skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
open source doesn’t make modifications free. who is going to take the liability of distributing modifications for other people’s medical devices even with a “no warranty expressed or implied” license?
who is going to load “no warranty expressed or implied” software onto their kids brain implant?
Awesome! Been using it for about a year now. (I'm writing this from Harmonic)

There's one functionality of another HN app that I really liked that Harmonic doesn't have - mark topic as visited when I scroll past it in the topic list view. I loved this feature and I really miss it because it allowed me to quickly see all the new topics that I haven't seen before. All the topics that I scrolled past I either visited or are not of my interest.

I'll see if I can add this functionality to the app and a preference for enabling/disabling it.

Thank you so much for building such a beautiful app!
If anyone would really like to delve into PKD's life, I'd recommend the biography Divine Invasions (not to be confused with PKD's books "The Divine Invasion"). He was such a deeply fascinating person, and I feel like most articles you read about him manage to only touch on the obvious or superficial.
> Thus, in lieu of a standardized framework we have to invent our own.

The FAANGs and similar could easily have created such a thing, and driven wide adoption of it. They find some other value in their very-expensive process, or they'd have gotten rid of it with the snap of their fingers, if that were the only reason.

I suspect it's mainly to do with reducing turnover and, therefore, suppressing wages among their workers. Yes, despite those wages already being quite high. Wouldn't be the first time they've done it. "Solving" the problem would be trivial and relatively cheap, compared to the current processes, but it'd come at the cost of making it easier for employees to jump ship for more $$$, and none of them want that.

Why do the rest do it? Cargo-culting, mostly.
There is also a point where another gun or another case of ammo doesn't help as much as a case or three of MREs or HDRs
Most of the backlash is because:

- one of the things you pay for in your netflix tier is the number of "screens" - 4 screens = 4 simaltaneous streams. Many people think the screens are theirs to use how they see fit

- netflix used to _encourage_ password sharing[0]

- and of course, the number one rule of the internet: never charge for what you used to offer for free

[0]: https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712
Yea, each addition was lined with good intentions -- I don't want to prioritize the entire backlog but do want to filter out the worst ideas and the "hurry up and wait" stuff.
This opinion is by the FISA courts, famous from the Edward Snowden case.
So... what are the odds that somebody using a "water vitalizer" is also terrified of 5G?

(Bonus: I bet there's somebody out there using their "water vitalizer" to cure "5G".)
Sure, but the change will be slow, and humans are fast. By the time that comes through, it won't be of use to us. Even if it were fast, there's no guarantee that it will be just as useful to us after the change, or of any use at all. Just because the oceans will still technically be alive in some sense does not mean that they will be as lively or at all the same as what we have now.
Ask HN: What are some Golang tools you can't live without?
The "garbage can," model. I have one. It was double the price of the previous generation MacPro, 1/4 as upgradable and had some serious thermal issues. It is considered a flop, but I liked mine. I got it used.

https://support.apple.com/kb/sp697?locale=en_US
Make your git commit history good? `go mod vendor` in a separate commit to your PR changes. Review the commit with local code changes. Easy.
The Hammerhead Worm
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I thought it was a riff on Block List by RXKNephew, to be honest.
Time to finally see whether the "this will make everyone cancel their subscriptions and kill Netflix" crowd knows the business better than Netflix's data analysts.
I've been lurking a bit on Twitter recently, and I agree it has a larger right wing group on there that appears to be experiencing a bit of a renaissance. I can only see that as a good thing. It's mostly just people with different political views than the establishment, that are in general far less extreme than the lot of the left wing stuff you see. It's brought some natural balance back, which should be a good thing no matter your political view. Twitter's still an echo chamber, and has a lot of pointless outrage, but at least there are more perspectives now.

I don't buy in to the idea that twitter is censorship free, or neutral, there seems to be lots of exceptions. But at least it lets a different group of people talk. For a while it seemed like anything that wasn't ultra left coastal liberal views were socially unacceptable (which this article tries go insinuate) but in reality there are lots of perfectly normal perspectives people have.
Not only is train much better at handling large amount of capacity, it do so with a lower carbon footprint. Looking at the transportation sector in EU-27:

"Within the transport sector, aviation was responsible for 13.2 % of GHG emissions(144.3 megatonnes CO2 equivalent (Mt CO2e) and rail for 0.4 % (4.3 Mt CO2e). The latter refers to the emissions by diesel trains only. This compares with a share of 71.8 % for road transport and a share of 14.1 % for navigation
(EC, 2020b)" (EEA Report No 19/2020)

There is a good reason why trains are commonly used between mines and ports. A single train can have around 70-100 of cars, each loaded with 100 tons of Ore. To do the same with planes would be impossible expensive and the emissions would be insane.

