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One personal counterpoint, as a non-user: I trained under an elite alpinist for 3+ years. This is is someone who'd achieved much in their field, was a happy parent and generally seemed successful and content.

We had a lot of intimate conversations (daily check-ins, 365 days a year). On the topic of existential dread and depression, he stated that the single most impactful thing he'd ever experienced was one shroom trip. He wasn't a regular user; just this single trip had a lasting effect on him. I've heard similar from less familiar sources, who are similarly successful and aren't drugged out.

That said, I appreciate you're being skeptical here. I know more than one "medical cannabis" user who became a deadbeat. Dosing control needs to be a thing in this space, it's just a free-for-all right now.
Tis a shame the system doesn't account for the massive, long-term returns quality education provides, both to student and society.
Canada sets new immigration record with 430K newcomers in 2022
All subsets requires 2^12 weighings. The beautiful thing about error correcting codes is finding a minimal set of spanning items. And in this case, binary will not suffice, since you can only distinguish 2^3 = 8 items. The third position, one most people don't think if, is the "off balance" set, which gives three choies.

Then 3 weighings, 3 choices per, gives 27 possible outcomes, which is enough to distinguish which of 12 items is off, as well as whether or not it's higher or lower in weight (another factor of 2), for 24 choices. So there is a little extra in the 3=27-24 information theoretical bounds.

Using this idea, you can generate all sorts of hard coin problems, vastly harder than this one :), by mining error correction tables like http://www.codetables.de/ and converting to word problems.
Pidgin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin
Interesting take on building identity. Does social and philanthropic impact become the new clout?
It may go even further than that. Some philosophers claim that the idea of a "self" is an illusion. Your brain produces all kinds of thoughts inconsistent with your "stable self" and then "magically" adapts them into something that feels consistent. Leading you to believe that you have an identity. Some type of personality, belief system, what have you.

Your brain is feeding you lies or half-truths all the time. It's job isn't to find objective truth, it's to keep you alive.
Weird? :) Surely all languages have their idiosyncrasies otherwise there'd be so very few to choose from? I mean, 1-based arrays can be found in several popular languages like R, Julia, & MATLAB. Taking the opposite perspective: there's so much in Lua that is familiar. I'd argue that coders who have never used it before could easily make sense of a Lua program. (I'll give you metatables, though — they're a bit unusual!)
Mutation rate ranges many orders of magnitude. See a figure here (linking a tweet (not mine) to avoid journal paywall, but underlying paper is linked in the tweet): https://twitter.com/DrCJ_Houldcroft/status/15272438687390760...

Halderia would be 'lower eukaryotes'; we are 'higher eukaryotes'.

The idea of 'helping the halderia out' by increasing mutation rate is kind of funny; that would almost certainly kill them (this is largely how radiation kills us). You would need to be able to reliably and specifically introduce favorable mutations (i.e. those that increase fitness), which is far beyond current capabilities.
The US unemployment rate is 3.7%. Even the fuck-ups can get a job if they want one.
What do you mean by "society"? Just a collection of people with a common law? Or is it something more? If it's something more like a culture, then changes may be so drastic as to destroy the old culture from inside. In which case, what exactly is being defended?
Burning gas is certainly cheaper. Let's hope it doesn't run out, pollute the earth, or fund a war.
> Is that a bad thing? I've been to Japan.

Hilarious.

> It's a lovely place to visit but I cannot understand why the HN crowd idolizes it when there's a lot of places in SE Asia that have less toxic attitudes about immigrants and women.

We must all share your values or perish? Anything short of them is unfathomable to you? And you have a deep understanding of 130m people because you've stepped foot in the country?

My friend, it is you who are the toxic bigot.
Lapce seems like a great new project.

It is probably more important to legitimize Rust than to change the editors landscape, but if it does both, it can be awesome.

Thanks for the heads-up!
Ask HN: Constant mindfulness/body-scanning, any science on it?
I tried to get a 2 hour meditation per day routine in. It was tough and I mostly succeeded for a month, but it didn't stick.

