skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mushrooms are a journey in a car with suspension and comfortable seating. LSD is the same journey in a car with no shocks, metal benches, and no seatbelt. Sometimes the trips are similar but if you hit a bumpy spot the results are quite different.

In practice I have seen several people do a lot of LSD and kind of “not come back all the way.” Don’t recall seeing the same with other psychedelics.

I would caution people against acid, and especially against using a lot of it or repeatedly. I think there’s a reason it has that nickname. It seems to be harsh and unforgiving.

There are positive reports from microdosing the stuff. I have no experience here. This wasn’t a thing when I was in college and I have not been near anything like this for a long time.
It's the same issue with SAFe, with the added cost of many additional meetings that provide little value.

Redefining "complete" or letting a story roll over, e.g. the estimate for finishing it was wrong, seems to indicate something doesn't work as it should.

Breaking down a project into milestones sounds like a great idea, i totally agree that project management could use an alternative.
I suppose editing the marquee screensaver would have worked?
I don't know if you're aware of other not-that-ancient incidents like these?

https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

https://web.archive.org/web/20180715225433/https://threadrea...

It took significant public outrage and press coverage before either of those were even acknowledged, a long time after.

> What were the chances that Microsoft was openly doing that?

After reading the above, is it really that edgy to be assuming the worst? If it's truly just recurring instances of different rogue employees, doesn't that speak to a systemic and/or cultural issue that needs to be addressed with additional internal safeguards and/or deterrents to prevent it from happening again?

To the credit of the relevant team here, today this was promptly addressed as soon as it got their attention. But it will take more than that to set to rest decades of precedence.

(I did not partake in the flaming and don't find it constructive or beneficial; just saying I have full understanding of the suspicion and understand that MS are still on probation)
If you enable showdead on your profile, you’ll see that this comment is denying the well documented genocide that is occurring in these regions. That will rightfully annoy many people here, hence the downvotes.

So using the razor, I think we can conclude what happened.

User makes a new throwaway account to spread easily disproved information

Other users downvote the misinformation

HN autoflags the comment to protect against preceived-spam.

Although you are right to question what you see. It is never wrong to take a second to ask “what’s going on here?”
Wouldn't things that are some combination of continuous variables be called a "space", and not a "spectrum", in the common usage of those terms? To use the color example in this post, we for instance talk about the RGB or CMYK color space if we mean to say that a color is a combination of those primary colors.

Additionally, there was an ACX post a while back [1] talking about how to model psychiatric conditions (the author of which is a psychiatrist) which did talk about spectrum meaning that it is along a continuous axis of severity instead of being something you either have or don't. While it didn't talk about separate symptoms, I'd venture a guess that they are usually reasonably correlated if something is assigned it's own diagnosis, and in many cases it may be more meaningful to reduce dimensionality to a 1D spectrum instead of looking at every variable in isolation?

1. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatri...
Has it worked really well? I feel ORMs are a sign it hasn't. Though I really enjoy having learned SQL and being able to interact with almost all relational databases.
I got into gamedev in my thirties. The last few years was baptism by fire but it's loads of fun.
She also overstated things and made things out to be worse than they actually are. Getting to fusion plasma power breakeven IS the hardest part. And it's always been so far away, setting and talking about realistic goals is better than trying to immediately jump to the far end goal.

This is the difference between ITER and projects like SPARC though, they both plan to get fusion plasma power breakeven, but ITER's design has zero hope of ever being economical.
That’s the nice thing about a lot of small businesses. The fruit of your work is much more tangible than working at a corporation.
I haven't left yet but I am currently considering medschool. I recently moved to a lower COL location so I would be able to afford the inevitable drop in income but thus far I've been afraid to make the jump. I also need to get my Swedish up to speed so I actually have a chance of making it in the entrance exams.
What, no xconq?
Fyi, the eu has bent over backwards not to force anyone to move. Esma and bafin have basically handed licenses to anyone arriving at Frankfurt airport and required minimal staffing locally.

How long they keep doing that is another matter. They're already moving euro clearing out of London. The sensible, European, approach is just that: don't force people to move en mass on some crappy time line. Make people move 5% a year for 20 years.

Smooth and manageable.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/eu-ruling-euro-clea...
Isn't that to be expected during proof-of-concept builds? Once you can show that it's actually possible, you can start optimizing the process.

Fusion could be a super breakthrough, even if it never gets super cheap and "we power the world by doing this one weird trick and all we need is one building". Provides reliable energy 24/7, is safe to use (as in no melt-down potential that people would be scared about) and does neither produce co2 nor blast coal dust particles all over the world.

