skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live by the adage “everything in moderation”. Of course this can’t apply to everything, and it doesn’t apply universally to all people. People with severe addictions probably shouldn’t try moderation of their vices.

Part of moderation is a recognition that nothing is endlessly good or bad. Working is good, but working too much is bad. In fact, working too much is the reason people crave a stress release and go binge drinking after work or on the weekends.

Outlawing cannabis — or other substances used for similar purposes ignores the fact that the present state of society doesn’t work for the people who need a “break”. You won’t change the fact that people aren’t coping with whatever issues they’re having fitting into the mold of the model citizen.

Instead, those people will be marginalized and pushed into the fringes of society where they lose respect for the rules and land in the prison system — which has a very poor track record of reintegration. Alternatively, they pursue other things that are legal but are equally or more self destructive.

If you’re scared of substance abuse potential, then you should be ten times more scared that our social contracts are becoming so aggressive that it’s a problem, and we’re merely treating the symptoms with prohibition.
Vivid disconcerting dreams can happen.

For me, it would cause sleep paralysis where my brain would wake up and I could not move my body. I would be wide awake and paralyzed. Then panic as I felt like I could not control my breathing and would imagine that if an emergency happened I would be entirely immobilized.

Personally I used these moments as teaching moments and worked through them but it’s hard to explain the sheer terror of waking up, fully alert and fully “locked in.”
"people whose loved ones were in the hospital were denying that it was Covid"

Consensus based reality collides with actual reality. Believing something does not make it true.
> I feel it is racist and presumptuous for a bunch of ugly Americans to sully Patrick's good name by doing nothing but wear gaudy trash and get rip-roaring drunk.

Maybe it's wrong to celebrate the guy at all since he supposedly went around driving out Irish pagans and destroying their culture and religion, but personally I suspect most people aren't thinking much about the man or what he did or didn't do, and are mostly just looking to enjoy themselves while spending a moment thinking about and celebrating Ireland and Irish people which is actually pretty nice. A decent number of us ugly Americans came from Ireland after all and we've come a long way from "No Irish Need Apply" to "Let's all have fun and celebrate Irish people!"

People shouldn't need to have much excuse to celebrate and have a good time however they decide to do it. St. Patrick's day is a good enough excuse for me. American's aren't generally very aware about other countries and their culture so when a lot of people think of Ireland what comes to mind is often Anything Green, Shamrocks, and Leprechauns which I get is a bit clumsy and reductive, but there's no hate behind it, so I don't see any need to choose to be offended by it. We've got plenty of other things that come from a place of hatred and fear to get offended over.

> I feel that drunkenness and intoxication ruins lives and steals innocence. I believe that marijuana can be useful and has a place in society, but I also believe that it can be abused

I think that everything has a place and can be abused. It seems the risks with alcohol are much higher, and a lot of people have had a bad time with it, but many more enjoy it and even enjoy occasionally over-enjoying it. Intoxicated people should stay off the roads though. Most of us have enough transportation options that it shouldn't be hard to take a train/bus, call a friend, or summon an uber. Driving while intoxicated is just selfish and dangerous
I am

Edit: to elaborate, I think it’s great that they published audits, that should be a minimum baseline but in fact it’s a fairly rare thing at this point. Also Cure53 are no joke, they have some great people who generally do good work.

That said, having spent a decade doing security assessments in a past life, they’re point in time and always have a particular scope and are time-limited. A researcher or adversary has more time, a broader (infact infinite) scope, and lacks a lot of the restrictions of a formal security assessment.
Of my browser games, I've only ever finished 2D stuff. I've tried 3D a handful of times, different engines (or rolling my own) and backends. The javascript ecosystem and entropy as you said is a big stumbling block. It just moves too fast for the levels of dependencies needed when you make progress at the speed of a hobbyist.
How sure are they that disrupting whatever equilibrium the Yellowstone caldera has reached won't have unexpected consequences, like potentially changing the rate of eruption, or even triggering eruption, earthquakes, etc?
a factor, plus one. maybe? so it’s the pair of primes in that short sequence
TAI, UTC, and GPS and LORAN-C time are all the same time scale but at offsets resulting from having stopped adopting leap seconds at different points. The only confusing thing is that we tend to talk about TAI's variation from UTC rather than the variation of each system from TAI, which is fixed for everything but UTC (until 2035). We can thus sort of discuss them like time zones:

