skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly, I think powerful people have always behaved as poorly as in the examples he mentioned. It's just that nowadays, data-driven traditional and social media uses the outrage to make money. This does unfortunately lead more people to think that cheating is OK, but I think for the most part, our systems do eventually work to correct that.
House of Suns - sci-fi novel by Allastair Raymolds.

Beyond the Aquila Rift, short stories, also by him.

The world building is incredible.

The Expanse Series.

Impro! By Keith Johnstone
As a former mechanic, I can explain this a bit. Dealer parts departments aren't really setup for retail sale, they are mainly there to support their shop and commercial customers. I worked at an independent shop; but via fleet contracts we bought a large volume of OEM parts from the local Ford & Toyota dealers. The counter isn't manned because 80% of the parts go to the dealers shop, and the other 19.9% go to commercial buyers.

I would call up the dealership parts department and order something, they would either deliver it or let me know what the ETA was. All net-30 terms, and a stupidly low friction process. Even the chain parts stores have separate phone lines for commercial customers, I never had to hold when buying from Advance Auto b/c there was a different commercial number that they only gave to commercial customers. The garage mechanic isn't really the focus of even the chain parts stores, they make their money on commercial customers.

However, I'm glad they at least maintain the retail friendliness that they do. Try walking into your local Fastenal or Grainger without a commercial account, some of their stores just won't sell to the public. Dealer parts departments have a very similar model to a specialty industrial supplier, where retail sales aren't enough of a priority to really bother with.

And frankly, retail sales take a lot of time for them, since the customers need a lot more help. Half the time, if I was calling I already had the part number available and knew if they needed the last 8 of the VIN number and a $500 transaction only took 2 minutes of the parts managers time.

It isn't a conspiracy, they just prioritize their high value customers way more. Same applies in software. I get way better support from our specialty ERP provider than I do from Google. We pay decent money to Google, but they wouldn't notice losing us as a customer, while the ERP firm would.

It isn't some conspiracy to keep you from fixing your car. That conspiracy is their engineering management doesn't want the cars to be fixable at all, and they want any unfortunate mechanic who has to deal with the abomination to properly suffer. --insert stackoverflow post about using regex for html--
> In general, it is not valid to assume that you can do constant-time arithmetic on all numbers because then you could solve many many problems much faster than possible on a word-RAM machine by encoding your problem as a real number, and multiplying/adding.

i miss theory of computation. the reasoning was so simple and the proofs were so fun.
Does this harm nvidia? I don’t do graphics programming but I would imagine they have a lot of tech to make shadow and many other hacks run fast. Does ray tracing simplify game rendering even though it would require more FLOPS?
> We cannot take people's delusions into account when giving care. But what we can take into account is "will they make the most of this care?"

Who is this we? I'm not a doctor or nurse or any other kind of healthcare professional, so I (rightfully) have no input into decisions like this. Is it safe to assume the same is true for you?

Who is to say some "antivaxxer" or alcoholic that you're ready to deprioritize wouldn't go on to accomplish great things? You may find that hard to imagine (which is a consequence of thinking in sloppy terms like "antivaxxer") but again, you have to remember that these are people from all walks of life, all different levels of education. To think that you are qualified to judge who will make the most of their lives seems delusional in itself to me.
I think you're entirely too dismissive of other people here, ironic for a thread on "How to change your mind"

I've had to calm people down off of bad trips. Unlike what you say, it's something that totally happens with single drugs and non hallucinogenics. Hell you can have a bad trip on alcohol.

It's all about the state of mind, and having an altered state of mind can make it much easier to start spiraling. This can happen even if you haven't taken drugs too, let's say from stress or lack of sleep. Again it's just about your mind being in a state it's uncomfortable with.

Specifically I've had friends on weed who've had anxiety attacks and deep paranoia till I calmed them down. They were completely non functional in the same way someone having a sober anxiety/panic attack would be.

