skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, the kids on youtube slowly dying of rabies unable to drink and convulsing in their bed are dying because they deserve it. The world is not a harsh place for them, and they were owed rabies.

It's pretty clear there are people that the universe in practice has offered a shit sandwich. That may not be true for everyone but it could be true to the commenter. Your view is just some self-centered objectivism.
> Being a car it can probably go 5 years.

That's a pathetic lifespan for such a large capital investment.
From brain scans regarding psychedelic mushroom use, it shows a huge increase of brain activity, indicating a lot more neural activations, which is why visuals usually involve seeing resemblance of things you know in things like wall or carpet textures. There are also some reports that the blood flow to the region that is responsible for parsing reality is decreased and increased to other areas, which makes your internal thoughts feel more like reality.

If you think about it in terms of neural networks, your day to day life is a set of standard inputs that result in predictable emotions/outcomes. However, on a shroom trip with significant dosage, both the outside effects and internal thoughts get enhanced in both strength and with additional features, which can be enough to start moving your internal synaptic weights enough to effect different thoughts or behaviors.

This is analogous to something like going to a different country with a different culture, and living there, which in turn will change your perspectives opinions and behaviors based on experiencing life differently - after about a month or so you will likely be doing things slightly differently and thinking about concepts in a slightly different way. Magic mushrooms essentially condenses this process in a shorter timeframe.

So given the right setting, this process can provide positive effects. Of course, the trip could also exaggerate negative emotions and thoughts, however, because of no withdrawal symptoms or long lasting effects, people generally just remember it as a bad trip and don't wanna do it again. Even there, sometimes the meta effect is experiencing the bad feeling strong enough during the trip that it doesn't seem as bad when you are sober.

In general, the argument for use is that the probability for negative effects is low, but probability for positive effects is significant. So rationally it makes sense to go through the experience.
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No Way to Grow Up
Been keeping an eye on vlang since its initial post here (and the subsequent flame war) on HN. The initial language feature list was pretty ambitious.

Seems like they're taking a batteries included approach in trying to bring in as many use cases as possible using libraries written in V.

How are they progressing towards their promises for vlang in terms of base language features as a systems language ? I remember reading they still had some unsafe stuff going on that needed fixing
Taiwan should destroy chip infrastructure if China invades: paper
These are both awesome, thank you.
'We can't vaccinate the planet every six months,' says Oxford vaccine scientist
Looks interesting, will try to adapt one of the examples and check it out.
That is not Peter Norton.
http://web.archive.org/web/20220104193247/https://www.nytime...

https://archive.is/6F3Fp
In my mind at least, the issue with relying on on ownership, especially in a smaller team with limited resources, is that the owner isn't just the person who authoritatively understands that subsystem. The owner ends up being assigned _all_ of the work on that subsystem because it's "their responsibility".

As a result, any work that's assigned to someone else will only interact with at the interfaces / boundaries. And of course, that's sort of the intention with modularity / loose coupling - it's not necessary to learn the gory details of the XYZ subsystem's implementation, only its API. Knowing the details is certainly valuable, but there's no baseline impetus to get the owner to explain the details.

Taking over from someone who's ceding responsibility, but staying at the company, I agree that's manageable. But sometimes people get laid off suddenly (or perhaps get hit by a bus, etc) and there's no chance to get the one person who has it all in their head to explain it to you.

You mentioned high turnover, but if anything, a place with high turnover has less information locked up in a single person's head. If Alice who's worked at the company for 25 years and has always owned the code leaves, you're going to have a much harder time getting all of the tribal knowledge out of her head on two weeks notice compared to Bob who only made it 6 months.

To me, the value of code review is that even at its worst, someone other than the author is forced to look at the code. No process can force a reviewer to take an active interest in a particular subsystem, but at least we can make them look at pieces of it and see if it gets them curious enough to ask further questions of the author and better understand the system.

For myself, knowing that someone else will have to understand my code, even through the limited lens of a code review, makes me more diligent about making sure that the code is clean and the pull request has enough context that someone playing code archeologist will be able to make sense of it, even if I'm not walking them through it in real time. I will admit that this is not a universal thing - I've worked with coworkers where no matter what process is in place, they won't do the basic courtesy of reading their own changelists to see that they accidentally committed random junk files from their local machine.

I agree that good documentation around requirements is valuable. I find pull requests / code reviews are a great opportunity to highlight how the code relates to specific requirements, since the focus is narrower.
Sinclair Lewis saw Middle America as it was
This extension is wonderful! Using it for a few months. It's refreshing to go to a recipe page and actually see the recipe :-D
Possibly a heavy selection bias, don't you think?

