skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without going into specifics: I stumbled upon an internet group where some members had arranged the synthesis of this chemical. Of course, I can’t verify that what they had was legitimate, but they had at least a couple members claiming to be professional chemists and it seemed plausible.

The few experience reports they had posted suggested that this wasn’t as overtly hallucinogenic as Ibogaine, but it was still potently psychoactive. One member was posting a concerning amount about wanting to acquire and consume much more of it, including on a regular basis.

The whole thing was fascinating to read but left me feeling very uneasy to watch their cavalier attitude. The forum in question appears to have disappeared so I couldn’t go back and look for updates. Regardless, I’d be skeptical of any claims that this is a miracle drug, but I’m interested to follow the research.
I've used Linode for 10+ years with a handful of long running projects. Support in the rare occasion (until 1 slow ticket recently) has always been absolutely amazing - real humans. If Josh is reading this your name has come up on a few tickets and answered promptly. A grade! Services have been solid. And pricing has been very reasonable. (knock on wood...) never ever had a significant outage and just don't think about going anywhere else for small scale projects. Even when I've needed some stuff from AWS I just host the core bits in Linode and pick and choose the AWS items.

Hope Akamai doesn't do the dirty...
I wonder how much harder it is to un-redact Kanji characters?
Not quite. Each tile has a socket in the middle of the back, which goes over a mounting post which is welded to the steel hull of starship. Also, there are very few different shapes of heat tiles, and the vast majority of the heat tiles are of exactly the same design and shape.

On the space shuttle few, if any heatshield tiles were the same. They were individually manufactured, instead of bulk manufactured to a common specification as SpaceX are doing. Obviously that is going to be far, far more efficient.

Yeah, they have had problems with tiles coming off during static fires. Although this seems to have been getting better, and it remains to be seen how bad an issue losing a few patches of single tiles actually is. Under the tiles the structure is stainless steel, while with the space shuttle it was aluminum which is clearly not as tolerant of the extreme heating of re-entry.
First, this study has only been done on rodents.

Second, the reason they call it "non-hallucinogenic" is because the rodents didn't exhibit the so-called "head-twitch response" (or "HTR").

While the HTR in rodents has often (always?) been correlated to substances which have psychedelic (the term "hallucinogenic" is a misnomer) properties in humans, that's no guarantee that the novel compound used in this study won't have psychedelic effects in humans, despite the HTR in rodents.

Finally, since this study was done only on rodents, we still don't know whether it will have any therapeutic effects in humans, or even whether it will be safe.
If the known facts are consistent with your staff stealing Bitcoin and the reason it can't be confirmed whether or not this happened is because your staff fell short of industry-standard security practices, I think it's entirely fair to say that that might be what happened. Put it this way: from the perspective of someone on the outside, if your staff were stealing Bitcoin this is exactly what it would look like.
The social politics that came out were most interesting to me. The person with a smaller contribution to the project taking a lion's share of credit. The lead, a soft coward who has been conditioned to let her take credit. The history of that tribe of people doing this sort of self promotion.
also those that are 40
Thank goodness you didn't end up like this ex-couple, forever memorialized on the internet:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beanie-baby-fever-in-1999_n_5...

(Article is about picture of two divorcees dividing a Beanie Baby collection on the courtroom floor in front of the judge.)
My favorite part is when I come along, exploit a bug in the smart contract, and neither of you gets the money, because Code Is Law on the immutable blockchain.
I believe it's just a reference to 4chan, where asking someone to post a shoe-on-head for verification was a meme, being a .org domain.
A bit off topic but does anyone know if there's anything like a standalone PIO?

They seem genuinely fun to use even without the pico attached.
the only reason we tolerate it is because it does tremendous good making things more equitable for other languages and cultures.

Let me rewrite that from the opposite perspective.

