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Like most psychedelics, LSD gives you back what you put into it. It, especially, though, is not an on/off switch like most of reddit's crowd would have you believe.

I have had generalized anxiety, and some other acute anxiety issues for about 30 years now. I experimented with LSD among many other psychedelics through my 20's and 30's.

For LSD, to avoid a bad trip, you need a good road map. I would advise some counseling to identify your personal problems with an impartial third party, beforehand. Naming your issues will help you to identify if you are spiraling into them. Second, take it in a comfortable setting, surrounded by things that are important to you. Music helps immensely, but focus on something without too much of a political/social/religious message, just in case. Having a trip sitter who has experience with psychedelics cannot be stressed enough. Having someone clear headed to keep you focused on your good feelings is really helpful.

Also, if you are concerned about an anxiety response before taking it, you will experience anxiety. Your mind is a wonderful tool, in that, it is almost constantly making your experience self-fulfilling prophecies.

The only other note I would add is, if you do experience anxiety, or a bad trip, take notes. Generally, the things you experience are based on your life's "pinch points" and are the things that are bothering you deep down.

For me, I experienced severe anxiety spirals regarding whether or not my friends were really my friends, and whether or not I was a good spouse and parent. When I finally started writing down my spirals, and evaluating them for themes later, I realized that I was trying to tell myself to be less distracted, less selfish, more giving, more caring, and more present for the people around me. Oh, and to do the damned dishes every now and again.
Yes that factory is located in Dallas: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2020/04/03/if-you-i...
This page breaks the back button.
> I mean, this was the story from the guy in America who was selling the masks.

Here's the link:

> This is a cycle familiar to Bowen. During what he calls "peacetime," when there are no outbreaks, there are few buyers of masks. During an epidemic, there's suddenly limitless demand.

> "Imagine if, all at once, millions of people wanted to skateboard," Bowen says.
"The skateboarding industry is not set up for spikes like that, and neither is the mask-making industry."

> Prestige Ameritech, for example, owns a limited number of machines that assemble, sew and shape the masks. A decade ago, it ramped up production in response to the swine flu outbreak by buying more machines and hiring 150 new workers.

> "We made a really big mistake," Bowen says of that decision. It took about four months to build the new machines, which are as long as a school bus and cost as much as $1 million.

> By the time they were ready, the swine flu crisis had ended, demand vaporized, and Prestige Ameritech almost went bankrupt. "One day — and it is literally almost like one day — it just quits. The demand is over, the phones stop ringing," Bowen says.

> To make matters worse, the hospitals and medical supply companies suddenly had a glut of masks; they stopped buying for months.
They stop appearing if you specifically mark them as not interested
Andrew Ng in the field of machine learning
- builds on top of and within the current scientific culture
- credits others
- humble despite huge contributions
Meh, I thought Google was always on the cutting edge of ML. They just tried to pimp up a two year old dysfunctional show pony and sell it as a new racehorse. I would like to see a trained GPT3 that's is currently up for rent from the AI shop delivering actual innovation.
Quotas are hard to enforce meaningfully. They work well when people are already disposed to be helpful - but even then they still have issues.

Our local grocery chain had a quota on milk (for good reason) and the amount of fights and nearly brawls over it were amazing, despite being a need for some families and not others (it's inconvenient to me to not have cereal, it's a big deal for someone with young kids to not have milk) and generally reasonable limits (up to 2 gallons, more than enough for cereal/coffee/baking).

People go to crazy limits to evade the quotas (visiting multiple stores, making multiple purchases in the same trip, etc) and often times they do simply because the quota exists - how many people actually buy more than 2 gallons of milk normally?

TLDR, people are dumb fearful animals and that can cause quotas to backfire in a way that price controls don't (but they have other downsides).
My theory is that companies like Apple and Google - and, actually, smaller businesses even more so, because they can't afford a QA team - have intentionally offloaded much of the QA phase to the public.

In a way, it's a result of the "agile" approach, to "release early, ship often". And the larger the userbase, the more effective they are at finding and reporting bugs and edge cases. It also cuts down on the cost by reducing the time/effort spent on testing new features thoroughly.

What grinds my gears is when a company doesn't have a centralized bug database where the users can contribute and see the progress being made. If I recall correctly, Apple's support forums are like a blackhole of issue reports. Most of the time it's a bunch of users with the same problem, trying to solve it on their own; no input from an employee/developer; no way to know if they're aware or working on the bug; and no clear path to a solution.
The last 5 years have really made question the benefits of free speech in our hyperconnected world. My knee jerk reaction to defend free speech has certainly been dampened by the efficacy of disinformation campaigns in the West.
Generally yes, since as they gained some experience and designed other data centers better. They also generally stay replying changes with us-east-1.

