skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, over a billion people, all loyal to the cause.

Machine learning is sloppy and imperfect now but if anyone is going to get out ahead of the pack first, it would seem to be China. Especially since they are not held to the same accountability as other nations due to the West's relatively weak influence, and they are more comfortable with locking up the wrong person just to make sure they catch the right one too.
> Yeah, kind of. It has an effect, that's undeniable, but whether that effect results in a therapeutic outcome or a bad trip or just a fun time is not due the chemical. It's not like e.g. aspirin for headaches (FWIW that's still pretty mysterious too, but at least it's consistent.)

Agreed, somewhat. It's not due just to the chemical.

BUT, it doesn't necessarily follow that:

> The result of taking psilocybin depends [primarily] on the "set and setting" (and a lot of other factors no doubt.)

Set and setting is undoubtedly important, and it's possible that they are paramount, but I see little evidence to believe this is the case and that similar (see above) results can be practically achieved with alternative approaches, and much that contradicts it. But to be clear, at a bare minimum one needs to be sitting in a quiet, (preferably) dark room, not at a rave. This much seems obviously true, and in line with what you're saying.

I think where we agree is that a certain state of mind MUST be achieved in order for the magic to occur. Where we differ is how (the various ways in which) that can be achieved, and to what degree, in reality (which for us to know, would require substantial study, that has yet to take place).

> Look this is weird for me to say but no, I object to the normalization of getting high as a way to treat depression. There are other methods that are effective and safe.

Agreed, if you word it like that, but I don't think that's a fair wording. Just "getting high" isn't the only option.

> One of the strange and frustrating things is that every kind of healing modality with which I have personal experience (including Reiki, Feldenkrais, NLP, EFT, hypnosis, and others), every one of them is somehow "unreproducible" by at least some mainstream scientists, to put it mildly

I intensely share your frustration with the excessively scientific materialist style of thinking that comes up with these "unreproducible therefore it's false pronouncements.

We need to get everything down on paper and start sorting it out, and then form opinions. And this applies to everything, not just psychedelics. If only people could figure out this incredibly simple idea.

You know, I wish more people were able to have reasonable conversations like you, imagine how wonderful the world could be if a way could be found to recognize and spread this character trait.
> You have input regarding what the state provides.

No, the majority electorate has input regarding what the state provides. If I'm lucky, I'm part of that majority.

Government systems do not cater to minorities unless the majority electorate decides to be charitable.

Private systems sometimes provide the minority extra choices because they chase profits instead of votes. Of course, that's only if there is profit to be made off the minority.

Neither system does a good job of catering to poor minorities. But getting rid of one wont make the other better.
Off topic, I'm wondering, do people on here tend to have subscriptions to sites like wsj.com that are behind a paywall or is there a known way to get past it without one that I just don't know about?
Someone whose name I forgot (paul something ps: paul biggar) made a thesis on the uncompilability of PHP, but that was few years ago, maybe with the addition of typed annotations it's gonna be possible to get a bit of it.
>Private schools increase the funding available per-student in public schools.

When what you pay into public schools becomes your tax contribution to private schools they will on average have more per student if more students from higher tax brackets join.
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
I hope everyone celebrating Thanksgiving has a wonderful day.

I’m thankful for a lot of things this year. This year has been very positive for me despite some loss and sadness.

I hope everyone can pause from our phones and distractions today and reflect on this year as it starts to draw to a close. If you look in the mirror and are not thankful for what you see, please get a better mirror. We all matter.
this is dystopian. is there anything we can do? i can’t think of anything... government won’t help, the org which we trusted to protect .org is the one screwing it, are we completely powerless?

if this battle is lost, what greedy move can they make next? how can we get ahead of that now?
First time I saw a room full of non-crt computer monitors, found out Merrill Lynch moved to a new building to save money. What they discovered is the CRTs would weird out every time the subway train went by. All the cash saved by moving was lost buying the stupid expensive monitors.
What you’re suggesting is a pretty massive intervention. I think it’s useful to know whether or not your proposed intervention would actually do anything before seriously putting it forward. Do you know whether schooling actually has a causal effect on life outcomes? I think you might be surprised if you start reading the literature on this.
And mindfull employees will notice that and leave.
Thanks for the ICANN info, I'll prepare a similar form for them. Do you have some resources I can use to summarize ICANN's questionable activities?
I've always subscribed to the notion that while there is an objective reality, in many cases humans have no hope of finding it directly and instead only have access to it through cultural filters.

What this means is that cultural processes can change what facts are considered true over time.
obviously because private money has sick incentives and there's only tax money besides private capital to work with. like i said the problem is tax money also has sick incentives.
There's some rationale here[0]. Basically they'd need to use a parser that on ambiguities would have to go down all possible routes concurrently until all but one fail, which can lead to performance costs. Using a prefix keeps things simple.

