skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it be possible to provide some of these studies?

Whenever I look I can only find reference to long term exposure, and meta-studies reviewing more moderate use seem to show minimal, if any, issues, e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976341...

To my knowledge, the one study that people held up as showing damage from MDMA usage after a single dose was later retracted, as they had mixed up the vials of MDMA and methamphetamine. They were never able to replicate the results after resolving this mistake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retracted_article_on_dopaminer...

Disclaimer: I have taken MDMA a couple of times over the years, though I have never particularly enjoyed the experience and have never considered doing it regularly.
You can write a web application in any language using any library that does 7m rps
Less YouTube for me then. I’ve already almost entirely stopped visiting Twitter. Good riddance
The only dumb thing the Mets did was invest the money with Madoff. 36 mil was worth a lot more in 1999 than it is now, and even more than it will be in 2035. However, there's pretty much no chance Bonilla would have gotten the contract at all unless he agreed to this insane deferral structure. So he was still a winner in that regard.

In any case, it was a great deal for the Mets except that they got scammed and actually lost all the money they thought they were going to make by deferring payments.
If I had given my money to a company for a product and not heard back from them for a year and a half, my thought process for sure wouldn't be "maybe I should preorder the next version".

It's Panic, it's not some unknown two person company operating out of a back alley in Shenzhen.

Reputation matters.

Panic is known for producing high quality products (among the highest quality, considering the state of the rest of the tech industry), and was very upfront about shipping issues even before orders opened at the height of the pandemic.
Need an email or something to send it to. Otherwise you could just lose it to someone else if I just paste the invite code here.
But these are "significant problems with the code" which evidently can't be fixed by simply reverting relevant changes. In that case, it seems more likely to me that these are due to long-standing issues which would have caught up to the company sooner or later.
Should Armin Meiwes have been imprisoned for killing and eating a voluntary victim?
This is really amazing work! Is it still ongoing/funded?
Mama ŠČ!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36370684
Do you mean false?
> The number one driver of size in cars has been safety - either mandated or just perceived.

Yeah, and what will change about this trend? Do you think all of a sudden people will want cars perceived as unsafe? If bigger is perceived as safer, bigger is what we'll get. People will just get bigger and bigger cars, up to the limit of lane widths, parking spot lengths, etc.

> I suspect that, if anything, with abundant energy cars might become cheaper or made using more exotic materials like CFRP or anything borrowed from Formula 1.

Ok, bigger and lighter up to a point. But guess what, car engineers will just use the weight budget to add seat heaters and coolers, 20 subwoofers, etc.

> When oil prices rallied last year I saw an increase of gas-guzzlers on parking lots with a large FOR SALE sticker, but I'm not entirely sure the converse is true.

We've seen this before with the 70s oil crisis. Car sizes went down, then as soon as times were perceived as good or prosperous, car sizes went up.

The VW Golf of 2023 (compact European hatchback) is bigger than the VW Passat of 1973 (mid-sized sedan).
This explains why I can't connect to it with Mullvad anymore.
> This is the fundamental tradeoff. What you are asking for cannot be done and still be federated. Sorry.

Can't you use a torrent-like discovery system for users?
> The US has about 4T of foreign exchange reserves

Source? Wikipedia puts it at $250bn. The US has liquidated most of its reserves in recent years.
My doc is great at medicine, knows fuck-all about tripping.
All these people knew about it but didn't make any public warnings?

The pilot is somewhat aware but says nothing to the customers?
This is healthy but some of us find themselves in a position where caring about the company has tangential benefits like bonuses, stock options, que promotions and other objectives with a well defined incentive for you to personally care about it.
We had/have case back home in our rather primitive country re this, where former professional athlete started having joint issues in later age. He started growing hemp/weed for his own use, I guess he crossed 0.7% threshold for THC. He made ointments and tinctures for him, and you can't do that with 1 plant, not for serious use during whole year.

