skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was an international sales for an electronics company. One time there was customer payment delay for which held the goods at the pending-payment zone in the factory for more than 1 month!. We were basically waiting for the payment to clear before we ship. There were two 20-ft containers worth of electronics in the corner of the outgoing area. It was such an eyesore that manufacturing head yelled at sales head during every management meeting for that month.

When the customer finally cleared the payment, CEO made the responsible sales team fill the container by hand (I was one of them). But it was an eye-opening experience. We dragged our ass from our A/C equipped office and wore our usual suits and leather shoes, oh boy were we stupid. What I remember the most was how stuffy and hot the air was nearing the innermost end of the container especially when carrying boxes. The entire team was drenched afterward except somehow the ladies managed to wiggle their way out by "hey we are just gonna get everyone an ice coffee, be right back". It was fun still.
You are coming to this article with your own biases. You seem to be basing your analysis that we "know" masking is highly effective. That is not true. The evidence used to justify this policy is low quality(don't you remember the CDC hair salon study) and dependent on the precautionary principle. High quality evidence on masking has either low effect sizes or is inconclusive. It is certainly not settled science.
Delivering ketamine will make a lot of people rich. It probably already has for a few people. Opening a depression clinic will simply involve having a bunch of rooms (or maybe just a bunch of chairs) for people to trip in, a nurse on duty, and a doctor somewhere on the letterhead. Medicare et al. will be charged hundreds an hour for each occupied room.
The drugs certainly do not magically fix your problems. But it does allow you to see them, where you can inspect them (read: yourself) without judgement. This is what people refer to when they say "ego death". Your ego is not dying, it's just that your consciousness has been relaxed to a point that you are capable of witnessing it for what it truly is.

"Set and setting" is a frequent quip of the psychonaut that doesn't get enough respect. You must have intention. Psychedelics are like removing the bumpers from the side of a bowling lane - without intention you will just fall into the gutter (figuratively).

Therapy is vitally important, either externally or internally. One can certainly perform self-therapy, which is sometimes only enabled with the help of a mind-altering substance like Psilocybin.

I think you would be surprised to try them again. You have a lot more lived experiences under your belt, new perspectives, new/fewer biases, etc...
Here is my trick when it comes to documentation or even writing - I record myself doing a voice or video explainer - less daunting than blank page. Assume the audience are not techies... then transcribe it which end up being like editing & fun at the same time.
"In 2007, Flickr was the most popular dedicated photo-sharing site on the web, and growing exponentially in terms of new images uploaded."

Uhm, as far as I remember it, Flickr never surpassed daily actives or daily uploads over DeviantART, not by a long shot. I'm quite sure the photo gallery did considerably more volume than Flickr.

Edit- shouldn't have used never: but in 2007 I don't believe that to be true.
Should be 'Tell HN', not 'Show HN'.
to save the more "mature" folks time: the OA does not mean wargames. (not things like Panzer Blitz or ASL or Empire of the Sun)
I am quite interested to see how they deal with regulations and standards (I'm in medical device space). I scanned through their job postings and I can't find a single standard listed (this is up to the Sr Engineer/Developer positions), as well as a lack of dedicated software QA/test positions.

Obviously they are doing some amazing, and quite high quality work, so I am quite interested in what their internal setup is like.
> Typically experts are people who have spent far more time than other people doing exactly what you're describing: slowly sifting through and cross-referencing data, asking questions, digging up resources, and testing hypothesis.

One thing to note though is that the less mature a field is, the more gaps there will be an expert's knowledge/models. Doctors in the 1940s were regarded as medical experts, and yet many were actively promoting cigarettes. History is littered with "experts" whose expertise was outrageously wrong or misguided in hindsight.

So I say people should judge experts by the maturity of their field and in the context they are providing expertise on.

A civil engineer is giving expertise on whether a building will collapse or not? You'll likely get extremely reliable expertise you can count on.

A doctor is promoting a glass of wine a day for health reasons? Take it with a grain of salt.
Nice. Now learn how you can turn it back black...
Has there ever been a postive result for the site being purchased be megaCorp? Sure, the founders make out like bandits, but has it ever been a net positive for the site itself?
I think they have a lead or two who were most comfortable doing it the way they like and this is all about it. If you have good software people just step away and do not tell them how to do their jobs.
I am on latest FF for Android (95.2.0) and it works.
>Not sure how to say it but they state the exact opposite! Modern processors are not pdp-11 emulators.

