skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want specific information on the exact phenomenon you’re describing, read up on the “quantity theory of money.”

While academically, it is not a precise concept of what happens in practice, as there are multiple factors at play, printing money nonetheless does have this effect.

Organizations’ ability to increase prices as a result of inflated money supply is governed by competitive forces. So, it’s not as simple as seeing money supply increase 40% and thusly increasing your prices, but there is some truth to it.
>This article is proof that you're deep enough into crypto, you lose the ability to see any event through any other lens.

The crypto community is so bad about that.

You'd think some of these folks just looked outside their window for the first time and know nothing else.
Catharsis(aka venting) has had a multiple studies saying that it doesn't work. Stop venting.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1967-02716-001 - it's even in the abstract.
That's essentially a way to root every unpatched Android phone without special bootloader care, right?
WebGPU has almost nothing in common with Apple's proposal (which was essentially "WebMetal", while WebGPU is basically the common subset of Vulkan, D3D12 and Metal).
The anti-cannabis groups started in the 1930's with Hearst and loads of yellow journalism

quote from https://gizmodo.com/anti-marijuana-laws-were-based-on-racism... :

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Harry Anslinger, the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (an early predecessor of the DEA), was one of the driving forces behind pot prohibition. He pushed it for explicitly racist reasons, saying, "Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men," and:

"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."

The main reason to prohibit marijuana, he said was "its effect on the degenerate races." (And god forbid women should sleep with entertainers!)

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That tells me all I need to know about this whole situation. We would rightfully cancel/hold accountable someone saying that now. Why aren't we viewing the laws in the same light in which they were made?
I can pretend I'm shooting monsters in my head too, but it's more enjoyable when playing Doom. Though admittedly this metaphor would probably have a sudden drop in happiness the closer to real it got.
It's worth pointing out some songs intentionally don't have "authoritative lyrics", and some musicians leave the lyrics open to interpretation, or mix in phonetic gibberish intended to sound like words but with no clear meaning.

It's probably linked to why both there are no accessibility requirements for lyrics and they're not widespread in audio formats, that (some) musicians would see it as removing a dimension from their art.

(Although the same argument could be applied to movies, where a difficult to hear conversation could be "artistic expression", so I don't know where the line is drawn. FWIW, I'm the sort of person to watch movies with subtitles enabled even though my hearing is fine, and I prefer knowing the lyrics to music)

Edit: unrelated to lyrics, but I wonder if people with hearing impairment or complete lack of hearing listen to music for the sensation. With the right environment, you could physically experience at least some types of music, as vibrations on the skin. With frequency shifting this could probably be optimized...
David Sinclair is right about mTor and IGF-1 but i find him to be really untrustworthy.

he has so much riding on Resveratrol and has put so much into videos, books, gotten grants and so forth, that when studies came out proving Resveratrol isn't the miracle substance he (and many others) purported it to be, he basically just started doubling down and refusing to engage with other scientists calling him out on it.

if you have some time here's a good break down of what's transpired as it's escalated into a bit of social media drama:

May 2021: https://youtu.be/vpxQoGk_ryg

Jun 2021: https://youtu.be/K_dOJbplTxw (kind of reviews the previous video).

Aug 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7u6esW3qVw&t=124s

Oct 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXC9W7st9B4

March of 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLWQKMEXmuY

David Sinclair also will site highly biased sources if they re-affirm his existing premise. For example, he's been increasingly vegetarian and vegan over the years (and hey - they're good evidence backing up that less meat is mostly a positive).

But he'll site things like Adventist studies on a regular basis.

These studies are shit b/c they're observational

But they're shit moreso because Adventists are vegetarian as a matter of religious faith.

That's their whole angle. They're not going to produce anything that contradicts that worldview.

In fact, Adventists are founders of companies like Kellogs and they're responsible for peddling bad science for decades, like the Ancel keys Seven Nations study that left out countries to make up a bullshit conclusion about Saturated Fats that simplly didn't exist in the data.

