MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TomK32 | 2025-05-07 08:58:04+00:00
I have to laugh because by pure coincidence I did get the final paperwork of mine on the 31st of October, but there were a few months of realization, reading and of course sittings with the diagnostician.

The study only looks at the 10 +- weekdays around the last of the month, not the whole year. I'm certain there are other spikes. I'd like to argue that the day being something of a semi-holiday it might simply be easier to get an doctor's appointment that fits both the child and the parent schedule. It is also far enough into the school year for problems in the child's behaviour to show up and be referred to a doctor. Lastly, it's the last day of the month and with all admin being weird, it might even be that the data from the doctors is sloppy and earlier appointments get finished on the 31st for no other reason than finishing the month.
by stinos | 2025-05-07 08:58:24+00:00
The authors argue that piperacillin, which has already been FDA-approved as a safe treatment for pneumonia, could also be a candidate for preemptive interventions for those potentially exposed to Lyme (with a known deer tick bite).

This strikes me as somehwat odd: as far as I'm aware there are worldwide issues with overuse of anitbiotics leading to various bacteria becoming resistent (and a quick serach seems to indicate this is also the case for piperacillin), but here they're saying that it would be ok for a probabaly large amount of people (as in: millions annualy?) to get antibiotics preemptively? Or is the reasoning that the does is low enough that it's fine?

I mean, it's not uncommon for me and people I know to get a bite multiple times a year. It's better when taking precautions and know what to avoid, but still, sometimes you just have to be in tick-ridden areas and it's impractical to check yourself every hour.
by silver_silver | 2025-05-07 08:58:55+00:00
> the position you're implying, that the Depression was caused by the lack of a NATO-type alliance

Not caused by, but the economy didn’t fully recover until all the wartime production started, and the measures that had been put in place to curb unemployment had been short term solutions with only a limited effect

> I hope Europeans take my comments on HN as a wake-up call that even Democrats like me are getting fed up with them.

You see the problem with you people is that you’ve strong armed your way into everyone’s business for the past century, trying to change cultures and ways of life, far beyond simple alliances - only to now turn around and abandon your so-called allies as soon as they become inconvenient for you. I say this as an African living in Europe who experienced firsthand one of your regime changes and subsequent cutting of ties when the new regime didn’t align
by max_ | 2025-05-07 08:59:01+00:00
TLA+ was invented in the first place because we Leslie Lamport thought natural language was a dubious tool for "specifying systems".

Yes an LLM may generate the TLA+ code even correctly, but model checking is not the end goal of TLA+

TLA+ plus is written to fully under how a system works at an abstract level.

Anyways, I guess you could just read the LLM generated TLA+ code. That would help you understand the abstraction of the system — but is the LLMs abstraction equal to your abstraction.

But vibe coded TLA+ sounds extremely dangerous especially in mission critical stuff where its required like Smart Contracts, Pacemakers, Aircraft software etc
by dannycastonguay | 2025-05-07 08:59:03+00:00
https://github.com/dannycastonguay/learneverything/blob/main...

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You will: 1. Build in Swift. 2. Creating fluid swipe and transition animations. 3. Optimizing data structures to minimize server load times by predictive preloading and caching. 4. Integrate OpenAI APIs into a Swift front-end (I already deployed a prototype that works). 5. Implement fast and reliable peer-to-peer, one-on-one video streaming. 6. Implement Web3 payment integrations on CELO Level 2 blockchain, including Apple Pay token purchasing.

I will: - Pay you $1,000/month while we aren't funded. - Meet w you 30 minutes/day to review, problem solve, and plan your 7-8 hours of work. 4PM Singapore time. - Use V0 by Vercel prototype as design reference.

Attributes: - Work hard. See: https://blog.dannycastonguay.com/on-working-hard/ - Be an owner: https://blog.dannycastonguay.com/on-being-an-owner/ - Accept that life sucks: https://blog.dannycastonguay.com/life-sucks/ - Don't miss important details. - Be ethical. - Nice to have: Codeforces rating above 2000.

