skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is for example research showing that psychedelics have a lasting effect on the Big 5 personality trait "openness to experience": https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-els...

Which is quite remarkable given the stability these personality traits usually have.

Overall while it seems to be clear that people who take psychedelics don't become saints spreading love for the rest of their lives, there's some solid evidence accumulated by psychologists that psychedelics have some real effect.
Nice to see they love grabbing face data! Where's it go?
What type of professional would I need to talk to, to learn more about this? I've been looking at Stripe Atlas and Firstbase.io for options, but I want to talk to someone that can tell me what the best option for incorporating is.
I think there could be a few nuances:

- Since the internet does not forget, someone who is fired due to mob justice is likely to have it affect their ability to hold a job in the future in a way that isn't necessarily true for most firings or layoffs.

- Both losing ones job due to mob justice and due to other factors such as economics can ruin someone's life.
That's a cool idea, I'd definitely like to add the ability to create a little store with more safety, and that totally works with the goal of simplicity. I'll give it a shot.
Korea did this successfully but you have to give up a lot more privacy. This protect my privacy, and expecting it to work great is some fallacy.
What exactly do they learn from it?
One interesting thing I’m seeing is that both our (relative) extremes are culturally different how they try to silence and discredit opposing views, but both think the other’s approach and ideologies are more dangerous and Godwin’s Law is running amok in the real world. My analogy is the meltdown and chaos of many different online communities following similar paths of lack of social cohesion turning into decentralization and radicalization. It’s like watching cellular division happening as a super bacteria or bioweapon mutates.

I grew up in the US but have spent a lot of time watching how other countries have fallen and listened to both survivors that stayed and those that left. I also listened carefully to my elders’ stories both rich and poor about their lives in wars and how totalitarian and fascist regimes work.

Being called both a fascist and commie now by random people depending upon their alignment worries me because we are losing the ability to have nuanced conversations that might actually fix our problems without a full blown war.

It really is a sad sight to see as second generation immigrants when our parents worked so hard to leave oppression or for economic opportunities see these very things repeat.

And yes, I’m going to say that America’s “free speech” experiment has escaped the lab and is a Godzilla monster out of control. I don’t even care who’s at fault frankly as much as I want people to sit down and stop having bad faith arguments against each other as a rule.
Tesla sues Rivian for stealing secrets as electric car fight heats up
I think if frontend didn't mean JavaScript and npm packages, that animosity wouldn't really exist.

While there is some use of JavaScript at the backend, IME it's much less that other languages, so backend developers are used to "better" languages with actually useful standard libraries (C#, F#, Elixir, Ruby, Python...).

Of course, JavaScript is evolving, albeit slowly, and recently TypeScript helps somewhat. Web assembly may eventually offer a real alternative, but I think we're still a long way front it becoming mainstream.
"Crack" and cocaine are literally the same drug.
You probably don't want your primary physician to also be your surgeon, anesthesiologist, endocrinologist, and any other specialty you need.

I'm sure there are some primary physicians that could pull it off and wear all the hats. That's fine. The point is there are multiple hats. It doesn't all fit in one hat anymore.
Agreed, Mobian is an awesome OS for the Pinephone. When it supports MMS I would feel comfortable using the Pinephone with Mobian as a daily phone.
Airline "fuel surcharge" ticket fees come to mind. As high fuel costs plummeted, the fees did not.
> or if that is too risky invest in a government bond.

You can get 1% in a savings account in the US. TBill rates are all less than 0.25%. The latter has tax benefits, but not enough.

One good way to "get a higher return" (for some at least) is to pay down debt. If your mortgage is at 3%, whatever you pay off is "earning" 2ish% after tax. If your margin loan is at 1.5%, anything you pay off earns 1.5% (because the interest isn't deductible.)
This video argues that the object was probably just a bird, and the apparent speed was a result of parallax. Seems more plausible than the alternatives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs
I have the same issue with frontend dev, or other "unopinionated" frameworks.

I just want to get started with something quickly, not spend hours or days (when I'm doing something on my free time, not at work) reading about different libraries or plugins that I have to choose from, to accomplish something seemingly trivial.
If anything should unite Americans now is utter and universal contempt for the institutions that failed us in navigating this crisis. The government, the media, the opposition, even parts of the medical community. The health of both the people and the economy was treated not as the prime concern but as an opportunity to pursue other agendas. A terrible reckoning is due, but we are too blinded by hatred towards each other to demand it. What a sad, sad epilogue to the American story.
Another interview with the same guy, Eric Davis:

