skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An adult who undergoes this kind of treatment to heal PTSD could, in the wrong hands, end up traumatized further.

There's a lot of variables there. I can only speak to my experience. I started seeing psychedelics getting talked about in veterans circles and was curious about them. My trauma stems from many sources, but what's common is a lost of innate trust, and the end result is that trust is easier to tear down quickly than build up. Not great for healthy relationships, communication, and a number of life's necessities. I decided to wait on trying them and went about doing things like CBT to change my behavior and focus on getting out of this anxiety riddled loop I was in.

Fast forward a decade and I was really at a point where I just needed help letting go of my trauma. I'd dealt with it, there was nothing more to be done, yet still the door would not shut. If you're at a place where the metaphorical door won't shut, psychedelics can be a helpful tool. You're really going to already need to be in a place where you can be mindful (present) and focus on what you want to change. After you've tripped you really need to unpack where your mind went and why; that's to say separate the garbage from the work to be done.

Not everyone should do psychedelics just because they're seeking healing. They can provide that, but you need to be in the right place and willing to do the work. Being triggered in the middle of a trip is a good way to really re-traumatize yourself in the way that reading about trauma identical to yours can be traumatizing.
I didn't read it like that at all, more that he doesn't have a major commitment that a lot of people do.
> At the end of it all I probably lean toward lab leak simply because it just feels like it makes sense

This is how I see it too. You have a lab that was world famous for coronavirus research, that happens to be in the same city as ground zero for a coronavirus pandemic, and the government of the country that city belongs to hide, obfuscate and destroy the information they have, particularly to do with the early emergence of the virus, from the rest of the world.

Occam's razor.
This is actually a great example that justifies reddit's push to allow communities to remove their moderators if they are doing things so egregiously abusive to the community.
That argument is often used in bad faith/FUD by the big players themselves to halt any regulation attempts.

Regulations can be adapted to affect only the companies that reach X percentage in sales or in market share. The EU's Digital Markets Act does precisely this, for instance.

The regulators can let smaller players grow and thrive, and regulate them once they've exceeded a certain threshold.
There’s definitely a difference between leaking secret information to the public, and keeping it yourself to use for your own purposes. Without getting into which one is worse, surely you can see they’re not really comparable.

If Donald Trump had declassified the docs and shared them publicly, we would be having a totally different conversation, and he wouldn’t be under federal indictment.
"It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises."
He’s not talking about reducing the minimum toil. He’s talking about artificially limiting the maximum.

People that want to work 12 hour days should be allowed to.
This is all fun and games until you burn out. Even ancient Greeks already knew that modesty is the way to go.
The output (generally speaking, not specific to money markets) is better prices. There are large scale examples of economies in which prices were mismanaged either due to lack of information/technology or centrally planned prices, some of which resulted in failed states (e.g. Venezuela and the Soviet Union). While providing market information signals via prices is certainly an abstract concept that most people will never appreciate, it is important regardless.

For complex instruments in money markets, the main effects are bridging mis-priced treasuries on different time frames and hedging against various outcomes for pensions, banks, and dealers in physical commodities.

Most of the complex stuff either serves one of those purposes or becomes a zero sum game that doesn't affect non-participants. It's important to judge each instrument by its purpose and mechanism rather than bunch everything as a way to make bankers richer (e.g. a future vs. a CDO).
It's threatening to equality (wealth disparity) and also social/cultural values (aka work vs. family/neighborhood/community/etc.). These are all important equities, as is enabling high performers to work well. It is apparently difficult to find the right cultural balance that enables maximum achievement and all the rest, too.

I disagree with any top-down pressures to "solve" this tension.
Your viewpoint here is kinda weird?

The more something trades, the more likely we will have the right price. When things don't trade as much, we don't actually know what that thing is worth.

This concept is a benefit to society as many things are interconnected and correlated, so the more accurate we can quickly find the current price (and expected future price) the more we can evaluate value.

(Also, they aren't "siphoning money" really it's "value" because the contract isn't actually money)
> Also, it turns out that this area was already well understood. There are no free lunches with entropy.

If I ever go mad and I breach the 'crankpot line' this will be it. There is something in entropy that I just can't fully grasp even though I understand (or I can convince myself that I do) Shannon, Kolmogorov etc.
He was interviewed by YC’s Jessica Livingston recently where he puts on quite the act.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steve-huffman-co-found...
I feel like a lot of people are only reading your question and not the rest of your message.

The problem with what you're describing creates a lot of duplication of effort, while also creating this weird community that's fragmented yet all in one place, and also creates a lot of work for moderators.

Using reddit as an example, say you have a game, with a dedicated subreddit for it at /r/game. A lot of people decide they don't want it filled with shitty memes, the moderators have everyone take a vote, and they decide to spin off memes to /r/game_memes.

