MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-07 17:14:57+00:00
Actually, I described two different things.

The second one (the prescription one) may well be wrong. It’s total speculation, on my part.

The first one, though, I’m pretty sure is right.

I love the traditional debate tactic, where we find one part of an argument to be wrong, and use that, to say the other part is, too.

It’s no matter. I’m done here, anyway, and yield to you. The fox ain’t worth the chase.
by bastawhiz | 2025-09-07 17:14:59+00:00
As someone who isn't the target market for this, is there significant demand for this? $1200 for a smart watch that'll be e-waste in a few years is steep, plus $8/mo to keep it working (though I guess if you're going to pay four figures for a smart watch the $96/yr probably makes no difference).

I guess if you intend to carry a watch anyway, you can save the few ounces and leave your phone at home? And maybe a few ounces for a battery pack to charge a phone? But at the same time, the absolute last time I'd ever want to be tapping out a text message on my watch is when I'm in need of rescue through satellite message. In the most genuine sense possible, I really don't know who the actual target audience is that's not just buying it for the clout.
by Lvl999Noob | 2025-09-07 17:15:09+00:00
Pure js without typescript also has "types". Typescript doesn't give you nominal types either. It's only structural. So when you say that you "know it's already been processed", you just have a mental type of "Parsed" vs "Raw". With a type system, it's like you have a partner dedicated to tracking that. But without that, it doesn't mean you aren't doing any parsing or type tracking of your own.
by neilv | 2025-09-07 17:15:10+00:00
Looks like PostmarketOS (mainline Linux for phones, with choice of frontend, such as Plasma Mobile or Phosh) has demoted all their previous "Main"-tier devices to "Community" or lower tier:

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices#Main

Anyone know whether this is a sign of a push for being daily driver quality? Or a sign that volunteers previously doing promising work have drifted away, and they're acknowledging that?
by amluto | 2025-09-07 17:15:12+00:00
You could use something like 12 bits of randomness per card (a very rough approximation of the log_2(n^2)) to get the probability that you reuse a number down to a manageable level, check if you’ve reused a number (which is basically free once you’ve sorted), and then repeat the whole process if you reused a number.

Or you could have a lazily calculated infinite precision random number per card and use more like 6 bits per card on expectation. Other than using more (and annoyingly variable) memory, this may well be faster than a properly unbiased Fisher-Yates.

Or you could assign a few bits per card, sort, and then recurse on each group of cards that sorted into the same bucket.

In summary, there are lots of genuinely unbiased solutions (assuming a perfect binary RNG), and they all boil down to something roughly equivalent to rejection sampling.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-07 17:16:25+00:00
I see there is a sporting / football newspaper (or former newspaper - now web site) also called the pink 'un, and apparently there had also been a green 'un focusing on horse racing, but growing up in the UK I had never head of these.

The FT post-dates the original pink 'un sporting newspaper, but was also, and still is, commonly referred to as "the pink 'un".
by da_chicken | 2025-09-07 17:16:27+00:00
July 3 was one month prior to the nuclear bomb dropping. By that time, B-29 bombing raids with conventional bombs had been operating since 1944. Further, the fact that they had to order it to be preserved on July 3 implies that it hadn't been saved until that point. So, Hiroshima was saved for a month, but only after it had been an equally viable target for the prior several months to a year.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-07 17:17:20+00:00
I don’t really think of social media companies as being the public square. They are more like private clubs, just with really low standards for membership.

IMO the bigger problem is the total lack of a public square these days.

The internet is more pseudonymous than we’re used to dealing with, compared to the in-person public square. People behave in ways that would normally cause their acquiescences to use their freedom of association, and avoid them. Online attempts at a public square tend to be pretty annoying, as a result.
by sungam | 2025-09-07 17:18:16+00:00
Good observations! But hopefully you learned something in coming to those conclusion...

The chance of a random skin lesion being skin cancer is extremely low. Apart from the appearance key things to look for are a lesion that is not going away particularly if it is changing in appearance.

