skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Thats... unlikely. LSD is not particularly active transdermally

It can be and of course you can always touch your mouth, eyes, etc if you have it and you don't know it.

Not to mention - there are several varieties of LSD (liquid, crystal form, etc), and it can be soaked, have stabilisers added, etc.

>And anecdotally, I can say that administering a number of drops from a vial of dissolved LSD did not give me anything remotely approaching a trip.

Could it be the dealer duped you?

A "a number of drops from a vial of dissolved LSD" will very much give you a trip (100% so if administering means "orally").
This is a pretty good article about technology as a means of augmenting human intelligence. Doug Engelbart's vision of a runaway AGI was about augmenting groups of humans so that they could accelerate their own progress. By constantly re-applying what they had discovered to their current work he imagined the group becoming ever more effective at solving harder and harder problems. That's what runaway AGI looks like. It's a group of humans solving problems through the use of technology and collaboration that they couldn't solve on their own.

> In 1962 — decades before Garry Kasparov played chess with centaurs, years before the early internet was invented, even a while before the first supercomputer — Doug Engelbart was investigating how our tools shape our thoughts. At the time, most of Doug’s peers just saw computers as a way to crunch numbers faster. However, he saw something deeper: he saw a way to augment the human mind.
I know a colleague that worked on Alexa stuff and he said they did use AWS infrastructure and part of his job was reducing the cost Alexa paid to AWS...
"Commodity hardware being competitive" isn't a desirable thing either? Remember when Ethereum caused a run on desirable GPUs? Miners were buying them by the truckload and locking them away in datacenters, where they basically computed hash collisions and made heat.

Personally I'd rather miners use ASICs for their hash collision wankery and leave the consumer markets alone. But I'd really like to see miners cease to exist because crypto comes with a huge environmental cost and so many externalities.
MeiliSearch is exactly not Elastic-like search server. It should work out of the box for its intended use case (fast typo-tolerant search), and it doesn’t support basically everything else. No complex queries, no aggregations, no big datasets, no clusters, etc.
The way you’ve phrased this reminds me of a guy I once worked with— who was fooling around with his girlfriend while they both tripped on acid— and they started pouring liquid Tide laundry detergent all over each other, ostensibly believing it was an appropriate choice of sensual massage oil.
He might have even dosed by accidentally getting it on his fingers then rubbing his eyes or (not trying to be gross) pickin' that nose, yo. Get it into some mucus membranes and off you go. The tongue is the most common way to absorb the stuff, though. From what I was told, you didn't eat the tiny paper that was soaked in it - the LSD was absorbed through your tongue.
Can we have an EV for people who don't suffer from range anxiety and are willing to trade that off for cost?

I travel 5000km (3000mi) a year, longest single day use 50km (30mi). Vehicle is garaged with access to power. I just need 100km (60mi) (double to be sure :) ) range at an affordable cost.
Interesting! Thank you for the source.
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If you're on a Linux OS that's from ~2013 or later, then you're most likely on a version of coreutils that will default to /dev/urandom.

The master branch of coreutils is using getrandom(2). It will continue to draw entropy from the urandom source by default.
That looks quite nice. Is there an alternative for Safari?
Switching costs.
A highly scalable, fast and secure blockchain platform for distributed apps
I use T-mobile for both voice and data. I only had the problem of people not being to make phone calls to me. No problem calling and no problem connecting to Facebook. Of course, T-mobile is huge so paradoxical effects make sense.

Edit: Facebook messaging from the web interface was up also
> if you were stuck with a stack based on jQuery and global variables, good luck transitioning to React without Facebook’s scale.

My team is doing exactly this on my initiative and seeing some positive effects already, even though we're only like 2% of the way there. Would you mind expanding on what you think is futile about it? I wouldn't want to be the one advocating something that with hindsight will look obviously stupid.
I've been a duct taper all my career.
The article isn't interesting for the content so much as the comment section. Check that out immediately after reading the article, it's much more entertaining and informative.
So .. a used Nissan Leaf is good for you. 70-100 mile range. Probably < $12k
This happens so much, I wonder what the effect would be if management actually got honest feedback and listened to it. I think often the engineers implementing things know if they will work or not but their opinions are ignored, if they are even brave enough to point out the things that won't work. It's the curse of the employee relationship. Employees don't want to stir things up, so they do what management wants, despite their experience telling them it'll fail. This is why I don't view success as connected to whether a project is financially successful or not. Success is pushing to production. That's all.
Coding Boot Camp. Check. Now What?
A magical API documentation generator without annotation for springboot
Thanks for this. I've always been very interested in fictional architecture and this looks amazing.
This comment tickled something in my memory:

All Circuits are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse

http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collaps...
Sorry, high.
>"For a true blast from the past, let’s take a look at Windows 2000 Professional’s bare minimum system requirements at the time:

133 MHz or higher Pentium-compatible CPU.

64 megabytes (MB) of RAM recommended minimum; more memory generally improves responsiveness.