How to apply: go to bld.ai, start a project, add me as a client d@bld.ai.
by petesergeant | 2025-05-07 09:01:31+00:00
Uber feels like such an apt comparison to OpenAI to me. The service they provide is obviously going to be absolutely huge, but no guarantees at all that they’ll win it or be last man standing. I don’t see a world in which generative AI doesn’t continue to be a massive disrupting force, but no particular reason to think Anthropic or OpenAI will still be independent entities in a few years.

I’m even more bearish on Uber than I used to be, as someone who’s used Grab and Careem and Bolt extensively, and seen Uber have to beat a retreat from SE Asia. If their more nimble competition get a foothold in the US they’re toast.
by nashashmi | 2025-05-07 09:02:43+00:00
India has been notoriously hostile to its minorities and it seeks displacement of the “majority” population of Kashmir because they have been seeking secession from India. Typically when a country has acted harmfully, world leaders of the west have intervened especially in the case of India and Pakistan because it is a great disruption to trade and profit. It seems this time the West is overwhelmed with several issues including the backlash against Israel from its own people, that they are exhausted.
Ask HN: Will the job market grow fast enough to accomodate all the new grads?
by geremiiah | 2025-05-07 09:03:15+00:00
IT/CS has become a very popular major and it seems to me that we reached a point where there is a glut of new IT/CS grads to the point that now one has to be top talent to get a junior position, and otherwise positions are only open for (up to date) seniors. And this situation is true of both the North American and western European job markets. I am also told, there is a glut of CS grads in India. I don't know how China, Latin America, Oceania and Africa are faring.

My question is, do you see a future where the tech job market will grow fast enough to absorb all the grads, or will many of them have to reinvent themselves?
by hereonout2 | 2025-05-07 09:03:23+00:00
I've done both, tiny scratch based images with a single go binary to full fat ubuntu based things.

What is killing me at the moment is deploying Docker based AI applications.

The CUDA base images come in at several GB to start with, then typically a whole host of python dependencies will be added with things like pytorch adding almost a GB of binaries.

Typically the application code is tiny as it's usually just python, but then you have the ML model itself. These can be many GB too, so you need to decide whether to add it to the image or mount it as a volume, regardless it needs to make it's way onto the deployment target.

I'm currently delivering double digit GB docker images to different parts of my organisation which raises eyebrows. I'm not sure a way around it though, it's less a docker problem and more an AI / CUDA issue.

Docker fits current workflows but I can't help feeling having custom VM images for this type of thing would be more efficient.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-05-07 09:03:37+00:00
Part of the reason is wanting to make cool stuff. I'm not even half as brilliant as guys like Fabrice Bellard but I certainly would like to be.

My strongest reason to start a project though is very much along the "self-soothing" lines described in TFA. I do it to prove to myself I'm not insane for thinking that something is possible and that things could be different. If I can think of something, surely people much smarter than me would have done it already, right?

For example, I wanted to embed data into ELF executables and access it at runtime. The accepted solution was to add sections and have the program find, open, read and parse its own executable in order to read those sections. That just didn't seem right to me, I couldn't accept it and I didn't rest until I figured out the real way to do it.

https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/self-contained-lone-...

I got the Linux kernel to find, open, read and parse the executable for me. It memory maps the data before the program even starts. When it does, it just needs to follow a bunch of pointers to find it. Simpler and more robust. As far as I know, no one else has done this. At least one linker out there gained features just to make this easy and efficient.

My most painful free software development experience was when I tried to contribute one of these "insane" ideas and someone described it as schizophrenic. Pretty much just dropped it and never went back there again. Patches are still on the mailing list so who knows.
by jeroenhd | 2025-05-07 09:03:44+00:00
One underused Clippy feature is the fact that Clippy and all the other Agents (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Agent), like the dog that did search in Windows XP, came with an API developers could use to write their own assistants.

Thanks to the horrific beauty of ActiveX, this even allowed these Agents to be loaded into web pages.

