skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One single 50mg vaporized dose of 5-MeO-DMT — derived from venom secreted by the Bufo alvarius toad — often produces hallucinogenic, boundless experiences within one second of inhalation that can last from 7 to 90 minutes, and on average lasts 20 minutes.

Don't try this at home. This probably applies if you get the actual toad stuff because it can hardly be pure but with pure freebase 5-MeO-DMT (which is a great thing to have) anything above 20 mg is dangerous, 50 mg has chances to be lethal.

I have tried about 15 mg (of pure freebase) and it actually had a profound effect. Not only it has "spiritual" sort of effects by giving you a direct experience of non-duality and perfect bliss, it also acts sort of like an awesome antidepressant - try it once and you then feel so much better (and concentration and awareness become so much easier, and anxiety is gone) for weeks after that.

I also microdose every time when I have hard time falling asleep - not only it relieves stress which prevents you from falling asleep, it also makes sleep much more refreshing and satisfying so the fact you didn't have much time to sleep doesn't hurt much any more.
NN didn't actually do CSS, it did JSS (Javascript Style Sheets, something Netscape hoped would fly) with an added translation layer. That meant that you could only style an element through its hierarchy (since there was no equivalent of IE's document.all in Netscape's DOM). $DEITY help you if you were trying to do a hybrid tables/CSS thing, especially with nested tables.
It’s in the hindsight of history that the differences that seemed significant at the time proved to not be. On the economy, both were mainstream neo-liberals. The best example is TARP. Obama inherited and continued TARP, but it’s also what he would’ve done anyway. Obama extended the Bush tax cuts for everyone earning below $400,000. On foreign relations, both were aggressive on terrorism. On immigration, their policies and rhetoric were similar, with Bush possibly being more liberal. (Bush strongly supported the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, which would have given everyone illegally present in the US on January 1, 2010, a permanent visa and pathway to citizenship.)

The two had different rhetoric on guns, religion, and abortion, but very carefully preserved the detante on these social issues by not proposing any significant legislation affecting them. On energy policy, both supported fracking and coal. (Obama had some last minute 2015 environmental regulations, which were quickly rolled back by Trump, but they clearly aren’t a priority seeing as how he waited until the last year of his presidency to act.) On healthcare, both had significant measures to expand coverage. (Bush’s Medicare Part D was a $50 billion/year program, while ACA was estimated to be $95 billion/year.)
Liquidity has been anything but withheld in the western world.
Look at the G4 balance sheets and interest rates in the past decade.
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It is certainly not a popular opinion. But as diametrically opposed as they appear, there are plenty of problematic issues under Obama that Dems (and Republicans) conveniently ignore. My biggest disappointment at the time: Obama kept all of Bush's economic team intact when he came into office. Yes, the same people who enabled the housing crisis and had strong ties to Goldman Sachs. Probably it should have been the biggest issue of the election but the dialogue was (and is) dominated by identity politics.

The underlying issue is that Obama was beholden to the exact same corporate influences as Bush. You don't rise through Chicago politics that fast without some deals in place. This isn't a condemnation of Obama, by the way, but recognition of the system's vulnerability.
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Definitely do mention this in the README!
A teenager stole one of those buses, drove it around his neighborhood, picking up people who had no way to evacuate, and then drove them out of town. He was legally in the wrong on many accounts but from a practical point of view, he did what needed to be done to save at least one bus load of people.

The federal response should have been just that, a response afterwards. The efforts before Katrina hit should have been mostly the responsibility of the local and state governments with the feds helping out with the logistics of the evacuees once they were out of the path of the storm.
My modeling/animation skill wouldn't be up to that task. I am already more than glad that the Wolverine claws came out half decent.
How Private Equity Buried Payless
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That's a gross misrepresentation. China has a female shortage, so some males will not get mates, regardless of how much housing is built. The extra houses aren't convincing women to turn from lesbian/asexual to heterosexual.
Only thing I could find of him mentioning WebAssembly was here at 19:45: https://youtu.be/MxB0ldQfvT4?t=1185

In that video he says that it’s not a suitable target for TypeScript to compile to because WebAssembly doesn’t have a garbage collector. They’d have to basically implement an entire JavaScript engine in WebAssembly which would be pointless.

He gives some examples of things it could be good for, which are all CPU intensive things like image processing and video games, but he doesn’t seem to think it’s really suitable for making normal web apps.
"Katrina was when I realized how silly it is to think our government would ever deal effectively with a major disaster"

It's funny because the very idea that 'the government will save us from a big disaster' is a fairly new concept.

Some governments are 'kind of' prepared for some kinds of problems - i.e. the Swiss are prepared for some kinds of invasions, surely the Dutch have preparations for floods.

