skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't see anyone who is using opioids in the privacy of their own home who aren't out on the streets

I also don't see anyone who is using alcohol and marijuana in the privacy of their own home.

My sampling is biased in that it doesn't accurately reflect the percentage all people using those various drugs. But it is (I believe) relatively unbiased in that it shows that of the people whose drug use concurrent with homelessness a much higher fraction of them are using opioids or meth compared to booze and pot.

I think there is a reasonable inference there that using opioids or method is much more likely to result in homelessness than using booze or pot.

Again, I'm not making any claims about what our policies should be for opioids and method. All I claim is that it's entirely reasonable to have different policies for them versus booze, pot—hell, caffeine—because while, sure, they are all technically drugs, they are radically different in how they affect individuals and society at large.

I'll also point out that I didn't suggest criminalizing hard drug use. Also, of the four epidodes I described, only one is about drug use itself. The other three were violent crimes whose victims were homeless people.
I don't like the authoritative tone of the article. Especially
given the fact that author "conveniently forgets" about

go mod edit

and

go work

both of which are deliberately designed counter-mitigations, i.e. they exist
to poke small holes in the pin-everything wall.
I agree with the spirit of the message though, the surface is much smaller
with Go and it shows much planning went into that.
There are many reasons discussed here, but the point is that cash is mindlessly easy to use, as it has been for generations.
This is a perfect case of iatrogenic security. When the systems get so
complex and remote that security experts are caught out, they do more
harm than good.

It's also a consequence of solutionism, systematic monotonicity,
mother-knows-best and externalising costs such that we:

Only add more security solutions on top of existing ones to fix their holes.

Deny the user any choice or agency in setting their own security terms

Never revoke or remove a feature (that would be admitting defeat)

Push the burden in every process on to the user

Create fear in the user - that any misstep will cause them more
inconvenience and trouble.

Make security an authoritarian culture such that user will not
question or be sceptical.

All of these are antithetical to civic cyber-security that we need
available so educated and empowered users can operate technology under
their control.
This is definitely dystopian, in the US and elsewhere. It's not just that it was a single tweet, but that the police arrested someone for a racial slur (an insult). It advances equally dystopian ideas such as "silence is violence" into real-world consequences, and establishes the dual justice system that dystopian books have warned us about for two generations.
Potentially useful reference regarding the status of one of the most important such lawsuits:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-scra...
Agreed. There are some folks very closely associated with other language ecosystems but they spend more time in endlessly critiquing every little thing about Go.
Ah, I didn't know that. I assumed it was filled by the coroner. Never mind, then. That would certainly explain the anomaly away.
most people are pretty average (tautologically so), and average is pretty unimpressive against the pace at which technology (in the broad sense) has changed and knowledge has so rapidly expanded in the past century or two (which is not to say that we're all that much more advanced yet against the backdrop of everything we could ever collectively know). as such, and compounded by sociopolitical contentions, most people are barely functional in their jobs, let alone adequate or good. that specifically includes so-called "experts", who tend to be further out on the edge nodes of our collective tree of knowledge and therefore more vulnerable to rising to your level of incompetence. once at that level, the competiton turns toward signaling your competence, rather than working on becoming more competent, since that's harder and less socially rewarding.

we need nothing short of a cultural shift toward incentivizing real progress and productivity, and valuing real knowledge rather than education, which we only had for a fleeting moment in the US (middle of last century), that only comes from really constraining markets toward both fairness and risk tolerance. we lost our way when we loosened our belt in that regard (for instance, we now instead reward to act of having capital rather than deploying it strategically).
> So bad, in fact, that a five-minute conversation with somebody will tell you more about their ability to succeed at a job than knowing their IQ.

But when you try to put a number on that five minute conversation it turns out that the number is worse than the number provided by IQ tests. Otherwise the simple number from conversations would be well known to be a stronger predictor, but nobody has found such a result.
The cards should work wherever visa/mastercard is accepted. Here's one the specifically calls out Lebanon - https://spectrocoin.com/en/bitcoin-in-Lebanon.html
>> Due to the sheer size of the current Debian release it is infeasible for a small team to be able to audit all the packages, so there is a system of prioritizing packages which are more security sensitive.

> This was, at best, poor communication. Of course nobody would ever audit all of 90,000 packages, easily billions of LOC. Especially not when the vast majority of these packages have a very small user base.

How is that any different? It rather sounds like you've restated the same thing and then claimed the author's wrong.
They don't realize that voting that way is what led to the outcomes that made them want to leave California -- particularly on issues like taxation and housing.
> I've never understood why so many programmers and sysadmins feel the need to go straight to the Mac without considering any other option.

