skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't complicated: marijuana is addictive to some people, but making it illegal doesn't solve that problem--it should be legal. But it's apparent that's too much nuance for the average politician.

I'll add that I've also experienced this with caffeine: I've got more than one health reason to quit (heart arrhythmia, anxiety, insomnia), but I had a hell of a time quitting, with multiple failed attempts (now a few months out and hoping it sticks this time). And when I talk about it to the people around me, I get shocked and even defensive reactions. But my life is so much better when I'm not drinking coffee. Which is not to say that's the best decision for everyone.
I responded to a similar question below:

> Because THC is shown to be an effective care for many mental and physical problems. THC itself can be dangerous or even very dangerous (psychosis risk etc) but this doesn't warrant being so overly cautious that we miss the forest for the trees. Facts show THC can be a very effective palliative tool, and it's unclear how much damage you can do with short-term regular use.

To add, it also leads to apologism of (or apathy for) locking people up for consuming THC.
"Of course, when confronted"

"Hey man have you tried going a couple days without smoking weed?" is not interrogation. It's concern."

Or maybe it is both?

Your friends are probably old enough to no want to be controlled by you. Tell them your opinion, it might do them good, but maybe don't tell them what to do. They should figure that out on their own.
Who would waste their time litigating such a case when the legalization trend is so clear? A solid majority of US citizens live in states which have already decided that federal marijuana laws are irrelevant.
Google failed what?
Interestingly, there's a lot of current work around grid energy storage. Storing excess wind/solar power for use overnight, etc.

Everybody assumes batteries (lithium etc.) as the way to go. However the greenest / most efficient way to store the energy is actually just pumping water uphill to a reservoir, and extracting the energy by letting it flow back down.

Of course this storage system only works wherever there is someplace "higher" to pump the water. My understanding is that it's not worth the trouble to build a hill/mountain to pump the water up.
This is a reasonable position, which is not something that can be said about the "war on drugs" type of person that I've encountered. That person is much less likely to be critical about why they question the use and, in my experience, will often assume that "use" is "abuse" regardless of the actual effect it has on the user.

The comment rightly calls out that it is a personal take about your friends but that is also something which might be done by someone with more pointed and less honest intentions. Certainly assumptions can be more charitable, however. I don't mean to justify these complaints of your comment but hopefully they're more understandable.
> But hydro sucks more than most people realize.

There's a reason Russia blew up the Kakhovka hydro dam. The down-stream impacts of the flooding were more devastating than what they could reasonably accomplish with conventional weapons.
If Etsy just up and decided to not pay you at all period what are you gonna do? Wallow in self pity? File a complaint to the BBB? No you're gonna take them to small claims or big claims court depending on the amount.

If Etsy goes from fronting you the cash and charging you back chargebacks to waiting until the transaction settles because they consider you risky then that's not stealing; and while it sucks they could decide to do it because fuck you or they could start doing to everyone. If you need the cash immediately you tap a line of credit for the first 45 days and then run your business on like normal.

I get that Etsy is makes running a business feel a little too easy so long as you always live on the happy path but dealing with clients/partners not paying on the timeframe sucks but is a totally normal think you have to prepare for.
I think it's a genuinely tough problem. Keeping documentation up to date is a Sisyphean task - it's great that Amazon has managed to to some extent, but it's hella difficult for small teams.

There's some amount that can be answered by providing a 'beaten path' for people to walk, but a) discoverability is a problem - people often don't know the right keyword to search for to find what they need, and b) people are often subtly off the beaten path, and need some adaptive guidance to their particular situation.

AI answers are great for both of these problems.
Do any scientific publishers accept it?
That doesn't help if you're a person trying to get an answer rather than a person trying to provide one.

Though SO has made some small progress on this problem recently by changing the default sorting algorithm to no longer prefer old, entrenched answers over new, better ones.
Recent and related:

The Fall of Stack Overflow - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855516 - July 2023 (781 comments)
Looking this up.

https://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/faqs/powerfaq.html

> Hoover Dam generates, on average, about 4 billion kilowatt-hours. And the lake covers an area of 1,495,806 acres

Rough estimate, 2GW worth of solar produces that much in a year. And requires I think 12000 acres of land. (Open to have phat fingered the calcs)

My take away is it's not even economic anymore and requires flooding 100 times more land then a solar plant.
Things work.... until they don't. A bunch of things can accumulate and not be a problem until it suddenly is.
Is that the right sense of "copying" though? I thought "distributing" was regarded as a better way to think about the law in this area.
That's another element I can add, but didn't want to as it's not something I've experienced and know, but have friends in this area.