They caught him, and they are trying him like some mob kingpin, facing decades in jail and IIRC he got such sentence. EU country. Former olympic representant of our country, self medicating since current medicine can't treat him well enough.

Kill a person in cold blood, rape a child or two and you get maybe 1/3rd of that sentence. Fuck that place, never coming back.
One of the breaking of "what we thought for granted" things from core wayland is... there is no vblank.
This is because some modern hardware do not have such thing (in "mobile" land).

If the hardware provides the luxuary of "presentation" (~vblank) control, an application has to query the appropriate "presentation" wayland interface... namely the application must not expect this interface to be around.

You can see that in vulkan3d with its presentation queue: you post your pixels and forget about it (but there are extra presentation interface beyond the core interface like in wayland).

It through away everything many knew about rendering timing... for very good reasons, aka not planned obsolescence. This is why many are "wtf" about core wayland. Yes, we reached a point in software where innovation means removing and simplifying, not adding and complexifying.

The cherry on top: it makes the wayland core interfaces sooo much simpler, one dev can quickly have a working alternative implementation, and grow it step by step with luxuary extra interfaces.

I say that, I am still running good old native x11, because I game on elf/linux (#noproton), but the second the steam client drops its 32bits legacy code and have a working wayland backend, I start to code my own wayland compositor, probably based on the drm/vulkan one from valve deck, but in plain and simple C, or straight to x86_64 assembly (lurking on RISC-V ofc, since porting modern assembly ISAs is brutal but far from being hard).
Agreed. Strange how it made front page. With only 6 point no less.
I’d be curious what changes people are making to their routine to cope with a service like Octopus Agile.

I have a fairly extensive smart home setup so toggling devices off during peaks is easy, negotiating with the wife is going to be more challenging.
Very disappointed. Was expecting to find an Android powering a Lotus Esprit S1.
*Any web dev remember Coda?*

Yep. And I still pop open Coda 2 when I have some random slice of HTML to validate.

I used Coda on my iPad until a year ago, and still use Transmit (iOS and Mac daily) and Prompt (iOS monthly).
Make it illegal to advertise, make it illegal to ask for paid subscriptions.
Paul Lockhart wrote a great book called Measurement, about this and similar questions. I highly recommend it if you're interested in the topic.
Also 500 for me. This is almost a joke.

At least if it's blocking me from viewing the tweet's comments, returns me some decent messages. But no, just a plain "Something went wrong." like a hackathon page.
There’s Samuel Slater (the traitor). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater

He was the most spectacular but hardly an isolated case. https://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/trade-secrets-intellectual-pir...
Youtube must restore interoperability for noscript/basic (x)html browsers.
Ask HN: App and input device recommendations for someone with ALS
My friend has recently been diagnosed with ALS. His symptoms started about 8 months ago. The disease has progressed heartbreakingly quick, to the point where it's getting harder for him to use his phone and laptop. For example, pinch-to-zoom in Maps is now pretty much impossible, and he mentioned that he is only able to use one finger typing.

Does anyone have any suggestions in terms of both hardware - mice, keyboard and other input devices for a Windows laptop - and software - apps to make navigating his Android (Samsung S22) phone easier?
> If you have internal honeypots then failed attempts to compromise them should be ignored and they should be AD joined (long topic)

Would you mind elaborating a bit on this?
Then you'll probably appreciate the following info. You have commented excessively on HN over the years. If you have done any publicly accessible writing with your real name attached, then it is quite easy to find out who you are by correlating writing styles. (If you don't have done so publicly then at least your employer will be able to do that using all internal writing on one hand and all your HN contributions on the other.)

Sounds far fetched, but it's really not that hard. Quite recently somebody hacked this for correlating HN accounts with each other and found alt accounts of people with high accuracy. Which people confirmed. And that wasn't even a serious attempt, just a little hack on a sunday night.

