skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last time I owned a car was 1997. By that time, I had 9 years' experience driving and I'd racked up a significant mileage as well. My first car was a Corolla where I could barely get to the horn, because it was a 2-inch button on the wheel. I can't remember exactly the configuration of the Integra's horn, but when I had that final, fateful accident, I made a really valiant attempt to honk at my assailant just before I cracked up, and completely failed to get any sound out of it. That was how infrequently I honked, and how inexperienced I was at activating that part of the car's controls!
Uses lobster programming language apparently.
Depends heavily on your time scale.
Yeah. Of course, nowadays I believe you could replace <frameset> almost entirely with iframes and CSS layout. But it does occur to me that there was exactly one feature of frameset which you maybe can't replicate: the ability of the user to resize frames with the mouse without relying on JavaScript.

...Although, come to think of it, the CSS `resize:` property exists now, and it seems it can be used to make arbitrary elements resizeable. Might actually work for it, though the UI might differ a bit.
Published in the "Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine", "The leading peer-reviewed journal providing scientific research for the evaluation and integration of complementary medicine into mainstream medical practice."

"Integrative and Complementary Medicine" is a fancy way of saying quackery.

Also, the video you linked to is on a channel run by a person describing himself as "a certified functional medicine practitioner & naturopathic nutritional therapist [..]. He enjoys making videos on a wide variety of health-related topics ranging from nutritional biochemistry to circadian biology, animal-based nutrition, and the dangers of electromagnetic radiation."

No further questions, your honor.
I share their sentiment, especially because they are trying to explain the topic for the novice buyer - but I think it oversimplifies the issue and the discussion/benefit of UVGI.

UVGI does not create Ozone, some companies even sell certified lamps that will definitively not go into the UV spectrum that can cause Ozone.

This is true for UV-C and in the postings mention of new far-UVC LEDs.

https://www.uvresources.com/the-ultraviolet-germicidal-irrad...

For personal homes UVGI is most likely not needed, unless immunocompromised I'd guess. For hospitals, pharmacies, schools, airplanes and other high risk institutions I would guess that this could prevent plenty of deaths.

Edit: Their criticism is about the high-voltage needed for Mercury-vapor UV-C lamps. This can leak ozone, also if the glass is not filtering the 185nm wavelength properly that will contribute even further. The article talks about LEDs which will definitively not leak into this range. Also as far as I know the specific wavelength of pressure-lamps is not input-frequency defined as implied by the interviewed guy - not exactly sure what he's referring to. My takeout would be only buy mercury-pressure lamps from trusted sources with proper certifications in place.
I think M-C-f and M-C-b do that.
Material found in smartphone screens can be harnessed to map magnetic fields
I don't mind the complaint about CMA being undemocratic because it's a council of unelected bureaucrats, it's just trash-talk from someone that didn't get what they wanted; to be expected.

IMO the reason why this decision is really dumb is because the reason given was cloud gaming.

I think that people are missing this.

This isn't a market. Almost nobody plays on cloud gaming platforms, like Stadia which recently closed down, or similar.

The idea of blocking a deal because maybe this technology will become much more popular one day and maybe Microsoft will be the success is IMO dumb. It's just a dumb argument.

Concerns about CoD and PlayStation at least make sense, but not given here.
> And to finance it, everyone should serve a year of their life for public services like that.

To people who argue like this, I often argued in the past that if I were to contribute on an open source project for one year instead, this would do a lot more good for the public welfare.
>It will only get higher if we try to intentionally decrease worker productivity by forcing them to 'serve a year of their life for public services'.

That's blatantly false. It works in Austria quite well. The healthcare and social service systems would not be able to function without the mandatory and voluntary unpaid 9 months work of the 17 - 19 year olds before they hit off for university.

What worker productivity do you think society is loosing out on here? We're talking about 17-19 year olds, not experienced workers who need to be pulled away from their well paying jobs.

The labor they provide and experience they earn in the social system is far more valuable to society than the taxes they would pay doing some minimum wage part time job waiting tables in a restaurant or flipping burgers at McDs instead.
The idea that you can outspend someone on lawyers and beat them in court is nonsense that only works on the scale of <$1 million. And, yes, of course the government can make banks crack down on people who are breaking the law, but I'm talking about people who aren't.
>This is likely on the same level as horse dewormer for COVID

You mean something that's demonstrated to have a statistically significant protective effect in a majority of studies but was attacked mercilessly by the pharma industry and the media they fund because they can't profit from a generic drug like that? https://c19ivm.org/meta.html
The UK elects a parliament, and parliament appoints a government. So there's an extra layer.
I'm more in the former camp, and I would agree that if the computer passed this theoretical test, it could be considered thinking. We would also need to define what it means to think, since it's an ambiguous term; thinking could mean that you can explain your reasoning behind giving an answer (something ChatGPT can generally do), thinking could mean producing something novel based on your experiences/"training data" (something ChatGPT can't do), or it could mean something else, and I think if we define what it means to think, then we could probably create a test that can be used to consider something functionally thinking. Of course, this is getting into the realm of philosophy, and what does it mean to think, so there's not a simple answer here, but I'd generally say that thinking implies a degree of novel concept generation, which is why I wouldn't consider ChatGPT to think.

