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>Combining psychedelics with meditation opens the very real risk of conditioning one's meditation practice to require psychedelics to have any efficacy.

That parallels the story of Ram Dass, Robert Anton Wilson, and many other figureheads from the 60s.

Many of them would trip over and over again to try to figure out how to stay in that place. Then many of them realized meditation can bring them to that place, and once they realized that they stopped tripping.

Tripping is an advertisement to meditate, not the other way around.
As they pretty clearly articulated in the article, they want their code to be open to the extent to allow people to host it themselves and make changes to it as they need, but not so open that they can sell it and make money from it.

I think that's a fair decision for them to make and license their code accordingly.

They said very explicitly in the article that this is technically not "open source"
That article looks to me like the title should be

"What Programming Languages Should you Learn to Construct Websites?"

HTML isn't much use if you want to write an operating system.
If they detached this or made it separate from reviews it would perhaps reduce the fear of retributive reviews from bad hosts.

The big problem here is the vast difference between "We are going to verify..." and what they are actually planning. It's just dishonest.
$60 billion USD is probably less than my home city of Houston has spent on freeways. There was recently talk of a $7 billion plan to widen I-45 north because people who want to live nowhere near Houston want to get here slightly faster for work.
This is an interesting article!

A few weeks ago I found an interesting open-source project that tries to combine the best of GraphQL and REST, though it's more tilted towards REST.

https://www.graphiti.dev/guides/

We haven't switched our API over just yet, but are planning to do so.
the bubble is in the price premium of online ads
> But you cannot sell forked sentry as a service to companies?

But why not? That seems like such an arbitrary distinction if it weren't for the fact that the company is trying to profit on being the exclusive hosted provider of the software. Why wouldn't I want to pay a company that's better at ops to host sentry for me?
This talk from the MIT fusion lab lays out some approaches they have for solving problems in current fusion reactor design, in particular dealing with the radiation problem in a cost-effective manner.
https://youtu.be/KkpqA8yG9T4
Apple's Misleading Use of Location Data
Apple takes great pride in their adherence to their core competency of protecting the user and their data. Just look at their announcement today about their updated privacy policy.

Unfortunately, though, there is a misleading usage of location data. If you turn off location permissions to the "Find My" app in "Settings", "Privacy", "Location Services", "Find My" (with a title of "Find My at the top) and change the "Allow Location Access", you won't see your location in the app, but your friends that you've shared it with will.

Apple Security responded that this has to be done though "Settings", "Privacy", "Location Services", "Share My Location" (which also has a title of "Find My" at the top) and toggling the "Share My Location" switch.

Technically they are correct, but common Apple, to the average user this maybe be confusing and misleading. If I was to turn off my location for an application and I myself then can't see my location within that app, it is baffling that a different user would be able to see my location because actually the location isn't being polled from where I thought I turned it off, but rather another entity that I wast not aware had to be turned off.

This could be akin to the idea of turning off location services for Messanger and keeping them for Facebook and friends still seeing your location on Messenger.

Apples please don’t do this “technically” speak and just be upfront with the users more clearly. Location data is really sensitive and if people want it turned off, the mechanism to do so should be more clearly labeled.
gpg and the OpenPGP card spec calls it PIN, but it's not restricted to numbers and can be quite long, though I don't remember the limit.

Passwords are normally also protected from bruteforce. Many places lock you out for some time after many failed attempts.

The "PINs are for devices" seems kind of arbitrary.
> guess why you work 8h a day and have 2-day weekends?

Isn't this more work than was typical at most points in history?
This estimate says a billion years:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-s...
Do you have some sort of user community? A slack or discord or whatever? Just ask your users. The ones who say yes will also be a good set of beta testers.
> Personally, I enjoy working hard - usually more than 40 hours per week

I would call that working long, not hard. If hours determines how hard (i.e. effective) you are when working, then it certainly doesn't apply to some people I know who spend 40% of their 40 hours a week browsing Facebook.
That doesn't say who's at fault. Could be that Uber got rear ended 25 times before they disabled emergency breaking, then they hit a pedestrian.
F annoying pop-over after X seconds.
I will not give you my email.
Introduction to Phoenix LiveView for web developers who don't know Elixir
Yeah, it'd sure be nice if there was some way for the client to specify what data it wants.
Not fully but 99%. Most "SaaS" companies would avoid running it or pay a license for a special approval.
> This doesn't seem like a good habit for Boeing.

Using pre-existing proven designs for components is essential for building safe systems.
That's why you combine them. Nobody is saying auth should purely be based on biometric. It's all three: Something I know, AND something I have, AND something I am. If your DNA is compromised, you still have the thing you know and the thing you have to keep you secure.
Stop anyway.

And admit we're going to continue to need human safety drivers...
It sounds like a reasonable approach to me.

