skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one doubts ADHD stimulants’ potential for abuse and addiction. Adderall’s active ingredient is amphetamine, a drug that functions in some ways like cocaine. Both deliver excess dopamine to the brain, enhancing motivation and concentration, and the cocainelike effect of stimulants is enhanced when they’re snorted. Hence the long-standing nickname for Concerta and Ritalin: Diet Coke. “There is a fear that the overuse of prescribed amphetamines could lead to the equivalent of another opioid epidemic,” said Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, who served as the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner under Barack Obama.

Concerta and Ritalin contain methylphenidate, not amphetamine. This is correctly stated elsewhere in the article, so I don't know why they're conflated here.

> In one of these rooms, Ascent’s founder and CEO — Sudhakar Vidiyala, Meghana’s father — points to a hulking unit that he says is worth $1.5 million. It’s used to produce time-release Concerta tablets with three colored layers, each dispensing the drug’s active ingredient at a different point in the tablet’s journey through the body.

Sort of; see "System Components and Performance" in [0]. There's an overcoat which contains an initial dose of methylphenidate that dissolves quickly. Under that, a three-layer core: two drug layers and one pump layer for an osmotic-controlled delivery system [1]. As the pill is processed through the body and into the gut, water is absorbed into the pump layer through a semipermeable membrane which causes the pump layer to gradually expand, pushing methylphenidate from the two drug layers out through a laser-drilled hole over time. It's a cool little mechanism.

[0] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2007/02...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmotic-controlled_release_ora...
I'm not the creator of htmx and you are wrong.

I am now officially emotionally invested in htmx so I have to justify investing my time/energy in htmx instead of something else, so all alternatives to htmx are stupid and their existence make me very angry.
> this one is prevalent in Asian women who have never smoked.

Does that mean the rate is lower for Asian women who do smoke?
I agree. And running Arto's puzzle thru a solver, it has more than 10 solutions, so they lied about that too.
> Nope! Distributed databases do not necessarily need a "coordination system" in this sense. Most wide-scale distributed databases actually cannot rely on this kind of coordination.

I'm assuming a system that tracks nodes and checks for quorum(s), because if you let isolated servers be authoritative then your data integrity goes to hell. If you have that system, you can use it for low-bandwidth coordinated decisions like reserving blocks of ids.

Am I wrong to think that most distributed databases have systems like that?

> OK, it's very clear that you're speaking from a context which is a very narrow subset of distributed systems as a whole. That's fine, just please understand your experience isn't broadly representative.

Sure, but the first thing you said in this conversation was "Whatever is distributing the chunks is still a point of central coordination." which is equally narrow, so I wasn't expecting you to suddenly broaden when I asked why that mattered.
> Green usernames are new accounts.

It made sense to me almost immediately, so since people aren't making the connection: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng...

>5 (informal) (of a person) young and without experience

> The new trainees are still very green.
Watching my grandfather die with emphysema at age 12 was the only anti-smoking message I ever needed
Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations
In the simplest case you need one transistor per row and one per column for bitmap displays.

If any transistor in omitted, than that row or column must have a fixed voltage, which means that the corresponding column or row of pixels would no longer be controllable and they would display the same pixels as whatever other column or row is selected at a given instant.

One thousand transistors do not need a huge space (they would fit easily on a PCB of a size compatible with a PLATO terminal, based on the photo from Wikipedia), but they were quite expensive. Suitable high-voltage integrated circuits have appeared later. In 1972, one could have used Nixie decoders like 74141 for the negative voltage, replacing 512 transistors with 64 IC packages, but 512 discrete transistors would still have been needed for the positive voltage.

For segmented alphanumeric displays you need only 14 or 16 transistors for the segments plus one transistor per character.
Interview with Augustin Banyaga
One more great feature is that you can compare side by side, particularly if you want to understand different ranks etc, and that you can assemble a virtual shopping cart that also gives you the best option when also considering postal fees.
The demo is pretty cool, but the mobile interface could be a parody of bad interface design. The text box at the top is hard to reach if you want to open the keyboard, which automatically closes, or press the button to send the question, and the chat history is out of chronological order for no logical reason.

Edit: Text selection is also broken.
People reading these kinds of articles need to ask themselves, does NFL run out of points to give to players during games? Our federal government is the NFL of the game called the economy.

Remember, all money is debt. The money in your bank account came from one of two places. Either it was money the government spent, or a bank loan someone took out. That means when the government to spends less, you will get less in your bank account. So either you also have to cut back or take on more debt.

A high national debt means a high national savings. How about instead of talking about the total money being created, we need to talk about how it's being distributed? Should we distribute it all to the military industrial complex? Or should we spend it on things like NASA, education, health? These are the questions we need to be discussing.
And Aldi cashiers will lend you a quarter if you don't have one.
Wait, that can't be right, you must be talking about some particular species, they're everywhere in Briti-- oh. Common Skate is critically endangered.

