skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Making something illegal influences social norms. It signals that something is "bad" and for "bad people."

This is often used by totalitarian governments. It leads to "Preference Falsification," an idea developed by Timur Kuran.

Making something illegal for social reasons also degrades each person's sense of autonomy and self-governance. It invites jurisdiction within one's private sphere by removing each person's duty of "Obedience to the Unenforceable." Below is a key description from John Fletcher Moulton's article about it and links to an excellent Econtalk podcast discussing the idea.

Preference falsification is the act of misrepresenting a preference under perceived public pressures. It involves the selection of a publicly expressed preference that differs from the underlying privately held preference (or simply, a public preference at odds with one’s private preference). People frequently convey to each other preferences that differ from what they would communicate privately under credible cover of anonymity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification

Follow me in examining the three great domains of Human Action. First comes the domain of Positive Law, where our actions are prescribed by laws binding upon us, which must be obeyed. Next comes the domain of Free Choice, which includes all those actions as to which we claim and enjoy complete freedom. But between these two there is a third large and important domain in which there rules neither Positive Law nor Absolute Freedom. In that domain there is no law which inexorably determines our course of action, and yet we feel that we are not free to choose as we would. The degree of this sense of a lack of complete freedom in this domain varies in every case. . . . it is the domain of Obedience to the Unenforceable. The obedience is the obedience of a man to that which he cannot be forced to obey. He is the enforcer of the law upon himself . . .

https://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-obedience-to-the-...

https://aleteia.org/2016/04/11/how-an-expert-in-blowing-thin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fletcher_Moulton,_Baron_M...

https://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ362/hallam/Newspap...
> Cloud world is really slow. Imagine writing about Zen3 Milan in Aug 2023 when AMD has already announced Zen4c Bergamo.

AWS has Zen 4 in preview. Azure and Oracle have Zen 4 available. It's only Google cloud that's been behind this release. The cloud world isn't slow.
Also thank you! I had an idea of how this all worked but this definitely concreted my thoughts.
Your attitude to cigarettes sounds awfully similar to what people said about mj 20 years ago. Someone i know actually thinks there’s a link between a crack down on smoking and mass shootings. Just a pet theory, but some folks just need to chill out with a cig behind the maintenance shed.
you mean border-radius?
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Personally, I ignore frequent flier points (and similar programs in other industries). They add additional complication that I don't need to something that's already a substantial hassle.
They come much higher than that https://www.fullsendgummies.com/shop/d9-gummies/15
That seems typical of the mastodon.social instance: roll out something that works for them, then likely call it a day and mark it solved.

There are about 23,000 fediverse servers online today. The mastodon.social instance is the largest, with about 1/5th of the monthly active users. The other 23,000 servers with the remaining 80% of users won't benefit nearly so much from that hacky feature.
Right, but we don't need to shift all demand for it to have a big impact on the amount of storage required. Any demand shifted is energy that doesn't need to be stored.
Remember when a complimentary toaster was the gimmick that banks offered to new customers opening an account? I believe that the toaster was also a very stereotypical wedding gift, as well.
Lots of laptop models have their own page on the Arch Wiki; it's not really saying all that much.

For example many ThinkPad models do: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Lenovo but also a number of ASUS machines: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/ASUS etc.
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If you do that you still have the same problem, although the conditions for triggering it are narrower - you can't tell the difference between "your" KeyError and a KeyError from the callback you were passed.
Right, but it is also what nature has been doing for millennia
It can take a strong person to continue to walk by (what was surely feeling to him) certain, easy wealth that would change his life.

> take advantage of the people who he had contempt for, as openly and boldly and shamelessly and transparently as he possibly could

This is far, far more common on our planet than we are comfortable admitting.

"If we told them the whole time, but they weren't enlightened, we're absolved."
Trying to see if I can work this out.

Voyager 2 is 160.7 AU.

Light falls off in brightness to the distance squared. So the sun will be 160.7^2 = 25824.5 times fainter for Voyager 2 than it is from Earth. (Since Earth is at 1AU)

The apparent magnitude of the sun from Earth is -26.72. Each step in magnitude is multiplying by 2.512. (2.512^5 = 100, so 5 steps of magnitude is a factor of 100).

log2.512(25824.5) = 11.0295.

11.0295 + -26.72 = -15.6905.

The apparent magnitude of the full moon is only −12.74 (lower is brighter). So for Voyager 2 the sun is still several times brighter than we see the moon. The sun is still many many times brighter than the next brightest star in the sky, Sirius, which has an apparent magnitude of −1.46.

