skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Victorinox swiss army knife circa 2007 ish. Broke into my old flat with it once.

Billingham 550 camera bag I bought in 1992 for £150. Brilliant.

Pilot Capless pen from 2013. Hundreds of miles of handwriting. About £130
I am not comparing coke and MDMA nor am I comparing LSD. I know the profiles of those drugs I am not referring to that. Those drugs have less overlap with MDMA.

Have you done MDMA AND heroin/Meth? More important meth. Because these drugs have a huge overlap when you examine the physiological effects. Pleasure, love and bliss are generated by the same chemical.
Gattaca for those who haven't heard of it.
Hey if it works for you, great. It didn't work for me. 10 days casual use for 1 person and then "pay me" is not a positive experience, so I found another solution.
it is not possible for your DNA to be modified by the mRNA vaccines, so it is not gene therapy

and the virus will turn your body into a spike protein factory regardless
The alternative to the parents being the authority, is that the state is, but the state has lied constantly about everything related to COVID and children so that would be far worse.

in Europe it’s mandatory to send your child to school - whether the parents want it or not.

No it's not. It's mandatory to educate them. Home schooling exists in Europe and parents who think teachers at a school are teaching children things that are wrong can do various things about it.
So overrated.
Do you plan on wearing a mask for the rest of your life?
Forth people like to factor code into very short words, to help avoid confusion with the stack. Words should be properly commented so that their stack effects are clear.

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Fac...
I completely understand that the parents are the ultimate authority. I feel like I was in a position where I could have done more. I can't imagine how many times a teacher must feel the same throughout their years of teaching. I feel a lot of empathy for the child since I can relate. But that might make me more impatient about certain things than I would like to admit.

The specific situation I am thinking of is when the parents asked me about my opinons on ADHD treatment. I have volunteered my diagnosis when I learned one of the reasons for the student being sent to me was difficulty in school. I had my suspicions on the beginning, but I know kids grow at different paces. But then his a few school teacher recommended testing as well. He was professionally tested and showed that he would benefit from proper treatment.

The parents and I speak the same language, and they are immigrants, and so they trusted me with a lot of responsiblity regarding their child's schooling. I became sort of a translator too between the teachers and the parents, when appropriate.

It doesn't feel like I am putting myself in a position of authority when I am arguing for evidence backed actions. I don't mean medication, but in this case the parents didn't share the "diagnosis" with the school, which would have helped the student recieve accomodations through official channels. In that case it feels less about what's best for the child and more about how the parents want others to percieve their child.

But you make a good point, even that might be something the parents take as me overstepping my authority.
We had the news spreading fear, the need to bow to authorities and consumerism, and attacking anyone who tried to think for themselves.

And you attack conspiracy theorists who turned out to be right about a number of aspects of the pandemic?
"...when the overall dangers to the individual and society are considered" is the context for that, which you've removed. The article goes on to talk about why David Nutt thinks that, and given that he's spent his life researching various drugs in society I think his opinion is worth more than a cursory glance at the headline. I'm not sure whether I'd rather be around heroin addicts or alcholics (both of which I've known in the past) because they both have significant downsides, but it's worth noting that heroin isn't a psychedelic. I'd much rather be around people on psychedelics rather than the other two.
> We have been proven correct about every single one of these things

No, you haven't.

> natural immunity would provide far greater protection

false

> vaccines wouldn't prevent transmission, carried a non-zero risk of side effects

"Prevent" and "non-zero" are weasel words, that sentence as written is true of literally every treatment and prophylactic in existence forever.

But it does reduce the risk of transmission even in the case of prisoners sharing a cell.

And the risks of side effects are much, much lower than the risks of those effects from the actual illness.

> that there would no benefit to lock downs, and that masks were pointless.

False on both counts.

Lockdowns were there to reduce the secondary consequences from running out of capacity. Several places ran out of capacity to handle the dead, let alone the living. I still don't understand how we were able to get short of medical oxygen, but that happened in some places too.

Masks likewise, reduce the transmission rate. Not eliminate, reduce. That's not pointless.

> that vaccination was unnecessary for children and younger adults,

Weasel phrasing, "unnecessary" can mean anything. But, I will try to interpret generously as possible: Sure, lots of kids and young adults won't die, they'll only get sick for a few weeks, with unknown long term damage.
Substack is giving writers a license to print money
I'm looking for a person who has done BOTH meth and MDMA and I want him to compare the experience of each. My guess is that Meth operates on another level of profoundness, one that is both different and significantly higher then MDMA.

