skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CIA were just _obsessed_ with LSD for all sorts of HUMINT purposes. Part of this was that they were operating under the faulty assumption that the USSR and other Cold War powers were ordering massive amounts of the stuff, so the whole "Russians are gonna do it faster, stronger, and better than us UNLESS we prepare" complex kicked in.

There was, of course, a strong incentive to test anti-interrogation techniques, should enemy intelligence use LSD against captured spies/our guys. From my own teenage experimentation, I can posit that, in the right set and setting, it'd be damn hard for me to keep any sort of secret. But it would probably be the combined fear from being tortured/interrogated while definitely having a bad trip that would give me up.
David Attenborough says it's 'too late' to reverse climate change
Yeah, I don't think we want CERN research being automatically deleted from YouTube because of some "copyright" machine buzzing sound in the background.
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Don't see why not, although to do so you'd need to use moxie-native which is still very new.
You appear to be laboring under the gross misassumption that the human is there to take control when the machine fucks up. They are not.

They are there to take the blame.

You cannot realistically expect a human spectator to switch modes at zero notice and save the machine from a deadly fuckup that the machine has already put them into. That’s not how human minds work. We just don’t bootstrap that fast. Jebus, we’re bad enough at salvaging bad situations we’ve knowingly manoeuvered ourselves into while already fully engaged in command and control mode.

At least when you—the human pilot—fucks up, you already know the decision chain that got you there because it is your own. With the machine you have first to determine it has gone catastrophically wrong, then determine how it has gone wrong, and finally calculate and execute the recovery strategy before…oh, whoops, too late: you just wiped out all the executive bonuses for this quarter. Also, there’s a blood streak on the street.

As for how large software development projects work, I think the trail of corpses already testifies more than suf as to how they don’t. Industrial institutionalization of incompetence is no defense, and any “professional” who hides behind it can go get fucked.
That is not what the NTSB said.

Responsibility is not zero sum. The safety driver is responsible. But so are the people who sent out robot cars with a single safety driver, as they knew or should have known that paying attention in low-interaction situations for many hours in a row is not something humans reliably do.

The Uber managers and execs are also responsible, in that they set up the system that led to needless death.

But none of that absolves the programmers, some of whom did things that they knew or should have known were dangerous, and who did not make sure that the system they were committing code for was set up for proper safety.

Your notion that the only job of programmers is to meet the spec is one I deeply disagree with. We're not Amazon warehouse workers, desperate for a job and blindly following whatever orders come our way. We're highly paid professionals whose job is to understand what we're building and what effects it has. I think that's true for any sort of coding, but I believe it's very obviously true for life-critical systems. If we can't handle the responsibility, we shouldn't cash the (quite large) checks.
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I work remotely and have a very consistent schedule / routine. I have a family so that helps in terms of company in the house reminding me to leave the office.

When I leave my office (a dedicated space), I'm done for the day, but that's also due to the culture at my workplace. It's possible to have both, is all I'm saying. Remote doesn't mean no routine.
But if it's a counterfeit product masquerading as a brand name, the fact that the genuine brand-name product is listed offers only false assurance to the buyer of the counterfeit.
Malta history is very entertaining. Much more than its almost nonexistent beaches :) . I was astonished when I discovered that they defended the island for several months with basically 3 biplanes. And whole siege is insane (same as Ottoman and French previously).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Malta_(World_War_II)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Gladiator#Malta
> Kenya ranks among the world's six most corrupt countries. Bribery and fraud cost Kenya as much as US$1 billion a year. Kenyans pay some 16 bribes a month, for two in every three encounters with public officials

Could it be possible that the improvements they saw in these communities were the result of better ability to bribe officials? That they couldn't get the supplies they were entitled to without spending extra cash?

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Kenya#Challenges
Regarding the start-up story, that is only one kind of enterprise, one with high risk and a long period of preparation before any chance of creating a product,and they're obviously not for everyone. But not all new enterprises are start-ups - if I were to open a shop, for example, I would expect to start turning a profit from day one (disregarding the loan I need to acquire the physical location and merchandise, of course), so the workers in the shop co-op would immediately have a clear revenue stream.

> that way the contract naturally changes from slavery to employment agreement.

Pure Libertarianism is at least as much an idealistic system as socialism is. I don't think these kinds of clever tricks and relying entirely on markets can produce the desired outcomes, at least not as efficiently as regulations can. Examples in history of the standards many businesses held even for things such as food and medicine before explicit regulations and inspections were mandated would seem to agree with me.

>Are there any hostile actions from which only some people deserve to be protected?

