skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered that, when people reach for LSD while "stuck in a rut", their output should really be measured against that baseline? I mean, going from "I can't do anything" to "I can do mediocre work" is a fairly big improvement.

That said, in general, I would agree that the long-term effects of LSD on one's abilities are not all that profound. What it does, mostly, is making you more aware of things (or rather connections between things), centered on yourself. Whether this actually leads to any improvement depends on what one does with this information, but, well... how many people drastically change their lifestyle after being told by a doctor that they should do so? Same applies here.

As far as doing things during a trip, this can go either way. LSD takes one's "pattern matcher" up to 11, basically. This means that you can easily spot actual patterns that are there that would take you a lot of time in a normal state of mind, but it also means that you start seeing clear patterns in random noise. Since either manifest as intuition, the only reliable way to distinguish them is by rigorous methodical testing, which can be done, but during the trip it's basically swimming against the current, so generally, people don't. The quality of the output then depends on the input (i.e. on whether there was an actual pattern to find or not, and on how much random noise there was in the environment). It's no wonder, then, that this averages out to mediocre.

But I do think that actual quantifiable improvements could be achieved with strict adherence to a "trip protocol" scientifically developed to optimize for that. Those wouldn't be fun trips, though! And, of course, you'd need to develop such a protocol first through study, which is difficult when it's such a tightly controlled substance.
This was very common with public libraries, I think. It was the same around here, around 1993 - 1996. Security in the earlier days of the Internet was pretty loose.
Depending on the environment I'm in I either use `npx serve` or `python3 -m http.server` (aka `python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer`)
oh yeah I do, thanks! I'm not sure why I didn't think of that.
TL;DR: it's complicated[0]. Also, you're right - I'm mistakenly conflating SA with the UAE.

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/164hefi/comment/jy...
Doesn't matter. Generic CPUs were getting 32-bit word lengths and increased speed, and Lisp compiler technology had improved to yield fast code on those CPUs.

The maker of Golden Common Lisp partnered with a hardware company to make a "Lisp machine on an ISA card" solution for PCs called the Hummingboard (not to be confused with present-day SBCs using that name). It was just a 386 and gobs of memory on a card. (this predates the Compaq 386-based PC). A special build of Golden CL sent compiled code to be executed on the 386 instead of the PC's main CPU.
> It always bothers me when I'll see statements like 'this drug changed my life', especially when talking about psychedelics. The drug didn't do it alone.

Yeah, I never liked that phrasing either. It makes psychedelics seem like some magical mental health panacea.

Often people who seek out these drugs are already taking the first steps to change their life (this can mean many things, even if "only"[1] changing their outlook) before ever taking the drug. They changed their life on their own, the drug was just a means to an end.

[1] I put only in quotes, because anyone who's struggled with any mental health issues knows this can be a gargantuan hurdle
There's a rhyme and reason to the stained glass that's tied into the other symbolic elements embedded in the architecture. For example, the color scheme shifts as you pan from the nativity side through to the passion side. The lower panels are not totally abstract; there are vague shapes that sort of remind you of figures, flames, etc. but then it tends to pivot towards full geometric abstraction as you raise your head.

Like the Mezquita in Córdoba, it's hard to get a sense of how intensely all the combined elements make an impression just from photographs.
I'm rather surprised that Berkeley Student Tech Services would keep people around who either don't know how DNS works or know, but who make up excuses to dismiss a problem.

The problem really should be escalated and the nonsense answer pointed out, because if they care (and they should), they'll want to educate the person who gave that response.
I mean, yeah, if you go deep enough your OS may decide to schedule your browser thread to a different core as well. I don’t think it has any relevance here - semantically, it is executed on a single thread, which is very different from multi-threading.
PCIe is a network. USB is a network. There is no such thing as a resource with a guaranteed response time.
Peak oil is defined in terms of production. When total global production decreases, the moment of maximum production will be peak oil. Unless of course it's later exceeded, which could easily happen.

Why this will happen, when this will happen, and what the economic consequences will be, we can only speculate about. But it's the amount, not the price.
Yup, I loathe him to the point I won't even consider a Tesla at this point and actively discourage other's from getting one.
i was walking my two dogs Sunday before last and was jumped by pitbulls roaming the neighborhood. A passing Dominos delivery driver pretty much saved the lives of both my dogs. I got him to role down his window and literally threw one of my dogs through it, then when the other one got separated for a min she literally jumped through the open window too. I jumped in and paid the driver $20 to take me home, the pits chased the car for maybe a block.

