skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in a really conservative, deeply religious (Protestant Christian) family. My parents loved me and did their best to raise me according to their beliefs, but their beliefs were both absurdly strict and also ridiculously unsupportable by the scientific evidence that, as a book- and science-obsessed teenager, I was absorbing at a rapid pace.

Given that I was quickly disbelieving everything I had been raised to believe, and given that I was also doing teenager things like partying with friends and experimenting with various substances, there was an incredible amount of tension and arguing taking place in my home. My relationship with my parents was appalling. We fought constantly. I hated their beliefs. I hated my upbringing. They had no idea how to deal with a son who had always really been a good kid - a fun companion for my dad and a really loving child with my mom (who is still one of the most adorable, kind, caring and wonderful people I've ever known).

One night, when I was perhaps 16 years old, I came home quite late. I was high on LSD - probably the latter part of the trip. I was walking around the side of my house to get to the back door, and I paused. I started thinking about my parents. And suddenly it all became clear to me - the reasons for why they were they way they were, and the centrality of love to it all. The fact that their strictness was rooted in their deeply felt fear that I could end up doomed to spend eternity in hell. That, and a dozen other insights about them and our relationship washed over me.

This moment completely transformed our relationship. It was like a fever had broken. I still utterly disbelieved in their Christian faith - but I no longer raged against it, or felt the need to argue with them about it. I accepted them. I realized they had grown up in an environment similar to mine, but had never been able to break free of it. Instead of anger at them for this, I felt compassion for them.

I recognized that I loved them, and they loved me.

I know I could have gotten there without the acid trip, but I firmly believe that it would have taken several more years at least. That moment of insight when I was 15 or 16 years old was the kind that sometimes doesn't dawn on people until they're 30. Sometimes it never does.

Incidentally, this is just one of many moments of change that are rooted in some of the experiences I've had with psychedelics. I also, for example, shed my existentialist fear of death. But that's a different story. ;)
So then you are okay with putting otherwise law abiding citizens in a cage and ruining their chances of getting a decent job? Maybe even exposing them to a group of people who do harder drugs? How would you propose we handle the massive new influx of prisoners?
> HPPD is almost certainly a real disorder.

I just looked that up and have assumed it was normal for most of my life. Sometime around when I was 3-5 years old, I was laying in bed, looking up up at the wall and noticed this visual noise. I wondered about it and resolved that "that's just how it is." I would also close my eyes and let that fuzz "set in" and see beautiful fire works and replay music in my head. Maybe just developmental hallucination or whatever.

In rooms with no lights, that visual noise actually forms into spacial "estimators", I think somewhat formed by memory of what the room actually looks like in full light. I've always noticed it, it's always been present, and I thought it was a normal function of human vision. I'm in a dark room right now and almost everything has that visual noise on it. The less light the object reflects, the more visual noise it has.

> There's a rather worrying trend of psychedelics being "sold" as a safe panacea.

I guess I missed that trend. Every time I've ever talked about psychedelics with people, it's always been "psychedelics, with disclaimer" - the disclaimer being that things can go very wrong and to be careful; read erowid for facts and contraindications; read recent "safe drug" reports; always have at least one sober person to steer things in the right direction; and have a safe place to go.

> If you believe the cheerleaders, psychedelics are powerful enough to rapidly cure mental illness and facilitate profoundly positive personality changes, but have only trivial side-effects.

I don't think I've heard it posited this way - I hear people say in some form that the effective administration of a safe dose of certain psychedelic drugs can be medically efficacious. I feel like I'm way more likely to hear drug side effects trivialized in a drug commercial.

>any honest conversation has to give serious consideration to potential risks

Agreed. It should be the hallmark of any "let's try some drugs" discussion.
Bringup is Hard [pdf]
I did mention it at the end of my blog post.

"A small fun fact is that a guy is intending to remake the Model F keyboards, you can check out his site here. Hope you look at your keyboards differently from now!"

