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> How about we try to avoid the really harmful stuff that ruins lives and kills people like drug addiction?

Hard no. Alcohol ruins many people's lives, but that shouldn't interfere with my ability to imbibe if I so choose, it means that I should be educated and careful with how I do so.

> This is not some slippery slope thing

My intention was not to suggest it's a slippery slope, but rather that it is logically completely inconsistent w/ the values of individual freedom. If we value individual freedom, which most in the west purport to by default, individuals should have the ability to direct their body and mind in any way they deem appropriate and endure the consequences. Only you can experience your consciousness, and you should have primacy over how its stewarded.

> Your thought process is not logical when addicted and maximizes getting high at the cost of everything else.

This argument just doesn't hold any weight whatsoever. Humans are irrational in a whole host of circumstances in all sorts of ways, addiction is only one of them, and of course people can and do have all sorts of addictions to things that are wholly adaptive in others lives (sex as we've mentioned before is a fine example). The fact that addiction can drive some such irrationality is in no way a coherent argument to their prohibition.
glTF wouldn't be my first choice for a runtime format but it's hard to see the intent behind it as anything but a runtime format, there's a very distinct mapping from glTF concepts to OpenGL concepts. The first version didn't even have a standard material definition, the asset just had an inlined GLSL shader to render it with. They even use the same enum values so that you can plug the values in the glTF file directly into an OpenGL call if you want to.

Marrying the format so closely to OpenGL is looking pretty dated now of course, with OpenGL/WebGL dead and buried by Vulkan/WebGPU. You can render glTF with Vulkan/WebGPU but the flexibility of the format and the newer APIs rigid pipeline layouts are at odds with each other - ideally you want the data to follow a consistent, rigid layout.
Molecular imaging reveals viral persistence 2 years after Covid infection
It is not that simple. Crew generally have defined shifts for rest. The boat is responsible for food and other basic supplies.
> It's the same geographic area sliced differently.

That's called a neighborhood. From what you're describing, those areas are now two different neighborhoods.
Voyager 2 had several megabytes of tape storage, but I'm guessing it's no longer in use. And according to [1] each of its computers has more than four kilobytes of memory. Though I honestly don't know if Wired is a more reliable source...

1. https://www.wired.com/2013/09/vintage-voyager-probes/
> Hard drugs are not pot or alcohol

In point of fact, alcohol causes more deaths per year than all other drugs combined:

CDC [0]: Alcohol causes over 140,000 deaths per year according to data between 2015 and 2019

CDC [1]: All other drugs caused 100,000 deaths in the twelve month ending in April 2021

There's a lot of arguments to be made as to why (different legal status, different cultural norms around use, etc.) but the fact is that, currently, alcohol use is more lethal than all other drug use combined.

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[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-death...

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/...
I understand PHP has some perceived baggage and is not seen as a modern language, but why wouldn't you use something like Filament to build a SaaS app?
What would stop them from abusing the karma itself and/or buying “influence” points from popular users?
One big problem is that while the US has finally wrapped its brain around the fact that incarceration doesn't fix drug addiction, we have mistakenly fallen into the belief that treatment does. But even the absolute gold-standard treatment program (residential group and individual therapy with chemical assistance where appropriate) has about a 25% success rate (meaning still clean after 5 years).

Literally no matter what we do we are going to have a large number of people who have drugged their way out of society and will not be able to come back. And we need to figure out what to do about that.
Last time this happened (around 2008 crisis) didn't that ultimately led to more capital flowing into US? II(vaguely)RC it was a signaling that a big downturn is ahead and that unpredictably meant lots of capital found safe haven in US assets. in retrospect that may be because European banks were in even worse condition and more leveraged than US. IDK what the situation is currently but major international markets like UK/Japan/China all seem distressed at the moment.

