skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most interesting thing about this study for me is that they're actually studying LSD at all.

For years now, the main psychedelics that were studied in clinical trials were psylocibin and MDMA, partially because LSD was deemed to have too large a stigma attached to it from years of negative media exposure. Now I guess we've moved beyond that.

What would be really interesting is some studies of the people who are in positions of authority to approve or disapprove such studies. What are their attitudes towards drugs in general and various psychedelics in particular? I guess we're seeing indirect evidence of their attitudes in the approval of such studies, but it would be interesting to see more direct and comprehensive evidence.
Get over it people! Sheesh!
Lower system requirements is one that's pretty obvious.
I actually did interview there maybe 3 years ago. Did the take home test and was invited in for the multiple interviews. I asked about the Glassdoor reviews and they more or less admitted that is was a 'demanding' environment, much more than my current employer at the time, which was Amazon, if that doesn't say enough
That was fun to look at, but I see you also have an issue with UI/UX on your website: you cannot easily reach the footer when scrolling down because of that infinity scroll.
Ah, thanks. But that kind of proves my point re: webmentions. The whole indieweb thing is suppose to be independent. Webmention's implementation complexity pushes people back to third party centralized services, or, vastly increased attack surface and maintenance on their own setup.
How about volunteer to be a football coach, or a coach for some other sport?
The Pragmatic Programmer was a good broad spectrum intro 20 years ago, I don't know how well it's aged, but they have just released a 20th anniversary update so maybe check out reviews for that.
Did you google on a separate device or was it able to preserve the undo stack even through app switching etc?
> You may be surprised to learn that several very large and well-known social networks use this technique -- serializing unindexed columns into a blob

Not in an RDBMS though. The issues with blob storage I’ve mentioned in this thread relate specifically to RDBMS, and aren’t relevant to technology like Hadoop.
Vaping May Increase the Risk of Chronic Respiratory Disease
> the power to limit the possibilities and decisions of other companies

This is a very naive view of the world. In many non-consumer industries, companies limit the possibilities and decisions of other companies via contracts as a matter of business every day.
There aren't really many "performance critical" multithreaded environments in the world. For the most part you either have something that doesn't scale and needs a really fast thread or you have a cost equation about how many servers you need to buy/maintain. The main exception that comes to mind are extremely large databases that heavily resist horizontal scaling due to poor design (of either software or database).

I'd argue most large compute by total $ is actually shared at the host level i.e. public/private cloud or user devices. Basically the only things that aren't are dedicated clusters for specific applications and a few hundred supercomputers while AWS alone has over 100x as many cores as the largest supercomputer.

Also I don't think there is a high horse to be on about an article not targeting the audience of the largest exacompute scale clusters, not everyone/everything at HN need be at the forefront of the field to avoid being flagged.
I tried it and got an “Undo Typing” confirmation. Did you?
Your first few projects are essentially to build credibility. Don’t try to make money. You are trying to level up. Think of it like playing an RPG. You start with easy quests designed for newbies with no experience and eventually unlock treasure.

What can you do that takes you no time and is in demand? I figured out how to something that takes 4 hours in 15 minutes and charge flat rate for it based on the original 4 hours. There is a handful of annoying errors other techs make that I instantly fix without sharing my secrets. ;)

Context: I have first refusal rights in my territory as a field tech on another site. I bill $5000+/mo in gross receivables. It didn’t happen overnight. I started by doing a few unprofitable tasks.
>It’s a lot — I get it — but the net result is that you, dear reader, get to read our content without a paywall.

I'd love to examine this. Podcasts for example, have almost none of this tracking (as enforced by Apple) and no pay wall. And frankly, since journalism costs pretty much however much you're paying your staff I'd love to see the argument for how much the CEO of vox gets paid when compared to the cumulative loss of privacy and self-determination that their readers have suffered.
Yes, it's a security problem when they can do something without your permission. (So I'd argue it's less a leak and more a disclosure when they do have your permission, as is the case here). If it was done secretly then it would be a security problem, but without secrecy or lying, it's simply Google not living up to your privacy preferences.
Silicon Valley’s biggest problem is that is tends to see problems as opportunities and opportunities as problems. There is no opportunity in that problem.
Agree. Catalina was what ended it for me. I understand that mobile OSes need to change somewhat generation to generation as we’re still scratching around to figure out what works and what doesn’t. I don’t want or need that for my workstation though. I built a tower, installed kubuntu 18 LTS and don’t intend to upgrade until they stop supporting it. It made sense for my workflow and I’m happy with how it’s worked out.
Yeah. That's why I said I could host it myself if I wanted, in a container separate and isolated from my blog.

