skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Decreased alpha power is a particularly consistent finding in neuroimaging research with psychedelics7,8,11. Alpha is the most prominent rhythm of the resting-brain, particularly in humans, and particularly in adulthood30. Alpha has been linked with high-level psychological functioning31,32, top-down predictive processing18,33 and related feedback connectivity34 - all of which have been found to be disrupted under serotonergic psychedelics35,36,37

In regards to this, the same thing is found during REM sleep. The brain shuts down the executive functions, while the brain goes into extreme 'story generation mode'. A story in which you are a character. I think this is one of the most overlooked and interesting parts of dreaming. We are able to observe ourselves in our dreams acting without the constraints of our 'executive functioning' brain. This means we get to learn about our purely emotional behaviour, and perhaps spot where it is maladaptive. (I am very bias on this subject, as I have written a paper on this topic - https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz, which was discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19143590)
What's the point in being a big multinational conglomerate if you can't use your size to leverage favorable tax terms over your competition?
Well they did a dismal job of it (i.e. were suspected and got caught). If justice prevails none of that evidence will be admissible, and the extradition efforts have likely been put at risk.

Listening in to privileged conversations between a lawyer and their client would be viewed quite poorly by any judge.
We had started InsideSherpa wanting to build something we wished we had in college!
My comment was sarcasm.
Pushbullet is still a good alternative that works everywhere. Plus it allows for sharing text and links as well.

Snapdrop is a nice option as well, plus you can save it as a PWA
The problem with online forums! In real life you can check if the person wants advice: do a "meta" offer of advice and back off if they don't want it. But on a public forum you need to put it out there. If HN had a spoiler feature that might help as you could make the advice shown on click.
Actually the DMT containing plant is completely inactive orally without a MAOI. You wouldn’t get any effect short-term or otherwise.
For a demo, go to https://origamei.com and scroll down to "See how it folds."

Very neat idea. I wonder if something like this could work for button-up shirts?
This is why you develop for the web.
> Chatham House, a British think-tank, estimates that $582bn has been stolen from Nigeria alone since it won independence in 1960. [1]

[1] https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2019/10/10/...
If GDP is the only metric you are going to consider, then the US and China are doing just fine. But, and i don't think this is a stretch, there may be some other factors to consider. For California in particular, i suggest you look up what percentage of the population pays the taxes the state runs on, how many of the state's population subsist on social welfare benefits, and what how much federal assistance ameliorates state debt concerns. I posit that California as a stable state is a house of cards, both economically and ecologically speaking.
This case is a good illustration to an earlier discussion in HN on how and why company values and culture actually matter.
> Thus, real-world distributions that span several orders of magnitude rather uniformly

They mean uniformly on a log distribution. Ie, there are a uniform number of elements between 10^x and 10^(x+1), for many different values of x. This is best shown by the graph here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Overview
I don't know Go so I am not sure what file.Read does exactly but wc, on my system which uses the same wc.c as Jenner's article, is doing blocking reads in a naive way which I argue makes it somewhat of a paper target.

Maybe the Linux wc version you have is better. I don't know. They do exist and Penner's article gave a link to one. I am not sure as you didn't link to the source of your wc.
(Edit: I just noticed you did use the OSX wc, you're just running it on Fedora. Sorry about that.)

But in any case using just wall clock time can be deceptive. Here is what I mean. On my machine, a somewhat old Mac Mini with a spinning disk, user CPU is only ~1/5 of the real time. The rest waiting for the OS or the disk.

