skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The first time I did ... a very close relative to psilocybin,.... It was a 25mg-ish dose.... It was far more intense

You think? Jeebus! Terrance McKenna would call 10mg of psilocybin a heroic dose. Some of the most intense visuals I have ever seen were on 10mg of psilocybin.

So if close relative means that it requires 2.5x more, then okay, but if they are anywhere near 1:1, then that was a freaking monster dose.
I'm really sorry but memory safety reliant on best practices is not memory safety.
‘The Character of Physical Law’: Richard Feynman’s Legendary Course, 1964
Indeed. Every time I read a post like the grandparent I move closer to full-blown antivaxx.
> as of 2016, 7.5% of kids born in the bottom quintile make it to the top quintile, so it is indeed possible, though quite rare. [1]

Is 7.5% “quite rare”? That’s around (and between) the portion of the population who is left handed and the portion of the US population that has naturally blond hair, neither of which would I describe as “quite rare”.
A lot of successful companies are founded this way (Eg HashiCorp, SAP, Basecamp, etc).

Person sees a massive inefficiency at their employer. They know of a way to save time and money by building a tool to solve for it.

That person starts their own business to sell that product to others.

No better way to find product / market fit than to have first hand experience in the problem that needs to be solved.
I got the flu when I was in my late 20s. Up until that point, in common I suspect with most teens and twenty-somethings, I had thought myself pretty much indestructible, so would never have even thought about getting a flu vaccine - I thought that was only for the old and vulnerable. However, since that experience, I try and get one every year - even if you are young and healthy it can be pretty rough, and why risk having to go through that again if you can avoid it?

To the GP's question, about whether catching something gives you better protection than having a vaccine, my (non-expert) expectation is that Covid is like the flu - my having had the flu won't give me protection for all future strains, so I'll keep on needing new vaccines periodically for those new strains.
You could use Oculus Quest passthrough video, I suppose. Grayscale alone doesn't give you a black and white movie feel, though.
Well, its not like the Taliban ever supported an insurrection.
Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It for You All” (2007)
NuShell and Elvish are trying to bring in some of the same ideas.
> To argue Regans policies didn’t bring the economy out of that mess is just being dishonest.

It's only dishonest if I actually thought that Reagan's policies did any good, isn't it? Joking aside, I actually think Reagan's policies were a disaster for the USA in the long run and didn't accomplish much during his time in office[0]. It is however during this time that real wage growth for the middle/low-income completely decoupled from economic growth for the first time and set them up for the mess they are in today. But don't take my word for it: [1]

[0] https://people.stern.nyu.edu/nroubini/SUPPLY.HTM

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330443901_Reaganomi...
Yeah but would you let it guide you while blindfolded?
Bough appliances this summer and there was a mix between the old and the new system all over the appliance stores!
At what point does something like this become a national security issue?
I know these modern titans of industry answer to no one, but perhaps they should?
> Additionally, I would expect that the kernel would mostly avoid things that drive up compile time - generics and macros

There's a lot of unavoidable generic types like Option, Result, RefCell etc. Do these make up any significant part of the issue with compile times?
So? It's irrelevant that there are others reporting about it.
> but apparently money makes people do anything.

Money and being employed.

Employees have a duty to act in the best interest of their employer - in many jurisdictions this is an actual legal duty.

You'd have to be pretty immature to forfeit that duty for internet points or some kind of nebulous "dev solidarity".
What I especially detest is the implication that if you disagree with Twitter's banning Trump, then you must be a Trump supporter. It's the epitome of the "first they came for X" strategy. I can disagree with Trump, and still also disagree with the precedent of arbitrarily banning a political figure for much less than other figures and groups are allowed to get away with.
We need all-cause mortality stats from vaccinated vs non vaccinated populations but they won't give us these without fighting for it. For instance, Pfizer's all cause data from their initial trial was higher in the vaccinated group. So they then went and vaccinated the control group thus destroying any chance of long term study in this population.
Just like sea waves which are permanently changing(shaping) the structure of rocks they are hitting[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_pounding
Maybe they mean that activity on the account has been retweeted/liked by bots a lot? Seems like social media engagement amplification is all the rage nowadays.

Good way to get an account suspended, I suppose.
Gohper and language in same sentence I thought this was related to GoLang. They should have chosen something else to name that language model.
I generally agree, except for this point:

"because otherwise it wouldn't be possible to sell it."

Like, Dacia is making their EV literally for 1/3rd of the cost of the Zoe[0], and yet they managed to get 1 star in ncap tests[1]. So no, I don't think it "wouldn't be possible" to include these better systems - it's just Renault being cheap and riding their brand recognition as Zoe is a pretty popular model.

[0] https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/dacia-spring-ev-...

