jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The author mentions that 2C-P has "notable physical discomfort" and I can attest to that, although I didn't have effects for as long as stated (my trip was more around 7-8 hours, author states "up to 20 hours", and my onset was also faster) it had a significant discomfort, especially when compared to 2C-B which induces a loud, unstoppable euphoria. It wasn't as much of a physical discomfort but a mental one. Eventually what calmed me down from the 2C-P was watching a newly released movie I never really bothered paying attention to before, Avatar.

None the less, interesting to see this list on HN, and read about some new compounds I haven't heard about before (hello 25B-NBOMe).
Note that this kind of programming is deprecated even in PHP. In any reasonably well structured project, you'll find that kind of code only in templates, if at all.

From the article:

| Rasmus represents what most non-PHP developers hate about PHP.

| Rasmus generally promotes abstention from using frameworks, and the use of PHP as more of a templating language. To him, this translates to raw speed and scalability (load-wise). To everyone else, this translates to piles of procedural spaghetti code, and unmaintainable projects. For roughly 10 years following the birth of PHP in 1995, this was how PHP projects were written.
Can you add about.me?
Thinking deeply about why you do things a particular way is critical for being good at anything. You can replace "UX design" with "programming," "writing," or even "salsa dancing."
I am left wondering whether the author has ever worked in a corporate environment.

Social network platforms will not replace email in the workplace. Perhaps at some hip boho digital media outfits, but not anywhere else. They are quite different communication mediums with quite different strengths and weaknesses.

The strength of email is that it is personal, it is directed, it is private, it is asynchronous. Much of the time you would like your workplace communications to have these characteristics.
Please read the actual article, it answers all those questions.

They proved that the safety was on because the empty shell was still in the chamber, since the safety prevented the slide from moving and ejecting it.
Wait-a-minute. Exportation of cryptography technology is still limited in the US? This law is long obsolete, why does it still apply?
I'd be interested to hear how you guys kickstart the traffic on a new website. (Let's assume you don't have a huge following on your blog or on Twitter)
The first one makes sense from a practical point of view but still I find it quite depressing.

"If you don't know how to do the job right, you don't know how to hire for it."

This means that if you work for them you will do things which they could also do (possibly better), they just don't have time for it. Basically you are selling your time.

"do only what only you can do" (Dijkstra) and all that ...
Of course! As the trend toward faster processors, more storage, and better battery life in personal electronics begins to reach its limits in the next few decades, a new trend toward destructively powerful superconducting magnets will naturally arise. Take that, Kurzweil!
"... At the time the weapon discharged, it was reportedly in a cocked and locked position; that is, the hammer was cocked and the thumb safety was engaged to prevent the hammer from striking the firing pin. A live round was in the chamber ..."

Round chambered, weapons discipline, not! It was reported the safety was on. I wonder if it wasn't?
When I was younger I pushed myself to know Perl 5. I tried to learn Perl with one book. It was surprinsingly hard. I took a simpler book. I also failed grasping Perl. Those were the two recommended books for learning.

I've come to realize years after that Perl is simply difficult to learn, lots of little things to memorize. Its community took pride in language arcana. Things that are now simple in other languages are unbelievably difficult in Perl, like "hashes of arrays of hashes" and things like that.

On top of that, it's also difficult to read. No wonder Perl is losing, and to me the faster the world is cleanup from that, the better.
I was thinking of a voice-activated command that locks the UI while it nukes everything. But while this is happening, it keeps a safe image of the desktop up with basic mouse functionality, so the user doesn't know it is doing anything for a little while.

Of course, I have no use for such a thing, so I would never waste my time implementing it...
Because it's highavailabilty.com, not highspeed.com.
This seems like a really interesting idea, since I'm not by a computer right now, has anyone played around with it yet? How does it seem?
> Going on the assumption that you do spec out the interface to your microservices with some care

I reckon this is hardly ever done. Microservices, like many other abstractions, usually just proliferate and quickly become a maintenance nightmare.
From the authors philosophical standpoint, I think this is indeed very interesting. I hate having to open up multiple instances of the dev tools since they are tied to the tab instance.
For the planet, sure. But for economic analysis its irrelevant. All metrics are per-capita.
Your point has one tacit component that you failed to mention. If what you say is true, then before "taxation of the rich and the highest-earners in general was massively lowered" occurred, the concentration of wealth stayed constant. So, if we've now reduced the transfer from the rich to the power a-la the taxes you mention, then that must mean that before, and now after, wealth has always been naturally (if you want to use that term) flowing towards the already rich.
I salute your perseverance.
Well, and they CGI'd the most of the movie's Legolas' "arrows" as well.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/game-of-thrones-has-cgi-in-...
Your example isn't exactly true. Clang and GCC both do tail call optimizations. Compiling language functions to C functions doesn't 100% preclude you from TCO. http://david.wragg.org/blog/2014/02/c-tail-calls-1.html
If you're curious about orbital space mechanics, try Kerbal Space Program. You'll get a much better idea how NASA puts things into orbit after you've done it a few times yourself.

