skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, maybe my wording was off but I do in fact agree with you.
I argue that hallucination is one property and personality-change is another. The article above says that they are working on hallucination-free lsd. Therefore the lsd they produce will still be personality-changing possibly. Therefore we are both worried that there might be something which makes lsd possibly dangerous and therefore unsuitable for wide medical use.

I happen to be well suited for psychedelic experience but I do have close one who went thought few months of LSD-induced anxiety and they won't ever take it again because of it.

Nevertheless I am in fact in favour of trying out the possibilities of lsd and I think that the policy of harm-reduction with specialised control system can outweigh the possible risks. The two most important takeaways which are repeated endlessly in this context is that one should treat LSD with high degree of respect and use allergic method at the beginning to find the ways in which one is affected by the drug. You start with half dose or even quarter dose. You take a break and observe yourself. Then you can take slightly larger dose. You observe yourself again. Etc.
Second there should be someone more experienced who oversees you during the trip and after it so that if there are any troublesome effect which you yourself might omit then there will be someone to catch it and stop your from taking more.
Currently both of those points are difficult because of criminalisation and I think that until this is changed we will be floating in myths (both positive and negative ones). And as long as we are floating in myths we won't be able to resolve even the simplest empirical / verifiable questions about the consequences of LSD usage.
Agree this is a bigger problem for me. Its usually temping clickbait and I end up clicking some of the links and getting distracted.
Exactly. Which should immediately raise questions over the value of their advice.

Given that the ideas they’re shilling are inherently scalable, logically it follows that if they knew how to make it work they wouldn’t have to snake oil people on YouTube for money, therefore, they’re advice has no value.
That part is amazing: it calls into question the entire Android code review process that nobody thought breaking compatibility wasn’t a problem, much less doing so in a way which looks like one of the most familiar interfaces in the world. It seems unlikely that this isn’t just the first, most visible bug.
Product description tells us that the gold plating is 1/16" thick (~1.6 mm), and that such thick plating of gold is necessary to fool x-ray testing. I don't know how invasive scratch tests are but I imagine the carving to be shallower than 1.6 mm. Their product is clearly and thoroughly designed for counterfeiting.
Look at the LangChain and Llama-Index (used to be called GPT-Index) projects that make smaller projects that need to use a large amount of text data do-able. There is also support for reading PDF files (and many other data sources), and pre-computing embeddings. If you spend a short while looking at example code in the documentation, find something that is similar to your requirements (e.g., semantic search, conversational chat about a set of documents, etc.), and build on that.
Your last point is a good one -- the blink reflex can help avoid harm from visible lasers but it acts in ~100 milliseconds. This laser fires in, what, about 100 nanoseconds? It "blinks" for you, a million times faster than you can.

Say it emits 100 watts for 100 ns when it fires. That's only 10 microjoules of energy. Not a lot of damage potential there unless it's firing at a very fast rate.

Finally, if it's not collimated, it's not going to be concentrated enough to hurt you anyway. I wonder what the beam divergence is like...
No. In many places getting consent by deceptive/malicious means is illegal, and EULAs cannot override laws. That's why Google's cookie popups now have a "reject all" button after a $170 million fine.
What percentage of SVB’s assets were in loans versus long term securities?
Yes. Just saying there's less existing UI specific examples and material to draw from.
To the first question, not in the least. This discussion is also superdetermined, including the illusory sense of a "me" who "chose" to write these comments.

To the second question, yes. It's beyond comprehension and wondrous. It's maximum novelty and total absurdity.
I think that’s only PLoS One.

My experiences with PLoS Biology and PLoS Computational Biology have been great, but very similar to other journals.
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There's a point to discuss around the lack of any official LTS version.

But GP comment is not that, it reeks of "old man yells at cloud" with zero mention of what is an issue and what isn't.

5.x -> 7+ was a pain, mainly down to those projects being without composer or other really suspect practices that need fixing at the same time. Much of the actual issue was due to particular string concatenation methods or the mysql_* lib which is easily shimmed to something like PDO.
This is a huge problem! If they are in the US most insurers allow you to go straight to a specialist. Unsure if that helps them but for anyone reading this, if you can, go straight to a sleep specialist. My treatment was delayed for 3 years because I didn’t snore (another common reason for rejection of a sleep study).
The funniest thing i see is programmers are getting prroblems to grok functional programing concepts.
Power prices vary dramatically in the United States - and are even higher in most of the rest of the world.

Here’s the prices for the United States - https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

Even these data are noticeably low for my area where we had a _massive_ rate hike in January that results in total prices for electricity (generation + delivery) without an alternative supplier being up around $0.48/kWh.
I Chat, Therefore I Am
I thought the background context by the author was interesting to read:

https://oberon-lang.github.io/2021/07/15/motivation-for-a-ne...
> ...is considered harmful.

