skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never took any drugs until my mid 50s. Part of the motivation was to experience this spirituality that others report that I've never experienced. I'm a cautious person by nature, so I did a series of stepped doses, spaced a few weeks apart, of various lysergimides and tryptamines. In short: LSD was quite interesting and not at all spiritual for me. 4-aco-dmt (a close relative to psilocybin) was entirely different: much more dreamy, confusing, and it gave me a brief taste of that spiritual feeling. All in all, over a couple years, I did about 20 experiments, and have done only small doses twice in the past two years. I'm not sure if I'll do either again, as I probably have found all I care to see from them.

Experiencing things first-hand has only reinforced my prior beliefs in a material world. If a simple, small molecule can to drastically change your mood and perception, it seems all the more clear that there is no magic. On the flip side, people who were prone to believe in the woo experience the same things I did, but because of their prior framing found confirmation of their own prior beliefs as well.

I don't think you have anything to fear should the opportunity present itself to you.

The main benefit for me was this: I'm very good, too good, at compartmentalizing my emotions. My wife suffers from anxiety and depression. Having experienced hours-long states where my emotions ran loose that my intellect was unable to reign in, I can now empathize, and not just sympathize, a bit with my wife's experiences.
Which is kinda strange since the VC were very effective.
So by "the end of software" Peter Wang is saying that we'd essentially have AI or Machine Learning making decisions about complex input.

I think it's melodramatic to call that "the end of software". It's more software growing to such a complex point that humans can no longer properly understand or describe what is happening within it (the electronic marketplaces discussed in the clip) or they don't necessarily have control over the software's actions (the killer drones mentioned in the clip). That's a huge problem and I think Peter Wang has good points about it, but it has more to do with oversight of systems and it is not a foregone conclusion that humanity has to build society in that direction.
Went down the comments looking for a Windows version. No luck. :(
> Maybe a few of 'em tried that strategy, and found that it usually didn't work out so well.

We know that's not the case because if there was even a shred of data driving this decision they would have been crowing about it. This happens every time someone proposes that businesses be better members of their communities — some reactionary will say that they'll be unable to create all of those jobs, but they're never asked why they're less wrong than everyone who very confidently said the same thing on the previous iteration. You can copy-and-paste that for so many issues — wages, benefits like sick leave or health insurance, pollution, banning indoor smoking or serving drinks to obviously intoxicated people, etc.

The flip side of this is that it only looks at a single part of a complex system: for example, how much does staff turnover cost the average business? You'll never, ever hear someone whining about the prospect of paying a living wage acknowledge the businesses who've found that treating their workers better saved them money because they saved money from not having to constantly be hiring and people were more productive.
Rhinotillexis and mucophagy may help expose the immune system to weakened versions of pathogens. Depending on how well you clean your hands before and after, however, it may introduce new things into the nose, or introduce things in your nose to the people you shake hands with. There is also a minor risk of injury, mostly nosebleed.
How is it a fallacy? Just because someone (and we are really talking about a person here so please excuse the naive analogy) has a questionable past doesn't mean that what they are currently saying is incorrect.
It didn't which is great news, but tbh I regard the Russians as more rational than us.
Not sure why you replied to me, I was objecting to the parent comment’s casual endorsement of a racist archetype.

Also, america sure as shit better not go light on a rich lady who sold profit dreams to old men while giving outrageous sentences to poor people everyday. You want to talk about criminal Justice reform she is definitely last on the list of people who deserve leniency.
Try push-ups.
I have the non conventional idea that some of the biggest opponents of any form of innate talent are the already privileged.
Thus they can pay lip service to the idea of ending privilege all the while explaining why for now they should be our natural enlightened rulers
> Is this to imply that some other method exists to study long term harms?

Not that I trust? But I think it's important to note that this study has epistemological value within a certain set of axioms and not everyone in the world agrees with those axioms.

The reason it's important to say is that, to some degree, I feel like BiteCode_dev could be questioning an underlying axiom of western medicine (i.e. how to think about anecdotal harms we can't find in population studies). The western tradition has an opinion about the question, but none of us have to accept that opinion, but if we don't we should be honest that we disagree with the tradition in general as opposed to finding a flaw in this particular study.
Really dumb question, but one I must ask after reading this article and then your post. Could it be possible that humans had some pretty awesome technology even farther in the past than we know (beyond earliest recorded history), but due to some extinction event all records of society from that time were wiped out?