[1] https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/dacia/spring/44197
PowerShell was developed on Windows which uses '\' as the path separator by default. Using it as an escape character would be kind of confusing.
Sample size doesn't really matter much in this kind of study.
I wonder how much this is lobby by the car industry to raise entry barriers. Maybe against cheap chinese producers?
Have a nice day :)
I mentioned something we built at work and got the typical HN nitpick about it and decided to never bring anything else up again. If something is open source and you don’t like just move along.
Check out marcel: https://marceltheshell.org. This is a bash-like shell that pipes Python values, and you can write Python functions on the command line. It also has a Python API (a marcel module) that allows you to shell out far more cleanly than with Popen and friends.
If your room has the space for it, you can make any monitor or television a "retina" monitor by just placing it on a second desk behind your main desk (or leaving a small gap between the desk and wall and just wall-mounting it). I'm using an LG CX oled tv as a monitor right now using this strategy:

Pro's:

* solves any PPI issue
* solves "too big" issues
* reduced eye strain due to increased focusing distance
* high end TV's are half the price or cheaper than high end monitors
* great gaming performance (4K 120Hz adaptive sync HDR10 is common, 8K is coming). Latency can be comparable to gaming monitors.
* speakers, monitor, charging stuff, other junk are on second desk leaving first desk uncluttered
* monitor is vibration isolated. I bought a separate monitor arm to be able to pivot the screen for coding and I hate wobbly arms.

Cons:

* takes up more space. My setup is about 2.5 ikea desks deep (200cm).
* TV subpixels are not always RGB. Mine are BGR-White.
* cost of second desk
* wife acceptance factor
1. Minimum wage has stayed the same since 2009, meanwhile there has been a 30% cumulative inflation. Certain costs are not included in the official inflation number and they have gone up significantly more. House prices near me (random suburb) are up 20% since last year. Other important things like healthcare have also risen in cost well above inflation.

Also, it should be surprising that inflation adjusted wages stay the same when we are now much more productive thanks to technology. Why has this not caused wages to go up!

2. People have not gotten richer, wage increases at best match inflation. With the decline of unions even this is not the case. Good jobs have been outsourced for pennies. House prices and healthcare have gone up. I would have an easier time getting married and buying a house literally anytime in the past.

You used to be able to sustain a family on a single income. That's almost impossible now.

3. I'm on hackernews, I like tech. Videocalling is nice. I do pay $50 a month for the privilege to some of the most hated companies in America. Most of the internet has been designed to ruthlessly take your money and attention as efficiently as possible. It's not a very pleasant place, videocalls aside.

Really though, my point is: technology has made us all much more productive. The stock market is at record levels. Trillions of dollars have been given to businesses.

Meanwhile, wages as a whole have at best matched inflation. Minimum wage has not increased at all. Houses are massively more expensive. There are so few good jobs that people work at Starbucks with master's degrees.

Why has all the record setting economy stats only benefited billionaires? The ability to pay for slave-labor built spying planned-obsolete smartphones is the only thing the common person has gained in the last 20 years
A few years ago I bought some brand name shampoo from Amazon and what they sent was very clearly counterfeit. The product and packaging were so bad that if anyone was paying attention to the supply line they should have been able to figure it out.

Since then my general rule has been "If it goes on me or in me, I'm not getting it from Amazon"
I think the content hosted, and the peculiar weight incurred by its special audience, caused the implosion.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-spends-public-money-hea...

We already spend more per Capita than countries with socialized medicine, so it stands to reason we should be able to socialize our medicine with a reasonable increase in expenditure on health care.

That extra money doesn't need to come from raising taxes. It can come from our incredibly bloated "defense" budget
If you are surrounded by entrepreneurs, you’re also more likely to contemplate doing that yourself. I suspect there’s an inherent positive correlation here.
I have this happen constantly through Amazon. Now all the hassle is on you to get the refund. And they won't process the refund immediately, so you have to pay out of your own money to get a replacement. And then often, as I've found, the price of the item has now gone up too, so you have to pay extra.

p.s. Your username?! I can think this must be the only site you've managed to get that handle?
The search results that are ads say "Sponsored" on them. Everything else are not ads. I'm not understanding how that's deceiving. It's similar to Google Shopping.
If you're interested in the factual details of the case rather than some meta argument about Twitter's bot policy (of which there's not really a point, because we don't know why the account was actually banned aside from artificial manipulation) - I thought it'd be helpful to have a few other sources that are unlikely to be removed.
Beginning around 2014, slots were taken away by CFO Tim "F Coolness, Make Em Pay" Cook to overprice RAM and SSDs so prosumers couldn't upgrade them ourselves with commodity parts.

Edit: They took away the SD card reader for a while too. "Buy a dongle! Use Time Machine! Buy a new one!" are the most common "solutions" offered.
I dunno, that would result in tens of thousands or possibly even tens of millions of unnecessary deaths in the long term. Pfizer's CEO has a family just like everybody else.

