skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot heat is lost as exhaust into the air.

This can be a large portion, e.g. in older systems from the days when fuel was cheap, and pollution wasn't a topic.

Modern systems attempt to recover exhaust heat, and can be 90-ish% efficient.
Profits are stolen wages
I've done psychedelics upwards of 50 times over the last 5 years and while I think they are dangerous, and that their real purpose and origin may be different than what we are taught, I still think they are valuable drugs. Invaluable even. I just can't conceive of a place in our culture where we could do them like for instance we do adderall or prozac. I know they do studies but to me it seems like an experience that comes to you and then goes away when you don't need it. Very difficult thing to explain unless you've "been there." I don't think you necessarily need drugs to get there but it vastly vastly makes it easier. Just like I don't think you need a train, car, or plane to travel across Eurasia but walking there sure takes a whole lot of something else.
If Newton and Einstein hadn't played with legos, we would probably not even be having this discussion!

that being said, I did enjoy my legos
Not sure what you mean by strip out the browser UI.

When home screen apps first came out we built some for clients and if I recall correctly, lack of browser UI was default.
YouTube has gotten much much better at rewarding videos based on context not just length. They weren't always great about it, but they've improved tremendously. I can see them further adjusting this, so that say if you've uploaded ~11 minute videos consecutively it'll prevent you from adding that "middle video" ad break (note: I don't know if they already do this).

I don't believe these changes have collapsed creativity, there isn't another platform on the planet that is creating as much long form content as on YouTube. People aren't posting their great absurdly high detailed yet entertaining content on Medium or Substack, no it's on YouTube. This has led to a walled garden of sorts, but it's also reaping benefits from their improvements from the days where you could easily game YouTube with shallow thumbnails.
I went up into the Catskills with a big bag of mushrooms and a trunk full of rice and beans and didn't come down for a year.

I learned what it means to be grounded. I'm fucking unshakable now. "Everyone's different" is the real lesson here.

That being said, the way Silicon Valley uses this shit makes me want to rage. Treat it like it's sacred, and it'll treat you like you are.
Or they took something that was presented as LSD but was actually something else. This sounds like the kind of nerve damage people get from taking dangerous doses of MDMA. Not saying it's MDMA specifically but it could have been something neurotoxic.
Ditto - I think it's also human testing in my case (or randomised automated testing). We have a commenting feature, sometimes I see comments sometimes not.. I think I've always seen api requests come through.

Just wish it was a whole load faster... when you find a critical issue and want to get it out the door quickly, super frustrating to be waiting !
Most of the unwanted tweets and users go away for me by telling twitter to only show people I follow. Although annoyingly, twitter appears to reset that setting every so often.

Another alternative is to make use of private lists, as recommended here:

https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
I’ve had visual snow since I can remember. I went to the eye doctor as a kid and they ran a bunch of tests which resulted in “it’s nothing”.

Dabbled in psychedelics pretty heavily in college. Think it was one bad trip that ended it for me. Dealt with some major anxiety for a couple years afterwards but eventually I went back to ‘normal’.

Visual snow never got worse, I did get “seeing stars” though which I never had prior to doing psychedelics.

Overall the conclusion I came to is that psychedelics are an absolute luxury in the US. If you can afford to break your brain and you think the risk is worth it go for it I guess?

Fortunately I was in college, had a job that was easy, and programming was an in depth enough experience that it made my anxiety go away while doing it.
Jumping from returning shopping carts to murder is a bit of a leap though. Sure most people wouldn't commit murder.

However, its much much easier for things like returning shopping carts become less common. How many stores have left San Francisco and Portland downtowns due to unabashed theft?

I agree that much of it also starts with leaders. If the top eschelon is busy with NIMBYism and gaming share prices to get theirs, it won't be long before normal folk start questioning doing the moral thing in order to get ahead.
> 1. What if it’s the most amazing thing ever, like ADHD medication, what if you get insanely productive, and you then have to go back to being mediocre?

