skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visiting Japan this last summer, I was shocked at how much cheaper basic meals were.

Even if you used a 1 USD = 100 JPY exchange rate instead of the real one, I could get nicer breakfasts than McDonald's for much cheaper somewhere like Sukiya, and they're open 24/7 to boot! Fully open, not just a drive through sometimes like in the states. Ordering experience was great too, they have these tablets where you can switch the language to English so it's easy.

Anyway, it kinda feels like McDonald's in the US isn't actually that cheap anymore? When I order breakfast there sometimes, it always feels like the food is kind of pricey considering they're just keeping it warm or warming up premade food.

Edit: looks like I'm not just imagining it, Big Mac prices have outpaced inflation over the last couple decades - https://www.axios.com/2022/04/17/mcdonalds-big-mac-inflation...

I wonder why?
When I was growing up, it was cigarettes. I got hooked when I was 12 but fortunately I was able to switch to vapes in the past few years. Kids are gonna do it, you can't put that genie back in the bottle. I'm just glad it's a habit that won't kill them.

What are the available solutions? Throw the kids in jail? Shame them? Kick them out of school? All solutions way worse than nicotine patches.
Yes and I make 5M. A month.
you cannot compare an apple with 8 gb to a windows/linux machine running x86-64. you have two very different CPUs and architectures, and their use of memory is totally different.. those 8 Gb are the equivalent of 16 Gb on the x86-side. and 16 gb is decent for browsing, office work and even programing if you're not playing with kubernetes or some software.
I cannot word it coherently but I will try! Succinctly it feels like the scene in The wizard of Oz where Dorothy see that the Wizard himself is nothing more than an ordinary man behind a curtain.

I started an intense spirutal quest after a meditation session¹, that unexpectedly left me disoriented, depressed and generally dysfunctional. My first few trips after that event made me hopeful again but left me curious as I felt that there was a deeper truth to be found.

1-in a college course on meditation (I had the choice between soccer, golf and meditation... in retrospective I should have chosen Golf)

At that time most of the more obscure hallucinogen described in Tikal and Phikal were legal and easy to obtain from Sigma-Aldrich at reasonable price and I knew people who could obtain quality LSD. So I tried almost everything that Shuglin described as +++.

But it's repeated combination of dextromethorphan (a surprisingly complex drug that is mostly a dissociative) and things in Thikal (LSD, 4-AcO-DMT, 5-meo-mipt...) that pulled on the curtain. 350mg of DXM made me prone to recursive toughts without blocking my ability to remember and the tryptamine brought the spiritual aspect. After thinking about thinking that I am thinking for what felt like a thousand years I came to experience the holodeck effect where you can will any scene into "existence", it's my repeated interactions with my "holodeck" that pulled that metaphorical curtain to reveal that the Wizard was nothing more than a physical process inside me.

After that I lost my access to the holodeck, hallucinogens became physically unpleasant and mentally uninteresting. My quest ended as I felt that I had learned what could be learned about spirituality and stopped worrying about a deeper hidden meaning in life. Things happen because they happen and there is no answer to why something instead of nothing (a complete nothingnes, not the nothingnes of a perfect vaccuum) and it doesn't matter!
Python3 is removing crypt.crypt and not replacing it with anything
Show HN: FSW: helpers for building apps with Flask, SQLAlchemy, and WTForms
FSW is a collection of classes and functions for building apps combining Flask, SQLAlchemy, and WTForms. The library is intended to be modular: it does not require instantiation with the app object, and its pieces are generally independent of each other.

I created the library to avoid duplication between my own Flask apps. Many of its helpers are inspired by Django. The library is currently in alpha and will hopefully be available on PyPI soon (https://github.com/pypi/support/issues/2987).

The library is divided into three components:

- fsw.views: RedirectView, TemplateView, FormView, CreateModelView, ReadModelView, ReadOneModelView, UpdateModelView, DeleteModelView

- fsw.models: ClassNameModelMixin, IDModelMixin, SaveModelMixin, CreateTimestampModelMixin, UpdateTimestampModelMixin, DeleteTimestampModelMixin, HardDeleteModelMixin

- fsw.forms: CSRFProtectModelMixin, ModelFormMixin

I would love feedback and suggestions on any part of the library, especially the more complex components (such as FormView and ModelFormMixin).
Ad blocker tracking is easy. You just proxy the calls to GA/plausible via some other domain.
I’m not sure if that’s a joke or if there is a rural Arizona McDonalds franchisee that has a history of being litigious.

