skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"more certainty in spirituality" sounds like a contradiction in terms :)

Many spiritual traditions hold the primacy of Mystery and the unknown as axiomatic.

Well-facilitated psychedelic-assisted therapy naturally provides a safe space for each individual's experience of the transpersonal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpersonal_psychology). Given that these experiences occur in reality, they are, by definition, non-dual. In other words, beyond (or before) polarized concepts like "happy" or "sad". The guide and the medicine will help people integrate these experiences back into their daily lives. What this can look like, for one, is a much greater capacity to sit with uncertainty and discomfort.

If psychedelic therapy is regularly egosyntonic, that's something to track very closely and can indicate inefficacy / weakness of one or more aspects of the process (e.g. inadequate preparation, not working with a trained guide, etc).
I think the author clearly acknowledges that is a bad thing but argues that other advantages outweigh it.
> But these are not constraints of server-side or command line code, so it's absurd to write server-side code under these constraints. Server-side JavaScript should not exist. Command line utilities written in Javascript should not exist.

This is a myopic view entirely disconnected from reality. The purpose of code isn't to be perfect or pretty, its purpose is to do useful work. The most relevant constraint is always available resources which is dominated by human capital and experience. Productivity is measured using useful output, not code quality.

> What part of using having a bunch of completely different ways to bind to events to read a file makes any sense?

The part that puts food on the table. I can't name a single language I have any experience with that has One True Way™ of binding to events except for C and assembly which can only pass callable pointers around.
There's more to the services DDG offers than just private search via Bing. DDG has built its own technology around specific types of searches and queries. The main search product is powered by Bing, but it's not fair to say it's just "a Bing frontend".

https://duck.co/ia

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/i...
Might be a good time to experiment w/ upending the system. In some nations kids only go to school 4-5 hours per day, if we did that we could have am/pm classes.

Like Minneapolis disbanding the police, drastic times call for drastic measures, and nobody knows what might happen, I think we're all experimenting w/ new things and that's not bad, it could be really good if we can find ways to get better performance for certain aspects of our society.
Nice job, but do you know about Prometheus?
https://prometheus.io/
It's a pity that docker swarm did not make it. It wasn't perfect but it was a lot simpler to setup and manage than kubernetes.

If you can get away with it, vanilla docker hosts running docker compose provide most of the same benefits with a fraction of the cost. For most startups, that's a great way to avoid getting sucked into a black hole of non value adding devops activity. You lose some flexibility but vanilla ubuntu hosts with vanilla docker installs are easy to setup and manage. We used packer and ansible to build amis for this a few years ago with some very minimal scripts for container deploys.
That's really impressive weight loss! Just keep pushing weights and exercise, it will zip that skin right up even if it takes quite a while.
A few times yea and a few times no. I think the bigger the dose, the more dangerous my behavior became. The lightest dose I had made me feel like a 10 year old kid. That was interesting.

So there’s definitely something to it.

The same goes for alcohol and weed.

Now that I think about it more sharply, my favorite doses:

- alcohol: 1 to 3 glasses

- weed (Dutch): 1 to 3 puffs

- truffles (Dutch as sold in smartshops): half a standard dose sold

Thanks for making me more aware on this. I was only hyper aware of this with weed. Too much weed always makes me feel I’m dying. The first few times I had that, I even believed it.

While too much mushrooms or alcohol are no joke either, the experiences were more positive (mixed in with a lot of less positive things).
And here I am at <70kg/150 pounds (@1.95m tall) and have more or less given up trying to gain weight.

The amount of happiness to be gained if only we could trade such character traits...
I said life experience matters... especially when managing people. It is the same in many areas of life.

A good developer at 23, is probably much better at 30, after some real life experience in shipping many products.

A crappy developer at 23, may become better at 30, or maybe still be crappy at 30....

I'd take a good 23 yo, over a crappy 30yo, but i'd take a good 30 yo over a good 23. The good 30 will have the maturity that comes from shipping long multiple years projects, and have both successes and failures in their belt and learned from them.

So, I think experience (up to 10-15 years) makes an already good developer better....
What is the reason that nearly everybody refers to Covid-19 as the name of the virus, instead using SARS-Cov-2?

In the study they even refer to 'genetically studying covid' which does mean the disease caused by the virus, but I would assume one would study the virus genetically instead?
For making phones, Google needs to learn how to pickup one.
To what degree must one consume the "prediction is more fundamental than understanding" koolaid before work like this looks reasonable?
A bit off topic: try Qwant[0]. I was a user of DDG for a few years but I made the switch some months ago and didn't look back: search results are way better. AFAIK is a European company (if that is relevant to you). I'm not affiliated with it in any way, just an happy user.

