skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get how so many people like coffee. I've tried it maybe a handful of times in my life, getting the type that my friends said is great, and I've always found it to be reminiscent of dirty water, that is, water that has been contaminated with dirt.

Why do so many people like it?

My friends say they like the taste, but I don't believe them. I think it has to do with them being coerced into liking coffee at a young age, and now they're addicted to it because of its caffeine content.

I come from a country (Macedonia, ruled over by the Ottomans for more than 500 years. The Ottomans liked their coffee) where every going out with friends is centered around coffee. So when people want to hang out, they never, ever, say stuff like "Hey, let's hang out", but always "Let's drink coffee" (I understand people in the civilized world, people say stuff like this too to hang out with friends, particularly in America (I'm not familiar with Western Europe as I haven't lived there, though I assume its similar to the US), but not like they do here, and the surrounding regions.)

And when you do go out to hang out casually with friends, it's always to a fucking cafe because they want to get their daily dose of caffeine in, because they're totally not addicted to it.

(The overwhelming majority of people here go to cafes every day to drink coffee with their friends, who also drink coffee. It's become something like a ritual for them at this point.)

When I hang out with my friends in a cafe, naturally as their sacred ritual insists, and I order anything other than coffee, which I always do, other than those 2 times, they look at me like I've just committed the mother of all sins.

I apologize for my off-topic rant, but I had to get it off my chest.
For my world, personally (in no order), my top four:

1. Geocities is where I built my first website and got me started in web design.

2. DailyKos got me interested in local political blogging and got me started in politics as a career.

3 and 4: twelve years ago, I met my fiancee and we became friends on Facebook, and then moved to different cities for a decade. And two years ago, after moving back, we matched on OKCupid and I alluded to us being FB friends to get a reply.
Building a Python ORM from scratch in 25 minutes
Gamblers have problems that can't be solved with regulation
> However I got pulled over by the police for speeding about quarterly in the BMW, and have not been pulled over a single time in more than five years in my new car.

In car fan circles, this is called a “sleeper” - a car whose boring design and boring color doesn’t draw attention from police. That’s not a negative at all - it’s great! Car fans often buy sleepers on purpose.

Historical sleeper examples include the Ford Taurus SHO, Chevy SS sedan, and Audi S6. I had a 2003 Audi RS6, a notorious sleeper. Looked totally plain, but could absolutely fly, and I never got a ticket in it despite some truly hair raising speeds.
Welcome to nicotine poisoning. You are only supposed to chew until you get flavor, then suck on it like you would spitting tobacco except not spitting. When you get a craving, you chew a few more times. The symptoms you describe are classic nicotine poisoning symptoms. Sweats, expulsions of fluids, rapid heart rate, disorientation.
Theaters mostly don’t get a cut on these films. WB gets all the box office and the theater makes money on concessions.
Would be a good xkcd -- bottle washes up, opens bottle to see USB drive; throws it back
I'm not a huge sports fan but this is an interesting idea. Currently a lot of people watch and post to Twitter during games but unless you've assembled a very well curated list of people, the signal to noise is usually terrible. That's going to be a big issue with any large chat group as we see in crowded YT and Twitch live feeds. I think the key is to have features that let mods curate the feed in real-time to spotlight good posts out of the fire hose of typical crap. Probably should also have an upvoting system that auto-elevates better posts to featured status (with votes automatically meta-weighted by user reputation, viewing frequency, etc).

I only watch recorded TV via DVR where I can easily skip commercials. For example, in the case of the NFL team I follow, I start watching their games on the DVR an hour and 15 minutes after it starts. After skipping commercials, time outs and half-time, I catch up close to real-time right near the end. So for me, such a service wouldn't be usable unless it had a good replay feature with granular DVR-like skip-ahead controls so I could keep the feed in sync.
I would say that's a sampling bias, considering the type of people that frequent IRC. Numerous more students everywhere buy some piracetam or related due to a TikTok video, and never suffer any consequence.

I would also mention that nicotine itself has a marginally lower addictive rating if we go by ΔFosB expression. Having been someone that got hooked on cigarettes (and quit), the same habits never formed for nicotine, and the inclination was never there. And it is trivial to quit nicotine (compared to caffeine, even more so for cigarettes).

Though, I do agree in essence with your post. It is hubris to play around with this sort of thing. And there is never a free lunch (unless we're speaking strictly of micronutrients and pseudomicronutrients/vitamins).
There is a disturbance in references in this movie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_(film)

based on the Heinlein short

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies

If it is than that's not a neat "recursion" with nesting but more of a spaghetti code paradox.