If anything I’d expect McDonalds to block API access for this user and implement controls to limit data aggregation.
While I agree, this would be career suicide for any politician brave or foolish enough to suggest it.
look at the bpi-r3 and bpi-r4

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=banana+pi+bpi-r4

the bpi-r4 even has two 10gb sfp ports
To be clear I'm not trying to minimize Ukrainian deaths. My point was more so that it was at least comparable, and in the same order of magnitude. Yet the international reaction to one is completely different to the other ( I mean, in terms of concrete action against Israel and Russia). That's the double standard and the unlimited "slack" given to Israel that I was talking about. The IDF can come up with any excuse for bombing any number of civilians, with absolutely 0 proof given and again, they are just automatically believed. I mean, they are cautious about civilian deaths... they told us so!
40 years ago we had Skoal Bandits, pretty much the same thing unless the Zyn pouches don't make you spit constantly. Sooooo much spitting. Ugh.
Bunch theory: working notes on applications, axioms and models
Anarchy has many different schools of thought. For those curious or intrigued, I'd recommend The Anarchist Handbook by Machael Malice. It contains a collection of writings from many different anarchist thinkers, from the violent dynamite throwers to the peaceful libertarians.

He's also got a podcast and has been on plenty of other podcasts, news shows, etc if you want video content.

As he says: "the black flag comes in many colors."
There are really two types of "marketing":

- "Hey, here's something interesting you might be interested in!"

- "Drink Coca Cola"

The second type of marketing is the sort of zero-sum game you're talking about. Everyone already knows about this, Coca Cola and Pepsi spend phenomenal amounts of money, and it kind of just cancels out.

But the first type of marketing is rather different. The simplest kind is making something and then telling people that you made it.
considering it's a poison to other insects, producing nicotine is probably more of a survival instinct w.r.t. people:

if humans are clearly going to be around, might as well make yourself indispensable to them
I don’t even know what’s going on here anymore.

You’re artificially predicting a positive outcome. You said “repeat until I get the job“. But you could be very unlucky person and keep sitting there flipping and flipping the coin and never guessing right. I’m not saying to not keep trying. I’m saying your certainty of positive outcome is false.
The mobile app lets you switch locations and see prices, so I assume there's a REST API somewhere.
Ni-63 is a pure low energy beta emitter - what that means is your skin is enough to block it penetrating if it were outside the phone. While used as intended it would be safe but it’s a horrible idea for consumer electronics for disposal issues.

Overall it sounds like a terrible idea though due to what happens when the phone reaches end of life or is smashed. Phone can’t be shredded and materials reclaimed without manually removing the battery. Phone releases free radioactive material into the environment if smashed. Terrible terrible idea for consumer electronic.
I guess the most expensive Big Mac in the US is in my state of Massachusetts...

I've lived here my entire life and I didn't have a fucking clue where "Lee" MA is.., but I have learned now, it's somewhere out in the Berkshires.
At 150€, the banana pi r4 is available for not much more and has several nice to have feature not planned on this board.
Xi's Empty Dream City Shows Limits of His Power, Even in China
That would be a horrible society.

High achievers getting zero credit. Moping losers blaming their failures on “bad luck”. Zero reason to strive for greatness because you’ll get sympathy if you fail and jealousy if you succeed.

