skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, toasters didn't start having USB 3 until recently...
step one is realizing that if you want to expand your mind you have to reject the systems of control that dictate to you which thoughts and behaviors are allowed.

put differently: the barriers to experimentation with psychedelics are the ones that you have constructed for yourself.
Pandas Syndrome, Symptoms, Treatment, Prognosis and Complications
I am overall pro psychedelics but I have seen them harm people first hand as well. They should be treated with a lot of caution and respect. I totally understand the urge to evangelise them but keep in mind that you're taking on a lot of responsibility when you encourage people to experiment with their brain chemistry.
Almost the entire article is biased towards Analytic philosophy.. as if that's all there was in philosophy. Only in a couple of paragraphs does the author acknowledge the fact that Continental philosophers had anything to say on consciousness.

"Phenomenology bodied-forth most notably in the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir, and, to a lesser extent, that of Sartre and Camus."

In fact, the most significant phenomenologist post Husserl was Heidegger. It was he and Merleau-Ponty who had the most to say about consciousness. The author does not even mention them.
I played that too, back when it was on AOL! But my favorite was another Simutronics game, Gemstone III (which later became Gemstone IV). To this day, it was the most interesting online community I've ever been a part of, in part because the majority of the 2,000-odd people who played it at any given time were legitimately trying to be in character, and in part because the experience of an emergent virtual world was still so new back in 95/96. I wrote an essay about it here, if anyone is interested:

http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/10/dont-cry-for-me-elanth...
You don’t.

But if you have the drive, and are willing to take a small risk, you venture into the dark web and locate one of the handful of chemists/dealers who provide the world with its supply and buy in bulk.

Or you find a friend who has already done this work.
Sometimes the winner also riots and wrecks their city. Actually a lot of the time.
I love rsync, but being exceptionally fast is most certainly not one of it's properties.
This. I have done many a cycle in my life, and of things far stronger than test.

I hate that I only feel like the person I want to be on cycle.

It speaks to the fragility and impermanence of the mind that a simple injection can make you a completely different person.

If you've never had your mind altered, you cannot understand how fragile your self-identity is.
Yes, I find those are extremely shocking and offensive.
I'd argue that would be a taking requiring just compensation.
Thanks, that's what I was curious about
PG&E is a breathtaking example of regulatory capture by business. This was most apparent after the San Bruno pipeline explosion, in which PG&Es undocumented and unmaintained gas pipelines killed eight people. The original penalty the California Public Utilities Commission approved was zero dollars. Then it came out that various CPUC members were very cozy with PG&E, working with them in secret to shop the case around to a friendly judge. There's various corruption investigations still ongoing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion#S...
If you took Zuckerberg's word for it, you'd be left thinking Facebook had never heard of Palantir.
Personally, it feels much different to know that my own ancestors did something horribly wrong than some other completely unknown people. Yes, this makes no sense but I guess it is human nature.

Knowing that, I believe that it is critical that we all reflect why people not so different to us could possibly commit whatever crime they did
and usb3 is such a large piece of interface I'm not sad netbsd is taking its sweet time to make it solid.
"Facebook is investigating whether secretive firm Palantir had 'improper' access to user data" [1]

"Facebook ‘Looking Into’ Palantir’s Access to User Data Harvested by Cambridge Analytica" [2]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/26/facebook-investigating-if-pa...

[2] https://gizmodo.com/facebook-looking-into-palantir-s-access-...
Are there Unixes where TCP / UDP ports are files? setcap on Linux gets really old when you just want to give a user access to a porf.
> > In Plan 9, everything is a file
> Fixed that.

It was a short snarky comment. Also the article mentions that too at the bottom.

Yeah they "fixed it" but by that time not enough people cared. The abstraction purity was nice and developers and OS fans loved it, but it just didn't matter for most application. Another way to put it is that Linux was already fairly decent and it wasn't worth switching to a whole new OS just to have everything be a file.

Another obstacle was that Plan 9 wasn't marketed or pushed enough. Imagine if Google backed Plan 9 and pushed it as the Android OS, put it on Chromebooks, updated it regularly etc. That would be enough for people to switch to it.
It's possible I'm unaware of how far to the right he went. I've held a soft spot for Solzhenitsyn from his earlier literature. The KKK reference struck me as a slime and I felt compelled to reply. I'm willing to stand corrected, where is he calling for the incarceration of dissidents?
If unix was invented today, you would have 3rd party files everywhere, executing randomly and typing the newest offers to your prompt automatically.
Dead code elimination can happen in many places. In Go, for instance, an obvious one would be to eliminate most type info for types which will never be queried for introspection.

No linker will ever do that.
> these often tight knit, yet welcoming, communities.

