skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing drugs isn't really a problem. Having a problem with drugs is a problem made worse by prosecution of the problem.

Half of the US is on some form of amphetamine from middle school onwards. We don't have an issue with people taking drugs. We want them to take the right drugs and pay the right companies for them.

You might have a problem with 'drugs' but that's politics.
Ah - I didn't know it was YC but it seems it is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31431224

Though it's not clear that it's fraud more so than selling imaginary internet money like bitcoins for cash is.
That may very well be. What's the windows support like/does it come with windows pre-installed?

I may personally hate windows with a passion, but if we're talking about the layman's definition of "PC", I think that's still a hard requirement. Especially this side of the "I'm a mac/I'm a PC" commercials.
I am not in favor of it. Route all remote comms thru slack or zoom or have a virtual phone system.
Not OP, but yes I have actually been physically attacked by a prostitute on the street.

We, a small group, and I were on our way back from a wedding. Just minding our business walking down the street to our hotel.

This person was clearly on drugs and paranoid or something.
Symbiote Backdoor in Linux
A lightning bolt would be worth only about a nickel (2015)
It's not clear to me that I should be punished for doing something that doesn't harm or affect others simply because they dislike it. It even seems a bit unreasonable, to be honest.
Even for something as simple as the prisoner's dilemma, there's quite a bit of variety in both situations and agents, so how do you decide what the "optimal" game theoretic strategy is for actual people in much more complex situations in reality?

I'm not sure that it's tricking people, because society is people. I mean, suppose that people aren't tricked into being good, and then society is worse off. How could everyone in the worse off society be doing better than everyone in the better off society? This doesn't seem like a trick to me so much as adopting a different perspective.
They also definitely advanced the CSS more than Netscape.

modern DOM, Ajax, modern CSS, bunch of other small details of JS, all iirc came from IE.
>However genuine AD diagnoses are confirmed post mortem... inclusion; i.e. AD definitionally requires amyloid presence).

Guidelines and diagnostic criteria based on amyloid-hypthotiesis is not good reference point if we question amyloid-hypthotiesis.

>I'm genuinely curious to hear what biomarkers are more correlated.

>original neuropathological guidelines for AD were built on the correlation of amyloid plaques and NFT counts to cognition, much research since has established amyloid plaques are less well correlated to the clinical and anatomical progression of AD than other pathologies, including synapse loss [266] and NFTs [184, 197]. ... evidence since has indicated neuritic plaques correlate to declining cognition better than do diffuse plaques [188], indicating that even if NFTs correlate better, plaques counts are still useful determinants of dementia severity. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00401-018-1918-8

>(4) What is clear-er?

There is evidence that appearance of NFTs, clusterin (protein) or vascular dysregulation. The problem is that procedures and hypotheses for disease progression are based on amyloid-hypthotiesis, so there is not enough work made to find earlier biomarkers.
Ah yes, the one that still just wraps a raw pointer in the end

https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/issues/1038
Meta-analysis finds children with myopia experience higher levels of depression
> Its not sustainable, you'll loose muscle mass.

It worked well for me, my endurance in e.g. cycling improved. However usually stay on it about half a year to lose extra weight and then go back to a "regular" diet.
The problem is when society tries to do it's job, someone comes up saying that you shouldn't moralise for a legal activity.

A tight society with a strict moral code (and it's enforcement in... communal style) would need no police and laws.
Would you mind providing some supporting arguments?
> The truth is nearly all sex workers are drug addicts that need serious help.

This isn’t true and it varies by region and country. It’s a very condescending view.

Some are people looking to pay for college. Some are drug addicts. Some are people who struggle academically and have untreated disabilities and found sex work is something that they can do. Some are people who want side money to buy a Gucci bag or something.

Most sex workers aren’t 80 pound meth addicts walking under a highway overpass at 3 am. In 2022, most sex workers are making deals online, in clubs, and various institutions. Plus there’s the whole sex streamer business which is absolutely massive.
No. This holds even for countries where prostitution is legalized and widely accepted by society.
Wow, looks great.
Thanks, that looks like a useful service.
I didn't consume whipping cream except when making sauces.
> This concept that some Nordic countries made all drugs legal and everything was great

Nordic countries are actually rather (in)famously known in Europe as having strict drug laws.

> Making drugs illegal is a major deterrent to doing drugs.

Obviously, but people still do so many drugs, and the numbers are increasing. This is despite relatively very few countries actually even decriminalizing (_not_ legalizing) drugs.