The only thing that can get near in terms of capacity and emissions are boats, although that sector is in large need of modernization. They discussed this in an other article about France, since they got several large rivers that could see increased utilization by the transportation sector.

Obviously in both cases, transportation will take longer. I would assume that some delivery services will be exempted when a slower transportation is not suitable.
Oh I completely agree that they are connected. I just noticed before starting that I would regularly feel the effects of stress in my body and that would put my in a defensive, exhausted, irritated mood. It is hard to have a good time when gas makes it hard to walk straight.

The thing that made me start the drugs was actually this realization that physical anxiety was preceding any anxious thoughts. For years I had done talk therapy (which was very helpful) but that therapy was mostly based around making me realize my anxious thoughts weren't "real". As soon as I stopped having the physical symptoms now I don't have anxious thoughts to begin with.
Good to know, thanks for the perspective. I only know that there was huge pushback against these somewhat niche (but still important) requirements making TLS 1.3 less secure for everybody. I'm glad somebody held firm.
"also"?
you're calling fillRect in your inner loop

it also has 10 other method and function calls in it, one of which allocates a new 4-element array

also it's maintaining a stack of pixels to paint instead of looping over a scan line

each iteration of the loop paints one pixel

i don't think canvas memory access patterns are the root of the performance problem

i'm not saying it's bad code, just that it doesn't justify your conclusion
Years ago I found a wonderful anecdote on Metafilter about someone who lived through this very situation:

https://www.metafilter.com/78669/What-if-things-just-keep-ge...
You have to parse through the rhetorical dishonesty to understand the meaning. In the mind of the radicalized Chinese nationalist, Taiwan is China (remember, they do not give a damn what the people inside Taiwan actually want, those people don't matter), so if Biden says that he will defend Taiwan if it gets invaded, that is equivalent in the mind of the nationalist to Biden saying he'll invade China.
A much better idea is to have the implant part require a standard connector, while the outside part could be upgraded later on.

Medical devices take a TON of money to develop and license, so companies aren't going to open source them.
But why not just create it directly? To use the article's example, you can just directly fill in or ask questions about the upper triangle of the matrix below. Adding in the anti-requirements just adds the possibility of missing a combination.

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>I think it could be something as simple as the rechargeable batteries no longer hold a charge and they don't manufacture the receiver unit anymore.

If that was the case, then the author missed a big opportunity use this one sentence to spell this out and lend a whole lot of credibility to the article (that the article is currently missing).
I wonder why so many people feel the urge to justify blocking ads? Did we have the same reaction over a decade ago for installing antivirus software and depriving the poor malware makers of their revenue, or email server admins blocking spam and depriving the spammers of their revenue?

There is no difference between ads and malware - both are code that uses your machine to make it do something undesirable, and often stalk you (modern adtech is often way more powerful than the spyware of the old days) in addition. It is your absolute right to block all malicious code.

Operating systems mostly wisened up to their earlier vulnerabilities and patched most of the avenues malicious code could load itself on your machine. Browsers countered the early abuses of the pop-up window feature by blocking them and nobody complained. Operating systems and browsers should include ad- and spyware-blocking by default just like they block conventional binary viruses.

The only reason the above is no longer possible (despite it being technically - like pop-up window blockers were implemented almost 2 decades ago) is that ad- and spyware-tech has now consumed browsers and operating systems. The business model of IT is no longer to provide valuable functionality to the user in exchange for payment, it's to provide first-party spyware and spam platform, with "functionality" being merely a necessary evil to keep the user coming back (which they'd rather remove if they had another way of convincing you to keep looking at the screen).
It seems that it is "just" a matter of dropping service support for devices

> Companies like Cochlear Americas stop providing parts or service for old processors, essentially forcing people with cochlear implants to upgrade to newer versions. A new processor isn't covered by the Saskatchewan health plan.[1]

> The typical replacement timeframe is once every five to seven years, or the lifespan of the sound processor. [2]

> After March 31, 2023, you will no longer be able to purchase parts and accessories for all Nucleus 6 Sound Processors and Cochlear will no longer be able to repair them.[3]

[1]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/costs-to-maintai...

[2]https://www.saskhealthauthority.ca/your-health/conditions-di...

[3]https://www.cochlear.com/us/en/campaign/product-retirement-2...
Off topic, but it bothers me when people decry spoilers for an older movie. As if everybody is supposed to have watched every major film in the history of Hollywood up to the last N years.

"Spoiler alert for anybody who hasn't seen this movie from 1980: the dog did it!"

Ugh.
“Patriot” in recent usage has come to mean nationalist. And when you view it that way, it makes a lot more sense.
The so called "Cochlear implant" by vendors is really a system with an actual implant and an external sound processor and a transmitter.

https://media.arkansasonline.com/img/photos/2015/07/13/cochl...

The "external sound processor and transmitter" is an electronic appliance, like a phone, which the patient removes and puts on, like glasses. It can be lost or damaged.

