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Is it true what they say about psychedelics helping people to come to terms with their own mortality and death?

Occasionally I'll get crippling anxiety when I think about how one day I'm going to stop existing and there's absolutely nothing I can do to stop that.

I've heard people say that [some drug] has shown them how to no longer fear death and always wondered about that.
Proton is incredibly impressive nowadays, even when dealing with highly invasive anticheat services. I think there are only a small handful of games in my steam library where it doesn't work well. Within 5 years I think most of the remaining friction to gaming on linux will be gone.
What? FAANGs are among the most stable in tech, Apple especially is notorious for lifers.
We haven't (yet) prioritized an official physics plugin for Bevy, but the Rapier physics engine has their own official Bevy plugin, which is the de-facto standard at this point.

It supports opt-in determinism, which should be great for some networked physics scenarios.

https://rapier.rs/docs/user_guides/bevy_plugin/getting_start...

The story is similar for networking. Ultimately we will have a built in api, but we're focused on more fundamental things at the moment. There are _tons_ of community-developed networking plugins though:
https://bevyengine.org/assets/#networking
Yep, and when there's snow on the roads and a stop sign top of a hill, we treat them as yield signs so we don't get stuck on the hill.
> After doing the math, We decided to purchase three workstations at a total cost of $17k.

Why not share the math? Isn't this article supposed to answer why it's more economical to use on-prem?
It's a good book. I thought these passages were memorable: it shows you how quickly a situation can deteriorate, especially under an all-consuming pressure...like total mobilization for war.

In its issue of November 11, 1938, the Kronenberger Zcitung carried the following report, at the bottom of page 4, under a very small headline reading Schutzhaft, “Protective Custody”: “In the interest of their own security, a number of male Jews were taken into custody yesterday. This morning they were sent away from the city.” I showed it to each of my ten friends. None of them—including the teacher—remembered ever having seen it or anything like it.

1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939—until September 1, when, as the Head of the Government told them, Poland attacked their country—the little lives of my friends went on, under National Socialism as they had before, altered only for the better, and always for the better, in bread and butter, in housing, health, and hope, wherever the New Order touched them. “No one outside Germany seems to understand this,” said an anti-Nazi woman, who had been imprisoned in 1943, ostensibly for listening to the foreign radio but actually for hiding Jews (which was not technically illegal). “I remember standing on a Stuttgart street corner in 1938, during a Nazi festival, and the enthusiasm, the new hope of a good life, after so many years of hopelessness, the new belief, after so many years of disillusion, almost swept me, too, off my feet. Let me try to tell you what that time was like in Germany: I was sitting in a cinema with a Jewish friend and her daughter of thirteen, while a Nazi parade went across the screen, and the girl caught her mother’s arm and whispered, ‘Oh, Mother, Mother, if I weren’t a Jew, I think I’d be a Nazi!’ No one outside seems to understand how this was.”
What's the punishment for companies that try to put illegal clauses in contracts? If you have the resources to fight it the clause gets nullified but that's about it. Companies aren't generally punished for abusive contracts, or at worst they get some tiny fine.

As long as this is the case they will continue to try pulling crap like this.
I was at a university career fair in, I can't remember the exact year, but I think it was like 2008 or 2009. It may even have been while Sun was in the process of being bought by Oracle? I'm not sure. All I remember was the Sun recruiter handing out OpenSolaris CDs (I think) with a vibe of "well this is all essentially over but it might be fun for you to play with a non-Linux UNIX-like." I'm not sure if "this" was the company or the distro, though, it was a while ago. Mostly I just recall the interesting ambiance of... nostalgia for what could have been, I think...
> There are legit complaints about VC's as a whole, but being risk averse is not one of them,

I strongly disagree. Most VCs are very risk averse. They just pattern match to previous success, or "wait for someone to take the lead".

Only the top VCs are risk takers -- most of the rest just follow on for the ride.

Angel investors are much more willing to take risks than VCs.
"Actually reading" (as per comment I replied to) of traffic signs while in motion is rarely required in significant amounts in Europe.
For me, I agree that remote work doesn't work as well as collocation. Remote work is great for workers but terrible for managers and company efficiency.

The type of work I do doesn't translate well to JIRA tickets. It takes 3 whiteboard sessions, 5 meetings, and a water cooler conversation to come up with something resembling a work item that isn't a complete waste of someone's time.

Remote work is great for workers who can pull work from a queue. It's terrible for the people trying to fill the queue with quality work items.

So I guess it all depends on what you want to do with your career.
Yeah I visited some of their sacrificial sites out there, weird vibe. They believed the person being sacrificed would be reborn as royalty basically. Parents viewed it as a great honor to have a child sacrificed
Ask HN: Does anyone understand anything from academic presentations?
I'm talking about 30-45minutes post-graduate level seminars in which PhD students or professors talk about their thesis or paper.

