skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You just have to go up to the counter and ask. You have to show ID, just like you do for liquor (and, because purchases of psuedoephedrine are rate-limited, they're going to log your purchase)

Up to the counter and ask...when the counter is open that is increasingly a problem as pharmacies close and hours are limited (the two nearest me close at 6pm, right at the end of working hours).

Show ID...that the pharmacist will accept (not all of us drive or have a driver license).

Rate-limited...at a quantity too low for a household that has a sinus infection running around.

So, no, it's not already easy. Canadians can go into a Costco and buy as much as they like and apparently it's not an entire nation of Walter Whites up there so what makes us so special?
This is a myth. Placebo effect is an invention. What you observe is return to the mean.
Why do you believe this is the case?
this is hardly a "good" outcome--hypochondriacs _should_ be interacting with the medical system; the outcome should be mental health intervention.
ah, i see your point, the steam deck tech stack is not designed from end to end as a gaming system; rather it specialises a broader linux stack. i wonder how much difference that will make a couple of generations down the line, but for now i agree the NES probably does do a much better job of gaming performance for given hardware specs.
Given that I actually wrote "being driven over and dragged 20 feet" in my comment, what's your point exactly?
No, you have people that think those “placebos” are real medicine and end up killing their kids because of it.
Very much true. Marketing content should be carefully vetted, filtered. Whom you wish to project that content for may want to take back control from addictions they suffer from (i.e. food).
> I don't understand what that means, and how I can know if my business in inside or outside the law.

Simply put this sentiment on the landing page of your website, labeling on your product or, if you have a mailing list, in the subject field of your next newsletter. “I do not understand if my business is inside or outside the law” is bound to generate useful feedback
> It’s not a lack of cleverness or imagination.

I don't think that's the claim you're arguing against either. Rather, the argument seems to be that there is misplaced confidence in macroeconomic models.

i.e. the people displeased by them would rather hear "I don't know" much more often from the modelers than they currently do.
Because people don’t know they’re “placebos” and use them as real medicines and you end up with dead kids. Homeopathy is probably one of the worst things to come out of Germany (yes, amongst other things even though I love you Germany).
They raided Nokia mobile to use brand reputation as jumpstart for windows phone. Nokia mobile had been destroyed in process.
You see, the reason you pay so much money on your tax income, is _because_ we are not or only barely taxing wealth income. Cfr. Piketty, governments balance sheets would stay the same (on a global scale) if you would drop the income tax on labour by 10-20% and simultaneously tax income from wealth as income from labour. (Ignoring secondary effects on that balance sheet)

One tenth of the taxes you pay on your labour, is covering for someone not paying the tax on their wealth income. While it is not world-changing, that's not an insubstantial either. Unless you are currently making more by wealth income than labour income, you would see your total taxes decrease in this operation.

And all of what I write above is ignoring the idea that it might be more moral to tax wealth income higher than labour income! The above is purely asking for both to be taxed equally.
The ideal transport is be a bicycle, or an e-bike for cities with hills. The problem is that bike lanes are still not great. I bike commuted in SF for years. Bikes are ideal "last mile" transport too, for long commutes trains with bike carriages can be added in. Numerous cities in Europe show this works very well.
Having said that, it's an ideal which I fear is probably far from reachable for most people given the way cities have been built, and infrastructure priorities in the US do not favour bikes.
Wasn't this the one they substituted with a half arsed version because the real deal was being bulk bought and cooked into meth? I guess new version being useless for meth cooking isn't the only thing it is useless at
This weakens your privacy with regards to sharp governmental powers, something the GDPR never strengthened or addressed to begin with due to its categorical exemption of law enforcement. Well, competent law enforcement (if you needed a laugh).

And to all the EU cheerleaders about to educate me how, thanks to the GDPR, my local municipality has to treat my email with care when I go ask for a building permit: go gaslight your grandma instead.
> If you don't vote, you have no one to blame but yourself.

This is the central lie/blame assignment of democracy, and it is plainly false on its face. How can someone totally uninvolved in a process be in any way whatsoever responsible for the outcome of that process?

You also go on to refute it yourself in the next paragraph.

On that, we are in agreement: there is no fundamental problem with the state that can be fixed by voting. Voting legitimizes the fraudulent and coercive system; abstaining is a vote for its invalidity. More people consider the system invalid than participate in it.

