skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, thanks, I didn't know about this one. Going from tracking 60,000 patients in 2020 to 1,872,000 patients in 2022 is quite a jump in robustness.

This one tracked people vaccinated against flu every year, instead of (just?) TDaP. People vaccinated every year did better than those vaccinated fewer years, with the same 40% effect size. I wonder how many million people they will need to demonstrate the effect in, before any of the the mouse beta-amylase grant money gets diverted to figuring out how vaccines forestall it, and how many before any GPs start applying the (embarrassing) results.

Sci-hub doesn't have the paper, but it seems to be open-access: https://content.iospress.com/download/journal-of-alzheimers-...
Good lord. I thought you were exaggerating but indeed, up by a third since 1958:

https://www.co2levels.org/

I consider myself pretty aware of climate change but I suddenly realize I've never actually looked at the direct numbers. That's scary.
That is really cool. I personally installed the reset glitch hack on several Xbox 360. Immediately thought about that when seeing this article on the Tesla
The manipulation isn't getting smarter. It's just attached to a natural language system. See "Put that there", from 1982. There's been progress, but less than one would expect over 41 years.

I've been expecting machine learning to do great things for manipulation, but so far, not much has emerged.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbIn8p4_4CQ
A good one would be "productive AI." People forget, but a short while ago, AI was treated as something where being actually useful was perpetually 20 years away, and the real-world status of it was exemplified by a chatbot like Eliza.
Isn’t it in Sensodyne, a toothpaste readily available in the US?
Heh, appreciate the link, but definitely not the foolproof mechanism I was hoping to see. Leaves a bit much for the non-expert to infer + not an easy way to guarantee the system is always being utilized.
China is taking the lead, they harvest the fruit of their massive investment in education 20 years ago, congrats!
You've read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress too many times, and taken away the wrong lessons.
As I always ask on these types of posts: since you're proposing a product to help treat a medical condition, have you conducted a clinical trial?

Why not?
Would you believe that many folks (including myself) did, actually, present people with the facts at the time? And that the response was an overwhelming “you’re being alarmist” or “why do you want little kids to learn about sex, hmm?”

Forgive us for being a little salty about it.
I lost interest around the same time as you with dos2 and I kind of lost interest with bg3 midway through the first act. (I played early access)

I’ll give it another go but I’m annoyed the EA saves can’t be used so I have to start again.
Many modern parts only come in small-pitch SMT.
This is a meaningless comparison. That's not how wealth works. Wealth can be acquired via tons of indirect means including fraud, monopoly, luck, etc.
If my understanding is correct, 2 is nearly solved if we have a room temp ambient superconductor
Rather than sharding the company, and getting stuck in endless discussions of where exactly to draw lines and what business units are unsustainable, why not nationalize it?

The "projecty" things like Chrome and Android and Waymo are arguably money sinks that will produce things of significant public value over time-- what if we funded them like other research probjects, with the understanding that the commercial applications will either generate public revenue or directly enhance domestic competitiveness. Imagine if in 5 years, the American carmakers had highly discounted access to Waymo's self-driving technology, but Mercedes and BMW still have to roll their own or license it at an intentionally hostile price?

The revenue-generating stuff could be "commoditized" -- turn it into white-label products they'll resell to all comers. You no longer go to Google, you go to a Google Reseller who provides their own ad or subscription monetization model to pay for the underlying infrastructure cost. Since they all have the same core index, they start from strong competitive parity, and then they can focus on their differentating features-- extended custom indexes, more tools, etc.
I would say that RNA vaccine and chatGPT are two that have happened during my adult life 05->. Iphone and some other innovations were more kinda incremental stuff.
If you'd told me 10 years ago that "2023 will be the year of the Linux gaming machine," I would've lol'd. You never can tell.
That’s what he said. You inject a known current and measure the voltage drop across the item you want to measure the resistance of, and then use ohms law
That is different, I believe. Massachusetts excise tax is based on some idea of the value of your vehicle. Registering your new BMW and your beater Pontiac costs the same.
Google still being better at PR about AI than actual AI.
LLM("AI")'s BS would seem to expand rather than completely redefine human understanding as it is only able to infer on what has been provided in the query and defined trained set. The second question on coherent responses seems unanswerable without the context of the query.
This smells off to me. It's like calling yourself CTO or principal engineer of a one man business.

