skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. This is really interesting and important. I’m not your target customer and don’t know a ton about health tech, so I’m not sure I can help you, but I wish I could. thank you for taking this on. Someone should. Sometimes the science and medicine is there but branding, marketing, and positioning in a bigger value prop aren’t things that doctors and hospitals are prepared to handle at scale. So, this is cool.

I do know one thing about your space, from pure happenstance. I live in Texas and my wife is a fourth-year medical student here. One of her profs is a bariatric surgeon and she spent time in his clinic. One of the interesting things she learned was the correlation between weight loss for one adult and weight loss of a household. I don’t remember the exact stats, but this doc would have whole families weigh in at his clinic, before and after. The results were astounding. The person who got the surgery would often lose only the plurality of the weight, and sometimes not even that. It’s something to consider messaging around as you target men and try to get through the stigma to persuade them to seek treatment. You are doing something good for your family; this is about more than just you. Texan men in particular are likely to hold more traditional values about being the head of their household, however unfashionable that may be. Help these fellas— and help their families.
It is. From the article:

> Vincent Gomes, a chemical engineer at the University of Sydney, and his team, including Labna Shabnam, are turning waste from the world’s smelliest fruit, durian, and the world’s largest fruit, jackfruit, into a supercapacitor that can charge mobile phones, tablets and laptops within minutes.

> Supercapacitors are an alternative way of storing energy. They act like reservoirs, able to quickly charge and then discharge energy in bursts. They tend to be made out of expensive materials like graphene, but Gomes’ team has turned inedible parts of durian and jackfruit into carbon aerogels – porous super-light solids – with “exceptional” natural energy storage properties. They heated, freeze-dried and then baked the inedible spongey core of each fruit in an oven at temperatures of more than 1,500C (2732F). The black, highly porous, ultralight structures they were left with could then be fashioned into electrodes of a low-cost supercapacitor.
Anyone that starts taking potshots at drones over their property is risking federal charges for shooting at an aircraft.
Yeah sure, let two mega corps which control mobile OSs, to become as powerful as they can.
While their app store reject apps with AI and no recourse. Force devs to use their payment APIs. What could go wrong, its not like they’re American telecom companies, only they can be evil and lobby. Devs are saints, am I right?
This is great. I've often considered how to apply Lovecraftian purple prose to the mundane. It would also be interesting to see it going the other direction, recasting horror stories as emotionless technical reportage.
>>>Also, the USSR was invited by the Afghanistan government to contain a rebellion, it wasn't an aggressive (imperialist) invasion.

Another way to articulate that moment in history: "the USSR was disappointed with the main strongman in their puppet regime so they sent their best operators to murder him in the night".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Storm-333
Why is it Lunokhod? It should be Lunohod (MoonWalker). Russian writing Луноход. I hope author of the blog answers my email.
Tool to harden Electron binaries against runtime behavior modifications
Weird how the illegal drones always use their position lights.
What's more impressive that this is 1970, so remote driving capabilities on that kind of distance is mindblowing. I was in NASA KSP tours, man, this tech from 1960 and 1970 looks weird and not functional today.
I agree with you that privacy has to be engineered. Please consider getting involved in some Web 3 projects!

I'm not an expert yet but I don't see why self-destructing file sharing couldn't be built in the Web 3 world. You could also build hybrid apps, where most of the app is a dapp and the sensitive feature like self-destructive file sharing are housed on proprietary systems guarded by a company with a reputation for security/privacy.

I think that if today's strongest cryptography becomes plain in 100 years, I'll be okay with that since I'll be gone and the future generations will have figured out more advanced cryptography :) Or society will have moved away from privacy because we're all linked to each other with neural laces and everyone would know everyone's deepest thoughts.
This is a common misconception. The only reason e.g. Against Malaria has a 'funding gap' is because the EA funds don't want to fill it out of fear of 'crowding out' individual donors which is a sketchy proposition.
I legit don’t understand what I did.
Because х is romanised as kh.
You can also review OpenPhil's grant database and see that they don't really fund moon shots. They fund shovel ready, track record approved low-variance plays mostly.
Jupiter is a flashing green light that can change elevation and circle?
fun to-celsius(f):
(f - 32) * (5 / 9)
end

It looks like abbreviated python.
Titan RTX eGPU for ML training
On the other hand, the main thing I notice in the first Diablo 2 shots (having had my attention drawn to the rendering -- I'm not sure what the article means by "pay attention, how the pales (?) don't cover the same floor-pixels all the time") is how the torch appears to be casting shadows perpendicular to itself. And how as you walk by the torch, the direction of your shadow doesn't change at all.
Talibanistan
That is not evidence, that is inference (of what I am not even sure... prudence perhaps).
Even if it is not a good deal for drivers, there is no reason to involve the government. Drivers can do something else with their time. Uber will have to pay better if enough drivers feel it is not worth it.