Then I decided to simply meditate constantly. I've gone to 4 Vipassana retreats in my life and have been on the practice on and off since 10 years (mostly off). In my opinion, Vipassana is more or less the same as a normal body scan, except for the fact that a normal body scan is more loose about how long you stay in a certain area of your body (with Vipassana you immediately move on once you've felt a sensation). Just to give you an idea of what it is that I'm doing.

There are a few things that I'm noticing:

1. My sensitivity towards sensations in my body seems to be growing a lot faster. It's hard to emphasize how much it has grown just for doing this a few days.

2. The more I think, the more my meditation is interrupted, which is okay. It's just something I notice.

3. When I get into situations where thinking isn't required, then it starts to look a lot like formal meditation.

4. To my surprise, it's relatively easy to be in a light to medium information dense conversation and still meditate with ease. It only becomes difficult when I'm listening to concepts I can't immediately grok and this almost never happens in normal day to day conversation. My suspicion is that this is mostly because mindfulness meditation is associated with the insula. The insula is not a part of the default mode network (normally), so not too many signals are disturbing each other.

Anyway, does anyone knows some science on this?
Funny you say that. We did it in 2013: https://qbix.com/docs/users.pdf
> How is the experienced improved? No inserting the cable? I never knew this was a problem...

Try groggily inserting your cable into your phone at 2AM in the morning as you remember you need to charge it. Or you could just snap it to a magnetic charging surface and be done with it. MagSafe to lightning is what USB-C is to Micro USB: not necessary, but nicer.
You need objective, measurable signals if you are concerned that developers might be confused or lying. Otherwise you can just ask us. Most people are happy to tell you what the pain points are in their workflow and how they compare to last year's. Maybe you need metrics to quantify specific complaints like "slow" or "crashes a lot." But I feel like most organizations doing this kind of measurement are looking for some kind of Freakonomics "developers think they want X, but what makes them better is actually Y" when they haven't even bothered to ask about, let alone implement, X.
I missed when this was added:

> if you configure your application to expose a Prometheus endpoint, those metrics will automatically show up on your Grafana dashboard

But that's such an amazing and simple idea to integrate observability. Love the approach.
That’s not their job - their job is to make persuasive legal arguments, craft legal language to be ironclad, etc. Similarly a top researchers in CS isn’t employed for their ability to explain CS, despite the fact we employ them to do just that.
Seems like this can be simply solved by amending the 3 laws with a 4th.

4. An AI must identify itself as an AI when asked.

With this, an AI can trust the response of 'human'. A response of 'AI' is either an AI or a human lying at their own peril.
Go to Digitalocean or a similar provider. Launch a managed HA db. (starts at ~$120/month). Launch an autoscaling HA K8 cluster (starts from ~$80) , deploy 1-2 stateless pods. There you go.
Nissan Leaf - starts at $28,040

https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/electric-cars/leaf.html

Chevy Bolt - starts at $25,600

https://www.chevrolet.com/electric/bolt-ev
So every Ukrainian should bail because ‘politicians’ and ‘lines’, give up their heritage, their friends and neighbors, and any wealth and property they can’t carry, and hope they make it over another line (defended by people who actually give a damn), before they get shot for existing?

Sounds like it would work for a very small subset of the population, and screw (and likely kill) most everyone else.

1) why should anyone else Ukrainian be okay with that, let alone enable it?

2) the reason cowardice is so frowned upon is the wonton selfishness gets a lot of others killed. Brothers, sisters, daughters, sons, parents.

If someone is entangled with society, society is going to entangle with them. And anyone who doesn’t like that, is going to find out pretty quickly what the consequences are.
You’d have to guarantee security every time a key is distributed, right? I guess practically it would look like going to the bank every few years… or maybe only once per account, you can fit a lot of bank statements in a couple gigabytes.

