skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work at high ticket fine dining restaurants and tipping at those sort of places was great for me, it was one of the few non-professional jobs I had that I could actually support myself on.
"The “insights” that I had felt incredibly profound at the time, but they were pretty banal in retrospect."

Ok. I hear that.

It's true that there's no shortage of profound-in-the-moment, trivial-aftwards insights on psychedelics.

However, there are some things that one could do to have a more constructive experience.

One thing I've read about (though never tried myself yet) is to have some photographs of people that mean a lot to you to peruse during the trip.

Most of us imperfect, not-yet-enlightened human beings have unresolved issues regarding our own past or our relationships with others that we could work on, and psychedelics could help us gain insights, confront and deal with buried emotions, or provide closure in these areas.

Having an intention to focus on something specific that's unresolved might help.. especially with the aid of an experienced psychedelic therapist you like and trust.

Going in with just a vague "I want insight" intention might not be enough.

It's the really difficult parts of our lives and our minds where the real gold and gems are, and we have to be willing to dig deep and hard to get there. Psychedelics can be like jackhammers that help us reach these places that might otherwise be inaccessible to us.
the caveat to that is that I don't think every single big player would have integrated clubhouse into their product just upon hearing the idea. it was seen to be successful, which is a lot easier to observe than predict
I love the night sky, so much that I want to go there and SpaceX is closer to making that possible than anyone. Starlink is an essential part of that.

From what I've seen, the satellites are barely visible to the naked eye, and that mainly near the horizon. They're not going to turn the sky into a flickering mass of satellites.
I agree. But I'd make the pre-interview be over the phone. Whatever you ask them in the first ten minutes of the in-person interview, ask it on the phone beforehand. Only invite them for the in-person interview if they pass the phone interview.
The fact that you enjoy that intersection is not an excuse for the terrible pay we give people to do it. If you want premium customer service maybe you should be charged a premium price.
Yes, and I think people in China understand that. And critically, the officials in power understand the need to drive down carbon footprints as well. But at the same time, a lot of Chinese people are still transitioning from a rural, agrarian culture/life style, to a industrialized life style. 5 years ago my grandparents live in a rural village home. They don't use ACs in the summer, wash cloths by hand. Today, they live in a condo that is closer to 20th century standards. They started to use ACs in the summer, washing machine, hot water when washing hands, etc. Multiply by 10s of millions of people, plus a growing economy, electricity consumption will only go up.

Most recent data released by Chinese government. 2021 1-6, total electricity usage in China is 3933.9 TWH. The same period in 2019 it is 3400 THW. A gain of 15%. The country has to meet massive growing electricity demands at the same time going carbon neutral is critical.

Two weeks ago, the Baihetan dam on Jinsha river, the upper stream of Yangtz, started to generate power. It's 277 meters tall, has 16 1 Gigawatt generators. For comparison, hoover dam in its entirety is 2 gigawatt. During the past 5 years, 3 other similar sized mega dams were constructed on Jinsha river. Baihetan at 16 GW, Xiluodu at 13.85 GW, Wudonge at 10.2 GW, and Xiangjiaba at 6.4 GW. Together, these four dams will have generation capacity two times that of Three gorges dam (22.5 GW).

A few days ago, carbon trading market was operational in china. The first batch of companies included in the carbon credit scheme includes around 2162 power generation companies. They have to buy carbon credits for their coal power plants. They emit around 4 gigatons of CO2 per year. The first transaction sold 160000 tons of carbon credits, at 52.78yuan per ton. This is good step in that it adds a price to carbon emissions, and pushes the economics in favor of reducing carbon foot print. Power companies were included first because accounting their carbon emissions is relatively easy. You know their power generation per year and their efficiency. Its easier for regulatory body supervise and enforce the rules.

At the same time, carbon emission credit and trade is going to be a huge impact on a lot of industries. Power generations, steel, metal, petroleum, car, chemicals, or just any manufacturing business. It could increase business cost, reduce export's cost competitiveness, increase business burden etc. And China's most important economic strength is in manufacturing of industrial goods, and competitiveness based on cost. Carbon credit will attack this fundamental advantage, its like getting rid off your own weapon in a fight. This will reduce China's export cost advantages, and cause more manufacturing to exit the country to places with lower cost and less regulation. From an economics competitiveness stand point, the country that should least impose carbon regulations like this is China. This speaks to how serious the country is taking peak carbon and carbon neutral.
Can you clarify what is not possible or provide a link please?

