skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the average life expectancy of an opioid user compared to a smoker?
7% seems high. Googling shows ~40 million prescriptions dispensed in 2021. Since CSA disallows refills and 90-day fills are extremely rare, that’s about 40/12=3 million patients, or roughly 1–2%.
The utility doesn’t come anywhere close to the hype. Unless you live in a war zone, you can completely ignore crypto.
And the next stop is to start teaching kids how to safely shoot/snort/smoke drugs in public school curriculum? /s
I’m pretty sure the photo is the first one on the web, not the first on the Internet. I ftp’d a bunch of images for the Amiga in ‘90 and ‘91, including scanned photos.
I’m pretty sure they meant “shout someone down”, because the students here were definitely fully engaged in actively trying to derail a speech.

I think the Judge is a piece of shit. I don’t like him as a human being. However, “ignoring” is precisely what should have happened here.
Bivector.net: Geometric Algebra Resources
BTNX now supplies test strips for Xylazine, I just ordered the first batch for the harm reduction outreach group my friends and I run. If you are interested in helping street drug users in NYC consider donating at https://opencollective.com/dont-forget-the-streets all of our funds go directly to supplies. We also table at local DIY shows, supply bars and clubs with Fentanyl test strips, and host narcan trainings.

Xylazine test strips link: https://www.btnx.com/Product?id=2019
When I was a teen my hometown's government fired me for "security concerns" because if you looked at the JS console on their website you'd see an innocent but goofy easter egg.

It's still there, which continues to tickle me.
Pretty shocking to read that the worker in the safe site was also a daily IV meth user, I’m pretty shocked anyone can hold down a job with a daily IV meth habit.

I’m an Iraq war vet. I’ve lost friends to drugs, suicide, incredibly reckless behavior to the point it might as well be suicide. Once you’re in a cohort of people that are close to death, the mental strain of losing your friends has a way of squaring the circle for you. It takes an extraordinary amount of self control, and daily effort to change your circumstances. Being at arms distance all day from IV drug use is not going to do it. Previously I’ve been all for harm reduction centers, and safe places to test and use drugs, because I don’t believe that heavy handed prohibition solves anything. I’ve never seen a motivated human stopped from doing anything self destructive by threatening them with more self destruction. I hadn’t considered the mental tax on the employees that work in these centers. I think it’s still a net positive, but wow.
Take a look at what happened with Replika. The company restricted the bots ability to have sexual conversations and we had hundreds of people posting on reddit like the company had murdered their girlfriend.
Traditionally I believe the masts were held vertical by ropes, I imagine the force transferred through them (by tension) not the stiffness of the mast. But I'm far from an expert.
>fancy collectables meant to sit on display

Star Wars Toy Commercial - SNL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYyuo7gm-aQ
I should write one of these for biology, it's quite different when a single experiment costs $50,000

Overhead is still outrageous though.
You'd be in good company as a post-bacc.

Among those from merchant marines and commercial real estate; the son of a psychiatrist, an ankle ruined and a star throw; a cancer survivor with a metal arm; and others. From backgrounds divers but with a single aim.

Hope they are all doing well. They should be out of residency by now.
What is the opposite? Rewarding drug use as much as possible?
Of the things that I posted, this is what I'm calling a lie: "Management said that all raises, even this special out-of-cycle one, was subject to negotiation. Even though our bargained contract stated that out-of-cycle raises could happen without negotiation."

There are things that I did not post, and am not going to.
> normally MUCH easier to access on those watches than an Apple Watch

You should try placing them as widgets on a compatible watch face, or set them be sticky in your recents app's list, if you haven't already.
>Has any other modern era capitalist alienated as much value (arguably $20b+) purely on a whim?

He alienated the customers, the value he immolated.

Anyway, the Financial Times says: "Won’t somebody please think of Masayoshi Son?" (direct quote!)

