skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And according to the map, there's a mcdonalds across the road where big Mac is a dollar cheaper
I found this article insightful: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/opinion/children-nicotine...

tl;dr: marketing via social media influencers bypasses advertising regulation allowing these to be advertised to children.

> So how are kids learning about these little pouches? Greyson Imm, an 18-year-old high school student in Prairie Village, Kan., said he was 17 when Zyn videos started appearing on his TikTok feed. The videos multiplied through the spring, when they were appearing almost daily. “Nobody had heard about Zyn until very early 2023,” he said. Now, a “lot of high schoolers have been using Zyn. It’s really taken off, at least in our community.”

> It’s a world that’s invisible to us, because when we log on to our social media, we don’t see what they see. Thanks to algorithms and ad targeting, I see videos about the best lawn fertilizer and wrinkle laser masks, while Ian is being fed reviews of flavored vape pens and beautiful women livestreaming themselves gambling crypto and urging him to gamble, too.
She might be an underperforming employee who made a bad decision in posting the recording to the web, but that does not take away from the fact that how the employer handled the call was truly disastrous and unprofessional.
Lack of vc investment at the bottom means lack of seed through series c companies suddenly flush with money willing to buy B2b software so they can grow and sell their software to B2b businesses who sell software to B2b businesses who sell their software to end users.

Cut the bottom out, it trickles.
>These costs do not vanish merely because the work itself is out-of-sight.

This quotation isn't technically true. There are actual costs that do vanish depending on who you contract to. This is completely independent of quality. They are orthogonal.

The sacrifice is characterized as a guaranteed drop in quality if costs are lowered. No. When you sub contract quality is just harder to control. You are rolling the dice. But depending on the sub contractor there can even be an increase in quality along with a cost drop.

For example: iPhones. Subcontracted to china. But pretty high quality. Of course apple had to move over qc to china but there was still overall an up in quality with a cost drop.
I would say the best - or at least most imaginative and presumptuous - version of Dune is the one we didn't actually get: The version by Alejandro Jodorowsky, in the 1970s. It was a grandiose project involving many artists and themes which went on to inspire, or feature in, films and comics and sculpture for years later (including, among other things, Alien). There was a documentary about it several years back, here's the trailer for that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0cJNR8HEw0
You can't get stuck on such details. Even the Dune movie removed any references to "jihad", so I'm sure we can storyboard something fitting and modern for Hyperion.
A Chinese company telling me their radioactive batteries are safe...sure.

And somehow the radiation doesn't travel beyond the thickness of the battery and phone.
The idea of this making it into any consumer product is science fiction, and articles like this can be safely ignored.

Some back of the envelope math to illustrate why:

- The decay energy of Ni-63 is 66 keV, but since the energy is split with an irrecoverable neutrino, the average recoverable energy per decay is more like 17 keV.

- The typical power consumption of an iPhone is about 10 watts, give or take.

- Converting (1eV = 1.6e-19 J, 1W = 1J/s), we get 2.72e-15 Watts per decay.

- Assuming 10 Watts for your phone, we get 3.68e15 decays/second, 3.68e15 Bq, or *99364 CURIES* of activity

- The US NRC exempt quantity for Ni-63 is currently 1e-5 Curies (10 micro-Curies) (10CFR30.71, Sched. B)

For reference, the activity of the Am-241 in a typical smoke detector is on the order of 0.1 MICRO Curies. A betavoltaic battery for a smartphone would need a full 20 orders of more activity per unit, 18 orders of magnitude higher than the current regulatory limits, and we're talking about a product that nearly every person in the country owns. The item would be physically warm to the touch, could never be turned off, and would need piles of paperwork to track the origin, transfer of custody, and proper disposal.

Maybe this makes sense for remotely-deployed military equipment and other niche applications where the user would go thorough the necessary licensing steps, but for consumer products, forget it. Absolute fiction.
I don't know, why answer a question with a question?
First data point:

According to this site a Big Mac costs $5.19 at my local McDonalds and I know from driving past it that the starting wage is $15+ per hour.
Why not just comment this link originally instead of “False” with no context
Drive One of These Before Cheap Fun Dies Forever
You cannot avoid mistakes every now and then. At least it had no particular safety issue and is quite a reliable aircraft, and they still made money with it. This is nothing like the issues Boeing is facing.
I wish Valve improved their Steam app on macOS. On my MacBook with M1 Pro and 32GB of RAM it doesn't feel smooth. It runs like a poorly optimized Electron app.
Maybe the inexpensive, fresh food at convenience stores drives down fast food prices there?
This looks great.
Also notable similar tool: https://vidmix.app/
I would be concerned about power efficiency / battery life considering the type of rendering it's doing. That would be cool to get some info on.
I am not usually a fast food person, but I’ve tried In n Out several times, because it seems to be recommended, in the last couple years due to travel taking me to their territory and haven’t found it to be particularly good. Compared to McDonalds, which I also rarely frequent unless it’s a splurge day from the gym or I’m on a road trip, it seems objectively worse. The McDonalds quarter pounder and double quarter pounder are significantly better than InO.

