skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not trying to derail the thread, but having used a variety of dedicated, virtualized, and shared hosts since the mid 90's, Hetzner was hands-down the worst experience I've ever encountered. Their KYC process is indeed arduous but that's not my complaint, in fact I naively believed it meant they took things seriously.

They null-routed my server on launch day because their false-positive laden abuse detection thought it was being attacked. Despite filling out their attestation form and replying to support that my server was completely under my control and not being attacked, they still null-routed the box, and took ~8 hours to respond to my pleas (the first half of which was during normal CEST support hours) to re-enable traffic, along with an extremely patronizing tone when they did. After that event, looking at online review sites (e.g. trustpilot) and webhosting forums, these are common complaints when someone uses Hetzner and actually attempts to use the CPU, memory, or bandwidth resources included with their server.

After they killed my server, I quickly spun up the exact same services with a different provider and haven't had any issues since.
NewsCord compares your news articles against others to give you the full picture
While true, they have been doing it in their own silo while being smug toward everybody else.
Or leave yourself off mute the whole time in a noisy environment.
The Pegasus Scandal in Poland
I would suggest that the body of a deceased person should not be treated like personal property. Your family and those descendants who come after you will want to venerate your remains and visit them wherever they may be interred. Placing a skull on a bookshelf is not conducive to this public veneration.

This is why it is customary to inter bodily remains in public places such as cemeteries, where they are open and may be visited by anyone with an interest, or indeed any stranger who wishes to pay respects and keep your memory alive.

Case in point: my godfather/uncle passed away a few years ago, and I missed his funeral because I was unable to travel. The word is that he was cremated, and those remains are kept in the home of my estranged cousin. Therefore, even if I were to travel there, I cannot rightly invite myself to her home to visit the remains of my uncle. It is unjust that they are more or less "held hostage" and that she claims "ownership" of his body, thereby withholding rights of visitation and veneration from the rest of the family, or at least unjustly gatekeeping those rights.
I'd wager that increased microbiome diversity --> increased inflammation --> additional local tissue damage.

Microbiome changes may have something to do with an aging immune system too [1].

There are probably a large number of things happening here, in addition to the traditional skin aging mechanisms.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09527...
It also skirted over the medication shortage. This is a big deal: some medications have been unavailable for months, all are in short supply, pharmacists are pissed, and patients are suffering. Despite this I’ve yet to find an in-depth explanation of how we got here.
gravity is not related to the macroeconomic environment
The way ADHD medication is treated is wild to me. Doctors expect that people will be taking these medications for the rest of their life, and yet society treats these people almost like they're criminals. You can't get too much supply of the medicine. You can't easily travel with it. A pharmacy might just refuse to sell it to you. A future doctor might just decide that ADHD isn't real. And apparently the medicine can also just... run out.

Maybe the medication is just scrutinized too much?
I agree. Plus, there also simple things like plain cirulation. Skin is fed by blood, and all the various juices that sluce up from below. It seems to my very uneducated understanding that this would have a far greater impact overall.
Why isn't it serious? I can imagine a smart pointer that actually accomplished the stated goal. So the joke is that they took a good idea and made a rubbish solution?
I agree it seems more likely that causation flows from aging to microbiome changes, not the opposite.

When your skin ages, the biome changes as your barrier is degraded, as your skin thins, as inflammation increases as your immune system ages, and as the surface becomes rougher and more difficult to clean.
I'm not clicking a CNN story, but I'd say not so much a hero woman, but ignorant would-be rescuers.

Number one rule in helping someone like that is: Check for Danger. If you don't, then you've suddenly got two (or more!) people who need medical attention.

There's an acronym: DRs-ABCD

Danger (check), Response, Send for help, Airway, Breathing, CPR, Defib. But check for danger, that's number one. Put it in your Anki.

https://www.australiawidefirstaid.com.au/resources/what-is-d...
You should also give Arcane a shot, it's one of the beautifully animated and written series I have seen.
Meanwhile, don't forget your sunscreen and wide brim hat!
So you paid for 1 year of warranty, and expected them to give you free labor for a replacement or a discount on a part replacement?

Not sure any other company would do that either, if it's out of warranty you pay parts and labor, that's just the way it works.
I don’t think this is quite right. I think paraphrasing The Incredibles has a better take:

When everybody is an artist, then nobody will be one.
The PR is how they're reporting it. "We want an minimum of 20, but it could make upwards of 200 flights before giving out" isn't as punch as they want. They want to say, "We only are planning on 5 flight. WOW, 15 flights?! Wait wait wait...NOW IT'S UP TO 40 FLIGHTS?!?!"

(And if your target is at least 20 but you say it's 5, you can miss your target and still claim you succeeded.)

