skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your dosage cannot be emphasized enough (!).

First time I took it, half a dose, I felt like a 12 year old child. It was a lot of fun.

Second time I took it, a full dose, I had a bad trip. But I was with my girlfriend, so it was never too bad. I also learned that I trust her completely emotionally. I relied on her a lot.

Third time I took it with a very close friend (15+ years of knowing, inspired each other to study psychology), a full dose again (I thought it would be fine by now), my trip was so bad that I had strong feelings of ending it all. Luckily enough my intelligence was waning fast as well, so I locked myself in a room. 10 minutes later I didn't know what was what, but I cried for 30 minutes and I didn't know why I cried. When I got out of the trip it did spur a soul search questioning myself, looking inward more deeply and that was beneficial but I was flying a bit too close to the sun for it to be worth it.

I should've gotten a trip sitter. I was naive at the time.
heh, log(log(number of atoms in the universe)) < 6
Your assumption is correct!
The quota is where a board has more than 3 members then it needs at least 1 woman.

The average size of a board is 12 and the current percentage of women on boards is 12%

However for companies where the government sits on the board, the ratio is 30%
Is this track also available as a download somewhere to try it in linerider.com itself, rather than as a video?

Never heard of the game before, but now I want to try it with this track
I work with SEO, CRO, UX and I can confirm that this style of writing - short sentences, tiny paragraphs - results in better outcomes: time on page is higher and bounce rate is lower.
Not necessarily. We make big decisions based on our flawed models of the world, where the difference have real effects. Sometimes people forget the difference and need to be reminded.
But friends are people we love, and things are mostly useless sh. Unless it's people loving (or "hating") one another there's nothing going on, really.
So I predict that this will fly like a brick airplane.
> Your code might contain some basic security errors that you would have avoided had you gone with a stable, vetted framework

On the flip side, stable and vetted popular frameworks also have security problems; and although these problems may be less likely, they are more bad people trying to break them, because when they do, the win is really big. E.g. Windows vs Linux viruses / trojans - I'm not sure if Linux is so much more secure to justify the difference.

Also new tech stacks typically evolve faster and are quicker to fix bugs. It is much faster to fix a problem in a young, less complex product, without having to deal with things like technical debt, backwards compatibility with millions of apps or endless discussions between committers about how it should be fixed.
> Thinking in terms on software design and architecture you can start using a similar vocabulary.

But I think that's exactly the example of where the metaphor starts to give us bad information.

The biggest difference between the brain and a computer is that the brain is fundamentally parallel. Not more threads in a GPU parallel, but rather the processing the brain does is the manifestation of the parallel actions of a mass of information processing units interacting with one another.

To give an example of where using the computer metaphor gives rise to very misleading assumptions because of this: in many cases with a computer, more data equals more cost. If you need to iterate through a million data points to get a result vs. a thousand, it's going to take a lot more time to reach the answer. But with the brain it's precisely the opposite. More data points means a denser network of interconnections which can give a better answer sooner.
> I am uncertain and unclear why a single company should have a monopoly on what we can and can't install on a general-purpose computational device.

Your first battle should be the games consoles.

iPhones and iPads are iPhones and iPads and people who buy them want iPhones and iPads.

For “general purpose computing” nobody is preventing anybody from buying PCs or Androids.
It's way cheaper than that, you'll pay significantly less than a cent for each captcha.
There is a certain kernel of truth to it. I work at Google, and doing anything at all is a chore - it's almost as if we're back to programming with punch cards.

It's not surprising that Python doesn't work well in such a high-delay dev environment.
I agree - grafana is wayyy better than viceroy and the other monitoring dashboards that were available when I worked at Google.
What you describe is very common. The best example I can think of is a map app with pinch zoom vs an old one with pan and zoom buttons. People want to interact with data, not fiddle with UI controls, menus, and popups. The best UI looks like no UI.
I have used Remedy and Microsoft Dynamics. So far Salesforce is the best one.
I love iPads and have had one since they first came out. My primary "front-end" machine is a 12.9" Pro at the moment - I do dev work using Blink as a Mosh terminal to a Linux box, I do sketches, I communicate with clients on it. And I very rarely have any complications with using it.

The only things I struggle with are

* the browser - it's really annoying that notifications aren't allowed and I don't see why that's not the case

* the browser - there's no web inspector - I rarely do front-end work but there's always some bit of CSS or JS to sort out (I use Luna Display into a 2012 Mac Mini or VNC into my Linux box for that)

* a minor annoyance with audio - I'd like to use my USB microphone with it, but plugging it in means it gets recognised as an output device as well, so I can't hear anything - unlike a Mac I can't find a way to route the input from one device and the output to another.

All my other annoyances with it are around poorly designed apps - for example ones that assume you wouldn't want multiple windows or think you only ever want to upload from the camera roll rather than the filesystem.

