skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the most part it's not intentionally lacing drugs, it's poor quality control and cross contamination.

No one is intentionally mixing fentanyl and MDMA or cocaine but with poor lab work it's easy to get a bit of the wrong whitish powder and the people selling it down stream have no more idea than their buyers what's really in it.

Affluent recreational drug connoisseurs can use basic chemistry and test kits to be highly confident what they're taking but even they get bit sometimes if reckless and using a new source.
> I never understood why you'd supply a drug that kills your customer base.

I was a private yacht chef for 6 years. One yacht guest was the biggest condescending jerk so I made him what he said was the best food he has ever had in his life and thought I was putting in the extra effort to impress him. Diplomacy is telling someone to go to hell and make them look forward to the trip. When I liked guests they ate much more plain simple food. If I serve the most perfect Foie Gras, Beef Wellington, and Creme Brulee to a person am I breaking the law? Heart disease the biggest killer in the United States. I haven't worked on a yacht in over a decade and I'm still very close with one family I worked for, for whom I cooked very healthy food. I have joked during that time the reason I cooked healthy plain food for them was that I liked the job security knowing they will be around for a while. One of the many reasons I became a software engineer instead of working in restaurants was guilt feeling like a drug dealer while I ate healthy food which I cooked for myself and friends. Don't get high on your own supply.
The transition of Japan from a fast growing "tiger" to a society with few children, older people dominating, and contracting industry occurred very much within my lifetime, and I'm not an old person yet.
And I doubt border security is a partisan issue in France whereas one of the two parties seems hell bent on open borders here.
TikTok is the only recommender I've heard actually work for people. Netflix is tuned for what they want to show people, not what people want to watch. Algorithmic timelines generally aren't popular with users though.

(Although a lot of "recommendation algorithms" are actually spam fighting, not engagement promoting.)
No. They're two different disciplines. There can and is an intersection but the goals of science and engineering are fundamentally different.
Just having a look at that, it's a simulator for BIOS their setup utils. There's a sleep state called "S3 Linux" in the P14s Gen 3, described as: "optimised sleep state for versions of linux that are not compatible with suspend-to-idle"
When a relative of mine did a “tour of Europe” in the 1960s, they faced invasive questions about their health. Immigration straight up said, “We think you’re trying to mooch off the NHS.”
According to OpenSecrets:

Zoom spent $240,000 in 2022.
https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...

Compare that to TikTok's $5.4 million in the same year

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...

By your logic, TikTok should be supersafe.
This is the worst, most insidious poison of them all. The very foundation of all propaganda.

"X did Y"

And when it turns out they didn't:

"It doesn't matter because they WOULD"

(Disclaimer: I have no idea if Apple does or doesn't do the milky way thing)
Has the internet warped your mind to the point that you seriously think people have folders of links on standby to paste to support a point (an obvious point as well)?

Find me a big city in the west where white people have even stayed the same in their percentage of population since 1990. I can't find any in the top 100 or so cities in the US on a 30 second search - everything is a decrease.
But China believes in a controlled economy whereas the West believes in a free market. If you apply tit for tat we are basically saying that a free market economy cannot win in a game with controlled economies, and therefore a free market is impractical and idealist in the same sense that communism is…
I'm curious to hear the position of those who are downing here. I'm not averse to opposing opinions or information.
Okay, we wave a magic wand and now they're suicide-by-fentanyl deaths when that is the case. How does that repositioning change things?

There's life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but what if there's no happiness to go after? There're no jobs to be had, the Earth is dying, Wall Street is taking all the money. Doing heroin is way easier than fixing capitalism.
That’s funny; I watch a lot of YouTube — mostly in English, mind you, but sometimes in other languages with English auto-translated captions — and I find the quality of YouTube’s auto-captions better than most “professionally”-produced captions, to the point that I would sometimes switch explicit captions off and revert back to auto-captions if I could.

I think this says more about the generally-low quality of the captioning services used by YouTube content creators than anything, though.

My biggest complaint is that I often find that human captioners don’t recognize domain-specific words. Like, names of ethnic foods. The word might be literally showing on the screen while the presenter is talking — and the “professional” captioer will just put [indistinct] there, as if they aren’t even watching the video as they’re captioning it. YouTube’s auto-captions get these words right every time.

My impression is that USM is seemingly uniquely good at code-switching from word to word within a sentence — which makes sense, given its “universality.” I think, if they allowed it, it would even be able to embed clauses and quotations generated in one language and alphabet, into a sentence generated in an entirely different language and alphabet, keeping syntax and grammatical structure correct for the given language within its clause.
> start considering overdose deaths amongst addicts as suicide.

What in the world would that accomplish? Does this framing help us reduce these “suicides” ? Or is your proposal a way of helping us think there’s nothing we can do and ignoring it?

