skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's how I'd describe what I think they are getting at.

At least for me, psychedelic drugs create a feeling of novelty and wonder surrounding everything I experience when I take them, as if they flip some kind of lightswitch of novelty which makes every experience appear novel again.

This is similar to memories of my childhood, where the most fond memories are those where I felt the novelty of experiencing things for the first time. Psychedelic drugs seem to recreate that effect.
Kotlin will forever be a language built on top of java by a company that sells IDEs.
Most experience psychonauts consider "bad" trips equally as valuable as "good" trips if your focus is self development.

Confronting the things that terrify you the most, that are the roots of deep insecurity that take over during a psychedelic experience are the things we need to confront to move on.

I've had my share of "bad" trips, but as I've matured I've realized those trips all contained very valuable information about anxieties I was not ready to consciously address.

It's hard to imagine a "reset" effect especially in the cases where a bad trip happens.

I think the bigger issue is that when people first try psychedelics they are left alone to deal with a "bad" trip without any guidance of how to process that experience. In which case it truly is a bad trip.
> Nicotine itself is addictive mostly because it has such a long half life, it stays in the body for multiple weeks.

It has a half-life of 2 hours [0]. If it lasted longer I think its withdrawal effect would be less steep and more gradual.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7794006/
It just shows how damaged your world view is that fair criticism of trade union fat cats or even the Labour party is "incitement".
As the opposite to what language?
No disrespect, but you speak of it like a fact when in fact it's a nice anecdote.
As I said I’m weak.

Edit: the only benefit I get now is not thinking about nicotine until my cravings kick in again. While loop from hell.
What line of thinking? If you said you want to ride a unicorn, I would ask you where can you find one
Aha, good find, thanks! Maybe they need to work on their SEO. :)
I always suspected that Factor appeared as an attempt to re-live Forth magic, but at higher level, more applicable outside of embedded domain
Indeed, only with these kind of sponsorship can The Year of Desktop Linux actually happen.

I am aware of a few German cities having a custom SuSE version with KDE on their libraries, for the employees and terminals available to the public.
Wow. Irresponsibility at its best.
There are reasonable suggestions for organizations to support, at the bottom of the post.
Ah, Caitlin Flanagan, chronicler of the many modest tribulations of the upper middle class, back again to tell us about the immense anxiety she experienced when, um, she sat through the sales pitch she signed up for.

Timeshares are obviously a scam, but why did I just read 5000 words about how she agreed to go on a discounted vacation in exchange for a timeshare pitch, and that's exactly what happened. The hotel was fine. The sales pitch was a sales pitch. She wasn't detained or assaulted or forced into anything. Her husband seems like an absolute saint and I can't imagine why he puts up with her.
Of all listed many are dead/irrelevant now:

* napster.com - Now Spotify, streaming music have taken its place.
* blogger.com - Blogging is dead for general public. Medium, Substack have captured some space.
* friendsreunited.com
* drudgereport.com
* myspace.com
* slashdot.org
* salon.com
* yahoo.com
4. If even _more_ accuracy is needed, add another 1%

5. If even _more_ accuracy is needed, add another 0.1%

5. If even _more_ accuracy is needed, add another 0.01%

and keep going ad nauseam!
I miss Unity, nowadays using XFCE.
I look at PDF like a virtual sheet of paper. Once you "print" to it, abandon any hope of getting things back out.

This sounds like a bad thing, but we need some kind of way to say "this is the final presentation no matter what".
Yeah, pretty much we had vanilla JS, then jQuery, then Webpack and React. TypeScript has probably crossed that threshold maybe in the last 12 months.

I’m trying to think of other frontend technologies that were truly dominant that went away. Maybe SCSS? But TBH if you’re still using SCSS with React today that’s not a bad stack. There’s no consensus on what the successor to SCSS is, Tailwind is a wild experiment. The styled components model is still being refined.

Things like Next, Radix, MUI,
etc… these are probably all best skipped. They are highly experimental, and I’ve used all of them in production on major web apps and they’re half baked. I avoid them.

It’s easy to get sucked into the trends… I love Vite for example, but anyone who ahas stuck with Webpack made the right call… Vite is still working out key points of integration like Jest.

If you take JavaScript Twitter seriously, you’d think you HAVE to learn React Server Components. But it’s not even out of beta yet, and debates are raging about whether it’s even a good separation of concerns.

The key is: wait until things are _actually_ dominant before jumping ship. If you do that, you’ll be fine.
That is true it says all numbers in thousands also I noticed I accidentally was on years and not quarters. So 11k a month for example is the new number for a good year [1] and 5k a month is the example for a bad year [2]. So yes now it seems more tractable than it was before, but my argument was just supposed to show one reason why it was intractable there could be many other reasons, though my argument fell flat for that one reason there are still many other reasons it could be intractable.