Another example is the prevalence of fractals in all forms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal

these are motifs in nature (plant and animal structural systems not to mention hydrogeological) and seem to be common to the psychedelic drug experience but they do appear in an occasional movie set or image montage and become a theme in literature from time to time.
And the funny follow-up: after this one-time rather completly unpleasant experience, I developed an intense smell sensibility to nicotine that lasted about one month: I could feel/smell the presence of small amounts of nicotine and have a very somatic "sick" reaction to it. I guess my body learned quickly to alert me of the "poison". Luckily, this reaction dissapeared and everything reverted to normal after about one month.
.. like this ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Grande_Fire
Impressive work.

Be careful about leaning on your age/precociousness to get approval. It's not a long term solution.
I am comparing paid Spotify, the ads I'm talking about are house ads. It's for things like a new Spofity special thing, or some new feature.
Ah yes. In my first job the CFO repeatedly rejected IT manager's requests for a proper backup system of the AS/400 that held all of the business (ERP, CRM, accounting) because backing up the work of 300 people on 8" floppies simply didn't work.

One day, a major disk crash occurred, and the whole company went frozen for a couple of weeks (couldn't fulfil orders; couldn't manage support requests; couldn't make any proper commercial proposal; couldn't find a customer's number or address from the database; etc). IIRC some disks were even sent to Kroll Ontrack. After that disaster, of course, a proper backup unit was bought...
It's not just laws. People like me that have had bad trips and never want to touch another psychedelic because of it (or just people that are afraid of it for other reasons) could benefit from drugs that have that same "reset" effect without the trip.
That's kind of a weird study though, it's saying that ketamine while you're on general anesthesia doesn't alleviate depression better than placebo. But to me that doesn't mean much because you don't have a chance to consciously address reasons that you're depressed if you're knocked out, or to experience not feeling like garbage.
You really should have kept reading because this is addressed
That doesn't sound true.
I don't see any newspaper sites there, and I can't make a strong case for a newspaper now.

For all the pleading to save journalism to content walls that do nothing but self silo and isolate their voice, I feel big newspaper journalism has consistently dropped the ball so much it's rolled into an entirely different ballpark. The 4th estate is failing.
...and in a duopoly on mobile app stores
It would probably be useful to actually read before you comment. He meticulously cites the sources of his claims with actual studies.
Sometimes I feel we're never going to be rid of PDFs. Everything can be converted into one, but you can't reliably convert from it.

They're going to be here in 200 years.
A $50 bidet is great! If you have room in the budget, though, take a look at slightly higher-end ones. Especially ones that have a built-in blow drier. It sounds silly, but it's luxurious. For something you use constantly, it might be worth an extra $100 or so.
If you feel hard done by as a BMW driver try riding a bike and see what people think of you then.
In terms of getting more casual users to use Linux, it makes sense to sponsor projects like Gnome, considering how popular it is, and the fact that DEs are the main interface between users and the system; it's really rather important they're properly maintained, easy to use, etc

While I half agree with you that there may be better sources for this funding, I'm happy for any serious open source funding, and the (hopefully positive!) attention it receives from that

(And this comes from a long-term i3 user who loathes using heavy DEs :P)
>You are archiving it for your own personal use

That is not the usual definition of archiving. That is just piracy.
I was always fascinated by cigarettes and stole one when I was 10 and that was where my journey of addition to nicotine began. I now vape everyday and chew 2mg of gum if I’m on a plane or some other situation.

I’ve tried to quit multiple times but I’m weak. I can go a few months but always get pulled back.

IMO there are no benefits. If you never had nicotine and this link made you curious don’t. You will most likely become a life long user to one of the most addictive chemicals known to man.
Wayland has a few glitches, but in general it's good to use.

For example, it doesn't have an API to get current cursor position (which breaks keepassxc's browser popup, goldendict's query popup), an API (which most compositor implements) to get current window state, which makes me unable to find an alternative of autokey (kwin script can do this, though, but it lacks the ability to execute arbitary commands..).

On the other hand, I don't see a killing feature that drives people switch to wayland.. (HDR can be one, but I don't use it) I mean, yeah X11 is old and unmaintained, but it WORKS.
I hate to quote so much of the post—it's well worth a read—but I think it's bookended by two very different experiences that convey so much about the U.S. prison system.

> A few years later, I left prison with $0 in my pocket (lawyers and commissary are expensive, and nobody pays you what they owe you when you come in), to a rooming house with hallways that smelled like crack-smoke and were filled with parole officers and junkies. I was left with the difficult choice of either living there and walking to a temp agency with hopes of making $10.50/hour doing manual labor (without an ID or social security card at this point), or getting on a bus to NYC to see some associates, and coming back in a week or so with $15-25k in my pocket and living in comfy luxury hotels until I could rent an apartment… I chose the latter, obviously, and was back in prison after 14mo.