UTC: TAI-37s
GPS: TAI-19s
LORAN-C: TAI-10s

UTC will stop applying leap seconds but hasn't yet, so the offset for UTC could potentially change. Once UTC stops applying leap seconds, they will all be fixed and these offsets will just be technical details. Of course the whole thing has actually become obsolete in the case of LORAN-C which was shut down, but it seems less likely that TAI will fall out of use.
If you compare with the history we know, if we'd survive for that long, we would not be the same species anymore anyway, I think :)
Marijuana has it's uses.

It's good to get a different perspective sometimes. It's good to become less judgmental. It's good to let go of the unimportant obsessions and ambitions of life sometimes and concentrate on the little things.

But it also has many downsides, which don't need enumerating. Anyone who has been around it at length or used used regularly knows this.

Here's my observation:

Most people who smoke a lot of weed should smoke much less, or none at all preferably (at least for a long period). They might find their lives improving and their thinking cleared up.

On the other hand, people who preach about it with cherry picked stats and alarmism, and are in general uptight assholes who focus mostly on getting ahead in life without considering the nature of life or the perspectives of other people much at all should be encouraged to take a few bong tokes or gummies on a regular basis. This might apply to the author of the article, not sure but seems it could.
I’m hardly a math genius, but isn’t this basically because he’s using polar coordinates, where nearly any trend is going to look like curves and spirals?
By induced schizophrenia do you mean that they had underlying schizophrenia, were not aware, smoked weed and have since developed an acute psychotic disorder?
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Yeah I just mean they blame the chipset, but in reality it’s something in the OS stack.

Qualcomm drivers are blobs, and they’re basically the main game in town for android, so the drivers would be shared by even their own device.

They stopped short of investigating what was causing the pull of the A-GPS data. It could have been something in the distro they used, that the other distro didn’t.

It’s such a hand waivy piece overall
Since I can't edit, I'll reply to myself:

The default of "always work" is amply demonstrated by the fact that Kermit is available for CP/M, and can be compiled on a working CP/M-80 system from .HEX files that you just blast over the serial port. Obviously, due to system constraints, this is not a fully modern Kermit.

But it works. And if you want error checking and reliable file transfer on a Kaypro, it's not a bad way to do it.
It appears to be a meta-analysis of literature in the field of psychology.
I've been using opam and dune for a few years now and they haven't annoyed me much since I got used to how to set up projects. What are the issues with them?
IME’s a poor analogy for what’s happening here. the article ends with

> Affected users could try blocking the Qualcomm XTRA Service using a DNS-over-TLS cloud-based block service, or re-route this traffic yourself to the proxy server from GrapheneOS […]

if these requests were being made below the OS, akin to IME, you wouldn’t be able to substitute the DNS like that.

unless they mean that you could reroute things upstream of the phone — but most users don’t deploy their own fleet of LTE towers, so i doubt that’s what they meant.
I've seen the transition from offices to open space in Microsoft first hand. The management basically made this same argument - "sure, you might not like it, but we did studies and most employees who participated in them think it's better! give it a chance!"

Somehow, those happy employees were never in my circles. Or in my colleagues' circles. Like, pretty much every time this subject come up in any context, the overwhelming sentiment was that there's no way the purported upsides are worth the obvious and unavoidable major downsides.

