skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m actually a proponent of this only because it brings menthol in line with the rest of the FDA’s enforcement on the matter. Back in my smoking days, I used to like Djarum Blacks (a brand of clove cigarette). Around the start of the 2010’s the FDA banned all sales of flavored cigarettes, ostensibly to “protect the children”, obviously. Menthol cigarettes, arguably the smoothest and easiest to smoke cigarette that serves to make smoking more approachable, were very notably exempted from that ban. As an anecdote, my wife when she smoked found every non-menthol flavored cigarette to be disgusting and only smoked menthol.

Djarum Blacks and many other smaller cigarette brands and types fell under the ban. Djarum Blacks were forced to wrap their cigarettes in different paper and rebrand them as an inferior “cigar” product and other brands disappeared entirely. People, myself included, shifted their smoking habit to arguably worse-for-you menthol cigarettes, sold primarily by Big Tobacco. The exemption was one of the biggest Big Tobacco handouts of the 21st century, the other one being the enforcement of chemical certification of vape products.
Yesterday I made the comment "everything is collapsing underneath" though there's context etc. I think the better way to say it. "Is everything falling apart for the USA?" Yes indeed. Most other countries have problems.

Sure Sri Lanka has the same problems. Sure the middle east just went through the same problems and some states are still enduring civil war. Though from what I can tell it's mostly the USA in this 'falling apart' situation. Canada is certainly not far behind.

>“The story of Babel,” Haidt writes, “is the best metaphor I have found for what happened to America in the 2010s, and for the fractured country we now inhabit. Something went terribly wrong, very suddenly. We are disoriented, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth. We are cut off from one another and from the past.”

Damn that's a good analogy!

Elon tweeted this yesterday: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144

The political polarization starting pre-existed social media. This started late 90s or for sure early 2000s with GWBush. Bush knew something from his father's reign. He could play identity as a victim. So he would pretend to be a yokel and when the elites would make fun... it told every yokel that Bush was the only option. Obviously he never passed laws or tried to 'fix' something for yokels. It was shallow identity politics but identity politics breeds more identity politics.

The democrats then needed identity politics of obama. It's an inevitable scenario, 'first black president' will eventually happen in history and inevitably it would be toxic with identity politics. The rest is history, Trump is a symptom. Biden is a symptom.

>By “here” I mean a time when a big change in information technology has implications for social structure too dramatic to play out without turbulence. In Nonzero I discussed a number of such thresholds, including the invention of writing and the invention of the printing press.

Blaming social media is not legitimate in my opinion; social media will be what fixes this. The fix to the USA falling apart is free and open discussions between the camps. This is what Elon is planning to do with twitter.

He's a billionaire and will be the world's first trillionaire, ONLY if the USA doesn't fall apart. He has a vested incentive/interest to help make this not happen.

>One grievance that drove support for Donald Trump in 2016 was that American coastal elites felt more connected to elites in other countries than to their fellow Americans in the heartland.

Which is for sure true. The reality is that they are still the same team. You can enjoy F1 over Nascar. You have to still realize you're on the same team. When the left-wing attacks the right-wing. You can't take actions that harms your own team. Eventually that team breaks and here we are.
Beautiful piece. A poem in parts.

I think spreadsheets are one of the most powerful mind-extensions people developed from the Information Age.

But as far as they can take you, it's worth remembering they're only extending our human minds, going in the direction we point them. They labor only for the narratives we set them to and fail according to our own misconceptions.
URL shorteners have been around longer than Twitter. For example, tinyurl.com launched in 2002 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyURL). Twitter wasn't until 2006 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter).

People have many reasons they want a shorter URL. Twitter is only one of them.
That data you have mentioned is not about requirements.

For example, world military spendings for 2021 is $2113 billion (just googled it, if you need a source of data). But that number is not a requirement, it is kind of a measure of world's imperfection. Crypto's energy consuming might be reduced drastically as well as the number I have mentioned.

I can tell some more of scary stories: if that military spendings will not be reduced, the meaning of "forever" word may be not as much time as you expect. In another words, the digits I have mentioned are killing us way faster then the digits you have mentioned. So I don't see any problem for using "forever" word in that case.
What are you talking about? I use them all the time to type out a url I found on one machine for use on another machine or for sharing with people.
Canada to Prosecute Crimes on the Moon
From the article:

The company said it plans to provide employers tools to educate employees on bitcoin, which the U.S. Department of Labor last month warned is a risky option for retirement plan participants.
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My wish is to learn about your wishes.
No meta conversation about the scenario, no judgement of others wishes.
Just self-revelation about preferences and maybe your past life experiences that led to those preferences.

