skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I don't think it's anything I'd go for if i were only 10% as intense and came with all the twitchy/tweaker effects. The jaw clenching I got from MDMA was more than enough of that.

While we don't know the exact MoA of the jaw clenching, it's likely a form of excitoxicity, presumably a result of excess glutamate firing. This is why high-bioavailability magnesium, such as a chelated magnesium glycinate, helps a lot with the jaw clenching while rolling.

In other words, it's not the serotonin itself that causes the jaw clenching, AFAIK. The "10% of rolling" was me describing just the serotonin dimension of the mdma vs meth experience, not that it would be 10% of the rolly feeling with 100% of the clenching etc :P

> When I said "never," I meant "never." I didn't experience it the first time I took amphetamine, the second time, or this morning.

Very interesting! I definitely have experienced the euphoric high before, but only when starting prescription amphetamines. Yeah, it may have been that you started with a low enough dose, or just that your neurochemistry is pretty resistant to it.

The reason I mentioned the tolerance thing is because there's a common ADHD myth that if someone has ADHD that amps won't get them a euphoric high, and rather will just "calm them down". But in truth anyone can get the euphoria, and most of the "difference in how ADHD people respond to stims" is just an artifact of them having tolerance. It is of course true that ADHD medication can and often does make ADHD people feel more "calm" due to the greater cognitive control etc, but it's not necessarily true that they/we can't actually get "high" off it.

> Again, thank you for helping me understand a bit of the appeal of smoking meth, without actually smoking meth. :-)

Any time :P I've never smoked it myself but having taken it orally for years, as well as having vaporized DMT many a time, I think I have a pretty good imagination for what it would feel like :P
We do have the same meaning in English, but it's been obsolete for a while.

From the Oxford English Dictionary:

†2. a. A class of things or beings distinguished by having certain characteristics in common; (as a mass noun) these regarded collectively; kind, sort. Obsolete. In earliest use: genus, as opposed to species (see note at genus n. 1).
This actually isn't quite correct. The original protocol actually had a formal spec that accompanied it. CreamFi chose to not maintain this spec. The spec constrained under what conditions the protocol could operate securely and (ignoring that their changes broke away from the spec) some of the tokens used in this and previous exploits to CreamFi did not meet those constraints.

Had the team actually maintained the formal spec, they could have notified the listing committee (which every iteration of has had at least one team member on it). This was absolutely a human error however it likely would have been caught prior to entering production if the team had maintained the formal spec.
We also gotta figure out how to get the contents of the screen to project onto their face.
Banks should be required by law to expose an api.

Plaid is a billion dollar web scraper and privacy violater that works around this omission.
This is what we call shifting the the goalposts and tu quoque fallacious attacks.

Just because I have erred in the past does not mean I cannot suggest to you to improve your outputs.

Or, I have had learnings previously, and I am simply trying to pass them along to you.

Here is another protip: dinae be so defensive. I was not attacking you personally, but your reply clearly was an attempt to attack me.
Might be disturbing, but comparing those two OSs is a stupid thing at the first place because these 2 OSS have vast difference in background and functionalities.
Some of the depositors were assessed "many, many $25-$35 fees."

Could have been rewritten as "repeatedly assessed $25-$35 fees" but it's understandable to me.
So what type of innovation is it then?
I’m a “cyclist” (own way too many bikes, run a cycling website, volunteer for a cycling charity). Nonetheless bikeshares are hugely useful away from home. If I’m in London for the day, I can either go through the trauma of booking my own bike on the train, locking up wherever I go, and perpetually worrying that it might be nicked... or I can just hire a Santander bike when I get there.
> Ceausescu declared a national curfew on December 20 1989.

And then 5 days later the Ceausescus were sentenced to death and executed by a firing squad, the same fate that the proponents of covid passports deserve. I suppose that was your point.

