MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by timnetworks | 2025-06-14 16:23:22+00:00
Generate something you like the style of, then run it back through a vision model and ask it to describe the image without describing the subject, append that to a batch of icon descriptions, easy custom icons. (figure out transparency at this step) Then ask it for an imagemagick script that will convert them into needed sizes and formats.

very manual yes, but gives a lot of control

[edit] the images seem to be made with a transformers model rather than diffusion (e.g. DallE3 vs MidJourney) which is mostly proprietary for now.
by margalabargala | 2025-06-14 16:23:33+00:00
There are a lot of doctors and researchers running research arms of large, well funded institutions. Sloan Kettering for example.

I'll grant you that that is a low percentage of the total US medical research spend. But also, most of the world does not have the same profit motive; in most Western countries, a cure is categorically cheaper for everyone than a chronic illness, because healthcare is paid for by taxpayers. And countries besides the US do plenty of medical research.

If the hypothesis were true that there exist cures to many diseases that simply haven't been explored due to profit motive, then I would expect countries without that profit motive to have a higher proportion of cures among their medical.discoveries than the US. I don't believe that is true though.

Basically my point is that the effect you mention likely has little actual impact on the larger medical field.
by kaishiro | 2025-06-14 16:23:39+00:00
Having very recently gone through this process for both a “local” number A2P registration as well as a toll-free registration process I can say, unequivocally, that’s already what it is.

There is no step in the process that would deter any company from taking the ~30 minutes of effort to get the registration details in order. We run a legitimate company that was only seeking to send transactional notifications that our customers specifically requested, and it took 4 rounds of back and forth to get approved. However, each step provided a very clear error code with very specific remedies (e.g. Opt-in form must include language which states…), which would make it a rote process for automation or even manual repetition. In fact, the only thing that I could see which would deter a company which seeks to rely on spam for profit would be if the registration fees were larger than their expected profit (they’re not, thankfully).

I don’t even mean this comment to necessarily be an indictment of the process - it was…fine? I’m just not entirely sure what it’s purpose could be except to collect additional fees for each SMS campaign.
by dapper_bison17 | 2025-06-14 16:23:57+00:00
Wow this article came at such a coincidental time!

tl:dr One of my best friends has Endo and through lifestyle changes was able to "cure herself".

It's in quotes because, like asthma, you don't really get rid of it, but it's gotten to the point where her Endometriomas have shrunken to a sixth of their size (verified by an ultrasound), some have even completely disappeared, she feels no pain and can live "normal" life.

For those who may be interested in more details:

She was diagnosed with Endo about 5 years ago. Had to go through 3 doctors until she finally found one who diagnosed her with it.

The only options given to her: 1. Surgery to remove the endometriomas. 2. Pain killers. 3. Weed.

2 and 3 aren't real solutions, and from doom-scrolling through Facebook / reddit it's evident that at best, 1 only offers temporary relief. So she declined and opted to try and find a different solution.

Since Western medicine failed her, she looked into Eastern medicine. Then she started doing Yoga, took a year-long Nutrition course that also incorporated Eastern approaches. Stopped eating processed foods, started journaling, removing stress from her life as best she could.

After sticking to this, and a bunch of trial and error, she's gotten to the point I mentioned above.

Now she has her own online program where she teaches other women the science and methodology she used to manage her symptoms.

And some of the success stories are insane. Women who have lived with bloating and pain for years are suddenly seeing improvements in a matter of weeks.

Currently the course is in Hebrew but I'm helping to translate it to English.

If anyone here knows someone who has Endo and is interested in getting access to the program during its beta-English phase, let me know :)

breeding_suds837@simplelogin.com
Show HN: Note Cargo, a Markdown text editor saved all data on S3/R2 (no DB)
by huedaya | 2025-06-14 16:24:48+00:00
I tried to build markdown based notepad (similar like Obsidian) but stores all files on S3/R2.

Vanilla PHP, no dependency. Web based No vendor locking (S3), high portability.

