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Comment · 7 months ago
> or (currently) about $11,000 US dollars $110,000 US dollars
Comment · 1 year ago
The bigger danger is that all obituaries will be written by an AI.
Comment · 1 year ago
There was something magical starting to type a listing that started with `10 GOSUB 10000`.
Comment · 2 years ago
Been making yogurt at home for years. I just heat milk to the point when it's just about to boil over. Never measured the actual temperature, but I'm pretty sure it's less than 100C. I just cool it until it's warm to touch (about 40-45C) before adding the culture (a spoonful of last day's yogurt), then leave it overnight in the oven with the pilot light on.
Comment · 2 years ago
Same in Kannada, a South Indian language. You prefix "-ante" (roughly, _it is said_) and you can disown everything you say.
Comment · 2 years ago
> so a web app can run SQL queries locally and all the usual SQLite stuff "just works" from the warm/javascript's point of view

Duckdb-wasm can do this.

Comment · 2 years ago
> and people drinks cow piss to cure COVID

This is a false stereotype that has no place in HN. Yes, there are people who do that, but I bet a similar number of people per capita do that in Bangladesh too, we're not that different. It's like saying how can America be so developed if people still believe the earth is flat.

Comment · 2 years ago
Kannada.

It is called "Honge mara" in Kannada.

Comment · 2 years ago
Heh, I grew up in a small town in Southern India. One of the summertime activities for kids was to go shake these trees (they are everywhere), extract kernels and make a few bucks at the local markets.

They were quite bitter. And the bitterness transferred to anything you touch after handling them unless you wash your hands thoroughly. IIRC, the oil was used in the soap industry.

Having said that, isn't any kind of monoculture bad? Traditional farming always had crop rotation and/or mixed cultivation. Any "magical" and "hardy" crop is gonna ruin the soil if planted over and over for years.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Perhaps the title should have been "Brain uses Quantum effects in a useful/controllable way". Sabine explains it well in the video. To use quantum effects for computation, you'd need very controlled conditions and it was thought be to not possible in the brain.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm Indian (in the US) and I've noticed a vast majority of my Indian friends name their kids Aanav, Aanir or Aanvi etc. some of which aren't even words in any Indian language. Now I probably know why.
Comment · 2 years ago
> Afaik this was stated in my Intro to ML course.

Isbell?

Comment · 2 years ago
Politics and war discussions have been increasingly common at work too. Companies have promoting ERGs in the hope of diversity and in the name of "bringing your authentic self to work", and these groups have become a hotbed of activism. I've witnessed flamewars in work channels on the topics of BLM, war in Gaza etc in the past two companies I've worked.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah just change it to `SELECT OrderID`.

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