It sounds like your example would instead rely on people basically choosing specific moderators to curate the sub, and you only see the results of actions taken from moderators you "subscribe" to, effectively. This would rely on moderators having to manually watch the sub for memes, and if a mod sees a meme, they remove it, and if you're not subscribed to an anti-meme moderator, you would not see the result, and would still see the meme.

Can you not see a problem with this setup?

You're relying on moderators to flag the memes. You could let users flag the memes on their own, but then you get people abusing flags.

It's best to just let moderators be what they really are -- not curators, but janitors. Moderators keep a community clear of abuse and spam. Yes, some subreddit moderators have extreme power trips and ban people for the stupidest shit, but there's not much you can do about it. Your solution just creates a ton of extra work.
> the management at the time didn’t want to change the process…

Every time I see something like this it makes me want to scream. This is not how you develop software, setting all implementations in stone. Ugh
Well, a decent number of people have been hit by it, from the looks of it. I just got to spend a bit of my morning re-deleting things.

How much have you deleted, an odd post, or do you have an auto-deleter?
It certainly exists/works, but is it productive? With my time using Tamagui I would go with no.

There are just so many traps everywhere. 99% of it isn't your fault, just the name of the fragile RN game. Install another package here to handle one use case on one platform, avoid this component on one platform because RN doesn't support this thing, entire blocks of very simple styles commented out due to performance cost. List goes on. It's a never-ending game of your codebase feeling horribly fragile, and that's if you remain within the RN = Android and iOS realm. As soon as you start trying to get it to be truly cross platform with desktop apps - endless nightmares.

I so desperately want cross-platform development to feel as smooth as people proclaim, but it's really like playing russian roulette with every new component added. At the end, you question if it was really worth it due to how much you've had to rewrite anyways. You become sort of delirious after working on a project that uses such solutions, wondering if you traded user experience for developer experience and wound up messing both up in the long run.

Beautiful site/docs though.
Speaking of Rust UI, do you have any favorites? I've been casually watching for a long time but haven't seen a clear winner there besides Iced or egui.
No. The GPTs are very impressive but they're quite far from being clever enough for that, and they're not great at coming up with new ideas either. They're much better at remixing existing ideas.
That’s exactly what I did when I’ve experimented with it teaching me how to make a watchOS app (with me having zero iOS and Swift experience), but the issue us that it started to “forget” what we have talked about.

It helped me to bootstrap the project and pointed out at some APIs I needed, but then it was a constant fight for code quality. I wanted proper actor abstraction (because I was dealing with Bluetooth, even if I don’t know the language I can see the patterns) and it just loved to write code in style of some cheapest-grade “how to use CoreBluetooth in Swift for dummies” blog articles.
I hear this often, but you don't need to surface the output of an LLM as chat

I made https://notionsmith.ai and technically it's "chat based", but the user isn't exposed to 99% of the chatting: the only chat interface on the site is there more as a bonus feature than anything.
There is nothing new here in principle. The difference is that before, you had to convince GPT-4, with cleverly crafted prompts and/or parameter tricks, to ask you to do something for it. What we have now is in principle the same, except OpenAI picked a specific format for GPT-4 (and GPT-3.5) to make requests to you, and fine-tuned the hell out of the model so it's much more eager to use it, and much better at incorporating it into its "reasoning".
Scratch is ECMAScript with a GUI. Snap is practically Scheme with a GUI. You do yourself a disservice discounting either of these as a CS language. You wouldn't build big general-purpose programs with them for their limited domain and programming ergonomics, true, but you aren't building big general-purpose programs in high school.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/31/chelsea-mann...
Tell that to the cannabis is laws.
I don't know. But your post just made me feel a bit uneasy - in a good way. thanks.
OnePlus was a nobody when they launched the OnePlus One in 2014. They could have easily gone out of business.

And that's one that got big enough to remember them. Wikipedia lists 188 mobile phone manufacturers [1]. A lot of them very local (e.g. EvertekTunisie making phones for Tunisia and Morocco) or defunct; But even my local (German) retailer offers 35 brands. Big ones like Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi, budget brands like Oppo or ZTE, niche brands like CAT or Beafon. It's a crowded market that doesn't seem particularly hard to enter.

And judging by the spotty compatibility of LineageOS they don't all use the same hardware either.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mobile_phone_manufact...
Yeah, NotAracham from Miraheze was really helpful and pointed me to this page: https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:NotAracham/Wiki_Recovery... but I went through it and it doesn't seem like my wiki was captured on archive.org unfortunately. The .tar backups on archive.org only go up to 2021.
“Have you ever heard the story of the 36 tzaddikim? They say that the world rests on the backs of 36 living saints—36 unselfish men and women. Because of them the world continues to exist.

