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> Focusing on fatalities and LD50 is a red herring in drug safety.

LD50 is ordinarily used as a measure of toxicity. In general, the smaller the LD50 value, the more toxic a substance is. The opposite is also true: the larger the LD50 value, the lower the toxicity. I don't believe it is beyond the realm of reason that, in general, the more toxic something is, the more lethal it will be. Your claim could be considered a red herring. Being that I neither focused on nor made any mention of fatalities, LD50, nor the field of drug safety, your comment is also a straw man.

What I instead argued was that dxm, and only dxm, can be considered safe because it is an old drug (went off patent in the 1950's, leaving lots of time for plenty of safety trials, scientific and amateur), it is OTC (implicitly it has been tested and scrutinized for safety by the FDA at various dosages and been approved to have no scheduled controls), and the lethal dose is an estimation (being that it is so old and readily available without prescription, and drug abusers without restraint have survived all imaginable overdoses), which only taken together support my claim that DXM is safe, specifically, what I meant was that DXM is forgiving of mistakenly high dosages in a way that other OTC drugs, such as Acetaminophen, Diphenhydramine, and even Aspirin, are not.

> There are many drugs that can do a lot of damage at doses far lower than those that kill someone.

This is a bandwagon argument. You're implicitly arguing fallaciously that because there are "many drugs" that can produce significant damage at doses much lower than a lethal dose, then this is also true of dextromethorphan.
To some extent, it is. Maybe https://badssl.com/dashboard/ explains it better? Half their certificates are expired though.
Dafny is cool, but I believe they tackle different problem spaces. For example, how would you verify a distributed algorithm with Dafny?
> Google reviews every extension and update on the Chrome Web Store

Absolutely not true. No one has the manpower to actually review/understand all the code that is being pushed to the store. Extensions are automatically approved after a few minutes.

Mozilla tries but it's more of a spot check after the extension is being published.
I define 'concrete' a bit more strictly than 'I tried it and it doesn't work'. No description of what kind of strange behavior was observed. That ticks over between the likelihood Microsoft got their code wrong and the likelihood insert random HN user got their code wrong.
More like DocuResign
What are some/one examples of "bad" and "preceding crushing trauma" that you have in mind, if I can ask?
So now iPhones are 80% cheaper in every other country in the world? Seems unlikely to work. You’ve also introduced a massive tax for a single product for a single company which is prettt bullshit
You can get up to $100k in startup credits on AWS just by asking. They certainly cut a deal for Stable Diffusion on top of that.
Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyone on our team
Sounds similar to when Google said:

As a news website you don't NEED to use AMP. You'll just never appear in Google's news carousel, and won't be at the top of the news search results anymore. Sorry :(

Way too risky for devs to ignore the deadline and possibly get de-ranked from store search results.
what was that thing where they invited open source dotnet projects to join a curation club on github, and proceeded to take over those projects?
There is a bike lane near my house painted on the right side of the road. At some point, it just ends. Then a hundred feet away, it just starts up again on the left side of the road. Every time I ride it, I’m amazed that such a crazy design is still there. Do the civil engineers think that bikes are able to teleport?

Sometimes I think it is a decorative bike lane - there to give the impression of biking, not for actual use.
Not using JS means you need to replace it with something, which means you gotta put it into the browser.
...and I don't support that, either.
The point is not that all religious reasoning leads to constitutional laws; that is obviously false. The point is that religious reasoning dos not necessarily lead to unconstitutional laws.
It would be interesting to know what groundbreaking findings they made between their limited signup period and now, other than the obvious reason that they got their asses kicked by Stable Diffusion and MidJourney's alternate models without pompous gatekeeping.
As the article mentions towards the end, just because it's technically feasible does not mean a lot of coal plants will be converted to nuclear. Fundamentally this is about reducing cost. The question is if it is enough. Nuclear plants are expensive and making them slightly less expensive helps. But they might still be too expensive overall to make it worth the trouble, Also, time is a factor. A lot of coal plants have already been decommissioned and more are going offline in the next few years. Mothballed/decommissioned coal plants are plentiful but their infrastructure is not going to maintain itself and is probably actively being decommissioned instead. And even if it's not, it's probably not getting any better just sitting there unmaintained. And if anything, nuclear is a very slow moving industry. Ten years is nothing. Ten years from now, a lot of these coal plants will be history.
It can't be too slow, if it takes too long to input moves, you can't input in realtime, or you have to slow down your play and that can look suspicious.
Your certs are all self-signed, so testing against them doesn't really help somebody unless they go out of their way to trust your root.
> VC is the type of grassroots investment that still can be called "investment" in the economic sense. Ie. you're not looking for immediate returns so any money pumped into startups by VC firms helps the economy whether or not it yields anything.

