skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just don't see things changing in bio sciences because the people who benefit from it don't want it to change, and the people who want it to change (labs without a lot of money, grad students, post-docs) have the least power change it.

Scihub is at least levelling the playing field and forcing the conversation to happen.
I almost gave my SSID and password over to this guy, that's an interesting fishing technique.
This app also does this locally in the browser.
Great comment which I upvoted for accuracy because it is how the real professionals in the industry talk.

A great example of this is the debate around fail-open and fail-closed in different scenarios.

Depending on the system, the function, the security objectives underying it, and the way in which success or failure is determined, eventually, a decision can be reached about what is optimal for an organization in a particular case.

It is completely consistant to argue for fail-closed for a low availability requiring system with a big attack surface that is internet facing, while simultaneously proffering fail-open for a mission-critical industrial control system with strong physical protections that is in a locked-down closed off environment, unpivotable, for which work stoppage is a serious threat. Basically, something unlike Colonial Energy..... :)
Isn't it pretty much an agreement that they'll compete" (i.e. not compete) by all implementing basically the same shitty DRM?
It's a shame you're getting dogpiled for echoing something Jobs himself suggested. Let it live in infamy, "you're holding it wrong"
Blinds on the outside... How does that work? How do the blinds not get destroyed by the wind?
memset is not a special case. Compiler designers are very much against special casing, and rightfully so.

Compilers do have an intrinsic equivalent but that has nothing to do with whether it gets optimized out or kept.

Following SSA rules, if you are writing to a non-volatile memory and not reading from it for the remaining duration of its lifetime then it's dead code.

use memset_s was a suggestion if your goal is to scrub memory because it guarantees the write will happen. The guarantee comes from the C standard:

> Unlike memset, any call to the memset_s function shall be evaluated strictly according to the rules of the abstract machine as described in (5.1.2.3). That is, any call to the memset_s function shall assume that the memory indicated by s and n may be accessible in the future and thus must contain the values indicated by c

Which essentially means treat the memory as-if it's volatile.
FWIW If you’re in the UK you can opt out of non addressed mail (https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/...) delivered via RM

In 2005 the Royal Mail was fully privatised. Since then I personally feel the amount of unaddressed mail has increased. But that might be in my head
Yes, I would agree that a lot of GNOME developers still view that as a design goal. But not all do, and even so, having less configurability doesn't mean less features. If you ask me, practically speaking, what it has meant is that there is a larger collection of smaller apps to choose from. So if the app you want lacks a configuration option, you might be better served by trying to find a different app that just works the way you want the first time.
I've recently been playing with CY7C68013A. Very approachable small USB (high speed!) microcontroller. With tiny amount of code, you can do quite a bit! It doesn't have flash and code is only loaded to SRAM over USB when you connect the controller to the host, so that's pretty flexible.

So far I've been practicing on my saleae logic analyzer clone, which is based on this controller too, but there are cheap dev boards orderable from aliexpress, that have this chip which are not limited to input only.

Muuuch simpler than STM32, and much faster interface. While some STM32 chips have high speed USB, most cheap boards don't include the high-speed PHY, so it's useless.

Can't wait for the dev boards to arrive.
That the input is matched position by position to alternative patterns and the first one is returned is another one of said assumptions.
> next time a CTO asks you to create something in a month for a demo, just go ahead and implement a mock

But expectations have shifted and management now expects to get the real thing.
... and they are blocked by the trades.

It's pretty ridiculous that you've the whole thread whining about "the trades". A variety of vested interests keep building costs high, with trade unions well down the list. Developers, large, monopoly builders and homeowners' association each as a group have more money than any unions and through a system that bring huge profits by high priced building and land appreciation, they have a vested interest in the high cost of building. Consider that when it's time sell schemes that raise the cost of building, the best "face" can trade union "protecting livelihoods" but that doesn't that's where the real power or money lies.

On a practical note - mobile home parks in my area are blocked by county and city government they serve home-values, out here in the sticks, unions really don't have but we've had no new parks for twenty or thirty years. But oppositely, it's easy to put mobile unit on the high price land you occupy yourself. Yeah, it's land value.
I believe the submitted link should point to this page:

https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/time-say-farewell.h...
Well, you get the crappy channel subsidized with adverts, otherwise it would either be too pricey or server just utter cheap worthless unwatchable trash (mostly).

Would you like to pay say 1 dollar per movie and watch significant amount of ads during it?
It's usually something that brings up very positive emotions, like childhood memories, wedding/honeymoon pictures, me at various stages of life, important transition periods, people I want to remember well, etc.

For the "negative", I've mostly resorted to journaling in ways that help me self-discover and resolve the past, such as SelfAuthoring.com exercises that I continually write and re-write from time to time (I bought and copied the exercises to my local drive).
Which is why I don't have a photo on Linked in.