From my own experience living in the Netherlands, weed being legal means tourists come to smoke it, but a lot of the Dutch are just completely uninterested, including teenagers. If you had given me easy to access cheap weed at 16 I would've been blazing all day, but I didn't come from a place where it's legal. Dutch teenagers did. Second order effects such as perception of drugs are a thing that must be considered as well.
I have the privilege to come into contact with migrants. I have seen things that should not happen in a wealthy European country.

Everything the media writes about Quatar I know is going on right here. The outrage is minimal.
As long as desperation for money exists someone will exploit it.
Honest answer:

- Yes, functions are copyrighted.

- Copyrights are not patents, and providence matters. If you and I independently both come up with the same text, we both have a right to use it. If it could be proven in a court of law that by a 10^(-100,000) chance, we both wrote an identical novel, we'd both have copyrights to our work.

- Conversely, if you took my creative work, the fact that someone else came up with the same creative work isn't a defence

- If the code you borrowed went MIT->GPL->your code, things get very ambiguous. The copyright holder is the original author if the GPL code made no changes.

- For just one function, you might be able to get away with a fair use defence. There's a four-prong test, which is pretty fuzzy. You'd do well on some prongs ("the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole") and poorly on others ("the purpose and character of the use").

- For something like copilot inserting it, you do much better, since intent matters too.
Apparently the GOP is explicitly targeting Disney-influenced copyright extensions in retaliation for its CEO's milquetoast criticism of the Flrodia anti-LGBT legislation:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-disney-ceo-oppo...

(not that I am endorsing Faux News, but you can rely on them to transcribe the party's agenda faithfully).
I simply don't give out my personal number. In past jobs I have always been given a work cell phone to make and receive work calls. It had the benefit of not being distracted by social media during the working day. For emergencies family had my work number. You can have work/life balance if you make it a priority.
I agree, keto is probably uniquely suited for my lifestyle and tastes. YMMV as they say.
If you are a footballer in Europe or South America, the World Cup doesn't have to be the biggest tournament. There are big names in football which haven't played in a World Cup at all [1]. If you want to earn the big bucks, you will have to play at a big club in Europe and play Champions League. There's where the money is.

1. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1116241-ranking-the-top-...
Open source without the option for an alternate development organisation to drive or steer development direction means vey little.

Costs matter, and Web development costs are high. Google benefits from coordination, funding, and one migh presume, cost advantages, which would be exceedingly difficult for any comparable US or EU effort to match.

Development in lower-cost-of-living regions, perhaps most viably China, might pose an alternative.
And what happens, when you get caught smoking weed in Qatar?
Mendel, Darwin and Evolution
HTML Ruby and Bidirectional Text
`.clone()` is visible right in your code, though, unlike the implicit conversion/constructor magic.
I have a website that relies on a quirk of Chrome’s rendering, which leads to scrolling not being handled the way I want in Firefox.

Browser compatibility bugs absolutely exist.

See https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues for some more examples.
> The fundamental difference between science and religion in my opinion is that science says "I will believe things only if I can understand them" […]

There are certain metaphysical assumptions that you have to make before you can start science:

* That there is an objective reality shared by all rational observers.

* That this objective reality is governed by natural laws;

* That reality can be discovered by means of systematic observation and experimentation.

* That Nature has uniformity of laws and most if not all things in nature must have at least a natural cause.

See:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)#Provid...

Not all world views have those. Take the first one: AFAIK, Buddhism (and Hinduism?) believe that the world is an illusion. Why would do empirical experiments on illusions?

I don't think it was an accident that science took off in Europe. Certainly there were individuals in other parts of the world that were curious about how the cosmos worked, but the overall worldview of their societies wasn't as receptive to such endeavours. There were many scientists in Muslim areas, but Islam generally ended up denying the fourth point above:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occasionalism

TL; DR: Science itself cannot prove science is true.
please take a look at inline suggestions that will be in grey and not in the regular autocomplete box. It is now the default setup.
That's far, far from enough.
I find Apple’s TrueTone works pretty well. Adjusting the screen based on the light in the room. The idea behind it is to have the screen react more like paper.
Yeah I use Slack in a pinned browser tab too. I figure if the interface is the same I might as well wrap it with the browser I have open 90% of my day than some separate Electron app I'll forget to open.
It does harm and affect others though. Depending on the drug & circumstances. But you can't just pretend that heroin users just carry on their lives like normal without negatively affecting anyone else.
> the old word already perfectly describes translating from one formal language into another

The word “compiler” actually doesn’t do that (like, say, “translator” would). “Compiler” originally referred to something more like what is today called a linker. It “compiled” (put together) a set of subroutines (in assembly/machine code) into a combined executable.
Does that include normalising the minimum age allowed for a US President? (Currently 35 years old)

I don’t believe in a one age fits all laws approach. Where I’m from, most things switch to adult at 18 - including drinking, voting, enlisting. Murder/criminal convictions are possible before that.

