skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cannabis has an inverse relationship between potency and health as alcohol. Drinking a dozen beers is (marginally) less dangerous than a dozen shots, because it takes longer to process and alcohol is a toxin. THC isn't a toxin. The smaller amount you inhale, of smoke or vapor, the better. I'll take a puff of some 90+% vapor any day over having to smoke an entire joint for the same effect.

What we need is more accurate vapor delivery devices that can meter better.
Search should work with Slavic languages including Russian and 50+ other languages.

You'll just need to configure the asymmetric search model khoj uses to paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 in your ~/.khoj/khoj.yml config file

See http://docs.khoj.dev/#/advanced?id=search-across-different-l...
Thank you! This makes me wonder why there is no open source implementation of/framework for such a mechanic (or why i haven't heard of one) yet - it seems to be the (potential) basis of many games - one other popular game using it is Rimworld.

Also, why games like Minecraft have not long implemented such smart and interesting NPCs yet!
for more behind the scenes stuff on Dwarf Fortress I recommend listening to the occasional 'bay12 talks' podcast episodes hosted by BlindIRL (long time dwarf fortress streamer) he periodically talks with Tarn, and more recently Putnam (longtime modder and first external programmer on DF) about the state of the game and asks them player questions.

https://youtu.be/BY4jwUuvy4E
That’s a redirect, not an error. Probably to /api/ with a trailing slash. Or use the -l flag to curl to have it auto redirect.
>>Nuclear power is the safest form of power production we've ever produced.

This is a common claim but it abuses statistics. By looking only at the one metric (deaths) it ignores the enormous enterprise required to keep nuclear as safe as it has been. No other power source needs anything like it.
People often fail to compare the opportunity cost of alternative methods to nuclear power. At that time the alternative to nuclear was coal power plants. Radioactive carbon isotopes have harmed many times more people than Nuclear.
Peer review is really no guarantee of anything. It catches some problems, sometimes.
Khoj chat with Llama2 will not work with non-english languages though. You'll have to enable OpenAI for that
An eruption significant enough to impact solar and wind generation globally will also affect other critical requirements of humanity, and the Earth's ecosystem, globally.

Which is to say: You Will Be Having Bigger Problems.

Recovery from regional meterological catastrophes is well within human capabilities.
We've effectively forgotten how to build (specifically engineer) nuclear reactors. This is very similar to problems faced by the space program somewhat recently. During the 3 decade pause people retired and memories faded, there were no apprentices to carry the wisdom forward.

> How can costs be reduced?

Build more reactors, and re-learn how to build them. Note that this doesn't touch on economies of scale, which will likely never really apply to nuclear power. Nuclear is likely to always have immense up-front costs, but it shouldn't cost this much.
Stack Overflow has tons and tons of things which aren’t in the documentation and almost all of them are questions from people who couldn’t find the answer in the documentation – exactly what ChatGPT needs since it also doesn’t understand anything about how a given program works, only what patterns are common in public examples.
Are costs and mismanagement directly related to regulations? Genuine question. This is impression I get from nuclear advocates like Mark Nelson and doomberg.
I don't know if this applies to your circumstance, but w.r.t. those m3u8 urls posted elsewhere: I have found that a lot of systems will cheerfully reference the ad-break content on some rando spammy looking domain in the middle of their otherwise sane #EXTM3U format making it cheap to just block them and the player skips over it

My suspicion is that is how uBlock Origin is able to make the YT ads magically disappear without otherwise blowing up the content stream
Don't understand how a movie largely about the psychological horrors of developing and using a nuclear weapons is being construed to be "pro physics" lol. If anything it's the opposite
Caffeine is long term safe to use, tapering is done easily when its necessary (see my other comment on the thread, I tapered over 10 days with no side effects). And it's a stimulant.

I was happily addicted to it for years and other than a couple withdrawal headaches when my routine got disrupted* the only ill effects was occasional morning crankiness.

I expect I'll become addicted again at some point in the future. Probably in the winter with a nice hot mug on a snowy morning. I'm looking forward to it.

I can't imagine any state or religion banning caffeine. It's the safest, most wonderful drug there is.

*Any restaurant or convenience store could fix my headache for me.
Yet a majority of caffeine users don't get addicted, and the increased productivity and freedom seems well worth the trade off on prohibition. There are better solutions to addiction than making everyone else suffer.
That's a good thing.
Judging from the two video tweets I saw about the sign, its brightness at night was absolutely insane, lighting up the building across the screen with aggressive flashing/pulsing white light.
Oh, I think something will regrow there even if humans die off. It's more likely that the planet will continue to live, and some other intelligent lifeform arises as a successor.

This isn't really about saving the planet. Over a large enough timescale, the planet will recover just fine -- as a living system, the global ecology can and does regenerate.

