skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^This is mostly incorrect, save the reference to peak harvest times.

Psilocybe allenii has been hunted regularly since at least the 1960's in Golden Gate Park, previously under its informal name Psilocybe cyanofriscosa.

According to Psychedelic Society of San Francisco lecturer and mycologist Alan Rockefeller, Psilocybe allenii occurs from BC, Canada to Los Angeles, and is common in San Francisco.[1]

Allenii is also one of the strongest psychedelic mushrooms known, possibly taking second place to Psilocybe azurescens.

Allenii is not alone in the Park either, "Psilocybe cyanescens is also very common in San Francisco. It is almost as potent. If you go to Golden Gate Park in December you will see hundreds of hippies looking at the wood chip landscaping for Psilocybe cyanescens and Psilocybe allenii." says Rockefeller.

The average person shouldn't be walking around hunting mushrooms, period, as there are several species that will kill you from ingesting even a small amount. However, there are a number of commercial services and recurring events[2] that offer to take folks on "day trips" through the park and point out where to find these mushrooms.

Relatively speaking, however, psychedelic mushroom species have a high concentration in the Pacific Northwest and CA in particular. [3]

Appreciate the chance to brush up on my mycology!

[1] Golden Gate Park magic mushroom finally classified, just in time for high season
http://48hills.org/sfbgarchive/2012/12/18/golden-gate-park-m...

[2] IN THE WILD! Mushroom Hunt and Identification
https://www.meetup.com/psychedelics/events/95388602/

[3] Map of Psychedelic Mushroom Concentrations
https://www.shroomology.org/uploads/monthly_10_2012/post-1-0...
I'd go further and say this could have a dramatic impact on the vibe at Burning Man. Marijuana has historically been one of the least popular recreational substances at Burning Man, because the smell is hard to disguise. If marijuana is treated more lightly now by Nevada authorities, I'd expect it to become more popular at Burning Man, and take "market share" away from other substances.

Curious what the expert Burners among us think?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tech

I went there to check it out but all of the titles are click bait.
I'm sorry but the density argument doesn't cut it. It's 30-100x as expensive to build rail through dense areas as it would be through farmland like I5. Most of the in between places are crazily cheaper.
Somehow I missed this interesting thread till now, but I run about 11 of them with a total of around 370K subscribers in the developer space. I'm coy with money but let's just say we're 'approaching' $1M revenue and we are 8 full-timers plus several external curators.
> here's no fundamental reason that road vehicles couldn't exceed 200kph

Actually, there is: energy costs for road traffic go up as the square of the velocity, for rail this is much better because there is only one (very aerodynamic) front section for as many carriages as you want to put behind the loc and steel-on-steel has much better rolling resistance than rubber-on-asphalt or concrete.
Trains less than 300mph are useless in the US.

Either go big (maglev/hyperloop) and meaningfully compete with airlines or forget about it.
That's kind of my point, acetaminophen is a psychoactive drug.
Those girls in that scenario were all RELEASED in Nigeria.

They only kidnapped those girls because the West did not care about them kidnapping and murdering boys.

Nice try. But those girls in Nigeria were released and told to go home and make good families.

The Matriarchy is strong.
"I support this..." pages are okay. However, I prefer to call and write congresscritters and senators directly, saying either:

"Hi, I'm a constituent, and I believe senator/critter XYZZY should vote for/against the PLUGH legislation because..."

or

"Hi, I'm not a constituent, but I'll contribute to senator/critter XYZZY's next election (or his or her opponents) depending on the PLUGH issue."

A couple hundred dollars in the right place is probably worth more than a couple hundred signatures.
I'd be spending 2-3x as much on parking alone as I'm currently spending on my rail commute.
What does Spain have going for it? They have more HSR than the US (2000 miles).

No one said we should blanket the country with HSR, but shouldn't the US have a need for at least 2000 miles? We have basically zero.

