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Maybe even healthy people even should be encouraged to try psychedelics or some other potent mind altering technique at least once in their life. Maybe make it as in initiation ceremony when they reach 18 or smth. Or maybe at least for the people in leadership positions when they get there

The amount of closed-mindedness, at least amongst the high-IQ and well-educated people in our society is amazing. It's sad because most truly open-minded people in our society tend to be on the lower spectrum of intelligence and accomplishment.

We need something that can increase the openness psychologic train in intelligent and accomplished people, especially the ones in leadership positions, asap, if we want to fix our societies!

EDIT+: Toned it down a bit, hope it's less flamebaiy. It's what I wanted to day but hopefully less inflaming.
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You seem to be very low on your Ebola numbers[0]. Is that based on a super-strict definition of "confirmed"?

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28755033
I'd rather have two companies fighting for search results instead of one. There's a sense of choice.

> It's not *fighting back", it's trying to make a profit by trying to position itself in a way that's different from Google and in a way that it's hoping is compelling.

In that case, please start a Google/DDG competitor that's just as good and uses a non-profit model. I'll happily use your service.
disclaimer - I am trans.

With that said, a lot of the problem stems from the fact that a popular author from the "outside" culture is going to have a lot more influence on what others in the outside culture believe/understand about the "inside" culture.

As an example from my community, just about every movie written about transgender people by a cisgender person spends a lot of time showing the subject putting on makeup or wearing heels, implying that the essence of what it means to be a trans woman is wearing makeup or high heeled shoes... But it isn't the case.

That would almost be ok, but the popular movie is going to get a lot more airtime than an indie movie made by a trans person which shows what our real lives are like. In fact, that movie may not get made at all.

So it's worse having the popular movie out there, making money off of our lives, but misrepresenting them at the same time. (And this is all assuming that no harm was intended... it's still harmful, and it happens all the time.)
Fun fact: The stroke order for the upper left symbol of Hidari (左) (meaning: left) and Migi (右) (meaning: right) is different. If you get the stroke order wrong you won't be accepted on the Kanji Proficiency Test (Kanji Kentei).
Will need very talented programmers, data center designers and excellent management. Good luck with that.
Excuse me, but some of us do not want to be forced to take drugs.
Not true. It has much more to do with timing - both time of day and submitting a post when the audience is receptive to it, not necessarily being the first to do so. I have been here a long and have relatively high karma; about 3/4 of my posts get no traction, some get a small amount of attention, some go to the front page and stay there all day. The posts that are most successful in terms of getting attention are often not the ones I think most deserving of it, eg scientific journal articles with the meatiest content usually fare poorly.

I've never asked anyone to boost a post and being a rather nati-social creature I don't have an audience of devoted fans, if anything the opposite. I could get more karma if I was selective about the time of day I posted (eg lunchtimes are usually good) but I just post stuff as I discover it.
Perhaps, and this is likely the case with most users. But there still exists many users with extensions disabling fingerprinting and such.
I agree it might not be ideal that it is not open source.

But it is by far the easiest solution to install at this moment, with predictable results.
I haven't really noticed any game with working economies beyond EVE -- at least in the sense that they actually integrate with the rest of the game universe, and aren't simply an ad-hoc bartering system driven by drop-rates conducted purely between players, because the intentional economy (eg driven by gold/currency) has entirely fallen apart as a result of developers never quite understanding that infinite gold generation infinitely inflates to the point that $currency is entirely worthless.

EVE is the only current MMO I can think of which realizes that destroying value is also important having a functional economy, and creating those interesting economically-based dynamics
Arguably we have a lot of violent crime here, so that stats would need to be normalized somehow for that. But yes, US culture is different than a lot of other countries. I suspect policing style is more the effect than the cause.
So, what hardware is needed here, besides a C-band LNB?
Does anyone know how (or if) they constructed a double-blind trial? The effects of mushrooms are easy to distinguish from a placebo to say the least.
> Suppose $5T USD was funneled into all research over the last 10 years.

Hard to answer exactly, but we can get a decent answer. A quick quack (search)[0] shows that in 2013 the US spent $435bn in research (We'll round to an even $500bn) funding. So to answer your question:

> How much of that would virology/epidemiology have gotten, and would it have been enough?

Exactly as much as they already got and in exactly the same way it has.