Instead, what we're fighting for is a place for humans within the global ecosystem.

"Human intervention" need not be destructive. It has been destructive because we came to see ourselves as apart from the ecosystem, rather than being part of the ecosystem. There have been cultures, to one degree or another, see themselves and conduct themsleves as part of the ecosystem, and tended the lands as such.

Wastelands can be remediated. In India, there are people working with marginalized castes and ethnic groups to restore wastelands. It's not something that works over a single season, but it is something that starts yielding stuff useful to humans within a single generation. The work that these people do ends up restoring land from bare rock eroded by poor land management practices. These were land no one wanted, and now they are both productive (yielding something useful) while at the same time, a fertile, active ecosystem beyond the human-centric view of the world.

There doesn't have to be a dichotomy between "human intervention", and "leaving nature alone". We're a part of the natural ecosystem -- how could we really ever "leave it alone"?
My opinion from having written so much in all kinds of BASICs back then is that it is convenience more than unlocking doors. Learning, for example, the two memory addresses to POKE to on the C-64 to move the cursor to a fixed position is a tool one learned no different than learning the more convenient alternatives of "PRINTAT" and "LOCATE". But I do agree that drawing lines etc. directly in BASIC provided a lot of fun. BASIC, by its nature, was the real limitation.

> "POKE" is not really BASIC, it's a cheat.

I don't understand why you don't consider it BASIC, or why it's cheating. Practically every BASIC out there from that era allows for direct interaction with the computer's memory. It's fundamental functionality of the lowest level possible, and the diametrical opposite of cheating.
The extreme irony is that the automated web will largely be used by AI to begin with, and the automated web is powered by decentralized computational efforts such as smart contracts and digital currency. It's like people completely forget/ignore that cryptocurrency is a mathematical problem still in its infancy.

If you think these aren't all fundamental units of the next web, you're not thinking about it from the right perspective. If you can't pick apart the real mathematical utility and origin behind crypto efforts from a generation of scammers who hijacked a very real thing, then you just lack understanding or nuance.

We are decades away from the most obvious solution but it very likely involves cryptographically-backed digital currency and smart contract systems used by automated neural networks.
https://www.wired.com/2012/01/ff-ux/
Absolutely agree with this take. Coal power plants are a public health disaster on the scale of leaded petrol and no one talks about it. Even wind turbines have a terrible impact on birdlife. The arguments against nuclear are irrational; future generations will wonder what was wrong with people in the late 20th century.
Yeah but legality has nothing to do with that. A whole lot of people put a whole lot of illegal stuff into their bodies every single day
you can nuclear in load following mode (France does)

but it hurts the economic efficiency massively, as costs for nuclear are almost entirely fixed at construction time
Yeah, it's really pretty simple -- there's a CSS rule `image-rendering: pixelated;` which sets it to use nearest-neighbor resampling. Then you render a canvas that's half the width of your screen and scale it up.

You kinda have to use WebGL for this to look good, though, because the vanilla 2D canvas has no way to disable anti-aliasing, so you can't really get those crisp pixely lines.
> Take the Traders’ method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex—and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth’s moon. But if you looked at it still more closely. . .the starting instant was actually some hundred million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind’s first computer operating systems.

- Chapter 17, A Deepness in the Sky
I feel like these hype cycles are getting quicker and quicker.

2030, day 8 of the 17th AI boom: A starry-eyed founder shows up to a VC office with a pitch-deck for their GPT-47-based startup which automatically responds to Yelp reviews, only to be turned away; the VCs are done with that now, and will be doing robot dogs for the next week.
Yep, stringing together control characters, or setting the cursor position in the screen editor's memory with two POKEs.
isnt that the case with any advanced technology? (including wind and solar)
Coal dust, sans radioactive stuff, and coal burning emissions also exact a terrible toll on respiratory health. A lot of people have died, or had much worse lives, thanks to the widespread use of coal.
"For some reason having concern for friends is now puritanical" -- it's difficult for me to reconcile your claim to have concern for your friends while also vilifying them for being "potheads" or "degenerates"?

Not really trying to insult you, that wasn't my intent, but in an era in society where personal autonomy and agency is becoming paramount to societal influence it makes damn near no sense that you're so worked up over someone else's personal choices.

Notice I don't disagree with the presented findings, how cannabis addiction isn't a boogeyman or false flag, it's can become a chemical dependency, but I do disagree with your stance of wanting to police the behavior of others to fit your own perspective, despite calling it 'concern' or 'caring about the people around me'.

If you were my friend, I'd tell you to mind your own business then eventually lose your number. I'm an adult, I take my own calculated risks and understand the consequences of my actions.
I want braces.
You got exposed to such substances because the law enforcement failed to apply the rules against controlled substances.

