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> As it turns out, HN is not your office

Fair, but I'd hold HN to a higher standard. We're peers and we choose to be here. We should treat each other with kindness and respect, not contempt. I read a fair amount of contempt in OP's characterization, and I hold that separate from respectful criticism.

I looked up a thread about this from 2020 [0] and it actually seems well reasoned, calm, and respectful. No one's slinging around words like "faulty", "broken", or "harm" because those tend to insult people and derail technical discussions.

And FWIW, that's why I would get managers involved if this happened in the workplace. Calling people's work "broken by design" or "harmful" is how to start an argument, not how to solve a problem. If someone's acting this way, there's no way things are going well.

[0]: https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2020/04/17/7
I did not know that was a thing. Though, maybe I am uninformed but I can't think of both how and why this is a thing. First, a quick search on ISRO's wiki page it has a handful of launches every year, and assuming the chances of the rocket debris landing on a particular country is likely single digits a year if at all that is, what's the point of a fine, just to make money? or is it supposed to incentivize countries to invest into research of rocket debris trajectories? Or perhaps deter countries from launching rockets? Second, what happens when a space agency disputes an incident/fine, who is the final authority? What happens on repeat offenses, steeper fines? What if the fine is not paid? Is it a problem worth tensions between nations with sizable bilateral trade?
I don't get his problem.

1. JAMStack is not Netlify.

2. The complexity he's talking about isn't obligatory. No one is forcing you to use any complex architectures, when markdown + a SSG is what you need for your use case. Neither is Netlify, they would support that actually.

3. JAMStack is a very elegant solution for a big chunk of websites, compared to having a dynamic server rendering the webpage again and again for every request.
I didn't dig into details on specific of this project.

But any large fixed price project I've been on, it all hinged on verbose specifications. And then any change resulted in change orders. And it becomes a pissing match of who will pay. It is rarely cut and dry.
Hydro isn’t clean (extreme ecosystem damage, both up and down stream); and if we dammed every river it’s a drop in the bucket of what we need.

I don’t know how far solar/wind can get us. But hydro sucks more than most people realize.
More like an evergreen. The thing with evergreens is that there will always be someone who will encounter it for the very first time.
It is junk, but "space junk" has a very specific meaning [1] and this is not it. Pretty much all rocket launches have debris designed to fall back down into ocean, some recovered and some not. Not only that, but defunct satellites are intentionally crashed into the ocean and left there [2].

There is literally nothing special about this part other than perhaps it floated and ended up in another country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_cemetery
> The gummies/edible workaround I can understand, but the THCA flower "workaround" seems like it's skirting really close to the edge of the law.

They both fit the law in the same way; the law defines hemp in an expansive and inclusive way, subject only to the D9 THC limit, so anything not D9 THC doesn’t count against the limit even if it has similar effect. Even the DEA accepts this, though the DEA seems to have adopted a view unsupported by the text of the law that things that don’t naturally occur in cannabis but meet the inclusive description in the law’s text aren’t legalized as hemp, which leads to controversy around some synthetic cannabinoids, where the DEA view and the text of the law (and some emerging case law) seem at odds.
Well, that's your claim.

Somehow you expect people to act differently if that market wasn't there. Personally, I doubt a large number of those interested even know the market exists.

Yet, scammers are deeply aware of betting markets. they seem to always be there, and even create new ones just so they can play.
Was wondering why it doesn’t sound surprising and then remembered that squid game is also Korean. Puzzles immediately fell into place.
Trucking Giant Yellow Shuts Down Operations After 99 Years with 30K Employees
Interesting, my wife takes a third to half of a 5mg edible and is good. I take 10mg and then another 5mg about 45 minutes later. I have taken 50mg over the course of a day before but I think the max single dose I have taken is 20mg and I was pretty high but still sociable. I like to maintain a solid sense of control.
> I always try to explain this to people, that the Republicans actually unwittingly legalized weed in 2017, but no one ever gets it.

It's because you're using the word wrong. Weed is illegal federally. The problem is that you think THC is weed, and Delta-9 is weed, and CBD is weed. Words have meaning. A caffeine pill isn't coffee, and beef steak isn't a cow. Something being derived from something doesn't make it that original thing.
I basically waste no time at all travelling - I do it mostly by bike which is obviously beneficial health wise, and if I do take a train or bus I use the time to read etc. (plus walking to/fro stations/stops is, again, a positive use of time).
The objective downsides in the amount of infrastructure dedicated to allowing everyone to drive everywhere is surely seen in the cost of maintaining it, and the impacts it has on housing affordability etc. Not to mention the environmental damage caused.

