skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an introvert, and I'm not a fan of open office plans, and I don't have kids, but even so I prefer working in the office.

I would otherwise be spending nearly 100% of my time in my apartment, not getting even the smallest amount of exercise, fresh air, or social interaction, and dealing with noise and interruptions from my wife and dog. Also, I live a 5-minute drive or a 25-minute walk (!) away from work. It gives me a reason to get up in the morning, shower, put on something other than sweat pants, and go outside. My workplace is somewhat more quiet and comfortable, it provides drinks and sometimes food, and I find meetings a bit more engaging in person.

It ultimately comes down to individual situations and preferences.
I fail to see how an illegal mining operation getting shut down is "not looking good for Bitcoin".
I think so, since the iMessages are synced across devices.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this, and I may be completely off the mark but: Pandas, like SQL, feels like it doesn't compose very well. If you know some basic programming language — including Basic! — you've got a set of building blocks that let you, at least in principle, implement any algorithm. But in Pandas (and SQL) everything needs a new keyword or method or something. We need a better way of expressing high-level concepts, but if I knew what that was, I'd be a high-flying professor somewhere, not an anonymous commenter on HN!
Certainly not floating point results in C for either of those.

All literals shown (750, 300, -123 and 10) are of type 'int', so the results would be, too.
Because many business situations we only want to distribute binary libraries.

If I want to distribute source code I would be using scripting languages.

It is also a nagging point for me when I play around with cargo, which contrary to conan and vcpkg, doesn't do binary libraries.

By the way, C++ modules might get a binary format definition by C++26 (too little time to sort it out by C++23), based on BMI/IFC formats already being deployed in GCC and VC++ respectively.
>marijuana for chronic pain, mushrooms for depression, mdma for ptsd

Is it that much of a surprise that psychoactive drugs treat psychogenic symptoms? In the particular case of pain, the two major available drug classes -- opioids and benzodiazepines -- mimic the activity of addictive recreational drugs opium and alcohol. THC is used per se instead of derivatives because of its price and safety record (contrast opium/alcohol).

For depression/PTSD, psychiatry has thrown the kitchen sink at these conditions. It's more "newsworthy" when MDMA is used for PTSD than propanolol even though both serve essentially the same purpose: allowing the patient to discuss the traumatic experience without experiencing the emotional effects of that trauma, by blocking them physiologically. In this case, "blocking negative emotions" is a naturally desirable effect of a recreational drug (propanolol also blocks many positive emotions, rendering it less fun). Modifying emotions in depression doesn't seem like a surprise either, although psychedelics can be unreliable here (and this is well-documented). I expect some negative side-effects to appear, but I disagree that this is much of a change from the norm, except insofar as it upends a taboo. Methaqualone got its start treating insomnia, and the medical history of amphetamine is too long to fit in this comment.

In fact, during the early history of psychedelics, there were developed "less recreational" analogues of the major drugs, such as diethyl-psilocin ("ethocin") and 5'-methoxy-MDA ("MMDA") which were considered as possibly safer adjuvants to psychotherapy. The rediscovery of these agents might benefit more from attention on their history of bona fide therapeutic use, rather than on their recreational past. Perhaps we shouldn't be so surprised when some psychiatric medications turn out to be recreational, and mitigate the consequences pragmatically, rather than reflexively recoiling from anything resembling euphoria. One thing you learn from Infinite Jest is that the mere materialism of emotion is especially unnerving insofar as it applies to happiness, but reality isn't going away anytime soon.

What happened in this article with ketamine is quite different: test-tube evidence uncovered an effect that modifies a rare hereditary condition. I think the story here is really more about data-mining, and ketamine just happens to be interesting.
> As far as I can tell, your average Joe or Josephine not only does not invest in these vehicles, they cannot!

The absolutely do, even if they might now realize it. The stickiest and most sought after capital for funds is typical from pensions or large asset managers.
How would limiting OPEC production hurt the US Oil Fracking industry? If anything, that would cause an increase in oil prices, making US Fracking more profitable and viable...
Does the regularity the Ulam Spiral implies make RSA easier to brute force crack?
That's not at all what I'm trying to say. I'm merely pushing back on a lot of people in this thread acting like it's somehow offensive or not ok to try to market a streaming platform aimed the African American audience. There are many different cultures in the African Diaspora, and it seems that this service is targeted primarily at American black people. And I really don't see what is wrong with the idea of launching a streaming service to cater to a specific, underserved demographic.
>Housing is cheap in Tokyo.

Eh, it's 400k for a small 1 br on average. That's cheaper than SF or NYC but not cheaper than Chicago or Dallas or Atlanta.
> Cyclists are on the sidewalk, and use little ringer bells to signal to pedestrians to move outta the way.

