skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://archive.is/rznQr

We've plainly seen over the past several decades that the War on Drugs is an abject failure. All it's done is increase incarceration rates (without solving the problems of drug use and addiction), and many people caught in the system are just drug users, not distributors/traffickers. This really doesn't help much of anything.

> State leaders have acknowledged faults with the policy’s implementation and enforcement measures.

And there you go, right there in the second paragraph.

> As Morse put it, “If you take away the criminal-justice system as a pathway that gets people into treatment, you need to think about what is going to replace it.”

And clearly they didn't do that well enough, or at least didn't follow through well enough on what needed to be done.

It's good to see reporting on this, because clearly "just decriminalizing" doesn't help, and can make things worse on some dimensions. And some measures to replace prison sentences likely work better than others, and it's good to see the ones that don't work so we can refine policies like this.

But let's not take this as failure of the idea of decriminalization.
I feel like this is much of why I hate windows server administration compared to linux.

If you want to know something on linux, either read the man pages or check online. Someone probably wrote a blog post 13 years ago (but carefully updated over the years to keep the information fresh and accurate) that details exactly what you need to do step by step, along with a conversation about the options that you have as you are instantiating the server and asks for nothing in return other than the pleasure of having shared their knowledge.

If you want to know something on Windows, you can either get extremely lucky and figure it out yourself after hours of trial and error or find the one post on the internet that details the specific issue you have.

Learning how to administrate windows servers from official Microsoft sites? That is like reading an encyclopedia to learn how to do surgery. Microsoft's official education webpages on windows administration is the end user equivalent of watching a youtube video on how to rebuild a lawnmower engine when you need to put gas in your weed eater. It's in the ballpark range of the information you need but is so fundamentally inept and terribly wrong for a useful purpose that it boggles the mind how there isn't a better source of information.

And now we learn that there is a better source of information. Printed books. Intentionally sold by the people who wrote the terrible online documentation.

Because this is 1954 and we don't have any other options, right?
Yes, our collaboration backend Hocuspocus uses Yjs.

We know the technologies we rely on, but we also know how important it is to find a sustainable way to maintain an open source project. For a popular project that a lot of other people rely on, this means getting money for development. Since Tiptap is also open source, we can see how the big players are using our project, and sponsor tiny amounts or nothing. We try to do it better than they do, because open source is definitely in our DNA, as it was in our previous work as a digital agency, and now since a few weeks with our focus on Tiptap.
Unless I misunderstand what you mean / what the stuff is made of, this seems like a huge exaggeration... lead isn't friendly, sure, but it isn't that dangerous? There are worse materials that are in common use. (And we use lead in plenty of places already)
A planet completely populated by electronic beings.

Single-celled life, multi-cellular, mushrooms, trees, whatever ate lignin, dinosaurs, rodents, humans, Electric beings? I mean, there's nothing 'unnatural' about a world populated by robots, we just assume that 'alive' means 'made of meat', but the raw materials in a robot and a human are all Earth based.
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I was saddened to learn that Portugal slashed funding for their post decriminalization drug outreach programs. The shift from enforcement to treatment doesn't really work if you skip the treatment part.

After years of economic crisis, Portugal decentralized its drug oversight operation in 2012. A funding drop from 76 million euros ($82.7 million) to 16 million euros ($17.4 million) forced Portugal’s main institution to outsource work previously done by the state to nonprofit groups, including the street teams that engage with people who use drugs. The country is now moving to create a new institute aimed at reinvigorating its drug prevention programs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-dru...
source of the parent's suggested prompts: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-22-into-the-weeds#%C2%A7but...
This is pretty much why GCC supports dozens of architectures but has 5kloc functions.
You'd need breakthroughs in the manufacturing of it (yield, process, scale, etc) and then building the infrastructure and supply chain to support it. Depending on its availability you could see governments hoard the material for "security" and "public interest" use cases, etc. Military first as usual.

If this turns out to be a super conducting material you can be assured that overnight there will be many thousands of people all around the world, from academic, corporate, government, and private labs working with the new theory and materials and discoveries will occur as our understanding of the phenomenon get deeper and wider. There will be so much incentive to find new methods and materials that have the properties of this material.
FYI had you read the article, you'd see that they use cement/concrete accurately throughout, and are accurate in their usage of cement in the title.

One such quote, although it's throughout the article

> The problem is that cement, a primary ingredient in concrete, is normally a poor electrical conductor. So, in recent years, several groups have made structural supercapacitors by spiking cement with highly conductive forms of carbon, such as graphene or carbon nanotubes. Although these perform well, the ingredients are expensive and hard to produce in the massive volumes used in the cement industry, notes Franz-Josef Ulm, a civil engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Yes, that's quite likely how they come up with this number. But is it enough? What's the most energy dense configuration that can be made with room temp SC and does it compete with lithium batteries?
I am also curious if it wasn't also toxic back when you were a kid, and people just didn't realize it and were eating contaminated fish.
When it comes to cannabis, that obviously isn't much of a factor. How the hell could someone be blackmailed over weed? Most people that use, don't care who knows, certainly not enough to literally commit treason to your country to hide it. I think the major problem is just in principle: it's federally illegal so if you use it you are a criminal thus can't hold clearance
Remember the horse meat scandal, when horse meat showed up unexpectedly in food in Europe? The ceo of one British supermarket chain blamed the Irish food safety authority, who’d detected the contamination due to routine DNA testing (the British FSA had at the time recently ended such testing due to Tories, iirc). His logic was more or less that the FSAI, by detecting the problem, had created the problem; if no-one had known there would be no problem. Pretty much everyone at the time thought this was a bizarre take.