So the question still remains is it tractable? The answer given my above argument is still up in the air, because the honest truth is there are many underlying assumptions in my argument so again it doesn’t really say much about it being tractable. It was only trying to say it was intractable which again it fell short of doing. For example in the per month. After Google dumps all or even some of their profit into that for even one month it is somehow going to still reach the same profit margins the next month the proof for that is up to someone trying to prove it’s tractable. There are too many other variables like this that exist and it really needs a much bigger burden to show that something like that is tractable.

[1]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2870+billion+%2F+12%29...
[2]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2830+billion+%2F+12%29...
Mansio is a software-based transport system for road haulage
I created the name for my newsletter when I was at a classic car show ("The Ice") in St. Moritz earlier this year. And shortly after that I started the weekday newsletter. Originally this domain just led to a static website that had a single input field where users could subscribe. But I wanted to make the landing page more interactive because I'm trying to build a community.

I appreciate your feedback. Perhaps it wasn't the smartest idea. Only time will tell.
So I clicked your link, clicked "search nearby" and plugged in grocery store. From the pin point at your link, there is a Safeway and a Grocery Outlet both within 1 mile of the pin, and there appear to be sidewalks heading to both. 1 mile is definitely something I'd consider "walking distance" (I used to walk that distance to school every day). If you're willing to walk 2 miles, you can get to both a Target and a Home Depot and again as near as I can see, sidewalks the whole way. There's a post office 3/4 of a mile away, 2 elementary schools within a mile and 2 high schools within a 1.5 miles. 2 parks within about a half a mile and and international food market within 1.5 miles.

If you want a walkable / bikeable neighborhood you could certainly do a lot worse than this random suburb in California.
Go’s implementation strategy for generics essentially is monomophirization plus obvious code size optimizations (e.g. don’t generate different code for different pointer types given that they all have the same underlying representation). Do you have specific scenario in mind where Go’s implementation strategy carries a significant performance penalty? I think possibly there are some misconceptions in this thread about how Go’s implementation actually works.
Walking backwards let me move around the house when otherwise immobilized with tendinitis. As noted in the article there are safety concerns.
If you have a 300-page legal document, and other sources reference passages, e.g., a paragraph on page 234. It would be unreliable if over the years or depending on the viewer it moves to another page.
Ever heard of STUXNET?
For most people, forward walking/running involves a slight twist of the knee that stresses the illiotibial band against the lateral aspect of the knee joint. This results in a common overuse injury in runners.

When I get this, it is usually because I have just entered a relatively serious training program from relative rest, something like adding 20+ miles a week. I generally cannot walk forward at all.

However, there is usually no limitation at all to my backwards walking or running, so I spend a week or two not just walking backward as necessary, but also in training, I will do backward track intervals with no IT band pain at all, until I forget about it and try turning around. Anecdotally, it improves recovery time for the IT band, but also causes the opposite problem to flare up in the MCL.

Note that present tense is for convenience. It’s been a long time since I’ve run.
These days it's also not a bad idea to generate as much content as possible first, hope people start lurking, and then gain a community organically.

People forget that the majority of every web community is invisible because they don't post.
I’ve seen a similar story.

Problems that could be solved by exercise, sunlight, sleep, and a positive mental attitude, but then they try nootropics instead.

It always ends the same way - psychosis, incoherence, paranoia.

The brain is a finely tuned network, use it’s built-in hapiness generators rather than throwing sledgehammers at it.
Users of DMT, or participants in the ayahuasca ceremony, often advocate for the drug because they claim that it really opens a portal to another dimension and godlike beings there. The trip is very much the point, not mere vague benefits like neuroplasticity or developing more empathy. Indeed, I can imagine some DMT advocates claiming that an approach of applying psychedelics without inducing an actual trip, is the man's attempt to intentionally deprive people of contact with those extradimensional entities.
Let's stop having students altogether.

Let's just jave ChatGPT think for them, and let what would have been students live in a stupor of social media videos, binge watching, taking selfies, fapping, and doing some drugs.
> Nothing after that really has as large of an effect.

Most people would disagree - at least, anyone who drinks caffeine would.
>in applications where text isn't meant to be read word-for-word, and the entire response is expected before proceeding to the next step in the workflow, this can pose a significant issue.

Your take seems to narrow the application of AI chat down to customer service.

Taking a broader view, AI chat or really LLMs
have a very wide range of applications. As discussed in the article, script and code producing AI is not meant to be "read" so much as utilized post generation.

Either way, the reality is that just like any other advancement, this will slowly start to become integral to many business networks and workflow models, all having no interface with the consumer. The current fascination is wearing thin for the unimaginative who've asked a few generic questions to ChatGPT and then failed to recognize any applications of that product in their own life.

