skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't call myself a psychonaut yet, but I do love hallucinations. One thing I think the article didn't touch on that I found profoundly interesting is depersonalization. I had a trip recently where I entirely left my conscious reality behind, temporarily, except by a very thin thread. Some context for those that don't follow the fractals, depersonalization isn't super common on things like mushrooms or LSD, but it can happen. The effect is less pronounced than on things like deliriants where things that are not real are overly convincingly real among many other related symptoms. I entered a state of mind where I got to visualize all the paths a thought could branch to and what ark that would carry on my thinking in the long term. At first it was pretty terrifying to leave my body, but once I accepted my circumstances I was able to observe without fear. My experience wasn't as healing as my other trips, rather, this time, I learned a tool for observing without expectation or controls. It was a lot to unpack, especially on a trip where I didn't actually intend to do much, if any, thinking. I'm still glad I did it.

Also, word to the wise, if you're going to dabble in hallucinations be responsible:

- have a sober trip sitter that knows how to dig you out of bad places (change lights, introduce sensations, change music, etc)

- have a benzo or heavy CBD gummy on hand to hit the big red stop button if things get too intense
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> I think his point was that any kid of any race other than Asian with identical stats would have been accepted.

And my point is that this is not true.

His scores are near the median for those cohorts, and only a tiny fraction of students with those scores are admitted. Test scores are literally the only non-average thing on his resume for college applicants in general, and among CMU CS/HM CS they don't set him apart from anyone admitted or even tons of other people rejected.

Now, if he received an NDT bid and/or made it deep into nationals? Placed in State and had D1 track scholarship potential? Special distinctions from the Scouts? Sure. Those might raise my eyebrow. But he has average scores _for the cohort_ and nothing else of note on his resume other than participation in a few after-school activities.

Schools like CMU CS and HM can demand both his scores and also excellence in other dimensions. They have tons of applicants with NDT bids in policy/PF/LD and similar or better scores. They have tons of applicants who are on Varsity track teams, even do well at state, and have similar or better scores.

Even more importantly, they have tons of applicants who do really interesting and unique things outside of the official college prep extra-curricular stuff -- run apps/websites with tons of users, OSS packages with lots of stars, various types of civil society involvement, and so on. Those students also have similar or better scores.

And they turn down a lot of those applicants who have the same scores as this student but are also top percentile at their extra-curricular activities.

Good test scores aren't enough to get into CMU CS/HM, and that's all this student has. It's not racism. It's merit.

Again, this discussion is about a real person and it's a shame his dad entered his resume into this discourse non-anonymously.

But the narrative is just wrong. The bar is absurdly higher than this dad thinks it is. Period.
codequestion 2.0 is a major new release. This release migrated from word vector to sentence transformer models. It also integrates semantic graph functionality (topic modeling, path traversal) from txtai 5.0.

Release Announcement - https://medium.com/neuml/find-answers-with-codequestion-2-0-...

Release Notes - https://github.com/neuml/codequestion/releases/tag/v2.0.0
You can already get 8 free SAT practice tests and Khan Academy offers a free online class. If you go through all of them and learn from your mistakes, that should be more than enough to get a decent score. With tutoring and classes, you're mainly paying for someone to pressure you to put the effort in, similar to with fitness classes.
Arithmetic hash based alternatives to KZG for Ethereum proto-danksharding
> The other lending system collapses and cannot return the coins because of an exploit

And also because the entire business model is completely unsustainable, preying on peoples greed.
I don't consider Wikipedia an authoritative source for anything at all. Looking at sourcing for many articles easily reveals the inherent biases of the editors.
If you have enough shady people involved in a particular activity, then that activity is effectively shady. Similar to the fact that if you add enough raw sewage to the water supply, you don't have a water supply any more, you just have more sewage.
You paid for a phone with Google.

That was your decision. There are other options.

And while you mind, billions are really happy to have a very secure and relativity cheap phone.
This is old and irrelevant news. Newsweek publishes constantly such kind of opinion pieces that in some capacity support Russian information war. Saying that 90% (actually it was 87%) of the world people don't follow Ukraine is meaningless because most of these 87% don't follow anything but getting a piece of bread for next day. But if you pay attention more closely then you will notice that people in many places actually do pay attention, and even when they try to push it away by claiming that they do not care, it mostly means that they are in for some nefarious benefit that they hope to gain.
This is a good answer.

UT Austin in particular used to automatically accept anyone whose GPA was in the top 10% of their school for in state applicants, regardless of that school's performance. It was meant to give people from different calibers of schools from across the state a fair chance, since school quality would inevitably affect test scores.