But for unforeseen disasters (the levy breach in New Orleans), it's harder and we're mostly on our own.

New Orleans is also very poor and is socially dysfunctional along a whole other set of vectors, I'll bet $100 it's pretty correlated with dealing with disaster. If it were some well run mid-sized city in New England it would have been another story. (Plus the possibility of racism which is to vague to consider in a paragraph).
It's just a personal website. I find it delightful to explore, although I also have no idea what's going on half the time.
Tell him to stay in China where he belongs
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Also, by “hire people”, I mean directly, for a living wage, NOT outsourcing to billionaires who skim most of the money off the top and pay out minimum wage to a bunch of part time giggers.
Coffee, as a somewhat addictive substance, makes a better than usual metaphor for SaaS.
A billion people is only 2^30.
50mg of 5-Meo-DMT is an absolutely terrible idea.

I'd need a citation, or even an anecdote, to believe that it could be lethal.

I've found a datasheet[0] that lists an intraperitoneal LD50 of 115 mg/kg in mice. That's more in keeping with my understanding.

[0]: https://www.caymanchem.com/msdss/11628m.pdf
There are legal research chemical vendors that supply it. I'm sure HN has sourcing prohibitions so you'd have to search yourself.
I wonder how this compares with Commento?

Differences I've found:

FastComments has a smaller Javascript file.

Commento is open source. Could it be more stable since been around for longer?

What would you say, @winrid? There's this blog post: "Migrating From Commento To FastComments" -- what are the main reasons someone would do that?
I don’t know that it is just a matter of what you eat. You have to also be careful of cross contamination in the kitchen that prepared the food and even touching surfaces or hands that have been in contact. This is not easy for children or even adults. Avoiding the Alergerin can become a full time job.
On September 10, 2001, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld revealed that the Pentagon had lost $2.3 trillion from its budget. That figure has now grown to $6.5 trillion and counting.
Client side apps still have a hard time being crawled by bots. You're right that the situation is getting better, but from my research it seems it's hard to crack completely without a pre-rendering solution.

And yea, search engines don't like cloaking, but google themselves say that dynamic rendering is OK and not considered cloaking.

Appreciate the feedback!
What’s the alternative to a hamburger menu that you would recommend for mobile? It’s a very common ux. For example, target, Walmart, and amazon all have a hamburger menu on mobile.
I actually do 'subscribe to coffee' though; I get beans delivered by https://pactcoffee.com (UK only I think).

I can't recall the keyword for this in the realm of economics, but it's a weird thing to compare 'good value' across sectors. I do it quite often, wonder why I think X is such a rip-off when I won't even blink at Y - perhaps for that reason I've never had a problem with coffee-currencied pricing.

At least for consumables (coffee, groceries, SaaS in the sense that even if you don't consume a quota you consume a timeframe) I think there is value to be had in comparing their relative value, but only secondarily to comparison against something of the same type of course.
E-mails mean jack and shit. Is the disruption happening ON SITE? No. The whiner e-mailing behind people's backs like this is Elementary School should be summarily ignored. It's a fucking HANDLE for crying out loud. Anyone letting a fictitious handle bother them doesn't belong on the internet, PERIOD. And you should be doubly-so kicked off moderation staff for pandering to such absolute childish nonsense.
I love the explanation, but why did the guy suggest a complicated bit work instead of just doing sum += arr[i] > 128 ? arr[i] : 0 is beyond me.
I didn't say that.
> Many people use that quote for something which is NOT "a reasonable argument".

This is dodging the idea of the quote being used for a reasonable argument, taking the article in good faith. I'm of the belief that words themselves have meaning. The MLK quote is itself decidedly anti-racist, regardless of who speaks it.

> I am convinced that there is a need for reparations, for institutional actions done to people who are still alive.

I get this. I'm not opposed to this, and unfortunately there are no easy answers due to how long and all-encompassing it was (is).

But when reparations take the form of more institutional racism, this should not be glossed over with euphemisms. Even if specific reparations are appropriate, it is still ultimately contributing to general racism - elevating superficial group characteristics over individual qualities - and this needs to be respected rather than downplayed.

My qualm here is that these institutions are not merely having their employees carry out racist policies, but rather they are insisting that everyone internalize it into their own worldview. This is what makes for a political test - in this environment it's unacceptable follow the university's rubrics and then earnestly ignore race. Rather if you possess the "wrong" skin color, you must always be overtly atoning.