Probably a good time to remind everyone that ADHD medication will not actually make you insanely productive forever. Good for treating genuine ADHD, but trying to use it like a limitless pill just leads to tolerance, dependence, and burnout.

The more involved doctors will actually start people on low doses and titrate up so patients don’t get the wrong idea about what the medicine is supposed to be doing for them. It’s usually the people who took too high of a dose they borrowed from a friend in college or something who have an idea that stimulants are a magic limitless pill without consequences.
> Mann v competitive enterprise institute recognizes that a jury would find their comments as deragatory, false and damaging

No, Mann v. Competitive Enterprise Institute had Mann’s claims against CEI dismissed at summary judgement because Mann’s evidence was insufficient for any reasonable jury to conclude that the required standard (“actual malice”) was met in CEI’s conduct, irrespectice of whether the charges were false or not. [0] (“actual malice” was held to be a triable issue of fact for the jury against an individual defendant in the same case, as was the actual falsity of the charges. I believe the case against the individual defendant was abandoned because CEI was the real target, or just because of Mann’s pattern of abandoning cases because he was “too busy” to prosecute them after filing.)

I wonder if in general you are making the mistake of assuming that motions to dismiss or for summary judgement in which the court is required to assume that the jury would find for Mann in any cases where there is a material issue of fact constitute “recognition” that the jury would find for Mann, which is decidedly not the case.

[0] http://climatecasechart.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case...
> Global optimization techniques which don't rely on gradients seems theoretically superior in all instances, except that we haven't found super fast ways to run these kinds of optimizers.

Did you mean "Global optimization techniques which do rely on gradients..."? Because exact gradient-based global optimization (GBD or branch-and-bound based) methods for general nonconvex problems are theoretically superior (bounding with McCormick relaxations etc.) but also more challenging to practically deploy than say stochastic methods or metaheuristics like local search.
For $8 you still get ads.
Yes, and these death-based analysis' also ignore the fact that both Fukishima and Chernobyl could have been much, much worse if major interventions were not made at the right moment. I always think about the Fukishima engineers who got the instruments in the control room to turn on by wiring them up to car batteries. If the team on duty that day was just a little less resourceful, the story gets much worse. Those incidents should be seen as a lower-bound to the danger not an upper bound.
we had a chevy bolt, lived in condo, parked in a parking garage in Cow Hollow in SF. Had no problems charging either at work, or at a charging station down by the marina. We drove it to Yosemite a couple times, drove to Paso, and Napa all for fun. Got rid of it because we didn't need a car while working from home.

Long story short, it was useful and viable even though we didn't have charging.
No idea if it still works, but it was possible to select content from only certain subreddits

https://reddit.com/r/subreddit1+subreddit2+subreddit3
> It is not taking away someone's freedom to charge them different amounts of interest depending on how likely they are to repay a loan, or to not issue loans if they are unlikely to repay.

It is if the person therefore lacks the ability to borrow, and lacks the freedom to study and make the most of their life. Trapping people in ignorance and poverty is quite a blow to their freedom.
Ask HN: Do apps often nag the user frequently after they cancel a subscription?
For example, they might see a frequent alert telling them that there is no active subscription to which they must click "Ok" to continue.

This frequent alert would only start appearing after they cancel their subscription.

Is this standard practice to encourage users to subscribe again instead of using the free features of the app (which did not have this nagging before subscribing for the first time)?
I thought everyone experiences what he describes as “visual snow”. I just figured it was noise created in the retina and optic nerve, from stray photons and quantum effects and whatnot.
Fwiw, Gitea now supports WebAuthn!
It sounds like you would find benefit from Linux Mint[0]. I recommend using it for a few days and seeing if it fits your workflow.