I have no problem with the vaccines, I just don’t think it’s a reasonable excuse for anyone to ask my ID.
Ah yes, that's exactly what the slave owners said before the civil war - look at the product we are delivering, and everyone else's doing it too!

Their argument was so compelling that we decided to keep having slaves.
What sorts of apps were given a hard time? Like where's the line between a full webapp and website. Does the webapp need to hook into device-specific APIs to not be a website?
> The "continuing to browse this website" seems shady

1. open browser

2. navigate to website

3. website installs cookies

4. you must have already consented!
Central Bank Digital Currencies are a dystopian nightmare. They permit all kinds of financial shenanigans like automated negative interest rate, demurrage, financial censorship and control.

Cryptocurrency already is real money. Its more real than anything the state can print from nothing.
I would love to see some benchmarks that demonstrate the impact of the more optimized representation. I found that despite some possibly sub-optimal performance trade-offs in favor of productivity in my own hobby interpreter, it can still do much better than Python and Wren in some micro-benchmarks that I performed (naive sum in a loop and naive fibonacci implementation). Python was no surprise since PyObjects are relatively "fat" [0], but Wren was created by the author of Crafting Interpreters (mentioned in the article) so I expected a bit better. My representation ended up looking something like:

enum Value {
Unit,
False,
True,
Integer(isize),
Float(FloatSize),
String(Rc<str>),
Closure(Rc<Closure>),
Tuple(Rc<[Value]>),
}

Unfortunately since I'm depending on reference-counting, it can't implement `Copy` which I suspect is where I'm currently losing significant performance. For values embedded in bytecode instructions I can cheat and copy anyway since only the non-refcounted ones are allowed in them.

[0] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Include/object.h...
Yes, it's a linguistics term. Animate things are perceived as having human-like agency. Many languages have a grammatical category clustering things like large non-human animals, the weather, or fire, or trees, together with humans. Animate. Everything else is inanimate and presumably less alive.

In English, many animals are referred to with "he" or "she". Being a mammal, large, being domesticated, being familiar, are all more likely to be animate rather than inanimate. A pet mare is going to be "she". Insects are always "it". Livestock or a reptile might get either. Babies sometimes get treated as inanimate. ("Is it a boy or girl?")
I've done this on a MySQL database in production back in 2012, on a customer table, for a website that has been mentioned on HN a total of 22 times (not huge but some here have an interest) – the head of technology quickly put up a maintenance page and used the point in time restore feature in RDS and there was no damage, I didn't get in trouble, we were back fully-functional within an hour.

Haven't used MySQL in a while, but when I was using I'd have this alias in my zshrc:

alias mysql="mysql --i-am-a-dummy"

It hasn't happened since.
Oh goody. Now we don't need females /s

Why does anybody think this is a good idea? The 'right' of same-sex couples to have children via gametes their own bodies cannot produce is not at all obvious. For centuries, the interdependence of the sexes for reproduction has formed the basis for human society. We should not be so willing to give this up because a small minority of people find the other sex distasteful for their sexual preferences.
The author's 36pp PDF article (which he links to) has much more on the topic.

https://arachnoid.com/calculus/
Looking at the blueprint, it seems like 7 of the 9 floors will be solely suites. I assume one floor will be dining hall which I wouldn't count as an amenity, which means only 1 of the 9 floors actually has amenities beside the small common space each suite has.
Have you tried Rust?
For which risk group?
> building students are forced to live in.

This is a a bit overwrought. Students are voluntarily applying and accepting an offer to attend. They aren't being "forced" to do anything.

It may be that many people think this is a bad deal (financially, socially, etc) but it is a deal that is entered into voluntarily.
What's fun about it? I cant imagine why this is not the first recommendation when you setting up a new postgres DB.

And yeah, thank you. Today i learned new thing.
It seems to me that there are two ways to learn well. One is to have a carefully curated curriculum and the other is to have enough experience to parse the world by yourself. In humans we might describe these as knowledge/education and wisdom. I see data preparation as improved knowledge transfer and more training data as the path to wisdom.

