skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and here is a slightly more rich starter project that happens to use Sokol + Dear ImGui. It was made to create game tools fast in Zig. https://github.com/prime31/zig-upaya
I'd bet my ass that France does extradite tons of people, maybe just less for certain categories of highly-visible political crimes. They participate in INTERPOL and obviously obey the European Arrest Warrant since 2002. The era of France being a sanctuary for violent leftist activists is long gone.
How many landlords who accept it do you think there are? I would guess somewhere below 1%.
Of course there is. Humanity is likely destroy civilization and/or its environment within the next 100,000 years, assuming a meteor doesn't take us out.
That must be the ultimate "disposable" printer.
DC as well.
I know a lot of HNers believe that AWS just consumes OSS and doesn't contribute back, I just wanted to share what AWS has to say about it- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/setting-the-record-s...

I am in no way defending or attacking anyone,I just want to provide a data point.
Full disclosure, I have severe clinical depression.

Multiple comments here have asked for double blind placebo trials. But you can't really do that with something psycho active, at least not ethically. I can appreciate wanting high standards, but that doesn't mean banning everything that doesn't fit the neat mold we use in other cases.

Also, suicide is the leading cause of death for multiple age/sex demographic groups in most of the western world. Literally number 1 killer. Current anti depressants are about the least effective medicines used in the Western world. So there is a good public health arguement to accept that we're in an emergency and try things without necessarily having 10 years of statistically significant results and followup and debate.
I completely agree. The structure of our society actively deprives people from human connection which is essential to happiness. Individuals do suffer from depression at different rates, but it pops up the same way popcorn pops when you turn the heat on. The direct cause is the atomization of modern life, not some chemical imbalance in the brain.

The reason people treat depression as an individual problem to be addressed by individual means (medication) is that we are totally unwilling to acknowledge the complete emptiness of modern life. And also because modern life teaches us to treat everything as an individual problem. The symptom is itself the mechanism.
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I've used credit unions since my first "BofA experience" in my 20s. School's First FCU, BECU, etc. They have all been great and I highly recommend them. I charge something to a card outside of the state but have recently bought a plane ticket to that area, it's fine. If I don't buy a ticket and my card is charged in some out of state area or 2 charges are made within a few hours across 100 miles in distance, instant lock on my card and a phone call.

This stuff is just wonderful. No monthly fees. Can use a debit anywhere Mastercard is valid, even overseas.

> The problem is most credit unions suck.

This has not been my experience. Chase is miserable, but if you need a business account, credit unions can't help you there.
To me it seems happiness is basically a big AND-expression of fulfilled needs. If someone is lonely they need community, if someone is scared they need safety, if they are malnourished they need food etc.
> so sugar pill placebo might not correctly show the placebo effect

The lack of good placebo options seems to be why they chose not to have a placebo. The paper mentions:

> Although placebo and active treatment controlled designs are widely used in therapeutic trials, they too have limitations owing to the highly discriminable effects of psilocybin.
Incorrect reshelving is a different problem. Your internal record of what's in stock -- from the cash registers you mention -- will be correct, you just won't be able to find the items.

Shoplifting is not a different problem; it's the same problem. Shoplifting means the record derived from register transactions is incorrect, because registered sales are not the only type of transaction you participate in.
Unlike most conspiracy theories, this one can actually get you in a lot of trouble.
> I imagine this drug can uncover the problem and help the person solve it.

Bang on the money there, speaking from experience with exactly this.
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I think there is an important point that people miss too often about how systems can still be coercive even if there is an illusion of choice. E.g. prisoner's dilemma type situations.

But this is also the same sort of logic that leads to conclusions like "taxation is theft": same thing, you either pay your taxes or you get punished, so it's not a real choice.

(As an aside I do have hopes that UBI can be a big reduction in this power imbalance.)
I mean, the ultimate "fake it till you make it" power move would be to go straight to the "Our Incredible Story" acquisition/aquihire claim on your homepage linking straight to a Google Graveyard project, right?

(Then start posting on your LinkedIn about your new "career" hand building replica Inuit whalebone and sealskin canoes using traditional methods...)
These days the browser is by far the biggest RAM and CPU hog that runs on my system. All the other native stuff is an order of magnitude faster. It's the main reason I'll be replacing my laptop with a Zen2 or ideally Zen3 one as soon as I can find an adequate model. For everything else the Pi would be ideal but the modern web is incredibly inefficient and browser video very poorly optimized.
Billions of people are also addicted to virtual social media likes. Our brains are very adaptable to find reward and meaning in anything
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+1. One of the rare books I like to read every few years.
A central thesis in these discussions is that "substitutes" will replace women and disturb demographics... Seems silly. We've had goats etc for millennia, and there's no great lack of demand for women yet.
> relies on the words of "spooky experts telling [them] what to believe".

