skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equally serious question: what is the use case for Access?

It's been installed on every corp workstation I've had and it's never been useful. In my experience either Excel can do it or you need a real programming language/database.
I think a better take would be: sodium isn't the only possible problem.
That's the best part of it: the technique seems to be passive.
That’s a use case I’ve never considered for Python’s logging module. Is that emitting a message for every iteration of an inner loop? It seems like your log analyzer would curse your name unto 3 generations for making it deal with that.
The GUI and forms is what made Access, though. Back in the day I actually made a system with Access that connected to a SQL Server database on the backend rather than Access's file-based engine.

It's a real shame Access died, now there's no path from a spreadsheet to something more sensible.
Even benevolent dictator is something of a chosen model, with dictators thinking of their succession, project and commiter health, support from companies, etc.
> When new tasks came in, I started defaulting to C# for that reason. I don't think anyone actually prefers VB syntax. C# has a pretty robust community around it now.

Which was your experience because you knew C. VB appealed to people who were not programmers (or not very good ones like me). Microsoft effectively tossed an easy to learn procedural language in the trash and said "go learn all these advanced CS concepts or stop writing stuff" to which most hardcore VB users chose the latter.
Seems like it might also be important to check the difference in pressure between the two arms

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/why-you-should-have-your-blo...
The token model of LLMs doesn't map well into how human experience the world of informational glyphs. Left and right is a intrinsic quality of our vision system. An LLM has to map the idea of left and right into symbols via text and line breaks.

I do think it will be interesting as visual input and internal graphical output is integrated with text based LLMs as that should help correct their internal experience to be based closer to what we as humans experience.
Yeah, the missing key is seeing power and energy as money, because that's essentially how our economy works.

We can convert one in the other, at different conversion rates granted, but still.

Energy input cost is a line in every company spreadsheet, it can block or allow companies to succeed. Today this line is kept artificially low because we base our economies on a very exothermic open loop CH to CO. Closing this loop is not an option because basic thermodynamics, which is the very logic behind carbon removal.

We have to stop entering this path as much as possible.
Well, sorta. I find it easier to rince small stuff off, and that doesn't work with fabric really, but your point is fair.
Oh yes. And VBscript in the browser as well (as long as it was IE). One of their attempts at browser "lock-in"
I've never seen a rhematologist. It does feel like the specialism that's closest to immunology. My docs always ask about joint pain and there's certainly overlap between arthritis and other inflammatory diseases like UC. My grandmother had terrible arthritis and as it tends to be more common in women, it seems likely that's the reason rheumatology in general is overlooked and understaffed. Biologics like Infliximab started out as arthritis treatements and were re-purposed as IBD treatmetns (generally more useful for UC than Crohns).

A friend who was recently diagnosed with UC (but with many other obviously AI symptoms / conditions) has managed to get himself referred to a Rheumatologist which is almost certainly a good thing.

But regardless of how good a rheumatologist might be at dealing with it, it isn't a fix for the issue that the immune system isn't treated as a first class citizen in medicine.
I’m working full time in safari nowadays and very recently google decided that logins for accounts with yubikeys as required 2fa no longer can sign in without errors. I love safari but it’s frustrating that it’s still second class for even major companies like google to test their changes on.
Ask HN: Gmail Smart Compose but for my entire OS?
Is there a tool that monitors what and how I type and offers Gmail Smart Compose–like text completion across my entire OS (macOS)?

For example, writing this post now I could start typing something like: “You know what would be great? Having this fe” and it would let me hit `tab` to complete the word “feature”.
I don't :)
Or he had to cut the budget for flying monkeys
This is a really cool idea. I love the simplicity of annotating cells and "compiling" a serverless HTTP application. In fact this idea of "compiling" the app might be the real novelty here. I suspect the adoption of the project will depend on how seamless you can make compilation and deployment for specific use cases.

Have you considered combining this idea with LLMs and templated prompts?

I'd also encourage you to focus your efforts on creating a smooth experience for "deploying" the resultant application to arbitrary platforms e.g. Fly.io, Render, Google Cloud Run, etc. (I would suggest Cloudflare Workers as well, but as far as I know that's not a platform that supports Python. So maybe it's also worth thinking about how to adopt the same idea to TypeScript.)
Rippling will do all that for you (not plugging, just sharing experience). Then you can focus on real work for the time being.
I used this concept once to write the validation logic for an "IP RegEx filter" setting. The goal was to let users configure an IP filter using RegEx (no, marketing people don't get CIDRs, and they knew RegEx's from Google Analytics). How could I define a valid RegEx for this? The intersection with the RegEx of "all IPv4 addresses" is not empty, and not equal to the RegEx of "all IPv4 addresses". Prevented many complaints about the filter not doing anything, but of course didn't prevent wrong filters from being entered.
> Thus the financially smart thing to do was often to finance the car, even if you could buy it outright

I think the financially smart thing is to avoid debt as much as possible.