The author very clearly states that modern processors _are_ presenting a PDP-11 interface. The author argues that they shouldn't be doing that, but all modern processors are still presenting a pdp-11 like abstract machine:

> The root cause of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities was that processor architects were trying to build not just fast processors, but fast processors that expose the same abstract machine as a PDP-11.
And to think that I thought it was only for horses all this time
I thought by the time you get to .emacs in current versions, the package manager is already initialized?

Also curious on the benefits of single space for sentences. I confess I don't use abbreviations that need periods often; but I also don't use many commands that work on sentences. (And, I do still use two spaces for sentences.)
> reasonable people who are not tribalists just want to sort through competing information

Hmm, maybe. I've always assumed that you go to reddit, twitter or facebook with your mind made up and a need for validation or the wish to tell everyone -- it's social media after all, not news media, and you'd go some news site to get your fix, or to Wikipedia if you want to learn about some topic de jour.

The removal of (dis-)information is what I'm least comfortable with. We've pretty much always called it misinformation when we censored something, but it hasn't always stood up to the test of time. I have to admit however, that I've never personally come across a fact-checked link, so I don't have a good intuition where most of it is between "ban that opinion, I don't like it" and "this is insane and they have pitchforks, we better shut this down".
Right, and part of the problem with an "ah, who can know the truth" approach is that it absolutely will be weaponized by bad faith actors. It's really easy to be loud and persistent with a lie if no one calls it out because "who knows, really".

A parallel to this is something I saw in Italy where a number of people complain that "all the politicians are corrupt". This provides cover for the really rotten politicians, because it puts the ones shoveling money to their cronies in the same category as the basically honest guy who's trying his best to actually do something positive for his constituents.
The first place I did it, years ago, followed the same schedule - IV 3 times a week for 2 weeks, then followups tapering off until an equilibrium is found (either with no followups eventually or periodic "booster" doses). I was told at the time that this was the common practice, and it did seem to be from the other places I looked at.

The second place I did it was willing to try repeating the exercise.

I think the first went out of business in the last year or so, but they were around for years, so they did get plenty of business for some time.

(I also always recall a couple of times I was there - the infusions were done in an office setting, with insulated but not totally soundproof walls, and sometimes one of the other patients was _VIOLENTLY_ loud, screaming repeatedly for long stretches.

...that said, I looked a couple times, and those patients were coming in and leaving unescorted, so they did not appear to be there under duress, and one might conclude they thought it was helpful despite that, which tracks with my own understanding of how it can be violently intense for people with trauma, but often the trauma is less sensitive, for lack of a better word, afterward.)

I'll also point to my comment[1] from a prior thread about ketamine for a summary of my own experience.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16849999
> Where did the comment say that Facebook “should be compelled” to do anything?

Here:

>>> They should be allowed to post "this is false" all they want in the comment box, just like everyone else is. They just shouldn't get special powers, like blurring out your article and putting their comment directly over it, instead of in the comment section.

The ability to decide which pixels to serve from a server you own isn't a "special power". It's free speech.
May I suggest

(unless window-system (menu-bar-mode 0))

That way the menu is only disabled in the terminal. Beginners might find the menu useful when running a GUI on Windows or Linux—I certainly don't mind the menu on macOS as it is always there for Emacs.app (regardless of the value of menu-bar-mode).
This is the classic “Prophet vs Wizard” dichotomy as laid out in The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles Mann. I highly recommend the book for getting a thorough background on the thoughts of both camps. I really wish it wasn’t always presented as a binary choice. I’m not convinced that we can’t be both less wasteful and more productive. Like genetically engineering plants that require fewer pesticides and less tilling. But I guess that’s just the Wizard view.
I asked my psychiatrist about this and he said he tried with a couple patients but didn’t see any long term results so didn’t want to put me on it. I was hopeful for a good fix but he says it’s not it? :/
Having the largest collection doesn't mean they're also at their most belligerent there.
Show HN: Validate startup idea in creative new way raising domain-name funding
Those aren't identical claims; "Canadian homes set thermostats to 0 in the winter of 1800" and "Canadian homes had no heating in the winter of 1800" are not saying the same thing.