One reason is availability. Chances are, the PC laptop you took such pains to spec out are not nearly as available in case you need one on short notice. If I dropped my Macbook in the ocean this morning, I can walk into an Apple store and have a reasonable replacement by afternoon. Unless your PC specs are ok with random consumer/gaming laptops from Best Buy, you are likely looking at several days minimum wait, probably a lot more if they happen to be at the point in the product cycle where last year's model is in low stock and next year's hasn't come in yet.
"inferring metadata from unstructured content is literally the whole goal of Reader mode"

Is that the whole goal, or is it to get around the design choices of the original?

These are two different things.
I have used Redis TimeSeries a few years ago and I found it easy to use and very performant for my needs. I think it is still chugging along at my last employer. The development team is already familiar with Redis and therefore found TimeSeries simple and easy to use. None of us wanted to use ( and learn) a dedicated TimeSeries database API and business did not want an expanded footprint to maintain. So Redis TimeSeries was an excellent solution for us
Spreadsheet program with one-click data frame conversion is basically Colab + Sheets. Not sure why Google isn’t putting resources to flesh out this feature.

Between Sheets, Colab/Kaggle, and Google Maps, Google should be dominating the desktop analytics space. They just need leadership with a bit more imagination. Sometimes I feel like these big techs IMPLICITLY don’t encroach on certain spaces occupied by their competitions. Shadow collusion if you will.
A rundown of biggest cyber attacks and breaches in 2021 – and what lies ahead
One small but critical addendum I'd add is that it's less about, "The people who make magic boxes of light say they used physics" and more about "EVERY person who makes magic boxes of light, all in unison, say they used the exact same physics."

There's a huge power in knowledge consensus. It's got all kinds of flaws, but it meanders generally in a growth direction, and that's better than any other prediction system I'm familiar with.
Kindred spirit! The one caveat to this rule for me requires that as long as there is wood and tools, it is okay to not have wires.
The license is very clearly included in the code they originally stole and tried to pass off as their own. This wasn't a short timeline as they'd been including it in investment decks for quite some time before release. This is super basic copyright and licensing stuff. And something that a legitimate company with nearly a billion dollars in funding should know.
"Ubiquiti sucks" is not an HN-specific thing. The consensus among IT folks in multiple communities I'm part of is that they've gone from being front-of-the-tech-curve with nice UI that Just Works, to overpriced underspec'd cloud-locked-in meh-ness.
"California is experiencing a new wave — an exodus, some believe — of high net worth individuals and businesses seeking to find a new home, or more technically, “domicile,” outside of the state."

This statement is objectively false. High income and high net worth individuals and families are the only category that continues to arrive in a positive net domestic migration into California. The people who are leaving are the less wealthy, who don't need to pay the state taxes, but who also cannot afford the housing prices.
I'm not from the US. I am originally from one of those places where it's more dangerous to offend the political class. I guess that's part of the reason I find this dystopian.
AFAIK the latest status of the LinkedIn case is still inclusive (due to the Supreme Court stepping in).

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-scra...
> the same kind of path civilization had to using gold and silver as its primary currency for thousands of years.

Until we came up with better ways to provide payment for goods and services.
Yep, this is in that category I put a lot of VR games. I'm excited that it exists but I will definitely not be playing it myself.
You seem to be claiming that the prices of many different assets are largely divorced from fundamentals.

I'm willing to believe you, what you're saying is plausible, but I apparently haven't been looking at the same data you've been looking at.

Do you have examples of some prices you think are bonkers, and reasons why they're bonkers?
Excel is great for simple use cases.

For complex problems, you should look at Jupyter notebooks.

https://jupyter.org/
Interesting.

First off: Amazon is NOT my first choice for a source of pharmaceutical. Period.

Second, spin through the comments. Quoted below is an example of exactly what I'm talking about:

>Active ingredient is dextromethorphan. This blocks cough receptors in the brain. Got a cough? Get this!

>2. No extra ingredients. It’s so hard to find pure medicines just for cough. Store shelves are littered with bundled products for all sorts of symptoms. I don’t like taking a bunch of unnecessary meds, so I buy single symptom products like this.

8<---

>Finally, these gels are only sold in some stores. Shelf space is limited, so they rather carry heavily advertised, bundled meds that pay bigger margins. But they are here at Amazon for a great price!

8<---

Point there being, you've got a system where being able to acquire unadulterated formulations of a substance is the exception rather than the norm.

If you look through drug applications or filings with FDA, you will find that many pharmaceutical companies favor highlighting "abuse-resistant" formulations of combo drugs, while downplaying potential harms and that marketshare of the pure drug decreases after an approval of a combo drug is achieved.

