skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great, thanks for the objective response. My inquiry was substantially downvoted.

How can one determine if they are at risk of psychosis prior to consuming LSD? I've heard many stories of people who were "never the same" (in a bad life-outcome sense) after having bad LSD trips. It wasn't clear from family history or medical history that they were at-risk for such a reaction.

At least based on these outcomes, it might be a bit inaccurate to claim LSD is safe. I suspect it was outlawed in part due to observed risks decades ago, but am still curious about political motivations. (e.g. "they want to deny us access to knowledge, man." or racial reasons, etc)

Perhaps there will be technology advancements in support of ascertaining propensity for adverse reactions to psychedelics. I suspect there's a strong component related to dosage. Maybe this is related to the microdosing movement?
Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas by Hunter S Thompson, for anyone not familiar with the quote
> Suppressing a safe & effective drug is a crime against humanity, there is no other way to qualify it

It’s not and there are.

It’s not part of a widespread or systematic policy directed against civilians by a political group of state. There were no associated crimes against peace or war crimes. Not a crime against humanity. If what you allege were happening, and were happening intentionally, it could be one among many crimes. But not this one.
Define "good enough sources." Both wrote their histories in a way that pushed their worldview, it's incredibly difficult not to. Similarly, Sienkiewicz was writing a largely pro-Christian novel, an accurate analysis of Nero was never their aim.
I'll start with your second question.

> How do you reconcile what you say with the fact that people do have group identities - not as their complete identity, but part of it - and act as a group and treat others as members of groups?

This has evolutionary roots in kin selection; we as primates do have some machinery that makes us favor the survival of individuals that fulfill some definition of kin. I want to make it very clear, this is a proposition of "what is" and not "what ought". Just because we do have the machinery doesn't make it right, as it can escalate all the way up to genocide. But acknowledging it is a good first step. No one is pure, no one is inherently innocent about it, but also no human is only a primate.

> That's a conceptual question but doesn't call into question the practical reality: People clearly have some identity as a group, and act against other perceived groups.

This is where the definition of identity becomes pivotal; we must not conflate an ontological identity (x is an x and only an x), and a categorical identity (x belongs to the category y). Group identities are the latter. The problem with categorical identities are the certain amount of frivolousness we are allowed about it;

Let's suppose an object a has n attributes, and object b has m attributes. For all objects n and m are infinitely many. Therefore whenever we make a comparison such that "a and b mutually share a subset between their n and m attributes, therefore they are similar" we are excluding infinitely many attributes that they do not share. Conversely, by only selecting a certain subset of those infinitely many attributes, we could claim any two objects to be in the same category. This makes categorical identity by definition a purpose specific, subjective construct. Its key function is relevance; that the attributes we chose are relevant to our goal.

This is exactly where the combination of the machinery for kin selection and inherent flexibility of categorical identity exposes us to hijack. You can convince anyone that they belong to a group by defining a group with the attributes that you find most useful for you. But that doesn't mean it was the best category to approach to the problem with. E.g. just as ethnic nationalism has exploded in Europe, racial essentialism has exploded in the US while very peculiarly missing class identity as a solid alternative that could actually address a good proportion of the grievances. Is this because the flexibility of categorical identity was (ab)used by those who wouldn't find discussions around class identity favorable, or because there was a true essence to those initial categories? My vote; it is more #1 than not.

To sum up; group identities are self-fulfilling, overly flexible and most importantly purpose built constructs. Wrongly choosing the category could as well ossify the problems it is trying to solve than to help people break free of them. I'll even one up; the meta-group of "belonging to a group" is even bigger of a problem; to convince people that the fact that they can be group-things is more important than them being individuals creates a greater host of framing issues for them.
In fact it is! We worked together on it, but didn't get much feedback from that thread so we thought it'd be useful to share again :)
This is for a couple with kids, so both can max-out 401(k)s, IRAs are still a thing wen you make <$124k, so they could make out both, and because of the kids, you can use pre-tax money for dependent care, and there are tax credits for kids.

The other giant caveat is they merely deferred taxes on $46,000.
and watch it come out that their parents take care of their kids and their house is paid off :D
Spacecraft Maximum Allowable Concentrations for Airborne Contaminants
netflix has 'fear city' and one of the 'trial by media' episodes that give a decent glimpse of things around the time there.. and it shows a very different Giuliani than most people today would think of outside NY I think.

I am not an expert - and would love to learn more - but during those times I think there was crime across the country - but in most places it was pockets of crime, mostly separated from the day to day average citizens.. it seems to me that NY at the time, the average citizen had to be on guard and knew they were a few bodies away from being the day's victim..

I feel that much of the rest of the country had crime in certain areas, but certainly not a normal experience on the subway of va/dc/md for example - of course you could wander into areas where the daily normal was different.