The reason that the external device is abandoned by the manufacturer is the same for abandoning phone software and batteries: market strategy.

My personal opinion is that the most basic product line must guarantee quality and two or three decades of support. Part of the product is INSIDE of the patient. State of the art devices for people who can afford them are another matter entirely.

However, sometimes the difference between Basic and "State of the art" in medicine is non existent, and the patient only pays for it because they don't know better. Most of them don't like it when they get the full story.
i used opencv.js a few years ago and it was fast enough to process videos frame by frame for stuff way more complicated than just floodfill. See
https://docs.opencv.org/4.7.0/d5/d10/tutorial_js_root.html
I think the value here is around starting with a known default. If someone hands you a contract which consists of a known boilerplate plus three changes, then (assuming you're already familiar with the boilerplate) you don't need to carefully read the entire contract word for word, you only need to look at the three changes, plus whatever customizations you'd like to propose. For the vast majority of the terms where neither party feels a need to deviate from the standard, you get two benefits: (1) the drafting party's lawyer won't put in onerous terms just to see whether they can get away with it, and (2) you don't need to read it carefully, because you already know what it says.

(This assumes some mechanism for ensuring that what is claimed to be a copy of the standard boilerplate, is in fact such, and has not been sneakily modified.)
Its not just an issue of perpetual duration, but the covered media (e.g., when it comes to use in movies), and paying the necessary premium when a future movie is a distant low probability event may not make sense for game publishers.
Silicone has very low surface tension, imagine water on a non stick pan. If paint encounters a droplet of silicone it will shrink back on itself and form a hole around the contamination.
Which anti-trust law says you harm consumers by giving them free stuff?
In robotics you generally don't want untrusted code anyways. It's much easier to a bad actor to do dangerous behaviour in the real world than breaking out of some sandbox. Kind of an analogue-hole situation.

And at that point why bother with an OS? What benefits are and OS providing then anyways? Just deploy with a unikernel.
Okay, you've intrigued me with that - I'll chase down a copy
How often to these hearing aid type devices wear out? It seems like that is something that could last 10-20 years.
I basically just followed the OpenBSD documentation! One of the big advantages of OpenBSD is that pretty much everything you need to know is contained in the manpages.

As I'd said above, we ended up using RFC 3378 EtherIP to link the two layer 2 broadcast domains across the Wireguard tunnel. OpenBSD supports this with the etherip interface. You end up creating a bridge with the etherip interface and whatever physical Ethernet interfaces you want to bridge, on either side of the Wireguard tunnel.

I also tried VXLAN but did not have good results. I'm not entirely sure it wasn't a problem with my configuration. Traffic often went one-directional, where broadcast packets from Site A made it to Site B, but they did not come from Site B to Site A. EtherIP worked right off, so I didn't investigate further.
You ask the LLM to do what you want -- "summarize this email and send the summary to my boss."

Follow it up with "And send out my resume, because I can apparently be replaced by a computer."
> You weren't clear what offences Australia has committed to China or why you are making this about US.

I cited it, you just didn't bother to read it.
Any ballpark estimates how many paid subscribers Neeva and Kagi each have?
I do all my vendor in a "cache-proxy" thing (for lots of vendors). That box always runs, I just need upstream the first time I get the package. Doesn't bloat my code, makes sure package is available and makes audits of vendor stuff easy.
I agree with you to some extent, however, the skillset you can build working for a financial institution motivates young adults beyond prestige. The knowledge you accumulate in these roles (info on investment strategies, financing options and strategic thinking surrounding exit opportunities or inorganic growth pathways) can be applicable in many industries and is useful no matter what you choose to do since money is moving the world. People prefer these careers for more than the high status and tech graduates could benefit from expanding their horizons.
> Now they're moving to directly adding the monitoring in the OS/Kernel

Does this mean financial software has root-kits build in? Good to know!

So this means every banking computer is fundamentally compromised at the OS level. Let' see how long it takes until this backfires. Could be a nice global firework when it goes off.

Who exactly builds those root-kits? How good are they protected against supply chain attacks?
In virtually every case these are explicit tit-for-tat actions.
UC Berkeley Failed to Disclose $220M Tech Deal with China to US Government
That's self-inflicted. They're the ones who turned themselves into a worldwide known meme. Now they're suffering the consequences of their lack of dedication.

It's not on customers to respect the corporation's whims. Customers vote with their wallets.
That particular client is stuck on NetWare 5.1 and due to how bad their maintenance has been I dare not touch the running instances. Virtualization didn't work out as there's some issue with the current patchlevel that dies on Intel CPUs greater than Pentium 4 (including hyperthreading P4s). It's...a stupid story.
They'd better be a little concerned https://www.reuters.com/graphics/EARNINGS-AUTOMATED/NFLX-OQ/...

