skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most drugs that actually work are terrible. If you're gonna abuse stimulants for relaxation, it's obvious to everyone but you that it will be a very bad time, for example.

That said, the recommended dosages are basically bullshit. For anything, I'd say take 1/2 or 1/3 of what they recommend in the first few days/weeks and taper up.

But please use your own brain when taking advice from strangers.
Collect directly from shard-level prometheus then aggregate using /federate at another level. That’s how thanos also works afaik
To anyone curious about phenibut:

Don't. Just don't. Please.

Just a few weeks of usage can cause dependence. It is notorious for causing compulsive redosing. Withdrawal can make you unable to sleep for days, with lingering effects like panic attacks and anhedonia for weeks and weeks. Withdrawal from larger quantities can cause auditory and visual hallucinations and seizures and can even KILL you. Avoiding serious symptoms requires an excruciating taper that can take months. The effects of long term abuse are poorly understood.

"But it's totally legal, and with responsible dosing can be a potent nootropic. I'm not a drug addict, I'm a biohacker. I'm not after a high."

Yeah, That was my thinking too, and in hindsight that was immensely stupid.
Please just look at r/quittingphenibut before doing anything.

Be kind to your GABA receptors.
I agree, reading GP's comment is weird. People want enforced boundaries when they play games, and consoles are game devices. GP sounds like a confused alien trying to explain to other aliens why human sports players all agree to use regulation equipment and obey referees.
Apparently all of their rubber bands eventually lose elasticity (but it is a very slow process).
I always hear about these community pharmacists that consult with patients about medical issues, but I'm yet to meet one myself.

I suspect pharmacists are the only people that some class of Americans can speak to about medical issues because they have an open storefront.

I don't know what pharmacists know about drugs, but they're useful people to speak to about insurance issues. They know the rules around age cutoffs for optional vaccines, which generics are in stock, when something will be denied by insurance, etc.
Patreon? Post some articles for free and make more advanced articles and q&a sessions only for subscribers.

> Say there's an article that teaches you how to build a custom embedded Linux, cross compile software to it, c internals, serial debugging in qemu with gdb/gdbserver, how to write a streaming parser in Haskell for Linux kernel calls, how to run Linux in the browser and use it from JavaScript etc. (all in the same article, with a common goal for all tasks).

As jstx1 says in a sibling comment, this is not an article. You can call it a course, or a magazine or a book, but it's not an article. Keep each article focused in a single topic.
> seeing these people cost my insurance company several orders of magnitude more money to keep alive than I do.

Most healthcare costs come from old age related costs and diseases. Cigarette smokers and obese people are actually cheaper to insure in the long run, because they're much more likely to die before becoming old enough to incur significant old age related healthcare costs.
The first time I heard about Monarch was in discussions about the hilarious "I just want to serve 5 terabytes" video[0].

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI
"every employee of a company (and every shareholder) carries a small amount of the moral culpability for their company's actions"

At the same time, we shouldn't moralize about every disagreement or different perspective. Some things are morally neutral. Like a comedy special that doesn't advocate violence against anyone.
Oh, we do have iPhone Nano today, we just call it „Apple Watch”
They’re in Turin…
> If this can happen for spices, why not for baby formula ?

Surely this shoupd be bloody obvious? Like asking - if you can import dried fruit, why cant you import donated blood?
So bad, it's good.
Glad it was helpful!
That's my current plan as well. Just getting back to my exercise routine and work my fitness levels and also 'exposure'/'desensitization'.

Wish you well!
69 concurrent. Nice.
Looks like the web proxy, nginx, is using more CPU than the actual websocket server software. That's good, right?
https://archive.ph/FC1iw
NB: Gaming PCs consume a tiny fraction of the energy of crypto, meat (especially beef), or cars.

