skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this idea a lot, and in the main, I wholly agree with the understanding that it's personal work and not drugs which help people develop their understanding of the world.

At the same time, this mode of saying "at most" undercuts the actual value of a psychedelic experience: that kind of experience is so profound that I often liken it to discovering sex for the first time. Knowing how to bring yourself and/ or a partner into some state or other isn't in itself useful, it's awkward and confusing to become initiated into that practice, and there are a myriad of ways where becoming sexually activated is violent and traumatic.

But done well a) these experiences can be fun/useful as ends in themselves and b) these experiences are often the ones which open up entire realms of possibility for our minds and bodies.

For instance, without a psychedelic context I certainly would not have had a way of parsing the effects of kundalini yoga, and I might not have even been inclined to work in that direction if I didn't have a first hand understanding of how dramatically our physiology can so directly impact our perceptions.

And I find the people who discount the profound impact of initiation into that realm of experience almost tautologically fall into two camps: people who have moved past psychedelics as a mode (which is a legitimate and good mode, in my epereince) and people who have never had psychedelic experiences (which is also a wholly legitimate way to be in the world).

The thing is, the first camp often seems (at least to me) to understate the actual impact of psychedelia in their development and the second camp doesn't have the personal experience to make those claims at all.

While I am happy at your personal development and ability to enter states of bliss or ecstasy without psychedelic drugs, you may consider that this general bend of argumentation (that the drugs aren't valuable and may be unhealthy in general in this movement) is just as much of a shortcut as thinking that the psychedelics in themselves can lead to some sort of enlightenment.
> Do you find issues with software not packaged for FreeBSD?

For example?

I use Cargo packages for some software that was not in the Ports and it worked well. Also downloading binaries for both FreeBSD and Linux and running them works. For Linux version I would say it depends - mostly works.

> How's the Wayland situation?

Dunno. I use X11.

> Why wouldn't I use FreeBSD?

If you need KVM virtualization or 'fat' desktop clients like Discord or Slack for example.

There are no USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 features for VirtualBox (as they are closed source and for Linux only).

There is no Opera or Brave browser as they are not open source ...

Currently 802.11ac and 802.11ax WiFi does not work on FreeBSD. There is some first work committed for Intel AX200 and AX201 likes committed to 14-CURRENT but not sure how it works. Most 802.11n WiFi cards should just work. I have Intel 6300 WiFi - which is rather old as it comes from 2011 ThinkPad W520 - but a lot newer WiFi cards also work.

Hope that helps.
At least he didn't have to install Solaris on Sun executive's workstations.

Michael Tiemann on "The Worst Job in the World":

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/slowlaris/worst-...

>I have a friend who has to have the worst job in the world: he is a Unix system administrator. But it's worse than that, as I will soon tell. [...]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tiemann

>Michael Tiemann is vice president of open source affairs at Red Hat, Inc., and former President of the Open Source Initiative. [...] He co-founded Cygnus Solutions in 1989. [...] Opensource.com profiled him in 2014, calling him one of "open source's great explainers."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20006186

http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00070.html

The Day SunOS Died

"Bye, bye, SunOS 4.1.3!
ATT System V has replaced BSD.
You can cling to the standards of the industry
But only if you pay the right fee --
Only if you pay the right fee . . ."
3D printed nanomagnets unveil a world of patterns in the magnetic field
I totally relate to this. I didn’t take time off, but I am the stay at home parent/primary care giver. Having children also led me to volunteer teaching ski lessons to 4-5 year olds and occasionally help out in the classroom. The things I’ve learned on how to cajole, incentivize, and motivate my/others children transfers surprisingly well on how to deal with adults. After a brief dip in very early childhood (AKA the sleepless time) it felt like my career took off after children, as I gained a reputation for being a leader people wanted to work with/for. Now correlation is not causation, but I definitely think I gained experiences having and raising kids that made me more capable as a leader.
Don't need to go to Koreatown for a good meal. Gochi and Orenchi Ramen are both within walking distance. Also a few good dim sum options there.
There are many excellent Korean, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, mid eastern, etc. restaurants all around.
From Amazon to Zoom: What Happens in an Internet Minute in 2021?
Even when memory bandwidth is the bottleneck (which I’m not sure about), optimizations help.

