skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is suicidal for most people. They're not equipped to handle these things safely, and however safe and non-addictive these substances are they do have side effects. Sometimes, rarely, lasting and not necessarily pleasant.

You can oversell them like SSRI are as well, that would be bad and easy to do.

Study then first and use them, but be careful about the consequences.
I’m sorry you misunderstood ;-)

I wasn’t looking for a generic list - I was curious about Symmetry’s examples for themselves.
I am from Russia (sorry, not China) and I am sure that nothing bad happens to me if I write that Trump is a liar (although I don't think anything bad of him).

Also, we are allowed to post photos with breasts (and much more) on our social network Vkontakte.

Now try to acquire a popular social media app in USA.
Like most people who think they are influencing when they are actually entertaining.
Great link, thank you, I will use these words with more rigor in future. I think that “metaphor” is a much better word for the thing that is used to illustrate or add emotional oomph to an idea rather than to argue its merits.
I let my toddler do absolutely whatever he wanted on local playgrounds and let him have some nasty falls. Unsurprisingly he learned very quickly what his comfort zone is and when he has to be extra careful.

My philosophy is that it's not my job to protect him from harm. It's my job to protect him from irreparable harm. The point being that he has to learn how to cope with being hurt and getting hurt is the only way to learn where the line is.
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A video showing how to do this in a way that's closer to the actual process of making processed cheese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aGKiWQnMJc

Essentially, you grate cheese, add an emulsifier, heat it up to release the oils and then cool it down again. The fat in the cheese breaks down due to the high heat and the oils get emulsified so it doesn't "break" -- a bit like making mayonnaise. The original patents for this are from the late 60's early 70's, so if you look around you can find out the exact industrial process (I've read a couple, but I'm a bit too lazy to look them up at the moment -- they are surprisingly clear... I wonder if patents back then where better than they are now...)

Edit: Just for those that believe that processed cheese is not cheese: Quite a lot of processed cheese and processed cheese spread contains a high percentage of "milk solids" or "milk protein". This is essentially cheese. They buy it in bulk, mostly from Ireland. The reason that they can't call it cheese is because they are avoiding tax/duty on the imported cheese curds.
Not really sure why the first one is viewed as "less is better" at all. The design doesn't rule out the idea that someone would prefer a $150 coat to a $45 scarf. To me all it demonstrates is that generosity is at least partially anchored in the quality of a gift relative to the category it was selected in -- I'd rather a really nice scarf than a really crummy coat, even if coats cost more than scarfs. I can experiment this way on myself: if someone got me a gorgeous, $25 pocket square, I'd derive much more utility than if they got me a hideous $300 Men's Warehouse cotton-poly suit. And you could even read this a third way: some objects you want one of (I don't need a second microwave, for instance, even if it's better than the one I own) and some objects you want many of (I would be happy with any bottles of Scotch!)

The second study also lends itself to more rational / less "behavioural" explanations. First, it's possible there's diminishing marginal returns between 24 and 31 pieces to the point that f(31) ~= f(24) and f(31) - disposal_cost < f(24).

Second, perhaps utility for a dinner set depends on its quality as in the first study. I have a relatively diffuse prior about the quality of the dinner sets, but by learning that Option A has 9 broken pieces, I update my belief so that I now think Option A has 31 crummy pieces and Option B has 24 decent pieces. Maybe the brokenness of the 9 pieces is orthogonal to the quality of the various sets, but in general this would seem to be a good heuristic and a smart use of updating.

To take either of these things as a conclusion about expectation setting or less-is-more seems silly to me. More is more, but only in utility terms, not in raw input dollars.
> I'm a huge proponent of designing your code around the data

That same comment was made to a class I was in by a University Professor, only he didn't word it like that. He was discussing design methodologies and tools - I guess things like UML and his comment was he "preferred Jackson, because it revolved around the the data structures, and they changed less than the external requirements". (No, I have no idea what Jackson is either.)

Over the years I have come to appreciate the core truth in that statement - data structures do indeed evolve slower than API's - far slower in fact. I have no doubt the key to git's success was after of years of experience of dealing with VCS systems Linux hated, he had an epiphany and came up with the fast and efficient data structure that captured the exact things he cared about, but left him the freedom to change the things that didn't matter (like how to store the diff's). Meanwhile others (hg, I'm looking at you) focused on the use cases and "API" (the command line interface in this case). The end result is git had a bad API, but you could not truly fuck it up because the underlying data structure did a wonderful job of representing a change history. Turns out hg's API wasn't perfect after all and it's found adapting difficult. Git's data structure has had hack upon hack tacked onto the side of it's UI, but still shines through as strong and as simple as ever.

