skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can form a psychological dependence to a substance that does not produce a physical dependence.

Yes, I understand that.

Do you have any actual evidence that this happens with psychedelics though?

My personal experiences have shown me a very different picture. After a trip I don't want to touch the thing with a long pole for days or weeks, and that's the same I've seen with other people, including some heavy party-goers who are definitely addicted chemically and/or psychologically to many other substances and habits.

Sure, those are anecdotes, but so far I haven't seen evidence to the contrary of them. You haven't provided me with any either, except that Addiction Center article with no science backing. They sell addiction treatment, so it's in their business interest that more addiction exists or is purported to exist. Note that I'm not assuming malice on their side. It's probably more likely that given the lack of evidence either way, they decided to lean towards the more conservative side, which also aligns with their business.
If grid scale equipment works like 80kw generators, the voltage is electronically controlled by changing the excitation voltage. An overload condition manifests as a decrease in frequency with the voltage still fine.
There are gaps, but in almost all cases in the US in my experience, non-inventor owners record their interest in pubic records at the USPTO assignment database to perfect title: https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html#/patent/searc.... If they fail to do this, the previous owner could re-sell the asset to someone else who records and could have superior title. 35 USC 261, para. 4. In practice, gaps arise when patent assets are transferred between entities controlled by the same party, who doesn't need to worry about the prior owner trying to re-sell the same asset they already transferred. But event then, the public records get you pretty close to the owner.
It's one thing to offer SMS in addition to other 2FA options. It's completely another when SMS is the only 2FA option at these institutions. See also: Canadian banks (at least the ones that even support 2FA of any kind).
I am perfectly aware of p-hackng. I still don’t believe it without actual evidence, I get strong vibes of people wanting this to be true which would take more than a little evidence to overcome.
Also the exceptions exist usually for a good reason. Trying to get rid of them without understanding it is a bad idea.
So “any amount of alcohol is bad for the heart”?
I can assure you that doing it in TS would not have been any slower and you would have gained all the benefits that static type checking brings with it.

VueJS 3 in particular is much better suited to use TS than its predecessor (without any additional plugins).
Not to defend violent alcoholics, but people who get violent when drunk already have a problem, and would also violent when sober (they probably are). Most people who drink are not violent.

Regarding injuries: Sure, but the statistics in general doesn't include stuff that doesn't kill you but still is bad, like non-lethal lung problems from smoking.
I am a Korean-American US citizen. My wife is a South Korean citizen. Initially we thought it was natural for her to gain US citizenship, but we've now decided otherwise - both for reasons similar to what you mentioned, and also because the US seems to be in a downward spiral politically.

Also I've witnessed first hand the Korean healthcare system at work via my wife, and it is by far not only less expensive, but also (maybe more importantly) less complicated. It's not perfect, but for the average person I'd greatly prefer it to the mess we have in the US.

Of course, South Korea also has its share of political issues both internally and externally. So it has also crossed our mind that perhaps we ought to think of obtaining citizenship or residency in a third country for when the "earning period" chapter of my life starts to close.
Individual vs. Corporate tax revenue (USA) 1936 to 2019
NFTs do neither, at least not for the thing it is associated with.

In his article on Web3, Moxie Marlinspike wrote this:

> So as an experiment, I made an NFT that changes based on who is looking at it, since the web server that serves the image can choose to serve different images based on the IP or User Agent of the requester. For example, it looked one way on OpenSea, another way on Rarible, but when you buy it and view it from your crypto wallet, it will always display as a large [poop] emoji. What you bid on isn’t what you get. There’s nothing unusual about this NFT, it’s how the NFT specifications are built. Many of the highest priced NFTs could turn into [poop] emoji at any time; I just made it explicit.
There is nothing foolish about treating things that are the same consistently. It would be foolish to grant animals citizenships to keep it consistent with humans, but just as e.g. human rights are applied consistently to people no matter where they come from or how they look like so should our policies to things be in general. Alcohol is a drug with a tremendous potential for harm, and if a society decides it wants to ban those, again there is nothing foolish in doing that consistently. But when looked at like that, it's clear there is not much rational in the way we regulate things. It's just a bunch of traditions and whims.
> we should probably consider legalizing everything else that's less harmful to at least be consistent

This argument is brought up fairly regularly but I don't think it's very good. We cannot go back on alcohol, Americans tried pretty hard.

Our choice is limited to alcohol or alcohol plus whatever we legalize. Harm from alcohol is the hard lower bound on harm from substance use.
Terrible consistency model.

Judging a consistency model as "terrible" implies that it does not fit any use case and therefore is objectively bad.

