skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! These are interesting.

Couple of notes I made from my first perusal.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181923

They point out that they showed neurotoxicity in animal studies with doses higher than those typically for recreational users. In studies of human users, they did find evidence of brain structural alteration, but no large-scale cognitive impairment of clinically relevant proportions. Fairly significant evidence of impact to memory.

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/19/12/5096.full.pdf

They chose dosages for MDMA here that are extremely high. 80-120mg is the standard recreational dose with anything above 150mg being considered high, but the dosage they chose would be the by-weight equivalent of a 160lb person taking 340mg of MDMA. This looks intentional - they say in the study the selected a dosage that was known to cause brain lesions. The sci-hub study references a species-specific dose scaling chart that explains some of this, but it also disclaims that the science of the dose scaling is disputed. I'm not super sure what to make of it - it stands to reason that too much of anything can be dangerous, but it doesn't seem like the science is close to being settled on whether or not these dosing differences make sense.

I haven't yet had a chance to go through all the references from the reddit post, but I'll work through them.

I think it's pretty compelling evidence that there is risk in taking MDMA long term, or in very high dosages on more acute timescales. I don't know that what I have read so far counters the science in the meta-study I linked around more moderate use, since that did draw primarily on observational studies that included imaging of human users. I'm no expert, though, and hopefully no one reading this is taking my understanding of the science as anything resembling authoritative.

It does further highlight a lot of the potential risks in taking street drugs, though - you never know the actual potency or chemical composition of what you're being sold.

>My personal, anecdotal, experience is I had a bunch of pretty magical experiences with MDMA in my youth which I've never been able to reproduce since. That was personal confirmation that irrevocable changes had occurred due to use. The internet is chock full of similar stories.

Hmm. There's a lot of experiences I found magical at one point in time that I've never been able to reproduce, none of them related to drugs. I think it's hard for humans to disentangle their perceptions from the novelty of new experiences, the impact of their mental state, point in life, etc. etc.

At any rate, thank you again for the wealth of information.
They did say "install" rather than "upgrade". I have an Nvidia GPU in my work laptop running Fedora, and I often upgrade my system without rebooting or restarting Sway. Now I'm not sure that I actually am using the new drivers until I reboot, but that doesn't matter to me, and I suspect it doesn't matter to most people.
It's not hypocritical. They have every right to block Tor traffic. I don't want them to do it, but also don't want them to lose the right to do it.
I had a manager who was obsessed with "velocity" and I spent 4 hours per week on time estimates. None of it was accurate except tasks like tiny CSS changes. Yeah, if you want to reduce morale, force everyone to waste half a day per week on pointless BS.
The main reason is I followed a lot of scientists in my field of research who left the platform. Plus there's been subtle (and some not so subtle) changes to the algorithm and the software.

Most of the people I followed before were clearly left wing. After Musk takeover a lot of them left the platform. Plus the algorithm now pushed more right-wing content in the home page. I wouldn't mind if it were real people discussing valid talking points. The problems are 1) they are all coming from blue check mark accounts, 2) most of it are clearly misinformation, and 3) you can tell most of these tweets and replies are troll and bot accounts. It's just annoying.

Musk boosting his own tweets in the feed was annoying. Had to unfollow him.

I use Twitter via mobile website, and it breaks more frequently than before.

Overall, it's become like Musk's other product, Tesla. It over promises and under delivers. It's not reliable anymore. As a 2x Toyota owner I cannot stand products that are results of crappy engineering. So there you go.

Edit: one more thing: it used to be that I could go to the trending hashtags and get latest news in a second. It's not the case anymore. Case in point: yesterday France was trending. I saw the tweets and got the impression that some member of minority community has committed mass stabbing or rape again. Because the Twitter results were brigaded by right wing blue check mark accounts spewing anti immigration propaganda. It was not until I read a BBC article that I realized what happened was complete opposite, police executed an immigrant at a traffic stop.

Twitter has lost almost all of its core values under Musk. It's just sad.
List Coloring Latin Squares
re: opiate of the masses

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+opiate+of+the+masse...

In short, it's not to be read literally.
Us unloggedin peons no longer get to view Elon’s vast tracts of land.
That would be https://htdp.org/2023-5-12/Book/index.html
(see https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/htdp-si...)
which also uses Racket
> If you can’t defend yourself and have to rely on a foreign power to do so, you are de facto a protectorate like it or not. That’s the case of at least the Baltic states in Europe and could probably be extended to other former USSR republics in the east.

This implies that _anyone_ who receives any military aid is a protectorate which imply that states like Russia are a protectorate of Iran
Just this headline is triggering repressed memories of building a component in a simulation federation for a defense subcontractor in the early 2000s on an awful realtime CORBA system.