I've had to help people on just E at parties who've started hyper ventilating and started having stressed delusional visions.

That's not even getting into being there for someone who's on psychedelics, where I've had friends who've suffered fairly longer lasting bouts of out of body syndrome, even after the drugs wore off because of how it affected their perception of self.

Drugs aren't the cause of a bad trip. They just increase the chances of one, and for many psychedelics, you therefore want to make sure you're in a calm, happy place. If someone is trying it for the first time, do it around people who will look out for you, and preferably those who can responsibly look after you if things do go sour.
> This dog-eat-dog "if you don't steal, you won't survive" endemic level of corruption and ubiquitous legal broken windows is IME not uncommon in shitty third-world countries

No different in most first world countries
I've been using Kagi for a couple of weeks now and I love it. It's not just that there are no ads, but at least for programming, the first page is not stuffed with weird spammy sites that scrape Stackoverflow and Github Issues, like it is on Google nowadays.
There is no reason to be so dramatic. In the end you are free to use any init system you want.
Be aware that "modern" has a very negative connotation for a lot of people now.
I'm interested in learning more about this, is there some way I can contact you? (Not sure if this type of message is allowed)
I've been experimenting with Grafana + Loki and it has been a pleasant experience.
You know that if you really did just keep up the pace of new art and enjoyed it as a side project you might have a sustainable business in a few years stress free… or you could go the marketing route and possibly end up eventually hating the work.

I mean it could go either way, just make sure you also consider the upside of a fun (slowly / organically growing) side business.
Or maybe you should questions yourself as to why you are so angry about what others like
I'm sure NVidia is fine, as they are the market leader in gaming / workstation hardware accelerated RT.
Wiki.vim: A Wiki Plugin for Vim
I doubt wearing your mask while ordering at restaurant is helpful, as you will likely consume the food without a mask. Of more concern may be the ignored risk of infected human feces. Wastewater is tested for the virus for a couple years.

Let's do a thought experiment. Restaurant cook takes a break on the restroom pot. Check texts and tiktok on phone. Phone is now contaminated with small feces particles. Washes hands or not. Goes to kitchen with phone and cooks. Touches phone. Touches cookware. Touches phone. Contaminates everything.

Feces are everywhere. The risk is allowing phones into restrooms and kitchens.
The author is living in a Fox News fever dream, in which Elizabeth Warren’s badness is taken as an article of faith.
> Innumerate politicians who themselves mandate harsh covid restrictions living their lives ignoring their own mandates - serial violators Gavin Newsom and Phil Murphy got re-elected!

In the Newsom case, his opponent was someone claiming it was all a bunch of nonsense and if elected he'd do away with all restrictions immediately, so not a very strong vote for the person who's upset that he didn't take the whole thing seriously enough.
A striking phrase I remember from the 2008 fallout was that one malfeasant was "not the type of person you send to jail."
David Graeber says something about this in “The Dawn Of Everything”.

I’d suggest reading both books. One for the scaffolding and the other for color.
But this article cites multiple examples from the highest levels of business and politics to make the point.
> The issue with Plausible's server: I didn't want to put it out there because then they get the fix for their commercial product for free after I spent the time doing all the work for them, but I feel like the same bug might actually exist all over the Web, so I'm going to write it up and post it online.

Yeah, no. So far, you only say there's a bug in their server configuration that prevents logging in some cases. I self host plausible and I'd be very much interested in what misconfiguration I could have triggered.

Is it a TCP pool connection problem ? A pre-flight request thing ? Wrong CORS headers ?

On one hand you could be doing FUD, on the other there is a gunfoot problem that could impact self hosters but the knowledge doesn't come out.

I suppose it's a problem that can be pinpoint from the outside, without knowing the proxy stack running at plausible so it should be observable with HTTP sniffer/wireshark.
God I loved it, read long ago dimly remembered, I loved that Genly seemed to barely be aware of the complexity of the world he was in and the consequences for others of their interactions with.
PDF would have probably been better without it but Adobe couldn't resist adding new features so they could flog more copies of Acrobat.
I'm a Log4Shell survivor and I'm finding it hard to see them packing more and more features into this monolith.

