skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
almost! :) let me elaborate on few points.

> you have to reference all of the current concurrent root nodes of the data structure, in effect becoming the new single root node

correct, and more precisely the union of heads is the current "single root node". in practise, and this is where the merge strategy comes in, the "latest value" is the value of the event that is "last" (as per LWW sorting).

> and your event data, which must be a CRDT, gets merged with the CRDTs of those root nodes.

the event data itself doesn't have to be a CRDT, can be any data structure. the "root nodes" (meaning the heads of the log) don't get merged with the "event data" (assuming you mean the database/model layer on top of the log), the merge strategy of the log picks the "last/latest event data" to be the latest value of your data structure.

> It's time to write a new value, so I create a new tuple with references to 4 and 6, and merge their CRDT values.

when a new value is written, correct that the references to 4 and 6 are stored, but the new value doesn't merge the values of the previous events and rather, it's a new value of its own. it may replace the value from one or both of the previous events, but that depends on the data model (layer up from the log).

1 --> 2 --> 3 --> 4
`--> 5 --> 6

> Last Writer Wins, right? So either 4 or 6 dominates the other. Whoever was in the other causal history just... lost their writes?

no writes are lost. the result in your example depends what 4 and 6 refer to. in a log database, the ordered log would be eg. 1<-2<-3<-5<-4<-6, so all values are preserved. in the case of a key-value store, it could be that 4 is a set operation to key a and 6 is a set operation to key b, thus the writes don't effect each other. if 4 and 6 are both a set operation on key a, it would mean that key a would have the value from 6 and the next write to key a would overwrite the value in a. makes sense?
There's a long history of pairing entheogenic substances with yeast and its bi-products.

For around 1900 years a biannual event took place near Athens known as The Eleusinian Mysteries.[1] This was a real occurrence of which Plato, Socrates, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius and many others wrote about or attended in person.
The event culminated in a secret ceremony in which participants invariably reported losing their fear of death [2]
Much has been written on the topic, with growing speculation through the 20th century that the initiates took an entheogenic substance, such as psilocybin or ergotamine, from mushrooms, beer or barley. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries
[2] https://www.ancient.eu/article/32/the-eleusinian-mysteries-t...
[3] PDF https://www.mattioli1885journals.com/index.php/MedHistor/art...
Maybe a long trek like the El Camino is a better metaphor. The idea is to look just one step in front of you and not think about the entire distance.
You assume these people all have cars.

You know what? The best solution is lifting taxes (most of them don't pay much anyway) and usual phone bills (that are freaking expensive for the service it provides). it will probably cost less than to pay for the last mile.
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Simply keeping a log also helps. (See also lab notes.) The habit of writing down what you want to do, and summarizing what you have actually done is an enormously powerful one.
Almost identical to the “native” app with some added responsiveness, the macOS version being a souped up Ember application for the past five years has really paid off here.
I read it, and I don't agree that he explained why Helix sucked. Unless I'm reading it wrong, he seems to think a voice-controlled rig would be better for live performance?

I understand that the tone of these user's comments might be rubbing people wrong, but the criticisms were absolutely spot-on (including the one that got flagged/removed). As a DIY project, I think it's awesome...but as a product being brought to (a heavily saturated, well-trod) market it deserves criticism/skepticism.
There is a distinction between “having ties” and “all the domains were registered in very short order, and the signs have similar typography”
Nobody ask to be charged more, but trusting you to put the credit card number is difficult, so the people that would pay $1 per month and $2 per month is almost the same.

I have my electricity usage metered, but I have a very good estimation that the bill next month will be $40 or $50 (The numbers are in US$. Hi from Argentina!)

The phone bill is more tricky. It´s usualy $10 (It is metered here, including local calls). But there are a lot of posible events that may increase the bill a lot. For example calling a mobile phone or calling abroad. I make a few calls to mobile phones and I very rarely call abroad, but it is scarry that the bill is essencialy unbounded.

With a webpage, it is more difficult to have a good estimation of the cost beforehand.
I like this theory.. one may feel unconsciously that the "distractions" are a better/more promising way of meeting the unmet needs, in comparison to what the conscious mind wants to do.
> New York City’s MTA subway system, whose conductors have used a modified point-only system since 1996 after then Chief Transportation Officer Nathaniel Ford was fascinated by the point-and-call system during a business trip to Japan. In the MTA’s case, conductors point to a fixed black-and-white “zebra board” to confirm a stopped train is correctly located along the platform.
I agree about the title, but it's a good article, well worth a read. An article's author doesn't always get to choose its title.
In my home village (South Eastern Germany), "outdoor cats" are the norm and nobody would even think about locking their cats indoors. The cats from different homes hang out together, have their little fights from time to time, make very loud love in summer nights (which is the only slightly annoying part), or get into furious disagreement with a weasel and other wildlife "invading" their territory in the village.