I posted my wishes in the comments as well.

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No he is correct, the usage is not problematic or disparaging. It fits your definition exactly. The only practical reason to still have the /usr split is to support an obsolete configuration on very small hard drives, which is no longer actually in use by any of the modern distributions. And the real reason any modern distribution still has it is because it's hard to change it, not because they actually want to. So that very much fits the definition that you just posted.
It should be more than annoying. It is a denial of human autonomy.
The nice thing about mistakes is that you can learn from them.

I find success sooths the ego but is often less of an education.

People switch between manager and IC over the course of their career all the time. This will probably become one of those stories you wheel out while mentoring an employee in a few years.
Most repositories contain more than 2 commits.
Curated Gallery of Craters on the Moon
46 billion dollars
I rode in a Porshe years back. The ride didn't bother me. I'm wondering how it compares to my Tesla Model 3, which is compromised for mass appeal. (Is it a family car? A sports care? A tree-hugger car? I'm not sure, but my kids laugh when I floor it.)

Speaking of maintenance: My Tesla requires "less maintenance," but the tires are expensive. The factory tires lasted less than 30k miles and were over $1000 to replace. In contrast, my minivan with about the same miles has plenty of tread left. Shockingly, because of the tires the Tesla actually costs more to maintain than the other car.
Those quotes came from Wecrashed about WeWork.
Rust needed 25 years to bring us a significally improved abstraction over C++ without sacrificing resource usage. It just shows that it's much easier to say that we need a higher level language than to know what would work in practice well enough to be useful as a systems level programming language.

At the same time Linux was released 20 years after C, so of course Rust has to mature more to really take over C++.
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I use Anki for studying rare words in dictionary, traffic rules, traditions and foreign languages.
It doesn't leak. While I could give you a long rundown of why Virgil is better than C++, in all reality I designed it as a better alternative to Java--statically compiled, polymorphic specialization, delegates and first class functions, tuples, variance on overriding, simpler syntax, properly immutable fields and constants, and algebraic types--its advantages over C++ is that I literally never, ever, have to think about memory management. I don't have to decide regions, reason about errant pointers, mess with custom allocators. I don't have leaks, the object representation is efficient and straightforward, allocation is fast, and if I am a little careful, then I just don't blow a lot of memory on garbage. If I'm not careful then the program just uses more memory and GC's some.

I'm going to time this thread out now because I'd rather continue not thinking about memory management until I cycle back on GC work, and I don't really see any evidence that you're listening. Besides, I've said it better with code and the machine seems to happily hum along to my music.
The UK banned it in May 2020 so nearly 2 years ago. It actually helped me stop smoking, as I was using menthol filters in my rollies, as I had become not super keen on “plain” taste.

Interestingly, when I searched for when the ban was introduced there was a BBC article from 2018 saying “ Tobacco shares hit by US menthol ban fear”

I guess it’s coming round again
I'd rather use a tag, e.g. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v5.18-rc4/kernel/dma/...
I like Zero-K but the maps the game takes place on seem to be very small. (And the music is awful)

That said the enemy AI seems to have a bunch of neat tricks up its sleeve. And it feels like TA-in-3D.

Also, I wish the developers would spend some time making the UI feel a little more lively.
> It however didn’t seem to make the move to Wayland…

"You say that like it's a bad thing."

> And unity8 (now Lomri) is in perpetual beta, and written in Qt.

Is it now? I wonder if it's a descendant of Unity-2D then. That was in Qt and seems to be forgotten now.

Yes, it does seem mired in dev hell, and I wonder how much is really left to do.

Canonical got a lot of stick, especially on here, about Unity etc. (and still do over Snap).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821

I think it's undeserved. Unity was and is a damned good desktop, it's just different. Some people are neophobic. There's more to life than the Win95 desktop.

IMHO Canonical's only big mistake, really, was Mir.

Wayland remains controversial, and I'm not qualified to judge why. But like systemd, it is basically the new standard, and so going with it would have been pragmatic.

Trying to write a new WM _and_ a new desktop _and_ a mobile OS _and_ a new packaging format _and_ a new display server was a big stretch. Eliminating one big chunk of it seems like a win to me.

Apparently not to them: they pressed ahead and then abandoned the whole thing.

Damned shame. _Someone_ in the Linux world needed to address mobile/tablets. It is the entire herd of elephants stampeding about the room.

IMHO a few sketchy efforts based on GNOME and KDE are not really enough.
Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel dismisses Facebook’s metaverse as ‘hypothetical’
> This will increase by roughly 35% ...

