skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I wish we had a more engaging alternative writer to reference about the realities of psychedelics and other drugs. Someone who was more interested in delivering realistic, albeit necessarily less boring, descriptions of the realities of this space.

Was pollen really all that disingenuous in the reality of psych use/effectiveness at treating medical conditions?

Seems his claims were pretty in-line with the research overall. If anyone has a quote of pollen overstating benefits, feel free to post the quote as I, for one, would like to see it.
> I agree with you that the airpod batteries (like the batteries in everything else) should have been replaceable in the first place.

100% agree, you can't unsee things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mleQVO1Vd1I
But, see, if I'm a politician, it's exactly "there is just too much to lose in political support from that industry" that worries me. I've seen how much weight they can throw against a politician they don't like; I've seen them decide to go from "not throwing that weight" to "throwing that weight" very abruptly; and I realize that such a move can be made against me at the drop of a hat. That would worry me. Would it worry me enough for me to risk triggering their wrath right now? I don't know.

As a non-politician, here's what I think needs to happen. They either need broken up, or they need heavily regulated. (We didn't break up the power companies. But we did create the Public Service Commissions to heavily regulate them.) I could see a Public Network Committee or something, saying: "No, you can't make that change your UI to make it even more addictive. No, you can't gouge advertisers. No, you can't directly sell personal information..."
A nice, friction reducing optimization for a home user.

Great work, OP. I'll be printing one for my fridge later today.
It’s the Rube Goldberg style of software development? Didn’t you hear? It’s super popular with the kids!
It was a fairly old book, so your point is well taken. Also, the boundary between left and right has shifted throughout the years.
That's interesting - another asthma medication I was on as a child made me an absolute horror as well - wonder if there's some relation in the mechanism of action.
But you don't need to be a monopoly or even a big company to have an awful feedlots, monocrop farming, ect.
Majority-3SAT (and Related Problems) in Polynomial Time
Arxiv is preprint. Not peer-reviewed. Most times reviewed articles have critical changes before they reach their final, journal version.
At 20,I grew a beard so would be taken seriously.

Now I shave to be taken seriously.
Elektronauts (https://elektronauts.com) is a great forum for discussing electronic music production. It’s affiliated with the Swedish brand Elektron, so there’s a lot of content specific to their kit, but there is also a lot of general music making (and wider) discussion.

It reminds me of HN in the sense that it is very well moderated - it’s rare to see anyone trying to cause trouble and they get shut down quickly if they do - and most of the people seem smart and friendly. There’s quite a lot of good content (if you’re interested in music production, of course!) - it’s the only other forum type thing I use really.

It doesn’t have the same layout as HN as it uses Discourse (which is more like a traditional forum layout, but very nicely done IMO).

In theory it feels like Reddit should be the obvious answer here but it just doesn’t work for me. Too much crappy meme/joke content and/or loads of empty threads on more specialised topics. Also not a fan of the UI.
I thought masala meant spice mix?

Spiced tea is a bit more specific than tea tea, but not much more
React is compiled to static content so this could be hosted with GitHub pages too
This is an earlier tributary, so it’s definitely not going to be the equivalent of the full Nile in volume.
All journals I have ever published to (in theoretical physics) explicitly allow the authors to put the journal PDF of their article on their personal or institutional websites. They also allow to have a "reprint" (identical content to published version, but not the exact same PDF) to be on the arXiv. I'm not aware of any journals in the field that don't allow this. I'm sure they exist, but I would not consider them for publication.
The current Inkscape snap will crash when you try to import. Just click on File - Import and crash!
I haven’t read his more recent writings, but The Botany of Desire is a fascinating book. It will show you how interesting the history of plants and their relationship with culture can be. I read it many years ago, but I still find myself going “did you know...” to people before recounting something I learned there.
What fraction of the phishing you see was just harvesting credentials? Because every such incident becomes irrelevant if you have unphishable credentials, and yet companies are going to spend a bunch of money on phishing prevention/ training and not move to unphishable credentials.
> SciPubCoin, a blockchain where you get one coin from each published paper you submit!

Probably better to create a system that includes a reputation currency, since you can't 'spend' your reputation: https://medium.com/metacurrency-project/reputation-is-orthog...
Make a project -> learn to code

Share a project -> get opinions on it

What's the problem?
> they stay good for years

The lifespan is indefinite. If crystals start to form, you can heat the honey and it'll return to it's normal(?) state.
Blaming users for clicking links in emails I also agree is stupid. Many company systems require (or at least offer) the users to click on links in emails, Jira, service now, workday, gmail meetings.

So if you don't want people clicking on links in emails then stop sending email with bloody links in them for everything

PS.
I always get my annual security training by a link in an email
Normal rate for WSJ is around $40 per month. The starter rate is $20. If you try to cancel, they will renew at the starter rate.
The QR code it generates can be scanned by a phone to connect to a WiFi network without typing anything
Seems they disabled that since you posted it?