They moved ahead with it anyway, of course. And it sucked as much as everybody was expecting. Out of several dozen colleagues, I think there was a grand total of two who didn't mind it, and they were already doing the whole "roam around with a laptop" thing anyway.
My older home (circa 1928) home has some older style uneven glass for some of its windows and it's beautiful how it distorts light.
Costco sells samsung washing machines lol.
What about 0 and negatively contributing?
Google Authenticator cloud sync: Google can see the secrets, even while stored
Is it squandering the most important technical advance of a generation?
It's always amusing how American companies see only one way to do things.

Shared mailboxes (not mail addresses, but mailboxes) were a common and useful thing which couldn't be done properly in Exchange up to ~2016 and there are still some quirks.

Telegram does have a 1st class desktop client and allows using a single account on multiple phones. It just works and don't use the phone as a gateway.

Also it makes me wonder if this feature could be used to migrate between iOS/Android without losing history. I don't need it, but other people - do.
What Every Developer Should Know About AWS Vault
I came across AWS Vault when I first started my cloud journey. At the time, I used the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and I didn’t understand why this tool existed. I was able to access AWS services with the AWS CLI by adding my credentials. So, what’s the problem?
That assumes there’s really anything to discuss here.

This is just A-GPS to work and has been like that for over a decade.

The Wikipedia page has about as much information as a blog post would
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS?wprov=sfti1

Or better yet, from the GrapheneOS devs themselves https://reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/12yii9u/_/jhojlr7/?con...
I suggested to only communicate using hand signals. A pretty terrible idea I must admit.
Site scraping/searching tools work today because they're relatively new and most websites aren't embedding information designed to be read only by the AI to mess with its summaries/recommendations/commands.

If they ever become more common and more accessible, that will change.

In the same way, we didn't need to have guards against malicious SEO attacks and keyword stuffing until after search engines became more popular. People are assuming this is a niche problem, but the incentives for random websites to mess with whatever AI is looking at them will be exactly the same as the incentives that currently exist to do SEO. It won't just be random demos doing this -- practically every single commercial website that's willing to do SEO today will also be attempting to manipulate the AI that's parsing them. It will not be safe to feed the results of a Google search into an LLM.

The tech industry is seriously sticking its head in the sand here. The ease by which current LLM models (including GPT-4) can be derailed is a critical problem that must be solved before they see widespread use outside of niche circles.
Me: While this is amusing, come on, they're sixth in the Premier League, this is not in any way what a masochistic relationship with a sports team looks like.

Also me, Googling:

> Tottenham Hotspur's performance against Newcastle United on Sunday was so poor that the club is going to refund those that came out and showed support for the team.
Hence, the video...
I was paywalled and had to skim in reader mode but did they name names? I didn’t see it.

Always annoying these articles never seem to name names. If there are repeat offenders I think there is an imperative for public safety.
I fail to see how insulting the authors academic credentials brings more to this discussion than critiquing the methodology or providing a study to the contrary.

I also have read the Wikipedia article and have no idea what you are talking about. Claiming there is "no evidence" to any of the sides of this very complex issue is utterly ridiculous.
Elusiveness is subjective, but there's certainly plenty of patterns to be found (though, to be fair, what constitutes a pattern might also be subjective). You should check out Terence Tao's blog [0], he's not only one of the most prominent mathematicians in the field but he's also excellent at explaining things. These slides [1] for example don't require any background in math.

[0] https://terrytao.wordpress.com

[1] https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/preprints/Slides/primes.pdf
New York City’s 34-year-old social network, ECHO
Everyone I’ve met, including on the steering committee, has been funded by high-frequency trading.

Heck, I almost took a job on a handshake in manhattan on this premise.

But it just seems, even now, archaic for the task. As the author mentions, the community is small, the integrations are weak. You will be working on legacy systems if anyone pays you well.

Same with certain parts of national defense, but we’ll make fun of PDP-11’s and FORTRAN another day.

