skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course everyone's different, but to me "hallucinate" is a bit too strong of an expectation anyways. Or perhaps "hallucinate" is technically accurate, but I've found that uninitiated people expect to have crazy full immersive seeing-things-that-aren't-there experiences on psilocybin (like how DMT trips are described) but almost everyone I've talked with about this stuff has "visuals" and certainly interesting mental imaginings, but not full-fledged hallucinations.

Like shifting patterns of colours and light that overlay your regular vision? Sure. Morphing patterns in things that are actually there like plants or carpets, like your brain can't "keep it straight" for more than a millisecond? Yup. Ability to "travel" in your minds eye into past memories? Totally. Feelings of union with God/Source/Divine/Other/Higher_Reality? You bet.

But not like full-fledged high-fidelity sights and sounds that one would mistake for reality as you normally perceive it, like a man standing there or a crazy monster appearing right in front of you.

Interestingly, it appears different strains of mushrooms produce different amounts or types of visuals too, and I'm sure there are hundreds of other variables also at play (captured in 'set and setting').

Thank goodness this stuff is being studied properly again.
Warren Buffet has some quote on capital intensive industries like you say.

"The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down." [1]

The last sentence is a sarcastic quip, for those who aren't familiar with his personality.

[1]: warning, pdf link: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2007ltr.pdf
If they're getting paid and you're required to listen to them then they have the power and you're the oppressed one.
Every time this pops up I wish that it was merged with the overland cable maps for a global network view. Turns out something like that exists.

https://www.infrapedia.com/
Why are the "Gen Z" students clashing with this one specific professor, if it's a generational thing?
ok great, the first built in app on the airpods platform. When will the platform be available to non-Apple developers though.
This is literally the article that resulted in my mid-1990s teenage self being motivated to work in ISP core network engineering, which is what I've been doing now for twenty years...

I wish Stephenson would write more things like this in addition to his novels.
If the system's default is to expect the combination of an intelligent student, three hours of instruction, and ~12 hours of hard work a week to produce a C grade or lower in a three-credit course, then the system's broken. Probably the instruction part of it, possibly the grading part.

If the material is difficult, it's the professor's job to teach it in a way that can be understood. If that can't be done in the credit-hours allotted to the class, the class should be worth more credit hours.
Statement from President Biden on Marijuana Reform
By far and away my favorite and most actively used is the MS Remote Development pack. I feel if you are not using it, you are not getting the best parts of VSCode
Does this include paid google accounts too?
Okay this changes my attitude a bit. +1
The Tor Project are currently using Fastly as the default for domain fronting in their Snowflake plugin, with cdn.sstatic.net (which serves various assets for Stack Exchange sites) as the front host, and snowflake-broker.torproject.net.global.prod.fastly.net as the target host.

Prior to this, they were fronting via Azure, using ajax.aspnetcdn.com as the front for target snowflake-broker.azureedge.net. But they switched to Fastly after Microsoft announced they'd be changing their policy to explicitly block domain fronting: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/03/26/securing-...
That's nice, dear <pats head>. Now go back to your playroom with Elon.
I think both of these are wrong. For Germans violence seems to be a bigger issue than sex, while for Americans sex is a bigger taboo than violence.

Both of these are completely misguided (IMO) moral policing and disempowering of the population. Both say: people are not capable of making a sound moral choice on their own, they must be protected from seeing things that could negatively influence their character.

That being said, if I were to pick between these two bad policies, I personally think sex is a vastly less morally objectionable topic. On one hand you have an activity that (between consenting people) is pleasurable and is essential in propagating the species, while the other is generally undesirable to everyone involved.
Right? We see the British with their porn filters as being puritanical.
I'd very much be in favor of having more separation between teachers and those who assess students. Is this teacher intellectually hazing students? I don't know, maybe. Are these students whining that a traditionally hard class is hard? I don't know, maybe. If some 3rd party is doing the evaluation, it makes it easier to understand if the professor is being too hard or not.
I read the linked article and I found it kinda scatterbrained. It seemed to dispute claims or tweets about how a vote works, along with what head to head voting outcomes would be.

I do find how the math works out interesting. But I don’t find either disputes all that compelling.

The head to head polling is interesting… but that’s not how the election works. The fact that two systems would be different seems normal to me.

Folks who go to a ranked choice vote and pick just one, that’s their choice too. Same with people who don’t vote and so on.

Not to say the article is worthless, it is interesting, but I’m not sure I agree with the conclusions.
When people say "don't drink and drive", they don't mean it's dangerous to have like one beer and then wait two hours. "Drinking" generally implies getting drunk, basically.
I do not think many people are selling valuable antiques to the government m for pennies on the, and if they are, why do you care?
It’s probably the minority, but I think there are people who it’s helpful for.