[0] https://www.qwant.com
I just left Google, for facebook about 3 months ago. In case you are interested in comparison, i can help.
Reviewing the DDG wiki page, it looks like it has VC funding since 2011. How is it able to stay afloat for so long without going public?
It's not like there was one unified message about this, ever. Yes, it was commonly understood that preventing "avoidable" deaths from stressed hospitals was a sufficient reason to lock down, but that doesn't mean that it was unanimous that it was the only reason. From the beginning, if you ask ten people what "people are saying", you'll get ten different answers. My own impression of what the public was initially told does not match up to yours.
as international students, there are far more limitations, paperwork and deadlines than just switching advisors. also, the problem of heading. angry one professor , and their clique will be angry at you
Instead of writing types, you write tests.
Sounds like you're making the point that no filter should be absolute - you need more than one way to evaluate candidates, and a bad result with one of them should simply be ignored if other results are great.
sort a linked list. convert an ascii number to an integer.
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My point always is: they can. I’ve experienced the awesome interconnectedness of psilocybin. But they can also leave you in a state where you might become suicidal on the spot. And since we didn’t have a tripsitter that became an issue.

It’s experiences like those that I realized that I like being sober.

But I agree they can, especially with more professional guidance. If anything, those people are sober and a tripsitter is a necessity.
Good for you, keep it up!
Not open source, but fairly freely usable, just don't offer it as a paid service to others: https://github.com/outline/outline/blob/master/LICENSE
If you end up in a 'bad' company you may make these experiences:

- there are feuds between companies or even departments in the same org

- decisions are not based on facts but on political circumstances

- the outcome of an analysis is often predetermined

- not the best idea/project/etc. win's but the one with the best connections

- decisions are made that are damaging to the company just to
deny someone else in the org a success
There seems to be another thread on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23461515
"Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says"
i'm a phd student at uf (in cs not ece) and from what i can tell nothing has been done to discipline tao. there were mutterings when his student committed suicide but nothing since then.
Airplanes are driven by people who are trained specifically for this purpose, Software tools don't have this requirement.
Haha, cats are a better answer indeed! ;-)

I agree with the Russian roulette feel.
Slightly off topic.

What is this deal about commit small and often?

I usually work on problems that requires a lot of thought, a lot of back and forth between solutions, a lot of a reach this state where stuff kinda work but it is not what I need yet and I am not sure it is gonna be in the final version.

Eventually I reach the final version and I commit all together, but the commit is rather big.

Do you guys come back and fix everything after? Like re-code the solution from scratch committing at the right moment.
Do you just add pieces related from the final version in multiple small commits?
And how do you make sure that each commit is correct? Do you re-run the test suite after each commit? While developing?

I must say that in smaller and simpler codebase than the one I usually work with it might be possible. But if you work in complex stuff that have a test suite that take hours, the approach of commit small and fast seems wrong.
> A lot of my advice here is to just relax, but I hate relaxing.

Hit the nail on the head with that one.
These times prove that people do not go out to protest only the thing that is most worthy of protest, since whatever that thing is, it is not seeing significantly more protestors than other things that are also important.

And that's OK. It's good if things that are important, but not quite most important, have people working to improve them as well.
Bias. A huge deal in these corporates. You’re going to have to either learn how to navigate it or to live with it.

On the other hand, you will get a ton of exposure learning from others and knowing more people. That’s always there for sure at large organizations. Above all, a sense of being a part of a cult.
Extracting battery status from a Bluetooth connection
Ask HN: Can Twitter user 'addiction' be measured?
My Boss wants a tool that ranks a list of Twitter users by 'addiction' to Twitter. He doesn't want 'social media addicts' on certain teams. Also to screen clients, partners etc. Think pre-employment drug test. Are there useful metrics or tools for this? Or is it still early days? There seems to be a whole lot of literature/tooling for Marketing depts to identify and classify users but is there something for the HR side? Thanks!
Well, yellow is present in Magic: the Gathering after all- it signifies multi-colored.
Suggestions for alternatives? Feels like we're all stuck between a rock and a hard place these days.
Yes, Bing has an API which they charge for.
Every company is for sale at every moment, it's just a question of at what price.
Why? ES6 has been widely supported for quite some time now.
There can't be two problems?
Indeed. I do live in Europe, therefore my view on this might be highly biased
The article does reference that Chinese study, as well as a more recent one from researchers in Italy and Spain. It is great to see the scientific process at work — building evidence for a phenomenon. It also underscores one of the biggest benefits of preprints: faster dissemination of information.
Launch HN: Passive Job Searching
A lot of my friends are really comfortable in their current jobs but curious about what else is out there. You don't know unless you start job searching again but who has the time or energy. I’m doing an experiment to help tech workers that aren't actively looking for a job connect with hiring managers once a month with no expectations, here’s the website: https://tinyurl.com/y8t8fkyf
Hi, Sucrase author here. I'm also having a hard time understanding the rationale here, but it looks like it's maybe a nuance around self-hosting. In general, for any regular TS project, I'd certainly recommend decoupling typecheck and transpile as separate operations and running typecheck alongside lint. IMO one of the nicest things about TypeScript is that you can run your code before you've figured out how to get the types to check out.