Data structures evolving much more slowly than API's does indeed give them the big advantage of being a solid rock base for futures design decisions. However they also have a big down side - if you decide that data structure is wrong it changes everything - including the API's. Tacking on a new function API on the other hand is drop dead easy, and usually backwards compatible. Linus's git was wildly successful only because he did something remarkably rare - got it right on the first attempt.
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with the pressure of social media

I'm not really sure if it's pressure of social media or post-911, 24/7-breaking-news, always trying to manipulate audiences with emotional triggers.
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Literally the only reason TLS uses certificates is to mitigate Man-in-the-Middle attacks.

Establishing a shared secret with another party over a public channel is not that hard (Diffie-helman, RSA). The hard part is to ensure the other party is who they say they are. Certificates tackle this by having a trusted party (CA) cryptographically bind the shared secret to an identity.

There are issues here, but if you can read and modify the traffic between my PC and the HN servers, you still won't be able to read and modify the traffic.
Maybe. I think it's unfortunate that people who are saying their answer is "the only correct" one are probably going to slow down progress.

Laws aren't always about crimes, by the way. Not wearing seatbelts or motorcycle helmets shouldn't be seen as a criminal problem, but we still have laws about it. Maybe you disagree with those laws, and that's fine.

I think it is less fine to say that your perspective on the issue is the only one that can be reasonably seen as valid.
Bah, it'll be neglected and killed off in 12 months--- oh, wait. Microsoft, not Google. My mistake.
Try slackline - it's a meditative practice and a way to meet new people.

There was a period in my life when I just moved to another country and felt lonely. I bought a line and started to practice in a popular park. On a good day I could meet 1-2 people per hour. There were people from wildly different backgrounds - sometimes it's a quirky homeless guy, young father, cute girls, policeman
Yes, I've made this after reading the post. Thanks.

I haven't read that particular comment though. It is obvious that QR codes are a security concern. First, QR code readers are required to ask for permission to open URLs. They might as well not implement it or could have malicious codes for misrepresenting the URL in specific cases. Second, I wouldn't be surprised to see some bugs exploited in QR code scanning code by giving them strange codes to scan. These would not look like valid HR codes but would look like just another QR code.
In my experience the best playgrounds are not playgrounds at all.

As a kid my playground was the mountains, the beach, playing with sand,dirt, climbing trees, making cardboard's or bricks' or wood houses. Hearing and telling stories around the campfire...

I was terrified when I went back to visit a school I was when I was 4-6 years old. Instead of just one big piece of land for kids to play they had divided it with fences in something like 20 small spaces so they could control kids easier.

It was a prison. I believe this has to affect the kids development somehow.

I also feel bad for a playground like the one in the image:
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1094dd57d6a80c1ae1fb131937de5...

Because kids have imagination, they don't need a ship. If they have boxes they have a ship, or a space center or everything they could imagine.

This is like a father buying a toy for his children and then only he playing it, not letting his children play.

A adult designer takes the best part: imagining, and then doesn't let the kids imagine anything else as you can not move or modify anything in the ship like you can do with boxes or wooden logs.

That is making a tremendous disservice to children.
Every few years I hear about Asterisk and think to myself that it would be neat to set up at home, but I never got around to trying it out.

Is anyone running it at home? What is your setup like?
> I mean QR codes are just an encoded link, right

Encoded data. Could be a link. Could be WiFi credentials. Payment information. Any sort of identification code. Etc.
One of the problems with de-risked playgrounds is that kids crave a certain amount of risk, and if there is nothing to do that seems a bit risky, kids (especially older kids) will start looking for ways to make the playground more exciting, doing things that the playground designers didn’t anticipate and didn’t consider the safety of.

My understanding (based on some news article I read a couple years ago; take this with a pinch of salt) is that in practice, the injury rates from de-risked playgrounds are not materially lower than injury rates from older riskier playgrounds. The main difference is that the new playgrounds are less fun.
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> Nobody cares about end to end email encryption. This would be a real benefit, but Google could not build profiles so easily...