For example, I travel with an iPad Pro and a work laptop. If I want to tinker one evening, I can use my iPad instead of bringing a personal laptop. (This also applies to cloud gaming for some people, but I haven’t done that personally).

My partner is also a software engineer and we have a toy server at home with various things running in it (eg game server, home assistant, vpn etc). We have a VSCode instance running so either of us can grab a browser and update the configs, without deal with being in sync. (Imo this is the “most obvious” use case - modifying remote files without worrying about sync).

At work, I also have this setup. (My school had something similar too, just less polished because it was a while ago) The benefits there are big too. Besides everything mentioned before, it also means that there’s basically zero setup time. If you break your laptop, or forget it, or whatever, IT just hands you a temporary chrome book which you log into your work from a browser.

By comparison, my old job pushed a bad MacOS update that bricked my work computer, and they made me remote into a windows VM (AWS workspace) from my personal laptop to do work until a replacement arrived. I lost all my work/files/etc since it bricked unexpectedly, and that job had remote Linux VMs so I had two levels of indirection. Then I had to set everything up again, so I easily lost 3+ weeks of work due to that incident.
Make them purge all models trained with the illegally collected data.

Don't know which ones they were? Too bad, better get rid of them all and keep better track next time.
My first tech job I worked in IT for a finance company. One of my jobs was to write over full disks with 0s, 1s, a few times over _and then_ smash the drives with a hammer.
I have been trying to find what algorithms or techniques are used to actually accomplish the routing whereby the edge server closest to the user is chosen. Is this accomplished by pinging multiple servers and choosing the one with the lowest TTFB?
> At first, no one could imagine that the Russo-Ukrainian war could begin

if by no one you mean the layman.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-possible-invasion-ukra...
Then why the rates were similar before the vaccine went on line?

The parties are big tent enough that age structure differences disappear thanks to the law of big numbers.
You ever have an exchange with someone and are surprised by the assumed comraderie?
Many definitions of edge computing are already this: Just running software on local hardware, but of course, still billing it like it's a cloud service with a SaaS model.

Throw it all out and run everything off a PC in your basement, you'll thank me later.
> Meanwhile, General Electric is in the process of splitting into three publicly traded companies, focused on health care, aerospace and energy.

For some context, GE is kind of riches-to-rags story. Check out this chart of the share price:

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=NYSE%3AGE

Here's a company whose stock is trading at 1994 levels. It never recovered from the "dot-com" crash of 2001. The dividend yield is nowhere close to a US treasury at any maturity. It's losing money left and right. A good chunk of that was the pivot, under Jack Welch's leadership, from actually making stuff into financial services, shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs along the way. GE was therefore well-placed for full-impact during the GFC.
Out of curiosity - what do you believe the web is, exactly?

Because if you're ruling out his approach - you're also mostly ruling out the entire article here (since this approach does not in any way solve your datastore needs).
Especially when somebody launches new cable (Google, Equiano).
Sure, there were a bunch of genius-level physicists capable of building an atom bomb and the US Government didn't use them because it wanted to be mean to people. That's believable.
The government censors porn from the internet in a country in Western Europe. Oh wait nvm that isn’t Europe anymore.
Most professors have adapted and give students what they want?
Palm Pilot was the best device ever...
You also should mention the use of CitC. With CitC, I can build/write code from my work machine at the office and then go home and gmosh into a cloudtop that uses the same network mounted filesystem.
I've had terrible professors as well. However, there are many. Let them start firing all the bad ones, not just the ones they don't like.
We require linear history on our shared mainline branches so the squash workflow works great for us using Github as well. Another benefit is the "show changes since last review" option when reviewing a PR - it's been a while but I'm not sure if this is possible with a rebase-based workflow.
Apparently there have been no documented cases of schizophrenia found in people who've been blind since birth. It would be interesting if someone explored the relationships between the effects of psychedelics and those with another kind of blindness, Aphantasia and those without.
If the criterion is health, it might be better to remove references to Americans eating in front of their children?
These kind of people just do what they want. They have no internal obligation to complete a project, even if they at some point agreed to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-QW-0yi86c
Surely "my wife came" is the bit they should have cut!

More seriously, and boringly: I would have corrected "my wife came in the room" into "my wife came into the room". The former sounds like bad English to me.
The people producing the food get paid.
A third party might pay for the feeding of those who cannot pay.
Or money accumulated might get redistributed to enable everyone to afford it.
Reminds me of Immersed[1]. Which is an amazing concept but horrible on the Oculus. Literally makes me sick - and screen resolution/clarity leaves a lot to be desired if you're already at 4k/144hz.

I can't wait until someone cracks the code on this and makes it a reality.