In a sense, it's all too late now since all your writing is already out there. But could be good to know for the future.
Back in 2017 the German BND was revealed to have a history with that: https://netzpolitik.org/2017/secret-documents-reveal-german-...
There are already tons of legal forms of escapism, which is exactly what psychedelics are, so I fail to see why it's so imperative that they become more socially accepted.

I've also tried my fair share of psychedelics and find it completely laughable that people try to raise them up as these spiritual or therapeutic tools. Just because they make you hallucinate does not mean they "open up your mind" or make you think any more critically than alcohol or other drugs.
Wasn't that also the way Word used to dump structs onto disc in the "doc" days? I think I read that way also a major problem in writing converters, you baobab needed to decode Word's internal data structures which were of course undocumented.
Just after Sabine’s
Hi Noel!

Yeah, Racket is faster than Python normally.
It's my first thought too, but I never developed an intuitive understanding of why the integral of x^2 is (x^3)/3 (even though I know it is by heart).
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C, C#, C++, Dart, Elixir, Elm, Erlang, F#, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lua, Nim, Objective-C, PHP, Perl, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, TypeScript
I'm not here to bash C, okay maybe a smidge, but yes other languages do have gotchas and weird ugly creepies. Some of the ones that scare me...

The '-->' nonoperator.

Defining structs in a function declaration gives me the creeps. Same goes for the nested struct definition interpretation like come on.
Void pointers in general stress me out. That's one I knew about before reading this. Makes bookkeeping hard.

I get that C is basically sugar around ASM. I have respect for it. At the same time, it feels so hazardous to write. Everytime I think I know enough I stumble on some weird UB landmine, or find some bizarre library that despite understanding 99% of the code the remaining 1% conceals everything I care about.

The quirks in many other languages can be rough, but I feel like Cs leave developers in a scarier place given the risk factors
I think GP means that at least you aren't dealing with a SaaS middleman that _also_ may intercept your code or claim authorship of the conversion.
I think you need to look deeper. The case went back to trial multiple times after that and in the last case, HiQ was found to be in the wrong.

The court ruled for hiQ and the right to do web scraping. However, the Supreme Court, based on its Van Buren v. United States decision, vacated the decision and remanded the case for further review in June 2021. In a second ruling in April 2022 the Ninth Circuit affirmed its decision. In a November 2022 ruling the Ninth Circuit ruled that hiQ had breached LinkedIn's User Agreement and a settlement agreement was reached between the two parties.[0]

Practically speaking, though, the dispute had essentially reached its logical end with the last court ruling in November – hiQ had prevailed on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) “unauthorized access” issue related to public website data but was facing a ruling that it had breached LinkedIn’s User Agreement due to its scraping and creation of fake accounts (subject to its equitable defenses).[1]

So basically, it’s not criminal under the CFAA. Thank god. But that’s just one specific law that doesn’t apply. It still is a breach of contract and various forms of damages and injunctive relief can be found against scrapers. If the two conditions are met that I wrote several posts ago, any business based on scraping sites that have the money and motivation to find relief through the courts will be untenable. That business would find that it cannot sustain itself against repeated court actions taken against it.

ToS != law, only in the very strictest naive sense. There are plenty of laws which deal with what happens once you agree to a contract and then breach the contract. Once you agree to the ToS, you have to deal with the legal framework of business law as it applies to contracts.

If, for example, OpenAI wants to scrape Twitter in violation of the ToS, Twitter could find relief in the form of “specific performance” where the court requires OpenAI to remove all that information from its training dataset and retrain ChatGPT again. Twitter could also get damages for the times that ChatGPT served customers with the infringing model. If OpenAI didn’t fully remove the data, it would be exposed to escalating damages in the form of contempt of court remedies.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

1: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/hiq-and-linkedin-reach-...
I'm not a fan of Zuck, but Elon and Spez have worked really hard to become even more unlikeable and detestable than Zuckerberg, that's a huge feat.
Does anybody write "a"? I certainly don't, I can't even really guess what would be the correct hand movement to easily include the tail. Do a reversed s then up down?
That’s true. But that still doesn’t mean that these “audiophiles” aren’t full of themselves
It also means you can't share files between little endians and big endians.
+1 for Cloudfree. I don't know much about IoT but I bought 5 of their plugs and they literally took under a minute to get set up and running. Another few minutes to get data off of them and into Influx Cloud using Python.

