skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you on this.

I had the temerity to suggest there are benefits to face-to-face collaboration, and that meeting with colleagues was a valid reason for asking them to be on site in the office -- and I got raked over the coals as a butts-in-seats management lackey.

https://ez.substack.com/p/the-work-from-home-future-is-destr...
What I've always struggled to understand about Dalio's statements is how does Modern Monetary Theory fit into things? He seems to believe the government bank account works like a domestic household and my understanding is different. For example you can have as much debt as you like but because of inflation those debts will always be repayable as long as you never try to repay the government debt?

I would say inflation has been prevented by Chinese manufacturing and recent inflation is being caused by price rises in shipping and problems with manufacturing (chip shortages), covid, increases in savings from people WFH for two years and not spending as much on going out, Chinese cost of manufacturing going up and obviously Ukraine and the sanctions against Russia.

We seem to be so sure of the causes of things but you can fit theories on top of history with astonishing ease, it's predicting the future that is difficult. Dalio has been saying we are due for a crash due to printing money for 10 years. Eventually he'll be proven right, but will it be down to the US debt pile or some of the other factors at play in the world. Who can say of sure?
Sorry but, I don't get the analogy, could you elaborate?
The article present it like it purely due to western-centrism these characters does not have distinct code points in Unicode. In reality the issue is much more subtle - a discussion whether a certain glyph is a ligature of two characters or its own distinct character.
I've been through a shitty marriage that ended badly. I divorced her, vowing to never get married again.

Many many years later, I married a woman who had been through decades of horrible long term relationships (including one where he pointed a shotgun at her), and vowed to never ever get married.

We both decided to take another chance at it, agreeing that in our marriage we would communicate everything as soon as possible. In the years since, we've had two cases of harsh words: One where she repeatedly did something that upset me and I said nothing about it, until finally I blew up at her one day. Another, where she'd been under extreme stress and blew up at me (yeah, we can be embarrassingly dumb, but hey, we're human). And besides that, not so much as a disparaging remark. We're together 24/7, never spending more than an hour or two apart (we're both home all day). We'll probably end up becoming one of those cute old couples who still hold hands at 80.

We make a point of never communicating in a blame-like way. I.E. "Please can you find a way to avoid doing X? I know it might not make sense why but it drives me nuts." or "When you do X, it makes me feel like Y. Can we find something else that works for both of us?" These turn into discussions to drill down into exactly where the problem lies, and then figuring out what changes we can make (one, the other, or usually both) to make things work better. It's a constant process.

We're all human, and we all have our quirks. They're not logical, but yet they exist and we can't change them. Being in a relationship is about empathy and communication. You're a team, so you really need to figure out how you can maximize your collective power.

When people say "It's about sacrifice", they're half-right. It's not about pushing yourself into smaller and smaller boxes to accommodate their large footprint. It's about making some sacrifices or changes to work around the quirks that the other person can't change (CAN'T, not won't). You support your partner where they have weaknesses, and you build up their strengths. Even if you look at it from a purely mercenary point-of-view, this makes sense.

Morale is vitally important. People have their down days, and you really need to be attentive to that. It's on you to see them through the down times and make sure they come out the other side okay. Note: I'm not talking about "cheering them up" (although that is sometimes a valid strategy); I'm talking about validation of their feelings. I'm talking about being there, in solidarity with them in their dark times, even if there's nothing else you can do to help. It's also important to celebrate their triumphs, and in general just let them know how much you appreciate them.

Being in a team (I mean REALLY in a team) is about being attentive to each others' needs, strengths, fears, and demonstrating to them that you have their back, no matter what. If you can't trust your teammates implicitly, you're not a real team.
Stablecoins and why they're so controversial
I enjoy cooking new stuff. She's completely uninterested in learning.
> I find it bizarre that you can live in one country, travel to a second country, do something that is perfectly legal in both countries, then be arrested months later in a third country.

It's only bizarre when using your framing. It's kind of like saying "I find it bizarre that certain arrangements of electrons is illegal", while referring to CSAM. Suppose it's legal to hack Americans from russia (officially it isn't but practically it is). You hack some americans while in russia. Do you think the DoJ isn't going to have their sights on you because what you did in while in russia was legal in russia?
The Archaeology of Inequality
Backblaze B2’s Universal Data Migration
Just from working with a few psychiatrists for the past month, none seemed to be enthused about trialing or studying psychedelics for depressed patients. I think we will need a lot more case studies and a comprehensive list of harms and adverse reactions before convincing them. Worth mentioning this treatment also requires more work on the therapist/psychiatric side. Something that doesn’t need a lot of therapy sessions is ECT which is very effective for treatment resistant depression.

