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I agree with everything you wrote here.

> But did you use psychedelics with intention and in a therapeutic context?

No, but I didn’t always use them in a party setting either. I generally hoped to gain something from the experience, like a new insight into myself or a new appreciation for nature. I was an avid reader of Erowid as well.

> Did you work on integrating the insights you got during the trips in to your ordinary life after the trip?

The “insights” that I had felt incredibly profound at the time, but they were pretty banal in retrospect. I remember on one particularly intense shroom trip I experienced ego death and lost all sense of self. I literally could not even comprehend the concept of selfhood; I felt like I was just pure energy. The great insight that I had on this trip was that everything I had ever read, whether it was in a book, a newspaper, or on the internet, was written by another human being. In that moment I felt a tremendous connection with and empathy for every other human being. It was a powerful experience, but the actual insight was kinda silly. Not much to integrate there.

As a funny side note, I had a friend that took a little too much acid one night and had some indescribable epiphany that he had to share with the rest of the world. He proceeded to post his Facebook username and password all over the internet, and asked people to login and add as many friends as possible. His great mission was to befriend every single person on the planet.

We never quite figured out what his epiphany was. It was probably something dumb.
Add this language absolutism to the list of things we need to avoid.
I once had an intense, drug-like experience from meditation and even have a straightforward (if speculative) explanation for what went on.

Basically, one day I was curious and I decided to try the concentrate-on-your-breath exercise to see if I could go for ~30 minutes of focus (using a timer) without my mind wandering or any conscious thoughts. It was unexpectedly really, really, hard. I had to try again and again probably for 5 hours but eventually got pretty close I think.

Afterwards that day, the physical world was amazing. You know how kids get excited about mundane stuff or firetrucks or dinosaurs or whatever? Everything was just intrinsically super stimulating and interesting, even just the interaction of light and shadows, etc. It was like life had some sort of "interesting" volume knob, and after eliminating the loud sounds the volume got turned up on things that were previously too quiet to hear. I'm pretty sure as a young kid I had experienced the world in this more intense way but forgot it was possible.

My hypothesis is that it was kind of the opposite of burnout or shell shock - that there's some sort of internal adaptation to the level of external or internal stimuli, and just like overly stimulating/stressful environments or thoughts are known to cause people to feel numb (burnout), maybe reaching an exceptionally calm mental state can cause someone to feel whatever the opposite of numb is.

The effect wore off the next day, and I didn't attempt it again because it was incredibly difficult and also time consuming. But it's left me curious about it. If enough practice would make it possible reach or maintain such a mental state with a less-than-herculean amount of effort, it seems like that would be a nice mental skill to have...
I feel the terminology used in your post inspires it.
Language absolutism.
I think tech like a lot of modern JS frameworks, and Mongo, are really good at dev productivity, especially in the earlier days of products. If you're at a very new startup where the company could die any day, and you must ship absolutely as fast as possible to keep the company alive, that can be a truly essential feature.

But then if said startup gains traction and the team/codebase/systems grow a lot, it can easily become hard to maintain, and you probably wish your backend was implemented in, say, Go/Postgres over Node/Mongo. Or that your mobile apps were written in Swift and Kotlin over React Native. And I think a lot of the HN crowd works at "startups becoming big businesses", so this is probably a common headache. But it doesn't necessarily mean the tech is BAD, just that it's good for certain things (like early days productivity), but a pain for others (maintainability as the system scales).

SQLite is a bit unique in that it's just a super high quality piece of software, that is arguably the best short AND long term solution for the problem it solves (mostly being an embedded DB). But for software where it's more of a tradeoff around early productivity vs. long term maintainability, I think HN is pretty strongly on the long term maintainability side, and that's more of an opinion/choice than a clearly "correct" answer.
> If ten years from now people are writing unsafe C and C++ like it's still somehow OK, that would be crazy.

It's 26 years after Java was released. Java has largely been the main competitor to C++. I don't see C++ going away nor do I see C going away. And it's almost always a mistake to lump C and C++ developers together. There is rarely an intersection between the two.

I think you do not understand how short 10 years is. There are tons of people still running computers on Sandy Bridge.
This is not a justification for paying low wages and treating employees like garbage (eg: no notice when the business permanently closes, reshuffling schedules with no notice, poor treatment when on and off shift, etc).

The current restaurant industry is a failing business model that usually harms those involved. The employees, vendors and business owners often end up destitute and with damaged bodies, hence why this industry burnt through people even pre-pandemic.
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> Presumably the only difference would be that the file wouldn't be created until you first save the file within vim.

