skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Research papers on it, like https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3, are appearing in the top science journal in the world and are no less enthusiastic than a press release.

The article actually discusses that very paper:

> While we’re here, it’s worth talking about the MAPS MDMA-therapy trial itself. In May 2021, to much media fanfare, they published their Phase III clinical trial in Nature Medicine. The trial reported enormous, nearly unbelievable effect sizes: 0.91 of a standard deviation difference in score on a PTSD questionnaire between an MDMA and a placebo group (both groups got therapy). That’s the kind of effect medical researchers fantasise about.

> Are these effect sizes plausible? Nature Medicine also published two critical commentaries on the paper. The first one points out the issue we discussed above: that the blinding was almost certainly compromised in the study, since the control group got a completely inert placebo and the treatment group surely could tell whether they’d been given ecstasy. Expectations could have played a major role, and might explain at least some of the huge difference between groups (the commentary also makes the interesting point that researchers used to be required to collect data on which condition patients thought they were in, but since 2010 this is no longer the case. It might be time to bring back this rule). The second commentary asked for studies with more relevant control groups and longer follow-up periods to check the safety of the treatment. The MAPS researchers also responded, somewhat limply.

> The journal also published an entirely uncritical commentary co-authored by Imperial College London’s David Nutt. Remember him? He was Fired4Truth as a drugs adviser by the UK Labour government in 2009 for criticising government policy on drug classification; he’s now a major psychedelics researcher who co-authored the psilocybin trial we encountered above. The commentary calls MDMA “remarkable” three separate times in about 1,000 words (it’s true the effect sizes in the study are remarkable, but what if they’re due to expectancy bias?). It also says it’s likely that MDMA “will be an approved medication within a few years”.

> So there’s a final potential harm that stems from the breathless hyping and cheerleading of psychedelic treatments way beyond the evidence: it could mean that therapies—which come with their own rare but real dangers—are approved and rolled out to large numbers of patients when we need a lot more evidence that they really are beneficial in the long term.
This is one of the most important books I've ever read. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Also recommended: the long documentary by Marcel Ophuls, "The Sorrow and the Pity," about ordinary French and German people who lived through WW II.
On an AWS team currently, some of our best left to similar'ish google cloud products. No issues there.

The turnover rate is extremely high at Amazon. I don't even consider my non-compete clause when looking at other roles. If you're really worried then don't update your linkedin right away when you leave. After a few months no one will notice.
Q: Who was Jesus?

A: He was the son of God! He could walk on water, heal any physical ailment with the mere touch of a hand, and freely clone matter in total defiance of the physical laws of conservation.

Q: Amazing! What happened to him?

A: A shoulder injury led to large tension hemothorax which resulted in fatal circulatory collapse.

Q: Oh, ok...
No euphemism, I meant he was physically turning himself red with online rage
Its entirely probable that they did not accommodate his wishes AND he was violent.
> There's not enough detail or background here to make confident armchair readings about anything.

That the jury ruled in his favor is a significant detail.
A lot of strong opinions here based on one vague article. The CEO says the plaintiff was fired for violating a workplace violence policy. Obviously the court disagreed. Why?

The lessons for the wider world will be found in the case details themselves, few of which are actually in this article.
> As someone who also does not like being the center of attention, I wish this man got more money, and that this company would go bankrupt.

Bear in mind that when a company goes bankrupt, usually it's not only the owners who feel pain. It's also employees, creditors, their suppliers, their customers, etc.
> Regardless of what you think, it is your actions that matter.

There's a legal definition for "the intent to commit a crime"[1]. (Even if it's not a legal definition in a particular jurisdiction, certainly it's a concept that can be understood.) It seems to me that we can apply that question of intent to the individual when it comes to the crime of genocide.

The world is full of nuance and you should be cautious when a statement lacks said nuance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
The bonus program for the first two years seems like a good/balanced thing for Amazon and the employee (to cover the “missing triangle” of comp while RSU grants begin to stack).

I’m not now and never have been an Amazon employee, but the bonus plan just seems sensible to me.
I also have heard stories of young men from that era convicted of relatively minor crimes, such as property theft. They would be given the option between a jail sentence or military service. Unsurprisingly, many chose military service.
I found that even trying to discuss this case like reasonable human beings immediately attracts downvotes, be it here or on Reddit - it's like "how dare you even question this! Of course McDonald's was in the wrong and even asking 'why' is a violation of some kind"

Edit: case in point - this comment is currently in negative and I literally have no idea why, I've been commenting on this site for almost 10 years and this is one topic that is always guaranteed to attract downvotes no matter the context.
That would be a fairly rational thing to do, but based on past behaviour I don’t think musk is one who backs down easily.

