skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insane prices for insulin?

edit: you really think insulin prices don't have an effect on the lifespans of diabetics?
Why not? Salt is an essential nutrient.
Something this illustrates, though - once you solve a problem, read the forum thread (the link will be at the bottom of the problem page when solved).

I learned so much poring over the solutions of earlier solvers. Without that knowledge, there's no way I could have gotten lots of later problems.

Sure, problem #15 is very early and I happened to know the answer right off, back the first day I started solving PE problems. But even so, there are some gems in the posts from other solvers.
but Boeing's stock is down

and selling $10B in shares will drive it down further
That would require thinking more than 1 quarter ahead, and their leadership clearly doesn’t have that many context tokens.
> If the goal was pure Java SQLite¹, a VFS from scratch would be better.

agreed, though this was more an experiment to test Chicory once we built initial wasi support. I'd love to see it picked up and improved. I think that's the direction I'd go if i want some kind of production ready library.
Also nuts is when they couple them to phony real world locations like "123 Main St., Mytown MA"
I did a double-take at the quoted $500 price in 2023. The real numbers strengthen the case for AI as a pump-the-stock investment.
Yep. Personally I'd be happy with a nuclear power plant in my town, but it's not because I read some book proving to me that it's safe.

And I don't want to hear the Fukushima partial-meltdown was operator error and we just need people to not make mistakes. I'd rather be told that accidents will happen, radioactive substances will leak, and we have ways to deal with that.
It sure does have consequences.

Easy to split the atom, not so easy to vote (correctly) apparently.

I guess we'll keep shipping it around and storing it onsite, even though a massive facility is already built to house all of it.

Maybe one day people will realize the establishment you keep voting in doesn't want cheap and unlimited energy.

Until then, let's keep talking in circles about it.
We're only two years in. To be frank I'm a loss on how to respond to the skepticism. If something so useful can't make a profit in the future you envision, I don't know what can.
Meta seems to - in my view correctly - understand that the risk to Facebook & other Meta properties is someone else walking away with great success, capturing the market for generative AI & being left out.

They don't need to make money, increase their value. They need to ward off existential risk. The best way to insure they aren't locked out from the future is to keep the future open. That's the only hope they have to maintain the locks they already have on much of the information technology world.
I wish I could do this but I have yet to find a good Apple Watch replacement for owning and syncing music (rather than streaming it)
Yeah it is. Vi is ancient and not at all modern or use friendly. Look at that bug report! They're complaining they can't go up to the previous command by pressing ESC k. Instead they have to press.... up. Ye gads.
> Everyone is a libertarian until it’s their commons experiencing the tragedy.

Yeah sure and everyone is a socialist utopian until its their own money/liberty on the line.

If we cannot “collectively” reach a consensus what happens?

Im just pointing out that the original suggestion of “ban ML for environmental reasons” is extreme/ham-fisted. This is what dictatorships do in real life all over the globe “for the greater good”.

Should crypto be a government-approved use of energy? What about manufacturing semiconductors? Building data centers? Producing EVs, solar farms or batteries? Are flights for vacation allowed?

You aren’t thinking about the second order impact of having a government that has the ability to gatekeep energy production for specific use cases…
Psilocybin, MDMA and Salvia divinorum have had a profound effect on my life and the person I am today. Of course it’s impossible to say who I would be, had I not tried these.
Has it been for the better? Maybe. For the worse? Maybe.
I do know that they are experiences I would not want to be without. They taught me a great desl about myself and helped shape my perception of the inner and outer world surrounding me. Am I smarter and more enlightened, probably not. May be I even shaved off an IQ point or two in the proces.
But having my reality altered, even totally disintegrated (salvia) certainly paved the way for acceptance of other states of mind that people may exist in. This is very valuable to me, as it helped break down a black and white coccon I see many people live in (some break free by orher means, some never escape it).
To me, it was bungee jumping for the mind but from the comfort of my own home. It certainly has helped me take on and be comfortable with opposing viewpoints, being very tolerant in general and able to reach further into the corners of my mind.
It’s been decades since those first jumps, but the effects will last me a lifetime.
> Linux-compatible ABI

There's no specification of that ABI, much less a compliance test suite. How complete is this compatibility?
Do these occur without the use of SSRI's? e.g. in ADHD patients? What if _someone I know_ has had these brain zaps extremely infrequently but definitely noticed them in the past?
Boeing: “We buy high and sell low.”
Half of NVIDIA's 2nd quarter revenue (30 billion) came from 4 customers, with Microsoft and Meta already having spent 40-60 billion each on GPU data centers (of which most goes to NVIDIA). "Open"AI just raised a few billion and is supposedly planning on building their own training clusters soon.

