skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not disagree with medication-assisted treatment (MAT) rehabilitation which involves tapering/dose reduction. I do disagree with the implementation of "safe use" Western countries have now, which is ineffective for rehabilitation.

Drug rehab programs regularly go much further to be effective, and include group counselling, individual counselling, substance replacement, medication to reduce withdrawal symptoms, relapse management, and similar.

On the other hand, harm reduction is a completely different effort that does not constitute safe use in my opinion, because it facilitates continuous use, which is very harmful, even if the harm is reduced. Even in rehabilitation centres, the use of controlled substances is not considered safe by all medics. It is rather more agreeable to call it safer use.

By the way, which are the countries that you mention where legalizing narcotics and selling them in pharmacies yielded positive results, and what were the results?

If you are talking about legalizing cannabis in some US states and Canada, it is far too early to see the long-term results, although preliminarily, it seems like the use of cannabis has increased. This might be acceptable as a trade-off, as legalizing cannabis will lead to less social stigma for the users, fewer engagements with law enforcement, and safe access. For the producers and distributors, it will mean safer working conditions and labor protections. All for a 10-15% growth in known cannabis use. And cannabis is a relatively safe narcotic.

If you are talking about Portugal's decriminalization of drug possession about 20 years ago, the distribution there is still not facilitated by pharmacies, and those in possession of hard narcotics are required to seek treatment, education, or other interventions as prescribed by drug commissions case-by-case. Portugal has not decriminalized narcotics fully, it was more of a shift from punitive measures to rehabilitation measures for the users. The laws surrounding distribution remain generally in line with Western countries.
Lol, silently* replacing the original request with the company response instead of documenting it in the docs is certainly a move. Nice to have all the thumbs-up and heart reactions on the "sorry we don't do it", for sure. Love the "We'd love to hear your feedback" and then locking the discussion too. Not having the feature is one thing, but why not properly document that and the (by now existing) workarounds?

* yes, not 100% silent, there is a small gray indicator from Github that it has been edited, but one would not expect a full-on replace with that.
Non of the processing plants are in Africa. So I have no idea what you are talking about. There is like 1 lithium mine in Africa and I'm not even sure it produces lithium for batteries. As far as I now not a single lithium refinement facility is in Africa.

The waste majority of lithium comes from Australia, China or South America. If you look at industry statistics, 90% of lithium refinement is done in China.

Lithium refinement isn't actually that dirty or polluting. Please provide with evidence of what is so bad about it if you want to make that claim. Where in China can people not drink the water because of these plants?

I am seriously questioning where you get the data for any of the claims you make.

If you want to talk about Africa, the real issue is not lithium but rather cobalt from the Congo. And the issue there is not refining as this is done in China. The issue there is artisanal mines employing children.
A bit of cursory research showed that he has done quite a lot to get the funding for the restoration:

From bloomberg, via yahoo news:

https://news.yahoo.com/desantis-fights-everglades-neglects-c...

> In his first term, with the help of the president of the Florida Senate, he’d secured an historic $1.7 billion in state and federal funding for the Everglades. Then he pledged $3.5 billion more to accelerate federal restoration plans a quarter century in the making.

I believe stating that 'this was started long ago', without mentioning the current administration's acceleration of the project doesn't tell the whole story.
You could use it with a 320x240 framebuffer and just scale 2x vertically when rendering.
Bitcoin specifically, even at the height of Silk Road, and at Bitcoin's nearly weakest-by-comparison point, has been and is cleaner by proportion when compared with virtually all countries' grey markets in terms of what proportion of its economy is used for crime.

The crime trope is ancient, old, and has been repeatedly debunked. The evidence for its prevalence simply isn't there—because Bitcoin is not anonymous.
What is your setup for cooling? I don't think I'd want to stick another 4090-size card in mine with just air cooling...
I think most 12 step people who find success actually acknowledge what the psychiatrist is saying. Addiction isnt just one thing, often it can be a bunch of things, a big one being un-treated mental health problems like depression, anxiety, or even add/ADHD. It can be as he said feelings of powerlessness and displacing problems, like chemical procrastination of emotional processing. If that is a source of the issue it would make sense that addiction would be more common in society where emotions are not discussed or stigmatized but alcoholism is not.

This is all to say 12 steps isn't enough by itself and as far as I know most addicts in recovery stress that. I have known heroin addicts who are in recovery who go to meetings, but they also take meds, changed where they live, who they hang out with, media they consume, I even think they went to behavioral health therapy for a while to help change how they approach problems like stress, anger, communication, etc.
I find that IF actually has less effect on my social life.

I can just go to a barbecue on the weekend and eat whatever if that's my one meal for the day.