Very rarely, a cat is run over by a car, but by far most cats seem to be smart enough to avoid cars (and human drivers also usually seem to be smart enough to avoid running over cats by driving somewhat responsibly).
An alternative take: It is wrong to deprive people of the means of subsistence by privatising the commons and offering no alternative.

In that context, a UBI isn't just a support mechanism.
In my opinion, the #1 reason why people are often late is because being early sucks, so they prefer to underestimate the time it will take to be there and all the (not so) unforeseen problems that may make them arrive late.

I hate very much to be late, so I leave early and prepare a way to spend time if I arrive too early, like bringing a book to read or a podcast to listen to.
“The ethanol plants are not closed because of Federal government orders related to COVID-19, but rather by market forces”.

Funny! The article is all about how governments are massively distorting the market. US twiddling the ethanol supply. Russia/Saudi Arabia oil shenanigans. Government ordered shutdowns massively reducing demand for fuel.

It's like violence. If it ain't working, we need more (government intervention).
> "Lazy" is just another way of saying that you're not doing something somebody else thinks you should be doing.

"Lazy" can also be a way of saying you're not doing something _YOU_ think you should be doing.

I agree that other people calling you "lazy" is a projection of _their_ priorities, but the term is also applicable in you describing _yourself_.
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I could taste too much earth in it. When I would look at some of people their own made filtering systems I'd see a lot of earth as well. The fact that you need a filtering system at all was a bit of a culture shock. I've seen exactly one family with a filtering system in my country and found it tough to taste any difference.

The only exception to this is water from the taps in Yosemite Park. That was amazing water.
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One of the mistakes in considering mask usage is falling into an all or nothing trap.

A hypothetical mask that reduces the chance of someone else catching a disease from you by 30% would provide a significant drag on the R0 of the disease, hastening the end of the epidemic.

Also, infection rates of several types of viruses, including flu and enterovirus, dropped significantly in southeast asian countries that moved to universal mask wearing during this pandemic. Since most people weren’t wearing N95 PPE, that implies that even surgical masks are effective at slowing the spread of several types of viruses.

Also, you know, there is a reason why surgeons wear them.
I'm sorry that I seem to have offended you with what I wrote, but I honestly don't understand why. St. John's wort can be better in terms of side effects than synthetic antidepressants, with similar antidepressant effects, for some people. That's all I'm saying and that's an evidence based statement.

I started looking into St. John's wort more closely because I saw the positive experiences that people close to me had with it. It's not all just theory to me.

All that said, if you are really interested in the topic you should probably not listen to me but rather look at the actual studies that were done with it. I came away from that convinced that it's at least worth a shot for mild to medium cases of depression, and that it is underused relative to the synthetic alternatives.
I don't really understand the draw of using a card from a tech giant. It seems to be popular and people were fawning over the Apple card from what I remember when it launched.

Reading about the Apple card it doesn't seem to offer anything beyond what a standard cash back credit card offers. Besides branding what are Google / Apple doing to get me to drop my Visa/Amex/Mastercard in exchange for 'their' visa/mastercard/amex.
There can be multiple reasons for your behavior.

What I think could help you the most is reading about schema therapy[1]. It's a therapeutic method which says we all carry certain lifetraps which we acquired during childhood.

Some lifetraps:
- abandoment: you are afraid of being abandoned by a loved one
- worthlessness: because of the way your parents treated, you feel that you don't have any value. You can't understand why anyone would love you, for example.
- failure: you believe you can't accomplish anything in life

There are a few more.

I found this book very helpful in understanding Schema Therapy and the lifetraps that apply to me:
https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Your-Life-breakthrough-be...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_therapy
This!

When we are physically ill or have an acheing tooth, we seek help from professionals and I bet unless it's a chronic disease, these professionals always have a way of treating it by:

1) Doing a check up,

2) Applying a short term solution (comforting medication, cleaning the infection etc),

3) Giving good advice for long term well-being.

The mind deserves the same level of attention and care. We don't need to wait for a crippling depression to finally act. Depression is the disease of not being able to act afterall.

Living a normal life itself is an enough reason to see a therapist.

I don't believe a god or participate in any religion. But I admit that there was a time when more people went to see their religious community leaders to seek help, even for very basic problems. That was a kind of proto-therapy at its infancy. We lost that with modern civilization and contemporary psychology is still considered a luxury instead of a necessity.
> If you like doing it, you do it.

This attitude seems to overlook that there can be a tension between present and future fulfilment. There are things you can do (or avoid doing) now that will make your life a lot less enjoyable later on. Activities that 'make you a better person over time' often require effort, discomfort, or sacrifice of some kind in the present (exercising, studying, therapy, etc...).

