skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This part confuses me:

Twelve days after he was given the immunotherapy
drugs, Professor Scolyer had surgery to have
the bulk of his tumour removed.

If they were able to remove the tumor, was it incurable?

Afterwards, they were able to analyze the tissue in the (now removed) tumor to establish that the immunotherapy drug had performed far above anyone's expectations.

That is fantastic news, but it is not my impression from the article that the drug enabled the removal. So by "incurable" did they mean "only treatable by surgery", or am I missing something?
It's the most popular flavor in the same way the Settlers of Catan is the most popular Euro board-game. It's rarely anybody's favorite, but very few people hate it.
Essentially all these stories are apocryphal. Even this vapor lock story.

Sorry but even before today, having a automotive engineer sent to a random person's home over what clearly sounds like a quack letter seems implausible to me. The dictates of capitalism, human resources, and the politics of the workplace would make this difficult if not impossible. Even in the past when there was more human capital in support positions and more of a sense of customer service.

Way, way too many suspicious stories involve high-level people being involved in trivial issues. I just find it all pretty suspicious. Real stories tend to start with poor customer service at the dealership and being mocked by managers and mechanics. Not some unrealistic ideal white knight manager sending off engineers to people's homes. Imagine how many weird letters a place like pontiac gets. They don't have the manpower to do this if they actually chose to do it, and engineers might balk at the idea of doing at-home support too.

Pretty much any "idealized Americana" business story should set off BS alarms in us. "Oh a trivial problem with your car? No problem ma'am, I'm sending our top engineers over tomorrow," doesn't happen because its costly and unsustainable. Instead ask anyone who has odd car problems. Its endless painful calls and visits to dealerships and mechanics. There's a reason we have lemon laws for cars. Its because whats described in this story doesn't actually happen and people demand restitution.

I don't doubt that someone had a famous vapor lock shopping story (ive heard different versions of this story, usually about a housewife picking up her child from a nearby elementary school), but over the years these stories get modified into memetic structures based on dishonesty because most people are social capital seeking and having a humorous story provides them the immature ego boost they need. So "wow my car had vapor lock when I make quick trips" became "So the CEO of Ford came to my house to look at my ice cream car..." The latter is just more interesting in the market of storytelling.

That is to say, the ONLY reason this story is here is because its been modified to be memeticly attractive. A "boring" (i find old technology faults interesting, personally), but a "boring" story about vapor lock wouldn't make it to places like HN or reddit, which are memetic responders (upvote/downvote mechanisms) and lowest-common denominator (by this demographic) popularity machines. But dress up that boring story and now everyone is repeating it, often times claiming its their story and they know the people in it! The same way the comment you're responding to probably doesn't actually know the famous "unplug the server at 5pm" person.
The dude has been saying latest-film will be his "last" film since, what? Spirited Away? Princess Mononoke.

Miyazaki is going to make movies until he dies. Full stop. His son is not as talented as he is, and I don't see him passing the torch anytime soon.
I’m not very familiar with YouTube but can’t that enormous list be condensed to youtube.com###related?
If you’re really a Luddite you’d just use POP for email access, which predates HTML and is offered by gmail. Isn’t static HTML too heavy for your slow connection?

If your computer from 1990 can download emails with POP, why change to HTML?
"Agriculture" does not always equate to fruits and vegetables for humans. Corn and soy for export is agriculture. So is lettuce and tomatoes for local consumption. The point is we need locally grown food for local consumption.

I live in a northern US state that is capable of growing loads of produce in the summer, yet in the summer grocery stores sell veggies and fruit grown in California, Mexico and Florida. Stores sell garlic from China when we can grow great garlic right here.
Starvation? With Russia so reliant on China? Russia can feed China easily as long as China keeps Russian state from collapsing.
DARPA wants new ideas for space weapons
Every Programmer Should Know #1: Idempotency
It does happen, sometimes. Sometimes it's a case of who you know.

When I was at Amazon, Jeff sent out a question-mark email after a complaint from a customer, something he used to do when a direct email complaint caught his attention in some particular way. The complaint was that some amazon hardware was having difficulty with this customers wifi network. I want to say it was a 1st gen Echo, but it has been close to a decade since, and I only saw the report that was produced from the situation, that I honestly forget the particulars.

That question mark email ended up with Amazon sending some senior engineers around to go figure out what was going on at the customer's home, and figure out what that meant for the device and how it might be mitigated. It ended up being some weird combination of physical properties of the house, the wifi arrangement, and some suboptimal behaviour in the Amazon device that was fixed via a subsequent software update.
I'm replying to you, but I'm asking the room: what, if anything, stops vue3 from compiling down to pure JavaScript like svelte does and reaping the speed benefits?
This is the way.