For a small fraction of that they could poach a ton of people from NVIDIA and publish a new open chip spec that anyone could manufacture.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/09/12/46-nvidias-30-bill...
I mostly get mad not because obesity isn't a problem, but because BMI is a bad way to measure it. It may work in the general, but it can give bad information in specific cases.

I'm a good example of how it fails. I have long arms and legs which causes my BMI to be fairly low. However, my body fat is fairly high. I need to lose fat but were I to rely solely on BMI I'd think I'm fine.

What I'd want instead of BMI is body fat percentage. I think that gives a much better measure of health problems.
The userId is coming from the client. I tried this which worked: ' UNION SELECT TOP 1 UserID, Username, 'MyCustomPassword' AS Passwort, ... FROM Users --. I got an user with the defaults of the first entry and my set password. The problem is that the userId from the client is also used in the second query. Here the union wont work anymore because of the column count mismatch. I dont even care about the results of the second query - it just must not throw an error but it seems to be impossible to write a query placed in the userId from the client doing what I did in the first query without affecting the second one so that it throws an error or?
This was true a decade ago, with modern io_uring dpdk is probably an anti-pattern.
It’s exactly that explanation which makes absolutely no sense. Having someone with a history of poor investments bet on you signifies absolutely nothing. Especially not when they’ve done well on some of their investments.

Nowhere does the author explain why on earth OpenAI would be desperate to accept what they call “dumb money”. Maybe if it was enough money to buy leadership, but it obviously isn’t. So what is the issue here exactly?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o got jailbroken by same prompt
Is there a good platform that includes wifi / bluetooth with the RP2350?
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If it's that easy, why didn't Fukushima's plant get the meltdown-proof reactor?
I wish I could do this but I have yet to find a good Apple Watch replacement for owning and syncing music (rather than streaming it)

Is it not possible to sync MP3s to Apple Watches anymore? I have a really really old model, and I selected a few playlists on my iPhone, and when they change, the songs automatically sync to my Apple Watch.
Function Overloading in JavaScript
Yeah, PC was also supposed to be like the other ecosystems, but IBM got fooled by Compaq in a clever way they failed to prevent.

PS2 and MCA architecture was a kind of attempt to recover control over the PC, but it was too late.
The timing of this change couldn't be even worse with the ongoing DDOS attacks on and necessary hardening of the Internet Archive. Wonder what kind of twisty narrative one could posit about why this is happening?
Suppose it's the same as online dating vs "meeting the old fashioned way".

I'm also pretty partial to "just work on your hobby and meet someone else". But probably a lot of opportunity left on the table that way. Especially if you know you want to build something serious.
I wonder how this math works in light of Moore's law? E.g say it cost meta $320 million to train this model this year. How much does it cost to train that model next year or the year after instead? Is it significantly cheaper? Are the returns on investment the same? Makes me think there is a business case in watching someone spend a pile of money to train model X, waiting to see if there's interest in the market in this model X, then spend a comparatively smaller pile of money on the same model X yourself taking advantage of lower future costs of compute and undercut the original company hand over fist.
Just stay with Wordpress, if you like WordPress.
It's a vast community. Nothing is even close in
terms of marketshare and popularity.

Most people do not care about this drama.
And they dont want to care about it because
it is their golden goose and customers are
used to it.

Yes, some people do care, and yes they are very vocal.
And yes there are a lot for those voices here.

Just look at X.

Is still around and still has an extreme amount of users.
and it looks like some of folks that switched to Mastodon
are not loving it.

Now personally I want WordPress to die because its a nightmare
of code.

I find the data schema pretty good.
Now with Pods it takes care of extending the schema.
The back-end code is decent.

The front end story is different.
But after I quit using plugins and started doing a lot of my own
coding it is somewhat better but the layers upon layers upon layers
of CSS is still a nightmare.

I dont believe the world will accommodate my wish on WordPress.

I also want social media to die.
I dont belevive the world will accommodate me on that either.
Not true for the Poco F1 (although AFAIK you still need to build your own kernel on postmarketOS to enjoy this): https://fosstodon.org/@joelselvaraj/112621744555315631

Shift6mq is supposedly close, with OnePlus6(T) its more difficult due to I think the way the sensor is connected.

Currently, the Pixel 3a is the most promising device in terms of Camera Support on a Qualcomm device with mainline kernel from what I can gather.
I was working towards that aiming at the medieval city of Rothenburg o.d.T. in Germany.

