skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't think of any although maybe some erectile dysfunction drugs are (don't know if they're prescription only or not). Otherwise, there's ads for cold remedies, cough medicine and analgesics. The idea of advertising prescription drugs seems bizarre to me as surely you'd want your doctor's opinion, not whatever's on daytime TV
When speculators were pouring billions into the field, it wasn’t a surprise that a lot of engineers went after high pay checks and the chance of even greater returns on speculative vehicles. The easy money drying up is going to shrink their number a lot, however – especially since the traditional finance sector is building the things people actually use. The number of people using inappropriate architectures is going to plummet when there isn’t a personal financial incentive from their use.
correct the SEC cannot charge people criminally
Are boarding houses a possible solution? Why are there not more of these today? Very low fee for rent, providing an option of meals, and social connections.
Dreaming of a better life, many individuals were inspired to make the harsh trek westward at the turn of the 19th century without the assurance of home and family. The rise of boarding houses presented a solution to this insecurity while challenging social and cultural conventions of gender, race, and class; and at one point housed one third of Americans. Discover how the adaptable nature of boarding houses like the Astor House, Hotel Jerome, and the Peck House allowed for their survival despite mining busts and the end of railroads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBzQXv5PNIQ
Examples of the bad side - Caged Men - https://y.com.sb/watch?v=8YbjKxdfE8Q, or watch Sunshine Hotel
My static website is exposed by Nginx in a managed Linux box at $whatever_cheap_vps. Deployment is done simply with rsync.
That's frankly a ridiculous straw man. A person can likewise not have enough knowledge, understanding, or time to make informed choices for other's survival. The difference is that when someone makes the wrong choice about their own survival, they die. When someone makes the wrong choice about other people's survival, other people die.

Nobody is arguing against listening to experts or using processes to make safety decisions. I'm just saying that you should not enforce your judgement on other people. I don't object to the state or anyone else making recommendations or to other people following them. Everyone is ultimately responsible for deciding whom to trust. If you trust the state, you should be free to defer to their judgement, as you will be the one to pay the ultimate price if you are wrong. If I trust some other organization, I should be free to do the same. The state's ability to enforce its judgement by means of violence doesn't make it more likely to be correct. Might dosen't make right when it comes to science or individual trade-offs.

If I'm in the shop buying shampoo, I can look for the name or logo of an organization that I trust to determine the safety of products. If I need a medical product that the FDA has not approved, and I'm unable to travel aboard? What I'm I supposed to do? Die like thousands of people before me[0]? Is that just "Tough luck buddy" to you because your ideology is more important than my life and freedom?

[0]: https://www.cato.org/commentary/end-fda-drug-monopoly-let-pa...
While I prefer to make a script for those kind of tasks (a script could be iterated, reused, produce multiple versions), I really appreciate the example to show the power of vim with commands I already knew!
Funny, the norm command seems useful, I didn't know. But in this particular instance, I feel like a macro would have been much easier.

EDIT: for those that don't know:

qa type in some stuff including cr and a return to be beginning of the line

233@a replay macro 233 times.
Ask HN: Learning Ladder Logic and PLC Programming
I have done back end work in ruby, python, perl for years. And I've interfaced with devices over serial. I've played with an arduino a little as well. However an opportunity has presented itself for me to get into industrial automation with PLCs. Anyone have any book recommendations or otherwise regarding how to get my feet wet in this discipline?
Measuring and Mitigating Postgres Network Latency
I mean if you say you’re a fork it would seem like you’re not a copycat anymore but an independent project with a shared history.
Do you know what his source is? He also recommends taking his preferred brand of dietary supplements which gives me pause about him.
Human: Write me the longest possible article on the dangers of drugs while obfuscating around the living and working conditions that make fentanyl seem like a viable aternative to life.
Workers has a few persistent options.

KV is the obvious one but Durable Objects themselves have interesting persistence properties. There is a sqlite DB service called D1 landing and there is an object service called R2 which is is actually really nice. Also there is a new queuing service which is also fully persistent, even if queues are a non-traditional persistence mechanism.

However Workers is a strange runtime and has strange billing/pricing. I wish there was better visibility into the "bundled" vs Unbound pricing models, namely I wish it could just tell you how much it would cost if you switched from bundled (this bitching could be specific to Enterprise plans though so YMMV).

Overall I'm pretty happy with it in a professional context. Cloudflare's network is second to none. The rest of their stuff... I could do without but Workers and the world's best edge makes up for it's other shortcomings.
Your argument is intriguing but you haven’t explained why this would help keep people from dying of fentanyl overdoses?
Beyond Hello World: Startup Gamifies Development Skills
> But that would upset the teetotalers and puritans.

It's easy to cater to them. In the packet that legalizes all drugs you also remove all gun control laws.

