skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still reading this recent bulletin article about tDCS - turning that journalist into a sharpshooter and after seeing this: "She said those people have this overactive angry cortex guy just sitting there. When you apply the electric field, it shuts him right up and those people find that their depressive symptoms are alleviated." definitely want to look further into consumer tDCS devices. Presently I've been trying to fix myself by jogging more and drinking less. https://thebulletin.org/2023/05/qa-how-darpa-hacked-a-scienc...
I have never understood how this would work in the real world. If my car automatically brakes, I would just get cutoff by other drivers constantly until my car comes to a complete stop in the roadway.
Science and the rise of nationalism in India (2019)
> A machine staying up for almost 3 years is irresponsible in this day and age. [...] but you only need to look at the ssh logs of a 5 minutes old machine to realize this is a terrible idea in modern times.

You don't need to reboot a machine to update ssh.

You only need to reboot the machine to update the kernel; for everything else, you just have to restart the corresponding user-space processes (and even PID1 can re-exec itself). Most kernel vulnerabilities are not remotely exploitable, so as long as you can trust your user-space processes (and keep them updated), it should be safe enough.
My MBA program did not teach a rigid, well-defined set of business rules. Even something rules based like GAAP is somewhat open to interpretation. And when it comes to something like strategy or finance or organizational structure the options are endless.
Should it be called the “EyeMac”?
It's good to be skeptical of this kind of claim of course, but part of the point of the article in my view is that the narrative is pretty credulous when you say this about writers or programmers or artists -- i.e. people who do not control capital.
Is market research allowed on HN
These scary headlines are meaningless without context. If you are going to try and panic folks, at least do it right. Such a lack of effort, show some respect.
Only the dumbest tik-tok positive grindset twitter thread version of the above suggests that doing x, y & z will gaurantee a win in business.
Let's say they sells it at $10 / mo. They would need 1,000 customers to make a reasonable wage at $10,000 / month. If they sells it at $30/month, they would need only 300 customers.

Can you imagine how annoying it would be to deal with 1,000 cheap customers that expect the world? Maybe they should sell it at $100/mo and sell it to only 100 people that really care about the problem.

Maybe just sell it to a business for $200/mo for all developers, they would only need 50 businesses to make $10,000/month and they would also remove the annoying, cheap, high expectation developer out of the equation.

Developers and engineers are probably the worst customer to have, insane expectations, complain about everything, criticize everything and use a magnifying glass to point out any issues, black/white thinking etc.

My theory is writing code has all of these expectations in it. You need to be highly critical, black/white (or you would drift into a world of options.) have insane expectations (or your manager gets mad at you.) etc. All great qualities for writing code, but the worst qualities for a customer.

I'm a developer too by the way, so please don't be offended, I've been there and done that, the other side is much nicer. For example, I activated my iCloud to 2TB at $10/mo instead of making a custom backup solution that I can run for $2/mo. Would I have done that years ago? Yes and the result would have been me spending 80 hours building the backup system that can't even get my photos back on my phone properly.

What I'm trying to say is, it's sad to watch developers suffer for a small amount of money per month. I honestly believe it's a failure of the people who manage developers. I may be reaching here, but I think a lot of developers have been treated poorly in general from managers, projects and high expectations. They are rarely rewarded properly which is actual recognition for the work they do. It's not free massages, free lunches and cool workspaces. As a result, I believe developers are the givers and the companies and managers are the takers. The takers siphon the life out of developers and to the point where they're so risk averse they won't even spend $100 to go to a spa to relieve some stress. They're so risk averse they won't even spend $30/month to make their lives easier.

What am I saying? Developers SPEND some money on yourselves. You DESERVE IT for the hard work you do. Stop being so risk averse just because the work you do is so.

Rant over.
Maybe a few years ago it would've been "worth it". But with LLMs coming to swallow up all coding tasks and turning programmers into prompt engineers within a few years time, I can't see it being "worth it" any more.
> a good practice to minimize damage is to routinely cycle API keys.

Anyone have a good measure for how frequently this should be done? Too frequently is too much toil and infrequently is a security risk.
If you or anyone can identify a free outcome for users that I haven’t considered, that pays the bills at both Reddit and Apollo, then please do share it!

Reddit did not choose to compel ad display in their agreement update. I expect this is because it conflicts with getting paid by search engines and AI training corporations.
It's so bad that I gave up on using an old Macbook Pro with an external monitor. I use a cheap old Windows PC instead, which suffices for this particular use.
It’s already moving to discord.

Discord blows for asynchronous conversations. But that doesn’t mean it’s not the replacement.
I'm an atheist, but this is an honest question: does it?

My understanding of catholic doctrine is that Jesus was part of the holy Trinity and knew it before he sacrificed himself.