Lastly, psychedelics used to be researched for military purposes and mind control, wondering if this is still a risk factor for patients?
> I wonder how the arrest went down

At the airport upon return

> Why he took a plea

Because the prosecutor would ask for way more prison time otherwise, the US International Emergency Economic Powers Act charge was pretty solid

> what the details of his presentation were

Information the North Koreans could have found already, even with their limited internet
Actually, thank Ron as well. I blame the end of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 for ending the open exchange of ideas and enabling the rise of polarized media oligopolies and local monopolies. Anything run only by giant corporations is soul killing. It's inescapable.

Craigslist and Google sealed the deal by eliminating ad revenue from the diverse media outlets that existed prior to 2000 (now long gone), thereby killing off all but the largest media outlets. Henceforth, all forms of entertainment has to be "giant corporate approved" in order to cut a distribution deal to sell the pap-ish drivel that corporate suits demand. Welcome to the machine, indeed.
Link to actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01744-z

These open-label studies also need to be carefully evaluated within the context of their selection criteria. One of the biggest challenges with open-label studies for psychedelics is that they tend to collect "true believers" who are already convinced that psychedelics will cure their depression. They seek these studies out specifically for the opportunity to receive psychedelics, often because they've read books and news articles telling them it will be successful. Notably, 1/4 of participants admitted to past psychedelic use (and I suspect the actual number is much higher, given that study participants often lie if they think a certain answer might exclude them from receiving the drug they want)

The study also explicitly required treatment-resistant patients to have tried and failed multiple antidepressants in the past, which explains the low response rate to the SSRI arm:

> The open-label trial had the additional criteria of TRD, as defined by no improvement despite multiple courses of antidepressant medication (mean = 4.6 ± 2.6 past medications; range, 2–11)39. Patients were asked whether they had previous experience of using psychedelics. In the open-label trial, 25% had previous experience. Similarly, in the DB-RCT, 31% of patients in the psilocybin arm and 24% in the escitalopram arm had previous experience.
> However, if they [restore backups], while the impacted ~400 companies would get back all their data, everyone else would lose all data committed since that point

OK, so you restore backups to a separate system, and selectively copy the stomped accounts data back to production. Simple concepts aren't that simple at their scale, sure, but I suspect this is skimping details on some truly horrendous monolithic architecture choices that they're trying to hide.

Not that I ever thought using their products was a good idea; to be clear about my position... But at this point anyone continuing to rely on them for anything is asking for the suffering they'll get. Signing up for their crap for a vital business function is like offering your tonker to a snapping turtle.
I interpreted the phrase as meaning something more like “when you make claims about the fundamentals of macrophotography with such a confident, authoritative tone, those claims should be backed by more research than you seem to have done.”
The issue is not the subjective "will this be used for evil", but the more objective "does this violate international sanctions", which it seems to. It has very little to do directly/exclusively with cryptocurrency or crypto in general.
Does this mean that they have multiple conformational states with similar energies that are easy for it to transition between? How different are the states and is this how the protein normally does its proteiny stuff?
Okay, fair enough!

However, reporting requirements and auditing are all about making sure everyone has access to the same, accurate information about a company's financial situation. Insiders will learn about changes in a company's finances before outsiders. If they can disclose this to some investors but not others, or even disclose it to some investors first, then that increases information asymmetry.

But this doesn't seem to be something that crypto fans are interested in, because they're not really investing in companies?
which means the US can dictate Mexican policy?
That is one article, you are saying "Honestly the media coverage makes it sound like the Russians run our elections." and "So many Americans want to believe that the only way anybody could ever disagree with their beliefs and preferences is through manipulation by malicious foreign actors."

I did not seen this opinion that elections were all about Russia to be frequent fo prevalent or dominating either news or what Americans talk about.
I actually think the opposite. Causing a short squeeze is market manipulation. Regulatory agencies let it happen anyway because it was done by random nobodies.
Trusted_for() bounces off the merge window
Shouldn't we train a slime mold to play the game instead of using mechanical devices?
Yep. The iPhone 13 Pro bokeh is miserably bad. On point sources, you're lucky if you can get any out of it and if you do it's got a hole in the middle.

Example here: https://imgur.com/a/cPG3YSP
A placebo does not need to be completely inactive, it merely needs to not exhibit the effect you are trying to test for.

Using an anti-depressant as placebo for a test regarding anti-depressive effects does seem a bit odd, but it is fine if the test is for effects or durations exceeding the capability of placebo drugs.
I think the fundamental issue with ebikes in urban traffic is that they're some of the most unpredictable vehicles on the road. Here in Cambridge MA some people on these electric vehicles storm through gridlocked traffic like it's a slalom course.

