skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious that the author decided to ignore any attempt to articulate benefits of even moderate alcohol consumption, instead hand waving them all away with:

> Left unaddressed is the presumption that alcohol is necessary to any of those (good and often great) rituals. It’s not. You can get most (perhaps all) of those social benefits without alcohol. Drinks with friends don’t have to be alcoholic.

I suspect most folks' critique of this author's opinion will lie with this unsubstantiated assertion. And the ensuing inference that a prohibitionist stance strives to remove people's bodily autonomy to decide if they like using recreational drugs.
The warnings are an admission from the “Great Minds and a great Thinkers” that someone other than them has created something previously thought impossible or, at the very least, several years / decades out. So, I am not sure ego is at play here.
Perhaps someone close to the problem (your actual scientists on the ground) is not capable / unwilling to accept the issues raised as that has direct (negative) impact on what they have created.
I recently started scraping internet for my own work. Unfortunately the sad part of using public data for AI is there is no references to the original work.
My go to pointer for this is to read the Postgres docs (and / or source - which is also super readable).

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/planner-optimizer.ht...
I was rather explicit that the list was designed for dealing with “those operating under the theory that training AI is Fair Use”.

If your threat model is “those only concerned with what they can be forcibly compelled not to do, after evaluating the capacities of each content supplier to resist”, things are different.

Which category Google falls into on this is a debate I’m not interested in engaging in.
‘Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music’ Review
Wow this is amazing. This is more or less what I was trying to build https://hnresumetojobs.com to look like, I am reconsidering whether or not to continue now.

I tried using the OpenAI functions API to do structured text extraction, but found that it would hallunicate a lot of things. Do you guys have that problem? How did you guys go about solving that?
Not everyone is that fortunate.
No one gives me a hard time when I answer '1-2 beers and I feel like crap tomorrow'.

Heck, I feel like people give me some respect for being able to avoid alcohol at an event packed with it.

Looking back on it, I always was jealous of the sober people at parties. They were having a great time and didn't need to drink or do drugs.

If we are going to plug our favorite ways of breaking addictions, I love Power of Habit by Charles Duggan. I can't give a summary because that would be doing a disservice, I don't recommend any summaries online either. Its a 300-400 page book on the brain science of the basal ganglia which is responsible for addictions. It can also be used for positive habits like exercise too. Its my number 1 or number 2 book of all time.
Have seen this coded in practice, holding the entire graph in memory (millions of vertices, billions of edges). It was pretty darn fast.

A question I have wrt memory access for CSR: is the access pattern suboptimal still? While there is less pointer chasing, I believe you are not guaranteed for the edge data of adjacent nodes to be adjacent in memory, thus there is still potential for many cache misses.

Another open question is whether you can further compress the CSR representation. For float-based edge data I think quantization works well, and I believe you can further compress the ROW/COL indices (delta encoding for the former). Compression potentially helps here because you can fit more in cache and can shove more edges into the CPU.
Non-alcoholic drinks are really good and have lots of options now. Athleta Brewing Company and Phony Negroni, for example.
My understanding is that the latest biological research is pretty clear: no amount of alcohol is better than none.
I'd assume fastConvert is less accurate. If it was both fast and perfect it'd just be 'convert'
Surprised it didn't seem to mention some of his research - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/26/an-innocent-...

https://gabalabs.com/ seems to be their website
"It's incredible that the figure is so high"... lol, 20% seems incredibly low to me. The "study"'s authors must have a really low quality bar for what a malfunction or delay is.
I'd say it would be good enough to pass an undergraduate class if it was expanded. Did you ever teach a class? I have not but as I understand it you'll have some students that aren't so good at writing, and some that are good. You don't want to discourage the weaker students from growing by giving them F's.

This isn't a field like engineering where there are objective right and wrong answers and anyone dies if you pass the students who are not so great at writing essays on literature.
Until you were called out in comments you were fine to be "just a user". I'm really disappointed in that.
We don’t live to make the line go up - we make the line go up that we might live. What is in an extra half percentage point in the GDP that’s worth taking away one of life’s joys from people?
> Because it's FOSS

It's not FOSS, my other comment on the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36578294
A fairly straightforward mechanism to deal with this is to make the price that you have to pay proportional to your reserve price. It's an established theoretical concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harberger_Tax but afaik there are no notable real-world implementations so far. I'm not deeply familiar with it btw, and not advocating for or against it, just fyi
I live in the suburbs of a large city in the US and I have to physically go to the post office whenever I mail something. My neighborhood has a weird matrix of mailboxes with no way to indicate to the postman that he needs to take something. So I have to drive to a post office every time I want to send mail. We even tried leaving a note in the box and that did not work. It doesn't take an hour but probably 20 minutes round trip.
I kind of enjoy the irony of this policy being supported by virtually everyone, other than the ostensibly-progressive Harvard admissions committee.

