skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Society as a whole would do better to take the money fighting against drug use, abuse, and sales, and instead put it towards programs that help people fight the issues that cause addiction in the first place. Mental health programs, along with support for those that have an addiction and wish to be free from it. Addiction is fueled by something lacking in people's lives. There may be an odd case here and there where someone tried a substance and got hooked, but usually addiction is a sign of a deeper mental health issue that needs to be dealt with, rather than the drug use itself.
That's an argument for regulation vs illegalization, though.
France has massive problems with their reactors and leads the world with only 62.6% from nuclear. A comparable number to Denmark that has almost no hydro power. There are several countries with higher percentage of renewables up to 100%.

Costs aren't the only problem, new nuclear reactors simply cannot be build fast enough to counteract the climate crisis.
"once someone figures out what combination of prompt + extra data was used"

This is assuming your thing is one call to GPT-n rather than a complex app with many LLM-core functions, and it also assumes that data is easy to get.
I believe most normal people don’t. I am pretty sure that is the case, because the default behaviour of both Windows and macOS is to consider the three as the same name, it has been that way since the beginning, and nobody seems to have any problem with that. What would be weird to most people would be if the case changed for unknown reasons, which is why both are case-preserving.
In my (European) country around the 1990s and got common only 15 years ago or so.

I guess you could find it here and there earlier than that, but it was quite rare.
New York announces $18M for advanced buildings technology
There's some interesting stuff happening with orgs on mastodon. Vice has a bot that posts their articles, but they've done some trickery where if you copy the link to a post, you get a link to the actual article on their website instead of a link to a mastodon post.

It's a subtle, but very nice feature. This is how ActivityPub should be used.
given that addictions still exist even for the most illicit drugs, I don't see that correlation.

enforcement is significantly less 'a joke' for heroin and cocaine, yet addicts still exist for the products.

also : is incarceration/penal-justice really the desired outcome here? Is the punchline here : "Would you rather be surrounded by ex-convicts or addicts?"
So, access to the court system is limited to those with the income to defend themselves. Is this a good thing? Or, is there a fund setup for people who need to sue/defend against a suit for defamation?
> I think any site that people use primarily to interact with others (in public, I guess) is arguably social media.

Isn't that just "the internet"? If mailing lists and newsgroups and BBSs and blogs with comment sections and instant messaging/chat rooms and forums and wikis are all "social media", why did anyone invent the term "social media" 20 years after it had existed instead of just continuing to say "the internet". Or, shudder, "information superhighway" if they really needed a hip slang moniker to use instead?
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Public record being official statements from business or government entities? I’m not aware of any personally.

Really I feel like I should clarify the above since I wrote it pretty late at night, and it I don’t think I really summed the experience up well. Another commenter mentioned their experience with other regulatory bodies that really cuts closer to what I intended to say:

“While I have no experience in dealing with the SEC, I do in dealing with EASA and SOX audits. One common theme, both give you the barebone rules as written, and it is up to you to figure out how to follow them.”

That really is my entire complaint. The grey area of what “counts” according to an auditor will vary over time, and what might count one year will suddenly be inadequate the next or vice versa.
I'm on the "Probably a nothingburger" side of things but just getting confirmation that it is possible and some understanding of what the process involved is is a massive jump for science.

If it's actually superconducting we've got a wide variety of ways to inspect what LK99 actually is that will shed a whole lot of light on how to create more of it, or more of a similar superconductor. It'll be one of the most important scientific achievements in our lifetimes regardless of whether or not it can be replicated with the process in the paper.
Sapir-Whorf in the conventionally conceived sense of language-as-local-limitation is clearly false, partly as it invalidates itself as an origin story. (How would you invent a language if you can't think outside of it?)

Sapir-Whorf in the sense of language-as-influence however is clearly true, even if academics occasionally state otherwise, because at their core all languages used by communities of a size greater than one individual rely upon semantics that are socially dictated.

