skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in 2020 i was very interested in psychedelics because of the breakthrough with PTSD and MDMA via MAPS. so i read pihkal and tihkal and i started reading a biochemistry textbook and generally took an intense interest in that area. and i went to oakland when i had the chance to be back in the bay area and i went to zide door and bought a small amount of psilocybin. at a bohemian friends house (it has since been cleaned out and sold, perhaps the last such house in the bay area at the time!) i took the little capsule in my palm and contemplated if i really wanted to take the risk. and i did. it was not a large enough dose to produce a psychoactive effect -- i think i had read that a psychoactive dose was not necessary to see benefits in mental health. there is one effect that i remember very clearly. it was when it got later into the night that i noticed something subtle but extremely strange. i felt awake or energized in some way. and i realized that my whole life, during the evening and late hours i would be sort of depressed and not feeling good. and so that was the first time that i felt lucid and energized after dusk. my whole life i had always known that i feel very depressed and agitated at dusk. but this experience really showed me how abnormal it was. later on i made a connection that is very oddly absent in medical circles that explains this. you know how when someone is having a deadly allergic reaction they are meant to use what is known as an "epi-pen?" thats because epinephrine, whats inside the pen, reduces inflammation. but what isnt mentioned or connected anywhere to anything is that when you go to sleep at night your body massively reduces the level of epinephrine that circulates in your blood so that you can sleep. inflammation therefore must increase. and inflammation is implicated in many psychiatric disorders including and perhaps most of all with depression.

one time much later i was in the hospital because i had a bad fever. maybe i was being kind of paranoid for going in. but as i was laying in the hospital bed my fever suddenly broke. and a wave of intense depression, unmistakable, washed over me. i thought this might be turning into an emergency but soon enough it passed as if nothing had happened. it was very useful to know about the connection between inflammation and depression during that little journey.

why is the connection between inflammation and various psychiatric diseases not taken seriously by the medical establishment? because its too complicated of a subsystem for a statistical study to tease it out. even if it were the sole cause of depression it still wouldnt lend itself to any study that is not exploring directly the biochemical mechanism. expect some breakthroughs in this area.
See the other two posts for recommendations, but be aware that neither of the options listed is at the level of experience Steam may have spoiled us with. My last try was 4 or 5 months ago and I ended up just going with a VM.
Be resilient. Be able to bounce back from pain or discomfort. Be interested. Be helpful. Be willing to be honest in a kind way.
Almost everything they said.

- There's no proof aethersx2 is his project. But there is proof that it violates open source licenses.

- No proof of death threats from users

- No proof of "sabotaging his own emulator"

- No proof he "got over-harassed by the Retroarch devs to the point they sent email to their irl employer with damning accusations of sexual harassment."
It’s important to distinguish between an operational cost and capital investment here.

If rail usage continues once the spending stops then it’s an investment. Otherwise is an operating subsidy.
It isn't magic but they are different than laptops and desktops in important but subtle ways.

They are (generally) always on your person. They discourage the creation of text. They always have an internet connection. They are usually charged right next to your bed, so they are the first and last thing you interact with every day.
Yeah I mean getting 24GB on one card is extremely expensive and it's not the raw GDDR costs, it's just artificially inflated. Intel could easily do that and even if the prompt processing is supposedly really lackluster on the arcs right now, people would move literal heaven and earth to get it optimized.
> so much bad faith

This is the part that I disagree with—to the extent there's bad faith, the bad faith is on the part of the for profits that pull the bait and switch, not the users.

Making your dev-focused project FOSS gives you enormous tailwinds that you can ride to dramatically increase your chance of success. That's the draw for these VC-funded FOSS projects. But those tailwinds come with expectations that you'll respect the license and not throw a tantrum when people actually take you at your word.

If you want to be the sole vendor for your project then you should make that clear from the beginning in the license, but people don't do that because then the tailwinds go away.

The key point is that there's no moral issue here (at least not on the users). You offered free stuff and people took you up on it. When you gave out the free stuff you got a lot of free publicity with that free stuff. You made a trade-off, and it's bad faith to try to convince your fans that the people on the other end of that deal are doing something wrong.
These 6 lines actually put me off. Probably I have to read more about Typst syntax but, same for me, consistent syntax which covers necessary complexity wins over bending a markup language for purposes for which it was never intended.
Here is the precise page, for anyone who wants to easily do it and amortize my settings perusing: https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/privacy/settings/recommenda...
Is privacy.com an option for you? Disposable virtual payment card numbers and whatnot.
Use python instead of lisp.
Both are on the roadmap, apparently.

https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/188#issuecomment-14933...
Is your template/source available by chance?
Yes, I expect a security engineer to hold knowledge. That's why they have a job, instead of replacing the security them with an LLM. If nobody in the team has that experience, it speaks exactly to the issue that has been outlined in the OP: not enough knowledge of security issues beyond the basics.
https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/typst.html#raw-typst
I'm the author if anyone has questions
It was only valid for the state in which the university is, and not all universities offered it.

