skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>banning alcohol made the problems much much worse

The difference with drugs today is that a lot of them can easily kill you or create a physical dependency after the first use. Alcohol won't do that unless you're just chugging Everclear and trying to hurt yourself.

It makes no sense to have a ban on marijuana or magic mushrooms, but crap like Fentanyl and NBOMe should be illegal. They have zero potential to help and are almost certain to harm.
The writer is referring to perception, not status. Ultimately our modern society doesn't actually offer what has been traditionally called status. While perception is determined by consumer choices, performance, charisma or social competence, it is ultimately shallow, fickle, and limited. Status is far more durable. If you were the king of England in the pre-industrial age, it didn't matter if you were a failure, unattractive, unlikable, weak, unintelligent, accomplished nothing, you were still the king of England. In todays modern world, high "status" positions, whether you're the CEO of a company or a celebrity for instance, are temporary roles that require persistent effort to maintain. Once those roles are lost through retirement, expulsion, or irrelevance, the person loses whatever status it conferred. In the past, being a duke or count was a permanent status that remained regardless of your fortunes. There is no modern equivalent (at least in America where aristocratic titles are irrelevant). Ultimately we may be living in a world of unequal distribution of wealth, but we live in a world of equal status, since no one really has any.
I respectfully disagree as I found the comment (1) insightful that upon terminating a subscription the data is no longer accessible, (2) that $9/month could be seen as a lot to many people [honestly did not cross my mind, I guess that’s a priviledge of mine] - it’s the same argument as “$9/mo is too expensive for me” using different words and (3) it did not come off as overly negative, especially compared to some comment sections on controversial topics.

> uses sloppy reasoning, and tells us a lot more about yourself than about the topic you’re commenting on.

An example of being overly negative in one’s comments.
> people arrogantly pushing a drug that was obviously not working on the sole basis they believed it to be the correct thing to do

This is false, 100% false. The vaccines are safe and effective and saved literally millions of lives.

It's disappointing to see this viewpoint here, in this context, and it shows just how terrible the problem with conspiracy theories is. Smart folks are just as easily misled, even when obvious facts are presented to them.

For folks who are not convinced but are convincible please read about covid vaccine effectiveness: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effective...
The real conspiracies, are just unproven yet conspiracy theories, and they are just not proven/known enough about because they will kill anyone trying to expose them. or shut them down.

The rich rule the world. They do not answer before anyone. They can start wars, profit from them, and then get to be peacemakers. They get to pay less taxes, even if they earn much more than regular citizens.

See current forms of governments, which is mostly a parody of choice between red/blue team, and with the only expectancy of each team -looking- for each other. They're the same thing.

In the US you can legally -lobby- someone in congress or whatever into doing what you want. That's called bribery everywhere else...

All the bull shit is there so the fog is bigger and the real shit can't be prosecuted or condemned.

Divide et impera, as long as they can feed us bullshit to divide us against ourselves, they won't be the target.
I just got a Qanon postcard in the mail today:

https://www.wcvb.com/article/qanon-postcards-delivered-in-bo...
Megalithic seems more fitting than cyclopean to me.
I wonder if there is some connection to the underground HUP comics (1987-1992).
> You can challenge incorrectness without condescension (and its usually more effective that way.)

In short bursts, sure. Sorta like, if someone believes that Elvis is secretly a lizard-man who is now pretending to be President Biden, then that could be responded to in simple, polite terms that aren't immediately condescending.

However, the scientific-community, literature, etc., would tend to be cumulatively dismissive and condescending toward the idea, failing to take it seriously. For example, such an idea wouldn't tend to get a mention in every article that mentions President Biden, even if proponents of the idea might continue to hold a strong interest in that belief.

This might lead to folks who'd hold such a belief continuing to find the literature dismissive and condescending toward their beliefs, even if no-one overtly makes rude comments on the topic.

But even avoiding rudeness is unrealistic. For example, someone who believes that Elvis is a lizard-man who is now pretending to be President Biden, and they start advertising their idea everywhere -- say on Wikipedia-articles and in comment-sections of articles -- how does one respond to that? If they're treated politely and accepted, then everything gets bogged down with non-sense. Eventually, everything's covered with conspiracy-theories about how President Biden's secretly a lizard-man, or a fish-man, or a real man pretending to be a lizard-man, or an alien pretending to be an AI pretending to be a fish, etc., and then everything's just noise.
Habitica has gotten so busy/complicated for my tastes. When it was HabitRPG it was a little leaner in a way that my ADHD really needed. Definitely going to try this one out and see if it’s better suited.
And, it turns out, this is more conducive to increasing your status.