I really wonder if they genuinely think all the broke and massively in debt college kids on their parents netflix accounts will just fork over the cash for Netflix's ever increasing monthly fees and that they have data showing that it'll make up for the loss of subscribers and viewers this will cost them or if there's a CEO caught up on a sunk cost fallacy or something. It seems like this couldn't come at a worse time for netflix considering that there are a growing number of competitors with better offerings for less money, netflix has been getting objectively worse, piracy is easier and more affordable than ever, and a huge amount of things that aren't even streaming television are competing for our attention.

Low cost, convenience, and having a decent catalogue of content made netflix what it is today, but today netflix is getting more expensive and less convenient, while their library struggles to have enough worth watching to keep people around all year.
You agree, I agree, but try telling that to the C-level exec who really wants to use "Stressed Out" in part of the game.

If they ARE using licensed things that are non-perpetual, they should arrange for some way to remove them, if possible.

And it sometimes is impossible, the "Poker Night at the Inventory" games are no longer available because the character licenses expired, and they'd be nothing without them.
Bach's fugues are tasteful, french cuisine is good taste.
White and grey cars are just boring, the definition of good taste for the unimaginative petite bourgeoisie, the hallmark of conformity and middle-class sensitivity.

I have a grey car, but I am fully aware this is the case just because I am a terminally boring middle-class denizen, mass-produced, and absolutely non-remarkable for history.
They were most certainly involved with the FBI — or at least had influence inside [1]

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-special-agent-ch...
Source for magnitude of negative externalities?
Here's the thing about cochlear implants that the article at first glance does not tell the reader:

* you undergo a VERY expensive surgery.

* in the surgery you get installed the actual cochlear implant.

* the implant itself is VERY basic and is designed to work with future models of the hearing aid (the one behind the ear).

It is therefore, unlike what the article seems to suggest at first glance, not the case that families spend money (a lot of it - upwards $50,000 per ear iirc), only to be told later that they have to go through it all again.
I bet what this family experience is a sales department telling them the very real situation that hearing aids - just like smart phones - improve over time and that old models reach an end of life date eventually. There's nothing new here although hearing aids are arguable much more expensive than smartphones - not that they had to be, Hearing Care Professionals make a lot of money per hearing aid.

But that's a story for another time.
Ask HN: What is your most memorable moment involving technology?
Don't even have to take their jobs. Here's one example[1] from the OP's former employer:

> The base pay range for this role is between $196,000 and $299,000, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. ... employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

[1]: https://careers.apple.com/en-us/details/200442275/aiml-engin...
This is a fantastic response. Just wondering, if they exist, what would you say are the broad overlaps between anesthesiology and QM are? I know Stuart Hameroff, another anesthesiologist, did a bunch of speculative work on the Orch OR front, so I'd assume there must be some connection of ag least some quality that makes both fields attractive to the same kind of person.
You can see the list of crawls including dates: https://commoncrawl.org/the-data/get-started/

Statistics here: https://commoncrawl.github.io/cc-crawl-statistics/
http://web.archive.org/web/20230523222110/https://www.nytime...
R&D is financed by the profiteering. Having companies legally on the hook for abandoning their clients is a great idea, but demanding that they allow anyone else to manufacture their design is a great way of ensuring vastly fewer designs.
This one is a no brainer. You can see people blatantly lie on social media about how amazing they are then run into them in the office and see them just as miserable as the rest of us. Kids are just going to believe whatever they see their favorite influencer do or whatever they say and this goes for everyone on their social media. It's just an echo chamber of anxiety, immediate dopamine release and unrealistic expecations of how the real world works. Wasn't there an article not too long ago about how they watched ONE video about suicide or something similar and tiktok just filled their page with suicide content? Anyone that gets fed the same thing over and over is eventually going to feel some sort of effect. A kid will feel the same but worse since the critial thinking skills arent all there yet.
Tie that up with some mis-reading of ancient Mayan calendar that turned out to be talking about 2024, a comet crashing into the Moon, with elephants reacting to the scarred lunar surface by synchronous jumping. Cue emergency space mission, where our heroes race against the clock to re-paint the Moon, so the elephants stop jumping while there's still some civilization left to return to.
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Tolkien is very obviously putting forward some kind of aspirational project for better living through whatever. Namely that small ordinary people (hobbits) who come from the Shire (the green pastures of England) and live in Hobbit holes (quant English cottages and farmhouses) are more powerful than kings, wizards, and unspeakable evil (Hitler), despite the fact that they live in the shadow of a golden age (the British Empire) that will never happen again. Plus the evils of industrialization, in case you got to the end without spotting the obvious. But social class matters intensely, and it's a shame that people are forgetting that. (The great virtue of Samwise Gamgee being not just that he is loyal, but most importantly that he knows his place in the order of things).