skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Errrr, we know what happens when you put a roughly Pinatubo plume-sized mixture of Pinatubo plume composition in the vicinity of Pinatubo in 1991.

Everything from there is a generalization and abstraction which is very hard to do with complex systems like meteorological ones.
Indirectly related: before visiting Thailand I heard that 7-Elevens were everywhere (they were) and a core part of daily life for locals and tourists alike. I expected them to be more like the Japanese model, but was surprised that they all had a very limited number of salty snacks, energy drinks, and toiletries - similar to the US.

Other than a nice selection of tourist-friendly pre-paid mobile plans, I couldn't really understand (or validate) the "important" role they played.

Anyone have a perspective on this?
We are just monkeys trying to explain the universe and failing miserably because we're not smart enough to understand it at the basic level. Having failed repeatedly, some monkeys declare it mysterious and unknowable because they are too proud to embrace our limitations.

That we are not able to understand how, doesn't prove that life and consciousness arise from anything besides physics. Magic doesn't exist.

I'm not foreign to the irony of a dumb monkey declaring something doesn't exist, but I think it's been overwhelmingly clear through the ages that magic never has had any direct effect outside our imaginations.
I was under the impression that the opioid crisis was partially due to doctors just prescribing them and claiming they are an easy pain killer that is not really addictive
This is great for the e-bike sector - more competition, more innovation, more options.

There is of course a bunch of poo-pooing in an HN thread.

The problem with the e-bike sector is a misalignment:

what people say they want: a cargo bike, a fixie, a mountain bike, a folding bike, a... etc.
what people actually want: a moped that is emotionally and aesthetically a bicycle

The audience for a moped that is emotionally and aesthetically a bicycle is like 1,000,000x larger than the audience of a mountain bike; and the number of miles ridden per "moped that is emotionally a bicycle" will be like 10-100x greater than a mountain bike.

Nobody cares about mountain bikes, or grams saved, or whatever. That's like, some hobby. We might as well be comparing fine German violins. I know this is what is advertised, but who knows what they are thinking when they depict so and so bicycle in their press release.

I'm excited about this bike because it is basically a Stromer ST2: a semi truck of a bike that can sort of do everything. It's a moped with the emotional energy of a bicycle.

What is the ideal e-bike? It is basically a step through Pinion MGU, which Kettler makes. Unless there is more competition, such as with bespoke drive trains, that incredible bike will continue to cost $9,000.

There is a lot of confusion in the sector. VanMoof continues to experience significant financial difficulties, but in all other senses they are a colossal success: they were the first to deliver a moped that emotionally and aesthetically feels like a bike, and a ton of people bought it, and then those people put 10x-100x more miles on those bikes than any owner of any Sturmey Archer bicycle ever has, and VanMoof doesn't bite the bullet and recall for recurring issues like breaking boost buttons, and they run out of money ad-hoc fixing issues over and over again. Stromer also uses proprietary parts and they are reliable, it isn't so black and white. People here are talking about Bosch. Bosch motors break. People are abandoning them. They were put into bikes that were more and more frequently replacing cars, which meant people ride them 10x more than a mountain bike or whatever artisanal or hobby use they would otherwise put on their bikes, and suddenly, the things are breaking all the time.

Every time someone sells something that actually meets the real need for a moped that is emotionally and aesthetically a bicycle, they either price it too high to reach a large enough audience used to prices 1/10th as high on Amazon for the same keywords, or they price it too low for the huge increase in failure due to the huge increase in miles. DJI gives me some confidence they will not misplay this.
Toxicologist examines death from micro-dosing chocolate candy bar
I listen to a lot of great albums, and my life would be poorer without them. Why would I give up listening to the music I love?
FYI. it's M.2 connector that can support SATA or PCIe (or even USB, with A or E key). NVMe is a protocol or command set that runs over some physical interface, like PCIe, RDMA, FC or TCP.

So you can have M.2 SATA (not NVMe) or M.2 PCIe (NVMe) drives, both in the bubblegum form factor. The drive from the article uses U.2 connector, which also provides SATA and PCIe (some desktop boards did come with such a connector, parallel with M.2 slot).
Thanks, I get it. Do you have any example where leaking a timestamp could pose a security risk? I can't think of any.
Mount Tambora's eruption resulted in "the year without a summer", where most of the Northern Hemisphere had deep snows into June and all the crops froze with massive, rapid dieoffs of livestock.

Climate change is definitely bad, but not quite as dramatic in as short a time. People make fun of the Day After Tomorrow for trivializing climate change, but the Mount Tambora eruption resulted in very fast, rapid changes worldwide. And it seems foolish to think we would be any good at controlling the strength of a volcanic eruption.
They could fit more people in the existing town by building up. Replace houses with apartment buildings.

