skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tldr; pretty different in practice, trust your doctor, all that good stuff.

On some level, it is similar as they are both stimulants and nearly the same chemical. But my own research suggests the methyl group has a significant effect on how the body metabolizes the drug.

The methyl group makes it fat-soluble which allows it to cross the blood brain barrier. Apparently this causes it to have an effect on dopamine and serotonin receptors which it would otherwise not - hence the euphoric effect. It also cleaves into amphetamine in the blood stream which gives it a significantly higher half-life.

How you administer a drug is important, which is self explanatory. Most newer ADHD stimulants are made in such that they must be metabolized through the stomach.

Additionally, the dosage is important. Meth is not only more potent, but when abused is likely to be taken in 10x (or more) amount than a therapeutic dose.

So.. safe to say they are chemically similar but different in practice. This info is from my quick googling. I’m on a therapeutic dose of Adderall, and given its effect on my blood pressure I would be concerned taking meth due to all of the above. And this is why I have a doctor to help me with all of this.
I don't think the 1st Amendment requires you to open your school up to speakers that students don't like, nor does it require students to sit and listen or to not actively heckle. In fact, as far as I know, the only thing the first amendmendment does is prevent the government itself from silencing your speech. Are these kids or the school the government itself? Then the first amendment doesn't apply.
Why doesn’t the university apply for indirects via a separate grant?

It seems weird to tuck it into the research grants. More professors with a research grant do not automatically translate to more indirect costs (e.g. the building has to be cleaned, whether a room is occupied or not)
Also, if the terminal has gone weird, you may have to use ^j instead of enter(^m).
Never underestimate the power of hysteria, which used to be a bonafide diagnosis but is a term now rarely used outside hyperbole.
The only action is the speech in some of those instances. For example, I have the opinion that politician X is evil and a threat to the country. I publicly declare this opinion by saying "any person who murders politician X would be a true patriot". I have committed no action beyond speech. My speech was purely an opinion. That is still an incitement to violence as it is an encouragement for others to commit a violent crime.
The Definitive Guide to Rack for Rails Developers
The Good

+ The 3D animation is cool.

+ The concept is intriguing.

The Bad

- The AI-generated story can be interesting but tends to be pretty repetitive, often getting stuck in a feedback loop that doesn't make any substantial progress. This is a common problem I've noticed with AI-generated stories.

The Ugly

- While interesting at first, the word puzzles quickly become a boring chore. They aren't particularly difficult, just busy work like solving a captcha. This is ultimately what made me stop playing, I probably would have played much longer if I didn't have to constantly solve the puzzles. More variety in types of puzzles, or at least making them appear less often would probably help.

I like the concept, but I think it deserves a better execution. Although ultimately I think interactive fiction is better when written by humans.
For layout issues, the CSS inspector helps. No need to refresh. For everything else, I just use the editor.
Most of this is about the base model. How's open-source "fine tuning" coming along? I'd like to add a few hundred questions and answers on a specialist topic. Recommendations?
1. GPT-3 can speak native-level french despite the language only being 1.8% of it's training corpus.

2. GPT-3 can follow instruction in other languages just fine despite the instruct tuning data being almost entirely in English.

3. LLMs trained on code demonstrably reason better.

It's fairly obvious pre-trained LLMs aren't really operating at just the word/token level.
Scam of the year: Recruiting people to work for free
I received this email in my inbox.

tl;dr 3h/d for a month as a technical recruiter and you might get paid 10%

Note the first version of the email was less detailed and more confusing, and I was curious and kept asking questions ...

Our team has 12 engineers. 8 guys are from the US and 4 from the EU. We are driving 15 projects, and we are currently too busy with our ongoing projects.
But we are receiving 10-20 interview requests daily, Therefore, we are seeking assistance from a skilled individual to represent us in these interviews on our behalf. We don't want to lose potential clients.

- Tech stacks
React only: 40%
MERN: 40%
RoR and others: 10-20%

- Interviews
On average, 3-5 steps.
Introduction(30mins), Online assessments/test projects(We will do it), 1-2 technical rounds(45-60mins), Final round(60mins)

- Salary range for these full time / contract jobs
Minimum is 60k maximum is 150k
90% full time roles and 10% contract roles, no freelancing project.
100% remote

- Options
1. Just interviews
You can join our interviews on behalf of our engineer's profile.
Our name, our work history, our education and your face and voice.
Once you get an offer, we will pay 15% for each offer every month.
The compensation will not be on an hourly basis but will depend on your interview skill sets.