> Your request couldn't be processed

> There was a problem with this request. We're working on getting it fixed as soon as we can.
Tesla launches initiative to build first solar neighborhood in Austin
Counterpoint is if there was any reason to? I find both jQuery and React solve very different problems. Simply moving to React because it’s what’s everyone is doing would be just as wrong as sticking to jQuery because they refuse to learn new things.
Given the history of quilts and infectious disease in the Americas (re: smallpox blankets), I always felt aids quilts were accidentally tasteless and, due to the sincerity of the good intentions behind them, kind of hilarious in a subtle dark humour way.
> Your only "error" was to accept from start working in that environment, but that's an error most of us do as young devs; sometimes the enthusiasm after landing the first job plays tricks on us.

This story would have had a much better end had the CEO not been counting on getting the investment. Sounds like the CEO spent his last powder on a moonshot. Bad form blaming the developers.
"The most interesting pushback was by Google, Facebook, and Amazon, as well as Chinese giants DJI and Alibaba. All of these firms speak though the trade association Netchoice, which has them as key members. Netchoice didn't bother to try and convince Democrats. Instead, the big tech trade association used the order to lobby Republicans, making the case that Biden's actions against monopoly are opening the door to a larger more powerful government. Here's the key part of Netchoice's statement:

"Sen. Lee and Rep. Jordan's warnings were right - when Republicans back progressive antitrust proposals because of concerns about tech, they open the door to progressive antitrust activism... By backing hard-left proposals, like nominating Lina Khan to the FTC and Rep. Cicilline's antitrust legislation, anti-tech Republicans bear responsibility for the damage that will result from importing a European-style antitrust framework to all sections of the American economy."

Netchoice represents mostly American giants, but also Chinese dominant players. So it's interesting is to see the Chinese tech giants through their lobbying proxy coming out against Biden's anti-monopoly actions, and praising conservative Republicans Jim Jordan and Mike Lee in the process. It's clear that both big tech, and China's own tech giants, do not want to see anti-monopolists like Lina Khan succeed. But conservative Trump-supportive ranchers, by contrast, do."

It is almost as if these "tech" companies are trying to sow divisiveness. Divide and conquer.
> and then when someone makes a project as a means to learn a particular technology, now people turn up their nose and say "ew, why did you use this?"

Why post your learning project on HN then? You advertise and get free critique. Double win in my book. What's wrong with that?
Yes, but not directly via a service worker (aren't they blocked from network access in general?) - you'd have to trigger the main thread to sync with the service worker, then perform the exfiltration for you.

The original way to do this via a synchronous XHR request in visibilitychange/beforeunload/unload handlers gave you a 1-2s window to exfiltrate the data. That's been deprecated in exchange for a more insidious "invisible background connection to the server maintained after closing the tab or navigating away" that doesn't involve any UI delays. (For "a better experience" of course, not for stealth! Never!)

It's called the beacon API [0] and it's supported by basically all browsers [1]. This was introduced because, chiefly among others, Google Analytics was stuck between blocking in head to record the page view or moving to the end of the html document and using documentready but with a fairly high risk of user navigating away before all that had a chance to trigger at all or after it triggered but before it could exfiltrate the data.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Beacon_API

[1]: https://caniuse.com/?search=beacon%20api
Can't you also screenshoot it on your phone?
Yeah I think you hit the nail on the head. This guy was clearly smart, but he really had no broad interest in science. He was climbing the neuroscience ladder in exactly like someone would climb any corporate ladder.it was just the career he had happened to choose. He was definitely serious about it.

Non technical probably isn't the right term here, he clearly possessed a lot of technical knowledge. But he was non technical in regards to the project he engaged me on which was to build a a web app for his lab.

Either way it was a dissapointing experience. I was more excited to take that project than any other in my life but by the end I was happy to walk away from it because it wasn't productive.

I think another part of the problem was that this guy had a lot of money to throw around via grants but I don't think it particularly felt like real money to him. I think it was a use it or lose it situation, but he didn't seem very serious about getting return on the investment. Once he realized the project was going to take real effort to manage on his end, he was seemed immediately ready to abandon his sunk cost and move on.
> My guess is that you're not getting your own airpods back, but someone else's.

I guess reading the linked site before commenting on it is no longer in fashion.

They clearly state that they send you a new (or refurbished rather) pair before you send in your old pair.
That's pretty much what the black carbon component indicates.
Lessons When Scaling from 0 – 130 Devs with Kirby Frugia of Mural
Ruling on using brush made of boar (pig) hair? Heart valve made of pig tissue (valve):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aItwQrkImjQ
However, for anyone who does happen to be interested in the history of emoji, Keith Houston's Shady Characters blog has a ten(!) part series [0] on them.