No thanks.
Thank you so much for your reply, these are all valid points, and I will consider them for identifying working repos. My major problem comes from repo that does not have any issues. for example I m looking for a calculator (may not be a good example), I see a repo that claims its providing a calculator app. There are no issues listed. In this case it is helpful to know if someone else tried this repo and it works fine. Cause I imagine there would be hundreds of repos that might claim they provide a calculator. I just want to save time by not cloning any non-working repos. But yeh, your points are very helpful.
The 2 muffins for 4 was the only time I ever went to them. I don't really understand the folks still visiting Maccas these days.
No really, no. It's the same to declare that you have a box of matches and burning them it gives you a substantial help to warm up your house in the middle of winter.
"which measure less than a coin at 15 x 15 x 5mm" , if you stack a large amount of that component still the power generated is ridicule, in fact they tell us: "Betavolt is planning to boost its tech to produce a 1-watt battery by 2025", aka, 3V 0.33A and you are using volume employed by the lithium battery, reducing further the phone operability. This pretended to be innovation will go nowhere, like all "miracle battery" seen before, solar panel covered street, e-cat, etc, etc, etc. Nowadays , the high demand of clean energy makes flourish nonsense startups, scam, pseudoscience, etc. That is very sad.
> It too feels sterile, but in that movie it works because it is true to the lore: all natural life has died out and the few remaining species are extreme luxuries that only the most wealthy people can afford.

As opposed to Arrakis, a place so dry where shedding tears because someone died is considered as incredibly unusual and highly esteemed, if wasteful.
> Japan was never colonized in the usual sense of the word.

It was in every sense of the word.

> I guess the first event you're referring to is Perry's gunboat diplomacy that brought an end to the Tokugawa isolationism

Not isolationism. Japan didn't isolate itself. It maintained contacts with their 'civilized' neighbors china, korea, etc. Japan simply banned imperial european nations because imperial european nations were behaving badly in japan. Heck even then, they still had european contacts.

The gunboat diplomacy didn't bring an end to isolationism. It ended japan's sovereignty and japan's pathetic attempt to keep european colonizers at bay. It was the start of american/european exploitation and colonization of japan.

> the second is the occupation post WWII.

Yes. The only difference being that the former colonization didn't involved war while the latter did.

> Neither of these involved the economic exploitation and imposition of total hegemony that typify imperialistic colonization

Perry went to japan precisely for economic reasons. To expand US whaling to the other side of the pacific since we wiped out all our whales along our shores. And post ww2 colonization is predominantly about economic exploitation. We literally forced japan to tank their economy in the 80s to enrich ourselves.

> After all, we don't generally say that the US colonized West Germany after the war.

But we say that about the soviet union and east germany... Welcome to the wonderful world of propaganda. Where we have allies whom we firebombed and nuked. While the enemy has 'vassals and colonies and satellites'.

Japan is the most poignant example of american economic colonization. It's the longest lasting and most brutal example of it. We just don't see the obvious because we are programmed by propaganda. Just look at all the propaganda in response to my original comment. If china or russia nuked japan and took it over. It would be obvious because the propaganda would tell us so.
You get UI even if fired unless it was for misconduct. Being bad at your job is not misconduct.
That's interesting but regardless of the underlying cause the effect is deception by any standard: it knows a thing exists, and yet it claims no such thing exists when asked. We don't let humans off the hook if they deceive us but there's an explanation for it.

If it's genuinely due to a weird reasoning failure rather than some social bias it's picked up then that's hopeful, as that would make it in principle fixable.
udis86 – Disassembler Library for x86 and x86-64
Annotations are somewhat cursed agree. The code generation part does not have to be painful though.

In fact, the tooling in Go isn't even an example of the easiest way to do it and requires you to do more steps than for example .NET where getting server boilerplate, fully working client or just generated POCO contracts from .proto boils down to

dotnet add package Grpc.Tools
<Protobuf Include="MyApiContracts.proto" /> (in .csproj)
Maybe the actual sentient life in universe lives deep within those rogue worlds. It is also trivial for them to hop worlds - either wait for a flyby or put nuclear reactor on a blob of ices and drive away. They use stars as beacons and can't imagine anyone willing to live directly in the bonfire.

If they are using laser communication, our Sun will likely drown any signals in noise.
Geiger counters don’t work on Ni-63. It’s a pain to detect, needing liquid scintillation.
Incels need more mental health help, have "fundamental thinking errors"
The picture isn't of the planned board, I'm pretty sure it's just a picture of a banana pi r4. The proposed board has no SFP, for starters.
The coolest hardware in the cheap router/APs that run OpenWRT is the programmable Ethernet switch. VLANs on such cheap hardware is an awesome tool to split up stuff at the ethernet level without having to have a bunch of NICs. This doesn't seem to have it. Does anyone know of a 5 or 10 port cheap switch that also has programmable VLANs? Those would be great for homelab kinds of uses.
Quest to Get 'Autonomous' AI Legally Recognized Could Upend Copyright Law
TL;DR: Talking head claims, without evidence, that non-carcinogenic nicotine fix is as dangerous as smoking. Won't someone think of the children?
This sounds like moral panic (not saying that it is).