Someone here has already made the argument that the entire affirmative action set up at Harvard was just a way to hide the rich and well-connected from any meritocratic scrutiny.
This is rather circular: government doesn’t step in to reduce consumption -> everyone who reduces consumption does so of their own volition -> therefore government shouldn’t step in to reduce consumption

We know that taxes have a very strong positive effect on cigarette use, for example.
How do you insert elements at the end of a row?
About time that Microsoft gets investigated and potentially fined in the billions of euros.
Easier said than done : (
> Yes it was pretentious and arrogant

a lot of things in the VC bubble dotcom 1.0 boom were pretentious and arrogant

a lot of things today still are pretentious and arrogant

nothing has changed
> The hardest part of debugging Python is "hitting the wall" when you come to a native library (compiled C code). And Python has achieved a lot of speed-ups from Py2 to Py3 by adding more compiled C code.

"Debugging a Mixed Python and C Language Stack" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35710350
What benefits?

Physical pleasure?
What's adds to that annoyance is that the only way to navigate the games is a "prev" link. There's no way to jump directly to a game or go to the next game. This means every day it becomes more time consuming to get to the first game. And if you accidentally refresh the page, have fun!
> As well as flood (multiline messages and edits), spam, harassment[1], leaking secret channels[2], leaking past message metadata and channel membership.

> [1]: https://twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/1581103659013722112

What abuse? That link says "Matrix does not provide the moderation tools we need to keep our community safe", but doesn't say how their safety(?) was compromised.

I also find it odd since Mozilla switched from IRC to Matrix specifically because they wanted to censor people, I mean "keep our community safe" though "moderation tools".

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/synchronous-messaging-at-moz...
You make sure that more than one person is aware of the changes and design, and have all people frequently discuss the progress before the mega patch hits PR.

Then the mega patch PR is " one last look ", and not thousands of changes storming the gates of your sanity.
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/professor-david-nutt-inv...

The same author as the book proposes a chemical alternative. He's an interesting guy.

Product page: https://gabalabs.com/
The author suggests additional restrictions against alcohol in favor of increasing productivity, a common argument for the failed experiment of prohibition. Since when is my productivity his problem?

He also simultaneously cites the Arab world as an example of an alcohol-free society, yet makes no mention of the relatively low productivity rates there.

No one should feel compelled to drink and I support people who want to reduce their alcohol consumption. In the meantime, I have yet to see a compelling argument for heavily restricting alcohol.
Weed is not “healthier”, stop spreading this mythical crap.
The question in my opinion is not really about specs — no matter how much you spend on your hardware, you can't, pardon my French, take the shitbox out of Windows. Device manager and registry still being a thing, reboots to install software, ads in the start menu, etc are a good example of how Windows is not a system for human users. It's amazing how much backwards compatibility they've offered over the decades, yes, but it's also got them holding a lot of smelly baggage.
Free market capitalism only works when there is competition. Big companies buying out the competition to limit consumer choices and effectively stall innovation is exactly the things the government should be protecting against to keep the ‘free market’ thriving.
Why did you decide to respond to my post without addressing the point of my comment?
Containers have to be compatible with the host operating system kernel.

In my experience, getting containers to run on non-mainstream Linux distributions is a complete crapshoot.
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Sure, but Intel doesn't advertise the number of dead cores.
This is basically a balanced audio cable, but in a bajillion dimensions
I believe at least part of the reason for calling Harari pseudo-intellectual is the use of misleading statements in favor of storytelling in the books and also building up on others' work with better storytelling.

More on this: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populis...
I am really confused by this. Maybe I'm just a social recluse, but I definitely have a drink whenever I'm with friends or family. But those events are limited to once every 1-3 months.

I have alcohol in the house. I'll occasionally grab a beer to have with BBQ in the summer. I don't have a need to limit myself; I'm good after 1.

I enjoy alcohol in social situations. I don't have a problem stopping after 1 because that's all I need to feel satiated, and I can go months until my next drink.

Alcohol during my university years? Yeah, I took it too far a few times.

Coffee? Different story altogether!

Is it just me? Am I the weirdo?
It works for cigarettes.

