skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Life is the never-ending psychedelic trip, maaaan"

On a serious note, this isn't what GP is referring to. Generally psychedelics in the work day are self-limiting. A microdose that is more of a mesodose makes for some interesting Zoom meetings. People learn the right dose to get a boost without excess distraction/warping. Fadiman's research [0] suggests the best dose is well below the threshold of "trip" effects. So there's no risk of never-ending daytrips, unless one desires that thing. So why limit access?

Aspects of American culture have a strong stigma against "fun", euphoria, and to an extent, any effect beyond "restoring normal". eg nootropics are popular in young, hip crowds like HN, but kinda sketch among many MDs, from "I don't think these are safe" to "why do you need that?" It's a "if it feels good, stop" sentiment that runs as an undercurrent through American history and you can see signs of it in Protestant work ethic, Prohibition (of alcohol and cannabis), and of course the war on drugs.

Keep in mind, LSD and MDMA were very hotly researched back in the day, but when subcultures started associating them with parties, that's when things started getting the kabash.

"But addiction bad" - this would be a fair argument if it weren't for the near lack of correlation between DEA schedule and addiction potential [1], as well as the rapid action to ban analog drugs without any consideration to addiction potential. This is the fate of most Shulgin compounds, many exhibiting the typical rapid tolerance of psychedelics.

That leaves the theraputic dose. These are typically administered in a guided setting, either in the clinical sense, or trip-sitters/sherpas, in the informal. This is the best mitigation against trips that leave lasting psychological harm (the term "bad trip" is very loaded, as it doesn't distinct "hard lesson trips" from "no this actually messed them up long term"). If the concern is really "harm trips", then the solution is logically harm-reduction, not prohibition.

Wew, that turned out longer than expected.

Edit: added more

[0] - https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/microdosing-guide-and-explain...

[1] pdf - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.868...
I boot my raspi4 off a USB SATA SSD. Runs much faster than the SD Card. Follow these steps:

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/boot-raspberry-pi-4-usb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23334345
I don’t think the current POTUS is smart enough to see it either way, but counterpoint: who prosecutes the offenses? FBI? DOJ? Both are lead by people abbointed by the current POTUS and have been beaten down into submission to his authoritarian impulses. If a lawsuit is brought, ultimately it would end up in SCOTUS, which also has a 5-4 majority in his favor.

So IMO this is going to let him continue to abuse social media to spread conspiracy theories while incentivizing social media companies to remove or ban users that even slightly tie the line, or invent rules and accuse such users of breaking them.

American institutions are not as strong as people think. They are squishy organizations manned by humans; and thus they can be corrupted. All of this stuff is very well studied by the way, it is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.

For those who want to argue the other way, consider the simple fact that he has not divested of his private businesses and continues to profit spectacularly from them and it’s not even on the news anymore.
If a result matches your query, you would like the publisher to know even if the user never clicks on the result? Reread GP's comment.
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The quarantine made my depression and anxiety disorder much worse. About two weeks into quarantine, I started feeling paralysing sorrow about everything that ever happened to me, and the view of the future became grim.

I guess the time alone made me confront my problems in a way I couldn't handle, so I resumed my psychotherapy and went back on anti-depressants. I still haven't figured out the way to get out of this only-bad-thoughts loop. Morning Yoga helps a bit, and sports, in general, seem to take the stress away, though not for long. Maybe someone can share their experiences coping with that?
With deplatforming, I come down on the side of viewing popular webapps as public venues - the concept of censorship most decidedly exists apart from the first amendment to the US Constitution. But this action is not censorship, rather it's adding some editorialization while leaving the original message intact. It's less intrusive than a site requiring a signin to view NSFW content. Politically, it seems analogous to a counter-protest facilitated by the venue being protested at.

And what legal basis could possibly be here? Implementing this action through legislation would be an uphill battle, never mind an executive order. Unless judges are also drinking the leave Trumpney alone Kool Aid, I don't think the hysterical "debate" is going to have much to do with the fate of Twitter. The only interesting thing here will be watching a man-child finally be told a hard "no", as the fallout from his ruinous actions finally starts catching up with him.
I wrote a tutorial the other day on using Nix to handle the Python package situation. No need to install Python or even touch pip:

https://thomazleite.com/posts/development-with-nix-python/
When Rust 1.0 was released it had in the order of hundreds of developers doing work here and there.