So you make all drugs and all guns legal in all circumstances and at all times, just like it should be in a free country. The state should not control what you put in your mouth or veins or what you carry in your pocket.
This recent HN thread [1] is also related to this issue (the post comments on this [2] Economist article)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33845128

[2] https://archive.ph/fzBoE
Interesting, thank you for the link.

I'm currently working my way through his podcast back catalogue, and am very much liking the content and his way of delivering it.

Must say I have never heard about smoked yerba mate though.

I wonder if that is something akin to how coffee is roasted?

edit: turns out the smoking is part of the common processing done to dry the leaves. I guess finding a supplier that dries via other methods would then be preferable.
Slightly off topic: any reviews of Zed or Helix here?

How does it compare?
This is a good point. The sale is not equal to net present value. However, at least it is quantifiable in some way and somewhat easy to incentivize for. Much easier than attempting to assign net present value to a patch.
Me? I’m trying to poke holes in my latest crazy business idea. And wondering how you can make ice cream of a specific density. And feeling a little embarrassed that I forgot you have to actually write the Ask HN in your Ask HN.
Frankly, it seems to me that VCs should be liable for money FTX owes its customers. These are professional investors who didn't insist on very basic things, such as proper financial sheets from a finance company. Frankly, that's gross negligence. Professional investors should have legal responsibility to do at least some due diligence. In addition, they're becoming owners of a company. As owners, why shouldn't they be exposed to liability that could have been prevented with some basic due diligence?
if !cond1
do this
elsif !cond2
do that

?

it's literally just `!` equivalent. Honestly I haven't seen much code using unless in wild. Especially that it is literally shorter to just !
That is not supported by the research, marijuana use seems independent from opiod deaths (neither harming nor helping).
It would be, if it were to be widely accepted for things other than drugs or other illegal services. At current adoption levels, the liquidity is enough for some small scale illegal fund transfer or some drug trade, but not nearly enough for big money laundering operations (good luck cashing out $100M worth of monero without tanking the price).
Not defending Sequoia, but I'm pretty sure that they have lost their money as well -- private equity always invests along with their investors.
Those older Tory voters were likely having a wild time back in the sixties - they need to get a grip on reality and stop reading the Daily Heil.

Anyone that continues voting Tory after all the damage done to the UK is unlikely to be change their vote just due to drug laws being changed.
Cool stuff. But why does he have his sunglasses sitting on his head?
> The title change itself has real value to people.

Not to me. A "title promotion" without a pay rise would be demotivating, and lead me to wonder what I had to do to get a pay rise - like, leave, maybe.
Git v2.39.0 Released
And the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark [1]

[1] https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/
What do they want to work with then? nginx is solid, easy to configure, good docs and does -exactly- what it says on the tin.
> because the head of PeerTube does not want give people the choice of cutting off Apple users

Why do you think that ?

AV1 seems to be supported, albeit still with some bugs maybe ?:

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues?q=is%3Aissue+a...
I don't know if I am doing something differently than everyone else, but I notice virtually no difference between my Twitter feed currently vs. three months ago.
Yes but a lot of these people are addicted. It’s why Twitter consumes so much of their time and energy.
I can highly recommend fly.io. I have been using it for my Elixir projects [0][1][2]. The interface is easy to use, and you can come very far with the free layer.
Another selling point for me was, that I can easily migrate away (in case I want to move to Hetzner later).

[0] https://slashdreamer.com/

[1] https://articletoimage.ai/

[2] https://ogtester.com/
I deploy to a virtual machine. I use Ansible to set up the machine and install a container runtime, then i set up traefik + containers using Ansible and docker compose files.
If I ever do need to scale it's easy to switch to docker swarm which is quite capable. It's also easy to deploy the full stack somewhere else quickly.
I wish it was easier to do firewall configuration when using docker, since it basically occupies iptables even though I'd rather use nftables. I also keep secrets out of source code and add them during deployment using envsubst and ansible vault.
One thing also, i think the Ansible documentation is quite terrible. The only saving grace is `ansible-docs -s` which can print snippets.
I don't particularly like ansible but i guess it's currently the best there is and has a big ecosystem.
We already tried that, it doesn't work.
Hint: tobacco and alcohol deaths didn't decrease when tobacco and alcohol sales were decriminalized.

What does work is making the cost of drugs prohibitive by placing great transaction costs on the drug trade. (See: taxes and tobacco.)
It's a thing. You don't see it that often, but you do see it sometimes.
We do something similar on the non-tech side. We offer a saas product but most of our questions are more around how the person should be doing their job rather than how to use our software so we have a small team of experts that can answer those questions, they can also help with content creating on the marketing side too which is handy. We constantly hear from our customers that this level of service is one of the key things they really value from us.
The thing is they are so much cheaper, especially for egress, that it takes really extreme spikes or batch jobs for it to be cheaper to use AWS vs. leaving an excess number of server running permanently on somewhere like Hetzner. Very few sites have variable enough traffic that scaling up and down with usage saves enough to even get close.

