skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this distinction really confuses the issue because the actual physiological changes that can make quitting cold turkey actually fatal for certain drugs at certain intensities can appear to be on a continuum if you're not looking at actual cells and organs.

I think a lot of what we understand as "psychological" addictions to drugs are just drugs where the addictive changes are limited to higher functioning portions of the brain. And our obsession with mind-body duality means we understand those differently.
I know nothing about AI or stocks, so please correct me if I'm wrong here: Isn't NVIDIA a clear winner already (bar any major technological advances allowing all of us to run LLMs on our phones?) I just checked the stock on google and it went up 200% since the beginning of the year!
That's a funny way to say that women are still making less than men
> SHOW DATABASES, SHOW TABLES is intuitive.

For you. You've learned that and managed to internalise it.

For me, "\d<whatever>" is intuitive. :)
Ubik is my favorite as well.

Another good PKD read is A Maze of Death... it has very dated tech in it (satellite in orbit playing pre-recorded tape)... but the ideas are very similar to Ubik (in a way). A world deteriorating, an almost spiritual war between forces of order and disorder.
It's true that getting rid of mosquitoes won't bring peace between humans and insects. But it would help, and if we could make them extinct then we could avoid all the collateral damage that occurs due to our efforts at partial suppression. Insecticides do more harm than the insects they target do good, so if we could target individual species for extinction (obviously a technological feat, but within the realm of possibility) we'd ultimately have a more diverse and healthy ecology.
It's apparently from the 50s, as seen here: https://archive.org/details/sim_electronics-now_1959-03_30_3...
Those numbers are wildly optimistic, these overruns mean the plant is going to be repaying construction costs over it’s full lifespan.

I don’t know where you messed up but if you’re running the numbers include the full cost not just the overrun, interest rates, increasing operating costs during loan repayment, capacity factor, and decommissioning costs. Opening costs late in life is a real killer as older power plants mean ever more equipment needs to be replaced which then lowers capacity factors etc.

Also, LCOE battery backed solar is also under 60$/MWh https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2022/utility-scale_pv-plus-... Numbers may be slightly higher in Georgia, but still well below your estimate.
If we could rid ourselves in America of republican fascism, we could focus on the business end of that.
I think you have that reversed, solar is great, and nuclear needs to improve.

Nuclear is rather old tech, and the more we learn about it the more expensive it gets. It's not a good fit for modern economies, because construction is so labor intensive and difficult to automate. Plus, the industry itself is a managerial failure and can't plan or execute on those plans effectively.

Storage is a great complement to the grid, because it lessens the need for transmission. And our original "storage" on the grid, hydro, was put there to deal with the shortcomings of nuclear, if you listen to Jigar Shah (though he is far far more bullish than me on the ability of the nuclear industry to deliver in the future).
The new Python Code Interpreter (Beta) for GPT-4 is a terrific tool for analyzing and interpreting data sets. In this hands-on example we use GPT-4's new Beta Code Interpreter to create Python charts and maps from UN Population projection data
I think they are using the word correctly in the commonly agreed upon wording. Republicans legalized hemp technically, then set the legal definition of hemp such that THCa flower fit under that definition. THCa flower does not have more than 0.3% THC by weight (well it might but that's another issue of allowing pre harvest testing), it can however have more than 0.3% THCa by weight. THCa converts to THC when exposed to heat (such as combustion in a joint, pipe, oven, etc.). In common word usage of weed as a plant that gets you high off THC when you smoke it then they did legalize 'weed'.
I feel like I am out of the loop on this one. But everything I am seeing makes me skeptical, can anyone explain why I should be excited about this being anything more than just a fake paper?
Interesting. But one of the faults of ChatGPT is also that it never asks "Why would you want to do that?"

There's a place for asking that question - not as often as SO asks it, but more often than never.
Tolerance varies insanely for edibles. Some people dont process them like others. Ive heard about people just not getting high from edibles at all, even high doses like you described. It‘d be curious if this phenomenon is backed by science or not.
I've yet to get a bad piece of toast out of mine, in comparison to other toasters I've owned.

The lack of bagel-width is annoying, but widening the slot on a redesign shouldn't impact any other components.
Looks really useful! I would love to have this as an obsidian or vscode plugin to run locally
> Nuclear is the only hope we have to do to make up for the gaps in generation for solar and wind.

Nuclear would be entirely unsuited for this task. Nuclear provides baseload, it doesn't fill in gaps. If you try to run the reactor intermittently to counterbalance an intermittent source the cost of its output increases massively.
You gotta buy gym clothes from brands that have anti microbial treatment on i i.e Cool max technology. It is being supplied by major international brands but ofcourse the products are expensive. However, there is one brand called bodybrics which has fabrics with cool max technology at affordable rates
https://us.bodybrics.com/
My CFI said "graveyards are full of people the world couldn't do without, it can wait a day" - important to remember for many things, if you start pushing your luck it'll eventually push back.
> Who will ever bring this in front of a judge?