I could also understand an argument saying that it's impossible for a computer to think, but I don't think I'd agree with it.
What network are you with? This doesn't match my experience -- I've traveled around 35,000km on trains inside Germany in the last few years, and apart from one 5 minute section just outside of Berlin when going SE dresden, I've pretty much always had a full signal.

YMMV I guess. But I just wanted to say that I don't think this is completely accurate.
I don't know If I should take that as a compliment
The problem the OP pointed out is a valid one. Alpha-synuclein is a biomarker for many neurological diseases

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24262191/

So you might say someone has a marker for Parkinson's and they might get another neurological disorder.

They tried these treatments in Alzheimer's and it failed. Why? because it is just another symptom and not the fundamental cause of the disease.

It is a good biomarker for poor health, but it is not a good biomarker for any specific disorder.
YES this is absolutely the answer. We can now do very cool and worthwhile things that simply were out of reach before.
What Would You Pay For?
I noticed that one of the most popular recurring posts on HN are the ones where people showcase their small or big business successes.

As most of these businesses or side projects are done by IT people for IT people, I’m curious to know if there is any IT service or API which doesn’t exist yet that you will willingly pay for.
People usually distinguish between local and long-distance travel, nobody is arguing that bullet trains should be free and planes fall into the same category.

The fact that long-distance highways tend to be free speaks more to politics than logic, and there are a few notable exceptions (eg Japan) where all expressways are tolled.
Show HN: Prompta – A ChatGPT UI that can sync chat history
Today we should assume that it's harmless to get the placebo.

Only if a trial shows extraordinary consistent benefit without drawbacks would they stop it because the placebo group is harmed for lack of access to the treatment.
Probably not, since they don't watch a lot of movies and English isn't their mother tongue.
Does "cloud gaming" encompass things like Xbox Game Pass though? Subscription model with downloadable access to all games definitely feels cloudy to me.
Your prejudice shouldn't be my problem.
Everything goes according to this book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism,_the_Highest_Sta...
Anyone has any idea of the bandwidth you can achieve with that ? Could I wrap this in a TLS socket and stream a video to friends nearby ?
> Is it possible to get anywhere near this much with dietary thiamine?

High thiamine food stuffs have a few milligram at most so it would take some effort. However, many B1 vitamin tablets have 100mg-300mg, although I wonder how well that is absorbed compared with an intramuscular shot - it would seem that you could consume the equivalent of 200mg a week.
Functional versus imperative programming is a bit like socialism versus liberalism; the best solution is probably a combination of both.
> But is unfortunate that they used literally the name of the most famous extension for WebAssembly in VSCode (vscode-wasm), which has been around already for a few years, as it might confuse people on what is what:

At this point, where Microsoft frequently ends up naming something identically to something else already existing (and sometimes quite popular) I'm done believing it's "unfortunate" and not on purpose. Once or twice maybe it's some unfortunate accident, but at this frequency?
> Aren't they quite weird again nowadays?

Nah, I still see wired headphones all the time around Manhattan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_British_prorogation_contr...
Hinton responded on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/geoffreyhinton/status/165299357072121037...
In high school usually there is some kind of a social class pyramid built on how good you can play football(not in the U.S.).

The best one is the coolest and so on.

While people who don't play are constantly bullied.
The CMA has indeed done its job.

Microsoft is just throwing a tantrum over the CMA in the UK having a backbone to see for what Microsoft really is doing and this horizontal integration of existing multi-billion dollar franchises is bad for gamers. Even the UK Government isn't buying into Microsoft's bullshit of bringing title like Call of Duty to Nintendo Switch just to close the deal. [0]

Microsoft hasn't changed their anti-competitive behaviour. The methods are different but the strategy is the same, which they have gotten very clever over the decades.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/04/uk-government-says-th...
If you know for certain, then you might do things you otherwise wouldn't.

E.g decide to have children or not, plan a will. Live life to the max. Potentially get a head start on treatment if one were ultimately available, even if super experimental and maybe even not working in the end.

Honestly, there are many reasons to know beforehand and not a lot of reasons to not know.
I didn't downvote :); that is others, I guess.

Right, but the concentration isn't a bad thing just because it is concentrated. It might just be a reflection of the changing nature of the world (globalization, finance changes, etc).