They do consider swc (which has roughly the game goal as Sucrase) in the conversation, so it seems like there's some consideration of a transpile-only approach. TypeScript's built-in `transpileModule` is probably the most reliable and officially-supported way to get the equivalent, and is much faster than running TSC with typechecking.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23462568
You are the one missing the point, either you embrace corporations support or not. There is no pick and choose here.

Plus what makes Microsoft bad, and Oracle, Apple and Google contributions good then?

I am astonished that FOSS religion keeps being a thing, while it has been proven in the last 25 years where most projects without corporate love end up.
It amazing to me how many people associate this with kube. You’ve had this for years in numerous ways, the only difference is some yaml and marketing.
I wrote a little about this here

https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/10/02/why-are-enterprises-so-s...
Well, Analysts are doing their job; they did also say Apple should get Twitter as well.

As with twitter, I don't see much merit with this argument; Which goes like "If Apple decides to give away it's revenue stream from X, decides to go with Y which provides inferior service, if Y decides to shut its shop, So Apple should buy Z which doesn't generate as much revenue as X or Y"!
I've just started two weeks ago, and so far the response has been satisfactory. Whether it will last in the long run is to be seen, but if you find your niche, with enough persistence and a focus on quality, I don't see why it would be too late to start creating.

Addendum: doing it for the money is perhaps the wrong reason. It's likely that the network of people you'll get as a result will be even more valuable. Plus, you have to enjoy doing it, otherwise it'll be just like any other job.
Black is bad because it represents the night, an evolutionary dangerous time. Light/white is good because daylight is safe. Humanity has had these associations long before race was ever considered.
I was counting failure to win as loss. Your take is correct and better

My main other point :/ :) is a full -never-loosing- AI takes 6 if statements, and minimax is technically wrong for that goal
No, the assertion that nginx on ubuntu is equivalent to kubernetes os mind-numbingly wrong, for starters for being entirely and completely oblivious to containers. The comparison isn't even wrong: it simply makes no sense at all.

And no, being able to run software is not equivalent to Kubernetes. It's not even in the same ballpark of the discussion. You are entirely free to go full Amish on your pet projects but let's not pretend that managing a pet server brings any operational advantage over, say, just being able to seamlessly deploy N versions of your app with out-of-the-box support for blue/green deployments and with the help of a fully versioned system that allows to undo and resume operating with a past configuration. You don't do that by flaunting iptables and yum, do you?

If anyone needs to operate a cluster then they need tooling to manage and operate a cluster. Your iptables script isn't it.
I am changing my attitude on it by asking relentlessly: how is this fun?

For work the answer is: a 4 day work week helps a shit ton. I am free on Wednesday. So if I dread the workday then I am free the next day or the day after that which puts me at ease. Also, then when I am free, I am noticing that I don’t like the day much more. That gives me a powerful perspective to not blame work for when I feel unhappy.

Also, my work feels kind of easy. CRUD apps are not tje difficult beasts I studied during college.

It also helps that the founders guard work-life balance.
> I find myself seeking out experiences from peers at these behemoths on how decisions are made and products get built there.

I think you will be mostly astounded at the lack of things you can learn from the way decisions are made inside big companies. Which is to say, they aren’t super rational organizations.

As a multiple FAANG alumni, I can tell you that decisions made are often strongly influenced by politics, individual executive “hunches,” and legacy tech concerns instead of raw cost/benefit or actual data.

The fact is, you’re going to make a lot more money doing much less work at FAANG.

However, very little of what you learn about how the organization runs will be valuable outside of the big organization itself.
"don't wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty but the pig will love it"

Somehow the lowest kind of politics, on all sides, manage to drag us all down to their level. A culture war is just like any other war in the sense that on the battlefields nobody wins, and both sides lose.

As a child growing up late last century, I always wondered how prosperous progressing culture's could have collectively devolved into the dark ages. I saw the seeds of the unraveling start in the 80's, but like any exponential process, it took some time to become a clear vector.

I am not sure this is a preventable or correctable evolution at this point, as the devolution forces are enshrined within the system itself, leaving only room for a collapse at the meta level.

I may be wrong. I truly hope I am.
Regarding the year-over-year comparison of cars in parking lots, have these researchers considered that perhaps car ownership is just growing that fast[1] in China?

