skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, nothing extreme against those adapters, that will certainly be the way to go for me if I end up with a phone without headphone jack. I just don't love how they stick out and can snag things more easily in my pocket or bag, but I'd probably put up with it.

How long until USB-C is discontinued and all phones are zero port?
Is it unethical to make someone feel disturbed? It doesn't seem particularly serious or disproportional to me.
These days, adults. But I had a similar group of friends in High School and the people I was closest to - including a core group we referred to as the Fry Kids - are now all successful and well adjusted adults in their early 40s. I did mushrooms with one of them the other day! Though most of them do few if any drugs any more.

As for "meltdowns" aka "bad trips", I have seen plenty and heard about plenty more. But what I never saw or heard about were long-lasting effects after the bad trip.

I'd also note that DMT is known for it's intensity and dramatic after-effects. I wouldn't lump it in with those other drugs.
> He’s also Bob’s son.

That’s unexpected in a good way! Hope he has the same level of ingenuity and integrity as his dad.
Some of this is going to end up depending on the wind. The chart on page 13 of your second link shows 16.1% wind of every single day for the period. So that's about 4GW, day after day. That's a placeholder, because we have no sufficiently accurate long range forecast. The reality, hour by hour could be 15GW and it could be 1GW.
The curl command mentioned in the article that's supposed to show the region being used for a request `curl -ls https://deno.land` doesn't seem to work as described. Does anyone know if this is a typo?
I remember when I used a CPAP, I didn't have a UPS. Where I lived, the power was so reliable I just didn't think of it.

After a blackout, I went looking for a UPS. The problem was the alarm. For all the models in the store, I wasn't sure if I could keep the alarm silent, or if the model had an alarm at all.

I never bought a UPS. (I had surgery about 18 months later, and turned in my CPAP.)
The architecture I eventually ended up with for my product (https://reflame.app) involves:

1. A strongly consistent globally replicated DB for most data that needs fast reads (<100ms) but not necessarily fast writes (>200ms). I've been using Fauna, but there are other options too such as CockroachDB and Spanner, and more in the works.

2. An eventually consistent globally replicated DB for the subset of data that does also need fast writes. I eventually settled on Dynamo for this, but there are even more options here.

I think for all but the most latency-sensitive products, 1. will be all they need. IMHO the strongly consistently replicated database is a strictly superior product compared to databases that are single-region by default and only support replication through read-replicas.

In a read-replica system, we have to account for stale reads due to replication delays, and redirect writes to the primary, resulting in inconsistent latencies across regions. This is an extremely expensive complexity tax that will significantly increase the cognitive load on every engineer, lead to a ton of bugs around stale reads, and cause edge case handling code to seep into every corner of our codebase.

Strongly consistently replicated databases on the other hand, offer the exact same mental model as a database that lives in a single region with a single source of truth, while offering consistent, fast, up-to-date reads everywhere, at the cost of consistently slower writes everywhere. I actually consider the consistently slower writes also a benefit since it doesn't allow us to fool ourselves into thinking our app is fast for everybody, when it's only fast for us because we placed the primary db right next to us, and forces us to actually solve for the higher write latency using other technologies if our use case truly requires it (see 2.).

In the super long term, I don't think the future is on what's currently referred to as "the edge", as this "edge" doesn't extend nearly far enough. The true edge is client devices: reading from and writing to client devices is the only way to truly eliminate speed-of-light induced latency.

For a long time, most truly client-first apps have been relegated to single-user experiences due to how most popular client-first architectures have not had an answer for collaboration and authorization, but with this new wave of client-first architectures solving for collaboration and authorization with client-side reads and optimistic client-side writes with server-side validation (see Replicache), I've never been more optimistic about the future (an open source alternative to Replicache would do wonders to accelerate us to this future. clientdb looks promising).
"How Americans edit my writing"
He's swapping billets and claiming the swapped billet is what Simon originally wrote. Simon is amazed because he was just told he would find himself confused, and he is, since the fake billet is written in his handwriting (forged). Which is the simpler explanation, sleight of hand and handwriting forgery, or hypnotic memory implantation spanning several days?
You raise a good point; it's more complicated than my simplistic response above. Glad to hear that you are feeling better now.
My interpretation is that it is this thinking that the author is describing in their article. In short, if someone wasn't prudent, they would't feel to have to edit-out "not good" things. You could take them as just being a part of reality.

For the author, certain info (such as him very his usual briefs or she climaxing or someone smoking) is just to add "reality" to the scene. It doesn't say anything about the character per se. Yet, to Americans, it does. To them if it wouldn't say anything about the scene, it wouldn't be included. But that's only true for a subset of topics, them being body/sex stuff and smoking. Nobody would raise an eyebrow if the character was watching a football game.

