skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buying your own goods counts as a "pyramid scheme" now? That would be market manipulation. A pyramid scheme recruits members via a promise of payments or services for enrolling others into the scheme, and not in an abstract sense.

The usual "crypto bad" argument is calling it a Ponzi scheme. This doesn't count as one of those either, but no one really cares.
The same thing that happens in every marketplace - be it sneakers (StockX), actual stocks, and beanie babies

The thing is, and this is true for every market including the S&P500 - until the new money slows down, people will still profit no matter how little sense it makes financially

As far as I understand the whole GME fiasco, this is exactly what was going on (in reverse)
https://archive.is/ZYvJI
UN: "In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 million lives, affecting 4.2 billion people (many on more than one occasion) resulting in approximately US$2.97 trillion in global economic losses.

This is a sharp increase over the previous twenty years. Between 1980 and 1999, 4,212 disasters were linked to natural hazards worldwide claiming approximately 1.19 million lives and affecting 3.25 billion people resulting in approximately US$1.63 trillion in economic losses.

Much of the difference is explained by a rise in climate-related disasters including extreme weather events: from 3,656 climate-related events (1980-1999) to 6,681 climate-related disasters in the period 2000-2019.

The last twenty years have seen the number of major floods more than double, from 1,389 to 3,254, while the incidence of storms grew from 1,457 to 2,034. Floods and storms were the most prevalent events."

[1] https://www.undrr.org/publication/human-cost-disasters-overv...
"all humans are the same"

Is it that hard to imagine that some people are fun and interesting to be around?
> I love transit and want more of it, but the transit folks realized it's hard to compete with driving, so they've just given up entirely on making transit great. It's easier to ruin driving.

Wow. You just crystalized exactly what I felt was wrong with the argument that induced demand is bad. Thanks.
No it handled it like a champ! It could actually record higher resolution than my much newer 6d. It used a compact flash which was much faster than an SD
I don't have data but first hand experience and for me it is truer to say: it enhances your level of consciousness and it allows you to experience reality from beyond your mental-emotional conditioning. Which are two things that may sound very cryptic to many people reading this, as it cannot really be described in words. It is a explaining an orgasms to a person who has never had it kind of thing.
This is helpful information - but it is a bit sad that, to avoid being constantly bombarded with advertisements that distract our attention, we need to memorize the arcane spells to dispel these foul demons. Both the harm and the remedy cost us serenity and focus.
Let’s not forget tandem cells that use both silicon and perovskite to achieve almost double the efficiency (~65%). It’s likely that the future of cheap energy could be the joint force of both of these amazing technologies.
Sorry to be blunt, but this sounds like an issue with your thinking, rather than an issue with psilocybin. You were already vulnerable to woo woo and narcissistic thinking, and psilocybin just awakened these traits in you. It's analogous to how hallucinogens can cause snaps in people with undiagnosed schizophrenia. In fact it could be said that it helped you because you became aware of them and flushed them out of your system.
> crypto is the new form of cash

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've heard this like thousands of times. And yet crypto isn't being used like cash. Everyone is encouraged to "hodl" their crypto not spend it. It's being pushed as an inflation hedge like gold. Even most crypto folks don't seem to be pushing the "it's a new form of cash" narrative anymore.
I believe the therapist is mostly there for support. E.g. hold your hand and assure you that everything is fine. The mind/body heals itself.
This is a vast oversimplification. They had machines. The machines did (sometimes) work for some tests. They were doing R&D to improve things. Rather than be honest Holmes decided to build a house of cards of lies.
This post sounds like wisdom, but after looking at it hard, it seems that the point is no more than "peer review processes are popular". Not to say that code review is bad in any way (I do it at my current role), but, this argument for them is not very good.

One downside of code review is reduced velocity. There are teams out there who use code review so effectively that they never ship big fuck-ups to production. They never have to tell clients that they have bad practices. Instead, they struggle to get clients because they pay much more per line of code shipped and therefore don't deliver as good of a value as their competitors.