(I feel compelled to defend my lifestyle from the eco-chopping block.)
It's really odd how much you (read: I; I obviously can't comment on other people, everybody is different) actually can bend your appetite. In Ramadan I can easily coast until 8-9 PM without any thoughts on being hungry until like an hour before I break my fasts. And I always do OMAD while fasting, so I dont eat breakfast before dawn.

If anything, diets should focus on the psychological factor more than the actual food, but then again, people have different levels of willpower. So telling somebody to stop eating too many calories is not only not helpful, it's also highly condescending.

My personal problem with eating is that I like eating large meals. I can't cut out liquid calories as I dont drink any of my calories. I can't cut out sweets, as I don't eat sweets in any substantial amount (maybe a single gummy bear a week?). I just like eating large meals -- and I would do so several times a day if it wasnt for the adverse effects on my body.

Also, I'm kinda proud of how I was practically bang-on on the calorie quiz in the article, except for the pizza. Apparently large means LARGE in the US lol. I was off by 500 kcal.
Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb Payback (Mark Rober)
This link is even more interesting: https://twitter.com/whale_alert/
Daily use of benzos gave me sleep paralysis, false awakenings and made me sleep walk.

Not saying that proves anything, but it was scary.
I've been pretty happy with datadog's distribution type [1] that uses their own approximate histogram data structure [2]. I haven't evaluated their error bounds deeply in production yet, but I haven't had to tune any bucketing. The linked paper [3] claims a fixed percentage of relative error per percentile.

[1] https://docs.datadoghq.com/metrics/distributions/

[2] https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/computing-accurat...

[3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.10693.pdf
It completely depends on your lean weight, but 200g of protein is very high for most people who aren't athletes. I'm not in a state to work out whether the normal chorus saying that much protein will damage your kidneys is true or if I've just heard it enough times that it sounds true. Here's a publication that looks informative, but I haven't worked all the way through it and it may or may not support my presumption that 200 g of protein a day is too much for a male of average height who is not in an intense exercise regimen.

https://jasn.asnjournals.org/content/31/8/1667
Thank you! I did not know of D'Cuckoo, so thanks for the pointer.

During my research I found a lot of projects that connect body-movement and interactive music which could usually be put in one of these categories: 1. research projects that never left the university 2. art installations or performances - So both were tied to a specific time and place. My goal was to create something mobile, bringing this kind of experience into the home, or wherever.

Right now this is a non-commercial product, like a test balloon. I can imagine to collaborate with musicians and offer their creations as IAP in the future.

About bringing in your own samples etc.: I have started to work on an editor (native Mac app) with which people could create their own interactive compositions. They could then import them into the app and ideally even share them with others. I hope to have a first version out in a couple of months; luckily I got a tiny bit of funding for that project.
That’s a classic strategy. I had a brief period of panic attacks that benzos really helped with that helped me gradually have less and less. I don’t particular like the feeling of the benzo, luckily, so it wasn’t appealing to take outside of acute need. My doctor did seem to want to monitor refills and asks me how often I take them (almost never now), so he was aware of the dependence issue. I do carry one around just in case, and very rarely, do in fact need it.
It’s broadcasting on bbc one at the moment. Graham is telling us we can vote for Poland.

Is it broadcasting in NBC?
Even if the government was not involved, it was government's fault for not being involved.

Just look at the sister thread 'why didn't government stockpile my freemarket products for me'
Benzo withdrawal can as well.
Expectations play an interesting part for sure. To draw a parallel, this is why in the Netherlands at the moment e-bikes are scary as hell - because they are faster than the expected speed of a bike; it is harder to notice / react.
Where did you get the idea that hunger should be avoided at all cost? I'm almost always hungry.
Btrfs Notes
I'll try it.
Ah yes, protein shakes are working wonders for that.

Especially in the afternoons, the craving for something sweet is the strongest. A protein shake completely satisifies hunger until dinner very well.

