skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nature is the mecca of all science. MDMA will be approved by FDA, that's inevitable. Likely would require special licensing. Clinics will pop up all over the country and it won't be long before “off label” prescriptions will appear. The incidence of PTSD will suddenly rise and before we have a chance to quell the opioid epidemic another epidemic will replace it on the front pages of the news. Meanwhile the smart ones will invest in whichever pharmaceutical company will be the first to patent an SSRI/MDMA combination drug.
“The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” Hegel
IANAL: In California they cannot, unless it is related to the employer's business (so if the employer is Apple, Google or AWS, they probably can). In most states they can.
Please add images to the README!
The CSV was available at https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-hist.csv but isn't up to date.
If you’re going to go all bash, use cut (made for it) or sed to remove the extra comma.

And you could use awk to do the melt if you don’t have python and pandas.
> Its like common knowledge

Why don't you just say folk wisdom? Commonly rumored? Calling something "knowledge" doesn't make it such. The entire point of science, and the reason it's so ridiculously hard, is that common knowledge is so frequently wrong.

> I would not take this every day for a month even if you offer me a years salary.

Then don't? No one is asking you to, nor is this trial nor the proposed line of treatment anything like this.

> Every medic who thinks this is a good idea should do the self test in my opinion.

I have a better proposal: how about they do a bunch of solid RCTs on it? That way we get actual information instead of noise.
Two things. First, this isn't the same thing; you're talking about embedding a resource in a company to read out real time telemetry from internal systems (information with a short shelf life), not stealing industrial trade secrets (information with a very long shelf life). Second, I can assure you that, even with our imperfect systems, there is actually a set of checks and balances in place to prevent rampant (note I said rampant) abuse of this kind.

Yes, agencies would be very excited for this sort of capability. Do they get it as a matter of course that easily? No. There are layers of accountability, legal authorities, and (warranted) push back from commercial entities.
The process is roughly the same as the boost one: the rust project maintains a number of packages outside the standard library, such as regex. Projects may graduate from the community to being owned by the project. And then, if the team decides that it's a good decision, a package owned by the project can move into the standard library.

It happens pretty rarely because there is not much advantage to doing so, but the path does exist.
CPVC might be better than PVC, but it's still way worse than copper or pex. Both PVC and CPVC will shatter if stressed beyond it's yield strength. Go hit it with a hammer, and compare that to hitting a copper pipe or pex. This is also the reason why pvc is super dangerous for compressed air.
Maybe Texas should have some more natural gas plants.
Apple III Pascal – Programmer’s Manual, Volume 1 (1981) [pdf]
I deleted my history several times back when I used a google account. It can be done in two places, but the easier is, starting from any google application, click ProfileImage > Manage your Google Account > Data and Privacy. On that page is Location History, in the Things you've done and places you've been category. In there your options are Delete all, or Delete activity older than <range>. And it can be recurring deletion as well.

In the same Privacy page, you can easily delete or download anything you want.
Wow. Seeing all the top posts / commenters etc all being deleted really drives it home.
ElixirConf 2023 – José Valim – The foundations of the Elixir type system [video]
That's because everyone in this comment section is giving wisdom about how to deal with the emotional reality of being abstracted from the fruits of their own labor. "Don't get attached to your work" is dystopian.
Venture Capitalists Will Overpay for Seed Rounds but for Reasons You Likely Hav
You can definitely have a bad time on it that's akin to a bad trip, especially if you're hashing out trauma with a therapist while on it.
Range anxiety goes away entirely if you have an L2 charger at home.

I plug in at night and wake up with 300mi range in the morning. Way more than I need for every trip save one or two a year

The biggest blockers to EV adoption IMO is all the folk who rent and won’t have access to a home charger.
> Sarcasm and jaded humour can come across really badly when you taken out of context.

Yep, especially when you leave just enough out of the parts you quote to be able to spin this into either a cops-are-evil, cops-are-misogynist, or cops-are-racist narrative to suit your audience. "No, she's just a normal person" is deliberately omitted from the article, despite it establishing the context for everything reported on.

> I spent a bit of time in an environment around helping people with disabilities and this sounds quite familiar. It had the worst jokes and the most horrible kind of humour.

You get it. Most of us have been there or participated in it ourselves, whether or not we admit it.

The sad part is, he wasn't making Frogger jokes or anything-- he was making a statement about the criteria by which the city would justify undercompensating the victim's family for their loss. He's clearly disillusioned with the institution he works for...same as the rest of us.

Rather than using his inadvertent disclosure to ask some very pointed questions about how the city has historically compensated families for civilian deaths (where did he come up the idea for an $11k payout?), the internet outrage machine is spun up to crucify the guy who made a private gaffe about it.
>And that purchasing power of currencies will go down over time.

