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Why do you say these things? I'd be fascinated to know.

Almost everything here is wrong. HN's anti-abuse software isn't perfect, but if you ask friends to upvote your article, there's a high chance it won't help and you'll get your (and their) accounts penalized in the process. We actually go through the penalized posts looking for things to rescue because people tank their own good work in this way so reliably.

The dupe detector does not work the way you described.

If you post something super interesting that doesn't get attention, you (or anyone) can always email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we might put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380), in which case it will get a random placement on HN's front page.
> Once you have accepted that, you need to work out what is driving you on because it is likely ego rather interest or passion or desire.

Well phrased. I agree 100%. I've spend considerable time in the past trying to get into FAANG companies before realizing I was chasing status and money more than I was chasing something I actually wanted to do.

A mental "metaphor" I use to avoid falling into that trap again is thinking about how most people don't really want to be rock stars. They just want to be famous and rich. Most people would hate practicing instruments for hours a day, touring in a bus all summer performing shows every night, dealing with record labels, etc.
>5.4 was released in November 2019, while Navi with the 5x00 series was released in July 2019

Their specific card was released in January 2020, and the only problems they list are some strange dmesg entries. They may be lagging a bit compared to Intel, I am not following closely enough to note, but is Intel even offering competitive GPUs?
This isn't true and it's not ok to assume this. In general, the psychedelic community must stop overlaying their own subjective experiences on to other people.

Psychedelics can help, but they can also harm. Psychedelics, like everything else in this world, are viable for some but not all. What we need is research without stigma and WoOoO to determine what is going on, why, and how we can shape that into a therapeutic regime coupled with counseling and support.
Couldn't read the article because I've "read all of your free stories this month". I would prefer a few ads rather than the Medium's garden.
I would frame it that way as well.

Be clear on what "respond to emails" means -- no more an 30 minutes of typing out answers to emails, or does that mean following up on their requested tasks, tweaks, code fixes, etc?

If you're not doing work but are responding to emails I'd keep a To-Do list so stuff that doesn't fall through the cracks, post vacay.
It might be nice to be able to compose monads some other way than transformers, but I don't know what that would be. Transformers are unwieldy, yes, but they're also completely trustworthy. If you try to assemble them randomly, without thinking about it, yes, you will have a bad time, in much the same way that you will have a bad time if you try building any abstraction without thinking about it.

Yes, they can be a useful abstraction (just like anything else); I have the same sort of feeling about your response as I have about "checked exceptions are evil".
DRM is a thorny issue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19553941
The change I was just describing is much more complicated than a simple rename.
I believe it was near or in water, but not buried from what I recall of Fenn's comments about its location (he said it was 'wet'). He said the location he chose reminded him of a plateaued area with a waterfall that he found in the jungles of Vietnam, with a forgotten soldier's grave.
Yes, exactly. Psychedelics have been described as "nonspecific amplifiers".

A hypothesis I have is that therapists, and their patients, already know many of the things that'll help make them happier - but the patient isn't doing them, because they lack the motivation, or they lack the belief that they're capable of making and sticking with those changes, so why bother trying.

Doing a psychedelic trip in that therapeutic context seems to make the patient motivated to make the changes that they already logically knew would be helpful, and the trip in this context makes them believe they're capable of making and sticking with those changes - so, then they end up making those changes.
> that's why it's a 100% racist term against white people

yikes
How long until Daft Punk incorporates some musical Tesla coils in a live show?

Update: somebody beat them to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psoLXEBmfRg
Not to my knowlege.
Not all upvotes count towards karma. This is related to HN's anti-abuse systems. It would be nice if it could just be simple, but one-to-one mappings turn out to be the most gameable things, so we've had to do fancy footwork over the years.
Huh, interesting. I've seen them here in the Netherlands as well (and heard they were present in France too), but I'd assumed that that was in preparation of being shown in the choice screens in the EU soon, to get them top of mind when relevant. If it's in the US as well, then it seems like it's just a regular ad campaign.
I love reading examples of these "great-great-grandparent" applications hidden in /bin. I've used dc in shell scripts for years, but for the simplest of simple computations (e.g., automating FDISK partitioning and doing sector math). Had no idea it could do this.

TIL this and a cool CSS trick.
I too am mid-twenties and software engineer. I've actually been thinking about much of the same thing.

Personally, I'm currently focused on developing my self-awareness by attending therapy, journaling on childhood issues and current emotional reactions, and meditating. I found even as an "adult" in a "real job" I have trouble asking for help, writing clear documentation, feeling confident to take on larger roles and digging into self-awareness has helped that a lot. See @healthygamer_gg on twitch if you're interested.