It really depends how much he wants it, which only he knows.
Actually you're right and I'm looking into buying exactly one of those.

You got any recommendations?
That makes no sense because it hasn't really pumped. Stock price is basically where it was 5 days ago.
This reads exactly like a LinkedIn post, formatting and everything.
Twitter reminds me a lot of Yahoo about a decade ago. A company that lost its way. Cycling through lots of CEOs, re-orgs and visions and a culture that atrophied along the way.

Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for $45B in 2008. The board of directors declined, believing in much more upside. Yahoo became increasingly irrelevant. They later sold to Verizon for $4.5B

https://www.onmsft.com/news/its-finally-over-yahoo-is-acquir...
> If X and Y are two independent random variables, X representing skill and Y representing self-assessment of skill, X and Y will be negatively correlated

1. As mentioned in another comment, X and Y can't be independent and correlated at the same time

2. The point of the article is to show that you can replicate the results of the DK paper starting from purely random data. In the article X and Y don't mean anything, they're just random variables that the author draws samples from. The fact that you can get DK results from this very strongly suggests that DK is just an artifact of statistics, not an actual result.

> What do you mean by "the plot of y-x ~ x will always look that way" - what way?

See Figure 8 in the article, also panel B in Figure 10.

> The shape of the plot will necessarily depend on the relationship between x and y.

What I meant to say is that since X and Y are simulated data, not actual observations, the shape in Figure 8 will not actually depend on any possible relationship between ability and self-assessment. It's just a statistical artifact.

Figure 9 is based on this simulated data as well, and since it closely replicates Figure 2 there's good reason to believe that Figure 2 itself is actually just a statistical artifact and that the DK data don't actually show the purported correlation.

This point is further strengthened by referring to a few papers and by showing some corrected results in Figure 11.
It's the veto that's the problem, right? You feel they are claiming harm in order to escape the offending situation. In fact, perhaps they would take exception to your assertion that they are actively seeking control, is that not a possibility?

How do you know they are not being harmed by those who actively utter speech designed to be hurtful? Is it not also antithetical to freedom to allow such people to attempt to make existing in what's left of the commons as painful as possible?

What qualification can you present that would make me trust in your assessment of some other person's level of tolerance to abuse?

And really, "tolerance to abuse" here means "inability to escape abuse."

Sorry, offense, you said offense, of course your willful offending never becomes abuse. In my experience that is a difficult line to always see clearly. Can you share how you maintain that balance always? Your insight into other people must be incredible, I eagerly await your reply.
The first panic attack made sense. What’s the reason for the second panic attack?
> Rather than put a number on a sign and be done with it, its an inexplicable white circle with a black line across it!
> […]
> it depends on […] what you are driving.

If it depends on what you’re driving they can’t put a single number on it. I would guess putting multiple numbers on wouldn’t be an improvement.
I think he was saying that the management showed bad decision making in the original situation, so it's no shocker that they continue to exhibit poor decision making while defending their original poor choices.

Edit: after OPs ninja edit, I'm not so sure anymore
>China

It’s not just the manufacture but the money laundering for the cartels. Maybe “It’s just business” but so is knocking America down a peg.

>Russian energy sanctions

This is the core problem. We in the west are under the parochial impression that most of the world will follow along with this, and that impression is incorrect. Russia has too many resources, that too much of the world is reliant upon. That is the crux of the decision that is being forced, and IMHO it is not going to be forced in our favor.

If we wanted to force such a decision, it should have been from a far stronger position, with ready alternatives for the rest of the world in place. Of course, it was the Russians who took the initiative on when that would or would not be possible.
Well, that's my point - if people are that aligned with an ideology separate from any specific pressure, then their actions are their own and they're not spies nor are they connected with US intelligence agencies.
Drivers get tickets or worse if they don’t follow the rules.

I would love if cyclists everywhere also had the same expectations; and loss of cycling privileges, if they didn’t.
Caveat that doesn't (AFAIK) apply in the UK. Here it looks like un-payed non-competes are enforceable but if they're too long/too broad that would likely make them unenforceable.
In the US, the americans with disabilities act requires workplaces to provide reasonable accommodation for disabilities. They're not required to hire you if you're incapable of doing your job as per it's description, and they're not required to accommodate to an unreasonable degree.

Not throwing someone a birthday party sounds like a perfectly reasonable accommodation.

Beyond that, people have to push back at those annoying requirements. Should a company be allowed to have whatever requirements it wants to have? Should I? Do we belong to them?
A note to anyone involved in such litigation: settlement agreements are negotiable! Consider what effect a gag clause will have on your life and ability to communicate freely with others, and consider negotiating it out of the agreement, or putting an expiration date on it. If the other party is contemplating a settlement, you are likely coming from a position of negotiating power: you can always walk and insist on a judgment, which will be more of a hassle for everyone but will not include a gag clause.
Well ... good luck to them I guess. That does not sound like a plan I'd personally enjoy.
I've worked at a few places where the provided "free" coffee was just what one of us decided to bring in and share in the kitchen.