Most students now get the nationwide ticket for effectively about 30€/month.
On the other hand the Bundeswehr burns through 50 billion a year to do fuck all, so apparently it does indeed grow on trees.
Lutris the popular option. Heroic is another but is a chromium app fyi.
Therapy is such a wash statistically that I'm not particularly confused or concerned by that, and everyone that has ever taken psylocibin knows the results are typical.
> it seems to me this implies the "ultimate" mathematician is a poet.

And, conversely, that the best mathematical theorems read like beautiful poetry.
That's a fair point. We certainly lack a measure of rigor in terms of defining intelligence and AGI - especially in the vernacular sense and among the lay public. But among people who work on this stuff, there are useful definitions that are widely used - if not universally accepted as "the" definition.

I would say that the material from Chapter 4 of Engineering General Intelligence - Volume 1[1] by Ben Goertzel reflects a pretty spirited and useful attempt to capture the important details, at least vis-a-vis the discussion at hand.

Excerpt:

Many attempts to characterize general intelligence have been made; Legg and Hutter [LH07a] review over 70! Our preferred abstract characterization of intelligence is: the capability of a system to choose actions maximizing its goal-achievement, based on its perceptions and memories, and making reasonably efficient use of its computational resources [Goe10b]. A general intelligence is then understood as one that can do this for a variety of complex goals in a variety of complex environments. However, apart from positing definitions, it is difficult to say anything nontrivial about general intelligence in general. Marcus Hutter [Hut05a] has demonstrated, using a characterization of general intelligence similar to the one above, that a very simple algorithm called AIXI can demonstrate arbitrarily high levels of general intelligence, if given sufficiently immense computational resources. This is interesting because it shows that (if we assume the universe can effectively be modeled as a computational system) general intelligence is basically a problem of computational efficiency. The particular structures and dynamics that characterize real-world general intelligences like humans arise because of the need to achieve reasonable levels of intelligence using modest space and time resources.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-General-Intelligence-Part...
Are we? Because most people have this conversation and talk about people they think are able and unwilling, when in reality the vast majority are willing and unable, for one reason or another.
1. "While this specific issue has been resolved", that was a bug, not an issue.

2. "they violated key ethical principles by directly contacting third parties about their report prior to remediation", what is a violation of ethical principles is to know about a security failure in your application and ignore it, leaving customers at risk, can't wait for some law to pass so people who behave like that face consequences.

3. "We have no evidence that this vulnerability was exploited by a bad actor.", tldr, it don't fixed it until some vendor dropped us, because before that happened, it was cheaper to ignore it.
Most of them? Yes.

The situation where "hey, we've got too much of [this] because [whatever reason], so we'll mark it down in order to sell it" is how a Free Market is 'supposed to work': prices operating as a signaling mechanism, by which everyone receives all of the (relevant) information.

Price-manipulation strategies juice sales by exploiting buyers' psychological reward mechanisms. Defenders of current practice will say it's OK because willing-buyer-willing-seller - which is certainly true - but everything about those techniques injects noise into the price-signals that make market economies efficient goods-distribution systems.

I'm kind of a free-market fundamentalist, and think any marketing beyond informational marginally contributes to market failure.

Yes, I know nearly everyone on this board makes their money downstream from manipulative marketing practices, so it's easier to close our eyes to the consequences. (I'm not playing the purity card, by the way: my company does very little marketing, but it manipulates other psychological reward systems in equally destructive-to-humanity ways.) We're all complicit in building the systems we (should) deplore.
Yes, the other poster made a confusion.

The Ribbentrop-Molotov pact gave to the Soviet Union the 4 Baltic states, i.e. Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (this is how they were known before WWII, so this was how they were described in the official pact, and this makes more sense than the use of the term "Baltic states" today, because all 4 states occupy the Eastern side of the Baltic Sea, and all 4 of them form a linguistic enclave between the Germanic and the Slavic speaking countries, where the 2 Northern states speak Uralic languages and the 2 Southern states speak Baltic languages), and also a part of Romania.

It was the fifth on this list, i.e. Romania, which was invaded by the Russians a week after the fall of France, when Romania remained without any allies, as all of them had already been occupied either by Germany or by the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union had already invaded much earlier the 4 Baltic states, but from Finland they had succeeded to take only a relatively small part, the rest of it remaining free.

The Russians have never "rushed to capture" any of these states "before the Nazis", because the Nazis had already given these states to them before the war.

