skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: Oversimplifying psychedelics.

Many psychodelic drugs are not giving you "nice trips", which is also part of the reason _some_ have a very very low chance to make mentally addicted (and happen to also not trigger physical addiction).

But they do "shake up" you mind in a way which can have long term positive effects in various ways, which could be as simple as helping with self reflection or as live changing as curing depression (not from a LSD tip, but there are psychedelic based treatments for depression which not only had cases of healing some people where "classical" methods did not work at all, but yielded long term results in a way no anti-depressant I'm aware of can archive).

So in other words having a "not so nice trip" can be a "good live experience" for some.

But then pretty much anything which messes with your mind can have bad long term effects if rareish complications appear, and a (oversimplified) rule of thump is the more it messes with your brain the more server can the rarish unexpected side-effects be for your live (e.g. worsening or triggering latent schizophrenia, but might also help treating it if done appropriately).
I’m going to start my comment off with…if you have any reservations about taking a mind altering substance, don’t do it. Just be content in enjoying your existence substance free. :)

That said, IMHO, there are many things one can do:

1. if one suffers from mental health problems, they should probably avoid any mind altering drugs (OTC, prescription or illicit) without significant guidance from a medical / mental health professional

2. speak to a mental health professional, one that is open to leveraging these types of drugs for mental health purposes

3. Assuming you passed steps 1 & 2 or are confident you don’t need to bother with them…start small and with less intensive options (i.e. if you can’t handle something like marijuana in moderate to high doses, don’t bother [without following steps 1 or 2]). And as condescending as it sounds, if you’re ready for this step, experiment in the best possible environment (and in a good headspace to deal with what is coming) with an individual(s) you trust and do so with a low dose

If you enjoyed your experience after step 3, you could consider slightly increasing the dosage or type of mind altering substances while still adhering to the advice mentioned in the previous steps.

Maybe the problem is people not respecting the complexity of putting such a mind altering substance in their body. One isn’t required to do it and should only do so when they know what they’re getting in to and have a good understanding of the (for lack of a better word) consequences.

Also, maybe individuals who have a very positive experience should be more explicit about providing a disclaimer that what worked for them isn’t guaranteed to work for others.

Edit: and to more directly respond to your comment, IMHO, using something like LSD or any mind altering drug is a bit of rolling the dice.
Your password cannot leak, because it does not exist. Passkeys can also not be phished.
TIL plants and fungi built their own internet.
My observation too.

It is kind of evolution, just for computers.

Macs early developed good pointing devices and as a result many keyboard related aspects can afford to be somewhere between weird and crazy.

Bonus for Mac people insisting everything is fine.

And I still consider getting a MacBook Pro next month, Windows PCs are that bad even with WSL :-/

Edit: at least these days, fn and ctrl can finally be remapped and CMD-tab can be fixed so it works consistently between two Firefox (or two Safari) windows, an IDE and Finder. It used to be that I would have to CMD-tab to the Firefox group, then CMD-| to get to the correct browser window and it was one of the things that truly messed up my workdays the last time I used Mac back in 2012. (No dedicated home/end buttons and every app seemingly being free to choose what shortcut they would use for it was probably the most painful one though.)
LEGO absolutely has a quality problem now.

I am in my 30s and I had never seen a LEGO defect, and I have seen quite a few bricks. In the past year, I have seen several in-person among the toys I've bought for my kids, and several more anecdotally around the internet.

Now I even see it here on HN.

the LEGO brand had an unassailable, invincible reputation for quality, and now, for what seems like the first time, that is being called into question?

I find this fascinating and worrying. Are all good things destined to cheapen and collapse in search of short-term profits eventually?
Funny both Alexis is a VC now, and he actually invested in kevin's NFT 10k PFP (Moonbrids)

The Reddit Mafia
Yeah, it is. Sadly for a lot of these cases(e.g. the big 10307 eiffel tower) the parts you would get back are very likely going to look the same way, as the molds themselves are the problem and it's not usually a "bad batch". Might get more lucky with colors though.
I've recently been to see Tim's arcade machines on Southwold pier. Highly recommended if you find yourself in the east of England.

I didn't realise he had such an awesome YouTube channel as well!
Kinda fun to read this headline a few posts after the "Russia killed its tech industry".
It's an interesting problem. Aside from the toxic cleanup issue when decommissioning the underground fuel tanks or an attached service garage, the layout of a traditional gas station is also limiting. Unlike a modern truck stop off a major highway, the majority of urban stations have a small footprint optimized for road access and throughput, but not simultaneously lingering customers.

