skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on the comments by other folks here, looks like lot of folks are using Tailwind incorrectly and then blame it for not being the right tool.

Tailwind classes might be verbose but you are not supposed to use them directly in the markup. Always create wrapper classes that are specific to your design and simply apply the utility classes in them.

In short make your own Bootstrap like framework using Tailwind's primitives. Tailwind has made this trivially simple.
The current "Cannabis industry" is not that different from a "Tobacco industry 2.0" by being in denial of negatives, going on "but alcohol is worse!" whataboutisms, and generally denying responsibility from the negative effects.

That doesn't mean it should be made illegal, but I strongly dislike the current state of the industry and regulation; it's like we learned nothing from tobacco or alcohol.

All of the above applies to psychedelics even more, especially to those who tout the therapeutic effects while denying there are risks (the therapeutic effects are real, so are the risks).
Treadmill running helps avoid the heat, but is the workout as good?
Yeah, SPANN has better f1+queries per second on some benchmarks, but that's a little like comparing sorting algorithms, they're both fast and good.

The database software behind the ANN algo is probably a little more important in practice than the ANN algo itself, unless you're operating at such scale and speed that its an actual issue (e.g. you're google).

Differences between algorithms are a little more interesting when they let you do something totally different, like, for example, minimize the speed hit from doing searches on disk (SPTAG, DiskANN).
Right I meant 60mg for this guys wife who is looking for a 5mg dose.
How is being conservative about weed dangerous?
https://archive.ph/Ui5zJ
This is a multi-year trend and doesn't explain the sudden and significant decrease.

The article points to Google search algorithm changes for the first big drop, and ChatGPT release for the second one.
From art-school dropout to $12k/month world traveler
I wrote this story about my twenties, and I wanted to share it with y'all. I hope someone finds something useful in it.

Thanks for reading :)
Some great Tesla turbine builds on this channel. This is my favorite channel for anything Tesla turbine related https://www.youtube.com/@iEnergySupply
Sure you’re not thinking of the John Scalzi book with the similar (referential) title?
Well, the C64 itself was a capable machine, so it's no surprise extensions to BASIC had cool capabilities. The issue is that the provided BASIC sucked, no if or buts about it. I remember missing a simple LOCATE statement for placing text (text! not even graphics) that the Speccy's BASIC had, if I remember correctly.

To me, missing dedicated graphical functions (or cool text functions like LOCATE) was a big miss precisely because the C64 was a multimedia computer. As a kid I wanted to do cool stuff with my C64 and had to resort to obscure (to me) POKE commands. "POKE" is not really BASIC, it's a cheat.

I remember when I finally got my PC-XT clone, loaded with GW-BASIC. It had a DRAW statement! I could draw pixels with easy to understand commands, no POKE! My mind was blown. I could even forget I was using a monochrome CRT... I wouldn't get my colors back until a few years later.
Every other kind of power project is built using fixed price bids. If a company bids $3B for a natural gas plant or solar plant and the project costs more than $3B to build the company is on the hook, not the ratepayer.
> why would anyone want to import stuff to a Google account

I have 3 personal Google accounts, and that doesn't count my work and school Google accounts. It is conceivable that I'd want to move at least a few things around among them.

Also, it is conceivable that someone could write up a utility that prepped arbitrary types of data for import into an arbitrary Google property. Whether it's JSON or XML or whatever, I could see there being use cases for importing data that has not yet been in a Google account at all.
Staff is much more expensive then servers, especially in the west.
I think this shows that people need a place to talk about the same topics even when there is an answer somehere on the site. SO is not that place, but we need it. Like the old IRC days (in some channels, at least).
> the internet and smartphones alone have completely changed society

I honestly think this overstates the case pretty severely. They have certainly caused societal change, but from what I can see, society as a whole is not actually all that different from what it was before all of that.
I studied Air Traffic Management = basically managing and evolving ATC systems. I work now as a product designer, which for the most part involves conceptual design, dealing with complex flows and optimising them, dealing with imperfect humans using those systems, "solving problems" that go far beyond design. I often say it's the exact same job, just in slightly different domain.
Yes. This distinction drives me up a wall. The way I see it, all addictive substances are psychologically addictive[0]. Some are also physically addictive.