It probably worked 6 years ago and it works for getting less experienced clients. But now you have people fresh out of college calling themselves consultants, you end up associating yourself with them.
…your description makes it sound like an upgrade, when actually the 256 configuration is just incompetent, a failure (or sabotage?) compared to the m1 models that worked properly without the expensive “upgrade”
> In my experience 99% of the games work out of the box with wine-staging, DXVK and VKD3D-Proton (which works with wine-staging just fine). No need to mess around with anything, just install wine-string, install DXVK and VKD3D-Proton and you are ready to run pretty much everything with "wine installername.exe" or "wine gamebinary.exe".

That sounds like a fair bit of domain-specific knowledge driven steps that could quickly got awry and lead a novice deep into frustration.

Compared to... Clicking the Play button in the Steam launcher, ideally from your Steam Deck.

It's miles apart.
> what everyday people see as a scourge

I think you might be projecting a wee bit too much.

I guess you missed the following quote in the article I linked to (emphasis mine):

“Only 2% of cold calls convert. But 69% of buyers are willing to take a cold call, and 57% of C-level buyers want sales reps to contact them first.”

Most savvy business people are willing to take speculative engagements (within reason) — it’s just +ev to do so.

Let me be charitable and say that I think that a lot of tech sales is low quality (e.g., trying to force fit when there isn’t much/any) or downright scams (e.g., the alleged yelp “protection money” gambit), so I can understand that a tech-oriented community may be a bit jaded. That said, low quality sales interactions are not the norm in large swathes of the economy — it’s just as much or more of a waste of time for the sales person as it is for the potential buyer.
This I agree with. If the game developer can produce a Linux binary I am happy to buy on other stores (I prefer GOG). They usually do _not_ and I don’t want to spend time to wrap and configure windows apps to run on Linux. You can consider the 30% steam fee outsourcing the multi-platform “porting”.
Fusion is progressing well, just look at MIT SPARC. Better (conventional) superconductors and better supercomputers are pushing the field forward.

Back when ITER was the only game in town it looked like workable fusion was never going to happen, but things are looking more hopeful now.
No innovation from Google excites me any more because I assume it will be cancelled.
Transistors, lithium batteries, leds, etc all enjoyed significant patent protection, but still changed the world.

I yearn for a Star Trek utopia as the next, but we do live in a capitalistic world where I hope that someone can enjoy outsized rewards for upending some previously insurmountable physical barriers.
So, source is public domain somebody "owns copyright" on colorizing it, and you can no longer access the B&W source due to DMCA?

That's pretty perverse, got any links for a primer?
People also claim that tax law is so complicated because accountants want more work. Actual accountants would prefer another hole in their head to more complex tax law. Same people claim the AMA is suppressing cures for cancer cause reasons.
Where is the source code?

Put up some headlines and text on the home page, otherwise no one (including me) will sign up to a random website.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958531

I was hoping this article would have info about the structural strength at large scale, but it seems to be basically the same press-release-level info... Real pictures though, that's nice.
I predict it’s a visual/spatial form of what it already does with language. It won’t do it until it can see.

There’s all kinds of other things it won’t do until it hears. And touches. Smell and taste might help too I guess!?

As a byproduct it can also be taught truth is what it can verify with sensors.
Sweet. Now I need to devise a patch to re-enable Low Regenerative braking. It's still in there and drivers in China had it restored earlier this year.
Holy cow! Talk about a rabbit hole. I am right now on ebay buying a Canadian box!
Just apply? I only had trouble with getting one job, but the next one looked highly upon contracting experience.

