skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is almost three weeks old. The anonymous nurse predicts the imminent total collapse of the health care system where even the field hospitals will overflow and it's too late to do anything about it. This has clearly not happened.

The nurse goes on to blame deregulations and financial aid to banks and corporations. This seems more like the personal feeling of a rather leftist nurse published by a left of center tabloid.

I am sure there have been misinterpretations of the directives and there have probably been times where prioritizations have been done based on local and short term conditions. But it is not an active and commonly used policy.
This is not okay considering non-violent offense is heavily prosecuted, especially among minority communities. Please consider a more nuanced argument.
That's not quite the right read - the previous work (I'm not even sure if it was that lab) was to engineer e. coli to make psilocybin, but e. coli was a bad factory because it still needed a very expensive to make/obtain chemical added as a feedstock.

So instead, they put the same genetic material into yeast which already had the necessary metabolic equipment to make the entire compound "de novo" (i.e. from scratch - just add sugar and yeast nutrients and it pumps out psilocybin). The downside is that the yeast's metabolic pathways chew up about half the product, so there is still work to do on making it more efficiently, but at yields of 600mg/L it's not exactly a bad start. (For reference, depression researchers tested the compound at dose of 30 mg for a 155lb man and it yielded psychoactive effects.)
Fastest and best is the latest, EPSM. For all cases, given you are on x86_64 or aarch64 with sse4.2

The cited implementation has only minor problems, which I fixed in my fork.
Hi there! A colleague of mine referred me to your post. I'd love to have a call and help with advice and coaching to reduce your anxiety of going blind. Since I published the post @ssivark mentioned, I got a lot of emails from developers who were afraid of going blind or who were actually like yourself and were going blind, so trust me when I say that you are not alone and people like you have pulled through. Since you value showing up and being independent, I'm certain you will pull through, too.

Please reach out to me on my website (https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/). I'd love to help.
You:

> which is superior to synthetic antidepressants in many cases

Then justify this with:

> some research has shown the supplement to be as effective as several prescription antidepressants

(X > Y) != (X = Y) or in plain English, what you cite does not support your claim.

> with a few Google searches

You make the claim, you provide the references.

> taking your comment as further evidence of an irrational bias against phytopharmaceuticals.

I support what works regardless of origin. No person who has experienced severe depression would discard something that worked. I don't have time for idiots who presume 'natural' = 'better' though.
Hello, I'm the author here, thanks for liking the project! I'm not aware of Kurento prior to your post, it seems pretty nifty, good to explore for future projects!

Getting the client to do the heavy lifting while the server acts solely as a relay is a really good idea. In my use case, however, I have a flutter client that's not capable of doing that at the moment, perhaps that's something that could be explored further in the future.
I see the same on a micro-scale. I have a task that will take an hour of concentrated effort - I'm afraid to start because I know I'll be interrupted.
But it accumulates.
This obviously doesn't apply across the board (but what does), but in my experience, on engineering teams I've been on, so-called & self-proclaimed "doers" are only doers of highly visible work, whereas the "talkers" are the real behind-the-scenes doers.

They do the invisible maintenance work and a part of the reason they "talk" so much is because they know from experience what the burden of managing technical debt. is (and that they'll be stuck doing it) and they want to talk/plan out/advise people on the least burdensome options.

They invisibly help/mentor the self-proclaimed "doers" on the projects they've eagerly taken on without any clue as to how challenging it will end up being (the same project the "talkers" cautioned others about because their knowledge gave them some degree of foresight).

The truth is, you probably need both breeds. The "doers" for ambition and the ability to actually start something (without getting lost in months of talking/planning) and the "talkers" to insist on the limited amount of talking/planning needed and actually have the knowledge to follow through.
Are the fines more of a signal (i.e. fines for jaywalking) or are they more cut in stone and expecting recuperation?
Why can't science be spiritual?
Yes. For instance, how can companies treat people like humans instead of just resources?
When I was a teenager, I had no love for Mozart. An aunt who did used to tell me: "you will appreciate Mozart when you get older." Now I wonder if she actually meant when you get younger. I was a humorless pompous prick then.
Seems easy to game.
What problem does it actually solve? We already have web search it may not be perfect and certainly does not fit in with the ethics of some people and has many many other problems we could and should address. But factually we still have functional web search already. Its not a problem waiting to be solved with blockchain tech.
So it looks like it does not solve a web search problem it solves a niche problem for cyperliberalism or something while the real world does not have a search problem.

Don't get me wrong. the Project might be awesome. I may even use it some day. But I see it a niche project like I2P or Freenet, It's good that we have these for when we might need it but there is no way people will replace something they use now with it.
Paradoxically, I think just acknowledging procrastination as an example of a bad thing, but not the most important one, might work well.

