skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hasn’t really happened in Canada. I think a small-player alcohol company did move in, but only after the bubble popped.

Turns out legalization of a drug doesn’t lead to massive increases in consumption. Who knew.

Definitely kneecapped the black market though: most moved to the legal side and black market prices cratered.
Maybe some day someone will explain what “normalizing” means, specifically what people mean by the “don’t normalize X” construction.

Pretty sure between Dr. Dre and Willie Nelson weed got normalized decades ago by any definition I understand.
Old as in used or as in a few generations old?
Also couched in the article:

> Americans love their hero-arcs so much that people manage to spin anything into a “coming from nothing story” – even if they got their first investments from their uncle and worked for free in the “garage” of their parents multi-million-dollar house in Palo Alto.
Should there be reciprocity, where the employees are not allowed to leave while their project is still 'cared about', and they're still getting paid? I suspect your answer will be "no", and if so, I'd like to hear why the commitment only goes one way.
dang this exploded. I came across the project this morning when I was looking at a blog on how to implement a generic programming language to become a configuration language and it mentioned pyinfra. Glad this project is getting some exposure. :)
Isn't this also associated with white ear wax?
Hopefully, the small/mid sized businesses hold a niche in the same way that craft brewers have maintained their existence (until they get acquired).
Mostly things that exist without other concrete explanations. Consciousness in humans and animals. A lack of contact with other intelligent life. The constants of the universe being such that the universe can exist at all and not do something like collapse on itself.

The common report of having met non-human entities, especially when on psychedelics.

Our own tendency to creat artificial worlds (farms, zoos) and simulations.

None of it proves anything or necessarily moves towards a constructed reality versus a specific alternative.
Windows 11 is, imo, mostly a nothing-burger compared to 10. It does make changes, some of which are nice, but it's overall fairly minor so far.

Unlike Vista and 8, nothing broke and everything is where I expect, so I've stuck with it.
How do AWS credentials get loaded? Is it a static set populated in the CREATE SERVER or can it pull from the usual suspects of AWS credential sources like instance profiles?

Is the code for the extension itself available?
I think China is the workhouse and that's the source of it's power. Ultimately it's a dictatorship with imperial ambitions. It's blatantly using this power already to weaken democracies through IP theft and "overcapacity". It seems like some countries are becoming wary of China and are now moving production to other asian countries. I've seen a few interviews lately of Chinese workers complaining they are no longer employed because the 'west' has moved production abroad and how that's a very bad thing for the world. It seems like people are realising that China has weaponised capitalism. I guess people assumed they would be as benign as Japan in their industrialisation in the 60s-90s.
It's a great project, and your solution is also technically superior to running off USB 2.0 thumb drives.
Tobacco too
A Pen Changed the World
> it should have been done sooner.

Not everyone agrees though. I don't want it legalized or normalized more.
Well, enforcement is a form of treatment - just not the form some might want.

We're trying the other way and failing right now. Perhaps we should figure out why...
Which is correct, in any case. If he isn't doing anything else but "tending the business" even when there's no business because there are no clients, then he is "working".
I can already walk down the block and legally buy weed in the US so, in many places this is not really a change.
The problem with the EU wide Inc, is who gets the tax revenue?

Is it the country you live in or the country where most of your customers are based in? What if your customers all live outside the EU?

France is never going to accept that you live in France but your business pays it's taxes in Germany or vice versa.

Also I don't agree with the author's take that Europe is not risk averse. It is risk averse.

I tried to open a bank account in USD at my local bank because I wanted my accountant to have access to all the deposits/invoices for my business. I had to answer a form with 50 questions as to why I needed this bank account.

I was told the process would take months potentially. the result is that 6 months later I never received a response and now I am using Revolut as my bank.

It's the small things really.

About the lack of English, that is absolutely true but not because EU kids don't spend enough time learning English, it's because of the teaching style and the culture.

In France all the movies/tv shows are dubbed in French. In Sweden it's not. Guess who speaks better English?

In Sweden I hear kids as young as 11 or 12 talk in English with their friends because it's cool. In France, there is no way in hell that this would happen.
Finally the way languages are taught in France is absolutely terrible. There is a lot of emphasis on reading and grammar rules but barely any talking.

The result is that a high school graduate who has spent almost 8 years leaning English 2 hours per week at school can't hold a normal conversation in English for more than a few minutes.
Has society ever been safe, productive or prosperous? I’d argue it hasn’t. I think smaller collectives have managed to eek out a bit of solace but society as a whole has always been at each other’s throats. Our notion of productivity is mostly moved forward by one hand not seeing the other.
> Also, there exist problems that are NP hard that cannot be solved in polynomial time and have atrocious worst-case complexity, but their average complexity is quite reasonable and feasible for a machine to calculate.

