skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who started out as a die-hard atheist materialist, who mellowed out and became much more open to "spirituality" and religion (when they're constructively positive and tolerant rather than dogmatic, intolerant, close-minded, and violent), I've started to develop an allergic reaction to the recent shamanism craze.

James Oroc, in another article on the same site about underground 5-MeO facilitators[1], summarized some objections which I also share:

"A lot of these practitioners like to take the tail hit on the end of the pipe because they believe if they are in tune with you, they are influencing your 5-MeO-DMT experience. I would say for one, if you've had a true 5-MeO release your experience is almost un-influenceable. Music can affect it and touch can bring you back a little bit, but the whole point is for your consciousness to go and for your body to be safe and undisturbed. I actually think the best practitioner is a licensed nurse who can put you in the recovery position. Any practitioner who would actually mess with your body in any way while your consciousness is out surfing the Akashic field, that's unethical in my opinion. And that's a common theme among all these practitioners- they all like to get really involved with your experience. So that's going to be the next major thing I write about: my ideas on the importance of a neutral container.

"I'm actually a little irritated at the moment, the way the whole movement has sort of been swept up by the New Agers and falling back into this kind of cultism. Because there was a moment when Burning Man and psychedelic culture were actually breaking free of that, and heading into a much more William Gibson punk-anarchist kind of reality. That's still mixed in there, but I feel like we keep getting pulled back into this New Age bullshit. To me, the toad shamans are a classic example of that."

For more examples of the harm some of these "shamanic" approaches can cause see: [2]

[1] - https://psychedelictimes.com/underground-5-meo-dmt-facilitat...

[2] - https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=86872
> It's entirely their rights to do so and nothing in the commonwealth

Literally no one said it wasn't their right to do so

> Which is their entire freaking right to do so. Just like maintainers of open source projects don't owe their users anything the SG1 content owners don't owe anything to Netflix users.

Literally no one said it wasn't their right to do so

> Whatever it is, it's up to them to manage their content however they see fit.

Literally no one said it wasn't up to them

> It doesn't make piracy of SG1 content legal in any way.

Literally no one said that.

Now. When you're ready to argue with what I'm saying, I will gladly continue this discussion. However, so far you're debating some points literally no one said.
USA Today was clearly a very graphical and not too taxing paper often for business travelers who didn't want to deal with the very serious, and at least somewhat NY/DC local, NYT and Post--or whatever the local newspaper was.
I wasn't familiar with the site, and when I clicked the Back button, or tried to go to the homepage to see what was there, I got redirected to scammy "update your Flash plugin" malware pages, so ... I'm ok with this.
When he says reframing his relashionship with soxial anxiety, I don't think he just means being drunk at the time.

Social anxiety is an opinion you have of yourself. That can change. Or at least, you can decide how you feel about it.
What's the main point of the article? Does the modern world have more fancy stuff that the world before? Yes, without any doubt.
I think the "capitalist" discourse revolves around the price society pays to get "stuff" related to the utility value of the "stuff".
So the question would rather look like:

- You live competitive capitalist style, but get iphones, uber and google.

- Or you have relaxed four-hour four-day workweek, with button phones, no uber and website catalogs serving under 5kb/s dial-up.

I'd choose the second option without a second thought. The utility of having fancier screen doesn't fit the loss from switching from chill lifestyle to the competitive "capitalistic" one. Even with 5kb/s internet you're able to achieve a lot of things. You still have access to online libraries and forums. Bicycle commute and public transport aren't so terrible (In Europe). You still can hear your loved ones using a button phone. And the most important you'll have a lot of time and energy to enjoy all this stuff.
Cleanliness and punctuality are also factors for me.
You find it "extremely disturbing"?

The Problem of Evil is an argument explicitly against a loving, omniscient, omnipotent god. The god that appears in various monotheistic religions. We're not discussing religion at large.
This is a tough situation. The best way to avoid being in this situation is to:

* set boundaries early. What will you do and not do? I've definitely worked some long weeks, but when I went into it "bought in" that made it so much better.
* Inform team members early and often about the ramifications of this kind of "planning" (I use the term loosely).
* save money and set yourself up for financial security so that if this does happen, you can leave.
* keep in touch with the dev community and your past co-workers so that you can easily transition to another job. Job hunting sucks, keeping in touch can make it suck just a bit less.

Of course, hard to do all that on a Sunday night :). But keep it in mind for the future.

As for your proximate question, I'd go in on Monday and explain why you didn't meet the deadline. Sibling comments mention building out a plan to deliver the functionality. If that is part of your job desc, I'd work on that too.