Apparently, an accused trademark violator, in the hopes of proving that, as it was not in legal use in trade, the trademark they are accused of violating was not valid in the first place.
A community that is unwelcoming to new users, is dying? who would have thought?
It's a very Sapir-Whorf sentiment, that somehow we are infected by what we learn, unable to imagine outside of those formative experiences. And like Sapir-Whorf, also false!
> except for incentivizing action to tilt the odds, which is weirdly amoral.

It depends on what's at stake. One example is predicting someone's death.

> if you bet on a bad thing happening, you can cash in by making it happen yourself.

Yes, and that could be a huge problem, don't you think?
It creates an incentive for a bad thing happening that wouldn't exist otherwise.

I say this as someone who is in huge favor of markets but also hates their externalities.
Everybody's talking about reproducing the material which is great, but will take time. Why don't the authors supply their existing material to an independent lab for earlier confirmation?
PHP is know for being very leaky about being PHP (and since PHP + ecosystem have a bad history of CVEs, being leaky about being PHP is not cool).

Java/Kotlin/Go/Rust/Ruby/Python/JS/TS are a lot less leaky about what language the server-side is written in. Usually the webserver used advertises itself name and in a server string, but it is considered bad practice and thus often switched off.

Reading "php" extensions in paths is a clear giveaway, so are "htm" extensions for microsoft products. Tools usually guess the language/framework based on some of these giveaways and the better the tools the less this is evident.

I jut checked some web apps I worked on, and only the one I last touched 10+ years ago is detected with buildwith.com; it's a Rails site.

All the Java/Kotlin/Rust/Hasura+Elm apps I worked on since are now shown as "Nginx" (the rev proxy in front of it).
I'd add that although the intergrated yearly average pole-to-equator gradient is indeed weakening, in terms of extreme storms this probably doesn't matter since the gradient is still very strong in winter months in the Northern Hemisphere, and if you pump the atmosphere with more water vapor from the tropics, then intense seasonal storms and extreme flooding can be expected for at least half the year in the Northern Hemisphere - and in midlatitudes, the east-west motion of frontal systems complicates the issue further (though it seems increased water vapor is driving that engine more than anything else).

The Artic amplification effect appears to be having a big effect in the summer months as the decreased gradient allows the polar jet stream to meander southwards, resulting in random persistent blocking events (responsible for recent spate of heat waves) related to Arctic amplification effects on the jet stream (in both hemispheres). Good discussion here:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/jet-stream-is-climate-change-cau...
I am trying to understand why the demand for trucking is at an all-time high.
But it isn't "localized ecosystem damage". Building dams absolutely fucking destroys the ecosystems upstream and downstream. It's the civil engineering of burning the crops when you retreat. The "new" ecosystem has nothing in common with the prior ecosystems.
Twitter accused of bullying anti-hate campaigners
I can ask this to stop being a language teacher and it'll revert to plain old chat gpt.

Nice work but I dont know why I'd use this over chat gpt.
Generating green hydrogen with renewables and then burning it in combined cycle plants would be cheaper than Vogtle-level nuclear.
this sounds pretty excellent. i wish some advertiser had suggested this to me when burn notice was still on the air.
So, let's see the hard evidence of how thoroughly the problem of launching rockets has been studied. What percentage of the SpaceX budget is dedicated to studying why SpaceX should not launch rockets?

Journalists are great, but it's not like they have a many million dollar budget to study this. The hole in the ionosphere seems to be news, seemingly this is an area where humanity is missing _lots_ of knowledge.

There are some interesting reads on whether Musk is a net benefit or not (reasonable people can disagree here)

> this brings us to the first fundamental problem: Elon Musk does what he wants and wants everyone else to do the same. He only sees the advantages of his approach, without ever asking himself about the consequences. It is certain that the aerospace industry has played a fundamental role in the study of climate, thanks to the weather satellites placed in orbit. The problem is that Elon Musk wants to multiply the number of satellites by 20, which will directly disrupt space operations and astronomical research.

https://bonpote.com/en/elon-musk-solution-or-nightmare-for-t...

Personally, I think the AI car thing has been a distraction and has been an excuse for continuing to put all of our transport eggs in the single-occupancy-vehicle basket. Had Musk pushed the EV numbers he is pushing now back 20 years ago - I would agree that he had done a lot. As-is, for EVs, I view Musk a bit like Steve Jobs, brought the touch-screen phone forward by several years and helped the market adoption, but touch-screen phones would have happened without Jobs.