It'll probably be fine, but I'll be Jack's complete lack of surprise when I'm taping servers back together after a DNS exploit gives some kids root access.
Certainly even the Founding Fathers had a lot of business entanglements that would lead one to seriously question whether they didn't have a conflict of interest (e.g., how much was Washington's decision to mount an army to secure the Ohio territory influenced by his own significant personal holdings there?). But it feels to me like at one point we had, to some extent, mastered this problem, and now we've moved away from even trying.
If you are saying it is due to increased publicity you will not have a problem finding an example where an anti drink driving campaign has a similar effect.

Also the way you use correlation isn't causation is disengenous. By your usage apples falling down is correlation not causation. The whole point about that statement is that we should not infer causation if we don't have a good understanding of why the causal relationship exists. In this case we do.
Matomo isn't completely free.

Funnels and A/B testing is not (see: https://plugins.matomo.org/).
CSS is one of those things that every time I have to use it, I have to relearn it.
I'm in Cape Town, a shaman visits two or three times a year. Currently costs around ~$400 for a 3-day retreat, excluding accommodation.

Just for interest sake, my medical aid has paid around $2000 dollars worth of mental healthcare bills in total over three years (it's a lot for my country, but a fraction for Americans). I'd say the value/progress received from the mental health route has been utterly slow where a handful of mushrooms has had the best effects of my life. Going the shaman/Aya route is like pouring paint stripper on your soul, where you can then have a peek at your inner workings - its is not for the faint of heart. I do not regret doing it but I also advocate caution. You cannot unsee/unfeel the things you experience, some of it is positive and some might be negative.

So yeah, all round worth it to do it via a shaman. Especially if you have tried normal mental health care and you aren't making progress. I feel all adults should do it as a rite of passage of sorts, especially anyone in positions of power.
If Newsom says that you'll probably die if somebody without a mask stands next to you, and he stands next to you without a mask, then either he's a liar or he doesn't care about your life. If his opponent says you'll almost certainly not die just because somebody without a mask stands next to you, and he stands next to you without a mask, he can still care about your life and be honest.
PHP and cocaine.
if (opt != null && opt.isPresent() && opt.get() != "")
The people buying a new car every 3-5 years are doing it because they can sell it at the end of that period to recoup some of that value. If the resale value goes down, the calculus on buying new cars changes.

Clog up downstream and it will affect upstream.
Honestly, as with any drugs, if you just know anyone who dabbles , you can get them easily.

I don't like drugs personally, but my closest social group has always been heavy drug users during my teens and early twenties (dealing with them is probably why I don't like drugs myself). I've always known where to go get stuff even though I don't partake in that lifestyle myself.

Now when I describe that time in my life to my wife and more straight laced friends, they're surprised because they assume finding drugs or a "shaman" is difficult, or part of some seedy underbelly of society with crimelords etc... But really it's no different than knowing someone who is into any other niche.

Also the idea of a shaman eludes me. Most "shamans" I've met are hucksters. They basically serve the purpose of guiding you in a trip, being a hype person and (assuming an experienced one) knowing how to deal with any issues that arise.

A "shaman" can just as easily be replaced by a good friend at home. Most people just do it for the experience IMHO, but there's nothing special about one.
Nice! Would be awesome if it could optionally pull in the images as base 64.
I got it from Fake Doctors, Real Friends. I think the perception of derision/racism is solely on your end.
Looks really nice. If I had any suggestions it would be to use a different search for each example, now Magic the gathering is used twice. I can imagine potential customers will love to see what the final product looks like before purchasing.

Best of luck, looks really ambitious!
> The psychological effect on most is that they start to feel like suckers for not pushing the envelope themselves and it’s dangerous because a country of jaded people is not one that can work together to solve common problems.