Even if we were to attribute malice to Pfizer's leadership, that's malice on a scale the world rarely sees.
It seems to be to be a misrepresentation to call this a mongodb alternative.
> poop distance?

Excuse me, I think you mean Defection Ballistics?
Maybe Debian should just remove Chromium & firefox (or any other heavily-updated internet app) and tell users to use snap/flatpak.
If not for the YT API itself, next thing seems to be also another extension but I wonder, even if you tried to do something like a decentralized approach (no one holder of data) are you still "infringing" on YT somehow by indexing stuff/keeping track of dislikes. Also would be hard to prove genuine/not fake counts.

Regarding question, I would post to get validation/external feedback so as to not feed my own biases/delusions.
How does this compare to other libraries like GUN.js?
I don't think so, but we can quite well follow it up here, for most developed and semi-developed countries.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

(As OWID relies on official data sources, they may be skewed or manipulated for undeveloped or autocratic countries)
Fukushima Daiichi was a dramatically less severe disaster
The changes to EU energy efficiency labelling were a little different in that it was an active, stated goal that it should not be possible for manufacturers to achieve the top A rating in the near future and the criteria were set with the aim of achieving that. That is, the top rating is by design currently unattainable. I think changes to crash ratings generally target specific perceived deficiencies of current car safety that the testing organisations think manfacturers can and should fix.
> Who do you want to be the arbiter that gatekeeps this information and decides the science is strong enough that you “actually know”?

Maybe YouTube can do it. They seem to be eager to censor everything else.

(/s)
There are at least several ways to continue your analogy though.

1) Cars cause accidents, and modern safety improvements like pedestrian alert, don't make up for the responsibilities manufactures have for their death machines

2) "Features" in new cars, like increased touchscreen usage, contribute to accidents by causing distraction. Better braking or whatever doesn't overcome the responsibility to have better control interfaces.

3) New tactile controls, and popup displays for backup cameras, in some recent luxury cars are reversing the trend in distracting touch-screen interfaces, resulting in safer driving experiences

All three examples above are true to some extent.
Insurance and Kohl’s rewards here.

Agreed
Teardown: Grammarly Became a $13B Grammar App
> the opposite of what its proponents say would be observed.

Your mistake is you’re listening to what they’re saying rather than looking at what they’re doing.
Can you think of any virus that caused hospitals around the world to be overwhelmed with patients, compromising their ability to treat normal ailments?
They aren't saying "don't use ifdef", they're saying "put the ifdef in the header instead, because it makes the implementation easier to read"
This is the worst post I've ever seen on hacker news. You're just trumpeting your cause, assuming it's universal, and using an actual valid question to do so. I'm extremely surprised this is still up.
What do you use over Sonos now? I've been unimpressed with their UX and would happily get rid of them but I'm not aware of a good alternative right now.
If you want to hear some shocking data regarding the Pfizer vaccine, you should listen to this recent US FDA discussion at 4h20m: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFph7-6t34M&t=15607s

Seems the Pfizer vaccine actually kills more people than it saves, due to the side effects of the vaccine.

It's also mentioned a few minutes later that the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which has very low vaccination rates, almost has no (severe) COVID cases.
I've had a recent fascination with the NCAP tests, and a lot of people aren't aware that they change almost yearly.

I saw this [1] recent video recently looking at some of the worst crash tests, and it really drills home that good safety is to do with a good design rather than the class of car. It's also a reminder of just how scary a 30mph collision is, especially at just the wrong angle. We had a death on the road I live on recently where a relatively modren Mercedes hit a tree. It happened in the early hours of the morning so I'm sure this was > 30mph collision, one dead and two in a critical state. It reminds you that at high speeds these tests don't mean that much.

I wonder if they will start to look at the rear seats more, especially for children. There is a high rate of serious head injury for children in anything other than the middle seat, and I feel this is something that is only starting to be looked at. Not to mention the 3rd row of seats doesn't seem to tested at all.

Another interesting point is that this testing is voluntary. There are some very expensive cars on the road that not tested!

[1] https://youtu.be/uFQkRpeC294
That's cool, you can give them as much money as you want. My problem is when it is me giving them the money (directly or through my taxes)
I did. I got the Galaxy Buds Pro. They are excellent. They don't have an app for iOS, but I used an Android phone to configure them.

Something changed in their firmware earlier this year that made noise cancelling imbalanced (for me). After replacing them for a new set, I landed up getting Sony WF1000XM4s, which have also been excellent and even better at NC than the Pros were.
You may be correct but still, this made me literally laugh out loud.
In which case….why care which order you did things in, by your logic? If the consequences are low the decision is academic.

