skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood the fascination with cocaine. It's a brief & giddy 10 minute rush that makes your heart beat faster and you become slightly more talkative, and that's it. That's all there is to it. NO different than our favorite stimulant caffeine, with the added effect of numbing your nose after insufflation.

It needs to be respected for what it is, just like nicotine, caffeine, or theanine (a relaxant found in green tea). For me it's a trivial substance with an unfortunate amount of glamorization in movies/TV shows. Yes it's dangerous in large amounts, but so is everything dangerous in large amounts. Stop criminalizing what we put into our own bodies!
So, it's nowhere near every street corner or playground, but I encounter a surprising amount of second hand smoke here in (legal) Seattle. Although it's not really much more than it was pre-legalization.
> You dismissed the article and author by labeling it a 'hit piece' by 'someone who hates wikipedia'.

Both of which are factual.

> The next natural question that I asked

You didn't just ask the next "natural" question. You were snarky, made accusatory questions, and broke HN rules.

> You respond by implying what I was asking is 'bullshit', and you don't need to answer any questions about it.

You left out the part where I said don't owe you the answers to your accusatory style questions. Which is the crux of the problem.

> For future reference, this is just an implied rule in life, and doesn't need to be explicitly stated.

Thanks for the advice. Here it is again explicitly stated because I'll continue to use my style of communication:

I don't have any obligation to reply to heavily biased "journalism" or the cross-examining style questions you used.

> I was responding to your ad hominem on the author and shallow dismissal (which is against HN guidelines)

It was ad hominem, but of the useful kind. It was not a shallow dismissal because I gave a solid reason folks should ignore his writing on that specific subject. That's the opposite of a shallow dismissal. All of my comments got a lot of up-votes. People here clearly found my observations useful. And my defense of my observations useful.

In contrast to comments similar to yours which got flagged.

> Feel free to ignore this comment as you have stated you will

Now you're putting words in my mouth. I never said I'll ignore any future comment you make. I said something different. Which anyone can re-read and make up their own mind about.
everyone giving their opinion in this thread should disclose whether they've tried cocaine. proper fishscale cocaine, not stepped on washing up powder.

the problem is it's too damn good. way too addictive and harmful
Think of all the millions of dollars spent on immersion and tutoring by rich parents. How many of their kids produce anything of noteworthiness at any age, let alone so young as he did? This is 99% the product of IQ/talent. It's a huuuge leap to go from merely having an advanced math education to actually solving or proving important stuff. This is mathematician-caliber work, not just someone who took advanced courses at a university or had parent's help.
The problems with crack addiction is another great argument for legalizing cocaine. Crack is more potent and addictive than cocaine, but crucially also usually cheaper. Sometimes people do want the more dangerous version of a drug, but usually they want the cheaper and more accessible version.

If you take the analogy of alcohol, legalization limits the proof of alcohol. When it was illegal people made alcohol that was really strong, like rubbing alcohol or dangerous due to impurities. A legal version of a control substance can be a safer version. And the access to the safer legal version could reduce demand for another version.
> Does this position make me a hypocrite?

A little bit, but it depends on your personal reasons for supporting legalization. You sound like you are more concerned about bodily harm of a substance, hence marijuana is ok because it's less harmful than alcohol (which we have accepted as a baseline "well of course alcohol is legal!", so we can then allow everything "less dangerous than alcohol")

I support drug legalization more from a "personal freedom of adults to make their own choices" POV. I'd even stretch that to include choices that statistically add strain to the medical system, like motorcycle riding or eating too many unhealthy foods. People shouldn't have the right to tell me what I'm allowed to put in my own body, and there also needs to be commerce allowed to service given needs, so defacto legalization of usage is not a great solution but is a start.

But I've been beating that drum for a long time, argued till I was red with many people who disagreed with marijuana legalization, now it's broadly accepted and those same people forgot how strongly they felt. "People should mind their own business" is a slogan I can broadly get behind and it applies to my opinions here.
In the grand scheme of nuisance odors, or potentially dangerous emissions, outdoor and second-hand pot smoke is pretty near the bottom of the list.

