skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a big city and use car sharing, and I don't think it works great at all. The fundamental problem with it, and the thing that is always overlooked in the calculations of how much time private cars are unused, is that everyone wants the cars at the same time. Mornings + afternoons (commute times) and weekends. Also highly depending on the weather, which means even planning a day ahead is very hard. If it's sunday afternoon and the weather is nice, good luck finding a free car in the car sharing.
And why would that be, pray tell?
We do forget that medicine is a 20th century science. Even for most of the 1900s, doctors were performing wholly unscientific and unethical things.

They still barely know anything. Medical science with proper epistemology is young, perhaps younger than the advent of modern computer science.

So there's lots of stuff that's just grandfathered. And because very little modern medicine has the ambition to try real novelty, we never retest the grandfathered taboos.
A strong argument against nuclear is that the costs and benefits are very spread out in time (random numbers follow) say: 10 years of construction, 50-70 years of operation, 10 years of decommissioning. Who is willing to make an investment in an unstable region that will pay itself back in 20 years? And then save money for another 20 years to pay for decommissioning?

Unless of course a military coup happens and contracts are nullified, or riots, or conflict or etc..

And even worse, how can you ensure someone will be around willing to put in the effort to safely decommission something that has no more value? Even in the most developed and stable nations this is and will be a challenge. Who wants to put in the effort to clean up the previous generations mess.
The other problem with solar in the desert is the panels are black. If you have enough to make a difference in energy production you'll also cause a significant amount of warming.

https://theconversation.com/solar-panels-in-sahara-could-boo...
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> Maybe "everything should be legal", but with some age clauses / agreement of a medical doctor? Maybe the law should be replaced with other measures?

People often overlook that "legal" doesn't necessarily mean, for example, you can just open a shop and start selling magic mushrooms. "Legal" covers all of your above options. Alcohol is legal, but it's heavily licensed, taxed and restricted. In some countries (Scandinavian in particular), you can only buy booze from government kiosks. Similarly, DXM cough syrup is legal, but you'll find it difficult to "legally" walk into a pharmacy and buy enough for you and a friend to get high. Many prescription drugs are legal, but yeah, you need a medical doctor to approve your use of them.

The fact that certain substances are illegal and classified as dangerous and/or useless for medical purposes is another ramification regardless of your ability to go purchase X drug or item. There are "legal" substances that are dangerous (but not fun) that are widely studied, bought and used - for example, cyanide. Saying "magic mushrooms are illegal and you can't study them with science" because they're fun is, by comparison, kind of mad.

Anyway, I'm sure none of you needed pharmacies, prescriptions or off-license booze shops explaining to you, but there's nuance to the legal status of a substance beyond "it's banned" vs "you can go buy it in a shop right now" that some people can miss when you bring up the topic.
New tool makes students better at detecting fake imagery and videos
Right now coal is not cheap - China and India are the only ones building new coal stations and in the case of China, the new coal capacity is not being added for economic reasons but because of the local vs central government politics.

The economics of electricity generation have been transformed in the last couple of years - for example, the LCOE from on-shore wind and solar has dropped 80-90% in less than 10 years. Prices for renewables and even grid-scale batteries are falling so fast that you cannot even trust financial analysis of electricity generation from a year ago.

Burning coal is now 2 to 3 times as expensive as on-shore wind, for example. Nuclear is over times as expensive. Where governments aren't forcing the market to use coal, nobody is building new coal generators.

This price shift has had a very visible effect on coal generation for example - you can see it in graphs of global electricity sources - after a long period of growth, coal generation (as a share of the total) has been dropping since 2013.

The fact that wind and solar are not dispatchable unlike coal and nuclear turns out to not actually be a deal-breaking problem for expanding renewable generation considerably.

Quite a few European countries which now generate nearly 50% of their electricity through renewables. None have grid-scale batteries and many don't have nuclear. As a whole Europe gets about a third of their electricity from renewables. And even the US is at about 20-25%?

You can achieve these sort of percentages with a low-tech approach. You over-provision wind/solar generation and use derating in the case of wind to cut generation if demand is very low. This is feasible because of the cheapness of these power sources.

In tandem with NG peaker plants and a small amount of storage (hydro and some batteries for stabilization) and/or interconnectors, we have seen countries achieved 40%+ renewable electricity without any effect on the reliability of domestic supply. This share is still rising, so the limits of this approach are not yet apparent.
In this case it's way cheaper to put those panels on your house.

No weight or vibration requirements, can use the electricity for your house too.

The only downside is you need to plug in.
Generally the basic cubensis type, roughly 3g dried is considered a single dose, others are usually more potent. What I did (I think I've read it on erowid), was to mix dried shrooms with pure fresh lemon juice.

