skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Psychdelics can and do kill meaningful amount of people, almost exclusively due to injuries while under their affects.

147 psychedelic deaths over three years - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1523208/

I'll have to find a youtube video but there's a good one with one of the psychdelic guru's describing a trip where had mis-dosed (he didn't realize the mushrooms he was consuming were significantly stronger than anticipated) and he ended up stuck in a "loop" of not being able to start his car.. for three or four hours. His exprience was distressing but not much of an injury, but he then delves into a story about how a similar loop resulted in one of his friends dying from repeatedly falling into cement.
This is the primary reason why I still use Brave. There is ungoogled chromium and Thorium, but Brave has some useful privacy features that they don't, it just requires some debloat.
The generated JS is only somewhat readable, but you're not supposed to be reading the F#.
We're talking about the UK here.

Ain't no sunshine.
There is a lot of prior, better (and open source) work at this point, so "going from nothing to [Grok.ai]" in 4 months doesn't mean much. The training process is hardly a mystery in 2023, now it just requires money and compute and human hours.

I applaud them for getting it out the door, though.
W3C Community Group Draft Report – WebGPU Explainer
Source [3] seems highly suspicious. There's ~24 GW of wind capacity in the UK, the vast majority offshore, and according to Elexon Portal (https://www.elexonportal.co.uk, a good public frontend at http://gridwatch.org.uk/), which gives realtime grid data, the maximum production was 10. So an average cap factor of 39% is, well sorry it's wrong.

And time and time again renewables always seems to take optimistic, if not ludicrous estimates.

Mackay's papers is indeed 15 years old, and what do we have now? Extremely expensive power, backed by fossil gas, because if wasn't, people would die. Avoiding 2 deg C and ecosystem collapse is not even vaguely possible anymore. In that time, 40 years ago, France got to 17 g / kWh. That's not a success and, for the literal trillions of ESG money spent, someone should be held accountable for that.
The article is literally about showing that there is in fact enough solar and wind energy available to fulfill expected (not artificially constrained or "deindustrialized") demand.
I didn't enjoy lunarvim at all and actually quit nvim several times and was beginning to like doomemacs until I gave Astro a try. Instantly got hooked.
If you aren't getting spam-email on your obfuscated email string, it seems more likely email scraping with the intent of sending spam is very risky given the fairly widespread proliferation of spamtraps/honeypots along with actual legislation in some regions. You can quickly ruin your IP and domain reputation and end up on various grey/blacklists doing this stuff. Like I post my (unobfuscated) email address absolutely everywhere and rarely get unsolicited email as a result, because almost nobody in this space is ignorant enough to send unsolicited commercial emails to unknown email addresses found online.

It also seems like this type of obfusction probably never was particularlly effective. Like you can write a write dumb if-else style matcher to de-obfuscate most of these schemes fairly trivially.
The REM is not on this list, and much of it is either running or testing.
It's interesting, it really isn't totalitarianism, actually the opposite, in a way that 20th C writers were simply not able to imagine. There is no centralization/dictatorial dynamic for this in the US, at all. It is all decentralized, at best these outcomes fall into the "unintended consequences of regulation" category, which is rather well studied, but in a much more simplified world model than we face today.
The paper seems to say the opposite:

>This reflects the variation in temperatures and wind speeds with season, with calmer, warmer conditions in summer and cooler, windier conditions in late autumn and early spring. However above the 75th percentile of demand, average wind power reduces, which occurs predominantly in winter and autumn. Understanding this downturn in wind power provides the motivation for this paper. Given our interest in high demand days, which predominantly occur in winter (figure 1, upper right), only winter days are considered.

>The tendency for lower wind power during higher winter demand is shown by the tilt of the density contours of the daily distribution (figure 1, lower left). It is also clearly seen when averaged across days of similar demand (figure 2, left). Average wind power reduces by a third between lower and higher winter demand, from approximately 60% to 40% of rated power.

Look at figure 2. Black is wind power, and the X axis is demand. Wind production capacity is down when demand is high.
Are you saying that dietary fat won't make me fat?
1 million drivers is by no means a small city.

That’s probably only 4 cities in the entire US: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston.
It's not clearly worst, since it shows that some rooftop solar is cheaper than the cheapest nuclear, there's mostly overlap in prices.
Don't forget the enormous land-use opportunity cost of a metro road network. In Los Angeles,I once read in the LA Times that when you factor in residential and commercial parking, drive ways, and incedental adjacent land consumed eg in ramps medians and cloverleaf's, more than 80% of land in the LA basin is devoted to auto use.
Roads are about $5m/km in the US. Over course size matters, but that number covers a two lane road near me that goes to a school (read designed for school buses)

In Spain $100m/km gets you a subway.
Company laptops can also have discord or (more rarely) crypto accounts and a succesful(or unseccesful) pentesting would be taking them over.
Oh no, there’s a huge difference between 山寨(copy) and 致敬（pay tribute)…
I was more thinking of separated bus lanes. The idea being that if you can create a separated railroad in a space, you can create a separated bus lane in that same space for significantly less cost.
I don't think this is some insolvable problem. It's literally estimating the time it takes to cook rice, and many other rice cookers (including other Z models, apparently) do this just fine.