I don’t think a killer should go free just because they were were 10 years old when they abducted, tortured, mutilated and killed a toddler. And then went on to become a pedophile.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31834651
They'd probably describe it as making a user friendly interface on top of Anchor.
> The truth is nearly all sex workers are drug addicts that need serious help.

That's just bullshit. Maybe it's valid for some subset of sex workers in some jurisdiction where sex workers is illegal and dangerous so only few really desperate people do it, but it's a ludicrously bad sweeping statement.

In places where sex work is legal, regulated, safe and with healthcare, that's simply untrue, verifiably so.
Benchmarks are almost always wrong. This also seems flawed.
> Is [my son] a man at seven? Is [my neighbor's son] a man at six?

No, a seven year old is not even close to being neurologically or physically mature. If your son happens to be a dog, even though he this is 6 x 7 = 42 human years, "man" usually refers to the human species only, but in this case I'd be willing to call him a dog-man.

There is a legal definition of "adult" which is somewhere between 16 and 21 depending on the age of majority in the country you live in. [1] I am not disputing that a 22 year old American is, by default, a legal adult, and I don't think you believe that this is what we're arguing about.

> How is a 22 year old person who crosses an ocean [...] considered a boy?

By not having finished their development physically, neurologically, emotionally, and socially.

https://bestlifeonline.com/age-adult/

"What we're really saying is that to have a definition of when you move from childhood to adulthood looks increasingly absurd," Peter Jones, Professor of Psychiatry and Deputy Head of the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge, told the BBC. "It's a much more nuanced transition that takes place over three decades."

Jones admits that the age at which someone becomes an "adult" is different for everyone, but indicates that it would be inaccurate to call someone in their twenties an adult because they're still going through a lot of brain development. "There isn't a childhood and then an adulthood. People are on a pathway, they're on a trajectory," he said.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority
Oh this is genius.. thanks for sharing.
Who do you think has been pushing features into web standards at a breakneck pace? From where I sit, it’s mostly Google.
It is good to put thought into this but I don't believe Covid 19 vaccine can be mandated. It is not even close to a difficult decision in regards to liberty. Not with short lived nature of induced or "natural" immunity.

Some people don't seem to get Covid or noticeable symptoms while others are ill with their 3rd infection already despite having received 3 doses of vaccination. That makes this case quite clear in my opinion and I would strongly oppose any form of mandate.

I would have stated criticism about mandating a Covid vaccine with even stronger assertions. The mandate for health care workers needs to be withdrawn and harmonized with similar mandates for other vaccines in healthcare in regards to the threat that Covid-19 poses. This is not a time to discuss this politically as many now have to justify lockdowns and other measures which makes neutral political arguments difficult.
Wikimedia Enterprise announces Google as customer
The segment with Vic Morrow is a perfect illustration of the article: it would never have been allowed in 1959, and with the rise of Southern Revisionism ("the ~~Civil War~~ War between the States was fought over abstract constitutional issues of States' Rights, not the defense of chattel slavery, not that there is anything wrong with enslaving non-humans"), may not be again soon.
No Nordic countries have made all drugs legal. If anything the nordic countries are behind the curve on decriminalisation and legalisation.

As for it being a deterrent, it may be for some, but the measure should not be drug use but harm, and what is abundantly clear is that criminalisation drives up crime, and causes substantial harm up to and including large numbers of deaths.

Keeping drugs illegal given the evidence we have of the harm it causes is deeply immoral.
My simplified layman's mental model is pixel resolution in cameras: back when we were limited only by the sensor, quadrupling megapixels would have allowed us to e.g. read a sign twice far away (ignoring noise/shake issues). Now that the resolution of the sensors usually exceeds that of the lense, more megapixels will still help us tease a little more information from the same optical projection (again, ignoring noise/shake), but those benefits are much smaller than they used to be.

With chip process node "nanometers", I assume that "the other limit" (the role taken by the lens in the camera analogy) is the size required by transistors if we had infinite resolution. Lower "nanometers" will allow us to get closer to that hypothetical best, but the benefit will be smaller and smaller.
Duh, stone was melted when the Targaryen family used their dragons to conquer Scotland and make it one of the Seven Kingdoms.
The major difference you left out is scale...
In germany, using drugs is not illegal. Ownling, trading and producing drugs is illegal, though.
Is it really a good way to evade taxes? Each transaction is recorded publicly on-chain forever. User would have to be very careful with their on-chain privacy and very determined to skirt the legal system. The average crypto user will begrudgingly pay their crypto taxes to avoid having to live the life of a criminal, and would happily welcome more frictionless ways of having taxes recorded and collected on-chain.