Not if the human beings involved are doing their math correctly.

And, no, it’s not at all harsh… if religions and philosophies both agree on it, you know it’s a lie.
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https://archive.is/fk80k
I'd pay 0,77 euro per kWh if the government hadn't introduced a 0,40 euro per kWh price cap.
Rabbit trail: I accidentally right-clicked on their home icon and it brought up their branding page with license agreements for their IP. Really neat idea.
Then make it a banks job to guard the bank vaults - they need to earn that FDIC bailout money :-)
Only the language part of it
I'd quit Reddit in the opposite direction: delete my account and leave the content. What was said is the important part, not who said it.

[Though Reddit archiving sites make this largely a moot discussion]
And I repeat: that is exactly the "pretending in hindsight that we're all too smart to have missed this" trap I warned about. It's exactly the opposite of good postmortem analysis, because it inevitably leads to a "be smarter" proscription, which is unactionable.

Also, in practice, you and I and everyone here are absolutely dumb enough to do this. Hubris is another terrible postmortem technique.
Lawsuit from

> Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons Inc., and Penguin Random House

I will scrub these publishers from future purchases and references; a lost sale, a lost increment in a citation count.
My understanding is that CSFB works by signalling the LTE/4G handset to handover to the 3G or 2G network and continue the call setup on there. If carriers have shut down their 2G and 3G networks then there is nothing providing Circuit Switched services to fall back to.
That it's true - or rather - the current state of affairs, doesn't make it right.

Restricting the (relative) access to opportunities and resources to a select group of people by means of artificial barriers has never worked in the long run, and fortunately so. Otherwise, most people would still be living in abject poverty with only a tiny aristocratic class having agency and control over their lives and standard of living.

I find it particularly baffling that while people would usually claim to be all for social justice and a more equitable distribution of resources, the second their own privileged position is at risk, those ideas go out of the window.
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As a former chronic couch sleeper, this one hit close to home. You're describing my sleeping patterns over the past few decades pretty well.

After I encountered the book "Why we Sleep" and heard some podcast interviews with the author, I was convinced that I needed to change my habits and started taking this seriously. Here's what I did:

1. If I slept on the couch, I'd stay there. My first priority was to start getting full nights of sleep. This involved "giving in" to my couch sleeping, and stocking the couch with sheets/blankets so I could set myself up for success. I found that once I was no longer "oh shit, I did it again", I could actually sleep through the night.

2. I started a morning mindfulness habit. Over time, this helped me notice more clearly each morning how I was feeling, and how my choices the night before improved or degraded my day. If I passed out while watching something, I would always wake up less rested.

3. After getting some regularity in my schedule, I started feeling more rested, and my meditation habit seemed to be providing even more clarity. One day, I started internally questioning why I was sleeping on the couch when my bed was far more comfortable.

So I went to bed on time. And then I kept doing it. For the first time in over 30 years, I feel like my relationship with sleep and going to bed has fundamentally changed.

I realized that my poor sleep was more about bad habits I'd been clinging to since I was a kid, and the more I improved my sleep, the more clearly I could see this.

YMMV, but figured I'd share how this went for me.

> if I'm out late with friends and stay up till 3am, I'm still up at 7am.

This was a hard pill to swallow, but as I dug more into the sleep research, it became clear that the body is not well suited for the occasional (or regular) 3AM morning. The body seems to be optimized for regularity/consistency, and adding a 3AM night is never without cost.

This doesn't mean I never stay up late, but I now do so knowing exactly what to expect.
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The SMTP example is interesting. There have been numerous proposed replacements, but the network effect problem makes technically superior approaches unviable. So for SMTP I’d say, if that team had done this, someone else would have shipped a basic, flawed protocol first and SMTP would never have gotten off the ground.

But… AI doesn’t have those same network effects. At least not technical ones. Business ones to some degree.
That's news like breathing can extend your life expectancy.
I am using edge as I like the vertical tabs… the only browser that has this feature, kind of, is Safari; but safari extensions suck (if you tried to ever build one, you would understand why).

It’s otherwise very user hostile but just I love the vertical tabs so much
I understand but like I said, official PHP version in your distribution packages kind of act like an LTS anyway, people who use 8.2 are using Sury or similar.

> 5.x -> 7+ was a pain, mainly down to those projects being without composer or other really suspect practices that need fixing at the same time. Much of the actual issue was due to particular string concatenation methods or the mysql_* lib which is easily shimmed to something like PDO.

