skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> government to intervene and force everyone

Going to go ahead and recommend against those words in that order.
This needs an update now that the hyper enterprisey SAFe has joined the fray: top-down agility still is the perfect anti-tautology!
The basic idea is that bets are collateralized at a level of 150% of the starting price. If you buy a synthetic stock when it's at 100, and it goes above 150, your bet is cashed out at that point.

As usual, the big question is, what's the collateral? In this case it's their very own private stablecoin, Terra, which pays an annual percentage rate of 17%. That, in turn, is being paid by people who are borrowing that stablecoin to do - something.

The stablecoins are in turn collateralized by the LUNA token and something called Special Drawing Rights. There's also something called mAssets involved.

All this works as long as there's no net outflow. Whether it can survive a net outflow is questionable.

So far, three stablecoins have crashed all the way to 0. Supposedly because of "hacks". Whether or not those were inside jobs remains to be seen.
> it is kind of incredible to see a company use AI for something other than encouraging addictive behavior like many US tech companies do.

It still falls under the celebrated American umbrella of using ai to manipulate peoples behaviour and thinking
His explanation of Human Magic reminds me of this monologue from Prometheus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygRNEy8mPjk
The problem is data entry for the recommendation algorithm is insufficient incentive to constantly use it (thereby providing “truthful”, or highly-correlated, user ratings). The ratings themselves must be directly beneficial to the user, so that the user provides truthful data for their own benefit, and secondarily for the recommendation algorithm.

That is, I’d like to catalog my own list of watched movies, and their relative ratings, so that I can have a useful system (or a direct relationship to recommendations — eg More Like This), from which Netflix can scrape for their algorithms.

That is, if I’m not honest to myself, the ratings themselves will not be honest, and not properly reflect my taste.

Specifically, there must be reason to provide negative ratings in addition to positive, to capture user taste.
The article you link to is about NN-DMT.

It's important to understand that the venom of Bufo alvarius (the Colorado River toad)[1] contains 5-MeO-DMT, not NN-DMT. It is NN-DMT that is colloquially known as "DMT", and the two substances should NOT be confused.

They are very different in effect, though closely related chemically.

5-MeO-DMT is widely considered to be by far the most powerful psychedelic on the planet. NN-DMT is considered to be much more powerful than traditional psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin, but still a pale shadow compared to 5-MeO-DMT. NN-DMT is a lot more visual than 5-MeO-DMT, while the latter is considered to be much more likely to lead to states of non-dual awareness and ego-death.

For more information on 5-MeO-DMT see: [2]

Something else to note about the bufo alvarius venom: these toads are under threat and might well go extinct because they're being recklessly exploited for their venom.[3]

Furthermore, their venom contains a lot of other compounds apart from 5-MeO-DMT, some of which are known to be toxic when ingested. So it should always be smoked, never ingested! Even when smoked the venom could cause health problems for people with heart conditions. The synthetic form of 5-MeO-DMT only consists of 5-MeO-DMT itself, so has none of these problems, though people with heart conditions should probably still avoid even the synthetic version.

Finally, some people who style themselves "DMT shamans" use very dangerous practices like pouring water in the mouths of people who are essentially unconscious under the influence of 5-MeO-DMT, mixing drugs, slapping and kicking people under the influence, and covering their mouth and nose... fatalities have resulted from these dangerous practices.[4] So if you are considering trying this substance very carefully vet who you do it with!

I strongly recommend reading and following the guidelines from The Conclave.[5]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_toad

[2] - https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/5-meo-dmt

[3] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidcarpenter/2021/02/02/psych...

[4] - https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=86872

[5] - https://theconclave.info/
Any able bodied individual with a decent understanding of microbiology can grow some mushrooms too.
Quite an interesting read, thank you.

I particularly liked: "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature".

I don't entirely agree that nature is efficient by our definition of the word. It takes A LOT of wrong turns, it's just that it has infinite time to correct them.

A side note on the CSS of your site: I found the text entirely too dense. I had to zoom in to 175% and then go into the CSS and manually change the line-height from 1.15 to 2 to make the text readable. (And I've OK vision.)
A long time ago I read an article that made an impression on me. This guy had developed a house using logs that were basically phase change material. I think part of the design was to build almost a house within a house. An inside wall made of the logs containing pine sap that would change phase at a comfortable temperature. So with sun it would reach that temperature then start absorbing it and becoming more liquid, then later slowly solidify giving off heat.

