skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Safrole in isolate is psychoactive either. Shulgin has written extensively about the essential oils, and the closest paper to this particular topic I can recall is "The chemistry and psychopharmacology of nutmeg and of several related phenylisopropylamines."

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.689...

Nutmeg happens to be primarily composed of Safrole, Myristicin and Elemicin, and is certainly psychoactive, but I doubt it's the Safrole.

There are thus several possibilities by which one or more of the aromatic components might be implicated as psychotropic agents;

1. One of the compounds that is present only in very small amounts may have unusually high potency,
2. Elemicin may be a major contributor of activity, or
3. A combination of two or more of the aromatics present may be involved.
The three most abundant ones, myristicin, elemicin and safrole may be sufficient to account for the total activity.

And yes, "Sass" is the street term for MDA. Whether or not the supposed "Sass" is actually MDA is anyone's guess.

On another note, commercial MDMA isn't generally produced from Safrole/Isosafrole anymore. This is an idea you get by reading common, old synths on the internet and being an armchair enthusiast ;^)

The common synthesis nowadays is through PMK glycidate bought from China. Reflux with HCl will yield base PMK (aka MD-P2P) and one can proceed via the normal route from there.
And when they don't die, it can ruin their academic & intellectual lives by making them long-term ill & disabled, including neurologically. Some of the lingering symptoms are nasty.
The guy is in his 60s. Asking people to remember everything they have ever written over their entire life, and then publicly retract it as soon as they change their minds about any given portion, is not reasonable. Heck, I had an article published in a student newspaper twelve years ago (in 2008), and even now I barely remember what it says.
Thanks!

That does sound pretty cool.

But what was the reasoning behind your statement that "we have simple, easy solutions to all our physical problems" (even if not all those solutions come from aircrete)?
I don’t know what the culture at New Relic is like, but if the CEO of my company told us to work harder, there would be a coup. Everyone who still has a job knows they are lucky, and is working at 150%, losing sleep, and experiencing a lot of strain on their lives on top of the strain of the state of reality. Nobody is asking for a pat on the back, but it takes its toll. I wouldn’t tolerate my CEO doing this, but that’s easy to say - since mine didn’t, and as said earlier, I have a job.

It’s pretty despicable for a CEO to do this, at a time like this.
Because living in most states as a non-Christan or atheist is living as a minority. This minority group does not have enough influence to convince their representatives to oppose such legislation.

The first amendment is only necessary protection for minority rights. What is freedom of religion if you can't have freedom from religion?

I live in Utah, where The Corporation for the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints (the mainstream Mormon Church) has an overtly significant voice in politics and media. Its private university Brigham Young University likely benefits significantly from this situation, which is totally unnecessary, since the church itself has plenty of funding available, including a 501c3 tax-exempt $124 billion+ liquid investment account built from tithing donations in excess if $7 billion per year.

I don't want to see a penny of my country or state's tax dollars going to a university named after a man who, as a self-proclaimed prophet of God, taught that interracial marriage is to be punished by death on the spot, and does not allow students to be in same-sex relationships, or leave their religion before graduation.

I don't see this as an attempt to create outrage, but to express that which already exists.
I used the Xposed Module "XPrivacyLua". On Android 10 it only runs in EdXposed which itself is a Magisk Module; Magisk Root is needed.

I should mention though, AFAIK only the pro version of XPrivacyLua can spoof these values and log when they are requested. I have it configured so that they randomise at boot.

Also keep in mind that this is pretty useless if your IP is exposed. One would just use your IP to gather the location, regardless of spoofed location permissions. So you'd have to either have a firewall as well or use something like Tor.
The photo linked for the house mouse is, as of this writing, a computer mouse...
Two years ago my wife became a citizen, and my son and I got to go watch her take the oath of citizenship in the Paramount with around 1000 other people from almost 90 countries. I have never felt so proud to be American.
Company wide emails scolding productivity sound like a death knell to me. What do they think the individual reactions to this are? Like, "oh yeah, they're right, I've been slacking, and I will do better"? Is that a real thing?
Whatshisface claimed the opposite and cited no evidence, just like the original that he’s criticizing.
No... I'm not really interested in proprietary software, especially as security-critical foundation.
I remember always being inspired by the 2advanced flash sites:

https://youtu.be/N-2sKZjawq4

https://youtu.be/TI5RISl6L14
Can't we just use more wind in the UK?
No, universities are not going away
> with an incubation time of two weeks

Can we stop perpetuating this myth? 14 days is when 99.5% of the people show symptoms. The median, which is far more important, is between 2 to 4 days.
Thanks for the excellent link. I enjoyed the site, and the fun little easter egg for removing the 'bugs'.