...and later:

> I am very grateful for the opportunity, but I recognize that this is very much the exception and not the rule, and the success of the Maine model of corrections should highlight the absolutely embarrassing lack of opportunities in the rest of the system, to do anything but become a bitter, broke criminal; deprived of not just your freedom, family, financial security and reputation, but also of your self-identity as someone worth investing in changing. We need to do better as a society, and understand that, yes, there are people in the system that deserve this kind of punishment, but a large majority of our prison population are just regular people… non-violent drug offenders like myself. There are plenty more, like me, that are capable of being responsible, productive, tax paying members of society if given the opportunity, but you cannot expect anyone to change when you just lock them up in a cage with a bunch of other criminals where there is a subculture of endless negativity.
This is an incredible post, and I encourage everyone to read it.

I wish I knew better how to help incarcerated people. Based on the Norway(?) model, I feel like help would reduce return rates, but I don't know how to go about it.
When the money is gone, the crying begins alongside the calls that,”There Ought to Be a Law” (TOBOL)…

Then a new class of investors starts the cycle all over again.

“It’s all just a little bit of History Repeating.” -The Propellerheads featuring Shirley Bassey
> They argue that chatbots could provide users with step-by-step instructions to genetically engineer and produce pathogens, such as viruses or bacteria.

> Consider the fact that high school biology students, congressional staffers, and middle-school summer campers already have hands-on experience genetically engineering bacteria.

I clicked the link in "sumercamp". One of the activities is

> genetically engineer bacteria cells with firefly genes;

The difficult part is creating the vector to tranfer the firefly genes. I guess it's possible to misuse the same easy equipemt to tranfer firefly genes to plants or other animal, but to tranfer elephant genes to bacterias you need a more advanced lab.

If this were sofware, this would be script kiddies level. It's a very interesting project for a summer camp, but it's ridiculous to pretend it's useful for terrorist.
Neurogenesis gets thrown around a lot in this community. I have had success with ketamine treatments. The basic science research is there, but the clinical evidence so far remains pretty vague.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6082376/

On the “I feel it so it works,” thing… yeah but it makes me uncomfortable to believe in it like a faith.

Something like neurogenesis feels anecdotally correct, but can anyone accurately describe their own brain function based on sensation from inside their brain?

Without data, it could equally be the feeling of brain cells (that made you feel unpleasant) dying forever. Would that be a worse treatment?

I don’t know, but more research is needed. Sign me up ;p
Agreed on Clean Code. I remember nothing practical from that book. Its principal value is that it looks nice on my shelf.

Watching Bob Martin's talks, he just likes ranting about computers and doesn't give actionable advice. However, he was one of the first "tech" authors I was exposed to, so I guess the the book itself is good for marketing. Maybe it's accessible enough for beginners. But now the book is certainly worthless as a reference or refresher to me.
I was very unhappy as a child, which may have to do with why I find hallucinogenics very anxiety-inducing.
Great to see this finally resolved.

The working group was about to collect data that could've been interesting, but the time this could/would take was undetermined. It would've also been questionable because all parties that could do the measurements (IP vendors) are biased.

The Samsung talk about Zc on the risc-v summit was also supposed to show performance improvements for the Zc side. We'll probably get the YouTube upload at the end of the month.

There is still space for a seperate profile without 16 bit instructions, so we'll have to see how that develops.
Or languages where `==` isn't actually symmetric and overloading/monkey-patching is possible and not uncommon.
Using an unstable channel and being surprised at bugs is kind of your own making...

I also use Wayland + KDE full time and have not experienced any of the issues you described.
First glance through the project and it seem well organized. Kudos!

How long have you been programming and what languages did you start off with? I know quite a few developers decades older than you that still don't know how to write a Makefile [1].

What's the deal with the inline emojis in the source? Is that what all the cool kids are doing these days or does it just force you to be mindful of non-ASCII input?

[1]: And even more that cannot write or understand dynamically generated targets...
Quoting one of the reply [0] from the linked thread in the OP:

Nicotine is considered one of the most (if not THE most) physically and psychologically addictive substances in the entire world. Prior to introducing nicotine into your body, there is no compulsion for your body want/need it. However, as SOON as you introduce it for the first time, it gives birth to a "little monster" of need within you. This monster will remain within you until the day you die. Sure, eventually you can starve this "little monster" down into a tiny little husk, so that it no longer has any effect on you, but there's always going to be that slight twinge... That slight trickle in the back of your mind that something's missing. I feel that once you go down the road of nicotine you'll forever regret it.

However, if you have been a smoker I guess it's alright to try but,

Another interesting thing I found in the same thread is the Moderator's note [1]:

The study below demonstrates that nicotine, regardless of administration method causes Smoker's Melanosis, and it is likely that by extension, whether specifically demonstrated or not, this action will accelerate the visible signs of skin aging by a similar uneven discoloration and an increase in the number of moles which smokers and their families get.

The long-term effect of nicotine on the oral mucosa [2].

