skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope I can offer that in the future.
I think you need to grow up.
That's a cool idea, wish you luck!
Does poker count as gambling in the US?
This picture put it into perspective for me [0].

We use most of the Earth's dry surface to feed ... What ever that picture shows.

Disclaimer: I did not check their math, but it is in the right ball park.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/p0qws3/self...
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Hence Debian shipping the “Iceweasel” browser instead of “Firefox”. (I may have the history wrong here? In any case, someone forked Firefox and called it Iceweasel for trademark reasons.)
So "certain enough to advise" means "not certain"!?
Heh, a streamer named Trainwrecks does a lot of gambling. The world certainly does have a sense of irony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31jDgwAuIv8 I found this video about fluorinated solvents (Novec™) rather illuminating about the potential dangers of PFAS and related compounds.
The classic example is that they make a capital purchase, like a building, for which they can't afford the ongoing maintenance.
Why Weight Loss Surgery Works When Diets Don't
>How I Started An Escort Service At 21 That Now Generates $200K/Month

So pimping is a startup now?
They have an example in the post with a very thick Scottish accent. You should listen to it. It's pretty impressive.
Is this even appropriate for HN? Is this related to tech somehow? Seems having this sort of post here, all it does is bring out Reddit level bad takes.
Why do you think this has anything to do with Covid isolation?
No evidence is presented for the purported mistranslations (of pretty subjective things to start with) as deliberate. You’d have to show that Wendy Doniger knew what e.g. the painting actually represented, for a fact, and still published information differing from this position in some way. It’s possible to be sincere but misinformed.
Where are you seeing that, I am unable to find this information.
QED.

anti-rational? There is no risk in forced medical intervention on a global scale?

ethno-nationalist? Do you know who drives trucks here?

nazi-enabling? Wut?

fringe minority? Hundreds of thousands of families directly supporting with presence, materiel and finances in the face of threats from the highest levels of government, law-enforcement and (unified) media?

This example of a very, very commonly recited trope appears bizarre, when confronted by the reality of what actually happened, as observed by the people who were there, across the nation of Canada. But, since this support was conspicuously unreported in the media, how would people actually know how bizarre, how divorced from reality, it is?
How to Make Product of the Day #1 on Product Hunt
Hello Hackers!

We launched our product (Typed) on Product Hunt yesterday, and fortunately we achieved Product of the Day #1 with over 1000 upvotes!

It definitely took multiple trial & error, and we would be more than happy to share our experiences with you. Please feel free to ask!

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> We actually did learn some things about the Intel re-timers through this product development that let us come up with ways to improve the behavior on the regular 12th Gen Framework Laptops. We are currently developing a firmware update for that that will improve both active and standby battery life.

Is this specific to Intel's 12th gen or can it also be ported to the 11th gen? I have an 11th gen Framework and am delighted with everything about the laptop except for battery life. If that could be improved, I would have absolutely no complaints whatsoever about the laptop.
Thanks! It depends on your particular use case. If you need all nodes to allow writes then, unfortunately, no it doesn't support that. LiteFS uses physical replication so there's no way to merge pages from separate writers. You're probably better off looking at eventually consistent SQLite tools like Mycelial[1].

However, if you have a single writer and just need replicas to get updates when they periodically connect then yes, LiteFS could fit that use case.

[1]: https://mycelial.com/
Criminals still need to launder money. Suburbanites still need to buy drugs. Cryptocurrencies won't completely disappear.
Not a zombie from a debt perspective, but I’d say Amazon falls into a category where many orgs are stagnant or declining. The headline is always AWS and the Amazon.com, but there are entirely separate organizations producing little value, and it’s been working out because the two juggernauts foot the bill or because debt is (was) cheap.

They’re out of ideas and their long term bets require buying up other companies and using the retail and AWS war chest to entrench into “new to them” industries.