I was browsing on a very low powered device, so some of it took quite some time to load.. just to emulate things that would have run on a device 10% as powerful as this! How ironic.
This explains why I think China is currently "winning at economy" and will do so even more in the future, simply because they can see long term since the removal of the two-term limit of their president[1], and other[2] tactics[3].

From a "god’s-eye-view", countries should not withdraw democracy & freedom from the hands of their citizens. But logically, I think this gives an incentive for all other countries to also take this unfair advantage (become capitalist dictatorships) in order to compete with China. But I'm not sure how logically this will play out in the next few decades.

And yet I see articles positing strategic mistakes and unforced errors on the behalf of the Chinese.

Mostly, I am of the opinion that outsiders don't know what's really going on in the country because the truth of China is distorted by propaganda and censorship regime they built up over generations and lack of independent abilities to verify anything.

Maybe even the government don't know what's going on either.
Newrelic, isn't that one of those companies whose Javascript never makes it past my blockers? I never liked tracking companies to begin with, this internal memo makes me like them even less. The management should introspect a bit more rather than blame their employees, if a company fails in comparison to their competitors that is usually not something the employees have nearly as much influence over as the management does.

This CEO should look in the mirror and wonder what he could do to improve things.
^ This guy has really been in Japan! There is no standard of walking on the left or the right. People don't follow vehicle driving protocols because many of them never have or will drive. "Paradoxical" is absolutely the best way to describe Japanese pedestrian behavior.
It was the only path for my family—illegal immigrants in the inter-war years who served in WW2 for citizenship.

The US kept its promise to Europeans, even those not then considered white—but broke its promise to Filipinos. We have a lot of growing to do.
This post reminds me of a product idea I've been pondering for a while: A versioned database backed by git.

It would only be useful for data that made sense to be represented in individual files (perhaps json files with the file name as the id), with an API that allowed the data to be accessed and written to in a similar way to other databases. Perhaps similar to a nosql database, but because it's in git, everything is versioned and can be reverted.
This was mostly driven by economics.

It's cheaper to pave everything in sight vs build multi-story parking decks + greenspace.

And local zoning boards / politicians were only happy to hand out passes, as commercial taxes pay for things that get votes.

So I'd say less a willful decision than a lack of powerful opponents.

It's not even clear who sufficiently powerful opponents of that type of development would have been / are? State or federal EPA?
What you're calling "energy intensity of production" doesn't look like a very important parameter. There's plenty of unused land that could host solar or wind installations and transporting electricity really is a solved problem.

I understand the impulse to defend nuclear power against seemingly irrational criticism, but that shouldn't distract you from the incredible advances that other technologies have been making. Nuclear has had its time, and today it's just not a competitive way of making electricity anymore.

Beside, you're never going to convince people that nuclear is perfectly safe - it just isn't. Even if you can completely rule out catastrophic failure, you still have a bunch of people who need to go to work every day and work with radioactive materials. Yes, it can be done safely, but personally I'm happy I don't have to (and I do work with other toxic crap in the lab on a regular basis ;)).

So, at the end of the day, you're going to need to make an argument that goes like "... but nuclear power is worth it because we have no better alternatives" at some point. But look at this report on levelized cost of energy (LCOE) [0]. Wind and solar are absurdly cheap! We need to focus on solving the intermittent supply issue now, and that looks to be totally doable, if expensive, with current technology. But it's only getting cheaper (see literature I've cited in a different post in this thread).

Of course, calculations might change if there's some sort of technology breakthrough in nuclear technology - as in any technology.

[0] https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2019
On approximately 1300 employees that's not a whole lot though, is it?
Perhaps a step down transformer that directly feeds a dyson blade style blower at one of the edges of each panel. More up front equipment and infrastructure cost but no employee wages. However I'm sure this is full of holes due to cost multiplied by number of solar panels and the number of transformers needed. It is also only able to clean only during the day assuming no battery or pumped hydro storage.
>as the visibility of a mistake travels across social media, the poster is subject to a constant deluge of new readers calling them out

I've certainly experienced this situation. It's not so bad when it's limited to a small geographic area like a single timezone. But if it's a topic that interests a world-wide audience even just English speakers that's when it can get nuts.

>Twitter as an example environment....1 Ignore replies and hopefully let it die out

That's all you can do you're tainted and anything you write is useless it's. Once that fuse is lit there is no plan B. Turn off notifications on your phone and walk away for a few days.

