skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Peruvian Amazon, tobacco is considered to be a medicine. They use a stronger type of tobacco called "mapacho" which is pure, no additives. A regular brand cigarette contain about 10% additives (mainly sugars but also a lot of chemicals no one has ever heard of).

And since mapacho is so strong you can get the effects without even inhaling the smoke, which is healthier for the lungs.

Mapachos are used to clean out bad energies and keep bad spirits away.
> Not asking for navel gazing, there must be legitimate research in the topic by not.

Too bad federal funding for such research was banned for so long, and until so recently, because research takes time.
I asked Seth-bot for his take on "If i am pooping on the toilet and a random thought comes into my brain, should i always write that thought as a blogpost?" and it responded as:

While having random thoughts as you go about your daily activities can lead to great blog post ideas, it's not necessary to always write them down or turn them into full-fledged posts. The key to blog writing is to focus on ideas worth spreading, with a clear intent, and contribute meaningfully to your audience. Additionally, it's crucial to pick a focus and avoid ideas that are too broad or superficial.

However, remember that you can jot down your thoughts and use them later as a starting point or inspiration for more in-depth analysis or content creation. This way, you'll have a collection of ideas to explore and potentially develop further when the time comes. Ultimately, the decision lies in whether or not you believe the thought adds value to your blog and appeals to your target audience.
If you want to know what Seth actually said, check the links below.

Random travel thoughts
Random thoughts about the Kindle
Discontinuous thought
Random rules for ideas worth spreading
Thought for the Solstice
My grandmother’s twin sister developed schizophrenia, while my grandmother did not (though she did eventually suffer from Alzheimer’s). I have a moderately elevated genetic risk, and it’s something I do keep in mind. I believe her sister developed schizophrenia shortly after the 2 were separated from each other when my grandmother left for college, which is interesting timing.
Not quite the same, but those are also being worked around by everyone and their mother. In many cases with dirty and damaging hack solutions, which only have to be that way due to the fact that no relevant technical documentation is published by the manufacturer.

And then there are plenty of people who will happily download and load a custom bios onto their $2k GPU that they found on some or other foreign-language forum without even the slightest clue as to how it works or what the possible consequences might be.

This will now also start being a thing with non-technical people and their cars.
Oh totally. I was only thinking about the TOTP 2FA, for which I also have a giant rant about being user-hostile.
People pay the fare and usually don't buy any extra. And the plane doesn't go any faster if all passengers paid an hypothetical Speed Improvement.
Brand loyalty is a moat. So I wouldn't say that Coca-Cola doesn't have a moat. In addition, economies of scale allow them to produce more cheaply + advertise more + distribute wider than competitors. Compare Coca-Cola to some beverage company I start tomorrow:

- Nobody's tasted my beverage, therefore nobody is craving its taste. Whereas billions of people are "addicted" to coke: they know what it tastes like and miss it when it's gone.

- Nobody's ever heard of my business. I have zero trust or loyalty. Whereas people have trusted code for a century, and actually consider themselves loyal to that company over others with similar goods.

- I have no money to buy ads with. Coke is running Super Bowl commercials.

- I have no distribution partnerships. Coke is in every vending machine and every restaurant. They've spread to almost every country, and even differentiated the taste to appeal to local taste buds.
This is exactly why anti-trust exists - ostensibly to prevent any single entity from having a coercive monopoly in any given market.

If one company owns all the grocery outlets in a region, they can do this, so that is frowned on by governments.

I can't speak to your other examples, they don't seem to apply directly.
More acutely, cars have been been able to get software updates for 25+ years.

The dealer had the software and would update it for free (typically part of a recall) on my 2004 bmw, you can get this software and tune for only premium fuel (less safety)
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
There are no Euro bonds in the sense of debt issued by the EU, to my knowledge (although it's been discussed). All EU government debt is still issued by national governments of the EU constituent states.
Of course, but going from DARPA PAL and CALO to Siri is like going from Mikolov et al. (2013)’s word2vec to ChatGPT.
India govt bans 14 communication appps including Threema, element, briar
That's not unusual though and can just be normal lexing (or parsing - IMO it can be a pretty arbitrarily drawn line) e.g. in many languages = 'tokenises differently depending on where it is in the grammar': a = b is assignment; a == b is an equality test.
Don't really love or hate, but am ok with it. If I'm flying something short, I'll buy the cheapest ticket possible, which are really cheap now. Longer flights I like being able to get more leg room w/o having to spring for first class.

There is a large group of people who only want the cheapest flight possible, then there is a decent sized group who want more than basic economy, but don't want to pay for first class. This is basic customer segmenting.
ControlNet helps a lot with composition and lighting (https://sandner.art/create-atmospheric-effects-in-stable-dif...). It requires more work than just entering a prompt, but probably less work than doing it manually once you get used to it. I think there's a number of StableDiffusion clients in development that are trying to make this easier.
Do you mean when using it as a trade-in with Apple? Something else?
Apologies, don't quite follow.
I agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical_engineering#Trainin...