The API was supported up till Windows 7 (though it was an optional component at the time) but still I would love for someone to dig up an old copy of the agent SDK (I couldn't find it myself) and hook up ChatGPT to the real, actual Clippy.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-05-07 09:04:26+00:00
> I don't understand how this ties into American pride (nor am I American), what did I miss?

Pluto was the only planet discovered by an American and most of the people who are extremely attached to it tend to feel that removing Pluto as a planet is somehow taking something away from the USA.

As far as I know, the topic barely exists at all in other countries.
by JoshuaDavid | 2025-05-07 09:04:42+00:00
Seems like there's a real need that this is aimed to address. I don't understand how this protocol prevents double-spends though. If a payer sends the same signed payment authorization (i.e. same nonce) to two different online services at the same time, I think they would both see the payment as valid. Then both services will submit the same nonce to the blockchain but only one can succeed, the attacker gets double the value while paying only once when the first settlement transaction confirms and the second one reverts.

Maybe this could be mitigated by only accepting substantial payments from payers with a good reputation, since my understanding is that every payer's transaction history is fully public (which is its own can of worms).
by braza | 2025-05-07 09:05:08+00:00
> What is the incentive really? > I would maybe understand, but they aren't even available in a wider than a small radius around your house, so it is always more convenient to walk/cycle/drive to wherever you would order that food anyway.

I know that you mentioned the incentive from the customer perspective, but since I've worked in 2 of the top 5 world food delivery companies, I can have some insights about it beyond people's laziness.

1) Availability of different cuisines regardless of distance: If you're talking about a bikeable, small-sized European capital or city with a limited number of restaurants, yes—you can place your order in person without any issue. But if you're in a mid-sized city with a high variety of restaurants, like Berlin, that’s not feasible. Most of the time, people don't use the app to order from the local pizza place; they use it to get a nice Indian, Japanese, Nepalese, or Thai dish from a restaurant 6 to 10 km away, especially on a rainy Friday.

2) It’s hard for restaurants to coordinate table bookings with walk-ins: Many restaurants join the platform because, while they can manage bookings and some fixed demand, they also risk losing walk-in customers (dynamic demand) when there's no space available. What restaurants do now is manage both bookings and walk-ins without worrying about losing revenue—because delivery can make up for no-shows or frustrated walk-ins.

3) Food delivery removes waiting logistics: If you walk, cycle, or drive, you incur the full logistics cost plus the opportunity cost (e.g., if you're organizing an event and need to set aside an hour for food). With delivery platforms, you can "actively wait"—you place the order through the app and do other things while waiting. You’re paying for both the logistics and the saved opportunity cost.

4) Restaurants can optimize menus and kitchen efficiency instead of real estate: This relates to point 2. In my experience, restaurants are becoming more like a front-end experience for dine-in customers, but many are transforming into what could be called "kitchens as a service." Customers order remotely, and a highly optimized kitchen, in terms of logistics and execution, prepares a specific dish. One thing I've noticed—and personally feel conflicted about—is that restaurants are betting on hyper-optimization by selling more of what I call "pre-mounted standardized dishes." In other words, instead of restaurants thinking about increasing their space to accommodate potential walk-ins, they will move towards maximizing kitchen efficiency.

Example: In Brazilian food restaurants, they have preset portions of rice, beans, French fries, and salad, and just reheat pre-cooked steak. For Thai food, they keep cold dressings in containers, and all noodles are pre-cooked and stored in warmers, and so on.
by jjude | 2025-05-07 09:05:55+00:00
This is what then PM Nawaz Sharif said about Kargil war:

> After the war, Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan during the Kargil conflict, claimed that he was unaware of the plans, and that he first learned about the situation when he received an urgent phone call from Atal Bihari Vajpayee, his counterpart in India. Sharif attributed the plan to Musharraf and "just two or three of his cronies", a view shared by some Pakistani writers who have stated that only four generals, including Musharraf, knew of the plan.