Higher up might be the hundreds of thousands to millions of cars, trucks, buses, etc spewing enormous quantities of carcinogenic and foul-smelling exhaust. When I open my windows, it's not marijuana I smell, it's partially-combusted diesel and gasoline.

When I ride my bike to work, I pass a chocolate factory. You might think that's nice, but it actually stinks, and covers a vast area with its smell.

I do notice marijuana smoke from time to time, but what, once a week, maybe?
> Ie there can be any algorithmic feedback loop of consumption (views/likes/follows) fueling viral growth.

Usually Fediverse type platforms just use reverse chronological order (or similar as options) with no "algorithm" for personalized content recommendations. Bonfire explicitly states such in their FAQ.
WPS Office is a lot better than LibreOffice, and it's free too.
Yeah someone smoking weed in the park should be arrested... ????
“as a consumer, it seems pretty boring”

i see what you did there.
Especially since "soccer" is actually English and not American slang. I'm not clear on the details on account of English slang delights in its incomprehensibility to outsiders, but apparently it's short for "association (football)."
You think cocaine is tightly controlled? Methamphetamine, heroin?

Have I got news for you.
Football games aren’t called football because you kick the ball with your foot, but because they are played on foot rather than on horseback.
Nope, It's a TRAP! cocaine is far more addictive and likely has good reason to be Schedule-II. This line of reasoning will significantly impact legalization of marijuana which should be our first priority. cynic in me says this is probably a backdoor attempt to slow down MJ reform by clubbing it with other drugs.

Also, personally I am not quite sure these 'hard drugs' should be fully legalized, maybe just decriminalization should suffice.

edit: cocaine schedule
The Economist has always been among the most status-quo / neo-liberal publications. They've supported "free trade" in one capacity i.e. globalization, but have not always supported legalization of narcotics (they appear to have been for years, but it's been around far longer, since 1843).
Never used Notion. I only toyed around with Evernote years ago and remember it being a cluttered mess. One Note worked alright for basic notes but I noticed I rarely referred back to them. With Obsidian, maybe it's because I put the time into my configuration but I have templates for different types of notes, a tagging system that works great for grouping and reference, and the internal linking really ties everything together.
It’s ok - they can now blame it all on BoJo, and rewrite the history books with themselves on the “right side”
Then play Bioshock.
Plus, if you want to fly it "really" legally you often can't. In CA, according to my own research:

- you can't fly over private property,

- pretty much _ALL_ parks&rec departments and counties in the Bay Area prohibit flying in their public parks,

- flying over e.g. public parking lots and the likes is probably a gray area as there's potentially people around,

- airspace at least around here is often regulated anyway, many airports, hospitals with heli pads (not 100% sure about legality of flying within their "zone") and national/state parks that are also no-fly.

I tend to fly in smaller parks and just risk the $500 (?) fine and getting the drone confiscated :( It will just get better once this can happen retroactively :/

But this is mostly why I got a DJI Mini, it's pretty quiet and doesn't draw a lot of attention.
> the virus had mutated into omicron, which is weak whether you are vaccinated or not.

That was not Hong Kong's experience with Omicron when it hit a population of unvaccinated older people and their per capita death rate soared up to one of the highest in the world.

The "weak" omicron effect is probably due to preexisting natural immunity and vaccination. South Africa where Omicron originated had a youthful population and high levels of natural immunity. Most of the developed world had a mix of natural immunity and high levels of vaccination (particularly in the elderly). Hong Kong had neither and Omicron still tore it up.
I chose to read the prior comments posted, wish I had not done so.
The answer to your question has zero to do with ethics, morals, etc.
We live quite literally within a surveillance state that becomes more sophisticated and invasive by the day. FANG profit models, undisclosed deals between govt/SV and the omnipresence of video cameras have effectually made the 4th Amendment mute.