An enterprising driver can even decide to start up his own Uber. One that pays better to drivers.
On the tools side, saw this project the other day for annotating and collaborating on research papers. It's not live yet, but something like this would have been useful during my PhD days.

https://www.scholars.io
Leaking PII in the name of "features" is a security disaster.

Ask yourself why Facebook doesn't just make available a spreadsheet of all names associated with which emails on the platform. It's because it's private information.

Why doesn't Facebook's security team do anything? Either they're incompetent, or they're being muzzled by product.

Additionally, Facebook's privacy policy explicitly says that they don't share your private information that you have chosen to set private. That's an egregious lie.
A waterproof mast could hold a GPS receiver above the water. Or the submersible could surface occasionally to sample its location and bearing.

If it kept to a low profile, it wouldn't even matter if it was slightly above water.
Plasma lasers

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/05/11/us-nav...
i am betting that the UFO stuff in the media ends up being preemptive cover sowed by the military for whatever this ends up being
It’s almost as if matters that go to court have to be figured out on a, well, case to case basis.
This is very different from what the article is talking about. This falls 100% under “schema on read”
^ this! your repo should have script(s) in it that re-generate, entirely, all of the binary results files that can be fed into some notebook to automatically generate the figures you put directly into your overleaf. Ditto for tables saved as text outputs. Also, write tests. No one will force you to, but it will save you from finding a bug a month before a conference deadline or during the review process, which can cost you way way more time than just writing the test.

For lit reviews, I just do it in overleaf + bibtex. I wasted a lot of time with reference managers that I never seemed to use when I was actually writing my papers. When you read a paper you think you will need to cite, write two sentences describing the result and put a reference in an overleaf. That will serve as a great cognitive map when you're trying to find "that thing you read last year" but can't remember the names.

Best part of this is your toolchain is light and flexible (these days I just use git, vscode, conda, and overleaf), and you will have clean github repos to show off when you're looking for the next step post-PhD.
That could be the most obnoxious nitpick I've ever heard, do you honestly think anybody is worried about Apple doing anything beyond submitting a false report - and that you are being helpful by pointing out that they can only do that very thing? Do you think that might be why I said "competently reason about" instead of "send the Apple genius death squad"?
It is not hard to make a drone that can evade a manned helicopter. The power to weight ratio can be a lot better.
These were CBP and Tucson PD helicopters, not military ones. For all we know the military might have their own separate footage, or perhaps it was even a US military drone.
Book review: Talabanistan: negotiating the borders
Honestly this looks much closer to ruby than Python, implicit returns etc are very unpythonic, it’s not white space sensitive, etc.
It isn't. Epic literally decided to not use AppStore/PlayStore because they weren't happy with how much money they'd make, so Google decided to improve the money game devs make... They just complain because Google didn't sign a secret extra juicy deal with them only.
i found nothing in this blog post useful other than string slicing/splitting.
and you forgot put the ultimate flag of this program that is -r.
This gives me DRM vibes. Other than that use, what kinds of attacks is this actually useful against?
Look I'm fine punishing Google too, but it has to happen either after Apple or at the same time.

Apple literally has banned competitors. Google at least allows them, even if they make every effort to keep them out, it's still possible to install them without hacking your phone (which hasn't really been possible on iPhone for years).

I just hate that they're grouped together as if it's equivalent.
The silence of googlers when articles like this come up is funny. They jump in like a rabbit, about every google post.
Showing off all their google stuff.
When things like this come up they pretend they’re busy coding (something something api to help their ad company).
We as devs made them mega corps, seriously.
Even the worst privacy nightmare inducing API, was coded by someone.
Money sure drives everything, people say decentralisation will take care of everything. But Web is decentralised. But somehow we as devs helped few companies to make it almost centralised. The next big tech which tries hard(web3, ipfs) will eventually become centralised again. Companies pretending to be humble, will come in to increase ease of use pull the blanket and repeat.

Edit: I understand during the legal case, employees can have life changing implications for commenting on it.
Well the cases can end up dragging for years.
So for all those years, are we just going to keep silent?
I mean if our moral compass is controlled by how corporate thinks of it, I guess we are not free after all.
The next big decentralised thing is a compromised dream already.

Also if you want to really make an opinion, for those who feel like voicing but cant, make an alt account. Every voice matters.
Run OCaml in the Browser by WebAssembly
I mean, it is actually comprehensible but you know, California tech workers live in a monopoly money bubble and they think they know something about how the world works. Also they think that their own "culture" and leftist values are relevant to everywhere in the world even if they cant even point places on a map.

