>In one experiment conducted in Switzerland, after volunteers took psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms, they reported feeling less socially excluded.
>lonely people tend to focus excessively on unpleasant social cues, such as being ignored by others
take mushrooms help fight the epidemic of victim mentality ;)
> deciding not to get a covid-19 mrna vaccine != anti-vax
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that. I just wanted to make it clear that, despite this incident, we have not changed our position with regards to vaccines of any kind. That's not to say we might exercise more caution in the future.
They cared a lot less before the lawsuits started hitting.
Their appreciation for nudity is offset by their aversion to standing around in courtrooms or paying money for an expensive representative to do it for them.
One issue I have w/ webdriving headless browser in general is host RAM usage per browser/chromium/puppeteer instance (e.g. ~600-900mb) for a single browser/context/page.
Could crawlee make it easier to run more browser contexts with less ram usage?
From our experience, RAM is not the limiting factor. It's the CPU. You need at least 1 CPU core for the modern browsers to work reliably at scale so if you're using a container that has 1GB ram and 0.25 core, it's just not worth it. If you have access to containers that have strong CPUs and not a lot of RAM, then it's a different story.
That being said, for scraping purposes, you can almost always build the scraper with HTTP requests only. Sometimes it might be hard but theoretically it is always possible (it is what the browser itself does right).
Your account has been using HN primarily for political/ideological battle and flamewar. That's the at which we ban accounts, so I've banned the account.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I don't really have an opinion but was curious. Official stats from 2018 [1] tell me the average sentencing for sexual abuse was 191 months (15 years, 11 months).
Her sentencing is 25.6% longer than the U.S. mean for sexual abuse in 2018. I'm not familiar with the standard deviation for this stat (it could be a 3 sigma event for all I know).
I still don't have an opinion, but it's a good stat to know.
I'm definitely not suggesting her crime was average, rather I was curious to understand how her sentence fits into the statistical distribution of sexual abuse sentences. Because I had no idea whether 20 is crazy high, bang average, crazy low.
Unfortunately, without having the standard deviation of the distribution, it's difficult to draw strong conclusions from these data points. All we can really say is that she received a 25.6%-higher-than-average sentence.
25.6% above the mean could be an "industrial scale" number of standard deviations above the mean, we have no idea.
Knowing HN, I hope it's only a matter of time before someone computes it for us!
love seeing the resistance to this period of peak centralized control of lives
months ago many ppl i know praised central mandates on things like ESG scores & vaccines. Near all have completely reversed their position just 6 months later (even deleting previous tweets).
the unprecedented political-decisions as of late have been something of an IQ test.
> love seeing the resistance to this period of peak centralized control of lives
I'm not sure what you mean, exactly. Climate change is and will happen. One of the central questions is how much we choose to act to mitigate its consequences. If we, as you seem to imply, apply a hands off approach as we have done for decades, then you can have negative externalities that compound uncontrolled and unchecked to blow up in everyone's faces to the detriment, decay, and possible destruction of society. The world is unfortunately not so simple as the "resistance" and "centralized control of lives" as you make it out to be. Actions and lack thereof have consequences. We're feeling them now.
I tire of discussing the consequences of climate change with those in denial. I hope your disillusionment with reality doesn't harm your future.
"Close down your ancestral farms and do as we say or these horrible tribulations and curses will befall you, your cities will be drowned into the ocean, your lands will glow a fiery red, pestilences and disease will succumb you... probably in about 30 years from now when I'm dead and wont have to answer to you when I am wrong.". This is essentially what you are saying and what you believe. What did it take to put you and so many others into this mindset?
I for one, will be alive for another 50 years if you go by how old my grandfather and father are(both still quite alive).
As long as the farmers are made whole if their farms are indeed shut down. Right now that is a 'fear' not an actuality of any policy. Times change, things change. I am pretty confident in saying that these ancestral farms are not run the same today as they were 100 years ago. So their impact is much different.
Also, I feel the same about people that do not want to leave the environment cleaner on all levels. "Who cares about climate change, I'll be dead when the worst of it comes to pass."
> "Close down your ancestral farms and do as we say or these horrible tribulations and curses will befall you, your cities will be drowned into the ocean, your lands will glow a fiery red, pestilences and disease will succumb you."