This is an active research topic of trying to characterize worst-case assumptions (i.e., the traditional kind) that imply average-case hardness for some problems, with several recent exciting results. See, for instance, an excellent talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQZEsmpbWE0&t=578s
Please - I can't breath!
Yes really good point. Won’t it still be up to the states to decide what the regulatory environment will look like — eg they can choose to preserve these jobs through existing regulatory frameworks in the same way that certain goods cannot be shipped to certain states
sure, marijuana shouldn't be considered 100% harmless, but it's ludicrous to argue it does the same amount of damage to people's bodies as ketamine (abuse can lead to kidney failure, bladder cystectomy) or even some sched. IV substances such as alprazolam (seizures from withdrawal can be fatal).
My sister had issues with her Razer laptop that ended up leading to needing new case screws so she could reassemble it after replacing a faulty battery and repairing a bad trackpad.

They didn't have replacement screws, period. We had to buy them from a third party on Amazon. Kind of a clown company between that experience and every time I've bought one of their mice or keyboards (I learned my lesson after the third time...)
Go could have been like Modula-3, D or C#, instead they decided to revamp Oberon and Limbo, the version 1.0 of those languages from the 1990's, not what was latter done from their learnings, e.g. Active Oberon.

Now thanks to Docker and Kubernetes adoption success, we're stuck with it.

At least now generics are supported, unless one needs gccgo, maybe in 10 years we get Pascal enumerations.
Here in Canada, it has been rather eye opening the extent of cannabis use. There are more cannabis shops then mcdonalds. You can grow your own and most people do. There's online options.

A society which criminalizes something so popular and widely used; will ultimately fail at their prohibition.

The next step for society would be to attempt at changing opinion, but what are the unintended consequences? The answer is, bad news.
Because we exactly didn't. Look what's flying over your head.

China: censors free speech in China then makes a US speech platform and censors American speech on the new platform. Blocks US platforms in China because they refuse to censor speech for the CCP.

US: blocks China from owning speech platforms because the US doesn't allow censorship and doesn't trust China to stop censoring speech on the platform.

Literally the opposite thing. How you've managed to conflate two completely opposite things is very interesting.

Are you a habitual TikTok user? Or do you work for the CCP?

I'm openly suspicious that you might be getting paid to conflate these very obviously opposite things.
I hope I wasn't coming across as too negative.

I genuinely think that an introduction with a few user stories would go a long way!
Cool idea. This is a decentralized RAG approach and useful for individual site, e.g. those from Wordpress. How do you find the site that you want to "RAG" on, though? Individual domains can be vast, e.g. Google itself.
Original author here:

Yes. Rich people tend to re-invest their money and not throw it into a Scrooge McDuck vault to swim in. The re-investing is what helps create economic growth.
Why is this flagged? The real talk ratio in the article is notably high.
Which IDE do you use? Mine would flag this as an error pretty quickly.
Perplexity has models that include RAG access available via API - their "online" models. https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/model-cards
It's usually 3+ months for the company.
And database col name, and validation and...

The moment you integrate with a third party your US centre zip_code field is suddenly coming over the wire as postCode. The conversions are going to go on, at least in go I can define all of that conversion with ease in one place.
I do blame whoever interpreted the regulations like that, as the regulations about this stuff are crystal clear that it is the whole device that is tested, not a component.
You still need English fluency as a dev, at least in my sector (Enterprise/Infra/Cyber SaaS). Much of the Chinese tech scene is still active in transnational organizations like the CNCF and make some very cool additions (eg. Karmada)
At least according to one study, cannabis does slightly more harm than both of those, although that harm is still tiny compared to that done by alcohol. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285843262_Drug_harm...
My pet theory on why tech in Europe is worse than in the US is the lack of career opportunities for software devs. If I, as a developer, want to make more than 100k a year here in Germany, the easiest thing is to work remotely for a US company. There is no corporate ladder for devs. If there is one, it isn't very long. Hungry, young devs move into management or consulting. So, there is no incentive to get better as a developer.

I’m, of course, talking generalities here; there will be exceptions.
I had a Razer laptop. The metal on the back split open at one point and became really sharp. Due to this and its bulky-ness, I got an Asus Rog Zephyrus and never looked back.

I always used to like Asus as a company when I built computers back in the 90s. Still great quality.
Ex-Viadeo investors and employees would surely like a word with you.
Anyone know about any mechanical wall clocks, grandfather clocks, or mantle clocks (? I mean ones that stand on their own) which show the date? It seems that this is a really commonly sought after feature of wrist watches but for some reason hard to find or non existent in mechanical non-wrist clocks.
Which means ban tobacco and alcohol as well?
We build a similar tool except we focus on AI workloads. Also support on-prem clusters now in addition to GPU clouds. https://github.com/dstackai/dstack
"RAG, or Retrieval-Augmented Generation, is a method where a language model such as ChatGPT first searches for useful information in a large database and then uses this information to improve its responses."
So I was able to set up a machine with configuration management (saltstack) + barman[1] + repmgr[2] and the maintenance was comparable with RDS.

