skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supporting legalization / decriminalization of hard drugs is a luxury belief. If you’re in a nice rich circle it’s easy to believe it doesn’t harm anyone except yourself. If you are around people that become drug addicts, it becomes apparent that it drastically harms everyone around them, themselves probably not the most. You can only see so many addict parents throw away the money for kids food, or pawn of their kids PlayStation for drugs / gambling / etc before you see a lot of things aren’t as simple as it’s a free country.

Personally: drugs should be illegal, but the punishment should be rehab and life stabilization not prison. Drug selling, production, and smuggling should have the harshest possible punishments.
Didn't know that, had a quick Google and stumbled over a ton of reports spanning many years - including a bunch of legislators throwing pig guts around [1].

Wild.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/11/legislato...
Gen Z is being active, and giving me hope that the lack of activity in the generations between boomer and gen Z were an anomaly.

>The older generations with their war chests won't let us lead and use their money to ensure things don't change.

That doesn't counter my claim though. I said that those "politically dead" generations couldn't even manage to stop eating chicken sandwiches from an organization donating to groups that actively campaign against you. That has nothing to do with the old people in congress. These generations explicitly are just terrible at organizing. They are apathetic.
eGPU: A 750 MHz Class Soft GPGPU for FPGA
What’s New in Go 1.21
Biggest issue will be to keep government and public services on the non-corporate web, as they probably jump ship for "security" reasons.
> I've used 3+ code editors on MacOS and prefer sublime text over VScode, coteditor, xcode.
Check out IntelliJ Ultimate, it's phenomenal. Startup time is slow though.

> I've used Chrome, Firefox and Safari all within the past year, and I prefer Chrome and Safari.
Agreed. Sometimes I need different browsers for whatever reason, and for that you can use different Chrome releases (like Dev channel).

> I've used 3+ interfaces for GPT, and I prefer the OpenAI playground over ChatGPT, chatbot-ui, typingmind, openplayground, Poe, and a few others I can't remember.

ChatKit is really nice UI (if you are open to modding the css yourself, you can get a really slick interface pretty easily). Makes chatting pleasurable.

Typingmind UX is horrendous.

featuresets are different though

> I've used 3+ voice transcription apps
I've been experimenting with a pipeline to use Recup and run it though my local Whisper instance so all data is on-premise

> I've used 3+ messaging apps, I like iMessage and Telegram
Then you would love Chatkit. Also, telegram has web interface which is really useful (though Whatsapp does as well).

> I think it's important to note that for me these are all preferences. I'm not saying one of these tools are objectively better.
I would go as far as to say objectively better based on certain metrics. But I suppose the bias in choosing which metrics makes it a "preference".

> What are areas of products, tools, developer tools, APIs, anything, where you've personally used 3+ tools, and what did you prefer, and what did you not prefer, if you can still remember?

* Alfred over spotlight, Launchy.net, LaunchBar
* GPT-4 over all the other AIs including OpenAI's offerings
OpenUSD sounds like something bitcoin-related. The USD acronym is so known for being for US Dollars, why would they want to overload it...
sure - I've rolled-out stuff in timeframes that made the team look bad ... and then had another project where, had I been working on it, we'd still be working on it

doesn't make me a "10x engineer"

nor does it make anyone else a "10x engineer"

it makes us better at certain tasks than others - which is what you would expect among any population: there are people very good at riding bikes long distances (they try to win the Tour de France), there are others good at explaining obscure topics in a way anyone can feel good about learning them (they usually have YouTube channels or are history professors)
I know all the quoting and escaping rules there are to know and still — considering that it is a shell's job to work with text the way it is designed is just a major pain.

I am grateful for all those who historically came up with the concepts and put in the work, but if anybody were to design a text interface to computers where things can be piped into other commands etc. today they could heavily improve the usability of the thing and safe thousands of collective hours wasted. And peobably like when trying to create a sucessor to email, nobody would use it.
JFK doesnt't do enough to inform passengers that the city caps trips to Manhattan at around 60 dollars. Meanwhile Uber happily milks surge rates up to 150
Alcohol is one of the most harmful drugs ever. It leads to all sorts of societal problems like early deaths, domestic abuse, traffic accidents, workplace accidents, even murder because it reduces inhibitions.

But somehow we're ok with selling unlimited quantities to people.

Most opiates are downright docile by comparison. A person passes out and can't harm anyone anymore.

Legalization would mean opiates are regulated. You can only get a certain strength. You can only buy so much per visit. Purity is regulated so you wouldn't accidentally get Fentanyl laced stuff and die.

There should be treatment options, of course, because it's the right thing to do, and it's also much cheaper than fixing the damage addicts can do, and also cheaper than the cost throwing them in prison.

Generally speaking drug addicts are actually self-medicating something anyway, it's like a slow suicide attempt due to some mental trauma or other mental illness like schizophrenia.

The OP is right. Decriminalization is the worst of both worlds.

For a long time we got use to not seeing as many drug addicts because a lot of them were thrown in prison where you don't see them anymore. Each one costing tax payers a full time wage, 35k per year per prisoner.