This where the argument needs to be: whether and how to have code reviews be a net positive.
The public narrative is not that at all. Go ask a few typical midwestern grandmas what she thinks about her grandaughter dropping acid and report back.
A neuroscientist prepares for death
Thanks for sharing. I made digital recipe viewers to replace the old binders in our restaurants’ kitchens. They’re old iPad minis on Mosyle’s free MDM plan. I made an HTML/CSS website hosted on Netlify/GitHub, created a home screen shortcut on the iPad using a web clip, and hide all other iOS apps so that they can only launch the recipe viewer.

Everyone thinks I made an “app” because it launches in full screen thanks to the MDM. One of our kitchens doesn’t have Wi-Fi, but once the recipe viewer is launched, it doesn’t need connection anymore since it’s a single HTML page and the refresh button is hidden.

The recipes on my “app” use HTML tables fairly similar to the tables on the link you shared. I didn’t know HTML tables could be formatted like they are on cookingforengineers.
There was in interesting UK study done that attempted to quantify how harmful various drugs were to the user and also to others.

Psilocybin was found to be the least harmful drug that they considered.

>The study involved 16 criteria, including a drug's affects on users' physical and mental health, social harms including crime, "family adversities" and environmental damage, economic costs and "international damage".

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11660210
I love how people think induced demand is an iron clad argument against any road building.

What about the induced demand of going from 0 lanes to 1 lane?
I guess what I'm saying is, a large amount of nothing isn't better than a small amount of something. Not to the individual, and not to society. Banks and institutions are owned by pension funds, 401(k)s and individuals meaning that benefit accrues to a whole ton of people.

Further, of course, employees stand to join the 'presale' too, and accreditation only requires $200K/yr in income. At that point you're free to invest in any business that'll take you on for value you create.

Plus there's the ol' JOBS Act, Regulation A+ and Regulation CF.
Right on.

I lived literally next to Dulles International Airport - ~8 miles. Yet, to get to Dulles (or Reston/Herndon) by Public transit, would've taken me 2 hours perhaps, or more.
Ask HN: Where can an experienced dev who knows little about Web3 start learning?
Hi there.

I am a fairly experienced developer and technical managers who is currently working in a mid-sized software agency, and we're seeing a lot of our incoming work start to relate to Web3. I have a cursory knowledge of Web3, particularly cryptocurrency, but I'd like to spend the next few months getting smart on this topic (for personal and professional reasons).

I am not interested in switching careers or learning how to trade cryptocurrency, which is what I tend to find when I Google around. I'm more looking for in-depth readings about what Web3 enthusiasts believe will happen with the internet, and what the short and medium-term implications of those beliefs are.

I tend to prefer long-form articles and books, but that may be unrealistic for a field that is changing so quickly. Every time I ask this question to friends and colleagues, the answer is "Twitter" but I am not a avid Twitter user, so advice on who to follow and what that looks like would be helpful too.

Outside of that - can HN recommend any resources for someone in my position? Happy to answer any more questions in the comments.
[posting from my primary account]

I really am sorry for being a troll and writing the kind of comment that bums me out on a regular basis. This seems like a good post and a good discussion.

It can just be frustrating for those of us that have a hard time getting traction when we post projects etc on sites like HN. It can manifest into petty toxic behavior especially in comment sections.

In the words of Paul Doherty... "I'll do better next time."
A friend of mine in the NFT business says that OpenSea's relatively high fee is one of the things that makes the site work, by putting a real cost onto wash trading at scale.
My wife and I are heavy users of CMT. Especially the ability to add recipes to a specific day and create a unified shopping list sorted by type (produce, spices, etc).

I do wish there was a more modern multi-platform alternative. CPM recently stopped updating their iOS app so we can’t use with recent iOS.
is there a way to do this with the official build of the stable version?