2 GB hard disk with a minimum of 650 MB of free space."

My guess is that with any reasonable speed SSD and a swap file -- you could have a responsive system at as little as 32 megabytes (MB) of RAM -- or possibly even less...
The problem is that it's too easy to dose someone without their consent or any way to prove who did it.
Read: Saga of the swamp things by Alan Moore

It just blew my mind out of the park
Yup. The SAT exam fee is affordable (even if expensive) to everyday people. Other qualifications like intel science fairs, extra-curriculars, trips internationally, etc are all really expensive. As the child of middle-class immigrants from Asia, it's meant to keep people like me out, and instead select for the exclusive neighborhood I now live in and the Jones's who want to keep up. Great...
What do you mean "social strategy"?
If you've ever been to the dentist, you've probably been pretty close to pneumatic logic. Every delivery unit I've seen has used it. (Power a handpiece only if it's not in its holster, spray water only when the water switch is on and the handpiece is turning, etc.) Fixing them is a pain. You have to have just the right rubber sheets, gaskets, o-rings, etc. Also they're just a block of metal with a bunch of hoses attached. It's impossible figure out what an individual valve does just by looking at it.
They didn't output fake data, true, but their "optimization" was to only activate emissions controls during testing. That's fraud.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/08/446861855...
Let me provide an example. When we recreated a big Elasticsearch cluster, AWS ran out of available instance types in that AZ resulting in the cluster never going into a green state because a node was missing. This is not something you typically worry about when you choose a cloud provider. Your tone is a bit condescending tbh, you don't need to lecture me about the importance of a fault tolerant distributed system.
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The reason is the growing data people save and experiencing bit rot. Why not use ZFS?
this is such an oversocialized view of the world -- why do you think that all sentience 'must' be respected?
Unwelcome conduct from someone in the same group was already harassment. Welcome conduct from someone outside it still isn't.
>Tether has everything to do with the bitcoin markets and the price of bitcoin, which is the only thing basically anyone is interested in.

Tether has become the proverbial suitcase of IOUs. The GP is outraged about the government stealing money through inflation, when the Tether printing press has been merrily siphoning actual USD out of the markets, a half billion at a time.
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The US military is getting serious about nuclear thermal spacecraft propulsion
That's assuming the LHC has less latency than 100ms.
Some ideas:

- Facebook sends SMS 2FA. Users on T-mo would be unable to receive codes. What behavior does the 2FA-sending code have in this condition? Does the process just sit there and time out (possibly exhausting some finite server resource, like file descriptors)? Are there automated retries in a client? Are humans retrying aggressively because they are frustrated by being unable to log in?

- SWEs and SREs on on-call rotations may have configured pages to go to a cell phone on T-mo. Usually the three fallbacks are "phone call", "sms", and "pubsub/push notification", but both voice and data were broken today. May have taken longer to notice/escalate/resolve an outage.

- Messenger may have seen increased load because people were using it to replace voice and texts that they would have normally sent over T-mo.
Let's talk practically, this will hurt people who did best on SAT (asians and jewish people who studied hardest, not rich white people) and help those who did poorly (blacks and hispanics).

The SAT isn't perfect and you can prepare for it (to an extent), but its alot better than GPA or any other measure as atleast it's consistent between schools.

It was actually introduced to help be more egalitarian and meritocratic. And its been shown to correlate pretty well with general purpose IQ tests as well as later success in life.

Removing it will no doubt help them discriminate more against asians and jewish people. they introduced meritocracy and it produced a result they didnt like for certain races so theyre removing it.
Base model 3 is the car for you then.
It might. I'd expect that the effect would be stronger with a physical book because more senses are involved. With the physical book you not only have the visual difference in how the book looks depending on how far into it you, you also can feel a different weight distribution.
this is a problem with people inventing problems out of nowhere.
Company behind hydroxychloroquine study dissolves
Yes and no. Whether the phone is roaming or not, the cost of data is the very same (marginally, zero). The industry a s a whole has a major issue if they think they can sell data for 10c/Mb. What I'm saying is that this is chocking a potentially huge industry, where only the applications that transmit ridiculously little data (by today's standards) can be made economically. My feeling is also that the overhead of switching and accounting for 100 bytes or one gigabyte is very very similar....
> The SAT has always generally been a test showing how well you prepared for the SAT.