I wish more manufacturers provided this sort of thing!
Just go with national / global pool for the denominator. There are about 4 million high school graduation age children in the usa. Probably about 80-100 million world wide. About 20000 ivy league spots per year. So you need to be about one of 5 in a 1000 in the usa. Maybe 1 in a 1000 globally after adding global equivalents of us Ivy League schools. basically top 0.1 to 0.5 %.
Seems most likely, either by academics or government.

Not really the most subtle way about it though and likely to face some response.

I'd assume both have the capability to run a fairly accurate simulated network without anyone noticing so it's a bit strange.
Endless CVEs
I don't think there's nearly enough data available to posit it one way or the other - anything we say is almost certainly going to be purely anecdotal.

My anecdotal experience has been that the vast majority of people who have used DMT have not felt like a "new person", and the few that have, have felt so in a positive way.
Would Musk really lose $40 billion (or is it $46b), if he dumps Twitter? He could sell it to someone, Microsoft for example, at a loss e.g. $25b or $30b, which covers the loans, and write off the rest.

That said, his historical pattern is not to sell out so quickly, but rather to keep iterating until he and his team get it right.
Fly Brain Connectome
> First they transliterate it as “kh”, where “h” is enough in practice.

That one caught me off guard when I saw Kherson mentioned for the first time.
I just want a model which will be capable of understanding actually anything…
Are there alternate tools that you believe can achieve improved critical thinking or “opening up your mind.”
Hey, just from personal experience, don't smoke fake vapes. I ended up in the hospital with a golf ball sized ...thing... blocking my esophagus, which was initially thought to be cancer, and I was told I had 3 months to live, but it turned out to be a reaction to some shit in an unmarked vape from China. I lost a lot of weight. This was about 10 years ago when basically all vapes were sketchy and off-brand, and I thought it was a great idea to quit smoking and become an early adopter. I'm completely fine now and back to cigarettes. Seriously, don't inhale it if you have any doubts as to its origin.

Oh but like per your question... who's gonna defend anyone from an unscrupulous butcher selling someone cat meat, and stuff, Like, no one. That's how it is everywhere else in the world. Amazon is just a rampant zoo of it all in one place, exposing all this deadly garbage to naive first worlders for the first time... but it's just backwash.
I should really start reading the HN comments before opening the article, it would save a lot of time
Differentiation is high pass filtering? How so? Is low pass filtering followed by high pass filtering the same as leaving a signal unchanged?
Lithium Scarcity Pushes Carmakers into the Mining Business
I'm unconvinced the majority of people are like this, but the type of person who becomes a moderator will be, it's self selection. This happens in every community on any subject matter, I've seen moderators on power trips in phpBB forums 20 years ago, it's nothing new.

The type of person who we want as moderator don't want to be moderators. A real decentral solution needs to give power and sovereignty to the users and take it away from admins and moderators. Some group of elite privileged few federated servers with all the power, demonstrates how worthless Lemmy and fediverse are.
Another angle on this:

As it is know, Uber - and some other heavily-capitalized firms (BigTech or otherwise) - use Zig (at least) for "straightforward" C++ compilation.

- What about asking your managers to seriously fund the Zig project?

It's only fair from all the value you're getting from it. And, then, reinventing an important part of the huge wheel that's LLVM wouldn't be such a seemingly unfeasible tall order.
I feel that for this to be really viable, Rust would have to allow references that consume less memory (like 8-bit or 16-bit pointers).
Relatively speaking it's undeniable that the US has been the most "friendly" "empire" or "super power" in World history. That doesn't mean it's never done anything wrong.
That's better than my current life insurance policy.
Might also depend on how it’s enforced. The blocks in Austria basically do not exist because they are only done by carrier DNS servers. Use 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 and you would not know.
Hi Jens! :)
If you're itching to invite someone, feel free to send one to stefan+hn@heystefan.com :)
...wild guesses as in extending them, that is.