You have 3 choices and each of them is absolutely fine and at your discretion:
1. Treat your work as a "bug bounty" and contact each manufacturer for compensation.
2. Choose educate ecosystem via github post.
3. Keep quiet and use for exact purpose you intended.
I have one at home, and I must say that it's very decent. Was my daily for a year. BUT the camera is crap, it's big and it's quite slow.

Only thing that was a "deal breaker" was the camera though, it just doesn't cut it for what we expect these days.
I like the idea, but I also don't want to reward people who are currently doing illegal stuff. It just seems to me the most likely beneficiaries of such a change would be the gangs who already know who the customers are, how to grow the stuff, and so on. Plus it won't become legal everywhere at once, so it makes sense if you're an international drug gang to not just jump out of the closet, rather to hide your association with "legal" entities in countries where the law has changed.

Aside from that I do think there needs to be a change.
Are there hard facts to support this view? I've heard such an opinion so many times that I'm always skeptical on whether this is just the popular thing to say.
Yikes. Makes me think of certain scenes in Slumdog Millionaire.
Netflix with ads launches Nov. 3, will be missing up to 10% of Netflix catalog
> seems likely that if cocaine was as easy to access as weed is in legal states

There is daylight between prohibition and ubiquitous access. (It’s largely unexplored policy space.) Legal weed doesn’t mean every corner gets a joint shop. Legal cocaine shouldn’t mean Whole Foods coke subscriptions marketed by Instagram to minors.
If you believe Facebook is terrible, isn't taking a high-paid position there and gamifying their internal processes in your favor while not helping a floundering business plug the holes in its sinking ship the real way to take direct action? If several hundred people independently did this on their own (and perhaps not even intentionally), it could have a meaningful impact in taking down one of the worst corporations in human history.
If you can't understand the want for a world without government interference then a discussion in a thread isn't going to help.
My “Threads” won’t unbold- it’s literally giving me anxiety
No question coming to mind, sorry!

Just wanted to note I thoroughly enjoyed reading through this post more than just an upvote's worth, thank you for doing it :)
Why the false dichotomy? Recreational drug use doesn’t need to be either a mental health disorder or a moral failing. I think there’s plenty of room in the discussion to allow for recreational use knowing that for some people recreational use can and will cause health problems (both mental and physical) and we need to be prepared to help those people get treatment if we want to allow for recreational use.
The Economist has been consistently in favour of drug legalization for decades. For one example of many, see "The Case for Legalization" from July 2001. https://archive.ph/bVsdn
UDON: A post mortem on VRChat's horrible scripting language
HBO, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+

Watch the same 3-4 series again and again. Never watch any of the featured content. It is not quality content.
Former Meta employee here - only slightly exaggerated.
Interview with Prof. Zachary Lipton (CMU): Where Machine Learning Falls Short
What I'm asking is a quite simple physics question. I know what I'm asking - what I don't know is why you don't at least try to give a definite answer. I'm trying to make it clearer (let me know if it's not clear enough):

I have a container with two compartments, separated by a moving wall. In each side there is an equal volume of gas at normal temperature and pressure (helium and neon). What happens when the moving wall is removed?

A) The gases will mix.

B) The gases will not mix.

C) I have no way of knowing. It depends on the positions and velocities of each of the particles and they will either mix or they won't.

The usual (wrong?) answer is A. But it seems that you could (should?) answer C. Because you cannot rule out the possibility that they don't mix - you would be guessing.
Microsoft Teams Up with Apple
The main question is to whether those differences in speed of effect can justify penalties that are 18x harsher per gram[1] (an improvement over what was previously 100x per gram).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Sentencing_Act
> IIRC there are even limits imposed on political activity by visa holders, they get slightly relaxed when you get a green card

Any specifics on this?
People claiming rhythm games require low latency is a pet peeve of mine.

