skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Psychedelics are to the study of the mind, what the microscope is to biology and the telescope is to astronomy” –Stanislas Grof.

While it feels like an artifact from the future, Berkeley CSP is now formally certifying "facilitators". And its important to note, because the cure is the experience. Not the actual biochemistry. We know a lot about the botany and chemistry of these compounds. And we can actually map phenotypes with human genes to predict certain effects. But the missing bridge between the two is the trip. The fact that we are finally after so many millennia attempting to apply Baconian methods to what was hitherto described as quasi-miraculous feats mystical exploration is exciting. And I believe will be fruitful, though in the short term generate many more questions than answers ;)

https://bcsp.berkeley.edu/training/
I saw something here about California banning arbitration agreements a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17849490

I don't know what the scope of it is though. I wonder if anyone has pushed back at arbitration clauses successfully. I got screwed by one once, I'm pretty sure.
Ook and Gluk is a Captain Underpants book. Captain Underpants is a series and this is part of it and has the main characters from Captain Underpants. The series (not an individual title) is #2 on the list because there are challenges to the books because of words and images that offend some people. Sometimes those people are liberals - and no I'm not saying it's 50/50. However, when Dav Pilkey gets his book challenged for offending people he has to issue public apologies and donate all revenue to a charity. Not so for any other title on that list.
I dont get it. Is the parachute deployed of the ejection too? How did the man survive
“why the distributed ledger?” (Jan 2022)

https://mirror.xyz/mattdesl.eth/2WNUAK_DuQsxj3Ei3CY-IlWyVb8V...
> Riders are considered part of the contract bell

Bell?
Chuck Palahniuk's novel Survivor inverts the role of the page number, turning it into a countdown toward the climax. From Wikipedia:

> The chapters and pages are numbered backwards in the book, beginning with Chapter 47 on page 289 and ending with page 1 of Chapter 1.

This omnipresent clock ended up being a clever, subtle way to continually build tension for the reader.
So were a lot of people.

The smartphones of the time were pretty clunky, didn't have good ecosystems, and required expensive/limited data plans.

Whereas OLPC was familiar and supposedly cheap and there were other cheap laptops coming in too.

Also, people raised on PCs with keyboards just couldn't imagine doing real work on a phone. I think many of us are still shocked at how a lot of kids are perfectly fine with and even prefer doing everything on their phone.
They assimilated, and fought against the Turks at the battle of Vienna.
> It’s why engineers will do things like build a cantilever beam which requires finite element analysis instead of just building a fucking bridge.

Because bridges never collapsed due to faulty design before finite elements (Please ignore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Bridge#Second_design_an... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironworkers_Memorial_Second_Na... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940) and you get the picture).
I don’t begrudge hatred towards a foreign army carrying out an invasion of conquest. I’m also fairly willing to justify relatively extreme tactics to bring such a war to a satisfactory end; for instance, I believe the atomic bombings of Japan were justified. But when you talk about indiscriminate hatred towards the Russian people, you’re including Russian people who mind their own business and have nothing to do with these invasions. You’re even including Russian people who might oppose these invasions and have done what they could to resist them.

Russia isn’t even a democracy, and it’s safe to say that it never has been. The people of Russia have always been the victims of their own autocratic regimes. If you treat them as an enemy because you are victimized by the same autocratic regime that they are, you are only furthering the interests of the regime itself, which is your true enemy and theirs.
> "try get control over everything employee might think of whilst employed, even if it's during their own time and unrelated to the business"

That is illegal in California, and California contracts I've seen have mentioned that.
Wikisource (at least the English one) has a slightly different take on it in that they (now) generally expect proofreading to proceed according to a PDF or DjVu scan of a specific original edition (and you can have multiple editions). There's a page-by-page proofreading interface. Project Gutenberg world are usually non-specific editions and might be a mish-mash or contain editorial fix-ups.

Projects like Distributed Proofreaders also operate on a top-down basis where there's a project manager for each book. On Wikisource, you can just get stuck in where you like. No one technically "owns" anything.

The Monthly Challenge [1] is quite a fun new innovation where there's a bit more community activity, as a lot of people like to plug away on their own projects, which some people think is a bit boring.

[1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Community_collabor...
You've missed the point here - it's not that EVERYONE can post on their own blog.

