skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they’re saying that pshychedelics laws are already entirely not enforced so this does nothing.
Agree with this incremental step from a political perspective as an easy sell / quick win. But, it's imperative that this be understood as an incremental step. The hazard here is equating "natural" with "safe" and "synthetic" with "unsafe".

Eventually, this mindset will have to be dropped because morphine, cocaine, and cyanide are natural (heck, methamphetamines is found in trace amounts in some species of acacia). MDMA is synthetic but can be lethal in a single dose. LSD is semi-synthetic and one of the safest of the bunch--in fact, it's safer than the "natural" chemical feedstocks of its synthesization routes (LSA or ergot).

The shift will have to be to evaluating each molecule on its merits and risk profile. Sure, the whole "natural" argument feels warm-'n'-fuzzy for a lot of people--but sadly it's a poor metric for determining safety. After all, our brains' receptors can't tell whether a molecule originated from a plant or from a lab.

TL;DR: LSD, Cannabis, Psilocybin, Mescaline, DMT, (maybe) MDMA, and their various pro-drugs/analogues should be legal and regulated--regardless of their source. Morphine? I mean, the libertarian in me says "OK", but the more practical side says "probably not a great idea". In the end, none of this is rocket science--but the DEA, the broader US Government, and religion have turned it into a far more complicated thing than it needs to be.
Sure, I understand the need for the robot autonomy. The problem, as I see it, is that current robots (autonomous or not) suck. They suck primarily because we don't have good algorithms. Without such algorithms or models, it does not matter whether a robot is autonomous or not, or how much processing power it has. Only after we have the algorithms, the other issues you mentioned might become relevant. Finally, it's not clear yet if we need more compute than what's currently available (e.g. at Tesla) to develop the algorithms.

p.s. I don't think AGI is needed for robotics. I suspect that even an ant's level of intelligence (together with existing ML algorithms) might be enough for robots to do almost all the tasks we might want them to do today. It's ironic that robots today can see, read, speak, understand spoken commands, drive a car (more or less), play simple video games, and do a lot of other cool stuff, but still can't walk around an apartment without falling or getting stuck, do laundry, wash dishes, or cook food.
Depends on the version :P
No GP is right. You say:

> It’s objectively better unless you are harboring some irrational grudge.

That seems absurd. I'm in NA, and economically could buy an iphone. Most of the text messages I send are automated in a ruby script that runs in termux. I also have a few apps that I use that make my life easier, but require being side loaded as well as rooted.

Are you really saying that iphone would be objectively better for me? Unless things have radically changed in iOS, it seems like I would lose a lot of features that I currently rely on to save me lots of time and give me a much better UX
The machines don't have malice, they aren't like humans.

No company is required to provide intellectually healthy results. How would those be defined in a fair way? Is there even a good way of detecting less direct codeword driven searches that might silo perspective?

A better approach might involve multiple, hopefully not for profit, fact checking and news organizations. Each might have a Truth / Lies and Bias / Informative score among others that helps show the quality of the information. This metadata could be a first class citizen on the content. A warning in front of content that has not yet been vetted or which includes lies / large bias might help warn and inform end users.
Presumably, there is even more pain in the world of rent control. By definition, a submarket rate apartment has a supply/demand imbalance.

There is someone who values the apartment more than you do who can't live there, perhaps denying them the chance to be closer to their job or family. Also, you have less economic incentive to take in a roommate, thus denying another category of potential occupant.

In a rent control system, there are winners and losers. I'm happy that it has worked out well for you, but the survivor bias needs to be pointed out.
I'm curious about your last point. What's the problem with async/await?
> Doesn't the French Prime Minister answer to the President?

In theory, no, French PM answers only to Parliament. Only Parliament can dismiss them, not the President.

In practice, and in normal times, this isn't true at all. When the President tells the PM that their time is up, they immediately resign. (One tried to resist in the 70s and was immediately voted out by Parliament.) This makes the French PM effectively powerless. They simply implement the will of the President. The equivalent to the British PM is the French President, not the French PM.

Now there are non normal times where Parliament and the President are on opposite sides. When that happens (1986-1988; 1993-1995; 1997-2002), the PM is effectively in charge of most things, but even in those cases the President still has more powers than an typical constitutional monarch.

But my point wasn't about power but about humility. I think it's good and desirable that the ruler has to bow to someone else, and that that person, in turn, has no power whatsoever.
They rely on metallurgists, but they may not employ them directly. I know somebody who consulted on that sort of thing, and worked on developing alloys that would work at high temperatures and thus allow greater turbine efficiency, but the engine manufacturers mostly just knew the properties they needed, not how to get them.
I didn't realize that the Concorde was a private jet. Also, I'm not so sure that SpaceX has managed to achieve reusability (launch turnaround cost) better than end-of-life space shuttle yet. The space shuttle did take a lot longer to work out the kinks than falcon 9, but it was also a much more complicated vehicle.
I agreed with you up until this point:

> And that's Google: the people at Google that work on this software are evil.