You also want to think about if this is a one off (possibly driven by a client) or a regular occurrence. If the latter, I'd polish your resume and start looking around, as it's really hard to change that kind of culture at a company unless you are in the leadership team (and difficult even then).
American Medical Association, aka physicians
You have adapted your emotional processing towards the belief that work/financial success supersedes all else. This belief, and the set of beliefs underneath it, are reasonable, though incomplete. Being completely adapted to an incomplete set of beliefs is what leads to emotional/existential distress. Just add to your belief set and adapt yourself to a more complete set of beliefs.
Have you tried LSD? Does it compare?
> Proofreading, copyediting, typesetting, ... physical printing...

Uhm, I don't know if you've published a paper since the 90s but none of those are costs that modern journals incur. Or if they do, nobody asked them to.

The main thing journals do is peer review and that is all done for free by other academics. Authors do basically all of the typesetting, and although journals still insist on printing issues there's really no need for them to do so.

The only really important thing that journals do is finding and hassling reviewers.
Cool app, dude. Thanks for sharing.
Magnet implants as human machiene interface
I agree with you but I wouldn’t have used the supreme court as an example. The justices are supposed to decide whether a law is constitutional, not whether they agree with it—at least in theory, and they try to keep up some semblance of appearances.

A lot of the ACA arguments the court heard were incredibly stupid. And they still have struck down parts of the law.
I'm an engineering manager in my 40s and I've hired engineers older than me.

I appreciate you're absolutely correct, age discrimination does happen. One thing to consider for older engineers is that, though your technical expertise improves through the decades, it's not just technologies that you have to keep up with but also cultural practices. That is, the bad culture fit isn't necessarily code for "We don't want you because you're old." but could be a genuine reason.

As an example, consider the book The Phoenix Project which dissects the reasons for discarding segregation of roles like developers, QA, and ops in separate teams into service teams of DevOps / T-shaped engineers. If you haven't worked in that environment or don't appreciate the difference, you may be judged accordingly.
I've had the opposite. Horrendously scary experiences brought on by panic attacks, magnified by the drug and stretched out to subjective days by time dilation. My ego was run through the thresher and dismembered.

Having such a negative experience was probably better though. I rebuilt my ego after a few months and permanently (10+ years now) fixed deep problems in my psyche. But it scared the bejeesus out of me and I have no desire to go through that ever again.
The Find My network stuff isn’t coming until the fall. Right now they only update their location when connected to your phone, which is basically useless.
> chances are, the savings convert into bonus money for someone in upper management regardless.

This has not been my experience working at the Director level. Maybe it's the lack of C in my title, but in my experience it's much more likely I find a way to save a few 100k, pats on the back are given, maybe a call out in a board meeting, then that money promptly gets allocated to another teams budget, and I'm unable to obtain raises or bonuses for the people who made it happen.
> controversial handheld game

Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, an unlicensed Game Boy Color game called "Terrifying 9/11" was released, which uses the attack as a central plot point, despite the game essentially being a port of Metal Slug. The quality of the port is actually quite good which leads some to speculate that it's based on an unreleased port by SNK.

It actually has perhaps one of the most impressive examples of video (or something close to it) I've ever seen on the Game Boy. I get the feeling that the game creators didn't mean to cause offense but simply wanted to use the attacks to add context or "plot" in other words.

More info: https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Terrifying_911

Full gameplay (Chinese version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq7Vlk2r-eo
That just moves the cost of recycling to the public. The public shouldn't have to bear the costs of the negative externality of other people's consumption. It is also essentially a regressive tax since the wealthy consume/dispose of more goods. Also most areas don't have a single exclusive trash service (monopoly).

Furthermore, single stream recycling in America, on average, is a complete failure. The portion of stuff that is actually recycled is very low as much is contaminated with non-recyclable materials. I'd either expect such a trash/recycling service (as you describe) to be quite expensive or actually recycle very little of relative to what could be recycled.

If the manufacture's & end consumers of goods were forced to confront the cost of disposal at the time of purchase it would create a large incentive for companies to make products with less waste and products that are easier to recycle. The goal isn't to just to recycle everything that currently can be recycled but to make everything easy to recycle.
I'm kinda with you there. There are more jobs for junior developers, and higher salaries for senior ones. That kinda correlates with age too. If I see someone 60 in tech, I assume they're either:

- A wizard, who spent 40 years knee-deep in technology.

- Someone with management experience.

- A flake-out who never did either.

I'm also less likely to cold-call someone more intimidating for random job screening, but more likely to reach out for something aligned to their skill set.
I've apparently never had asthma in my life, until I moved to Sydney, Australia for a while.

It's a city which _loves_ cars.

I used to cycle about 20 minutes to the office, the view was beautiful but the traffic was horrendous. I used to wheeze and struggle with breathing a lot more than usual. The doctor diagnosed me with "seasonal asthma" and gave me a ventolin prescription, which I've never felt the need to refill since leaving.