Most of the valley is protected, but the south of the valley near Jackson and Wilson are farms and big homes. The empty space could turned into homes with boring suburban densities. If the rich don't like that, they can pay to prevent it.
If a single remote service can lock you out of your 2FA accounts then you failed with your backup policy. I don't use it, but Apple Passwords makes TOTP secret backups possible, via bulk export and initial key setup.
This one is interesting.

The abstraction for SQL is related to how the work gets done, not what it produces. The missing piece is for the user to be able to control that optimization of how the work gets done, which is getting right down into the details of what SQL was abstracting in the first place.

There could be a middle ground where the user provides input about target performance and the engine uses that input during choice of execution plans.

Maybe an OPTIMIZATION clause for difficult or long running queries:
ALLOW_EXTENDED_PLAN_SEARCH=True
or
MINIMIZE_EXECUTION_TIME_FACTOR=10 (1=just do simple, 10=expend more time+space up front to reduce overall time)
The point of UUIDs is that they're inherently unique. You can generate them in the database or in your application, or anywhere. You can move records between databases without worrying about a collision. Its this reason that theyre so useful and so many people use them that others like to write articles like this.

You do not need to search. I have generated hundreds of millions and have never hit a duplicate. Its technically possible, but its so vanishingly rare it will be something to brag about, not worry about. If you're really worried about it, and building something that cannot tolerate an error, put a try/catch around it and detect a PK failure and try again. But it will be a waste of time.
Okay then, what’s a better explanation?
No one is claiming it arises from anything besides physics, or at least I’m not.
> Should be easy to merge :)

Famous last words.

Seriously, though, we should have learnt at this point: we cannot solve social issues with technology. Everybody is working on a different tree, and social dynamics that govern the spread of idioms and from which fork you cherry-pick or merge is much more complex than what git is designed to handle.
Why a prescription? If the patient can get a placebo fix without a prescription, isn't that better?

Of course having a "healer" present with a "prescription" may make people feel better. So maybe prescribing crystals is better than pharmacy homeopathic remedies.

However, none of this needs to cost $400. Given that these are all placebos, they should cheap and safe.
"it certainly will eventually" - I think even that is underselling how unlikely it is for Git 256-bit hashes to collide. I calculated (taking into account the birthday paradox), that even if 8 billion people on Earth each created a Git commit every second, that they would have to do that non-stop for 1,588,059,911 trillion years before there's a 50% chance that any of the two commits have the same hash. Our sun is predicted to only last 0.005 trillion years more.

√(2^256)×1.1774÷8000000000÷3600÷24÷365 = 1,588,059,910,945,875,138,261

UUIDs are more likely to collide but still basically impossible. You'd have to generate √(2^122)×1.1774 = 2714899559048203259 to have 50% chance of a collision. Just to store the UUIDs for that database would take 39,506,988 TB of space. If you aren't thinking about your database not fitting on millions of drives, don't think about UUID collisions.
Well regardless the number we constantly use is 0-indexed.
I would really like to see a universal retrofit replacement for the big brand motors. Shimano are particularly hostile to repair and I'm loathe to give them thousands of dollars to replace a motor just because they deliberately made it unservicable.
conditioned by mind. see dependent origination/ emptiness. Everything other than pure awareness.
lol, I of course don't mean that I have no issues, performance or otherwise. Only that I have never had an issue with UUIDs in postgres
Its trivial to argue against - just look at statistics how small % of accidents are directly caused by high speeds.
Call me old fashion but I really like integer autoincrement primary keys. It's easy to understand and obviously simple to sort. Furthermore when working on large batch projects you can just store the last primary key as your high water mark and get everything greater than that.

I suppose TSID works to this end, but certainly more complicated.
Yes this is similar to the popular Stephen Mitchell "translation" in that neither spoke the original language.

That being said, I'm glad both of them exist. They are interesting and feel much different to me than the literal translations.
It's possible, just more difficult. E.g., Safari reader mode works fine for this page.
https://gist.github.com/gboudreau/94bb0c11a6209c82418d01a59d...
I have a feeling people who love Le Guin love the idea of her and didn't actually read her books.
Her style is impersonal, robotic and kind of boring.

Look at her most famous quotes for a snippet:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/874602.Ursula_K_Le_G...
It's disappointing that the article did zero breakdown of games by either their cost, or by their sales; the only metric was the number of unique games released on physical or digital.

The rise of digital app stores with a lower cost of entry means that all app stores are filled to the brim with shovelware, low-quality software intended to confuse the customer and sell in tiny amounts. This was a problem with physical stores but the barrier to getting a game published and physical items shipped prevented the worst of the worst from ever seeing a store.

There are benefits to digital stores that go beyond convenience of course, like older games can reach a bigger audience when they're drastically marked down, but you run into the discoverability problem when you have a large number of games.
> not form ridiculous words

Depends on what you mean by ridiculous.