I don’t see how long the H1B/burn out culture is going to scale in the longer term. People only started staying longer at Amazon because of the increasing stock price (thanks Fed). With that story now ended, I’d no longer bet on them.
launch Malwarebytes on the far right go to the cog wheel.
On the left click check for updates.
After you are updated to package version 1.0.60360 they say that it will resolve the google problem.
I can only imagine how much fun it was for you all to build and ship these :)

There was a lot of love for the original Pixelbook, so I'm sure it will be an exciting prospect for many.
The Nuclear War threat is not a joke. Just imagine if China or Russia had the same activities in Mexico or Canada that the USA/NATO has had in the Ukraine over many years. How would Washington react?
Documentation doesn't have to be boring, Fly.io's docs read like a good book
A $1 stable coin being worth 99 cents is a depeg, and it was at that price for nearly a month after Luna/Terra collapse.
Memories of my first job, between high school and university, I worked as a technician in a pharmaceutical formulation lab. Our main project was a topical Diclofenac preparation. We worked on both creams and an aerosol (post foam) dispenser. Balancing solvents, waxes, surfactants, and propellant (also a solvent) to create a foam that dissolves at the right speed was an interesting challenge. I have no idea whether our product ever went to market as I moved on to university and other things.

IIRC we explicitly didn't use DMSO because of concerns with toxicity, and just accepted that the absorbance rate was astonishingly low, clinical trials suggested that it took 24-48 hours for the active ingredient to be detected in the blood.

My recollections are hazy, this was over 30 years ago
> They argue its much better to attempt to rehabilitate rude players

That's fascinating. It was rude and nasty players that drove me away from online gaming completely. They make it seriously unfun, and if it's not fun, there's no point in doing it.
This sounds even more terrifying than Popolac vs. Podujevo from "In the Hills, the Cities" by Clive Barker.

(spoilers) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Blood#%22In_the_Hills...
Google just killed the Pixelbook division https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/google-hardware-repo...
I am fine with people making decisions on imperfect information. I am not saying Tether is fine. It almost certainly is not.

I am just confused why everyone seems to BOTH say they do NOT know AND then advise people and act like it's obvious and clear!?
It seems like OpenAI are finally living up to their name for once with this release? Anything I'm missing?

From what I can gather:

1. Includes model weights. I can't find the URL, but they reference them enough and have a CLI tool, so I presume I just haven't found them yet.

2. Includes code: https://github.com/openai/whisper

3. Released under MIT License: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/LICENSE
Always plenty of pimps around making sure the girls are safe, they tend to pay off the police to stay away.
Twitch is hardly pure brain rot, there are plenty of things worse, but the growth and commercialization of streaming have created a lot of problems for parts of the platform. There is some really amazing content on there and as far as I have seen most watchers have Twitch going on with something else. For the really, really massive communities, it does seem like a crapshoot. Whats the point of chat that streams by at a million miles an hour? Then again...you get to see modern day celebrities interacting in real time...for many that is a cool thing to experience.
How well does it work if you don't have a Google account?
Virtually every take I read on this forum is uninformed. To hear it straight from the horses mouth, here's Matt Levine + SBF getting into the realities of tether (skip to 48 minutes): https://open.spotify.com/show/1te7oSFyRVekxMBJUSethH?si=05bd...

I agree with the general sentiment around tether acting very opaque / shady. That said:

1. creation/redemption of tether (read: actual USD wire transfers) has been done on the magnitude of billions of dollars a time by major players in the space

2. during UST collapse, something like $15b of tether was redeemed in less than 2 weeks. so they obviously had that much cash on hand at the time.