The issue is that I want my full size layout like the Model M and modern keyboards. He does not seem to be making that version.
This document caused me a fair bit of consternation transcribing it on a site that prefers DjVu files to PDF:

DjVU: https://ia800204.us.archive.org/28/items/cu31924026442156/cu...

PDF: https://ia800204.us.archive.org/28/items/cu31924026442156/cu...

I don't have an easy way to find all of the errors I observed but typical ones are on page 58 at the end of the third line, 'Germanic' with a little bit of bleed between the serifs at the bottom of 'n' gets transformed into 'Germauic', and on page 420 at the end of line 7, 'compass' with a small dot in the middle of the 'o' becomes 'cempass'.

FWIW I've transcribed a bunch of other DjVu files produced by the Internet Archive and not noticed anything like this.
My colleague who sits beside me is okay with it :)
https://linuxfr.org/news/gnuk-neug-fst-01-entre-cryptographi...
>The answers you seek

I expect you backing up your statement that ASLR is obsolete. So far all we have is a URL and advice to research ourselves.

What stops you from giving a direct answer? Hint: "ASLR is useless, because I can, for example, do this: ..."
Bosch Professional GSB 21 2 RE Corded 240 V Impact Drill
That's right. Adding to Anki is more straightforward than downloading from Kindle.

There are two ways to download my Kindle highlights. Either I can scrape it from read.amazon.com, or I can mount the device as a usb disk and parse the notes file from there. Neither is ideal for set-and-forget automation.

Keep me posted on your progress if you decide to tackle this problem.
Having done a lot of research into this for a project in the US, the issue is not that they aren’t available but that each county distributed their GIS data in a different format. Some have online portals with the GIs data, some have only paper records, and some counties are missing information all together. There are companies here that work to consolidate that information but it hey charge exorbitant fees to access the data.
Two Easiest Ways of Adding Your Site to Opera Newsfeed
User sends crypto to unlock content. Then the site refuses to give the content, or gives significantly different content.

With a credit card, you'd do a chargeback. With crypto there no protection from dodgy sites.

So, no, not just for physical goods.
Title send postcards 'to anywhere in the world' is misleading!

From FAQ:

Can I send postcards outside India?

Not at the moment. We’re working on it.
To avoid discomfort I have a small selection of keyboards. A change is as good as a rest.

The Falcon Z-77 87 Key Mechanical Keyboard is my most recent acquisition. Being left handed I don't need the num pad as it is on the wrong side, however, due to moving away from Vim I did want those home/end keys, hence the 87 key keyboard with novelty programmable backlit keys. I can grey out the useless Windows keys and get the important Vim keys in green!

This I do get tired of though, so, if writing words rather than code I swap over to my Logitech K810 where there are no home/end keys. This is a soft touch keyboard with backlighting and no 'noise pollution'.

Then there are the built in laptop keyboards to use too.

IMHO the Chromebook keyboard layout is the future.

Variety in keyboards is an accidental discovery, with the Logitech K810 it works across devices - up to three - and with Synergy it works across more. I had thought that getting the optimal keyboard was the way to go, whereas in use I prefer the occasional change.

The keyboard that does get the most questions is none of the above, it is the 'Tron' style flat keyboard on my Lenovo Yogabook that doubles up as a drawing tablet.
You’re cancer to any society.
>I doubt that the author of the book tried to understand Marx because he wrote this: "Why is it, he wondered, that certain intellectuals are “merciless toward the failings of the democracies but ready to tolerate the worst crimes as long as they are committed in the name of the proper doctrines”?

He didn't write it about Marx, he wrote it about the Marxists of his day (mid-20-th century France) -- people who were justifying Stalinism crimes and so on.

>Marx wanted the opposite

What Marx wanted is not really relevant. As Marx himself said, you don't judge a man by what he thinks himself to be. Similarly, you don't just whether Marxism has been used as an opiate for the people by whether Marx wanted that to happen or not.

