skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.
I knew a few people who did it [ayahuasca], first time(s) seemed ok and very insightful, but after that, it seemed to become more like a need for a trip, or an escape. I only seen one good result with someone who used it a few times in a 1:1 therapy setting.
> SQL syntax sucks for doing non-trivial data analysis. I've tried it. Verbose, no composability or code reuse, not really portable across different databases, no easy interoperability with other tools, limited editor/IDE support, etc.

You're entitled to your opinion and tooling choices of course, but the problem is you don't know SQL.
Costco buys products and resells them. Costco's research numbers are paid for entirely by Costco.

Amazon rents space to merchants where those items are sold through the site for a fee. Amazon is never on the hook for a sale and is basically getting paid to do the market research to set up as a competitor.

Yes, Costco does do some referral sales but I can't think of anything which has gone on to be a Kirkland product.
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You're right. Opera had tabbed browsing before Firefox existed, and Firefox had tabbed browsing before Chrome existed.
IQ is highly correlated with reaction times.[1] It's extremely difficult to explain that result if you assume IQ is purely cultural, rather than neurological.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5608941/
It's funny that we treat intelligence agencies' statements as unassailable truths when these people have committed to lying to everyone they know about what they do.
Anecdotally I've found this to be true when discussing the US with European friends I have. They think our schooling looks exactly like the sitcoms (e.g. Boy Meets World, Fresh Prince). They also seem to think we're all partially cowboys or at least like John McClane in Die Hard. They also take every bit of media coming from the major networks as absolute truth and tend to believe things that are really quite rare here happen on a constant basis.
I read the "best minds of my generation" comment as a reference to the opening line of Howl by Allen Ginsburg. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl

Though I don't know if it was an intentional reference or just a coincidence.
No, it’s because a violent pickpocket puts my loved ones in more immediate, direct danger than some ads loading a little slower on a website.
Why Use a Novichok?
By "never be technically possible" do you mean:

Not possible in the usual 10 year timeframe we consider for Silicon Valley type companies.

Or

Never in a million years, completely violates the laws of physics.
It helps that in the case of Justified and Longmire both where excellent shows that happened to have a country/rural setting - Yellowstone is merely a decent show by comparison.

Justified should be talked about like the Soprano's/Breaking Bad or The Wire - it really was that brilliantly done.
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Never had any problems with updates (and my work computer has no graphic card except for the integrated chipset in the CPU).

> Generally, Windows 10 seems to take control of configuring the operating system away from the user

That's exactly what I wanted, I'm tired of spending hours to get a working setup.

> while adding a bunch of "telemetry" and "application monitoring".

I filter outgoing traffic on my router, so not really a problem.
Schwab forex exchange really is without fees. It’s done at the current forex rate with no basis points taken. I’ve checked my transfers against the forex rate for the day.

Schwab operates these retail banking services as a loss-leader for their investment products.
I do believe the constraints of TF and similar DSLs are what makes them great.
Standard trip tale and ramblings of someone who doesn't know how to reconcile with the revelation that their brain is a sack of chemicals.
That's not just to secure the value of dollars, your comparison is meaningless. Also, reapply the thought experiment above - BTC is used by a handful of people, yet consumes more than countries of millions.
Not the first time I see something like this. What I don't get is what do these people propose to do. Suppose many health troubles are caused by living in the cities and agricultural diet (which is highly speculative). Is there a way to feed 7-8-9 billion people by following a hunter-gatherer diet?
It caches things between builds (dependencies in particular only have to be built once), and if you use dev builds (the default) it doesn't take as long as production. For ergonomics you can also install cargo-watch (https://crates.io/crates/cargo-watch), which helps a bit.

An important thing though, if you aren't doing this already, is to not wait for a full build to know if your types check out. You can use cargo-check if you prefer (https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-check.html), but really I recommend using an editor with immediate feedback if at all possible. rust-analyzer (an LSP) is one of the best, and should be available even if you're on Vim or something.

