skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> everyone should take this magical substance that alleviates the problems of the world.

That's a weird claim considering no one said that.

There are currently two long-term maintenance opioids on the market: Suboxone and methadone.

Compared to committing crime in order to afford a $200+/day heroin or fentanyl habit, regularly overdosing and/or living on the street, yeah, these drugs can be life saving and let people live normal lives.

They of course have their downsides, they're still opioids and you're still addicted if you take them, but they're legal, pure and given under controlled conditions, which seems to eliminate 99% of the life threatening/ruining effects of illicit opioid addiction. People can live functional lives on them, which given the alternative, is pretty nice. It also shows that drug use, under safe conditions, doesn't necessarily result in a long-term crisis.

That said, the only people who should consider long-term maintenance opioids are people who are going to die or end up in prison if they continue taking heroin/fentanyl/etc. The idea that "everyone should take this magical substance" is a joke that no one has ever claimed.
Nobody is saying it’s a livable wage for a human. In many competitive markets drivers spend more time driving around looking for a ride than making money. But it’s still a huge cost to Uber/Lyft to pay people even if they’re paying a pittance.
What does politics have to do with it?
Yes, thatis the problem The post mentions over two dozen theories/frameworks/techniques that amount to useless sophistication. Taking notes is the point, you don’t need two dozen theories
Green bridges are a thing that could exist. I remember reading about them some time ago, thinking about how they could help prevent deer strikes on the roads where I live.

https://www.thelocal.de/20130918/51975/

https://germanyinusa.com/2021/05/13/green-bridges-help-anima...
The ruling this article is about says nothing about that is the point.
I think a bigger reason for having multi US passports is how much of a black hole sending your passport to a foreign embassy for a visa can take.

A common problem for those that do training/sales around the world for short trips.

Sometimes quite amazing how long an embassy can take when it’s one of the country’s big industries you’re heading to to train them on the expensive thing they surely want to maintain…
Heidegger would approve.
The other issue is it draws in young people because of the high reward and exposes them to a lot of dangers. It sets unrealistic expectations and wrecks their social dynamics.
A combined cycle gas turbine is about 60% efficient, and you lose about 20% in transmission, converting to DC, charging, and converting to AC to run the motor.

A natural gas combustion engine is 40% efficient and loses 5-15% of that in the transmission.

60% * 80% > 40% * 95%.
For most urban areas where this contamination is prevalent (old dry cleaner & brake cleaner spills), there are a limited number of well heads that pull from the polluted aquifers to supply municipal water.
The practice of Amazon Prime, Frontier, and other on-demand services just up and removing movies (or tv shows) you "bought" is weirder to me. I assume it's because they lost rights in some negotiation, but the movies just disappear. No notice, no refund.
Lex Fridman’s subreddit is notoriously trigger-happy with bans and post removals. Lex is a mod, but it’s not clear who is doing the heavy-handed moderation. It’s well-known on Reddit that you don’t post anything less than glowing agreement with Lex on his subreddit, unless you want your post removed and to risk getting banned. I know his podcast personality is popular, but this is not the guy you want calling the shots on social media governance.

OTOH, Elon picking Lex as the fall guy to take the blame wouldn’t entirely surprise me.
Out of curiosity, have you spoken with that idiot primary care physician since, to let them know how you were cured? ... and to do the whole "fucking told you so!" thing? :)
Just one anecdote: The Roku Channel (on their free website) is streaming Seasons 1-8 of Great British Bake Off with ads. But with an adblocker, magically there are no ads.
A correction. The Kudo et al., 2002 study found that estradiol lowered the filtration rate in ovariectomised rats. But supplemental estradiol did improve the clearance rate for intact male rats.
Re: Any professional athlete is probably a terrible role model for healthy lifestyle.