This is an asinine assertion. The people at Google that work on this are the same as you and I, motivated by precisely the same incentives. They're no different from the people at Microsoft or Amazon or Apple or Netflix, and many of them probably worked at those companies previously. The upper management working at any modern tech company will readily abuse their position as a service provider if it makes them more money. Apple does it with the App Store. Microsoft does it with Windows APIs. Amazon does it with Prime and their shipping networks.

The lack of regulation and blind money-chasing is what allows for evil decisions. There's no minion of Sauron working at Google, plotting ways to make your user experience subtly worse. Accusing them of that is ridiculous, and I hope you don't look at your coworkers the same way.
Well, they're not that secret apparently
I'm not dang, so I can only speculate, but I would argue that the original comment is very close to a personal attack, and the comment was not made in good faith.

Likewise, I would caution you about your own phrasing, particularly << So, there--the enlightened, FREE Western man or woman or "it", please tell me, is your freedom of speech an illusion and only applicable to Moslems? >>

You have had your question answered thoroughly, but you have escalated to examples that have already been explained (in one sentence: private companies can choose what to publish (Hebdo) and what not to publish (HN, Twitter) without government interference), and chosen a phrasing that is generally acknowledged to be insulting to non-gender conforming individuals.

This isn't a debate in intellectual good faith.
Very well said, have my upvote.

There are unwritten social contracts in play here - which get weaker with time.

Criticizing the oppression of colonies (under the eyes of the crown) is only allowed - sometime later.
You can now build Jini and agent systems on top of the web!
yeah, it just happens most anyone with friends who do psychedelics have had some of them go on psychotic breaks that take months or years to fix. It's not super common but I'm gonna trust my own observations of reality over studies that usually fail to replicate
This page is unreadable if your system theme is dark mode - dark grey text on a black background.
Queen Elizabeth II’s first official photograph from 70 years ago:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/18050875/queen-first-offic...

Queen Elizabeth II’s last official photograph from 2 days ago:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11185023/The-Queen-...
The Senate doesn't pretend they're powerless figureheads who exist for tourism while exercising power in secret.
Here is the resolution they adopted: https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5742708...

https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=11095427&GUID=46...

I think it is useful because it provides a fairly compelling and surprisingly specific list of justifications.
Perl was created in 1987. My grandpa isn’t that young!
Hype vs. reality: What you can't do with DeepMind's AlphaFold in drug discovery
The Need for Speed (3DO)
> Monarchies are inherently undemocratic

UK is in top-20 countries by democracy index.[1] It is classified as 'full democracy' (as opposed to 'flawed democracy', for example in the US).

[1] https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2021/

UPD pdf version of the linked report: https://www.docdroid.net/xCeDvHc/eiu-democracy-index-2021-pd...
Sure, but this is a brittle hack based on scraping text contents apple can change arbitrarily, and only a cosmetic one for the android user. The iPhones in a green bubble chat still see them last I checked, just, infuriatingly not the original sender who probably doesn’t realize how they are spamming the thread.
Five Harmful Anti-Alcohol Myths and the Evidence Against Them
Solar fusion doesn't produce neutrons hot or otherwise. It produces gamma rays, helium nuclei, and neutrinos.
You're preaching to the choir. We're hammering home how corrupt and unethical the process is with regards to reviews. The logic Airbnb gives is weak, but then logic of profit is stronger: of course they will side with hosts, the moneymaker, and shit on us, the expendable piece of the equation.
Cromwell found it really quite straight forward to abolish the monarchy. The bit afterwards he did not do so well.
Edit: I've taken another look at this and decided that this was partly an overreaction on my part—sorry for that.

I've unbanned you now. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and mitigate the ways that you've been breaking the rules, that would be helpful so we don't end up in this boat again.

---

That may be, but you still have to follow the rules. You broke them here, have broken them elsewhere, we've warned you many times, and I've just told you how to get unbanned if you want to.
This is entirely offtopic. If you have a question you want to ask us, the site guidelines explain what to do: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

The answer to your question is that HN is just a specific type of web forum a specific set of rules. It's not an anything-goes place and never has been, and it's hardly the "western world".

Who decides whether the guidelines are fair? well, that has to be someone's job and it happens to be my job, so for now it's I who decide.

Since you've broken them badly in all kinds of places recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32671575

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32660805

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32659189

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32648075

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32646308

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32628649

(and that's just a few examples), I've banned your account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.
No, it's not a fad, it has been pervasive for at least 10-20 years, although like everything it gets worse as companies get better at harvesting contact information.

