jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Fentanyl is active in a range very similar to LSD, it's the biggest concern.

25i-NBOMe is a drug similar in effect to LSD, but with a somewhat worse track record for safety. It's not likely to harm you, and unless you're fairly familiar with LSD, you might not notice the difference, but it has caused deaths due to severe vasoconstriction, which hasn't happened with LSD, even though many more people have used the latter. It's requires larger doses than LSD does, but it's still active at doses well under a milligram, and is usually sold on blotter paper just like LSD is.

Strychnine is also active in the LSD dose range. There was definitely some propaganda about strychnine-tainted LSD in the 70s, so it's hard to know if this has ever happened, or if it's just urban legend. But it's chemically plausible.

Fortunately, you don't have to just pray that your blotter doesn't have fentanyl in it. You can buy chemical test kits on the clear market and rule out all the culprits that should be cause for concern, and test that your blotter contains LSD (or at least a compound containing an indole group...). See https://www.reddit.com/r/ReagentTesting/ for links to vendors and more information.
You're completely missing the point. Either willfully, or you're just so blissfully unaware of the marvels of modern technology. You're missing things like automated knitting and sewing. A garmet that would take 25-100 hours by hand can by made by a machine in minutes and sewn into shape in just moments more. Have you ever done a needlecraft? I have. Besides the yarn for a sweater costing over $100 itself, I'd have to ask $3,000 for the labor alone. Brick roads used to take weeks just for a few blocks with an equivalently sized crew, and several orders of magnitude greater effort. Now far more length can be torn up recycled and paved over again in days with relatively minimal effort. We used to have manned switchboard operators. Do the math on how many we would need to accommodate the internet at current scale without routers and switches then get back to me.

You just don't see now many thousands of billions of hours of hard, boring labor is done by machines every day, and mostly perfectly. It's truly marvelous. The fact that people are still homeless is a crime against humanity that rests squarely on the world leaders who allowed so a tragedy to occur. In a truly civilized society these leaders would imprisoned.

Want to really know how dann good you have it? Spend 10 years in the northern reaches of canada. I doubt You could survive the summer months. You can only bring the clothes on your back. No tools, supplies, books, or resources. If you want to take my bet drop me an email. I'm sure we can come to a fair wager.
Sorry for offtopic. What is the best iOS alternative to ti89? Ever since leaving Android that is was I miss the most.
All companies are branding themselves as tech companies, even if they're in established industries.

* Moviepass is a tech company, even though they were only selling subscription movie tickets.

* Peleton is a tech company, even though they sell exercise equipment.

* Tesla is a tech company, even though they just sell cars.

* Uber / Lyft are tech companies, even though they are just a middle-management service for... effectively Taxis.

* WeWork is a tech company, even though its business model is straight up commercial real-estate subleasing.

* Netflix is a tech company, even though it just spent a $Billion on studios, new TV shows, and other entertainment costs.

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Everyone is a "tech" company. Because that's how you siphon off money from investors these days. Even Amazon seems to be turning into a glorified FedEx / Warehousing / logistics company.

When everyone is a tech-company, no one is a tech company. Its the nature of the current bubble IMO.
> The brain is just a conduit for the soul

OK, you are arguing a religious belief, and are ignoring the measurable biochemical anomalies in my wife's physical body. Please list some of these moral dilemmas that my wife is unable to handle that caused this condition, and why I should discount the decades of chronic pain caused by a genetic problem (EDS), the wrestling match with cancer, the familial disposition towards depression, the debilitating effects of living in a house affected by black mold, etc.
Reply All did a great episode on this too: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/8whoja

Supplementary article: https://web.archive.org/web/20190202103231/http://gimletprod...
Google has a system called Borg, and they are fine.

Also, BorgBackup is not new; they have been around for a while.
LSD does cause anxiety for many, often at the beginning of the trip. I know when it's kicked in because I get a big rush of anxiety that slowly fades over time. So I wouldn't recommend it to people with an uncontrolled anxiety disorder. (If you can control your anxiety, it can be great and quite therapeutic.)
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I like it as a demo, but if I were ever to actually use it I would want to have an account, a login, not just a URL to bookmark.