EDIT: it was the enertia house
It's the one reason why I have hope that Chinese world domination attempts will fall flat. They will just be out thought eventually if they continue down this road.
I have worked in an aluminium smelter, given the heart stopping magnetic fields, toxic fumes and potential for explosion when even a small amount of water gets in I can say I really don't want this under my house
This is so sad. You'd think that IF would be calculated by how much value the paper created, but instead it seems like a popularity contest. Maybe made sense in 1975 when it was started, given the low volume and high friction of distribution at the time, but in the age of the internet, it makes no sense.
If its effectiveness is as good as they say, seems like you could just use 1,000,000x less catalyst and end up with something as effective as current technology.

$190 million -> 190 bucks ;)

Seriously though, couldn't they just use far less catalyst and not have to deal with the prices you've calculated?
We _are_ going to be living with it forever... most likely it will become endemic after a a while and circulate among the population like the common cold or the flu. But that is many years off.

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abe6522
Except cancer patients: whose immune system is so compromised their bodies can't afford to get vaccinated (and even if they were vaccinated, there's a low chance that their immune system would protect them).

Their only hope of survival in these times is for everyone they meet to be vaccinated: for herd immunity.

Immunocompromised individuals exist. As a society, we're supposed to vaccinate ourselves to protect our most vulnerable.
Predict Users with High Value and Send Them In-App Messages-Huawei Developers
Whats worse is many assume the crypto kabuki dance also absolves them from regulation.
And they are all welcome to point at the chair and claim it won't hold any weight. But until they try sitting the fuck down their critique is irrelevant.
You didn’t put a number on that ratio, did you. Are you saying it’s 100:1, instead of 100:0? Why isn’t there a volunteer patrol protecting people from rampaging Hasids?

A more reliable source of information than you is the data, the videos, and the voters who somehow, despite your explanations that things are just fine, picked Eric Adams for mayor.
Russia sets another Covid-19 record
It's nice to see a renewed public interest in meditation driving the trend of new meditation apps, but I feel that most of the apps miss the point. The act of meditating is marketed as an individualistic, prescriptive activity for stress and anxiety; it is absent any of the spiritual content that (for me) makes it potent.

To elaborate, I personally didn't get much out of meditation until I starting using it to sit with concepts like impermanence, non-attachment, and oneness from the Zen tradition.

By contrast, apps like Headspace are selling themselves like "feeling anxious? Try our app!" and getting corporate sponsorships for employers to give subscriptions to their employees, like a commodity to pacify a stressed out workforce.

But who knows, maybe it's still a net good in that it might introduce more people to the practice. And maybe some of the apps get deeper into the practice than the ones I used.
My belief is it's simply that immunity tends to be more depressed with the cold. Less sun, less vitamin d, perhaps some ingrained cycle due to expected lower food availability, slower metabolism, etc. Basically hibernation.
This is by design. Insurance companies want to negotiate a price. If uninsured people paid less than insurance companies, these companies didn't really negotiate a better price.
It's not 7% requiring hospitalization - it's that only 7% who would have been hospitalized had they developed an infection are hospitalized if they catch covid (relative, not absolute odds)

For the record, ~2% of flu symptomatic illnesses result in hospitalization (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html), so unless you are terrified every winter, this probably shouldn't be considered that high of a risk.
Netflix uses(used?) double digit percentages of all internet bandwidth. That's a big player by any metric.
dang - can we add "in mice" to the title?
Indeed! The most abundant phase-change material with enormous specific heat of both the liquid phase and the transition to solid is water.

Refrigerate water at night, use it during day heat. I see that many groceries use this technique; homes could, too.
Staunch materialist psychonaut here.
skimmed the article - there's apparently a creation/redemption mechanism similar to ETFs.

settlement is always a mystery to me in crypto so i can't weigh in here. how do you guarantee delivery of the physical for units of the crypto that's inked on the blockchain.
For the downvoters, this is Araraquara city study. A 2nd city adding to the case study first found in Manaus city.

Even if you think that Manaus city's study was poorly done, the fact that this is a 2nd study in a 2nd city with similar results adds on to the evidence.

