skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile people literally google around for small businesses and sue them for operating in historic buildings without ADA access. Congrats, bobs coffee shop is now starbucks!
The Chinese are big on this "mock" meat too... which as a vegetarian I almost always find disgusting. Just give me legumes, nuts, seeds, mushrooms, leaves, roots, etc.

Tofu and seitan are about the only processed foods that I ever eat.
This show discusses Tegmark's new project, which is located here: https://www.improvethenews.org
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From the abstract:

> This study used a ‘self-blinding’ citizen science initiative, where participants were given online instructions on how to incorporate placebo control into their microdosing routine without clinical supervision. The study was completed by 191 participants, making it the largest placebo-controlled trial on psychedelics to-date.

So everyone in the study presumably was interested in microdosing and, given that they would have sourced the drugs themselves, knew what they could have been taking.

Unless I’m misunderstanding. Either way, the methodology here seems really suspect to me.
> If you so much as have a single @ts-ignore or "any" in your code base, then all bets are off on correct behavior.

I've been writing a ton of TS since 2016 and in most of those projects we've had liberal use of 'any' or even incorrect types (!). It's still far better than vanilla JS. The argument that "it doesn't work all the time therefore it's worse" makes no sense to me.

Ultimately the issues you're talking about make logical sense academically, but nobody has ever raised them as problems in the real world that I've ever encountered.

Full typing makes my job easy, but a little bit of typing is still better (in most cases) than no typing at all. There is an argument to be made about simplicity for small codebases, but those aren't the ones I'm talking about.
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Nah, I have my permissions managed as IAM roles on the Lambda. It becomes way more complex to do something than to just `bin/push` up my lambdas and test in "almost prod".
The radiation emitted by plutonium 238, which is what's found inside RTGs, is easily shielded by essentially any solid material.

The real reason you don't want an RTG powering your fridge is that it costs on the order of one million dollars per watt.
Definitely agree -- It's on par with the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, and very fun to explore since it's divided between four hangers. Definitely worth a visit for anyone in that area.
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GPS and maaaybe compass are the only two things I lack in Watchy
No, it’s the definition of a local problem. Housing where I live is affordable. I sure as hell don’t want voters in San Francisco mucking with my housing policy through a federal solution to solve their own self-inflicted problems. It’s a recipe for exporting insane SF/NYC housing policies to the rest of the country.
Nuclear reactors are better and have economies of scale, it doesn't make much sense to everyone have their own.
I absolutely love the idea of this tool but all my Lambdas are Python or Golang. I'll watch your repo for progress on that front!
It wasn’t a small problem. In 1880 there were 2.5 million pounds of poop per day in New York. https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/clay10/2019/11/11/horse-manure-in-ma...

In 1880 NYC’s population was 2 million. Today there are 23 million in the metropolitan area. We probably still wouldn’t have a good way of dealing with 25M+ pounds of poop a day. And at least garbage disposal is relatively orderly; horses just pooped everywhere.
There's no love here, you're killing the animal. Don't delude yourself.
More than likely, 99% of that cost is the container and the apparatus to make use of its energy. [0][1]

[0] https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-most-expensive-element-606...).

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sci....
how did you do the lines between boxes? yahoo pipes had this and I always wondered how they did it.
> I think a language in Python's niche that was created today would have a simple type system with extensive inference

How do you think a “simple type system”, suitable for a Python-like language, would look?

The type systems that have been developed for Python itself, for example MyPy, are far from simple.
Here is a graph of Texas's generation by source during that time and the surrounding time. It seems borderline dishonest to have an article about this topic not include this. The sharp dip in the middle on the image (the beginning of Feb 15th) is when my power went out. https://postimg.cc/FfG4XdDy
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> What is the contextual meaning of “AFFIANT SAYS NOTHING FURTHER.”?

"That's all, folks"
Each Mars Rover uses 5 kilograms of plutonium 238. (Plutonium 239 is the one that is used in nuclear bombs.)

Per https://www.wired.com/story/nasas-mars-rover-will-be-powered... we currently have a lab dedicated to producing it, and it makes 3.5 pounds per year.

Per https://www.npr.org/2011/11/08/141931325/the-plutonium-probl... the cost of getting the lab restarted was a bit shy of $100 million. And once running fully it costs millions of dollars to run.

At those cost points it would be cheaper to deliver you a brand new fridge each month for the next 20 years than to deliver you a single fridge using plutonium to run without external electricity for the same 20 years. Not to mention that the plutonium itself is toxic.
With my custom watchface I built, I sync ntp and weather every hour. I get about 100 hours of battery from it (4+ days).
Risk?

