skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're going to have a weed epidemic soon. Maybe it's a silent epidemic now.

Whatever it is, it's been underway for long enough for the pot-parade of horribles to manifest itself. Heavy weed smokers are all over - but we aren't surrounded by ruin that is clearly attributable to pot.

If you have extra concern to invest, may I suggest one of our most pressing psychological catastrophe?

The criminalization of childhood growth (adult-free time) and the erasure of critical free range land. We've brought complete ruin to childhood and parenting in just two generations. Whatever you think pot is doing, this is actually far, far worse.
AMA: How do you plan to go about the 'boot to basic' aspiration? Do you have a plan in your mind yet?

I'd be super interested in this.

I'd love to have or contribute to a computer that is instant on almost like the old BBC B's and Spectrum that opens to a basic interpreter but also gives you assembly access for those times basic just won't do. This should vibe with your DOS environment too.

There's no reason we couldn't have a BASIC ecosystem around that kinda like pico-8 but hardware.

With constraints comes creativity!

Thanks!!
Those people sometimes exist in your own family too. My wife asked me to get rid of pi-hole because the sponsored links at the top of a Google results page no longer worked.
Every minute they’re not mining, they’re losing money in the sunk cost of (depreciating) hardware.

Which is fine because they only shut off a few hours per day and the amount they get paid to shut off is more than they would have made from mining.

Riot recognized 66mm of depreciation on only 50mm in revenue.

That's because Riot is a scam to transfer money from investors to their executives.
I'm quite confused as to your post. Are you suggesting that Musk is obligated to promote the US' foreign policy goals? If he never decided to provide Starlinks dishes to the Ukrainians would you think he is obligated to provide them or is it once he provided them he has to do everything the current administration wants?

Do you hold this position with other wars? If Musk provided Starlinks in Afghanistan (pre pullout) would he be obligated to allow the Afghan government use them to attack the Taliban? What if he gave it to the Israeli government. Should he be forced to allow the use in attacking the Palestinians?
I submit most interesting insects I find, fun to learn about them. These are some of my favorites

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155914507

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/136708118

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132443637

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/169121886

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8443142

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8445065

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89986236.
It's illegal to do the things that those words describe. The actions are the problem, not the words. If you stop doing the thing, you naturally won't send emails saying you're doing the thing.
Yeah I agree mate the brand new account should be accusing OP of advertising a software that is already well known and widespread
Defcon War Stories: Legend of Zelda Use After Free [video]
So let me help you understand how this works.

A grid needs a base load to function properly. Energy producers can't just scale up or down production whenever demand changes. When people talk about "solar and wind can't supply the entire grid we need batteries to store it" this is what they're talking about. Some amount of electricity must constantly be produced to keep the grid functioning. Nobody buys this energy and the cost of it is rolled into the energy people do buy.

So what if someone out there needed a lot of energy all the time? Well, you can sell that constantly produced energy to them, and whatever they pay for it customers don't have to pay for it. You can decrease prices, waste less energy (from a producer perspective; if you think bitcoin mining is a waste of energy it is wasted either way, but to the producer it is sold) and everyone wins.

But, in times of peak load, when that energy is used and needed, you need the newfound customer of it to be able to not need it on short notice. So you need a customer who isn't going to freeze to death without it. This is where bitcoin mining comes in. They negotiate a deal for the base load energy, buy it, then, when the grid needs them to shut down, sell it back. This is all done at pre negotiated rates and the energy is sold as an option, which in this case means on the condition that they have to sell it back if the producer or grid maintainer or state or whoever needs to use it.
Labor law makes it difficult to achieve, sadly. The NLRA only provides for bargaining units within one employer. Unless you can get an industry wide coalition to voluntarily recognize your union, it is not happening.
Seems annoying if you’re a physicist or RF engineer. The Hertz makes sense.
If you have 1 bad officer but 999 who go along with it, you have 1000 bad officers.

And remember, this is just one case.

"Instead of making headlines with reform, though, the TSA has become better-known for stealing money from travelers. In September, news reports called out the case of TSA working with other agencies to seize $27,600 from a Texas man, apparently because he was traveling to Oregon where marijuana is legal in conflict with federal law; he was never charged with a crime. Last year, the Institute for Justice reported that TSA and its sister agencies at Homeland Security "seized over $2 billion in currency at airports" between 2000 and 2016."

https://reason.com/2021/11/19/after-20-years-of-failure-kill...
This post fits the username perfectly.
The example code is vey simplistic, so of course that linear code is more readable, but the idea doesn’t scale.

I think you have to consider things like reusability and unit-test-ability as well, and having all your code in a single function can make reasoning about it more difficult due to all the local variables in scope that you need to consider as possibly (maybe or maybe not) relevant to the block of code you’re reading.

