skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my own experience, I did sense an ability to let go of some deep-seated resentment. At the time it felt as if it had disappeared forever, but the resentment came back after the effects of the drug wore off.

That was a casual experience with the drug, though. Not taken in a clinical setting with the objective goal of dealing with those issues. I could easily see how the drug could be used carefully for such a goal. In fact it was one of my first reactions when I felt it for the first time. I thought "holy shit this would be an amazing therapeutic tool". There really is no way to describe it.
That's a hopeful one! It sounds like I could pick up from where I left off and keep growing from there, thanks!
It is possible that they think otherwise exactly because they already have skin in the game.
Sounds like a diagnosis to me.
Penicillin was pretty big. Amusing discovery too. As penicillin is fundamentally a derivative of the blue-green mold that can appear on decaying matter, the idea of injecting it into yourself to combat bacterial infections is something that few would believe. It only began to be regularly used some 14 years after its discovery, even the discover rapidly shared and published his findings.

On the other hand, maybe these discoveries are a bit different. It seems the big discoveries often come in the form of falsifying previously held beliefs rather than immediately introducing novel 'actionable' discoveries. For instance Mercury's orbit goes off by a pesky 0.01 degree change per century that could not be accounted for by Newtonian planetary mechanics. That falsification is perhaps at least part of the long chain of events that would culminate in the discovery of relativity.
That thing we possess that we can't explain but we all feel implicitly or explicitly which seems to give our existence meaning. That thing that, despite all your rationalizations, allows you to feel you are a distinct existence with an individuality that extends beyond thoughts, personality, and behavior.
I looked at yEd, and dropped it because it doesn't seem to support rotating shapes. I was quite surprised, since that is a fundamental feature of most drawing applications.
I guess if you insult one commenter you get downvotes, but if you insult half of the population no one bats an eye?
This is the same Robin Hanson that recently authored "The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life". His physics background makes for interesting economic analyses.
I think that is just meant to be an approachable way of saying that NYC Mesh peers on public internet exchanges

https://nycmesh.net/peering/
Why can't you use cookies for mobile traffic?
I've always seen brain drain used to reference the educated leaving an area. Frequently calling out professors and other educators leaving as part of the brain drain
Blizzards don’t typically level buildings, and a tornado’s path of destruction is narrow enough that the lucky homeowners can sufficiently subsidize the unlucky ones through insurance.

Neither of those risks are comparable to earthquakes and hurricanes/flooding, which can be relied upon to thoroughly destroy huge swaths of cities, regularly.
wondering if there is a service to be built selling data through cryptocurrencies...
Hahaha funny game! :) :)
Good article, but the critique of the shell is misplaced. Shell provides a universal and extensible way to browse anything that makes sense to browse as a file system, without resorting to drivers. Yes, there's overhead that comes with that, but it allows to plug new things into Explorer, without waiting for Microsoft to do anything about it.

Also, FWIW, GetOpenFileName [1] turns the spaghetti from the article into just few lines of code.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/commdlg...
I just HATE all the pop-ups asking for permission to use cookies now.

Seriously, having to opt-in on a per-site basis has led me to loathe the GDPR. It's a usability disaster. I never thought I'd hate anything more than the "sign up for our newsletter" pop-ups... but these are even more pervasive.

If I'm the kind of person who hates cookies/tracking, I'll just install a blocker and block it everywhere, and then whitelist any domains I need to.

It just makes me feel like the GDPR was a win for lawyers and legalese, and nobody else.
a recently graduated Masters of Political Science guy gave a talk at a very sophisticated data conference in San Francisco last year.. several people in the audience expressed distress at some trends in politics, with appropriate manners.. and the short take away from the speaker was basically: there are always ill-effects in political matters, but democratic participation is like a water level in a lake.. more participation tends to dilute the ever-present negatives, cover and integrate the harsh (dangerous?) features into a larger, more stable common. The opposite is also true -- that less participation leads to strong 'pollutants' and more sharp or harsh features.
This planet money episode seems relevant : https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/09/29/554603161/epis...
Yeah, no private insurance company will knowingly insure houses in those flood prone areas that are pretty much guaranteed to flood. With the subsidized government insurance, people keep on rebuilding and collecting that free money.
Some risks are not insurable since they're guaranteed to happen. That's why no private insurance company will offer flood insurance, but since these owners of capital have enough political clout, they are able to secure a taxpayer funded bailout fund (nation flood insurance program).
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> Should we also tax people living in [...] blizzard-prone areas?