[0]: https://web.stanford.edu/~jhain/Paper/JASA2010.pdf
> Matrix as a whole isn't banned, only the bridge operated by Element. If anything, this could encourage more people to run their own bridges (eg. Heisenbridge).

That won't help 80% of the users that are not techy people. So yes imho while not intended as one, it will backfire as a full ban of matrix.

> except my work on MSC3968 and MSC3969 which is still awaiting initial review from Element four months after I submitted it.

Honestly, as a Matrix user, I hope these don't land any time soon as they will strongly decrease usability for matrix users. (And yes, I am going as far as saying that I want a native feeling chat on matrix side. Not an IRC emulation. If I wanted an IRC emulation, I would use an IRC client. That's EXACTLY the one thing I DO NOT want as a matrix user.)
sure but some people also find life more enjoyable with the addition of recreational substances.

for such folks, especially ones who don't have much exposure to recreational drug use outside of drinking culture, i think GP's question is perfectly reasonable.

there are plenty of people whose drug of choice used to be alcohol and have since switched to something else and found equivalent or greater satisfaction; seems like this thread might be a good forum to have that discussion.
I think it needs to be tied to a consequence for it to all fit together. The stated price would be effectively a binding offer to sell at any time.

It reminds me of the "24 Hours of Lemons" joke racing series. The rules require participants to send in a car worth less than $500. To enforce this, the operators reserve the right to buy any participating vehicle for $501. If you act in bad faith and under-price your entry, you get it bought out from under you.

The problem is that works well for enforcing an upper bound on price. You need a different model for enforcing a lower bound. Maybe the renewal fees are scaled according to the stated price to provide a reason not to claim everything is worth millions.
Reminds me of runWithScissors.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...
How about, "evidentially less physically and societally damaging if consumed at what could be perceived as congruent levels"?
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What I thought would take me weeks in development, took me months, but it's finally out. When ChatGPT API came out in March, my first idea of what to build with it was a spotlight-like app for my mac. The product was ready in a matter of days, but making it useful and sellable to people via some kind of distribution platform was another challenge. Coming from web development, learning how to ship a native app was a trip, but here it is, ready to share with the world. Try it out with the free trial, and I'd appreciate any kind of feedback.
I’d argue that AI driven super resolution like DLSS should be more than sufficient to upscale 4k to 8k with minimal performance loss and acceptable image quality even for gaming.
The actual study, full text https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3582432

I only skimmed, but two things struck me:

(1) previous studies conducted 2003-2006 found 44-50% time lost to frustration, this one found 11-20%. That's a huge improvement! As bad as computers are today, they were far worse 20 years ago. Progress!

(2) Performance (top 3 frustrations are the computer is slow/froze/crashed) is the top frustration.
Those with great visibility often are not the greatest minds. However, in a broader sense we would have been served well if philosophizers would have had more input on the development of social media tech. It is an example of engineers knowing a field narrowly and deeply but not understanding the societal consequence.

AI may very well fall into the same pattern and it is something I have written out in some detail of thoughts around alignment and the traps of both ego and misunderstanding human nature for which we want to model alignment.

https://www.mindprison.cc/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap
Would it make sense if NPR ran a Mastodon instance?

EDIT: or if public universities ran their own instances? All content submitted by users would be CC licensed.

EDIT EDIT: To keep costs down, just rate limit the number of posts that could be made per user.
I've always heard that it's "social lubrication".
"Since when is my productivity his problem?"

To be fair, unproductive citizens are society's problem in many ways, and he is part of society...

Edit: Thanks for downvotes.
No one cares about your dreams unless you’re a famous writer
eh i rode motorcycles for a few years, probably 5, and had several bikes in that time, went to track days, did long solo motocamping rides as well as group rides.

while i definitely miss the feeling, i look back with horror and amazement that i ever did it, and very likely won't consider getting another bike again. i rode pretty conservatively the great majority of the time, but the culture is so provocative it's so fucking hard to be completely strict about it. my last bike was a big adventure bike, not a track bike, so it's not like i was squidding around on a gsxr the whole time.

this basically completely parallels my journey with alcohol. i don't drink anymore and never came anywhere close to alcoholism, but it was a pervasive and toxic substance and culture that i didn't really enjoy participating in anymore. i now have many other good options and hell even the craft NA beer options are growing quite well.
A gentle but firm regulatory hand does wonders. Seatbelts, safety standards, they save lives. One only needs to look at the stigma created around cigarettes, often through strong policy, to see that it can be wholly effective.

