skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Along the same lines, I've recently learned on TikTok that Taylor Swift's cat has a net worth of around $100 million USD. It seems a bit insane to me, quite frankly. I don't understand it.

I've honestly been surprised by Taylor Swift's popularity and fame. I hadn't heard anything about her for years, then this year she started to show up everywhere I looked. But I'm not in the target demographic for her music so I guess it makes sense.

Don't have much interesting to say about her other than she appears to be a cunning business woman. I've heard a lot of buzz on how she bypassed regular Hollywood protocol and went directly to movie studios to increase her own profits. Kudos for her for going beyond the gatekeepers and toll collectors.
I agree that this will be biased and I don't think this should be used for any serious type of survey. I was literally just interested in the results. :-)
It is an anecdote, not exactly something reproduced multiple times in controlled experiments.
Yeah, it's interesting to see what happens when people with confirmation bias hit an unexpected opinion and can't explain it away. So all they can do is ignore it and ask everyone else to pretend it doesn't exist.
I feel like generating recipe ideas/titles is the easy part, and advanced AI techniques are not necessary. Even the article notes that there is not really any difference between 1 round of training and 40 rounds of training with their model.

Actually generating a recipe is obviously much harder, and should be effectively impossible unless you include a humanoid robot that can cook and taste. I think the best you could do is generate a possible recipe that highlights ingredients and techniques you'll need to experiment with.

Also some of their final ideas don't really make sense:

- "Carb smart mexican beef and capsicum stuffed peppers with fries , avo and sour cream". Carb smart but it comes with fries? And "capsicum stuffed peppers" is a strange way to phrase it.

- "One - pan beef meatloaf italiano with green peas and spinach". You can cook this in one pan if you really want to but it will not be good.

- " little ears " pasta serves as balsamic tomatoes. Strange phrasing.

A do think a different model could solve these problems, but coming up with generic recipe ideas is not really a problem anyone has.
> Asked if the unexpected happened, would he be able to react as quickly as a person with their hands on the steering wheel, he said “I would be unsure of that.”

> Judge Hughes asked if he accepted it would be better to have two hands on the wheel to take control of the vehicle, and he answered: “Probably yes”.

If these were candid responses, rather than coached with lawyer, sounds like a real engineer.

And the interaction with the judge sounds civilized and good faith, in both directions.

(Not that I approve of Tesla's autonomous driving tech when other people's lives are at risk, nor with having hands off wheel even if somehow monitoring diligently; just commenting on this judicial interaction.)
> I started a new account recently (hadn’t used my old one in years), and doing so now got me just about zero attention. I got zero followers from comments, posts I made, following others, etc. It was like shouting in an empty room.

Same. I've run my own experiment by paying for a couple months, then letting the subscription lapse, and repeating. I've been through 3 cycles. My conclusion is that if you don't pay, you don't exist. I'm currently not paying, and I don't see doing so any more. Even if I do pay, I have no desire -- and nothing particular to leverage -- to build a serious "presence," so I will always be just another nobody spitting in the wind.
> majority of the energy used in a flight is on takeoff and ascent

That's an exaggeration or a misstatement. Even flying the shortest possible flight (a single takeoff and climb, followed by a descent and landing at a very nearby airport) is overwhelmingly likely to use more total energy in the taxi, cruise, descent, landing, and taxi portions. I looked through some of my datalogs from flights where I flew circuits back to the same airport and the fuel (energy) used for a takeoff and climb to pattern altitude was only rarely more than the fuel used for the rest of the circuit, and that was only when practicing emergency turnbacks from a simulated loss of thrust on takeoff.

The peak power is used on takeoff, but the majority of energy is used in cruise.
SBF seems to fit a certain on-the-spectrum techie version of being "too smart for own good" / "not as smart as he thinks" / "other people aren't as dumb as he thinks".

So he takes the concept of having a paper trail of communications can put people in jail to heart - smart.

