skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's definitely an anecdote, but I think the salient point is this:

> So, forgive the hesitance, but I am even more hardened on the notion that we should probably not mess with our brains too much

And that's true, insofar as we are able to agree on what "mess with our brains" and "too much" means.

Is taking some choline "messing" with the brain? Definitely. Is it "too much?" well, perhaps you think so. Is drinking coffee "too much"? Apparently we both agree that it is not "too much", I'm drinking some caffeine right now.

One thing about Choline and Caffeine is that they are very well studied, especially in terms of safety. The further you go into the nootropics world the less studied options you'll find - things range from "zero data" to "used for 1000s of years by an unscientific people" to "animal studies exist" and beyond.

My personal "too much" is when there's a combination of weak evidence to support benefits and weak evidence to support safety in humans.
Ok I see. A Top 15 for our times would also be very interesting
Really cool, but you probably won't see any advantage from the vector extension, because the board uses the 0.7.1 pre standardization version of the extension. llvm and gcc don't support that version anymore. I needed to use an older gcc branch to compile the assembly code.
Otherwise it's performs pretty good though.
Pushy checkout screens are helping 'tipflation'
> the brain can more easily reorganize its structure and function

What's that actually mean? That sounds like something with lasting effects...?
Digg, Delicious, Technorati, ICQ, Stumbleupon, Astalavista, eMule and many file hosters have been critical and changed the world as well at that time. ;)
I think arguments could be made for MSN, Geocities and maybe even MapQuest as honorable mentions.

It's not necessarily that whey were groundbreaking as much as extremely popular. The design and content and strategy decisions influenced others to come.
I've anecdotally found modafinil to be great for focus if I didn't sleep the night before, makes the day less miserable.
Never tried it casually.
Inception is an exceptionally good example! I'm a big fan of Borges and although I'm sure that there must be one of his stories containing a relationship with recursion, I can't think of one right now.
I wrote some terrible code on modafanil but I did write it for 6 hours straight.
New ZeroMQ API documentation page
Message in a Bottle Memory Stick/Flash Drive
It’s not like well known companies like Google and Facebook convinced consumer to install supposedly internal certificates on their devices to track everything they did on their iPhones or that Zoom installed a backdoor web server on Macs.
My desire for royalty-free "open" codecs has nothing to do with that, though. I know it has a lot to do with why Google and Netflix care about royalty-free codecs, but it has nothing to do with why I do, or why I think they are very important to an open Internet.

Case in point, consider Wikipedia.
Hmm, must be demographic in specific countries, here in Switzerland the biggest a-holes IMHO are Tesla drivers, not all of them obviously (some of them drive ridiculously slow which is another danger), but it seems that tailgating is shared among many of those. Full gas & brake style of driving. Second biggest in my experience are... spread quite evenly across the brands, crappiest old french or italian ones are often a bit worse for some reason.

When frequently driving through France, on my previous BMW 3 series sedan I was facing tight swirls and 1m tailgating on otherwise empty highways. They eventually lose interest when they see no reaction and see me driving according to rules, but its stupid and needlessly dangerous for everybody. So what is common trope of arrogant BMW drivers was actually, every fucking weekend over a decade, experienced by plethora of brands driven by french drivers, on BMW which was driving way more civilized than they were. Not even anyhow fancy one, no striking colors or designs on a freakin' V6 diesel.

Switched to another BMW, 5 series wagon, and absolutely 0 of this, ever, in 4 years.

But then again, in Switzerland there are tons of BMW, Mercedes, Audis etc., often compromise >50% of the traffic around me, and the idea that all BMW drivers behave like that is stupid. In fact traffic normally goes OK, in the morning rush hours I don't see any brand being particularly worse (apart from that Tesla, but maybe I had back luck on new drivers enjoying all that power).

