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> I've never heard someone persuasively and eloquently express to me, in a non-dopey way, just how (small amounts of) acid can act as cognitive enchantment. Anyone care to take a stab at it?

I feel highly certain that outcomes are ~all derived from the effect of psychedelics on the default mode network of the brain, and the corresponding downstream effects of those changes on thinking, perception, emotions, etc.

Google: "microdose" "default mode network" and you will get tons of reading material - I would recommend reading a mixture of clinical studies and anecdotal narratives. Take everything with a grain of salt of course, but also keep an open mind. This is new territory, we know very little about it.

> For instance, is the effect only temporary, in the sense that it unlocks some region of not normally traversed mental state space? (E.g. allowing you to write paragraphs you wouldn't otherwise be able to.) Or is the effect more permanent, in the sense of teaching you something, providing you with a new muscle which can be used later even in a sober state of mind (teaching you to ride a type of brain bike, which then can't be unlearned), or by showing you connections between disparate ideas you hadn't previously had the ability to see next to each other?

I would say, speculatively: all of the above, potentially, depending on the person. The "correct" answer to such questions is currently not known, but this seems very difficult for many to realize, which is quite ironic.
I object to someone trying to influence me, just because they're paid to. Don't you?
Couldn’t one buy carbon credits to offset the emissions? Or pay extra to fill up the plane with a carbon-neutral biofuel?
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Perhaps this is just phase one, to build a dataset out of YouTube videos and sponsored promotions. Phase two could be training a classifier on the dataset. Then, the classifier watches a few minutes ahead of the user, skipping any in-content ads.
Male? This abbreviation doesn't make much sense.
The title is misleading. It's just a list of paper the author liked.

> I wanted to take a moment to highlight the ones that I found most interesting
Thanks for the information. What is your recommended way to set up a wireguard server on a home network? Some quick googling tells me it is possible to do it with a raspberry pi, but I would be worried about that being a bottleneck.
>Your comment suggests you don't really understand the immense challenge of doing sociological work in a way that's both ethical and useful.

The fact that something is immensely difficult doesn't make success more likely, it makes it less likely. The parent comment is saying that the study didn't achieve success, which is supported by your claim that sociological work is up against tremendous challenges.

An analogy would be if someone claimed to invent a perpetual motion machine, and then responded to someone who was saying that their machine didn't work with, "you try building one, then."
Yes, I must just not understand Amazon, Google and Apples' commitments to providing free and accurate services irregardless of market conditions. If I did I'm sure I would want them to have unconditional license to repurpose everything.
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How would an interface guarantee that close is not called twice, or that you have escaped a string exactly once?
There is literally no other way to do it. The government gets its money through taxes.
> Given two operands to a binary operator, find the first type in this list that matches one of the operands, then convert the other operand to that type.

Does anyone know for sure whether or not the Arduino compiler deviates from this standard, or ever had, in previous versions?

Does multiplication qualify as a binary operator?

IIRC, I think I was compound multiplying the product of an int and a char into a long (see below), and I had to explicitly cast the char as int to get the right results, much to my surprise, as I had expected the char to get promoted to an int. But I could also have made some mistakes, it's been awhile...

longType *= intType * (int)charType;

EDIT: Found my old code snippet, and it kinda invalidates my original question, what I was actually doing was

longType *= charType * charType * charType

which leads the right side to evaluate first without promotion, thus modulating the end result by 256, which was not intended. I then cast all of them as long, but probably (certainly!...?) only one would've been enough.

EDIT2: Or at least, two of them have to be casted, else it might evaluate two chars first, modulating the result, before actually promoting to long to multiply with another long. (Or not, because it promotes to the most significant data type on the right side? Ugh... this is why I prefer to be extra verbose.)
If the social "contract" that the content creator is offering is that you must watch the ads to view the content, I'd be somewhat partial to your argument. As an example MLG does (used to do?) that, and I just didn't watch their content as a result.

That's not the social contract that either youtube itself or youtubers are offering. You can skip the ads, they make no attempt to block you from watching the video if you skip the ads.
- Write, sign and notarize an agreement that the code is either duplicated or transferred to you.

- Decide who gets the data: users, you, someone.

- Sanitize servers and services by trying to overwrite data with junk values before canceling.

- Cancel monthly services and free services.

- If it was good, don't let the team relationship go to waste. Talk with whoever's left / worked-with previously about doing something else.

---- Then and only then ----

- Do "consultingish" work or solve a problem you have to find a problem worth solving.

- Sell something good people want before you invest too much time/money/mental health building something too much.

- Keep it real: building "your amazing idea" without a feedback loop gathering critical data from paying/potential customers is #fail.

