skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people in Somaliland, Kurdistan, Catalonia, Taiwan, Kosovo have worked on getting new countries recognised over the past few years, to highly varying degrees of success. South Sudan is generally considered to be the newest country in the world.

From a more frontier-y first principles approach, I'm not sure you really would be onto a winner. If the USA's own history has taught anyone anything, it's that the cost of settling and forging a new country in this way often comes with distasteful things like ethnic cleaning.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the human race ending by being distracted by pleasure. It would stop us from destroying the environment we live in, attacking and exploiting each other over greed, raping each other due to a lack of sexual gratification (or whatever reason rapists rape), and all the other evil deeds we commit.

> When there are more men than women, women are much less likely to have casual sex. The majority sex (in this case men) competes for the minority sex (in this case women) and the minority sex calls the shots. When there is a female majority in the population, women compete for access to mates with casual sex. Whereas a male majority competing for access to scarce women compete with long-term commitment.

It doesn't have to be an either or. It isn't a binary switch from men require mates to females require mates. During the transition phase we might actually reach that "equality" certain groups like to preach about. Why would you be against that?

Also, the article doesn't describe all men as being in need of sex robots. In fact, it doesn't mention any study estimating the percentage of men who might be interested in these robots. The number might well be in the single digits and just like non-heteros, they will always be around.

Anyway, in my opinion, what people do to themselves or other unforced, uncompelled, consenting, sentient and intelligent creatures without creating immediate dangers for non-participants shouldn't be anybody's business.
I did not expect to see Tim Ferriss's name in an article like this. Interesting.
I don't know about Rabbit MQ, but for redis AWS sends back a lot, so much that one of their developers is now a core team member

https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-core-team-update/
Hard disagree. The world is complex enough that every person in the world relies on the words of "spooky experts telling [them] what to believe".

Even outside of that, elections require trust in the process. Already, with a "simple" system in place, we have to trust that no one is committing fraud, that votes aren't being surreptitiously added or thrown out, etc. E-voting doesn't fundamentally change the trust dynamics at all: people ultimately need to believe that the people in charge of the process aren't up to any funny business or bad at their jobs.

This argument gets used a lot to argue in favor of first past the post. Explaining a Borda count or single non-transferable vote is harder than explaining: most votes = win. But I think it ultimately comes down to trust: if the people voting trust the people involved with the process (even if they don't understand the nitty-gritty details) they will accept the results of an election.
It should be called webpage or website instead of app?
> Works temporarily but doesn't last?

I'd have assumed it meant a tolerance would kick in after a few rounds.

1 reset day out of every 100 does sound achievable/possible even with clinical administration, but needing it every 3 days wouldn't be.
Congratulations! Refreshing to hear some good news from 2020.
This is a really good post. I liked seeing the TLA+ code here. There's a pretty serious ambiguity in the Paxos Made Simple paper, which makes it very easy to follow the paper and still end up with a broken algorithm. From Lamports publications page (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html#paxos-simpl...):

> In 2015, Michael Dearderuff of Amazon informed me that one sentence in this paper is ambiguous, and interpreting it the wrong way leads to an incorrect algorithm. Dearderuff found that a number of Paxos implementations on Github implemented this incorrect algorithm. Apparently, the implementors did not bother to read the precise description of the algorithm in [122]. I am not going to remove this ambiguity or reveal where it is. Prose is not the way to precisely describe algorithms. Do not try to implement the algorithm from this paper. Use [122] instead.

Lamport's core point here is using something like TLA+ to describe algorithms like this is essential. Writing is just too prone to ambiguities and misunderstandings, and the formalism really helps. The downside, obviously, is that TLA+ can look impenetrable if you're not familiar with it. While it's not hard to learn (the mathematical underpinnings are quite simple), the initial curve is quite steep.

It's not that simpler written descriptions are bad, just that it's hard to make them exact enough to communicate the algorithm perfectly. On the other hand, learning from the mathematical notation is pretty hard. I don't know how to fix this problem.
If you have a group of companies, countries, etc., some large and some small, and rank order them in percentage change in anything, the smaller players will tend to be at the extremes of highest and lowest. Still worthy of note.
And he was wrong.
So previously they were illegal and you bought dried mushrooms from some guy in a pool hall (maybe I'm dating myself). Its hard to imagine that legalizing them is a step back. People automatically see legalization as an excuse for more bureaucracy and regulation - how about starting with the premise that the world didnt end while people bought it illegally, and ease in a minimal way to ensure safety and quality, which must be well understood for all the other foods and natural products already sold, instead of doing the regulatory power grab of "oh we need a whole new framework!"
To answer anyone looking at this now: the Rayleigh scattering needs to produce diffuse light [0]. Which actually makes the project easier to pull off since you just need to place secondary lights all around the roof and walls of the room that emit AM1.5 diffuse light globally and not worry about any sort of filtering on the main light, which you need to match to AM1.5 direct.