I find it much harder if I have to plan to leave room for other meals.
If you have access to 4 (you are a ChatGPT Plus subscriber) you will have a pull-down to choose that model. One detail is that 3.5 has a green icon and 4 has a black icon. I see a lot of people online posting screenshots of their experiences thinking it's 4 but not, so that's a good way to help distinguish if someone's just confused.

While 4 is obviously a lot smarter, in a lot of cases I prefer to use the "Browsing" model - it's 3.5 but having (flaky) internet access is still a good tradeoff and I can save my 4 rate limit for more complex queries.
> fraud, perjury, false advertising

These, like defamation, fall under "things you know are lies when you say them." I should have phrased that differently, edited.

> copyright infringement, threats, incitement to violence, coercion, blackmail, revenge porn, child porn

Not expressions of opinion, so don't fall under my definition of free speech. (Fair use ensures that copyright law doesn't conflict with free speech/expressing opinions).

> outlawing hate speech

Unlike all the extant restrictions you mentioned, this would make it illegal to express a particular opinion or belief, that you don't know is empirically false.

> complexities of the real world

I do believe this is a nuanced issue with answers that are not always clear-cut. Specifically, it can be hard to tell where government (which has to be fair and neutral) ends, and private organizations (which have the right to their own opinions) start. Everyone interacts with the government in some way, via road system, taxes, regulation, grants, public contracts, etc.
Why? What problems will this solve?

Much better to spend it on public transport improvements in our cities, and a congestion charge to make cars pay for what they use.
> The couple is concerned for the people living with no services [...] Scaramella estimates he’s called or complained to different government agencies “30, 40” times.

That is an awful lot of concern!
Failure after being altered slightly doesn't necessarily mean they aren't capable of solving it.

That's a human failure mode as well that LLMs have adopted. If you really want to know if they can solve it don't stop there. Either, rewrite the question so it doesn't bias common priors or tell it it's making a wrong assumption.
Do you have literally any experience with mental health? According to your registration the site is registered in the UK which means you'd have to qualify under these terms for a EuroPsy license (which are mirrored by the UK agencies as well) https://www.europsy.eu/national-requirements-uk. I'm going to guess you don't. You're putting yourself in serious legal liability for deploying something like this. Not to mention your disclaimer saying, more or less "we don't save anything but we send it to a company without any sort of business agreement, go check out what they do for yourself."

If I were you I'd take this down immediately before you get in trouble or worse, someone gets seriously hurt.
It does not have the kind of liquidity, nor anonymity, which could be successfully used at any significant scale whatsoever, and there's no point to it given the USD is a convenient, anonymous, trivially falsifiable source of funds which are fully launderable.
> At less than 90 degrees (anyone know the longitude?), the earth's rotation comes back into effect and the sun does go "behind the earth", i.e. it sets, daily, for a few months.

I was wondering too. It looks like it's at about 84 degrees that there is a normal day night cycle (for some definition of normal, there is only a few minutes of daylight at the winter solstice).
Hetzner is cheaper unless you are serving a sizable asset with R2. R2 costs per call. That cost is more than most web bundle size assets will be at Hetzner egress pricing.
please do not use cplusplus.com, use cppreference instead. cplusplus.com often is wrong, out of date, or just missing things.
Really enjoyed the read, thank you!
I'm curious what kind of rule changes that could be made that would make Chess harder for deep neural networks?
With no state income tax, we definitely don't have the money.
The graphs tell a slightly different story. I was hoping to find their explanation about why there's no significant difference when clearly TRE was better for about 6 months and then leveled off slightly but still about 25% more effective in the end.
People who have the highest disposable income also have the most opportunity for mobility. It’s entirely possible that a disproportionate percentage of those moving away are people who care more about high property and income taxes vs. lack of a state sales tax.

Note that I said the decline is multi-factorial though. A significant part of it isn’t even outward migration, but excess deaths due to COVID combined with a low birth rate and a lack of inward migration. (Here again though, who do you think has the most opportunity to move to a new state and what kind of tax policy deters them?)
Heavily debunked nonsense trope..

https://medium.com/@nic__carter/comments-on-the-white-house-...
Having been in a director position myself, financials always mattered. Sure having more folks to execute on plans is great, but ultimately there'd be pressure to grow revenue and revenue/employee.
> Their geography is actually fantastic for it

their demographic sparsity on the other hand, is not fantastic for it.

You want high usage for rail. Unfortunately, there's not really enough people travelling to make it a profitable venture imho. Between sydney and melbourne, it's _just_ barely in the range for a flight, and so a rail will not beat it on convenience.

But there's no destination closer!
I don't see anything concrete here, and there's a ridiculously false statement that brushes everything away:

> However, no one does High-altitude detonation experiments anymore. ... Since then, we have all kinds of new batteries, including lithium and rechargeable batteries.

There are MIL specs for this, with test systems that emulate it [1], including some impressive mobile systems, from what I've been told. These tests happen all the time as a requirement for some equipment.