All the better, but the more products built now means the more likely something is produced that niche markets are looking to buy.
FYI that's actually pretty decent turnout for local elections. The national average for large cities in recent years is 15%, and cities like Las Vegas and Fort Worth had turnouts below 10 percent. [1] Note these are mayoral elections. When the mayor is not up for election and it's mostly councilors and local initiatives, turnout may be even lower.

It's ironic, given that local issues actually tend to impact us more directly and immediately, while at the same time local elections are where your vote has proportionally the most impact (aside from a few unique situations thanks to screwy districting and the electoral college).

[1] - http://whovotesformayor.org/
Before the escalation of the Russian-Ukranian war in 2022, the Moscow and St.Petersburg restaurant scene was quite vibrant. Some places were challenging to book, etc. These were their ideas for making reservations still accessible:

+ Accept reservations by phone or in person only and ask for the patron's phone number. Then call back 1 hour before to confirm the reservation.

+ Make the most popular times non-bookable. You have to come in person and check how many guests are in a queue and how long you should wait for the table. Some people are okay to wait at the bar, others will head to less busy places.

+++ Open a spin-off of a popular place, and redirect the clients' stream there.
Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna rediscovered in Indonesia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38223660 - Nov 2023 (49 comments)
I'll serve APKs, and provide a payments service, for only 9% of Netflix's revenue on Android.

Or, for 5% of Netflix's revenue on Android, I'll serve APKs, and let Netflix use their preferred payments service.
Øresund Bridge
Your framing is not accurate. Apple is capitalist, using the free market, and profiteering, sure, but price gouging is “distinguished by being short-term and localized and by being restricted to essentials such as food, clothing, shelter, medicine, and equipment needed to preserve life and property.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging
Great description, seeing this happen at BigCo…
Does read-only mode not suffer from some global settings? Also, what happens when the reading instance doesn't have all the used fonts for example?
Thanks for the PSA. One would think a 10,000 word article on the benefits of non-smoking nicotine use, with a dedicated section on health issues, might mention this important detail...
"Recent experiments show that 2-Br-LSD, like LSD, relieves depressive behavior in mice."

Haven't been down this road in 25 years, but I don't think I've ever felt as deep of depressive symptoms as the week or so after taking LSD. I have suffered depression my entire life, but LSD certainly never helped, and probably worsened. Buyer beware.

I get very wary of some of the coverage of this stuff, it all seems very reductionist and simplistic.

I suspect that the positive effects people are having from these things ultimately comes down to two things:

1. the revelation that they can feel a different way, as a result of having the emotional and perceptive aspects of their brain all frazzled (in somewhat random ways) for a period of time.

2. the genuine upside that some psychedelic experiences can and do show how beautiful the world can be. Standing in a quiet field in the spring, or in some mountains, or in a forest in the fall is and watching a flock of birds fly by and hearing the insects sing etc is always an amazing experience, but these chemicals can make you far more sensitive to perceiving that, for a time. And in a way that can stick with you your entire life. Being reminded that the world can be beautiful, and experiencing that at a deep emotional level... may be the best antidote to depression for me.

But they can also really mess you up. I've watched a friend lose total contact with reality, start ranting incoherently, and begin trashing my apartment and wrecking my stuff. I've seen people become total anti-social assholes. I've seen it bring out severe paranoia. And, quite often, pronounced arrogance or elitism.

And I worry it's just more "this chemical will quickfix you", while in fact our brains are so social and community driven and that aspect gets ignored rather than dealt with... And on that note I'd argue that's probably one of the aspects of the positive effects seen in MDMA treatment, in that it definitely does encourage an empathetic and social focus from the individual, or at least it feels like it.... for a time. (But also at the same time, some of the most self-focused and shallow behaviours I've ever seen, so ...)
Honestly, I am just surprised that the number is so low...
> What if Google goes under?
What if Sun goes under? Oh, wait...

> and they say goodby to Go as a result?
and they say goodbye to Java as a result?

> and maintain Python 2.X indefinitely..
Someone said that? Anyway 20 years of 2.x branch is pretty impressive.
You would be right if the choice set was drop out and never come back but have a 2% chance of becoming very wealthy or stay in school and have a higher chance of being middle class but much lower chance of becoming very wealthy.

The actual choice set is drop out and spend several years trying to become very wealthy and then go back to school and be delayed by those several years on the path well traveled, or just take the path well traveled right away.

It seems extremely unlikely to me that it would be possible for this to be a net negative on average at any point in time past the first few years. average[0.02(mega wealthy)+ N(success but not mega wealthy) + (1-N-0.02(regular path delayed 5 years)] should always be larger than average(regular path) and it should get more pronounced over time and the spread between regular path and regular path delayed 5 years will likely diminish over time.

