MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-07 03:35:30+00:00
> don't know what it is that draws product designers to keep reaching for that horrible UX pattern, but it's got to be stopped. Nobody reads these things so a popup is the worst place to put important information that the user needs to read!

Hi, Product Manager and paramedic here.

The type of popup you are talking about is not what is happening here. It's a modal dialog requiring the provider to answer multiple questions to evaluate their patient (see my other comment in this thread).

And then it will warn you that the patient meets SIRS or sepsis criteria. It's not quite as simple as "regulation says user needs to get warned of blah".
by Amaury-El | 2025-10-07 03:37:22+00:00
I really like this kind of exploration that blends natural principles, aesthetics, and engineering. It is not just a technical breakthrough but a fresh way of thinking about what it means to land.

I can imagine how meaningful it would be if one day these kirigami parachutes are used to drop medical supplies, support disaster relief, or even serve space missions. Beautiful and practical at the same time.
by timr | 2025-10-07 03:37:31+00:00
This is not a scientific paper. It is a "narrative review", which is another way of saying "editorial". It superficially looks like science, but doesn't do any of the methods, controls or (correct) statistics that you would expect in a legitimate meta-analysis. Do not take it seriously.

The "dedication" at the top should clue readers into what is going on -- it's not even trying particularly hard to look legitimate -- but alas.

Edit: this line, in particular, made me laugh. It is one of the more egregious examples of "pretending to do statistics" that I have seen recently:

> Table 1 summarizes the studies in the last decade examining a potential link between neuropsychiatric reactions and finasteride exposure. When prescribed mainly for AGA, all reports suggest that finasteride can cause depression, anxiety, suicide ideation, and suicides. Assuming a null hypothesis (finasteride does not affect mood) and a 50% chance of 1 result against this hypothesis, the probability of getting all 8 studies concluding against the null hypothesis by chance is 0.58 = 0.0039.
by pjdesno | 2025-10-07 03:40:53+00:00
There’s a latex editor for the Mac with real-time typesetting (I forget the name) that I used very early on for fairly high-value paper submissions. (not my dissertation - that’s long in the past)

I trusted it because (a) I had a downloaded copy of the app on my machine, and (b) I had the latex files locally, and could go back to emacs if necessary. For the short term, at least, I was insulated from failure of the company.
by baobun | 2025-10-07 03:41:09+00:00
Basically guaranteed RCE for vulnerable configurations - a severity of 10 seems apt.

The aspect that it's only impacting a small percentage of installations in practice does not factor into the severity calculation.

OTOH I'd question the "Privileges required: low" part of the CVSS table. While out-of-box redis is vulnerable, typical deployments are secured by at least a password. Exploitation would need authentication or a separate auth bypass.

Most in-house redis deployments are probably safu if deployed according to best practices but Redis-as-a-service operators want to be on top of this.
by summa_tech | 2025-10-07 03:42:04+00:00
> Look at a modern CPU die. See those frame pointer registers? That stack management hardware? That’s real estate. Silicon. Transistor budget.

You don't. What you see is caches, lots of caches. Huge vector register files. Massive TLBs.

Get real - learn something about modern chips and stop fighting 1980s battles.
by varenc | 2025-10-07 03:43:10+00:00
> Are they price sensitive enough that they won't go to a competitor that's a few dollars more expensive per month if it has better subtitles

Outside of Asia, Crunchyroll is a de-facto monopoly on legal anime. From the article, 70% of new releases are exclusive to Crunchyroll. They're not losing customers to platforms with better subs, because customers have no alternative.

(Besides pirating, but I assume the golden age of Tier 1 fan subs is over)
by nurettin | 2025-10-07 03:43:17+00:00
A lot of people including you were oblivious to this significant re-entry event until it appeared in the news.

So off-hand dismissals and taking this personal will not help your case.

Also, since you brought him up, where are the studies of the environmental impact of satellite launches and space debris funded by Elon Musk?

Is the argument "planet big satellite small defund NASA"? In that case I'm going with the article.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-07 03:43:28+00:00
> Are they price sensitive enough that they won't go to a competitor that's a few dollars more expensive per month if it has better subtitles?