My suspicion is, like Whataburger, it’s a bit of a “having grown up with it” sort of thing that makes people recommend it so highly.
Sounds like a perfect thing to fine tune an instruction following GPT on?
If you want to share this with a friend or someone, copy and paste this into a message [thought it might save people a minute]:

Original Article: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/this-test-can-tell-ho...

Archived Article: https://archive.is/FsmyG

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38980501
I think it’s interesting how subjective this can apparently be. What I saw in the video was someone standing up for themselves and fighting against perceived wrongdoing in an articulate way. That’s exactly the type of person I want on my team. I’d hire them in a heartbeat.

Recording and posting company videos is bad in the general sense, but not in this case. There’s nothing sensitive or confidential in the video that was posted. The fact that she posted this specific video doesn’t make me assume that she would go and post other videos that do have confidential information, and if a company is embarrassed by their actions in this situation, that says more about the company than it does this employee.

I doubt this is career suicide. It might even do the opposite by getting this person’s name and situation out there.
Thank you for posting this, I just this week tried to explain array programming.
Lawsuit: Hudson Co Jail Recorded Calls with Attorneys, Gave Info to Prosecutors
Too bad there is no support for lens blur.
> 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.

US McDonalds has extreme price discrimination akin to what you see with grocery store memberships like Ralphs where they have a "regular" price that almost no one is expected to pay because everyone has a free membership that just requires your (or Jenny's) phone number . If you download their app, it has a bunch of coupons that lower the price of (almost) the entire menu.
This is my site. I need to re-run a scrape and update the prices.

McDonald's blocked my scraper when it went viral the first time
Your fingertip gives off more heat than a stack of these.
I believe I've addressed your criticisms. I'd be interested in your reply.
Would be interesting to know the cost as well as the price.
Incorrect, as common sense would dictate lots of people who work at Apple live close by the office (homes aren’t the only option, there is a thing called renting)
Please no.

1. Google has multiple in house languages already. They somehow haven’t made them work well together.

2. Google already tried their hand at Swift when Lattner was there. It was really cool, but died on the vine.

3. Google is very easily distracted and will kill off things that aren’t critical or bringing in enough new customers.

I like my Jetbrains IDEs to want a company as poorly managed as Google take it over. Their offerings would quickly be killed off in the name of “unifying them” and then suddenly that one solution will die as well for anything except for Android Java.
I don't share your opinion.

But besides that, if you think about it. Firing people for doing porn as a side job is effectively forcing people into doing porn as a full time job. OnlyFans doesn't fire people for having a regular day job, so guess what remains as a revenue source.
It's true that any app that lives long enough reaches an "optimum" version and then goes downhill from there. For Microsoft Word, for instance, the optimum, or "Elvis" version was "v5.1 for Mac".
Don't forget John Harrison's Dune miniseries. That was definitely not the greatest production, feeling like sort of the anti-Villeneuve in terms of scale. But I did get a kick out of how Baron Harkonnen ended each of his scenes with a rhyming couplet.
Reasons to be optimistic in 2024: science is delivering breakthroughs
What do you think would be a fair price for hauling a single burger 3 miles to you on demand would be? Objectively, on-demand/super-low-latency (less than an hour!) courier services have always been vastly more expensive than mere food preparation.

Seriously, get in your time machine and go check what it would cost for a law firm in Manhattan[1] c. 1930 to get a document across town on that schedule. That it's down to the same scale as the burger you crave to sate your grumbling tummy is an amazing innovation of our modern techno-whizgig society, not something to whine about in a throwaway comment on HN!

[1] Because needless to say, no one would think to have applied that kind of service to mere burgers.
I am using nicotine gum to quit smoking, using about 5 4mg gums/day. I have substituted one addiction for another. I am also worried that these gums are not benign and whether there is a higher risk of cancer from using them. Someone told me to instead use Zyn - thankfully I stayed away from that.
It works very well with SBCs. If you're resource limited, Syncthing plays great with Cgroups limitations as well.
Off-site backups is a huge one. General downloads for the people running *arr software, and corresponding upload for people sharing their Plex libraries.

