skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has taken extremely heavy doses of some very, very potent psychedelics (LSD, DMT, ketamine, mescaline and psilocybin), I am inclined to agree with you. I acknowledge that some people experience great benefits from psychedelics, but the current push to label psychedelics as mental health miracle solution doesn't sit right with me.

Make no mistake: these chemicals are not to be trifled with. People with underlying mental health issues - the poeple who would be most interested in using psychedelics - are at heavy risk of exacerbating their illnesses. Even outside of those special cases, I've seen normal people become heavily affected by bad trips. I simply don't think that there is enough scientific literature on the adverse effects of psychedelics. I also do not like the heavy focus on the "spiritual" aspects that these drugs are believed to confer: are you really transcending, or are you just so heavily intoxicated that you believe you are and no longer have the rational capabilities to convince yourself otherwise?

If I can end on just a little anecdote myself, I personally believe that heavy psychedelic use is especially counterproductive to technical/knowledge-based work. I did barely any work during the year that I was experimenting with these drugs. I was so content with my life as it was that I simply didn't feel the urge to exert myself. I was becoming soft, more predisposed to magical thinking. I believed that psychedelics had revealed unto me truths about how society should be run, how life should be and the true nature of mathematics. But I didn't know a damn thing! I just lost the inclination to actually analyse my ideas (or notions, because they barely qualified as ideas), instead being content to just accept them as they were. After a long stretch of abstinence from these drugs, I realised how worthless most of these notions actually were. I also deeply regretted the amount of time I spent taking these notions seriously, as well as the amount of time I had wasted in thinking that I had actually been experiencing any spiritual truths.
I keep thinking of rolling a simpler solution with chroot + something something, but if someone is able to hide the complexity of Nix well enough, sign me up. Those abstractions tend to be leaky though.
Bitcoin doesn't make outbound connections to multiple hosts sharing a /16 (there is some analogous prefix for IPv6 but I don't recall what it is).

If you provide it with a file containing a prefix trie that maps IPs to ASNs (or "enclosing ASN"-- e.g. merging any non-multihomed AS into its parent) then it won't make multiple outbound connections to the same ASN. There was some aspirations at some point of shipping a map file with the software, but I think the people working on that stopped working on Bitcoin.

Gold standard would be if you were multihomed yourself, constructing such a map from your own routing tables that collapsed every ASN into its distinct parent such that no outbound peers share a common network at all. (Bitcoin nodes don't make many outbound connections, so this wouldn't be totally crazy). Though that would still be a little approximate because there is no guarantee that interdomain routing is symmetrical.
Tracking stuff is hard. I wonder why QR codes won't work in this case, or something similar, or super basic otherwise / stickers or codes at first. Might be more annoying to generate and maintain them initially. CV could work really well to keep track of inspection steps as well, or to recommend what you should do next, and how to do it
I remember a joke question from the conlanging subreddit asking what real language looks the most like it was constructed, and one of the top answers was Finnish.

It really does look like that, it's unnaturally systematic in a lot of ways.
Show HN: WebAssembly vs. JavaScript Maze Solver
I'm totally guessing here, but apart from just being able to trust professional design and manufacturing more, could there be some kind of a "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" effect there?

If it were socially normal and expected to try and repair things, and you did happen to blunder, that would be a normal blunder that everybody makes. But if you go against the grain and try to fix things yourself when it's becoming less and less expected to do that, that could make a mistake feel worse.

Of course one might quite naturally just feel more responsible for a possible mistake when doing things oneself hands-on rather than when delegating things to someone else in any case. Not saying you should, but it'd be quite natural to.
There is a huge amount of food options before you get to crickets. Plant based meat didn't come before tofu, chickpeas, lentils, beans, and so many other ingredients and options.
To me, the salient question is why is the government officially adopting a proprietary file format? Why is it important to optimize for the trivial convenience of patent applicants?

It seems more like rationalization than reason.
Modern CAD systems tend to produce reproducible, very similar systems. Drafting produces individualized solutions. "Superior" depends on what you want.

(For housing, I want individualized so badly. If I see one more SillyValley SWE storehouse - excuse me, "luxury housing" - I'm going to vomit. They're all exactly the same. I'm fairly certain the firms involved have traded macros or something)

I'm not sure you can close that gap. I've done both drafting and CAD design (amateur level), and... you approach the space differently. Drafting almost forces you to have a plan, while CAD very much is "as you go".
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First, I'm by no mean a programmer.
Second, I am reading HN for years, just registered to make this public and see if it can be useful for someone. I have nothing to gain monetary.

A while ago, I decided that no blogging system was simple enough and I looked for a small wiki to use as a CMS/blog. Found WikWiki on C2.com and I mixed it with some basic Markdown syntax, a minimal template and added password protection.