"These things don't look like anything that we can manufacture on earth so we don't have the manufacturing or industrial technology for it"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2gjPRv4E7s
Depends how you define "learn", but there's lots of (actually quite exciting) research into psychadelics to treat mental illness.
No, that's a complete myth, probably propagated by the Titanic movie. Third-class women (& children of course) were MORE likely to survive than a male in First-class.
Promoting conspiracy theories like this during a pandemic is extremely irresponsible, and making a target out of a single person even more so. Putting a target on people like this can have real consequences.
Well all the nutjobs like the OP pretending it is not doesn't help the system as well.
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Good sci-fi speaks to the times, and Domain has done that twice in four years
Yeah this is excellent. I wish he would produce more of this content, rather than his diet-right "mAh FrEeSpeCh" normie political commentary. I've actually heard he was an excellent evo-bio professor by former students. What a waste, but I guess it's cool he gets to hang out with Rogan now, so good for him I suppose.
It’s optional and opt-in now. Do you trust it to stay that way once the framework is in 99% of people’s pocket? I sure don’t.
Rosa Parks sitting in was not act of activism. Pretty much everything before and after in her life was.

I Rosa Parks was radical whole her life. She was not proponent of super peaceful activism, she at the moment thought fighting would he strategically bad idea.

Had she been meek lady, there would be no protests.

She did lived at violent place at the time, did dealt with lynchings, beatings and legal protests up to that point. She did not had philosophy of peaceful activism above all.

While she was not violent, she was not proponent of peaceful above all protesting. That was Kings philosophy and even he was up to breaking law.
John Oliver did a good bit on them on Last Week Tonight, including dozens of supposedly local news stations repeating the exact same Sinclair script verbatim. Highly recommend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc
I always delimit URLs with spaces. For example, I might punctuate your comment this way:

> Among the ways in which the early web may have been an improvement upon its successors: https://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/5.1_Wrappers.html .

It's surprising to me that nobody else does this.
Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force
I agree. Even releasing the original videos showing the UFOs being tracked was likely sending a signal to an adversary. The fact that the objects were being tracked by commodity Navy fighter jets and not something more advanced might send the message “Look, our basic radar can easily track this thing, not to mention our more exotic classified equipment. If we can track it we can shoot it down.” I think this is an attempt to de-escalate a space-based weaponry race that may be getting out of hand.
Maybe, but privacy is worth protecting, more than ever.
Spanish Historian Francisco López de Gómara:

"a few days after Cortes left to confront Narváez, it became time for a festival the Mexicas wanted to celebrate in their traditional way. . . . They begged Pedro de Alvarado to give them his permission, so [the Spaniards] wouldn't think that they planned to kill them. Alvarado consented provided that there were no sacrifices, no people killed, and no one had weapons.
More than 600 gentlemen and several lords gathered in the yard of the largest temple; some said there were more than a thousand there. They made a lot of noise with their drums, shells, bugles, and hendidos, which sounded like a loud whistle. Preparing their festival, they were naked, but covered with precious stones, pearls, necklaces, belts, bracelets, many jewels of gold, silver, and mother-of-pearl, wearing very rich feathers on their heads. They performed a dance called the mazeualiztli, which is called that because it is a holiday from work [symbolized by the word for farmer, macehaulli]. . . . They laid mats in the patio of the temple and played drums on them. They danced in circles, holding hands, to the music of the singers, to which they responded.
The songs were sacred, and not profane, and were sung to praise the god honored in the festival, to induce him to provide water and grain, health, and victory, or to thank him for healthy children and other things. And those who knew the language and these ceremonial rites said that when the people danced in the temples, they perform very different from those who danced the netoteliztli, in voice, movement of the body, head, arms, and feet, by which they manifested their concepts of good and evil. The Spaniards called this dance, an areito, a word they brought from the islands of Cuba and Santo Domingo.
While the Mexica gentlemen were dancing in the temple yard of Vitcilopuchtli [Huitzilopochtli], Pedro de Alvarado went there. Whether on [the basis of] his own opinion or in an agreement decided by everyone, I don't know, but some say he had been warned that the Indian nobles of the city had assembled to plot the mutiny and the rebellion, which they later carried out; others, believe that [the Spaniards] went to watch them perform this famous and praised dance, and seeing how rich they were and wanting the gold the Indians were wearing, he [Alvarado] covered each of the entrances with ten or twelve Spaniards and went inside with more than fifty [Spaniards], and without remorse and lacking any Christian piety, they brutally stabbed and killed the Indians, and took what they were wearing."
Cosmos DB capacity pitfall: When more is less
FAA orders inspections of 737s after four non-fatal engine shutdowns
Repeat after me:

Tests are existentially quantified, types are universally quantified.

(Yeah, existential types, I know. Shut up. ;) )
Why the ‘Super Weird’ Moons of Mars Fascinate Scientists
Up-to 4% of their global revenue or €20,000,000 whichever is higher. Those are the maximum fines they can levy (per incident), but in reality it's very unlikely to be that high.

