skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can also trigger undiagnosed mental conditions like schizophrenia.
All advice I've seen regarding the substance is to not take it more than once every 3 months. I think people just need to realize it really isn't a party drug you can take every or every other weekend. Not only will tolerance build very rapidly, but you're exposing your brain to excessive oxidative stress and overheating, and are likely causing serotonergic neurotoxicity (even if you take it with all the recommended supplements).

It needs to be treated like a rare, therapeutic, and special vacation, not something you take whenever you want to have fun.
That's an issue too. That poor girl who died at Mutiny took over half a gram of pure MDMA, that's just an insane amount to drop in one go, especially for an 18 year old girl.
Nice one, save us Generation Z!
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Before all the political action in the 70s to create a biking culture, the car was much more dominant in the Netherlands. It's a direct result of people protesting against cars and car-centric infrastructure starting back then.
What makes Hacker News social media? It's just a forum, essentially, like the forums of old. There are threads, and people can reply to them.

There are no friendships or any kind of social graph associated with it, which is what makes a social media platform, for me.
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I was thinking —like other top-level comments here— that it's a great shame that consumer level drives have died out. They're thousands of dollars and all wired for enterprise interfaces.

But I'm really surprised that nobody[1] is offering "tape backup as a service". Pay $30 per 3TB cassette (slightly over market rate), a $10 loading fee and then $1/h for 100MB/s write access. When you're done, pay another $10 and it's shipped to you. Or $5/month for fireproof storage.

This might have to be a pre-booked service, or they could buffer upload onto spinning disks and write to tape after the fact (much faster), but for storing more than 1TB, this method could be vastly cheaper.

[1]: That one quick Google could find.
Negative consequences/feedback from their social group tend to do the job quite nicely, in most of the cases :-) To paraphrase the old comedian Will Rogers, there's always been three kinds of people in this world:

those who learn by reading

those who learn by observing others

but that third group just _has_ to go and pee on that electric fence.

We can't optimize society to coddle the fence-micturators 100% of the time, unfortunately. Solutions to that problem "don't scale", or get terribly fascist in a hurry.
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Agreed, its the notifications which are the productivity killer. Not the social media platforms. With all of them you can disable notifications.

Funnily enough my biggest productivity killer at work is slack.
Anything that's addressed to underage people needs regulation. We used to say that on the Internet the market regulates itself but obviously we're past that point long ago. Now it's all for profit.
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> This isn't about left vs right or kkk vs blm.

I've noticed this for a while now. I moved beyond the old left/right political football team-style arguments long ago because the political landscape has changed and become much more muddied.

I don't think the traditional spectrum applies anymore and I'm noticing more and more that others are seeing the same thing.

It still seems like most of the populace is stuck slinging shit at the 'other' though.

Honestly if a person still thinks in terms of left/right I don't think they are contributing anything whatsoever to any current political debate.
What about literal parameter for functions or types ?
I'm just asking because c++ and D support it.
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Iain M. Banks had a much more nuanced take on this in A Few Notes on the Culture [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm] (free to read online), where his general point was that things like the Culture's drug glands should be taken as contraindicators by the government that they're messing up in reality and need to do better.

Ready Player One's problem as a movie/book is really that its not interested in exploring too much detail about how this world came to be, so you get fairly trite morals like that.

Like you could imagine a much longer epilogue where the protagonist uses his wealth to improve society, reduce poverty, advocate for governmental change, provide refuge for domestic abuse victims, and uses individual participation rates in the Oasis as a barometer for his success. Which wold be a real interesting moral for a mainstream movie to include.
> Trying to discuss actual topics is almost impossible because flagging dissenting views has become the primary form of discourse.

I see this happening a lot on HN as well. I think the issue isn't so much age or education but rather people are lazy and/or don't often like confrontation.
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Who’s judging credibility and detrimental behaviour? You or people with opinions you support I guess? No thanks.

Hundreds of years ago the earth being round would have been one of those not credible ideas that you would have suppressed.
In most countries in Europe (certainly in the UK, and other places I have visited), pedestrians have a separate crossing phase to the rest of traffic.

The US is unusual in expecting pedestrians to cross while traffic is also trying to negotiate an intersection.
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Dutch-style bicycles go perfectly well with nice clothes, the oil is inside the chain compartment and they don't really become very muddy inside the city.

Yes of course walking is better but not everything people want to do is within easy walking distance, and bikes are preferable to huge infrastructure for public transport within a city.
Thanks for your answer. I find it very interesting how different people come to different conclusions about these basic approaches to writing programs. Imho, as always, there's no one true answer and understanding where everyone comes from is very important in understanding this divergence of thought.