That is my basic opposition. Happy to be flexible on energy in almost every way. Cost, type, uptime...

But error with nuclear tech tends to endure for a very long time. Fukushima will be raising ocean radiation for a long time, just one example.

These are many lifetime events. Some minor, or recoverable, some profound.

Given we can reasonably run the fridge on solar, and other tech, that risk does not seem to make sense to a lot of people.

Doesn't to me.

Now, that said I am not ideologically opposed. Other tech could very seriously improve risk profile. Maybe it becomes worth it.

Then again, the fridge in my RV can run on a small flame, or a very low current source. And no moving parts!

So, we could make fridges differently too. Make tradeoffs.
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No, that is not a waste disposal system, it's how tech companies and other companies that sell gadgets fool their eco customers into thinking they are "recycling" something that cannot in principle be safely recycled. It is yet another example of going through a kabuki ritual rather than effectively dealing with the problem.
Even ignoring the federal analogue act, they can still hold you in jail while they “wait for testing” of whatever substance.
This is ridiculous. Consciousness may be mysterious, but the fact that something emits sound when you break it doesn’t bring it into the same ethical domain as cows and other mammals with brains and an obvious desire and ability to avoid pain and death.
They don't have to accept the deals, they'd have the __option__ and I'm trying to make it easier for them to take the highest bidding option so that someone knows they have the best deal. The highest bid from among bids in their area.

This is to ensure a __fair evaluation__ of a property's value on a real market, rather than some random assessor's opinion.
if they slip that shit in their food without telling us I will be very upset.
Stupid question maybe but like is there a reason the picture quality seems worse than a decent dslr photo? I'm so curious what that photo would look like, taken with an everyday camera, without the bizarre 'scientific' look of these shots.
i don't believe the official story for 1 minute.
Unlike many great ideas, those in the paper you cite just haven't yet gathered enough acceptance.

The value of the US dollar as a reserve currency is a faith-based article, and yet it works well. The confidence in the Fed to not unduly dilute the value has reinforced the resolve of the participants to continue to accept it as currency.

Bitcoin's paid many years of dues in this regard as well, and its garnered the confidence of its market participants despite its deficiencies.
just ban his ass.
Agreed. When I didn't need to boot up BREW or whatever it was called to access google at what felt like 1Bps anymore, it was a game changer. This alone was a huge improvement - I had real access to the web all of a sudden, from anywhere.
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I would think with the wind and sand storms that it'd be dangerous leaving it exposed for a month before you even get to use it. Does the rover park on top of it during storms for minimal protection?
I think you misunderstood me. I don't need to go on a diet, and I've never really tried. But I've felt and observed that medications change my internal thermostat that governs when I feel hungry. So, similar to lab experiments where they use an artificial proxy for a human illness, I think that bupropion's effect on my induced weight gain might be evidence it works on the natural kind - again, not medical advice, but after all, the FDA approved it for that purpose. I'm not taking it for weight loss precisely, but it is a replacement for an SSRI, and weight loss is a convenient side effect.

In my opinion, psychology, willpower, exercise, healthy foods, are all overrated as driving factors for obesity. All that really matters is your internal regulator of feelings of hunger. There may not be a perfect "diet pill" but it seems to me that if it is straightforward to induce weight gain (and eventually type 2 diabetes) with a pill, then there's no reason to doubt the feasibility of a good diet pill in principle.

Then again, if I put on my "devil's advocate" cap, there could be a fundamental difference between someone whose "thermostat" is stable at a weight that is too high and someone whose setting is stuck on "max". But very few people really gain weight without limit.

Something that really bugs me about prescription meds is, after a while you notice that drugs get invented or first approved for one thing, and then it turns out they are useful for something totally different, which really means that nobody is looking at what the drug truly is, in a holistic sense, in all its dimensions. Like, if e.g. mitochondria are important to understanding one drug, then we should be going back and looking with new eyes at all drugs that we already have to see how they affect that aspect of the body. Because not only maybe the old drugs have new possible applications, but maybe we were all wrong about why they worked in the old applications. I fear there's no incentive to, mostly, because if something's FDA approved and has a market, why bother thinking about it any more.
again? why does this shit keep happening?
They are, and IIRC they prevent real PUDs, what you're referring to is probably a private co-operative not technically a PUD. I believe sources have attributed the laws to incumbent providers (Think Comcast, USWest and either GTE or Verizon at the time, and whomever those properties have been resold / bought out by since then).
I believe the most recent iteration of star trek is particularly guilty of stealing "time crystals" from the science news headlines and applying it to this sci-fi trope.
My issue with TypeScript is that it simultaneously has some complex features that result in types that are hard to follow and yet it also lacks simple abilities like creating a type for a number within a certain range. I end up wanting to use Joi to further validate the types, not because I need runtime validation, but just because it's significantly more thorough and in some cases easier to read, too. But then I end up with a lot of duplication between Joi and TypeScript. It holds a lot of promise but there's too much friction there.
This is my first hand experience. My life was a codependent mess, I was depressed and having suicidal thoughts.

