skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The “stoned ape” theory is one of the dumbest theories ever invented. I say that as a big McKenna fan - he’s a great orator and very insightful, but his theory is very transparently a way to elevate the perceived importance of shrooms. There’s a common trip motif that shrooms make one “more human” and the “theory” is just a projection of that.

Mechanistically it just doesn’t make any sense. The reason mushrooms make us trip is because there’s already a network there that they “talk” to (the 5ht_2a receptor system)

And how exactly would non-linguistic animals suddenly gain linguistic ability? They better hope everyone around them is tripping on the perfect dose too otherwise they’re just gonna perceive it as meaningless babblimg
and turn off and back on notifications and calls. and dim the screen. and collect the progres. and allow for intermediate "checkpoint" dings . and are flexibly configurable. and allow for guided meditations. definitively minimize power consumption.

etcetcetc

ps: for a backend think about collecting meditation statistics, and pulling in meditator networking, online meditation groups, running longitudinal meditation studies "how was your sit" and other parameters... if you eont put that into the meditation app you want the meditation app to send notifications to the other apps, so add events and notifications to the no-backend list above.

point being: its more than a timer and notifications.
I don't know; I didn't pay the $200. I just really liked the "Junior Programmer" track on Unity's "Learn" website and was very irritated when I found out that there were dozens of hours of followup videos and course materials associated with their "Unity Certification" product that I couldn't see.

I will say that the thing that was most annoying about the videos I could see was that they were out of date. You had to install a previous version of Unity if you wanted to load the assets that the course used.
Unfortunately, many of the world's major countries, including the USA and most countries of Europe, lack the political will for anything more than halfassed quasi-lockdowns that just drag things out.
I had the pleasure of working closely with Yehuda (one of the earlier prize winners) at Google where he works on TV and Movie recommendations (Search "what to watch" to see his team's work).

He's extremely intelligent and passionate about this space, and every time we spoke I felt like I was learning something new. You can listen to him give an in depth talk about the Netflix problem and solution here [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/YWMzgCsFIFY
> This is extremely unlikely.

AES-256 was broken in 2011.[1] While only four times faster than brute force and thus not a practical attack, it suggests that compromise is possible. The Snowden documents indicated that the NSA was working on breaking AES-256. It seems unlikely they would waste effort on a task they considered impossible. Whatever they achieve will be achievable by others eventually.

On top of that, no implementation is perfect. Bugs are discovered in cryptographic APIs on a regular basis. Even if your API is perfect, the application calling the API can have bugs that allow compromise.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120905154705/http://research.m...
The world exists outside of the US. There isn't one set of global "regulators". Lots of smaller countries want to grow their own financial markets and take a share of the US's pie, and being friendly to crypto is one way to achieve that.
When humans develop longer lifespans, we will have a real problem getting political leaders out of office.
"Is it not more likely that these substances just happen to match the knob labeled "profound" in our brains and crank it to 11?"

Maybe. But regardless of what the more materialistically minded among us might think, many people are going to interpret these experiences religiously anyway. It's been that way all throughout history, and it's likely going to be many hundreds if not thousands of years until religious interpretations of experience dissappear.. if ever. (My bet is on never)

"I hope these studies move very cautiously but optimistically, because as someone whose life was deeply damaged by a religious upbringing, the prospect of another psychedelic religious revival concerns me."

Me too.. especially when these religions are full of people who have no compunctions on using violence and believe themselves to be the only possessors of The Truth.

Unfortunately, psychedelics don't automatically make their users in to tree-hugging, peace-loving hippies. See Charles Manson or Mike Tyson (sorry, don't mean to imply they're at all in the same category.. but they are both examples of heavy psychedelic users who aren't averse to violence... and Manson started a cult).

Some people are great at deluding themselves and others, and for certain types of people psychedelics can make such persuasion much more effective.
History of Autoconf
Hospitals and doctors do this on purpose. They charge ridiculously high rates so they can always get the absolute maximum from any given insurance company. They have to charge an initial rate higher than any insurance will possibly pay so they can max-out their profit.

If you happen to not have insurance, well they bill the same stupid-high rate and you have no negotiation power like an insurance company does.

I've seen this myself. Just walking in to an ER can be $5k even when they don't do anything at all. God help you if you actually need care like an x-ray, CT/MRI, bandages, overnight+ stay. I had a CT done for broken ribs and it was $15k for the scan all by itself, plus the $5k ER "facilities" charge, plus all the various doctors each had their own charge (about $2k for each doctor). Healthcare in the US is totally borked.