I've always tried to enthusiastically "sit through" such sessions but unless the field is really really close to my own, I don't understand anything.

Like their whole literature or notations feels alien language to me.

In one of such cases, I wanted to know about "differentiable programming languages" which was posted here recently. I watched this seminar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1-YOWa0vJU) but I didn't understand anything and lost all my confidence in what I knew.

(Note that I searched the presenter, he is very much respected in his field. I just provided that clip as an example. It's not just this, as I said, I feel the same in 90% of similar topics)
Cool I've used Calibre in the past to convert a webpage to epub but the quality is always poor. I'll need to give this a try.
Yeah, I bet you do it out of courtesy...

They're not "interfering with the flow of traffic". At that point, the flow of traffic is the speed the cyclists are keeping. You're the one interfering.
There is a certain sort of hyper-social office worker that seems utterly incapable of respecting personal boundaries. Unfortunately, this sort of person is often found in management or HR, where they are positioned to make themselves a true menace to others. I'm glad to see this sort of office personalty become a financial liability for companies, and I hope there are more big lawsuits like this in the near future.
A platform should have the right to have whatever speech that they deem appropriate. A court deciding that literally contradicts your argument. 2. Moderation is up to each private organization, they can moderate, moderate lightly, heavily moderate, etc, it’s their company and their choice 3. “They should” aka it’s their choice. You don’t have a sound argument at all
So funny to hear this. 3 month notice periods (in either direction) are bog standard in parts of Europe. And it's entirely normal to just keep working, training your replacement/finishing off stuff.
Some might be offended by holocaust comparisons here, but if we are to really take the ideal of "never again" seriously, then it's absolutely crucial that we be free to openly discuss in good faith how situations gradually snowballed from one thing to another and ended up at a certain point in history without needing to censor ourselves so much to avoid offending someone.

And thankfully we've had nothing close to approaching the horrendous events of the holocaust during our present pandemic difficulties, but opposing discussion on the grounds of it being potentially offensive isn't doing any service to the survivors (and victims) of those past atrocities, and it risks us following some of those dark paths of the past into the future if we cannot apply what we learned to our own times.

The various lessons of history must be applied as much as possible in order to better understand our present time and to avoid repeating those mistakes of history.
You can just read the statements from Ballmer and others on what they were excited about. I wasn’t on the deal team, but I worked with them on parts of it. The statements below are reflective of the belief.

Occam’s razor would suggest that Microsoft and Yahoo’s exec teams both talking about the value of the Yahoo Internet services as the rationale for the deal probably is the truth. And Microsoft would have paid much more than 10% of the $45B to get it.

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Microsoft sees Yahoo as a way to compete with arch-rival Google Inc GOOG.O in the Internet search and advertising arena, but it has limits to what it is willing to pay to get a deal done.

“We’re prepared to move forward without a merger with Yahoo,” Ballmer said. “We think the best way to move forward quickly (and gain critical mass against Google) is to come together with Yahoo.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSMAT00810920080423
The only other time I really got hurt was when a very aggressive driver (again downtown chicago)( became incensed that I was riding in the car lane (no bike lane) and got within inches of my back wheel and started honking like crazy, scaring the shit out of me and causing me to slam into the curb and fly off my bike.

Both were accidents I made while a newb biker, I became a lot more "seasoned" after these two events and became a way more defensive biker
Ask HN: Why no GUI open source unarchive apps?
I know the simple answer is "because the developers want them to be" close but, and maybe my thinking is just off here, this seems like a category of project for which there would be plenty of open source apps with a GUI.

Take decompressing .RAR files on MacOS. There's The Unarchiver (proprietary) as well as Keka (proprietary). There's MacPar (proprietary). All are free (as in beer) but all are proprietary.

I get that WinZip and WinRar are proprietary because they are shareware and there's a few other paid ones on Mac. I'm curious why The Unarchiver and Keka and MacPAR are not open source. Neither Keka nor MacPAR have any association I can tell with any other company or app so it's not like they're loss leaders to get people to look at some company's other paid products. The Unarchiver is a loss leader so I guess that one makes a little more sense. Still, surprised this category of software has no open source GUI app.

I'm also not demanding they be open source. Still, I'd trust them more of they are. AFAIK they're just trojans, especially Keka and MacPAR, as the fact that they're proprietary seems to have no point which leads to trying to think of motivations for keeping them closed.

This is not a complaint. It's just an observation. It seems out of the ordinary in 2022 for a free app to be proprietary unless it has some other way of making money and in particular, un-archive apps seem like a category that would have more open source alternatives and I'm surprised. That is all.