While doing all this, I realized what lead me to software was being good at the math and science in school, and this is a well payable stable job. Growing up somewhat poor, this seemed great and I loved the praise of doing good job and getting rewarded with bonuses/promotions. I began to see I depended on these to feel good but as I realize this, I want to get more out of life. And so, I find myself in a similar position to you, not really knowing what to do.

So, I suggest this: reflect on what you value, try to create and put something out there (maybe make a 5 min film on a recent local policy and how it affects your local community), develop skills and have fun, ask yourself who are and and why are you this way; who do you want to be? HBR's "Working Identity" posits that you can't know only by introspection, you have to also just try things out.

I'll finish off with this: "Know thyself" -Seneca. Perhaps there's no manual because the act of looking is the task required. That said, I find philosophy and psychology to be the closest proxy :P
It's incredible how much you can achieve with using web platform features directly and using the minimal amount of JS possible. Pseudo elements, draggable="true", CSS animations... the list goes on and on.

Of course, the real trouble starts when you need to support older browsers and you realize you need to polyfill or change your strategy.
Right, and when you have three or for libraries defining different symbolic languages, your code begins to resemble J.

This is one of the reasons I gave up on Scala.
>> ghcide .. is really great and easy to set up

Honestly, I tried to set up ghcide because I would love to have a good ide for Haskell but stopped because the setup procedure is not easy at all. Or maybe I'm getting something completely wrong?

On the link you are giving, there are the following steps:

- clone a git repo

- run cabal install

- test that ghcide is able to load your code (!)
Quote: "If it doesn't work, see the hie-bios manual to get it working."

- finally integrate it in the ide that you are currently using.
I am using IntelliJ IDE with the Haskell plugin and apparently I am out of luck because it is not listed.
The short description is it's a hallucination, the long description is that it's not a hallucination, but seeing more of what's there, all the time. Like seeing the white blood cells in capillaries on the surface of your eye lens, the wrinkles in the gel on the back of your eye, and triple imaging between both feeds from both eyes overlaying a consolidated stereo view. IME explaining visual snow syndrome (VSS) to a layman is a lot like trying to explain color to a blind person, so I keep it short.

There isn't much known about the mechanism that causes VSS/HPPD, but the current line in the sand that they draw for performing VSS studies is that HPPD is temporary (<6 months) and VSS is permanent. HPPD is long known to be caused by psychedelics, but the permanent HPPD is now being re-diagnosed as VSS since they're the same symptoms and activity in PET scans.

Unfortunately, there are not a lot of studies I can link to because they've only just started researching it these past couple years, but the neuro opthamologists and psychiatrist I work with have VSS patients who contracted the syndrome after using LSD or acid, with one as far back as the 70's.
>What I’m arguing is that if you had no idea about stroke order, it would be very hard to remember how to write them at all.

Yes, but it's crucially not necessary for reading them. Writing literacy in Japanese is not a common skill even among native speakers and isn't really a requirement for modern fluency given that you can use a computer to do the remembering for you.
The experience is so far out of the realm of reality, that when you try to explain to a non-user it sounds like absolute mumbo-jumbo gibberish.
Like Leary said "Turn on, Tune in, Drop out".
Around 100euro/hour - depending on the city.

Nah, quality of life wouldn't be there for me, personally.

London is still probably highest rates for devops in the EU, Munich/Frankfurt/Amterdam/Paris aren't far behind but the work is more boring, Berlin rates are less but everything is quite cheap..
Another great comment on this thread which could be a blog post of its own :)
This... makes a lot of sense. I get hunger cravings even when full when I have those 70+ (rare) or even 55+ (more often) hour weeks.
Sounds like a puff piece.
You might find this a bizarre criticism but In Java, Ruby, Elixir, Rust strings are all Unicode with escape hatches for manually handling byte arrays (that could be C strings).

In that regard I still find it extremely puzzling that some languages / runtimes still struggle with only giving you two choices: byte arrays and UTF-8 strings. I really don't know what's so hard about it. As mentioned in another comment in this [now pretty big] sub-thread, this is one of the things I found off-putting in OCaml which is otherwise an excellent language.

As for Haskell, it has been about 2 years since I last looked at it. I might be spoiled by the languages I enumerated but I just found the docs [at the time] lacked proper nuance to give you a way to immediately make a choice. Dunno. It's not only the strings though; Haskell's community focuses so much on certain aspects that basic ergonomics get neglected.