Although IAM service is global one and it is located in us-east-1, so you wouldn't be able to avoid this particular issue.
The fires are a direct result of human-caused climate change. I’ve lived in Washington all my life and 2015 was the first year we got smoked out during the summer. Since then it’s persisted year after year.

We’ve completely screwed up our planet.
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I can’t believe it’s been a decade! I bought one on launch day - $250 and barely a 3 hour battery life. I later bought a New 3DS XL (or whatever the crazy naming scheme was) and it was wild how much better the newer hardware was than launch day.
>When fires start in suburbs they rarely grow out of control, it’s when their far from human habitation

Do you know what 'Wildland Urban Interface' means?

Do you know where most of the houses burn?

Do you understand why this is the case?
> Detecting claims that are themselves implausible seems like the hardest task possible, however. That's very close to general AI.

Yes, of course. I was simply trying to say that an AI can be quite successful in detecting the usual no-nos, eg. multiple comparisons without correcting for it, p-hacking, or ... who knows what "feature" the classifier would find. Maybe there's simply none, so it'll be really up to subject matter experts to review them. (But it's unlikely, because there are quite successful blogs devoted to simply picking apart shoddy papers simply based on looking at the controls, and other parts of experiment design and the methods sections, and of course the aforementioned stats.)
.lgbt already exists (afilias)
I sort of wonder if there's going to be a barrage of exploits held until end-of-life that's going to be released now.

EDIT: I'm already aware that the system has been exploited to death and back, so I'm mostly curious if people haven't already dumped everything.
> Another question is which language loads modules the fastest (afaik Ruby is kind of slow when it comes to `require`).

I think both Python and Ruby loosely follow a similar model. The difference is that IIRC Python caches bytecode files, while Ruby compiles them from scratch every time. Not sure how big of a performance impact that has, especially for simple cases like this.

And just to toot my own horn, using Inko (https://inko-lang.org/), I get:

inko /tmp/test.inko # 0.470 total

Note that this invokes the horribly slow Ruby compiler currently in use. If you invoke the VM directly on the compiled bytecode, it only takes about 10 milliseconds to run. Using the `master` branch:

vm/target/release/ivm /home/yorickpeterse/.cache/inko/bytecode/release/43/38021ddc9a3449ace13288a2fac894d1d3e2aaa.ibi # 0.008.8 total

In this case all modules (including the standard library) are included in the bytecode file, meaning no disk IO is necessary, and modules can be parsed in parallel.

This is something dynamic languages like Ruby and Python can't do, as loading modules is something that can be done anywhere at any time, so you have to process them one by one.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24451445
With OpenSCAD, you don't have fillets as part of the language, but you can do chamfers or machinable parts easily using the minkowski sum operation, which basically places an object of your choice on every point along the surface of another object. I've used this to do insets and outsets, radiused corners, and all sorts of other funky stuff.

However, if you want that sort of operations you would probably be better off with cadquery, which is basically the engine behind FreeCAD, with a really powerful Python interface. It has native support for face operations like fillets.
Why freecad over openscad? (Im Still new to the scene)
The small New 3DS is the last portable console I can actually fit in my pocket, and for that I still take it out with me instead of the Switch on some days. So much easier to whip out of my pocket.
Absolutely. Imho, there are a couple of different directions we can take in exploring reality via contemplation. The direction of (for lack of a better term) purification/egolessness is emphasized by Buddhist schools. An orthogonal direction might be the age-old practice of shamanism, in which engagement with wild realms of the spiritual Outback is sought, for the purposes of healing and exploration.

Sorry to keep shilling for Shinzen Young, but he is one of the few authors who has legitimacy in traditional Buddhist lineages, but seems interested in exploring and systematizing alternate traditions.

You might find his thoughts on shamanism interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33u14OjeHpE
Absent a countervailing force, capital tends to accumulate. These results should be no surprise. So, what now?
I certainly support the broad philosophy of the article, but for myself, I personally diverge a bit:

I worry most about control: visiting a web site and having political and other ads being based on my browsing history and the treasure trove of my data that gets collected from credit card purchases, web activity, etc. Read Zuboff's surveillance capitalism book.

My Apple Watch and iPhone are mostly stock - I don't generally install 3rd party apps. I feel that the use of these devices is consistent with my dedication to fight back against surveillance capitalism.

I have blogged about this a lot: it is easy to take basic steps like: install the freedom.to app on all your devices and block social media and other time wasting sites for most of the day; use private browsing tabs, and frequently delete all cookies from all browsers you use on all devices; etc.
> Among the concerns expressed by many of us was that if heritable genome editing were allowed to proceed without careful deliberation, the enormous potential of non-heritable genome editing for prevention and treatment of disease could become overshadowed by justifiable public outrage, fear, and disgust.