IMHO the EU should ban the practice unless is for models / Actors.
Psychedelic posts get a free pass from the usual criticisms on HN for some reason.

This is a blatant promotional article for a mystical cure associated with a sponsor of the website it’s posted on (the article admits they referred him to the retreat center, a subtle invitation to other readers to also reach out to get similar referrals to this miracle cure).

Replace psychedelics with any other substance and the comment section would be full of criticisms about this being an n=1 anecdote and the obvious conflict of interest with the source.
Not quite like HN, but a true old-fashioned forum for language learning is 'A Language Learner's Forum'. It branched off from 'How-to-learn-any-language' when it went down in 2015 and has a good load of knowledge available and more with each post

forum.language-learners.org/
Perhaps they should just stop wasting money on physical journals and stick to the web format that 99% of people read?

Claiming $10k for a bunch of unnecessary work is outrageous.

The cost of prestigious journals are the curation and high standard of peer review. Except they don't actually pay their staff for those things...
It's certainly possible for elderly people to maintain a high level of fitness through intense training. But some of them are heavily geared. I see guys at the gym or at endurance races where physique and performance are obviously not natural. And I'm not judging them, maybe the tradeoffs are worthwhile?
Drug companies spend more on marketing than on R&D. Much of the research is done with grants and government money. The vast majority of medical devices use the 510K process for approval, which means they are substantially similar to existing device (to bypass testing).

Sure some protection is necessary. You could make it based on development costs and have much shorter times for things that were cheap to do.

"maybe the problem is the role of money in politics and we should address the root cause. "

There are a lot of problems in politics that should be fixed - rules for thee but not for me (rule of law ignored), basically insider trading, high lifetime pensions, long careers, two party system, media bias/lies, and even problems in the voter base (us v them). Money is an issue, but it's really only good if the constituents are gullible or believe in the ends justifying the means. The real root of all of this is that politicians are a separate class from the rest of us and aren't accountable to anyone unless their transgressions are egregious, and then only sometimes. Rule of law has become a joke.
vim is the "VIsual editor iMproved", which is an upgrade to the "VIsual editor". It works by having a text entry "mode" and a separate text manipulation mode. This is very powerful, but does take some getting used to.

For example, let's say you want to delete 5 lines: In visual studio code, you'd either select all the text and hit backspace, or maybe hold ctrl+backspace to delete whole words at a time. In vim, you'd hit escape to exit "insert" mode, then position your cursor at the beginning of the 5 lines to be deleted, and type "5dd" which means "delete a whole line, 5 times".

In the hands of an experienced vim user, it can make amazing edits to text in fractions of a second. It's really cool! It also works in a terminal, so it's available to you when you SSH to a remote server, for instance.

Org-mode is kind of like Markdown, in that it's a way for plain text to have structure. Something like this:

* Birthday Party Plan
** INPROGRESS [#A] Buy cake
Ask Jen about her baker friend's availability
** TODO [#B] Buy beverages
Talk to Mike about his party and what people drank
** INPROGRESS [#A] Send invitations
<DEADLINE 2021-08-10>
*** DONE Design invites
*** TODO Get Addresses
*** TODO Mail merge
*** TODO Print invites

Lots of stuff going on there! I'm tracking the state of each made up todo item. I've got a priority on the main todo items, and a deadline for one of them.

Org is note taking, scheduling, structured text, even running programs and scripts inside your notes and saving the results in the note itself. From orgmode.org: "Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining to-do lists, planning projects, authoring documents, computational notebooks, literate programming and more — in a fast and effective plain text system."

So, all of that is being supported by NeoVIM now :)

I hope that helped, let me know if there's anything you want clarified or expanded.
The "I don't want to break the machine" part from the book was mainly about alcohol, and only secondarily about LSD:

> I started to walk into the bar, and I suddenly thought to myself, "Wait a minute! It's the middle of the afternoon. There's nobody here. There's no social reason to drink. Why do you have such a terribly strong feeling that you have to have a drink?" ­­ and I got scared.

> I never drank ever again, since then. I suppose I really wasn't in any danger, because I found it very easy to stop. But that strong feeling that I didn't understand frightened me. You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick. It's the same reason that, later on, I was reluctant to try experiments with LSD in spite of my curiosity about hallucinations.

Also, according to this passage, Feynman's experiments with LSD/hallucinations came after (and despite) this decision, and they are described extensively in the book. I don't remember a mention of Timothy Leary in the book (it mentions John Lilly; maybe you've mixed up the two), and I also don't remember the part about him giving a talk about a problem he thought he had solved.
* I totally read this backwards sorry. But I'll keep the relevant part about different steroid and my mistake below.

maybe also check out a Ciclesonide inhaler (alvesco, another steroid) which has helped me a lot in my cardio. I can get that last 5-10% into my lungs and don't have those tiny wheezes at peak respiration.

