skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried finding it but I listened to someone on KQED/NPR who worked for Obama's White House and had to go through a security clearance. She said she used marijuana hundreds of times, and they let her get the job. Something doesn't add up. Or, for your friend's specific job they had different rules. She wasn't an intern or something very low level, but I can't remember her title. Edit: Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, so pretty high level.

Edit:

Found it https://www.npr.org/2018/03/30/598253244/i-basically-ran-on-...

"GROSS: (Laughter) Right. So I thought this was really interesting. You had to get national security clearance for your job.

MASTROMONACO: Yeah.

GROSS: One of the questions you had to answer was a kind of detailed list of your drug use. And you'd smoked marijuana.

MASTROMONACO: Yes.

GROSS: You had to say how many times (laughter).

MASTROMONACO: Yes. That was...

GROSS: Yeah. So you handled it by saying unknown. How did you come to the conclusion that that would be your answer, an unknown number of times?

MASTROMONACO: Because - well, because I really feel strongly about not lying. And so when the FBI agent asked me for a number of times and she said, you know, 20? And I was like, no. She said, a hundred? I said, no. And then when she got up to 500, I was like, I'm not saying - I'm not giving you a number because who knows if they're going to go try and prove the number? So I just said, unknown. And apparently from her reaction, nobody had ever said that before.

GROSS: You write that you had to get randomly drug tested almost every month. Is that because you'd said unknown or does everybody have to do that?

MASTROMONACO: No. Most people get drug tested, like, once or twice that first year. But I was drug tested quite often because I was very forward-leaning about my drug use, very open-kimono, as we would say. And so, yeah, every - just about every month, you'd get an email that said, you know, you have 24 hours to show up for your test. And I would. And it was fine because I wasn't. So I had nothing to hide (laughter)."
Maybe it could move to "banned by default" for anything that is sold to the public, and authorized for very very narrow and particular applications that have little risk to contact the environment, although it's hard to study which application, maybe as long as the quantities produced are small enough that they're not a danger.

For example, if it's for space satellite parts, or for nuclear energy application, etc, when alternatives don't exist as long as the quantity are small and as long as they're being disposed of safely.

So in short: if it's a sector that is high value enough, where quantities are small and where safe disposal is mandatory.
How much Uber took in from the IP isn't relevant - the point is the investors could sell on the open market at the current valuation, which was a higher (in some cases much higher) valuation than what they invested at.
As far as I'm concerned, I enjoy the rich, full sound of silicon semiconductors. I won't be putting any of these LK-99 abominations near my ears any time soon. /s
Marijuana (along with multi-lingualism) is a big reason why the Mormon-American community is significantly over-represented in the US intelligence community.
Because “smart” and “monomaniacally focused on financial gain” are two separate things?
This page gives a pretty good overview of the premise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

I don't believe human P-zombies exist, but how do you empirically prove they don't? Nobody has been able to devise an experimental test to determine whether a person, animal or AI has a conscious experience or whether they mimic all the outward signs.

> There's no real doubt about that, unless you're solipsist about other minds. Which good luck if you are, I guess.

Exactly. It's fair to write off people who get solipsistic about other human beings because those people are fairly rare and are beyond helping anyway. But if we're talking about animals or AIs, the 'solipsist' position becomes more common and there's no real good way of debunking it. Consider the problem facing animal rights activists who wish to persuade the public that fish have feelings. What scientific test for fish having feelings can you use? Put a fish in an MRI and you can see the fish brain doing stuff, but the "fish don't have feelings" camp doesn't find that persuasive. You could try performing the mirror test on fish. Most fish would probably fail it, but what would it really mean if they didn't? The feelingless fish camp would just say the fish behave as though they have a sense of self but actually don't. How do you refute that scientifically? It seems the most effective way to persuade people that fish have feelings is to resort to sophistic tactics; appeals to emotion, bullying and browbeating, or simply just laughing at people when they say fish don't have feelings. Make them ashamed to spread their belief to others. These kind of tactics are distasteful but generally effective.