Sources: Voyager 2 distance is https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/ all else is Wikipedia.
Caffeine doesn't have a strong psychological addiction, but it's physiological withdrawal symptoms are bad.
A fun story to chain on here: I actually started out learning BASIC, and ended up working on Rust. So it must not brain damage everybody :)

(Even though the BASIC I learned GW-BASIC, I think Djikstra was complaining about an even earlier BASIC with even less structured control flow.)
I understand your argument and there's merit to it but I am not sure I agree with your conclusion.

I am mainly speaking about the friction that exists for the accessibility of the vice, and that you generally want friction for things that are detrimental to the individuals and society.

For example - in the US you have to be 21 to legally consume alcohol. Does that mean that nobody under 21 drinks? Of course not. But it certainly means that the consumption in that demographic is less than it would have been otherwise, since kids can't just roll up to the supermarket to get it, and since they worry about some (non-jail-level) consequences like getting in trouble with the high school dean or the college dorm director, plus the friction of not being able to consume it too publicly.

Legalization has removed the friction from pot. An average individual smokes more now that they don't have to work through a "connection" to get it - so more accessible - and they can now do it out in the open vs discretely. So the consumption's gotta be way up.

Re: your point about jail. I don't know about other locations but in NYC, nobody has gone to jail for pot in a long time unless they were dealing massive amounts. I think that was a better model - it kept the friction higher for use while still enabling folks to consume or sell a small amount as long as they were discrete. That's gone now.
If I could know everything, I would. But unfortunately every piece of knowledge has a cost.
If the NRC is the problem, then why do we see identical cost overruns and schedule delays for France, Finland, and the UK?

I don't think we can blame the NRC for this. There's something deeper.
Same, and I always hated that quote also. If anything, BASIC exposes you to low level assembly concepts: instructions are processed in order based on their 'address' (line number), unless you have a conditional, where you jump (goto) a new address. Variables are global by default, as they would be as data at an address in memory.
I think you're just being narrow-minded, and much of what you consider "essential" to "humane" communication is what many other people consider distracting bullshit. Impersonal technical writing is hardly a new phenomenon, and it has been widely accepted within academia for centuries, so clearly what you consider essential is not at all essential.

Stop and imagine if the search results you get for programming were as polluted with "personal touches" as the results you get when searching for recipes.
I don't disagree that they can cause problems. But there are a lot of ways to mitigate the problems.

Biologists can tell you what kinds of locations are good beaver spots - so we shouldn't just build a road too close without some planning. We also shouldn't remove beaver dams so that we can build human structures- the dam will be back soon enough.

And when you do need to build near one, there are lots of techniques to strengthen structures to avoid erosion. My favorite: plant trees. Willows will grow like mad near a pond and their root system will strengthen a bank very well.
For me the question is: How do we out-legalize dark patterns and fraud?

And legislate a competitive market?

If that’s the FTC - what are next steps with the FTC?

HN popularity is enough to cause traffic spikes that bring servers down.

Can we have a “HN hug of life” instead - a collective nudge toward constructive legislation?
Why this is downvoted? Propaganda from Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs?
The technical term is "dependency". Caffeine causes physiological changes, and withdrawal is unpleasant.
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> Now I just accept that most programmers hate reading and will prefer either just splashing around

Usable documentation has to exists in the first place, though.
Apparently, the median tuition based on a 4 year public illinois University is $28,660. the author is way above the median, but it's not unthinkable. We're still talking about the average illinois student these days over $100k in debt
Probably most dangerous part is the munchies. If you don’t plan ahead you can eat way too many calories over a long time period and get the usual health issues of that
Just like nobody could change etherum until DAO hack when it became inconvinient.

You wont solve social issues with technical solutions. But just like the DAO hack you can solve technical issues using social solutions quite easily.
There wouldn't be so much need for them to be repairable if they used hall effect analog sticks in the first place, rather than potentiometer-based sticks that are so prone to failure. That's nearly always how these controllers fail. Hall effect sticks cost a little more, but when they're charging $180 for the premium Elite controller there isn't really an excuse for penny-pinching on components.
Don't forget the obligatory and very obvious hour-long video about a vintage fridge that "broke him": https://youtu.be/8PTjPzw9VhY
Interesting. Were you inspired by the Delphi decision algorithm, or did you happen to rediscover it? I agree it could provide a moat, though not a very wide one. All it takes is for your competition to talk to non-engineers, and all sorts of clever usages become possible.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_method
Sounds like you aren't familiar with any of the arguments in question. This comment is dripping in ignorance.
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Energy use for heating can be quite easily reduced just by insulating houses (and installing more efficient heating equipment such as heat pumps).

