skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not understanding your reasoning, are you suggesting that wasting energy for "not monetary gain" is ok? It's not whataboutism, it's an expectation of consistency of thought/reasoning, how do you come to the conclusion that some activity is worth spending energy on and not others, I'm trying to suss it out.

Think about how the petro-dollar network is secured, how much energy it consumes, arguably more polluting than hydroelectricity (or another non-polluting/renewable source) used to secure a decentralized, permissionless, digital monetary network (it's not just a token, it's also the network and a store). Can you honestly tell me that you see no value in that system? if you do, what amount of energy use is justified, there has to be some number, right?

Compare it with gold, for instance, how much energy is expended in moving a billion dollars of gold from one location to another (based on distance), think about the amount of security it needs while it is being moved and stored, how much energy is expended while mining and smelting it.

Bitcoin seems to be an order of magnitude better than the existing comparable systems, there is a clear ability to choose where that energy can come from (unlike petro-dollars or gold). There's already enough natural pressure to move to renewable/stranded energy sources, a few years from now, almost all bitcoin mining will be from renewables/non-polluting sources and all this noise around bitcoin's energy use will be moot, what will you guys complain about then?

To me personally, the auditability of the network by ANYONE is the best feature, I have a node running at home that watches the network, and I can read the source code.
> Hold the company responsible?

Technically, the CTO is an officer of the company. In a very real sense, he is (a piece of) the company. Furthermore, how would one "hold the company responsible?" -- review their security culture? Where do you think that culture comes from?
Can one easily install such apps as a Chrome app/PWA, and deactivate access to the internet since it doesn't need it and one can merge personal PDFs?
There is a similar effect when consuming alcoholic drinks in social settings: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11469-020-00321-0

> “Our study confirms the benefits of microdosing,..."

This is really horrible phrasing since normal the normal usage of the term "benefits" in this context would mean benefits relative to a placebo. In this experiments the benefits are zero since the LSD and control pills had the same effects.
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> bureaucracy IS the incentive

I don't agree there. There is no reason that someone has building bureaucracy as they're goal. The goal is to get something out of it, which is accomplished via the bureaucracy.

> We need to kill bureaucratic interests in EVERY THING.

While I don't necessarily disagree, this is orthogonal to the original issue.

> Politicians should be conscripted servants with no method for empowering or financing themselves.

I don't think conscripted means what you think it means...

Also, that would be impossible to implement. Either you don't try to cut off every path, in which case you have the option of limiting bureaucracy, or you try to cut off every path, increasing bureaucracy.

> They should run on policy ALONE.

I agree. Also orthogonal to the topic at hand. Also, please let me know if you find a way of implementing this without requiring bureaucracy as a critical component.
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For some reason people who cook in the USA believe that food isn't worth eating unless it looks like meat. I'm astonished at the amount of time that I go to eat "vegetarian" food anywhere and it's just the meat dish with fake meat in it.

Meanwhile, I go to India and check for vegetarian food, and suddenly it's like care and thought was actually put into making food that works for vegetarian ingredients instead of just substituting what's in a meat dish.
The hype around microdosing has been off the charts in the past few years. The claimed benefits range from improving mood to treating depression to improving cognition.

As this study shows, that hype might actually explain some of the effect. People primed to think they were microdosing claimed to feel significant improvements, even when receiving placebo.
They were teaching Ada in the Intro to Computer Science classes at Truman State in the mid-2000's as well. I think they eventually switched to Python sometime after I graduated 2008.
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> because someone else is also doing a wrong thing is going to make things better

It is ok to do wrong things against people who are doing bad things to you, yes.

The obvious example, would be you are being attacked, and you defend yourself with violence, which is normally "wrong".

> Who is going to think that YOU "deserve it"?

The other side is already engaging in these actions. Just accepting the bad actions against yourself, without a counter response, just leaves you open to being taken advantage of.

> People making ethical choices is one of the (many) things that make the world a better place.

Yes, and it is ethical to punish and retaliate against bad actors, so that they don't get away with the bad thing.

In the same way that it is ethical to defend yourself against assault, even though violence is normally wrong.
Isn't gnfs exponential to logN? although as I type that I realize that is clearly lower than x^N, it is still exponential albeit to length rather than value.

