skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the challenge is that no matter the circumstances our minds are designed to adapt to the situation. This is often called the hedonic adaption. If you live in a modern western country, your life is likely significantly better than the wealthiest and most powerful people from the 14th century. Most likely if you're prone to depression, you will reset to a negative viewpoint even if societal issues are addressed. Below is an excerpt from article discussing research into lottery winners and paraplegics.

"In 1978, a trio of researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Massachusetts attempted to answer this by asking two very disparate groups about the happiness in their lives: recent winners of the Illinois State Lottery — whose prizes ranged from $50,000 to $1 million — and recent victims of catastrophic accidents, who were now paraplegic or quadriplegic. In interviews with the experimenters, the two groups were asked, among other things, to rate the amount of pleasure they got from everyday activities: small but enjoyable things like chatting with a friend, watching TV, eating breakfast, laughing at a joke, or receiving a compliment. When the researchers analyzed their results, they found that the recent accident victims reported gaining more happiness from these everyday pleasures than the lottery winners.

This is how the study is usually written about, in a “gee whiz, ain’t that counterintuitive?” kind of tone. But what’s really striking when you look at the results reported by the researchers is how close their answers actually are: On average, the winners’ ratings of everyday happiness were 3.33 out of 5, and the accident victims’ averaged answers were 3.48. The lottery winners did report more present happiness than the accident victims (an average of 4 out of 5, as compared to the victims’ 2.96), but as the authors note, “the paraplegic rating of present happiness is still above the midpoint of the scale and … the accident victims did not appear nearly as unhappy as might have been expected.”

This is partially because of what’s become known as the hedonic treadmill, or hedonic adaptation, that annoying tendency humans have to get used to the things that once made them happy. I particularly love how the authors of this 1970s paper phrased it:

Eventually, the thrill of winning the lottery will itself wear off. If all things are judged by the extent to which they depart from a baseline of past experience, gradually even the most positive events will cease to have impact as they themselves are absorbed into the new baseline against which further events are judged. Thus, as lottery winners become accustomed to the additional pleasures made possible by their new wealth, these pleasures should be experienced as less intense and should no longer contribute very much to their general level of happiness."

From the following article: https://www.thecut.com/2016/01/classic-study-on-happiness-an...
Uranium 235 as a fissile fuel is a very small percentage of the total uranium available (0.720% from the wiki).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium

In order to make reactor fuel, this percentage must be increased, via conversion of the metal to uranium hexafloride gas, which is purified via gas centrifuges.

As opposed to this, thorium does not require difficult purification steps, but it does require a neutron source to start a reaction that converts a small portion of it to uranium 233.

From the uranium 235 purification perspective, uranium is an awkward fuel for commercial use.
Maybe it's me, but I can usually guess intention fairly quickly and also imagine what the thought process was and what kinds of mistakes it probably has.

But heck, I'm old and I've been reading other people's code for decades.
After using them recently for financing a house purchase, I recommend everyone take heed of this warning. I went in with low expectations for a mortgage broker and was still extremely disappointed.
Lets not forget how long it would take to spin up an enterprise database, even in memory, there are hundreds (or thousands) of tables. Also there can be multiple databases with their own schema, and each require a fair amount of data in some of those tables just to do anything..
i would guess it's probably an annoyance with people assigning significance to the insignificant and the belief they've discovered something profound when it's intellectually pretty shallow. i can understand an eye roll at people who try to answer really complex questions about life and existence with something like pretty patterns, but i personally choose to be fine with people finding the things that help them understand the world in their own way. we're not all meant to be Aristotle.
I only saw them in A levels, not during my GCSEs.

But the GCSEs were September 1998 to June 2000, and the UK government loves to fiddle with education, so I wouldn't be shocked if you told me that had changed.
So what's the plan for this hardware when it's no longer considered useful or operable?

It's awful when your mom tosses your baseball cards collection but at least it will be recyclable given fairly trivial and widely-implemented processes. Not so for computer components.
I don't know if I agree with this. I've had Google and Shazam nail songs that were barely audible to my human ears.
I'd rather have the energy beside my ear stored in a non-flammable battery compared to what I assume are currently flammable batteries in my earbuds. Also lasting twice as long between charges would be a nice bonus.
I tried to find a non-Chinese router last week.

They don't exist.
If the current cost of things is based on exploiting workers, then costs should rise.

However, I don't think that's currently the case.

The current cost of things is now predominantly driven by how much could be charged. I see it all the time: "the value of something is determined by the maximum price that the market is willing to pay".

So if the price is based on the maximum they could charge, then they won't be able to raise the prices because they will lose all their customers. They will have to find a more efficient business model.