No, cyclists are on the bike lanes or, if they aren't there, with the cars. The sidewalk is for people on foot only, who are the most vulnerable and should be separated from other faster modes of transport.
The Incompetence That Will Kill Apple
Maybe it's just me, but 4.4 GB does feel like a not insignificant amount of space for something I don't have to install locally. Or for people that use it rarely.

I'm not a huge fan of Overleaf, mind you, but I agree with those that say it does have its uses. The easy collaboration for people that don't like -- or don't get how -- to use git. I wish everyone I collaborate with liked git...
What bothers me is they all had 2FA in the form of certificates or SMS auth, and most of them moved off of that to some other solution (current bank has 3rd party login which I can do with a cert, the old bank only has an app). What's wrong with cert auth? It can't be less secure than an android app.
Yes, that was bad. Submitted title was "Facebook Wi-Fi: Just Say No". This broke the site guidelines:

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Users will ask for three things they can describe in a simple sentence. One will take someone half a day, one will take a whole team a two-week sprint, and one will require fundamentally rearchitecting the project, or not be possible at all.
It looks like you are using a price of $1000 / kg to get that figure. Prices will be much lower than that once fully reusable rockets are widely deployed.

Currently, equipment costing tens of millions $USD are thrown away on every launch. It’s hard to overstate the shift fully reusable rockets will bring.
Nope, and it was a pity that they lost.
> where do new taliban come from?

You can say this about any abhorrent, oppressive belief system. This is insufficient grounds to subject the whole population to said oppression.

> So it must be a popular ideology for some.

hHow do you get from there to “thus it should be the law of the land for every Afghan”? If it’s so popular, why can’t it win in free elections?
What "exorbitant network and miner fees"? According to https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/ transactions with 3 sat/byte are clearing within the next block. For a typical transaction of 400 bytes, that's around 17 cents.
See, e.g., https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R46486.pdf and https://www.goodwinlaw.com/~/media/Files/Publications/Attorn...

Money transfer fraud also goes all the way back to "steamship agents" in the early 20th century. See, e.g., https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/collection/p16002...
I thought of making something like this once. Then I started to look into the PDF standards and realized it's one of those things that you're thinking, why has nobody done this? Then you start looking into it and you realize why nobody's done it. The task would be monstrously difficult if you want to cover all the things that can be in a PDF.

PDF is a beast. It's a ridiculous file format. There's a reason why even after all these years, reading PDFs still kinda sucks.
Penney's Game
Yep, I coerced the result to floating point in my harness.

If anyone cares to look: https://pastebin.com/7tLrs28V

I'm probably done, it's a mildly interesting side quest, but really, this is just reinforcing that different languages do things differently.
Because capital is fungible, all markets are linked in some form.

A collapse in commercial property would roil all markets, including VC.
You right, you just need to be a black belt in xrandr settings.
Trusting science leaves people vulnerable to believing pseudoscience
White paint also weighs slightly less which, across a fleet, adds up to an economically relevant fuel cost.
No one has had a good approach for opioid addiction since the first cases of morphine addiction a century ago.

Banning opiate use results in deaths, restricting prescriptions moves addicts to the black market, the status quo results in more addicts.
Performance and the deep level tweaking is exactly what I would worry about with a no-code app (much like with WYSIWYG UI editors you end up with inefficient oversized webpages). Generally having less control over the details results in the details needing to be overly complex generalizations.

Of course, maybe someone will solve that problem. (Or computers will get so powerful efficiency ceases to matter). It also doesn’t change that things like no-code could be great for people less programming focused to prototype ideas, or create scripts to run over data much like people have used excel for ages. It might just remain necessary to eventually pass the implementation onto a non-visual programmer when scaling the solutions up for production.
Turning the tables on chess cheating?
Are you saying Neumann got his exit payment? I hadn't seen that story, and speculation was although it was agreed to, he would never see the money.
The Role of AI in Addressing Misinformation on Social Media Platforms [pdf]
> However, many people may not realize that during the last few years of his life Maslow believed self-transcendence, not self-actualization, was the pinnacle of human needs. What’s more, it’s difficult to find any evidence that he ever actually represented his theory as a pyramid. On the contrary, it’s clear from his writings that he did not view his hierarchy of needs like a video game– as though you reach one level and then unlock the next level, never again returning to the “lower” levels. He made it quite clear that we are always going back and forth in the hierarchy, and we can target multiple needs at the same time.

Maslow’s hierarchy is out of fashion and some claim it's culture-dependent, but I still think it's a pretty good framework.

In every culture, if you need to defecate or are hungry, the need starts to gradually override other needs until fulfilled. So do safety needs.