And I'll make a note of that drug for the future thanks!

--
I got on steroids last year. Had huge increase in use of albuterol over the last 2 years. For like a decade i barely used anything, inhaler sat in the bottom of my climbing bag.

I'm in Denver, really bad pollution and the fire smoke is literally unlivable at its worst.
You went to a Toastmaster’s meetup on MDMA?

That’s in now way comparable to having treated your social anxiety. Recreational drugs obviously produce short-lived mental changes.
Yes, I agree. The command vocabulary needs to come first for it to make sense and be a sensible application which is different from just a text editor.

I have recently developed my own terminal-based UI for day journalling and todo/task tracking [1] in markdown files because I was sick of rearranging todos in other tools and just needed something which provides a standard template for each day (journal, high priority, todos of the day).

The main advantage is that you can "migrate" all unfinished todos to a new page/day and thus get a clean start each day. This idea comes from bullet journalling.

Long term I would like to add generated views (for instance: last year this time one of your highlights was...) and support recurring tasks to be inserted into the daily log.

[1] https://github.com/coezbek/rodo

Stack: Ruby, Curses, Markdown
I found this article kind of odd, personally.

A million years ago I did quite a bit of 5-MeO-DMT and compared to N,N-DMT (or many other tryptamines) I found it to be… kind of lackluster. I wasn’t aware that there was such a large community that use this substance for spiritual or self improvement purposes.

Kudos to the people that are getting value out of this!
I think it is useful to come up with incorrect theories and then and thus understand what is wrong with them. Then one can come up with a better one perhaps.

For Feynman it must have felt like a dangerous experiment since it led him to come up with incorrect conclusions. But I tend to think I learn most from my incorrect thinking (assuming I realize it is incorrect)
Very interesting. I would love to see tools emerge out of that research. In my experience one of the basic problems with testing/verifying concurrent code is that it is often difficult-to-impossible to perturb a particular part of the system, to exercise different orderings, and thus find corners.
I think utilizing Chia coin would actually be a better idea. Incentivize people to donate their hardware space with real money.
So what's the motivation for the article? Presumably someone complained that the compiler optimizing atomics broke their code.
SuperMemo.

Not advertising it, but I've found it's the best for my needs despite the effort it takes to stick to it.

I would liken it to an average computer user making the effort to learn and stick to Emacs because they really believe it will pay off in the long term. And SuperMemo sure has paid off for me.
Seems like you mean well, but you're all shadowbanned.
Can't downvote someone calling for safety, as much as I love the idea of psychedelics helping people.
Yeah, the submitted-link seems to be that URL... with the full text of the "goodbye" blog post appended to it.

I'm kind of surprised that HN lets you store such a large URL. (Obviously URLs can be very long, technically. But.)
One of the more insightful ways to think about Compliance vs Security is best addressed by a British Security dude's video on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBdg0682Qzg
The title says 5-meo-dmt but article says bufo (from the toad). I find pure 5-meo much nicer -- it can be safely insulfated (though it does burn quite a bit), which makes more a much smoother come-up. My last experience started with insulfation, then smoked a tiny amount after about 15 minutes which catapulted me. (Won't go into details because I can't...it really is an ineffable experience). Also no harm to endangered toads, which is a plus.
The Motorola 68000 is the only other one I can think off.
No no no!

You’re supposed to deploy qrencode in a kubernates cluster on Oracle cloud to run it, and then go to your WiFi base station and change your SSID to “network” and it’s password to “password”

<grin>
The entertainment people pay for a-la-carte is relatively high-end though. It's $5 to $10 to $100+ . People are fine with making that a conscious decision. Not so much with a $.05 for an article. I'm not justifying this pattern. Just observing that it seems to be the case (as have others).

As for video services, lots of people argued against the $100/month bundle as augmented by the $5/each Blockbuster payment. I actually prefer the current fragmented services plus a la carte even if it's annoying sometimes. Certainly saves me money.

ADDED:
>In addition it provides no net incentive for the subscription provider to increase the options available in the system or the quality of those options.

Not sure I understand that. While there's certainly inertia, if your subscription isn't providing me with value, I cancel it. (Some companies make it difficult to do so but that's a separate issue.)
I recently dropped a sage bomb on a friend, and I was sure I hit some serious sage advice gold.

Here it is:

There is a difference between your identity being in something versus your heart being in something.

Identity is a very very cheap substitute for passion and integrity. ‘I am this, therefore I am correct in doing this’.