This has shaped national nutrition policy and advice for decades. All so they can keep pumping processed products and PUFA's to the public to enrich corporations founded on their religious values.

So to site them, when they aren't doing hard science and trying to use your credentials as a scientist to validate it.. is just bullshit.

Sinclair gets a lot of stuff right but i wouldn't trust him as far as you could throw him.

he doesn't have an alliance to facts anymore. he has his self-interest and his worldview and everything else has to conform to it.
Maybe read the article before relying on your westernphobia.
Why not? Hiring is a two-way contract, if they benefit workers, they will have more and more competent ones to fill their positions with.

And if they mage to get a way to find underrated workers, they will make both sides extremely happy.
"unless Russia collapses first". Yes, that is the very likely outcome indeed.

You are aware that the GDP of Russia is less than that of several individual European countries? And I mean individual. Germany alone has twice the GDP. You are woefully overestimating the Russian economy in the first place.
Yes- older gen x and the youngest boomers.
Well yes, few cared - also, there wasn’t large scale bombing and 2 million refugees a month ago.
Better yet, I've got a whole list of long-running webcomics:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WebcomicsLongRun...
This headline is very bad, because it sounds like the observation you would get if there were no effect.
Furthermore, this attitude persisted well into the Reagan & Bush administrations, with the "war on drugs" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_tolerance#Narcotics
> It's really unfortunate that there isn't a single, high-quality reference source (with an API) for song lyrics…

Does Genius not serve this purpose? https://docs.genius.com/#songs-h2
I mean, the conclusion I saw drawn from the okcupid study was that it’s much more rare comparatively for women to be attracted solely on the basis of appearance. And it bears out: it’s basically common knowledge that women are attracted to confidence, and confidence is nowhere to be seen on dating apps. And if not confidence, charisma, or how he acts in public, etc. So it makes sense that women wouldn’t find men nearly as attractive as men find women on dating apps, since a large part of what they find attractive about guys is invisible on the apps.

I feel the solution here is the same it’s always been. Dating apps benefit some subset of the population. If you’re not in that subset you should probably find another strategy that is more in your favor. It’s funny you say guys can’t become more attractive because, compared to women, we’ve been pitched a softball: it’s a lot easier to become more confident than to improve your appearance, as a woman might need to do!

I feel I may be moralizing a little here, but in the end, every guy ends up with exactly one girl, and actually studies show that most people are happy in their marriage, so even is it were strictly true that girls find most guys unattractive, it doesn’t seem to matter in the long run.
"Trust me I'm a fact-checker" is the US equivalent.
The Senate intelligence committee found otherwise: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

It explicitly called out GP's misunderstanding: "The Committee found that paid advertisements were not key to the IRA's activity, and moreover, are not alone an accurate measure of the IRA's operational scope, scale, or objectives, despite this aspect of social media being a focus of early press reporting and public awareness."
> dopaminergic midbrain

Could white noise also help with addiction?
I have not. Thanks for sharing.
Do you know of a single study that supports catharsis? Because all studies I know of disprove or end up inconclusive.
It sounds like your grandfather lived very well.
I do.

Some articles are just way too wrong on a fundamental level that whatever it is they want to say is useless IMO / it's just noise.
Thought experiment: two groups of people, a control group and one told "stop venting".

1. Which group achieves more success in solving their underlying problem?

2. Which group exhibits higher levels of psychological satisfaction?
This is not helped by the language used in the post. This was supposed to be an introduction to queuing, people shouldn’t come away with their classic misunderstandings completely intact.

> When a system has steady-state 100% utilization, its queue will grow to infinity. (Emph mine.)