Now, it looks like the top 6%: https://admissions.utexas.edu/apply/decisions
In very rural areas, cell phone towers use microwave repeaters to get to a hub station that has a hard line connection to the backbone.
Telling that the personal website is the most resistant. Interesting idea that social media accounts could be taken down by good actors as a form of damage control.
Attacks on their digital infrastructure, either remotely or by getting their agents hired.
So, you're arguing that this:
https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive/img242.png
and this
https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive/img66.png

are accessible with common knowledge to someone with programming experience but without a background in mathematics?
That was a bad post. The figure of 300ms was from memory. I guess it's complex but for games shmup games (https://www.pubnub.com/blog/how-fast-is-realtime-human-perce...):

"

...for Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG), real-time is a requirement.

As online gaming matures, players flock to games with more immersive and lifelike experiences. To satisfy this demand, developers now need to produce games with very realistic environments that have very strict data stream latency requirements:

300ms < game is unplayable
150ms < game play degraded
100ms < player performance affected
50ms > target performance
13ms > lower detectable limit

"

But this is real-time gaming. Typing should be less demanding, I'd think.

Edit: also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/536300/what-is-the-short...
I think there's another defense, besides "trust no one". Two facets:

1) A lack of complete or blind trust in "authority" figures

2) An ability to gradually decrease trust/accommodation, and increase a tone that society would consider "impolite".

I've spoken several times at various things like school board meetings. Each time I've come with fire to spit, but when I approach the podium it dies down. What I say doesn't change, but my tone does. It's difficult to be impolite to people, but it's sometimes necessary. I think this is a skill we've let atrophy in the era of "be really nice to everyone".

If I were being told, "no this did happen, your parents said it did, keep trying to remember", when I was sure it didn't, my distrust and tone would gradually change. My parents aren't here. Objecting to what is being said demonstrates a lack of trust in the researcher being truthful, not my parents. (This would be significantly more difficult if my parents were present and acting though.)

It helps that I've read about the abuses of psychology -- with things like lie detector tests, and in the Soviet Union. My mistrust of "experts" is already quite low.
As someone previously sceptical of the wording in your proprietary license, I appreciate the clarification for this use case & the rationale behind those license terms.
Or cyberattacks and getting their agents hired by twitter.
Yeah, maybe they would have been a brilliant materials scientist. I think they are justifying their decision with this talk about 'killing someone' - I feel that's way overblown.
Comparing Semgrep and CodeQL
This is amazing! Props to the developer
https://www.manatt.com/insights/newsletters/financial-servic...

> As noted above, in categorizing the tokens as a security, the SEC’s complaint makes reference to the Howey Test, under which a digital asset, including a “crypto asset security” will be deemed a security “if it constitutes an investment of money, in a common enterprise, with a reasonable expectation of profit derived from the efforts of others.” The DOJ’s complaint alleges that “the defendants made illegal trades in at least twenty-five different crypto assets and realized ill-gotten gains totaling approximately $1.5 million.” The SEC’s complaint claims that at least nine of the 25 crypto assets were “crypto asset securities,” and therefore the defendants’ insider trading of securities fell within the SEC’s “broad jurisdiction to regulate the securities markets and to bring actions for violations of the federal securities laws, including fraud and insider trading.”

> None of the issuers of the nine “crypto asset securities,” or Coinbase itself, are named as a defendant in Wahi as this is an insider trading case. Issuers and exchanges of tokens should take caution, however, as the SEC’s stance in Wahi reiterates the SEC’s a broad view of digital assets as securities and its ability to regulate them.

As duped mentions, if it's not a security, it's a commodity falling under the regulation of the CFTC.

https://www.cftc.gov/digitalassets/index.htm
I have all of this in my Synology and use a VPN access with a Raspberry-pi to lock it all down. plus getting off google docs and using the Synology Doc system with LibreOffice
Most legal systems do this: if you're accused of doing X, and your claim that you weren't doing X hinges on evidence that can only be produced by other parties, you explain that to the court, and then the court can decide to compel those other parties to produce that evidence in the interest of a fair trial.

In this case, Meta is being accused of anti-competitive behaviour. Their claim is that there is plenty of competition and that if they are to be put on trial, then they should be able to present evidence that there is competition. The court agreed with that statement. Meta themselves cannot produce that evidence, because they are not privy to business goings-on at other companies, all they can see is other companies that are--in their opinion--competing in the same space. As such, Meta can only go "we consider the following companies our competition, their documents should make it ample clear that we are in competition" with enough of an additional explanation to justify each company listed. And then the court goes "very well, this is motivated enough to justify us compelling these companies to produce the evidence that you claim exists as part of discovery".