That said I only did 2nd year number theory, and I did that almost 20 years ago so 50/50 I'm totally wrong
This makes sense to me. I've never had a benefit from a microdose and now only do full doses.
My drug of choice is placebo. Minimal side effects. Inexpensive. The more I use it, the better it works. Has effects on a variety of ailments, both physical and psychological. I'm surprised they don't sell branded placebo at the pharmacy - "Super Placebo - now with organic filler". I think it could be a hot seller.
Local farms generally consume more carbon to get your goods to you. That's because the ratio of envelope : contents for each subsequent chain in transportation goes up exponentially. eg: It takes ~0.1kg of cargo ship to transport 1kg of food, ~1kg of container truck, ~5kgs of a pickup truck from a local farm and ~100-1000kgs of your personal car, depending on how much you buy per trip.

So buying food from a local farm delivered to you via pickup truck or having a farmer's market that's just a little bit further away from you than a grocery store or buying just a little bit less at the farmers market than you would at a grocery store can negate the entire difference of having foods shipped to you from all across the world.
It's a felony to store ANY pills outside of their original container.
I (a musician) once bought a book called "The Art of Self-Promotion for Musicians", written by an ex-musician! and have since noticed similar phenomena in many fields e.g. bloggers blogging about the courses they sell on making money by blogging etc.

p.s. There was a talk in my city once about making money as a musician...but I couldn't afford the entry fee.
This is what I love about United States, England, Russia, etc. during this era as well as pre-WWII. The rate of innovation, the enormous challenges, the bombe, the transitor, the Sputnik and countless innovations that was presumably a result of unity amongst people, great purpose to life and dedication to their nations.

Makes my hair stand up thinking about working on a project such as the Boston Camera. People like Feynman walked around alive and computers were being invented.

Hey Silicon Valley, why are we working on ads? (myself included). I wanna do something else.
Typed python takes ages to validate, and Python is much slower to run than Node.js, even with hacks like uvloop.

I've barked up that tree so many times, I don't think I'll ever go back to Python for that stuff in the future.
> this sort of component is usually handled by a standard library and not developed in-house anyway

Currently yes; that's what I'm arguing could change. Every library has to be written somewhere, and at a lot of jobs I've found myself rewriting the same should-be-standard pieces again and again.

> The stuff that's developed in-house is to service a customer need, and customer needs definitely change over time.

Yes and no. There are definitely parts of the system that change over time, but a lot of what gets written in-house ends up being surprisingly basic/generic things like database mapping, job scheduling etc.. You'd be surprised how often there just isn't a publicly available implementation of the thing you need even when it really "should" be part of the standard library.

> generally speaking they don't go bankrupt because of bad tech, though. It's usually imperfectly understood customer needs. No amount of perfect tech is going to stop that.

I'm not convinced. The way bad tech generally manifests itself is that the company is slow to react to changing customer needs, because it takes too long to make changes to their systems. Having been on the inside, I've definitely seen things that you would think from the outside are business failures but had poor technical choices at the root of why they happened.
Original post by Imperial College study cited in the FT article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26317408
Echo is defined differently in different shells ("not portable"). Also it can have arguments which breaks things sometimes:

echo Option -n invalid # OK
echo -n is not valid # Uh oh
printf '%s ' -n is not valid # Always okay

Generally you should use printf because of its consistency. For a simpler example of OP's:

panic() { printf '%s\n' "${0}: ${*}"; exit 1; }

Is fine. I don't see the need to pass a format string to your function. Just call:

panic "${download_url}: unable to download"
I know a lot of people who have done psychedelics and I don’t think any of them have ever been prosecuted for possessing them. I’ve only ever heard of that happening to dealers. In my head, possession is in the same category as speeding or downloading movies.

I don’t have statistics to back this up, and it could be a reflection of the privilege of my social group.
Video rendering is enormously wasteful. Nobody needs to see your TikTok video of you getting a grandma to slip on a banana peel. The list goes on. Having a global store of value where central banks cant print away peoples lifelong labor they sacrificed their time and health for sounds legitimate to me.
Interesting characterizing engineering as honestly, horrifying, low-hanging and regarding one approach to typing as translatable to all practices and the underlying assumption it conveys a guarantee of reliability. I don't find any of those things to be true (in isolation or together). Of course I only know so much so there's that.
I can't speak for the author, but I can speak from a similar path. Speaking for myself, I was self taught, and to even have a toehold in any kind of career I had to learn to prioritize advancement. Not having an educational or theoretical background, that meant evaluating "what seems most effective right now". I was late to adopt TDD, late to static types, late to FP, late to a zillion things... because I was prioritizing not being sent back to broke/poverty life. Once I had enough air to breathe I realized all of these things help serve me staying out of that misery, but the urgency of learning in the field doesn't always give room for that analysis.
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People disdain the humanities here, so they learn some lessons the hard way.