Looks like while there is not a particular license for BioE they can be licensed under other disciplines.
And yet it applies to everyone who is without a partner. Not just to the loud ones. Your supposed implication seems to be something that another certain loud group desires. Not something that can be inferred by any interpretation of the English language that I was ever able to discern.
It could be useful if those who label "bad" shared "with which Institutes", and likewise for those who label "fine" - even before detailing what is specifically "bad" or "fine".
This is only relevant in EU countries without a capital gains tax, though (or with one lower than 15%), right?
Thanks for constructive feedback.

> But the included searches of 200 in the standard plan is extremely low. Even a normal user will hit this limit quickly

They will not, a 'normal' user searches only 100 times a month.

> (if not, they are not your target group - or why should they consider paying for a search engine anyway

Because they want higher quality search experience, have their privacy respected and/or do not like the entire order of things on the web where they are constantly being the product.

> I think Kagi needs to reconsider their pricing plans and either lower the monthly price or significantly raise the limit for included searches

We will. Pricing is not a matter of our mood though, but of economics, and once you remove advertisers from the equation the true cost of search surfaces. We were able to bring it down to just 1.5 cents per search.

> Nowadays, a search engine is something you use on a daily basis. And you don't want to care about it.

Isn't something you use every day, tens if not hundreds times a day, and helps you accomplish important stuff, in a more productive way worth the $25/mo then?
This gives me nightmarish visions of DRM battles in the engine compartment.
You hacked me to go faster, but you didn't pay.
"No No. Its all good. See here is the code"
That code has now expired, I will start melting the engine. DMCA DMCA
"You are just confused. This code is ok again tomorrow"
Master computer says melt the engine. All warranty null and void
I'd rather not have my life shortened, or have to live with weird sicknesses, or have wildlife / ecosystems harmed due to us blacklisting when we could be whitelisting substances. I'm sure some of these chemicals let us do very cool things, but when the innovation in question is something like water-resistant clothing, can we please just fucking prove the chemicals are safe first.

There's no way to opt out of any of this, and the potential for harm extends well beyond what we've seen so far.
Test of time failure.
Maybe in inner city schools; I've never seen them myself.
> This is somewhat unreasonable, but it's difficult to argue with its effectiveness even if unpopular and inconvenient

Is it?

Its not the first school to adopt such a policy, so if the effectiveness is so clear, where is the data?
If the "better" really corresponds to the "more", that's not exploiting brand loyalty. That's just when a brand is an honest signal of the branded product or service. Exploiting the loyalty is when they cheapen the product or service, but keep the pretense of the brand. Singer sewing machines and Pyrex glass cookware come to mind as prime examples, but I'm sure there's many, where someone buys the company for the brand, and then drives it to the bottom for quick profit.
So Schizophrenia is the opposite of Autism?
What's a threat scenario where cash in a fireproof safe would be a better choice than an (insured) deposit in an EU bank account or government debt money market funds?
That is the benefit of centralization, the experience for the end user can be controlled completely. Maybe a Mastodon friendly web cache that anyone running a semi-serious instance could easily opt into (for a fee) is needed. As a hedge to keep your Raspberry Pie instance online if something goes viral.

As a community effort where no one is expecting to get rich it might work.
I think the GP poster was referring to that, because (anecdotally but still) when I was selling an M1 Pro, Apple offered me $950 but I was able to sell it for $1500. I probably could've gotten more, but I wanted it out of the house.
AI recreation of 500 pounds of pasta in the New Jersey woods
This is a really annoying limitation that I genuinely don't understand the need for. It seems a really irritating place to throw up an arbitrary wall. If they're going to let me use the bulbs with their system in the first place, why cripple them by not bridging them to HomeKit with whatever level of functionality they already support them for?

I bought two cheaper bulbs and won't buy any more of those because of this. So I guess if the reason is "money grab" i have to grudgingly admit it was successful.
If you're getting 0% on a (significant amount) bank deposit in the EU today, you need to urgently switch banks.
Apple posts second consecutive quarterly revenue decline
Considering how long it took mid level consumer cards to beat my $600 1080, you're way more optimistic than I am.
Wait, my M1 MBP 32GB has outstanding battery life.
It being everywhere worries me a lot. It outputs a lot of false information and the typical person doesn’t have the time or inclination to vet the output. Maybe this is a problem that will be solved. I’m not optimistic on that front.
I agree, Monads don't solve everything, but if we're being pedantic then I would argue that in a functional context you would almost never write

fn doTheThing() -> void, raises Error
SomeVal x = try doSomethingFallibly()