Even without the pump islands, there isn't much room for customer parking. These stations are often situated at corners with multiple driveways, small parking areas, and no adjacent street parking. Unless you can merge adjacent parcels for redevelopment, these small stations may only be able to support a convenience store, coffee shop, drive-through food stop, or some other quick turnaround. They don't have the right layout to support lots of simultaneous customers unless they are arriving on foot or by mass transit instead of personal vehicles.
That's essentially what I was referring to in my upstream comment that made me think I'd taken lsd instead of mushrooms.
Leptos – a full-stack web framework in Rust
It does sound more like 25I-NBOMe or DOI. 4 hours to visuals, the body load, the tinnitus, the HPPD, the “160ug.”
Let's just say the probability is negligible.
The Realtek NIC embedded in my Asus motherboard hits maybe 600mbps with a tailwind. It only has 1 receive queue and doesn't support interrupt coalescing. Junk.
Also, multi-head attention strikes me as being about as close to how language semantics seems to actually work in human brains as I've seen.

Lots of caveats there, of course. First off, I don't know much about the neurology, I just have an amateur interest in second language acquisition research that sometimes brings me into contact with this sort of thing. On the ANN side, which is closer to my actual wheelhouse, we definitely don't actually have any way of knowing if the actual mechanism is all that close, and I'm guessing it probably isn't even close since ANN's don't actually work that similarly to brains. Nor does it need to be, but, intuitively, there's still something promising about an ANN architecture that's vaguely capable of mimicking the behavior of modules in an existing system (human brains) that's well known to be capable of doing the job. I'm not super wild about the bidirectional recurrent layers, either, because they impose some restrictions that clearly aren't great, such as the hard limit on input size. et cetera. But it still strikes me as another big step in a good direction.
I don't think "prompt engineering" was ever a clearly-defined practice. The way I see it, it's just some over-eager noobs both prompting and prompt-injecting until they get results close to what they want, and then subsequently pretending like they're engaging in some new branch of mathematical reasoning. Hence why I called the moniker "pretentious".

Personally, I've never liked the title of "software engineer" or even "data engineer" (my own title). However, those are more rooted in engineering-like practices than any of this "prompt engineering" nonsense.
One big feature is D has modules. There's no reason C can't have modules, but they don't. You don't need to code .h files anymore.
I mean, yes, that is quite literally just your opinion, man. Ain't nowhere else for this conversation to go, really. Would you like to try having a discussion with some semblance of good faith instead of insisting "everything I don't understand is a scam and my subjective experiences are objectively correct and perfectly reproducible because I say so"?
> It’s an awesome resource and I think Gen Z are at a massive advantage because of it. They can literally leave school and already be professionally competent. I think we’ll see them leapfrogging millennials on the career ladder because they had a youth where they could spend their entire time learning literally everything there is to know about their passion for free.

I'm not convinced for YouTube. For the most part, I just see Gen Zers teaching other Gen Zers. It is very rare to find someone older on YouTube with actual, professional, real-world experience, and if you do, the channel is not popular and is thus buried in search results.
Lying and fraud aren’t ok, and founders should be held to account for that.

But this doesn’t seem like that. It seems like any disappointed investors just didn’t do the bare minimum you’d expect with an investment of $100m.
> But that's still 30 years ago so Lego has been fancy pieces and custom kits for a couple generations of kids now.

You can get a 790 piece big box of Lego brand plastic building blocks on Amazon for $35. These types of collections tend to end up in yard sells, or passed around extended families because they last longer than a single childhood. The none-fancy Lego branded blocks still exist, and are still a common part of childhood in America. Lego just doesn't have to market them as hard, and the sale volume is naturally lower.
> IP rights are another thing

Actually the _only_ thing in contention per the article.
> Is there a test you can take to rule out long-term negative side effects from psychedelics?

PiHKAL and TiHKAL reports start with "allergy tests" of low doses around 1/10th of a typical dose.

Erowid and other resources (Psychonaut wiki, etc.) list a starting dose of LSD to be around 25mcg, while the author here took 160mcg as a virgin- over 5x the starting dose.

It's also not clear whether they tested the drugs, which likely means they did not. The report sounds more typical of a DO(x) or NBOMe substance than LSD, which also come on blotters and are sold as LSD relatively frequently.
Someone help me understand this… the code is open source, so does this mean it’s actually proprietary and we can’t use it?

And if it is indeed open source with a completely permissive license, then what material difference does it make who originally developed it?
>> Legalization leads to better education

> It also leads to more cases of abuse.

Citation needed. Here are a few counter reports:

Pointers From Portugal on Addiction and the Drug War[1]: "Opioid overdose deaths fell after Portugal’s policy change. So did new cases of diseases associated with injection drug use, such as hepatitis C and H.I.V."

Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?[2]: "Since it decriminalised all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime"

How Europe’s heroin capital solved its overdose crisis[3]: "[T]he number of addicts was halved and overdose deaths had dropped to just 30 a year for the entire country. The number has remained steady ever since."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/upshot/portugal-drug-lega...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...