% for ((i=0;i<250;i++)); do cat /usr/share/dict/words >> a; done
% /usr/bin/time wc -l a
58971500 a
1.24 real 0.28 user 0.64 sys
If you think PR teams don't escalate issues internally, you're probably just not part of the people your PR department talks to.
The part where the registrar is a corporate PR firm that includes DNS in its menu of the services it provides its clients.
OP wasn't necessarily talking about folks in the industry. Most young men aren't exactly excited to talk about code either!
No, the developers of the web pages you use have to care.
It's where they keep all the other evidence of foreign intelligence operations - a secure classified intelligence facility. Where should they be keeping it?
But that isn’t what the tipping industry does. You are paid a certain hourly wage, and if the tip income is below a certain amount the employer has to increase the wage to compensate. They cannot however reduce your hourly pay rate after you have done the work. Because that is tip theft, simply reclassifying your income after the fact doesn’t magically make it not theft.

Because if that were allowed an employer could hire you at $20/hour (for example), and then decide at the end of your day to change your pay rate to $10/hour and that would be ok - because by your definition that isn’t wage theft.
This guide would benefit from some references to support the content. It reads somewhat anecdotally but could be more rigorous.
Words Mean Things: The word “monopoly” has a specific legal meaning with various legal remedies. Anytime you are working with any major company there is an “imbalance of power”. That doesn’t mean they have a monopoly.

One of those meanings isn’t “a company is doing something with their platform that I don’t like”.
Same here. I learned the hard way that I have to pay the entry fee of listening for 5-10 minutes and affirming emotions before I'm allowed to offer solutions. This wasn't immediately obvious for me, because in my case, the optimal listening time is 0 - if I didn't want actionable advice or knew how to solve a problem, I wouldn't be bringing it up in the first place.
Star Review by Ben Lukey
Is it really evil if a few children die in the factory? Is it really evil if the work week is 96 hours? Is it really evil if we go hungry while the profits of labour are captured by people who are already millionaires and billionaires?

Unionization is simply democratization of industry.

Unionization of the workplace ensures that wages, safety, environmental and social concerns are addressed democratically by workers and management, organized collectively against the short term interests of rapacious capital.

So yes, preventing labour from organizing collectively is oppressive, totalitarian, and anti-democratic.

It's evil.
I am looking for a NYC based co-founder for a consumer facing app related to itinerary/mapping/planning. Looking for someone with fullstack experience. My background is consulting, then NLP and product experience at a B2B VC funded startup.
It's like a form of political correctness. Writers using weasel words so no one thinks they may be hinting at something controversial that may offend people. Perhaps they should put a disclaimer at the start reminding us that guns are not at fault.

It is just an unreasonable burden to expect articles about mass killings in America to completely ignore guns.

Maybe mass shootings follow the Swiss cheese model [0]. Several sets of circumstances align and you get a terrible outcome. Mental health, family, drugs, propaganda whatever. But guns are also a big hole in the cheese. It shouldn't be contraversial to point that out.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
I wonder whether asking for verification over the phone would lead to SIM swaps. Though faking someone's voice would be more difficult.
Being assertive and aggressive are not variations on the same thing. In fact if you observe people with actual power they tend to rely less and less on aggressive behavior, and more on suggestions and persuasion.

I think it would be a mistake to characterize assertiveness as just a subset of aggression, defined as all aggressive acts less the inappropriate ones, or the reverse, as you seem to be arguing here. I think it's more accurate to say there's a very small set of cases where they overlap.
Something I posted elsewhere:

All of these articles are frustrating because they use different environments and test sets and none of the ones I’ve read have posted the test sets up. Some people use random characters, some people use existing files. Some people use files of 1 MiB, some 100 MiB, some several GiB in size. Not only that, but the people programming the replacements don’t even normalize for the difference in machine/processor capability by compiling the competitors and GNU wc from scratch. The system wc is likely to be compiled differently depending on your machine. The multithreaded implementations are going to perform differently depending on if you’re running Chrome when you test the app or not, etc.

This would easily be solved by using the same distribution as a live USB, sharing testing sets, and compiling things from scratch with predefined options, but nobody seems to want to go to that much effort to get coherent comparisons.
In which ways is the Firefox context menu "garbage"? How does it behave differently?