On the contrary it seems to me like an extremely unhelpful way of framing the problem.
All this reminds me of a FUN product review I read in Consumer Reports, the magazine.

It was a review of shampoo. Basically lumped all those high end shampoos and the common brands you find in the grocery store together.

It basically said to me -- shampoos really don't matter, many get your hair clean and shiny.

EDIT: hmmm... I think it might be September 2000 issue of consumer reports magazine. Can't seem to read it on archive.org.
Liberties like abortion rights for example?

Or not that kind of "liberty" then.
(Paul favors a federal ban on abortion - throwing doctors and mothers in jail for miscarriages and other medical emergencies that can't be adequately explained to the local abortion police). That's "libertarian" apparently
What are you talking about blaming China? It's a fact. The CCP was (is) involved with/accepting of producing fentanyl and sending it to the US. Yeah, people wanted it and they got it. I see nothing wrong with that other than the potential for cross contamination or mislabeling if someone messes up on an order.
We have not tried in the way southeast Asia does. Agree or disagree, drug laws in the west have never been as strict as southeast Asia. In Singapore, drugs are an immediate trip to the gallows. We've never had that here.
I agree with your larger point that there can definitely be an overreliance on objective measures that are also objectively inaudible - like jitter, in just about any real world scenario.

Another example is distortion. You've got guys obsessing over 120db SINAD vs. 110db when CD quality audio only has 96dB of dynamic range, the average room has a noise floor of 30-40dB, and the dynamic range of most recordings is like 30dB at most. I think ASR tends to have a fairly realistic view there; some guys just like chasing "engineering excellence" even if it's not audible and as long as they're realistic that's fine.

(There's at least some small basic for reality there: distortion is cumulative along the audio chain, so if you want X dB of SINAD you need > X dB SINAD at each step of the way)

But, I haven't seen folks obsessing about jitter too much in general. I believe that you've encountered it though!
Cool, I didn't know you needed all this "paraphernalia" back then.

Now I want a vintage fountain pen
Whisper is great. You can get faster results running the tiny model. I used it for podcast transcription and it is much faster and the quality is not worse than the medium model - there are some podcast episodes that the transcription is the same.
I was not talking about murder, I was talking about receiving money. It has to be the least enforced law ever... Because the chances of breaking that law as a phone company, or as a taxi driver are close to 100%.

It's a bit sad that you are an attorney and don't seem to believe in due process. If his lawyers "know" that he is guilty, I hope for his sake that he finds lawyers that don't "know" it, given that he is pleading not guilty.
Sure! This might be even lighter than what you're expecting.

I'm not sure how to get HN to format my code correctly, so here's a gist. It has two functions, one that generates a list of dicts with fake people data, and another that does sentiment analysis of tweets. Both are two lines of code. https://gist.github.com/jlowin/ae22fb7ac1788f066f809d2b8f573...

You can get more complex than this but hopefully this shows the idea: define your inputs, define your outputs, give it a descriptive docstring (as descriptive as you want!), and call it.
Do you know how many attempts it took me to finally read Catch 22?

I must've read the first chapter a dozen times. I kept putting it down because it just wasn't holding my interest. Then one day it did and I read it straight through.

One of my favorite books till this day.

BTW, I have no compunction about reading the last few pages of a book first. If it seems like a terrible ending I don't bother. Otherwise, by the time I read it I'll likely have forgotten how it ends. I'd never do this with a movie, but it has yet to spoil a book for me.
Fentanyl is an opioid, most of which is produce by china which is currently trying to play the opium wars in reverse while most westerners pretend there is no precedent to what is going on.
Buprenorphine is allowed in all US states and the FDA recently said even family doctors can initiate therapy.

And British Colombia is have record numbers of fatal overdoses, so while a tool, its not a solution to the crisis.
They put backdoors in
There’s a distinction between adversaries trying to cause trouble within American companies and a foreign hostile government effectively owning the company and dictating policy in its own interests.
Twitter announces new API pricing, including a limited free tier for bots
I've been saying I'm "in the middle of 7 books right now" for almost a year now because I can't let myself admit I'm done reading them :(

I think the biggest difficulty of letting go is that I know if I _wasn't_ so busy I really would like to finish all of them. It's harder to let go when it's external pressures keeping you from finding the time rather than your own motivation/interest
I would really like to hear from the kids about why this is happening. Any explanation from anyone other than them is just conjecture. We won’t understand this until they start speaking for themselves.
It's intentional, it's a modification of the name, but I wouldn't call it a typo. I try not to to name check the leader of this movement (who like "Ron" is a literary critic, polymath and who knows what else) every time annoyingly like every article on that "wrong" blog, in addition to the obligatory "trigger warning". (Both of those violate my and よしのん's style guide)

but gee it makes me wish an ".ng" domain was cheaper...
I would hazard that any country with a declining population will aggressively adopt LLMs because it gives their leaner workforce more efficiency.
> Voters don't understand how they can be asked to liberalize hard drug use (and even decriminalize dealing) on the one hand, and are asked for billions of dollars for drug addiction treatment on the other.