Decriminalization means you see more addicts out on the streets, but they're still getting overly strong, even laced stuff on the black market and are taken advantage of by predators.

Where marijuana legalization occurred there are purity limits on things like edibles. And you can only buy so much at once. It hasn't lead to really any problems but of course marijuana is one of the least harmful drugs out there. It's far less harmful than alcohol, so it might not be the best example.

I'd say alcohol is a better comparison to opiates and other hard drugs.

Legalization is the better path. We already should know better via our exercise in alcohol prohibition.
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When you're on the opposite side of the hate speech researchers...it's hard to fathom a situation in which you're in the right.
The United States is constantly at war.

If spying prevents war, it's not working. LOL...
It must have been wild, at some point in time, to look up from an atmosphere-free body and see that the background color of outer space was blue.
Teflon is not a PFAS anyway, so that's not really the issue.

It's waterproofing that's the problem - for example paper straws.
That doesn’t track. The EmDrive was legitimately pushing a premise that we had some fundamental law of physics wrong. Superconductors are pretty well understood, they’ve been around for a while. Finding a room temperature one isn’t that big of a jump, it’s just a really hard one to make.
They're still purple on the map. You can argue about global peace all you want, but purple means it is a very bad country.

https://freedomhouse.org/explore-the-map?type=fiw&year=2023
This sounds like running heavy machinery with no safety equipment. Is it really desirable to have a system that would behave this way?
I always call this a "local maximum" problem. Once you've optimized the crap out of your tech, any change makes it worse (e.g., replacing crossbows with primitive guns). But if you do switch, then optimizing that technology takes you to an even higher maximum.

The problem is that you have to go backwards to go forwards, and you can't always predict (or convince the powers-that-be) that the end result will be better.
Scripting and automation are the goal ultimately. Working at the CLI supports that, GUI often doesn't. While I do like to see things in a GUI at times, ultimately it all gets encoded in scripts for automation and CI purposes. So terminals continue to be the focus.
>> Marijuana legalization hasn't lead to any major problems. People don't even bother getting it on the black market anymore where it is legal. They go for what's convenient.

This is actually bigger than people realize.

Fentanyl lacing is a MASSIVE problem. With purity, people can rely that there's no fentanyl.

https://www.cdc.gov/stopoverdose/fentanyl/index.html

https://www.colorado.edu/health/blog/fentanyl

https://wellbeing.missouri.edu/wellness-services/substance-u...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/programs/opioid-and-fentan...
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Yea not jail but supervised programs makes sense.
I would support more heat argument.

SS easily heats but easily cools.

You can cheat with a lid - just seconds the whites would be in your preffered condition (ie with/out crust) cover the pan, sing aloud 'We all live in the yellow submarine, yellow subma' and move the pan off the stove, but don't let it rest under the lid too long! In 20-30 seconds it would catch to be the nice, yet runny one, but anything longer and it would be more thicker, though if you like subs/burgers with eggs - it's a way to it.

PS you can sing something more palatable for you, if you wish *grin*
Long ago I suggested it as a way to get market share and it seemed not very high priority.
That was based on my tests with color displays from Waveshare, and as we have seen in the comments here, advances have been made.

I still see multiple refresh cycles being needed for colors. The metrics are shorter, smaller on the very latest displays, and in my view fall short of motion capable in color.

We do have, and have had, motion capable monochrome for a while now, given users accept a few trade-offs.
I think it would be a disservice not to link this video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs_mH4QnAe4
> AwesomeWM just works.

I used tiling window managers for years (I started with wmii, and I even used ESXM), but now I'm settled on Gnome: Everything works out of the box, and it's mostly keyboard driven. I don't know if there's a good argument for me now to return to tiling window managers.
> Not sure what your purpose here is

To illustrate that a platform that withdraws from republishing news content doesn't end our news access.

> but when you share an article on facebook, you usually get "the title", a leading picture, and occasionally a summary. Now you'll just get an unprocessed URL

This doesn't seem transformative to my point. Could you expound a bit?
"Though state-of-the art in the 1970s, the Voyager spacecraft have only four kilobytes of storage onboard …”

Love this factoid. I wonder who manufactured the memory chips.
Thank you for your open source contributions and in-depth articles. We think that the field of collaboration is still new and evolving. Because of the pros and cons of the different implementations, we think it might be a good idea to have the choice between libraries like Yjs and Automerge. Would you use it?
I heard interviews with Obama white house staff who mentioned that they had to disclose weed use in their clearance forms but that it didn't prevent them from getting a position.
"Brave's browsers" distributions of browsers, there ftfy
How do I make a backup without the Cloud on Linux?

Instructions I found from Apple (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977) are to use the Cloud, a Mac, or Windows +iTunes.
Watching Ponyo was how I learned that people added meat, eggs, and vegetables to instant ramen.
Yeah, this feels like the really early results of a material that they eventually refine into a process, hence their patents. There are reports they were worried about being beaten to the punch, im curious if that’s true and if so, who the word on the street said was close.
lmao no they fucking don't.