You're doing that thing where you try to explain why it won't work in the US by saying that it won't work everywhere.
I still resent Rick Scott's decision to reject federal funds for Florida's high speed rail. It would have been the first high speed rail in the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_High_Speed_Corridor
>in theory it should be cheaper

Rail is heavily subsidised in many European countries. But a well-run and affordable rail service is such an essential motor of economic well-being that subsidies are generally accepted as essential by governments and most of the public.

For an example of what what happens when more and more of the cost of a ticket is shouldered by the commuter, look at the UK. We have some of the highest rail fares in the whole of Europe.

Below is research from the TUC (Trades Union Congress) in the UK who campaign against rail privatisation. Whether or not you agree with their stance on privatisation, the cost of a monthly season ticket in the UK is enormous.

Monthly season ticket comparison: UK vs Europe:

UK: Luton to London St. Pancras (35 miles) £387

UK: Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Piccadilly (32 miles) £292

Germany: Dusseldorf to Cologne (28 miles) £85

France: Mantes-la-Jolie to Paris (34 miles) £61

Italy: Anzione to Rome (31 miles) £61

Spain: Aranjuez to Madrid (31 miles) £75

Source: https://www.tuc.org.uk/industrial-issues/transport-policy/uk...
I'm on a vacation in Italy and just used one this morning from Florence to Bologna with Trenitalia. A lot of positive things: The ride was 35 minutes long, doesn't include any security theater, you can arrive the station 10 minutes before the departure and hop in a couple of minutes, comfortable, roomy, from city center to almost city center, and many more. And the train continued to all the way to Turin, visiting many cities including Milan in 2-3 hours. Cost was 16ish euros, I guess (deducing from a total payment for four people).

Doing the same though air travel would add at least a total of 2-3 hours for the whole thing. Don't know about the cost comparison but the user satisfaction is there.
Reid can't get laid. So he thinks Whiteknighting and virtue signalling will make him more attractive.
There are plenty of reasons:

* the weight of freight significantly impacts the track's lifecycle, and HSR tend to be on the "light cargo" side with a train being about 10% cargo by weight

* the bulk and varying shape makes it impossible to build high-speed trains with any interesting flexibility and capability as they need to be highly profiled

* and you don't want your high-speed passenger traffic to be held up by freight.

* the cost/benefit calculation makes no sense, it's much more price-efficient to carry freight using gigantic regular-speed trainsets than using small high-speed ones, and what little freight is so time-sensitive that you need to put it on an HSR can be put there as a special case

None of the big HSR countries use it for anything resembling serious freight, the only one which came even remotely close was France which had 3.5 mail trainsets, which were wound down and ultimately retired in 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF_TGV_La_Poste
...which means more room to put a few railroads in.

Currently in the UK there is talk of a high speed rail link from London to what Londoner's call 'the North'. Many, many houses will have to be demolished to put this line in. The cost of buying those properties - to demolish them - is fairly cost prohibitive, plus people like their homes so it is politically awkward.

Thus population density/country size cuts both ways.

Furthermore, sometimes it can be advantageous to have a longer journey by train than a shorter journey by plane. When I was working in Glasgow I would take the overnight sleeper train, to arrive for the start of the working day having 'slept' on the train. The alternative taxis and planes and hotel stay was a lot more tiring than the train, even with that stop at Crewe where they change the rolling stock around, waking everyone.
Go walk up to someone in LA or Seattle and ask them if they could would they take a train into work instead if it cut the time in traffic down. I'll bet very few people would say no.
Yes, this is a real technique. There are NNs that are mixed with regular programming. As data propagates through the code, a graph is created and gradients flow automatically backwards training the various neural net bits. All this is fully mixable with functions, loops, if's and math expressions, the only condition is that any instruction used has to allow for gradients to flow - so it needs to be able to assign blame correctly from outputs to inputs.

