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Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-dru...

discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36638752
2-6 hours is nowhere near enough to offset daily fluctuations, let alone seasonal fluctuations. Overproduction only gets you so far, unless this proposal also involves transoceanic HVDC cables. Hydropower is not exactly the same thing as storage: you can stop releasing water and build up the reservoir, but you cannot pump water up river. Even just 6 hours of storage -which would not be sufficient even with several factors of overproduction - is 15,000 GWh of storage to satisfy present global electricity use.
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There’s actually a long history of personal violence in U.S. legislative bodies, especially leading up to the Civil War: https://www.history.com/news/charles-sumner-caning-cilley-du...
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Hopefully there's just a bad batch of actuators somewhere in the supply line and this isn't wide spread. Imagine how bad this could be if it were a code issue and could possibly affect a large amount of cars (like the 280k suggested).

This is not a minor problem. Very few modern drivers are familiar with non-assisted steering, and the steering setup on modern cars is not meant to be used unassisted.

Also having to get out of the car is a weird way to reset things. On old cars with broken power steering, shutting off and starting up will reinitialize things and maybe get them working. Does tesla not have a "reboot car computers" function?
I'm not aware of a head-to-head comparison. My impression is that they have slightly different aims.

PRQL intends to express analytical queries as a series of transformations which form a data pipeline.

My sense is that Malloy aims more to provide a kind of semantic layer as well as dealing with nested data and reports.

(Disclaimer: I'm a PRQL contributor.)
Laser projected keyboards have been around for ~15 years.
There's a reason the Stanford Prison Experiment was never published in a peer review paper. It was garbage science with a lot of problems.
I mean, we live in a world where Johnson and Johnson is suing the researchers who found asbestos in their falsely certified asbestos free baby powder:

https://www.asbestos.com/news/2023/07/27/johnson-johnson-law...

They knew their talc contained asbestos and sold it anyway, and now that they got caught they're trying to punish the people who caught them.
> 3M is filing for bankruptcy due to PFAS litigation, and even then they can't cover the costs [0] This doesn't work, the damage is already done, and the profits have been pocketed. What's worse with PFAS for environmental pollution is that no mechanism for clean up currently exists.

Are you suggesting that 3M should continue to operate as if they didn't poison the world? I'm fine with them being bankrupted by the lawsuits. Let it be a warning for the next company.
No, I have not seen related statistics. I need the statistic because I do not see any other way to evaluate whether or not treatment is cost effective.

I have reached a conclusion that in order to evaluate the “success” of Portugal’s policies and how they can translate to other places, then I would like to know what kind of addictions it succeeded for and for what proportion of people and for which addictions.
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Right, because there's surely no scientist in the US interested in pursing something like this as well. Generalize much? Keep riding that "US sucks, China good" train for absolutely no reason.
> Much faster with no heat to burn your lap.

Computation inherently creates heat, that's not something that superconductors will change.
Neat! Thanks for sharing. This might come in handy, although the constraint of unique field names across variant cases is still there.
Why not? Higher temperature for magnets means magnets less susceptible to neutron flux right?
There will always be black markets for the people who don't trust the government and certainly for people who don't want to go to some supervised location.

Perfect shouldn't be the enemy of good etc, but some of it feels like just make the gov't complicit in people absolutely ruining their own lives. Its a tough nut to crack.
How about, and I'm just spit-balling here, how about we enforce laws again theft and assault and "quality of life" offenses like smoking and shooting up drugs in public parks, on sidewalks, on transit?

If someone wants to get high in their home, I don't care. If someone wants to get high in a bar or such, I don't care. If someone wants to get high in one of those places and then walk out in public _without harming anyone else_, I don't care.

The thefts, the assaults, the zombies and crazies in public, that stuff I care about.

There is a middle-ground between "criminalize USE" and "stop enforcing laws, particularly when drug abusers and homeless are involved".
That's got to be some sort of policy failure. Perhaps they need to make it easier to run a legal dispensary, crack down on the illegal ones, or both.

In California, the only people that still buy black market weed are kids that aren't old enough to go to a dispensary.
I think these are not the same people we’re talking about here (the people on the streets in SF).
Please don't reply by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Mozilla is a political organization, not a web browser developer. I’ll keep using brave.
> It could be half as fast (it isn't) and use twice as much RAM (it doesn't) and ask for a damn nude photo of me and I'd still be using it right now.

Same. I mostly use Firefox (I still use Chrome for testing) and it's a good browser in itself: not just because it's not Chrome/Edge.
Do you guys think the non-commercial web will ever achieve critical mass to tilt the scale in its favor and spark a chain reaction to drive flocks of people out of the commercial web?

A refreshing thing about the non-commercial web is the fact that it is not trying to monopolize my attention and not trying to hard-sell me anything.