He then sets up their instant messaging to auto-delete such that there is literally no paper trail - dumb.

A smarter fraud version would have been to have clean paper trail of communications that were legal & a secondary channel where all the sketchier stuff goes on.

The even smarter version is to not discuss anything illegal in electronic form.

The smartest version being to just not do illegal stuff and run a legal business that makes money.

He should have read far more Matt Levine.
Also the complete lack of critical thinking in tech journalism. Just a few years back reputable publications heaped praise on SBF as it was fashionable to jump on the crypto miracle bandwagon. Now it's fashionable to jump on the crypto crookery bandwagon. As an industry, it seems to just play to and reinforce the readership's prevailing biases. It's a good case for why reading tech journalism is a waste of time with very little net insight gain coming from it.
The problem is that it works by simply messing up structural integrity and isn't very specific. Skin is durable and resistant to this but our insides aren't.
He's comparing to a networked database.

In that context, a local disk has virtually zero latency for most use cases.

Also, SQLite can run in-memory. If your process is long running and keep the DB in RAM, the latency is even closer to zero.
I know I'm spending too long on HN when I start panicking about every day normal things to consume or do incase it poisons me, causes cancer, gives me alzheimer's or something else that makes top page posts. The health-nut side of HN is what lets it down and makes it a depressing place to hang out in.
> And that's an exact analogy here

Not even remotely close.
ceph is never the answer. Its a nice idea, but in practice its just not that useful.

if you want speed: lustre

if you want anything else: gpfs.
I understand the differences between an an and websites and why one would prefer to use one vs the other.

My question is about who would want to convert an app to a website for example for their business.

There are plenty of businesses out there who would benefit having their website as an app on their customers phone for easier access and they do not need to build a native (expensive) app.
Isopropyl alcohol works well for cleaning pine sap.
If that's all it takes, why not just use public domain things? They're actually free.
Note there is a good site for checking your chocolate:

https://www.asyousow.org/environmental-health/toxic-enforcem...

It's nice that Consumer Reports made OP free for non-subscribers.
I think its by distance. On the freeway its more "whiny" for you to wiggle wheel.
My local grocery store sells a 4 pound bag of dried beans for $10 or so, which seems kind of high. Amazon basic beans are $1.50 a pound or so.

But he's buying bulk coop beans, so it's cheaper? All the bulk coop beans I can find online are actually more expensive, like $3-$5 a pound.
This premise is terribly flawed and thus the conclusion is terribly flawed.

First, the premise completely ignores the costs related to producing the original work being copied. That cost of development can at the very least be assigned to each copy made. And the assertion that "copying digital goods has a zero cost" is also false: if you've managed free access to electricity, storage, bandwidth, computer equipment, etc. let me know where so I can look to moving there. To be fair, many of those costs on a per unit basis are typically very small, but they are crucially not zero.

Second. Prices are not a reflection of cost, but of value to the purchaser. Sure, when you produce a product, digital or otherwise, you are thinking about the cost to produce and trying to manage that aspect, but whatever the cost is it doesn't determine what the market will pay nor should it. If the product is highly valuable to a buyer, they'll pay more. To the degree you manage your costs relative to what the market will bear for the price, you will either profit to some variable degree or... if the market doesn't value you product for as much as it cost you... you'll lose your shirt. And yes, if I take a year to produce a piece of software and value my time producing it at say a modest $100k for my time, I could copy that software a billion times over only sell 10 copies: I'd only even break if each copy were sold at $10k each. It's true this isn't exactly a "Costs of Goods Sold" scenario in the regular sense, but it ultimately ends up meaning the same thing.