Currently, it's arguable that Musk has taken the lead in wealth destruction, however, there seems to be speculation in the media that Masayoshi Son is leveraged to where his remaining wealth could vaporize overnight.

"...SoftBank is extending credit to its CEO to invest in a fund it manages. The loan is secured on a) his equity in the fund b) a bunch of SoftBank shares and c) his personal wealth..."

https://www.ft.com/content/951f7a93-92e1-4d74-bdf0-9c461b98e...
Has this been rigorously considered or is it just vibes? Seems preemptive to presume that unveiling more structure wouldn't give understanding meaning and intent in AI systems a leg up.
Even at the time of Gulf War 1, the A-10 was performing less well than popularly imagined. See the article "The Gulf crisis: The media point of view,' by David Hackworth (1991). (http://libgen.rs/scimag/10.1080%2F09592319108423001)
> perversely enough the subsidy increases the more you earn and the higher your taxes

Isn't this because those who are going to buy EVs today (which are premium if not luxury vehicle prices) are those who have more money to do so? There is not yet a widely available entry level priced EV that is broadly popular.
Singapore's approach as in the death penalty?
That article is 4 years old the prices it assumes are more than what they actually are already. With large scale Sodium Ion battery production expected to start this year in China it will be interesting to see what profilates faster grid scale battery storage or home battery packs.
Joan Didion somewhere wrote that one must remember that the voters are all employed in the industry, and that success at the box office is not indifferent to them, but affects the prospects of next year's employment.
the current bishop of Rome indeed sees it like that, a little bit

Not really. He’s making these pronouncements and reforms. He isn’t deferring to each bishop in their own territory.

wrt free speech I find

Regardless of what you or I think about this issue there was an organization that stood for one position on it for almost a century.

However good the arguments are, I don’t expect the National Pro-Life Religious Council to decide that maybe abortions aren’t so bad after all.
Some say that Helen mixes opium into the wine early in the Odyssey.
Exactly. Ascribing the worse possible motives to the people you disagree with is the only form of hate that is still acceptable.

You just ascribe "hateful" motives to anyone disagrees with you, then suddenly your own common, mediocre, garden variety hate is elevated to a higher moral purpose. You're not a hater (you are), you're fighting hate! (not really).

There are a ton of people that operate under this delusion.
I went from 10 years in startup to fang and felt fang was awful.

Everything was built in-house, and none of it held a candle to industry-standard tools. Every single thing: observability, containerization, CI/CD, code-review, source-control, etc was mostly written in PHP with seemingly no UI input and no documentation.

The economy of scale largely favors the startup, because they simply rent best-in-world tools hosted by another company that has hundreds of people dedicated to source control or IDE (or whatever) versus 20 engineers a FANG company would put on it.
While high volume multi-tenant "customers/users/accounts" systems are common, they are not the only ones which benefit from sharded persistent stores.

For example, consider a system which monitors farm equipment for Caterpillar and John Deere. Lets say each company has 100k devices which send one message per day to the system.

While it is easy to envision sharding device messages based on "DeviceId / Company" in this hypothetical system, there would be no value sharding the two customers.
That's a good point. They knew they couldn't compete with ChatGPT (even if performance was comparable, GPT has a massive edge in marketing) so they did the next best thing. This gives Meta a massive boost both to visibility and to open source contributions that ironically no other business can legally use.
I didn't realize "Redmond" was slang for MS.
> If it was snuck in, what else has been? What does it say about your security policies and practices if engineers can sneak stuff in?

I mean, of course engineers have that ability regardless? Maybe I’m being too technically-minded, but I just don’t see how not detecting an Easter egg somehow indicates that the engineers haven’t put one in surreptitiously..
I can't find an example of an individual store being liable for unknowingly selling a preprepared item that causes illness, though my search has hardly been thorough. Plenty of examples where they're selling in-house prepared deli items, but that'd be the equivalent of the dealer adding filler themselves.

