skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree all drugs should be decriminalized.

There would have to be some market regulation around sales and storefronts, at least the level of cigarettes and alcohol in regards to the customer being of age, product packaging, quality control, what-not. There is still a problem where... if you just allow stores to sell amphetamines and opiates, even if they meet the legal requirements, the usage of those drugs will simply go up. Taking that into account, a lot of people prefer it to stay illegal. Even though what you said makes the most logical sense, people would overwhelmingly not want their kids to be able to buy it so easily, and they'd vote to keep them illegal.

Hospitals and doctors of course want them to be illegal too, so they can remain the sole legal distributors of opiates and amphetamines.

I think the cannabis dispensary model could prove out something interesting. Although psilocybin is not my thing, I see they're trying it out in a few locations.
SimGov - The Fiscal Cliff
I'm a China media skeptic as much as the next guy but.... that's a bear.
I feel like I'm allergic, literally, to hazy IPA. I like the occasional DIPA but otherwise I stick with Belgians, stouts, porters, or lagers.
I was stopping by to poke fun at the linux crowd. Hello terminal, I'd like to buy a vowel please.
good god. that's got to be a dozen separate tricks, and I can't see through a single one of them. granted, the pixels don't help, but sheesh, Ricky was a force.
I can't help but feel that is an awfully convenient story..
Pushing limits is how we get innovative technology. It's interesting, if nothing else.
Overall, I'm sure even with today's widgets, it's going to use less electricity than the geriatric fridge featured.
If you look at the cost overruns in GA quite a number of people have come out and said that no one wants to criticize the NRC, seemingly because they can make your life hell.

And change orders, and the like were listed as one of the reasons for the overruns, how much of that do you think is some engineer who designed the plant waking up one day and deciding something needs to be changed, or is it a case of the NRC nitpicking everything, and just loading the whole process up with so much paperwork that everyone is frozen, and any little mistake in the paperwork ends up costing the project. Sure blame the plant mgmt for not having the correct paperwork and delaying the start by 6 months, but who is asking for that paperwork to begin with? A lot of it sounds like a game of gocha, create a problem so complex that its nearly unsolvable and most of the work isn't even welding pipes but putting a thousand people in the chain, everyone of which can stop the line at any time, largely with no repercussions.

Sure, contractors mess up, but most contracts are written so that its the contractor who pays for it, not the organization hiring the contractor. So, again, contractor messes up, comes up with a workable mitigation/rework plan, but you sit there for 6+ months arguing about whether its allowed.

I've seen first hand the mess of regulation related paperwork it takes to run a normal NG/etc plant, it takes teams to of people to review it every year and assure compliance. Layering the NRC/etc into this is how you end up spending insane amount of capital and producing nothing but paperwork (see nuscale) on a design that isn't particularly ground breaking in the face of existing plants. I can't even imagine how much it would take to certify something like a navy reactor in that kind of environment.
He was using Hetzner and says it was costing him $200/month. He then had to spin up a second server, presumably increasing the cost, and it was still struggling.

From there traffic doubled, and he moved to Cloudflare Workers. And then traffic 30xed.

I suspect it's more about request count (>300k per second) than raw number of bits.
> I understand that SO has done some work to address these issues in the last few years

Oh? What work?
Nvidia is definitely on top of their game right now

Nvidia has been on top of their game since at least 2012, when I shopped for ML hardware for the first time. AMD had plenty of time to “solve software” - what happened?
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Making 'The Blue Flash': How I reconstructed a fatal atomic accident - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36872955 - July 2023 (61 comments)

A careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36798594 - July 2023 (1 comment)

The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36022373 - May 2023 (59 comments)

The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25317021 - Dec 2020 (1 comment)

Demon Core: The Strange Death of Louis Slotin (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20744425 - Aug 2019 (22 comments)

Demon Core - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20205876 - June 2019 (55 comments)

The blue flash - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11754713 - May 2016 (1 comment)

Demon Core: The Strange Death of Physicist Louis Slotin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11749742 - May 2016 (34 comments)
In addition to PDF and PNG, died it store searchable text from the page.

If really live a way to do a text search of my bookmarks.
exactly that! I have a design mockup that is quite similar to that.
Absolutely, a very good point indeed. But I meant more specific applications like end-to-end messaging. Surely 'obsolete' is a bit of an overstatement. At the end it depends how one looks at and want things to be done.
I’m not sure I grasp the argument here. No feature should be switched on until all 23,000 servers have updated to the necessary version?
While imagining what the article might be about, I realized that there's a massive arbitrage opportunity in the residual pressure in municipal water service at the faucet outflow.
Yeah, that is what I was getting at. Thanks.
Rad! Glad I could help! He worked through a lot of stuff using CBT exercises developed with his therapist to build up his emotional processing skills.
Obviously you're not a disciple of the BofH ...

https://bofh.bjash.com/bofh/bofh4.html

;)
It really is breathtaking - in a heartbreaking way - that we have 'developed' to the point as a society where we regularly destroy entire mountains.