Ideas leave the hands of their creators. To see how they end up and what kind of influence they have, we must examine them in actual use, after they spread.
> Wow, congrats on insulting people

I posted a detailed exposition of my own approach to interviewing. I expected nothing more than some intelligent comments thereon.

In response, someone says I'm "prejudiced", and why would he "give a fuck" about my concerns; another says my concerns exist "in a parallel universe"; and another says my views are "religious"!

Equeeze me if I don't take well to copping random insults in what is meant to be an intelligent discussion forum. Particularly from people who've contributed zero to the discussion so far - like you! I suggest you get out of the basement and get some exercise. Maybe ask your mum for a bike?
I think it's rather obvious...

Cecil Adams is Satoshi Nakamoto.
That's false. Wealth is created by needs of the market that's why markets with strong middle class do so well. Any random rich person can fill those needs. It's not some brilliant vision they have.
As a matter of fact most new tech wealth... Google Uber Facebook Apple Microsoft... all of their founders came from the middle class.

If your idea was true then 3rd world countries where the rich have vast wealth and cheap resources would have the best economies.

Your armchair supply side trickle down economic theory doesn't hold up. You should question what you hear on conservative news outlets.
Just a clarifying note : this is the closed Visual Studio, and not free software - VS Code - which usually does the rounds on HN.

I'm far more excited about the LSP protocol for C++ which would bring like this to all IDEs.
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, kmate.me is PC only and I'm on a mac.
It's easier to judge small tribes as being backwards than to look at ourselves and see the backwardness, and that we're really not any different.
I love this idea. I wonder if something similar could be ported/achieved for JavaScript!
I dont think many babies need to see thousands of examples of tanks before they understand what a tank is, and even then sometimes mysteriously classify horses as tanks when one pixel changes.
Damn, that was a really cool video !!

Here's a link to his results for keyboard keys (they all initially looked like the control key): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZYbchvSUDY&t=780

and for an computer case (essentially everything was as brown as that rectangle you can see): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZYbchvSUDY&t=1120
>> Just like legalizing alcohol means everyone is forced to drink alcohol?

Well the fact is that most people drink alcohol, even kids causing more or less harm to others and to themselves. The regulation story is not really that pretty once once you see the effects on poor people/families! Now replace alcohol with cocaine or heroine and see some ugly effects.

I would allow alcohol and drugs only if I could enforce a minimum age of 22-23 and proper education though and this only because I believe people should be allowed to control their life.
I was thinking the same thing. For my consumer Google account (google play music, YouTube red, buying movies, app engine) I can add additional payment methods https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/payment-methods

After reading this article, I am probably going to do this.
Someone had a useful gdb trick in a previous post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17427001

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with gdb 7.12 or later, you can exclude files matching a glob with "skip -gfile", e.g. "skip -gfile /usr/*"
“””
I'm so very confused by this long rambling
Excellent. Thank you very much for providing this, it will make my life a lot easier (or, initially: a lot harder :) ).

If I can reliably flag problem cases then at least I will know which files are going to have a lot of manual work.
It's a page to describe what they do differently than PfSense, and that happens to be a) the web frontend and b) the choice of IDS/IPS. There is little reason to describe the "boring" standard stuff that's routing, firewalling, VPN server role that's the core of both projects. Have a look at the comparison table at the bottom for a better idea of the feature sets.

> A firewall is generally something you deploy along with a router. Does the term "firewall" just mean something else among the community of people repurposing old Dell towers to build complicated home networks?

That's an unfair characterization IMHO. In the commercial market, there are tons of "firewall appliances" that are used as router/firewall combinations: Sophos UTM, Watchguard boxes, Fortigate, ...

pfSense and OPNsense play in roughly the same space: a box you plug your WAN interface in that will do (primarily static) routing, firewalling with multiple zones, act as a VPN server. And typically have some amount of security checkboxes a la IDS, WAF, ..., although the commercial ones with the opertunity to sell subscriptions emphasize this more.
The other big question is the role of the individual in these societies.