That way, you can have lunch, protein shake and dinner to get through the day very well and not binge on sweets.
I'm not sure I fully understood the explanation. So the copper cone is turned inside out and turns into a pointed wire that drives into the target? How is it that this wire can continue through the 1ft of steel? Is the force of the explosion flowing through this wire/tube, like liquid in a straw? And somehow it can sustain this through 1ft of steel?
Live on iPlayer too (as live as iPlayer gets - 30 seconds or so behind DTT)
Aw, mang-- I thought it would start the tragic process of parent elements removing all their children.

Speaking of which-- can a Javascript script completely remove all traces of itself without navigating away from the page?
I don’t feel the need to comment on the GP because you’ve hit my anecdata on the head, I have to eat what other people consider a sickening amount of food in order to feel “full”. Luckily, also with MFP, I’ve done everything from six months of hardcore power lifting with at least 4500 calories a day, to 9 month cuts at a 1650 max. These days, with less time with two kids and a body hitting its mid 30s, I’ve learned my maintenance calorie amounts, combined with maintenance exercise to keep me at a decent lean level, but it means living with a mild perpetual hunger pang. The only way I’ve ever avoided it in the past is with a strict low carb diet, but again with young kids, it’s difficult to get everything perfect.
Perhaps although I have always associated the name with noise reduction.
The one you already know.
Agreed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnzkhQsmSag

Edit: Seems like the juries are as well. 0 points after half the votes.
it has a different meaning because it puts more emphasis on the author distancing themselves from what is being said. Just putting things in quotes in text may just be a value neutral quote. Writing it out is a rhetorical device because it's difficult to quote sarcastically in written form. It's basically the textual version of doing quotes with your fingers in the air. From the text:

Most of these quote-unquote marketed protein products are nothing more than glorified chocolate bars.

The “Health Halo” effect of food is when consumers believe foods that are advertised as healthier have fewer calories
Argument:

“western people drank dairy for 10,000 years and soy for 50”

To which someone adds: “Asian people at soy for 10,000 years and milk for 100”

So my Response:

“Asian people seem to be physiologically intolerant to milk, is it possible that Asian people are more tolerant to soy than western people in the same way that the inverse is true?”

You:

“MILK BAD SOY GOOD WHERE PROOF”

Not trolling, really, But I feel like we’re following different interpretations of this thread.
I've heard of people going through withdrawals after just a single week of use. Nuts that it's sold as a supplement at all.

Interestingly enough, a suspected GABA prodrug that supposedly passes the blood-brain barrier called picamilon has been banned by the FDA, yet phenibut is still on shelves.
If you don't quickly understand the code, reread it and look at appropriate documentation until you do. With practice the patterns and idioms will become second nature, but you must practice. It takes years of reading to get to a high level in natural language, and programming languages are no different.
I was actually just about to post this. I clicked the link, began to read, and before even getting through the first paragraph, I encounter that full-page pop-up message for the e-list. At that point I just closed out the site.
That was actually from the ESC final in Moscow (sigh) 2009.

https://eurovision.tv/story/eurovision-2009-received-prestig...

They had a large Scandinavian crew for the broadcast production though: https://m-m-pr.com/eurovision-diary-2009/ ... different times.
>even those upper classes, who didn't have any food scarcity did not typically get fat. //

Some kings in the past had massive obesity problems, like Henry VIII. Apparently for him it was forced immobility following a hunting accident. Most people in the UK just haven't been able to afford to get obese until the last several decades, and I warrant companies have learnt how to hook us on high-fat and high-sugar foods to make bigger profits.
I have done fasting, I have done alternate day fasting. I have done fast-5. Yes, I can get there if I want to.

My point is that "there" is a miserable place, and so I don't stay "there".
Two other threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31374720 (29 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31358609 (69 comments)
IMO, this is worse than paper votes, because there is a central point of failure - the voting pool manager.

The voting pool manager can accept an arbitrary number of public keys from Sybil, who may vote as many times as she chooses.

In a paper voting system, Sybil is limited to how many polling stations should could visit in a day, because her physical presence in the station would be noticed by station watchers if she attempted to vote more than once at any given station. Even then, there are additional checks and balances, because she first needs to register herself at each polling station.