On the contrary, there are plenty of use cases where "eventually consistent writes" is the perfect use case. To judge this as true, you only have to look and see that every major database server offers this as an option - just one example:

https://www.compose.com/articles/postgresql-and-per-connecti...
Honestly, I find it baffling when people think that doctors know what they're talking about when it comes to nutrition. Maybe things have changed in recent years, and that would be great, but in my experience and from the anecdotes of others, my conception of what doctors understand is the opposite of what you describe.

Granted, I do agree that the science actually hasn't changed that much, and that doctors who do research know ath they're talking about, but your average MD is pretty clueless about nutrition and fitness because that's really not a subject that gets priority in med school. There are even doctors today who still give advice along the lines of the Food Pyramid and My Plate. I've heard more than one account in my social circles of doctors telling people the myth that dietary fat flows freely through your blood vessels and clogs them exactly the same way that bacon grease can clog drain pipes.

> People want it to be true that the doctors don’t know what they’re doing

Also, the root of this statement is something I am surprised by. People want their doctors to not know what they're doing? In what universe is that true? Maybe that fits your experience, but this is a phenomenon I've never encountered in the slightest.
Open redirects: real-world abuse and recommendations
An MSG grinder! Burr mill of course.
Reminds me of the soylent founders blog where it was something about buying cheap clothing from Taiwan that he only wears once a day, powers everything with some balcony solar panel, etc. Wish I could find it again.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30004042
Einstein wins again – Gravitational Waves and Cosmology
Right.

On "Soul of a New Machine" check out my podcast interview of Dick Sonderegger [1]. Besides being an incredibly fun story of learning computers in the Marines during the Vietnam era (spoiler: he never left the US), he talks about knowing the real Data General guys in that book (another spoiler: they didn't have much regard for Tracy Kidder)

[1] https://operationcode.org/podcast#dick-sonderegger-link
> That intoxicatingly calm space between awake and not-quite-awake-yet

...that space is calm for most people?

Being there is usually literally terrifying to me. Like whenever I finally come through to the awake side I'm drenched in sweat and crying on occasion.
The thing is that even with a NFT token, you are not even including the art itself in a token, rather a link or identifier to it. So there's nothing that prevents multiple tokens pointing to the same art.

This is just as multiple baseball cards pointing to the single baseball player.
You seem to be back in the 90s with chat applications. You seem to be in need of a modern version of Pidgin that combines all of the different chat systems into a single app with a unified interface.
The app is free to download and you can try a bunch of the free workouts (?) no questions asked. Is that not enough of a trial?
Hacking with the Graal Compiler for Java (2020)
I (and at least one other poster) were talking about things thought comparatively safe to alcohol.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30010236
I'm pretty sure you can get Knorr Aromat Seasoning in Europe. It's not pure MSG, but it does contain it (probably the main ingredient).
Lots of scholarship disagrees, but: before this press release, I'd never heard of the "World Heart Federation". Now I have.

That was the real purpose of it issuing this provocative, but not quite scientifically-settled, statement.
Thanks for the response.

I assumed it wasn't a large enough amount to count peanuts necessarily. I'm looking at loan around $20k over 3 years compared to paying cash.

The reason I asked is because we do have an emergency fund but paying cash outright would cost half of that fund, which is a tough pill to swallow.
I'm not a fan boy. I have endless criticism of Tesla, especially on the service front. And let's not even get into the build quality issues, particularly with the body panels.

I'm a fan boy of truth, reason, logic, and individual responsibility. All of which are in extremely short supply at the LA Times.

On this specific topic, truth is being shaded deliberately to drive clicks. There is an obvious motivation to make people think that a self-driving car killed people, when it was really a dipshit abusing cruise control. It can happen with my wife's Audi, and probably has happened, but without Tesla in the headline, it's not ideal clickbait.

Regarding Elon "promising the moon", I simply don't understand how FSD relates to Autopilot in this case. If you can read, any misunderstanding someone has about Autopilot being FSD is cleared up immediately upon activation. Alert after alert after message flashes on the screen.

I grew up spending a lot of time on boats, and even worked on a crab boat as a teenager. Autopilot on boats is never mistaken for a self-driving feature. It maintains a compass heading, and nobody is dumb enough to think it does anything else. So if the marketing team has purposefully called it autopilot to hype it up, I'm in agreement the name should be changed. BUT, and this is an important BUT, I don't think it would have changed the outcome of this situation. Dipshits have caused accidents abusing cruise control since cruise control came out. The lane assist version has increased the confidence of dipshits to look at their phones while driving, and that's a conversation worth having as to what should be done about it. But that's not specific to one car company.
Doesn't the USD have a unique serial number associated with each bill? I'm sure when banks make in-transport transfers between entities, they know exactly which series they are transporting, and if a robbery happen, they share those series that got stolen with the police. If the police makes some unrelated arrest and find a bunch of bills, they can probably trivially look up if that money have been involved in anything before that.
Facebook and Instagram may help you create and sell NFTs
You could store about 240,000 words, or about 2-3 novels.
I hate the term "legalize" because all things are legal (in the U.S.A.) until they are made illegal. "Legalize" verbiage constantly tells people that they have to be selectively given rights, not selectively taken away.
Pretty normal in Spain as well. In fact it's my go-to choice when ordering.
With the potential for a 10 million euro fine, I don't think "basically certain" is sufficient.
I don't drink to live a long time, I drink to make the time I'm hear a bit more bearable.
> In over twenty years of Emacs usage, I have never once used C-t on purpose.

