skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguing like this is no good. You're demanding that we accept a random blog post over a random comment, and demanding expertise from the random comment that you're not demanding from the random blog post.

The comment you're replying to is speculative. It's all right for people with some personal knowledge to speculate.
in certain niche social circles, there is a lot of pressure to use psychedelic drugs. someone who chooses not to use psychedelic drugs might be looked down on -- presumed to be closed-minded or not very bright -- or otherwise socially excluded.

as psychedelic drugs grow in popularity, more and more people in more and more social milieus will run into this kind of condescension. some will be pressured into taking risks they don't want to, and some will be harmed by it.

i expect a backlash to psychedelic drugs fairly soon (based on hacker news comments on this article vs. what it would have been a few years ago, maybe already starting). i hope that this backlash doesn't derail the promising medical research into psychedelics that's gotten off the ground in the last few years.
You might want to find some better news sources.
Fairly interesting post, especially for those who weren't aware that hallucinogens sometimes cause minor hallucinations indefinitely, but arguments like the conclusions section are why we need to, as a society, beat "the plural of anecdote is not data" into every single person's head.

Some people have a negative reaction to LSD. Some people don't. Some people have a positive reaction to LSD. Some don't. What's missing, crucially, is the only useful information- how many of each there are. There is nothing else that is relevant! If "some guy had a bad time" was a robust argument for "never ever do this thing", it would be a bad idea to do anything ever.

> Reading reddit anecdata about how LSD has changed people’s lives for the better - and the army of comments that dogpile on, agreeing - makes me upset at their naiveity and harmful promotion

It is indeed naive to think that some random guy on the internet talking about their experience is useful. Now how did we decide it was "harmful promotion" again?
The question is not whether you can make it work, but how much effort do you have to put into using an EV.

Vehicles are bought to make life more convenient. To introduce constraints and time waste you can just use public transportation.
Cheap, low-maintenance, easy to troubleshoot?
This will never happen, and is an absurd cope for people that just want their fix and to be addicts without feeling bad.
The problem is that in this case there's an extraordinarily lucrative opportunity for anyone willing to take it, meaning even if most people would see this and think "I don't want to be that person" there'll still be people who will do this line of work, regardless how immoral it might be
As someone who has been consuming lots of marijuana in the past 25 years, my recommendation is to not consume marijuana when in a bad mood or in stressful situations. I see drugs (including alcohol) as mood amplifiers.
I definitely think cases like this can happen, and I've had troubles with some drug experiences in the past as well.

That being said, the author's report of how they tried psilocybin sounds like a warning sign to me: 3 grams, seemingly at home alone. That is a big dose for a first time, and I've never heard anyone recommend taking it alone at home.
Unfortunate in how it demonstrates that there don't seem to be any lower-hanging fruit left. Actually it doesn't so much feel like picking higher hanging fruit, it feels like stretching hard for the last withered leaves, long after the last fruit have disappeared.
I had assumed the intent is that until infrastructure changes, electric cars are for people who live in houses, and have 2+ cars. You use the electric car to commute, make errands etc, and use the other car to travel etc.
I've tried LSD once and would never do it again for the reasons the author states.

Yes, it was great fun, but it's just too unpredictable. Regardless of whether or not it actually happened, it was incredibly clear to me that I could have just decided to jump out of a window thinking that it was my bedroom door, or cut myself with a kitchen knife thinking that it was a brush, or think my partner was some sort of attacker and become violent towards him/her, or whatever else. Plus the emotional effects.

It felt like I played Russian Roulette with my brain and won, I just got lucky and I'm OK. I think. Maybe my emotions are a bit different now. How would I even know?
Will they also redo the massive horrors relewsed on the world that Marxists did? Wait, FTX seems like a prime example.

Capitalism in itself is incomplete, I believe it requires a strong moral principle in a populous to work well. Trying to shoehorn that moral basis into capitalism as Marx did just results in a very destructive system.
So let me get this straight.

This person had a hard time on psilocybin and though they should try LSD? Jfc

I think it's well known that things can go south really quickly on basically anything that alters your brain chemistry. Yes, these drugs alter your brain chemistry. And also, yes some people are way more sensitive than others.

It's unfortunate this happened but to completely write off the potential psychedelics show for treating trauma and PTSD is naive at best.
Why doesn't Apple allow any app (from outside the Apple store) to run in a sandbox then?
> Visual snow never got worse, I did get “seeing stars” though which I never had prior to doing psychedelics.