That being said, when I look back on my younger, less experienced days, I often fell into the trap of over-refactoring perfectly fine linear code into something more modular, yet less maintainable due to all the jumping around. There is something to be said for leaving the code as you initially wrote it, because it is closer to how your mind was thinking at the time, and how a readers mind will also probably be interpreting the code as well. When you over-refactor, that can be lost.

So I guess in summary, this is one of those “programming is a craft” things, where experience helps you determine what is right in a situation.
> Cannabis is federally illegal in the United States (the same way manufacturing machine guns without a license is for example), so if you live there don't use it.

That's not even really true anymore. I live in Texas, which has virtually no legal weed (beyond medical marijuana for a very small number of specific conditions like epilepsy and ALS - it's not like other states where you can say "Hey doc, I've got a headache, can I get a marijuana prescription?"), and yet I can walk into a nice, clean, friendly store in a strip mall and pick up some D9 gummies and brownies, as well as some THCA bud that to me is indistinguishable from "normal" marijuana.

The fact is the 2018 farm bill that legalized hemp had enough loopholes that it essentially legalized marijuana as well. While a lot of this is in a gray area (particularly in the case of THCA bud which appears to me to be a pretty blatant misrepresentation of the law, but I ain't complaining), it's clear there is no appetite anywhere to crack down on these loopholes. For example, Florida considered a bill this year that would crack down on D9 products, but there was already enough entrenched business opposition that the bill was killed.

Weed is legal in the US. If you're worried about legal consequences, just pay a little more and go to a nice dispensary and you're fine.
The issue is something could happen to you and if your PIN is lost, it doesn't matter how many second Yubikeys you have.

Seems like this advice assumes you're using your Yubikey to protect data you want to outlast you?
This is probably a better link:

https://github.com/ReturnInfinity/BareMetal

The one you linked to is a fork that is 83 commits behind a repo that is no longer maintained.
"Public benefit" is simply a marketing term when applied to a private for-profit corporation. It operates like any other company, with an extra line in its mission statement that it will operate for the public good. What does that mean? Nothing. Who enforces it? No one.
You should read about base load energy production to understand what's going on here.
You can’t excuse your way out with “it’s different for different people”. Guess what? Literally all medicines are. That’s why we use scientific analysis and statistical measures. No shit, things affect people in different ways. That’s the whole point of a large scale study like this.

The entire thread is HN playing denial of the harmful effects of a thing we've advocated for years, often with no dissent.
Is there anyway to automate slack without going the api route (since it requires workspace admin approval)?

I want to start by having a global shortcut in macOS that sets me away and disables notifications. I don’t want to click anywhere.
We know about these. We have mitigations planned. We don’t think they’re cause for huge alarm.

Bluesky posts have a rich text system, which means links in posts are similar to anchor tags. It’s not a markup; it’s a way to annotate slices of a string with facets such as links or bold or etc. This means you can linkify any text, thus the first concern raised. We intend to create an interstitial warning if the linkified text doesn’t show the domain clearly.

The posts also have an embed system for images, links, and other posts. We currently naively accept the link cards as published, and we need to stop doing that and fetch the link cards on read instead.
That looks to be happening imminently: https://www.marijuanamoment.net/congressional-researchers-sa...
Patience for after-hours work socializing is wearing thin
I feel like I gamed this somehow. Instead of looking for serial killers, I looked for anyone who didn't look like a programming language inventor and got 10/10.
remember, everyone: markets are the most efficient way to allocate resources :)
It’s a jobs program, always has been.
Unity may have damaged themself enough with this that AppLovin might get another chance to buy. Unity’s stock price has dropped 8% since this was announced.

Another fun fact, the Unity CEO and several board members sold some of their stocks a few weeks ago. [1]

[1] https://kotaku.com/unity-developer-fee-installs-john-ricciti...
This is why judging the usage of electricity is a fool’s errand. The market has a price, and if I want to use it to heat my pool and power my air conditioners that’s my choice. The government should not prevent me from heating if a coat is sufficient, nor cooling if being naked is sufficient, if I’m willing to pay. If that argument makes sense, then using it to play video games, train LLMs, or mine crypto is simply a choice the market makes.
until 2 years later we are discontinuing chromebook support in 90 days.
I don't recall Fallout or Skyrim having in-game city maps, so it's par for the course with Bethesda.
That list (which is at least half of switch game sales) are nintendo games that don't use Unity. I'd be shocked if half of the remaining 500mn games sold used unity. But if they did, at .20c, that's like 50mn dollars.

As for the quest sales, that's another 4mn.

It seems extremely foolhardy to cause this much damage to their reputation and potential growth as a multi-billion dollar company (market cap of 13bn) for 50-100mn a year of additional revenue.
Oh yeah, that makes sense.