Despite this, the fact that the substance is illegal or controlled, made that less people have been exposed (and eventually addicted) than if the substance was freely circulating.

Singapore was well known to have a strong opium problem. Now they have death penalty, no opium problem anymore.

Clear example:
If cannabis cakes (space cakes) were legal, I'd consume them but they are not, and I do not trust + do not want to fund dealers. So I don't buy them.

Another example:
Alcohol is forbidden to 12 year old kids. Yes, some of them may find a workaround, and a way to buy it, but because of that you are still helping a large segment of the kids to not get early into addiction.

If tomorrow you say to the kids that they can drink wine (in French schools it was possible before for kids!), then they are more likely to get addicted.

Yes, there is still a small % that will get exposed, no solution covers 100% of the population, but if you can save 6 out of 10 addictions by regulating the substance, then you are doing a good job.
For me, it still leaves me in old reddit.
> 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.

We don't know anything of the sort.

It's common for addicts to think they aren't addicted. But it's also common for non-addicts to think they aren't addicted, because, you know, they aren't.

It's just difficult in many cases to tell whether someone is addicted, and your confidence that you know isn't warranted, nor does it make you particularly helpful to addicts.
If it's any consolation, a big CPU suck is friend-or-foe checks being done by characters on everyone in sight, in every tick. That came out last year-ish and making smaller taverns can (slightly) improve processing.
Do systems like Mastodon break the promise of Social Networks?

In practice Mastodon doesn't seem to support the ability to actually be social.

I clicked a Mastodon link on my iPhone the other other day, it opened in Safari.

I wanted to interact with the Post. But I couldn't as I wasn't logged in. So I went to login, but of course it wasn't my instance.

I'd then have needed to copy the post URL, login to my instance, and share it or do whatever you have to do in Mastodon. I moved onto other things, the process broke my flow.

The TLDR is that Mastodon creates too much friction to be actually work as a decentralised social network. My prediction is that It'll end up as another Twitter clone focused around a small number of major instances.

An OSS Twitter clone might be a good thing, but then it might not. Running a Social Network is hard.
In theory it's possible to make defined benefit pension programs work. In practice they almost always eventually fall apart. The risk is large as to make them essentially financial malpractice.

Defined contribution plans such as 401(k) are much safer for workers and taxpayers.
From my experience, GPT-4 never makes syntax errors directly but when making edits to existing code it's harder to prevent these syntax errors from appearing. We used to add a second pass to check for these syntax errors.

It also frequently makes undefined variables and the like, however.
Suggestion:

Zoom/Magnify feature doesn't feel intuitive with the zoom being centred on the middle of the layout and expanding both to the left and the right. It acts like a vecgtor image editor, rather than like a timeline which tends to have an explicit start point. That behaviour makes it difficult to interact with.

My preference would be to have it start at an anchor somewhere near the left/early edge of the page, then while zooming, to only expand toward the right, pushing the future further away to the right.

Overall really well done!
I don’t understand who the audience is (obv not me).

People who make models for a living: hard to remove them from excel. Likely view this product as superfluous. Likely find excel, comments etc as enough to collaborate.

People who don’t make models as their main role function: hard to get them to invest in a solution that only impacts 10% of their time.

I think products like this tend to be too frivolous for the power users and too intense for the casuals.
That very pleasant woman, both topless and fully naked later, also took me by surprise. No mention if her nakedness is part of the flick/attack position. I just browsed the book, but there's also a foot-card-flicking picture, and some ladies operating a man with a card.

I don't have time to read it right now, but surely will later, seems like a fun weekend book.
Your link 3 also contains this line: "The solar heavy network wouldn’t need energy storage with an HVDC network."

IOW, the US could build a 100% solar+wind+hydro grid WITHOUT ANY STORAGE. The wind is always blowing somewhere in the US.

Of course that much HVDC and overbuild would be ridiculously expensive, but some HVDC and some batteries are a lot cheaper than only HVDC or only batteries.
There seems to have been a political attack against BBC comedy, which honestly was doing great work at raising awareness of political mischief and helping to shine a light on government wrongdoing and corruption.

The killing off of "Mock the Week" around the same time that free BBC radio comedy was forcibly dissociated from the news cycle just seems suspicious. And we know that BBC management has been loaded with Tory faithful, it stinks.

In Our Time is an absolute tour de force. Bragg just brings such an enlightened academic curiosity to so varied a corpus of subjects. It's a delight to follow along in the wake of him and his guests.
Two numbers from the article: The oldest ice is 120000 years old. The ice is moving at 58 m/years.

If these numbers are correct the oldest ice has travelled almost 7000 km. Greenland isn't that large, and it did not shrink. The age estimate is probably correct.