I have also yet to work anywhere where the added "agitation" of getting folks talking in the kitchen wasn't the largest benefit of having said kitchen. (That is, productivity was probably lower, but it increased the odds of a productive conversation happening. Nothing guaranteed, of course.)
I think currently Helix targets a different audience. Helix does not have a plugin system (there is an ~1 year old proposal to use WASM but until it is functional the point is moot) or embedded scripting language, so your ability to customize it is extremely limited.
Any unsolicited takeover is considered „hostile“. It’s just a term. Check a dictionary.
This is good. He had no real plan to help the company anyway. Twitter does not need a part-time CEO.
>Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of electronic data and information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology

It sounds like you're getting your definition from what people think an "IT department" is in a regular business. IT is an old-school name that encompasses far more than you describe.
I recall a German solider interviewed in some documentary. He was young, got into the Nazi party. Fought with his parents who knew he was being brainwashed in a way.

Later on the eastern front he had some event that made him think of what his parents had been saying. He said something like "I realized they were right... but by then it was all too late."

Those choices that close our ears to things and choices that lead us to irreversible paths seem to be the ones that are the worst.
The jury had that, and made a decision accordingly.
I guess Musk will have to go with Plan B, then. I would guess he will start his own Twitter competitor much like Trump did with Truth Social, and he has the star power to actually create the network effects needed to bootstrap a new social network. In addition to him selling his current 9% share of the company, this is likely very bearish for Twitter's stock price.
WebAssembly, WebGPU, and WebXR are the new VRML and will pave the way for an open, platform-agnostic metaverse where sites becomes worlds, hyperlinks becomes portals, profile pictures become avatars, and profiles become personal homes or spaces others can visit.

Interestingly, Meta's CTO just let slip yesterday about a web version of Horizon:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/14/23025899/meta-horizon-wor...
Doesn't that make this a smart move then? If they rejected his offer, they'd be hit with the same lawsuits. In this case, they have a defense to say they were acting in the best interests of the shareholders if that causes Musk to back off.
> Ten percent isn't very much

Is this really a hill you want to die on? Seems like a rather large sample to me...

Here's a graph from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lysergic_acid_dieth...
The problem we face today is that the protest groups of yesterday that protested for freedom is the opposite of the protest groups today that protest in favor of oppression.
Kamikaze Drones in Russia’s War Against Ukraine Point to Future “Killer Robots”
They fit in fine, as far as job functions are concerned.

It's explicitely not ok for 'social fit' to be a firing offence, isn't it? That's another word for "Not our kind of person" which opens an ugly door.

Parties targeting one person are so, so problematic. Nobody asked anybody to 'accomodate' this person. They asked to be left alone, which is literally zero accomodation.
> it also shows the level of risk aversion they exhibit.

I feel like it's very risky to do what everyone else is doing in a winner-take-all market.

It seems like part of the problem is that there's too much VC money floating around for the number of opportunities in the market. I'm sure most investors would love an original pitch, but they just aren't getting any. And how can you claim to be a VC if you're passing on every venture looking for your capital? Throwing $1MM at Twitter for Dogs is probably just a cost of doing business, it keeps you in the loop and adds some prestige.
That would certainly change things. Did they fire him pettily because they felt he didn't appreciate the party enough since he left? Or did his panic attack cause him to, say, punch someone in the face? There's so little detail in the article that one could imagine a scenario where firing the employee doesn't sound like a 100% asshole move.
Interesting - I did not even know that old.reddit used a different search. I rarely even use the search (occasionally I will use it to search a specific subreddit and assume it is only searching post titles). I pretty much exclusively use old.reddit + customized reddit enhancement suite and on mobile use the app Reddit is Fun. Anytime I have to go back to vanilla new reddit it feels like a totally different site. I'm not even really changing the default subscriptions all that much either at all - often I browse without being signed in. The part I find the most odd is that even without signing in the "hot" algo seems to organize top posts occasionally differently between the two (old and new).
I looked at this once, and I seem to recall SMF relies on a Solaris-specific IPC mechanism with no simple analog on Linux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doors_(computing)
Look at where it was a month ago.
Musk has made announcements before and backed off. I suppose the Muskboys will call that 4D chess, but at the end of the day, it has happened.
Gosh, if only you were there to defend that poor multinational corporation 20 years ago!
Or perhaps an even closer match, do what the Taliban did in Afghanistan to defeat the Soviet Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War
I've been using vim (neovim) for more years than I can count, but there is still so many movements that doesn't stick in my head, probably because I don't use them so much.

