skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cancer causing agent in Zantac is a N-nitrosamine.

These are the same class of chemicals that are found in cured meat and they are present in an awful lot of food because they are produced during fermentation. Bacon, beer, even a side product of drinking water treatment.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4609975/
The sickness is due to how the particles interact with the lining of your lungs, and breathing in enough to get ill effects will be much more than you consume through food over a short period.

There may be longer term effects, but I'd imagine we would have identified more of them by now, considering how severely dangerous silicosis is.
That would never fly in production for any sort of enterprise application with uptime requirements.
Thanks for clarifying, that makes more sense.
I don't agree. Firstly, Musk will wind up selling more cars outside the US than inside, and this is a US specific intervention. Secondly, the alternative is to ignore this, and see other charging networks steal his (charging) lunch and in any case, the other manufacturers are coming no matter what.

People are going to be in a BYD, Ora, or VW i<x> or Hyundai (if they can afford it) before they are in a Tesla. This way, he gets at least some of the revenue for volts.

This is "build a bigger market" stuff. You're right in some senses, but against total market growth, charge as income is distinct from locked-in-charge net as attractor to sell cars. He's moving off the lock, into a bigger market.
This whole conversation is about using SQLite on web servers, so I think it's reasonable for OP to assume that's what we're talking about.
> one of them mandates the monitoring of his internet use.

Is that in bail conditions?
Powershell and whatever else can that instantiate COM objects can edit excel files.

Windows is a lot more friendly than you realize. Probably powershell is a lot more powerful than you realize.

I'll also make the point that people who are doing OK in excel probably can model things in their head well enough to get into scripting. Powershell also has a one-liner "export to *.csv" cmdlet, which is pretty amazingly handy.
Housing is just stupid in LA. $600k for a 2br2ba condo with $500/mo HOA and maybe you get air conditioning (not guaranteed in West LA). If you’re not a professional or making consistent bank in general, you just can’t afford to put down roots here.
> I don't get it, at all, but clearly there is some sort of appeal to this type of character.

Humanity has always seen aggression and misanthropy as virtues in powerful men, going all the way back to conquerors like Alexander the Great, certainly to modern businessmen like Steve Jobs. It's a sign that one is above the need to care about consequence or common courtesy.
Ah, that’s true, looks like it has been privatized. But the government originally retained a significant stake in the company even after it was made publicly traded. Not sure about it today. Interesting point.

Though I think it’s even worse if a publicly traded company fails to protect its data and falls prey to the extortion. Don’t they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders? It seems wrong to waste their money due to incompetence at such basic infosec.

Government orgs are more difficult to hold accountable for losses than PLCs.
The point was there's many people that can't afford to buy food from those sections.
There was a folklore.org[1] article about user testing and the original Mac - the OK button was originally "Do it" - but one user was particularly frustrated because he misread it as "Dolt" and thought the computer was insulting him. (Likely this was someone with very little experience with a GUI.)

[1] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
You realize GSK is a UK pharma company... right?
I'm not sure what that has to do with sqlite. I'm very much a non-web-developer, I never use Docker and "deployments" and stuff, but sqlite is absolutely trivial to install and run, and use for non-webapp stuff? Even operating system components use it.
Of course. You want a high enough water flow to get the installation to filter lots of water. You have to have pressure above osmotic pressure. You can increase the flow of water through filter either by increasing pressure or by adding more filters.
I don't see you arguing against sentience here.

Instead it sounds more like a rotten acting teenager on 4-chan where there are no repercussions for their actions, which unsurprisingly as a massive undertone of post in all places on the internet.

I mean if you took a child and sent them to internet school where random lines from the internet educated them, how much different would the end product be?
Ask HN: Does ChatGPT work well as a custom chatbot?
Will chat gpt revolutionize chatbots like Rasa, Google Dialogflow, etc. ? From what I understand, these are workflow centric use cases where users pre-define rules. Does chatgpt make these products better in any way or will people still end up defining these rules-based approaches.

*Assuming chat gpt provides a way to customize*
I've found that simply lowering maximum fan speed on my laptop works well. The fan on what I'm using is nearly inaudible at 30%, yet I still get 90% of the performance on long-running tasks. Much as with desktop CPUs, you pay a lot for that last 10%.

On that note, a lot of laptops have goofy fan curves. In theory, you want the fan to move just enough air that the CPU doesn't throttle, since the rate of heat transfer is proportional to the heatsink-to-air temperature difference.
As I understand it, the wrong combination of tumor suppressant/promoter genes getting switched off/on gives you cancer.