Mobx tc39 decorator support is pretty much done too. I check in on the PR weekly haha.
Ya, its arguably even more effective and sometimes tolerable than finasteride (propecia) which is technically the gold standard but dutasteride is the hidden gold in my view potentially.
I'm Indian, been living in Europe and Switzerland for almost the past decade. I've spent a considerable time of my upbringing in South east Asia and the Middle East. I currently reside in Switzerland, specifically Zurich, with occasional stints to the US for business. I used to live in Germany prior to that. There used to be a time I dreamt of Western citizenship, but not anymore. Hope that answers your "question", although I'm certain you'd be loathe to reciprocate the same favor to me and reveal your origin.

As for the climate hypocrisy argument, sorry to hurt your preconceived notions, but it's already proven that most of the waste that ends up dumped in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-environment-plas...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Environment/Philippines-sl....

https://e360.yale.edu/features/plastic-waste-imports-recycli...

But go on, vacillate and down vote in your self righteousness.
would it be surprising if this has happened more than once?
I was thinking about this just now... the real utility of MNIST is that, since it's basically impossible to get a bad result, it's a good sanity check.
Congrats to the team. I'm on the team over at https://powersync.co and have been following this space for a while.

PowerSync is also a plug-in sync layer. The biggest difference I see is in Electric's use of CRDTs, where we don't rely on them and instead use server reconciliation.

As a team that's been working on online/offline sync for just over a decade, it's great to finally see more products that enable offline-first architectures!
Show HN: 4 Day Week Calculator
Super simple and experimental tool made to compare workdays saved until retirement between 5 day and 4 day workweeks - seeing the difference can be quite an eye opener.

Note, it doesn't consider public holidays/time off in its calculations. Also, the predefined retirement age for both genders and respective countries may not be 100% accurate.
Ubiquiti is the best in the market in terms of breadth and capabilities.
Even the author's ICQ number is listed...
that have a reason, as it's been demostrated by a lot of metastudies you can find on cochrane that there is usually much more worst outcomes and long term effects on the broad of the population when misdiagnosed by overdiagnosing than just simply saving an extra 0.01% (not real number)

the same reason of why for example now there is an advocacy to end yearly mammograms on older woman, because the number of them saved by that practice is inferior to the ones that are misdiagnosed and then put under other unnecesary medical practices that end up hurting more by unnecesary practices on a lot of them that would have never developed a cancer or under pressure to the ones that no one will be able to save no matter how sooner they got the diagnostic.

infinite constant and unnecesary medical tests is not the way for now, maybe in the future, but not now.
a newspaper is dictating a specific security incident response plan for a company to follow? why not. oh, and please pay for the affiliate links
It seems like you’re here to accuse me of taking sides in a culture war. I won’t engage in that.

What do you think about the part of the article I posted that ranks Spain near the bottom of Europe for progressive policies?

I am incredibly skeptical of the idea that Spain is one of the most progressive/liberal/left wing countries in Europe on a factual level. This is a country that is more religious than most of the rest of Western and Northern Europe.
I've never looked into it, but at whose expense is this "shipping back" done? I seriously doubt those seeking refuge can pay.
I own a farm and while I agree that people generally have no idea what goes into farming, I feel like the "tech workers would cry if they ever had to actually farm" statement that is so common on these types of threads is usually coming from someone with experience on a conventional farm.

There are alternative methods of farming like permaculture, and people all over the world use them to grow an abundance of food in an area not much bigger than a large backyard. They are specifically geared towards better utilization of space, and creating natural systems that replace the need for traditional inputs and labor.

Growing someone's entire diet is no small challenge, this is true. But it's also not an all-or-nothing proposition. Someone with zero experience farming could plant some perennial herbs on their balcony, and discover the joy of cooking with them (and replacing a $5 plastic clamshell of Thai basil.) From there, year-by-year, people can get more ambitious with what they grow.
Why are safeguards necessary? They're going to die anyway, letting them try literal snake oil isn't hurting anything.

Let people make decisions for their own bodies.
https://sam.gov/opp/9346c2cd29be4d25a7c81655b14fcd83/view
> People with nothing to lose make fantastic targets for snake oil fraud.

How much of that is because there's nothing else offered to them, other than snake oil and "have fun dying soon"?

If their entire world is full of hucksters and con men, how can it possibly make things worse to open it up to legitimate research?
I mean...it's possible they've improved a lot compared to where they were 30+ years ago, but to call GM's cars "near peers to Japanese cars for reliability" just doesn't hold up.

On Consumer Reports' list of car brands by reliability[0], none of GM's brands even crack the top 10. GMC and Chevy are 20 and 21, respectively, out of 25 brands. (The top 5 include, unsurprisingly, Toyota, Lexus, and Honda—your classic reliable Japanese brands.)