So looking at just the cost of copying a digital asset without considering both the full cost of producing the asset relative to sales tells you nothing about what is fair in pricing. To be clear: a fair price is one where the money you spend on the product is less than the value you receive from that product in return. The actual dollar amount is irrelevant to it being a digital good, tangible good, or service.
In the story, the parents kept kids in line. The owner disapproved of tablet usage.
When looking at the aggregate you can get things like the two political party system in the US that is a perfect compromise but doesn't function for anyone in the aggregate.
I didn't choose to accept the NAP. It's a social construct just as much as copyright. It's certainly not a natural law, fundamental right, or immutable law of the universe.
I totally share your excitement about dependent types, but it seems that, unlike the type systems we're used to, theorems about the dependent types are much harder to prove, which makes them not very comfortable to use for the whole program.

If only there was some kind of a gradual, perhaps typescript-like approach to adding arbitrary type-level value-limiting information in random places without having to have everything proven everywhere...
You should really be comparing TCO rather than sticker price. Probably won't totally flip the calculation in your specifically cited case but will still make a serious difference.
If you’re using the Django admin as a client-facing UI, you’ve made a huge mistake
The usual analysis is that they don't have enough meat on them to be worth it.
A good 3D printer isn't a very large time-sink.

But it's only worth it if you have a reasonable number of those parts, or if lead-time is important. For most people designing stuff, led-time is essential, but not everybody that want some specific part designs it.
If there's a stereotype of costco customers, it's probably "middle-aged dads stoked about the fact that they can get a deal on good bulk food and quality products like socks".

(https://www.costco.com/kirkland-signature-men's-merino-wool-... btw)
Your question has been answered, but addressing this bit:

> This is probably the stupidest question many of you will encounter today

We should all be so lucky that a well-intentioned but somewhat naive question is the stupidest thing we read all day.
Coming from a Rust perspective, I really value strong typing, so the SQLite type system leaves some things to be desired.

Is there an alternative embedded database with stronger types?
On the contrary...

Musk gets criticism for the things he does do, not the things he doesn't do. It's pretty rare I see any acknowledgement, especially in the media, of how little he has personally accomplished with Tesla or SpaceX, the focus is always on his next big stunt (twitter buyout, boring company, hyperloop).

Gates was absolutely vilified when he was the active head of Microsoft, essentially seen as the devil incarnate by many. But a few years after he retired and went all-in on philanthropy, he became a saint in the media and the general zeitgeist. Now that he's just making passive billions off his investments, everyone stopped caring how he gets the money and just about what he does with it.
It's... not undiscovered, they screen you for kidney stuff before they let you donate because there's a negative health impact on kidney function from only having one.
For me those were some viral videos from the older internet. It is not because those videos violate YouTube policies or anything. The uploaders just closed their accounts. Some videos just exist in my memory now.
It's not the fee so much as the focus on bulk that selects for big fridges/pantries/houses/cars/families.
He made his courses before Next.js rose to popularity.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he offered Next.js courses if it becomes popular enough in the future. For now, the anti-Nextjs push seems like a clear defensive play to steer people back to the course material he already had for sale.
Plenty of people criticize the investor class. However unlike doctors and celebrities (who, while relatively wealthy, actually work for a living) the investor class is rich enough to exist beyond the reach of most social and political consequence.
This was my real takeaway from the essay. I haven't read anything by the author in years and was surprised how _aggrieved_ and superior he came off.
I’d be irritated if not all of them go into a sim regularly.
This post is incredibly untechnical
There is no safe level of lead exposure, though.
Education and socioeconomic status correlate with lower obesity rates, healthy diet, and exercise.

The “sudden” change is easy to see in the supermarket. Most people don’t shop at Whole Foods, Sprouts, or Central market. Go to Walmart and admire all of the densely caloric colorful boxed foods.

Did you know young people actually use door dash/uber to get their fast food? It’s wild. So not even expending a few calories to get it but also wasting a bunch of cash.
Depends, is Tesla currently as good as Waymo? I don't think the OP was arguing for perfection, i think they were recognizing the current state of everything. Our ability to make AI as good as human with as limited sensors as humans is not great, currently. Throw in more sensors though, and you can offset deficiencies in human-visible-only AI detection.