I have started to pay more attention to this sort of thing since they started toying with doing the same thing on stuff I take. I can see a blatant flex of incentive shaping when I see it, and frankly, I disagree with it.

Very vocally.
vis: https://couchapp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro/what-is-couc...

CouchDB supports "select index.html && index.js from my_couchdb.some_app" so you can have a UI bundled with your DB Blob. Additionally, since the UI is "just some documents", technically they can update + sync to other distributed DB's.

It's a very interesting concept to make apps more cohesive by including (not just HTML+JS), but also a full docker container that could talk to the datastore w/o any intermediaries.

We're finally coming full circle with PHP5's bundling of SQLite, and are instead having Postgres effectively bundling PHP. :-P
Article makes fun of how slow i2c is compared to the super high speed pairs next to it on HDMI plug.
Well, please note that there is a bus that is literally a thousand time slower than i2c on that same connector. It's CEC. Contrary to i2c it only occupies one wire rather than two though.
CEC, which is used mainly to power TV on/off or switch sources has a whopping bandwidth of 400bps. No missing multiplier.

Maximum device name is 16B. If you have a TV, a tvbox and a game console, simply asking the name of those devices can take more than a second.
I'm in the process of shortening my product's CEC name, in order to reduce congestion on the bus.

Mainline Linux CEC developer jokes that Voyager 1 which is on the other side of solar system, made 40 years prior to CEC, is faster than CEC.

Edit: Sorry for the atrocious original formating
That is true. No one knows the future. I do think bitcoin is still the most likely to get there first for various reasons.
> There are subsets of the population which are far more likely to not treat or even detect these illnesses

That's an argument for improving detection of these diseases which influence clinical outcomes, not for prioritizing care on the basis of race.
I think Excel fails when it comes to other natural types of data such as trees, graphs, even arrays or records. It’s terrible at all of them. It’s not relational, and it’s not inductive, has no sum types, or anything.

What it is, is a very good UI to throw tabular data into and modify.

I have a post about it here: https://inflex.io/blog/whats-wrong-with-the-grid
We focus on offering the most premium mobile 4G/LTE proxies to constantly get new IPs.
> Is this really an AirPods problem or is it more of a Bluetooth problem?

I'm guessing it would be exceedingly rare for anyone to bring any non-AirPods Bluetooth headphones to YC demo day.
Not who you asked, but as someone interested in small/hobby farm equipment to enable a couple people to do more work, more efficiently:
The actual products seem nice and they have a variety of things that would be useful to us. I’d like to be able to buy a common flatbed lifting/dumping platform at about half those prices and be able to separately purchase and easily swap out the various wheelbarrow and garden/utility wagon bases.
Ability to upgrade/replace motor and batteries.
Ability to use the platform for additional powered implements like spreaders, seed drills, flail mower, auger, etc
I’d like to be able to operate it in either a push-in-front (wheelbarrow) or pull-behind (wagon) fashion and for the drive and steering controls to work well in both cases.
Stretch goals:
a low speed follow-me mode with basic obstacle detection/avoidance.
A go-to-programmed-location-and-come-back-wherever-here-is mode, optionally dumping or waiting for interaction at the other end.
What government officials are you referring to? These are disclosures made to the DMV, so obviously they have access. Maybe you mean the court? But they have access too as part of the lawsuit... so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
People are rightfully upset about it because there is precisely zero amount of clever engineering that makes using my own hardware to spy on me and potentially report me to the police okay, morally or socially or technically. Literally no one would willingly opt in to such a thing on their computer if prompted. This appears to be the US government exercising an extrajudicial, extralegislative mandate (aka functioning as a dictatorship) with regards to a software publisher, and Apple unilaterally forcing this on users via updates.

This is an authoritarian, tyrannical end run around basic human rights to due process, and if indeed it is an essential prerequisite (per the government) to Apple deploying e2e crypto, then we don't actually have freedom of expression (as Apple would presumably be punished by the federal government for publishing software that supports e2e encryption WITHOUT such literal spyware).

The fact that this is even being discussed is a giant blinking red warning light about the lack of freedom in our society. Both for millions like us, who want the availability of quality tools that don't work against our personal interests and human rights, as well as Apple, who appears to not be allowed to publish software unless it contains backdoors for the cops.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

That should worry you a lot.

PS: Any clientside scanning whatsoever that the user did not consent to, that reports its results to a remote party (even if only positives) is a privacy violation. You cannot scan local files in any way whatsoever (for a purpose that is explicitly against the user, that is, reporting on suspected illegal activity) without compromising privacy, even if Apple's system works perfectly as described. Clientside nonconsensual scanning is inherently a privacy violation.
As a newbie who only learned Java and JS in bootcamp, and C in EE, Rust's tooling is absolutely phenomenal.