Are they really welcoming? Over the last few years I have occasionally revisited some 1990s-era communities (Usenet groups, forums on a dedicated website, mailing lists...) in search of a sense of tight-knit connectedness lost with modern huge networks like Facebook or Reddit. Yet I almost always found that those 1990s communities that had survived, had eroded down to a handful of posters who were mostly angry and cantankerous, or outright mentally ill. Thus, it was hard for any newcomer to feel comfortable among them. So, I am now very wary about going back to any kind of old-school community, and it would take a lot of evidence to convince me that it was worthwhile to even try.
TBH I never had or needed any USB3 device.
Fun read. Just one point of disagreement:

> Fine mention a kind of cichlid fish where dominance influences gonadal events – causation (in part) goes from behavior to hormones, instead of hormones to behavior. Interesting. But is there evidence of a similar pattern in humans? No.

Yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17582237
Many words starting with n and with gs in them are just color descriptions. Shortened versions of Japanese and Pakistani are offensive in some countries but not others. The Thai word for Indian is “visitor” as in “not from here, will go home soon”. Plenty of words with innocuous meanings pick up offensive meanings.
We do something like this already but because we have three processes that interact we scripted puppeteer to hook into all three in different tabs and automatically refresh the tabs when the processes restart.

It also clicks into the console to start and turns off screencasting, etc.

Here's a gist of the main part: https://gist.github.com/natew/66515fb49d895315e139059302cd47...
yeah, one of the biggest misconceptions that i had was that it would be "fun" to try psychedelics. it wasn't fun, and it wasn't not-fun. it was different, and it was a learning experience.

the long lasting effects were negligible for me. the biggest change was that i realized i might be "on the spectrum" but it isn't as though it was a life-changing realization.

i agree regarding your final point. i do think that psychedelics are more "helpful" for people who are extremely extraverted or otherwise reluctant to reflect on themselves.
Makes a guy wonder what kind of world we have before us...
You can obtain the German citizenship without renouncing to the Chilean. From what I remember, you can't acquire a third (need to renounce to one). This is also true for other EU passports.
Java was the rage teaching language in the earlier part of this century, but that isn't really true today. Python is more popular.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17581988
I have very little training in formal CS (like, I dropped out of a CS program as a sophomore to get a BA in Philosophy and an MA in Lit).

I learned almost all the basis for what I do on a day-to-day practice of being a programmer from:

- my high school programming classes
- my grad school practice of learning how to research and read
- a bunch of middle school classes in formal logic
- playing with a ton of programming tasks

The CS stuff that I've read in the decade since quitting the pursuit of a PhD in literature has been way less helpful than simply trying to fix bugs in my code.

I don't know if my career is representative of other folks' work, but at my "level" I consider programming to be a lucrative trade, and much of the CS stuff is almost totally irrelevant to that, compared to having awareness of the specific of whatever larger system I am trying to diagnose or modify.

I agree that the basis for this profession can be taught in a couple of classes; I feel that almost all of what I do comes down to playing with the actual technology and trying to solve problems with it; theory is only useful after you have a fundamental feel for the nature of the problems at hand.
That is why we cannot have nice things.

Anyone that wants to invest their career doing tooling needs to target enterprise customers.
This is possibly related to testosterone levels/heightened confidence as well.

I don't see many riots, though. At least in my kind of football (soccer).
I used to log in to LambdaMOO about once a year just to keep my account active. But it started feeling not just like a museum, but a mausoleum, and I let my account lapse.

Many of the virtual environment ideas from LambdaMOO exist now in modern games. But one big idea was mostly lost, the idea that players of the game could also program the game. Not just decorate their own house but write code to give the objects in that house functionality. Roblox has this in it, as does Minecraft in a limited way, but mostly it is a lost idea.
Does anyone here on HN have experience running NetBSD as their desktop OS?
Even most of video game development is simply using features of the existing engine. Some basic 3D math is required, but nothing crazy. You do find some gnarly problems in engine development though. (And some of the sub-disciplines like the network and graphics programmers.)
No, that definitely isn’t true in the USA. I didn’t realize Germany was so backwards.

They will seize your assets, garnish your wages, but they won’t send you to jail, how would you even pay then?
Midlife crisis? It's a myth
I “know” who is Linus Torvalds since when I installed my first Linux distribution on my 386sx 25mhz when I was 14 or so in 1995/6.
I think he is very smart but sometimes I disagree with him and with his harsh way of relating with the rest of the world.
Now, after a useless appeal on authority, would you mind to explain what is wrong with my opinion about data structures and relationships?
I don’t really think that you can do everything just with data structures and relationships.
If you think the opposite than please explain how you can do everything with something not Turing complete.
Investigating the timer on a Hoover washing machine
Ask HN: How do you use Kanban at work?
How do you use Kanban? How do you prioritise items on a Kanban board? What is the criteria for items to make it to the board? How do you release finished tickets? How does your Kanban process fit with the team's calendar in terms of frequency of releases, standups, meetings ... etc?
n, w, train20, e, e, prac20, w, n, w, n, down, n, kill monster, s, w, kill monster, e, e, kill monster, w, s, kill monster, n, d, kill beast, get diploma, wear diploma, unlock north, n.