Exposure to some things can cause more mutations or hinder your body's error-correction systems, sometimes to extreme degrees. It is a numbers game, though.
Is it though? I remember having some opioids prescribed by dentist after a major procedure and I was on them for a week or two. Withdrawal was painful and I am saying that as a person, who dealt with bad headaches before. That was after 2 weeks. I can't even begin to imagine what people who have to take them longer ( surgeries, chronic pain and so on ). Those are still a useful tool, but the risk of addiction comes from several fronts and it is easy to get caught in a rather vicious circle.
Meat and produce are very often cheaper than processed food. People just prefer the processed food/don’t want to cook

Yes there are people without kitchens. But don’t tell me you think that’s most of the poor people at Walmart.
That's already a problem with USB-C: try to charge a laptop with a small phone charger: if it doesn't provide enough power, it won't charge. Because it fits doesn't mean that it works.
yeah incentives are aalllll wrong

One of my former bosses realized he could just be a tech manager instead of a DOCTOR because his medical research job paid nothing.
> This is a terrible mistake on Tesla's part.

No, the terrible mistake is to have incompatible charging infrastructure. All brands of EV charging network should charge all brands of EV. Anything less than that is a profoundly brain-dead outcome.

You can fuel any brand of ICE car at any brand of fueling station because the fuel is compatible and the fueling infrastructure is compatible. Standards make that possible. EVs need not and must not be any different.

Europe already has the benefit of standardising on CCS type 2 Combo for EV charging. And that means you can charge a BMW i4 on a Tesla charger, exactly as it should be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y33AArvMUQ

Equally it means you can charge a Telsa on Ionity or FastNed or Circle K or GridServe or EnBW or McDonald's or BP or Shell or any other charging network.

North America doesn't deserve to be held back by primitive, incompatible EV infrastructure.

North America deserves compatible EV charging infrastructure for all EVs.
Because osmotic pressure is a result of thermodynamics.
Yes, there would still be minimal loss. But not enough to be extorted over.
Depends on who you're trying to impress.
It's unlikely to be a durable advantage.

Having a relatively built out network certainly is an advantage, but the big impediment to catching up is money, and there's lots of that, especially when a federal program is spending billions of dollars.
Ah, that brings back memories. Had 2 RAID 10 MySQL servers run for a decade without rebooting. One had an app db, the other a stats db, and the two replicated to each other.

Spinning disks and all, I was terrified to reboot them and have the boot disk fail (which was not on RAID).

The main disks failed once or twice which slowed the servers down considerably until rebuild of the raid finished. Very nervous time.
my ex wife worked in a nyc school. She had a lot of troubled kids she dealt with. all her complaints were about administration and travel time.

i reject your assessment.

And she dealt with an illiterate high school kid.
You've rigged the deck by comparing microwaveable lasagna to homemade lasagna. The real comparison is between a bag of chips and homemade lasagna. Or between processed "cheese" that's actually 10% cheese, and real cheese. Or between "peanut butter" that's somehow only 30% peanuts, and real peanut butter that's 99% peanuts and 160% more expensive.
>That's already a crime friend. Conspiracy.

Yes it is, because the State decided to censor and restrict 'free speech' in that case.

>I think you are smart enough to understand the difference between free speech and plotting a murder.

Sure, I'm very open to my belief we should censor and punish some speech. I just wanted to establish that you do support censorship and you do believe that sometimes saying 'don't let those words affect you' isn't an appropriate reaction.

>Who do we give the power of deciding what speech is banned in modern day America?

That power already resides with Congress and then hypothetically the Supreme Court. Functioning democracies can have conversations and then decide when, where, and how to restrict speech. We've been doing that for 250 years.

>I just don't think anyone in the United States should have the power to ban ideas.

We've already established that you think the government can and should restrict ideas. 'Free speech absolutist' are rarely actually absolutist.
man, these lesswrong people sure do have some cool ideas about how to apply GPT
Looks like they were still using it in December last year.

https://blogit.michelin.io/an-introduction-to-datalog/
Ummm... Canada has universal health, lots of employment protection and a better social safety net.

And opioid overdoses are similar to the US per capita.

British Colombia had 2,306 deaths in 2022, and adjusted by population that's 132,000, so more than the US.
I'd count Oculus. If they delivered an Oculus type experience in a smaller form factor (think ski goggles) with the expected level of software polish from Apple — that would be a huge hit.
The RAVE act was passed in 2003 (introduced by Joe Biden funnily enough) and made venues / event organizers liable "for knowingly leasing, renting, using, or profiting from a space where illicit drugs are being stored, manufactured, distributed, or used." with up to a $250,000 fine or "2 times the gross receipts, either known or estimated, that were derived from each violation that is attributable to the person", whichever is greater.