Much of your comment is itself just drawing lines in the sand and imparting imagined motives to an outgroup that isn't fully parroting your dogma. This is the same exact anti-individualist cancer that drives racism/religion/etc in the first place.
Recent versions of GCC as well as the Intel compilers can autovectorize with the right flags (-ffast-math with GCC, -fast with Intel), and yield better performance with the <math.h> functions than you'll get from SLEEF on x86_64.

LLVM doesn't have a vector math library, so SLEEF could help you there.

If you're using single precision and AVX512, a >10x speed increase is likely. Otherwise, you'll probably get less than that.
These functions are very accurate, most to withing 1 ULP of least precision. That is, if the answer they provide isn't the correctly rounded floating point answer, then it'll be either the next or previous representable floating point number.

There is a lot of room for giving up accuracy in the name of speed (eg, using less terms in the polynomials).
This phenomenon is called a "Jespersen's cycle" according to Wiktionary.

https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cycle_de_Jespersen

Also according to Wiktionary, "guère" is unrelated to "guerre" (war) and "ne ... guère" is therefore not the product of a Jespersen's cycle.

https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/gu%C3%A8re
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The whole process of upgrading dependencies is annoying, mainly because stuff keeps breaking. I currently try to keep everything up-to-date, simply because then the number of breakages are spread out and easier to deal with, and when critical fixes come through, they're easier to apply. Automation does help with this. But ideally, I'd like the "it it ain't broke don't fix it" approach. It feels like such a waste of time.

I would love to see Dependabot go further and track upgrade breakage. Being notified about vulnerabilities is a great service and takes the load off. But too many times, it still breaks.

Recent example: Checkstyle security issue, Dependabot cuts a PR. Great. Except almost every minor release [0] has a breaking change. Some libraries are much better than this, and in fact I ended up simply ditching Checkstyle. (It's open source, they don't owe me anything. I get it.)

Until we quantify the breakage issue, you don't have enough data to make a decision if upgrading dependencies is worth it outside of a security fix. And in those cases, it's hard to make an argument keeping up to date is the best choice (other than personal philosophy).

[0] https://checkstyle.org/releasenotes.html
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In a CI/CD setup, you could make lots of atomic commits growing the feature behind a flag.

A side effect of atomic commits is that number of commits does better correlate to "work done", I suppose.
Yeah, around me you can get simple drip coffee from Starbucks for about 1/2 to 1/3 the cost of an espresso based drink. Last I was there, I think the biggest drip cup they offered was around $2.30 and the smallest was about $1.50. It's been about 3 years since I actually got a drip coffee from Starbucks so the prices might be slightly higher now.
I urge everyone who's contemplating trying this substance, which is arguably by far the most powerful psychedelic on the planet, to thoroughly educate themselves on it first.

Erowid[1] is a good place to start.

[1] - https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/5meo_dmt/5meo_dmt.shtml
I wrote "root" as a simpler sudo some years ago.

https://github.com/mikelward/root
I'm not sure if they're still ordering things the way they were when I last visited, but I loved the ~10m walk from abacus to a Babbage Difference Engine too.

Plus, if you have a flexible lunch it is a practical visit over a few days at this time of year too.

https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co62243...
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Starbucks sells filter coffee in the UK.
> How stable is the power that Xi has consolidated?

Very stable. Basically nothing besides something coming from withing the party itself can shake him, and he took down all of those threats to him from within the party. Not even Mao ever managed to cleanse all of his detractors from the party up until his death.

Saying this, you should not be confusing that "people are throwing looks into his back," and quiet whispers of dissatisfaction with genuine resistance.

> How would the party and the public respond if there were leaks about his private life and behavior? I wonder what his skeletons in the closet are...

If you can write Chinese, google those skeletons, they are up to everybody to see. Even taxi drivers here know of Xi's billionaire sister, but... taxi drivers and other general public can't do anything about that.

> I've also wondered how receptive the Chinese people would be to a series of documentaries or dramas that point out the inequality and unfairness in their system.

People can see that every day out of their windows, not TVs. They don't need to watch any documentaries to know that.

There is the reason people use name of Dong Zhuo as an euphemism for Xi. Take a look at this video, the scene from Chang An says it all about the current political atmosphere in CPC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj_VMvsG7G0

Commoners resent him for disturbing a relative peace of Hu's years that they were just getting taste of, by starting a new political upheaval. CPC elders do not only see him as a threat to Jiang, but they clearly think that they themselves are his next target. His unilateral ambitions on the international stage are no match for the discontent world. And yes, the rank and file ordinary officials can't be more freaked out now.

However... you also don't forget when Xi was thought to stand for reforms, it were the masses themselves who invited his ambitions to move on the supreme power. And that those who were benefiting from status quo were hit by that the most.
Agreed that it's a one-time step decrease, and that the progress continues. But, why 2020? The panels that have powered the server were bought between 2015 and 2019, and who knows how long they had been in storage before I bought them.