When Rust started as a hobby project it was a one man effort, but it was also a project with ~1 user. It grew developers before actually growing users, and for a while, it had more developers than users.
Wow! 20 years doing web development and I never knew about this.
According to Wikipedia [0], there have been 183 magnetic reversals the past 83 million years (and many more throughout the history of the Earth, including the reign of the dinosaurs). The weakening of the Earth's magnetic shielding is no laughing matter, but the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid was certainly far greater.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
I enjoy amateur etymology. I'm also from the east coast. Turnpikes are a specific thing dating back to original tolls. I think what most mean by "highway" is actually a freeway. There are plenty of real "highway" roads as well, but I don't think anybody I've known refers to them as that. (Learned something today!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnpike

https://www.diffen.com/difference/Freeway_vs_Highway
Online meetings are even duller than real ones
I think this will end well. I'm not being sarcastic. I feel like this fight is a good thing.

Somehow my intuitive sense is that Trump and the tech companies openly butting heads over fundamental epistemology and values will result in a spectacular show that will strengthen us in the end.
This is why I've switched to writing "quick wins" in shell [or Go]. It's just so much nonsense that has nothing to do with actually programming. Posix shell can be a bit baroque, but you know that it's not ever going to change and because of that, it's pretty easy to ship to any *nix.

There is the question of the dependencies of a shell script, but I find in practice just checking for deps like `curl` at the beginning leads to be a better user experience. It's unlikely that there is going to be a ton of tools you require, and the tools you do require are probably going to be good about backwards compatibility [curl again as an example].
Finally! Does this mean ArchLinuxARM (ALARM) will also support 64 bits on RPi 4 soon?
I think they've always done this redirect. Release artifacts are uploaded to S3 and then their Rails app generates a presigned S3 URL that gives short-term access. This is because the artifacts could belong to a private repo, so access control is required.
EU tells banks in Britain to step up their no-deal Brexit plans
It's not poorly worded by the president, he words things the best that anyone can word.

If it's poorly worded, shouldn't the president clarify?
Accept you can because you don't have to stay inside the reader.
Add the UK to that list too.
Yeah that seems better. I can imagine a market for something like that driving a wireless router, or part-driving a fridge or an aircon, to reduce your bill a bit in summer.
Digitization, Digitalization, and Digital Transformation. What's the Difference?
Unless I'm missing something, it's not a "this is wrong" flag. It's a "this is contended - here's a source of information" flag (for better or for worse).
Ask Why – Sara Little Turnbull
Why would I be friendly to a landlord?
People with antibodies in their system should be allowed in everywhere without quarantine.

The world really needs to stop self harming itself in order to protect a few boomers with power.

It's very clear that the vast majority of people under 50 are not at risk of dying from covid19 in developed countries with adequate healthcare.
Easy to use unlimited storage is a sure recipe for not finding what you actually need, restoring the wrong backup, etc.

Unless you take your DR plans seriously, the cloud doesn't eliminate risk, it just changes it.

The place I work at forces a failover on a monthly basis, and does a full-on offsite DR exercise twice a year.

I'm sure it took time to set it all up, but now that it's there it takes almost no effort to continue.
Well, it was an example, but our technology such as laptops seems to sell cheaper second hand, same with articles of clothing or furniture.

I believe it stems from a tradition of not disposing of things, and instead selling them on (via "car boot" sales) or handing them down. I believe (and this is pure conjecture) that it's a recent thing for brits to dispose of things with such frivolity, and this is somewhat echoed in the car-boot sales of late being chock-full of brand new mostly chinese cheap crap.

And maybe if you have an overabundance of second-hand goods then maybe the price goes down as all of the friction to sell even things considered "tat" are gone.

And most of the things we would consider "tat" are not "tat" to everyone else, for instance, I bought my first computers for 5gbp from a boot-sale, for such a token amount of money it is likely a person would not have sold it another way. Thus, I get a cheaper computer than I would have had to pay otherwise.
Nope. You're wrong. Social networks should not be treated like private property because it serves as an agora. Being restricted by social networks only because you have a difference of opinion is effectively restriction of free speech. The government should treat them like public uni, and defend peoples' rights to speak in the platform from far left to far right.

The church tried Galilei for spreading fake news and misinformation in 1600s. We now know how dangerous shutting people up by force is.
It appears the route the Administration will take is removing CDA 230 protection status for Twitter. CDA 230 protects Twitter from being held legally responsible for hosting the comments of the users. Without the 230 shield, anyone could sue Twitter for a comment they didn't like. The cost of defending these lawsuits alone would bury Twitter in legal expenses.

IMO, such an executive order will be challenged in court, as there is no case law that supports the CDA 230 removal.

https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230/infographic
We live in weird times where words like "censor" lose all the weight they had and should have these times when they are being misused to describe moderation.