For example if we had some crazy extinction event, the dark ages that would follow are pretty scary to think about. I would feel like the researchers trying to understand what I'm looking at, and they mention there's some sort of user manual inscription. If we are reduced to small tribes again, with no access to internet, electricity, running water, etc. I can't imagine us actually recovering to the current state without thousands of years. Most people have no idea how anything works, we just buy it on amazon and it arrives tomorrow or stream the latest movie. Just thought I'd throw my dumb question out there lol.
Personally I would have liked to see the reasoning presented in that safety message. Something like "high voltage is present under the hood" or "only qualified personnel have the tools to safely open the hood".

Same applies for your no trespassing example. I would like to see "no trespassing, danger high voltage"
> We need some way of saying “who we are” on the internet in a consistent manner. That way we can communicate with others in a verified way and associate with digital data that we own. We also often need that data to be interoperable between different web properties.

Do we really need this? Do we really want to permanently tie identity across websites like this? I find this initial "need"/justification/requirement questionable.

I have a login on HN that is totally unique to e.g. Twitter and Instagram and <shudder> LinkedIn. Same with work vs personal. This is deliberate. I do not want to have the same identity here as I do elsewhere. There are many hopefully obvious reasons for this - mostly privacy (both in terms of immediate "in the moment" privacy, but also temporal privacy in the sense that I might not want some potentially ill-advised comments I made on some website 15 years ago to come back and bite me), but also it offers protections against "cancel culture" and general cyber-stalking and doxxing etc as that would become a whole lot easier if you can just run some query on a blockchain and find every single website I've ever used and dredge up my comments/content/etc. Being able to do that sounds very dystopian to me - why don't we just tattoo a barcode on our necks and be done with it?
That's awesome but would you mind explaining this a little bit more to those not very unix savvy? I think I get the first three parts:

1) Create a temp buffer file

2) Read the file constantly to STDOUT?

3) What does netcat httpbin.org 80 | netcat -lp 8080 do?

What would be a good use of this circular pipeline? Can you give me some example of what you use this for? Thanks
I think you're missing my point, I don't think I made it terribly well.

My point is that if we take a job like a public defender, I think most people agree that the action of what they're doing is a good thing. Providing representation to people who cannot afford a lawyer is (I think) nearly universally regarded as "good". However, they are paid by the US government, who has done its share of very evil things. Does that mean I should condemn a public defender because the entity that signs their paychecks does evil stuff?

Personally, I think the answer is "no". Any sufficiently large entity has its share of bullshit, and I personally do not think that every individual that has ever associated with that entity is guilty-by-association by working with them. You're welcome to disagree, of course, but I would be surprised if everyone you like passes your purity test then.
Tell me about it. And there are some obnoxious ones. I’m browsing my library to pick something to watch late at night. Some horror trailer starts and scares the kids… great! Now I need to wait to pick a movie. Essentially movie watching time is spent just picking something.
Alone the audacity to think a single point of failure without any chance of recovery is a good idea for persona management in the real world is insane.
>"He very nearly started a nuclear war on more than one occasion during his first administration

The info in the links you've mentioned does not inspire much confidence.
> For example, an audible tone the moment it shuts off the motor while underway.

If it has the ability to monitor battery life then it can certainly do stuff like emit an impeding dead battery warning tone and then gently decelerate to a stop.

Though I bet its an issue where the battery level is simply monitored via voltage. So lets say a 15% charged battery has enough current to push the rider along on level ground, BUT, the moment the rider hits an uphill, the current increases beyond what the now weaker battery can provide, the voltage drops below the battery threshold and the battery protection circuit shuts down. Very unsafe design.

A proper design would allow the battery and motor drive to cooperate so when the motor current demand rises to maintain velocity, the battery pack can tell the motor, sorry, I cant give you anymore and the motor drive can then decelerate or simply refuse to continue accelerating.
You don't even need that. If the old server process exec()s the new one, it can pass on its file descriptors -- including the listening socket -- when that happens.
This article on how haproxy uses SO_REUSEPORT goes into some more detail: https://www.haproxy.com/blog/truly-seamless-reloads-with-hap...
I was terrified of HPPD when I was first dabbling in psychedelics. 15 years and many trips later I notice the occasional perceptual oddity, but I feel like this is how my perception has always worked and pre-drug-use-me was just ignoring the debug output.

Not to diminish any accounts of HPPD to the contrary, maybe I'm just lucky.
I wish this talked about the engineering time lost when a bad PR makes it to production. Fixing those may eliminate any time gains from skipping code review. Also, this violates security compliance standards (e.g. SOC2).
Another renaissance to recreate our civilization from
our published work would be nearly impossible. Or,
take centuries to accomplish.

It might not be possible at all.

We've long since used up the "easy" sources of energy on this planet - all of the fossil fuels conveniently located near the earth's surface have long been depleted. By the time they could possibly be replenished, the Sun will be nearing the end of its life. So we probably won't be bootstraping our way back to an advanced society via a second fossil fuel-powered industrial revolution similar to the first one.