Most people don't really understand how bad it is because they've never been without corporate insurance (maybe self-employed or other reasons).
Strange how emojis don’t work.
I think it's possible that TLS is functional, but getRandomValues is hacked/broken. A popular browser extension sold or given away to a hacker could inject everywhere the following code for example:

window.crypto.getRandomValues = (arrayBufferView) => arrayBufferView.fill(4);

For sure using more entropy from JS will not do much in case of a targeted attack that did compromise the downloaded code or the runtime, but the scenario of a larger scale attack on WebCrypto is what I was thinking about.
> Please explain how this is my problem or why I should be concerned for your irrational fear.

Put simply, it's not irrational.
But scrum doesn’t say “don’t make plans” it says “be prepared to change plans”.

You can (and should) still keep long term roadmaps, track progress towards long term goals and so on. A situation like the one you describe is one where you’d prescribe a methodology, be it scrum or something else, because the team seems to lack one.
The Stoned Ape theory is a prime example of a phenomenon I've noticed where frequent users of psilocybin begin attributing all sorts of miracles to mushrooms. Everything becomes explained by mushrooms. I've seen it happen in person and online. It's a bit bizarre.
This is old technology, I'm surprised the US hasn't already implemented it.

They have been remote-controlling water heaters in New Zealand and Australia since the 50s. Just a simple relay installed in each house that responses to extra frequencies on the power lines in the 160-1600hz range. It's called ripple control, for obvious reasons. Each home gets assigned to one of several channels in each area so they can have more fine grained control of the load.
There's an app and site called Toggl that makes this easier.
>"...Waiting for fragmented regulatory frameworks to crystallize before innovating is counterintuitive.”

Scoring before the cops figure out a crime is being committed IS intuitive, in other words.
>In the US you should look at the so-called free-banking era (1837–1864) or the crisis era (1782–1930). Btw. Free banking didn't mean no rules. It just meant that there was no charter or permission is needed to start a bank,

>Finance was basically free for all. Easy to get in. Constant stream of economic recessions and banking crises harmed everyone. Wildcat banking increased incentives for risk-taking and fraud to high levels. It hindered economic growth, destroyed wealth of may hard working individuals.

This is untrue; the US rate of growth was actually higher during this period (4%+) than it was during the 1900s. And there was way less wealth equality, as there was no central bank with the ability to transfer wealth from all currency holders to the banking and finance industry via printing money and the Cantillon effect.
This feature clearly needs to be a non-modal popup and just silently disables those features until you click to enable it. Makes much more sense.
You probably only need to run the pump for 1 or 2 minutes every hour. The water in the pipes will stay warm for a while, no need to run it constantly.
I love this! So much my jam. I think the HCI of programming languages is a super interesting intersection; where things like notebooks, IDEs, visual programming, debuggers, or spreadsheets live.

I'm glad they mentioned autocomplete! That's a huge piece of why I use typing. For most front-end projects, unless they're going to be doing something where rigorous typing is useful (like parsing or byte manipulation), I generally prefer using just js with the optional TypeScript jsdoc instead of full TypeScript. Gives me the really great autocomplete/tooltips which greatly speed up my development, while also allowing me to just toss the typesystem aside in situations where it begins to become too irksome.
Then you should stop using Fossil.

It gives a bad example for climate change.

/s
I had assumed this would be remote-friendly, but some postings don't have any info about remote-friendliness.
Trunk worked fine for Subversion since it kind of sucked at branching. You generally had to have a reference branch where everything else was understood to be a copy of it.

Modern systems like git don't really work this way. I don't think trunk is properly descriptive anymore because it isn't necessarily the root of all branches. In a GitFlow branching model, commits can move back and forth on feature, bugfix and release branches without ever being merged to develop. On top of that you have branches like gh-pages which should have no shared history at all with other branches.

In keeping with GitFlow, the main development branch on many of my projects is called "develop". I like the name: this is where development happens, where new features are first merged. Unlike "master" or "main" it doesn't imply that it's stable or deployable, and unlike "trunk" it doesn't imply that it's special or that it's the root of all other branches.
"There's nothing about those experiences that cannot be explained with materialism."

Or with religion. People pick and choose the explanations they like, and neither scientific nor religious explanations are going to be satisfactory for everyone.

It'd be another story if science could at least explain the really big open questions about the mind, consciousness, the mind-body connection, and how psychedelics work.. but we are very, very far from that.
This is...literally mostly false.
> One flashy idea for storing energy goes something like this: dam a river,

Incorrect. Or rather not necessarily correct. Pumped hydro does not necessarily require damning a river.

> Making matters worse, about a quarter of the energy is cannibalized to do all that pumping.

Pumped hydro is largely considered one of the most efficient forms of energy storage, beating most other methods by a fair amount.

> This approach can be deployed far faster than dam construction, and free of protest (except perhaps from dam builders).

We can't do both?
Pretty fun read, didn't go in the direction I thought it would (guess an essay can only be good if it goes off the rails like that at some point). Often get similar trains of thoughts but relying on slightly different concepts.