The reason I use it is so that I can write in my language.
In Italy you just get free (=public) healthcare. When we visited a few years ago with our then-baby son he developed a fever and we took him to a pediatric hospital & were treated without anyone asking to see any health insurance or talking about cost. We just got in, got treatment and got out at the end.
Adding a shortcut to a website to the home screen is a nice convenience. Unfortunately, it doesn't add it as a search engine to your iPhone search, or to Safari. Even with a PWA (progressive web app), the App is just a wrapper on Safari. For a startup like us, it is probably the best option currently available, and we've tried to make it a good experience. But it does suffer the same drawbacks as a regular App as a browser replacement. If you swipe down from the home screen and type something into your iPhone's search bar, you're still using Google and Safari.
Newegg doesn't limit their fraud to selling broken open-box items.

I personally saw them try to pass off an expensive mouse that was crusty and scratched as "new" (I double checked and it was NOT marked as an "open box" on the product page or order page).

Newegg support refused to process the return, so I had to contest it with the credit card company. Pro tip: the CC support rep told me to process it as "product never received." He said if you pay for a new item and you get a used item, then you never received the item you paid for. Hopefully I never have to use that again, but now I know (and now you do too).
You Can Now Visit Websites Using Only Emojis
Opera's web browser now supports emoji-only URLs.
think there should be a separate 'browserVersion' field that is numeric which should be checked. then again, browsers are such complex beasts with multiple components mixed and matched together by different vendors, it would be great to have separate user agent component fields for those.
You’re not wrong, but that’s not really the point. The rest of the computer industry needs serious reform, too. That doesn’t take away from needing ECC in “consumer” products.
If you are interested in ensuring your meat comes from animals that don't suffer, about 50 square feet of a backyard, or even just a spare bedroom in an apartment is all it would take to raise enough rabbits to supply you with a majority of your meat.
If you target desktop, should be fine, but mobile users tend to use cell towers which are on Symmetric NAT, which would require a TURN server on top of the WebRTC.
Other languages? Other than what?
However, Rockbox does support Opus on other devices. Been using it exclusively on my Sansa Clip+ for at least a year.
I think a few hundred programmers in the 90s is underestimating the numbers by a factor of at least 1000 and (probably much much) more. Of course such numbers are difficult to estimate, but here some pointers:
It was introduced in school in several countries in the early 80s:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science_education

And there was vast literature. Petzolds programming windows first edition is from 1988 and second from 1990. While the first might have been a niche publication usually there is only a second edition if there is substantial interest. (number of prints would be nice to know).
It's a convenient size unit for particles! Also energy is natural when the energy of the particle can vary.

Also, the unit used for mass of particle is usually eV/c² or MeV/c² which is more correct (unless in c=1 units) but the c part is sometimes dropped by convention.
Shulgin really makes a good case for testing psychedelics on humans. Ultimately it is the only test if a drug is "good" for therapy or not.
> In PyFL gone are all the things that ordinary people find difficult or downright weird: monads, mandatory currying, post- or prefix notation, pattern matching, etc. Instead infix notation and f(x,y,z) syntax for function application. The weird stuff has it’s proponents but PyFL proves it’s not inherently part of functional programming.

Textbook case of falling victim to the Blub Paradox.

> The answer is … int! Yes, PyFL has typed an untypable program!

I'm not sure why the author is making this sound like a good thing.
The language evolution speed has nothing whatsoever to do with the learning curve - there's like two major features a year, one of which is only for advanced users. The rolling release cycle just means the tiny incremental improvements arrive sooner. The learning curve has been in place since 1.0 and it only gets harder the more times you give up.
The impact of meat on global warming is mostly through methane, not CO2. So comparing its CO2 emissions to concrete industry CO2 emissions is not an appropriate comparison, you should compare "CO2-equivalent of all meat-related greenhouse gases" to the CO2 emitted by concrete industry CO2.
You are literally pushing one side of a flame war topic using biased news articles on an article about misinformation. Unreal. Your lack of self awareness makes the quality of your opinions self-explanatory.
I respectfully disagree. I love how culty and weird subs get, it’s always a forcing function to me on living in a complete stranger’s worldview. It stretches my brain.