Another Twitter mistake I've made is replying to a heated topic. The responding people don't understand or is not aware of all the people attached to that Tweet. Now I deselect everyone but the one person I want to reply to unless the topic is tame.
I suspect that in an ideal world this rule would apply to everyone, but a lot of practical realities drive this decision making in my opinion.

There are some reasons to vindicate it though, as a tourist you mostly keep with your group, if you mingle it's mostly with other tourists I suspect, you don't have all your close friends and relatives or colleagues that you would really spend a lot of time with in variously intimate contact.

On the other hand, as you say they travel a lot more than locals in any given time period.

Time will tell if this makes sense.
The ancient Sumerian number system was base 6. Our units of time are still based on that.

60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24 hours.
Because Go lacks powerful tools like sum types and generics. In a language like Rust or Haskell, you're always asking yourself if you can better express the problem in the type system, or which constructs you can use that, say, make runtime errors impossible.

In Go, your tools are limited to copy-and-paste and `interface{}` type-casting. There are no better options to consider, so you try to untrain your brain from its reflex of "hmm this is error prone, I should find a better way."

A good example of this is when you're parsing a binary file into a sequence of record structs. In a language like Typescript or Rust, you just make one ergonomic `Record = Record1(int, int) | Record2(string) | ...` and `fn parse([]byte) -> []Record`.

In Go, the best you have is `fn parse([]byte) -> []interface{}` with type-casting.
This comment is only addressing the airing of political / social opinions at work, not the rest of the email which seems ill judged at best. Sounds like the issue with this topic is that employees are requesting that the company not sell to certain companies / organizations. When an established company loses $91 million in a year it starts to worry about survival. I can understand the CEO being terrified of the employees losing focus on productivity and earnings and turning their focus on things that cost money rather than produce it.

On top of that the internal discussion of how a manager working late sets a bad example means a good portion of the employees have lost the plot and see the company as a hang out where certain things are expected. I appreciate work life balance as much as the next person but castigating someone for working harder and trying to succeed is a dangerous precedent for the employees of a struggling company to take.

Another issue with allowing controversial subjects to become common discussion points in work is that people disagree and this can lead to problems working together. If Bob is a massive supporter of BLM and goes around expecting everyone to agree with him and Sam responds All lives matter, there are going to be issues. Same with someone being an ardent Trump supporter going around speaking about him to everyone and being shocked when someone expresses disdain. Its not conducive to an acrimonious work environment. The company eventually goes under and Portland has lost its largest tech company.

Just a side note, issue with New Relic is just the software is not great, I genuinely don't like using it, its not a good experience. I do wish them and all other companies the best.
This. As a driver and a long-term resident in Tokyo, I try to stay to the left as a pedestrian, but I estimate the odds of the other party doing the same are 50/50.
Ah sorry — was a permissions issue on the Google model. Should work now!
And the residents of DC who despite being citizens are denied representation
Not sure about other vendors, but I know Cisco offers dial-in capabilities for managing routers, switches, etc. The dial-in modem on the router is connected to a landline.

Has this approach ever been taken by server admins?
> “History has not been kind to technology companies who do not continue to grow. Technology companies either grow or they die. There is no middle option.”

This is hopefully beyond obvious, but if upper management ever says something like this, it is time to at minimum start working on making other opportunities available to you.

Whether you do this by interviewing, networking, blogging, public speaking, or whatever your preference is doesn't matter much. As long as you do something.

In my personal experience, whenever anything like this happened, there would be layoffs within a year. Also whenever management would make an official statement addressing "rumors", saying that "everything is fine, zero risk of layoffs", layoffs happened within a year.
I disagree with your characterization, but I guess the real question is whether the beliefs of some members should negate the other positive values of the community. The value I found there was that there was genuine conversation between anarchist law professors and self-proclaimed social justice warriors, anti-abortion Catholics and trans activists, Trump supporters and Trump haters, global warming deniers and global warming scientists. I disagreed with the vast majority of what people said (on all sides of all issues!) but derived tremendous value from hearing what people believed in their own words. There are few places on the web where people who have serious disagreements about culture war topics can have can have productive discussion, and SSC was one of them -- thus I mourn its loss, and actively seek a replacement.
There's a Wikipedia article on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_publishable_unit
That's very interesting to me. Do you think the statistics would show that? That whitish, for example, Eastern European recruits, would have had better luck than more brown folks?
During the night and very early morning, probably very little.
Yeah, 1.1 should really go into production at some point, it's been in beta for years.