I guess different people tend to go for different cars. Also, say grey BMW 2 series is as uninspiring, boring and slow car as it can be, thats more a granny car than anybody else.
Isn’t it full of quite obvious things? I’ve read it 15+ years ago, when I only had half a year of experience, all of that with an OSS project in Java (really badly written). And I’ve came up with half of the patterns independently.

And then I switched into Python, where you just don’t need majority of those patterns anyway.

So I wouldn’t recommend this book 15 years ago, let alone today. And as the only book? Never :)
React is used by 1 in 4 developers world wide ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You're completely right! Addiction is complex!

And nicotine is addictive.
Well said.

I think that is definitely a strong and salient way to think about mind altering chemicals.
I disagree about the age. It provides context, and provides inspiration to others. I think he has done a fantastic thing and we don't need to be negative for the sake of being negative
> people will protest

Having a vocal minority protesting against something usually don't slow down politicians when they have clear goals[1], but they become a convenient excuse not to act when they don't want to.

[1] I've marched in vain for many causes, most of which had much, much more intense protests than what Covid restrictions triggered.
These sources do not address the claims made in the article.
And you aren’t required to use In app purchases for subscription apps on either platform
If someone is known to be a high pressure sales person that takes advantage of people I wouldn't expect them to actually follow through on the gift that was offered for staying
Unfortunately Firefox is irrelevant now, it won't recover from 3% and going down.

So it is a matter of luck if someone at Netflix still cares to test on it.
Raymond Smullyan's riddles book What is the Name of This Book paradoxically refers to itself in its title.
Firefox supports wayland, IIRC it wants an env var and some about:config flags

Some of the other bug might be nix-specific? On debian sid with KDE I haven't seen those, at least
everyone's a never-smoker until they're not. the sense I got with this article is that the author started with the presumption that nicotine from sources other than smoking is basically okay and built up from there. that's not to say that he's wrong, just that it didn't feel like a rational approach
The list would need to incorporate apps because a lot of 'websites' that are extremely popular in use are more typically used as apps (e.g., Instagram).
Caffeine physiological addiction is very light. Withdrawal symptoms last about 2 days and are mild.

> including just ending up in bad shape

Not sure what you mean by that, I'm not aware of people ending up on the streets because of caffeine.
So you think employers don't look on HN?
Thanks. Interesting thought. The current Virgil compiler translates from the AST directly to SSA quite early. Specialization, analysis, data representation choices, and lowering all happen on SSA. Translating directly to machine code from the AST and using destination-driven allocation could maybe work for a simple subset with easy lowering, which would give an indication of the compile speed improvements possible.
I really wanted to try plasma with i3 but the big problem I ran into was that different monitors can't have independent workspaces, which was a deal breaker :(
You won’t do too well as consumer product goods company if you don’t sell in Walmart in the US.
Not much of a point, just friendly banter. I understand it's a bit off topic for HN so hope you didn't mind

Edit: though if I must make a point it was just that it's relatively uncommon to have fully speced out machines as a student
I have ADHD; getting Concerta here is near impossible, so I've been using Modafinil. It's been extremely effective.
I wonder if it can make normal walking more difficult. Like when looking through a pair of glasses that flips everything upside down, after a while your brain adapts and this becomes the new normal.
`@sveltejs/enhanced-img` announced at Svelte Summit
> I'm not sure here how you differentiate minimalist from restrictive.

The flexibility of the language and its syntax. The more constructs are syntactic, the less minimalistic it is, and Go is a very syntactic language.

> I've always considered Go to be minimalist in terms of available tokens to the programmer: https://github.com/e3b0c442/keywords/blob/main/chart.png

No language on this chart has even a passing resemblance to minimalistic. I don't think anything does when it reaches double digit keywords.

For reference, I believe Smalltalk has 6.

And forth is more complicated because it doesn't really have keywords at all, and barely any syntax, instead it has assembly-coded / runtime-provided words (~functions) and variables. SectorForth (https://github.com/cesarblum/sectorforth/) is down to 8 builtin words, 2 IO words, and 5 variables (milliforth packs those behind a word instead). And so far 2 of the words have been found unnecessary / redundant.
I worked for Google Play at this time. Was interesting.