The result is properly disgusting (too sour and shrooms taste horribly and shrooms brought me almost to vomit), BUT - it makes the trips shorter (say 3 hours instead of more exhausting 6) and much more intense.

What OP describes with "really high doses", well, I went beyond with those 3g, not sure how much further. But there are few 'tricks' to make it happen. 1) be alone (so not good for those who are anxious and on first trip), so that nobody interferes with the experience and you can just go deeper and deeper if you want; 2) close your eyes, ideally laying on the couch/bed, having some relaxing soft music as a background (I had some shamanic sounds which were positively adding to the experience I believe). Visual sensory input and managing of the body is too strong for the brain to ignore, it will throttle the trip significantly.

After some time, losing gradually all my senses, losing any mental connection with all parts of the body, I ended up as a mist of atoms, egoless, just watching from distance, swirling in the music that was playing in the background although I didn't hear it directly (weird, I know, hard to describe). Imagine hot steam sauna, if you have light there you can see droplets swirling.

What was also impressive was coming down, since the process of re-discovery of my physical self, be it hand or breathing or eye muscles was more pronounced compared to losing it, one at a time. This part took easily 30-60 minutes if uninterrupted. And at the end the utter sense of peace with all universe. I am not spiritual/religious and this didn't change that, but I understood back then where religions come from and why they tell us more about ourselves rather than god itself (but that's my own conclusion). Profound, 1 in top 3 most intense experiences in life, repeatedly (didn't do it for last 10 years though, kind of took from it what I needed and could I guess).

Mind you, at any time, I could interrupt it and stand up, losing 90% of the current state. Maybe on higher dosages this wouldn't be possible so easily (but they say vitamin C or sugar terminates the trip pretty quickly, not sure never needed it).

Also, having issues, anxiety, going though harder parts of life ain't a good combination with any mind-altering drug, or any drug for that matter.
> On the topic of banks and software, I can't understand for the life of me why almost all of the banks in Canada and US have comical level of security.

Multiple reasons:

1) They're banks. Banks are run by the worst type of MBA beancounters you can imagine - all that counts is profits (and the more the better, which is why way too many banks dabble in investment banking aka legalized gambling), and IT doesn't bring in profits, so generally bank IT is only doing the utterly minimal effort that is required to stay in compliance with regulatory demands. As you can imagine, they're pretty much overwhelmed when they get requirements that require overhauls - e.g. the EU mandating overnight SEPA transfers or real-time identity confirmation (PSD2).

2) The tech stacks are comically old and complex (which is the reason for pin-only passwords). The decades-old mainframe stack with hundreds of custom built applications interfacing to it means that even something as innocent as alphanumeric passwords may be all but impossible to do. And don't get me started on Unicode, you're lucky if the base minimum that all connected applications understand is something like ISO-8859.

3) Related to this: as the software is so old, it literally embodies decades of knowledge of all possible kind of "edge cases" and hidden assumptions. Like... developers assume that a dead person stays dead, which is a sane thing to believe since zombies aren't real, but then you have someone declared dead by court reappear alive, and suddenly the workflow breaks down. Or that someone who registered as male can't change their legal gender, or that there are only two genders (which is quite fucking over many many MANY industries who implemented gender as a boolean, e.g. is_female), or that a marriage exclusively consists of husband and wife (changing that one is costing the public sector an awful lot of work, even many years after same-sex marriage got legalized in Germany).

4) Security audits in big companies (not just banks) are just checklists for insurance vendors, no matter if they actually make sense or not. All that matters for the C-level execs is "assuming someone hacks us, will insurance find a way to deny payments?" and not "is this actually secure?".

5) Regulatory agencies are so risk averse it hurts. What they don't know for years is haram - Kubernetes? Cloud hosting? Even proposing that will get you as a developer a shoot-down order from legal, since the regulatory agencies won't certify it.

Source: done a couple jobs involving either interfacing or directly working with medical and banking services.
Looks like FILE_ID.DIZ appeared in the 90s and this software predates it.
Moving from academia to work, one of my biggest challenges was actually using tools.

If I couldn't roll out my own stuff, it felt like cheating, and I would always get fixated on being able to write my own libraries.

Whenever I'd lift perfectly fine and working code off StackExchange, or use some libraries that did mostly everything for me, I'd get the same anxious feel that I got in college, when writing a report/paper and not citing my sources.

This kind of behavior made me waste a lot of time and energy, trying to re-invent and optimize the wheel, over and over again.
> Actually I don't think it is moral. This idea of going somewhere remote and just living off the land.

Consider how much of the fruits of our labor ends up in landfills and this seems like a somewhat disastrous philosophy to me.
Every knot I know now, I originally learned in Boy Scouts. Because I actually sat down and practiced them for a week+.