It's not some edge case, it's literally the biggest question after you push start.
Oh, it definitely affects you. It even affects your gene expression and can get passed down several generations; People have biological traces of trauma that they didn’t experience first or second hand.

My favorite curse is, “may you live in interesting times.” I’ve heard it ascribed to Jewish origins but the Wikipedia article mentions possible Chinese origins. In any case, many people initially take it as a complement or a blessing. It’s usually not :)
Rooftop power (or other local generation) has a big economic incentive behind it, which is that the energy it generated essentially goes for residential rates as opposed to wholesale rates (which is at least in part actually born out by a reduction in the utilization of the grid). So I expect it to continue to happen, despite it being less efficient in theory than grid-scale. Local battery storage has a similar incentive, but even more accessible (at this point, a home battery system is likely a better house upgrade investment than solar).
Yeah I would love it if these companies simply took a principled stance against IP restrictions, but alas. Like they are literally running directly in to the main problem these restrictions create and then thinking “we need a way to say those don’t apply to us while making sure they still apply to everyone else”.
The slowness is a feature. The “smart” or “ai” or “fuzzy logic” or “buzzword” cookers take longer to cook the rice than a simple cheap cooker or a pot on the stove. The rice comes out better that way.
Politics is just a different word for interests, relationships and motivation - the majority of people are not willing to cut their consumption nor support any leaders which have policies that will restrict consumption. It's not limited to some small boogeyman faction of "others", it's for mainstream parties across the whole political spectrum, as the position of liberal parties is to talk the talk and take symbolic gestures but even they do not propose anything which would actually make a significant cut to consumption or price in climate costs to fossil fuels, because they aren't stupid and know all too well that even their mainstream voters aren't ready to that and will rather vote for any populist who won't impose such demands.
It's still contested isn't it?
The argument here is that psychedelics are more than "chemicals" and comparing them to drifting in and out of sleep is not a real comparison. Can't argue against them sometimes being problematic though, of course, but the argument here isn't acknowledging the real psychedelic experience. If curious, check out some reports on https://www.youtube.com/@Vivec
i am always amused how people have a negative view of HFT but have no problem with their private information being auctioned off daily online and their mental health destroyed by social media companies.
You want fluffy rice? Don’t let the rice absorb the steam right after it’s done. As soon as it is finished start flipping the rice so it cools/get as much steam out as possible. Don’t compress/squish the rice though as that is opposite of fluffy. Rice absorbing steam will make it saggy as it will have too much moisture. Closing the lid after mixing is ok
When you say legalize broadly i guess you mean allow doctors to prescribe it to their patients with proper protocols and not just allow anyone to buy it over the counter?
English incorporates words from other languages all the time. Large numbers of American Indian words, for example. When the US occupied Germany, a number of German words. And so on.

Heck, half of English nouns are taken from French, from when the French conquered England.
for console apps, F# sadly suffers from general .NET issues for console apps. Very large size (>150MB for a simple app) and at least 400-700msec startup time
The link is that Elmish is a competitor of Elm, and that the creator of Elm is a factor to the evolution of Elm. Leadership is a big deal in open source and is the sole differentiator behind the late iojs and OpenTofu. The matter of leadership is especially weighty for niche or emerging ecosystems like Clojure, Rust, or SolidJS.
Archiving Ernest Telecom D7 Payphone Firmware and Manual
We got confused when researching StackStorm so to save you some digging : the software has been donated to the Linux foundation and is no longer supported by a commercial offering. See:

https://stackstorm.com/2020/05/27/extreme-networks-donates-e...

The website is out of date and still refers to the defunct enterprise offering
My intentions was a "pure Go" approach, but that is probably more performant.

I imagine just calling the Tesseract CLI from Go would be simplest if that's all you wanted.
I’m surprised the threshold for Mensa is an IQ of 132, I thought it was higher.
I'm really happy that Montreal made this work. We need more alternative examples of public transit build-outs in the west that actually work and come in on-budget. Copenhagen is another good exemplar here with their public/private collaboration for new lines.

I do think this article has a rather unrealistic tone for what the rest of us can learn from this though.

> One advantage is that CDPQ Infra was able to take advantage of existing rights of way to create the route, rather than needing to dig costly tunnels or demolish buildings.