3. the academic paper that attempted to show that tether was being created to pump up bitcoin has an extremely simple alternative explanation: as bitcoin went up, holders of bitcoin sold it for tether on centralized exchanges on the way up.

so, IMO they could very likely have some bad commercial paper on their books, but i think its much more likely than tether is worth 90 cents on the dollar and not 0, and in the case that it is worth 90 cents on the dollar, it would be extremely likely to continue to trade at par as there's very unlikely to be a scenario which forces any kind of large-scale redemptions.
Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We have those rules because otherwise HN would basically all flamewar all the time. And not even fresh flamewars.
Now if only they took action against porn next... One can dream...
For me it was the core premise that is both the blessing and the curse. That it is only possible to install software by first packaging it.
> I'd sour to Rust too, if that was my primary interaction with the "community".

Yeah, understood. I think we both know Rust people face a lot of the same level of criticism. And I get it. It's no fun. However, I don't think the way forward is to present the worst possible form of the argument (a strawman, "Rust people think Rust solves all problems", or, a vibe level: us vs them, "Rust people are toxic").

If I wanted, I could rake some C++ people over the coals for being toxic right now, and not just re: Rust, because C++ has more than a few hard core jerks. But whataboutism is just not helpful. I'm more interested in something more substantive/constructive.
I honestly can’t tell if this is a parody or not.
Of course there are. Like I said, Stripe was competition. It wasn't a side-show because it didn't try to change the game without solid analytical data; instead it just played the same game and tried different methods of achieving the same goals. That's competition: We're both trying to get to the same place, and we're doing it differently.

But, again, I don't see the linked site as doing that. Instead, it's trying to say that it can achieve the same goals by playing an entirely different game. And that's fine, if they can back it up. But everything that does that is a side-show until they do.

A grocery store isn't competition to Wal-Mart or Amazon. If they want to be, they have to tackle the scale of supply and demand that those monopolists do. If they say "we're doing exactly what they did, just cheaper", that's competition. If they say "we're doing exactly what they did, but we have this localized scheme for deliveries that will save us a ton of money", THAT'S competition (assuming some evidence it's true).
If they say "we're going to do something entirely different, and here's a bunch of convincing data to say why that would work, or work better", that is, once again, competition.

But if your grocery store says "we're going to do it completely differently, because we are aggrieved!", that is a side-show. There's nothing there to engender confidence. If the store says "we're going to do it completely differently, by doing it backwards because that SHOULD work out better", that is another example of a side-show.
The salient bit being that it MIGHT work. That's what's great about capitalism. But you'll forgive me if I don't get too particularly enthused about yet another right-wing think-tank pivoting into new ways for people to invest a ton of money before they agonizingly drag out their corporate demise, insisting that they are doing "fine", the whole time. It's not myopic or short-sighted to contextualize real patterns that you've observed into actionable investment or divestment of interest.
Hey, thank you! but it wasn't me who fine tuned [1] the model, it was https://github.com/justinpinkney

I agree that it produces some incredible results, and it's awesome that justinpinkney open sourced it!

[1] https://github.com/LambdaLabsML/examples/tree/main/stable-di...
Very few people hold Tether so it’s not a very helpful warning: most ”USDT” exists within exchanges and is used to transact.

The Luna fiasco was a consequence of Luna specifically encouraging people to hold UST, encouraged with unsustainable incentives. That dynamic doesn’t exist in the context of USDT, there’s no benefit to holding USDT.

The problem with USDT is that so much of the current cryptocurrency market has been propped up by USDT that probably isn’t backed by any real assets.

Tether print $1bn of USDT -> buy $1bn worth of BTC on an exchange that uses USDT (e.g: their own…) -> price goes up and increases the market cap by orders-of-magnitude more than $1bn.

If you have exposure to the cryptocurrency market (whether you hold USDT, or BTC or own $COIN stock) and tether blows up, you will very probably be hurt in the fallout. Buying BTC with any USDT held is a false sense of security.

If you don’t want to be exposed to the tether blowup contagion, sell everything now into cash-in-your-bank-account (not “cash” on an exchange) and wait.
Thanks, I'll fix that link.