Regardless of the drug you use, many are used to alleviate whatever problem you have e.g. Stress, Anxiety, Disorders, and then it becomes part of you, and you no longer have the need to address the root cause of why you need the drug. Again, not a doctor, but I think the poster above put it best as a "crutch". It's ok for short term, but long term, you allow yourself to ignore the root cause, which has long term effects.
...for a symbolic price because "the fun totally dried up" for the author and he felt the site would be in good hands at Cloudflare.
Are you saying that in order to ask for a new answer (from someone else) to an old question, you should post a new answer yourself?

Really if I want and answer, I usually ask a question... I'm confused.
I'm with you here. I think talking about both is important but its a false dichotomy.

I would classify "psychologically addictive" as something that makes a little voice in my head go "do that thing again" and is mainly driven by the speed at which an action(drug or not) receives a physiological response in my body. If I take a hit of a weed vape I feel it so fast that my psychological addiction gets triggered more easily. Whereas when I eat a weed edible the response takes so long that the little voice in my head doesn't say, "eat another one". Unless I eat one every day then that little voice becomes stronger over time.

I can do either of those things one time and only experience the acute withdrawal.

I would classify "physical addiction" as a habit where cessation causes a lengthy (not acute) withdrawal period, caused by some type of brain changes like receptor degrowth because of over-agonization or whatever. I think we qualify ones that have worse withdrawal as more physically addictive. As some have already pointed out, alcohol withdrawal can make you dead and opiate withdrawal can make you wish you were, so we consider these very physically addictive. THC withdrawals exist, but they are so minor when compared to death or opiate-withdrawal hell that we consider it not very physically addictive.

An extreme example: Someone could spike my coffee with opiates every day for a year without me knowing, slowly increasing the dose so I'm not too messed up. I would be physically addicted but have no psychological addiction.
The problem is that SO is so toxic that it makes Reddit's toxicity seem rather tolerable.
> actually, changing of cloud services is in the sweet spot of being both manageable, and pretty complex so you won't do it every other day.

Exactly. Once you're tied to Amazon's cloud, and especially their managed services, moving away is enormously costly and complex. Early in the cloud game people used to pretend to build abstractions to try to avoid being locked down to a single vendor, but these days that's all but done.

The result is AWS is beyond sticky.

> So if companies are fed up for long enough (or if engineers find it so complicated or costly that they learn to do cloud with something else), they will change.

Which is why Amazon will keep their fees for IPv4 high enough to be profitable but low enough that investing in changing cloud providers isn't worth the cost to their customers.

> Additionally, many companies don't rely on any cloud service so far. One day, when they will eventually implement it, they won't take what has annoyed others.

No one ever got fired for picking AWS.
PTP, BTN, HDB
In my experience, cannabis addiction is the definition of insidious. I used it daily in high school and college since the age of 15 or 16. The effects on my learning and memory were profound, but I never noticed how bad until I was off it for 1-2 months. I was flunking Calculus, got busted my parents, then my head cleared, I picked up the subject in a month without even studying and aced the AP Calc exam. Same thing happened in college studying engineering, I’d flunk the first exam, decide to quit, then learned the material easily. Most people aren’t trying to learn STEM so it’s probably impossible to tell how bad it’s impacting you. The withdrawals weren’t so bad, just feeling kind of spaced out and weird for one or two months, but it was just hard to quit because you don’t see the reason to. I haven’t smoked much since school, but my memory is so bad now 10 years later it’s sad.
> I think StackOverflow has always suffered from a deep tension over the fundamental purpose of the website.

That tension existed in the announcements for the sites...

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/09/15/stack-overflow-lau...

> What kind of questions are appropriate? Well, thanks to the tagging system, we can be rather broad with that. As long as questions are appropriately tagged, I think it’s okay to be off topic as long as what you’re asking about is of interest to people who make software. But it does have to be a question. Stack Overflow isn’t a good place for imponderables, or public service announcements, or vague complaints, or storytelling.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/introducing-stackoverflow-com/

> Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming) meets wikipedia meets programming reddit. It is by programmers, for programmers, with the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum total of good programming knowledge in the world. No matter what programming language you use, or what operating system you call home. Better programming is our goal.

(note: good is italicized in the original text too)

And the history of this question: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/1003841/timeline (note revision 1: https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1003841/1 )
> Their sponsorship of icanhazip.com has saved me tens of thousands of dollars per month.

Can someone please explain how does returning a few hundred bytes of plaintext response can cost thousands of dollars? Either I'm really bad at estimating things or there's some hidden cost somewhere I'm not seeing.

Also why could it not work fine behind a Cloudflare free tier?
Sunset point is on the plateau I'm talking about. It's actually an old volcanic basalt flow from the Miocene. There's no permanent water sources up there, only down in the surrounding canyons (e.g. the aptly named rock springs). It's part of a big band of old vulcanism that extends all the way from Anthem (e.g. kuttu "peak") up to just south of the Grand Canyon, though you would have to hike in to see most of it.
The smaller pipe has less water in it, but the surface area the vacuum can act on is also smaller so the column of water equals out the same as with the larger pipe.