AFAIK google states (in their privacy policy) they do not do anything with the contents of your emails in a gmail account.
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> Even pieces that truly don’t require technical skill can still have value, which you don’t seem to grasp.

No, I understand. The Japanese flag is a red circle on a white rectangle. Takes no skill to design or draw. But I still think it's has value as a symbol. But I wouldn't pay $200M for it
and I certainly wouldn't prop up the person who made it as some sort of highly skilled artistic juggernaut. I would think "neat concept, but I could've done that" and that would be it.

> Please try to replicate a Pollock. I think you’ll be surprised.

Please try and replicate my signature. I think you'll be surprised at how difficult it is (I've been perfecting it for 20+ years signing documents) and that should cause you to respect me much more, right? If not, please explain why not and in doing so you'll understand why I don't care for Pollock or his work.

Anyone can just make up a new form of art and "perfect" it by just doing it over and over (like your signature). I could invent a new form of music by randomly mashing keys on a piano in a way unique to me. So what? There is no negative feedback loop so therefore the "perfection" process is completely nebulous and arbitrary and takes no real effort because there is no defined destination.

Can we at least acknowledge the massive skill gap between learning to play a Chopin piano piece and pioneering a Pollock-esque field of art where there are no rules or negative feedback loops to correct you?
Your simple system is broken when a happiness sink (let's call him Bob) is introduced. Bob is extremely happy, but everyone else toils and is moderately miserable to make him happy.

Welcome to current society. Bob is the richest few.
if it's truly end to end encrypted, they would only have metadata. which is what the NSA collects en masse from Telecom providers.
This is an interesting point. For those curious about how US debt actually breaks down among holders, there's a good summary in [1]. It depends "which" debt you're talking about to determine who owns the most of it.

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-debt-33...
Having just joined a new company, I'm using a simple flash-card system to learn all the company's internal jargon.

Subjectively, I am finding it pretty effective at helping me understand how all the systems fit together. It's easier to understand a codebase once you have context of how everything fits together.
I listened to that interview, and purposefully didn't include my take on it above because I didn't want my crazier belief to distract from my crazy belief. Let's dive into the deep end of my personal crazypool: he came off very politicany to me, even down to the purposeful missteps. People trust a speaker more when the speaker says something a little bit offensive, probably because it's a sign that the person will speak their mind regardless of what anybody else thinks. That moment where he said that no judge would refuse to sign a warrant for "Abu Jihad" or "Boris Baddenov" looked just like this to me -- it's offensive, but immediately juxtaposes an offensive faux-Muslim name with an offensive faux-Russian name, and it's weirdly still socially acceptable to make fun of Russians this way while the Muslim statement is not socially acceptable, so any in-depth discussion of the faux pas can get bogged down unpacking the distinction between these two and making the Muslim characiture seem more understandable in context. The bit where he keeps pulling Rogan away from specific lines of questioning in the beginning, not to avoid them but instead to tell his whole life story leading up to the leaks, seemed like the sort of thing an aspiring politician would do when presented with a microphone and a long format. He acted like his first book had to be autobiographical because the publisher insisted on it, but really, we all know Snowden could find a publisher for a non-autobiographical book. It's an obvious deception; he wants to familiarise the public with his personal story while also acting like he isn't trying to do that. If Snowden gets pardoned sometime between 2024 and 2032 and subsequently makes a run for President, I'm gonna be scared that one of the TLAs has a mole at the top of the one-eyed pyramid.

I'm not making any conspiratorial claims about this part, but as an aside it was weird to me that he claimed cellphone IMEIs can't be changed. It's not normally done, but it can be. I wasn't sure if that was dumbed down for Rogan's audience, a misspeak, or actual ignorance on Snowden's part.
Nice! What about implementing tcp/ip on top of that and running decentralized protocols like ipfs? Lots use cases. But the bandwidth is probably too limited.
So we both agree that could be some legitimate reasons to send police to stop a region for demanding independence. It depends on how is demanded.

And if you are trying to suggest that the police is sent to stop the region each time the people demands peacefully independence because, duh, "Spain, evil people", let me inform you that this only happens in your imagination.

The main festivity in the region has been replaced by groups of people showing flags and asking for indepencence, year after year, after year. Everybody can find decens of videos on internet. Do you know what? As everybody can confirm easily, the number of people detained for asking independence peacefully in this kind of events is: zero.