Are you making up this as you go along? VCs absolutely look for returns and they're much less patient than what you would call a long term investor. If they don't see returns on investment from growing equity, they'll can it.

> The VC scene in the US will help your recovery since VCs will still be putting money into the system (albeit at lower valuations) meanwhile in Canada it'll completely dry up.

We're talking about the effect of investment fleeing due to the downturn though. In absolute terms, the amount of investment leaving USA is far larger because the investment in Canada tech companies is so small.

> And again, this isn't the type of "investing" where you're super concerned about paper losses like, say, the stock market.

Now you're definitely making things up. That's the only thing tech startup VCs care about. They don't even care if they know it's a sham, so long as they'll be able to cash out and leave someone else holding the bag.

> Also software does count as an economic investment, the same as infrastructure.

You've lost me. Tech startups create very little in the way of long term valuable assets like infrastructure. In any case it doesn't matter what kind of strange way you like to classify these things, doesn't change what they are.
Many of their other non-EV certificates are expired as well, for example: https://sha384.badssl.com/
My pet peeve is when the same form requires different format in different fields, ie full-width name but half-width phone number is required. That, and the insistent breaking of the back button.
Unspicy take:

Try to take a blameless post-mortem approach rather than blaming your "bottleneck" engineer, this is ultimately an organisational failure.

Get people together, go through the RCA process. Use some representative blockers.

When you take a wider look at what's going on, be open to more complex explanations than might be immediately apparent.

Ask whether the organisation prioritises documentation, how time is allocated for it and how that work is checked. Ask why multiple people weren't across core work that is critical to the business. If there was a team, why did the others leave? What is your onboarding process and is it giving people enough information and access to do their jobs? Does your now "bottleneck" engineer's workload permit time to answer the questions they get? And so on.

I do find it surprising that engineers would wait weeks or months for an answer instead of reading code or writing a test. Why aren't the engineers engineering, it seems like a major problem? You're either talking about really subtle and deep systems here, or the code/infra is super bad, or people don't have the access (to code, or systems or test infra) they need to do their jobs, or you have major skill gaps in your team, or some combination of all these factors.
That's news to me. I've purchased two prepaid sims in Australia within the past ten years and each time a passport or driver's licence was required.
I'm not entirely sure if this is a US only problem, but Americans have a way about making logistical details of how they lead their life a fundamental part of their identity. Roads, cars, obesity, single family homes, HOA are IMO all symptoms of this.

The bureaucrats are never trusted with even the most minute details by the populace or the politicians. This is a problem of the left and right. If statistics show that BRT will reduce traffic, but if the population thinks that 'removal of a lane' will slow road traffic, then no change will occur. From the location of a train-stop to an affordable income apartment, local politics poisons all efforts grinding all efforts to a complete halt. participation in local politics is good. Micromanaging governance using 2 minute snippets from a tiktok video as inspiration is not.

The left ignores all literature around urban crime management, the science around obesity and effectiveness (or lack thereof) of good-intentions based educational interventions. The right ignores all literature around infrastructure regulation, transit, welfare or coercive religious interventions.

The gridlock means that systems that are in a downwards spiral (urban crime, car accidents, obesity epidemic, drug epidemic, school costs, healthcare costs) continue spiralling. The most radical of either political side leverages this using promises of policies that can never be enacted, while any politician who might have been willing to strike compromises for slow movement towards real solutions is pushed out of their party.

IMO, a center-left or center-right govt. with a Party Govt. (Pres, Senate, House) up & down the ballot with the ability to pass bills would be able to push for useful change, even if it is with policies that are diametrical. The grid-lock is an unstable equilibrium, where a move in any direction will probably make things a lot better than just staying still.
I'd add actually encrypting all events in so-called "end-to-end encrypted rooms" to that list :/

I don't mean to be snarky, it's just frustrating to be told that it's common sense that this wouldn't be the case, when it's come as a huge surprise to everyone I've mentioned it to.

That said, I love Matrix, big supporter of the project and of the team, etc etc. Just, there's a lot of work still to do!
"Ducks,” the Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton’s new graphic memoir
I taught prehistory for a long time and got really tired of playing the, this is the first example of _______ game. It's fundamentally flawed unless you assume that we can ever know everything about anything, which is completely insane imnho. And it changed constantly for prehistoric artifacts which was awesome but super tiring.

