skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
bronson beat me to it, EVs have now set the Pike's Peak record, and ironically it's a VW (just not one they put into production). Here is another video of the VW, the first result for "EV pikes peak":

https://youtu.be/kAJaGAMWjHM
Are you sure you're not thinking of hearings about some other aspect of encryption? I've been working on the DoH issue, including writing to Congress about it, and I don't recall a hearing having happened yet.
That's probably more related to working for YouTube where the comments are absolute vitriol. Actually reading this article this person was clearly not mentally equipped for a trip, ended up taking 2 additional doses after already "becoming delusional" and then going on a rampage when his friends tried to get him to stop. All because they rented a house on the fourth of July and thought what better thing to use to party with loud explosions than the most introspective and revelatory substance ever discovered by mankind. What? How about a little respect for the aperture in the navel of the Universe? I wouldn't chug a liter of Ayahuasca and go mow the lawn, what sort of world do people think this is? No consequences is the lie that got us here if you ask me. Of course there are consequences. Nurture altruistic intentions.
> Laws are linked to territories, US law is not applicable in Syria and the other way around.

Doesn’t stop countries from trying. The CLOUD Act in the US is the US trying to extend its influence into other countries.
I've gone through multiple periods of doing lots of LSD in my life. In my senior year of high school I probably tripped once a week with anywhere from 1-4+ hits, while also smoking pot every day.

After about 3 months I had developed perma-tracers (I could draw shapes in the air with a lit cigarette), after about 6 months I saw after-images at night, usually while driving. (For example, a ghostly day-glow purple stop sign behind the actual stop sign). It wasn't enough to be actually disruptive to my life, besides the slight anxiety about it.

At about 9 months I developed a stutter which increased in frequency over the next few months, until it was an actual speech impediment. I stopped smoking pot and decreased my LSD use to a few times a year and it all went away within 6-9 months and never came back. It has never come back with LSD use, but it /did/ come back during a year in my 30s where I smoked a lot of pot and used no psycehdelics, so take that anecdata as you will.

These days I notice that if I do LSD more than about 4 times within 1 month, I'll develop some tracers and visual distortions that persist very slightly when sober, and more persistently when only stoned on pot. Tiled bathrooms breathe a little, lights sparkle and shimmer. But it always resolves within about a month of abstinence and has never caused me any trouble.

There are no (as far as I can tell) cognitive distortions or anything else while sober, and the visual distortions range from mildly amusing to slightly alarming. I've had tons of panic attacks (unrelated in my life) but none of them had the quality of any sort of "flashback", just plain old anxiety.

There has been a little bit (but not a ton) of research done on HPPD, and bluelight and other harm reduction forums had good discussions with those dealing with it for many years. For many (most) people it resolves on its own.

My completely out of my ass theory is that it basically works like water making a groove in dirt in that some neural pathways get overly "primed" to fire and fall into a habitual pathway.

/Most/ people I know that have either experimented heavily with LSD /or/ with intensive meditation have reported some sort of visual or auditory after effects that persist while sober and resolve on their own, but most people I've talked to haven't been too bothered by it.

That's not to discount the people that have experienced disruption to their life from HPPD, but this definitely seems to be the exception to the rule of either not having any persisting effects or not finding them that bothersome.

edit: typos
That might be a federal website but it was never prevailing supreme court opinion, even when the judge wrote it.
Sure, I'd agree with that. Obviously companies in different verticals are going to have different benchmarks for what constitutes innovation. But designing "platforms" (to my mind), while certainly a product design undertaking, falls towards the MBA-end of the business maintenance vs. innovation spectrum.
Ants are “immune” to traffic jams
I didn't downvote you, I feel the same way.

But YT is where channels I watch such as Linus TechTips, BigClive, Cody's Channel, Chef John, Glen and Friends, Andrew Camarata et al publish their content to.

Realistically, how do we change this?
If one person could rotate the whole thing with a crank, why couldn't the prisoners do the same by holding the bars and pushing on the walls?