They say things like, “Smith wasn’t aware that using Zyn delivered more nicotine per use than his vape did. In fact, his 6-milligram Zyn has 100 times more nicotine than the 0.06-milligram puff of a vape.” which is a false equivalence, since pouches will stay in your mouth for up to an hour gradually leeching out the nicotine.

Then they say things like “it’s just as dangerous as tobacco products”, and then characterise it as a gateway drug.

If these pouches are just as bad as tobacco, it needs a much better argument than this article presents. The tone, absurd claims, and lack of information certainly don’t convince me.

[Anecdotally I did use Snus (Jacobssons Wintergreen) to quite smoking, and then ultimately quit the Snus. Snus was much easier to quit than cigarettes. The Pavlovian conditioning is so much stronger in cigarettes, as they deliver the nicotine so rapidly that your brain knows that it needs a cigarette.]
"Is that like a person having a tell?"

Yes, same thing.
I think you mean automatic reference counting (ARC) — and ARC happens at compile time as part of a static analysis pass. (The compiler is basically adding retain/release code for you.)

At runtime, it’s functionally close(ish) to malloc/free and doesn’t carry much overhead.
> You can, just throw the coin again until it lands the way you want.

Oh, I didn’t realize life is that simple. I can just keep doing things until they turn out the way I want.
A lot of New England towns have local regulations that say that any McDonalds (or other chain business) needs to fit in with the local architectural style. Take a look at the most expensive McDonald's in the country in Lee, MA:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gWFtn5PRmzHtYq3D9

It's not what you would think a McDonald's looks like; it actually looks basically like every other rest stop on the Mass Pike, which looks like most of the commercial real estate in the area.

There are probably extra costs associated with making the outside of a building look just like every other building, while making the inside conform to McDonald's franchise specifications. Also you lose some of the branding benefit that the nationwide chain has, and the local populace tends to be a bit more hostile toward fast food.
Jose Ferrer showing us how to de-cloak better than a dozen synchronized Romulan warbirds, Brad Dourif as the explanation of what happens when you twist a mentat, wee Alicia Witt as St. Alia of the Knife, and let's not forget Freddie Jones, a late British actor of a subtle versatility. The money men were really quite skeptical of hiring him on but after being shown some daillies, supposedly they apologized.
Five Guys is not in the same tier price-wise though. Might as well say you prefer the local brewpub.
The US does recognize the governing authorities in Taiwan and maintains diplomatic relations with them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Relations_Act
> "This incident should have never happened and it cannot happen again."

I agree that this statement is unusually direct, but I find it noteworthy that they use the word "incident". According to ICAO, one of the criteria for an accident, not an incident, is when "the aircraft sustains significant damage or structural failure", which is the case here.
- Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse (slightly, seems to be in-house): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n12kHKvesc

- Everything Everywhere All At Once (Runway AI): https://variety.com/2023/artisans/news/artificial-intelligen...

Two massively popular films recently that used generative AI.
A designer complained to me that her Photoshop blur requirements did not match my iOS implementation. I had to manually adjust my code until it met precisely, which was a pain. A few years later, she became a developer and admitted she was wrong to complain about exact matching between platforms.
> Coffee or tea will taste better to you if you put a lot of work into it.

This is very true but, tangentially, this is the opposite when you make drink/food for others. I found that you get the best effect when you spend a lot of effort to cook and perfect the dish but when asked, you have to pretend you basically winged it and it wasn't a hassle
It's kind of funny how far up the United States is on the big mac index these days: https://www.statista.com/statistics/274326/big-mac-index-glo...
Show HN: LVE – The First Open Repository of LLM Vulnerabilities and Exposures
Hello HN,

we are a team of researchers and students who have created LVE, an open source database to document and track exploits and safety issues with LLMs like (Chat)GPT, Llama and Mistral models. Our goal is to improve the discourse around LLM safety by precisely documenting, tracking LLM failures, using an open database and a small framework focused on reproducibility and traceability. LVE is meant to to raise awareness and help everyone better understand the capabilities but also the vulnerabilities of state-of-the-art large language models.