I am in the enviable position of being able to afford to take a huge pay cut and go work for the US Digital Service. I would actually love to-I think good government needs good tech, and I believe in the ability of USDS to make (however small) an impact on peoples' lives and interactions with the federal government. However, I am _not_ going to move to DC to do so.

It seems like USDS would be an ideal candidate to allow a bunch of remote employees, and yet they don't, because...reasons.
No, it's evidence of how fast they advanced under Deng. It is unclear that the advancement is continuing / has continued into Xi's reign, especially since the beginning of his third term.
Is this how the science fiction future we’ve all read in books becomes reality?

SpaceX becomes an evil megacorp mining gold from the asteroid belt with LLM AI controlled robot slaves so that we can make hover cars using superconductors?
I love tmux and have been wanting to dip my toes into emacs. Is there a tutorial or migration guide you could recommend?
Absolutely amazing startup idea. Please open up your remote opportunities to other countries! :)
Dude, no way!
> How do you address the argument that drug users go on to be a burden to society?

I think there are point of views that are a much larger burden on society, and yet people are free to have them.
for a second I've thought they are creating a new crypto
stable coin oO
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It's sad, really. The information people want to get out of the web hasn't changed - an article is still a headline with a few paragraphs, a product is still a name, a description and a price, ... it's all so dead simple, yet the websites became unusable.
Totoro or Ponyo would be my recommendation.
Dealing with iMessage threads during Discovery was a nightmare. I wish I knew about this tool when I needed it
Is there an easy way (firefox) to whitelist a few sites I care about, and have anything else just dumped out of the cache the moment I close the tab?

Kind of a context-aware private browsing mode, I guess.
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I use GM's cars all the time. Pretty good in SF. They're slower but sometimes when you're not time sensitive, it's nice to grab the ride since they don't cancel or anything.

The first ride was novel. Everything after felt so routine I didn't even look at the road. As far as my girlfriend and I were concerned, we got in and then talked for a while and hung out and then got out elsewhere.

The speed is the only constraint right now.
Looking at screencaps of Yakitate I'd say Miyazaki's food looks way more appealing/homley, but I'll give it a go :)
Curse of the CEMBIs (“corporate-employed maintainers –. with bad incentives”)
The same thing is true for tobacco - while it is legally to sell and consume (by super-adults, 21+) in every US state, they've taxed it so highly that there is a fantastic black market.

And Eric Garner is a great example of how the government with murder you on the _suspicion_ that you aren't paying your taxes. Garner commonly sold individual cigarettes ("loosies") which were usually untaxed; it does not appear he was selling on the day he was choked to death by the NYPD, but rather that he was targeted as a usual suspect.

So we should legalize all of this stuff for adults AND keep the taxes low enough to avoid black markets. Sadly, the folks in favor of "legalization" are often wetting themselves at the thought of the tax revenue.
Yes but that's only in terms of resolution, the interface is flat, i.e you don't explicitly ask for usr/sbin over usr/bin. The differences only become a problem with naming conflicts and misconfigured $PATHs.
How does this compare to Portugal’s wild success when it comes to decriminalizing hard drugs? Seems like SF is a way less useful example.
Google the fingerprinting and traitor tracing techniques used by media studios. If a user screen records their HBO stream, or uses a cam in a theater, the studio can identify exactly which user it was streaming to or exactly which time and theater showing it was recorded in. This fingerprint is resistant to image warping/flipping, bitrate downsampling, image desaturation, cropping, frame drops, added noise, and nearly everything else.
I didn't mean for math and art to be an exhaustive list. Remember, my actual criterion was:

> if they exhibit ... evidence that they have goals and desires ... beyond merely that necessary to survive and reproduce

Orcas qualify because they play with their food. It's quite gruesome to watch. (And, BTW, this particular behavior is evidence that either orcas do not have a theory of mind or they lack empathy for animals that they eat. The former would be the charitable interpretation.)
But what you just described would still be insanely valuable. Just in the field of semiconductors and chip fab, it would probably unlock insane gains.
Hard to listen to anything from a company that constantly:

1) Doesn’t innovate on anything, social media accounts are plagued with pointing fingers at others while using a Chromium fork themselves, ignorance at its finest.

2) Has been accused of selling copyrighted data for AI training and has not made a public statement.

3) Has a history of making stupid decisions and only apologizing when a big news outlet calls them out.
Nobody is saying they should be high on the job. People are saying we shouldn't fire employees for having a beer or a joint a week ago on vacation.

The status quo endorses the former and demonizes the latter.
Resistance is what makes things hot, and heat is what makes dumping huge amounts of charge current into batteries a bad idea. No resistance → no heat → no need to charge with low current†.

Another way to say it is that, with a superconducting wire, you can make the wire as thin as you want and still pass the same amount of current through it, without melting the wire. Picture using a USB-C cable to charge your car.

† (There'd still be a current limit due to the heat generated by the chemical reaction that rebuilds the battery's voltage potential... if said reaction is exothermic. Some battery chemistries are endothermic when charging!)
Read the article! This instance of Emacs runs in a VM he uses for accessing and editing his personal tech notes at work, to provide better separation from his work system. He's not risking much. :)