And for me anyway, this is a benefit. When I used windows (and the same holds for google docs) I always had "New Folder"s everywhere that I'd created for whatever reason and then changed my mind or got distracted. Same with new documents. In vim, I do like to say, and it I change my mind and don't save it, I never see it again. If I touch'd it first, inevitably I'd have empty files everywhere.
OP, you probably meant to link something specific, but currently your post links to just https://developer.apple.com/
It's stated on the status page:

> Our blog and website are experiencing load-related issues, leading to slow loading and 5xx errors.

All backend services (realtime and REST apis) are on entirely separate infrastructure and are unaffected.
Offer to schedule meetings with anyone interested where you will show them the slides.

I wouldn’t forward the slide deck without any existing business relationship.

If this issue persists, create some public-facing material that you can potentially host on your website and share that. Explain that slide decks contain confidential material but you’d be happy to set up meetings with anyone interested.
Maybe it takes into account if the user doesn't have write access to the folder? If the user didn't have access, the touch command would fail, whereas going directly to vim, it would only fail when trying to save (potentially losing the work done in the file)?
> that doesn't work well for fleeting thoughts of a more philosophical or conceptual nature

I don't understand. If you're at a keyboard then just type, and if not, just write. Don't include much (if any) refinement, as you can do that at a later stage. Just get down as many associations as you can.
The same thing! Imagine getting new features, new content, and new systems at a far more rapid rate from a far smaller developer.

And most MU*s are free. The paid ones, like GemStone, are even better... though the subscription price might be hard to swallow for people who are used to AAA graphical games not costing anything (at least on the surface).
I said this to myself before I bought my last car, but:

1) There doesn't seem to be any practical or socially acceptable way of charging a car that is parked on the street (I don't have a driveway)

2) Electric cars seems to still be significantly more expensive, even used. For what I was willing to pay, I couldn't find anything more than a very basic used leaf.

3) At the affordable end at least: They are so ugly and there's little to choose from. Both the Leaf and Zoe have this weird "electric car" look that I am not keen on.

That was my experience a couple of years ago in the UK
Wow, I would never have thought of doing that to get to a new state. I can't think of the number of times that I have opened an existing document to make alt versions of, but forget to Save As before making those changes so my alt is the version. Hopefully undo buffer allows me to go back to start, Save As, redo back to where I was. Too many times.

I love/hate when I hear about the covoluted ways that users use a computer in the most illogical way that apparently makes perfect logical sense to them. It's like the Stupid Criminals bit on the Tonight Show. All you can think at first hearing is surely nobody is that dumb, but yet, here we are looking at someone being that dumb. One co-worker was often heard saying "I can't fix stupid"
If you would have mentioned those other languages in your original post, it might have amplified your valuable and important point even better, rather than triggering some readers effectively accusing you of shilling.

I don’t mean this in a very critical spirit, though.

Communication is really hard - especially in a large setting where not everyone reads you in the same context, and not everyone means well.

On balance, you post was valuable to me!
Ask HN: What's a great way to visualize/showcase my roadtrips?
I have been on a couple of fun road trips, which involved carefully choosing nicer locations using a lot of online search, browsing through articles, blogs etc. However, some of the most interesting places I found were just because I happen to drive past an interesting road sign and I decided to stop by it.

I am looking to visualize this data using my google maps location tracking. Since there is a ton of information there, which I can export as kml files, however, I don't want to do the manual work of creating the visualization since there must be a tool that already does that.

Either-ways, ping me if you're interested in hashing out a good solution for this, I have a couple of ideas I want to soundboard.
There's a bunch of foods that are a pain to make, or will make your kitchen smell ...
Plus having different plates for everyone is also super convenient
Do you think other engineers think this way? Your bridge is only 20 yards over a creek, you're not a civil engineer?

I'm sure the complexity, depth, and expected maintenance of some bridges vary too.
I've done this in Visual Studio simply because the way to create a new blank code file is convoluted
A more faithful analogy: I have two boxes with a small hole and ball inside.

If I look through the holes, I will see that one ball is blue and the other is red.

If I touch them through the holes, I will feel that one ball is hot and the other is cold.

However, I cannot look and touch at the same time. And once I check the color or the temperature of one of the balls (so I know it for both) the link is broken.