But this answers your question too specifically because it is just all funding. Personally I'm in the view that if we're not in an active war we should be focusing more money into R&D. Science has a ROI of 1 year - a few hundred years, with 20 years probably being around the mean. A 10-30 year investment is not something I want my industry to focus around (or something I can expect industry to even spend money on because their incentives are not aligned for that). But it IS something I want my country to be focused on, because even 50 years for a country is not that long. I also want that knowledge in the public domain so businesses can form around these new things. Essentially the gov raises the tide and all boats benefit, even the people that are making new boats. I want my government to be funding basic scientific research because often there is no immediate benefit from this but the long term benefits are huge. Institutions like NASA and CERN don't spin off technologies because there is something unique about them, they spin off technologies because they are pushing the edges of technological capabilities and have to invent new components along the way, things they didn't know they needed. This isn't something I can expect a company smaller than FAANG to invest in.

[0] https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2015/nsf15330/nsf15330.pdf

[1] Further breakdown: https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2017/nsf17316/
In this case, "my" is being used to denote some sort of ownership (in the sense of "my bike") rather than mere association ("my mom"). It's being used to convince the reader that they should feel that something that is rightfully theirs has been taken/exploited by someone else.

But insofar as we have (formal and informal) notions of information ownership, we (sensibly) assign ownership of that info based on who collects/computes that info, not the person about whom that info refers. If I collect information about how many cars go down the highway each day, the only entity who might be the owner of that data is me, not the driver's of the cars or the city through which the highway runs.

If Google collects and exploits information about you (e.g., how many web searches per month you make), there certainly may be privacy principles they are violating, but not ownership issues. If Google were taking information you had generated/collected (e.g., if they sold illegal copies of the novel you wrote on Google Docs), that would be an ownership issue, but that is usually not the sort of thing people are worried about.
She says "the proper temperature",.. and then starts cooking with the pan. Thus implying that the pan should be that hot to use it, for cooking.
What do you mean? He's using Mars days, 1477 minutes long.
I'm happy I found Marianne Bellotti. Good stuff. I'm following her now.
But it's not, it's active for 90 days. You'd think they'd go for the trio.
I checked your profile and it seems like you are building a tool for founders which requires SQL knowledge since it is related to data analytics etc, correct ? I think your Ask HN title is a bit confusing so I wanted to clarify first.

If my understanding is correct, I would say no problem since any SAAS must have at least a senior technical person whether they are founder/co-founder or not. I run a SAAS and I am definitely decent with SQL myself even though I am not the CTO who is obviously better than me at everything technical.
I recall similar rules learning to letter old school "drafting" documents. Pointedly, I remember getting spot checked on how many strokes and in what order a B was written.

Granted, it serves even more purpose in Japanese. But I've always felt the fact was that writing is art, and great evidence that are can be taught in much more mechanical ways than most of us realize.
I know of at least 3 banks that use python2 inside their trading platforms (the big two use python as the built in scripting languiage) -- which would be a multi-year multi-10s-millions project to migrate to 3.. We won't be saying goodbye for a while...

For standalone stuff, yeah, it's not so bad. Upgrading between node releases has been more painful to me than python 2->3..
Didn’t suggest it was one thing. I just didn’t think in the context of this thread that the background was relevant. Can it not be a combination of things.? The good Friday agreement started the ball rolling the change to PSNI was one of the measures.
the second stroke of 口 goes right from your first glyph ╷ to the third glyph ┌┐

said another way, your second glyph ┌ doesn't appear in the "correct stroke order" because the top+right sides of the 'mouth' are drawn in one stroke.
As options proliferate, it's nice to have a recommendation. I appreciate this post for that reason.
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> (several types of them).

I find this criticism very bizarre. C++ and C have several different string types, as does python. This comes down to the fact that what programmers think are strings are often not really and vice versa.

To be clear, a 'string' is a sequence of characters or glyphs meant for human consumption or that are produced by a human as input. A string is not a sequence of bytes. C++ and C get this really wrong, and we pretend char* or std::string is actually a string, but they're not -- they're sequences of bytes. The best string in C is wchar* and the best string in C++ is std::wstring or even better a string from the ICU library. std::string completely glosses over the various encodings of real strings.

Python gets the string situation much better. str is for strings, and bytes is for bytes. str can contain actual human characters, and bytes can't (unless you encode a str to bytes properly).

From this perspective, Haskell really has only one string type: Text. ByteString is actually just a sequence of bytes, and it's an accident of history that Roman characters fit into bytes.

String is an iterator over human readable characters, akin to str in python or std::wstring::iterator in C++.
As someone who is older, and spent much of their 20s working on their career, I regret that I hadn't spent more time on my personal interests when I was young. If I had it all to do over again, I would spend less of those years trying to climb the ladder as a Software Engineer and more of my time writing and performing music.