Wisdom is usually heavily discounted by smart young people so I expect engineers will double down on better data prep than better data acquisition. Also which looks better on a resume?
Most visually disabled people retain some usable vision. The levels for qualifying for a driver's license are different than the definition of legally blind. For instance, my state requires vision correctable to at least 20/40 in one eye, and a FOV of at least 60 degrees to drive without special bioptic lenses (basically a monocular that attaches to a pair of glasses.) To be classified as legally blind (at least in the United States) you must have vision that cannot be corrected to better than 20/200, or a field of view of less than 20 degrees. It gets complicated because you can be on disability even if you don't meet the definition of "legally blind" if you have vision issues that cause you to be unable to work. This is on a case by case basis and requires a hearing in front of a disability judge.
> do you designers use some extra special screens where light gray on white looks readable?

Not a designer but I am a photo nerd, and yes these screens exist
no, fees are pure profit in most cases. loans made with deposits more than pays for operating costs of checking accounts. banks that say different are fibbing.
The attack was executed over multiple transactions due to block gas limits, but the bulk of it happened in this transaction [0].

Edit: These sort of financial engineering, whether one believes it to be an inherent flaw or not, are the exact reason why banks and financial regulation were eventually adopted.

Crypto becomes the wild west, we have these "flaws / glitches / financial engineering" -> many people lose money -> regulation by lawmakers -> the circle repeats itself.

[0] https://etherscan.io/tx/0x0fe2542079644e107cbf13690eb9c2c659...
Results are in. I did a cargo clean and cargo build with the internet connected, and then I disconnected it and did it again, since there's probably some re-downloading of dependencies if you're connected.

Old MBP16 from 2019: 1m13s

New MBP, M1Max: 46.71s

295 dependencies, including some common ones like hyper, serde and tokio.
> Banks should be rewuired by law to expose an api

Like health insurance business transactions, there should be mandatory standards for both the data structures and operating rules for such an API as well. (But they should not be as horrible as the standards and operating rules adopted for healthcare.)
Twitter absolutely uses an algorithmic feed to show you content you'll engage with more.

On Reddit this is somewhat true, but it's a well-known part of Reddit culture (though this has been changing as they've been kicking out more subs) that each sub has its own set of cultural mores, opinionated mods, and memes. There's lots of drama/hate on subs from other subs but you'll see the same phenomenon on the Fediverse or, for that matter, in a neighborhood gossip group.

It's not like these views go away without algorithmic newsfeeds, it just that algorithmic feeds accelerate their spread.
He didn't have to write it. He chose to because he was upset but still wanted to connect with the reader (not you the reader, but the actual intended recipient) and is exercising emotional intelligence and compassion. Something an emotionally-reactionary half-wit could benefit greatly from learning.
Mews looks pretty unfortunate, yes. It's bad when the realtor taking a picture from the extreme corner of the room to make the room look big style photos still make a room look like a prison cell.
Personally, I foresee breeding programs for armies to create perfect soldiers. I foresee breeding programs for a permanent slave underclass. How can you not see the problems?
I don't know precisely but I remember it's something like bubbling d-tartaric acid through the racemic methamphetamine mixture to separate out the d-methamphetamine.

The overwhelming majority of US meth is cartel-sourced. They have massive superlabs and then transport kilos upon kilos across the border. That's how they have the sophistication to synthesize their own p2p, separate out the enantiomer, etc.

It's the inevitable result of the war on drugs. You make it near impossible to be a small time cook - due to the difficulty in acquiring precursors, acquiring space to work in where you won't get asked questions, etc - and soon the whole market is ran by mega cartels that operate as de-facto states.
Google pays Apple $15 billion for that privilege. That's a lot of money for even Apple to give up.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-...
1) Lets not have client side scanning apologists here. They are setting a terrible precedent. Even if apple does it right, the copy cats won't and that'll be terrible for everyone.