Functions don't do things, they process and return things. Side effects are handled higher up at the root of a program. Generally any time you'd be "doing a thing" you'd also be in a position to handle the error.

source: I don't do any functional programming but have seen some videos on youtube
Why would you assume youth data is not a serious revenue stream? Parents are likely a large target market
What do you think copyright is? It's literally the right to copy, and without having this right you can't copy whatever content you want from others.
If that were the problem, I'm sure Fischer would have written that, as it would have been shorter than what he did write.
No, they indefinitely delayed that deprecation. It's still delayed. I bet[1] it never happens. They haven't figured out what to do with S3 VPC endpoints and buckets with dots in the name, which both to this day require path-based addressing and are both completely legitimate uses. They just stopped talking about this plan entirely and it's been years; I think it's dead.

[1] If they ever actually turn off path-style addressing, come find me and I'll PayPal you a dollar. I don't think it'll ever happen.
This is news??

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927252/

First sentence: Cannabis is a known risk factor for schizophrenia. There's more, but read it for yourself.
I don't think most people care, and so, businesses are not incentivized to be nice.
And a bunch of us were making fun of him recently in the 60 Minutes / AI thread... (me included)
Except for the 30% rent the seek for using their app store.
“If I don’t charge you to pass how will my boss pay me?” said the highwayman to the traveler.
Currently we do not explore sparsity. The next iteration of models will be much more compact by focusing on reducing effective tensor size.
Why? What are the issues involved?
"The government", like any other large corporation, is an entity in and of itself, and not a mere aggregation of the people who run it. It has institutional culture etc, and given what it is, said institutional culture tends to lean heavily towards a highly centralized, hierarchical approach to anything it perceives as a problem; and tends to perceive anything that threatens the applicability of this approach as a problem in its own right.
Disgusting drivel. People wonder why institutional trust is cratering.
Subways can run in the Boring tunnels. They are smaller than what are normally used but same size as the London Underground tunnels.

This means that need to put down rails and control systems in the tunnels. I can't see that being $10M/mile.

The huge cost for subway systems are stations. What do the Boring stations cost? I bet the $10M/mile doesn't include the stations. Fairly simple stations for Las Vegas should be pretty cheap.
The Case for Not Having a TV
Doesn't mandatory DNSSEC also fix this?
> That would explain how both could be true: it could be genetic and triggered by environment/trauma.

With siblings it is likely both generics and environment are similar.
In terms of trauma and episode triggering events, imagine the stress of living with a large family where several are schizophrenic.
Well, it's different because of whatever X is. X is the reason why the idea can spread through the community. It needs to make sense on some fundamental level in order to get past the onslaught of ridicule that every stock and member is subjected to.

If you say "ABC is going to increase 10x because it has a funny name" that obviously won't fly, but if you give a detailed account of why it is possible (this is called DD - due diligence), this has much more potential to excite people. I wouldn't classify open source intelligence as a pump and dump.
Is $225M a lot for CEO of big corporation? I genuinely don't know. What is the average pay?
If you think not being allowed to carry backpacks is an oppressive policy (and yeah, you may have a point there), think how it would feel like to watch news of school shooting every month, and still having to go to school every day, while watching grown-ups blaming everything but the prevalence of guns to make it sound normal.

Maybe the next generation of Americans would be finally fed up enough to do something with the gun culture.
> Well then, people should also stop doing that with Typescript because it's [...] much slower than JavaScript.

Wuh?
It seems to me like the biggest concern (at least this is the case for me (a layman) and my girlfriend (a PhD candidate studying Chemical Biology)) for us is that building infrastructure that uses PFA-based materials increases the chances of them ending up in water or food.

For example, I used to drink tons of unflavored, purified carbonated water (aka "Seltzer Water"). I thought this is likely not very unhealthy since it's literally just pure water + carbon dioxide dissolved in it. It made me drink tons of more water (we're talking significantly more water than I would normally drink) so I thought it's a net benefit. But some evidence came out [1] that common seltzer brands have detectable amount of PFA in them. This may be because (1) PFAs are in water sources, (2) PFAs are in the plumbing systems of these companies' factories, (3) something else. Since we don't know how much PFA is too much, we've been a lot more meek about drinking seltzer water. To be honest, I still do drink it, but a lot less so. I mostly drink tap water, and in the area I live in (Boston, MA), there is no PFA detection, or it's very low.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pfas-chemicals-in-sparkling-wat...
Merely substituting one low-risk instrument for another doesn't seem like a meaningful difference in this context.

Coincidentally, just two days ago I commented on the distinction to someone suggesting this kind of service: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35790913
Right, have a similar experience. Wanted to upgrade to one with a larger SSD as I'm always running out, but the trade-in price was ridiculous. Decided to keep what I have
Honestly don't hate this when applied to speed specifically. Consider it a tax on dangerous behavior. Before you get your knickers in a twist, we already get charged more for premium safety features.