But Elon Musk is unique, HE would still get full coverage. Journalists and influencers and the fanboys and outrage crowd would post his stuff to twitter for him lol.
Indeed. I was thinking about the same video in response to this question.

Here is a link:
https://twitter.com/Blue_Sauron/status/1517817773199699977
We've banned this account for using HN for nationalistic and religious flamewar, which is not what this site is for and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The worst is that a country like China does regular business with them (for better or for worse) and we (US) criticize them for political reasons with no regard to whether it's good for Africa or not, just whether it's good for us (politically that is—to criticize Chinese influence/power).
I find that contractual language covering "ownership" of IP is likely ineffective and doesn't match reality. If I'm paid by a company to write some code while employed, sure the employer owns it. But it also exists in my brain. Do they own that too? Can I write it again for myself or for another employer? If not, how much needs to change? If I wrote it in Python originally, would a functional equivalent in JavaScript remain "owned" by the original employer? I'm surprised contract disputes surrounding this concept aren't quite common.
I disagree. Input-on-key-release feels very bad if you're used to it being on key press like all computers do. It feels like the keys are sticky and unresponsive. It's hard to explain unless you try it.
No. It was the exact opposite.

The Thatcher government issued laws specifically to stop BT having a monopoly in anything.

BT was even prevented from entering new markets which were reserved for foreign competition.
It’s the defining characteristic of a banking license. Like any license it permits activity that would otherwise be illegal. In this case, creating new dollars.
The way the banking system works now, it mostly creates money where it's not needed. That's why there is such high inequality which keeps growing. New capital is just deployed to chase old capital. It creates anti-competitive moats which prevent money from going where it's really needed and where it could be used most efficiently. It makes bureaucracy viable and economic efficiency non-viable.

The vast majority of people who benefit from bank loans are not value creators, they are rent-seekers. Value creation necessarily requires taking calculated risks and banks these days aren't willing to take any risk.... They need full collateral. It's all about existing collateral. In the short term, the safest investment you can make is to build a moat around your existing investment... But if everyone in the economy is busy building moats (because that's the only activity which is sufficiency safe for banks to fund), there will be nobody remaining to do useful stuff which moves the economy forward.
“Black lives matter” is a much more defensible slogan, because if you believe all human life matters, you should also support the idea that black lives matter.

“Defund the police” is much worse because it’s explicitly naming and promoting a policy idea which activists promise they don’t actually want.

Why lie about what you want?
The company I work at would break if cookies weren't allowed. It would be a mad scramble to change many many things to just function at all. 3 months seems pretty fast to me to be honest.
I'm pretty sure there was a Google+ chat, and who remembers Google Talk?
Please do not post flamewar comments, especially not nationalistic or religious flamewar comments, regardless of how badly another account is behaving. This only makes everything worse. We need you (and everyone here) to follow the site guidelines even when other commenters are breaking them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh no, it's certainly not unique to European culture. The rich of Europe, and of other settler-colonies set up by Europe like the USA, have just been the most successful at it for the past few hundred years, including at extracting profit from most other parts of the planet to the benefit of the European (and European-founded/dominated) parts. phenomenally successful.
The [...] you omitted is "and to the processing other than by automated means of personal data which form part of a filing system or are intended to form part of a filing system." - if your company takes notes on your customers with pen and paper and puts these notes in a drawer for further use in your business processes, GDPR definitely does apply.

A random real example is that I used to work in a building which had a paper logbook where people sign the time and name when taking/returning keys for the meeting rooms. That logbook falls under GDPR as it has personally identifiable information - there's the legitimate need use case justifying it; but if the company suddenly wanted to use the stored data for some other purpose, that might be restricted.
Some people have problems with sodium lauryl sulfate. In toothpaste it gives me mouth ulcers, and in soap I get skin irritation. It’s quite hard to find SLS free toothpaste, or even shampoo, but it could be worth trying if you have unexplained skin irritation. I haven’t had one ulcer since swapping toothpaste and before that I was getting them all the time.
Is there an example of a project like this that has actually worked? I mean a top down, well funded but not well defined effort to first define something and then build it.

I've see this at a smaller scale before, where for whatever reason a startup with no real product gets a lot of money and just churns through strategies and plans, having a new definition for everything every few weeks, spinning engineers and sales in all directions and never actually moving towards something. It doesn't work.

