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One thing I've not seen mentioned in this thread is the enjoyment you can get from the wide expanse of flavours & mouthfeels of different alcoholic drinks. Most of the comments seem to be focussed on people drinking either to help with social anxiety or just to blot the world out, or as one poster put it "to dissociate with reality".

I really love exploring different drinks, mainly beers and spirits although I do still enjoy some wine. There is such a wide array available, it's a wonderful 'hobby'.

With cask beers you get the initial mouthfeel of what I think is the live yeast coupled with some natural carbonation; it's not at all like a gassy fizzy drink more like a gentle tingling over the mouth. Some beers then deliver 10-30 seconds of different malt flavours with some being very biscuity or others more chocolaty. There can then the several waves of hops coming over depending how it's brewed. With one mouthful you get to enjoy and savour all those flavours and textures for a good minute with a lingering taste lasting much longer, they ebb and flow like a roller-coaster.

Spirits and cocktails are the same, the depths of flavours can be absolutely wonderful. A well balanced Negroni for example can be a very complex drink.

I've found some alcohol free drinks than can be built up to be a little interesting, but nothing comes close for the expanse and depth. I presume that the alcohol is volatile and is a key part of driving the other flavours, perhaps in a similar way to salt is a flavour enhancer.
1. Generating text content for websites and blogs

2. Translating documents from one language to another

3. Writing e-mails, letters, and other forms of correspondence

4. Crafting resumes and cover letters

5. Writing marketing materials, such as brochures and flyers

6. Responding to comments on HN.

(I added the last one)
I'm always baffled whenever a GitHub repo trends on here. I would have guessed a list of files and a Readme would be the last thing that would trend.
Samsung displays them in the main menu unless blocked. I run a network ad blocker that takes care of it for me though.
I am a bit confused here. Does it mean that all tires should be single use and no one is allowed to have summer/winter/performance sets?
Jokelub Chrome extension turns your writing into a joke. It's for people who feel insecure about not being funny enough. A little bit of humour goes a long way.
> Yet now, according to Congress, “man-made” objects “should not be considered under the definition as unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena.”

Once you identify something as man-made then it isn't really unidentified is it? This seems like a really stupid leap to assume it means a nod toward alien technology.
Ask HN: Any experience with Google TV Basic mode?
Dumb TVs, or more the absence of good quality ones, seem to be a hotly debated topic on HN and over time I've seen quite a few people mention they are looking for one.

A few weeks months back I heard that Google introduce a "Basic TV Mode" on any tvs that run Google TV, mind this isnt Android TV. There seems to be very little information on it online besides some websites mentioning it a year back. So far Sony and TCL seem to be the only ones providing Google TV in Europe.

Has anyone used the basic mode or has a tv with Google TV?
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>it's not like Photoshop hasn't existed for decades already, with far more predictable results.

Agreed. For me those results are predictably shit. Every time.
Imagine when you have to "activate" your tv to use it.
That right there. Plus the biggest existential (albeit long-term) threat humanity has ever faced looming daily in our minds.
TPMS sensors are much more precise than ABS/radial speed sensing.
If I’m willing to buy a computer, any pointers on what I would have to buy? I’m asking for specific models from a company like Dell, Apple, or Lenovo?
What would 1x cheaper mean? 100% of the original price?
you presume that i changed to a desk job.
I had a thought for a utopian/dystopian world.

One day these image generators will also get video support... and pornography support. When that happens, a few things may occur that I think are reasonable to predict:

EDIT: Original post was way too wordy, TL;DR:

When AI-generated pornography becomes available, it could be likely that demand for "real" pornography disappears because the AI will match and surpass the "real." When that occurs, the "real" will become increasingly regulated and legally risky, and may just outright be as good as banned.
I seem to have never had a reliable and working mDNS on any OS. Would not recommend.
Yes; milling is fiddly but because the forces are so low (and you can reduce the mechanical
accuracy needed with depth probing), it's possible to do reliable pcb milling for similar to cost of decent fdm printer.

People are doing this today but everything is jank, nobody's repackaged it with prusa-like reliability at hobbyist prices AFAIK.

Ideally if you could get v thin copperclad with a substrate that doesn't produce toxic dust, with the right software and jigs you could produce "basic" multilayer boards(1) with 1 "pin aligned" flip and a few manual tool changes for drilling etc.

It all seems possible today but has never been packaged nicely and made cheap, I suspect because the market is not big enough.