(I don’t agree: I think there is risk of chronic damage that doesn’t appear as acute symptoms)
Ask HN: What is your preferred/most commonly used stack and why?
I'm curious about what most professional developers are using these days, from languages to deployment, and what they're building with it.

There's a lot to choose from and it seems like a few are really taking the lead. Maybe I'm biased but I prefer TypeScript, React w/ Styled Components, and PostgreSQL, all of which seem to be pretty dominant. TypeDoc is also really nice for generating clean documentation from type definitions and comments, and Jest for both front-end and back-end unit tests. I usually deploy (static) progressive web apps to Netlify and APIs to Heroku, but I'll probably try Render next.

If you're like me, you probably like to keep things to a minimum, optimized for a specific purpose without any bloat or unnecessary loose ends. I've built many different apps over the years and found myself repeating the same core functionality for each of them, each with their own slightly different stack and implementation as tools and ecosystems have evolved. I'd imagine this is the case for most experienced developers who enjoy building things from the ground up, without becoming dependent on an elaborate framework.

Last Friday I launched a project called Molecule.dev which aims to provide developers (and professional teams especially) with the most solid foundation possible for full-stack apps, skipping all of the most common tedious core functionality. It was originally built for my own purposes, but I've decided to provide it as a sort of "Foundation as a Service". Maybe there's a better way to classify it, but it isn't really a framework. It's a highly specialized codebase designed for the task at hand, complete with thorough documentation, tests, and guides, something I wish I had readily available when building apps over the years, as it would have saved me thousands of hours and tens of thousands of dollars.

Sorry for the (not so) thinly veiled advertisement, but I absolutely need feedback to turn Molecule.dev into something people actually want, and HN is probably the best place to get it. I think there is a lot of potential here.
This is a ridiculous statement, 3 different Renault models from 2019 each score 5 stars on Euro NCAP tests and the Kangoo tested in 2021 tested at 4/5.
FDA absolutely reviews stated design processes and audits against these. See 21CFR211 - The perspective here is that even if we are actually pretty confident that it is just "one little tweak here", a one-letter change could have wide ranging affects when interacting with the human body.
Is it possible to receive negative stars?
The abstract clearly states that the best chess and Go bots are not beaten: "Player of Games reaches strong performance in chess
and Go, beats the strongest openly available agent in heads-up no-limit Texas hold’em poker
(Slumbot)..."
Lead poisoning among US children
"dog whistle" is a dog whistle.
If you are in that group (under 65 and no co-morbids) two shots should be fine. Getting infected, using early treatments (even controversial ones) and recovering with a dose of natural immunity is probably better as the SA study from yesterday showed.
> whereas if I had just gotten COVID without the vaccine maybe I would be set

You might be "set" with long COVID, sure [1]. It's like wishing to be mugged so you can learn to fight the muggers next time you get mugged instead of practicing mugging defense with say, a martial arts teacher.

The act of being mugged could injure you for life or kill you.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/monumental-acknow...
Here's some management issues OP might be referring to.

- Who is going to provide support, bug fixes, documentation, manuals, etc?

- What happens if you leave? Can our other devs maintain this?

- Did I mention documentation?

- Did you get this approved by the architecture committee?

- Why didn't you follow our process improvement policy?

- We are a Java shop, so can you rewrite it in Java; you know this, so why didn't you write it Java?

There's also people issues with the other devs who may not like OP's tools or want to change their process.
>Devs should stop being delusional about their self-importance in these things. There are 100 other factors going on in an org and your one little tool ain't gonna make a penny difference in the profitability or productivity of the company (unless you have data to prove it, including impact on profitability)

This is false. My org has seen millions of dollars of savings many times on the backs of tools. Improving developer productivity, and it sounds like ops tool would be huge for productivity, is extremely valuable.
I'm wondering if this makes things easier or harder for ad blockers? I guess they could remove the Zaraz script?
Yes, but: why have these characteristics, especially the perspective-incorrect textures (which look terrible, and do not provide an efficiency advantage in the context of a "fantasy console")? Why not just write for the PS1 instead (if you must have these traits)?
@trackertrial2
> If it’s obvious, is it a dog whistle?

The point of a dog whistle is to be obvious to anyone clued into its subcultural framework, but slip under the radar otherwise.
I just hate my feed is being bombarded with these vertical videos. Can't YouTube make Shorts a standalone app?
Booster shots. Something doesn't smell right. People on all sides are scared and I don't think rational thought is being applied any more.
C++ has nearly as many rabid fanboys as Rust. I am curious why the community reacts differently to them. I am not saying "just write it in Rust" is a good thing, I think anyone claiming someone else needs to rewrite their program is automatically wrong.

This thread is full of "Linus hates C++" as if "the subset of C++ that can be used in the kernel is basically C" is an outright fabrication.

I may be oversampling on the fact that nearly every article about programming languages here is filled with people wondering what the point is though shrug.