Should ‘/r/all’ tilt as woke as it does? Eh, dunno. But that was/is the beauty of Reddit: you can dine at the buffet of subs as you choose.
The organic intelligence needed help on protein folding, for one.
Happy linode user since 2004 when I was 13 years old. Has always been my go-to for just having a linux vps running somewhere in the cloud. Really can't complain hope the acquisition doesn't change anything about how they operate.
As someone with 20 years of C++ experience, in industries from everything from real-time systems through to low-level HPC graphics on CPU/GPU (currently in VFX), I really don't understand the hatred for OO programming, and I must be either missing something, or being lucky with the codebases I'm working on...

It's a tool for encapsulation: you can get into trouble with it, but I'd argue the same is possible with many things - it's how well you use it. You can easily use state composition in C++ if you want, and generally (multiple inheritance can cause issues in some cases) you can use interface classes as well.

And as someone who's been learning Rust for the past 6+ months, I've found that of the three new projects I started which I started in Rust instead of C++/Python over the past 4 months, Composition actually worked quite less well (it's quite verbose due to all the plumbing needed to connect things up) than if I could have used OO interitance in many situations where I wanted specialisation - i.e. hierarchy behaviour traits that had both common shared state and functionality AND specialised state and functionality. Thankfully Traits can at least have default implementations - if not, things would have been a bit worse.

To be clear: there's a lot to like in Rust though.
This reminds me of Manning liveBook's obfuscation strategy [0]. It scrambles the letters to keep the majority of the specific details obfuscated while somewhat revealing the gist (word length, acronyms, anagrams, code segments) presumably to encourage sales and discourage piracy.

[0] Ex. https://livebook.manning.com/book/programming-the-ti-83-plus...
You are right, Mr Hunter is obviously a far right fire team, a real leader of the Boogaloo, a firebrand arsonist.

> "My mom would call the fbi if she knew what I do and at the level I'm at w[ith] it."
Jupyter runs natively in the browser now with JupyterLite: https://github.com/jupyterlite/jupyterlite It can use a native browser JS kernel, or some languages that have been converted to run in the browser with WASM (including a full python environment called pyodide). Nothing is run on a server.

VS Code also runs natively in the browser now: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/10/20/vscode-dev This uses a Chrome only (for now) filesystem access API to give the browser access to your native files--you can edit them entirely in the browser with nothing happening on a server.
This is gmail only, yes? Should that not be reflected in the title?
Decoupling IP from services and sockets for addressing agility
Ugh. I had an equally infuriating transaction with them. I bought some obscure batteries for our wireless landline phone. I bought batteries for 2 handsets. They sent me the batteries for only 1 set. OK, mistakes happen. I contact them and tell them what happened. No problem, they say, they’ll send me the other set. An hour later my card is charged for another 2 sets of batteries, none of which ever ended up shipping to me. So I was charged for 4 sets of batteries and received 1 set. I’ve just stopped doing business with them now because it’s not worth my time or money to deal with them.
The appropriate term is "mercenary" or "war Lord"
Ask HN: Simple Solution to Earth's Rising Temperature
I am not a climate scientist by any stretch. However given that all life on the planet is a direct result of the Sun and the energy we receive from it, it would make sense if that less of the sun's energy was used to grow things (which must use up a lot of energy as chemical bonds are being formed) then there must be more energy used to just make atoms vibrate. So if we grew more things AND / OR used really inefficient Solar panels OR used the sun's energy to melt vast quantities of eutectic salts then we could reduce the rate of temperature change on the planet by putting more of the sun's energy to state change / energy capture. Just a thought.
Sorry I left out ZeroCoin, and thanks for pointing it out! Total braino as I was writing the post.
The Pursuit of ‘Flow’ Is Overrated
"Twelve Years in a Monastery" (1897) by Joseph McCabe Discussed this, and the risks that the prelate in question may have incorrectly baptised priests, which in turn invalidates ALL rites they perform, marriages, sacraments, the works.