I will get banned if i talk more.
Show HN: Programmable tooltip on Mac. Works with every app. For programmers
Hypothetical situation:

I have a bunch of code in a repository or set of repositories. I got confused and thought this file was one we created/had a license to reuse rather than a piece of third-party code, and thus copied it into a different project.
It's commonly reported that people are confused by = for assignment in programs, but one reason I tended towards programming and not math in school was that I had a hard time with the timeless nature of mathematical equality.

I found it intuitive that abstract things should happen in some order, whereas it was hard to imagine everything in a complex equation existing at once. How can anything be true if there's no time for it to become true? Etc.

This might be related to my being oriented more towards verbal processing and narratives.
Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion
This is just subjective, but I use it to read many books and enjoy it. I can scribble / highlight / notetake very easily and find the whole experience quite convenient.

Where did you hear that?
In the 80s (at least the late 80s) you could get 13” TVs at a thrift store or garage sale fairly cheaply. Probably B&W though.
Mustard on YouTube has many interesting videos on obscure aircraft, including the ekranoplan: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1ZBQ-F-yktYD4m5AzM6pww/vid...
Maybe something like https://www.zoho.com/blog/notebook/introducing-notebook-app.... in design…
What's the worst thing a manager can hear from their engineers?
They can, but neural architectures range in granularity from basic autoencoders with softmax which can be equivalent to a hash function, to convolutional networks which explicitly encode fine detail. Neural networks are a great tool that when used well can operate with explicit functions like phash- they don't have to be a black box mystery. Pick the right architecture and tolerance and you might eliminate a lot of development, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
Schema on read means not that schema shouldn't be written. Write the schema, keep it safe, but decouple the schema from the data.. that's it.
Property rights in the US are particularly funny. You don’t own as much as you think you do. The land deed you have is a 2D plot of land. There are also mineral rights, air rights, and raparian rights. That last one is the rights to collect water in your land. Most likely there is a water management authority who owns the rain water in your property. Unless your deed specifically states you own mineral rights a mining company can dig or drill right under your land.
A cafe I used to frequent became a meth-dealers' hub of operations.

One exceptional day he seemed to be coordinating receipt of some large shipment, and he started freaking out about some truck driver not being where he was supposed to be who apparently had a tail to monitor his whereabouts.

Over the phone with the tail, quite loudly despite being on public display, he instructed the tail to "deploy the kite". Once deployed, he monitored a video+audio feed on his laptop from what must have been a kite surveillance drone. From the feed he seemed to discover the driver was on the phone arguing with his wife, and apparently this was the reason for pulling over.

Based on this experience I'm under the impression gangs are definitely already using drones. You probably don't hear much about it, because they're being successful.
There is no such thing as "Daily Fasting", it called Time Delayed Eating not Fasting. Have you lost 100 lbs, if not you are not qualified to comment on what works and what doesn't. You should refrain from all future discussions on this matter.
Nabokov's solution to this dilemma, reread. The only good reader is, as he said, a re-reader. If we're honest nobody can actually remember more than a dozen books, and if you pick the right ones there's more to learn in any of them than you can learn in years.

It's similar to the sentiment that the only way to understand a poem is to be able to recite it from memory, or the fact that some pianists play nothing else but Bach and yet reach mastery. Everything's already in there, or most of it anyway.

Requires a different mentality, one that treats reading or perception and deep study as the thing to care about, not 'absorbing information' or 'knowledge'.

Umberto Eco once pointed out that the size of the unknown, the books one has not read are magnitudes larger than the books one has read, so to treat knowledge as some sort of priced possession to climb in the pecking order is meaningless, what matters is being adequate in understanding the few things one actually has the time to study.
Same here, haven't ran into any problems with the loose typing. I personally love sqlite's dead simple type system though, and its date handling compared to mysql & postgres - a lot of power in a few simple primitives - would hate to see it add a million new types.
It's time to split the Famgopolies. Apple and Google shouldn't be in so many different businesses, killing everything in their wake.

Why the hell does Apple have a film studio? Why does Google have a game studio and cloud? If they keep going, they'll be the MGM and Whole Foods too. (Oh, wait!)

Famgopolies also shouldn't be allowed to dictate their payments stacks, software distribution systems, app approval processes, browsers, or monitoring. Especially not if they're going after every single possible market, snuffing out all of the oxygen in the ecosystem.

If a famgopoly does over 100 things, it shouldn't be allowed to keep growing like the blob.

I really don't want my startup to be a gazelle at the savannah, waiting for the lions to bite at the jugular because they like my idea and market. If I put so much on the line to innovate, only to have these titans duplicate and crush me, what's the point?

I never thought I'd ever cheer for patent suits given all of the trolls, but I was genuinely happy that Sonos won over Google recently. We need more of that.