[0] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/arrow_functions_v2#x_x_y1
Some people care about historical value. Consider the previous BBC post about it:

> So too would accounts set up specifically as an archive, such as @POTUS44, a collection of all the tweets made by President Barack Obama while in office.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50567751
"Maybe the poor kid goes to a trade school moving up from poor to upper middle class."

Isn't mobility actually decreasing?
We tried to use it in real life for smilebooth. It was nice for little sample apps but as soon as you hit something it was not designed for, the workaround was more painful than if you had just gone with a plain rest api. Scalability was pretty limiting too.
Well if they literally said that, then I'm sure you can copy + paste said portion. Because even upon re-reading the comment, I can't find this statement.
CoC's are inherently political, they say something about the people you have to deal with when contributing to the project. If you like that kind of people you'd see a CoC as a positive, but if you don't like them then you'd avoid CoC's. I don't see why this is so hard to understand.
I've always found the Japanese adoption of Zen to be very interesting historically. As a "technology" or body of techniques, the advantages one can gain from meditation, enhanced awareness, and asceticism are well-documented.

Where I would caution practitioners is to be very wary of religious invitations to ego death and loss of control over chakras (Never "open" your chakras - which are a physiological metaphor for very important aspects of your Self. These aspects should be disciplined and controlled, never "opened.")

Everything below your heart represents your base passions and failure to discipline these most of all turns you into an easily manipulated slave.
Twitter is targeting inactive accounts which just happen to include dead users not the other way around.
I wouldn't even be concerned about WSL but about the Windows experience itself.

You're trading a tool that's been designed to serve you well (although quality it slipping lately) for a "tool" that's designed to waste your time with advertisements and violate your privacy.

The first tool manufacturer's incentive is to make a product that works for you so you keep giving them money (in the form of buying new machines and their cloud services). The second manufacturer's incentive is to waste as much of your time with ads and other crap they shove in your face since that's how they want to make their money. The "tool" aspect of it is secondary and is only there to make you stay on the platform, but since Windows 7 hasn't been the primary objective.

But speaking of WSL itself, I have concerns regarding filesystem performance on lots of small files (during Git clones, NPM install operations, etc). I think it's a limitation of NTFS more than anything and I'm not sure if there's an easy solution for them.
It may also happen that as they wake up they discover other aspects of Buddhism that lead them to continue to evolve their practice so they are not harming others.
I tried C# + .NET Core recently, and while the core language was excellent, I found the library ecosystem severely lacking compared to the PHP and JavaScript ecosystems.

And some of the best libraries which did exist were under commercial licenses! Which generally isn't an issue in other ecosystems.
> If you can’t contribute without being a dick, why would anyone want your contribution?

I, for one, want it because it's a contribution to open source, and I am pissed at people who feel otherwise and try framing their dumb opinion as more than just that.

Why would you want their contribution? I don't know, it's not my problem, and you don't speak for me. You don't speak for many people. Maybe you speak for a majority of the community, maybe not even that.

At the end of the day, rejecting good code because someone else doesn't like the contributor, that's just dumb and it holds open source back.

> that technical prowess exempts them from such from getting involved

What does one have to do with the other? Just because someone behaves like an asshole doesn't mean they need to be excluded from everything. Assholes can open bank accounts too, does that mean banks somehow agree with them?

My hypothesis, and I have no way of proving this, is that a substantial part (at least 20%) of the people attacking someone elses "toxic behavior" in the programming community are just pissed that they're not as good. Sorry if I'm bursting anyones bubble, but some people just suck at programming. Some people just can't deal with how someone they really don't like is better than them at the skill they identify with.
I hope that Krsna has special karma for people who keep thinking they are independent and rulers of nature. I cant wait for that day so I can laugh while I do real yoga for this age of Kali. America will also have its day of reckoning. And to bust your bubble, they will never be able to silence or rewrite history. UK has tried and continues to fail. The people who know the real truth just have too much bliss enjoying reality than trying to convince the dull masses otherwise. Everyone today believes they are so great and smart because of the tiny advancements in manipulating nature that no matter what presentation is done in whatever language, no one is listening because of pride and fear of losing their cherished life paradigms. Posts like this remind me how all I've just said is a waste of time and people are doomed so I just chill in bliss while everyone else is insane worried about death. Hare Krsna!
Yes, and I saw that the author made this point as well. But again, mindfulness isn’t a stress lowering switch, it’s literally training in awareness of what is happening in one’s field of experience which includes a toxic environment if present. Awareness training should NOT render one insulated against your surrounding environment. It should highlight it as you become more aware and attentive.