This reminded me of a pro cyclist write-up where they regretted the absence of oral hygiene… years of glucose gel being squirted into their mouths at intervals for hours and hours every day. cringe
Reddit may be the all time king in productivity blockers...
I hope they add this to Adobe Premiere, it would be useful for cleaning up audio from talk recordings.
The problem is the nondisclosure. When you're selling something (do this program to get a body like mine) and don't disclose that you got there by taking steroids, that's a scam. The influence may still be positive, but you're fundamentally selling something that doesn't exist or yield the results you're saying it does. So you're lying.
True. I couldn't find the original of the cartoon in this piece. This problem cuts both ways though.

https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/elon-musk-says-woke-progressiv...
Depends on the scale you're working with. If your complete code can fit locally, you're working at a different scale. Huge monorepos won't fit on a laptop-sized local disk these days, and a full local dev env would take a half dozen VMs to even replicate half-successfully.
Maybe you can try do more Exercise, Exercise is medicine for cancer and every dose counts - even in late stages of the disease: https://www.ecu.edu.au/newsroom/articles/research/exercise-i...
> A lot of people need this, the assumption that most people honestly think these guys are clean is a bit too presumtuous.

A while back at lunch with 6 coworkers I've had to Google Arnold Schwarzenegger admitting steroid use because they didn't think he used steroids.

Just let that sink in about general awareness of what's possible with natural BB.
chadloder seems like a decent person. I'd like to know what Elon or Twitter has on him.

Musk promised that everyone will get explanation why they were banned. I'm waiting for it.

> It's clearly political.

It may be personal, but I doubt it is political. It just happens that people who attack Elon are on the left, and people who were banned by previous administration and unbanned now are on the right, so it looks political.

Of course, Twitter moderation should not be based on personal preferences of Elon.
Sorry. I also had the same reaction when I read the title.
It’s a little tangential, but I find it wild that many “low performance” suburban homes are still largely built using similar ideas as 100+ years ago.

Surely there is tremendous room for new building materials, right? I’m not saying hempcrete (real thing) is the future, but can we find ways to use alternative building materials that don’t require a tree to grow in the ground for 20+ years?

Also, it seems to me that an interlocking LEGO style brick would make things go up so much faster and cheaper…or at least make DIY more possible. But there are dozens of companies who come and go with a few flashy demos and then disappear.

It feels like we can do better.
The Failed Promise of Online Mental-Health Treatment
I bet on LAN X11 forwarding was pretty sweet, but when I tried it over Wi-Fi/tethering is was pretty janky (and before someone suggests xpra, that wasn't buttery smooth either). But I do like the idea of what X11 forwarding is, better than VNC where whole desktop is shared. I read that on Windows RDP can "stream" only the window, whereas on Linux the implementation is full desktop only? (please correct me if I'm wrong cause I would love to tunnel apps from servers).
For the record, the solution to this is to run "snap refresh" manually right after you exit Firefox.
Something being illegal doesn’t say anything about its morality. Many things that we now think are normal were illegal not too long ago, and in many cases things are made illegal to protect the established powers.

Personally I only follow laws I agree with.
Twitter suspends account of Paul Graham
It sounds like this research is pretty promising. I will be very happy if this can be deployed in water treatment plants.

However, there is a remaining problem of removing these chemicals from everything else. What about crops grown in contaminated soil, or meat from animals who've eaten contaminated food? It seems that a lot of fish and shellfish may be contaminated. [1]

Messes are a lot easier to make than to clean up.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/food/chemical-contaminants-food/question...
A One-Woman Business Harvests Shellfish and Helps Protect Them
Indeed. It's "only" around 1400 tps.
There is a solution that both I and a sister comment have touched on: Green bridges, otherwise known as wildlife crossings.
HBO was the original prestige programming channel, Netflix briefly got into that game but seems to have given up and preferring on making programming decisions solely based on KPIs to maximize total profit and now it seems like HBO will no longer be any kind of prestige programming destination.

Is there anywhere now to pick up the prestige programming torch?
Both VS Code and IntelliJ have first class support for remote development as referenced in the article. I have been using Github codespaces for a while now and you can't nearly tell you aren't developing locally. Add to that faster builds without your laptop sounding like a jet engine.
> I think he only posts polls when he believes he knows the outcome already.