UPDATE: one other thing - in the article she talks about landscape-first; I often use my iPad in landscape but it's in portrait mode where it shines. In landscape, with the magic keyboard, it just feels like a crippled laptop. In portrait with an external keyboard in a stand it feels like a writing machine. In portrait and with the pencil, it feels like a notebook. I don't really get the people who want the iPad to become a laptop when its strengths are elsewhere.
Love `M-x tetris RET`. Beautifully made.

After many years of love for beautiful interfaces ("oh, look, how beautiful and shiny (i.e.) `PCalc` is"), I realize that what matters to me is my data and a versatile interface that allows me interact with my data. Emacs + Lisp are this minimalist, yet extremely versatile and powerful interface to get almost everything done in working with a computer: Write text of any kind (from code to novels), manage projects and keep a personal wiki with org-mode, create overviews with (ascii)tables, write documentation, automate all kinds of workflows using Emacs Lisp.

In a sense the ZEN or essence of interfaces.
> The company ... is called BioNTech, not Pfizer,

You are correct. They seem to be based in Mainz, Germany. Not American in any sense at all.

I have edited grandparent comment to read "BioNTech - Pfizer", in similar style to "Oxford University - AstraZeneca"
Are you executing on them? Otherwise you should share them here, so that others may.
With the caveat that corporate surveillance is not my specialty, I think it is quite naive to assume Amazon has no plan or idea how this will play into their revenue machine over time. Just as a precedent that I know of, things like this [1] popped into mind instantly.

We see this pattern over and over again where tech company XYZ introduces some feature with an motive that appears innocuous but that contains the capacity to slide down the slope into full-blown corporate surveillance.

I bet in two or three years' time HN's front page will have a blog post from some security researcher on how Sidewalk collects all this extra data to profile you.

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/linkuk-bt-google-free-wifi-a...
Ask HN: Buy highly priced domain or rebrand?
Hello HN folks,

I'm having a dilemma about my side project.

We decide for a name for our brand which seems to be quite popular and because of that the majority of the cool domains are already gone (ie: .app, .io, .com etc)

Now the one I'm really interested in is the .app which seems to have an owner but is not used at the moment, so i can try in make an offer to get that one, but I'm afraid this will cost us a lot of money for something probably not that important at this stage.

The project is growing and is getting traction but it's still considerably small, should we consider to re-brand now to find something which is available? Or wait to get this domain until it makes more sense/we have a better cash flow?
Unrelated:

What style of icons and graphics are these? They seem hand drawn but I am wondering if stylistically there is a name so I can hunt down something similar or find more inspiration like this.
Haha, that's an awesome story. To write something so off the scale. Like, you were an A-student! And you wrote something that was so unbelievably good, your teacher didn't believe it. That is pure gold.

So I have to ask. Do you still have that essay? And can I (email in profile), or we (HN), read it? I get it if you don't want to. Just asking if you're open to it :)

I think your story isn't properly finished ;-)
The way the site is shaped right now just leads to amplification of conformity. I don't even know how you even get downvote rights, and even if I had it I wouldn't use it as a tool in the debate out of principle. I guess some people just don't have principles worth two sacks of donkey dung.
The problem is that in many western cultures suffering is being regarded as a virtue and happiness as a great sin especially if achieved by using substances rather than through other actions.
You can glaringly see that where people with chronic pain are denied access to medicinal cannabis, for example here in the UK. You can only receive treatment through a private medical clinic which costs hundreds and sometimes thousands per month, so it is only reserved for the wealthy.
NHS says there is no evidence it works, so they will not refund any treatment and in the meantime thousands have to resort to asking gangs for supply. If it doesn't work then why people take it? Do they fake chronic pain to get high?
It's a grim sentence for sure, but one might have a mountain peaking through the clouds, or a whale peaking through the waves in the correct sense (its peak passes through ...).
The program was launched in Mar 2020. The post is from 2016.
Didn’t read the article, but the iPad was my gateway drug into the Apple orchard.

It was quite literally my first ever Apple product, and I had actually purchased it as a gift for the older people in my family.

They had almost never touched computers, but they immediately took to the iPad, after an initial trepidation from fear of accidentally breaking an expensive thing.

After assuring that there was nothing they could do to damage the iPad save for physically smashing it with a hammer, they were using it all the time.

Watching them enjoy it impressed me with its accessibility and simplicity and I just had to try developing for it. So I torrented a VMWare image for macOS (Lion at the time) and started dabbling in it.

My host machine was running Windows 8 and it was the first time I had ever used macOS. Gradually I began to notice that I was spending more time in the Mac VM than in Windows and loving every minute it. My next personal computer was a MacBook and I’ve never felt the need to go back to PCs yet.

So yeah. The iPad was to computers what the Wii was to games.

