skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like the consensus is that some remains.

A lot of online sources cite a 1926 study that said bread can have ‘up to 1.9%’ alcohol content. This more recent study from 1998 suggests that 0.4-0.6% ethanol by mass is more typical: https://auventdunord.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/food-alco...
Hard pass on this
Yup I've had recursive dreams.
You're likely internalizing something you're grokking
Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in
It's really cool how they did this and not to diminish it in any way, but this is really a form of bit banging that a lot of devs already understand how to do.
A fullerene-like molecule made of metal atoms
Same here with FF. I clicked the link and then tried to click back to HN and my back button was greyed out.
A pair of books I’d recommend for 2024, which I didn’t get the chance to reread this year, would be:

- The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Gaiman), which is beautiful in a way I can’t quite describe

- Century Rain (Reynolds), which is best described as a hard boiled 1930’s noir hard science fiction novel.

Books I read this year which I really enjoyed:’

- Exploding The Phone (Lapsley): Super engrossing description of the phone phreak scene almost from its start to its end

- Hyperion and sequels (Simmons): Probably one of my favourite science fiction series now, and I’ve already felt the need to go back and re-read passages from it. Also really enjoy how each part of the series (Hyperion, then Fall of Hyperion, then the Endymion books) re-invent the style and the story.

- The Annotated American Gods (Gaiman, Klinger): 1000’s of footnotes is a great way to revisit the story :)
I don't see OpenAI as a member on https://thealliance.ai/members or any news about them joining the AI Alliance. What makes you believe they should be mentioned?
I tried using the walrus, but it wasn’t accepted.
8.5M Chinese borrowers are now blacklisted for not paying their debts
> The spot price of battery-grade lithium carbonate, trading in Shanghai and serving as a benchmark

I'm not sure why the Shanghai price is being used as the global benchmark without any qualification in this article, because in 2022 China was paying 2x per KG more than the U.S.A. and Europe. Everybody saw a significant increase, but nobody quite like China, where it looks like a bubble.

Prices have come down globally in 2023, but the Chinese price is now much closer to the U.S. and European price.

Regional price index: https://businessanalytiq.com/procurementanalytics/index/lith...
Show HN: Matrices – Explore, visualize, and share large datasets
Hey HN, I'm excited to share a new side project I've been working on.

The product is called Matrices. You can check it out here: https://matrices.com/.

With Matrices, you can explore, visualize, and share large (100k rows) datasets–all without code. Filter data down to just what you want, visualize it with built-in charts, and share your results with one click.

You can use it today (no login or waitlist or anything). Just copy and paste your data from a google sheet or CSV file.

It's hard to describe the feeling of "gliding over data" you get with Matrices, so I'd rather _show_ you how it works instead. This 75s video will give you a sense of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrh9_I3Ux8E.

Data is stored locally in your browser until you publish it, though small sample does go to the OpenAI APIs for AI-assisted features.

I started building Matrices because I wanted a tool that made it easy to explore new datasets. When I'm first trying to dig into data, I'll have one question... that leads to another... that will invariably lead to five more questions. It's sort of a fractal process, and I couldn't find many good options that were fast, responsive, and visual.

I figured this crowd would be interested in tech stack as well, it's using arquero [1] bindings over apache arrow for in-memory analytics, and visx [2] for visualizations. I'd like to add duckdb-wasm support at some point to open up a wider set of databases. Data is serialized as parquet to save a bit on bandwidth + storage.

Give it a spin, and let me know what you think. This is my first 'serious frontend project' so I appreciate any and all feedback and bug reports. Feel free to comment here (I'll be around most of the day), or shoot me a note: hi@matrices.com

[1]: https://uwdata.github.io/arquero/
[2]: https://airbnb.io/visx/
That’s my biggest problem with Spotify.

When I was younger I’d always have music playing in the background but now I only listen to music intentionally – mostly when I’m walking in town or on public transport. I usually download a select number of albums in advance and listen to complete albums at a time – just as I did with other media. Ideally, my monthly Spotify spend would be divided among the few artists that I actually listen to. Instead, the (small) share of revenue that the artist gets is their fractional share of what everyone else is listening to (most likely as background† music, selected by a Spotify algorithm or playlist), i.e., it’s not proportional to the amount of times that I listen to the artist.

† I’d often hear good music being played in a small (usually independent, not a chain) store or café where the workers have some control over what they’re listening to in their work-place. In the past, I used to discover new music and have some good conversations by asking staff in a shop what is the music they’re playing on the sound system. For the past few years, that hasn’t worked so well: the staff stare blankly, are surprised at the question and/or show no interest in what’s being fed to them by Spotify.
Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy by Liu Cixin. Sci-fi.
Show HN: AskYourDatabase – Chat with databases with strong inferences using AI
Hi HN, I’m Sheldon, the founder of https://www.askyourdatabase.com.