The author list does not seem to match the Manaus city, aside from Ester C Sabino (who was 1st author in the Manaus study, but seems to be a much later author in this newer study). I'm assuming they got Sabino to discuss the other study in the context of this one.
Viruses degrade much slower in the cold, which is almost certainly part of it too.
Ellenbrook is more of a planned exburb, not a new planned town per se. It's about as far from Perth as Parramatta is from Sydney. Odd that you mention Australia, as I think we're completely lousy at building new cities (leaving towns aside) - the projections of future Australian population would be a lot easier to take if the bulk of people didn't just keep cramming into Sydney and Melbourne.
Definitely going to need you to back this one up, I’m highly skeptical of your claim.
Does Kaseya survive this?
Why the fuck did she let her managers apply for it, if she was so royally assured she didn't need it?
Johns Hopkins uses pure psilocybin about the equivalent of 2.5 grams of dried mushrooms.
What other ways do you have in mind?
I loved the Dr Who novelisations, like you say they were the only way to experience the show except through the odd repeat. In many ways the books were better than the actual episodes, unconstrained by budget and time. I have been disappointed by many stories of Dr Who that I originally experienced as a child in book-form, what was filmed just doesn’t compare to my imagination.
Note that that is "burn" in the sense of giving people enough immunity to prevent future hospitalization spikes. We likely can't achieve herd immunity for a disease this naturally infectious, factoring ability to mutate.

(R0 for Delta is 5 to 8 -- and our vaccine is only 64% protective against infections making the 80% herd immunity threshold impossible to reach).
There's no reason it would have to be that way. We could eradicate any given influenza strain or individual cold virus if we really wanted to.
Home cultivators rarely use a manure substance. If they do, it is pasteurized.
That’s my point. The algorithm goal is not to find what I’d like, but rather what I’d put up with. They only need to find what I’d like every so often, to keep me on the platform.

It’s correct from Netflix’s perspective, but not from mine.
To travel to some countries now you need a negative PCR COVID-19 certificate for a test conducted within 96 hours prior to travel. I'm hoping the amazon one will suffice.
Wait, what? Are you implying that anyone would use concern for children as a Trojan horse to… yea just kidding… nothing new under the sun.

My favorite triple fallacy is “We must do something, for the children, even if it just saves one life!”. Where can only consider an action and inaction or other action can’t possibly be right, if it’s for children it must be righteous, and all costs are outweighed by one precious life even though the effect could be greater elsewhere - usually without infringing on people’s rights. This is the plea of the scoundrel that can not win an argument on fact or merit.
> My French grandparents lived until they were 100, were perfectly content, had 8 kids, ate great food during long meals and drank lots of wine. I don't think they jogged a day in their lives.

And? What's your point?
OMG they're touching it with bare hands too to put it back in the same spot it fell from! There's an art restorer somewhere choking watching this...
Not all of them, there are still tons of privacy issues in Debian:

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues
How is that view narrow minded? Your partner is a very small group of exceptions to the OP statement.
I think "Paris sportif" translates directly to sports betting. So while in this context it's probably supposed to mean something like active/sporty Paris, I don't think the title works.
When you have bills with 70% and higher disapproval getting 70% of the MPs voting for it, then “narrowest interpretation” seems like a cruel joke.

To be blunter still; systems of government can collapse and be replaced in function but not in form. The early emperors of Rome ruled surrounded by the trappings of republicanism, even though we now know that they were autocrats who had killed the republic whose skin they wore. I wonder if later generations will consider us to be oligarchies and not representative democracies, considering how little the will of the voters seems to matter to those who nominally rule on our behalf.
They're referencing a new Israeli study on Pfizer's vaccine.

Since Pfizer (and likely Moderna) are less effective vs Delta, it means we need to push our vaccination rates higher to protect our unvaccinated population (who are largely immunocompromised: such as cancer patients).
To be fair, the Vaccine isn't really that effective against spreading the Delta variant. Data from Israel shows only 64% effectiveness (https://www.wsj.com/articles/pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-is-les...). Luckily it is still 94% effective in preventing serious illness.

What I'm trying to say is that even with 100% vaccination rate, it's not clear that new variants wouldn't spread around the population and continue to infect everyone around us.
So rather than a straightforward explanation you think it’s wrong and rather it’s “depressed immunity” of which there is no data to back up?
tracker.debian.org is the internal site for Debian contributors, packages.debian.org is the site for Debian users.
How many people have the vaccines killed? This isn't rhetorical, I want the hard numbers.
Then you might as well run Linux on a modern PC.
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I had an analogous arrangement. I would pop in and out, identifying/building high impact projects, in a mix of web dev, PM, and analyzing data.

I was usually available for brainstorming/chats during my sometimes months of off cycle, including at non-regular hours. I'm hopelessly neural atypical with on/off cycles of productivity and haven't found a way to make myself more regular.

I was paid as a full time employee despite my schedule, with a mutually agreed upon below-market offer in exchange for that freedom. USD 130k/y with full benefits and a much smaller than normal equity grant.

That arrangement lasted 7 years before moving on to new opportunities.
It seems that the more money are at stake, the more conniving manipulation (propaganda, 'legal moves') will take place.
There has to be a 'behavior law' summarized by somebody, capturing this phenomena.

