skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve seen both mdma and many other psychedelics have short term positive effects but they also had a downside as they are easy used recreational. Only thing I can swear by works wonders are Changa and is in a category where regular abuse is very unlikely. I’ve been around 100s of people the last 20 years where we all smoked daily.personally 100g+ month of bubble hash grade or o.g kush types heavy weed, had year long periods of doing extasy,cocaine,mdma,amfetamine every weekend. Occasionally did stuff like 2cb, mandrake root, phenibut, Kanna, kath, ghb, lsd, dmt, ketamine, some RCs and perhaps 50 shroom trips in my youth and a bit of opimum to end a nite on a festival after having mixed a bit of all of the above. Having a highly stressful job I got tinnitus and was waking around myself in circles I decided to make my own Changa (dmt from mimosa hostilis keeping nmt +hamalas(rima) from b.caapi+alkaloids of Passion flower + blue Lotus, African dream herb) and it instantly took my stress and tinitus away and forced me to sleep properly Which had Been years since.. and imo is one of the most dangerous things and I have often seen as a trigger for insanity . Also lost any cravings for weed + sugar and such and now have not touched anything for a few years don’t even care for a beer. I gave my product to about 80 people under my strict supervision and guidelines and they go through so many emotions laughing, crying, having internal conversations, being afraid, wanting to die, feeling love, not wanting to die all in a short time they come back and tell me it’s the most incredible experience ever, that it saved marriges, ended abuse, stopped suiacidal thoughts and gave a new perspective on life some who had given up on shrinks and medicine.. mostly a common effect of living more in the moment and forgetting the bad thought loops they had. Friend working at google Quit his job right after, gave away his things and went to live with aboriginals. Another came back from South America after doing ayhuasca, rape, sanga, Kampo and told me what I had made was what he had been looking for there ... it got so “known” that someone from Sting heard about it and came by to do it when touring my country ;) most have only tried dmt enhanced leaf so they can’t relate.. those who have tried the real deal have respect for it and for most it will be once in a life trip .. even the hardcore are not just doing it for good reasons even if it’s just 1 hour it’s also the most crazy psychedelic... I’d done well you will leave your body not even be aware of yourself anymore and go a other worlds or memories and “movies” so far out no words exists for what you experience :D even if it’s the most amazing experience in a life like sex with the universe I can stil live on the memories of it for years. It’s a drug I expect to hear more about in coming years when it becomes more known as it’s my experience it’s much more effective than mdma ketamine shrooms which I have seen way too many downsides with like excessive abuse and suicides
Huh that is really expensive. According to Fixr, average cost per square foot is $117 [0], so Cover is ~3x as expensive. The benefits of going prefab would have to be pretty extreme to be willing to do that

[0]: https://www.fixr.com/costs/build-single-family-house
If you say "is hiring me" I assume you've not started yet. Given that launching a startup is no joke, if I were you I'd start working on the tool for them, paid in full, keeping your idea to turn it into a startup in background.

After a bit, if you're still committed to that, you feel you have cofounder(s) and money, then you can start sharing the idea with the client. I personally very much doubt switching from internal tool to SaaS will be no brain, and as long as you don't reuse their code you should be free to rebuild a similar SaaS. Test their interest in becoming your first customer and/or an investor in your startup (perhaps in exchange of the code you already wrote for them).

I'd be very cautious because if there are alternatives that are quite expensive... there might be a reason for that. And I wouldn't be too optimistic about your personal cost (time & money) to switch an internal project into a startup. This said, best of luck, and post it on HN when you launch!
I think it is easy to imagine several countries, India among them, that are both worse than China from a skills/supplychain perspective but better from a normative/geopolitical perspective.

When choosing between India/Taiwan/Malaysia/Costa Rica/etc, you then need to consider the track record of these various second choices. India's record of disregard for IP [1], political unrest [2], and playing the US and China off one another [3] don't really do it many favors.

That said, I definitely agree that we should begin making major investments of equal magnitude to what was done in 90s/00s PRC in countries aligned with Western technology norms (whatever those are).

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-ip-idUSKCN0XO1I...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-30/modi-s-po...
[3] https://nationalinterest.org/feature/can-india-balance-betwe...
AMD delivered completed physical GPU components to Intel, which Intel then stuck next to their CPUs. They didn't give Intel anything Intel couldn't get by walking over to MicroCenter.

(So far as I know anyway)
Very nice indeed! I was just in the user contributions view and article history view, those records are so horrendously aligned its nearly unreadable. Would be nice to have a table rendering of all that.
> American sedans are dead because the Big 3 American automakers never invested in making sedans. They always borrowed tech from other companies.

