major issue at all in the campaign.) Yang was being held to a different standard due to his race.
Assertables Rust crate v4.0: macros for “assert” tests and “assertable” runtimes
Finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow
Did it influence your life/ professional career in a meaningful way?
Unfortunately I cannot help, as I have no experience with this. It is a very sobering thing to consider, and one my family is not altogether unfamiliar with. I had an uncle that was diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer, and through a very unlikely but not unwelcome turn of events involving a kind nurse and flagging health insurance, his life was saved at the St. Jude Research hospital (in TN).

About twenty years later, he was grown up and was soon to have a family, when the son of a family friend was diagnosed in infancy with the same form of cancer - except it was even more rare. This strain is almost always manifested below the neck (like my uncle), but in this child, it was in his brain. It has been a battle, but the boy was able to fight through it several times. Multiple resurgences later, he is finally recovered: thanks to the research done on my uncle.

All that to say, research on rare diseases is extremely important and something I am very passionate about.
I also created few propagandist poster focused on media manipulation and I can say those poster are inspiring and very well made. Good job, thanks for sharing.
You seem to be confused as to which party used which tactics?

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/the-thiel-gawker-sag...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/06/21/peter-thi...
I'm pretty skeptical of the reporting of this. The writing itself is quite subpar and the sourcing is touchy to say the least. I just picked a blurb at random.

> Despite his massive personal financial conflicts, Chair Powell has acted with impunity to advantage the Wall Street firms managing his investment fund holdings both before and after the pandemic. Indeed, in late 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Powell directed the Fed to engage in an unprecedented emergency repo program that provided nearly $20 TRILLION in cumulative loans to Wall Street, including ~$3.7 trillion to Japan’s Nomura Securities and ~$1.4 trillion to Germany’s Deutsche Bank trading arms. Industry experts have opined that the program was in direct violation of the Dodd-Frank Act.24

> 24 https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/01/a-nomura-document-may...

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens

> Mr. Martens’ career spans four decades in publishing and printing management, including magazine and music publishing and the non-profit sector. Mr. Martens has received numerous awards in publishing and graphic design.

> Ms. Martens worked on Wall Street for 21 years. The last decade of her career was spent as an outspoken critic of Wall Street’s corrupt practices, its private justice system and the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act.

Except there's no listed institutions / non-profits / publishers of note. If this is their bombshell article, and this is the strongest source they can pull up, it's pretty weak. Wall Street On Parade is also banned on reddit for vote manipulation apparently.

Searching on Google for Wall Street on Parade leads to r/GMEJungle r/Superstonk etc etc. Which leads me to believe there's a 99% chance this article is a conspiracy theory written by QQQanon.
I agree. However, that is the law currently. I'd love to see it changed but until then I don't see why these people should get an exemption just because they are rich.

If I were pulled over with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash I would be expected to prove that it was obtained legally. Unfortunately for the persons involved here the cash was obtained in a manner that is not legal in the United States.

To be clear, I think Civil Asset Forfeiture should be abolished and that all recreational drugs should be made legal. However, that is not the case and I don't think these particular drug dealers should get a pass just because they have more money / political clout than other drug dealers.
if true, resign?
He is eligible if he was born in the US (doesn't look like it) or if either of his parents was a US citizen at the time of his birth. There doesn't seem to be any info online confirming or denying that.
RSUs are still subject to FICA taxes, see e.g. [0] and [1]. Also, most tech workers are above the income limit for Social Security taxes, so their marginal payroll tax rate is only 2.9%.

[0] https://www.foley.com/en/insights/publications/2020/08/restr...

[1] https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/perspectives-events/blogs/2020...
Same thing that makes people grind eternally in MMORPGs to max out a character.
> Surely this is referring to the ability to use a non-phone number ID,

They are promising this for years and years, I hope this time is real. Specially if we don't need a phone number to create an account: that's just incompatible with privacy.
I think your viewing it from a microcosm and that the rest of the internet actually probably has a more accurate view given that you had to ask your manager about this.

What I'm hearing from others is this... there are good teams at amazon... amazon is huge but the overall culture is not what you describe. I guess I'm looking for a more overall picture rather then someone viewing it from the perspective of a good team.

>They absolutely can push back and say that no-one in their team deserves to get PIP'ed

You realize that a pip is not normal? Even one person getting PIP'ed on a team is is an event and abnormal. The fact that a manager has to "push back" for not pip-ing somone raises a red flag for me.
I think you need a google account to access free collab runtimes. If you have one, click here - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1QBsaDAZv8np29FPbvjf...

Scroll down to prompts and put in your prompt. I just did:

prompts = ['fire ants attacking a school bus cinematic 35mm']

(re 'cinematic 35mm', you'll find that there are little bumper phrases, like 'in the style of <artist>' or 'trending on artstation' that sort of thematically guide the output)

Click on 'Runtime->Run all' and let the notebook execute it's initialization steps and then start to generate the image. By default it goes 1000 iterations, and spits out what it's working with every 100 iterations. Once you get one you like you can update the prompt, re-run that cell and the one below it to generate something new.

I pay $9/mo to get access to better GPUs (usually P100 sometimes get better), the free accounts tend to get slower ones so it might take 30-60 minutes to complete per image.
They’re not dealbreakers though, are they? That’s why these students are protesting - it’s their own government they want to act.

There were students complaining about Tibet when I was a child, 30 years ago. Given the rise of the social justice movement in the US and events in HK I don’t see anything odd about a resurgence of such concerns from the youth of America. It’s not like these students previously thought it wasn’t a problem - they weren’t even born.
I was imagining a granite/stone kitchen sink that somehow showed information about the fault line it was taken from. Sigh.
> Is is really that bad?

It's not that bad. I am lead on a large Angular 13 project and we love it, easy to work with, build, deploy. We have literally no issues at the moment. .Net 6 C# APIs on the back-end, Oracle database. It just works.

Take everything with a grain of salt.
The modern one reflects some... changes - the more contemporary window style, and the number of minifigs wearing ties in the firehouse has increased. I expect it reflects an assumption of a higher tax base in legoville. In all seriousness, the custom piece count is on full display, where the 90's set is dominated by reusable generic pieces.

Those outward-sloping windows in the 90's set were the bomb though, useful in so many cool applications - (star)ship bridges, towers, and the like. :D
lol, didn't expect that kind of pricing.
Yeah fair distinction, the CCP is a pretty huge organisation and Xi is just one person. Though ultimately as the leader he's the fairest target.
> Isn’t the blockchain part of smart contracts just pointless bloat for most applications?

On the contrary, the "blockchain part" is the bit that prevents the contract from being modified after the fact. It's an essential property of any contract, and immutability is core feature provided by a blockchain.

In fact their very term blockchain arises from the need to provide that immutability. A blockchain is a series of statements, each relying on the ones before it. That means if you want to modify history you must also modify all the statements that came after and since a lot of other unrelated transactions depend on those statements, you would attract a lot of flak if you attempted it.

It's true we've been providing that immutability in other ways for literally millennia. However, none of those are as difficult to change as something bitcoin puts in it's blockchain, and it provides that service for a fairly small mining fee.
Inheritance doesn't start and stop at money. There are other inherited traits that may influence the scores of the people in the study.