The only quirk here is the claim that a small company can't reasonably do what is being requested of them by the courts. And again: not by Meta, but by the courts. Meta doesn't get these documents, only Meta's legal team gets those documents, Meta employees don't get to see what's in the many boxes of discovery material that their legal team is going to receive. Not Bob from accounting, not Kelly from finance, and not Mark from the CEO team. Only the lawyers do.
A much more in-depth, advanced, and more valuable imo, article on the same topic https://medium.com/@porteneuve/getting-solid-at-git-rebase-v...
What's hilarious to me is that crypto boosters would often cheer about how crypto doesn't "suffer" from the same things as our existing financial system (e.g. potential run on the bank in a fractional reserve system) - but then they went and built up all the same things they originally said crypto was immune from, this time with no regulations or legal framework.
It's a damn shame Jim Webb stepped away from politics.
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The data sets must be getting massive.
Yet they did? Also might not be a case of "scary sanctions" but "don't want more cyberattacks".
We just need the target to change its orbit, in any direction, so that it misses the keyhole that will send it on a collision course with earth.

If we only spot an incoming asteroid on its final approach we are screwed no matter what we do.

DART is testing what we can do when we find a near earth asteroid that is going to pass near earth harmlessly but the "gravity assist", if you will, of this encounter with earth's gravity well sets it up to crash into us next time it comes around.

There is a specific volume of space (keyhole) that should the asteroid pass through it at the most unfortunate time (for us) it will hit earth during the next encounter. We just need to make sure it doesn't pass through that bit of space at that exact time. Knocking the rock sideways or slowing it down or even speeding it up are all valid strategies.

You may remember a while ago there was much concern about an asteroid named Apophis. When it was discovered, it's orbit wasn't so well understood and the error bars (more like error ellipse) included a keyhole that would set it on a collision course. Further study reduced the error somewhat but worryingly didn't rule out the keyhole, meaning that the odds of a hit started to appear more likely. Imagine something with 1/1000 chance of happening. Then you rule out 900 possibilities and end up with a 1/100 chance. This caused even more detailed study of its orbit to take place and the error was narrowed to the extent that the keyhole is ruled out entirely and now there is no concern Apophis will hit us in the foreseeable future.
I use it without any issues and billions other do to.

I can decide if I'm okay with it or not. You are clearly not. I'm.
No iOS support either. It's also pretty hilarious that the Fitbits don't support Google assistant but only support Amazon alexa.
It's also performance. Everyone in my life that's got a budget phone (I'd say less $400 MSRP) has always had major issues with that phone. My wife only streams videos on her phone, so we got a budget phone for her since even the cheapest phones should play Netflix right? Wrong. The video would lag to the point where it was unwatchable. It got so bad that we ended up getting her a Pixel 6 when they were on sale and it was a night and day difference. Between the camera and how much better the performance is, I think it is worth it, especially if you use it constantly.
Well, we do, and are you implying that we have a lot of it? The map of Germany someone else shared looked at a glance 'worse', the post is from a US company that installs mitigations (is that ever done here? I've never heard of it before).
+1

> I could create a filter and automatically send their emails to spam but that feels like a personal defeat.

What? Use technology to do what it is designed to do.
Still fraud if you steal a painting

Celsius didn't steal anything.
> makes decisions regarding what objects to select

> guide the organization in its collecting

just because it's at the front of the pipeline doesn't mean it's not a filter.
The value of Guix on macOS is that your users can use the same project definitions on macOS and Linux. I don't personally care about the "from-source bootstrap" all that much, I want tooling that I can use to express my system's configuration as code and nix does this just fine on macOS.

As far as the ideological reasons goes, last time I looked for this, someone on a mailing list asked how you'd go about porting guix to macOS and some core team member answered they had no interest in supporting a non-FOSS system.
So much this. Everyone needs to learn about --first-parent, it makes git log, git bisect, etc... so much more powerful and prevents people from just squashing PRs into giant mega-commits that make the history so much less useful.
but its not comparable to egress filtering _at all_
Ask HN: How can I attract recruiters to my job site?
I am building a site for fully location-independent jobs for Digital nomads to live and work anywhere.

The site is little over a month old and seen by 40k people.

I think work from anywhere is a perk that companies also want to boast about(Think Atlassian's latest campaign).

But I don't know how to effectively convey it to recruiters and make them post on my site.

I'd appreciate your ideas and suggestions.
Rebase is something that I see a lot of developers shy away from but it is usually the right way to get a feature branch re-aligned.

My practice is to rebase all my pending PRs each morning to make sure that the prior day's activity is coalesced.

