skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Criminalization does more harm than benefit.

For the vast majority of drug users that are not addicted, this is obvious.

And for the addicts, criminalization is the last thing they need. Deterrence might prevent a few people from getting addicted, but not many. A lot of drug addiction is downstream of homelessness and mental health issues meaning the illegality is a very weak deterrent for the most vulnerable.

If we pushed even half of the money spent policing the war on drugs into homelessness support, mental health services, and addiction counseling and harm minimization like needle exchanges, we’d see a huge reduction in harm.

The current regime is not really interested in harm reduction; there is no effort to compare interventions based on objective harm metrics. Instead non-harm metrics like arrest rates and usage are chased. The policies start from Puritanism and historical racism and justify themselves claiming to care about harm after the fact.

To your second point… I think the racial discrimination baked into the history of drug enforcement should steer us away from giving police more excuses to incarcerate on their discretion. But even ignoring that, I don’t think we should support “we knew but could not provide evidence to prove guilt”, the justice system requires evidence for a reason.
> rubylith tape

Hadn't heard of that stuff before. Looks cool. :)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubylith

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_zInegHR40
Nixon was certainly an enigma compared to other US Presidents:
Advocated for "Universal Healthcare" by basically mandating the Federal government to provide stop loss reinsurance to employers and creating a marketplace for poor people with income adjusted premiums... sounds familiar.

Created the EPA

Warmonger but hated by the CIA/FBI
That's why people should switch to using Yandex when thinking of doing something that might be seen as politically illegal in the West. Maybe even Baidu, even though I don't know how thorough Baidu is at scrapping the anglophone web.
18 is too soon, but you won't be able to stop them because they're considered legal adults.

More seriously, even if I wanted them glued to a computer screen, I'd at least make them learn to use a keyboard and mouse. Electronics uses who are completely clueless how to do anything useful with a computer are a plague upon mankind.
I wouldn't say never. I mean, you might be right, but between GPU support and WebAssembly, there is a lot of potential for web-based apps to become more popular than native apps in the future. It's all going to come down to the developer and user experiences of each.
Something like this will at least get you conversant. You only need the first few chapters, and can skip BJTs.

https://archive.org/details/microelectronicc00jaeg/page/n11/...
Privacy will be weaponized eventually and that’s a major reason shipping doesn’t have it.

Houthis have a request - food/water for Gaza - but Israel says no so the rest of the world has to suffer.
>Even when a company does allow it, I have no way of knowing if they delete my data or simply set a flag on my account in their DB to mark it inactive.

If you're in the Eu, file a gdpr request.
I just dove into this the last few months working through a Udemy course on building a vampire survivors clone in Godot 4....highly recommend (here is the author talking about it https://youtu.be/Yd-sndQnWIo?si=yWU9WJ2roSVlMzDE). I was amazed by the tooling and had a blast doing it. I'm primarily a backend dev and this scratched a different itch. There appear to be some RTS courses but I can't vouch for them. I would find one that looks interesting and dive in. I typed out all the code and did the steps as he did and feel like I learned a ton. I am still looking to learn more about multiplayer in Godot 4, but I found a few YouTube videos and it doesn't look super complicated, especially if you are not concerned off the bat about cheaters. Additionally I have been following this project (Godot 4 MMO), the code is organized pretty well: https://jdungeon.org/ but very early in development
a terminal app in order to access more easy to docker containers, images ,networks info, actions.

https://github.com/ernesto27/dcli
The Neural Engine was added in the like the A11 a few years ago.
Does this mean Berlin will finally becoming more affordable? Some data suggests that there have been some price corrections of 10-12% across various districts[1], while rents have gone up.[2]

[1] https://www.euronews.com/business/2023/09/22/german-housing-...

[2] https://guthmann.estate/en/market-report/berlin/
https://vegetarische.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/understanding-...

> Tomato Puree

> Made from cooked tomatoes that have been strained of seeds and skins. Often this is just “reconstituted tomato paste,” made by adding water to tomato paste. This product has weak tomato flavor and isn’t called for in many recipes. Use in chilis, soups, and other long-cooked recipes where smooth, rich tomato texture is required. Many American commercial pasta sauces have tomato puree as their first ingredient (because tomato paste is cheaper to ship) which is why they’re not as fresh tasting as homemade sauces. I don’t think this exists in Germany, but it doesn’t matter so much because you’re going to be adding it to recipes that calls for long cooking times and many ingredients. If you have a recipe that calls for it, you can make it by adding water to tomato paste, or cooking down passierte tomatoes.

No idea how accurate this is, but I would assume it's true and thus "partially reconstituted tomato puree" is less ideal for a pasta sauce (where you likely want more of a tomato flavor).
He lies incessantly because he is a nerd with fantastical ideas and enormous resources. But regular folks won't see this because they put their regular self in his shoes to decide what his motivations must be.

