skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great question.

Starting with the easier one, I don't know how to accomplish it with transcraniel magnetic stimulation, other than that, it can produce altered states of consciousness similar to psychedelics. I don't think we have enough insight into knowing how to adjust settings for a particular person to reliably get certain shifts in consciousness. Perhaps investigating along the lines of why and how someone can experience synthesia.

As far as psychedelics goes, we'd probably have to delve into the traditional practices that works with altered states of consciousness, and that all depends one one's tolerance for experiences that would be considered woo. Two that come to my mind are Tantra, and the shamanic practices involved with "shapeshifting" into animals.

In Tantric philosophy, pure consciousness descends into the manifest world through the five senses, and you see those representations as five downward triangles in the yantras. There's probably some yogi out there that have explored along those lines. Tantric methods can involve offerings of flowers and incense, so why wouldn't smell be involved?

With the shamanic practices, with the assistance of drumming or psychedelics (and keeping in mind the basis for shamanic practices is animism), the practitioner would seek out the archetypal intelligence of an animal, and request to form a relationship. If granted, one of the ways the practitioner learns the wisdom of that animal archetype is a kind of shifting of consciousness into that of the animal, while partially retaining the perspective of a human. If that animal's olfactory senses is a big part of its role in the ecology it inhabits, and the human is receptive to that, I think it is possible to experience what it is like to have smells that is usually inaccessible as humans.

As far as human's ability to process things with visual and auditory senses ... I'd say that whales and dolphins probably got us beat as far as auditory intelligence goes, and birds has us beat as far as visuals goes. Bird brains also seem more efficient than humans in terms of energy usages, and birds have to process five retinal cones compared to our three retinal cones. The unusual humans who have fully formed fourth retinal cones can already disginguish significantly more color tones than the rest of us ordinary humans. If someone wanted to experience what superior visual and audio experiences are, I'd say try the shamanic techniques to shapeshift into a whale or a parrot.
Ratio of women:men using the service.

Say there are 10 women and 30 men on the service, and each woman matches with 3 men. 30 matches total. Assuming equal distribution, the men have 1 match each.

You can also then have a more extreme distribution. 3 of those men could have 10 matches and the other 27 have zero. Median man has zero matches, 80th percentile ("top 20%") has zero matches.
It is worth noting that getting root on Android does not require exploiting vulnerabilities like on iOS. At least, not for most reasonable phones with an unlocked (or unlockable) bootloader.

When flashing an operating system, some do allow root access, some don't, or some make it configurable in settings. Another option is to install a tool like Magisk after installing the operating system.
> made optimal decisions

Optimal decisions for themselves, not for the country.
While I don't fully agree with everything said in the article - the general idea behind it does ring true to some extent. I don't have to fully agree with it, to find it interesting and thought-provoking.

Over the years I personally did notice an ever-increasing amount of sequels, tie-ins, re-imaginings, re-releases and remakes. The indie boom brought some respite - with small, self-funded developers going against the grain and bringing some innovation and experimentation - while at the same time also launching a massive nostalgia wave. But that fresh wind didn't really break the general trend. For me, the article does add a new perspective to the topic, looking at it from some angles I personally haven't previously thought about. And I do like articles that make me think.

I'm not quite sure why so many responses in here are so strongly dismissive or even outright hostile to the article? As if people felt offended, and were trying to just brush it off...
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So we have come full circle. That's the way we have been building software when I was starting with professional software development (this was around 2005). But the idea of doing a thorough analysis (business, technical) is a little bit older. The only people to whom this might come as a surprise are the ones who've drank too much of the "agile Kool-aid". I'm not here to bash agile and start this flame war all over again (agile has it's merits ...), but somehow thinking before doing got a bad rap recently (for reasons beyond me).

It's like software development got trapped inside of King Julian's (from Madagascar movies/series) brain with his modus operandi: "let's start doing this before we figure out it does not make any sense".
Losing weight.
Tabasco lists vinegar first. When I buy pepper sauce, I am buying it for the pepper. So, I want it to be the first ingredient. That is actually remarkably rare. Apparently vinegar is cheaper.

Never seen Buffalo.
Sometime around 20 or 25 years ago, we stopped wanting to have an amazing elevation of humanity -- instead, for some reason, a majority of the population of the West was convinced to worship poverty instead.
Thanks for pointing this out! I now persevered and indeed it will end in you being a 1%-ter.
Welcome to marketing... on the one hand you do need local offices to get a hand on distribution etc, on the other somebody shows up to work and tells you that magical girls as the theme of a puzzle game in America is no good so now you're putting Yoshi in.

