skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The success scenarios I’ve heard about involve psilocybin + trained therapist. Some people have undirected transformative experiences, but some people (most?) need help navigating.
I have a hard time finding 5mg dose edibles for my wife. Most are 10 plus. Was at the dispensary the other day and a girl who probably weighed 115lbs suggested I try capsules as they are stronger. Capsules are 30mg and she says she takes 2 at a time.

That dosage is insane to me. I'm 235lbs and 15mg is a solid, "I'm not driving" dose for me.
For sure. Head over to /r/leaves and you'll see others complaining about pretty gnarly symptoms when they quit. Cold sweats, loss of appetite, nausea, irritability, etc.
Still waiting for the craft beer scene in the US to get out of its grapefruit juice phase.
I struggle with cannabis addiction on and off. When I'm into it, it means several joints daily for months until I manage to pull my self out of. One day I fear I won't be able to.
Over 10 years ago I was flying from a small airport in Ireland (I think). To get code for 30 minutes of wifi, you put 1 euro in an old school gumball machine and received a capsule with a fortune cookie-like piece of paper. To this day I think that as the best experience I've seen for paying for wifi.

It's usually free in airports now, but sometimes limited to 30 minutes. At this point you can simply change your mac address temporarily.
Most people don't know about Delta-9 yet. It was brought to my attention when I saw a video about a business selling Delta-9 drinks in an illegal state.
I don't think it is a strange point of view: Fedora is a good outcome, so don't question how the sausage is made.

Maybe it is shortsighted in the long run? We'll see. I'm glad that we have choices -- AUR on one hand, Fedora on the other (and Debian, Alpine, etc)
>Unsure mate, if you have to pay $200k to get your foot in the door then the system is rigged in favour of the elite (again).

I get what you're saying and I agree it's absurdly expensive for what you get. But even for the current college bubble, $200k is above the median students pay for college. The school's tuition currently is $51k, and for reference, MIT is 55k. Apparently the median is still absurdly high ($44k, what the actual hell?), but there are a lot of cheaper options, as well as community college, to help bring those costs down.
I'm wondering if anybody has an explanation for the relatively few BSD distros as compared to Linux? Is it just due to the smaller community and limited resources or is there something different with BSD that leads to less division?
Forget Marijuana addiction, we have a cupcake addiction problem.

Society will drown under obese patients long before we need to worry about pot heads.
They're discriminating against products that are least-likely to shovel them piles of cash, either to make the exception, or by operating on their platform and providing ad revenue...

I don't think it's /illegal/ discrimination. It's certainly obnoxious and I don't like it.
> become a major fossil fuel exporter

Wouldn't doing that undo a lot of the gains from this? If we export fossil fuels instead of burning them, we aren't really decarbonizing. We're just having the carbonization take place somewhere else.
I Have a general vector retrieval question, if you have time to humor me. Suppose I have 10 features per document, each with an embedding. Is it possible to retrieve the document with the highest average embedding score across its features? The only approach I can think of is retrieving the top 1k results across each feature to generate a candidate set, then recomputing full scores for each document.
The Road to Carbon-Neutral: How Carbon Crusher Is Paving the Way
yeah, building demos is really fun.

but then you have to actually make it a functional part of a business with tests and regulatory compliance and integration with other products and customer requirements, and new developers who didn't build the original demo start working on it, and then you remember why all that complicated and inconvenient tooling exists. just building demos and then abandoning them doesn't pay a whole lot of bills, unfortunately.
Trying Odin
There is a big difference between human intervention that sets us apart from the ecosystem (in which we act upon the ecosystem) and human intervention where we work as a participant of the ecosystem (in which we participate within the ecosystem). We can and should use technology, but it is a different paradigm and a different way of seeing.

Some of the things the permaculture folks have been quietly doing for over 50 years have yielded some impressive results. They go far beyond what you'd hear about in the mainstream, and we're only seeing some of it trickle in (such as the ideas of restorative and regenerative agriculture or agroforestry).
If you think about it in terms of resource consumption per capita over a lifetime then it gets a lot more difficult because now you have to divide all those resources across all of the humans that have lived and that will every live taking into account any kind of improvement on recycling. This is a really hard problem, the estimate is that right now about 7% of all that people that have every lived are alive, and that the total number of people have have ever lived is 117 billion people. But because historically people would consume less than we do today there is a 'surplus' that we started to eat into at the beginnings of the industrial revolution. Now we're in debt to the future and those 'wealthy' people in your comment are over represented in terms of resource consumption but we're not that far behind when compared to say the people from 400 years ago.

Extrapolating into the future then is probably going to show an even larger percentage of consumption per capita compared to the budget, and that at some point in time will result in a shortage. The people that will live through that will look back at us as the incredibly wasteful denizens of the 20th and 21st century that wasted resources on a scale that at that point in time probably will be criminal.