This style of writing where you pretend to share the concerns of the public, while primarily looking for ways to evade that concern, really irks me. Over which type of editing would the public be outraged, in their scenario -- heritable or non-heritable? If the justifiable outrage is over heritable editing, then why assume that would obstruct work on non-heritable editing? Do they not think that people outside their circle are able to understand the difference? Or is there a risk of one leading to the other? If the justifiable outrage is over non-heritable editing, then how can it have enormous potential? Is it right to describe procedures which you agree are disgusting and outrageous as having potential? Potential to do what? Treat people against their will? This whole paragraph comes off as insincere and tone deaf.
Show HN: Gumrank.com – Discover your next favorite Gumroad course by upvotes
IMO Gumroad search and course discovery could be better and you can't really judge the practical usefulness of a course from its description/number of stars.

So I created a "hackernews" type directory of Gumroad courses that are ranked by user votes and searchable by category e.g. "Google", "Amazon Web Services", "Twitter", "Etsy" etc called Gumrank.

It also can also be used by creators to discover niches with sparse content so they can create courses to fill those voids.

I created it with a no-code tool in a few hours today after I got the idea. The learning experience was cool and it also enabled me to snag a domain name "gumrank.com" I didn't know was still available.

While the domain name is still propagating, you can access the website at https://gumrank.pory.app

P.S: I hope some creator out there finds it useful.
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Cool! So far I haven’t jumped on the smartwatch train though. Perhaps in the future :)
a key feature missing from netflix and amazon prime (and presumably the others, I haven't tried them) is the ability to force a certain quality for the stream. AFAIK, they don't even indicate in the UI whether your stream is 480p, 1080p, or 2160p. youtube has had this feature for at least a decade and even most porn sites seem to have it now.

if this is somehow "too complicated" for the average user, just make the default an "auto" setting that does whatever it does now and bury it in a menu somewhere.
I didn't say it was "bad", I just classified it at the bottom of parent's list in terms of selflessness. I'm arguing that when you get the money back in tax it's less selfless than the other donation scenarios mentioned.

There's definitely an argument to be made about whether or not it's better for an individual to choose how to spend their tax dollars rather than a countries people to decide. It's definitely less democratic (I can't see how you can debate this), but I'm not sure the good of it is clear cut... That being said, as the class gap increases, individuals choosing how to spend a large portion of their taxes contributes to a concentration of power in the upper caste.
If people actually wanted this then they would be able to sell the exact same device without those restrictions, or have a configuration switch to disable them during a factory reset, and people who want it could still have the one with them. But they don't.
There are still a lot of web developers who choose a Mac even if they don't need one. Nice hardware running unix with a decent UI is worth a premium price to lots of people.

I think you underestimate how many developers are willing to pay for their tools proprietary or not. We know better than most how difficult it is to make software and so I think as a group are more willing to support each other financially.
What I’m becoming more painfully aware of with each passing year is that “free speech” is actually (sadly) a very unpopular ideal. We haven’t really had it in a long time, and we have less of it with each passing year - cheered on by a not insignificant majority.
Homemade alcohol from fruit variously called rakia, slivovitz, grappa or palinka in Europe typically has some acetone when the makers get too greedy.

This article actually makes me worry less when drinking it. The really dangerous alcohol that may be present is methanol, which usually is distilled first and must be thrown away (some people burn it in laps and such thought)
A hole in the side of a mountain is pretty different from a hole in the middle of Oklahoma.
Is it? It's super convincing if it is. No weird artifacts or phrases.
I feel really out of touch and alienated when it comes to this whole gay thing. I used to think I was progressive because I never have and never will care what people do to their own bodies, including whatever kind of sex they want to have, as long as nobody is being harmed involuntarily.

But now it seems that's not what is expected. Instead, you are expected to know and care about what sex people like to have. I just don't get it. Keep it to yourself. Why is it not OK to just not care about other people's private lives any more?
Wow, this is awesome to see. I hope this doesn’t put a lot of load on the IA, though..
Even Fortify and other tools which have to compile beforehand don't do so well IMO. Someone is going to come up with an actually good SAST and print money...
Github and other OpenSource hosting sites should pretty much invalidate any possible software patent claim via prior art, right ?
Anecdote warning.

Not to mention the quality of the mouse itself. I bought 2 and they both only lasted 10 months and a year. I know a streamer that replaces them every 6 months.

I switched to another brand. Looks like they spend more resources on adware and not on quality hardware.
>You’re conceding that if PG&E were a competent and responsible company they could significantly reduce the rate of fires.