Beyond the signalling games, it's reality that confers status.
Consider...

Would you rather look rich or be rich?
Would you rather look like you can do mostly whatever you want or actually do mostly whatever you want?
The English cognate is to hop, to jump on one leg or make a small jump.
Between every program being modified to work around your old shell or you switching to a modern shell like everyone else, which one do you think sounds more reasonable?
No, that is when they are monetized, and it’s part of the romanticization — the idea of a tortured soul finding glory but only after death is part of the appeal.
Those things work flawlessly out of the box.
This is great to hear. We've been happy users for a couple of years, and the device tagging support has come a long way (and is a big enabler for sensible ACLs), but trying to use Tailscale's ACLs in general has been our biggest pain point with the product.
I have no code skills but I have an idea for an app that would help volunteers get paid by donation via qr codes and social media. I believe that would help lower income people who want to volunteer or introverts who want to get out and do good for the earth without joining a group. The main goal would be picking up trash.
Linus Sebastian showed the world what it would look like if the average non-programmer would experience if they tried to use Desktop Linux. Love it or hate it, I’ve experienced the same shit first-hand.

Is there hope for Linux as a viable desktop for everyday users? I think so, but probably not any time soon if it continues on the same trajectory. The average person is just not going to have time to digest why screenshare doesn’t work on Zoom unless they log in via “X11 Session” instead of “Wayland Session.” Is some of the problem on Zoom? Kind of yes, kind of no. The practical result, however, is completely undetermined by who is at fault for any given issue.

I mean, I’ve been using Linux since I was 12, and I can debug my way around some ALSA driver issues, recompile kernels, tweak the pulseaudio config, set up Samba, etc. and all of those things are not necessarily great things if you wind up needing to do them to accomplish something the average user would consider “easy.”
I'm forced to use all three, as well, and again, KDE has been the best option since 3.5 in my opinion.
Dressing down and/or breaking social norms is another type of status flex - it's because you're a high paid engineer working at a top tech company that you can more or less do whatever you want in a way a more typical employee couldn't, or couldn't without being taken seriously.
Can you provide a list of reference-counted functional languages?
NY Democrats oppose Hochul’s $850M Buffalo Bills stadium ‘giveaway’
I find that in many cases you don't even need to have many followers. It's weird how the social media team tends to wield so much power. I think it's because companies see the ability for social media posts to go viral.
I’m just spit balling here, but it sounds like problematic brand association to me. I could see how someone might think that would mean any code written by or for AWS uses this license. Maybe in MIT’s case that’s not as problematic? But tbh, I’m on my phone atm and I don’t know much about the MIT license’s history or origin. Are most developers bad at licenses? I’m feeling pretty naïve right now.
Because PCI is relatively slow, compared to modern CPU buses, nothing else.

This is done intentionally, to make computers cheaper, because on concurrent market few dollars difference could lead to dramatically drop sales and could lead to bankruptcy.

So systems vendors constantly monitoring market, and trying to implement only limited functionality, to limit budgets of development and manufacturing.

For example, initial speed of SATA was not chosen from some random number, but considered that existed on market disk drives have some speed, plus some gap for future upgrades.

ISA/PCI speed initially where chosen by considerations of limits of frequency of existed hardware, basically they where tied to consideration, of typical user machine, where there one network card and one HDD with known speed (plus hdd and network roadmap), so system will be viable for planned years.

And at last, where existed tens examples of CPUs on daughter cards, mostly proprietary (I even have 386 computer with CPU on daughter card), but there where also PCI and EISA CPU cards, because on their market, slow speed of CPU working through PCI or even EISA was not issue.

Mostly CPUs on daughter cards used in server machines, to simplify change of CPU without changing motherboard.

Basically, very large share of non-x86 multiprocessor machines (RISC servers), where with CPUs on daughter cards, and large share of them have features need special hardware, like hot-swap.
So these daughter boards were not only processor nests, but also include cache, bus bridge, in many cases RAM slots, and other circuits, need for hot-swap.
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Is there any story you can't justify with this reasoning?
> yours that present a false dichotomy of "western democracy... or anything else"

You won't find that in what I wrote. Especially since there are many different ways of government.

But I won't support sham elections, biased systems (add a special note for gerrymandering and the electoral college here)
I appreciate the occasional reminder that I can’t rely on having access to these services and need to keep local copies of important data.
This only works if you know what to edit up-front.