Removing them is not without consequence - a mountain alters the weather around it.

So incredibly foolish.
this is actually the hardest problem in computer science (develop a general intelligence capable of predicting when a command will shut down your session)
> We can only do 640x480, 16-bit color depth.

Heresy! 16-color (4-bit)
> Does it occur to you that maybe people just aren't hiding their use now that it's legal?

But we know for a fact this isn't true because there's data on it. This isn't something we need to speculate about.
TempleOS is actually pretty cool, when viewed as the product of one man's dream. How many people can say they've written a 64-bit, multi-core, protected mode OS that comes with its own programming language? Then, throw in a flight simulator game, just for giggles.

Honestly, if it weren't the product of religious delusions common with schizophrenia, I'd say TempleOS and HolyC would be more than enough of a resume to get hired into many programming jobs.
That’s a lot of compute power you’re expending for funny computer parrot to hallucinate some text for you. Seems not even machines get to escape “decision by committee” lol.
Magpies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6uRhXQGj2U
Free speech is now considered "partisan" and "conservative ideology" in a bizarre turn of events.

Nowadays, the only dichotomy I face that seems to hold true is authoritarians vs not. No matter how they label themselves as in terms of regional party politics or political compass terms.
As implied by the name of the story, it was indeed a lot of talk about an electric sheep. Maybe Scalzi has a book that also talks a lot about a sheep, but it definitely fits for this story as well.
There's a feature in many business data centers called "remote hands". Mainly to avoid the drive/flight to admin a remote machine.
I would love separate variable initialization vs assignment. I know that ship has sailed.

It's interesting, I never cared about that until I did "Crafting Interpreters" and realized how separating those two actions helps clarify scopes.

Being realistic I know it's too large of a breaking change and will never land in the language but I can dream right?
The amount of intel Cloudflare obtains from this would be staggering. Just the TLS signatures alone is a goldmine. Look at the CISCO mercury product and their TLS database with malware detection. Or how Akamai bought https://www.fingerbank.org/

You got the short end of the stick for $8 reimbursement!
You seem to be assuming pumped hydro is the only storage technology used.

This is a common problem in the anti-renewable arguments. You pick a particular design for an energy system, argue it doesn't work, then (wrongly) claim no renewable energy system can work. But to reach that conclusion, you have to show that no combination of elements can make a system that works.

It makes sense to have multiple storage technologies with different performance characteristics. You want efficient, if somewhat expensive, technologies for short term storage with large numbers of charge/discharge cycles. You want low capital cost systems for ultimate backup, even if those systems are not as efficient.

For example, one could back up the entire grid with combustion turbines burning an e-fuel like hydrogen. These are massively cheaper per unit of power output than nuclear. Because we are not using them very often, the low round trip efficiency doesn't matter much. You want guarantees this won't run out? Make the storage caverns larger. This is already what we do with natural gas -- we store a good chunk of seasonal demand and count this being sized large enough to not run out.
You'd be surprised how many heroin addicts have chronic pain problems.

Chronic pain is a strong predictor of opioid addiction, but the opioid crisis is mainly caused by wild overprescription of and over-reliance on these drugs in the medical industry. This is also why it's so specific to the US. This is a question of regulation, not legality.

Gambling addiction is not something I'm willing to comment on, because I've not studied it nearly as much as I have drug addiction. But I can see the same points applying there; regulation is also an important topic, not just legal status.

My country has a state monopoly on gambling. It's not perfect, but it's not terrible either, and I could easily see a completely hands off approach being much worse.
Yes, it metabolizes to the same thing, which is the point. This is also true for the pure synthetic stuff like Delta 8 and HHC. Even CBD has been known to regularly test hot.
Time has made my memory weak, thats remarkably close and might be it. But some qualities differ. This is a much more defined lead character. Maybe I was seeing a cut scene, or a very specific version or period of play.

But I can now do "games like" and see what comes up. Many thanks kind stranger.
Also Xbox is quite unpopular in Japan, so Sony might think that unnatural O/X swap is still fine. It seems to proven true for vs Xbox, but PS5 isn't much beloved.
I don't like dogs at all, but we have co-evolved with them and they're the closest animal species friend we have. I can see why if there was going to be a curb on eating some non-endangered animal, it would be on dogs.

I was just thinking the other day about those stupid peta "how can we love one and eat the other" ads and it makes me think that those people must not have morals if they really can't tell the difference.
> Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end.

