skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think full drug legalization should be the goal of every modern society. Not for the sake of the drugs themselves, but for what it signifies. A society that has full access to drugs without falling to addiction and self-destruction is a healthy society, that has ample opportunity and optimism. People don't become addicted to drugs when they are happy and satisfied with life. A society where people can get help for their problems without having to turn to drugs to cope

There will always be individuals who turn to drugs for self destructive purposes, but we obviously see that regardless of whether drugs are legal or not.

For example, the U.S. is not in a position where it can legalize drugs because our society is not healthy in the slightest. We are also a winner-takes-all culture where we mostly care about our own selfish pursuits at the expense of the rest of society
What if I refuses to unlock laptop or phone, can I go home (outside the U.S)?
The article fails to back up it's primary point, instead dwelling on Elon's supposed status as the best entrepreneur and fundraiser of all time. They never make a case for his actual intelligence.

It's easy to raise money when you're already filthy rich and have a (mostly undeserved) reputation for being a genius. Musk is a shitty human, the offspring of apartheid diamond mine owners, rich because he was rich to start and getting richer is the best thing about being born rich.
The Original Tiger Kings
Fellow Brit!

I used KA Stroud (eng maths and advanced eng maths) all the way through my BEng and MSc!
Neurowar Is Here
Show HN: YouTube Screenshot API
So the Senior market is saturated? this is an early sign companies are getting nervous about bloat. After the '08 recession many companies rushed to ditch Architect titles as they found that the role did not serve the interests of their productive engineers or the companies higher ups. Companies that had gone heavy on such talent might find themselves stuck.

I recall seeing talks on "Staff Engineer" and thinking that this was going to be the next version of "Architect". Engineers who's primary job is to write code often dislike working with people in such roles.
I guess you can profit off of your crimes if you inform on your co-conspirators.
Snoqualmie is 4 hours away from Forks by car, but the article says that it took them 45 minutes to drive back to the trailhead next day, so it must've been some other place. The photo in the article is probably from earlier in their roadtrip - if you're driving to the Olympic peninsula from the east, stopping somewhere in the I-90 corridor is natural.
Not really, I'm in Europe, usage is not criminalized, but selling it is a crime.

U.S. might be different, but the article talking about legalisation, not decriminalisation.
I want to play this game.
Which is also a pretty standard career move for federal LEOs.
I'm on some nichey subreddits

Here

A couple Discords (most channels muted, fwiw)

A couple Slacks (again, most channels muted/unjoined)
I think people actually are? Something as simple as a seat-belt law is exactly this.
A huge part of those ongoing prices is because it's only semi-legal and they can't do things like use banks.

And part is a cost of regulation that would increase the price even without banning.

If you remove both of those effects, I'm not sure you have much left.
I've worked for a number of large companies, and it doesn't have to be like this. It absolutely can be like this, but it depends what you want. You can plough your own furrow and be nicely rewarded for it and be in a very secure situation. What is described in this article is the sort of behaviour that'll get you through 1-2 years, but fairly quickly people will spot what kind of person you are. This post sort of implicitly views management as NPCs, they're not. They have their own things going on, but they do pick up on things eventually and it gets difficult to change their mind, it's pretty hard to shake that reputation so you'd better move on quick. You can do something similar - build more long term reputation, influence across teams etc. and that'll pay off in the longer term. Or you can say "I'm going to do it my way" and put your priorities first, work on what you think is valuable, and if you really succeed generally you will be recognised - these hacks are easy ways to advance, not the only way. All of these are different games you can play at Big Corp. But you don't have to play them, and you can choose your own strategy, but the basline is high pay, low risk, and you can always walk away with 0 guilt, and that's not a terrible place to be.
No worries, thanks for looking into it.
Yes, we all should choose the location based on what we are trying to optimize for. I run an enterprise SaaS, and I project that over the next ten years, being based in the global corporate hub will create optionality that's worth more than the increase in my running costs. So I moved internationally to live & build in NYC.