They should probably consider that this competitor is actually mpv playing the DRM-free blu-ray quality fully subtitled mkv files obtained for a grand total of zero dollars from organized groups of people who simply care about anime to an absurd degree.

"Paying customer" is a synonym for "fool" in this context. Paying for inferior products is just foolish. It is damaging to one's self-respect. It is even more damaging for the reputation of the corporation. A bunch of fans regularly put them to shame by releasing better products on a daily basis. That's just pathetic.
by jwpapi | 2025-10-07 03:44:51+00:00
Omg thank you guys. It felt so obvious to me but nobody talked about it.

A UX is better and another app or website feels like the exact separation needed.

Booking flights => browser => skyscanner => destination typing => evaluation options with ai suggestions on top and UX to fine-tune if I have out of the ordinary wishes (don’t want to get up so early)

I can’t imagine a human or an AI be better than is this specialized UX.
by m_fayer | 2025-10-07 03:45:32+00:00
As someone who’s worked on EHRs, I can tell you that doctors rely on “carry forward” and templated notes and other entry types.

They are fixated on fast and smooth workflow, both because they want the computer out of their face, they want software to help them jump through the ever growing number of mandatory hoops, and they are under serious pressure to keep their numbers high.
by buzer | 2025-10-07 03:45:37+00:00
From what I remember TheFluff was arguably one of the best timers (and encoders) in the fansub scene in the past and he could time the dialogue in under 10 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00xX0PwGUg8

Karaoke and typesetting can of course take longer (I remember someone complaining about how much effort it was to typeset every single book name in some scene that had a bookshelf) though karaoke is usually ~3 minutes of unique content (OP & ED) per ~12 episodes. Typesetting depends heavily on anime, like isekais don't usually have a lot Japanese writing anyway.
by tptacek | 2025-10-07 03:45:39+00:00
Look, I'm not trying to tell you it's not a severe vulnerability. I'm telling you that it is not of a caliber to rank among the most severe vulnerabilities ever discovered, which is what a CVSS score of 10 means. Shellshock, which did not get scored as a "10", is in the top tier of vulnerabilities, far more severe than this one by all appearances, and it too doesn't deserve a 10.

The point isn't anything to do with the vulnerability. It's this stupid scale.
by fwip | 2025-10-07 03:45:55+00:00
Another format that might be worth looking at in the bioinformatics world is hdf5. It's sort of a generic file format, often used for storing multiple related large tables. It has some built-in compression (gzip IIRC) but supports plugins. There may be an opportunity to integrate the self-describing nature of the hdf5 format with the self-describing decompression routines of openZL.
by nradov | 2025-10-07 03:46:38+00:00
You're missing the point. Anyone already can open a medical school if they meet standards. In fact, several new medical schools have opened in recent years. But that doesn't do anything to address the primary bottleneck, which is lack of residency slots. If you graduate from medical school with an MD you still can't practice medicine until you complete a residency program.

Some schools do have accelerated combined BS/MD programs which can cut 1-2 years off the required total education.
by iagooar | 2025-10-07 03:47:25+00:00
Wow, half of this article deeply resonates with what I am working on.

Text-to-SQL is the funniest example. It seems to be the "hello world" of agentic use in enterprise environments. It looks so easy, so clear, so straight-forward. But just because the concept is easy to grasp (LLMs are great at generating markup or code, so let's have them translate natural language to SQL) doesn't mean it is easy to get right.

I have spent the past 3 months building a solution that actually bridges the stochastic nature of AI agents and the need for deterministic queries. And boy oh boy is that rabbit hole deep.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-07 03:47:42+00:00
I remembered something weird like this, & went looking for coverage last week. I thought it'd maybe gotten divied up between Azure Services and like some ads or online experience thing? I ended up giving up, so much noise and I wasn't sure what I was looking for, but I'd love to see some coverage. Incredible seeing Windows broken up like that & internally sold for parts, just total throwing it to the MBA wolves to milk some money out of, it felt like & seems like.
by socalgal2 | 2025-10-07 03:48:30+00:00
Not the same but there's this https://github.com/kmamal/gpu

It's SDL + WebGPU + Node. It doesn't give you a webview. It gives you (windows, input, audio, joypads) via SDL and graphics via WebGPU. I'd guess you can run three.js on it.