Yikes. That's some serious deflection from the 4chan crowd, where the trolls came from who made it their mission to completely destroy this vulnerable person's life via the internet.
I could drink a hazy pale or NEIPA anytime, it would be my desert island style for sure. Never liked the high IBU IPAs that were everywhere for a while because of the bitterness. (And I love all the Campari-adjacent cocktails)

I feel similarly about the store-bought THC products in Canada. They're like high ABV, hopped-up IPAs when really I just want a light, refreshing, repeatable beer with good flavour.
Yup but think of the children

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
There is a hemp derived mixture called "purple berry" that is so e proprietary blend of a bunch of cannabinoids. I took a whole one, once, and it was a massive trip, so crazy I don't want to do it again. A quarter of one means I'm doing a movie (or nothing) for the night.

For me, 5-10mg of delta 8 is a good relaxing evening. On the low end, it's an anxiety reducer, on the high end of that, a bit of a giggle and indacouch feeling. 25 mg (one gummy) is a zonk the brain kind of night.

Honestly, for knowing I drink too much alcohol, d8 can be a great substitute on the way to quasi sobriety.
To me edge is when you are doing most computation and data retrieval required for the given request in a data center close to each user. How to define close? Probably when you have at least several dozen POPs spread out across the world
Meanwhile as a population they’re voting for people who want more coal mining. They are 6 figure jobs in a depressed economic area.
not really civics game, but in my limited opinion, game of trust[1] is best educational game by far.

[1]https://ncase.me/trust/
Very cool demo! I can see the potential here! Couple questions:

1. How do you compare yourselves to other WYSIWYG web app builders? Why would an app- or module- developer invest their time into this platform vs. others?

2. What are your plans for monetization, if any? An app developer might be hesitant to build anything meaningful on top a free tool, fearing that its business model might change at any time.
Very cool! I wonder if someone could package this as a pacman/AUR package.
The case of the Colorado River’s missing water
I used to use ipchicken and some others, but now I just type “what is my ip” into google and get it that way. Not suitable for automation but in my case it’s just a quick manual check.
I've been trying to find something like this, because I dislike most product roadmap tools and yet I need to use them often. Mermaid has an okay-ish gantt chart but it feels underpowered for what I need.
You do realize that users travel right? And that the US is absolutely massive and there are wide latency differences between coast to coast? Using two DCs isn't "edge"
Oh, sure, it's definitely something with respect to the idea that things aren't exactly above board here, but it's a pile of nothing with respect to the idea that the Chinese government has anything to do with the lab. It could honestly be anything from Mafia to terrorism to just some shady business dealings. Evidence doesn't really point in any particular direction just yet.
> Fixing a bug is about repairing value that you thought you had delivered but actually did not.

In that case it's important to classify issues correctly. Email sending worked yesterday but not today because Office365 changed some SMTP requirements (say ciphers)?

Customer will call it a bug, but according to your definition it should be classified as a feature.
Yeah I’m surprised this wasn’t attempted
Just the thing to spill your coffee on.
I agree that the movie is kind of uneven but over all a better telling of the story. But there are parts of the movie that I'm like "what's going on here" that the story clears up.

I don't think these are spoilers, but stop reading if you are sensitive: Ones that stuck out for me were "why is this weird guy living in a building that is falling apart?" The story reveals that Earth is basically poisoned and that everyone who can leave has left, and the people staying behind are suffering serious cognitive decline due to it.
Just like the dark pattern that wouldn't tell you that you didn't need an email to sign up. Looks like they require an email now. /barf
That's sad and I feel for anyone whose mental illness drives wedges between them and society. I can't imagine many things more horrifying than to be a sentient mind trapped in a brain determined to play tricks on it.

That said, you can't just let someone with those issues spew awfulness even if it's caused by a medical condition. That's a rough situation for the person being banned but I'm not sure what the less bad alternative would be.
Padel vs. Pickleball – Can the Fastest-Growing Sports Overtake Tennis?
People should ease up on "how" people learned. You learning basic would not frighten me.

The fact that the first coding I did was mIRC scripting however should terrify everyone hahaha
Perhaps? Not sure I'm following the methodology you're suggesting. Most (perhaps all?) of the climate models I've read about or played with are based on energy balance. (energy in vs energy out)

Start with Solar insolation (energy in) then subtract all the ways that energy leaves the planet (reflection and radiatively from the atmosphere.) Then add that the planet is its own heat source (molten core and all that) and that energy contribution. Then add variable convection to the atmosphere based on latitude. The list goes on and on (which is kind of like harmonics in a Fourier series).

Then random things pop out like how reducing the weight of ice (by melting) increases volcanic activity kinds of things.
You made the statement in a personal way. Responding with a generic argument doesn't address that.