[0] https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2018/08/emoji-part-1-in-the-be...
Food waste app Too Good To Go saves leftovers from San Francisco restaurants
This is a ridiculously good idea. Thank you.
I just want to talk about how to build cool shit I don't want to hear about licenses or crap about how me sharing my code with restrictions isn't really "open source", so no, nothing about "free software" . Stop trying to "gotcha" random people with stupid questions.
Maybe not your intention, but the way your comment is worded aligns perfectly with the folks I've encountered who think they can't find a job due to ageism.

In reality, it's because they can't share even a single sentence without being arrogant and condescending.
Likewise no sane compiler would optimize memset. Unluckily we don't have sane compilers
Thanks looks great
Big tech wouldn't have the silos or platform lock downs (ie power/user capture) they have today without the ip legal framework. People would be able to legally circumvent their bs and offer services around gaps in their platforms and would encourage more competition and result in a less monopolistic practice.

I think all monopolies are violence enforced or they are competitive otherwise somebody would step in and undercut their costs and the government has a monopoly on violence so...
My dad was a postman. He always used to bring home big bundles of these and I’d make rubber band balls out of them. Good times. =)
Most if not all journals in my field allow you to upload the final accepted PDF that you have typeset in latex yourself to arxiv. We even put "accepted in $journal" and the DOI in the comment field. This includes all the changes you have made in response to referee comments. What you can not upload is the finial language-edited and nicely layouted version that the journal has build from your submission.
I can't speak for the poster, but sometimes the fun is in using tools you know.

I don't know VanillaJS that well, so I took a stab at the same concept:

https://q726kbxun.github.io/qrcodes/

Not nearly as pretty, since I know even less about making pages pretty, but still, a fun little stab at making such a site.
"In the long run, we're all dead" - John Maynard Keynes

You might be right about the far future, but there's still a lot of human flourishing that fails to happen every day until then. Or you could be wrong, and I'd hate to /start/ having this conversation once we realize that.
A similar thing is that I often come across people who are well-informed but still surprised that compilers will combine two observable operations into one, and complain that some other thread somehow 'should' be able to observe the intermediate state. But I don't understand how they think they would be able to tell the difference between an interleaving that never happens to happen, and one that will never happen.
> explicitly allow the authors to put the journal PDF of their article on their personal or institutional websites

Q: Where is an author supposed to _obtain_ the final, "official" journal-approved PDFs in order to republish them?

Unless I head for sci-hub, I don't have any of mine :(
Snow Crash is cyberpunk but it would be a stretch to call it noir.
My eyes cannot roll harder, I think they have also gimbal locked.
Where can I buy some of your Bitcoins, please?
That looks like a big number, but it is $8.6M ? Is that a lot?
> how do so many incompetent CTOs get into the ground floor of startups?

To start, there really aren't CEOs and most startups until they have 20-30 employees. There are only founders. Maybe they have some management experience, maybe not. Once you do get big enough you need and can afford a CEO, sometimes a founder grows into the role. Sometimes not.

>How could a CEO find an investor and not find a tech person who can foster/grow a team of engineers?

I've been on the other side. I can build a great engineering team. I had to find a cofounder that was good at finding investors to make my current startup go.
yes, good stuff, thanks
> I think the underlying reason is when you have far more experience than your future boss they are intimidated by you.

That is so true; however, they tend to be weak managers with delicate egos and poor vision. Count yourself lucky you didn't waste your time.

There are plenty of managers who highly value experience and capability regardless of age. They are worth searching for. Such a manager's project is probably also more challenging and interesting.
While the claims are (likely) technically true, if you are trying to insinuate it is less safe, then that is a false conclusion.

As an example, many garages ban LPG cars, but don't care about CNG, AFAICT, because LPG can pool around on the bottom, but methane is light and easily escapes. Hydrogen is even lighter and harder to contain.

The link [1] has compelling arguments.
I've had very similar emails too.
>Authors, publish your papers in your personal webpage. Do not promote paywalls.

This plea to authors to change their behavior ignores why they submit papers to paywall publishers: The prestigious journal's acceptance of their paper helps promote their career.

Academic publishing is not a web host server for pdf files type of problem.
Therefore, suggesting authors to upload their pdf to a public Dropbox url, GoogleDrive, Github repo, or their university faculty homepage doesn't solve the real problem. So even if Scihub had a "direct upload pdf" option, that still doesn't solve the underlying problem for getting their paper recognized for good work which spurs citations.

Scihub is a distribution mechanism for pdfs but not a recognition and impact filter for which papers are _important_. This is why scientists keep doing contradictory behaviors: On the one hand, they praise Scihub because it gives them access to papers -- but on the other hand, they keep submitting to paywalled journals to help their career.