They are the secret kings and queens of this world.”

— Death, The Sandman, issue 31, Three Septembers and a January (1991)
Honestly, what absurd straw man is this? Who talked about "the gobmint" or "confiscating wealth". Honestly, it's not worth it having a conversation with someone who is clearly not arguing in good faith.

> As for Musk, if he didn't make a lot of money, SpaceX never would have been possible.

Sure, (1) every centibillionaire calculated that they would only do what they do if they got 100,000,000,000$ out of it, for (say) 50,000,000,000$ they wouldn't have gone through the trouble, and (2) no other human could possibly do what Elon Musk does[1]. Praise Space Jesus, hallowed be His name.

Give me a break...

[1] Hint: good marketeers are a dime a dozen.
I'm a casual daily/weekly user of reddit but rarely post and have never been a moderator. I only access the website via my desktop or mobile browser. I don't care about API prices per se.

However: this whole episode has left me with the impression that Reddit is a company hostile to its own users - that they don't care about putting users and user experience first. That makes me consciously want to cut down my usage and explore alternatives, because I trust the brand less than I did before.
Anyone know if someone is selling something similar?
I get paid in USDC for programming gigs and third party exchanges in Iran convert it to Rials for me.

The third party exchanges resell crypto to other Iranians who want to use it to buy sanctioned digital goods.

It is the widespread use of crypto that makes this possible if it wasn't mainstream then there wouldn't be a difference between getting paid in crypto and a Google Play gift card.
A few thousand words written by a human in a magazine feature is not "the enshittification of technology news". For those who want bullet point distillations of news, that exists in the form of Axios et al. Some of us like long form journalism. Both are fine. The real enshittification will be when the web is overrun with LLM bullshit of questionable veracity.
Agreed; perfect is the enemy of the good in this arena. We just need someone to do something first, to make it easier for the second group, and the third, who can then offer some improvement to the process without having to overcome the same level of NIMBY challenges.

NIMBY may not be the right acronym. Not In My Very Remote, Geologically Stable Bunker System.
OP comes from a perspective that the goal is for as many students as possible to succeed.

I don't believe in this in the context of high-school (where education is sort of mandatory). From what I've seen, in order to make content more engaging, correctness and coherence are the first to fly out of the window.

I'm not against teaching to program, but I'm against calling that "an introduction to CS", because that confuses students: they might think they've been introduced to CS, but they are usually given a practical skill vaguely related to CS + a number of superstitions about CS instead.

I think that CS can be taught as a bridge between language (especially in the sense how language grammar is taught) and geometry (in the way it's taught in high-school, where it's typically Euclidean geometry with emphasis on proofs). And it can be, and perhaps preferably should be taught w/o exposure to "practical" programming languages. Where "practical" programming languages may be an elective class, similar to how some high-schools have vocational training in say, truck driving, or plumbing etc.

If this were the case, those who find CS interesting would have a better idea of what's to come, should they continue on this path in a college, while those who found vocational training in programming more interesting would see themselves as continuing on a path to a trade school. And, eventually, this would help fix the confusion associated with naming and curriculum context. Present day situation is very confusing because industry needs programmers, but colleges know (sort of) how to make computer scientists, and trade schools teach college curriculum, just watered down. Also, college curriculum is littered with junk like "Intro to programming with Python / Java / etc. 101" that should never have existed, but exists because, in reality, those who went to college want to become programmers, not academics.
"floods your market with cheap food products (below cost)"

The hostile country will eventually go bankrupt because they are producing products below cost.
When I was taught statistics, this was regularly brought up as a big no-no in science. However, I read a guide to practical statistics that had a gem about predicting the stock market. If we discovered surges in the market correlated to newspaper sales, we wouldn't discard this as look-elsewhere. In fact, we'd follow newspaper sales very closely.

Predicting earthquakes has a big upside for humanity. If there is even a small correlation -- even if we don't yet understand it -- we can benefit from it.
Nah. That would be because one political party sustains itself by keeping it's voter base on a treadmill of fear and outrage, is moving strongly towards authoritarianism, and has a large contingent specifically intent on implementing a flavor of religious fascism called Dominionism (cf. "Seven Mountians Mandate").

These latest "topics in the culture wars" are simply that, the latest usable tools that can be used, along with exaggerating and flat-out lying about the topics, to maximize the outrage of their voter base to drive turnout.

Meanwhile, it also helps the authoritarian causes to maximize the demonization of these same "other" minority groups, and trans groups are both easy and fresh targets. (Nevermind the facts: there are essentially zero cases of people in drag being any kind of threat to children, while there are literally thousands of cases of religious 'leaders' from the very same sects, sexually abusing children, with new cases every day.)