If I look first, I’l see that one is red and the other is blue. But if now I touch them, each one will by hot or cold with 50/50 probability. Finding the temperature of one doesn’t tell me anything bout the temperature of the other. And when I touch a ball I don’t know its color anymore: if I look at it again it could be red or blue with 50/50 probability.
I agree with that on a micro-level, but zooming out I think there is commonality among all the views present in post-war Europe and USA, in the same way that Greek philosophy has a coherency when seen today despite the incompatibility of its various philosophers teachings.
Not confusing threads; the double slit experiment is often given as evidence of superposition. My attempts at replicating the experiment myself have been foiled because it inevitably goes to phase calculations on lasers, which I don't have any idea how to do. I keep looking for a way to do this famous and supposedly simple experiment, but haven't found a way yet. In any case, when I go deep on what is there (as a layman) it inevitably seems to result in phase measurements as the smoking gun proving superpositions exist at all.
There is something like this: https://bigscience.huggingface.co/en/#!index.md
I agree with you, if you are looking for the output of a moral philosophy equation to spit out an answer. However, I think it is more useful as a series of questions that help us understand the reality, as you mention.

If moral philosophy is boring an arbitrary, then what study or language is a better vehicle for discussing these ideas?
> That's statement is true of any abstract axiomatic system, and mathematics (or, rather, any mathematics) is an abstract axiomatic system, therefore it is true of any mathematics

Are you referring to incompleteness theorem? If so, that’s about proof not epistemology unless I’m quite mistaken. Whether you can prove something is true is not the same as saying it’s entirely subjective. In fact as incompleteness is a proof of a universal truth then using it as proof of subjectivism is incoherent.
Buffer overflows are common in CVEs because it's the kind of thing programmers are very familiar with. But I'm pretty sure that in terms of real-world exploits things like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, authentication logic bugs, etc, are still far more common. Almost all of those are in bespoke, proprietary software. A Facebook XSS exploit doesn't get a CVE.
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I had to fight the urge to screenshot your comment.

Do you have any suggestions on where to read about the power of focus?
Key insight. One annoying thing in many workflows is different programs and file environments (GUI or CLI) bein gout of sync with the patterns of the work I'm doing; why (I ask myself) am I having to traverse the same routes around my directory tree like a squirrel carrying nuts and and berries back and forth?

There's no flow between the OS and application UI in most instances.
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This is the most disgusting thing I have ever read...
Muse sould be shunned.
I would suggest that they could ask for an injunction as well as restitutionary/disgorgement damages (give back their ill-gotten gains) and possibly punitive damages (to discourage others from violating the GPL).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damages#Punitive_damages_(non-...
Would you share some of your favorites that you aren’t worried about people stealing?
Information isn't rare anymore. It's like a bus. If you miss one, another will come.

In my experience, articles or comments are never great pieces of information. The best ones will usually lead you to a book or documentary that they sourced the info from.

Delete the bookmarks, get the book.
I'd be interested to know how much people here sleep for ideal work / life results.

If I get less than 6 hours, I don't really consider myself rested such that I can respond well to a normal schedule.

If I get 6 hours, I'll feel rested, but also tend to be over-executive. It looks and feels like productivity for that reason, but I notice that I can't set healthy boundaries as well. I more easily skip over most of the introspective parts of my work processes, and tend to get migraines more easily. It's also harder for me to get back to sleep, e.g. for a nap.

If I get 6.5 to 8.5 hours, I'm generally screwed or sorta-OK (8 to 8.5) until I can get a nap in.

If I get 9 hours I'm just about in my best work-life balance zone. I don't take work too seriously, but I can also sit down at work, plan, commit, and follow up. At this level of sleep I can almost always skip a nap and feel good throughout the day.

If I get 10 or more hours of sleep, I'm generally screwed.

This obvs leaves out aspects like how much deep sleep, the effect of meditation opportunities, what is considered work, how one uses one's subjective psychology or how well one sets boundaries, the use of medication to mediate the troubles, etc.

How many hours do you need? How much is too much for you, and how did you find that out?
And more often than not you had hovered over the "new" menu on accident
you know thats really not a bad idea, although you'd have to get around people not wanting to visit the same place every day. I think it could work for a market-style place (think nice food court) for variety, but you'd still have to solve for having a place that people will want to go to at least twice a week to justify the membership cost.
Yes, exactly, visual things drawn on top of the PDF.

I mean things like Okular has: highlighting text (like with a yellow highlighter on paper books), freeform draw tool (like scribbling with a pen), adding short text comments and longer notes, etc.

To illustrate, the annotations in an old Okular version looked like this: https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/okular/okular/annotations.ht... (the yellow note box, the green lines and so on).

There's a small picture at https://okular.kde.org/ too, it shows a newer version.