And yes, you are correct, organisations have 72 hours to disclose the breach.

The various data protection offices (such as the ICO in the UK) usually try to work with organisations first. If Blackbaud aren't playing ball though, they may be in for a rough ride (assuming that they actually operate where the EU has jurisdiction that is).
> If you're not being paid for your time then the value is $0.

Is it that simple?

When deciding whether to do something myself versus paying somebody else, I factor in the time taken multiplied by the pleasure or displeasure of doing the task myself, probably sometimes multiplied by the probability of the outcome being above or below ideal.

I’d therefore argue that my unpaid time does actually have a dollar value: it’s the amount I’d be willing to pay to not perform a task myself in that time. It’s complicated by the other factors, but a relationship still exists.
Thanks for the link. The grid generation is so much more complicated than I assumed.
Over lives?
I live in Tokyo now and I can confirm a solid number of these are! Though also the thread notes several that have been demolished too.
https://archive.md/suoy4
There's a golden balance between front-end and back-end.

This article seems a bit like a he said she said, venting some kind of dispute with management on the internet.
Did they talk at all about how they felt that should be balanced against the need for society to work together towards common goals?

I'm worried about some of the excesses of "cancel culture" but I'm more worried about the current Republican approach of basically saying that society has no obligation to its members. What worries me the most, is that I'm not sure I see a good way to balance the two extremes.
Who knows what PG thinks on that issue, his post lacked any specifics, other than slavery is bad.
I find this article interesting because I've heard others worry that the demise of unstructured time for children might be doing other types of damage.
I don't know what's more unbelievable, Russia building vehicles in space or extraterrestrials.
It would still be a good takedown of the questionable parts of the NYT article, but no, I don't think it's "100% certainty" about the actual event, despite his YouTube title. It just has the benefit of having a strong prior than the UFO theory
Let’s discuss this rationally and stick to the facts.

You have the US government being forced to be more open about its research on unidentified objects. The most credible reason those events exist is that Russia or China have stealth capabilities beyond what the US knows.

Having these reports out in the public also helps us understand the great mystery of this article: what is making Harry Reid, a senior Senator of great import, so convinced that his own government has access to alien artifacts?
Duolingo surpasses one million paying users
Does that work reliably in the UK? Germany has similar a similar mandatory service, but the few people I know that switched banks using that service all ran into major trouble, like rent payments, insurance premiums etc not going through and the two banks pointing at each other "we don't know, it's those guys".

In the end, I believe the best course of actions would to simply make account numbers transferable. There's no good reason why I shouldn't be able to switch my bank and keep my account number etc just like I do with my mobile phone number and provider. Of course, Bank Codes being used makes this more difficult (thank you, regulation).
Yes I do - because everybody is watching.

This feels like a "slippery slope" argument. If so then I would argue the situation demands us to take a small step further towards the start of the slope.
> Reminder this is the same company who have partnered with proprietary service companies to put on first-party functionality on their browsers (hi Pocket)

They didn't partner with Pocket, they own Pocket.
This suggests an interesting question to put on an exam in whatever class teaches about Bloom filters.

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Q: It is proposed to make the local DNS resolver handle IPv4 by using 64 Bloom filters, BO1, BZ1, BO2, BZ2, ... BO64, BZ64.

Filter BOn answers the question "is bit n of the IP address a 1?", and BZn answers the question "is bit n of the IP address a 0?".

Your resolver checks all these Bloom filters. If BOn return "no", then it knows bit n of the address is 0. If BZn returns "no", then it is knows bit n of the address is a 1. Only if BOn and BZn both return "maybe" for some n must the resolver actually do a DNS query over the internet.

Explain why this proposed resolver would not be useful.
> Indian dialect of English is not considered a "standard."

Says who?

If more than 200 million people follow it then it becomes a standard whether you like it or not.
Shopify is way way worse than Amazon. If you think Amazon is evil, Shopify is 10 steps ahead.

It's not just my experience. Talking to startups and warehouses in Canada, the stories are all about how Shopify invites for friendly talks and then stonewalls you once they have got the required information
It doesn't matter, the technology doesn't provide any means for central tracking.
I have had two swaps happen to me with Walmart and Amazon. Now I’ve started opening anything more than $50 or so in front of our Ring doorbell. My thinking is what you said, don’t want to seem like a scammer.
You see giant protests occupying cities for weeks and your first thought is that americans are totally OK with the state of things? All those folks on the street in Hong kong - they must just be out there celebrating their loss of liberties! It's a big party!
There is a famous story of how the album from Plastikman (Richie Hawtin) had a blotter paper album cover that was perforated landed someone in jail because they thought it was LSD. The father of the son arrested contacted the label (novamute I think?) and they shipped another copy to the law enforcement agency to explain.