It's really a good point you have about a hacker adding themselves to the network. I never thought of that. That could happen with every client so the attack surface is pretty big. It would be great if this feature could be reserved to only certain trusted devices (like the ones I have designated 'servers').

So maybe there is a good point to at least monitor the network activity with this 1.1 feature. Hmm... Thanks for getting me thinking about this!
In related news[1], 13400 immigration workers will be furloughed.

He’s good at causing chaos. :(

[1]https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/02/poli...
Lol.

Network operators will always find away to make you miserable.
That's where I was naturalized! I had mixed feelings about being required to go to a ceremony even though all my paperwork was done, but in the end it was really special.

On the way home I went to the Betabrand factory (which was on Cesar Chavez), told them that I had just gotten naturalized and that I wanted to buy some of their Stars and Stripes pants. They thought it was so cute that they created a special discount code for people who have just become citizens.

Another fun thing was walking through the mission, which has a lot of immigrants, people would see the envelope I was holding and yell "congratulations" or even high-five me.

That night my friends took me to a baseball game. It was overall a lovely induction.
The worst case outcome in a pandemic is mass panic.

A lot of people don't understand that death is a threat until they start to experience a lot of it in their cohort. If that happens after exponential growth, you get a sudden phase change where a large percentage of the working population switches from "This won't touch me and I don't care" to "OMG this is going to kill me."

At that point people stay at home regardless, and the economy is badly damaged anyway. The difference is it's damaged in an uncontrolled way, with panic buying and supply chain interruptions - neither of which you want.

The awful truth is that it's actually better to allow some businesses to die in lockdown as a fire break than to allow a pandemic to get completely out of control - because the latter results in a much higher death toll and more severe economic damage, as well as a permanent loss of trust in effective government.
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What about solar powered golf carts with blowers?
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I think the article is missing a big point. Most discussions on social media are about values and sacred beliefs. Someone might quote an article or state some statistics, but that’s not at all part of their intent.

Their intent is to talk about their deeply held norms. What social policy is Correct and what policy is Wrong. Not because of facts but because of tribes.

These are not things you can “admit you’re wrong” about. It takes years of ego breaking life experience to realize core beliefs or values might be wrong. It simply will not happen in the span of posting in social media.

So I don’t think the trouble with admitting you are wrong is as simple as they put it. It’s not about the “no respite” aspect or social proof or digging in.

It’s just taking “us v them” tribal beliefs evolved to survive in agrarian or nomadic society millennia ago, and putting it in a megaphone.

Many of the toxic debates are not even about anything where right and wrong makes any sense. The outrage cancel people calling for blood are just as “wrong” as the person they are persecuting. It’s just one stream of subjective babble yelling at another stream of subjective babble that they’re wrong.
> The prevalence of metal deposits does not respond to the market. Increasing prices of lithium will make more people search for lithium deposits, but there's a finite number of said deposits.

There are battery technologies based off of metals other than lithium. For example, the key downside of sodium batteries seems to be weight/volume, which is less of an issue for grid storage. And there's a lot of easily accessible sodium.

It also seems reasonable to expect at least one significant breakthrough in battery technology over the next 10-30 years, given how important a problem it is, and how many promising approaches there are already.

Finally, there is a lot we can do to reduce storage requirements by strategically spreading load. If we get enough generation capacity and are storage constrained, then electricity could become significantly during generation hours, which would cause people to do things like run their washing machines during the day.

> And while battery production increases, so too does electricity demand.

This is probably true on a worldwide basis. But here in the UK, electrical demand has actually been falling due to more efficient appliances.
Ask "where's an example", and they point you at something a customer did. Ask why the example is unimpressive, and they blame that customer.

In chatbot systems, the machinery doesn't do very much. It's anticipating almost all possible user responses that makes the thing work, if it does. All the engine really does is take the user's question and match it to some big FAQ file someone put in. Plus there's some kind of phone-tree like path to guide users through whatever the chatbot wants them to go. (Not where the user wants to go.)

In game development, this is called The Dev Team Thinks of Everything.[1]

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DevelopersForesi...
> If you program C++ then STL comes from SGI.

Didn't STL came from HP?
Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
You know, the weird stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well, 5G is something else entirely.

My experience was from nearly 6 years ago; on BT's books I was a 16Mbps customer but I was very much not getting that.

I am merely questioning the link between 'on the books 96% of people in britain can get x speed' with my own experience of _not_ getting advertised, quoted, and paid for speeds.

(also my apartment in Bromley-by-Bow didn't get 4G (or even more than 1 bar of 3G) anywhere inside, my prior apartments were lived in before there was any 4G in London)