Generally, people have a high view of those who are like themselves. If you end up in the hands of someone who was also a contractor, they'll strongly bias towards you. Someone who has experience working in the same company for 10 years would bias against you.
No the very top bucket has not lost any money in the economic downtown, and actually they've gained significant wealth (because they can take aggressive and short risks on falling stock prices). See this: https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/ten-richest-men-doub...

The very top (folks like bezos, musk, etc.) never loses and never had to change their habits. If anything their spending has increased as their wealth increased and they made deals on property, toys, art etc. being sold at cheaper prices by less rich people dropping down a class.
Would one method (assuming a pure sample) be to pass a high current through it and measure if it heats up? I know nothing about this, but that would be my first guess.
99% seems high. Ime. its closer to 70%.
Less overhead. You don’t need extra CPU and memory for NAT w/IPv6, because there is no NAT.
I have no clue what EasyOS is, maybe I can quickly fire up a VmWare/VirtualBox/qemu VM and then I have a better idea. Anyone has a link to something I can stuff into -cdrom command line argument and give it a whirl?
When AI was 20 years away, people seemed more optimistic about it than now when its inevitable transformative societal impact is seemingly right around the corner, are you sure this is the kind of example they were going for?
Yeah, you have to account for the headers in the 1500 byte MTU, which I suppose can be substantial if you have several VLAN tags, IPSec, IPv6, and a bunch of IP options. Presumably most of that encapsulation happens inside a datacenter, though, where you can use jumbo frames.
Are you talking about when that FBI office got shot up? I too abhor political violence.
This policy says very little about what happens to the chat logs. In particular: will other humans (e.g. developers, analysts, etc.) have access to them? If so, I wouldn't trust it with anything.
Whacker News (2012)
Antibiotics
Electricity
Internal combustion engine
Flight
Li-Ion batteries
Radio communication
It's having one's cake after eating it

They also want to make all undocumented immigrants flee the state while also maintaining their fruit industry

"It's posturing, we swear! We don't mean any of the parts that have consequences! We only need to look authoritarian- we promise we understand the impact of our top priorities and they're just politics! C'mon! It's meaningless!"
Why not? Weak economies can shut down all kinds of ecological problems. Close a bunch of emitters, reduce the food produced.
Yes and no. There's no possible way to have a superconductor be an actual hoverboard out in the broader world - the magnetic field of the earth is just nowhere near strong enough. You can make specialized areas where it would work, though. It's even been done already with LN2 cooled superconductors - https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/4/9091951/lexus-hoverboard-v...

SC could help enable nearly lossless transmission over power in HVDC lines, but HVDC lines are already significantly more efficient than our regular ones and we don't build them for a variety of reasons, so it might not make much of an impact there for regulatory/NIMBY/etc. type reasons.
Nothing in biology is as regular and systematic as a microprocessor. Scientists study biology using round-about approaches because there is nothing else available.
We're seeing so much citizen science! I remember there was a HN article a while back that a urged for more regular people conducting science! This stuff should be celebrated, not drowned beneath a pile of "not actual science".
Me too. I got swept up into the project by the videos and it was the thing that finally got me into discord with the community. Additionally, it’s gotten me to look into OpenPnP in general and see if I can get it working for my personal projects.
Penicillin has gotta be on that list. Just randomly happened to culture on a Petri dish left out on vacation, happened to be the worlds first antibiotic
Yeah, that's understandable. And I'm certainly guilty of reacting that way at times.

This just seemed like a clear situation where the original commenter was genuinely open to others' opinions but instead was dealt an insult. That's going to discourage other people from opening up their minds in the same way.
US version does not contain Novamin/Biomin.
> So instead I will just say that I dislike you very much and I hope you have an awful, poopy day.

> You, and those like you, are the reason we can't have nice things.

Cheers.

I love you, too.

I will be sure to remember your kind words when my customers thank me for doing such a good job (which is typical and often).
We used this type of machine at HackRVA[1] to build ~350 electronic badges for RVASEC[2].

