skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recreational marijuana and JUUL is very much a millenial/gen Z hobby, and it is being pushed with a fervor that glosses over serious studies any potential health risks.

IMO weed will be in 50 years where "big tobacco" is right now.
I think we are in violent agreement that the system is imperfect and that it could use some fixing, and that there have been some serious travesties of justice that we should all be ashamed of. (I’m personally of the opinion that a prosecutor who intentionally withholds potentially exculpatory evidence from a defendant should be fined, disbarred, and banned from running for or holding a public office ever again.) By all means, advocate those fixes, and make your case to your representatives who are in the best position to address your concerns.

But we are pretty far afield from the basic question here, which is about keeping out of other people’s stuff without consent. If we can’t agree on the basic morality of that, and whether people should be punished when they intentionally don’t, then I guess there’s no place to go.

(We don’t know the facts of this case. But even if the OP only discovered and communicated the locations of files, they could still be guilty of a crime if they conspired with someone else to actually use the referenced data without authorization. Conspiracy is a powerful tool in a prosecutor’s belt.)
Parking requirements are there to prevent businesses subsidizing themselves by snapping up all the free street parking. Market forces would lead to a tragedy of the commons.

And it doesn't take mega $$$. If your community wants a corner store you can probably get a variance. The reason people say it takes mega $$$ is because they are asking the zoning commission to do some thing unpopular, and bribes cost money. The reason you don't have a corner store is your neighbors don't want it. And who the hell are you to move in and tell them they're wrong?

There are advantages and disadvantages of being in a residential only area.
Seed oils in everything, plastics touching everything.
For anyone interested in social systems that help avoid this top-down, centralized failure mode, I cannot recommend RFC 7282 enough:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7282

A whole lot of wisdom is captured in that document, including a deep understanding of the differences between unanimity, majority rule, and consensus.

If you're involved in standardization efforts in any way, whether it's deciding where your team will put braces in source code or running software architecture for a Fortune 100, it will well repay your reading time.
And?

Imagine being a Putin bootlicker and then still getting thrown in prison because of a suspicious phone call. I guess these people really do want to go back to the Soviet Era, eh?
Thank you, that fixed it.
An ADIZ has no legal basis and is just international airspace, so no country is obliged to recognise it and no country may deny entry through one.

Mixing up ADIZs with national airspace muddies the waters.

Even if a number of those 300 occurrences were 'near' NATO airspace and only a portion were actual violations, that's still far more violations of NATO airspace by Russia than there have been NATO violations of Russian airspace.
This study seems so useless. For starters, they restricted it to one race. Next: "All the accounts used pictures of ordinary looking people.". Seems rather subjective, no? And finally: "But curiously, the vast proportion of matches came from men, whether for the team’s male or female profiles. 'Even though the male:female ratio in our dataset is roughly even, on average, 86% of all the matches our male profiles receive come from other men,' say Tyson and co." Clearly these people have never used Tinder before. If a man on Tinder is not homosexual, he will not be shown pictures of other men, and will not appear in the pictures of homosexual men. So basically the conclusions they draw are from a scenario that isn't even close to the real world. This is the point where I stopped reading. Sad to see how much Technology Review has degraded in quality.
Putin's Days Are Numbered
And I assume this is US only?
Because unsolicited phone calls from people in the west is all that’s needed to stop the war.
We have tried to raise our daughter at least with some bilingualism, and so had her in French immersion from senior kindergarten through to grade 8. In retrospect a mistake for a multitude of reasons. I doubt her French will persist well beyond her school years and without a community other than school to use it in, it's mainly pointless, and many aspects of the curriculum were harder than they should have been for her because of the language barrier. And after 9 years of immersive education she can't listen to a native French speaker and understand or watch TV, because French in the real world and outside of her classroom is spoken much more quickly and accented.

Nevermind that French immersion in Ontario is teaching these kids Parisian French and pronounciation, while 25% of the population of Canada speaks Quebecois dialect so kids here are not learning the French from their own country. Frankly, there's a bias in the education system against Quebecois French generally which reflects a Colonial era mentality (mother country "good" -- and local is a poor imitation, a psychological disease that's all over Canada, especially English Canada).

All of this ranting is just to bring up the challenges of trying to attain bilingualism when you are a native English speaker in an English speaking country. In some ways it's a curse.

These days I'd mostly prefer to live in Quebec for cultural/political/lifestyle reasons. But I was brought up unilingual in Alberta (with some German), and never learned French beyond half-heartedly counting to 10.

Canada's official bilingualism is mostly a thin veneer that is a reality on the ground only in places like Ottawa. Sort of a half-hearted half-completed project just to try to put a cork in separatism.
StartUp Networx launches with a goal to disrupt venture capital funding process
I think one of WebGPU's greatest strengths is learning, as you can get started pretty easily, and you actually learn a modern approach to GPU. Vulkan requires a significant amount of boilerplate just to establish a connection to the GPU and set up basic resources like the ability to allocate buffers. In WebGPU, the latter is one or two lines of code.

