skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people in positions of power fail to avoid the appearance of impropriety, they erode faith in the system. That leads to very real corruption, even if the original acts were ethical.

And from a practical standpoint, any honest politician should want to avoid it, if nothing else to avoid arguing about bullshit from a defensive stance. So there is very much an argument that smoke needs careful fire investigation.

The next step down the this road, of course, is arguing that people are above reproach precisely because of their position. "When the President does it, it's not illegal", etc. Corrupting a government is a process, if you look at other corrupt countries, comparisons are an easy way to sort of spot, "you are here."
My take is that we're going from a criminalization based "screw them, warehouse them in jail and ruin their lives with felony convictions" policy to a laissez-faire "screw them, let them die on the street" policy.

The part that hasn't changed is "screw them." Nobody really cares about these people. They're viewed as an inconvenience and the debate is over the least costly way to either warehouse them or shove them aside somewhere. Most people view addiction as a moral failing and think addicts deserve whatever they get.

I've never been in favor of drug criminalization except possibly in the case of the most addictive and deadly hard drugs (crystal meth, fentanyl, concentrated opiates), but I always hoped that legalization would come with a redirection of funding from prisons and police into treatment. The latter part just isn't happening, or isn't happening with any effectiveness. My take is that nobody gives a damn and decriminalization is more about saving money than freedom or better treatment approaches.
I'm not here to defend UE at all but some of the comments about its use are kind of going in the direction of how any discussion of UE/Doordash/etc on reddit goes where people may seem to forget that something easy for them isn't as easy as it might be for someone else.

Most of the convos turn into "I can't believe anyone is stupid enough and so lazy as to waste their money on these apps when you can just drive to the place and pick it up and save $5-15+. Why are people so stupid? Make these apps run out of business!! Stop supporting them! Go get it yourself!" hundreds of times over and people are just absolutely bewildered that they're used vs someone picking up orders themselves.

Sometimes you'll see a comment or three about people who genuinely need the service, like the disabled, those without transportation, etc.

I use UE a LOT. 5-10+ times a week maybe. I live in the middle of downtown in a major city (USA) and all of my UE deliveries are 10-25 minute drop-offs. I won't order anything that takes 30+ unless I'm having a serious craving. I do NOT live in a part of town with a good selection of restaurants, it's about a 5-20 block walk in either direction.

Now a lot of people would go "10-25 minutes? how lazy are you?" That's 10-25 minutes for someone who is ALREADY out cruising around and near the restaurant to pick up and drop off my order. If I were to drive to get it it'd take me ~5+ just to pull out of my garage and head that direction. Then I'm crossing through downtown traffic and probably have to find some parallel parking and often pay a meter. It'll easily take me 40-1hr to get back with food and I just had the displeasure of dealing with a lot more stress than backing my car out of a suburban driveway. Just as an example that I deal with all the time, I'm in a food/pharmacy desert. The nearest Pharmacy is 3 miles away. That sounds pretty close but this being downtown that's a 20-25 minute drive minimum not including getting to the car, parking, etc. It takes me about 1 hour every month of just driving back and forth to get medications I can't get shipped. I take a 2 hour lunch break to deal with it. If you're driving 30 mph it would take about 6 minutes to go 3 miles with no interruptions. It takes me ~25.

If I walked it would be a 10 minute walk to the rail, a 5-15 minute ride on the train, a 5-10+ minute walk to the restaurant then reverse everything.

I'm uncomfortable biking around this city so while that would be the perfect method I just won't do it. Bike theft is absolutely rampant and the infra just isn't great. I won't leave my bike outside for a second unattended.

I'm 100% paying for convenience and a stress-free experience (99% of the time). It's not cheap and sometimes an order is messed up or missing something but that's honestly pretty rare in my experience. I will happily add the price of a beer or two onto my order to not deal with everything I mentioned above. I hate having to do my pharmacy trip and I'm lucky enough to own a vehicle. I feel so bad for my neighbors who don't and have to spend hours bussing around.
I have realized I have 15 years of git experience (incredible if true) and just got really, really used to it. Still excited if jj is a good follow-up since it sounds like it's not too far away from git's model.
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Levitation in magnetic itself is not the proof. Frogs can do that too, ask Geim. The proof would be levitation in any orientation.
Clinical trials on humans described here:

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/clinical-trial...