Every independentist is crying slogans, singing and walking with banners and flags. No police is sent to stop any of their performances or demand silence, we are a society proud of granting an extensive freedom of speach

...with some limits of course. Like in many democracies, there are laws pursuing libel and protecting right to honour. You can't claim anything you want from other people without showing proofs, and this is not a bad thing
The effectiveness of CT logs isn't a thing unless the website uses CT monitoring or is a huge company. A [delegated or non-delegated] DNS takeover, or IP address release (eg. cloud providers re-assigning an IP to another customer) could allow you to generate a certificate for some-forgotten-subdomain.medium-sized.company.com using the ACME http challenge. Of course this is mitigated by properly managing your DNS, and CT monitoring is encouraged everywhere.
One of my wife's (of 20+ years) pickup lines, that worked, apparently, on me was she said she could get me in to sit on a Cray-1.
You'd probably need some compelling functionality.. maybe filter fx or something. But if TikTok is banned in the US then you might have a fighting chance.
I sort of expect them to switch to facial recognition and do away with turnstiles altogether for most passengers to dramatically increase efficiency once the tech and databases are advanced enough. As in, the system recognises where you entered and where you leave and the fare is automatically deducted from your account. Those who are not known to the system (eg first time users and tourists) aren't allowed enter the station until they set up an account (long term or temporary respectively).
The system would have a bunch of problems but the authorities wouldn't care too much as long as efficiency was high.
If you don't mind me asking, which software have you been using, especially regarding audio? I'm thinking about making the move to Linux but the lack of audio and music pro software always make me stay on macOS.
How old are the kids you are talking about? 20-month-olds are happy with literally any playground, especially if there are a few other kids. They are still learning the very basics of climbing, running, sliding, swinging, ...

Most playgrounds are okay for 0–8 year-olds. It’s older kids, especially teenagers, who get most bored on de-risked modern playgrounds, and either give up on them or start looking around for (often quite stupid) ways to make them riskier, e.g. a group of 6 kids climbing onto a swing intended for 1 kid (thereby breaking it), riding their skateboards down the slide (and almost running over the toddlers at the bottom), climbing up onto the roofs of buildings that weren’t intended for climbing, throwing rocks at each-other, ...

The playground near my house was re-done a few years ago, and the number of kids older than 10 has dropped dramatically. All of the toddlers are plenty happy with the new one, but it’s a net loss for the city because there are many good playgrounds for kids under 8, and very few for older kids.

Aside: those rubber surfaces are very uncomfortable on bare feet any time the temperature is above 80°F. And often playground wood chips are full of extremely sharp corners (My adult friend stepped on a wood chip which punctured both his shoe and his foot). Sand, dirt, grass, and even concrete are all much more pleasant.
An attack like this could still be done for CLI clients/library clients such as curl (ie. server-to-server connections), none of which I'm aware of incorporate CT log verification.
Google does a pretty good job allowing you to control and delete your data on their products.

Much better than the average tech company out there.
It was a heck of an epiphany when I stopped putting cheddar on burgers and went back to gold old Kraft singles. It makes a better burger. The fact that it doesn't meet the strict definition of cheese is of little consequence.

A lot of people have strange ideas of what American Cheese is actually made from. Turns out it's pretty much cheddar and milk. I've heard people claim it's made mostly of oil. Nope! In fact, that's part of why it's such a good choice for burgers.
> The debt to GDP ratio has also been increasing since the end of the Cold War.

And if government spending was perfectly optimal, it will continue to increase to the most productive level possible.

> The debt to GDP ratio has also been increasing since the end of the Cold War.

The principal and the interest are continually repaid and reissued.

Every dollar of public debt is immediately put to use in the economy. Public debt is also incredibly cheap to service. Ideally public debt would always be as high as you could possibly make it, and would be put to the most productive (growth stimulating) use possible. It’s very easy for the government to spend money in a way that offsets the cost of its debt. Now, you could debate how good the government actually is at spending money, but that’s a seperate argument to the economic utility of public debt.
What’s more important though? The public can’t particularly change things at that level. They don’t live at that level. It’s our job to help them. Just as they help me on non computer related stuff all the time. A barber shouldn’t be in charge of web encryption. It’s on us.