In a purely electronic system, nobody is able to observe Sybil.
From skimming the article, it seems they've linked this effect to benzos interacting with a specific protein in microglia. This is not the interaction benzos share with Z-drugs, which is modulation of the GABA-A receptor. So it seems unclear whether this can be extrapolated to Zolpidem.

However, Z-drugs(and benzos as a sleep aid) generally should not be used daily for longer than a few weeks until a better solution is found. Unfortunately, doctors often do this anyway, following the path of least resistance, I suppose.

I wouldn't worry about any kind of brain damage, but I would recommend reviewing their options, maybe seeing another doctor. Lots of people can manage just fine with something like extended release melatonin, or indeed nothing.
Mass will affect the amount of calories burned.
This is a exactly the kind of puritanical catch-22 that entrenches every corner ADHD treatment. “Oh, your justification for access to the high-inducing, party drug of amphetamine is that it’ll cure your lack of focus? Well, if these dangerously addictive drugs so effective, then surely you can handle 30 day prescriptions with no refills.”

God forbid your prescription runs out on a weekend or holiday when your doctor’s office is closed. And don’t even think about shopping around for multiple scripts because that’ll just label you as a drug addict. The only winning move is to take half-doses on down days and build up a small stash of emergency medication.
> pretty much whatever else the big random number generator in the sky throws at us.

It didn't work that well with dinosaurs.
Phenibut is horrific and should be banned. I thought I could control it, but I couldn't.
Benzo got a terrible rep because of addicts. People who have addiction problems shouldn't be prescribed benzos. I can tell only my own experience working with a psychiatrist. I started on SSRI and the first month was horrible. They gave me benzo to help with anxiety and sleep. It really did the job, my sleep improved a lot. I used a low dose (1/2 of what I was prescribed) and had no symptoms besides being a bit more sleepy when walking up in the morning. I stopped taking it after two months of taking it daily, when things started to stabilize. I had no bad symptoms stopping it besides a hard time falling a sleep in the first few nights. About 4 days after I went back to normal and never had issues since.

I also know that in many countries benzos are the more common sleep drugs, unlike the US where z-drugs are more common. I know at least one person in my family that is now 90 who has been taking benzos for sleep for about 40 years. He is doing well cognitively. This is of course very anecdotal.
They're just begging for it to be called 'Dooku' when it breaks, aren't they?
Thanks for the list!

I get the feeling dang has a sweet spot for Sneakers, too ;)
Did you just upgrade the Slaughter bots? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw

actually I think that you didn't because slaughter bots are trying to not cause any collateral damage
Someone close to me has long been addicted to both alcohol and Ambien (sleeping pills).

I'd never considered that alcohol could trigger the need for Ambien. I'd presumed it was a lifestyle thing for someone who was used to being out all night.
I’m going to ask here because this is similar:

I want to make a page with a button and a countdown timer. The button resets the timer. The timer is global: everyone sees and affects the same timer. Users don’t need accounts. Anyone can just press the button.

How would one implement the server portion of this cheaply and safely?

It’s like I want some server that just accepts a blank POST to reset time. And a GET to get the latest time. The client would GET the time every minute and sync the UI with that.
https://amp.theaustralian.com.au/nation/nick-clark-says-he-h...

But also about his wife? Some parallels to the Peterson case no? How he lied about things in his life, his military career and all?
It's also pretty obvious that he is cognitively impaired.
They did do that.
I'm sick of the "it's just calories in, calories out, idiot!" bullshit. It's at least partially wrong an woefully incomplete. Telling a fat person to eat less is like telling a depressed person to get out more. I know because I've been at the receiving end of both.

For one thing, it ignores that the calorie consumer has feelings. First, running a calorie deficit makes you physiologically hungry. You can fight the hunger, but no willpower or strength of character is going to make it disappear. Going on a diet is a constant fight against your body. And that doesn't even get into the psychological reasons people eat. Articles like this one make no effort to account for this. They don't explore the negative effects. Being hungry all the time is really fucking distracting. And they certainly don't try to weigh those downsides against the potential benefits.