More and more, I see people complaining about the big tech services... but that's a qualitative perception, certainly biased... I wonder if that's really happening.
I get it, but man that's some hyperbole in there. I like Mastodon, but since there's still good stuff on other sites, I will read those, too. If the author thinks he's outsmarted analytics and tracking, they should check with their ISP. Or VPN provider.
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Would you prefer to spend the money on arresting people and keeping a large prison population or would you rather spend money on rehabilitation programs? Either way you're going to spend money, but I think that the latter approach would help more people.
> I can tell you right now if any job required a drug test, I wouldn't work there.

Airline pilots? People operating dangerous machinery?
Usually writers do "full disclosure" when their objectivity is open to question.

Especially when they have 15 comments on one post. One does suspect they have an axe to grind.

As for "knowing about it" -- when hordes of people try it once or twice and get instantly repulsed (an experience we see in the other comments here), you could certainly claim they don't "know about it." However, that doesn't disqualify them.

Otherwise, Survivor Bias only lets in the people who like it.
Part of the reason for that is they've been so slow to allow them to open. There's only like 8 stores at the moment (4 of those are very recent), and they're all in Manhattan except for one that's way out in Jamaica at the end of the JZ line. Because there's so few of them, they always have an hour long line of people waiting to enter, mostly tourists.

The higher prices will still leave room for black market weed sales, but right now the biggest problem is buying weed legally is a 2 hour ordeal.
> taxing the legal pot industry so highly that it was miles cheaper to buy stuff illegally no the corner

the legal pot industry's problem is it's impossible for it to turn a profit. they can't deduct operating expenses from their tax liability like other businesses can, because of federal law. items like rent, payroll.

they also can't use the same systems of credit management and bank accounts, because of federal law.

state taxes are a very minor part of the story.
Where'd you hear that?

Verizon Pixels have issues with BOOTLOADER unlocks. Not carrier unlocks. In fact, Verizon is legally obligated to unlock their devices even regardless of installment plan financing due to rules the FCC has in place on their wireless spectrum.
People who previously lied about usage probably won't admit it now, because lying in itself, regardless of reason, is grounds for losing your security clearance.
Firefox on iOS is not Firefox.
Exactly, some cities don’t even allow smoking cigarettes in public parks, we can surely make it difficult to do hard drugs in public.
I loved the movie. Ultimately there can be no tension around the creation and use of the bomb. We all know that much of history atleast.

Instead it's a richly weaved tapestry asking an important question in various ways and giving various answers. "can you commit sin and expect sympathy"? We see this asked about nukes, about infidelity, and suicide, political maneovering. About science itself(original sin).

Take even the scene with the poisoned apple Bohr, Placket and Oppenheimer.

Bohr and Oppenheimer talk about forbidden knowledge (don't lift the rock if you're not prepared for the snake) as Bohr holds and apple. The forbidden fruit tempted by the snake in the garden of Eden.

No one with knowledge of WWII science sees a cyanide poisoned apple and doesn't think of Turning. Discarded after the war and persecuted for being gay (as Nazis persecute Jewish scientists and Americans communist scientists).

As Izzy Rabi says, bombs fall on the just and the unjust alike. As Oppenheimers constructed this bomb, the poisoned apple, which is about to hit the just (Bohr) and not Blackett (who he thinks unjust). Before regretting it.

Einstein regrets the bomb before he even started work after writing the letter with Szilard, others reject.it after construction, after testing, after Hiroshima, Oppenheimer seems to think enough is enough after Nagasaki. Teller goes further still... Where do we draw the line?

The apple scene alone is deeply layered with the major themes of the movies.

That's why people enjoyed it.
See, the thing is, you're making an argument about how VC works, and I'm making an argument about allocation of money towards VC vs. other socially beneficial projects.

I understand how VC works. I'm annoyed that - let's even take the Saudis as an example, since they fund half of Silicon Valley anyway - would rather flush their money down the drain on stupid shit than do long-term projects that may help secure their existence post-oil. Even with every motivation to focus on the long-term, still it gets blown on short-term complete garbage.

The rampant short-termism is the real issue
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I believe the implication is that LK-99 is basically a demonstration of an entire class of materials which should have room-temp superconduction properties. IE we can enumerate through the entire class and find the ones with the properties we want.
It would be very hard for the effects of allowing people to choose what they consume to be worse than the effects of prohibition.

The homeless issue is multidimensional and, surprise, people were already getting drugs before they were decriminalized.