We have made an AI native database client which lets you chat with your SQL/NoSQL databases with strong inferences just like in ChatGPT.

The major difference to other tools like text2sql is the strong "inferences" or "understanding" of your data, you are not simply “generating SQL and execute it manually”, you are actually letting GPT-4 to look through your schema, generate and execute SQLs, correct itself if has syntax errors, and explain the data for you. (Also can run python code in sandbox to do post-analyze, and output you an csv file for you to download).

This strong inferences has been made possible by OpenAI newly released Assistant API and GPT-4 turbo, so our product’s behavior is more like a "ChatGPT database agent".

Interesting story about why I made this:

Four months ago, I published a ChatGPT plugin with the same brand name, a lot of people are complaining about data security issues, so that I made a desktop version letting you connect your db and keep your credentials both locally.

What do you think about this?
It's obviously hard to judge from the outside, but the linked issue conversation definitely casts the reviewer in a bad light.
I have a similar (less polished) side project I threw together in a weekend [0][1]. I use ChatGPT's API and it costs ~0.5c / article generated. So IMO very reasonable.

[0] https://gitea.va.reichard.io/evan/VReader/src/branch/master/...

[1] https://vreader.va.reichard.io/
That sugar in fruit gradually turns into alcohol should not be a surprise to anyone. Really ‘ripe’ grape juice can have an ABV of over 14% :)
Fake chips, I got stung
we will have to move from real names based on conceptual understanding into the theoretical.

'this thing is giant (you wont believe what happens next)'

'nobody expected it to be this big (you have to see it)'

'mr beast trapped in HERE for 8 weeks (cant plant any trees)'
It's an interesting idea, but a few points:

* Your documentation states "Recompyle will not work for every project right now. It's a work in progress." Maybe an open/closed beta phase is appropriate right now instead of charging $33 for something that may not even work?

* I may be missing some functionality, but $33/year/user seems steep for something that I think I can emulate by just setting breakpoints normally and manually resuming process execution in Chrome Debugger.

* Your site seems to imply that Open Source projects cannot be sustainable businesses, but we see this all the time (Supabase, Aseprite, Miniflux). I would remove that from your site anyway because it's not exactly a selling point.
There's plenty of websites like this one, but I really like this one. Saved in the bookmarks.

Good summary and great breakdown with timestamps, would be even better if they were clickable.
What is it that draws you so much to the threebody problem?
I honestly thought it was pretty much crap, but maybe i am missing something.
It's definitely doable. There are plenty of tutorials out there on the internet. But like others have said, there's plenty that can go wrong if you don't get it right (a fire that can't be put out).

Personally I would consider building one myself, but there's no way I'd keep it in my house (it would be going in a fireproof metal shed at the bottom of the garden or similar). And tbh, that's probably more trouble (and expense) than just buying a commercial one.
Thinking about this article and things like the Fermi paradox, I sometimes wonder if we're approaching things the wrong way?

Similar to how the current branch of life as we know it evolved on planet earth after what we assume was a large meteor impact and the resulting effects on the environment, what if the universe (or at least our local galaxy) was once much more populated and "busy", and then along came a cataclysmic event that wiped out the vast majority of life, resetting the stage for other more discrete, gentler and less energy hungry forms to thrive and exist. What if all those black holes and interesting space phenomena are the result of massively powerful weapons from a massive galactic scale confilct which literally destroyed entire solar systems by imploding stars? Or perhaps they are just clever physics tricks which fool outside observers into thinking there is nothing there, or what is there is so immensely dangerous/destructive that it's best to steer clear and leave well alone?

Furthermore, what if the majority of advanced life simply doesn't want to be found. Assuming that the development of other species in other worlds would roughly follow our own path (struggle for habitable space / usable resources), there would be an inherent distrust of other galactic civilisations at a percieved lower/higher level of development. The "dummies" would be avoided for (looks at today's news headlines) obvious reasons, and the more advanced civilisations would be an obvious threat which could not be defended against and so would not be targets for our exploration (a la "Dark Forest Theory" et al).

So, we're either in the first wave and we have some trouble headed our way sooner or later. Or we're in the second wave, and have likely been infiltrated culturally/genetically many millennia ago by the surviving intelligences (in whichever form, take your pick) from the first wave.