It's also about £8.50 for 500g.

ffs. We are, collectively, utter morons aren't we?
You have to prove the OP had personal gains. If he's just a troll, it will be difficult.
So let's jump straight to the question on every hackers mind. If we can
do gene replacement now, how long is it until someone can actually do
biometric identity change?
> Why should we be allowed to work from home yet those who work in retail, cafes et cetera don't get the same benefit?

Different jobs have different requirements. This is also why I don't have to wear a respirator to be fair to workers at a chemical plant or move around heavy boxes to be fair to warehouse workers.

The fact that my job has different requirements doesn't make it "more important". Just a different job that needs different things.
The Illiad predates the Tao Te Ching and The Art of War by a millennium. They are not peer works at all.

The peer of the Illiad from a different culture would be the Jewish sacred books. And both, together with Theogony, are derivative of traditions that stretch two more millennia to Enuma Anu Enlil and Gilgamesh.
Why do articles like this always talk about the magnitude of the debt, but not of how much the interest is. 34 trillion dollars of debt seems fine if there is 0 interest on it. The interests payments take a portion of the budget the government has to spend so that seems to me more relevant to talk about.
1. `function` gives you a new `this`, whereas `=>` closes over the `this` from the parent scope. Which to use depends on what you want. (Full disclosure: I would've had to think for a bit whether the syntax was `->` or `=>` – though I'd probably guess `=>` because `->` means something in C.)

2. `!==` is strict comparison, and `!=` tries to do incomprehensible magick to munge incomparable types together. I still know some of the rules (array to string sticks in my mind), but I doubt many people know all of them. There's almost never a good reason to use `!=`, outside `elem.value != my_integer`. (Though `NaN !== NaN`, so you need to watch out for that: since equality is defined recursively on objects I'm pretty sure this is infectious.)

3. The length of the chain is easy (though, iirc there are performance implications since it's not lazy). The hard part is the fact that map callbacks can take one, two or three arguments, so stuff like `["123", "456", "10", "1234"].map(parseInt)` will behave unexpectedly. (Something like `[123, undefined, 2, 5]`, though I might be thinking of PHP.) Not sure whether `Array.prototype.filter` has similar gotchas.

That's off the top of my head. I haven't seriously used JavaScript since the ES5 times, but JavaScript's a very… memorable… language. (I can't even remember hello world in Pascal.)
The fact that LED's run cooler than incandescent bulbs makes a palpable difference in the summer.
14 year old me in 1978 had a whopping 4K of RAM in my S-100 system (a whole card full of 2102s) and I couldn't have had that much without my parents helping me out.

A full 16K six years before seems unlikely, especially given the size of programs back then.
Thank you much! I'll try to repro on my end.

You're not the first person to say that; I do need some basic info though in order to keep in touch so this was a quick way to get that info. But agree, I intend on making a public view and people can join if they want (and then create possibly)
For bio-terrorism you can just use dirty homemade version. For injection (for cosmetics and valid medical reasons like spasms) you'd want to use clean lab-produced. So I think that is the reason justifying its production. The security theater around, beyond the basic security, is I think mainly just a part of the moat and the politicians having to look tough on anything resembling a possibility for terrorism. I think it is similar to say marijuana research - in half the states one can do at home all the research one likes, yet the the official academia would have to jump through impossible hoops to do any marijuana research.
So what exactly are we looking at here? Did the authors only use two hyperparameters for the purpose of this visualization?
Programmatically, no, but I've made about 1500 puzzles and been sharing them with friends for months and neither I nor anyone else have found a double solution yet.

It would happen if I picked generic clues like BR/SL/ER (not a real puzzle, don't try to solve it), but I make a point not to. As long as you pick clues that are a little more specific than that, it's actually extremely improbable, despite what you would intuitively think (I had the same thought in the beginning!). Remember that there are 4 restraints, not 3 - it has to match 3 different prefixes or suffixes, but it also has to only be 3 letters (4 letters on weekends).

Sometimes I'm suspicious and I do verify them, but it's really only a risk with the compound word versions like SELL/LAW/FOX. Those I have to be more careful with.
I'd share my own anectodal evidence, but it is word-for-word identical to this
You need a demo video; people aren't going to create an account without motivation.
> Free markets create monopolies.

I have never thought this to be the case, could you provide some backing to your claim?
Part of the reason cities are hostile is due to their un-greenness. For every street that bisects a block, consider how many trees could go there. Then consider what that would afford the local ecosystem. Then consider the reduction in noise, the reduction of heat in the hottest months, the reduction in pollution, and the increase in beauty. Of course, less connective tissue also makes for less ease of driving, and so the battle inches forward to returning cities to its citizens.