I haven't heard of this, and don't understand what you said well enough to google it myself.
Its objectively better then most? Is this even in contention?
Yes. I have several hundred Steam games that have been removed from the store (dozens due to DMCAs), and the only game I'm aware of having ever been removed from user's libraries was The Culling 2.
This sounds strikingly similar to the "guns don't kill people" argument.
Needlessly numbering lists when bullets would serve the purpose is one of my pet peeves.
Driving in New York and New England is ridiculous now. What used to be occasional antisocial dangerous behavior is now commonplace: tailgating, speeding, aggressive lane changes, boxing people out from changing lanes. It's like everyone lost their marbles.
so true. I have a similar beef about the popular explanation for uncertainty principle: "well you see the light hits the particle very hard so we know where it was but we don't know where its gone now". urgh.
I don't every bookmark things to read later. I bookmark them AFTER I've read them so I can share them with others, should the need arise.
Which state is that? I don't think any state applies exactly the same rules to cyclists and motorists, and many states have a law that cyclists may treat stops as yields.
>If it was fact based they would have provided those facts.

What facts do we need here? That the program exists? I doubt that's in dispute.

>It’s also highly irrational to suggest the government is paying people to sit at home, since they are not.

1. I think the "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." guideline[1] applies here. The weaker interpretation you seem to be using is "the government's unemployment policy was deliberately designed to get people to stay at home" (as opposed to providing safety net), but the stronger interpretation would be "the government is effectively paying people to stay at home by enacting a policy that gives people money, but will withdraw it should they find work".

2. An argument could be made that the government literally wants people to stay home, as a matter of policy. After all, there would be much less people complying with stay-at-home orders if they ran out of cash, couldn't buy food, and had to find a job.

>for being flamebait.

I fail to see how that's the case. If the commenter called the people on unemployment "lazy" or whatever, you may have a point, but they didn't.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
deps can't produce stable builds as it insists dependencies are not ordered.
Yet on the classpath they are.
That order shouldn't matter, but it very well does.

lein AFAIK produces the same classpath every time.

deps: Maybe put the paths first and then let's gamble what a seq on a map produces...
> Mozilla these days has very weird priorities. Their decisions should not feel so unilateral or "because Chrome does it"

I agree. The attempts to be more and more like Chrome are especially confusing to me. Maybe they just want to copy what's popular but the thing they seem to miss is that if people wanted a browser that was just like chrome they'd probably just use chrome. The removal of choice, customization, and control over Firefox is what's going to drive people away. Those are the features that attracted most of us to Firefox in the first place.
I mean this is HN where the solution to the problem is obvious to a software developer but invisible to someone with decades of experience in the restaurant industry.
Yes, it really is the perfect analogy.
Biden administration is restoring showerhead restrictions
The core purpose of Markdown is for the source to look decent and readable, not match the output exactly. You can tell it's a numbered list, so it works.
The distance between two points is basically just the Pythagorean theorem: x^2 + y^2 + z^2. If you have extra dimensions, you just add more terms to this. Now, if you know that e.g. x is very large then that puts a lower bound on the distance:

Distance^2 = x^2 + y^2 + z^2 + ... > x^2.

In other words, if x is large there's no way that the two particles are still somehow close together.
"Lets put the graphics drivers in ring 0, for better performance!" -- Windows NT architects, 1996

"Ummm, lets not do that, it's not such a great idea..." -- Windows Vista team, 2006
I'm not in the industrial design field so I'll point out that Blender is also a competitor to Autodesk's offerings in VFX, game design, and 2D painting/animation.
"But it's totally legitimate if that's your threat model."

Not mine. I have no plans to purchase a security key from Google. I have no threat model.

Nothing in the comment you replied to mentioned "trust" but since you raised the issue I did a search. It seems there are actually people commenting online who claim they do not trust Google; this has been going on for years. Can you believe it. Their CEO has called it out multiple times.^1 "[S]tupid waste of thought", as you call it. (That's not what I would call it.) It's everywhere.^2 The message to support.google and the response are quite entertaining.

1. For example, https://web.archive.org/web/20160601234401/http://allthingsd...

2.

https://support.google.com/googlenest/thread/14123369/what-i...

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/google-is-absolutely-listenin...

https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/blog/people-dont-trust-goog...

https://www.wnd.com/2015/03/i-dont-trust-google-nor-should-y...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/03/google-ex...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2018/10/10/this...
I don't know what this is, and I don't care but you could have just said no.
Frankly, I can't provide a detailed answer to those questions.

This tweet from GitLab's CEO provides some additional context: https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1417617071353991169?s=19
It doesn't apply for film school, but there are plenty of scam law schools that sell students on the prospect of massive future earnings my juking the stats. For example, it's common to say that some high percentage of past students are employed after graduation, but it's often an outright lie or the numbers are padded by the university giving low-wage sham jobs to most graduates.