I think political posts should be empty if more people abstain from
voting than vote for any single candidate.
Some states set limits on how frequently the image on a billboard can change, which eliminates animations, but still can be jarring, especially at night, if the switch between ads creates a large difference in light intensity.
"Ultimately we develop and deploy autonomous vehicles to save lives." Of all of the self-serving counterfactual horseshit I've seen sneak out of a corporate mouthpiece that right there might take the cake. Y'all deploy AVs to make money, The End. If saving lives was a primary goal GM would have stripped center console infotainment displays out of their vehicles a decade ago, or maybe never put them there to begin with.
There are also issues like phantom braking which Teslas are prone to (or were, I'm not sure if that's better these days). That's part of a whole class of problems which the AVs suffer from which humans don't. I think the main problem is that those problems are really unpredictable to human drivers, whereas good defensive drivers will take into account what another lousy human driver might do based on lots of experience.
Would the article line the FDA to regulate more things? or is it just pointing out irony
Why does the solution have to be one-sided?

Why can't we educate parents about controls and stop Meta from intentionally making their software addictive? Heck, we could even fine Meta and have the money go to efforts to reduce the behaviors they've worked so hard to create.
And that is what is the unacceptable failure scenario. It'll be cool in the future, I guess, to have autonomous taxis. But I'm sure glad they don't test these in public where I live.
Again, in this particular circumstance, where OP has already admitted to being in possession of the files, would there be any difficulty in obtaining a warrant for all of his computers?

I'm honestly curious as to what there would be to gain on insisting on a warrant rather than just agree to some deal and avoid criminal proceedings.
Codeine is great, throw a lil bit in some sprite and hang out.
Perhaps you know more than me about pharmaceutical testing, but people are aware that they're part of a trial, and more importantly, they consent to participating, correct?

I did not claim they're not testing, they clearly are. My argument is that people that didn't sign up to be test subjects are getting hurt in the process.

It's worth pointing out the discrepancy in human safety trials, is it not? Why should AV testing be less rigorous than pharmaceuticals?
People blissfully treated with placebos because the stuff that actually worked can be kind of hardcore.

My (I’ve learned: unpopular) opinion is that not everything is a cosmic wrongness that demands a 1Hr Photo of a fix. It’s okay to just work through a cold with rest and water and warm beverages.
Fair argument. Public transit caps downside case and upside case. Cars can have downside but have upside too.

I want to have my cake and eat it too and I think we can with driverless cars. Lots of software tricks we can do with a network of driverless EVs + city traffic lights to dramatically increase capacity.

My roadmap for SF would be:

- allow waymo and others to scale driverless cars

- stop spending ~$2B for a 1.7 mile subway to chinatown, spend that money on a traffic light control network (ideally just let google run it)

- give the same per passenger subsidy to riders of driverless cars that current public transit passengers receive per trip

- require that driverless cars in SF should send realtime destination info to the traffic light network

- remove parking spots on high traffic streets effectively creating two more lanes

- allow bus lanes to be exclusively used by driverless cars

- tax driverless car rides based on occupancy+distance+time of day so you can traffic shape
> homoeopathic tinctures

I didn't even realize that homeopathic tinctures are a thing. Shame. I think of tinctures and homeopathy as opposite ends of the spectrum, but I guess the homeopathy people will profit on whatever they can.
Would be interesting if you could prevent pulling down “private” code if you were working on something from the “public” side
I don't know exactly, but when I visited Japan a year ago, I was struck by how inexpensive and high-quality everything was compared with the US and Canada. Japanese inflation and interest rates both remained very low for decades, while inflation has been extremely high in North America, and yet in terms of exchange rate, North American currencies were getting much much stronger relative to the yen. When you think about it, this is actually very weird.

Imagine that in 2012, $1.00 = 100 JPY and this buys the same tube of toothpaste in both countries. Then ten years later in 2022, that toothpaste still costs 100 yen in Japan, but costs $2.00 in the USA. Naively, you'd expect therefore that the yen has gotten more expensive, and the exchange rate to be around $2 = 100 yen, or else there's a major arbitrage opportunity for North Americans to buy Japanese toothpaste. (Imagine this is not just toothpaste, but virtually all consumer goods).

Then you find out that in fact, the exchange rate has gone the other way, where $1 USD buys something like 150 yen. Despite this, toothpaste is still 100 JPY in Japan, and $2 in the USA. How do you square this difference?

This doesn't necessarily bode well for the Japanese family or consumer (as their low prices may be a result of their low wages), but in terms of international competitiveness, it's a strong sign. It means that Japanese companies can make a killing on exports and tourism. From a mathematical standpoint, there are only two ways to balance this price difference: either Japanese productivity is much better than was previously priced-in, or else they have huge inflation coming shortly down the line. The former will be good for Japanese stocks and the latter case will be good for the yen (as the central bank would have to increase interest rates and/or sell US treasuries to protect the currency).
Note that it would need to drive those 275 million miles without incident to be safer than a human.

Which for Tesla's FSD is obviously not the case.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-fsd-autopilot-crashes-...
That’s giving him way too much credit. Let’s not forget he tried his hardest to back out of the deal before the Delaware courts forced him to buy (based on the terms he agreed to, or pay $1B to get out). If he wanted to tank Twitter, he would have bought it happily.

