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Well, but Leary also turned into a convenient scapegoat a long time ago, and I'm not sure how fair that is. It was a wild time. He didn't create that.

Pollan's book comes at the fulcrum of the movement where a lot of people have been carefully, and strategically, working on rehabilitating psychedelics without spooking the state again. Leary as scapegoat fits into that perfectly. Maybe too perfectly?

Leary was brilliant and complex, more interesting than the caricatures, which he admittedly drew a lot of himself. And I would say tragic. I felt from the documentary that prison broke him. His daughter killed herself (also in jail) and his son publicly denounced him and refused to speak to him. The film didn't mention those things.
I don't know about serious, but it is a problem in the PDF they published.
Much of the population (me included) has become just consumers and spectators, instead of producers and players. Just look at the amount of time we spend discussing sports or politics or movies, and yet, not playing even an hour of sport a week or even trying to make a painting (no matter how much we suck at these).
Elastic materials are often avoided if you need either linear movement or accurate position control.

Elastic materials are favored if you need shock absorption or no seal system.

Both hydraulics and pneumatics suffer from incredibly shitty thermal efficiency. Electric engine can be 99% efficient. Any single pair of gears or a chain drive can be 99% efficient. Typical hydraulic actuator is something between 70 - 40% efficient. Pneumatics are as bad or worse.

They do use rubber air bellows in paper machinery, but it's being replaced by rigid hydraulic cylinder actuators. With pneumatics you can have somewhat accurate force (== pressure), but you never know the accurate position. With hydraulics it's the other way round. As a result, hydraulic actuators can be mounted in any position regardless of gravity. So you can use the same machinery in various positions.

Edit: here is more if you're interested: https://www.machinedesign.com/pneumatics/primer-flexible-act...
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Am I the only one that has tried asana multiple times and given up after each major iteration?
Assuming you completely randomize which half goes into each split, it wont vary significantly over time.

Obviously some segments are going to open/click/spam at higher rates, but that's fine and controllable with a customer rating. So when you split your users, ensure an even makeup of customers, and your tests will be fine.
I've always been conflicted by these gurus, so let me play devil's advocate and present some things I found when I researched Ram Dass / Neem Karoli Baba a while ago:

http://www.strippingthegurus.com/stgsamplechapters/dass.html

Some interesting tales by Ram Dass about how Neem Karoli read his mind, ingested ginormous amounts of LSD without any effect, etc; here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb2BWvRN090

The specific story about the Baba reading Ram Dass' mind and informing him that he was thinking about his mother and that she had died of spleen failure stayed with me. Maybe he was informed the previous night that a Professor from the US was arriving whose mother died recently of spleen failure and the rest was about creating an illusion of omniscience?

In any case, a large number of these gurus turn out to be sexual predators, and it is absolutely crushing to those who follow them to discover this.

UG "masturbation is better than meditation" Krishnamurti was a much needed respite from these masters of bullshit for me, personally.
I'm my opinion Docker solves this fairly well, by basically having a declarative virtual machine. It's a lightweight representation of the dependencies of the application. Instead of bundling all dependencies into an executable Jar, you can define the environment for you application. Then it's still a command line switch away.

What your suggesting is the operating system is the hat. You will have all sorts of configuration issues on that level rather than the Docker level.... I guess you can't escape the hat!
> nobody owes you anything, plan for a rainy day, find a partner you love and commit to them, work hard, cherish friends and family even when it's difficult, etc.

My SO is doing all theses things, a bit to the extreme too but she feel EXACTLY like that person in the post.

- She planned for rainy days, much more than anyone I know, much more than her parents, much more than mine too.

- She was in love with someone for a pretty long time, way too much, but he had pretty big issues and whatever she did, he would never fix his issue, he was taking her down so hard, yet she loved him and she kept committing to him, it took her 5 years to decide it was enough, 5 years where he was the priority and not her own life.

- She worked pretty hard, again, way too much, she had a good well paid government job, they had nearly no resource because of cuts, the department of one of her colleague went from 8 to 2 employees. Right before she quit, they learned that they were only replacing 1 out of 8 employee that was quitting (she was one of the youngest, most were 45+). She pushed herself up to a depression, again also after nearly 5 years of this.

- Cherish friends and family even when it's difficult. That girl has a heart so big, it's crazy. She hated spending time with her mom, her mom always denigrated her, she always pushed her to her limit and never ever she would fight back. She die recently and my SO was there for her up until the end, more than anyone else in the family.

It has NOTHING to do with what you say. You may believe that's the right way, fine, but it has no bearing over the feelings of that person.