So stats could say 'it was just NY but everywhere else..' - but I'm not sure stats show enough by where/when to show a better picture of '90% daily commuters experience violence themselves or witness it near' in X-city overall - or is it 30% or commuters, mostly from / in neighborhood Y or Z - but most people in city V don't see in person and aren't constantly worried.

If there are stats showing those kinds of things I'd love to learn more - and see what percentage of the country felt the way subway riders in NY felt in the 80s, and how localized or not those things were. I'd guess that the density of NY meant the violence affected more people because more people were nearby to witness it - as opposed to most other places.

random thoughts.
This is all the more baffling because IRC was always a niche and with the rise of Slack (and Stackexchange, too) it became an even smaller niche. What's there worth fighting for in 2021?
> whenever I search for 'how to do X?' there is a lot of video results for sometimes very trivial things

You can usually pull the transcript/subtitles, without watching the video.
The person I responded to alluded to a conspiracy while I simply pointed out that this seems standard guidance from medical groups. Which is a separate topic from it being good or bad for patients.
I really like Vestager, but Apple will fight this tooth and nails in court.

Sad that the article is so extremely anti-EU instead of pro-consumer.
Didn't see it then so I at least appreciate it :)
It sounds like git in general isn't necessarily the problem (at least after getting the basic model down), it's specifically the interface and associated foot-guns it sticks in there for beginners (and tired experts) to trip over.

Most people most of the time will get by if they grab a decent git GUI, figure out the minimal set of operations they need, and just Google the rest when necessary.

My stupidest git mistake was when I was cleaning out a directory of bin and obj folders and included gits obj folder as well. And of course after crying in the corner for a bit I take a little time to look into git commands and I could have just run 'git clean'
Not a misunderstanding, a requirement. If the developers cannot have that data (legal reasons? Secrets?) it must be deleted.

Probably has to be done outside git, though. Maybe one of the corporate virus scanners will let you definite a local signature.
Only female cows produce milk.
Good on the author for making use of these tax benefits. I don't see anything out of the ordinary here. For govt workers, the 457 benefit seems really nice. Having kids in an LCOL area seems to be very doable. I imagine the same article but for 10x the income would be "interesting".

As a side note, it's worth indicating that if you work at FAANGs and other types of companies, you can use the mega backdoor Roth IRA method [1] to put up to $38k away in retirement accounts a year.

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/mega-backdoor-r...
>>150 grand is not a huge family income to support 2 adults and 3 kids

An awful lot of families are doing this on 1/3 of that amount.
I mean why is this that surprising? Almost half the country doesn't even pay federal income tax.

Contrary to a lot of narratives at-least at the federal level it is almost completely funded by the "rich".

Now at the local level we can have a different discussion about regressive taxes like sales, gas, etc.
No sure why you would never take your FS government pension.

This does assume your COL (with three kids) is so low you can max out all your pension
Hmm, in the simplest interpretation that seems false, because the hyperreals contain the reals, and 0.999...=1 in the reals. In more sophisticated interpretations, I'm not sure 0.999... unambiguously defines a number. Feel free to correct me, of course.
Interesting to note that mIRC still has Freenode as a "Popular" network available by default:

https://www.mirc.com/servers.html

So Freenode will likely continue to grow (to some degree) prosper with newbies joining.

Re: https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/266257/mirc-se... - from 2019
Because I believe it’s immoral to cause needless suffering. Effectively all meat is the result of animals being tortured and killed for our ephemeral satisfaction while eating a meal, and not because we need it to survive. Causing that level of suffering because it taste good is wrong imho.

I link to a couple videos in this comment section that show what I mean. You should watch them and decide if you think a sentient creature should experience those things because you like how it tastes.
> 150 grand is not a huge family income to support 2 adults and 3 kids

This could be anywhere between solidly upper middle class to struggling to make ends meet depending on where you're at in the US.
Not a case study as there is no information about the software bugs. This is an advertisement for some "clean code" nonsense.
It seems to be quite an effective strategy.
The two biggest reducers he cites are 401k contributions and tax-loss harvesting.

#1. 401k.

While this is a great idea, if he's trying to retire at 33, putting 17.5k away from his 70k paycheck is not going to help because he can't touch it until he is 59.5 (w/o penalty).

#2. Capital losses

Tax-loss harvesting means selling securities that are underwater to get a capital-loss deduction. I don't know where to start explaining why this is such a bad idea. I'll pick the two most compelling reasons why this is dumb. First, you can only do this so many times before you've whittled your investment to zero. Second, you are violating the most basic principle of standard-person (non-rich) investing: buy and hold.

That's all he's got in his back o' tricks.

