skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past you would boast if your IM software was instant/fast. We all wanted real time everything if only to push the SOTA. But the results aren't ideal; we have slack overload, zoom fatigue, gmail addiction etc. I think there is a trend, now that fast is the baseline, where we will see more software that intentionally gives people space & time to think and reflect.
I strongly agree with "The greatest fallacy is that travel time is wasted time, so the only option is to speed it up or cut it out."

Most people probably don't mind spending extra time traveling somewhere, especially if:

- They can zone out, use their phone, or talk to friends while traveling.

- They feel safe and strangers won't bother them

- Comfortable climate (heating/cooling)

- It is clear how to get to the destination, e.g., clear signage, GPS integration with a phone app, etc.
You might be interested in reading this more serious study:

https://elifesciences.org/articles/62878

Article summarizing it:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amandasiebert/2021/03/03/larges...
Can you really be "blind" to taking psychedelics?

Are these doses small enough that you don't notice the immediate effects?
When you are privileged you have no extra weight or leg up over someone else on standardized tests. That’s why it is the privileged elite who decry tests and call for “diversity.” Under the guise and mask of diversity they try to maintain and entrench their privilege while giving the occasional breadcrumbs to the truly historically disadvantaged.

I can’t for the life of me understand how the daughter of Bill Gates is the same as a poor African American from the ghetto.

Diversity initiatives are almost always a subterfuge or false flag operation.

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Diversity apparently includes fencing and rowing at most elite colleges. Just another filter with the benefit of virtue signaling and posturing.
Recent and related (but different):

Compass Pathways' Phase IIb psilocybin trial shows reduced depression symptoms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29169160 - Nov 2021 (119 comments)
My Intel Core2Duo running Ubuntu 10.04 (~2011) and a browser from 2016 renders all of the jpegs on the page perfectly.
Actually, we are increasingly doing that already in the US. Value-based healthcare, aka Medicare Advantage uses something called risk adjustment. Payments are based on patient demographics and select disease categories (HCC codes) with bundled payments. The intent is to slowly get rid of fee-for-service healthcare.
Another tell for a satellite is if it's moving along then somewhere mid-trajectory it dims from white to deep red to gone.
> the only realistic alternative to a web3 future is one where everything is a property of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, &c

Take heart! Living in a mud hut and drying jellyfish on racks over a tire fire is also a realistic alternative to a "web3" future, and a more likely one for most of us!
I believe there are plenty of examples available of lobbying that ends up benefiting companies at the expense of the public. To counter your arguments, I would challenge anyone to try to out-lobby Intuit when it comes to regulation around tax filing. How well do you suppose that opposition has fared so far in the face of huge corporate dollars?
If someone sells the NFT and publishing rights to a work at the same time… couldn’t they just sell the publishing rights? It’s like you’re buying the publishing rights and getting a receipt for your purchase and people are acting like the receipt is the big deal.
I bought a 2018 Acura RDX instead of a new one. Way fewer electronic gadgets and touch screens, and it cost $26K w/33K miles vs $46K new. Even with a 2018, I only made it halfway through the HUGE manual and still don't understand why the doors sometimes lock themselves and other times don't.

I agree: cars have way too many features. I loved my 2003 Honda Accord, but some dumbass totaled it when she rear-ended me at an intersection because she wasn't paying attention - probably on her phone. Most people I talk to don't know how to use their car's features.
Sure the idea is plausible, but it's still true that there's no evidence for it, so it's widespread use is erroneous.
This guy has been discussed somewhat by economists recently.

Background: His claim is that all of our CPI calculations are wrong bc we should be using gauge theory rather than differential calculus to understand consumer utility.

He got invited to the University of Chicago to give a talk about this theory. (This is one of the world’s top three or four economics departments.)

While I was not personally there, I have read reports about what happened. He was repeatedly asked by people in the room to provide a simple example of a case where his theory would do better than current methods for calculating CPI: suppose there are two goods and two periods of time, e.g. Show us how we get it wrong and you get it right (and why)

He did not do this. It seemed (according to reports from the room) that he was unable to do so.

It seems (being charitable) like the guy has a habit of making dramatic claims like “I have solved X and everyone currently working on it has it wrong!” and then not being able (not remotely able!) to back it up.
Affirmative Action and the Black Experience in America (October 01, 2009)

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r...
> No one claims NFT proves ownership of entities outside of the used blockchain. But within the chosen blockchain, they do prove ownership of that particular NFT. That's a fact.

Most of the NFT marketing I've seen is very fast and loose about this — people will talk like it's owning the item but only when pressed will admit that it means owning the NFT pointing to the item.