Forgive my rather crude treatment of the topic, I realise there is much more nuance and detail to these things. I simply present this idea in a rough form as a means to keep things within our realm of understanding.
How does that definition compare to the usual sense of "constructive"?
Show HN: Lexic – GPT-powered eBook reader for language learners
Hi guys, I created a simple ebook reader on top of Readium and the GPT API. The idea was to automate creating flashcards for any new words I encounter while reading foreign language literature. Before my process was the following
1. Highlight the word/phrase
2. Go back to all highlighted words when on my laptop
3. Check them in Google Translate
4. Get some context and examples from ChatGPT
5. Create a flashcard in Anki

The app does all that automatically and I use it daily, so if anyone finds that useful, here is a URL for the TestFlight beta - https://testflight.apple.com/join/9pJ8x81Y .
There was also Sente (another Go term) which was used as the name of another company founded by Nolan Bushnell (the founder of Atari). I think he was an avid Go player.
I thought it was pretty bad. It made Napoleon out to be uncharismatic and a total "simp" as the kids would say towards Josephine. He just comes off as a war monger Dictator who is ruining Europe for his single-minded vision of personal grandeur.

That's not the read I get on the man from my reading, so I found it very disappointing from a historical perspective.

From the "is it fun to watch" point of view... it was middling for me. Some of the battle scenes were cool, and there were some funny lines throughout that made me laugh, but overall as a story I found it pretty uninspired. Like, Gladiator had tons of historical inaccuracies as well, but it stood on its own as a really fun movie to watch and I can't put Napoleon in that category.
And it's right at the top. This is a sure way to get me to ignore your software :(
> If we take this to an extreme, doesn't content just not get made?

If the content is made only because of the ads, is it still content or actually an ad ?
I got an error with this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf-kDNFMCD0

https://www.videogist.co/videos/panasonic-s-rapid-response-t...

Or maybe it's still pending? I don't really understand if I'm supposed to refresh the page or if it will update automatically when processing has finished, so I hit refresh and got this error instead of the loading page:

We're sorry, but something went wrong.

If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.
Illusion of Control, Jon Danielsson

The Last Emperor of Mexico, Edward Shawcross

Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell

Stasiland, Anna Funder
We do believe in Unions here in europe.
Senator Sends Automakers Letter Criticizing Their Nonexistent Privacy Standards
For stationary applications like a UPS or a power wall LiFePo4 is pretty safe and easy to set up. LiIon is obviously better for mobile use cases and easier to get used cells for, but it's also a lot more unstable and dangerous.
GP made it sound like the cashier is already watching this happen, but yes, I've been the one walking around and observing customers for my Grandmother's estate sale business, but that's because it was helping my grandmother out; I doubt you'll find many people willing to do that for minimum wage. And I also doubt many store owners want to pay the wage and health insurance costs for an employee to hang out and observe/chat with customers.

I doubt any even fractionally-rational human goes into a store willing to kill for food, but shit can go sideways instantly when you start engaging in physical confrontations, particularly in a country where firearms are trivially obtained and carried; it's a latent threat in nearly any situation in the US.
I've been playing around with LLaMA models a little bit recently, in my limited experience using a NSFW model for SFW purposes seems to not only work pretty well but also gives the output a more natural and less 'obsequious customer service'-sounding tone.

Naturally there's a risk of your chatbot returning to form if you do this though.
When did the goalposts move from 'smelling cannabis in the air should be banned' to 'prolonged second hand smoke in the same room at cannabis dispensary levels has an effect on your blood vessels if you're a mouse'?
I've said before and I'll say it again. The best and fastest code is the code you don't write.
I'm the same way and I think this might be a manifestation of both the false consensus effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect) and false uniqueness effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False-uniqueness_effect).

When people like something we don't like, we are shocked that they could disagree with us as to how awful that things is. "Can't you see it?! The dialogue is unnatural, the premise is implausible, the production design looks like it was outsourced to the cheapest contractors money could find and the characters are unrelatable! What trauma must you have endured to actually enjoy that trash?! You poor thing!"

But when it comes to something we like that other people don't like ... well, that's understandable after all. We're unique ;)
> In the end it’s always about money.

This is why we can't have nice things.
When I think of 'Western culture', I think of the culture that developed in Protestant Europe and English-speaking America from the early modern period onwards, and aspects of which are diffusing through the rest of the world. I agree that it's a bit too broad of a characterisation to really be of use, but it is a thing.
It's a non-constructive proof. Saying "you could extend the proof to be constructive for a single n" doesn't make it a constructive proof for all n.

Infinity is quite a bit bigger than 1.
Show HN: FunkyShellSearch – Improve command-line file searching
The shell tools in the fss project are developed to improve the command-line search experience. They integrate the known powerful utilities like fd, ag and pdfgrep with the fzf fuzzy finder and different preview and file opening tools to create a more user-friendly envoronment for shell-based file searching. A configuration file allows easy adaptation to various file types, preview options and opening commands. The libraries can also be easily integrated into other customized shell scripts. I hope be also beneficial and enjoyable to use for others.
It's probably in cult movie territory. I vaguely remember not necessarily hating it but it's not something I would rewatch by choice.