I keep forgetting he killed just his wife, not his kids as well.
Anecdotal as well, but I’ve found the same to be true, through hard fought experience.
That's not what Unity is saying - they are saying reinstalls do not count. From their faq:

Does a reinstall of an app on the same device count towards the Unity Runtime Fee?

No, we are not going to charge a fee for reinstalls.

https://unity.com/pricing-updates
This site is pretty generic template agitprop. Industry and activist groups make things like this all of the time to frame certain issues they don't like in the worst possible light.

You can find this sort of stuff in lots of industries that have cash flows at risk that are trying to manufacture outrage in the voting public to create activists who will attempt to influence legislative priorities.
Sounds like the post you are replying to is referencing something concrete. I'm not sure what you are saying other than insulting them.
IANAL but isn't this what we have an FTC for? It feels like pretty blatantly unfair business dealings, particularly the fact that it's retroactive

Literally "I am altering the deal, pray I do not alter it any further"
Find That Obscure Function with This Interactive Map of the Linux Kernel
Maybe their argument was going to be the malicious interpretation that continued use of the engine represents consent to the updated terms. Thus maliciously expecting that anyone who doesn't agree should cease distribution and support of their game.
I don't get why every comment here is answering a different question than the one being asked. The question is "is it common for TSA agents to covertly steal from carry-on luggage", not "is the TSA bad" or "do TSA follow due process" or "is it risky to carry cash in checked luggage when traveling" or "is law enforcement stealing from people" or what have you.
You've never been to Texas if you think it's beautiful lol. Its pretty in some places, particularly the desert and hills, but most of Texas is flat, muggy, hot, the forests are overgrown, pig farms and grain fields. Even the ocean is brown. California is beautiful. Texas is mid at best. But it has other things going for it.

The energy system in Texas is one of it's strengths, the government does represent the will of the majority and is probably the main thing the state has going for it, that and energy resources. People don't move there because it's beautiful, they move there because it is governed and run pretty sensibly.
Not really. I just assumed nearly everyone was a programmer.

"Wow, what a sweet old lady. I'm guessing she invented Fortra-- oh, she, murdered people for their social security checks."
California’s right to repair bill heads to Governor’s desk
But it means that their legal teams say that it's legit already, so that's why most people assume that this is legal.
“Why leading development firms are leaving Unity for Godot”

“Thinking of using Unity today? Think again!”

“Unity hates puppies and babies”
What I mean is, if the price of electricity skyrockets temporarily, it’s very easy to stop mining. They are extraordinarily sensitive to prices given there is a direct relationship to electricity and mining pool payouts.
Elratio programming language outputs hateful comments straight from the compiler
Not sure why this was [dead], but I can't delete it now:

Ah yes, the newspeak term "at risk" for describing a community that's better off after delusional fascistic mods we're rightfully removed. It's like an abusive partner that tells their victim how shitty their life would be without them.

Subreddits are not mods' personal fiefdoms. They learned the hard way who actually owns the platform (Reddit Inc.), and who the platform serves (the users).
Just because alcohol is bad for you, doesn't mean weed is good for you.

I believe it's easier to get addicted to weed than alcohol. I think time will prove me right.

Think of it this way. Let's say there are 100 people in a society. Without weed, 5 are addicted to alcohol. With weed, 20 are addicted to weed and 3 are addicted to alcohol. Yes, there will be fewer alcohol addicts, but we added 20 weed addicts. Is this better for society? I don't believe so.

You're welcomed to disagree.
This seems pretty cool! I suspect they don't get quite as much energy per m^2 as a traditional turbine, but if they're cheaper to produce and maintain (it should be possible to lower the blades to sea level) then I can see a case for it.

Good luck to them.
Jeremie and Bryan, at least, have interacted (and at least Jeremie has drafted multiple RFCs) with the IETF.

Current mailing list items specific to bluesky

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?q=bluesky&qdr=y
- 2k/month is low. Depending on the services you provide.
- There is an 80/20 rule on per client revenue.

So this already makes the math wrong with these two assumptions.
Actually the whole article reminded me of the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns applied with wrong assumptions.
If you never have to write any tests, perhaps this is ok.
I imagine your politics swing left and progressive, right?

Which is why this article is kind of absurd, in my opinion, as it tags the right / Republicans as those who are abandoning the Constitution.

Every poll or social study I've seen shows that progressives - especially the younger generations - have views similar to yours i.e. not much reverence for the Constitution, the founders, etc. They are most likely to believe that freedom of speech is less important than moderating "hate speech." They believe the 2nd amendment right to bear arms is ridiculously out of date in a modern society, etc.
There are externalities of power consumption for which regulation (in the case of a single monopoly power grid, as is the case here) makes sense.