That said, there are some really nice learning resources for Vulkan as well, so if you're motivated and determined, it's also not a bad way to learn modern GPU.
So you're saying that the Iraqi government does not have a monopoly of violence, and has to share it with the US? That is to say, an occupation. Which you just said wasn't the case.
Gender discrimination at fintech startup, Fast
Yeah, it's the data we had last year, collected on the year prior to the report.

Last time I looked, nobody compiled the 2021 data yet.

The thing to notice is that hydropower is growing very slowly. It is the largest share of the total, but nearly all the growth is due to wind and solar. And if you look at the growth rates, wind and solar grow by absurd amounts (with no indication of slowing down) where everything else has a normal growth or decline.
So is fluoride’s neurotoxicity[1], especially for developing brains, and we still insist on using it, to just give one example. We’re no less reckless than prior generations and our children will be just as baffled looking back at us as we are now.

Yes I’m aware that idiots are also fixated on fluoridation. That doesn’t make the science wrong though.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6923889/

Neurotoxicity appeared to be dose-dependent , and tentative benchmark dose calculations suggest that safe exposures are likely to be below currently accepted or recommended fluoride concentrations in drinking water.

That the authors felt the need to pack four weasel words into the sentence saying maybe it’s ok doesn’t indicate that they believe it’s safe.
Congrats to Mandiant! I really hope they don’t go the same way as the spinout/reorg of Chronicle…
I highly recommend the book "SQL Performance Explained" by Markus Winand: https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Explained-Everything-Deve...
Countries did not close borders to regular citizens. Unless your insist on flying a Russian airline, you can leave and apply for residence or even asylum (if you are against the war, you are under threat of political prosecution).
Yes, you can get a blood test done that measures lead level. I asked my doctor for the test and got it done. Covered by insurance.
No offence taken, I'm happy to learn! It seems like I need to go and do more reading about this.

I suppose efficiency aside, the next big problem(s) would be of a political nature? Having no control over your power supply (which is hosted in a foreign nation) is quite a big geopolitical risk?
This article is amazing and is perfectly timed for the news about Sri Lanka's mass move to organic farming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443798
There was not huge rise in crime in general. There were more murders during lockdowns in US, which is in fact to be expected since people were forced to be with close relatives - and most murders are by close people.
The societal risks are the same with additional worse effects for non participants with alcohol and they have been known for a long time. If society is OK with those risks, then I cannot see cannabis being an unacceptable risk in 50 years. Can throw in refined sugar too.
Relevant YouTube video with 2M views:

“Building an artificial sun that looks unbelievably realistic …”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bqBsHSwPgw

https://diyperks.com/community/lighting-and-leds/diy-artific...

Uses a water cooled LED lamp reflected off a satellite dish to produce parallelised rays and through a soapy filter to provide diffuse light.

Bulky, but literally lights a room as if from a morning sun on a spring day.
Gave it a try a couple of years ago and it had issues with larger JavaScript bundles (passing a lot of objects on the stack requiring recompiling the entire process with an increased stack size or modifying the threads on which it runs to accommodate - even with that, reasonably deep callstacks would overflow).

I also thought the deterministic GC would mean lower memory usage but it's actually worse than V8 (which has all the intermediate bytecode, and the JIT-ed machine code as well in memory, plus the dangling objects).

Still impressed that someone could write an EcmaScript-compliant engine from scratch, but looks more like a proof of concept (the fact it didn't get any updates in a year doesn't help either).
> As an aside, Michelle Obama's campaign when Obama was in office was about improvement children's health. Her focus was going to be on nutrition (lunch food). Shortly thereafter Coke and Pepsi came in with "donations" and the whole thing became about exercise, no focus on nutrition.

This isn't accurate. There were changes to the school lunch program, and by most accounts they were pretty effective: https://sph.washington.edu/news-events/news/obama-era-school...

The main takeaway is that the changes were fairly expensive, so lots of schools didn't participate.
So it's dropped for 30 years...