On the society level, unless you are so cynical that you think all the benefit that causes the value of those companies to be in the billions is coming from some sort of market power abuse and none of it is coming from creating something that is so much better than what was there before that people are buying it in a big way, it would be a massive benefit as well because you just increased the conversion rate of ideas into product that benefits society by a massive multiple.
Yes and: Some localized heating is very consequential.
Agreed. It's not "powers that be" that impose this system on Americans, it's we Americans ourselves. We vote for politicians who are tough on crime - meaning long prison sentences, unsafe conditions, no robust public defense.
Mining company at centre of deadly Panama protests has no plans to scale back
A very small number of prisons are for profit and advocates of being soft on criminals love to push the idea that they make up a majority, just as you implied.
If it's any consolation, most of those students would succumb to your aforementioned stupor with or without ChatGPT to undermine them.
The conversion tools in Acrobat recover most content pretty well. It's not a one to one conversion, but it is plenty usable for putting in new documents or whatever.
Not many details to go off of here. Looks neat though, like a modern VW Doka.
Yeah, hallucinations without the other effects of the psychedelic sounds sort of useless, unless used as a weapon, torture or something on people who don't realize it.

Trips without heavy hallucinations are still useful, but hallucinations without the trip? Not sure what the point of that would be.
This makes me think: the math behind neural nets is kind of arbitrary. The actually important thing is (a) getting a result out, and (b) being able to nudge the weights to get the result closer to what you want. That doesn't have to be built on "math" or "numbers" but could be built on bits directly so long as the operations satisfy the goals.
Pareto Distribution and Wealth Disparity
I agree that the fact that they started off aiming to open source their model and calling themselves [Open]AI and eventually moved away and became [Closed]AI is extremely fishy. I believe that having an active and fostering environment where people can contribute to open source LLMs is very valuable too. However, in this capitalistic society, it's also irresistible to make money. OpenAI is under Microsoft's wing now, and to keep the stakeholder happy, they need to make money and build the moat.

We already have Big Bank, Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Tech, so I won't be surprised that we will have Big AI in the future where only 3 companies control it. It's almost inevitable, unfortunately.
How did you figure out what worked, exercise wise?
Match is needed for sum types only for syntactic convenience; typescript does well without matching.

In case of option/result a single if/else is basically the same as if err == nil… I’m sure an ergonomic syntax could be found.
"Liberate users from the tyranny of phone screens and the attention economy. To access the power of compute while remaining present in your surroundings"

Imran, Time Magazine
Sam Altman is right. Ai will break capitalism. Trust is the foundation of human storytelling.
Elon's always prattling on about how Tesla does this for FSD and it is a big advantage but I'm too dumb to know if it matters. Thoughts?
Idk what you've done with that laptop but my m1 8gb is running fine with IDE, multiple chrome tabs and docker
I feel like I shouldn't have to try heroin to understand this. A solid paper on the topic would suffice.
addiction is wild
This is true, but I think it's important to not dismiss that maybe it just wasn't good for that person and they aren't going to get something positive out of it and it's not "their fault".

And there are rare cases where people are permanently damaged by it. I have guilt from introducing a friend to it back in the day and he apparently did too much (either dosing or frequency) and was never the same again (in a bad way).
I know exactly the cousin to foist this on... should I be such a fool in the first place.
Well done! This has some great features people usually ask for, like performance and copy-paste, and the whole UI is super polished.
I recommend swapping your nix package to firefox-wayland -I've been using it for quite a while and it's been great. For me, it's been a huge improvement over X - thr lack of screen tearing when srolling and playing videos is huge.

If an app uses one of the normal GUI toolkits, they don't normally have to do anything crazy to support wayland, so I'd be suprised if you need to swap to a whole new ecosystem (and there's always XWayland for those that do).
My neighborhood alley in SF, just the one block stretch, is seeing a dozen unhoused people, the most displaced in this tiny well trafficked in 10+ years. A bad situation for them and the alley.

Crowding in front of multi unit housing garage (has a brutal metal roller) door entrance risks accidents with cars from the garage on the people, with people and the door itself, and with cars moving through the alley encountering now-blind garage traffic. Also increased risk of illegal entry, for shelter and theft.

Located close to downtown. Clearly APEC coincidental. Fentanyl is a super common invader into these people's lives .. cheap escape, deadly, and the people are preyed upon by the many dealers .. if you did not know.

Agencies have swept people twice from the alley over a few days. Piles of disassembled bicycles. Automobile car seats. Luggage, tarps, bags. When the people are not there, it is left as a collection of 5 foot tall piles of odds and ends.

It is a sad and unfortunate situation.