Look at the reporting from NASA. For instance[1]:

> “Less than a year ago we didn’t even know if powered, controlled flight of an aircraft at Mars was possible,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. “Now, we are looking forward to Ingenuity’s involvement in Perseverance’s second science campaign. Such a transformation of mindset in such a short period is simply amazing, and one of the most historic in the annals of air and space exploration.”
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> “This upcoming flight will be my 22nd entry in our logbook,” said Ingenuity chief pilot Håvard Grip of JPL. “I remember thinking when this all started, we’d be lucky to have three entries and immensely fortunate to get five. Now, at the rate we’re going, I’m going to need a second book.”

"One of the most historic in the annals of air and space exploration"? Or here[2]:

> NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completed 71 flights since first taking to the skies above the Red Planet on April 19, 2021, far exceeding its originally planned technology demonstration of up to five flights.

Of course, this makes it to the Wiki article[3]:

> The helicopter's performance and resilience in the harsh Martian environment have greatly exceeded expectations. The aircraft surpassed its required altitude and flight duration specifications soon after beginning operations on Mars. This allowed Ingenuity to perform far more flights than were initially expected of the aircraft.

Or look at how XKCD has a comic about "Wow, I can't believe this rover exceeded our expectations by so much!" for both Spirit[4] and Opportunity[5].

At this point, it's hard to not see this framing as NASA spin, one that people keep falling for over and over again.

[1] https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9146/nasa-extends-ingenuity-helic...
[2] https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Helicopter-High...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)
[4] https://xkcd.com/695/
[5] https://xkcd.com/1504/
I'm either not understanding you or disagreeing. You seem to be saying that something should be because it is? Saying that would be rather silly, as in "Electrons should repel each other because they repel each other." Not to mention that this claim runs amok of the naturalistic fallacy. So what are you driving at?
Just anecdata from the people around me, but I think the OR may well be and AND, plus the added caveat that finding something new will take significantly longer than in the past.
SteamOS is just a Linux distro, it works on any platform that can run Linux; the "closed source" part of SteamOS is just the Steam client, which they build as a distro-neutral binary for multiple archs (yes, they build it for ARM, too; there are very few sold-on-Steam native Linux games that have ARM binaries, but they exist and its growing).
Hey - thank you! I really appreciate hearing from someone who actually knows what they are talking about.

I know nothing about the helicopter in particular but as I pointed out, NASA seems to very frequently underestimates longevity and performance (not a crime at all and maybe politically wise); I can't remember when they've overestimated. Forget my impressions in prior posts - how and why does that actually happen?

> tech demo ... precarious ... not much engineering experience

Also, while I've taken the opportunity of spare resources to do experiments (though not usually on Mars), I'm careful about timing and appearances - I don't want to embarass my team or partners with a failure that's visible to outsiders who wouldn't understand it was an experiment, and would think we just failed at our jobs.

Everything NASA does seems to be on a very public stage, interpreted by endless outsiders (like on HN :) ). The whole world watched the helicopter's first flight. How can someone approve the helicopter, and promotion of its flight, and risk the world saying, for the next decade, 'that crazy helicopter embarassment shows we need to rein in NASA', blah blah blah? NASA's reputation is very important to humanity.

Thanks for sharing what you know. You guys do amazing things; people are so jaded that they don't realize how incredible it is.
What’s so “powerful” about ChatGPT 3 and 4 ?
> Who uses (or doesn't use) which honorific with which people is important.

That's just a question of character voice. You can also say a translation is inaccurate because in the original the characters were speaking Japanese and now they're speaking English.

But as they say, it can't be helped. You just need to be sure readers can still distinguish who's speaking in the result by making people sound different.

> Says who?

Most language learning material and anime fan common knowledge? Even Wikipedia, though it has some caveats.

And of course there's real life situations where people call girls -kun as well.
Now that I think about it, an easy test could've comparing the skin of people who do/don't regularly swim in chlorinated pools. I'd think that the chlorine would pretty much nuke any surface microbiome. So the comparison would be fairly straightforward. Hardly definite, with all the possible confounding factors and all, but certainly an easy way to test for plausibility.
Congratulations, you just lowered wages for everyone involved across the board.
Show HN: Chai - remote PDF and Hex Viewer service accessible via remote browser
I'm really happy with this. It doesn't provide the "best" PDF support (it converts to images, page by page) -- but it does support a bunch of other documen formats supported by the union of LibreOffice, Pandoc and MuPDF -- and it was hella fun to write and get working: a mix of bash scripting glue, nodejs servering, and dependency installation.

Next up in the todo for Chai is getting it working on Windows (which will basically involve finding the right dependencies and maybe branching within the bash glue for their different paths from the Windows dimensions haha! :)).

I was particularly proud of the hex viewer part. I just felt it was not complete without really being able to see the byte by byte playout of a file.

Obviously there are some file size limitations (but the hex viewer is streaming, so should work for any size the underlying system can handle), and therefore optimally efficient.