You are right,
Creating a 'technical' solution to this kind of problem -- is not going to work, unfortunately.
So I have a family member that suffers from depression. At some point at a party we convinced her to drink some mushroom tea. She was amazingly together for 6 months after. Magic mushrooms should be legal.
Debian Privacy Issues
Terrance McKenna entertained us with the theory that psilocybin catalyzed human language "on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa".

https://www.amazon.com/Food-Gods-Original-Knowledge-Evolutio...

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdaMVuswNrg
Free money, why not? I'd do the same. Or you one of those people who think if you receive something from opposing side=you support them? Guess all the socialists and communists should be dead by now.
You can give out this advice, very few people will follow it. Given the choice between giving up some privacy and the convenient of sending an email to a friend or colleague using gmail, the vast majority of people will choose the latter. Meaningful improvements to privacy must come with negligable convenience tradeoffs if you want people to actually adopt them.
“Most people without health insurance coverage had a high school education or less. People who did not complete high school made up a much larger part of the uninsured population (26.9 percent) than the overall population (11.8 percent).

The uninsured population was also disproportionately more likely to live in poverty. About 1 in 3 uninsured workers were in service occupations, compared with about 1 in 5 workers in the U.S. overall.”

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2018/09/who-are-the-u...
I've never posted on HN before. Here's my Audacity fork. I am Spartacus
I think your analysis is true, but it's important to add that all websites that reward posts one way or another experience similar phenomena. The way posts are rewarded tends to select for a certain types of posts. Twitter, for example, generally rewards for engagement and enforces short posts, and I think that's why a culture of political gotchas, confrontation and aggressiveness and is so prevalent there. And I know for a fact this isn't just an attribute of English Twitter. While moderation removes right wing extremist politics, mostly only on English Twitter, this only imperfectly mitigates one manifestation of a reward structure that encourages users to behave aggressively to one another. And again, if you look at non-English Twitter, even this is missing and in general, behaviour is not much different than 4chan.
It’s not a 7% chance of hospitalization. It’s the normal hospitalization rate times 0.07. If you’re 40 years old, that means your chance of hospitalization is around 0.05%, or 50 in 100,000.[1] The risk is even lower if you’re healthy (no obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc).

1. I calculated this by taking the cumulative hospitalization rate (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1122354/covid-19-us-hosp...) and assuming that 20% of Americans have gotten covid, then taking 7% of that. It’s not perfect but it’s within a factor of 2 of the real risk.
The comment section on that article is quite the time capsule.
We co-evolved with plants, many of the healthy chemical parts in plants were once evolved to be poisons or deterrents. Also the common biological base means that one plant creates dopamine and serotonin.
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Recently, Google has been clamping down on preventing various techniques for browser automation tools like selenium, playwright, and puppeteer to log into Google. This has prevented legitimate usecases like automated testing for webapps that depend on Google Oauth.

We're building a more foolproof way to login to Google through automation to help with customers of our other testing service Treespec (https://treespec.com) to test their Google Oauth workflows. We're opening up this technology as service called Loginbud to see if anyone is interested in using this as a service.
> Who cares. It's just a piece canvas that derives its value from provenance, not condition.

Apple II. It's just a piece of plastic and silicon that derives its value from provenance, not condition.

See how that works? Just because you don't care, it doesn't mean that it isn't important to a lot of people.
Stack traces can include private user data too, I always review all of the data in a stack trace before filing bug reports.
The first example about spyscope potentially confuses the reader a bit by using it in context of println debugging. The point of it is you can stick it in front of any form. For a better example, see https://github.com/dgrnbrg/spyscope#spyp

Otherwise great article, I hadn't heard about scope-capture.
Insight Timer. But as another sibling comment mentioned, Waking Up is worth the money; and if you can't afford a subscription, they'll give you a free one.
So what generates these "synthetic" stocks?

It doesn't sound like futures or simple bets. From the article, its almost sounds like they're almost selling NFTs of a photograph of a stock created form whole cloth. That can't be right, can it? Surely its backed by something?
Ask HN: Am I doing authorization and authentication With Azure Properly?
Hi All, Currently in my project, I am trying to do AZURE AD based authorization using access token I am trying to use auth code flow (with PKCE). For that I have followed this ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/scenario-spa-app-registration#redirect-uri-msaljs-20-with-auth-code-flow { for setting our spa client app in azure}). Along with this I exposed my own custom API for having a scope url, I just want to secure my spring boot APIs & I am trying to use JWT access token and allowing a jwk issuer uri to validate the same using the link ( https://login.microsoftonline.com/{my_tenant}/v2.0 ) Am I doing it correctly?
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