That said, don't know if I would find something like this useful if I were to try using it.
Oh and I should say that I was coming up with solutions left right and center for the "problems" associated with it. Each of the problems was more like a starting point to a great solution than a fundamental problem. (Eg. "what if 1m sites have less than 2 cents even after months?" "Auto lottery that shit" or "what if we can't contact the person?" "Same solution to someone signing up for flattr and getting hit by a bus. You can never rely on getting in touch with a person set reasonable limits and state them publically" etc, etc, etc)
I think that what we're seeing here is evidence that there's just too many ways to screw up handling personal information on line. The sane stance is to now assume that any profile you provide to any website will eventually become public, and proceed accordingly.
And look what I found: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/poll-fin...
The first 20 minutes of Up are a little mature for very young audiences. I remember thinking "This better get happier right quick".
The REAL anonymous.
Article doesn't say anything about a "monopoly" - can we avoid this kind of editorializing?
No offence, but I find "Good Will Hunting" as a perfect "bait movie".
Old tech is (currently) still much harder to ubiquitously surveil. See the US Millenium Challenge wargame[1] for some ideas.

Widely deployed domestic drone surveillance, automatic license-plate scanning cameras, and facial/object recognition could change that over the next decade or two though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
> Nuclear accidents will kill you, as in -- dead.

They have been markedly less successful at that than other industrial accidents.

edit: Wikipedia suggests a total of about 9250 accidental deaths worldwide over the past 56 years related to nuclear research, power, weapons and therapy, of which some 126 died of radiation while the rest died from explosions and cancer (estimates vary; except for the 9000 deaths attributed to Chernobyl, the numbers likely discount some terminal cancers).
I guess my comment appears rude, which wasn't intended, I just find npm a troublesome piece of software that is passable as a package manager for the javascript ecosystem, but not a tool one solves problems with if there are viable alternatives.
There are over 110M drunk driving incidents in the US every year and nearly 7M crashes, drunk or otherwise [1][2]. If we conservatively attribute all of these crashes to drunk drivers, we find that 94% of drunk driving causes no damage or injury. It is, to borrow your words, overwhelmingly safe.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/impaired_driving/im...

[2] https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-highway-...
Do you also take exception to braile translations replacing "red button" with "third button down"?
This has always been a tendency for humankind:

1. Gangs

2. Ethnicity

3. Nationalism

4. Religion

Groups of people latch on to an ideology and act on whatever the leader tells them to do or what they see others do. You can observe this when looking at videos of riots or other mob like behavior.
Encouraging protests isn’t inciting violence.

But thanks! Good to know all these accusations are just fake news. Just as I assumed. He did tell them to “go home” though... but most fake news media won’t report that.
> This situation exists today. If I'm an physician, with experience from a foreign country and a years-long unimpeachable track record. What I don't have is a US degree or residency. I'm 100% going to prison if I perform a surgery in my van.

I agree and this is terrible.

> Your argument that "you consider it unethical to withhold medical care from someone who requests it" is not a defense today for practicing medicine without a license,

it may not be a legal defense but it is absolutely a moral defense.

> in my scenario, that would not change.

I just want to make it explicit that you agree with the criminalization of healing people without permission.
Recognition Primed Decision Model - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_primed_decision

Naturalistic Decision Making - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_decision-making
There is a warning in the manual about sharp corners. There are times when on coming cars could look like they are in your lane.

The biggest issue is that it ignores stationary cars, so if you come around a corner to red traffic lights it would drive straight into any stationary cars. Which is why I only really use it on the motorways (highways).
Yeah, I was planning on drilling him on database concepts. You can't start that too early. The trick is getting him focused on a real problem first and showing him databases in context.
He'll be 16 in March, and is a dual citizen. I think you're legal - and that would be absolutely fantastic. He's fully bilingual and has a bus pass. :-)
> For example: the pyramids, cannot be build by one man, but wouldn't have existed if it wasn't for central leadership.

Because they were valueless items to the thousands of people that it took to slave and die creating them? Yes, those things probably wouldn't have been erected if it were a democratic society at the time. I don't see how that's a bad thing.

The Pyramids are in fact a perfect example of the perils of the "strong leader" model of leadership. At the time, they were a fantastic waste of their society's resources.

Divisiveness will, in fact, kill a team. We're on the same page about that. However, teams throughout history and software development that have had "strong leaders" have plenty of track record of being internally divided. Focusing on "Steve Jobs" is a huge example of survivor bias. Nobody hears about the "strongly led" teams that don't make it big, or anywhere.

Democracy doesn't "divide" teams. It gives people a voice to work through their already present divisions. However, the key word there is work. Simply saying you're a democracy without having patience to go through the work won't get you anywhere. Neither will putting together a team filled with people with irreconcilable differences.
Worrying to the OP - I find it enormously interesting.