Therefore when he sacrificed himself for humanity he wasn't in the sort of personal danger or at risk of eternal damnation that a mere mortal in his shoes would be.

I've always understood that as God making a grand gesture of some sort, not that Jesus was in personal danger comparable to that of a mortal in his shoes.

Of course being tortured for days before being guaranteed a seat by God's side in heaven upon death would royally suck in the short term.

But I'd think an internally cotsisconsistent interpretation of doctrine would call for a personal sacrifice short of that of Jesus in his last days from a mere mortal, the odds being stacked in the deity's favor. No?
Unrelated to the license plates, but the war is remembered differently in Canada, in Britain, and by historians. I think Wikipedia has it right calling the war "indecisive". In Canada, the war is remembered as the time we trounced the Yankees and burned the White House. The Brits don't think much of the war at all. Historians say its much more complicated of course, but the key facts to remember are (despite what the Canadians say) the troops that burned the White House were British regulars, not Canadian militia, and that the militia was highly unreliable and had significant levels of desertions (despite the national pride now). It's also good to keep in mind that Britain was in the midst of a total war with Napoleonic France and that the Americas were a sideshow. The US distinguished itself early with the frigate battles, like the Constitution vs Java, but then there was the Shannon vs Chesapeake.
France's Ban on Short-Haul Flights Will Kill People
I had read the first document, which was about her mother, who isn't a US citizen and wasn't in the US.
Unless all your work involves CSS I doubt it saves 3-4 hours / week. Also, saving 3 hours of work doesn't mean you get paid for 3 hours more. It's also a dependency that's not guaranteed to exist as long as the default browser dev tools or available on every machine.
I think Ruby is sometimes used in a way that looks second-order. It allows so much metaprogramming that you can really make a full DSL. For example, RSpec:

describe "order" do
it "is marked as complete" do
expect(@order).to be_complete
end

it "is not yet shipped" do
expect(@order).not_to be_shipped
end
end
I dont really understand why the title of the HN post takes a single point out of a dozen different things that the report is about, and even that point doesn't have any actual context, which the report expands on.

I'm guessing it's trying to subtly editorialize the report.

Better title would just be the "Quarterly Banking Profile"
A new data structure for ordered integer maps
It is. You can’t just argue for something you want as it being a human right when it’s something most people aren’t that concerns with. It makes people not take you or what you’re arguing seriously
"Lost" implies they don't know where they went.

No it doesn't.
I tried Zig for a few weeks but ended up choosing Odin for a game dev side project I’m working on. Odin feels a lot more high level, but still gives you low level control when you need it.
Thanks, I was thinking of a similar solution too, but the tricky part is filtering and finding the right CSS properties to display. From my quick attempt this is a non-trivial task as there is no easy built-in way to get just the computed styles of classes on the specific element and those of its close ancestors. And even among those, not all are always relevant.
Except for a brief reprieve during SVB's failure, the Fed continues to let the treasury and agency bonds it previously purchased mature, without recycling the proceeds it receives to purchase replacement bonds (i.e., the Fed is destroying the money):

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=15IkH

Every day, the US Treasury must issue new bonds to replace those bonds it repays.

Given that the Fed is not stepping in to buy more treasury bonds in the open market, the private sector -- individuals, 401(k) plans, pension plans, endowments, mutual funds, etc. -- must find additional liquidity somewhere to buy the new bonds. The US Treasury will issue those bonds at the market-clearing price.

A similar logic applies to agency bonds.

Every day.

Of course bank deposits are dwindling!
This article seems to be a response to this 'free Orwellian TV monitor' offer:

https://www.wired.com/story/telly-tv-free-privacy/

I think the real wet dream of the security state is to have a software agent for every human on the planet. Something rather like this was at the core of DARPA's "Total Information Awareness" program of about two decades ago (later absorbed by the NSA and private contractors IIRC). Today's LLMs help make the concept clear - if you could collect enough data about a person you could create a software construct that could predict how that person would respond to different stimuli - an advertisement, a news story, etc. It would be the greatest tool for mass control every invented in the history of humanity - and those in control would use it to create the most dystopian authoritarian state imaginable - and yet those who lived under that state would probably think they were 'free people'.

The idea was nicely laid out in the 1995 movie, "Twelve Monkeys":

> "Jeffrey Goines : When I was institutionalized, my brain was studied exhaustively in the guise of mental health. I was interrogated, I was x-rayed, I was examined thoroughly. Then, they took everything about me and put it into a computer where they created this model of my mind. Yes! Using that model they managed to generate every thought I could possibly have in the next, say, 10 years. Which they then filtered through a probability matrix of some kind to determine everything I was gonna do in that period. So you see, she knew I was gonna lead the Army of the Twelve Monkeys into the pages of history before it ever even occurred to me. She knows everything I'm ever gonna do before I know it myself. How's that?"