I'm not disputing the claim that lead poisoning can lead to violent crime, I'm disputing the claim that the turmoil of the last few years (my guess OP means starting with Brexit/Trump) is due to lead poisoned Boomer brains being less empathetic. Arguably the world is more empathetic than ever if you study history (simple data point: entire economies were built around slavery for most of human existence) and this one data point in isolation is really not a particularly strong one to point to for the claim.
You can't give citizenship to people who want to destroy your country.
Technically, they "work" in both scripts and modules, they just work differently in each case. This is valid Javascript that returns true if running in script mode or false if running in module mode:

const isScript = (x = true) => x <!--x
console.log(isScript()) // true or false depending on whether the code is ESM

What's happening is that `<!--` is a comment token in script mode, but it's parsed as `< ! --` in module mode.
I hope we look at plastics/PFAS/pththalates in 50 years as we look at smoking and asbestos now. But given how anemic our federal government has been for the past 30 years and is only working for the people less and less, I'm not hopeful.
Use tabsuspender for that. It saves memory by suspending the tabs which is not used for quite some time.
> But then there's been a huge rise in crime

Is this actually true? I've seen a lot of people saying this politically but haven't seen a lot of data to back it up. From what I've seen there's been a slight bump, which isn't too surprising given the state of everything... but it's still massively dwarfed by the decrease in the 90s and 00s

For example https://www.bbc.com/news/57581270
Furnace, a powerful audio tracker for old school composition
Hack This Newsletter #0: Stack-Based Buffer Overflows
If you want to see a dumb example of how you can implement indexing on top of a SQL database without it, I wrote a tutorial on implementing basic indexes [0] as part of a series on making a SQL database from scratch.

And of course, Use the Index Luke is a great reference for the real world.

[0] https://notes.eatonphil.com/database-basics-indexes.html

[1] https://use-the-index-luke.com/
United Nations advises staff against using ‘war’ or ‘invasion’ regarding Ukraine
Geology excels at one thing: showing how huge numbers of observations and descriptions can build a body of scientific knowledge and theory, even in the absence of fundamental tools.
There has been a massive surge in homeschooling since the pandemic as well, but it is mostly among those affluent enough to afford to have 1 parent not work so they can take the time to school their children at home.

I would imagine the same basic things are playing out here in these stats as well - the ability to have good reliable internet, a dedicated computer or tablet to work on, a proper physical space or desk space to do the work, etc. All of these things tend to be a given with higher income levels, but are not at all a forgone conclusion with lower income levels.

Some good homeschooling stats for 2021: https://www.thinkimpact.com/homeschooling-statistics/
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My team has really enjoyed the concise and informative book [0] from Markus Winand. It comes up sometimes here on HN, and IMHO it's a great resource on the topic for anyone who touches a relational database in their line of work.

His website "Use the Index, Luke!" [1] is also great.

0: https://sql-performance-explained.com

1: https://use-the-index-luke.com
PS. For anyone not getting the 'I have pen' quote, it's a reference to this internet classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o8XMlL8rqY :)
> A btree is a kind of binary tree

By definition a binary tree means there are two children per node.

Binary is the one thing a b-tree is not.
It might make more sense to first have a similar reckoning with alcohol. It is a far more dangerous intoxicant and exacts a large toll on individuals and society.
> Mixing up ADIZs with national airspace muddies the waters.

Yes, I know. That's what I think the article is doing.

The same happens on coverage of China and Taiwan - the incursions always wind up just being going into the ADIZ (and Taiwan's ADIZ extends over mainland China, for extra complexity), but are breathlessly covered as if China's breaking the 12 mile limit.
Unfortunately, locally stored music is a dead media.
He's rocking a Pentium with the infamous f00f bug!
I'm surprised to hear power supply and case are the biggest issues since those are needed by everybody. What keeps them expensive?
We also need infrared light to be healthy, led lights have none.

Recent research have shown that infrared light is needed for our mitochondria to work properly.

I have cured my 20 year winter eczema in two weeks with a cheap infrared heater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YV_iKnzDRg
An adult can choose to eat it or not (I'm ignoring the addictive nature of concentrated sugar), but our public health establishment has been foolishly stupid (combined with industry marketing) at making people think that fruit juice is natural or healthy. It's about as natural as cocaine is. Sure, it comes from a plant, but it gets refined and concentrated into levels that are unheard of in nature and toxic to the body.

Virtually my entire extended family are working class people, and they all were feeding their kids apple/orange juice on a regular basis without diluting it. When I showed my sister that she could literally do a 5% solution of apple juice in water, and it still tasted sweet, she was blown away. I'm pretty sure most members of the laptop class know that juice is bad for kids (gatorade too), but that message hasn't filtered to most of the population. And these kids are too young to know how toxic it is for them.
They put pack more than 10 000 troops and took control of Iraqi airspace.

The troops I'm talking about weren't for commercial security. They were in US "embassy" complexes and were used as an occupying military.

Russia annexed Crimea. They aren't occupying it. It is a done fact. Annexation has nothing to do with international recognition. Annexation is when a sovereign state takes over territory and annexes it to it's own. Which Russia did to Crimea in 2014.

Russia is asking Ukraine to recognize the facts on the ground and give up it's claim, after which both countries may exist in a state of peace.
Its not nothing, but it's close;

https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative...
> The societal risks are the same and additional worse ones with alcohol

I don't think this is correct, personally.

