skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that not all people can are suitable for it.

It is the big problem with psychedelics. Too random. And it is not just from one person to another. The same person can have very different experiences depending on the situation. "Set and setting" as experienced users call it, but even with that knowledge, bad trips happen.

And for the studies you linked, none of them seem to be controlled (no placebo group), and from my limited experience, the placebo effect is very real. I've seen people feel high on blotters with nothing on it, at least before they realize they have been scammed.

Not saying that psychedelics can't do yourself some good. But I tend to be skeptical of studies suggesting a reliably positive effect.
City. Residents vote for council
I'm not sure. The strategy to contain Iran on both sides (Iraq and Afghanistan) has clearly failed.
So no one really won in the end. Americans sacrificed trillions of dollars and thousands of lives, and the main beneficiary did not actually benefit that much.
The disparity between that and the government correcting me for being off on my tax by $500 is breathtaking.

Obvious question - cui bono?
Amazon says Trump's 'improper pressure' doomed Pentagon bid
>Voting rights

I'd say that represents a very different transaction Still depending on where or not an important vote is coming up in the meantime, and who you are selling your voting stake to.
Zoning laws should just be removed entirely.
I wonder who could tell if the sponsored content was seen or not seen by any viewers... As far as I can tell the content creator gets their share once they reference the sponsor segment.
Actor René Auberjonois, Known for 'Benson' and 'Star Trek,' Has Died at 79
Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
When I was younger (up until I was around 35) I could eat all the junk food I wanted with no ill effects. I could drink alcohol and rarely felt bad the next day. Now (I'm 49) even small amounts of alcohol make me feel bad later on. If I eat a bunch of junk food I feel like I'm hungover.

I still drink occasionally but it has to be a pretty special occasion for me to have a second cocktail. I still love junk food but I've cut way, way back on it because the sugar hangover isn't worth it.

Other than pretty much constant tinnitus and occasional bouts of cedar fever (I'm in Central Texas), I feel pretty good most of the time. I know I need to get more exercise and I'm working on that by doing bodyweight exercises and rowing. I'm not really getting any stronger, but I feel like I'm at least maintaining where I'm at.
I'm interested to know, what practical application did you load 50.000 items into the frontend for 10 years ago?
Ah ha -- this isn't to skip ads, it's to crowdsource the time segments in YouTube videos where sponsored content is part of the video itself, to skip the segment itself.

I love it technically... but sadly I have hard time believing it will ever work in practice, though maybe I'm just a cynic. :(

Simply because it needs a dedicated base of people always keeping up with all the videos coming out each day who actually will go to the work of rewinding, tagging, fast-forwarding, tagging again, continuing when all they really want to do is just sit back watching a video.

Crowdsourcing for things like adblockers or Wikipedia work because the content changes slowly and is evergreen. But popular YouTube videos rotate very quickly and then sink into a long tail.

I'd love to be proven wrong, however. :)

(One way of possibly increasing adoption, however: I'd love if the extension automatically ended videos when they jump into the "subscribe now!" trailer at the end, especially for talk show segments, and immediately jumped to the next video in the playlist if there is one. They're always the same length for each show, so very easy to keep up-to-date.)
You'd like that, wouldn't you? :P
Nice propaganda. LOL
most EV owners probably do the majority of their charging at their own homes

Owning a house is pretty much a prerequisite of electric cars for personal use in the US. 100 million Americans live in rental housing. https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/08/who-rents-their-home-he...
Just to underscore the point I understand you to be making:

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,

Is the immediate jewel of their souls:

Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;

’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;

But he that filches from me my good name

Robs me of that which not enriches him,

And makes me poor indeed.

https://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/who-steals-my-purs...
So basically, corruption. Related: Confessions of an economic hitman
Some YouTubers do ad reads during their videos from sponsors.
React and Vue without NPM and build
Imagine a Youtube video where the host takes a break to read off an advertisement and that you'll get a 10% discount if you use their code during the checkout process. And then they resume with their content.

They often will pre-record these segments with a consistent "now with a quick word about our sponsors" jingle which can be statically detected and removed from the video.
The Pacifica plug-in hybrid is a fantastic minivan that can go up to 30 miles all electric before needing to engage the ICE, and in hybrid mode it still gets significantly better milage than a conventional ICE minivan.
Just purely hypothetical conjecture here: what would the consequences be of the USA banning the use of any goods or services coming out of China by US companies?

I'm assuming the fallout would be economy-shattering for both parties, but I'm curious just how that would play out.
"Anything that reduces how much calories you take in without reducing the calories you burn, is going to make you lose weight”

Nitpick: it will lower the derivative of your weight against time, but will not necessarily make it negative.

To lose weight, you need to reach a point where you take in less calories than the calories you burn.