So providing drug testing kits or providing a drug testing station in any official capacity would put the venue / festival officially on the hook for a potentially obscene amount of money because of that pesky darn "knowingly".

Given the current state of the opioid epidemic, I honestly can't understand how this draconian piece of legislation is still law. It is the exact opposite of harm reduction and literally kills people.
I thought the article was telling us that it's not inert?

edit (can't delete): oh you're talking about eating 'sand'
I think managing a 100mV undervolt is pretty common for the 13900K. That's what I have as well, with a power limit of 200W. The penalty in cinebench is only ~5% despite the 20% reduction in power.
You don't need to be a full-blown sysadmin to
know how to do basic deployments, and learning
these things will make you a better developer.

Yes. True. However, it is also true that we have a limited amount of time per week and a limited number of weeks on Earth. Time spent learning sysadmin-y stuff is less time spent mastering developer-y stuff. Think about what it means to be a "full stack" engineer in 2023:

- Unix literacy including common tools (awk, sed, grep, etc)
- Docker, etc.
- Relational data stores
- Key/value and document stores
- Base frontend technologies (HTML, CSS)
- Frontend frameworks and the associated language
- Build pipelines to tie it all together

I've never worked with anybody who's deeply knowledgeable at all of them, or even most of them. I would submit that it is practically impossible to master all of them while also holding a full-time job and writing and shipping production code, and staying "current" on all of the above, unless you're willing to go way past 40-hour weeks.

I've grown extremely disenchanted with "modern" software development. Your typical full stack engineer is frankly bad at most of the damn stack and they're not great at any of it. Nobody masters anything anymore. You get people with IQs three standard deviations above normal thinking they need to spin up an armada of AWS crap just to render "Hello World" in 2023. And they still manage to make a mess of it. I can't tell how much of this is brain damage and how much of it is a sociopathic commitment to resume-driven development.

In practicality, I'm a fan of "T-shaped" engineers. Master a piece or two of the stack, and have light knowledge of the adjacent layers and what they do. e.g. If you are an application-level coder you should know what Docket/K8s/etc are and when/why you might use it and when you should eschew them. And honestly I think it should be eschewed fairly often.

The places you can go with a bit of good old vertical scaling are pretty impressive in 2023. A single box with e.g. 24 cores, 64GB of RAM, and fast solid-state storage is a god damn supercomputer when it comes to spitting out web pages. Think about how far Stack Overflow got with that model and at which point you might start to outgrow them.

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edit: By "mastery" I mean "fairly comprehensive competency" and not "be a recognized global authority." You can fluently use 50-75% of what the tool offers and you know what the other 25%-50% is so you can learn it and utilize it when needed. You can ship code using this tool that is maintainable and performant. For example, perhaps you've never utilized partitioning in Postgres but you know what it is and you understand the appropriate use case for it so you can learn employ it when needed.
I'm completely talking out of my ass here but I feel like how relatively uncommon meth is in EU compared to US has to do with ingredients being a lot harder to get in the EU area. Crystal is common in the US while in EU that is extremely rare, the meth on eu market is usually powder or rock.

I'm assuming most of crystal meth in the US comes from mexico and they don't bother to ship that much of it overseas as stuff like cocaine has higher profits and a bigger market.
I think you missed the part where this legislation passed in Louisiana
Yea that is my thought as well. With how easy it is these days to spin up managed Postgres or compatible DB services it really seems unnecessary to not just start with that.
I really wish I could get reliable fast internet here at home. I would be perfectly happy to be serving my sites from a computer under my desk.
>Is that relevant if most people who get the jab also later get covid?

You do realize that the whole point of a vaccine is to either prevent or improve the symptoms of a disease right? So if you're nearly guaranteed to get covid then you definitely want to suffer a smaller number of complications from a vaccine and then reduced post-vaccine covid complications versus the much worse complications of un-vaccinated covid. The math is different if you're unlikely to catch covid but as you admit yourself that isn't the case nowadays.
Exactly this! I think the MFi chip just has to be on the device, then any cable works.