I'm just too lazy to bother.

This is gonna be the case no matter how the content is passed in the request (I.e. url vs form encoding).

It's dynamic content.

What is your proposed solution for supporting dynamic content on a static site that doesn't involve running some kind of service on the side?
The NSA quite famously rewrote the S-Boxes of DES to make them resistant to differential cryptanalysis. Later studies indicated that minor changes to the DES S-Boxes could significantly weaken them (see https://web.archive.org/web/20120520040808if_/http://www.san... for an overview).

Larger S-Boxes might be better; Blowfish for example uses larger key-dependent S-Boxes and yet seems to be reasonably secure. However, they’re also used in conjunction with per-round subkeys; I don’t know how Sarah2 would fare without these per-round keys.
iOS was never designed to be a general computing platform. It was designed to be minimalist mobile consumption only and light interaction.

You can tell this in the original iOS which lacked multi-tasking completely. Only later was it shoe-horned in (along with undo, copy/paste, the concept of a cursor, etc)

The result of what we have now has been an iterative journey, the product of a bunch of user requests who insist on trying to create the same experience on a mobile phone with limited and far different interaction modalities.

At a certain point, you need to know when to stop and just open up your laptop rather than cursing something that was never originally designed for the task you’re trying to accomplish.

Right tool for the right job!
Nope, he's too busy invading your privacy to use those!
> If you want to make an impact, dont work in an oversaturated field.

That's exactly the opposite of his point, if I understood it correctly!
> This is nonsense. It sounds like you never really worked on any large scale project with at least some amount of legacy code.

Well, what you read into my writing is entirely your problem, but let's just say that you are far off the mark and it is precisely because I have couple of decades in IT behind me that I know that six months to stop doing something at this level is ridiculous.

> I have experience with travel industry, and I can tell with absolute certainty that there exist many projects (much younger than booking.com, by the way), where disabling something like that "in a day or two" is downright physically impossible.

I would hope that the level of competence at booking.com would be a little higher than that.

> Marketing and strategical issues aside, there wouldn't be a single person who could apply necessary changes in a day or two for any amount of money.

I'd be happy to give it a shot.

> It might sound crazy for an outsider, but that's just the way it is.

Or so you say. But the fact is that all software ever written did stuff because we tell it to and that disabling some bit of code is mostly matter of locating it. Writing new functionality can be very hard and might take a long time. But disabling something as simple as 'output ridiculous sentences that pressure our users into buying' should not be harder than to locate it and disabling it. If that has unintended side effects at the level that you are suggesting then booking.com has other problems.

Finally, I'm sure that if they wanted to make quick work of it they could disable that bit in the CSS for their website and make it pretty behind the scenes at their leisure. Anything that can be displayed can be hidden.
Went to jnd.org on my 14" thinkpad.

Thin, small grey fonts on white background, makes me want to tear out my own eyeballs.

Eat your dogfood, perhaps ?
Correct. A lot of the issues are feature requests.
Okay, but evolution has given us some pretty expansive diversity in traits across the biological world. No single trait is pareto optimal, but relatively superior/inferior depending on context. Wheels have some pretty extreme efficiency advantages, useful for both speed as well as endurance. They come with disadvantages too, but there are plenty of animals who never need to leave environments where legs are optimal or even necessary for survival. There are some animals that will never leave grassy plains, for example. Yet none of them have evolved wheels either. We don't have marine animals that have evolved propellers, despite an edge in efficiency.
Lol what do you mean a "general observation"? You stated plainly that "Many articles now are cleanly formatted tweetstorms". Which ones?
huh, I didn't spot your comment before, and didn't think of searching for the word "polarized" in the comments.

2 days after you I independently posted a similar comment but with circularly polarized light:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21852885
There sure are a lot of "I want to believe"-ers in this thread, who are presumably mostly normal, rational individuals for most of their lives until something like UFOs tickles them the right way.

I bet a lot of these same people have their minds boggled that some people are anti-vaxxers, or think global warming isn't real.
Breakdown of Netflix subscribers outside the U.S.
I used to be a part of the MegaZeux community years ago. It was a group where curious creatives would come together and learn how to program or to create digital art. The releases for MegaZeux have been plagued with demos, "engines", and utilities. Relatively few finished games have actually been released, which really isn't surprising considering how complicated games can be. But it was a great and supportive community where people cut their teeth learning game development concepts.

It's interesting to see some go on to bigger projects in programming (Gilead Kutnick aka Exophase) or music (Sai'ke, Emalkay), and animation (can't remember the name of who I'm thinking of for this one in particular, but he released some very well-made animations on Newgrounds before entering the industry).

