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> Amanita Muscaria does not contain psilocybin

I never said it does.

> will make you very sick before making you fly.

I've used a.muscaria twice, from a reputable source (no self plucking). It never made me sick. It is perfectly safe to use. It did make me pee a lot, and my pee stank. Back when I bought it, it was legal to buy the powder in The Netherlands. I don't know about the legal state as it is.
The Socionext E-series Developerbox has open source firmware and is at least cheaper than the Raptor stuff.
Jeff Bezos unveils a lunar lander and BE-7 rocket engine
I agree- this is a very PC focused article but firmware is everywhere. It needs to be updateable and making it open makes it far easier to update.

As far as UEFI goes, I'd just like to point out Microsoft's open source Firmware efforts (Project Mu). https://microsoft.github.io/mu/ The goal is to make firmware easier to service and easier to update with security fixes for older projects.

While it's not perfect, it is a great step forward. I think we need to see more of this in the future from other companies.

(Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft and contribute to Project MU).
That's exactly the problem though; the incentives push people to write a hundred 1-hour blog posts rather than one 100-hour blog post. But everyone would be better off if people just wrote one or two really good posts a year.
That's a good plan for someone with a larger or busier database, but my approach was the correct solution for us. You can be satisfied that your taxes aren't wasted by us implementing anything more complicated :-)

(Most of the writes to our PostgreSQL server are batch processes, decoupled with a message broker, and the message consumers were easily paused during the upgrade.)
That's quite a loose characterization of the word meme. Campfires predate the Internet by about a million years. but on this note you do bring up an interesting point about archetypal action and behavioral psychology. an old girlfriend of mine explained to me once that kissing is suspected to come from bird moms feeding bird babies. Other things that are very significant are simply sharing a meal. (Break bread together)
did you know that a blind person will put their hands up into the sky victoriously when they win the race even without ever having seen another human being do it? some of the nature of your interested in is more innate than can be known by the eye alone.
They've also been done in WASM but the comment is correct as written because the idea is that the vast majority of times when you serve a <video> with an MPEG-4 source file it'll be decoded entirely in hardware whereas AV1, H.265, and to a lesser extent, VP-9 will be loading up the CPU.

To put this in perspective, I have a 9 year old MacBook Air at home which I use for testing. If you look at 720/1080p video on YouTube, even that ancient hardware it takes 5-10% CPU to play H.264 content. I have a 2017 desktop at work with 4.2GHz Core i7 which still takes almost 100% of a CPU to play 720p AV-1 and ~60% to play VP9, or ~1% to play H.264. That's a really big difference for something like a GIF successor which will be widely shared, often with multiple visible at the same time, and people will expect to just work even on hardware which is more than a year old while still leaving capacity to do other things.
This has an assumption that the people are a fixed group - that if you add more housing, that will mean better housing for the people at the end of your 'line'.

This doesn't take into account something mentioned in the article - that increased housing supply is going to attract MORE of the highly skilled workers that were driving up costs, and those people are going to be the ones filling up the houses, not poorer people.

This is a form of induced demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
Yep. We all have jobs to do and free time to enjoy. I am frankly burned out on tinkering and I am pursuing getting better at my workplace plus work on a few hobby projects every now and then. Beyond that I throw my hands in the air and give up. I have a life. And I like it.
It affects other industries too. In the military there is a similar stigma around reporting sexual assault or rape.
GIFs, in pre-AV1 terms, are simply a video with 100% lossless I-frames and autoloop enabled.

You can express the “lossless frames” aspect of GIFs today in existing video ways supported by MJPEG, H.264, H.265, or AV1 today.

AV1 image sequences are meant for sharing an album of stills, and are not a convenient shortcut for this.

Feeding a sequence of frames into `aomenc --lossless=1` should, assuming everything else is working correctly.

I believe looping is not currently a property that you can readily set at the codec level, which is perhaps the most critical missing feature of AGIF when considering codecs.

Perhaps focusing on the “loop” flag’s presence/absence and whether it’s honored by browsers would most usefully serve the post-GIF world?
Or to be warned about misleading content before reading.
wasn't webp supposed to have GIF like animations? As far as i know I have never seen one in the wild, just webm.

I think the problem is that GIFs are images and so displayed as such with little concept of play-control. A video format communicate that you might want to pause for example. I believe a GIF-killer will need to be considered an image as a format.
This is fine for real world videos crammed into gifs. But please think of animated pixel art, which is antithetical to many the assumptions that DCT-block based codecs make. Doubly so when you consider that most encoders default to 4:2:0 and ignore transparency.

APNG or similar image formats are better for this purpose
$12.4 Billion?! How Many Teslas Could CA Buy for the Cost of High Speed Rail?
You can have a city with a large number of wealthy people and affordable housing, but it requires enough housing for everyone.