If we are not relativistic about ethics we might think that being born in a society doesn't have to determine the way you live forever. This is a big can of worms.

The simpler solution we know of is the Paradox of Tolerance, and regarding tolerance itself as more important than, for example, preserving tradition.
Bullshit Jobs: A Review of the Book by David Graeber
I went through the cherries and never found one I liked remotely as much as the Model M, so to each their own.

Ironically the only thing I found that I liked as a replacement was the Apple keyboard, and that couldn’t be more different.
> Why do I when I take for example mdma, a drug that just makes me feel happy and loved, become a criminal and can go to prison?

Not arguing pro war on drugs here, but there's more to mdma:

> Results show that oxytocin creates intergroup bias because oxytocin motivates in-group favoritism and, to a lesser extent, out-group derogation. These findings call into question the view of oxytocin as an indiscriminate “love drug” or “cuddle chemical” and suggest that oxytocin has a role in the emergence of intergroup conflict and violence.

Source:

Oxytocin promotes human ethnocentrism

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/01/06/1015316108
I remember using model m’s at our high school’s library and not being particularly impressed by them.
>Science causes a kind of crisis. ("God is dead.") After millenia of extreme devotion to all manner nonsense (think of the religious wars that plagued Europe) science starts asking some very uncomfortable and very pointed questions.

There was no nonsense. Or far fewer of it than one imagines.

When the "religious wars" weren't using religious directly as a thin pretext for "let's grab their land", they were about ways to live.

Religion in those days was what lifestyle (or national preferences) are today, and it was used a proxy for that and for defining a national/cultural group (the role that later was played by nations), not for mere theological differences.
I picked up this book by Janie Clayton, it's pretty good: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Metal-Programming-Guide-Tutorial-Re...
Zero Knowledge Taxation on Ethereum
I didn’t excuse my parents behavior just because it came from “love”. They didn’t know any better, but they also refused my attempts to educate them multiple times. To me, that says their ego and need to assume things about their “afterlife” was more important than pursuing valid data and analysis, not a good trait in my opinion.
I understand the paradox but to me it really just highlights the ambiguity of the English language. The surprise in this case doesn’t literally mean he will be surprised, it really just means that he will not be given the information. The logic of hanging can’t be Friday because it’s not a surprise doesn’t really work for me. Maybe it’s just the Wikipedia example that’s flawed.
I've taken my fair share of drugs of all sorts, and maybe I'm just a grumpy bastard, but I've never felt like the author describes. I've never seen God or the afterlife. I've always been fully aware than even deep into a trip or a roll or in the depths of a k hole, it's just the drugs that are making me weird.

I'm all for taking recreational drugs to have fun and I'm all for "recreational drugs" used in a clinical setting, like ketamine for treating depression and addiction, LSD for addiction and end of life care, or MDMA for PTSD. But I don't think we'd see social benefits and an improved society from dosing everyone up on LSD and MDMA. I don't think that psychedelic experiences are profoundly religious or spiritual. I don't go around recommending that everyone takes a bunch of drugs. People will if they want to, but I'd never pressure someone into doing them.

I'm not necessarily saying that the author falls into this camp, but I think that a lot of the time people try and make up medical or spiritual reasons for why they should legalise drugs, when they just want to take them recreationally. Just admit you want to take a bunch of drugs and get weird, there's nothing wrong with that!

And one last thing: I'm not sure about shrooms, but pissing on LSD is a terrible experience. Every little detail of the toilet is magnified and in perfect clarity, and the toilet either feels like it's 6 inches away or 6 feet away.
I find that simply sitting and thinking while -- and after -- reading nonfiction (or fiction, if it's got good ideas) burns the facts and ideas in as well as anything. I don't think most people allow as much time for reflection and mind-wandering as they ought to; expecting yourself to remember fact after fact without taking time to really absorb, reflect, and expand on them doesn't seem realistic.