One says there was on balance no desire for federal tax income, the other says there was no way to have federal tax income whether or not it was desired.
How do we know ketamine is physically harmless?
Thank you for the line-by-line explanation! That’s incredibly helpful for new users and helpful even to moderately experienced users.
There isn't UEFI or anything like it. iBoot takes that place.
I read Skin in the Game. I know Nassim Taleb is extremely intelligent and his arguments are always strong. But he's such a self-aware a-hole that it negates his positive traits and I just have no interest in what he has to say. Wish he'd change his attitude, people would be more receptive.
There is no UEFI, only a simple boot ROM and the first stage of iBoot is in NOR flash. The rest is all on NVMe. There is a detailed description here:

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/M1-vs.-PC-Boot
https://archive.is/Y35V5
Actually, I want to know how that URL was submitted; is that an internal BB URL that an employee submitted on accident?
Professional mentoring via something like BetterUp.

Or work on your communication skills. You can do this via mentoring too, but also a mix of books and things like stage/acting lessons.
I remember Flickr was tremendously popular. It has everything going for it. Anecdotally, one year my wife asked for a paid membership - that indicated to me that they were doing something right as my wife was pretty hesitant to spend money on a service like that.

I recall they sort of stopped developing and enhancing it. It died on the vine from neglect. I do recall when Yahoo bought it there was some talk of “fixing Flickr” but I don’t think it ever happened.
That's not what I was talking about... secure boot and locked boot loaders are "protected" with keys held by manufacturers...
This is where the distinction between fact and opinion is important.

Whether a person was convicted of a specific crime is a fact. It's true or false. People can disagree about whether the trial was fair, the law was just, etc... but there is an objective truth as to whether the conviction occurred or it did not.

The Snopes article lists the crimes Rosenberg was convicted of, which do not include "terrorism" or anything equivalent to that. She was convicted of multiple offenses involving weapons possession and identity fraud. The article goes on to list numerous other offenses involving a prison break, several armed robberies, and planting bombs for which she was charged, but not tried or convicted. It is therefore correct to say that she is not a convicted terrorist.

The article provides more than enough background for a reader to form the opinion that her activities constituted terrorism, and indeed that is my opinion.
Fact checking just seems like another business we haven't hired to solve a problem generated by the platform itself. I find that the problem here isn't fact checking, it's just the control of these private social media platforms is too broad.

This points to why there needs to be a clearer mechanism of rights for an individual's content. Meta owns a free license to not only repost your work, but also to modify and generate derivative works from it. What I don't understand is what they own when it comes to public content shared via links. Given the success of AMP, I suspect the answer is "you don't own much of anything on the internet".

DRM so far has been successful at allowing content generators to counteract the control of content providers. I sometimes wonder if we need easier personal DRM. Then, if some provider decides to misrepresent you, you can just yank the license. Or at least, there should be some kind of contract between the license holder and the provider.

Maybe web3 helps here? I'm still leery of putting all your eggs in a centralized blockchain system. But other than PDFs, I can't think of other approaches you can take.
I have difficulty with tasks that have no clear ending, like documentation. Sometimes it helps to tell people I'm having trouble with it:

Task: "Research and prepare for upcoming feature"

Me: "I'm having trouble with this research task, it feels like the task is to discover and document everything that will be needed to implement the feature, and the easiest way I know of doing this is to actually implement the feature and write down what was needed. I don't know where this thing ends."

Boss: "Just make a list of the existing project dependencies and put it in a Word doc and send it in an email." (Yes, this barely matches the original task description, but this happens often.)

Me: "Ok, I can do that."
Hard doubt. Searched for "mushroom", "psilocybin", "cannabis", "marijuana", "cocaine", "lsd", "ecstasy", "heroin", "ketamine" on HN search and in total came up with just ~4450 submissions in total, and I'm over-estimating by including just mentions of some illicit drugs, not just psychiatric purposes. I'd love to see you fund any startup with just ~5000 USD.
Lawrence Cahoone’s lectures on Audible are a great intro as well. One about intellectual tradition and one about political philosophy.
My parents used flickr. I never found out what it does.
But fact-checkers aren’t experts. And experts don’t claim their research conclusions as facts.
Would have been so more funny if you wrote "cloud scale".
Check out the rayshader R package for lots of methods for hillshading terrain maps (original HN post mentioned here as well, but it's evolved well beyond that original post)

Website:

https://www.rayshader.com
Ehh. When I was a kid we called this an appeal to authority. Experts are wrong all the time. Experts disagree all the time. Just like some random person on the internet.
Well basically if you are going to make people pay for a photo storage website with a good visualization but somewhat shitty upload system they are just going to flee to a "general file storage" cloud for the same price with a 'slightly shittier' way of viewing them, such as drive or onedrive.