I wouldn't personally be willing to pay for it, but that's because I'm allergic to using cloud services, not because of the paying. But I'm clearly in the minority when it comes to cloudy things, so this shouldn't affect your decision-making.
> The benefit for pedestrians should not come at the expense of the vehicle

Reminder: driving is a privilege, not a right. So, no.
> No other reason or justification is necessary. “Because people want it”, is good enough.

Some people want to dump chemicals in the river, and yet, when its bad for society we decide not to let them do that, and I'm totally okay with that. Which is why if you want to make a broad social decision like changing how money works (even allowing for a new option) that conversation needs to be had on merits. We weigh pros and cons. Then we decide. That's how society works broadly, at least in a democracy.

Remember, your freedoms end where my rights begin. In so long as something doesn't impact anyone else, they're free to have at it. Once it starts to impact those around them, it's no longer solely their decision -- and degree matters. If you want to eat a ton of ice cream, do it. If you want to change the way a broad swath of society functions, we need to have a chit-chat. Much of our day to day is in between.
Coinbase Wants to Pay Interest on Crypto Coins, Sort Of
The big plant pots outside offices aren’t filled with concrete, but a fine honeycomb of aluminum that’s designed to crumple and absorb the impact energy.

In Chicago, more often than not, they're filled with bunnies. They're actually massive pots filled with dirt and rabbits from nearby parks build their warrens in them. Good for the building and good for the critters.
> (through corruption, extortion, monopoly, theft, deception, enslavement, etc.)

rent-seeking should be there too
The critical part is that you need to compare apples to apples - in this case, the one second delay is from the point at which the car had a clear idea of there being an obstacle in its path until it would have started to apply the brakes. If you want to compare this to humans, you also need to remove the sequence of time during which the human identifies the potential obstacle as relevant and subsequently as something he would crash into.

Whether this time is shorter or longer for humans is another question entirely (though the human intelligences' ability to deduce intent from behavior and forecast actions of other humans in traffic should give robocars a good challenge in that department as well). But in terms of raw reaction time after determining "I have to brake NOW", a human is definitely faster than one second.
The people who write the API would need to know you want that data and implement the change, or write a new endpoint that returns the user details and the friends details in one request. With GraphQL the API wouldn't need to change; you'd just need to write the query on the frontend and it'd work.

For most web apps the overhead of adding a new endpoint is small so the benefit of GraphQL is also small, but if you're Facebook then GraphQL makes a huge amount of sense.
That's not what the article is about - but try scaling it back to 50% and see if it results in 50% drop. The graphs show that the relationship is probably very nonlinear
My biggest fear is that accidents of this type will result in the engineers running back to their ML to add another case to the training data. We'll end up playing a game of whack-a-mole (literally?) as new special cases come up. Will training the system to recognize a pedestrian pushing a bicycle enable it to recognize someone riding a mountain bike?

Consider why the auto-braking system wasn't enabled. It's because the system can't identify which elements in the environment are harmless, causing too many false positive braking events. The opposite problem is no easier to solve.
Petzold is focused on GUI stuff, neglecting other aspects of the API.
Setting Up a Low Cost IoT Server
What I'm driving at is measuring inequality by a power-law kind of model comparing with the value of the exponent.
Almost all tech companies run lift studies / incrementality tests on all of the largest channels. For net new users, the incrementality is usually quite good. (for SEM-Brand and other high intent traffic, not so much... )
Wow Ogre is one of those things I looked at as a teenager and said Inwould learn, but lacked the attention span to do so. I didn't even remember it before this.
Social Debt: The dark side of working from home
>Most of the wealth from the poor is stolen through increasing rent seeking behaviors from landlords, insurance companies and lobbying. I could speak at length the ways banks organized things as to punish the poor by organizing deposits to occur after transactions so that they can charge overdraft fees or insurance companies deciding not to cover you because of pre-existing conditions.

You could go on at length about that stuff, but you'd mostly be wrong. Don't write checks unless the money is in the account to cover the check. Pre-existing conditions don't work like that.

Ultimately, if it costs $18000/year for a person to live and they only earn $15000/year then they are short $3000 and that money comes from the middle class and wealthy. When you factor in all government services and transfers this is what happens to over 60% of the country. It is objective reality that the lifestyles of the bottom 60% are subsidized by the top 40% of tax payers.

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-...
While they don't appear super frequent, they cut releases: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/tags

Pick one which was cut at a particular point in time and you're done. Doesn't seem that complicated.
The first thing a driver needs to learn is how to slow down and stop safely.

If you're traveling at 70 mph (which the vehicle wasn't) and you see something up ahead you're not sure about, you can slow down a bit. If you get rear ended when you take your foot off the accelerator, that's not your fault.