I find it interesting that, in the cookie case, people blame the EU for making the problem visible, rather than blaming the people who created the problem. The cookies are the horseburger, in this instance.
Levitates? Against, what, the earth's inherent magnetic field? Sorry, I haven't seen any visuals that show this behavior.
> Uber was cheap and support would do anything to make you happy

Because it was a hostile company from the start. It's basically destroyed any local alternatives by dumping prices, but that doesn't make profit.
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A commit-based collab plugin that's far more performant under heavily active client loads than stock. I'm a fan of YJS, but not a fan of state-based CRDT layer on top of ProseMirror for my use cases. Wrote about this here: https://stepwisehq.com/blog/2023-07-25-prosemirror-collab-pe... .

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Hope to release more FOSS projects along the way; lot of taking from ProseMirror compared to what's given back IMHO(not targeted at TipTap which provides a lot of value). I've got some stuff geared towards minimizing keystroke-to-paint latency which I hope to write about soon. Ideally we will reach a point where we contribute funds to the ProseMirror project.

Cheers!

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Picture of physical hardware for AWS Mac-mini EC2 instances
You think Coinbase is on par with FTX?!
Check out https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/blob/main/docs/sapling-comp...

In my opinion:

- Sapling is much more mature/full-featured at this point.
- Jujutsu improves source control workflows in a more principled way.
- Jujutsu currently supports colocation with a Git repo, while Sapling requires that the Git repo be kept separately.
From the last time I drove through Oregon, it kind of felt like they had already done this.
RTRPS is presumably "room temperature room pressure superconductor"
I always thought decriminalization was in some ways the worst of both worlds. On one hand, keeping the production and trade side illegal continues to perpetuate the underground culture and fund international cartels. Meanwhile their market base increases due to fewer people being afraid of being caught, the product quality is still completely unregulated. Users still need to stay embedded in an an unscrupulous underworld in order to maintain the connections necessary to obtain the product, increasing the chances of abuse and reducing their chances of getting help if they need it. Of course, it's nice not to send people to jail for small quantities, but failing to fully legitimize the market in these ways could cause a lot of other issues.
> I have talked with HR

HR, in general, is not a reliable source on anything other than what the company for whom they work wants you, as a potentially unreliable production input, to believe in order to keep you maximally aligned with the interests of the corporate owners as relayed through management.
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They've improved the compiler analysis for them significantly, including exhaustivity checks and field checks.
Overall I agree with him (I don't want to consume information that doesn't surprise me in some way, and technically speaking, it isn't even information without that surprise). But ... "surprise" is totally contingent on audience.

A lot of things that will seem like unnecessary throat-clearing to experts will be both surprising and totally necessary for people lacking context. If you can't walk your audience into the proper context, whatever other surprise you offer will be meaningless, and they'll just tune out.
Neil Stephenson uses Emacs for his writing. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/11h6hg5/comment/jasb...
Hi Fernando,

I find the work your team is doing fascinating. I will definitely send through an application.
Thanks for sharing
That hasn't stopped them in the past...
From the paper about the replication, they cast strong doubts on the original paper and consider it a fail
You're not being branded a bro for being excited.
> the first of its kind in any state, are now coming into view

Lets hope Oregon will be shining beacon of inclusivity for all drug users, anywhere in US! We should not rush into any conslusions for at least 30 years!!!
I definitely see this kind of nonsense from lifting, high intensity interval training, bodyweight exercises, rock climbing, cycling... I think when people get very passionate about something that was lifechangingly important to them, then its very easy to forget other people don't share that experience.

It's probably better to generalize to have some level of daily activity that works for you. But then it's kind of boring, and everyone already knows this.
Not familiar with Nim enough to figure it out - are the bindings auto generated in similar style like opencv bindings to any other supported language (python, julia, objc, rust, etc)?
It's still not believed. It's just Twitter that I've seen the juicy stuff, like a (very sketchy) claimed replication from a Russian, and now another claim from a Chinese group.

I could still see this being something "new" but not a true superconductor. If you read the link, there seems to be some kind of discovery brewing, but the original discovers may not have understood what they found.
https://archive.is/xBXnd
If that were strictly true, there would be no need for patents.

That's literally the opposite of the reason for patents: the person obtaining the patent is supposed to disclose the idea, in exchange for an exclusive right to implement it for a fixed period. The patent is specifically intended to PREVENT people with better execution from taking the idea without compensation.