I took a "heroic dose" of psilocybin, and during the ~4 hour trip I fell asleep and I was convinced I had died. I re-experienced my forgotten birth and felt the pain of my circumcision. I experienced a bunch of unexplainable things, fractal patterns and music, and explored a Interstellar(2014)-like tesseract where I could choose any place in time to return to. I decided to return to myself in the present time, rather than pass on to whatever comes after my life.

I awoke in a puddle of urine and vomit. My body felt like it had been hard-reset and I felt little pains here and there which I had completely forgotten about and my brain had just become used to and ignored. I immediately felt better about my mess of a life, and happy that it's what I get to work with and make better. I used that positive momentum to get pumped about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, where I did a lot of good work on myself.

For therapeutic effect of psychedelics, I think the uncomfortable mind-body separation experience is necessary.
Not if you paid for the stuff in Euros.

But if you changed the appreciated Euros back into dollars, you’d at least theoretically owe tax on a foreign exchange gain.

For pocket money, no one is going to bother with it.

But I’ve been in situations involving hundreds of thousands of dollars held for long periods in foreign currencies, where the tax consequences were real. There’s a line on the 1040 to account for foreign exchange gain/loss.
> Seattle now has an ordinance that they must rent to the first applicant who qualifies. This is to prevent discrimination against minorities.

Isn’t it already illegal to discriminate against minorities in renting housing?
Using some simple math (and somewhat inaccurate math), let's calculate the chance of the null hypothesis being true: he has no skill and it is just luck, assuming 10% annualized volatility for the market and 8% annualized return. By my calculation, over the six year period, there's a 4.82e-18 chance that his returns are due to luck and the null hypothesis is true. Of course I'm simplifying a lot, but I think you get the idea.

Also, you don't need to do anything "particularly unique" to generate very impressive returns. No firm (besides maybe RenTec) is doing anything that is truly out there and on another level: employees join and leave, ideas get passed around, etc. And yet, there are many top tier firms that end up hitting out of the park, year after year.

People on HN always make these cheap throwaway comments about "expert coin-flippers" and "survivorship bias" when talking about finance. I'm not sure exactly why, but I think it comes from disdain for finance. I also think that the idea that some people are just better at generating wealth through the markets can be uncomfortable.

Anyways, the chance of his returns being luck is extremely small, any which way you cut it.
Is proof of waste not a suitable name? It's proof a huge quantity of resources were wasted on deriving some random garbage you can append to a piece of data to obtain a certain number of leading zeroes on a SHA lol. 600kWh per transaction. Horrifying.

And of course, always a pleasure haha.
And Chiropractic. I would like to throw Psychiatry is there too, but they do seem to have some drugs that get people through short term misery. Read this the next time you wonder if that expensive antidepressant is really doing anything.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/
And that will work fine for 1 person or 10 people but not 100 people or the 1000 in that rent controlled building in NYC, because you don't have a Manhattan's worth of jobs for working people in some suburb in New Jersey. Sure, some people can afford the car, the insurance, the gas, the parking, the hours a day commuting, but for those that can't, they end up on the street. In some areas, like in CA, you really don't save very much at all going out to the suburbs. A house like this one (1) would be literally 1/10th the price if not less somewhere else, but such is the housing market for some metropolitan areas in the US these days.

1. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/20722-Pioneer-Blvd-Lakewo...
i sold at 50k via a stop loss order
Well, the counter is that you shouldn't be driving and that it's intentionally unpleasant to discourage that behavior.
It was so long ago and I forgot the book’s name. But the gist of it is the reason why most advice fails is they assume we can devote all of our time to advice X. Most of us have extremely busy lives. Our energy. Our time. Our focus is our most precious asset. We need to carefully manage it. At the same time we have to prevent falling into an echo chamber and always honestly be willing to listen to differing opinions even if we disagree with them.
Exactly correct. I suspect that in the not-too-distant future we will need to move to multi-disk filesystem-level clustering on the storage nodes for some of the reasons laid out in the talk but it's not at all unlikely that we retain the "disconnected mirror" abstraction for redundancy.