0 https://linuxmint.com/
I had a very bad experience where I lost myself and came to riding my bike down the road at 2 am in my underwear. It was the Red Maeng Da variety which is more potent.

https://www.newsdirect.com/kratom/red-maeng-da-kratom
Linux with xfce is, I think, the answer you're looking for. I guess Fedora on Qubes.
Over the christmas holiday I was surprised you couldn't purchase youtube premium as a gift card for someone else. Seems like this would be a non-trivial source of revenue for YT.
My man must not write JS
I can speak to #1. If you take a normal amount, you will not be productive at all in terms what we all feel society demands of us. All ideas of productivity fall away when you trip. Social pressures fall away, you become a kid again in a way. Fascinated by looking at grass breathing in a meadow. You still think familiar thoughts, but in a vastly different way.

Now, if you microdose that’s a different story. I tried microdosing for a month years back at a remote job. I found it made me more able to connect with others. Like I didn’t want to hop off a meeting right away. It gave me some extra creativity when coding, but didn’t increase the output of my code.

I completely respect anyone who doesn’t want to try though, there are even some psychedelics that scare me and I’ve done quite a bit!
There are many many ways it improves my experience:

* I don't care about high follower count tweets, I'm not there for viral tweets, or popular media or generally anything that there are 1M in the world even care about. I'm there for niche experts that can not be found anywhere else

* I really don't care about reading the tweets of people who have to pay in order to get their opinion boosted. I do know severa people that have paid for Twitter for a long time, and would whitelist them. But otherwise, a blue check mark has become a very good signal for lower quality content that is likely to be some BS political propaganda I don't want in my life. I don't want NFT hustlers or get-rich-quick schemers rising to the top of any discussion.

The whole "verification" scheme was always of minimal utility on the site, mostly for making sure that what you're reading from a notable person actually came from that person and not an imposter. That was the value for users. Now that it's gone, the blue check mark has no positive value to me, and in fact 99% of the discussion from blue check mark holders is pointless idiotic defense of their purchases which is a massive waste of everybody's time. I do not care, burn it all with fire so I can get rid of the noise.
I know too many burnouts to personally want to try drugs. I'm high on life, thank you.
I’ve been banned from multiple subreddits for commenting “I wish Aaron Swartz were still alive”. Just that. Nothing else. Instant ban with no recourse. That’s how toxic reddit moderators are.
Do you have thoughts on the NFC and particularly Garmin Pay features?

I wonder if these are secured differently or merely obscured behind the encrypted firmware on newer models.
You're surely joking when comparing LSD to foods, right?

Please name one single food that can bring down all your psychological defence mechanisms in one go.
I don’t think they’re that unusual. I think there’s a major bias on the internet toward only allowing/supporting positive stories. Negative stories attract a lot of people trying to explain it away as due to underlying mental illness or some other generic explanation (which is inevitably so generic that it could apply to any user)

It seems every negative psychedelic anecdote on HN is met with commenters that are resistant to the idea that the drug could possibly be negative for someone.
Your definition of the word does not agree with how it is commonly understood in psychology. But no matter, this is a question of semantics and thus intrinsically uninteresting. Not to mention the fact that any argument that asserts either the presence or absence of qualia in some system is, as of now, both unverifiable and unfalsifiable and thus without value.
This would seem to be more common from a business perspective, but apparently it isn’t. This warehouse park, Morgongåva, near Uppsala in Sweden has at least 2.5 MW installed and installing more. This one of their buildings.

https://renewablesnow.com/news/swedish-online-pharmacy-apote...
Makes me wonder if a counterpoint to adopting almost anything will arise with 1 million people having the ability to obtain a drug with ease instead of 10,000 people that are forced to jump through a lot of hoops and navigate a specific kind of closed drug culture to come out changed for the better. When there's a 0.0001% chance of years-long negative effects, that's a lot more people making up the minority. Safety regulations are always written in blood. I think there will only be pushback when, ironically, enough people are convinced that we should finally legalize these drugs for millions of people to use, and that 0.0001% minority grows loud enough.
I have lots of poor friends and I have never heard any of them indicate that they’re making their savings decisions based off of the shifting advantages of their FICO scores.