I certainly don't want people feeling like they're being forced into making inferior choices - just that we make an effort to design our towns and cities so that the choice to walk/bike/use transit is a realistic one that compares favourably with driving.
I'd like to recommend two of Darwin Ortiz's books, Strong Magic and Designing Miracles. They're high-level theoretical texts on the perceptual and cognitive basis of illusion and I've found them to have a great deal of applicability to UI/UX design.
I was consuming 5-6 grams a day for over a year until 3 months ago after weed got super easy to find in my state. It allowed me to escape from my responsibilities, first thing I thought in the morning and I seriously I thought I could not quit. I then watched a video of myself interacting with my 7 year old with my super bloody eyes and looked like a loser. That and my own mom's "I am scared that you would not be able to quit" were two things that triggered me to stop right there. Weed made me resentful towards people and life, made me criticize everything around me. I am not going to waste my 40s like that.
I wonder whether gnuemacs of the time had the ability to create directories from Emacs lisp.
Luckily for me, I just had to go down the hall to the data center, and then reset it with the local terminal. Compared to you, I learned the lesson on the cheap, but you got the bonus of a nice get out of jail free card. Neat CYA trick that I will keep in mind.
Don't bargain on that.
For some the threshold is way too high given how far they've sunk.

As always, the ones most vocal about it haven't even bothered trying out guanaco 70b 2bit.

Probably don't know what ggml, gptq, cformers or any of the others are.

They still base their assumptions on the openai gold standard.
Creator of Mastodon has 330k. Not sure if he's #1 but he's a strong contender: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron

EDIT: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1cpUKkoT1MUn8_xM4... has a list of the big ones, looks like https://mastodon.social/mastodon is top at 800k.

> I figured there was less than 100K people even on Mastodon

https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats says currently 2 million active monthly users, 9 million registered. That's just for Mastodon, so add another couple of million for the rest of the Fediverse.
> Forgive my ignorance, but I’ve never been clear on the distinction between “psychologically addictive” and “physiologically addictive”.

Quit cigs/caffeine and you'll be irritable and nothing much else... maybe constipated for the first days? Quit heroin and you will likely stop to function, your brain needs it. Same as alcohol, real alcoholics don't stop cold turkey or they will likely die, their body needs it. As the substances have replaced their natural counterparts which the body has forgot how to make.
this is an emotionally charged topic and people are often not very precise with terminology when discussing it. so I can understand why you would be confused just from reading a couple articles and comment sections.

> This distinction seems rooted in mind-body dualism, further driving my skepticism.

this does not really make sense though, and opioid withdrawal is a good example to demonstrate why. people who abruptly stop consuming opioids usually get symptoms that are similar to a bad cold or flu. it's not just "in their head"; they literally have snot pouring out of their nose and sweat uncontrollably for days. this is typically what people mean by "physiological addiction". sometimes it is also called "dependence" to distinguish long-term pain management patients from addicts. btw, most common recreational drugs cause some degree of withdrawal, but it's often not significant enough to notice.

in the short term, drug with significant withdrawal symptoms are especially difficult to stop consuming for any length of time. but it doesn't take that long for the body to return to homeostasis. a couple weeks is typical, but it might take up to a year in extreme cases.

the learning (ie, what you might call "psychological addiction") never quite goes away though. this is why addicts must be extremely cautious, if not abstain entirely, for the rest of their lives.
Well, whichever ET it's targeting, I hope they enjoyed it; I'm pretty sure no human did.
It's more like, suppose people are purposefully infecting themselves with smallpox, and then suddenly the common cold is legalized so people switch to that. I could consider that "cool." Possibly similar story with vaping vs. smoking but the decrease in harmfulness is less obvious there.
After going off caffeine for a day or two, drinking a strong cup of coffee or tea on an empty stomach will give me a fair bit of a buzz, to the extent that it feels like my head is floating. Two cups and work can become difficult and I can't sit still. If I drink three cups by mid-afternoon, I begin to feel anxious and slightly paranoid, as if I'm forgetting something important. It also impairs my sleep.

If you're a habitual user, you may not even realize how it effects you, and you'll need more dosage to get effects.

I'm a very long way from the folks on r/decaf, most of whom I think need some serious help, but it's much more impactful than you may realize.
I have the feeling that we are at the MRP stage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_requirements_planning) when companies started using computers but writing software to handle production processes was so new that nobody could write anything truly universal. The next will be the ERP stage where we know some abstractions that apply to many companies, companies like SAP can sell some software - but most money is in 'implementation' by consulting agencies.
Interesting article that I didn't expect to find on HN. thanks for sharing!