This is only true when you keep printing more of it. The creation of currency outpacing the creation of value is inflation.
Ensembles, for one. We might ask the same question of keyword extraction, for example, and then aggregate the results. Here's a horrible example, but it works and runs on a GPU box: https://github.com/FeatureBaseDB/Laminoid/blob/main/sloth/sl...

Keyterms can be used in the prompt to drive the LLM to better grounded responses as well as helping locate relevant embeddings for RAG, when vector search isn't enough.

Another consideration is writing code for processing things that look similar. For example, one might have the LLM write regex code which is then tested to work and put into production in a pipeline to parse log files, or write SQL off conversational queries, which are then run against a database.
Really there's isn't a stick there? I'm not expecting manual in an electric or most hybrids but how are you supposed to reverse, neutral or park the thing?
Yeah, because of course I was referring to tenement conditions and families of twelve, as opposed to people building 10k sq ft mansions in the city.

For reference, this is the article I was referring to: https://www.thecity.nyc/housing/2023/8/24/23843686/100k-apar...
Older versions of ARM had hardware support for translating and executing Java bytecode, see Jazelle.
On my 12 year old car, I manually point my mirrors at the ground when I'm reversing. I thought everybody did this. How else do you align yourself with the parking space?

To see what's behind me, I mostly turn around to look. Too many blind spots to trust a mirror for that. However on newer cars with cameras, I am guessing they offer a less obstructed view.
Plus the whole website primes you to think that you're about to be presented serial killers.

You could do a 'serial killer or ...' about anyone whose prime was between 1950 and 1970-some and has a lot of mostly B&W photos.
Trusting clients is probably a security flaw
Bing and Google search are equally awful at finding what I need and I hope they both become irrelevant.
You cannot really compare the two use cases. It's like banning morphine because if people used that in parties they would have a heart attack.
I do not like working with people like this, because I don't want to be anywhere near the maintenance burden of a pile of hacks that technically can run a single Excel spreadsheet. I don't even want to be within earshot of people complaining about this. If I even thought about it for too long I'm sure I'd have a giant headache.
They don't understand it, because what you're quoting as a behavior is pretty standard anywhere in the world. That's why companies protect their secrets from low rank employees.

Except if you're arguing that western companies are bound by stronger ethics, in which case I'd like to see some evidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_iteration
Well they may have been pushing updates to those older phones, but I wonder if we can call that "support". Supposedly they were pushing updates that intentionally slowed down older models to encourage people to upgrade[1]. Let's not pretend they were just doing good to do good.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/02/apple-agrees-to-settlement...
> I can imagine a future scenario where, in the interests of public health, someone figures out how to transliterate the 'too much salt' genes to 'too much sugar' genes.

This has already been contemplated as a way to reduce consumption of red meat. [1] Just make people allergic to it. All in the name of fighting global warming of course.

1: https://twitter.com/bitcoinorthobro/status/14072586753587159...
> the dig against MBAs is unnecessary

You're right. Ironically, I've seriously considered getting an MBA myself.

I changed it to "management-consultant thinking," which feels much more fair, given we are ripping on a McKinsey article in the first place. :) Thanks for the note.
I didn't know they were solar water heating until right now.
Barbados has been a cool case study of large scale adoption of solar water heating:

https://cdkn.org/resource/cdkn-inside-story-seizing-the-suns...
> I’m curious as to how to bump up the score

Find a way to pay down revolving balances to zero.

If you have cash sitting around, great. Otherwise borrow from a 401(k), friends or family, send non-reporting payments in late et cetera. Running balances rapidly to zero tends to cause a 50 to 100 point bump. After you’ve got approval, rebuild the balance and use that credit to repay the loan. In summary: transfer the debt from reporting to non-reporting sources.

If you’re thinking longer term, find bullshit collateralised reporting loans and take them out. Securities-based loans, HELOCs. Low rate. Manufactured borrowing. But it’s a credit line paid back on time. The algorithm likes those.
I rented a Tesla Model 3 on a recent trip as well. I loved the car, mostly. I loved the instant torque. I loved the one-pedal driving (thanks to regenerative braking). Overall, a fantastic driving experience.

The part I didn't like: I had to have the passenger help when I needed to adjust the AC. Most things need multiple touches on the screen, and given my unfamiliarity with the UI, I needed the passenger to help. If I had time to get familiar with the UI would I be comfortable with it? I am unsure.

Despite this, I considered switching to Tesla. Then I read that in new Tesla 3, they are removing even more physical controls: the turn signal stalk is getting replaced with buttons, and the reverse-gear is now controlled through on-screen UI, so no stalk for that either. This made me change my mind.