I have a pistol and was thinking about carrying it but that means every time i take my dogs for a walk i have to get it out of the safe and put it back in the safe. I have kids so can't just hang a holster with the leashes. Too much hassle and I know i'll eventually stop taking it with me. What i ended up doing was getting bear spray that can attach to the leashes. Now I can't forget to take protection with me when taking the dogs out because it's physically attached to the leash.

edit: this happened in Dallas TX
Mobile gaming is nearly 50/50. https://www.blog.udonis.co/mobile-marketing/mobile-games/mod... So is PC gaming. https://www.circana.com/intelligence/infographics/2023/what-... Among consoles, only the PS5 has more than a 10-point spread.
Don't hesitate to iterate to find the name that suits you best. Thanks for the feedback! I'm working on improvements to ensure more relevant and specific suggestions for future iterations.
Same here, it was a great day discovering that back in the early 90s
is there a chance you run some older version of PG? They reduced bloating significantly in last few releases.
Thanks for the extra context on Rhodes in South Africa, which is an accurate and valuable addition to the conversation. I'd still nominate him as an example of a rapacious colonist, based on the skirmishes, one-sided "treaties" and general land grabs that he made in the 1890s, stretching vastly farther north from Britain's initial presence in the South African Cape Colony. These fueled Britain's colonial era claims to what became known as Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).

Columbus ended up in 1496 as Spain's colonial administrator for what's now the Dominican Republic. He did that role badly, too, but what's more important is that he did it -- creating a colonial pathway that kept widening for centuries.
There's wisps of atmosphere where they are. The drag causes them to slow down, which lowers their orbit. Then they hit thicker air and get more drag and go lower yet. And then they get so hot from all the friction the cook to bits.

Oversimplified.
And I would appreciate it if those companies currently getting away with paying too little in taxes paid more, perhaps commensurate with the amount they benefit from existing infrastructure.
Just hang around in the lot, it will find it's way to you.
"tapping the pad to click rarely works" is unambiguously defective; it doesn't need to be rationalized.

Sorry for your experience. Let us know what happens!
BTW your eclipse adventure doesn't necessarily end when the eclipse does. If you are driving home your navigation apps might try to send you on more adventures.

The main roads and the reasonable alternates might all be slow over a wide area, leading to the apps thinking that various roads that would never normally be suggested would be better.

Here is what a friend told my happened when he was trying to get from the middle or Oregon to the Bay Area after the 2017 eclipse:

> Google kept sending us onto logging roads: we bailed on the first when we were told to turn onto a non-existent road; we bailed on the second when a van came out and told us that ~5 cars were stuck axle-deep in mud; we bailed on the third when we got to a sign informing us that we were about to enter an off-road-vehicle trail.
I just wanted to interject that my struggle wasn't with interviews, but in suspending disbelief in order to focus and work in ways I didn't believe in. Because I could trivially automate most of the work I'm forced to do, so I struggle to find meaning in work itself. And when I did automate, they just gave me more work at the same pay until I burned out. So it's just as important not to take a job you can walk onto. Work for someone you want to be someday.

My struggles were largely due to moving back to the city nearest to where I grew up after college, which wasn't a tech hub for 20 years, although it's becoming one now. So I've been on a career odyssey. Now most of what I know is obsolete, but I'm having a hard time adapting to my new reality after so many decades of negative reinforcement. I agree with Paul Graham about moving to where the energy is. Network effects are everything.
I guess it depends on what you look for. I haven't bought a flight in a while, but I just looked at kayak and google flights for comparison. Google flights is a much simpler, more direct UI, and it feels a lot more responsive. In particular, kayak violated one of my huge personal pet peeves: page content moving around while it's loading.

That said, the gap is a lot smaller than it used to be. There was a time in the past where google flights was light years ahead of priceline, kayak, etc. in bloat, bugginess, responsiveness, etc. That gap has shrank considerably and it's more a matter of preference today.
I agree. Kids watch Harry Potter and dream about Hogwarts and their school pretty much looks like a prison without the barbwire and guard towers. They don't play in the woods but on a asphalt blacktop or a square of grass. Sad.
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Quartz singing bowls have historically been sourced from flawed crucibles. I don't know if that's still true exclusively or even primarily. Just always thought it was cool.
I was impressed by the IKEA demo until I looked more closely and realized it was complete gibberish. Every single part is number "101339" and it keeps talking about "attaching the hammer-shaped piece"; it gets worse from there. Meanwhile the article breathlessly claims perfect performance. Given the clear lack of even cursory critical analysis I would take the other less verifiable claims with a small mountain of salt.
This isn’t about passwords. The token from the identity server (Google in this case), describes the user, including their identity - which you may use as a link to the user data. If I were to forge an token, I could impersonate the user. For this reason, you need to verify the token with the identity server.
That's a better test. There are a lot of places with 95%+ fare compliance where I wouldn't leave my bike unlocked for an instant.

