skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It didn't sound like that's what you were pointing out, at all.

Sorry. I'll try to do better.

> This makes it sound like the mushroom is little more than a placebo.

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

> Can go wrong? Sure, so should be used with caution, like anything else powerful.

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.

> Are the insights and healing similar?

> Is the amount of effort similar?

> Is the likelihood of receiving insights similar?

> Is there trustworthy evidence suggesting high risk (likelihood and magnitude) of risk with psilocybin, and trustworthy evidence that there is lesser risk with <x>?

> I feel fairly certain the answer to most of these questions is something like: "We don't know, for sure, because there is very little evidence outside of anecdotal stories."

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:

> Reiki is a pseudoscience,[1] and is used as an illustrative example of pseudoscience in scholarly texts and academic journal articles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiki

> There is no good medical evidence that the Feldenkrais method confers any health benefits. It is not known if it is safe or cost-effective,[2] but researchers do not believe it poses serious risks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldenkrais_Method

> There is no scientific evidence supporting the claims made by NLP advocates and it has been discredited as a pseudoscience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming

> EFT has no benefit as a therapy beyond the placebo effect or any known-effective psychological techniques that may be provided in addition to the purported "energy" technique.[3] It is generally characterized as pseudoscience and it has not garnered significant support in clinical psychology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_Freedom_Techniques

> The use of hypnosis in other contexts, such as a form of therapy to retrieve and integrate early trauma, is controversial within the medical or psychological mainstream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis

And so on.

I know from personal experience that the five things I just mentioned are pretty profound healing modalities. I have some theories, but really I don't know why science can't verify this stuff (at least so far.)
The interactivity that multiple users can share & control at the same time and also that it takes just one step to connect. But obviously CoScreen is meant for everyone & every use case, it works best for teams that collaborate again and again with the same group of peers.
Genuine question. How should Apple decide what to show where? We being individuals, can take a stand, but how can a company take non neutral stand where there are grey areas? Because one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Should a business be in the business of Justice?
"the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"

"Infringed" can certainly be read as any process that gets in the way of gun purchasing.
This is a great start. I particularly like the View JSON capability (in the Scene tab for those interested)
Because only one user can do that at a time (sharing as well as remote control afaik) and the others have to watch & listen. With CoScreen, multiple users can share & interact simultaneously or also switch much more quickly between content of each other and interact with it side by side (e.g. Alice's window right next to Bob's window).
I see that the Vatican has given up. Long ago, http://va/ was it. No other name under va existed. Netscape Navigator was able to navigate to that part of the net.

It really did make sense for such a tiny place.
I asked my PCP what my blood type was when I was getting blood tests for other things and he told me the same thing.
>I think that as machines become smarter and smarter, it is good that we dive a bit more in our philosophical world and reach for what makes us human.

That's a recurring theme in Ghost in the Shell, at least the anime series. That as the line between human and machine is blurred, the general trend is in the direction of homogeneity, but here and there you still see people doing "deontological" things, ostensibly as a grasp at uniqueness to preserve self.

An interesting thought occurs to me though, with the proliferation of various NN architectures, and the idea that such nets, if scaled and installed to power humanoid robots, would effectively learn different heuristics after training on chaotically different data, it's quite possible that machines will also gradually evolve individuality and something rather close to personality.

Perhaps individuality is an intrinsic, emergent property in any system of generally intelligent and learning agents. Like a 3+ body on steroids, millions, if not billions of dimensions.

Also interesting to consider that the emergence of uniqueness among a system of said agents seems to increase entropy, a presently unique to life property given that everything inanimate in the universe does exactly the opposite. The more I think of general AI, the more I have trouble distinguishing it from the only other sentient intelligence we know of.
Sure but the ratio is pretty overwhelmingly positive now.
I'm not a JS expert but the code was an interesting read.

Are there other free sports API's out there? The MLB one is cool.
In the same way that money gets in the way of the right of people to own property.
Paradigm-shifting research can be conducted in both of these seemingly-contradictory environments.

The most important common factor is freedom: the freedom to play; to experiment; to pursue whatever seems interesting; to fuck around.

An individual conducting research during leisure time is certainly free to pursue whatever seems worthwhile.

Similarly, an individual conducting research for an institution willing to lose gobs of money on the whims of its researchers (e.g. Bell Labs) is free to pursue whatever seems worthwhile.