(1) one big issue... the boards produced would be vastly inferior to "real" multilayer boards, would mainly be usable at low frequency, you could get complex layout / routing but they'd suck at high frequency and in several other ways. You would need to relayout / redesign to target a "real" process, which is somewhat undesirable for prototyping.
I have a completely different approach. My personal TODOs are of different type: they are necessary, non-immediate, with varying emotional load (pleasant-unpleasant). I manage them using a combination of calendar and at-based reminders. These include things like teeth cleaning, cancelling a subscription, calling my parents for their anniversary and so on. I simply wouldn't be able to remember all these things without reminders, there are just too many of them.
You seem to have an issue with how logic works. Self-Service Repair is through Apple.
Yeah, the fact that these models are necessarily based on existing works leaves me hopeful that humans will remain the leaders in this space for the time being.
I'm from the south too. Our engineers are all over the north, proving to everyone that we have the brainpower to build some of the best systems in the world.

There are pending issues related to management, but also north-enforced market control (milk cuotas come to mind) that definitely have affected the economy.
DALL-E's filters are so harsh that I find myself often in the situation where I don't even understand how what I prompted could possibly be in violation.

It's a novel feeling, but utterly stifling when it comes to actual creativity, and I'm not even trying to push any NSFW boundaries, just explore the artspace. Once I can run unfiltered on my own GPU, DALL-E will never get used by me again.
Perhaps we should have started with artificial wisdom instead of artificial intelligence
No specialized equipment? So an iPhone / Mac has to be repairable with a consumer Phillips head screwdriver? Full size? Or is a T6 screw allowed? How about glue?

Who is to make the call about what specialized equipment and level of expense is ok enough by you? If people are buying the phones for the features they offer and the way they're constructed, and they offer a repair path, what do you suggest we do now, to satisfy your criteria?
Social media more directly exposes you to your friend-of-a-friend networks inner lives, through a glossy filter, that you'd never ever have imagined 10-20 years ago.

The people who boomeranged back to their parents basement after college (or after dropping out) are not posting as much as the guy who made $10M on his startup at 25.

Further, especially in HCOL areas, you are often adjacent to exponentially more wealth than you have.. which social media now shows.

Pre social media I wouldn't have known much about my neighbors who are friends with a billionaire family / famous musician / etc and go to various exclusive resorts on their dime a few times a year...

So for some, their basis for comparison becomes too wide and they end up always feeling "behind" when they baseline against infinite wealth.
I'm the author of the article. Didn't expect it to blow up. Let me clarify a few points:

1. I like Snowflake and I think they brought several innovations to the field: Instant scale out/up, time-travel, unstructured data query support.
2. Snowflake obviously makes innovations and performance improvements, otherwise they would not be the market leader they are. But I'm also suspecting that they make just enough performance improvements to be at par and then use the vendor lock in features to make switching hard.

My argument is that their rate of performance innovation has considerably gone down and DataBricks, Firebolt, and open source alternatives just seem more attractive from a cost/performance ratio. I agree that Snowflake is still the best data-warehouse to start with if you have 100k, but not if you truly plan for a multi-year horizon and your usage expands.

- Redshift also brought a lot of innovation that allowed people to execute analytical queries 100x-1000x faster than any OLTP that existed out there. I've used Redshift for four years and they kept ignoring performance and features until Snowflake came out. All of a sudden because of competitor pressure, they put more effort into the product to maintain and gain market share. My hope is that Snowflake finds a solution to their innovator's dilemma, since competitors are hot on their tails.

- Some people point out that 70% usage growth just shows that Snowflake is useful. Nobody disagrees with that. The issue is that majority of the companies don't experience a 70% revenue growth to catch up with the growth in costs. At some point, you have to clamp down on costs, which means that you have to look for alternatives to run things more efficiently.
So you're happy to have one, two, three, ...{case - 1} reams of paper on the shelf, but one half ream is more annoying than any other annoying thing?
I'm not disagreeing with anything in your comment, but I did want to stress that @jononomo's comment was about being "religious but not spiritual" and yours was largely about being "spiritual but not religious".

As you point out, being "spiritual but not religious" is a pretty common thing and has been for thousands of years.

But I think this is the first time I've heard someone flip that phrase around to pithily describe an approach/perspective/whatever that I've noticed being mentioned more and more over the past ~5 years: that some structures, community, moral frameworks, practices, etc. frequently associated with organized religion have intrinsic value even when separated from the spiritual justifications/motivations that usually underpin them in those organized religions.

Taking things a step further: To use an example from your comment, @jononomo could be (I'm not claiming they are) saying that the concept of "practices demanded of the entire community" (something you named as something the "religious" Jews did that was peculiar to the "spiritual but not religious" Romans) is something that could benefit modern communities - maybe by bringing them together, helping coordinate collective action problems, whatever. And the justification for this would NOT be a spiritual reason, but rather for the very corporeal reason of improving human communities (ergo, "religious but not spiritual", if you like).
Is anyone aware of a similar thing for the US?

