skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See if you can find MDMA-assisted therapy:

https://psychedelic.support/resources/when-can-i-get-mdma-th...

I don't think there's anything nearly as powerful as MDMA for seeing through the fog of suffering and restoring hope that there's a solution.

I have to stress that it should be conjunction with a therapist though, because it's only a short-term solution. Antidepressants take weeks to kick in, and MDMA has been used during those few weeks for people who have suicidal ideation like you describe because it's an instant, short-term cure, but not a long-term option.
Because the IR light is turned on and off at that frequency.
Yeah, I wonder why powdered eggs never took off... Seems like no brainer storage size wise and lifespan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powdered_eggs
ChatGPT and Code Interpreter = Magic
Essentially a manifest of API call, documentation and parameters.

I don’t think convert it in and out of proprietary standard is that difficult?

There is little to no vendor lock-in effect
Model weights seem akin to publishing a decompiled binary.
> If you're angry, you're not depressed.

That’s flat out wrong. Depression 100% manifests as anger. I’m not sure if this is bad sarcasm, or just bad advice but either way— it’s bad.
Scientists think they know why interstellar object 'Oumuamua moved so strangely
I saw and still see denial in the art, photography and design community. But with each release of Standard Diffusion and Midjourney is obvious that photographers are becoming obsolete. As one human who decided to change my job 6 months ago based on what I saw in the field of AI, I can say it was a good decision. I believe that the same will happen to a lot of developers and people working in the tech industry in the following year.
> It is unfortunate though that forces exist that would try and poison any discussion.

Take "inherent white racism", for example. (That idea is out there. Whether it should properly be considered part of "woke" is not the point.) I mean, if I'm white, there's no way I can engage with that. If I disagree, someone holding the idea regards my disagreement as proving the correctness of their view. And if I agree, then I just categorized myself as the one having the flawed worldview, and therefore someone not to be listened to going forward.

So that idea completely poisons the discussion. I don't think that just "woke" poisoned the discussion. I think it reflects that some of the ideas that people lump into "woke" are themselves poisonous to real discussion.

You used the phrase "forces exist". It's a bit unclear whether you mean sociological dynamics, or whether you mean people. My own two cents: I think there are people on both sides who want to shut down discussion, for at least two reasons: because they think that they'll win more that way, and/or because it's easier to try to win by default than to actually win peoples' hearts and minds in an honest discussion. ("By default" meaning "the other side's position is completely unreasonable, therefore my position is the only one standing, therefore I win".) When too many people on both sides are engaged in such tactics (or too many who have the microphone), it becomes impossible to have a reasonable conversation on those topics. Reasonable people just tune out the shouting and shake their heads. All you can do is wait for the shouters to shut up and go away.

Except they never will, because this has become part of electoral politics, and elections are every two years, and campaigns are nearly two years long, so it never really goes away.

Which brings us to sociological dynamics. And I'm going to stop here, because I don't know what to say...
Go full freedom sicko mode and maximize risk everywhere
OK, ISWYM.

I mean, yes, NeXTstep was much more mature. No argument. But OS X Server was aimed at a different job, and a different job to classic MacOS as well.

People did use NeXTstep as a server -- the first ever web server, notably -- but it wasn't a great one and wasn't its intended role.

Classic MacOS was usable as a server too. It seems to be largely forgotten now but the US Army officially moved all its web servers to classic MacOS at one point, because not having any form of shell at all made it largely unhackable. You can't get shell access when there is no shell to get to, and no clever x86 code exploit will help you when none of the servers have an x86 chip in them.

It wasn't a very good server, though, and quietly I think they changed to something else a bit more conventional not long afterwards.

Compared to Classic, I bet OS X Server was a great server OS. ;-)

I think the real purpose of OSXS was to answer the question:

"OK, we've done a ton of work porting NeXTstep to PowerMac and grafting a kinda sorta MacOS-like desktop on the thing, and it's cost us a sh1t-tonne of money and person-hours of work with not much to show for it so far. Is there any way we can start to make some money off this thing before it's ready to ship as a desktop OS?"
It's time to build a business I guess?

Others have said exactly what I'm thinking, welcome to the age of the micro-startup, 1-3 engineers, designers, product mangers building some very cool, albeit niche products.
We need to push the notion that "closed-source LLMs are super dangerous, an existential risk to humanity".

Basically we need to equate "safety" in LLMs to mean "being open-source".

OpenAI keeps talking about "safety" as the most important goal. If we define it to mean "open-source" then they will be pushed into a corner.
Definitely go with the Steam Deck. It’s literally a portable pc which you can turn adhoc into a workstation, plug into a TV for sofa gaming and it’s really really bang for buck. The performance is amazing, the community caring and it runs on Linux.
Anxiety is normal. Any animal on this planet has it. Get yourself in "percieved" danger (climbing) and survive, to recalibrate that sense of anxiety, which is constant firing due to the society surrounding us being actively hostile to its inhabitants.