In my work I don't think I could live without these higher level abstractions anymore. It enables me to write clear and concise code that helps me keeping accidental complexity under control so that I can focus on the essence of what I'm trying to codify. Performance on the other hand is not a primary concern to me, given it stays above some acceptable threshold.

I appreciate how different tasks would require different approaches. I'm interested in which direction go goes (no pun intended).
Whether or not DDG is "beating" Google, they are successfully competing with Google on G's home turf. That's pretty impressive.
It should be though: people do not understand healthcare, the insurance they are getting, what is included and what is not, and, very important, at times of illness you really do not have the time or bandwidth to think about it. To me it always sounds rather inhumane what happens over there. But then again, I only get my info from comments and articles like this.
My girlfriend and I recently started "no phone Sundays". We keep our phones powered off from Saturday night until Monday morning.

We spent this past Sunday navigating around Paris with a paper map, which was felt romantic in kind of a nostalgic way. I realized on the Metro that I kept making eye contact with people older than me - because they were the only ones not on their phones the entire time. I also realised how much not having a phone stimulates my curiosity - I spent my time looking around, listening to new things, and paying attention to what was happening around me.

I think phones are powerful tools. But, your brain gets too used to constant stimulation. I think that it makes you less patient and more anxious as you get used to these constant hits of dopamine. You can never relax, and it makes it tough to live in the moment.
What is LTO, and why doesn't it need rewinding?
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LMDB is crash-proof and its speed is unbelievable! I hope LiteTree will be too. The trade-off is storage space as all the history is recorded. But is uses way less space than copying the entire db on each branch creation.
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I've hit 70km/h going downhill with some tail wind.
> our nineteen-century three-volume encyclopedic novels

Many of which were originally serials published in newspapers ... see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuilleton - Herman Hesse, for one, griped about the "age of the feuilleton".

Gore Vidal, who for a while earned his living writing for TV and movies, used to argue that the post-1960 emphasis on film directors was misplaced, and that writers actually were the essential factor. But he also remarked that pretty soon speaking of a famous writer would be like speaking of a famous ceramicist.

Curiously, some of the recente movie/TV series are putting directors back in the hired-hand category that Vidal said was their place, and emphasizing producers-writers, e.g. Game of Thrones.

(People like tales, like continued tales with familiar characters, like having some sort of tag to identify what they're picking - an author name is best, and sometimes it is fake, as in "house names" used by publishers as a brand for stories actually produced by a stable of multiple writers. Which is not new either ...)
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Without commenting further on this specific issue (and not pointing fingers, either. I understand the drive to make things better comes from a good place) But. Take heed from someone who lived in communist China in the 70s/80s- all mechanisms of social control outlive their creators. And censorship is a very, very powerful tool. So be very, very careful in invoking that technique as a good idea.

Or, put another way, if there's a wasp buzzing in the room, plugging one's ears to its sound doesn't make it go away. You just no longer know when you're about to get stung.

As for how to navigate these platforms responsibly- people have to care about consequences, and social media of the modern form is still too new for society to have come to grips with it. I think it will happen with time, as a mix of cultural and legal adaptations. As to what form that will ultimately take, well... Good question, that.
With today's knowledge, I wouldnt create any facebook and reddit accounts (only social media where I feel like I wasted a lot of time on). Now I dont have any accounts there anymore.

It wasnt hard to quit. All it took was a serious "oh fuck this shit" moment, just like I quit smoking. But am I a better employee because of that?

I dont think so. Not having social media doesnt solve any motivation/discipline/attention span problems
What happens when you do it more often? You have no money so...
In fact, I am not completely sure about the state of Generics in C++. AFAIK the term 'Generics' was coined in context of Java, but C++ has a similar concept they call Templates. Maybe you could elaborate on what is the exact difference between those two concepts?
Haven't read the book, but the movie was disappointing for me, even as a Spielberg and overall shallow popcorn fun lover. It felt like a typical family movie which is for everybody who doesn't look for any cinematic quality, cheap moral statements forcefully inserted here & there.

Maybe I was not in a mood for it back then and should re-watch it, but the story really felt cheap and characters shallow.
You realize you are trying to explain Go's philosophy to one of the Go developers, right?
> The word is usually meant to refer to a particular format and a particular history, not just anything that uses words to tell a story.

The latter definition probably is the best one can come up with without resorting to notions like "stuff that I like".