In re: OP's question - you're going to have to explain the idea to potential customers, how are you planning to keep _them_ from "stealing" it?
The ring of solomon was a curious mix of metals with a magnet in it. Its inventors were definitely up to something.
Why would I pay any money when I can just cook it up at home?
No. I'm saying that if big bang imparted random velocities on galaxies that were all initially in the same spot (epicenter) then tofay in the reference frame of any galaxy (also Milky Way) it will look like every other galaxy is moving away from it radially with the velocity proportional to the current distance from it. No one will be able to tell where the actual epicenter was if they are too far from the edge to see it.

This holds for the universe without gravity, with flat spacetime, Newtonian physics, with three, two or one spatial dimension.

Seriously, try to simulate such toy universe. Or just sit down with a piece of paper and consider variant with one spatial dimension. It's primary school math and physics. You'll get Hubble law.
Being serious, I think this is the correct take. There's a lot of in misinformation about outing undercover cops, most famously the mistaken belief that cops can't lie about not being a cop. Regardless, from my experience on a federal grand jury that almost exclusively dealt with drug cases, the cops just get someone in your group to flip, and possibly wear a wire.

Bonus: Hanging up a sheet between the kitchen and the living room when you cook meth, isn't enough to protect the people in the living room from catching a case of Conspiracy to Manufacture.
good to know, thank you for the note! maybe there can be a prompt that can investigate molecular properties?
I think it's more likely that the bulk of folks don't fully comprehend why this would be so important. I would imagine alot of reporters look at the things they could write about and the choices are politics, war, polarizing news, or nerds nerding hard trying to prove other nerds right or wrong, and it just doesn't make the cut.
If you can extract work from the field generated by the supercurrent, it must come from somewhere. Small supercurrents make small fields, so things like adiabatic CPUs seem interesting.
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It’s wild so much money and effort go to policing drugs people want to voluntarily consume while next to nothing by comparison is done to police pollution that entire towns are involuntarily affected by, for far longer, and often to far worse effect.
It’s pretty funny. Unless you’re going for a black car, I find that NYC taxis are a better value.
I'm not against having some kind of service that users can install and enable for telemetry using these metrics, but metrics would be useful even if we never do anything like that and they only ever exist on the users' machine: "Thank you for your ticket! Can you check your metrics logs if x, y and z are present?"
I’ve stepped foot in 18 different cities in the past year where I’ve used Uber - mostly personal but a few business.

Why would I ever go through this in every city I go to instead of using Uber?
I've worked remote now for 8 years, I do sometimes miss being in the office with the people I'm collaborating with, but it's not something I would want to do 5 days a week. I'd be totally fine with 1-2 days mandated in the office per week if I was within a reasonable commute distance to my team, but my current team is geographically dispersed anyway (think co-workers who've never met face to face in 15 years) so it makes no sense to require any of us into an office. I'll choose WFH every time because I know I'm far more productive that way - if I was forced to go back to commuting work, I would effectively restrict my office time to no more than 8 hours per day and refuse to ever work outside of the office, where as today I'm effectively available to do work about 11 hours per day even though I seldom do.
Though that's like the opposite of how most media operate.
What is that, precisely?
I'm not sure that's exactly true. I do agree with you that some people will start using because they lose the fear of being caught, though I'm not convinced this is as large a problem as you might think it is.

Either way, there are also undoubtedly people with substance abuse problems who are afraid to get help due to the possibility of incarceration. Removing that fear can lead to more people getting into treatment programs.
Not everyone who smokes weed is a stoner
I mean to emphasize that AGI is being built only in the shape of mind, as if mind is separate from body, which is clearly not the case in our human experience of general intelligence.
I am also completely baffled by this! So many stupid mouse-model medical discovery stories over the years and actually zero LK-99 coverage.

It doesn't even matter if it works or not as for whether it's newsworthy; the mystery, human backstory, and Argonne/China/independent scientists jumping to replicate alone is a whole swathe of viable and fascinating topics ready to be published.

The crazy thing is NYT just bothered to publish a story about the Dias superconductor paper retraction; a paper that had never even crossed my radar in the first place because TBH I don't care about superconductors unless they're going to be a huge step change in practical applications, which the Dias "finding" wasn't.

What are they doing?!
>I want to see the first things that surface in their mind and what they enjoy talking about. I

How does that question get to that? I'd guess most of them are thinking 'why did I get asked such a vague question and how should I answer it. Do they want me to talk about my personal life, or maybe they have some weird confirmation bias. If they wanted me to talk about my work life, they'd probably ask right? What a weird question'.

>I don't agree with this at all. We don't have "hiring managers". That's the problem right there. What the hell are they going to know about the position if they're not in it?

You are the hiring manager if you are a manager who is responsible for hiring someone.

I've worked with a lot of managers and sat on lots of hiring panels. Managers who think they are going to play some mind game to get a purer view of someone are always bad interviewers who place huge amounts of stock in some arbitrary reaction to their mind game.
I’d generalize that to do some cardio exercise everyday. There’s nothing special about running versus say swimming, cycling, or even a brisk walk.
Pfizer considers cost cuts as demand for Covid products falls
It's just like me fr
True, but that hasn't stopped MSM in the past