Elon Musk's philosophy is "best part is no part", but that doesn't necessarily match my expectations for driving experience.
I have also implemented greedy algorithms.
Yet every time I see a product advertised with "new and improved recipe", I can rarely tell along which axes it has actually improved. Usually I want the old product back.
It's a simple twist ending. The twist is that the wife was worried her brother would become an ascetic - but the person she should have worried about, the person who was planning to and did become an ascetic, was her husband. The performance is his declaration of asceticism, and the "you're my mother" line is a stock part of it, essentially meaning I renounce sexual attraction when said to your (former) partner.
Barbados' thriving solar water heater industry (2012)
I’d go further and say that government websites and services in general are weird and often feel outdated, especially the more local you get.

Some of them look like they’re straight from the early 2000s.

Another thing is that privacy is dead and almost everything is deemed public information.
Your address, mugshot, voter rolls, you name it, it’s all deemed public information.

But once you actually want to access information that is useful to society as whole, more often than not it’s behind a paywall.
Despite this, they still call it “public” information because theoretically anyone can pay for it and get access.

It’s one of the first things I noticed when I moved to the US.

Another thing that I’ve noticed is that, if possible, there always needs to be a middle man inserted, a private corporation that can make a profit out of it.

You want to identify yourself to the government?
Well you’re gonna need an ID.me account or complete a quiz provided to you by LexisNexis or one of the credit reporting agencies.

Why? How is it that the government of all entities, isn’t capable of verifying me themselves?

Zooming out even further you’ll start to recognize even more ancient processes you interact with in daily life.

The whole banking situation and the backbone that’s running it is a great example.
The concept of pending transactions, checks and expensive and slow transfers is baffling to me.

It’s so weird, like ooh, aah this country is the pinnacle of technological innovation, yet in daily life there’s so much that hinges on ancient and suboptimal processes that you don’t see in, say, Western Europe.

My best guess is that’s this is because of a mix of lack of funding and politicians that wanting to placate profit seeking corporations.

Ironically, and I have no hard evidence for this because I’m too lazy to look into it, I suspect that on the long term it costs more to outsource it than it does to do it themselves.

/rant
In my experience 99% of indoor plumbing in new builds in Canada (US too I believe) is PEX, not (C)PVC.

PVC is common in sewage, drainage, and as conduit.
This is why we need better tools like projectional code editors.

There should be an editor toggle to inline functions temporarily.

No more bouncing.
I don’t think “progressive tax on companies as they get larger,” would be at all helpful. For one thing companies can skirt this with subsidiaries but also there are capital intensive industries where such a system could punish the average company. I agree they shouldn’t allow mergers, this should be very rare and there should have to be a very good case for it, but also just breaking up companies should be a lot more normal.

I also agree there has to be some kind of answer based on company profit, but I think that taxation is not the best answer. It would be much better if there was a way to funnel that money into
R&D at other companies and even industries; but admittedly I have no idea how such a system would work or if it’s even possible. Just sounds good in my head.
I hope this will be useful in treating food allergies.
It also seems to be potentially scary to be attempting inverse vaccines while our understanding of the mechanics of immunity are so limited.
Colombian Painter Botero (Painter of Our Virtues) Dies at 91
RIP the greatest Colombian artist of all time.
The part the author is missing is that Box and Uber have already claimed the code as their own. It will be in the employment contract. The author appears to be under the impression that asking a mid-level manager (or even a senior manager) "Hey, do you want this?" and that manager answering "No", is in any way legally binding on the company.
Replying here due to depth limits.

> Can you point out the part of the article that disagrees with the assertion "cats are domestic animals"?

This is neither relevant nor the issue being discussed. It is a straw man, and you all too well know this. No one has at any point claimed that there are not domestic cats.

The entire point made was that cats are a native species in many parts of Europe, and that research shows not only that cats domesticated themselves, but that domestic and wild cats are genetically almost identical. The fact that domestic cats exist does not prevent native wild cats from also existing.
Natural gas? I thought they drilled oil there ... They got lots to burn /s. Remember when Texas was saying how much better it is there than Cali or anywhere ... yeah, they didnt mention the fine print.
I want to know what GPT model was used to generate this comment so I can make sure to avoid it
More generally, if you told the immune system to ignore a still existing disease, it would probably be defenseless if/when you actually got infected by it.

Or could the immune system maybe override this if you got really sick?
Less so ethics and more so credible legal action against offending companies and individuals.
> Someone will take joy in ripping it out someday.
Huh. In the US, HDPE outdoors is somewhat common in larger installations and for utilities, and PVC is used for almost all landscape irrigation. Galvanized steel is still surprisingly common indoors and outdoors despite its near complete lack of redeeming features.

Indoors, fancy contractors seem to prefer copper and less fancy contractors seem to prefer PEX. Those fancy copper-using contractors seem to mostly mess up and use non-water-soluble flux, which is against code and is very much a mistake on cold water pipes.

