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> Psychedelics were strongly associated with hippies, the antiwar movement, and the counterculture -- that (and not anything Leary said or did) is the real reason they were made illegal.

I sometimes wonder if what was going on at the time had some effect on that decision - the cold war (among others) was going strong back then and I think the spread of the hippy mentality/lifestyle would have been a genuine threat to the US's ability to win that showdown. Now that the USSR is broken up might be the chance for try number two, but now we have China to be concerned with.

That said, this mainstreaming of psychedelics seems to be unfolding almost completely without government resistance, which seems surreal to me.
One reason is that the most popular models were developed using either the TensorFlow or PyTorch Python APIs. The pre-trained models took an immense amounts of compute resources to build. Additionally, those who built the models weren't necessarily developers and Python is an low-barrier to entry language.

There are a number of models that are now available via APIs and can be used from any language.
AWS Federation for Gitlab CI Jobs – Your Feedback Wanted
Several months back it was asked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28535016 if GitLab supported AWS Federation at the CI Job level (ID federation has been supported for a while)

In GitLab Alliances we struck up a customer success collaboration to see if our existing JWT token was already working and we would just need to provide enablement (instructions, working examples, videos, blogs, etc).

We learned that there was some product work to do so the collaboration eventually snowballed to be cross team and cross company to include participation from Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Sales and AWS through our mutual partnership.

As a result alpha support was released in 14.6 and will be fully released in 14.7.

For clarity - the AWS role you link to might be scoped to only give access to specific paths in Secrets Manager or it could give permissions to do changes to AWS environments.

We are seeking customer feedback here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346737

Here is the enablement for this new functionality:
- New ODIC Documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/cloud_services
- New AWS Specific Documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/cloud_services/aws/
- New Working Example: https://gitlab.com/guided-explorations/aws/configure-openid-connect-in-aws

Huge thanks go out to Joe Randazzo, Brad Downey, Viktor Nagy and Krasimir Angelov for working the following issues and MRs to get this done:
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/72555
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/216259
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/alliances/aws/public-tracker/-/issues/17
> Fukushima? Mines that collapse?

Those 9.0 earthquakes? That isn't a defect. The software equivalent is an intern deleting the production customer account database. That isn't a software defect, but there is still a failure with plenty of blame to go around.
I am curious, how is a VPN solving a latency issue?
What is CAKE??
>while the rich use loopholes like 1 dollar salaries

explain?
Understanding no one cares about how I live my life .

Far from being a bad thing, this means I can just live without constantly worrying about how others might perceive me.

As long as your not hurting anyone else , just live. We're here for a very short time.

Don't waste it on people who never cared
Yes, the OP states a good question.

My thought, going back some years, is that in some fields engineers work with strength of materials, e.g., what a steel I-beam will hold, and more generally work with, assemble, combine components with known properties. E.g., there are actual standards organizations that state the properties. In computing we have some of that -- components with known properties -- but not nearly enough.

I'm drawn in part to the possible analogy with Lego blocks -- components can just snap together.

This is a simple view, mostly because where we get to do engineering is small and where we don't, where the problems are, where we don't yet know how to do engineering, is large.

Reading this thread, it looks like some others give more than my simple view here. But I cast my vote with those who also agree, with more evidence than I'm presenting here, that in computing we need more engineering.

Once I did work with some people who wanted to regard a computing system as a network of queues and, then, apply queuing theory with, maybe, some probabilities and optimization. Supposedly they did apply such engineering to the design of an important I/O subsystem. So, that seems to have been an example of making software design engineering.

In engineered systems, it is common to monitor the systems for correct behavior, and I was in a project trying to do the monitoring with just judgment and guesstimates, in particular, thresholds selected just intuitively on one variable at a time. Of course, thresholds on several variables, one at a time, have the geometrical region of normal performance always just a box. Well, we can't believe that normal performance is accurately a box. So with a small box, get a lot of false alarms and with a big one, poor detection rates. Bummer.

Gee: Very commonly in monitoring, e.g., testing for a disease, we have for each test at least false alarm rate. We would also like detection rates. There is the famous, old Neyman-Pearson result on how to get the highest detection rate for any given false alarm rate. So, to do better than just judgment, I worked up a quite general test, with multi-dimensional data, including high dimensional, distribution-free, with known, adjustable false alarm rate and provable non-trivial detection rate. I published the thing. Soooo, that was a small step toward engineering for system monitoring.