Edit: incoming famgopoly downvote brigade.
Your code could also just be simpler and not include bug-prone ways of writing.

For each browser you add support for, x more browsers and access limitations you've never even heard of also become supported.
Here is the definition that the government gives.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

The cutoff is as follows "Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors"

If you want statements from a judge, regarding the 50 percent specifically, you can look up the following court cases and read from the primary source.

"See Hayden Publ'g Co., Inc. v. Cox Broad. Corp., 730 F.2d 64, 69 n.7 (2d Cir. 1984) ("[A] party may have monopoly power in a particular market, even though its market share is less than 50%."); Broadway Delivery Corp. v. UPS, 651 F.2d 122, 129 (2d Cir. 1981) ("[W]hen the evidence presents a fair jury issue of monopoly power, the jury should not be told that it must find monopoly power lacking below a specified share."); Yoder Bros., Inc. v. Cal.-Fla. Plant Corp., 537 F.2d, 1347, 1367 n.19 (5th Cir. 1976) (rejecting "a rigid rule requiring 50% of the market for a monopolization offense without regard to any other factors")."

But yes, typically, if a company has less than 50% of a market, anti-trust law does not apply. But the word "typically" does not mean "always". (And Apple has 54% of the US market)

And whether it applies, would defend on "other factors", as according to the quote I linked, and there is a good argument, IMO, that a duopoly would be a reasonable "other factor".
I thought (more relevantly) there were also laws about shooting without a backdrop to catch stray bullets, since this sounds like a densely populated area, also perhaps shooting towards people: bullets that go up, come down again somewhere else at nearly the same speed.
"There's no line of sight...it must be satellite controlled."

Oh FFS. There's a lot of real estate on the ground where an operator could have been sitting and flying the thing with a high-powered FPV rig. FPV systems don't require satellites, and you can put a basic one together for less than $1000.
This sounds great, although I haven't tried it myself. I have a few domains where I want/need wildcard certs and even though my registrar has API access, it's basically a god mode token that can do anything my logged in account can.

So my only choices are, take the risk and save that API token on my server, or just manually run a script that renews the certs on my own computer every three months.

If this works, we can create a new account on the registrar with just the one (not so important) domain, and create an API token for only that account.

However, it still doesn't seem like a perfect solution to me. For example, if that API token does get leaked, someone else could still create a certificate for your domain. But I guess that's still a lot better than using your token to transfer the domain to another person.

It would be great if registrars provided more fine grained control over the access an API token is granted.
But in practice the people are getting more complacent -- perhaps more individualistic, or more overburdened with livelihood concerns, and there's a massive clout of PR to dissuade anyone from thinking that war is, actually, a bad thing.

I'm thinking of "thank you for your service", and the general sentiment of sympathy for veterans. Surely they're not imperialistic red shirts fighting for an evil king supported by a bunch of robber barons, nor are they mercenaries fighting a runaway proxy war, are they?

Though they do get paid to go overseas and murder foreign nationals, while the local branches of the government are putting the screws on us with more militarized policing, more surveillance, and less liberties, since there's an ever-growing world-wide network of anti-American sentiment, and the terrorists may be hiding in that house in the cul-de-sac.

Not to mention a generally declining education system, coupled with rising groupthink, PC, and patriotism. With all these factors in effect, assisted by a ton of PR, joining the army to go kill for the industrialists isn't socially unacceptable at all -- it's a career choice, and there's no critical thinking available to either the aspiring soldier or their social circle to indicate any other possibilities.

One would wonder how we burned through all that pro-American goodwill, if there was really anything to wonder about the whole deal.
What IDE features are missing from VSCode?
Ah. Thanks, I'll read the article again.
No it wasn’t. Android is a consumer friendly replacement Linux wasn’t
I'm surprised no one has been assassinated by a drone. Train a computer vision model for the target, attach a gun, and let it fly around until the person is found.
I'm not a Googler and I fail to see the issue here. I personally find no issue with this.
By pales they mean the tall spikes (impalers). The spikes visually appear to tilt as you move left/right, seemingly revealing different texture underneath during the transition. Whereas the standard setting version is static, fixed texture, no tilt, no visual shift in the texture beneath/behind the impaler spikes.
No, and no. TV captions are not typically called transcripts, but they are in fact transcripts. They are not the script, because the director changes things and the actors ad lib. In fact, things get pretty dissonant when they try using the script as captions. Captions transcribe — copy language into a different form — the spoken dialogue into the written word.
If you only know python...
I was there when the DC-8 went supersonic
Nice to see this. Curious what cases people have encountered where sqlite's loose typing has proved really useful or simplified a design?

I always knew about it but basically never used it, just treated tables as though they were strongly typed.