There certainly are genuine cases where AWS will come out ahead, but they're rare. E.g. if you suddenly need several hundred instances for on average a few days a month, it's probably worth it. Very few people do that, and paying for the capacity to be able to offer that is part of the reason for why AWS is so expensive. Peoples belief that AWS is cheap is another reason.

Ironically, the ability to run a hybrid setup that scales up in AWS when you genuinely need rapid extra capacity changes the maths even further in favour of dedicated servers from places like Hetzner (as does the fact most places like Hetzner now have their own cloud offerings) because it means you can go closer to the wire on your dedicated servers.
> If I were a retail investor who lost my savings in FTX, I might be feeling upset that the government is rushing to action in defense of billion-dollar funds whose own due diligence failed massively, while seemingly nothing is being done to help those who invested in crypto based on FTX's Super Bowl ads and celebrity endorsements...

It's not one or the other, he can be charged for both. It's up to the DOJ to file a criminal case, and they didn't arrest him for no reason.
How popular is it among voters? Below a certain threshold and you'll lose votes if you approach the subject. Once it gets to a certain point, it then becomes useful as a wedge issue, and a wedge issue is only useful to talk about and not really do anything about.

That said, only 30% or so support the status quo criminalisation of marijuana. That's past due for some change.
Being conscious of how you feel gives you a second perspective on your feelings, one that your rational, problem-solving mind can look at, rather than only the instinctive one where all you can do is react to them.

That second perspective also adds a layer of relief between you and the emotions. You're now looking at them rather than being at their mercy. You can act now. You're back in a role of agency. Even if the options available to you are limited, it's very rare that you actually do not have any, but the element of your brain that's overwhelmed by the emotions can't see that.

Even if the only option you recognize from the second perspective is, "I cannot currently think of anything I can do to improve the situation, so I choose to continue with my current course of action, waiting and looking for a change I can make as things change (and things are always changing)," you're now in a situation where you've exercised some level of agency. You're not powerless. You're waiting and thinking and observing for now. And that sits differently.
> I'm not sure what "your own version control system" means.

Me neither. Where did that come from? I didn't write it. (It's not in my comment, just yours.)
> I would support allowing companies to opt in to regulation (and pay the full cost of it) and only allow companies that have opted in to claim to be regulated by the relevant agency. That way, those who trust the state can choose to only use things the state has approved and no-one else will be harmed when the state is wrong.

Interesting idea, thanks.

My original comment was more around ensuring that customers are protected from bankruptcies and other situations that severely impact them like these neurological implants. I'm not saying we should've prevented the company from selling these things. From what I've read, it's incredible what was possible and how the lives of these people were positively impacted.

I was thinking more along the lines of something like the Superfund program or how nuclear power plants are legally obligated to set aside money for future decommissioning. Maybe some form of legally mandated insurance program. Or regulating support time frames or mandating how long replacement parts must be available or remain in production.
Sure would fix it. By killing them faster
My layman theory is that therapy is only useful for second-order emotional suffering.

Many people are miserable because they live miserable lives, identifying the emotions involved and the needs that aren't being met is good but the emotions are there and the needs aren't being met for very practical reasons, and reframing isn't going to do jack to solve it. That's first-order emotional suffering.

Then there are the emotional pathologies that develop on top of that, the second-order emotional suffering, and that can be treated by therapy. For example, if you're miserable because you're poor, therapy won't help solve the anguish and stress of making rent, but it can solve second-order emotions like feelings of shame and self-hatred. Or if you have a life altering accident, it won't solve the baseline misery dealt by the terrible life consequences, but it can help with the residual panic attacks from the trauma of the accident.
This is the side that no one talks about. No one seems to ever question it and just regurgitates the story investors tell them.
I'm in a similar boat. Ever since Google Play Music went bust, it's been my go-to for better or worse.
They also depend on toilets that are cleaned by janitors, should we call them "sanitation engineers"?
It means getting your teeth cleaned professionally
We know how to make synthetic fuel, and right now you either need "real" fuel to go way up in price, or you need $1/mw energy. It's not literally "made from nothing" but it's not made from petroleum products.
I'm in the US and for years wrote software for the medical industry. I was contracted by a European company to write an app, and of course filled it with disclaimers and extra clicks asking "Are you sure?" When I demoed it, they asked what all that crap was for. I said something like, "Umm, liability, duh." Their response: "Oh, we don't sue people for honest mistakes here."
I feel a bit sorry for https://github.com/verse-lang/verse whose just-for-fun toy language has been name stomped by epic and SPJ.
For key/value storage there's Cloudflare KV
* https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/kv/

For document storage, Durable Objects is amazing:
* https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/durab...
* https://blog.cloudflare.com/durable-objects-easy-fast-correc...