If you press escape, you enter a command mode where you can use the following shortcuts:

j: Move down to the next task
k: Move up to the previous task
s: Start or stop the timer for the selected task
d: Mark the selected task as done
n: Create a new task
… yes? I can be full enough that I don't want to eat any more rice, but not so full that I can't squeeze in some pudding. The word "enough" is right there in front of you, indicating that the adjective it modifies has a quantity. If I am full, I don't want any more food; if I am full enough not to want X, that doesn't mean there is no food I will eat.
Do you think people are in general kinder and more respectful and admiring to maintainers and support staff for software they pay for, then? That seems to be what your theory would call for?
Russia is protesting today / Live from St Petersburg [video]
Still used for solving mazes I believe: https://youtu.be/v2uAipnt2nw
> Inside, Logitech is using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G processor,

Squirt gun to a gunfight. Hard to figure out what logitech thinks their competitive advantage is here.
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For you — 2021 "Ranking programming languages by energy efficiency"

https://haslab.github.io/SAFER/scp21.pdf

"In addition, we further validate our results and rankings against implementations from a chrestomathy program repository, Rosetta Code., by reproducing our methodology and benchmarking system."
Note: I apologize if this is overstepping, its hard to tell!

I think a strong - extremely strong - selling point is the point I made about "prebaked" data for your APIs, since the entire strength of these SQLite based systems reside in their fast read capacity (as mentioned elsewhere and in this article, its very fast for read heavy applications, which is most) you could take on an angle around that to get people "in the door" by showing a pathway of how this fits inside your existing data warehouse / storage model.

We found we liked the SQLite durability to do this. It was a bit smarter than just a plain cache (such as Redis) with better durability and (for our needs) comparable enough performance (I think in absolute terms, a tuned Redis instance will always be faster, but up to a certain point, speed isn't everything, especially when factoring cost).

We found it was cheaper - by a good margin - to do this over caching everything AOT in a redis cluster, and we could therefore much more cheaply go multi-region and have DB's sitting next to our customers that acted as a nearline cache.

The complexity - which is an area where this might help in the future, and why I'm mentioning it - is shipping changes back. What we ended up doing is setting up a write Redis cluster that clients write to, and we take those writes and trigger a propogation job back to the database. This allowed us to run a much slimmer redis cluster and made us feel more comfortable doing cache eviction since we could verify writes pretty easily. You could do this with memcache or whatever too.

Sounds convoluted, but it worked really well. It allowed us to keep our centralized database intact without having to spin up expensive instances to be multi-region or commit to ever growing Redis cluster(s). the SQLite flat file model + history of durability made things the perfect tradeoff for this use case. Of course, YMMV, however it was a novel solution that used "enterprise grade" parts all the way down, which made it an easy selling point.

You might find it worth exploring this more.

As far as the comparisons go, I think it'd be cool to see a deep dive, and run a test suite against each of the major SQLite as a distributed database model. For that, I don't think it has to be open source to do a reasonable comparison?
It's not just splitting hairs either. Training datasets also come into play with tools like resolution upscalers.
Helium, T-Mobile Launch Crypto-Powered 5G Mobile Network
Is there a list of system requirements somewhere ? Can it run on cheaper low memory GPUs ? maybe CPUs ?
>>The probabilities of bad things happening are vastly different for an undercover operator than for ordinary people

Perhaps, but the article is focused on potential disasters irrelevant to operatives and just that randomly occur to any traveler - fire/natural disaster, theft, ordinary random mugging, terrorist activity often focused on hotels used by foreigners, etc. I saw nothing that was not generally applicable.

>>This 'minimize risk at all cost' mindset is very similar to the helicopter parenting lifestyle

I'm as much against 'helicopter parenting' as anyone, yet this is just the opposite — it gives everyone a starting set of simple steps to take that increases their ability to operate independently, i.e., not being dependent on parents, etc. for your security, but taking care of oneself.