I always ignore/unsubscribe from such things on principle. No, I will not help you with market research for free. My time is valuable, I will not interact with your automated nonsense. Pay your employees to do that, set up some focus groups, whatever.
I for one fully support the 24h hypermarket near me.

At the same time I think limiting night time traffic in residential areas might in some cases make sense. If these depots cause substantial issues I think it is reasonable to find them locations or solutions where they don't cause such.
I did see that benchmark result previously but did not find that page yet with quick look.

From https://redbean.dev is this:

"If you want Rust-like promises then redbean can be compiled with ASAN memory safety. Cosmopolitan Libc has the only open source implementation of the Address Sanitizer runtime that's intended for production use. It causes redbean worker processes to crash and log a report should a bug like a buffer overrun, use-after-free, or stack smash occur. This has a marginal impact on performance. It can be useful in environments where interruptions in a service are more desirable than risking the system being compromised."

More at https://redbean.dev/#security
Careful, you're going to convince someone to stockpile it lest it become unavailable like toilet paper. :)
Impressive performance gains.

any Taichi v Julia benchmarks?
Where are all of these quotes from? I honestly can't tell what point you're trying to make — are you accusing them of hypocrisy or something else?
> Replace the word CEO with President, Prime Minister, Branch Manager, Head of Labor Union - and it'll make as much sense.

They all have massive limits on their powers as compared to a CEO. They work with parliaments, etc. They can be vetoed easily.

I'll grant it isn't a perfect analogy. A CEO doesn't have unlimited power granted by god and has to answer to a board and therefore shareholders. But in essence, the idea of having a singular ultimate decision maker/leader rather than having a small group vote on decisions or have the entire company vote makes it a de-facto monarchy.
I do think the distinction actually exists for the British Monarchy... A quick Googling would give you something like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_the_British_royal_...
I agree with you that clicks and view time do not necessarily equate to desired content, but I disagree with you that Google uses those parameters because they're "evil". They make money when people continue using their products, regardless of whether that's because they're being sucked into a rabbit hole of engaging things they don't want, or because they're being sucked into a rabbit hole of things they actually do want.

I think the reason Google (and Amazon, and Netflix, and every other major tech company) uses clicks/view time as recommendation engine inputs is because... well, what else can they use? What quantifiable metric could possibly be used for large-scale, automated recommendations that more accurately indicates what someone actually wants to see more of? (This isn't rhetorical: if you have any ideas, I'd love to hear them.)

I don't think clicks/view time are the best metrics at all, and I don't think they're extremely accurate. But I also think they're the most accurate measure we've got, with the only other options being either (a) remove recommendations entirely, or (b) have humans manually monitor everything you do on the website, occasionally ask you why you clicked or watched things, and then make personal recommendations to you based on your answers. The latter of which is slow, more expensive, less scalable, more invasive to the user, and more tedious for the employees that would have to sit there monitoring you.

Maybe one day we'll have an AI method of using your comments and search terms as a better indication of desire (I dare say some of the recent LLMs are close to being ready for that task), but we're not there yet.
Queen Elizabeth served in the armed forces during World War 2 as a truck mechanic.

That's something that has always struck me as indicative of her character.
> Regulating sock height I do not get it, maybe they had to do it to prevent the cyclists from using ridiculous knee high socks.

Yeah this rule was ostensibly designed to prevent everyone from racing in knee-high, very tight compression socks. Shortly before this rule went in place some teams had found they had a subtle aero benefit by reducing profile and were planning to race in them. However, you get hotter.
Her vile words about the Queen were slammed by thousands online, including billionaire Bezos.

Jeff Bezos said: 'This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don't think so. Wow.'

Journalist Piers Morgan also added: 'You vile disgusting moron.'
A drunk (or high) person is significantly more likely to engage in disorderly behavior like tripping people than a sober person.
Exactly the kind of faulty logic GPT3 is prone towards.
I am not sure about official rankings. But "freedom" in the English tradition is quite flawed.

The dominant paradigm is "if it is not permitted it is forbidden".

Those of us in the colonies went a long way to get away from that.
The fact of the matter is: paper is still basically the most advanced voting technology around (from the perspective of auditability, which is crucial)
It Depends (tm) but generally a private club can admit, or not, whoever they please, or don't.
Yes; the Olympus engines used were derivatives of an existing military turbojet and had reheat from the beginning. It was used for takeoff and then to get through the high-drag transonic regime as quickly as possible to minimise fuel use. Once at cruising speed the engines operated 'dry'.

There was a longer-range 'Concorde B' designed, which was intended to have larger engines with no reheat at all (as well as larger wings and some other changes) but this was cancelled when it became apparent that it would never be profitable.
I know about this, and in fact I wrote an alternative solution for GNU Coreutils env in 2017: a complete patch with updated documentation and test cases.

