skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll take the norms of the grossly overstated "Wild West" over "the norms of the last 70+ years," the choice is not even close with massive increase in criminal violence in roughly those last 70 years and most recently in the last couple of years.

Public safety has demonstrably has collapsed in both NYC and San Francisco, two cities I cite because we know their very small numbers of concealed carry permits (60,000 ownership ones, not all allowing concealed carry, and 1-3 any given year). And Hacker News features more than a few items about the latter.
Unless they have an intelligence sharing agreement with a nation that happens to pick up signals from americans, from who they can request that data. And maybe there exists a network to share the raw data, wouldn't that be convenient? Or you could have a secret court system (FISA) to bypass most of the protections normally granted by due process?
not to mention the cell that is a chicken egg
I really enjoyed this article, and the user interface is very helpful.
Indeed, discussing things is good, but I generally think it's best to start with a basis of reasonable facts, and not a "this happens when people are foolish" (esp when "foolish" closely resembles eating 10 fast-food hamburgers in one sitting - yeah, you're going to get sick).

And that getting sick from foolish use is pretty irrelevant to the brain growth effects you raise, which are truly far more important.

Why didn't they write about that instead?
Not only state... I see absolutely 0 reason for my swiss ebanking in the secured web interface to se google analytics and similar trackers. I can clearly see them being blocked by the likes of ublock origin and ghostery in my firefox. Why the f*k should google know where I go in such private matters (and there are tons more, ie if you are lgbtq+ in one of the many restrictive locations, have some less mainstream political preferences etc.). The data once acquired have no reason to be deleted, ever. Too juicy info, and 7 billion humans is not that large group to aspire to track.

I get why google et al want it for their growth/sales, but they are a private entity not owning internet in any way, extremely foreign to Europe with no clear friendly intentions. One of few times I can say I am proud to be living on old continent.
It’s no more foolish than trying a mocktail to get a sense of what people like in a comparable cocktail.
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Yeah, but those numbers translate to food on the table for my kids, a roof over their heads, better education, etc. Come on, this is a tired response. Nothing is wrong with people making money. There is a lot wrong with people making money off of the hard work of others without any consideration or remuneration.
What is the purpose of this comment? OP is describing an issue they're having with the drug. I imagine it's not an uncommon story.

That italic "if" reeks of a certain sort of sensitivity.
John Deere, Apple, Sony... all of them. To a larger point with miniaturization, however, surely there is a point where third party repair might be very difficult, if not impossible.
i wrote a few sentences on a large civic concept, not a treatise, so let's not jump to ideological conclusions quite yet.

but yes, i'm explicitly against governments sharing private data with corporations, no matter how convenient it might seem to be for workers. governments have run for centuries without those conveniences, so it's not a dichotomous choice of share all the data or not have schools (for instance). a lot of data sharing is driven by the misguided desire to control (that is, to centralize power), whether it be teachers, students, or administrators, not for actual educational outcomes, despite the latter being the nominal impetus.
If you get all your information through mainstream channels, and you don't want to see anything contradicting those channels then you should continue to use Google because they explicitly implement the algorithms on controversial topics to prefer mainstream news sources[1]. What I mean by "better" in terms of controversial searches is that on controversial matters, it will rank the searches the same way it does for all other searches. I mean yeah, I don't have access to the internal code base of Yandex, but it certainly feels more organic.

[1]https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/12/study-the-cnn-sear...
I (perhaps over-optimistically) read it as Brian Sibley is taking the various edited work Christopher Tolkien did on the Second Age texts and bringing them together in a single place, in order, with some sort of commentary or framework around them. Doesn't sound like he's actually re-working the texts themselves, but who knows.
> There’s no point speculating whether the chill dude at the Taco Bell is doing it right.

I agree, but I think there is value in speculating whether the contentment we feel on weed is really just distraction from discontent. This applies to far more than just weed, of course, but my own experience is that weed is particularly tricky in this regard.
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Correlation implies causation here?
That is one place where and why this is all so tricky..
Is anyone here with ADHD able to maintain a journal? My journal has little weeklong attempts every 6-10 months. Any secrets?
One-liner summary: Zig has run-time protection against out-of-bounds heap access and integer overflow, and partial run-time protection against null pointer dereferencing and type mixup (via optionals and tagged unions); and nothing else.
It should be mentioned that suburban road financing is currently in dire straights.
These are all standardized and have meaning. https://www.electronicshub.org/electrical-outlet-types/

There are definitely 240V for higher power usage (because they will need half the current for the same power with double voltage, and current (current density, technically) is what causes joule heating and melts wires/ starts fires.