It's not looking super loved though but it does show a simple idea. Glue SDL and WebGPU (via dawn or wgpu) to pretty much any language and you get an environment to make portable apps.
by jwpapi | 2025-10-07 03:49:38+00:00
One thing people forget is that if you do it by hand you can do it even when people are listening, or when it’s loud. Meaning its working more reliable. And in your brain you only have to store one execution instead of two. So I usually prefer the more reliable approach.

I don’t know any people that do Siri except the people that have really bad eyes
by runarberg | 2025-10-07 03:49:55+00:00
I actually don‘t believe this. But some politicians do, and that does real damage when they take funding away from actual infrastructure projects which would have otherwise benefited under-served communities with high speed internet.

When I say LEO satellite internet won‘t materialize, I mean that it won‘t serve everybody. It will always be an expensive option which in best case will be subsidized for only a portion of the people that actually need it. LEO satellite is not the future of telecommunication infrastructure, it is lacking in almost every way next to traditional infrastructure. The only thing it is better at is a) marketing and b) providing internet to rich people in their yachts or in their mansions 10 miles out of the suburb.
by bzmrgonz | 2025-10-07 03:50:31+00:00
I need a platform for legalese. Drafting documents. I do hope AI scribe agent emerges soon tho. "Hey scribus, write me a mark down document and provide links for the usual popular file formats, docx, pdf, Json. Extract metadata from context, format headers and footers and other using statutory instrument standard format. I will dictate content and you research, verify and amplify in my usual writing style"
by inopinatus | 2025-10-07 03:51:14+00:00
The Rakuten/Viki model appears to lean into this and just sponsor fansub groups directly and include their output in the licensed stream.

At least one of the Chinese streaming services (I think possibly iQIYI) crowdsources improved translations directly in the app, presumably relying on the irritation factor of early adopters stuck with the MTL-grade int'l subs supplied by many C-drama production companies.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-07 03:51:15+00:00
Serious question: why not just use a stand-alone gaming system (e.g. PlayStation, xBox)?

Don't really game much, but I did buy a PS4 just for the therapy of offline GTA5 beatdowns.

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The only Microsoft in my house is a twenty year old Windows 7 Pro machine — it always just works.
by Root_Denied | 2025-10-07 03:51:39+00:00
I think you're right that they don't care about the money from Windows licenses, but they seem to be pivoting to trying to pull data from consumer desktops for AI training. That's arguably way more valuable and no one besides Apple (or potentially Google) gets that kind of data.

As more and more public accessible areas start becoming so inundated with AI generated material, that makes the walled gardens where generated content is not AI generated that much more valuable for training.
by golden-face | 2025-10-07 03:52:28+00:00
Can you share any details or samples of the code/prompts especially with regards to "Gemini with structured JSON output" and "LLMs hallucinate quarters and M&A tags. Solution: deterministic post-processing"?

I recently started using Gemini to perform perform classification tasks and I have been struggling with 2 things:

1) Documentation on the input/prompt schema when you want to require structured output 2) How to enforce outputs like "this key-value output must come from the supplied list of key-values"

It is really fascinating to work with this tool if only because it works well on 90% of tasks and then decides to go full stream of consciousness "hello good day, I know this is a horse race on TV but I cannot find the horse race in the list of car manufacturers you supplied" with a random schema for the output.
by idatum | 2025-10-07 03:52:40+00:00
This is the way: SOCKS5 via SSH

You do need some minimal technical understanding and some scripting.

Pick any cloud provider that can give you a VM with SSH access.

Read up on doing this on your local device or another device on your LAN:

ssh -NT -g -D 10001 -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o ConnectTimeout=5 -i your_ssh_private_key your_cloud_login@any_cloud_provider_ip

Change 10001 to whatever.