---

"why not just using Notion or Obsidian?"

- Notion is great but they keep adding features that too overkill, also I don't think its easy to move to other vendor.

- Obsidian is cool, but data saved locally is a security risk (eg. laptop stolen).

- Drive/Dropbox is great, but they can't do hyper-linking like Obsidian does.

So, I tried to solve my own problem to just save all markdown + image on S3/R2 (which super cheap and universal).

What do you think guys?
by BobaFloutist | 2025-06-14 16:25:40+00:00
Sure, and if there was a policy of no sexual harassment including openly watching porn, wearing sexually explicit apparel, or discussing your active sex life and a policy of no using your employer's internet for personal matters other than direct communication with family and friends, especially calling out watching porn, pirating digital media, or playing videogames as examples, that would be one thing.

It's having an explicit, naked, unadorned policy specifically stating "Don't watch porn on company time" not in the context of an umbrella policy that's strange. Much like having an aside "Also don't start a fight club please" or "By the way, don't stuff your bag full of office supplies" would be weird.
by joshuajooste05 | 2025-06-14 16:26:08+00:00
My girlfriend has endometriosis, I hadn't really read much about it until now, thank you for writing!

I think this is a story too common in women's healthcare.

It's often massively underfunded and underesearched, another symptom of the fact our society had not let women into STEM/politics for decades, and continues to erect barriers to encourage them not too.

I like the fact you spelled out the incentives for PhDs to do so at the end ;). Would be great!
by VitalKoshalew | 2025-06-14 16:26:46+00:00
> As a very senior Intel exec told me at the time, Intel held back on multi-core because their key software partner was extremely nervous about being forced to support a multi-core world.

That's one way to explain it. Alternatively, one might say that FSB-based Netburst servers would not benefit much from multi-core because the architecture (and especially FSB) has hit its limitation. Arguably, Intel had no competitive product on the mass server market until 2006 and Core-based Xeon 5100 introduction. Only enormous market inertia has kept them afloat.

> In the 64-bit server space, which is really what's relevant to this discussion, AMD was pretty much not part of the discussion until Dell (might have been Compaq at the time) and Sun picked them up as a supplier in the fairly late 2000s.

That was one relatively small (servers number-wise) segment of the market. Introduction of Opteron servers and Windows Server 2003 64-bit has created a new segment of mass 64-bit servers which have very quickly taken over entire 32-bit (at that time) mass server market. That was the real market that Intel wanted for themselves with introduction of proprietary Itanium but failed to acquire it because of the compatibility issue. High-end mainframe-adjacent market segment indeed belonged to Itanium for many years after, but that wasn't the goal of Itanium. Intel wanted to be a monopoly on the entire PC&server market with no cross-licensing agreements but failed and had to cross-license AMD64 instead.
Show HN: Tail Lens – Tailwind editor in browser
by boopesh | 2025-06-14 16:26:56+00:00
Hey HN - I built Tail Lens, a browser devtool that lets you click any element and tweak its Tailwind classes right on the page.

Changes appear instantly, so you can see results as you edit. Smart class suggestions, Tailwind v3/v4 + JIT support, and quick element navigation and many more.

Based on early feedback, I am working on a feature to live sync changes to React/HTML files, so tweaks persist after a full reload.

Link -> https://taillens.io. Happy to hear any feedbacks
by QuantumGood | 2025-06-14 16:27:34+00:00
Historically, design as a priority worsened UI for average and new users, and Apple has prioritized a feeling of elegance over ease of use.

Liquid glass puts UI second (feature cues) in favor of UX (interesting experience), harkening back to skeuomorphism but misprioritizing UI. I appreciated in Jobs's time how skeuomorphism was used to reveal more features, and give new users simple cues.