Here are some other common skin lesions: - Dermatofibroma (harmless skin growth) - Actinic keratosis (sun damage) - Milium - Comedome - Acne pustule / nodule - Viral wart - Molluscum contagiousum (harmless viral growth) - Cherry angioma (harmless blood vessel growth) - Spider naevus (another type of blood vessel growth)

There are more than 2000 diagnoses in dermatology so not an exhaustive list!
by linotype | 2025-09-07 17:18:20+00:00
> Can anyone explain a rational political motivation behind this? I realize "less immigrants" is the hand-wavy explanation, but how does this benefit those in charge?

I recommend you read the link, which in the first few words outlines “non-immigrants” and my summary.

> Adjudicating Nonimmigrant Visa Applicants in Their Country of Residence
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-07 17:19:31+00:00
I mean, would you rather have a $10k build or have your server forcefully shut down after you hit $1k in three days?

One of those things is more important to different types of business. In some situations, any downtime at all is worth thousands per hour. In others, the service staying online is only worth hundreds of dollars a week.

So yes, the solution is as simple as giving the user hard spend caps that they can configure. I'd also set the default limits low for new accounts with a giant, obnoxious, flashing red popover that you cannot dismiss until you configure your limits.

However, this would generate less profit for Amazon et al. They have certainly run this calculation and decided they'd earn more money from careless businesses than they'd gain in goodwill. And we all know that goodwill has zero value to companies at FAANG scale. There's absolutely no chance that they haven't considered this. It's partially implemented and an incredibly obvious solution that everyone has been begging for since cloud computing became a thing. The only reason they haven't implemented this is purely greed and malice.
by fallinditch | 2025-09-07 17:19:53+00:00
One of the things I enjoy most about photography is using old film cameras. They are just tools but to me they are suffused with mystery and magic, and some are simply beautiful [1]. It's like they have a power that is missing from our convenient digital world, and in the act of being used they shape and mediate our creative choices.

[1] https://www.mes-appareils-photos.fr/Zeiss-Ikon-Nettar-517-16...
by DennisP | 2025-09-07 17:20:18+00:00
Tesla spent about $10 billion on AI training hardware in 2024.[1] They just might not be getting as much bang for the buck, due to their paucity of sensors. Huawei get similar performance without Tesla's four billion miles of training data.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
by ashray | 2025-09-07 17:20:25+00:00
This was already the case for almost every other country. Most embassies required you to be resident or a national of the country you are applying in.

So oddly, the US was far more permissive than other locales in this one aspect. All this change does is bring it in line with security practices that other nations already had in place.

Honestly am quite surprised that the US didn’t already have this restriction considering overall it’s one of the toughest countries to get a visa for or even enter with a valid visa.

The US visa vetting procedure is known to be so strict even for tourists that many nations give visa free access to nationals who would otherwise require a visa - just because they hold a valid (or sometimes even expired!) US visa. It’s a highly regarded sticker if you can get one in your passport and seriously ups the power of your passport if it’s a weaker one to start with.
by al_borland | 2025-09-07 17:20:39+00:00
Define “learn git”? For the few commands I actually uses, I don’t remember it being any more than a day. I don’t see a reason to become an expert and things I might only use once every 5 years, if that.

Even Linus Torvalds only really uses a few commands.

> Torvalds described himself as a casual user of Git who mainly uses just five commands: git merge, git blame, git log, git commit and git pull – though he adds later in the interview that he also uses git status “fairly regularly.”
by gdulli | 2025-09-07 17:20:48+00:00
Yeah I don't know if that was a bad faith or just confused take you responded to but clearly the press was ultimately arguing for their own survival, which, selfish or not, aligns with our interests too. Destroying the imperfect institution of the press is a perennially easy message for demagogues to sell but replacing it with the tech industry is much worse.

The press didn't foresee that this path would specifically lead to something as stupid as automated generation of the news but they knew it was going somewhere stupid.
by coredog64 | 2025-09-07 17:20:58+00:00
Yes and no. 100% accurate billing is not available in realtime, so it's entirely possible that you have reached and exceeded your cap by the time it has been detected.