It's recursive.

Probably, there is a STACKFAIL path out, the local bishop can do something to declare things valid.

It's worth bearing in mid McCabe went "over the wall" and so was writing as a socialist-rationalist after he lost his faith. A catholic might well have reason to say he was wrong, and wrong at the time, as well as now.

A truly wonderful historian of the Vatican is Peter Hebblethwaite. I recommend "in the vatican" (1986) -It's obviously overtaken by events (Ratzinger wasn't a pope then, so he's still the head of the inquisition in the book, future white hat yet to come). Hebblethwaite died in 94. Shame, I would have loved to read his take on things now.
I mean Akamai was in the business since 1998 and has been a leading player in CDNs.
TLDR: $900 Million
ordered and looking forward to them! :-)
right, so I mean if she wants more people donating probably don't need the email. Should at least set up some rudimentary analytics to see if people nope out at the donation step when email is required. Since I downloaded a bunch of books I donated but it was sort of iffy when the email field turned red.
Doesn’t look like it. That’s a sans-serif font, and the one I’m looking for is a serif font.
> The Free Beacon reported that a source told them the crack kits could specifically include pipes, and the story went viral

No offense but if you asked me to make up a typical right wing red meat outrage generating story, this would be it.

> Snopes labeled the reporting with a big red X and MOSTLY FALSE rating

You didn't link to Snopes, instead "leadstories.com" which i've never heard of. Where is the source from Snopes itself?

Also "Mostly False" sounds right, as it was just the pipe detail that is in dispute, no? At best this is a nuance argument of a somewhat complicated story about policy (which itself is complicated) - far from the "clear example of a false story" I asked for.
Emacs follows the UNIX philosophy. All it does is interpret elisp.
When I came to a more "apostolic" branch of Christianity from a more "evangelical" branch, my own baptism was somewhat suspect because there had been a separation of matter and form. (The words were said and then I was baptized, rather than them being said while I was baptized.) The bishop ended up saying it was okay.

I wonder if the CDF is being a little overzealous here. The sacraments (especially baptism) are hard to break if they are done with the proper intent. The Catholic Church has historically recognized other forms which seem further away than just "I" to "we". For instance, it recognized "the servant of God is baptized" and possibly even "may you be baptized" (see https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02258b.htm#vi). In fact it seems to border almost on superstition to belabor this point and is somewhat scandalous. But I'm episcopal and not Catholic, and not a theologian, so I don't really have any authority in the matter.
They return their own type, all of which implement a common trait, because traits are not types, and there's two options for representing 'any type that implements this trait', one of which can't be returned without allocating it (dyn), and the other of which can't be used in trait methods (impl). As a (frankly minimal in my opinion) effort to make this less weird to look at, the docs now have a (nearly invisible) 'notable traits' hoverable, which tells you what types implement Iterator and that anything other than them implementing Iterator is not very important.
I think the OP is just using square brackets to tell HN the words inside are a placeholder for their query.

(Google doesn't do anything special with the square brackets.)
>Why are letters shaped the way they are?

If they looked much different we wouldn't recognize them!
Did you buy an open box combo?...

Newegg had an incredibly generous RMA program for a while. They even took back a water damaged laptop from me back in the day after a manufacturer refused to repair it.

They got hammered by people trying to force returns on parts of their GPU combos, but they still do pretty well even if they're a bit slow.

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What happened here is tangential to what 99% of people are talking about, an open box product really was damaged...

It just wasn't damaged by GN. So Newegg clearly didn't inspect it well enough (probably not unrelated to the spike in RMAs they're likely dealing with)

Now Newegg is saying all open box products can be returned no questions asked, so even that's not an issue.

Also not sure about how I feel about GN's theatrics here.