How are they going to avoid this? If this was landing on the moon, or even building an electric car, I get how you could challenge and organization to do it. But for these pre-product market fit companies, what they need is organic growth driven by users and the market. I don't see how you emulate that. Personally I think the 10b per year would work way better investing in startups in the space and seeing what sticks
I agree there is a trade off, but let’s explore this a bit further. Who decides how much they value religious liberty compared to lower divorce rates? Decisions about these trade offs tend to be imposed from the top, by the elites. 2/3s of Americans still disagree with the Supreme Court ruling banning school prayer.

When there is a trade off, who should get to make the decisions about where to strike the balance?
Yes it happens, but isn't the rule. On average, it's ideal to have two happy, loving parents. But only on average!
What a rude and unhelpful comment. If “stop feeling sorry for yourself, just go outside and do things” was actually good advice no one would have mental health problems.
I think you'll find that even on HN, there are a lot of people who don't read a lot of books that aren't reference books--and even fewer who have much interest in mostly 100+ year-old novels.
Association Between Physical Activity and Risk of Depression
Do note that it should be read as "avoid success at all costs" though, which changes the meaning quite a bit.
I don't get what this has to do with Thiel. He was born in 1967 so his influence on what happened in the 70s, 80s and even 90s should be pretty limited.
> In some countries like Canada you have to pay out unused vacation regardless, its the law.

But this is a totally incoherent statement. The company offers unlimited PTO. When you leave, they have to pay you an infinite amount of money? That obviously is not the law, no matter how much you say it's the law.
GDPR is applied to personal data in general. It is "General Data Protection Regulation".

And it states in (15):

--- start quote ---

In order to prevent creating a serious risk of circumvention, the protection of natural persons should be technologically neutral and should not depend on the techniques used. The protection of natural persons should apply to the processing of personal data by automated means, as well as to manual processing, if the personal data are contained or are intended to be contained in a filing system

--- end quote ---

And in Article 2, emphasis mine. It also lists what it doesn't apply to.

--- start quote ---

1. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means and to the processing other than by automated means of personal data which form part of a filing system or are intended to form part of a filing system.

2. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data:

(a) in the course of an activity which falls outside the scope of Union law;

(b) by the Member States when carrying out activities which fall within the scope of Chapter 2 of Title V of the TEU;

(c) by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity;

(d) by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, including the safeguarding against and the prevention of threats to public security.

--- end quote ---

And in Article 4. Definitions

--- start quote ---

(2) ‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

--- end quote ---
To be fair, making 75K straight out of uni also is not typical.
Full title:
Association Between Physical Activity and Risk of Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Lapsus$ hackers breached T-Mobile’s systems and stole its source code
As soon as user start paying subscription.
Insync is not open source.
In a surprise move, honeybee tongue hairs repel water
HN isn't more political now than it used to be. Arguments about HN getting more political / getting ruined by politics go all the way back to 2008 at least.

This is a common enough misconception that I put some effort into writing a standard post for it some years ago—maybe we should put it in the FAQ, I don't know:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

One has to be careful not to fall prey to whatever bias it is that always makes it feel like things are getting worse.
I'd also concur with other posters providing a negative slant, and suggesting doing things other than hacking with modern computers or microcontrollers. There's so many more fun things to do with a child. Chess, Lego, Meccano, Books, Art, Pottery, Music, woodwork/crafting, Modelling. That is to say, if you managed to get them able to understand and play chess first, and then go "how would we make a computer beat us at chess?" you'd have a better time than flashing LEDs or messing around with for loops and if/else (and unless your child is some sort of savant prodigy, getting a decent game of chess out of them is going to take a while...) Also if you want them to get into computing nowadays, I'd advise not doing any sort of smartphone use or social media yourself within sight of them. Children today haven't got that straight trajectory we did in the past from computers that presented a Basic prompt and really made you work for it, developing through the complexity and online nature they are now, where online and social is entangled and only ever a click away. My basic advice would be that they have their whole life to get into computing, and it's never been easier than it is now to learn and do, and there are loads more things to do that are exclusively things that can only be done with five year olds, and coding isn't one of them.

P.s. one thing that I would suggest would be to take things apart - telephones (if they still exist) audio equipment, whatever you can find to take apart and put back together again, although again this idea was easier in the past when things had stuff in them other than just an smd microchip.
> nobody willingly ejects from a healthy aircraft.