Actually this could be a nice service to offer now. We might worry that someday public key crypto will be broken, and we wouldn’t want all our old bank statements to become public at that point I guess.
Yes! I've been calling this Hallucinated Scripts. More examples here: https://twitter.com/jamesjyu/status/1600959843669377025
For threat actors that target Korean users their favorite software to exploit for initial access is HWP (Hangul Word Processor). It's MS Word for Korean users. If you are being sent official docs of any kind, chances are it is a .hwp file that needs the program. Banking and internet access affects consumers but HWP is used by more interesting espionage/sabotage targets.

https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/global/en/bl...

I just looked up CVEs for it. I only see 2 in 2017. This is not a good thing, a complex word processor, even if it was rewritten in a memory safe language would have at least some low level non-memory vulns in 6 years!
Sierra 1.0 and 1.1 actually took a similar approach - trying to create a DSL based on the standard layout managers.

However, I ultimately found that approach too limiting and went with custom layout managers for version 1.2.
My mistake. I was looking at the street price for their current 8K monitor.
> All before Russia invaded.

Russia invaded in 2014...
A Swiss Army Knife for Zsh Unix Shell – Z-Shell
Too many words about Rust's function syntax
Ask HN: Support group for developers who have been laid off/are unemployed?
Is there such a group? Like a discord or something. A place to vent, to support each other, to be among people who understand what it is to go through this process.
> It is possible to disagree without being disagreeable,

-1 for strawman

disagreeing with someone and raking high on Disagreeableness BigFive trait are two different things
There once was a boy named Danny Day,
he always maintained his right of way,
he was right, dead right, as he drove along,
but he's just as dead, as if he were wrong.
I can't wait for Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, and Texas to follow suit.
Human brains don't intuitively understand causality. They just associate things that have happened before with things that have happened after. Disentangling causal graphs is a higher-level activity inferred from the associations made in statistics classes. You can absolutely get AGI using only associative models (and no causal models) as primitives.
HTTP/3 Prioritization Demystified
They also changed the C interface at the same time -- and many Python libraries had non-trivial amounts of C code in them because Python was and is so slow.

It was also for a time impossible (or close to impossible) to run the same Python code in 2.x and 3.x. It helped when later 2.x versions acquired more 'from __future__ import'.

They really aimed for making it maximally hard to support v2 and v3 at the same time which created a nasty coordination problem: why upgrade if the libraries aren't ready and why upgrade the libraries if there are no users.
If only someone archived it in a data center in the desert.
Neat. Looks like f-droid is still waiting for the update.
Open AI now does 3D models
Is this the end of background animation artists?
View counts (and similar metrics) are a trap precisely because they are correlated with the things you do want. Say you want to educate others. That's hard to measure, so instead you measure updoots and retweets. They're prominently displayed, so of course you're going to look at and consciously optimize for them.

But now you're in the trap, because you've accepted these numbers as the true proxy for influencing the world, and doing anything orthogonal to the algorithm will make number go down. In reality, you're doing what Twitter wants, not necessarily what you originally wanted.
Love this quote:

> It has been said that any company that can afford an organization like Bell Labs Research will ignore it.
Not exactly.

For the vast majority of HTTPS (say, for example, Google or Hacker News) RSA is not used to agree the encryption. So although quantum computers would be a threat for other reasons, breaking RSA in particular doesn't just "remove HTTPS".

However, RSA is used to prove the identity of the server for most web sites even with a newer key agreement. So if an adversary can get on path between you and the server, they could get in the middle and masquerade successfully as the server - arranging key agreement with you, and then providing a convincing fake proof of identity, if they do so live.

In TLS 1.2 optionally, and to a greater extent in older versions (which are no longer used by popular web browsers) you can also use RSA to agree the encryption, and for sites using that breaking RSA would allow an adversary to interpose in real time, or to decrypt communication after the fact, but I'd be astonished if anywhere important still does that when talking a halfway modern browser.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/the-cornell-lab-review-af...
IDK why some smartasses, who probably have not taken Biology in HS, decided to bury your comment but some subtypes of T cells are indeed able to attack virus-infected cells.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_cell
What isn't what?
What should we measure to measure productivity of journalists, of novel writers, of pop song composers? How do you measure the output of a engineer in a clothing factory or a short run machine tool shop?