Absolutely. Thank you for hitting the nail on the head!

Problem is, the looting can only last so long, until everything has been looted.

I suspect not much longer; if you put some of your wealth someplace undebase-able (say, gold or crypto), there is a chance you will make it to the other side.

See also Atlas Shrugged, where the producers keeping the world afloat ("Atlas") decide to go on strike and hide due to populist politics bleeding them dry of their hard work ("shrugged").
There's still moral hazard there, because no doubt many people already had the sense that the government would do something like that, so intentionally didn't pay their rent.
> This only gets worse if we do something crazy like forgive massive amounts of debt, whether it’s student or mortgage. The psychological effect on the people who have lived within their means and met their obligations will be radicalizing.

Yep.
I'd agree those are among the real, internal corporate motivations for why Twitter has only teased openness in ways no one can rely on.

And yet, Dorsey's tweet labels the "killing API access", before his 2015-2021 CEO tenure, as the "worst thing we did". Unqualified superlative: "Worst!"

And further Dorsey claims company he no longer runs "will continue to open back up completely". Unqualified superlative: "Completely!"

So he must have some really vivid idea of how the company could undo its "worst" mistake" and pursue a novel, trustworthy openness "completely" - that nonetheless somehow escaped tangible commitments during his reign. Did he figure out how to square the circle of Twitter's business model just in the 24 days since resigning as CEO?
Well yes, if you replace the actual claims about coronavirus and masks with different, absurd ones, then the argument is simple to counter. What if you didn't do that, though?

I would guess many voters don't want to vote for someone they saw as a lunatic, even if he acts in a way that's very consistent with his own beliefs. Exit polling showed coronavirus was a big issue for voters and they didn’t think Newsom went far enough.
It's much more than that even IMO. We're just getting started.
Did you manage to sell Romulus to any gov customers? I built and sold a similar solution on top of SAP Hybris which we sold to several government departments around the world. It’s a very hard sell even with the worlds largest software sales organisation behind you.
The page shouts out Poe's Law itself at the bottom.
For part costs, depends what part of the world you are in. Toyota is far cheaper than European or US parts where there are a higher concentration of Japanese car owners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_used_vehicle_exportin...
> Picture your cousin invited you to go do a little looting last summer and you demurred. Eventually he shows up with a bunch of new Nikes but is later arrested only to have his charges dropped and record expunged. How does that make you feel?

The clear intent from the author here is to make the reader feel like they too should have gone looting. This implies, to me, that the author perhaps doesn't have a particularly strong moral compass of their own because my honest answer is:

"My cousin is incredibly stupid and lucky that they got away with this, I'm glad I didn't join them because even getting away with it I would hate myself. I'm concerned my cousin thinks this behaviour is ok, think it's time to dial back the contact with them"

I absolutely don't feel: damn I should have gone looting too.
Cool! How did you recruit the beta users? Shared among friends? Or did you use dedicated service?
Not in the USA. I am Turkish. I did not have to pay anything. And the report they gave us after discharge included 3 full pages of (one may say truckload) the drugs they used on me.
This is why it is much more natural to use RPN. Solves all these problems:
1 2 / -9.8 *
Or
1 2 -9.8 * /
I had this for a year, reading the first paragraph and falling asleep, but once I finally made it to the second paragraph I loved it and inhaled the sequels, was really surprised to subsequently discover the French lupin stories
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25759576 (2021, 49 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839943 (2016, 54 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9370979 (2015, 22 comments)
Was introduced to the site my freshman year of university ~2016. Our web professor used it as a project for getting everyone more familiar with CSS in the intro web course, and each student had to come up with a different design. I ended up making the page look like a text editor and REPL if I remember correctly. It was a lot of fun and a good learning experience!

