skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to what bible/religion are "recreational drugs" (whatever the definition of that is) "intended to be" for fun, subversive and/or spiritual use only and why should anybody care?

A random fun hypothesis by Paul Staments (in my own words): that the neocortex in humans evolved the way it did, because hominids have been consuming Psilocybin mushrooms for millions of years (until Christians and Nixon banned them and pushed the rest of the world to follow). In other words: there's symbiosis between hominids and Psilocybin mushrooms. Psilocybin mushrooms as food = more intelligent hominids (after the trip) = higher survival rate of hominids = higher survival rate for the mushroom due to active conservation by hominids.

Fun fact (according to Staments): Psilocybin mushrooms occur in higher concentrations around human settlements than in "wild nature" (still today).
That’s pretty much what the GP said as well and platitudes about how we are constantly changing are fine but change isn’t the same as copy and destroy; which is what the upload process would be.

That distinction is critically important. You can change an original and it will still be the original. But taking a copy and making that your primary copy means destroying the original. Which is fine if you’re talking purely about dumb digital bits like we normally do. However when those bits become self-aware programs executing, destroying the original is a literal death sentence.

I guess a prolonged “merger” with the internet where the artificial mediums were used, at first, as an external processing unit. Then gradually you switch over. I guess that might solve the problem of “switching off” the original. However that’s not how the process is typically described.
It's Commando for a new generation.

http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.06/06.07/Co...
I've wondered if MAGA was about to "Help Make China At Least As Great As America" instead. This article suggests a few ways it potentially could.
I'm not very familiar with each but in reading even the Wikipedia article mentions Duff's device can be used to implement coroutines (with references) so I'm not sure the application is as novel as you lead it on to be.
The film (which was very good) mostly focused on the Damascus, AR incident. That was just one chapter of the book though.
Ahhh very nice. Me and you have a very similar viewpoint! One note though: you're still sort of creating the need for there to be a 'base' world creating the simulation and trying out all possibilities to contain it ... My take is very similar to yours, but my take on the 'simulation' idea is that the concept of there being a 'real' or 'simulated' world doesn't matter. Even if we're not in the 'base' simulation, we may be part of a universe which is being simulated from another simulation, and which is also being invoked by another simulation itself. In any case: all of these worlds are just as 'real' as the base worlds - it would have to have a self-encompassing structure I would think. Also - the concept of 'creation' is a tricky bit as well: the universe in my viewpoint is never 'created.' All of space-time simply exists: we perceive time as having a flow, but time itself doesn't have flow and this is something that Einstein proved. The perceived 'flow' or perception of time is a necessary part of the design though: you need it in order to 'create' the beings which eventually go on to 'create' the creation or to have the system reach self-consistency.
Is it still accurate that for network bound servers that FreeBSD still outperforms Linux?
This was an actual reason for not having authentication devices, and why the Minuteman force had a password of 00000000 for a couple of decades. But it doesn’t apply to safety in a fire.
In re: hypnosis in general the books I recommend are: "TRANCE-formations" by Bandler and Grinder, and "Monsters and Magical Sticks: There's No Such Thing as Hypnosis?" by Heller.

For specifically improving "cognitive enhancement" the easiest, safest, and most far-reaching technique involves modifying your self-image. You can reprogram yourself to believe that you're smarter and your mind will modify your behaviour to meet your belief. For better or worse one's intelligence level is generally tied into one's self-image, and the only barrier to being smarter is your natural reluctance to become a different person.

For self-image engineering the best books I've found are "Psycho Cybernetics" by Maltz and "With Winning in Mind" by Bassham.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/447454.Monsters_and_Magi...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/956297.Trance_Formations

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155981.Psycho_Cybernetic...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208926.With_Winning_in_M...

(But really, read "Prometheus Rising" by R. A. Wilson and do the exercises.)
to be fair to the author she gave up fruit juice, which would be fruit sugar without fiber. So its some improvement, if fruit was substituted instead. Still a bad headline.
The Epstein Effect
Humans used to settle near water when it made sense technologically and for their economy. The risks from flooding have always been strong, but back when those areas were settled the risk management made settling there a reasonable tradeoff. Nowadays when we no longer need to be reliant on settling near bodies of water, it probably makes more sense to move inland to lower-risk areas.
It means accepting and letting go of stressful thoughts, insecurities which have been chronically keeping you up at night or worrying you unnecessarily.
Because, depending on what the schedule the freight is on and the terms, it can cost a lot of cash if the train is late. There are a lot of moving parts with freight, so passengers are no where near the priority.
> You are describing 'zero cost abstractions'

No, that's a different (and orthogonal) concept. The point is that in C++ "you don't pay for what you don't use" - whether it's a cheap or an expensive abstraction, if you don't use it then its overhead won't affect your code's performance.