(Especially if you threaten to delete already existing photos)

Source: i moved to onerive in 2019
This is the most stereotypically perfect HN response ever.
That’s a poor reason to ignore his points no?
laughs in debian

au contraire, it's quite easy to keep museum-level ancient Linux distros running
If you're in the HN knee-jerk native digital assets hate camp, this is how you attempt to refute bitcoin. As someone who has stood up to FUD about bitcoin on this forum, this paper provides the ammunition that's actually needed and is relevant to discussion on this forum.

> Going through monetary history, we show how a true numeraire must be one of minimum variance with respect to an arbitrary basket of goods and services

The issue with this paper that I can see is it that it's a purely economic analysis that makes no mention of the inherent value of the technological underpinnings. In other words, it abandons some practical business valuations to the exclusivity of economic/financial ones. I don't think it's reasonable to say that the technological solution to game theoretic challenges like double spending on public digital networks indicates a final value of 0 as he does. I have no idea how to value this properly but have seen proofs by geniuses that are in complete contradiction to each other on the matter.
Not sure if my idea is sound but they should be forced to also make a physical change to the connector so the older cables won't fit or force display of an incompatibility warning on the screen so the users know the cable isn't the right one
Yes, get an O'Reilly subscription for now. And then, sit down in January and plan out your expenditure for next year. Because training is vital, and if you do things right, next year you'll be begging for more training dollars.

You didn't say what kind of Engineering your firm does, but there are many training portals that have popped up specifically geared toward engineering (pun intended) that might be what you are looking for.
Sorry, I've misunderstood your original comment / lost the context between it and the parent comment. I had somehow read your comment to mean that it's an error, not censorship.
Yes. We're talking about growing time_t from int32_t to int64_t, instead of uint32_t. If you change it to uint32_t behind the scenes, some code will silently fail while compiling OK, because it was not expecting unsigned math.
Automation is coming[1] (though presumably only as a fun challenge).

1: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/curly-curling-robo...
Beautifully put.

Your observations aptly apply to industry as well except for your final one regarding the incentive structure.

Thank you for commenting.
Check out Mindbloom. These sessions are bundled with a psychiatric and medical assessment, integration sessions, clear and easy to follow guidance for every session, music options. They are very focused on “set and setting”. Also the first session requires you to have a guide present (your friend or relative), who has to communicate over video with your Mindbloom guide right before the session.

This system is not perfect but practically as close as it can get to a fully guided affordable session.
Imagine you’re having a conversation with a friend at a coffee shop, and an employee interrupts you by shouting “that’s false!”

“Fact checking” should be opt-in, at the very least. And blockable, like an uninvited troll
Those dead ends are negative results. While not easily publishable they can form the bulk of a thesis. Many people get demotivated because they treat a thesis like a journal publication. I, for one, was glad I finally didn't need to sex up the language to convince some editor.
SE Asia was not exactly a known "major" Roman trading route. Do you know otherwise?
Wasn't the commenter implying Adderall?
Why unfortunately? You are on a journey to heal, don't shame yourself!
Just have to chime in and state that this extremely sage advice that is rare to find on HN, where credentialism is (rightfully so) looked down upon. Whether we like it or not, credentials are a very powerful social signal in our society, with very real benefits. If you've spent 3 years in a PhD program, you should absolutely finish unless you have a very compelling alternative opportunity that cannot wait.

A secret that no one often admits is that most PhDs get more out of the credential than advertised, because they aren't a von Neumann or a Fermi, whose credentials never mattered because everybody knew they were one in a billion geniuses.
Sure! This is addressed in the line-by-line explanation where it mentions:

> (setq inhibit-startup-screen t)

> If you are a beginner to Emacs, you might find the startup screen helpful. It contains links to tutorial, manuals, common tasks, etc. If you want to retain the startup screen, comment this line out.
>Imagine if there was a shitshow at work, and the post-mortem determined that it was because the tech lead was a Capriocorn and the engineering lead was an Aries.

You have no idea how close to reality this description is for my former workplace that based its management on the disc model.

"Oh, the product lead and some specialists are having conflicts? Surely it is because of those arbitrary letters they got on that pseudoscientific test, and not some structural issues in our organization"
> Anything that boils an entire branch of science down to something this simple is by definition a scam.

Well, is it? Is it not be definition "abstraction" rather than "scam"? A scam would involve to purposefully obfuscate the truth or outright lying.

Creating simpler rules around something difficult in order to explain a lot is how a lot of science progresses. Wasn't that what Newton/Einstein or someone else did regarding physics, in order to explain how things work in our universe? Before that we had lots of difficult rules and exceptions, while they come up with something clean that could explain a lot of things instead.