Telling someone "you are sending clear signals that you are not in control of your own mind" is super obviously a personal attack, or at least guaranteed to read as one. Please stop doing that so we don't have to ban you—and please stop posting flamewar comments as well. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
curl ipinfo.io or ipinfo.io/ip
... only to be blocked by the corporate firewall which doesn't allow anything besides tcp/80 and tcp/443.
Ask HN: Do ideas never matter and should you never be afraid to share them?
I'm usually not afraid to share my ideas unless they're really ridiculous and I'm ashamed of my twisted mind.

But I just had an idea that seems really great to me, and potentially really profitable, really quickly, if I move my ass to launch an MVP. There is a market for it that's 100% sure, if my product is good enough and well marketed it can definitely succeed.

I was about to ask for feedback about it to an alumnus from my school, who's an industry expert.

But I took a step back and I was like: he was in school a year before me, he have more business experience, he's a better seller, have a bit more technical experience overall, launched a few successful projects, more domain expertise, a better network, more capital.

If I expose my project to him, and he's actually interested, he actually have a lot more chance of succeeding than me, and he definitely don't need me, so I would have just lost my first mover advantage.

My only real advantage would be one specific technical skill that he don't have, but he very likely have the means to outsource this part.

Do you think you should never be afraid to share your business ideas? Or are there specific cases where it's just a terrible idea to do so?
Where do you live? These jobs are probably in places that are seeing big growth like Florida, Texas, etc.
Is there anything left to really "figure out" about carbon capture? The tech works, it's just too expensive. Given a sufficient amount of cheap enough energy it could be scaled up as far as I understand.

As a layperson, it's just one more reason I so wish we'd invest in nuclear. Nuclear powered DAC plants might be the only way to scale it fast enough. Sure, it would still be expensive, but that's much cheaper than not massively reducing CO2 in the atmosphere.
Apply for the vercel accelerator, winners get OpenAI credits
Every serious analysis in green energy has never been able to make it work without nuclear.
Not an asteroid game, but similar idea:

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/whack/

See also "History theft with CSS Boolean algebra":

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/css_calc/
In terms of the theory covered here it doesn’t really matter whether the edge is a cloud region, CDN, server in your building, or personal device. I don’t think any of these havent been tried as nodes in a distributed transactional database. It’s kind of just a semantic argument - the network failure rate, availability, and capacity to scale horizontally within your “edge” node are just parameters.

Imagine this: within a CDN’s compute you try to serve distributed db transactions optimistically then fall back to your big cloud region when it fails. The CDN is kind of a write-through cache. You still have to address the CAP theorem distributed state challenges of synchronizing state and making a consistency/availability/partition tolerance tradeoff, and it seems like a reasonable use of a CDN.
The "algorithm" is that I read your comment and saw that it was obviously breaking the rules. I wish I knew how to write software to do that correctly, but I don't.

If you'll review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html with a sincere intent to use this site as intended, it should be easy to see how you weren't doing that.

Re other commenters: everyone always feels like the mods are singling them out personally and treating the other side with kid gloves (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). That's a universal bias, same as it always feels like the cops are singling you out for a speeding ticket when lots of other cars were going fast too.

If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
The daughter products will eventually decay away, but it will take a very long time. In particular, radium has a half life of 1600 years.

In any case, these are exactly the same daughters as from the decay of uranium in coal, so the argument you are making there is equivalent to an argument that could be made about coal ash.
It helps when the magician is Ricky Jay!
It seems a tad bit ironic that the thing that might actually work sooner rather than later (conversational LLM) to have some applications is being shunned.
Yes, it's a joke. It's not complete nonsense, though, unlike the Turboencabulator. There's a real explanation buried inside there. ("Where it isn't" is the target position, so it's looking at the deviation between where it currently is, and where it should be. The next time step, "where it wasn't" is the old target position, and so forth.)
It’s not weird in context. The alcohol ship has already sailed. It’s deeply rooted in European culture. That wasn’t the case for marijuana. And obviously just because one bad thing is legal doesn’t mean other bad things should be legal.

I’d note that banning alcohol has worked in societies that don’t have a deep tradition of alcohol use. While alcohol is available for non-Muslims in my home country, virtually nobody uses it outside certain westernized elites.
I've seen a five axis mill that is used to cut turbine blades (in Poland, through an industry contact of mine), it was an absolute work of art and I totally believe the injection mold designer. Everything was compensated for, including tool wear and heat injection. the whole thing was cut in one run without any tool changes or re-registering. One set of tools for one blade.
Reminds me of a friend's refrain that we'll be old enough to die in The Climate Wars, but not fight in them.

Also: https://xkcd.com/605/
Genius.. thank you!