I never even noticed that it's not native until I read your comment, and looking carefully at it now the only difference I can notice is the corners are square (and that is certainly nothing worth complaining about.)

Maybe I'm just an oblivious idiot, but it sure seems to me that a lot of MacOS users on HN love to blow trivial matters completely out of proportion. Application lags for a split second? "Utter garbage, the developers should be shot, I'm going back to Safari." Where is the perspective? If there is something glaringly broken about these context menus, by all means correct me. But to my eye they look damn close to native and they seem to work perfectly fine.
Our goal is to redesign email, not an email client.
I sounds far-fetched, but there's a lot about that can be improved. From the basic UX to the way we communicate and share media via email. It takes many iterations and a long process, but there is a lot of room for innovation in email. In a long run, it will be much much more powerful then Gmail or Outlook, those are almost the same experiences we had 40 years ago.
Western investment in China started in the ‘70e and ‘80s, led in part by Hong Kong firms. Negotiations over the Hong Kong handover were started by Margaret Thatcher in the ‘80s. The Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed in 1985. The Basic Law was ratified by 1990.

The Cold War was not over when Hong Kong’s future was being negotiated.
Well how do you define exploiting? For example well-off person buys a house, improves the value, sells it tax free, makes a couple years salary in profit tax free, repeats it again and again. Property ladder on steroids.

The intent of no CGT tax on your primary property is IMO security for families, but it can be exploited to make a regular alternative source of income tax free.
"Environments that say "Hey everybody! It's Timmy's turn to speak. Pass him the talking stick" are patronizing and disgust me at the onset."

I actually personally think its useful to say that in order to shut up overly opinionated people without publicly pointing them out and putting them immediately on the defensive. Opinionated people are also incredibly opinionated on their opinions, of course, and it's more efficient to sidestep that altogether.
JEP 169: Value Objects
Yes, that is what I was getting at. I almost exclusively "shuck" my drives like that for my server. But I have gotten a seemingly high number of failures over the years.
It's the same with <ch> and <sh> for me. It took way too long for me to realize that they are different sounds in English ((Standard) Swedish does not have any affricates), or that <z> is supposed to sound different from 
 (/z/ does not exist in Swedish).

If anyone pronounces <ch> as <sh>, <z> as 
 and <j> as <y> they're probably Swedish.
Alternatively, here's my entry for "Beating C with 40 lines of C": https://pastebin.com/JzFfE5GB

$ time wc -w 100m
2266395 100m

real 0m4.568s

$ cc -o wc wc.c

$ time ./wc 100m
2343390 100m

real 0m0.511s

Of course, it disagrees on the answer, because I just used 100M of random data and it doesn't care about wide characters. It gives the same answer as GNU on plain ASCII text.

It's not faster because it's better, it's faster because it is doing less.
It mentions the Gulf royals in the same way it mentions Jay-Z and Beyoncé.
Are banks really magic money trees?
It says that all men are endowed these rights by a creator, which doesn't imply that nationality has anything to do with those rights. George Washington was the worst of the Founding Fathers, and didn't write the Declaration of Independence.
It would be great if you could capture a performance profile: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance...
Depending on where you are, there may be laws regarding stalking. The problem is that you “consented” (agreed) to the TOS when you signed up.
For reference here's the known efforts of the CIA in stirring the pot around the world. They are prolific by any comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
This is great! Wish I had it starting in elementary school. I've felt socially retarded my whole life. It's definitely caused me to miss out on a lot of normal social stuff. This was especially realized during high school. Only after going to college did I start to feel like I was correctly decoding a decent percentage of social indicators (and emitting more of my own to elicit enjoyable interaction).

My advice to any nerdy boys like my past self would be to lay off the computers somewhat and actually try to find a girlfriend and go to parties and stuff. You'll be a lot better for it once you're older and working.
“The rust belt is the trade off for globalization”

I want to frame this.