I only started reading the answer from Polly and that make much more sense. It may help quite a bit my SO.
That's why it bothered me so much when Firefox started banning unsigned addons, even if you go through a tedious process to enable them and recompile said addon. Ticked me off so much I made a Hitler parody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taGARf8K5J8
Would be cool if they asked for information after you completed a puzzle for the day - scale of 10 how hard did you consider the puzzle, did you learn something new, what language did you use to complete it - would be super interesting data I bet.
The equation for free-energy/ELBO has two terms, an energy and an entropy. You can rewrite it as "log-likelihood minus KL from prior". If you write your model in a certain way, you can then read it as, "Fit to the data, minus cost" (second formulation) or "Accuracy + exploitation + exploration" (first formulation).
No, only direct.
Looks like a cool project.

I'm just curious about why this is billed as an Advent calendar, when really the only thing it has in common with an Advent calendar is that it terminates on Christmas.

Is there anything about it that has anything to do with Advent, i.e. the Christian liturgical season that precedes Christmas?
Or maybe, just maybe, engineering is keeping tech debt in check and replacing pieces that are working, but not working well, with better pieces. Also, unless we are working at a similar scale, I don't think we are qualified to comment on their engineering challenges.
Still got a bit to learn though, so many adjectives in the first few sentences, felt very 'writery'. A good editor and she'll be on track!
> What is the alternative to tools like Gulp or Gatsby for those of us who want to make (fairly)simple websites?

Gulp has nothing directly to do with building a website, it is a compilation tool of sorts that allows you to transform your source files into something you'll end up deploying via various plugins. For example, you can use gulp to collapse all your JS source files into one or to transpile it into something more cross browser compatible.

The reason I dislike Gulp is that it has a massive number of dependencies and really is just an overcomplicated reimplementation of pipes. Personally, I prefer Webpack. It is also a fairly large tool, but at the very least it actually does something useful out of the box. When I migrated our projects from Gulp to Webpack, I replaced a over 500 lines of gulp code with about 50 lines of config and a small bash script.
That's a great anecdote. I was speaking generally, of course.
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If you do any sort of color extraction from images, what is your best tool to do so, preferably in the form of a plug-and-play library you can throw at an image file?

We've been playing with our own algorithms, but they leave something to be desired, and I wonder if we're trying to reinvent the wheel if this is a solved problem.

Thank you, HN.
The dumbest thing here is that localhost is considered a secure connection so they shouldn’t even have needed tls - does anyone know why they felt it was necessary? Are websockets not correctly treating localhost as a secure connection?
I would not advice reading about these topics, nor do I think they're rooted in science.
Just wandering how will foindationDb compare to mongo in terms of the non functional s - performance, scale of a collection, number of collections, queries with and without indexes, aggregated, etc.
University researcher would be my guess. These are pretty common, you know.
Soooo stoked. This should make futzing with it to get started a lot easier.

I've been thinking about going to the FoundationDB summit to hopefully learn more... Does anyone have any good resources for learning about it? I've tried a few times but find the documentation a bit hard to grok. Maybe I'm just slow.

Also if you haven't seen it, this is one of the most amazing talks on distributed systems (because it's about testing them) I've ever seen (by Will Wilson from FoundationDB pre-Apple merger): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc

Truly mind blowing how good FoundationDB is supposed to be for its use cases, and this Mongo layer is just the business when it comes to helping adoption.
On the flip side, many of the previous generations of parents would kill to have the choices their kids have. They simply never had those choices when they grew up.
> Life is so much better if you just do what you evolved to do. There's no way to hack life and make it better in any real way. Pair up, get a trade, build a home, and enjoy that for what it is.

That's where we differ. It's great that you enjoy your life, but it sounds horrible to me. "Pair up, get a trade, build a home" ends up going very badly for some people, there is no single path to an enjoyable life.
Nope. And after several times I am using it now and looking to switch.

It just isn't working well. Empty tasks get generated, it takes 3 clicks to remove them for example.

It is not as easy to organize work.
Parent of 2 young kids. Wife got this book from Amazon [0] called "How to Talk so Kids Will Listen...And Listen So Kids Will Talk" which surprisingly is really good.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Talk-Kids-Will-Listen-Listen/dp/07435...