If he used a proper PR team, they would filter most of this out, and shape his communications into a form meant for regular people.
emacs org mode… anything else needed?
> black people would not be 3.5 times more likely to be arrested for possession than white people

While on its face true, this isn’t taking into account things like recidivism or multiple charges.

That’s to say the average black person has more priors and is more likely to have multiple charges when charged compared to the average white.
I never said that this makes sense or that it was enforceable - yet this is what you get when your company is infected by checklist-based compliance people and if an important customer regularly sends these checklists as a condition of continuing the contract.

I am not permitted to name this former employer because this would allow hackers to create targeted phishing emails and social engineering attacks against other people working there.
> This of course depends on where you are, but most people in fact do drive around the speed limit.

Counterpoint: Google Maps thinks you can drive an 86-mile trip from from Springfield, MA to Albany, NY in 80 minutes, a route which is patently impossible if you're driving the speed limit; you cannot drive 84 miles on I-91 in 76 minutes, an average just over 66 mph, on a road with no segments 65 mph segments, without exceeding the speed limit.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Springfield,+Massachusetts/A...

But also, this claim just doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Cars take up a lot of space. You can't just drive through them, you have to take affirmative action to change lanes and pass them. You'd find yourself behind people driving the speed limit pretty often, which you will notice.
HashiCorp 2023 year in review: Community
Oh cool, thanks.
Are cryptocurrencies currencies? Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador
the problem is..

..or ever be accused of overthrowing the government.

..be in proximity of anyone accused of wanting to overthrow the government.

..be victimized by a state employee with a grudge.

..etc etc.
> Net positive for who? It doesn't seem to be a net positive for Ukraine, who have effectively lost an entire generation of young men.

Men who laid down their lives to defend their homeland. This isn't a serious counterargument on your part and devalues your standing as a good-faith participant in this exchange.

> This is a wildly nebulous claim

The history of our nation as a world superpower disagrees.

Cheers.
The King of Silent Animation
Off the top of my head

Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Venezuela, East Timor, Libya, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Korea

We put the Banana in Banana Republics.
To the commenters saying, "So what?" I would suggest thinking of instances other than distant political targets.

I in fact searched for "chloroform" because I wanted to read the Wikipedia page. Imagine I'm accused of a crime I _didn't_ commit, and my Google searches p-hack into a pattern. This hypothetical recalls the excellent "Don't talk to the police": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
I would guess in terms of raw compute efficiency the ARM will beat the eZ80 due to the older Z80 architecture (3x faster than slow is still slow, and the HPs used ARM9 IIRC, while the eZ80 is more similar to an ARM7 and only a 24 bit ALU, etc). However for a hand held calculator it’s unlikely to make much difference where hardware process, power management/clock domains and peripherals are going to be much bigger issues.
> I can't even figure out how the kinds of videos I do watch would be connected.

Should they be? What in YouTube's business model involves providing accurate recommendations?

(FWIW I've been loving the nearly-completely blank new YT home page. Tune in, turn off YT history, see the lame reccos drop out)
They arent in the US because of laws... Not because they couldn't be
Did you forget a /s ?

Growing food is much harder than that.

Growing a few tomatoes or something is easy. But growing enough food to sustain yourself and your family is much more involved and requires a lot of training and experience.

Most people could likely do it. But it would take them 3-5 years of failures before they could reliably grow enough food for themselves. Probably more on the scale of a whole family.
> it's catastrophic (ie lowering hiring bars, hiring no-hire candidates, etc.)

I mean yeah, but everyone hired after me is a low bar hire. Thems the rules.
Yeah as if. You know bit going to happen. They could just as easily install windows 11 because the limitations are easily bypassed and purely commercially motivated.
I'm going to say this as kindly as I can, though truthfully, I'm seething. I understand you're trying to be kind and empathetic. I feel for this dude too. But the way you're expressing your thoughts is hurtful, and I ask you to try to learn why. Here's a pretty good article from a mainstream website that talks about ableism and how expressing feelings of pity can be an expression of ableism. https://www.healthline.com/health/what-is-ableism There is no such thing as "untreated autism" because Autism is not a disease. We do need assistance, but much more of what we need--according to modern science--is acceptance and inclusion. Please try to educate yourself on the dangers of ableism, and how it can and does harm us.
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Ask HN: What tool to use for storing information about educational facilities?
Hi HN,

I'm co-founder of Polish startup [1] focused on helping high school graduates to choose their future university and currently one of our problems is place of storing information about universities (and other edu facilities) that are in some step of our business pipeline. We work in a team of 3 people, and we are all "it-guys". We started in 2018 with GitLab issues, later migrated to JetBrains YouTrack, but it's not enough.