- Someone though will have to step-up to be the sales/buzz builder or one will need to be found (hopefully, someone you've known for some time or a friend-of-a-friend). No useless "idea guys" allowed.

- Sales/buzz person or someone will need to be the captain of the ship ultimately in-charge of everything.

- Iterate fast, executing based on feedback and sales numbers. Prefer the best one you can get into if you can. (YC, hihi.;)

- Everyone at the beginning gets equal equity vested over 3-5 years. First employees should get ~1% equity, more if it's an employee-owned co-op.

- Don't pray for funding, sales/profit cures all.

- Raise funding only if you could definitely grow faster with more money.

- Skip accelerators unless you need a network and/or are relatively inexperienced.

- When you get big enough, incorporate (California or Delaware C-corp). If it's s consultancy, LLP or LLC. https://clerky.com
The content of the article is very interesting and worth reading, but the framing feels circular. Some laws of nature are fundamental and other laws are inevitable consequences of those laws. If the inevitable laws were not inevitable, then they would be fundamental. As our knowledge and explanatory power grows, some laws that first appeared fundamental have been explained in terms of deeper laws, but we must still ask why the deeper laws exist.
It can't be easier to setup that OpenVPN was on my router (just clicking a checkbox), but I am very interested in switching to a new VPN as I would like to be able to stay continuously connected from my mobile phone, and I understand that OpenVPN isn't great for this.

What is your preferred method for getting a WireGuard server installed on your home network?
Proven is the wrong word. You cannot prove a theory.

Deriving a description of gravity from first principles would be more appropriate
No.

"Need not" (or "May...") indicate actions or behaviours which are allowed or optional. This is not the same as "do X", which is a "MUST" condition.

"Must not" (or "Don't...") indicate actions or behaviours which are expressly disallowed.

RFC 2119 referenced in the article should make all this clear. If you're still confused after reading that ... you SHOULD NOT be writing documentation. And possibly not be reading it ;-)
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>I think that's dramatically underselling the American voter's role in all of this. Many, many Americans balk at the prospect of raising taxes to pay for universal healthcare. But those same people shrug indifferently to the enormous costs to sustain the US military and the tremendous costs of campaigns such as Afghanistan.

I think that's dramatically understating these American voters' role in this and their reaction to anything that can be dubbed "socialism". They happily vote for candidates who push for enormous "corporate welfare" to defense contractors, and scream bloody murder if anyone suggests using any public money at all to pay for someone else's healthcare.

American voters are getting exactly what they're voting for.

>They're part of the reason we don't have it.

They are the reason we don't have it.

As I frequently like to remind people, every nation gets the government it deserves.
Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way but... If you have to explain who someone is, is their obituary really a news story?

Everybody dies, some tragically young while others such as Mr Volcker lived long lives.

There problem is that often these obits ends up being used to further some agenda (although I don't get that sense here.
custodian supports doing a lot of things, wrt to cost it performs similar activities, ie a yaml file to query metrics to find underutilized resources and then either notify the creator/owner via email/slack, online resize, or shut them down across many (hundreds of resources). additionally for cost can be used for off hours on instances/rds in dev envs, tag enforcement, etc. also supports multiple clouds and can be deployed as a serverless function.
>They studied a single bank in Asia with "thousands of employees." [...] They make no attempt to address cultural differences. They disclaim that the study is representative of the world, but then offer some mental gymnastics which imply without actually suggesting that it represents the US because of the country's similarity to the US in gender employment numbers and attitudes.

>Your comment suggests you don't really understand the immense challenge of doing sociological work in a way that's both ethical and useful.

The fact that it is immensely challenging does not make the assumptions any less liable to be false. Please re-read GP's comment and refrain from attacking him/her on a personal level.
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I think this happens at the middle management level. Most the upper management exercises of corporate mottos, vision, mission statements, etc. is an abstraction too far removed from day to day work to be useful to lower level employees. Maybe it helps them with their planning, but even on that I'm skeptical.

Those things have worked for some Japanese companies with a very different culture around collective work, but they don't really work as well applied in the West, IMO.

Now at the middle management to immediate supervisor level, there's a huge boost to morale, and I believe ultimately productivity & innovation that happens when you include employees in your own thinking and motivations. It's a lot easier to please someone when you know how they think and why they want certain aspects of a project to go the way they want, and allows you to better predict when it might be appropriate to go off script a little or make a perpendicular suggestion. Otherwise, when you treat a human like a machine, and dissuade them from any bigger picture thinking, you can get all sorts of problems. Micromanagement, malicious compliance, and most importantly: you are isolating them from the natural group dynamics and teamwork that humans do well under.
I wouldn't call it a mistake. That's how the language was defined at the time. If it was a mistake, it was a mistake in the language, not in the compiler. (Admittedly, given the lack of a standard at the time, the line between the two is less clear than it is now.)
Stealing involves depriving someone something that they are entitled to. That is not happening here, so no. This is far farther from stealing than even copyright infringement, and even that does not qualify.