Of course, you _can_ find information and protect yourself from even these scams _most_ of the time, but I don't think the "just do your due diligence" argument holds enough of the time to dismiss the general argument being made, even if it applies to specific cases.
This is actually an interesting assessment for me, since smartphones are pretty much the exact opposite (can't even see the filesystem on some of them): There's only apps, and the apps have stuff in them. Sure there's ways of exchanging data between apps, but documents/files aren't really a thing.

Conceptually, that means I feel like I'm using services/tools to interact with this abstract 'data.' By keeping 'data' abstract, it feels less solid who owns it, who's responsible for it, and where it is. Now I'm interested in the opposite system where the 'documents' are the core concept of the device, and programs are just "things your computer/smartphone can do with this document." Really make the data feel like it's /there/ you know?
Lots of porn users are unhappy about their use of porn. Lots of people are unhappy about their partner's use of porn. Lots of therapists are worried about their clients' use of porn. Etc. And these are not issues of stigma; we know that because to be taken seriously in the media everyone talking about their problems has to start with "I'm not against porn per se, but ..."
> The constant need for shots of dopamine are very, very detrimental to individuals and hence to society.

The individual isn’t the unit of society, the family is. A lack of sexual morality is death to the family.
> reduces the performance for nothing

Does the code in question ever run in a tight loop (e.g. on file operations after the filesystem is mounted), or just at mount time?

If it's just at mount time, "reducing performance" by one malloc vs a stack adjustment doesn't seem to me like it should be a primary concern.
Yes, I'm well aware of what the data says, as well as what the data is measuring--CVEs and bug reports in well-known C/C++/Java projects.

But not too long ago, before SaaS, social media, etc, displaced phpBB, WordPress, and other open source platforms, things like SQL injection reigned supreme even in the reported data. Back then CVEs more closely represented the state of deployed, forward-facing software. But now the bulk of this software is proprietary, bespoke, and opaque--literally and to vulnerability data collection and analysis.

How many of the large state-sponsored penetrations (i.e. the ones we're most likely to hear about) used buffer overflows? Some, like Stuxnet, but they're considered exceptionally complex; and even in Stuxnet buffer overflows were just one of several different classes of exploits chained together.

Bad attackers are usually pursuing sensitive, confidential data. Access to most data is protected by often poorly written logic in otherwise memory-safe languages.
Most likely, a user of the New dialog was shown “right-click here and select this and now ‘Word Document’ and then…” and thenceforth has followed these instructions essentially as a mystic ritual which achieves a necessary result, without a real understanding of what the steps mean. They don’t know that they’re running a program, they just know they’re making a document appear on the screen. Though they could probably guess the phrase “Microsoft Word” is pertinent to the ritual, they don’t know what it refers to, so transferring that insight would be a matter of guesswork.

You could just as easily show them the steps on the Start menu, it’s true- but then you have the separate question of saving the file somewhere and being able to find it again later. I know from helping elderly relatives with their computer problems that “directories” are another confusing concept for a lot of people. Pointing to the Desktop and saying “save it here” makes intuitive sense and makes the file easy to find later, but to e.g. “Save As” to the Desktop from inside Word requires an understanding of the occult dual nature of the Desktop-as-a-directory and the Desktop-on-the-screen, which is an insight reserved for enlightened wizards. Using the New menu lets the user restrict all their interactions with the file system to, at worst, Windows Explorer, which is a huge simplification!

(Example of where this is coming from; once when my father, a practicing medical doctor in his 70s, needed to e-sign a PDF on an unfamiliar computer I spent about half an hour trying to explain the concept of “close the document in this app and open it in this other (e-signing enabled) app.” I could about as well have been speaking Greek, or telling a Flatlander about flying.)
Is there really any point in maintaining the 'legality' of crypto anymore?

If we're just shuffling around entries from one centralised exchange to another, with a side order of still massive electricity and hardware waste from wherever in the world mining still occurs, what's the point of the asset class?

Why not just ban the fiat onramps entirely, and at least reduce the incidence of ransomware (since hackers won't be able to get paid as easily) and reduce hardware and electricity waste? (Since mining will decline as the price does)
> That's a subjective question.

Its not subjective question though, lot things (including working with the govt services) are moving online even in India. Having reasonably good internet connectivity is now a necessity.
But there is still spooky splitting of the universe... Many worlds just replaces one mystery with another
How would a Linux phone be wrt security? I just had my iphone stolen, don't have to worry too much about data loss because it's unlikely somebody will crack into it.

I don't think that's true for Android, but I'm not sure about Linux phones.
Gah, so when Qualcomm uses the word "deferred", they just mean "tiled", and each tile still rasterizes each tri in order. Agreed on terrible terminology, this is a disaster.
macOS goes further, by not only hiding the path of folders but showing a lot of views that aren't folders. Clicking on "pictures" might very well show only picture files but from anywhere in your home folder and under. Also there are (were?) tags.
Is the following at all reasonable?