We already do; municipalities in blizzard-prone areas factor snow removal costs into their annual expenditures, which show up in residents' taxes.
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It’s totally OK that fines are used as a last resort. As long as they will be used as a last resort.
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A few other and I are attempting to use noms specifically as a versioned database. I haven't seen anything else that can do everything that noms does. Its only problem is that it's really a database engine, not a full fledged database... so some development work is needed to get it usable within a project.
Have you tried yoga? It's kinda like Apple, but instead of just working, it just solves (almost) everything. If you can find a good studio and hang on to it, that might help. Also, I'd recommend Vinyasa, or Ashtanga, or any dynamic variant. Not slow yoga, I feel like it doesn't help letting go as much. Hang in there!
The banks will just ask for flood insurance.
My young kids read books all the time for pleasure, and some other kids their age do as well. Most kids probably don't, at least not in the long run. It always has been like this. We now expect most people to have more education so that they have "skills". Education used to be about imparting culture and sophistication as much about as about skills. But while most people need skills today, most people probably don't need more than a basic familiarity with literature. That's the way it has always been. Poetry has never been for everyone.
The difference is that GDPR does have effective enforcement mechanisms, precisely unlike previous laws. Now let’s see if they’ll be applied.
It really is incredible. Although I've tried cocaine, and personally I found MDMA much harder to resist multiple doses with. So for me, I have to be super careful else I could end up harming myself or becoming psychologically dependent on it.

It's definitely got a risk factor, but the sheer experience is something everyone should have once.
Eventually you run out of appeals, or the higher court refuses to hear your appeal, just as you eventually run out of bail bondsmen. I don't see the situation as any different.
I'm unaware of a particular compelling argument for another scalar. Scalars are easier for theorists to use when trying out a new theory, so they abound in theoretical physics.

At some level, it is something of a surprise to have found that there is just one particle responsible for the Higgs mechanism, and it is indeed spin-0, as Nature hasn't given us one of those before. Prior to the discovery of the Higgs, perhaps the majority of physicists were betting on something Higgs-like, but not quite the pure vanilla Standard Model Higgs.

I would not bet any money on it, but if one were looking for another scalar, one might find it in whatever mechanism underlies dark energy. Many theoretical models for dark energy use scalars, again, because they are easier...
That has nothing do with why people want payouts from obviously disatrous externalities from pollutors.
It is a hybrid at this point. Supernode and hub connections are not mesh connections, but there is some second hop meshing still happening between nodes where there is not line of sight to a hub.
That's fine, but I'm genuinely curious as to what you're finding to be cpu/memory intense. I don't know enough about scala to know if there isn't something the jvm is running poorly because "it wasn't designed to be that way". I deploy on elixir, and everything is not very big and quite acceptably performant even though I have two containerized instances of beam on an amazon t2 micro.

Ooh for me, more than 50 connections a second would be unusual, but also the service really should never die.
In what way does it not help anyone?

It certainly seems to help EU citizens, like myself.
AirBnB have created a similar project. They posted this back in October https://airbnb.design/sketching-interfaces/
I played a lot yesterday...soo much addictive!!
I've seen the documentary, but never realised her reference to the shadow was more than just explaining why we can get into dark thought loops whilst on psychedlics often times going over and over something (sometimes inconsequential things) that raises our paranoia to terror levels.

Seems like I have some reading material to put off working until this afternoon now :)
You can't really argue with the fact that after a complete and utter nuclear annihilation we would have total world peace.
IQ is a single number for a very good reason. If you take all the questions psychology researchers have come up with to try to measure intelligence, take the pass/fail statistics of test-takers on them, and run a principle component analysis on it, you wind up with a single dimension.

There's no forcing the data to be single-dimensional regardless of the underlying truth about intelligence. People genuinely made an attempt to measure intelligence, and the measures people came up with happened to measure something best described as a single number.

Psychology researchers have tried to do the same with personality, and the principle component analysis spit out five dimensions rather than one. That's why the "Big 5" personality traits (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism) are a thing.
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Ask HN: What's your programmer origin story?
I'm conducting a survey on how people get started programming. I would love to hear your story! And if I get enough responses, I'll post a short analysis of any emergent trends.

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Responses: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aWelLLlnwVNfgRzjkIT4emNEzfQM6KTINvxMrHYsn_M/edit#gid=388541526
I would rather read news on web sites than listen to TV news channels. But that is probably not the average case.

There are standard pictographs for "fire exit" and "do not open door" that are used where not everyone reads the same language.
And how many of them are so old that there is a good chance they will not live to see the flood? Long-term climate change looks very different when you only care about the next 10/15 years. One way or another, by the time it happens your condo wont be your problem.
One of the things I learned from Bangalore's real estate market is to stop using Banks as some kind of proxy validation for things.

