skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the "...and then a miracle occurs" theory of economics.

Keep in mind that Uber solved a HUGE REAL PROBLEM that cabs didn't - Uber cheaply serves neighborhoods where it was previously near-impossible to get a cab. Increasing "minimum standards" tends to make it illegal to serve low-income communities. Just as high "minimum standards" on housing price low-income people out of the housing market, high "minimum standards" on transit jobs price low-income people out of the transit market. The market alternative here is illegal "gypsy cabs" which also didn't provide unemployment insurance or a minimum wage income.
Substitute "genius" with "scientific racist" and "facts" with "unsubstantiated claims about race and sex," and you've got the rest right.

Not everybody is interested in racist/anti-semetic canards[1][2] and claims about gay viruses[3].

[1]: https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2014/03/23/the-son-also-rises...

[2]: https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2018/04/08/live-not-by-lies/

[3]: https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/depths-of-madness/
Yes it seems totally plausible that psychedelics can help people who had maladaptive experiences or upbringings make permanent improvements, that symptom relief drugs like antidepressants may even stand in the way of. Almost all of the work on using psychedelics to treat trauma bears this out.

On the other hand, if psychedelics increases plasticity, regular use could also destabilize a mind or erode important learning.

Figuring out when it is appropriate to adjust plasticity is going to be the challenge to beneficial use here.

If the current ‘psychedelics cure mental illness’ craze leads to more indiscriminate use, it is going to lead to more terrible casualties before we work this out.
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I concur.

The way I think about it is that what you learn in class is valuable for understanding the abstractions that you will use in industry. If you’re working in C# or Java, most of the time you don’t care about the cost of memory allocation, method calls, reflection voodoo, file system access, etc... BUT, in those rare situations where the abstraction causes a performance or correctness issue, then all that academic knowledge becomes valuable. I find that the instances of these problems are very rare but when they occur you have an opportunity to deliver a lot of value.

For example, at my job we have a rather slow build. Looking at the logs, it’s because we spend a lot of time doing I/O. Someone had the idea to use symlinks instead of file copies. Badabing, badaboom, we got something like a 3x speed up from doing that.
It is very poorly studied.

You are under false impression that target of TRT were young men. TRT in young men started to gain popularity in last 10-15 years when years of lifestyle changes amassed to create a society of people "killing" their natural testosterone.

It gets even harder to study it's use in transgender people because of ethics. Testosterone given at different periods of life will give different end results. The scary part is that we know brain development is (and so parts of brain do differ for male/female slightly through sex hormone exposure) affected by sex hormones. What we really don't know is how plastic and indeed which regions are the most critical for proper function past hormonal therapy. Some of the studies actually suggest that hormones, if the need if validated by a psychiatrist actually should be considered early. The interesting part if that it seems fMRI will be the gold standard in these cases.

In regard to sex satisfaction and low testosterone - have you tried totally droping you porn and masturbation use?
> I have yet to read a flattering portrait of Ballmer

On HN six days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17535209
Most medical advice is designed to minimize liability, not actually help patients. Doctors don't need to listen, and can't.
Counterpoint: Because of FireOS (not a "Google approved" Android fork) Amazon is no longer allowed to license any Google apps. As hinted by them missing from the OHA members list: http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html

How many phone companies can afford to do this?

Imagine a different scenario with a company you may not have a strong positive bias towards: Microsoft. Imagine all the OEM agreements are: "if you want to sell laptops with Windows you must agree to never sell laptops with other OSes". Or "if your software runs on any competing OS you are no longer allowed access to some proprietary and critical Windows API".

What many people refuse to understand is one simple fact: what Google did is illegal. And it's only their personal pro-Google bias that makes them ignore and excuse the behavior. Or even to claim that the law should change for them. The fact that so few people were outraged when Microsoft landed in the same hot water is irrefutable proof of this.
I know that SunOS 5.10 could read(2) a directory (that's what lore.cs.purdue.edu was running).
A lot of Chinese no name phones come with 2.* era Android exactly because of that. Google provides no workable lawsuit threat free userspace apps for later versions of android.

I think they just began to feel what a big impediment it will be for them in the future. 2.* android is what IE6 was to Windows.

A lot of app authors still intentionally target 2.* era APIs because they clientele lives in countries where "Chindroid" is dominant.
Could we add "(2013)" to the HN title? Article is a re-post from 5 years ago. Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6582494
Yes, slash sorts before double-quote in this locale:

$ (echo '"'; echo '/') | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 sort
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There are a few good questions on StackOverflow on Postgres rules. For instance:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5894142/what-are-postgre...

TL;DR: don't use them except in a few edge cases.
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> If I remember correctly Constantine saw an amazingly clever way out of this by basing the legitimacy of the emperor not on the army, but on divine right, so it's not the armies who declare an emperor but God. This set the stage for all that followed in Europe.

