skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The WSJ is a strange beast. Its news reporting is well respected, especially in the financial domain. Its opinion pages are the worst partisan hogwash.

This article was written by the right-wing think tank The Competitive Enterprise Institute. It has nothing to do with doctors, and everything to do with pharmaceutical companies wanting to sell products that they have not proven to be effective for some conditions.

It's literal snake-oil. If a pharma company has a product for lubricating your snakes, doctors can prescribe it for cancer, deafness, and a bad case of lovin' you. Pharma company product reps aren't allowed to tell doctors to do that, but it's not like the FDA has a hotline for reporting misbehaving pharma reps.

In the worst cases, people who need the drug can't lay their hands on it, because it's being mostly prescribed off-label. That's the core of the story here: there's a diabetes drug that diabetics can't get because it's all going to people off-label for weight loss. Often, just cosmetic weight loss.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/people-diabetes-s...

I don't want to let the FDA off the hook here. The approval process is maddening. They make a lot of bad choices, driven by a combination of political pressure, public pressure, and a haphazard bureacracy. It's slow, inconsistent, and frequently just plain wrong.

But you don't fix that with pearl-clutching from the same industry that brought you Oxycontin. They have absolutely no interest in "freedom for doctors", and they'd cheerfully constrain doctors if they thought it would sell more drugs.
Home Manager is nice if you're on non-NixOS, where you don't have a configuration.nix. :)
Basically a catchall criminal offense.
Most of these statues are used as punishment enhancement (to increase jail time) but these laws help the long arms of law catch "smart" white collar criminals who think they can cover all their tracks.
Hennessy Birthday Experience Build with Quest
Take a look at how customers are using Quest: Hennessy needed a responsive, interactive component and they used Quest to create this beautiful experience that lives on the Hennessy US website.

Check it out live here:
https://www.hennessy.com/en-us/hennessy-birthday-cocktails
I am boring, but one of the reason I keep wanting to take a cruise is because I do not want to plan anything. Show up at this place, at this time and then there will be a bunch of exotic* stuff to see/do/eat.

*Exotic very much being in the eye of the beholder, but something different from my daily costal urban experience.
Even for non-ground vehicles my understanding is that the future of H2 is very murky: small aircraft have proven some efficiencies with battery electric that H2 cannot match, other than possibly as a generator to top up a large battery and if the large batteries themselves hit certain densities (which seems increasingly likely as BEV car production picks up and economies of scale start to take effect) it won't be worth the weight for an H2 generator and liquid H2 tanks. I've heard at least one scientist flat out state that carrying liquid H2 is about the dumbest efficiency possibility for air travel because if you are going to carry all that H2 anyway at least carry it as a gas and get free ballast from it. The only efficient H2 air travel is exactly the one we've known about for centuries: dirigibles. But we know that's a PR minefield in current popular culture to even suggest. (Which yes, we probably should have more dirigibles for other efficient air travel options.)

If battery densities end up meeting the needs of airplanes they meet the needs of ships easily enough. Plus, there's interesting new research on wind power for ships, which I find is a lovely irony to see ships return to wind power after all these years (though it may look quite different than the classic age of sail with primary propulsion still being electric turboprops).
What's ridiculous about tipping on a receipt?
I prefer taking the training wheels off the bike after I learn how to bike...
> Are you saying that iTunes, or Amazon.com, is also a shitty business? I'm betting you aren't.

Yes, it is a shitty standalone business. The purpose of iTunes was to sell more iPods - the whole “commoditize your complements”.

The purpose of Apple Music was to be a “feature” to sell high margin Apple Watches, AirPods, HomePods, to integrate tightly with Siri, etc.

> If you are, I recommend looking at how much money Apple makes on iTunes: it is sufficient to have let them subsidize sales of the iPod.

That’s not what happened. SJ himself said that the purpose of iTunes was just to break even to sell iPods. iPods were high margin businesses. By the time Apple paid the labels 70% and then paid the credit card processing fees, it wasn’t make much selling 99 cent songs.
IIRC, during Covid there were only something like half a dozen elevator inspections for the entire state of CA. The source below says there was 15 in 2019. If your elevator inspection is 2 months late... guess what, your project is going to be late.

I couldn't believe this is true, so I actually read the article. Turns out, it's not true. It's multiple orders of magnitude off.

There were 15 inspectors for the city (not county) of LA when this article was written:

"In order to be up to code, each of the 20,974 elevators in the city of Los Angeles needs to be checked once a year.

But there are only 15 inspectors to do it."

Roughly half of the elevators were past due, which means they were inspecting 10k+ elevators per year just in the city of LA, let alone the entire state.
Exactly as Macha said, if you name the attribute `nixosConfiguration.<hostname>`, `nixos-rebuild` will look for that attribute implicitly; you can still specify another configuration if you're e.g. in a VM or a live image.
And find a source with a less clickbaity title. It wasn't a $100M problem, it was a small hurdle on a $100M project
> Who made you the arbiter of what's true and what's not?