DISCLAIMER: Not saying that Okular is THE reference to follow, I'm pointing it out because I've experience with it, and for example their decision to save annotations into the PDF itself is in my opinion a lousy one. But the idea that one can free-form annotate and add even longer comments to the pages is a great one. The annotations are like scribblings in a book margin, very useful both when studying and when referring [ * ]. And this is something Okular has done much better than e.g. Evince.

[ * ] Of course, one could use a more elaborate tool to keep references, notes and quotes etc., like Zotero.

Edit: typofix
It's interesting that when labor costs shoot up (and let's be honest, that's what this is, you can get people to take those jobs if you pay enough) it's a 'shortage,' but we don't really call skyrocketing medical costs a 'medicine shortage' or skyrocketing rents and home prices a 'housing shortage.'
Tl;dr - I’ve stopped trusting new car warranties after trying to claim on one, and will be buying used cars until I’m forced to stop.

Not an EV, but a similar story with my previous car has likely swayed me from buying new vehicles for the foreseeable future. Demonstrator Audi A6 purchased from dealership with a warranty developed the at the time common DSG gearbox shuddering, tried to bring it in for service, technicians reported they were unable to reproduce issue. This went on for nearly a year until the gearbox finally gave up and left me stranded, at which point Audi quoted me over $8,000AUD for a rebuild. My protestations that the car was basically new with less than 25,000kms on it and still under warranty when I first reported the issue went nowhere until I threatened legal action.

I immediately sold it once repaired and have been driving the same 20 year old manual Subaru since, and would not hesitate to buy another as my next car. As a bonus, the interior of the higher end early 2000s Legacy wagons is very good, I would say even more quality than the Audi.
The security attack that scares me more than any other is rough men with guns kidnapping me in the middle of the night and then torturing me until I reveal my security material. While normally torture just results in the victim saying anything to make it stop, in the specific case where the attacker has encrypted material and can test key extraction in real-time torture is highly effective.
What a weird hill to die on. I gave up trying to navigate the Start Menu to launch programs around Win7 in disgust of Windows' continued "helpful" reorganisation of it.

My main way to create new files is DEFINITELY "rightclick -> New -> *", because I usually have the directory I'm working in already open in Explorer, because that's where I'm doing my work, so I'm already there! ... The alternative to finding Paint in the start menu and then later on finding my folder in whatever convoluted network drive I'm working on to save the file, is just hitting [Enter] to open the file you just made.
If all you need is "person who is able to properly administer Windows systems", there are things like Microsoft's certifications.
Regardless of the underrepresented/mistreated group part, why does Gitlab offer immigration to the Netherlands in general?
1) The idea that McDonald’s used to be primarily staffed with students doesn’t carry water. How would the store run during school hours? Students can’t run a store when they need to be in class, someone else has to do that.

2) Have you actually looked back and compared that salary to the cost of living back then? I think you might be surprised how many people could, and were, supporting a family on a job that “anyone with a pulse” could do.
It doesn't take much to open a small business. There's a reason many small businesses fail, and often times it is the result of rather foolish decisions and ideals.
This is one of the best examples I’ve ever seen supporting the claim that analogies aren’t reasoning.

Edit: apparently elaboration is in order. In mechanical engineering one deals with smooth functions. A small error results in a small propensity for failure. Software meanwhile is discrete, so a small error can result in a disproportionately large failure. Indeed getting a thousandth of a percent of a program wrong could cause total failure. No bridge ever collapsed because the engineer got a thousandth of a percent of the building material’s properties wrong. In software the margin of error is literally undefined behavior.
I mentioned Rust because I write Rust professionally. If I wrote Java professionally, as I used to, I would have said "java". So you're probably correct that I could preempt stupid people's posts, but I don't care about the dregs of HN reading into my very clear, simple statement, just because they're upset about rust or whatever. It's just not worth it to me.

I'm glad the post was of value to you. The talk is really good and I think more people should read it.
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The reason "magicians" succeed is because Occam's razor is a heuristic that we rely on intuitively. When the real explanation is super-complex, like "this magician spent 8 hours a day for months learning to hold a hidden card in an invisible way, followed by a year of engineering an under-the-stage lift hidden by mirrors, the reality isn't "disproved" by Occam's razor.

Same thing if someone engineers a super complicated method to murder someone while appearing to physically be at a different place. It isn't the simplest explanation, but it can still be correct!
OSX does the same thing, too. I always have to go and turn the setting on just to see my home folder, not even to mention actually seeing file paths anywhere, or God forbid finding root in Finder.