The real question is if people actually want to live in a society with absolute free speech. I think that’s a no.

Hate speech is protected as long as it doesn’t involve violence, but in practice, hate speech almost always leads to violence.

Something people never talk about is how the founding fathers thought that virtue was a necessary quality for a democracy. If we lived in a society that held virtue in high esteem, there would be no limits to speech. But we don’t, our society values fame over everything, even money.

Plus, we live in a post truth era. People hate truth-tellers here.

That’s why we can’t have free speech.
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Not all hardware fails undetectably though, and certainly it's possible to separate failure of a component from failure of the network connection to that component. There are definitely parts of a system that need to handle failure, but I think that's different from saying that every component needs to be treated as fallible.
I would separate two kinds of vaccine skepticism. One is the anti-vaxxor mentality of rejecting the premise of vaccination.

The other being that this new vaccine is developed so quickly that there hasn't been time to check for long term effects (in the order of years). Most existing vaccines took years to develop, and this allowed time for testing of long term effects.

I understand this second type of concern - the authorities need to put in some assurance about it, and re-ignite trust from those who are now very skeptical of the gov't and institutions. This skepticism can escape to other aspects of society - like trust in the election results, and other gov't institutions' neutrality and public good status. It is a crack in the system, which if not fixed quickly, could lead to the dam of democracy collapsing.
You're not making a point or advancing an argument. You're just describing what you think are the reasons for Bitcoin's creation and interest.
Inquiring minds would love to know about a practical solution. You can add more material, but that's extra bulk and weight. I think we can agree that a mountain is bullet proof, but that's not really practical.

Also, rifles are really good at shooting through shit. We're talking rifles from 1890s. People don't realize that a bullet from a rifle punches through steel plate (and then buy steel body armour like the plebs they are). Modern ar15/ak rifles are wusses by comparison- we traded big badass bullets for smaller ones that are lighter and easier to carry.

More awesome weapons like the rpg-7 basically create a stream of molten metal that goes right through armored vehicles. Or you use depleted uranium or tungsten, which get more dense as they heat up from friction of punching through things.

In the near future we'll have even more badass things like railguns that will go through meters of steel/ceramic/admantium.

So yeah, that mountain may not save you. Meanwhile, mars will be the same.
Relevant Mitchell & Webb microdosing alcohol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0
>If you treat housing as a public good, you make decisions to keep rent prices stable, and you build more housing to serve the need rather than the profit motive.

This argument strikes me as the tail wagging the dog. Vienna has no motive to limit housing since they build such an enormous percentage of it. If rents go up because the government of Vienna doesn't build enough housing, they will be removed from office. Profit is profit. Developers will build anything and everything that they can. The issue lies in the extreme costs involved in building anything new at all, mostly in graft by local municipalities and residents. If a municipality with a broken real estate market allowed housing to be built with less effort, more housing would be built.

Forty percent of Manhattan's buildings could not be built today.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-...
> you can't really afford to carefully vet each and every change

It's not about vetting. It's about documentation. Putting a list of breaking changes on the Releases page, if any, and who each affects (e.g. "users of the .getFirstName() method will need to call .getName() now") is much more valuable than "2.4". You're trying to fit the former into the latter, which you... just can't. Information theory forbids it.

I don't understand why we always jump to this dichotomy of "either you have a simple version scheme or you have to vet each and every single diff in every dependency and sub-dependency". No you don't - just read the release docs...
I was thinking it terms of general purpose computing, but yeah, static-only allocation make a lot of sense in some contexts (embedded, some HPC workloads) and that would sidestep the usual overhead of the allocator.
Can this communicate back to your phone? One thing I loved with my Pebble was being able to pause/skip music on my phone without looking, using the physical buttons.
> Besides the commit raising questions about Gab’s process for developing secure code, the social media site is also facing criticism for removing the commits from its website. Critics say the move violates terms of the Affero General Public License, which governs Gab’s reuse of Mastodon, an open source software package for hosting social networking platforms.