Stop trying to normalize marginalizing people.
Thanks to the Liquid Cash Barrons of Ontario.
He addresses it on the post:

> Given two equally talented people, the one that pursues a goal obsessively, for well over 40 hours a week, is going to achieve more. They might be less happy and healthy, but I’m not even sure about that.

What worked for me and my current partner is being upfront about my career goals and the lengths I was willing to go to achieve them. I’ve now been in a strong relationship for 7+ years which is twice whatever I lasted with other partners who found me sometimes reserving a weekend to work/research a deal killer.
And shaving 0.3mm of the thickness!
Defederation wars is not the solution. There needs to be finer grained tools. But I don't have any good answers.
In technical support, the ability to route around the differences in world view between yourself and the user is quite a valuable skill.

Q: "Have you installed any software lately?"
A: "no"

Q: "Do you have any new programs?"
A: "oh yeah, my nephew put this new game in"

Figuring this out takes a while to do, but you eventually get very good at it. (Installing is something you do with hardware, in their minds... like installing a dishwasher, air conditioner, etc.)

Also: The ability to remember that the computer/program/system is just a tool, to help the user get their job done.
Sure. Mr Musk's companies have accrued billions upon billions on federal subsidies. The billionaire class also pays less taxes than any other income bracket in the country. Maybe start the "fiscal discipline" there instead of disability payments or public schools?
> Why is it that every time someone mentions futures trading

They didn't just mentioned, they had an outsider negative take on it.

The best way is to respond with simple examples.

> What about the crops they destroy because they would be less profitable? Does the protection against monetary risk outweigh starving people to death? How well will it work if we create unsustainable land that the farmers can no longer grow crops on?

How does futures trading cause these negatives? If anything, trading reduces these risks. Countries with markets have large bounties as opposed to those that don't.

It is not a zero sum game.
Why even launch the weapons? Have them in beautiful crystal palaces in remote locations. Detonate them on your own soil.
Yeah, it's kind of crazy how these mods just think they own the subreddits. Like, fuck the communities, I'm upset and I'm going to take my toys home.

To be honest, I'd love for reddit to enhance a community's ability to control it's subreddit without needing to cede full control to some power hungry basement dweller.
Probably not, but then that hypothesis should not be part of the experiment.
I have no idea why they decided to do that's or even whether that was on purpose. But I don't think it's impossible, yes.
>The conclusion that disposal is needed and that deep geologic disposal is the scientifically preferred approach

The parent post didn't say that burying the waste wasn't the scientifically preferred approach. Disposal is only needed if you create it in the first place.
spez is the crown prince of reddit
The EU isn't making good regulation, they don't have any tech companies and are just attempting to make it illegal to make anything in a fit of pique. The end result may be nobody selling phones there anymore.

Europe has an unhealthy culture of naturalistic hippiedom, so this is just the same thing that causes Germany to shut down nuclear power.

(If you think this one's good, try combining it with their six other giant laws you haven't heard of some of which conflict with this.)
It is an interesting reframe to think of insurance as a, roughly, ATM put.

Having some experience with both trading derivatives and gambling though, I’m fairly confident saying that it’s a distinction without a difference. In both cases a little guy with an understanding of risk and bankroll management and some aptitude for the game, which for trading is a Keynesian beauty pageant, can scrape up a few bucks. But most people are going to be fish for the house. The derivative markets are providing exactly the same service as casinos, albeit with considerably higher limits and opportunities for crafting complex bets.
It is entirely possible that Reddit's CEO compensation is structured so that any chance at valuation doubling, no matter how unlikely, is worth far more to him than his opportunity cost upon valuation halving, no matter how likely.

(in general, if outside investors look for properly aligned incentives, the mathematics of diversification suggests they will arrange for individual portfolio companies to each be run far more riskily than they want their portfolio in aggregate to perform)
I hope they don't. Because some people aren't getting the picture. Reddit has shown they will lie and deceive to sell the company. Everyone that wants to go back is inviting more abuse and helping a jerk fatten the pig for slaughter. Better that we experience the pain and move towards a better, federated future.

But I guess if not now, it will happen eventually. When Tencent owns a majority, or when reddit restaffs mods, or gives subs over to companies, or keeps making millions of people see condescending patronizing Jesus ads from an openly homophobic organization (oh wait that's already happening...).
Yeah I think they can set a general price, but for big hitters like Apollo they figure out what makes sense.

So yeah, I agree reddit is probably just trying to get rid of the app competition. I just can't believe any serious analysis led them to think this was the right pricing.
"Poor imitations" is probably harsh, but I agree with the idea that LiveView's architecture is substantially different from Hotwire or LiveWire. To have experienced Hotwire is not to have experienced LiveView, ironically enough, for reasons outlined in the posted article.
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