Shrooms are illegal almost everywhere, or at least not very popular. I assume there is a very significant filter on which type of personalities seek these experiences (unlike e.g. trying alcohol or cannabis, as those are accessible and culturally integrated everywhere).
Thank you. Ups totally forgot about Show HN thing

For your question:
Primary it was created to automate process of building many different presets for machines I use. So I can export one variable run 'make build' command and as a result I get disk image (storage/sda.img) that I can 'burn' (dd) onto hard drive of my laptop for example.

But of course you can do whatever you want with disk image - upload to VPS provider, convert to VirtualBox disk image (VDI) etc.

So yeah if you create preset that include all your required binaries and setup than it can be for sure used as self hosted OS app.

That is why I also provide minimal example. I want NiceOS to be basically bootstrapper for whatever you needs - if you need only small kernel and few binaries you can do that with NiceOS, if you want full blown ubuntu kernel config + 3000 apt packages NiceOS can do that too and if you need something in between no problem also.
It's funny because I've been using pngquant for optimizing assets we display in our Rust video game oxide extensions(by facepunch).
I have given examples in another thread here [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29798725
Deep learning is the future of gaming
All these “web 2” companies are going to create their own “web 3” services that will only work on their own product, and we have overly complicated solutions to an issue which didn’t really need solving.

Can’t wait for my reddit or meta tokens which have a zero value.
I think the question is the same one as "do bike helmets reduce bike injuries?" I.e. without code reviews, is everyone more careful? I can't think of any proper academic research that answers the question.

In my anecdotal experience, there is at least one class of bugs that code reviews are good at catching that a large expenditure of self-review effort often doesn't catch: security bugs.
NFTs are not a container in which a stolen artwork can be placed. This current trend of art NFTs are roughly an HTML <img> tag that only one person can own but anyone can read. When the image source url is loaded it resolves to some image.

TLDR: Links are being sold, not art. Not stolen art. You can't steal art and put it into an NFT because NFTs don't carry image data (as currently defined in ERC-721).
>>Typically small time businesses like this are highly tied with personal finances. You can't just "close up shop" when you have a $50k loan and no job lined up.

Understandable, of course. Some of my sentiment was informed by the article-in-question's supposition that workers were being too demanding in terms of wages and a plea for sympathy that rang hollow in terms of her arguments (IMO at least). Workers do not owe anything to anybody - if a more prodigious opportunity presents itself, it ought to be taken.

The pain points are going to become more apparent as we try and sort through a new standard that has upended much of what we took for granted emotionally, socially and culturally (including morality and finances in the latter).

Wishing your family good luck.
There are a lot of practical problems trying to build a balancing vehicle around an internal combustion engine.

They can't produce any torque at zero speed, they can't smoothly reverse direction, they likely can't produce enough negative torque at higher speeds, and their control bandwidth is probably inadequate for anyone but an extremely skilled rider.
An excellent Banh Mi sandwich in Vietnam is about 10-20k VND (depending on fillings)... or $0.43-$0.86 USD.
I have no opinion but I find it interesting that you started this conversation by saying:

"I can't see how anyone ever thought..."

and end the conversation with:

"Nothing unusual about two people reaching different interpretations. "

Whether the Matrix was intended as 1 movie or 3 movies is inconsequential in the grand scheme, but seeing this side of human nature is kind of interesting and somewhat amusing.
Seems like a useful feature for a service manager like systemd to have for its managed services. It is already able to perform inetd style socket activation, I imagine this would be a welcome feature
Dont confuse selling a picture for selling the rights to a picture.

An NFT could include the rights to the actual art itself, but most likely youre buying a sole reproduction. Similar to how going and buying a copy of a photograph at the store doesnt necessarily give you the explicit right to reproduce it for profit. Copyright is different from possession. NFTs are possession, unless they spell out that the purchase also transfers the copyright.
iCloud Private Relay Overview White Paper [pdf]
Why would it be absurd? If there is a process to reduce risks, then people take more risks. I have been guilty of submitting code review when I'm not 100% sure it's perfect, just because I know that there is a code review process. So this definitely exists, not sure how common it is though.
I can see their point of view but it sounds like they focus on the downsides of code review and not the benefits.

Code reviews increases awareness of changes, helps with desiloing, gives junior devs a chance to see how others write code in their own time, reduces chance of mistakes, encourages collaboration.

To stop the endless ping ponging back and forth I advocate for Must/Should/Could in all code reviews. So long as everyone gets it, it massively speeds up code review and increases team happiness around the process.

https://careerswitchtocoding.com/blog/moscow-the-best-code-r...
Rad! He also shows how to grow beautiful crystals that are safe to work on with your kids: https://crystalverse.com/grow-alum-crystals-at-home/
The way I think of global warming is just that the atmosphere as a whole is containing more energy. If this idea is translated to simple and easy to understand mathematical models, wild behavior results as a direct outcome.