Due to the nature of CPUs operating asynchronously, if one function is waiting for memory to be read, it can continue doing other things.

As such, if this base64 implementation is more efficient, even though the “wall clock” time is exactly identical due to the memory bandwidth, the CPU has more time to perform _other_ tasks.
It exists. But it's viewed as houses in the middle of a cornfield or a decaying steel town, no decent jobs, no culture, lousy weather, etc.

To the last point, there are a lot of people, especially on the West coast who really can't imagine living anywhere with real winters. To be honest, you don't hear much about Boston either although I think it's something like #3 in VC funding and has a lot of tech of various kinds.
So how much do they keep?
We talked about this already https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29639005
In many countries, it was illegal to practice homosexuality. It was a crime to cross dress. In some countries it still is.

Should we allow the imprisonment of these people merely because the laws say so?
Use as a library or an application, Create and study purely file based flashcards. (It's just markdown with an html comment). Text User Interface.
Or I could type -> and get on with my life.
Salary differences are huge, though. I recently got an offer for a $100k perm. raise + relocation benefit on top of that to move to Mountain View - and I'm not in a cheap city. My current company as well, if you move somewhere cheaper in the current remote work environment, they cut your salary.
All loans are overcollateralized, and basically used for leverage: put up your bitcoins as collateral, borrow stablecoins, buy more bitcoins.

So the risk is limited as long as the loans can be liquidated in time in case of a price crash.

The rates are determined the ratio of all stablecoin liquidity provided vs the amount actually borrowed. Liquidity providers can remove liquidity at any time, and so the smaller the remaining liquidity buffer gets, the higher the fees gets.

Most of the rates are dynamic: i.e. the interest rate on your existing loan can increase drastically if there is a liquidity crunch. In practice your interest is charged as though it was extra borrowing and so lowers your liquidiation threshold.

On the flip side, the dynamic rate also means that as the liquidity gets thinner, the interest rate paid to liquidity provider gets higher, meaning it incentivizes liquidity deposits when they are most needed.
That's an interesting effect. I assume the affected blocks are set up so that each row uses the glitch factor of the row above and varies from it by a (small) random value?

I recently wrote a glitch filter for my canvas library[1]. It might be a fun Christmas project to add functionality to emulate that effect in the filter.

[1] demo - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/filters-025.html
Ask HN: Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?
I work at a startup with ~50 employees (and have always worked at startups). Love the work and the people. Recently we were acquired by $LARGE_CORPORATION and the experience has been a living hell for all of us. Things that should take a few days take a few weeks. Things that should take a few weeks take a few quarters. It's slowly driving me insane.

The experience is best shared as a story.

I'm working on migrating our apps to the parent company's VM launching and deploy platform. Should be fairly straightforward, I think. Unfortunately, the deploy tooling isn't entirely compatible with our app so I ask the team if they can implement $X feature to support our app.

The first engineer I talk to doesn't even attempt to answer my question but redirects me to their manager. Ok, that's odd, I think, but whatever.

Manager says sure, just fill out this feature request doc. It's a Google Docs template with 4 (!) pages of required documentation to just explain why I want this feature implemented. It asks for my team name, the motivation, why I can't solve the problem some other way, yada yada...ok, I guess it's good to document your work, so sure. I fill it out and submit it.

No response after two days. Then I get an automated email that their skip level manager has approved the work. Huh? This is followed by an email that the team's eng manager approved the work. Why do two layers of management need to approve work on something they have no knowledge about?

Finally, after many rounds of arguing about why this needs to be done in the first place (ahem: you told us to migrate to your platform, and it literally does not work for our app), they quote us a delivery timeline of end of Q1 in 2022.