And I've never heard of a seller being targeted for smoking related lawsuits.
I would be curious if other knowledgeable folks agree that pure meth isn’t that much different from Adderall on dimensions that are likely to be relevant.
>What is speech if no one can hear it or read it?

Take your thought process here a step further. If we establish that speech needs to be heard in order to satisfy the principle of free speech, how many people need to hear something before it qualifies?

>If I intercepted the post you just made and scrambled it with random characters so noone else would understand it, are you still calling that free speech?

Are you arguing that downvoting a comment until the text is gray and difficult to read is HN infringing on a user's free speech?
This was debated when Vancouver first introduced safe injection sites, but was not put into place, as I understand it, because the government didn't want to become the drug dealer.

However, while searching for a source to back up my above statement, all I could find is https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/health/fentanyl-vancouver...
from Aug '22. So apparently they are supplying now.
Also it's going to be a real pain to get the calibration right
How do you prevent cases where the AI might say something harmful (e.g. suggesting the user kill themselves)?
They still rely on interstate power even after getting the big battery, which solved their frequent brownouts but hasn't actually got much capacity: 150MW and 194MWh[0], when the peak grid demand in SA is 2000MW[1] and they've got grid interconnects with Victoria that can deliver nearly 900MW. They make up the capacity with natural gas generators, and their gas usage went up massively after their coal plants went offline[2].

The biggest problem is that SA is pretty flat[3] and doesn't have good sites for dams. They have a grand total of 3MW of hydroelectric capacity, which means they rely on Victoria (and soon NSW) for renewable energy when peak demand exceeds wind/solar generation, as well as their own gas generators and Victoria's coal plants. The big battery can respond faster than the interstate interconnects (which are far away) and the gas generators (which are expensive to run and only turn on when spot prices are high), which lets it fill the same role a big flywheel would in a coal/nuclear plant.

[0] https://hornsdalepowerreserve.com.au/

[1] https://www.aer.gov.au/wholesale-markets/wholesale-statistic...

[2] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electricity_generation_SA..., which is a year-by-year collection of the data from https://www.energy.gov.au/data/australian-electricity-genera...

[3] https://en-au.topographic-map.com/map-wwnx/South-Australia/?...
That sounds a lot like Nim. I haven’t used it myself, but I’m intrigued at the idea of having one language I can use in a lot of places.
Aside from the existing system having inertia, there may be regulatory or legal requirements protecting certain teams and processes that make automation trickier. Even if this isn't the case, the current system works, and so improvements need to be weighed against that; most likely, it's a long-term, strategic shift to a new process, because large organizations rely on processes to shield themselves from the legal system. Finally, any individual coming in and waging civil war on other departments within the organization is always bad, even if they're right in the long run.
I mostly agree with you.

> At this point in history it should be more or less apparent that "here's a gun you can shoot your foot with, just don't do it lol" is not a viable strategy.

However in the case of Haskell, manually mucking around with mutable aliases, references and pointers is culturally similar to using unsafe in Rust. By default in Haskell you are using immutable variables. And if you have multiple threads and want to share mutable state, you typically use software transactional memory.

> ...Though I wouldn't refuse Rust having compile times like those of Golang and OCaml, can't deny it.

Well, Golang has quick compile times, partially because it makes the human do half of the compiler's job. OCaml is indeed something that's more worth aspiring, too.

As a compromise, I found that `cargo check` is much quicker than a build and does most of what I need when developing: most of the time, I don't actually care about the resulting binary, I just want the compiler to tell me quickly whether I introduced any errors it can detect.
Maybe it would be better framed as the majority censoring the minority.
And unfortunately academia is clearly dominated by left-wing ideology right now.
Those are the in / outputs, but the model works on the embeddings which is a high dimensional representation of meaning.
Is this true? Congress made heroin illegal in 1924, 99 years ago, and the “heroin epidemic” didn’t really start until maybe 2010.
Internally, Ambry stores large objects as a series of chunks. At LinkedIn we've found that 4mb makes a good chunk size. So (for example), your 40mb upload could be streamed directly where Ambry would handle chunking it, or you could chunk it yourself. Client-side chunking has the advantage of cleaner resumption from a broken connection. After all the chunks are uploaded, Ambry creates (or the client asks Ambry to create[1]) a special metadata blob which contains a listing of all the chunk blob IDs. Clients can use the blob ID of the special metadata blob as a single reference to the large (composite) object without needing to worry about the underlying chunking for GET and DELETE operations.