This was in 2017 and I would expect better tools available. This was on premises though, there were also Wal-E and later Wal-G that were more cloud oriented, although looks like barman also can now use S3 and equivalent.

[1] https://pgbarman.org/

[2] https://www.repmgr.org/
An electric carmaker absolutely must have 2 things: an exciting product pipeline (true off all carmakers) and a rapidly growing charging network.

Tesla has fumbled both. It would take years to get back in the game if they developed the will. It takes so long to get a car to market that letting your pipeline go dry is suicidal.
Those policies were not well funded or implemented, we should keep trying alternative solutions to the status quo.

In contrast to the "war on drugs" which has been extremely well funded, and implemented to the cost of our own liberties, tried for years and has not been successful either.
The article seems to be based on a premise that is totally alien to me. I have never showered because I believe it's health-promoting or "necessary" in a medical sense. I shower because i) I like it, and ii) I like looking and smelling good.

> Why are we washing? Mostly because we're afraid somebody else will tell us that we're smelling

I'm actually much more concerned about people thinking I smell bad but not telling me. Which has a tremendous social and romantic cost. And is also, to my mind, plain rude. Being part of society still means sharing physical spaces with other people a lot of the time. The least I can do is make sure I don't stink when doing so.

> Some experts believe that everyday showering is based more on a 'social contract' than actual need.

Social contracts are good, actually.
You don't get to have "hidden information". The code used to respond "yes" or "no" to the guess would be part of the problem input. But, we currently can't prove there doesn't exist some algorithm that can examine that code and figure out what the "yes" input is faster than brute forcing all inputs.
> Put that way, having the edge default to letting out a few incurable criminals from time to time might be the fairer solution.

Blackstone's ratio[0]

He's a scumbag, but the folks that didn't secure that data were also complicit (although unintentionally). I know that the company went belly-up, but I'd suggest the company that wrote and sold the software also shares culpability, as they likely sold it as some kind of magic beans.

There's really no substitute for not collecting the information in the first place, but in this community, that's heresy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
To be fair, the author wrote about tech workers in SV specifically, not about the "overall work with of America" (which btw is a continent, not a country).

The hero arc story is true and has to do with large Protestant population.
But there's as many shuttered pot shops in Toronto as there are open ones. I think the industry is still shaking out and there's a lot of volatility.
A couple quick thoughts, having worked in the legal cannabis industry (now a few years out):

- Consolidation is already happening in a lot of ways, in some cases despite state laws designed to prevent it

- Consolidation by big tobacco seems less likely than probably other major industry incumbents (in the long run, I’d bet on companies primarily oriented around alcohol)

- Federal posture since Cole (when first states legalized recreational, partially rolled back under Trump/Sessions but seemingly not as much as was feared at the time) is largely what prompted strong local laws; it’s based in analysis of interstate commerce; federal legalization could have a similar analysis without undermining existing strong local laws; the tradeoff would probably be large disparity of justice between states (on party lines)

- A much better outcome would be a central rule not just to legalize, but to more strongly incentivize justice for people affected by draconian laws in the first place. This is a pipe dream, but it should be the focus because any compromise will start with that.
The title of the article is "Opinion: My family lost the Civil War. Last year they finally gave up this symbol of power". (At least, it is now. It might have been different when you submitted it.)

Changing "gave up" to "lost" is slightly briefer but it's a significant change to the meaning. The article is quite clear that they consider it a good thing, and the author participated in the renaming effort.

A particularly chilling quote: "When I meet a Black American bearing the Rucker name, that there’s a good chance we are connected, although not by marriage. We are, quite possibly, related by slavery."
You're not wrong, but I'm thinking more about the things that are marked as illegal today.
Ah, of course it's HaRGB. Really cool. I'm curious, you de-star the color layers or leave them as is when combining channels? When I've tried HaRGB, the Ha layer has the best/smallest stars which means that the RGB color layers end up leaving rings of color on the background around each star.
I don't smoke tobacco, I seldom drink, and I don't use marijuana. Those are habits I hope my kids avoid too. Nonetheless I would never wish for a world where my kids go to prison for failing to avoid them.
For me, this is not only a cost thing, but a security issue as well. Considering the IAM auth or any kind of auth method, the goal is never to be "impossible to break-in", but "the spending of break-in is higher than the potential value it protected". Yet if the price of break-in is paid by the victim, this will be a whole different story. Someone can spam the S3 API with brute force IAM credentials can try out everything until find the right credentials, and the failure attempts are paid by the victim, which is insane.
How smart was T. rex? Testing claims of exceptional cognition in dinosaurs
the church tax is "optional" ;)

And the 45% is at a high threshold (much higher than Ireland for example) though 42% will kick in at a lower % (and the 5.5% is a % on tax, not on the full income, which is a non-obvious aspect of it)
Indians are argumentative and sales driven like Israelis, but you still need to operate the same way you did in China in the 2000s, with local contacts and recognize that you might get scammed if you don't do your due diligence correctly, but if you make good friends with local partners or parties you will get the red carpet and PLIs.