> Things that people value has value. That value is decided by what people think the value is. I don't understand art, especially not "high-art", but somehow people value it, that's fine by me, people like different things.

This is conceding the author's point: a hash on a blockchain has no innate value and being the purest form of a fiat currency with weak backing means that nobody has a strong reason to need them. Nobody buys a hash because they like the pattern of ones and zeros.

> no, cryptocurrencies and NFTs doesn't cause "high environmental damage" as those are concepts, not implementations. One implementation of consensus that is used in cryptocurrencies is Proof of Work, that is harmful to the environment, at least current implementations. There are other implementations of consensus, like Proof of Stake, or Pure Proof of Stake, who have their own drawbacks but have almost no environmental impact (compared to Proof of Work).

When the most popular cryptocurrencies used are not PoW, this will be more convincing. Right now it's Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a rounding error.
Humans are by default pretty terrible at risk assessment, so yeah.
I happened to search what it could mean before you answered and got many conflicting answers like yours and [0]. I guess we can only know what the author meant here if he clarifies it himself.

[0] https://english.stackexchange.com/a/5620
That sounds like you agree with the current state of things though. You agree that citizens should form groups to lobby to counter corporation lobbying. You agree that the government should (and does) give these groups money to lobby via tax statuses and tax incentives. The only disagreement is that you believe these groups should be given more money.
Community / social signalling / digitally-native proof of ownership (this part goes far beyond avatars)
I plan to replace some RIFA caps on a 9" monochrome that hasn't been powered on for years but was still working last time it was powered on. Do you know how long it takes for an old CRT like that to bleed out all the power if it doesn't have a circuit to automatically do that?
Are you suggesting the Russian space program also "piggybacked" on the US government?

Is it not possible that SpaceX did what they did not because of the US government, but in fact, in _spite_ of it?

You may have this completely backwards.
We also had charge backs then, where you can return things based on the receipt.

After >10 years, it's still not even on the road may as far as I know.
> Man the anti-crypto hate on HN is stronger than usual today!

Doubt grows since crypto gets used less and less as a currency and more and more as an asset bubble. A few years ago you could go and buy a hotdog for crypto in many places, now you can't, most shops accepting crypto stopped doing it. The value is still soaring, but the legitimate everyday usages are shrinking, it is really hard to conclude that today this is anything other than a scam.
Ask HN: What are interesting data engineering blogs?
Looking for interesting data engineering blogs. Data community is quite crowded of newsletters discussing about concepts, new tools, and the perfect data stack but I'm sure there are less known engineers and small startups sharing interesting readings.
What to Expect from the Metaverse If You Are a Gamer?
> Why no one in the US brings up this to the political agenda?

Because the term "lobbying" is overinclusive to the point of being useless. 90% of lobbying is not only benign, it's necessary to the functioning of a republic. It involves people likely to be affected by the law telling lawmakers their thoughts. These people can be companies. They are also, very frequently, interest groups, nonprofits and individual voters.

This is why "let's ban lobbying" is a siren call. If you have representative democracy, you will have influence peddling, i.e. lobbying. "Let's ban corporate lobbying" becomes more tangible, but keep in mind this means you're basically banning every business that can't fly its employees to D.C. from being able to fully communicate with lawmakers. (It also leaves untouched the community organizing side of lobbying, arguably its most potent part, and would probably fall afoul of the First Amendment.)

The unfortunate effect of this overinclusiveness is it papers over the bad stuff. The lack of enforcement around campaigns coördinating with PACs. Board seats and cushy jobs offered to former lawmakers. Campaign donations from non-natural persons. This is the stuff I think people are actually offended by. But it's currently too technical for the base that wants to "ban lobbying."

TL; DR If you want to push the needle on this issue, drop the idea that lobbying is bad. If you've donated to the EFF, you've hired a lobbyist. If you've called your Congressperson, you've lobbied.
NFTs are silly unless the have a redeeming value. Today, folks think that this is purely monetary (trade me for more money because it's like the gold rush). However, there are valid applications as long as the bearer is entitled to "something" other than speculative value.
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

It's a particularly low-value form of comment, and also very common, I think mostly because we try to secure our identity in opposition to others. Since this mechanism appears to work the same way in everyone, such comments are repetitive and extremely tedious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Being lawless is a feature, not a bug

Depends on who you ask. Being lawless is not a feature to me, for example. Some of what I think you mean by that I will probably want, but not lawlessness itself.
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Sorry, I don't think you understand this technology at all. I appreciate one might want to remain sceptical of something that has so much FOMO and tulip behaviour but I feel you're being facetious. There's a well-known issue of third-party ticket sales and this method allows you to have digital proof that a ticket is authentic while allowing you to buy and sell with the guarantee if you send a valid money/ticket you will receive money/ticket.