Anyway, this reminded me of the mechanical fortress from Myst.
> (2) You already have other reasons to want to rewrite (design could be improved, code is in a poor state, etc.), and you're deciding between languages.

It would be wise to ignore the language distraction and remember that most urges to rewrite are just flat out wrong. The standard and well respected advice about rewrites doesn't go out the window just because of a fad language, if anything they apply more strongly.

Much of what people perceive as cruft is most of the actual value-- the stored knowledge from years of experience using the software in practice. Few "clean" programs are actually complete.
www. Is Not Deprecated
This claim isn't obvious at all (let alone its converse being intellectually dishonest). You're acting as if justice and law enforcement is made up of solely either stupid or nefarious people.
> Your athletic ability can vary from Usain Bolt to completely uncoordinated; some people have photographic memories (e.g. Lebron James apparently); some people can factor large numbers in their heads (computation), or recite huge strings of digits (non-episodic memory).

I'm going to quibble with you. When you say that individual humans vary widely, you're mostly assuming a baseline scale of typical human variation. Which is basically begging the question. Of course the fastest or smartest people look very extreme, when you're implicitly comparing them to typical people.

Usain Bolt is very fast for a human. But he's slower than the average housecat. On the flip side some people have really good memories. But even the dumbest humans manage to remember a huge number of symbols compared to what a chimp's capable of. Same for virtually everything else you listed. Food taste, aesthetic preferences, auditory capabilities, intoxicant consumption, etc.

Normal human variance is swamped by variance between different animal species. This is mostly invisible to us, because most of our day-to-day interactions are with other people. Not exotic organisms.

So I would guess just the opposite. I believe that sensory experiences across different people are very likely to be substantially similar. At least compared to an alien species, or AI, or even just an intelligence from a distant evolutionary branch (like an octopus).
The colors themselves aren’t. However if you have even mild HPPD they take more complex forms (esp faces) and switch rapidly, like one face morphing into another
> Not trying to be overly-pedantic, but when people say "will not be infringed" I translate that to mean handguns, shotguns, and rifles (up to semi-automatic). Anything beyond those definitions start getting into what I will concede are legitimate "weapons of war" (machine guns, explosives, biological weapons) which merits restriction.

I think you have a very skewed view of the purpose of the 2nd Amendment. "Weapons of war" is exactly the sort of thing it should be protecting. Ban handguns? Fine (under the amendment) - no one uses those in war (minus epsilon). I wouldn't be happy with it, since they're rather useful for self defence, but I could at least see it being justified. But short barreled shotguns? Submachine guns? Assault rifles? Anti-materiel rifles and RPGs? MANPADS, mortars and artillery? All those should be perfectly fine and dandy under the 2nd amendment, as evidenced by the privately owned warships and cannon around the beginning of the 19th century.

Yes, this means that it's been infringed a hell of a lot. Which is part of why gun rights groups fight so hard - give a little more ground, and there might not be any more to fall back to.
It's comforting to know 20% of the PII wasn't being encrypted in the first place.
I'd also like to see Amazon go after vendors that ask absurd prices for used merchandise. Predatory pricing is simply not acceptable. The highest price for a used item is often several orders of magnitude greater than the lowest price. Their strategy is simple: once the item sells out at more reasonable prices, the only vendor left standing will be the predator.
Poison used in recent attack on Russian spy may soon be banned
Calculus for the Curious
they also walk over each others bodies, and yield to others with grace.

Translate this to vehicles, and this means unspeakable chaos, collisions as an intentional operation, and unheard of courtesy.
Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children
Recruiters wouldn't be so annoying if they actually took the time to see if I were a fit for the position. Why are you wasting my time about a C# .Net position when that is not listed anywhere on my LinkedIn?

Another thing I've noticed recently is recruiters telling me they have some "great positions" for me, but not giving me ANY information. They try to aggressively set up a call. When I press them for details first, they begrudgingly tell me. When I let them know that none of those jobs is a fit they drop all communication. How brutally unprofessional!