(It would be approximately equivalent to copyright infringement in the case that the creator only gave you access to the videos upon you signing a contract that required you to view the ads to watch the video).
Did you try FaunaDB by any chance? I'm interested in how people who have worked with DynamoDB and Firestore would perceive FaunaDB once they get started. Imho it's is the most serverless database on the market at this point due to features such as: pay as you go, distributed, strongly consistent, security model and their API. When I started using it a while back it didn't feel limited to me at all. (Disclaimer, I have started to work there in the mean time)
I wouldn't say I can't stand it (indeed, I am using it), but I've had problems with it. Disappearing messages and the like: being contacted via another medium by a person, asking why I hadn't responded, with no record of there ever being a message on my end.

It's OK in my books: a symptom of there being no server to step in and enforce a universal truth. You just have to understand what you're getting in exchange for the occasional inconveniences.
One of the most popular/famous brands of baijiu is Maotai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maotai). You might be able to find it near you by checking wine/liquor search sites (e.g. https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/kwei+chow+mou+tai+bai+jiu... ).

I lived in China for about a year - personally baijiu was never my favorite, but certainly give it a whirl! Baijiu certainly has a strong and particular flavor - however I'd say that taste is no more shocking than, for example, comparing the tastes of rum to tequilla. Ganbei (cheers)!
Or we could spend less on the military. If they need to raise taxes to pay for it they can't afford it.
This; the "satellite effect" is huge in NYC -- sometimes the NYC satellite campuses are bigger than the main ones. If a company has a second location, it's usually NYC.
Different types of stories work with different people though.

Some perhaps joined for the mission. They want to continue believing in it. Some perhaps joined for business success, so they need to hear a different story, or the same story told through a different lens that relates to their goals.
I fully agree with your emphasis about the deaths of non-Americans in the Afghanistan civil war with the Taliban. The US should never have attempted nation-building there, as it was guaranteed to fail (short of a 40-50 year occupation at hyper scale, a million soldiers and hundreds of billions of dollars per year in cost; even that might not have been enough).

The problem is, there is something dramatically worse than the US presence in Afghanistan and it's waiting in the wings. What do you think will happen to the people of Afghanistan when the Taliban regain control after the US leaves?

The civilian deaths in Afghanistan are almost exclusively the result of the US attempting to keep the Taliban at bay, trying to keep them from de facto enslaving the entire population under an extreme theocracy and revoking all human rights.

There are few groups more draconian, backwards, or more oppressive on this planet than the Taliban. They will rule Afganistan again in the near future, they'll reclaim all of the country rapidly. The only thing holding them back from mass-torturing the entire country again has been the US. There is nobody else willing to risk so much to try to stop the Taliban, nobody else will lift a finger to do anything about it as the US leaves.
This article says NYC has by far the most number of STEM jobs. So as %age growth is harder to be the highest, but I'm guessing number wise it would be in the top few.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2017/03/16/technolog...
> I am looking forward is a systems language with automatic memory management

Doesn't Nim check those boxes? Didn't try it personally but I was instantly reminded of Nim when I read your comment.
I agree with your complaints and indeed years ago I independently wrote an email to LB complaining about the fact that predictions could remain on the site even after challenges had been rejected. However, directly comparing LB to PredictIt seems unfair. LB is just not a big priority for the Long Now Foundation, and I expect it took vastly less investment to launch or for continued operating expenses. It's not surprising it accomplished less.

Edit (in response to your edit, I think): Sure, public exposure has not been commensurate with contribution. Not shocking, but frustrating.
I wish that I could do literally anything else in my life but use maven.
Wow. Now _that's_ something I've not even thought about in decades. Those were irritating when trying to BBS in somewhere at 2AM and you didn't want to wake the whole house. (Not many of us had dedicated data lines then.)

I remember one of my local BBSes had a busted call back that would occasionally call multiple times or after a random (and often very long) delay.

So much of that era is just forgotten now (and that's not necessarily a bad thing...).
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He doesn't claim he gets it all from Google though.

>Ad click data is in aggregate. Google doesn’t provide marketers like me with your personal identifiers. This means that even with all of the data we get when you click, Google will never provide us with your name, email, or phone number.