Sustainability is more than just a nice slogan, it is sooner or later going to be our end-game and the earlier we start doing this for real the longer the species will exist and the more comfortable the members of the species will be.
The people who think AI will distribute power rather than concentrate it are naive and optimistic at best. I prefer to call them delusional and insane. They keep repeating the same thing (developing technologies only entrenched giants can use at scale) and expecting different results (equitable society? where's the profit in that?).
> Ever since it became legal I have friends who spend majority of their day high. 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.

Before it became legal, I'm willing to bet those friends spent a majority of their day doing something equally unproductive. Be it playing video games, or watching tv, whatever $couch_potato_activity. And they're probably just doing the same stupid thing while high, because it's even more fun that way.

It's easy to villify a drug for what would happen either way, you're not proving a causal relationship. Pot and being a lazy slob dovetail quite nicely, just like pizza and beer. Nobody blames pizza and beer for the fat stained-shirt slob who never gets off their ass.
Ehh Indian Point (the NY plant) wasn't really a concern with regards to natural disasters. We get some occasional (very minor) earthquakes and a hurricane once in a decade or so, but I doubt the latter would do much vs many tons of reinforced concrete.

The plant definitely had issues -- some due to age (construction started in 1956!), some due to mismanagement, and some due to dumb regulations [0]. My chem class went there on a field trip in high school, and the guy giving the tour definitely gave off "engineer who has been overruled by management in very dumb ways" vibes while explaining that their waste silos were almost full because they weren't allowed to transport the spent rods across state lines so that they could be recycled back into fissile materials.

As an aside, the control rooms had a real "retro-futurism" look. Lots of manual dials and brightly-colored plastics [1]. Gene Roddenberry eat your heart out, etc.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Point_Energy_Center#Saf...

[1]: https://www.lohud.com/story/opinion/2016/02/12/indian-point-...
That’s room temperature. Frozen DNA is significantly more resilient. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0702196104
Edibles at high doses are a completely different experience. a 60mg dose would be comparable to acid with heavy thought loops and perhaps ego death. Some people are looking for that I guess.
Deja vu all over again
/tinfoil: Might this hint at a rnd backdoor in the microcode?
Great novel. It's a shame the author never gave it a title. /s
I think the 30kg/tree varies widely both by species and conditions, and critically given the timeline you've mentioned (by 2030) by _maturity_.
E.g. this source estimates 10kg/year for the first 20 years, but if much of that is after year 6-7, even if we could plant a trillion trees by 2030, they would not be close to the levels of carbon fixation you're mentioning.

It's ambitious, but _even if we succeed_, it won't be impactful in the time horizon you're discussing. In 2030 we may have a large proportion of 1-3 year old tiny saplings that may each weigh only a few kg (wet).

(update: forgot the link for source mentioned)
https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/how-much-co2-does-t...
Planting trees is in the same category of solutions as recycling. In theory you could plant a quadrillion trees, but realistically it won’t happen and instead the initiative will be used as a way to increase our consumption and destruction of the planet even more.

Reduce, reuse and recycle was the original term. Everyone over indexed on recycling and completely abandoned the first two. (Instead we went the other way and started individually wrapping bananas in plastic)
As much as I think that Marijuana should be decriminalized completely. I also still think that it causes a ton of problems among those who smoke it. I've had friends change completely after starting to smoke habitually. I don't think it would be a problem if our society weren't so messed up right now. But, like alcohol, I think poverty and isolation just makes it so much worse.
Yup. The Georgia plant seems expensive until you remember it cost half of what Twitter did.
> Regardless of how you feel about Stack Overflow’s users and moderators, running a site like that is not cheap.

StackOverflow runs on less than 25 servers, its infrastructure is incredibly cheap considering just how much traffic they serve. And their UI, thankfully, hasn't changed much over the last decades either.

[1] https://stackexchange.com/performance
I think this article (and other online discourse) overestimates the value of StackOverflow to ChatGPT's training data.

Sure, it's in there - but so is all the library documentation ever written, billions of lines of code, and millions of tutorials. StackOverflow is just one small part.
Brave are those who have set out to make prompt engg an entire industry,
with gpt-5 and gemini lurking on the horizon.
Why would someone reupload their own old videos?
Reading just this comment, I'm inclined to think your friend is likely correct. You very clearly have a dangerous bias against THC and it's clear in your rhetoric, for example:

> while biologically correct gave these type of people a get out of jail free card.

Yikes.