Depending on context, anything larger than the chunk size could be considered a large object, but using this method Ambry easily handles gigabyte- and larger-sized objects.

[1]: https://github.com/linkedin/ambry/blob/9b7a49ac79b1678fd7fd7...
Pericles' Funeral Oration
Makes it moderately hard to be a repeat offender.

Edit: Joke aside - i am fine with marijuana, and some forms of cocaine being kinda ok-ish, but a death sentence for every person that distributes fentanyl and carfentanil won't extract too much tears from me.

Some vices should be entertained - but there should be hard limits somewhere.
I believe you are asking OP?

If you were asking me, this software is very minimal and not going to compete with zotero for an unknown time frame. What's your current need after using zotero? (Just curious)

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That being said, I really appreciate these initiatives and applaud author of this library, didn't confirm but probably a one-person team.
> If they add 5% to bing, that is a fantastic side effect, but i dont know that Microsoft care about that as much as the pundits think they do. Enterprise gpt as a service and copilot powered software development would be world changing enough.

GPT will shrink the search business. Why go browse adds from a search engine when you can just ask the assistant already built-in the app you're using?
And 60,000 deaths per year in Canada from food*.

My uncle has smoked 2-3 packs a day from when he was 15 years old. He is 70 now. Somewhere between one and two million cigarettes in his lifetime. Many health issues, of course, but could you eat million burgers or drink a million cans of coke in a lifetime and end up with less health issues? (No, you couldn’t: that’s something like 8,000 calories a day every day for 80 years, you die of obesity by age 35. I’m not even completely sure you could drink that many cups of water, 3 packs a day is 90 cups of water or 5.5 gallons, perilously close to the ~6 gallon maximum rate of healthy kidneys working 24/7.)

My point is not that smoking is better for you than heroin or soft drinks or burgers or coffee or water. It’s that the dose makes the poison, and we tend to legislate based as much on “lethal dose” as on “total attributable deaths”.

*: Adding diabetes and heart disease together from https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=131003...
Show HN: Librarian AI – Find your next favorite book with AI
I remember recalling medical centers being different (can’t remember better or worse, but at least the salary was)
Nothing about addiction has anything to do with what the addict would _rather_ be addicted to. They'd mostly prefer to not have a problem at all.

Highs aren't fungible in the way you're describing. Don't mistake "I begrudgingly took a worse opiod because I couldn't get the one I want" for "I'm fine with anything"
Not a book, but the Atlantic had a piece on just this topic a little while ago: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/aclu-johnn... . The ACLU responded, and disagreed: https://www.theatlantic.com/letters/archive/2022/05/aclu-amb... .
Until you get to the turtles...
you should have seen the stack of manuals we got with our IBM 4381s - needed a whole room to store them in. and they were great.

as for unix, i learned most from a very cheap book written by mike banahan, which told you everything you reallly needed to know - everything is a file etc.

i actually worked with mike for several years at the instruction set - not always easily:

me: why do i have to work with mike???

my boss: because you are the only person in the company that hasn't tried to strangle him.

i suppose i'm too nice - much the same was said when i was a microbiology technician in edinburgh in the 1970s regarding one of the consultants, about whom i did have serious death-plans.
Old electronics can be a little dangerous. Think nasty chemicals and capacitor shocks. Nothing a kid can't handle but I don't know what the autism is like.

Lego technics are excellent. I remember Zoids being neat too. For taking stuff apart, I think things with motors work well, e.g. blenders or old drills (metal casing ones best).
Let anyone who wants it buy fentanyl, and let natural selection do its work.