That's what I meant in my other comment, while it's true, mysql_ was already being removed in favor or PDO in PHP 5's time, and PHP 5 to PHP 7 was almost a decade of developpement, so I don't think it's fair to put these issues on "too fast a developpement cycle".
You can simulate a wealth-backed currency (defined in terms of in-game resources):

https://github.com/pjkundert/ownercredit.git

This has been used in games; however (just like real wealth-backed currencies), it doesn’t respond well to games that simulate the destruction of wealth (such as war games).
> It's important to have ConfigureAwait(true) ... Otherwise you should use (false)

This is not universal. In modern ASP.NET core (i.e. web services), ConfigureAwait does nothing and is not recommended. I can confidently say that I don't want it in any of the code that I work on. We can make blanket statements, but clearly we do different things using different patterns and one size does not fit all.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42053135/configureawaitf...
Manual for Monarchy
Not really.

.NET Framework is analogous to the JVM.

Micro-frameworks that don’t pack the kitchen sink like nodejs became popular, so Microsoft made .NET Core to be philosophically similar to that.

Because people such as yourself got confused by this, they eventually stopped pushing Framework and renamed .NET Core to .NET.

Microsoft has never been popular with the valley crowd, so everything they have ever done is pooped on constantly by people on here.

You should check out some of the posts on here when VS Code came out. A lot of people were amazed that Microsoft had built something decent “out of nowhere” like those people hadn’t just been living in a bubble their whole career.
So, ask yourself for a moment: what is it you are actually caring about?

I'd like the project to not introduce security vulnerabilities or bugs into my code. I thereby care what language it was written in, what libraries they use, what their testing and QA/CI process is, and whether it is being used by any "critical" projects (like, if that library is embedded in Chrome, you have to bet there are tons of people like me every day trying to hack it).

As part of that, I care about if the project takes a cavalier attitude towards contributions: if I see a number of pull requests from random "contributors" being casually accepted, that is going to be a major major red flag; if possible, I want to see a core team doing most of the development and integration (and not merely most of the "review", add I see in some projects where the people in charge feel above doing work).

I definitely care that the project is being maintained and that there are people paying attention to issues, and it needs to have a culture of taking bug reports seriously... nothing is more dangerous than a project that tries to pretend they are responsive using bots to "automatically close" issues: I'd rather see bugs open for years than worry a critical issue was reported and subsequently lost.

I am certainly curious how work on the project is funded and whether I can trust that its license is going to hold constant over time: I don't want to end up relying on a dependency that is really the pet project of a small startup that is either going to disappear next year or will decide to redirect development to a closed-source fork. I'd thereby also prefer the project be run by a core committee of participants from multiple companies.

I honestly can't imagine caring two shits about how many stars a project had on GitHub... hell: what if the project isn't even on GitHub? What then? Do you just give up and decide it sucks? A world where everyone feels any incentive at all to put their code on a centralized platform is one where we have all failed as stewards of the future of software :(.
I think it's the opposite. You need a "God of the gaps" in the form of a "person" (actually a collection of phenomena. + the phenomena of identification with these) to explain free will and agency, which defies experimental evidence.

The comment that superdeterminism requires a higher-order determinism, which itself requires a yet-higher-order determinism... I think you're confusing it with a causal mindset. If the universe is effectively a recording, why does it need any ultimate cause? Causal thinking would only make sense from a perspective within that recording.

Of course we want to know "why is any of this here?" But what if the ultimate question doesn't actually have an answer?
Reddit may not need the hidden log, but plenty of Reddit scrapers will keep the text regardless of whether it is deleted at the source.
Click gear icon at top right of new tab page.
This project actually started as a fork of https://github.com/x2bool/xlite - SQLite extension for querying .xls and .xlsx spreadsheets.
> Enterprise Microsoft products are mostly really great.

I see you haven’t actually used Azure Devops. (Their “enterprise github”, sort of.)
Interesting, got any examples?
The demo gives me an idea. But let us take the example of header and navbar. What happens in responsive case. will it give me the hamburger icons or a placeholder for that along with the menu for mobile screens? If we are able to generate generic place holder text along with alignment and font sizes built in will be great.
Historically maybe-sorta; the consumer download for Java used to be called the JRE. It hasn't been updated since Java 8. .NET ships with a pretty full toolkit even on consumer systems (it's what undergirds PowerShell too) so .NET probably maps better to the whole-hog JDK.

The JRE-equivalent in the .NET stack is the Common Language Runtime. The JRE processes Java bytecode; the CLR processes Common Intermediate Language (CIL, formerly MSIL) instructions.
There are various unexpected limitations a given Windows experience can have.

Recently someone’s laptop broke while visiting the Mexican beach I was living so they bought a laptop from the local shop. The Windows install was in Spanish and the language options offered no other language to choose from. All of the tutorials online showed menu options that weren’t there. I tried helping them change it to English.