This is clearly false, there are clearly counterexamples where the queue does not grow that way. You don’t have control over the arrival rate etc but it could just be your lucky day. It would be more accurate to say you can’t guarantee that either the queue length or wait time are finite. Author didn’t include the words “assume the worst case” or anything like that. I feel like that’s a pretty crucial piece of framing that’s missing.
Doh! The reference to gosbankification should have tipped me off. People, this is satire by Izabella Kaminska, formerly of the Financial Times.

Now I feel bad that it's been flagged.
How many of these companies withdrew BEFORE they were forced by the US government?
On Choosing a Career Path
A gallon of gas weighs 6.1 pounds. 5 Gallons + a container is ~35lb - highly portable. That gives me roughly 100 miles of range for my vehicle at a total cost of around $20 (plus the cost of the container, said another $20.)

A 50kW Tesla (model 3) battery is what, roughly 700lb and provides a range of ~220m
miles if I'm not mistaken? Batteries of this size are simply not portable, nor are they cost effective to keep 8 in case of emergency. I live in an area that has occasional hurricanes and when one is threatening the area I go fill up 8 5 gallon gas containers and store them in the yard. Assuming the storm passes without major damage (power outages, etc.) we'll use that fuel to fill our vehicles' gas tanks. There is no equivalent of this in this new-fangled electric world. Until batteries become smaller, light and a hell of a lot cheaper, I'll be sitting on the sidelines.
A Letter from Our CEO
That's not actually what the study found.

Further, cessation of cannabis use did not fully restore neuropsychological functioning *among adolescent-onset cannabis users*.

They did not find a 6-8 point decline for folks who gave up cannabis if they started later in life. In fact they found no decline in IQ whatsoever for folks who started later in life - both when using it and after stopping.

In contrast, within-person IQ decline was not apparent among adult-onset persistent cannabis users who used cannabis infrequently (median use = 6 d) or frequently (median use = 365 d) in the year before testing.

> There's a lot less known about cannabis at this point, but what we know so far isn't very positive.

... for adolescents. Both your studies only show impact in youth.
I just realised it's satire.
This raises a pretty important "Emperor has no clothes" kind of issue: most of our crucial systems rely on "security theatre" which only works most of the time, because, metaphorically speaking, we lock the door but leave the walls open.

It seems to me that there are two main vectors to approach this problem:

First, massive simplification of all of our systems. (I call this "The Complexity is Too Damn High!" problem.) Other than certain niche applications we have enough processing power to run civilization. Rather than rushing the Singularity, let's take a breather and consider?

Second, trustworthiness and integrity have to become foremost values, and an international ad hoc web-of-trust has to be established. I know it sounds crazy, and maybe it is, but the alternatives seem even crazier, no?
I wanted to point out (and tag along with) the idea that Steve Jobs was an incredible speaker.

One example that comes to mind:
https://youtu.be/oNC8LEj5X4U

Steve Jobs and his teams made a lot of the right decisions. It’s evident in the way that Steve Jobs can talk about topics like what is covered above, topics that we take for granted today and have accepted into our lives. Jobs would talk effortlessly in a matter-of-fact manner, years and sometimes a full decade before the ideas had matured. It’s really incredible to look back at in retrospect.
Andrew Huberman saying in a podcast that it's not the case for verbal recall:

https://youtu.be/Ze2pc6NwsHQ?t=3350

Interesting podcast, btw. got it from HN few days ago.
* Community prediction..

This is basically a survey.
It's weird everybody's on the PFAS-bad train but nobody wants to touch that fluoride itself is being injected into the water supply and being drunk by millions of people daily for their entire lives, "for their health".
Few small errors:

> Stripe (2011)

Stipe doesn't use Rails at all. They use Ruby only.

>Discord and Mastodon

I assume you mean Discourse, the forum. Discord, the Chat App, uses Elixir + Rust

>Running Rails and started after 2010

Gusto (2012), Instacart (2012), Coinbase (2012), FlexPort (2014),

Although I agree with the overall thesis of the post. The sad state of things.
Yes, we’re at war. The rules have changed.
The WebGPU Shading Language spec is edited by Google and Apple, Mozilla were the ones proposing straight SPIRV and are not among the editors in this case.