It worked alright, but took some considerable effort to get things working smoothly. (I wasn't the one doing that work, so I can't really comment intelligently about exactly what that means.)

Here's a little video about the badge, briefly showing the LumenPnP machine in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWZriUMNpLc

[1] https://hackrva.org [2] https://rvasec.com/
Printing press. broad access to clean water. transistor.
Sensodyne sold in the US doesn't contain novamin.
Only on legacy IP. We're trying to kill it.

A bit of pain will be necessary to finally get modern IP across the line of mainstream usage.
Is there a product on the market doing this already?
I think he’s talking about general aviation which is … not in great shape, though the rumors of its demise are still overstated a bit.

The main thing that made general aviation a far less accessible proposition were the lawsuits against the manufacturers in the 70s and 80s, the crushing verdicts and the over engineered basic planes based on suits that had been lost. That’s why a new Cessna 172 is three-quarters of a million dollars.

If I have a particular complaint with the FAA, I don’t think the requirements for a third-class medical are terribly compatible with the modern view of good mental health and treatment. But I understand the box they’re in on this, and don’t have any bright ideas.
Yea, Eliza is a far worse chat bot than ChatGPT…

More seriously AI has made lots of things better, it’s really the hype cycle that’s disappointing. More FPS in games just isn’t as exciting as self driving cars. But by the time you can buy a level 5 self driving car the technology will be pedestrian.
It is OS-specific (not domain specific, i just know Linux) knowledge indeed but i'd assume someone who sticks with Linux, comments on HN and would prefer to use DRM-free games (and software) wouldn't have an issue installing a couple of programs. And really, also having Windows knowledge, aside from installing wine-staging, the process for getting DXVK and VKD3D-Proton working is similar to what you'd do on Windows to get buggy games to work (in fact some people do use DXVK with Windows[0]).

It isn't something i'd recommend to some random gamer (though judging from what i've seen people do with their Steam Decks i wouldn't underestimate gamers' technical abilities).

[0] like, say, me :-P. In 2020 i used Windows as my main OS after trying to switch to Linux as my main OS in 2018 but having some issues with games, but then i ended up having some visual glitches in a game that were fixed by throwing in DXVK. At that point i thought that this might actually be a sign that gaming on Linux now works fine - and indeed it did and since then i've being using it as my practically only OS because i can both work and game on it without feeling like i'm missing anything.
GitHub has no modern IP support, so a system without a legacy IP is unable to pull anything from GitHub.
Do you mean replacement of chemical batteries for superconducting ones?
Not politically possible == pharma has plenty of money to line politician’s pockets and poor college students do not
I wonder if they'll move training areas inland to the Dakotas or Montana to make it harder for coastally-deployed UFOs
The court order would embargo that for a period of time.
Railguns. Everywhere.
No, LXC/D doesn't make sense.

I "can" do what they are describing in OCI, but it's bad practice.

I don't do it manually.
Component frameworks. I've used first AngularJS and then Angular at work for ten years, evaluated React, and we've settled on using Web Components (built with Lit for the moment) in our Angular code for the long term.
Earliest glass workshop north of the Alps discovered
I was devastated as a child by the plight of the 'lowercase n' and jubilant at its ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btVGz294X0w
The last week reminds me of the story of Bardeen & Brattain's invention of the transistor (e.g. in The Idea Factory). It barely worked and heaven forbid you bump the table. There was even a third slighted figure who wanted credit. Part of me wants to be skeptical but OTOH if it's hard to reproduce that seems totally normal. How exciting that some other people have got it working now.
Digital landlord. Anybody want to rent a domain?
You might want to read the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."
And I still prefer the streaming video mess to the cable company monopoly we had before. Which is what Apple is in this analogy.