There are some other interesting reads too from less biased sources:

> It's not surprising that Musk’s socially-responsible message of warning about environmental crisis combined with his massive capital success building electric vehicles (EVs) has given him a messianic status among some of his many admirers. But this status also means that by attacking the Build Back Better legislation, which is by far the United States’ most significant legislation ever aimed at fighting climate change, Musk is providing ammunition to climate deniers and fossil fuel industry opponents of efforts to protect the U.S. from climate change, create good jobs, and lead the world in technology and policies.

> If Musk is really serious about combatting climate change, we need him to support an all-hands-on-deck approach. The commitments, innovation, and investments of private companies must be matched with government policies and incentives.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/margooge/2022/01/17/where-does-...

And then this article is perhaps the best so far:

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-isnt-a-climate-hero-just-becau...

> Let’s look first at Musk’s achievements in both electric cars and solar power, which Manjoo singles out. In many ways, Tesla is certainly deserving of a lot of praise

> Meanwhile, Musk has dismissed the idea of improving existing public transit—which experts say is arguably more important in cutting emissions than popularizing electric cars.
It's also worth noting that people change, and it was nearly 20 years ago.

Also: if the prosecution had a solid child pornography case they wouldn't have plead it out to obscenity with a $100 fine.

Also: the prosecution had to be okay with the obscenity charge getting expunged.

So AFAICT, he served his pennance for the crime and it was expunged from his record.

If the courts feel like the criminal record should be expunged, perhaps a better question is why don't you?
I am interested in testing this in production, instead of faiss/mrpt.

> metric='cos', # Choose 'l2sq', 'haversine' or other metric, default = 'ip'

As a note, it is actually 'l2_sq' for the Python example.

> index.add(labels=np.arange(len(vectors)), vectors=vectors)

Adding to index appears to be very slow. Also labels are listed as an optional param but the Python SDK has them as required.

Do you have setup of params for 'brute force' approach (100% accuracy)?
They have a vscode extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Markwhen...
Really interesting. I never heard of this website and was surprised to hear this volume of traffic it's getting. (I always used curlmyip.org or whatsmyip.net|.com). I wonder what is the rationale for providing a non-rate limited service that can be easily abused like this. The volume almost suggests some stuff like IoT devices or other software use this to test internet connectivity. Or botnets?
Mind-body problem is metaphysics. I could ignore that part, but it would help if you strengthened that initial connection. Currently I'm experiencing a socratic style where I throw information and then it gets deconstructed but I don't have much to go off of. State your case why this seems rooted in the mind-body problem.

Otherwise I really like my scale argument and would like to see you deconstruct it, right above read it again if you feel like it, I don't think your argument that just because physiological mechanisms are "at play" in psychological ones defeats it.

Are you a nondualist? I've had that period so I can understand both sides, if you expand more on your viewpoints with some real detailed fleshing out rather than just deconstructing any incoming argument. Personally I have my criticisms of medicine, but can celebrate a lot of textbook content as true.

So now that you know I'm an ex-nondualist, maybe you can give my scale argument a reread and see if you accept it as a description of the phenomenon? So to be perfectly obvious, there's direct chemical reaction and implicit chemical reaction. I consider it a big difference to flood a bunch of molecules past the blood-brain barrier, versus experiencing something such as a video game and reacting to it.

And hey, I am in a period of my life where I definitely put precedence for the body and let the mind follow. Daily exercise in nature, oh boy that really improves my mind. Reason alone in a dark room did not get me far at all.

But if you feel like we're not getting anywhere or I'm not convincing then that's fine and you can ignore this
Prohibition didn't really work out for alcohol.
That used to be what I used social media for, but Twitter lost its utility for that sometime in the early 2010s.
> I don't think so. First of all, there are lots of quality improvements that could make life longer, at almost zero additional cost per unit. Also, repairability could be improved.

I don't entirely disagree, but there's always going to be a weakest link when you're targeting a low price point. It doesn't seem to take a whole lot of research to find that better fridges with those issues fixed _are_ available if you're willing to spend a bit more, people commenting on this article even linked to some.

> The latter could be possible to fix if we mandated producers to publish "expected usage per lifetime" (MTBF) numbers and also show price/usage ratio to customers.

I support this idea, but I'd also say the numbers presumably would not be significantly different from the warranty already offered on these things. I feel like it's not much of a secret that the warranty is intended to last the minimum lifetime of the product and not more. If they were confident in their product lasting longer, they'd sell you a longer warranty.