I would assume running nightly is less than ideal for regular browsing
> there’s always that 10% where a second pair of eyes catches a mistake or offers a suggestion that makes the code even better.

Testing is pretty awesome process to find bugs.
I fully expected this to link to a software project of some sort. Apache Jerrycan sounds like a convincing software I would believe existed.

Edit: I was surprised to learn that jerrycan.js does not exist either.
> Marijuana is not physically addictive. That was and is also the reasonable claim made by reasonable people.

That's not true at all. Heavy marijuana dependency and withdrawals definitely produce physical withdrawal effects.

They're not equivalent to, say, alcohol withdrawal, but they will exist.

There's actually a lot of research into various adjunct medications to dampen the physical withdrawal to help addicted marijuana users quit.

But regardless, if you have to qualify the type of addiction, you're not escaping the fact that something is addictive. Too many people have used this false physical/psychological dichotomy to talk themselves into marijuana dependencies, psychological or otherwise.
Detail that sometimes bites me: the `loop` looping construct is an expression that can yield a value. `for` and `while` technically are expressions, but they can only ever yield `()` (unit type).

Coming from python, i feel doing something like this:

let x = for v in iter {
if cond(v) {
break v;
}
} else {
default_v
}

would be nice, but this was explicitly rejected by the core team. So for now anyway, only `loop` can break with value.
Anne Eunson’s Artistry
"She's a blonde haired, blue-eyed white woman!"

What does that mean to you? I am curious to know why you'd make that bet with the OP with those two facts alone.
But those extra people are choosing to be there so there must be some benefit.
Increasing public transit capacity does induce demand. In areas with excellent public transit people choose to live further away from work, take more discretionary trips by transit, etc. (That's one reason I would be wary of making transit free as some politicians have proposed.)

One reason many people are more concerned about inducing driving demand is that private vehicle travel generally emits more carbon, uses more valuable land (e.g. parking, highways), and results in more fatalities per person per mile than comparable forms of transportation.

Another problem with inducing driving demand is the degree to which those costs are subsidized by taxpayers (roads, highways), other shoppers (required/subsidized parking), or left as externalities (carbon, noise). Tolls, gas taxes, per-mile fees, and parking fees would have to be quite a bit higher in most places to cover those costs.
A deeply moving and wise piece. Just what I needed to start the year.

"The deep truth of being human is that there is no objective experience. Our brains are not built to measure the absolute value of anything. All that we perceive and feel is colored by expectation, comparison, and circumstance. There is no pure sensation, only inference based on sensation."
> I politely ask others to reply with "You're wrong because ..." followed by a believable explanation. I want to be proven wrong on this.

One thing you're wrong about is that cryptocurrencies are in general mined using electricity and specialized hardware. Bitcoin is the biggest outlier in that respect, with its plans to continue their mining program permanently. Ethereum has the software to end their mining program (the "beacon chain"), which is currently finalized in spec and running alongside the original chain as they finish testing it before final release later this year (the "merge" event).

I always feel the need to nitpick here, as it's a common misconception that "most" cryptocurrencies are an environmental disgrace. Bitcoin is an environmental disgrace, Ethereum you could say is an environmental disgrace until they shut off mining later this year, but since the vast majority of cryptocurrencies don't use mining at all, it makes the most sense to target the ones that do rather than throwing the entire space under the bus.

I also disagree that cryptocurrency can't scale, as I'm intimately familiar with the work being done with transaction execution verification by zero knowledge proof (especially Ethereum's zero knowledge rollups), but that's a discussion for another time.

I'm also aware that I am in a comment thread about a company doing something very scammy in regards to crypto, so please try to distance my explanation from the disapproval we share towards Norton. Obviously I am not trying to defend Norton here.
Dumb Question: How would you know that you're not just measuring that detrimental effects are identical across both substances?
> my photographs would never have been displayed online in the first place.