I am willing to retry getting into it one day. Just shared my general impressions which are very likely outdated.
Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)
They advertise heavily on YouTube and not every device has ad blocking capabilities.
Wait, but don't writers usually already do real research into whatever they're going to write about? If I did research on what Belgian nuns did in their life and wrote about it, is that wrong? Is that less accurate than if the Belgian nun wrote it herself? The thing is, most Belgian nuns probably are never going to write a book and especially not the book that I wanted to write. I hope we don't start banning people from writing about things they've never experienced, because that's the point of fiction and imagination. I've never slayed a dragon, but I can write about doing so because I imagined it. Sigh, one day probably only black people will be allowed to write black characters huh? Or maybe you have to pay a black person for their input and account and for them to endorse your writing?
> Hard to put together VC-sized returns out of trimmed fat.

That depends on how large the industry is, what its cost structures look like and how price sensitive it is.

A small, persistent cost advantage can be enormous in the insurance industry.

You're also saying that in a thread about a company that just produced VC-sized returns and is IPO'ing. Your premise clearly doesn't follow, as most VCs invest early and will exit with an IPO like this. The primary question going forward with Lemonade is for public shareholders and whether the company can get a lot bigger in the future. The VC-sized returns were already generated for the early VCs.
How do you teach children to form characters without being this specific? I remember being taught in a similar way here in the US.

Here's one example:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b7/71/9b/b7719b586e646f77c743...
They do, though it's a constant arms race.

Is the idea that the company is just doling out items? An artificial scarcity? Doesn't that make the market super untrustworthy if they could flood it at any time? You can't do traditional coin mining as that would remove the effort from the gameplay.
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What does this number mean? Number of years/months/projects/...? I entered 2 and 1 and have no idea what you meant.
I can confirm this goes beyond the founding team, I've sold shares as a part of raising capital at the last two places I've been employed. I was an early hire at both and held the CTO title. Series C in 2014 and most recently series B at the start of 2018. I also seek out opportunities to unload my equity in the secondary market, but I'm usually taking a haircut there vs the premium investors that are looking for a bigger share will pay during a capital event.

I'm a bird in hand guy when it comes to equity at the fast-growing private companies I tend to be attracted to. I'm almost certain I'd feel differently if I had a larger stake or founder-level attachment to what was being built.
There are lots of psychedelic drugs, so you could at least compare them to each other.

Not that the FDA would allow that.
Everything you consider objective reality is filtered through your senses and your subjective perceptions. Psychedelics highlight this by applying novel transformations to our processing of the input stream. It’s a bit like how you perceive the world differently when under the influence of emotions like fear, anger, or love, but more dramatic. They reinforce that reality is first a mental construction: it’s less fixed and more malleable than most of us have ever considered.

So when you say that people’s experiences with psychedelics seem disconnected from reality, it might be because you have an incomplete picture of how fluid, complex, and inherently incomprehensible this thing we call “reality” really is.
It seems it was between 1997 and 2003 where spending on the NHS began to dramatically increase. I'm not sure it's fair to say that between 1950 and 1997 that it's growth was exponential.

https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/images/election2017_images/bn...

https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/9186

Perhaps a more fair statement to make would be that demand for NHS services has seen a dramatic increase since 1997 and as a consequence it's budget has seen dramatic adjustments.
They closed down a ridiculously big area and were stopping people. I had no issue with that, but there were also other people not planning to go to the demo that were quite upset and were arguing with the police. Thing is that in the end this is just double standards, for some cases where you have some weirdos that were well under their 1000 limit, you stop to question residents and block streets for the entire Theresienwiese area, and for the other demo which was officially registered for something like 250-500 people and 25000 join, all is good.
Why do you consider those to be different?
Yep, but with the msft focus on the cloud, their priority is to take from goog.

Additionally, people buying OSX computers isn’t really a bad scenario for Microsoft. MS office is quite popular on OSX and iOS and people spend more on that than they do on operating systems.
I'm not so sure. Insurance companies exist based on probabilities. How much margin do you need to make a given profit worth the risk? What about that dollar you brought in where you ended up paying out $10?
rsync. Because it's efficient and well understood and emphasises accuracy.
> The real horsemen of the legacy apocalypse is the depth of the dependency tree.

I won't speak for Java or Python. For Node/JS, I do not see this being a problem for the future. The reason is because npm is so fragile that the entire thing falls over today if you just look at it wrong. The very second you run "npm install" you have a mountain of instant tech debt. The primary reason for this is because the people writing JavaScript do not know what they are doing. They have not cut their teeth on libraries in C/C++ or other languages and have no clue how backwards compatibility or versioning works. If you doubt what I'm saying, then I invite you to do your own quality inspection of any major JS library or framework out there. I'm not going to name names, but the vast majority of it is pure shit.

In my experience, JS code has a life expectancy of about a year and a half. Give or take. After that, it is rewritten. Which also contributes to the lack of quality in the JS ecosystem. There is a built-in assumption that this code won't survive past the time your average dev gets bored of it.