I don't think it is a good idea to maximise pleasure in the present - at least not at the expense of future pleasure - but to maximise the total pleasure you get out of your life, which will often mean doing something right now that you don't find intrinsically rewarding.
But they save on fish by mixing it with fluor (Fischstäbchen)
Another cruel tip is to put all your procrastination prone Web accounts behind complex login controls (passwords behind 2 factor authentication Lastpass with paranoid settings), and purge your cookies often.
Not everyone has all the symptoms. For example, I don't really display hyperactivity nor mood swings, nor do I have trouble dealing with most kinds of stress.

> - Short attention span? Well, depends on the situation. In gaming, I can stay focused all day long. I can read a book for hours. No problem staying focused doing physical activities (sport). Staying focused on coding is really difficult and I constantly zone out.

Sounds like the flip side: hyperfocus. See eg https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/adhd-symptoms-hyperfo... Direct quote:

> Hyperfocus is the experience of deep and intense concentration in some people with ADHD. ADHD is not necessarily a deficit of attention, but rather a problem with regulating one’s attention span to desired tasks. So, while mundane tasks may be difficult to focus on, others may be completely absorbing. An individual with ADHD who may not be able to complete homework assignments or work projects may instead be able to focus for hours on video games, sports, or reading.
Thanks for explaining my point, this is what I mean indeed. When I go to the super market and buy a random bread I can be rest assured it's of ok quality. When I go and buy a random bread in SF, I can be rest assured that it's sweet.

To get anything acceptable, I had to buy higher quality stuff in SF (like French bread or imported cheese).
Even with reports like these, I think it will be tough to convince managers that are set in their ways to open up to allowing their employees to work remotely.

While anecdotal, most companies seem to have approached the current state of affairs as a mild inconvenience that will be gone soon, and aren't looking to keep remote work an option going forward, even though it's working out well, which is a shame.
do you use any tools for pomodoro? Or just the stopwatch on your phone?
Perhaps your mental laziness is an unconcious way in which your mind is telling you that you are not in the right track. Since you grew up in a high pressure it seems that now you need an opportunity to live, for some time, under low pressure conditions in order to obtain a new vision about what to do in the future.

Edited: googling I found someone recommended the book the slight edge, and a review is here that contains the main ideas: https://www.amazon.es/Slight-Edge-Jeff-Olson/dp/1626340463#c..., look for Daisy's review.
Lots of old hams say "kay cees" and almost get offended when a newcomer says kilohertz.
L-Tryptophan is a pre-cursor to melatonin. See eg https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...
2) Being related to specific mask wearing seems implausible to me.

One of the fun highlights of this disease has been the official advice to not touch your face, followed immediately by the realization that we all touch our faces a lot. The idea that masks specifically cause you to touch your face more than we already are doesn’t pass the sniff test.
Wow, what a nice response!
In Australia they have (or least used to have) channel zero. For many years "channel oh" was the Ten Network in Brisbane.
"Sorry, no. Death does not make life precious. It just forces us to make the most of what little remaining time we have."

Some would re-word that as "those 80 years are precious" ;)
iCab on desktop uses WebKit anyway...
Here's what worked for me in lockdown (I had issues working at home) : aim to do minimum 6 pomodoros a day, where each pomodoro is 55 minutes long. When measuring time I try to focus on a single task that's not related to admin work (answering emails etc.) I figured that 6 hours of productive work is not far off from what most people probably get done in an office environment anyway.
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It’s interesting that 87% of people say they are satisfied with current tools and processes that enable remote team communication, yet 35% list collaborating with colleagues and clients as a top challenge. There seems to be a disconnect between those two sections of the report.
I have another question about this. Can I also use the GPU that is passed-through to the guest from the host, once the guest is shut down?

For example, say I build a linux host with IGP + powerful discrete GPU. Can I use KVM to pass the discrete GPU to Windows if I want to play a game (using the IGP for the linux desktop) but also use the discreet GPU for Linux CUDA programming after the Windows guest is shut down?
Sometimes I have to make sure I am not switching tasks during breaks, even to something like reading the news. Get up, step away from computer, refill cup of water, bathroom break, etc, but not switching to something that would actually redirect your brain elsewhere and break the flow. Ideally it makes it more sustainable.
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The mask covers up your primary facial mucous membranes. (nose & mouth, but not eyes)

The virus will not go through your hands or face. Wear a mask, avoid touching your eyes (wear glasses?) and you're most of the way there. Keep washing your hands anyway though.
Effective Psychological Therapy May Slow Cellular Aging
No this is not readable. You can write readable old school javascript, but just try to tell me what this line does: https://github.com/amark/gun/blob/master/src/type.js#L111
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> especially since they're staying at home with the covid-19 lockdown

Are you asking whether people have been buying a lot of PCs over the last month or two? I don't have the stats, but I suspect the answer would be no.
That reminds of a colleague who used to refer to a project manager he worked with as "Mr On Time and On Budget" - because that was all he cared about.