Once I crystalized what I wanted to optimize for (the "why" and the "what"), many other big decisions downgraded into low-uncertainty execution issues of "how".

However, this calculation is personal and will differ for every startup/founder. I'd even say that unless you are sure that NYC/Manhattan is the right place for you right now, it almost certainly isn't. Living & building here requires conviction and must be re-evaluated every few years.
Luckily for you, it's all open-source, heh.

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardDNS/blob/master/script...

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardDNS/blob/master/script...

There's some mess in there, but if you only need a list of analysers and examples of usage, these should be enough.
We actually have more choices. Choices such as using the legal system to bring the offending parties to justice.
I find my recent experiences with the algo amusing. It very heavily weighs new creators that I may have watched a single video all the way through, so much so that perhaps every 4th video would be old content (couple of months old) from this new creator. It gets super annoying super fast that I have to resort to blocking these individual creators (marking as "show less" does absolutely nothing for me). I also note that the algo seems to run out of interesting content for me after about 20 minutes or so - at which point the videos are further and further away from my interests.
Yeah, just write every human a cheque and let the businesses that are already teetering on bankruptcy without anyone willing to rescue them go bankrupt.
I'm guessing you mean the FastStone image viewer - I love it too. I hadn't heard of EditPlus before, but I should look into it. (I've been using the free EditPad Lite for the past 15-20 years for quick editing and, for more lengthy work, MicroEMACS under Cygwin or less frequently JASSPA MicroEMACS in Windows proper.)
Asking your VCs if you should do YC is a funny conflict of interest, of course they're gonna say no.
A modernized "Former Navy Seal writes tell-all book"?
>That's an end user view. For a server used by many employees, rebooting is disruptive, has to be scheduled out of hours, and requires extra testing afterwards.

Nope, it's a server and datacenter management view

Been doing this for close to a quarter century across all kinds of platforms

When the vendor says to restart, it's the Right Thing™ to do (whether you like it or not)
I think any part of your body that touches that football will tell you that...
Wait, I recognize your username... Thanks for the tabs, but please, please do something to the links and quotes. They are completely and utterly messed up, now that they look the same. 10 hours ago there was a difference between the text and the URL in a hyperlink. And now there isn't.

Perfomance is something we never had to begin with, at the very least I can live without it. But we had double colored links! We had quotes, highlighted out of the text by grey colored blocks.

Why? Why would you take that? I mean, 1Password team has moved to Electron and lost features, that is partially understandle. Forgivable, at least. But Obsidian just got comically worse with no explanation provided.
How soon can an employer start the visa sponsorship process for someone who is currently at a U.S. university and graduating in May? For example, can an H-1B be filed prior to graduation?
> I honestly don't care that I had to take a paycut for it.

Good for you. Here in Eastern Europe, the difference between working for big tech versus working for a local small business appears to be a factor of 5 to 20. I'm not saying money is the most important, but gee an 80% to 95% paycut does seem like a lot...
According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of... 800000 neurons is the same order of magnitude as a cockroach or honey bee but less but less than the simplest mammals. I'm guessing this is partly the reason the researchers believe it's not conscious.

It's also roughly the same number of neurons as a human fetus somewhere in weeks 10-13 (I can't find a good reference for this). Week 10 is around when you'd see a heartbeat for the first time so this is pretty early in fetal development. But many more neurons and we're quickly getting into an ethical quagmire.
Yeah, you can ... but that's a bolt-on/additional service that, quite frankly, IRC ought to Just Do™ at this point

It's 2022, not 1988 :)
Culture is vastly variable even inside a given race. Heck even within inside a given race, inside a given country culture is highly variable. It's probably much easier to distinguish between a costal urban educated white person and a rural white person, than distinguishing between two people of different races in the same location.