Seeing stars can have other causes like the blood vessels in your eyes being messed up. You can get them from, for example, being too hungover or tired. Not saying it's that, but it could be totally unrelated.
Use the mobile app as the channel for any additional confirmation.
Fandom/Wikia is so bad that I have to use lynx or something like textise.net to browse it on mobile without uBlock Origin.
You can manually put the service in maintenance mode. That will stop it alerting for a specified period.
Do americans really call Lego bricks Legos? Based on the comments, it seems common enough, I always thought it was a plural like data
Forget the language, it is their pun that bugs me. I guess it is Monkey See Monkey Do? But, my brain really wants MonkeyC to be the compiler for the Monkey language.
No, they are not. They will be able to use USB-D in parallel with USB-C until USB-D becomes industry standard, at which point it will be adopted by the EU as the new mandatory standard port.
The popular LSD and psychadelic advocacy online and elsewhere is an expression of the mainstream ideology. The foundation of our collective ideology tells us these drugs should have some profound life-altering and improving effect. Obviously, when examined critically, the premise is ridiculous on its face. Everyone I know who regularly does these types of drugs is not really doing much else with their lives. As for Steve Jobs, he was not a regular LSD user, he was a baby boomer who bragged about using it to make himself seem unique or different, like many of his generation.

You see a similar sort of popular collective delusion with people who claim Cannabis cures cancer or other disease. Sorry but hard no. There is no such thing as "Medical Marijuana." It's simply marketing and propaganda to get the public into associating virtue with Cannabis use, with the end goal of eventually changing policy.
I've had "visual snow" since forever, but it's very mild, and more acute when light exposure delta is high (e.g. turn on/off a light). I suspect it's because I also suffer from migraines, which started around puberty, though I think it's at least partly genetic because both my mom and my sister also get them. I used to get a very bad one at least once a week, as in, couldn't even get out of bed. Since I started drinking coffee (late 20s), it helped my migraines out tremendously.

My migraines (which is a condition closely related to seizures) are partly why I've always said "no" to any form of psychedelic substance; just seems needlessly dangerous.
For saying it's a strawman, you're doing a lot of litigation in the court of public opinion.
But you still get to be self-important. Seems like a small price to pay.
Anecdotes are fine for story telling but have no place in debates.
The trick is always making games fun, otherwise folks won't care.
This might be a challenge.
Nice idea, though!
It's a way for people that want to be addicts to rationalize their addictions, and should be mercilessly shamed out of being so popular.
I find it so ironic that on one hand, we are placing great value on achieving consciousness with artificial intelligence and yet, we place so little value on our own.

If this "consciousness" thing is so hard to get, then why do we try our best to get rid of it through alcohol, recreational drugs etc ?
I gave an example. Peanuts. They can literally choke you out.

Ciprofloxacin can ruin your life. Acetaminophen can ruin your life. Aspertame can ruin your life.

The point is that for every substance there will be someone out there predisposed to have a reaction to it. That's not a problem with the substance, and people shouldn't stop recommending it, as the author suggests.
> They can literally leave school and already be professionally competent.

How? (I'm misunderstanding.)
Your framing is incredibly odd to me and probably most people. There is no discount. There is only extra cost to cover risk if you have a history of being irresponsible.
Korolev, who was one of the leading rocket engineers during the time didn't have teeth as he lost them in Kolyma labour camp.
I charge about once a couple of weeks when using it around town on a Tesla supercharger while shopping in a mall.

Having a garage is definitely the best way, but I wouldn’t say it’s necessary. Driving it like an ICE car where you go to the gas station to fill up every couple of weeks is perfectly acceptable.

And on longer journeys, yeah it’s annoying to have to stop every 2ish hours, but I find that by the time I get back from the bathroom, I usually have enough to continue.

Is it perfect? No. Is it an adequate substitution for ICE - definitely.
Are you seriously implying that I think Lego is universally responsible for all science and technology?
Yeah my most recent discovery is using GPT4 to create applescripts which are triggered by a key combination. One that I use all the time is to open a chrome window with a specific profile to certain webpages
Lol. Tylenol is over the counter and the wrong dose can literary kill your liver.

Do you have links to those studies? I'm curious. I've tried Ashwagandha and stopped as it seemed to make me more anxious but YMMV.
> key to the next generation of multimedia cellphones

How is perfect data transmission a make or break feature for lossy compression and transmission of audio and video?
There is an alternative front end for fandom.com called BreezeWiki. It is open source (written in Racket!), and like with other open source alternative front ends, volunteers run their own instances. Here is the story link on one instance:

https://antifandom.com/googology/wiki/User_blog:JohnTromp/Th...

BreezeWiki source code: https://gitdab.com/cadence/breezewiki.
No and the reason is I have seen far more anecdotes about good trips than bad, which pushes me to believe that is the norm. And by far more I mean in my life I have seen maybe a 10:1 ratio. There would have to be a flood of negative reports over a period of years to tilt me in the opposite direction to counteract that.
But it definitely lulls people into a false sense of security. The ads make it seem like the language just seeps into your brain because of 15 min on the app a day. When in reality you learn very little.
Windows 10 LTSC is that too. Everything is removed, including the MS Store, only Edge remains so it's pretty much a vanilla Windows 10 version. Feature updates released every ~2 years or so (for example it was 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021 so far).