> American readers need body/sex stuff to be told as stories and not as facts (so says my friend Sara Marzullo, about whom more later). The problem is that even if sex always requires storytelling, you can still just show a body—or a feeling, a glitch in the software of life where sex transpires—in a way that is not easy to interpret, or in a way that maybe doesn’t need to be interpreted at all, but that only needs to ring true. And even if this thing I just wrote sounds wholesome and real, somehow American literature—writers, editors, critics, readers—needs sex always to be contextualized. It should be raunchy. Or loving. Or a cautionary tale. It cannot be open-ended.

> This is a good chunk of what literature is for me. An opaqueness that affords us openendedness. Openendedness that is based on a feel for the world where details create facts so vivid you can touch them. They make you say « that’s real ». If stuff is put in a story only to create the sense of a story, then often it won’t coalesce into a simulacrum of reality.
For many americans, its hard to get actually drunk at the bar without having to drive home after. You might live well outside of walking distance and there might be really poor coverage of taxi or rideshare services. You might have to have someone be the designated driver. For some reason the standard price of a pint of beer that isn't bud light has creeped up to at least $10 practically everywhere, in the 'cheap' midwest too. It adds a ton of friction to these cultural things that are much more commonplace elsewhere that have a lot lower friction to engage with them.

For example, in southern europe, its pretty common to see people openly drinking on the streets and no one bats an eye, either beers or straight up taking pulls from vodka bottles as casually as if its a water bottle. A lot more people live walking distance to a bar or someplace that serves alcohol. The smallest village will have a bar before it has a pharmacy or any other services. I've even found it to be cheaper to order light beer than to order water in restaurants in certain countries (they don't give you water for free like in the U.S.). Getting drunk is a lot more convenient and cheaper in europe than it is in America, unless you live in a college town that has dirt cheap well drink deals or something like that, and those towns feel pretty european to me with their drinking culture as a result.
Not in my experience dealing with an oxygen concentrator. The backup was a couple of tanks of O2, which can be used up pretty quick. And the O2 cannister supply chain isn't geared to meet widespread need, as we saw during the first wave of Covid.
Isn’t having an accurate model of reality considered an inherent good?

Is being delusional somehow good as long as it leads to preferred outcomes? Seems questionable to me and rife with potential bad incentives.
This reminds me of a site I came across that uses the properties of a trip to show psychonauts messages that sober humans would find more difficult to interpret: https://qualiacomputing.com/2015/05/22/how-to-secretly-commu...
Worse than Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap? I think it's neck and neck.
Most of my CS faculty in undergrad were great, but there were a couple like the guy you describe. And I wonder why in the world they took jobs as lecturers. If you don't have a passion for teaching, why take a job that pays substantially less than what you get in industry? CS isn't like, say, English where there aren't enough nonacademic jobs to go around.

In contrast, most of my faculty in medical school were terrible teachers. But there it made sense why. They were either there because they wanted to work at a large quartenary referral hospital or because they wanted to teach residents (not students).
I recently download apps to a new iPhone and every App Store search result had a TikTok ad above the app I had searched for by name. That can't be cheap!
> Interestingly, I learned how to “tag” memories as authentic (so I could write about them later) which has had interesting implications later on in my life.

Do tell.
Agreed. My takeaway of the first passage was quite different than what the author had indented to express. The editor wasn't censoring the author, she was making cultural translations.

The author's obsession with the balcony passage is hilarious, and it gives me a good insight into his general attitude. It's as though he feels that his prowess is being questioned and that he needs to be defensive and attack an entire culture. I mean, in response to a minor edit, he literally called up a "friend" out of the blue to ask her details about sex they had a decade back. That's Grade A insecurity.

It's likely this insecurity is seeped thoughout his writing. And his editor is doing her best to legitimately improve his story telling.
Yeah, Immersed popped up alongside us. A big reason of why we went the hardware route (as an originally pure software product) was that the existing hardware was not good enough.

Having worked with the prototype headset, I can fairly confidently say that at least the picture quality is now good enough (with our optical train/displays)
Vestas is not a government backed company, see my other comment.
Biden Plans to Pardon People Convicted of Simple Marijuana Possession
Lask week there was a post about how bad gmail was, and many suggested fastmail as alternative...

I'm seriously thinking about changing. This is another drop in the glas.
> "gen z" students expect the "system" to adapt to address their struggles

I hope Gen Z soldiers don't have this attitude.

[Mortar round blows off leg of Gen Z platoon grunt.]

"OMG! Mortar rounds are SO UNFAIR!" Let's sign a change.org petition demanding mortar rounds only emit harmless pink smoke. If we end up with pink smoke in our foxhole we can demand more time to dig a deeper, better concealed foxhole.
A lot of modern censorship is a mix of algorithms, and government pressuring corporations to take actions the government wants to do but legally cannot (eg. due to 1A concerns). There are huge swathes of society (mostly those who'd also be concerned with eg. "rising authoritarianism") who cheer political censorship and want more and more of it. See how eg. the press reacted to the possibility of Elon buying Twitter and saying he wants to decrease freedom of speech? They took it as an act of war.
> The probability with which a voter bullet votes vs votes three conveys the degree of preference for that candidates.