I think part of the problem is ever since legalization weed became more mainstream (potentially dangerous) but weed-conservatism (i.e. exaggerating real risks of THC) also became much more common to encounter (also potentially dangerous). The reality is somewhere in between. I do not use THC, but as someone who used it previously and it tremendously helped me, my current mental model and set of anecdotes say you're likely wrong and exaggerating the real risk your friend is under.
Relatedly, the bizarre "Prosperity Gospel" thing where preachers of a religion ostensibly following a teacher who believed that you should give all your money to the poor (and be sure to toss all the bankers lending money out of your church while you are at it) spend incredible amounts of money on fashion and private jets and expensive homes in some religious message that spiritual wealth is "trickle-down".
It certainly doesn't help that specific directions from Phoenix traveled by major highways are fairly desolate. The Gila river valley as you drive south to Tucson is mostly salt flats for the first half hour, while heading north on the 17 goes through old lava fields and the waterless Agua Fria plateau.
Thanks for the recommendation, I didn't know such a thing existed
Probably "unpopular opinion™" but I feel like the ban on "opinion-based" or recommendation questions also didn't help. Not everything can be answered purely objectively, there are many situations where people just want to ask "what are the options for generating a PDF in python" or something. Stackoverflow removed itself from that process which has driven people elsewhere.

Answers are also often more focused on the cosmetic aspects than actually answering a question. Just see the example in the article. The questioner asked about a lambda reference to a public field, and they got told "just don't use public fields lol". That's not help, that's just being a condescending asshole and not actually answering the question.

Combined with the toxicity and elitism rampant, I am not surprised.
There's a chemist who gave a breakdown with what's known so far: https://twitter.com/Robert_Palgrave/status/16846158677267988...

It's not clear exactly what compound constitutes "LK-99" because the equations in the papers are unbalanced and the synthesis is ill defined. What they say they got doesn't make sense for how they say they got it. Most likely it's a mixture of compounds, any of which could be producing the alleged superconducting phenomena.
Given the added burdens of...

- managing licenses across multiple devices

- limiting the people you can share code with to ones that are willing to deal with licenses

- budgeting for an ongoing subscription / renewing as needed

...I'd say that even $10/year is too much. Ecosystems that create collaboration barriers like these are no place for important work.
> Instead, you head over to Reddit where the programming community is much nicer.

Lol. I always feel the "toxicity" claimed of SO is way overblown. It's always "closed as dupe but not really a dupe and I got downvoted for asking a legitimate question". But 99% of the times it was really a dupe, or a poorly worded question, or something strictly off topic. Getting told that isn't toxicity. It's what keeps the community somewhat sane. If you try to look through the review queues, you'll see all the low effort posting the community has to deal with.

What I feel is killing SO isn't the community, but the leadership. They've ostracized their own moderators and reviewers for a long time. And with no stewards, it will become toxic. And a wasteland of low effort duplicate questions.
And that's why I left the nuclear industry. Nuclear power is the safest form of power production we've ever produced (more people are killed per MWh installing and repairing wind turbines than in the nuclear industry) but it has never been anywhere near cost effective and no nuclear project has ever been completed anywhere near on-schedule. Every time I hear someone talk about how the world needs tons of new nuclear plants and solar and wind can't possibly meet the demand quickly enough, that person seems to imagine that none of the next wave of nuclear plants magically will not have any of the problems that every previous nuclear plant had. Meanwhile solar and wind are beating estimates year after year. I still love nuclear physics (and I am excited about several up-and-coming fusion projects) but I just don't believe in the nuclear (fission) power industry anymore.
I'll note that exploring space is very different from commercializing space.

> You really honestly think you’re the first person, or this is the first time anyone has stopped to wonder about it?

I don't think that, I didn't imply that, and wondering if I was the first person to ever wonder that for the first time is putting words in my mouth.

My question is whether anyone that was in a position to know and was also not being payed off wondered this. Given the lack of science around this, the major players I think are more concerned with going further than they are in really studying exactly whether they should. That makes no sense for SpaceX to devout half of their budget to study why they should not be launching rockets. If they are not studying that, who exactly is?

> Of course nobody should get a free pass to wreck the Earth. That’s a cartoonishly absurd caricature of what’s going on.

There have been plenty of free passes to wreck the earth. Examples are subsidies going out to industries that pollute. These free-passes go back in time, recall the train companies giving free tickets to those that would shoot Bison from the windows of the train. We can also talk about deforestation, that most old growth forests have been chopped down and so many tree farms are now taking their place (tree farms grow overly dense, and very sickly trees that have nowhere near the same positive impact as old growth does). There are so many examples of free passes being given.. Why else are so many rivers toxic and unswimmable? The fact we have so many things and areas that are wrecked serves as counter-point.