Cadre-driven parties like the BJP, DMK, BJD, BRS/TRS, etc are organizationally similar to the CCP but other parties are more loose and disorganized, so having a local partner act as your firewall helps massively by pointing you where to invest, just like in China, where most western companies invested in Guangdong, Zhejiang, etc but ignored Hubei or Guangxi.

There's a reason why Israeli, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean companies tend to be fairly successful with their India ventures, because they're used to this kind of an operating model, and most American companies tend to have a first-gen Indian American or Indian educated in America managing operations with India.
As pointed out in the actual complaint [1], Razr was aware their masks did not perform at the N95 level and were told by the testing agencies "Cannot mentioned N95. Hazel mask is not a N95 respirator. " and "cannot mentioned NIOSH or NIOSH-certified respirators.".

Of course, they did anywas.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40214045
I had a project with NPS photographing salamanders and part of the territory was along the Appalachian Trail. I'll never forget this couple who had clearly been on the trail for a extended time because they stunk. Like 20 feet away and the stink was still powerful - and this was outside. Yet I respect the gumption it takes to do this trail during the humid summer.
Is it really that bad with the Datadog, Databricks, and the like plus the local bigtech offices?
There are multiple EU countries that offer that "pro-business legal framework" which speak english and even offer very low taxes (Ireland Estonia Cyprus Malta Bulgaria etc). The problem is, as soon as they become substantially big , politicians will reign them in, and the "single market" suddenly breaks to 26 pieces.

There are many ideas about how to fix things. What is missing is political will . Politicians find it easier to leech off (european and US) entrepreneurship , in order to "give back" trinkets to their audience. Look at how EU subsidies and grants are given, and how little return europe gets from huge research projects like ERC grants. It's mainly a eu-wide jobs creation program for perpetual academics.

Until you change that thinking, all ideas are not usable
Use Clickhouse - it's specifically built for this use case (low latency OLAP).
Selling hard drugs for a profit is diabolical. It also ruins lives.
I've begun borrowing "it's a moo point" from Friends, in some conversations. "It's like a cow's opinion, you know: It doesn't matter. It's moo!"
> the majority of the reasons on why people make the distinction.

You have provided some defining properties that might allow for distinction, but you have not given any reasons for why people make a distinction.

But perhaps we can suss it out. Given the statement "Borgo compiles to Go", what important information is lost that would be saved if "Borgo transpiles to Go" was used instead?
The approach promised in Oregon failed because the original intent of the decriminalization was to also increase support for rehabilitation. This never ended up happening, so drug users were thrown back into the situations that got them into drugs in the first place, instead of being given a way out.
One major effect of this is that weed stores will be able to use banks and payment processors legally once the regulators catch up.
Good point, maybe I should use one of those services that let you use virtual cards you add money to and ftheure disposable? Never looked into these, but the horror stories I've seen on HN have seriously pit me off trying AWS even though I've regularly used other cloud providers.
> Here is my Question: Why did we stop with “single market” efforts? Why is there no effort to unify legal entity in Europe?

I'm not sure the author understands what he's asking for.

While having California residency, you can start a Delaware company, open offices in California, pay taxes to the State of California. If the State of California sues your company for unpaid taxes, which court do you end up in? California. If the State of California sues your company for civil rights violations, which court do you end up in? California. The US doesn't have some magical system where just because you register in another state, you can resolve all legal disputes in that state, therefore you're not beholden to the laws and governments of the state you operate in, or that Delaware is legally bound to enforce the laws of the other states and localities you operate in. Indeed you are beholden to said laws and localities. And indeed, complying with 50 different states and all their localities can be so damn complicated that there are entire products built to help you figure out how much sales tax to charge when crossing state lines, as well as how to pay it correctly; not to mention how to offer health insurance to remote employees, since every state has its own insurers.

At the end of the day, sure an "EU Inc", as the author puts it, may help make it easier to close deals. But it does not reduce the operational complication of operating across different localities. The rights of different localities to set their own laws and regulations for those who operate within their jurisdictions is unavoidable. You could have a single Brussels sovereign and a single English legal contract language and this would still be true, because it's already true in the US.

The EU has a "single market", not a "single marketplace". The market is the customers, not the companies, not the banks, not the courts.