We live in times where governments use censorship on wide scale for dangerous means. Mixing both things here is an insult for those who suffer under true censorship.
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Software works differently to many other fields in that all devs need to keep lots of complicated technical context in their heads, which doesn't translate well to how managers experience scalability, as that field is just vastly different. It's also hard to explain to a non-programmer (or even an unexperienced programmer) that removing code is good and sometimes condensing two features into a simpler, more generic and versatile feature is positive both for code quality and usability; then again, from a marketting perspective, two specific features are better than one generic feature. And then you have ways in which more developers do get things done better, but only if managed correctly (aka. if the tasks are split along the right lines)
You made me read about Beaker and install it. Looks very interesting. Thank you!
They serve a different purpose. Pyenv enables you to maintain several Python versions. You can that use the venv module of each respective Python to create a virtual environment with a Python at a given version.
Draft of President Trump’s Social Media censorship executive order
Our users are doctors. I don't think they would be on hacker news. The other two questions i need to think about. Thanks for commenting. :-)
And furthering this: Until access is 100% free for every person. Until every person has the tools and the devices necessary to access available to them, for free. The internet and specifically the walled gardens are NOT the public square. It is a country club, not a park. Every aspect of the web today requires money and contractual obligations with PRIVATE companies.

Want to make it public? Make access universal and free. Until then its a country club, not a public park.
I just recently had the same issue, I really don't understand why the fsck they're doing that s*. Don't they have billions of IPv6 addresses?
Hugo, self hosted on Digital Ocean. I keep it all in git, and push/pull both locally and remotely.
SELinux would have prevented a number of container breakout issues.

That said, as someone one time worked on an SELinux issue in Docker and then became the defacto "expert"... it's a terrible mess, often coming with incompatible policy changes tied to kernel changes and policies which are stacked on top of each other like a house of cards that are difficult to tease apart for other distros.
The "production version" of your script should be running in your system environment with system packages. pyenv and friends should be used for testing with different versions and making sure you don't accidentally depend on idiosyncrasies of your box.

The exception is if your python thingy is "the main thing" running on a server, i.e. your customer facing webapp.

My $.10 anyway
Most languages implement these as a library.
> Gab is an English-language social media platform known for its far-right userbase.[8] The site has been widely described as a "safe haven"[9] for extremists including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right.[10]

From Wikipedia.

OP isn’t putting any words in anyone’s mouth. They are referencing a well known fact about this establishment.
Big documentation sites.
I think the comparison might be subtly apt. Maxwell's is clean when deriving EM waves in a vacuum, but once you add in particles and go to the real world it becomes a mess just as you need much more than lambda expressions and evals to build software.
Is Time Machine or other backup tools affected too?
It was one example to illustrate one of the potential problems.

A much bigger issue is as pointed out by harimau777: prescriptions often don't get filled on time and sometimes not at all. Plenty of people run out of pills on holidays and have to suffer withdrawals, with suicidal ideation and actions being one of the symptoms of acute withdrawal from benzos.

Daily medication that requires a prescription is a huge problem for people that actually have to take it. What if they can't afford it at some point? What if their physician changes and the new physician doesn't want to prescribe it?

Why are we even defending daily medication? If there is any possibility of a permanent cure, obviously that is a much better choice of treatment.
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I think you need to look at how it really works under the hood if you believe that. RHEL runs containers with a few layers around them, one of which is SELinux (example of an exploit being blocked: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/latest-container-exploit-runc...)
The Chinese rioters can settle in Minneapolis, they'll feel right at home.
>So there will of course be some unsafe. In a well implemented driver it will also be very limited in scope and relatively easy to check.

I'm sure that is what the C developer thought as well...I'm not trying to be snarky, but that same arguments that are made against C code holds equally true for unsafe code...

I don't think it is a reasonable position to suggest that unsafe Rust code is somehow safer than C code...
Camping != backpacking. The pictures clearly show overlanding vehicles.
Pyenv is for installing and managing python versions on a machine. I don't think it makes sense to compare to virtualenv as that doesn't install python only copies it from the system into the current directory. You could use both tools.
(I can't believe I'm logging into HN to post this, but hey)

I read many of these quotes back in middle and early high school, pretty early in the DB's existence as I can remember when it moved to bash.org. I promptly forgot about its existence, but a bunch of the material remained wedged in my brain.

Fast forward 10+ years. I had recently started dating someone whose name is [redacted], and I was starting to meet a bunch of his friends and hang out with them more regularly. I made a reference to part of a quote, and one of his friends replied with the next line. Then said friend added, "you know that's [redacted] in that quote, right?" I very much thought that he was trolling me, so I looked at the quote, and... well, it certainly says [redacted] in the username, but more importantly, it matched the pattern how he liked to format/modify his usernames to indicate certain contexts.

And now we have been married for almost 6 years.

Internet???