For instance, if you get a 120k job, we pay 1.5k every month.
If you get three 120k jobs, we pay 4.5k per month during the lifecycle of the project.

2. Interviews and the actual code work
You can join our interviews on behalf of our engineer's profile.
Our name, our work history, our education and your face and voice.
Once you get an offer, you do the actual work with our member's name.

For instance, if you get a 150k job, we pay 6k every month.
If you get a 120k job, we pay 5k every month.
If you get a 100k job, we pay 4k every month.
If you get a 80k job, we pay 3.5k every month.
If you get a 70k job, we pay 3k every month.
If you get a 60k job, we pay 2.5k every month.

- Hours needed
Before getting an offer, you will need to spend 2-3 hours everyday continuously.
It will be difficult to get a job in the first month, but if you are highly skilled, you can get 2 offers from next month.
After getting an offer. if you are going to do the actual work as well (second option), you will need to spend 3-5 hours everyday.(part time job, so that you can run your full time job as well.)

- Payment
Any methods, we provide.(paypal, payoneer, wise, crypto, deel...)
We are going to pay right after we get paid the first salary from the job that you are running.

- Guarantee
We are open to share all credentials(email, job application history, calendar...)

NOT an HOURLY or MONTHLY basis as we are not sure your skill sets, also if you don't get an offer soon, we will lose a lot of potential clients.
If you are going to work as hourly or monthly basis, don't reply.

Thank you for considering this cooperation opportunity.
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I can just laugh and wish people following such advice "good luck". The hardest part is to do software maintenance, debug production and etc, and knowing the internals of a language and read its stack trace is critical.
Ask HN: How does the return statement of a function work?
Suppose for a function written in Python:

def func(param):

a = [1, 2, 3, 4]
n = len(a)

for i in range(n):

a[i] = a[i] + param

return a

We know that by lexical scoping rules the variable 'a' (which here is a list) is available only to the function body. Once the function call has completed execution, it no longer exists in memory. Then, how can we return the variable 'a'? How does return hold on to a local variable of the function and pass it on to whatever called the function?

I know this is not an anomaly. I just don't know how or why it works. Maybe, I am missing some very important concept. I want to learn. Please explain of point me to resources where I can get rid of my confusions of similar sort.
My steps aren't even Alcoholics Anonymous or about alcohol, although derived from what Bill W wrote. In my case, my personal step 7 to change was Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Dialectic Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy and Jungian Therapy plus Psychiatric diagnosis and medication. Nothing about this negates the 12 steps I have outlined.

Alcoholics Anonymous as it exists today is not what it used to be. It started out with people who had lost everything or were about to, people that society had given up on, "low bottom" drunks and the like, people who were desperate to stay alive like Bill himself.

Today's AA I'm afraid after all the court ordered people and all the people who use it as a social club because their doctor told them that 4 glasses of wine a day was too much so they should stop. Well, it's too watered down for me and I don't go. I'm not surprised people think it doesn't work. If you want to test this, to a meeting and try to get people to try to talk about how the steps work in their lives and how they recovered and stop using their time as a gripe session and try to find sponsors who will stick to just taking you through the steps and not try to be your therapist. I've seen enough, but ymmv
The 65B model runs fine on a Mac Studio with 64GB of memory.

The output is unremarkable; it’s not significantly better than the 13B model for most uses.

GPT 3.5 is an order of magnitude better at least.
Not just search killer but web killer. Can't just cut out all the content creators. Openai dgaf about the ecosystem, they are aiming for maximal disruption.
Added an example that hopefully is helpful. Thanks for the feedback!
If not for prohibition lab quality drugs would be cheaper and easier to get.
The problem is pretty obvious - you can't format plain text
Seems the fine tuned models I.e. gpt4all and alpaca are trained as LoRa's. Best advice is jump in and try the demos on hugging space!
thank you for sharing! any expected benefits you see from switching this to pytorch 2.0?
For fields like mathematics (my field), where grants can be gotten but aren't that big, and people value time more than money, most of us would forgo the summer salary if we didn't have a grant. It's useful to have the extra income, to be sure, but not having it doesn't break the bank for most people. I did go to fewer meetings when I didn't have a grant, and graduate students working with me would have to TA more. (Math Depts depend on tuition dollars and usually have TAships for anyone who wants one, unlike fields where there are big grants but also teach fewer undergrads.)
By the way, is there a great modern RTF alternative?
You may not agree with the solution chosen but it seems as a society we've decided on death as the long term strategy. Eventually these addicts will simply die off.
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> while having very little moat as a company

they have effectively acquihired React (Zuck's mistake). no moat?