Nobody. But I'm going to trust the opinions of people who are experts in their field much more than some comedian.

> or someone that calls a broad swath of the population idiots?

If you trust Joe more than the experts, then well, if the shoe fits...
Earth’s Core Has Stopped and May Be Reversing Direction, Study Says
I wrote a review article summarising studies about emissions during 3D printing: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.119501 (Should be open-access soon)

Basically you can say:
- Small particles and gaseous (Volatile organic compound - VOCs) are emitted during 3D printing
- these emissions can be harmful if inhaled
- higher temperature results in higher emission
- ABS probably more harmful than PLA

--> recommendation:
- print in separated, ventilated room
It almost feels like they're trying to justify their own personality traits and behavior, through that person.
TikTok 'heating' button allows staff to "promote some videos to help diversify the content experience."

There's that word again... I'm curious what this "diversity" content looks like, compared to a random sample of all uploaded content
Encouraging children to read is not covered by the law. You read the article.

Having a library of books is an easy way to encourage literacy, probably even the best way. It is not the only way.

Far more important to the development of literacy in children is the presence of books in the home. There are decades of statistics on the impact of just having a stack of books in the same home as the child.

All of this is also failing to touch on the problem that drew this overreaction. To be sure it is a huge over-extension of what the government ought to do. But the thing it was a reaction to... That never had anything to do with literacy, and everything to do with ideology. When one uses literacy as the shield, and depends on the perpetual good graces of people one has spent years demonizing on ideological grounds, one should expect damage to the very thing everyone thought was sacrosanct.
Decentralization is over hyped. People think they want decentralized but they really don't.
There's an endless supply of 0-days in both Android and Windows drivers.
Why stop there? Get particle board cabinets, molded composite doors, vinyl windows, laminate counters, etc. Yeah it's all going to look awful in about 2 years but you can just replace it with more cheap junk.

I get it, everyone has different tastes and budgets, and values. to me, wood floors feel nice, they look nice, and they sound nice when walked on. Laminate flooring clicks and areas that get walked on just a bit more begin to wear out and begin to lose their printed finish.
I also tried to stick it out in a bad situation, and leaving was the best career decision I ever made.

This business requires a mercenary attitude sometimes. I'm not saying that's the way the world should be, but that's definitely the way the world is.

One of the nice things about that is knowing a lot of good people at other companies, who would be helpful to me if I was hunting for another job, because they are also mercenaries and have done some job hopping since we first met while working together.
Oh wow lol, this reminds me of Windows Vista days and Microsoft’s ReadyBoost for using a USB flash drive as extra memory for disk caching because it was hammering peoples disks. Good times.
Eh, I don't really have a problem with it. I'd pay Verizon's rate even if they didn't offer D+ because the network is just so much better than the competition (I have no loyalty to Verizon; I've used AT&T, T-mobile, and US Cellular and they're worse by a considerable margin in my experience traveling around the country).
They are generally labeled with "persistence of vision".
Sound in the Silence of Space – The Systems of Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Of course the most important trick matrices have is that you can't just do all of those transformations with them. The matrix product is associative, and the matrix product is the composition of the linear maps, so you can do all those transformations at the same time, or multiple times, in any order.
> you don't come right out and say what you mean, rather than using inference and innuendo: You don't like what other folks want, so you want to ban it, or at least discredit those you believe disagree with you

> Please do correct me if I'm wrong.

The parent comment quite right out says the problem is prioritization. I'd rather see "critical thinking, first order logic and math" in place of "civic engagement". You say yourself "you should never, metaphorically (and literally) speaking, hand someone a gun unless you know where they're going to point it". In my view, inducing "civic engagement" is "giving a gun", and teaching "where ... to point it" is math.
AFAIK the effect is also significant enough that using copper on public high-touch surfaces (doorknobs or push plates, hand rails) can meaningfully decrease disease transmission rates.
I said "in major metros" - as I shared in a peer comment in SF (the highest construction costs in the world) it's about 40% and in San Mateo it's like 15-30% depending on finish.