Now there is this idea that there is a higher percentage of advanced users, but since now there are MORE users (anyone with a screen), and continual change, I think there is still a large percentage of less advanced users "harmed" by prioritizing UX over UI.
by buibuibui | 2025-06-14 16:27:36+00:00
The Signals libraries I know of (including reaktiv) are throwing an exception if a dependency cycle is detected in the computation step. But that doesn‘t solve infinite executation loops completely because the user still can define an Effect that updates its (in)direct dependencies - that means User caution is still needed. Angular tried to prevent that in their older versions by not allowing to set other Signals in Effects. But they reverted that decision.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-14 16:28:32+00:00
> Time is sequential

This is the sort of statement that seems like it is trivially true but I'm really not sure we can be so certain

I agree that the way humans experience time makes it seem like it must be sequential, and a lot of our science would be really messed up if time weren't sequential in the grand scheme

That said, aren't there some doubts about this? I'm no expert but my understanding is that some quantum theories suggest time is not as linear as we think
by senthil_rajasek | 2025-06-14 16:28:40+00:00
My introduction to Erik Satie was through the Piano theme played in Beat Takeshi's [1] directorial debut Violent Cop[2].

I was hooked.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Kitano 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Cop
by not_your_vase | 2025-06-14 16:29:02+00:00
> The main problem area is that "i" is changed within a loop the depends on i. This is very bad practice and will obviously lead to unexpected outcomes

i's value doesn't persist between loops, it's a brand new i in every iteration of a for range loop. One loops modifications have no effect on the next loop. If it was c or a similar language's classic for-loop, then modifying the loop variable would be risky. But it is not the case here.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-06-14 16:29:14+00:00
No this is not true.

There is literally physical space between dendrites and neurons where chemicals called neurotransmitters are released then receptors pick up the chemicals.

So the pathway through the brain is not purely electrical.

That being said I agree with your overall point as it’s just signals and systems and how the mechanism works is irrelevant to the fact that everything can be modelled by a neuron.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-14 16:29:31+00:00
There are many other kinds of ratios.

Ratios of collinear vectors are scalars a.k.a. "real" numbers, ratios of other kinds of vectors are matrices, ratios of 2D-vectors are "complex" numbers, ratios of 2 voltages are scalars a.k.a. "real" numbers, and so on.

In general, for both multiplication and division operations, the 3 sets corresponding to the 2 operands and to the result are not the same.

Only for a few kinds of multiplications and of divisions the 3 sets are the same. This strongly differs from addition operations, which are normally defined on a single set to which both the operands and the result belong.

In practice, multiplications and divisions where at least one operand or the result belong to another set than the remaining operands or result are extremely frequent. Any problem of physics contains such multiplications and divisions.
by marcosdumay | 2025-06-14 16:29:46+00:00
Very soon we will produce more solar electricity than all of the word's consumption. A "problem" that is even more severe than it looks like, because we consume energy when the Sun is under the horizon too.

So, yeah, in a few years they'll be right. Even if for just a short time while the rest of the economy grows to keep up with the change.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-14 16:30:35+00:00
> Stephen Russell was in prison for fraud. He faked a heart attack so he would be brought to the hospital

According to Wikipedia he wasn't in prison, he was attempting to con someone at the time and they got suspicious. He pretended to be an FBI agent because he was on security watch. Still impressive, but not as impressive as actually escaping from prison that way.
by wesselbindt | 2025-06-14 16:31:58+00:00
Ok, from what you say, I get the sense that the applicability of the quote is non-obvious. I'll paraphrase the quote: "people who choose the lesser of two evils, forget that they chose evil".

In our conversation, we are essentially choosing between two parties: - The nazis, or the communists, or whatever. Let's call them the baddies. - America. The good guys!

I personally believe (and you do not have to agree with this, I realize that this is subjective) that murdering children and committing genocide is evil. The nazis committed a genocide, and so they are evil. Let's say the holodomor was a genocide, so the communists are evil too. Conclusion: the baddies are evil. It is also a fact that in the past 75 years or so, America has gone around the globe murdering children, and committing genocides. This is not up for debate. This is a fact. I have listed the examples countless times in this thread, I will not do so again. Conclusion: the good guys are also evil (if you believe murdering children is bad, which again, totally up to you).