The doctor told me there was some phenomenon which made the air pollution worse, something about the reflection of the water from the harbor ? I wish I could remember what it was called.

It's anecdotal but that was my experience.
I did (actually it was last semester) but they didn’t do basic definitions, it came with an assumption you knew what the parts of a computer were.
Well it was one of the main freeware recommendation sites for windows
Solid state propulsion for flying (2018)
If they need some interleaving to happen at least n% of the time for their program to work... what am I supposed to do? Because it was never guaranteed to be interleaved at least n% of the time, even when the atomics were not merged. Do they want me to bypass the system scheduler and run threads concurrently with forced interleavings against a statistical distribution? I doubt they want that. So what do they want?
"Thousands of fake Instagram accounts are powering scams targeting influencers. The scams are run by different people, but are the bots?"
I'm trying to figure out what part of this story is the scam.

Shopify's business model encourages people to build dropshipping sites, there are literally hundreds of thousands of them. They promote plugins like Oberlo[1] that let you import products directly from AliExpress into your store to markup and dropship. They have blog posts[2] that teach you how to dropship. I feel like the author is implying that dropshipping is a scam, well if you are foolish enough to pay markup on items that you could order yourself directly from AliExpress that's your own problem.

I think the bot issue is highlighting that these "scammers" have figured out a way to automate driving sales through influencer marketing. However, any dropshipper could do the same thing manually, and some likely are. Influencer marketing is basically sending influencers your products to promote, in this case they are asking them to purchase, but they are still getting real products. Is that a scam?

[1] https://www.shopify.com/oberlo

[2] https://www.shopify.com/blog/how-to-start-dropshipping
The optimization is complete in engineering. In programming optimization is optional and unless you are doing safety critical C or assembly, it's not truly optimized.
The QR code seems to have the same amount of friction as the share password. It's something a guest can do asynchronously without needed someone else to do something.

Also, I like the use of guest SSIDs. My guest SSID is just like my main SSID but with L2 filtering for all traffic not going to the gateway. Guests can use my fast internet, but just not interact with my LAN or other guests. I also don't enforce WPA3 only on my guest network for legacy support.
"debilitating social anxiety" is when you feel that way.
Lots of engineers suck, and they often don't actually do engineering.
The court system is a joke. It has nothing to do with justice. On the criminal side, you can get a citation for a $500 fine and it's better to just plead guilty because a lawyer will cost you at least that much. It's a financial punishment even if you are innocent. If you don't hire a lawyer the judge won't take you seriously and call you names like "sovereign citizen". The number of mistakes and the amount of ignorance by the people running the system is repulsive and leads to violations of rights.

As just one laughable example, I had a magistrate think that requesting the case to be dismissed with prejudice was me calling him prejudice. You dont even need to have a law degree or pass the bar to be a magistrate.
> Compared to the world as a whole today, including Asia and Africa? Almost everything in America is left wing, including the republican party and USA today.

That is just not true. For example, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Iran, and Sri Lanka has universal health care - the United States does not.
Or get 50k from Daddy and play at being entrepreneur - I remember hearing that at First Tuesday back in the day (late 90's)
Man HN is getting some low quality articles lately. This one, the CEO that got bored and used his telescope to spy on people. What is going on?
Italian Glasses? Smart
Some things are near incomprehensible to us in the West.

One was what happened in Lebanon after the port explosion. An Australian who had married a Lebanese wife and moved to Lebanon reported the couple had decided the move was a bad idea, and were saving for a relocation back to Australia. Then the explosion happened, and the government literally ran out of money. The solution was apparently to raid the citizens savings accounts. From https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/lebanese-cannot-access-mone... :

> As a result of monetary policies implemented by central bank Governor Riad Salameh, people are currently unable to withdraw money even from local currency accounts, she added.

I don't know if their savings were permanently taken or merely "borrowed" for a while, but in any case the move to Australia was taken off the table when it looked most desirable.

In that scenario, the non-reversibility of Bitcoin transactions looks real attractive. I think it is fair to say crypto currencies look most attractive when the traditional trust networks we humans have crafted out of out of bankers, institutions and laws break down. While the crypto currencies have their weaknesses - the 51% attack is very real and the power consumption of Argentina can seem over the top, they provide a very concrete, measurable level of trustworthiness. You know what it will take to break it. The soft human trust networks can and do break in a myriad of ways, so often we given them a name - "black swan events".
Browsed around briefly, and apparently the best free social network apps include Google+ and FourSquare (out of 5 or 6 total)... seems like it may have been inactive for a while prior to this.
> It's hard to ping a colleague for some chit-chat.

