skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah just anecdotally, it did make me a better person. Not at first, but the experience of being unequivically, obviously _happy_, for the first time in my life, understanding that I was going to be okay, that I could just like talk to people and make friends, and so on — even if it was mediated by drugs, made me realize how much of my perception of how the world was, lived only inside my head. Nothing about the world had changed, but suddenly it felt beautiful and safe to me in a way that it never had before.

My perception of the world was obviously distorted in some way by the drug, but my perception while sober was also distorted by a lifetime of traumatic experiences that molded how I felt about myself and other people. I forged new relationships with people, I cut off relationships with other people that were bad for us both. It wasn’t an immediate change, I took years for me to dig myself out of the hole that I was in— but I genuinely believe that mdma saved my life.

And this was in a totally unregulated environment, where I pretty much exclusively took it at raves and all the therapeutic talking sessions were with random strangers on ecstasy that happened to be around when the mood to talk struck me. I have to believe that a professional therapist would have accelerated the process significantly.
Your cynicism is warranted:

„Federal Agency Courted Alcohol Industry to Fund Study on Benefits of Moderate Drinking“

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/health/nih-alcohol-study-...
> This is a well written and comprehensive article, but I don’t feel it has answers to the central issues of scaling up the Hydrogen economy. On the other hand, Hydrogen can be green, while mass produced lithium batteries are anything, but.

This is not really fair..

Batteries can be produced cleanly just as much as hydrogen. It's just a matter of chemistry, mining practices and cost.

Furthermore, batteries is not a fuel. It is not burned. It can be recycled or reused.

But I get what you mean. All in all this is a technological arms race, and it seems to me that batteries have a pretty big head start. Though it's not over until we get a battery that is made from cheap common elements that has 2-3 times the capacity of todays batteries. In the meantime I suppose hydrogen fuel for the personal transport sector has a chance.
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hacked this https://github.com/grafoo/webdmp together some time ago.
nothing fancy but works for me and i can host it on my own server.
I think you are looking at the wrong thing. That's like looking for Symbian qualities in an iPhone. I mean, what you need is a productive pointing device not specifically a touchpad and for that the TrackPoint in ThinkPads still wins.
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That we have a standard of living that high is a historical contingency. Industrialization can work with slavery just as well as it can with 1970s style welfare states.

It is politics and struggle that determines which version of industrialization we end up with, not industrialization itself.

One of my favorite alternative history ideas is the combustion engine and assembly becoming viable in 1790 instead of 1890.

Imagine a South that replaces all the slaves with tractors and automated cotton pickers, and a North which finds slavery works better in Fordist conditions than free labor.
Why does everything have to involve some rant against journalists? This was an extremely well credentialed collaboration claiming to have made a major discovery. It took the physics community itself months to unravel it. And the articles did actually mention that verification was still required.
The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field by Jacques Hadamard, himself a mathematician is not scientific but a good source of anecdotes and systematic attempts at introspection.

I find that 'stepping away' from the details after immersion for a few days and allowing the pieces to re-align themselves does seem to pay benefits, even with the mundane and practical problems I need to solve. I agree with the grandparent post that alcohol is not the only de-focusing agent around.
Frontend developers at our company vetoed TypeScript for being too difficult to comprehend for JS devs.
This startup uses drones for medical deliveries in Malawi
A hypervisor is a microkernel with a hardware-like system interface (trapping and emulating attempts to directly interact with the MMU, network cards, etc.) plus a higher efficiency software-like interface (upcalls).

I hope modern hypervisors are merely a transitional evolutionary form to a more sensible minimal interface. DEC was really on the right track with providing essentially a hypervisor (PALcode) as the firmware and from day 1 not allowing the OS kernels to manipulate page tables, etc. VMS (on Alpha), Tru64 UNIX, and Linux (on Alpha) all always essentially ran as dom0 in hyperisor terminology. As far as I know, DEC never shipped PALcode that supported multiple simultaneous guest kernels, but that's only a small stretch of their original architecture and wouldn't have required any hardware changes or changes to the VMS or Tru64 UNIX (or Linux for Alpha) kernels.

I'm surprised we don't use a modern realtime high-performance microkernel (seL4, OKL4, mabye something QNX-like) and put the hardware emulation functionality out in one or more userspace programs that would translate trapped operations into normal micokernel syscalls (upcalls). OS kernels can be modified (paravirtualized) to use calls to the microkernel instead of performing the operations that would get trapped.

In the short term, this would result in lower performance for unmodified OSes, but increases security and increases incentives for the OS vendors to paravirtualize their kernels. In the longer term, though, it would result in a smaller cache footprint and thus lower overhead and lower latency for microkernel/hypervisor operations.
> It's already illegal not to send your kids to school.