Agreed, and this move would almost certainly be more of a distraction than an actual stepping down. Whoever is put in charge will still be under Elon’s thumb, but with a different person in the CEO seat, Elon can pass blame for the bad decisions and ride in like a white knight to reverse any unpopular actions.
Yes. It's the 21st century, artificial scarcity no longer makes any sense. Globally networked computers exist and they trivially render any information abundant at negligible costs.

People need new business models. Selling bits doesn't work. Attempting to make it work requires the destruction of free computing as we know it.
Apple has made a sample project available for Stable Diffusion that can run on both macOS and iOS.[1] The sample code is here.[2]

I'll concede that Stable Diffusion may or may not meet the threshold for SOTA but still think this is indicative of inference eventually becoming supported for any compelling LLM on consumer-grade hardware. The possibilities for creative tools are just too vast.

[1] https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/stable-diffusion-...

[2] https://github.com/apple/ml-stable-diffusion
Hello Adam, I come from your Twitter. I have never used screen.studio but I know that if I going to buy a screen recording app, that would be it.
I have already seen a massive amount of cool videos captured with screen.studio. Super clean cursor movement. Good work.
I agree but IMO we need the equivalent of a simple MPG sticker on new homes not incentives. Keeping this house at 70f 24/7 for a full year costs X$.

Picking a specific solution like passive solar or PV on the roof is likely to get outdated relatively quickly but cost is a useful metric.
McRib situation is a bit more complicated.

McDonalds would bring back McRib when pork prices would drop and they could negotiate large purchases of pork at favorable rates.
Really air tight homes sometimes have air quality issues because there is not circulation. There is a reason it is more expensive to build homes like that--it comes with other problems that take specialized knowledge about things like ERVs to build them.
twitter's biggest issue are bots, and that's an engineering issue.

the politics are just noise.
Pine64 might sell Pinetab 2 Linux tablet early next year
I don't know, I think speech on twitter was way more predictable before. Now you need a weather report to figure out what Elons current mood is and an oracle to figure out what you're therefore not allowed to post.
That’s not reasonable. Any deal like this takes months to close and any serious buyer takes on the full market risk.
Are people more racist, sexist, dumb etc today, compared to 50-100 years ago? I’d guess no, but it feels that way because of the global and instant nature of the internet. YouTube is filled with videos of people doing dumb things.

Similarly, a conman can reach hundreds of millions of people today vs a few thousand at best, 100 years ago. It is also cheaper.

Everything is amplified and today - especially bad behavior.
It is true, it's on his public Twitter feed - you can check. Saying he's "bad at polls" because he redid one shortly after realizing a mistake is really reaching for something to complain about.
My opinions don’t matter. Argue against the paper cited in the article “Predictive modeling of U.S. health care spending in late life” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29954980/ Abstract:

That one-quarter of Medicare spending in the United States occurs in the last year of life is commonly interpreted as waste. But this interpretation presumes knowledge of who will die and when. Here we analyze how spending is distributed by predicted mortality, based on a machine-learning model of annual mortality risk built using Medicare claims. Death is highly unpredictable. Less than 5% of spending is accounted for by individuals with predicted mortality above 50%. The simple fact that we spend more on the sick-both on those who recover and those who die-accounts for 30 to 50% of the concentration of spending on the dead. Our results suggest that spending on the ex post dead does not necessarily mean that we spend on the ex ante "hopeless."
His life was very much valued. Reading about that tragedy, I don't think there is any way a drill would have helped. He was so far down the cave, and even just the entrance to that cave is very small. There was no way to get equipment to him in time. Everyone involved tried their absolute best, but there was no solution to even ask for. If there was a solution that would have wrecked the cave and would have saved him, they would probably have taken it, but there was no way to operate on the rock above him without burying him.
> What is the point of these non-elite colleges?

