MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-05-14 18:11:32+00:00
This is a really common question but it has a really simple answer. They still have recovery methods. You can optionally change these with most providers (go into account settings, setup something like a recovery codes and check the option to be completely passwordless) but regardless they still have recovery methods. As in i lost my phone and i recovered the account with a combination of my secondary email and old password.

You might argue "but if they still have the recovery methods isn't my account only as secure as those" and to that i'd point out that you're still way ahead with passkeys simply by not entering passwords on a routine basis. The recovery methods tend to be two factor as well, just without passkeys as one of the two factors (hence email+password) so still a win over password alone in any case.

Passkeys should be thought of as no different to the old two factor authenticators. I mean that's literally what they are, essentially the latest fido standard that allows devices such as your phone to be a hardware security key in its own right. These always had ways to do account recovery with all the providers.
by mbreese | 2025-05-14 18:11:41+00:00
What I think you’re not addressing is the question about the Linux VM that Docker requires on a Mac. I don’t think there is a question about the benefits of Docker from a management point of view. The question is — is it worth keeping around a running Linux VM just to get those management benefits. Since you’re not actually using Docker (the daemon) to run Macs in a container, how much of that micro Linux VM is necessary? Is that overhead worth it?

(This is coming from someone who keeps colima running all the time on my Mac)
by globie | 2025-05-14 18:11:42+00:00
I remember the first time I saw AI alt text provide a detailed description of a missing photo. The description was so complete and captured every detail to the point where the original photo became redundant.

My first thought was how incredible it would be to be visually impaired and have access to this new way of "seeing" the world. Yes, there are dangerous effects too when AI astroturfers can read images to blend further into conversations. But what a time to be blind!
by modeless | 2025-05-14 18:11:45+00:00
This kind of performative "empathy" people talk about in online forums is not true empathy. It's frequently the case that prioritizing this fake "empathy" results in bad outcomes. It saddens me when people use "empathy" to justify policy with strongly negative overall consequences. It's how you end up with, for example, the disaster zone that large chunks of San Francisco were before Lurie started cleaning up a few months ago. Or the deplorable state of our healthcare system.
by nradov | 2025-05-14 18:12:24+00:00
EHR vendors aren't the major blocker here. Most of them have pretty good APIs now (at least for reading USCDI data from patient charts). But the data quality as entered by users is often crap: when you're training it's going to be garbage in / garbage out unless you put enormous efforts into cleansing. And the raw images are often not in the EHR but rather in a separate PACS.
by caseyy | 2025-05-14 18:12:42+00:00
The dad’s photo in the end in SDR looks so much better on a typical desktop IPS panel (Windows 11). The HDR photo looks like the brightness is smushed in the most awful way. On an iPhone, the HDR photo is excellent and the others look muted.

I wonder if there’s an issue in Windows tonemapping or HDR->SDR pipeline, because perceptually the HDR image is really off.

It’s more off than if I took an SDR picture of my iPhone showing the HDR image and showed that SDR picture on the said Windows machine with an IPS panel. Which tells me that the manual HDR->SDR “pipeline” I just described is better.

I think Windows showing HDR content on a non-HDR display should just pick an SDR-sized section of that long dynamic range and show it normally. Without trying to remap the entire large range to a smaller one. Or it should do some other perceptual improvements.

Then again, I know professionally that Windows HDR is complicated and hard to tame. So I’m not really sure the context of remapping as they do, maybe it’s the only way in some contingency/rare scenario.
by kotaKat | 2025-05-14 18:13:03+00:00
No, in this case the consumer femtocells on the market (AT&T Cell Booster, Verizon LTE Network Extender) are actual eNodeBs inside the carrier’s RAN. They will IPSEC tunnel back to a security gateway (SeGW), grab provisioning information, and then come up on the carrier’s commercial license as just another (fancy low powered) LTE radio on the network.

AT&T did try to add some additional tamper switches and protection inside their units so they’d brick if you opened them - that was known since the MicroCell era. I believe T-Mobile’s former CellSpots were also tamper-protected in the same manner (they both deployed Nokia LTE small cells).