Now, a LOT of mindfulness programs and teachers ARE essentially selling relaxation practices as mindful attention training, and I would agree that THAT is a problem. But the problem there in my view is not that the practice is being taught without morality or moral principle, but without actual awareness training. It’s relaxation sold as mindfulness. And I think that’s a shame, but I still wouldn’t deny anyone tools to relax. I just wish they wouldn’t call it mindfulness.
What would you like to see instead improvement wise? The typing features are optional, so everything that makes PHP simple to use is still there and available.

I have some patches to improve the DOM API extension for example, simplify its usage which would make it much simpler to use.
If it were feasible, would you want the US government to prevent wealthy Americans from emigrating?

If not, what is different about a ban on emigrating such that your argument applies to a ban on private schools, but does not apply to ban on emigrating?

Would not the quality of the US government stay higher if those American citizens with the largest capacity to influence it were forced to remain American citizens rather than become, e.g., German citizens when things in the US become worse than they are in Germany?
"you must log in to continue"

Hang on... to check the status of login you need to login?
What a wonderful circular dependency that is!
You don't need machine vision for that, you can do it with four photodiodes.

That's how it's been done for like 40 years. No vision or "AI" required.
No amount of transistors can make shared memory monoliths fast on multicore systems, because the problem is in architecture unfriendly to such systems, not in hardware. Monoliths can be fast if they drop shared memory and use actor model, not atomics and mutexes and programming with shared memory. But then it would no longer make them monoliths. Basically what makes monoliths slow on multicore systems is also the thing that makes them not microkernels. I mean if you split everything into actors, why even run all of them in kernel? Group them into isolated OS processes.
Was business culture any different before?
If anything it makes it worse, he can't plead ignorance.
The ad is still there, now it pushes the google app:
https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/11810479664228556...

There’s also a popover div ad in gmail:
https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/10810743891336806...
Which is obvious of course. But if it’s “obvious” for you that all of your payment details are properly set up and up to date, a visual check every now and might feel sufficient.
Breast cancer screening is one of those things where there is a serious risk of overdiagnosis and iatrogenic injury and one has to seriously think about how many such injuries are acceptable per life saved.

I personally think that the targeted use of MR -- which, with contrast, has its own (minute, marginal) risks (broadly comparable to mammography) is appropriate, as the image quality really is an order of magnitude better than plain film alone.

Nevertheless, this rate of iatrogenic harm has to be considered -- heck, just from basic Bayesian probability, you'll know that any imperfect test for a rare disease results in a lot of false positives.

Here in the UK, it's generally accepted that the ultimate rate of 'harm', that is, over-treatment, is about 3:1; "that is one breast cancer death prevented for about every three overdiagnosed cases identified and treated". Both the NHS and most women feel that, knowing this, "accepting the offer of breast screening is worthwhile" -- and I personally agree with them. [both 1]

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[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
You are free to try it. I think it is possible. The shell has enough built in functions such as echo. One decade ago I read some blog article describing a possible way. First step is to set an alias 'alias ls="echo *"'.
I'm actually working on a tool that aggregates annotations across different services https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia (screenshot is a bit old, e.g. currently it's capable of displaying inline highlights as well). I've been using it for almost a year now, but it needs few final touches before I can release it.

The 'less technical users' bit is tricky one. I am trying to make it as effortless as possible, but there is some inevitable overhead for running export scripts, configuring etc. I'm also working on a post exploring this overhead and thinking of ways to make it better :)
Was business culture much different before?

Edison literally sent thugs to tear down competitors' film equipment...
No, it does not as rich kids generally live in rich neighborhoods and poor kids in poor neighborhoods. All it does is make everyone miserable.
Maybe he got a kickback
What if there was someone with the same name as you who did want to tweet? They would say you are the one squatting.
Reminds me of https://github.com/pkamenarsky/replica for Haskell
> The middle class helped spark the revolution hoping that the proletariat would come around eventually.

That resulted in several decades of false starts by what Krein would call the Russian "secondary elite", in the form of the Narodniks, in the 1870s and 1880s. They had almost zero experience with the real "narod", only an idealized mental picture, and when they moved out of the big cities into the countryside (where the majority of the poor, Russia being vastly unindustrialised, lived), most of them got homesick and went back again.
Right, this is another side of things that makes even slow ancient microkernel designs viable.
This looks impressive, kudos.
Definately a novelty from HN audience standpoint.

By why would I as typical customer care how an agency (who you are substituting) converts sketch to site? I want quality, good price, fast delivery. Everything else can be a black box.