[0] https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s... (may be paywalled...?)
DARPA Seeks Tech Solutions Create Autonomous Capabilities for Commercial Drones
Or use a terminal multiplexer like tmux instead of "terminal tabs". Never leave the terminal, except for the browser.
Yea but then we need another crypto block chain that validated whether a component producer is a real component producer;)

I'm serious though. There are a lot of aerospace manufacturers, even small mom and pop machine shops that take orders for parts but they do comply with the paperwork regulation.

So who or what regulates who can produce?

Is the block chain also going to sit in the factory to ensure that after the initial components, that the company doesn't bait and switch to non compliance and fake the paperwork?

That's why ultimately the final arbiter here is the law, and prison. Even though the lowest level of paper trail was forged, the rest of the documentation exists and the fraudster are facing a giant world of hurt, and prison.
Subaru just had a class action lawsuit about their stupid car infotainment systems draining the battery.

https://www.subarubatterysettlement.com/

The dealers wanted a ton of money to diagnose the issue, even though I suspected it must have been the infotainment system draining the battery. I just ended up replacing the infotainment system with a cheap CarPlay compatible one and the problem went away.

Problem is I cannot get money from the class action settlement since the original infotainment system is already out and I fixed it myself.
Isn't a lot of this people's opinions and people's personal beliefs? At least that's how I interpret the claim that article is making. And in this context, isn't it difficult to police disinformation/hate when it's really just what people truly believe?

It's possible I am being contrarian, so let me say that I don't understand this topic very well but that is how I see it.

> A small number of users are responsible for a large proportion of this disinformation, suggesting that curbing their influence could have a significant impact.

Maybe it would be more helpful to show the networks of accounts that perpetuate this kind of disinformation and then call that out directly.
Tanks simply peaked in the couple decades after WW2. We increased armor and cannon size a bit, but there's just not much to improve on an armored box. Even the most advanced tanks can be disabled by a mine (not much changed since WW2) then taken out by artillery (as seen with the Challenger 2 recently destroyed).

WW2 saw the creation of HEAT and the 1970s saw the perfection of HEAT with stuff like the TOW ensuring that any near-peer conflict turned any tank into a necessary, but risky infantry support platform. Modern drones and fire/forget ATGMs have made this even more true.

> New weapons take time to mass, decades to gain relevance.

This is primarily a function of how governments and government contractors work. When you eliminate barriers, you can get something like the famous P-51 which went from design to working prototype in a mere 102 days.

We are seeing something similar with the Lancet drone where a complete redesign has been completed and shipped in a few months and has radically shifted the game in Ukraine. We saw something similar with the FPV drones employed by the Ukrainians.

> rather than sending 40 year old A10s out there and pretending that we don't have any better tech ourselves.

A-10 would be more survivable in the current Ukraine war than the F-35 (which probably couldn't get off the ground most of the time due to the runway conditions).

In the SU-25, targeting the engine means blowing up right next to the cockpit, wings, and munitions resulting in an extremely high loss rate when hit.

In the A-10, the engine is away from the wing and pilot with the wing standing between the engine and munitions. The upward position of the engine also makes it harder to target in the first place. This is why there are quite a few images of them returning with damage to one engine and little else.
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Most of that debt was originated in Middle East conflicts, the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, the COVID pandemic, and tax cuts for the wealthy. This sounds like a great idea that is cost effective to connect interested folks to efforts, very similar to a startup accelerator's online forum with job listings.
One thing I hope we'll see is that the people with the big LLM servers try to be platforms as opposed to one-stop shops [1]. With AI getting better and better at executing, I think best case we'll see an era where good novel ideas are the currency of the realm[2]. That would be great - coming up with novel ideas and thinking deeply about what we should be pursuing is about the best alignment with human nature I can imagine. But it can only happen if access to the LLMs themselves is cheap and hacker-friendly.

[1] there's good arguments to evolve a business model in that direction, e.g. Apple beating blackberry not through superior hardware but a superior app store.

[2] I'd be remiss not to plug my own recent oevre here, https://eucyclos.wixsite.com/eucyclos/contact-8-1 inspired by the difficulty of conveying positive emotions over screens. Advice from people who have built this kind of thing successfully is of course welcome.
This is a good point that I don’t see very often. Video producers who have an explicit (or even an implicit) agreement with YouTube and depend financially on the earnings that it provides are not just “creators” who can “go somewhere else”. Surely, one could say that to any worker: don’t like the job? Go somewhere else. And still we have fought so hard for labor rights that give employees more agency and some level of protection against abuse.

Makes me think whether receiving regular earnings from any online service should legally redefine the relationship between the user and the service to something closer resembling an employment contract.
Nipah virus outbreak: what scientists know so far
We've toyed with this idea. There's a couple of problems though. Firstly, if you have this...

type Reactive<T> = T;
function $state<T>(value: T): Reactive<T>

...then TypeScript will 'unwrap' the type anyway, unless you do funky stuff like this...

type Reactive<T> = T & { [uniquesymbol]: any };

...in which case things like `value += 1` will cause type errors because it coercies `value` from `Reactive<number>` to `number`.