In fact, I think it’s gotten unnecessarily complicated since then, with its mystery meat menus and arcane gestures and removal of Dock labels etc.

On one hand it should have stayed true to its original purpose, bringing basic computing to the computer-shy masses, but on the other a simplified OS would be a painful waste of the iPad’s beautiful hardware.

Maybe it’s time to offer “Casual” and “Pro” UI modes in iPadOS?
> Falklands war.

It seems the intersection of football and politics makes for outstanding games. Cometh the hour, cometh the man
Yes, but on the other of the spectrum, GCL itself has turned into another half baked programming language. Editing these configs is the bane of my life.
>But when you say the US is "exceptionally violent" that is indeed what you're saying.

Compared to present countries, not the past, the US indeed is exceptionally violent, especially given the wealth in the country.

* Homicide rate is among the highest of all OECD countries, for example: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?location...

* The US still has legal capital punishment.

* The whole approach to the penal system being very revenge-based, resulting in very high incarceration rates etc.

* The prevalence of sexual violence, e.g. compare the US with Canada: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health...
I completely understand your point of view of charging for the resources needed to get the work done, but the market does not really care for this and you need to charge what the clients are willing to pay for your product.

If clients are willing to pay less than the value of the resources necessary to build and maintain the product, you have either a communication problem (you're not showing the right value to your clients), or a market fit problem.
I don't think so. When you consider that you'd have to index every library and every version of it. That's a huge index. Google has the "live at HEAD" [1] mentality so in reality you don't need as much. I don't remember if xrefs for old versions of the code we're retained.

1: https://abseil.io/about/philosophy#upgrade-support
Maybe the concept of "we wanted flying chars - got 140 chars" was a little bit misguided. People don't want faster cars , or they'd buy them, but boy do they want to entertain themselves and overcommunicate with their circle through their phones.

They may not even want self-driving cars. If 40% work remotely , driving becomes a leasurely activity, so maybe improving communication networks is more important than adding computers to cars.

Tons of airlines and tour operators are going bankrupt with the pandemic in europe. The tourism bubble was a hugely wasteful treadmill perpetuated by people forced live in tiny spaces in expensive cities. Airlines didn't want faster or bigger planes, they wanted cheaper airports.

Surely COVID was a great accelerator for trends that preexisted. Biotech seems the biggest winner, not because it accelerated discovery, but because it removed regulatory hurdles. It remains to be seen how effective the change will be, as the vaccines haven't yet been rolled out. OTOH technologies like VR don't seem to be going anywhere despite being heavily pushed.
I wonder if those metrics are like that because this style of writing has the reader thinking that the author has something important to say and has to spend a long time figuring out what it is because the sentences have been cut to the bone.
Thank you for buying and thank you for your encouragement!

My personal fault was positioning. We can’t make everyone looking similar. As you said, we have a bunch of files on a disk, heavy indexed ones. We spend a year working on diversity, including running as photo studio, but it has limits yet.

So, we needed to invent a use for it. Anonymizing seemed like the opposite of resemblance, yet people wait for the latter. More resemblance (and prettier the face) more they like it.

I wonder if the current tech is marketable without false expectations.
Implementing LU and Cholesky Decomposition in D
You also have to consider humidity, a down pour the night before can create a closeness that can feel hot to people not used to it.
He implies at the top the opposite happened. They banned his account, then he talked to them.
Reading works written by masters is one way in which one can organically internalize the art of writing well.

Another thought that comes to my mind regarding writing is that why does one have to necessarily follow a particular set of rules?

Writing is an art. You should be able to develop and hone your own style, your own signature, something that stands apart from others, yet is readable and lucid.
Have you tried the alternatives like YouTrack?

Way faster, way better design and the searchbar was amazing.
>Veteran engineers and high-level executives are leaving top U.S. chip design toolmakers for Chinese rivals as Beijing looks to break America's near monopoly on this key segment of the semiconductor industry.

Are they of Chinese descent? It sounds dubious that a lot of engineers leave to work in Chinese startups.
Unbranded stable (and beta) builds also allows disabling the signature check. There are plenty of options, just not in the official stable builds.
It can absolutely induce psychedelic experiences - in medical literature it's not generally (though this is not entirely consistent) classified as a psychedelic.
The company I work for uses Google Calendar, which is worse in every way than the approach used at Google for calendaring.
I think it's a left over from the eighties, as a response to the hippie areas romantic view of such drugs. I also believe that is why, for example, LSD is so stigmatized.
"False consciousness is a term used—primarily by Marxist sociologists—to describe ways in which material, ideological, and institutional processes are said to mislead members of the proletariat and other class actors within capitalist societies, concealing the exploitation intrinsic to the social relations between classes." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consciousness
I feel that usability is the single biggest issue in technology, these days.

In my opinion, what makes products successful, is that they provide a usable path through their principal workflow. It seems to trump eye candy and (I hate to admit) even quality.

