skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the themes of the movie that gets repeated over and over is "these boneheads who draw equations on whiteboards but can't follow security rules are literally the most important people in the world."
When I started working for more consumer facing application developing companies, I tried to adopt the software developers equivalent of "if you're the developer of a new experimental plane, you're the first to go up in the said plane."
As other comments have noted, just like with other addictions, it is extremely helpful/insightful to be able to see someone "further along" and say "I don't like what I see."

I interacted with and heard stories about family alcoholics when I was growing up and that is part of why I'm confident I won't develop a bad relationship with it myself. It's hard to forget what it does not just to the users, but to everyone around them.

Similarily, although I didn't see it growing up, as an adult I have seen some pretty hardcore stoners (high all the time), and I do not like the lifestyle that most seem to fall into. It's really easy to notice the cognitive decline when it happens to someone you know. Even if you want to be charitable, people at the very least behave quite differntly when they go from generally sober all the time to generaly stoned all the time. YMMV but I prefer generally sober people versus generally stoned people.

I think part of the strong correlation between stoners and legalization movements is because they're (rightfully!) self-interested in improving their own lifestyle, so they'll be the loudest and most experienced advocates. As much as I loathe the "marijuana can do no harm" attitude of some stoners, the still reactionary "omg drugs bad!" people are terrible. Making it illegal makes it so much worse for everyone involved, and you're not going to stop people from being involved with marijuana. More or less the same reasons we need to legalize sex work. It's here, it's always been here, and we need to learn how to cope with this reality in a healthy and safe manner. "Abstinence only" doesn't stop babies from being made any better than it stops people from using drugs. Education is the key (as it so often is).
>Supposedly the team itself only gets it right 1 time in 10.

Source?
>For some reason the software engineering world largely abandoned esteem and respect for all of the above.

it's a lower bar for entry, any kid can run a compiler -- it's harder to acquire a bulldozer and planning permits.

similarly if you look at 'diy' or 'garage' engineering you can find all sorts of hazardous/poorly-built/never-should-have-existed death traps. How many people have died in recent years from fractal burning?

it's still engineering -- they're building their own tools -- but it's within a realm (DIY/maker) that historically has undersold the dangers inherent with the things.

Why? Mostly because they're self-taught, mentorless, and without the direction within their education to be taught the importance of engineering rigor, similar to the kid given the compiler who starts making forkbombs and goofy dialogs to prank their friends.
That's its behaviour in an empty directory, but it works for me on a non-empty directory.
And note that these storage caverns are only a small fraction of the potential of that salt formation.
Ask HN: The modern approach to research unknown materials
Hi experts,

Assuming we dig up some UAP inside of a large, deep cave. The material cannot be identified. What is the scientific approach to research and reverse engineer the material?
You can't have a continuous line of ice coming up, unless you're digging for slush. Each intact X-meter core must be hauled up on its own, and then the drill has to go back down. The deeper you are, the longer it takes to haul up one core and send the drill back down. So, retrieving the cores is clearly O(N^2).

Drilling the core itself is O(N), but as you go deeper the core retrieval dominates. Not to mention everything getting more complex the deeper you go.
> I'm not sure how that flies with this: "An article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association found there was no increase in cannabis use among the general population or among previous users after their states legalized marijuana."

Simple: there is no possible way that's true. It fails every imaginable sniff test. Anecdotally, I never purchased marijuana when it was illegal and I do now. I know many people for whom the same is true. If marijuana were made illegal again tomorrow I would stop using it. I'm a normie middle-aged dad. The only way I'm buying and consuming marijuana is if I can walk into a shop and buy it legally. There must be millions of people like me.

This doesn't require any deep insight. It would be very surprising if ease of access had no effect on consumption.
This phrasing feels gross for some reason, like I get the feeling the title writer was trying to imply a zero sum game.

Yes, author is seeming to emphasize an artificial competition and tends to hyperbole: “Men are getting clobbered, down 4.2 percent”

clobbered? 4% is clobbered?
dig +short TXT o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com
Async is for asynchronous I/O, i.e. such I/O that is only possible through file descriptors that support something like epoll() (i.e. network sockets).

It's a thing completely separate from threads, where no code is supposed to run concurrently. The idea of this feature is that a program may schedule a bunch of I/O operations and then wait for their completion instead of scheduling I/O operations one at a time.