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thank you for reposting this treasure. Oh, how I miss pages that don't need a scroll wheel to read!
Multiple platforms of this kind exist. And I'm glad they exist. But there's obviously a reason no one of them becomes mega-popular. This paradox is the biggest obstacle for the practical free speech argument (as opposed to the legal one).
> Trump has always wanted to be a “great man” of history while being able to live a life of excess.

He's failing at that to. He'll go into the history books as the worst president the US ever had by a wide margin.
> Gab is not a "conservative" platform, it's a censorship free platform.

Gab is not censorship free. They've banned users.

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/981984571645362176
Except unsafe blocks are rare and heavily marked as "this is where the unsafeness is".
If there's true fact-checking, there should be no bias in involved. You don't get to pick and choose facts.
Depends on your own personal convictions. Once they have your data, they have it (unless laws come about forcing them to delete it, which is unlikely)

Personally I’m staunchly against it. Even Ring doorbell as well, they are rumored to begin using facial recognition and scan license plates. Too Orwellian for me.

My parents are surprisingly modern with technology, so they have Alexa in a few rooms, with most lights connected, and their garage.

Siri recently had a whistle blower contractor state they hear snippets of intimate conversations/sounds, with Siri not supposed to be activated.

These devices always have to listen, and for them to get better, the supervised learning must have a human say “yes/no” if the predicted output was correct for the input (in this case, activating on “Hey Siri”)

Some open source home automation systems are gaining traction, and once they’re a bit more mature, I’ll self host and begin my voice-assistance adoption. But until then, I’ll stick to the old ways :)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/apple-con...

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-whistleblower-siri-rec...

https://theintercept.com/2019/11/26/amazon-ring-home-securit...
If real-world is anything like the graphs, it will be pretty good upgrade.
Why Low-Fidelity Prototype Matters?
Founder here. I launched the site about 6 weeks ago on ProductHunt to gather feedback and am currently building out a larger offering and preparing to open the doors to the public in a few weeks - inline editing will continue to be part of the value proposition, but we're also going to focus on building the simplest content API possible, which was a surprisingly large request among the early signups. Would love to answer any questions people have. Will post to show HN again when we launch the updated site and product in a few weeks.
with htmx you can send out of band content down that will be swapped in by id:

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-swap-oob/

you can also select content by a selector:

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-select/

and there is infrastructure for general response transformations via the extensions mechanism:

https://htmx.org/extensions/client-side-templates/

See the source code here:

https://unpkg.com/htmx.org@0.0.4/dist/ext/client-side-templa...
This is clearly someone who thinks the mantle is an actual burning fire and doesn't understand that it is molten rock.

"I don't get how that fire burns without oxygen"

Well, it's not a fire...
While life developed pretty much right away, multicellular life has existed for less than 15% of earth's existence. All of earth's coal is from an even more recent period when plants had newly developed wood and nothing could decompose it yet.

Earth seems to have been just fine without hydrocarbons for most of its existence.
Want a real hyper modern Python? Try Haskell. (As someone who spent 10y with Python)
What doctors are finding out about the damage done to younger people who survive a serious brush with COVID is not reassuring.

And the problems they experience will have an impact economically going forward.
If you want to use different versions of Python itself, without installing them as different named binaries or using shell aliasing, etc. Helpful to install Python 2.7, Python 3.x, 3.y, etc. and invoke each as simply `python ...`.
This is a good thing!

Google, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit are pretty heavy handed when it comes to "censoring" content. This is annoying because somehow "rightwing / wrongthink" content is censored while "leftwing" content is fine as it is.

If they are not platforms and are publishers - they need to be treated as such.

I feel this needs to be extended all the way down - Why stop at social media? Let's go ahead and hit where this counts - Domain Registrars, DNS Hosts, Payment Processors and Web hosts.

The sad part is - if they do, the internet as we know won't exist anymore. But in all honesty, we are heading to it anyways - with all the internet companies consolidating - I don't think I'll loose a lot of sleep if Twitter if fined - They had it coming for a while anyways.

EDIT: If this comment does not follow the rules, I'm happy to delete it as it's inherently political imo. Also I'm happy to provide examples of the above claims as well.
this. Also I invest way too much emotional involvement in HN commenting. I find it difficult to maintain emotional detachment and not get angry/happy/annoyed/worried/whatever about how many upvotes my comments get.

On my list of "important things I need to have on my mind" whether my latest HN comment got upvoted is waaaaaaaay down there (possibly not enough emphasis there on how little this truly matters to my life). And yet it takes up a lot more mental space than that (evidence: this comment).

I don't seem to be able to not give a shit about it, so I'm probably better off not doing it at all.
How would that work? All metals we harvested, we moved maybe a few kilometres higher.