2) Apple customer support has a history of being deceitful. In the US it is illegal for them to reject jailbroken devices from warranty and I've been told by apple they will void your warranty on their internal services if you bring them a device.

3) Not all customers want a 3p App Store. Some do. iPhones are not microwaves, they are computers.

> They want security, privacy, moderation, convenience

Like a microwave? Wtf. Also, all these things can come through 3p app stores. Security is provided by the OS not App Store. Privacy is by app. Moderation apple still doesn't do right. Convenience is IAP that apps will actually use.
Their feature list certainly looks impressive, it might just be the bank I was looking for.

One thing I can't quickly glean from their pages is: can I get proper API access to my account if I'm just an individual user, with no exorbitant price hike, requirements to be a large business, or to enter into an additional business relationship with the bank?

The litmus test I have for the dream bank I'm looking for: can I have a normal account and get an API endpoint, to which I could point a script and fetch my balance and transaction history? Without being forced to go through a browser to authenticate on each request, or any other kind of interactivity?
> You allow the dialog to take place and make up your own mind.

Medicine is perhaps the field least amenable to this.

It's so hard to figure out what drugs and therapies even work that full-time Ph.D and MD level experts in biology and medicine very often get things very wrong. Look at fat, cholesterol, sugar, and how certain foods like eggs have been classified as healthy or unhealthy multiple times. These people are not idiots nor are they all involved in some conspiracy. It's just unbelievably hard to disambiguate all the confounding factors and see actual cause and effect with a system as complex as the human body.

Even highly educated highly intelligent laypeople don't stand a chance against quacks. Anything can be made to sound plausible in medicine.

You might say "well then couldn't they be wrong about the vaccines?" The answer is that yes, they could. It's just that medical experts have maybe a 60-70% chance of getting everything wrong vs a 99.9% chance for the general public.
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Any argument against a CDO is implicitly an argument against a mortgage backed security. In fact, CDOs by their nature can be _more_ decoupled from systematic mortgage risk. So while you could theoretically have securitized mortgages without other kinds of CDOs its largely not something that makes mortgage securitization less risky.
Web App on AWS Lambda with Janet
yes, but apparently through some irreducible complexity (arguable), and most of the original history of we got from "a soup" to "life" has been erased.
That's what he thought, and afterwards said he thought, and it's a great quote. What he actually said at the time according to his brother Frank Oppenheimer was "It worked!"[0]

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Oppenheimer
If this is a PROD database, you are running a script, not typing it into a console, and that script has been tested in PRE, and reviewed by others.

Edit: Gah, what have I become! Listen to me! I am so old. Fuck it, YOLO right? Oh, wait, I've got kids in college.
> Because you bought a system that only has apps from your monitor's app store available, and that means you have to prove who you are to use them.

Blatantly false. You can either play Oculus games (must, if you are playing without PC; basically the app store) or you can connect to PC and play any SteamVR games just like you would with any other headset (supported officially).

So with Quest 2, I get to play both the Oculus-only standalone games made for the headset specifically, as well as any SteamVR games that my friends with other VR headsets might want to play together.
Why Build Apps Faster?
No, I don't think so. That is still aimed at programmers and looks like it has decent threading support and you could write a webserver in it.

I'm thinking more like an actual shell scripting language where you have control flow, some modularity, good support for dealing with unstructured data and the ability (for software developers) to plug DSLs into the back end of the language and expose them to end users to use, and that's about it. First class functions, closures, immutability, object orientation, etc would not be in the language to keep it conceptually simple. This would render the language pretty useless for building applications out of it, but the point would be to gear it more towards people who didn't know those kinds of compsci concepts at all.

The goal would be the least amount of conceptual overhead possible and therefore the most amount of accessibility.
Sounds great, shame I only speak English so can’t have a proper play with it but this approach sounds delightful.

I’ve recently started a project with just html/css and vanilla JS on the front end - no react etc and it’s very nice
The short answer is "yes". The long answer is "that's a philosophical question".