"Management" needs to stop thinking that software is an assembly line and that they are managing "workers". The actual workers are CPUs and GPUs - and coders "manage" those - coders are the new managers.

The bullshit jobs people worry about are those managers who think they are arranging and orchestrating coders and if they shuffle them faster they will get better results.

As more and more of the real world becomes eaten by software, measure that.

I like the comparison to a engineer in a factory.

In 1960 how did we measure the impact of an Detroit factory engineer? "Did the time to turn around the factory line drop this quarter?" That is a high level, impactful metric that has many inputs and would be a "managerial or executive level" metric with bonus attached

Today that same metric works for "has the turnaround time for a new release of the data pipeline improved this quarter"

Those are the metrics that will matter. Measure those.
There is a great need for more research (as a lot has been blocked by prohibition) but early signs indicate psilocybe use would have a net improvement for society for long term psychological problems.

But there is certainly risk that it creates a new class of problems. But, people are doing clandestine treatment with psilocybes currently, so it seems unlikely that legalization will find new classes of issues or a higher incidence rate of issues vs relatively-uninformed clandestine use. If there is a concerning issue, we'd expect that we've already seen it, but perhaps underestimated it.
Unless you watch your kid like a hawk then they'll be able to get cigarettes/drugs/alcohol as a teenager if they want to.

A significant portion of my high school population was drinking alcohol at parties and another (smaller) portion was smoking weed.
My understanding from most of my friends and relatives is that their schools were the same.

In my opinion kids are far better served by being enabled to safely explore new experiences and methods on how to deal with peer pressure when they don't want to. But really that's up to each parent to decide, they should know their kids best.

18 years old as a magical line for all human beings being equally capable to decide for themselves is a bit silly, if anything 18 year old males might be at the worst time for these experiences.

If we wanted a good 'average' age to group everyone into that's based more on current understanding of biology then we'd probably want something more like 25.
The phones are already waterproof with electrodes on the outside of the device. Charging ports are still the outside from a poolside perspective.

Magnetic Qu charging is already a standard, they can build off it. It supports plenty of existing chargers. They released it before MagSafe. MagSafe just makes it more efficient in a way that doesn’t require more power.
I really liked the old Qwest Ride the Light ads for the same reason. Here's the jukebox one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdq_kH9mgS4
So did the Nexus 5 - the magnets even aligned with Magsafe QI chargers!
I previously used ZPlug to manage zsh plugins, which added a noticeable latency for each terminal I opened.

z-shell/zi allows you to load plugins async very easily so my terminal feels snappy again. It is compatible with ohmyzsh, presto, zplug, etc; migration is a breeze.

Note: It is a fork of zinit, which was deleted by the author for unknown reasons. There is another repo, zdharma-continuum/zinit, which attempts to preserve/maintain zinit exactly how it was. z-shell/zi has less stars than that repo but much more activity.
I don't think they should perish? It's a lovely place, with a lot of things to teach Americans , but they're going to have issues if they won't let foreigners get some kind of working visa to care for their aging population... I'm bad with tone, but I stand by the core of that argument.
I'm not sure I get the problem.

For number 5, I can use items of weights 3 1 1 1 1 and they are not equal. If you remove 3, you get 1+1=1+1 and in case you remove only of 1s, you can split 3 = 1+1+1.
>>I heard in the West its similar, lots of baby boomers want to retire with small businesses that no one wants to take over.

Yes[1], and this becomes even more complicated when these baby boomer small business owners are/were planning on the sale of their business as a way to (partially) fund their retirement, whether in future cash flows as a residual equity owner or lump-sum with (too) high valuations.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/markhall/2022/01/25/unsexy-but-...
Maybe in their current form eventually.