True invention of born of creativity and creativity is attenuated by even the lightest shackles.
Forcing poor people to choose between their health and some other need seems extremely cynical to me. Often the poor just can't make that choice, they need food, shelter, clothes first. It's not a real choice when your immediate basic needs are at stake.
Study: Our universe may be part of a giant quantum computer
> knew that I had to write programs using this technology

Well now you don't
The solution probably lies in preventing people from wanting to do so much damage in the first place. The fact that it is such a common occurrence for Americans to want to shoot up schools says a lot.
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I wonder if they enjoyed fame and technical 'supremacy' (pardon the term) at the time kinda like the western world in the last century.
FreeCad has an Arch workbench. It's impressive but takes some time to get comfortable with it.

https://freecadweb.org/wiki/Arch_tutorial
> They would have left it banned if they wanted to do what you're saying.

Nah, they were caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

For critical content outside China, they minimize it via censorship when possible. Once the public becomes aware of censorship, they stop censoring.

So in this case, there are probably still things being removed from TikTok that are critical of China, we just aren't aware of them because they aren't from this girl's account. As for this girl's account, they can probably artificially lower likes or something. The point of censorship is to do it without being caught.
the racket people seem to disagree because they are moving away from lisp/scheme syntax supposedly to improve what they can do with macros.
Is "unlawful" there translated from a word with similar connotations in Chinese? Because "unlawful [search, etc] is prohibited" is...a bit tautological.
Raspberry Pi 4 WiFi stops working at 2560 x 1440 screen resolution
Informed consent is a thing in most of the US now.
As I always say - the gun isn’t the problem. Someone waking up one morning and going “gee I’d like to kill a lot of people today” is the problem. That’s a cultural and mental health issue.
You don't need to live off grid. You just have will get more expensive tools and services because of the smaller size of your niche and the lack of ad money.there's a seemingly sizable crowd out here that is highly invested in such. Would targeting them make as much money? Probably not. But would this be a sustainable market?
Sure it is similar to JS/React, but you're missing out on lint tools, TS, flow, reasonml, or other tools that help you catch errors.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion yet?
thanks for technology language easy to help
https://www.alltopinterviewquestions.com
The age of consent in Singapore is 16. That's 3 whole years of teenagery with 3 whole years for a teenager to have legal teenage sex. But I guess if you will set your posterior to exactly equal to your prior faced with this evidence, then we don't really operate with a similar framework for knowledge, so there's very little point in discussing.
And even more cynically, many poor people will prioritize cigarettes and alcohol above food and shelter
You don’t even need to buy the lower. 3D Printed lowers work just find. In addition you can also just make a mold out of sand. Melt down a bunch of aluminum cans and cast a lower.

This stuff isn’t rocket science.
Curcumin supplements and/or consuming a lot of turmeric with a little pepper can help.
I used this to demo an internal positioning system. It can export models in obj format, which you can load and animate in three.js
I love lxc/lxd. Its really a shame that there is little to no interest by the lxd team in supporting the oci container format.
Not the constitution there are federal laws that prevent gun registries.
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Gell-Mann Amnesia!

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
My bad. It's a federal law derived from the Constitution that forbids such registries: The Firearm Owners' Protection Act of 1986.
Because a lot of GPL'd software is best of breed and (contrary to other threads here) apparently integrates quite well. It says a lot about Apple's view of their customers (none of it good) that they'd rather distribute a badly broken proprietary SMB replacement for Samba than continue with Samba until a suitable replacement that meets with Apple's licensing desires could be found. GPL-licensed software helped get MacOS X to where it is; Apple has been a GPL licensee for most of MacOS X's existence (and still is for some programs).

And as for that tired slur about the GPL being a "viral license", Robert Chassell's essay (reproduced below) still applies. Software freedom is good for us all, and being treated with equal rights to run, share, and modify the program was apparently very useful to a lot of people (apparently including people at Apple).

From https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/vaccination.en.html

When others hurt me, I try to defend myself. But some tell me that this makes them sick. They tell me that I should permit people to rob me of my work. They tell me that I should never try to defend myself.

They tell me that I should stop using the GNU General Public License, a license that vaccinates me against hurt. Instead, I should adopt a license that permits other people to rob me with impunity. They want me to adopt a license that forbids me from fighting back. They want me to give up my right to benefit from a derivative of my own work, a right I possess under current copyright law.

Of course, the language is a little less feverish than this. Usually, I myself am not called “infectious”. Rather, the legal defense that I use is called “infectious”. The license I choose is called “viral”.

In every day language, words such as “infect” and “virus” describe disease. The rhetoric is metaphorical. A legal tool is not a disease organism; but it is popular to think of the law as an illness, so the metaphor has impact.