If you wait weeks and weeks to do the first rebase for a big change set, you can wind up visiting the same files and conflicts way more times than is logical. In my experience, this results in a much greater chance of screwing something up along the way, further reinforcing for some developers that the rebase is bad.

Timely rebase is the answer.
Yes, I know what backlight bleed is...

I've probably owned something like 15 monitors in the last 5 years, the XDR may not live up to the 25k reference monitor dreams, but no mere mortal would be able to drive one anyways.
I mean, isn't generating quines and twines one of the examples used to show of MiniKanren?

William Byrds presentations of MK are absolutely delightful, by the way.
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You mean large company screws up, people get in touch and they fix it?

I completely disagree, there aren't many stories like this. In fact I don't remember reading any on HN.
Uranium-238 decays into lead. No longer radioactive, but still toxic.
For society: making de-facto public infrastructure public again.
That is some top tier investigating and persistence, hats off. I would've used the excuse the upgrade the monitor lol.
Principles of Personal Productivity
This is a compilation of the principles that I consider most important to understand how we function in the aspects that most influence our personal productivity. What would you add?
Your last sentence is rather dismissive and seems unnecessary to make your point. You're assuming that they share your views on software patents. They might not. Or at that time not realise the issue with software patents in the first place.
It’s actually easy. Just meet up with old friends, talk about ages long past and inject a meaningless, completely fabricated detail into your version of the story. Wait a bit, then meet again and do the same. Someone will bring up said detail and others will agree to it, most likely not even remembering that this detail did not actually happen and that they first heard about it from you, only very recently. The crucial point here is that they will actually remember it wrong.
>good looks

I clicked the link and thought "God, that looks like shit." And Google is going to cancel support for it in a year and a half anyway.
I think Twitter is blocked in Iran. It has to be, as almost anything else is.
Do?
Right, but hiring a legal representative is going to be very expensive for a small organization.

It’s not just the few hours they’ll be testifying, or giving deposition. A reasonable corporate representative is going to need to do quite a bit of prep work and review of relevant materials. So, that’s both a legal cost, and a productivity cost for whoever is collecting those documents and briefing the corporate representative.

“Just some hired legal representatives” hides quite a bit of cost.
Yes, absolutely more so, F# discards one of the most critical parts of ML–functors.
Yes, and these folks are never around when you try rebase and get a forty file conflict and have no idea how to get out. Happened to me several times when I fell for one of these articles.

You know what works almost every single time? With tiny conflicts if any? Merge + squash on gitlab.
I believe 40 Hz binaural beats on headphones, or white noise on speakers, is optimal
Why the f* would I need to clarify on hn that it's 'free' in sense of ad tracking?

We all know what it means. Still doesn't change the fact what the value for billion of people is real.
> This "feature" I see it in the same way as warning labels - "Caution: Hot" - treats people as if they can't practice critical thinking and common sense.

History demonstrates that, for the most part, people can't.

Even Hacker News - a community of people who should "know better" - is infested with conspiracy theories, disinformation and bullshit. And the general public trusts Facebook memes more than the mainstream media. The meme is that the people who were saying never to trust anything you read on the internet in the 90s are now saying Biden is three lizards in a trenchcoat. So here we are.
I sometimes log in to my child's school Google account on my computer - the school holds school events by sending invites to the child's account. When I "log out", I'm not truly logged out, as shown by the popups on various websites encouraging me to log in using my child's Google account.

When I clicked this link, it said my administrator has not allowed me to view this site.

The only way out of this that I've found is to clear Google's cookies.

Correction - there is another way out: just don't visit the site. Dealing with Google is just not worth the hassle.
Thanks! I do agree that most tech companies in general could use more straightforward terminology when describing what they do lol.

To make sure I understand, your issue not with their technical assertion that it's possible to do web hosting in a decentralized and trustless way as well as without massive compute overhead, but with their implementation of that claim, right? (because they only signed on one cloud provider to back their thing).
Apple buys chip designer PA Semi for $278M (2008)
https://archive.ph/qkvjV
This right here is the problem, these things get way too damn complicated for normal people really fast.
Thanks for the clue. I'll try that.
Uber’s former security chief found guilty of covering up 2016 data breach
Don't approve PRs that have those commits.

A PR doesn't necessarily have to be a single commit to be a good PR. Sometimes, it makes sense for a PR to have several atomic commits.

Those tiny messy commits should be fixed-up into the atomic commit that they are fixing.
He could be but even rich people kill projects. Just seeing if there is another explanation other than Sean Parker funding with his own money.
There's no law capping monetary damages at $1B and you can't enter into a contract limiting the government's ability to do much of anything unless the other party is the government. So even if the contract caps monetary damages (it doesn't), no court would follow that.