The result is a single php file, no database and no dependencies. Code is a mess, not modulable, probably wrong in so many ways, but it can probably used by some as personal notepad, wiki, CMS, blog, etc.

Any comments appreciated.
Nitpick: VAX was the hardware, VMS was the operating system.
(having worked on VAXen with BSD Unix)
I would say languages hardly matter at all - pick lucrative fields and then just adopt whatever the standard tooling is there. You'll probably have no issue picking up all three languages if you need to.
wow, had no idea Wasm is that much faster than JS
Ask HN: Russian expats how has your life changed post Ukraine conflict?
has it affected how your coworkers and/or others view you differently?
Honestly the only thing I'd be willing to personally guarantee will be around 20 years from now would be Linux.

Even something like Postgresql, which I would also say would last 20 years, could be overtaken if there were some "perfect DB" as a result of some breakthrough on Database research.
This is a key point that seems to be forever in the blind spot of many people who focus on production/supply and technologies.

Without demand, there is no supply. In highly unequal societies there is no motivation to improve production efficiency--rather the opposite.
If querying is the main goal, ingesting the pdf directly into something like elasticsearch or splunk would be much simpler. This of course doesn't meet the checkbox of being open source though.
FYI if your doors make other noises when they open it could be the paint on the inside edge sticking against the frame. In that case, apply paraffin wax to prevent a seal.
Sanna Marin FTW!
But you must be immersed with Finnish? Do you struggle with it?
I think it is not totally unreasonable. Like I said, I'm not super handy, so when I do amateur fixes I stick to things incapable of catching fire mostly.
Yes, tell that those chernobyl children who still suffer visibly today?

Not every country has that much square meters for landfills or nuclear wastelands, too.

Nuclear won't save us from not realizing we cannot grow forever and resources are finite.

> arguably are already accounted

wtf?
On-site visits, or contract work on the shop floor should be a good way in. Alternatively pro-bono work, part time or longer.
In another Things I Won't Work With entry[1] he talks about cramming nitrogen complexes together, so it's definitely in the chemistry.

1 https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
>probably worse than death for most Romans

Yep, brutal to the lower castes, and political consequences for the remaining family honor.

Being a stateless immigrant today is probably not much better. It is likely wise to be cautious around those idealizing empires. =)
Three Mile Island/The China Syndrome killed nuclear energy in the US. That was an interesting few weeks.
Oh now that looks interesting, I haven’t come across that. Being based on Parasolid should make it a rock solid cad tool. Will have to give it a go!
Meat substitutes sure. No one is trying to normalize crickets, don't be dramatic. And I say that as someone always searching for new vegetarian or vegan recipes and ideas.
They can be made so for similar cost to nuclear in at least two distinct ways.

An aluminium rod with a cross section of a few square metres is enough for global power needs, PV is cheap enough that the resistance loses don't alter that equation even antipodally. Take a while to mine that much aluminium, but it also takes a while to make even one reactor.

The batteries we need to build anyway for the electric cars (or the hydrogen production, storage, and fuel cells if we decide to go back to those) are the same scale we need for grid storage, and it makes sense to repurpose car batteries as grid batteries before full refurbishment. Last I checked the cost for batteries was close to, IIRC slightly better than, equivalent nuclear.
The Next Evolution of Carta
Wow you wrapped that up in a neat bow!
The accident at Three Mile Island and the film "China Syndrome" turned the public against it in America. The prejudice still lingers. I was working as a reactor tech on a nuclear submarine shortly after and decide before I got out that there was no future in nuclear. I became a computer programmer instead. Alvin Toffler's book "The Third Wave" convinced me to do this.
The AI generated pics and more is just getting started. The Reddit/onlyfans/etc circle has a few generated realistic girls I have noticed recently.
Related question: this issue of power bill costs skyrocketing in europe and elsewhere, to where there is real risk of mass non-payment. Do we know what percentage of households being shut off would cause grid instability because of having to dump load from nuclear and other plants that can't easily be shut down?
Hey guys,

so, I just bought a new phone and I want to change it´s OS into something amazing.

Don´t ask why I bought this one, I just like it and I want to play with it a little, it´s the cutest shit ever tbh.

It is quite slow but can be modified with an SD card

Now, what kind of OS is so easy to run on an old Xperia which can´t even pull up a youtube video?

I´ll just do any of your advice, I´m thinking starfish atm.
Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, I should start to build something and don't think my limitations but to how much I
can.

I can do a part time job sure, but I have a limited time, starting from school from 8:00 AM until 1 - 2 PM, then I need to study in a very limited time, go to part time job, finish very late.

Yeah I know there is free books, I always start from them.