It only takes one asshole out of thousands to steal a bike, and every society has at least one asshole.
> [configs] x [checker] = are out-of-spec clusters due to the configs telling them to be in the wrong spot, or is something else going on? You don't really need to do this one, since if the first one checks out, then you know that everything is running exactly what it was told to run.

though it seems like a good step to run in a CI system, to try to preclude invalid configurations from ever showing up
When Microsoft was made to do a browser choice screen for the EU in 2010 they had a two tier system and it seemed to go well with the EU. On one hand, sure - it is an advantage for the popular browsers. On the other hand the goal is more that the manufacturer not be using their position to force the browser so heavily not necessarily to put every Joe Schmoe Browser in front of the same number of eyes. From a practicality perspective it solves the main problem without becoming a complication in itself.
In the current era though?
Stop your car from spying on you
“I can’t do X, so why would a hypothetical super-intelligent computer be able to do X?”
It’s called uBlock
Dogs in NYC are already required to wear tags with their rabies vaccination statuses and IDs. That also isn't really checked, but it absolutely could be by simply stopping people walking their dogs and requesting to see their ID tag.
Thanks for the feedback! Exactly, the goal of matching two words together for a brand name is to help people not dwell too long on this step, enabling them to move forward and ship faster. Your input is greatly appreciated as I continue to refine the process!
Florida governor signs law restricting social media access for children
Oh for sure, I'm well aware of what DMT is like and I know it's very easy to get confused by things that come up during those trips since they are so vivid, which is why integration is important. He also took 60mg, which is on the high end of a strong dose afaik.

I've wondered if it would be useful to approach psychedelics similar to the way that meditation is taught in vajrayana lineages, where you have to do preliminary mind trainings before you start advancing to other practices. If you encounter "hell" in a bad trip, like the person in the post, but have no way to understand it, it's easy to believe in it literally.

I just watched a few minutes of that video you linked and I'll definitely watch it later, he seems very lucid about his delusions, thanks!
Two open source projects with great architecture documentation
I was particularly impressed by the first one, esbuild. The architecture documentation is so thorough—it’s something I would have loved to have for codebases I’ve worked on in the past.

Does anyone have other examples of projects with this level of architecture documentation?
Fair but those projects didn't happen during the 1900s where i would expect them to take long times for procurement and build.
These rules already exist, it's just enforcing them that is the issue.
And then you have a ton of people that eat beef all the time, vs a ton of people that revere cows; in certain places you can be imprisoned or lynched for slaughtering one, google "cow vigilantism".

It always interests me to consider just how relative taboos can be.
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I'll look to make it available in more regions soon. I just need to check the copyright limitations for the eBooks made available in the app.
> How is this not going to teach you terrible grammar?

Because it's not teaching grammar? It's teaching words. I already know English grammar: I already am going to have trouble with grammar conversion. But before I get there I need to learn a basic set of nouns and verbs.
Some breeds have a higher prey drive than others.

But many bad behaviours are pretty easy to train out of most dogs (eg barking at passer-bys). Dogs are easy to train. Too many lazy owners blame their "nature" or "that's just how they are" as if they can't do anything.
What makes you think that GP’s comment is talking about older OSes?

My understanding of their comment is that they’re talking about getting older Python interpreters to run on more modern OSes, modern enough that they don’t carry the older Python as a system package anymore. Hence, deadsnakes.
I should add … in the modern era.
Formal proof of correctness vs. manually created tests.

The comparison should be formal proof of correctness vs. fuzzing using the formal specification as a source of properties to be tested.
Starlink satellites are visible with a 20x80 binoculars, shortly after sunset, in the west. Later they aren't visible at all.

I do a little stargazing with binoculars.
An AI could after being trained, with a higher error level than 100s of humans (or 1000s) watching. Of course, what about a trinity of AIs with quorum?

But anyhow, this sort of project.. even if announced today, likely started a decade ago in someone's mind. According to archive.org, it's been around at least 3+ years. AI wasn't realistic a decade ago, and even 5 years ago? Not really viable reliability wise.