1: https://medium.com/immersedteam/working-from-orbit-39bf95a6d...
That can cut both ways, though. Some professors simply aren't good at teaching.
Yeah, I'd much rather deal with a local desktop and a remote filesystem, for sure.
It's been getting worse lately. The average amount of time each residential PG&E customer was without power due to a sustained outage has increased from 1.9 hours/year in 2016 to 3.6 hours/year in 2021.

https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/planning-and-p...
As posted elsewhere, the Danish government has almost no financial stake in Vestas.

If they did want to make Vestas their champion, they could make Ørsted, a global leader in offshore wind in which the government has a majority stake, buy Vestas turbines. As it is, Ørsted has historically only bought from Siemens and GE.

In reality, Vestas is based and rooted in Jutland “far” from the capitol.
Yes, and after that, if the scores are too low, then you know the problem is the teacher.

I have heard professors glorifying themselves saying "I'm a good professor, I give a lot of material, and expect the students to learn a lot... and at the end, only a few pass the exam, because they do not study enough". I suspect those sucked at pedagogy.

>Are these students whining that a traditionally hard class is hard?

probably no:

An NYU spokesperson defended the firing, emphasizing high student withdrawals and bad course evaluations. The statement said the decision was also based on complaints about dismissiveness, unresponsiveness, condescension and lack of transparency about grading.
I might be alone in this sentiment, but I prefer a lecture with slides - illustrations - as compared to people just talking back and forth with some moderator.
Well, I just went down a rabbit hole.

There seems to be a "reverse Balto/Togo" effect here. Pheidippides did NOT run the famous "Marathon".

Pheidippides ran the 150-mile journey from Athens to Sparta (and back: 300 total miles) and then died.

The "Marathon to Athens" 26.4 mile journey was another heroic messenger, but someone who was mistaken for Pheidippides. It seems very unlikely for Pheidippides to be the messenger because he'd have been tired (and/or dead) from his Athens / Sparta message.
No the point is that Americans will think you're moralizing even when you don't intend to moralize. It's like portraying a character kicking a puppy, when the author comes from a culture where kicking puppies is just normal everyday behavior.
Ask HN: Moving to HFT as web/Java developer?
Hello all,

I am currently a java backend developer and I have enjoyed by C/C++ projects on my own. My current job is very boring and has become mostly devops and writing forms. I want to get a job programming again and I was curious about this area.

Some notes:

1. What is HFT actually like? What do I program? I know usually they have math graduates do the models, do I spend most of my time programming those models?

2. How hard is the transition with just a cs minor? I never got a cs major and have considered a masters considering how bad the job market is.

Thanks!
In plain English, I would like to point out that questions end with question marks.

Are we clear now? Or should I explain again?
A Tale in the Desert.

There is no combat, just challenges of various types that range in scope from things you can do on your own to things that require the active cooperation of many people.

For example, solo player might delve into the mysteries of flax genetics just for the fun of solving a complex puzzle, but they have the alternative of buying seeds sold by other players.
420 pretend to decriminalize it right before midterms
The results might surprise you:

An new iPhone can run the latest chess engines at a level that should beat all but the absolute best players (https://www.hiarcs.com/iphone-chess.html).

Apple doesn't publish power stats for their A-series chips that I could find, and I couldn't find a direct comparison of power draw running a chess engine, but Anandtec's numbers running synthetic benchmarks indicate between 3-5 watts when under single thread load: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16983/the-apple-a15-soc-perfo....

Estimates for human brain energy consumption are vague, but generally accepted somewhere between 12-25 watts, with 20 being the most used average guess (https://www.quora.com/How-much-energy-does-a-human-brain-con..., https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thinking-hard-cal..., https://www.munichre.com/topics-online/en/digitalisation/int...)

Given these numbers, not infeasible to assume that a computer restricted to the energy usage of the human brain would win every game when not playing Magnus?
This is a bunch of non-sense. ByteDance has a number of US investors and an international board. Their ideal exit strategy for TikTok is to have it spun off and IPOed on US exchanges.
Sales solves a lot of problems.

Things hit the fan, both personally and professionally, when money in the bank begin to decline.
> I mean, sure, if you're happy with charging people more the more they use.

Are you saying we shouldn't be happy with such an arrangement? Charging people more the more they use seems maximally fair.

> Just using price without thinking about who's paying would lead to massive corporations and conglomerates which can afford it continuing to abuse the resource while smaller orgs and individuals who can't suffer.

Only if we consider the payment alone. That money doesn't need to disappear into a void; it could be paid out as a citizens' dividend (a.k.a. UBI) and thus outright subsidize smaller orgs and individuals. If you use more than your equal share, you pay more in water taxes than you get back in dividends; if you use less than your equal share, you get back more in dividends than you pay in water taxes. Hard to get more fair than that.