I'm still studying and I am at the end of the school year, and as I said, I don't like what they teach me, basically what I hate. So when I finish school I wanna do a job that I like in the things I like.

I read that cybersecurity / Ethical Hacking books are useless cause they are outdated and useless, I tried with tryhackme, but how much far I can go with the free path?

No, I don't need something to learn fast, I wanna learn something that I like and I can do.

I will follow your advice to try to figure out and build something. Italy is really a 3rd world, and school in Italy don't have good IT teachers enough, that's why I am afraid one day I will decide to go outside (that's what I wanna do) there's less job request with PHP, but in anyway, I don't wanna work with PHP.
> "autoSpaceLikeWord95", "footnoteLayoutLikeWW8", "useWord2002TableStyleRules", and "lineWrapLikeWord6"

I expect that whatever tooling the USPTO uses can probably just ignore those things. They're extracting metadata, not actually rendering it.
Hyoka
I created a lightweight and precise math expression parser and evaluator for JavaScript and TypeScript. it can handle complex arithmetic expressions
I don't doubt that the Empire and America had a lot to do with English dominance. However I do feel there is something inherently fun about English that is lacking in other languages I've encountered. Maybe it's just because it's my native language but I can't help but feel this sense of playfulness is picked up on by non native speakers as well. The article below is really interesting; it's by non English stand up comedians who have started performing in English. The general feel is that they prefer writing/performing in English and can have more fun with it than their native languages.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/stand-up-comedy-english-lang...
Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven
Your skepticism is warranted. Psychedelics are a hot topic and journalists have been promoting a lot of one-sided articles that make them sound like miracle cures. In clinical practice, ketamine can be useful as part of a recovery and treatment strategy, but it's not really an effective long-term treatment due to the short duration of effects (1-2 weeks post dosing) and the unsustainable nature of the drug (tolerance builds to the anti-depressant effect with repeated dosing).

Some ketamine treatment providers are running very professional and well-staffed businesses (source: had to do a lot of due diligence on the industry for a potential investment) but some of the others are shockingly under-qualified to be administering high doses of ketamine to patients with little evaluation. The regulatory bodies are slowly catching up to some of these providers and instituting stricter regulations. While there is some therapeutic potential, it needs to be delivered in the context of a long-term treatment strategy rather than just giving someone ketamine over and over again (as some unscrupulous providers will gladly do as long as the patient is willing to pay).
Are software developers really a small market?

There is probably low priority/ignored because most developers can easily do this on their own, so it's not really worth the hassle.
I’ve worked at SaaS companies that invested in ui/ux and one of the common reasons we’d win deals is our app looked “nicer” than our competitors.

However, I do believe you can build a lasting saas business with a strong backend / weak frontend, but can’t do it with a weak backend / strong frontend.
No, should be a native IPv6 consumer ISP... But now that you mention it, most other IPv6 sites act like this as well. Sorry, it's probably my ISP or maybe my router. Guess I haven't been tracerouting IPv6 much since getting native IPv6 connectivity.
I think that many HRs would be suspicious about somebody who worked at each job for 2.261 ms.
I have found this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_N-M231
Physicist here. Hire more of us. Grokking complex systems, testing, and communicating our knowledge, are what we do.
That depends on where the 1,000 suqare miles is. If it's in the Nevada desert, I might agree (although the fallout from Chernobyl did fall over Europe so the initial impact is well beyond the long-term 1,000 square miles) but that's not where you need to build nuclear power plants [1]:

> To obtain the best value from nuclear power stations, they should be built close to the cities

[1]: https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazi...
From having worked with Mudge tangentially in the past, the bit about Twitter not having a cold-boot scenario and that being a problem sounds like him. Given Mudge's storied history, I don't know that he needs Musk to help him fund litigation regarding wrongful termination, though the timing is interesting. Musk has more funds than Mudge does, and spending someone else's money is always more fun than spending your own, so maybe there's something to that, but as you say, that's just speculation.
Just a reminder: if your operating system is actively hostile towards you, you can still opt-out: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/d...
I've started looking into CO2e reduction techniques as well. Would be great to discuss. Working with a client in the food space who is doing this just to learn more
For TOTP Apps, I recommend: https://sr.ht/~martijnbraam/numberstation/
In general no, I doubt it. Even though there have been breaks and setbacks caused by the fall of empires and rise of religions, in general our technological and scientific progress has been a steady constant from ancient times until today.
Yep often the worst are the ones that are unstable and deform into other horrible chemicals.
My friend was able to unlock my new Google phone with his fingerprint
No, the steam engine came after the industrial revolution was over.[1]

In 1840 the amount of steam power per worker in England was the same as in 1750. Total horsepower from steam only just matched water power in 1830.

And that was in the country using the most steam by far.