And of course, AI isn't free... they have to be trained, security updates and software updates and hardware updates over time. I mention all of this, because everyone keeps saying "AI could do this", but could it? Because it's not just "can it do it", but "can it do it as reliably and cheaply"?

People are free. And as you say? People taking part is fun.
Does anyone remember the Firefox extension Scrapbook, from "back in the day"? I used to use it a lot.

Look "back" 5 - 10 years, or more, and it's striking how many web resources are no longer available. A local copy is your only insurance. And even then, having it in an open, standards compliant format is important (e.g. a file you can load into a browser -- I guess either a current browser or a containerized/emulated one from the era of the archived resource).

Something that concerns me about JavaScript-ed resources and the like. Potentially unlimited complexity making local copies more challenging and perhaps untenable.
I see, thanks for the heads up.
Hi, I wrote the piece. Site should be responding well again now.
There is no minimum fine. But: “In fixing the amount of a fine, the Commission shall take into account the gravity, duration, recurrence, and, for fines imposed pursuant to paragraph 3, delay caused to the proceedings.” (Article 30 paragraph 4)

So you might compare the actual noncompliance to the worst conceivable noncompliance with respect to those factors and make a guess.

Edit: There’s also this quote by Thierry Breton, Commissioner for Internal Market, on the linked page: “[…] Should our investigation conclude that there is lack of full compliance with the DMA, gatekeepers could face heavy fines.” This would imply that anything but full compliance could already incur “heavy” fines.
People who are happy with Apple's policies should be able to enjoy them and stay perfectly safe from malware and scam apps (sarcasm). Nobody is forcing them to install a third-party app.

Others should be able to use their devices as they please.

Also, the argument that 'you knew what kind of device you were buying' doesn't work, because Apple has shown time and again that whatever app is available at the moment of the purchase of the app can be later removed from Appstore by Apple for whatever reasons.
They can't stay this high for long without a federal debt crisis, which is a key reason the Fed is hoping to get interest rates back down.

If we weren't so indebted, interest rates could indeed stay high for a long time without much concern. But there's a point in the not-so-distant future where our government will need to print even more money to pay the debt (which will spark more inflation) or we'll need to cut all spending that isn't interest on the debt.
Not currently, but it's definitely something I want to add soon.
Not every human experience is supposed to be based on performance, the moment you get away with performance as the utmost objective you will find some freedom.

LSD and other psychedelics give you insights, ways to see things without the noise of your ego always in front of it, and those experiences are valuable to oneself, not necessarily to be more productive, more creative, etc. Many artists used LSD, many other artists are teetotalers, each one has their own experiences to draw from to create their art, it's the sum of the self experience that creates impactful work.

You are looking at this as if life is some sort of competitive sport and people are only trying to gain an edge by taking mind-altering substances, that's not how life works nor a good way to approach those substances. You can't min-max life, as much as you try, that's the illusion of control living in your mind speaking.
Elon has always been clear that he supports free speech within the law as the U.S. courts and constitution have defined it.

This means not allowing things like direct calls to immediate violence, child pornography, fraud, blackmail, and libel.

Him wanting restrictions on the above things does not make him a hypocrite, it makes him reasonable. Take his words seriously, not literally. Let's move past the "gotchas" please.
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I feel like the last difficulty should potentially be easier with the emergence of IO uring support for a wider variety of system calls. Would you agree?
How the Music in Our Mind Shows Us Our Hidden Desires
2.7 has been EOL for five years. It doesn’t get security updates nor bug fixes.
I'm sure a trillion dollar company can manage to do that. Why should the EC trust these companies? My local government will go through any plan I make for modifications to my house. Why should trillion dollar companies get a pass? Because some engineer will feel bad about a probe that is a mile over their head?
> Written in Itself

A Lisp implementation as it should be.
Writing GNOME Apps with Swift
If anyone could go in and steal a meteorite then you'd have a race to take it first when it falls, not something you would want to encourage. The property owner getting the meteorite therefore makes sense to maintain public order.
Except the legal filing we're discussion here is a direct contradiction of everything you just said.

> Other times, a complaint is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose. This case represents the latter circumstance. This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech.
Actually, I installed rye and got everything working. There goes any usage of pyenv going forward lol.
> because a significant amount of users would prefer to install Chrome with Chrome’s rendering engine.

I'm not convinced that users care about rendering engines. Non-Safari (not non-webkit) browsers already enjoy a modicum of popularity on iOS due to offering different UI/features on top of the rendering engine.