So many ::before and ::after's though...
I was there actually :-) Some time in 2010+-, Vlad.studio was my primary source of income. Good times! Then, life events happened, and I left wallpapers abandoned for several years. I've been increasing my pace of drawing last couple of years, and I do enjoy the comeback! However, I'm also honest with myself that you can't step in the same river twice. Or maybe you can :-) I'll draw and see!
https://youtube.com/c/Elfocrash for .net c#
I found this disappointing - the moral position made no sense and that disconnected me from the characters. I enjoyed Low Town: The Straight Razor Cure a lot more in the same vein.
No, it's not possible (yet?) to have a financial system on the blockchain that maps 1:1 to the existing financial system.

> So how does the average person buy a house where the title is managed on the blockchain with a significant portion of their life's savings and a mortgage from a bank?

The average person won't buy a house and will not have a mortgage, unless your idea of average person is of the average American.

But you know what any average person can do? They can put their capital (no matter how little) in a money market [0] where the lending rates are higher than what any other bank will offer them. They can stick only with stablecurrencies to avoid price volatility. If they do want to take on risk, they can speculate in the derivatives market [1]. They can get together with other "average people" in participate in a distributed capitalization lottery [2] and participate in a no-lose game.

With DAOs, they can profit even from being "share holders" in a system. Again, let me use ENS [3] as an example which is a good example of a project that has a "real business" with a clear business model. They just released their governance token, and it is quite possible that in the future this will become a vehicle to have a revenue share where token holders get to receive a dividend.

[0]: https://aave.com

[1]: https://synthetix.io

[2]: https://pooltogether.com

[3]: https://ens.domains
This book is so underrated! One of my favourite parts is when overworked archangel Uriel loses his shit when trying to load New Zealand from a backup.

Relevant quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8050527-please-asked-the-gi...

“Please?” asked the girl.

“I AM BUSY. I AM TRYING TO FIX CONTINENTAL DRIFT.”

“I…didn’t know it was broken.”

Uriel’s face became more animated, his speech faster.

“IT HAS BEEN BROKEN FOR FIVE WEEKS AND FIVE DAYS. I THINK IT BROKE WHEN I RELOADED NEW ZEALAND FROM A BACKUP COPY, BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHY. MY SYNCHRONIZATION WAS IMPECCABLE AND THE CHANGE PROPAGATED SIMULTANEOUSLY ACROSS ALL SEPHIROT. I THINK SOMEBODY BOILED A GOAT IN ITS MOTHER’S MILK. IT IS ALWAYS THAT. I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO DO IT, BUT NOBODY LISTENS.”
Portable home directories. Think pen drives.
I absolutely hate it when people do this.
Ok, but the argument against it here seems to be: "I don't really understand it, haven't tried to, and haven't bothered to use it. Therefore it's dumb and has no use case."
I have about 6 years of applied AI experience and I have been trying to work on something that can use that experience and be useful to others.

Ended up building an analytics based platform that uses data analysis techniques to generate trade ideas for retail investors [0]. Started it as a hobby July 2019, but it ended up growing quite big. The plan was to generate about $1k/mo but we are generating about $120k/mo these days with over 3000 paid users. I think I'm the most fortunate person in the world, never in my wildest dreams did I imagine this much.

I still work on it solo and have no plans on hiring a team, because solo is where I have most fun, and that's important.

[0] https://tradytics.com
> I wanted a simple format that allows you to load/save images quickly, without dealing with the complexity of JPEG or PNG. Even BMP, TIFF and other "legacy" formats are way more complicated to handle when you start looking into it. So that's what QOI aims to replace.

XPM ? compressed with gzip ?
The point is that Newsom is in the wrong whether or not you believe masks are important to keep people safe. If they are important, then he's in the wrong for not wearing one himself. If they're not, then he's in the wrong for issuing the mandate.
500k what? Link says nothing about 500k...
I find such pitches more a reminder that we’ve somehow decided $5 is an acceptable price for a cup of flavored and slightly chemically enhanced water.