No, he said some things online, then signed a legally binding document, then realized he was in over his head, then proceeded to perform exactly as well as an owner in over their head (actually worse, since the status quo was not nearly this bad).
> Either way its different than tobacco which was created by the company itself.

One could argue that Meta willingly boosted toxic engagement themselves.

This didn't happen in a vacuum. When a controversial post or comment suddenly pops up in your feed, out of nowhere, participants may be responsible for the responses to it, but Meta is very clearly seeking, targeting, and amplifying that toxic behaviour for profit.
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All of these are possible to implement in a really short amount of time (because its mostly software) compared to public transit (10+ years to make a bus lane on van ness)
CVS doesn't sell tobacco products for that reason.
The person spamming DMCA notices is not going to do it from an account that has items for sale.

Quoting the parent, emphasis mine:

> The problem with Shopify is that literally anyone can *open a fake account* and submit a DMCA to take down any competitor.
Finally, phenylephrine has been known for a long time to be ineffective and no better than placebo in trials.
I don’t think it’s necessarily common in general. But it’s not surprising to me that someone who files a lot of public records requests has one, as a lawsuit is your main recourse if they refuse your request or demand fees you think are unreasonable, at least in the jurisdictions I’m familiar with.
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I bet the lawyer was even more adamant that their client would not surrender their property/submit to a search without a warrant.
It's not easy in my state. It goes like this: go to inside counter of an open pharmacy (can't use drive thru for it). Wait, for a long time (aren't all of your pharmacies massively overloaded with 30-60m lines? ours are). Ask for a 96-count sudafed (generic or regular) and hope they have it. If they don't, get 48. If they don't, get 24 (forget that I need 2 tabs every day as prescribed by my doctor -- yet can only buy 1 box/month no matter how many are in it so if I can't get 96 I can't get enough). Provide ID. Hope that the state verification system is up, because in my state it goes down ALL THE TIME and so frequently the process stops here only to be retried at some random future time/place. Do this each and every month as many times as it takes.

Forget that meth use has gone up in the face of all this insanity. It now flows in massively from Mexico. IOW, this isn't stopping meth use. Also forget that for years people like me were told that if we didn't like it we should use the drug that just now got officially tagged as having never worked (duh, we all knew this within one day of the first time sudafed went behind the counter).

Sudafed is one of the hardest to acquire substances out there, and the burden falls on those who really need it. I'm glad it's easy for you, but it's not for many many people.
> You'll need to get over that

I'm going to continue bitching about it, thanks.

Enough people pointing of the obvious stupidity of this kind of insipid nanny bullshit (that everyone knew would not solve the problem being address, and said so at the time) might make the next nanny idiot think twice.

And if it doesn't, then they can take the criticism anyway, because they deserve the grief. No, good intentions don't make it OK when you're talking public policy.
"Amazon can't make a screen with two checkboxes:

I mean, yeah, Amazon was never known for producing quality software. Yet, I insist, the task is SO trivial, it's so impossible to fail that it only demonstrates how bad people understand or control their tool.

Twitter newly rebuilt UI takes 7 * longer to load first tweet, giving you essentially the same stuff but much later and with much more effort:

I don't have numbers, but I've heard Gmail rewrite also made it much slower with no apparent new functions. It's still pretty drastic if you put GMail next to Fastmail, or Twitter next to Tweetdeck, both of which didn't get any full rewrites in the last decade, so you can see how fast even Web UI could be if we weren't constantly climbing up the abstraction ladder.

Docker and Electron are the most hyped new technologies of the last five years. Both are not about improving things, figuring out complexity or reducing it. Both are just compromised attempts to hide accumulated complexity from developers because it became impossible to deal with."
Drought in Brazil's Amazon reveals ancient engravings
Undermining of privacy like that sure seems dangerous in a me & my rights sense, but the ability to sway public opinion on a grand scale via twitter misinformation & cambridge analytica stunts etc seems much much more dangerous to the concept of anything "democratic" to me.

Who the f cares about encryption protocol details if you've lost control of the state & the primary democractic mechanism as a whole?
It’s more like photos cost more money than the ads bring in.
Interesting, today I learned it had a more specific term. Still, saying something "isn't OTC" implies you need a prescription to most people. At least in my experience.
Never! We're still fighting a war on drugs, and it's crucial that the government know the names of all allergy sufferers. If people could have as much Sudafed as they wanted then... they might be able to smell all of the marijuana smoke outside, which would make the war on drugs look ineffective. We mustn't have that.