Of course, GCC could be brought in, and compiled with Zig ;)
I don’t know about Bonilla personally, but this payment structure is a good way to protect athletes from themselves. 70% of professional athletes in the US have financial hardships shortly after they retire. (1) 70%!!! After making millions of dollars. The article goes into details but it’s basically because they go from lower class to elite class instantly and start spending it at an alarming rate without any education on good investment strategies. A good example of this structure actually working is Allen Iverson and his Reebok contract, which pays him $800k a year for 35 years. It’s the only money he has left after blowing through > $100M of his NBA earnings.

(1) https://yourmoneyvehicle.com/mindset/why-pro-athletes-retire....
(2) https://thelibertyline.com/2022/06/08/allen-iverson-reebok-t....
They had this calibration on PCs decades ago
I've recently come to the realisation that this happens in the streets too.

Every shop in my town is shouting at you to come in a buy crap with flashy signs and displays. Then recently I was in Münster (Germany) where they have some old-school facades for most shops that includes standardised lettering and zero advertisements. Its so much nicer.
Not when they are built by Chinese companies, using Chinese sourced labour and supplies, and then the locals are taxed / billed to use them which many can't afford to begin with. Not to mention the governments now owing that loan money plus interest, none of which really went into the local economy.

Not arguing against China, nor infrastructure projects, but B&R initiative is very China-centric, with a lot caveats that are often overlooked by short-sighted politicians.
So his employer invested money that would normally have gone towards Bonilla's paycheck into a Ponzi scheme... but instead of losing everything as a result (which is what would have happened to 99.99% of employees), Bonilla will end up with five times the original salary.

Always enlightening to get a glimpse into how things work for those at the top.
Limited time? Congrats, Lol with a full time job I didn't have time to do anything.
I would appreciate one! mail at laura.fm
I don't think there is a simple answer to this. I agree that we cannot wish for a world in which nothing can ever be taken down. I guess we're just going to have to find the right balance.

But right now something very conerning is happening in western democracies that threatens to shift the balance very far in an authoritarian direction. And leaning on centralised platforms is at the centre of it.

Platforms are no longer just told "here's this revenge porn video, it's illegal, take it down!". If proposed laws are actually passed it will be more like "if people are discussing stuff on your platform, you better make sure no one comes to harm or else!"

In my view this is a sea change. Pretty soon we may no longer be able to discuss a wide range of subjects on mainstream platforms (such as psychological or health issues for instance). Kids in particular will be severely restricted in who they can talk to about what. In some cases it may prevent harm. In other cases it could be catastrophic.

If the balance moves so dramatically in one direction, I think it is ony reasonable to think about how to mitigate the effects of this to preserve some freedoms and escape hatches. The efforts I see are very very feeble anyway compared to the full force of what we are facing politically.

In my view, no control should ever be total, even if on the whole we cannot wish for a total loss of control.
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You need U+2044 FRACTION SLASH.
Conclusion?
>I mean if that works, sure. But what happens in the future if you latch onto some other insecurity? Will you just take a psychedelic again? Is that going to actually fix the problem?

If taking a psychedelic on occasion is effective in combating people's insecurities that is almost certainly one of the most massive wins in the history of mental health.

I don't think it's nearly that simple but I am baffled by the idea of "taking a psychedelic cured you of this issue so what are you gonna do if you have another issue, cure it with another psychedelic, huh?" being some sort of negative thing.
Jack has embraced Nostr, not BlueSky. His Twitter profile links to Nostr and he has over 9,500 posts there, compared to 256 on BlueSky. The most recent BlueSky posts are from May, and include petty griping about the app that are not the sort of things someone who was de facto in charge of it would say.