Rhythm games have knobs to offset the music, most even have sync wizards (tapping to the beat). If you have 200ms input delay, just have the game offset the music by -200ms. It's really not a problem
we're talking even greater than Terrance Tao level of IQ. No amount of parent's help can instill that kind of talent.
Yeah, but there is good satire (which hits the mark, even remotely), and there’s bad satire.
I "released" a bunch of my class projects as open source and nearly ran afoul of plagiarism accusations (of my own stuff) even though at the time (pre-GitHub) my stuff was only in darcs repos on my own hosts and was generally hard to find. (That ultimately was what saved me in that it was very obvious these were indeed my own files and also that I wasn't posting them for other people/classmates to cheat off me but for my own usage and/or sometimes team collaboration.)

I realize there's a lot of interesting ethics boundaries on public software projects during education. I've always been "pro-open science" that more student projects should be open source/allowed to be open source as "teaching tools in the round", but am sympathetic also to how easily that can be abused for cheating or plagiarizing. I think it is an interesting discussion with no easy answers.
Why Is NixOS Popular Again?
N++ is not super fast to start, but I generally open it once and leave it on. And I guess you can reduce start time by disabling some stuff, just like any other editors.

If startup time is his main concern, then a copy of the ancient TextPad might better suit his needs.
>The whole system is fucked and by design so governments and the chosen licensees can prosper from it.

Ah yes, much better to rely on the definitely not fucked by design black market instead.
Don't like the weather, just wait 5 minutes
I agree with you and find it hard to understand the fascination with going backward in terms of fundamental capabilities. I've been in electronic media production technology my whole professional life, starting out with analog tape-based audio and video and progressing through the transition to digital.

Artistically, I understand and highly appreciate the value of making creative choices to utilize historical or nostalgic treatments such as analog sounding hiss or vinyl tracking in audio. In video, I enjoy seeing a director use a "fat" composite video look consistent with 1970s analog recording on a 2-inch Ampex VTR. Yet, having actually started out using that type of equipment as our only way to create, it was a tremendous limitation that reduced our capabilities and the creative choices that were even possible. Spending long hours producing top-notch audio in professional 24-track analog studio only to bring it home on consumer cassette tape was demoralizing. I remember sadly telling my family "This is sounds so much more amazing in the studio off the master tape. I wish you could hear what we made." And I wished I could hear what I made in my car or anywhere other than work.

Photography and videography have followed a similar progression and it's just strange. Today, I capture my photos with a 50 megapixel digital camera with 14 stops of dynamic range and a full lossless workflow (no lossy compression). I capture my audio at 24-bit 96 khz to have plenty of creative headroom in post. Sure, I sometimes creatively choose to use a 1960s lens on that camera or a lovely old studio mic on the front end of my audio workflow because I want that look or sound. But it's a choice I make on a creative spectrum that's 1,000x wider than being stuck with analog generational artifacts being literally "the best" we could manage.
Why do people even use Google Fonts? Just put the woff2 (and the other formats) files with your static assets and if necessary configure the mimetype for your webserver and your done.

Self-host matomo, it is super easy to manage.

You can't easily track every mouse movement of every user but maybe it's for the best
There's really no issue with PEOs. You just need to be careful to provide the correct information - such as FEIN - when filing applications with USCIS or the DOL. Because, for immigration purposes, the founder's company can still be treated as the employing entity.
I don't think this is a place for ad hominem attacks. I also don't feel like defending Alex Jones, so at this point we've probably taken this as far as we can.

Unless someone else comes through with a different example of what is effectively a billion dollar fine given to a blogger. I'll keep an eye out but I won't hold my breath.
What does your medical history tell you about future cancer risk?
A salesperson that I worked closely with like to use: “Drinking our own champagne.” I liked it enough I started using it though the engineer in me tends to be fine with “dogfooding”.
One of the issues regarding content is that a lot of popular shows are in a format that encourages binge watching. It seems impossible that they’d ever be able to keep up with viewer appetites by creating their own content when people consume so quickly.