Possible he was lying. But this is an accepted view even in the Pakistan.
by chrisvalleybay | 2025-05-07 09:08:04+00:00
Yes, I can. I am using Cursor extensively and have tried Visual Studio code with Roo, Cline, Copilot, Trae, Windsurf and Cursor. I believe Cursors UX to be vastly superior and I am getting the best results with Cursor + Gemini 2.5 Pro right now.
by rendaw | 2025-05-07 09:08:27+00:00
Awesome, thanks for the answers! It looks like Murex will be the first shell I try once I recharge my "rip everything up and start over" batteries again.

> I know you weren't talking about arrays, but the next question people ask is "how do I now expand one variable to be multiple parameters?"

I held back from asking that, but yes, exactly :P
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-05-07 09:09:36+00:00
The competition to Putin entering Ukraine is obviously ridiculous.

Putin had already attacked multiple countries before. Georgia, Chechnya, and leads a vast network of para militaries that are fighting all over Africa as well.

Heck, Putin had literally attacked and conquered a whole area of Ukraine itself not even a decade ago.

Anyone who was saying Putin would not attack Ukraine either had no knowledge at all about how Putin operated or was willfully misleading.

India has shown no such imperial intentions that Putin has demonstrated and spoken about multiple times both before and since his attempt to take over Ukraine.
by dewster | 2025-05-07 09:10:44+00:00
AFAIK Carolina only uses the D-Lev pitch circle for coming in on pitch, not for active playing. That's pretty typical for players who have learned on an analog Theremin, where they have necessarily been guided only by fingering techniques and their ears. Many Thereminists plug a guitar tuner or similar into their Theremin for this, but those sorts of tuners are rather sluggish. When you have a highly responsive tuner, then playing turns into an almost "paint by numbers" experience, and you are much more aware of the key and other song structure.
by vidarh | 2025-05-07 09:11:06+00:00
I'm not conflating anything. We subsidize the education of everyone because it is important to society and to the children to ensure that all children are educated. Because society then mandates it because an educated workforce is essential to the functioning of society that you too depend on, it is natural that society also shares the burden of paying for it.

That you want to opt out of participating in meeting a critical need in society is indeed a moral issue. You should be free to opt out. But then society should be equally free to deny you access to use all resources funded by society, like public roads, and anything else tax funded. Letting you pick and choose would be equally morally fraught as denying you an out.

But you have an out: You can move somewhere with different policies.
by n4r9 | 2025-05-07 09:11:37+00:00
Tangential and anecdotal, but despite supposedly being the UK market leader JustEats is pretty terrible. I've used them twice in as many years and the experience was awful both times. Missing items, meat in vegetarian dishes, late delivery, cold food etc... . You can report issues via the app but have to select one of a generic list of issues and only get a paltry partial refund - think 33% off for an order that was stone cold on arrival. The app doesn't seem to be able to handle more than one issue per order. There is a well-hidden customer service chat but they don't seem to be any more flexible than the ap.
by account-5 | 2025-05-07 09:11:41+00:00
Thanks for the explanations, much appreciated.

I suppose the options are then:

1. Write everything yourself, time consuming and hard, less likely to lead to these types of vulnerabilities.

2. Import others code, easy and takes no time, can lead to vulnerabilities.

3. Use others code, but only what you actually need. Maybe less time consuming than 1 but more than 2, adds a different sort of complexity, done correctly less likely to lead to these vulnerabilities.

Not sure if there's any other options here?
by tiniuclx | 2025-05-07 09:11:48+00:00
I had no idea Super Hexagon was from the same developer! That was so much fun, while being a very different kind of game to VVVVVV.

I always find it interesting when indie developers pivot to an entirely new genre of game after some initial success, some wonderful gems came out that way (such as Fallen London -> Sunless Sea -> Cultist Simulator).
by refurb | 2025-05-07 09:11:56+00:00
It makes more sense when you realize most of the time it’s not <disease>. Doctors see thousands of patients per year and 99% of them have common conditions with straightforward diagnosis.

Add on top vague symptoms that can’t actually be measured and are subjective and you end up with challenging diagnoses.

I do agree that patients should educate themselves and advocate for themselves. Doctors aren’t perfect and they don’t know everything.