The people who want to rob me use language that says I make them sick when I stop them from robbing me. They do not want to draw attention to the so-called “disease” that makes them ill: my health and my rights, and the health and rights of other people. Instead, they choose metaphor to twist people's thinking. They do not want anyone to think that I am a good citizen for stopping crime. They want the metaphor to fool others into thinking that I am a disease agent.

The GNU General Public License protects me. The connotation of “virus” and “infect” is that my choice of defense gives an illness to those who want to rob me. I want freedom from their robbery; but they want the power to hurt me. They get sick when they cannot hurt me.

To use another health and illness-related metaphor, the GNU General Public License vaccinates me; it protects me from theft.

Note that the theft about which I am talking is entirely legal in some situations: if you license your work under a modified BSD license, or a similar license, then others may legally take your work, make fixes or improvements to it, and forbid you from using that code. I personally dislike this arrangement, but it exists.
no, this looks like a nightmare leaky abstraction imperative API with non statically analyzable code like '#box'
The constitution enumerates what the federal government is allowed to do. The bill of rights adds further restrictions.
How shocking. Almost as if people only people give a shit about themselves.
Who would have thought it.
Not the constitution but federal law prevent registries. California has long since bypassed this law by creating the DROS system. Dealer Record of Sale. Then enacting universal background checks. Essentially forcing any firearm transfer to be recorded. So while you can’t get in trouble for having an “unregistered” forearm. You can get in trouble for transferring one without going through DROS, as well as importing OT building without DROS.
Absolutely no offense intended, but it sounds to me like you want to make that decision for them.

That line of thought can be used to justify a huge amount of intrusion into people’s lives.
Zero-Ops Kubernetes for Workstations and Edge / IoT by Canonical
I have conclusive evidence (sample size 1)that keto reduces inflammation from my AS. The blood tests don't lie but its far from being a cure.
> it has a relatively big academic community backing it up

this is actually a problem in my eyes and will prevent it from gaining industrial traction. for example, this keeps the main developers as a revolving door of graduate students writing code and the core maintainers as full professors who have priorities different from industrial users. secondly, the culture of racket is as a research language. they just replaced the runtime (loads of risks for industrial users), and now they are replacing the syntax. this does not create an environment enticing to industrial users. the racket team feels these changes will increase its user base, but i believe if that ever happens, these changes are deferring such an increase well into the future.
I only skimmed the paper, but it seems like the proposed method could support handing over ownership from the worker thread to the GUI thread via an explicit statement in the code.
TikTok is censored.

Facebook is censored.

Twitter is censored.

Reddit is censored.

So what's new in the world? Social networks are very likely a passing fad, that people grow out of as they get older and have developed more 'Internet Sense'.

Today it's China in the spotlight, yesterday it was Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA.
I never liked having to install Flash plug-ins. And I hated all the gunk that was created with Flash. So I quarantined a single older notebook to run the few Flash dependent apps that I needed to use from time to time. Ok, so much for my bias.

Technology has moved on a great deal since Flash was first released to address the shortcomings of the HTML standards of the day. We now have WASM, HTML5 and ES6. For games there are both 2D, 3D canvas operations and SVG. From an infrastructure point of view, support is far better than Flash is able to offer in 2020. I expect that authoring tools will catch-up and surpass what was possible with Flash tooling.
A duopoly will be marginally better at implementing user-friendly features like privacy than a monopoly, because there is at least nominal competition.

However I think we need to start asking deeper questions - why is it that concentration is so prevalent in the software industry?

Software is often said to have "natural" monopoly characteristics, but are those characteristics really a product of "nature" in the way that say the laws of physics are, or are they a product of IP laws and the regulatory choices made by the government?
"regular eye exams are important", while probably true, seems like a really weird reason to say "if you want to buy glasses, you need a prescription".
Aw, I was hoping the explanation would be in the thread. Is it high-frequency noise from an unshielded clock? Surpassing a current or temperature limit due to the stress of the high resolution and resulting high memory bandwidth? Time will tell!
Exercise and diet are proven to reduce inflammation.
Drivers (both AI and human) may face problems that are essentially ethical trolley problems. While many of these choices are clearly artificial to the point of ridiculousness, the one that gets me best is "should a self-driving car drive itself off a cliff, killing its only passenger, or hit and kill some >1 number of pedestrians?". While the external observation may be "minimising deaths is preferable, so drive off that cliff", are people willing to use a vehicle that might intentionally kill them as an intrinsic part of its operation? Or will market forces result in self-driving cars that make more selfish choices being more popular, potentially resulting in suboptimal prisoners-dilemma style results?