The sockets will be incompatible with Euro or UK sockets. You could change the socket to a euro socket, bit the frequencies will be wrong for euro or uk devices (60Hz in the us, 50 in europe & UK.) This may or may not be important depending on what you're hooking up to it (understand that impedance and other electrical things are a function of frequency). The safest option would be to get something to convert the power (there seen to be products to do that) and put _that_ behind the Euro or UK outlets.
Plan 9 does that, I'm not sure why it never made it into Unix because I always loved it. Your networking-related commands were in `/bin/ip` and you'd run e.g. `ip/ping 1.1.1.1`. If you created the dir `$home/bin/rc/my` and put scripts in it, they would have been runnable as `my/hello` etc like in your example.
I'm wondering whether we've reached a point where we need to tell people that quantum computers might one day be able to "break" their public keys (ie retreive the corresponding private keys) whenever we tell them to use them for sensitive use cases. The possibility was known for a long time, but now it doesn't seem crazy distant anymore.
I love cannabis, but i acknowledge that almost everyone who does dabs / resin / shatter / etc eventually turns into a zombie. As with everything, as soon as you concentrate the active ingredient(s), you can get way off course.
Yes, the linked-to news piece end with "It can take as long as 24 hours to put out, according to a guide for first responders for the Tesla Model S."

However, my point was that "industrial fire" isn't a useful comparison.
Huh as a daily smoker who has held titles like “head of infosec” and currently am self employed (self motivated) as a freelancer, I can confidently say this is BS

It’s like anything else; confusing and obtuse then you learn to live with it

No one learns to code before writing bad code. Some of my best and simplest ideas came to me while high af simply because other routine daily thoughts were out of the way

Kindly stop peddling tropes from a place of ignorance and actually figure it out subjectively for yourself. Other peoples tolerances are not the same as yours. Like everything else it’s gradients, ranges, and distributions

Edit: my only non-typical stoner trope is I did not smoke until I was 27. I had life experience behind me. A non-trivial detail. I am 43 now
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Just don't open the box, please. You'll ruin everything
Absolutely! And if we can identify factors which lead to us behaving in ways that make us feel such regrets, then this can help us lead better lives. Obviously weed isn't the only culprit.
The difference is PaLM was extensively benchmarked and it performed as well as it should, which is to say, amazingly well. The irony here is that you should instead be invoking that other ~500b model, Nvidia's Megatron-530b, which was undertrained, only cursorily evaluated (no interest in any new capabilities or even examining old ones like inner monologues) and promptly forgotten by everyone after the headlines about being the largest dense model: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11990#microsoftnvidia
It depends on whether you consider the difference in royalty rates to be just wordplay.
The Italian market doesn’t have to apply to Google USA either.

Companies can always choose to ignore a specific nation’s laws[1], they don’t still get access to that nations markets. At the borders the nation state is the one with the guns and firewalls

[1] unless you piss off a nation that can project global power, lol if you piss off China or America
> I find this whole topic very annoying, this is like the 3rd variation to reach the front page today.

Me too. I also find three iterations of the same subject not enough discourse. We need to take this matter more seriously.

> But it has made me realize why I instinctively dislike Free Software as a movement.

On the other hand, this whole discourse reminds me why I absolutely love Free Software as a movement.

> Copyright and licensing are bad, actually.

This is why we have "Copyleft".

> Stop getting into a frenzy of arousal about the police kicking down doors to drag Billy Gates to jail because 80 characters of fast square root is theft but 79 isn't.

And, stop getting into frenzy of arousal about being able to use any and every code piece you see elsewhere in any project regardless of its license.

> Where on earth is the ambition and vision!? Knowledge is public domain. A commons of knowledge is a public good. The cost of code copying is zero.

This is why GPL is important. It forces knowledge to evolve in the open, stay in the public domain and help it actually makes public good. It also doesn't hinder ambition and vision by not taking it to private domain, and keeping it open to everyone.

> Sure in our day job we have to pretend to care about this stuff. But when did the ideological scope of what can be achieved become rules lawyering over license text.

You might be pretending to care about this in your daily job, but we really care. Some of the projects I take part can't ever include GPL code (because the projects are MIT licensed). These texts are court-tested licenses, so they're as proper and serious agreements as the EULAs of "particular" software companies.

> Copy my MIT licensed code without attribution? I don't give a shit, go ahead, I hope it helps, in fact I want a truly public domain license but copyright law is so hostage to corporate interests no such thing exists in many countries.

If I want my code to be copied and possibly closed, I'll license it with MIT or BSD-0 and forget about it, but if I'm licensing my code with GPL3, it means I want that code to stay open. As a license, I expect anyone using that code to respect that license.

> Free the code.

Yes, and respect the license the author selected for his/her code.
I'm working on an web analytics project that gives users more power over the way they slice/dice/compare analytics data. Would you be interested in giving it a try when the project launches in alpha?