MegaZeux has a built in language called Robotic that was basically a limited BASIC, but organized in entities called "robots". There were also graphical hacks that let developers adjust the appearance of the ASCII characters or change the color palette. There was a lot to it for the time.

The Day of Zeux, or "DoZ", was always a fun test where teams would organize and create a game in 24 hours based on a specific topic given by judges. My first entry humbled me pretty hard since I went into it cocky about my capabilities, but my teammates abandoned development and we came in dead last. I tried in a later year and my team then created a game about escaping from a prison, which even had multiple endings. We didn't win, but we were near the top that time.

If it wasn't for MegaZeux, I probably wouldn't be a full time developer today.

I hope college went well for RoSS. Also, long live Frozen Cow Industries
As a former Amazonian, I appreciate the focus on writing and I help create it as a culture. It helps people think before doing.
This is a criticism that could be made of every Rogan episode.
This has little to do with the fact that every Church will have some group activities scheduled around the Holiday, giving people a chance to meet and socialize.
Left-handedness is associated with greater fighting success in humans
C frequently cannot vectorize without explicit hints. This is because with pointer arithmetic, what you're writing to could be within the array you're reading from. So order of operation could matter, and vectorization could break it.
You have twice restated exactly what I have written, thank you.

and for clarity: 'forcing air into respiratory cavities in the skull' would not prevent the bends.
Disagree with this wholeheartedly. iOS is the only platform I used which seems to make regular usability upgrades. Not new features but actual workflow improvements. I used iOS to get 70% of my work done and it all works together very nicely. You might call me a technical user though. I watch all the keynotes and learn to use the new/different features.
Don't know why you're being downvoted, that's a pretty accurate description of christianity in most of Europe.

I grew up in a family that self identified as catholic, I was baptized, and yet we never went to church and frankly religion is not something that was ever a subject of much discussion or interest in the family.
This looks cool!

250K players is impressive. Are those real players or bots?

Interesting to know more about performance too, what is your rate of update per second? How long does it take to process a tick?

Do you have a tech blog? Would be really interesting to learn more.
We owe nothing to those who drain us or make our lives worse. Sometimes you just have to cut people out so you can move on with life.
That's precisely the site I was thinking of, actually. Some of their writers like Jim Salter and Megan Guess are absolutely fantastic and others you pre-cringe before clicking the story.
This top-heaviness seems strongly correlated (and possibly causally related) with the drive to brand "administration" as a specialized skill needing its own experts, and keeping away bottom-up domain experts who would evolve into these roles (keeping one foot in the domain and another foot in administration/management).

This also means a greater degree of centralization in decision-making, which Herbert Simon already observed in 1991: Suppose that [“a mythical visitor from Mars”] approaches the Earth from space, equipped with a telescope that revels social structures. The firms reveal themselves, say, as solid green areas with faint interior contours marking out divisions and departments. Market transactions show as red lines connecting firms, forming a network in the spaces between them. Within firms (and perhaps even between them) the approaching visitor also sees pale blue lines, the lines of authority connecting bosses with various levels of workers. As our visitors looked more carefully at the scene beneath, it might see one of the green masses divide, as a firm divested itself of one of its divisions. Or it might see one green object gobble up another. At this distance, the departing golden parachutes would probably not be visible.
No matter whether our visitor approached the United States or the Soviet Union, urban China or the European Community, the greater part of the space below it would be within green areas, for almost all of the inhabitants would be employees, hence inside the firm boundaries. Organizations would be the dominant feature of the landscape. A message sent back home, describing the scene, would speak of “large green areas interconnected by red lines.” It would not likely speak of “a network of red lines connecting green spots.”

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It is interesting to try to relate that phenomenon to the "cost disease".
OP literally started with, “your opinion here is completely valid” and shared a valid opinion and you responded with, basically, “you’re doing it wrong”.
> 14" thinkpad

That would make me cry too.
Adaptive cruise control with stop and go can understand surrounding and knows when to stop and go. With that if I add paint path as this demo then self driving should work. But in reality it ain't. So There is something else which seems like too hard to solve problem with self driving . I want to know what is that
That's the point. If you will ever see a martian on your porch, and you haven't seem a giant nuclear rocket on which he came here, it will be the most direct proof that we missed something really big in our physics theories, something on the level of 5th force, existence of negative mass, or quantum gravity being a thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism
What if it happens to many windows at once?
What if they end up covering each other?
Are you sure user wants to see that popup he'd hardly ever use every time he starts an app?
Got it. Most of the projects I've seen are by people who want to bill hourly. Upwork provides some sort of "recommended" wage. How much would you discount that by? I'm afraid that if I'm too cheap even people looking for minimally skilled cheap coders won't want to hire me. Also, so far I'm zero replies for two proposals (a few hundred words each, not copy-pasted). Roughly what should I expect?
Besides the SR-71/A-12, there were other stealth aircraft that preceded the F-117. The immediate predecessor was Lockheed's Have Blue[0] which was flying in the 70s. Related to Have Blue, there was also Senior Prom[1], which was apparently a scaled down unmanned "cruise missile" variant of Have Blue.