The Russians have only rushed to occupy a part of Poland as big as possible, because the split of Poland had not been decided in advance.
Scheme instead of ELISP. Concurrency (Async IO would do).
Ok then, "make it harder to hold it wrong". :)
This has always been the case and is the case in anything digital game related.
Guess it's a lot, by the lack of response. Thanks.
> Even though our license doesn’t strictly allow this, we welcome it and we encourage users to share these code modifications on our forums.

lmao wtf
Hardly 1:1 comparison, AMD is not just only GPU maker, GPU is not even largest revenue contributor, the margins on x86 CPU and various custom processors they do ( like for Playstation) is wafer thin.
And in French...

Tu parles français

Tu parles français ?

Parles-tu français ?

Est-ce-que tu parles français ?

I guess it's the best of both worlds.

The French like to hear foreigners speak French though, they're just terrible at understanding accents they don't hear often and terrible at adjusting their speech so the other person understands them. And too self conscious about their English accent to speak English.
Matt you've lost the plot, time to step down or put independent governance in-place.

How can you expect any developer to devote time to writing a plugin if the dictatorship of Matt can rug pull it at any time.
Oddly, I see it as a good thing. The more people realize how badly the system is taking advantage of them, the more of a chance we get a new status quo that is a little more reasonable.
Slavic languages do that too
I think that might be quite common. In Swedish we have morbror/farbror (literally mother-brother/father-brother) and moster/faster (mother's sister/father's sister). It's similar for grandparents.
The paper here is worth a look: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36323275

Also this post has stuck with me through the years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24566568

Be sure to scroll down to the comment thread started by myself248.
I'd make cursors be positioned within the document instead of on the screen. Currently, Emacs does not support off-screen cursors. If you attempt to scroll a cursor off screen, it will move within the document to stay on screen. This behavior is contrary to all modern text editors, and there is no good workaround. I once made a serious effort to start using Emacs, but ultimately stopped because of the annoying cursor behavior. (There were other annoyances, but none so fundamental and unfixable.)
Would like to use it, but doesn't seem to have any custom field support which is very limiting.
Let us write plugins in whatever programming language we want and provide some simple interface like Unix sockets or something for us to communicate with the editor process.

Instead of making the first class installable extensions plugins create a primitive called modes that encapsulate groups of plugins with extra configurations so that instead of having to pick every plugins for our setup we just pick the most popular javascript or ruby etc. mode and then add a couple of our own plugins on top.

Add some system that suggests hotkeys based on usage. If I hit l 20 times instead of just hitting f’ to get to the end of the line show a popup. Gamify the key maps and suggest key maps and features even from my plugins.

Instead of having a package manager for your editor just use homebrew and integrate it deeply into the editor.
And if disagreeing, one can always say "I guess we see it differently. Maybe different assumptions or priorities. Good food for thought..." and smile and be curious about their rationale without ever being angry.
I think it’s what you’re used to. I’m used to the Mac keyboard (since 1994) and I much prefer the command key for keyboard shortcuts. I can use my thumb all day but pressing control with my pinkie starts to hurt really quickly!
My ROG Ally cries
I love CMD because it’s part of the copy/paste shortcut but not used for any terminal control codes. So there’s no confusion about whether you’re going to accidentally SIGTERM something in the terminal by trying to copy text.

I really really wish I could have this behavior on Linux… but alas, every app under the sun chooses its own copy/paste shortcut and they all use ctrl+C/V by convention so you can’t configure it globally without rewriting every app (ok maybe you could narrow it down to a few GUI libraries like gtk/qt/etc but it’s still a huge undertaking.)

I’d settle for “ctrl-c is copy if text is selected, SIGTERM otherwise” logic, which I think Windows’s console uses, but none of the Linux terminals I’ve tried support that. I’m left with ctrl-shift-C for copy, which leaks into my muscle memory, then I accidentally use that combo in the web browser too and it opens developer tools or something. So annoying.
> wearing masks during a global pandemic that lowered global life expectancy by about 2 years, or to put it differently "killed between 1 and 3 times as many as the literal Holocaust"?

And forcing people to wear completely useless cloth masks for years did almost nothing to change those numbers. Same with virtually every single other non-pharmaceutical intervention.

Virus is gonna virus. You can’t stop it and even if you could it doesn’t make the means to do so ethical, legal or moral.
> The majority of people who are accessing this drug have endocrine systems that work just fine, but problems with controlling themselves around food.

Citation needed. This is the main assumption you are making that I, and others, vehemently disagree with.

The implication is that this is the first time people have suddenly decided they don’t like being obese. That’s absurd. The people on these medications have tried everything. Talk to literally any obesity doctor and ask them about their patients.

This assumption is the problem. Nothing about the meds is easy. It just makes it possible for people to change when they couldn’t before.

I don’t know why people feel a need to argue against that.