I'm sure we could do the same with nuclear power, but it's politically impossible in many countries, because the name short-circuits people's minds.
Working with others is definitely important for motivation and for technical progress.

> I’ve tried teaming up with people on projects but it seems like if it’s not tied to a paycheck they flake out pretty quickly.

Maybe something like contributing to an existing open source project or doing some small projects of your own (e.g. writing a blog about smth that your really like, without aiming to monetize it) could help.

The best case scenario would be to start a self-supporting company or something of that sort.
> Scientists in the US are also claimed to have carried out similar experiments - with one expert saying that a humanzee was born before being killed by lab workers.

O___O
I believe edge computing is one of the game changing technologies for the decade. I am not sure if it can fall under the purview of Web 3 or not. For example one of the library I implemented was along training ML models on user devices instead of the cloud maintaining privacy and personalization.

https://github.com/NimbleEdge/RecoEdge
I assume you're talking about the following:

> The extent of economic damage from Brexit has been made clear by the Office for Budget Responsibility, which predicts that leaving the EU will reduce our long-term GDP by around 4%, compared to a fall of around 1.5% that will be caused by the pandemic.

Okay a prediction from a budget office, many times these are far off, many times they are political. That's not a statistic, it's a prediction from one group based on conjecture.

So let me ask you this, what _FACT_ (statistic), not _OPINION_ (prediction) have you seen that leads you to believe Brexit resulted in economic loss?
This is true of Marxist ideals in general. Like religion, they don’t hold up against alternative ideologies and their followers - like religious zealots - will often seek out and destroy any “competing” way of thinking.
I had the same thinking as you after reading the first part about it sounding negative. I didn't read it like that at all.

The last part makes it clear though. Child education is a truly important job.

I think emphasis also changes this subtly. I.e. did you read it in a neutral "truly important jobs" way or for example with emphasis only truly. "_truly_ important jobs_". Like "yeah yeah educator is important but not really. Only these other jobs are the really important ones, like burger flipper at McD". Well to be honest that does read quite negative to me!
It really doesn't explain why they chose a book as their format over a searchable website or why they chose a 2 page layout, with one color inverted.

Spreading the content over 2 pages makes it very unusable. Displaying 2 pages side by side makes the content too small to read. Having every 2nd page color inverted makes it unprintable. It's also annoying if (like me) you invert the colors on your e-reader or PDF viewer.

I also noticed the index doesn't have hyperlinks to the content pages and it doesn't appear to have a working table of contents making it even more difficult to use on an e-reader.

I like the concept but the implementation has serious usability issues.
Are you still trying to make this a thing? I'm pretty sure it's over.
Well... isn't this part of it? A lot of people are more or less satisfied with the coping mechanisms they've established and don't really need to get a diagnosis because they don't want further treatment. And I don't think this is unreasonable, especially when treatment mostly takes the form of helping you establish coping mechanisms.
They didn't demand, they asked. If you seek to represent your position on internet forums then you're going to need to tell people your position.

As access to specific resources is a central part of the complaint it seems perfectly reasonable to request more details. They can be general, like "I can't book a psychiatrist" or "I need specific drugs that are in limited supply".
Should have started with the small claims argument, if they had not respected their contract.
I never feared fire when living in a high rise, and never had to evacuate except for drills. But here’s a recent counter example where shelter-in-place can go wrong. https://www.thestar.com/news/2021/toronto-fire.html
Spoken like a true left-wing populist...
Let's hope Starship lift capacity will make Webb obsolete in a decade!
Quick overview here: https://youtu.be/EuoYkNyYaBY

But the rich energy thing is just one of the more recent ones. Formula 1 has had an endless stream of seedy sponsors over the years, including an alleged Nigerian prince. Overview here: https://youtu.be/H7M74iEonn0

And judging by the number of cryptocurrency companies plastered all over f1 cars right now, I'm sure there will be more entertainment in the future.
For others as interested in this ruling as I was here is a link to a story that covers this verdict [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/889562040/supreme-court-rules...
An early intimation of this is in The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/159

[ The story's narrator ] ... 'is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature'.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_Doctor_Moreau
Here is one article, there are plenty of others and they all have roughly the same ranges:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59070020

And that's not 'exports' per se, as much as it is GDP.
> The issue is not one of linguistic subtleties, but whether the government should fund boondoggles at all.

Most early tech and prototypes are considered “boondoggles” at first. Some of them are. Some of them not. Some of them may seem so to you, but I can tell that I have used at least a handful of the projects on the list and have personally supported at least one (without knowing that they’re prototype fund funded, or maybe they were not yet, doesn’t matter). And whether the government should have a hand in funding public good software projects - who else should?

> While probably, at least judging by the pictures of the funded projects, engaging in age discrimination.