So IDK what the material impact for this downgrade ends up being but it does not seems like a big deal.
Beyond the headline Portugal is having doubts because they decided to gut funding. Where it was seen as promising or successful, now it's basically decriminalized drug use and no treatment or enforcement. Which kinda sounds like what Oregon is doing now and what Reagan did with mental health care in California.
I'm not sure about assault, but Proposition 47[0] in 2014 substantially reduced the penalties for shoplifting, grand theft, forgery, fraud, and other crimes. Stealing under $950 is a misdemeanor regardless of how often someone does it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47
Unregulated AI Will Worsen Inequality, Warns Economist Joseph Stiglitz
I think they explain the process pretty well. It's about transparency towards the end user. "The creator will be asked to share if their project uses AI technology to generate outputs, if the project's primary focus is on developing generative AI technology, or if it involves another use of AI. We’ll also ask whether the creator has consent from owners of the works that are used to produce the AI-generated portion of their project."
I live in a country with a lot of alcohol abuse, and there are many many cases of huge damages due to alcohol. And yes, that includes stealing. And stealing usually comes after all the money is used up, and there's none left to pay the bills or food, even for a spouse and possibly kids.

There are a lot of secondary costs too (traffic fines for drunk driving, especially if they cause an accident, stuff destroyed while drunk, etc.)

But yeah, our national anthem is a part of a drinking song... so yeah.
IMO the tradeoff is freedoms vs. protections. People can agree to exchange certain freedoms for protections, and codify this exchange into law.

For example many countries have mandated seatbelt laws. In this case the freedom to not wear a seatbelt is exchanged for health and safety. Someone could claim this is done out of fear, and that's not completely untrue. And as you allude, fear can be totally rational and backed by data, thus fear vs. freedom is not an unreasonable exchange.
Debunked might too harsh of a claim, but the book does not make any strong testable predictions so that it can either be validated or debunked. The book certainly is not fraudulent in anyway, but the research is of quite limited value. Claims about prospect theory, priming, endowment effects and happiness heavily center around what is referred to as WEIRD populations (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic), and even more specifically middle class Americans. The work has not found much success generalizing to other cultures or demographics, either geographically or even within ethnic communities within the U.S.

For the most part, the book puts forth some interesting ideas and presents some interesting metaphors and it is certainly more technical than most treatments of this subject, but in terms of actually making concrete statements that can be used to actually understand human psychology, there isn't a whole lot to debunk to begin with.
Is there any sience they still so on this thing? As I understood it they are running out of power to run instruments?
I do remember VRML. I read a book about it and spent some time playing around with it in the mid-90s. I didn't follow it closely enough to know when it died off (I'm assuming it died off since I haven't heard it mentioned much in decades).
Yesterday I was using a website to generate a logo (not mentioning them they don’t deserve any publicity), and after entering the details, refining what to emphasize on, description, my email and logo requirements, they generated some and refused to show it unless I pay, not just signing up.. literal scumbags, why would I pay before even seeing the logo ffs, what if I didn’t like it? How about all the time and details I put there?!
Yeah to me the block system thing just makes a lot of sense
I don't smoke (or eat or whatever), but I've been constantly told by folks in Denver how much cheaper it is to get marijuana illegally. I've been told the product is crap but much cheaper.

We should legalize marijuana (and everything else), but if the legal market is taxed so highly that it only targets wealthy users and not Joe Schmoe, then the black market remains. Most people are very price conscious.
That sounds like a fine resolution, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

Far too many businesses are being run by people completely out of the loop.

Emails, especially from the CEO, are legally binding.
I thought this was going to be some development news with Wayland compositing going further: https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/wayland/. Maybe it's because 29.1 was on my mind with the full Wayland client support being released.

If you want to just run one application in a modern way (yes, I'm assuming you agree that Wayland is desirable), then check out https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/cage/.
about 20 years ago a built a really really janky mechanical version of this.
I don't even understand what convenience they offer. I cook a lot and find stainless steel just as easy to clean. Let it sit with some water in it after you take out the food, and by the time dinner is done it wipes clean with a sponge.