So the world would have to learn to somehow live with that loss. Given all the other works it would get access to in stead, I strongly suspect the world at large will find that a great bargain.

I've never (AFAIK) seen your photos even in this timeline where they are online (IIUC?), and I'm okay with that. But I'd sure love it if a bunch of stuff I know of from between 1923 and 1990 were in the public domain. So at least I would find that bargain great.
Thales (defence contractor) appears on ransomware victim list
I've been stuck on closed interstates because of snow ( I-40 between Amarillo TX and Santa Fe NM ). It sucks, i've never had to spend the night though. We were re-routed in the middle of the night off I-40 during a storm and spent about 5hrs navigating pretty bad conditions way out in the middle of nowhere. I remember slowly creeping up on a dark figure in the middle of the road to go around, it turned out to be a giant boat that had fallen off a trailer! It was pretty surreal to see out in the middle of the desert in a snow storm.

Thankfully we were with a ton of other traffic, if we were by ourselves it would have been scary.
Econometrics is one of the most discredited branches of academics that exists. These were the people who were waving their models around in the early 1990s, trying to tell people that NAFTA would have no effect on manufacturing jobs in the United States. They also promoted elimination of Glass-Steagall and the deregulation of the housing market, resulting in the subprime fraud-based economic disaster of 2008.

There's a reason the neoclassical economists are hidden away in business schools, not in the actual science departments - it's because they'd have to endure the ridicule of anyone with basic training in science and math. When your models predict the opposite of what actually occurs, time and time again, well, you're supposed to recognize that there are fundamental flaws in them and go back to basics.

Imagine if, in the late 1970s, all the climate researchers had predicted several decades of global cooling thanks to human activity, and had turned out to be entirely wrong, yet made no effort to re-examine their basic assumptions about how the world works. That's what neoclassical economists are doing with their econometric model nonsense.
Hours long discussion about whether to call it "thing" or "thingId". True story.
The Pirate Bay will be the last place where you can still get clean software.
Three Problems with a Tool
Ask HN: Where can an experienced dev with little knowledge on Web3 go to learn?
Hi there.

I am a fairly experienced developer and technical managers who is currently working in a mid-sized software agency, and we're seeing a lot of our incoming work start to relate to Web3. I have a cursory knowledge of Web3, particularly cryptocurrency, but I'd like to spend the next few months getting smart on this topic (for personal and professional reasons).

I am not interested in switching careers or learning how to trade cryptocurrency, which is what I tend to find when I Google around. I'm more looking for in-depth readings about what Web3 enthusiasts believe will happen with the internet, and what the short and medium-term implications of those beliefs are.

I tend to prefer long-form articles and books, but that may be unrealistic for a field that is changing so quickly. Every time I ask this question to friends and colleagues, the answer is "Twitter" but I am not a avid Twitter user, so advice on who to follow and what that looks like would be helpful too.

Outside of that - can HN recommend any resources for someone in my position? Happy to answer any more questions in the comments.
If people say marijuana is not addictive, this is a false claim.

Psychological addition is just as real as physiological addiction.
It's like a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy plot...
Mercedes-Benz EV Breaks New Ground for Road Trip Range
The statement "You might argue about the fine-grained distinction between the smart ones, but you wouldn't find somebody who you considered smart who somehow still had a 50 IQ." seems to claim that IQ models human creativity- or rather, human intelligence ("smartness")- comprehensively.
Building a Scalable Scraper in Rust
My original Ask question offers a more nuanced approach here:

“Why do you desire that more candidates know Rust?”.

(I don’t need to know personally, but duly noted anyways.)
But more people wouldn’t drive if there wasn’t a benefit to it. So you’re benefiting more people.
Yes one's predisposition does play a role and the environment too, with mental issues.