To me, more sensors means faster implementation. Quicker to get on roads. Less total deaths. At least in theory, and in what successes i'm seeing.
I believe you're talking about the 2008 missile strike on wedding convoy in Yemen while Bush was in office during a firefight between US forces and the Taliban. I do not think the US officially took responsibility for that attack.
There were at least 2 other books in the making, all by authors interested in SBF. There was no time to wait if one wanted to be first to market.
I have a Raspberry Pi at home running an OpenVPN server, and a client config for each of my devices, and it's been extremely useful ever since.
Me too, since in _The Big Short_ he was so good at untangling a lot of complicated financial machinery to say “this is what was going wrong” in very tangible terms. That he doubts SBF et al actually committed a crime is boggling.

The best explanation I’ve seen is that the book was mostly done when it all came crashing down, and SBF was already the befuddled hero and herald of a new age, and Lewis just didn’t want to rewrite the whole damn thing.
Ars Technica links to the NAS website, which wants you to give an email address to download a PDF of the report.

Anyone have a direct link to the PDF? As a product of the US government, it's likely in the public domain and completely legal to mirror.
I think it can be used for most things that have a low concurrency level and don't need real-time replication.

There are replication "solutions" for SQLite, but then it stops being simple and you're better off using Postgres.
I think there's also the aspect that it wasn't built with ever being restyled in mind. It looks fiddly to make changes to (even if it actually might not be), so people don't feel inclined to dig in.
As discussed in the other reply, friction is dependent only on the coefficient of friction and the force pushing down. Tank track are actually so large for ground pressure reasons: a wheeled 16 ton 6x6 truck will sink into the mud where a 40 ton tank will get through because the weight is spread out over so much more area. I read once about a tank whose ground pressure was so low that you could theoretically drive it over your foot without injury
The sooner social media becomes unpopular the better.
No I haven't missed the point at all.

I've worked in the industry for over 20 years now, skills are transferable only to a degree. If you are applying to a corporate job, the person with c#/.net has the edge over someone with the equivalent experience in python/django.

Developers hate admitting this, but tech stacks matter to your hiring potential.
My daughter can learn teamwork and other skills from the billion other kid oriented groups, for programming skills I'm going to help her get the easiest best paying job.
It's a downloadable PDF, they send out the link via email every month to subscribers (I can probably unsubscribe from that, but it's a helpful reminder).
I think that was part of the point of the person you're replying to.
At first glance, I thought SOAP = Simple Object Access Protocol.
Wasn't nothing simple about that
Exactly. Of course that's assuming perfectly rigid wheels and ground. Tanks have tracks because they often encounter ground that's everything but rigid. Distributing your load over more area reduces the forces experienced by the ground, allowing it to stay put. Same idea with putting more wheels on a truck, or reducing tire pressure when driving in sand. Meanwhile race cars tend to have trouble with the tires not being rigid enough, driving them to bigger tires. But that doesn't allow you to exceed the theoretical max grip, and in that formula surface area cancels out.
TBH, that stat seems low.
What do you mean "that one members-only video"? I'm saying that with Premium Lite (which is 7EUR) you can watch videos ad-free for a month on YT. For people who care about not seeing ads it seems like a decent deal. Much better than Twitch where it's 5EUR per channel you subscribe to, which means if you want to watch videos from more than 1 creator ad-free it's already a better deal.

And people who don't feel like paying 7EUR/month can choose to either:

A) Just watch the ads, or

B) Build up a backlog and then binge it all in a month.
I can't read the dark theme for more than a couple of minutes without a headache and eye strain starting up.
Scientists Accidentally Created Material for Superfast Computer Chips
Funny this article would pop up for me today, as I'm currently migrating my web app from sqlite to mysql.

I got jazzed up on articles like this, only to figure out the hard way that it's ill-suited to apps where concurrency matters.

Sqlite is an incredible piece of software, but it doesn't do scalable, concurrent things well.
When you get bored, continue working on some of the half finished stuff.