No, and I wasn't suggesting there should be. Worker-owned co-ops would not even have the power to attack capitalist corporations, but the reverse would definitely happen. Big corporations try to destroy any competition they have by default, and they would certainly focus their efforts against a competitor controlled by a lower class.

> and it's better to work with them to bring everyone up, instead of trying to bring them down.

Capitalism by definition seeks to bring investors up, and no more than that. Any raising of the rest of the population is entirely accidental, and sometimes explicitly discouraged (for example, no capitalists would like to see growing prosperity among Chinese factory workers, since it would directly eat into their profits).

Do note that European/US-style capitalism is definitely preferrable to USSR or Chinese style planned, centralized state capitalism, and even that is in turn preferrable to serfdom or slavery-based economies.
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It is a company whose product is hardware. For example: Sun, HP, Apple.
> the weight loss is principally from calories in, calories out

Is it? Study [1] claims "Mice fed an FS [fat and sugar] diet ad libitum (FSA) consumed the same amount of calories as mice fed within a 9 hr window of the dark phase (FST) [fat and sugar, time restricted] (Figure S2A, i), yet the FST [time restricted] mice gained less body weight"

and then
"to investigate the therapeutic potential of TRF [Time Restricted Feeding], we tested whether TRF could reverse or arrest body weight gain [..] Within a few days the mice were habituated to the new feeding paradigm and continued to consume equivalent calories (Figure S2A, iv). The 13:12 FAT mice showed a modest drop in body weight"

[1] https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(14)...

From related work of https://www.salk.edu/scientist/satchidananda-panda/

I think "it has to be calories in/calories out because it's just common sense" is not nuanced enough for biological systems.
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Having rust as the only low level language with ownership concept isn't ideal either.
> It supposedly promises you that you don't need to know SQL to use

please support this assertion with an ORM whose documentation promises this.

> ORM constantly will make unnecessary SQL queries and by default request all fields,

as does "SELECT * FROM table" if you don't write out the fields and use a buffering database adapter (which is the case for nearly all Python database adapters), so, when using an ORM, you need to give it instructions over what columns you need to fetch. This is not unusual nor even anything a library could possibly guess for you if you do not give it this intent.
As if "religious principles" in any way inhibit immoral choices and create a moral system outside of one beneficial to itself.
Everything is a management problem one way or another.
It's unkind to call someone else's work "awful," even if its meant in a very minor way (even if I agree with it!). It's a low value comment when it doesn't provide any concrete feedback on top of that. Our industry has abysmal standards for discourse and I'm not sure why you think that's important to apologize for and normalize.
It probably isn't very common where police need to capture a holed up military-trained sniper who has already taken out 5 police officers. Do you have any examples of other countries capturing people like that without any more casualties?
Insulin causes our body to retain water. In the first 3 days or so of a long fast like that you pee water like a firehose as your insulin levels plummet to nearly zero. Also fat burning becomes less efficient in the absence of glycogen stores due to ketone creation. In addition human growth hormone levels will increase.

10kg in 9 days is likely about 3-4kg fat/protein and 6-7kg water roughly speaking.
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you should read some of Giles Milton's books: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29386.Nathaniel_s_Nutmeg
and
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/411475.White_Gold
are good ones to start with
>Oxide Computer will try and bridge that gap and let anyone buy efficient, manageable servers.

>This is of some interest to me as there are lots of use cases for which cloud isn't practical or has regulatory challenges, and this should give organizations for whom this is an issue some good options.

Sounds, to me, as the exact premise of OpenStack, no?
Although I don't agree with this, this is a revealing insight into understanding how the liberal thought process works. It explains why liberals are so soft on crime.
if you are really all about transparency then would you like to explain why someone from your company was caught red handed trying to smear other VPN providers?

https://i.imgur.com/xg52ous.jpg

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Funny that their homepage says "Rigetti Quantum Computers Are Now Available On AWS" :)
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> There is a big upset coming in the UX world as we converge toward a generalized implementation of the "diff & patch" pattern which underlies Git, React, compiler optimization, scene rendering, and query optimization.

I thought git (as opposed to, say, RCS) did _not_ do the diff thing, and each object is just the full thing, relying on gzip to do the compression?
I'm not really certain what void this is filling. As a solo-entrepreneur, it took me less than an hour all told to get Hiscox insurance. What is the competitive advantage to this? Why would I choose this over the alternative?
I see your point and I agree - the book is not groundbreaking or revolutionary. Me walking to work is something I've done for a couple of years and not an idea I discovered because of the book.