The big issue with affordable housing is that you can't build it now. Affordable living quarters are those which were built a long time ago and have depreciated in real terms over time. It's not really possible to build a decent house today for $30,000, but 40 years ago you could. That same house could go for $80k, $300k, or $600k today, depending upon how much new construction kept up with population growth over that time.

This fact is why areas of California are screwed. There's no quick fix for this problem, the treatment for a housing crisis is decades of construction that exceeds the pace of population growth. Given that treatment and enough time, there will be plenty of available housing stock at 2x median wages.
The French cyber security community has a similar challenge every year: https://www.sstic.org/2019/challenge/ (in French).

The challenges usually involve static analysis / disassembly, breaking improperly configured crypto, etc. The best part (for me at least) is that competitors must submit a write-up of how they cracked the challenge, and the best write-ups are published. It makes for fascinating reading even if you’re not really into that scene.
that has happened to me too
A debit card is tied to a bank acount (or some other account) that has actual funds in it. It's same as a check. Once it's cleared, it's quite difficult to get the funds back.

A credit card is different. If a transaction is submitted for reversal within the allotted time period, the charges are simply reversed.

In the case of a fraudulent debit transaction that gets disputed, your bank has to file a claim with the other bank, and somebody (possibly other than the merchant) is taking a loss. Banks don't like that. Credit card reversals mostly result in the merchants taking the loss, and the banks will usually side with a consumer.
Great overview of much of the firmware and general "OS" stack (for lack of a better word).

I'm surprised not to read a mention of the micro-code which all instructions our programs ask the processor to run actually convert to. I suppose that's starting to get too close to a discussion of open hardware, which this post mostly sidesteps. Both are important issues.
To my knowledge you cannot save a gif from twitter. They do not provide the source data, the actual pixel-exact gif file. Only some recompressed video.
The interesting part to me is that amazon gives out loans to small businesses. I never knew that. I’m curious how amazon will handle the situation. Will the merchant be required to pay back the stolen loan funds?
Only one way to find out
I second this suggestion; I took that course when it was called "ML Class" during the Fall of 2011 (yep, I was one of the guinea pigs for what became one of the first courses of Coursera). It was an excellent course.

Here's an example of what one student of the ML Class built, after being inspired by what he was learning and videos that played during the course:

https://blog.davidsingleton.org/nnrccar/

It kinda shocked me at the time, because I knew quite a bit about ALVINN from books and articles I had read as a teenager in the 80s and 90s. This guy had created the same thing using a cell phone and a cheap RC vehicle! Ok, there was also an Arduino and computer involved - but it really hit home the fact that technology around neural networks had advanced quite a bit!

I also took the other course, "AI Class", but due to personal issues I had to drop out about halfway through.

The next year, after Udacity started, they introduced a course similar to AI Class called "How to Build Your Own Self-Driving Vehicle" (it's called something else today - something like "Robotics and Artificial Intelligence 302" or something like that).

That class was done in Python, and taught me even more about AI/ML - with a focus towards self-driving vehicles of course. Things I learned about that I struggled with or had no real concepts of before:

1. SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping)
2. Path Finding algorithms (A* and the like)
3. Kalman Filtering (what it is for, how it works)
4. PID Algorithm (how to implement and tune it)
5. More neural network stuff...

...and many other things. Another very excellent and free course to take if you're interested in learning this stuff.
Blue Origin: Bezos company aims to take people to moon by 2024
I expect the full postmortem will dive into this in more detail, but one reason mentioned in ekr's post is that many add-ons are distributed independently, outside of AMO. So while we could re-sign those, we're not in a place to re-distribute them. Instead, "users would have to manually update any add-ons that they had installed from other sources, which would be very inconvenient."
I guess it's the principle of "many eyes make all bugs shallow".

If the source is freely available, then every day someone is going to read it and maybe see/fix the bug.

You can't know what bugs are in code for which you do not have the source, and the pool of people reading it is likely to be much smaller.
If you're planning on buying Uber stock can you walk me through your reasoning?
And the highly skilled workers were where before this? Oakland suffers because SF doesn't build.
In the states, most debit cards look exactly like credit cards.
I disagree. It's a step in the wrong direction. More and more people are associating 'running linux' as running it in a VM. This is deliberate, IMO, and is limiting hardware and software freedom.
Not sure I understand, you think it's an urban legend that an insurance company will do what it can to avoid a payout especially when the incident involves unauthorized modifications to the electrical wiring of the house, which ended up triggering a fire?