My first grey hairs started popping out during that project.
I have Firefox as default browser. You probably already have Edge and MS account.

They just pop up as "Finish setting up" screen when starting up. Or a floating search bar popped up in the middle of the desktop yesterday. Looks like a malware infection, but it's from Microsoft.
I'm not sure, but this CO2 issue is something I've noticed in many different situations, including just being in a car with air recirculation turned on. Once I became attuned to CO2 I started noticing its effects everywhere. It's similar to how, once I experienced my first major earthquake (Washington DC in 2011) I suddenly started noticing all of the very minor quakes that happen all the time but that most people never notice.
Using WASM for things requiring low IO and high compute that are traditionally written in C/C++ makes a lot of sense to me. Image codecs are an example and native implementations for things like JPEG encoders are hard to come by. So, I used wazero to implement a few image codecs in Go^1. Codecs were compiled to WASM, and wazero works great for running them (albeit with overhead).

For this use case, wazero appears to be the cleanest solution as it's the only runtime that doesn't need CGo. The biggest appeal to me embedding WASM in Go is avoiding CGo to allow cross compilation. If my dependency is using CGo anyway, I might as well as link against a C library. I think native WASM runtimes like wazero are currently the best options for porting code language-agnostically.

^1: https://github.com/yklcs/wasmimg
None of the handful of different wayland implementations have managed to support any of the network based keyboard/mouse sharing programs like synergy/barrier/input-leap (and vice versa). This lack of functionality is a real dealbreaker for me.
Didn't a version of this exist where you could collaboratively draw over any website using its contents as the background? (You can also guess the end result.)
This is an example of how Google valued shipping new products but put little emphasis on keeping those products active. Someone would get a project like this approved, push through a delivery, collect their bonus and/or promotion and then move on to a new product. My understanding is that these services shutdown because the team behind them has also moved on.
How does enforcement work? Without that, the rules mean nothing.
From AST to bytecode execution in EndBASIC (2022)
This happened to me whereby HS required zero studying but uni absolutely did. I took a year out and did sh!t jobs realizing if I didn't graduate then this was what waited. Then when I started uni and realized it was hard. Very Hard. I realized I'd need to study hard or end up in said sh!t jobs. I'd never been more motivated in my life. Uni to me wasn't about finding myself and overindulgence in nonsense concepts like rite of passage. It was about getting a bloody academic degree.
> I agree with the value of people but would factor quality of life in.

The median quality of life is the best it has ever been for humanity.
What or who is Betteridge?
In a python-based backend, one suggestion for retrieving "additional details" could be SMS via Twilio or other. Easy to use with Python and might be a good context fit for following up that doesn't require a user to be at their computer.

This also seems like a potential candidate for automating using some of the tools they might already have - forms, sheets, email. Forms has the ability to ask for additional info based on the previous answer (might fix the need to ask for more info).

You aren't generating an "invoice" but a work/spec sheet might follow a similar pattern. One of the first search results I found(no affiliation) https://howtogapps.com/generate-invoices-using-google-form-a...
What are you talking about? Ads have been obnoxious since they started appearing on the web... Some were less but ...
Stop crying about your startup valuation
Canada has officially banned testing cosmetics on animals
Yes, it was, but that's not even relevant to the fakery issue.
that's a good point

i havent' logged into twitter since forever but still have accounts

i need to delete them
What is unmasking? What does it have to do with a botnet
seems like a much more reasonable approach. In fact, the CDC (iirc) just released a warning about long term, habitual use of an N95 as your CO2 levels rise significantly. In fact, any time that a person is at risk of death from limited air availability (submarines, space flight, etc), you won't run out of oxygen before the CO2 build up kills you.

Don't get me wrong, if you go to the mall or whatever to get oxygen treatment, I'm sure you'll be fine. It's not super concentrated and you're only on it for an hour. Different beast than an oxygen concentrator long term.

With the CO2 scrubber, you might be fighting a bit of a losing battle with it if you have a whole house air exchanger, but that seems like a cheaper/easier solution to keeping CO2 in sync with ambient environment. A whole house air exchanger is also a fantastic way to mitigate radon (mostly a midwest issue, but is a problem in central eastern states and appalachia) and your radon is borderline between safe and unsafe. I have such an air exchanger, a radon monitor, and no radon mitigation. When the air is particularly cold, sometimes I'll turn off my air exchanger and my radon levels go from 3pCi/L to 4.0-4.5 (4 is usually when they recommend you get mitigation system. If it is borderline like that you can get a passive system that exposes your sump well to ambient environment. And at higher levels you should get an active one where a fan will draw vacuum on your sump 24/7)
I think italic is better than cursive. It has all the good parts like speed, plus it's actually legible.

https://sites.google.com/view/briem/handwriting/what-exactly...
'Likes' tab on a profile also appears to be unaffected by rate-limit as well.
Do you say that because you think the work required to achieve economic security is too much? I ask because it's hard to imagine an alternative that would enable more people to follow their passions without securing the essentials first.
Bing Chat to Roll Out Groundbreaking Feature to Predict Future Stock Prices
You could also just use data URIs in your CSS.