Addiction, by definition, is a psychological phenomenon. For recreational drugs, it's the only thing that keeps you using even when the net effect is harmful to your life.

It's really annoying to see people say things like, "It's only psychologically addictive" as if that's somehow less perilous than the alternative, or easier to overcome if you want to stop.

Most alcoholics have a hard time quitting not just because of the DTs (not that I'm dismissing those!), but because it's bloody hard to break that habit! The yearning for a drink is incredibly strong, long after you've detoxed. The physical withdrawal from alcohol can be managed over just a few days. The psychological withdrawal from it is typically a long-term journey with plenty of opportunities for relapse. Same with heroin. Kicking it is no fun, that's for sure. But once you've done your 30 days or whatever, the physical part is over. The real challenge is just beginning.

[0] Okay, I supposed there are addictions that are purely physical. Some blood pressure medications, for example. I ignore these, because "addiction" is probably not the right term for them. "Dependence" better suits therapies that you really do need to continue, or taper when it's time to stop.
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check out /r/leaves for community and resources. you're not at all alone, I've been using weed as a crutch since I started during the pandemic and it became habitual--don't think I've quit for more than two weeks since.

it's great that people are discussing this, some people can definitely use weed responsibly and stop easily, but others really, really can't--and the sooner we recognize it as addiction the easier it is to get out.
I don't think it's in dispute that SO has to deal with a lot of identical low effort questions. What people don't like is that the moderators and power users are entrenched against duplicates in particular in a way that makes the site hostile by default to questions that are not outstandingly original, but are nevertheless legitimately different.

Subreddits deal with the same issue (tons of identical basic questions) but have better processes to divert them and educate the user while still letting legitimate mid-level questions live by default.

There are bad subreddits where moderators make it hard to get help, but since redditors can move to better communities on the same topic (and duplicate all the content!) users don't feel stuck with the current moderation in the same way they do on SO, which doesn't let competing Q&A communities exist for the same topic.

I understand that SO has done some work to address these issues in the last few years and want to credit that too. That work is another indicator that there is a problem.

I also agree that leadership-moderation relations are a problem on SO.
Both. When I'm high at work it's very very acute. When I'm not high but I was high yesterday I can tell I'm lower-functioning but it's not as bad.

Weed and untreated bipolar disorder are directly responsible for me losing my jobs at SpaceX, Google, and 2 other smaller companies.
I smoke / take edibles probably 3 - 4x a week. 600mg in one dose for me is probably asking for a psychotic break.
While I think that some AI startups and new AI products will be successful I also think that from AI revolution mostly will benefit companies that will integrate new AI technologies in their existing product.
You can do it in any database as long as the corpus is small. But, yes for large numbers of vectors doing a brute force search doesn't scale well.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/vector-similarity-s...
Did you read your own links? I feel they explain it well. Strict moderation isn't toxic. It can feel harsh, but it isn't toxic. The rudeness is people joining a forum, spending zero effort to understand the rules or etiquette, and then demanding others helping them for free without putting any effort in.
Nuclear is dope and we should build tons of it, but it ain’t our only hope; plenty of other alternatives to build at the same time.

Eg hydro, overprovisioning solar or wind, transmission to remove local weather variations, coupling wind and solar, demand flexibility.

Fervo just started its first full-scale new-gen geothermal plant, for instance; 24/7 firm power. You might like David Roberts interview with Tim Latimer about it: https://www.volts.wtf/p/enhanced-geothermal-power-is-finally...
This hasn’t been my experience at all and I’ve found that chatgpt saves a ton of time over filtering SO.