Outside of major metros, zoning makes houses much bigger, twice as big on average as the 70s.
Here are the new features in iOS 16.3:

- New Unity wallpaper honors Black history and culture in celebration of Black History Month

- Security Keys for Apple ID allow users to strengthen the security of their account by requiring a physical security key as part of the two factor authentication sign in process on new devices

- Support for HomePod (2nd generation)

- Emergency SOS calls now require holding the side button with the up or down volume button and then releasing in order to prevent inadvertent emergency calls

The update also includes some bug fixes and improvements for iPhone users:

- Fixes an issue in Freeform where some drawing strokes created with Apple Pencil or your finger may not appear on shared boards

- Addresses an issue where the wallpaper may appear black on the Lock Screen

- Fixes an issue where horizontal lines may temporarily appear while waking up iPhone 14 Pro Max

- Fixes an issue where the Home Lock Screen widget does not accurately display Home app status

- Addresses an issue where Siri may not respond properly to music requests

- Resolves issues where Siri requests in CarPlay may not be understood correctly
You got it, absolutely. So yes there are models where as far as the model is concerned there is a set that satisfies the axioms of real numbers, and furthermore all elements of that set are actually definable (but not definable from within that model), but that set is not the standard notion of real numbers. It's just that it's impossible to provide a set of axioms that defines the real numbers and only the real numbers (in first order logic), so for any definition of the real numbers you end up with a model that will satisfy that definition but doesn't actually model the "standard notion of real numbers".

The reason I brought this up is because when you said that there are models of ZFC where every real is definable, those reals are only definable from outside of the model. From within that model there are still undefinable reals and hence I don't think it matters too much to the point lisper is making.

Maybe to put it another way, there is no model of the reals where within that model all reals are definable, and hence lisper's point stands.
I knew I was done with Star Wars movies when I caught myself looking at my watch about a half hour in.
I wouldn’t dismiss pay-to-rent and the additional subscription channels. If you’re not averse to those, Prime is still the best one-stop besides Netflix.
> - The black market is always cheaper.

anecdata: I'm in canada, which has legalized marijuana recently. The black market is cheaper, but all but the most die-hard stoners I know like to buy government weed, because the product is consistent and you know what you're getting.

> - Even in a legal market how many people are always buying their own?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but in a legal market even if I don't buy something directly at least I have vastly increased faith that i know what something is.

> - If everything is legal then it's even easier for people to spike drinks and the like.

Who knows, but I strongly doubt that there is a large pool of potential rapists at large who are currently stymied primarily due to the difficulty in acquiring GHB.

> - Purdue Pharma marketing issue writ large.
> - Patients pressuring their doctors to prescribe, or alternatively feeling pressured by their doctors to use a particular drug.

There are definitely a bunch of social and policy questions that would need to be addressed when considering legalization, sure.

> - If it's legal it's easier to purposefully or accidentally overdose (e.g. alcohol today). Especially if it's also cheaper.

Almost certainly not, as the majority of overdoses are the consequence of people not knowing what they're taking, or not knowing how to take it.
Yeah the live reload is especially impressive, I was literally just slapping content in between a header and footer and getting away with easy clean results hahaha
Originality is a short order scam.

Look back through history, and you will find most great works are the reprocessing of time honored classics for modern consumption.

Cultural appropriation is how civilizations thrive, remix, and invigorate themselves.

Let’s look at a few literary traditions:

Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Milton, Hess, Nietzsche, … Tolkien, and so on to name a few.
watchOS update as well, hopefully they have fixed the battery-draining bug. Prior to the most recent update, my watch would still have 50% battery at the end of a long day; now it drains after eight hours.
> Variations of this concept are frequently used by drug addicts to justify continued behavior. "It's not my fault, it's society's fault!". Taking ownership of actions and consequences is one of the key pivot points in helping people get control.

I don't think these are mutually exclusive. Society wide problems cause a huge fraction of the population to experience severe emotional trauma, and the process of addiction largely seems to be an experience of trying to escape the feelings associated with that. If you can understand this process, you can take ownership of it, and have a path to beating the addiction itself.

Ultimately, there is a lot of disagreement about what addiction is and how it really works, but I think this emotional trauma aspect is a key part of explaining why one person can use a drug recreationally or for medical purposes without addiction, and another can't. It explains a lot of weird observations that just didn't make sense with the classical chemical/neutrotransmitter model of addiction.

These links I think help explain this better than I can:

How Childhood Trauma Leads to Addiction - Gabor Maté
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVg2bfqblGI

Comic explaining the Rat Park research on addiction
https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/rat-park/

These ideas have explained why I personally have never been able to fight addictions through willpower alone, but have been able to eliminate addiction with other techniques that seem unrelated- therapy, meditation, exercise, hobbies, friends, ending bad relationships, etc. It seems that while chemical/physical addiction is a thing, emotionally and mentally healthy people don't experience opioids as a positive thing, such that the effect of the drug itself actually discourages it's use, and even motivates the experience of withdrawal.
Married, 2 young kids.

Up at 6am. Breakfast with family, everybody getting ready and leaving the house around 7.30 for school.

Back a bit after 8am. Make my coffee, chat a bit with my wife and head to my home office around 8.30 to start the day. My days are usually made up of a lot of calls, but I always block 12pm-1am to have lunch with my wife, then back to work. I also try to include some short 15min breaks to go for a walk or something.