Do we have any idea what the cause of that 9pm spike is? That seems like a bizarre time to be the peak to me (I can't work out what the primary energy users would be at that time).
High CBD strains, in my experience, are made to have almost no THC. 1% is too low IMO. And often they have even closer to 0%.
Another thing that doesn't work with proportional fonts:

function(arg1,
arg2,
arg3);

Note that this, and everything in my above comment, can work just fine with tabs used for indentation, and set to the developers' preference:

[tab]struct netent {
[tab] char *n_name; // Official name of network.
[tab] char **n_aliases; // Alias list.
[tab] int n_addrtype; // Net address type.
[tab] uint32_t n_net; // Network number.
[tab]};

[tab]{
[tab][tab]function(arg1,
[tab][tab] arg2,
[tab][tab] arg3);

Change tab size, alignment is fine. Change to proportional font, it all goes haywire.

Tabs people: let's negotiate a quick peace treaty so we can gang up on the proportional font wackos.
> I had some interest in HEX after I saw an airplane with a "BUY HEX" banner fly over my house.

These sorts of advertisements have been an anti-signal for some time...
Yes, it's been high 70/low 80s most of the days which is absolutely beautiful. There's been a handful of hot days, but still comfortable under tree cover.
I can't imagine any other reason a giant media organization would want to take control over its own fate, rather than trust in the mercurial whims of another company's grudge-owner who had to be sued into buying it. Yours is the only possible explanation.
> I have never had a PM/manager/TL/etc budget "documentation reading" into sprint points.

When working with new software components, usually we're able to either work into our sprints an experimentation/PoC task, that'd include reading the doc or we just include into the estimation of the development task some time to read
I'm the one who posted the comment you're referring to, and the poster you're responding to has it correct.

> but also why would they make it, publish a fake process and then go through all this rigamarole?

That was what I said, and here you're saying "Anyway I simply responded with some reasons why one might publish a fake process and go through all the rigamarole." You ignored the first part of the sentence - I didn't ask why they'd publish a fake process, I asked why they would make it (it being a room temp superconductor) and then publish a fake process.
>Making a product legal increases its availability, affordability and reach. So, the number of people exposed.

Really, a prohibition argument made with a straight face?

North American governments famously failed to maintain a ban on alcohol. How well do you think they'd fare with trying to ban sales of caffeine, given it's reach is greater (and far more socially-accepted) than alcohol?
If you're signed out, like with incognito mode, then it doesn't know anything about your preferences.
@ashvardanian, what are reasons a developer would choose this over sqlite-vss?
Congrats! Your project is off to a very good start as shown at https://devboard.gitsense.com/sweepai

What is interesting to me is the sharp increase in forks, which is a good indicator that others will contribute code in the near future.

Full Disclosure: This is my tool
You can also mix CBD flower with THC flower to reintroduce what has been bred out. People here might appreciate a setup with a dynavap and an induction heater built from parts and a bit of soldering.
Decaf is pretty good these days; When I don't feel like ditching the actual cups of liquid I swap over. It's certainly what I reach for in the afternoon if I want another coffee for whatever reason. Might be another option if you still enjoy the ritual of coffee making and consumption.
$1 Auction Group in San Francisco
I want to build an easier way for people to repurpose goods since Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp, and Craigslist are difficult to get items sold in a timely manner. I have found some Facebook groups for $1 auctions, and they definitely help save items from the landfill, but they are mostly on military bases, and I am wondering how this could work in San Francisco, and why it is not a thing in many cities? Of course there are "Buy nothing groups" and "free and for sale" groups, but there are still a ton of items put next to the dumpster when people could at least try this for them. Would love to hear thoughts/ideas/reactions
Yes that's usually what I do. But I think in general the average potency at stores encourages people to do too much. It did for me when I first moved to a legal state. I had no idea what I would enjoy and just expected that the average THC content was a mid-level intensity. In reality it's at the top end.
I'll have to pass. I don't know the power industry that well.

My rule of thumb thought, is that nobody looses 17 billion. That gets passed to the consumer somewhere somehow. In someway obviously or not obviously.
Chances of Societal Collapse in Next Few Decades Is Sky High, Modelling Suggests
From the article:

This is all theoretical, of course. The study authors are both mathematical physicists who use modeling to understand complex systems, ranging from complicated biological processes to fiddly social systems. ...

Forest is also taken as a proxy for all resources, which could be seen as oversimplistic. ...

Nevertheless, the study paints a compelling image of how rampant deforestation and population collapse threaten human society as a whole.