What other categories of software are similar? Similar that they it seems like they're be plenty of open source alternatives but there aren't but for some reason there's lots of free but proprietary apps with no form of monetization?
Personally, I'm really into cable management and hate clutter. Having one less external device to plug in helps with that. It's not like a Roku or Apple TV or Fire Stick can't track you and show ads in all the same ways a Smart TV can, so it's hard for me to see the downside. Since you have to login to most of these services anyway, even if you're watching Netflix on a Linux laptop, they're still tracking you. I guess at least Samsung isn't tracking you on top of Netflix if you're just watching on a dumb monitor, but frankly, the way to handle that should be, if market-based, Smart TV providers that don't do content recognition and interest-based advertising, and if that doesn't work, legal regulation that bans abusive practices. We shouldn't be stuck with 80s technology forever because devices with integrated computers will inevitably be used for spying.
Mostly because we know very little about mental illness, so we are just guessing.

Previously, we had a terrible habit of identifying "mental illness" by external factors, such as meeting social and moral norms (so being gay was considered a mental illness, as was being troublesome).

To avoid this, and given that our understanding of the fundamentals has barely improved, if at all, we have chosen to take an approach that is much less likely to cause extraordinary distress to people who are perfectly well.

Remember that being labeled mentally ill can durectly rob you of your most basic human rights, so this is not a diagnostic that should be easily applied.
Why ‘Vision Zero’ Hit a Wall
Any plans to provide out of the box multiplayer? Lots of engines today don't think about it at all, and instead seem to focus on the sort of feature set provided by Unreal and Unity.

I don't think there's a whole lot of value in that design, but that's my personal opinion having built an engine for the Lua community that did somethings no one else was doing.

Mainly, providing an out of the box experience for, typically, hobbyist developers who don't actually know anything about multiplayer serialization or prediction, etc.

The sort of younger developers and people who are playing around with code and posting on Reddit and such.

A lot of engines are just wrappers around popular libraries and I don't know if there's a tremendous value around that sort of thing.

Consider, for example, audio. It's really easy to provide audio bindings to, I don't know, let's say OpenAL, because I don't know what else is used these days. But game developers eventually mature enough where they don't just care about playing audio.

What they'll eventually want is to play a sound, with DSP, and have that audio automatically networked by the engine to play on different connected client's based on visibility rules or at least a simple emit sound networked event.

There's an entire class of hobby engines that don't consider these things, and leave it as an exercise for the user to implement. They are entirely non-trivial features that the users will never implement, though, and instead just never pursue that feature because the engine doesn't provide it.
> Secondly, once the Microsoft lawyer's get wind of this, expect it to be shut down rather quickly.

This already happened when Linus Tech Tips posted a video regarding Ameliorated [0].

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1243421-windows-10-ameliorat...
If this is the most viable alternative, what does it say about the official version?
Has this been happening now that it was eliminated? Costs seem the same as before for me.
It would be nice if it overrode EDITOR with some command that opened a new pane in your existing Nvim session. That seems doable.

Alternatively, Tim Pope's fugitive is pretty great and you can write :Git commit and it does just that.
There's an almost religious adherence to broken product management practices. Endless sprints, endless user stories, obsession with "velocity", constant meetings and status updates...all of which grind the actual work to a halt. It's about the appearance of work, rather than the work itself. Developers are considered as code monkeys who need constant attention, not skilled professionals. It boggles the mind that companies pay so much for developers, and then put endless obstacles in the way of them actually getting real work done.
That Linux kernel is full of Google specifics, uses a microkernel like architecture since Project Treble, can be compiled since years with clang, now uses Rust for Bluetooth drivers,...
It is good that a random AT&T user can edit anonymously. It is bad that you can't. The "but" clause is a trap. You should be able to edit anonymously too.

If trends continue, less people will be able to edit anonymously. This trend needs to be reversed so that as many people as possible can edit anonymously.
Do FAANGs hire such old ICs?

I don't know if they hire them, but they at least humor you with an interview. I'm older than you and prepping for my virtual onsite now and had made it to the onsite previously in a couple FAANGS.
Depends on your definition I suppose. The fact that it is sitting there to be accessed by any program is a problem for some but I agree, sending it over the network is what most people worry about. Most evtx logs are not sent to the "mothership" but other telmetry and security logs like defender logs might be by default. There is also cloud submission which sends MS random suspect files for analysis.

Also, closed source means it is hard for me to be sure which of those logs are sent to MS.
> There is no harm done by answering a bad faith question in good faith.

That is the primary misconception which is exploited by the sealion tactic. It allows a bad-faith individual to reverse the position of offender and victim - because what harm is there in just asking a good-faith question?