[3] https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/portugal-heroin-decrim...
Chip fabs do use a lot of water, but not by comparison with agriculture.

Arizona uses about 5 million acre-feet (gah!) of water for agricultural purposes per year.

https://www.arizonawaterfacts.com/water-your-facts

One TSMC fab uses around 4 billion gallons per year.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/18/semicond...

Converting everything to liters (and hoping I didn't mess it up... "acre-feet", for the love of God) shows that agriculture uses around 400 times as much water as a fab.
You might like the Criterion Collection streaming service. Not a customer but love their movie collection.
And if you have to evacuate a huge warehouse even once a year due to these fires, it immediately is not worth it for the operator.
Yeah but if you’re immune to the most obvious awful shit (not your kids) it’s kind of the only drawback.

I get the occasional “lets debunk flat earthers” but a) I don’t find that content interesting and b) I know that’s the lip of the rabbit hole, so if I just avoid those kind of videos, my feed is fine.

Your problem is legitimate and your response is understandable, but what would you think of YouTube if that weren’t a problem?
This is why I get so annoyed by people claiming that side loading will make iOS less secure. You trust open source apps on desktop all the time. I'd rather use crowdsourced trust indicators than some shmuck working at Apple.
> I’ve tried to introduce them to science, space, programming, history, math, finance, nature, etc. content and they don’t want to have anything to do with it.

Anyone good suggestions?
Academics find a tiny crack in Apple's Private Relay
I think YouTube will really struggle to figure out how to weigh lowest common denominator content that does well with personalized recommendation that satisfy some deeper intellectual curiosity. I'm already finding it's a kind of "work" to keep the geopolitical and economics content that makes me feel like YouTube is a positive for me on the front page over shorts and sports montages.

Maybe my algorithms just in a bad place right now, but it feels like there's been some kind of shift this year, and I'm wondering if others are noticing something similar.
it seems like the worst kind of terror is an impersonal, rapid, universal, automated death/loss of control. This opposed to some kind of a personal boogie man.
This happens in residential solar a lot. During the Spring/Summer/Autumn you will produce 1.5x - 2x what you consume on any given day but the peak of the power all comes at 9-10am to 2-3pm. You need large amounts of battery to move that power to cover the house for the other 2/3 of the day and that adds a lot of cost and is often similar price to the solar array.

One of the best ways to deal with the problem is selling it back to the grid but how that is done vastly changes the payback period. Some states do it as a unit exchange so you sell 1KWh to them then you get that back later when you want it for no cost. Whereas many do a sale price with a price half or worse. Which price you can get for that power and whether its following wholesale (which tends to be peak early evening and be more during the day than night) can drastically change the pay off period.
I'd agree that people aren't invoking him because they care about him personally, people seldom give a darn when someone else isn't being given full credit. But I think it doesn't have anything to do with martyrdom: People were complaining about the reddit thing wrt Aaron while he was alive too.

The comments are driven out of concern and feelings of loss related to reddit's former perceived public-spirited democratic spirit in favor of corporate interests. It's only natural that people would highlight an early participant who seemed more aligned with their perspective and who seems to have been diminished in the modern narrative.

Does Aaron's separation with reddit explain its cultural changes? Things are seldom that simple. But when talking on a forum about our concerns with how reddit has changed over the years a simple view is perfectly appropriate-- so for some people bringing up the missing co-founder, is a suitable way to express their views.
I was by myself, in a tent. When I felt lonely, I moved the tent closer to hiking trails. When I wanted to be alone, I moved it further away. The easiest way to meet people on a mountain is just walking to the summit and sitting there.

When I was tired of rice and beans, I hiked down to a little restaurant that had really, really good fried fish.

One time I built a hot tub.

A park ranger was kind enough to jump start my car when I was ready to leave for good. I feel like that was the least they could do after writing me six parking tickets, all of which I paid.

The rest of the answers, I leave to you.
They may not technically be free, but they typically come bundled with the computer you buy. Linux has yet to be shipping with free comparable computers, so the cost of Windows/MacOS is invisible to the end consumer.
Why didn’t the author linked to the examples he cites? It’s almost cruel.
If I was looking for a manufacturing job with great benefits and fair treatment from management I'd look for someplace with a labor union.
I have always had it as far as I know.

I have a vivid memory of asking my father if he could see atoms too when I was between 5 and 8.

I told him that when I stared at an object long enough, I saw little dots (snow). I must have just recently heard about atoms and mapped them to my experience.

Fortunately he understood what I was talking about and said told me it’s just my eyes or my mind presenting me with bad data. I’m sure it was a strange question for him, “can you see atoms too?”
how would you argue the fact that you don't develop addiction to this stuff?
What is the story here? Stability funded a model that came off the LMU paper?