I think only the belonging-love part and self-esteem are something that may be so deeply connected that they are hard to separate and culture may play a strong role. Self-transcendence/self-actualization may never become a need for a large fraction of people.
Your post is why I keep coming back to HN to read- thank you so much for sharing. I love the undocumented stories from the trenches.
> fight the US

To be clear, they aren’t fighting the US, they’re fighting the Afghani government.
I've often thought that wall-sized retina monitors would be wonderful. People can travel the world this way without ever leaving the room.

But it might work even with the large TV monitors today. Just put a camera where the nice view is, and pipe it in to the screen.
Ketamine is the world’s most commonly used anaesthetic, or at least it was as of some years ago.
It’s on the WHO’s list of 100 essential medicines because it’s one of the very rare anaesthetics that doesn’t depress the respiratory system, making it extremely safe by comparison with many others.
The quote is from the next message in the thread, i.e.:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/07/2
> Demand the original intended file for the hash?

Even if they'd provide it-- the attacker need only perturb an image from an existing child abuse image database until it matches the target images.

Step 1. Find images associated with the race or political ideology that you would like to genocide and compute their perceptual hashes.

Step 2. Obtain a database of old widely circulated child porn. (Easy if you're a state actor, you already have it, otherwise presumably it's obtainable since if it wasn't none of this scanning would be needed).

Step 3. Scan for the nearest perceptual matches for the target images in the CP database. Then perturb the child porn images until they match (e.g. using adversarial noise).

Step 4. Put the modified child porn images into circulation.

Step 5. When these in-circulation images are added to the database the addition is entirely plausibly denyable.

Step 6. After rounding up the targets, even if they're allowed any due process at all you disallow them access to the images. If that dis-allowance fails, you can still cover by the images existing and their addition having been performed by someone totally ignorant of the scheme.
Two things. First, if it weren't for cities the demand for that many dairy cows wouldn't exist. Second, that study is just comparing manure production. Cities produce a great deal of other waste that cows don't.

Edit: Yes, just pointing out that people rightly look at cities because they are the driving force so any solution needs to consider that. I don't have a particular solution in mind, but I do hope if one is necessary it optimizes for personal freedom as well as sustainability. I lack the expertise to be specific, but making it economical to capture waste and runoff via tax credits or something might be a possibility. However, I know enough to know this isn't an issue that's going to be solved by me.
There is no correct answer. There is no correct answer. The various ways different languages handle implicit type conversion with division and modulo operations are all both correct and incorrect at the same time. It's really an arbitrary choice. In fact, there are more choices than presented above. I think, for example, Perl6, uses rational numbers in some of the above situations.
Sorry I wasn't clear, I had heard this was the case in the past, before the latest withdraw.
I've been more remote than not (with a lot of travel normally) for 15+ years. But if I could easily walk to the office, rather than drive for 30 minutes, I'd probably go in a lot more just to break up the routine even if I didn't need to.

30 minutes by car isn't a bad commute. But it's enough that I don't see a reason to do it if there's no real benefit. (Most of the people I work with are in different offices or remote.)
Except that's what the professor thought would happen, not what actually did. If we're to act on hypothetical then where would we draw the line? The US asks visa applicants for all of their social media accounts, seems pretty standard to me.
It prevents CSAM from existing in the first place. Much like it would be ridiculous to search everyone's houses to stop drug use, it is far more effective to prevent the causes of drug dependency.
In theory if you bought hundreds of them you could piece one together that looked like the ad. They are real food, but they are the best of the best for the photo op.
By my reading, my not-really-a-gaming-desktop could do it in 3 hours, that doesn't seem bad at all.

Now granted, those were heavyweight specs when Android came out in 2007, but I'd figure about half of us probably have a similar box sitting around today, and the other half would just need to beef one up with some additional RAM.
>That is not something cultural or diplomatic

it evidently is or else we wouldn't be having this discussion right now. Everything in China is political which everyone knows who has ever interacted with Chinese institutions. (which you probably will if you study environmental damage in China).

It's really not that surprising that a professor is not going to associate with someone who posts vaguely racist cartoons to his ten followers on twitter if it costs them their visa.

If you really want a career that involves studying aspects of a foreign culture you better learn to navigate the waters or you won't have a career, that's not really a new thing. If you're an archaeologist you probably won't be one for long if you insult the governments that let you access your dig sites, is that really a scandal?
Multics gets a new release 52 years after launch
I feel really bad for anyone whose pension is controlled by an active manager. They'd be much better off with that value in the S&P 500. Fortunately pension funds are insured to some degree in the US, so if a pension fund failed, the cost of making the pensioners whole would really be paid by the taxpayer, not the average person. But in the specific case of Softbank, Saudi Arabia and a few other named billionaires provided more than half of the seed capital.
A pilot, a doctor, and a military officer are all living together in an RV for a year. Who does the cleaning?
> During the development of rustls, we also found a similar bug in Apple's TLS stack.