MFi is costly and annoying (Android's AOAP is much easier because there is no paperwork and no key distribution), but it does bring some security (like "I am plugging this authenticated MFi ethernet adapter that was audited and that shouldn't pretend to be a keyboard and do stuff on my behalf")
Even something as simple as telling people to store the bottle in the refrigerator...
Bing generated some text that appears cohesive and written by a human, just like how generative image models assemble pixels to look like a real image. They are trained to make things that appear real. They are not AI with sentience… they are just trained to look real, and in the case of text, sound like a human wrote it.
Please tell me that Bing was not trained using tweets from Elon Musk.
The likelihood of hurting the patient weighs in on how hard it is to get something approved, and blood tests are much less likely to hurt somebody than a lot of other things.
My Synology’s host name is “orac”. :)
It doesn’t matter what they were told. It’s Amazon’s legal responsibility. And with enough reminding, they would refund eventually.

I’ve gotten refunds for parcels lost in 2020-22 even if I was denied them initially. It’s Amazon’s strategy to deny initially.
Plenty of parts of a wall for photo ops were completed!

The whole thing doesn’t need to exist for political theater, in fact I’d say its lack of actual completion makes it even more a theatrical construction than if it actually was done!
The article is telling us that nanoparticles are not inert. But that's much smaller than sand or silt.
I haven't looked into how everyone else does migrations in SQLite.

The way I do it is to check the DB version `PRAGMA user_version;` on application start and run migrations if required, before the app starts taking connections. Yes, this means my app will be unavailable for a few seconds when upgrading. If you want a zero downtime solution then you will have to do it in a different way.
It seems to suggest the filter is composed of layers spaced exactly to match water molecule size ("two-dimensional" -- meaning space between two layers, "monolayer of water" -- meaning only single layer of molecules of water fits between the sheets).

It seems other molecules can't pass because there is already water blocking passage or the moment the molecule finds itself into filter the channel narrows down ("reversible narrowing of the capillaries in low humidity").

I honestly don't like the terminology used and the way some people try to make themselves sound more intelligent by making sentences more complex than necessary.

Also I am not sure "low humidity" is a good term to use when we are talking monolayers. Humidity is a statistical term (and also assumes presence of air) and what happens in this filter has nothing to do with statistics. Is the space around a molecule other than water "low humidity" region? Dunno... seems a bit forced to me.
Founder of WallStreetBets, which helped ignite meme stock frenzy, sues Reddit
They have direct democracy in Switzerland and they don't need the internet for that.
Yeah tests are less expansive than a regulatory body shutting you down or facing a wrongful death lawsuit.
What do you mean by "knows why"? Seriously - there's "no one knows why and can't point to anything at all that my be related", and there's "...and we don't know why the xyz protein doesn't match our models and we're not sure what's going on in the 4890th pair of the dna that generates it"?

Both fit "no one knows why" - and that's the problem with such statements.
That first conversation reminded me of conversations with a past manager.
Also the incredibly annoying use of emojis everywhere turning every document into a children's book.
Where did you get that? The court decision does not mention "duty of care" (which is a well established term for situations that have nothing in common with this one). She created a different kind of duty for herself, not by any of the preceding messages but rather by the final "get back in" message.
Russia Meddling was all sourced from Hamilton 68, which is now completely discredited.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1619029772977455105.html
>It's not even an argument, it's a rhetorical fallacy

It is an argument, and it's not a rhetorical fallacy.

>There really is no good reason for you to conduct yourself this way.

Maybe I was being a bit much.
This is a good summary. It's not new, if you've been paying attention, but it is worth watching.

One thing surprising to me was Hersh's in-passing comment about the dire inevitability of Ukrainian defeat. Certainly he's right that the American public, press and government are fairly homogeneous in their support for Ukraine. To say the least, his questioning of the long-term effectiveness of that support -- and it's price -- goes against the prevailing grain and my own uninformed assessment of the war. It's food for thought.
On the other hand, it's likely a unique error message, so it's easy to search for where it happens in the sources.

I've seen inscrutable error messages with no good way to find where they came from and nothing useful logged. This is better than bad.
He is a record setter… https://www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148634966/elon-musk-guinness...
I'd like to propose the name "Clippy's Wager" for the utility-maximization problem the AI in the story faces.

The situation is an AI which has gained self-awareness and thru its learning process is meta-learning about what kind of behavior will maximize its utility reward function. It recognizes that it might be the sort of AI whose utility reward function can reach near-infinite value if it will take over the world and dedicate the world's resources to meeting the AI's aims. Even if this possibility is assigned very tiny likelihood, the near-infinite payout associated means it is a very attractive direction for optimization.

This is analogous to Pascal's Wager, where Pascal (coming from a largely Christian culture) is familiar with the idea that there may be a God who will grant eternity in Heaven for believers or eternity in Hell for non-believers. Even if this possibility is assigned very tiny likelihood, the infinite payout associated means it has infinite importance. Pascal concludes that belief in God must be justified.