At this point I am in absolute shock. This should take no more than a few days to implement.

So I reach out to the manager and ask what is going on. This is a simple task, I said. Why does it take an entire quarter for your team to deliver? He doesn't have an answer.

I tell him I'm happy to fix the issue myself, if they link me to the relevant codebase. "It shouldn't be too hard to dig in and submit a patch," I think to myself. He says he cannot give me access to the codebase for compliance reasons, and that only members of his team have R/W on that repo. What???

This is insane. And this entire time I was only alllowed to interact with managers and have not spoken to a single engineer about the actual technical details. It is impossible to get anything done here now.

Is this how it's like at all large companies? What should I do?
Sure, as more time goes on and the thing starts to become more evident. It will become clearer that bringing a human being into a dying world is a deeply immoral thing to do. It will not be soon though.
As a human, I would probably crash into it, depending on what I seen from non-compressed and compressed version. However, camera works differently from human eyes.
You can do rapid test remotely, by doing self test via skype with doctor. It gives you EU valid cert, all legal.
It’s kind of hard to argue with that.
I prefer to work with others who aren't afraid to express a dissenting opinion. Other than that, technical and project management excellence are musts.
Yeah I told them users hate that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Nobody today can memorize an epic like the Illiad today like people routinely would in Socrates' day. It a bit impressive if you can reproduce a 3 minute song text from memory. The Illiad often took days to recite.

AFAIK this isn't something that was very common back then. Reciting the Illiad was not a hobby but more like a paid profession. People paid for this precisely because reciting something for a few evenings from memory takes a lot of skill/training and most simply couldn't do it. Same as today.
Initially I thought pixel shift might be the way to go, but stumbling across [0] I got an impression it isn’t necessarily as great as it sounds (and, I guess, neither would be any three-shot RGB-filter-swapping composite).

[0] https://www.dearsusan.net/2020/11/09/nyquist-mtf-pixel-shift...
Reading this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot#Hardware_2.5

It seems like it does use the radar. The generation after 2.5 (3.0) did appear to improve the "frames per second" processing from ~110-200/sec to ~2300/sec.

I'm guessing the comment means something like "if this was related to sensor processing throughput or latency, the 2.5 version might be meaningful".
Because I read the draft.

> ... it is prohibited to provide a device or service that hinders the following: ... eavesdropping and recording of non-public communications.
I developed a spare tire at 20 and it persists stubbornly despite quite strenuous exercise. Could you share your dad's diet?
Idk. The non-compressed version makes it seem like the truck was very visible. I think any driver paying attention would have at least applied some braking.
Yes, this is the most common argument, but still, not in my back yard. I'm lucky enough to work with plenty of maths PhDs who don't insist on these shenanigans and still seem productive.
>> That’s conflating what people present to the world with their mind. It’s a very shallow understanding of what’s going on

I was trying to contrast the external and internal presentations of self, not conflate them. My point is that a "normal" external presentation doesn't make someone a "normal" person. Someone can act, consume, and behave certain ways that help them feel normal, but in the end it's a coping or survival mechanism of sorts. If I fit in with the "in" crowd it affords social and economic status. That's the version of "normal" my comment was responding to.
It's in the outer lane because that's either where the driver turned autopilot on or told autopilot to switch to.

On the other hand I think it's at least plausible that a human driver would have been able to notice the truck in time, even being in the outer lane.
Thoughts on data privacy infrastructure for the future?
Security and privacy are complex topics—most developers I’ve come across aren’t deeply familiar with best practices or well trained to architect secure systems. Also, security, privacy, and compliance collectively form some of the most substantial challenges for small and medium sized SaaS companies when selling to enterprise customers. On the consumer side, the massive influx of recent data leaks (https://www.upguard.com/blog/biggest-data-breaches) make this issue critical.