I think there's also an unmentioned detail here, which is that many people probably won't own the same fridge for 20 or 30 years anyway - when you move, you commonly leave your fridge behind. There's not a huge incentive to buy an expensive fridge that could last a long time if you think it's likely you'll move before then anyway.
Ask HN: Which is better, Tutanota or ProtonMail?
I'm looking to switch to a new email service from Gmail, how would Tutanota and ProtonMail compare with Gmail?
Facebook to unmask anonymous Dutch user accused of repeated defamatory posts
The late, great Ricky Jay was one of the very best card magicians who ever lived...plus a fantastic magic historian.
I 100% agree that such changes need to be checked, but that's not the point of the anecdote. The point is that this process took months rather than being streamlined.

It is a management failure to make common necessary things, like signing off on small changes, a month long process.

This sort of bad management is endemic throughout the entire build.

Which is to say, the problem isn't the regulation requiring that things are build as designed, the problem is the management structure that makes such changes so uneconomical, combined with the frequency of such changes due to miscommunication between designers and builders.
The paper you link does not mention anything about the need to try every potential treatment (and no treatment) on every person in a study, and it does not mention anything about any "inherent bias" in RCTs -- these were the two claims you made -- so I'm not quite sure why you bring it up. Given that you have brought it up: I like Deaton's work a lot and know the arguments well, but you have to take into account that in this paper they are trying to provide some counterweight to a hype cycle that suddenly led a bunch of social scientists to argue that observational studies are stupid and should just be gotten rid of entirely and replaced by randomized trials, which for many reasons is not a good idea. That hardly implies that we can never know anything about whether psychotherapy works until we can simulate the brain, that's just a totally bizarre conclusion to draw from that paper.
Given the sheer amount of samples material scientists may produce I imagine accidentally hitting your target characteristic through impurities rather than direct formula may happen more often then they care to admit. That being said even if they haven't actually narrowed down on the exact formula knowing it can even happen in the first place is a major discovery
Great thinking! Surely this will work for alcohol too - let's do that one next.
It's weird that alcohol is legal when marijuana isn't.
The damage by alcohol is much higher.

Banning alcohol didn't work.
Maybe it's different for other airlines, but Delta shows you the miles you'll earn when you book the flight.
then reading about the many failed attempts of creating the first transistor will give you hope.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor
The brinkman paper is interesting, but the others are a bit too hand wavy.
"Invasive" are another idea I think are widely misunderstood by the public.

I think it is more about how many ecological relationship something has with other species within the local ecosystem.

Something without a lot of interactions would just take resources and contribute nothing back to the ecosystem would degrade an ecosystem until there are adaptations to include that species within the ecosystem. Contribution could be food for other species. They might provide habitat. Maybe they help spread seeds, or distribute nutrients for plants. And yes, yields for humans too.

By that understanding, I would say that the modern human is probably the most successful invasive specie across many ecosystems.

And it isn't that, I am advocating that we get rid of the humans within those ecosystems, but find ways for humans to participate within that local ecosystem. Once those relationships are established, it is better for that local ecosystem to have humans than to not have humans.
The problem is, by removing humane parts of interpersonal communication (remember, even thanking or greeting was forbidden on SO), you essentially encourage inhumane communication. When you treat users as Q&A bots, people will treat them as bots too, forgetting that they're people. I observe this on Wikipedia too. Your contributions are merely regarded as automatically materialized prose instead of work of a human because Wikipedia's format also forbids "staining" the content with your individuality.
Actions in the real world have multiple consequences. Illegal marijuana might help some number of people avoid addiction, while harming other people.

The question is where preventing marijuana addiction ranks in comparison to other goals a
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I have been using ProtonMail for more about a year and never faced any issue. Never used Tutanota.
It's easy to build a tolerance if you get high enough. I started smoking after years of not, and I was taking 2.5mg feeling toasssstty. But now I need +100mg to get me stoned off edibles.

Becoming a regular smoker is often a hunt for something that can get you just as high as the first time, but nothing will. (Concentrates can get you very high, though.)

With that said, I want to lower my usage -- and, admittedly, it has been hard. Especially if there's hardly anything disincentivizing me from not feeling good all the time. I also have ADHD and take Adderall every day, so it's a part of a routine that has a designated dopamine hit a least once every 1.5hrs, whether that be coffee, weed, whatever.
I'm just here for the spectacle of someone using the "you are nerdy, therefore wrong" argument on hacker news, of all places.
If they have this unicorn superconducter. Then they have it next week, and next year.

And it's patented. There's no rush for them.

If they are faking, then there's still no rush.
ice ages didn't happen until after the asteroid strike. Antarctica moving into the south pole is likely a large part of it, but they don't really understand ice ages that well TBO. Anyhoo, the Earth was a lot warmer prior to the strike and we have been going through extinction events every 100k years.