Also, if you absolutely need to take on debt and decided to buy a car, the financially smart thing to do would be to buy as cheap a car as possible. But that's not what really is happening, isn't it?

The reality is that taking debt changes how you think and make decisions and has far more reaching consequences than just the financial cost of the debt.
We have come full circle.

I saw this on HN years ago from the original that linked here.
2-3 days ago posted on 4chan's /g/ board that I remembered this sentence but didn't remember its source and the hash it contained.

Someone on /g/ found the post on HN and a large thread ensued that expired and auto-deleted 12 hours ago or so. And then this person posted it on Twitter and it got shared here.

Actually fascinating.
It would be nice if the code in the .xpi wasn't minified.
The names have to be entered manually by pilots, if e.g. they change the route. They have to be transmitted over the air by humans. So they must be short ans simple.
Do you think all deaths are autopsied? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/autopsy-rate
A lack of `^` is equivalent to prepending `(.*)`, then trimming the match span to the end of that capture. And similarly for a lack of `$` (but suddenly I remember how nasty Python was before `.fullmatch` was added ...).

More interesting is word boundaries:

`\b` is just `\<|\>` though that should be bubbled up and usually only one side will actually produce a matchable regex.

`A\<B` is just `(A&\W)(\w&B)`, and similar for `\>`.
To be clear, it's not that someone asked for this fee. You put fees on a transaction to incentivize miners to include your transaction in the next block. So I don't think there was a scam here.
Why would it not? GOOG is the ticker for all of Alphabet, and Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Alphabet.
That was good stuff! I'd buy it by the liter at the 7-11 near where I lived in Kyoto, and chug it on the 203 "guru guru bus" on my way to Japanese school.
"I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place, I always mess up some mundane detail" - Office space
Yet I can't help wondering what problems it had that caused them to abandon it?

Tech comes and goes, there’s nothing to vb specifically. As a language it’s pretty limited, tedious and quirky.

Moreover, why hasn't someone come out with a solid replacement?

Because webdev at its core is a community of stubborn smart guys who love the complexity and hate dull business code. They will present absurd arguments like I can do this and that, as if it couldn’t be packed into a vb component and drag-dropped onto a form from a palette without accompanying 1kloc boilerplate and pages of configuration documentation with no sane defaults. VB GUI model may be obsolete, gray and non-responsive, but no one prevents from building responsive interfaces wysiwyg way. My peer web designer does it without bothering with html/css much and it works for her for decades. All the tech is there, it’s just nobody’s collective interest to combine it into a business RAD instead of an intermediate haskell-level mindfuck starter kit. You can’t burn hundreds of millions doing actual work on a platform that everyone could start using solo in just a few days and deliver a working solution next week, even if raw and clumsy as it usually goes with non-pros.

I’d like to get a better and less bitter explanation, but there is none.
Really wish their Gallery had a "ignore MediaStore, the filesystem is the Single Source Of Truth" mode :(
Given that the architecture has a semantic layer, you just need to pick one that integrates with DuckDB, e.g. Cube [1].

About distributed DuckDB, have you checked Boiling Data? [2]

1- https://cube.dev/blog/introducing-duckdb-and-motherduck-inte...
2- https://boilingdata.medium.com/lightning-fast-aggregations-b...
I am not sure, while the values obtained this way might require calibration, it sounds like very controlled conditions to me. The exercise should bring your body into a very controlled state, beyond the physical load very relaxed. So after a short rest, this should be a good time to get reliable readings. But I am not a doctor.
C# is probably what most teams want but don't know it.

- Language is very, very similar to TypeScript. If you're already doing TS on the backend with Node (or even JS), it's a very small lift to C#
- Very rich standard libraries and first party libraries; reduces the need to import a bunch of third party code
- .NET minimal web APIs are very similar to Express now and perhaps even easier since you don't need to import anything to get a microservice up and running
- .NET AOT with .NET 8 will dramatically improve the cold-start for use cases like serverless functions (I find the cold start already pretty good with .NET 7 on Google Cloud Run with the CPU Boost feature turned on).
- C# has a lot of functional features as a result of F#
- Compiles fast and has hot reload via `dotnet watch`
- Provides access to low level primitives where extra performance is needed
i don't think being unaware protects you.
Already aware.

Amazon also gets away with this because of following the Bezos API mandate and these issues each being in isolation. As long as everything keeps functioning at the "api calls between services" level the code can be sick with rot without killing the organism.

Some of the best people I've ever worked with come from Amazon though.
It's very hard to ensure you capture every single possible failure mode. Yes, the engineering control is important but it's not the most critical. What to do if it does fail (for any reason) is the truly critical control, because it solves for the possibility of not knowing every possible way something might fail and therefore missing some way to prevent a failure
Not if they didn't realize that existing employees were allowed to work from home.