If you're still confused, light braking is appropriate. At some point, you'll know to either fully brake or go on through.

This system doesn't need more testing. It needs to be designed so it can stop safely and so that it will stop safely and alert the operator in case it is unable to determine if it's safe to proceed.
> rather than giving someone a head start

so you're saying your children should not inherit any wealth, and must be taken away to a state institution to be raised like everybody else?

I think inequality being inevitable isn't bad, as long as the floor is at an acceptable humane level.

Why does it matter if 1 person owned 99% of all the world's wealth, if the remaining 1% is enough to give basic human needs?
Taxi and delivery customers benefited. That’s why there were 10 billion uber tickets sold in 2018.

Maybe siting in a taxi shouldn’t be a $100,000 a year job.

The only benefit I see between a uber driver and a licensed taxi driver is that the uber is exponentially easier to heil.

So much better than phoning some droll dispatcher for a slower service.

Licensed taxi operators used to do exactly same thing with a slower more expensive service.

If they were better Uber wouldn’t have sold 10 billion tickets in 2018.

Uber adjusts Taxi fares to supply of drivers and demand. Licensed taxi drivers restricted supply to charge the more for a worse service.

Uber can do this because they are a now a verb. Customers love Ubering and that’s all that matters.

If legislation changes to increase driver pay Uber will still have network, cost and brand advantages over it’s competitors in the growing taxi market.

Ignoring laws broke taxi cartels globally. I think that is forgiveable.

And they aren’t forcing anyone to drive Uber but uber does provide an low barrier autonomous employment option that never existed to millions of people. The fact this works in their favour is irrelevant because customers love Uber.

It’s not like there’s a training opportunity cost to driving uber. You use a car you have and know how to drive anyway and you drive it in your spare time or on a full time basis to deliver people or things. The cost to secure this employment is $30 for a police record check. Don’t even need to write a cover letter.

They mightn’t be the straightest company in the world but neither are taxi cartels so they had to go to the edge of the line to displace them for the greater good.
Title sounds so wrong that I'm unable to click on it.
Ripping off someone else's project and doing a 'find and replace' of the name is IMO morally fine.

If they can do a better job of marketing with that new name, they deserve the success.
Also, please make it clear that this is a proprietary license aimed at making VCs happy and keep the cash flowing, while being hostile to the tinkerer who wants to learn and reuse parts of your code.
You didn't get taught by parents/teachers that you should be crossing behind the bus, not in front of it?

I'm not saying it was your fault, it just never ceases to amaze me how car-centric the US is (that's after over a decade of living here)
Effective apologizing is the #1 business skill of the one-person tech company.
Hopefully the fingerprint is not limited to FIDO. I'm hoping I can use it in place of the button confirmation when using it as an OpenPGP smartcard.
People who need more investor money.
We have been using postgres-checkup for quite a while. Indeed, we have standardized on it as the basis on which we elaborate the health check and performance report analysis that we provide to our support customers.

It is a great project, constantly improving. Keep up with the work!
If a company has incrementality tested and is really making double digit ROAS they aren't spending enough haha.
> Trust me in one thing. The answers are unpleasant and especially unwelcome on Hackernews.

It's true, none of us like the role that we and our often similarly-privileged ancestors have played in the systemic rape and plunder of entire continents, or the massive wealth that we still enjoy today as a result. Good callout :)
Another thing that seems wrong is that the backup drivers are on their own. Anyone who's done night time guard duty will know how hard it can be to stay awake, let alone maintain attention.

It would make so much sense t have a backup driver and co-backup driver (and maybe allow neither a smart phone).
Better at ops? do they have issues?

The options are: Use Sentry.io, host it yourself, or use something else.
If your flavour of libertarianism doesn't account for inverted totalitarianism [0], it's just not factoring in reality.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
IRS accepts CoinTracker (YC W18) crypto tax reports
There's an app called Rainway for doing streaming from a gaming PC you own to a laptop, phone, tablet.

So you could create a service allowing people to rent out their PCs remotely. Sort of Airbnb for Stadia.

There would probably be licensing issues, but I'm not sure how that currently works for gaming cafes.
I'm not a solo founder, but I run a number of servers that are heavily used - all with different software with varying amounts of reliability. I also allow other people to deploy code without checking with me first, just to keep things fun.

I have a few pieces of advise:

1. Make sure your service can safely fail and be restarted. What I mean is, if somebody is POST'ing data or making database changes, make sure you handle this safely and attempt some recovery. Something not being fully processed is okay as long as you are able to handle it.

2. Self-monitoring. I run all my systems inside a simple bash loop that just restarts them and pop me an email (i.e. "X restarted at Y" and then "X is failing to start" if it continues).