Best advice for learning: get a convenient (2-4' depending on knots) piece of rope, thin enough to be portable, thick enough to be manageable, and practice tying knots as a fidget spinner

Initially it will be tough and require thought, but for a lot of the patterns you can do it without looking after a bit of practice. And repetition breeds memory.
I'm wondering- Sweden drove on the left until relatively recently (they switched in 1967), even though most cars were left-hand drive. Did this mean that the Swedish postal service was more likely to be set up for mail to be delivered without the carrier having to get out of their car- as they would probably be driving an LHD car on the left anyway?
'Client- and server-side stream processing is application specific'

Sounds like write it yourself using two streams
You might also look at Canonical MAAS (maas.io) which will get you some of the way there too.

Though, that's more of the traditional server management approach, if properly set up, you can have it worry about the network configuration and pushing it to clients.

To me, it beats the entire IoT pull setup that Canonical is pushing with Ubuntu Core and snaps.
https://discord.com/channels/357922255553953794/370570978188...
I've been watching these this year non stop, therse something insanely therapeutic about them.

They also work as a great vector to plan outdoor trips for after the lockdowns.
I'm coming from the view of /r/antiwork and the "bullshit jobs" book by David Graeber.

> I do not see a problem with inequality.

Income inequality and social inequality are problems, maybe not to you, but is it for many people around the world. It causes political tensions and many other problem: sanitary, social, environmental, etc.

I'm essentially talking about measured productivity, the meaning of productivity for people and if it can really fit into their lives. Productivity can have this sort of robotized meaning, soul-less meaning of how humans are being valued as individuals. Productivity is not the same for a musician, a fast food employee a writer, a programmer, a mechanic, a teacher, etc.

I'm not denying that a lot of people are thriving in their work, happy about it, and always eager to share how happy they are, but in times of inequality, it's not always so rosy for everyone.

Maybe your view of the world is one of a dominant, and you refuse to acknowledge it because you have all the good reasons. And it's understandable to be self-centered when all is good. But no man is an island.

If you put COVID and climate in perspective, you can see that the productivity model is outdated and requires some change. There is food for everyone, everything is built, so why should work be mandatory to get food and shelter? The individualism and libertarian ideals cannot work for everyone. It's unfair to tell people "you must create value if you want to eat". Philosophically it doesn't make sense, because food is everywhere.

Maybe I'm projecting a lot of my opinions through my own issues, but in a way, I'm expressing my concerns because I can, and I do.
Feel like it’s mostly driven by FOMO and social pressure right now. I have a friend who told me that his accountant adviced him to invest in crypto (bitcoin) “because a person that his following with his job recently purchased a Ferrari after a Bitcoin investment”.
While using a regular truck is likely much more cost effective than having a specific one (less investment, easier repairs, ...), each design may be optimal for some situations: some trucks have the size to load pallets, some are equipped to load big/heavy stuff, ...

Most regular vehicles are not optimised for many/small/various packages and are not optimised for high frequency in/out and searching/unloading as mail trucks would need. You'll easily see how the package/postal delivery drivers loose time searching the packages through the back and energy bending, opening/closing doors when they use such regular trucks.

One of the great things here is how they seem to look for best posture and efficiency for the driver: it's not only about speed of delivery, but likely to also prevent accidents during the trip, injuries from the work, ...
Plus wanting clearance between the hood and the engine block.
Any suggestions? Spain has been a potential target for temporary relocation for me!
> I have no idea what purpose calling the next most specific function would serve.

This is a replacement for calling the superclass, but it uses C3 method resolution order.
Sorry but why would you write a latency sensitive, text processing heavy tool like this in Javascript? Highly likely this won't scale well in future. One would think the resounding success of esbuild would inspire next generation of front-end tools to be better but this is just disappointing.
Your arguments are true, but you did not consider the complexity that you have now introduced in a small shop operation. You will need kubernetes knowledge and experienced engineers on that matter. I would argue that the SO setup with 9 webservers, 2x2 DB servers and 2 redis servers could easily be administered with 20 year old knowledge about networks and linux/windows itself.

And I also argue, lack of experience of fiddling with redundant kubernetes is a more likely source of downtime than hardware failure and keeping things simple.
> 'quote redacted'...

This is enough info to get him in trouble with his employer. (Apple is very strict about Apple-related side-hustles, especially the ones not through the 'proper' channels like jailbroken devices). Might be worth rewording this.
Agreed, the original CoreOS is by far my favorite server OS so far. I was very sad to see it get sold to RedHat, though few other people shared my concern at the time[0]. I wish I could say my concern turned out to be unjustified, but alas here we are.