“How else could you possibly have SVGs render inline other than to include a massively bloated JS representation of a string in your bundle?”

- the React ecosystem, 2023

The answer, as you’ve shown, is “use the platform”. Sometimes I feel like React actively works against that.
I don't think NixOS is the only distro that has this property, what prevents someone from making a shell script that installs your applications and dotfiles? Blow away your OS install and get your set up back in one line is my experience and I don't run Nix or Guix for most of my applications
I always wondered why they didn't do that sooner
On the community side, it now better reflects its mission as the public market square, where before it was so unbalanced to the left (also making what was to the right way more polarized) that it just wasn't very much fun or developing to stay on for long. Before I was only a lurker but now I sometimes chime in to tech threads without fearing someone will try to cancel me over a way I name a fruit or something.

On the tech side, it has retained everything that made it good (didn't implode!), and the tweet length / "show more" logic fits my style of writing perfectly. Spaces are also a kind of thing that I didn't use before but became immediately accessible as it was added right to twitter itself (and things like the 24h wagner coup space with 6M visitors isn't something I have seen in the past). And other simple things, like long videos sometimes fit a need, even while most of the time a youtube link also works.

Some things like crypto spam also seem to be in a bit better state, though can't obviously ever be completely removed
It's turning around a bit, but historically half of a moderator's job was coding, either specialized bots or managing gigantic automod configs.
Nah.

This is just usury and loan sharking on a global scale.

Substitute Southeast Asia for Africa.

China is pretty much providing payday loans and debt trap diplomacy to poorer countries (149+) in order to consolidate power.

This has nothing to do with sophistication but everything to do with greed.
> 10x every project timeline and it's fixed, simple as.

> Granted, the big downside is, you have to keep your talent motivated and on-task 10x as long [...]

No, the big downside is that you have to tell your client it'll be 10x times as expensive because you want better performance.
Everything about this is toxic. If the author really has been a manager in the past, I'd be willing to bet their subordinates thought of them as a moron. The type you "yessir", "sounds good sir", "right away sir", until they stop talking.
> Microsoft is resurgent these days,

Where is it resurging?
How about W - sometimes written more rounded than pointed. Not sure if that plays into the regional difference of Double-U vs Double-V
That’s not really my point. All of these icons will cost you 5ms at worst. Should we make that tradeoff in the first place? The article present this as something you must do, or else you don’t care about your users. But as someone else points out elsewhere, including the icons in your code means no lazy loading, so everything is either instantly there or not at all. That’s a much bigger user benefit than a minimally faster bundle load.

I just don’t see a convincing (concrete) argument in this article.
Heat death doesn’t mean “no heat” or that energy has depleted. It just means that energy is fully dispersed. All kg the hear exists, it’s just that no one place has any more than anywhere else, and so there is no longer any transfer of energy.
Emotions are not reasoning, pure and simple. When what you want is to get to the truth, especially in the context of reading words on the screen, getting emotional is purely an impediment to the goal.
I definitely feel like I'm not breathing the same quality air when I'm in my room vs when I'm in the woods. I'm not sure how much of an issue it is, though. It might just be me getting hung up on every little annoyance. But I do suspect I'd think better if I was in a slightly more oxygen rich environment than my room.
This is going to lead to so much tiktokificafion of links where it ties it back to the original user.

Although, honestly I don’t think there’s a lot of social media left where this would be a problem.
It's hard to beat a skilled CL person who invests in making something fast.

But Scheme code can often be made faster, especially if you know the performance characteristics of the particular implementation.

Besides generally using good performance practices, know that Racket has some profilers that can be immensely helpful. (I once rigged up Racket's statistical profiler at the time to capture the data for each instance of certain kinds of very complicated Web requests in a production system, and used the reports to optimize the heck out of it.)
If you click the timestamp there should be a "vouch" button for comments to restore them.

It's quite annoying, possibly NAFO or similar.
Just raising this since people might not know about it, but this is a Web standard now https://www.w3.org/annotation/. There are a couple of companies which have created browser plugins for this.
As far as my favorite poltical biographies go, I think the ones that gave me the most understanding of politics was the Robert A Caro biographies, "The Power Broker" and "The Years of Lyndon Johnson".
Android is not pure OSS and it's heavily tied to everything Google. Phones with custom ROMs are hardly available so it's far from being the ideal model.
Given this article over-explains so much, I can only assume software developers are not the target audience. The idea that a non-software developer might take this advice and run with it is a little concerning.
Eliminating enemy propaganda is extremely common and a long running practice. It's less censorship and more self defense.
Once upon a time I bought into velocity arguments, I wanted to be fast, I didn't like working on slow teams. Eventually I landed up in domains which are intrinsically slow. On my current team, an engineer might only write ~10 CRs a year and no one cares, about 1 in 4 of those CRs could arguably be patented and each will be used by 10s of thousands of enterprise customers.