I say this because anxiety around needing to do something important is one possible cause of procrastination in the first place, and yet there is nothing more anxiety-inducing than telling yourself that by procrastinating, you're failing to do the most important things first. Whereas instead, if you only go so far as to make a mental note of it when you catch yourself procrastinating, you'll give yourself a moment to reflect without giving yourself anxiety that perpetuates further procrastination.

Also, you may have a subconscious reason for not doing something. Procrastinating could simply just be your brain's way of letting a better idea about how to do it percolate. That said, forming habits of doing certain unproductive things could be a pointless loss of productivity. Like if you have a habit of checking social media several times a day you might try blocking yourself from that and see how much productivity you've gained. And after all, there are better ways of procrastinating than by checking social media, like going for walks, trying new healthy recipes if you cook, or even cleaning (I actually don't know how many times I've thought of a good solution while cleaning), etc.

Once you've done that, you can think about it in terms of optimizing time spent working vs. time spent in leisure, and acknowledge that the "good" forms of procrastinating are an important form of leisure, which, if you've optimized the ratio well, boost your productivity by restoring mental energy and increasing creativity. Technically this includes sleep as well. :-)
Timing is everything, but doubly so when you're trying to take a short position. My favorite quote from that movie is when Burry get's confronted by one of his major investors who comes in demanding his money back:

"I'm not wrong, I'm just early"... "IT'S THE SAME THING!"

The story obviously works out well for them in the end. But all it would have taken was the market to hold out just a little longer or investors wanting enough of their money back just a little earlier and they would have all taken a bath.

The markets are littered with stories of things that don't make sense, I semi-regularly get motivated to actually put my money where my mouth is. And in the vast majority of cases I end up getting the timing wrong by a month or two, which in the end is still just getting it wrong. There's no reward for being just a little bit wrong. It's also not realistic to look back at historical events and think you'd have been able to predict the timing with the required accuracy if only you had the data.
Our cat was an indoor cat for 12 years until we moved to a house with a garden - now he is quite happy to wander about our garden but never goes outside that area unless we are with him. I was quite surprised at how territorial he is - e.g. chasing neighbour's dogs out of our garden.
> Procrastination is actually my mind trying to tell me something that I’m not attuned enough to realise in the first place.

Yeah, procrastination is a teacher. There's a reason why you or I procrastinate. Sometimes it takes only a couple minutes to figure out.

Regarding the fear part, I find re-framing it to be useful.

Fearing failure?
Well, if you haven't started yet, you're already failing.
What will you learn, even if you fail?

Fearing endless work?
Do you enjoy the process? If not, could you make it more enjoyable?

Fearing judgement or putting something imperfect into the world?
1) We're all imperfect.
2) You can create, try, and fail in private. You don't have to show your first bad attempt to anyone. You can work on it until it's good enough and then show it to someone else.

And about that "break it down" advice, yes it does help, but I prefer to think about it as clarifying.

Clarify the work, identify the unresolved issue, hazy details, decisions not made. What am I ignoring? What's unclear? What's giving me anxiety? Any of those questions help.

Hope that helps a bit.

And as you say in the article that you're looking for more tools for defeating procrastination, I feel obliged to point you to the collection of anti-procrastination tools I've built at deprocrastination.co.
I like it too.

Find a local maximum that gives you some space to see around you. Climb a tree, or walk uphill for a good while - maybe a path will be more obvious from up there. In the metaphor, go spend some time learning some hobby for a while, something you enjoy doing but haven't put time into, then re-evaluate.

There is no best mountain to climb, just more mountains.

Sometimes there is no path where you want to go and you are the one who gets to blaze it. This doesn't have to be huge either, the path gets too worn down in places and new turns need to be added to get around those spots.

If you spend too much time looking at your map and compass, you won't end up putting many miles down.
> He transparently identifies his a.p.ex. as such. Then it's not a fallacy ... It's an experience.

It's an experience which we have no reason to think is representative.

> Of course there is. You just have to mix the mushrooms well and then measure potency of a sample.

How is this highly artificial process any better than making a pill?

I can tell you one way it's worse: What else is in the mushrooms? How do you know what else is in the mushrooms?
> It's also wrong to maintain a poorly working system just to prevent that scenario.

I agree. But that still doesn't mean you have a right to take from those (through the form of taxes) to give to those that are unwilling to work.

> It's good if people want to work, but if they perform useless work, they're better off receiving money for nothing and maybe educate themselves. That's strictly less wasteful.

I had a job and went to university, I unloaded lorries in a warehouse it was very boring. I still spend a lot of my time outside of work reading, coding etc.