Real-life example:

# Communication starts

Recruiter: Hi again! I hope this message finds you well! Your background is an ideal fit for this role! I would love to tell you more about us! Are you open to finding out more about the role?

Me: Sure, what can you tell me about this opportunity?

Recruiter: Hi! I can tell you everything over the phone if thats ok with you? I am not suppose to share details over the internet :( I am free today at 2pm EST if that would work for you? if so, do you mind sending your resume and best phone number?

Me: Do you have a brief job description you can provide?

Recruiter: This is all im allowed to share online: "big data web scraping and analytics tech company that helps brands such as Nike, Rolex and Sperry Shoes with online price monitoring, online brand protection and online price enforcement! The company was founded in 2004, they are incredibly stable, and profitable." i can share everything else over the phone if youre still interested

Me: where are they located, at least roughly?

Recruiter: it is 100% remote. they have a HQ on west coast and East coast.

Me: technologies required?

Recruiter: Backend development. primarily node

Me: okay, i don't have much experience with node

Recruiter: ok, they require 2 years or so. not that much?

Me: Unfortunately not

# Communication ends.

What a horrible industry. I'll never go through a recruiter again if I can avoid it. Just garbage. Not even a "okay i'll try and find a better fit for you." They deserve to be treated the way they are.
The Polarization Paradox (2009)
> - Qubits are not boolean. Classical error correction does not work in quantum computers. You need quantum error correction.

Yah, no shit sherlock. I'm sorry you didn't like my handwavy sentence and a half phrasing of my post, but your tone is just not necessary.

> - No, it doesn't take 1000 or even 100 physical qubits to have a high fidelity qubit (it can actually be 1:1 with dynamical error correction) or 20000 error corrected qubits to tackle real world problems (Shor's algorithm isn't the only interesting thing out there, simulating some quantum systems requires far less qubits and probably more interesting for people in natural sciences)

Shor's algorithm is a really important milestone. Lots of interesting problems are harder than factoring. We think we need ~2000 logical qubits to get to the most basic interesting cases of Shor's, and with some multiple for error correction we have 3 OOM right there.

> Even if we were 3-5 orders of magnitudes away in # of qubits, it's still a matter of time, and there is still nothing fundamental in physics or material science that prevents having millions of physical qubits.

There probably isn't. But there may be in economics or systems complexity.

> - Now I feel like I'm dealing with one of those non-physicists people again who claim quantum computers are a pipe dream, only this time instead of a faulty physical argument, it has no real technical basis at all, so this is where I'd like to stop. Enjoy the rest of your day

Yah, assuming that we can extrapolate maintain the current rate of progress for an 5 OOM improvement is reasonable.

Just one question: how many orders of magnitude of improvement will we gain at the current rate? Can we get 5? 20? 100? Obviously we start running into things like the mass of the planet, but perhaps there's some limiting factors before then? :P It's really hard to pin down where they are ahead of time.

If we double qubits and coherence annually, 5 OOM is 40+ years. How many years will this doubling continue at an annual pace? How long until we're all just enslaved to make qubits? ;)
Interesting, I've seen another site a few weeks ago that seemed odd when scrolling too. I think they are a great company with a decent product, but this is a turnoff. I was thinking of contacting them but felt a waste of time since probably whoever I contact would go to someone that isn't a web developer and just feel like it'd go nowhere to improve their site. Especially if it only happens on Mac, and they are using another OS as was wondering if the site did it on other platforms or even browsers too.
The reason I'm suggesting it as an an alternative is because of its policies, not because the platform is a great place for discoverability. The intent isn't to help people find these videos, just that they are somewhere online where people can view them that's less likely to be taken down.
Chrome 78 has been released with support for WebAssembly Reference Types
I think you're right. But I still think they should change the video. People (myself included) are understandably sensitive to potentially racism embedded in AI.
That's open core for you.
I would like finer grained control on photo permissions. Particularly I don't necessarily want to grant it access to ALL of my photos.

