skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many countries, including the US, death reporting is a bit of a mess. Those numbers will likely continue to tick up as numbers come in.

In Ireland, at one point in the pandemic, a lot of attention was paid to rip.ie, an obituaries website, because the non-hospital official death count was _months_ in arrears; the mechanisms around death reporting were just not designed for realtime analysis.
me pls
Enhanced Games, the 21st Century Olympics without drug testing
That doesn't sound like a great experience. If you don't mind reaching out I can look into what happened there -> aanderson @ companyname . com
Don't Prefill Config Files
Ask HN: Suggestion for platforms for managing data sets to fine tune GPT
We are looking to fine tune GPTs and have good amount of training data collected, is there a platform to manage (slice, tag, group) data sets in general ?

Thanks!
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Fullstack. The languages listed above are of my immediate proficiency. Besides those, I have done Python, C#, CL, Lua/Fennel, Go, Java. I would be interested in using Haskell, Elixir, Rust, Erlang, F#, Scala, OCaml.
Amazon burns and churns through employees, Google burns and churns through paying customers. Guess which one holds better in a bad labor market.
> Is resolution going to peak?

It should. At some point you are beyond any difference a human eye can detect on a tv or monitor you’re sitting less than 10ft away from.

It probably won’t though because capitalism means there has to be a reason to sell you a new widget and 3D was an utter failure.
What do you mean? All my personal communication is encrypted.
The Confused Deputy Problem
Well, that's 15 seconds I will never get back.
>these laser links are used in bursts and the link stays established only for a few tens of seconds or minutes, until the satellites move away

The way Starlink satellites are in orbit, the same satellites will remain "ahead" and "behind" you in the orbital plane. Those laser links (specifically!) will remain relatively persistent. This arrangement is similar to Iridium FYI.

FTA: "in some cases, the links can also be maintained for weeks at a time"
Location: Japan (comfortable with a 4-hour overlap with PT)
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Technologies: distributed systems, database engines, knowledge graphs, search engines, recommendation systems, large language models, AI accelerators, compilers
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Hi! I am a tech lead with 15 years of industry experience, ex-Google, ex-my own startup. I specialize in information retrieval and (somewhat ML-oriented) systems engineering. I can do pretty much anything from front-end to hardware design but really shine in mentoring and data science research (live experiments, human evals, product metrics etc.) I will help you build great engineering culture, state-of-the-art technology, and happy teams.
iOS has a nifty feature that lets you block all calls from numbers not in your contacts.
Hang in there - first jobs are always a PITA...
You might be able to get some relevant 'work' experience by volunteering somewhere while you look? (though, that doesn't put food on the table...)
> Nothing I hire for requires someone to do the World’s Most Challenging [...] from memory

That's a bit of a strawman: I didn't say anything about the ease/difficulty of the role being filled, and I implied rote memorization was not meaningful.

To reiterate, interviews should measure good data for choosing between candidates.

That's not happening when the given problem is solve-able by an LLM using a human as a proxy, everybody's just burning man-hours of company/applicant time on interview-theater that isn't useful for making a decision. (Well, not unless the hiring goals include "willingness to jump through hoops".)
Peter Thiel Backs Doping-Friendly Olympics Rival – The 'Enhanced Games'
I also love the fact that Baudrillard was a “patapysician.” It fits nicely with his philosophical works, where he focuses on how the metaphors we create become our reality, and then we dump more metaphors on top of these in an endless cycle of “hyper realization”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality
any users groups or maker spaces around you could try ?
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Full Stack Engineer, Michael Baker, hello

Startup experience and FAANG experience.
20+ years as a web dev.
Extra stoked to grow in a role working with Payments, Security, or Python.

I do Backend Engineering, UI Engineering, the pieces in-between and the parts in the cloud:

From inputs in the interface to updates to the database.
Data feed, data speed and data storage to user feels, user needs and user secrets.
Milestone sprints, project launches, outage recoveries, retooling and code reviewing. Full cycle app development.