Downregulation is a natural homeostatic mechanism that happens with almost everything. Any time a certain receptor gets stimulated above baseline, over the long-term it's going to get downregulated. The actual neurobiology of how this works is enormously complicated and beyond my (and probably almost anyone's) understanding. I do recall that NMDA receptors have a critical role to play, given that NMDA receptor antagonists can attenuate some (presumably not all) of the down or up regulation
This is a very bad sign for facebook. They are betting on everyone walking around with 3D goggles talking in Zoom like meetings.
I personally would rather go outside and see reality than virtually doing it.
Only time will tell, but I'm betting on reality.
> No need to use something like stripe.

Why wouldn't you consider using a third party (no idea if Stripe can actually do the example described) as true innovation in this space? With a third party layer, banks don't need to reinvent the wheel.

> Got a deposit via Venmo? It goes to X. From your work? Goes to Y.

FWIW, this sounds analogous (not exactly like) N26's closed/semi-closed digital wallets[1]. I guess if there's a use case for the example you proposed, it's not a huge leap to go from here.

Alas, I'm a very basic bank customer so I can't vouch for how good this feature is right now.

[1] https://n26.com/en-eu/digital-wallet
Solving Math Word Problems
You left out fee-free stock trading which is commonplace now. Maybe you were intentionally focused more on the banking side.
I'd agree with that rewording =)...

Just was a bit of a mental hiccup when I was reading which is probably why I picked up on it.
A fair amount of websites block EU IPs to avoid complying with GDPR.
The main one is the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, and applies to “goods, services, facilities, accommodation, employment, buildings, structures and premises”.
Kirsch happened to spoon a lot of, well, BS and absolutely unwarranted conclusions and certainty. This is always harmful, and is probably what was banned.
Toyota unveils its first all-electric car: the bZ4X
Selling digital goods with fat margins, app store revenue, and ads in digital spaces
If the government were stupid and tyrranical enough to ban Human Azithromycin, and you came down with bacterial bronchitis, would you just die or would you go to the local feed store and buy some animal grade azithromycin?
That's clearly not what the original post was suggesting and yet someone went out of their way to change the focus to the political narrative of taking animal dosages.
It's not "giving up" heterosexual relationships / children. It is really, really odd that heterosexual people immediately think that their way of life will be eradicated because LGBT folk are getting more options to have happy lives. Do you think that, given the option to have a relationship with an individual of the same gender, that all heterosexual people will suddenly be unwillingly seduced into homosexuality? If so, might want to examine those feelings with a qualified professional.
Knives may be snapped mid air by the appropriate adversary.

The tide is correctly turning against the manifest abuses of this organization, regardless of what it asks to be called; with any luck it will be systematically dismantled and defanged.

The pathology and amorality inherent in its DNA goes back to Zuckerberg; the fish has rotted from the head from the start. That pathology leads to market valuation is not a surprise but it's also not conducive to survival.
> Even if intent isn’t written into a specific law, the whole system is built to specifically allow intent to be considered in so many stages.

Mental state (which is much broader than intent, though intent is an aspect of it) is an important consideration for criminal law and most offenses have a required mental state (strict liability offenses are a small minority). And mental state is, yes, considered broadly beyond the formal requirements, too.

But to say that “intent is literally the heart of criminal law” is both literally false and substantively misleading.
My problem with that suggestion is that it becomes automatic, if I just know I need to short circuit every query to get results I think I'd fall into a bad habit. If update and delete require special thought, you need to take that thought specifically when you're doing those actions. We're adding friction for those dangerous commands, not every command.
It's the other way around. Renewables without storage (which we don't have) need fossil fuels around, in the forms of gas peakers and whatnot. Pushing against nuclear is just strategy from big oil and coal and gas to stay relevant.
It is both, because multiple return values break function chaining.
Powerpoint is a Microsoft product. A better comparison would be Keynote