And at least in the case of the US they can (and do) lean pretty hard on any of the other 179 governments when they really want to. There is no central Bitcoin bank to lean on. That's all I'm saying.
That's great things !
Billy... it's David Cheng (Hans' buddy). BofA tech ECM desk, FTW.
The author of this article feels that he would be happy to see T-Mobile die trying.

I personally have nothing but respect for T-Mobile. It is hard to change fundamental things such as pricing when you are such a large corporation. Doubly hard if your competitors have successfully proven contract pricing works.

I hope T-Mobile continues to innovate. The telecom industry is overall a dinosaur. What keeps them alive is their infrastructure and rights of way. If we ever get a wireless alternative that is as fast as fiber (and easily deployable) we'd see the end of traditional telecoms as we know it.
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted for this, unless you are being interpreted as snarky (whereas I interpret you as offering a noncommittal answer).

While it has not been settled in court yet, IIRC, the 5th amendment right against self-incrimination is the legal rationale used to argue against forced decryption [1].

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/new-eff-amicus-brief-a...
We are using Flurry to track usage (pretty standard among apps) and it uses the location information to show the usage of app by Country and City.

We don't explicitly collect your location information and our privacy policy clearly states that we don't share any information with any one.
It might actually be great publicity. Watsi is awesome, but not well known amongst the general populace (who are probably far more likely to donate to dubious organizations like the "christian children's fund").

As Chase Adam said in his startup school speech, Watsi merely has to get people to look at it's patients' pictures and read their stories.
I preferred hq4x for much the same reason. Removed the large blockiness while still preserving the pixelated feel (and staying truer to the shapes in the original).
I'm excited for the public launch of e2e encryption in the Android default Messages app. This would provide encrypted messages to a huge audience, everyone already on Android.

Signal has stated that they will not support RCS (possibly that they can't due to technical limitations).
I have been using qalc for that

How does it compare?

$ qalc

> furlongs per fortnight

furlong / fortnight = 1 fur / fortnight

> to m/s

1 fur / fortnight = approx. 0,0001663095238 m / s

> 17 yards + 2 feet + 5 inches

(17 * yard) + (2 * foot) + (5 * inch) = 17 yd + 2 ft + 5 in

> to meter

17 yd + 2 ft + 5 in = 16,2814 m

>
In the 2014 merger procedure [1] Facebook described it as 'very hard', and 'against its own interest'.

> "The Notifying Party submitted that integration between WhatsApp and Facebook would pose significant technical difficulties. Notably, integration of WhatsApp's and Facebook's networks would require matching WhatsApp users' profiles with their profiles on Facebook (or vice versa). This would be complicated without the users' involvement since Facebook and WhatsApp use different unique user identifiers: Facebook ID and mobile phone number, respectively. Consequently, Facebook would be unable to automatically and reliably associate a Facebook ID with a valid phone number used by a user on WhatsApp. Matching of WhatsApp profiles with Facebook profiles would most likely have to be done manually by users, which in the Notifying Party's view is likely to result in a significant backlash from both users of Facebook and WhatsApp who do not want to match their accounts. Finally, the Notifying Party stated that, beyond the difficulties in matching user IDs, significant engineering hurdles would have to be overcome to enable cross-platform communications, reflecting the fundamentally different architecture of Facebook and WhatsApp (including the former being cloud-based, the latter not)."

It seems the EU commission interpreted the statement as 'not possible'. Facebook played them.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m72...
Kind of a tangent...

But, with all the people I know who don't have a Facebook at this point, I'm gonna just say I have zero confidence most of their users aren't bots. I would be surprised if FB had a billion real users at this point. It should literally be close to impossible to find folks without them in western countries, statistically, but it's not. It's becoming easier and more common... or folks just lie about not having facebook for some reason (which is plausible though very weird).
Almost same for me. People on my network are all relatives +40 years old who share news, political images/memes, and lost dog announcements. Young people dont use it anymore, maybe only for events (not one this year).
Your spectrum monitoring sounds interesting. Do you have any details/write up?
Same boat. I mostly use WhatsApp (though, honestly, I don't use it regularly). My wife also uses WeChat.
That little downtime recently that in some places looked like Google had deleted my account got me quite a shock and made me re-evaluate my dependence on Google too.

For anyone looking for a simple self-hosted file sync system I'd recommend Seafile though. It has delta sync (like Dropbox) and great performance. I finally switched to it after years of increasing frustration with Nextcloud, which has none of these things.
Please ping back if you make progress in such a worthy endeavour.
They mention it's patented... Assuming they don't just mean a generic air fryer patent or something, I would think that the patent process is too annoying for a straight-up joke.