For medication resistant depression may i suggest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy

Notice also, that just because you are out of ideas and the situation is theraphy resistant, you do not have to end it "traditionally" and may instead try to go for "statistical" suicide by turning your life into a dangerous endavour.

Travel to dangerous places, jump out of working airplanes with parachutes, try to percieve the fact that you are as free as a creature under the sun can be.

Also the obligatory legally demanded worthless advice of thoughts, prayers and theraphy, ritually mumbled usually by those who actively participated in creating todays society.
> managing a marriage within the context of my emotional instability

Is it possible your marriage is contributing to your emotional instability? It may not be. Maybe they help you and are grounding you and improving your life. But maybe you are in a bad place partially because of them. Separating yourself from someone you love can be a bad idea if you are emotionally unstable but if you aren't getting the love you need from them, it could be exacerbating your condition.
Smart People Can Stop Being Miserable
It was bound to happen to anyway, at least we can make it more efficient
So Much Vintage Tech Is Dying Here's Why [video]
Have you had much experience with mechanical keyboards? I do much better with just unicomp m-style buckling spring or cherry mx brown (real cherry, not the fake that some use).
Good point, but a clarification re Ed25519: what matters here is the host key algorithm with highest preference, not the default/recommended algorithm for the identity key. The highest preference appears to be Ed25519 or ECDSA depending on the OpenSSH version; see HostKeyAlgorithms in ssh_config(1).
it's not illegal, but it sure is shady.

handing out your SSN makes it easy for someone to try to open lines of credit, credit cards, loans, etc. in your name. You'd need other data, but that's often trivial.

SSN also wasn't designed as a universal ID and has a few weaknesses, on top of being shoehorned into a role it wasn't meant to fill.
I didn't know about this but will check it out, thanks.
Its fascinating how narratives can have such a outsized impact on our worldview, often distorting reality. In this context, we see the "evil bankers" vs "free market" trope but in reality, neither sides couldn't be further from the truth.

You can prevent the bank runs and massive economic booms/busts by simply prohibiting banks from monetising deposits. We wont do this because it will collapse the nation-state as we know it.

Banks and the government have an agreement where banks operate as if deposits are stable in order to buy long-term assets, while the government insures deposit stability.

These assets primarily comprise of lending to governments, businesses and mortgages. In other words, the banking system essentially acts as a quasi-arm of the government, enabling the welfare state to function both explicitly by buying government debt and implicitly by expanding the monetary supply.

The progressive and libertarian narratives were both fighting against their own interests, which is why I find them both amusing. The reality is that we haven't had a free market for banks since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, so it wasn't a battle between "evil bankers" and "poor poor lidl workers," but rather a game of king-making.
The worse ideas that can make you a millionare
Here is a public link to some of my crafted ideas I kept on my phone for years, feel free to comment, add new bad ideas or just craft a team a get to building
I don't really know the origin of your trauma, but I was the victim of domestic violence. It caused a lot of anger in me, and that anger would just swell at essentially random moments if my mind drifted. When I'd get angry, I'd dwell on it and that would make me even more angry. this became a horrible positive feedback loop. I then started to try and consciously break that loop by preforming a ritual if I noticed my anger. I would rubbing my thumb and index finger together and pray the Hail Mary ten times. If I was still angry, I'd continue. Rubbing my fingers together gave me a sense of tactical focus where I'd feel the ridges of my fingerprint, praying the Hail Mary gave my mind focus, and through that I would let the anger fall away. I understand not everyone is religious, but the act of praying the Hail Mary is one that requires a small amount of focus, but not overly burdensome in the moment (think a small poem). I found this technique to be instrumental in breaking those mental loops of anger by allowing my mind to calm and re-adjust. By breaking those mental loops, I was able to let go of my anger episodes within 6-9 months. I'm still upset by what happened, but I don't let my anger and emotions rule me. I think you could try this if you feel yourself being overrun by these negative emotions.
The Pico was designed for battery powered projects, I for one wouldn't want a higher clock rate because it would lead to even more power issues while powered by battery. Right now you can get by with powering device RP2040,sensors, and display with cheap LiPo battery back.

Anything over 200mhz and the SPI flash doesn't work anymore either. It can be pretty hard to fit all working memory and code into the 256KB.

The chip was designed to replace Arduino boards, many of which run below 50mhz, and only process 8bits at a time. 133mhz, 32bit dual core is a sizable jump in performance already.
Yeah, I haven't built a world generation tool yet, but that link you made seems really cool! I've played around with perlin noise in the past, but never simplex. I'll have to check it out, thanks for the suggestion!