In every single country?
There are some things like infrastructure that probably makes sense to centralize such as transportation or telecommunication. I think it still makes sense to run these things paid for by the government as opposed to people voting with cash. However, I might be wrong. There are real limits to how much money we have.

So a question like do we spend on a local transit subway system are difficult because there is so much politics. Even trying to get the F train go express in Brooklyn had so much opposition.

When I read the article headline I thought of course cash does not solve everything. We still need roads and bridges and fiber optic cables. However, if the period have the cash maybe they can decide for themselves what they want to prioritize.

Too bad we can't have a single tax system around the world so we could hand the same tax brackets around the world. That would make it so much easier to raise taxes on the top bracket without worrying about money fleeing the jurisdiction and we'd be able to fund things like a basic income.
That's great in principle. In practice, to keep doing the work of science you need to keep getting funding; and to keep getting funding you need to keep publishing (read: to respectable conferences and journals).

Unfortunately, the most respectable journals have a nasty tendency to refuse to publish negative, or even equivocal results. And that puts a lot of pressure on researchers to find a signal, somehow, anyhow- and to viciously attack any suspicion that the signal was just a spider on the lens or whatever.

Which is not to say Feynamn is wrong. On the contrary: reform is sorely needed. But reform can only come from the inside, and the only people "inside" are those who accept they must play by the rules, rotten as they are.

Bottom line: we all want to Do the Right Thing, For Science. But doing the right thing and still doing science is getting harder and harder as time goes by.
For some media, this is absolutely the case. Particularly films that are slightly damaged, or seriously damaged, it's well worth holding onto the material in order to wait for better techniques to become available.

Case in point, this recent restoration of Morecambe and Wise by BBC R&D: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2017-12-morecambe-wise-video-fi...

They laser cut the film apart, then used X-ray microtomography to scan the film and some very clever software to unwarp layers from the 3D data produced by the X-ray microtomography process. Not exactly something we could've done 5 years ago.
For me, definitely. The first time I took psilocybin 22 years ago shaped my views on consciousness, among other things, and led to profound personal growth. I don’t think I would be where I am today without it.
>The right to freedom of speech means Google ...

Surely it means specific people employed by Google may "speak". Does the right extend to corporations?
> where robots rule the Earth

I don't think that particular condition has been fulfilled :P
Out of interest, what do you define as a 'realistic' hiring process?

I end up having to hire new devs for my offshore team in India every 4-6 months or so, and I just haven't found a good way to ensure candidates are any good.
Very old audio equipment is in a similar boat - I know archivists who are prioritizing stuff for digitization based on the number of tape head hours they think they've got left in older machines.
IoT Law and Public Policy Is Focus of New IMC Publication
The comment seemed pragmatic. Coins will be mined regardless of whether it makes sense: it's better if it's done more ecologically as long as coins will be mined.
Why is this called a "compiler", though?
Seems the researcher's response was something like: "Hey, you know how your front and back door are both unlocked and everybody already knows about it? Well, your bathroom window is open too - so if someone gets past the front gate, across the moat, and into the castle - there's a third unlocked way onto the living quarters."

It's not like _this_ bug alone would get anybody RCE - they'd need to chain up some other way in, and if they've done that there are at least two known and unpatched bugs that'd get them the same place as this one already.

It's just as easy to argue that pushing for extensions to disclosures that aren't going to decrease security is the dick move here...
People like those writing that headline are the same people telling those on disability benefits that they're shameful sinful people who shouldn't be there: hence, making an escape necessary.

Eventually there'll be no truly useful purpose for most people EXCEPT as a functioning market for selecting goods and services, for the benefit of the much smaller percentage that can innovate and run small businesses. Heaping scorn on the majority of people seems like a weird strategy.

By far the most effective technique for improving conditions for the small entrepreneur is to dump money into the customer base, even if that customer base won't be making entirely 'good' decisions. Hell, if you don't like them all doing heroin at home in their rooms, build nightclubs. If they are not so broke that they can't come out, they'll start attending your nightclub because there are other things in life besides nodding off on soma.
This is true, although I've no idea how prevalent it is, outside of my own sphere. Over the years I have had several devs in my offshore team in India who had not just a Bsc, but an Msc in computing - and they are literally incapable of performing even the most basic of tasks.
A team has its dynamics. It is difficult to join a team if you have a self assigned mission from the get go. The author seemed to have done that.

The author was also smarter before he was empathetic. When he saw someone become touched after the criticism he put forth, he should have changed pace. And changed focus. Instead of focusing on the critiques, he could have focused on the outlying problems contributing to those critiques.