In saying "but the nazis were worse!" in response to American murdering a million Koreans, you are effectively choosing the lesser evil (the nazis killed 6 million jews, 30 million Russians, in a fairly short timespan, whereas the US has killed about 12 million over the decades, the nazis are worse). And in saying that we did pretty well in the American century, you are dismissing the genocides, the murders, the torture that the US is responsible for. You're forgetting that the US is also evil. When you say we did alright under American hegemony, you are completely dismissing the suffering, overexploitation, destabilization, and violence that the US has meted out on the global South.
by rootnod3 | 2025-06-14 16:32:37+00:00
Remember the first AI winter? I could also ask "excuse me?!" about the usage of LLMs.

Give the whole thing 5-10 years until the impact of juniors learning nothing and having the perseverance and attention span of about 10 minutes and the effects will show in the industry. Yes, LLMs + agents have value here and there, but remember on where they get that value from: they learn from the internet. And papers already show that if LLMs learn from their own output, the quality degrades quickly.

So, more code written by LLMs on Github equals subsequent generations for LLMs learn from subpar examples.

Furthermore, they mostly learn from "en vogue" languages because they have lots of examples. But I wouldn't trust an LLM with a 10 foot pole doing Lisp or Cobol or any RTOS related C code with safety requirements.

I wouldn't trust an LLM to write a proper GPU or CUDA driver. But if there's nobody around knowing how to do that, how do you expect future drivers to be implemented?
by caycep | 2025-06-14 16:33:02+00:00
in short, and off the top of my head, not in a few years.

GLP-1 (exenatide trial) failed to show benefit Phase 3

prasinezumab (synuclein targeted monoclonal ab) also have not been impressive although I think Novartis is chasing after some statistical signals that popped up in secondary endpoints

there is some academic chatter I heard about elucidating more the process of how normal synuclein turns into the abnormal insoluble form, so that might be the most promising direction.

A couple new stem cell implant trials but not sure if they solved the big problems w/ the last trials - the stem cells eventually develop parkinsonian features, and also it doesn't replace the connectivity/networks that is lost.

Other big question is really what starts the process in the first place since symptomatic patients at initial diagnosis now thought to have been "preclinical" w/ prodromal form for several years...we still don't know.
by Kwpolska | 2025-06-14 16:33:47+00:00
> Interestingly, GitHub Workflows don’t support timezones! This means that, if I want to sent a text every morning at 7am, when on BST (British Summer Time) I actually need to schedule it for 6am instead.

Nothing a little kludge within the workflow can't solve... Set it up for 6am and 7am, check current time in London, skip sending the text if it's the wrong hour.
by catigula | 2025-06-14 16:34:25+00:00
Consciousness is an interesting topic because if someone pretends to have a compelling theory on what's actually going on there they're actually mistaken or lying.

The best theories are completely inconsistent with the scientific method and "biological machine" ideologists. These "work from science backwards" theories like IIT and illusionism don't get much respect from philosophers.

I'd recommend looking into pan-psychicism and Russellian monism if you're interested.

Even still, these theories aren't great. Unfortunately it's called the "hard problem" for a reason.
by throw10920 | 2025-06-14 16:34:34+00:00
Your comment has a lot of misunderstandings, but here's the biggest one:

> Then by that yardstick, isn't the comment I was replying too also in bad faith, just like I pointed out initially?

No, it isn't. First, it's completely invalid to say "by that yardstick" - you're comparing completely different things that have no bearing on each other. Second, no, there's zero evidence that the comment you replied to was in bad faith.

The definition of a bad faith argument is one that in inauthentic, and that the argument-maker doesn't actually believe in themselves. Factually, there's no evidence to support your accusation that that comment by @butlike was in bad faith - they didn't make any self-contradictory statements in their comment, nor did they post a single other comment in that whole thread, nor did they say that would indicate that they were acting anything but genuinely.

