skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried doing deep dives into drug criminalization a few times before, and I've never been able to find a simplistic explanation for it. Keep in mind, this is something that every country in the world went forward with around the same time, even when they were adversaries who couldn't agree on much else. This was also something that nations often did on their own. A lot of these movements start much earlier than people think; look at Mexico's moves against cannabis in the late 1800's early 1900's. Or even the Gin Craze of the 1700's for a precursor.

There seem to be a few threads I've found that are worth pursuing:

1. The general increase in state power in various domains of life .

2. The decline of traditional communities and move toward urbanization creating a disconnected group of people that worried the upper classes.

3. The tendency of geopolitics to follow social trends/fads.
Parent's quote refers to the psychedelic DMT, not to mj.
If you're using Chrome Canary with the "Unsafe WebGPU" flag turned on, yes. And it'll be a lot faster/more power hungry than before. Otherwise, nothing beyond the normal CPU based miners have been enabled.

Adaptation is the cost of progress. Browser vendors will almost certainly implement a way to prevent unauthorized use of such hardware (either by prompt like webcams or automatic detection) before this stuff becomes publicly available.
Can't help but think the term "toxic," discredits the whole thing as a vehicle for something else. Aggression is natural and universal, but the tools for expressing and self-regulating it are not. One description of it that resonated personally for me was Robert Sapolsky's "depression is aggression turned inward," and while the phrase doesn't do the whole idea justice, it's more useful than hollow and seductive cliches like toxicity.

Arguably, aggression is necessarily an artifact of ideas of self and how we relate to others, and "venting" aggression safely lets you accept it (and yourself) in its totality and gives you a sense of how to manage it, instead of suppressing it and fearing that it will be exposed, only to have it come out in perverse other ways anyway. What bothers me about a lot of psychology is it seems mainly like a critical theory for deconstructing mental suffering as a means to relieve it theraputically - which is noble and useful, but it has been adopted as a scheme for moralizing coarse political interests.

Some years ago I turned a lot of my aggression outward and into disagreeableness, replacing a few intense relationships that enabled turning it inward with many new ones that did not, and it has made me more likeable, honest, trustworthy, reliable, fairer, and more sincerely compassionate, and as a result I have never been more content. It sets a healthy boundary where your natural aggression doesn't get triggered nearly as often, and you can manage it in other ways. Yes, some people will think you are an asshole, but the little bit of friction and occasional loss of a connection does not compare to relief and peace of just not caring what they think, and being free to engage people for only the enjoyment of it instead of some absurd sense of obligation. Or not.
Reminder that the goal is hinderance of aggression by the Russian government, not punishment of the Russian people.

Having said that, I bet Microsoft knows which licenses are owned by the Russian government specifically.
He has the entire Russian security forces protecting him. For a random person going against him is quite close to standing in front of a train.
> The real kicker here has and always been the chart which demonstrates that women rated 80% of men as being less than average attractive.

No, the real kicker is that these women (who rate 80% of men unattractive) have been screaming about "double standards in beauty" for decades.
That makes sense, since a friend of mine would always have to make subtitles for her student films. I believe there was also a lawsuit over some MIT lecture recordings that were available publicly but didn't have subtitles a little while back. I wonder how that turned out.
Something being bad for your lungs is presumably going to be very bad for your heart.
Isomorphs abound!

I think they’re both true. To the musician, the drum and the flute have a sameness. “You make notes in time with them”, the unconscious mastery. To the beginner (me) it’s worthwhile to see their separateness. I shouldn’t think “I don’t like playing instruments.” because of my experience with recorders in the third grade. Don’t let the trauma of high school trig keep you out of graph theory. They certainly feel different.

This is not hollow advice. Yesterday I bought a flute!
> ...that Ukraine is holding up and Russia is suffering from sanctions and loosing the war, but if you listen to actual military experts from the likes of Mi6 and USA agencies, they are skeptical of Ukraine being able to win this and western sanctions barely changing anything in favor of the Ukraine.

Both of those things can be true at the same time.
This is misinformation peddled by Russian sympthisers in the West.
That is grossly immoral if the software is paid for.
Hi Surma. Thanks a lot for this writeup. I have been trying to get into WebGPU but good introductory material was sorely lacking some time ago.

I have one question: I have had trouble finding a combination of browser/OS/GPU that would allow WebGPU access at the time, what setup did you use and do you have any recommendations? Particularly looking for options on Linux. (Sorry for hijacking this thread)
There's also this implicit conclusion that venting must not work if the levels of aggression don't change, but the article did say that blood pressure dropped. I thought the paragraphs on venting to friends didn't make much sense to me either--honestly, if something terrible happened to a friend, and they didn't vent to me about it, at least a little, I'd be wondering if we were still friends.
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I do not think the Russian government cares about the sanctions, bans or terminations since it seems they were prepared for it. I don’t think any of these changes would stop the war at all.