REST is for when you are building an API for broad “public” consumption (where “public” might mean public within your company). But many teams are actually building APIs for a very narrow audience; often just their colleague’s javascript! In that situation it’s often fine to build tailored endpoints. Furthermore, the fact that we see RPC being used by large well respected tech companies is additional backing for this view.
I love this!

Something similar is the Archibald Prize's 'Packing Room Prize'.

The award is chosen by the gallery staff who receive, unpack and hang the entries, with 52 per cent of the vote given to head packer Brett Cuthbertson. [0]

It's almost as prestigious as winning the main prize!

[0] https://www.broadsheet.com.au/national/art-and-design/articl...
What I would sci-fi utlimately love is the combination of both. Putting permanent bases on the moon, and then building whatever the sciencey word for lunar telescopes. They get the benefits of no atmosphere, and the benefits of being on the "ground" so things can be updated/fixed compared to just floating in space.
Where do you live? I honestly have trouble believing this. Restaurants are a notoriously low margin business, the one most associated with having family members do labor in them to decrease costs...
down again, it seems :(
Also, if it's possible to get into some profoundly different mental state after 1 day of meditation, it makes me a bit curious (and a bit concerned) about what could happen in 10 days...

If anyone else has had a similar experience and could weigh in if they've found an extended course helpful that would be really appreciated.

I found it very, very difficult to get to no conscious thoughts for 30 minutes, so much so that I haven't tried it again, and I'm someone who's mind is I think usually pretty quiet (I don't have a running dialog or anything like that). But the results as far as I'm concerned were not negative at all, so if there's some practical benefit to pursuing that sort of technique further I'd strongly consider it.
Thats more a solution for the customer. That comes up a lot, and times and again its pointed out that the employees hate the idea (likely because of survivor bias, where those who are making it in the current system would be worse off in a different one).

Long term it likely would help, but short term it would make it harder, not easier, to get employees.

In no small part because so much of the tip wages are under the table.
How to Fail Like Amazon
I was sad to see firefox drop support for Gopher too. I'm not very active in the gophersphere these days, but I guess there's a certain nostalgia in playing around with these old/depreciated/near forgotten protocols and a sense of comfort knowing that they're still out there and being used in little corners of the net even as most people never stray from HTTP-land.
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list If you consider this the "official spec" it's by design.
> On point (1), New York recently tried to ban Bitcoin mining, and it failed with a combination of lobbying by the industry and the electrical unions. Support for it with politicians collapsed. This is literally the democratic process, so if it didn’t go your way, you should support it. If alternatively you want a dictator (yourself or others) to ban it because of your perceived notion of what is a “good” use of electricity, I don’t know what to tell you. Move to China?

Personally I think the proposal you're describing is ridiculous and wouldn't do much in terms of affecting climate change, but I'm confused why you hold this up as an example of democracy working.

What is literally democratic about elected officials backing down from a proposal they introduced because of pressure by affected industries?
Volumetric 8k with tactility?
Why exclude peyote?
At least in the pre-Let'sEncrypt era, lots of the shared hosting providers that gave you SFTP as an upgrade over plaintext FTP also used self-signed certs for their HTTPS admin panels :D

Server identity keys can be checked using SSHFP DNS records signed with DNSSEC, but that is not really mainstream unfortunately.
But the tools themselves are just paraphernalia and legal?

I guess maybe this is explicitly making them not useful as probable cause, and also making their use a defense or legal.
That's what we did here. Moved from WordPress to Netlify CMS and Eleventy and users managed fine (I'm told).
Same thing is happening with entire buildings in my city. They'd rather evict their entire set of renters than lower the rent.
“acid used to be so much better back when it was illegal and people took it seriously”

get off my lawn
Am I the only person who thinks restaurant prices are pretty low? I'm sure they could go up quite a bit. Lunch out costs me maybe £15. Surely that could be £20 or so?
Depends a bit on your shell. That works great in bash. Other shells have different semantics. For example, zsh will wait for input until you type ^D or ^C and tcsh will complain about an invalid null command.

The variant I know that works identically in pretty much every shell I've ever tried is:

:>myfile.txt

And if you don't want to overwrite the file if it exists:

:>>myfile.txt
Is that not just for the final training run though?

All the experimentation and fine tuning probably meant thousands of trials which may have been significantly bigger scale before they got the model optimised ...
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I actually have found tools.deps to be pleasurable to use on new projects, though I haven't tried porting anything that previously used leiningen directly. It's simple, it's clear, I guess I find it pretty easy to reason about, but maybe that's because my experience with Lein was more 'copy and paste this huge config' and not really starting from scratch.