Basically, the rocket doesn't just fire in a straight line away from the Earth all the way into orbit. It starts arcing very soon into the ascent, and the thrust is nearly parallel to the Earth's surface for much of the journey.
Was it linear programming?
It's probably those same engineers that use Dropbox instead of getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
I enjoyed the humor on the website. Good luck with the business.
That sounds awful, what about bugs?
Visually, (F_p)^m can be embedded in R^m trivially, but I suspect you are interested in animations of operations on F^p, which indeed would look different from R^m due to modular arithmetic, and so would be beyond the scope of the OP.
I believe the opposite is true. It would promote more of the genes in society, because dwarfism is sexually selected against. Thus more children would be born with dwarfism.
> However, I have to admit, the search results of duckduckgo are by far inferior to what Google used to give.

I've switched to DuckDuckGo since I read its CEO's book "Super Thinking", and I'm not feeling that it's inferior. Sure, it doesn't have rich cards and other goodies, but I've come to realize that these are nice-to-have, but not essential.
On the other hand, reducing the confirmation bias by getting out of the filter bubble is, I believe, essential.
Because opportunity cost means you don’t get to “and also”. In the cases that I’ve been involved with personally, spinning off another company hasn’t been feasible. To put it a bit more explicitly, say you have a product that generates $25mil/year, and runs about $10mil/year expenses. But, you also have a different product that for every $10mil that you invest into it generates $50mil/year in revenue. The opportunity cost isn’t that you’re spending $10mil to generate $15mil in profit, it’s that you’re spending $10mil to lose $25mil in profit.

In reality everything will be a lot more complex than this. But having the discipline to focus on your core competency, especially in situations like this, is a common trait I’ve seen in many successful start-ups.
Disagree that it’s ridiculous, as the goal of a vegan is to not consume animal products. And by consuming, increase the production by pressing the “demand side” button.

For health reasons, like gluten, a perfect separation makes sense. But as long as people know this is what’s up, I think it’s okay. (And, specifically, they are not ridiculous for reusing it he same steel)
Because it's meant for ultra-slim devices that will be docked on Thunderbolt 99% of the time and that foldable RJ-45 jack is for the "in case of emergency break glass" scenarios, that 1% of the time when you need to patch into a server physically without wasting time looking for a dongle, not for you to constantly plug/unplug ethernet cables in your laptop.

If your uses case requires you to constantly plug/unplug ethernet cables in your laptop then you need a workstation class laptop with a full sized RJ-45 jack, not a sleek thin and light.
Other things don't come up because these three are major expenses for most people, percentage-wise dwarfing the rest of their spending. I don't care that the price of steak is only up $5 /lb when I have to pay $3k more a month due to housing, insurance and education costs.
> Both charts...

There are four charts. Are you referring to the just the top pair labeled median 2001-2011 and mean 2001-2011 which are in the “From 2001-2011” section? Those are 2001-2011.

If you want later ones you’ll have to scroll down to the section titled “From 2013-2019.” There’s a pair labeled median 2013-2019 and mean 2013-2019. Those are the 2013-2019 ones.
I shared this in another comment: We placed our forecasts and risk buys on most chips early in anticipation of the silicon crunch that is coming this year. So far, we don't see anything that puts us at risk, short of there being massive unexpected upside on consumer demand (a good problem to have!).
I decided to quit my fulltime job a couple of years ago and focus on building custom MVP web applications. We are out there, the problem is you can't find us. Ranking in Google is incredibly difficult compared to 10 years ago. Without large budgets you simply won't be found.
The announcement from Chartio's side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26275870
Minimizing environmental impact requires considering the vehicle count as well.

Having a more light duty trucks zipping around because we've regulated fewer medium duty truck out of profitability for that use case is likely not environmentally efficient.