My guess is that once you take Meth, MDMA isn't really that big of a deal anymore.
CNCF: cloud native computing foundation
I didn't realize I had anxiety and Fibromyalgia until I took a little too much of cannabis bread. My thoughts weren't all over the place, I had better control of my coordination and oh how clear my thoughts were. Math concepts I had struggled with in school suddenly made sense. As the effects of the THC wore off, I noticed a familiar feeling of pain come over me body. Only this time, It came slowly, and its intensity increased as the effects of the THC wore off. Is this pain in my nerves? I was used to experiencing it as irritations, stress, and fatigue. I could make sense of it because I had time to think about it before getting overwhelmed by it. I was fascinated! I discovered the word Fibromyalgia after this.

The second time I ate the bread, I made sure I had no activities for the day, was alone at home, and observed my behavior prior to taking the cannabis. When it was time to eat, I got a timer and took note of when the effects kicked in, which parts of my body became relaxed first and how the general transition from stress, /micro pain/anxiety to peace, and clear thoughts happened. I loved the discovery I was making. After a couple of months I quit the cannabis and switched to meditation, yoga, ice baths, and CBT to deal with the anxiety. It has worked. These days I don't meditate or do yoga daily, but I have better control of my life, and very grateful for the experience that led me here.
> Kocienda’s first prototype was a ‘blob’ keyboard... [snip]… It was terrible

No it wasn’t! Or rather, the idea wasn’t. CooTek made the TouchPal keyboard for Windows Mobile with the same idea (ish), slide left for Q slide right for W slide down for a symbol (and slide left and up for a capital letter)

https://www.engadget.com/2007-10-12-cooteks-touchpal-brings-...

It was fantastic!

Edit: and this was on crappy 2.8” resistive touch screens too
An understated benefit of merge sort is that all of its access patterns have excellent locality. Regardless of big-O, this is a huge advantage because it reduces cache thrashing.

Like it probably doesn't matter if you're sorting 10k entries, but when you're sorting several gigabytes it really does.
No home schooling exists in germany - all children must go to a state-approved school and that school must follow the standard curriculum. There are a handful of possible exceptions - serious illness for example - but in the general case it’s not legal and may result in (partial) loss of custody.

See for example https://www.lto.de/recht/nachrichten/n/olg-karlsruhe-5ufh322...
Did you think that the problem may be the other way around? Their perception of the reliability of "the science" is accurate and yours is warped.

The last years have split the population into those who blindly believe in academic and government scientific claims, regardless of how incredible those claims are or how frequently they turn out to have been wrong. And the rest, who don't treat science religiously, and who develop doubt when they see untrustworthy behavior. The first camp can't understand the second because they don't even try to. They feel the righteousness of the true believer.

So here's the suggestion. If you're really a tutor who has such great understanding of the science, try debating with the parents and investigate any claims they make to justify their beliefs honestly. Do Your Own Research. Do not attempt to brainwash the child bypassing the parents. That will simply reinforce their pre-existing beliefs that people who are pro-vaccine are engaged in scientism, can't defend their beliefs and prefer to use communist-style tactics to manipulate others (like turning children against their parents). It will cause them to double down.
Who said anything about masks? And why does everything have to be black or white? I personally never hated masks. Never loved them either. But I understand how they help and when they don't.
Offline TV plus online Chromecast works fine for me.
Super weird given the link between covid vaccines and Shingles.
I've noticed it's a pretty reliable tell of your politics though. I think Fox News used it a ton and you tend to to use the terms you hear more often.
Thank you for sharing your personal experience. Unfortunately sharing personal stories like this in the internet is the source of much grief for three reasons:

1) There is no way to quantify how likely this is from personal stories. If your experience is 1 in 100 event, you are doing more harm sharing it than not sharing it if 1 in 10 becomes too suspicious to follow diagnosis.

2) We really don't know. Either things happened as people say, or they doctor shopped until received a misdiagnosis and mismedication they wanted.

3) Readers can't use your example in their personal life because they are different. They may read what you said and go doctor shopping and googling until they are misdiagnosed and mismedicated.

You should not blindly trust doctors, and get second opinion of things seem wrong, but sharing medical stories in the internet is misses the information needed for it to be usable.
Put 1234 in 40:72 (E 40:72 34 12 in DEBUG) before the JMP FFFF:0000 to do a warm reboot, this will bypass the self-test portion.
At the point that a program that could instantly copy the style of your favorite artist within half an hour was invented, a lawsuit being filed against its creators was inevitable. And I'm not sure what humanity can do to just not invent Stable Diffusion. The math is impeccable, and the results speak for themselves, and it's convinced a lot of people. It's angered many others for understandable reasons, and has the potential to cause harm. Financially yes, but also (and I think more importantly) in a spiritual sense - setting the standards of millions of people that art can be created better and faster by a non-human entity, and that humans are meant to be preempted at their passions if something more cost-efficient comes along.