Instead of ignoring the responses everyone made to good suggestions, he could have been more accepting and started to beat the same drum.

Point is to find common ground first. Solutions come second.
I've moved to Scala in 2012 (because I needed to work on the JVM) from over a decade of Ocaml. I found that the absence of full type inference was not a major problem. The JVM library ecosystem on the other hand ... lack of libraries (at the time) really hampered Ocaml.
In my experience if you want to compare touchpads, do it with Linux installed. The Windows drivers for all touchpads I tried were horrible and on the two laptops where I installed Linux, the touchpad responded much nicer and quicker than with Windows.
"Athleisure"? Ugh.
Why do people need excuses for doing things they enjoy?

I'm fed up with studies that say drinking makes you creative, coffee makes you smarter and chocolate makes you live longer or whatever.
Hey, Thanks for the extensive reply.

Per the browser extension, we don't upload every screenshot in the free extension only if you like to scan a particular webpage as we can't afford to scan every webpage for free. We don't sell any information as this is not our business model - I got your point with the privacy policy and we will make it more accurate.

The business model is mainly with API product where you will see more integration coming up in the next couple of months and as I said the use case for the API is more for incident response teams and hosting providers that need to go manually through a lot of URLs and tag them.
This also happens in practice because the super experienced 10x guy has not balanced a RB tree or some similarly 100% solved std library algo in practice for 20 years and won't even get the job. The young 1X guy just got of uni and had to do it as an assignment just a year ago so they will employ him first, as they have no repeatable way to differentiate between a resume BS artist and the real McCoy. It costs everyone but that is automation practiced on a corporate scale.
Generates a histogram of pixel values in a frame and then,

in normal mode, calculates a (weighted) measure of the variance in pixel values.

in diff mode, calculates a (weighted) measure of the variance in differences of pixel count between two neighbouring values (if 800 pixels have value 112 and 1400 pixels have value 113, then the (abs) difference is 600)
I took trains all over Europe the thing is the smell.

Imagine someone taking MC Donald's in a train, which is already horrible on a open floor plan wagon. Some people just can't stand some smells and cabins are usually always small and don't provide enough fresh air to compensate for Smelly food.

I've left cabins before, and I've seen other people do so. It can be a huge annoyance.
Seriously...Not sure why the article is going after the "tech industry" as a whole when the entire article should have been about cryptocurrency mining
Walmart could seal India's biggest e-commerce deal as early as next week
Schwab is huge, so I'm skeptical that your good experience with them supports the thesis that you stated.
The best advertising copywriters are old drunks, that is just a fact.
Yes. Hunger isn't a logistics problem, it's a political problem. People like the writer of that headline are making an argument very similar to 'poor people should starve to death, because that will motivate them to work and not be poor, and nothing else will get through their moral decay and general badness'

Of course we'll be in a similar situation (or we are: if we are, it would not be covered on any mainstream news, because it'd be effectively a political decision).

Flint, MI doesn't have water. Puerto Rico barely has electricity, and they didn't even do anything to warrant getting reduced to pre-technology. These things are political decisions: the USA more than has the capacity to immediately remedy the problem and will not.

So, a bad harvest can be defined as 'for political reasons, someone decided it's time for the poor to be starved' and the capacity of agriculture to adapt to a productivity shock has nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Duplicacy doesn't support it, so I don't plan to add support for it either.
No, not a strawman at all. It's a rant about what bad qualities come from commonly accepted methodologies that fall under "OO". If you think that's not the common understanding of OO, you should state what you think it stands for instead and why you think it's still a good idea. You didn't do that.

And pretty much nobody really understands what exactly is Alan Kay's vision, simply because it's rather vague and somewhat removed from practical reality. He seems to want "extreme late binding" (which need not be bad) and asynchronicity (Actor Model? can remove control and thus be problematic). He also has some vague idea of extreme parallelism that seems just very far removed from computational reality today. I think it's more a philosophical idea of how the physical and biological world could be seen as concurrent processes. I don't want to say his are bad ideas, and he is obviously an extremely intelligent and educated guy, but at the same time he also does not seem like an experienced programmer from a practical standpoint - but more of a visionary. So that's my idea, and if you have a different one, feel free to head over to the C2 wiki to convince yourself that most people don't really know what he means.
Any idea if it supports Asciidoc? It wasn't obvious to me where to find info on the supported markdown languages on their website.
23 JavaScript design patterns
I'm intrigued at how the existing Flickr was kept alive. This thread notes most previously paying members - no longer are. I've never heard a marketing person talking about "advertising on Flickr". So income is low.

Meanwhile, storage and bandwidth are two of the more expensive things around.