There's no need to cite firsthand accounts, you will find this in your own insurance contract. Insurance works pretty much the same everywhere, unauthorized modifications (especially to critical systems) usually invalidate any insurance claim when they can be linked to the incident. [0] Electrical wiring, plumbing, structure of the building, safety or security systems, etc. And it makes perfect sense if you think about it.

[0] http://www.insurancequotes.org/renters/3-major-diy-mistakes-...
Why not aim for more of a distributed economy and/or distributed housing instead of trying to crowd in on small patches of highly-desirable/expensive locations?
Decompile the apk, and run 'strings' on assets/flutter_assets/kernel_blob.bin.

Poke around and you'll find code for POSTing JSON-encoded credentials to http://35.246.158.51:8070/auth/getUrl. (Grep for the IP to find it.)

So, using the web site name as the seed and the 'client id' as the password, we get:

$ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"Seed": "3d375032374147a7865753e4bbc92682", "Password": "d7c6bdcfcb184bf587ceee7c7c28e72e"}' http://35.246.158.51:8070/auth/getUrl

The response is an HTTP 200 and:
{"AuthURL":"/auth/v2"}

http://35.246.158.51:8070/auth/v2 is I guess the next step.

edit: The /auth/getUrl endpoint responds to any request with the same response, so that may not be the right Seed/Password combination.
But Shattered Pixel Dungeons has no microtransactions, it is a roguelike. Btw, this genre makes use of the same psychological vulnerabilities to random rewards, they just use them to make a real (admittedly often well-designed) game and not for exploiting my bank account.
We use this, pgbouncer, and a bash script to link the two, for completely automated failover.

Queries done through pgbouncer just pause as if the query is really really slow when the db goes down, then when pglookout does the failover, the bash script switches pgbouncer's config and those pending queries are sent immediately.
It's only a slight misstatement; scalar queries are a subset of table queries in SQL, rather than different thing, but scalar queries are allowed in places where other table queries are not.

The difference in EdgeDB isn't really everything returns a set, but seems instead to be that everything consumes sets and not just scalars.
The dopamine system is a harsh mistress - she doles out based on measured differences in states, and not based on any intrinsic absolute value of the state itself - although evolution sets her priors.
That sounds like an absolute bargain compared to doing this on your own.
Or [2012].
I don’t understand why people react shockingly towards this kind of news. Not all blocking algorithms work flawlessly.
Learn from the mistake, fix, done.
I don’t understand why the news try to make it sound like FB is promoting or neglecting this kind of incidents.
There are low income requirements in many cities though.

For every X number of expensive apartments, builders must sell Y% low income housing.

Even if you only care about the low income stuff, upzoning still helps, and gets you what you want.
If I recall correctly, Oracle's support for JSON is not at the same level as PostgreSQL. By that I mean seamlessly store JSON as a data type like any other. In Oracle JSON is stored as VARCHAR/CLOB and then you implement tests to validate whereas in PostgreSQL and MSSQL is its own data type.
It may also be helpful to frame this as "less insecure", rather than "more secure".
Amazon's in the perfect position to give loans to their sellers. They have all the data in the world about how a seller is doing on the platform, so why not make some (relatively) safe money off interest and boosted sales?
Looping is up to the video player, not the format or container. What "video formats" have looping as metadata? Gifs only have a loop flag so static images can be displayed instead of looped indefinitely as video.
> you owe them something

Definitely not.

The companies even sell products, for which everybody directly pays, and then owe even to the millions of users nothing once they have sold the product (actually sold the "license"). I've even had to buy the exactly same product (the license) more than once, every time I've changed the platform or even just changed the computer.

So if I publish anything as open source, free for anybody to use, I own even less to anybody with whom I don't have a paid contract for support.
if you're building a product that you want people to use during downtime (think: on a bus/train, sitting in a waiting room, on the toilet), these types of reviews are gold. I worked on an app that behaved more like an os extension/utility (think: something similar to an ios app that is only used to load a keyboard) but had visual design that made it seem like a time wasting game. We were constantly getting reviews with "not a great time waster" or "not enough to do in the app". We had tons of users, but those types of reviews were killing us. It's a thing people want to do: just be able to switch off and do something mindless with a phone.
There are a few problems with this.

One, lots of people want to work in physical proximity to their coworkers. I know I am one of those people; I could work remote, but I enjoy the social aspect of working in an office.

Second, part of the appeal of living in one of these expensive cities is that the amenities are also nice. When you cluster a lot of wealthy people together, the public services get better, there are more entertainment options, etc. Being a wealthy person in a cheaper part of the country might sound nice and have its perks, but you are going to find fewer places to spend the money you have.

Third, people like to live with people in their same class. We really hate talking about class in the US, but it is there nonetheless. It is not easy to be a well off tech worker when the people in your social circle are blue collar workers struggling to make ends meet.
Why do we always let these Go evangelism pieces get away with insinuating that language simplicity is an unalloyed good?