Sheet One is the title of it, not in a position to share the URL but please take a look. Great album and artist too.
Wow, the police were so helpful!
In what way? Do you mean that those who already believe the conspiracies will see this as even more evidence that "the mainstream media" is trying to sell some sort of false counter-narrative?
The Pandora’s box here is that far too little of these “fees” actually went to in-person instruction vs. bloated admin and other things not directly linked to core educational activities. Unless universities slash those bloated admin and other costs then they’re not really in a position to be giving everyone a “remote learning” discount.
I think most would agree that prioritizing safety over freedom for children and adolescents is sometimes justified, but I find it sad that a curfew for individuals as old as 16 (and an even stricter one for adolescents under 13) can be celebrated the way it is in this article, especially when other countries have had a comparable reduction in adolescent alcohol consumption without implementing such a curfew. It makes me appreciate all the memories I have of staying out late in my own childhood and adolescence (without drinking or doing any drugs).
You have a ridiculously complicated name. Can I just call you 'numbers'?
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“Zuck off”: Doctors, nurses, scientists rail against Zuckerberg
Do you want to write an opinion piece on Shopify? I can get some minds to share
think of the children argument
This is the same argument as justifying the NSA's mass surveillance with terrorism. Because lives are involved, it's propagated like a killer argument. Fact is, you don't know if even worse things aren't going to be enabled with this technology.
In fact some institutions like my alma mater, University of Michigan, are charging additional remote learning fees on top of the usual tuition increase.
Lisp Machine
> The drugs seized had a street value of N million dollars

In the words of Ali G: You're probably getting ripped off if you have to pay that much.

[0]: https://youtu.be/B6Sg8D2Ci0Q?t=15
QAnon is what happens when Pizzagate and Christian apocalyptic dominionism have a baby.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon
You can return things if you don’t like them. A quick search shows the excuses you can give that not only allow you to return them, but get free return shipping too.
worth noting that there are reasonable criticisms of the 5 why's method. complex system failures often do not have a single root cause.
I think that's the sensible way to do it.
It depends on the context, however, start with the mindset:

Done is better than perfect.
To finish first, first, you have to finish.
Motivation follows action – not vice versa.
You work or you pause. You cannot do both. If you do not work, you stare at a blanket NOT Reddit, hn.
Schedule time for Reddit, HN, etc. where you MUST consume this stuff (believe me, after being forced to do it, you will get over this addiction thing very fast!)

With this internalized, I set boundaries, usually time constraints, and define outcomes so that there is something tangible after the final whistle rings.

I set a timer, usually at one minute, and let it repeat. This helps me to get into the groove and stay in the present moment. Soon this will annoy you, so I increase the period gradually from 1 to 3 to 5 and 10 or 15 minutes.

I use Noise Cancelling Headsets, however lately I use deliberate distraction, which seems counterintuitive, but highly advisable: techno music as well as Medical Doctors.

Why? Content should not excite you too much, so that you deliberately listen to it, but are annoying so that you zone out.

This lets me focus. Sports psychologists recommend similar tactics. Very interesting!

Train yourself, repeat it until it is a second habit. Rinse and repeat. Use an arsenal of tricks to get you going.

Good luck!
I've switched banks 4 times over the last few years to take advantage of different deals offering a few hundred pounds or so for join-ups. Never had an issue.
Beware, it's in fact a medium article ... Do someone have a good trick to skip their paywall?
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I think your math is off by a factor of ten: $5/month * 12 months/year * 10 years = $600, not $6,000. I do agree with the general point, though, it seems like education is a really tough market to monetize as people are very price-sensitive.
Better losing privacy over lives than over social media participation. Oh, wait...
Show HN: wasgen, low-level sound effects for WebAudio
Golden, thank you.
No feature ideas, but good job so far. Keep at it!
A Primer on Dealing with the DPA of Luxembourg – The CNPD
A Primer on dealing with the DPA of Luxembourg - the CNPD
A couple of comments...

> TL;DR: Generate JPEG earth imagery from a location's name/coordinates

It downloads imagery. At first I thought this was a project to simulate satellite imagery from OSM data or something.

> This tool is for a sentient being who wants to view high-res satellite imagery of earth

Landsat is what 30 meters-per-pixel? That's not high-resolution.
Related: how has your experience with buymeacoffee been? I used Ko-fi for a long time, but BMC keeps popping up.
I made that mistake too of not using an iPad keyboard once coronavirus began. I can’t remember if I properly used it before then or not. At best I tried it once. A few weeks ago I got around to it again and it didn’t work any more.