This may have been innovative for Rome, which hated the idea of kings since before it started recording history, but it is totally normal everywhere else beginning many centuries before Rome. China, Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia are all quite explicit about the ruler deriving authority from heaven.

Constantine was the formal ruler of Egypt and controlled Mesopotamia; it seems vanishingly unlikely that he wasn't aware of this.
You should try F#.
For those that haven't tried psychedelics but are curious about them in a personal growth / non-recreational way, on the Joe Rogan podcast I heard a good metaphor along these lines:

Imagine your brain as a snowy hill. Each decision you make is like sledding down the hill, causing a slight indentation in the snow. The more times you make a decision, the deeper the groove, the faster you make the decision and the harder it is to try something different and escape the groove. Psychedelics is like fresh powder on the hill won't the grooves away so you can try new ways of thinking / new routes down the hill.
> USB stack rework, USB3 support added.

I didn't realize NetBSD was that far behind on some basic features like USB support.

"The Linux kernel mainline contains support for USB 3.0 since version 2.6.31, which was released in September 2009"[1]. "FreeBSD supports USB 3.0 since version 8.2, which was released in February 2011.".

So they're getting USB 3.0 almost 10 years after it was released for Linux.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0
> Governments can’t just decide to make these privately developed standards free for public use.

Sure they can: the federal government could just add a provision to copyright law stating “the distribution of the unmodified text of any standard referenced in and necessary to assess compliance with, or otherwise determine the applicability or effect of, any law, regulation, or other binding act of any part of the federal government, any state government, or the government of any subdivision of a state, shall, in all cases, be considered fair use.”

Whether they should is another question.
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> In Plan 9, everything is a file

Fixed that.
I'd recommend to anyone not familiar with the genre, to grab a modern client (Mudlet¹ is cross platform and actively in development) and give it a go.

Especially those who vaguely miss the spirit of the old internet might (re)discover a lot of it in these often tight knit, yet welcoming, communities.

Tip: Stay away from strongly RP focused communities until you're not preoccupied with just thinking about navigation and the various systems anymore. Although, a lot of what makes MUDs tick should resonate strongly with anyone who wrote a program before, so it shouldn't take long to adapt.

¹https://www.mudlet.org/
Are we though? Most of the time people look for a pill solution to major deficiencies in their lives. The doctor isn’t strapping you down and shoving the drugs into your mouth.

Just like blaming the heroine drug epidemic at pharma and doctors, it’s weird how we never look at the individual who’s taking the pills in the first place. Prior to this epidemic we had other ones to which everyone was really trying to pin the blame on something else rather than a combination to include the individual as well.

My buddy is a doctor and he’s aware of the lies/illusions patients live in. But if the doctor suggests such things like “exercise/clean up diet” for a few weeks before progressing to another step, that patient will never come back. They will also downrate the doctor on yelp like sites. So it becomes a troublesome proposition for that doctor.
I’m a huge proponent of safe psychedelic use, specifically LSD.

I was massively depressed and suicidal growing up (I had family problems, and two of my best friends killed them selves at 13 and 17).

I dropped out of high school.

I experimented with LSD and mushrooms around 17/18 years old.

And while I didn’t realize it then, my life massively changed for the better. Maybe I grew up. Maybe I took responsibility for my life. Or maybe... there was a synergistic effect that accompanied my psychedelic use. My religious family thinks it was all their prayer and god’s work... because it’s a miracle.

As I got older, the more I believe that it had a profound impact on my mind, and my ability to perceive the world and my sense of self differently, in an empowering way.

I now am an evangelist for psychedelic use. I share it with whomever I feel would benefit, educating them on the research, on the negative stigmas, and emphasizing how necessary it is to respect the substance and approach it with care and good intent.

I ended up attended a top 12 university. I worked hard.

Most of my friends at that university experimented with LSD. None of them are crazy. They all are doing amazing things. They’re all deep and insightful.

Psychedelics have gotten such a terrible reputation.

I believe it is immensely helpful for anxiety and depression.

I believe it needs to be adopted as a therapeutic alternative to current psychiatric therapies which are toxic and destructive and deadening by comparison. (I was on countless drugs growing up, dozens, prescribed by psychiatrists... they did nothing. Just made me more dead inside.)

I also believe psychedelics open the mind in ways that only radical life experiences can.

I think this mind expansion can be useful for learning, creating, and perceiving new ways of looking at the world.
It really depends on what kind of development you're doing.

The majority of software engineers are application developers making CRUD websites or mobile apps, so that perspective is the one to come up most often. I also happen to be one of those developers.