Also I doubt other stores are going to charge a subscription fee like streaming services do. So there's nothing wrong with having multiple stores.
I read jardine and gave up my hiking boots years ago in favor of thick polyurethane soled sneakers like nb 990. Those are great for dry rocky trails. Add more rocks and you'll wish you had a toe box and some ankle protection. I've tried using lightweight sneakers and suffered some bad falls due to the soles slipping. Otoh, if you want to do 20+ miles per day, you have to make choices
> the cost of the hardware is still included in what you pay for the software-locked car.

Not true. The price you have decided you are willing to pay assumes it is not there. Your payment allocates no portion to the hardware. If you have decided a car is worth $30,000, that is what you are willing to pay, regardless of whether or not they include the hardware.

And, in actuality, you might even consider a car with said hardware to be worth less as it adds weight which will require more fuel and wear and tear expenses over the operating lifetime of the vehicle. The car worth $30,000 without heated seats is, perhaps, only worth $29,000 if the hardware is included.

The cost to manufacturer is their problem. Your value determination is entirely independent of that. Should it cost them $1 or $100,000 to build that $30,000 car – it doesn't matter. You are paying for the value you think you will derive from owing the car, not what it cost them to make it.

Indeed, in the long run the value has to exceed the cost of manufacture, else the business will soon find itself filing for bankruptcy. But in the short term, it is not uncommon to see input costs exceed the value of the product, resulting in a net loss for the business. The buyer doesn't care. Input costs mean absolutely nothing to them.
This is somewhat true isn’t it? Doesn’t TurboTax lobby against automatic filing of taxes like we have in the UK? Most people in the UK do not submit tax returns at all, the appropriate amount of tax is simply withheld from their pay.
Can you elaborate on the difference between the terms “late untreated borreliosis” and “chronic Lyme disease”? Borreliosis is just another name for Lyme disease. What distinction are you so sure about that I’m missing?
Makes me wonder what format DVDRs will see. (yes, I vaguely remember the hell of +R and -R)
Show HN: I made a web app for language learners using Rust->WASM->Canvas
Hi HN,

I am an intermediate Vietnamese learner who wanted a way to ease into studying native materials without getting too overwhelmed, so I made SynchroTales. It allows you to:

- View parallel texts
- Click a word to see its definition
- Double-click a word to play the audiobook

My background is mainly UI: most recently Desktop apps using Rust & Iced (an Elm inspired GUI lib). I thought this would be a good opportunity to push web tech a bit and see what the browsers can do.

At this point I can say honestly I think it is a mixed bag: some things are easier targeting WASM (to canvas) vs JS, but there are still some limitations and you miss out on a lot of freebies that the browser provides.

Currently I'm building an editor so people can create their own documents for the app. Despite browsers offering pretty good text editing out-of-the-box, this is somewhere I think working at a lower level will be beneficial, since the documents are fundamentally different from what we usually edit. Time will tell though!

I appreciate any comments or opinions, either on the tech or the app itself.

Thanks, Nick
Tangentially, it is the first time hearing the world "torpor", I would understand even "lethargy" [0] which I don't think is that used in common speech (but more than "torpor" for sure).

The use of this word for this particle blog post is to say the least interesting [1] (I would at least use one of the many more popular synonyms). TBH I thought it was the name of a drug or some chemical substance :-p.

0: https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/torpor

1: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=torpor&date=now%2...
Yes, some fisheries are collapsing in places where they are not properly regulated.

Meanwhile whale numbers are increasing, polar bear numbers are increasing and in my local fishery the fish population is increasing!

Don’t take my comment as saying there are no problems, I’m merely pointing out that telling children “this probably won’t exist when you are an adult” isn’t particularly honest and I don’t think it’s very useful.
Two things can be true at the same time: 1. It's a sketchy idea for the manufacturer to lock away features behind paywalls. 2. It's a really bad idea to monkey with the internals of a self-driving car.
If you are that bothered by spam calls you probably need to make the tradeoff that you’re ok with not being able to reliably receive calls from numbers that aren’t on an explicit white list.

Various fixes are underway but today you have to make that personal trade off.
That is why I ride a bicycle.