skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is insane.

The solution is to study the drugs and permit limited usage under medical care -- i.e., for the federal government to lower the schedule and fund research.

California decrimininalizing would open the floodgates to abuse, of the weak by the powerful. Imagine companies with billions at stake selling high's to anyone who's troubled. The decriminalize-now push is not for medical reasons, but for an industry to make money off people's pain. None of the bill's "protections" -- "for personal use" "over 21" -- are effectively enforceable.

Microdosing has been shown to be indistinguishable from placebo in its short term effects (i.e., it has no real effectiveness), but that doesn't mean full doses or regular use is safe. Unlike marijuana, there's a lot of evidence that brain and psychological damage from bad trips is permanent. Anecdotally, I'm old enough to know people who died, and others who never really came back, after using psychotropics. To me decriminalizing psychotropics is about as socially beneficial as dropping napalm on villages in Vietnam.

Finally, this will definitely sink Democrats nationally. It's inexplicable to anyone outside hyper-liberal enclaves why you would permit big business to fry the brains of troubled people.
Not that I'm particularly familiar with the average Eritrean's diet, but going out on a limb here: are you implying that starvation is better for a person's well being than an overly calorie-rich, generally unhealthy but plentiful diet?
might want to make the link more specific: https://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/whats-the-stran...
> The stall in user growth is accompanied by a massive decrease in the company's valuation

That's because of unrealistic expectation from the stock market, not due to the company's health. A stall in user growth means a limit to the company size, and investors were betting that after the IPO Facebook (that was already used by a large share of the humanity) would still grow by two orders of magnitude.
I can only assume this was achieved years ago, as a black project in the financial market.
That's not what I meant. I meant there's no silver bullet that stops all spam forever. There's no easy solutions to the problem. It's an uphill battle and the best you can hope for is to block the majority of it with a lot of continuous effort.
My annoyance with all of these numbers is they are meaningless without some measure of size.

I'm literally twice the size of my friend, at the same BMI (more than a foot taller). So should I be eating 3400? Or should they be eating 850?
Its not just knowing where things are, or who works there, but also being able to quickly find the weakest link.
> Having more work than you can fill your days with is an ideal state of affairs, because it means you never run out of work.

I think we have very different approaches to work. I can’t imagine being anything but excited if some asshole boss thought I would quit because he was paying me to do nothing
Yes, I read that, I am speaking in the general sense with respect to remarks such as "it feels like they are making a real attempt to take my agency" and "I feel like I am intentionally being taken advantage of by TikTok". I can see why that's not clear though, so fair critique.

I understand you literally removed the app from your phone, but framing yourself as hapless prey without any agency negates the ethos of self accountability and self discipline.
I shared a weekly route with a friend one summer on my bike in the '80s. We basically were covering for a couple that delivered by car at the time.

I look back on it now kindof fondly but honestly it was brutal as we lived a couple miles away from downtown and had single speed dirt bikes. Wrapping up papers and huffing two big bags of papers isn't exactly a dream job.

The couple asked us the next year if we wanted to do it again... we said no. :D (I do remember one family would tip us 20 dollars though! They specifically wanted their paper delivered in a wicker basket they hung on their door and you bet we always put it in there)
Not all the time, but often enough to be good advice for the large majority of the time.

If the place is on fire? Maybe not.

The rest of the time? Spreading that knowledge is a force multiplier.
Many of those I won't blame the manufacturers for. A lot of those designed to die devices are quite small and carry high IP ratings. Replaceable batteries are difficult to mix with high IP ratings and once you add in tiny it's basically impossible.
TUI apps are not inherently more keyboard driven than GUI apps. Indeed, if you look at the demo video linked in the article, majority of the interactions are done with mouse.
I was hoping to get away with just typing

“The milkman, the paperboy, the evening tv?“

But thought it was too subtle
I'm not skeptical. The data appears to be there.
Get a bachelor's degree and work for free
Looks like lately you need to get $50,000 in debt for a bachelor's degree plus 2 years of experience and extensive knowledge in lots of complicated and disparate technologies ... just to be given the opportunity to work for free.
I live here and have lived in many other cities on other continents. It's honestly fine.

The TL is in terrible shape as is the mid-Market area but most of the city is fine. And tbh, pre Zide Door and the Ayahuasca places (which I haven't been to) it was the same.
Twitter seems to be going a similar route. I barely recognize my feed, it’s 50% I don’t follow, and 25% content I think is idiotic and harmful.
Donkey.bas
It will release approximately no CO2.
“a couple months out”
I hope its manageable! Glad to hear that it isn't diabetes at least.

Wife is T1, so whenever I hear people describe hyper/hypoglycemia I can't help but to ask.
Hence, it so much more resembles "real life". And I think that's where TikTok thrives, it is a single player experience with networked features. Similar to going window shopping in a Mall with Billions of windows.
I believe it. History is the process of reading - digesting - synthesising - formulating.