You take the solar panel that just comes out of the factory as a reference, but I could just as well argue that the reference should be the age of the average solar panel installed in the world.

Also, let's wait and see how the move to China affects the quality and life expectancy of solar panels. And what it means for other forms of pollution. I focused on energy use but there are other environmental concerns with the production of solar panels.

I will be happy to update the calculations in the future if more and better data are available.
Fyi, you can italicize quoted text by wrapping it in asterisks.
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At this point it’s undeniable that the government tried to keep things quiet in the beginning and that’s not a good thing. But slow reaction to new diseases isn’t uncommon. I recall when mad cow was going around a while ago the reaction in Canada was slow as well. The desire to down play things happen at multiple levels of an organization for all sorts of reasons.

I’m not dismissing the initial attempt at cover up here and the Chinese government should seriously examine their priorities. I just think it’s a bit of an exaggeration to link this event to causing a “big disaster for whole human society”.
We can be a Socrates anywhere. We don't have to literally be on trial for "corrupting the youth" to exercise reason and pursue virtue. We can strive to live well on even quotidian place like the workplace or our local communities. In fact that's where much of the drama of the philosophical life unfolds. I wasn't saying that Stoicism pointed me in the direction of a lucrative career but that it encouraged me to ask myself how I can lead a better life for others, and that involved finding work that I loved and that could provide for my family. So no, I don't think Socrates would become a SWE for the typical reasons why people jump into this industry. But there is nothing in his thought that suggests to me that he would above doing meaningful, intellectually enriching work that would enable to help to contribute to his community and to support those he loved.
$100 a month is less than the amount I spend on coffee, but most people seem to think I have a problem.
> That just sounds like a sensational headline lacking in context and details.

It was well documented by multiple investigations after the fact.
Ask HN: Career Advice on Engineering Manager vs. Product Manager
My background has been in Software Engineering (California, Fortune 500). And now I am thinking of moving into either Engineering Management or Product Management. I already have an offer to be an Engineering Manager. I am open to MBA for the Product Manager role.

I have always wanted to move into either EM or PM role. Based on my experience, I think I would enjoy both of those roles equally. I want to learn more in EM / PM role and then aspire to be at VP/Director position in 5-7 years.

1. Does EM or PM have a higher likelihood of getting to a Director / VP level position?

2. Is an MBA a good investment for either role in the long-term (should be able to get into the top 10 MBA school)? Especially, given I already have a very strong technical background and have business certification from Stanford.

3. Overall, what path should I follow (Engineering Manager or Product Manager)?

Thank you so much for reading and helping!
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> Bitcoin Core version 0.8

That's incorrect.

All prior versions before 0.8 were self-inconsistent-- accepting or rejecting some large blocks depending on their own history of orphaning and reorgs which would be different on different nodes-- and would have split all on their own eventually.

The distinction with 0.8 is that it made the maximum block size that a miner would create command-line configurable and larger blocks have a much easier time triggering the pre-0.8 inconsistency.

People originally thought that 0.8 was at fault since this happened a little while after 0.8's release and the first diverged node-pair people looked at were 0.8 vs 0.7. But that belief was mistaken.

> manually revert to an older version of software

Only a few percent of nodes had split there. The vast majority were on the more restrictive fork. I'm not, for example, aware of any exchange that observed a reorg from this.

> If my node decides to revert to a chain past a few hours, I want it to stop and manually ask me what chain to follow. This is exactly why checkpoints were added to Bitcoin

That was not why they were added and they have never had a behavior like that.

Stopping can be acceptable for some uses, but it's not a safe behavior in general and could dramatically exacerbate a network fault.

FWIW, ethereum will not stop in a big reorg. However, ethereum nodes do randomly stop for no reason whatsoever, and businesses have responded by automating blowing away the state of stuck nodes and re-warp syncing it against the network. The effect of this has been to essentially downgrade these exchanges to no-better than SPV security: they'll trust whatever gets mined.

> checkpoint like systems are employed by many coins

I'm not aware of systems like Bitcoin used by other altcoins, I am aware of quite a few where the developers broadcast signatures the rig the consensus which call themselves 'checkpoints' in order to deliberately deceive users about the security properties through an erroneous comparison to bitcoin like the one you're making.
Arguably not a little decision, but yes I totally agree
For the keyboard layout, a solution could be to have a programmable keyboard.
Have any recommendations on where to put the money from that payday loan so John Q Workingman can retire early?
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I believe Dependabot quantifies this to some extent with a "Compatibility score": https://dependabot.com/#how-it-works

But it can only measure what people have test coverage for, presumably.