It's the FBI keeping files on citizens, but on steroids. Those claiming 'this is fine' generally don't like to talk about who would get access to the database of agents, and who wouldn't.
Google spent many months and millions of dollars to prove the value of managers. They tried to get rid of them, then spent tons of effort to study and understand the problems that caused.

Ultimately for a company to succeed, people need to be aligned, and in an emotional space to do good work. That is very hard to automate. Google found they could not.
If possible I would suggest to look at conversion metrics instead of user provided ratings. Real validation is people signing up and using your product (regularly), you can measure that.

Of course reaching out to users is very valuable, it can help you understand them, why they use or stopped using your product, what they like/miss/etc. But to get quality insights like that you will have to ask open questions, interview them, do user tests.

Metrics tell you if something works or not, reaching out to users helps you understand why it does or doesn't.
Why have a center at all?

Relationships are what we do, not what we are.
>the old saying "three can keep a secret if two are dead" or it's variations

I was reminded of this just a few weeks ago. Told a few people some news I told them was non-public given I was seeing them in person. Wouldn't you know it, it immediately got up to someone I'd just as soon not have known. Wasn't really a big deal but still annoying.
What did you expect to happen with contracting M2? It has shrunk approximately to the same ~$500B in Q1.
For reference, it looks like current bank deposits are at 19.21T.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_banks_total_deposits
I don't think the numbers are balanced. For any person A there may exist a great match B, but also there may be many other A' for which the same B is a great match, but perhaps not as many other alternative B'. Even if the numbers were balanced, finding each other is a major hurdle if you're not a mainstream type. In addition, people change over time, which can affect how good of a match two people remain. So most people compromise in one way or the other, and some for which the compromise would be too big stay single.
It sounds like perhaps in the 1980s though, this may have been less true?
I've lately thought that a package manager is as essential to a new language as a standard library. I would also add a LSP and standard code formatter to that list.

It is a bit unfortunate because all of the above is a pretty tall order. We're getting to the point that new languages are expected to boil the ocean by the time they reach 1.0
You still need to understand the code you are generating, testing, and debugging. LLMs don't replace a need for more expressive programming languages.
This kind of response, on a society-wide scale, is exactly what allows these things to keep happening. The broad populace gets tired of being outraged and retreats from the public sphere, which gets captured by ghouls. Imagine the difference between public outrage at a story like this in Finland vs Russia. A strong public bulwark against corruption and abuse is the sum of millions of small decisions to not shrug it off with "oh well, just another day in X country"
There is also a school of thought (don't know how prevalent) that many autoimmune cases are not autoimmune at all. And that the unidentified bacteria/virus/pollution etc. is still present or persisting, so the immune system is continually fighting that hidden pathogen rather than one's own normal cells. And so conventional autoimmune treatments that suppress the immune system are allowing to unidentified pathogen to persist.
Did Microsoft aquire a license from WinRAR or they just reverse engineered the format themselves?
'PDF' in the title would be useful
It's talking about freedom from massive surveillance networks and unaccountable data collectors who use our data against us. Those didn't exist for most of human history. It's not just about neighborhood gossip.
echoing nickelcitymario, would love to hear what you're working on
If type level functions are a "second language", then so is Zig's comptime.
HR is evil because its goals are evil, not because of the type of people employed there.

If you tell HR that some guy should go, be it a liberal arts major or a psychologist, they're gonna employ any trick they know to nudge the guy out of his job. In fact, the psych might be even more effective
It's a valid question I suppose, but we learn that the two women besties are ex-marines. Nothing wrong with that of course far from it, but it does raise some questions about the exact nature of the relationship, and their other romantic relationships.
Show HN: Minutes – Save up to 20% of salespeople's time
Hey everyone,
I wanted to share something I've been working on that I think could be really helpful for sales teams. Minutes is a startup that utilizes OpenAI technology to automate the transcription and summarization of sales calls.

What Minutes is doing can be described in 3 steps:
1. Taking your audio or video and transcribing it to text
2. Taking the most important and relevant information and creating a summary, including key points and the next tasks
3. Creating a follow-up email, including the summary points and next steps

Story behind it:
As an entrepreneur who handles sales and marketing, I noticed a common challenge: the amount of time managers spend on creating call summaries and writing follow-up emails. Not only is it time-consuming, but it's also often a hassle to ensure accuracy.
To tackle this issue, I decided to delve deeper and spoke with several sales directors. Turns out, this problem is widespread, and even salespeople themselves dislike the administrative burden it brings. Inspired by these insights, I created Minutes.