Our website, lve-project.org, also hosts a series of community challenges, which are mini competitions, where you can learn about LLM safety and contribute to the project, by submitting prompts that break model behavior.

We are open to feedback and suggestions, so please let us know what you think. We are also looking for contributors, so if you are interested in helping out, please reach out to us. Everything lives on GitHub at https://github.com/lve-org/lve and contribution works via PRs.

Happy to answer any questions you might have!
You made your coffee and it doesn't taste bad. Congratulations you succeed at making good coffee!
Neither Ebola nor Marburg kill its main hosts in fact
> There is no clear minimal viable product because the goal is to create general intelligence. [...] I would make the argument that there is an advantage in what I'm proposing.

Then set the MVP to some project that partially solves some small aspect of what you general intelligence is and proves that your approach is so much better than what other labs are doing.

If you succeed on this, you can iterate.

> if we do allow for a fully open research platform (open training/models/communication) and given the goals the computational costs are not quite what they are for OpenAI nor DeepMind.

Then work on a way to decrease these computational costs by magnitudes. Or find a way how even volunteers with "skinny" GPUs in their computers can still support your computations via crowdcomputing.

Perhaps this is even the more important problem to solve ...
Linkin Park used it in 4 videos recently and seemed to use a combination of img2img and leaning into the glitchy style. [0] (These are 9-11 mo old so using much older models and techniques)

Peter Gabriel used it extensively in some recent music videos. The artists behind it also leaned into the glitchy style but are probably using some pre trained stuff to keep style.[1]

A writer/creative named Austin McConnell used AI art to make a 50 minute anime short to help market a book he wrote using AI [2]. Not sure how he kept consistency but this video got some flak and he has another video addressing his techniques.

Corridor crew did a second video which is a lot better but still a lot of work. [3]

I think a lot of projects using it are still kind of in the spec stage and are usually using a combination of loras, clip, generating multiple angles, and aggressive use of img2img and controlnets. And a few companies (Scenario [4] etc) are working on consistency. I think you won't see a ton of big projects using it yet because the tech is still early days and the early versions were really a bear to work with.
A lot of people on YouTube are using it like theyd use stock art (YouTube thumbnails, backgrounds, ads, or story boards for writing focused/story YouTubes).

There is still a stigma so a lot of people using it aren't announcing their use broadly, so I've found I usually have to stumble on their projects. Also, a lot of major companies aren't using it for that reason. I know Wizards of the Coast has had some arguments about that recently. Also consistency is still a problem as you mention which limits it's use in bigger projects.

Video games I think will be the first place we'll see it widely accepted. As people have been using AI generation techniques for background tools for like 20 years, see speedtree.

[0] https://youtu.be/7NK_JOkuSVY?si=GsENyRZTVPslNl6q and
https://youtu.be/iKBCVZqqooY?si=4bTelG8AjUCduAwj

[1] https://youtu.be/px76Jn4CUcc?si=Ebpy7NtxbbefdJOR and
https://youtu.be/6chvzqAVCnI?si=Q9dEnD72U0ytqBtT

[2] https://youtu.be/kJCkHae1dgE?si=4rhbk69q7KL-R3C9 and the discussion of techniques and controversy https://youtu.be/iRSg6gjOOWA?si=O8H5G2Y3IbZx0hzI

[3] https://youtu.be/tWZOEFvczzA?si=XhzrGg3Lct0QFsi9

[4] https://twitter.com/araminta_k/status/1744842633900347621
Contribution of Road Vehicle Tyre Wear to Microplastics and Air Pollution
Doesn't sound terribly different than how I perceived the actual movie. I often describe Dune as a 3 hour trailer. I didn't hate it due to the visuals and the immersive sound at the theater but I would have probably been pretty upset with my wasted time if I saw it at home.