> You, yourself, you: who is this "you". How do you verify that a particular resellable ticket actually comes from an org authorized to sell tickets? Who's to stop me from selling counterfeit tickets?

The organisation selling the tickets can create the verifier.

> So. In the end the org itself verifies it. You know that they can easily do it now, without the overhead of blockchain?

Yep absolutely! But it's very hard for someone who's buying the ticket from a third-party to verify the ticket.

> Because people will always put all their transactions for resold tickets on the blockchain, right

The NFT is the ticket. To transfer it is a transaction. If you were to resell the ticket offline and give someone your private key to access the ticket then fair enough but all you need to do here is have a hash of the buyers name as metadata and that resolves that.

Edit: If this isn't a problem, how would you buy a ticket from me to a gig with the information purely available to you about me right now? What would be the process? With a blockchain I could share a link to a transaction where you'd see a ticket is available for $10 USDC, you could put that ticket into the gigs site to verify it or look at the ticket origin and see it's from the organisers account, and send me the 10USDC immediately receiving a valid ticket into your wallet. If you're worried it's not allowed to be resold you can check the policy metadata embedded into the ticket saying "Resales are allowed".
> So mental health is not actually accessed medically and simply self-reported.

Saddly from my experience self-reported is about as accurate as any medical professional. When I was actively seeing professional help it always started off filling out PHQ-9, adding up the numbers and seeing the sum in the range of depression.

I was never officially told I've been diagnosed with anything but it was enough to where I've gone through a plethora of psychiatric medication.
I don't know. I also have some recruiters who respect my "not now, ask again in 6 months" reply, but for actual job-jobs.

Does your guy call you when he has a gig for you or is he trying to get you to take a full-time position?
You might be interested in the FBIP versions of Okasakis datastructures in https://github.com/koka-lang/koka/tree/master/test/perf/sets Most of them only have 'insert' and 'lookup', but they are ~10% faster than Okasakis versions. For red-black trees in particular the fastest implementation is https://github.com/koka-lang/koka/blob/master/test/bench/kok...
Yeah, I’ve done it myself.

I’ve given price estimates for complex PCBAs before designing them within 0.5%, but I don’t attribute that precision to talent, I probably get the estimates in the +/-10% and got lucky in that case.
This story is inherently political, so to keep this story more focused on HN-relevant topics, it's important to bear in mind that all the major social media companies suppressed attempts to support Mr Rittenhouse, either verbally or with legal defense funds.

Pure evil.
By journalism degree/J-school, I was referring to the (essentially) masters degree in journalism that universities like Columbia offer.

The more typical route in my experience is that people get some sort of liberal arts undergrad degree like English, communications, or journalism (not sure how common this is as an undergrad major). Though you also get journalists with various science or engineering degrees who end up gravitating to science reporting. In many cases, people going into journalism have worked on the school paper. I'm guessing straight out of high school is uncommon these days; I assume "apprenticeships" are rare though poorly paid/unpaid internships may be less so.

There is also a lot of movement in and out of journalism (though mostly out these days) to a variety of other fields that involve a lot of writing such as IT industry analysts and content teams at companies.

But in general my experience is that journalism doesn't especially gatekeep by credentials (though it does by connections to a non-trivial degree). And a lot of working tech professionals publish blogs etc. in various online tech pubs. For a number of years I had one when CNET used to have a whole external blog network.These days I write for TechTarget every now and then as well as a couple of sites my company sponsors. There are some bad examples of this but it's widespread. Papers like the NYT segregate external content more carefully.
If you reject the notion that Alexa-powered devices are bad, would this be immoral or unethical? ie medical marijuana lobbyists would probably say that they are looking to "change or block US and EU regulation/legislation that would impede growth for medical marijuana."
> This is the reductio ad absurdum that shows that it wasn't a valid point.

I conceded, this is a convincing point.

To flush out the argument though, it was coming from the perspective of the system consisting of the firm+employees delivering a project rather than the system of the entire earth. I don't think the smaller scope overcomes the overall point, but you could perhaps see where there might be some merit to the distinction. It is just that that distinction doesn't really matter.

Theoretically, if you have fewer employees required to complete a project, then that project might use less energy. And if this holds true across the industry, then those non-employees _could_ be doing something more green. But equally they could doing something worse. And in practice for software, they would just be working on a different project or shipping more features or whatever, so it doesn't change the steady-state, even if a distinct project is delivered with lower energy cost. Even if all projects are more human-energy-efficient.
You dont trade on the blockchain. We build software that does multi hundred millions orders per day. Millions of trades. But of course, not in python.
To some extent, modes like FT8 have shown how effective modern encoding techniques can be. The problem, I suppose, is that FT8 is ridiculously structured; optimizing to the core the bare necessities of a QSO. I think that is probably the reason for its success; if I want to talk to people, it's easy to find them on the Internet. But accumulating QSOs is an achievement in and of itself, and something you can only do with ham radio, so the optimization is probably perfect.