Now read up on how your browser points to a SOCKS5 proxy. For Firefox, I create a separate profile. For chromium based, I use the command line.

You are now virtually located to whatever region you chose for your VM.

I mentioned some scripting. It's simple enough that I have a /bin/sh script to spin up the VM, set up the SSH SOCKS5 proxy, launch the browser, then spin the VM down when the browser exits.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-07 03:53:26+00:00
It being the year of Linux is definitely a meme at this point, but Microsoft's trying their hardest to make it a thing.

Steam's latest survey [1] shows Windows losing 0.19% marketshare. 3/4 of it went to Mac, 1/4 to Linux. 0.19% over a single month is a fairly significant shift, especially because the Steam survey is biased towards Windows gamers to begin with (Windows has 95.4% marketshare on the Steam survey), so it's probably understating the shift.

[1] - https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
by scrps | 2025-10-07 03:53:48+00:00
Or alternatively foreign countries don't value their doctors enough for them to stick around and so they don't... Are you saying someone is suggesting forcing them to come to the west or should people not be allowed to move where they want and can contribute? The US needs more doctors and if there are foreign trained qualified doctors they should be able to practice, healthcare is a free market system or so I am told, labor goes where it gets paid.

Also given the much higher wages in the west, sending a portion to relatives back home often does quite a bit to alleviate suffering and stimulate some economic activity.

On top of all of that the US govt could step in an increase supply of doctors in various ways, the medical industry could stop artificially keeping supply low to drive wages up, the medical industry could totally opt out of a free market model and operate like a public service. I am sure there are plenty of different solutions I am leaving off.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-10-07 03:54:22+00:00
I couldn't really get that segue from Lithuania to Estonia. Did you mean to type "Lithuania" in the last paragraph as well?

Here..

> Additionally, I've always been very impressed with Estonia's …

Before that you were talking about Lithuania exclusively.

And then:

> … Estonia's digital infrastructure and Ukrainian software engineering - not just JetBrains …

I think it was founded in CZ and is now HQed in NL. Right?

A typo? Or there's some relation between the two countries and whether JetBrains has some history with these two that is missing here?

(I am not trying to nitpick, really interested in knowing whether there's some angle/twist here, since the post itself is about hidden connections and what not).
by trollbridge | 2025-10-07 03:55:36+00:00
A $600 - $700 Dell laptop's CPU does not come anywhere close to an M4 Macbook Air, which you can get right now at Best Buy in a 15" version for $999.

The Mac will also have a faster SSD and (not sure about this) a faster memory bus architecture. And a better GPU and better ability to use Thunderbolt docks / have 3 external 4K displays.
by lithocarpus | 2025-10-07 03:56:24+00:00
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...

Apparently earth soaks up ~400-800 kg of aluminum oxide in cosmic dust each day.

So with 1-2 starlink satellites producing 30kg each dissipate each day, that's adding about 10% to this figure.

I'm not sure if the cosmic dust aluminum finds itself in the same places up there as the dissipating starlink aluminum. Maybe that could be figured out from the above paper.

This could have a significant effect, I don't know.
by adham-omran | 2025-10-07 03:56:41+00:00
> Linux works great for gaming except some anti-cheat stuff which probably won't be legal anymore anyways in Europe under the PLD.

I tried to have a gaming setup with Linux (SteamOS and Bazzite) but both failed when I tried to connect more than one Bluetooth controller and they'd be unable to distinguish them or disconnect everything after a few minutes, it was a frustrating experience.
by Animats | 2025-10-07 03:57:17+00:00
If you disallow recursion, or put an upper bound on recursion depth, you can statically allocate all "stack based" objects at compile time. Modula I did this, allowing multithreading on machines which did not have enough memory to allow stack growth. Statically analyzing worst case stack depth is still a thing in real time control.

Not clear that this would speed things up much today.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-07 03:57:24+00:00
On the plus side, the total media control means yes there are really encouraging signs for other people to be doing media as well. Since the big media empires are all now under control of the 0.01%.

On the down side, unclear how much money is really to be made.