Widespread distrust of subject matter experts already exists in the US. You can't just tell people to shut up and listen to the experts.

The efficacy of vaccines is one of those things that is almost impossible for the average person to verify. I can get in a plane and confirm for myself that it doesn't fall out of the sky. I can't get a vaccine and directly compare it with my chances of catching the flu without one. That's the reason why people widely trust the safety of planes, but there exists an anti-vax movement in the US.

Even with alternatives to first past the post, the complexity is of a wildly different scale than blockchain. I can sit down with someone and go step by step how ranked-choice works right now without looking up material. I'd have to pull out reference material and then start with the basics of hash functions or something to explain blockchain.
> Ever think a dog is dumb for growling at his reflection in the mirror? Human men can become aroused looking at flat images of nude women in black and white.

And then it goes on. Imagine writing something similar regarding human women? I'm sorry, but how is this writing not blatantly sexist? I would have flagged this if there weren't already substantial discussion here that I don't want to bury.
> The USA just happens to be more aggressive about seeking extradition than most

The USA has taken an expansionist view to the definition of jurisdiction, particularly for network-related activity. In short, they basically claim jurisdiction everywhere. That's something that very few other countries can realistically try to pull off without people laughing in their face, and its success is entirely due to might.
Surely the percentage is going to depend on what's available and how much it costs. Currently, only the desperate will spend $6000 on an unresponsive chunk of silicone, but the calculus might change if there's a perfect facsimile of a porn star matching every preference and fetish available to rent for $20.
I knew a tax protestor many years ago. It caught up with him eventually. And was very amusing to me at the time as he was a federal employee (so, by the numbers, his income came from the taxes he believed were unconstitutional).

Probably wasn’t amusing to his family when they lost their home though.
I don't see why 1% of the workforce being employed by the same employer is supposed to be shocking?

Suppose you have a village of 400 people. What are the odds that somebody there employs 4 other guys in some capacity? That's more than 1% of the workforce.
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Because I could, reasonably, find the damn thing; the evidence physically exists. And the threat of doing so increases trust in the system (even if no one does it), because if worst comes to worst, I can just find the slip.

In a digital system, I'm not finding jack shit. It doesn't exist anywhere except as a counter, I can't check whether it's my vote or randomly created after the fact (after suspicion was announced), and I can't trust the system itself, because it's defined by, developed by, and operated by some random group of people who managed to slap the thing together and make a sale. I can't get in there and check out any of it myself (even as just a vague threat), and the conspiracy group is sufficiently small as to be viable (I only have to "convince", what, 40 people, to cheat the votes?).

What I don't understand is why not use something like the SAT exams -- trivially hardware-counted, but also physically transparent and available -- and solve like 90% of the problem that way?
24 participants?? as much as I want to know the effects / benefits of psychedelics, that seems like way too few people to make such a general statement
Also discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24075560
That seems a bit of copout though. Yes, sugar pill will not have a as high placebo effect but it is still useful as setting a lower bound on the placebo effect.
For me, it made me lose my "ego" to a certain extent during the experiences, I was able to feel some (what I now know are very important) emotions I was struggling to feel or accept for many, many years after trying many different types of therapy and medicines.

Once I was able to feel and confront those emotions and discover what had me so wound up, upset and sad - I was finally able to start the process of healing.
Yes, I did it through my psychiatrist along with talk therapy and traditional anti-meds. I had been doing the others before, but adding the ketamine was life changing for me.

It’s a shame too. I had the best health care option from one of the largest public tech companies and I had to pay $450 out of pocket, twice a week for four weeks, and then moving down to every other week. This is on top of $6k they took out of my salary over the year.

It is extremely frustrating the amount of basic mental health care needs, which I believe depression is, that are simply out of reach for most of Americans.
Cory Doctorow's novels are licensed for non-commercial modifications. I tried one of those.
And there's good competition, I'm paying NZ$90 for the same speed (900/400) with no data cap. Static IP. And all the NZ prices quoted include sales tax (NZ law requires this) so the equivalent US price without sales tax would be about US$52/mo.
Cloud computing seems to be a winner take all scenario. For example, if you use AWS and need a message broker service then you'll use this. If you use Azure, you'll use their version. Development seems like just hooking up this components. I can't tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
> Yes, because we all live in America... right?