That is the "write better" treadmill. Run it long enough (on any meaty topic) and you will improve.
I was a paperboy from when I was 12 till I was 17. I had one route early in the morning and another in the evening. 20 years later if I am in my old town I can still remember which houses received a paper and the acrobatics I need to get to there front door without getting off my bike. In the Netherlands we don't do the thing I see in American movies where you just throw the paper on people lawn (is that really a thing? seems kinda cool).

I actually remember it fondly. Listening to my favorite music with a huge disc-man in my trouser pockets. Also remember it payed quite well. I ended up with about a thousand euros a month, which for a teenager without any obligations is a huge sum.
It's a QR Code in the label that links to a "digital identity" that "lives in the cloud", once you scan it you add data to the "garment's global journey". Main selling point is that the QR code shows the consumer that the product is not faked and the manufacturer what kinds of products are resold, as curious buyers would scan the QR code.

Why it would be impossible to just go through a real store with a phone and make copies of a few QR codes that you then print on your fakes en masse, I don't know.
US has a larger market with a single language, and our regulators demanded calls to mobile phones to be on an equal footing for callers. You never needed to pay more to call a cell phone than a land line from the same rate center; the cell phone user has to pay any additional cost to carry the call over the air. Additionally, inter-carrier rates are regulated and set to approximate costs, which is now pretty much zero. This makes bulk calling and texting inexepensive (less than a penny per message or minute). In (most of?) Europe, callers have to pay for the privilege or calling a cell phone, and the numbers are in different ranges, and it's not cheap, 10 cents or more per minute or message at bulk rates; even though the underlying cost is probably similar to the US, near zero.
I'm all for microdosing, if done in a controlled environment with a (medical) professional present. The problem with it being available for anyone to just "try as they want" is that most people don't know what the proper safe dosage is. I don't think it should be illegal, but certainly controlled.
Open APIs – Public Infrastructure in the Digital Age
In general, it's good that the FDA is holding companies to a certain standard. We're currently running our tests under an IRB and this is actually one of the first steps for us to have enough data to start our application to the FDA.
True! But not every highly-productive person is this. If you keep complexity low, you can have a "single point" without it being high risk.

Recently I was really proud of being able to take a half of a day to document all my systems to have a reasonable assurance that the documentation would contain all the info needed for someone else to step in if they need to and get something done.

And, it is a lot of systems! But we kept the complexity WAY down. And while the engineering is not perfect (is it ever?) I feel confident that someone can step in and work on these systems if I'm not here.
Dish drops another 210K wireless subs in 2Q
Willing to die and willing to endure torture are different things. Everybody breaks given enough pain.
Go might be a contender save for a couple weird features. JS might be with a few ground rules and/or enough tooling.

I’m also willing to grant implicitly that there are tradeoffs here. Languages with small standard libraries usually have big community libraries and vice/versa.
You could be speaking about Boris Johnson.

He managed to be prime minister.
I get an e-mail and they show up on a web UI and it is instantaneous more or less.

And I don't know why I have to get robocalls because gramma can't operate the internet.

And both my 80+ year old parents can navigate the internet well enough to get lab test results off of websites.
You might have written that as a joke, but Logo's turtle graphics are polar coordinates and made sense to young students.
There does seem to be a population whose mental grounding is flimsy enough to retain the idea that Egyptian gods are real after the experience is over (Moon Knight is an excellent reference point), and to believe they can actually fly during the experience. The latter are the most concerning above the ground floor, immediate bodily harm. I'd really like credible statistics on all of these, and somehow adjusted for the "lizard people" factor (4% or so, of Americans at least, believe in the race or races of lizard people supposedly among us or underground, for example). To balance, we'd want the coefficients.
I have lordosis, and admittedly, I should be seeing a PT because the curve is getting worse. But when I'm in pain, I go for an intense bicycle ride. Something about the blood flow loosening everything up and the endorphins it releases. For hours after my body will naturally want to do those stretches that just feel so good. It will last for a handful of days and then my back and body starts to ache again and it reminds me to go again.
Agreed, what I have done is just not answer my phone unless they are in my contact list. I also do not share my cellphone number with anyone. Seems like everyone wants it these days and the pandemic made it worse, so I have a Google Voice number for people who insist on having a number.

The only phone number that gets spam calls anymore is that Google Voice number.

For all other numbers, the calls have virtually stopped.
Hard not to remember that AI parole-officer scene from the Elysium movie [1].

The AI was 'detecting' several emotional states in real-time, most notably the sarcasm.

At the movie release this looked quite spot-on about the AI state. Perhaps now it's more able and sensitive/sensible.