Other than that, literature often means a body of works that have been canonized because somebody thought they have artistic or intellectual value, in other words: What does and what doesn't constitute literature is highly subjective.

What argues against Twitter sagas as literature though is their inherent transience. Literature usually is thought of as something that has literary value not just for the current generation but for future generations, too.
Actually, you should relearn everything. That doesn't mean that you need to put everything into production. But re-learning everything is, IMHO, the only way to adapt.

I think there is a sort of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias%E2%80%93variance_tradeoff

If you are conservative, you reduce variance (by sticking to your experience), and if you are progressive, you reduce bias (by learning new things).
I would think it's self-evident that chemically (forcibly) modifying your perspective and the timbre of your subjective/emotional experience, a change that without chemical assistance would be slow, difficult to achieve, and often impossible, would not be entirely safe. But, safety isn't everything.
Does it comply with Net Neutrality?
That's great, are you using these? How is the interop? How does that compare with ClojureScript and shadow-cljs? How can you make a single binary?

Maybe I worded wrongly the first time. I definitely didn't mean to imply that Common Lisp can't do something. That would be as foolish as saying Emacs can't do something ;)

I was just pointing out that we aren't comparing like-with-like once you bring in a totally different ecosystem such as JavaScript's (which is historically neither Common Lisp's nor Clojure's main focus).
Bail seems like an outdated concept that has ballooned into a mechanism to extort money with little public benifit. When a deposit was enough to keep someone charged with a crime from running off to the next town and never being heard from again it was probably effective.
Now, if bail is a major factor in whether a defendant returns to court or turns wanted outlaw, the charges are either too minor to warrent bail, or so serious that paying for release probably should not have ever been an option. Bail is just an initial deposit, a checksum to make sure no one gets out free: either cash or tax dollars for the administration and encarceration of poor defendants. Hope this doesn't turn into a system of simply optimizing bail payment per offer by setting custom amounts.
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Acid felt like a circle jerk with myself to be quite honest.
You had all this before social media. In school I have been made fun of, I have been beaten, people have stolen from me and destroyed my properties. They made pranks, used peer pressure and had huge vanity and popularity contests, while all playing the conformity game.

It is not a technical problem: social medias just magnify the characteristics of the existing society.

I don't own a FB account myself, but for different reasons. Toxic behavior is not the right one IMO, because the solution to this is education on the long run, and on the short run, learning to defend yourself and getting closer to people and environments that suit you better.

The problem with school (if you happen to be in one where you don't fit) is that you don't have the ability to change environment, you are stuck with the same people, and you will be punished for defending yourself.

However, outside of school, and especially on internet, you have all the latitude to do it. So it's only a problem if you focus on the wrong that people do, instead of the good you can do to yourself.
Or are they just bored with it, or the current fad is over, or they realized how stupid what they wrote is?
the usage of social media isnt a productivity issue its the skinner boxing that is deployed by almost all outlets, the many onion skin layers that slowly morphed what was a very effective tool for communication into a brain training device similar to television...
HN is one of the few that are still a blogalike format...
there is a wonderfull limitation to a single media format such as flat_ascii vs multimedia...
Hacker news is definitely more a forum than social media platform. But the temptation to collect "likes" and the resulting dopamine high is a thing on HN too.
This seems like the sort of thing that should be in the spec for a feed. RSS is basically a textual representation of a site's available articles; you have to explicitly GET the feed to see any new posts (at least without PubSub). If you're going to provide a static xml representation of your site's content, there's no obvious reason why you wouldn't want that to extend back indefinitely.

Something like feed.xml?page=2 seems fairly sane.
In Poland it's similar. However, in UK, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Finland (just examples of countries where I or my colleagues have contracted in the past) companies are open to paying 100k-200k EUR directly to the contractor, provided he has the skills they're after.
It still is a common vulnerability on *NIX
To my understanding, MAOIs only pose a hypertension risk in combination with stimulants like tyramine, caffeine, amphetamine and derivatives, etc. DMT isn't a stimulant.

Also, hypertension risks are generally a problem for MAOI prescriptions: people who take MAOIs every day. With DMT, a MAOI is only consumed once, with the DMT. DMT is rarely taken on a regular and frequent basis, so it's unlikely someone would be consuming a very risky quantity of MAOIs over the long term.

MAOIs may increase DMT risk in other ways, but I don't believe hypertensive crisis is an issue for that specific combination.
In case anyone else knows little about the history of cryptography or who these names are, here's some relevant information.