Don't get me wrong, not criticizing your idea or business model, just the marketing angle.
It certainly reduces the likelihood of everyone and their uncle putting in requests to bag a few gTLDs for themselves...
Make mobility sustainable Now From Berlin to the world
Exactly. As long as everyone keeps getting paid no one has any incentive to stop the gravy train.
>allowing investors to pay for the training of employees who will be adding value

Putting on my most cynical hat, what value is there in flashy web frameworks and marketing hacks?
As far as I can tell, there are two systems for meaningful names (as opposed to "arbitrary" ones like phone numbers or 4chan IDs):

1. A first-come-first-serve system like Twitter. I'd list drawbacks but this comment section is full of them.

2. A lease system like domain names, whose drawbacks are best explained in this tweet by @devonzuegel:

> Domain names really hold you hostage. As soon as you've shared a link
> from that domain, you have two options when it comes up for renewal:
> (1) Pay the ransom for that domain registration, or
> (2) Break the internet, specifically the part linking to your own
> content

Does anyone know of another way to do meaningful names?
I wholeheartedly agree, and to the extent that a program is simply soothing, then there isn’t any actual mindful attention training happening.

That’s my primary point, that attention training isn’t a salve, it’s awareness building. The problem with a lot of mindfulness “training” is that it’s really just group relaxation without training the kind of awareness that should be useful in any context.
I actually use the database to store all the different aliases, then Postfix does a database lookup to see if they exist or not.
> Call it what it is: race-based social engineering.

Race-based social engineering, aka racism, has been a thing for as long as society has existed. Not exactly a new concept. This is a small attempt to right thousands of years of injustice.
A large part of the reason capitalism works is not because people want to make a better life for themselves, but because they want to make a better life for their kids. In a system where a parent can not work hard to increase the likelihood of their children’s’ success in life, likely the system would collapse. (This doesn’t mean that schools shouldn’t become more socialized, I’m pointing out the flaw in the argument that capitalism is tied to individual benefit. For any parent, their individual benefit takes a back seat to that of their kids.)
I can see why GTK would be a good choice, it has lots of bindings, and gnomes style guide is pretty well suited to enjoyable phone sized experience.

My experience with GTK has been fine its been far from impossible to use - with python, rust, and C. At least on linux, but that is the context of the issue.

Plasma mobile exists and apps will use QT so we can see how both turn out.
My point is they do not interact in a way we would qualify as hive. Neither do we.
The former CEO of ICANN basically started the PE firm PIR was “sold” to:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/11/isoc-pir-...

ICANN, by lifting the price restriction, was likely “in” on this deal.

When a nonprofit does something to greatly enrich a former CEO, that’s likely self dealing and illegal in the IRS’ eyes. The CA attorney general should also take action (ICANN is CA based).
Regarding the time it could take to travel between Earth and Mars, I recently saw a very interesting video on a concept called a "skyhook" that suggests it might be able to economically reduce the transit time to "just" two months or so, though I assume you'd still want to wait for an appropriate launch window, and in addition it probably wouldn't be operational in time to benefit the first few generations of travelers. :P https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dqwpQarrDwk
Can you elaborate on the "ego and politics" part?
Observability for Containers and VMs
Caffeine and Xanax found in “pure” blood samples used for transfusions
”I just wish they wouldn’t call it mindfulness.”

Yes, sell it as relaxation exercise or breathing practice. But don’t make people believe this has anything to do with Buddhism. We already watered down and distorted what people think yoga is. Let’s not do this to Buddhism.
Why this, can someone please explain.

Numeric literals can contain underscores between digits.

<?php
6.674_083e-11; // float
299_792_458; // decimal
0xCAFE_F00D; // hexadecimal
0b0101_1111; // binary
?>
... and it's been that way for a long time; we operate on consensus, and in 2014, non-Mozilla folks were added to the core team.

Today, it's extremely diffuse; there are ~200 people on the various teams that hold decision making power over the project, and only like six are Mozilla employees. The core team has 3 Mozilla employees and 9 people total.
Its all crap. "Not as authoritative". What a fool.
One of dozens of authoritative Sources: https://www.worldhealth.net/news/science-is-broken-and-the-p...
SAT is not good if you are neurodiverse
2+1 Road
Any chance you looked for a grid system?

In the early stages of needing to do fairly basic CAD with grid and snaps on a web page.

Having a hard time finding a decent lib to build on top of.
They could be said to be naturally intelligent, yes. However they only have to point at one target, the sun, while the mirrors have to point halfway between two targets, the sun and the tower.
my reading is that they consider the two to have very similar effects. conflating the two is the point, not a confusion
The Neuroscience of Anxiety
Pytudes: Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills
CO2 is growing exponentially. CH4 is not. If CO2 were stuck at the current level forever, nobody would care about global warming. It's future expected doublings that are driving the danger scenarios.

Let me make it extremely simple: there are future expected doublings of CO2 ppm, but there are none for CH4. The share of warming for CH4 compared to CO2 is low and will only get lower.