I loved SO when it first started, but it got frustrating over time as moderators seemed to be too strict around removing “duplicate” answers.

It’s hard to know for sure, but I always felt SO would be better with a more Wikipedia approach that didn’t rely as much on opinionated mods.

It’s a tough place to be and I don’t think it’s possible to make a ton of money, I think it went downhill when the original founders sold a few years ago.
There's a bunch of publicly available documentation about how the Canopus star tracker on the Voyager probes works out there, last I looked, and it's quite an interesting design by modern standards. It uses an image dissector tube, which is weird and long obsolete vacuum tube tech that can measure the light in an electronically-controlled section of an image, to scan a slice of the sky around the roll axis of the spacecraft looking for an area in the right intensity range (which is fairly easy for Canopus since it's generally the brightest thing in that part of the spacecraft's view so long as the roll axis is correctly aimed at the Sun), and there's a bunch of hardwired digital electronics to control it and use that to adjust the spacecraft orientation.
True story: I was talking to an academic who was doing a study, aiming to get people to fill out a big questionnaire on health and lifestyle. As an incentive, people got a voucher for a gym. "Don't you think you'd get different results if you offered 200 cigarettes or a bottle of vodka instead?" I asked, "Well that wouldn't get past the ethics board!"
"Hey man have you tried going a couple days without smoking weed?" is not interrogation. It's concern.

I don't understand this attitude. Do you not care about the people around you? I'm not smashing my friend's joints or tossing their bongs. I'm asking because I am concerned about their health.

What I enjoy about the comments to my comment is it demonstrates how deeply ingrained this righteous indignation is in the "cannabis community". I don't understand your insults. "Puritan", etc. For some reason having concern for friends is now puritanical...what a world. Your focus on dissecting my use of idiom as some sort of in-built hatred for weed smokers is honestly so on point for the HN commenter community its actually almost funny.
This puts what I tried typing out a lot more succinctly than I could, at least as far as my own experience goes (YMMV, of course). At the beginning of the year I went cold turkey after consuming cannabis on a daily basis for about three years straight. At the time, I was plowing through at least ~4000mg of tincture (~150mg/dose) and ~2oz of flower in a single month - my frequent use meant that even one bong rip would do nothing, I'd need at least 5 or so to even reach the point where I'd go, "Oh, I think I'm stoned now, maybe?". Went cold turkey for a month and when I ate 20mg it rocked my world, and a single rip would kick my ass for an entire evening.

>That being said I think it's an easier drug to break the cycle of with planning...

Yep, this is what's worked best for me. I ended up using daily for a week earlier this summer and it was wild to me that I could watch my use go from one bong rip on a Monday rocking my world, to needing 3 or 4 rips the following Friday to get to the same level. Now, what works for me, is buying only a tiny amount at a time and saying, "Okay, this is gonna be used at X event, Y event and Z event over the next two months". If I'm an idiot and use it up before the end of that time, oh well, no more until then.
I’m not so sure with overprovisioning, batteries and controllable load. Also pumped hydro and other gravity batteries. We barely have any storage on the grid right now.
I like your interactive animation, would you mind briefly describing how you did the canvas pixel art?
GPT-4 is my one-stop-shop for 80% of programming-related questions, and I get much more useful feedback as I am able to have a live conversation and drill into anything and everything.

Every interaction with GPT-4 makes me a better programmer. It's also obvious when things aren't right: The problem isn't solved. So I also become a better mentor as I try to coax the right answers out of GPT-4. I ask it to explain its reasoning, I ask it to go over pros/cons of different approaches, I ask it to give me security reviews of provided code. GPT-4 really shines in filling in the gaps for old/new APIs where I haven't RTFM.

But I don't rely on it for correctness. That is my job as an engineer. I am just seeing the same stupid arguments play out that got played out over IDEs, higher-level languages, etc.