As of now, this is an obsolete mechanism of dealing with I/O as now we have uring_io. But, truth be told, it never really worked well... I mean, if you knew what you were doing, you could have taken advantage of this feature, but it was never in shape to be library-grade multi-purpose functionality.

Python made a stupid bet on it and encoded it into the language through async / await keywords. But if this was the only stupid thing Python has done in its history, flying cars and hoverboards would probably be an integral part of our daily lives.
I take issue with the HN headline. This is a theme for Xfce, not Linux in itself. You can't theme GNOME, MATE, Plasma, Cinnamon, etc., with it.
Yes, caffeine, nicotine, sugar, alcohol. They are all massively addictive and one could make the argument that we would be better off without them.

That being said, I believe everything should be legal and the decision to consume or not should be left to informed people. The whole "war on drugs" shenanigans has gone on for too long with crap results.
If half is the same as a coal plant could existing coal plants be converted to nuclear? They would be in the right places for power generation and it would be a win by reducing coal and not having to build a whole new plant.
The socio-political demography of happiness
>Odds for 2 (1) below have increased (decreased) exponentially

Can someone help me parse this? Is it referring to #2 or #1 in the quoted tweet? Have the odds increased or decreased?
No special orders though.
What about tobacco?
Maybe, but i think the argument in this thread seems to be that NRC creation basically killed the whole industry. Which is complicated, because you still want safety improvements over Fukushima, but not at the cost of basically halting any new development for decades if not ever.
> A cheat code must be built into the game to allow the judges to quickly play through the game in its entirety

Man, the NSA really can't control themselves...

But on a more serious note, the challenge doesn't require the participants to be US citizens nor US residents. I can imagine lots of interesting entries resulting from this policy: a game about privacy sponsored by the CCC, third-world developers for whom 10k is a big amount, games like Monopoly containing a hidden message about the failings of capitalism...
I'm not really familiar with virtualization on a linux laptop - can you run a vm and let your screen/keyboard be hijacked by the VM?

maybe pointers to virtualization ideas?
Yeah that's the complicated part. The regs are responsible for some of the mess, but far from all. It's a complicated subject, probably too much to get into here but you can look at the history of Vogtle as a start. Blaming the NRC is justified at parts, but it really only tells part of the story.
That's a good point! We definitely need to add some more information to the website. In the meantime, if you send an email to support@mathacademy.com, I'd be happy to give you demo over Zoom and answer any questions you might have.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I was a little worried about the 4-day hiatus in which this wasn't reposted on hacker news.
I'm going to see if I can work the term "swarf" into conversation tomorrow. (We all need goals.)
The amount of market position you (or someone you have sold the information to) can build up is limited by market liquidity / trade volumes.
Icanhazip.com will do the same.

They have ipv4.icannazip.com and ipv6.icannazip.com where they will return that.
I completely agree, but in my personal preference I would use the KDE1 window deco rather than the Windows 95/Redmond one. The Win95 style is good, but KDE1 is even better IMHO.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they may never sit.
Perhaps one of them can get interested enough in the engineering side to ask why the web version has a memory footprint of ~1gb
It's interesting to see mushrooms on the same ride as marijuana 5-10 years ago. Almost identical.

It's illegal -> "This probably shouldn't be illegal, it's not as bad as the government has suggested" -> "___ will cure ____" -> "___ can be used to treat almost anything" -> ___ is legalized in some capacities -> ___ isn't nearly as impactful as the original medicinal claims and also presents its own set of issues.

I'm very curious to see what psilocybin presents in the final phase of this ride.
I remember seeing this project at an earlier stage a while back - really cool to see the progress you've made here.
The contest rules specify that the entries must be accessible web pages. Games that must be downloaded from an app store are disqualified.
Epub is basically just html, so it being slow on remarkable is pretty damning for the device.
LiveView wasn’t ready yet when I started our startup (react on front, Elixir and Hasura on back).

But man, I wish it had been. React is nice enough but the idea of not having to redefine my types at several different layers and fight with npm sounds like a dream.
Would it be possible to support a custom URL for the local model, such as running ./server in ggml would give you?

This may be more difficult if you are pre-tokenizing the search context.

Very cool project.
I think a majority of caffeine users are addicted, given the prevalence of idioms on shirts/mugs/etc like "don't talk to me until I've had my morning coffee," etc. Most coffee drinkers I know feel at the very least tired if they don't have a morning coffee, even if they got enough sleep; that lethargy is a withdrawal symptom from a stimulant.