You'd think so, but sadly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29729307
There is not a chemical solution to a spiritual problem.

New concepts are exciting, but the Indigenous Mexican use of psilocin in treatment of things such as depression, addiction, and other ailments of the soul are fundamentally integrated into their Christian beliefs and practices.

If the tech bros of San Francisco are seeking a cure to their existential despair, they should turn to San Francisco the man, the legend whose works were rooted in his unwavering faith to Jesus Christ. Undoubtedly the inspiration to the city's famous love for Bohemian living.

If the proliferation of psychedelic drugs from Haight-Ashbury was the answer to the ills of our nation and the ills of the heart then it would have worked already. Instead of trying more and more drugs, why not try something that really works? Before the 1960s, San Francisco in its free-spirited glory was closer to the light of God. It's not too late to turn things around.
I deleted my Facebook account around 2017, then went back under a pseudonym (telling all my friends of this account of course), and then just recreating my old account again. Skip forward five years, I barely login to Facebook at all, even just to check up on friends.
The Eternal Battle for Social Influence
Most Car and Driver pieces, even the relatively objective car reviews, tend to be better than average in this regard, with more editorialized pieces especially entertaining. It’s one of the main reasons I subscribe to the physical magazine despite its very large proportion of advertising, which is at least somewhat offset by a low subscription price.
We had document/text oriented interfaces in the 80s that were also graphical like in Genera, a lisp machine OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera_(operating_system)

Note that Genera itself is, AFAIK, proprietary software. But its predecessor (or at least one of them) has been released as Open Source.

http://www.unlambda.com/index.php?n=Main.Mit

HN'ers interested in experimenting with this direction in computing might find the old Lisp Machine code of interest.
I sometimes remind myself of the principle 'mise en place' when I need that little bit of motivation to get started on something (trusting that once I've invested a few minutes I'll carry on).

It involves 'getting out all the tools' - the local development server, opening up my notes, a terminal window running the virtual environment, etc.

An equally important part though is clearing away the things I won't be using.
I think the point was more about the entire chain of command that allowed themselves to be talked into allowing the flight to take place.
The FCC allocated a band for V2X communications long ago

https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/mobility-divis...

Early on the automotive industry was betting on a version of WiFi modified to reduce connection overhead but this took forever to get deployed. Telecoms would badly like to introduce a system where they mediate V2X communication over the cellular network, which would be good for security, but between the appearance of rent seeking and the fact that telecoms have no interest in upgrading their network to avoid dead spots makes that kind of system dead in the water too.
The sequence is fully automatic: as soon as you pull the handle, the canopy pyros blow a hole, the straps pull the occupant's limbs in, the seat launches, separates from person, finally chute deploys. Your next inputs after pulling the handle are steering and landing the chute if you are conscious.

By the way, the gentleman should be receiving a necktie from Martin Baker.

https://ejectionsite.com/
> I'm not sure he should have been, but he very probably was - but my Dad was risking his life to protect the farmer

Why not? It's not your father who should compensate the farmer but the government. And if government property causes damages to a citizen's livelihood, then the government should compensate them. At least, in a civilized democracy.
>One employer asked me to yield ownership of my entire work product during the term of my employment, including things I wrote on my own time on my own equipment, such as these blog articles. I think the employer should own only the things they pay me to create, during my working hours.

>When I pointed this out to them I got a very typical reply: “Oh, we don't actually mean that, we only want to own things you produced in the scope of your employment.” What they said they wanted was what I also wanted.

I still view this as a huge red flag. The companies I've come across that had fuck-you clauses like this inserted by overzealous lawyers usually had a toxic culture to match.

A company that will default to "we get first dibs on everything coming out of your brain" will probably not treat you with respect even if certain individuals who work there are reasonable human beings.

The worst company I ever worked for not coincidentally had the worst contract (e.g. they had 8-7 working hours followed by a verbal "dont worry nobody actually works that").

Contractual clauses are an underrated window into company culture. It's the one place where honesty prevails.

These days I dont push back on unreasonable clauses or give the opportunity for the hiring manager to say "whoops so sorry our lawyers tried to fuck you". When a company tries to tell me who it is I believe them - first time.
Yes, the parachute is in the ejection seat, it's deployed automatically later by necessity, as the pilot could be injured and/or unconscious.
Evil though he indisputably is, even that atrocity was almost certainly an accident.
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