Full paper on the drug here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6279569/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_trust
Bribery doesn't need to be direct for it to be bribery. And in this case no bribes are even needed since Sunak can benefit from his own decision.
I'm in the storage business, probably about a decade. This is the first time I hear that database management systems don't bother with recovery... where are you getting this from? I'm pretty sure it's the exact opposite.
Agreed, the author on the linked article is listed as an AI, and the article is just an AI mangling of the PR release. The PR release is directly from the group and the link ought to be changed.

Edit - Here is the FDA record page for the relevant clinical trial:
https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05227326?titl...

The press release says they've published a paper today, but doesn't link to it or say where it was published. So if anyone has journal access and can see or share the paper let us know.

Edit2 - The paper is here:
https://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/pdfExtended/S2451...
A lot of these drugs are used to get people into the sex trade; once you get someone on drugs to do things with/to their body they otherwise wouldn't the cycle of shame begins that often traps these people in the escape through drug induced pleasure. Just the sad truth.
Every action Musk has taken post twitter has been to economically support it, he tried his damndest to get out of buying it after making a ridiculous offer, and is selling Tesla stock to do it.
There's also a great resource on how people are using rust already: crates.io.
I’ve found for tasks that require reasoning (or the illusion of reasoning), GPT4 continues to be much, much stronger than GPT3.5 - especially around handling unexpected inputs, determining the intent behind the instructions and applying that (instead of just following the instructions to the letter), and complex problems that require multiple steps of reasoning.
Not to mention waterproof clothing, non-fogging safety goggles, temperature-resistant wire insulation, dielectrics, separators in Li-ion batteries and countless biomedical applications.

Fluoropolymers and fluorosurfactants have unique properties that make them very difficult to substitute. I'm not sufficiently informed to comment on the possible health impacts of fluorinated hydrocarbons, but I can say that a world without them will be poorer in countless small ways. That might well be a price worth paying, but we shouldn't pretend that it's an easy decision.
> The issue with the UK is that the opposition is even worse.

> Proportional voting doesn’t change that.

Yes, it does. That is, proportional electoral systems increase the diversity of viable and represented parties, so if “the opposition” is bad in an FPTP system with the narrow set of parties it supports (can be as small as two, but regional dynamics will sometimes make it more nationally), proportional representation very much is a solution.
The image on the readme that talks about what the product does is a really nice way to do that - and in fact it's better than talking about what the product does because it's an example of an actual export - thanks for making this and for having a great readme
The 12-Page Pitch Deck Warren James Used to Raise $6M
From back in 2022, but still love seeing behind-the-scenes stuff like this.
It would be sub-10%* gold content. We're talking about gold doping, specifically substitution in the Pb(1) site, not an alloy.

ETA: I was off by an order of magnitude (originally I said sub-1%) because the doping is extensive, and the mass of the lead/gold is a dominant fraction of the total. The formula given in the paper is (subscripts in brackets):

Pb[10−x]Cu[x](PO4)[6]O with 0.9 < x < 1.1.

Similarly for Au we would have Pb[10−x]Au[x](PO4)[6]O. Taking the centerpoint x=1, this becomes Pb[9]Au[1](PO4)[6]O. In other words, there would be one gold atom for every 9 lead atoms.

The "unit cell weight" is 2647.59 g/mol, and the molar mass of gold is 196.97 g/mol, so in fact the hypothetical gold weight content is about 7.44%, not sub-1%.

That said -- presumably superconducting transmission wires would be thinner than the ones we are used to (a function of critical current rather than resistance). So I'm not sure that we'd have a theft problem worse than we already have with copper.
The effective cross-sectional area of the original sample could well be minuscule. (I assume that, if a room temperature superconductor has been found, it constitutes a tiny fraction of the sample.)
The .git directory seems like the obvious location for it; I agree that info/exclude isn't the most obvious path (I had to look up what the exact path was again for my previous comment), but all things considered that seems like a minor issue. I suppose you could symlink .git/ignore to .git/info/exclude or something in the git template.
Nixon started the "war on drugs."

About marijuana activists, he said:

> I want a Goddamn strong statement on marijuana, I mean one that just tears the ass out of them. You know, its a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish.
I don't know the specifics in Oregon, but in many places (especially bigger cities) that stopped prosecuting drugs and prostitution, "throwing everyone in jail" was not the previous scenario. People were arrested then put into diversionary programs that were enforced by the courts. It worked much better than just letting people stay on the streets as the process acted as a wake up call for many (of course, not all).
Flagged. This is a source-free article created by an "AI editor" on a fluff website. Please stop upvoting it. The drug is still in Phase I trials and has NOT released any data on the patients yet.
You don’t get it? He’s a “content producer” that thrives on clickbait and controversy to drive engagement. Every mundane thing should be presented as bizarre and unusual.
This is hilarious:

We provide friendly, patient robots that talk to these rude telemarketers for you. They love to chit-chat, and will often keep nasty callers engaged for several minutes. By keeping the bad guys busy, you keep them from pestering other innocent people, and you hit them where it hurts most...their wallets...because no matter how hard they try, our robots won't ever buy anything. And best of all, you get recordings of each call, so you can hear them squirm and have a good laugh!
Shouldn't moderators remove this? This is not /r/upliftingnews or /r/futurology.