Having said that, within AWS there are the concepts of "budget" and "budget action" whereby you can modify an IAM role to deny costly actions. When I was doing AWS consulting, I had a customer who was concerned about Bedrock costs, and it was trivial to set this up with Terraform. The biggest PITA is that it takes like 48-72 hours for all the prerequisites to be available (cost data, cost allocation tags, and an actual budget each can take 24 hours)
by Hilift | 2025-09-07 17:21:04+00:00
It is being reduced where you think it should be. There is now a more serious threat from uncontrollable methane emissions. Landfills can turn into a slushee that accelerates methane ouptput. And landfills can catch fire, such as the Chiquita Canyon landfill in Val Verde, California (90 acres). 58% of uncontrolled methane is from food decay, and is increasing.

https://www.epa.gov/land-research/quantifying-methane-emissi...

Quantifying methane emissions from United States landfills https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi7735
by adrian_b | 2025-09-07 17:21:25+00:00
Perhaps you think about animals, which have appeared only once, i.e. multicellular living beings capable of complex movements.

There are a lot of other kinds of multicellular living beings, which have achieved multicellularity independently, plants and fungi being the most obvious on dry land, but most of these other multicellular life forms had to lose mobility when becoming multicellular.

Only a few have retained some limited mobility when multicellular, e.g. the slime molds, but they are much simpler than those which have lost completely mobility, by having rigid cellular walls, like plants, fungi and several distinct kinds of marine algae.

There are even several kinds of (very simple) multicellular bacteria, among Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), Myxobacteria (resembling slime molds) and Actinobacteria a.k.a. Actinomycetes (resembling fungi).
by palata | 2025-09-07 17:22:03+00:00
It is a shame that those companies don't contribute to AOSP (or fork it). Apparently Huawei decided that they would do better alone with their own HarmonyOS, but I don't get it. It could be so powerful if AOSP was actually shared between the Android manufacturers...

I would happily leave Android and go with such a fork. Instead, each (Samsung, Huawei, ...) try to make their own thing. And good luck to them to beat Android on their own.
by nathan11 | 2025-09-07 17:22:47+00:00
I believe your link says you must apply at the country you're visiting, or the country you're visiting first. And you must apply at the consulate for the country you are a resident of. So if I was applying to visit France, I could do so from the US embassy in France.

This seems to differ from the new US rule where you must also apply in the country you're a resident of.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-07 17:23:27+00:00
dupe filtering is evidently just just a lost cause here

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45126432

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45132968

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and the reason why duplication jams me up is that all 3 have comments on them, that each of the 3 audiences who stumbled upon their individual submissions won't see

> More info about Campfire: https://once.com/campfire <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45128162>

> Too bad they didn't say "here's why not (Mattermost|Zulip|probably 15 other ones)" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45134447>

although that last one was kind of addressed by the once link because in its FAQ is "we don't care about your other platforms" so the answer is "because NIH is awesome"
by yellow_lead | 2025-09-07 17:23:37+00:00
I think there is demand. Hikers or trail runners may buy this for peace of mind, plus the other capabilities like maps.

> the absolute last time I'd ever want to be tapping out a text message on my watch is when I'm in need of rescue through satellite message. In the most genuine sense possible, I really don't know who the actual target audience is that's not just buying it for the clout

If you're truly in danger I think there's a button to contact rescue.
by wltr | 2025-09-07 17:23:37+00:00
I was interested in this chat and installed it locally, to test. That was super easy with docker. It works, it looks like it works well. It doesn’t have any notifications on my iPhone, it says I should enable them in the settings, but I couldn’t find where exactly, there was no Campfire as they say. It is so simple, the chat, that I expected it to work on an old iPad 3 with iOS 9.3.5. It doesn’t. I’m not surprised, and I don’t expect it to work. All I mean, it looks so simple, I thought I won’t be too surprised if it would work with the obsolete Safari.