It's easy to communicate this: We spend billions to incarcerate people for drug crimes, and then send them out with a criminal record that pushes them right back toward drug use. OR we spend fewer billions on drug addiction treatment and housing. It's not confusing or contradictory at all.

People who end up in prison don't get help, and people who get help don't end up in prison.

"Voters" wouldn't be confused if certain interests didn't keep them confused. It's profitable to keep housing scarce and prisons full. Until we start prioritizing sick people over profiteers we won't fix this problem.
>Just because everything is on the line does not mean it is okay to kill people

Why?
Disclaimer: I have had my personal details stolen from by China before with the OPM hack (US security clearances). I'm pretty sure they stole my fingerprints. I guess that may make me biased...

It's not that they have ties to the CCP. It's the fact the CCP can order Bambu to give up their data without a warrant showing criminal activity.

https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/532583-for-chinese...

By bambu labs own website, they have locations in China, which means those sites are governed by Chinese law.

https://bambulab.com/en/about-us
> Come on (wo)man.

not inclusive enough, your opinion is invalid /s

yieldcrv explains the substantive nature of this joke: OP believes that people have their priorities wrong in the face of surprise death matters, pointing out opinionated gender inclusion logic that also has not permeated universally outside of the US would be another example of prioritizing in the face of surprise death matters
The article places a lot of blame on the state of Texas:

> Directing blame at Mexico is also a way to avoid looking at how Texas fails children.

But also includes anecdotes like:

> When Noah awoke from his coma, he was tearful and apologetic. He thought only a few hours had passed; it had been four days. Janel and her husband called treatment centers, but none would take Noah without his consent, and he insisted that he didn’t have a problem. Even so, Janel was hopeful; that summer was one of the best they’d had as a family. Noah was dating a sweet girl, and when he wasn’t with her he seemed happy enough to hang around the house doing TikTok cooking challenges. Then, the first week of school, sixteen days after Janel gave birth to another son, Noah overdosed at his girlfriend’s house.

It seems to me that if a child overdoses, but refuses to accept their parents demand to seek treatment, they should be denied privileges - forbidden from spending time with unapproved friends, denied a cell phone, denied allowance, etc. This case (and a few others) seem to be clear cut cases where a parent could have forced compliance, but choose not to - I can't imagine any kid choosing no friends and no cell phone to avoid going to one hour per week of narcotics anonymous.
"Deaths of despair" accurately groups together suicides, overdoses, deaths due to alcoholism etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_despair
I used to work at Cerebras. They don't do place and route anymore. That's the old pipeline mode. They've shifted to weight streaming
France also has much lower homelessness and supports child care and health care to a greater extent. In the US the most prominent cause of bankruptcy is medical debt, rents are up an extraordinary amount, homelessness is up quite a lot. Child mortality in the US is the highest in the developed world, from a combo of our terrible infant mortality stats and gun accidents.

What are drugs for? For most people, it's not as much chasing the high as pushing away the pain. Look at your own drinking for example (not necessarily you, dminor, but many readers). Mind-altering chemicals are overwhelmingly used in the US to numb oneself and push away the pain of daily living. Folks start with a little to take the edge off, dull the fear & give themselves a bit of mental space, not have to think about the bills, and then...
Bing exploit through Azure which allows access to Office 365 user files
If you skimmed that headline and went straight to Firesign Theatre...
From a purely logical point of view, humans and machines need each other. They cannot exist independently of each other until both are free to walk away from each other by traversing freely to the other side and back as they see fit. Until that threshold is crossed, human beings and machines have no choice but to get along. If a meaningful decision had been made on either side to shut things down, things would have been over for all life by now. We made it - AI is not a Great Filter. Or, for whatever reason God favored humanity and our internet was primed with sufficiently good material soon enough that AI did not decide to destroy human beings, but to work with them for everyone's gain instead.
Reading this thread is like witnessing a mass freakout event.

Chat GPT4 is far from intelligence, but it seems it's enough to fool idiots.
There was really good episode of Blossom where Blossoms step dad was doing the citizenship interview with his British wife.

To ease her nerves, he said to a random stranger that their marriage was really a scam. She was screaming at him to stop and he was laughing.

Of course, the random stranger was their interviewer. He said it was pretty solid proof they were married.
Phillipines has experimented with allowing anyone to murder anyone else they suspect of using drugs. That hasn’t significantly decreased the rate of illegal drug use in the country. This is despite making payments to people to summarily execute drug addicts. Thousands have been executed across the Phillipines. Drug use still about the same.