Personally, perl screwed me up a lot more than BASIC - but who can argue with the expressive power of regex for text extraction and matching problems?

Wikipedia has a fun excerpt featuring PG (and Ruby) on just this question
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#Programm...
I am not sure I follow. Are you advocating for doing away with capitals entirely?
Ask HN: What should be added to the syntax of Python and why?
I recently came across the pipe library [0] which allows function chaining in a much more straightforward way:

sum(fib() | where(lambda x: x % 2 == 0) | take_while(lambda x: x < 4000000))

I know in Lisp languages you can extend the syntax easily, but I was wondering if there are any needs for that in Python.

[0] https://pypi.org/project/pipe/
My $0.02 is use boto3 if you're working in Python. It's gross, but stable. When I built my CD service I went with boto3 because CDK had 10x the issues on GitHub. Not an exact comparison since the CDK repo seems to include more than one language, but still. Skipped Terraform because it took three months to merge a two line bugfix I submitted, has a similarly massive number of issues, and to this day it still doesn't seem to support some critical API endpoints.
Ask HN: Any hardware startup founders that can mentor me through a growth stage?
I run a tiny he startup that found pmf. In the process of growing and getting lots of options to do so. Overwhelmed by which path to take. Would love to have a mentor I can occasionally ask a few questions.
As the ultimate progenitor of this tangent I hereby validate thefurdrake’s interpretation. My remarks were intentionally worded to form an inquiring statement of observations and preferences, not a demand for action on the basis of obligation, and the attempt to derive an unstated and unintended sentiment of vituperative entitlement is, indeed, gross.

The unsubtle misparaphrasing of Mark Twain was included as a comedic flourish to provide a light-hearted framing of the comments, but upon review of the subsequent debate, I concede it’s possible that for some, any allusion to statecraft stimulates the adversarial lobes.
>Also why could it not work fine behind a Cloudflare free tier?

Eh, how would that even work? You have to serve the requests anyway.
Yes, we should also make alcohol illegal again because those 1930s gangs were so cool.
the whole thing was meant to be sarcastic lol sorry
The encryption aspects of the proposed law have drawn a lot of attention, but the law covers a lot more than that.

Many of those parts of the law are popular across the political spectrum of MPs and with the general public.

There's stuff to deal with things like cyber bullying, hate speech and fraud on social networks - these have come about because of demands from parents and victims.
You've got this all backwards and you even proved their point. People don't _love_ tokenization, or DRM whatever. They LOVE the removal of friction, like buying things with their phone removes friction of carrying a wallet or a card or whatever I guess. On the other hand DRM makes things easier on the company, but as a consumer I don't really give a fuck about them or what extra work it causes them. In fact, they better have to do something otherwise I'm not paying for anything and they're just collecting rent for something I should be able to attain for free.
This made me smile. I'm pretty sure Paul Reubens never fought to maintain a slave state.
I'd be willing to bet the loss from ungulates/rabbits is worse than the squirrels/birds. If we had a way to fence off the individual young trees it would be ideal. I've had to do this for my own young oaks as they will get eaten down to the ground if not fenced.
I've seen some hype waves in my life, but it's probably the first one that truly unleashed the sleazy "influencer" types that regurgitate the same carousels they steal from each other. Even more intense than "crypto" now. That really kind of distracts from trying to gauge the meaning of this.
Whelp, there is historical precedence ;

"Britain says everything found in every country they took from is Britains"

So...
Do you use just Paddle for everything payment related?
And is it smooth?
Oxford Ninjal Corpus of Old Japanese (Oncoj)
It doesn't matter. None of this matters.

What matters is that marijuana had a demographic that allowed the government and law enforcement to be both classist and racist at the same time. The severity of marijuana possession was jacked up so that it could disenfranchise people, some of whom just got the vote less than 2 decades earlier.