Large scale usage affects grid stability at specific occasional times. If it were just individual homes doing small scale mining across the grid, it would be different, but one can make a good argument that large scale crypto miner operations should be prioritized for unilateral load shedding in times of grid instability.

The power grid as currently designed and deployed in Texas is a shared resource and needs to be centrally managed to avoid tragedy of the commons situations.

If crypto miners don't like the shared rules for the shared resources, there's nothing stopping them from deploying their own wind, solar, and optionally storage.

Being connected to the public grid comes with benefits, and those benefits come with conditions of use, ideally set by consensus of everyone who benefits from and funds the grid.
Those are exactly the types of games that would be much worse off under an Unreal style royalty.

Cult of the Lamb is $24.99 on Steam

Unreal royalty is 5%, so $1.25 per sale

Unity is $0.20

So royalty is ~6x more

If there was a reasonable way to count installs (I don't think it is technically possible), install fee is much better than royalty for most devs who are not F2P apps.
What a hero. Thanks.
He deleted his bluesky account sometime today
Some changes coming to GhostBSD or should I say to GhostOS
The Constitution was abandoned about 90 years ago, when FDR threatened to pack the Supreme Court in order to enable his vast expansion of government. For the better part of a century, you’ve essentially had the executive branch exercising both the lawmaking power and the judicial power. An executive branch agency can make a law and then prosecute you for violating it in front of an employee of the agency. Federalism has been completely upended, with the federal government getting involved in everything from local policing to local education.
To be fair, lots of things have been reported to cause tinnitus.

And from what I can tell, nearly all of the handful of cases in clinical trials that have actually been studied were very temporary.
I hope so, but if it’s likely to get smacked down by the FTC, it’s unlikely Unity would try this path. I’m sure this has been in the works for a long time and all the backlash was anticipated - they just expect huge profits on the other side.
Glad you asked! There's a few ways I know... mix and match as you see fit!

1) 4-6 hours, free: Volunteer with Grid Alternatives (https://gridalternatives.org/get-involved/volunteer), a nationwide (well, several states) nonprofit that donates and installs surplus solar for needy families. You get hands-on installation experience with a crew.

2) 2-3 hours, free: Self-study materials online like this guide from my former employer: https://unboundsolar.com/blog/step-by-step-diy-solar-install... (I didn't write this, and the company changed owners after I left... not sure how it is these days) or if you prefer a community wiki: https://www.appropedia.org/How_to_install_a_photovoltaic_sys... . And of course these days there's probably a bunch of stuff on YouTube too.

3) 18-40 hours, few hundred dollars: A NABCEP prep course (https://coursecatalog.nabcep.org/exam-courses) is probably the best way short of an apprenticeship to learn to do this the right way. The North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners gives (optional but thorough and helpful) solar installation and design certifications. Anyone can take the courses, even if you don't want to get the cert. (I did that just for my own knowledge, while working as a web dev for a solar company). Make sure whichever class you take has a mix of both theory and hands-on practice with real equipment.

4) A few months, more expensive: See if your local university or community college has cheap or auditable (drop in for no credit) courses you can take. Mine had environmental engineering and sustainability courses that included hands-on solar design and installs.

Please note that whatever you choose, in most areas it will NOT be legal to finish your install without an electrician (assuming a grid-tied system connected to your local power utility, vs a standalone battery-backed up off-grid system). You can do most of the work yourself though (great excuse for a pizza party on the roof with friends) but don't actually hook it up / turn it on without a proper permit and electrician inspection. Still, this saves a bunch of money over a fully professional install, and this way you also intimately know the equipment and labor standards better.

Edit: Oh, by the way, some solar resellers (like my former employer above) will help you design the equipment and sell it/ship it to you direct, making it that much easier (you don't have to worry about all the electrical details as much, unless you like that sort of thing... you just have to install what they give you).

I think these days there are also some online design sites (OpenSolar, Helioscope, Aurora, SolarEdge, etc.), but I think those are tailored towards industry professionals and not homeowners. Still, they might be helpful if you want to sign up and play around with a mock roof layout with real equipment connections.
If you walked up to me, built trust with me, and asked me if I wanted more exercise in my life I’d say yes. And yet.
On a slightly newer machine (3 years old, 32GB memory) Firefox (or rather LibreWolf) again runs nicely with a few hundred tabs.

It would probably run fine with that amount of tabs also if it had 16 or maybe 8 GB, but not together with 2 or 3 IDE instancee, Teams, Slack and ome or more applications running in debug.
> all media uploads live forever and are publicly retrievable even if you mark the associated post for deletion

I have no idea what this is referring to
These aren't really "exploits" in the traditional sense, it's just misrepresenting a link card.
Rob Pike, Canadian inventor of Golang, an imperative language with a focus on channel based concurrency

…aka a “serial” killer.

Sorry.