This is funny to me because, while I'm not an Emacs user, I'm a Mac user who's gotten used to the tiny subset of Emacs keybindings built into Cocoa text fields, and I use C-t fairly frequently! Apparently you do not make character transposition errors as often as I do.
Can't you just use regular IMAP to migrate the mails? IMAP download the whole mailbox, then upload to the new service.
Which telephony stack is generally used on PinePhones (e.g. by Majaro, Mobian, etc.)?

I've found the freesmartphone.org stack to be reasonably pleasant; e.g. a couple of years ago I used it to manually delete SMS messages from a SIM http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2019-11-29-openmoko_sms_deletion....

Unfortunately the freesmartphone.org page seems to be down (archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20210327153615/http://www.freesm... )
Yep! We should legalize 'political' drugs like Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin too.
Sure, why own anything digital when you can stream or pirate?
I appreciate that. And again, I have little experience with pot so I can’t counter that with a personal story. I’m a little surprised, though, as it’s so easy to stumble across alcohol with it being sold in every store and restaurant. I’d have to go out of my way to acquire pot, but I could pick up a 6-pack of beer on my way to the cheese section of the grocery store.

I wonder what the relative numbers are of people who occasionally use pot vs weed and become addicted to it.
My father owned a gallery for a few decades. His may be atypical as it was not in an expensive/exclusive shopping district and was some what avant-garde, but the way art sold at his level was copious amounts of alcohol. A very high percentage of art sold at the opening and was directly related to the quality of the party. I think people are not sure about art unless they can lock into it a positive memory. Art becomes not only a pleasing picture for your wall but a trigger of a good memory whenever looked upon.
Never before, except maybe in your mother's womb
I wonder if DynamoDB would be met with less criticism had it simply been named Dynamo Document Store.
I agree. Just because JS has its way of doing it does not mean you need to stick to that. I mean, TS adds a bunch of new keywords to the language that JS lacks. Why not simply stick to those intuitive keywords rather than this weird variable naming nonsense that JS has to use because it doesn't have access modifiers of any kind?
Calming your nerves lowers your heart rate. Lower heart rate leads to less heart problems. Less heart problems leads to longer life.

A glass of wine calms your nerves.
Heineken and Carlsberg paid NIH $100 million to "to show that moderate alcohol consumption is safe and lowers risk of common diseases". This and other ethical research violations created the whole "moderate amount of alcohol may be healthy" meme.

The alcohol industry gave the government money to prove moderate drinking is safe
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/3/21/17139036/he...

Alcohol industry involvement in science: A systematic review of the perspectives of the alcohol research community
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6055701/
Doesn't some federal law enforcement agency track serial numbers of stolen cash? Or have I been watching too many crime dramas?
Likewise. The Spotify listening I do is to check out albums I've discovered elsewhere before putting down some money for them. So typically new releases from artists I already know, recommendations from friends, or support acts at concerts I'm planning to attend. I should try to purchase through Bandcamp more as a first option before iTunes.
> I'd bet even money they won't exist in 5 years and the court is renamed in ~3 years.

For some historic context, Enron Field lasted two seasons and CMGI Field less than one, from what I can tell? I wonder who holds the record.
>But it only takes one person to decide that they want to sell their copy for free - and the floor becomes zero

That's not quite right. If we plot out all the bids and asks, the price floor only becomes zero if the seller with a $0 ask has enough volume to flood the market. Otherwise

If the Red Hot Chili Peppers decide to release only 300,000 copies of an NFT album, then the limited distribution would keep the price floor above zero. Even without a limited distribution there's a pretty good chance that most people wouldn't part with their copy unless they got enough money for the trouble.
Sounds like you already realize the error of your reasoning.

Don't be so set in your ways. As we get older, it's harder and harder to convince ourselves to try new things. You should actively fight that to keep life fresh and full of excitement. Don't let the words that were burned into you as a kid influence your rational adult decisions.
> With beer, this was because the brewer needed to boil the water

No, they didn't - you do not need (or should) boil the water. If you did boil it, you would then need to let it cool down before adding the yeast. Home-brew kits suggest using a fairly small amount of hot water to disolve the malt extract, and to get it up to fermentation temperature.