> Cryptocurrency is a zero-sum ponzi scheme

This is repeated a lot on HN but it is easy to refute. A user can purchase $1000 of DAI and send this to another person in the world within 30-60 seconds, without the beneficiary needing to set up a USD bank account or disclose private data to a third party. The beneficiary can decide to hold this asset or exchange it to another asset such as fiat, gold, ETH, food. These are not zero-sum games - they are more comparable to a PayPal exchange than a zero-sum game.

> With stocks, there are on average more winners than losers because new value is being created.

This is questionable. Many stocks are overpriced far beyond their intrinsic value. The expectation that they will continue to go up forever and provide returns depends on people continuing to buy them at higher and higher prices, just like crypto. Some investors do not feel that NFLX and META will continue to go up in value forever, as the price already exceeds their value.

And when you own stock, you cannot do much except hodl and sell. When you own ETH, you can hodl and sell, but also use the token to send transactions to the network and interact with smart contracts.
I bought a cheap <$10 Vernier caliper for 3D printing, and it’s such a trip to use. I’m not an industrial design student working all hours, blurry-eyed; I don’t see the need for WYSIWYG digital readout. But I guess if I was professional industrial designer I’d want to impress my colleagues with the caliber of my caliper. Haha. All joking aside. For 3D printing and the amount I use it, I don’t see reason to spend more.
I'd suggest staying tuned.

I'd only just posted that the only organisations I see being able to sustain a divergent development effort which could match Google might come from China.

And I don't see that as necessarily, or even at all, benign.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31834651
> It is society’s job to make sure people don’t become heroin addicts but we shouldn’t persecute those that do.

Then society is asked to fork over a lot of resources to rehabilitate addicts as it is their responsibility for them getting addicted. Criminalization of hard drug use in that case is simply an attempt to save money.

The current fentanyl epidemic in drug decriminalized Seattle is an example of how messed up decriminalization can get. The resulting society costs (including a rise in property and violent crime) then lead to a backlash on decriminalization and we should be back to square one shortly in an election or two.
Yes, I think trying to sell something is probably the best approach. Going to try something soon.
The author is a bit melodramatic. Yes there are mostly scams in the space, but that is not a bug, its a feature of less regulation.

Most advocates of Crypto like most critics think about Crypto from the perspective of a consumer, which is misguided. How many people, especially technically minded people, know the boring technical intricacies of the financial sector? Not many.

The concepts, if not necessarily the current implementations of them will be used by large financial institutions to generate better margins, help High net worth individuals to avoid taxes better and possibly some other very boring things around decentralized consensus algorithms.

Defi is interesting to Vanguard and Citi, not to the consumer.

It will not revolutionize the world, nor destroy it... like most technology it will create a few successful companies and make some people rich.

PS Just to be clear, it is currently a dumpster fire that needs to be regulated ASAP. But its not going to do much more than pump a bit of cash from poor people to scumbags, that is not new.
Well I don't want styling just document structure/description (eg. H1-8, Title, EM, P, IMG, Author, Article, Forum-Post, Search-Result) and yes I want images too so Gemini goes way too far my uses.
Could you elaborate what exactly the goal of vaccination is here? Because the goal has a profound impact on whether a mandate can be required or not.
Most heroin users with access to cheap medical grade heroin (medical grade heroin is cheap - we know this because it's in use in healthcare; e.g. the UK NHS prescribes it under the generic name diamorphine for a variety of uses, including post-op pain - in hospital only - in some cases) are perfectly able to carry on with their lives - and hold down jobs. With heroin as with most drugs the criminalisation is what is causing most - not all - of the harm.
The speaker compares TimescaleDB to PostgreSQL 10, so this is out of date since PostgreSQL is on v14 now.
So where are those mythical "good C++ programmers"? I keep hearing that if only you find them, your C++ will be secure. But so far nobody has found them. Not Google, not Microsoft, not Mozilla.

Rust succeeds, because it does not rely on programmers writing bug-free code. Bad Rust code is not as dangerous as bad C++ code.

BTW: deadlocks are not exploitable for RCE, and are quite easy to debug compared to data races and heap sprays.
I am not aware of any AI model or technology that functions as anything beyond a toy in the healthcare space. There's very little utility to labelling things in healthcare - even in fields like ophthalmology, dermatology or radiology where companies have made some advances. Humans already do it very well and it's about 1% of the actual battle. Show me an AI that that can make a diagnosis, counsel a patient's family emergently, take the patient to surgery and do a craniotomy then nurse the patient for weeks in the neuro-ICU and I'll be super impressed.

Moreover, it's the patient, not the neurosurgeon that has to make the decision to trust the AI.