Send me a hello email at the address listed on my profile, would be happy to send out an invite when ready.
I know it's not the point you are trying to make, but whether or not marketing actually does anything isn't a settled question. When company A does marketing and company B doesn't in the same industry, it seems to have some effect, but when neither company does marketing sales don't necessarily go down.

Fun fact, the cigarette companies lobbied the government to ban cigarette advertising. That way, none of them would be able to market and get ahead of the others while all of them would save money on the marketing that was no longer needed. A corresponding drop in sales did not occur.
Maybe it's having an existential crisis?
When did he sell Harleys? The 1970s?

It's almost laughable to say that about most of their bikes past the introduction of the Evolution in 1984. Their latest engine is as about as smooth as a V-Twin can get.
Do we see that correlation? Until recently, anyone over 40 was underground about marijuana usage. It turned out, tons of people use cannabis, many executives, plenty of people that we view as successful. One problem with black markets, it's very difficult to get good data, hence - do we really see a correlation? Or do we just perceive a correlation (ie: confirmation bias)
In the qorst situations of my life.when I felt alone, devastated, forgotten, hurt I always started to write a letter to someone, either my partner, the person who hurt me, a good friend, whatever. Where I nwed ro explain the whole mess I am in, why I feel the way I feel, what got me to that point how I imagine it will go from here, what I actually want — this kind of stuff.

I never sent one of those letters. The writing alone made me feel so much better or gave me a resolve to act that the letter would have been outdated by the point I sent it.
> I find it interesting to see that the median temps in these select cities don't seem to be wandering up that much.

I can think of three possibilities:

1. The cold days have been getting colder, and the hot days have been getting hotter. The median temperature could still be somewhat constant in this scenario if the not-too-cold and not-too-hot days have temperatures that haven't changed much.

2. Even if the cold days have stayed roughly the same temperature, spikes and outliers in the hotter temperatures could still fail to move the medians that much. Consider that the median is often used to actively reduce the contribution of outliers to the data. Then it becomes a question of whether or not those spikes and outliers are meaningful or important.

3. Climate change is just a hoax (not something I believe, but it's certainly a "possibility").
It requires continued adherence to the scientific method. As soon as you stop doing that you stop being a scientist, whether your name is Shellenberger, Lomborg or Watson for that matter isn't relevant. Science is what you do not who you are.
Could you provide a bit more information on what information they gather (besides the merchants and amounts etc) and what they do with it? We're a Brex customer so would be great to hear more about this.
Got a link to that wiki? Sounds useful
It's this kind of motivation that fuels the efforts to make sure low-level jobs stay unpleasant, unsafe, and uncompensated. It's the "starter job" philosophy, where some jobs are only fit for an inferior class of people who should have no pride, although they produce and distribute almost everything material that we use. Children, immigrants, foreigners...

I'm reminded every day that my decision to never work with my hands again was a good one. Nobody respects people who provide for you, that's slave's work, mother's work(, teacher's work, nurse's work.) The ultimate CEO-guru would lie on a cushion all day, being washed and shaved by his VPs, periodically emitting syllables in an unknown language that would be interpreted by other VPs as commands to direct the people who actually do the work.
There are a lot of problems with academia, but this post shows such a rosy-eyed view of industry, I have a hard time taking it or its conclusions seriously.

An industry job is fine if you're protected from the politics and valued for your knowledge and intelligence, but that's rare, and it usually doesn't last. The people making major decisions don't value intelligence or curiosity and, worse yet, they often have malevolent intentions. Getting "screwed" in academia means getting a B because of a tricky question on a final, or having to publish in a less prestigious journal than you think you deserve. Getting screwed in industry means you lose your right to an income and might never get it back.

The thing is, people in industry (meaning for-profit businesses that expect every member to work on some line-of-business concern... I'm not talking about research labs) have better social skills than academics are used to, so a lot of ex-academics jump into it thinking they're getting into a non-toxic environment, because the corrosive behaviors are not immediately visible. It takes a few years before people realize they haven't just entered "industry"--they've gone into literal corporate America.
I'm not convinced. This is a weird war. Russia has an enormous supply of really shitty vehicles, indifference to losing tens of thousands of soldiers, and indifference to slaughtering civilians at will. Dumb artillery and cheap shells are a good solution for this. Will we ever see such a situation again? Russia is the only country that can do this as far as I can tell.

This is a war in large part being fought with tech from 50 years ago. The new stuff is only just reaching the front. I'm not sure how relevant the lessons to be learned are.

The javelins are a weird case. Yeah they probably did burn through javelins quickly. That'll happen if your enemy is careless with its troops and tanks. We can still make javelins a lot faster than Russia can make tanks, they just had a lot of tanks to begin with. We're now seeing russia roll out tanks from 60's. I'm inclined to believe that supply is rapidly running out.
>It's not a practical solution, full stop. See how mass quantities of drugs are smuggled around the world

Not a good analogy. People want guns because other people have guns. But people do not want drugs because other people have drugs
Git-like version control requires a Merkle DAG. Unless you know something I don't, there are no RDBMS products that incorporate a Merkle DAG for storage. Dolt is the first.