Double nitpick: in theory, you can lose weight while taking in more calories than you burn, by replacing stuff in your body by other stuff that store more energy per gram (I don’t know how realistic this is, but you can definitely lose volume without losing weight, by replacing fat by muscles)
I found CDK to be exactly what I was looking for. I found myself using either CDK or Amplify (or both) for new serverless projects. It’s now really infrastructure as code, not infrastructure as yaml files.
I was curious about that too--apparently there's a '.christmas' TLD, and a company named "Bekk" is making programming-blog-advent-calendars for Christmas.

From the bottom of https://thecloud.christmas :

> Bekk is all about craftmanship and the people crafting it. This year, we're creating 12 calendars, each with daily content, articles and podcasts.

It made me think that we were being hit with a bunch of blogspam, but the content appears to be original and decent quality.
Funny, 2 is one of the few games I ever played twice.
Driving to your local grocery and flying private are orders (plural) of magnitude different in terms of carbon footprint. If your local grocery is 10km away, you'll save ~2.5kg of C02 if you cycle instead of drive[1]. If you fly for three hours, you'll save ~700kg of C02 if you choose to fly commercial instead of private[2]. I don't see how the _former_ is "way more extreme".

[1] https://ecf.com/news-and-events/news/how-much-co2-does-cycli...
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/private...
He does explain it. He says he uses something called "Callrail":

> By syncing Google Ads with Callrail, your name and address is tied to your click (and all your other data) when you conduct a certain action on a website that an ad directs to. (Clicking a phone number on the website, for example).

And he says he uses Squarespace to add additional data:

> Callrail provides marketers the data that Google would never dare to. Yet Callrail still withholds your IP address (exact location) from us.

> But there’s also an easy way around this: through a website-building software called Squarespace, which costs $12 a month.

> By directing your click to a Squarespace website that uses a Callrail forwarding number, we can see your precise location, including your home address.

I have no idea if any of this works as advertised, but he does explain it.
You can literally only make additive changes to social programs if you don't want to make people mad. Any change perceived as subtraction will make people scream and you will be made out as a tyrant grinding the faces of the poor even if you are trying to simplify, consolidate, make more efficient, close loopholes, etc.; it doesn't matter. Just look at France.
Yep, they're the same underlying algorithm. I'd wager that the Backblaze code is probably better tested, by virtue of the scale that they operate at.

Assuming they still use it.
IME, the ecosystem for buying Lego is not very mature.

I tried to buy a bunch of 44 specific lego pieces (the parts were listed from a book and fairly common) through Brickseek and couldn't do it.

Brickseek has a "Easy Buy" where you can add items to your list and have it find sellers, but it didn't work at all for me. Manually trying to find each piece is not worth the effort.
Note that * 69 may have incurred a per-call or monthly charge, as it was introduced during the era when phone companies would nickel-and-dime their customers for every "new" feature (for values of "new" less than 20 years old).

That was roughly between the minute following "Watson, I need you," and the minute after cable television companies started offering VoIP triple-play. (To be reintroduced with mobile text messaging and data charges, of course!)

This sort of business practice curtailed the adoption of a lot of useful features, Caller ID included. There were a lot of people still using rotary pulse dialing in the 80s, because the telcos charged a higher monthly price for DTMF touch-tone dialing.
Have you actually encountered anyone advocating for the former or is that just a bizarre strawman?
Saying the Federal Reserve has "printed $415 billion" without qualification is dishonest. It has created $415 billion worth of liquidity for short-term operations of solvent banks, essentially printing money and then destroying it the next day. It has not added $415 billion to the money circulation.
There is already LibreOffice, I just hope (naively though) it will benefit from broader adoption. More likely it will be something like Kingsoft or so...
Are you sure the government does that? Did you actually check?
papergov.com -> adversarial interop for government websites :)
> if in public life I am a well-known conservative Evangelical, but I donate to a cause (say abortion education) that I privately support, I might prefer avoiding any chance that the donee leak my information in an attempt to 'out' me.

This sentence really stood out to me as an example of why politics has become so polarized.

If you have political ideals {A, B, C} and there are others who have ideals {A, B, !C}, and you allow your shared beliefs of {A, B} to either sway your opinion on C, or be not willing to communicate openly about it, then you are exacerbating the problem.

This forces people to try to try to identify with the group that they have the largest intersection with, and usually assume the ideals that that group has. Which means that a majority may silently be in support of C, but are so set in an us-vs-them mindset, that they allow !C to become part of their ideology.
The article states the process was discovered

> while investigating the crystallization rates of metal, Czochralski dipped his pen into molten tin instead of an inkwell. That caused a tin filament to form on the pen’s tip

And later, describes the process for silicon

> Once the silicon melted, he placed a small piece of polycrystalline material—a seed crystal

It seems then, that the seed crystal is not anything special. A typical piece of metal (such as a the pen tip) is made of up multiple single-crystal "grains" with non-crystalline "grain boundaries" between them; this is a polycrystalline material.