Basically, even if the quality is bad, and the interface spartan; if the workflow is smooth and intuitive (not “dumb,” but grokkable), then the project has a real chance for success.

Simplicity is often mistaken for usability. In my experience, they are not necessarily analogous. If anyone has ever used a Japanese train schedule, they know that it’s possible to present a complex system in a fashion that, after “training,” becomes intuitive.

It seems that the “sweet spot” is an interface that may not be immediately apparent, but “gets out of the way,” once the user gets going.
There's another one:

5) You might be a good programmer but your skillset in terms of technology stack(s) might not match up with what employers/recruiters are looking for.

We interviewed a junior dev a couple of years back who had exclusively RPM and mainframe experience. We're a .NET/C#/SQL Server/TypeScript/React shop, with a bit of R and Python thrown in outside of the core technology team.

I couldn't work out whether he couldn't get his head round our pair programming task (which isn't any kind of ridiculous invert a red/black tree type whiteboard problem) because he wasn't a good programmer or because the mental model was so different to what he was used to, and he really seemed to struggle with C#. I didn't give him a job because I thought the risk of having to let him go during probation was too high, which would have sucked given that he'd have been leaving a steady job to join us.

Contrast this with another interviewee who was a nurse, and a self-taught programmer, who really did seem to get it. He nailed our assessments, and we made him an offer. He joined us and has worked out really well.

It's not that I'm against hiring people with mismatched skills, or from an unusual professional background - far from it - but I need to see some glimmer of a good match during the selection process, particularly if somebody would be leaving stable employment to join us (not that we're unstable, but there's the probation period to successfully navigate) and/or - not really an issue now we're all WFH - they're planning to relocate to work with us.
I think the issue is that we don't have meditation teachers. I've had issues with meditation as well, because I didn't know how to deal with certain challenges.

Nowadays, I know how to use meditation as a tool that purely benefits me. I use it sparingly, since I'm a bit lazy. But I've noticed that using it sparingly is erring on the safer side while still getting the benefits.

In my case, I notice the benefits after each session. My mind is calmer and I get less easily upset. In another meditation I'm more empathetic. In another meditation I'm more easily loving.

All effects last for about half a day to a day, but they have ripple effects (i.e. had a good day yesterday? Chances are your day will be great as well today).
It would be huge but storage is cheap, you could build in phases based on popularity. Maybe paid subscriptions for the full index?

But yeah, it could get expensive to keep the indexes current as things grow.
Thanks for the clarification, it seems this post has gotten lost in the comments. You could try making a new post on your blog and add it to HN as a new post.
Can someone ELI5? "Quantum nanodiamond" triggers my woo detector and the nitrogen vacancy is glossed over.
> In any case, a “wall of text” approach is disastrous in digital media.

I hear this a lot, but it seems to me true only in a limited context. "Walls of text" are disastrous in marketing and some technical content, but these should not be the standard to which all writers aspire, even if they publish exclusively online.

For example, the London Review of Books[0] is famed for its long paragraphs, but they suit the topics and discursive, nuanced argument. Chopping them into smaller chunks would not make the arguments easier to follow for the educated readers who subscribe to the LRB.

[0]: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n23/james-butler/failed-...
Amazing! This reminds me of a track I made for Action Super Cross / Elastomania, where every quirk in the engine was used. I had to simplify a lot of objects because I hit the max number of polygons all the time. I have to see if I can find that masterpiece somewhere :)
Dependency Injection, easy registration in .NET core
https://apps.apple.com/app/id908519492
> They should also explain how, having enjoyed their benefits for a couple of years, they’ve suddenly decided they were such a bad idea after all, and what should replace them.

I mean, this is very very presumptuous... the people I know who were "in the know" on this--including myself--never upgraded to Catalina (in addition to doing a SIP disable), in no small part to avoid this intrusive behavior.

(Further, there actually was outcry about this a year ago, when a similar issue happened: just, instead of the system not running software at all, it ran all new software super slowly.)
I think Apple was right in that sense that just throwing MacOS onto the iPad would have been the right thing. Especially back then, MacOS would have been a very bad fit UI-wise, Big Sur makes a few steps towards the iPad now.
But that doesn't mean that people shouldn't get more flexibility in using the iPad.
I think the problem with iPads is that a large proportion of people need keyboards for part of their workflow - emails, reports, twitter etc.

The attachable tablet keyboards can't really be used comfortably on the go - commuting, sofa surfing etc. A laptop has a sturdy, built in lap rest that can be used in just about any position.

IMHO, the killer product is somewhere between an iPad and Macbook Air - with an attached reversible clamshell keyboard, or detachable/attachable keyboard that can be used to support the screen at any angle without being on a desk (ie not some flimsy magnetic lock), so the device can be used like a tablet or laptop and used in either mode wherever.