What an awful post.
15% error is wildly less than I normally get ordering at the McDonalds drive-through. Not quite half the time I have to give my order again at the second window, then again at the third window.
> Taxes. It is our duty as patriotic Americans to keep our individual taxes as low as possible.

Can someone explain that sentence? What's "patriotic" about paying less taxes?
There's not even enough money to buy food unless they are living off savings. They couldn't even pay property tax!

By definition, if they were living off dividends or capital gains - if they were doing things legally - they'd have a higher taxable income.

This is click bait to the extreme.
Never thought of it this way (privileged enough to never have had to). are there any good resources that discuss this a little further?
I wouldn't mind the message if it were delivered a bit more honestly. Maybe: do some favours to folks before you need any in return... then don't be shy about asking for help when you need it... especially from those you've done favours for (and their peers and family). But don't expect help in return from everyone.
Look out for KB4023057: it is being released again for Windows 10 by Microsoft
It’s weird that YouTube and Google is now synonymous with “the internet.”
This will be the first year I’ll be making more than $150k, not looking forward to next April considering im still basically broke.
One could put a tinfoil hat on and argue that it was a deliberate move precisely to force people onto platforms that collaborate with 3 letter agencies.
Crypto VC understand that how people feel about something is just important as its utility.

People have a deeply rooted fear of inflation, they are afraid of being diluted in their societal standing. They also have a strong preference for deflation which allows them to do work once and then see their past work appreciate in value.

Enter Bitcoin.

Bitcoin wins because it's giving to the market what existing players (meaning governments) won't do: a deflationary currency.

Governments won't give people a deflationary currency because they project what is going to happen with a deflationary currency and they don't like the total chaos which would mean for the country, but the real world doesn't work that way, the population wants to try and see for themselves what are these outcomes, and if they are less taxing than inflation.
Just use Peertube
The best tax optimization trick you can do is to open an LLC.

Costs $800/year to maintain in California, enables you to claim business expenses for a looot of things. Sometimes surprisingly.

You don’t even need a whole lot of revenue. Just sell something, anything, and go for it.

The penalty for going overboard is to pay back taxes with a bit of interest. As long as you don’t do anything crazy, you should be fine.

Remember: USA uses taxes to encourage you to spend money on approved activities. Like running a business, having kids, or buying your primary residence.
The author is writing tongue-in-cheek.
Agreed, but I think at this point the US government is too drunk on power that it'll never give up the control it has on its citizens through Youtube.

And people say the US is the land of the "free." What a joke.
> 150 grand is not a huge family income to support 2 adults and 3 kids

It's more than double the median household income.
It's a bit of a downer response. I think there's plenty to get excited about on the internet still, and I'm in my 30s. You don't have to accept boredom/apathy as a consequence of aging, although the catalysts will change. I don't expect an adult to scream with jubilation about toy trains.
There really aren’t. As soon as you need something t specific, which is literally all the time in software development, you generally have less than 5 useful implementations, and that’s being generous.
The first article linked under "Related Stories" at the bottom of that article again illustrates the hype about graphene.

From https://phys.org/news/2016-11-graphene-coated-motorcycle-hel... :

> By coating graphene onto the exterior shell of the helmet, the result is a helmet with improved thermal comfort and safety. The graphene coating allows better distribution of impact force, making the helmet less susceptible to damage compared to helmets without graphene, even in high temperature conditions. It is the excellent thermal conducive properties of the graphene coating which dissipates heat quickly across the helmet and not only protects the inner materials from degradation caused by heat, but also provides a more comfortable user experience. [(De-)emphases added -- CRC]

So which is it: Can a mere coating somehow affect "distribution of impact force" -- which one would think is done by the actual structure of a helmet, not a surface coating? Or does it actually do this just indirectly, by "protect[ing] the inner materials from degradation caused by heat"? It feels very much like what actually provides the safety in this helmet is still good old glass or carbon fiber, and the graphene is more or less incidental.

Just like the headline of TFA here should probably have been something like "Graphene lubricant helps HMR achieve 10 x data density".
The faq answers your question:

=> https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi

> 2.5 Why not just use a subset of HTTP and HTML?

> Many people are confused as to why it's worth creating a new protocol to address perceived problems with optional, non-essential features of the web. Just because websites can track users and run CPU-hogging Javsacript and pull in useless multi-megabyte header images or even larger autoplaying videos, doesn't mean they have to. Why not just build non-evil websites using the existing technology?

> Of course, this is possible. "The Gemini experience" is roughly equivalent to HTTP where the only request header is "Host" and the only response header is "Content-type" and HTML where the only tags are <p>, <pre>, <a>, <h1> through <h3>, <ul> and <li> and <blockquote> - and the https://gemini.circumlunar.space website offers pretty much this experience. We know it can be done.