I think localization work tends to be a full package deal (because sometimes it _is_ a good idea to tweak stuff) but it means you're up to the nuances of whatever team got built up. Especially given that the late 80s were all about trying to not end up like Atari & co.
you are making the incredibly naive assumption that taxes is capital that is properly allocated once seized. more often it isn't used well. what gives the government the right to wastes someone else's hard earned money?
I'm in the market for a new compiled language. Rust seems obstuse. I was toying with picking up Go but haven't committed yet. I want to write a Roguelike. I'm here and listening to you. Sell me on it.
> SMB

I think the signal:noise ratio isn’t great in this sector. Although corporate is 100% guaranteed misery, I have yet to come up with a reliable way to find SMBs where IT (because that’s how they call it, a SWE is the same as the help desk in their view) isn’t considered as “the geeks working the cost center in the basement”.

Do you have a method or did you rely on blind luck like the rest of us?
There are times in Sonic games with a lot of sprites on the screen (e.g., when you get attacked and drop 100 rings) where the game temporarily slows to a crawl.
Isn't that almost definitionally ad hom? Maybe it's the one allowed form: Show me your competency to form an opinion. But that said, it feels ad hommy.

I'm a crypto currency skeptic, I made $600 for $200 put in 5 years ago, it felt like gambling and I have no doubt it's hype and all my fellow CS peers seem to agree, as do most economists. It's not capable of doing what most people claim and also be the stonks vehicle most people in practice want, and the fundamentals under contract in code are pretty awful: formal verification won't fix the problem.

Merkle trees and public signed ledger on the other hand, and trusted third parties and PKI are pretty rock solid. Do them, they're good.
What do you suppose the buyers of the grapes and almonds do with them, if you think they aren't food?
It’s because people lie for many reasons.

So? The first response should always be to take folks seriously. Always. Even if they are really searching for opioids. No doctor should assume folks are lying upfront.

Even if that means that a couple people are getting off work when they don't need it. And I'd much rather have a disability system that occasionally gives the wrong people benefits than to withhold benefits from someone and make their life torturous. Much like theft an loss are costs of retail, this should be the cost of a disability system: A few folks take advantage.
But how does any other approach, entirely novel or otherwise, become time-proven without testing and tweaking on a society-level scale?

Much of the social change we've seen, happened despite enormous pushback from the status quo, and was in no way 'time-tested'.
Ask HN: What's up with treating people we don't know as `genius`?
Albert Einstein is a genius - Elon Musk is a genius (...); we won't hear otherwise. But is this adjective pagan? A proxy to name something we don't understand, something people were not trained to analyze?
What's the purpose of buying a house if you can't stay in it more or less indefinitely? (Yes, I know people sometimes buy houses planning to only stay in one place a few years, but I would wager most don't.)
Ooooh they got treatment. And you had to pick it yourself in the back yard.

Now, that's called child abuse, while making them lame with amphetamines is good parenting
Yea, I program in Python with a very strict type checking configuration, and I have never gotten a runtime error in production due to type related issues (like attribute errors or key errors), only weird edge case stuff or algorithmic mistakes.
It'd increase security vis-à-vis burglars, but for it to work for this use case you'd need relatives who can recover Samir secrets.
I never buy the first of anything, so no. And if I bought the second version would depend on latency.
Id be more concerned with the website being able to be taken down, i.e ISPs deciding that they are not going to route traffic to a particular IP address.
rich people are not a new invention. not taxing rich people is
That's a lot of tomatoes. I'm surprised you could find enough pickers to pick them.
How about not? If you live there and take advantage of municipal services, you should be expected to pay up.
A probable attempt to ignite a "Four Yorkshiremen" (from the recently lost Tim Brooke-Taylor - with Cleese, Chapman and Feldman) chain of Palm relevant amarcords, triggered by the OP's excuses for being a «"snob"».

But really, something so high quality like a Palm was pure wealth in one's hands. I miss the days. They haven't been really overridden - trustable, manageable system, transflective display... Fast coding...
The assertions here are far from what I’d point at first with regards to broken promises. The article also implicitly backs up some claims that are just not true.

The two biggest issues being that the market is heavy centralised and has unlimited supply, contrary to claims by holders on twitter.

It’s amazing how many people still believe that only 21 million Bitcoins will ever exist, even in 2022, contrary to what the Bitcoin core team has said multiple times (that inflation will be needed for the network to function).

Furthermore, there is already an infinite supply of alternative tokens whenever any of them spike in value, as has been shown in multiple cycles now. The market favours going to alternative tokens that have “moon” potential, making the forward supply also infinite, and thereby rendering the entire space worthless.