Still doesn't make any sense but it has nothing to do with who the editors are.
One example: the number of times Russia publicly stated they would not invade Ukraine, leading up to the invasion.

Another: Russians stating this is a "special military operation" against military targets, when their actions explicitly target civilians and civilian infrastructure.

etc etc etc

I'm not commenting about the US, only to state that the number of times Russia has proven it cannot be trusted is now truly countless.

Hello from Ukraine.
Its one of the really bad part about many regions in Africa at the moment dealing with e-waste.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/10/29/toxic-charge-h...

Besides people melting lead batteries everywhere for recycling, much of the cooking dishes are made from recycled aluminum auto parts. Often laced with lead.
Wide-Band WebSDR
If you want to use QuickJS in the browser and/or NodeJS for running untrusted code, building plugin systems, etc, I have a library here that wraps a WASM build of QuickJS:

https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten#quickjs-emscr...

I believe Figma uses QuickJS for their plugin system.
> The plan is to have the propaganda never end.

It's quite scary. While I support the Ukraine, I'm shocked with how little media discussion there is about American hypocrisy on this topic. This certainly in no way excuses Putin's actions, but it's quite amazing how our elected officials can stand there straight-faced shaking their finger in disapproval at Putin after the number of countries we've invaded in my lifetime alone. Good God, I can't even imagine what we'd do if we got into a conflict with Mexico and the Russians we sending them weapons. Oh wait, that happened with Cuba in the 1960's and we threatened to wipe the Soviet Union off the map with nuclear weapons.
>3) income

Hm, I know some obvious contradictions. Just saying.. not interested in discussing this.
Plants crave it!
Poe's law hits hard here.
There’s a site for texting. https://1920.in

Donno if it helps tho. Saw a tweet about it and lots of people were saying they were sending texts and getting replies.
Examples of support say mostly Ubuntu 2014. Surely something is different now? Wondering too abt. MPV.
I honestly think that FDS is a psyop to ruin gender relations. I base this on my visits years ago where it was absolutely extreme. Like the content was beyond entitled woman. It was beyond psycho bitch. It was even beyond satire made by bitter men.

It was stuff like "red flags your date is a rapist: * if he doesn't look you in the eyes when he greets you, * if he does (not) mention his mother". It was stuff from a bizarro parallel dimension.

However recently it has become more moderate which I attribute to luring in real people participating in good faith, that are being influenced in a negative way.
> And how do I know what is happening there?

The amount of footage is overwhelming. Just watch as much as you can from both sides and try to draw your own conclusions. The Russian side has a stale message, it blocks real footage and only works by abundant repetition. They downplay the whole situation to their own peoples claiming the other side is using actors and staging footage. Here is where you can use your own judgement.
Occasionally, the translations won’t match in a contract or law and bilingual legal fun ensues:

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/business/worldbusiness/25...

Whenever I’m looking for a legal loophole, I’ll take a look at the French translation of the law.
Must Russians don't even know there's a war. Even a bad call could trigger some to look up what's happening.
>Yes that's hard to believe for westerners that your own state would do such nasty stuff to you, but it was commonplace then.

We are just about there ourselves. FBI labeling political opposition of domestic terrorist is kicking it off, replete with false flag operations and political prisoners.
There's very little that GPUs can do that CPUs can't do so far as exploitation is concerned. The GPU driver runs in a sandboxed userland process just like the browser engine does, and the GPU respects process isolation just like the CPU does. There is no “bare metal” here!

Now, sure, there must be plenty of memory-safety issues in GPU drivers, but why find an exploit in a driver only some users have installed, when you can find an exploit in the browser everyone has installed? The GPU driver exploit doesn't give you higher privileges.
The Taliban took 2 weeks to take over Afghanistan with little resistance in comparison.

Both Ukraine and Afghanistan have similar land in sqm and population sizes.