If that’s the trade off, it wasn’t worth it. Glad we are finally being honest, though. Could’ve used a bit more of this frankness in the 1990s.
From this firm's website:

"The Result: Despite dedicating millions of dollars to their organizing campaigns, the unions did not gain enough support to hold an NLRB-conducted election and were not able to organize any of the employees."

I'm not sure how preventing the organisation of labour is anything but evil. The employees wanted to unionize and this firm was able to prevent that. Nice job!
I'm someone who is just never going to watch a video when someone says "Watch THIS!" with no further context. It's too expensive to find out if your advice is useful or not. So, while I know you are under no obligation, can you give some flavor for why this video is a great and impactful video?
Pyramidion [1] made of gold (thereby reflecting the sun) explains where the idea of the Obelisk of Light [2] in the game C&C came from. My 2 ct of nostalgia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidion

[2] https://cnc.fandom.com/wiki/Obelisk_of_Light_(Tiberian_Dawn)
Personally I find Portal so enjoyable that I'm happy that I have the original Portal and Portal 2.

However, at a first glance it seems like it should have been relatively straightforward to create sequels that just have more levels. But maybe it's not that easy to actually do it.
I beg to differ:

Fire services saved my town just last month when the largest fire in our counties history was set to erase it from the map. They can make a stand where they need to if they have time.

Source: "Inside the fight to save Windsor from the Kincade Fire" [1]

1 - https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10278596-181/inside-the-f...
Why not? It is a race condition, just like TOCTTOU is a race condition that doesn't necessarily involve threads.

Note the difference between race conditions in general and data races that involve unsynchronized access to shared memory.
You know there is going to be a well acktually person saying that.
But it seems that the "where the sound is made" aspect is being described as discrete whereas the positioning approaches more of a spectrum. Even if it were discrete, the fact that most phonemes can be produced with multiple positions would require at least a list of points.
Why is this on the front page of HN? It is showing up at #48 and yet has 672 points.
Wikileaks schooled the entire western world mainstream media by releasing more material than they ever could hope.

I love the NYTimes, I consider them the best there is, but when it comes to US national matters or a specific Wall Street breed of Democrats, they are just as ridiculous as Fox News :-)
pg (amongst others) talked a lot about this. Middle layer language design, eDSL, language oriented programming ala racket.

Fun to see liskov mention that when so few, if at all, of the oo World thought this way.
Some of the LK201 function strip variants had it labelled, e.g. https://deskthority.net/wiki/File:LK201_top.jpg
How do you know? As I said in my comment, they may be drives that didn't quite meet the qc threshold.

All drives usually ship with a certain number of bad sectors. An excessively high number of bad sectors can mean there are quality issues with that specific drive. They may be 'binning' those more poorly testing drives for the external USB drives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning
By that definition, most people don't have "knowledge" over most things which they believe and act on. And yet, no one accuses them of not possessing "general intelligence".

If an AI shows the same capabilities as the average human being, I would say that is AGI by definition. Regardless of whether it meets the requirement for Platonic Knowledge.
To be clear, the Acropolis did not “decay”. It was blown up by the Venetians when they fired on the Parthenon, which at the time was used to store gunpowder.
That novel was written at the height of the War on Drugs, and meant to describe that then-present situation. I suppose there's some novelty in how it unintentionally predicted that widespread drug abuse would continue to be a problem even in a high-tech future. And given the twist at the end of A Scanner Darkly, perhaps there's some extra resonance there?
> Also, the Spanish <ll> as /ʒ/ (S in English treasure) is not nearly as extent in South America as you might think. It's still mostly limited to Argentina and Uruguay:

In Puerto Rican Spanish (at least, my grandmother's family's accent), the <ll> is more of a /dʒj/ sort of thing. "llama" comes out to "djyamma", with the "dj" softened significantly. Not sure how to express that more precisely in IPA, though.
> The West naively thought the "free market" would liberalize China (and Russia) and we were very wrong.