Keen observers will have noticed that something is missing....
The cannabis industry has learned that "what other ingredients" are in the cannabis has a significant effect on the high produced by THC. This is known as the entourage effect. You simply do not get the full benefits with THC alone.
C2 introduced in April 2017 it appears:

https://blog.scaleway.com/2017/scaleway-disruptive-armv8-clo...

The C1 was introduced in 2013.

And now Scaleway's Arm experiment is over?
any other providers supporting ARM64 VPSs?
Interesting. I only ever tried the patches on and off, and never had any problem stopping. The research that Gwern collected at https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine seems similar.

I never smoked or tried e-cigarettes, though. Smoking is awfully addictive.

I tried half a nicotine gum once. But the stimulant hit was too much at once and made me nauseous for about half an hour. (Similar to eg the effects of way too much espresso, but with much shorter duration.)

Did you ever smoke burnt tobacco?

What was the process of quitting e-cigarettes (and the others you mention) like?
On the former: I’ve seen a lot of my peers pursuing a “checkbox” approach to happiness. They try to check all the boxes and expect fulfillment at the end. It hasn’t been working out for them. Some people like and want kids, and that’s great. But having kids because it’s the “next step” is a horrible plan.

Second: we already have that. It’s called the pill.
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Listened to "Daily Ritual: How artists work" recently and the most common pattern seemed to be, work intensely for 2-4 hours in the morning, most people being finished by 1-2 in the afternoon, then go out for a long walk before doing light admin stuff in the mid-late afternoon.

It's also been my observation that this is how I actually want to work. I feel ready and able to tackle anything first thing in the morning, but past 1 o clock nothing I produce will be that much good and my productivity will be a shadow of what it was in the morning.

I work freelance so that's how I work nowadays, it feels like it comes naturally in a way that no other method I've ever tried does including pomodoro.
>> Why over complicate it by trying to “extract” the psilocybin instead of treating it like marijuana and growing the mushrooms in highly controlled settings and then testing for potency?!

> There are negative side effects from consuming the mushrooms which you don't get from purified psilocybin.

True. However, are these negative side effects significant enough that purified psilocybin is a necessity, in all cases?

If so, what are these negative side effects, and is there significant net evidence (that includes degree of ~harm) sufficient to form a strong conclusion that purified psilocybin is a necessity, that does not also include personal opinions/judgements of persons other than an informed patient?

> Dosage is important.

Sure, to a degree.

However, is there sufficient net evidence that dosage precision (above that which can be achieved via simpler approaches) necessitates the usage of purified psilocybin?

If so, can you link this evidence?

> There isn't a way to test for potency which would ensure a reliable dose.

See above.

> Argument fallacies:

> * your anecdotal positive experiences

When dealing with compounds whose effects are extremely phenomenological and inconsistent/variable between applications, anecdotal experiences seem not only valid, but mandatory for proper scientific study.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_experience#Basic_p...

> * suggesting superiority because something is "from nature"

Framing advocacy for traditional, simple, affordable, and well-tested approaches as ~"illogical appeals to nature" is also a fallacy, and can be worse. (Not saying you're personally doing this, just as you aren't accusing anyone in particular for the fallacies you have listed).

> * referring to "mistakes from the past" without naming any

Perfectly fine. But let's not pretend all sides in debates aren't often guilty of this sort of behavior.

> * suggesting superiority that "has been (done) for thousands of years"

Implying that a long track record of success is irrelevant is also a fallacy, as is framing a reference to this track record as "fallacious".

> Think about why these kinds of arguments are made on different topics which you disagree with and then rethink why you are making them here.

I would suggest you rethink whether that accusation is objectively true, based on the literal words written, as opposed to your subconscious mind's interpretation of the words.

I would also suggest you rethink the quality and validity of your ~rejection of the parent's relatively innocuous suggestion, and also contemplate whether this level of thinking and discourse is appropriate for the gravity of the topic being discussed, and consistent with the principles of objective rationality and truthfulness this forum proclaims to uphold.
Not in the linux kernel's block layer, which is what GP had in mind.

The block layer has been able to deliver very close to 100% of the drives' stated bandwidth for many years now.
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I’m not OP but I absolutely do not believe there is wide scale systematic institutionalized racism. Everyone wants to be a victim rather than facing the reality that they are responsible for their outcome in life. Being a victim is just too easy.

Does racism exist? Yes. Wide scale systematic institutionalized racism? Absolutely not.