It's a class distinction that breeds resentment and screws up team dynamics. You can't 'just' fix this problem with a grandfather clause. It creates new problems.
Yea they do that in the US as well. But not very often.
Thanks for making me laugh :D
this is likely Mark Hamilton's static site deployed from his own blob storage account
https://github.com/mhamilton723
I did a project at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media on building a hyper-local radio platform, and we'd always use Car Talk as an example of the kind of interactions we wanted to enable. Like, what if you were a vet in rural Uganda, and you wanted to have a show for farmers to describe their problems and get expert help. Call it Goat Talk, and we'd descend into bleats and baahs.
Ask HN: DNS names used as electronic “title”
Hi,

Attorney here with a question and figure if anyone has seen this concept in the wild a good chance it’s the HN community.

It’s an idea that is admittedly inspired somewhat by “tokenization of real-world assets” which is starting to get discussed a lot in legal circles using blockchain tech.

They idea is actually very appealing to corporate clients, but I think as the HN crowd knows blockchain also carry’s a lot of stigma. I began to wonder, why not replace blockchain tokens with DNS names as title. DNS names are known, understood, and trusted.

It might sound silly and I’m not looking for a “databases already do that” type of answer. Also I know ICANN has some restrictions/rules/policies that might make such a use case impractical, but my question is has it been done before/does someone offer a service using domains as representation of tangible or intangible asset ownership?
https://autograms.net/
The Slowest GitHub PRs in Recorded History
I've been using Google Fit to track my blood pressure over time. I've been measuring every other day. The charts really are helpful.

The biggest correlation with my blood pressure is how regular my sleep is. Once I started militantly waking and sleeping on a set schedule, the numbers came down. They seem to spike for a few days if my sleep gets messed up badly somehow.

I also have been trying to standardize my measurement: same time of day, after sitting quietly alone for five minutes.
Trapped US explorer on verge of rescue from deep Turkish cave
What do you mean? Are you suggesting you can figure out who the company is?
We're not talking about profit (which is dictated by depreciation of capital intensive investments), we're talking about adoption the service. GCP is alive and well.

> And even that is only because of GSuite

Where do you see that?
https://archive.is/BF4sB
The criticism from the beginning was of a fundamental theoretical nature, and died at the 90's when people proved and demonstrated that neural networks were powerful enough to run any kind of computation.

In fact, I don't recall people criticizing neural networks from being too small to be useful. Ever. There was a lot of disagreement between wide and deep network proponents, that deep won by demonstration, but "how large a network we need to handle X" was always more of a question than a "see, we'll never get there". (Even more because the "we will never get there" is obviously false, since the thing practically no limit on scaling.)
What's Wrong with Elon?
I don't know why you put that in quotes, I don't believe there has been a single successful activist movement in history that never had to break the law. That doesn't mean that all illegal protest is justified, but it does mean that the legality of an action is not useful in determining whether it's justified and effective.
PSA : The Harris Corner detector, while interesting to understand if you like linear algebra, is not exactly what you'd call state of the art in the feature detection layer of computer vision.
Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
And not just old school financial institutions. Jane Street used to run out of an excel sheet. Many hedge funds still do.
Users aren't expected to manipulate URLs manually. If your URLs have extra stuff, that's what people are going to copy/paste into messages.

Amazon product URLs are looong, but maybe people don't share them enough for Amazon to care. YouTube and Twitter put more effort into making them short.
Windows only desktop applications died.
The pipe vs. socket perf debate is a very old one. Sockets are more flexible and tunable, which may net you better performance (for instance, by tweaking buffer sizes), but my guess is that the high order bit of how a UDS and a pipe perform are the same.

Using pipes instead of a UDS:

* Requires managing an extra set of file descriptors to get bidirectionality

* Requires processes to be related

* Surrenders socket features like file descriptor passing

* Is more fiddly than the socket code, which can often be interchangeable with TCP sockets (see, for instant, the Go standard library)

If you're sticking with Linux, I can't personally see a reason ever to prefer pipes. A UDS is probably the best default answer for generic IPC on Linux.
It was all about the difficulty of actually installing software on all those desktops. The web eliminated all of that.

And it was so easy for ODBC and other configs to get trampled on by users and installers running amok over existing settings.

Everyone was root on their PC in those days. The opportunity for users to screw things up accidentally was everywhere.
Intentional.

Basically its a semidense point cloud [1], but instead of a point, there is a blob which has been coloured, angled and scaled to match the input picture. This means they are optimised to be viewed from a certain distance.

Think of it like a 3d vector drawing, if you zoom in too much, or pull one part away, it all starts to look a bit funky.