I can see why that would be a useful assumption, but is there really empirical evidence to confirm that?

A much bigger factor in determining what the voter does, I would guess, is whether they hear activists for their party telling them (perhaps disingenuously) that their candidate won't win if you "betray" them by approving your second or third preference.

So there will be probability distributions of parties that try spreading such a message, and people who hear such a message, and voters who are loyal enough or risk averse enough to follow the advice, but I don't think the combined distribution matches closely enough to the genuine "degree of preference".

As a result, some candidates will get a tactical boost at the expense of their rivals, and eventually all voters will start to question whether they should have voted differently.
By giving users the tools to moderate their own content. If you're peering with an instance that seems to pass on a lot of bad/dangerous content, then block the instance. You can use public blocklists on your instance if you want, but it should be your choice.

Also, it should be noted that blocklists are not a solution for things like phishing. Things like MFA and WebAuthn are the solution.
I'm saying they're not going to see the logic of saving time with better equipment when they're complaining about people slacking off remotely.
You can already be arrested for the things your describing, they're crimes. And if the judge feels it's appropriate sent to hospital. If that isn't happening it's because cities (understandably) cannot pay for the enforcement or treatment. I don't think we need any change in the law for this.
> You made a site complaining about the subpoena and came to Hacker News to complain about it some more.

They didn't make a site to complain; it's their blog by which they're informing buyers and potential buyers of anything that can affect their progress. It also doesn't matter who shared on HN. Any HN user with an interest in them would have shared something this significant, like I was about to.
> Dude's 84 years old. Far, far more likely he is (now) just a shitty teacher. Teaching is really hard and really demanding, and that's before you're a guy in your 8th decade facing a 60-year culture gap with your students. Folks need to know when to retire, sounds like this guy missed the memo.

He's old, therefore he must be doing a shitty job? Seriously? You're being ridiculously ageist.
This isn't crypto. You didn't own any crypto. Some company owned your crypto. The whole point of crypto is that you can own it (ie you and only you have your keys).

We hear stories here every now and then about how their bank/paypal/etc froze their money and they are fucked. Crypto allows you to actually own your stuff. With fiat unless you hold cash, you can't do that. Crypto is about being trustless.

If you give away your crypto to some centralized entity and "trust them" that they'll keep your stuff and not steal it, then you don't get the point of crypto and you're using it wrong.

Yes, I know holding your own keys is hard. There are a lot of things that can be done to improve the UX. And even then, I don't think crypto needs to be easy enough for your grandma to use it, because I don't think crypto needs to replace TradFi for every transaction.
> executives got sold on a fancy feature "Accessible from anywhere" but no one really materializes it for 99.99% of the time they are not coding from anywhere but have to suffer latency the entire time.

This isn’t the pitch. Not at all. The pitch is “no code (or IP) on local machines that can be stolen” and “no downtime if laptop breaks… IT desk can keep a stack of chrome books ready for backup”. Combined with something like gmail and google docs, the laptop at some employees WFH house contains no business secrets ever.

I’ve never experienced the slightest drag of latency with this approach. If you’re running a compiled language, the compiler is surely the bottleneck. If you’re doing it for work, they’ll probably set it up so it’s always regionalized close to you from a cloud. Maybe fly.io should pitch this.
At the end of the day, ByteDance can't do anything that clashes with the wishes of the CCP and that is a risk. If it were to attempt to IPO on US exchanges, it would be subject to even more scrutiny.
I may be missing something but the article does not explain how the bacteria target is actually targeting the cancer cells. Of course, if you can design an ideal universal cancer targeting mechanism, the active ingredient itself is beside the point. Did anyone else catch this?

Stopping DNA replication across the body will be fatal. This is what eventually kills with radiation toxicity.
Always back to the same debate then.
Why aren't human minds glorified functions, that perhaps deserve their glory a bit more than current state of AI?
Obviously they're not currently equivalent. But obviously there are similarities.
That joke was so bad, I ran. I ran so far away.
Excellent point!