I do recommend Flatcar linux though, and strongly encourage everyone to check it out. Not as jazzed about the name, but what’s in a name?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16270382
China's Plan to Compete with SpaceX
Sure, though you have to get people to vote opposite their personal interests, granted that’s fairly common behavior. Anyway, this seems to be something you can’t actually say as people strongly object without articulating why.
Why is a modern forum (like Discourse on your own domain) not an option?
Core Web Vitals Becoming Ranking Signals in May 2021
no because then I would have to sit next to unstable homeless people. pass
What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34
Can't find it right now, but there was also an interesting paper ~7 years ago that showed that myelination occurs more readily if myelination occurs regularly (vs. the first time in a longer timespan).

That always stuck with me, as it could potentially mean on a higher level that learning itself is a skill that can and needs to be exercised regularly. I'm wondering if that could also explain the decline in neuroplasticity with age. Would love to hear if anyone knows about some newer research in that area!
Sure, fair enough, but that's what he says.
> Public transport still doesn't cover all the use cases of a car.

Of course. OTOH, Instead of using my car, congesting traffic and spewing smoke from my back twice everyday, I'd only use my car whenever I need it for these heavy tasks.

Then, use public transport most of the time which possibly runs on electric and do a little more walking every day.
> either god-tier ninja programmers, or rose-tinted specs

False dichotomy.

Removing some of the many, many layers of crud that hobbles our incredibly powerful machines does not take ninja-skills. It does however take the knowledge of what is possible, which is why it is often older developers who bring it up.

Tools that "manage" complexity very often beget more complexity that begets more tools that beget more complexity. Because each layer always turns out to be somewhat less good (and more leaky) at managing complexity than hoped for, and always turns out to add more complexity itself than initially anticipated.

This is not a new trend. We had "middleware abstraction layers" in the 90s. That kept me amused for longer than I care to admit.

So instead of trying to "manage" complexity, and usually failing, reduce complexity where you can. And as I wrote, it actually isn't that hard once you convince yourself that it's actually possible.

"You'll be amazed"
I believe that many major sites (e.g. Youtube) offer "DMCA-like" service where copyright holders send takedown requests that are not DMCA requests with all the associated requirements and legal consequences for the one who submits false claims. They don't have to honor DMCA-like-but-not-really requests, but they have chosen to do so.
It makes very little sense to be lugging solar panels around. It's just not worth it. Install them at home and charge. It might make sense if your vehicle is large and mostly stationary in remote locations where electricity is not available.

Anyway, I think this product is fake and scam.
I think most people, myself included, that dislike verbose type systems aren't opposed to type checking itself. We're just not overjoyed at learning and using a meta-programming language to do it. The argument tends to center around the friction it introduces to the development cycle. Those in favor of these languages often argue that you would need to spend the extra time verifying that the code is correct anyways but I don't think it equals out in the end, it certainly doesn't make things any faster. I'm sure that much more could be done to infer types or automate the process, I'm unsure of why this isn't done in the more popular languages. Maybe it's just a hangover from C++ and we're just repeating bad patterns when there is a better way? It's not like we haven't done that before.
There's one hidden gem in there: "Another major effort that we undertook in relation to input was move the GNOME input to a separate thread".

It's one of those little things that becomes surprisingly jarring when your mouse stalls because the machine is busy. I'm really looking forward to this change (in addition to the OOM work going on at various layers of the stack).
Can an Economy Keep on Growing?
I have a physical notebook for personal Todo lists.

At work I pretty much follow GTD but use 3 text files. One is my Todo/inbox where I write everything down I need to do. I have a schedule file where I schedule things under dates from the Todo/inbox list, I check this everyday. I then have a done list which lists everything under dates they were done.

I have a someday maybe list too but don't use it daily.
I shower daily, but only use soap on my ass. Dandruff shampoo once a week or so on my hair and that’s it. The women in my life think I smell just fine. Most of us probably don’t need all the soap we use.
Docker/Containerization is extremely useful for development, CI workflows and integration testing. So everyone can spin up the complete system within a few minutes in a defined state.

To use it in production is quite a different story. KISS may work there way better, than k8s in combination with 10 other "innovative" technologies...
Thanks for reminding me about unreal world, what a gem.
I live in Barcelona and love the quality of life. Happy to answer any questions. Twitter @unamashana
The description 'natural' is debatable, since things can be bred to increase their potency.
Doubtful, as construction costs haven't gone down anywhere in the world after 1970, despite most plants being built after that date: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...

It doesn't matter anyway: Only what is, not what could have been will have an impact on the decision makers.
Great, now instead of wasting money on wages for local teenagers and low skill workers, more money can instead go to a global corporation!
I'm 22 and I kind of relate to high frequency, low clarity but I like this style of learning.

It lets me quickly learn the basics of things and if I want to dive deep I can revisit things later on.