I never really quite understood the reasoning that poor people are poor due to a lack of incentives to become not-poor. Being poor isn’t fun, it actually sucks.

If poor people are poor because of a pathology as you suggest, what incremental changes to mortgage rates would create an incentive big enough to overcome such an obstacle?
This can't be true. Apple users pay a 30% tax to keep the closed OS with only that store safe and sound.
I guess if you're really upset by the penalty, you can deliberately tank your credit score before applying. What, no takers?
Lots of published scientific literature backs up the positive benefits that many people experience. This guy sounds like a tweaker who generated more of these effects from his own paranoia than from the actual experience, but anyways I'd give him the benefit of the doubt and encourage anyone trying a new substance to appreciate the possibilities. Anecdotal stories should be balanced against data though, and just by the tone of his writing this author seems to have a lot of baggage.
Seconded. I’ve used Mint on and off for over a decade now. It’s stable and changes release to release are subtle. It’s boring and that’s why I keep coming back to it.
"• Filter out Tweets by Elon Musk as you scroll"

What a useless feature, just block him?
Has anyone done more detailed numbers on costing of roof mounted installation vs just putting utility scale solar on the ground?

I would have thought if the economics were super favourable this would already be happening by now.

To me it -seems- like a great idea but while I'm pretty versed in solar for home scale (diy off-grid setups etc) I have no idea how the numbers bear out for this install size, grid connection, etc.
If your mind is weak you shouldn't take hallucinogenic drugs.
Isn’t Arizona also getting a bunch of TSMC fabs? Those use a gargantuan amount of water as well.
Not every restriction on speech is the same.

Restricting hate speech protects the politically vulnerable, the minority, the oppressed. It's not a restriction on hate speech toward the government.

Restricting 'anti-family' speech protects the status quo, those in power, the political majority and oppresses the vulnerable minority. For example, look at the discrimination against LGTBQ people now.
If you read the actual report that is linked from there, you will find from the table on page 4 that the classes of cattle not listed in the press releases are heifers, steers, bulls, and calves, and that they do sum to ~89 million.

https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/...
Eventually the goal would be to remove username & password altogether. That would be MUCH simpler for developers. No email integration for forgot password flows, no need to hash and store credentials, etc. WebAuthn is dramatically easier to implement than passwords.
Thousands, if not millions, of people in India and increasingly across the world take Indian ginseng aka ashwagandha for anxiety and other psyche problems. My wife ate several kilos of the stuff during her BSc programme; it helped her with exams and general stress. At some point I was very anxious for a perfectly valid exogenous reason, and she recommended I take it. Three pills in (recommended daily dose, taken over the whole day), my liver briefly shut down, and I spend a week in hospital, recovering and educating doctors about five or six published cases of this phenomenon we found on PubMed. Later I found many more in Amazon reviews. Ashwagandha is world-wide legal, over-the-counter food supplement. But you’ve been warned.
Within the next 10 years I think we’ll have 1,000 mile ranges and ~30 min charge times. CATL just announced a doubling of the current best energy density, that alone could get a Tesla Model 3 to over 600 miles on a charge. At that point I think this conversation will stop and people will all switch. I agree though, at the minute if you don’t have the ability to charge at home you’re missing out on one of the absolute best features (always leaving the house with a full tank).
I think there are way more types, or subtypes. The first category can be broken down into "people who like C because it's simple" and "people who use C because they need to do manual memory management" (and that can be broken down into "has not tried Rust" and "has tried Rust and didn't like it"). The second category can be broken down into "people who wrote a program in the 1980s in C and are now stuck with it" and "people who learned C in the 1980s and haven't tried to learn a new language" and "people who learned C in the 1980s-1990s and think that Python and Ruby would be too slow for their purposes (no longer true)".
I'm not sure if it has already been implemented, but I wish someone would implement a blocker for Twitter Blue that excludes legacy verified accounts and people you follow/on your list. We have the necessary data to implement this: https://gist.github.com/travisbrown/b50d6745298cccd6b1f4697e...
ya till solar hits a tipping point like it is in California right now. Then the utilities want to set a flat rate based on wages to stay connected to the grid.