(8 people will reply to me saying that people buy pseudoephedrine and make meth badly and blow up their chemistry lab, killing their neighbors. I'm sure that's happened, but if we want to reduce the number of people that die every year, the truck that delivers the stuff probably has a higher body count. But cars good, drugs bad. I've lived in this country long enough to know how it works.)
Engineers in big tech in the US own houses, vacation home(s), and have Lambo money if they want (which most don't).

Engineers in big tech in Canada can comfortably own ONE house.

Relative to the baseline, it's definitely cushy. Relative to each other...not quite.
Even if we accept that the personal vehicle provides a better experience for an individual in a vacuum compared to ideal public transit, we're left with the critical problem that if a significant number of people choose to use personal vehicles instead of public transit, then there will be so much traffic that the experience will be awful for everyone. This traffic will cause travel delays, noise, pollution (from exhaust, brake dust, tire dust, etc.), and create an unpleasant dangerous environment for pedestrians and cyclists.
Yes, and there's been evidence that is was garbage for years.
I was wondering why car insurance is double what it was 2 years ago (well, also the parts shortage means it's cheaper, but very expensive still, to write off than paying for the parts and giving out a courtesy car until it can be fixed)
> Rate-limited...at a quantity too low for a household that has a sinus infection running around.

I don't think so. I actually buy this stuff for allergies because it's the only thing that works for me and doesn't disrupt my sleep one way or another.

I get 60 pills which are 2x what's in cold medication. I get that it's annoying but for an illness it's more than enough for a large family.
Why 10B snow crabs starved to death in the Bering Sea
OP doesn't seem to realize that time is not infinite. Business demands require abstractions upon abstractions. If we're going to go down that path we should also understand the biological aspect of how atoms beget cells beget organs and organism to brains and then thought when then translates into creating the logic gates and machine abstractions on which we utilize code to translate thoughts into programs.
Good grief, two skateboarders lives saved by a Waymo in two consecutive comments.

A couple of weeks ago I came across a biker partially lying in the road, trapped by his bike. I parked my van at an angle, so if it was hit from behind it should roll past him. I jumped out and performed an assessment (I'm a qualified, OK: certificated first aider). I diagnosed "pissed" and ascertained he was unharmed. We got his bike in the back of the van with the help of some concerned pedestrians who initially thought I'd hit him. I drove him home.

I'm not sure a machine would have noticed an odd lump next to a lamppost, with a civic rubbish bin next to it, in the rain. What sort of sensors do these Waymo things have? They will have to be really, really clever and seriously expensive.

I don't deny that eventually a vehicle with enough decent sensors and some fancy processing will outperform me but I've managed 30+ years on the road with just a few scratches, a broken wing mirror and a rear ending from an articulated lorry.

I've managed to return a hire car around Napoli (Italy) after a couple of weeks without any issues! That may not sound too impressive but have a look at the state of vehicles around St Antonio Abate etc - it looks like the locals play bumper cars. May I also note that I'm a Brit and we drive on the left. Italians don't. So I can adapt to local conditions. I have also driven across large parts of the rest of Europe and the north Americas. I can adapt to local driving styles from the "use your entire car as the indicator" as seen in the Amalfi coastal area (int al) to "no after you" as you tend to see in large parts of the UK and Eire. I can deal with all the different regulations. A classic European one you don't see elsewhere is the white diamond sign with a yellow centre that indicates that you have right of way until it is cancelled with black stripes. Then there is the French "priority to the right" thing (which has also pervaded the UK somewhat wrt roundabouts).

I can negotiate this with ease: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5628345,-1.7713341,110m/da... and this on a wing and a prayer: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@48.8654026,2.3222455,464m/dat...

I'd love to see a Weymo navigate those.
bounties are a good start but distributed unpaid work where even the correct solution might be rejected by the arbiter is a poor incentive method

this is masked by the fact that there is participation, but it’s excluding people that value their time. people possibly more skilled in solving the problem.
I'm never giving up on this as an issue. You don't just have to go up to the counter and ask and wait behind all of the people getting prescriptions filled- you get rate limited, never mind if you are buying it for a whole family, never mind if your previous supply was destroyed. I almost wish it were illegal, as black markets would make it easier to buy.
> all 32-bit aligned is the trivial case for decoding variable length instructions

That's the point? You can go faster if everything is 32-bit aligned, i.e. you don't have variable length instructions.
What's the consensus of building state of the art classifiers? Is using Llama2, Mistral, and co. really better than BERT? Fine tuning vs prompt engineering (which is what I understand the article to be about)?Text classification can also range from mere sentiment analysis, to genre/form classification, to content classification, and there are conflicting results about the relative merits of LLMs for genre vs content classification at least, ie. arguing that pretraining on large data sets can't effectively be undone and specialized using just ~1000 texts on a given knowledge vertical, as agency and GPU cloud hosters want you make to believe.
This feels more like an ad, more than an article with actual content.