In short the entire industry is an encrypted linked list with some hashes, recycled ideas that have been done better in the past (De-Fi), and the entire world is crazy and stupid.
From the last sentence, I think it's intended as showing what supposed "benefit" blockchains can bring to gaming. But up until then I honestly read it as a critique of centralization and consolidation in the industry (see: "Clash of Guilds") a and cautionary tale on what could potentially happen to the gaming landscape.
Not providing support and banning use are two very different terms. Obviously if you try to connect with oudated version they won't be able to provide you with support, but that doesn't mean they ban you from using the app.
> It's not really natural though, is it?

What? I’m not sure how water could not be considered a natural resource. It just exists, it didn’t take a human hand to create.
Regarding algorithmic stablecoins, Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum founder) wrote a great and easy to read blog post about why Terra failed and why a coin that continually beats the economy also isn't possible

https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/05/25/stable.html
In fairness it's easy to have a best seller if you just shoot the people who won't read it
I also suggest you add documentation to the github repo. The first thing I did after reading the first paragraph of this announcement was checking the source code. And when I saw no documentation at all - zero - nada - niente, I completely lost interest in looking more into the project (I was quite enthusiastic, given your description, so seeing no docs was an incredible turn-off).
An unusual phrase indeed; I've not seen it before seems to have come from this piece of writing? https://coronzon.com/pdf/cioran/Odyssey-of-Rancor-by-Cioran....

The rancor is not surprising given how obnoxious the crypto community have been to people with reasonable objections. It's more like watching a cultist missionary get eaten by a lion.
I've been involved in bitcoin since 2010. (1) Not once have I ever encountered someone who knew what they were talking about and yet spelled it BitCoin. (2) Every time I've encountered "BitCoin" the author had a truly dismal understanding of the bitcoin protocol or incentive structure.

Shibboleths are annoying, but they do serve as pretty accurate heuristics for assessing someone's familiarity with a domain, as in this particular case.
No mention of the Dylan programming language in the article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Dylan

Bauhaus OS was new to me.
You might see meat and dry goods being sold in pounds, like the states does, but like, I cannot imagine going back to 240 pence to the GBP, just inflation alone.

I think that works out to 9 pounds, 10 schillings, and like 3 pence however for the tomatoes.

You can have imperial without the stone though.
All I know is I'm buying Bitcoin if it gets below $1000.

I made the mistake of not hooking up my rigs because I was afraid of the cost of electricity.

Yes--I see it going below $1000.
OP here - True that I'm not a cryptocurrency expert. I'm just writing some observations that I've made after following cryptocurrencies for a while.

Do everyone has to be an expert to voice their observations and opinions? I'm not an expert in anything.
Do they really have that many customers or do they just claim that? Also per their website that's only 'verified users' which is a super nebulous term, and also exactly what I'd expect from a crypto exchange.
This is the worst advice I've seen trending on HN for a while. Speaking as an angel investor, as well as a startup founder myself. In fact, I'd feel quite offended when people offer me the money back. Luckily it didn't happen to me yet!

I've seen dozen of early startups that went through a multitude of hard times (most of the time at the "finding product-market fit stage"), but pretty much all of those who kept going found mild to large success eventually.
I'm not so sure about "better soldiers", but they'll probably make very iconic war criminals if drafted into the military. the co-worker that revels in murdering babies in front of mothers will surely make headlines.

I wouldn't think these war-criminals come out of nowhere. they probably get their head start in torturing neighbourhood cats, gloating about how much they love meat and don't care about the torture, and how they personally love to bash heads in[1] and murder children in front of mothers.

[1] https://theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/19/millions-of-...
No one is forcing anyone to use smartphones either, but the societal pressure is immense.

Which sucks because smartphones have net negative effects imo.
I don't think it's related, it's just general disclaimer for everyone to cover all cases.

The thing is they didn't explain why the account was banned, so there is now ay to know what ToS they violated.
Chine has detected extraterrestrial signal
We mistake programmability for "intelligence" but not only for animals, but for humans too. If it does not execute the program it is stupid.

Our estimate for intelligence is a heuristic in the brain, firing on the same networks we would use. Which is why intelligence only ever can behave like us, exactly like us and in no other way. Mirror Neurons. If they do not fire that way, we early out and call it a day. Its energy efficient and i assume most animals do that too.

The tools with which we look for and on intelligence are deformed and often incapable of detecting it. Same goes for cats too though, they have zero empathy with prey. Mirror neurons are not firing for mice, but firing for their own kittens. Somewhere there is a switch.
I'm tired of the whole crypto discussion, because the articles that get traction are mostly echo chambering what the audience wants to hear; either pro - or against.

Meanwhile crypto remains an enabler of a new application paradigm, a decentralized one.

We are now in the dotcom crash of crypto. Lots of hype has created a bubble, but from the ashes the phoenix might rise.