If I can still remember how to quickly zip through the standard ROM MUD school after this many years... did I play too much when I was young?
Why starting with a GSM circuit for communication (vs bluetooth)?

Bluetooth works for short range. We will use that to connect it with farmers' equipment, while a GSM network allows us to keep all the greenhouses data being sent and received to the server. It also helps us to remotely access the processor for update.

We also want the long-range and scalability of GSM. People are spread out and this project will have several parts in different places, like servo in water pumping station and temp+other sensors in the greenhouse. It's also easier to train people to use GSM since we can get it going with any regular smartphone in a way that they understand better than setting up bluetooth, according to our experience. We already have other GSM devices, but want to acquire this one, here in the US, so that we can download all the packages we need and get it running here. That's hard to do there, where there is barely internet.

What do you mean by smart agriculture?

The ability to grow your needs of food with minimal human interaction, because of the shortage of skilled workforce.

Smart agriculture, in this case is providing any individual with the ability to control their greenhouse, even if they don’t have the experience.

What do you think?

Thank you so much again!

PS: Because of the mention of S, the gofundme is currently under review and not accessible.
As we discussed the other day, there was still some issues with stuff like graphical performance with such a concept, suitable for gaming and such.

In any case, Inferno with Limbo would be much better, and to pick on your example not much different from Android's architecture.
Madrinas e Invitadas  para ser las mas elegantes
China certainly knows this. Right now, their nine dash line is just a line on a chart. In a generation's time, it'll be reality.
The same people that dismiss Android as excessively fragmented will also cheer the recent decision to punish them for trying to reign in that fragmentation. The mobile market is healthy right now, with meaningful choice and competition that has benefitted consumers on both leading platforms. Hopefully that will still be the case after this recent misguided attack by the EC.

There was no meaningful competition in the OS space when Microsoft was fined.
Somalia is a beacon of equality? Really? I must have skipped class.
Doesnt really matter what Andy intended - when Google bought it this is what they had in mind and it has been driven consistent with this policy.

Google is absolutely at fault here and EU is the first of what should be many more cases against them.
Motorsport is sort of similar where manufacturers build cars and there are independent regulations about the cars that define a class. There are spec racing series confined to single cars with very limited additions (safety) that are more oriented towards the driver in terms of competition (spec miata and spec bmw come to mind), but any international world champion type of sport is probably going to require enough monetary backing that manufacturer and aftermarket sponsorship is required to even afford to compete in the first place.
You're putting a lot of faith that handful of F-35s can survive ever advancing anti-aircraft technologies. Not a good strategy IMHO.
I hear ya. I’ve yet to see it negatively effect anyone other than a bad trip, which, seen in the right light, can be a therapeutic experience.

But I know they need to be respected and understood.

I also realize that some people with a family history of mental disorders like schizophrenia, would be better off staying away.

Like, some people have used psychedelics, and they go crazy. But how many of those people were crazy to begin with? How many would end up like that if they never tried psychedelics to begin with?

I tend to think that the fear is over dramatized.

But I do emphasize respecting its use in a profound way.

It changes you.

The upside is that real LSD is so rare, the chances of people finding it are slim to non. It’s distributed by so few people.
Can you show me where to find conference papers written by journalists on how to do journalism better? I thought maybe the site hosting this article was one, but it appears to not be the case judging from the contents (it may think it is).
How do you know you used nothing? Wouldn't that be hard to tell, perhaps you should work with someone who got a degree in somewhere unrelated vs a recent cs grad. I find the difference can be massive. Not realizing what is basic knowledge
It's almost as if the guy behind this project wants to cause conflict, so as to get more attention. "Any press is good press" and all that.
This has been going on for a long time. If I'm not mistaken when Michelangelo did the Sistine Chapel he would outline the major forms but he had a lot of assistants to fill in the details. So he conceived the design, drew that design on the ceiling (and I'm sure a bunch of other stuff) but the entire work did not "come from the hand of the artist"

To my mind it's about the idea and conception of the work. And when the technician improves the design or idea then that's when it moves into being a collaboration.
Use Prettier and never look back.
You can force pretty much every data structure that I know in a table.
That doesn’t mean that you can solve everything with a non Turing complete language.
So, unless I’m badly mistaken, you’ll need something more than data and relationships to solve everything.
No it's not abandoned at all; there's a lot of active work finding new sources. You can see a log of commits here: https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses/commits/maste...