Things just work, and that is a rare experience.
Why the state feels a need to have a surplus of 31 billion when most of it's residents are struggling is entirely beyond me. I wish California could attract governors who have no presidential ambitions.
Actual dollar is backed up by:

- state monopoly on violence

and

- one of the world's largest economies

Tether is backed up by?
Alcohol, marijuana and caffeine aren't anywhere near as likely to lead to someone losing their job.

You've observed that the most highly criminalized drugs are used by the people who have probably been the most affected by trying to use the criminal justice system as our drug treatment program.

You need to disentangle the effects of the drug from the effects of how we treat the users of the drug. You can't look at the end product at attribute it entirely to the inherent properties of the substance. You're not observing it in a sociological vacuum.
Rust is anyway making a better showing there than other places.
I recently converted my company's build process to Earthly. I find its syntax to be much easier to grok than CUE. They've also extended/added Docker commands that shore up some of the pain points of working with Dockerfiles.

>Dagger has a wider scope: build, test, deployment, any part of a CI/CD pipeline really

I don't see any reason this can't go into an Earthfile. We have all of these parts in our Earthfiles.

The one common pain point that both Dagger and Earthly haven't solved for me is unifying the machine parallelization with the DAG parallelization. According to this comment[1], it seems like Dagger doesn't have that goal.

For example, we only run our +deploy target if +build, +test and +lint pass. We parallelize each of those targets across workers in Github Actions. I don't know what the solution is to this problem but I know this was annoying to have to handle with Github Action's workflow syntax and horrible to debug locally.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30859864
Azov battalion was a Nazi regiment until it was in our interest to overlook it.

Google CNN's coverage, a few months ago, then compare to now.

One planted Nazi flag made the media paint all the Canadaian trucker as Nazi's.

Yet, we are arming people who proudly claim to be Nazi's.

Of course, all of this is Russian propaganda, and you will be banned on Reddit, Facebook, and other outlets for having inappropriate thoughts, if you were to doubt the narrative:

putin bad! ukraine good! that simple!

we were never at war with Eurasia.
well, where i graduated, people DID have those skills. so you are wrong.

besides, companies already ask what university you went to and could get your records and individual class grades and use that combined with number of people fired that had the same degree to figure out if they want to hire you or not. after all, we are in the era of data science?

and instead of paying recruiters lots of money for shuffling word documents around, they can use that money to pay prospective candidates for a month. it will be cheaper.

the real reason for coding interviews is to wear you out so they can pay you less. the problem is that people go along with this clown show instead of simply walking away and doing something else.
I’ve had this talk a lot with my sisters, who both have young children. Lack of good information is paralyzing when you’re trying to do right by your kids. Their view is that while the risk of death looks to be low for their kids, they’re more concerned about the long-term developmental effects COVID could have. My sister lost her hearing after a bad illness as a child. The last thing either of them wants is for something similar to happen to their kids. Fortunately they’re both in positions where keeping the kids at home throughout the pandemic wasn’t much trouble. And now that the whole crew is vaccinated, they’re far less concerned.
Show HN: pync – Netcat for Python
Some of those "superficial aspects" are really annoying.

For example, Go forced version tags to have a `v` prefix in git repos for their dependency system, which broke a whole host of CI tools that expected plain numeric values for release versions. There's a outsized amount of Go-specific special casing for this one seemingly arbitrary decision in multi-language CI systems.
yeah post linkedin, it gave the green light to scrape any publicly available information. Craiglist bullied scrapers via lawsuit (EFF covered it) but post linkedin, there has been zero grounds for Craigslist to use the DDOS argument (since the website is built to handle far more traffic than scrapers can).
It's easy to just look at features and call them "obviously" bad but this feature provides an extensible interface that isn't much different from any other API in Objective-C that takes a selector, e.g. sortedArrayUsingSelector:. This is just how the language is. It is your job to restrict what can go into that function; in this case where the attacker controls the address space it doesn't matter anyways because an attacker will just create a calling primitive elsewhere. So this is really just a kneejerk reaction that doesn't meaningfully help security here, and removes a fairly useful API.

Note that if you actually wanted to make the attack harder here I'd go after the NSPredicate evaluation instead, which you can see in the blog post is done without checking the sender, rather than going after what the predicate itself can do.
Because you need the cash up front to buy the ingredients - seed, fertiliser, diesel - all more expensive than last year. (Not saying you’re wrong though.)