The question then is, why does only a single crystal form, rather than multiple crystal filaments oriented at different directions according to whichever grain contacted the starting point of the filament...
you shouldn't call it O(2n), as there is already a constant inside of O(n), because it becomes 0 <= f(x) <= c*2n given a random f(x)
You used to be able to use a custom domain name on your Medium blog I think
Outstanding advice. Now, how do I get my boss to start smoking?
They can. Dawson specifically notes that there are no thread names here because he regularly harps on that subject e.g. https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/thread-naming-i... and https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/63-cores-blocke... ("plea for thread names" in the conclusion)
Life-Changing UX Writing Best Practices
Isn't this why we used to get together and have LAN parties, so that we could play on a 10/100mbps network without other Internet traffic in the way? (And so that if a player started trash-talking the rest of us could beat the shit out of them?)

Also, was the sales pitch in the second half really necessary?
1980 ? Stagflation.... um Dear Sky Marshal, does that correlate with the Crime- and Birthrate in the 80s ? Across the US and otherwhere ?

And btw, In Germany there are now Pensions to pay (each Year) for people, who worked for the State (BRD-Beamten Pensionen) in a Volume of 757,000,000,000,-Euro -so, may i ironicaly reframe a raising 'interest' to another real scenario ?
Why Electronic Voting Is Still a Bad Idea [video]
The first method for refining high-purity silicon was discovered by Carl Marcus Olson.

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

His undergraduate degree was from Augustana College. My evening walks take me through the grounds quite often.

http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/olson/article.htm

p.s. The quartz vessels also have their own story... https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-science-of-ultra-pu...
If you view member access as a (global) function on a value (possibly an lvalue), then it actually makes a whole lot of sense.

I find code dealing with structures that have their members prefixed with a unique prefix much easier to read, usually.

Given the pervasiveness of APIs that contain struct definitions nowadays, it's also understandable that the unique-constraint was removed.
We use Google Docs most of the time. Some late stage formatting may require export to word but generally it’s a superior product. But it does speak to how hard it is to make a great product.
I understand the slippery slope reference,but which disciplines are you referring to?
I don't know whether sponsors do this, but creators themselves can see a breakdown of viewership as a percentage at different parts of the video. If enough people skipped it then it would show up.
Why? There's zero way for sponsors to know whether the sponsorship segment was skipped over or not, I assume? They'll continue paying the same, no?
My intention was not to convey the exact same thing as the quote, because as you’ve correctly pointed out it’s somewhat difficult to actually categorize.

“Matters to whom?” —This is exactly why I said “most people think doesn’t matter.” If you’re obsessed with something doesn’t matter to many people that is probably a pretty good proxy for a disinterested obsession.
the difference is all data on protonmail servers is stored encrypted, and users have decryption keys in their client apps
Ah, so there is always one vCPU running. This makes more sense and was not clear on the product page, thanks.
My parents bought the house in which I grew up in 1985. They had a double-digit interest rate on that purchase at more than 3 times the current going rate and that was with paying points too.

I do wonder what will happen if mortgage rates return to even their pre-Volcker level, much less the 1980s levels. Household incomes versus PITI on a 30 year mortgage places a ceiling on housing prices, so if interest rates go up, then the prices in currently hard-to-afford areas will have to go down.
Microsoft to finally shut down Wunderlist on May 6, 2020
That's why you still have a traditional management organization. Moreover, you avoid putting those people to whom you refer into decision-making roles. Strong narratives and storytelling help to guide those who are in decision-making roles so that they are aligned with you.
> do you think the latest edition of Dragon book can be approachable by me?

That's a pretty personal question because everyone has different reading styles and approaches to textbooks. It's dense and not a lot of fun to read, so it will require some discipline and effort on your part. If you're the kind of person who has enough willpower to grind it out, you'll be fine.

There's a difference between hard books and bad books. The latter are unnecessarily difficult because of the author's deficiencies. The Dragon Book is a good book, but it's a hard book.
Fair point! But I have been fairly neutral (except unconsciously...). I have also observed marked differences as early as 15 months. And it matches the experience of a lot of parents.
For native speakers, "must not" is explicitly forbidding something. English is full of inconsistencies. Queue all kinds of poems and comedy sketches. Some things you just have to know

One of my current favorites is Ismo's use of "ass" as seen on Conan: https://youtu.be/HLyFlWahuSE
> Actuarially speaking, the 2,372 American deaths

So what about the Afghan civilians?

That there is no obvious gain for the country at large means the gain is either so subtle as to be imperceptible, or that the people who gained don't want it known that they did.
This wouldn't help. I don't care if you trust me, just make it consistent. Either let me work independently, or require me to share my screen. I don't want to be changing my threat-model randomly throughout the day
Indeed - I have considered switching away from Google for these reasons but cannot find a provider I like more, and do not want to run infrastructure like this personally.