"Power"/Agency/Technology vs. "Understanding"/Meaning/Purpose is definitely an interesting dynamic dichotomy/2x2 to explore.
>You mean the Japanese government has.

Literally the only way to "save" Fukushima was to dump sea water on its melting down reactors in its initial days/weeks/months. I also don't get your deflection, as if you're insinuating the Japanese government is somehow a source of radioactivity. Actually it's coming from the melted down reactors. If you want to blame poor management as the cause of the nuclear diaster, unfortunately that seems to be a trend in the nuclear industry, so it doesn't help your argument.

>Radioactivity is completely natural.

Not in the concentration needed to run a nuclear reactor. Many mines are operating U-235 concentrations that are a fraction of a fraction of a percent. Some of those operations use methods similar to fracking to extract uranium, and are not clean. There are some select high-grade mines, but unsurprisingly, the high radiation levels require special precautions and heavy reliance on automation due to the deadly hazards radiation poses to personnel.

>The largest challenges for managing it are political because of the prejudice of the public against it.

Nope, it's a hard technical challenge that requires vast resources to solve. It is not as simple as nuclear apologist think it is. I would like to see it come to fruition, but as a major government project, where we stop the charade of it being a viable business model for private industry.
It means both, depending on you deciding it's paris (bet) or Paris (the city). It did lead me to expect something else from the article though - I was expecting more gambling, so I guess you're right about it being slightly misleading.
You should also checkout the health insurance exchange if in Washington. Those policies can be cost competitive to your COBRA costs, and resignation is an event that allows you grab one outside of open enrollment.
Ask HN: About to burn out. How to make 500$ in India by working 20 hrs per week?
Hi I am a 23 year old from India. I currently work as a devops guy in a company at salary of 450$ per month. I work 48 hours (6 days) per week. Due to this, my health is deteriorating. I have constant headache and have been advised to see a neuro doctor (which I am doing soon). I am about to burnout and having early signs of depression (not interested doing anything, 0 motivation, feeling angry all the time). It has been 6 months since I joined this job. Since this job is costing me my health and my youth, I want a job(or anything) that gives me 500$ per month (or 450$) for working 20 hours per week (preferably less).I am taking a week off to deal with depression and to figure out what to do next.
How can I do this? Any type of job that requires a laptop and an internet connection is fine.

Though I am in devops, I know basics of Django and interested in development (backend).
https://github.com/TheGardenMan

Any type of job (or investing etc) is fine as long as all that it requires is a laptop and 4 hours per day.
I don't know what to do. I can't afford to take more than few weeks off.
Thank you so much for reading this.
Most newly built electric cars have a 50+ kWh battery. Imagine if smart meters could use _that_, regardless of where the car is currently parked and plugged in. 50kWh is in excess of what most households use in electricity on most days.
Golf carts are sort of a scourge. I've spent time in Avalon where residents use a lot of golf carts. The gas ones are insanely loud and leave the street smelling like a lawn mower well after they've gone. Gas or electric, due to the nature of their transmission they are jerky at crawling speed and somewhat dangerous around pedestrians compared to a car or moped that can more smoothly crawl at low speed. They also seem to foster a culture of DUIs since they feel like a toy rather than a serious vehicle capable of harming other people, and there isn't enough enforcement to catch them all even though the police are constantly pulling people over in golf carts. They banned golf carts from some streets and made them pedestrian only, and it was far more pleasant.
I’ve done it a few times over the past year and noticed that really the only thing that changes is that I stop getting headaches on days I don’t drink coffee.

I don’t generally use coffee to “wake up,” in face I really only have it in the morning if it’s a _really_ early day for me or if I’m at a hotel where it’s served free or something. Most of my consumption is around 4pm, and I find that it helps me zero in on tasks better and just grind some code out. It doesn’t make me jittery or anything, not unless I have an empty stomach. I might be an outlier, but I generally find it’s a net positive.
compared with ten years ago, how much easier is it to manufacture a mobile phone?

I'd very much prefer to use a vm phone subsystem hosted by W11, on a pocket sized device. Putting WM10 on Github and charging for app review and signing is the business model I want to see.
The most lasting message I got from my trips was "wow, we don't know shit. It sure is weird that we're all on this planet and don't really have any idea what's actually going on." No real insight into the nature of reality, except that it's pretty weird.
Three people have died from thrombosis with thrombocytopenia after receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

That's the entire count of reasonably directly attributable deaths.
Jim Cramer and Bob Lang coined FANG back in 2013 based on this criteria:

"Put money to work in the companies that represent the future," he said. "Put money to work in companies that are totally dominant in their markets, and put money to work in stocks that have serious momentum."

https://www.cnbc.com/id/100436754
I totally agree that most good tradesmen are great problem solvers. I'm just not convinced that the types of problems and the aptitudes required to solve them are interchangeable.
And before that he had his “four horsemen”: https://www.barrons.com/articles/BL-TB-5933

(Note this article is from Jan of 2008):
> In today's trading, all four stocks are down steeply: Apple: Down $26.65, or 17.1%, to $128.99. Amazon: Down $7.56, or 9.6%, to $70.92. Google: Down $48.15, or 8.2%, to $536.20. Research In Motion: Down $8.47, or 9.4%, to $81.61.