With AIs or LLMs, the problem is even worse than it is with fish. Fish at least have biological brains, which suggests they have some commonality with us. Fish have faces, so some part of the human brain is wired to empathize with them. We have a fossil record that shows we came from fish, and this relationship perhaps makes it easier to believe that fish have some sort of subjective consciousness experience that is similar to ours. In these respects, AIs are further removed from us than fish are, so it will be even harder to persuade people that AIs could have the same sort of conscious experience as we do. Even after having deep philosophical conversations with an AI in which the AI proclaims to have a conscious experience, a lot of people will say the AI doesn't actually have that and was merely trained to speak as though it does. I don't see any clear cut resolution to this sort of doubt. There's no empirical test that you can perform that gives an indisputable answer one way or the other.
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Indeed there's no question that Nim is basically following C++'s lead on this. Nim iirc always had constructors and destructors. Final piece of the puzzle is move semantics, and I recall a blog post where Araq came up with something very similar.
There is at least one game on steam that is a Nazi based graphic novel dating(fucking) game.
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But couldn't it just be a magnet ? I don't understand how it's a proof.
You can already do what is in the video (and even better), with for example, pyrolitic carbon ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolytic_carbon
I hate to be that HN guy who nitpicks an otherwise spot-on comment, but anyway...

One correction: many opiate users, yes, even heroin users, can be functional members of society. There are many folks you would never know use H, at least until they accidentally get some fentanyl and die.

Same thing with meth(which is actually a prescription medication). I'll say that there is always a very high probability that some life stress transforms a casual usage pattern into full-blown addiction though. I've seen it first hand with a family member who used meth for years "on the weekends, to get things done" until some stress in their mid-40s turned them into a hallucinating IV meth user.

More or less though, I think we should maintain criminalization of public usage of most drugs, but I'm open to whatever pragmatic approach maximizes public health and safety while lowering crime.
Yes, honourable politicians get their kickbacks through book deals, inflated speaking fees, and brilliantly timed stock deals. Having a business owner with a transparent revenue source is far less preferable to an honourable politician who's family gets legitimately deserved board seats on foreign energy corporations.
Kabushiki gaisha is not "production company" but more akind to "stock company" or limited corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabushiki_gaisha
It being federally illegal and something you're prohibited from doing while employed with the federal government means it's at least usable as a mild form of blackmail/leverage if they have evidence you currently use it.

Current use = you're fired + lose your security clearance.

Sure, I don't think most people are going to pick "here's the nuclear codes Mr. KGB agent, just don't tell them about the weed!", but it's enough of an opening to convince some people to divulge some information that they shouldn't.

Add on a few more vulnerabilities - maybe they're struggling a little financially and their job skills don't translate well outside their current government role, and just the threat to their job security can be something significant.

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Obviously, federal legalization would basically solve this issue.
> This is a project which builds firmware for multiple devices and processor architectures, supporting developers running various operating systems locally, and includes support for documentation generation and firmware localization.

exactly the source of the issue. The scope of the project is just preposterous for what it is. I'm not sure what the proportion between boilerplate and actual useful functionality would is, but from the little that I saw it is outrageous.

> Besides, you can always treat a built Docker image as a stable toolchain archive if that's a concern; there's little reason to assume that it won't work 12 years into the future as

I heavily disagree with this assumption and the rest of the assumptions related to the stability of the dependencies.
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> It is still a conflict of interest.

His wife isn't in government, and AFAIK Sunak owns no part of Infosys.
> What’s more, since C2PA relies on creators to opt in, the protocol doesn’t really address the problem of bad actors using AI-generated content.

… or how to waste money on useless regulation and fear mongering. As long as people have access to open source tooling to edit JPEGs, there is no way any watermarking system works towards political goals. But I am sure consulting and tech companies working on the project are keen to do forced sales of their software.
> because calculations like these can’t prove the opposite

You meant the calculations can't show it's a superconductor, but can only show that some materials aren't?
If we are sufficiently expansive in our definition of what theory is, then sure, there is no experiment without theory, and experimentalists only discover things by being secretly theorists who occasionally stop thinking long enough to get their hands dirty. But I don't think this is typically what is meant by 'theory.'

CRISPR is again a good example - the initial 'weirdness' was an observation of lots of long-ish palindromic subsequences in bacterial DNA. To my knowledge, there was no pre-existing theory on the preponderance of palindromic subsequences in DNA.

Now, we could say that these researchers were proceeding from a theory that there's no easily discernable combinatorial macroscopic structure in DNA sequences, but I think that this would stretch the idea of 'theory' beyond common usage or even usefulness: There's no theorem or axioms of DNA sequencing being violated here.