I would like to add that in my own experience (and that of others, it wasn't mentioned in the article), synthetic cannabinoids, like the ones "cannabis" sold by the guys in the park down the road is laced with, is considerably more addictive than medicinal quality marijuana. Also, instead of a slow buildup, it usually hits a few seconds after taking a hit already and doesn't last as long, plus the effects were really paranoia inducing for me, to the point where I had auditory hallucinations and was afraid I gave myself schizophrenia for the rest of my life. But it was so addicting that stopping even for a full day felt like an insurmountable feat. I was already quite depressed before, so the feeling wasn't that much different, but at times I just couldn't wait to get home, light up a joint and blast myself with podcasts (usually reports from other countries and other cultures, something as far away from home as possible), sports broadcasts or the 10th The Office re-watch. Basically retreating into a cocoon where I wouldn't have to deal with the outside world. one time i woke up still wearing my shinguards from football ("soccer") practice the day before.

I finally stopped when I had to go on a trip and be sober for 2 weeks. As long as I wasn't at home, I didn't even think about smoking much (which is crazy when days before quitting seemed so out of the question) and when I came back I didn't have much trouble staying away, fortunately. Now I just take a few hits every couple weeks and actually get to enjoy being high for a change.
Linux is just a kernel, anybody shipping it for use has to include a seperate userland.

FreeBSD is an entire operating system, it ships with a kernel and userland as one completed piece. So you could build a "distro" on top with just things like a desktop environment, but there wasn't the same need to.

This also means that most of the BSD's are fundamentally different operating systems. There are some "distros," but FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonflyBSD are all seperate operating systems.
We are years from way from the average user being able to replace X SaaS tool with available open source software they run themselves.

Even now, the average person could have GPT walk them through replacing WIX with their own self hosted website. When I say "dev," I probably misspoke. I meant more in the sense that the average person will be able to implement existing software in a way that was previously unreachable.
>which isn't likely to hold up in court when it's finally tested there.

This is the key. Who will ever bring this in front of a judge? The "anti-weed" lobby has all but ceased to exist. Which leaves basically a small handful of deep red state attorney generals that would even have the standing to be able to attempt it.

And which side do you think has the funding (and incentive) to defend it all the way to the supreme court?

The floodgates have opened, and they're never going back. There's simply too much money and momentum behind it. Even the conservatives are on board at this point now that they've seen the tax revenues.
> You very clearly have a dangerous bias against THC and it's clear in your rhetoric

On the topic of biases, I wonder why you consider theirs to be "dangerous".

Regardless, their biases to seem to stem from a certain personal experience with marijuana, particularly their friends' habits with it. It's possible this person's "friends who spend majority of their day high" have a substance abuse problem even if not everybody who uses the substance abuses it.
IIRC the 'maps' made of organic materials were very much a rarity slash teaching aid for the later incarnations of traditional navigation cultures of the Pacific which we have surviving material on. Mostly they used mental maps, and of course the most sensitive instruments available at the time ... at least one example of which was hanging their balls off the edge of the canoe to see if they could detect a temperature shift. A good book on the subject is We: The Navigators though it draws only from one area.

Source: Have a Pacific art collection, have been to most of the major museums on the subject, interested in sailing, authored some of the Wikipedia (featured) articles on related watercraft.
When I've tried using it I've generally found that it leads me in circles between incompatible versions of a framework or tool -- it'll give me syntax that's correct for one version, but wants to use it to call a function that only exists in a different version, that sort of thing. They're not even hallucinations, each step is technically correct, but can't be used successfully with the other steps.
Cool. What if I want a weighted average of embeddings? Going further, is it possible to adjust the weights at search time?
> I would love to see them publish some curated Terraform examples as well given how better IaC is compared to manual actions

I imagine they'd rather you use CloudFormation?
> That's not how it works, though.

From the 'Conclusions' of Deaton and Cartwright (2018) [1], which is the one that seemingly comes up in debates among friends most often when this subject arises. I suggest to read that entire part of this paper at least -- it is very sobering. E.g.:

"[...] assumptions that RCTs claim to (but do not) avoid, so that if the aim is to use empirical evidence, any credibility advantage that RCTs have in estimation is no longer operative. And because RCTs tell us so little about why results happen, they have a disadvantage over studies that use a wider range of prior information and data to help nail down mechanisms. [...] Without knowing why things happen and why people do things, we run the risk of worthless casual (‘fairy story’) causal theorizing and have given up on one of the central tasks of economics and other social sciences."

I do not doubt everything in [1] applies even more so to RCTs in something like psychotherapy where the 'success' of 'failure' rests mostly on the interpretation by the subject and the 'why' is a black box. Until we understand and can observe brains in action much, much better and with vastly more detail than we do today that is.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6019115/
The context here is "friends who spend majority of their day high". Call me conservative or "dangerously biased", but doesn't strike me as healthy.
I know of plenty of people who have to fall asleep with the TV on, and if they turn off the TV before attempting to sleep, its massively disruptive to their sleep patterns.