The age selection could also be just a natural consequence of how the fund is set up. The funding is capped at less than 50 000 EUR, which is a sum that’s less interesting to older people since they’re more likely to have something close to that in the bank. Applying isn’t free - it costs effort, so if you can fund without, it’s attractive to do so. Just alleging age discrimination without a shred of proof isn’t really reflecting good on your arguments.
Decentralized identity. Having an on chain address, and its holdings as your username + public assets. It's past proof of concept. It has not propagated to become commonly accepted yet.
As the project lead for another "significant" open source media app, Ardour, I want to note how incredibly impressed I am by OBS. The program itself and the extent of it being "the standard" for what it does are unmatched, even by Blender. Every time I use it (not daily but weekly-ish) it reminds me how impressive it really is. I'm not deep into the OBS community, but from the outside, it's also impressive how the application is not obviously surrounded by endless wasted rants about its appearance, which is very out of step with contemporary GUI design, yet remains highly functional.
It's not the number of journeys, it's the duration and consumption for each trip.

A daily 55 min commute - which is the average both-way time - generates far more carbon than a daily 20 min trip to the store and back.
> You know the end is near when ideas of proper morality flow from a government to its citizens, rather than the reverse.

You have no idea how many of social liberties you take for granted were strongarmed by governments/judiciary. Also how many liberties were taken from you by majority of citizens. So be careful what you wish for.
What kind of immediate and long-term side effects did you have, if I may ask?

And what happened during the experience?
They have a recovery flow, but it requires access to a previously logged in client.
For the business/finance/tech types, my favorites have been Panic with Friends (Howard Lindzon), All-In Pod, My First Million, Animal Spirits, Compound and Friends, and Indie Hackers.
Loved this, and glad to have it recommended by someone for whom Tekserve was just "an old Apple repair shop" ツ

Tekserve was the nexus of the NYC personal computing community spanning the desktop-publishing and Internet revolutions; when I started an ISP a couple of blocks away my partner and many of our employees were ex-Teks, two of whom are mentioned by name in this book. Good times.
This book is in a genre I call “once you’ve read the title you’ve read the book”

Definitely aligned with the idea but if you already agree with the title you can save some time and skip the read
There are a lot of people "with an agenda" here, to say the least. And unlike Slashdot you cannot reply to flagged or dead comments which benefits those people.
This is really awesome. But I did not see any posts from users, what am I missing?
"It will also make more people aware than just searching for killer makes them liable if somebody thinks they were serious about this."

Not sure that's true - if you click through to the CNN article (https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/12/us/hireahitman-website-cr...), the police will set up a meet and check whether the people actually want to go through with hiring a hitman.
IANANS (I Am Not A Nuclear Scientist)

> Brief periods of theoretical breakeven have been achieved before.

Source? I'm not aware of any reactor that has done that.

> Ahead lies "sustained theoretical breakeven" - the thing can be kept running for a while. So far, other tokomak experiments have achieved 70 seconds of plasma containment (Korea) and 120 seconds (China). That's below ignition temperature, though.

Ignition temperature is not set just by the time you run it. The larger you go the longer you need to run before you can get to ignition. ITER will need something like 1000 seconds, but SPARC will only need 10.

> Then, someday, "economic break-even" - it can pay for itself.

For ITER-like designs that's impossible because the massive manufacturing cost.

> This begins with the "first wall" problem of finding something that can survive the conditions just outside the magnetic field. Those conditions include huge numbers of neutrons, which tend to split atoms in the first wall material and cause unwanted transmutation. This causes radiation embrittlement, which is not good for materials.

Radiation embrittlement is only a problem for certain types of materials. Some material types do not absorb neutrons at fusion energies and simply pass them through. This is a complex materials problems and you can't just use steel but there's already many designs that people are experienced with for this and it's well known because of the history of fision energy research with neutrons.
Surrounded by psychopaths
The Egyptians where the first to figure out if you want to build something permanently you have to make the components so heavy 4 persons can’t take it with them. Otherwise someone eventually will and it is just a matter of time someone actually does.
It's so subtle, I am willing to give OP the benefit of the doubt. This level of pedantry in a rather innoucious post is kind of worrying though. Sorry to bring this up at all, since I was confused.

Happy holidays!
UK: Very easy. They're free, you can order one pack of 7 per day either online or for local collection. It's been this way for months and months.

I've heard there have been some availability problems recently but I don't know anyone personally who has had trouble getting a pack.
The 80% number is based on US taxpayer funding. For that to be true all Americans would have to be Christian, which they aren’t. This was my objection.

The difference between all Americans being Christian and some or even most of them being Christian is not “slight”.