Why does anyone expect Ukraine to be taken over in a few weeks when there is bound to be more resistance? You would think atleast double or treble that time.
> wreckless the generations before millenials were

Premise is off...

This assuming millenials are not reckless. We're humans and our behavior is not defined by our generation.
What do you want to happen? We tried vaccinating and educating but 90+% of the deaths were unvaccinated and misinformed, we tried to stop the spread but then Omicron appeared. 1 million deaths is not normal but so are lockdowns, and most of us have kept masking and isolating until they became negligable.
I went through a Veterans Administration course of CBT and In Vivo Exposure Therapy and it was nothing like the "primal scream" therapies I did in the 90's that you may be thinking of. I thought "venting" was disproven to work in the late last century. That said, anything that interrupts a looping thought process is good. I've gone to the beach and rolled around in the cold pounding surf just to reset my head.

https://centerforanxietydisorders.com/treatment-programs/in-...
Like almost all analogies - it's a bad analogy.

Catharsis has a long history of study and proponents of catharsis have yet to get a "win".
'World-first' heart-thymus transplant success for Easton
Putin is not a train, he is only a man, and can be killed.
The nation has one-fifth of the world’s population, and that many mouths to feed, with less than 10% of the Earth’s arable land.

If China can be more self-sufficient in staple foods, it would be a contribution to the world's food security too,” said Zhang. “The less China imports, the more other countries will have.

“Chinese food security is world food security” is a thing, absolutely rampaging across markets over the past few years.

Along with diversifying fertilizer production outside geopolitically active areas (including China), an increasingly food secure China would be a simply absurd boon to world food security as we enter an era of less than stable supply chains.
Anecdotally I know a good amount people that now smoke all day, every day now that we work from home. At least among the people I know, there's no stigma - they tell me it "helps them think". I don't think this is the case with alcohol without a lot of people calling you out for having a "drinking problem".
I know catharsis was extremely helpful in my grieving process.

Realistically, I'm not sure how you would even design a study to accurately measure the effects. Any sort of cathartic experience would necessarily be self-reported and we all know the accuracy of self-report studies.
I as very curious how does one use "git blame" to solve bugs -- getting into mindset of others? Random blame-games? Estimation of probability of bugs based on developer's name?

Sadly, this blog post has nothing like this, this is a just very basic tutorial on "git bisect" command. The "git blame" does not appear anywhere in the code samples, and it seems author just mistyped it :(
Not a rails person at all, but I could easily imagine rails being closer to a perfect storm than most other dev communities, with its unique intersection of tech deep-divers who reach their personal "peak surface" in rails and who might very well follow a torvaldseque "I don't care about the social, it's the technology that matters" and the socialiteism of more content/design minded people who reach their "peak tech" in rails. In my perception, creating a bridge between those two poles is basically what makes rails special. That's "rails' superpower". And with great power, well, perhaps in this case great drama?
Amazon rainforest nears tipping point of dieback due to climate change
Augmenting Flexible Paxos in LogDevice to improve read availability
That's not what I'm suggesting.

The problem is ultimately anonymity, and people trusting anonymous posts as face value.

If we had a rigorous identity layer, a lot of this would be resolved.
SEC Fines Alumni Ventures
I mean, did you read the content of the piece? I know the Caribbean isn't exactly a tech hot spot but this can't possibly be in even the top 50% most interesting work happening in the Caribbean tech scene.
It's an extremely common deficiency that has links to a ton of issues, and it's quite easy to correct, so it's an extremely low hanging fruit in terms of reducing your risk for a ton of things.
Then how do you explain this email sent by yourself?

We are announcing an extended, off-peak maintenance window for your backup account.

Beginning Saturday March 5th at 9:00a PT (UTC -8) the server will go offline for approx. 6 hours as we perform data integrity checks and rebalancing.

...
Do you have a rough ranking? Nothing formal, just your best guess.