At sea level, that's about 30 feet deep. If you want to bring water up from deeper, you have to move the pump down the well and push the water up the pipe instead of trying to suck water up like the pipe's a straw.
History is littered even more by several orders of magnitudes with nut jobs achieving precisely zilch. If someone seems like a nut job, it's probably because they're actually a nut job, not some misunderstood genius.
(replying here because hn limits thread length)

> Yes, and yes. The last one may be a bit trickier through Python bindings today, but I can easily include that in the next release… shouldn’t take more than 50 LOC.

Appreciate it. That'd be game-changing for me. The ultimate thing I'd like to do is actually use a function of the form score = af1(embedding1) + bf2(embedding2) + ...

That way you could make adjustments like ignoring feature1 unless its score passes a threshold. I'll try looking at Numba to see if that's possible.
The main problem is not in digging the basin, it's that most people think you're supposed to fill the basin with new dirt, which recreates the same problem with bare root plants that you get with 10 gallon trees bought from the nursery.

Dirt put back into a hole is never the right amount of compact, so the root crown can sink or pushing the soil back into place can tear off roots.

If you look at the root ball, you can often sort out how to spread out the roots without digging a basin, instead trenching out in several directions. A lot less work, especially if you're in rocky soil. I'm never digging a giant circular hole in flood plain soil again if I have any say in it.
> Faster charging reduces the lifespans of the batteries

As far as I understand, the problem is not just the speed, but the thermal management. IIRC the impact on battery life is not as bad if cooled properly.

> and a plane needing a new set of batteries after a few hundred flights due to aggressive wear from fast charging is unacceptable.

That's an economics question. How much does it cost to get that battery replaced and charged over its lifetime versus the alternative.

> This is fundamentally due to the energy density of lithium ion batteries, no amount of engineering can change the chemical limitations at hand

That's the beauty of battery technology, you can substitute. Cobalt a problem? Fine we can make batteries with out it. Lead-acid not suitable, fine here's lithium ion. Lithium ion not good enough, find we'll find a better battery.

Hydrogen however is just that: hydrogen. Notice how low it is on the energy per volume scale. You can't substitute it out for anything. The volume requirement is what's going to kill you with hydrogen.
Dissolving circuit boards in water sounds better than shredding and burning
Reminds me of the Len Lye sculpture broken by someone climbing it then hanging off the spinner. I get someone sitting on a thing that looks like a seat, but that seemed way out of the range of things you could reasonably expect to cater for

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingtons-water-whirler-snap...
Get addicted to cannabis: You might spend more $$$ per month than you would like to

Get addicted to alcohol: Die a very painful death over a two-month period as multiple organs shut down.

Get addicted to tobacco: Die a very painful death over many years as you develop cancer and try to fight it.

Get addicted to cocaine: You will definitely spend more $$$ per month than you would like and will probably die of a heart attack by the time you are 50
> If everyone feel it is toxic

Citation needed. "Everyone", really?
I don't think strict moderation is inherently nontoxic, it's really quite toxic in a format like SO where no one knows how much effort may have gone in and what level people are at. Strict moderation usually works in conjunction with exclusivity to not just traumatize random members of the public.

When someone reaches expertise are they going to participate in your forum? For many people, I think SO is understandably something they will never participate in after their early experiences being told off over things they couldn't yet distinguish.
New algorithm maps safest routes for city drivers
Thanks for pointing that out, but this doesn't answer the spirit of my question: do men that do not have sex with men need to be monogamous to donate blood, or is that a requirement specific to MSM?
Yes, I would believe that some as fragile as the stick maps was no way to cross an ocean.

What I think is interesting is the physical representation of an oral tradition. This is different than writing as employed today.
Product owners eventually do this to every tech platform to justify their existence
This view is exactly why SO is dying. It's elitist and exclusionary. It's the same as the grognards who autoreply RTFM to everyone.

SO could have been a place where someone could post a question, and a decent search algorithm could offer answers from previously answered questions; if it was a unique question then it could be opened to answers. Instead, SO decided you needed to earn the privilege of posting a question by answering questions posed by others. That right off the bat excludes a ton of people who don't have the time to wait for a question in their domain, and answer it before 1000 other people.

Sure, it's the Eternal September for tech sites. Comes with the territory. If you don't want people to visit your site (and contribute moderation and content for free), be hostile to new users. Reward aggressive closing of questions. Sure is a good way to drive away anyone but the most pedantic control freaks.

I used to refer people to SO when they would come to me with a question I couldn't answer, (I even have an SO t-shirt hanging in my closet) but now I'd only do that to my worst enemies.
> Of course, when confronted, they say it's not addictive and they dont have a problem. As we know this is the first sign of a very serious addiction.