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=flLoSxd2nNY
I'm still using it from when I last installed it on my macOS, didn't realize he deprecated mac support :( . FWIW, the installer is called "doublecmd-0.9.10-9640.qt.x86_64.dmg" if you want to look it up online somewhere.

I'll guess I have to look for an alternative now... sigh
> but it does it [sic] seem accurate to assume any random business will be bailed out.

Precisely the issue. It's not "any random business". It's any business with the appropriate properties and connections. If it was truly just random business, perhaps the bail outs would not create such a level of moral hazard. But it's not, and businesses know that.
Important for what? If an adversary follows Space Force personnel on Strava or Garmin Connect they'll probably see a bunch of mountain bike rides around Pikes Peak or whatever. That isn't actionable intelligence.

Fitness trackers only record location when the GNSS receiver is specifically, intentionally activated. On a Garmin watch that takes a minimum of 3 button presses. Cell phones are always tracking you (at least approximate location based on towers).
MNIST is not your typical real world tabular data. Many if not most data science problems out there are still in the range of a few k samples from my perspective (trying to "sell" ML to the average company) From a statistical point of view I would not call the datasets small (you can decently compare two means from subsets without needing a student's distribution).
Congratulations on the launch.

Why 1, 3, 6, or 9 tests per year? (Seems odd considering 52 weeks, or 12 months for periodicity. Only 6 divides into 12. Maybe 1, 2, 4, 6, and 12?)

> 30-min call with Stanford/Cornell scientist to go through results

9 times, or once? I have seen other industries (e.g financial, hotel, airline) attempting to sell 'high touch' service as an upgrade. I have yet to see one that is worthwhile or is profitable.

> Integration with wearables and diet tracking apps

Can you describe what wearables and what diet tracking apps?

As others have asked, a sample report would be lovely.

> You must live in the US, be 18 years or older, and not pregnant to be participate.

I think you are looking for 'Have US address'. Or, you are looking for US address and US funds?
Apparently some VCs are not expecting anything back except karma for making needed enhancements to civilization.
Very much this. Like, I know I can juggle 4-6 different system problems at once, context switching every couple of minutes between them. And during more massive outages, this is necessary to get things under control faster, sure.

But it's also extremely mentally exhausting. And when I realized that, I stopped it and limited myself to 2 tasks at once outside of emergencies. Usually a slower-paced task where you fire off something and it does stuff for half an hour, and some smaller chore to do while waiting, or planning for a more involved thing, or reviewing and editing documentation. And if there is nothing to do with both tasks doing stuff... that's fine. Let's go and make some coffee or outside for a minute. Or it's just one thing if it's complex and critical and then I shutdown most communication too.

It's noticeably slower, naturally. However, this slower pace is very good for my mental health and it's beneficial for the team, because it allows other people to get involved with the pieces and systems I usually maintain. A coworker is currently wading through some of the marshlands of infrastructure only I tend to go through and constantly pokes me to document another weird nook or cranny. That's good.
I posted this comment a few days ago, but it is worth repeating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32278994

In Canada, the Canada Revenue Agency considers gambling winnings to be windfalls that are not subject tax, so any winners receive the full value of the advertised prizes [0].
[0]

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/technic...

A possible reason as to why this is also the case is that most/all of the lotteries are run by the provinces themselves, so you could think of them removing the taxable amount continuously in an accumulative fashion as the total pot grows and then only advertising what the winner would take home.
Minify your container
My takeaway from the article is that it was impractical to manufacture these in America, or get financing to do so. It sounds like the U.S. has a serious problem connecting manufacturing ideas with resources needed to implement them.
It's very normal to have multiple identities/modes/stages of life, but we only begin to appreciate this after we've been through a couple (aka with age). In the beginning our first identity or two is all we've ever known, so its loss is extremely scary and feels catastrophic.

I felt the same way after leaving my 1st job of 10 years out of college. It was like mourning a death. I was "an employee at X", I was good at it, I liked it. So it was so very worrying, frightful, and confusing when that season of life began to pass, and I was no longer happy with what up to that point had been everything I had been looking for.

Some resources you may find interesting:

[1] On average, friendships last about 7 years (indirectly suggesting that WE tend to change in identities every 7 years or so) - https://mwfseekingbff.com/2012/11/07/friendship-the-seven-ye...