So how could this situation have been reasonably avoided? Was it meant to be avoided? Even supposing this lawsuit succeeds and Stability AI is dissolved, it's not going to change the fact that people are going to keep using Stable Diffusion anyway, even if people stop themselves from talking about it in the open.

Another thing I've been mulling about is the negative effects of new technologies could be amplified if those technologies can be completely controlled by an independent person. As an example, 3D-printed gun are considered less dangerous than traditionally manufactured guns, but there was the incident where Shinzo Abe was assassinated using a homemade gun in spite of the extremely strict gun control measures in Japan. I think the conversation about that kind of danger would be intensely revisited if just anyone has the ability to manufacture a more efficient weapon using only things they can buy themselves.

Giving away the 8 gigabytes of Stable Diffusion for free with the means to run it on anyone's computer means that the harms that many people perceive about AI-generated art are going to exist forever. There is no solution to the problem now, only ideological differences to be repeated forever. To those that are against it, art style appropriation is now a mathematically defined fact, published as replicable research.

If the progress in generative art today breaks the spirits of artists, the small hope for me is that at least it was a technology that's unlikely to cause mass deaths or destruction. I have to wonder if humanity will be ready when that time does come for a different breakthrough. AI art at this stage can already cause mass die-offs of motivation and attention spans.
> In some ways it is impressive that Emacs has managed to avoid being killed off in a massive rewrite attempting to chase other text editors.

No point chasing when you’re the leader.

It would have to happen in a fork, and a fork attempting it would run into all the problems Richard Stallman identifies when these things are proposed (and rejected). It’s not like they’re unaware that some decades old critical components need to be redone. But this is emacs, not a FAANG throwaway, so that kind of work has constraints and expectations and standards to meet. Chunking garbage at it because emotions isn’t an option there.
They also do that, the post refers to their Quickcheck library. But how do you property test the Fibonacci function ? There isn't much to say about it...
Victory against fatbergs is impossible in the near term. As cities mature, and the use of flushable wipes becomes more accepted, fatbergs will appear in UK and the colonies.
What would you expect weekly consumption of 6 tablets of MDMA or some other psychedelic drug to cause? Organ damage, cognitive decline, and anxiety are among the list.
> What does that mean?

That means they are trying to solve some very difficult, general problem first. But, you see, that's exactly the problem: you don't want to go general. You want to go: specialized. And here's the key: then you want to mix and do the interplay for your simple, specialized well-working elements. And, indeed, you can define some general interface properties for that, once you have it.

> Getting simple structure done is not the problem.

I agree!

> What we lack is something good which generalize this.

I can't emphasize this enough, but trying to find a general structure and fit it for everything is a path to failure, and I am arguing vehemently against such structures or approaches [1]. Strings are such a general structure. Although there were others proposed, like Ted Nelsons zig-zags. That's where you do not want to go.

But again: generalization is not the problem, the problem is the ability to specialize.

But, yes, you are right: there has to be an overarching system, and that's exactly what I want to do. A system where the simple parts can interplay. And importantly: embed.

The simple structures I listed, and a few others? Those will be enough for the applications that I want to do. And that will be plenty useful to me, already at that.

See, the fact of embedding itself lets you manage the complexity, because that's where a lot of complexity lies within: in hierarchies. And then, when you are doing editing operations, you have full and easy introspection into all the structures that you are operating on, so, doing them right will be possible.

PS I have been using vim for quite a few years, and I don't see it as some kind of complex editing (other than bindings and modality which takes getting used to). Maybe I am misunderstanding what you mean by this exactly, though.

PPS I am sorry for responding slowly, there are quite a few comments.

[1] https://project-mage.org/on-flexibility
Actually from reading this thread I can’t see anyone who suggested paediatricians are requiring the COVID vaccine. In fact one clarified that in requiring all routine vaccines they explicitly did NOT mean flu or COVID
why not docker-compose? so nice to just do the old up / down
Yes, yes, yes and yes. I am glad to see this sentiment expressed here!
That's not correct, this isn't defaulting to SSE-KMS. and it's trivial to share KMS encrypted objects cross-account.
Conspiracy theories is the weeds that sprawl when common sense is sterilized with dogma.
That point is addressed directly in the linked-to article:

> Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy “in some cases has translated over to routine vaccinations, and that’s something we’re watching very closely,”

Followed immediately by "Health officials said they haven’t seen an increase in vaccine exemptions nationally".