In the 80s a lot of US-Foreign partnerships sprang up as domestic manufacturers scrambled to develop competitive products to compete against the Japanese. But GM had an ownership stake in Opel from the 1960s IIRC (they just recently sold it to the French PSA group) and Ford has been experimenting with bringing over cars designed by Ford Europe since the 80s (look up Merkur).

Chrysler is really no more; the shots are called by FIAT and aside from Jeep and Dodge trucks everything else is an import (the Jeep Renegade and the FIAT 500x are the same under the skin and are built in the same factory in Italy).

Ford made a big bet on "global cars" in the 90s, and we see the benefits of it today. The Escape and the EcoSport were both originally designed for Europe.

GM and Ford did learn to make great cars for the US market, but too late. The Impala & CT6, for example, are on a platform designed for the US/China market (no way the European market would want a car that big that isn't an S-Class, 7-series, or A8). And they're great cars. But as the original article said consumers demand for big American sedans has been in decline for almost 50 years. Ford/GM can't seem to stop skating to where the puck just was.
Great talk, really excited to see how he is going to solve imports and reification for Clojure [so far only rust and haskell have this figured out].

I'm just so glad that Clojure exists, it is doing all the good design things to make programming pleasant but it has a different approach from the usual suspects which is incredibly valuable!

Being dynamic and interactive is great for UI/UX design since that, especially, benefits from the tight feedback loop and I'm becoming more and more bullish on making the type system separate like this and thinking of it as synonymous with tests, it makes a lot of sense (separation of concerns...)

Also coming from mathematics I can see a analogy to the preference of working in open sets (so that you can always take a point arbitrarily close to the edge and still make an open neighborhood around it) and what he is calling an open system. This preference for open sets over dense ones seems counterintuitive at first sight but is the basis on which analysis is built. Type systems feel a bit 'dense' in the sense that they force you to write programs that are overspecified?

Anyway I just look forward to seeing experience accumulate with these different technologies so that we may learn more about how we ought to design systems !
There was Plua for PalmOS as well. I still use that for a Palm-powered remote light control. It even had GUI construction primitives built-in and could be "cross compiled" (disclaimer: I maintained the Mac OS X port).
Zoom is the new Webex
I know it's a small constituency, but this makes it difficult for foreign-language schools who want to hire teachers from the "source" country. The timing uncertainty and calendar schedule simply doesn't work.

I am sure there are many such tiny segments.
> And i haven't touched it after they switched to a new version, but in the old version they noticed state changes by contiously comparing all of your state. (so more state meant it would be slower).

Are you confusing AngularJS and current Angular? AngularJS is certainly wholly slower than React, but not Angular 2+.
I guess it doesn't have to go quite that low, depending on what you make it out of.

Though you have got me wondering whether anyone has put a crumb of high temp superconductor in a smd resistor package yet and if so, for what purpose.
What are successful startups that CS PhD graduates founded?
I'm looking for inspiration and curious to hear what startups, founded by recent PhD graduates, are out there.
Anti-pattern does seem like a strong enough word sometimes. These domains are available:

emai1-marriott.com

email-marriot.com

e-mail-marriott.com

I wonder whether it might be better if governments took over the notification side of things. Something like "notice@databreach.gov". Companies could pick from a few standard templates and get charged $1.00 per email.
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Very valid points. But keep in mind that ketamine therapy is generally considered a treatment of last resort, for refractory depression, often after even treatments like ECT have failed.
I experienced the exact same thing. I wanted to record/stream the audio but I found it surprisingly difficult. The Java app is easy to use but much lower audio quality. The client side js heavily relies on the audio api of browsers and I couldn't get it working in nodejs. I don't know why this guy decided on his own audio codec for broadcasting amateur radio over the web. The only viable solution I found to be using an actual browser which is a pain in the ass. This guy is very weird. He wants to share amateur radio but makes it impossible to build off of.
I was about to express surprise at this, but then it occurs to me: are you using 'narrative game' in a different sense, to mean specifically a game where there is a voiced narration, like The Stanley Parable or Oxenfree?
So a fully open-source phone is now feasible given friendly hardware? I thought replacing the baseband was much farther away.
Horrible blind spot though.
Everybody in Almost Every Language Says “Huh”? HUH?!
I'm not seeing it. Temperature peaks at 37C, but humidity is only 57% when it happens. Humidity peaks at 94%, but temperature is only 29C when it happens.
Seems to hide all the extraneous buttons and controls that are not applicable to read only mode. Much cleaner style than the mobile version.
Yeah, it's not surprise that corporate governance is at its worse state in decades. Too many companies have boards filled with management sycophants who never due real work in guiding corporations in the interests of shareholders.
There's also a comparison page: https://librepcb.org/compare/
How do they do it for ChromeOS devices?
Gwern Reviews the Media Lab: Inventing the Future
Code Review – Do you speak it?
installing a security suit likely subject to the control of the Russian government has always seemed like a funny proposition to me to begin with
My favorite

https://web.archive.org/web/20050211001936/http://linuxisfor...
Cover is in the early stages (think Tesla Roadster stage). Goal is to drive down costs significantly as they achieve economies of scale.
Depending on how you define "blockchain", it's either the same thing as a merkle tree or most non-bitcoin things that claim to be using blockchains actually are just using merkle trees.
All features of Tabulator are free including a lot of features AG Grid charges for for commercial licenses
“This privacy review process developed inside Google following years of privacy”
From the same mail thread a bit later:

> Whether or not it is a joke, it is censorship.