I use it for all my Windows PCs, even for gaming.
Is "calculus" a hard core counterexample?
I feel like another division is there are programmers who love mathy languages and syntax and those that hate mathy languages and syntax. The former looks down on the latter with contempt. And the latter thinks the former is annoying.
This is a great way to use drugs. Even coffee! If you have coffee when you have anxiety you’ll be in store for much more anxiety
Nutmeg
Yes; I think someone claiming a drug helped them is also a useful anecdote. I do think HN as a community tends to weigh positive anecdotes more than negative ones [when it comes to hallucinogens], and wanted to point out that this particular negative anecdote suggests there exists at least some amount of greater or more systemic concerns about how such an experience came about to begin with.
The person wasn't talking about policy but about how people aggressively pretend like these drugs can do no harm. You can have a completely free policy while also being honest and accurate about what the drugs do and what can happen.
> Similar to the author of this, I read for years of how "the only way it could ever harm you is if you were crushed by 100 lbs of it" on sites like Reddit

I think this is the direct result of just nonsensical criminalization that equated cannabis with drugs like heroin, while the toxicity of cannabis is much lower than alcohol, for example.

Legalization leads to better education, which typically provides both sides of the argument, so that a potential user can make educated decisions as to whether to try the drug or not. I have seen debates on "when not to use cannabis" on some canna podcasts (like Leafly, though I don't remember the episode).

I think that avoiding LSD for people prone to panic attacks is a pretty sound decision.
> we also need battery tech to hit like 250-300 a kwh for storage is my magic number to get a 40-50kwh backup and detach from the grid.

Here you go, a 30kWh 48V battery for $9k ($300/kWh): https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-lifepower4-lithium-batteries-...
The problem is fundamentally that doing a thorough review of every app is unreasonably expensive and as a consequence, that will not happen.

You are then left with a trade off between false positives and false negatives. It is entirely possible to have both at once.

The real problem is that centralizing this process is in error. Because not all users are the same.

It makes sense to have a manual review process for e.g. games, where anybody can make a game but games are relatively expensive apps that can eat the cost of a manual review in exchange for the largely uninformed user being assured that the code is trustworthy. The review process could then e.g. exclude apps that screw with the operating system in order to implement some kind of shady DRM.

Some users are using their device in a professional context where lives are at stake if the device gets messed up and can justify an even more thorough review of anything that goes on the device.

Some apps don't require any meaningful permissions and if run in an appropriate sandbox should not require any review at all.

Some users are technically inclined and would like to run whatever code they want on their device, including code that modifies the operating system and code they wrote themselves.

There is no one size fits all. A system that pretends otherwise satisfies no one.
I have the same problem. I use Google home for voice interface to home assistant. I switched from Alexa a few years ago because Google had more open options for integration. But the Google home has gotten much slower in response time. I still have an Alexa in the garage and it is so much faster. I have a Google home speaker in most rooms and it has gotten worse and worse at knowing which speaker to respond with. Sometimes I will be standing right next to one in the office but the one in the kitchen will respond saying it couldn't understand (because it's too fricken far away).

I'm beginning to wonder if it is actually hardware/microphone degradation because I can't imagine the software degrading so far and so gradually.
What is anybody supposed to do with this response? Is there a test you can take to rule out long-term negative side effects from psychedelics? If not, aren't you just rolling the dice one way or the other? Mightn't we not just act as if there's a particular mental health complication called "susceptibility to long-term negative side effects of LSD"?
This is interesting but all of the site content reads like it was written by AI.

It is verbose and doesn’t sound like an actual person. Consider just editing it down by half and reading it out loud to see if it seems like something you would actually write.
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A number of the side effects listed here are also known to happen on the "waking up" journey. Tinnitus, for example, is a thing we all have that our brain filters out for the most part. Depersonalization is an obvious (and sought after) side effect of "waking up" as well.

These side effects can be scary to someone that doesn't anticipate them (or just doesn't want them), but the "benefits" of LSD often point to the loosening of your sense of self, seeing unfiltered reality, etc.

TLDR: these side effects can be seen as good in the right context.
I’ve noticed a troubling trend among psychonauts: any reports of terrible experiences or long lasting negative effects of psychedelics are waved away in two different ways:

1 - blaming of the person who had the experience, for not having the proper “set and setting”, or not respecting the drug.

2 - claiming that there’s no such thing as a “bad trip”, and only a challenging one that takes time to integrate.

There might be some truth to both of those things, but I think it vastly undersells how incredibly destabilizing a “bad trip” can be.