I don't know about the SAT specifically, but in my country we also have standardized admission tests and, from my appreciation, it's good at measuring 2 things:

1. General Intelligence.

2. How well you prepared for the test.

Sure, (2) may be an undesirable artifact but I think that intelligence is a good way --if not the best-- to select people for college.
Unless they are people-in-the-middle.
I am no expert, but to me the debate is the same as switching from gendered pronouns to saying "they". I try not to use "he" or "she" in my documentation now. I say "they" or "the user". I don't do this because I have dyed hair and a nose ring. I do it because it is an incredibly easy to do and removes gender from the docs. That's it. Gender adds no information in technical docs most of the time and has the potential to bias information. I don't even care that much about this issue but it is just easy to do. No one is confused by this or even mentions it.

So, say we start using main and secondary. Someone smart enough to be reading a datasheet will probably figure this out. Right? I work in several different programming languages in any given week (SQL, C#, JavaScript, various data formats, and so on). I don't get confused when the name of a data type is a little different between these.

I am not trying to be rude or mean, I am just saying we can change terms. I mean, my god, we changed from Imperial to Metric while I was in elementary school. We changed an entire system of weights and measures for an entire country (Canada). That was a big deal.

Going from master/slave to main/secondary (or whatever) is not a big deal.

It's like "rule of thumb". I no longer use this phrase. Most people have no idea that this is based on how a stick a man may beat his wife with must be no thicker than the size of his thumb. But some people do. I do. And, yeah, I am sure this will be a "turns out" where a cabal of feminists spread this rumour to make white men feel bad, but I don't care. I don't say it any more. I figured out a new way to talk about a general guideline that is widely applicable and simple.

It's not a big deal.
dont worry, when the admitted student doesnt pass physics theyll say its because of systemic oppression and caltech will pad their scores to get them on their merry way
Times change, patterns stay the same. I remember when Facebook got big, so obviously everybody had to copy them.

Imagine working on an accounting application when the CEO suddenly instructs everybody to figure out how accountants could connect with each other and maybe publish their balance sheets instead of cat pictures or whatever. Details changed, but it was that weird.
The retail website uses AWS.
It's not like that's not already possible. Any person who would want to do that could already easily get their hands on it.
> Not sure exactly but any job ads I've seen for the likes of Monzo and Starling talk about backend engineers that have a deep knowledge of CI/CD and you don't do that on a mainframe.

The part of the bank that handles core processing is going to be a very small portion of their engineering team. Kube and DevOps ads don’t provide any hints about how much they might rely on DB2, COBOL, etc...
"trunk" and "mainline" are the two terms I'm more familiar with.
> If you bought a board game in the 1930:s, chances are you can still play it if you've been careful when handling it.

You can play a game of Monopoly, but it's not going to make you any friends.
There's loads written on re-writes.
Lathe and milling machine
Remmeber its not RACISM when its targeted at

Actual right wing / pro freedom

white straight males

white Christians

White old people

Its only "RACISM" or a "PROBLEM" when its towards non white and no ethnic races in white nations

Maybe if JEWS were all transfered back to ISREAL and were running goverment/councils/tech firms/NGOs in their own fucking nation

we wouldnt have white commie traitors and Jewish Zionists running west+EU

-----------

Ive got a great idea

Send
BLM
ANTIFA
Commies
SJW
Marxists
all to CHINA

That way we can replace them with pro freedom people from HK/CHINA

LEFT WING authoritarian/commies replaced with pro freedom population

China has more left wing authorian/commie voters

White Nations have more right wing voters
I suspect something like that. The video codecs it uses are Sorenson Spark (ancient), VP6 (google opened this), and h264 (certainly encumbered for a while longer). Though, patents haven't stopped open source projects like LAME or x264. At the very least, they could release the source for the code from 2000 which is now past the patent expiration dates.
I'm a PhD student at Caltech. There's also a push to eliminate the GRE as a requirement for graduate admissions, in much the same way as some people want to eliminate the SAT as a requirement for undergraduate admissions. In my opinion both proposals are well-intentioned but ultimately bad ideas.
They used to require an operating systems class that used Bryant and O'Halloran. Not the Dragon book but not nothing either.
I wonder that too. My guess is there's an outlier datapoint or two there messing with the average. I didn't pull out outliers.

(Since the data is smoothed, an outlier datapoint could influence speeds 2mph in each direction)
Studies seem to show that SAT prep helps 20-30 points on average. AFAICT it does help to do SAT prep but it is a relatively minor factor.

for example:
https://www.thoughtco.com/are-sat-prep-courses-worth-the-cos....
If I drove my Tesla S on the freeway at 48 mph then I would easily match the EPA rating.
Why not both? Reconsidering the "rightful slots" of either group would diversify the institution significantly, though there are many who believe diversity is not beneficial. Perhaps Harvard sees a path to increased value in their endeavor to be more representative society.
We're working on helping sell tickets for and build community around Zoom events: https://zmurl.com

We started 2.5 months ago and have seen ~ 10k events of all kinds.

We're hiring engineers :) - victor@zmurl.com
Thank you! I think I understand what you’re trying to say here, and it also clarifies why I found this response confusing.