Pretty much. The US makes other countries adopt laws that are similar to their own via trade agreements. The whole purpose of doing that is to make it easier for american businesses to sell stuff in other countries. The whole world is economically forced to converge into the same set of general laws that just happen to be very friendly to the interests of american corporations. Intellectual property laws are included in the package.

There are countries in the world where governments struggle to provide basic infrastructure to their populations. Why would anyone in such a miserable situation even care about protecting american copyright industry interests by prosecuting copyright infringement?

An MPAA official once visited my country to lobby politicians and push their agenda. Journalists asked him point blank: do you think copyright is a priority in a country where people do not have basic sanitation? I wish I had saved the article where I read that...

> Megaupload wasn't even a US company, why should it “enforce” some foreign legislation on non-concerned parties?

Good question... The US can probably just do whatever it wants though. If they hate you enough, they'll just kidnap you and fly you to wherever it is they need you to be. They call it extraordinary rendition.
Almost every other western country manages to do this efficiently and quickly and transparently, and most of them use paper ballots.
looooooool that would have made my life so much easier. hope you enjoy my alternative solution
If depression really is a "software" rather than a "hardware" issue that makes it much harder to solve right?

You can't just toggle some biochemical switches and restore normal function.

But if you can rewire the software in just the right way then maybe
This is fascinating. I'm glad that they're allowing psychedelics for certain types of treatment, but I hope that the choices open up further than psilocybin.

Back in my teenage years I took pretty much every psychedelic I could access, and trip-sat (like babysitting) for about two dozen of my friends over the course of a few years. I found in tripsitting that psilocybin was among the more difficult to manage psychedelics, especially for first-timers. I found that 2C-B/E, DOC and LSD were the best-tolerated substances among people that weren't "psychonaut veterans."

This is purely anecdotal and in no way meant to imply that I know what the hell I'm talking about. I only bring it up as a thought that popped into my head relating to the use of psychedelic drugs in therapy.

Also, no. I do not know where to get any of this stuff anymore. Haven't known for over a decade.
The rule is probably on the books at most retail stores, getting everyone to follow it all the time though is another matter. Cashiers and their direct supervisors could easily not understand or care about the rule and ignore it to save a few seconds on big orders.
Small decision is better compare to complex decision, which most likely is not small.
You’re describing situational depression. A lot of people have chronic depression, where he only hope for managing the depression involves pharmaceuticals.
Not sure what you mean by "don't exist". I meant that they could write scrapers and fetch such information periodically from, say, recording companies' websites or more reliably, from e-commerce stores.

I'm saying so because I know plenty of 3rd party fandom/crowdsourced databases are doing exactly this, for books, CDs, etc. The data obviously need some manual checks later, but this step saves lots of time.

Again, Discogs already have a very complete database for old releases, especially for vinyls. But what I'm talking is that they are lacking for newer ones (CDs or digital releases) and just provide a systematic (and tried) way to improve in that regard (considering their goal now is "everything").

For something in 1962? Sure you're right. But you don't really need some fans to own a copy to prove the existence or get information for a hit album in 2010s.
Your vision sounds great! It sounds a little bit like what Prisma (https://JoinPrisma.com) is doing. You may want to reach out to them and see if they would partner with you? Best of luck with your venture!
I read "How to change your mind" last year and I tried this. It worked very well.

As many studies indicate, it temporarily disables/decreases DMN (among other effects) which is exactly what a depressed person would need: break the vicious self-destructive circle. Only then I could start making hard but necessary decisions and change my life completely. Depression is nowhere to be seen but that's because I actually changed things and didn't become complacent.

I'd not recommend to do it without spending a good time doing research. The aforementioned book is a great resource.
Minnesota native here: Really sad to see it go.

City Pages had a lot of really great information on everything from music to food. It and its writers took things too seriously, either, which was rather refreshing, regardless of your social or political viewpoint.
> Slavery was very satisfying to users and slaves

Where did this site go so wrong? I thought this was a place for intelligent discussion.
My God hacker news you are addicted to that down vote button. Let me give you all another one to click
If you disagree with today's common understanding of what peaceable means, can you explain what you think it used to mean?

Or are the implications of this definition the issue?
Looks like it could be useful as IDL? [1]

Although I'm surprised about the list of initial targets supported. Now your Idris can talk to your Haskell!!! Yay? :-)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_description_language
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I wouldn't call them autodidacts, they just lack a traditional education.