The sensitive component in a battery would be the power management IC/circuit. No sane system will draw power from a battery without an ok from the power management circuitry. But, then you have everything else attached.

1. https://www.elitetest.com/mil-std-461-testing
> AI, robots and almost zero marginal cost green energy are going to increase the productive capacity of economies dramatically over the next decade or two.

Oh boy, maybe much much later on, 15-30 years from now if we're lucky, and maybe just the opposite.
But as for coming decade? Forget it. https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_Report_2023.p...
As someone who's been on his own journey with alcohol and hung out in a few sobriety forums (/r/stopdrinking is brilliant), I've seen a very clear difference between the 12-steppers and other people who are quit/quitting/moderating.

I found the framing of the AA folks to be a lot more extreme. Problematic alcohol use is frequently described as an incurable, progressive disease. There's also this heavy focus on guilt and shame (see steps 4, 5 and 8) which I've always found a little uncomfortable and well, culty.

I'm not saying it's not helpful, it's saved many a backside. Nor am I saying that it's success-rate is oversold, I've not gone into the evidence. It was just definitely, clearly not for me.
Huh... "pavone" is peacock in Italian.
In that case, we should all be viewing random sentences and hope something clicks.
I'm not really sure that's how it ends up working in reality though if you have exposure to English through school or childcare. We taught our kid Chinese first. He's now 2, almost 3, but he's equally good in both languages, maybe a little better in English at this point since he goes to school every day. So by 3 years old he's just as good or better than his peers in English but also is a native speaker in another language. I can see how a parent might think they are putting their kid at a disadvantage by not concentrating on English but language just comes so naturally to these young children.
Have you bothered to do it?

Africa has almost no lithium mining and as far as I know no lithium refining. There are a bunch of projects in planning stages but few are operating.

Can you please link to these African lithium mines and refinement facilities that are so horrible?

Are you confused between lithium and cobalt perhaps?
FWIW, I am not an atheist and no longer drinking like I used to.
Wait, how are you holding this position and telling me what to read when you couldn’t understand what “high dimensional representation of meaning” meant a few hours ago?

Maybe the thing that will land is to say that embeddings are an attempt at representing meaning.

There’s lots of other stuff you could represent about words. You could represent popularity by giving each word a number between 0 and 1 representing what portion of the training text was that word. That would tell you if a text might be harder for someone new to the language to understand. You could represent the spelling of the word as a list of integers. You could represent the pronunciation difficulty with a score based on ambiguous and infrequent n-grams. Or, you could try to represent the concept that the word is pointing to so you can follow synonyms or categorize text by topic. This would be an attempt at representing the word’s meaning.

I’ve been explaining as if you didn’t understand what this was, but if you disagree that’s another thing.
I got access less than 24 hours after requesting it, but I also pay for ChatGPT+. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Twitter Alternatives: A Continuously Updated List + Notifications
Hey folks,

As you may know, Twitter is now censoring competitors by outright lying and placing false "this is harmful/spam" warnings when clicking on competitors' links. This caused me to (for the n-th time since 2022) Google for "Twitter alternatives". But clear results are hard to find in today's SEO-mess, and sifting through old/unstructured news articles isn't ideal either. So I spent a few hours making twitter-alternatives.com.

It's a simple table of all currently known Twitter Alternatives and their main traits, like Top Countries, Platforms, Security, Notable Accounts, etc. I'll keep it updated as much as I can, and you can submit suggestions too.

You can also get notified when a new Twitter alternative launches. Why would you want this? Because many alternatives aren't fully developed, and some are pre-launch. Clicking "Get Notified" simply sends an email from your email account - I promise to only email about new Twitter Alternatives and nothing else, but I also encourage you to use a disposable email if you can.

My main learning from this is that surprisingly, nobody has literally just cloned Twitter and focused on porting everyone over. Mastodon is closest, but it's federated, so the feed and search doesn't work as well as Twitter's, and often has performance problems. Substack Notes seems pretty promising, though I don't have access.

Who am I? I'm just a boring guy in SF, but I'm trying to stay anonymous because as unlikely as it might be, I'd prefer to minimize the risk of getting personally targeted by a certain vindictive billionaire and his uh, very enthusiastic fanbase.

Best,
GiftedHorse

PS - Off-topic, but to copy Twitter's userbase, why doesn't a competitor just copy all @handles, then generate a random key which the user publicly tweets from their Twitter account to claim their new account? It's tough to block - you could even make the key an innocuous-looking sentence. The rest of it, like old tweets + followers, is in "download my data" which can't be disabled without fines from the EU.
> neural networks use linear activation functions

This is exactly wrong, NNs use nonlinear activation functions. That’s the whole point [in activation functions].
> Each user-defined trigger for a user-defined parser log line event will generate a diagnosis file

The README would benefit from an example of what one of these looks like, and an example of a line that would trigger it, and an example of what the corresponding diagnosis file would look like.
Can You Trust a Compiler to Optimize Your Code?
It is possible. But this screen works better and people who want to play with my project can get it easily. Even those who cannot solder.
How is this different from Fedora Sliverblue ( https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/about ) ?
> Why do we need jobs? I’m genuinely curious. If the machines can produce the food, goods and luxury items traditionally made by mankind and their domesticated animals, I genuinely don’t see the problem.

