skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, former UK drug-advisor, David Nutt (famed for his common sense approach that was at logger-heads with the UK govs political approach) was working on some kind of synthenol, which was rumoured to be based on GHB, and have an "antidote" so you could remove the effects.
Need one for TikTok. please help.
Ask HN: Software development tools that rely on consistent gigabit internet?
Are there any new software development benefits or tools that are available from having consistent gigabit (or better) internet?

I can only imagine that after years of availability and more consistent speeds there are some tools forming that rely on gigabit internet. I’ve recently received a substantial internet upgrade, yet my day to day tools haven’t changed/upgraded at all (besides quicker package uploads).

I know it’s obvious things will support the masses who don’t have access to high speeds, but curious if anyone knows of any way I can tap into my internet’s potential via any new programming offerings/tools. Anything outside of classic RDP scenarios?
> Out of loop, what changed?

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/
I had a team lead who was sending me emails with the star, as a token of appreciation for a good work.

And I was like: "WTF? Last time I've got a star like this was in the kindergarten ..."
But how often does that happen? Who's going to try that for a service that doesn't offer access to banking accounts or secrets? For those, SMS can be perfectly viable (IMO).
Sure, makes sense in this case, without any other extra functionality in the class. But there could be more functionality needed. It feels highly subjective to me.
The Unseen Benefits of Accessibility
Without a government and with a system of competing law enforcements backed by armies who setup different laws, and a system of competing private court systems, we may get fairer treatment.

Perfect justice is impossible to achieve (someone will always be able to bribe someone else), but by spreading out the corruptible people and by putting them in competition on a market (where reputation matters), you will get a fairer system than the disgusting monopoly we have right now.
There is some debate over the actual price, discussed here: https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/micron-sells-3d-x-point-...
Why couldn't you place two (or more) modules next to each other?

Certainly beats bringing a pile of raw lumber to a job site and constructing crap from scratch in the open elements for a few months before you get it closed in!
I've had WikiHow help me out in similar ways to GP a couple of times. Wasn't watching videos though.
Nothing will change in government long term until one or more of the following conditions are met:

- talking heads on television stop telling people how to rationalize their diminished standard of living (resentment of the status quo will grow when people start to think independently)

- fuel shortages (massive disruption to lifestyle)

- electricity shortages causing blackouts or brownouts (massive disruption to lifestyle, damage to expensive household appliances)

- food shortages

Actually even this is not enough; there are so many countries that fulfill these criteria and are still terrible. I guess this what the second amendment was made for.

Why would those in power ever allow a change to a voting system which effectively maintains their existing power structure?
How big is his severance going to be if he loses complete support from the board? Is he going to get any jail time with that severance?
Feel like the solutions to so many problems is just tariffs. Tariffs on all imports and exports, tariffs on moving things between states too.

Significant tariffs would fuck these people so hard.
It's not about having a smaller government, it's about having no government at all and third parties competing law enforcements and third parties competing private courts.
I'm sure that's great consolation to the families of people dying in heat waves and once-every-10,000-years weather disasters. Also climate migrants will rest easy knowing that the Exxon CEO "lost support".
Looks it has.

>Google is investigating and looking into responsible (Australian) carrier. We’ve also reached out to the company for more details and to confirm that it’s not adding “SMS ADs” into the verification code process.
There are many high school students who would love to be earning a decent income as a trash collector rather than sitting in a modified prison doing stuff that won’t impact their life in any positive way.
Hiro (YC S14) (Apps/Smart Contracts for BTC) Hiring Remote Dev Tools Engineers
Salary: $130,000-$170,000/ year + STX + Equity

Hiro builds developer tools for Stacks, the network that enables apps and smart contracts for Bitcoin.

We're looking for an experienced engineer to help build our main products: developer tools, libraries and SDKs. You'll collaborate with a team and work independently to architect and deliver feature upgrades and improvements on the platform. In this role, you will build critical features for our developer community. You must be comfortable working in diverse development ecosystems and have worked independently in a rapidly scaling startup. OSS experience is preferred as we are an open source project.

What you'll do:
Build open-source developer tools for the Stacks blockchain, including but not limited to SDKs, APIs, command line tools and services
Build developer tools and services for the Hiro Platform: this is a greenfield effort and a unique opportunity to participate in building a new product from the ground-up
Work on stacks.js: a collection of Javascript libraries for building apps on Stacks, collectively exceeding 20K downloads weekly
Work on stacks-blockchain-api: a rich and developer-friendly set of APIs for Stacks blockchain data, including full support of the Rosetta specification. Currently serving > 10M queries daily
Collaborate with blockchain engineers and product engineers to help create a compelling developer experience
Help shape the product & technical strategy for developer tools in the Stacks ecosystem

What we'll offer:
Competitive NYC based Salary(regardless of location, benchmarked annually)
Company equity and Stacks (STX) tokens--STX is the native cryptocurrency of the Stacks network
$500/mo co-working space reimbursement
$1,200/yr budget for learning and development stipend
Daily Lunch Reimbursement(even if you’re remote!)
Open Vacation Policy, take the days you need
Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
Your choice of technical setup and equipment
In the end it is public representatives that commit the treason. We need accountability here, even when there is a wish to get your hands on lobbyists.