3. External monitoring via a machine at home that rolls the server back to a previous binary (also on the server). It also pulls various logs from the server, as well as the binaries, so they can be analyzed. Okay, it has some reduced functionality, but it's stable and will keep things going until the problem is fixed.

4. Make sure your service fails inconveniently - i.e. returns a `{"status":"bad"}` string or something, or defaults to a "Under maintenance page, please come back soon". Your service going down is one thing, but becoming completely unresponsive is quite another.

One thing I can't prepare for (which happens more than you think) is the server itself crashing, which as you say, means I'm randomly logging into a VPS console and rebooting. I use a bunch of different VPS providers and every one of them has a slightly different console.
I'd love to recommend pingdom, or a service like it. I'm in no way affiliated with them, just a very happy customer and one of those products where I'm jelly I didn't come up with the idea. It integrates very nicely with pagerduty and slack/sms, etc.

It's just extra redundancy in case something like cloudwatch (which you should use -- with ELBs) also goes down.
That’s my point. What’s the criteria for deciding what spam is? And yet no one complains when comments like “Wow! I made $X from my couch!” are censored — even though that’s every bit as subjective as Richard Spencer’s comments.
It's also possible to use a few low address bits for non-address information if you're willing to accept coarser alignment on all pointers. It's not as easy since you have to mask off those lower bits before dereferencing, as opposed to simply relying on the MMU to ignore high bits you're using for tags or whatever.
No, the claim is that the word jaywalking was invented to shift the responsibility away from the drivers. Shaping the language to spin the narrative.

There is no such word in Russian.
Your website styles are off slightly, such that when I zoom in, then zoom back out, there's white margin at the left, next to any colored backgrounds. Also, on too small a screen, the browser extension text goes off both sides, rather than reflowing and fitting the screen size...
I think you should include the BTP database in the CI test suite ;)
That part seemed odd to me, neither hosts or guests can see the others' reviews until after both have submitted (or the review period expires).
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If they started that way, it would be totally fair. Given that they didn’t, it’s somewhat off putting but still within their rights.

I do disagree with the use of “technically” in the last line. It’s simply “not open source” (which is, of course, fine).
Those are deceptive tactics. How can one expect to spin it and make knowledgable people swallow it?
Show HN: Scrapp – a lightweight bookmark manager PWA
This is a rather common style of argument often used against civil rights: every person's civil rights should be restrained because criminals abuse those rights.

We can't have censorship free platforms because someone might spin up a thousand accounts. We need the NSA to monitor all communications because terrorists use the Internet. We should arrest 12-year olds for making finger guns because of school shooters.

But in this case as in so many, it's an off-topic argument, merely a distraction or an excuse for overreaching authority. No one here is arguing that someone who makes a thousand accounts shouldn't be restrained; that's simply not the topic under discussion, even if the word "censorship" can be stretched to include that topic.
> I find the distinction between libraries and applications to be rather self serving

It is. It turns libraries into a free commodity and this turns the efforts of developer into unpaid labor for companies selling software or services.
After reading another recent post... Tinder for Founders, anyone?
One counter-example would be the cost of health-care.
If you're that paranoid for your software, you can vendor the source, sign the tag with publicly-verifiable GPG key, and include some cryptographic timestamp in the description (e.g., hash of the current Bitcoin block or something)

Also, print all of that, get the legal to seal the pages, and put them into a safe.
Does your service actually need to have an incredible uptime? What would be the worst that would happen if the service was down let say 24 hours?

I feel like we over engineer that part. Sure there's plenty of service where you don't want any downtime and it makes sense to over engineer it (like any monitoring service) but for many SaaS, the worst that will happens is a few emails.

Maybe write a simple SLA, something with a 8 hours response over theses kinds of outage. If some client require more, than sell them a better SLA at an higher cost. That should let you invest into better response time for sure.
This is strictly an upgrade from the old button though, as this is a single form of physical security vs zero. If used with a password, the key is only secure in computers with the password, AND it has to be you pressing.

Fingerprint are not very secure, but as this is meant to be only for physical access with the password, it's much better than before.
That being true, it might be worthwhile for compression algorithms to detect base64 encoding (or any other base for that matter) and reinterpret it as base16 in order to improve compression rates.
Monday Hero is a developer tool, you can convert Sketch design into code. You can also change your code preferences - the way you generate the code. We're in beta now, tell us what you think:)
This has been a labour of love to create a web based bookmark manager that I can use across all devices without having to install anything. I've learnt a lot about building this PWA with web components as a well as more than I care to mention about the intricacies and inconsistencies of site meta data! I hope other people find it useful.
This is pretty neat. I wish there was a USB-C model.
I thought the matter was settled. Nuclear fusion is 50 years away. Always has been, always will be.
Is the creative output really “from another company” if it’s licensed under permissive OSS terms?