Table data is stored in a cross between a Merkle DAG and a B Tree (a prolly tree), which is what makes diff / merge performant and scalable. We didn't invent these data structures but we believe we are the first to build a SQL database on them.

https://docs.dolthub.com/architecture/storage-engine/prolly-...
John Deere is a consistent (imposing) presence in almost all discussions of right to repair simply because they understand the power we people have: Once right to repair is established in law and public opinion, nothing they can do will stop farmers from being able to work on their own tractors.
Postfix "tldr:" to the text being summarized. (Even GPT-2 could do that.)
So due to this legislations it is more costly/less profitable for a company to have a European customer compared to US customer. Things like GDPR/lawsuits/bad PR etc. doesn't come for free for companies. So if some startup has more ratio of European users it is at a disadvantage.
The author of the comment did not imply this.
"Untold suffering... " of Americans vs the suffering of the Ukrainians? Really?
Is median the appropriate thing to look at here, even? A big reason why you might use a median value when analyzing data is to reduce the effects of outliers. But when we're talking about climate change, aren't the outliers actually important to consider?
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I’ve tried every app under the sun over the last few years but found myself not using them after awhile.

In the end I just email myself links and it works a treat. My emails are bookmarks are in the same place
It's strange to me that browsers - both desktop and mobile - aren't more aggressive about "paging out" unused tabs. I end up just restarting Firefox now and then when I'm not ready to do a full cleanup.

Even with the fancy mobile interface you really just need to store a thumbnail (plus the URL and title) for each tab, and even an older iPhone should have little trouble scrolling through thousands of tiny images.
For private stuff I only bookmark locally. For non-private stuff I use https://roastidio.us
> The Russian army is not sponsored by Yandex.

It is.

> So Europe is sponsoring the war way more than Yandex.

That's unfortunately true. The dependency is real, and it will take a long time to get rid of it.

> And all that "canceling" of Yandex really doesn't help (it does the opposite in fact).

Cancelling Yandex completely, as in forcing it to collapse, would help a lot. Yandex services (together with VK) are extremely important in the Russian society and economy, and their collapse would weaken Russia and its ability to wage (military/economic) war a lot. As such, this would be the best course of action (as mentioned before, burn the equipment, delete the code).
Sorry 2nd amendment-hating missle-grabbers: the only way to stop a bad guy with a T72 is a good guy with a Javelin*

* or NLAW, Stugna, AT4, Carl Gustaf, general air superiority, etc.

/s
Therefore, we feel confident in delivering a best-in-class service to customers who meet any of the following criteria:
* Received an equity investment of any amount (accelerator, angel, VC or web3 token);
* More than $1 million a year in revenue;
* More than 50 employees;
* More than $500k in cash;

This sounds like a panic mode statement from someone who never even bothered to do product/market/pricing research. If your service generates losses for 1-man freelancing shop customers, price it accordingly.

Make tiers: unsupported fully automated service => service with human support per email => service with phone support and customizations.

Price it so that the the first tier is somewhere near the breakeven point, and the next ones give you increased margins, since bigger customers tend to have larger budgets. Offer discounts based on the number of users/transaction volume.

This way you won't need to be unprofessional and pick which customers deserve the honor of using your services, as your pricing figures it out for you with no drama!

The only reason for this kind of announcement I see is that the company acquired lots of low-revenue customers at a loss hoping to fudge the growth numbers. Well, shame on them and shame on the investors that didn't see through the BS.
The problem with this is 'freeing the code' in this instance leads to microsoft building a wall around it and asserting complete control in a few years.

Copyleft exists for a reason and without the ongoing fight for the commons we lose it all.
As someone who left academia for industry, and then made the somewhat crazy decision to return to academia, I agree with a lot of this. Especially in terms of academia, you are often expected to be independent and able to figure things out yourself, which can sometimes lead to you avoiding asking for help when you should. One thing that really shook me out of this in my first company was when they switched to an Agile process and I was literally forced to talk to people everyday.
Most git objects are tiny files, so internal tree-based parallelization won't bring much compared to file parallelization (git is a hash tree itself, with variable-length leaves).

SHA256 is actually a lot faster on modern CPUs due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SHA_extensions (and similar on Arm), which are implemented for SHA-256 but not for SHA-512, e.g. openssl speed sha256 sha512 on M1:

type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes
sha256 89474.97k 283341.15k 901724.41k 1730980.24k 2339109.86k
sha512 66160.19k 262139.03k 365675.96k 487572.26k 545142.91k
Damn, if only I could fill up my car with natural gas.