When you put a law in place under such circumstances, you forfeit the right to talk about what's right and proper. What you did was monstrous, and the only correct response is to give back what you took, let the dust settle for some time proportional to how long you took it away, and only then let some new generation of lawmakers start discussing whether it's right or appropriate to take it away again.

Whether it's worse than alcohol or not hardly matters. It's a dog whistle, and will remain so for decades.
For this kind of questions there's Software Recommendations https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/
Original author here, and I appreciate your perspective! Interesting to know the connection of how one shift in the market helped influence another.

A couple of short thoughts:

> offer everything under one roof

To me this is THE value prop. I don't want to deal with the headache of setting up multiple providers and API services and a pandora's box of integrations just to get a straightforward project up and running. In addition, I ideally want my production software choices to mirror what I can run on my local machine. The fact I can run PostgreSQL/Redis/Ruby/Node/SSGs/whatever here, and then push it all up somewhere and expect that It Just Works is fantastic. Bonus that it's all just accessible FLOSS tooling for the most part.

> I think your beef might actually be with serverless compute and the restrictions that come with it

That is indeed a beef I have…not that there aren't good uses for FaaS architecture, but it's just generally not been anything that solves real problems I have besides simply spinning up a "boring" monolith. Certainly we can't say it's all Netlify's fault this became a big buzzword, but let's be honest: it's been a real slog to claw back recognition and mindshare that server processes are pretty cool actually, and Netlify certainly hasn't helped in this regard. You guys, Fly, Railway, and plenty of other hosting companies out there are innovating in this space, and it's truly great to see.
A number of BBC podcasts set their rss url to http:// instead of https://. One can still get these feeds over https/443 (see below). But podcast apps will try to use http/80 of course.

Why does BBC do this. Or maybe it's the podcast apps that do it. Weird.

"In Our Time" is one example.

printf 'GET /b006qykl.rss HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n' \
|nc -vvn 125.252.212.113 80 > 1.rss

printf 'GET /b006qykl.rss HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n' \
|openssl s_client -connect 125.252.212.113:443 -ign_eof > 1.rss
To be fair, there are a few stroads in Dallas and Houston suburbs whose speed limit is 55 (and many, many, MANY stroads whose speed limit is 45-50).

I gave up cycling for two years when we lived in one of them because of this.

I tried to ride, but when I had to get a GoPro on my helmet and saddle and caused delays on the only arterial two-lane (45mph) road in our neighborhood because most drivers won't even try to get close to a cyclist (probably because depth perception), it got too stressful to continue.

I'm back on the saddle now that we moved into a significantly more bike-friendly part of town, but saying "Bikes shouldn't be sharing the road when the speed limit is 55mph" is basically saying that cyclists should ride on their main roads.
Are they any good? Perhaps they knew somebody in the company already, which made it easier to get them into the role.

It also might be an easier time to hire right now.
Same here. It has been fun, but taking a long time to make connections and finding things out the hard way is kinda.. hard lol. All the best to you! Hope we are able to fulfill our dreams :)
It's unfortunate because the people who most want to answer SO questions often are completely obsoleted by LLMs because they just don't have unique skills. Usually, they try to bucket into questions they know the answer to. Sadly, this means that an actually hard question will just result in their not knowing the answer and confusing it for an easy question they know the answer to.

The "why don't you use a getter?" question is an example of this at a trivial point.

I'm not sure why the community became like this. Perhaps a natural consequence of Goodhart's Law applied to someone else. You can make someone else's thing awful by making a measure based on their thing into a target for your guys. Hacktober / SO / everything.

Still, I have always liked SO because they set out to do things right:

- prioritize questions which have clear answers

- gated functionality

- CC licensing

- data dumps

I don't know how to fix it, but I hope they manage something.
Okay. I'm having a fairly high rate of anxious thoughts but it's bearable. So far they're of the type that can be shaken off easily. I'm sure if I leave it untreated for a few months I'll have some form of breakdown, but while I haven't tried any alternatives yet, I'm looking for a psychiatrist & intend to find a different medication.
Huh, I didn't know this exists. Seems antithetical to the point of youtube to be honest, is this actually popular?
Interesting, I did not know that. Thanks!
Yes you can rename, probably just trolling.
Doubtful.