A second technique is to use deep learning to learn from stack traces. Any old software could be stack-traced by inserting a few prints here and there. Then a NN could learn recursive algorithms just by trying to recreate the whole stack trace, not just the actual outputs. It's a way to distill plain old programming into NNs, by incorporating side information that is cheap to get. This would be useful to quickly teach a NN some algorithm while making it less brittle than symbolic approaches. Imagine how many algorithms could be extracted from conventional software.
Ah, nice trick - thanks for the tip.
For Nevada Question 2 of the $3,771,500 spent in opposition $3,650,000 (96.7%) of that came from Sheldon Adelson. https://ballotpedia.org/Nevada_Marijuana_Legalization,_Quest...

For California Prop 64 of the $2,077,438 spent in opposition $1,364,000 (65.6%) came from Julie Schauer.

The only other major donor was Smart Approaches to Marijuana Action (SAM Action) which donated $489,150 (23.5%)

The California Teamsters Public Affairs Council donated $25,000 (1.2%) and the Peace Officers Research Association of Claifornia PIC donated $25,000 (1.2%).

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_64,_Marijuana...

In both cases the majority of support for the opposition came from a SINGLE WEALTHY INDIVIDUAL - not "private individuals."

I am not sure if the Teamsters directly represent police officers but they are a union and Peace Officers Research Association sounds police related so you are right that some vaguely "police" and "union" related groups did donate a relatively insignificant 2.4% to the opposition campaign, but that is it.
Focus doesn't mean exclusion. (borrowed)
Where is this data available for download?
An article that is simultaneously interesting and unsurprising. Cultural differences can be hard to navigate in the workplace, especially if you can't communicate without Google Translate.

The learning and adjustment curve will be difficult, but I hope both parties can navigate it well and prosper.
Plottable is absolutely amazing!
And no TSA which is a huge win. You can bring your devices without worrying about having them inspected and potentially cloned.
You're thinking like an engineer, where efficieny trumps all.

In the real world people who can will spend money not to be packed in like sardines with people of questionable hygiene.

Know what happens when the AC is out on your vehicle? You get it fixed.

How about when the AC is out for the 3rd time this month on the bus/train?

"Oh well, that sucks, guess I'm going into work sweaty today"

Mass transit everywhere I've been in the US sucks. It's so bad only the poor us it, because even the middle-middle class finds it disgusting/inconvenient.
Did you read the article?

"First, if you hear the word immortality, just run"

No one is talking about immortality here.
Does anyone know how ipinfo compares to running your own instance of https://freegeoip.net?
No. Math is made of the universe.
I'm pretty sure my American farmer friends do not think the trains that are filled by the grain elevator to deliver their produce to market are any form of socialism.
Cost of car ownership = cost of car + insurance + fuel + storage + maintenance + misc tickets and administrative fees.
The reason high speed rail doesn't happen is the same reason commuter rail doesn't happen. Rich people do not want poor people to be able to easily come to their neighborhoods. The whole suburban architecture of the U.S is specifically constructed to maintain this inaccessibility. The whole trend began in the 60s with "white flight" in cities like Detroit after race riots and has only intensified since.
The fact that cryptocurrency keeps showing up alongside scams certainly does not bode well for the legitimacy of cryptocurrency, and by extension it does not bode well for the stability or overall value.

One of the biggest flaws with cryptocurrency is that for all its mathematical and structural elegance, it rolls back almost all of the features that mitigate fraudulent human behaviors.
> in Austin TX they are spending years to add a single lane to one of the main highways

We gotcha beat in Seattle, where it took 30 years to build the north I5-I405 interchange. It took only 20 years to build the 8th Street I405 overpass. 25 years are projected for the light rail.
Installing "high speed" rail that's less than 200mph in the US today is like installing 6MB copper DSL and calling it a win.

Notice developing economies are going wireless/fiber and skipping the "legacy" generation, the US should be doing the same with MagLev/hyperloop.