Proactive thought: why don’t we fund a B-team to say, try using Julia? Even ERLANG has some superior qualities for these real-time audited tasks. (And hey, if you want employees for some reason, just use python).
Question: do people find that sort of animation easier to grok than showing the interleaving visually, as I do at https://outerproduct.net/boring/2023-01-27_trans-locks.html#...? I prefer the latter, because it lets me see everything at once, but may switch to the former presentation style if other people prefer it.
The article seems inspired by a single day of the year that is celebrated. Why not go after national spaghetti day? Should we not celebrate excessive carbs?
Lynching.

Is such a major part of Americas history especially from 1863-1950

EJI has a very cool and sad interactive map of Americas recorded lynchings by county.

https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/explore
South Korea Indicts Co-Founder of TerraUSD
They weren't addressing my main point, so the straw man started earlier, no?

Cliche HN words aside, they started with a personal question, which I can't answer as it would dox me.

Then their main point concerned the lack of going viral, which has nothing to do my point.

They said "Great products almost never go viral on their own". I'm saying build a product you think is great, fuck others bad advice, then market the shit out of it and make people realize how great it is.

> But people with actual experience have learned this repeatedly.

I have experience in this. The real pioneers aren't doing that. It's just a SV meme to maximize their shit product, it's the best they can do without a vision.
Dudes, check yourselves!!
While that's unfortunate, the project doesn't look doomed to me. But they should have been more careful given Rockstar's reputation.
Tennis is better than most sports with the glaring exception of watching the grand slams (which are the 4 biggest tournaments!). Otherwise TennisTV does a pretty good job of letting you watch all other tournaments live/on-demand. So, not as good as the F1, but sounds better than the EPL, NHL, etc.
Lynching in America
General FYI: Ikea furniture (like all particle board furniture) will be much more durable if you add a line of wood glue to the edges when building. It's a simple step that only takes a few extra minutes during construction, but the resulting furniture will last through many moves.
I think this is country specific. F1's service in the US is great, but the NFL international game pass isn't available to people who live in the US, it's not as easy to watch domestically.
Plenty. My partner's father ended up in the street for almost twenty years from alcoholism. Again, what we can agree on is that the systems to help people are inadequate and treating people like criminals when they need help is counterproductive.
A Simple 8 bit Microprocessor done by 2 in 2 weeks
It was a 2-week project by the famous M.Bellard (who programmed FFmpeg and QEMU) and his friend. I was astonished by the demonstrated productivity.
I don't know why marijuana gets a pass. Anyone in my age group >50 who knows lifelong heavy marijuana users sees the same thing: they're sort of middle-of-the-road schlubs or schlubettes who believe the craziest theories, don't quite have their shit together, and are largely intolerable for more than a few hours a month. They are very nice people (to those who don't question them), but just... damaged. Damaged from decades of weed.

Of course the whattaboutists are correct: alcohol has the same impact, but for some reason the myth persists that heavy weed use isn't dangerous.
He had a really good escapement plan.
This is true, but prohibition isn't a binary. If legal weed was $500/oz (which it isn't in any legal state AFAIK) then the black market would be booming and we'd have most of the problems that come with prohibition. If the legal weed were free, we'd have a different set of problems but not because of prohibition.

I live in Michigan and IMO legal cannabis products are too cheap. Stores will run deals where you can get vape carts for less than 10 dollars. 200mg THC bags of gummies go for $5 somewhere in town almost all the time. Actual flower and pre-rolls aren't quite as cheap, presumably because they can't be made from shake and other waste. At these prices, $20 could keep me high for a week straight (admittedly I'm a bit of a lightweight), which is absolutely not the case with booze, even the cheapest bottom-shelf fortified wine. I think there is a lot of room to raise taxes on these products without fueling the black market.
I went apple passwords only a while back and don’t really regret it. It works really well most of the time, with a couple of annoying “open up the settings app to get my password” moments.

If they ever take it seriously and release a dedicated app with iCloud family sharing I don’t think I would have a reason to look elsewhere.
Hmmm… I guess this puts Code Preview in the Netlify / Vercel camp… although those projects are richer in their feature sets around deployment tooling.