The challenges of application development are related to transforming data, handling asynchronous operations, managing state, and picking elegant abstractions that solve your problems. The intuition for these things is mostly picked up through hours of professional development, seeing good code, and shooting yourself in the foot a couple of times.

While there are some harder problems in app dev which do require deeper computer science understanding, they're extremely rare. I suspect this is different for people doing things like video game development, although I don't have any experience there so I can't speak to that.
Is that surprising? Computer Science isn't meant to be a Practical Programming degree.
That to some degree is driven by how taboo TRT (fuelled by steroid craze of the `80s) was. In effect there were seriously hundreds of men forced to live for example on Clomid because testosterone was a no-no (compared to TRT Clomid is like using propofol because you can't sleep)
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It's also interesting once you realize that parts of the early modern era were shaped by the efforts of various European kingdoms to reestablish trading routes that were lost after the breakup of the Mongol Empire and, later on, the capture of Constantinople by the Turks.
Most of the machines NetBSD runs on don't have USB 3 ports.
The other thing that contains non-associative elements is logic. Due to the Curry-Howard correspondence, that means functional programming too.

So this quote about mathematicians seems a bit off. Baez is talking about mathematical physicists, I guess, not logicians and computer scientists. I know he is not a functional programmer from various online remarks he has made. So maybe it's more of a personal perspective that we shouldn't take too seriously.

'“Nonassociative things are strongly disliked by mathematicians,” said John Baez, a mathematical physicist at the University of California, Riverside, and a leading expert on the octonions. “Because while it’s very easy to imagine noncommutative situations — putting on shoes then socks is different from socks then shoes — it’s very difficult to think of a nonassociative situation.” If, instead of putting on socks then shoes, you first put your socks into your shoes, technically you should still then be able to put your feet into both and get the same result. “The parentheses feel artificial.”'
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This release of NetBSD disables eagerfpu on vulnerable FPU’s.

Often overlooked while discussing performance impact of context switching; context switching also applies to the FPU. There are two modes in which the OS performs FPU context switching: lazy and eager.

“lazy” FPU context switching leaves the previous context on the FPU until a different context gives it a set of instructions. This saves an unload on the FPU, since not all time splices require the FPU, you may see some performance gains under some application workloads.

“Eager” FPU context switching unloads FPU context whenever a time splice is finished. On a new time splice, the FPU context is reloaded. While this constant reloading of context sounds more expensive, it is optimized in hardware and almost never noticeable on modern architectures.

By default eager FPU is enabled in Linux. You can test its’ impact by passing the eagerfpu=on or eagerfpu=off boot flags (Linux).

Kudos to the NetBSD team for enabling/disabling eager FPU based on FPU model instead. This approach makes more sense to me.
Asthma is one of the medical conditions cannabis is known to treat - it acts as a bronchodilator!
Thanks, missed it. Added to my reading list.
In the case of standards incorporated into building codes, it would be verified by a county building inspector. But in most cases, I'd imagine verification only happens if there is a dispute about compliance.

I'd agree with your last point but only if reworded slightly: "the law should only rely on standards that are freely published." To me, this is where public.resource.org is barking up the wrong tree. The obligation to ensure free access to the law rests squarely with the government. It's not ASTM's duty to allow free access to standards that the government incorporated into a standard. If the government wants to use copyrighted work, it should enter into appropriate arrangements with the standards organizations that produce it.
A classical worse is better.

What I liked to see in updates are secure and fast microkernels (L3,L4) and secure nonblocking parallelism (Singularity) in a secure language.
So how do I get to experiment with this in a controlled and legal way these days?
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In regard to this study I'd like to point one thing. Therapeutic dose of testosterone enanthate (that can be prescribed legally) is nowhere near 600mg a week. Highest I heard of is 200mg. That will put average man above normal levels. 600mg is insanely high (3-4 times maximum test level) but the risk goes linear with the dose. At that level they have to be monitored pretty in-depth (BP, hematocrit, electrolytes, kidney function, lipid profile and probably psychiatric evaluation every 6-8 months. I know a lof of BB who ended up on SSRIs or in funny towns)
> If the standards are expensive to develop and maintain, seems better to require a license to implement a standard

That would, in many ways, make things worse: you narrow the pool across which payments are spread, thereby increasing implementation costs and reducing competition in any field covered by such a standard.
I have no idea where you came up with Java being especially loved by academia? If anything, it’s quite the opposite, especially in the PL community.
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After the news Elon donated to Trump's party, i am very disappointed.
So, a serious question:

We have eminent domain for property and the like. Why isn't it used for copyright/patents for purposes of the public good?
Can't we all let our ancestors rest in their grave?

Every country/ethnicity/race whatever you want to call it did some major wrong at some point or another.