No, saying you don’t have an addiction may be a common thing addicts (and non-addicts!) do, but its not even close to the first sign of addiction. Or even a recognized symptom. Or even a recognized danger sign that would call for more intense screening. Its not a useful indicator of addiction at all.

> 20 years ago we called it weed, now we call it "cannabis".

“Weed”/“pot"/“ganja”/etc. are sonewhat vague slang. “Marijuana” and “hemp” are legal categories. “Cannabis” is a correct, precise term that encompasses both hemp and marijuana.
It is worth noting that this article only uses one of the four graphs in the original articles to fit the narrative it is ChatGPT that is responsible for the decline. Other metrics show that the decline set in earlier.
Discussed at the time:

A New Future for Icanhazip

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27415537 (2 years ago, 253 comments)
> at this point we already need cooling

A colossal volcanic eruption could do the trick, and those seem to happen rather unnervingly frequently.
maybe NDA, maybe trade secret. commercialization is a valid reason not to be all too chatty
But even given that, does that transfer on to the AI model itself?

Or is it "you did a bad thing in the process of making another thing but we can only punish the initial act"
I smoke weed 8 times a day and I smoke cannabis 8 times a day. Sounds the same to me. Why the hell would the word you use matter?

Take your morals and shove them. Go look in the mirror and judge yourself if you want to judge somebody but leave me out of it.
I have greatly enjoyed raku for several years.

Pros: can whip up a quick one-liner (raku -e instead of bash), then grow it to a CLI command (with no boilerplate to handle args, help), then refactor that to simple OO when it gets bigger (instead of Python) and then to composable Roles when it becomes more complex ... at any point can apply just the right amount of Types to maintain clarity and control. oh and built in deep unicode, functional coding (function composition, lazy lists, pure functions...), grammars and better regex, easy use of perl5 and python modules and concurrent (hypers) are all there when needed

Cons: compilation & execution can be a bit slow - often better code structures (lazy execution) the correct use of precompilation or AST macros can compensate for that
Yes, but they won't be a new customer to chemical suppliers. If they've ever bought anything DEA List I before (like iodine) they can just pay a few hundred bucks and get a few hundred grams in a couple of days.
Gas powered vehicles would be obsolete.
Do you have anything to contribute beyond rehashing memes? I can have a go at it too: better not miss a bracket on line 2000 of your document, otherwise latex will complain about a runaway argument in a different file and you'll have to sift through the whole thing to find where the error is.
TIL about SIIT-DC, thank you.

This still requires mapping tables similar to explicit port forwarding, and also does not help with e.g. a scenario where all hosts need a specific port (e.g. 443) to be v4 reachable, right?
That's a fair point. If there was an easy "reliability score" slapped via a sticker onto every appliance, and it was reliable, then yes, consumers might care a lot more - especially for the more expensive ones.
That doesn't satisfy the use case. How do you edit a question that isn't yours? If you are looking for an answer and don't have one, how do you trigger the question to be re-answered? How does the new answerer get the points?
The theory is that only 1 billionth of the original matter/antimatter mixture survived as matter.

The rest annihilated. But when something annihilates the energy doesn't vanish - so where did that energy go??? One person I asked told me it bacame the CMB, but that seems far too weak for the amounts we are talking about.
It's unironically one of the things I like about this site.
Non Paywall: https://archive.is/GTuS7
Nice comment, resonates.

There should be other was to get karma.

Maybe through writing a post about how something existing helped you.
No, you can't know without knowing the ratio of good to bad. With more popularity comes more negative experiences as well. And as with everything in life those with an axe to grind keep harping on forever and everywhere, making it more visible than the silent enjoyers.
Have you tried to get an AI to create a direct copy of something of any substantial length?
We should all have a healthy allergic reaction when things start being argued for and against via extremely general negative terms applied in a subjective way, i.e:

> "fascist-adjacent proscription of orthodoxy".

Every sport has rules, within which great skill can be demonstrated by being able to work within the rules, but in difficult and unexpected ways.

Debates with rules such as "remain relevant to the topic" or "make arguments for A over your opponents arguments for B", are legitimate competitions, that develop legitimately useful skills.

It is not "muzzling" to allow anyone to say whatever they want, but judge their achievements based on the rules of engagement that define a debate competition.

There are no police on a basketball court stopping players from throwing the ball wherever they want. They just won't get points for not putting the ball in the basket.
or safe mode on mikrotik
Mikrotik safe mode gets a 3/5 in comparison - it reverts changes you made if you lose connection to the router, so it does it’s job as an anti-lockout mechanism; but I much prefer the atomic nature of a confit commit on junos still.
That is only due to writing. I always felt that the high latitude civilizations led to technological development due to the high risk and high solitude.
> All the single points of failure have been fixed.

Now you've jinxed it!