The remaining energy sources are generally pretty tricky to harness.

For example, even if the knowledge to build nuclear reactors or solar panels is not lost during a civilization collapse, it will be awfully tough to actually get those power sources back online without an existing industrial infrastructure to mine/refine/transport all of the necessary ingredients.

If we get a "second chance" at this civilization thing, the road there is going to be insanely hard even if we're lucky enough to start out with all of the science-y stuff that our first civilization figured out eons ago.
There's just absolutely no way to compare the shinkansen to what would be required in the DC/VA area. Yes the US should connect its big cities with high speed rail but that would still not do anything for small intercity transit for everyone else

This is just rehashing pop-urban planning buzzwords. Like I'm not sure where the trend of just handwaving every problem as easily solvable by "rail! Shinkansen! City public transit even out of cities!" came from but it particularly does not make sense in this situation considering the commenter you replied to specified he talked about spread out, smaller cities with frequent stops. Which is the opposite of what the shinkansen is for.
The point being that you can easily summon anecdotes for or against virtually any proposition, so they tell you very little about the incidence of a phenomenon. Emptyfile also pointed out a venue where it would be easy to find counterexamples to Synaesthesia's claim.
> The Windows Terminal team has a lot more fun than the others, it seems.

Instead of having fun, they should be performing doctoral research to improve performance. (https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...)
>Code reviews are a huge time sink, especially for unimportant style- and naming nits.

This isn't a problem with code reviews, this is a problem with your team's processes that code review has highlighted. These problems will show up in others ways if not during code reviews since clearly there's strong disagreement on coding styles and conventions. So go and fix or implement the style guides, linters and so on.

This is like saying that the way to fix fevers is to get rid of thermometers.
JSON specification project for resumes/curricula vitae
I would like nothing better than to lose that bet, but I don't think my wife would approve. How about a bottle of your favorite scotch? (Which may well cost $1M 30 years from now.)
It's less likely to help in this specific corridor. The I-95 is for people going from everywhere to everywhere up the eastern seaboard; there's definitely room for improvement on, say, the Richmond-to-DC direct trains, but to really take pressure off I-95 here you'd need a total overhaul from Florida to Maine and up through to Chicago. I-95 north of Richmond choke-points almost everyone driving any of that.

It'd be a good idea though.
I don't remember where I read it, but I remember reading that he wrote parts of Children and Messiah before or in parallel with writing the first book.
Out of curiosity why do you want to provide an open WiFi connection for people?
We’re talking about 1 specific instance. Every single problem looks small until you start looking at the big picture It’s hard!
"The key to the wallet is encrypted and stored securely in the cloud. Only you have access to the wallet."

https://community.norton.com/en/blogs/product-service-announ...
>it can open up that port to hijacking by rogue processes

That seems relevant if the process is using a non-privileged port that's >= 1024. If we're talking about privileged ports (<= 1023), though, only another root process could hijack that, and those can already hijack you many other ways.
Even a 400 calorie workout would be pretty impressive for a non-athlete. In gross terms that’s a full hour long swimming session. You’d be hard pressed to do that without first training for it.

Conversely, not drinking 2 IPAs gets you to the same place.

If you are looking for calorie deficit your intake is much easier to change than your outputs.
The future is Dallas suburbs? Let’s just call a quits now and save America the trouble
> In HTTP idempotent is where the state of the server remains unchanged

No, it's not. That's closer to “safe” than “idempotent” (safe also implies idempotent, but not the other way around), but even then it is not quite right, because even safe methods are allowed to have side effects, but their is guidance about the kind and impact of side effects that it shouldn't have.
Skills Roadmaps for Technical Positions
Yes, I agree it's quite possible to retrospectively mistake the effects of psilocybin for the psychological evolution that happens naturally.
We are working on Fullview – a cobrowsing software for customer support agents
We are working on Fullview - a cobrowsing software for customer support agents to cut the support time
> Norton gets 15% of all mining fees generated by its passive, captive, unaware installed base!

The antivirus that became a virus.
It's forever off because it's the wrong solution to a problem that no one is invested in even fully identifying let alone working at.

My hot-take parallel argument is that full self driving is a smart road problem with 'dumber' cars and not a dumb road and smart cars problem. But there's no scope to VC of profit your way into smart road infrastructure so we do it the wrong way round and hope we can throw resources at it till its fixed.
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I appreciate it :-)
We share the same hope!
Btw. I replaced some years ago the blanket with a sleeping bag (warmer + can be folded/compressed better therefore needs less space when stored/hidden in the trunk), and the normal flashlight with another one which is magnetic on one side (for example so that it won't move while mount snow chains).
more twitter commenters, but IIRC some well known ones. TBH, I don't really want to spend the time to go digging through a bunch of twitter searches to find them.
Agreed - the UX mock up there looks awful. If you go look at coinmarketcap.com there are already hundreds of coins out there. Are users going to have to find their wallet from hundreds/thousands on the lists? Or are maybe not all sites going to support every wallet, so therefore you're going to need to have multiple wallets to support multiple sites ... suddenly that "consistent identity" fails as you are actually juggling 20-30+ wallets for logging into different sites.