The Big Tech companies trying to fix the world’s problems always ends in a double edged dilemma and exposes what they can really do when pressed into a corner.

Having allied ants pleading and begging a anteater to eat the other ‘enemy ants’ it will later one day turn against their allies as it has done before.

These tech companies are not to be trusted.
This is obviously just speculation, but it doesn’t seem like the current invasion of Ukraine is about annexation. It’s rather similar to the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan in that respect. They’re widely speculated to be targeting regime change, installing a pro Russian puppet government.
Around that time I was shipped out to do a video presentation with 3 laptops. 2 of them were cued up with Powerpoint and synchronized to play at the same time. If one went down I could switchover seamlessly. I also had a cold backup laptop in case the 2 running laptops failed.

The only presentation I've seen where I think Jobs went off the script was when the 3G and wifi went down in Moscone and the demo phone couldn't open Facetime, IIRC. Telling a bunch of journalists to stop live streaming went about as well as you could imagine.
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>Is it really possible that half the country (or more, according to latest polls) are bat crazy?

Russians, apparently, truly support Putin. Doesn't that make you think?
Data, data visualization, data understanding, interpreting data, communicating data, etc.

The media is weak on all these fronts. Certainly the "elite" news organizations should know better, in a 21st Century definition of journalism sort of way. Yet, time and again they come up short.

Is this a startup opportunity? There certainly seems to be a need in the market.
>Not only is it not naive, but avoiding these scenarios woth market regulation is one of the main purposes of modern government. Hence, vaccination policies and CFC regulation. Libertarians like to believe that negative externalities and other market failures don't exist, that the invisible hand is always benevolent, but examples abound for those who do not follow a religion that forbids them from noticing.

It's still naive, or maybe obtuse. Repeating the "negative externality" buzzword doesn't give you a blank check to peddle your preferred ideology (government intervention/regulation) while crapping on the other team.

Without regulation we get lithium batteries and a couple dozen poisoned watersheds.

With regulation we get slightly more expensive batteries and fewer poisoned watersheds.

Regardless of how you or I or anyone else feels about regulation it's somewhere between farcical and deceitful to pretend that the economic activity in both of those situations doesn't help more than it hurts. If it didn't work this way progress would grind to a halt because the increased material wealth of having the batteries would be more than cancelled out by the problems that poisoned watersheds create, to run with the existing example.
Independent of the effect of lead on intelligence isn't it impossible to reduce the IQ of half the population because IQ is a comparative calculation across that population. Ie as intelligence goes down the definition of 100 IQ points changes?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient
They're defined in terms of inches. I don't remember the fraction of an inch that a CSS pixel is.
Everyone seems to know to be wary about "get rich quick schemes," but many people don't seem to be able to identify them very well. Every generation has a form of them that are suckering the persuadable and financially undisciplined. If you can't identify which ones exist in modern times, maybe you should hold off on doing anything extremely risky with your money.
Joining NATO risks Russian attempts to retaliate, right now Russia is rather busy, seems like the ideal time if you're going to do it.
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> A global solution can solve global concerns and also allow for local conditions.

Not if standardization is the priority.
Yeah, I love open source alternatives from an autocratic state with backdoors and all kind of nasty stuff inside, and no oversight or ability to sue, as well as possibility of sanctions by association.
> And hundreds of thousands of us did
I think more than that, right? Millions across the US, probably some individual protests were in the hundreds of thousands? Largest protests ever until recently? It was a bit of a coalition too. General anti-war activists, weirdo far-left maoists with their pamphlets, paleocons, libertarians talking about peak oil, and plenty of us regular ass liberals. And we didn't make any difference.
From Robert Sapolsky's Behave, I learnt about the notion of "displacement aggression". We know what it is intuitively, but in short: depressingly enough, the reason stress encourages aggression is that it reduces stress. And we don't yet know the underlying biology of it.

- - -

Excuse the wall of text, but it's entirely worth reading Sapolsky's description of this:

[quote]

Shock a rat and its glucocorticoid levels [a key stress-signaller] and blood pressure rise; with enough shocks, it’s at risk for a “stress” ulcer. Various things can buffer the rat during shocks—running on a running wheel, eating, gnawing on wood in frustration. But a particularly effective buffer is for the rat to bite another rat. Stress-induced (aka frustration-induced) displacement aggression is ubiquitous in various species.