The study primarily looks at deforestation and our consumption of trees. Trees are an invaluable asset for humans and the wider ecosystem. Not only do they support natural and human food systems but they also are a lynchpin in a number of important systems, such as the carbon cycle, oxygen production, soil conservation, and the water cycle. As such, the researchers say deforestation will soon mean there are not enough resources to maintain the global population, at which point there will be a "disastrous collapse" of the population.

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Source: Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63657-6

Based on the current resource consumption rates and best estimate of technological rate growth our study shows that we have very low probability, less than 10% in most optimistic estimate, to survive without facing a catastrophic collapse.

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Safe and just Earth system boundaries

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06083-8

Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...

Earth’s health failing in seven out of eight key measures, say scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/31/earth-he...

Assessing the efficiency of changes in land use for mitigating climate change

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0757-z

Planetary boundaries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries
What size site has this been tested on? I don't see a flag for rate limiting the requests.
So can AI. A few months is years in this space.
Alcohol addition rates are also (slightly) higher than marijuana addiction rates (14% and 9% last time I saw), so it's a great comparison
OP said a fully saturated gigabit link, which generally means you pay for transit ("size of the pipe") rather than "stuff pushed through it." I haven't been in the market for a long time, but 5-10 years ago the price was on the order of $0.50 per mbps, so $500 for a 1000 gbps ("gigabit") link. Usually you buy this with a dedicated server or colocation. You wouldn't want to host this in the cloud because they price gouge you on bandwidth by charging for stuff through the pipe.

And that's if you truly expect to saturate it. If you just want to take the risk and go for oversold fiber, you can pay some nominal price for "unmetered bandwidth" (with the caveat that if you're saturating the pipe, your host will probably make you pay for it eventually).
That's ridiculous bandwidth pricing. you can get unmetered gigabit at Hetzner for €20 per month. Need 2 Gb? Order a second server.
> LLM-enabled senior engineers are 100X more efficient and safe than brand new junior devs.

Come on man. Having seen the inside of big-tech-TM and the senior engineers there, yes they are fast and good, but they are not 100x better than the new guy. Maybe 3--5x at best.

Anyway how do you train good senior engineers? They don't just pop up out of thin air.
> the re-branding of weed as "cannabis"

Clearly "weed" is the slang term and "cannabis" is the name of the plant!

> These same potheads

This seems more like branding to me :P

The ultimate denial has to be the people with ADHD, because of course the only cure for ADHD is daily meth amphetamine use. "It actually calms me down"
I'd rather some species of fish die out than the ocean boils, personally
You are appropriately pedantic. I learnt this in school almost 40 years ago, so apologies. The point still stands, I hope.
I'm shocked people purchase services from bigtech companies. I understand advertising works but would you buy a service from a local company who is known to damage your property and gives you no way to contact them when they screwup. People keep doing it with bigtech. People buy Oracle or IBM for similiar reasons and outcomes.
I was EAA #10609 when I joined in 1963. They've been around for a very long time. The Oshkosh events used to take place in Rockford, Ill.
You think the owners of webvan are pissed when they see how Instacart became so huge?

They were just too early I reckon. I wonder what we're "too early" for today.
The tragedy of the commons is as pervasive as it is overlooked.
“We could, for instance, begin with cleaning up our language by no longer calling a bug a bug but by calling it an error. It is much more honest because it squarely puts the blame where it belongs, viz. with the programmer who made the error. The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation. The nice thing of this simple change of vocabulary is that it has such a profound effect: while, before, a program with only one bug used to be "almost correct", afterwards a program with an error is just "wrong" (because in error).”
- Edsger Dijkstra, EWD 1036
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Aside from BTC, which has so much utility that governments are securing some, and in some cases, are settling international trade with it to avoid sanctions from nations they aren't allies with.
> For example - in the US you have to be 21 to legally consume alcohol.

No, federally, only to purchase or consume in public, and even then there are religious, parental consent (where permitted by state law), and other exceptions.

State laws on private consumption and parental consent vary considerably.
The grudge here - or more accurately, tantrum - is coming from the other direction.
The better you model this the better the number look. First demand falls off a cliff from midnight to 5 am, a steady state nighttime rate will be extremely wasteful but batteries can shift demand to these peaks just fine. Remember 100% of their output is offsetting battery demand which is significant even just at 9AM or 6PM.

Also, your not actually getting 100% solar output over the day. Batteries that could store 50% of your hypothetical maximum are well over half of your expected average output especially in winter when these peaks are most pronounced.
It tells you exactly what is going on. It's up to people to decide for themselves if that's bad or not. I can't see any way to understand WEI going by the metaphore of buying newspapers. How does that explain anything?
I'm not claiming to have made a room temperature superconductor.