People typically have 4-6 hours plus the weekend so another 32 hours to educate themselves, yet most choose their time watching netflix, playing theirs Playstation etc, going to the bar (nothing wrong with those in themselves btw). Online courses are inexpensive these days and it is literally at your fingertips. Before there were online courses people used to go to night schools to learn. The opportunities are there but people choose not to pursue them, that is up to them.

> If property prices in the UK weren't inflated by debt-financed monetary policy served to protect those who already own them, you could've also bought a property years ago.

There are many reasons why property prices in the UK are ridiculous. However if wasn't taxed to the high heavens I would have been able to afford it sooner regardless of why the prices were high. In any event, it was just an example of how I could have spent my money differently that would have directly benefited me.

> If people know they can fall back to a modest basic income,

I run my own business, I took a risk. I didn't need the government to help me. The willingness to take risks and better yourself doesn't need the government to be involved.

>They will be able to refuse jobs that exploit them.

I hate it when people use this rationale. You get paid for going to work. You have plenty of rights at work. You are not exploited. You sign up willingly to work. It isn't exploitation. I don't buy into this whole "capitalism exploits the workers" marxist thought process.
> Yeah, but so is nearly everything else.

Nope. There are scientific, verifiable, objective things (and nobody cares about epistemological problems).

As other post told: rockets fly, internet connects etc.

And there are subjective matters, like ethics, aesthetics, art, beauty.

Now, subjective doesn't mean bad. What I really dislike is things like philosophy (which critical theory is part of), which tries to cover subjective opinions with obscure rhetoric to make them appear as facts.
How is that highly artificial process any better than making a pill?

Plus, how do you know what other ingredients are in the mushrooms?
Report offenders to ankle-biters like https://noyb.eu
You can get infinite scrolling and inline images with RES [1] without making it impossible to read discussions.

[1] https://redditenhancementsuite.com/
For some reason, when I try to edit this post, it doesn't update it correctly, there's a paragraph missing:

On the other hand, whenever my mind find something interesting, I can have a lot of focus. I'm able to spend a couple of week only thinking about that issue, during that time, nothing else really matters, and I can't really get interested in anything else. I have difficulty talking about anything else with my partner (which she used to find annoying). This can be anything from a problem at work, to researching what the best video projector would be and trying to understand everything behind the technology of all models in the market place... I do have a tendency to become completely uninterested about that subject or that task after it. So, for example, recently, I suddenly became obsessive about headphones and audio gear, I researched everything about them, bought quite a few high end headphones (spent a quarter of my salary on them) but by the time they finally arrived, I was no longer interested and couldn't even really find the motivation to test them. I barely use them and they are now gathering dust on my shelf
>You just did the same, didn't you?

No, the side effects are readily available and specific factual data. If you asked ten people to figure out what they were you'd get ten very similar answers.

"Mistakes from the past" on the other hand was completely without context that would point anyone to do better than guess what was being referenced.
That can be another productivity killer. You inherit some app to maintain/modify, and you're afraid to touch it. So you essentially fork the code, start making small tweaks to reassure yourself that you're not breaking anything and it's all good. But at some point you have to take a bigger bite and it's still scary.
I think I've successfully managed to "beat" procrastination by adopting the pomodoro technique. I've shipped software for years now.

What I've come to realise however is that the brain/body can only do so much work in a day. I can program for a few hours a day (on a good day) and then it becomes increasingly more effort to do more coding. Sometimes, depending on the task, I'll be able to switch to another task. However, my point in all of this is, if you have a serious procrastination problem -- find a way to overcome it, but also recognise that your brain/body only has so much "fuel" each day, and you need to decide what to put it towards (e.g. work, hobbies, exercise, study, family, etc).
There was a claim going around that those were actually registered by someone who opposed this movement to stop supporters from registering the names. Which is, of course, the trouble with claims of "astroturfing" - anyone can spot a movement in its early moments and take actions like registering domain names.
I highly recommend installing following software:

-RescueTime (keeps tracking of all windows, websites, programs during the work hours)

-ManicTime (free and Open Source but lacks good reporting as in RescueTime, on other hand it does work 100% offline)
I have ADHD and while giving up easily is an indication for ADHD I have also a washing list of other symptoms, e.g. switching to a new hobby every other week, having sudden urges to google random things because my brain thinks it is of utmost importance to know about it RIGHT NOW, inability to maintain concentration if the thing I have to do doesn't interest me - but hyperfocusing on things for days on end if they interest me etc etc

ADHD is much more centered around concentration than just giving up easily, I guess.
> Mathematics

Is a purely deductive field and have no connection to reality, it's all about dealing with pure mathematical objects.

> physics

Exists within a strong empirical framework, which allows us to verify models, not just construct them.

Critical theory gives no verification framework whatsoever to prove or omit its statements.
Innovation Challenge for Development of Video Conferencing Solution [pdf]
This is fantastic, thank you.