Among baboons, for example, nearly half of aggression is this type—a high-ranking male loses a fight and chases a subadult male, who promptly bites a female, who then lunges at an infant. My research shows that within the same dominance rank, the more a baboon tends to displace aggression after losing a fight, the lower his glucocorticoid levels.

Humans excel at stress-induced displacement aggression—consider how economic downturns increase rates of spousal and child abuse. Or consider a study of family violence and pro football. If the local team unexpectedly loses, spousal/partner violence by men increases 10 percent soon afterward (with no increase when the team won or was expected to lose). [...]

Little is known concerning the neurobiology of displacement aggression blunting the stress response. I’d guess that lashing out activates dopaminergic reward pathways, a surefire way to inhibit CRH release [a hormone involved in the stress response]. Far too often, giving an ulcer helps avoid getting one.

[/quote]
Jobs is the type of rockstar genius who is basically world famous by about 27, at which point they either overdose or are reborn in some way.

People like this have some intuitive knowledge of the world that is right, and they know it. They don’t get wiser or more clever over time, they just are. Same as musical or chess prodigy children.

Almost all of these people are assholes by definition, because you can’t be a 27 year old genius and have certainty in yourself without it.

That certainty and genius also usually brings a big following, because most people want to follow people like this because they create things bigger than themselves.

Its also a very high risk life path. For every Steve Jobs there’s 100 geniuses who probably die without ever getting famous. Or they die at 27 like cobain, winehouse or avicii.
Most states (maybe all?) have a common 3-day "regret" clause for many types of transactions, including car buying, mortgages, etc. So you can, in many cases, still 'take delivery' and then if you change your mind in 72 hours, you can return it. Again, I forget if all states have a similar set of laws for this or only a subset.
or support/supportive people around them - at best.

Instead, there are a lot of people who dont want to see others do better than them. From personal experience, directly & indirectly, some of the closest people that we are taught to trust are the very people who shut those dreams down, or at the very least, give support as long as it doesnt help raise anyone 'above' themselves. How many accept that and regret it at the end of life when those people have long since disappeared. Stepping outsides the norms of ones social bubble/society is far more risky than conforming to ones 'place' in the pecking order.
Binary implies two. Both B-trees and BSTs exist in the universe of m-ary trees. A BST and a B-tree would be equivalent only if the branching factor of the B-tree was set to 2, but practically this is rarely the case with indexes, given that a higher branching factor is generally more favorable to lookup times (“block accesses”) since the hight of the B-tree is reduced as m increases.
I disagree with the conclusion although not necessarily with the situation described.

A programmer only has so many hours in the day; if you want to be a more efficient programmer you either have to learn to type/think faster or you need to build frameworks, write libraries, and codify common practices.

There are situations where that doesn't work but if your job is to pump out code for an organization there's a good chance that most of your applications will have the same authentication, the same look and feel, etc. Putting effort into that core will pay dividends later. But you can't be a slave to your own code; if it doesn't fit in the box then don't force it.
I honestly regret ever being shown it which is why I added the warning. It's among the angriest and bitterest communities on reddit and I wouldn't be surprised if it's quarantined within a couple years.
Based on the tweet they are physically in Russia (talked about being detained for protesting against Putin). So guessing they've tried to make transactions in Russia.
> My first impression reading your comment is that it is simply coded resentment that there is dedicated attention given to women.

Why is this automatically the reaction you have? Did you read the article titled "Maria Divina O’Brien takes us inside the Caribbean tech scene"? There is not a single thing about the Caribbean tech scene. The only information is a few paragraphs where Maria briefly talks about her involvement with some programs she has in the "scene". This feels like a fluff piece written to ensure the inclusivity check boxes for women's month are checked. It's lazy and dishonest.
Why wouldn't a police-state have a way to check phone logs from the phone network they control? Police in most countries can query number plates on the spot, it would be similar for phone calls if their laws admit it.
I'm working on this problem since the past year, and certainly it can scale to a wide more people and have very interesting byproduct (like carbon capture).

Contact with me if you are interested in learn more.
The answer is usually simple: eliminate leverage and don’t let people bet more than they have.
TLDR: Package Signing is the Holy Grail. Trusting the religion remains a problem.
According to [0] peak marijuana usage was in the 70s. I don't think with a smaller/more stable subset of the population partaking there's going to be many more people saying "we should have known better" than there currently are.

https://www.mlive.com/resizer/G7WZuDwdu5D2eCujzIi_RYGWYkc=/7...
A C++ Bindings Compiler
Hi everyone!