This is huge. In many cities where we most desperately need public transit in the US, this just isn't realistic. We need net new lines either over or underground, and no matter how you slice that they're going to need right of way allowances and NIMBY disagreements. Plus most urban settings that will benefit the most from transit will need tunnel development as part of the cost projections.

> Quebec passed a law that requires municipalities to respond in a timely manner to CDPQ Infra’s requests for permits and other forms of cooperation.

Reading about California's highspeed rail project[^1], it seemed clear that there was deep government buy-in about the end state but the interim goals were over legislated. Counties in the central valley traded their buy-in for the project to starting the line build-out in their counties, even though population centers in LA and SF could have benefited way more from early wins. One thing this article missed was that we need to set more of a precedence for transit agencies / bureaucrats on the ground to make decisions that will further the end goal and circumvent the horse-trading at the legislative level.

[^1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/us/california-high-speed-...
I did describe to them what I have implemented, explained the logic behind it, but they wanted to see the actual source code which I could not share for legal reasons as I have stated (NDA).

Feel free to believe whatever you like, no worries.
> Effective altruism is a philosophical and social movement that advocates "using evidence and reason to figure out how to benefit others as much as possible, and taking action on that basis

I'm not sure how anyone could argue that what SBF was doing fits it any way with that. He's just been found guilty of fraud on multiple counts, so clearly the whole "Effective altruism" was just a image he was trying to present, while acting completely against it in private.
s/bullion/bouillon
Ah gotcha, that makes sense.
IIRC herds of buffalo would fall off of cliffs because you can't see the cliff ahead of you when you're face-to-ass with the beast in front of you.

Everything I learned as a kid was later proven to be a myth, so what have I ever really known...?
I understand that the standard measure of every legal bureaucrat/official's effectiveness is their record, but as a member of the public I could give a shit. Actually, I think the obsession with perfect judicial records creates a bunch of perverse incentives and overall is poor metric of effective governance.

>Filing these speculative long shot cases wastes the FTC’s valuable time.

You know what a bigger waste of the FTC's time is? Being completely unwilling to take on any big players for years at a time because you might lose, regardless of how blatantly the flout the spirit of the law. The public loses trust in and the business community loses respect for the institution, and society suffers as a whole. It's a free pass for abysmal behavior at the highest levels.

>There are important mergers which don’t get attention bc Lina is wasting her time with Microsoft and Google.

What are these mergers and how can you be sure they didn't get any attention? Were they yet another handful of guaranteed winners that would not move the needle whatsoever when it comes to societal effects of blatant abuse of monopoly power?
Is it fair to infer that you have a value judgment on escaping problems through drug use, and think it's wrong or bad?

If so, why?
When reliable, like on the highway, it's much better. On city streets its a beta. As it gets more reliable, it will become better than driving yourself. Then eventually you won't have to pay attention, the benefits of which are obvious. Maybe it won't happen, but it clearly has a point.
There are potential arguments to say one should be able to use copyrighted material to train a model, but it’s a very slippery slope that leads to logic that also says the resulting models shouldn’t be protectable intellectual property.

Thus these arguments could backfire on those making them real quick. At this point though they have no choice but to make them as they’ve all clearly used copyrighted works to build their products.

The other challenge here is there needs to be some protection and compensation for folks producing original works in the first place. If we just end up with ML models training on the generated output of other ML models this is all going to go downhill real quick.
All these years and different flavours, and there's still something 'not right' with all Linux UIs.

Font rendering is one issue, but there's something else that I can't quite put my finger on.
A shipowner was about to send to sea an emigrant-ship. He knew that she was old, and not overwell built at the first; that she had seen many seas and climes, and often had needed repairs. Doubts had been suggested to him that possibly she was not seaworthy. These doubts preyed upon his mind, and made him unhappy; he thought that perhaps he ought to have her thoroughly overhauled and and refitted, even though this should put him at great expense. Before the ship sailed, however, he succeeded in overcoming these melancholy reflections. He said to himself that she had gone safely through so many voyages and weathered so many storms that it was idle to suppose she would not come safely home from this trip also. He would put his trust in Providence, which could hardly fail to protect all these unhappy families that were leaving their fatherland to seek for better times elsewhere. He would dismiss from his mind all ungenerous suspicions about the honesty of builders and contractors. In such ways he acquired a sincere and comfortable conviction that his vessel was thoroughly safe and seaworthy; he watched her departure with a light heart, and benevolent wishes for the success of the exiles in their strange new home that was to be; and he got his insurance-money when she went down in mid-ocean and told no tales.