Now please excuse me while I don't join in your self flagellation trip.

EDIT: to answer some of the accusations below, you guys know nothing about me, my background, or my ancestors, yet most of you are quick to jump to conclusions. It's both funny and sad.

The past doesn't make me feel anything anymore. It's the past. I care about the future now. I used to resent what was done to my ancestors. I don't give a flying fuck anymore.

Now I let the industry of guilt and regret find other customers.
> A nationalist move in ideology within that context is rational.

It is one thing to be a little nationalist. It is another thing to suddenly start calling for the reintroduction of censorship and mass incarceration of dissidents, when you had built your entire career as a writer and thinker on attacking those very things.
How are breakpoints re synced after a line adding/deleting edit occurs?
It was for a while (and still is to a lesser extent) very common in pedagogy, though this was more a result of industrial popularity than any love from academia.
>This release of NetBSD disables eagerfpu.

Actually this release enables eagerfpu on all Intel CPUs, because of CVE-2018-3665 (lazyfpu side channel attack).
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How could Google be terrified of something which as you say was already happening?

I am also pretty sure that Andy’s actions have absolutely no relevance here.

I think that this first sentence is actually super true and maybe even captivating to read the rest..

Google CEO I think has admitted publicly that Google’s mobile-phone efforts at first were just by a simple fear of Apple :)
I'm not sure what you're saying, when would that be different from what we have today?

I don't see why that would be beneficial. You also might want ranges as [a-fk-z] (for example)
I don't see that inequality is the primary problem when 45% of the population survive on less than $1.90 a day. If you doubled everyones income the equality/inequality metrics wouldn't change but the level of human misery and suffering would decrease massively.

Nigeria's GINI is hardly exceptional. Adjusting the shape of the income distribution can achieve limited improvement to the quality of human existance compared to raising the distribution's mean.
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I sort of skimmed past the part where it was noted the critique was on Uber AI. I got the impression that this was a critique on a student's conference paper or something like that, and started to feel a little bad for the author of the paper.

But then I got to this "Why is Uber AI doing this? What is the point? I mean if these were a bunch of random students on some small university somewhere, then whatever. They did something, they wanted to go for a conference, fine. But Uber AI?" and had to wake myself up. Seriously? This is from Uber? This just screams cargo cult AI.
It's not a bad analogy.

I will add this: the shape of the hill stays the same, and mostly that fresh powder will melt back into those old ruts... the changes that these experiences bring seem, to me, more about knowing the ruts are there then they are about changing things in our lives.

The change comes from the awareness of what can be done, because formerly "natural" things that are "just what people do" start to seem like artificial, learned behaviors. That's a powerful thing to grok, and easier to comprehend at the level of our nervous system with these substances.

I haven't found these drugs to be super "fun" outside of the non-recreational ways of doing things, but the older I get the more I enjoy things that most folks find exceptionally boring. But I do find them very useful.

For people who people worry about the long term effects of these things; I feel like for most healthy adults, if they "start small" the actual long-lasting effects are pretty minor.

Here's an idea to consider for curious folks: if one or two psychedelic experiences could fundamentally alter your views on your life, you probably ought to consider the deep things in your life more often.
F# on .NET Core with PostgreSQL, written with JetBrains Rider, running on Ubuntu on AWS.
Well, that's weird, I though Unicode matched ASCII for codepoints < 127

Still this doesn't look like an issue with regex's per se
That quote isn't attributed to anyone in the article. I took it to be the author's opinion.

According to Wikipedia, the first iPhone was released on June 29, 2007 and Android had its initial release on Septebmer 23, 2008 with the first hardware (the HTC Dream) released on October 20, 2008. It seems to me that the iPhone beat Android to market by a year and a bit.
Of course it was not a novel idea but the application of it to break a centuries long death spiral of civil war was pretty inspired. I didn't mean to imply he had the idea first!

He also switched the entire persona of the Emperor from someone of the people to someone inaccessible to the common person. Again, not a unique idea, but the application came at a great time.

From what I have read the Romans where pretty dismissive of so-called barbarians (anyone not within the Empire), so I'm sure some people where aware of these ideas but turned their noses up at them, so to speak.
How much of that revenue can be attributed to Balmer though?

As an outsider it seems to me that all Microsoft did during Ballmer was to milk the cash cows created during Bill Gates and at the same time destroy the good will of developers and the morale of their employees.

I’m assuming any big company acquires a certain inertia and will keep producing money for as long as there is demand and the supply can meet it. Just look at Apple.

So what did Ballmer do that can be praised?
Right. But why not just make it a different bill?
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Also, isn't 3.0 fully backward compatible with 2.0? I imagine this would affect how critical people would classify support to be developed, if everything already works, just slower.