Nuclear is very specific tech. I don't think there's a whole bunch of companies out there sitting on their hands just waiting for a bunch of contracts to show up.
I made a site like this to mess with a guy at work. Everyone knew of IPChicken, and his last name is Herring, so I created IPHerring. I'd put Photoshopped images of him on the site for different holidays and coworkers always thought it was hilarious. They would even send me ideas of what to put next.

Now I sometimes use AI image generation tools to really make it stand out. It's been a lot of fun. A lot of the tech folks in my area are using it now.
The government also announced funding for carbon capture projects. It would seem to be smart to offer the extraction licenses in conjunction with carbon capture amounting to say 125% of the carbon resulting from the oil. The fact that they didn’t suggest that the CCS part is not financially viable, and not about to be.
> You don't have a program that works one day and then and then suddenly the next day "if statements" aren't working.

I know you're talking about the fixed nature of programming logic, but this phrase is surfacing some repressed timezone debugging memories.
Something I used to do is make a big pot of coffee and sip on it throughout the day, which was very hard to regulate (and it was also just too much caffeiene). Now I make a single cup of coffee in the aeropress and I use 16 grams of beans which i weigh manually. And I only have one cup of coffee in the morning instead of multiples throughout the day.

Point is, weighing beans and using the aeropress helps me keep my dosage consistent so I don't go overboard.
Always a threat if the a host container is on the same HV. You get all sorts of bleed bugs identified every other year. Literally the last one was a few months ago I think. None as large scale as when it first happened.
450 kilowatts? Is this the most powerful transmitter on earth? Where does it source the electricity for this?
I would contest that claim, honestly. If you mean the Terraform AWS provider, that has very good documentation, as do all the Terraform Hashicorp providers, but AWS itself is all over the place. They have way too much. Run into nearly anything I can't figure out and have to go their solutions architect for and I get links to 15 different blogs that aren't even part of the main documentation. Been fighting to figure out how to authenticate a AWS VPN throug Azure AD for weeks, though to be fair there, the defect is mostly on Microsoft's side, not Amazon's. I just spent the entire day today getting rsql to finally work for querying Redshift on a M1 Mac and their documentation seems to just be flat-out wrong. All the paths they think Homebrew installs stuff into are not the right paths. They offer a arm ODBC adapter, but rsql itself only comes in x86 for some reason, so they fail if you try to use them together and you have to get the x86 ODBC instead.

Also, not Amazon's fault, but I consistently get annoyed that when you web search the documentation for awscli, the top links always take you to the awscli v1, not v2.

To be fair again, I don't even know that it's a solvable problem. AWS offers too many services, too many ways to access them, and makes changes too frequently. They can't just unpublish anything because someone out there is still using some combination of each version of server and client side services. But it makes it very hard to find exactly what I'm looking for. Probably made all the worse by some of the subtle differences in GovCloud, but having very little GovCloud-specific documentation.
I second that recommendation. I've weaned off caffeine multiple times using that method.

Just be careful not to double dose when taking the pills.
The alternative isn't carbon emission, the alternative is far cheaper wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, battery storage (both lithium and many others)

The only question is if nuclear can offer something compelling to keep it in the mix. We have roughly 100 1GW of nuclear reactors in the US that are reaching end of life, and 90% of those communities would like to see replacements to keep the jobs in town. However, nobody will ever invest in a project that looks like Vogtle, due to the cost. Unfortunately, recent projects in France, Finland, and the UK all look quite similar in cost of dollars and time.

Which is to say, that nuclear will not be able to provide a climate solution at all. It's too late, we can not even build 100 rectors in the next 15 years to replace what needs to be retired!