If you're processing a tree-like structure via recursion (e.g. type-checking an AST implemented with persistent immutable structures in a compiler) it's no longer easy.
Thanks for expanding on the options for donations! It's important that people know that they can positively impact the world in ways that suit their personal situations. I'm going to have to disavow the 'computer skills' suggestion though :)
This is in reference to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30682137
I've done similar projects with smaller file sizes - pulled a few thousand organization's worth of data together, transformed it to a single common structure, and published it online.

Shipping data was the easy part - if it is small enough to attach to an email, do so. Otherwise send us a USB. Like you said, if the org have no in-house tech, even getting them to sync on Dropbox was more trouble than having them send a USB.

For the actual data ingestion, we did not use any existing tech. We wrote a series of API calls that would take a specific data structure and put that data in our system in a common format. We then wrote scripts that would handle different types of incoming data, whether that is CSV, SQL DBs, binary files, or really anything they chose to send us, and transform it to our needed structure. We took the burden on ourselves of reading their files or standing up DB servers and writing SQL commands to pull the data into the shape we needed, and passing it to our scripts.

While that sounds like a lot of one-off work (and it was), there are not that many formats they are going to send you - outside of CSVs, Zip files, and database archives... non-tech folk really aren't going to come up with anything too crazy. (The only outrageous formats we got were from coders.) So write a script for the first one, then adjust the code for the next. The time you spend looking for tech that will slice and dice it just the way you want is probably not all that different than just writing import scripts.

All that to say - you might want to approach this not as one large data effort, but as 3000 small efforts. Re-use code where you can, streamline the processes as you go, automate it where possible. But don't over-engineer a solution before you even do your first import. Just get rolling, and the opportunities to streamline the efforts will become evident as you progress.
I find it kind of funny these sorts of things give you points, to then waste your time planting or creating things. I'm curious if people who actually, consistently get all of their stuff done use these sort of things.
Because closing your mouth makes a “p” sound, at least in languages that accept “unreleased stops”, like (American?) English does.
It appears painless - I'm convinced it was. But life is precious and death is irrevocable. Either way is hard and terribly sad.
> > definition of vaccine was modified to fit that new drug

> Please tell me if I'm mistaking what you mean, but I don't think the definition of a vaccine was modified? Instead I think the public had a working lay definition, based on the success of previous vaccination efforts. I think the definition was always something like a medicine that enhances immunity against a disease.

The CDC did modify their definitions of "vaccine" and "vaccination" on their web site, and some people have taken that to mean various things. I think it was changed early May, 2021.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/imz-basics.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20210412182439/https://www.cdc.g...
You mean real conspiracies. They usually get to the public as it’s impossible to keep everyone’s mouth shut. People usually don’t do much though when things come out.

But you’re right that the rich are often above the law.
I looked at Fresh a while back and it looked a fun and "easy" route into assembler.

Do they still have the Mandelbrot sample? IIRC, the trick is to get the pre-assembler to generate a binary image of a Mandelbrot set. No actual runtime code involved. Very cool.
> resisting violence itself is the primary cause of violence

> better to just lay down an let things happen.

I really hope this is sarcasm or some elaborate intellectual joke. Sitting back and letting it happen as you describe it is exactly what the German population did before the Holocaust.

Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Well, between doctors making $70 a month and being charged 54,000$ for a COVID test in a ER, surely there is a lot of room for adjustement.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/09/30/texas-...
And? The countries with the highest lifespans are capitalist.
I assure you that the person in question is just naturally high energy. She drinks socially, but doesn't do other drugs, prescription or otherwise.
This is the fundamental problem with all claims that one group gives more than another. "To whom" should always be the question. If it's not answered, the research is junk not even worth engaging with. A lot of "giving" is done at least in part to promote a moral/religious/political agenda, and some of it isn't charitable or compassionate in any sense at all. Conservatives' attitudes toward private giving and public aid/expenditure are inseparable. They don't want to help people more so much as to exert control more. Shifting from public to private lets them decide how the aid flows, who is deemed worthy, who is brought into the warmth and who is left out in the cold (and I'm sure you can guess what some of those criteria are).
> The liberal strategy to silence anyone opposing NATO and the escalation of war is to label them as traitors, or at best Russia-affiliated.

This whole "silencing" framing, where the act of criticism (and only the act of criticism, nobody is being persecuted by the government here) is considered "silencing" is incoherent.