This is happening now. Regardless of closing the "ancestral farms." Subsidence and storm surges happen every few months globally. Sea levels are rising. Have you been to Venice, Miami, Bangkok, among other cities lately? Flooding and erosion are a constant issues. New Orleans has not and most likely never recover its pre-Katrina population levels in our lifetimes.
Recordbreaking wildfires in Australia, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, and Wisconsin have all happened in the last five years alone. COVID-19, monkeypox, avian flu, orange trees succumbing to diseases, valley lung, Lyme disease, dengue fever, etc. I hope the rock you're living under is a pleasant place to live.
Multigenerational farms become incorporated groups with familial ownership or multinational corporate control. I don't know of many bucolic countryside farms these days, but if you look at the numbers they've certainly been consolidated and controlled by fewer groups over time. 'Independent family farmers' are a dying group in developed economies.
> What did it take to put you and so many others into this mindset?
For me it was looking at the data and learning more about geology as well as systems thinking.
It was about a decade ago now that I was curious what the big deal was about CO2 ppm rising so high, and then again a few years after that when we reached a new minimum for global sea ice. Looking into the details of these problems and then learning more about how our global energy economic works I started to realize the situation at hand.
The more you understand the data as well as ways of viewing climate modeling from various different scientific communities the more you realize how dire the situation is and how often our models under estimate variance, and how that variance is more likely to be on the "worse than expected" than "better than expected" side of things.
But, I'm also of the perspective that it's far too late. We can't even tackle nitrogen pollution in a relatively progressive area of Europe, we'll never be able to touch on the larger problems we're facing. On top of that the time for action was around 30+ years ago.
I've done the same thing and come to different conclusions about the degree of severity and about how hard economically it will be to overcome. Not saying I'm right but I do think the debate needs to be had, be open and be free from censorship. If the 'other side' can't offer that, then you'll see more extreme reactions.
parent edited their comment which originally was just the first paragraph about centralised control, I suppose that's what you are replying to.
Obviously it is hard to quantify control so I don't have hard numbers to present, but I ask you: can you name a more efficient surveillance device than a smartphone?
Note that smartphones became ubiquitous very recently, I would say during the last 10 to 15 years (before that, they did exist but were used by a tiny minority of people).
I can: people. If you think that mass surveillance requires technology you haven't seen what, for example, eastern European regimes we're able to accomplish. Stasi [0] would be the first such example.
By sheer numbers this has likely been the "peak centralized control of lives".
Clearly that's the prominent fact and claim to be proved out.
It is certainly the most important claim discussed, but it's concerning that we have to wonder whether you intend to question the shifting of opinions instead of the claim.
This is mostly a fair criticism. I've seen the common, 'my body my rights' used in both vaccines and abortion rights. I would point out however, that the vaccine is less deadly, with fewer side effects than carrying a baby to birth. But also, vaccines give herd immunity, which is a direct benefit to the people around you. So they wouldn't be the same.
Vaccines and climate change are not comparable in any way. And just to state, you can be pro-government and anti-government in certain areas of life/society simultaneously without being a hypocrite. Government is and can be expansive and everyone has their limits. Unless you also like pointing out that people live in houses but still go outside?(What is that all about? like come on, you either love living indoors or outdoors you can't do both /s)
>>you can be pro-government and anti-government in certain areas of life
Perhaps, but you cannot be 'my body my choice' for one thing, and my body, the governments choice in another - the moral high ground on the 'my body my choice' slogan, has been lost - you can't have it both ways imo, and the left has muddied the waters quite a bit by arguing for 2 years that, no you don't get to decide, the government does.
- sure, you can slice and parse the differences all you want, but the previous absoluteness of the 'my body my choice' message has been permanently tainted - and will be exploited over and over again by those that are opposed to abortion (which btw, is not me)
The COVID-19 vaccines don't give herd immunity. I would encourage everyone eligible to protect themselves by getting vaccinated, but this does very little to prevent infection and transmission. Everyone will be exposed.
>lonely people tend to focus excessively on unpleasant social cues, such as being ignored by others
take mushrooms help fight the epidemic of victim mentality ;)