No. He's saying that even if "PG&E were a competent and responsible company", the fire would still start, but through some other mechanism because it is a powder keg waiting to be set off by something. California wildfires are due to bad forest management policy spanning decades.
I hope someone will make a similarly fun open source reincarnation of Rocket League one day...
And going back on previous agreements. No wonder no one trusts or wants to work with them.
There was an oversupply of ventilators after the initial panic and hysteria in the media with the likes of NY and other states not using what was available to them. The ventilator order was placed in April, which was the peak of the hysteria.

You're suggesting the government should spend $650 Million in tax payer money for something that is unnecessary and comparing it to the mask shortage? You're comparing apples and oranges trying to push your orange man bad narrative unncecessarily. 3M and a few other companies produce N95 masks stateside.

>>On Jan. 30, the last day for which data is available, China managed to import 20 million respirators and surgical masks in just 24 hours. Through February, civic-minded entrepreneurs and aid groups visited pharmacies in affluent countries and emerging markets alike, buying masks in bulk to send to China.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/business/masks-china-coro...
US government does strategic planning when they make large purchases. There are also a bunch of weird laws at play, so at times you might on one hand say that "the law requires" and on the other hand consider it voluntarily paying more, because it's the US government passing laws to restrict how its own purchases are made.

You also might pay $5 for a hot dog at a stadium when you can buy them for $1 outside, so there's that.
I feel like buying it to support them because Mac native app companies are few and far between. And Transmit was good when I needed to use it (haven't forever). And Coda was my main editor for a long time.

But I'll still use VS Code cause I work on a Mac and on Linux and it's nice for it to just be the same. And I have no complaints to solve with VS Code. It does exactly what I need for Python and other stuff.
>Sad how when the going gets tough many cryptocurrency enthusiasts crawl back to statist inventions and conventions

I remember when the crypto market recently tanked and the fine folks on r/cryptocurrency were demanding the SEC shut down Bitmex and arrest its CEO.

Seems that at any given time, rugged crypto individualists are 10 percentage point losses from begging Big Daddy Government to step in.
If your general covid argument is to listen to the science, I think you're not following your own advice with this comment.

If your general covid argument is to listen to the science when the science is in favor of your personal goals and desires, I think that's not called science.

We should be open to questioning apriori assumptions and our subsequent practices. Especially when the apriori had very little ground to stand on considering we're 9-12 months removed from the discovery of this virus and 6 months removed from the implementation of mitigation procedures. There is truly very little evidence and so new approaches or viewpoints should not be dismissed outright like this. You risk being labeled as recalcitrant and bellicose...
Those are still loans that must be paid back, they just don’t accrue interest as quickly as they would if interest rates were higher. TANSTAAFL
Basically it had to do with recurring events in an Outlook calendar. The protocol which was used to connect that calendar to the iOS calendar app would specify the end date of the recurrence as NULL and every night the calendar app would do some kind of processing of future events (I am fuzzy on the details here), and that NULL value would cause a crash that resulted all the way in a kernel panic. Wiping the device clean and trying to isolate which app was the problem was useless since I’d connect all my calendars from a backup automatically and then the resets would start again. It followed from one device to another because I shared my calendar with my wife and so her iPhone and iPad eventually caught this affliction too (which made it seem like my phone infected hers). And it was impossible for me to reproduce since it only happened during whatever the calendar app was doing and when it hit whatever recurring event was causing the trouble. In the end, after countless searches, posts on various social media sites seeing if anyone else had this problem, and bug reports to Apple I came across a Stack Overflow post that described kernel panics caused by the calendar app and said something about Outlook calendars specifically. So I went and disabled that calendar on one of the devices and the issue didn’t return. So eventually I got ahold of higher tier support at Apple and they had me talk to an engineer who took down careful notes. In a few months a point iOS release came out and made a vague reference to fixing calendar app bugs. The issue never recurred after and I never heard anything from Apple about it again, though they did promise to follow up. In either case I’m happy. Having your phone that you use as an alarm flashing and buzzing all night as it reboots every 90 seconds isn’t good for getting sleep.
What do bankers have to do with SOC2? Do you mean consultants?
Very interesting that the author doesn't address outcome-based pricing. The rule of thumb I use is 10% of total value - if it's less than I want to make, I decline. It doesn't make sense for them to pay me, so it doesn't make sense for me to work.

"Urgency" strikes me so much less compelling of a pricing conversation, but I guess it works.
I'm surprised. I thought by now it was common knowledge that the corruptible involving her son and other more distant family members has cost the taxpayers 100+ millions.
Huh. TIL the "bang" feature.

Alfred provides similar functionality on OSX, allowing you to create a key sequence shortcut for any search engine that can parse URL params.
Shedding Light on the Development of Efficient Blue-Emitting Semiconductors
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