If the number doesn't go up as fast as it used to it's probably because the project has already collected all the addresses that were easy to find. Denmark's 3,689,469 addresses, for instance, are in a single CSV file. We found it once and that was it (although we do update the data every few days). The work now is mostly in finding much more challenging address data buried in databases. Also convincing government agencies to let us have the data.
A drug for smallpox has been approved, even though the disease no longer exists
And, more importantly, just plain incorrect.

We praise people for speaking truth to power, not for twisting the truth to fit a reactionary worldview.
Could there be a more pretentious article title than 'How to crack consciousness'?
>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.

this is my understanding as well. kind of like how a child would never learn how to walk on its own if the parent held it upright 100% of the time.

unfortunately, i think a big problem with the current standard of care is that it prioritizes shutting the patient up -- reducing complaints regarding symptoms -- over curing the patient.

there is a difference; imagine if the "real" effect antidepressants have is to make people more reluctant to communicate negative thoughts to others. the patient would still be suffering just as much, but appear to have improved. the brain is subtle enough for this to be a reality...

obviously i don't believe that this example (which is totally made up) is uniformly the case. but shifting the frame to address the underlying problem of "stuck" or maladaptive neural circuitry via psychedelics could be immensely helpful for patients.

psychedelics would also improve the efficacy of the other psychoactive tool we kind of think is somewhat helpful in some instances of some kinds of cases: therapy. therapy is retooling neural circuitry the hard way -- via repeated activation of alternative thought patterns of nebulous physiology in the hopes of eventually shifting the thought pattern to be adaptive rather than maladaptive. if we had a switch to flip that would enhance neural plasticity, this process would be much faster and much more effective. it would also be much more fraught with chances of inflicting damage, i'd assume.
I watched a good friend freak out in front of me on a bad trip. Almost thirty years later he's still not the same and needs antipsychotic medication to function. This kind of thing isn't common but it can definitely happen.
Clomid works for some but not all.

http://www.ergo-log.com/clomid-testosterone.html

http://www.ergo-log.com/clomidendur.html
So he's another great sprinter? He's a great sprinter, without the publicity. Second fastest man in history certainly sounds like a great sprinter. If that's just "good", then I think we're working on different definitions of "good" and "great".
Yes, the evidence is preliminary and not extensive. Yes, generative models can be tricky (to say the least). No one's claiming otherwise.

Visual evidence is important for generative image tasks, given that we can't measure any of these DNN generators against a "true" statistical model that generates the data.

For a DNN to be able to generate more realistic transformations of generated images from low-dimensional representations, it must learn higher quality representations... or are you saying otherwise?
It’s not the tech. It’s the people.

If you can only get so many people, what do you want them working on?

Undifferentiated heavy lifting, or something that directly makes you better than your competitors in your customers’ minds?
That's exactly why I proposed the two products. Other forums do not support emails as good.
Yes, it does, on re-reading I think you're right.

That said, I don't believe his analysis is correct. I remember the short period of time in which coverage of Google and (a bit later) Facebook went from glowing to extremely nasty. It wasn't due to any sort of intellectual awakening amongst journalists. The cause was much simpler: Google launched Google News, and Facebook's news feed started to really begin kicking off major referral traffic to news sites.

Journalists and their editors started to realise:

a) How dependent they were becoming on G&F for traffic

b) How the decline in their profitability was terminal and not going to be easily turned around via some superficial "digital strategy"

c) How profitable these tech firms really were.

They started attacking G&F not due to any actual or real problems but as part of a negotiating tactic, which you can see still playing out today with the various EU attempts at a "link tax" which is really a tax on Google News. Rupert Murdoch in particular was decisive in this war because at some point he concluded that the iPad was the future of newspapers (because it looked like a newspaper) whereas Google News was a horrible dystopian future. I remember that once Murdoch gave a speech outlining this belief his stable of newspapers turned on a dime to begin attacking Google and praising Apple, often with the most spurious of stories. But hey, they thought (wrongly) that Big Tech was taking away their employment.
Why is this subject so fraught? The brain is a wet computer. Reality is its internal model of the external world informed by imperfect sensory inputs. Consciousness is what thinking feels like. When the brain ceases to function, the individual is destroyed. So what? There's no mystery here. The knowledge to be gained has to do with the operation of the brain, not the nature of "consciousness", whatever that is.

As far as I'm concerned, after Wittgenstein, philosophy has had nothing to do. All the "big questions" are either answerable scientifically as a matter of neurology or they're ill-posed and nonsensical.

Actually, I'm wrong: philosophy does have an occupation these days. It's complicit in the creation of utter nonsense like continental thought and critical theory, all of which amounts of sophistry that justifies us in exercising our world impulses toward magical thinking.

Why bother?
Exactly right.

Slavery/racism/warfare etc is a legacy of the HUMAN condition, not of any particular ethnic or national condition.