EDIT: And that said, 3min on Google Patents hasn't found the relevant patent.
Just sent out Issue #2 to the folks on the preview list, hopefully I can gather some feedback.
Darwin is not a thing. It's just Apple dumping the code to satisfy the licensing requirements.
Pinging works pretty well, but not perfectly. ICMP echo is treated specially by many "traffic shaping" appliances. Firewalls frequently blanket-drop pings from outside, and sometimes pings are given higher priority to aid in diagnostics.

Usually it's noticeable when this is going on (especially the blocking), so you only need to go to some other solution when you notice this.
Don't forget the steam queue. It use prediction to show games that correspond to your taste. It's not very accurate, but it allow to show new games on each iteration. You do not waste your time on the always same top 100 games. It allow to discover some strange or underated titles .
Oracle. Who else can give me half the database for ten times the cost?
I'm not a golfer but my FIL is. Being retired and living on a golf course, he probably golfs 2-3 times a week... easily 6+ times a month. He would bankrupt a deal like this. I have serious doubts about the sustainability and even the legitimacy of such a claim. Just a quick glance at 2 of the better courses in my town shows green fees to be between $90 and $120. I don't see any way either of those courses would affiliate themselves with a discount card that cheap. Even if they did and offered a steep discount to GreenCard, there is no way GreenCard could profit from a $100/month subscription unless they are also banking HEAVILY on people only golfing a few times.
'My name is Sam Altman, king of VCs:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away
FoundationDB is the parasite, wanting to be eaten by the cow (Apple). It was eaten up by ants(companies that need noSQL, ACID databases) and they brought its attention to the cow.
Based on a cursory glance at the properties of ACID, it seems like something that the financial world, especially the stock exchanges, have had to deal with when dealing with transactions.

I wonder if a similar architecture could be used for building a distributed database that could rival what was lost with foundation.
If you can hook in FB data then you might be able to figure out so much more about the users/visitors (what's more likely to work for a given visitor).

I'm impressed by the product/service but I'm so jaded about 'being gamed' that I'm always cynical when I buy online.
Yes, but this is establishing a whole new set of principles ("Communicate like a pro", "Be a chameleon", etc.) without coalescing them down in any way. It's one thing to talk about a principle and then give specifics examples of how to apply the principle, but this hasn't bothered to coalesc coherent principles.

To steal your analogy, this is like stating principles: "When a triangle has a multiple of 3 length and a multiple of 4 length next to a right angle, the remaining side is a multiple of 5." "When the hypotenuse is a multiple of 13 and a side near the right triangle is the same multiple of 5, the remaining side is the same multiple of 12." People get lost in a bunch of random examples when all you really need to solve for the sides of right triangles is the Pythagorean theorem. A few examples help, but if you don't relate them back to coherent principles they're pointless.
I think the LDS church leaders helped this along. They have a lot of people around the world logging on to LDS.org to stream church videos.
Oh Crap. IBM's AI is now buying companies?!?!
Still loud as all fuck when they are occupying the park next to your office.
It is a fringe application, regardless of downvote. Usage in electronics is probably less than 1% of the demand for gold. That's the very definition of fringe.
You could get an emulator for whichever micro you wanted to try out. BASIC is still alive and well also, https://www.qb64.org/portal/
I developed in Cinder about 10 years ago. The company I was working for was using openframeworks for a different project and I start looking at Cinder for new version with better features. I started building out a new framework on top of Cinder (https://github.com/Downstream/ds_cinder). It’s still actively developed today and has been used in making a lot of really cool interactive designs. It’s pretty cool to see this project still kicking.
I really enjoyed Expert C Programming (https://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden/d...).
Or ECS for that matter.
Personally, I have absolutely zero faith that any additional revenue would go towards improving their products or availability. It would go to their shareholders; NVidia (Intel) treats its customers like consumers.

If their prices aren't responding to supply/demand now, they weren't before either. The price of a NVidia GPU isn't set by market forces; never has been.
I think it's only in Telegram. Mostly used by businesses.

It's important to realize that Signal is aiming to be iMessage replacement Whatsapp/Telegram/Discord are more like "chatservers" with rooms. Signal right now focuses on simple 1to1 messaging with sending pictures/media etc. That's what they do really well.

Btw iMessage also have super basic desktop client. It works even worse than Signal desktop (random logouts and messages sent as different account with only "email"). It might not be so easy going from 1v1 fully encrypted chat to manytomany fully encrypted chatroom megaserver. Apple seems to also struggle with it.