PG getting it though. Pretty loud and clear signal, a new stage of the world: the Powell Memorandum has come to fruition, this long plot to usurp control and the courts, and yank/buy-out story-telling/media away from democracy & the people.
by lithocarpus | 2025-10-07 03:57:29+00:00
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...

Apparently around 1.4%.

So the starlink satellites dissipating could increase the aluminum oxide arriving up there by ~10% - depending which numbers are correct I suppose it could be anywhere from like 3-30%.
by rramadass | 2025-10-07 03:58:14+00:00
There is no one book which can give you the overall sweep of Mathematics. However, you might find the following (though not textbooks per se) useful.

1) The Princeton Companion to Mathematics by Timothy Gowers et al. and The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics by Nicholas Higham et al. - The closest you have to a Modern Encyclopedia of Mathematics. You get unmatched breadth after which you can move on to dedicated books as needed. Well worth the money.

2) Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning by Aleksandrov, Kolmogorov et al. - Absolutely brilliant overview of Basic Mathematics. Published by Dover and hence very affordable.

3) Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel by John Stillwell - Written as sort of an update to the great Felix Klein's Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint books. The Topics are particularly well chosen given modern advances; they include Arithmetic, Computation, Algebra, Geometry, Calculus, Combinatorics, Probability, Logic.
by freakynit | 2025-10-07 03:58:28+00:00
Exactly.

This is exactly the same playbook as has already been played multiple times in the past(and currently playing) by existing companies.

These companies initially laid out red carpets for such builders, but once they themselves had enough apps, they started to tighten the rope, and then gradually shifted to complete 100% control and extortion in the name of "security" or other made-up-excuse.

No-more walled garden. If something like this has to come (which I truly believe is helpful), it should be buiild on open-web and open protocols, not controlled by single for-profit company (ironical since OpenAI is technically non-profit).
by jan_Inkepa | 2025-10-07 03:59:45+00:00
> It had horrible subs because the sub were written by Chinese people using Chinese names for places and character

More likely the translators, probably native English speakers, intentionally decided to use 'authentic', 'historical' Chinese names (as modern mandarn speakers would write them in pinyin) rather than the Japanese ones?

I agree that the effect could be really confusing though, and it's not what I would do!

(IIRC the fan translations of the Manga also gradually decided to change to use Chinese versions of the historical names, which I also found confusing - especially as they have kept some of the old Japanese names ones, so...it's a weird mix...)
by rmunn | 2025-10-07 04:00:04+00:00
Was either "yes" or "no" clearly the right translation in context? I'm very curious to know which one was correct, the dub or the sub. Or was it one of those ambiguous situations where either one would be a correct translation of the text, but with different subtext?

P.S. For an example of when "yes" might really mean "no", I heard an anecdote. An American guy had been hired by a Japanese company to work in their offices in Japan and be a liaison to foreign businessmen. He was attending a meeting once where everyone but him was Japanese. The boss presented an idea. There was silence for about 10-15 seconds, then people said things like "Yes, that's a good idea, let's do that." The American left the meeting thinking that the idea had been approved, only to have his Japanese colleague explain to him that the key part was the silence. The boss clearly heard and understood the message that his employees didn't think it was a good idea, and the idea was dropped and never mentioned again.

So I could see a case where the character says "Yes" but the subtext is "No", and that would be clearly understood by a Japanese viewer. Different translators would choose different approaches there; some might translate the text, and some might translate the subtext. I'm curious to know if this was a case like that, or if it was a clear-cut case of one translation being right and the other one being flat-out wrong.
by aoki | 2025-10-07 04:00:07+00:00
Once upon a time, editors requested submissions in single-column, double-spaced form because they (or the in-house writers) would actually mark on the printed-out paper. Mysterious glyphs, squiggly arrows, and indecipherable handwritten text would be inscribed between the lines in red ink. Many journal preprints from that era are double-spaced.

Even more mysterious are the arcane notations such as “TABLE 1 ABOUT HERE” with the actual table/figure contents placed at the end of the paper. Understandable when authors provided hardcopy figures for photoreproduction, baffling when the entire submission was generated with LaTeX or Word.