The place where most cuts should happen is at the top of the pay scale. There is absolutely no good reason that the person who owns the company that picks up my garbage should be making tens or hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

But regardless of how they streamline their business models to allow for maximum profitability, one thing is certain...

If we need to employ systemic, predatory behavior that forces people to take unsavory jobs to survive then we are purposefully misunderstanding what a free market really is.
"Batteries not included" just won't have the same ring again.
Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model, capable of 10-SEC-long clips
TestContainers, or just assume there is a postgres running locally.

> - maintain this, eg have good, representative testing data lying around?

This can be tricky, but usually my advice is to never even being trying to do write seed data in the database unless its very static. It just gets annoying to maintain and will often break. Try to work out a clean way to setup state in your tests using code, and do not rely on magic auto increment ids. Some of the more effective ways I have found is to f.ex. have every test create a fresh customer, then the test does work on that customer. Avoid tests assuming that the first object you create will get id == 1, makes it very annoying to maintain.
Fine-tuning leaf angle with CRISPR improves sugarcane yield
This place https://www.franklumber.com/ has been selling only doors for 50+ years.

One can model their business around market rules. It just might not be as huge as you want.
Length of proof perhaps?
This isn’t a mental health issue of an individual. Medicine is severely understaffed and professionals are burned out, worldwide. Doctors should be as common as plumbers given the demand but often, I can’t get an appointment with a doctor within 30 days.
VMware and Citrix had a gentleman's agreement: they pirated each-other's stuff, and agreed not to break users' stuff in production and keep licensing issues to warnings.
> They often aren't.

And sometimes the better quality isn't worth the price. I bought a "Coochear" brushcutter on Amazon for a whopping $125 when my more expensive Husqvarna died due to a spun main bearing. At $125, I didn't care if it lasted longer than the time it would take me to remove the saplings that I needed to. The thing goes through 2" trees like they weren't even there. Yeah, it vibrates a lot more than it should and runs really rich, but it works a lot better than I expected for that price.

I know that I could have gotten another Husq that would work great but I really don't want to spend $600 for something that only gets used a couple times a year.
That license used to be perpetual, and only enforced locally (i.e. without connecting to the internet). That's about as close to "owning" as anyone gets in software.
This doesn't explain why this has started happening in the last 40 years for media types that have existed for far longer than that. Even movies have been around for long enough to build up a large catalogue and for investors to catch on, so why didn't we start seeing a rise in remakes and sequels until recently?
All Aquiver: The Decadent Movement
> Germany went the other way, rejecting nuclear and they are now dependant on carbon for their energy...

This bullshit narrative needs to die. Germany is less dependent on fossil fuels than it has ever been before, and weathered the withdrawal from Russian sources without any serious problems.

(And here's where you move the goalposts to "it could be even less less dependent!!")
I wonder how the economics of onsite battery banks is vs petrol storage tanks, especially with the long term clean-up and mitigation expenses.
Total power consumption went down due to industry moving out of the country due to increasing electricity cost due the country exiting nuclear power. It's depressing.
This is a solid article. So many mocks that, at the end, verify you set up your mock amd that 1=1.

One paragraph I think is missing: error handling. You want units to be able to error so you can validate error handling which is _very_ hard on E2E tests. You can simulate disk full or db errors and make sure things fall back or log as expected. This can be done with fakes. Mocks are a specific type of test double that I have very little use of.
Clai – Dev and DevOps centric AI CLI tool
I wanted to have a tool where I could pipe data into an AI for fast and easy processing, instead of copy-pasting into some chat GUI, which spawned the first version of clai. Since then I've expanded it to support multiple LLM's to try them out, as well as photo generation.

Additions since last release: https://github.com/baalimago/clai/releases/tag/v1.4.0
Alloy: Fast, battle-tested and well-documented Rust library for Ethereum
I agree that somethings like depression can sometimes be rational responses to the environment the person is in and can't just be medicated away. However, I don't think it's right to ignore the disease aspect, nor to politicize problem.
The pejorative term that credit card companies use for people who pay off the entire balance every month is "deadbeats". https://www.cnbc.com/select/credit-card-deadbeat/
They always test first on coin batteries then scale up the tests
So much of HN now is medical & healthcare related
> Alexis de Tocqueville noted in the 1840s that slave-holding America was much poorer than non-slave-holding America

That's because the north, in particular new england, started industrializing in the late 1700s. While the south, due to a variety reasons, didn't.

> Slavery absolutely did not benefit the masters

If it didn't, the civil war wouldn't have happened. The wealthy elite who owned slaves benefited immensely. Just visit a plantation turned historical museum in the south. Most southerners didn't own slaves.

> "I'm better than you" is a human instinct that continues unabated to this day -- many absolutely adore that feeling as if it was a mind-altering drug hit.