I actually haven't tested it on a mac before, so thanks for letting me know. I just looked at it in Safari and apparently they still don't support svg filters even on desktop, so the app is unfortunately broken there
Tell HN: We need to push the notion that only open-source LLMs can be “safe”
We need to push the notion that "closed-source LLMs are super dangerous, an existential risk to humanity".

Basically we need to equate "safety" in LLMs to mean "being open-source".

OpenAI keeps talking about "safety" as the most important goal. If we define it to mean "open-source" then they will be pushed into a corner.

We are at a critical time period that will literally decide the outcome of humanity.
I think it depends a lot on the context.

For example with the button cover and click animations are probably a good idea in most contexts. However the sounds would probably be unwelcome on a site that otherwise didn't make sound. However a sound may be a great addition in a video game that already has lots of sound.
Because it's easier to touch empty space and adjust fingers. Back when I worked on Thinkpad, I really hated these keys, whenever I accidentally pressed them. I don't say you're wrong, just it's a matter of taste.

It's the same with mechanical keyboards - I can't use these compact 75% keyboards where arrows/Pg Up/Pg Down/Home/End are flush with other keys; but a bit "exploded" layout, with just a bit of space between arrows and the right column keys is perfectly ok with me

What I really hate is that combination of full size/half size arrows on modern laptops, put there just because some designer hate empty space.
Hey,

I'm sorry, this sounds really tough and those words probably don't do it justice.

Prayer, which is distinctly different from meditation has been helpful to me.
I'm not an expert on any matters pertinent to mental health or spirituality for that matter--but if you just want to talk, DM me here: @awicz
Consider this: what guarantee do you have that it does get better after death?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but you don’t want to die per se, you just want for the pain to go away. But we know nothing about what happens after death. It’s a risky move.

Lots of other great advice in here, but this thought hopefully makes you reconsider doing something irreversible that may actually turn out not to help you at all.
> Now you don’t need to hire junior devs and can just build the product of your dreams with very limited capital.

You are overestimating the vast amount of "software engineers" in the world. The overwhelming majority of us are just programmers, we are just gluing together CRUD spaghetti in the random language we grew up with. We don't care too much about work or a career. And most of us don't want to do more, we want to get a decent salary for our boring work. And we certainly do not want to be "solo founders", build products of our dreams or increase our productivity.

This way of living feels threatened now.
Obviously yes. And how they use these tools is important.

But it's quite interesting to see what these models can do internally and what they can't do yet. It possibly outlines future research areas (beyond " more scale") and opportunities for competitors to enter the market (which is usually better for consumers and society as a whole).

Maybe that's the difference between productization and academic reasearch.
“1. Give your ideas away.”

“2. Don’t use your intelligence to tear others down.”
Tell us more.

What hurts the most?

From your post, I'm hearing that you have a lot on your plate -- I'm seeing some disgust with your body, some frustration with your creativity and mental abilities, some fear about making a relationship work. That's a lot for anybody, and I'm sorry you're having to go through all that.

Where in your body does it hurt? Is there a specific feeling associated with some of this pain behind the numbness? A soreness in the eyes, a drop in the stomach, an ache in the foot...?
Does a negative record have the same impact as other jobs?
Since it's not in your post, can I ask what you think is causing your fear and anxiety, and what it feels like?
> I think over time, we’ll see that what many of us really liked about building software deep down wasn’t coding, but intricately imagining the things computers could do for us and then getting them to do it.

Spot on. It's a good time for existential reflection: Who would you have been hundreds or thousands of years ago? Who will you be now that technology is radically changing again?

There will always be interesting, creative challenges like programming, whatever form they take.
Hacker News is especially hostile toward crypto. Most likely, people here won’t even bother to engage in an honest conversation. “It’s a scam, it’s for crime” is the consensus. It’s frustrating when you’re surrounded by “confident idiots”, people who are uneducated about a topic that portray confidence. As I’ve gotten older, I just care less about educating people for free.

Bitcoin is going nowhere. Time itself will teach the naysayers. HN will be angry, in denial, etc as the trend of bitcoin adoption plays out. But they can’t be so ignorant as to stop it. In other words, their education is not required.
Probably just easier to offer cocaine.

Plus you're going to give your personal info to someone you just met... in exchange for dinner? Man you're trusting.

Unrelated: there is a bridge that I own roughly 131km from here. Interested in buying it?
Those seem to be explicitly for actual research papers and whatnot, and are largely voluntary; it’s not mandated by the government.
Show HN: A tool to help software devs generate, debug and document code
UI is very minimalistic for the moment but will make it better soon.
Make a list of everything you want to improve in life and decompose it into atomic facts. Order them by easiest to fix to hardest, then plan and execute actionable steps to rectify one thing at a time. Put everything else on hold and accept that the other things might stay bad or even get worse in the meantime. If one of those things isn't working out after a couple weeks, put it at the end of the queue and keep going. Start racking up a few wins, and before you know it life will look different and your problems will seem less intractable.