The speed must have been a lot lower in the past?
> If the nation really wanted to build a large number of safe, effective nuclear power plant, we could, and probably in a time frame of months, not years. But entrenched interest from natural gas and coal producers combined with anti-nuclear sentiment practically guarantee that will never happen.

meanwhile the Chinese have 22 power stations under construction and 70 planned
Weed is not addictive. If you think it's addictive I beg you to watch a fentanyl withdrawal. Watch someone sell their mothers ring for a hit of heroin. Weed, um, its a joke. Get over the headache, get over the "crave" and just go play video games.
> Us papists go straight to "amen" and a mic drop after "evil". That doxology (in a slightly different form) is familiar too, but it's used somewhere else.

“Somewhere else” being... almost immediately after the Lord's Prayer, but with the priest saying the Embolism (“Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil, graciously grant peace in our days, that, by the help of your mercy, we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our savior, Jesus Christ”) in between.
Am I gaslighting you and making extraordinary claims or are you catastrophising, making a selective abstraction, personalizing, magnifying, making an arbitray inference, overgeneralising, filtering, blaming, global labeling, discounting the positive, mental filtering, or jumping to conclusions?

I recommend checking with a therapist and finding out.
This looks awesome! Great idea and UI.
Did your parents know about the pretty topless/naked lady in some of the pictures?
> Yeah but legality has nothing to do with that.

Making a product legal increases its availability, affordability and reach. So, the number of people exposed.
>the hard part is usually "what to do instead" for the next n decades.

Agreed. And (as you've no-doubt guessed by now), I would argue that this second, harder phase of recovery has very little to do with addiction per se, in both it s mechanisms and coping strategies.

>there is a useful distinction to be made between what I would call "addiction" and "dependence" though.

I'd have to think about this a bit more, but even though I agree the distinction is practically useful for treatment, it's once again a distinction of degree rather than kind. In both cases, there is a physiological habituation to a substance that causes unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. Something analogous to the pleasure-seeking behavior of bona fide addicts is still there, I think, when you consider that drug-dependent people will consume a substance to "feel normal".

>dependence is merely a tradeoff that may or may not be worth it.

I'd quibble about merely, since the worm can turn mighty quick, and people are generally pretty bad at knowing how deep in the hole they are. But I take your general point.
Minor quibble:

>A 600 KW balcony power plant costs about 1100-1300 €, which means it will be amortized within 5 years. With a guarantee of 20 years, this corresponds to 4800 €. This results in a profit of about 3600 €, just like that!

This isn't a 600KW balcony power plant, it's a 600W power plant.
The "pipeline" you're referring to is a measure of battery manufacturing capacity. This is not nearly the same thing as actual production figures. Capacity utilization in 2022 was under 35%. In other words, 100 GWh of capacity only translated into 35 GWh of battery production. This is because the majority of cost of lithium ion batteries is in raw materials, namely cathode material [1]. A huge amount of capacity is useless if you don't have the input materials to feed your factories.

You can't store energy in a battery factory, you store energy in batteries. Cite the actual production figures, not the stated capacity figures (spoiler alert: it was just under 500 GWh last year.).

And to reiterate, the vast majority of this production is not going to grid storage, it's going to EVs and electronics. Even if battery production matches the predicted growth, it's still vastly insufficient to provision grid storage without heavily crippling EV rollout.

> Eland is producing at a rate identical to the California demand curve, it's in their contract. It's the solar producers who don't have solar along with consumer rooftop solar that's causing the duck curve daytime demand drop

Again, electricity demand at night is still high: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx

Demand remains high well into midnight. I'm not sure why you think matching the demand curve is somehow going to mean you're going to get away with less storage. Unless Eland is going to be producing much less than its nameplate capacity at all times of day, 4 hours of storage is nowhere near enough for it to match the demand curve. And remember, solar is also subject to cloud cover. I'm sure Eland has clauses exempting it during periods of cloud coverage otherwise they'd need weeks of storage not hours.

> If I have a plant that produces 1,000 MW during the date and 100=MW at night, that's technically 24 hours of production. But clearly this is not the same thing as a nuclear plant that produces 1000 MW at all hours. But the former costs 1/10th of the latter, so you build 10 of them to get 1000MW at night and 10000MW during the day.

The former doesn't have a price tag, because no amount of money in the world will buy you that much lithium ion batteries. Again, the world uses 70,000 GWh of electricty per day, most of that being consumed when solar is not producing electricity. No amount of money can fulfill that amount of storage.

1. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/breaking-down-the-cost-of-a...
As an American I will consider paying this on behalf of NASA if someone can tell me how… $400 is worth the amusement
Then look for high-CBD strains. The weed plant that produces lots of CBD will not produce much THC. The inverse is also true. I see CBD strains all the time that are as low as 1% THC.
Being alcoholic is far more socially acceptable in the most of the world outside California. In the UK, most people consider anyone who uses weed a druggy loser