Using Rust without snappy editor hints is fairly miserable because of how interactive the error feedback loop tends to be. If you don't rely on a full build for errors - just for actual testing - I find the build times to be perfectly livable (at least in the smallish projects I've done).
This makes it seem like not the case: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/nyregion/new-york-new-jer...
Configuration templates will help you train your data models
The pandemic has an exponential growth. Starting vaccinations even a few weeks earlier would have saved many lives by lowering the curve earlier. Starting them three months earlier might have... actually, probably would have skipped the winter wave completely, at least in the developed countries. Which would have freed extra doses for the developing countries as well - it's an interlinked chain that works better earlier you start, because that's how vaccines work. They're a preventive measure.

And the cost? Infecting 100 or 1000 volunteers in low risk categories, with an expected death count of under 1. There were websites where people registered in thousands for this.
I did not go to an elite university though I have family members who did. The eye general attitude seems to be that “the smart kids at your high school were probably just as smart as the kids at [Harvard], but at [Harvard] all the kids are that smart”.
Couldn’t care less.
“It’s snowing, clearly global warming isn’t real.”

California recently passed a law requiring a minimum diversity threshold for corporate boards, due to how few incorporated more than a single token non-man.

I look forward to arriving at a society where men and women are, as you suggest, equally present in and complicit in executive leadership and failures thereof, but we certainly aren’t there yet.

It’s also worth noting that my request is directed to all men, rather than not-all men. You can take steps to stop bad men without being an executive.
I think it implies that amazon can't both spend everything that would be profit on innovation while also paying the same money on taxes
blockchains are great in environments where parties can't audit and trust each other but need write access to the same database. so far it remains an open question whether blockchains will ever be useful for anything other than settlement ledger (and things you can build on top of that).

i don't believe the hype of using blockchains to track some logistical or supply chain data will prove useful simply because all these international corporations already have a system to resolve conflicts and enforce contracts - law.
Here's evidence for my claim:

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/when-usps-does-not...
The key thing here is that the operator/uploader is different from the app developer. As an app developer, you don't need to build or operate any backend at all, and you have no costs.

Buying local storage and paying for an external service both cost money, and the costs scale as your app gets more users. There's also maintenance overhead, you can't just deploy your app and completely forget those things exist. As a Skynet dev, you have no bills, no maintenance overhead, and it's truly a deploy-and-forget sort of thing. As the dev, you don't need any sort of Skynet account or signup.
Not sure if "zone out" is the right word - that is more akin to disassociation which is exactly what you should not do with traumatic memories eg bury them.

The promise of psychedelics is to do the opposite and help you resurface and process traumatic memories.
Venture Capital firms love to use throw debt at an asset so that they can have a cash windfall. The result is that the assets can never pay off the debt and end up declaring bankruptcy.
See K-Mart, Sears, Toys R' Us, and anything that a vulture capitalist touches.
Can you give examples of where this has been tried before. Also, this sounds like how we were colonized the first time. Giving enclaves to the French and the British that became staging posts for full colonization
Yeah, as another perhaps anecdotal example, I've recently been forced to buy a book from Amazon because I literally couldn't find it anywhere else.

Despite the book being listed as "New", I received a book that was not only pretty old, but also had clearly been stolen from a library, with stamp marks and everything.

I'm not going to leave this alone, contacting the library and exposing this fraud is going to go pretty high on my pile of "to do" things...
I find none of this convincing. Industrial accidents happen with all thermal power plant types. And coal ash disposal has a worse track record than nuclear waste. (Coal ash being naturally radioactive!) And the aerosols produced from coal transport and burning are a continual problem of lung cancer.

Nuclear is remarkably well-regulated by comparison. I understand why people may want to get rid of it eventually, but compared to coal, it's sunshine and rainbows.
I mean old by the definition of Japan. As in > 30 years old :)
I don't find the sales channel forces described here super convincing as as an explanation for change in novel length. I find it especially hard to believe that grocery stores were ever a major economic driver for 'fat fantasy' sales, but maybe I'm wrong, and I'm just a bookstore snob.

It would be interesting to see some hard data on word counts over time, broken down by genre.
Ask HN: Freelance developers, how much control do you have over your schedule?
Do you have to be available for an 8-5 work day like a FTE might or are you generally free to complete the work at any hour / time you wish as long as it’s delivered on time?
That's not really fair.