Anyway I ended up feeling best introducing historical points in a minimal amount of implied context. "The people who wrote this textbook considered _______ to be the earliest major example of _______." or "As of 20XX this was considered to be the oldest known example of ______." etc.

I started to have a lot more luck with maintaining a positive productive engaged classroom conversation when I started doing that. And it let us dive into unstructured critiques of historical method and bias which was always a good way to run out of time in lectures.

Then I realized teaching couldn't support an adult human lifestyle and had to quit. I miss these kinds of discussions though. Always glad to see them on hn.
Due to Singtel gutting Optus's onshore support service Optus has been losing market share for years and has had to rely on heavy discounting. In 2021 they posted a $208m net loss.

This is probably the end for Singtel in retail telecommunications in Australia, and I don't know who would buy their network now that TPG and Vodafone have merged. They may just convert it to a much smaller wholesale only operation.
Yes - I was talking early 90s, certainly pre-1995. There was certainly a rough period after that as the internet emerged, and I do remember being frustrated that there weren’t better tools for deploying and maintaining servers in the various ISPs I worked in. As a developer I wrote some tools to help the sysadms but it was a difficult period and I’m not sure that period has really finished yet which might be why AWS has become so popular.

The closest I’ve seen to devops nirvana has been NixOS, but its frustratingly divergent terminology and file formats make it very hard to cross the chasm.
There's recorded incidents with both womad and megalia, including child sexual abuse. They are pretty much the main reason all sort of feminism, even non-radical is considered as male hate in south korea.
> I like the fact that the Greens are finally considering nuclear.

it's more likely that the electorate is now finally capable of accepting nuclear. The greens are merely trying to get votes and attempt to make their policies match what their electorates would vote for.

I think the previous fear about nuclear is mostly misinformed, and bad PR from high profile accidents isn't helping.

Nuclear is fairly clean, cheap, and available. We really should consider it as a viable source for the long term future.
Stockfish rates moves by chasing them down a game tree and evaluating positions. I can imagine several heuristics for a "non-obvious move here" buzzer based on that architecture:

- Hidden gem: The best move has similar value to others if exploring a few moves, but becomes clearly better at depth [n].
- Trap: There is a move that has similar value to others on shallow exploration, but offers opponent a checkmate at depth [n]
- Material exchange: The best move involves a major material loss in the first few moves.

I would love to see these tested in practice, but it seems very plausible to me that some combination of them could make a very useful one-bit (erm, one-butt?) signal.
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Sharing the road with a sane driver travelling at sane speed limits in a sane car is perfectly reasonable. There's no practical reason 95% of motor vehicles couldn't be as small as the eu L7e class (or even half the weight) and governed to 40km/h (with a manual override for larger roads) with the remaining 5% only travelling on local roads by timed permit. Filling the roads with monster trucks is an intentional policy choice, not some inevitability and even not what people would naturally decide to do.

For rural roads a bike lane works fine as there are very few conflict points.
Very powerful. It really evokes a similar emotion to reading the news.
How sad to get to write for the New Yorker only to lead off by putting down some teenager.
From wikipedia:

> Laws against adultery in colonial America were very harsh. Despite this, there is only one known execution for adultery in American history: it occurred in the Colony of Massachusetts in 1643, when the married 18 year old Mary Latham[118] and her extramarital lover James Britton were executed.[119][120]

This is new to me, I had no idea. But it seems that in colonial Massachusetts at least, adultery was a capital crime. Technically colonial Massachusetts isn't Massachusetts state. I don't know when this/these laws were revised, but it seems plausible that some of them lasted past the colonial era.
PLEASE DRINK A VERIFICATION CAN
I associate the sound of a HDD "clicking" to a failure, not normal operation, so when I read the title I thought it would be about the former.

That said, it doesn't sound like failure, but I think it's missing the deep bass resonances that a real HDD has.
Fossils reveal the deep roots of jawed vertebrates
Not even "new" my mother refused to use a touch-tone phone when they came out.

She rented with payment every month for years a rotary phone in the kitchen with a massive 25 foot spiral cord I'd have to untangle every week as it was stretched across the house.

When I got older I went and found the exact model in the "Bell store" and bought it and secretly swapped it out one night and returned/cancelled the rental so her bill would go down like $5/mo which back then was a lot. Left the old tangled cord on it so she'd never know.
That's great to hear! Thanks for all your work on Matrix/Element.
Tesla’s Optimus robot demo may turn out be a dud
5 reasons why many are skeptical
Amazon Urges Call Center Staff to Work from Home, Plans Closings
With respect, that's not right. I've advised Australian companies of all sizes (from one-man bands to ASX-listed companies) for decades, and they are very heavily motivated by avoiding bad press from a preventable accident, avoiding company and personal reputational damage, being fired, being sued personally (noting that eg D&O insurance almost invariably excludes fraudulent acts), suffering regulatory investigation/enforcement (including eg fitness to hold licences) and because a surprising number of people believe that it is important to do the right thing, and (contrary to popular belief on the interwebs) this doesn't change just because they are employed in a business.