Legalization is morally correct and eliminates the gangs, violence, and high costs of prohibition.
Igor, is LightOn still working on optical computing? Or have you fully pivoted to genai without optics?
Doesn't the same apply to alcohol?
No one is saying they broke the law, just that it's very unprofessional and should be taken as a sign of unreliability, in stark contrast to someone who provides free samples and then stops.
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(Opus author here) I'm curious what kind of "glitch" this is referring to.
if the simulations are correct i expect this to take alot longer to verify even if it's legit, simply because the chance the synthesis happens properly seems to be random
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On Linux the one area where I feel (nothing scientific) that Chrome is faster is for JavaScript code execution. But I still use Firefox instead of Chrome.
Pretty sure that includes the volume of the entire cooling system needed to keep it superconducting.
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Stub for arguing about what "USD" means. These comments were originally at the top level but the offtopicness was choking the thread so I'm moving them here.

I left https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962294 out because it has actual interesting information about the project.
They cancel your ride once they talk to you in person and you’re getting in the car?
That's why I shop at the local open air market, paying cash. Sack of potatoes in exchange for banknote, hand to hand, then the transaction vanishes into non-existence, every time I feel like a secret agent. In turn on every visit to retailer I see one human checkout, people walking like zombies checking something in the retailer's app, people at self-checkout waiting for staff, most of the assortment being sugar/fat/salt processed poisons, visual and audio ads creeping from everywhere. Ridiculously absurd spectacle.
Honestly it seems like bs with a good clinical air about it. I have seen zero indication it outpreforms any other non quackers therapy. Turns out the act of deciding to get help and your optimism about its effectiveness, not the help itself, is the biggest predictor of success in threatment.
Whenever the GNU Coding Standards come up, I'm reminded of the Linux Kernel Coding Style - https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.h... and the quote -

"First off, I’d suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. Burn them, it’s a great symbolic gesture."
So, can we finally say a "JPEG" or "H.264-in-MP4" for 3D content is coming?

(I mean as a universally accepted format that just works everywhere, not literally a JPEG on H.264 inside a scene)
But doesn't alcohol trigger a wildly different reaction than hard drugs ? Which alcohol triggers schizophrenia, psychosis, hallucination and make you violent ? And these are triggered very very easily by using a small amount of meth or fentanyl. To get to a comparable state with alcohol, you would have to drink copious amount, but then you are more likely to be passed out than exhibit violent behavior.

I agree with your other point though - permissiveness of use shouldn't come with ignoring all societal norms, just because you are a vulnerable drug user. In fact, permissiveness of use should be paired with stricter enforcement of quality of life laws
> Still excuse after excuse after excuse to just not use Firefox.

What happens when Firefox refuses to implement WEI - then <insert large social media companies> start to require it?

If WEI becomes a common requirement then Firefox will effectively be forced to implement it or it won't be usable as a web browser at that point for the average consumer
>There has only been one weekday since the LK-99 revelation

The original paper drop was July 22nd.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037
Your comment is being misunderstood, maybe because of the way you phrased it, but you have a point: a generic client might be able to traverse links of arbitrary data, but it won't know what they mean or why to traverse the links.

Besides a structured data browser for humans, or some kind of transforming proxy, it's hard to see what use cases this is clearly and practically better for.
>> However, the cancer-killing pill Malkas has been developing over the past two decades, AOH1996, targets a cancerous variant of PCNA, a protein that in its mutated form is critical in DNA replication and repair of all expanding tumors

But it's still a single pathway. Cancer has abilities to circumvent most pathways, after a time.

Targeting multiple pathways will be the answer, but FDA is so slow at allowing multiple-target clinical trials. Keytruda thus far, has been the best to believe in combining with many other products, and get clinical trials going. Sure, they have to partner with competitors, but this (multi-pathways) is the true path to stopping cancer.
Wireguard is cool, Tailscale is based on Wireguard.

But Tailscale is just a 3 sec process for any new server, 0 config needed, no holes in the firewall, nothing.

But I get the argument.
Also not from California; my understanding is some municipalities either don't enforce these laws, or don't do it to the extent people would like.
>While attempts have been made to impose more elaborate hypermedia controls on JSON APIs, broadly the industry has rejected this approach in favor of simpler RPC-style APIs that forego HATEOAS and other elements of the REST-ful architecture.

Because HATEOAS is basically useless for machines, and industry runs on machines.

It's fine when you've got a human clicking things that they're looking at, but there's no reliable way to reinterpret it for a different use because it's so wildly context sensitive in ways that only humans understand. Meaning of things in HATEOAS may be / is intentionally allowed to be communicated by non-structured text that accompanies the actions, as literally every example in this page shows.

If you're doing anything but rendering it for humans to interpret, that flexibility makes it basically impossible. Or binds you to a single output structure, with no way to structurally verify if changes are relevant or not.
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Brave is a cryptocurrency. No thanks.
Please don't spread false hope or impossible suggestions. This molecule is still investigatory and proprietary, so there's no documentation on its structure for replication by anyone outside of original authors. Furthermore, it is highly unlikely any researcher would jeopardize their reputation and livelihood by randomly manufacturing experimental, unproven compounds for clinical use.