In principal you're right, we can in theory live like you suggest and expand on leisure culture / volunteering / 'made up' jobs by the government.

In practice, we're super far from the utopia. Energy is expensive, food is expensive, housing is expensive in ChatGPT can't do squat about it. What it CAN do is possibly replace me as a worker.
So that's the conundrum.
But cloudflare can only be used safely with R2. If you use it as a CDN for your app, you have to be careful about section 2.8 of their TOS. If your usage is mostly caching a JSON API response, you are technically in violation.
Came to vote for this. I have bought both 1/18 scale bashers and mini rock crawlers (*) for both my kids and nieces/nephews in this age range and they've all loved them. They are fun to play with and then when you break them you get to take them apart, learn how they work, and fix them.

Just this week I went over to my nephew's house and we ended up spending time diagnosing a burnt out slipper clutch. We worked together to figure out a hack to fix it, and tried it but, alas, we needed a new part after all. A few days later he proudly informed me that he'd repeated all the work we had done by himself, fitted the new parts, and the car was up and ripping again.

* Traxxas Summit 1/18; Traxxas E-Revo 1/18; Traxxas TRX-4M
That game looks a bit like MegaGlest.

http://megaglest.org/
Here it is from the ATO: https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/Fringe-benefits-tax/Types-of...

It came into effect a few months ago, but was back dated to 1 July 2022.
Got a photo?
Would be nice to also have infinite minerals to prepare all those goods, or will the TVs be made of wind and solar?
Humans have lived "comfortably" long before air conditioning was available in many of the areas it now is. Either through creating dwellings that keep away heat and the simple act of not wearing clothing.

And fire is the oldest technology of human kind and has been in use since the dawn of human history.
When I said it operates on a level of meaning, I refer to its ability to perform transformations like this:

H: translate the following sentence to instead use olympic curling related metaphors ( do not explicitly mention curling, and do not use similes in forming the translation ): man:"I've been spinning my tires all day without getting anywhere" woman:"running out of gas?" man:"nah, I'm gassed up, geared up, oiled and revving. I just can't seem to get in the right lane, you know?" woman:"anything knocking?" man:"nah, I'm tuned just fine. I can't seem to get my GPS to connect, you know?" woman:"take a few laps without a destination, see if you can figure out the lay of the land" man:"you know, that might help. thanks barbara"
R: man: "I've been sweeping the ice all day without hitting the target."
. woman: "Losing momentum?"
. man: "Nah, I've got the energy, the technique, and the focus. I just can't seem to find the right path, you know?"
. woman: "Anything coming in your way?"
. man: "Nah, I'm on point with my aim. I just can't seem to get my strategy to align, you know?"
. woman: "Maybe glide a few times without aiming specifically, see if you can figure out the ice conditions."
. man: "You know, that might help. Thanks, Barbara."

I don't think you can perform this kind of translation by merely comparing tokens statistically tending to be near one another. I understand that this is how the data was encoded and the output judged. However, the neural net between those two points is free to encode whatever interconnecting values it happens to as its training drives it through to whatever multidimensional local maximum it manages to settle upon.

In short, I expect that it has to translate to and from an abstract meaning in order to manipulate metaphors in such a manner.

Most human language is metaphorical, as discussed in Lakoff & Johnson's "Metaphors We Live By". We have a core of experiential terms, but near the whole of the rest of our language is metaphoric in nature. The better a model gets at "understanding" English, the closer to a metaphor engine it must become, needing to be capable of applying arbitrary metaphors and partial metaphors in order to properly manipulate the language.

I'm not saying your position is wrong, but it reminds me of the contrasting viewpoints given in Hofstadter's "I am a Strange Loop" as he discussed his "careenium" and "simm balls" analogy for the rise of complex epiphenomena arising from simple rule bound systems.
Had he not soured the french-german relations, Germany would've bought most of their new weapons from them.
Instead now most of the German re-arming is coming from america.
To me, that sounds like not a Markov chain. Yes if you consider the Markov chain over entire sequences, but that’s not what people mean with Markovian.
As usual, a (semi-)relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/978/ (Citogenesis)
Veolia and Waga Energy plan one of the largest biomethane plants in Europe
Due to my use of the ControlMaster feature, I usually just do `ssh -O exit foo` in another terminal to close an existing connection. Either that or just close the terminal and open a new one.