Indeed.
> that introduces more dependencies

Uranium does have the benefit of being very energy dense, so stockpiling it is relatively simple. Also see the IAEA Low Enriched Uranium Bank.

https://www.iaea.org/topics/iaea-low-enriched-uranium-bank
Ok, so enlighten me. How would this open-source everything world work?

How would companies protect their investments in research and proprietary technology? How will you guarantee security, besides depending on the nebulous "the community will fix it"?

Who's in charge of the direction development will take? How will you prevent fragmentation in different branches?

What creates a drive for innovation if you take out competition? How will you enforce quality control?

And, most of all, how will developers make money?
I always assumed banks made money on credit cards from the transaction fees. I think the interest rates are mostly there to scare you into paying your bill. It seems like once a CC balance gets out of control the bank's ability to recapture that money is limited since the card is unsecured.

I guess they make more money off the people that use a CC as as a temporary loan and always repay but customers with that risk profile are generally one step away from never paying it off.
Cochabamba(Chapare) indeed known for gangs and drugs, and also for the water war against privatization of water company(influenced James bond Quantom of solace)

In 2019 there were protests after alleged election fraud, Evo morales the president fled out of the country

In La Paz was a hotspot for tourists abduction in the early 2000s, there is also a known market of stolen goods

I had a visit from Interpol in a hostel in Sucre couple of years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochabamba_Water_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Bolivian_protests
> Pro-tip if you ever want cheaper Adobe subscriptions is to cancel your sub and they’ll send you repeat offers at lower prices up to 60% off

I have found the same to be true with SiriusXM radio as well. You can ask the chat bot to cancel your account when a promo runs out and it will take you back down from $19/mo to like $6/mo. I setup a calendar item so I know when the promo is going to expire and do this. It's a PITA but it only takes 5 minutes.
Tell HN: Something quite unique is happening with memes and AI
There's been a recent trend of popular vines being modified by AI and extended or remixed. These are becoming popular and potentially "rewriting" how people remember the original vine.

Think of the Mandela Effect x 100 speedrun.

I've collected a few of them here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8SXPGfRnRZ/

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8TLyrlsyPr/

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8NzZrvP5QQ/

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8SBxQUxgq6/

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8SFmRTRHI6/

What do you guys think? What will these AI do to internet culture? What is real really? The original or the AI version if it's more popular?
Yes. See https://spacenews.com/as-clock-ticks-on-amazons-constellatio...
Money oriented right is never center.
Which is pathetic because almost certainly this person is neither wealthy nor powerful.
> Whatever you call a disruption in normal education such as when a teacher gets in a car accident on the way to work and suddenly there’s a non educational period for kids.

Supply teacher. No idea how the details were worked out, but there was always a substitute if the usual was unavailable for whatever reason.
Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula with NASA's Webb
Great for pro-use but they don't have hobby level products to compete with the DJI Mavic and Mini
Well, I agree that better architecture is useful, but I don't think it's required by my "digging into what's going on starting from an entry point" process. I do think trying to write the prose documentation I described tends to drive better architecture. Trying to write the documentation on a module of spaghetti often what helps me realize there is no through line to why all this stuff is in this module.
When creative cloud was very first released, it was excellent value. I was actually quite supportive of Adobe's initial SaaS strategy. It was well and truly a "why would anyone ever pirate photoshop ever again?" type of product.

Fast forward a decade and that $19.99/mo product has become $89.99/mo and the value prop has plummeted on top of it. The big difference today is that instead of people returning to the high seas and continuing to use adobe software, they are just moving to different ecosystems -- procreate, davinci, foxit, etc.
It is simple really, there are more suckers paying high credit card interest than there are people collecting credit card rewards. As someone who always pays your bill off every month any rewards you collect are essentially paid for by people with interest payments
McDonalds flopped in Bolivia :)
The fact this report is coming from a commercial enterprise and not a university is pretty encouraging. Obviously it could still just be PR, but they likely wouldn't be touting this unless they expected to bring it to mass production.
There's multiple revenue stream for banks as it relates to credit card.

There's interchange, interest, annual fees and more.
I don't want to pay for a subscription for software I use thrice a year. I was looking forward to having Affinity's suite be the replacement, where I could buy it, and use it.

However I don't want to support another company that is inevitably going to go subscription. Since they've been bought by canva, it's just a matter of time.

I even went so far as to get Affinity Photo being able to start on Wine. But lost interest since their acquisition.