A government isn’t some faceless monster entity like the banks in The Grapes of Wrath. They are you and I, and it seems more than okay to come together to write laws for the greater good of all.
That's why I mentioned kernel and runtime compatibility.
there was a short story about a computer being made out of a swarm of birds.

http://www.rocketstackrank.com/2015/12/a-murmuration-by-alas...
There's nothing mythical about it. Weed is certainly healthier than alcohol, just like coffee is certainly healthier than cigarettes. It's not about weed being particularly healthy.
The article speaks more about the "knowledge workers", the CC Baxters of the world performing more or less bullshit jobs [1]. The 2-3 billion unemployables of the next 10-20 years are not knowledge workers and will all be replaced forever by embedded robotics with good enough networks and statistical learning for following given goals while generating sub-goals.

Boston Dynamics' Spot costs $75K today and Atlas is around $150K, once the price gets closer to $10K there is very little reason to ever employ persons as assembly line workers, construction workers, warehouse workers, machine operators, truck drivers, janitors and cleaners, agricultural workers, security guards, food service workers, garbage collectors, and so on.

And even if 3 billion people could be forced to do spreadsheets to "earn" a living, "by the sweat of [their] brow", that would be an even sadder world than our currently sad world.

My argument is that we need a new metaphysics for what work and life means, one where the right of a person to have food and shelter is not tied to the economic value they produce. But I have no hope for this world: the trillionaires of tomorrow will share even less than the billionaires of today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
At least over half the issues sound like issues with computer hardware/OS (the computer froze/the wheel keeps spinning)

Many people have tried to have an OS and pretty much all except MS, Apple and Google have failed at the consumer level.
I also bought MacBooks to my close family. To my amazement, two of them installed Windows on it through Parallels app. It works slow but at least they can use the programs they want.
Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly does "Classifier Free Guidance" mean, and what are logits?
This is a sort of obvious thing. Alcohol achieves its effect by poisoning and shutting off parts of your body - a side effect of which is lost inhibition. And for a lot of folks, losing inhibition is not that good in seconds consequences either.

On the flip side, I've had a couple of "magical" nights in my life where alcohol played a key role and I would not trade those nights away in the risk/reward equation.

So as a personal measure I'd say - if you drink rarely and your results are additive to your life - great. You are striking the right balance. If you are drinking frequently and struggle to function without it (eg - can't handle a social gathering without it) then you got health and personal issues from it and should change your ways.

As a society we are way too accepting of it as a casual and normal substance, for sure.
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Vertical integration at its finest. They pay the authors to write the books they publish which get sold in their store that they link to from the site they own that reviews the books and pays the reviewers an affiliation bonus. No one is buying books with bad reviews. Brilliant!
Perhaps. It's also possible that they don't understand how dangerous what they've created is because it feels so "normal" and "pedestrian" to them. See also: nuclear scientists getting radiation poisoning, I suppose. But that's also true for all of the other people being discussed, I would think.

But I do think "wants to be in the discourse and on top" is a pretty strong correlate with the degree to which someone characterizes these as "concerns" vs "x-risk".
> Better use jsDoc, d.ts files are scary and are really complex

Why would you use d.ts files and not just... .ts files?
> I'm afraid that would be me.

I think a lot of us are that, personally speaking: honest sincere analyses and investing time into critical analysis almost always will bring out more than what we hear in a talk. It does take a big amount of effort though than just watching a talk while munching on some snack.
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The author has done a superb job here. Not only does it have a cycle-exact Intel 8088 implementation (matched with disassembled microcode timings and hardware-verified) - it does the same for the CGA, where the dot clock is 3 times the CPU clock frequency... and it correctly represents the monitor's output, overscan included, which most other PC emulators have never bothered to do.

And those debugging tools are something else, too!
I'm mostly aligned with the discussion of why folks should be careful on how much alcohol they drink. Even ok with a bias to not drinking.

I do find so much of the argumentation against it very off putting, though. Happy that this article at least points out some of the nonsense in obviously too high costs associated with hangovers. That kind of rhetoric and analysis really makes it hard to care about some of the easier points. In ways that doesn't even make sense. (Why try and inflate what is ostensibly already a strong case?)
You state there are benefits to alcohol. I specifically state there aren't based on the biological research I've read. That is directly addressing your point.

EDIT: I don't see a 'reply' button beside those replying to me below. I am 100% open to being convinced of the benefits of alcohol -- especially psychological, social, etc. Please feel free to post papers that scientifically show that alcohol is beneficial. Would love to read them.
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“I Have a Problem with the Stealing of My Material”: Common Rally Emerges on AI