When you're talking about roads expected to last X years with a certain % traffic of semi trucks in the 80k ballpark pretty much nothing you do in the 40k ballpark and below matters.

Also, you have to differentiate between wear on the road surface and the road bed. The road surface doesn't care how much weight you have. It just cares about contact pressure. The road bed is going to care more about overall tonnage because by the time the force gets to the road bed it's spread over such an area the contact pressure is low regardless.

It's hard to generalize these things because mother nature plays a large role what the depreciation curve of a road looks like and local wealth plays the deciding role in where in the depreciation curve you justify replacing it.
The announcement from Atlassian's side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26275641
Didn't they have a deal with Cambridge Analytica, rebranded as Palantir?
Don't think of technical specialty as getting better with tools/processes. Think of technical specialty as getting better at solving classes of problems in a specific domain. Tools come into play and mastering them is a side effect of the problem space.

For example, I specialize in the Search domain. Most of all it involves understanding why people can't find things in most search applications, and how to fix them given myriad situations. There is a vast set of skills and tools needed to solve these problems, and I picked them up along the way in the past ~10 years I've been working on it.
Even more so if you can cram more and more processor cores into a chip, or more and more sockets into a board. It's easy to envision and multi-socket ARM server making more than a few micro service based architectures unnecessary.
It sounds like the same problem as the gaming industry, where people are really passionate about it and are willing to work for peanuts to be in the industry. I started doing some hobby game development, and I was suprised at how many "good enough" art and sound assets are freely available because of artists trying to get noticed.
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You're confusing two unrelated issues - cost of entry, and inequality.

Monopoly capitalism is just as good at suppressing new business as government bureaucracy is. Markets with a strong de facto monopoly - like web search, commercial operating systems, telecoms infrastructure, and so on - are completely closed to newcomers who can't access billions in capital.

You can be sure there are some very strong business opportunities in those areas, but because capital is so concentrated they will never make it to market while the de facto monopolies remain.

>If you let the average person become 1.10x better off, and you do so by letting some people become 10x better off, are you ahead or behind?

Also known as the "a rising tide lifts all boats" argument." Sometimes dressed up as "trickle down."

Unfortunately Piketty's data proves that the world doesn't work like this, so I'm not sure why you think the question is relevant or interesting.
I liked this article and how it was framed for businesses but it seems generally useful to many different types of activities:

- Pull requests should usually optimize for latency, not throughput (i.e. smaller PRs/changes are usually better)

- Release frequently instead of infrequently (implying that frequent releases will be smaller but in frequent releases will be very large)

- Non-strictness (latency-optimized) is more composable than strictness (throughput-optimized)

... this orbits another mental model I was exposed to a few years ago I call "weak-signal thinking".
I don't know much about tummo but I am working my way through The Mind Illuminated, a book on a type of mindfulness meditation that gets into pretty advanced levels, so I can answer from that perspective.

The book goes through several models of consciousness, but one is "moments of consciousness." In each of those moments, you could have your attention on the meditation object, or on something else ("distraction"). But you can also have moments in which you aren't conscious at all. Each moment is extremely brief, but if you have a lot of moments of unconsciousness, this is "dullness." Dullness is just as much a problem as distraction, and there are practices specifically to combat it.

If you're just trying not to think, you might be dealing well with distraction, but you might also have a lot of dullness. It's easy to think you're very good at meditating, when actually you just have dullness.

If you can fix both distraction and dullness, you can attain a high level of awareness of what's going on in your mind. This leads to the sort of insights that for Buddhists are the main point. It also has a lot of side benefits, like just being more present and alive in your everyday life.
Imagine if Jurgen held cash through the Weimar republic.
Stepping back for a moment.

The problem isn't that a thing, somewhere, increased 6x in 10 years.

The problem is getting into the mindset where you think, "This is going to increase 6x in 10 years, or 10x in 10 years, or 2x in one year."

Once you start thinking that way, there's no point in putting $500 into the investment and accepting the measly $2500 payoff. You should put in $5000 and make $25,000, or take out a second mortgage so you can put $500,000 into the investment and retire in 10 years on your $2,500,000 gains.

Hell, some of the time your crazy investment will pay off and you will get rich! But most of the time your great investment opportunity will go bust and you will too.

That is the greedy mindset to avoid, if you don't want to find yourself skipping from one get-rich scheme to another, losing money the entire time, but thinking you're just one good payday from an easy life.