Note that the significant thing is not really the 10% deal but the fact that Netflix has to stop using their own in-app payment system with 3% fees (a rule Google Play previously did not enforce for them).

(I'm still at Google, so that's all I'll add about an ongoing legal case with my employer)
Aha, I see now.

Thank you for the clarification.
I (and many people I have talked to) have come to a similar conclusion. What's really interesting is that going on a weeklong or so meditation retreat where you are meditating for 10 hours a day feels phenomenologically equivalent to microdosing LSD or (if you can remember) generally how you felt when you were happy as a child. This makes me think that the "trippiness" is a side effect of neurogenesis. Speaking with other people in the retreat-junkie/psychonaut/happy-childhood community agree only has helped me be more sure that this is the case.
Right, the 40% of people in the US who use Androids are statistically poorer and less well educated.
Drug laws are stupid and insane. The government declares that psychedelics have no medical value but the article clearly shows that the pharma industry believes they do. They just want to take the fun out of it and keep the money.

Yes, they have risk, but guess what? Alcohol has zero medical value and has shown to be harmful to the body and to society at large. Same thing with tobacco.

The reason these laws remain on the books is too many of our fellow citizens let it happen.

Yes, there are problems with creating a free for all with legalization (Portland, I'm looking at you!). But that's a problem with the failure to regulate drugs as well as a failure on medical/mental health services and housing.

It doesn't have to be this way folks.
A 2019 RAND study put the cost of bomber pilots on the order of $10 million, which isn't cheap, but when the bomber itself is $2+ billion, doesn't really move the needle on the whole system.

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/...
Coffee is linked with significant health benefits for most people, but it isn’t the caffeine that responsible.

Coffee has a significant amount of antioxidants and Is the most significant source of antioxidants for many people. Even decaf coffee has health benefits.
There are literally a dozen apps on my phone where I pay a subscription outside of the App Store.
Marimo is absolutely great! I used it to make a presentation and got the kind of excitement that now Jupyter notebook can get!
>”…and is addictive to some degree”

I stopped reading after this part. I’m sorry, but passing off decades of research as “to some degree” when it’s been found to be as addictive as heroin. [0]

So it’s completely asinine to say “to some degree”. By all means, go chew some nicotine gum, you’ll be wanting more in an hour. Next thing you know you’re eating a pack a day, for 30 years, until your arteries hardened and you block your heart. All for a pick me up in the evening. Take a nap.

[0] https://www.ucsfhealth.org/conditions/nicotine-dependence
SwayWM at least enables some use of mouse for editing the layout: Meta+left drag to re-arrange/group/ungroup/etc. tiles, for example, and of course, Meta+right drag to resize as in i3wm. To me, even just having the Meta+left drag option seems like a significant step up.
> got a lot of people riled up

No it didn’t. It got a tiny minority of a certain insignificant type upset. Step out into the real world and the number one podcast is, by definition, well received.
Designing the longest range Electric Aircraft: The Solar Aircraft (2021) [video]
"In this video we are going to explore solar aircraft. Contrary to the popular belief, electric aircraft have been around for nearly 50 years, thanks to Solar photovoltaics."
> Whatever dude, you know what I meant.

No, I didn't knew what you meant. There is no such thing as a "union
contract" in Sweden. Your employment contract is between employee and
employer and is only indirectly affected by the collective bargaining
agreement between the union and the employer. That is, your employment
contract may not specify lower salary or worse benefits than what the
union and the employer agreed upon.

Due to inflation, collective bargaining rarely results in worse
agreements than previously negotiated. But it can happen if the
company faces bankruptcy and needs to urgently cut costs to
survive. Apparently, this has happened to you more than once since you
claim that "unions" and "employers" tried to convince you to accept a
"shittier contract". Tough luck, I guess.