Apparently, for some reason, Microsoft really does offer single language Windows—I found after some digging.
Hit the nail on the head. Inefficiency, which has reached gargantuan proportions, and then blown past that, doesn't just mean page loads so slow that loading a news article takes upwards of 20s on a pocket supercomputer (whereas it took barely a second or two on a Pentium II on a 56kbps connection), all the while text and buttons jump around as assets are loaded. It also means very real waste of energy and battery degradation.
A new protocol and tool for PNG file attachments (2021)
Haha exactly. I have a 1oz gold coin 9999 fine and me and the few people who held it had the same reaction. Whoa that’s heavier than I expected! Anyway as I was saying…

Still waiting for someone to have a religious experience with it
Entirely understandable. But taken too far, it is sort of like a person being raped coming to terms with the abuse and actually learning to like it. News can be addictive, so its important to keep it in check. But too much ignorance makes you an unwitting slave.
Do you know them?
Yeahhhh this crap is on every computer in the hospital I'm at (minus the ones on XP of course)
I think it's less about typing them and more about reading them. Curly braces reduce the number of keywords in the language (unless the alternative is indentation sensitivity like in Python or Haskell). This means that if I see a word, it is easier to infer if it is a variable name or if it does something structural.

How about a treesitter-based editor extension that converts between begin/end and {/}, as if they were ligatures? Actually this might not even need treesitter.
I think the big change is that companies are now hiring more or less directly 1:1 (often with a employer of record for convenience). Previously companies contracted with outsourcing firms and had no real say over the quality of individuals. At least in my narrow experience the new model works well - there are great people in India, Pakistan, Kenya and Nigeria etc. who are just as good as on-site people and can probably live very well on their salary compared to local living costs.
I think the challenge is it isn't completely obvious to me that starting with 0 is pedagogically correct, though it is so logically. `y >= x + y` is different from `y != x + y`; the former says that addition (of natural numbers) is monotonically increasing, the latter that there is no identity element. Is it possible that admitting an identity element is confusing for beginners? Or is this just a consequence of my own educational conditioning?

(For the record I think all the arguments Dijkstra gives for 0-indexing are correct. I just lack the mathematical intuition to see why the special case above appears to be one in which admission of 0 as complicates things.)
I'm not so sure, my experience tells me differently..

I am a thin guy with very low body fat. As soon as I told my doctor that I had woken up 2-3 times with my soft pallet dry & semi-collapsed, also that I would wake up regularly with a dry mouth, he immediately sent me for a sleep test. I went and did the test and the results were that I had mild sleep apnea. The sleep doctor told me that they were ordering a CPAP machine for me. I asked why I needed it for mild apnea and also told them I wouldn't use it. They ordered it anyway and told me to take the issue up with my doctor.

While all this was going on I was in the process of reducing the amount of meds I took (bad accident in 2010). I also started reading up on & studying sleep apnea. One of the first things I learned, and that worked, was keeping my mouth shut during sleep (many ways to accomplish that). The other thing I learned is that Big Pharma/FDA does a horrible job of listing medication side effects. I say that because "causes sleep apnea" was not on the list of side effects for carbamazeine (used for my peripheral neuropathy). As soon as I stopped the carbamazepine the apnea symptoms vanished. I have no need for a CPAP, it was ordered and I've received many calls about it, but there it sits at the sleep doctor's office..
I would be sad to know the exact number but that immediately came to mind the first time I read an article from you. I desperately wish the world wasn’t like that and I’m sorry you have to deal with it.
The IA is not a religion. We love them dearly but we're still going to call them out when they do something that's blatantly, provocatively illegal, and we're sure as shit not going to support them when they lie about what they did. Especially when everyone was there when they did it and were screaming "oh my God, please do not do this idiotic thing, they are going to smash you like a bug because this is obviously not even hypothetically legal."
> having more to lose, personally, as you get older

Or, as an extension of that, having others tightly depending on your continued existence and well-being.
I recently switched from Edge to Firefox

Right there with you. Somewhere in my comment history here six years ago was my suggestion for Microsoft to give up on Internet Explorer and create their own fork of Chromium.

They could’ve gotten massive adoption if they did it right. Instead I had to turn off their useless auto-coupon feature, be ever vigilant to keep them from switching my search provider to Bing, frequently turn off the distracting new tab content, etc.

Switched to Firefox and planning to dual-boot Windows 11 and Ubuntu soon.
Good vendor list. I myself bought a System 76 and a small Chromebook to get a no-hassle Linux experience. (Linux containers on Chromebooks are handy for light weight development).

Another great source of Linux friendly hardware: old Mac laptops. A few months ago, Apple stopped supporting old gear for the new iCloud encryption, and if you had any registered laptops without this option turned on, then you couldn’t use it for any of your gear.

The point is, that I put Ubuntu on an old MacBook and a really old MacBook Air (the very small form factor). These old laptops have a new life, and run great. It was incredibly easy to do the installs, especially compared to my first Slackware install that I had to do with a 2400 baud modem Internet connection.