Note that the most common side effect of amphetamine class drugs is psychosis, emotional problems, which manifest long before physical troubles do.
But scores that correlate well are still just averages, and are not wise to apply to individuals as you do in your closing statement. IQ tests like progressive matrices are still very particular, specialized mental activities. Over a population of people, yes it tracks well, since general intelligence coefficient tells us all intelligences are correlated. On average a person with high IQ is smart at any other given activity. But for a particular individual, it's still perfectly normal to see large differences in testing one type of intelligence compared to another.
It can. The biggest success of crypto has been putting public/private key pairs in the hands of 10s of millions of people.
Even Lee Kwan Yee the Singaporean PM said that he was grateful that if Sg was colonized, it was the British instead of the French or Belgians for instance. The British established institutions and provided a smooth transition… compared to the French or Belgian colonies.
And it’s why I won’t buy a Ferrari.

Half joking, of course, but seriously I think this sort of design choice just reinforces the idea that the manufacturer, not the buyer, owns the product. Locking the hood closed, the symbolic innards of your car, isnt the only way to build a car safely. I fear moves like this will just further alienate people from the tech they rely on.
> English is horrible.

English isn't substantially worse than any other natural language, except insofar that it is attached to a very inconsistent system of spelling. That's somewhat orthogonal to English as a language, though, and indeed it could be written with any imagined writing system (e.g. quickscript).
VDOT (Virginia Dept. of Transportation) had such a bad reputation for delayed/costly projects (among lawmakers/funders) that they once decided only fixing patches/potholes (basically minor stuff like that) would be given to VDOT - it was too risky to fund VDOT projects for new road infrastructure.
> But when the jobs are spread out all over the spokes, that model breaks down.

So don't spread the jobs out all over the spokes? Is some urban planning really hard to do here?

> Rail transit is an anachronism, best suited for the 1950s when life involved a woman staying home with the kids while dad took the train into the city for work.

That isn't true at all in much of the world. Rail transit still works in many non-dysfunctional countries.
I think that technically the same problem exists with public transit. It's just that the constant factor people-moving density difference of multiple orders of magnitude gives you a lot of headroom.

Of course, there are also other potential advantages of public transit unrelated to induced demand, like pollution, safety, cost, impact on the design of living spaces, etc.
Art can't be stolen by NFTs because NFTs don't contain content, only links to content. When you buy an NFT, you're buying some metadata containing a URL of some art -- a pointer. Artists that are upset about hyperlinks to copyrighted images should go after the hosting servers with DMCA claims or the equivalent.

Consider: Is an NFT that points to another NFT stolen?
Countdown before an update inadvertently enables the miner in 3, 2, 1...
A while back (two years?). The thing is, user were extremely satisfied by the product. The users came to the website for a comparison table (which was at the top), used the information, clicked a link on the table and then exited the website. The rest of the page was useless, most won't even scroll. But still they needed it for a ton of SEO reasons (keyword density, semantic structure and complexity, internal and external linking).
The company was working on an extremely competitive niche and it was crushing it (multi-million dollar ad revenue), so I think they knew what were doing.
For some scholarly exploration, see [0].

Whether or not there is strong evidence of physical addiction, the withdrawal experience is very real, and often unpleasant. Couple this with psychological dependence, and quitting can feel quite daunting.

The main issues right away:

- Problems sleeping due to REM rebound (vivid disruptive dreams or nightmares)

- Appetite issues

- General irritability

- Heightened anxiety (especially if using cannabis to treat anxiety)

If you’re using semi-medicinally, it’s extremely easy to hit these roadblocks, conclude “see I shouldn’t quit, weed isn’t so bad anyway”, and fall back into the habit.

I’m convinced that the reality of cannabis addiction/withdrawal is aggressively glossed over by the community of users who are very invested in what they’re doing being just fine. The truth is a bit murkier/darker.

I say this as a recreational-bordering-medical user (it does help calm down my PTSD) who enjoys using it, but who dislikes the inconvenient reality of trying to take a tolerance break.

- [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5414724/