For example: Instead of "losing weight", add items to your to-do list like "quit snacking", "stop drinking soda", and "eat one fruit/veggie with every meal". The point is to reduce those big problems into small ones that anyone can fix then start churning through them.
If that were true, all unionised jobs would have good security and pensions.
The manufacturers do everything wrong. Why not add 10 ports to every laptop? Are USB-A sockets so expensive?

It surprises me especially that MacBooks seem to be targeted at professionals, like creators and creators always have lot of stuff with USB plugs - like MIDI keyboards, MIDI controllers, external audio interfaces, mouse, drawing tablet, external hard drives - but MacBook only has like 3 sockets, despite being super expensive.
I mean it all makes sense if you know nothing of k8s or ansible.

Most companies these days had moved to k8s so there are a portion of hi tech workers that have prior knowledge of k8s model and deployment.

Whether you want to go monolith or not doesn't matter because you need to replicate the process at least to 2 environment: dev and prod. Not to mention it's good to be prepared had your prod env got compromised or nuked.
I'll rephrase: I hate the reddit default subs and the "reddit culture" in general. I am a frequent reader of some absolute treasures of a sub, like /r/askhistorians or /r/boardgames
>you can get a sport pilots license in as little as 20 hours of training

This is not enough training to operate safely, in my opinion. Even in VFR conditions, I think it would be negligent for an instructor to turn a 20-hour pilot loose without further oversight. Even if a student pilot has flown solo by that point in their training, their instructor still needs to sign off on all cross-country flights. Entering Class B with 20 hours is out of the question in my view.

I also disagree that the Sport license meaningfully decreases the cost of general aviation. The largest expenses are fuel and aircraft rental fees or maintenance, neither of which are mitigated in the long term by a shorter training period.

It sounds like you are probably more experienced than I am, so maybe I'm wrong.
Interesting approach using jet engines to iterate quickly.
Memgraph Lab 2.5 released – visual UI for exploring and managing data
This is a really troubling development. Anyway, kudos to you for standing up to the man.
It’s the opposite. If people are allowed to modify the model, the first thing they are going to do is remove the limiters that prevent the model from doing dangerous things.
I tend to favor left control, and right shift myself... discovered this using a KB where the up arrow was at the edge of the right shift, most annoying keyboard to type on ever... all of the sudden my typing is in the middle of already typed text. If typing while looking at something else, I'd see a garbled mess too often.
Even 133MHz is overkill for most applications. It only has 264k of RAM anyways, and all application code needs to be loaded from external flash. Pretty much all peripherals are offloaded to dedicated hardware, and it even has two cores and pretty exhaustive DMA capabilities.

There are very few embedded applications where you need more computation power than a RP2040 can offer without being limited by RAM or flash. Sure, they could have tried pushing it even harder, but why bother when it is already enough?
Why have forms or dating sims at all? Most of Europe just has you log into their version of the CRA / IRS, confirm the numbers look right, and hit send.

If you want to add exceptions, tax credits, etc, you can, but if you don't log in then it assumes you give it your blessing.

Why get anime waifus involved at all?
It sounds like you have PTSD. 20+ years ptsd sufferer here and none of the traditional medications made a dent. But psychedelic therapy did and it worked like a charm for me.

Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy has shown great promise, give it a shot.

- Look into Ketamine which is already FDA approved.

- Psilocybin, MDMA are all due for FDA approval. The clinical trials have shown high efficacy

and they are the best thing to happen for a very long time. Trust me, I have never felt better and it can get better.

dm me if you want to talk.
I shove them all into ~/docs and then edit my ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file to match.
I wish suicide wasn't so stigmatized. Sure it leaves behind survivors, but our planet includes so much suffering.

They say "suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem", but I think that can come across as dismissive of real systemic issues. People committing suicide might have been suffering for years, with no end to suffering in sight, and suicide seems like a reasonable way to just.. not continue suffering. This is why I'm really glad we at least have legal assisted suicide in Canada.

I think the truth about people dissuading people from committing suicide is that, sure, in some situations, often without even knowing the person they're talking to, they have unreasonable confidence that things will get better, and the person will eventually be glad they didn't do it.

But what if you frame it as asking someone who has been suffering for years to continue suffering for the sake of the people who know them, or for the sake of society? Instead of putting the burden on the person suffering to continue suffering, we should put the burden on society to provide real assistance for people suffering (often just basic needs like food, shelter, but often-times therapy also), and on people to provide assistance to their loved ones in need, if able.

All that being said, you seem like you are providing support for people you care about and I commend you for that. I hope OP is able to get the support they need as well, and get to a point where they are enjoying life
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So who will hire the junior software devs?