[1]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326621750/figure/fi...
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

Gas and Service Stations have their own category as they are a significant target for crime. Unlocked vehicles, stores open at night, cash on site, etc.

Here is an advisory by the Florida Sherriff's on how to deal with gas stations:
https://www.flsheriffs.org/uploads/docs/How_to_Prevent_Gas_S...

CCTV prevents no crime, it exists for insurance purposes.

But hey, TALK TO WOMEN, you will learn a lot. Safety/Risk is a totally different perception and issue across gender lines. Just like why humanity agreed on separating bathrooms in the first place.
their agency is tasked with, among other things, prosecuting people for possessing and using a substance which is harmless, but still disallowed by bureaucrats

the dude was fired for possessing and using a substance which is harmless, but still disallowed by bureaucrats
This is useful for numa systems (e.g. to track how much time you spend on each numa socket), note that the memcg controller already has numa support. For example, depending on what mempolicy you have configured you may want to know how much memory is allocated on each numa node and also where the processes are mostly running, because remote numa memory accesses are more expensive.

This is also generally useful if you're using cpusets (even if you're not on a numa system) because you may have them configured in a way where some CPUs belong to multiple cpusets. You can already get per-cpu CPU usage information, but this could help you figure out why a particular CPU has more usage than another.
The more important requirement is that the id should not be guessable and not easily be brute-forced (example: YouTube private video listings). Now, what's the minimum required entropy to make it unguessable but also make it short enough to have people tell the id over the phone or something?
We have our first bug bounty!

Thank you "dz2742" for finding out [1] existing connections including websockets are not terminated and has won 100 USD! This is exactly the type of exploit I was hoping to catch.

Now I have to figure out how to fix that :) And also think about refilling the bug bounty pool without becoming very poor very soon.

https://github.com/matusfaro/quarantab/issues/2
This is just hand waving. There is no evidence that this thinking helps with ME. The studies have been debunked and in the UK guidelines have been updated, and clinicians are slowly catching up. The research is used as a textbook example of bad science in some universities.

You can watch the primary researchers fail to defend their work here:

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/hpq/22/9

Funding levels for biomedical research on ME/CFS compared to biopsychosocial has been a drop in the ocean. Funding overall is absurdly low relative to disease burden https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32568148/

Regardless, there are hundreds of studies showing biological abnormalities in ME/CFS patients- dysfunctional mitochondria, changes in white/grey matter volume, hypoperfusion in the brain, SPECT scan abnormalities, VO2 max going down after exercise, whatever’s going on with Ron Davis’s nano needle study. You could go on and on- just type ME/CFS in to google scholar and skip past anything written by a UK psychiatrist.

You might be confused regarding the lack of a biomarker that’s specific enough for diagnosis. This doesn’t mean that we don’t have pathological findings, just that none of them are found in _every_ patient and also not found in patients suffering from other illnesses. This may well be because ME/CFS isn’t even a single thing.

Long Covid researchers are steadily replicating the same findings we have seen in ME/CFS, but faster because they have more funding.

Death threats do not tell us anything about whether the science is true. The allegations are often used by researchers to distract from scientific discussion of their work. Still, more on the details of those allegations here:

https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Intimidation_and_bullying_of_PACE_...
Honestly I think in most US cities the driving stress would drive ones BP far higher. I know one time just right before I got to the Drs office some one almost ran into me, I mean just missed, and my BP was way high still.
> Media Molecule “Dreams” has a splat-based renderer (I think the shipped version is not purely splat-based but a combination of several techniques).

From: https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/05/Gaussian-Splatting-is-pr...

Good eye
So many posts about this here recently, we get it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37443906

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37410287

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37413126

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37413999

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37437000
You may be wrong, you may be right, but I like your sentence - 'that (maybe) the manipulation of desire is rewarded'

Thank you for your take
My favourite detail about that 1956 meeting is this extract from the conference proposal:

> An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves. We think that a significant advance can be made in one or more of these problems if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer.

I think this may be one of the most over-ambitious software estimates of all time.

The whole proposal is on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop
Access was an app you had installed on your workstation but never opened because in the backend every late 90s early 2000s desktop app was using it as its data backend.

Between Excel (with no functional API to use for storage) and a "real database" (your users now need to ask IT to deploy SQLServer) was a use case of app just needs to store persistent data for a single user.
Ooh thought I recognised that name - is Love still online and being developed???
I don’t know - there’s real impact and then there’s inconsequential path dependency. This feels like the latter. The networks turned out to be valuable but LISP did not.
This term was in wide circulation when I was consulting at NATS in the 2000-2005 time frame.
Amazon is one of the few top tier companies with a generally good reputation where I know engineers who have left voluntarily. The amount of baling wire and duct tape holding it together is only one reason.