We need more engineering.
The kid is likely mowing neighbor's yards.
agree completely. never into sports and absoutely hate gyms.

but i started doing manual labor in a creative field, and getting around town using a bike and i'm much better for it.
I got something better. Trade crypto derivatives after learning elliot wave. Turn 500 into 50,000 in 3 months. Quit day job. Do it full time now. High 6 figures 10 months later.
Most people here said it already; that would be a very bad development imho. But one that will happen as, at least in my distributed developer team (all continents, many countries) everyone young hates reading; chat, email, books, subtitles; they all hate it and want to listen and talk, not read & write. So it makes sense. Hope there will be choice always; I grew up with English movies with Dutch subtitles which taught me English and saw, at the same time, how awful it was to watch Rambo saying 'Ich bin John Rambo' with a flinty German dubbed voice. The horror.
Microservices are all about starting and never about finishing.
Microcomputers at 50 (Roundtable 1/19 4PM Pacific livestream)
Is it difficult to imagine that U.S. nurses can be paid better than nurses in other countries but at the same time not paid well enough and exploited beyond their breaking point?

A bit of context:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/opinion/nurses-staffing-h...

Here's a response by an anonymous staff member at LA's Children's Hospital:

( https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/s7wfqo/we_know_... )

Summary: Hospitals cut costs by staffing the bare minimum. Patients aren’t receiving the care the should be. Nurses are experiencing moral distress and leaving en masse.

I work at CHLA. We are losing experienced nurses due to the lowest wages in the LA area for the level of care we give. Shameful for a hospital that is Best Children’s Hospital in the west.

The pay discrepancy between the executives and staff is criminal

We need more publicity about this. Help the nurses out and let’s get more eyes on this issue, particularly CHLA. Celebrities love that place and use it for PR often.

Let’s give the nurses some badly needed PR. They are non-union and notoriously underpaid. Best care for kids maybe but also best kept secret in worker’s dissatisfaction
This is a repost https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25823907

We all do the same thing and have the same levels of education or experience. Let’s stop debating titles that are already established in the industry. It’s quite apparent that majority of people agree and a select few don’t.
How do you see the acid tests as irresponsible?

From my perception of history, kesey and the pranksters were just trying to have a fun time and blow some minds, while Leary came across as more a religious cult type, and telling everyone to drop out of society, which to me could be seen as more irresponsible.
> As a producer, my sense is that people who refer to "autotune" generally don't know what they mean when they say it, but they really want to identify some point in the history of music where things became "artificial".

Sure, most people outside of music production (unless they've, say, seen the documentary on it) probably don't know that the sound they are referring to is the characteristic sound of a particular extreme setting in Antares Auto-Tune (which may or may not now actually be produced by other software), but I think they know exactly what sound they are talking about when they say it, rather than referring to some kind of fuzzy transition in the overall feel of music.

And it's kind of weird that as a producer you wouldn't be aware of that (upset, perhaps, by the publix characterizing the tool by that particular use, I could see, but not even recognizing the public association is odd.)
I haven't fully figured out the implications to be honest. Some are more intuitive than others. For example, it would mean (some?) financial engineering is a misnomer ;) but it would also suggest that designing digital circuits is only engineering in certain cases, like high-speed cases where you have to make the design robust to extraneous analog effects. For what it's worth, I think it somewhat aligns somewhat with your point about abstractions.
Correct.
There are millions and millions of old music made throughout many many decades. Thousands and tens of thousands stood the test of time and people like to listen to those regardless what the calendar shows. Others got mostly forgotten. New songs are from a much shorter period and so those are in the thousands and tens of thousands only. And perhaps hundreds or more will stand the test of times and will be listened to many many years from now too.

This is how it is when people can pick their music more freely instead of fed by the industry and from a seemingly endless list not just from those stamped as 'new'.

No killing is going on here. Music that people like will be listened to still, regardless of their age. It is just much much more out there from earlier than now, due to longer period and more people throughout the history.
Wouldn't the natural behaviour of thinking about other things while peeling potatoes be an advantage, instead of a disadvantage to be solved with Zen?

Many discoveries or solutions to problems (from scientific to the everyday) are found on walks when the mind is working on problems in the background, and I believe this creativity could be lost with mindfulness of the current activity all of the time.
Spot on. Microservices is a way of scaling people. There are other ways of scaling systems.

I would suggest that http not be the go-to mechanism for communicating between microservices. Each should be able to operate to some degree without hard dependencies. If you build using microservices with RPC over http or what-have-you replacing function calls, you've done it wrong. You can usually tell if your 'bounded context' is of the form noun-service or adjective-noun-service. Usually the context boundary should be a process (workflow kind) that serves a user type. Reliable one-way async datastreams are more useful for keeping microservices fed with the information it needs, and it can decide how to utilize that information in a way that makes sense for that service. If you have core 'source of truth' services used by many others, you have a distributed monolith.
The problem in my mother's case was that the IRS was legitimately owed money, just not by her. This was before identity theft was a household word.
Optimization? "An engineer is someone who can do for 10 cents what anyone could do for $1."
> Or is it better to let people like Elon do what he thinks is best with that capital?