Why can cars go as fast as they do to begin with? how many people die because some foolish teenage boy with more testosterone than brains (I've been there) was hurtling down the highway at 100mph+?
How has ChatGPT obsoleted search, when hallucination and the token limits are major problems?

It's (sort of) obviated search for certain kinds of queries engineers make, but not normies.

I say sort of, because IMO it's pretty bad at spitting out accurate (or even syntactically correct) code for any nontrivial problem. I have to give it lots of corrections, and often it will just invent new code that also is broken in some way.
I see. In any case, I don't think anything stops them from augmenting ChatGPT(-as-seen-by-the-user) so that it incorporates modules that aren't mere language models and thus allow richer behavior, as I suspected they were already doing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35472089
Skyscope – visualise and explore Bazel build graphs
What monopolistic practices? They aren't buying competitors like Lenovo and shutting them down. They're just building a good product that people want to buy.
Germany just passed a law to exit coal in 2038. It's called Kohleverstromungsbeendigungsgesetz. [1]

Last month, Germany also closed down the last nuclear power plant [2]

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohleverstromungsbeendigungsge...

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomausstieg#2023:_Abschaltung...
similar thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35809807
Schizophrenia didn't exist as a concept until the early 20th century. There were various attempts to categories and label insanity in the late 19th, but before then people were either "mad", "not mad", or "occasionally mad" - perhaps with some sense of being religiously inspired in their madness.

So it's impossible to say if schizophrenia is a modern environmental illness.

FWIW I find it hard to imagine that modern life, even in cities, is more stressful than the life of a peasant in medieval Europe - someone who would be constantly torn between instinct and the threat of eternal agony in hell, and would also be terrorised by the very real threats of war, starvation, plague, and more mundane but still deadly illnesses.

Not that modern homelessness and poverty, workplace aggression and bullying, relationship breakdowns, and the threat of physical violence aren't stressful in their own way.

If there is an environmental component I'd guess it's at least as likely to be chemical as social. But maybe there's some difference in social stress types that everyone has missed.
There's a higher "skill ceiling" with SD. You can install different models for different styles or subjects, use ControlNet for composition, and use plugins to do things you can't easily do with MJ.
If you're doing SCCA, will you handicap your car appropriately?

I once took a first place trophy in SCCA autox because my mother's 99 Nissan Maxima sedan is handicapped compared to a Subaru WRX.

There are whole series developed around cheap, fast enough cars, s2000, Miata, RX-7 (non turbo), bmw e46. I always find it odd when people take Corvette and other super cars to these events, where they can't win.
Payment processors (banks, credit card companies) need to give people tools to approve transactions one by one, and a standard interface for recurring payment. Would take care of subscription abuse in an instant.
In the same 2018 Gallup poll that your National Review article referenced, only 10% of people in the U.S. believe that married men and women having an affair is morally acceptable, and only 42% of people in the U.S. believe sex between teenagers is morally acceptable, but it would be ridiculous to ban these things through law because the government should not be intruding into citizens' private lives in this way.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/235250/say-consuming-alcohol-ma...

Also, the proportion of people who find hate speech morally acceptable is likely much lower than 43%, yet that is still protected in the U.S. by the First Amendment.

An activity needs to be more than merely "morally unacceptable" to some people to justify banning it through legislation. You must also consider the infringement of personal liberties that a ban on that activity would cause, the resulting collateral damage, and whether the ban is practically enforceable. Prohibition was unsuccessful in the U.S. even at a time when the temperance movement triggered a wave of anti-alcohol sentiment because there were enough people who rejected the belief that others should be able to restrict their liberties based on different opinions on what is morally acceptable.
Amazing how much failing to keep up with competitors, evolve core business will get you.

How much of Google’s valuation is Sundar, how much is inflation of asset values to keep asset owners ahead of everyone else, how much is a decade of cheap money?
Those are performance measurements, but what are the differences in guarantees?
It's a lot obviously.
That's possible but somewhat debatable... The sleeves are the same color and thumbs are on the same side (or absent), so it's more likely they are really praying / thanking hands

I would use the fist emoji to imply a fist bump if I wanted to express something similar to a high five
Is Tensorflow used in any of the OpenSource projects?

I find PyTorch in everyone I check.
Chris Sawyer's achievements are definitely the stuff of legend.
> What do you think copyright is? It's literally the right to copy, and without having this right you can't copy whatever content you want from others.

Actually, no, copyright is the right to exclude others from copying, and without someone else having that right, you can copy whatever you want.

(And even if someone else has thr relevant copyright, you can still copy if your copying falls in one of several exceptions to thr exclusive rights of the copyright owner, such as fair use.)