And beyond airplanes, the first stealth helicopters were developed in the late 60s to early 70s and saw limited service during Vietnam. Called The Quiet Ones[2], these helicopters were painted with radar absorbing paint and had several novel mechanisms to reduce their noise, making them stealthy not only to radar but also to ground observers. They were tested over Area 51 and apparently near LA as well, so it seems likely they may have spooked some civilians at one point or another. The infamous "black helicopter" conspiracies/stories started popping up in the 70s, which doesn't seem particularly coincidental when you consider that we now know the The Quiet Ones existed.

The original Quiet Ones are long gone, but it's evident they were replaced by newer stealth helicopters that we don't yet know the names of. We can be pretty sure of this because famously one crashed during the raid on bin Laden[3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Have_Blue

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Senior_Prom

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vinh_wiretap#Planning_and_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden#Helic...
So the fact that most crypto export controls are gone now means NSA can crack everything now right?
The Post Office has successfully framed the (perception of the) case using completely ambiguous terms.

The Court has fallen for the strategy and wasted many hours splitting hairs on the meaning of the word "robust".

A better choice would have been "verifiably correct", since that requires a verification process and a definitive set of statements defining correctness.

A competent system engineer of 6 months experience could have pointed that out in a heartbeat. But, lawyers being lawyers....
Unpopular opinion, there is always more complexity and culpability in these sentimental stories.

Even in the broken social fabric of Western culture, there are still many opportunities to contribute to and find genuine community.

However it requires a sense of humility and focus on others overself. Among other things.

I know of many 'lonely' people who are highly dysfunctional and have burned their family and other communities that have tried to engage them.

Sometimes people do get a raw deal and are genuine victims. Other times people reap the whirlwind of their own bad behaviours and attitudes. Sometimes a mix of both. Life is messy.
"Server use cases can often run more threads, but it might not be useful" != "low NIC queue counts make high CPU core counts useless "

You're debating an argument that was never made.
Receiving a simple post request is something you can run any any PaaS free tier, on any webspace with PHP or other scripting, ... You can run that on completely independent hosting from your main website if you wish (which is why the services suggested are even possible)

If it were URL parameters you'd have them in your webserver log, but you'd still need dynamic code parsing that log for anything more advanced than "have a record of the mention somewhere".
But the things that add complexity at least to our gitlab config are precisely things you can't really test well locally, like:

- making sure you can access the AWS docker image registry, which may require particular runner configuration

- making sure deploy keys are set up correctly so you can access private dependencies

- testing caching behaviour

- testing improvements to pipeline duration (for us, just parallelising and reordering some things meant build times decreasing from 24 to 9 minutes)

- testing when exactly jobs should be triggered (e.g. stages, "only", "when", etc.)

- testing the predefined variables (such as the name of the branch)

- and so on
I independently posted a similar idea but with circularly polarized light 2 days later without noticing this linearly polarized light proposal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21852885

comparatively, they wont be worse of than with original bright headlights when they dont invest in circular polarized glasses for night traffic, while if they do they would benefit. similarily apply the polarization filters to bicycle headlights.

As a cyclist I myself am fed up with bright bicycle lights of others not aimed downward enough, and even when downward there is still a lot of glare... I assume my own bicycle lights are similarily annoying for others.

As a cyclist myself I would prefer a polarization based solution, to be eventually adopted by both cars and cyclists.
One of the things that slows scientific progress is the lack of cross-discipline learning. Every so often you hear about someone taking an old concept from another field and applying it. Quite a few breakout companies have combined interdisciplinary knowledge into one product and made a mint.

So many people are affected by NP complete problems that you'd think that someone would have a problem that appeared simpler on the surface and gave insights into a P solution, but either nobody has, or the right phrasing about it has caught nobody's attention.

There's an XKCD lamenting something pretty similar. You solved some unsolved problem but nobody will ever know because it's buried in a bug fix for your obscure little product.
I always thought TAOCP was for showing off on the bookshelf and not actually for reading. Whenever I make comments about it when I see it on someone's bookshelf they say they haven't read it.
yup, that's already in my feedreader.

I've already heard some fantastic stories from their guests, particularly the guy who used to work at intel.