AT&T also appears to now charge you for the privilege of deploying the newer Cell Booster Pros if you want 5G - I assume that cost ($30/mo per cell!) is basically covering licensing the backend for all of that.

Wi-Fi Calling uses a different SeGW endpoint and is pure IMS back to the carrier voice network, regardless if you shoot it over WiFi or back over a dedicated APN on the LTE network in the normal VoLTE fare.
by Cilvic | 2025-05-14 18:13:24+00:00
- write formulas for me (single cell but let me say in english what I want then give me the formula) - do more complex things like "add another week" (1) insert new column (2) copy all formulas (3) adjust the fixed date - Explain a sheet / formula / section - Help me understand where this value comes from - do large scale formatting adjustments/alignments - find discrepancies / inconsistencies
by godelski | 2025-05-14 18:13:50+00:00
Isn't this a common trend with CS? It seems like there's just constant over hype that drives booms and crashes, even to such a degree that if something was there it can't even be built. We have billionaires and hundred millionaires that made their money on VR, blockchain, and Web3. The wealth comes even when no product does and that seems like a big issue that's being exploited
by subjectsigma | 2025-05-14 18:13:57+00:00
Elon Musk pretty much is a cartoon villain, and refugees are an important topic, but I think that’s almost irrelevant when considering the question at hand, which is whether or not the output from Grok is biased and inflammatory. I believe it is, but endless speculation about why is probably not a good idea when we’re talking about a literal nonsense generator. Nobody fucking understands why LLMs do half the things they do.

I think no matter the cause, users should demand better quality and/or switch to a different model. Or, you know, stop trusting a magical black box to think for them.
by nathan_douglas | 2025-05-14 18:14:12+00:00
Yeah, I had a very similar experience recently. I refactored some things because the code was weirdly circuitous. Should I not have? I wrote a lot of explanatory notes. Was that a bad move? Ultimately I spent several hours on it and my response was basically "Didn't work." I realized that they had some automation set up that would spin up the thing, send some HTTP requests, then shut down. No human ever actually looked at my work, so the time I spent wondering whether I should or should not refactor was probably moot. Didn't feel great.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-05-14 18:14:35+00:00
> often in horrific ways

Let me guess, loan shark apps, or is there something even worse that I wasn't aware of?

(Essentially ransomware that people "voluntarily" install in order to get a predatory loan, often without knowing how it actually operates. If they fail to pay, not only is their phone locked, but the data from it is used to threaten/extort them, from threatening to send their nudes to their contacts to death threats to relatives identified from the data - https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/beware-preda...)
by jermaustin1 | 2025-05-14 18:14:39+00:00
If I'm not mistaken, they still carry the debt they acquired to pre-fund, and still spend about $10B on retirement benefits each year.

But to me, none of that really matters, because I don't believe a government entity should be turning a profit on me, because then it is a tax. So I want the USPS running at a loss (pulling from appropriations as needed), but as close to breakeven as possible. If it ever pulls a profit, I expect prices to drop in accordance.
by Rusky | 2025-05-14 18:14:52+00:00
I mean, again, yeah. I specifically compared the safe API/unsafe implementation aspect, not who writes the unsafe implementation.

To me the interesting thing about Rust's approach is precisely this ability to compose unrelated pieces of trusted code. The type system and dynamic semantics are set up so that things don't just devolve into a yolo-C-style free-for-all when you combine two internally-unsafe APIs: if they are safe independently, they are automatically safe together as well.

The set of internally-unsafe APIs you choose to compose is a separate question on top of that. Maybe Rust, or its ecosystem, or its users, are too lax about this, but I'm not really trying to have that argument. Like I mentioned in my initial comment, I find this interesting even if you just apply it within a single trusted runtime.
by lostlogin | 2025-05-14 18:14:56+00:00
> Medical Imaging tech entrepreneur here

I initially read this as ‘Medical Imaging tech who is an entrepreneur.’ I now think you’re a radiologist?

Any particular interests?