We have all heard this idea thrown around now for some time. It’s only in the last few years it seems people have accepted that it wasn’t going to work.

In the context of the trade war and everything lately, I’ve really been thinking about this theory.

On one hand, we know the current reality. An ascendant authoritarian country looking to return to great power status. We have a trade war as a result of years of toxic codependency. It remains to be seen how far the trade war goes and wether or not it is the catalyst for some future war.

Now on the other hand, what direction would China have gone had Nixon not gone to China to open up trade negotiations in the 70s.

It’s impossible to know, but I can imagine quite a number of scenarios that are far worse than a trade war with China.
Imagine a North Korea type situation where the country is much larger and influential and does not have such a co dependent trading relationship with the United States.

Is that really a better outcome?

Also important noting that China already had nukes when they began joining international trade in the 70s.

The situation could’ve been much worse.
Furthermore it seems to me that investing in a stable company smaller than a certain size is likely to have too much key man risk. If I invest in a small business on the assumption it’s going to keep yielding me stable dividends for the next thirty years, I’d better be damn sure the people in charge aren’t going to get bored or call in rich at some point.

Huge public companies have enough scale and momentum that they can survive the departure of any reasonable set of individuals, but small companies don’t always.
A new Justice Department decision may radically reshape movie-going
I've been reading this book to get an overview of Prolog: http://www.learnprolognow.org/. It's much better than most of the tutorials I found out there, and provides a very gentle, very thorough introduction to what might be some fairly alien programming ideas (at least, they were to me).

I'm still chewing over the fact that a Prolog term looks exactly the same whether it's in a knowledge base (ie it's true), or whether you're feeding it to the prompt (ie you're asking if it's true or not). Maybe I'm just spooking myself out, but the identity of facts and queries feels reminiscent of Lisp's homoiconicity between code and data.
If I had the appropriate skill, I would map out the "face" on Mars and create a 3D app that lets you look from any arbitrary vantage point, and move the sun around anywhere you want in order to emulate the different times of day, season, etc.

It would be interesting to see from that how the optical illusion works, and also dispel the lingering belief some have carried over that NASA (for whatever reason they ever would do such a thing) blew it up with nukes.

I think such an app would be quite popular for at least 15 minutes. Ample resources are available for it.
Google don't solve it your way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21586180
At this point there are like 4 implementations of Graydon's bors. Which one did you use?

The Servo and Rust projects have used a bors* for many years and have had few problems.

* Servo uses the https://github.com/servo/homu fork of the Homu rewrite of Graydon's original code, and Rust uses a slightly different fork at https://github.com/rust-lang/homu.
I like Thunderbird and Mutt.

If your system can't handle and categorize IMAP folders of 50,000 messages and 500 new emails per day, don't bother on my account.

Have good GPG support.

Search is important. My cyrus imap server can find good search results in a couple of seconds out of 15 GB of email. You'd have to at least match that.

Make sure I can send messages in plain text with formatting that is exactly how I wrote it or pasted it.

But on the other hand, I do need to be able to read HTML email. I just won't write it.
This Wikipedia article suggests that Go is not regarded as a systems programming language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_programming_language#Ma...
A charter filed with the state can't make decisions was my point. That, miraculously, no one has really been held liable is a travesty.
I actually think most people do want to talk code. Specifically, how coding might work, or might not work. Whenever I bring up my software dev job, at least one person asks me what my day to day looks like, am I familiar with ML, do I know what blockchain is, etc. And then when I explain it, it comes off almost like revealing the man behind the curtain.

Technology touches everyone. Of course they want to know about how it works!
Thank you, BLS, for finally settling the ages old question of whether a software developer actually programs a computer or not.
There’s a lot of interesting posts with facts and the like for me it’s just: “I’ve tried to do web development and failed every time. The barrier to entry is too damn high. Babel, webpack, blah blah blah, then frameworks, and then good UI design and then efficient API consumption...”