This is suggested semi-facetiously, but at the same time, feels like there's something to it.

Decriminalize, tax, regulate, and focus enforcement efforts on black market dealers.

The waste of human effort and life that has gone into the last 60 years of drug policy is insane to consider. We have got to try _something_ other than what we're doing now with prohibition.
You can use sum types without pattern matching and vice versa, but you are absolutely right that they synergies well.

I don't know enough about Golang: do you know whether it's possible to add pattern matching with destructuring as a fairly shallow syntactic sugar?

Generics were a much bigger change to the underlying language (and so would be Rust-like lifetimes, or even immutability); but pattern matching seems like something that should be relatively easy to add with only local repercussions?
Yeah, it's called the 'embrace' phase.
I think of it more like lightning, where the lightning branches out chaotically trying different paths to the ground until a critical path is found, and then the "leader" strikes the ground, and everything follows with it.
I am not aware of WSJ being owned by Jeff Bezos.
Sinusoidal positional embeddings have always seemed a bit mysterious - even more so since papers don't tend to delve much into the intuition behind them. For example, from Vaswani et al., 2017:

> That is, each dimension of the positional encoding corresponds to a sinusoid. The wavelengths form a geometric progression from 2π to 10000 · 2π. We chose this function because we hypothesized it would allow the model to easily learn to attend by relative positions, since for any fixed offset k, PE(pos+k) can be represented as a linear function of PE(pos).

Inspired largely by the RoFormer paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09864), I thought I'd write a post that dives a bit into how intuitive considerations around linearity and relative positions can lead to the idea of using sinusoidal functions to encode positions.

Would appreciate any thoughts or feedback!
Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
Also reduces a lot of problem behaviors of street addicts like smashing and stealing property and congregating for access to suppliers.
Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp, which is controlled by Rupert Murdoch. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
One of OpenAI's engineers / cofounders (Greg Brockman) specifically said it in an interview that GPT-4 itself is quite calibrated, it goes away with the fine tuning process (I don't remember exactly which part of the interview). Of course they are working on fixing it, I guess GPT-4.5 will contain the fix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtJEfTTD_Y4
no, its because in a higher tax braket you pay more tax

its the sane in britain - if you earn $200,000 income-tax-free means 50% off, but if you earn $20,000. it means like 5% off

Also in Uk id you want to buy a e car, you get a grant of a few grand, if you want an e motorbike you get like $300, and if you want an ebike, the most wco friwndly option, you fuck right off
> Is this true? Congress made heroin illegal in 1924, 99 years ago, and the “heroin epidemic” didn’t really start until maybe 2010

Yes [1].

Law-abiding Americans became addicted to prescription opioids (wave 1). We clamped down on their distribution, particularly prescription, and left those addicted with no legal choices. They turned to heroin (wave 2). So we clamped down on its distribution, particularly import, and so got concentrated (easier to ship) and synthetic (no unique precursors) fentanyl (wave 3).

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/basics/epidemic.html
Which apps are you aware of this still being a problem?
That is not a right of the speaker. The right to hear is not the same thing as the right to be heard.

Either way, it doesn't refute my original point. People are asking for certain people's free speech rights to be curtailed in order to protect the free speech rights of others. That is effectively the same argument that the students are often making in these situations. Speech should be restricted when it infringes on other people's rights. The pro-free speech side just likes to play no true Scotsman games and redefine stuff they don't like as not really speech. But if the audience members heckling the speaker can be speech unworthy of protecting because it infringes on other people's rights, then we also need to evaluate what the speaker on the stage is saying and whether their words infringe on the rights of anyone else.
Are any of your tools open source/something we can look at? Just curious about examples…
At the US university where I worked the indirect rate for federal grants was the same across the entire university, and I think it was slightly more than the 53% OP pays. I don't know where the number came from. Most of our industrial grants had language in the contract that said they would pay whatever rate the government was paying.