Beyond this, I think 'serf' responds pretty well, I will not add further.
People who pass out are getting third degree burns.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/health/arizona-heat-burns-er/...
I didn't write any latex for a very long time now, but by the time I went through a master in CS, I had my laboratory advisor asking "how did you make this?"

A good answer I didn't thought at the time but that will aplly equally here: curiosity powering the will to read more documentation.
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> because the nuclear batteries are near its end.

and we are charging our phones daily....
Water-soluble circuit boards could cut carbon footprints by 60 percent
The internet repeats itself
Google the rentier
>“seven years late and $17 billion over budget. At its full output of 1,100 megawatts of electricity”

It's all projects. This just happens to be a big one.

Everyone likes to point to over-runs, over-budget, late projects.

Nobody goes back and asks "who did the original estimate that we eventually went over?".

Many projects start with /s 'everyone knowing it will go over budget, but if we give a real estimate it wont get off the ground'/s.

Then later someone has to get blamed. If everyone is (quietly)honest they kind of spread around the blame and the success. If it is a contentious project, everyone is playing tag at the end.
Ah yes, thanks. 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.
The version we learned also refers to "trespasses" and "those who trespass against us" instead of "debtors" and "creditors". The latter sounds a bit ...
commercial? Definitely think it sounds better having enemies who've "trespassed against us".
This is such an awesome idea!

Print-width PDFs can be a pain on mobile in cases when there is no working word-wrapped view.

I frequently would like to follow PDF links on mobile and the example looks good.
I want to correct I messed up reading NBS calculation methods. PRC already use comparable youth unemployment calc as US.

But general point remains, PRC youth unemployment different kind of problem - it's reflection of state overcapacity, problem of excess is different from problem of paucity, which is what US is dealing with in terms of skilled talent shortage. PRC general employment ~5%, which means most youth either give up or end up in workforce eventually. People work if they have to work. The important consideration is if enough of them work in relevant sectors to push PRC up value chain, last few years show that is happening. Recent reports PRC moving up value chains, science and innovation indexes coincides with trend of increasing youth unemployment since it's lag effect / byproduct of PRC was spamming as many bodies into tertiary as possible. Surplus has been trying to find places to go for years, from bureaucracy to other stable state jobs, and maybe eventually they'll eat bitter like Xi wants and start filling well paying blue collar jobs. Society is eventually going to accept/reckon with with talent over production. IMO Saturating society with more talent than needed (or more infra than needed) is better problem than shortage.
Genesis 1:29-30
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth..."

I mean, they pick and choose.
> weird and lurid, not "cool"

The point seems to be interesting in a way which might be called "cool" if one happens to be so interested. Even if one finds it lurid they may also find it interesting or "cool".

> It's like cheering that a smallpox outbreak occurred so you can study the disease progression.

I believe I understand the point. We don't want to celebrate a negative occurrence simply because there is silver lining. However, it's hard to see past a certain false equivalence that's being made. A disease which propagates ought to be treated differently from personal choices even if the things are equally destructive to the individual.

But I'm a philosopher at heart. Let's say a person chooses to infect themselves with a disease to facilitate study of some aspect of it. Let's also say that they are able to do this in an environment that all but guarantees the disease will not propagate except possibly to other willing volunteers. Should this research be prevented? Would the results of this research definitely not be "cool", meaning "interesting"?
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra

As someone who got their start with BASIC -- mainly from "BASIC Computer Games" no less -- I was always kind of offended at that quote.
Not just upselling, flat-out ignoring.

https://wtop.com/national/2023/06/ai-drive-thrus-may-be-good...

I'm not sure if it's the same story since it's from June, but a few days ago WTOP played some audio from one of their reporters trying to order from a drive-thru...

AI: "Would you like to add a peach pie for $1.50?"

Reporter: "No."

AI: "Would you like to add a peach pie for $1.50?"

Reporter: "No."

AI: "Would you like to add a peach pie for $1.50?"

Reporter: "No peach pie."

AI: "And one peach pie."

Reporter: "NO PEACH PIE."
Only takes a redditor to figure it out: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1515q3w/comment/js6w...
Just want to say I very much agree with this, and pretty much most of the other responses here. A lot of the times when I hear people talk about TSA "security theater" I hear them arguing that we really shouldn't have any screening at all, but it seems like the responses here are arguing specifically against:

1. Taking off your shoes

2. The liquids rule

3. Taking out your laptop.

To which I totally agree (and since as a TSA Precheck member I never hit those issues anyway I don't notice them as much).
just curious if you know the dosage you have used--I am definitely going to try this once I've cleared the post-quitting effect on my headspace.
Assuming that replications fail but they really do have samples of a superconductor that can be thoroughly examined, this is still fantastic.

Once we know the exact structure, the problem of synthesis is very solvable.