You can easily test whether anonymization is working: have interviewers try to guess the identity characteristics of the applicant and if they're able to distinguish between them then it's failing. If the interviewer is unable to infer it, then the anonymization is working.

> I'm not sure how to have a conversation with a person's whose standard of evidence for "genders and races are inherently inferior" is "a guy on a website said it."

Who on earth said this? This reads like a complete no sequitur. Who is saying that genders and races are inherently inferior?

I'm not sure how to have a conversation who thinks that the mere notion that not all disparities are due to bias means "genders and races are inherently inferior." Men are vastly overrepresented among murder convictions. If someone says this is not because of bias, but because men commit more murders are you going to accuse them of sexism?
1M rpm, circumference about ½ m ⇒ ≈500,000 m/minute = 30,000 km/hour ≈ Mach 25 (at its widest point)

That’s very fast, indeed.

It wouldn’t surprise me if that ball would partly melt, if it wouldn’t be torn apart by centrifugal forces first.
lamentably to late to edit..

The Java part of it is pretty well obfuscated/hidden, its much easier to install and get running than java for the most part.
Semi-related: Many years ago I helped conduct some focus groups with gum chewers. People talked about how gum helps them with stress, focus, manage overeating etc. Now that my kids are old enough to chew without swallowing, we have become a big gum house. When they are stressed they don't have many of the outlets grownups do, and gum helps a lot with those emotions, while also helping with oral hygiene.

Xylitol based gum is particularly good for your teeth and helps pick up the slack kids might miss with brushing.
I used to do that

Too much hassle, imo
Fair, sort of. I shouldn't blame the victim too much. That said, engineers have to make assumptions somewhere. I suspect remote camping trips are just too far out of the envelope that ZipCar was designing for, that envelope being cities.

But really I'm just irritated by the bait and switch title, that to me promised a much more interesting topic than "here's a thing that can go wrong with one car rental company in situations it clearly wasn't designed for".
Gun stores and firing ranges have billboards all over the place here in Michigan. Alcohol advertises on television (prominently during sports) but alcohol advertisements are subject to strict regulation, and tobacco even stricter.
Yes, this is the lovely elegance that comes out of building out of a nice re-composable underlying concept. I still find it hard all these years later to fully wrap my head around building programs in this style, but I adore the fact that it exists.

FWIW I feel like RelationalAI, in their "Rel" language, has done for n-ary (database) relations what Lisp&Scheme did for lists. Something I had pondered myself for years and kind of grasped at but never really got, and I think they've done it. It's really quite elegant, worth checking out:

https://docs.relational.ai/rel/intro/overview

E.g.

"The constants true and false are also relations, of arity 0. There are only two of these: false is {} (the empty relation with arity 0), and true is {()}, that is, the relation with one empty tuple (arity 0 and cardinality 1)."

and

"In Rel, a single elements is identified with a relation of arity 1 and cardinality 1. For example, the number 7 is the same as the relation {(7)}"

This lets them do clever things like use relational cross-product ("," operator) kind of like Lisp's `cons` to build tuples, so:

(1, 2, 3)

builds the relation

{(1,2,3)} from {(1)}, {(2)}, {(3)}.

And also the same operator can be used for filtering because "false" and "true" likewise evaluate to relations, so crossproducting them acts like a "where" clause, so:

def myelements = 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
def output(x) = myelements(x), x > 3, x < 7

^ "filters" myelements to return the values in the relation that are greater than 3 and less than 7.

And it also works as a pure cross-product operator, of course, for when you need that.

It's the same kind of elegant composability you get from Lisp, but with a maybe semantically richer datatype and a richer set of (relational algebraic) operations.
> I recall seeing talks on "Staff Engineer" and thinking that this was going to be the next version of "Architect". Engineers who's primary job is to write code often dislike working with people in such roles.

That depends. If they are actively involved and the architectural decisions are sound, it's fine.