However, many of the C++ abstractions are zero-cost in many common cases.

> Game developers and low level programmers shy away from them

No, they don't. They shy away from abstractions which are too expensive; or whose scope of optimization doesn't fit the game's use; or which don't combine well with out-of-standard-library code used in the game etc.

But game developers use _lots_ of C++ abstractions; and fancy non-C-like C++ features.
I've enjoyed your lines of thought, goals, and chatting with you

So please keep it up!

And don't be held back by me not finding an answer that fits what you seek!

The only further things I could share might be some surprizing self-consistent elements or implications of viewpoint no1

Alternatively we could say some questions simply don't have knowable answers (NP=P or the halting problem anyone?)

But the world will be a much worse place if you let anything I've said hold you back. The question you ask is, I think, worth more than one lifetime
Sopcast?
Also read Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man where the main character comissions a songwriter to write an earworm song so that it would jam the telepaths reading his thoughts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demolished_Man
I know this is scientifically hard, but in spirit I would want to know the following:

Meditation vs do whatever makes you feel the happiest, as you see fit
No one is discovering fire here, no reason to get so upset over a hack.
How do you dispose of plastic properly? Even landfill doesn't cut it - the stuff just breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces. These microplastics then enter the groundwater, and from there find their way into almost every part of our environment.
Uber is also creating real value for its customers.
Free movement of peaceful people is a basic human right; borders are based on entirely arbitrary violence, and are utterly ridiculous and plainly contrary to decent morals and good sense.
Well, I've seen this exact stroke of genius in at least a dozen different code bases, so while it's a good idea, it's not exactly rare.
Someone took the time to actually sift through all the accusations and put them in context.

https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/index.html

This is only about the publications on medium, Vice, and The Daily Beast, not this new one in Wired, who apparently also discovered there's good money in selling pyres.
This is a very narrow and naive view of self. If I removed part of your brain would you still be you? It happens to people all the time, personalities are sometimes altered, yet we don't consider these people to be a different person. You yourself have undergone tremendous change since you were a child, yet we do not consider the child-you to be dead and the present-you to be a different being.

Why then, should a being even more like you than a previous version of yourself not be considered the same person?

Self is illusion. We are a collection of energy swirling in the great sea of energy we call the world, forming for a brief time a pattern that believes itself to be separate from that which comprises it, and of which it in turn is a part.
It's not a Postgres, but has a some limited Postgres dialect: CockroachDB. It has a range-based master-slave replication with routing and therefore you can use it instead of master-master replicated solutions. Be aware of high latency of distributed databases.
"Computers are useless they can only give you answers" - Picasso
I'm most probably publishing a paper later this year detailing the process. Also, 80 pages of my thesis would have loved this wouldn't have involved AI to make the whole thing simpler :)
Really?! In USA it feels like all the guys are friends and all the women alienate each other.
Well, that was just one example that I found really egregious. I am usually right to distrust Mesa more than the nVidia blob.
Have created a Stackoverflow question focused on this point:

https://stackoverflow.com/q/58050872/1593077
> Microsoft released a chatbot named Tay, designed to learn from Twitter users. Within 24 hours, Tay claimed the Holocaust never happened, professed hatred for women and suggested that black people should be hanged.

> “Garbage in, garbage out,” software engineers say. Likewise, racism in, racism out. Biased developers produce biased code.

The author either made zero effort to understand how things work, or willingly chose to pass judgment on developers to drive his political point.

"Biased developers produce biased code" - absolute nonsense.
Obviously the amount of material is different, by a few of orders of magnitude. No one will be able to memorize all possible whiteboard questions.
Yeah. Regus offices are dreadfully bland. Also, they nickel and dime you for every little thing (you want an hour of wifi for that meeting room you booked? it's going to cost you...). Regus is also very expensive, as office space goes.
You absolutely can run a company that way. I do, as do many others. My company has grossed multiple millions of dollars operating that way.
This is true. Amazon needs tons of code just to get to the point of being able to even run Apache or nginx at all, and all that code written by contributors for free. So is your argument that all of those developers, or, at least the Open Source projects should be compensated by Amazon for that effort?

If so, then that suggests that Apache and nginx owe something to Linux, GNU, etc... as well. Sure, either can be run on alternative platforms but, let's be honest; they're usually run on Linux. One might even argue that neither Apache or nginx would exist had Linus not made Linux Open Source.