Fixing the shiite RIS/PACS world and the hell of hl7 would make me happy. I’m an MR tech, and just finished trying to make a scan description ‘MRI Cervical Spine + Right Brachial Plexis’

You can’t. Description too long.
by paul7986 | 2025-05-14 18:14:58+00:00
Hi :) and maybe the following visual helps explain what I want GPT to do for me instead of slogging thru Apple Maps and creating the routes myself.

https://postimg.cc/xNXRtr59

That image can be improved with graphical enhancements of each stop as it's meant for discussion between friends and plan out our travel days. AI can do that much easier then me adding such flair.

Please note I do UX for a living and my focus is keep it simple stupid ethos of design. Unless I’m missing something (apologize in advance if so) using GPT either by typing into it's text box or even easier chatting to it to create these route images is the quickest and easiest way too accomplish what I seek; least effort; automagical.
by seesthruya | 2025-05-14 18:15:24+00:00
Ok, I should have been more clear.

A radiologist practicing in the USA can live anywhere in the world, but they must be trained in the USA, licensed in the state(s) where they read from, credentialed at the hospitals or facilities they read from, and carry medical malpractice insurance.

The point being, hospitals can't throw cheap Indian or Filipino radiologists at the worklist.
by dahart | 2025-05-14 18:15:26+00:00
Correct. I didn’t say that sentence was the source of the conflation, I said it was the source of the Ansel Adams problem. There are other parts that mix together capture, formats, and display.

Edit: and btw I am objecting to calling film capture “HDR”, I don’t think that helps define HDR nor reflects accurately on the history of the term.
by doctordemen | 2025-05-14 18:16:22+00:00
> It also appears you're ignoring evidence that contradicts what you're saying, or at least choosing to not take it seriously.

Do comments on HN count as "evidence" to you?

> You're repeating things that are not difficult to prove wrong with an air of superiority.

I guess we're cut from the same cloth then.

Please drop the ad hominems, they do not serve to strengthen your argument. I have no idea what Joe Rogan circles talk about, eat beef at most 1x per month, and despise those who would reduce every discussion to culture war.

I'm asking a simple question, for my education. Can you provide a citation or any information about natural vegan B-12 sources? I haven't found anything, except that all vegan organizations recommend supplementing vegan diets with industrially synthesized B-12.
by jll29 | 2025-05-14 18:16:50+00:00
Goldberg (1984) Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/TheInteractiveProg...

Goldberg & Robson (1983) Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementataion http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook....
by atoav | 2025-05-14 18:17:30+00:00
Also: everybody can write a program that does the thing it is intended to do. That is the easy part. The hard part is writing a program that does not do things it isn't intended to do while existing in a ever changing environment and even be subjected to changes of its own source code.

So the hard part isn't getting code to work, it is ensuring it is only working in the intended ways, even when your co-worker (or your future self) acts like an unhinged, unristricted idiot. And that means using enforced type systems, validation, strict rules.

If you are a beginner cobbling hobby programs an anything-goes approach to software may feel nice and like freedom, but beyond a certain level of complexity it will land you in a world of pain.

Any great C programmer whose code I ever had the pleasure of reading has a plethora of unwritten rules they enforce through their heads. And these rules exist there for a reason. When you have a language that enforces these rules for you, that gives you the freedom to dare more, not less, as certain things would be very risky with manual checking.

It is like the foam pit in extreme sports. While it is certainly more manly to break your neck in ten consecutive tripple-backflip tries, you are going to get there faster with a foam pit where you can try out things. And the foam pit transforms the whole scene, becaus people can now write code that before would crash and burn without feeling restricted. Funny how that goes.
by metalman | 2025-05-14 18:17:38+00:00
there is a now old technology where a laser is shone on a window, and the resulting glow is imaged, the images if anylised are an analog audio signal that is created by voices inside a building vib the newer version under discussion here is a direct fit forthe same use, but at much greater distances and greater fidelity/resolution there were many,mostly mechanical devices, made to detect aircraft ,deployed durring WWII, that had two large acoustical horns directed a central binaural detection sensor, the whole aparatus was the mounted on a large stage that turned, and the horns were also aimable, giving a bearing, and speed on aircraft, in dark ,coudy, or other conditions.The inferometer bieng someone in a seat.
by rideontime | 2025-05-14 18:17:46+00:00
This very specific context? Multiple Grok replies suggest that it's being prompted with a particular image: https://x.com/grok/status/1922671571665310162