If they are "drive-by architects", showing up, dropping a bunch of useless boxes they read on some book, and then leaving before the consequences of their 'architecture' are known, you are right we don't like working with them.

At many companies, however, staff engineers are still engineers.
Or just entrap some lonely kids.
Not hire them in the first place. It doesn’t have to hire them and I’m not sure why anyone would think so.
I also might be wrong but I assumed that a local app still has an edge over a website.

This [1] is an old video about how Excel is used professionally. If that's not possible then the website is not good enough.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12450070
You could use subscription schedules to end the subscription after 12 months.

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-s...
These videos are punishment for watching videos flagged as unapproved.

Think about what you watched right before these videos, its coded to being a feeling a disgust so you assioate that with the previous videos.

YouTube does the same thing with ads of kids dying in hospital, screaming for help on the start of 'controversial' content. Most of the time it makes you click back and watch something else.
Well thanks for letting the mask slip at least, I hope you'll keep the mask off when pushing these policies in more serious venues.
Microsoft bought and adapted PREfix and created a simpler, faster version called PREfast (and the Visual Studio -analyzer switch for C/C++/C# code).

see tools section in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/tn-archi...
Adding my voice to the cacophony. I don't use Obsidian but I do use Foam in VS Code. Daily notes and wikilinks is all I need. I've toyed with adding more metadata but it's just not worth the maintenance cost
Any public discords you'd recommend which the community here might enjoy?
Yep, all this being a necessary part of establishing an "expert" persona for future TV talking head gigs (and occasional consulting when you find a big enough idiot).
Agreed, but this brings up the topic of nature vs. nurture, and perhaps even the previously (~90 years ago now?) popular concept of eugenics.

I think society settled on a response of "yeah, but we shouldn't actively do anything about it as a group." It seems to be best left to individuals to seek out parental partners and enjoy the outcomes on a personal level.
Hi! I work at Lago. As we wrote in the disclaimer of the article, we're just stating how our positioning is different, extract here:

"We were told recently: “We love your ‘Stripe hate’ content”. While it was intended as a compliment, ‘Stripe hate’ has never been our intention.

We partner with Stripe Payments and love their products. Our own product is an alternative to Stripe Billing (and Chargebee, Recurly, etc.) but with a deep focus on B2B and product-led companies. We actually have common investors on our cap table (e.g. Y Combinator and others)."
Turbo Pascal is a better intro to programming than Basic — especially Basic dialects without built-in graphics commands.
"Production keys in source control" is right up there with "mistaken routing table entry" and "fat-fingered DNS config" on the list of critical company-breaking mistakes that you'd think would be easy to avoid, but aren't.
I guess the Elon shit about Taiwan worked then.
When Men Wanted to Be Virile (2016)
So the existing management buys the firm for $1 in a liquidation and they come back in a few years.

Sounds more like it was the creditors and investors that took on more risk than they could handle and got bailed out.
Cocaine is without a doubt a very different proposition to legalise than weed is, it's just so moreish.
The ATF also defrauded a tobacco co-op out of millions to create an unaccountable slush fund:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/us/atf-tobacco-cigarettes...
why exactly? is this just some form of xkcd-style "there were too many APIs so i built a superAPI" line of thinking? or is there something more fundamental about this problem you are referring to
Lower class children will become more adept at using ad blockers, or ignoring the screen while an ad is playing
I agree there is value in just creating the note and distilling your thoughts even if you never revisit.

I'm not quite sure how I'd use the metric or if I'd use it to purge notes.

Searchability or recall can be a problem sometimes though, so "searches where I had no results or didn't visit anything" could be interesting.

Especially if I try searching later and find a note answering my question with bad "SEO".