Here in france, I get 5Gb/700Mb for 50€ and there isn't a lower tier at the same ISP. Other ISPs would simply sell me 1Gb/700Mb for the same price, with no lower tier other than aDSL. Not that I'm complaining, but if I'm getting 5Gb, buying a router for 150€ that hits barely 1/5th of that speed (the maximum on wired this board can do is 1Gb, and I don't even have all my devices on 5GHz wifi) isn't exactly a good experience.
Yes, McDonalds is way too expensive now given the quality and (lack of) service.
I'm glad people are finally outing companies that do this. People need to take these actions into consideration when deciding to join companies like Cloudflare.
Redeployment Part Two – Coming Back from Antarctica
> How is an edtech startup going to solve post-graduate research, an enterprise that involves millions of people around the world working on all fields under the sun, and is, by its very nature, unprofitable?

Well, I have two ideas:

1. Concentrate on academic disciplines where research is "less unprofitable" than others, and by using well-known methods of business administration make it profitable.

2. I know quite a lot of people who were previously in academic research, and now (because of job perspectives in the academic job market) work somewhere else in some industry. Because they still love research, they spend quite some money on post-graduate level textbooks and similar things. People who might not be rich, but love spending money on learning does not sound like the worst foundation for a business modell ... ;-)
Yup. Speaking as an embedded engineer, outsourcing at least some manufacturing to China (or other Far East empires) is often the only road to profitability with modern hardware. Doing so significantly impacts the momentum that can be achieved.
Funny I agree with you on everything but the Momoa part. With the exception of Game of Thrones, he always plays himself. He basically always comes off as a marvel character. I thought he and Chalamet were miscast.
it does so on windows 11 with a brand new Radeon 7000whatever and 32G RAM and SSD and ... you know, hardware, that they know about, due to the hardware survey they conduct yearly.

I have no idea how they even develop it. Are they all sedated?

Maybe it's just one more of the unforseen consequences of Valve time.
I have a pet peeve about this. From the chart, Indonesia's currency is undervalued (meaning burger prices should be more expensive). But for many people here, eating a Big Mac is a "luxury" (not "caviar luxury" but more like "taking Uber instead of taking the subway" luxury).
Perhaps the government should create a fund which guarantees a hefty reward for whistleblowers on aviation companies/airlines, enough that they don't need to fear for their own livelihood and can effectively retire without loss of income if they expose something significant.

Apparently AF261 had a whistleblower who had to sue in court for damages. That's not correct, that's not how this should be done.
I mean, first of all, Japan as a whole has lower cost of living than the US (in term of absolute value, not percentage of income).

And from my personal experience, certain things like eating out and hotels are particularly more expensive in the US than the baseline.

> Even if you used a 1 USD = 100 JPY exchange rate instead of the real one

Well, if we use this.. their website currently lists Big Mac as 450 yen, which isn't that different from 4.x USD price that covers majority of the US.
Sounds like I should have been closer, but sometimes you don’t find a learning program that is close by. Turns out the high school we should put our daughter in will be an hour long commute. This decision is not purely monetary and does not involve the company I work(ed) for. There will be a time in everyone’s career when they must make a decision that will remove them from their personal time and is not the fault of the company.

Sure losing daycare benefit is a fault. Deciding to put your child in a lesser program because it won’t impact your commute has nothing to do with your job and entirely everything to do with you being a parent..

In my case I will pay to ensure the best upbringing for my children. And this means financially (paying for the best education) and temporally (waiting in traffic to pick them up from said learning institute).
> or it wasn't an original windshield

Put another way, it’s a recently-fabricated windshield. Which could be read as it being less resilient than the original.

That’s not how I’m reading it, absent further information. L
Part one discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939114
I described it: on Tik Tok, on YouTube, on dev.to, here in
another posts. But somehow people don’t say anything.

If you already feel like you've been repeating yourself too much and you don't even have a landing page yet, you may not have the right mindset for starting a company from scratch. Every time you bring up the idea, you need to explain it.

I dug up this post from _today_:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38973944

Some fast reactions:

* this sounds like client certificates but with an extra step involving email

* I don't understand the threat model where you don't trust the user's SSL connection but _do_ trust their email account
Preferring Whataburger over In-n-out is the most Texas thing there is. It’s more true of a stereotype than most Texas stereotypes like Cowboy Boots, cowboy hats, guns, or high school football.
Stability Anti-Patterns (2016)
In my understanding, it’s both: you’re right about Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) being a compile time pass. But the reference counts that they use for said retain/release are atomic reference counted (ARC).

ARC certainly helps ARC be more performant than ARC without ARC due to the elided traffic on the count. (lol)
Can you give one of those examples?

A large enterprise may have the resources (time and money for corporate counsel) AND leverage (# licenses needed across many products) to negotiate privacy terms that align with their needs, or even pick another product.

A smaller firm is effectively stuck: they don’t have the resources or leverage, and sometimes must use the same products as large enterprises to do business with them.