> Again nitpicking (and you're wrong [1]) also since still being allowed to pay for a membership where you don't get anything to say because of your political affiliations is disgusting and just adding insult to injury.

Well, the excluded member was an elected official of the Sweden
Democrats. It wasn't solely due to his membership in that party that
the union excluded him.
When the potential disaster is following an exponential trend and have been doing so for quite some time, not acting because the figures don't look high is plain stupidity.

128 is one third of the way to 2 millions. And 2000 is more than half the way.
Yeah, but binary dependencies or watt-style precompiled macros aren't going to get improve the build times people really care about, incremental build times. The parallel frontend is the plausibly the last major improvement we'll see on that front for years.

Incremental matters more than clean build times because (A) you're likely to do a lot more of them (B) they break developer flow more than waiting on CI does (C) at least in theory, you can always add more cores to your CI and get reasonable speedups, less so for incremental.
Is .NET still around?
UI on mobile is frozen
Very possible they were a Google Workspace customer, this is a common problem with forms.
Non programmer and I found Pragmatic Programming excellent. Help me problem solve better in general, communication better with our development team, and understand more about their processes.
Your small imprecise ask is a big waste of their time
Irony levels of this thread are approaching 9000.
This looks great. I wish I had this a few months ago! Giving it a try.
easyjet is a pretty odd inclusion on this list. They weren't the first, biggest, or most innovative budget airline website - even in the UK.

The contributor (Carole Cadwalladr) wrote a puff piece [1] about easyjet a few months before, so she is obviously a big fan.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/may/08/transport.world1
I confess I’ve submitted a smug report before, but it had an important ulterior motive. When I originally reported the bug, it was ignored. When I reported it again, guessing information about the system, they fixed the bug (probably because they went off to prove me wrong about everything and accidentally reproduced the problem).
I mean, if I had repeated instances of someone else performing illegal activities in my basement, I can't continually, or even once, claim that I had no idea. Amazon knows it has counterfeit problems and does nothing to curb it. In fact, they encourage it. Just because it's hidden behind several layers of software abstraction does not mean that Amazon doesn't have explicit knowledge. These products even physically sit in their own warehouses.
The best place to start is the Beginner’s Guide put together by the Nootropics subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/wiki/beginners/

TLDR: Your starting point is exercise, sleep and sunlight. Nothing after that really has as large of an effect.
So do we get fractional scaling that works and Gnome 2 back for that money?
Much much better. Though it doesn't mention it was a Tamiya which adds to the charm.
If you read the article, it mentions they will be open sourcing the implementation through android.
Agreed, it’s one of the most well refined Apple features in recent years. The teams behind sound at Apple have been doing amazing work.
I don't actually want that, though, as a user. Apple has my payment info, so I don't need to share it with however many entities. They're a known entity that I reasonably trust to prevent malware making it onto my phone. I only need to go to one place to find apps for the platform.

I like the App Store model. I understand that it presents problems for developers, and while I sympathize, I ultimately don't care about how it affects them enough to give up what I perceive as the benefits of the current system.
But we're not talking about installing the latest versions of your libraries. Otherwise, Go will definitely break after 10 years
> you might have liked kde3 a lot (yes, it's been 15 years and i still miss it).

You're not the only one. Ah, the poignancy of reminiscing about loves that we've lost.
Global warming will happen faster than we think (2018)
I think “kids” here means not literal children (under the age of 18), but more like fresh out of HS college students and recent grads. And they got stimulus checks distributed directly to them, yeah.
It might be about the nootropics, but this might also be the conditiona that people who are in IRC chatrooms about braindrugs are more prone to psychotic breaks for whatever reason.

Stimulants increase likelihood of psychosis, but that's conditional on dosage and precursor risk variables
I didn't have the patience, but maybe I should revisit it.
You’re supposed to chew it only until it tastes peppery then park it in your gum/cheek
I have to disagree with some of the other posters in this thread: I think the only way to learn to control growing complexity of a software project is to use software patterns extensively, disregarding any associated productivity costs.