That being said it's a very socially acceptable addiction, and the withdrawal symptoms are non-dangerous (and unless you drink a lot of coffee daily, mild), so people may not feel it's an "addiction" in the same way they think of e.g. heroin, alcohol, etc.

I agree it shouldn't be illegal, and that mildly addictive substances with safe withdrawal symptoms should be legal (i.e. not opiates, but marijuana, coffee, etc). Alcohol is a weird one! It's obviously horrible for you, addictive if you drink it enough, and the withdrawal symptoms are lethal, but our societies have socialized it enough that few enough people become alcoholics — and enough people want it — that bans are worse than allowing it legally, because the downsides of prohibition are a strong black market + gang/mob activities, whereas the downsides of legal alcohol are less widespread in their badness.
That's all from the grids perspective, they only count their own solar and wind.

Here's an animated diagram that explicitly calls out BTM (behind-the-meter) solar:

https://isonewswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/btm_forec...
The decay products of uranium are not well contained at uranium mines. They are in massive tailing piles, just as the radioactive elements in coal end up in ash.

Less gets said about these mine-related radioactive elements because they are typically in other countries, often countries where the people have darker skins.
I maintain now (as I did when Measure 110 passed in Oregon, and in the discussions here in HN) that decriminalizing drugs would lead the state, and especially Portland of course, to a terrible and predictable outcome. Many supporters of the measure believed that it was the objectively right choice. Decriminalize, and get people to treatment instead of locking them up.

The sad thing is that you can make all the piecewise-correct A/B choices yet still end up having destroyed your city.

Yes, giving someone a ticket for using drugs and offering them treatment instead of locking them up might be temporarily more productive / more sensible. Yes, maybe it makes sense to put more resources to mental health.

Yet one day, you wake up and your city is unlivable and your block is terrorized by drug addicts.

Somehow, people forgot that once in a while there is a legitimate role for hard authority to punish people for doing things you don't want them to do. Lest your society go down some lawless path which step by step looked like the kind and charitable course to follow.
> still not convinced the CBD isn't a placebo, but it's there naturally so no harm in having it

News to Socrates.
Do you think this is an important point?
Don't get me wrong. I think Java and Python are both awful. I also think that by trying to exchange features they become even worse.

I'm absolutely not excited and not looking forward to seeing any more versions of either of these languages. Well, maybe just a little bit, in an accelerationist kind of way.
Anyone who has hung a heavy picture/frame? :-)

(you need to pull the drill out periodically to let the dust out, and the distance of that pull increases with depth. But it is O(K1 * N^2 + K2 * N) where K1/K2 are pull-out and drilling-in (both seconds per mm), and for short holes most of the time will be drilling not removing dust.
hmmm and yet today he threatened to sue the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate. after also re-instating kanye west this weekend despite west's anti-semetic posts. also after he re-instated an account that posted blatant CSAM ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-cent...

Also officially Twitter has no PR department and responds to reporters with poop emoji.

So all this behavior indicates Musk would be more willing to litigate the removal of his sign versus any sort of compliance.
Irrespective of nationality I'm not sure a reasonable person would trivialise the invasion of the country the majority of Namecheap staff were based in as "political action...they don't like".
Hah, we need a new version of "how a bill becomes a law".
Are these actually attainable, as in I can log in and launch an instances with these specifications right now, or are they just listings? I ask because literally last week I was unable to launch similar instances on AWS despite those specs being listed as available and online.
Note that powering the world (all uses of energy, not just the grid) with nuclear will require ~6000 3 GW(th) nuclear reactors, to provide the 18 TW of primary energy the world currently consumes. About two orders of magnitude more than France has. At the historical rate of world nuclear accidents this would yield > 1 meltdown a year.
This could be such a cool detail for post-apocalyptic SF story where someone drives old electric mining truck up the mountain to load up useless rocks to charge the truck on the way down and provide a little bit of electricity for their little community of survivalists.
It seems to be an Openbox theme in case anyone else is interested
>little focus on just showing us the actual alien ship wreckage, even though that'd be much easier, if it were true.

I don't believe in the current alien thing, but how exactly would it be easier for a whistleblower to steal the actual wreckage out of some secret lab? Compared to giving a testimony?
AKA, not nearly as many women worked in 1979 as do today.
Beat me to it.