I have a project that I worked on for a few months, then one and a half years later I worked on it during a national holiday, noticed a pretty big flaw, threw 25% of the code out to rewrite it and then suddenly it was usable!

Anything that is half-finished is also half-done!
> Green threads give you all the advantages of async

They require more memory over stackless coroutines as it stores the callstack instead of changing a single state. They also allow for recursion, but its undelimited meaning you either 1) overrun the guard page and potentially write to another Green thread's stack by just declaring a large local variable 2) enable some form of stack-probing to address that (?) or 3) Support growable stacks which requires a GC to fixup pointes (isn't available in a systems lang).

> green threads should run faster, as storing state on a stack is generally faster than malloc.

Stackless coroutines explicit don't malloc on each call. You only allocate the intial state machine (stack in GreenThread terms).

> The primary objection seems to be speed

It's compatibility. No way to properly set the stack-size at compile time for various platforms. No way to setup guard pages in a construct that's language-level so should support being used without an OS (i.e. embedded, wasm, kernel). The current async using stackless coroutines 1) knows the size upfront due to being a compiler-generated StateMachine 2) disallows recursion (as that's a recursive StateMachine type, so users must dynamically allocate those however appropriate) which works for all targets.
Amazon Alexa Is a Graduate of the Darth Vader MBA
The origins don’t really matter because under Franco, there was such extreme repression of Catalan language and culture that the nationalism merged with the Leftist resistance to Franco in a new conjugation that still, to this day, prevents a return of the same right wing ideology. You can’t honestly claim the groups like the MIL are tied to the old regime. It’s absurd. But the fact that you chose to elide Francoism’s repression of local culture, which was framed in almost exactly the same terms you’re using about the need for cultural and linguistic uniformity, tells me that you’re not really having this conversation from a very honest starting place.
What else are you planning to use to scan the environment? Why should we not require multiple instruments?
I’m not a designer, though. And that would be selling my engineering skills short. Coding is a relatively small part of good software engineering.
Smart or just aggressive?
> Sassoon brought out the terms of service Bankman-Fried had testified to and asked him to point out where in the agreement it specified that FTX was permitted to spend customer funds. The court sat in absolute silence for more than a minute... Finally, Bankman-Fried said, “I am not a lawyer” and definitely said a lot of words, none of which made much sense. Sasson asked the same question again, drawing an objection from Cohen, which Kaplan overruled — because Bankman-Fried had not answered her question. The line Bankman-Fried eventually pointed to was that funds were “held and / or transferred by provider.”

Check

> Bankman-Fried’s defense, in the direct testimony, was trying to put blame on the lawyers: FTX chief regulatory officer Dan Friedberg... A significant thrust of questions was about a bank account controlled by Alameda Research that did not bear Alameda’s name; it was instead called North Dimension, it came into existence around 2020 — that is, while Bankman-Fried was still Alameda’s CEO — and it was where FTX customers were told to wire their funds. Bankman-Fried said that the North Dimension bank account was all Friedberg’s idea. Sassoon asked if Bankman-Fried, as Friedberg’s boss, had given him any direction, or if Friedberg just popped ideas across Bankman-Fried’s desk. The word-salad began again, interrupted only by the judge saying things like “So I take it the answer is you don’t remember; is that about it?” or “Listen to the question and answer the question directly.” ... Then Sassoon did what I had been waiting for: pointed out that Bankman-Fried had been the one who hired Friedberg in 2020. She asked if he’d been hesitant to hire a general counsel. He said he had been hesitant to hire the wrong general counsel — “I did want a general counsel who was comfortable with reasonable risks.” Sassoon then asked if Bankman-Fried was aware of Friedberg’s history of working at a company that had an insider trading scandal? (The company in question, by the way, is UltimateBet.) That there had been a criminal scandal? “Were you aware that Dan Friedberg used illegal narcotics with your employees?”

Checkmate