As a parent, I have observed that kids observe YOU. Plain and simple. You want them to do something? You do it first and show them. For example, eating together as a family on Dining Table. My wife and I would just eat on the sofa and kids started expecting the same. They would run around during dinner time. One day, we decided to stick to a plan that we will eat only on the table. It took a bit of a time but kids are now eating on the table 90% of the time (not quite there with 100% yet but that is how it is with kids. No absolutes :))

So before you think about setting up systems for THEM, setup systems for YOU which they will just follow. Really hard as adults to change our own habits but it does wonders.

All the best. Raising kids is the hardest thing I have ever done and I have done a lot of hard things in my life. You will need a bit of luck, tons of support from family and most importantly: a clear head :)
> the first snow storm of the year led to catastrophic delays for NJ residents who had to drive

Sorry, I was contrasting non-driving commute outside New York to New York City mass transit commuting. Originally, density--à la NYC--was suggested as a solution. Someone responded by trashing the MTA's history of delays. Hence my comment. Driving in and around New York City is frustrating, unreliable and expensive.
I had to switch my dev environment from Ubuntu to OS X a few months ago, after the company I work for got acquired, and it definitely felt like more hours of work getting this machine into a usable state than I would expect with Ubuntu. Just figuring out how to install Xcode without having to fork over a credit card number took a few hours. That was... frustrating.

I suspect it might seem less burdensome to people who are used to it, just as I imagine getting going on Ubuntu - which feels effortless to me - might be a slower, more confusing process for people who aren't already used to it.
London has recently mandated a minimum housing density for any development within walking distance of a train or tube station. Seems a good idea.
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Why would you use VPC functions?
Bay Area resident here from south suburbs.

Chicago has some of the best commutes there are.

If the Bay Area was more like Chicago (regional rail, roads), we wouldn't have as much hand-wringing as on this thread.
Guess I'll go learn Cobol now.
I'm sure the neighbors will be happy to sell the air rights above their buildings so that plants can get that sunlight. Which I'm sure would promptly sold by the garden owner o because its worth a lot of money. It's a classic, well I don't personally profit and in fact lose a little so I'll stop them from doing it -- I could try to bargain with them (compensate them, etc) but I choose not to.
With a lot of simplifications, the main idea of Popper epistemology is that even if you drop 100 stones you can not prove that the acceleration of gravity is 9.8m/s^2 (32ft/s^2) because you will never be sure that the next stone will follow the same physics law.

You can only refute "all" the alternatives: That g=10m/s^2. That g=7m/s^2. That g=-1m/s^2. That the stone falls with a constant vertical velocity of 2m/s. That the fall is a cubic with h=7.3 m/s^3 * t^3. That ... Well, there are too many alternatives and you never can refute "all" of them, you can only refute many of them.

So, there are laws of physics are not "proven", it's just that the main alternatives are "refuted". You can find the details and a correct explanation in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper [1]

The joke is that while technically true, it's too difficult to talk in this way, so most people just talk as if the laws of physics were "proven".

As a general rule, you can get a good explanation of the xkcd comics in the explainxkcd site. In this case https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2078 But I don't like the current version of the explanation there too much, it will get better in a few days.

[1] No one has proven that you can't find the details and a correct explanation in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper
Can't wait for that. Although I like DynamoDB, I'd love to connect to a Postgres RDS deployment from Lambda.
It wouldn't. Bellevue is too car centric for that to be true. Wide roads, infrequent crosswalsk, multiple freeways to walk over even for ~1 mile distances.
I also don't get it and have not been on a team where it's been successfully used. But hey it looks like a great place to work.
Uhh there are plenty of ways. Those pretty peering graphics new devices have are used to establish trust (sharing per device certificates or encryption keys).

You can also establish over Bluetooth or audio - you just need a small side channel to create the initial trust.
And to emphasize, the process of simply adding a user to this thing SUCKS. In my homebrew instance, it's just a matter of generating the key pair and dropping the public key into a folder on S3. Cron job reads the bucket, creates new users/homes/etc for anything new, all pasted together using bash scripts basically. But at the end of the day it's ridiculously simple. I'd hoped a fully managed solution would actually be simpler (instead of simply more stable because it's managed, after all).
I am surprised New York still has such archaiac laws. Being a progressive state and city I would have expected these kind of laws to be modified.
Yeah, I saw that and closed the page immediately.
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That’s the problem. Housing geared toward young families tend to have a lot of school age children and they tend to create higher school costs than they pay in taxes.
Me?
Well, net I pay more taxes that I receive back in services.