(not to mention some genuinely great cloud DX and other platform features eg with their Edge Streaming)
Ketamine-xylazine is the drug combo given to rats when I worked in a lab doing animal studies. It is approved to make them go to sleep and feel nothing before death by exsanguination.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103284/
Florida's electrical mix pre-dates the current governor.

As near as I can tell, they've historically shunned capital-intensive plant innovation, and just kept building natural gas.

They're starting to get some solar now, at least.
not grandparent, but this topic is oft-discussed (but with no clear resolution!) on r/realtimestrategy

imo, the biggest obstacle is the combination of

a) RTS not being well-understood

b) sweaty streamers broadcasting the idea that the games are "solved"...but only enough to criticize you for not being "optimal," not enough to actually help you approach the game.

These add up to a very intimidating picture, unwelcoming for newcomers.
close to Portuguese too, pavão
Which one, the go ahead and "define your own custom loader"? You mean re-implement the image export that is sitting right there in their express server... from scratch? Hah.

NextJS won't let you export their optimized images in a static site export because they want _everything_ running through their Express server.

Why's that great for them? Because they get to charge you for image bandwidth and image optimization. This is called vendor lock in.

Sources:

In vivo (v13.3.0):

> npx next export
<...>
error - Image Optimization using the default loader is not compatible with export.
Possible solutions:
- Use `next start` to run a server, which includes the Image Optimization API.
- Configure `images.unoptimized = true` in `next.config.js` to disable the Image Optimization API.
Read more: https://nextjs.org/docs/messages/export-image-api

and https://vercel.com/changelog/changes-to-vercel-image-optimiz...
It can be hard to find a therapist who you gel with. I've been through a few in my time. The real work is done by oneself ultimately. Be it with CBT homework or mindfulness between sessions. Obviously it's very individualised though.

Robert Burns (of CBT fame) is currently involved in an app which incorporates AI so I'm interested to see how they've dealt with the sensitive issues.
Wait where do you get the browsing model? Openai's website is quite bad at user experience but I pay for both plus and the api and can't find that anywhere.
The evolution of that page is kind of interesting and recently rapid. Going from today back in time:

April 9th - https://web.archive.org/web/20230409213539/https://help.twit...

State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution. Accounts belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief, and/or their prominent staff may be labeled. We will also add labels to Tweets that share links to state-affiliated media websites.

April 6th - https://web.archive.org/web/20230406153501/https://help.twit...

State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution. Accounts belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief, and/or their prominent staff may be labeled.

State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy.

April 4th - https://web.archive.org/web/20230404115255/https://help.twit...

State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution. Accounts belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief, and/or their prominent staff may be labeled.

State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy.

---

State Affiliated - China (April 8th - current): https://web.archive.org/web/20230408170835/https://help.twit...

State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution. Accounts belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief, and/or their senior staff may be labeled.

State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy.
I’m glad to hear that. I had wondered whether most Haxe users used the nightly releases. That might be more common for projects that have a few main contributors: they fix issues blocking them and use their own builds without the overhead making new public releases.
agreed.

breakthroughs by definition upend conventional wisdom.

transformers currently represent conventional wisdom.

maybe transformers are indeed better than CNNs, but tech history is full of cases where primitive technologies take magical leaps when married to powerful hardware and intelligent system design.

low probability at this stage, especially given the impressive long-range dependencies and generalizability of transformers, but let's see what happens.

besides wightmann, who else do you recommend following for CNNs?
Significantly depends on what kind of MS we are talking. Single quad can be had for well under $100k. Top of the line Orbitrap is ~$1.2 million. Depending on the analytical constraints, I think you could get by with a mid-range triple quad for $200-300k. Although, if you need to do exploratory work, I think everyone should just buy a QE as it is a solid workhorse that can fit most any role.

When a lot of that equipment gets aged out from industrial uses it will be given to universities in still-working order. Biotechs going bust can also be a boon to the second-hand market where state of the art equipment can be had for a song. I know one lab which acquired a piece of equipment that had been used in a background shot of a Jurassic Park movie.
Why would they be cheaper? Lab quality would require lab grade testing and safety, and lab grade ingredients, not to mention taxes on recreational drugs are usually astronomical.

And I doubt it would be easier to get either since they're unlikely to hand out an unlimited quantity to anyone who pays for it even if it were legal.
>I wonder if squatting rights come into this at some point.

Adverse possession is complicated, according to https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/who-can-claim-proper... it takes ten years. Article says they've been doing it for five years, but if it's different people, presumably the time resets.

>The railroad may regret deferring this for so long.