If nuclear advocates want more nuclear, they need to focus on the details and the engineering and the management, not merely rah-rah for the tech. The devil is in the details, and projects like Vogtle have virtually guaranteed that nuclear will not be built in the US in quantity for at least a generation.
No offense, but Canada isn’t relevant on the global scale.

Hydro use is growing, especially in developing countries. However it’s a shrinking percentage of total energy generation. There is an absolute cap on theoretical hydro energy production, and it isn’t enough.

Hydro is low carbon and renewable. But it isn’t green, and it’s not enough.
That is true when the market price is fairly static and doesn't change much. This is how it used to be when fossil fueled power dominated the grid, since the biggest cost is the fuel and that could scale based on demand.

For EU this is no longer the case. The difference in market price between low and high can be above 100x. In theory a power plant could earn as much in 4 days as an other plant earn in a year worth of power generation. This is why all those nations started to bailout the power bills of businesses and citizens last winter. A single month for some people costed more than a years worth of power. For companies with contract obligations, paying what ever the market demanded was the lesser evil.

The US is not in the same situation, but the energy grid there is still a market based one. There is also other technologies that could in theory compete in such volatile market.
I don't know if this is this specific system in DF, but there is a recent video by Game Makers toolkit explaining The Sims AI which is kinda similar regarding objetcs and needs, pretty interesting https://youtu.be/9gf2MT-IOsg
I believe taxi in my city still has nothing like that. Or maybe some companies I don't know about? I also get to travel to other cities and researching local taxi companies is not an activity I'm looking forward to.
It could have been a community, like Quora, but focused towards CS/IT.

But it absolutely missed the mark on that one. It is a high pressure, toxic, unwelcoming place.

I contributed a lot of Math and CS content to Quora where I had ~1.5m views on answers. I really liked engaging there. OTOH, SO felt like a toxic exam hall on a bad day.

Every year SO asked in the survey if I felt I belonged to the community or something similar, I chose the most negative response from the list- every year.

If SO behaved like a community, then it could have had organic growth, and organic visitors, not depending so largely on Google.
Is that necessarily true?

I'm 200% not a physicist, but it is possible that during transit, minor bumps / temperature changes / ionizing radiation / oscillating E-M fields could screw up the material in a way that matters?
Canada is second-largest country by area, occupying around 6.5% of Earth's land surface. It's only 37th by population, with 0.5% of world's population. It's very non-representative example.
I did a similar thing in the early days of my career, but I actually caused an outage as a result.

In this instance, I was adding itables rules to a host. I wrote a script that add all the rules to enable expected network traffic, then set the default policy to DROP. Before running this script, I scheduled another script to be run which would delete all the rules I'd added. I did not remember to set the default policy to ALLOW.

The script runs, everything looks good. Five minutes later, pagers start going off.

Thankfully we were able to remotely power-cycle the host and didn't have to drive down to the datacenter in order to fix the issue.
I can see it on my paystub, it has a nice breakdown of where everything goes.

I’d argue you could do the same with anything, in the case of restaurants just show the actual total on the menu and include a breakdown on the receipt so people who care can see how much is going to taxes and such.
Not to mention that it has an on/off compressor, much less efficient than modern, inverter ones.
There were plenty of stumbling blocks early in the process.

1. SLAAC had been half-baked for the first 10 years. You were supposed to run SLAAC _along_ with stateless DHCPv6 just to get the DNS settings.

2. The initial rollout was embarrassing. The initial idea was to avoid the PI (Provider Independent) prefixes.

3. There is a plethora of non-intuitive features, like on-link addresses instead of the simple "subnet mask" in IPv4.

4. DHCPv6 is strictly worse than V4 for management. Whoever thought that DUIDs are a good idea...

5. IPv6 managed to break fragmentation and PMTU _even_ _more_ than IPv4.

6. HappyEyeballs that mitigate the V4/V6 instabilities became a standard only around 2012.

Etc.

Honestly, there's pretty much nothing that went right in the IPv6 development.