1. https://daviskedrosky.substack.com/p/a-study-in-steam

I recommend Dr. Kedrosky's blog in general, if you are interested in material progress.
Yeah I suspect it isn't exactly a 50/50 split between "both sides" of this issue - not that the article necessarily argued that, of course.
*hundred billion dollar companies with a manufacturing component :)
China is planning to build 150 reactors by 2035, and has not then doubled the nuclear share in a decade, so economic or not, there's evidently some appeal there.
Late response. I'm inclined to believe that the original paper, and the work done by the archeologists etc. is of the highest standard. The article itself was quite poorly written
so about 40% instead of 10%
i wish to make a toy version of that on an esp32, with a RPL system on top (of course)
Whole of ISP uses v4l2. You communicate with ISP by sending specially formatted buffers (C structs docs I posted) via v4l2 buffers (the same interface you'd get image data, too).

Preexisting calibration data are just XML files with params to load to the ISP and params to use to determine which set of params to load based on statistics collected from ISP (like after detecting what kind of light the scene has, you have to load params calibrated for that light type).

(I do rotation via RGA, so maybe you mean that? That's a separate HW block, not part of ISP.)
Productivity = focus * time

Yes, time is important - but depth of focus is almost as important.
The federal beast is being starved so badly that it's consuming 4x the fraction of non-wartime GDP that it was 100 years ago (oh yes, except the blip during participation in a WORLD WAR). It's the kind of starvation only obese America can understand.

https://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/outlays-GDP....
The question was "boring but important" not "pointless." I tease, but I've worked on a lot of government tech and their only use cases are surveillance and lying. It's why PowerBI is so popular.
i love how the low bits of the addresses in hex are cognates for both the section and the actual content of the name/line.

also, looking glasses... jeez. i haven't heard or thought of those in _years_.
A lot of Finnish people learn Japanese for some reason.
You might do it in a tank full of the easiest gas possible. A fishtank full of neon or something.
While that is technically true standard 敬語/honorifics (です/ます and a few word choices) aren't really that complicated.

There are additional levels of honorifics which can be far more complicated but (outside of workplace honorifics -- which you will need to practice if you will work at a Japanese company) native speakers usually get some kind of training in how to speak in that exceptionally formal way (the kind of keigo used in restaurants is sometimes criticised for being "incorrect" Japanese and is called バイト敬語 -- usually service workers literally get handed a manual which explains how to interact with customers using this form of 敬語). If you or I had an audience with the queen we would probably also get some kind of training in how to politely speak to her.

Finally, if it's obvious you're studying Japanese and you drop a です or ます the person is quite unlikely to be insulted. Especially if it's not someone who is your superior at work.
Another ex-nuke here — when I got out and went to law school, coincidentally right after Three Mile Island, my dad (neither a lawyer nor an engineer) tried to convince me that I should specialize in nuclear-energy law because I'd have a built-in advantage. I politely explained why I thought that would be a dead end, and that turned out to be correct.
We considered this, but it's another step. What I'm talking about is going to be hard and take a while, but feels like the "endgame" for how this is going to be done--automated, done with phones, no extra work.
The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021)
Shipping companies have pretty explicit limits on liablility unless you declare a higher value (and pay a fee). Of course they won't accept high value fragile items for shipment if they're not packaged adequately, which seems to be the case here.
> Fukushima, I absolutely do write off

The only thing that prevented Fukushima from having a Chernobyl like impact was that the radiation leakage was into the ocean [1]. The ocean ironically is being treated as a dumping ground that can be ignored by the pro-nuclear lobby just as they claim the pro-fossial fuel lobby os treating the atmosphere.

[1]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/fukushima-radiation-con...
Google brought back Duo (kind of) because its Meet transition is so confusing
Will This Be the First Country Bankrupted by Crypto?
How is this different from cloning?
Option 1 requirements:

- Equipment: wrenches, oil collection pan, oil container for transport to disposal, funnel?
- Knowledge: Quality of oils, filters, Oil weights (5W20? 10W30?)
- Willingness: To get dirty, to stain the driveway
- Time: 30min if all goes well, then time to take waste oil to disposal
- Trust: In self
- Funds: $20 for oil and filter, assuming disposal is free

Option 2 requirements:

- Time: 15min, plus a few minutes to drive to the shop
- Trust: In "professionals", misplaced or not
- Funds: $29.95

I change my own oil also, but I have no rational explanation for this choice.

I have the equipment, knowledge, and willingness to take the minor risk of mistake and deal with the consequences. $10 is not a fair wage for those prerequisites!

Of course I use better oil and filters than the shop would. Does this matter? Am I kidding myself? And someday I'll take my plastic milk jugs full of waste oil to a disposal place.