They could have used their without games like "we're flying across the country to knock on your doorstep whether you like it or not!!!". Feels like a content-first, results-second approach.
Show HN: A developer friendly job board
Guy didn't know about the transaction fees and wait times, I guess?
Excellent discussion between the author and Sean Carroll on the subject.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/10/18/169-...
Seems a bit silly that the author dedicates an inch of column space to the perils he sees would "destroy the foundation of the republic," then dedicates the remaining article equating this existential danger to relatively low-stakes[1] cancel culture panic.

[1] https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/moral-panic-journalism?...
If you change "Just-Works" to "It-Just-Works" it can be CRISPE.
Wow it is hard to imagine Ever paying for R. Its mass adoption in biostats is because it is free.
I agree. That's why my news reader https://sumi.news only includes headlines. Headlines are high signal/noise ratio.
Is Meta doing anything cool with hardware? I can't see their vision succeeding unless there are substantial hardware innovations. Specifically, they need to solve the walking problem, they need to get some sort of haptic feedback down, and they need to make the headset as small and simple as a pair of sunglasses. Without these, the Meta-verse will never reach the mainstream.
It wasn’t just a defective board. Newegg tried to RMA it and was told it was damaged. They declined to fix it, took it back and then resold it, with the RMA service ticket from the manufacturer still on it. They knew it was damaged when the sold it.

Even if it had been a mixup and resold accidentally, they would’ve seen the RMA sticker when it was returned again, and they still tried to pin it on the 2nd buyer.
There certainly has been a lot of work on defining and measuring intelligence. An example summarizing some of that work is Legg&Hutter https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/15...

IMHO in the community there aren't any significant objections to the Legg & Hutter definition proposed in that document "Intelligence measures an agent’s ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments." - perhaps you can tweak the wording some more, but that's the direction implied by people talking about building general intelligence and (at some future point) human-comparable general intelligence; in essence it's about 'wide-coverage' intelligence of being efficient at different purposes and figuring out what is required to be successful for these purposes, as opposed to narrow single-task specific effectiveness; but it's essentially a metric on which one quite reasonably can imagine something being equivalent to or better than the average (or x-th percentile) human.
Yes. And thank you for spotting.
Alright I changed to und muss querübersetzt werde. Thank you!

But I decided to keep druckt, because in English I use the word "Print" to talk about creating custom elements. I'm sure you know this, but just to explain my thinking, it's because to be print can be all kinds of "repeatable production", not just ink printing. People even use it for writing, as in "print" your name here. Even in English this word is not really used to describe creating JS/HTML views, but I use it...because to me, I think about the process of layering the data values, templating them into the HTML, and realizing/creating that as actual DOM, plus style layers, as well described by "print". To me all this is "printing" the DOM elements. So that's why I keep that word there.

However, I may be misunderstanding druckt in German (I have no idea, just going on what Google tells me), and it may be specific in a way that the English "print" is not. If so, and if you let me know, maybe I will do something.

Thank you for your German info, really appreciate it! I thin it got better because of your input :)
printf % codes and brace expansions, and printf -v to write directly to variables without needing a subshell or a temp file.

See file_to_fhex() for an example of reading binary into hex pairs.

That example is simpler to read than tpdd_read() because reading from a file is simpler than reading from a stream wrt detecting eof.

read a byte, use printf to convert that byte to a hex pair. The funny looking syntax with a single ' in front of the variable is important.

See tpdd_write() for writing hex pairs back out to binary.

brace-expand "aa bb cc" to "\xaa\xbb\xcc", feed that to printf to output binary.

All through this script I'm using arrays instead of simple variables to hold the hex pairs. That's not necessary, I'm just doing that because this app needs to do a lot of byte/position counting on the data, both for parsing the output from the drive and for sending commands to the drive. It's all packets of fixed length fields.
Exploiting Apache Cassandra User-Defined Functions for Remote Code Execution