For relational data, there's now D1 (open beta):
* https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/

For bulk storage, there's R2:
* https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/
When I worked at Beacon biosignals briefly in 2020, they had Simon Danish (the creator of Makie there full time deploying plots/makie in the browser).

One point 2, you should check out Julius Tech which is bridging the multi language future using Julia through their graph computing tool. Other companies like RelationalAI are building on top of Julia but also have their own new language called Rel.
> So fentanyl is the drug most people overdose on, or is it killing more people than heart diseases, traffic accidents, etc do?

The numbers for other types of fatalities are available so you could do a quick comparison:

42,000 motor vehicle fatalities in the US for 2021 (all ages), so way above that

Heart disease is more unclear, I mostly found age-adjusted risks/etc. It looks like at best I could find, around ~400,000 americans in that age group have heart attacks (eg. MI) each year, though the death rate is obviously going to be lower than that.

So, it's definitely possible. IIRC "death by misadventure" and the like are super high on the list of causes of death for young people (18-25), so very possible fentanyl is way up there if not at the top.
Show HN: I made a site to search and copy mathjax expressions
I found myself googling for mathjax symbols/expressions too much so I built a quick webapp to search and copy them.

Would love to hear some feedback. It's up on Github, so open to PRs for any expressions that are missing.
I’m a coffee -> mate convert but wasn’t aware of the PAH cancer risk.

It seems that the risk is only present when drinking mate at high temperatures: https://www.verywellhealth.com/yerba-mate-and-cancer-5082076
Of course I'm against the war on drugs. I'm not a fan of industrial pollution, whether it's regulated or not.

No, I don't think the state should play any role in making markets, in this case or others.
> he is left-leaning. Calling him a conservative is

in Italian we have a word for this kind of people: rossobruni[1]

[1]halfway through this article explains what they are: https://italicsmag.com/2022/07/28/the-italian-axiom-crisis-r...
Wouldn't the more reasonable approach be over-the-counter legalization of a safer opiate? Fent is inherently dangerous because it is difficult to dose safely. Addicts want an opiate, and fent is the cheap and available one.
I'm pretty often surprised by how good AWS premium support is. Every time I've asked them a question they seem to have gone to quite the lengths to gather information even when the issue isn't really theirs.
I thought I was the only one that felt this way about the homepage revamp.

There’s also no effort to tone down excessive self-promotion posts and posts that instead of kindle discussion on-site, they link out to third party sites.

Sad indeed.
However, currentlly I'm migrating to Oracle free vps (4CPU, 24GB ram)
> Moreover, it's a neural network with well-defined input and output channels, not some kind of self-modifying executable.

Elsewhere upthread someone posted a link to this article:

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/kpPnReyBC54KESiSn/optim...

which constructs a scenario in which (spoiler alert) a GPT-based model could accidentally trick you into bootstrapping a self-modifying runtime, consisting of unconstrained, recursive execution of the AI's own model.

> But ok, instead of sending you the coins, it could just tell/promise you a wallet address and private key. How did it obtain those in the first place and how did remember them if state is reset for each thread?

Don't focus on cryptocurrencies here. The thesis is a sufficiently smart AI can talk its way out of the box somehow. There is no one good answer here, because it's trying to manipulate the human operator.
1. add some raw sugar ( 1 teaspoon per gourd )
2. try the smoked 'Barbacua' flavor
https://www.amazon.com/MERCED-Barbacua-Cosecha-Limitada-500g...
it rocked my world.
Why I'll say it is best time to join twitter, i know Elon makeing chances so fast and it's scary but twitter is best for writers and content creators! It's gonna grow only from now on
Speed definitely depends on use cases. I switched from Vim to Emacs because Vim's syntax highlighting in LaTeX files was so slow it lagged behind my typing (and I am not a fast typist!). This is a well-known problem in Vim and the manual even has a section about it (see :help tex-slow). Emacs was perfectly snappy for LaTeX and I didn't want to use one editor for LaTeX and another for everything else, so I just switched to Emacs for everything.
I am currently creating a financial plan for an imaginary startup. This is the task in one of my university modules.
A lot die of fentanyl without even knowing, because fentanyl was added to another drug to increase it's potency.

My proposal would sell pharma-grade drugs of known quality/dose in grocery stores at affordable prices. The illegal market would die overnight.
There has been a major back-logging in nuclear equipments investments, so big in fact, that some countries who should by right be netto exporters of energy (france) became importers. Its a valid technology in a theoretical world, that does all the upkeep measures, does actual credible threat analysis.

I have yet to see such a world.
https://archive.ph/OZUHn
The very worst kind of stealing, the kind that robs you of a thing that isn’t yours to own but something you feel you deserve.