Just want to make sure those who got there money from the parents do participate as well.
The work you do is unlikely to provide you with that much meaning. The position I have does a lot of actual, tangible good in the world. After a while, even that carries diminishing returns. The truth is that even though I am doing good, if I was not here, someone else would be here doing the same work. This doesn't provide meaning for me being me, it just doesn't feel meaningless. The sort of sense of meaning, purpose, and belonging that comes with building a family and putting down roots is a sort of meaning that requires you for you. If you weren't there, it wouldn't be the way it is. That's different and special. I recommend you give it a shot before you move into the "career will bring me meaning" camp and realize it is too late to ever feel irreplaceable.
I think your surprise is caused by your mistaken assumption that New York, as a city or as a state, is anywhere near progressive.
In order—and mind I'm not like amazing at this so take none of this as best practice:

- Stepping through with a debugger. Static analysis call graphs in stricter languages[0]. Runtime call traces and visualization in dynamic languages. Often you can find some tool for it[0]. If it's that bad you're probably not gonna be able keep your head wrapped around it long term, so you'll be falling back on those tools often until/unless you refactor.

- Similar. Find a way to trace requests (you are really, really gonna want such a tool when things go wrong anyway if you're microservice-heavy) and record what happens, if it's so confusing you can't figure it out otherwise.

- Not much to do but isolate and replace piece by piece or screen by screen as the opportunity presents itself. Hardest part of this is that your new stuff may well look and work better than the old, which can lead to UI inconsistency, so it ends up being an exercise in inconsistency tolerance or management.

- Just gotta leverage tools to tell you more about the codebase than you might get from just looking at it (as in point 1) and do a lot of probably-boring and hard-to-measure difficult work. If it's still under development that means someone ought to be able to tell you what each largish part (feature, screen, section) should do, at least from the perspective of the end user, which may be useful. If no one can tell you that then why are you maintaining it, right?

Jumping off that fourth point: a great preventative measure for ending up in this position (or putting someone else there) is to make sure your code is written such that tools can more easily tell the reader facts about the project. Typescript over raw JS, that kind of thing. Static types are communication. They're communication that can be verified by a machine to be correct, more or less. They're great. Tests fail or pass. They tell you what the test writer expected to happen, and whether that's happening. They are communication. If all your comments get stripped and no-one updates the docs for two years and you get hit by a bus your types and tests still communicate. Even outdated test suites aren't totally useless. And static types pretty much can't go stale like docs or tests can.

[0] https://github.com/TrueFurby/go-callvis

[1] https://github.com/jamesmoriarty/call-graph (no endorsement, haven't used it, just an example.
Another great point about the tech boom and venture funding: a place can be great to work at without necessarily having a successful product.

I'd expect those two premises to be highly correlated if not for funding.
> Database passwords for production databases

You can use those to obtain user data.

> Log files

Easily could contain user data.
The best part about Graphql is that it's a query language for API. It was my dream years ago to have a query language from my frontend code. Using REST always seems a smell to me.
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Parents can still be free to give what they own to children but you might prevent children from reciving it. For example by taxing whatever they recive.

That said I think inheritance tax is very bad idea and shouldn't exist.
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I haven't yet had much luck in finding a GraphQL review that addresses my general concerns (I'm frontend).

1) GraphQL almost always means everything is POST, removing CDN and browser caching of GET-like requests is gone (and ServiceWorker caching just got much more complicated, nigh-impossible if CORS is involved). Everyone says "oh, clients can do better caching", as if that's not true without GraphQL. Still, the caching I mention might be trivial and mostly worthless. I'd just like to see some actual inspection of the issue.

2) The models I've seen work well if your frontend is largely a thin skin over the services with minimal business logic of their own. (this isn't GraphQL directly, but the client libs that use it, but those exist because talking GraphQL without them is more effort).
Which is, of course, what we really want. Business logic in the front end is always a painful idea. But it also definitely happens, for real business reasons - are we making those cases harder? How much so? With REST we have a lot more flexibility, it seems, even if we choose to avoid using most of it.
Because the FBI doesn't operate in Japan?

Also the git repo was publicly available, he didn't "hack" anything.
I think BCIs are super exciting. Humans have such high bandwidth in terms of input; tons of information is interpreted by our nervous system every second. Yet in terms of output, we are relatively poor; we can only type a few words a minute! This article suggests we could one day work 'like digital octopuses' but I'm naturally dubious, do you think it's possible as CTRL-labs propose that we could entirely rewire our nervous systems' output to let us operate computers as if we had multiple hands?
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It wasn't mysterious. The price of a Windows license to an OEM was offset by the money they made adding crapware.
It sounds terrible to me too. That's the weird thing about doing what you are most suited to do - even if you dislike the idea of it, it still works.
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