For example https://sqids.org/ ensures that there are no profanities in the generated ids. And it allows you to add additional words that you want to avoid.
1] “Our smart retail automated ammo dispensers have built-in AI technology, card scanning capability and facial recognition software,” the company’s website states. “Each piece of software works together to verify the person using the machine matches the identification scanned.”

2] The store has said that it “removed the machine on July 3rd because of a lack of sales,” the outlet reported.
Hi everyone. Here is Tandem, a little project management platform I built. While working on a side project a while back, I could not keep up with all the requirements, features and bugs I had to fix, so a lot of things got lost along the way. In order to remedy that I thought to build something in house that would help me keep things in order, Hence Tandem. It's designed to simplify project coordination and enhance team collaboration.
Let me know what you think!
I'm in Berlin. We just watched Germany lose to Spain. We walked past a restaurant and saw a bunch of people starting at a screen, and it looked like a good picture to me. I was about to take it, and my friend said "You cannot take pictures without permission from those people." I had no intention of posting on social media because I don't use that.

Then we had a fascinating discussion about how photos without consent are outlawed. And, how video cameras are outlawed in public places. You cannot put up a camera outside your house to watch for Amazon packages.

I was really struck by the "news" I get about Europe. I hear incessant discussions about GDPR, which is a very abstract thing about collecting data. I'm for it, I think, but it is abstract. If I ever heard a reporter saying "You know, in Europe they are having a very different conversation about people taking pictures of your kids without your consent" well, damn, I would be very excited and interested in that article.

The fact that I don't read those articles makes me think my "news" is very controlled by social media companies, or should I say, anyone who has business in making sure data collection is unimpeded, which means Google, Facebook, probably Amazon.

Is my friend wrong? Is this more complicated? Or am I right that the discussion of what happens in Europe is framed in a way that keeps me uninformed about what is really possible?
She has made Jesus illegal.
This is a fascinating idea. Would you mind if we call it a "cryptographic hash"?
Copy and Paste context menu entries sometimes disabled when they should not be
Specifically the right-click menu option, which is often greyed out for no apparent reason. This happens on both Windows and Linux. Ctrl+C still works, but how does Firefox break something as basic as the right-click menu and copy in 2024?
Yeah, Epycs have 128 PCI-E lanes, so you can get close with 2x, but you do need some for e.g. networking. Though you can also do dual-CPU.
Paul Dirac: the purest soul in physics (1998)
Hopper NVL and SuperPods should be shipping but we've heard nothing.
I'm only advocating for homeopathic cold medicine. Real cold medicine does not cure the common cold and does have harmful side effects.

Your examples are cases where homeopathic remedies should not be marketed beside real medicine.
Incremental Garbage Collection in Unreal Engine
Implement an Interpreter Using Clojure Instaparse
Take all the Roman alphabet apart from the vowels - 21 characters and length 6 gives you 100 million possibilities which is plenty for most applications.

You can still get vaguely offensive sequences like FKNNGR or BLKCNT, but at some point you have to put this down not to your software being offensive or hateful but to humans finding patterns in randomness.
Ask HN: Where do you spend most of life? Online vs. offline / with humans vs. AI
open to any and every answer.
Problem is, generally only places not doing this are FAANG and we all can't work there. I've interviewed at two FAANG companies in my field (Ops Type) and went ok but didn't get hired. So apparently, I'm not good enough for FAANG so far. Also, they are losing their luster as well.

Now, whatever. It's a job that pays well. I'm making rich people richer but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do differently. MBAs continue to strip mine everything and my country upcoming elections are between two people we should be saying "Sure grandpa" while they tell us stories in their nursing home.

If that makes me dumb, I'll take the label I guess. I try not to be but when I'm having to explain to Dev for 5th time to stop doing appsettings.json, I realize that my tilting at windmills isn't going to fix anything.

Also, this is a feature factory: https://www.productplan.com/glossary/feature-factory/
Lol ok so I'm making it up, then. I don't owe you anything, dude. You can believe whatever you want, I don't give a single f.
In the US, I have some "cutting boards" made from flexible self-healing plastic.

To add confusion: These are for kitchen use.

To add more confusion: They were purchased from Aldi.
I think that's good, because it helps you realize that categorizing art by century is kind of arbitrary and meaningless, and if possible it would be more useful to say something like "neoclassical art from the 1700s". "18th century" isn't an artistic category, but it kind of sounds like it is if you just glance at it. "Art from the 1700s" is clearly just referring to a time period.
Hello! I didnt see any AI engineer roles in the link you mentioned. Is there an email I can reach out to?
The alternative not making sense doesn't automatically make this solution make sense :( It just highlights how many corners C++ has backed its design into.
>DuckDB Labs and the DuckDB Foundation do not vet the code within community extensions and, therefore, cannot guarantee that DuckDB community extensions are safe to use. The loading of community extensions can be explicitly disabled with the following one-way configuration option:

So we should think of this like NPM.