Oh, and it also should handle archives just fine, as in, you can open {zip,tar.gz,... etc ...} archives and inspect them "file viewer" style.

Somehow I just felt this kind of capability (remote viewing files, from a safe and secure distance) was absolutely necessary for a remote browser.

I often think of these things like a "glovebox"^0

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glovebox
specifically designed for handling hazardous materials, including biological, chemical, or radioactive substances. Gloveboxes provide a sealed environment where researchers or technicians can manipulate hazardous substances safely
Hmm you have a point but I don't think it's a problem since this is for the cli instead of the browser. Plus $ is pretty common in the shell to indicate the prompt.
Though this is cool and I appreciate the ethos here the article doesn't really spell it out.

All the cost, difficulty, time and money in injection molding is in the molds. They are expensive.

When done well they can make 1000's of parts if not more.

It's a great project, an amazing POC. There is the potential for small scale (garage sized) manufacturing to exist, the equipment is the cost of a (nice) car...
Was going to ask that. I had the tab open but couldn't find it on HN anymore.

I think it was at least in 5th place on the front page when it suddenly disappeared.

Wasn't there a tool to monitor HN article rankings?
Depends on your variables. Does it need to run fast? Does it need to be robust? or Error tolerant? What are the consequences for an error occuring (frustration/money/injury/life)? Is it going to need to be updated frequently? Does Pascal have the libraries you need?

As someone says elsewhere Javascript is good cross-platform, but AFAIK it's an interpreted language, and may not run as fast as a compiled language.

You need to look at the pros and cons, and your use-cases.
> This seems like a pretty pointless "arms race" or "cat and mouse game".

If there is any "point" of this, it's that's going to push the AI models to become better at capturing how humans see things.
no, but a chain's structural integrity is. you know, the lowest bidder and all that stuff
Early on I remember being enthusiastic about it, by putting my authentication eggs in one basket. The irony being that I was somehow oblivious of how putting your eggs in one basket is violation of a logical tenet of security. I think I, like many of us, was duped into a false sense of security by trusting the expertise of Google, Apple, etc. in exchange for willingly deepening their walled garden. The scales fall off when you realize how even the biggest orgs fail eventually and centralizing authentication just widens the blast radius.
I was in a volunteer fire Dept for a while, and the fire chief was an older, ex-marine. His number one rule - "if you loose your cool, you've lost everything".

That, and always park the fire engine so you can get out if things go bad.
Vocaloid is amazing for that. It's the final piece of the puzzle democratizing music creation. It's easily my favorite music scene for how fan-driven and collaborative it is. A few other major careers launched from that scene that come to mind:

Kenshi Yonezu started as the vocaloid producer Hachi, and went on to have numerous hits, including a few anime openings and recently the end credit songs for The Boy and the Heron and Final Fantasy XVI.

Yoasobi had one of the most popular music videos, globally, on YouTube last year and is playing Coachella this year. One half of Yoasobi is the (active) vocaloid producer Ayase. (Hatsune Miku is also on the list for Coachella, as well as a new North America tour...)

Ryo/Supercell has been big for awhile, Giga (who used to work with Reol) just did a Pokemon X Hatsune Miku collab and does work for Hololive songs occasionally...
> So if you fail to reproduce you will break that billion year old chain of evolutionary success.

I’m responding to this and saying that’s not an accurate way to frame it. I’m saying you are participating in evolutionary success even if you don’t reproduce. For example, a more social family where there are siblings that don’t reproduce and instead invest in the success of the reproductive sibling’s offspring is still evolutionary success and would be being selected for through your whole families reproductive success as a whole rather than your individual success.

The argument being made here is similar to the argument that sterilizing would result in removal of genes from the pool - it doesn’t work because gene selection is very complicated and doesn’t solely rely on individual reproduction.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40499-0
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/images-altered-to-tric...

Study on the Influence of Adversarial Images on Human Perception
Agreed. I'm definitely the "target" of this article, as I've just recently been diagnosed in my late 30s with adult ADHD. I feel like I've shown the signs during my childhood - poor grades due to poor attention span, constant fidgeting, and emotional irregularity due to hyperactivity and my impatience of others. Only recently have I thought to actually see anyone about it, as I've started seeing similar signs in my daughter.

Reading through the article, it definitely highlighted concerns I had about my process: lack of available providers (to the point that many wouldn't even accept a call from a new patient), essentially forced to use online services, relatively short discussions before treatment, and ultimately being prescribed stimulants.

Overall, I'm glad I started this process. I definitely feel better on the medication, to the point where I'm able to effectively track my daily tasking, keep cohesive notes, drastically reduce my unintended verbal interruptions of others, and churn work out without context switching so often. I obviously can work without the medication, but it's absolutely a night and day difference to me. Ultimately, I just hope that the progression of the adult ADHD diagnosis and discovery continues to mature, and online services aren't completely cut off from the space.
No no and no.