I've been using Kiva for years with monthly injections of more money and "reinvesting" everything I get paid back. It's a little different as I'm not exactly looking for profits. I don't think you really get more/interest back on Kiva but I could be wrong since I've had a few loans default so that might have just wiped any meager gains.
[disclaimer: comment written by one of cofounders of iomete - a YC-backed startup - active in the same market as Snowflake]

I think Snowflake is (still) expensive because it is a venture-backed enterprise software company and goes through a typical trajectory...

Story goes like this: founders are product-driven and first movers -> find PMF -> need VC funding -> VCs only fund enterprise software ventures with 70%+ gross margins and high retention rates -> product/service gets priced to achieve these metrics -> VCs happy to fund sales & marketing machine needed to obtain sales growth, nobody cares about profitability until after IPO -> startup is everyone’s darling until ~2 years after IPO.

Then: economic crisis hits, customers become more price sensitive, competition intensifies. Plus now management is exposed to quarterly pressure of financial markets to deliver on top-line and margin expectations.

Meanwhile a bunch of startups are building (lower priced) alternatives. Perhaps not as mature or feature-rich as Snowflake, but good enough for 80% of use cases that Snowflake covers.

Therefore the assertion that Snowflake is not optimizing their product sounds a bit crazy to me. It would be optimizing for short-term gain, while jeopardizing its reputation as the leader in the space. Obtaining excessive margins through excessive pricing only works under monopolistic conditions or if they had a truly distinctive product. Both are not the case imo. Also, it's early days. Not exactly sure what Snowflake's market share is, but I bet it is < 5%.. so they haven't locked in everyone yet...

I bet that Snowflake will be forced to compete "also on price" in the next five years because free enterprise is a powerful thing. The title of the article could be “Why Snowflake is (still) expensive but will get more affordable over the next few years”..
On the other hand, you are able to use all of the libraries that you use only because they didn't make the same choice as you, and chose truly open-source licenses...

In particular, the scaling abilities of your product seem to be based on the capabilities of TiKV, which itself is based on RocksDB. These are both databases in and of themselves, and if any of these two had adopted the same license as you, then you wouldn't have been able to release the product you are releasing...
Were you trying to use more than 8GB of memory? There's an option to pass to qemu for highmem. Could be hitting this issue: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/713
Algorithm learns to correct 3D printing errors for different parts, materials
It will be more now. Photoshop needs some skills. With AI it gets easier and easier.
> It doesn't map to any intuitive understanding, it does not communicate anything about how much heating could be done with that energy

But that's exactly what it does. It's technically wrong, but communicates the understanding that you put 100% of electrical energy into it and get 250-450% of heating energy for your home out of it, as opposed to 100% with resistive heating. That some of the electrical energy comes out of the air outside or from the ground is irrelevant for most people.

What are absurd claims you reference?
You don't need an A6000. You can run it on consumer GPUs.
> Cigarettes cause cancer.

So did the ads that told people to smoke. They were banned precisely because they were driving behavior that causes harm.
I'm actually seeing these types of conditions becoming more common in software EULAs as well, as an boilerplate addon to the usual copyright notices and legal disclaimers. Don't have examples off the top of my head but I've seen clauses that this application may not be used for the enablement of violence, for discriminatory purposes, and so forth. It really is a CYA sort of thing.
Hi fleetwoodsnack,

Thanks for your advice, you are correct as that financial situation could be a huge problem for us.

We are getting in touch with our family legal advisor and based on their response we will take necessary action.

Again, thanks for your advice, appreciate it
but it's all about the managed lag.

how else would all those billions in R&D would be worthwhile for investment institutions?

as I see it (and stretching my reasoning), the lag is also part of what maintains the prestige of many academic and research organizations.

the billions in R&D are not all about the outcomes, a lot of them are spent making sure it's really damn hard for any rivals to catch up. how exactly? I cannot know but I can infer it's got a lot to do with having nobody able to see the whole picture, anybody can only know either how to design the chips, xor how to build them.

if everybody is as good as MIT, then MIT is no longer MIT. somebody has got to make sure some of those 3rd party (and far away) institutions stay there, in the back.

if everybody could do "2nm" process (whatever that means), then TSMC wouldn't be ahead of Intel, and so on...
So you are arguing that if football doesn't exist, 44% of all young people will be depressed? And that is why safetyism is bad?

To be clear: they are talking about american football, not world football.
Exactly akin to how actors in early movies had such dramatic makeup because that was the standard for stage actors (in order to allow the makeup to be visible from the audience).
You can get the native windows apps of the streaming services to get 4k without using Edge
Isn't 8000 years ago about the time the Bible says that humanity began to sin?
I think your argument is best summed up as goodharts law. Weight is a good metric for measuring health, but when one targets weight instead of targeting health, it stops being a good measure of health.
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Each of the “for any use ... which has the effect of ...” clauses probably bars any wide distribution of the output of this model.