I believe in the power of the mastermind effect, where two minds in harmony equals 3, or 10. I believe empathy makes teams and products succeed in the long haul. I believe optimism, confidence and persistence are key traits in an Engineer which are worth reinforcing. If you agree, let's connect, ping me, whether you have a job opportunity or not, let’s give being contacts a shot.
I’m sure there’s plenty of unintended consequences that could arise (and I’m sure other commenters will point those out), but as a Harvard alum I am frankly in favor of this in principle. Though I’d also like to see other tax streams set up to support higher education, rather than making it a zero-sum game.
Show HN: Daily aggregator of archive links posted on Hacker News
I love it when commenters post archive links for paywalled articles on Hacker News, so I made a quick website that aggregates these comments for the top 250 stories!

Build with React and hosted on Firebase
Ironically I started drafting this article in 2021, when I had to deal with a Django codebase littered with nested N+1 queries due to using the ORM in the most pythonic way.
Total fear mongering. Then you can be sued as well for writing your comment in a too small font.
This looks like a good cover for vaccines that may or may not help, but governments push down the throat of people anyway. Oh, you're okay? That was us. Oh you're not/dead? Here is a genetic marker for BullshitX that caused it. Not us.
Not unless you self sign everything
Yes, depending on the team. We have a legacy Elixir backend that we’ve been breaking into services written in Go. We also have a couple of newer Elixir services. We’d love Elixir experience especially if you are also interested in Go.
Hi Ben,

I'm excited about this opportunity and tried to reach out. It seems like emails are bouncing from product.leadership+hn as well as product.leadership. Is there another preferred email or is there something on your end that can address that?

Thanks,
Gabe
CSS nesting is the last reason I use a CSS preprocessor.*

Once Safari 17.2+ gains more traction, I can use straight CSS :)

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*That, and variables for @media query. But that's a less common need.
Completing interests between product development and marketing as well as developer insecurity.
Show HN: PiSegment(Small Python software for semi-supervised image segmentation)
It opens up a GUI to annotate the image, then segments the regions based on the annotation. Can be used for image segmentation, background extraction, semantic segmentation, colorization. The code can be easily integrated with Django or Flask backend web app.
I quit my previous position back in May '23, and am just starting to put any effort in looking. Seeing a bunch of jobs but the all seem pretty boring/run-of-the-mill stuff. I'm mostly just relaxing - I basically took 6 months off tech. in general and hung out with family, relaxed, and slept :-D
There are few that are >1B params, competitive, and "open source" in the sense that the necessary ingredients to re-train are available. Models like Llama and thus its descendants (including Mistral's public models) have weights available but not the training data.
> Not to mention subgrid, color functions, filters, etc.

Firefox led both subgrid and filters.

Color functions seems a bit weird to bring up since back then Apple were the only ones using higher gamut displays making the color functions useless for everyone but them, while also doing their best to hamper the web making the color functions useless for everyone including them.

To add some context on the rest of the industry... everyone else focused their improvement efforts not on deeper color bit-depth, but on improved framerates to reduce eye-strain, flicker issues and latency discomfort.

It's only going to be over the next few years as QLED/MicroLed/etc... displays get cheap enough to be commercially viable that the color functions (relative color possibly excluded) will start to become useful.

I don't really count Apple's current displays since they have been pasting multiple displays together to try and get desktop resolutions to the detriment of frame rate (which from a health perspective is much more important).
Agreed, but tools like https://sqlc.dev, which I mention in the article, are a good trade-off that allows you to have verified, testable, SQL in your code.
I kind of disagree. If you're using an ORM, the ORM is the abstraction layer which should be sprinkled throughout the code. You shouldn't wrap a layer in a layer.

If that's the right abstraction, use an ORM. If it's not, don't.

If all you have are lists of items (a todo list, a set of employee records, a set of products), an ORM is a fine abstraction. If you have or expect to do something more complex, it's probably a bad abstraction.
Thanks for your thoughtful questions!

* SQLite has rock solid support for transactionally persisting data to disk, which is a difficult and complex thing that stanchion gets almost for free. But the downside is fitting the architecture of stanchion into sqlite's way of doing things. So that is a long way of saying yes, the biggest difficulty was first learning how sqlite works and the implementing features to work with sqlite.