Two killer features are:

1: catch all (office 365 did not have this when I switched away from them in 2014)
2: automatic categorisation which no one else seems to have.

If anyone knows a provider that has these I’d be most interested in hearing about them!
If you put out content that requires no payment you may not get paid.
Adding to that, a database typically has to be ready for all kinds of queries. But when choosing a data structure in a program, one often knows a great deal about exactly what queries will show up.
http://quikorder.pizzahut.com/QOcontent2/Files/PDF/Nutrition...

You don’t need many pizza slices to hit 1500
I recently started using OpenVPN (My router comes with it pre-installed).

Does anyone know how this compares with OpenVPN? Is is worth setting up my own wiregaurd machine?
Humor me: What would prevent DJB's crypto from being certified by FIPS?
I think this could just as well lead to the intro of http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks :

> Imagine joining an engineering team. You’re excited and full of ideas, probably just out of school and a world of clean, beautiful designs, awe-inspiring in their aesthetic unity of purpose, economy, and strength. You start by meeting Mary, project leader for a bridge in a major metropolitan area. Mary introduces you to Fred, after you get through the fifteen security checks installed by Dave because Dave had his sweater stolen off his desk once and Never Again. Fred only works with wood, so you ask why he’s involved because this bridge is supposed to allow rush-hour traffic full of cars full of mortal humans to cross a 200-foot drop over rapids. Don’t worry, says Mary, Fred’s going to handle the walkways. What walkways? Well Fred made a good case for walkways and they’re going to add to the bridge’s appeal. Of course, they’ll have to be built without railings, because there’s a strict no railings rule enforced by Phil, who’s not an engineer. Nobody’s sure what Phil does, but it’s definitely full of synergy and has to do with upper management, whom none of the engineers want to deal with so they just let Phil do what he wants. Sara, meanwhile, has found several hemorrhaging-edge paving techniques, and worked them all into the bridge design, so you’ll have to build around each one as the bridge progresses, since each one means different underlying support and safety concerns. Tom and Harry have been working together for years, but have an ongoing feud over whether to use metric or imperial measurements, and it’s become a case of “whoever got to that part of the design first.” This has been such a headache for the people actually screwing things together, they’ve given up and just forced, hammered, or welded their way through the day with whatever parts were handy. Also, the bridge was designed as a suspension bridge, but nobody actually knew how to build a suspension bridge, so they got halfway through it and then just added extra support columns to keep the thing standing, but they left the suspension cables because they’re still sort of holding up parts of the bridge. Nobody knows which parts, but everybody’s pretty sure they’re important parts.
For $2T you could have picked up all of Israel and relocated it to Alaska.
It has nothing to do with censoring their identities in particular. It's protecting the privacy of anyone. HN (and reddit and most other decent online forums) does not encourage doxxing anyone, no matter how famous their parents might be.
Proximity to humans is associated with longer maternal care in brown bears
To keep the peace the western coalitions have to pick someone. And who's been the better ally for peace, Saudi or Iran? It's fine to say Saudi is corrupt and not a good actor, but stepping away from them would mean widespread war in the ME.
You don't have a right to make money by manipulating impressionable people into buying things that they don't need.

Or maybe you do because of free speech, but you definitely don't have a right to have other people not try and stop you from succeeding.
> ... VisualWorks the performance of which is comparable to CPython...

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

-Dwight Eisenhower farewell address

I assume we got $2 trillion transferred to Halliburton and associated war companies.
There's one case I know of: stereotype threat. It was found that there was a significant amount of publication bias in favor of the stereotype threat being significant. Despite larger, better funded studies finding it to be barely anything to absolutely nothing, it is still being blamed for disparities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat#Publication_...
This is true. It also explains why a lot of old-time Unix struct member names (including a lot that made it into POSIX or are otherwise in use today) have redundant-seeming prefixes. eg. struct stat has st_mode and not simply mode. struct sockaddr_in has sin_addr and not simply addr.
I'm working on a project looking to solve a similar problem, but using a very different mechanism to provide git-like semantics for any database that runs in a container
(https://titan-data.io). We support local docker containers today and will be adding k8s support in the coming weeks to run in any Kubernetes cluster using k8s snapshots (e.g. push data state from CI/CD k8s cluster to S3 bucket, and clone locally later for forensics).

Each automation approach (SQL, dumpfiles, or storage) carries different tradeoffs, but we believe there's a real problem facing developers when it comes to managing data within their workflows. Would love to learn more about what some of the killer use cases are, and how these approaches can complement each other.
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know by Year
I've heard it described as we got a bunch of combat experienced veterans.