This will 100% work but we also need battery tech to hit like 250-300 a kwh for storage is my magic number to get a 40-50kwh backup and detach from the grid.
I've noticed this pattern where "anecdote" is deployed when someone disagrees with some point another person is making. But would you be chiming in here about "anecdotes" if this was a post by someone claiming acid helped them?
Their experience sounded nothing like MDMA. And some small group of "lucky" people do have similar after-effects from LSD or even mushrooms (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep... ).

I have no reason to think it wasn't LSD, but there's also a decent possibility it was something else passed off as LSD, which is a fun consequence of the war on drugs.
The "Orange Hellsite."

And Twitter is the "Blue Hellsite*".

Both are bad, both still show up in my browser history. I don't know why.
I feel like people generally know if they have a family history of these things, or maybe that’s just me?
Agreed. I think easier access to bookmarks is helpful. Knowing views is marginally helpful, I could live with or without it, but see no reason to remove it.

A lot of these features are for those who want no change. Which I can understand, but the changes aren't as drastic as say, GMail's pointless UI churn.
With most rental cars giving you unlimited miles, I'm very much of the opinion that when you factor in mileage and wear and tear on the car plus vehicle depreciation due to the long miles on the road trip--that renting a car for long trips is the way to go.

Especially when compared to owning a second care with an ICE just for the occasional trip.
> About 160 µg later

Serious? You went with a strong dose on your first try and you blame Steve Jobs? I mean, don't get me wrong, he was a dick what with driving a un-plated Porsche just so he could park in handicap spots and all, but this is 100% your fault. According to erowid, a starter dose is around 25ug.
I printed my “underground newspaper” on a Panasonic dot matrix printer back in the 90s. One night I came up with the “innovation” of placing a box over the printer to mute the sound (so my parents wouldn’t hear the printing and admonish me for “wasting” paper and ink, or worse, ask what I was printing). It seemed like a great idea until I noticed the printer was stopping every so often. Concerned, I pulled the box off and was met with a wave of hot air. My young self didn’t realize that dot matrix printers get hot. Apparently the obvious heat sink fins on the print head didn’t register with me.
Sure and that’s the best case. Just about anything else needs a multi-hour detour.

Anyway, my only point was there are still some gaps, even in the relatively dense eastern seaboard. But not many.
One trick I've used is to disable Youtube on all of the kids' devices [1] and only enable it on the family living room TV.

Then rotate video selection powers to each family member so that there's an equal mix of Mr Beast and Practical Engineering/Vertasium/Tom Scott/City Beautiful/Sebastian Lague etc.

[1] Chromebook with Family Link to only enable specific websites.
There is a very big difference between giving no credit and giving a fair amount of credit, which might be small. If you listened to the podcast they talked about Aaron in a non-disparaging way, and a way that I'm sure is accurate to their beliefs about it.

But my point is that _even if_ Aaron was super, super important to the company 16 years ago (which I can't speak to), Reddit was a tiny little fledgling of what it is now. From what little I know about Reddit's history, I know that Aaron stopped working on Reddit very soon after he started and has had no contribution to the company since then.

I also do think it's interesting that the people that have worked at Reddit for years/decades all seem to have a similar opinion of the situation, and the people who haven't worked at Reddit at all are the ones that feel so strongly that Aaron is being wronged somehow.

Maybe Aaron himself was more proud of all the other things he accomplished! Saying he was an important but small part of Reddit's story is still something!
Luckily, that is exactly what happened! The law explicitly states that it will be reviewed every few years to determine whether USB-C is still the best choice.