e: And since that reply is in the same thread, here's an example of it happening in a completely different one. Not difficult to find these. https://x.com/grok/status/1922682536762958026
by jerjerjer | 2025-05-14 18:17:55+00:00
What it essentially does is a debugging/optimization loop where you change one thing, eval, repeat it again and compare results.

Previously we needed to have a human in the loop to do the change. Of course we have automated hyperparameter tuning (and similar things), but that only works only in a rigidly defined search space.

Will we see LLMs generating new improved LLM architectures, now fully incomprehensible to humans?
by roarcher | 2025-05-14 18:18:06+00:00
It's not political, it's just melodramatic. Some people choose to frame their life as a story about "overcoming adversity". Most of the time the struggles they describe, while genuinely difficult, are things that most people face at some point in their life. But these people seem to expect some sort of social credit for it, as if carrying on makes them a hero.

This is an irritating habit that makes them seem whiny and self-important, but it is unfortunately widespread. Having such a "story" to tell about yourself has become almost fashionable in our modern culture.
by enraged_camel | 2025-05-14 18:18:17+00:00
>> All this is said without having tried Ash, so I could be way off base.

You nailed it. "Magic" is actually a good way to describe it, because much of the developer experience with Ash revolves around figuring out the exact incantation you need to use to make it do what you're trying to do, and the correct intonation and the right amount of reagents.
by mattlondon | 2025-05-14 18:18:24+00:00
To me it suggests that this person might be a bit overly dramatic and ready and willing to compete in the Adversity Olympics at the drop of a hat.

For me, I want to work with people who are just going to get on with their job without harping on about how they've faced this adversity or that adversity and how they're a survivor - just do your job please, I'm genuinely not interested in your personal life. kthx.
by incomingpain | 2025-05-14 18:18:35+00:00
I have a dream of an offgrid place where you have ~5kw of solar, maybe 500watts of wind, and backup generator as needed. A ton of batteries. Then have all your tools and appliances be electric.

Electric tractors seem to be one of the big empty zone nobody seems to capture.

Search 'tractor' on electrek and this is the only one. Could be a big deal.
by IshKebab | 2025-05-14 18:19:18+00:00
This really seems like an odd thing to make distributed. Do I now have to resolve conflicts in bug conversations? Am I going to find replies magically appearing before mine? The README doesn't even acknowledge that these difficulties might exist.

This sounds like it adds a ton of potential problems and solves some very minor ones:

* You can work offline. Great, but 90% of bug tracking is sending messages to other people so that's not particularly useful.

* You aren't tied to GitHub Issues or whatever. I guess that's good. Seems pretty marginal though.
by xigency | 2025-05-14 18:21:52+00:00
Not really, only when looking back at the 60's and 70's when most of the important algorithms I use were invented. For example, LR parsing and A*.

Just wait until the MBA's and politicians learn about this Adam Smith guy. A pipedream now, but maybe in the future schools will be inspired to teach about dialectical reasoning and rediscover Socrates.

[end of snark]

Sorry, I'm getting tired of ad-fueled corporations trying to get me to outsource critical thinking.
by TuringNYC | 2025-05-14 18:22:27+00:00
>> supply is heavily constrained by CMS funding for residency slots

I keep hearing this argument. Then I look at an Insurance Explanation of Benefits statement. A Radiologist might make $1-2k/day in billings. If you are in a balance-billing state, whatever insurance doesnt pay gets forward billed to the patient. On a standard 252 day workyear, that is $250-500k/yr in billings. The average resident salary is 70k, lets assume 100k with benefits.