It isn't just Exxon that conducts business like this.
Yes, and how dare a business desire paying customers.
I'm part of a small forum that used to insert small wrong facts in Wikipedia. I think it's basically impossible nowadays but some of them still stand and have been copied in books and articles.
The calculator on Windows does persist a few settings, for example windows size and whether "scientific" or "standard" mode is selected. This could be saved in a config file or some other storage format. Windows has a simple per-application key-value store for such settings. A relational database would be overkill and increase overall complexity.
Google is to blame though. They are sending sms over a 3rd party which is probably using some shady service on that country for sms termination.

They are avoiding carrier termination fee, basically being cheap.

Google has power to by contract force third party to make deals directly with carriers.

If I charge my clients on my website with some shady CC processor and they are scammed, everyone would blame me.
Are you talking about communism?
I've relied on the order of keys for URL routing in JavaScript / TypeScript. Each route of the web application is unique, and the order matters - it's surprisingly easy to end up with otherwise ambiguous routes like /products/:ean and /products/all in real world applications. One benefit of using an object and not just an array is that I can validate at compile time with TypeScript that each route has exactly one handler.

An insertion-ordered hashmap works really well for this without requiring any extra syntax or data beyond object literals.
Consulting your programming knowledge out is a very high ROI per hour (more so than coding).

Some people build plugins for ecosystems like Wordpress and that's pretty profitable.

I have a Slack marketplace app that is ramen profitable.

Write code to solve a problem and charge for it is probably the best way to monetize your programming hobby.
I'm assuming you mean a real yield and not nominal. Lower interest rates should provide even higher nominal yields.
I thought we decided secret recordings were always unethical, even when they revealed buying and selling baby parts.
> Even if you just limit it to people largely taking solutions wholesale from SO, I still think that it’s a good [...]

I would respectfully disagree on this point. Anything that perpetuates doing this in any way will always have a negative impact on code quality. If an engineer is copying solutions wholesale, even if those solutions are robust and high-quality, that's an indicator of the approach they have to producing code on a daily basis, which is going to have a much larger overall impact than that 1 answer on SO.

SO is imo a net positive benefit to the community, but only by virtue of them doing other beneficial things that balance out with the harm of copypaste programming. But I don't buy that copypaste programming is benign.

> Also, it’s an opportunity for learning new patterns that you might not have come up with yourself.

Blind copypaste is by definition not an opportunity to learn, because you need to understand (hack/fork/adapt answers given) to learn from them.
> “Think of this as an endless war,”

> "Fear and anger have to be a part of this campaign"

> "exploit the public’s short attention span for scientific debate, and play on people’s emotions"

He just described almost every religion out there. Scary...
That's a policy issue, not specific to SMS; it's no different than getting someone to reset your password over the phone with poor ID validation.

SMS 2FA is shitty for unrelated reasons.
Robbing the Xbox Vault
Ex-IBMer here. I used to work for what was then called IBM Software Group in the early 2000s. I worked with some brilliant engineers, some of whom had spent their entire careers at IBM and achieved some amazing things. I worked with some brilliant managers as well. But the place felt rotten to the core.

I don't think there was a problem with the people so much as with the system. IBM, as you might expect for a company of that size and age, felt incredibly bureaucratic. Whatever you wanted to achieve, there was a process that made it hard to achieve it. Whatever good idea you had, there was a committee of people who would dilute and ruin that idea or simply forbid you from pursuing it. Whatever industry standard tool you wanted to use, you couldn't use it because there were IBM tools that you were required to use instead, tools that slowed you down and frustrated you (I'm thinking of stuff with Lotus or Rational in the name). Whenever you needed to make a decision, it felt like no one was empowered to use their initiative to make that decision. Frankly, it felt like doing good work meant having to go under the radar because IBM wasn't set up to allow you to do good work.

I did have good times there and I hear good things about the way that IBM has dragged itself into the 21st century since I left but I regret having spent so many of the best years of my career at that company.
Late to the thread but: OpenAI is not a non-profit since 2019 (technically they call it a capped profit company [1], but until the singularity you can ignore the cap). I guess this does impact the dynamic with Microsoft

[1] https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/
I wonder if SWE compensation is related to how valuable the profession is perceived too, by both employers and societies.