I know I'm being grumpy and highly skeptical, and that Y combinator is about innovation, but why not make a hackernews to compartmentalize those things?

I would be okay about a paper that discuss feasibility instead of the usual "maybe yes? maybe no." blogspam.
> most people can run a single mile in less than 20 minutes.

A mile in twenty minutes is the average walking speed, so anybody who can run at all should be able to do it in that time.
If you haven't come across it yet you might like nushell.
Ugh, I just got done spending months fighting CMake before moving back to a position using Nim!

You can also compile C projects with Nim like bearssl [1]. Nim takes care to compile the C files and recompile them when config flags change. It's actually really nice.

1: https://github.com/status-im/nim-bearssl/blob/99fcb3405c55b2...
This review thing is happening all over the place. Have management levels dropped noticably? Put another way: Are customers reaping lower prices due to this labor now being asked of them?
Frankly, I'd have to be high to accept a job in the intelligence community. I was recruited once in college, got a bad feeling and never regretted it for a second.

Democracies shouldn't have giant unaccountable spy orgs.
It depends on whether you're talking about 100 GB repository size or working copy size.

- Currently no partial/shallow clones, so you need to materialize the entire repo on disk.

- Working copy status can take a while (see https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/issues/1841 for tracking issue). This can be ameliorated at present by configuring Watchman as a filesystem monitor, and work is underway to improve status further.

- No support for Git LFS at present (even in colocated repos). When using the Git backend with jj, you would expect the same problems with regards to large file management.

- I haven't noticed any particular performance issues when interacting with the object store a large repository. It should be approximately the same as for Git since it uses libgit2 for the Git backend.

- Faster for operations that can be done in-memory in jj but only on-disk with Git, such as various rebase operations.
You are ignoring that there is a second parameter: Willingness to be corrupted. I believe that there is extreme overlap between high personal wealth and a willingness to be corrupted, which would make richer people worse politicians.

Everyone says "everyone has a price" but we have examples of normal people being given the opportunity to have way more power and giving it up for the greater good (for example, smedly butler who was supposed to become some sort of supreme leader in a fascist plot, but turned the conspirators in instead, and basically got no reward for doing so, and the conspirators largely went unpunished)
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> We can see this in-action already. Places like California have effectively de-criminalized most/all drug use if you are part of the homeless population. Surprise again - there's more drug use within that community than ever before. It's difficult to walk through the down-town area without seeing overt drug use these-days.

Is this unique to CA? The street level suffering you see in CA cities is overwhelmingly related to fentanyl, an opioid. Infamously, the US is in the midst of the opioid crisis, with deaths continuing to rise unabated [1]. Places with harsher drug policing are also seeing rises in opioid deaths.

And while San Francisco is a top location for opioid deaths, the other top counties by death rates (Mendocino, Trinity, Alpine, Lake, Inyo, Humboldt, Nevada) are all very rural [2].

[1] https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overd...

[2] https://skylab.cdph.ca.gov/ODdash/?tab=CA
Thanks! I figured it was a concise way to show what the output looks like while also explaining some of the features.
That article should be ignored and people ought to read the PR that the research group put out.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/city-of-hope-scient...

Edit: Or better yet, the paper
https://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/fulltext/S2451-94...
My reading is that they believe it works across all solid malignant tumors because malignant tumors necessarily upregulate PCNA (since it's critical to cell division). I think they are also saying that it is agnostic to the particular mutations that upregulated PCNA.
I happened to try it in a directory with only dotfiles apparently.
"Vaporization" > vaping!

Edibles can definitely do the same, but not distillate made stuff from the store.