> The problem is that deciding upon a strictly limited subset of HTTP and HTML, slapping a label on it and calling it a day would do almost nothing to create a clearly demarcated space where people can go to consume only that kind of content in only that kind of way. It's impossible to know in advance whether what's on the other side of a https:// URL will be within the subset or outside it. It's very tedious to verify that a website claiming to use only the subset actually does, as many of the features we want to avoid are invisible (but not harmless!) to the user. It's difficult or even impossible to deactivate support for all the unwanted features in mainstream browsers, so if somebody breaks the rules you'll pay the consequences. Writing a dumbed down web browser which gracefully ignores all the unwanted features is much harder than writing a Gemini client from scratch. Even if you did it, you'd have a very difficult time discovering the minuscule fraction of websites it could render.

> Alternative, simple-by-design protocols like Gopher and Gemini create alternative, simple-by-design spaces with obvious boundaries and hard restrictions. You know for sure when you enter Geminispace, and you can know for sure and in advance when following a certain link will cause you leave it. While you're there, you know for sure and in advance that everybody else there is playing by the same rules. You can relax and get on with your browsing, and follow links to sites you've never heard of before, which just popped up yesterday, and be confident that they won't try to track you or serve you garbage because they can't. You can do all this with a client you wrote yourself, so you know you can trust it. It's a very different, much more liberating and much more empowering experience than trying to carve out a tiny, invisible sub-sub-sub-sub-space of the web.
Apparently everyone is exactly the same and the only people whose lives haven't been ruined buy these vices, as you call them, are the ones who haven't tried them. I am done here
I guess it took Digg slightly longer.
I... usually hear this sentence sarcastically... but here it really seems as if the author isn't using it as such. I dunno, if you're a proponent of Starve The Beast [0], this is a consistent belief I suppose.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/7vwe23/doe...
They probably subscribe to an ideology like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Benjamin Ferencz: 'We should have put Osama bin Laden on trial' (2020)
Monetization is antithetical to user freedom because it requires centralization.
That free sharing of knowledge more or less destroyed the music industry, and commoditized many other things too. It’s extremely hard to make a living wage at many things now. We have a fake gig economy to replace middle class jobs
Also the extreme headache of an audit
Yep.

Look at the REST/JSON API debacle that has unfolded over the last two decades. It is trivially obvious that REST is both difficult to implement and largely pointless outside of a hypermedia system, but the thought leaders never said a thing about it.
What is sad about it? It seems liberating to me.
Two additional bad defaults: crlf handling on Windows, and pull not defaulting to rebase.

The message "up to date with origin/master" is also misleading, because it doesn't check the remote itself.
Holy shit, $500 a year for health insurance? I pay twice that a month and don't even get an HSA option.

Seems weird to put so much into retirement funds if your plan is to retire in your 30s, the penalties of touching that before 60 are pretty substantial.

I suspect there's some sort of inheritance of property or something they're not disclosing.
The boring possibility is that humans have to self-generate an ego- babies don't really know the difference between themselves and other people, it's one of the recognized developmental stages. So in unusual situations it's maybe not surprising that that particular ability could get disrupted, it might actually be quite fragile.
So what's the process here? How does the malicious seller take over an existing product listing with good reviews and repurpose it like that? What's the loophole being abused?
I learnt to programme on a Mac Plus using Pascal (Lightspeed? I cannot remember the brand). Inside Macintosh is still, after thirty years, in a box some place. I will never throw it out. Well thumbed, and very useful.

Been nearly a year back with Apple hardware now. What a change! The tools are very flash, but nothing quite works. The easy bits are done, feels like 95% of perfect. The documentation is good if you just need to be reminded, but if you need anything to help in the early part of the learning curve, it is third party blogs, (that really feel to me like astro turf, but they do exist).

The licensing! Why do I keep getting blocked from using hardware bought and paid for! My colleagues and I have spent, literally, days trying to get me into some sort of licensing scheme - truly Kafkaesque.

It feels a lot like Linux in 1997 - mostly works and brimming with potential. But whilst Linux was on its way up in 1997, Apple feels like it is on its way down.

And they are busy fighting to keep quasi legal monopolies instead of fixing the last few problems in their tools and writing proper documentation. What a shame
Sounds like the physics community wrote him off without actually considering his ideas because he didn't fit the charlatan-leftist mold of your typical physicist academic.

Per Wikipedia[1]: The paper qualifies that the author "is not a physicist" but an "entertainer", and it has received strong criticism from the scientific community

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein#
This is highly dependent on where you live obviously, so if we are speaking about a particular individual this line of reasoning is not relevant.
lol what’s left at freenode?