That said, I'm not sure the caselaw is that clear. For example, in Authors Guild v Google, the courts found Google's use of copyrighted works to build a search index as fair use:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Googl....

In particular, of the four factor test (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_facto...), in Authors Guild the judge found that the authors didn't experience economic damage from the copying.

In the case of LLMs, can the affected artists argue for economic damages? That's not obvious to me.
Go back to Quora where this sort of farming is tolerated. A glance at your submissions/comments suggests you just post irrelevant fluff and are operating multiple accounts, occasionally replying to yourself as if you were someone else.
The rules specify that the games must be non-partisan. Are there any major contemporary issues being debated where opposing sides of the issue do not end up falling on partisan lines? It seems to me like anything as controversial as "privacy" could be labeled as partisan and disqualified.
"Geologists."

Geologists might know, same as astronomers might know what Black Holes and Pulsars really are.

On the other hand, it is a geologist's call to search for answers and for truth. Saying that they truly know is the same as saying nothing.
The numbers for movies took an obvious hit during the pandemic. There could be other explanations, of course; but it will be hard to avoid the elephant in the room that is the pandemic.

This will be true for basically all markets. There was an obvious shock during the past few years that is already explanatory for so many problems. No need to hunt for others.

But, even the article you linked is about how the market "continued its recovery in 2022." By the accounting, with the record breaking weekends we just had, this year seems set to be larger than last. Sure, it isn't larger than the past two combined, but that is hardly damning.
Thanks! That was interesting and helpful.
A paper towel.
i think it's very individual. I get a lot of caffeine when i need to work through a bunch of stuff (and probably developed tolerance, etc) but when there is a lull at work or a vacation, i feel 0 need for it, don't take it and feel 0 side effects from quitting for a couple of weeks.
Well there's a thing that exists.
Increased for 2, decreased for 1.
Every engineer especially should read this book. It's one of the few books I recommend universally. A decent summary of the book was submitted here a year ago with a bunch of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32135115
Archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230731231546/https://softpanor...
I believe you're thinking of OpenDNS:

dig -4 +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com
Even a cursory study of history should disavow anyone of the notion that progress (however defined or measured) is linear or guaranteed.
Too many doomsday models hitting recently and over past decades. Multiple who preached the end of the world before ‘23.

Life always finds a way. We’re gonna take care of everything, as we have done in the worst of our times (e.g. after Black Death claimed [according to some] 51% of the world population at the time).
The thing you need in this space to make money is "owning a platform". It's not clear yet what shapes such platforms are going to take. Right now, the only real condender seems to be owning and API-letting a base model. If OSS models get good, that proposition disappears.

Other than that, I haven't seen anything with monopoly potential coming from startups so far. This is what VC is looking for, though: The potential to make a platform to rent out to people who produce the value, curate it and pay for it. Basically, the next "academic publishing".
As someone who had one psychiatrist and two psychologists in his family, and having been myself in (very effective) treatment years ago, every time I read nonsense like that I immediately smell malice, this also because the vast documentation I read about Scientology during the late 90s and early 2K, which for those living under a rock, are among the most prominent enemies of psychology and psychiatry. The above link are eye openers; this at first seems a rather different case from cult scammers, as the guy is rather a far right extremist with the same mindset of antivaxers and Q-anon conspiracy theorists, ie someone who should ask for treatment himself, but at the end of the day it's just another case of someone with mental troubles who hates professionals whose job is to cure those problems.
Ah yikes that’s a missed opportunity on my part. It’s https://re.markwhen.com and it’s slightly broken at the moment. Basically it turns markwhen into a blog, each entry is an event. Only entries that are before the current time show up.

You just add ‘re:’ in the header of a shared markwhen and (when I fix it) it shows up as re.markwhen.com/[your username]
Oh man yeah, so many dedicated amateurs building calorimeters and learning that calorimetry is hard as hell to do right... all talking over UseNet. Fun days.
Odds for option 2 have increased, odds for option 1 have decreased.
It sure is. And we've yet to survive our modern-day supervulcano eruption.
It seems weird to me, that the linked website is just for selling cheats for multiplayer games.

Not sure what to make out of this...
> The sentence you quoted was directed at the other commenter's seeming implication that homosexuality's removal from the DSM is somehow an indictment of the psychiatric discipline

There must be some logical fallacy named for this. I've often seen this critique in terms of pandemic policy. ("Why should you believe what you're saying, when you've changed your mind before...")