(I'm pretty sure you'll find studies arguing for both sides, so we can only go on personal wisdom.)
It's how git was created to operate. The linux kernel, probably the largest software project in history, only operates through emailed patch files too.
So now there are three incompatible graphics APIs in the browsers which are also incomplete in different ways. Each of them is a huge chunk of code that needs to maintained and updated.
Obligatory recommendation for the CMU Databases Systems lecture series by Andy Pavlo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZX...

Here's the lecture on tree indexes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZFc4hMGhk
All phone calls and text messages in Russia must be recorded and stored for at least 6 months according to the law. Also, about 1 month worth of Internet traffic is also recorded.
It is optional to eat those foods for the vast majority of people, but it isn't as convenient.
JS is relatively easy to implement if you don't care about performance. (QuickJS does care about preformance though, which makes it more amazing.) The apparent complexity of ECMAScript specification mostly comes from lots of pseudo code written in prose, which leaves no room for different interpretation and actually makes implementor's job easier. Newer JS features also rarely introduce new concepts and can be mostly desugared into the core language, pretty isomorphic to ES5 plus some library bits like Proxy---which means you can start with ES5 (an even smaller language) and build newer features on top of that.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220308113218/https://www.thegu...
"Make peace, you fools!"
German field marshal Gerd von Rundstedt July 1944

That's why a KGB guy might write something like this - the intent wouldn't be to demoralize russians - it'd be to save Russia.

It still might be propaganda/disinformation but I wouldn't reject it out of hand.
The US & allied invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11 is a pretty non-controversial case of legitimate self defence amongst international law scholars. There are some contrarians who dispute it, but it's not a mainstream view.

That's quite different from the 2003 invasion of Iraq which was on much shakier grounds.
> Logistics company in US army is usually 4 times bigger than in Russian army per organisational unit of army. It means that US understand the war much better than Russia.

I seem to remember that this is largely based on well-known historically different assumptions between the US and Russia/USSR in case of a conflict in Europe.

US expects to fight on the ground in countries that are either allies or whose hearts and minds will need to be won. Also, US has the largest industrial capacity in the world, so they can afford to bring stuff (including chocolate and candies to give around) but they cannot afford to take stuff.

Russia/USSR expects to fight on the ground in occupied countries. Producing and bringing enough from the homeland to feed the soldiers (and the tanks) is too complicated and logistics are easy to target, so the doctrine recommends feeding from the land, aka plunder.
That's a bit too YAGNI for me. You have a `users` table with an `tenant_id uuid not null` column. You aren't going to need uniqueness on it and you aren't going to need range operations on it it.

And..even if you did, you could re-index it.
Somewhat unfortunately, fringe communities online have co-opted a lot of discussion around online dating to be pretty hostile and borderline misogynist, so any analytical discussion around Tinder is steeped in bitterness. As a straight man in NYC who online dates a fair amount (1-2 a week) and does relatively well, I can offer some anecdotal perspective.

At the end of the day, the biggest reason for this disparity is that most women find most men unattractive. That statement begs repeating - statistically, women find the _majority_ of men to be less attractive than what they believe to be the "average" man. Look no further than the oft-cited and since-deleted OkCupid post which dug into this in great detail. [1] More contemporarily, women-centric communities like /r/FemaleDatingStrategy will happily just come out and state this as fact. [2] (warning - if you're a man who struggles with self-esteem I wouldn't recommend clicking that link, you're only going to feel worse)

The real kicker here has and always been the chart which demonstrates that women rated 80% of men as being less than average attractive. Anyone with other single friends in their 20s and 30s can attest to this; it's pretty common to hear a complaint from a woman like "there wasn't a single cute guy at that bar" or "none of my coworkers are people I'd consider dating."

I don't really know what the answer is, you can't tell people what they should or shouldn't like. Telling men to just "be more attractive" doesn't really work, and telling women to "lower your standards" is equally silly.

As I've read elsewhere on HN, the future I envision is one where a good chunk of straight men are largely just removed from the dating market. We're already beginning to see that, with 28% of men in 2018 reporting no sexual activity, with that number only likely to rise. [3]

The only advice I can give to men in that position, especially ones who don't hit the marks which serve well in OLD (tall, white, and fit) is not to beat yourselves up. Your personality probably isn't the problem, you don't "hate women", and you certainly don't just need to "shower and touch grass"; you're playing a game in which the odds are stacked against you. There are certain immutable traits which our society finds incredibly important in hetero attractiveness, and if you're lacking those traits, it's absolutely no fault of your own.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/yourlooksandyo...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/FemaleDatingStrategy/comments/iu5nu...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-ame...
>We are already seeing studies that show regular marijuana use is correlated with permanent decreases in intelligence

When used at very young ages. Important caveat. The other things you mentioned are highly speculative and I typically discount anecdotes as mostly useless.