If language simplicity (and the resulting "low cognitive overhead") were the primary determinant of productivity, we would surely be using far simpler languages than Go (like Brainfuck).

What we should really care about is code simplicity, not language simplicity, and the two are definitely not equivalent. If we add features to Brainfuck, the language will get more complex (increasing cognitive overhead), but the code may well get simpler, and far easier to maintain.
Agreed! We need laws to limit speculation.
Everyone in the area benefits if some companies allow workers to go remote.

It's less clear that the companies that allow remote workers immediately benefit. It's one of those situations where you hope all your neighbors do it, so you don't have to.
"We can do better than SQL."

I heard this not too many years ago, and I am now very skeptical based upon those results.
A couple problems:

> houses do not have intrinsic price tags

New housing does, or at least it has a minimum price tag. A builder selling housing for less than it cost them to build will not be building much housing!

> Line up every person in the city in order of how much they're willing to spend on a home.

People can freely move downmarket, but can't freely move upmarket, so the demand is moving opposite the supply.
Implementing a Interpreted Language in Rust Part 1
I know the point of your story was about being able to cancel, and not specifically NYT, but since others might read your anecdote and be turned off of NYT:

NYT has since upgraded to allow managing your subscription online, including upgrade/downgrade/cancellation.
My solution would be to just ban debt cards and give everyone an EBT card through the post office.
THIS IS WRONG: Preserved to make below reply not seem out of context.

> Second, we immediately pushed a hotfix which suppressed re-validating the signatures on add-ons.

Wait, that's not right is it!?

The only hotfix I'm aware of (and I was following this pretty closely, as you might guess by my dozens of comments on the topic) was the addon installed via the studies system.

That addon didn't suppress the re-validation of signatures, it installed a new certificate and then triggered the re-validation of signatures immediately. It left the validation that happens on a 24 hour cycle alone.
This sales article [1] talks about focussing on a specific niche (Recipe blogs => Paleo recipe blogs => Paleo recipe blogs run by women), and then creating an echo chamber within that specific niche. This helps you spread by word of mouth, or you point to existing customers within that niche when selling to others.

> Once you are the big fish in a very small pond then you want to jump over into a neighboring pond. The tendency is to immediately go mainstream, but you probably don’t yet have enough traction for that. Once we found success with a subset of fitness blogs I looked for others in a similar industry. So we went from interval training blogs, to running blogs, to powerlifting blogs. Then from there it’s easy to step into the diet/recipe blogs that have overlap.

Instead of trying to become the best in "your corner of the country", you could focus on the corner of some specific niches.

[1] https://nathanbarry.com/sales/
There are two groups of accountants / CPA firms; those that work for you and those that work for the government.

The Public can't afford the accountant that works for them.

I've long suspected TurboTax and H&R Block to be in bed with the G. We out not to be surprised if we end up learning Intuit/QuickBooks is secretly sharing their customers financial records, to red flag businesses who tax filings don't match up with their QuickBooks GL.
Obviously this is a bike shedding thread, and it will hang around for about 12 hours, and get hundreds of replies.

And nothing will change, despite all the exasperation.
Agreed, it is complex. I'd argue, though, that older apartments in nice neighborhood usually rent for less than brand-new ones.
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They live in the surrounding areas or other parts of the country. They will move closer to the cities, with shorter commutes, as housing prices move down.
Since Date’s criticism of SQL is prominently referenced, the natural question is “Is EdgeDB a D, and, if not, why not?” (D referring to the class of relational systems for which Date and Darwen provided criteria.)
It turns out denser housing is better for the environment too, so we should upzone even if the premise of this article were true (to me it seems kind of suspect to deny that supply and demand don't really work for housing):

https://www.thenation.com/article/zoning-housing-homeless-se...
It was the case until very recently. Check constraints are now supported in MySQL 8: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/create-table-check-c...

I believe MariaDB added support for them a couple years earlier, but am not certain.

More broadly, I would agree it's a very painful "gotcha" to have aspects of CREATE TABLE be accepted by the parser but ignored by the engine. However, in MySQL's defense, theoretically this type of flexibility does allow third-party storage engines to support these features if the engine's developer wishes.

Ideally, the engine should throw an error if you try using a feature it does not support, but in a few specific cases it does not (at least for InnoDB). This can be very frustrating, for sure. But at least it's documented. And no database is perfect; they all have similarly-frustrating inconsistencies somewhere.
Actually, I think process termination is pretty useful as garbage collection. It's normally much more reliable for releasing resources, for one thing. And there's little sense in cleaning up RAM when you're just going to quit.