They certainly did that better than the way OpenAI did, or Midjourney did.
Levi Rozman talks about this a bit in his videos, I feel like the better rule is that you need at least one ad break, but two is also a good inflection point? I don’t think its 12 the number specifically, but 12 guarantees the first ad break.
Not really sure what you’re talking about when you say that vid just enumerates stats. There’s a lot of narrative and comparison and context put into that video. Comparing it to how I grew up watching ESPN Sportscenter, I find that YT video much richer and varied
> If you have an EV today, you're an early adopter, and you're going to suffer early adopter pains.

Today, that's true only for non-Tesla EVs. Five years ago, it was true for Tesla too. But not anymore.

Speaking from experience as someone who regularly goes on ~300-mile trips on a Tesla EV:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35678905
You say "socialization" but I think the real word is "conformity".
Man I wish I could automurder every single website dialog that tries to get me to use their shitty app for "the best experience"
1/4chan?
It says no, but this is still really useful. We got multiple chargers that didn't work because of the plug, not the voltage.
NJ has code that requires structural loading on new warehouses to be able to support solar on 40% of the roof. It’s just a matter of getting this into code as soon as possible, so new buildings are solar ready as old warehouse space is eventually retired at EOL.

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/new-jersey-solar-ready-req...
This has been the case forever. Society's values ebb and flow.

If we were in a society where values were held to a high regard, you might see different headlines like:

"Failed actor takes on new role of regulating officials for financial gain".

or even a few years earlier:

"Selfish man vilifies volunteer firefighters in California for not doing enough to save his house".
It's a little known fact that Sweden has been in the process of declaring war on Denmark.

As soon as they finalize the phrasing of the declaration and approve it through committee, probably in the next few centuries, all hell is going to break loose.
As someone for whom Marijuana also induces panic and anxiety I second this. At least when I dropped acid I could somewhat control the dosage and was careful not to start with a full dose.

I actually like acid but I wouldn’t call it safe. The visual effects can be quite intense and if you’re not used to the idea that reality is influenced by perception you’re in for a really bad time.
Eaglercraft is a pirated version of Minecraft that was ported to the web.
Taken to the limit with infinite energy there's zero reason to cause any pollution at all. You can incinerate into pure molecular material anything and then convert it back into any product you want. Consumption does not mean pollution.
Doesn't the API still disclose who is a legacy check vs who bought their check? I recall that being the case and seeing a browser addon that would udpdate the checkmark the last few times I used the bird site.
Indeed but it's complicated. I only mean to suggest one article/publication isn't enough to support or prove a point definitively - rather than get caught in the weeds about "if alcohol really does/n't effect health". Researching health outcomes is very complicated and nuanced but we should certainly continue to do it.

> These findings seemingly contradict a previous GBD estimate published in The Lancet, which emphasised that any alcohol use, regardless of amount, leads to health loss across populations.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Isn't this more a problem of not good enough curation? There are more papers now than ever, but the signal is probably getting worse and worse.
Despite blocking him, he still appears on your feed randomly.
More people need to see interviews such as those in the
People Make Games video "How Valve is Profiting from Steam's Back-Door Casinos" - skip to 15mins for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMmNy11Mn7g
>All ideas of productivity fall away when you trip.

Counter anecdote: I tend to compulsively clean my apartment on mushrooms.
Show HN: Reactjs app with GitHub social login, all code on GitHub
> What would you think of YouTube if that weren’t a problem?

Not op, however I avoid YT at all costs. I would sing a tune of a product giving back to the world. Education, knowledge and entertainment. Quite a dream compared to the current as of the moment; corruption of education, knowledge and entertainment.
Another great thing about YouTube not mentioned is the quality of comments. Something happened in the last 5 years or so that changed them profoundly.

Once the laugh of the internet they are now one of the most wholesome in it. Almost unbelievable for a public site.
Mac OS will move stuff and restyle stuff for no reason. It's not the answer for you. The ecosystem tends to move quickly and it becomes hard to get software unless you're running an Apple release less than 18 months old but also at least 2 months old.

Maybe try FreeBSD with Mate or a less intense wm like fvwm?

FreeBSD does make changes over time, but most of them aren't without good reason. FreeBSD does have three firewalls, but it's the same three firewalls its had for decades. Most of the time, new functionality will be added to existing appropriate tools rather than through tool replacement. Netstat was changed to run faster, rather than replaced with a faster, but different tool. Ifconfig configures network interfaces, including wifi (although if wifi is important to you, tread carefully). Open Sound System was fixed rather than replaced. Etc, etc.

The separation of base and ports/pkg means updates to ports are really up to the upstream developer --- some do value stability and some don't, but at least the base is pretty good.