Young managers fundamentally will pay the price with identity, not anything else.
Best line for me:

> If the purpose of a job is to provide money as a proxy for freedom, what is the point if it doesn’t leave the time or energy to exercise that freedom?
I’ve enjoyed and gotten a lot out of every book of his I’ve read.
The same reason I take a massive V8 engine attached to a massive truck bed one mile over to my friend’s place to watch England lose at the Euros. Turns out that sometimes, even when tool X isn’t the best at the job, it’s way better for me to use what’s at hand.

This is what a lot of people have trouble understanding: sometimes the best tool for the job is the tool you’re best in.

Evidence? No one has made this static website you’re talking about. It doesn’t exist. This one does. The imperfect app that exists beats the perfect app that is vapor.
That reminds me of people comparing writing in JavaScript (without their pet abstraction library) to writing in assembly. What a bunch of horse shit. It’s a red flag to self-identify configuration monkeys (people limited to following instructions) apart from those that can actually write and test applications.

This rule about absolute failure in rolling your own realistically only applies to cryptography, because the bar there is set extremely high and there is a rigorous vetting process.
I don’t think it helps to gatekeep like this.

I can order a pizza and travel to foreign countries alone, but I have nearly been fired for my inability to initiate friendly conversation with leaders of other teams at work. I have agonized for 30 minutes to write three sentences for friendly ‘let’s have coffee’ emails. Maybe that’s not debilitating per se, but with the right timing it could have destroyed my career, ability to afford living expenses etc.
I disagree and I found both the command line and ui versions interesting, kudos to both OP and the CLI poster :)

As stupid as it sounds I didn’t realize there was a wifi scheme for a uri-like syntax on phones
Looks like another iteration of someones personal markup-flavor, aimed at task-managment for self-organization. Basically, a todo-list in text-form.

But I don't see anything worthful yet which makes this flavor preferable over org-mode or markdown. Seems to be also still very in progress. So give it some more years to grow I would say.
I often come to this conclusion.

One of my frameworks has hundreds of open source contributors now, and tens of millions of downstream users use things built on top of it.

I'm now working on another one, and we just had our first few PRs from people who aren't me.

And I ain't too young anymore.

(And yes, this comment, while true, is tongue-in-cheek; there were darned good reasons for making new frameworks in both cases)
The example about signed overflow misses the point, on good code it results in a performance improvement. Similar for dereference of null pointers; it allows the compiler to remove visible successive checks(e.g if you call *ptr, then all further calls to ptr will not be null until it is written to). This makes it faster to express preconditions but let the compiler make safer code faster.
That's awesome. Good thoughts. The attention and strength of emotions really do affect the strength of memory synapses, and you got it so right in that the most common form of spaced repetition is something we all experience: recalling and thinking about memories, including re-opening photo albums.
This has always been my view; It's the only CPU I know about that met the requirements.

Other 16bit consoles used an off-the-shelf 68000, combined with custom support chips. Nintendo made their own custom cpu silicon, an off-the-shelf soft-cpu and custom support logic for bus control and DMAs.

And there simply weren't that many 16bit soft-cpus available for Nintendo to license. You couldn't license the 68000 HDL, nor the 8086 HDL.
To say Feynmam knew "nothing about" a drug he actually personally experienced is a hard sell.

"Feynman was either completely ignorant of his potential or chose to ignore it". [citation needed]

IMHO he did rather well i his limited time on the planet.
Failures, successes, and learned lessons (podcast episode)
As somebody who struggles with tact lately, would you mind sharing a kinder way to phrase the above while also being factually correct?

I used to be good with people, but somewhere along the way I became a jerk. Any tools in my tool belt would be appreciated.
Also just want to emphasize how correct this is.

And yeah wow on your own the first time. Damn.

I was with 2 others taking and 2 people not to guide in a comfortable environment and it was a lot even then. It's just an incomparable experience and while bad trips are actually very very rare and you should not worry about them if you've prepared everything else right, the experience is still just..
well.. wow!
> I'm not super clear on what characters can be in an SSID)

I hear “%s%s%s%s%p” is the preferred SSID these days…
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. To me it's obvious that performance reviews aren't and cannot be objective. You may disagree, but this will inevitably lead to dissonance when you your boss's assessment of your performance doesn't line up with what you think your "objective" performance is. This will eventually happen if it hasn't already. If you get a bad review while you think you're knocking it out of the park, the attitude I've outlined here has two benefits. First, it helps you realize that this supposedly objective review of your worth to the company is in fact largely bullshit. Second, it helps you realize that you need to spend some time learning whatever it is that your boss thinks is valuable and optimizing for that instead of whatever you're optimizing for now.
Clearly something is terribly wrong if law or policy dictates scientists can not study a specific subject, based on political reasons