Even in the US, the compensation is bimodal. You have companies like FAANGs where SWEs are paid into the mid or even upper six figures and even juniors are making six figures. Then you have most companies outside of the SV tech industry where you'd be lucky to break $200k (in a HCOL city) retiring after many decades of work.

In terms of countries, the US now considers SWEs a "hot" or prestigious line of work. In many other countries, this is not the case. You're just another salaryman, far, far, far below the ranks of doctors, lawyers, accountants, government civil servants, etc. etc. and your compensation reflects that.
Is he unhappy?

Because from your description, you didn't say anything about him other than he isn't living up to your standards. If he is unhappy and looking for more, you can offer to show him your industry and see what he thinks. Otherwise, let him live his life, and let him know you are there for him if he ever needs anything.
is this known? It kinda sounds like the carrier might be the one doing this
Aw, my mistake, I missed that.
I fixed our garage refrigerator just a few weeks ago thanks to YouTube. The freezer side was cooling fine, but the refrigerator side was not cooling at all. When I opened the refrigerator door, I could feel cold air venting into the refrigerator from the freezer just fine, but it would never get cold and would eventually beep with a high temperature error. Meat had spoiled, drinks were hot, and my wife started looking online for a replacement.

A little searching and digging led me to videos about replacing fans and motors and messing with the refrigerator hardware. That required pulling the refrigerator apart, which was well beyond my ambition. Finally, I stumbled on a video that described my problem exactly. It turns out that the air return vent had become blocked by ice, so when the refrigerator was closed air wasn't being pulled into the refrigerator side. When I opened the door, the open door caused air to move just fine.

I took out a couple of shelves, found the return vent, chipped away at the ice blocking the return, and things have been working great ever since.
That's not serious, those people are accountable for our world actually burning and the sentence is that it'll be harder this year to get all the options on their new yacht ? Maybe they'll even need to use the same embedded submarine than the year before.

I know it's caricature but please, what's happening is utterly important.
> less people are working

i think that's kind of his point
My next door neighbor seems to be one of the most relaxed, healthy women I've ever met. She sits on her porch every evening for an hour and slowly drinks one large glass of wine. I feel like alcohol can complement a healthy lifestyle. If you're healthy, exercise, and want to use alcohol as a small portioned daily treat that makes you relaxed and happier, then I see that being downright healthy.

That being said, most drinkers -- at least in the US -- do not fit the above category at all.
Well, you know what they say about fairness and war..
Patterns of Distributed Systems: Follower Reads
Study Finds That Few Major AI Research Papers Consider Negative Impacts
That is really great! Love it!
I don't click on related videos, and have a bookmark straight to my subscriptions, but even still I get caught on YouTube for too long. My subscriptions produce almost daily content, and whilst I find it valuable, it's also just far too much content to consume in a day and still be productive, so I can get stuck on it.

So I blocked it entirely. It's just another casualty in my continued attempt to rid myself of feed content, and things that help me procrastinate in ways I no longer consider a good use of my time.

(HN is on a short leash too, but it's one of the few online communities I stick around in, and it's not mindless so I tend not to procrastinate on it for too long. I get tired of reading pretty quickly when procrastinating, whereas I can absorb YouTube mindlessly for hours)
Not if its the only way to expose gross injustices.
My point exactly. This should be getting prosecuted under RICO.
Thanks! The optimal transport is really cool!
I think about used book stores, libraries, the library of congress, and just shelves in people's homes. All of that allows books to survive, when they're printed enough, and people actually want them.

Lots of books, magazines, newspapers do not survive because nobody wants to read them. We don't keep a super-archive of every piece of paper ever published, because we acknowledge that it's OK for things to die. Important things we keep, useless things we throw away. It's irrational to hoard garbage.

So really, all we need is to proactively decide what we do want to save, and save it as soon as it's published. Maybe also provide a "digital shelf" for people to keep their own copies, and a standard way to search for and distribute that information, like NNTP + Gnutella for e-books (along with some features to avoid being sued a la DMCA). The rest should be allowed to rot like fallen logs in the woods.
Eh, that "GPU microcode engine" was a fairly general MIPS with a vector unit like the CPU of the PS1. The GPU itself was just a rasterizer too like the PS1's (albeit more complex, understanding the Z dimensions, antialiasing, and subpixel coordinates). I wouldn't really call it GPGPU.
Well the call back to confirm is an appropriate layer of security (2fa?) I guess. So a more accurate version of the original comment might be “some business accounts can fax requests to their bank, which they then confirm via telephone before doing it”
They would just set up domestic NGOs and funnel money into them through mules.
NIST isn't a regulatory agency, so they aren't meant to have "teeth."
They are really great! My friend drinks them at parties, to avoid accidentally having like 6 beers over a 4 hour party session, he rotates them in.
If the question is more complex than "how do you do a parameterized query with ActiveRecord?" it's unlikely autocomplete is doing it for you either.
My son is getting interested in programming-- any resources that you found helpful?