Try it. Some may not be interested but others will be. With a dozen engineers at your work, at least one will feel in a similar way to you, so you can help each other.

Or look for a smaller coworking space in your area, even if it's for one day a week. They're fun social places. (At least the small local ones are - not the big vc funded work spaces)
No specification, but the linked website mentions that they “propose a syntax like "MECARD" for specifying wi-fi configuration” and then later:

> Special characters \, ;, ,, " and : should be escaped with a backslash (\) as in MECARD encoding.
I've always tripped alone, as an introvert, and I love having the whole space to myself and just having a good time without worrying about other people too much

Agree with all the above, but I'd also emphasize dosage.

I think I remember a study that showed the risk of people having a bad reaction is very clearly correlated to taking too much. Which should be pretty obvious.

Start slow! You can always take more.
What exactly is the abuse in this case?
When you now have things like TypeScript that allow you to define interfaces completely external from your logic you have already addressed half of what frameworks solve for without writing a single line of code. After that the only things left that frameworks provide are APIs and composition. If you know what you are doing you define your APIs first in consideration for the business logic and save composition for the final step after all other logic is written. Then you can make any adjustments to your internal APIs as necessary to glue things together. No framework is needed, minimal refactoring, and a smaller code base with less complexity because a generic framework doesn’t know your business requirements in advance.
I never knew about Michael Pollan and his works. But now I'm tempted to buy the book. Controversy is good for readership
> Intuits

I'm hesistant to say this because I don't live in the USA and so it's not really my business but ....

You know you really don't have to live in this society where large organisations are allowed to maintain de-facto monopolies. Every other part of the developed world has laws which limit monopoly suppliers. The laws aren't perfect but they have an effect.

Oddly enough the only real exception to this is the digital advertising duopoly owned by two large US companies and which operates on a, pretty much, global scale. So far, the rest of the developed world hasn't worked out how to address that.
Richard Branson's Message from Space
Your definition of what's considered common sense is based on your sole understanding of computers. It's more like your intuition.

Just because you don't understand something fully doesn't mean it's not common sense.

It's very common that programmers don't bother reading the standard or attempt to understand the concept of an abstract machine.

Programmers that know what they are doing tend not to be surprised by such nuances.
The issue is that said foreign investors are presented with buying existing stock as the easiest way to make a profit.
As long as it's air tight, sort of. They found honey that is safe to eat from the pyramids. I wouldn't recommend eating it as it probably doesn't taste good at all. The flavor will decrease after a while, but that generally takes years. Eventually it will taste bad, but that should take decades.
What? That’s awesome I had no idea that came built in! Pretty cool!
What did everyone in the video call hear in the right audio channel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruCsYGL3QlY&ab_channel=Lesli...
It does not compare at all. I'm not sure that you could get to that same place of full release/disconnection even with a massive dose of lsd.
It's interesting that you quote me as saying that Feynman knew "nothing about" LSD, when I actually said he knew "little about" it.

Not the same.

Having one trip does not make you an expert. It makes you a novice with still a lot to learn. Feynman, as smart as he was, could not become an authority on LSD after a single trip.
It's a DSO first and foremost which just happens to be equipped with a certain $809 option[1] supporting a very specific application.

If you cared about digital decode only, and had confidence in both the SI of your interface and tooling, sure. Great when things "just work"...entirely unhelpful when they don't at the lower layers of hardware domain.

[1] https://www.keysight.com/us/en/product/D4000USBA/usb-2-0-tri...
MDMA successfully completed Phase III trials for PTSD: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03537014 results here: https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/phase-3-trial-of-mdma-the...

Psilocybin can provide peace to terminally ill patients: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367557/

and it's in Phase II trials for major depressive disorder: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03866174

and already has successful results in a small cohort, as published in JAMA Psychiatry: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...

hell, ketamine is FDA approved for depression: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s
Install mtpaint (or gimp).

->Converted to indexed (or modify palette), select amount of bits.
-> select palette algorithm and dithering (mtpaint has option for small palettes)
-> save
Nice piece, made me chuckle but then think “there probably is someone thinking like that.” Then I thought about my old job where the CEO hasn’t been seen since the beginning of the pandemic, while people had to go in the office because of “training” which had been done via video call anyway, due to restrictions.
Why is it surprising that atomic can be optimized?
One Fast-Food Chain Keeps Its Turnover Rates Absurdly Low
They describe having anxiety attacks on the way to work. That sounds serious by any reasonable definition. Who made you the arbiter of social anxiety?
I don’t get it… is it that every single android oem makes their own camera app? Or did google choose to just not have barcode/qr code as part of the default camera app?
that output can happen if you're trying to curl a nonexistent URL.

Can you paste the command you're using to get that output?