And those benefits to dieting are very much "potential". Study after study has shown that diets don't work in the long term; people usually gain the weight back. The article smarmily dismisses metabolism as a factor. But losing weight slows your metabolism down. You end up needing to cut you intake even further than someone who's been steady at the same weight [1].

I've been fat and I've lost weight. My maximum weight exceeded my minimum (post-max) weight by about 100 pounds. Right now I'm somewhere in the middle. To the extend that I've had sustained weight loss, it has been by making gradual, sustainable changes to my lifestyle. And these changes haven't used weight as a target. Getting into running, replacing some foods with other foods, and working on my mental health are all fairly sustainable in their own right. They make me feel better and healthier. The correlated weight loss is incidental. When I did use weight as a target, I did more harm than good. Exercising and dieting to the point of passing out for a whole day after a long run did make me lose weight, but it didn't make me healthier. In fact, my running got slower.

Leave fat people the fuck alone about their diets. The panopticon of shame and ridicule doesn't help.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/88/4/906/4650207?login...
be interesting to study someone, or a mouse I guess with said damages and doses of ambien for repair (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstr...)
I had similar experiences and police are pretty much useless in that case, flat out said since you're physically stronger than the stalker there's no threat to your life. Oh well... Its a constant torture.
I really don’t feel that Scala has too many features. It is a relatively small language which is very elegant due to having almost no edge cases. Sure, due to not having many features yet being very expressive it has to have very powerful language primitives that can be abused, but I really don’t think that it is as bad as its name.
There was a tea bar in my neighborhood that would put kratom in one of the teas.

It didn't make me feel particularly euphoric, but I did find myself craving it the next day. Shit is fucking weird and scary.
Peterson is a verified idiot with nonexistent self-control. Not the slightest modicum of it.

Basing anything off of his antics is asinine. So weird to see people who put him on a pedestal on HN.

& benzos aren’t “horrible drugs”

People who don’t know how to manage themselves and their usage of them are horrible people though, especially when they try to cut down others who have no issues using them responsibly, which sometimes literally saves their entire lives.
due to the copper cone shape and the explosion wave propagation from the back the copper, which at those pressures is flowing like a liquid, is formed into a jet and pushed forward like a water in a power washer hose. Water at 3000bar would cut several inch steel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quL14Csmi_Y). The copper in that explosion gets accelerated to the speeds of like 10km/s and as a result cuts through everything in its way.

A bit of current context - beside deep penetration the jet isn't that destructive to surroundings. And here comes design flaw of Russian tanks - getting inside a Russian tank such jet frequently hits the tank's ammo which in those tanks is stored in a carousel around/under the turret and thus it results in the whole tank ammo explosion which even throws the multi-ton turret several stories up into the air (you can see a lot of the tanks blown up in that way - 'lollypops' - in Ukraine). To compare - US Abrams tank has ammo stored in separate compartment in the back of the turret.
You’re being downvoted, but as a genetically lean guy, I believe you’re right. I’ve never been particularly health conscious, but I’ve always been in “decent” shape - I eat the same things fat people eat, it just doesn’t stick to me for whatever cosmically unfair reason. Fat parents have fat kids - a fat five-year-old isn’t fat because he ate too much ice cream, it’s because he’s genetically predisposed to be.
Same thing, economically.
I suspect something like that is going on. It is pretty clear to me that there is a strong genetic component. We know the hunger system is very complicated. It's the reason we still don't have a weight loss pill. If you decrease hunger along one channel, the other channels ramp up to compensate.

But there also may be other components that we can do something about. For example, perhaps the bacteria in my gut are causing half of my hunger, insisting that I eat bread (because they want it, not I). And if I starve them out on a zero carb diet, I can break free of the excess hunger.

Hope springs eternal.