I checked, and currently, there are 4,844 banks in the USA. There are also 4,759 credit unions, but I am not sure if that is also included in the bank numbers.
It's historically worth quite a bit.
How is it controversial? It many countries this a normal thing. Even in strongly capitalist UK a good few municipalities own their bus system.
> I had to wait more than two months to get an appointment to be able to formally leave the christian church to avoid paying church tax.

Learning something new every day. How does it work. When and how does one get signed up for this lovely tax
Did you realise that this article is the author's notes on someone's else's book? Have you read that book? Does either actually take the absolute positions you appear to be criticising here? I didn't get that sense from them personally - more that the book presents some ideas that come from the mindset of functional programming and can be useful elsewhere as well - but YMMV.
How?

They did perfectly. The bank failed to manage risk. And consumers fled.
The FDIC is not normally supported by public funds.

If it ran out of money, it's nearly certain the government would step in to cover the shortfall.
German speaking here. Keeping people busy with bullsh*t jobs just for the sake of keeping them busy is not a good investment, not financially nor for the sanity of the people themselves.

In fact, in Germany you can see that it leads to government paralysis everywhere. In contrast, they should free "Staatsbeamte" from those stupid jobs and encourage them to start thinking themselves instead of blindly executing top-down commands. No jobs lost, but talent attracted. This eventually leads to operational excellence. The current state of affairs is overly defensive and reactionary.
First, you can simply not use trash frameworks and get better results.

But more importantly, drawing pixels is just one part of a gui and focusing on that without considering the other parts hurts. I've been testing input devices on remote X lately: using programs on my desktop on an old laptop with a touchscreen and a drawing tablet and all kinds of other gadgets. It has different input methods than the client computer. They all just work remotely too, with full capability. Things like copy/paste and drag+drop just working between windows, regardless of where they are running, and integration with local window management is a huge benefit, you can forget these random programs actually run somewhere else. It feels like there's no barrier.
I really like my regular Kinesis Advantage 2 which does have F-keys although admittedly small ones. I don't use them too much. They are easy to reach which I like though.

I think having Ortho layout makes using the numpad on the Kinesis a lot better. The big ergo benefit to me is the thumb clusters and the fact I can remap keys like (),[],{},~ to be easier to press. I have setup the "delete" key on the thumb cluster to be a layer shift and moved symbols to easier to press fingers than ridiculous pinky extensions. The numpad is also easy to use since I just hit delete and then it's already under my right hand and I don't have to move it. Since it's Ortho it feels like a numpad. Previously I never really used the numpad because I didn't like moving my hand over but now most of my numbers are typed that way.

I don't think MS/Logitech boards go far enough even in the split department.
How does this stack up against apt install minimodem? That has been my go-to sound data transfer method. Is this faster aka more robust or just a reimplementation?
Speedcubing also? [1] it is a question, not a claim. I am seeing an increase of speedcubing play even in adults.

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/07/11/speedcub...
We Spoke to People Who Started Using ChatGPT as Their Therapist
Scientists Sequenced DNA of Nearly Every Mammal Form on Earth
It makes sense since K in UK is for kingdom.
Just to clarify things here... "his next platform" was under contract by Twitter to create Twitter 2.0. Jack Dorsey funded this new platform through Twitter itself, while he was still running Twitter.

So in a way, Dorsey is continuing doing what he believes is good for "Twitter", and he doesn't identify Elon's X as Twitter anymore.

Frankly after everything that happened, it feels justified.
I think windows can map to tabs and shortcuts to bookmarks, so a browser could disappear inside a window manager easily, the concept exists already but I think it could be explored better. If the window manager allows for tabs, programs would not have to implement it.
> we have a different understanding of what "hostile" means.

Indeed.
Public transit gets the workers to where they need to go to serve you at your Starbucks, your Target, your luxury hotels, you name it.

Public transit gets consumers to the mall and other shopping areas where they can circulate their hard-earned cash in a capitalist economic system.

Public transit gets individual cars off the road, increases safety of those roads, and makes everybody's transportation more efficient.
It's a separate thing to make it easier to police, because "theft" is a crime, but it's easy to claim that you were just "borrowing" the car. It might even be true! Teens borrow their parents' cars, race around in them, the parents don't want the kids to get into trouble (which is generally reasonable) and claim that they were allowed to take the car.

So the rule now is that you're not allowed to let someone drive your car who's not entitled to drive your car. If you consented to them taking it, you're in trouble (and they're still in trouble for driving without a license and insurance). If you didn't consent, they're in trouble for TWOC and for driving without a license and insurance.
no, so that they don't have a high probability of having a disease because I'd not be passing it on. How did you read anything else into that statement?
> remove the corruption and the unfair advantage some actors in the finance industry enjoy

only to put themselves in the very same seat, but without any actual regulatory oversight.
No

>The cloud allows UK gamers to avoid buying expensive gaming consoles and PCs and gives them much more flexibility and choice as to how they play.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/microsoft-activision-deal...