Unfortunately it's a lot of code writing to support rolling shutter cameras strapped to multicopters, where you capture video with short enough exposure to prevent blur. The 3D recovery has to respect the fact that the rows of the image are taken from different positions and angles, causing this up infiltrate basically the entire pipeline.

And global shutter cameras are barely accessible.

If there's some group with the man power and funding to actually pull this off, please get in touch, I would like to pick back up!
> It’s tautologically the case that they wouldn’t have disbanded if they had 100% assurance this type of cartel was legal

Also a lie. You should read up on SLAPP lawsuits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...

Musk is pretty famous for bringing forum-shopped SLAPP lawsuits against his critics, because he has enough money to ruin other people with legal fees. They do generally get thrown out, but the legal system is not an efficient truth and justice machine like you pretend, and there's no federal anti-SLAPP law in the US, only state laws that don't apply in Texas when suing in a federal court.

But circling back, please tell me that you recognize a difference between the words "boycott" and "blackmail".
Convert the Excel for Web Application
Hello. I have an assignment to create a web application using rag and gpt module.
My updated files are there in dev branch in https://github.com/drrahulsuresh/bounce including the dataset.
When querying I always get the result no relevant data found.
I have populated the excel file in db using SQL. I notice the data are not properly tabled.

Any suggestions how to convert this excel file into SQL or any format for proper querying would be of great help.

Thanks a mil.
That's like saying giving students a better calculator revolutionizes math education.

Even giving students full access to Mathematica (which I think is worthwhile BTW) won't revolutionize it.
Indian food uses lots of chilies, peppers, tomatoes, and potatoes—which are all native to the Americas, and were brought to Asia by European traders in the early modern period.

So while I see your point, I wouldn't say a cuisine is always "from" the same place as its ingredients.
So long as it doesn't have leaky abstractions, it passes muster.
Kind of a tangent but I think a big part of the explanation for declining life expectancy is hiding here in plain sight.

Since everyone knows smoking is bad for a long time now, we’re going to eventually need to categorize stuff like lung-cancer as a death of despair, similar to other deaths caused by alcoholism, opioids, or suicide.

A lot of people who otherwise might quit smoking are probably looking at impossible dreams of home ownership or retirement, and thinking consciously or unconsciously that there is more dignity in a death at 50-60ish than one at 80ish when you’re unemployable and the thin promises of social safety nets have fallen through.

Smoking (or other high risk activities) might be a dirty habit but it’s still more socially acceptable than suicide.
If that's the case, how come nobody seems to be writing improved Minecraft clients?

Ever since I started playing it in the beta days I've been frustrated with how poorly Minecraft performs relative to what it's showing on the screen. (Not that that stopped me from pouring hundreds of hours into the damn thing.)
I don't know much about DuckDB's architecture.

Wasm is fine for compute (though concurrency is still a somewhat open question).

To have Wasm talk to the outside world, you need “host calls” where the guest calls the host.

On a browser that's Wasm calling JavaScript. On my Go driver, it's Wasm calling Go.

For server side, there's also a standard set of “host calls” modeled around POSIX/Linux syscalls called WASI.

I could've build my project around WASI, but WASI is rather limited (and SQLite support for WASI was more limited even, it's improved a bit since). DuckDB might work out-of-the-box this way.

I, instead, took advantage of SQLite's architecture and replaced its VFS layer with one in Go:
https://sqlite.org/vfs.html

So SQLite in Wasm is just doing compute, and I do all the OS level stuff in Go. No need for Wasm concurrency, cause I can load multiple instances of my Wasm which act like independent OS processes that communicate through the filesystem (SQLite excels at this).

As I said, I dunno how well all those decisions would map to DuckDB.
Reminds me of "Book-A-Minute" (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/) from yesteryear.

Most of the entries are for specific books, but there are also some authors mentioned, e.g. "The Collected Works of Dean Koontz": http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/koontz.shtml
> I find that when I point this out, people often get mad. They feel they aren't obese. But the research doesn't support them, if you are anywhere outside of the "healthy" categorization you are at the same risk (that we know of so far) as "clinically obese" people.