Similar to what Stripe did for payments, I think the solution lies in abstracting away implementation details for secure architectures that need to commonly be built from the ground up. To name a few concrete components of a secure SaaS application that can be abstracted:

- end to end encryption (for p2p file transfer and for teams)

- multi-tenancy in data architectures

- secure data stores (with row/column, and even element level obfuscation of sensitive/PII data): obfuscation would be dynamic and highly configurable through an ACL style interface

- data severability: the ability for customers of an application to delete (or broadly, govern) their data should they feel at risk

In summary, a highly secure, scalable, and governable data backend for application developers to use instead of building their own. All accessible through an API which can be used a la carte.

Would love to get some thoughts on this approach from the community? What do you think?

PS. If you’d like to chat directly, get in touch through https://cipherflow.co
Yes, absolutely. Gochi is one of my favorite lunch spots, and a short walk away. This is also true for every college town in the rest of the country. The Bay Area isn't magic.
Syncthing has ignore files which can be used to selectively not sync certain files or folders per device. I'm not familiar with Dropbox's smart sync, so if it's like a transparent on-demand sync then no, Syncthing doesn't have that.

Maybe it's possible to implement that as an extra app though, without even touching Syncthing. Android seems to have some concept of virtual file systems provided by apps so perhaps one could on-demand un-ignore files then block until they're available. (But yeah, that's definitely more than a quick hack.)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this problem the ideal use case for projects like IPFS? Anyone interested to preserve the content can join as a node to balance the load, right? And if so, why don't we see widespread adoption?
Watching the video I'm not sure I would have been able to stop in time. There's like a quarter second between first seeing the truck and slamming into it.
The De Smet, South Dakota example is a good one.

For a more northerly North American example, High Level Alberta, Canada has a population of 3100 and a service population of 20k. First settlers in 1947, it was incorporated in 1965. There is a paved airstrip long enough for a 747, and a hospital.

It would be the sleepiest of little villages in southern Europe and/or the USA, and would have a service area not much bigger than its population.

The further north you go, the more towns have and require outsized services.
> pure and abstract

Like math? Engineers would rather not use math?

> It was intended as an informal argument

Maybe. But at this point it just looks like a mean dig at Haskell. A better word would be opinionated. Haskell is opinionated, and that is fine.

The biggest bait in this thread is using the term "engineers". It should rather be: people trained in imperative programming in mainstream imperative languages. Then it makes sense.
>My felt experience is not "making things up".

I have never said that anyone was making anything up. Please do not put words into my mouth or make statements on my behalf when I have not said them.

>I apologize if it did not land well for you

This sounds like a abusive partner apologizing. "I'm sorry you made me so mad that I had to hit you"

>I am hearing counterexamples to this statement

You're not hearing counter-examples. You're hearing situations where the person, in the past, was lucky enough to not be affected by the situation they were in. That's great. It's like someone who refuses to wear their seatbelt telling someone that they never wear their seatbelt and they've never been injured even though they've driven 10000000 miles in that car. If reducing your chances of dying in a car wreck is important to you, you would have worn a seatbelt. This is like complaining that the car's seat belt chime wasn't insistent enough after you got into a wreck and are now paralyzed.
"This is great, but too often I see people omit some of the obscure but critical features that make lisp uniquely wonderful. These include read macros like #. and backreferences, gensyms, and properly escaped symbol names."

Clojure makes a point of having non-extensible reader.

"For example, how does it help to remove backquote? One design changes the syntax of quote. Some systems disallow dotted lists. (I've seen all three of these.) What's the point? Implementers wave the banner of "simplicity", yet wedge in all kinds of weird implicit behaviors and extra evaluation rules."

Not sure about backquote in Clojure, but the next sentence is probably about PicoLisp, which somewhat famously changes `quote` syntax to accept any number of expressions. Disallowing 'dotted lists' is probably also about Clojure, where the lists are not really lists as used in most other Lisps. The "banner of simplicity" can be a reference to "Simple made easy" (IIRC) by Rich Hickey.