If you are a tech enthousiast, be happy that lots of research and development in an exiting new space was funded!
If you are an investor, be happy that your investor accumen is being put to the test, which projects will flourish?
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One of their (presumably motivated) choices was to use a Harvard architecture; which a 4004 isn’t.
Musk is doing very, very far from the most to solve climate change. He puts batteries in pathologically unreliable self-crashing cars. And burns thousands of tons of kerosene or natural gas in each rocket.
If you charge both the agricultural and residential users the same price, the agricultural ones go out of business. That may well be necessary, but they're politically well connected.
It’s bigoted to support cutting some babies but not other babies.

Tell me I can cut off the tip of my daughter’s ear. Tell me anyone who opposes me is a bigot. Tell me I don’t need her permission, and I don’t need to wait to discuss it with her.

Or, more probable: find some little gotcha in my analogy so that you don’t have to confront it.
That's only if your weight is the cause.
That isn't the current purpose though,

https://source.android.com/devices/automotive/virtualization
Actually, you can do both at the same time:
write a functional spec that you can run to see if it's correct.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2468505_Functional_...

The idea never caught on.
South Park called it [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park:_The_Streaming_Wars
It sounds like that verification can copypasta. But a cryptobro actually meant it. Wild.
Thanks for the mention of "Unix, Plan 9, and the Lurkibg Smalltalk"... I hadn't seen it before.

I've been thinking a lot about Plan 9 lately, but undertaking a new implementation is almost certainly beyond me.

Previous Hacker News discussion of the paper:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7719685
The future is actually something akin to the eRockit which is a Pedelec turned into a small motorcycle. It has a max speed of 90km/h. I would rather commute with that than a car.
This looks like a CIA briefing: A very powerful supercomputer.
- But what can it do ?
- I tell you, it's very powerful.
The stuff he’s criticized for doesn’t “challenge” any narrative. It’s all self inflicted like lying about FSD or calling someone a “pedo”.

And what do you consider “the establishment” to be exactly?
UK has daylight savings time. Better move to Iceland instead. They're always on UTC.
sonic is extremely clunky, for a game that is supposed to be about going fast the responsiveness of the title character is a bit scuffed.

Mario surprisingly is actually a much faster and responsive character and the gameplay feels much better for it.
If everybody have mitigations on, nobody spends time to develop exploits for unpatched systems, so eventually disabling mitigations from your gaming PC will not make it very insecure.

Of course this is possible if everybody else keeps their mitigations on.
The case of the vanishing cafeteria tray
DigitalOcean with Block Storage
The financial industry has hijacked and transformed capitalism. Less industrious and more rent-seeking. Adam Smith et al would be turning in their graves.
> For example, in Sri Lanka, there is no way for someone to accept payments or send money through PayPal or Stripe. However, people will be able to send money through the blockchain and bypass these restrictions if more people begin to trust crypto.

If Sri Lanka blocks PayPal and Stripe are you sure they will not block commercial entities from converting between rupees and crypto-assets? Individual and small scale operators might still do it, flying under the radar, but that is not a scalable proposition.
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I am curious as to your perspective as a physicist, do you think it is feasible to have a QC computer from an energy perspective?

There is the cost to consider, yes, there is also an energy cost to a stable QC system. Asymmetric/symmetric are not unbeatable, they have an energy cost. Shors algorithm is theoretically great, but rarely if ever have I seen an associated energy cost...even outside of the answer "will we build one" the question is "can you efficiently build one" or not, i.e. what does a QC capable of executing shor's algorithm look like, a small planet or star perhaps?
Crypto has crashed and recovered even worse before than this, so what's the huge deal? Is it more "dead" now than the 456 times before?

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
Why this specific number?
> I'll bite. Who? Who has the money, power, and motivation to secretly manipulate the pliable masses to turn against the billionaires, for their own nefarious ends?

Everyone who is not a billionaire, but still currently holds a privileged position compared to the pliable masses, will benefit from such propaganda of over simplified "injustice", because if will deflect attention away from their own privilege and keep them safe.

You will see this most clearly if you look at ivory tower academics or cultural elite, who love to hate rich capitalists for being greedy, to get the "people" on their side to avoid having their own privilege under scrutiny, which in reality is often just as greedy and selfish.
Largely legacy reasons related to capital access during founding, because of this McDonald's is mostly a property company that also sells burgers and burger store franchises.
Other source https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-15/china-say...
You spent a potful of money, and got nothing. You can give the same people another potful of money, or give it to somebody else who demonstrates actually delivering something of value. Only sunk-cost fallacy says to give the former, exactly, another potful. They should get back in line with everybody else.
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