Its always common to hear people say 'If banks lend a loan against X, X must be ok to buy'. In reality although banks do a bit of verification here and there. Its mostly they are looking for a way to recover their money from you.

In many cases you will see the banks will happily lend money, and then if things go south, they will go after your collaterals or destroy your credit rating etc. Very rarely can you tell them, 'You approved of it, so bear the loss'.
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I feel like the DNT header could have been made a lot better if it worked alongside GDPR. Like, 0 = haven't chosen/prompt me (I want to pick exactly what cookies I want), 1 = don't care give me everything, 2 = functional, 3 = please don't track me at all. You could then just surface this per-site even in the browser, maybe in a way resembling the IE Security Zone settings with their nice sliders.
This is actually non-compliant. Sites may not withhold service based on consent. They can paywall things no-problem, but users must not be forced to give consent at any point in order to use the service.
It's almost as if this has happened before...
But no, it's record breaking drought.
Different timescales.

Sealevel rise projections range from 0.2 meters to 2.0 meters by 2100. Typical mean projection is less than 1.0 meters by 2100. Things get gradually worse, but it takes time before it affects the property values with full force.

Property investors and developers operate on timescales between 5-30 years, there is plenty of stuff to sell before demand starts to decrease.
Skilled employees have intelligence and education level.
I am not trying to impress with high school math, I defending someone that got down voted for an accurate statement.

At best we are predicting a peak human population 30+ years from now and those kind of predictions are never very accurate. Further, even if that's one peak it says very little about human population 100's or 1,000's of years from now.
> Scholar Thomas Doherty describes how the HUAC hearings swept onto the blacklist those who had never even been particularly active politically, let alone suspected of being Communists...

I was referring more to the original Hollywood Ten. Although, I'm curious to hear how the witch hunt you describe would not, in fact, happen with a similarly concerted attempt targeted at far-right views.

> I think a perfect example of this is the Unite the Right rally 1 year ago, vs the reunion this past year. After the events a year ago, many white supremacists were doxxed, shamed, and fired. This year, no one came out to the reunion. If the rally a year ago was a success, do you think that would be the case?

If anything, that's an argument that we don't have to ban Nazis, because all of that happened without any kind of laws in the first place.

Although, I think this also demonstrates what complete rank amateurs the Charlottesville crowd really was. If they had followed the most basic precautions taken by the antifa/black bloc crowd and just covered their faces, it would have been a lot harder to dox them.

The only reason these people are more visible is because the media is putting a spotlight on them to drive the narrative that they're a growing and increasingly dangerous group. It's very reminiscent of the opening stages of the McCarthyist witch hunts.
Here's a link to the video: https://vimeo.com/194560636
Many people don't vote their interests. They vote their identity and values.

Rational self-interest is an assumption that enlightenment liberals and market fundamentalists alike have overplayed. It has its applications, and it may even be a somewhat valid assumption for individuals carefully looking at the terms of an economic deal they have make-or-break decision making power over. For collective civil action, my guess is its influence is somewhere between minimal and a wash.
Variant on sunk-cost fallacy?
Won't argue with that, but it's nice to be able to put bounds on the result by using best- and worst-case guesses here.
One theory I've heard is that the prevalence of natural hazards in the US explain the comparatively lower level of development prior to arrival of Europeans - basically any time the locals were getting somewhere some kind of catastrophe would befall them, and destroy their progress. Does make one think about the long term, especially with a more extreme climate expected to be on the way.
Miami has been trying to raise their streets due to regular flooding.

https://www.npr.org/2016/05/10/476071206/as-waters-rise-miam...
Today I learned that Gandhi destroys the world because of an integer overflow!

"In the earlier Civs, leaders are given a set of attributes that dictate their behavior. One such attribute is a number scale associated with aggressiveness. Gandhi was given the lowest number possible, a rating of 1. However, when a civilization adopted democracy, it granted a civilization -2 to opponent aggression levels. This sent Gandhi’s rating of 1 into the negative, which swung it back around to 255 — the highest possible rating available, and thus, the infamous warmonger Gandhi was born." [1]

[1] https://www.geek.com/games/why-gandhi-is-always-a-warmongeri...
And when your house floods every other year, that means flood insurance will cost you what it costs to rebuild your house.... each year.

which is to say, you won't be able to get flood insurance.
Great point, and the dismissive responses to your comment are revealing. So many hyper-rational, super-duper forecasters on HN who think they know better than the people who, you know, have actually succeeded enough in life to be placing these expensive real estate bets.
Which is odd, since GDPR isn’t about cookies. Other means of user tracking fall under GDPR too.