[0] Applied Photovoltaics, Earthscan Publications, 2007: http://www.eng.uc.edu/~beaucag/Classes/SolarPowerForAfrica/B...
Thanks! That's actually really smart: look at the drivers!

So weird that HP would buy Samsung's printer division but not kill it off.
The 3.5" floppy disk is easy to draw and recognize. Today we save documents on mechanical drives, SSDs, USB devices, cloud... As a way to represent the "save" action, the only alternative to floppy is an arrow and a square, or an arrow and a cloud. It's imprecise and vague. The floppy disk is still a strong metaphor.
I am surprised that there is no digital option to preselect your candidates before going to the polling place. i.e. Make your choices, receive QR code. Go to polling place, scan, verify selections on voting machine, press big red button and walk out of there.

If each vote took 1 minute instead of 10, would there still be a line?

edit: Or if not shorter lines, maybe 5 voting machines instead of 20? or 4 poll workers instead of 10? Seems more efficient all around.
What kind of placebo could you use to stand in for a treatment that normally has immediate and obvious side effects like this one?
> Symbols like we see that indicate male vs female gendered bathrooms

That we recognize a gendered stick figure on a door to mean "this is a toilet" is not less arbitrary than the "WC" signs you see in Europe, which at least have some meaning ("water closet", olde timey for "toilet")
Maybe we should be investigating the cause of unfilled biological needs instead? I do not want to open a whole can of worms, but do you think the ease of online dating and the meat market of tinder/bumble/instagram/whatever has any effect on this?
Aren't all of those also true with iOS? Have you heard of Jailbreaking?
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Yeah, I'm going to want the same psychotherapy given to a group given psilocybin, a group given traditional antidepressants, and a group given placebo (with the psychotherapist blinded to administered drug).
This is what we call anecdotal evidence.
Flippant messages like yours do not provide any value and do not help any more than ”Seems like it was hugged to death”. Pretty much anything that is not protected by ”cloudflare & co” will be hugged to death by HN
Completely serious: in addition to "pages", if there was the ability to define "endpoints" that respond with JSON, I'd be in!
> metaphors only refer to other metaphors, i.e. language is circular.
Except we (humans) have real-life experience that gives meaning to those metaphors.
Considering there's no evidence it's toxic and you can do it every month because that's how long it takes for your tolerance to wear off, 3 months is a lot of time.

Consider normal SSRIs where you feel like crap for a month, try N more (which could mean many more months) until you find one that suits you, then have side-effects, then try to get off them so that's another couple of months of misery.

That's countless doses, money, time spent in misery vs one day of mushrooms every 3 months.

Normal psych meds are to be avoided at all costs and only be used if absolutely necessary, after you have tried everything else; atleast in my opinion.
Courts do not. We however can express opinions as we see fit.
Fwiw, cotton crops are incredibly water intensive. Probably a better solution than factory farming animals or releasing more plastics into the environment, but it's not perfect either.
How about we read the paper first before jumping to conclusions.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...

Findings In this randomized clinical trial of 24 participants with major depressive disorder, participants who received immediate psilocybin-assisted therapy compared with delayed treatment showed improvement in blinded clinician rater–assessed depression severity and in self-reported secondary outcomes through the 1-month follow-up.

Meaning This randomized clinical trial found that psilocybin-assisted therapy was efficacious in producing large, rapid, and sustained antidepressant effects in patients with major depressive disorder.
Small cities and suburbs of large metro areas (which account for a large proportion of that %) are very different culturally.
This post about their GitHub integration makes me chuckle, written by someone who heard GitHub is used for "codes": https://quire.io/blog/p/Hello-GitHub-We-are-Quire.html

"For some of you, it is difficult enough to keep everyone up to date with the tasks at hand. It is even more so when they involve codes. Lots of codes."

"refer and trace back between tasks and codes"
We aren't trusting the car. We're trusting the car has not been tampered with.

We know many people want to tamper with elections. The CIA has done that much. The same is not true for cars. Steal cars, yes. But cause a random car to crash on purpose? Thats pretty rare. If were common, I personally would not trust my cars electronics either. And neither should you.
Disappointed by the somewhat sparse documentation and it's not open-source.