The lead example, Colby-Sawyer, seems to be “non-elite” only in that traditional evaluations of elite status rely largely on graduate/research programs, and its a baccalaureate-only institution, and apparently one of the better (despite being small) undergraduate institutions in the region.

> Does it serve the public good for them to be eligible for federal student loans?

Federal student loans shouldn’t exist, but make no less sense at schools like Colby-Sawyer than any others.

> Tuition at our local community college is $4,000 a year.

Comnunity colleges generally do not have baccalaureate degrees, and do not substitute for schools that do any more than those schools substitute for graduate schools.

> Why divert public resources supporting these extraneous colleges?

Because they aren’t extraneous.

> It seems like expensive cargo culting to send all these ordinary students to expensive universities that ape the blue blood trappings of Harvard and Yale.

Colby-Sawyer very much does not ape the trappings of Harvard and Yale, and one of the draws of schools like it is that the focus is on undergraduate education, not graduate research with undergraduate programs as an afterthought among faculty duties.
Overall, people want to take what's the fastest to get where they're going.

The US and Canada have built cities in a way where only driving is fast, therefore people want to drive.
> transitioning between non-man/woman genders works

Read about the difference between sex and gender.

Gender is a societal role. There were societies with 3+ distinct genders in the past, even though most have two now.

Transitioning to a new gender (whether binary or in between) is usually as simple as just presenting yourself as that gender, although some people choose to have medical intervention (hormones, surgeries, etc.) to help.
Considering the capital P in NumPy, I've come to assume that the Py is meant to be pronounced as in Python, thus "num-pie"
> But... what if I really do want a moral way to consume netflix content at a later date for a non-recurring, non-changed-at-their-whim cost? Well - sucks to be me because there's literally no way to buy it. I think that's also fairly immoral. I'm literally being held captive to a subscription for eternity, with no way to negotiate the deal, and the real loss of any catalogue item at any time with no recourse. Moral? Fuck no. Legal? Sure.

> So... Where is the middle ground? Because I'd really, desperately like to see a better middle ground. Where I don't have to feel like a thief, and also don't feel like I'm getting extorted to watch some shows.

Most content can be purchased outside of Netflix at some point, on DVD or another medium.
God no, the rockets are doing ok, get him the fuck away from them.
Looking at her name, it seems she was born for this.
Not 120, but a decent list of stuff I'd never heard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_langua...
Wym? This happens all the time.

Many of the popular subs will retroactively ban users for posting in other subs.

I was banned from a fair amount of subs because I had a trivial argument with a mod in one sub. IIRC it was literally an "argument" about humidity being worse than dry heat, lol.

Seeing this repeated on twitter, even if its for a day, is alarming.
Every comment in this thread is phrased in a way that assumes he’s “cracked” and then goes on as though it’s universally understood.

They’d all be a lot more convincing by even just acknowledging it’s a hypothetical before leaping into crazy territory.

> Will Elon ever have a "coming to jesus moment" and realize that he's alienated so many of his peers that he is, in fact, in the wrong? Or is he so delusional that he really does believe he has the answers?

I mean read this… do I have it spell out why this reads ridiculously / assumes facts that are clearly untrue?
Hehe, that's very funny. I think I just woke up the house.
But couldn't this be made into an intermediary device that one would hook up to their main water connection to a home, like a reverse osmosis type device, and ensure that your tap water is pure?

Then, if you're flushing your system with such pure water - maybe it does a good job on the liver and kidneys?

I drink A LOT of water each day... and what I would also like to know is if this system has any effect on the removal of fluoride from water (tap water)

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Side note: My dad was very good friends with the CEO of Alcoa for many years... and fluoride is a side product of aluminum manufacture, and the quote Ill never forget was "The reason the put fluoride in the water is they dont have any other place to put it - so they store it in your liver"

I dont know if that was a joke - but I was like 15 when he said it, so I wasnt sure if he was fn with me....
I just posted a link about NewtonScript [1] in this thread, which had prototypical inheritance in the early 90s, which JavaScript later used.