You bring up React. What's it worth to Facebook for all those engineers proficient in React? Well, React was created by developers who work/worked for Facebook so it seems to me the question is really, what's it worth all of us who might use React? Facebook sponsored it and has easily spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on engineer salaries, equipment for them, office space, etc... By your logic, all the developers not working for Facebook who use React should compensate Facebook for their generosity. See how absurd this starts to become?

This is all a false dichotomy. To suggest these companies owe the open source community is wrong. No open source developer I've ever met (and I've been in this community for over 20 years) has EVER said they expected some kind of compensation. That's not what Open Source is about.
Collection of Java Interview Questions
You find it difficult to believe that white dentists generally serve the communities they live in, which, by income squared with demographic data, tend to be overwhelmingly white?
Absolutely, linux pro-audio developers have been handling these situations for over a decade now with JACK.
I believe you should use whatever language is practical for your use case.
WeWork, WeWait, WeWorry: What’s Next for CEO Adam Neumann?
Most of the things worth mentioning were invented by these "mentally handicapped" generations. Not sure how that works.
Fitness centers, weight loss centers, supplement and vitamin shops and telemarketing of these items are on most high risk lists. Interesting that they are not on stripe's, I didn't know that.

Is your credit good? That's sometimes another flag that can come up.
Food for thought. Have you tried interacting socially without faking your emotions, pretending to be interested in things you aren't, and not trying to cure other peoples' problems?
There's a wide chasm between good manners and legality. Don't get offended when your actions offend people. At best, it's hypocritical. Said differently: the legality of complaining about people being rude is already established. It isn't even slander/libel if you weren't actually rude, because being rude isn't a crime.
That sure sounds like he is ok with such miracles as far as living his life from there out.

He doesn't understand them anymore than he understood the people who were created, or the real people.

I always thought that was the point, to ask if his mind couldn't be used to create the other person....then did he really know them? Can anyone.
who hang out with you when you had small kids?
I agree. As single person, it was much easier having female friends. I was much more comfortable having deep emotional platonic female friends. I don’t like doing most “guy stuff”. I don’t care about sports, but I’m very comfortable taking certain types of non dancy fitness classes - I use to teach them. But most of my female friends then were people who trusted me implicitly because I knew then from high school and college. I couldn’t imagine finding myself single again and making new female friends who didn’t immediately think that I couldn’t just want a platonic friendship.
I’m currently reading Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster.

It tackles the common questions involving infants and toddlers through analysis of research in those areas.
What solution do you propose?
> doesn't respect user freedom and doesn't let anyone to easily run something similar, rendering the whole free software point moot and turning it into mere exploitation.

You are discussing licensed projects made later down the line using an Open Source licensed project. Those projects have no obligation to maintain the same freedoms. None. They only have to respect the terms of the license, such as Apache2's restrictions against branding usage, etc.

1) The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

2) The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

By using an Open Source license, anyone can take your code and do whatever they want with it. There is nothing here about "exploitation" or anything arbitrary like that.

The only way to guarantee freedoms down the line is to use a Copyleft license, which some might argue isn't really "free" since it restricts how people can actually use it. The AGPL technically violates freedom 0, for example.

If you don't like people doing whatever they want with your code, don't Open Source it. It's not rocket science. If you're against an oppressive regime using your code to subjugate people, then don't Open Source your code. Getting all up in arms about a company taking your code and running with it demonstrates an understanding of licensing and what open source licenses do. It's not a bug.

Not that any of this would matter anyway since who among us actually has the funds to take people to court and demonstrate a violation of our AGPLv3 Copy-Left licensed intellectual property?
The responses to Stallman on csail-related show that his comments were controversial and did offend some people even before the media distorted them.

I agree with some of what Stallman said, but he didn't simply encourage everyone to reserve judgment. He imagined a plausible scenario, argued for a particular moral interpretation, and emphatically rejected legal definitions. He called opposing views "absolutely wrong" and "morally absurd". He dug in when someone suggested that the conversation was unproductive and could reflect badly on CSAIL.

Why do you believe the FSF and MIT didn't investigate? Many people have called this the straw that broke the camel's back.
The US used to have places to send those people. Santa Clara, CA had "The Great Asylum for the Insane".[1] Later "Agnews State Mental Hospital", then "Agnews Developmental Center", and finally demolished for a Sun Microsystems facility. It was the classic "funny farm" in a rural area, with impressive architecture.

This was the early 20th century solution to homeless crazies. Was it better than what we have now?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnews_Developmental_Center
I'm wondering if anyone here does embedded audio synthesis. Is a Teensy the way to go?
Ask HN: What Is Your Techstacks at Digital Agencies
With web development agencies who do a bit more than make cms templates. what tech stack do you use and how do you manage projects and deployments?