Turning things around could as this thread suggests could greatly improve the income. But again, I feel surprised there was a Flickr still around to acquire.
4 months of working with ayahuasca with some of the best shamans in the amazon cured my depression, anxiety and panic attacks. During that time I have seen so many people get cured from all sorts of different issues. It's an amazing medicine.

If you decide to do it, make sure you do some proper research on which centers are good before you go.
Well, paywalls are just an insanely bad concept when coupled with a site such as HN.

I will not start a subscription on a random site because it was linked on HN. I'm most certainly not even part of their target group. And even if I was, reading 1 article a month on 100 different sites is equally insane. (that said, I don't bypass the paywall, I just don't read it)

Personally I'm also not fond of the idea to pay money so that they can track me better, but I know I'm in minority there.

We need better ways to pay for content. Preferably one which rewards good content. Today everything is clickbait and the idea to pay for clickbait is extremely off putting to me.
If you could remove the protons from the hydrogen then the remaining electrons could be piped through wires, vastly simplifying distribution
> without worrying about money fleeing the jurisdiction and we'd be able to fund things like ...

That's a terrible idea. Freedom to leave is a powerful force to keep governments from going too far out of control. North Korea is horrible to its people so it has to lock them in. You're effectively wanting the same thing but for everyone. America has important things to attract value producers so that they'll tolerate paying the tax because they're still better off than trying to earn money in some worse country despite lower taxes. It's up to the government to squeeze as much out of them as it can without losing them.
Ask HN: Whats the most boring form that you had to fill? Why did you hate it?
Hi,

I am looking for terrible forms that can be simplified for consumers. Online or Offline doesn't matter to start with. I have done a few in Europe already, but desperately looking for more.

Some examples that I have done:

- If your train in Germany is delayed, they make you fill out a paper form, hand sign it and post(!) it to them to claim a refund. No email or fax allowed. I built a little online form that prefills it with data from your ticket. You can also post it through my site.

- If your train in France is delayed you have to fill out a similar form thats only available in french.

Some examples that I am thinking about:

- Resident parking permits are different by council/county and some can be a total pain to renew.

- taxes (although many have done this incl. TurboTax etc.)

- reclaiming capital gains tax paid on shares in Switzerland is super awkward for German citizens

Anyhow. Please let me know processes like that that really annoyed you, ideally with link to the original form. Big Bonus points for recurring stuff! Many thanks!
Agreed, the names are terribly chosen and very confusing. There was a discussion on the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14507778
This year, much more accurate GPS chips are expected from Broadcom and other manufacturers that also process L5 signals from newer GPS satellites. About 30cm accuracy is to be expected. Ueber's work is nice for short term, but whether it is still needed?

- https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/design/su...
Many people believe it shouldn't be possible to be employed full time and still require food stamps -- that the minimum legal wage should be a living wage that covers the average price of food and rent in that area, at least.

So, it follows that they would only believe it laudable to employ the poor if you're employing them to a standard that allows them to survive.

The issue is that if Business A and Individual B are paying taxes, why should those taxes be used to increase Business C's profit margin by subsidizing their employees? Should this not be the responsibility of Business C?
North Korea suspends nuclear and missile tests, shuts down test site
Anyone can pull up a piece of data to claim they have consent, you need something like a signature otherwise it is words against each other. There is no way to verify consent with some click through, anyone can click a link in someone else's name or create a record in a db that says so.
Schumer: I’m announcing plan to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level
I initially wanted to use duplicati as well, but I tried it twice at a one year interval and both times the web UI felt very buggy, and I have a hard time trusting for my backups a tool that has a buggy UI.
Note - Had to edit the title to get under 80 char limit.
The design of this site is simultaneously awesome and exhausting. I closed the tab halfway down the page.
That's a perpetual motion fraud.
Cynicism is always warranted IMO.
In a similar vein, I watch the Netflix screensaver quite a lot, or is it the Amazon Firestick screensaver ... either way, it's not a thing I'd ever have thought to install, but the images from around the world are beautiful and add a sort of contemplative calm to the day.
Or maybe there's really no need to politicize everything?

If you are a local you should know that CNN is a liberal press and but they are also trying to be neutral (which we appreciate). Inquirer is notoriously anti-government and manilatimes is neutral.

The point is that journalists should report facts and not be partisan. The quality of Pulitzer Prize winners were put into question when the story that they wrote were not backed up by evidence as to what the manilatimes article pointed out. A couple of police sources doesn't make up the entire police force.

And about Rappler, our consitution says that media should be 100% Filipino owned. Rappler received funding from a foreign company, Omidyar Network, and allowed them to have control of corporate matters. This is a red flag that is why SEC did an investigation. It is really that simple. No need to politicize it.