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Operation Triangulation: iOS devices targeted with previously unknown malware
> Deep Mind's work on AlphaFold, which generates predictions on proteins that haven't been seen before

I have used AlphaFold a bit in my own work, and if I showed it 'unusual' proteins like rare mutants it usually generated garbage. Some evidence for this exists in the literature; see for example https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.19.460937v1 or https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/38/7/1881/65... or

>AlphaFold recognizes a 3D structure of the examined amino acid sequence by a similarity of this sequence (or its parts) to related sequences with already
known 3D structures

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.21.517308v1
> We have a term for this: Privatized profits and socialized losses

We have an even older term for that: The tragedy of the commons [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
I'm moving all my scripting to TypeScript using Bun (JS runtime written in Zig).

For scripting its a way better choice. `bun:ffi` also makes it trivial to run C or Zig code when you need to.
Show HN: StonksGPT – A Natural Language search tool for Stocks and Finance data
Being more like China, in this case, is being hard on this kind of crime, the death penalty or life sentences isn’t germane to the conversation. Whether China eradicated corruption or not, doesn’t have bearing on whether we should have stronger responses to this kind of fraud and harm.
I’m not sure that it suggest anything besides the fact that many people buying these products on Amazon also happen to buy other “fringe” products, perhaps because of paranoid tendencies.

Until something like this becomes mainstream, buyers will probably fall into two categories:

1. These paranoid types who are willing to try things most people won’t look twice at

2. Nerd/bio hacker types who have some fascination/interest in the subject

I’d guess there is only overlap when products are actually grounded in some real science, e.g. the people buying stuff for paranoid fringe reasons are also buying far crazier stuff that the bio hacker would reject outright and for good reason.
My list:

pnpm - my goto now. It's fast, enforces that you have your dependencies set up correctly (no transitives etc.), and still allows settings to simulate older `node_modules` structures that some things (`prisma` / `storybook` etc.) need to work.

yarn v1 - Used to be my default, so I still have some older projects using it, but I'm slowly moving them all to `pnpm`.

yarn berry - only if I have to. I'm sure it's great, but the mental model shift was too extreme

npm - never
4k-year-old plague DNA found – the oldest cases to date in Britain
Thanks. Yes that's exactly my point. Because there is some data on GPT, we can extrapolate its development.

But please read my comment again: There is no way that by this method you can deduce a probability for the extinction by AI. It never happened before. It is really that simple. Same goes for a nuclear war scenario.
Depending on how sophisticated the operators are, it's possible hostage level pricing could still be low six figures. They may not actually realize just how valuable what they've scooped up actually is. At government scale, I'd actually say anything <$1m is probably less costly in total than any kind of action involving replacing a recall of rollback or existing plates.
Don't forget n8n.
> Actually as of late, Linux has been moving ...

That's a pretty broad generalisation. Which distro's are you meaning?
It doesn’t surprise me they’ve got VCs.

I was referring more to the model of Uber and some others of just pour hundreds of millions into a hole for a decade until you’re all that’s left and then profit will magically appear.
I think that would have been accounted for separately, wouldn't it?
> You're 2,200 times more likely to die when traveling by car as opposed to by airplane.

Take the train.

Also a good argument to further reduce dependence on car-only infrastructure in the United States too. Naturally Reason.com (and others) is incapable of making the connection. Not only does this apply for cross-country travel, but also for daily needs like going to a coffee shop, grocery store, etc.
>If you would like help to have this for your country/government/organisation as well, feel free to contact us.

I was looking into what exactly is need for this but the last link has this in the guide:

>For full installation with everything and anything, check: https://gitlab.com/internet-cleanup-foundation/server/

The link is broken.
Writing greek symbols is sufficiently annoying that I always kind of resent code that does this. It’s not just about the first time you are writing code, but also when you are reviewing it, or trying to share a snippet with a coworker, or lots more scenarios. Maybe it’s just me, but writing ‘z = x ∇ d’ is really tedious.
They don't want to know how the sausage is made.
That was still in formation in 1812, but, yeah, I don't have any particular reason to think the native nations would have done better with a different outcome of the war of 1812, but I certainly understand why some nations figured it was worth a shot and they probably wouldn't do worse.

Anyway, I still don't want to advertise war on my license plate.
> deploying solar panels doesn't have any risks

Fabbing hundreds of thousands of hectares of semiconductor is going to be far from risk-free or environmentally benign.

Also, residential solar installations have killed and injured many more people than nuclear power plants ever have. It turns out that climbing on roofs is dangerous.
> It's not a woman specific thing.

That's sufficiently incorrect that there's an entire subfield of medicine dedicated to how incorrect it is. If you're interested in learning more, this is a pretty good study to start with: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08475-9