Also, that game is super cool! Pass on my compliments!
Plastic superconductor -

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5777292A/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6804105B2/en?inventor=Kevin+P.+Shambrook

Polywell - Fuses Boron 11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell

Extract energy directly

https://www.helionenergy.com/our-technology/

There are MANY working on fusion, see page 26 of this:

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2102/ML21026A315.pdf

Field Effect Lifter - Dedicated Lifters Homepage (2006)

http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/liftbldr.htm

It was late night, and I didn't feel like pulling all the links together for a some speculation.
One person's "enlightened centrist" is another's "bluepilled normie".
I would suggest watching Black Mirror to see that the answer is no
Wine maybe -- it is a fruit product, after all -- but whiskey is not healthy and really there's no way to argue it is.
Since you're willing to try some out-there stuff, here are the two things that turned my life around: a shamanic healing ceremony (literally saved my life) and EFT/tapping (allowed me to work through what was left).

I was in the same boat you seem to be -- crushing, horrific depression that hadn't responded to anything medical and counselors and therapists had no idea what to do with the sense of dread and self-loathing I was experiencing. They kept telling me to try meditating or do breathing exercises, which I did to no effect.

Then a single 20-minute encounter with a shamanic practitioner changed everything. This was over 10 years ago and to this day I have no cogent explanation for the experience.

As an aside, I later learned that I was hurting for quite a few nutrients -- most notably B12, magnesium and lithium. When you get nutritional insufficiencies sorted out, you start feeling a lot better.
Is OWS a cult now? Or socially dangerous? Or relevant?
> The advertisement — for a VPN — includes a quick message and short URL.

~ Amazing ~
Remember: if there are no laws, you don't even need to lobby.
I don’t think carrier would do this, otherwise guy reported this would see this a lot in other service sms’s too.

Usually when you send bulk sms, it is changing many hands on the way. From your provider, to some aggregator, then to carrier in target country or some illegal termination with sim cards.

SMS is not a secure platform.

Here is an article about it:

https://www.gms-worldwide.com/blog/grey-routes-a2p-traffic-m...
I couldn't do that, I'd lose it in the sky, even if I was flying it.
Why would we get fairer treatment instead of treatment that exclusively favors the people with the most money and weapons?
In the words of Meatloaf, a shove down the road to two out of three ain't bad.

And given that we're talking about the ~12th largest corporation in the world by revenue, a 25% swing in support seems appropriate.

Exxon suddenly becomes unable to operate because we put Greenpeace in charge? Worse things than climate change happen.

Big ship, gentle turns.
Sure.

Consider buying a cheap feature phone. Keep it turned off as much as possible. Avoid SMS as much as possible. Use other methods for calling. (Perhaps Wire…?)

Aso, consider if all this trouble is really worth it. IMHO, it’s not. YMMV.
New cryptocurrency from OpenAI and Y Combinator alum Sam Altman
The 0.04% CO2 figure is from 420 parts per million, I'd imagine.

Anecdotally, I noticed that overly high (1000+) PPM numbers will make me drowsy and lethargic. IIRC, the mandated legal max for office buildings is 800; but it's easy to go way past that in a well-insulated home in the winter. There are sensors you can buy to monitor this figure so that you can open windows or move around when necessary.

Also, this figure was probably lower during when the stories took place.
Lots of people dream of making good money without studying for years.

Trash collection just needs to pay enough, and those people will do the work.
This may sound crazy but developing a simple professional website for small businesses. Auto Mechanics, small manufacturers, mom and pop shops, etc. If you could do it for lets say $500-$1000 and charge like $20 for small changes, I feel like you could do well for yourself. A lot of these types of operations don't have the skills nor the resources to create an online presence (at least a decent one). An older guy I know who had a small Tool and Die shop was complaining to me that everyone he contacted wanted over $5k and said he just couldn't afford it.
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He's the guy interviewed in my second link :)

Very interesting person indeed, though I've met two unrelated people who've worked with him and both had great things to say about his science, not so great things to say about his personality / ego / way of working. But I hope he succeeds in his mission, and I'm already grateful for his speaking truth to power back when he got fired by the government for telling people the actual facts about how dangerous different drugs are.
I dont honestly know why anybody would allow the National Endowment for Democracy in.

It's tantamount to giving another country the ability to vote in your elections.