Was Windows' Schannel also tested? Or this is simply due to the dev team having access to Linux and macOS?
I cut out sugar about two years ago. I recently had blood work for a yearly physical (almost 2 years later than it should have been). All my levels (cholesterol, triglycerides, etc.) were significantly better than before.

Highly recommended.
> Retail waste of unsold inventory could also be managed with proper incentives/tax benefits.

I'm not convinced CVS throws away enough hair brushes and toothpaste (examples from the article) that they'd care about the incentives.
The side effects are super well documentéd on drug-positive websites such as psychonaut wiki, erowid,... even r/drugs.

Just look for it
Loans are for people without money. High interest is good for people with money who loan it out.

The wealthy only use the loans when it makes more sense to keep money earning returns somewhere else.
Does the impact resistance degrade during the expected lifetime of those composites?
macOS Weird Mouse Effect
In the last few days I'm facing a strange issue on my Mac. Every X minutes my mouse is leaving a trail like a Dark Templar. Anybody facing the same issue?
> Are we going to see similar harms from these drugs a few years after they gain more popularity?

I think we’re already starting to see this on a smaller scale.

One of my friends is a therapist who does a lot of social work predominantly for low-income people coming from difficult situations. She encounters a lot of people who have become heavily dependent on marijuana under a mistaken impression that smoking multiple times every day is a good treatment for depression or anxiety. Many of them are under the impression than marijuana is a wonder drug that treats everything from psychiatric illnesses to cancer. Meanwhile they’re clearly too impaired and unmotivated to get their lives together due to being constantly high. She spends a lot of time convincing people to moderate their consumption or even abstain entirely. The results are great if she can convince them to stop, but that’s a difficult task.

More worrisome is the increasing number of parents she sees who are trying to medicate their juvenile children with marijuana. Some of the stories she tells about parents who are convinced they’re doing their kids a favor by giving them THC edibles before school (supposedly for anxiety) are downright tragic.

There is a growing mistrust of pharmaceutical companies and mainstream psychiatry that mirrors the rise of things like anti-vaxxers and belief in essential oils. Many companies are rushing to fill this demand for alternative medicine with products and services ranging from pushing heavy THC consumption to ketamine clinics that will give ketamine to anyone willing to pay a few hundred dollars per dose.

In the case of this article the discovery of ketamine’s actions is more likely to spur development of new molecules that can be used without the obvious side effects of ongoing ketamine treatment (which is not as harmless as it sounds when repeatedly dosed over a lifetime).
Only non-profit tutoring companies are now legal.
Apple, Kiddie Porn, and the Slippery Slope
Yes: it’s called PhotoDNA and is used by many, many services. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA

SHA hashes aren’t suitable for this: you can change a single bit in the header to bypass a hash check. Perceptual hashes are designed to survive cropping, rotation, scaling, and embedding but all of those things mean that false-positives become a concern. The real risk would be if someone figured out how to many plausibly innocent collisions where you could send someone a picture which wasn’t obviously contraband or highly suspicious and attempt to convince them to save it.
AI-Powered App Can Tell You How Your Cat Is Feeling
And I bet your solution is for everyone to go vegan.
Motivation alone is insufficient for ordinary citizens to assemble into an effective fighting force. You need competent leadership, training, and experience. The Taliban has those qualities and by all appearances the Afghan military does not.
> Was a little too theoretical for me

It was published on a psychology website.
I mean, both are correct though (this is an inherent problem between statistics and (natural) languages - both are correct depending on context).
Oxycodone was created by a pharmaceutical company and marketed in a way that would earn them a profit.

Marijuana and psilocybin have been around for literal ages with widespread use. LSD and ketamine are synthesized, but we have decades of experience with them.
Until something terrible happens they will keep rates low. The only people who care about high inflation are people who have salary jobs with low raise potential and people on fixed incomes like annuities. Those people have far less political influence than the rich. Obviously, there may be second order effects that cause another reason to raise rates, but that is TBD
You want to allow every nation to be able to militarize space? Since that’s what a renegotiated UN treaty implies.
We have seen the shock to the supply chain that happened during the early months of this pandemic.
All the biomass would have to be recycled back into water and food.

The gating thing may be if lunar dust is workable as raw material for soil or not.
Waiting for the “climate change isn’t an exact science” apologists to pop up. I’m surprised I’m the first commenter so far.

Once you’ve become attuned to the air quality and pm2.5 levels you realize how much more healthy of a world we could be if only we stopped burning things. Even in Sam Francisco which benefits from coastal breeze the air quality sinks.

And to think we could have been making serious attempts to fix all this. And spur on one of the greatest building economies ever. But hey. Why do anything?
Pretty good tool. I use Zoom earth, you can see the areas that are thick with smoke. Sometimes it's hard to tell with cloud cover happening at the same time. So you can pair up those two and get a good picture of what's happening now.