Beer is safer to drink because the yeast out-competes pathogens, and because it causes a pH change that inhibits and/or kills them.

Speaking as an ex microbiologist.
The more I read it, the more I thought: yeah, good thing. Sponsoring good cause. Why not more?

Honestly, I'm the opposite of a fan of past CIA actions -- I thought.
If this wants to discredit the NED, I think it does it in a weird way.
It's more like: let's write a supporting article, by very badly criticising?
Weird, just very weird.
> It doesn't help those "dissenting opinions" if they're drowned out in a sea of lies or if the lies (collectively) do far more damage.

It's a fairly central part of the scientific method to be able to construct falsifiable hypotheses and then to attempt to test them.

> Social media fact checking isn't some kind of hard block that can suppress any idea from being seen [..]

Except it just did: discussion on the origins of Covid was almost completely shut down for well over a year by the actions of one or more bad actors, hugely amplified by well-meaning but weak-minded media and social media outlets?
Got any reading recommendations from the two for a complete outsider to the field (psychology?).
> Yes, the use of CHERI to protect unsafe code in memory-safe languages like Rust is of interest to us.

Have you found that the relative difficulty of bootstrapping Rust on a new architecture, as mentioned in [1], has hindered your team's ability to research this? Or is it not as bad with CHERI on ARM, because aarch64 is already a Rust tier 1 platform?

[1]: https://drewdevault.com/2022/01/15/2022-01-15-The-RISC-V-exp...
> It’s always seemed silly that just the right amount of poison is good somehow

Why is it silly? A lot of things are dose dependent. A small amount of tylenol makes you head feel better. A lot of tylenol kills you. Lifting weights is very good for your health, but if you overdo it, you can get seriously hurt. A stressful day here and there is harmless, but if you're under constant, chronic, stress, your health will deteriorate. Four hours of sleep will leave you feeling terrible, 7-8 hours will leave you feeling rested, and 14 hours will likely leave you feeling terrible. I could go on, but I'd argue that dose-dependency is the rule rather than the exception.
Can definitely second kava. I went to a kava bar several times a few months ago and found it to be a great alcohol alternative. It also filled the niche of being a place where the atmosphere was more similar to a cafe so I could read a book or work on something in isolation, but without the downside of caffeine where you can't do that in the evening without ruining sleep quality. The social effects were definitely there.

Like you said, the crowd was largely people trying to quit or who had quit alcohol or benzos along with a fair amount of neurodivergent people. Being able to set aside some of my social anxiety and talk with them is part of what led to me getting assessed and diagnosed for autism recently.

The grandparent comment also mentioned phenibut which I find even more enjoyable, but like they said it can be habit forming and has a tolerance build up that limits safe use to once or twice a week.
Seems like 0 could? Not at all recommended of course.
I think many managers would prefer the latter because getting sober should have mainly positive effects on my employee's health and performance whereas an organ transplant or cancer seems much more likely to come with longterm disability and accommodation needs...
I think main advantage of DDB is being serverless. Adding a server-based layer on top of it doesn't make sense to me.

I have a theory it would be better to have multiple table-replicas for read access. At application level, you randomize access to those tables according to your read scale needs.

Use main table streams and lambda to keep replicas in sync.

Depending on your traffic, this might end more expensive than DAX, but you remain fully serverless, using the exact same technology model, and have control over the consistency model.

Haven't had the chance to test this in practice, though.
I'm not getting into the relative merits of vaccination, I'm merely saying that mRNA isn't going to hurt you. Even decades from now. We know there are no medium-term risks of mRNA therapies because the otherwise healthy people who have injected themselves with mRNA are still alive and kicking.

Here is the first Phase I test of an mRNA vaccine from 2013.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02241135

Here's a phase I trial for mRNA therapies from 2005.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00204516
I don't know your scaling needs, but I would highly recommend just using Aurora postgresql for read-only workloads. We have some workloads that are essentially K/V store lookups that were previously slated for dynamodb. On an Aurora cluster of 3*r6g.xlarge we easily handle 25k qps with p99 in the single-digit ms range. Aurora can scale up to 15 instances and up to 24xlarge, so it would not be unreasonable to see 100x the read workload with similar latencies.

Happy to talk more. We're actively moving a bunch of workloads away from DynamoDB and to Aurora so this is fresh on our minds.
The alcohol industry gave the government money to prove moderate drinking is safe
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/3/21/17139036/he...

Alcohol industry involvement in science: A systematic review of the perspectives of the alcohol research community
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6055701/
The engineering part is purely virtual for software developers I guess. While there is some basic physics in most curricula, most computer scientists are a bit "lightweight" on topics usually associated with engineering.