I'm certain I'd still be working in tech today, some 30 years on, but I bet it would have been a lot more fun to have been in a band and had a serious musical hobby when I was in my 20s, rather than in my late 40s.
I'm not too knowledgeable about insurance in general, but from the S1 they say "At Lemonade, excess claims are generally offloaded to reinsurers". So, I'd assume if too many people start making claims, they themselves have insurance against that happening.
Carbon Ads? https://www.carbonads.net

I am not sure how good they are at the privacy level, but at the very least the ads they serve seems to be tasteful and I haven't seen any scams yet.

Here's some info about data collection from the parent company, though I am not sure if Carbon follows the same strategy: https://content.buysellads.com/articles/what-data-does-buyse...
There are two main parts to this:

- GHC can do less unpacking (moving heap allocations to registers)because of laziness

- laziness as an implementation detail is slow

To implement laziness, GHC puts a closure with it's environment on the heap. When the value is used for the first time, the closure is called. Then the result is put on the heap, the closure is replaced with an indirection to the result, and the program continues.

But this also has some advantages:

- For values that might be used zeor or multiple times, this often actually saves time on average over both strict or call-by-name evaluation

- This is faster than any equivalent code you can write by hand because compiler and runtime system heavily optimize around it

- This gives you mutation through the backdoor which allows asymptotic improvements over strict pure languages in some cases

But the main thing is that laziness allows runtime dead code elimination - if you have an unpacked vector of pairs and only use the left element of each pair, only those values will be allocated - still in a dense bytearray.
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Agreed, more access to psychedelics in a safe and professional setting would be really good. I wish I had had been able to do that for my experiences -- as it stands, I think they're ruined for me forever. (I'm okay with that though, one lesson I learned was that I could learn anything psychedelics could teach me using other methods.)
Some companies that have large COBOL code bases don't hire "software developers" -- they hire people who have worked in other careers and want to switch to software development and then they extensively train them internally. This could explain the median age of COBOL developers remaining constant.
I think your 20s are actually a bad time to join a startup. Every dollar you earn in your 20s is worth more than a dollar you earn later in your life, because of compound interest. Financially, you're nearly guaranteed to make more money at a FAANMG, and you don't have to play the lottery or (generally) work crazy hours.

You might learn a lot by jumping into a startup, but your chances of failing are probably higher than if you start one 20 years into your career. The average age of successful startup founders is not in the 20s.
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Indeed, I was planning to buy one until my wife complained that I already bought one years ago, it was worth trying.
Even one puff of marijuana gives me intense anxiety and soul crushing paranoia. I will avoid the psychadelics.
No. One of the issues with current understanding of galaxies is that our understanding of gravity does not fit the rotation of the galaxies we are observing. To explain this, and other effects, we use dark matter.

There was a theory that the reason for the discrepancy is that our understanding of gravity is wrong, and that it is in fact a calculation error on galactic scales. The problem with this is that apparently there are galaxies which seem to have very little dark matter and are much closer to expected behavior than other galaxies. So we are left with the dark matter explanation so far.
Strongly against this, as there's no scientific evidence that exposure to mind altering substances provides long-term personality changes in openness or empathy. Additionally, as someone on the psychotic spectrum but was unable to receive diagnosis until my mid to late 20s, exposure to LSD when I was diagnosed only with mild depression would've probably sent me to the hospital and permanently ruined my life. I suspect I'm not the only one, as schizophrenia often manifests (if it's going to manifest) beyond the 18 year mark.
Which creates a perverse incentive for insurers not to care about payouts (If you want to increase profits, you have to increase payouts) -- so long as they can compete on costs with other insurers.
Sometimes VCs will purchase founder equity for cash.
I've tried psychedelics and I totally agree.

The benefit to me is that you can understand how other people see the world. Psychedelics strip away the "you" of perception. Instead, it allows you to see the world for how it actually is and understand how different everybody perceives the world.

For me, it helped me understand that nobody cares about what I do and that really helped my social anxiety. Everyone sees the world so differently that I shouldn't worry what other people think of me.

Just my 2c.
Not to mention the draconian quarantine of merchant vessels entering/leaving ports.

30+ days mandatory quarantine wasn't unusual.