Certainly looks interesting, and seems he has 384 patreon supporters so there's definitely something there.
3.5" disks is what most people had on their work and home computers since early 1990s if not late 1980s. 5.25" floppy disks became rare after, say, 1995. I suppose nobody had punched tape on their home or office computers, it was in the realm of programmers and operators.

The disks are mechanical devices, so their shape is dictated by function and thus was uniform. E.g. USB flash drives do not have such consistency.

What the endgame of symbols look like is easy to see in Chinese / Japanese. E.g. "save" 保 consists of a man, a mouth, and a tree. It's about as easy to make sense of as a combination of a square with a cut corner and a rectangle inside it.
Hard to know, since if he didn't have a large following, we wouldn't have heard about it either way.
COBOL and $2,020,202.02
Similarly, people who get married and have children can one day look away and realize they have none of the status markers of society accorded a long-term committed couple / family.
Lose and loose are very different words and it drives me so crazy when people pick loose instead of lose that I have a difficult time finishing reading articles, emails or anything really that gets it wrong.
This is because reliability, ease of setup, and support are actually just as important as what is being run.

If you're not using AWS you're not fully leveraging your software team, because that means you've got people spending time building and supporting these sorts of internal systems. That should only be done when you reach large scale, at which point people have leveraged other AWS synergies making it harder to exit the platform.
> Hmmm, I don't really buy it.

Buy it.

You asked for the answer, you got it.

> What bullied kid really thinks "it's not those kids doing this, it's the system"?

Hello there. Me.

I was an alienated, disaffected youth. Do you know what a Bagger 288 is? I used to day dream about driving one of those through my city, ripping up entire neighborhoods. When society systematically fails you it's easy to feel that "Everyone deserves to suffer because everyone is to blame." (A line from Aeon Flux that haunted me for years. IIRC the character who says it has some sort of emotional breakthrough and winds up donating his arm to a little armless kid or something. Weird show.)

But you don't have to be a genius to figure out that kids mostly don't come prepackaged with severe mental and emotional problems.

Back in school, the hyperactive kid who rubbed his crotch on my head? It turns out he's a crack baby. That's why he acts that way. Blame the CIA!?

(> Webb conducted a year-long investigation during which he discovered that a San Francisco-based drug ring, which had ties to a CIA-sponsored Nicaraguan contra group called the FDN, sold cocaine to a dealer in South Central Los Angeles. The millions of dollars made from those sales were later used to fund a secret war against the leftist Sandinista regime. In short, Webb accused the CIA of being complicit in getting thousands of poor African-Americans addicted to crack in order to fund rebels in Central America.

https://time.com/3482909/this-is-the-real-story-behind-kill-... )

The system itself is the problem, and there's no effective attack on the system.

How do you fight Moloch? ( https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ )
"partially legalize"
- I would say currently legalized drugs are "partially" legalized (aka regulated with reasonable restrictions like minimum age of purchase and not selling to intoxicated persons)

Referencing alcohol prohibition, that led to a large black market which gradually shrank until it almost completely disappeared about a decade after prohibition ended. About 10 years after prohibition was enacted, alcohol consumption was at ~70% of pre-prohibition levels. Making alcohol illegal decreased consumption by 30%. I would guess alcohol consumption levels would have continued to rise if prohibition had continued. I don't think anyone today still thinks a small reduction in consumption was worth all the violence and corruption created by prohibition. Today the "black market" for alcohol pretty much consists of asking your older sibling/friend to buy you a case of beer.

> When you make a resource harder to get you decrease the supply, when you decrease the supply, prices tend to go up and access goes down.

I argue it's extremely easy to get illegal drugs in the US. I don't currently use any but I have complete confidence I could acquire some within ~1-3 days by tapping my social network if I wanted. Another very convenient alternative for acquiring drugs for those so inclined is the dark web (assuming you know how to use cryptocurrency and tor - something I'm sure the vast majority of young people in the US can do)

We're going to eventually get to a place where drug decriminalization is widespread. If we're not going to punish people for using drugs, lets just take control of the drug market away from criminals, regulate it, tax it and use that tax revenue for something good.
The weight checking drives me up a wall. I use this primarily at hardware stores and I frequently can't fit large/heavy items on the output scale. Or the opposite problem, I'm buying a shim or a screw and it simply doesn't register.
Some say that it was published not by Nat, anyone could do that.[0,1]

But, that fact does not explain where original gh source was taken from (probably, it may be gh's employer).[2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24976138

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/jnzxmd/someone...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24991429
I misread this as unites undies. WHoops
Not sure what do you mean flexibility, syntax-wise Stencil can do that same thing you do in React with TSX
Here you go: https://puri.sm/products/librem-14
I’m not convinced by this screed. It’s heavy on innuendo and light on detail.