The failure to understand this distinction would explain some strange conversations I've had with some people...
Biden to Pardon Marijuana Possession, Order Criminal Review
While my post was wrong, in fairness the context was specifically about keyboards. Nothing to do with audio. I suppose I should have been explicit but the context was keyboard entry.
In America we tend to assume that it's ok for children to eat food but not ok to smoke
He was one of the best illustrators of our time. He will be missed.
Yeah, I can see that. I was wondering more along the lines of taking a medication you don't need. At that point it's all risk an no reward, even if the risks are small.
Are you on a VPN?
What happened to Web4?
We’re broken by the language: work vs play is a bad distinction. When you apply criterion from “work” to “play” it appears as though there are many failures and false starts. We should do both, and at the same time.
That's definitely the stereotype and I wouldn't say it's wrong. There's both a puritanical streak and an out-of-controlness in US culture. Also, Americans are less comfortable with their bodies, sex or no: public nudity, greasy hair, uncorrected teeth, body odor are things American's find disturbing in Europe and perhaps other cultures.
I wish I knew, I think about this problem all the time and have yet to come up with a feasible path. “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it”
Ring do support ONVIF cameras with local storage on Alarm Pro
Not at all. Score Voting as usually defined is continuous on [0,1]. Rescaling to e.g. [1,5] doesn't change this. Restricting to integers on that does; but if there are fewer than 5 candidates, equivalent rankings can still differ for total scores. It's only equivalent if you pick an integer scale [K, K+N] with N candidates, K arbitrary.

That said, I prefer score, or even approval, as that's what strategic score devolves to, but without huge amounts of information loss.
Yeah, the nipple-phobia in Hollywood is really funny. Characters in Hollywood movies or TV shows somehow manage to have sexual intercourse without taking their underwear off.
SOS ms Prinsendam October 4, 1980 (1980)
The funny thing is that Germany and the USA have about the same smoking rate (https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/smoking-r...) but in the USA, it is culturally prohibited in almost every single state or city to smoke around children, in restaurants, in hotels, near primary entrances, or on sidewalks because people feel ashamed for doing it (and in many cases are punished criminally for smoking in those places). So yeah, the attitude is very, very different. Over here, smokers know it is bad for them and do it anyways. In Germany and Austria, many people consider it their way of life and that it isn't actually bad for them.
agreed that almost always hallucinogen users reference some ambiguous change in perception that changed their life. It's hullshit and self delusion almost all of the time.

However, here is 1 concrete example from my own life.

I had a friend who was extremely manipulative and would lie to me constantly to get sympathy or compliment me to ingratitude himself. He would steal from me,but most of the time he didn't need to because he knew I was generous and I would give him basically anything he asked for. Cause we were "friends"

I took acid, and watched him come over to my house and completely commandeer a party. I just sat watching his mannerisms. How he interacted with people. It became so clear immediately that he was an absolute fucking sociopath. When I sobered up I booted him out of my life for the better.

And this was not a case of me reading things into him that weren't there. When I sobered up I talked to all my friends and they were like "yeah that guys a fucking bastard we all wondered why you put up with him"

Something about the trip allowed me to perceive him in a way that I could not or would not have otherwise. I saw right through his flattery and fake charm.

Weird example, but in my life it's the only concrete example of a positive change from psychedelics.

Now I've got about a million negative stories, but there's a positive one for ya.
Celsius has nothing to do with Web3
I think the point is that it doesn't matter. It's a scene showing regular people doing regular things. The things they do might be bad, good, or neither, and most good people almost certainly have bad traits (and vice versa). Showing all of those facets of a character doesn't have to be about making some moral point about their goodness or badness. It can just be about showing their humanity.
It’s difficult to prove intent, but it’s also difficult to implement policy without a paper trail
Nah. He's 84 years old and got fired for being a shitty teacher. It's more likely that he's a shitty teacher than an entire generation of people are suddenly fundamentally different from all humans before them, as you claimed.
I'm totally ignorant of the energy production share by method in the UK, but I was convinced they are pretty much autonomous (to a 95%). Aren't they (you)?
Maybe he's right about his editors being a bit controlling but he also sounds like a douche.
If your work already uses tailscale, you can use enclave to achieve the same thing. Enclave and tailscale seem to coexist fine.
You keep talking about "multi-sig wallets" in multiple posts. Are you going to have courts in every relevant jurisdiction have a handle on that wallet? That seems unlikely to go over well with the sorts of people who take these seriously.
It boggles my mind that in MBA circles Welch is still considered "one of the greats". He took an innovative company and destroyed it with finance shenanigans. In a properly-functioning society he'd have been tarred and feathered, and business schools would use his name as a warning example of what not to do.
I don’t think he’s particularly concerned with capital. It’s the lack of competitive advantage that is key. Insurance (the classic financial services industry that is Buffet’s life blood) is one of the most capital intensive industries.

Airlines lack substantial economies of scale, customer captivity, captive supply, or regulatory protections. The airline industry is a textbook case of an industry with no durable competitive advantages, thus the only performance factor is operational efficiency.

Insurance on the other hand, there are substantial economies of scale (large fixed costs and also larger insurance companies are more diversified thus less costly/risky) and high customer captivity (high switching cost, high search cost).
Early detection?

Whats the best way to detect cancer (money is no object) and how do we get that cost down 10x and get everyone to participate?