It's not unlike a memory palace -- rather than just read the fact, think on it, expand on it and give it context and a place to live in your brain.
The prisoner's anticipated response seems entirely irrational here. There are a range of possible outcomes the prisoner faces:

- Will not be hung this week

- Will be hung on Monday

- Will be hung on Tuesday

- Will be hung on Wednesday

- Will be hung on Thursday

- Will be hung on Friday

You can use logic in order to determine that each of the above outcome is logically impossible. But once you've ruled out all possible outcomes as being "impossible", why would the prisoner stubbornly believe the very first outcome to be true. It too contradicts what the Judge had explicitly said. In such a situation, the prisoner should consider that all 6 possibilities have some significant likelihood of being true, since they all deviate from the Judge's promise in some way. And when dealing with such a rational prisoner, the Judge's promise is impossible to uphold.

Perhaps that is the true resolution to the paradox. The judge was able to make and deliver on his promise, only because he correctly anticipated the prisoner's irrational response. When dealing with a rational prisoner, it would be impossible to uphold such a promise.
+100 to this. I had him for H Comp 1A, literally changed my life .
The central office code "555" indicates fake numbers under the NANP[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)
Thanks for the reply. Still hard to imagine! The cabinets and counters in particular, the mind boggles. I completely agree, it sounds like a huge pain point.
>There is a very small elite group that create wealth.

There is a very small elite group that through inheritance from robber barons, family connections, fraud, luck, favoritism, and several other reasons came into prominence.

Wealth is created by those working for them (without workers they'd create shit, not to mention die in a week, because they can't even tie their own shoes), and from those creating new technological innovations, which are very seldom the same who benefit financially from them (and, again, without whom, those elites would create jack-shit).

Then there's the market -- the middle class of buyers, themselves hard working people -- without whom there would also be zero wealth for the elites.

Atlas shrugged, but he's an entitled jerk, who has others carrying the globe for him while he takes the credit.
Minorities victimized by “belief of free will” held in society
I am not sure I follow your reasoning. The second part (collusion between swap traders and libor submitters) occured in the years preceding the financial crisis, 2005-2007, while the first part (the lowballing at the height of the financial crisis) happened in 2007-2008.

So no there is no way they did the collusion thinking it would be forgiven because of the lowballing.
Elona+ The caveat is that it doesn't have permadeath which leads to the usual grindyness associated with normal RPGs. On the other hand it also means that you can easily spend 200 hours on a single character.
Launch of Hubble's successor pushed back to 2021
I use SumatraPDF. It’s a lightweight PDF viewer and it loads really fast. Especially compared to Adobe.
He is arguing that Nietzsche`s ideas seem to be more like Trumps than otherwise. It doesn`t mean that Trump is right.
> Well I certainly don't pay for porn.

Quoting from a Finnish crime story:

"People are willing to pay a lot of money for good porn."

"Could be. Too bad nobody's ever seen such a thing."
Definitely this, 3km across rugged terrain is nothing like 3km on a sidewalk.
3km does seem a bit low. But the dogs are covering very rugged terrain, not walking down a hiking trail.
I'm really enjoying Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup at the moment. Especially as a game for when I don't actually have time.

It takes like two seconds to go from desktop to in-game, continuing your previous run, and saving your progress + closing is just as quick, so I often just launch the game when I have to wait a minute for something to finish.

It's also really good at keeping up tension. It rarely feels too easy, if it does and you start playing careless, that's when it gets you. It also rarely feels too hard, it's almost always your fault when you lose.

And it has a few mechanics to cut out the boring parts, like auto-explore which explores the dungeon until it finds an item, enemy or something else of interest. Or auto-combat which automatically walks up to enemies in sight and whacks them, however is entirely stupid at it, so it's only suitable for encounters where you see no risk of dying.

And it has a crapton of content, and is really good at combining this content to form all kinds of interesting situations.

https://crawl.develz.org/