At the same time I don't have to worry about nicking or overheating the teflon, and stainless steel pans tend to have better heft and thicker bottoms.
defined in the next paragraph

>Chronic homelessness refers to people who have experienced homelessness for at least a year, either continuously or in four or more separate instances within the past three years, while also experiencing a disabling condition such as a physical disability, severe mental illness or substance use disorder.
Gabor Mate who has worked with patients dealing with addiction for decades speaks of drug addiction as a symptom of other issues, mostly trauma, hopelessness etc.

What we could do is shift our priorities from turning the country into a feudal system pressure cooker scenario and provide opportunities and resources for most.

No wait that’s just crazy. On another thought maybe we should just make harsher punishments for drug users and “clean the streets” by moving all the homeless to jail cells at $80k/year/person in taxpayer money.

Because mentioning a similar UBI amount is also crazy.
There are images created specifically for termux. For example the link below is the first that I found.

https://github.com/EXALAB/AnLinux-App
I recently read Peter Turchin's "End Times" (the title is sorta clickbaity I think, as it's not a doomsday book), and in it, he describes a model of societal instability which features "popular immiseration" as a factor. Essentially he claims that the percentage of a population who respond negatively to the question "are you happy?" is correlated with the degree of instability of the social order.

Obviously, the idea of unhappiness is pretty broad, like from "my 401k is doing badly" to "I am unlikely to survive the day", but I suspect that it's true that if a certain threshold of the population answers yes to this question, that you can expect that a pretty large percentage of the respondents are probably in a pretty bad place, and if you have nothing left to lose, finding some way to soothe the pain of the end is at least understandable even if it's what nobody would prefer.

I am nothing even approaching a serious student of these issues, but I do fear that the lack of opportunities for Americans today to find a path to fulfillment with dignity means that many of us will wind up in situations where we are basically riding out the days until our death, and even though so many of the people consigned to this fate are not what we would consider ideal, I think we should judge ourselves as a society by how we address their issues.

Anyhow, Turchin himself comments on this matter in https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/us-societa... , it's an interesting read.
Of course we should offer help. This is an epidemic orders of magnitude more serious than covid. If I had it my way fatties would have a state mandated gastric bypass, but because we can't do that, we need take out all stops in society to disincentives these behaviors.
No, it is not.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy_in_...
Amazon is at least as awful.

I cancelled Prime about a year ago - delivery sucks at my location with their logistics and I just don't want to deal with it. I still occasionally order some things that are hard to find elsewhere, I just ship it to an address where things won't be immediately stolen.

And after the huge "subscribe prime" interstitial with the tiny "not now" button, they still add prime to the order, not as a regular line-item, but as something you have to hunt around for to remove. They're cramming, just like telecom used to.

Amazon is awful if you have the temerity to fail to tithe them as they believe they are due. Fuck them.
> I won't put up with 15mb downloads just to read some content

Meanwhile my normie friends are sending me TikTok videos of people reading screenshots of Reddit comments posted to Instagram. Regular users absolutely do not care about any of this.
Culdesac Tempe wants residents to ditch their cars. In Phoenix
Popups are the Devil. Every web developed knew this in the 1990s. The fact that modern webdevs are bringing them back is an embarrassment to the industry.
FYI I checked it out last time it was posted to HN, and they felt like that was sufficient invitation to send me updates via email. With no unsubscribe link.

Log in at your own peril, the OAuth is not there to grab your (public) GitHub data, it's to grow their mailing list.
iOS Feedback Gathering SDK/Library
I always had trouble to make my app profitable. Working on one feature after another. Without knowing if that's really what the user is missing.

Now I am solving this problem by having the user tell me what he's missing and also vote on feature requests so I know "how important" each feature is to my users
I'm studying AI atm, so for my final project I'm writing a booklet/resource about mental health and AI. I'll be illustrating and designing it too. Love this sort of work, because I get to flex multiple skills and use my brain for planning, creativity, research, deep focus and presenting ideas through my personality.
So what side should I take?