"Overweight" is longer-lived than "Normal," and "Grade I Obesity" isn't significantly less longer lived than "Normal." So what you're pointing out is misinformation, which is why people are annoyed by it. There is a case that "Normal" includes more sick and dying people because sick people often lose weight, but the difference still can't be as stark as reddit knowledge makes it out to be.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23280227/

Conclusions and relevance: Relative to normal weight, both obesity (all grades) and grades 2 and 3 obesity were associated with significantly higher all-cause mortality. Grade 1 obesity overall was not associated with higher mortality, and overweight was associated with significantly lower all-cause mortality. The use of predefined standard BMI groupings can facilitate between-study comparisons.
He didn't, but the mere fact that conkers are serious enough business that championships among adults even exist, that there are people for whom the game means so much that they engage in it for life, that one of the more prominent of the bunch even makes a conker of steel, and then an accusation of using it to cheat is raised — there should be a movie or a story about this. This is a quality urban legend material. Today it may be a nothingburger, but as years go by, it inevitably gets smoothed and a bit embellished here and there — just a little bit, you understand — and then the next Douglas Adams puts it in a setting where it is super hilarious and unmistakably British.
I visited your site using Firefox on desktop on an IPS 1920x1080 monitor. I like the overall aesthetic and primary font choice. Site is easy to navigate and posts are well-presented and easy to read. A few minor suggestions:

- The date, visitor count, and post snippet text on the homepage should be higher contrast.

- Write descriptions/choosing excerpts home page snippets instead of just using the start of the article.

- The email entry box on the home page is too wide. I think it would look better if it was shorter and centered or moved into the head menu.

- I would reduce the spacing after headers and add small left and right margins in articles.

- I personally recommend enabling RSS/ATOM feeds, but I assume you thought about that already.

- I would look into adding a search box as you write more posts.
IMO there are much better ways to spend 300 million in research beyond firing up a cluster for 60 days to train on internet content.
From my experience, the only real way to make money on that kind of thing is either own metric shittons of the stock, or be paid big money by the company whilst all the shenanigans are going on.
Suspect, pure speculation, when they pivoted from being focused on gamers, switching from guild to server helped.
Any company that’s too important to fail needs to be split into smaller pieces
A friend of mine has been reading Ulysses since 2022, I've stopped asking him about it.
so? you just reverse stock split until your stock price is back to normal.
No. Ask anyone who owned GM stock at the start of the great recession.
That's a bleak view. I doubt a substantial percentage of smokers are smoking specifically to die sooner.

Most of them are smoking primarily because they're addicted.

A few of them actually like smoking.
Interesting, it's been awhile since I looked at this stuff so I did a little searching and found this: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1789103/FULLTEXT...

Their conclusion is io_uring is still slower but not by much, and future improvements may make the difference negligible. So you're right, at least in part. Given the tradeoffs, DPDK may not be worth it anymore.
One other thing - can't believe I forgot to mention this: once you solve a problem, read the solvers' thread in the forum! I learned so much by doing that, which fed into success on later problems. The link will be at the bottom of the problem page once you've solved it.

There are some much later problems where some obscure technique gets mentioned, even though the problem is doable without that technique. But then later on, there are other problems where that technique is practically required. I can think of multiple 100% difficulty problems which were actually much easier than that for me, because I had already seen and tried out the techniques that enable a fast solution.

And sorry, not going to mention any of those techniques. A lot of the fun I have in solving PE problems is that incremental increase in knowledge as time goes on.
The Grounded Worldview of the Losing Heroines: Makeine Production Notes
Instead of asking "what other languages and project (open/closed, big/small, web/mobile/desktop, game/consumerapp/bizapp) have you experience with as to come to this conclusion?" people down vote you.

So lemme ask: what other languages and project (open/closed, big/small, web/mobile/desktop, game/consumerapp/bizapp) have you experience with as to come to this conclusion?
The technology didn't exist yet.

The first one was built in 2021 and went into commercial operation in 2023: https://www.ans.org/news/article-6241/china-pebblebed-reacto...

It was conceptualized in the 50s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor

But there were a number of limiting factors that led to people building reactors that could meltdown, but were incredibly unlikely - see Fukushima - it didn't technically meltdown - even in a VERY bad scenario with a good bit of human error.
If I was approaching the dumb phone thing I’d try something similar to this video - “dumbify” Home Screen app for iOS, setting as gray scale, screen time limits, etc.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7jVb1lLniEw
> Can we overcome ageing?

75% American are overweight..

Just let it sink a second, they speak about how many baby born after 2000 will reach 100 years old, how we are reaching the absolute limit of human survival.

75% overweight... Everyone know fat people don't live long. I bet all the studies done in the 90's that predicted we would easily be able to reach 100 years old didn't take that into account.
What performance boost? As in, same software running for comparison on the hardware of interest, one soldered and the other not. I never heard that soldering your SSD on makes it faster...
In retrospect, my comment was unnecessarily harsh. Congrats on the launch. I know how tough it is to get here.
The best reason I can think of is aesthetic: x86 is the ugliest (extant?) ISA.

Nobody wants to read, write, or think about x86 assembly. Most RISCs are easy and enjoyable to read, reason about, and write by hand.