> And because of that I have no intention to apply any patches like this
to any code I am in charge of.

To me, this is the only reasonable response to what is quite simply nonsense in my opinion. These are technical comments, avoiding cursing in new code is one thing, but going back and changing comments in a way that reduces understandability in comments, which are already prone to be outdated and somewhat confusing at times, is simply not a good idea.
Maybe the goal should be to build homes like Toyota builds cars? :D
It's not unique or unusual for dictatorships in general. The Soviet Union, for example, worked hard at indoctrination, as did Mao. Arguably, any propaganda is indoctrination.
One possible German company that was entangled with Sierra IP rights might be the former Deep Silver (Koch Media), because of THQ? Deep Silver bought a lot of IP assets from THQ including possibly some portion of Relic Entertainment's IP, which was a Sierra published studio. Though that German company no longer exists as such, because Deep Silver was recently purchased by THQ Nordic reuniting more of the THQ IP in Scandinavia.

But also, that doesn't hold a lot of water, potentially, because it seems like Gearbox bought Relic's IP in the THQ bankruptcy, not Deep Silver.

Though all of the above does help illustrate why game IP rights are so complicated and byzantine and a lot of classics are languishing because no one properly understands who has the real IP rights.

(The "NOLF Paradox" as some of us call it these days. Which I just realize is funny because Sierra was the original NOLF co-publisher, too.)
Wasn’t this type of stuff around well before the hype of the blockchain? E.g distributed hash tables?
In order to boycott Google I guess I need to switch from Gmail and use duck duck go? Doesn't seem too daunting
Wire is made by people who made the old Skype. Open-source and E2E encryption.
> BI is not really interested in ETL data

Isn't ETL an intermediary in BI? I think I am a bit confused, to give some context, this is my understanding, you have all the services generating data, you have ETL jobs, that extract data from these services, transform and move the data to a star or snowflake schema in RDBMS prepared for BI tools for query efficiently.
Most of the computer science curriculum is explicitly engineering. Even the courses we call theory are about how how to engineer better, more like what a mechanical engineer does when studying thermodynamics than what a physicist does when studying the same subject.

I do agree that none of them are doing science, but one is studying science itself, the other is studying a slightly different thing.
No offense, but "it's a narrative game" seems to have become the new excuse for games that lack any interesting gameplay or actual content and thus have to play up the "artistic angle" by pretending to tell some amazing story.

Looking at the Steam page for this its genre is listed as a clicker, a review points out there's literally no progression for the clicker gameplay part, that's a bad clicker right there because those are usually all about the progression.

You can't make an oversight like that up with narrative, if the gameplay is driving away the player then you can have the most amazing narrative in the world, most people still won't experience it because they won't get past the bad gameplay.
In my company most H1 workers that come from Infosys and others are mainly there because they are cheap and not because they are "highly qualified" as the intent of H1 is. If Infosys just had to pay market rates they would lose competitiveness and open up visa spots for the people who truly deserve one.
"All files of LibrePCB projects and libraries are highly optimized for version control systems"

Thank you. I do check Eagle files into version control so that I can annotate project progress, but I can't help but scrutinize the line-by-line diffs before submitting, and it's exasperating because they're so noisy.
My husband can’t wait until his credit rating is 0 - due to not enough info because we haven’t had any debt for however many years :) I definitely get the no credit cards on principle thing! We’ll just deal with any additional hassle that comes about from not having a credit score. It won’t be the end of the world.
It would be pretty interesting to use a neural network for AO! It's a good coincidence you linked to SSIM based adaptive sampling, I'm actually using the research you linked to: I implemented the OptiX API for SSIM prediction. So far, we've used it for choosing where to send more rays, but I'm not aware of anyone using it to adapt the max distance for AO rays. That might be fun & fruitful to try!

I'm not certain, but I think in theory that capping the max distance will always bias the AO (to the extent that AO even makes physical sense). You can reduce the bias by mixing lengths, but I'm not sure if you can ever fully compensate for it. More importantly, it's always (theoretically) biasing to separate AO shading from the normal surface shading & lighting calculation. AO is a beautiful simple hack, but I'm not sure it will survive the future, especially as ray and compute budgets increase.