I was a bit confused by this sentence (which is a direct excerpt from the piece). Reading the whole article, the `this` refers to the methane lifetime. Oddly (to me), the lifetime methane in the atmosphere increases with the amount of methane in the atmosphere. That's what the author has been working to understand. Very interesting!
It's not always the sin it's made out to be. It's a matter of risk and cost. If there's a high risk performance will be an issue, and optimising later will have a high cost (or optimising early has a low cost), then it makes sense.
I would wish for true love.
You can't help but feel loved when you see the great lengths governments go to, to act like our parents.
/s
That's great! following along to see how it turns out
I’ve had good experiences with age [1]: it’s relatively easy to use and has sane defaults.

[1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
First, I would wish for access to unlimited wishes in the future. Then, I would reflect on what to use those for.
Can you tell me more about what you mean by "airbnb jerks have subjected me to" ?

Honestly, my family and I use airbnb pretty frequently, and I would like to think that we're considerate guests... but, maybe there's something we're missing? What makes the guests next-door to you bad ones (or great ones) ?
My only personal experience with this term was FOCUS, which in the hands of Information Builders got wielded as a marketing term and felt kind of like saying it was "a space age language" (new and modern! ... In the 70s).

Not sure if anyone out there has experience and can change my view, but the language seemed a bit...wildly rogue, opinionated, idiosyncratic, cavalier, and I avoided it as best as I could at that client.
It's not that surprising. Reputation is a big deal in Silicon Valley. The people who won't do whatever is necessary--even end a human life, if it comes to that--to defend their reputations end up having theirs taken away.

I'm not saying this is a good or moral thing. It's obviously not.
It’s not the people who handcuff, it’s the process.

I will use Sales since the metrics less ambiguous there. In a startup, without a lot of structure, a great salesperson will find deals that others can’t, and will close many more of them. They will have the autonomy to get things done and are rewarded when they crush their quotas.

In large companies, there are all kinds of Marketing and Sales support programs that lift the average salesman. But a great salesman is told “Only talk to companies on your list” and “All your deals must get approved by the deal desk” and “Don’t sell more than X because it will ruffle feathers downstream” These processes are good in aggregate but drive top performers nuts.
One of the best books about programming I have ever read. Simply brilliant!
I imagine serial-liars like this are a lot more common than I realize, and they seem to be attracted to endurance sports like moths to a light, for some reason. This guys deceptions are at an entirely different level, though. It seems to be harder to pick out the parts of his life that are actually true than the lies.
There is currently a "Faster CPython"[1] project going on that seek to improve the speed of Python. With Python 3.11 later this year there will be several speed improvements targeting common uses of Python, which might make some of these existing speedup tricks irrelevant. Or at least less relevant.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html#faster-cpyth...
How do you plan to handle it if his interests change?

Say he first chooses playing an instrument and diligently spends some time every week at it, but then gets into chess and decides that is the skill that he wants to focus on.

My recollection of childhood is that most kids had interests in things that took several years to master, but most never actually mastered any of them because they didn't stick with any particular one long term.
With cigarettes closer to exterminated, how long until we face a new era of alcohol prohibition?
Yes?

Is that surprising?
Some code I wrote and the bugs I didn’t knew I wrote into it at the time.
My mom used to smoke cloves when I was a little kid on occasion, and I remember that cigarettes smelled disgusting but damn those cloves smelled delicious.

I never wound up trying one as an adult (I've tried regular/mentholated cigarettes, both disgusting but I'm glad I know for sure). Cloves are banned now?
> I have 25 years of industry experience and I feel I should mentor people instead of moving JIRA tickets around.

The roles that people have on paper aren't what make them mentors. In my experience the management path is a tradeoff between stress and income. The higher up the ladder, the more stress, more income.

You can be a great mentor as an IC. TBH the best mentors I've had were not my "boss" but a peer or more senior IC.

My advice would be to definitely seek help to organize your feelings. And to try and look at your current role through the lens of a mentor, start helping when you see an opportunity for mentorship.
That's a great nuance. I was referring to it being in their favor for dealmaking.

Here's another one from 1 month ago:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/darian314_founders-activity-6...
After years spent with Ruby and Rails, and some work with Go, Elixir, and Phoenix I switched finally to Python and Django. It's fast, productive, very mature and you can find a library for whatever I imagine. I like Jupiter notebooks, Pydantic, multiprocessing, pandas, and other libs.