Even trying a firecracker (herb cooked in peanut butter on a tortilla chip) at home with your existing purchase of plant matter can show you the difference.
No, because the compiler has no way of knowing if you have some reason to care about the layout. 99.99% of the time you don't--but in general it can't know that last .01% where your layout has outside implications.
To expand on this US-centricism (and to address the glib reply you got)... if this was your primary source of information for WWII you'd easily come away with the impression the US were the only country fighting the Axis. There's a few exhibits that present the number of US troops/vehicles/ships/etc vs the Axis to try and emphasis the scale of the challenge ahead of them. The contribution of most of the other Allied nations, and the fact they were fighting for years before the US fully entered, is so diminished that it seems irrelevant.
If you're simply using efficient as a synonym for better, then every improvement is tautologically more efficient than what it immediately replaces. But solid state transistors were pursued specifically for their reduced power consumption while their scalability, which at the time was an afterthought, wound up making them revolutionary.
Obviously not for non-stick cookware but the best spatula I own is a $25-30 Victorinox slotted fish spatula. [1] Topped Wirecutter's list too. [2]

[1] https://www.victorinox.com/us/en/Products/Cutlery/Accessorie...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/victorinox-slotte...
The current is related to the cross-sectional area of the (super)conductor. Not sure how big their sample was, but the solution is thicker and more cables.
Computer components already have gold in them, and they are already recycled for gold.
The level of corruption in the U.K is just fascinating. As Brit I can only laugh. I do fear next election and that general public will continue to vote for which ever party keeps their house price high
Yes, in fact a majority of Mormons are outside the USA
> but I don't think the solution is "let's just go back to throwing everyone in jail".

As someone who lives in Oregon we need some way to force addicts into treatment. Jail worked in some cases because it meant that some addicts no longer had access to the drugs they were addicted to. But even better would be more of a therapeutic environment where they actually get treatment for addiction. However, it seems that most addicts aren't going into treatment willingly (big surprise) and this is why we're seeing so much trouble here. I voted for 110, but now I'm thinking that was a mistake. It either needs some major revisions to enable forcing drug users into treatment or it just needs to be repealed (the former would be better, I think).
Yeah. I think that sign would be more effective if both lines were swapped: "Must Turn, Overheight" rather than Overheight Must Turn". It sounds like a generic warning, I bet these truck drivers don't think it's specifically about them.
They go on missions, very frequently outside of America, as a standard part of their early adult life. Learning the local language is pretty much a requirement.
> or the appearance of it

The public at large see a rich person with an opportunity to grow their wealth through politics. You may well be right, and that is the (original) concept behind the House of Lords, but as with everything in politics its appearance that matters.

Also it's not always about them being corrupted, it can be them as the corrupting force.
Yes. The reality is that becoming a billionaire usually involves some pretty heinous shit conducted against your fellow man for personal benefit. This is a huge self selection for basically people who have no empathy.
I appreciate it, thanks for the comment
Lk-99 and now this. God the hopium is on insane doses right now
> And to be sure, one can negotiate at every turn to stay on top of that, but that's not terribly efficient for long-term engagements, so workers usually seek a long-standing agreement and renegotiate only as needed, like the Louis Vuitton workers did as discussed earlier.

Yes, long standing agreements can provide stability for both workers and employers. However, the ability to renegotiate and advocate for fair wages periodically is essential, especially in dynamic economic environments where factors like inflation, cost of living, and company profits may change over time. Workers seeking better conditions and wages is not an unreasonable expectation, as their contributions contribute to a company's growth and success.

> While this doesn't make sense, what I think you are trying to say is that some people are not worth as much as other people and that those people worth less will not be able to negotiate terms as favourable as someone worth more?

The point is not about devaluing individuals or considering certain people as worth less than others. It's about acknowledging that economic disparities and systemic challenges can limit the bargaining power of certain individuals, making it difficult for them to negotiate for fair wages and better working conditions.

> After all, the whole reason for attaching a price to something is to deal with scarcity. The cost is supposed to scare you away. The higher the cost, the more scared you should be of using up the resource. But if someone has nothing else to do with their life, why would you want to be scared of them? Are they not best utilized to the betterment of themselves and humanity as a whole, not tossed aside out of fear?

It is important to recognize that the labor market is not a perfect representation of resource allocation. The concept of "scarcity" in this context does not equate to the value of human labor or the potential contributions individuals can make to society. People should not be devalued or discarded based on their circumstances, but rather, they should be provided with opportunities and support to enhance their skills and contribute meaningfully to the workforce.

The goal is to ensure that all individuals have access to fair opportunities and can be compensated appropriately for their work, regardless of their background or circumstances. Empowering workers to improve their skills and capabilities benefits not only them but also society as a whole. By promoting fairness and addressing economic disparities, we can create a more inclusive and equitable labor market that benefits everyone.
Huh, I'd imagine cocaine, Adderall and molly would all be very popular among that crowd.