What shall we say of him? Surely this, that he was verily guilty of the death of those men. It is admitted that he did sincerely believe in the soundness of his ship; but the sincerity of his conviction can in no wise help him, because he had no right to believe on such evidence as was before him. He had acquired his belief not by honestly earning it in patient investigation, but by stifling his doubts. And although in the end he may have felt so sure about it that he could not think otherwise, yet inasmuch as he had knowingly and willingly worked himself into that frame of mind, he must be held responsible for it.

W.K. Clifford

https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/Philosop...
When I talk about legalising drugs, I mean being able to buy them with the same level of control as beer or cigarettes.
Noob question. I developed projects in OCaml (ocaml + opam + merlin + core/async) on linux/macos. I'm clueless about F#, I've always thought of that as some sort of JVM for Windows, not great for Linux. How would my experience compare if I was to use F#? not so much in term of language, but developer experience: IDE integration, richness of stdlib and third-party libs, build system, package management, tools stability.
I agree that there are some very cool components of systemd (or rather, very cool programs living in systemd repo) - networkd, resolved, repart, boot and stub come to my mind first, they have no alternatives that come even close to them.

Also, systemd made writing service definitions easy, hats off to them. With cgroups, namespaces and capabilities support out of the box - great.

However, every time I have to debug why some target wasn't reached (because some dependency of dependency failed), or why systemd mounted something wrongly, or just want to know how often and why some service restarted, I feel like the core part of systemd (which is, the systemd init and service runner) is working against me.

And let's not get started on journald, I declare it my enemy.
There have been a lot of wind generators built in central to eastern europe over the last decade or so.
And those arguments are now getting attention and legal consideration now that they’re being posited by the rich and the well-capitalized.

Some of these rhyme with the fair use and similar arguments put forth by the free software and anti-corporate-owned culture folks for the last couple decades. More honest (if cynical) is A16z’s take, of “the rich already put in a bunch of money, so now you can’t stop it.”
I dropped this cite in a different comment: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4104590/

Obviously the shoplifters are going to be a subpopulation of the area they live in - if you live in a predominantly black neighborhood, they will trend to be more black, if you live in an older neighborhood, they will trend to be older, etc etc.

But basically the whole benefit of shoplifting is that it solves both your money problem and the "accounting for where money has gone" problem that occurs with substance abuse. If you're running a successful business and then snorting all your cash flow, that's going to show up in your books (or to your parents if it's your allowance money, etc). To sustain a substance issue, you need not only money but money reasonably free of attention.
I think ideally you set up the market so that supply or demand can move to meet these fluctuations. Agree it’s politically sensitive, but if you artificially flatten the price curve then you remove consumer incentives to participate in solving the problem.

I suspect industrial/commercial power usage is the big area for innovation here, but would love to see a breakdown of where the low hanging fruit is.
One of the studies I saw was with respect to chemotherapy. The mechanism they were crediting is that in fasting situations, healthy tissues lock down and try to conserve existing resources, while tumors did not.

Thus the tumor cells absorb a higher load of the treatment than healthy tissues.
Not everyone is using CloudFlare's DNS. These archive links work perfectly fine for me and I'm happy people post them.
That's the kind of simple rice cooker I had growing up, too, and my parents used similar methods of estimation. It turned out fine and was much, much easier to use.

I remember the first time we got a Zojirushi hot water dispenser, and even then it was like "Wait, you have to push these tiny buttons in what order again?" Whereas the previous cheap one we had a giant, easy to use button front and center.

Maybe it really is a cultural difference...?
I think this article assigns a lot of blame to Effective Altruism that really belongs in classic narcissism and power tripping.

SBF wasn’t even an idealist’s version of an effective altruist, he basically lied and told everyone that he was one, probably in a vain attempt to explain where all the money went.

That’s not to say that EA doesn’t deserve its own criticism, but SBF was only pretending to be one on TV.
I can make perfect stovetop rice 100% of the time, if I'm paying attention. If I'm cooking for guests, that's what I'll do. Thing is, I'm an extremely distractable person, and I've burned my rice more times than I can count.

My little zojirushi lets me get some rice started, go on a bike ride, forget about the rice, watch a youtube video, send some emails, remember the rice in a sudden panic, and happily find that it still came out nearly perfect.
The true feature was the political donations making their way back into the accounts of politicians.
just exaggerating as usual
Yup. Reminds me about how Madison Square Garden was using facial recognition to ban its owners enemies

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-g...
It's often used as an excuse justifying short term greed and deception for the sake of theoretical long term benefits.
As someone who creates data and analysis which get used in setting policy I do find a lot of EA spreadsheet analysis of measured "good" to be very niave to the nature of measurement and classification.

That being said, I think this peice is a bit of an overreaction and there seem to be many earnest actors in the EA community really thinking about how they can do good in the world. SBF is very unfortunate for EA, but to jump from him example to saying all EA practitioners care exclusively about the ends over the means is a bit of a leap, imo.