And, factually, you were breaking the guidelines by assuming bad faith about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240808.

When challenged on it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44244578, you said:

> I assumed good faith, but then I used critical thinking and decided it's in bad faith then explained why. You don't need to agree with me on this.

This has three falsehoods in it. First, you did not assume good faith - you assumed bad faith, because there was zero evidence to support the idea that it was in bad faith. Second, you didn't use critical thinking - again, because there was no evidence to support that belief. Third, you did not explain why the comment was in bad faith - you explained why you disagreed with it, indicating that you don't understand the difference between disagreeing with someone's statements, and them being in bad faith (which is further reinforced in the above when you say "And I replied that's in bad faith since the alternative to Android 16 shitty UI is not going back to Android 2 to make Android 16 look good" - no, that's literally not what "bad faith" means).

Finally, more generally, beyond the falsehoods and fallacies that you've been making, you're also acting extremely abrasively, in ways that break the guidelines and that antagonize other users.

The theme of HN is intellectual curiosity. The way that you've been acting is the exact opposite of that.
by PranaFlux | 2025-06-14 16:34:41+00:00
Absolutely!

It's really a tshark wrapper to make it available for LLMs so any capture filter will work. The display filter also accepts any Wireshark accepted filter.

You can also "just" use it to analyse a pcap if you don't need to record traffic as well as pass an SSLKEYLOG file for the decryption.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-14 16:34:57+00:00
Project by https://www.reddit.com/user/CosmicRuin, who also built their own backyard astronomy observatory dome: https://old.reddit.com/r/telescopes/comments/1gtwkya/dome_v2... , https://photos.app.goo.gl/9aW5HhzrY7zG7Qhk6
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-14 16:36:42+00:00
Nah, it's just academic slop of the type every journalist has a crack-level addiction to. OpenAI's incentives are the exact opposite: users pay them a flat fee (or nothing) but OpenAI's cost scale per interaction. OpenAI make more money when people subscribe but don't talk to ChatGPT much, i.e. their incentives are the inverse of what Vasan is claiming here.

Ironically, the Stanford psychiatrist is hallucinating some statistically likely words whilst misinforming readers, perhaps in a way that will make them paranoid. It's turtles all the way down.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-14 16:37:11+00:00
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is completely irrelevant for metrology and it certainly does not have any relationship whatsoever with the algebraic structure of the set of values of a physical quantity.

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is just a trivial consequence of the properties of the Fourier transform. It just states that there are certain pairs of physical quantities which are not independent (because their probability densities are connected by a Fourier transform relationship), so measuring both simultaneously with an arbitrary precision is not possible.

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle says absolutely nothing about the measurement of a single physical quantity or about the simultaneous measurement of a pair of independent physical quantities.

There is no such thing as a quantity that cannot be measured, i.e. the set of its values does not have the required Archimedean group algebraic structure. If it cannot be measured, it is not a quantity (there are also qualities, which can only be compared, but not measured, so the sets of their values are only ordered sets, not Archimedean groups; an example of a physical quality, which is not a physical quantity, is the Mohs hardness, whose numeric values are just labels attached to certain values, a Mohs hardness of "3" could have been as well labeled as "Ktcwy" or with any other arbitrary string, the numeric labels have been chosen only to remember easy the order between them).
by dapper_bison17 | 2025-06-14 16:38:20+00:00
That really sucks. It sucks even more that your situation is common to many many women.

One of my best friends faced a similar struggle and took things into her own hands.

Through a lot of trial and error and a lot of studying, she's been able to overcome most endo symptoms and has started her own program where she teaches other women how to do the same.

I'd love to connect you to her if you want!

She's already helped around 30 women with similar struggles. Some have managed to get rid of bloating in a matter of weeks, one even has Crohn's disease and for the first time in 14 years woke up without any stomach pain.

My friend's program isn't a "magic pill" obviously but it sounds like it's worth a shot.

Let me know :)