Surprised to see four same links over the week, but all of them have just one comment. Aren’t people not even remotely interested in the app? Not even investigate the code, huh?
by Krssst | 2025-09-07 17:23:55+00:00
> destroying the beauty of nature and polluting the environment should go against global human conscience.

I don't think beauty has anything to do with it. Climate change has very negative concrete effects on human civilization that justify the effort we should put (but don't) into limiting it. Generally pollution is nocive to human health which is why we strive to avoid it too.

I think talking about "beauty" moves the debate away from rational arguments. The reason we do all this is to preserve a world where humans can have comfortable lives, without additional health risks adding up and with enough access to necessities (food, water, shelter, breathable air compatible with human survival (never too long above 35C wet-bulb)).
by scrame | 2025-09-07 17:24:03+00:00
yeah, they say in the introduction even that it is to give a language to common patterns that emerge in C++ style OOP. It gives examples of what it might look like, but isn't an instruction manual on what to do. Its to give a common language "this is a gateway" as opposed to "this is where stuff goes in", or "front-door" or whatever tribal names / descriptions people come up with.
by fabrice_d | 2025-09-07 17:24:11+00:00
Main is described as "The most supported devices, with all the features and stability you'd expect from a regular OS."

Unfortunately there was/is no device supported by postmarketOS that fits that description. You'll need at least good telephony support including 4G features like VoLTE, proper camera support (not potato polaroid from the 80s quality), Wifi, Bluetooth, geolocation, working GPU acceleration, media hardware decoders, decent battery life. And I'm probably forgetting a few things.

Let's hope that initiatives like https://liberux.net/ will help make a fully working, long lasting device available!
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-09-07 17:24:15+00:00
I think what parent is referring to is the simple fact that the management making the decisions to hire illegal immigrants are rarely ( as in effectively never ) brought on any kind of charges despite it being ostensibly against the law. What we end up with a system, where companies get highly malleable ( and replaceable ) workforce afraid to raise a complaint and zero consequences for people making the actual decisions.

edit: A cynic would argue that the system is in place is working exactly as designed.
by jmclnx | 2025-09-07 17:24:30+00:00
Do Canadians need to get Visas to visit the US ?

Last time I went to Canada all I needed was a Passport. I do not even remember showing it to the Custom Official. I drove up said hi and they let me through.

As far as I know it was/is the same for Canadians visiting the US. Except the US border people tended to be d**ks, even to US Citizens.

Did that change?
by gruez | 2025-09-07 17:24:31+00:00
So you want a $100 feature phone that has serious security features like monthly security patches and dedicated security coprocessors? It's tough to make the economics of that work out. All the serious security features costs money to implement, either in the form of development costs or added costs to the BOM. Those costs can be absorbed if you're selling a $600 phone, but not a $100 phone. If you try to add those features to a $100 phone, it'll end up making the phone more expensive, which means nobody but security freaks would buy your phone, and you lose economies of scale that's needed to make a phone at all.

Back to your point, there's already a "split of hardware and software" in the PC market, and we know how it works out. Security there is a joke. Windows might be getting monthly security patches, but the same can't be said of the panoply of third party drivers/firmware. Whenever microsoft tries to push for better security they get shouted down by people claiming it's some sort of conspiracy to implement DRM.
by ayaros | 2025-09-07 17:24:35+00:00
Get rid of the AI profile picture. Just use the picture on your resume! That AI one means a good chunk of people will hate this website before they even click your name to "login" due to their own preexisting biases. As an artist myself I'm not happy about how AI companies have shamelessly plagiarized people's work. The fact you're using the same Studio Ghibli style everyone else is using just feels unoriginal. Whether employers would care is another story entirely.

Others have left good feedback regarding the UI inconsistencies that you should address.

If you really want this to reflect on your abilities as a graphic designer, you should make this "themeable." XP had multiple visual styles - there were variants of Luna, as well as the Royale theme that came with Media Center Edition, and other themes like the Zune theme. There were also numerous third-party user-created themes you could download and use (if you installed a dll patch).