[2] Transitions: Making Sense Of Life's Changes by William Bridges - A great book on the transitions of life, and how society today tries to rush through them, but they are deeply important and must be given the appropriate honor, time, and space. I read this when I was struggling with my own career transition, and it was exactly what I needed at that time in my life. Only by letting transitions run their courses fully can you set healthy foundations for the next stages of your life (and the next stage WILL be fruitful, even if life is full of murkiness and confusion right now).
Unfortunately, it has to be through our collection device. Blood usually has to be cooled on ice to be shipped. At room temperature (in the mail), you need the stabilizing sponge that our blood device has.
mRNA Vaccines: Why Is the Biology of Retroposition Ignored?
You are of course correct. I was simply trying to highlight clumsily that we don't have a presidential type leadership here in the UK.
Sure, agreed, but the point is that the “deeply-held values” you mention aren’t really the petty “culture wars” stuff.
I prefer to err on the side of subtlety - it reduces your audience but delights them more :)
https://archive.ph/9vNAW
Good takeaways here:

1. The less time you spend on-camera, the less your appearance dates you. Go voice-only when possible.

2. Stay on the leading edge of tech whenever possible
This is so easily fixable with the lessons we've learned with egress filtering on the Internet.

Legally require large providers to never allow their customers to falsify caller ID. Then have the large providers disconnect small providers who pass along fraudulent caller ID until all small providers are either out of business or aren't facilitating spammers.

It's literally that easy, but Congress has ducked this up time and time again, and the FCC has been neutered. We really need proper, technically sound legislation to fix this.
Yeah, the issue there is copyright, otherwise it would be trivial to reprint it in some form or other. Obviously the solution is open source texts for elementary to intro college level textbooks, and I can't imagine any real argument to that by anyone who isn't affiliated with a publisher.
Craigslist had both free and paid categories, and I believe at its peak revenues would have supported the investments I'm imagining - especially in second and third tier markets.

By the time these ideas came to me, most of these papers were on their knees, and already making hard cuts.
> I don't think it's moving the goalposts to look at the direct leadership of the political parties and their actions. Hillary and Trump aren't just random individuals.

They aren't random individuals, but just because Hillary conceded the election on one occasion doesn't refute the many documented instances in which she and others in her party (at all levels of leadership) alleged or heavily implied the election was stolen.

> But Hillary isn't engaging in election denial, or really any denial. It's a verified fact that Russia leaked hacked material in order to hurt Hillary's campaign and portions of the Trump campaign colluded with that Russian effort.

It absolutely is election denial to allege or imply that the election was stolen, as Hillary has done many times over the intervening years, even if you believe there is good reason to deny the election results. Specifically, the original claim was that one party accepts election results and the other party does not--if you agree that some significant number of Democrats believed in Russian collusion even if there was collusion and that some significant number of Republicans believe the 2020 election was stolen even if it was stolen then you necessarily agree that the original claim (that one party accepts election results and the other does not) is false. You perhaps agree that the Democrats' election denial is better than the Republicans', but there is no room for disagreement that neither party accepts election results.
I understand the parent point that this is driven by corruption. The point I was trying to convey is that corruption isn't a sufficient reason for there to be literally zero other work that could feed a family. I don't blame the people, they are just trying to get by. But I think the majority of people worldwide find that a major portion of their work life is spent on nonsense work. I think this will only get worse as software and automation continues to eat the world. Of course, this is just my personal opinion.
I delivered papers from age 9 to 17. Moved to different places and got a new route with each move. Taught me punctuality and the value of a dollar. It is not a popular opinion, but that so many jobs that used to be handled by teenagers are now handled by immigrants isn't doing our kids any favors. They'll learn more from working that delaying adulthood even more with largely worthless degrees that saddle them with debt.
The unemployment rate is a good proxy for a person's ability to get a better job, and that is an undeniable good. Restaurants are having trouble hiring people because most of those jobs are awful. Employers who treat their employees well aren't having retention problems.
Oh, god, please stop abusing yourself. Stop using bad tools for the job of manipulating XML/JSON and start using a tool designed for the task: Saxon XSLT. It comes in Java, .Net, and JS forms.

https://www.saxonica.com/

XPath/XSLT3/Xquery are full-fledged functional programming languages that specialize in querying and transforming tree data structures. They make it so easy to work with XML and JSON. You don’t have to hurt yourself using the wrong tools!
Not all console programs are meant to be batch tools whose output needs to be piped and parsed.

Sometimes you need an interactive tool and you may want to run then in a console.

Emacs is an example
Pig organs partially revived in dead animals – researchers are stunned
Your question hints at desperation and depression. I recommend seeking professional mental help before things get out of control.
New optical switch could lead to ultrafast all-optical signal processing
Enforcing the use of STIR/SHAKEN across networks and providing an easy way (aka in the messaging and dialer app) to report spam messages and calls would likely fix 99% of the problem.

I'm sure Google and Apple are nipping at the bit to add "Report as spam" in their apps, carriers just need to provide a way to ingest that information and have it be actionable by disallowing spoofing.
Children can't be permanently enslaved into paper delivery, but poor people driving their own beater cars are quite easy to make dependent.

Wait a second... people actually buy newspapers still? (kinda sarcasm kinda not)
I'm 51. 37 is younger than you think it is.