Our business process repeats every year and consists of following steps:

1. We collect information about last year's requirements that needed to be fulfilled to get into university - part of information is public, part of it is accessible only after making contact with university
2. We collect information about this year's requirements, at this step we collect public information about requirements which we need to code in python (these are formulas of calculating scoring points)
3. We enter collected data about each university into our database (data from step 1)
4. We code formulas from step 2 in python

Each university can be in different step of this process, also sometimes we decide to add new information like url to specific subpage of university website, or we need to add some notes about university like date of last contact, date of deadline of their response (specific for Polish law)

So every year we have to repeat this process, but also we need to have access to last year's data, not everything is entered to production database.

Problems that we have with GitLab issues and now with YouTrack are:

1. We need to add new field on project level whenever we need to add new information about university (not a big deal, but annoying)
2. Point 1. caused case, when we sometimes add information in comment or issue description, which later is hard to find
3. Each university state is being changed every year, ex. last year we set it to "done, all data entered", this year we need to change it to "to do"
4. Every year we need to overwrite last year's data and that's not really helpful when we want to compare ex. response time
5. We need to handle with ~150 universities every year, and we are going to handle high schools too, which is extra ~3500 facilities

I'm looking for some tool that will allow us to store all the information per year and keep our "main information" like webpage, name, contact etc.

If you see any other problems with our process, please let me know, we are open to any suggestions.

[1] https://dostanesie.pl/
The Marginalia search engine ran for over a year on a AMD Ryzen 9 3900X with 128 GB non-ECC RAM and a mix of NAS drives and SSDs of various types ranging from consumer crap, through enterprise drives, and even an Optane. 16 TB mechanical storage, 4 TB SSD. All on domestic broadband.

It survived the HN front page and even bigger traffic spikes. Did blip out when Elon Musk tweeted a link to one of my blog posts, but only momentarily.

Now that server's been relegated to run a test environment and to perform various odd jobs.

I do think everyone interested in programming should have some sort of server in the house. Being able to run processing jobs for a few days really does radically expand what you're able to do.
Whole grain contains fiber which take up space, whereas starch and sugar is raw calories. Tomato also contains fiber.
Thats a shame about salvation army. It always bugged me that the top execs rake in enormous comp packages. I know the counter to that: that it supposedly takes talented people to manage large organizations, blah blah blah. I just can't get behind it, I really wish real business people from the private sector could take 0.5 - 1 year off to manage charities for free, same way big law firms do pro bono.

Regarding Detroit, thats also unfortunate that they didn't go for an established REIT or something, where everyone has legal stake. There's tons of legal precedent for setting up shares (similar to co-ops), just the fact that she wasn't going that route is a huge red flag and indicator it's a scam.
I’ll add that the average German in a major city like Berlin can be housed within walking distance to a local bakery, grocery, school/day care, and work. For Americans, long commute times from their presumably bigger homes is common..
A 'Made in Japan' solution for space junk that goes against the grain
Yeah, we’d have to include display quality, battery life, etc. to get a really fair comparison.
Not currently a parent, but a more general concept is "screen time":

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

(I'm not sure how I'd manage screen time rules, given that not all screen time has the same pros&cons.)
The future of clean hydrogen in the US could hinge on a new tax credit
Decriminalizing drugs and other progressive changes to law enforcement have led to some problems in San Francisco and Portland.
There’s a real sense of the breakdown of social order.
Calling a form of habitable planet creepy is not helpful.
It’s true, but every step towards eventual (and IMO inevitable) legalization should be celebrated.
Lower-level teaching resources definitely exist! Here are my favorites:

- The Zero to ASIC course (and Tiny Tapeout) [1] explains transistor circuits and teaches you an open source software stack---and you get a chip physically manufactured! You could make the Nand to Tetris computer in actual silicon (if you can get enough transistors).

- To learn how things are manufactured on silicon wafers, get textbooks on microfabrication. A decent starting point is [2]. There's also a good video series [3] for a quick overview.

- To understand how a single transistor or diode works, get textbooks on "semiconductor devices". A good starting point is the free online [4].

[1] https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/ https://tinytapeout.com/

[2] "Introduction to Microelectronic Fabrication" by Jaeger

[3] https://siliconrun.com/our-films/silicon-run-1/

[4] "Modern Semiconductor Devices for Integrated Circuits" by Chenming Hu, https://www.chu.berkeley.edu/modern-semiconductor-devices-fo...
What if Sun had a black hole inside?
Selfishness mostly.
I'll probably get downvoted for this, if not push-back, but. Linux is great for customization, and freedom of expression, but it's also not so great if you don't like troubleshooting every time you want to use some new software or when something updates and breaks your system.