YET they next sentence

>Allowing Microsoft to take such a strong position in the cloud gaming market just as it begins to grow rapidly would risk undermining the innovation that is crucial to the development of these opportunities.

Which is really funny considering the closure of Google Stadia, so maybe it was a 4D chess move by Google after all
> If I'm reading this correctly, UK citizens elect a government, the government appoints a business secretary, and then the business secretary appoints the entire CMA? So that would be two layers of disconnect from the voter.

The business secretary would typically be an elected as a member of parliament (MP, equivalent to a congress person). The leader of the majority party in parliament will form a government, mostly appointing elected MPs to government roles. So the business secretary has been elected, but not as business secretary.

This is ignoring the absurdly anachronistic House of Lords, the upper chamber of parliament, who are mostly life appointments by various governments over the years (but also includes some hereditary peers, and an assortment of senior Church of England bishops). Lords can also be appointed to ministerial positions, although typically not the biggest jobs.
For myself, I choose not to address the question. I stand to gain nothing from it, so it seems pointless to pursue it.

However, what do you think is a productive line of discourse on this problem, that makes light and not heat?

It seems a quandry to me.
Even if there was WiFi available on the train, the mobile network outside large population centres is so terrible, you wouldn't be able to get much done. Train WiFi is not magical, it needs proper infrastructure all over the place.
Your 401k is presumably mostly invested in shares. Banks aren't allowed to structure their investments like that (it's considered too risky). In general they have limited options for investment which are generally bad in times of increasing interest rates with the remaining ones being bad during recessions, not to mention the impact of the current collapse in commercial real estate demand. As far as I can tell there's no way for the government and the Fed to pursue the policies they have been without blowing up the banking system as a consequence.
Isn't this bad for travellers who use maps to navigate ?
If possible, I recommend ventilation by creating a current by opening the front door and cycling every room (windos, balcony doors) of your apartment.

I do this every day regardless of the season. Works best during windy weather
> This is the fault of of one person: Jerome Powell.

The Fed chair is nominated by the president. The last president used his bully pulpit repeatedly to strongly criticize Powell for not lowering rates to zero like other countries. I suspect there was other behind the scenes influence taking place too. The current president and Congress basically doubled down on inflationary activity, helicoptering even more money to individuals and corporations. Powell was probably not operating independently as the Fed is supposed to.
Ask HN: Best practices against DDoS attacks in game servers
Hello HN, I’m hosting a custom game server for a game and i’m getting some DDOS attacks.

The game server requires me to use Windows and have an UDP port open, so currently my edge firewall is blocking all incoming traffic exempt for that UDP port.

I’m also using OVH as my provider, they seem to have UDP DDOS mitigation and a pretty good network.

My question is, what tools can be used to help manually mitigate a DDOS attack? Like using Wireshark or something to detect the attacker IPs and adding those to the edge firewall? Any tips on how to do this on wireshark? Any other software recommendations?

Thank you
Or that they shouldn’t exist.
The way you present the distinction is really clear, but in the physical sciences it’s very common to use the terms AI and ML interchangeably, and I think it’s partly because people in those fields are not quite sure of the distinction between the two terms
Did you actually read the report that the CMA released?

They are not basing the block on some "maybe" future, but on current reality.

> Microsoft already accounts for an estimated 60-70% of global cloud gaming services and has other important strengths in cloud gaming from owning Xbox, the leading PC operating system (Windows) and a global cloud computing infrastructure (Azure and Xbox Cloud Gaming).

Microsoft already has a majority of the market. CMA asked Microsoft to provide guarantees they wouldn't abuse their position if they also owned Activision/Blizzard, and whatever guarantees Microsoft provides weren't enough to convince CMA.

> Microsoft’s proposal contained a number of significant shortcomings connected with the growing and fast-moving nature of cloud gaming services:

> It did not sufficiently cover different cloud gaming service business models, including multigame subscription services.

> It was not sufficiently open to providers who might wish to offer versions of games on PC operating systems other than Windows.

> It would standardise the terms and conditions on which games are available, as opposed to them being determined by the dynamism and creativity of competition in the market, as would be expected in the absence of the merger.

Basically, Microsoft tried to weasel their way through the merger so they can prevent other actors from competing with them on a level playing field. Exactly the kind of shit CMA should block.

The conclusion:

> Accepting Microsoft’s remedy would inevitably require some degree of regulatory oversight by the CMA. By contrast, preventing the merger would effectively allow market forces to continue to operate and shape the development of cloud gaming without this regulatory intervention.

Paraphrased: "Either we have to keep close track of them if merger is accepted, or we can just let companies compete in the market"