Anything that makes me a faster and better programmer is worth it, even if it comes with caveats.
or when I was futzing with display configs on a linux install, accidentally disabled my screen, and had to restore it blind
I don't mean to strawman you, but I would certainly agree that people people are going to college because they're being misled by data. The reason for the huge gap between a plumber and a regular high school graduate is easy to understand. Plumbing is a skilled trade, so it basically filters out those incapable, or unwilling, to learn and apply themselves to something. These are the exact same things that even a 'useless' degree does. Even a person who majors in unwater basket weaving has shown themselves to hold those traits, and they'll serve them well in life - even if their degree and debt won't.

Oh neat thing on the law school comment. You don't actually need to go to law school, or school at all, to become a lawyer in some states, including California! In California one "just" needs to go through a legal apprenticeship program, and then pass the Bar. Just is in quotes there for good reason, but I think the world, particularly in education, is changing far more rapidly than we realize. Especially given the era of the internet, costly accreditation as opposed to skill tests (ideally with some apprenticeship component), just doesn't make any sense anymore.
> I think the down side is a lot of the secondary compute accelerators, such as what intel is pushing and what the various ARM and Risc-V implementations include in practice.

I’m curious why this is a downside. The current trends in computing is that we’re long past the point of single threaded compute. The first step of that was multi processor and multi core and that’ll continue with more and more dedicated and specialized computing sub-processors. Energy prices are more and more becoming a major determining factor as is the area needed for cooling. By having more separated subprocessors you get both efficiency and easier ability to cool the parts.
I haven't travelled to Tuscon yet so I don't know, though I know there are some large preserves outside of Tuscon.

I'm not sure what you mean by the waterless Agua Fria plateau. I make a lot trips between Phoenix and northern cities like Prescott, Sedona, and Flagstaff. At no point among them do I see areas that are truly waterless. A lava field would be a sight to behold, but I don't recall any such thing along I-17 north.

During the years with there are more winter rains, the plateau one reaches right around Sunset Point makes for an amazing grassland. That's even knowing that, with as green and lush as it is that season, it will mean fire and devastation later in the drier parts of the year. During the monsoon rains, those high grassland turn into magnificent landscape with ponding, reflecting the stormy clouds in the sky, across a wide horizon.
Popescu is like the ur-bitcoiner, and by extension the ur-kleptocurrency scumbag. He's one of the handful of people who have (or in his case, had) quite a bit of influence over the perpetual number go up movement of the market cap due to being one of the very earliest large hoarders of coins at penny prices, and a complete Kool-Aid drinking Central bank/central government hating misanthropic troll.

Although I will say in his direct company, he was fairly well-mannered and clearly had a curious mind but one warped by what must have been some sort of Trisomy on the asshole gene.

That article was lifted directly from his blog which, I'm not sure may still be active even now, that contain much of his musings on that same topic as well as lots of others, all as reprehensible and in my view absolutely would have entitled him to an early death - assuming he didn't fake it.

Sierpinski scheme, hah! Now I really want to somehow tie that end with Zooko's triangle. Reminds me of the guy who made a guide to "writing your first ethereum contract in Pyramid Scheme" oh another variation just occured to me: Fractal Fraud
This is specifically what they tell you not to do.

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/reusing-styles

Their advice is to use templating (components, partials, loops) to abstract and I agree. It ends up working a lot better than abstracting your CSS.
ScummVM 2.7.1: “Stan's previously broken swords” sees the light
Imo Stack Overflow has absolutely been destroyed by the moderators. I was (and still am) in the top ~%0.80 of users[1] but no longer contribute to the site (I stopped ~6 years ago) because of the moderators. It has been an absolute shitshow of closing questions that shouldn't be closed, anally-retentive nitpicks which intimidate new users, the essential nuking of the community wiki (even prior to the official deprecation), bad answers being upvoted, good answers being deleted, and so on.

The whole "community moderator" thing ended up being a popularity contest where typical nitwitted social climbers ended up injecting themselves in every single minor conflict on the site just to score visibility points come community voting time.