Of course there is plenty of overhead, but from the math i'm seeing, the average Radiology Resident is a 150-400k net revenue center. Is the overhead really greater than 150-400k/yr/resident?

What am I missing, why would a profit center need "CMS funding"? From what my doctor friends tell me, the real bottleneck is the unwillingness of AMA and ABR to open up more radiology residency spots (artificial supply constraint) with "CMS funding" a boogeyman and red herring.
by sundaeofshock | 2025-05-14 18:22:59+00:00
I rely on mass transit or walking for most of my transportation, so it is very rare for me to be driven in a car. Maybe 2 - 4 trips/month in a Waymo, and a monthly trip to Costco. Everything else is done on foot or transit, including thrice weekly commute and weekly grocery shopping.

I have no problem with roads in the abstract for public services, including for fire protection and buses. I do have a problem with using my taxes to subsidize private car ownership. Again, why should I help pay for someone to store their private vehicle on city streets? I also have a problem with all the externalities of private car ownership that make me less safe.

Yes, transit is subsidized in the US. However, I won’t ignore the fact that private car-ownership is just as heavily subsidized - if not more so — as mass transit. If we are having a conversation about the efficiency of one form of transportation over another, we need to look at them both through the same lens.
by SR2Z | 2025-05-14 18:23:10+00:00
> So if there's a teen without a smartphone, they can't take the bus, nor can someone who's phone died, etc.

I feel very strongly that if a teenager is old and responsible enough to take the bus on their own, they are old and responsible enough for a smartphone. Furthermore, it's actively harmful to send your kids out into the world without the kinds of modern tools that would make them safer and more independent.

As for "phone died," well... just find a place to recharge it. It's not particularly difficult these days and I can't actually remember the last time my phone died on me when I needed it.

OP is a really cool demonstration of what we can do when everyone carries a computer in their pocket. Uber in the US has something similar with airport shuttles. Why should we handicap new, shiny things to make them usable without a phone?
by seesthruya | 2025-05-14 18:23:33+00:00
I'm a radiologist that can program!

I've authored and contributed to several open source projects over the years, and I'm currently doing a deep dive in CAD/CAM after buying a CNC machine.

I help my practice where I can, and have written a little utility to make generating reports easier, but I would have to quit my job if I was trying to take on the absolutely enormous task of radiology computer aides diagnosis. And I need my job!
by Kirby64 | 2025-05-14 18:24:29+00:00
> You’re fixating on the vocabulary rather than what is being conveyed.

You're conveying meaning with your vocabulary even if you don't mean to. If you don't have the proper words to describe it, that's fine. Like I said, some people even enjoy particular defects in coffee. For instance, growing defects known as 'quakers' have a particular peanuty taste. It's considered undesirable, but some people might like that.

As to your general idea of conveying that light roasts all taste a certain way, I don't think I can agree to that notion. There's such a wide variety of flavors you can cultivate depending on the origin, roasting style, and processing method that you can't really make that generalization.

One thing I will say: many coffees that are advertised as 'light roast', especially in the non-specialty markets, tend to have one or more of the following problems: 1) underroasted (which leads to grassy/green flavors), 2) not actually roasted to 'light' (maybe more medium), 3) poor temperature control, as a result of trying to roast light (leading to 'baked' flavoring), 4) poor coffee selection for a lighter roast, leading to much more green/grassy flavoring as a result.
by lisper | 2025-05-14 18:25:14+00:00
> She just needs a microcell/femtocell.

Those come with their own set of problems. In particular, they have to be able to receive a GPS signal, which is often not possible in mountainous terrain. I had a microcell for years and it was nightmarishly unreliable. Not only would it regularly (but randomly) just stop working, it would give absolutely no indication of why it was not working.
by euroderf | 2025-05-14 18:25:19+00:00
> TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

"Not to elevation"? Let me direct you to the Finnish language. It contains two tightly related concepts: "nousuhumala" (ascending alcohol buzz) and the subsequent & corresponding "laskuhumala" (descending alcohol buzz).

If you recall the course of an evening of overindulgence, you may notice that these two concepts do describe the terrain.