skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patronage, and donations in general, might be something, but 99% of people will choose "empty calorie" news like they do for food, because it's less effort and less short term cost and more emotionally filing than finding anything better to consume.
I didn't claim he was the first case? That would be ridiculous.

And this is a tangent, but I used that example to subtly poke at this kind of "common wisdom":

Mr James' proficiency is basketball is super-human and impressive enough by itself. It is very unlikely that he is also super-human in other dimensions.

Why do you think that an exceptional memory would not contribute to exceptional basketball playing? Are those two things completely unrelated?

In other words, you're probably underestimating the cognitive skill it takes to win at high levels. Of course I can't know for sure, because I haven't done it, but you haven't either.

I don't remember what the best sources for his memory were, but they seemed credible to me at the time, e.g.:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44106321

https://www.businessinsider.com/lebron-turnovers-photographi...

There are also some video of him recalling games that seem credible too.
Is television news not doing well? Granted, it is now mostly various 'biased' networks that are doing ok, but aren't they doing quite well? Sadly it seems like it just becoming entertainment at this point though...
To be fair it was tabs of acid rather than anything precisely measured, but it was enough to keep me going for 48 hours. Might have been more, might have been less, but that's really a bit too much.
This is what BitTorrent and IPFS is for.
Shouldn't it have been the state's burden to prove he was going to sell that to someone outside the state?
> I can also conjure some low-level hallucinations when "looking at the back of my eyelids" when falling asleep.

Sounds like a closed-eye hallucination (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-eye_hallucination) caused by the Ganzfeld effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_effect). I get these too, usually just if I concentrate. I think they've been easier to get since I tried mushrooms a couple of times, but I did get them before as well.
Interesting. It could suggest that you formed some permanent new connections between some unusual parts of the brain.

My own experience was kind of opposite so far.
In the beginning I had pretty apparent visual illusions, like wall corners, patterns breathing, or actually seeings beams of light shaped by different music, even on 100ug.

But over time it seems my brain was somehow adapting to it. On many following trips, the visual illusions become more like 'shaking' a little bit, just some noise.

I started to think that either the acid's gone bad or I had a different kind of sorts.

Some time ago, even on 300ug, i had almost no visual illusions (which was quite disappointing, as I expected the music to still bring it).

Instead, I have a more vivid imagination.. But it's not visual, just more like if you think of some scene from memory.
I have to say, being able to add all the places to a list accessible from Google Maps is really key since it's one of my main tools while on a trip. I'm curious though -- what got you to choose exporting to Google My Maps vs. a Google Maps saved places place list?

For Wanderlog (https://wanderlog.com), we ended up exporting to Saved Places instead of Google My Maps. My Maps lets you do advanced things like create regions and polygons, but when using it on the Google Maps app, it seems strictly worse:

1. You have to explicitly turn on the My Maps layer, rather than the pins always showing, for it to show up on the app, and

2. When you tap on one of the My Maps pins, it doesn't show the underlying place's associated details (e.g., rating, etc.) which makes it a bit harder to go back to the source of the info.

It's definitely nicer to build on top of Saved Places, which also seems more actively maintained by Google. Did you have any reason in mind to use My Maps rather than the Saved Places?
It's on the higher end for 5 years, but it depends on a lot of factors -- if you're really concerned it's low, get multiple offers.
They don't need to front run. They can simply impersonate and not pass along the queries.
oh no. i lost "points"
These questions are absurd, but such is the current orchestral movement of the US republic. Curious if anyone actually takes things like this seriously, because I always view them one of two ways. 1) it's just theatre, to look "tough" against the big bad Social Media guy or 2) they actually believe what they're saying and they want to unironically become the Arbiter of Truth.
> The risk of actual nuclear war is far lower today than it was during the Cold War. The risk of an individual nuclear weapon going off in a city is much higher, however.

Please explain why do you think that the systems that are automatically triggered by the nuclear weapon going off in a city would not do what they are designed to do: all respond to the perceived attack with their full power.

Also explain how the humans trained to start the retaliation sequence would all not do what they are trained to do, once a city where their families are gets destroyed.

The "doomsday machines" are real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
It will be purely political messaging, that’s what news junkies want.
For people interested in experiencing closed eye visuals without drugs, try sitting in a dark room with eyes closed facing a strobe light. ~3-10 Hz seems most effective.

(Should go without saying, but this is not recommend for epileptics)

The vague regular input to the whole eye causes your brain to look for patterns in the noise. Tested this on several friends and they all start seeing geometric fractal-ish patterns within 60 seconds.

I've been hoping someone would manufacture affordable "strobe glasses" with a bunch of white leds that pulse at a rate adjustable with a simple knob, but I've looked for years and all of the options I've seen have been pretty pricey and include features of questionable utility. Seems like they could be made for ~$20 if there was enough of a market to make them at scale. I think they would be great for meditation.