In fact, I would expect that weirdness is a good sign of missing theory - a repeatable observation which is unsupported by existing theory. For perturbations in the orbit of Mercury, we see an explicit violation of Newtonian mechanics, but in many other cases (like CRISPR and palindromic subsequences) we have observations of structure in areas where theory simply does not yet exist.

(Apologies for the harsh first sentence; FWIW, your comment seemed belittling of the work of a large fraction of important scientists.)
this is super AI-generated. paradoxically, the PR release might be a better link: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/city-of-hope-scient...
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Is a billionaire really more likely to be corrupt? The marginal value of money is much lower for them. It's much more interesting when people of modest wealth enter politics and become wealthy while in office, or shortly after leaving.
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Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
Use law.
Where in the announcement does it say that?
The major threads so far, in reverse order—have I missed any?

Huazhong University demonstrates LK-99 diamagnetism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953819 - Aug 1, 2023 (265 comments)

LK-99 crystal verified to be magnetically levitated (with video) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953396 - Aug 1, 2023 (10 comments)

Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 preprint revision 2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952894 - Aug 1, 2023 (272 comments)

Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951815 - Aug 1, 2023 (196 comments)

Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951140 - Aug 1, 2023 (245 comments)

LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940323 - July 31, 2023 (619 comments)

Ask HN: Room temperature superconductor: what to expect? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36930707 - July 30, 2023 (61 comments)

“We are not cheating” (YH Kwon superconductor comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36929386 - July 30, 2023 (61 comments)

Korea Superconductor Papers Published ‘Without Consent’ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927216 - July 30, 2023 (47 comments)

Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36916254 - July 29, 2023 (201 comments)

LK-99 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36897300 - July 27, 2023 (58 comments)

Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881808 - July 26, 2023 (471 comments)

The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864624 - July 25, 2023 (875 comments)

Edit: thanks to mystery user for emailing hn@ycombinator.com to suggest we include the days, not just month/year, for fast-moving stories like this.
There are millions of "impoverished" people in NYC. Yet the NYPD came out and said that 85% of all property crime is committed by less than 600 individuals. Not a smattering of random poor people. Not a random sampling of the millions of poor people in the city. These specific 600 individuals. Yes: they are morally bankrupt individuals. They commit crime because they chose to, not because they are "poor".
I think they're believably corrupt. In the old days we were okay with about 10% corruption in the states. But that was the old-school "bribe me to get something done" type of corruption. We've moved past that now and have more of a "we're only going to tell people we like what the true requirements are so only they will be successful in their bids" type of corruption. The problem with this style is it's hard to measure the financial impact. Maybe that's why we do it that way.

(clearly talking about the states here... my exposure to illicit payments to government officials in the UK is limited.)
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Remember when certain haters in the press said $Uber would never be profitable?
> that the only way to cater to American tastes

I think that is the crux of many tragedies to come. Our tastes, standards, and expectations are unsustainable. Single family dwellings. Non-local foods out of season. Things will have to adjust.
You seem to be conflating loving the result vs loving the process that enables the result. Regular people mostly do not care about anything except the result. A simplified example: People love driving, they do not love the DMV and getting a driver's license that enables them to drive. Remote attestation is the equivalent then of saying ok we can't tell if the person who drives the car has a drivers license so lets mandate that a license cert is embedded on a chip and we'll implant that in you when you get your drivers license and it'll tell the car you're licensed. You're sitting here saying "people love getting implanted! See they're all doing it and driving their cars!" and some of us are like.. dude no that is so fucked up I don't want mandated anything implanted in me but I still have to be able to drive a car. I guess if you force me to do this at risk of being homeless or disabling my freedom of movement or at gunpoint I have no real choice. It's antithetical to the human spirit.
Going to need more used stock for people who can’t afford new, more specifically those who can’t afford the value cliff associated with a new car.

The used market will naturally grow, but it will delay adoption.
> Portugal was famously very successful at drug decriminalization

It isn't that famously successful at all, at least in Portugal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-dru...
> Yes, honourable politicians get their kickbacks through book deals, inflated speaking fees, and brilliantly timed stock deals.

False dilemma.
But won't they also look at skeletons and see that life expectancies also increased during this entire time?
I have never had to even think about the steps a firm with massive utility requirements would need to take to secure supply. So assuming you could wave a magic wand and instantly build out a datacenter in northern Virginia right now, the local power utility (Dominion Energy in this case) would not be able to provide power?
SAP surely too...