Here's the paper that started it all:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00196791

And a WSJ article describing the atmosphere in more detail:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-eureka-moment-that-made-bit...
IIRC, also being registered as an ISP, giving them certain protections.
The best way to approach this is to start by mechanically removing the possibility of doing the thing you wish to avoid. In the cases you mention:

- An alarm clock without a snooze button: https://www.amazon.com/Travelwey-Clock-Outlet-Powered-Operat...

- An app that you can use to block facebook and other sites from your phone: https://freedom.to/

There are people who claim that this sort of thing is 'a crutch'. These same people probably would not encourage a dieter to keep a packet of cookies on their desk though. Regardless, crutches are useful whether you've broken your ankle or your mindfulness.

You can and should build more active mindfulness practices on top of this.
I agree. A while back I pg (bad paraphrase) said it as "Google used to give you a list of right answers to your question. Now it's postmedernist search, where the true answer is true for you."

I think that about sums it up. Google got very good at personalising search. They got very good at answering questions with widgets on their pages, a reader's digest of the web.

They got worse at objective search.

I almost never find those small-scale sites with great content anymore.
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In some EU countries(Poland) pedestrians have a green light to go, even though cars turning right also have a green light - cars are expected to watch out for pedestrians crossing, even when they have a green light to go.

I live in UK and the part of the traffic codex that seems to be unknown to literally all British drivers is the one that says "pedestrians have priority over cars making a turn" - so if you are crossing a road near an intersection and a car is making a turn into that road you are just crossing, you have absolute priority even in the absence of a designated crossing - but drivers get really upset and honk and wave as if you are in their way.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/using-the-road-...

"watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way"
If you create an index on a branch it will only be visible to the child branches starting from the point where the index was created. I encourage you to clone and test it. It is easy to compile, and it's fun! I will make a video in the next weeks.
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Yes, and these days someone who goes around telling people that the world is flat is less than credible. If I was a parent I would inform my children that the world is, in fact, not flat and the aforementioned person is spewing nonsense. I'm not trying to force my beliefs onto others, just want people to treat themselves and others safely.
The fact that it works on mobile is the biggest advantage imho. We use it for that reason.
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Each phone ping, like, comment, reply, follow is a dopamine shot.

You know what else gives people dopamine shot? The next piece of chocolate cake, the cigarette that's always overdue, having the drink after long day of work, finally being able to hit the bong and so on.

"Social media" is as much of an addiction on a biological level as drugs. We know that prohibition doesn't work.

We should start with helping people find ways to feed their (dopamine) reward system with more meaningful stuff. Help accomplish them small and bigger things, promote real human interaction.
> Unicard

That's an interesting choice of name; it's also the name of an essay[1] by John Walker[2] (who also wrote about "The Digital Imprimatur"[3]). He warned about this type of privacy problem in 1994:

> Unicard - Ubiquitous Computation, Global Connectivity, and the End of Privacy

> ABSTRACT: Threats to privacy are often seen as efforts launched by governments or large corporations, using their power to circumscribe individuals' rights. Yet often individuals voluntarily surrender their privacy for promises of security or, more frequently, pure convenience. Based on technologies already available or certain to appear within the next few years, this paper explores how much convenience could be gained, and how much privacy lost as these technologies enter the mainstream.

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/unicard.html

[2] Co-founder & chairman of Autodesk, one of the designers/programmers of AutoCAD

[3] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
>How many things on that list need treatment within minutes?

Let's go down the list for things that don't need treatment in minutes:

- Malaria

- Rabies

- Salmonella

- Lyme disease

- Malnutrition and starvation (though you'd rather have this taken care of fast if possible, in severe cases minutes would count)

- Attempted suicide, non fatal (though only if you aren't up for anything else as a result of said attempted suicide, you'll be fine if you don't get immediate treatment)

- Psychotic episode (under supervision)

- Suicidal ideation (if you're under supervision)

- Smoke inhalation (in very very minor cases)

- HELPP syndrome (doesn't seem to be very dangerous in the minute range though you'll want treatment either way)

- Priapism (although it is very painful)

- Sexual assault (before you downvote consider that sexual assault is generally not fatal itself and you don't need urgent medical attention, though urgent psychological attention is, in general you'll survive if you need more than a few minutes to the hospital)

Most of these come with a few ifs, notably that no other medical emergency coincides and some depend on severity, the rest of the list is to my knowledge pretty deadly if you don't get it taken care of as quickly as possible and for half the list it is likely you'd be either in extremely severe pain, unconscious, non-responsive, dying or a combination of the previous in any order.