It's better to tax away a percentage of his wealth and collectively decide how to use it. Elon Musk shouldn't get a bigger say in how to run our society simply because he has the most money.
Ask HN: Is SalesForce overcharging for database space?
We just migrated from Freshdesk to SalesForce for our CRM and what take up 1GB in uncompressed CSV-files is eating about 5GB of table space in SalesForce.

Never seen this blowup GB in any other CRM database. This is for standard Case, Customer, Contract, Email (attachments not included).

Extending with 10GB have a very high cost compared to any other system I have seen, even after heavy discount.

I get this feeling that SalesForce is overcharging by calculating a higher database size, than what is actually used (including temp space?). Or is it any other explanations?
Agree. Dolby Atmos releases tend to have a lot of noisy background sounds all around you, and then people silently mumble on the center channel. My English is really good, but some movies are still difficult to watch without subtitles. For example, Hawkeye jumped in between "painfully loud effects" and "barely audible dialog".
> I'm honestly pretty sick of all the 60s-80s stuff I've been listening to, but what else is there?

Listen to a whole album. This is THE fundamental problem with streaming.

Any band that produced one good song probably produced quite a few other good ones. Bands that got pigeonholed into a "sound" probably produced other songs on their albums that weren't in that sound.

Even for mega-popular bands like "Journey", for example, 3/4 of the songs on their albums never get played anywhere. You'll probably find something you really like in that set.

Sadly, this seems to break down starting in the late 1990s.
It's really hard to self medicate when you're head is in the wrong place. It's much easier to abuse in moments of weakness. Like drinking when depressed, etc., which can just become a downward spiral. I agree with the original commentator, who says to avoid drugs as a way to deal, as tempting as they may be - and I've been there.
Companies that aren’t B2D have a hard time with monolithic architecture. They simply have too many disparate needs, teams, vendors, and timelines to try to force everyone to share a codebase, unit of deployment, and set of endpoints. The supply side and demand side of any business has vastly different objectives, SLAs and priorities. Should we have to wait two weeks to deploy a minor patch to the Purchase Order portal because there is a risky ecommerce deployment that needs to be finalized first? Do we need to scale up the web servers to batch process some nightly data?

Surely there are excesses in the realm of microservice architecture… “every library is a microservice…” is advice I’ve read in the past. Service discovery / routing isn’t easy. Naming things is hard.

Personally I prefer the term Service and try to make no prescriptions as to what size it will end up being.
Parse and transform HTML to the format you want
FWIW, I also couldn't find it at first. Took me like a minute to find it.
Shit! Shit, shit, shit, shit!

Both my wife and my son have their Android accounts set up through our GAFYD account. Untangling that is going to be a mess.
I also did the same with my FOSS app Anita! In my post I go through some additional configs to deploy a React PWA to GitHub pages, you can find it here https://anita-app.com/blog/articles/the-journey-of-anita-to-...
I wanted to disagree with your post, but after giving it some thought, I believe that you're right.

People will simply start to shift their wealth into areas that are loophole advantaged or hide it altogether in trusts, relatives and even something as banal as precious metals under the pillow.

It will never work.
These people grind my gears. I'm thinking the WEF is probably the worst forum for governance discussions as the skills for becoming a corporate executive or a professor are not ones that confer sovereign legitimacy. I'm all for founders building things and making money, even getting into politics to serve their respective countries, but leveraging it to tell billions of other people how to live? No thanks.

These tax advocates are really just advocating for a single world regime without competition because they know the real threat to their power is that nobody likes them or wants to live under them, so we take our capital and leave. Their response is to instiute "global" rules so that there is no escape from their unctuous posturing and inevitable oppression. After covid, fighting a war against these assholes and every name on the Davos invitation list is likely the next item on civilization's agenda. They aren't trying to help, they're leveraging crisis' of their own inventions for control. There is no reason to be meek about what a threat WEF has historically and continues to be to peoples rights to self determination.

I remember the anti-globalization movement of the 90s, and it was against these specific WEF people and their phony institutes. It took 9/11 to derail that movement, and thanks to lockdowns co-ordinated through this exact policy shop, those movements are gaining momentum in earnest again, just this time they aren't liberal. Nations were not the reason for the wars of the 19th and 20th centuries, every single one of those wars was started by men who did not respect nations and borders and thought they could get away with it. That's what WEF is.

There are a lot of internet personalities we accept aren't appropriate for mixed company on civil forums like this, and I'd posit that Schwab and his WEF and IMF cronies are as provovactive and polarizing figures as any problematic youtuber. Read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," and you can see the level of co-ordination they use for taking over entire countries. This isn't about trolls and mean tweets, these people are a network in the business of subjugating nations. If you're hearing about it, it's one of their meticulously constructed lies. Take nothing at face value from WEF. They're bad news.
SES for outgoing works pretty nicely, I don't think I ran into any gotchas.