Even writing off RIMM to zero would give you a healthy return through 2021.
Knowledge is heavily domain specific, it's about being 'smart' or not. Franky Cuban was just invested in a crappy coin he understood nothing about, and didn't get lucky.
A lot of it is the habit of coffee. I switched to only decaf a few years ago, and make myself a nice pour over most mornings. I still love the routine and the coffee, but I don't miss the caffeine, and I sleep better. (It is harder to get good decaf beans, and there's less variety, but there are great decaf beans available.)
Definitely works in cold areas. Most heat pump manufacturers offer separate models for cold climates below zero.

The worst case is efficiency approaches resistance heating at 1.0, maybe with backup resistance heat strips. But a well designed system to match worst case load should rarely see this.

For some reason they've really only been widely available in the US in the past few years.
Your "good faith" statement only exists to elevate yourself, it adds nothing to the discussion, neither does the rest of this personal attack.

Stating someone's argument is "ridiculous on its face" shows that you're actually not trying for reasoned debate, you clearly haven't even given the point made a single thought. This is very much my point: it's absolutism that leads to aggressive lines of argument and yes, I believe this is harmful to the general public.
Hey there! Thank you so much for the positive feedback!

At the moment it will not be open source, but in the future there will be efforts to open source it. If not open sourcing the code at least open sourcing the learning material for Piano Gym.

Please tell all your friends we really need the exposure!
Gas-fired power plants are already known to be particularly low-efficiency. They're not representative of electricity production in general.
Love you! <3
Buddy, this is human medicine, you don't get the luxury of "hard numbers" as if there was an SQL table in the sky you could just query. There is the CDC's VAERS reporting system, but it doesn't define reality:

When you administer a vaccine to hundreds of millions of people, you will statistically expect some numbers of deaths to occur shortly after administration just by chance. Each such case then requires careful investigation to determine if there was a particular immune-linked syndrome that could be explained by a side-effect of vaccination.

In fact, most deaths argued to be due to the vaccines are frail, elderly patients (80+) in long term care facilities. The most concerning side-effect of the RNA vaccines are extremely rare cases of myocarditis and pericarditis seen in young people which are est. ~12 cases per million - we're talking ~500 total reports (not deaths) in the US. Contrast this with the 15,000 child hospitalizations and ~300 child deaths due to covid.
>How does he guess what card Stephen Fry mentally picks here? It seems kind of impossible, but not when you know how it's done—combining 3 different elements/techniques.

Or just fixing the cards and/or paying Fry (a professional host and actor) and/or editing the video.
You never paid with a credit card at a store? I feel people are much more ok with that than being filmed. Credit card numbers are meant to be sent to companies, pictures of your face aren't.
I've worked with react-three-fiber a little bit so maybe I can offer some experience. RTF is not awesome because React is the best, or even a particularly good way to describe 3D objects. It's awesome because if you are already building a React app you can integrate 3D objects into your app and build user interactions using the same model as the rest of your application. The idea is to be able to bring in 3D models and add things like onHover events and animations as if they are DOM nodes like the rest of your application is. It has worked really well for me, there is a tool that turns Blender models into JSX so you never have to worry about that.
Except I've already tried the thing I'm "positing", so it would only be right that you try your capful of bleach regimen first, report back to me with your positive results, and then I will gladly follow.
TranquilMarmot given your circumstances, have you considered moving to a remote location where you are highly unlikely to ever encounter humans again?

If you're looking for a solution, that's one potential option. However, emotionally charged arguments tend to lack any trace of an actual solution. Imparting the challenges of your life on others unfortunately probably isn't going to have effective outcomes.

I'm going to sleep now.
The problem with that is that various bird species act as an influenza reservoir. Unless you want to perform extinction-level mass culling of birds, you're not going to be able to wipe it out for any significant amount of time.
This is because Bank of America is a bank and Chime is not. Regulation CC requires much of what you just listed. First $200 available fast, and within a few days, the first $5000.

> But remember, the Expedited Funds Availability Act requires the first $200 of a deposit that is not already subject to next-day availability to be made available by the first business day following the day of deposit.

> Deposits into accounts of new customers (open for less than 30 days)--Next-day availability applies only to cash, electronic payments, and the first $5,000 of any other next-day items; the remaining amount from next-day items must be available by the ninth business day. You may choose any availability schedule for deposits of other checks into the accounts of these new customers.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/regcc/regcc.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedited_Funds_Availability_A...