Some friends and I were unhappy with how much work it was to use C++ from other languages. We were working in the optimizations industry and often had to prototype with python. Eventually, we created a tool to make it easier for C++ to talk to python (by generating pybind11). Later, javascript via WebAssembly was added as well. It's now at a point where it's very easy to just create a C++ library and use it from any of those languages without change. We're planning on slowly adding more languages as needed/requested. The next on the list are Swift and Kotlin.

It does not require any change to your existing public interface, but simply reads it and creates the bindings off of that. It should also work on Linux (Debian), MacOS, and Windows (Visual Studio). Here's a small demo if you'd like to test:

https://github.com/Tolc-Software/tolc-demo

And here are the repositories with the source code:

https://github.com/Tolc-Software/tolc - The executable

https://github.com/Tolc-Software/frontend.py - The python bindings generator

https://github.com/Tolc-Software/frontend.wasm - The WebAssembly bindings generator

https://github.com/Tolc-Software/Parser - The C++ parser

It is dual licensed with AGPL and, if someone wants, a commercial license as well.

Would be cool if someone finds it useful!
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Words mean something. We are not at war with Russia.
Unpopular opinion, but deserves consideration:

Because, much like the sister who teases you until you finally have to act, the US and NATO backed Russia into a corner, presenting an existential threat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6mw9U62ZJU

If the West wins Ukraine, things will escalate, which could be far, far worse.

It might be that 2020 was the best year of this decade.
I wonder if there's a correlation to how often "it's no problem" is uttered to how likely it actually is a problem.

I never relax when someone tries to assure me with the "it's no problem" tactic.

I was once contacted by a person claiming to be from Dell about a technical support request I was supposedly on for a company I no longer worked for. After informing the person I didn't work for the company they were referring to, I was informed it was "no problem", and they continued on whatever they were talking about.
"Researchers first criticized essays written by the study participants and then told some of them to hit a punching bag. Afterward, they gave them all an opportunity to blast loud noise at the person who had insulted their writing. People in the bag-hitting groups reported experiencing more anger and were more likely to blast noise than those who did nothing."

This does sound like a selection bias and priming.

You have a group of people who are criticised.
Some of those people are told to do something physically violent.
All were then told to push a button to blast a noise.

Blasting a noise is a mild aggression. Hitting a punching bag is much more aggressive. It's no surprise that the group primed for violence reported more anger and was more primed to the milder form of aggression.

Also how did the people hit the bag? Did any resist and needed encouragement. Did they punch it full force or just tap it so they could get their reward and leave?

There is no way this study can draw conclusions on people who are victims of sustained physical and emotional trauma. It only proves that people who had college essays criticised are more likely to press the beep button and feel angry if they're forced to punch a punching bag.

edit - I am biased. I endured a tough childhood with bipolar parents, physical and emotional abuse was involved. I know there is a venting trap where you can get comfortable and wallow, but that's like finding a local minima, without any form of catharsis you never heal, with undirected catharsis you get stuck, but catharsis coupled with guidance and reinforcement really does help.
>Left: CNN

Corporate News Network is leftist? You have to have truly American definition of left.
Facebook Reverses Ban on Praise for Ukraine's Azov Battalion
that didn't age well.
That would presuppose that a NATO sanctioned company could sue companies that no longer due business in their country due to war, which I'm sure is probably a decent reason to terminate a contract.

In other words: Russian businesses are just f**ed. The only option is - build your own tools, or use only russian based tools, services, etc - or go back to doing things in excel spreadsheets and paper/pen.
During the first several days. When the outside world pulled Russian news channels off air and, possibly, blocked them on social media (I don't remember if that's what Facebook did); and started DDoSing its servers.
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I worry more about the covid vaccines
Forest cover in Europe is increasing for a hundred years already if I recall correctly. Let me look that up.

Edit:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/04...
See also: Article 42 (7) of the Treaty of the European Union
Love seeing this on the front page. This site was the thing that improved my health more than any other health information I’d ever read. There’s so much handwaving in the world around the subject of weight / body composition when the basics are very simple. I hope this site stays up forever.
> A single "ad-lib" in a demo of course could have exposed a hitherto-not-seen bug that would be hugely embarrassing.

It’s crazy what a small thing this is that people just don’t consider. We have this conversation with the sales team all the time, helping them prepare all their demos and pre-can as much as possible (eg instead of building a report in real time, just save the parameters and open your saved version).

Inevitably they veer off script for no real reason and then complain that they found a bug in a feature that they tried for the first time live in a demo.