(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_machine for more info. The turntable-driven Dream Machine was a particularly cool design)
I think everybody has the blood flow thing.

But the degree to which they turn into "hallucinations" varies.

By that I mean very elaborate geometric shapes with a lot of motion and rotation. Sort of like a Persian rug in 3D and 4D (time), with a lot of scale. Fractals, etc.

I suspect there is some common physiological reason why people find fractals "trippy" and say pictures of cars in traffic are not "trippy".

Drugs tickle your brain in a certain ways, but as the OP suggests, they're not the only way your brain can be tickled like that. And some brains are more predisposed to such hallucinations than others.
N2O is culturally related to psychedelics for good reason, as it can produce/amplify those effects, so that makes sense.

The eye pressure one is a different effect though. What I'm talking about are geometric effects like gears or fractals with definite edges. The eye pressure thing is more of a blob.
It's already been fixed. Thank you.
The math here is saying you're poor if you're a low-IQ democrat, and not poor otherwise.
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IME, this.. however, not everyone who experiments with psychedelics is fortunate enough to experience them. I know it's cliché, but integration is key. Our work is here, so you have to make use of those lessons as best you can.
Further searching the web seems to suggest that Nitrous oxide doesn't cause hallucinations, but I remember them pretty vividly. It's also pretty well documented that we can't rely on our memories. Makes me wonder.

Mine are definitely not the same as the ones you get from rubbing your eyes. Mine happen only occasionally in a very dark room and look more like a red/orange on a black background in a kaleidoscope.
This thread is pure magic. I love the grit and creativity of these stories. There's been some talk of survivorship bias. I can relate to both sides of that. About 15 years ago I ran an online shop selling auto accessories. I did that for about 5 years and made a decent living with about 10 hours of work per week (more during the holiday season). The business folded as shipping expenses and competition rose around 2008. (In my downfall story, I like to ignore the fact that I worked 10 hours per week rather than expand the business). My successful business started due to a combination of ability and luck. I 'lucked' into a situation where I had a B2B sales position (commission only) and I was able to sell products to my own website. In that case, I took a bad job and had the ability to develop it into an online business. Since then I have launched a number of largely unsuccessful online businesses. I've done paper mache for hire, crawl space 'clamps', an online game, a video aggregation service, several blogs, an android todo list app, and a few machinery based things that never rose to the level of 'fail' (those ended in the "didn't really try" phase). Currently, I have a new project that I am trying to focus into a market at https://gasket.appspot.com. The reason I bring up survivorship bias here is to point out that the bias doesn't really matter. In aggregate the solo businesses which succeed are creative applications of an uncommon skill. Based on this thread those skills are currently ML and data aggregation. In 2002 those skills were web development and online ad purchasing. Businesses fail because either the idea is meh (ie paper mache for hire) or the creator doesn't bake in the feedback mechanisms they need to keep going (ie, requiring payment for an online game). Other people's failure does not shed any useful light on what you should try yourself (unless you want to start an online business creating customer paper mache; don't do that, it's a dumb idea [unless it works]).
How many people did give it access? I didn't.
Point (3) specifically is easily the worst, because you start researching after you get anxious, and what you find will make you even more anxious, because if you are looking for potential side effects and issues, that's exactly what you are going to find. The positive feedback loop with this one is pretty bad.
Tesla is probably a new market disruption. If so electric is a bit of a red herring. There is some evidence of this with the trade in data. The analogy is apple taking out Nokia Motorola and Blackberry with a phone that wasn't good by the standards of the day since it was playing a different game.
your bias shows. TV news are not doing as bad as you think. Mass media is far from dead and definitely has major mind share still.
Only if your bullshit meter was an objective meter. It's subjective. Links to a page is at least objective.
How the earliest mammals thrived alongside dinosaurs
Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Powered Electric Aviation Powertrain
You say "requires no additional software", I say "doesn't allow me to use whatever software I want". For example, I can't edit a legal document while SSH'd into a host computer on my firms network.

Also, Track Changes doesn't allow two people to work on a document asynchronously, while git does.

I have seen a ridiculous number of errors in legal documents given the fact that a huge part of the legal profession is to produce solid/error-free documents.

But while the law profession's response to this seems to be just "be a better lawyer", the software industry's response is "build better tools that don't allow me to make errors". I'm sure I don't need to tell you which method I think is preferable in the long term.
Around the mid 1990s I hung out with a few ravers and hippies (different music, similar overall vibe), and several told me they'd done so much acid that they tripped all the time.