But it helps to have some perspective of what doctors deal with on a day to day basis.
by gokaygurcan | 2025-05-07 09:12:14+00:00
I've spent so many hours of my life for this game.

Also shared it with many people and made them go crazy. I believe I still have 5 or 6 copies in my Steam inventory. Just in case.

Same for V, SMB, Braid and so many others. Sometimes, all you need is a little inspiration and crappy graphics.
by nashashmi | 2025-05-07 09:12:27+00:00
India wants instability in Pakistan and seeks its fragmentation. It has been trying to promote a revolution in Sindh for a long time. Balochistan is second.

This model was used against Soviets, to break up a nuclear country by ruining it financially then enticing it into war.

India has supported jihadi groups in Kashmir to spur conflict in the country so it can have reasons to wage war. This is proven since late 90s.

India has always been a hostile conquering force, with its seizure of Hyderabad in 1951 and seizure of Sikkim in 1949. OTOH, Pakistan gave up territories with majority Hindu populations if it desired to join India.
by voidUpdate | 2025-05-07 09:14:14+00:00
I've never understood why no delivery app driver can find my flat, despite me clearly marking its location with a pin, making a note of where I am, and making sure that when you put my address into google maps, it points directly at my flat. Every single delivery driver has to phone me and ask where I am while they stand on the other side of the road, looking at a house I don't live in. Are they seriously all this incompetent??

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by braza | 2025-05-07 09:15:37+00:00
+1.

Someone nailed it in the thread above related to the -time/+money, but after a couple of years working on it, I realized that the people that use those services are not the public that would go to a restaurant for a gastronomic experience, and that's ok.

At least for me, the biggest 3rd or maybe 4th order effect of the food delivery industry and their dark/gray kitchens is that the concept of having a nice cooked meal locally is almost over, with some exceptions.

Due to the over-optimization of the kitchens and the offset in terms of revenue that restaurants can have (i.e., orders without increasing the real estate), we have a bunch of pre-set mounted meals in almost all restaurants, and the probability of eating something tasty and unique is very low due to that.

The irony is that, at least in my experience, the best non-chain and/or fine restaurants that I found were the ones in some shopping centers in the Nordics for a simple accidental association: none of those has any possibility to have food delivery due to hard physical constraints, and my assumption is that, since they do not have this possibility, they have to deliver the best meal possible to have people return and build a positive reputation.
by 1024kb | 2025-05-07 09:15:37+00:00
What exactly are you doing with Helm that's making it so painful to use, and what does your development workflow look like? I've certainly had my fair share of issues with Helm, especially when trying to get a bit too fancy with creating Helm libraries, and standardised charts. I've also found that trying to aggregate multiple charts into a single chart for deploying an environment can also become a nightmare to manage.

I'm currently looking at Helmfile so that I don't need to aggregate charts into a 'parent chart', and i'd also like to move towards a single standardised chart that all microservices can use, rather than spin up a new chart for each service.
by viraptor | 2025-05-07 09:16:46+00:00
> but will be noticed by literally just running the code once.

I assure you that's not the case. Maybe you didn't make that mistake, but if you did I'm sure it sometimes went unnoticed. I've found those issues in my code and in other projects. Sometimes they even temporarily don't matter, because someone did a func(CONST, 0) instead of func(0, CONST) and it turns out CONST is 0 - however the next person gets a crash because they change 0 to 1. A lot of similar issues come from the last line effect https://medium.com/@Code_Analysis/the-last-line-effect-7b1cb... and can last for years without being noticed.
by rtpg | 2025-05-07 09:16:47+00:00
I mean in bigger cities lots of people don't have cars, they might also be in the middle of something and so having someone else get the food makes sense. And a lot of people have "too much money", leading to them being like "yeah I'll pay like 40 bucks for somebody to bring these burgers to me so I can just keep on playing something with a friend".

And you know... if food is cold, you probably have a microwave?

Whether this is a good use of money is debatable but I think it's pretty easy to imagine scenarios in which this would be used.