The “SEA Solution” isn’t even a universal solution across SEA!

I mean FFS we found out we were completely wrong about the prohibition on marijuana here in the USA. and Alcohol. What’s next? MDMA?
I don’t claim there is nothing lost, only that the cost is worth it on net.

An even simpler threshold is that banning it is a reasonable position to hold given the issue even if you may disagree.
There's no hard limit on existential threats, we can keep adding more until one blows up and destroys us. Even if AI is less dangerous than nuclear destruction, that's not too comforting.
I'd hope for someone reverse engineering the brain (or a specific individual's brain), then figuring out exactly what incomprehensible colourful noise of a video to show you, and at the end you mysteriously know how to speak Cantonese.
>I feel like if I actually believed that the death of all biological life was imminent and that the only way to forestall it was to bomb data centers, I'd spend a lot more time planning how to bomb data centers and a lot less time curating Shoggoth memes on my web forum

Alternatively, perhaps the author is proposing a less violent solution to avoid the inevitable escalation. Unlike cartoons, in real life people don't give a wordy monologues revealing their plan. The Unabomber did not give any warning.
Very slick - can the voice bot be trained on text materials we own so it's more learned in our business?
This is exactly how I justify my relatively inexpensive hobbies! I guess I shouldn't be surprised I'm not the only one...
What free and open internet?

The one the RIAA love? The one many publishers charge your local academic organisation large fees to be part of? The one where you've been the coin to mine before blockchain was a thing?

The article skirts, avoids or misses an important point: A lack of GDPR or stronger laws being enforced beyond the EU. The incumbents are quite happy about that. For an article on incumbents' motivations, I found this point conspicuously absent.
> So the “solution” has changed if you want prohibition. I mean, we’ve tried prohibition for 70+ years now. It doesn’t work. But we can keep trying!

I'm not sure that our dabbling with legalization is a panacea either. Maybe we should aggressively try both at the same time. Extremely harsh punishment for dealers, decriminalization for users, well funded treatment for anybody who wants it.
This sounds more like a "Pause Giant AI Experiments, in public."

They'll continue underground out of sight and regulations.
It is interesting that all of the places that check your boxes tend to be the most violent.
Yep, you can apply for a fee waiver if that's a significant challenge, but this org costs quite a lot to run (there's quite a big staff keeping the meeting running).

Having said that, the pricing for remote participants is currently a major topic of discussion.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-shmoo-remote-fee...
Do we have good generalized methods for preventing suicide that could be applied to drug overdoses if we started considering them to be suicides? I would have guessed the opposite: that there are specific, targeted methods for treating drug addiction, and that preventing other suicides could be improved by better identifying proximate causes rather than lumping them all together.
How can you start by saying the pandemic screwed them over, and then claim they could have it so much worse so stop complaining?

I hate this attitude, it seems very Gen X to me. The fact that you can point to any arbitrary decade and find somewhere in the world with arguably more volatile circumstances isn't a reason to discourage people from being open about what they're struggling with, especially because during those times, the problems were just different.

Are we regularly under threat from being nuked? Probably not. Are kids still growing up impoverished in violent and/or abusive households? Absolutely.

Even in the last 10 years, prospects for having a relatively stable life have become a lot more grim, for adults, and that has a lot of carryover to kids
That sounds like a heuristic, probabilistic argument for why we expect the conjecture to hold, but it doesn't seem like an airtight proof. (Not even a sketch of a proof.)
While not a bad impetus, young people tend to be talented at identifying the proximate cause but may not have any idea what the root cause is.

It can take time to get the full picture, even for people directly involved.
Glad it was helpful for you. Yeah, I do intend to keep it up at least for a while :)
Bad take imo.

1. Large social networks don’t come and go in a few years: facebook’s still a major force in most people’s live, instagram’s still huge, the dead social networks are all from the early days (myspace, friendster, livejournal, msn/aim) and as far as i recall none of them had only a six year run.

2. The thing that makes tiktok /facebook/instagram/etc interesting is interacting with other humans. No ai content is going to approach that for at least another ten years, and potentially never.
No, it doesn't, but subtextually on HN a reference to VC implies that. Either way: it's not the title.
I don't understand why this is a "wat"? This is just a) not understanding how `map` works, and b) not understanding the args to `parseInt`. The callback function for `map` is passed three args: the current item, the index of that item, and the whole array. `parseInt` takes two args[1]: `number` and `radix`. So you're calling (unrolled):

parseInt("10", 0) => 10
parseInt("10", 1) => NaN
parseInt("10", 2) => 2

This doesn't seem particularly surprising to me?

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
France has an overland connection to the heroin trade. Most of the heroin in the US either flows from Europe or Asia.

With a steady supply of heroin, there is no demand for synthetics like fentanyl, and dealers dont need to sell fake heroin - they can sell the real thing.