And in general, I would prefer most apps actually don't have any access to photos, the photo picker could be completely OS level and the app never actually has access.
Optimizing for profit, and yet it has annoyed me enough to cancel my account
Here are a few:

increased temp > increased evaporation > increased cloud coverage which reflects more sunlight

increased co2 > increased tree growth

increased co2 > increased algae, plankton growth to absorb co2... other marine animals will also feed on these, increasing their mass, and when they die, they'll sink to the bottom, where they'll mostly remain.

increased co2 > increased diffusion into seawater.. clams, oysters, etc combine this carbon with calcium to produce shells.. and when they die, they accumulate on the sea floor eventually turning into rock.

Unfortunately, the fact that co2 in the atmosphere is growing indicates we're overwhelming these.. I take zero comfort in the fact that these exists.. it actually makes me nervous because once they reach their maximum, co2 will start growing even more rapidly.. and then it'll be so much worse.
> It's pretty clear that Blizzard was not following their own guidebook here. I can't imagine them banning a player who said "Free Catalan!". The banning was only because it was anti china. An anti-Spain statement would have just resulted in some scratching of heads, not a 1 year suspension and revoking of prize money.

As far as I've read (which is basically nothing but https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=48310 ), the response to blitzchung came from NetEase, Blizzard's legally-required publisher/distributor in China. Unlike Blizzard, NetEase is a Chinese company.

It seems unsurprising that the Chinese distributor for Hearthstone would react like a Chinese company -- that's the point of the requirement. Was Blizzard even consulted on the response?
public company
I have never heard Tinnitus described as a neurological condition. I had pretty bad Tinnitus as a result of a jaw injury. It has gradually faded but it made sleeping difficult for a very long time.
Absolutely - and out of the first year of purchase you gotta pay - people LOVE paying!
But that last part matters - if a company already wins the customer service metrics - how do you convince management the money is worth it?
I’m sorry, if we’re looking to 4chan for inspiration on how to do the internet properly we’ve already lost.
Probably because the threat surface of a cruise missile is similar to a low-flying manned aircraft. There's lots of civilian use cases for GPS under those same conditions, where there's relatively fewer uses for speeds and altitudes in excess of the COCOM limits.
DNT suffers from a lack of trust. I have turned it on by default, but I kind of assume that it's completely ignored.
A couple of sentences from the BBC story that probably explain what's going on:

> The firm also reported an unexpected profit of $143m (£110.7m) for the three months to 30 September.
That beat forecasts, but was down more than 50% from a year earlier.
Cracking the mystery of nature's toughest material
That's why I pasted the link for you.
everyone now knows for a fact the gov is listening to everything whereas before it was just "assumed"
Lucy Kellaway used to write a lot about this, in regards to corporate communications. It was hilarious, and a little depressing too.

My first "real" job involved writing a lot of reports. And I found out, to my initial surprise, that all the reports were copy and pasted from other reports. I remember doing my first report, and my boss pretty much lost his mind (this was my first week...he called me an f'ing c@@t) when I suggested that the report could be cut down and made more suitable for the client. Ofc, my boss was semi-literate, terrified of writing, and the threat of litigation (this was a heavily regulated business, regulators would likely read these reports) held no horror relative to the threat of having to write (he also told me later that the longer the report, the less likely clients were to read it...he managed $100m of other people's money).

Put briefly: people are afraid of having to think for themselves, it is easier to communicate in nonsense when the risk of other people finding out you don't know what you are doing is so emotionally severe. This goes all the way from the mail room to the board room.

Words I hate: overuse of super (common in tech), leverage (outside of the financial meaning), learnings (very hot a few years ago but cooled significantly), huddle, staffer, analyst (presumably they will be calling my trashman a refuse transportation analyst at some point), revert, network (it still isn't okay)...I am sure there are more.