A highly contagious disease would hardly be not noticed during a time of free travel.
You could also do the reverse math knowing what we know about its R-naught.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311910366_Cities_of...
SeL4 is verified on RISC-V
Having to change the name doesn't seem like an insurmountable obstacle for a fork. (Pi Hole-Origin, Next-Hole, Ice-Weasel-Hole)
Why is that the only alternative? Couldn’t the consequences of this particular action in fact be a good financial decision due to negative feelings toward face detection software held by some portion of IBM’s potential customers or the general public?
I've run a lot of systems with gobs of ram and like 512M swap on FreeBSD. Linux is different than FreeBSD of course, but determining how much memory is being used / if you're running out is difficult. Watching swap stats is a better gauge.

If your swap i/o rate is high, you're probably thrashing, even if the usage is low; you're right on the edge, and need more ram (or fix bugs).

If your swap usage is growing rapidly, you've got an urgent problem; sometimes a little bit of swap lets you get in and fix something or at least shut it down nicer than OOM killer, sometimes it just gives you a more obvious record that you ran out of memory.

If your swap usage gradually climbs to say 50% over time, you might have a slow leak, or something to look at anyway.
TDD makes small and frequent commits the natural way to work: figure out the smallest non-trivial step in the right direction, write a single test, verify that it (not the entire test suite) fails for the right reason, implement the simplest code which makes the test pass, simplify the implementation while making sure the test passes, commit. This way each code change typically amounts to a single new path through the code which is known to be tested.

Asking people to use TDD for a coding test is probably a bit much since it takes a long time to learn the ins and outs, but small commits give a little bit of the advantage and can tell you a lot: Does the candidate know how to break the problem into atomic changes? Do they commit only reachable code? Do they create simple, fast, and orthogonal tests?
How long? 2

What? Years

So 2 years.

Or 2 write “months” if 2 months, or “projects” if 2 projects.
By now I'm pretty sure that English-speakers are gradually forgetting what punctuation is. Quotes and commas are already basically dead—instead, we receive titlecase and italics, and convoluted stream-of-words sentences.
Or meetings, meetings, and... more meetings!

My 2 cents:

As a contractor, charge a lot. They either have budget and want to spend it RIGHT NOW or they don't. The manager engaging you doesn't really care about your daily rate (relatively speaking).

Above comments on automation is spot on. Test suites might be terrible, so the care required to make changes without breaking things is your responsibility, hence the slow pace. What is in your control is the ability to automate your own testing.

Integration with poorly defined APIs is an important skill. You generally won't have another team maintaining and improving a nice API. You will have access to obscure data stores dumped untransformed in the data warehouse from another megacorp's expensive and poorly documented product, possibly with myriad ETL nuances (read: bugs). Learn to work with this and you can extract gold.

If you have a Windows SOE system, embrace Cygwin/similar.
I am the wrong person to ask.

Let me put it this way:

50 y/o people look at me weird when I say that I smoke a pure joint.

Edibles, don’t fully know. I do know that people that don’t like to smoke take them.
In addition, AWS has their account details
The head of Google Cloud is ex-Oracle... I'm sure he knows how to fight with lawyers.
Thanks for reading, I was a bit worried about posting such a long quotation, but couldn't bring myself to butchering this marvel, would have felt like cutting a master painting. Just like Chrysippus.
depends on how specific they are. You might want to sell them to someone with that laptop.

I recently found out something sort of amusing while I was looking for a USB ethernet adapter.

On amazon, you can get a usb-c ethernet adapter. $10-15 Then for a little more money, you can get an usb-c ethernet adapter + USB ports. Then a little more expensive, $25, gets you usb + ethernet + cardreader + video. Then for maybe $35 you get USB-C + charging + ethernet + video + etc...

But if you call it a docking station, it's $150.
I take it the isolated $200/control plane is too expensive. What do you think the right price point is for that isolation?
from their blog:

> DuckDuckGo has been a profitable company since 2014 without storing or sharing any personal information on people using our search engine.

and

> As mentioned, DuckDuckGo is profitable based mostly on keyword-based search ads, though we have always been on the search for other ways to anonymously make money so that we can reduce the dependence on advertising.

https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-revenue-model/
I think if you call it a DSL and are comparing it to CoffeeScript, you might be misunderstanding what TypeScript is/does for you, and you might be missing out.

If you're using ESLint, I'm quite sure you'd like TS as well, so if that is the case, you might want to give it an actual chance.
I am actually doing an experiment of using DuckDuckGo as my exclusive search engine across all my devices for the last two weeks. The experience has been suboptimal and much of it is on the UX side followed by the lack of search engine features.

As a part of this experiment, I also used Bing for two weeks before this and after a few days I could not notice that much of a difference to Google (one thing that annoyed me was Youtube videos playing inline on Bing).

But DDG is simply painful to use as much as I want to like it. I can not imagine it meeting Apple's product standards or having an Apple logo on what is the current DDG product. I also can not think of any IP that DDG has that would be interesting for Apple to own.