I know I've seen other AI attempts to learn AO & global illumination, just googling a bit:

http://theorangeduck.com/page/neural-network-ambient-occlusi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_zmRWxU-PY
If you're in a position to secure one of those pleasant credit cards is it likely you'd be one of the people relying on a credit card as a sole means to survive a sudden layoff? I think you're assuming that because it's easy for people when they're doing well it must always be easy.
Safari for iOS has kind of a "grace period" where the back gestures do work from the new tab. But I think this is more to aid the confusion for people who don't understand that a new tab has even been created.

If you switch tabs, or close the app, or do anything other than somewhat immediately go back, that back history is lost. And if you do use the shortcut to go back, the new tab is destroyed. There's no ability to open a bunch of tabs and then in each of them independently navigate back to the parent.
> "I'm not saying they're racist, I'm just saying that racists like them a lot"

Civil Liberties organization defends due process. "I'm not saying they're rapists, I'm just saying rapists like them a lot."

Fertilizer company sells ordinary fertilizer that happens to be a major component of large bombs. "I'm not saying they're terrorists, I'm just saying terrorists like them a lot."

Tech company protects privacy of customers. "I'm not saying they're child pornographers, I'm just saying child pornographers like them a lot."

This form of argument is obviously more incendiary than illuminating.
Orbital Reflector
Yes, well, I can understand why mobile was hard on AOL. I have a harder time understanding why the maker of the most popular mobile platform couldn't get their messaging story straight.
No, I have no assumption that a larger culture is better than a smaller one. I do assume that being more economically productive is better then being less economically productive, but that is not relevant here.

Languages die when people judge that those languages are worthless, because those people, who might have spoken the languages, would like to be economically productive instead. I'm saying that when a person or group of people choose to abandon their language, in order to achieve their own personal goals, and the language dies as a result, that is an example of people being empowered. It's not an example of people not being empowered.

You seem to have confused "empowered" with "good".
It takes years to bring a new car to market. And in the early 70s the Big 3 had zero, zilch, nada in the way of platforms and powertrains suitable for small fuel efficient cars. So the first generations were built in a hurry, and to a price, because the economy was in the toilet. And it showed!
LastPass does NOT require you to install a binary component. That's an optional you have to access the vault on your desktop.

OnePassword on the other hand, highly encourages people to download the binary because their standard extension connects to it.
UK plans sat-nav system to rival EU's Galileo
Very tall guys here seem to go for VWs, or Audis if they’re feeling spendy. Another rather tall colleague of mine drives an Auris (Toyota Europe's Corolla equivalent). My 6’1” husband chose a Fiesta, and he’s rather long torsoed, to boot.

Cars that are compact/economy cars on the US market are midsize/midmarket here, and that might be why little things like very height-adjustable seats are in them. The Golf/Focus (plus Auris, Astra) segment is extremely competitive in the EU.

Huh. Just realized that most cars here don’t have prominent grab handles.
They are willing to take the loss because they have fleet wide emissions targets. So they will sell just enough to allow them to sell the SUVs they actually want to make - but no more.
https://www.amazon.com/Glasshouse-Charles-Stross/dp/04410150... describes a different problem. In the 27th century the 21st century is considered a dark age not because anything particularly bad happened but just because data archival technology took a big step back. Early storage media were far more fragile than paper.
> Car companies absolutely quantify risks and make decisions based on it. It is still more about bottom line than safety.

Right, which is why we should increase consequences when there are data breaches so companies may actually care about them when they happen.
Why is wombat poop cube-shaped?
I'd say it's a lie that Wall Street is known for short term thinking. Hell, it is even a unofficial motto of Goldman Sachs to "be long-term greedy".

Are there a large number of activist investors who want certain companies to trim fat? Yes. I wouldn't always say that trimming fat is always synonymous with short term thinking. For all the companies that are underinvesting in the future, there are 5 whose management has given them mission creep to invest in areas that incinerate capital. Especially in the current interest rate environment.
Isn't Meet is part of G-suite, and only useful for in-network communication with your G-suite organization?
GUI programming is used as an example every time someone is praising OOP. And it seems the only time where there is some merit behind using OOP.

Chess game would be a good example of what to never do with OOP. If you start with `class Pawn inherits from Piece`, then you going to find yourself in deep shit, really fast. Low performance, high complexity. If you use an 8 by 8 array of integers that mark the pieces, than your code will be just bunch of simple algorithms, that can work really well and fast.

It might be a good exercise: write simple chess engine in OOP vs data-centric style, and compare.
As a long-term treatment it's being considered as an alternative to electroconvulsive therapy, not SSRIs. It is still a dangerous drug with potential side effects, but that power to harm is exactly what doctors are exploiting to help.

For deeper dives into mechanisms, Mayo is doing interesting research into the biomarkers for ketamine responsive versus non-responsive patients: https://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/psychiatry-...