Is that a fair comparison?
> mining base station

What would you be mining on the moon and what for?
If it's ever broadcast on normal, free-to-watch TV, anywhere in the world, it's fair game in my book to record/restream it. Change my mind.
I thought this video was fantastic. Just a great intro and example of how "playing" with numbers and visualizations can help you understand deeper, more profound concepts.

For commenters saying "well, doesn't anything in polar coordinates end up like spirals?", do yourself a favor and watch the video. He says as much pretty early on that yes, any plotting of the integers like that will look like spirals, but goes into excellent detail in my opinion explaining why the specific patterns you see with prime numbers are as they are.
> When will the size of the electoral college change again?

When:

(1) One or more new states are added, or
(2) The law fixing the size of the House is amended/replaced.

I wouldn’t be surprised if those happen together, so that adding the new state adds on rather than redistributes seats in the House initially.

Note that D.C. being added (with no change to the fixed size of the House) as a state would actually shrink the electoral college by one, since it would add two Senators and zero reps, but D.C. already has three electors; any other state being added (with no change to the fixed size of the House) would add two electors for the two additional Senators added.
It’s funny because many buildings exist for 500-3000 years in various forms, and they are all some variant of brick, compressed earth or stone.
Something has to define when new math came to be /s
They were legalized in 1982, so no, definitely not new. Simply put, it took norms and customs awhile to develop around using them, plus the Net Investment Tax came into effect making the tax savings more substantial.
> cannabis-induced

I find that hard to believe. You could probably correlate many mental facility intake patients with those that ate yogurt for breakfast. This is ignorant fear mongering.
Well spotted, that's actually hilarious and what I thought of as soon as I saw the HN headline.
Really? Prohibition of fentanyl is most costly than the drug itself? Not to be hyperbolic, but that suggests what you’re saying isn’t true and it’s really a matter of degree. Should marijuana be encouraged for use in kindergartens? Of course not, clearly some restrictions make sense.

I don’t care if people use some drugs. I have some edibles of my own in my fridge right now. What I care about is normalizing vices and pretending like it’s just a matter of individual preference when it obviously affects the rest of society at large (and makes life worse).
MLS Season Pass on Apple TV has been great. Way better content, way better stream quality, and no blackouts. Such a better experience than the hodgepodge of OTA TV, ESPN, ESPN+, FS1, RSNs etc that it has been in previous seasons.
How to train a chatbot on customer service data?
I’m an indie dev that’s been answering every customer email for 5 years on the same platform (Zendesk). I have this dream of training an LLM to replace me, or at least help train other support reps as my business grows? How would I start playing around with this using open source tools? What resources should I keep an eye on?
The article authors continuously conflate the SoC with the OS distro.

it’s almost certainly part of the distro since they claim you can block it. If it was the chipset, you wouldn’t be able to.
I always hated the home/end keys. The way Mac does it is way better and I didn’t really start using Macs until two decades after I used windows and Linux. Cmd+left/right is way easier to use, especially on a laptop and custom keyboard.
I mean they had absolutely zero reason to suspect they had any kind of underlying mental health issues, then out of nowhere they had a long psychotic episode and never really recovered, and are now medicated permanently, frequently relapsing into delusion and paranoia. These are proper diagnosed cases, and they are now legally classified as disabled.

The first time it happened, my step-father jumped into a river to "escape capture by aliens". Had a family member not swam out to him, he'd have drowned.

Likewise, he totalled a car with others in it during a psychotic episode. Again, he shouldn't have been allowed to drive, but the laws at the time did not prevent him from doing so.
Does that extend to internationalisation or accessibility?

(Real questions, Lazarus was before my time)
It depends on whether they are occupied or not. I worked on an upstate New York farm with a barn that was post and beam, with a stone foundation. It was ~350 years old but had a good roof for that entire time.