People, today, do not realize there are JS frameworks that predate React/Angular/etc. and have already died. Once popular frameworks. And I'm not talking jQuery. You don't see them because JS development = churn. You don't even see CoffeeScript mentioned today, and that was just a few years ago.
Hence Lemonade.
Blackface (and minstrelsy) wasn't done with "obvious malice", and was the foundation for virtually all world pop music (not directly from a drinking song Irish/English folk tradition) and dance. It was done as an expression and fantasy about what black American lives were like, painting us as the most interesting, fun, crafty people in the world. It also depicted us as stupid and lazy, because that was how we were seen as white-consensus fact; not out of any (additional) malice, other than the assumption that black peoples' place in US society was a natural and logical order of things.

Blackface is only incidentally poison, because white depictions of black people were harmonious with white treatment of black people. Any condemnation of minstrelsy in my opinion should cover most current popular music and dance. From my perspective, if blackface is "obviously malicious", so is Britney Spears and Lady Gaga.

So I wonder how you can so confidently draw the line there, without being suspicious at all (in fact finding the thought distasteful) that majority interpretations of other marginalized groups would normally end up reinforcing that marginalization?

I do feel that cultural appropriation of black Americans is such a deeply baked part of US culture, and by extension US-imitating world culture, over the past 200 years, that insisting that people stop is not a thing that is possible, and may not even be justifiable. Aping a caricature of black American culture is as intrinsic to most non-black people as actual black culture is to black people. You would think there were more than 40 million of us around: there are far more people pretending to be us at any moment than actually being us. Things that we do are seized upon so quickly that non-black sales determine black distribution.

> just call out people bent on intending harm

You can't actually believe this. This is about harm prevention, not punishment. I don't think it's my job to judge intention.
We have billions of examples of babies growing up to learn to spell and tie their shoes, therefore it's very reasonable to assume that that's a skill most babies will get to.

There are 0 examples of a man made construct reaching "general" intelligence (whatever fuzzy meaning you may attach to it); there is no reason to believe that because we can reach some arbitrary human milestone today ("be a world class Go player"), any other human milestone ("start and run a company, and be a mentor and inspiration to others") is plausible.

This is a very different case from e.g. "we built a prototype plane that can lift 15 ft off the ground for 10 seconds, we should be able to build one that can lift 10,000 feet for 10 hours", because in the former case we were beginning to have an understanding of aerodynamics that made that path plausible. We do not have such an understanding backing current ML work. That's well illustrated by the fact that only 6 years elapsed between the first manned flight and crossing the Atlantic by plane - practice caught up to theory really fast, as it tends to do in those cases. We are about 6 years in the current ML revolution - what is its equivalent to crossing the Atlantic?

The logic you're advocating for here is more along the lines of "I taught my dog how to sit - shouldn't be too hard to get him to sit in front of a computer and start writing Python code now that I've got the first half figured out".

(or - I taught my dog how to fetch - shouldn't be too hard to train him to be a full time food delivery employee, etc).
This is a difficult subtlety to get across publicly, but it can be ok to edit the title to grab attention when an article is particularly good for HN. That sin is venial.

If the article isn't particularly good, and especially if someone is just trying to promote something, woe betide.
Tried to migrate from Mac to Linux half a year ago (before the 16" with the new keyboard was announced, because I hated the butterfly keyboard).

Tried a bunch of dell and Thinkpad devices.
Configured a t480s with ubuntu.
First meeting where I had to share my screen and I recognized that Chrome is not able to share a dedicated screen of my three monitor setup. You need a script for that, which creates a "fake" webcam, otherwise its only possible to share the three stitched-together screens.

Those are things, I just expect to work out of the box without a script or pulling two monitor cables everytime I want to screen share something.

Bought the 16" Mac a week later, also not happy with that because thermals are just bad, but its better than having to script simple things. Clients don't expect you to "have to script something real quick" during meetings.

As long as Linux does not cover ALL trivial multi media usecases, I don't see myself making the switch.
It was quite similar for me. Scott Wlaschin's Railway Oriented Programming and its other articles on its site (and in particular https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/map-and-bind-and-ap...) helped me greatly too. I liked its idea of an "elevated world". Another helpful source was/is https://wiki.haskell.org/All_About_Monads. But I thought a lot about them for the past few years. I tried also to make a detour through category theory but it did not help except for getting a lot of books in my library.

Another helpful article was Philip Wadler's "Monads for Functional Programming" (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/ba...).
This was Maslow's point from back in the 40s, that there's no real distinction between physiological and social hunger, besides the fact of an importance hierarchy (one needs to be decently fed in order to start caring a lot about sociality, although even a person in starvation may care somewhat).

Glad to see it's being neurologically researched as well.