With that said I think it's a well written and researched piece. I'll finish it because even though I'm already using some of the techniques provided inside, it's good to reinforce the things you know but it's also good to see things from another perspective. Like for example I've never really given thought to the monastic or bi-modal style of deep work although they are reality for a lot of people. Small things like that are valuable (at least to me).
It's not just medical residents. Doctors do refresh their knowledge from videos online. And they totally google for information. But I don't think it's what many people imagine when reading it.

> How can doctors tell which videos are valid and which contain bogus information?

They're doctors. They had years of training and know the basics of what they're booking up. It's closer to experienced developers looking up specific usage for some tool which they're familiar with otherwise, rather than learning from scratch.

Sure, there's going to be some extreme bad cases, but those are bad doctors in general, the source of info is not relevant.
That's what I meant :)
> This new service is designed to let you get some hands-on experience with qubits and quantum circuits.

Lots of open-source libraries do this[0]. Is Amazon Bracket going to be open-source?

[0]: https://github.com/desireevl/awesome-quantum-computing#devel...
Producing better guides for medical-image analysis
Except it's html. They didn't serve text/plain. I do get that thinking as words helps but isn't org mode or markdown plaintext?
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I'm not happy with the state of the syntax, but I'm pretty sure it'll take me farther than this attitude.
More prior art: pfrazee.hashbase.io has been working on this sort of thing in unwalled.garden, but was last seen going off into the weeds to focus on yak-shaving and schema-polishing.

The predecessor to unwalled.garden (fritter.hashbase.io) also bears some resemblance to the author's Socii. It would be neat to see Socii "rebased" onto Dat and Fritter, but also made to work for legacy plebs still on the legacy web, and then trying to organically grow "A personal API" out of that, instead of the sort of top-down, second-system thing that happened with unwalled.garden.
This is exciting and anxiety provoking at the same time. Just when I am starting to grasp the inner workings of cloud / kubernetes infrastructures, this is on the horizon. What a world we are in !
Ask HN: Who is using Python in the browser or mobile platforms?
For nearly a decade now, we've been talking about Python running in places other than the CLI of a server.

There have been a bunch of efforts to build a toolchain allowing Python to run "anywhere" - Beeware / Briefcase, Kivi, etc.

When connectNative started to be a topic of wide conversation, there was a wave of optimism that this was going to be the way that Python ran in the browser. But is anybody doing it?

In 2020, if you want to target CLI, browser, and mobile, all with one codebase, do you still need to use javascript?
This is a good thing to be aware of.

Also the "field" of floating point numbers is not commutative†, (can run on JS console:)

x=0;for (let i=0; i<10000; i++) { x+=0.0000000000000000001; }; x+=1

--> 1.000000000000001

x=1;for (let i=0; i<10000; i++) { x+=0.0000000000000000001; };

--> 1

Although most of the time a+b===b+a can be relied on. And for most of the stuff we do on the web it's fine!††

† edit: Please s/commutative/associative/, thanks for the comments below.

†† edit: that's wrong! Replace with (a+b)+c === a+(b+c)
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>but as long as one of the medium sized ISPs, Bahnhof

An ISP named themselves "train station"?
And yet they still are ahead of Intel.
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Can a stealth T-shirt foil digital spies?
10+ years ago you'd have to spend considerable time and money getting to the journal article if you even could do that and it was available in your language. Then, you'd still have dry description, not a video of an actual procedure.

(I'm still showing people scihub because they just wouldn't access the papers otherwise)
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Hopefully Ada/SPARK.
The vast amount of Mandalorian memes seems to directly reflect Disney was correct to return to a weekly release schedule and away from the Netflix model of binge watching. Netflix shows often generate memes for a weekend or a week if Netflix is lucky, then dissipate quickly. With new Mandalorian episode each week, social media has been inundated with weekly fresh memes like clockwork.

It could also just be a Star Wars effect and that this is the first Star Wars TV series of any kind so that's also going to balance in its favor, or that it struck a nerve.

Ironically, Disney's lawyers actually tried to shut down some of the memes with DMCA takedowns in an instinctive bit of trying to control their copyrights. I'm not sure Disney quite expected the social media firestorm they created with The Mandalorian either.
So the vast majority of gun death happens because of illegal guns and yet the problem is that guns are legal. The wretched cesspools that we call public schools are creating a bullying environment that makes kids suicidal and in this way kills lots of kids (some of which translate their despair into murder-suicide) and yet it’s our 2A right that we should dismantle, not the public schools? Our kids are an international embarrassment and cannot even point to Tunisia on a map. And the most famous school shooting of all time, the one that started it all, columbine, sources it’s guns from an illegal gun dealer, not the home and yet it’s my right to defend my home that needs to be infringed?