The primary thing I learned from spending an eternity in hell on two of my trips? That it’s absurd how much suffering the human mind is capable of experiencing. A few years later and I can no longer feel much of the trauma of the experience, but there were months were I would just lay there feeling the aftershocks of the seemingly unending emotional pain I had experienced.

Currently I feel that there’s nothing about life or myself that I can learn on drugs that I can’t learn in other (safer) ways.

I’m glad people have massively positive experiences on drugs, but I worry that we’re underselling the risks when we just say “just check your set and setting, and remember that there’s no such thing as a ‘bad trip’, just a challenging one”.
Is rooftop solar used mostly to power air conditioning and lighting cost-effective for large stores?
Sorry. This is an ignorant take. It's not about regularly doing the drugs + therapy with a drug is different from people taking a drug for fun.
Is psychedelic addiction even a thing? Anyway, people who aren't addicts do it too.
Many people do use cannabis for mood enhancement, though that a) might not work, and b) might lead to dependence.
>As soon as they added a way to receive money, customers paid, it's visible on the graph.

Some customers paid. What I'm saying is there are a significant number who could pay but won't and the harder you make the piracy the smaller that number will be.
Capitalism also kills a lot of people, but it has a better UX, as it mostly kills people that are invisible to us.
This was the only reason I got a Tesla instead of literally any other EV brand. I make frequent trips between the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Electrify America is now an alternative, but it's not as reliable when it comes to availability and uptime.
But its not really.

Sure it seems so when you start. K&R and away you go, that programming is a lot easier than writing rust sure.

But unless you are writing for just yourself, no current C software get developed that way. You need to understand C standard, that is quite complex and you need to understand it in detail because of undefined behavior (and of course how your compiler interprets it and sometimes fight with compiler to emit right code).

Then you needed to know all the gotchas in the standard library, and how you properly use them. Then you need to know how to do basic arithmetic without having undefined behavior (that's where a lot of memory leaks happen). Or maybe the software you are working on has created their own implementation of most of those functions, so you need to figure how to use those. Even to just print out a debug statement can sometimes be nontrivial.

And of course you need a way to compile the damn thing, just figuring out what sane options you need to use to get decent warnings and what they mean takes a while.

And when you figure all of that out, you still need to keep track of most of the stuff that borrow checker does, but this time by hand using comments and conventions (that you also need to learn for each project.)

(I left out whole build setup, but its usually harder than Rust one too. )

I believe that programmer who has only programmed java or maybe C# before (or python, js...) will get up too up to speed faster on Rust than on C on most real-world projects

C is deceptively simpler.
Can you describe what it is and why you made it?
> If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers.
I’ve done similar. I’ve actually smoked many cigarettes but I’ve never bought nicotine myself. I’ve seen both of my parents piss away thousands of dollars and years of their lives to cigarettes, but damn a hit of a vape can be fun with friends
how many cpus or gpus would it take to find the answer within 1 year?
> That means mapping out charging stations in a comprehensive, thoughtful way … not leaving it to the whims of the commercial sector, … It will require cities to develop plans for how and where to locate public chargers

I spoke at public hearing last year in favor of an EV ordinance that my city passed. I believe that if we are to involve government with EV adoption, which is necessary, we need to be prepared for backlash and controversy, and it will require non-insignificant effort to arrive at consensus required for government action. After the ordinance was passed I exited the council chambers and I was approached by a middle aged woman who identified her self as a property developer. She told me how unfair the code amendments were because of how much it was going to cost her business. I told her that solutions like this are necessary because people are concerned with range anxiety. She responded that she was concerned with “regulatory anxiety” and the encroachment of government, and briefly grabbed my shoulder during her tirade. After that I quietly and uneventfully left the area.

I realized that if people are edging into getting physical with a small city ordinance that requires developers to provide limited charging stations for EVs, our civilization is woefully unprepared to address climate change, which will require reforms to many institutions, and the retirement of others. We need to make big changes in a lot of areas, and I don’t see the leadership, technical expertise, and outreach required to do that.
> It's only in huge quantities that they are a problem.

This is the critical thing. People are really really bad at nuances like “harmless in small quantities, harmful in large”. People tend to want to argue whether X is good or bad in a totally contextless abstract, like sports fans taking fandom too far.

HN doesn’t seem better than reddit or fox news in this respect. It seems to be fundamental to human nature. And yes, I know I do it as well. Such a frustrating bug in human cognition.
Work for a few years, go to community college and then a state university. This freedom is available regardless of one's ability to borrow.
> ...a synonym of "to hack it" in English

So HN might as well be called "System D News" in an alternate universe...
I’ve kind of solved this. You can snap windows but you need to add a shortcut in systems to do it. It’s not perfect, but it does work and overtime you miss it less and less