Obviously not all Distros are the same and some are more reliable than others, but my experience with Linux is just many hours of troubleshooting why XYZ doesn't work out of the box, granted this has gotten better over the years, but I dunno if a non-tech-savvy user would be able to fix these problems (if they occur) without calling me every month.
If the app developers are prevented from building a good user experience, that affects users in a huge way.
> we would not have any ip space if every machine had a public ipv4 address

Right, but then ISPs and hosting providers would have to have supported ipv6 10 years ago (or even earlier) when we ran out. Customers were already demanding multiple devices on their wifi 20 years ago, and without NAT, ipv6 would have been necessary.

With NAT, you can't do p2p or self hosting. Without it, you couldn't use centralized services either.
Yes. Rarely within the and sentence
Always Use the Simpler Word
Web games used to suck, but wasm + webgpu seems like a great combination for reasonable performance while also allowing indie devs a way to avoid forking over 15-30% of their profits to middlemen.
Game studio Ubisoft examines claims of data security incident
I don't disagree with you but I think the right response to this kind of reflection is to set the same limits for yourself, not to let the kids have "far, far more time." I struggle with this myself.
This is a obvious question, but what is a dark table ?
It's mostly free from the OS release cycle now: They have been shipping major web platform features in Safari versions that ship with their minor OS updates. (e.g. macOS 14.2, iOS 17.1) so every ~3 months, which is a nice cadence.

The major OS release cadence only seems to affect major UI revamps which aren't that frequent anyway, so it's not that much of a limitation.

You can now also update Safari independently of macOS, which is nice for IT environments that restrict major macOS updates until they have been approved.

Hopefully in the future they will also allow that for iOS, so that older devices that can't update have some more longevity for web apps (and so that we as web developers don't need to support as many older versions)
Wait. The DEA sets the "scheduling" of drugs? I always thought it was Congress and/or the White House.
But the pardon can allow those with convictions on their record to live a normal life.

Edit: major caveat, all the data harvesting and background check firms generally do not proactively purge their data sets as they’re supposed to. It’s your obligation to follow up with every single one of them individually, and there are a whole lot of them, they operate under the radar, and it’s hard to contact them. Finally it’s impossible to verify they actually did.
It is not a failure but also not the grand success they hoped for when they releases the Model Y.

For the sale number, You need to put together the 5 different variations that traditional car makers have for SUVs (micro segmentation), then the model y is suddenly not the top performer at all anymore.
Maybe not the programmer (unless we get to position where they are licensed like other engineering disciplines), but we can hold a company liable. Some companies have already stated they will accept "full liability" [1]. That reference is nearly a decade old, and some companies have admitted AV is a much harder problem than they initially anticipated, so I'm wondering if they would walk that statement back now.

[1] https://www.motortrend.com/news/volvo-will-accept-full-liabi...
> Another thought on the subject is how many small charges were simply because the police were fairly sure the defendant was up to some other crime, but were unable to make a court case over it (due to difficulty of evidence etc)? It may be that it was hard to prove the accused was doing X, but the bag of weed in their pocket was undeniable...

That is an excellent argument in favor of legalization, not one against. What you're describing is selective enforcement and prosecution, and the use of it as a tool to arrest and convict someone because they can't be proven to have committed some other crime.
In this case, the hook effect was so strong that I immediately thought about that writing advice. It's one of the best examples of that working on me that I can remember.
That seems to be a somewhat strange comparison. Logical circuits are arguably not much more complex than finite-state machines, and theoretical computer science professors don't have an aversion to those. So it doesn't seem like they find logical circuits too primitive. They even seem to strive for primitivity, as Turing machines are much more conceptually primitive than things like register machines or actual CPUs.

Moreover, a logical circuit itself is actually easier to describe than a Turing machine. Both logical circuits with delay and Turing machines can do "universal computation" for any reasonable sense of the term (demanding an infinite element is arguably not reasonable).

And to give a "convincing argument" that they are universal is quite difficult even for Turing machines. What would such an argument even be? In practice, it's more the fact that there are no known counterexamples which causes us to believe in the Church-Turing thesis (that any problem that we would intuitively consider "computable" is also computable with a Turing machine or logical circuit, and vice versa), rather than any one (positive) "convincing argument".
'The computer was sitting in a puddle of mud, with water up to the motherboard'
> A polymer that kills cell walls indiscriminately is hardly an acceptable solution for a human.

Human cells don’t have cell walls, so it would not affect them.
My son (5) gets 5 minutes screen time if he does reading practice. In practice he sometimes up to 10. He's allowed this up to about three times a day if he wants

He is allowed to play reading and maths games, but only when I'm sitting with him.

We also occasionally allow him 5-10 mins of games (aquarium, colouring in) simply for our convenience such as when dining in restaurants (a rarity since 2 little kids is not conducive to eating out.

With all that said, I think the screen time itself is less important than what they're doing and with who. E.g. the worst form is things like unrestricted access to ad-infested YouTube, the best is sitting with your kid talking about an app or an interesting video