I had chalked it up to either exaggeration or the awakened latent schizophrenia thing until now, but maybe there was more to it. Apparently the relevant subreddit has existed for 11 years! I feel out of the loop, but I'm super glad these conversations are happening. As others have pointed out, we could have been so much further along in research on this stuff if it wasn't for the boneheaded War On Drugs.
Sadly the flip side of "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" is "a freedom fighter is always someone's terrorist."
I used to think this way too, but I’ve since come around to a different way of thinking.

Unless photos are taken for documentation, it’s more important for the photo to capture the feeling they photographer is trying to convey. 5 minutes after you talk to someone, you’re not going to remember every single blemish on their face; you’ll remember the general shape and a few distinguishing features. I would much rather the photo match the memory than the fact.

Of course, this can and has been taken too far in some instances, but I see no problems with removing a pimple and whitening teeth to more warmly represent (and therefore remember) my subject.
Say you are large ISP and you want to maximize profit. If you can track who your users are connecting to you can then start degrading their network connection and the target to pay for a better connection.

Comcast was doing this, people noticed much better latency/bandwidth if they used a VPN so that Comcast couldn't tell they were communicating with netflix.

So now with encrypted DNS a user looks up netflix.com:
"bill@kona:~$ dig +short netflix.com | head -1"
gets you 52.37.69.124

But they just see encrypted packets. They can of course do a reverse lookup on the IP and:

"bill@kona:~$ dig +short -x 52.37.69.124" gets you
ec2-52-37-69-124.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.

Is that a webcam watching an eagles nest? One of a zillion video streaming services? Is it a users cat monitoring webcam proxied through a random webcam provider? Someone hosting their plex server on amazon?

Without being able to see the DNS records it becomes much harder to track, market, and muck with a users traffic.

Comcast could of course make everyone's network connection worse (not just netflix), but then people would complain that they are paying for a high speed internet connection (not just a connection to comcast services) and not getting it.

Almost like net neutrality.
Man sues AT&T over 'SIM Swap' hack allegedly involving employees
Your point isn't verified because it can be explained by other reasons (curiosity about its effectiveness seems likely, especially given the nature of this community).

The effect you describe is certainly real, but you only have to look at the present reality to see just how far it extends. In modern society, people are mostly not comfortable sharing their intimate thoughts with random service workers. And that's with individual humans, with faceless machine networks the tolerance might be lower.
There's simply no reason why Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media company needs to be involved in the business of political campaigns. They're completely free to decline such business and refuse to run political advertisements. It's not like they'd lose much: the income they earn from political ads is a drop in the bucket, proportionally speaking.

Given the intense amount of scrutiny they're under, and their apparent inability to make clear, consistent, and sensible rules regarding their content, perhaps it would be better for them to just get out of the business altogether.
Well, now you’ve read my comment and know the reliable ones. I hadn’t seen that chart so I just tested the first emails I built in Litmus and opened them in a few of my own clients. After the first couple, it was clear how to build the rest of them without worrying about compatibility.
Have you looked at Project Vesta? It's a proposal to create olivine beaches around the tropics to boost sequestration due to rock weathering. I think it's somewhat disputed because rock weathering in a surf happens at a different rate than normal, but their analysis is that if "only" 2 percent of tropical beaches were covered in olivine the weathering would counteract current emissions. I can't tell how serious this proposal is and am curious to hear from anyone who knows more about this process.

https://projectvesta.org/
Given that the OP is arguing that the original version was correct (!!), because they didn't see the distinction either I'm unsure that saying it is "fake news" is useful.

But yeah, people do like easy answers rather than digging into complexity.
Submitted at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16530839
That is so very "how are you fellow kids".
I'm tempted to do some unpublished science with a sample size of one on that. Given the ridiculously rapid tolerance one builds to LSD, I'm a bit skeptical and taking the claim with the grain of salt you prescribed ;)

Assuming good faith, do you regret eating all that acid?
‘Former Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon would later call Lee “the best investigative reporter in America”’

Interesting...
The problem with latent schizophrenia is that it's latent. You don't know that you're a latent schizophrenic until the illness is triggered.
Submitted to HN last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17947726
I hope u guys caught my bathtub video.
What are unevaluated operands in C++?
> In order to service the needs of GitLab.com and GitLab Self-Managed users who do not want to be tracked, both GitLab.com and GitLab Self-Managed will honor the Do Not Track (DNT) mechanism in web browsers. This means that, if you turn on Do Not Track in your browser, GitLab will not load the JavaScript snippet.

Ok so GitLab dotcom promises to honor DNT, which is good.

> GitLab Community Edition will continue to be free software with no changes.

So GitLab CE is not "affected" at all, which is better.

I've never used the Enterprise Editions, but what's to stop enterprise ops/sysadmins from just blocking the third-party requests at the DNS level (regardless of the DNT promise)? Another HNer mentioned this re: air-gapped deployments.