(I'm sure people will question why I don't just use inkscape, krita, or gimp. And its because all of them have a subpar vector experience IMO)
Mixtral or Llama 70B on Google Spreadsheet Thanks to Hugging Face's API
The Add-on is now available on the HF repo "Journalists on Hugging Face" and allows rapid generation of synthetic data, automatic translation, answering questions and more from simple spreadsheet cells

Link to the Space :
JournalistsonHF/huggingface-on-sheets

Although this tool was initially developed for journalists, it actually finds a much wider inking among daily users of the Google suite and the remaining use cases to be explored are numerous.

Only a free Hugging Face API key is required to start using this no-code extension.

Do not hesitate to submit ideas for features that we could add!
I’ll contrast that with people like Jamie Raskin. I’ve met him personally (briefly, but multiple times) because he shows up at random music festivals and civic events. It’s really not hard to tell when a politician is interested in public feedback.
Easy. There's a few customer profile:
1) People who will always pay it in full
2) People who incorrectly think they're 1) but wont pay in full for some reason
3) People that don't understand the cost of 20% APR
4) People that need the money and don't have a choice

Plus CC make money on transaction fees and sometimes annual fees.
A pet peeve of mine, but this is a misapplication of Occam's razor.

Occam's razor is not to be used to say "this explanation sounds complex, there must be a simpler explanation."

Rather, the point of Occam's razor is to say "here I have two competing explanations, and they both amount to the same thing, and we don't have any evidence of one over the other, so let's just pick the simpler one because it doesn't make a difference."

So, for example, if we had absolutely zero evidence as to the domestication of horses, and one person said "they were domesticated once" and another person said "they were domesticated twice", then it all amounts to the same thing (horses were domesticated) and we have no evidence either way, so we would use Occam's razor to favor the first explanation.

But in this case, it appears we do have evidence, so rather than relying on Occam's razor, we should just argue about the evidence instead.
I think in the middle, you reach a point where you think, "Wow, this is more than I ever imagined, this must be the most you can make."

As a kid raised in poverty, that's definitely what I thought.

But the higher you get, the greater your visibility of folks making even more money.

This is coming from someone who started at 60k, currently at >200k.
Agree with all the reasons, but number 1 is really the most important:

> 1. It makes it easy to learn how to structure a program in a pure way, which is hard to do in languages that offers you a easy way out.

When there's an escape hatch, you will reach for it at some point. It helps with getting things done, but you never end up really confronting the hard things when you have that, and the hard things are an important part of the learning/benefit.
WHy not WASI ?
> I want to minimize the exposure of social media

There's a reason I was comparing social media to hard liquor (and, if you read between the lines, gambling) — we are basically agreed on the harms side of the equation :)
They way we did this was basically separate readonly and read/write tests. All the readonly tests would use the same instance with seeded data in parallel, and the read/write tests would get their own databases per test.
I'm still working through chapter 1 and, despite having some previous Scheme experience, let being syntactic sugar for lambdas just blew my mind the other day.
They specifically say in the article that it cannot be scaled up.
Their line of thinking maybe that firmware updates can basically do anything
Sure, but that's probably still just sample bias of presidents all being at least mostly anglo-saxon. Probably everyone on the British Isles is related to King John.
Gotcha capitalism with a side of rent-seeking.

If indies need it, then sure, it can be necessary to sustain smaller shops that have to support backend/cloud features and multiple OSes that churn APIs faster than a newspaper.
Nope, competently-written apps can do everything with only user permissions 99% of the time.

Most of the time when mac installers require an admin password, it's due to a combination of incompetence and malice.

Very frequently I will just unpack installer bundles by hand and drag things where they need to go. No admin password required, and when it is actually required for some functionality, it's usually something really stupid that could have been done differently. E.g. a common one is to install a startup item that boots a background task when you start your computer, but they could just as easily have booted the background task when you launched the app.
Going on a slight tangent with unplanned entrepreneurship, the Korean PC cafes had their roots in their owners being laid off from their corporate jobs.
>Increasing caps just because demand increases is the wrong action to take. Taking legal action against entities responsible for massive over-prescription of controlled substances is a step in the right direction.

No, increasing caps is the right action to take because it makes no sense to subject legitimate users to grief (ie. jumping through hoops to obtain their supply and/or to go without it) in a misguided attempt to reduce abuse. By all means go after the people who are prescribing it incorrectly, but punishing legitimate and illegitimate users alike makes no sense, and that's what keeping the quotas the same does.
That wasn't the point I was making
Heartbreaking pieces like this do make me wonder... what is the better way to approach healthcare? For both doctors and patients, what would need to change? Is it like this everywhere, or does the US have a unique problem?

I heard a theory once that there is an artificially high barrier for who can become a doctor, and lowering that barrier by allowing doctors to specialize early on/not spend as much time studying fields they won't work in, we would have a higher supply of medical staff. As a layperson, this makes sense to me, but I also don't know what I don't know.

I have a lot of respect for anyone who works in healthcare.