I think this idea of a loophole is too caught up in actions leading to discrimination; and also the specific setups of the tests that the Supreme Court laid out in their ruling.

There need not be a specific counter-example within an organization to compare against when determining if an action was discriminatory or not. And moreover they weren’t really talking about “actions taken that are incongruous with sex stereotypes.” My understanding of the ruling (after reading it) is that if an employer fired you for being gay/bisexual, even just for stating the fact that you are, that would still amount to discrimination based on sex stereotypes.

Then again, I’m sure finer legal minds than mine will find any such loopholes that do exist over the course of the next two years. >_<
I really need to get my wall charger installed, this would be completely infeasible with the Level 1. COVID-19 sort of messed with my plans here
And isn't that a reason States could not contradict a federal law of exactly this sort?
Why did you rename master to main? #113
Sounds all true to me. That didn't seem to say much I haven't read before.

Also Gloria Steinem was CIA-funded, a lot of things were/are!
My friend is an Investigative Journalist, I'll share the link with him! Great idea.
Ahem, actual humans cannot consistently predict the market.
At least once a month I get contacted by some recruiter contracting with a company like this. They all seem to have a vauge screen reader -> OCR -> AI fill in the blanks, form submission charter. They claim to be profitable and have 10+ customers, but their examples of how their product is used sounds like they are automating Sally in Accounting's job, and she's 2 years away from retiring, so if they could get the software to interface with the 1990s software she's been using for the last 10 years, they won't have to retrain her replacement when she finally retires. I'm sure Boomer Replacement is a market, but does not seem like a 1000x unicorn growth market.
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I'm a Canadian who went to an ivy for undergrad, and have always found the American attachment to the SAT a bit puzzling. I'm also puzzled at the widespread view that by removing the SAT some grave injustice or lowering in standards is inevitable. Canadian universities manage to admit students mostly just based on high school grades just fine. (Yes, there are provincial final exams but those scores often are not available for admissions since they're taken in the 12th grade). The SAT itself was an odd exam for me, unlike anything I ever had to take in Canada. The SAT IIs (and AP/IB exams) on the other hand seemed like they assessed things more reasonably. The SAT's heritage as a poor attempt at an IQ test which then morphed into whatever the heck it is today, makes its utility somewhat out of place compared to what most other countries do.

One issue that's brought up is heterogeneity in high school grading practices, but somehow Canada manages. In any case, for "elite" schools, what has always helped the typical middle / upper-middle class applicants are AP scores (if you have a few) and of course SAT IIs as well.
> Because they're constantly reinvesting for even bigger economies of scale.

Not exactly.

To avoid paying taxes, any extra net income is reinvested. It's like a religion in senior management to avoid taxes. And to lobby for employee non-competes, too.

Also, margins on retail are not the same as pure tech companies, like Google or Microsoft. US grocery stores, like Safeway, have net income in the 1% of total revenue range, so if Amazon can make 10-15% on retail, that's impressive.
Or: Work = Force * Distance, so the energy spent per mile will be proportional to drag force, which is proportional to speed^2.

Either way, its 21% increase in energy consumed per mile in this case.
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This sounds like the Existential Antipattern, from Haskell land. I don't know to what degree it translates to this setting.

https://lukepalmer.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/haskell-antipatt...
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Is "owning" a typo for "earning"? I don't see how anyone can own a slot.

To add to your cynicism, university exams started as way to select WASPy prep school students instead of "overachieving" Jewish public school students. See, the tests included a section on Latin, which was much more often taught in private prep schools than public high schools.

To detract from your cynicism, the intrinsic assumption is the SATs are meaningful indicator of "rightfulness."

My understanding is that at best it shows a correlation with the first year of college, and that high school grades show a better correlation than the (gameable) SAT.

Don't know if the WSJ article covers any of this - don't have a subscription. But the header suggests this change is only for the next year, as a response to the pandemic, and not (yet?) a long-term change, so it likely doesn't touch on these issues.
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I highly recommend watching the video by Scott Galloway on The College Implosion. [1]

"Colleges have become luxury brands and are adopting a strategy of artificial scarcity to create irrational margins"

There's a large movement right now where many are saying the large tuition fees for Zoom lectures aren't worth it.

Colleges sell themselves for the experience and are a luxury lifestyle brand almost, but with covid the lifestyle aspect of it is wiped out, so its reasonable that students are asking why they'd pay such high premiums.

I think removing SAT, ACT casts a wider net and hopefully allows more students to enroll, what's the scaling limitation if everyone's doing lectures on Zoom? Presumably everyone's also getting graded electronically in some way.

[1]: https://youtu.be/d8kwzSTITP0
> It's government regulating private citizen's racism that I abjectly disagree with

Where and how is the government regulating private citizens' racism?