.... or it ends up that everyone just logs in using an ethereum wallet and you're back to centralisation.
"In healthy people" seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I've done mushrooms three times and the first two were fun (but not enlightening or life-changing) experiences. The third time I had a bad trip. It was "my fault" in that in retrospect I did not have the right set/setting to take them, but it triggered a massive panic attack that spiraled me pretty severely into a months long anxiety episode. Before the mushrooms I was fine and after them I was having nightly panic attacks that lasted hours. I have a panic disorder but it was "in remission" previously.

Now having a panic disorder may disqualify me as a "healthy person" but given that the study is analyzing it as a treatment for mental disorders it seems that that's not what they mean. I don't know if panic/anxiety is included in "a range of mental health conditions, including treatment-resistant depression (TRD) and PTSD". I'm just saying that it definitely _can_ be harmful to your mental health based on my experience. I don't know whether or not complementary talk therapy would have changed my outcome.
You are moving the goalpost.

The purpose of adding lanes was to REDUCE DELAYS. Not support additional transportation. Your entire post hinges on an incorrect premise
> No one realistically thought reusable rockets were impossible or even infeasible.

Not addressing the point of my comment here ^, but why didn't anyone else do it if it was feasible and possible? And how long would it have taken an agency like NASA to actually start and complete the project?

> Keep in mind the Space Shuttle (a reusable rocket) had been flying for thirty years before Space X landed a Falcon 9.

Wasn't the space shuttle a glider with rockets strapped to the bottom? It was not a reusable rocket, it was a reusable shuttle.

> Space X has done cool things but they are iterative developments.
Well, everything in the human existence is an iterative development, so I don't understand what you're trying to say other than to downplay other peoples' accomplishments.

https://youtu.be/mY-fSnKTLqw?t=111
<-- anyone could do it if they felt like it, right?
You could also be fancy and pass open sockets over a unix domain socket with sendmsg().
If you see it coming, maybe ban 18 wheelers temporarily? Agree it's not a major problem with the govt.
Why should everyone be paid a lot? Is everyone's labor really worth the same? Should not people be paid according to the value of their input? I am super fine with people charging me little for their services as long as they deem that it makes sense for them and the quality is acceptable. I want people that can provide great value for a fair price to outcompete others, because I want to promote them and hopefully they will develop and make economy a little bit better a little bit more efficient.
I would just leave it up with the note you added and not worry about it. Interesting post and observation, by the way!
FWIW, this author's husband is Daniel Weinand, Chief Creative Officer/Co-Founder, Shopify Inc. Net worth 1B. So this might color her thinking a bit
Wrong. Someone committed suicide because of her and her legal team's harassment and blackmailing.
Just to be clear, the "induced demand" that concerns me is not the latent demand of a few deferred trips being taken in the days/weeks/months/year after the road is widened, it's the long-term generated demand of people choosing to move further into the suburbs because they can commute more miles in the same number of minutes. The cumulative result is that property values on the periphery of the commuting zone increase and within a decade or so the highway traffic exceeds the optimal capacity again.

Some regions have concluded that adding a lane per decade is sustainable and already have highways more than a dozen lanes wide. I'm curious to see where the upper bound is.

(Personally I think dynamic pricing to maintain optimal highway capacity is a more sustainable approach.)
> Eating out is expensive and should be expensive if you want businesses to sustain themselves when there’s turmoil in the industry.

Eating out shouldn't have to be more expensive than eating in. And in many countries it isn't.

Restaurants benefit from scale that your kitchen doesn't.

If you were feeding a family of 150, your per-meal price would crater.

Of course a restaurant has to pay staff, so the numbers have to add up, but conceptually, there's no particular reason why a chicken sandwich at a restaurant should cost more than a chicken sandwich at home, as long as that restaurant is serving chicken sandwiches, chicken tacos, and chicken pasta all afternoon/evening.

Granted during covid and shipping shortages all bets are off.

And obviously even during non-covid times, restaurants can set their own prices, charge a 100x multiple for exclusivity, ambiance, etc.

But fundamentally there's no obvious reason why getting food at a restaurant needs to cost more than getting food at home, while still making the restaurant a profit that lets them pay salaries and sustain their business.
IMO code reviews are a tool for mentorship and keeping architecture in line