The word Quarantine traces it's roots back to quarantino (40 days) and those laws where passed all over the place from (what we know) the 14th Century.
I've taken a dive into the world of shorthand. Another thing near killed by computers. Surprisingly fun to get into, though. (The ridiculous sexism in many of the books is cringe inducing...)
To be clear, I'm in support of fixing these terms. But paper is usually white. The term whitespace came from referencing the space on paper without ink on it. The color white DOES exist outside of skin, and has many uses.
Yep I have personally witnessed a friend lose his mind. Years later he is not back to normal. This was a man that I had once admired greatly. To see him deteriorate into a disillusioned stranger was terrifying and heart-breaking. Be careful folks! Don't play with drugs when your mind isn't in the right place or if you're currently going through something in life. Make sure you have a positive mindset, do it in a very safe environment with people that you are very comfortable with because there will likely be long periods of silence.
The last time I smoked Salvia was the most intense, spiritual out-of-body experience I've ever had. While it was profound, it was also truly terrifying and did not feel good for me at all. I think salvia is very misunderstood and underestimated by most people. You give up all control when you take a serious dose, you're just along for the ride.

Mushrooms feel wonderfully natural and therapeutic on the other hand.
I hope you don't use a smartphone. Or cellphone at all. Several technologies are patent encumbered and contain, in some of the chips, proprietary code. And it is a tech that provides the cellphone provider with telemetry as well.

I assume you are running a RYF approved PC or laptop.
the new cabal v2 system does not encourage global package installation. It adopts a stack-style approach and IMO is actually better than stack.
Went through both the emotional an financial rock bottom in recent years at least twice. The key is to realize that you, yes, you, were created (yes, you have a creator!) to perform certain works that only you can do. Work on faith (I can honestly say that without Christian faith, and reading St. Augustine's writings on suicide, I would have killed myself years ago). That's the first thing.

Secondly, make positive progress every day. Make some money, even if it's not enough yet. Cut expenses to the bone, and then cut more. (We managed to keep our house, but in retrospect, should have sold it and downsized.) The good news is that both my wife and I have good jobs now, and we're socking away enough money to dig out of the hole. It's not fun, but we're heading up. Hang in there, and make sure you do something to move the ball forward every single day. And seriously, find a prayer and/or bible study group to help you through - these are tough times, and we're stronger together, but realize that none of us has any strength next to the one who created you and everything else. (Not to get preachy, but Chrisitianity really is the most uplifting and freeing thing ever - all your screwups have been paid for, and if you just believe that, you are adopted into the family of the God of the Universe. That's pretty amazing good news, and the ultimate empowerment!)
Do you think it is possible that there are truths that cannot be articulated in words? Is it possible that there are meaningful experiences that cannot be easily conveyed by language?

There are many parallels one can draw between accounts of psychedelic experiences and mystical or spiritual experiences brought about by other methods, such as (but not limited to) meditation, ritual, music, or fasting. I haven't really read an account of such phenomena that really captures the full weight of its direct experience. Indeed, there are many ancient and continuing traditions that use psychedelic substances in a religious capacity. If one doesn't think there's any meaning in such realms of human activity then I think that's their personal answer.

Have you read the Doors of Perception [0]? It's a fairly lucid, but ultimately limited, account of psychedelic experience by Aldous Huxley. Perhaps they did send a poet :^)

> They common quality is that the experiences sound disconnected from reality.

Well here's the thing, and it's something one can realize in a very visceral way in the middle of a trip: There is no disconnecting from reality. Your experience is always some incomplete part of reality, some part of the reality of your body. I think you knew that and were getting at something else.

What I guess you mean by this: In normal operation our cognitive experience seems to "refer" to the outside world in a carefully regulated way. That makes sense because we think in order to understand and interact with our environment in predictable ways. If our cognitive processes wildly differed from the reality relevant to our safety and well-being, we would die. So, our senses are well calibrated by a constant feedback loop between cognitive processes, interaction with our environment, and perception of our environment. We are so well accustomed to this calibration that it is difficult to even perceive it unless we are very carefully attentive to our own thoughts.

Psychedelics can throw all of your cognitive processes out of that control loop that keeps them in tune with external reality. But that doesn't disconnect them from reality, your cognitive processes are part of reality. So, what are you experiencing? What are you when you are not being pushed constantly into alignment with the Other? If you could see your normal experience in the context of a much wider possibility of experience, how would that change you? It's very plausible that this kind of insight would elude even the most precise language.

All that said, I don't think psychedelics are for everyone. Some people are very sensitive to being brought out of their normal cognition and have a hard time finding their way back. I think maybe in a far future when we have reached a very advanced state of medical understanding, psychedelics could be sufficiently understood and nuanced that they could be "for everybody".

[0] PDF Warning https://maps.org/images/pdf/books/HuxleyA1954TheDoorsOfPerce...
This sounds like juvenile fascination and cult-like adherence to me. I’m glad these substances gave you access to insight but that’s not always the case, and some people are more than capable of having free, complete, and rich life experiences without the use of psychedelics.

Non drug users are not close minded robots.
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