Here is a problem: interpreters take arguments such as options ... but, separately, so do interpreted programs. Sometimes, you'd like to control both.

I made an extension to env whereby you could do:

#!/usr/bin/env :interp:--foo:{}:--bar

This would find the "interp" interpreter using a PATH search and then pass it the arguments --foo <scriptname> --bar, followed by arguments that came from the invocation of the hash-bang script. If the special argument {} does not appear, then interp will be invoked with --foo --bar <scriptname>: the script name is not relocated into the arguments.

However, the maintainer expressed a preference for compatibility with FreeBSD -S.

I took a look at the requirements and saw that FreeBSD's env -S was doing a whole lot of stuff: interpreting C-like character escape sequences like \n, and interpolating dollar-sign-sigiled variables like $USER. In spite of all that, didn't see the feature of being able to insert the script name into the middle of the arguments, like in my solution.

It amounted to throwing away my patch and implementing some FreeBSD stuff I had no interest in and a lot of which I thought was a bad idea, while failing to achieve my original functionality. So, I just did the first part: throwing away my patch.
No, funny -- for me it's precisely the opposite.

The design is clean, modern, minimalist -- and I associate sites that look like that with loading in a blink.

It's the sites where everything is crammed in and packed with ads that load slowly, like most news sites.

Everything about this style of design says "fast" to me.
That is a good point. Is there any way to disable HTTP/3 support with just config?

The (unversioned?) docs have:
https://caddyserver.com/docs/modules/http#servers/experiment... :

> servers/experimental_http3: Enable experimental HTTP/3 support. Note that HTTP/3 is not a finished standard and has extremely limited client support. This field is not subject to compatibility promises

TIL caddy has Prometheus metrics support (in addition to automatic LetsEncrypt X.509 Cert renewals)
No, as you mentioned, 406link is a commercial hack that detects a PLB's "test" message and uses that to trigger a pre-programmed "I'm ok" message. But that's not what I'm referring to.

By one-way communication, I was referring to the default "I'm in distress, here's my coordinates, send help" message, which is the only message the system can officially transmit. There's no way to carry on a two-way conversation to collect further details, or even a mechanism to acknowledge the message - though due to a very robust system design, it's very unlikely the message wouldn't get received.
Those are more features, which is nice but has nothing to do with interoperability. The set of people you can talk to before and after Apple implements RCS is the same.
I had your exact same reaction.

Related story: In my free time I am a coach for a competitive math team, I recently had to design an application to automate multiple choice problem submissions. Nothing stellar, your run-of-the-mill CRUD app. But it was under some interesting engineering constraints: users would have to log in from a variety of devices, phones, tablets, bad chromebooks, etc., possibly on slow cellular connections.

So naturally I went for a simple server-rendered design, with stock Bootstrap hosted on a CDN.

The overwhemling reaction was "this is so fast". Now, being server-rendered with absolutely no XHR, the app spends most of the time doing nothing, but it's interesting laymen think it's fast.

I think we came to associate "modern" designs with piles of javascript, requests everywhere, popups, ads, and the like.

Probably the correlation is indeed there, even if it's obviously not causation.
A statement that chooses to say "per gram" rather than "per person" sounds like it's intentionally about cargo, and not people.

Also, riding a bicycle (even while coasting and not expending energy) is not exactly comfortable, so stacking people into a container might not be all that unreasonable a comparison.
A Queen, without power is a fake; it's just a title but with the inability to do anything because successive governments over time striped the Royal Family of any and all powers, and any that do remain can be vetoed by the Govt.

This media circus, is a form a worship.

Sure people can cry for a person such as the Queen, a person they do not know except for what they see on TV or in other forms of media. Personally I don't get it, I think Israel bombing Gaza killing children (just an example) is far more sad
I'm not sure how the math works for 3D games, but I would think that for 2D games, a curved monitor actually reduces distortion.

In a flat monitor centered in front of your head, the distance between your eyes and different pixels on the screen varies depending on how close they are to the edge, thus distorting the sizes of the rendered sprites. Curving the edges reduces this effect (depending of course on the exact curvature and distance to the monitor).

I guess the key question for 3D is whether the rendering engine already attempts to compensate for this effect. It seems difficult for it to do so, since monitor sizes and distances vary so much, but I suppose that's what settings like field-of-view are for.
For pieces that were added as amendments, it is at least possible to determine who proposed the amendment. Instances where the as-written initial bill is written on K Street will probably always be impossible unless Congress pass absurdly strict sunlight laws with teeth (i.e. make it illegal for congresspeople to have substantive meetings without livestreaming them) that inconvenience themselves.
So i guess the cost of data is probably the reason why those apps didn’t get much traction when they were launched