In cases where there is intentional wrongdoing, existing laws already make complicit people liable both to civil action by people harmed, plus criminal or civil penalty provisions by ASIC (or the ACCC, depending on the industry and conduct). As a plaintiff, you typically join them to increase your potential pool of recoverable assets for your clients.

The same is true if there are breaches of the Australian Consumer Law, and the person has a particular level of knowledge that is below intention.

In cases of pure negligence, like this, if the negligence rises to a criminal standard, then criminal laws and penalties already apply. How and when this works has been a topic for over 50 years, since Tesco v Nattrass in the UK.

In other words, there are already very significant legal mechanisms in place, and by and large they work - and not all of them involve having executives personally liable. In any event, many already do, and this has been worked out carefully over a long period.
I’m not in the US but that happens all the time in the north of Ireland where I live. I’m convinced that bike lanes here are designed by someone who drove a Transit van down the road once.
For when a stack overflow really is not acceptable.
It's there to satisfy a requirement, nothing more. It's not actually intended to be used. The people who made the requirement don't ride bikes, and are just fishing for votes. The people who made the lane are just fulfilling the contractual requirement for the city, and also don't ride bikes.
> The whole idea of forming a business entity is to limit the liability of its principals

When you really think about it, that is a VERY scary thing.

Quite literally it goes:

"If I do this illegal thing myself, I'll get in lots of legal trouble."

"If I form a company and do the illegal thing, I'm safe."
It ain't a "taxi" if it doesn't get you from where you are to where you want to be. Sounds like a major showstopper to me...
“Entropy finds a way.” — Claude Shannon, probably.
...just think more than thousand internet company when 2000s, they just incorporated into Google, because they are not Western company.
In recent years, with more and more parents pay attention to early childhood education. Which make that children's board books are hot popular in the children's book market. And more and more self publishers choosing print their board book for the kids. But there have a question, many self publishers are first time to self publish their board book. They are often vexed by choosing a right board book printer. So I write this article and hope to give self publishers some guides.

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Won't delaying the stream by a few minutes solve this entire attack path ?

With stream sniping as popular as it is, this is a well understood and well implemented form of anti-cheat.
> Children are less computer-literate than ever.

Is there any evidence for this?

Is it a definition issue?

My grandparents and some people in my parents' circle of friends are not computer-literate. And by that I mean they don't know how to use double click, what a file or browser is, or even how to use a touch focused device. They are utterly unfamiliar with the abstractions and UIs computing devices afford.

Even in my generation many kids didn't have PCs or devices with interfaces more complex than an NES until later in high school.

That is different today from what I've observed. It's true that for many the first computer is not always a PC as I would have had, but a smartphone or a tablet. But does it matter? They are able to harness the power of computing devices to get things done.

Needing to know how computers work internally, or making use of traditional computers with mice, keyboards and monitors on a desk, these things were never really the definition of "computer-literate".
Since when are passport numbers secret? If that's real that's totally new to me.

In Israel you use your ID number, if a citizen, or passport number if not, in tons of transactions (as a citizen it somehow flows to your yearly taxes, not sure exactly), even stuff as mundane as getting gas needs an ID number.

If passport numbers are meant to be secret I suspect a lot of people are in for a rude surprise.
It's very simple physics: if your vehicle is much larger than the vehicle you crash into, you're going to have lower acceleration forces inside your vehicle and thus experience fewer injuries.

Sucks to be the person in the other vehicle though. The end result is an arms race of vehicle sizes.
Delysm is Dextromethorphan Polistirex which is a time-release form of DXM. I don't think it lets you get the same peaks / thresholds as 'instant release' dextromethorphan.

Back in my day, all the kids were cold-water extracting their paracetemol/Tylenol out of the combo pain reliever + cough suppressant medications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_water_extraction

You could probably still do that. Or claim an allergy to the additives in Delsym (a corn allergy is a good one because corn is in everything) and ask to get a pure dextromethorphan formulation from a compounding pharmacy.
More on the elusive mystery of how matter exists than on the real mystery of matter, which is that it exists at all. Physics answers the first mystery, seems ill equipped to answer the second, it itself the product of the existence of existence