You should consider adding a few of the standard themes - at the very least the silver, olive, and royale themes. But more importantly, you should make your own themes, and add them as options as well. Open up a dialog similar to XP's "Appearance" dialog on first run so users instantly know they will have that option.

It's great if you can recreate a user interface... but anyone can do that and many already have. What matters more is how you can build on the UI while remaining true to its design language and interaction paradigms. What uniqueness can you add to the UI?

Here are some links for inspiration:

- One example of this sort of thing is https://macthemes.garden/, which has thousands of Mac OS 8/9 themes.

- Here's the wikipedia article that goes over the first party XP themes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_visual_styles

- For examples of XP third party themes... I don't know any good websites off the top of my head but DeviantArt has had lots of 3rd party themes and style assets uploaded to it over the years (for both Windows and macOS): https://www.deviantart.com/search?q=windows+xp+themes

Use these as inspiration and come up with your own unique visual styles which would still feel at home with Windows XP. If you can do that, I think it will really impress people.
by jonahx | 2025-09-07 17:24:59+00:00
Yes. As I said matching the population base rate wouldn't be practical, so you'd need to educate on that separately from the identification learning.

Let's say I achieve a 95% on the app though. Most people would have a massively over-inflated sense of their correctness in the wild. If the actual fraction is only 1/1000 and I see a friend with a lesion I identify as concerning, then my actual success rate would be:

1*0.95 / (0.05*999 + 1*0.95)

So ~1.8%, not 95%. Few people understand Bayesian updating.
by tootie | 2025-09-07 17:25:24+00:00
That presumes that this kind of enforcement is a net positive and I'm pretty convinced it isn't. The distinction between legal and illegal immigration is essentially arbitrary. Illegal immigration is not a crime of morality, it's basically one of economics. The legal framework theoretically is designed to produce an optimal outcome for the health and wealth of the nation and presently it is not doing that at all. We can and should welcome far more people than we do. Deporting people who are not violent and contributing to the economy because they have incorrect paperwork isn't a win for anyone but politicians and racists.
by aengelke | 2025-09-07 17:25:30+00:00
Template instantiation caching is likely to help -- in an unoptimized LLVM build, I found that 40-50% of the compiled code at object file level is discarded at link-time as redundant.

Another thing I'd consider as interesting is parse caching from token to AST. Most headers don't change, so even when a TU needs to be recompiled, most parts of the AST could be reused. (Some kind of more clever and transparent precompiled headers.) This is likely to need some changes in the AST data structures for fast serialization and loading/inserting. And that makes me think that maybe the text book approach of generating an AST is a bad idea if we care about fast compilation.

Tangentially, I'm astonished that they claim correctness while a large amount of IR is inadequately (if at all) captured in the hash (comdat, symbol visibility, aliases, constant exprs, block address, calling convention/attributes for indirect calls, phi nodes, fast math flags, GEP type, ....). I'm also a bit annoyed, because this is the type of research that is very sloppily implemented, only evaluates projects where compile time is not a big problem and then only achieves small absolute savings, and papers over inherent difficulties (here: capturing the IR, parse time) that makes this unlikely to be used in practice.
by sungam | 2025-09-07 17:25:46+00:00
Unfortunately not that useful - we could do that now by taking a very small (e.g. 2mm) punch biopsy, and if it shows melanoma obviously that is helpful and the rest of the lesion needs to be removed. The issue is that a negative result doesn't exclude melanoma elsewhere in the lesion.

I have been working with a startup to try and develop a non-invasive molecular test for melanoma so hopefully this will be possible in the future.
by alexmorley | 2025-09-07 17:25:48+00:00
They are built to last. I've had my Fenix 5 for at least 7 years and it shows no signs of slowing or dying. Battery still lasts 5 days or so with normal use. Think it's just stopped getting software updates.

Admittedly they were a bit cheaper back then (but this will one will be too next year)...