Unlike normal bicycles, these things can have considerable acceleration, so my typical habit to keep tabs on cyclist traffic out the corner of my eye before turning sometimes deceives me. It's very disruptive to have vehicles passing on the right at much higher speeds than the rest of traffic. It only takes one inattentive driver to splat them.
Great comment.

> I always hated how much teachers would drill symbolism and literary device analysis into you in school but then I come across threads like this I wonder whether we aren’t focusing on it enough.

I feel, the inability to treat the glass solely as a symbol, is more related to the form of writing.

This sort of confessional writing, it does not tolerate symbolism well because the author is also the protagonist. The symbolism of the glass, in this article, it's more of a protective screen. The author explicitly writes the glass wasn't really the issue, but then we never actually learn about all these other things that were the real issue. Like, dedicate some paragraphs to it dude, don't leave us hanging! In the writing, he's a kindly, oblivious man. We get hints that he wasn't. Disrespect, what's that exactly, that can be downright cruel, where on the spectrum are we here? Beyond the glass, honestly, there's nothing. Like, was he rolling his eyes when she was talking to her. "communication issues", what's that, did they share meals in silence, or where they fighting like cats and dogs, but then making tender love to make up, what's going on?!?! Tell me. The glass really is the thing here. (Maybe his book has more, I don't know). For all intents and purposes, yeah, it was the glass. The reader can only understand their divorce in vague generalities, and since we get nothing more than the glass, it feels more like a distraction. Also, like come on, we need to hear from his ex-wife!

Symbolism in fiction, functions more like an anchor, around which the mind can wander, which invites us to contemplate. And we can, because, honestly, right or wrong, it doesn't matter. There's less of this need to get it right, make sense of it. The motives of the author are just less important, a reader has less of this curiosity or nosyness, in the sense, that we're tickled to take a peek behind the curtain.

I think, if the article were written as fiction, say a short-story, that glass would be great symbolism, and there would be less this need to come up with solutions, or try to pinpoint who was right and wrong, ... But in that article, I don't know, it feels more like a dodge.
Tracking marine plastic using satellite spectral imagery
Same reason you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. There are limits to freedom of speech, especially when it interferes with national defense. Schenck v. United States is an interesting case where the supreme court ruled that passing out fliers to encourage resistance to the draft is not protected by the first amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
I totally understand the concerns and have some fears about side-loading. But I came to the conclusion that the solution to this isn't to prevent side-loading. It is to allow side-loading and introduce legislation for better consumer rights.

You can force developers to offer refunds, fair trials that don't trap you into a subscription, subscriptions that you can cancel on every billing date with the click of a button, leave privacy choice to the user and preventing app developers from restricting functionality based on these. Maybe a cheap legal way to force a big company to review your account ban.

Basically all the consumer friendly practices Apple forces onto developers offering Apps in the App Store and more.

But I'm against legislation that only forces Apple to offer side-loading and functions as a way for big developers like Adobe or Epic Games to potentially circumvent restrictions on dark patterns they would like to use in their apps. Bring this developer and consumer rights combo bill and I'm all for it.

Also: Restricting users from running third-party code is a really effective way to stop malware infections. Yes there are zero-days, but most malware related problems are caused by someone accidentally running code. These locked down devices completely stop this kind of attack. This makes locking down devices a huge plus for the majority of the user base. It's only a problem for developers that sell software in the App store and advanced users that want to run their own software.
If it was the only means to acquire food, yes absolutely that would be bad

of course you know that is not what I was talking about, the "you will own nothing and like it" crowd which I assume you are a part of given your response never wants to debate the actual problems with that position instead they take hyperbolic positions designed to deflect
Kaminari – The ever fast WebSocket tunnel built on top of lightws
You'd think companies spend more time trying to optimize their spend but I've seen 6 figure changes from tools like this. Filed under "obvious in retrospect".
I believe it has one of the best TPS for a decentralised system, and this can be improved with better hardware when the need for higher TPS comes. Now, as it stands today, you can transact on Nano with a 0.4s confirmation time, so higher TPS is not a necessity.
> Now think again about what this video really said.

Don't vaguepost. If you've got a point, say it.
This merely adds to the confusion, since the name of the glyph contains the words "right angle."

The article notes that sans a given meaning the glyph was given a “descriptive name”.

So you’re not wrong? :-P
Psychedelics used to be a fairly common treatment for depression and addiction in the 50s before the witch hunt of the US government against what was considered "street drugs". Leary didn't do them any favors either as he was essentially telling everyone to load up on psychedelics, which triggered the usual over the top uninformed response our dear elected officials are so fond of.
Same experiences. Dropped drinking, started exercising. The LSD dose was much higher and the after effects listed lasted for weeks. However, the mushrooms dosage was lower and while the after effects were similar, it didn’t last as long. Truthfully, I felt a deeper connection with the moment post-LSD.