I doubt anyone would argue that that's indicative of a physical addiction to the television, even as there are obviously "withdrawal" symptoms. Thus the grandparent's distinction between physical and psychological addiction.
Why would I want completely broken layouting instead of artfully crafted one? PDF does its job absolutely well, sure it won’t accommodate to your screen but there is no automatic way of laying out the content in a way that it makes sense both semantically, and from a design perspective. That figure 10 pages down is completely useless, I want to see it when it is referenced in the text. I really have a hard time reading anything that requires more formatting that a novel in anything else than properly rendered PDF.
Wow, why did Musk fold so easily? He’s already taken so many other things to litigation, how did the City get this one by him?
I have no idea what that first thing is supposed to be if not some weird kind of throne.
> StackOverflow tries to be the site where "the answer to X is Y"

StackOverflow is widely known as the place to get insulted for asking how to do X with Y. It doesn't matter what X or Y is, the answer is always "you shouldn't be doing it that way, why would you even ask that?"
We need a program for training people to rake leaves.
The Tragedy of Beatrice Foods
It is perfect for its job, and nothing else comes even close to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36948776
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was established in 1975. Since then, no plant license that was initially submitted to the NRC has started operations.

Plant Vogtle was approved by the Atomic Energy Commission (the predecessor to the NRC). Their license was grandfathered in. Building this reactor required a new reactor license (not plant license). Shortly after the reactor design was approved and construction started, the federal government added new rules about containment vessels being resilient to passenger aircraft impact. The NRC applied these rules retroactively, causing the containment vessel to be redesigned and construction to be halted.[1] The companies working with the NRC are reluctant to criticize regulators, as they fear retaliation from the NRC. The NRC supervises and approves each step of nuclear reactor construction, making it very difficult to schedule work with contractors and suppliers. Honestly, it's amazing this plant was built at all.

1. https://www.ans.org/news/article-1646/root-cause-of-vogtle-a...
>Often, if you try to ask a question on Stack Overflow, it’ll get marked as a duplicate with a link to a question that is absolutely not a duplicate. Or the duplicate will be to a question that was never answered.

I experienced this just last week. I answered a question that was never asked before, and one of the "powermods" closed it as a duplicate while pointing to a question that was similar but vastly different.

Since I have enough karma there I was able to start a reopen vote, but it took a week before it was opened again. The user who asked the question was justifiably upset, and probably not going to come back. At the same time the community lost access to an actually useful question without any real reason.
I think the text is perfunctory and you are supposed to listen. It is horrible.
I 100% agree I would love to see a follow-up. The post made predictions about post-pandemic air travel, I wonder if they've panned out.

As for the new miles schemes:
airlines used to publish charts showing you earned for X points per mile. The shorthand "miles" referring to FF points is telling. Now airlines use "Dynamic award pricing". It's impossible to tell in advance how much your points are worth.

https://thriftytraveler.com/guides/points/points-principles-...
Arizona law school embraces ChatGPT use in student applications
Got you! No seriously, I wasn't trying to call you out as some sort of purity inquisition. Rather my point is this binary "only Libre software" is the wrong way of looking at things, even for free software zealots (myself included).

I was really just betting on you using at least one of the following - proprietary BIOS, non-free network switch/router, wifi, a run of the mill keyboard or mouse, a switching AC adapter, any modern appliance, or a webpage that runs javascript from a remote server you don't control. My point is that it's basically impossible to avoid proprietary software these days. So we're better off analyzing the use of proprietary software in terms of how it can specifically work against you within the context it's being used, rather than as some binary go/nogo thing.

Like my main desktop is a KGPE-D16 running almost blobless coreboot (⌐■-■), apart from the CPU microcode, which I don't have much choice on besides to trust AMD at some point in time. Yet there are numerous domains of proprietary software that support it, without which it could not run. However those domains don't impinge upon my freedom within the CPU domain, as they are appropriately isolated. For example if I focus on my keyboard, its software's lack of freedom seriously destroys my ability to modify it. This is terrible, within that narrow context of modifying my keyboard. However it's not relevant to the larger scope, as the keyboard isn't really able to affect the freedom of the CPU domain.
> That aside, isn't the difference in population between states going to cause statistical oddities with the biggest states trending to the average and the smallest being potential outliers?

I don't think so. That would be plausible if the sample sizes (not the population sizes, which are quite large) from which the average state IQs are calculated were too small in the smaller states for some reason. The population of even the least populous state [1] is relatively large.

[1]: Currently Wyoming, with an estimated population of 581,381. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...)
Yes, but surprising to whom? If you are going to talk about it, then it's no more surprising to you. How do you know if it is going to be surprising to your audience? When everyone has access to Youtube, TED talks, Social Media and blogs, it is hard to gauge what is surprising and what is not anymore.