But it also creates problems here:

let message = $state('hello');
obj = { message };

The type of `obj.message` is Reactive<string>, but it's _not_ reactive — it's a non-reactive snapshot of the value when the object was created.

It's possible that we can do some fun stuff with TypeScript plugins, but we haven't dived too deeply into it yet.
Are we talking about the same things? How does a latency of a few days affect the author in that scenario? It's books not hft. Should be fine to limit much further than 3 per day.
It goes along the same lines as the recent paper from Deepmind stating that DL (language modeling in their case) is compression.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.10668.pdf
Agree. Svelte is a blast to write as an old grumpy backend engineer. But yes, probably just scared for nothing. Turning onMount() into $effect() is a tiny change, but this self-aware smol brained grug likes onMount() as it means something! To enable logical grouping, Svelte 5 allows us to nest the $effect()s? What does that even mean? Where am I? Nurse!
There is no one size fits all memory management technique. There are always tradeoffs. The scenario you are describing is not common for ruby apps. Ruby uses a memory management style that is suitable for most ruby workloads.

All the production quality app servers handle killing and and starting new worker processes gracefully and efficiently by forking a running process. Certainly there is some overhead, but that's why you don't underprovision memory, so you don't need to resort to that.
> There's a reason WinCE's desktop OS paradigms failed in PDAs whereas iOS succeeded - you need to reinvent the experience when you move modalities. I would argue the exact same thing will happen in AR/VR: sticking with a desktop OS paradigm is a losing proposition.

I think you've nailed it here. I never thought of it in those terms before, but now that I see it, it's obvious.

It reminds me of the (probably apocryphal) story of Henry Ford saying that his customers didn't want cars - they wanted faster horses. I think there's something analogous here. If all you are offering is a Linux desktop in VR, you're making faster horses.

When I think about where a novel new VR mode is going to come from, it's either going to be Apple or a research team at a liberal arts college. Technologists can really only solve half the problem.
> LOTS of modern skyscrapers have no access other than the emergency exits and guarded entrances on the bottom floor(s)

Fair enough, exempt luxury buildings with doormen and staff where they deliver packages to you anyway. Going off New York, San Francisco, Miami, London, Frankfurt, Roma, Napoli, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Montevideo, New Delhi, Bombay, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo and Seoul, I think that covers it.
Original source: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2...
> How many of those have a clear vertical space reaching to the sky?

Suburban porches are covered. If you can land on a porch you can land on a balcony.
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Hmmm, for long-lived processes and stream processing we use tracing just fine. What we do is make a cutoff of 60 seconds, which each chunk is its own trace. But our backend queries trace data directly, so we can still analyze the aggregate, long-term behavior and then dig into a particular 60 second chunk if it's problematic.
A Newly Discovered Brain Signal Marks Recovery from Depression
Ubiquiti is trustworthy.

Krebs jumped the gun on that accusation and apologized

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/final-thoughts-on-ubiqui...
I inferred that they were speculating, not that they had a smoking gun piece of evidence. The word "probably" is what tipped me off, ymmv.
Exactly, just think about any construction site on earth where throughout the construction they realize that they actually need windows or electricity.
Because further investigation is dangerous. So you see a mass which has an a posteriori probability of being cancer of 1%, but the investigation causes serious complications in 2% of cases, then the decision to investigate is not clear cut. The additional information has not only not helped but has led to additional stress.
A key thing with ubiquiti is that you need all ubiquiti hardware for the cameras. It's an expensive affair
Wow, you used "memetic" three times. Very erudite.
Previously, Tabby ran exclusively on CUDA devices, posing a significant barrier for developers looking to effectively utilize LLMs in their day-to-day coding.

The Tabby team made a significant contribution by enhancing support for the StarCoder series models (1B/3B/7B) in llama.cpp. This enhancement allows these models to run on Metal, providing comparable performance to that of an NVIDIA GPU.
Its a colloquialism for group of people involved in an enterprise or craft. Same usage as "The Paypal Mafia".
This is HN, so I think I can be pedantic without reservation here.

In Rober's video the drone is not any less loud, it's just that the power in each frequency is smoothed out. In that, the total power is the same, just now more evenly distributed. We humans then perceive this as more quiet. The drone is essentially more akin to a white noise machine than a machine that buzzes in certain frequency bands.

For the curious, Tom Scott talks about the oddities of human hearing here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is_wu0VRIqQ

TLDR: Human hearing is more 'sensitive' to certain frequencies, perceiving them as louder despite being the same power.
Tech Bros Lectured Congress About AI “Like Schoolchildren”