You can use SES for inbound email receipt as well, but unfortunately there's no POP3/IMAP service (emails just get stored in an S3 bucket). However you can use a Lambda to forward inbound email to a personal email account: https://github.com/arithmetric/aws-lambda-ses-forwarder
IIRC migadu.com is $9/month, but that includes essentially unlimited domains and mailboxes (but only mail, nothing else, which seems to fit your use case).

Which means, if you like to set up new domains for specific projects, there's no extra cost (other than registering the domain of course).

Have never had a spam problem, but they stress that they don't consider themselves mission critical.

I went with fastmail for my personal email, after a small-ish provider I had used (and liked very much!) between 2001 and 2018 was unable for a few month, in 2018, to avoid getting my mails sorted by gmail into spam -- no delivery problems since mail. Alas, despite wishing to support the smaller players, silent non-delivery of emails is a huge problem.
There are a lot of us. After a six year stint, with my current burn rate (that I expect to decrease later this year) it'd take 20 years for my savings (read index funds) to run out if they didn't grow at all. If you've been working in tech for more than a year and don't have a year's living expenses saved up/invested in liquid assets, you might want to reconsider your spending habits, or your suspiciously low salary (maybe you're not in the US?). Sure exceptions exist and it can be perfectly rational to spend almost everything now for some higher utility, especially if you plan to save later, but having the requisite income/spending ratio to save up a year's expenses is not hard for software engineers (in the US).

I second the suggestion of several months to a year of time off, but admittedly it's scary to consider getting a job afterwards, since you'll not have the existing job as leverage and some places will question the gap. Depending on the company it may be possible to "boomerang" back in if your leave is under one year without having to do the interview grind again with them.

Unfortunately burnout can take over a year to recover from (if ever 100%), so there's also a reasonable question of whether that extended break is going to be long enough. Maybe OP just needs a month or two, but maybe they'll need a couple years. It's hard to say whether it's better to take a minor break now and then come back until they near the breaking point again, or just power through until they literally can't, saving as much as they can so when they can't they'll have as long as they might need to rest -- which may be longer than if they just stopped now due to the accumulated damage.
Lots of interesting details in their Twitter thread https://twitter.com/framer/status/1483443355006689281
The problem is it's not very good and there is a vast uncanny valley. Phoneme / voice conversion is an incredibly difficult problem and not likely to be solved with any techniques known today, least ways not cheaply. Transformers show some ability to get it right , but if you wanted to use e.g. a Seq2Seq model you'd be hard pressed to come up with enough data that would generalize.
Does anyone know of an email provider that will handle billing the users directly?

Shared pain as the rest, have been hosting email for people with the same last name since 1998, and migrated to G Suite for Your Domain in 2006, and they graciously increased the max users for the free account, and I have 147 users (almost all are active). From 1998-2006 I ran the email server, and it was a pain to deal with issues and complaints (mostly poor spam filtering). I can't go back to that, and I can't afford $10,584 a year to offer free email.

I've researched some other paid options, but my biggest issue is that I just can't deal with invoicing and collecting money from 140+ people. What I really need is an email host that will direct bill all the users. I don't mind paying for email as a service, I just need someone else to deal with all the money stuff from the other users.

For others assistance in research if you will be paying the bill for the full domain, here are some options I looked at:
Google Workplace - $72/year/user - advantage being no impact on users
Microsoft 365 - $60/year/user - less expensive, probably equal in quality to Google
Fastmail - $50/year/user - cheaper still, great reputation
Rackspace - $36/year/user - cheaper still, not best reputation
Namecheap - $11/year/user - most likely a get what you pay for situation

Honestly I think email is worth $72/year, and I would go that route if Google would bill each user directly.
This roundtable is part of the Stanford EE380 Computer Systems Colloquium. The first single chip microcomputer is generally acknowledged to be the Intel 4004. Stan Mazor who, along with Frederico Faggin and Ted Hoff, was one of the architects of the processor, will provide some context and background. Hap Walker, Tom Pitman, Ed Lee, and Dennis Allison will share war stories from the days when a word was 4-bits and and memory was not free. The Colloquium talk will be livestreamed today, Wednesday, January 19, at 4 PM.
That's awesome! I've had that part of my favourites for years now. Every clean browser install I put your site in my fav bar.
See jonp888's reply for the first question. As to the second, I have no idea who's behind the project.
Firefox only recently dropped PWAs[0]. Though not sure how feature complete they are/were apart from Chrome.

[0] https://9to5google.com/2021/01/27/firefox-discontinues-work-...