The issue is we spend our money policing the world/blowing up countries then paying to rebuild them. If we weren't so hell-bent on global hegemony we could spend more on infrastructure at home.
I did this too. Actually I found it didn't really provide me with any concrete solution to my issues. You know what solved it? I started meditating because my anxiety about the GERD itself was through the roof. My blood pressure dropped and my GERD symptoms started just not appearing. Incidentally, the more I read about stress being linked to GERD incidents the more it makes sense. If you're struggling with GERD, a fantastic, free e-book to read is called "Down With Acid". It explains how it all works and could come about and is really informative.

I find that treating the symptoms as soon as they appear with a combination of Gaviscon (for throat burning reflux) and Ranitidine (for the stabbing heart pains) and keeping on those remedies for a few days helps. The best description I could find was imagine putting your finger over a candle flame. At first it doesn't hurt, but if you hold it there long enough it burns and fucking hurts. Now even the smallest bit of heat on your finger is going to be really painful! When I followed this analogy by making sure I treat the symptoms instantly, I no longer worry about GERD on a day-to-day basis. Big post for me, but I spent 2 years researching and really doing everything I could to understand how this happens and how to treat it and I hope this helps anyone else reading who has these symptoms.
No, "freedom for the user" is exactly what it says. GPL cares about end user, not so much about developer. Original developer just gets to decide which group is more important in his particular case.
This is probably what the dudes in the NYTimes article think to themselves, too.
Sad, very sad. I wish they had tried shooting at the book and see whether the bullet penetrates it. Only thereafter should they have tried on a human being. Still, a very risky thing.
Do you really think he's going to answer that question?
It sounds like this has nothing to do with Bitcoin. The scammer used the word Bitcoin to attract victims but didn't actually have anything to do with Bitcoin.
Well, it's even stronger than most religions in specifying how humans will behave, which of course includes should. That's because a mathematical universe is deterministic and more so, that anything mathematically possible (self-consistent and so forth) will happen infinite times.

I consider it perfectly justifiable to call it physics, but at this level of abstraction, it's hard to differentiate it from religion too.
Indeed, service dress and full dress are essentially frozen in the same time as the business suit. Essentially we are still under the influence of the Prince Regent's buddy Beau Brummell. At least the necktie ("cravat") has an actual military origin. But the split into three dress uniforms still apes ancient sumptuary laws and the (thankfully obsoleted) structure of officers coming from the noble and gentle classes and the infantry/sergeants from the lower classes.

Then again the whole white wedding / white (instead of seed) cake weddings come from Victoria.

But it cracks me up to see, say, North Korean generals in uniforms that really just look like Regency clothing!
I prefer (and operate) https://wtfismyip.com/
I've been working since I was 18 and in 19 years I've seen a lot, experience is learning from your own mistakes, wisdom is learning from other peoples.

It's really not that difficult to maintain a professional attitude, it's a skill like any other it's just the modern workplace isn't always conducive to it, frankly I'd prefer a more formal workplace than informal all things been equal.
Layout+is+the+next+frontier+of+web+app+performance
This doesn't make any sense. It's not like Americans don't undertake long-range travel; Americans routinely visit other American cities thousands of miles from their homes.

It's simply that Americans do that with commercial air, not with rail.

If there's something more "socialistic" than being crammed cheek-to-jowl with other people in the back of an airplane, I don't know what it is.

Are you perhaps confusing the debate about American high-speed rail with the debate about American commuter rail? There are probably cultural reasons why Americans don't use public transportation as much as Europeans, but that's got nothing to do with HSR, which connects large cities, not suburbs.
> I've not once mentioned my preference.

That's fine, no one was talking about you specifically.

> I'm not naive enough to think everyone would be better off developing in C#

That's good. Neither am I, so I'm not sure why it is being mentioned.

> There are a lot of smart people sharing the same opinion, like Alan Kay

Smart people also have the opposite opinion. It doesn't mean anything; that part is all subjective.

> There's a whole class of software I can't imagine being built in a static language

A static language can have an "only known at runtime" type that lets you do the same thing as the default in a dynamic language, when it is needed.