Most, if not all of them, trained with worldclass mentors. It's a bit like if someone that had the privilege to divide his desk with several of the best programmers in the world calling himself an autodidact.
However, France is also subject to the European Arrest Warrant, which means they are "precluded from refusing the surrender of their own nationals wanted for the purposes of prosecution, but they may condition the surrender of a requested person on his or her being returned to the issuing state to serve any sentence ultimately imposed". This is obviously only for other European countries, but I bet you could then extradite from such a country to extra-EU jurisdictions simply with political help.

So let's say person X is wanted in the US. They get Country A to emit a warrant for them, A gets X from France, then extradites X to the US.
The biggest source of light pollution is daylight saving time.
I had an HP LaserJet 6L from the 1990s and it was built like a tank. I'm sure it is still working (I don't have a PC with a parallel port to test it).
You should add a message length limit.
> Again, why did we stop with disks? Right or wrong that's what happened. Why?

> There were punch cards and tapes and other stuff before disks.

The floppy was the ubiquitous removable storage medium for the first microcomputers with GUIs.
I read his book cover to cover once flying across the country.

It also changed my life!
The main issue with us is the strong divide of the country. It's obcene to me that a leader can be choosen whom ~50% of the population disagree with. I understand democracy is about pleasing the majority, but how is a 51%-49% split a majority in any major way?
And another because why not? What are these fake reputation points worth in the real world?
That's not an argument against e-voting, but rather the election media circus and craziness of the electoral college. With e-voting you get the complexity of both.
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I don't get it. It's practically unreadable on my screen. What I see is white on black in huge text (24 point or more?) with the formulae rendered as images. Am I doing something wrong?
Exactly what I was thinking
While lack of human connection can be one cause or contributing factor for depression in individual cases, and may make a lot of people "depressed" in the informal coloquial sense, the notion that major depressive disorder across the spectrum and across society is singularly caused by lack of human interaction (or singularly caused by anything at all) is not a notion evidenced by any literature on depression I'm aware of, and is not a notion espoused by any of mental health professionals I've encountered who routinely successfully treat people with depression.
The nice thing about ketamine is that it is a sedative. I've done LSD, Mushrooms, and DMT. Ketamine is the most enjoyable and least risky in my opinion, due to its sedative nature. The doctors usually give an anti-anxiety drug before starting the infusion, a benzodiazepine such as midazolam. As I did more infusions, we increased the ketamine dose and decreased the midazolam. Find a good doctor and work with them. Ketamine is a really wonderful substance for pain and depression.
Wouldn't it complicate things by introducing a new variable to consider, i.e. how gullible is each participant / how affected were they by the placebo? For what it's worth, it seems more useful to not have that variable. That way, if the effect was from the psilocybin acting as placebo, at least you know they were all affected equally. There were too few participants too. Having a control group with a placebo would make the experimental sample even smaller.
Does a US citizen - who lives overseas and refuses to pay their federal income tax - count as a tax protestor? I didn't see that reason in the lists.
This is the key to this whole farce.

Nothing he or his company did was illegal in NZ.

Put it like this: if a Pakistani courts tried to extradite Zuckerburg for blasphemy because some of Facebook's users said bad things about islam, then they'd be rightfully laughed at.

But a US court trying to extradite a NZ CEO for something the company's users did... different story. Because America.
> Multiple comments here have asked for double blind placebo trials. But you can't really do that with something psycho active, at least not ethically.

There are no ethical barriers to including a control group.

The idea that double-blind, placebo-controlled trials are impossible with psychoactive medication is a strawman argument, because obviously we can still have a control group.

The control group doesn't even need to receive placebo. In a study like this one, they could have easily and ethically had one group receive therapy and a second group receive therapy plus mushrooms. Or the first group could have received therapy plus traditional SSRIs.

The placebo response rate in antidepressant studies is extraordinarily high. There is no good reason to omit a control group in studies like these, other than perhaps if the researchers were too underfunded to make it work.
Does size matter ?
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it will be plainly obvious who got the placebo
Yes, for sure there is some overhead in this. I checked in Tracy now and with a lot of gui open, using many custom labels etc, it takes on the order of 150-200 us to do that part of the gui. Issuing the GL draw list commands takes some time too, but not too much. I think the expectation is that it is expensive for real, but it turns out that ImGui is actually quite cpu-time-cheap. And a "modern" electron based app gui has a whole different set of overheads, so it not like all alternatives are overhead-free wonderlands..
Of course. But there is no way to stop a mob or even identify who they are. Recording them won't help.

A mob follows no rules and some try to blind police officers using lasers. Or they can simply harass somebody for days on end.

No one ever won a lawsuit against a mob.