Don't forget about the two broadest programming methodology alternatives: Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and Functional Programming (FP). Each has its own set of design patterns: OOP has the "The Gang of Four" -style patterns, FP has function composition -style patterns.

It is my personal feeling that the programming world is possibly slowly moving away from OOP and gravitating towards FP (especially when it comes to UI programming), due to FP's focus on ease of code comprehension and testability.

In the OOP-centric world, Rust comes to mind as a modern programming language that encourages consistent use of assorted OOP and FP patterns. In the FP-centric world, Elm comes to mind as a practical and straightforward programming language that uses FP patterns to solve web UI development problems.

For a book on OOP, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns

For OOP design patterns in Rust, see: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/

For a book on FP, see: https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-simplicity

For FP design patterns in Elm, see: https://elmprogramming.com
A deque will usually work just as well in that environment and it will always have better general performance characteristics. There are very few legitimate uses of linked lists.
Finally an "image" component!!!
Sweden school system didn't particularly need to be fixed, especially if you compare it to peer European states.

The voucher stuff was introduced for ideological reasons, and failed like things rooted in ideology invariably do, no matter if the inspiration is Marx or Adam Smith.
That is definitely unfortunate given that I understand the 0.7.1 pre-standard seems to have been shipped very widely, it seems a bad decision for LLVM not to at least provide an option to use intrinsics from that.

That said my code as it is right now isn't doing a lot of array/vector type operations. There are likely places where some of my datastructures could be optimized to do so, but not right now.

I'm most interested in just taking advantage of high parallelism on the 64 cores. We shall see how that works out.
The withdrawal effects are more like kicking a heroin addiction.
The problem with controlled burns is they don’t always stay controlled. [0] In California at least you would need to get buy-in from people living in the area to break through the gridlock. The concerns of people in say Susanville or Lake Berryessa are not unreasonable. Or you have to move people away from those locations. I have not seen a proposal that explains how to do this that is politically feasible.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-12/anger-bu...
There is no such thing as an “open” codecs. There are open source implementations of patent encumbered codecs.
> its ridiculous to think a drug that constricts the vessels and blood flow in your body would be [harmless]

Without knowing more about human physiology, this physiological description is a boogeyman. Someone could describe the physiological effects of eating lettuce while making the same claim about said effect and it would be obvious to a layperson as nonsense only because they know the topic. It’s not ridiculous to think this is possibly harmless in certain contexts.
for the Raspberry Pi, they made paying for the codecs optional. So you had the option to purchase a separate license just for that single device you buy.
Came back to this thread for the update thx!
For me it has been working flawlessly on manjaro's out-of-the-box wayland setup for a year.
That's in the UK and it's a very poor (and 10+ years old) article.

The only metrics that do work are the ones insurance companies are using and that'd be stuff like "at fault accidents by that brand/model" adapted to age and mileage.

Which, shocker, is exactly what my insurer is using to insure my vehicle. And everybody else's vehicles too btw.

Cars/drivers in the US with the most accidents according to those who actually know:

https://insurify.com/car-insurance/insights/car-models-with-...

IIRC Porsche owners on average have less accidents at fault than the national US average.

FWIW I daily drive a Porsche and I pay... 315 EUR (aka 337 USD) per year for my insurance (it doesn't cover damages I'd make to my own car if I were at-fault in a crash though). 315 EUR per year is nothing and the reason it's so cheap is because people with the same car as mine simply hardly make any accident.
On a similar note, the book crafting interpreters on build programming language changed my perspective on the day-to-day code I read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
You're right. I was misremembering, or thought Rhapsody owned Musicmatch.
A bunch of tech people talking about monetizing the food industry genuinely makes me want to kill myself.
How to never get a speeding fine again – and maybe save a child's life
Maybe, but unless you yourself are a beginner, that has little relevance to answering the question.