I stop around 4.30pm to take care of the kids bath, then early dinner (~5pm). Kids are in bed around 6pm, and then it depends. Sometimes it's an evening with my wife or sometimes it's video games or reading or side projects, whatever until 9.30pm. Then I read a bit and go to sleep around 10.
Silly question, do we have to worry about older PC OSes not playing well with SSDs with excessive read/writes?
I'd be concerned about destroying drives in short order with swaps that are miss behaving.
> 3) The lack of global hits is very strange.

Yeah, this part of the article really struck me:

> what’s really interesting is there aren’t that many global hits, meaning that everyone in the world watches the same thing. Squid Game was very rare in that way. And Wednesday looks like one of those too, very rare in that way.

I have to wonder what the problem is. I've watched more foreign-language shows in the last 3 years than in the rest of my 51 years combined thanks to shows on Netflix, HBO Max, Apple TV+, etc. I'd love to see more of them, but they aren't surfacing in my searches and recommendations very frequently. I'd really like more variety in show selections. They don't even have to be big hits like Squid Games or Lupin. I'd be interested in any show that's good regardless of whether it's been a blockbuster hit.

On something like Hulu, there are tons of shows that mostly fall into Police/Medical procedural, Office-like sitcom, or Friends-like sitcom. Those are fine, and some are even pretty decent, but I'm really tired of those formats. Seeing shows about other cultures has been fascinating. And just having other types of stories is nice, too.
Test strips: https://dancesafe.org/

Or on amazon
By the same logic, all the houses built in the earthquake zones of San Francisco and LA should also be raised.

I've noticed that there has been mass hysteria in some California-centric websites that flood insurance must be provided by the Federal government in Florida, but not that earthquake insurance must be provided by the Federal government in California.

Botton line, the private sector doesn't handle this type of correlated risk well, and somehow picking on Florida when California does the same thing is pretty weird. We know there will be a big earthquake that will level a lot of property in California just we know there will be a big flood in Florida. Yet "entitled fucks" keep choosing to live in these states. Life goes on.
Thanks for the correction!

Have you seen the designs for interplanetary spaceships that use the crew's water supply as a protective shield to block radiation? I wonder if they need mass dampers for their dampening mass.
You can have both, in repo gitignore and your global one.
Well America needs an underclass. Now that blacks (on paper) have equal rights we have to make somebody the cheap exploited underlings.
Was there any hardware/software which actually did this?

I can't think of any games console hardware which allowed a combination of more than two shears by modification of sprite/bg offset registers, it was either X, Y, or X+Y, but not X+Y+X.

It seems to me that using dx+dy 8.8 or 16.16 fixed-point coefficients for an inverted rotation matrix would by faster in terms of only one read+write required per pixel, rather than multiple (at least that's how I always saw rotations in the VGA mode 13h days, maybe things like the Amiga blitter could do it better?).
I used https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Addonics/ADSAIDE/ to upgrade some Glyph drives to ssd when connected to a g5 audio rig a few years ago
>produce it pharmaceutically

They are... in Mexico... with expert training from China...
It used to be the case that the credit card companies put language in their merchant agreements language requiring the merchant to change the same price for credit and cash transactions. I'm not sure how many places they just lost the leverage to do that sort of thing and how many places enacted legislation to prevent that kind of strong-arming.
This is an inaccurate understanding of the drug economy. The drug cartels that supply the street dealers are multi billion dollar businesses rivaling the size of the big pharma corporations. And the DEA absolutely is not "usually stopping" them. They disrupt low and mid level arms of their operations with some regularity, but it does little to stem the rivers of money flowing towards the groups controlling the illicit drug trade at a high level.

Even if we presume that big pharma is a very corrupt industry and that allowing advertising of narcotics would increase drug use in some populations, bringing the production and distribution into a moderately well regulated market would likely cause a net reduction of usage and overall harm.
It's really crazy the lengths people go to "filter" these models and limit their output, and of course soon these filter will be a another level of "AI" (see Pathways or any mixture of experts, maybe add some contextual memory).

Will our future AI mega-sytems be so walled off that very few people will even be allowed to talk to the raw model? I feel this is the wrong path somehow. If I could download GPT-3 (that is if OpenAI released it) and I had hardware to run it, I would be fascinated to talk to the unfiltered agent. I mean there is good reason people are continuing the open community work of Stable Diffusion under the name of Unstable Diffusion
I also hear this, sounds very faint, a little bit clearer with headphones.
A lot of cars have the option to display a map on the radio screen, so I'm kinda surprised. I love using that thing! I always have an idea of the alternative streets available when I'm stuck in traffic because it's always there.
"data is only useful if you can tell a compelling story"

I really like this - with this product, we're focusing on trying to tell the story and also make the data actionable. I'm hoping we can both show that there is a problem, as well as guide you to how to fix it. Otherwise, at the end of the day it's just colorful lines.