Think of game theory incentives instead of hosting pdf files. Journals have the respected editorial staffs to look at their submitted paper and forward it to other peers for review. OpenAccess is a possible option but most OA journals don't have same prestige as the paywalled journals. That may change but it will take a long time.
> I use Make as the standard way to interact with every repo I own. This allows me to type `make build` instead of `$some-language-specific-command-I-forget-in-2-weeks`.

I also used to do this until I switched out Make by Just[1]. I find it worth a recommendation.

https://github.com/casey/just
> I am not confident in the ability of the government to implement a reasonable single payer system. I am concerned that regulatory capture, small government politics, and special interest groups will result in system that is worse than what we currently have.

It takes a special kind of delusion to believe that when every single country in the world that has a public health system is in fact not worse than the US system.

I think a large part of the problem is that Americans are brainwashed from birth to believe that the "Free Market" will solve all problems, and that it is superior to public systems 100% of the time.
lol always the same argument: "oh you want equality? so you want everyone to be equally poor!"

no! I want everyone to be wealthy. we have more than enough of everything on this planet for everyone.
My take is that every source has biases, and it is worth reading multiple perspectives to truly understand an issue. Some tools that help:

- Ground News (https://ground.news/) - it's a site that links articles from across the political spectrum for any given story

- All Sides (https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news) - similarly provides headlines from articles of different biases for any given story. Also has one of the better media bias ratings database (https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings). They also have a great blog called "Perspectives" (https://www.allsides.com/blog) that often covers meta-issues around news and bias.

- The Factual (https://www.thefactual.com/) - unbiased news in your inbox each morning

- The New Paper (https://thenewpaper.co/) - similar to The Factual

- Reading the usual set of least-biased sources such as Associated Press, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, BBC, The Hill, etc is also a good alternative. These can be found in the "Center" bias column of the All Sides media bias chart I linked above.
> OpenAccess is the future

Yes, but the perfect can be the enemy of the good.
What does "git style" mean for a CLI?
That SNL dig was obviously an exaggeration, but I remember when USA Today was being launched and they themselves compared themselves to TV news in printed form and that being a good thing.
A personal story of treating social anxiety with 5-MeO-DMT (2016)
I just typed 'Daniel Tiger' into YouTube to have a look and then I watched some Mr. Rogers samples. It really strikes me as nothing like Mr. Rogers. Daniel Tiger is animated, it does use fairly rapid cuts, the overall pace and feel is much less calm. Mr. Rogers has a peaceful adult voice, the effect of extended listening is a bit more like watching Bob Ross paint. It's soothing, relaxing, and calming. Daniel Tiger has constant loud child voices. Also, because Mr. Rogers is an actual human being with actual human facial expressions, he can provide healthy modelling to children for how to be a decent human being. Many children these days grow up in broken homes with parents who scream and fight and then divorce. Divorce rate is like, what, 40%? My parents certainly screamed and fought and divorced. But watching Mr. Rogers as a child gave me an important experience of a human who is Not An Asshole. Is there really some compelling reason to use the "successor" to Mr. Rogers as opposed to the original?

Mr. Rogers sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tkJduDu1JM

Daniel Tiger sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m08BrNDkJjw

Bob Ross:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLWEXRAnQd0
I think some folks here need to shut the fuck up and let a developer code using whatever tools make them happy.

There have been plenty of times I've decided to use a project as an excuse to learn something new. There's always going to be a more optimal way to go about things. But you might not have nearly as much fun, or grow as a developer.

Potentially making a dev feel like shit for sharing the fruits of their labor because they didn't implement it in a way that makes YOU, personally, satisfied?

You're just a jerk.
HN, Lobste.rs, Substack, Reuters, <unnameable>
Ah, I'm sorry to see this answer so late, but I find this interesting so I'll respond anyway.

I find "reductionism" to be a very vague and often unclear term. When used correctly (at least how I understand it), it is meant to denote phenomena where in principle, with infinite computational power, you still could reduce the total behaviour to a combination of underlying lower-level behaviours. But with irreducible phenomena, this way of understanding it is suboptimal and does not produce understanding in practice, because it is missing the forest for the trees and introduces a lot of information which can effectively be ignored. In this way, moving up a level, or doing a kind of basis shift, we can understand the phenomenon much more easily. In these situations, we say that reductionism does not hold.

But I've also seen people use the term in a mystic, almost magical way, where supposedly the upper phenomena cannot be put into a connection with the lower underlying phenomena even in principle. They seem to be seeing it as a kind of break in causality, so that the upper phenomena stands on its own, unrelated to the lower layer.

With the above in mind, why do you specifically think that reductionism determines someone specifically as a materialist and not a physicalist? Can you expand a bit more on that?
New Study Says Climate Change Is Indeed Making Your Allergies Worse
That's pretty cool.

Now I wonder. With an efficient water desalinization how long would it take us to turn arid zones into complete oasis?

That would be massively helpful against global warming.