The simplest version of this is the period-doubling bifuration:

X(n+1) = r * Xn * (1 - Xn)

"r" is the amount of energy in the system (i.e., heat in the atmosphere) and Xn is the severity of the behavior. The insight is that while the "severity" naturally goes up as the "energy" goes up, once you get to a certain point, the severity goes both well above and below the "natural" level in unpredictable ways. In other words, a more energetic atmosphere leads to both much hotter and colder days.

The Lorenz attractor was described in a very similar way, related to turbulence and temperature gradients. It's not weather or climate, but I do find it a useful analogy.
You are limited in how fast you can safely go by how fast you can stop
Hi, I'm interested! Happy to deanonymize over email
... 100% fruit juice.. Juice being bad is a very recent thing

I haven't really seen that, or at least not a clear cut "it's bad". (I'm sure there's someWhen updated school food guidelines from the Feds came down, traditional SSB's were cut out but juice w/o any additives were still included as acceptable healthy drinks. I have seen information that it shouldn't be the only thing you drink, but also that the natural sugars in them are much better than, say HFCS. Most of what I can find on the topic simply advocates moderation, though there are some exceptions.
So if I understood correctly, would it be like this

cp new/nginx /path/to/nginx
kill -SIGUSR2 <processid>

That does sound pretty neat if you're not running nginx in a container. I wonder if they've built a Windows equivalent for that.
The antivirus isn't great, either. This is a critical issue, because the networking process inevitably results in numerous breaches which frequently affect other stakeholder systems. Those networking operations critical to a successful eventual deployment of the small child, but the number of bugs experienced is simply inconceivable to users accustomed to good security hygiene.
December in Texas Hottest on Record in More Than 130 Years
The screenshots from [1] shows it saying "Turn your PC's idle time into cash. Show me how". Would that make sense if you had no choice in the matter? And on the second screenshot it has "Pause mining" button.

[1] from: https://community.norton.com/en/blogs/product-service-announ...
People who say these things are primarily looking for reasons to moralize and gatekeep. It's not about actually achieving a just outcome.
> I don't see how a blockchain-based approach, with so many disadvantages compared to Persona, could possibly succeed outside of the blockchain enthusiast community

What’s in it for the user to sign up for persona? Nothing

What’s in it for the user to get a crypto wallet? Money

There’s your answer.
I agree, that's why I've never used anything except KeePass.

Biometrics will take over, I definitely love FaceID on my iPhone. It just works and the fail rate is near zero on my 12 mini. FaceID that works similarly to Microsoft Authenticator for approvals should be all I need but we're not quite there yet. Effectively, given that I need FaceID to open MS Authenticator, we are already there.
Seriously, suburbia is hell
So if you are not going to go whole-hog and have one true identity for everything, why bother using anything apart from an email address?

The argument seems to be that consistency allows you to prove ownership and re-use all of your content etc across the web by tying everything back to one verified identity. If you are having different identities on different sites then that benefit disappears, and I fail to see how it is then any better than using email addresses? You end up with different wallet IDs each with their own island of content, just like you have with email addresses.

Sure you could chose to "move" content with one of your many identities by just logging in with the ID (presumably losing all of your existing content), but we have copy-paste for that already (and I am only half-joking saying that...)
EDIT: Sorry no longer in job market
Addendum (adding as a separate post), but I want to respond to this specifically:

> But to forbid me, presumably an adult, is a different thing. I prefer to own my own property.

I appreciate you accept responsibility for yourself, but please understand that it's a real legal argument to say "well, nothing specifically said I __couldn't__ do $thing, so I assumed it was safe to do so. I never imagined $thing could be so disastrous! Why didn't you include a warning?"

Such matters always boil down to a fairly protracted argument, sometimes of the legal persuasion depending on the country of residence for the customer. It really is a case of a few bad eggs ruining the bunch.

No one will stop you from hacking the car (e.g., the Mercedes police aren't gonna roll-up and arrest you for opening the hood), but for sure if they find your attempted repairs actually exacerbated an issue, the clause helps back that they tried to warn you "don't mess with this stuff it's not supported".
That's almost exactly the model it will be for most people getting cars like this - AKA leasing.

Pay zero down*. $XXXX (certainly 4 digits for a car like this) per month for 36-39 months. Return it and lease another one.

I suspect most luxury cars (and many non-luxury ones too) these days are leased like this, at least in the US.