So, it's still not safe completely. I have been a smoker and I quit long ago but after reading the article I'd still stick with the good ol' coffee!

0: https://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/23915-nicotine-patch-f...

1: https://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/23915-nicotine-patch-f...

2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10605870
I love it when frameworks provide tools like this! Astro's image components were nice to use, excited about Svelte!
May be it should be patent free video codec rather than royalty free video codec?
I think it's okay, otherwise this wouldn't have landed on the front page (less likely at least). And it's only on HN and not on the GitHub repo. If it would be stated on GitHub, I'd agree with you.
Fourteen years of Google language published on Google platform that first and foremost addresses internal engineering and culture issues of Google. Also, anemic and slow standard library.
Snus is quite common in my country, Sweden. Many users are former smokers who "quit" by using snus instead as their source of nicotine.
Users I know have said that they feel that it is highly addictive.

Studies of snus users have indicated increased risks of cancer in the mouth, throat and gastrointestinal system but have not been conclusive as to how. There's also a newer type of snus not made from tobacco, with pure nicotine as a separate ingredient, but it has been studied much less.

Nicotine is still widely considered harmful for the cardiovascular system though. I've had two surgeries this past year and been told to not even chew nicotine gum for a week before because of how nicotine in my system could lead to complications.
A friend and I had a discussion today, whether Amazon was a small internet company among many, back when it IPOed in 1997. Or if it already stood out as one of the biggest IPOs of that time.

To our surprise, we did not find a list of dotcom IPOs from the 90s together with their IPO market cap.

If someone here knows about such a list, I would love to see it.
How Strong Are the Social Connections?
Awesome. I wish I had this level of dedication when I was young.

I recommend you to participate in programs like Google Summer of Code, KDE Season of Code, Linux Foundation LFX, and X.org EVoC. There are some very interesting problems to solve. I wish I had known about them when I was student. Now I am working in Full time job, therefore have no time to contribute to open source.

Keep up the good work.
I used to be a daily smoker for over 2y and a casual/social smoker for close to a decade.
Since moving to US, for the last decade, I don't smoke as "nobody" smokes here (compared to Europe). I smoke now 1-2 cigarettes a year, mostly when visiting Europe and with smoker friends. (I never got addicted and never had any problem quiting cold turkey; I smoked because it was great social relationship builder - some of my best friends are people met on cigarette breaks).

Sometimes I use nicotine gums / patches as a dieting aid (effective appetite suppressant).

And I want to warn against this premise of short half life. This is not true in general. There are active metabolites like cotinine with elimination half life of 20h+, depending on your liver enzymes, gender, ethnicity.

If I chew a nicotine gum around noon, I have trouble sleeping the whole following night with my brain unable to calm down, mild jaw clenching etc.

So yes, moldafinil is a terrible stimulant due to too long half life, but so is nicotine (for many). I definitely don't recommend for that purpose. Maybe for extreme (crash) dieting, but this is unhealthy in general.
It's often allowed if it's not purely a digital product or subscription, otherwise you have to at least also offer in-app purchases; you can still sell outside of the app.
The best nootropic is really high quality, regular sleep, regular exercise, and good diet. If you don't have the basics down, no supplement will make up for it.
ΔFosB expression is lower from nicotine than it is caffeine.
Try it then. As someone who smoked and quit and have had friends who smoked and quit who also had heroin habits, they corroborate the difficulty. It’s a different type of struggle but the struggle is strong just the same.
I did not, but I assume it's because it's like to just start an ideological war.

One group will claim inequality can be solved by government handouts, another group will claim that government handouts are
a major driving factor in said inequality. Both sides have reasonable and logical arguments as well as sufficient evidence to make either side a completely justifiable view. Ask 10 economists to comment on this issue and you'll get 11 different answers!

I enjoy debating such issues, but clearly - some do not!
Thank god they have Suica, Pasmo, and all the other stored value cards - unless you were trying to recharge one of these, you likely were unaffected.
I am a smoker. I wouldn't advise this. Before you get any stimulant effects. Which are minimal. You get very sick at first. By the time you have enough tolerance you are addicted physically. Some can quit easy but it can be a slippery slope. It's too risky as you don't know how hard it is to quit for you in advance.

I've tried off and on to quit for 20 years at least. Don't do it, it's a lot of work to get past the sickness. If I weren't young and ignorant, I'd have never started.
it's a great counterpoint, because they're is a lot of literature on the health effects of caffeine.

> Maybe both aren't great for you?

Maybe? You are the one making strong assertions about vasoconstrictors. Maybe you should take this opportunity to challenge your beliefs on this by digging into scientific literature.

Also, "aren't great" is such a softening of your original opinion "just terrible". Why argue for your ignorance when there is actual scientific literature?
For me, "Hackers and Painters," by far.