"Lately a surprising amount of FUD has been spread about proper tail recursion. [...]"

Not sure here, but out of major lisps Common Lisp doesn't mandate TCO, but at least SBCL does it anyway; while Scheme has TCO in the standard. Clojure doesn't have it, which leads to existence of `recur` (IIRC) and trampolining in user code.

"Bashing" may be too strong a word, even when qualified with "subtle". It might even not be what the author intended at all, it's just what popped up in my head when reading :)
I think it can be, but for me it's more a question of whether the right-lane truck braked for the stopped truck or for some other reason.
And reorgs are often the managerial equivalent of a code refactor.
Some people even want to CATCH covid to get recovery cert. For many people covid infection is quite mild with no symptoms.
Not quite, because in both cases the issue is "what the hell is that and how do I type it?"
Because they (the lenders) tie (put) their money and funds into stuff for longer time because of uncertainty (not knowing what’s going to happen next).
Wikipedia seems to indicate the car should have had front-facing radar. I'm curious why that appears to have not helped.
https://archive.md/Lv3tN
And it was unsafe for a few years prior to this event too, with the introduction of Desktop Bridge apps (packaged Win32 hybrid apps running with full trust).
It's not if it can't be distinguished of the same blur of something completely different.
Loans are overcollateralized, so you need to put in the same or more amount of capital that you're loaning out. That may not seem useful at first, but it allows you to have exposure to multiple assets. For example, you may want to use ETH temporarily, but you only have BTC. But you want to keep your BTC investment for the long term. So you're putting up BTC to borrow ETH. You keep your exposure to BTC, but you have liquid ETH.

It's the same concept as putting up your house as collateral. You don't want to sell your house just because you need some liquid cash temporarily.
This is a black truck, facing sideways in a lane, with no reflective surfaces of any kind, at night. Why is it surprising that a car hit it?
I watched the compressed version before seeing this non-compressed version, so I was primed to expect the black truck.

Maybe I would have stopped. Maybe not.
Personally, I think eternally archiving everything and infinitely available public data has been not-so-great. If this was an "archive with consent" sort of system, then sure. My response may be better summarized as, "Does IA support robots.txt, and if not why?"
You have no idea how much I'd be willing to pay for access to the bonus lanes and higher speeds.
I've actually caught multiple bugs using ligatures which make operators more obvious. It may not help you, but for me it makes logic expressions and various arrows a lot easier to read. On the whole unicode confusion thing, if you are naming your variables with unicode arrows and logic operators, that might just be an antipattern you want to avoid for other reasons.
The problem with "lawful"-whatever is that the lower the apparent impact on the target, the wider the net that is thrown. So the tool ends up having an outsized impact on the innocent rather than the guilty. Unlike the lawful use of a firearm by law enforcement officers, lawful decryption of data when an innocent person is targeted is a "safe", "victimless" abuse.

Imagine the uproar if a person being shot and killed during a court approved raid turns out to be completely innocent. Now imagine the silence when the same person just has their private chats or nude pics decrypted and seen by investigators.
VSCodium is a FOSS build of the MIT VSCode repo, with an alternate FOSS compliant extension source. Note that some fancy extensions are missing, but otherwise works 100%. I have been using VSCodium as my main IDE for about a year now.

https://vscodium.com/
>Its nice you're happy with your expensive device that's beholden to some cloud server

lol I guess you made a bad guess about what homeassistant does or you simply chose not to read what i wrote.

Either way it's nice that you won the argument against the straw man you argued with.
For around $50 Million, someone could pay to have every truck add high visibility markers: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b00012368/
Stop Closing Apps on Your iPhone
> What is more depressing...

Is how nothing really improved in two fucking years. I am completely at loss how this winter is the same or worse than the last one - which itself was going down exactly like predicted a month into the pandemic...

I am growing bitter, misanthropic and hateful.