Making space for more green is good for us precisely because it makes cities less hostile perhaps in a more roundabout way.
This comparison doesn't work because when you talk about photography, you say you need to do it "properly", but you don't apply that same logic to prompt crafting. Typing "Make me a picture of Trump riding a dragon" is not "proper" use of generative AI.
Scraping :D I covered it a bit in some other comments farther down.
You're just reading a mildly ambiguous sentence in poor faith. Not only is the amphetamine comment clearly applying to Adderall—which is true—methylphenidate also delivers an uptick in dopamine, which is why it's effective at all. The difference between the two drugs—which is meaningful in many contexts—is not substantial in this context.
There are some intriguing observations which indicate that talent is, indeed, a lot more common than thought, but needs specific conditions to thrive.

1. "The Martians" - a group of Jewish Hungarian scientists from the early 20th century, who were about the most prominent in their fields and significantly advanced global scientific knowledge, even though Hungary wasn't a particularly rich or big nation at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)

2. The painters of Renaissance Florence - within approximately 200 years, one (albeit rich) city in Italy produced an enormous volume of high-quality art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentine_painting

3. The Bell Labs around 1950-1960 - an enormous concentration of tech talent that produced much of the foundations of current IT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs

Notably, none of those groups/centers are productive today. The mojo can be lost again.
That’s a tax on having early model unfortunately
The Far Out Initiative – Ending Suffering for All Beings
Do you consider the random seed (or by extension the randomized initial weights) a hyperparameter?
Why would you do this? You can use a bus. Or scooter. Or bycicle. Or walk. Or dismiss journey, maybe it is a luxury itself?
In the US, in Manhattan, you can probably make do. And there are other cities where you can probably manage with some combination of Uber and short-/longer-term rentals. And just foreclose on certain types of activities for the most part. But I suspect for a lot of people out of school, "I don't need a car" means the same thing I did as an undergrad, namely lean on people who had one.
> it doesn't matter if for minute-to-minute execution right now lots of small functions would be better or worse, you either have them or not; and whatever tradeoffs you make for the code you write during this one ticket, it should take into account the potential future readers.

This is precisely the problem.

The way it should look like is, these trade-offs should be purely local, minute-to-minute editor preferences. Inlining some helpers or removing error types from the code you see, should be no harder than folding a code block or pinning a peeked function definition. Nor should those "changes" have any effect visible to anyone else. You should not take into account any "future readers", because there won't be any - but rather, you should pick a representation you need right this second, and switch to a different one the moment you need that, etc.
Jonathan Ross on that paper is Groq's founder and CEO. Groq's LPU is an natural continuation of the breakthrough ideas he had when designing Google's TPU.

Could you clarify your question about hardware support? Currently we build out our hardware to support our cloud offering, and we sell systems to enterprise customers.
It's an interesting read; I wonder how much of the failure to support users is a factor of the size of the organization itself, and how much is the scale of the user base. I think the other (ordinal) dimension to consider would be whether the users are also customers, or just part of the product.

For meta, google, twitter et al, it's almost as if the users that fall through the cracks of the system are off-spec product pieces, where it's cheaper to get more instead of fixing existing issues.

What I find fascinating (and this is anecdotal) is that large companies that have few big customers ALSO suck at support, despite having relatively large portion of their headcount assigned to Customer Support. I would tend to agree with the article's author, that as an org grows, it becomes less able to perform its core functions.
I can speak on this a bit. I'm fairly new to Erlang, but the team I'm on has been using Erlang since before Elixir was created. So we've been doing Erlang just because it's what we've been using, and the team knows it, not Elixir.

However, we recently just decided to start new projects in Elixir rather then Erlang.

One argument a former team member would make against Elixir is that it has almost too many ways of doing things, in some cases. Erlang is a much simpler language. One example he used was sigils. Sure, they're nice, but it also means there's multiple ways to define a binary string, for example. Sometimes it is nice to have a single way to do something and not have to worry about making a decision about it. This example isn't great anymore though since Erlang is getting sigils in OTP 27.

Another argument I can think of is that Erlang is learning from Elixir. Erlang took its maybe expression from Elixir's `with`, and, IMO, the maybe expression is better. They're also adopting sigils.

But, like I said, we ended up deciding to go with Elixir for new projects, so I would be curious to see what reasons other people have for picking Erlang.
Well done for launching this. This goes in line of what I said before [0] about Leetcode being a less useful measure of a candidate's ability given that it can be gamed easily via ChatGPT and LLMs writing code quicker and much better.