80% and 63% are not close by any measure.

Qualifying the original statement with religious affiliation still ignores the fact that tax dollars are not paid with religious affiliation in mind and JWST has no (official) religious meaning. Further calling out American Christians but ignoring the Canadian and European Christians further distorts the 63% number.

This entire thread has been a textbook example of lying with statistics.

Even if you manage to get them right the numbers don’t justify the message.
This raises the issue of management measures of effort or time spent versus results; being busy versus getting it done. That has always been a problem in physical offices (otherwise Office Space wouldn't be funny). It is an even more exaggerated management problem when people's appearances can't be casually monitored and/or micromanaged.

One thing that most engineer-turned-managers don't have is any training in management whatsoever. In fact, many of them have only been managed by uneducated managers themselves. This situation, compounded by remote work, is not pretty.

Thankfully, the article was a set of checklists of easy-to-measure items. And it recommended focus on employee results. It is refreshing to see this kind of article on management education!
He wrote a great response. Not many people I know would stand in front of a online mob and say "It's code that I wrote". And then fix it on Christmas!

While I'm glad this got resolved so quickly, I'm slightly ashamed of myself and the HN community for how we handled this. In hindsight the outrage was wildly out of proportion for a simple bug.

I'll make a mental note to do better in 2022.
It is a desperate move by the fossil fuel industry to try convince the world that burning gas is the only way to save the planet, under the false pretense that other methods would take too much time.

Here is article by researcher for you to ignore: https://www.cfr.org/article/tackle-climate-change-keep-fossi...

The only people who advocate for natural gas is those that either is ignorant or has economical motives. Climate researchers know it, most people are aware of it, the facts has been know for several decades. Replacing coal with natural gas is not a solution.

Slowly phasing out coal will result in many more people that will die, blood that will be on the hands of the German government. I don't applaud when people simply plan to, at some time in the future, stop murdering people. Being slightly less of a murderer this year isn't something you get a medal for, stopping being a murder is.
Mispositioning words don't mean anything.

And the loans are done by WHO. Many people benefit from it, but you can't get them while doing stupid things. At least it is manageable to pay back.

While China had some well positioned corrupt loans going on, which they actually want infrastructure/premium ressources and self managed in return. WHO doesn't have those conflicting interests.

I'm not saying WHO is perfect either, but it's obviously superior to the other option.
> Will they learn without someone taking them to court over this?

Only on hackernews I see this level of crazyness. You need to reduce your caffein intake drastically.
It is likely that "production value" is negatively correlated with actual value.
Providing common knowledge on the topic rehashes things everybody knows so it is seen as noise and not signal.

If you have uncovered stuff few people know, please share. Then finding comparisons is more insightful.
Ask HN: What are some of the articles you re-read?
When I read something that is thought-provoking and impactful, I like to read it again after some time. I was wondering what are some of the articles that y'all find impactful / want to go back and read again? Especially with the new-year coming, what impacted you in the last year and is worth a revision in the coming year?
Agreed. Get all the way on the network, youll be able to troubeshoot more things. Having teamviewer with a hardcoded password is a good fallback. Have two ways in.
other than fame it sounds exploration without much of a payout. seems comparable to finding what root of the tree is longest. what am I missing?
For me, it was producing a scifi/mental-health podcast which blended my three great passions of music, programming, and love of my own voice^H^H^H writing fiction.

The experience has been life changing!

More people should try podcasts: They’re almost as simple as a blog to produce, but allow you to present your story or information in a much more evocative and personal medium: Voice, sound, and music. Additionally, and unlike something like Youtube or Spotify, you retain total control. All you need, essentially, is a website to host MP3s, and an XML file that tells people where those MP3s are. There are plenty of services that will do this for you for a few dollars a month (I use Spreaker), but that’s what it boils down to: No gatekeepers, no monopolies, no algorithms.

I wrote a step by step guide to getting into this, based on my own experience of writing and publishing 6 seasons (so far!) on my blog, here:
http://www.0atman.com/articles/21/make-fiction-podcast
I took the point of the piece to be that thinking about it in terms of "best" or "worst" cases was itself wrongheaded, and that there's no meaningful distinction you could make between "high" or "low" function. Assuming that's what she meant, I don't agree.
What do you mean by "needed it?" How did it affect your life afterwards?
As a Chinese who moved to U.S. couple years ago... I will never move back to China if there's no sign of democratization.
ConnectWise ScreenConnect works great for me and my grandparents
Precisely, and I don't think the UK would like to really be seen flexing its muscle to stop a democratically reached decision, that would open up an entirely different can of worms.

They'll either have to give extreme economic incentives or let Scotland go if that is what Scotland decides it wants.