As someone who's had the most ham radio success with FT8, I do find myself asking "what if there is an emergency"? I probably won't have power for my computer, and WSJT-X is pretty cumbersome to use while mobile. So we should probably be looking into other technologies, but the old standby CW seems good enough, so nobody is really looking.
It is a good thing that Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams are speaking up. The WTA has also shown impressive courage in dealing with the matter.
It’s something of a sign of how dramatically it would be possible for the price to crater. With less liquidity in the market a smaller amount of people trying to legitimately sell off their BitCoin could result in a massive downward spike in price. Which generally causes more people to sell, which further exacerbates how badly the lack of real buyers will lower the price. In a general sense, faking volume makes it impossible to tell what the real level of demand for something is.

Has everyone internalized that faking volume means Bitcoin’s real value to people is hard to pin down? Maybe, but it’s useful to try and pinpoint exactly how much trading is fake regardless. (30% real trading would still indicate a non-trivial portion of people who actually will buy at current price, much better than if it was 99% fake trading or something).
Please don't take HN threads into generic flamewar, and please particularly keep off the nationalistic flamebait track.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29270645.
Speaking like a petulant teenager is not particularly “interesting”
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Has SerenityOS got a setting for the location of the "light" source?

Back in the days there was no good explanation for users who asked how to change that. Windows95 and clones were all hardcoded with a top left light source producing the buttons' shadows!
If it makes her feel better, professional pilots make the same mistake!

https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/air-canada-pilot-misto...
Cool concept, wonder which user segment would be passionate enough for the app to overcome the challenges posed by network effects...
Conveniently, there’s an app for which products to avoid if you’re boycotting to support various causes. I have no idea if this is good or not, either technically or morally: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/buycott-barcode-scanner-qr-bar...
Hi everyone, I'm a co-author on this paper and also the co-founder of Quantified Citizen (we built the mobile research platform used in this study). What a nice experience to see this on the front page this morning.

I'll address a few of the comments made here so far below, but feel free to reply with more questions (or reach out directly, email in bio) and I'll try to get back to them throughout the day.

There are a lot of comments re-iterating concerns already covered in the limitations section of the paper. It's clear that an observational approach like this cannot establish causality and that self-selected recruitment can introduce bias, and the paper acknowledges this. RCTs will happen on this subject, but there aren't many significant ones published yet, and other types of evidence also provide value.

The subject of microdosing is one where the community practice and experimentation is far ahead of where the science is, which is different from research into regulated medicines where drugs are either not on the market or prescribed by doctors. There are a lot of health-related topics like this that are understudied where practice within a community that is not served by mainstream medicine moves forward slowly through anecdotes and informal discovery processes. Think not just about stigmatized subjects like psychedelics, but also about chronic disease communities, biohackers, athletes, etc. Sometimes alternative therapies and bottom-up health practices like these end up being validated by the scientific community, and other times the relative lack of rigor leads to years of people taking harmful or fruitless approaches. Bringing a more scientific lens to what people are already doing and speeding up the feedback loop with the research community is a big part of what we're doing with our company.

For microdosing specifically, there is a lot to discover by gathering evidence on motivations, demographics, and methods of real-world usage. The paper linked to above brings new insights into these topics, and is the first published research looking at the practice of stacking. One advantage of a large (n=8703) observational approach like this is that it helps pull signals from the noise to help inform further study.

The patient-reported data on depression and anxiety comes form the standardized DASS-21 scale which is a widely used self-report tool in psychological research. In addition to this data, we also included various quantitative cognitive tasks in the app (data will be analyzed in upcoming papers, stay tuned). While this data isn't collected in a controlled environment our approach collects data from so many participants that we have power across various demographics and methods of use. We also encouraged non-microdosers to participate, and the relatively low burden of participating meant that many submitted data throughout the study period.
I'm talking about the last part mostly.

But yeah, the "bill $200 pay $70" seems to be the thing we have instead of a real agent model? Because an agent model would be, "pay $X and take 10% of it" and so the agent's interest is aligned with yours at least in a simple way.

In your example, if they can charge $300 are they going to pay you $170? I doubt it.
You don't see narratives about how everyone should get into finance. That is certainly a good ol boys club.
Wasn't that because the virus has hit some kind of local maxima of morbidity and human-fear?

If it was some kind "new ebola," I could imagine a much more aggressive response, with much less political polarization.