Lmao, that's not how AGPL works. Although, it would be pretty funny if a license explicitly required you to post all your Ls for public ridicule.
No, sorry, JSC cannot ever be really REALLY fast.
Yeah, we should not blame software engineer Fosco Marotto for introducing a rookie error into the site, we should blame the person in charge of setting up standards and processes so such errors never make it into production, Fosco Marotto!
I am still thinking why POWER doesn't get the support or traction.
There is a newer pre-release, and there are much more recent commits:

https://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/xforms/
https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/xforms.git/log/
Similar, a gf capturing the evolution of our knowledge of Puto in somewhat less than a century: https://i0.wp.com/www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/fu...
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It's called homeopathy.
If it was exponential to log N then the exp and the log would cancel.

It's exponential to a sublinear function (cube root) of log N, not log N. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_number_field_sieve

> The running time of the number field sieve is super-polynomial but sub-exponential in the size of the input.
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There are arguments that the placebo effect plays a large role in the observed treatment effects of psychedelics.

One of the hallmarks of psychedelics is a (drug induced) sense of profundity and enlightenment. If you tell someone that they're about to have a life-changing experience, then you give them a drug that induces the feeling of a life-changing experience, it's likely that they'll walk away thinking they've had a life-changing experience and change their behavior accordingly.

I agree that their conclusion is borderline misleading. Traditional antidepressant studies also show a high placebo response rate, but approved SSRIs diverge from placebo in studies. Their success is largely measured by how far they diverge from the placebo groups.

If an SSRI study showed that the medications were identical to placebo yet concluded that the SSRIs had benefit, it would be soundly rejected. Yet when the same conclusion appears in a study about psychedelics, it seems to get a free pass. I think this speaks volumes about the current bias toward psychedelic medicine.
Hey Wakahiu, thanks for the comment. There is no secret sauce. Its the community.
We think there is a big need for product like this in developing countries who are mostly on Android. Clubhouse is not there yet. So we built one.
Oh god. I’ve seen the future.

That reminds me of a certain college campus food service that signed an exclusive contract with Coke.

Coke brand milk.

Coke brand grade D but edible meat (we found the box in the dumpster).

Hell, they even f———ed up the soft drinks because they had hyper-optimized machines that mixed corn syrup, citric acid, flavor, co2 and water on site. The mix, and therefore PH, was frequently so far off that students would fall ill for 4-8 hours with convulsive stomach cramps and miss class about once a week. In fairness, it was still better than the milk.

So. Much. Food. Poisoning.

Decades later, I’m still boycotting those ^{+$&@! $@&&}^+# &@$@&s!
The problem is, Javascript was never meant to be typed. It was never meant for what we use it for, even. When you start adding guard-rails to a language that already has guard-rails, what are you left with?

We spent more time screwing around with our Typescript types, getting the compiler to be happy, working around bugs with type assertions, etc. than we did focusing on the app logic at some points.

This kind of stuff, to compare, never really happens with C++. The type system is simple enough (compared to TS) that you can pretty confidently fix type errors quickly. I don't like Rust, but I know that the same occurs with Rust's type errors, too. Why is TS so difficult?

Because Microsoft created a type system that is so complex it can represent (almost) any type in a dynamically typed language. It's impressive, but not at all practical.
Ask HN: Dozens of transpile mutants for JavaScript and no Elvis Operator. Why?
Why is there no Elvis Operator for object member access?

const a = someObject?mightExist?couldExist?shouldExist?value
I'm just going off of the title, but I would expect microdosing to naturally involve only small effects.
The 8 figure price tag for a RTG makes consumer use uneconomical.
Ah ok thanks. (Well, their sentence told me nothing...maybe because I'm not in USA.)
Like the other commenters said, ahrefs, moz and other competitors provide similar information too.

It's useful for people doing SEO, not much else.
Does this caveat still apply when you only use a single short-circuit operator in a given command? As a long time shell scripter I'd honestly be a little afraid to use more than one at a time.
I wonder how they passed IRB review. Did the doctors literally tell them "we're giving you nothing" or "you probably got nothing". The first seems like it wouldn't pass review these days...
I have this same idea on my to-do list. Great that people are experimenting with webapps that don't send any data!
Do you have an answer that isn't speculation or something you concluded from a breezy stroll over to Wikipedia?

Stop mocking questions. It solves nothing.
Is there any particular reason it's unlisted?