On the other hand, article seems to indicate the railroad is not particularly interested in this land. Perhaps they just want to let other people deal with it and give it up.
Lego has a Technic subfamily that is slightly more oriented for motion/movement as well. Its what came with the EV3/Mindstorms sets.

My first experiences programming and building were with the original Mindstorms/NXT, and they were great. It looks like the Mindstorms platform was discontinued in 2022 (still probably a very solid choice) and it’s closest competitor would now be Vex IQ. Mindstorms might be better for younger kids though.
I remember reading some PIO documentation that explained that PIOs were for handling all sorts of interfaces, from basic flash to cursed displays found on AliExpress.
There is a solution, but plain ugly text is not it, this is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
“We operate a world-leading fleet of sailing cargo ships” … “our fleet”: lists two ships, one still under concentration
Spintronics! I haven't tried it but it looks like tons of fun. Unfortunately in some countries it's out of stock until August.

https://upperstory.com/spintronics/
On steam you are buying licenses and digital assets. An NFT is a pointer to something, not the thing it points to. People who bought NFT of instagram posts own a pointer to this post, and that’s it. It’s quite evident now they are winding down the feature, people who bought NFTs of instagram posts own a pointer registered on a distributed ledger that has no use anymore. You can trade it, but without Instagram support it lost its social value. They never bought the asset, they never engaged in a contractual relationship with the artist.

What you seem to want is a kind of tipping or patronage system integrated with Instagram if I understand correctly? Sounds like a cool way to support artists. NFTs are a very contrived way of achieving this.
Was it some kind of brain infection? What causes this?
They aren't permitting this behavior. But if they were to change their rules to allow these sorts of disruptions, as stupid as that would be, they would have every right to do so and it wouldn't be a violation of anyone's right to free speech or to earn a livelihood.
>if meaning itself was simply contained or even encoded in the words we write

I feel you might enjoy Chapter VI of Douglas Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Back", being "The Location of Meaning".
if you were familiar with actionscript, you'd prob. have heard of haxe! And if you weren't...well, it's not a useful simile...

I guess to describe haxe to someone, i'd say it's closer to typescript, but compiles down to many different languages.
GPT 4 Can Improve Itself (Ft. Reflexion, HuggingGPT, Bard Upgrade and More)
I wasn't implying that's what you meant, or even replying to you directly.
Nope - Joué Club (a toy store chain in France).
Should large capital expenditures like that be funded as explicit parts of the grants that use them (like an amortized user fee), or as items requesting funding on their own? You would think such things would deserve their own approved budgets (for the funders) and not be absorbed into a hard-to-dissect overhead factor.
Really nice video! I've driven past these rails many times and would love to see passenger service on them.
That's ridiculous! Hecklers trying to prevent someone from speaking aren't themselves trying to speak, they're trying to prevent other people from hearing that speech.
So your problem is that these individual students weren’t oppressed enough to warrant an educator’s broader generalization that all students shouldn’t be held back by their many and varied forms of barriers?

If you recognize that there’s a vast set of intersecting disadvantages, why would you want to turn it into Oppression Olympics? It’s fine to recognize that not all of those power dynamics might be in play in this particular case. But do they really have to all be in play to make a fairly bland statement that no one should be held back by any of them?

I have solidarity with these students just as I have with others who have different socio-demographic factors to contend with. They’re not and shouldn’t be in competition for access to education or achievement in life. I don’t understand why that should be controversial even if each and every student has a different configuration of advantages and disadvantages. And I think it does a disservice to the students who have different disadvantages to say no one should speak about them in a unifying way unless they meet an exacting criteria of total disadvantage.
That's only true for elastic demand.
Except it is hard, even your simplistic example fails - I can't read it on one of the most popular devices - mobile phones

Also, it's awful for any serious editing

Also, add a bit of *formatting* in the cells, and all your plain readability stemming from tabular alignment is gone
What happened at SFSU (and no doubt in New Zealand as well) was clearly battery, though the authorities are likely to look the other way.

Likewise, blockading a private event is likely a criminal act.
Not hard to be world-leading in a category that's (very close to?) empty.
They were fantastic. There was some kind of marketing event at a shopping mall in upstate NY when I was young. Construx were brand new, and to my utter shock my parents bought some for me. It felt very out of character for my parents to buy toys like this, but they picked a winner in doing so.
You have to request access/waitlist for the alpha features, but I believe they're bucketing roll-outs somewhat randomly. Eg, I have browsing but I don't have plugins or the code interpreter version. Also, I still don't have GPT-4 API access (although that's through a separate business vs personal account).
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