And cult movies--more or less by definition--are polarizing.
I think the difference is in what a drop is in regards to. A drop of a well established price indicates something has fundamentally changed to make the price go down. A drop from the peak of a large increase that is still far above the previous well established price looks more like something has fundamentally changed to make the price go up, but markets over estimated how much the price would increase. The difference is that the new price, assuming it becomes the new well established price, is lower in one situation and higher in the other. A title implying the former case when it is the latter might fall under the scope of clickbait.

If the price is swinging up and down constantly and there is no well established price, then that is yet another situation which seems different from the previous two and the title might be better off capturing the unsteady nature of the price.

If I make a major story that "X happened three times this year" without pointing out in the title that the historic numbers of X is 2 to 4 each year, it can be treated as a dishonest implication of some trend that doesn't exist. We know many will only read headlines and will not question the implications. This is something worth calling out even when it is over trivial matters to prevent it from being used for more serious matters.
imagine that instead of changing at particular points in space, the optical properties all along the ray’s path change sharply at a specific moment in time. Rather than recoiling in space, the light would recoil in time, precisely retracing its tracks, like the Ping-Pong ball returning to the player who last hit it.

This is a “time reflection” officer and (obviously) proves i wasnt speeding.
But I'm paid full time by my open source company, like my 60 colleagues, and the stuff we build is fully open source, except for custom, consulting projects based on this open source software we build.

Open core is at least something (and I'm forced to agree with you, IntelliJ mostly kills everything, I capitulated and ended up adopting the community version recently against other IDEs, initially for its Java debugger) but you can pay devs full time with completely open source stuff.

Companies are more than willing to pay for support, consulting or even paid pre-built binaries that come with a bit of support, when it's more convenient.

Again, not saying it's easy, and each project is different, but that's something possible.
A good reminder that I need to finish my Malazan readthrough! The universe is incredibly deep, the characters are incredibly rich, but I do wish Erikson would let us get a little bit comfier in the shoes of each character for longer stretches of time. I sailed through House of Chains so quickly because I didn't have perspective whiplash, but I find it difficult to keep all of the characters in my head during some sections -- battles in particular are a real challenge for me in the Malazan series.

Highly recommend the series, but a warning: if you find yourself bouncing off book one, don't bother with the rest of the series. I find that the later books are slightly better written and slightly better structured, but the core writing style issues are still there (notably, perspective whiplash and a magic system that is so complex that it sometimes feels like deux ex machina).
If your region is the EU, you have your regulators to blame - their AI regs are rapidly becoming more onerous.
Spotify CFO cashes in £7.2M in shares after value surges on news of job cuts
This is like asking how to drive across the ocean and getting mad when someone tells you that you need to take a boat.

Email just fundamentally isn't encryptable; the protocol and the way it actually works in practice (hi, antispam!) requires that important parts of the email not be encrypted, and things like asynchronous communication make it difficult to do encryption to the gold standard of quality. Also, turning on encrypted email also disables several email features from the perspective of the user (hope you didn't want to search your emails!). The end result is that email encryption is, as someone else put it, LARPing rather than security.

There are a few very narrow use cases for which encrypted email may make sense (largely in cases where you're not concerned about hiding the existence of communication channels, just message contents, and you can do out-of-band public key communication). But notice that those use cases don't include "I want to message someone else securely," and it's definitely not someone that would work if you tried to let regular users do it.
High risk, high reward. It's not necessarily irresponsible for a trader to own Tesla stock, but it would be for them to be overloaded on Tesla stock. Too much risk. Still, your portfolio should have high risk, high reward entries.

With regards to Tesla, I understand the high risk part. What I'm failing to see is the high reward part. Tesla is currently valued more than every single other major automotive manufacturer on Earth - combined! That makes absolutely no sense to me. No, I don't think their supercharging network gives them an advantage either as all the prime real estate along the US interstates (and it's a similar situation all around the world)_are already owned by Royal Dutch Shell, BP, et. al. Do Tesla investors really think these energy companies are just going to roll over and die because EVs take over? Really? Those guys are just waiting for the standards to settle out and have a large enough market to make it worth their while. Their business model for the past couple decades now has been focused on getting people into their convenience marts - EVs play right into that business plan.

I have no idea why people think Tesla is going to end up on top.
"We must protect the security of Denmark and Danes," Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard said. "That is why it is imporant that we now get better protection against the systemic descretations we have seen for a long time."

Ah yes, protection through waving a white flag at the first threat... They won so they'll continue to push and they'll ask for more concessions.
Careful, we might bump the skybox soon...
Very cool. I've been using a similar approach to summarize videos on my website https://ray.run/videos/112-playwright-installation-2022 Doesn't cost much and getting great feedback about it.
> Advanced Micro Devices shares were marked 2% higher in premarket trading

2% is a "leap"?

It looks like NVDA is up ~1.5% since yesterday.