The LSD trip kind of hurt but after the first few hours, became a solid 6-8 hour span of self reflection. Mushrooms started out chill and evolved into a pretty painful experience before moving into that self reflection stage.

What’s happening during that self reflection stage is best described as a feeling of losing it all. Family, friends, etc. but not so much material items. In that moment, I felt complete loneliness and the fear associated with that loneliness. That fear led to asking what would make me be alone and the answer was my personal ego. It ultimately was a confrontation of personal flaws like narcissism or selfishness. Later in the trip, like 5-8 hours, a feeling of being content with who I am and where I need to improve to not lose the things that truly matter was the result.

I don’t know if I’ll ever try either LSD or mushrooms again but the reset on my personal ego made me value a lot of important things that get backburnered in the grind and stress of life.
When given the choice, choose compassion.
I'm working on a nonfiction book on a region near me here in NJ. Would love to pick your brain regarding writing (and anything else). Got an email? Thanks!
>everyone hates America

Source?

Which country doesn't or hasn't engaged in espionage?
Opioids and Benzodiazepines (Xanax) are even closer to what I imagined Soma was
> rock also focus in fast iteration.

Are you thinking of Roc or is this another language?
This means that the same string can have a near-infinite number of entropy values? What is the value of entropy then from a password-strength point of view?

If I understand you correctly, the entropy of "H@ckerN3ws" is 1, if the process that generated the password is defined as: "The first letter is a capital H, the second letter is an at-sign, etc"?
> I think the consensus is pretty much what I wrote in my previous comment: The US would not start WWIII over Taiwan, obviously, and thus would not attack China but would help Taiwan (supply of weapons, intelligence, and other aid like in Ukraine).

> The US would only start a war against China in case of 'existential' threat, indeed. But that would mean China attacking the US, which they obviously won't do for the same reason.

I don't think that's the consensus at all. It's what I'd call "status quo" thinking. You are reasoning by analogy which doesn't apply here. Why do you think the US has all of these bases, is training Taiwanese troops and selling them weapons, and patrolling the South China Sea? Without US intervention there's nothing preventing China from attacking and taking over Taiwan. You're not understanding the strategic implications here. The U.S. isn't playing around here and building up all of this stuff for no reason, it will defend Taiwan for the foreseeable future. Not doing so flies in the face of pretty much all US policy and military actions. I don't find that to be compelling whatsoever. This actually reminds me of people who thought that the US wouldn't defend the Baltics. You're projecting your own calculations and reasoning onto what the US as a nation state would do and it just doesn't work here.

> How would that show that he US military can be defeated if the US did not intervene directly? And how would that be existential? Also the US military as effectively been defeated a number of times before. Even directly against China the US did not fare that well during the Korean War and that was when the gap between the two countries was arguably at its greatest.

I can't think of a time that the US has genuinely been defeated, militarily, in a war. There have been more so political statements, but the US has not faced a peer or near-peer adversary and lost so far and these types of wars are entirely different ball games. People like to cite Vietnam or Afghanistan but those are not similar. The last war we've fought against an industrial nation was World War 2. Nothing else is very comparable.

> How would that show that he US military can be defeated if the US did not intervene directly?

Because the US would intervene to start with. But if the US doesn't intervene it brings into doubt the ability of the US to check Chinese military power in the Pacific. It completely rearranges security agreements and economic ties to the detriment of the US.
Great read! And a great share!

It's fantastic when the article pushes my appetite for knowledge and offers a keyhole to aristocracy of days gone by. It's like shaking hands with one of it's participants while they momentarily bore themselves of their usual lavish life with my existence lol...

Though it is articles like this that make me ponder about such aristocratic life today, and how the modern proliferation and consolidation of wealth is a usurper of such relations and events to spawn current literature, in the now.

Having read the seminal Huxley work, I'm now looking forward to consuming Chrome Yellow, with verve.
I've started doing that now but when I created my TreasuryDirect account 9 years ago I wasn't doing that yet. I hope I never have to call.
The way these drugs seem to work is they stop serotonin from being blocked in habitual ways. The resulting experience makes people see/feel things as if it was for the first time.

"Numb" is a poor description for this phenomenon.
I don't think this narrative is congruent, at least to people that are aware of Apple practices. They're in a campaign to try to trash other businesses competitive advantage, like some sort of virtue - when in reality Apple still has some other agendas that aren't very consumer friendly.

So all of this just sounds fake.

I wonder when they'll pitch that contextual advertising will perform better than all the rest, and they'll offer it as a solution, and in no time Apple enters the Advertising space because brands can reach Apple users in a contextual way.