Short answer: it's more memory efficient than a full-blown OOP system.

I was pretty active in the Newton MessagePad community back then and I knew lots of Newton developers; they loved NewtonScript and raved about prototypical inheritance.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34047775
I actually prefer the subscription model for my software, if the monthly price is reasonable.

Once the company has lock-in, you have no control over their pricing. The reason a company offers a good deal on a subscription is to get enough customers for it to be worthwhile to start soaking those same customers for whatever they are willing to pay - or imposing things to get more money or etc.

You can see this play out with MS Windows, Twitter and so-forth.

It gives me faith that they can actually sustain their business and pay their employees to maintain and improve the service over time.

Edit: It's amazing to me that someone thinks they can give a company money and expect it to be spent on what they want. The company always to prefers to pocket your dollars as profit. If you send them a check or something, that's what they'll do.
Pics or... never mind.
What do you mean artificially lower it? Removing zoning restrictions would allow actually building more homes where they are desired. The government does not need to throw money at a problem where the solution is completely free and rather simple.
> Some subreddits apparently ban you for linking to personal websites on them.

The "no self-promotion" policy originally came from Reddit. Reddit assuaged the wording in 2013 [1] but it's still used by the most popular subreddits as justification to remove whatever they [don't] want.

For example, a pretty cool r/Minecraft Starry Night build [2] was #2 on Reddit when it was removed, perhaps due to Rule #11: Self-promotion must be kept to a minimum. To my knowledge, no explanation for that removal was ever provided.

I discovered this the hard way while building Reveddit. I mention it in the FAQ under Why haven't I heard about this? [3]

[1] https://old.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion?v=64baf14c-da98-11...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/uvpkiz/i_built_s...

[3] https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/#heard
The thin terminal possibilities that Java was working on solving was exciting back in the day.
That would be convenient, but for now you could bounce the audio out, run it through the online tool and then bring it back in to Premiere.
Will you be taking a course on computer architecture and organization? If not, I'd strongly suggest Code[1] by Charles Petzold. Or The Elements of Computing Systems[2] by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken. Both will help you develop more of an understanding of what's happening "under the hood" and that knowledge will, IMO, ultimately benefit you - even if you're not looking to become an assembly language developer per-se.

Another thing to consider: I believe that a lot of developers could stand to know more about the basics of networking, including things like ARP, DNS, subnetting, etc. With that in mind, a good basic book on network fundamentals is never a bad idea.

[1]: https://www.codehiddenlanguage.com/

[2]: https://www.nand2tetris.org/book
I mean, there should be a mechanism for it to be moved to long term laws. But yeah, the new ones should all start as short-term to begin with.

As smart as this sounds to me, I'm afraid that it goes against the adversarial tribalism that's baked into humans.
These days lots of people stream games and CAD sessions over the internet using software like parsec. It works quite well and is often better than the UI running locally on an underpowered GPU.
As Musk slowly (or rapidly depending on your point of view) turns Twitter into an expensive version of Truth Social and Parler, being "seen" there threatens to associate users with his overriding POV -- it's going to start sending a message just for being there. Running a forum that's even handed is pretty hard and requires a different kind of idealism.
But choosing the right team is part of being a successful business man. I still think it's fair to credit him for SpaceX despite Gwynne Shotwell and his engineers running the company; he founded it, he brought the vision and he hired the right people.

Elon had a lot of luck, no doubt, but his track record is simply impressive and for that, I think it's fair to say that he has extraordinary talent.
Weather for your zip code read to you directly from the weather.gov API
I’ve always thought it disturbing that the center of wealth has such poverty but doesn’t California and San Francisco spend the most tax payer money on the homeless? Hundreds of millions? Can’t hundreds of millions prevent this? Are they really letting them suffer and die? And why can’t the taxpayer funded police stop a crime on Walgreens? That question hasn’t been answered