Additionally, as I alluded to in the video, we regularly end up going down into the details and when this happens being able to closely examine and understand a disk's contents as written directly at the LBA using fibmaps and similar tooling is invaluable. I have personally been involved in the discovery of multiple possible-data-loss hard drive firmware bugs, and our catalog system is very paranoid about integrity checking. Modern hard drives are computers unto themselves and layering additional complexity on top of that (particularly complexity which might obscure or silently correct errors in the underlying datastream) is something I approach very carefully.
Yeah you’d have to be pretty arrogant or careless to actually get in trouble for this
Many advocate for the use of Thorium instead.
I've been using Elvis or (nullish chaining) in Chrome extensions. I think the syntax is ?. (Question mark period).
This is helpful. Generally if I need to do any pdf manipulation when I'm away from my own machine I use an android app - PDF Utils [1].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pdf.shash.com....
I don't think it's clear why the root of a plant like a carrot should have any special significance except to us. What about onions, turnips, potatoes, etc?

That said, there are some who do think the roots are significant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_vegetarianism
I don't think you can call it vegan.

Millenia of meat eating went into the making of this "meat".
Coming from someone who grew up in a car culture city, learned to drive at 18, bought my first car at 19, and drove most days of the week... I'm much happier without a car. I don't want to have to own one again. In hindsight, car culture feels like a jail that I didn't realize I was born into.

I moved to Tokyo 5 years ago. If I want to get somewhere, I walk to one of three train stations within a 10 minute walk, hop on the train, and am there in – usually – about 30 minutes. There's always the option to take a taxi, but they're often no faster than train. I can still drive out to the mountains if there's no train to the one I want to climb, because there are more car rental shops within walking distance than there are train stations.

Sure, there are cars in this city. They're useful tools that make a lot of sense for many people to own. But the average person chooses to live without one, because in a city designed for people instead of cars, life can actually be better that way.
> The conclusions this "study" reached could also be arrived at by just reading what microdosing is.

there's tons of anecdotal reports of people experiencing tangible benefits from subperceptual microdosing; this study is valuable in that it tests those hypotheses in a semi-controlled setting.
On a side note, that graph is almost unreadable to me. What, are we paying by the pixel now? The legend is barely there.
> This should be turned around. There is no evidence that part for the codebase really need to be ported and for which Rust makes a real difference.

I was thinking that if the maintainers were planning on porting some other larger part of the codebase, then starting with something small/relatively inconsequential would be a good first step, and keeping it in C wouldn't provide much benefit once said other larger part were ported.

> Also, the package wbond/asn1crypto has shown that doing ASN.1 in pure Python can be quite fast.

Interesting! I'm curious why the maintainers didn't opt for that approach instead.

> The ability to try the feature out and still have a plan B if it doesn't work out

Would people have tried this feature out if it were made opt-in? It's clear that the initial announcements reached far fewer people than one might like, and I honestly have no idea how many people would see a build-time warning.
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Smaller footprint in my mind doesn't refer to download size which is minimal in either case but the footprint or impact on a project. IMO It is way harder to move off of jquery once it has been fully utilized throughout the project than to swap a single function to/from lodash once a core API has a better way of handling it. Using JQuery demands you buy into the whole ecosystem whereas Lodash is modular.

Also as others have mentioned caches are individually isolated for each domain now to prevent tracking/data leaks.
Honestly burning it just might be better. Without doing any calculations my intuitions tell me it would be minuscule on the global scale and the benefit of that garbage not going into the ocean would outweigh the added air pollution.
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We used to power pacemakers this way. There might still be a person with plutonium inside.
I am 100% sure that none of the code I’ve written in the past 20 years interpolates user input into SQL. There is absolutely no excuse for this, and there hasn’t been for a very long time. Prepared statements have been a thing for longer than half the users of this website have been alive.

Remember Bobby Tables? That was 2007.
"imperceptible" refers to the actual psychidelic experience; microdosing is not supposed to produce the auditory or visual hallucinations of macrodosing. that such a dose would or would not have other effects is not analytically obvious.
We are upgrading again-- the pandemic has made us kind-of popular.

Because of budget we tend to use things up 100% before putting more in.
Everyone gets rent control, whether they'd be "on the street" otherwise or not. My brother lived in SF and drove down the peninsula to Google (an hours long commute) while living in a rent controlled apartment for 10+ years while rent was shooting through the roof. He's not the only one. There's obviously a lot of people living on the street in sf -- rent control has failed to stop that.
This is the textbook example of what not to do with SQL queries. You can't even learn SQL or an SQL library API without being warned against this a dozen times.

If the CTO pushed this code, and the processes the CTO themself is responsible for designing did not catch this, it is safe to say the CTO is incompetent.