I tried to get used to Go several times but it always failed. Go lacks an interactive console. Its syntax is ugly and very limited and not expressive, which means I had to reinvent the wheel all over the time. Why the heck Go has not even have reduce function? It is true, that using Go ends with a TONS of verbose code. The same functionality in another language can be built in a fraction of the time and will have a much simpler and smaller code size
Yeah, the first point is a good one - if you have a new process that uses parts/procedures that already exist you're going to have a much easier time than if you have a better process that requires all-new parts and procedures.

For something to overtake it has to be amazingly exceptionally better; which can be hard to obtain.
>IOW, if I build a system with yocto for an embedded system, which is also a very useful candidate for a read-only system image installation, I cannot use this feature for this use-case because ... yeah because what. Because lennart says so.

No this is wrong. You can still use this feature but you get to manually type out all the mount paths yourself every time and work out all the bugs in it when you try to mount other things on top of it, because that's what you signed up for when you decided to have multiple paths. I'm really baffled as to how you could even remotely say this is a systemd problem. This will be a problem if you try to do any kind of bind mount or overlayfs stuff on that system.

I really suggest that you avoid making comments like "systemd uses its gravity to try and shape linux distributions and dictate how things 'ought' to work". That stuff is conspiracy theory territory at this point, it's so disconnected from reality that it's just pointless to say it.
Why? :)
Oh no, I am playing with this in the same way. Saying things like "Yes, but...", just means "No". I regularly change the word "but" to "and". Sometimes it works really well, like, both parts are true. Sometimes it doesn't work, where I really mean to send the message as "No". And sometimes it makes me notice that I don't want to hide a "No" message with a "Yes, but", and change it to say clearly "No".

The most dreadful way of hinding a "No" is behind a "Yes, but..." and I know people who are allergic to that way of non-communication.
> If I am connected to my work via a VPN, I am technically still working in the country of employment.

I hope this is sarcasm. A VPN is a technical detail that would never stand up, legally. The only situation where I can see a VPN being useful is within your own company: if they don't want you working remotely a VPN might help cover up the fact that you are. But aside from that it won't help you.
I disagree strongly with his fundamental premise. Even if you acknowledge and accept the full moral premise of Georgism you have to assess the degree to which people are morally culpable. Slavery was a heinous violation of human rights and choosing to participate in it justified heavy financial penalties from its abolishment. Participation in slavery was far from mandatory as evidenced by businesses in the north that competed with those in the south despite not having slaves.

The current real estate system on the other hand is a fundamentally different beast. Everyone who doesn’t want to be homeless has to participate as either a renter or purchaser. Years and years of government policy have made the former decision ill advised as the financial benefits to ownership are quite large. Despite this I’d agree with the proposal if all that was being done was the removal of a subsidy.

The government is not merely removing a subsidy in this case though. They are intentionally cratering the housing market. Years of government policy has encouraged over-participation in that market. For those who want to change things to argue the government is 0% morally culpable and the individuals are 100% morally culpable is disingenuous. His argument seems to be that the financial culpability follows from the moral culpability.

He even argues that individuals participating in a system owe backwards subsidies because the government did the morally wrong thing. This amounts to intentionally bankrupting most home owners, including depriving them of funds needed for retirement. This is done in a single sentence hand waving fashion without any sort of impact analysis.

I’d argue there is a substantial problem here that spans the ethical, economic and political categories. But you seem to believe the government is 0% culpable and the individuals responding to incentives are 100% culpable. I’d argue it seems more likely you don’t actually believe that just don’t want to pay for the costs of a fair transition.
> the land value

I think this is the key issue that gets glossed over. Who decides the land value? How is that decision arrived at? Is it a purely bureaucratic process where the community has no say? Is it set at a federal level where it will likely be completely disconnected from the reality of a particular municipality?

A lot would hinge on the answers to these questions and I'd take a bet that if this were ever implemented it would be done wrong and would result in many unforeseen negative outcomes.

I think we should stop trying to revive outdated 19th century economic theory and actually put in some work to create a modern one that accounts for the age we live in.
Monterey dropped code for quite a few legacy hardware in kernel, which make it much hard to be installed on older Macs; but the flip side is it obviously feels better for newer models.
You can store the preference in a “location_optin” cookie which can only be false or true and ask the browser for location only if it’s set to True.

This is not tracking and would not even require a consent prompt for GDPR purposes.
Kind of reminds me of Hyrum's Law [1]

And the comments elsewhere on this thread should remind us all that "a lot can happen in forever"... My interpretation: eventually, everything will be deprecated. There may be some web sites (github.com, for example) that are "too big" (or "too important") to fail or disappear; but they eventually will.

[1] https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
The World Order Reset
What was your experience with that in the past?