If you want to do fundamental research, the jobs are very scarce and, in many cases, not particularly good in terms of salary, stability, or location. A postdoc in the life sciences makes $50-65k/year, often either in a) a high cost-of-living area (Boston, SF) or b) a land-grant institution in the middle of nowhere, which is tough with a partner. These are usually short contracts too--mine is renewed annually. Faculty and Pharma jobs pay better, obviously, but are also pretty thin on the ground.

I like doing research that makes the world better, but doing so is an incredible luxury, even coming from a decently middle-class background. If my family were even slightly poorer, there's no way this would be possible and if one of them were to get sick or hurt, I can't imagine how I'd be able to stick it out.

It doesn't have to be this way, obviously. We could fund more stable positions--and I think it'd probably work out to more/better science per dollar spent. But right now...we definitely don't.
Building an ecosystem on top of a advanced strictly typed language also has an initial hurdle that requires a lot of effort to overcome. Potential tool developers must go through the effort of becoming familiar with the language and seeing the potential for, as well as the path to major improvements.

But once they're there, the result is extremely advanced tooling that other language ecosystems have taken years to develop. Things like IDEs, debuggers, static analyzers, superoptimizers, fuzzers, verification tools, build systems, language interop adapters, and code generators, are all examples of things that can take advantage of advanced type systems to develop strong capabilities extremely easily.

I think Rust is starting to show signs of such benefits, and I think in 10 years we'll all be looking back at it with surprise that anyone ever doubted it.
This is an excellent example of what I call the Copy-Object-Copy effect. It's particularly apparent in frameworks with ORMs like Django. In Pandas case, devs will do 'SELECT *' and use pandas as a sort of pseudo ORM.

You run a query to get your data as a bunch of objects, but you're copying the data over the db connection from the postgres wire protocol into Python objects in memory, which are typically then garbage collected at the end of the transaction, then copy the result to a JSON buffer that is also garbage collected, and then send the final result to send to the browser which has been waiting this whole time.

I regularly see Django apps require several gigs of RAM per worker and when you look at the queries, it's just a bunch of poorly rendered SELECTs. It's grotesque.

Contrast PostgREST: 100 megabytes of RAM per worker. I've seen Django DRF workers require 50 to 1 memory vs PostgREST for the same REST interface and result with PostgREST being much faster. Since the database is generating the json, it can do so immediately upon generating the first result row which is then streamed to the browser. No double buffering.

Unlike Django, it's not that I don't like Pandas, it's that people way overuse it for SQL tasks as this article points out. I've seen pandas scripts that could be a simpler psql script. If psql can't do what you want, resist the temptation to 'SELECT *' into a data frame and break the problem up into stages where you get the database to do the maximum work before it gets to the data frame.
My parents have an old Verizon DSL account, and their email got moved to yahoo, but the address still has verizon.net
> They certainly have spent a lot of thoughts on protecting the host (e.g., browser, underlying OS) from _malicious_ WebAssembly code.

You say that like the Java Virtual Machine designers didn't do the same thing.

> Modulo implementation bugs (which is orthogonal to the design of the language), WebAssembly applications cannot break out of the sandbox more than arbitrary JavaScript already can.

That has a very familiar sound to it. ;-)

> However, what we look at in the paper is "binary security", i.e., whether _vulnerable_ WebAssembly binaries can be exploited by malicious _inputs_ themselves. Our paper says: Yes, and in some cases those write primitives are more easily obtainable and more powerful than in native programs. (Example: stack-based buffer overflows can overwrite into the heap; string literals are not truly constant, but can be overwritten.)