>But there’s an easy way around this: through a call-tracking software that anyone buying Google Ads can use. It’s called Callrail and costs only $45 a month.

>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).

>Callrail provides marketers the data that Google would never dare to.
It is rigged, but it's the paper targets (star diagram). The paper intentionally is strong enough that it is highly improbable that any bb/pellet gun will have the force to knock out the remaining 20% of the outline of the star no matter how accurate the shooter is. The inner part of the target will begin to fold on purpose.
You can already see that housing prices are inversely correlated with interest rates. Yes, this will reduce the sale price of houses in hard-to-afford areas, but the change on how affordable these houses are will not change as much as you might think.

E.g. $100k, 4%, 30y -> $477/mo, but $65k, 8%, 30y -> $477/mo. This isn’t the full picture, obviously, but in this hypothetical example, both scenarios are more or less equally affordable. (Again, this example is just illustrative. I know people who bought in the 1980s and then refinanced in the 1990s, which ended up being a pretty sweet deal.)
YouTube is the last Google service that I use (and I pay cash money for it), but I've been growing increasingly dissatisfied with it over the past few years and have begun to look for alternatives. I'll check out PeerTube -- it looks rather promising!
No, not at all. A decent user experience requires using the native toolkit and behaving like an actual app, not appearing in the browser. Everything else is garbage.
It's too bad that one tool exists that's 99% of the way there, but for whatever reason someone writes a different tool for the extra 1%, and now you have a split user base.
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I love Signal, and upsell it whenever I can. Signal has its ideosyncratic parts, some of which are being worked on, others not so much. Some of the more visible ones are IMO:

Signal forces users to use phone numbers; some people don't like this because they want to use multiple ephemeral usernames so they can be 'Joe' to friends, 'kleptoclown' to their github group, 'dungeonmaster42' to their DND group, 'joesolutioner' to anyone who browses their personal website or business card, etc. that way they are not having to give out the phone number to strangers which represents Sim-jacking and spam risks.

If you create a signal group and invite folks to it, you cannot remove members from the group (this is being worked on now) without them clicking the 'leave' button or creating an entire new group sans whoever needs to go, which causes loss of group history.

Signal cannot have multiple mobile clients, only one mobile client and a single desktop version. WhatsApp Riot etc. all support clients in as many spots as you can login from.

Again -> these are focused nitpicks, but in most cases Signal is much better for upholding the promise of 'you send someone a message and you have a reasonable sense that ONLY THEY will be able to read it' compared to the likes of Line/WhatsApp/FB messenger etc.
Many here don't know who he was (I didn't) but nobody outside of our circles care about Paul Graham or Linus Torvalds, either. I'm sure almost every IB associate in NYC knows who Volcker is.

Whether I know them specifically or not, I think a former Fed chairman dying qualifies as news.
Why would you want anybody not to be safer?
> Second: it's easy.

To give you some perspective, it's so easy that my four year old knows how to turn it on when we're traveling and she wants to watch PBS Kids.
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That's a good point. It explains why you can very often unintentionally end up with an O(n^2) algorithm in the first place, and Dawson's law then explains why no one bothers to fix it until it's too late.
Something like this, including thresholding for pairs of words that have low dot product:

import numpy as np

def inner_product_rank(vecs, threshold=0.5):
sims_mat = np.dot(vecs, vecs.transpose())
sims_mat = sims_mat - threshold
sims_mat[sims_mat<0] = 0
ranks = np.sum(sims_mat, axis=0)
return ranks

Then you can take a weighted sum of the vecs or use the ranks to select the most related words. It is also possible to run spectral clustering on sims_mat to get the main topics of the text, it works quite well.
It's really an engine for revealing people's true preferences for messaging, which, for many people, tend to be that they want all the ergonomics of Slack a lot more than they want cryptographically sound secure messaging.

What's hopeful in all this is that Signal is, slowly, catching up. Slack can roll out new features just by assigning a couple developers to it, and Signal has to coordinate new cryptographic research --- not just new cryptographic research, but research that produces something deployable at scale within the resources of a project like Signal! --- so Slack (and Wire and Keybase) are at a permanent advantage here.

But over time, Signal gets more and more usable without having to consider tradeoffs.
I'm curious why, at some point in the transition from land-line caller ID to cellular caller ID, did it cease to provide the name and only provide the number? The only time I get a name associated with an incoming call is when the number provided matches a number in my address book.
The Washington DC area might be doing better now, give this data is from 2005-2017 before all the HQ-2 drama happened.
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One of the reasons it is difficult to produce useful sociological work is because sociology itself has questionable foundations.
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