To combat this they buy a lot of old crappy shows and movies and the catalog ends up looking pretty average. It reminds me of the old “weeklies” section at Blockbuster.

Maybe to combat this, they’ll switch to a format where they space episodes out to keep you paying.

So, they might end up releasing episodes of popular shows weekly AND have ads. The irony.
I'm assuming you mean Touretzky's Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation —

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/index.html

— which, yes, is a wonderful book for a complete beginner.
I don't think I have ever read something negative about SQLite.

I also don't read the GP comment as being negative toward SQLite. It sounds more like the author was surprised about the architecture, since a naive view would think Kubernetes would be good enough.
My experience is along the following lines (same for Django as well actually):

1. Company started as Rails monolith

2. Some components of the Rails monolith stretch Ruby capabilities beyond where "throw more servers at it" is still reasonable or effective

3. Factor out some backend functionality into dedicated services which can be scaled separately, Rails still serves as the API gateway calling these services. Anything without scaling issues stays in the monolith for now.

4. Eventually Rails is just an API gateway, no one in the org knows Ruby/Rails and its dependency management madness any more, and it gets replaced with a more-performant, purpose-built API gateway, usually something off-the-shelf.
Sure, that's the entire point of being rich.

The only reason I went to work, when I did, was to get to the state in which I'd actually have control over my own life.

If not for that I'd probably go off grid or something. Being salaried forever makes me think of "cagie" memes. A waste.
Actually, it's surprisingly hard. I had the same opinion as you before I actually tried shooting on a Fuji.

I took a shot of a vibrant orange car and imported it into Lightroom. The "embedded preview" looked way better than the Lightroom rendering. Even after half an hour of fiddling, I couldn't get the orange of the car to have both the saturation, the saturation dynamic range, and the metallic "3D look" that the Fuji preview had. And this is disregarding the balance of the rest of the scene (which also looked better on the Fuji). I ended up giving up and using Lightroom's Fuji color mode.
Depending on how successful your job searching is going, you should be able to negotiate offers with a postponed start date (say, 3 months in the future after your company folds). A proper job search can last one or two months, so your timing is great to start now.

Job searching while unemployed can be nice, but it's better to be safer than sorry and have a future job lined up.

Another thing to keep in mind is that not many companies hire during the holidays, so the best window you'll have to conduct your job search is now. Otherwise you're likely going to likely have to wait until January to begin job searching.
A link to the preprint of the study is in the first post.

You can access the thread via Nitter: https://nitter.it/moritzgerstung/status/1580590064643764224
No, it doesn't. I'm sorry that every discussion for you about covid is about the covid response which you dislike but sometimes people are just human. Have some empathy.
Add a AMD Ryzen option also please.
USB-C is a waaaaay less stable connection than Micro-B or even a headphone jack. Having a phone in your pocket with an USB-C to P2 adapter is asking to have your sound stop every 5 minutes of walking.
I can understand that, now that you have clarified.

Your first post wasn't clear whether you wanted the government out of the way, or whether you wanted the bans to stay as bans.

Either way, I think your middle paragraph is very strange. When asking whether something should be taxed, why does it matter whether it was previously banned? I don't see how "create black markets only to prosper from them" makes sense as a complaint here. The theoretical tax money would be very similar if they had never banned the drug in the first place.
Yeah, a stack of free indexes is good. In the rare case of "lots of indexes, but little (extra) memory" a bitmap can be good because it's 1 bit per index rather than ⌈log2(N)⌉ bits per index and has a constant factor speed up equal to the word-size of the architecture.
> There's also kind of an implication that if something is legal, then the government endorses it.

I don't think that's necessarily true. Tobacco is legal and clearly not endorsed by the government (at least not where I live).
A different language can enable easy expression of designs that would be nightmare to maintain in C/C++: https://go.dev/talks/2013/oscon-dl.slide
Oh my, it’s on my to-play list, so this might just inspire me to buy it!