On top of this, SO is also dying as it has no real viable way of cleaning up or deprecating old answers, and if new ones are asked, they are closed in favor of the old (outdated) ones. Slowly, reddit and language forums/mailing lists are becoming more and more valuable as Stack Overflow becomes more and more of a trash heap. It sucks because I really really loved Stack Overflow, but it just broke my heart one too many times.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/users/243613/david-titarenco
it easily can affect you as much as weed

How so? Comparing relatively normal doses, the effects of caffeine seem subtle in comparison.
The vast majority of moderators are unpaid volunteers though.
This isn’t metaphysics. I’d like to know what distinguishes physiological from psychological addiction. So far, the proposed mechanisms don’t hold up to scrutiny, since the proposed physiological mechanisms (e.g. serotonin modulation) are at play in psychological phenomena as well.

On a related note, I’m not sure what to tell you if you don’t see how espousing mind-body dualism can lead people to propose nonsensical distinctions, especially in medicine. I’d have expected a vehement defender of scientific medicine to agree with this.
Language, truth and logic
>My #1 excuse was always sleep. Weed is the best sleep aid I've ever found.

I started smoking weed to get to sleep when I was in a crappy college dorm with those awful cheap Venetian blinds and a streetlight outside the window that birds liked to congregate around and chirp all night. When I got older I found I could achieve the desired effect by lowering the indoor temperature, using a decent mattress, installing curtains and (this part is still hard to manage due to funds and neighbors) having a quiet room.
I dislike it, but there's something maybe related to it that I do like and recommend.
Unsurprisingly,
it appeared here on HN about a year ago.
One sentence per line: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31808093

I started writing like that after I saw it here and it's definitely improved my writing process. Note that this is not one sentence per paragraph.
After my source writing (in markdown) is processed to whatever output format,
the paragraphs look normal.

Just like the comment you are reading now.
It's nasty stuff, and yet another indicator of how the War on Drugs has only made things worse.
Has India been dumping trash in Australia for a long time or something?
If Apple allows sideloading apps in any way that is easily accessible to the average user, then

(a) Meta will insist their apps are sideloaded to enable privacy violations. Right now, they cannot say goodbye to iOS users. They could say goodbye to the small percentage that refuse to sideload (or even just put a worse version in the store to those people with enough new features to push most people to sideload.).

(b) Chrome will be sideloadable. Which means web developers will be convinced "sideload Chrome" is a reasonable fix. Reinforcing spiral and soon Google owns the browser in a way that is the envy of 1990's Microsoft. Keep in mind they managed to turn MS's Edge from a third browser to a Chrome skin. That's bad (see Manifest v3, WEI, etc.).

The list goes on, we could talk about Epic and games and store exclusives.

To say nothing about having to debug malware on my family's devices.
> That message quietly dissappeared without explanation.

No, it didn't. New data emerged, and priorities shifted. There's nothing sinister or weird about it. Trees only manage to temporarily store carbon, so there's a finite amount of CO2 mass trees can contribute to neutralize per year, and go figure it's not enough.

I believe the idea is that a single wind turbine can offset the loss in CO2 consumption cause by that same turbine taking up tree space, right?

> you have to destroy a lot of trees to plant wind farms and solar panels.

You have to destroy a lot of trees to put in country-spanning oil pipelines and run strip mines, and similar things are true for just about any other industrial-scale form of power production, so it doesn't make sense that minor tree death would become a conspiracy amongst environmentalists only when it's such an open problem for everything else, to me.

... Also, California learned how bad it is to never kill trees ever, so that may have contributed.
Well thanks for telling me this. My point was that reliability could be a true concern, but if people believe they can’t shop for it, they won’t bother.

You kinda proved my point too - your suggested steps to follow take weeks, and end in a “maybe you’ll get something a bit better than average”. That truly sounds like “don’t bother even if you want it”.
You can sell forever stamps. You can't sell airline points.
Sure, but a single pair of parentheses is enough:

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