Companies will find a way to make things work even if labour costs more. Every company and neo liberal says that same thing about regulation, employee wages, tax increases .... Funnily enough when those same regulations/wage increases/taxes come in they do not leave the market ... Strange.

Edit: clarity

Companies can and will adapt.
which implies that everyone in X industry would be paid the same, or based on seniority rather than merit.

You're implying that being paid by seniority isn't already the case for most of the tech industry. Last time I checked, most job adverts are looking for "X years of experience in Y".

> Or at least, I haven’t seen particularly persuasive evidence that unions can do more than make everyone collectively equal

The work culture in europe is largely based on standardized work contracts, enforced by unions. For example, the entire railway industry in Germany is collectively unionized (~40k members) and is holding negotiations right now, to renew the terms of these standardized contracts.

The goal of a union is not to "make everyone equal", it is to enforce collective bargaining rights. This usually does lead to better employment conditions for everyone involved though.
> At some point this number exceeds the number of organisms that were alive at that time so there are likely one or more individuals in the past who are direct ancestors to everybody

Wouldn’t this common ancestor be a certainty? Otherwise aren’t you betting that there were similar mutations in different lines?
Idk. If there were gods, which one is correct seems like it'd be a pretty important question. I wouldn't want to worship Beelzejuice Voorhees the Head-Chomper.

Of course, killing people because they privately worship the Head-Chomper is probably too far, unless they're actively chomping (your?) heads. Also, Beelzejuice isn't real.

But principles like human rights and freedom are worth fighting for, and necessary to sometimes fight for (or else we're all screwed)— Beliefs, certainly, if not anthropomorphized as "gods".

Also, religions are a pretty strong indicator of social in-groups and out-groups. If you removed the gods from some religious wars, they'd probably still be fighting each other over skin color, language, ethnicity, culture, social ties, Adidas vs. Nike preference, external political goals, land use, water contamination, domestic political pressures, fishing rights, economic disenfranchisement, etc. Theology may help divide and rationalize it, but control over resources and power are pretty concrete motivations for creatures that have to worry about starving/dying, and gods are a proxy for that.

Scarcity begets conflict. GDP per capita is ~$900 in Gaza, ~$350 in Afghanistan, ~$5,000 in Omsk. Doubt many would willingly sign up, or accept being conscripted, to murder unbelievers if they were more sure about having warm meals and meaningful works to cherish. Doubt NASA engineers would be "capable of flying a remote vehicle on a literally other planet" if they were busy scrounging for physical necessities.

Even Bin Laden introduced his 2001 statement by referencing the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire and its effects on people. Kirill may talk of the "Antichrist", but what Putin wants is Sevastopol.

I think it's reductive to just say "we also kill each other in large numbers over whose god is correct". We kill each other for a variety of reasons, usually fear of ourselves being killed, and sometimes we bring gods into it but it's very rarely, if ever, the sole reason.
This looks exactly like zx by Google. And that's probably a good thing.

https://github.com/google/zx
The fact that r/Bitcoin had to resort to censorship to stop the rank and file from switching to BitcoinXT is one indication that the majority wanted a hard fork.

Industry wanted one as well, considering the industry letter signed by most major industry actors, like Coinbase. [1]

And the vast majority of miners signaled support for a hard fork to raise the block size limit.

As for Bitcoin Cash, that was created long after the author of that article penned the article, so could not possibly have created a conflict of interest when he was writing it.

>>The larger ecosystem has largely abandoned it since it compromises on the values of decentralization, defeating the theoretical purpose of using blockchains in the first place.

Bitcoin Cash didn't have any network effects. Crypto users adopt the network with the largest user base and most liquidity. That's why a hard fork that is only supported by an economic minority is always facing an uphill battle in superseding the original fork.

[1] https://github.com/bitcoinxt/website/blob/master/industry-le...
Delphi compiles the same code and UI to iOS, Android, OSX, Windows, Linux, etc.
Ask HN: Who else though macOS "*.dmg" files damage your Mac?
It's a terrible name for something that's supposed to install apps on your computer. The first time I downloaded it I thought macOS was telling me "this file is bad, don't open it"!

I understand "dmg" stands for (Apple) Disk Image, but there are better (less confusing) names:

- ADI

- IMG
Yea great post! Any post recommendations to clear up the acronyms?
You're doing a lot of work to continue to miss the point. The point is not that we should embrace viruses in order to reap the benefits. Just that it is _POSSIBLE_ that a virus would turn out to be very beneficial to humanity, in the long run. We know this to be a fact, because of the article we're reading above.

The only point I'm hoping people will take, is that we shouldn't be so quick to make categorical statements about the future; like we know exactly how things will play out. I don't know for sure. You don't know for sure. The experts don't know for sure.