*or at most, taxes & fees, if even that.
Do you dislike Scrum because of the specifics of Scrum, or do you dislike defined process altogether?

Because if it's the latter, I've found that the optimum amount of defined process in an organization is not zero. But of course it can quickly move to too much process if left unchecked.

Ideally each team needs to figure out how much or how little process works for them, and have autonomy in implementing the process they decide on.
This is already solved by existing crypto wallet tooling too, you can create an infinite number of keys all derived from a single root key (usually a 12-20 word phrase in modern wallets). A service with access to a single child public or even private key can't tie them to the sibling keys.
Show HN: Low Tech Meditation Reminder
Hey folks. I repurposed an icon i made with a friend for an app for this.
Consider for a moment that I am comic book artist and have made a wonderful popular series. I consider myself a purist so I've decided to decline offers for merchandising and make plenty of cash just off of comic sales alone. You figure people would really want a t-shirt with my character on it and so you start printing some and selling them - it even turns into an overnight success and suddenly my comic sales are up because memes have caused the character to go mainstream.

You've used my creation without my license in a way that certainly violates current law - just because I had eschewed merchandising myself and just because your impact on my sales was positive and not negative - doesn't negate that you took my creative work and profited off of it without any meaningful fair use exception (like making a transformative work).

The NFT you could create to my photo has value because it's to my photo - additionally it prevents me from releasing an NFT and profiting similarly whether or not I ever chose to do so.

Go ahead and create a Mickey Mouse NFT and see just how many seconds it takes for Disney to crush you into the ground - then realize that the only reason most NFTs of unlicensed material go unchallenged is because there isn't a clear precedent yet established that makes it a knock out case - but there absolutely will be.
Too bad he didn't have identical twins: then he could perform A/B testing.
Bringing Klimt Back to Life with Machine Learning
It would be even smarter to replace the paywalled sites with an unpaywalled copy.
I also grew up in Northern VA. Biggest issue there is how hard it is to build public transit. The silver-line was such a clusterfuck largely because of fights over who should pay[1], how much it should cost and how to balance construction-induced disruption and costs with long-term TCO.

If we could build rail miles as cheaply and quickly as Western Europe, everyone in Fairfax Co could commute via rail except perhaps those work west of there.

1: Fairfax county is rather centrally planned compared to everywhere else in the US I've lived since then, but the DC Metro is funded by MD, VA, DC, and the federal government. The difficulty of building infrastructure seems to scale super-linearly with the number of people paying for the infrastructure...
Sounds really conclusive, doesn't it?

If you look a bit deeper at the statistics, this database "records disasters which have killed ten or more people; affected 100 or more people; resulted in a declared state of emergency, or a call for international assistance."

What factors besides frequency and severity of weather events could affect these statistics?

Most obvious are population growth (doubled over that period) and increased urbanization (reversed from 60:40 primarily rural, to 60:40 primarily urban). This means that an event with the same severity is greatly more likely to be reported and included in this database. Similarly for economic effects - because of the growth in assets, infrastructure, and GDP, that doubling of economic losses, even if in constant dollars, represents a decrease in losses relative to total assets. So this data doesn't really represent a measure of change in the weather as much as change in human society (and the page is titled, "The human cost...")

The IPCC report is somewhat equivocal about change in the actual heavy precipitation events, stating "the frequency and intensity of heavy precipitation have likely increased...with increases in more regions than there are decreases". (with "likely" meaning > 2/3 probability)

Roger Pielke, Jr., has done a lot of work on extreme weather events: https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/how-to-understand-the-n...
If the ledger is not public, why would I trust it? If someone else claims they are you, how would I differentiate the conflicting claims?
No at all a dumb question :) It's actually a fascinating question!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis
Your electricity bill is $10.00 higher this month. But don't worry! You earned $8.50 in your Norton Crypto wallet.
> public transportation doesn't work for people with pets, in many situations for people with children

Do you mean the millions of people who do this every day don't exist? You might personally prefer that and it's certainly an opinion which has been lavishly subsidized in the U.S. but this is a lifestyle choice, not a truth.

> people with various health issues.

How many of the people who cannot take transit are capable of safely driving cars? Public transportation — whether bus/rail mass transit or on-demand access services — is key for a large number of people who cannot drive themselves and a large number of people who could but are not affluent enough to afford the $10K/year or more that personal car ownership (considerably more if you need a vehicle customized with assistive technologies).

Again, you obviously have an opinion on this issue but that doesn't make such blanket statements less incorrect.
I can't remember the last time I needed a postage stamp, but I have a strong memory of my then 3 year-old proudly showing the book he had decorated with the roll of "stickers" he found!
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