Incidentally, one game I used to play at the above mentioned job was to sprinkle obscure but clever-sounding words in my conversations with my boss and see how many he would start using...simpler times, simple joys :)
Also helps if you dump a large quantity of salty water. The salt eventually leaves too, but helps retain some of the water and makes it more conductive.
The most effective method of manipulation is by selectively highlighting parts of the truth while purposely obscuring other portions.

That’s why it’s so important to not passively intake information but be aware of and actively introspect when doing so.
Rookie Naming Mistakes Your Startup Should Avoid
This sounds quite in tune with some of Daniel Dennett's ideas also, especially from 'Consciousness Explained'.

The gist is that our consciousness is only, and all, that we can say, or in any other way act on the world. So if people really believe in the things they say, those things must be quite real to them.

And perhaps visual hallucination come from some incomplete separation of the 'inner' visual loop - thoughts, memories - from the outside visual information.
I recall some interesting suggestions on the thread about Trinity Nuclear Test site open house [0]. Perhaps you could visit Fermilab. Strictly speaking, though, all museums are 'geek' destinations (just primarily history/art oriented).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19568145
I think this is a very salient point, about the dealership model being a hindrance. It's like Sears and Amazon, at some point the incumbent leader can't change fast enough and the new market is run by new companies.

I do think it will take a long time for the big 3 to die, they will probably go all trucks and big SUVs (as Ford has essentially done already), and leave the car market to EVs.

However, I do not think that Tesla will be the big winner. They will be much like Apple and prosper, but Nissan with the Leaf (also Renault with the Zoe in Europe) and now Kia and Hyundai with their small electric SUVs are perfectly placed. They have the big manufacturer experience and millions of miles on their solid EV platforms. They could create an EV Camry/Accord-killer tomorrow--actually, I'm surprised they haven't already.

Edited to add: this is buried in the Taycan thread, and I wanted to comment on that too. The Taycan is an awesome car and will give Tesla's model S performance a run for their money. But that's it. Porsche is a niche car-maker, and track enthusiasts a niche of that niche. I suppose that being owned by VW (or is it the other way around) just means the technology and know-how will trickle down into the mass market, but that hasn't happened yet, and Tesla is already there with the Model 3.
Can we please all stop pretending Tesla is a software company? This is the same fallacy as stating that WeWork is a tech company.

Yes, there is a bit of software to their stack which they do well. But Tesla is a CAR company (bordering on the lifestyle category).
Excitons will shape the future of electronic devices
Every developers machine at an web agency I worked for had Gimp Installed and the supplied machines were Macs.... Only designers got the $110+ a seat Creative Cloud Subscriptions.
In my trade show experience, the $300 scanners are terrible and most of the time don't scan. I'm not sure if it's typically a scanner issue, a QR code issue, or a system issue, but everything the scanner actually works it's a surprise!

I'm on the wrong side of the country, but will keep an eye on you guys and hope to see you at some shows soon.
Already checked that a while ago when I complained to a friend who asked the same. I still get plenty of ads for stuff like CNC machines, mechanic classes and other stuff. I'm okay with some random stuff that feels like the marketer was going out on a limb. But some are just... selling paintings to Stevie Wonder.
There's plenty of such experience to go around:

http://www.unz.com/gnxp/norway-offers-migrants-a-lesson-no-r...

> The statistics are pretty straightforward, and some are outlined in the article. This is a robust and replicated dynamic in Scandinavia; people of “migrant background” are over-represented in rape statistics. It’s an open secret, in that when push come to shove the authorities tend to make excuses rather than lying about it.

> Migrants themselves can often be quite frank and astute observers of cross-cultural differences:

>> “Men have weaknesses and when they see someone smiling it is difficult to control,” Mr. Kelifa said, explaining that in his own country, Eritrea, “if someone wants a lady he can just take her and he will not be punished,” at least not by the police.

It is my understanding that people are generally discouraged from offering these personal experiences, for fear of likely public reaction, regardless of how illuminating they may be.