> it's more important for homes and hospitals to have water than it is for other businesses to have water

I'd say food is right there beside those two categories - especially since both those categories themselves depend on food.
Worked with Citrix for years at different customers. Think it is more about setup. Server capacity, bandwidth and so on. Often Citrix was used for connecting to a bastion or a jump host. Then an extra hop to the target machine. Some setups were laggy. Some worked just fine.
My distilled belief is the finance guys managed to regain control of things from labor and manufacturing in the early 70's. After 1980 came the complete financialization of the American economy. Instead producing goods, services and jobs companies were pushed to create 'paper'.

That's why GE and GM both let the finance part of the business wag the dog.
Chinese domestic companies are legally obligated to provide a direct data pipeline from their databases to the Ministry of State Security. It's a real law that exists. Basically imagine what the NSA implemented with the PRISM program revealed by Snowden but formally codified into law and with active participation/engineering efforts required by the corporations.
Here’s a funny story: the Uk has the worst insulated homes in Europe and we stopped most of the incentives to improve them in 2010 because “we couldn’t afford it” and now we’re on the hook for billions.
I’m from Poland and smoking in public here is everywhere. I go through the ritual of holding my breath countless times a day when I pass smokers, ever since I was a child. My visits to the UK agree with your picture of it. Fortunately I’m moving to the UK, so that aspect of life, among many others, is going to get better.
After using xterm for years, I don't like gnome-terminal anymore because its lag while typing has become noticeable. It's right around 30ms on this site, and xterm around 10-20ms.
I do (er, don't) do that, mostly, just so the arguments are size-increasing

if ((0 <= x) && (x < 10)) { ...
Lol.. did he sign a contract agreeing to not eat meat else he'd have to buy Beyond Meat for $44b?
So how many shitty "not creative industry" jobs did your friend take on the way to where he could have "a pretty expensive setup" to do this? What did he crank out solely to earn a paycheck with his art skills?
‘The Rings of Power’ Showrunners Break Silence on Backlash, Sauron and Season 2
New chess variant: Cyber. Each player has a budget and can buy a limited number of moves from the engine throughout the game :D
> yes, I can steal your Bitcoin

Let's fix that phrase:

- yes, I can steal your Bitcoin keys

And then go further and transfer the bitcoins

Other than that, no, you CANNOT steal "my" bitcoins
> Latency is top priority for me.

VSCode is super popular and performant. It runs in a browser (electron) natively. Running it in chrome remotely is literally no different if you have a performant network.

I always found VSCode to perform better than IDEA based tools fwiw, especially if you want to keep a laptop on battery. Latency has never been an issue.
There's also a difference in co-ordination capacity and social dynamics more generally. In this case, there'll be some channel or chat group where the petition and complaints were arranged. It's pretty safe to say not only that the professor won't be on that channel but that students who aren't on it or aren't allowed to be on it will suffer some fairly significant social penalties.
I am jealous of the build quality of your house. And/or your mild winter weather.
>Examples of his failures included not successfully squaring the circle, multiple engineering designs that didn’t work such as a giant crossbow and a flying machine, misunderstanding several aspects of the heart, and experimental painting designs that resulted in the slow degradation of a painting.

The author is counting experiments and learning as failures. The squared circle is outright impossible. Only when expectations are set to God on Earth is Leo a "failure".
Data point of one but my wife and I decided we were done and left earlier this year. Quit my FANG job that wouldn’t support the move, bought a house in a MCOL area and could not be happier.

I’ve even lost some pretty significant weight just getting back to living a non-workaholic lifestyle.

Life is short people. Keep an eye on what’s actually important to you.
> Consider that Atari tried to compete with office PCs in the early 80s with their 8-bit family, and failed

I don't think that's very accurate. The Atari ST had a pretty good following compared to personal computers of the time much like the Amiga... The fact is that most computer companies from back then did not survive far beyond the decade but they had their time. So it's not really accurate to say they failed when Acorn, Amiga, Amstrad...etc, all "failed", in that they didn't produce more than a handful of unique and fairly incompatible computers with no clear future, but that had a market and sold with success in their time frame none the less.
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.
The MBA cargo cult managers appear to have collectively decided to lay of 20% of the US workforce.
> Why are the "Gen Z" students clashing with this one specific professor, if it's a generational thing?

1. A lot of professors may take the easy way out, and lower their standards as demanded by their students. Especially those in contract positions like this.

2. This professor seems to actually be very highly esteemed (he literally wrote the widely-used textbook), and is only in this adjunct role because he's retired. Therefore he has a lot more power to get his side of the story out and the personal stakes are a lot lower for him.