Maybe I’m just a “lost cause.”
I have heard of this exact thing, but can't find the information about it. I think it was a Matt Levine article?.

I'm so hazy on the details, other than that French nationals were prosecuted for alleged crimes in France because those crimes were denominated in US currency.

Edit: My memory must be wrong - there's a comment below that France will not extradite citizens
Hence "almost". I'm pretty sure such people don't make up a significant portion of drug users, but I could be wrong.
The issue is that if you challenge a civil matter in court, the jury doesn't have to be unanimous in the decision of your guilt, and you generally don't have the same protections/procedures in place at a civil trial. The the drug conviction restriction is already a federal restriction. So you could have people "convicted" of a civil offense by a split jury who would end up losing their rights. That's assuming the the feds consider a civil judgement the same as a criminal conviction on this matter. Even without the conviction, I believe the federal form requires a purchaser to attest to not using a controlled substance, which the civil judgement would indicate one has used.

I think criminal background checks only show criminal citations. Civil actions generally shouldn't show. Traffic citations are generally treated as criminal offenses (summary offense), but maybe some states are different.
I agree and really wish it weren't so, because I have to give advice to my son like "If someone is tormenting you and won't stop, eventually you're going to have to fight them. Make sure the opening is advantageous to you, even if it means you throw the first punch."

That's the kind of thing that's not true for almost any situation exception school, where the other option is potentially years of physical and emotional abuse.

The sad part is a lot of the people who were bullied (who I witnessed) were quite large children, who probably would have easily handed the the bully his own arse, but because of fear he didn't physically defend himself.
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Again, that is situational.

A stock that grows consistently over a long period is much better for shareholders than a series of quick pops.

Ask Warren buffet.
That timestamp is talking about physical voting. I'd posit it's easier to impersonate 10k mail in ballots of the same state than (let's say) crack 10k private keys or whatever is used for that system. I agree though that a new system will bring about exploits vectors that are unknown, but I'm not convinced they are as bad as what is implied in that video and this thread.
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Feels unnecessarily misleading.
> (How to Track Your Absentee Ballot by State)

I went to look at this. It operates on the honor system; what purpose is it supposed to serve?

An actual ballot-tracking system would need to provide me some evidence that they knew something about my ballot. This doesn't.
> We’re talking about farming animals and killing them for food or fur here

and they are two completely different categories, orders of magnitude different, and serve two completely different purposes

the amount of furs produced every year has been dropping for decades, meat consumption is not

> I personally go out of my way to not kill anything

Everyone does.

But being a S. Francesco is something we do for ourselves, it doesn't change much (it is nothing actually, but I don't want to sound insensitive)

Assuming you save 10 animals a day (which is very very very hard) it's 400 thousands animals in a lifespan of 100 years.

Meanwhile millions die everyday to keep our lifestyle going.

Meanwhile

Cats kill billions of birds every year and even more tiny rodents and other mammals in the United States

It's a matter of scale, not of will of the individual.

> because something is worse than something else or not doesn’t mean we should keep doing it

But maybe we should have priorities, so if something is not impacting the ecosystem in a meaningful way, the time used to fight it it's wasted and could be better spent on something vastly more dangerous.
Nice example! But yes, I agree. My field is certainly not astronomy but... that method to remove noise seems extremely weird. XKCD-level joke weird. Even in the rebuttal arxiv paper cited here where they use a 3rd degree poly to remove the noise it seems... not to fit very well? Seems strange to use a random fit without any guesstimate of the underlying cause/model of the noise.
Previous discussion:

8 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5051902

6 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224858

3 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16684881
It’s a niche tool for people with disabilities... but that’s not to say you can’t use it being fully able.

There was an HN post from a hacker about being a software engineer while having a degenerative muscle condition that makes it hard to type.

I’m tempted to support just to get the full version.
maybe I'm missing something important, but it seems like it could only be a super niche part for a laptop. why spend extra board area and BOM on an eGPU that barely outperforms the iGPU?

seems like it would make more sense as an absolute bottom-of-the-barrel desktop part. maybe you have some old desktop that you want to turn into an HTPC, but it doesn't have the right ports or the ability to decode high bitrate video in realtime. plop one of these guys in for (ideally) $xx and you're good to go. of course, this would be the opposite of the high-margin stuff intel likes to make.
I think you should presume innocent until proven guilty, if you’re a fan of our court system. And he was not convicted of attempting to have anyone killed.