Though I'm sure when 3D animation first became a thing people were saying it was the end of jobs for cartoonists. This was mostly true but end result is probably more working in the space in general, even if specific jobs shift.
4 Survive in 'miracle' after Tesla plunges off California Devil's Slide Cliff
As with nearly everything in Lua, if you want bells-and-whistles then you need to find a library. I've been writing a lot of extensions in Rust using mlua [1] which has been fantastic.

I've written so much FFI code for Lua it's ridiculous. Rust mlua has been a total game-changer for me.

[1] https://github.com/khvzak/mlua
ABC7 reported that CHP don't think AP / FSD was on.
Does One Race or Nationality Produce More Criminals? (1958)
How finite of a resource is our magnet supply? Every time I see magnets used this question comes to mind. Sometimes it feels like they have become an unnecessary gimmick that is being abused by designers of all kinds of products. Anyone else have this reaction?
Lords: Most of Britain's Parliament is not elected [video]
Love the site, but it needs an Edit button badly. And also a Delete one.
Shrinking to “more sustainable one” sounds like - “let already living old people die on the streets”.

These people are already there and decline rate seems tragically unsustainable.

Shrinking population would be somewhat OK if it would be organic.
Ha I can make advertising for my own analytics platform: https://counter.dev

Its google analytics without google and prettier
Macrophages, like the ones that liv in your mouth, also eat virus: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/macrophage
In Vancouver is pretty common to buy homes and sit on them empty as organization mean. Can you blame them? The price is meant to double on 10 years, but any apartment or house quadrupled in price over the last 15, giving incredibile yields...

I don't have access to the data, our realtor showed us many times data across the last 50 years.
I’m not clear on how we’d use a one-time-pad on a physical piece of paper (unless we want to do it like an old-timey spy novel character, using pencil and paper to combine the bits!)
I said it might not be bad if "their cultures are going to cease the way they are today." and pointed out issues with racism and sexism.

(The classic example being unwilling to tolerate guest workers, as I mentioned in reply to annother commenter).

I didn't mean the entire culture should cease to exist, hence taking pains to point out positive things too.

(They're more health oriented for example -- can't get a healthy meal in an American 7/11 unless you count the weight loss from a pack of cigs for breakfast)
Man, that sounds great!

I'm at a bit of a disadvantage since I only work on C/C++ OS/driver stuff, so there aren't as many openings around for me.. Maybe I should pivot to something a little higher up the stack
Africa is projected to grow rapidly in population until the end of the century. If developed countries can assimilate large numbers of African immigrants peacefully and productively, that could represent a path forward for the planet.

India's population also continues to explode. We've been very successful assimilating Indian immigrants in the US.

This blog post is a great read on the importance of institutions and how assimilation has succeeded with past immigrant waves: https://anowrasteh.substack.com/p/review-of-the-culture-tran... The tl;dr is that in principle, it's possible to imagine a South Korea in the year 2100 which is 80% descended from African immigrants and functions more or less the same way it does today. The immigrants just have to come at a slow enough rate that they adopt to the local way of doing things instead of overwhelming it. Probably would work best with a points-based immigration system similar to what Canada has. Also getting the host country to accept the new arrivals would also be an important challenge. In my opinion, more countries should follow France's lead and establish a foreign legion, so even right-wingers have to acknowledge that immigrants are helping the country out.
They are a regulated monopoly as they have been granted rights by the public to use rights of way. So what hey can and cannot do is determined by politics not just what they think of.
This looks like the 24" 1920x1200 (16x10) monitor I have. It's still great and have an appreciation for smaller but taller than 16x9 aspect. It's really heavy though.

I'm using an LG 43" 4k 16x9 monitor. I don't use all the vertical pixels (especially the ones at the bottom near the desk surface). I find it pretty great since I couldn't find suitable ultrawide monitors that weren't also ultrashort.