(To clarify, it wouldn’t be particularly odd if companies were found to violate GDPR; but the selective move from cookies to other technologies doesn’t change the legal situation.)
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There's another layer to your accidental genius. Gandhi could be very aggressive in civ due to a bug https://kotaku.com/why-gandhi-is-such-an-asshole-in-civiliza...
I'm not holding out hope. They recently made it very difficult to edit PR descriptions as a result of the change to make it easier to "copy the URL of a comment"[1].

Previously there was an edit button. Now there's 2 buttons: "add a reaction" and "•••" which has a sub-menu containing copy URL & edit. I wonder which of all 3 of these I'm most likely to want.

In effect they've added a huge paper cut for me, not removed one.

[1]: https://blog.github.com/changelog/2018-08-17-copy-url-commen...
It might be worth mentioning that there’s a long tradition of this pattern in game design. In quite a few cases, much of the game logic is separated from the graphics engine, in a simpler language with an interpreter.

In the case of world of Warcraft, the Lua interpreter allowed for a rich ecosystem of UI (and light behavioral) addons. In some cases very popular addons features were added into the core UI in later updates.

I find that arrangement pretty compelling. In the few cases where I’ve worked on or with a team with addon support I bring this up: use the community sourced features as a popular vote for what to incorporate (just be sure to reward the author somehow).
I wasn't clear enough and I apologize. You can use cookies but they will only be within the context of a singular app's browser. For example, suppose that you use two web browsers on your Desktop, Chrome and Firefox. If you visit xyz.com on FF, some cookie information will most likely be stored. However, if at a later time, you visit the domain on Chrome, it will not have access to the same cookie store.

This becomes important in the context of third party cookies that want to track you across apps. Hence why cookies are not a reliable method of identification on mobile.

Hope this clears it up. :)
Likely changes to the coast itself. For example Louisiana and the gulf coast are going down faster, because of coastal erosion.

I would guess that the parts of Alaska that are seeing the sea level fall are due to the land rising from tectonic activity.

Things like changes in water temp and currents can also play a role.
Try it once. The salient point about drugs like ecstasy is that they don’t actually add to the chemicals to your brain that make you feel good - instead they release the reserves in your brain all at once. Those incredible highs are all of your nice feelings for the next couple weeks getting released at once. It’s a trade off I don’t want to make.
Private insurance works for earthquakes and tornadoes.
I've mentioned this before: the market believes that, once the problems in Miami become undeniable, there will be some colossally expensive engineering megaproject to fix it on the taxpayer's dime. And depressingly, the market is probably right, because to not do this would mean having to abandon a major city-- something that has basically never happened in the modern word, apart from disasters like Chernobyl-- and admitting that climate change is real. So in a decade or two look forward to what amounts to a huge bailout and upward wealth transfer to Miami real estate barons.
packet.net is main transit provider, and think there are a couple alternatives now as well
Again, that's not the point. That tirade has nothing to do with the article, it's just something you wanted to say.
> Okay, but who cares if it's annoying?

Lots of people, same people who don't like being guilted by portions of society in general. The real question is, if they find it annoying, why do you care?

> What is the point of bringing up the fact that sometimes people are annoying when they make certain choices?

I thought this was clear, that it's not about making the choices, it's about imposing the choice upon you via bombardment, guilt, perceived righteousness, etc.

> How does that add to meaningful discussion, how does that even create meaningful discussion?

Surely you can understand the level at which society accepts/approves of certain actions has value? And if you do, how does one derive that level sans discussion?
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Long-term: dating/relationships. I'm very outgoing, but I have love shyness or something like that. I basically don't date. I find the entire thing extremely stressful and unbearable. I've always been alone.

Short-term: not much! I recently dropped everything and moved to the other side of the globe (Japan) on a student visa. I'm studying a very interesting language and culture and making friends with people from all over the world that are on average 15 years my junior. I'm also brushing up on technology, learning new programming languages and stacks. This is a sort of sabbatical for me, so I plan on picking up creative hobbies (drawing, making music) as time permits.
Chrome and these extensions give you a false sense of privacy. Currently, no extension can remove local storage and tracking information contained within them.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=78093

You'll either have to clear local storage manually or get a privacy-oriented browser.
Thanks for posting - totally worth the read to learn there's a pd.read_clipboard() function.
I bought this book recently called "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs" https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Dinosaurs-History-World/dp/...

You would think it would be a bad-ass book talking about dinosaurs, but no... it's mainly tedious descriptions about the look on the face of a particular paleontologist when the author met them at the train station, and how wild a particular paleontologist party was the day before they found an important new bone.... I couldn't imagine a more boring book, had to give up half way through.
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