In the case of Outlook specifically, if you do business with enterprises that use it, your meeting calendaring needs to work flawlessly with theirs. A missed or broken reschedule or repeating event can mean your teams sometimes don’t show up when expected. This really happens.
I personally know several that have, because Boeing pays shit for the level of work and the culture sucks.

It's like the games industry. They underpay because people dream of working in the industry because they think it's cool.
Thank you! Will do. Although, it will take me some time to find three uninterrupted hours to watch it.
I’m not familiar with pharmacology of salvia but taking it is quite dangerous compared to other hallucinogens.

A number of my friends had terrible feelings and were freaked out for about a week afterwards. Similar stories are found on erowid.
Good article! I am in a phase of life where I'd prefer to be less "agentic", and more of a mindless automaton, always doing the tasks I set out to do myself in a day.

What stands between me and most of my current goals is nothing but investments of time - hundreds, thousands of hours of time. There is no money component, and I cannot significantly accelerate my progress on any of them using money either. My agency isn't going to go anywhere, in fact it reasserts itself annoyingly often with flights of fancy and going back to focusing purely on making money. But I do wish I could tell it to shut up and just let me focus on the grind more often.
Related: "SLA Inversion": https://screamingtiger.blogspot.com/2010/04/release-it-chapt...

>"The best SLA you can hope to achieve -- is the worst SLA that any of your dependent services can provide -- DNS, credit card processing, etc.

A chain is only as strong as the weakest link. The number of dependent services also affects the SLA calculation.

SLA Inversion is when a system must provide high availability -- but depends on systems of lower availability."
I think actually following through over time is the hard part. Wanting to do something is easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-mLVVJkH7I
Audio interview with Frank Herbert on the origins of Dune (1965)
I love stellarium on my phone. It even identifies satellites! I've seen the ISS with my own eyes! (It looks like a glowing dot)
I don't think I'm comfortable with the idea that kids will just get addicted to things and that's that.
They get you coming, but not going.
This tells me a lot about you as a person.

Let me tell you how I would see it. High achievers, knowing that they’re successful based on lock would be more helpful to people who didn’t have good luck. This would turn out to be a more stable and even society.

I guess you like the separation of wealth we’re experiencing right now?
That isn't at all clear from your comment, your claims are pretty direct and concrete.
The vast majority of McDonald’s customers are not using the app to order.
The first line saying that Lynch’s Dune is a “misbegotten botch job” is based on the authors definition of success in art which is box office returns. And yet here we are discussing a film that turns 40 this year. And there the Wired author is selling ads on the back of David’s work and disabling my back button to grab mailing list signups.

To gain an understanding of David’s approach to art, which is deeply inspired by Robert Henri’s book “The Art Spirit”, it’s worth watching The Art Life (2016). David is a believer in the artist alone in the room with an infinite supply of coffee and cigarettes, creating new ideas with pure creative freedom and the removal of societal pressures. There’s no doubt that his art and all art and creativity is derived from experience and experiencing the art of others. But the point is that for original art to flourish, there comes a time for the artist to seclude themselves and create without market pressures, the influence of popular culture and daily distractions. Us devs can learn much from him.

So I think Lynch’s Dune is spectacular in its originality and bold creativity. And I think looking to box office returns as a measure of success misses the long term value of that kind of originality.
ChatGPT plus lets you choose between 3.5 and 4 behind the same web client.
Ah I was wondering where the info was from. Nice site.
Also known as 'snus':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyFk-Z80P6k
Is agency closely related to self-confidence?

Most of the points on this list seemed related to that. Not the "don't work too hard" bit, but the rest seem in the same ballpark.
You can’t control the outcome of the coin flip, but you can control how many times you flip the coin.

Increasing the surface area of luck is about fostering opportunities to flip a coin

Just simple stuff like showing up to work every day. Going to social events. Networking. Taking classes. These will increase the opportunities you have to flip the coin.

Thinking there’s a fixed number of flips in life is false and really a poor way of thinking.
Or perhaps you overestimate how many people hold any view of Boeing at all.
I think you've completely missed the fact that the base menu price increases when you select delivery? I listed the separate fees to show that the $6.39 to $7.79 price increase does not come from one of the later fees.

Besides do what every other restaurant historically has done and say "$20 order minimum for delivery". Also it's not 3 miles, it's 2000ft. The restaurant is literally 3 blocks away from me.

There's no need to be such an asshole just because you misunderstood my comment. You could also get in your time machine to 2010 when every pizza chain or Chinese restaurant could do this for $2.99 plus tip.
Prices have little to do with costs, and absolutely nothing to do with a minor issue such as local regulations of architectural standards.
No spitting with Zyn.
Just FYI, Quiet also allows unlimited file transfer size: https://tryquiet.org/

Not saying it is most efficient, but for non tech friends, that may be an option.