Another idea I had was to make a Firefox extension that searches my notes and displays results before search engines since I reflexively search things in browser sometimes.
Yep, tried that. But we want an auto-renewing contract of 12 months, and subscription terms require you to have an end date.
Yes, this is definitely a use case we've been working on. If you'd be willing to email me any more details about how you need things to work at ark@stripe.com I'll make sure the feedback makes it to the people working on it.
I don't get your characterization. The statically sized arrays can never be fully used? That is doubtful. I suppose that if data X and only ever used 1:1 with data Y and you got a Y, then you are guaranteed to have an X, but that requires complete static analysis of the code base and certainty that no future code change will ever affect that 1:1 relationship. That seems fragile.

I mean it's not like memory exhaustion is a common occurrence nowadays. These kind of compromises, where one trades an almost non-existent failure mode for a fragile assumption-ridden code base does not sounds like a wise choice.

I mean, if the particular process is so tightly-integrated that you can know that you have a 1:1 relationship between X and Y, you can also tie those together with dynamic allocations. I find it hard to believe that you can easily statically show that X and Y allocations are tied in a static allocation scheme but that it would not be so under dynamic allocation?
>lists are an excellent data structure for representing any kind of heterogeneous and/or hierarchical data

I found this a really curious statement. Linked lists made sense given the limitations in compute when LISP was invented (~1958) but how are vectors not a superior solution in every way, when available?

Vectors give you fast random access and fast append plus the same first/next semantics and performance as lists and the same ability to form trees. Pretty much the only thing lists are better at is prepend (which in my experience is much less useful than append).

Then for truly heterogeneous data you probably want hash maps as well, which, if you want something associative rather than sequential, are in a class all their own.

What am I missing?
I wish I knew more about the company, perhaps even a slide deck. It might make some of the ideas easier to connect with!

Anyone have a link to the deck?
One, but my phone carrier gives me a few others for “free”
I've been a forth user since the early days. I'm always impressed how something so simple can do so much. The interview with Moore (designer and builder of the first Forth implementations) is good, it talks about features that have moved into other mainstream systems.
Staff engineer is just title inflation for what used to be senior engineer. Senior engineers at most companies just means this isn’t your first job right out of college.
Author here. Good call, just fixed to a more generic link about layoffs on Blind. No shortage of recent conversations.
If you just want a knowledge base in Vim, have you tried Vimwiki[1]?

I use Vimwiki in vim and Obsidian outside of Vim -- they can be configured to use exactly the same pile of Markdown files as a vault/wiki.

[1] https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
My mistake. Personally I always smash my thumb whenever I swing a hammer.
Link disambiguation:

Submitted URL: https://rnikhil.com/2022/10/12/wolfram-crypto.html

Original URL: <https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/summerschool/pages/2017/Nik...>

Original title: "RSA: A simple Public Key Cryptosystem"

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

<https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>
I think that mass does not even matter, i.e. even with the same mass, with 1M rpm rotation, and propelled at the original (slow, subsonic) speed, the football would have enough angular momentum to keep its orientation, regardless of trajectory or air.
Have complained elsewhere but am not a paying customer.
As I tried cocaine only once or twice (I hated the fast heart beat as a side effect), I can more talk about what I felt and try to project on a long horizon: I felt like I know a lot of things, the solutions to all the hardest problems in my life.

I wrote it down, and next day when it wore off, I saw how stupid I was, but I see this effect in my ex friend. He used his social skills to get money from everybody and didn't care about lying to everybody. He got super confident in everything even if his shy antisocial friends knew much more about those topics.]

He was quite damaging to a lot of people who trusted him from before when he wasn't an asshole, and he's still in the process of finding new victims as he went into huge debt and played away all the money his mother gathered through hard work all her life. He is her only child, and his dad died in a car accident when he was in his teens.
> (Apologies: being the HN pleb that I am, I don’t know how to hyperlink)

I think it usually "just works" (I don't do anything special for mine).
I am not 100% sure I understand what you are describing but it sounds easy to fix.

If you can share before/after screenshots of issue on the Obsidian forum or in Obsidian Discord, that would help!