Trivially: People have phobias of literally everything.

They ban using it to “exploit” minors, presumably that prevents any incorporation of it into any for-profit educational curriculum. After all, they do not define “exploit”, and profiting off of a group without direct consent seems like a reasonable interpretation.

I am not a lawyer, but I wouldn’t dream of using this for commercial use with a license like this. This definitely doesn’t meet the bar for incorporation into Free or Open Source Software.
so many of these myths are made out of thin air
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I mean that is not even that far fetched. What would imply clinical paranoia 20 years ago is now everyday occurances.
In C++, I like to return fallible values (std::optional or std::expected from C++23 are good choices), and use exceptions as something in between an error and an assert.

I personally find that exceptions are very good to handle rare runtime failures that are not expected, and that severely hamper the flow of a program. In general, these cases tend to be rare, and under their circumstances terminating is generally ok. Still, it's nice to give the developer some control over if and when they want to handle it, especially if it is a library.
Just in time for the 2022 Midterms!
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>Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president, who now serves as deputy chairman of the country's security council, outlined four ways that Russia could be "entitled to" use its nuclear arsenal—even against a nation that is only using conventional weapons.

>Number one is the situation, when Russia is struck by a nuclear missile.
The second case is any use of other nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies," Medvedev said Saturday, according to The Guardian.
"The third is an attack on a critical infrastructure that will have paralyzed our nuclear deterrent forces.
And the fourth case is when an act of aggression is committed against Russia and its allies, which jeopardized the existence of the country itself, even without the use of nuclear weapons, that is, with the use of conventional weapons."

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-lists-justifications-use-nuc...
I quite enjoy the expressiveness and the Swiss army style of C#. I dislike the abuse of DI and other OOP features used in most projects though.
What is stale water?
Apple is following the Harley Davidson strategy. Their brand becomes a lifestyle and personality for their customers. Build quality falls, prices go up, and people who've bought into the brand-as-a-lifestyle defend it all while acting disturbingly hostile to everybody else who isn't in their club.
> The hangover is your body telling you you did something not entirely healthy. You might want to listen to it

Does that also apply to people who drive themselves to the limit in sports? For example many people who do marathons or Iron Man events will feel rough and likely have blisters and bruises for several days. Some people doing sports end up in hospital as a direct result.

Should they listen to the pain of their body and not push themselves?

[I'm saying this as Devil's advocate) to raise a point about your logic, not judging the health issues of hangovers vs exhaustion, blisters, and damaged joints etc]
OK - I am a fully paid person on DALLE and MIDJOURNEY. Someone give me some google adwords prompts to pipe to these "things" (scary fn things - artists are dead)
I suggest you look at how much natural gas is used by the chemical industry, in Germany ~25% of the natural gas consumed is consumed by non-energy related uses as in not heating, electricity production, smelting cooking etc, with ammonia and fertilizer production accounting for about 15% of total consumption alone.

That isn’t a small percentage and those industries have an enormous knock on effect globally there is a reason why the UN put the shortage of chemical fertilizers as one of the top priorities.

Cheaper electricity won’t solve that problem and the gas prices must come down because otherwise food prices would sky rocket world wide and we will be at a severe risk of having famine in developing countries.

And whilst there are other alternatives to natural gas such as gasification which is popular in China that still requires biomass and countries like Germany cannot simply shift their production to gasification for both environmental and practical reasons.
I wonder/hope if a downstream effect of this technological change will be the end of the idea of a "shameful" or "humiliating" image. We all have bodies, we all have sex, and I agree that soon images of ourselves being nude/having sex etc. will proliferate because they'll be generated instantly via Siri shortcut as part of casual banter.

In a world where every celebrity is having sex with gorillas, doesn't such an image lose its charge? Will Norms and values around sex/body shaming change?
It could become a kind of licensing condition or similar, that you have to allow it, in order to use it. And then uninformed tech decisions force you to use such crap at the job, all while you know, that your development machine is mining ... What a nightmare.
I didn't advocate for or against a TPMS mandate, but I don't want a third party system because a factory TPMS display will be built-into the car's instrument paenl, I don't need to velcro a separate TPMS display to my dashboard and either hardwire it or keep it charged. Plus I know that the OEM system is engineered for that car, I don't have to worry about installing repeaters because there's too much metal between the sensors and the receiver.

But that said, I do believe that the TPMS mandate is worthwhile, I've been alerted a couple times already to a nearly flat tire. (both times due to damage while driving, so I wouldn't have noticed it even if I checked my tire pressure every time I drive the car, which I doubt many people do)