Still, very cool and very useful. Would love a way from inside of duckdb directly to query the extensions available from community.
The problem with climate geo-engineering solution is not that they won't work, but rather that they don't solve the problem we need to solve. As people say, when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. If we had stopped digging, maybe we could employ other solutions (like geoengineering) to get out of the hole.

But we're nowhere near the "stop digging" stage; in fact, we are at "we might be digging at maximum speed now, because at least we're not digging noticeably faster every coming year" stage.

Whatever we do, we will need to restructure the global economy to drastically reduce CO2 emission. Any potential "alternative" solution is an auxiliary measure we could employ on top of decarbonization; it cannot replace decarbonization.
Rogers networks reliability and resiliency assessment after 2022-07-08 outage
> Unrelated: Is it normal in marketing to refer to customers as "targets"?

She was talking about "ad targeting", not the customers as targets:
"In the morning we will target our customers with a message about Coffee and Donuts".
so is KSR's but I still love the worldbuilding and what-if exploration of the scifi.
I am intrigued to learn more if you post anywhere (nothing in your profile); this all seems intriguing.
How is saying "stop manufacturing new stuff that's obsolete from day 1" advocating for e-waste?
Wow okay, that's really crazy.

> AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced revenue for the first quarter of 2024 of $5.5 billion, gross margin of 47%, operating income of $36 million, net income of $123 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.07.

https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1192/am...

And Nvidia had a revenue $22.1 billion in Q4 2024, gross margin of 76%, operating income of $13.6B, net income of $12.2B, and diluted earnings per share $4.93.
https://investor.nvidia.com/news/press-release-details/2024/...
For a number of years, I built various To-Do (or more accurately To-Done) lists. I would use them for about a year and then just stop, and make something else. I don't currently have any to-do list solution, I'm just using pieces of paper or forgetting stuff. At one point I had:

- A single-page HTML app that saved entries in localStorage in 1 browser (like 1kb of vanilla CSS and JS, barely anything)

- A static HTML website, generated from a folder of Markdown-like raw text, with a CLI build script. Hosted on a public web server.

- A simple linux CLI command that let me check, set, and mark items as complete, build with Node and saved to a JSON on disk somewhere.

And there must have been one or two more. Nothing serious, nothing that stuck long-term, but I probably spent 1-10 hours making these, and then using them daily for a year or a year and a half.

I'm very conscious about time spent automating or building what you want, versus how much real-life time savings or experience boost does it give you. I'll likely make more of these in the future when the itch reappears and hopefully get another year's enjoyment out of whatever little thing I build.
> I briefly considered selling a device that would "reverse" those consequences so the water from your tap would be homeopathically neutralized. But it just seemed unethical to take advantage of the poorly educated.

You can rest assured that other people definitely did and indeed are still doing it. Ask me how I know.

(A couple of late-night rabbit holes, of course. From positive crystals you’re supposed to put in a water filter to magic pots that turn dead, sterilised water into the pure, living good stuff. The Internet can be very depressing).
> Like who fucking cares how old the CPU in a label printer is?

I don't (usually) care about the CPU, but I do care about the update story. If they are shipping a very outdated cpu design, it likely runs a kernel that no longer gets security patches.
Typically I'd cite to whatever it was I copied. I've never seen any kind of writing that sourced to the copy function. Have you?
If it's an appliance, I would hardly think it's obsolete hardware if it's performing the required task. There are other issues, of course.
Probably cost about 10K to open it.
Conversely: if using bigserial for a primary key introduces crippling performance problems to your system, maybe that is a problem you need to address either way.
Is the consumption priced into LLMs? Seems like the free ones are losing money, surely they aren't using no energy.
I am so here for bringing konbini life to the U.S.
Incredible post. Starting this today!
An AI would be running on a computer with the same space and time bounds as the human, because the AI is just software running on the human’s computer.

There are still no infinities.
Just as we have our Einstein and our 10x developers, so did the people of ancient worlds.
Unfortunately, UUIDv4 is often specifically prohibited for some sensitive applications due to many cases of broken RNGs undermining the security guarantees of UUIDv4. Deterministic generation plus encryption is a common choice in these cases.
Emergent property of a sophisticated brain (with it's own weaknesses).

But even if I didn't have a more compelling explanation, that doesn't mean I can't be highly critical of, or reach a conclusion that panpsychicism is highly unlikely to be approaching a good explanation.
I strongly disagree. Her essays (?!) and short story might be a good place to demonstrate the breath and width of her style.

The one exeption to this, for my taste, might be Earthsea, parts of it definitely fell short of its reputation as far as I am concerned.