>>I was saying "don't be afraid to check a map when you're on the street".
Umm, depends on the situation, and on how befuddled you are going to look. Midtown Manhattan, London, etc., on a weekday noontime? Ya, just don't do it in the middle of the sidewalk and obstruct traffic. Any other city or tourist destination? I'd certainly step off the street first. Might as well put a sticker on my back in the local language saying "rob me".

>> critical comments ended with ad hominem attacks.
IDK about other comments, but I was not speaking ad hominem, simply trying to suss out why it is so important for someone to actively spend time to denigrate good security measures (which also help one enjoy the surroundings more, e.g., learning the terrain up front). Why is it important to you that other people don't do things like learn the terrain in advance? Why not just read the article and say "meh?" and move on?
Big companies like Amazon, Google or Microsoft could set the price to zero, and their smaller competitors would be losing a lot of money each month? Basically an easy way to get rid of the competition

Sounds like it would mostly benefit the large companies

It would be better if internet was considered basic infrastructure and funded by taxes like roads.
Oh ya, good point. I hadn't considered the long tail problem, how democratizing music production counterintuitively killed the recorded music business so performing onstage is the only real way to make money now.

I feel like that problem is only going to spread to all industries, so that the only work that will be compensated is manual labor.

Someday we'll have to evaluate if running the rat race is the best use of human potential. Is that premature right now? Will it be in 10 years? I dunno, but I feel like now is the time to be solving this, not in some dystopian future where we spend our entire lives just working to make rent..
Fractional reserve banking still means having assets that cover your liabilities; those assets simply may not be liquid (i.e. they are loans that will be paid back over a period of years).

If you don't have assets on your books, and have instead either walked with or lost a large portion of the money, then you're not doing fractional reserve banking, you're running a confidence scheme.

If Tether, as suspected, was largely "backed" by crypto assets and Bitfinex shares, then they're gambling with the bank funds... and the recent losses in the crypto markets mean that they have been losing those bets.

(I edited the last portion of this substantially to make it more concise.)
I would have expected that you'd _want_ to factor in air noise because humans don't only hear fan noise in their computers. Or am I misunderstanding?
I agree - some of the updates I've received have been so half baked, including the Android apps forever-hang, that I wondered if anyone real was involved in this release. I finally got rid of my chromebook for a pittance because I just got tired of the mess.
I think the problem is actually that you can't imagine a world where we have rules and governance without a militarized force which uses violence to enforce those laws, and so when someone suggests getting rid of the police, you assume they want to get rid of the rule of law.
It's faster to sift through pre-generated images than to build novel ones.
Given the projects where Rust is already in use (and has been for several years at this point), I don't think that is a concern.
My point is that the war in Ukraine showed that West has little understanding of Russia's point of view, what price Putin is willing to pay, what he perceives as a gain.
I did see this, its a little light on details in the way I was thinking about this, however I appreciate the call out, especially for others!

It is missing the D1 comparison though.
Google provides specific support dates on its Pixel and Chromebook devices. For instance, under "About ChromeOS", mine says, "This device will get automatic software and security updates until 2027."

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?visit_id=...
Also, based on their demo, this model seems like it might have comprehension well above the level of a typical human.

Anyway, it's out there now. No way to turn back.
From personal experience, combine the typical flakines/social non-commital of people from LA with typical nordic asocial behaviors, and that's what you got here.

Add lots of tech people to the mix, a lot of whom would already be a bit predisposed and comfortable with such behaviors, and it gets even worse. Not trying to cast shade on anyone here, I am one of those "predisposed" people myself.

Over the past 4 years, almost all of my closest friends left the city (3 non-locals, 1 who was born and raised here; out of those 4, I only knew 1 non-local prior to moving here) and moved to NYC, and they all couldn't be happier with their decision, years later.

Trust me, I love my alone time and can go without interacting with people outside for days without feeling bad about it at all. But even for me, Seattle feels more suffocating than literally any other major city I've ever been in. Luckily, not staying here for much longer.