Residential fire sprinkler pipes are almost always CPVC. PEX is permitted in most jurisdictions if the pressure is regulated, but almost no one uses it despite being much less fiddly than CPVC. (Commercial fire sprinkler pipes seem to be mostly steel (!). I don’t know why. It always seems like a dubious idea to me.)
> A lot (read most) of the tech companies are located in the most expensive housing real estate markets.

The most expensive real estate markets are expensive because of tech
> By 1986, the Reagan administration had gutted the research and development budgets for renewable energy at the then-fledgling U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and eliminated tax breaks for the deployment of wind turbines and solar technologies—recommitting the nation to reliance on cheap but polluting fossil fuels, often from foreign suppliers.

Crazy. You see all these wind turbines all across the U.S. If not spread across the plains or along foothills, they're being shipped along the highways one blade at a time. I look at the transformation going on and figure we could have had this tech in the 80's. What happened in the last four decades? Talk about a lost generation.

It was so weird to grow up in the 70's when they were teaching us the Metric System in public schools, when National Parks were adding meters, kilometers to signage. Reusable spacecraft, renewable energy, (and nuclear energy), computers, micro-electronics....

To be sure there were warnings of an ominous, overcrowded, polluted future ("Soylent Green", "Silent Running", just to call out a couple films of the era) but as a kid I was infused with the optimism of the time. Buckminster Fuller, NASA ... even the hippies and their communes.

I think I still live in that world in my head. I hope maybe I have expressed a part of that optimism to my kids as I raised them.
> What is competition supposed to be if it’s not beating the competition.

It's supposed to be fair. Microsoft didn't get nailed because they were winning, they got nailed because they were winning by abusing one monopoly to try and create another.
The phrase is literally used by everybody not just right wingers. I don't think you were paying attention for the entirety of Trump's presidency since the left consistently used it. It is a completely innocuous phrase.

If I said "make America great again" or something like that then you might have a point.
DC has responded:

"The Fables comic books and graphic novels published by DC, and the storylines, characters and elements therein, are owned by DC and protected under the copyright laws of the United States and throughout the world in accordance with applicable law, and are not in the public domain. DC reserves all rights and will take such action as DC deems necessary or appropriate to protect its intellectual property rights."

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/55100/dc-responds-bill-w...
> Pro-choice/climate being bundled together is just the ordinary left/right (or non-left) divide, nothing special there.

Are you sure? They don't track together nearly so strongly in, say, France. They don't naturally, or necessarily, go together IMO.

In your list, items 1 and 3 contradict each other. Item 4 I read as Cartesian dualism. Mind and body, no soul required (I also seriously doubt your interpretation). Item 5... the Parable of the Good Samaritan isn't about being meek and mild, it's about obeying the Golden Rule, and the Good Samaritan is atypical: he doesn't represent all Samartians. Jesus wasn't making a point about the virtue of Samartians in general.

Honestly, I think you're building a straw man here.
You should start your comment with "As a top 5% computer-literate HN reader".

To my parents, double clicking on "Internet Explorer" means "opening the internet".
I’ve used Veeam’s free community edition [1] to backup personal computers. I’ve only used it on Windows, but they have agents for Linux, and Mac.

[1] https://www.veeam.com/agent-for-windows-community-edition.ht...
The only thing that Starbucks did for coffee was that children now also love to drink it.

In fact their coffee doesn't taste like coffee, but more like mocha/hazelnut ice cream.
Why Tech Companies Still Love Eating Their Own Dogfood
Supposedly, the car will correctly guess what gear you want to be in. Most of the time. So for example, if you press brakes to bring the car to a stop while in reverse gear, the car will guess that you want to be in forward gear next. If it doesn't guess correctly, there is on-screen UI to change the gear.
The Levandowski lawsuit comes to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Levandowski#Civil_laws...

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Edit:

Since I enjoyed OP's story, I thought I should clarify a bit.

I'm speaking broadly of how I remember (from the outside) Uber's fast-and-loose IP attitudes in the 2010s.

I don't think OP did anything of a similar sort. From comments here it sounds like they used some code they built in their free time that a previous employer didn't want.

At Uber it sounds like they asked and were permitted to post their no-longer-needed code to GitHub. It's got its own GH org and everything.

This whole chain is legally risky (I wouldn't do it and would strongly advise others not to do it).

I feel OPs actions are not Ethically Wrong, though. I wouldn't enjoy living in a world where OP gets sued for this, since it sounds like nobody at work wanted the work and it's not giving competitors an advantage. I won't claim the world isn't like that, though.

I really wish I could share OP's attitude and sense of ownership. I built something really cool (entirely in my free time) for a previous employer's hackathon. That code lives on some server they own now, possibly deleted. I deleted my copy after submitting it to the hackathon because I didn't want to risk anything. Company lawyers make just building things for fun feel so risky! It takes the soul out of our work.