> Our societal-level response is to treat it with a drug rather than helping people who really do have significant willpower problems overcoming their lack of discipline. There are hugely beneficial approaches that rely on CBT, for example, but are relatively controversial because of "weightism" concerns.

Sure, and I don’t disagree. And I’m all for people doing that too. If it works, great!

On average, it doesn’t, for the vast majority of people, though it does work for some, and that’s great. I agree it’s a preferable approach. But if it worked for most people, it would have worked.

But if it doesn’t work? Previously, people just accepted that they were going to be obese and miserable, and that it was their fault, which led to depression, etc., further making it “impossible” to ever fix.

So if there is a medication that helps people change their lifestyle to get healthy, and also appears to be extremely effective, and has a good safety profile… that’s bad?
In 1999 the show writers of the West Wing accurately predicated this in an episode about the selection of a Supreme Court Judge:

"It's not just about abortion, it's about the next 20 years. In the '20s and '30s it was the role of government. '50s and '60s it was civil rights. The next two decades are going to be privacy. I'm talking about the Internet. I'm talking about cell phones. I'm talking about health records and who's gay and who's not. And moreover, in a country born on the will to be free, what could be more fundamental than this?"

- Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) West Wing (ep: The Short List) 1999

- We've seen massive breaches of EMR systems

- We've seen massive breeahes from dating apps (Grindr) outing Gay individuals

- None of these entities faced significant consequences for their actions and continue to operate with large amounts of profit.

- 2 years after this episode the Patriot Act was passed. We've failed on privacy so far.
I feel so bad for all the Wordpress devs and shops right now. This is not the kind of community turmoil I'd want to deal with leading up to holidays/new years!

It makes Drupal 8/Backdrop seem like a pleasant and wonderful experience, in comparison.
> You can ONLY purchase this ticket as a subscription model. If you’re a tourist, you must cancel before the 10th of the month or you get auto rebilled.

Pro tip: some websites offer to start the subscription later in the month and you only pay for those days. So if, for example, you were to attend a certain hacker conference in Hamburg at the end of December, you could buy the ticket for the last 5 days of the month for 49/31*5 euro. Just have to cancel before 10th of December so that it doesn't renew. ("HVV Switch" App)
I saw a great presentation from Finn.no on their bug bounty program. They had had great success, despite the amount of work it took. Much more so than the three different security companies they hired each year to find vulnerabilities.

They also had a security.txt file and had received several emails through that, but all of it was spam. Ironically they had received more real security vulnerabilities through people contacting them on LinkedIn than through their security.txt file.

Your milage may vary, but it didn’t seem like the security.txt file was read by the people one would hope would read it.
This is not about the code. WP is free to fork it with a new name. This is replacing the old plugin with all its reviews, download count.
Did you end up using 9p as a NFS/SMB replacement?

If yes, do you still use it today or why did you stop?
Valve gets a lot of love for game design and leaking employee manuals but when it comes to software freedom they are just another Microsoft.
> The core should be in rust, verfied in lean, and the runtime should be in guile. Literate programming in org-mode should be a hard requirement. Package management should require patch algebra.

Since I agreed with all of these, I’ll add some more non-ironic, idealistic wishes:

Plugins must be written in sandboxed WebAssembly so you can know what a plugin is capable of without reading the source code. The runtime must be portable so it can run in wasm32-wasi.
Ouch, that's sad. But I must say I don't quite understand the implications of that ruling. Also, there are many jurisdictions, and the shopping list of terms on shrink-wrap can't possibly hold in all of them..
When a user uses some open source software, there is no negative happening. They are not accumulating some debt that should be repaid by "contributing back." If they make a million dollars on it, that makes no difference to the project. Agreeing to a license and then following that license is not "bad faith."

The only damage being done when someone makes money using open source software, is to the ambitions and ego of a developer who imagined that "open source" meant "give me your contributions so I can build an empire." Fortunately, open source is for the benefit of all of us. Nobody owes them fiefs.
I've never understood how they keep getting certified when, if I recall correctly, POSIX semaphores are broken on MacOS
This guy is a natural born educator. 'Content creator' doesn't begin to describe his value to society.
That's what Disqus has at the bottom of every of their comments section[0]. I find it ridiculous.

[0] https://electricdusk.com/img/disqus-gdpr-violation-marketing...
Ask HN: What are the biggest issues inside SW dev teams?
As a senior engineering manager, tech lead, CTO (or similar), what are biggest issues you have seen in SW dev teams throughout your career?

What impact did they have on you business and were you able to fix them?
Road vehicles are heavily taxed in European countries. I don't have the figures for Germany, but the UK spends £12bn per year on roads, while it collects £25bn in road fuel duty and £7bn in vehicle excise duty.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/298675/united-kingdom-uk...

https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/...

https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/...
There is even a dedicated word in Turkish to describe the relationship between the husbands of sisters :)