This article is pretty clear that that connection is likely not the main reason for this drop.
Levi's Denim Trucker Jacket.
I think keeping an embargo and hurting a country for 60 years is enough to send a signal.
In any case, the US government isn't doing it motivated by some intertemporal consistency (and thinking of the next 200 years of foreign policy), they do it for the cuban swing voters
YC's Startup School is growing and we need a product engineer
I mostly share your assessment, except that I think the word "bizarre" presumes how normal people behave. These kinds of attitudes have been around since at least the Spanish Flu pandemic, so it's important to… how do I phrase this? To account for such attitudes when planning public health campaigns, and not just dismiss such people as arrogant fools with no self-awareness.
Check Ben Wilson's chewing gum art on the Millennium Bridge as well.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=millenniu...
i imagine everybody still has “that one thing” that safari doesn’t support… for me it’s offscreen canvas. here’s hoping their momentum continues.
Ask HN: Twitter laid off 75% of staff, were they needed?
I'm sure a lot of good people were laid off, 75% is high number. I assume a large amount of these are admin roles, including moderation and HRs/Recruiters.

Is it fair to say that the often repeated idea that our non-development co-workers seem to do nothing, might be kind of true?

FWIW - I'm no fan of Musk or his antics.
From a different angle threat model is basically disseminated bullshit in order to make you believe that there are actors whom you cannot oversmart/protect against. In essence you are running in a rigged environment, and better accept the "common truths"...
> Faith has no impact on my decision to prefer not to be the guinea pig for experimental gene therapy, that results in micro clotting and turning your body into a spike protein factory.

I guess fair, it's just the underlying cause for both the faith and your gross misunderstanding of high-school biology that's the same.
I get work from IT security. I don't have IT security create less work for me. And the benefit they create in my work is .... lots of sonarcube scans that create work items for me, that may more maynot be real.

And we don't know who's actually going to be attacking the internal software!
Your example is correct.

The 2% is why you don't force vaccine mandates.

There are studies showing it (pre covid) and we knew the entire time what would happen.

It's so common sense I have to just fu*ing laugh about it all. Sorry.
This is actually not true - reverse transcriptase is present in your cells, and has been known to add code from viral RNA to your DNA, sometimes permanently.
That is some very charged language. Showing empathy and helping a child become better at critical thinking isn't anything close to brainwashing. Maybe you're trying to use language that you imagine the parents might think in, but that's not charitable to them either. By asking this question, I felt like I was making it clear that I am trying to understand the parents and reach some middle ground.
> There are apps where women have to initiate contact. If you want to put in less effort then just use those.

I remember an article about one such app. I seem to remember that men didn't really like it because the women would initiate the contact with extremely low-effort messages, so it was on the man to get the interaction going.

Basically, it's like a regular app, with an extra step that doesn't really guarantee anything.
> Conversations you have in ecstasy often are very profound.

Often repeated for all kinds of drugs, MDMA, psychedelics, even marijuana users claim this. But in my experience conversations are universally banal and only seem profound.

> you may open up in ways you would not normally

To me, this sounds like a nightmare. The idea that something artificial could change me in any way. And the idea that people desire this is scary.

> You feel understood

Exactly, you feel understood without being understood.

> You seem very judgemental.

For exercising my right to not do something while recognizing the right of others to do it? Oh, the irony.
Super interesting analysis of the trucking market.

A couple of questions would be:

* At what speed is the industry going to embrace self-driving / "augmented driving" in trucks? I'd imagine a driver would still be required at the wheel in case of emergencies for the foreseeable future. What new skills would truckers have to learn?

* Given the environmental impact of trucking (self-driving or not), what are some interesting propositions that climate change startups could come up with? Do any players in the value chain even care about climate impact? Clearly, given the cut-throat nature of the business, there would necessarily need to be a revenue impact otherwise no one is going to use the proposition.

* I find the insurance part more interesting that the factoring part. Given the generally poor service quality of insurance companies, I'm wondering if there is a possibility of a "Lemonade" like insurance company in this space? Lemonade started out as a home insurer I believe. What is the killer proposition for an insurance company in this space?

Lots more thoughts come to mind. Again, great writeup, thanks!
And because the pavements are almost always uneven and made with many stones/pavers rather than poured asphalt or concrete.
Scraping Yahoo Finance with Python
I never had that issue. I also use "eco" mode that reduces brightness and contrast. In dark room full brightness could indeed hurt your eyes. And colour reproduction is not that great.
Did files hit the disk unencrypted before this or there were full disk encryption?
Let's hope you're not in a rush for your file to be created :)
Big range. Could get them for a quid in Bradford in the early 00s, I heard the nineties were a lot more expensive though that was before my time.

Obviously they were all way better back in't day.
> In Europe you don’t need to look further than legistlation.

Heh. Just realized this is true on many levels. For example, if you don't collect more data than necessary (per GDPR), there's significantly fewer things that you need to secure.
The prices on those chinese pens are tempting, but I've found many models crack at the screw threads between top and bottom sections - the plastic is obviously thinner there, and usually just too thin, and barely last as long as a full refill of ink.

So maybe you'll need much more than 30, or you could buy something actually good for 30x the price.