The reporter who thinks they were ripped off, without taking public transit?

or

The driver who got a decent payout driving in one of the most expensive cities on earth?
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Traditional wood frame, with lumber pressure treated with a fire retardant. They might have some CLT beams, but they're predominantly built out of pressure treated lumber and plywood. They're safe because they have sprinkler systems, building-wide fire alarms and redundant fire-resistant staircases.

Sound generally isn't an issue if you have polite neighbors, but if somebody upstairs is doing jumping jacks you'll definitely hear it.
I don't think it's gonna help with the design side of things but USD does include a volume primitive type in its 'UsdVol' section:

https://openusd.org/release/api/usd_vol_page_front.html

So it sounds like it could be possible to use USD to convey data to a 3D printer eventually once the printers have loaders for the new format.
TweetDeck is now called ‘XPro’
>I used to strongly support making drugs legal. I thought: this is a free country, you should be able to do what you want.

I agree with this statement, but it should only hold true in your own home, on your own property, or on the property of someone who is amenable to whatever behavior you are engaged in.

>Does anyone have ideas on what we should do? Should we make drugs illegal again and force people into rehab?

Very simply we cannot have a functional society if we don't have rules about what behavior is allowed in public spaces. Just because every adult should be free to do drugs that doesn't (or at least shouldn't if we want a functional society) give license to these adults to break the rules we have set up for public spaces, whether or not their rule-breaking is a result of their drug use. I don't believe anyone who isn't breaking the rules of our public spaces should be locked up or forced into rehab for their drug use. But if they are stealing, harassing others, vandalizing, doing drugs on public property or engaging in a variety of other illegal behaviors, then they should be arrested and offered the choice between jail and rehab (in a locked facility).
One important observation is that drug use is largely downstream of homelessness. Being homeless is awful, and drives people to self-medication/-numbing. (Of course some homelessness is caused by prior drug addiction but I’ve seen compelling analysis suggesting it’s mostly the other way around.) SF primarily has a cost-of-living problem, which produces a homelessness problem, which produces a drug problem.

Programs that address homelessness (like housing-first, or work training) will also reduce drug abuse/deaths. And upstream stuff like really buying into building housing stock will also help with homelessness.

Part of the whole package of drug legalization is that if you actually dismantle the war on drugs machinery, you will have a huge budget to direct to social programs that can reduce the upstream causes of drug abuse, not just providing treatment after the fact. It sounds like Oregon didn’t get those programs in place yet.
A war shortage would be because we're using our resources to produce war equipment. We have chip shortages because Russia is attacking Ukraine so they can't export neon gas to chip fabs. That's not something we're doing.

And "supply chain issues" obviously aren't the same thing as "shortages"; a traffic jam at the port is a supply chain issue.
I should change my username name to AncientArtifact :/
MacOS can convert between pretty much any reasonable combination of formats using its automation/shortcuts framework. RTF→HTML→word or HEIC→jpg→png, whatever.
I have never spent more than 90 seconds cleaning our large cast iron pan. And that's only if it's really egged up. Whatever convenience we're talking about, it's trivial.
My first soldering iron was the one from Harbor Freight. No kit there either, I had to look up a list of stuff to buy.
It’s all good! It lead to some funny convo as they were talking about English language and I’m talking about recipe :)
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I’m kind of of the opinion that we shouldn’t hold addicts to account for their addictions. By the time they’re addicted they’re not rational actors any more.

By the same count we don’t judge the mentally unwell and children as if they’re well-functioning adults.
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Good to see a reasonable candidate ... send aloft either atmospheric particulates or any solar shield to cool the planet ... This is geoengineering ... shovel ready, cheap ... any climate change discussion not communicating this approach is not science based but agenda driven
You're talking about withdrawal which is semi-related to an underlying diagnosis of addiction. That is to say someone can go through quitting a substance without withdrawals symptoms yet still have an addiction.