> There are other classes of software that are extremely hard to implement in a statically typed language like React

Define "extremely hard". Would you consider Elm "extremely hard", for example? And why can't that model be used in other statically-typed languages? I think it's only a matter of time, personally.

> throwing shade on successful companies usage of dynamic languages

All I'm "throwing shade on" is the idea that users don't care about quality, and that static languages have no inherent quality advantages over dynamic languages. I disagree with either idea.

I have no qualms about which companies use which programming languages, as long as the result is a quality product from my (the user's) point of view.

If they get that quality through dynamic languages, good for them. I think they worked harder than they should have, and I think they are spending more money on server infrastructure than necessary, but that's their choice.

But I don't believe for a second that the quality, performance, or the end user experience was improved because a dynamic language was chosen. And this discussion (at least, where I chimed in) was precisely the point where the end user experience was called into question.
Japan is racing against time to prepare for massive quake using AI and Data
Linkerd: A service mesh of AWS ECS
The Anglosphere is just becoming a big joke altogether.
It's not about cost. Long rails aren't that expensive. The problem is that a train running through Texas is useless unless you want to get to a specific city that the tracks actually pass through. Anywhere else could be hours of driving from the station and there isn't any infrastructure for that. A 4 hour cab/Uber ride is way too expensive.

Even a train that drops you off in the middle of Los Angeles could leave you many hours from the actual place in Los Angeles you want to be.
That's a fair point, what's the energy cost of building thousands of miles of new railways, rather than using existing freeways? (okay, I'm being a little facetious)

With regard to aerodynamics, I am assuming that following distances for advanced autonomous vehicles will be minimal. They could maybe drive bumper-to-bumper as long as all cars in the ... er ... train were similarly capable.
Neither does it mean extrapolation beyond intended use.

If we're going to try to re-frame the whole tech issue with being hostile to women as a human rights issue then we have bigger problems. It's assholes being assholes, they're not going to be impressed by any appeal to higher morality such as the human rights. Besides that plenty of corporations make large amounts of money because they trample those very human rights. If you want to go down that road then what we are looking at right now is a 'first world problem' and can be safely ignored until we've brought the rest of the world up to the level where they can complain about how the women in their tech sector are being dealt with.

The way I see it is simple: shine as much light as possible on those that are actually committing these acts so that it can be made perfectly clear that such behavior is absolutely unacceptable.

No violation of human rights needs to be implied, this is simply a case of inter-human error and frankly a lack of education.

If you're a guy in tech treat women (and in general others) the way you'd want your mom or dad or brother or sister to be treated. That single rule should make things a lot better.
Yes, by using --allowJS and --checkJS switches (can also be set in tsconfig.json).
MaxMind databases are the first options you can find if you search for "GeoIP Download" [1][2][3][4][5].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=geoip+download

[2] https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/

[3] https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/downloadable/

[4] https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/

[5] https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/downloadable/
Yes, passenger rail and freight rail don't mix very well. Passenger trains are generally slower and more expensive than airplanes, except maybe through high population density areas.
>>you still have to figure out how to travel tens of miles to where you really want to go.
>Same with air travel, except it's easier for trains to end up in city centers instead of airports outside of the city.

With developed network of local and regional lines it's usually more convenient to travel by train, because you just switch to metro or local train on the same station. E.g. in Germany there are long distance speed trains (ICE), regionals (RE), local trains (S-Bahn), metro (U-Bahn) and very good public transit. I haven't find a place yet, where you will really need a car to get there.

One comment on the website mentions airport-like security checks, saying that they'll slow down the boarding by the same amount of time. Actually, it's not true - just look at "Sapsan" trains between Moscow and St.Petersburg in Russia. There's, in fact, airport-like security check right before the train and it does not make boarding significantly slower.
The really stupid part is that US military spending is so disproportionate you could do both.

A 25% cut in the US military would leave around 165bn for infrastructure and they'd still be spending more than the next 4 countries.
That's circular logic. Under the mathematical universe hypotheses, a map, being isomorphic to the territory, would be equivalent.