There are also different ethical norms in different cultures about preferences (https://www.wired.com/story/trolley-problem-teach-self-drivi...). While these are edge cases, they're the edge cases people are worried about, and the source of the ill-definedness: "unhurt as much as possible" implicitly chooses some ethical tradeoff that people can easily have different answers to.
> Those who are trying to control technology are fighting a losing battle.

However, there is a vast difference between having to fire up a lathe and machine a barrel vs putting together a kit of a half-dozen or so primary parts.

By analogy, most people can put together a computer. Only a very few can actually design and manufacture a motherboard even though it is relatively cheap to do so nowadays.

In addition, most people who are going to go on a shooting rampage probably don't have the skills to operate a lathe or milling machine.
I have a few tatoos that are way older than 10 years. So at least the bits with ink in them are still there.
Similar in Australia.

Ironically, we can just buy from USA online! Cheaper and almost as fast.
Does anyone have something similar like this for EPL football/soccer?
It’s not a trivial amount. I’m in the process of finishing an 80% AR-15 lower. Deep pocket milling with a hand router and crappy endmill just sucks.
Hey, thanks for responding. To be honest I have looked and looked for it. Perhaps I am mis-remembering, or conflating two separate things.
You're assuming passive measures only (stop producing more atmospheric carbon) and ignoring active measures (carbon scrubbing, carbon recapture).

I haven't examined your math in detail, but I'm willing to stipulate that you're right that passive measures are wholly inadequate to address climate change. But then you may still be wildly wrong by not addressing active measures.
Genetic cassettes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_cassette
>but her access to the account was blocked for a month.

Do you mean she actually experienced 1 month of blockage, or that they planned to block her for a month but actually didn't.

The article says she was only blocked for 2-3 days (Nov 25 until now).
Maybe it doesn't have enough power and prioritizes the GPU over the WiFi antenna?
I'd go with an x86 or 64 bit SBC because although someone compiled Linux to run on ARM a lot of programs still can't.
Because when a hatchback hits you chances are that you’d get thrown on its hood or windscreen, while when a truck hits you chances are you’d be thrown behind its weels. The first scenario gives you bigger chances of survival as a pedestrian. It’s not a question about mass, it’s about the shape of the car. Of course, this whole scenario applies to speeds generally met in cities/towns (maximum 30-40 kph).
"... the exact same thing an ad blocking DNS provider is doing."

Just to be clear, I was not advocating using third party DNS.

Using djbdns I can just "block" all non-www subdomains for a domain with a single line in a zone file (if using tinydns) or a single byte file in a directory (if using dnscache) and then add entries in the zone file for any specific subdomains I want to "allow".

It is only an opinion, but I think the ability to wildcard all subdomains makes DNS-based methods of blocking trackers easier to manage and allows it to scale better than having to list every tracker subdomain in a blocklist.
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it was sarcasm, but anyone who takes twitter seriously should have their head checked
Hi, interesting comment, do you know solid websites (or Books or places) about keto diet and diet in general ?
The gun is still a problem. Its just only half the problem. A mentally ill person with a knife is still bad but an order of magnitude less so.
Me too!!. As I said I was burnt out, but it wasn't an instantaneous quitting. I was offered a promotion to the of an engineering manager, and I counter-offered that I'd take Fridays off with no change in pay. Best goddamn decision ever. Every week followed by a three-day weekend! The downside is that you quickly find out how redundant you are when it comes to meetings and decisions taken! It took a few months to get used to the new reality. I did that for a year before circumstances changed dramatically (friend and mentor passed away in 9/11). But even if that hadn't happened, I was quite frayed by the industry attitude, the sheer pace without any rigor or thought. I mean not just about engineering, but about the kind of systems being developed and their effect on society.

Edit: Hey you are that Mark Watson! Truly love your blog!
India considers commissions cap for Uber, Ola, unsettling industry
It’s because they’re pushing an agenda. It’s either their own or one that has been blessed by a superior.
Cats get weight in early winter though.
A cast lower would still require a non-trivial amount of machining to get it within tolerances. Forged lowers are still machined.
You can 3d print a gun
it was sarcasm, and it was never implied that each tweet was stored as a single inode.
Looking at the tech stall in the last 50 years, except in subvert & surveil tech, I wouldn't say that. Nearly all tech pushed today is peaceful.