Questions are still part of an argument, they are "leading" the reader. And addressing it carries the implication that it's a valid position worthy of respect and time to address it.

And some questions can be very noxious indeed and do need to be stifled outright - "what good has [minority group] ever done for us" is quite a harmful question even if the answer is legitimately "lots"! And again, even merely by bringing it up, and by addressing it in response, you've given it legitimacy both as a question around that particular group, and to the idea that groups need to justify their existence/presence in society. Those are both very harmful things done merely by "answering a bad-faith question in good faith".

Again, perhaps a more core value disagreement is that "good-faith discussion" can legitimately solve all woes, including malicious actors. That is really the basis of your "no harm can be done by answering a bad-faith question in good faith", is it not? That seems like magical thinking to me.

Anyway, "no harm can ever be caused by answering a bad-faith question with a good-faith response" is quite a broad position, perhaps you can cite some evidence or studies on that one, because there's rather trivial examples like hate speech that definitely run against it.
From what I gathered the ECS (Entity Component System) it uses allows for great performance.

This aside: if we assume the speed gains in future computing will be more about number of cores than CPU frequency then using a language which has some guarantees around concurrent code and data races is probably not a bad idea. It is really quite easy to shoot yourself into the foot when you run parallel code in traditional systems programming languages.
> Pretty sure async traits are coming soon (next couple of versions?)

No. There are ideas for how to do it, but as far as I know they haven't been tested out yet.

It also relies on pretty large features that are not proposed for stabilization yet (GAT and existential types). When that is done and the implementation strategy is chosen there will also need to be a RFC cycle, a phase of ironing out bugs and finally stabilization.

It'll be ... quite ... a while... I can't see it happening this year.
> the intuitive null hypothesis would be that people are good at estimating their skill, therefore there would be strong a correlation between their performance and self-evaluation of said performance

That's not really the intended interpretation of "null" in "null hypothesis". "Null" does not mean "contrary to the effect you're testing". "Null" means "do not assume dependencies anywhere" and so your description is backwards.
Well, what would an MBT be replaced with? You'll still need a vehicle carrying heavy weapons to take out bunkers, enemy vehicles, etc. Maybe you can have an ATGM carrier with a bunch of missiles. But missiles are expensive, so maybe if you fit a specialized fire control system to a gun you can get the same accuracy as a missile but cheaper. That's going to be heavy, so you'll probably want tracks to spread the weight[0]. Then you'll want to protect your big and heavy vehicle too so it can't be killed by say someone with a common RPG-7. And now what do you have? A tank.

Certainly things are going to change in the future. Active protection systems (APSs) are going to be basically required, and I wouldn't be surprised if APSs became the main armor. After WWII the effectiveness of HEAT made designers believe armor was ineffective, so many post-war designs sacrificed armor for speed, such as the Leopard 1, so something similar could happen again.

But an important part of the equation is tactics. A very similar question to "why do we still need MBTs" is "why do we still need infantry" and the answer is the same: they synergise[1]. Infantry need tanks to blow up hard points, and tanks need infantry to keep an eye on the surroundings, suppress and occupy potential firing points, take buildings to prevent them from being used to fire ATGMs and to use to look out for enemy ATGMs, etc. Infantry itself doesn't do anything to reduce the threat of missiles, but infantry-tank coordination tactics do.

[0] For example, the Stryker MGS is a wheeled vehicle carrying a gun. It's widely regarded to suck badly, but in principle there's no reason you couldn't have a good wheeled gun carrier.

[1] Also you need infantry to go places tanks can't go and root out defenders, plus actually do the work of holding enemy territory like talking to local leaders, clearing the radio station of hostile DJs, etc
They were not, in fact, opposed to progress that impacted their jobs. They were opposed to elimination of their agency. Very, very different.

Destroying equipment was a tactic, not an ideology. The worst that can honestly be said about it is that it didn't work.
I’m not a dev on the project, fwiw.

In any case, if you wanted security in the way you describe, how would you justify running Windows 10 at all? The onus isn’t on this project to secure Windows when they had no part in making it insecure to begin with. If Windows were open source, these measures wouldn’t be necessary, and wouldn’t result in less security. This is the current best effort that the devs can do to accomplish their goals. It’s fair to criticize the goal or the results, but issues you’re describing are present in stock Windows 10 to begin with.

I’m sure that some kind of auto build script could be created, so that whenever new Windows Updates are released, a new build is created.
Unfortunately, no. I guess it is because Solaris 11.4 was originally going to be Solaris 12. It has a lot of new stuff and modifications compared to 11.3. I guess they wanted to optimize it for the newer SPARC processors (or get enterprises to update their old systems).
"Zero tolerance" is a bureaucratic euphemism for 'zero nuance'.