Setting up a lot of sites, services and platforms for things that are quite small or semi short lived can be quite the challange. Managing them ever more so.
Makes sense, basically turns any CLI program into an API with the simple translation interface being the unix shell textual interface via simple JSON files which contain the commands.
> Tweet deleted. She tweeted "nonconsensually submitted to the orange website" hahaha.

And this is why people avoid this site....
You could just not use user-level analytics; I run the infrastructure for PrivacySpy.org, and using CloudFlare's aggregate analytics has served us perfectly well.
Reading Books Shortens Prisoners' Sentences in Brazilian Prison
The issue with having “platonic” female friends is that it can easily lead to emotionally infidelity and trust issues anytime there is a hint of any issues with your marriage. Maintaining a healthy marriage is hard enough without bringing in that complication. My only female friends these days are married and we are “couple friends”.
Americans are saving at an unusually high level after Trump's tax cuts
Interesting comparison. What exactly did TI do to BB which warrants such a ghastly comparison?

I know BB well thanks to tinkering with their isolation amplifiers for an old data acquisition project. also familiar with them due to working on equipment from the 70's/80's with the really old BB 3451 monoblock isolation amplifiers.
I'm most active on Twitter :) https://twitter.com/rameerez
> Jesus it looks like crap.

Maybe that's why he painted over it.
I don't get to the south bay often, but sounds like it might be good to have a little compositor meetup. I can certainly vouch for pcwalton's interest and knowledge in the topic :) Follow up by email?
Thank you for these words :)
>I missed many opportunities in life by trying to make that religion work for me for far too long.

Oh, this hits way, way too close to home.
Where do you live? What are your hobbies and interests?
A bug in the scoring algorithm that I need to fix
>> “Garbage in, garbage out,” software engineers say. Likewise, racism in, racism out. Biased developers produce biased code.

Every sentence individually is true. And Tay was a case of garbage in garbage out. But the Tay case didn't involve biased developers. The garbage in came from Twitter trolls, not from the code or developers.
I didn't think brain cells were replaced.
You shouldn’t be. Today, I use an HP-42 as my desk calculator. It is a considerably better tool for that job than my HP-48, which is significant overkill. And if I have a problem for which the HP-48 might be the better tool, in actual fact Matlab is the right tool for that job.

The HP-42s hits the sweet spot for scientific calculators in the era of powerful computers. It is small enough and its interface is fast enough that it is still faster to do calculations on it than it is to fire up a calculator app.
Here's hoping that HN can buck Law 619 of the Internet: the comment section of all articles which mention data that shows social, economic, or institutional disparities which negatively effect black people will largely be concerned not with the implications of that information, but with questioning the authenticity or reliability of that information; or else, simply with thinly-veiled racism.

I'll keep a running list of such comments until I get tired of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21043809

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042933

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042076

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21043252

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21044206
What’s the poison in the Great Lakes region?
You might want to specify if you will be doing a high risk business such as

* a fitness studio

* recurring memberships

* any type of discount or free trial period.

From stripe's ban list:

"offering substantial rebates or special incentives as an inducement to purchase products or services;"

From a high risk provider:

"The main reason for the high risk tag is use of the recurring billing model for memberships. Customers usually give one-time permission up front for the business to charge them monthly until the customer cancels the membership. If customers skip over or forget about the terms of the authorization form they sign, these recurring charges might come as a surprise, leading them to initiate a chargeback against the business. This is a very common scenario for free trial models that lead into recurring billing. After a free trial, the start of an auto payment plan might catch the customer off guard.

There’s also the possibility of “friendly fraud”—when a customer abuses the chargeback system just to get their money back. Maybe they stopped using the membership and forgot to cancel. In any case, this can also lead to a chargeback against the business."

https://www.bankcardusa.com/health-fitness-merchant-accounts...

If you are going to be doing a business model that is not high risk - none of those items above are a yes - I would reach out to stripe and get things cleared up.
Top universities have top funding and research that if it meets top talent can be extremely useful for the world.
> The paper deals in "resonance", "coupling", "filter" and "attenuator"; it reads like the description of a superheterodyne transceiver; analog RF.

This is the scaffolding for measuring and manipulating quantum states. Quantum computing itself is not "analog" in the original, signal processing meaning of the word: the states are not isomorphic analogies for modelled physical processes.
Involuntary mental health treatment.
Questions raised about research by OpenAg Initiative at M.I.T. Media Lab
Rubygems.org and Chef Gem Ownership