I think you've highlighted an important subtlety here for sure. Would you say that Java applets were similarly vulnerable?
Longmire gets a lot of credit purely for showing lots of beautiful New Mexico countryside! I also recall that the story was pretty good, but it's been a while.
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I would imagine that purchasing the land is at least as much a hurdle in most places. I suspect the land my house sits on is worth some small multiple of what the structure is worth.
It's not engagement. It's usability. Way better having the image in context than having an external link to a text written with fixed width font. Obviously you should ALSO provide the link to the text in the tweet so one can easily copypaste (if interested in the code/text after seeing the image preview)
mmWave is a tool to cope with network capacity concerns far into the future. It's in its infancy right now but the ability to provide multiple gigabits over the air in certain high-traffic locations can help greatly. We're running out of midband spectrum that can provide good indoor/outdoor coverage and so it's best to look to much higher frequencies that don't have any major incumbent users to satisfy those capacity needs.
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Evidence increases for reading on paper instead of screens
... I called again, they insisted my account was permanently closed, I talked about all of my Kindle e-book purchases and that I really wanted my account back, they said they'd forward the case to their account specialists, and 30 minutes later I got an email saying my account has been reinstated. So it turned out good, but I gotta say I'm pretty soured on Amazon right now.
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It is the society failing them by not setting the right priorities.
> Imagine the function "fn bar(x: fn(x: int) -> string)", would that be more clear with a colon?

In your example, why bother naming the inner "x" variable for the function param? It cannot be used on the right-hand-side (definition of "bar"). For that reason, the notation is not exactly "clear". In OCaml the annotation would be:

bar( x : int -> string )
Funny...my way over-complicated LG clothes washer started leaking water all over the floor a week or two ago. A little poking around revealed that there's a water steering assembly, a modestly complicated bit of plastic with 3 solenoids attached. Searching Amazon, the OEM part is $70, but a half dozen places sell nearly identical units for $20, next day shipping. I noted there seemed to be 2 different versions of the knockoff replacement, differing in the angle of the wiring attachments.

Works perfectly.

Of course nobody really repairs things these days

While I'm sure the OEM would prefer you buy a whole new item, and a 'certified repairman' is likely to spend the extra for the OEM part, the existence of an aftermarket where someone has gone to the trouble to produce a nearly identical replacement part (and perhaps 2 different manufacturers have) tells me that people are in fact fixing these things.
Nice "pursuit of happiness" you have going there. It'd be a shame if anything happened to bury it in junk mail unless you paid me a monthly fee.
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I guess then it would be more correct to say that Scala and Rust share a common inspiration in ML languages.
In general, JSON Schemas are (wrongly, in my view...) validation-oriented rather than type-oriented (for notions of types that would be familiar to Haskell, Rust, or Common Lisp programmers).

I think that schema in particular could be represented, though, as:

enum Thing {
foo { foobar: String },
bar { foobar: Option<f32>, barbaz: String },
}
Ask HN: How do you avoid context switching?
I find myself switching to email and emailing myself all the time instead of switching to a given app to try to avoid breaking flow. As a side note: One thing I really hate having to deal with is my laziness later on when I have to organize it. Usually it's todos, links for later, notes, ideas, etc.

I'm currently building Hitsnag.com which has email shortcuts into anywhere in the main apps I use like Notion.so and Trello so I can just send the info where it will eventually end up ahead of time.

I'm trying to make it where it's in any messaging platform you can send from too with alot more apps.

How do you personally avoid context switching?
> Africa needs more factories, more mills, more kilns, more technical know how.

Building capital requires financing. Financing depends on trust and stability. From your description, it seems like the issue is an ineffective legal system that allows widespread fraud.
It’s funny how differently cannabis affects people. For you it has helped treat your anxiety, for me I never had a panic attack until I tried an edible.
> literally required by the constitution

I don’t think this is true. The Constitution provides Congress the power to “establish post offices and post roads” in Article I, Section 8, but the list of enumerated powers begins with the phrase “The Congress shall have Power”, which does not seem to establish a positive mandate to exercise such powers.

For instance, other enumerated powers include:

> To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

There hasn’t been a declaration of war since 1941, and it’s been even longer since Congress issued any letters of marque and reprisal. The postal service had the same constitutional status as pirates: Congress certainly could commission them if they want to, but it’s not strictly required.
For any contagion causing acute symptoms of significant concern, healthcare workers probably have a higher than average risk of being exposed before a novel contagion is identified, and that still holds if you move the window back to before the appearance of a distinct symptom cluster of concern is characterized.
Huh? I very much doubt that fb block all twitter links, so can you be more specific?