More domains than you would expect benefit from highly innovative work, and get less benefit from simply writing code as fast as possible.
A heat wave is scorching America's southern half as July 4th holiday approaches
And stop eating? I assume you’re talking about young people who can be supported by their parents, which is not everyone.
> They're not painkillers

In the traditional sense (e.g., alcohol, Oxycodine, etc) no they are not. But they are mind altering, literally. And that alteration is an opportunity to break patterns, unhealthy patterns. Being in that other state of mind shows you another state of mind can exist. You experienced it. So you take that away with you and ideally build new healthier paths.
I did not read the article, but how could you possible quantify that? No matter what metric you use some dev will be able to max out their stats while utterly fucking up the entire codebase and design.
Go implement them there. In the meantime, do not punish the victims here.
A similar tool is https://web.hypothes.is/
IMO the whole purpose of aftermarket radio was going to be multi-cd players, mp3 cd players, or an aux port to connect your own player, but last I went car shopping everything I saw had Android/iPhone bluetooth support that included audio and google maps/waze good enough that I can't imagine anyone wanting to replace it.
Potential
If they opened the floodgates with a not-ready product and also fell over, that's a much worse look.

Besides, 'limited' account creation to form communities is a pretty well-established scaling strategy. They have scaled from 0 users to 200k users in 5 months - Facebook originally took a year to scale to 1m users so it's not unrealistic that Bsky are growing/scaling at approx the same pace at this stage in the curve. Worth noting that Facebook also just couldn't have handled scaling to 1 billion users on Y1, and that required years of engineering effort (and lots of money/resources).

Considering they can only have limited users at their current stage, invites to form close communities is a strategy to ensure that a social graph is created early. Having 20k users that all have a few friends with accounts is more important than having 20k users where nobody knows each other.

Remember Facebook also originally scaled campus by campus - which was a process that let it 'scale' in a way that encourages social graph creation (i.e. 10k signups in 1 university is probably WAY better for a social network than 10k signups in 100 universities).
There's a word missing... Starts with W
The problem with a solution like this is that you are limited to square pixels. Not all games and systems used square pixels, because CRTs didn't really _have_ pixels, only scanlines. Their vertical resolution was discrete, but their horizontal resolution was continuous as they displayed an analog signal.

For example, most SNES games ran at 256x224 (and were slightly letterboxed to fit the roughly 240 lines on a 4:3 NTSC CRT, though the border generally disappeared in the overscan area). The pixels were taller than they were wide.

Kirby's Dreamland 3 on the SNES ran at 512x224. Pixels were much wider than they were tall.

The original Doom ran at 320x200 in VGA mode 13h. It was not letterboxed but displayed in 4:3 on CRT monitors, so pixels were narrower than they were tall.
BTW Micropython has regular file system. If you want some shit be permanently remembered in ESP you just file it.

There was some problem with the filesystem getting corrupted, but I dont remember how it was. It may have been that I just wrote same file again and again without closing them handles.
Is it not against the law to run a VPN server to allow people to access foreign sites in China?
Hmm not sure, I'll let you know after I use it and receive a cease and desist letter.
Windows Mobile the OS was so good. What let it down was that it was lacking many critical apps.
> Anyone with a good mathematical background could tell you there's nothing five-y about 0.5 at all.

Um, I disagree? Visually, the 5 is memorable here. "Fivey" just seems to mean "lots of the number 5"?
When you upgrade NixOS there are always warnings on anything deprecated telling you what to do.
I was the CTO of a healthcare company that focused on patients with heart failure. We did buy a bunch of "non-medical use only" O2 saturation monitors during covid because it is all we could get our hands on. They're notoriously unreliable and variable compared to something that doesn't have a CLIA waiver. Since you have family with heart failure, I'd highly recommend you acquire a more expensive device to get the most accurate readings. Also change up which fingers you use as that tends to drive differences in SpO2 (at least on my personal experimentation with the cheap SpO2 monitors)
Luckily he is not the one doing the work
I’d start by either stepping through the program (gdb, pdb, or a debugger of your choice) or adding more test cases - that’s often a quick way to understand what a piece of code is doing.

Either way I wouldn’t leave it as is, that’s just a recipe for ensuring it becomes even more opaque over time
I'd me most interested in some sort of banning of false advertising or astroturfing. I think Apple and Samsung would be crippled.