Code reviews either closed-source or in the open (with optional evidence of some contributions to open source projects or having their own) makes it a far and much better holistic measure of a candidate's ability than memorizing rehased Leetcode / Hackerrank questions that LLMs have already been trained on them and can be gamed quite easily as shown in this experiment. [1]

As LLMs only get better, Leetcode, Hackerrank, etc will cease to become a good measure of programmer ability other than being gamed to the ground.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39209673

[1] https://interviewing.io/blog/how-hard-is-it-to-cheat-with-ch...
To be clear, those aren't 16 years of accumulating improvements. The median life extension - across all 90-odd drugs - was two months.
Perhaps your analogy reveals more then you intended.

What does it tell you about the new technology if the best vehicle to demonstrate it is TikTok?
Same reaction, it is really slick.
I agree with your assessment of how the government looks, in actuality, here. The ethos i was describing was my own anecdata of what people claim to value. IE, they give at least lip service (maybe more actual effort as well) to wanting free markets, but their government does not actually do that
Ditto, 100% same story. I kinda knew I had ADHD and was able to investigate some childhood stuff that suddenly made more sense, but I waited until I had a crisis that was compromising my ability to function at work before finally talking to a shrink. Wish I'd done so a lot sooner.

I can start/stop, take drug holidays, etc. with amphetamine (adderall in my case) at will with no ill effects. Caffeine on the other hard, is brutally unpleasant to miss a day of. Been on the same dose of adderall for a few years now. I was able to reduce my caffeine intake significantly after starting adderall.
Noel's Retro lab has a video about a Spanish FM-7
https://youtu.be/4LTMYocpE9M
"The irradiation facility is the Mercury Plastics NeoBeam facility which is used for cross linking plastics"
-- http://www.rtftechnologies.org/physics/neobeam-m12d10y2016.h...
I think that it would come down to personal/team preference. Maybe you need to create a library that can be used in both Erlang/Elixir, so it may make more sense to do it in Erlang.

Everything in this article about OTP, Supervision trees, etc. carries over to Elixir, just with slightly different syntax.
AMD is marginally slower per core. Practically the same performance.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/apple-m3-cpu...
mathematicians have spent a lot of time investigating objects that lack parts of the normal algebraic structure. In a way it's fields like the real numbers that are the unusual (rather than "normal").
>Did something happen in 2023 to make them so much more valuable? Or was the market badly undervaluing them at the start of the year?

https://ycharts.com/indicators/cme_sandp_500_consolidated_co...

April 2023 the shorts went up 6x over night (from average of 500k last 20 years to 3 million+).

The market is strangling those shorts and until those shorts are dead, the market wont fall. Few of them fell in the last week but the short positions are way too high.

Once those shorts are extinguished the markets will fall to "real" market values.
Agree, my first ever car was a Citroën Visa from my grandpa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_Visa) and even back then the design felt special to me.

I think these and the C15 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_C15) will become desirable at some point in the future.
You guessed it. That's why.
I noticed your format is pretty close to markdown, which is itself just ascii. Might as well go all the way.
Yes, our matrix engine is quite similar to a systolic array. You can find more details about our architecture in our paper:

https://wow.groq.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GroqISCAPape...
>And it's far less painful than going cold turkey.

As stupid as it sounds I forgot that it was an option. There's something clean about saying "I won't have any more of X after this date" and sticking to it. Although I could've tapered off beforehand!
https://www.nasa.gov/history/history-publications-and-resour...
This is the challenge of the modern manager, especially in remote jobs. You turn on the computer with a plan, and then 345 Slack messages and 10 Zoom meetings later, you consider working on it. As an EM, I really miss that state of flow and productivity.

I’m whinging because I see other managers that have nailed this so much better than me and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
Yes, often spectacularly.

I can honestly say that I wouldn't have been able to hold down a serious professional career without it - ADHD is a very real thing that some people have to deal with, and its effects can be crippling to life outcomes.

I don't like the way stimulant medications feel to actually take, and the long-term health effects do worry me a bit, but it makes it possible for me to live something significantly closer to a normal life than I would ever be able to manage without them. Really can't overstate how transformational it's been for me.
FedEx has spent the last year cutting $4,000,000,000 from their own costs. No one can say they aren’t leading by example

Source: https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/fedex-outline-plans-fisca...
Would you be willing to share a few more details for me to understand?
It would help me talk more concretely with my colleagues.

So she had stage 4 lung cancer.

"Is alive only because of this drug":

- Was her life expectancy obviously prolonged? If so, by how much has she exceeded it so far?

- Has the cancer progressed more slowly, halted, or regressed?

Thanks.
The Homeric epics in my view are about transition. The bronze age stories of glory were a thing of the past, in sharp contrast with a world emerging from centuries of chaos. Literacy was emerging again, and with it these memories were being re-shaped for a brave new world of iron. Hence the contradictions and anachronisms.