I have two questions:

1. Did you decide against including any script in the app bundle for more privacy? It looks like it.

2. So all scripts must be appended in that same file? Have you thought about a behavior like a ".d" directory in the recent "Unix world", where each file can add configuration options? That would enable using different scripts and different languages.
Trading body parts for liberty is a dodgy precedent.
If the human activity involves doing something reCaptcha-/mechanical turk-esque then that's likely the point: incentivising development of systems that game this would likely result in novel AI models/tech
5 Lessons for Developers to Prevent Zoombombing and Zoom’s Security Blunders
Another source for me is things that I want my "ideal self" to do, but I don't enjoy in reality. Like finishing a project. Once you have enough those on list you feel constantly bad and start using procrastination as an easy escape. It has been good to just terminate projects that don't really excite me anymore. When the "I'm feeling bad about not doing x" disappears, the amount of procrastination seems to shrink also.
Many of the experts in Asia with first hand experience of dealing with SARS (eg professors Gabriel Leung, Yuen Kwok Yung etc [0][1]) were calling for masks to be worn in late January, or earlier even. Their simple advice has been right on the money and is basically unchanged since than.

Whereas the advice from the WHO and their dependents has been muddled, illogical, and inconsistent, with increasing amounts of 'wriggle room'

Also the hospitals where there are zero cases of staff infection and care homes free of infection spread are using PPE levels well above what the WHO recommends.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcbJdRb6mds
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7trxYtMzY
That's the "what". Many people would like to know the "how" though.
Hey Matthew, thanks for the insights you've been providing to me thus far, I've added [1] to the references in the project's README!

Meanwhile, there's another well-explained tutorial that complements [1] along with a code walkthrough to implement something similar in Node.js.

https://github.com/fbsamples/Canvas-Streaming-Example/blob/m...
>There will certainly be a lot of interesting studies after this is all over comparing mitigation measures - at the moment it is not so clear which ones work, and at which stage in outbreaks they are most useful.

So many variables. I wonder how clear things will become even in hindsight. Of course, it doesn't keep people today from being very certain and very dogmatic and very strident today about the right things to do on Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere.
Cholera Riots
> There are negative side effects from consuming the mushrooms which you don't get from purified psilocybin.

You're still owing at least one example for this statement.

What side effects do you get from shrooms that you don't get from pure psilocin or one of its prodrugs?
At the time I was starting with Hackintosh it was unable to boot every now and then. I couldn't figure out what's going on because months could pass without any issues.

At the end it turned out that boot went right only if my microserver (NAS) was turned on. I guess I had an SMB mount that failed before GUI even started. Couple of weeks after I figured what was going on a new version of macOS was published and I switched - never had similar problem again.

Even now I'm not 100% sure that networking issue was exact cause but it certainly looked that way at the time.
Unfortunately herd immunity does not work.
Germany has ~83m pple x 70% = 58m need to be infected for herd immunity
The ages 65+ you want to protect and don't infect ~17m
That reduces the people which naturally get herd immunity to (83m- 17m) x 70% = 46m

How do you want to infect the remaining 12m pple? By force?
If you go by likelyhood of death by age, basically everyone below the age of 45 has to be infected to protect the elderly.
> The tasks include, for example, but not limited to, watching or listening information (e g. advertisement)

Drink verification can to continue.
> No, He is talking about the laptop not getting enough power while plugged in.

That’s what I’m talking about too

> If there was any added weight it would be with the charger, not the laptop so…

Whether it’s charger or laptop, that’s still more weight that the end-user needs to carry around in their backpack, which 99.9% of them won’t need
First off, I agree.

But it's not practically feasible.

You can autogenerate bullshit, or manually do it with complete disregard for sourcing or legitimacy, but you can do neither for refutations.

I don't have a solution for this, but the old adage "truth prevails" is looking more and more dead.
As I said previously it is a matter of principle. UBI takes from those willing to work and gives to those that are unwilling. I am not talking about people that are unable to work.

I don't care if someone or some studies say that it works out cheaper or it maybe nicer. It is simply not ethical. However I am someone that given the choice between Monarchy and Democracy, Monarchy is the better choice.
Even before clicking through the the article I was guessing that this was Diane's butter. Six or seven years ago when still living in the bay area I took my parents to the French Laundry when they visited and we all chuckled when the waiter brought out the butter with the bread and made a point of talking about Diane and her cows. To this day we still talk about how amazing that butter was. I can pop down the road and pick up Isigny Sainte-Mere, Echire, and a few others fresh over the channel from France and I still pine for Diane St. Clair's... (At this point I am willing to concede that this is probably less about the absolute quality than the memories linked to same, but it was amazingly good butter.)