By this logic, you are "silencing" pro-NATO people by accusing them of using fascist rhetoric.
I Lost $150K in a Day
I think I’d phrase it as “status used to be more stable”. I don’t see why we wouldn’t call social positions that are perceived to be desirable as “high-status” just because they can change. All social status is based on social perception, regardless of how stable it is.

And I think it’s not as cut and dry as you’re making it sound. Dukes and lords (and probably even kings sometimes) could still lose status by, e.g., losing battles or territory, or not navigating the royal social hierarchy well. And having been a CEO continues to confer some amount of status even after you’ve left the position.
How many crypto currency projects went down with $million+ losses due to using mongoDB as the backend?
Applebaum talks as if the West has been absent from Russia's bordering countries until recently.

The US and some of western Europe was involved at various levels with Chechnya, Georgia and the Ukraine. You can watch video of John McCain with pre-9/11 Chechnyan jihadists, or Victoria Nuland handing out cookies in Maidan Square in Kiev to the people forcibly overthrowing the Ukraine's elected government.

Insofar as democracy and autocracy, you can also watch videos of Clinton and other Americans celebrating Yeltsin's shelling of the Duma, as Russia's elected representatives were heeding the wishes of Russian citizens to not be in a mad rush to sell enterprises to western companies and dismantle the social welfare system. The US put all its energy behind forming a strong Russian presidency including armed attacks on Russia's parliament by the presidency, and the presidency got molded the way the US advocated. Now the Applebaum turns around and whines the Russia presidency and Russia is autocratic.
Just curious: why can't they use zlib for teaching? zlib doesn't require attribution and it is a very simple license, so I wonder why the need for MIT-0?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30854451
If they don't want to do it, the law must force them to set one up.

Which law currently on the books would force them to do this? If there is such a law on the books, don't you think it would be applied to every company?
I think sometimes it sort of helps to just run through explaining something so many times that I get tired of talking about it. It's not quite the same as a "fix", like you said. But eventually over enough iterations the story of the traumatic event becomes less painful - almost like playing a song enough for it to go from "love" to "boring/repetitive".
Elden ring is the worst game I've played. I'm convinced it has become a meme game. I returned it after just a day of playing it. Trash
I mean, I’m already pretty cynical about open source. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it doesn’t work, but I think that many open source projects, or at least many of the ones in the fairly juvenile domain in which I operate, have intentions thinly veiled by the guise of corporate altruism.
Pick two:
Justice, rich people, America
(see Will Smith)
It's the official position of Creative Commons that the non-CC0 CC licenses shouldn't be used for code. Not exactly FUD IMHO.
The proliferation of BSD licenses is exactly why I use the MIT license for things.
Used to play this on the Amiga, it had modem support to play against a friend.
>that some random library I once submitted a fix

You can always delete the repo when you're done.
For me assembly programming is something I enjoy dabbling with from time to time. If you're not looking for strictly practical assembly programming...

Check out the TIS-100 and EXAPUNKS games. Fun little assembly language oriented games, although they can get quite hard later on (never finished either of them).

If you want to dip your toes programming something palpable and you have an Arduino (with ATmega chip) you can program those in assembly. I did just that back in 2015 and wrote a small (Linux oriented) tutorial on how to get started and some sample code https://gist.github.com/mhitza/8a4608f4dfdec20d3879

If you want to go down the retro assembly route, for something completely useless. I can suggest you get a dosbox instance up and running, and check out computer virus magazines from the late 80s/early 90s. 40HEX and 29A come highly recommended as they had their own beginner virus writing guides. And Ralf Brown's Interrupt List for all BIOS/DOS interrupts ("API calls").
python-cmd2 – enhanced version of Python cmd.Cmd module
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Is it known that those ruins are pre-Etruscan? To what period are they dated?
“Correct” English is a very silly thing to get hung up on. I’ll repeat myself: if it’s correct enough for Dickens and Shakespeare, the two of us can probably suffer it.

(I’ve also never heard any English dictionary make a claim of linguistic completeness, so “it’s not in Merriam-Webster” doesn’t strike me as an important standard.)
I think this comment says more about your (lack of) familiarity with America than America.
> In my experience, if you have too much business acumen, you end up asking questions that the business people can't answer, or don't want to answer.

Depends on context.

“How does governance oversee the regulatory aspect of this process?”: who is this annoying busybody?

“You asked me to automate this part of the flow, but it can get gummed up whenever the auditors request a six month look back. That happens about a couple dozen times a year, and the system we’re all designing so far doesn’t hold the governance information to automate this when that happens, are you folks okay with the process going to manual intervention about half the year?”: damn, he just saved our bacon, drinks are on us next time we go