I bring it up apropos this thread because any time someone says, "If I had invested in X, Y years ago, I would have Z dollars now!!!", that's the beginning of the road to madness.
> So...like gold and silver?

Yes, except gold and silver don't scale. Bitcoin scales, it's almost infinitely divisible and can be traded without a third party on the internet. It's Gold 2.0.

> I'm trying to understand this. If everyone puts their money into Bitcoin, inflation won't eat the value of their money so they won't try to increase it by investing into dividend-producing businesses? Otherwise how is this "script" "flipped? I don't understand this line of reasoning.

No, but if bitcoin proves to be the better investment (which it has over the last decade of its existence) people will put their money where they can get the best return. Bitcoin is still largely unproven and considered risky but the more times it increases exponentially in value the more stable and secure it will seem.

To put it another way - If I had 1 million dollars ten years ago conventional wisdom would have said the absolute best place I could have put it was either the stock market or into real-estate. Looking back obviously there would have been no better place to put it than into bitcoin but nobody knew that back then.

The more people who move their investments away from "Conventional" investments like real-estate and into more inclusive assets like bitcoin the better it is for society as a whole. It's well documented that one of the big reasons silicon valley is so expensive to live in is because Chinese investors are moving in and purchasing real-estate just to sit on, good for them, bad for people in the area who get no piece of that economic action.

I could go on and on. I'm not going to pick apart every point you made but I certainly can, I think you'll see the light in a few years when bitcoin does what it does and skyrockets again.

Can I ask you this though: Do you think bitcoin will gain in value from this point on or do you think bitcoin will fizzle out, and why do you think that?
Maybe he’s not that smart. Maybe he’s like a worker bee who only knows how to push buttons or something
Not perception, here's what happens in projects I've been on with poor test quality (low quality tests, too few tests, sometimes essentially no tests, etc.):

Experienced developers (the ones who made it) are generally fast, quick to identify the source of an issue or where to make a change. They have better than even odds of not mucking it up (discovered by users later because testing in-house is too poor to catch it).

New developers are either paralyzed by uncertainty (will this really do what I want, does it have an unintended effect elsewhere that I can't detect?) or make changes and have better than even odds (much better) of mucking it up and creating a mess. Hopefully it's discovered before release, but most likely it's discovered after.

One of the critical things for new developers to a project is the opportunity to make changes and see what happens, with good feedback. If you permit them to make the changes, but lack the ability to provide good feedback on the effect of those changes, then they cannot learn the system from the perspective of a developer. Along with exploratory testing, it should be possible for developers to make compilable, but arbitrary, changes and see tests fail. This lets them know the impact of a change and understand how that section of code relates to the system as a whole. That holistic view is impossible on larger projects without good testing, or more experience than you want to wait for.

The importance of this will vary based on the importance of the system and its size and scope. Smaller size and scope, then they can probably learn the system well enough (say, less than 100k lines of code, depending on language). Beyond that size, the system will become a rotten mess and your customers will leave you if they have any choice.
George Orwell covered this basic point in `1984` (published in 1949):

> The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim -- for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -- is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal. Thus throughout history a struggle which is the same in its main outlines recurs over and over again. For long periods the High seem to be securely in power, but sooner or later there always comes a moment when they lose either their belief in themselves or their capacity to govern efficiently, or both. They are then overthrown by the Middle, who enlist the Low on their side by pretending to them that they are fighting for liberty and justice. As soon as they have reached their objective, the Middle thrust the Low back into their old position of servitude, and themselves become the High. Presently a new Middle group splits off from one of the other groups, or from both of them, and the struggle begins over again.
That's a perfectly reasonable use case that should be supported. But it should require explicit activation (a tag, etc). A formatting engine should not rewrite content unless told to explicitly.
And yet, somehow, over the last 20 years the crime rate in the US has dropped tremendously. Every single one of those prisoners was convicted of some crime or another by a comparatively just court system.

The underlying problem--criminality in some American cultures--is difficult and rather unique to the United States. Other rich countries are more culturally homogenous and hence suffer less criminality, though that's changing if you look, for instance, at Scandinavia, where the rate of rapes has risen dramatically as more and more Muslims immigrate there.
For me this is hard to understand. Either I haven't seen anyone who is able to 'mouse' as fast as you can. Or you haven't yet seen someone who is really good at Vim.
Or if it took GDP growth into account.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USDebt.png
Right. I feel that this article doesn't give strong arguments as to why the advice is terrible in the first place.