I recently came across the which-key.nvim (https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim) neovim plugin, which helped me a lot to speed up finding what movement I want to do. It basically shows you a popup with what combinations are possible after you press any key (while nvim waits for the next one), so you can basically explore commands by just pressing keys, instead of having to look them up.
No, it’s not what’s happening. It’s just what ill-informed Musk fans think it means, because they don’t know the term, don’t bother to check it, and consider everything that doesn’t praise Musk as explicit condemnation.

Sort-of exactly the mechanism you’re complaining about.
Official =|= reliable

The USSR, and successor states, lost track of the liquidators, completely. It helped in not paying them. The West was fine with it, it made it easier to sell nuclear as save. It also meant that any Liquidator who died of conplications after Chernobyl was most likely not included in official figures, because nobody officially counted him as having been there in the first place.
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Nearly 50% Commission on Metaverse Purchases 'Lays Bare Meta's Hypocrisy'
Watch this movie as it explains everything, it wasn't a frivolous lawsuit like it was always portrayed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBKRjxeQnT4
The most bizarre part of this whole saga has been the legions of online commentators who evidently take Elon at his word when he says he is trying operate in the public interest, or that his actual aims are what he says they are.

It seems patently obvious to me that all of the actions he's taken over the entire time he's been in the public eye have shown him to be an incredibly vindictive egomaniac and serial liar interested only in his own aggrandizement. I find the apparently deep well of credibility he has with the public to be completely baffling.
im using a boox nova 3 at the moment. i mainly went with this device because it uses android as the OS which makes it easy to install syncthing and sync my books folder to it. i can add or remove books / long form articles to the syncthing folder on my phone or laptop and everything is synced across later on
I've been reading some Jacques Ellul about propaganda, and I have to say you're not letting the culture at large lead you by the nose! I'm also reminded of a quote from Edward Abbey: "Grown men don't need leaders." Peace to you.
> and this is likely to be corrected

I think you mean, unlikely?
Honestly, it's pretty pathetic that multiple people respond to your post with legitimate examples, and you completely ignore them, instead only responding here. Whatever it takes to protect your fragile little worldview, I guess.
Do you get violent when you have panic attacks? I don't, but I'm wondering how other people experience those and if this person was more or less like mine.
Electronic cooking devices do not release green house gases. Electronic woks and Electronic kitchens help fight climate change.
> A day later after he arrived for work, he was called into a meeting with two superiors, who “confronted and criticized” him for how he reacted to the birthday party he did not want, according to the lawsuit. This caused him to have another panic attack.
> completion, snippets

This is fine in the nvim-cmp world, there's a config example in the lspconfig wiki, it's about 5 lines for the integration. The recommended lspconfig configuration (included snippets and autocompletion) has less lines of code than the example in the readme for coc.

> formatting

This is built-in to neovim's LS client (vim.lsp.buf.formatting()), adding an external formatter can be done with formatexpr (built-in)
A whole passel of podcasts, to the tune of about $70 per month.

It's only a small fraction of the podcasts I listen to. Most are ad supported (and occasionally I buy the advertised products; I'm looking forward to another FuegoBox momentarily). I also listen to a fair bit of BBC radio.

I download about 30 hours of podcasts per week. Between PocketCasts features (skip opening, speedup, silence elimination) and skipping episodes I don't care about (reruns, news I've heard elsewhere, dull topics), I probably spend ~10 hours per week listening.

I wish there were a more direct way to connect the podcast to the Patreon. Many put links in the text, but I usually don't read that. I will pay attention when they call it out, and I think I probably pay for about half the podcasts I listen to. The $70 "podcast bill" seems about fair for so much content.
You're being sarcastic, but I can think of a number of cases where someone could have expressed that opinion seriously and been pretty much correct, including Jews under the Nazis, and the Ukrainians now.

You can't reduce politics to a game of pattern-matching where every time someone says something which pattern-matches to "you called someone bad people!" you should react just like the last time someone said it. Sometimes people are bad, sometimes they're not, and there's no shortcut to figuring it out other than by taking the time and effort to actually figure it out, (Which isn't really a shortcut at all.)
Kobo has the best eink renderer and has the best support for modern standards. iBooks is the best renderer on tablet/iOS. Kindle is an ereader made by people who hate books.
22% is absolutely fucking huge
AWS is on my list of places I would never apply or work at. This post just reinforces my opinion on that.
Are you trolling, to make cyclists look bad?

If I drive and hit a cyclist going ignoring the one way, the following things happen:
-Emotional trauma for the driver
-Death or serious injury for the cyclist
-No punishment; or maybe a lawsuit against the cyclist for damages, if I want to be an asshole. Because the cyclist was in the wrong.