So in a purely practical sense, is the only noteworthy takeaway simply an extra production config step involving DNS?
Wow what an arrogant person. I was originally interested, but in reading that comment chain, all I heard was, “I don’t care what you think. My way is clearly the most superior way and you are less than for thinking any other way could possibly be valid.” That’s my cue to stay as far away as possible from a project, and it would be a shame to have such a daft and stubborn coworker for which I’m thankful I don’t!

An equal and opposing argument:

Email patches? You’re going to make me send an email patch? I can’t tell if you’re joking or serious... you’re... serious? Shall I write my patch into the computer via morse code as well? How could you possibly expect someone to take the time to jump through all the hoops that your massive ego and nostalgia for the past requires?

Oh wait, that sounds arrogant and childish too...
There are luddites and then there is the legal community.
Python Interview with a Google Engineer
Wow, good find. I had no idea that there was a name for it.

One hop away from that page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_cinema

> Others have noted a connection between the form the lights take and neolithic cave paintings.

That's a really great way to explain it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting#/media/File:(1)J... is pretty accurate for me
SpringCM does just that.

https://www.springcm.com/products/contract-management/negoti...
I want to thank you for providing such knowledgeable and lucid answers to the questions in this thread.
White House kicks infosec team to curb in IT office shakeup
I have had a good experience with Westone, going to concerts and power tools work:
https://www.westone.com/store/music/hearing-protection/tru-u...
Gil Kalai?
I’ve never been more proud of my alma mater.
Given AAPL is at an all-time high they would've made money if they held onto it and not sold at a loss.

As most stock market indexes have a general upward trend, more people make money then lose. Though I still wouldn't recommend investing what you can't afford to lose or can put aside for the long term as you'll stand a better chance to make money if you can hold onto it through the downswings. Obviously you can still lose by investing in the wrong company, but you can mitigate your risk by spreading out investments over multiple companies/markets. There's a much lower chance of losing money on shares in the long term if you're sufficiently diversified.
If you apply to enough scholarships you will get some. Anyone paying for their full cost of education is a chump.
I think the problem is that since portrait retouching is usually so subtle, you actually start confusing it with real life. People start subconsciously thinking that this falsity is how you should look.

And to clarify, it's one thing to hide a pimple, but when it comes to the core features of one's face (e.g. "face slimming", pore smoothing, even undereye color IMO) you start distorting who that person actually is.
Going to be interesting to hear from the people who left Github for Gitlab when Microsoft took over.
Seriously why is the discussion anything but delete all tech immediately and bomb silicon valley?

Too late, the ML just flagged me as being anti-ML. I'll probably be assassinated soon.
> These questions are absurd

I'm not so sure about that.

Will ABC, NBC, Fox, CBS... run false ads? No, they won't and in fact it's always amusing to seem the candidates' statements at the end of the ad saying that they approve those messages. Moreover, above ads target a broad area, so false ads will be caught and flagged pretty quickly.

In Facebook, I believe that is not a requirement, or perhaps not an enforced/verified requirement, and on top of that it allows running of highly targeted ads - which means you can run as many fake ads as you want and no one would be the wiser. So, the overall impact is much much larger.

So, the questions are very valid, whether something will come out of this is a whole different issue.
Notarization only positions Apple to have control in the future. Allowing Apple to be the sole arbiter of what a user is allowed to run on his machine is a disaster for his rights. Just see iOS and Hong Kong.

Apps should be signed. App notarization should never be a requirement.
I don’t necessarily see a problem with this. If OS vendors want to be more than just another layer for running a browser then they need to catch up fast to the work that browsers are doing.

It is insane that connecting to a network is entering into a trust relationship with the the local network operator.

Its silly that most apps run with the full privilege of the user that ran it.

These were fine decisions when they were made years and years ago but browsers have second-mover advantage and aren’t burdened nearly as much by backwards compatibility.
"Margin was impacted in part due to fundamental improvements in our operating efficiency, including higher fixed cost absorption, reductions in manufacturing and material costs and continued improvements in vehicle quality and in part due to Smart Summon-related deferred revenue recognition, FX and other non-recurring items."

How did Tesla cut fixed and variable costs so much? I want more details than this. This is extremely impressive!

And what is an example "higher fixed cost absorption" in this context? Seems like most of the fixed costs here would be the already established factory and other fixed costs would be minimal.

Its also surprising there was such a big opportunity for variable cost savings over a short time period of 1 quarter. Presumably this is from less manufacturing waste, higher quality output, and slightly higher production rates.

Tesla is certainly a rare company that can find ways to increase margin this much, but its extremely impressive to see this happen over 1 quarter instead of 1-2 years as I was expecting.
Musk's satellite project testing encrypted internet with military planes