* It's a good question and certainly an area worth exploring. I don't know the answer, but doing, for instance, a comparison of power consumption and performance on a phone for the same use case between sqlite+stanchion and chdb running side-by-side with sqlite would be very interesting. To spitball some ideas of areas that may benefit stanchion: caching (both code and data, application caching and hardware caching), data sharing (no need for decoding and re-encoding either within the host application or between databases), and unified transactions (this one is a stretch). As you mention, chDB (and also DuckDB) benefit from having an architecture designed for analytics.

* As mentioned elsewhere in these comments, the sqlite virtual table system does have some limitations, so I think you're right when it comes to query performance. However, those limitations are limited to the way sqlite queries data in virtual tables, so I think stanchion can be competitive on data size on disk and potentially on insert performance.

I do plan to run and publish some benchmarks of stanchion against chDB and DuckDB in the near term. So far, I haven't focused on performance with stanchion, but that will be more of a focus going forward. Plus it's good to measure first and use that to track improvements. Stay tuned!
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MLB uses a tax instead of a cap. "Competitive Balance Tax".
Just because they seem grossly underused, there are probably plenty of other non-ideal constraints like power usage for instance.
A random number generator still has a chance of working out once in a blue moon. Or hell a zero sum game is still better than a negative one.
Building Dynamic Toolbars and Menus
Hurts who? If you’ve worked around it then it doesn’t hurt you, at least not too badly. It still hurts the company as a whole. But is that your problem?

You might feel a sense of social obligation or solidarity with the company. I usually do. But if I was placed in a dehumanizing situation like that – forced to work inefficiently due to overly rigid policies that assume everyone’s needs are the same – well, whether I worked around it or not, my empathy for the company would be at a nadir whenever I thought about it.
FTX's Missing $400M Were Stolen in SIM-Swapping Hack, DOJ Says
"Filion allegedly offered his swatting services in Telegram posts, which were tracked by the FBI"

from https://globalnews.ca/news/10266313/teen-swatter-911-calls-a...
Disagree.

Pixeling editing is a <4% improvement.
FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines
It's spelled yield
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Desktop mode on Android's Firefox doesn't require extension... if it's not available on I-Phone, it might be soon because I think that they are starting to allow alternate browser engines.
I tried using an image view instead of UIGraphicsContext, but the performance was not very good. Thanks for suggestion, it was nice idea!
Quite disturbed these days by the state of governance in this country, on so many levels. Things aren't headed in a bad direction, we're well down the road. Where will this country be in 40 years time I wonder?
Twitter thread from the author
https://twitter.com/wkvong/status/1753132293491708027
I think it is valuable to step back and see why meetings exist and then try to fix them if they are not addressing their purpose.

Meeting are valuable because they are solving a coordination problem. Without meetings people would be misaligned.

I want to have fun programming but I also want to make sure I am working on things that are important to the business and to the customers. Meetings help in navigating that vague space.
I'm not saying Cook can't launch a product. Just that he's not a product guy himself so his personal opinion isn't worth that much about what will be a good product. Apple has a good team, and most of the stuff that goes across his desk is going to be pretty good.

I have worn an Apple Watch most of the time since it's been out. It kinda sucks, but it's the best smartwatch. I miss when Apple launched world-changing revolution products like the iPhone. Jobs had some misses too, like the iPad. People buy them, the hardware is impressive from an engineering standpoint, but it's just not a useful device for most people.
Judging from how the current leadership at Apple has embraced gimmicky feature-bloat for its operating systems, I dread having to beat my way through even more obscure "clever" triviality. Steve Jobs' vision is dead.
A personal link shortener using mostly S3
> Is resolution going to peak?

not for awhile. apple vision / oculus will stream (4k/8k) 3d movies.

https://developer.apple.com/streaming/examples/
There is this weird misconception that PE wants to kill companies. They're equity holders...they get enormous upside if the company does well.

Since the investments are often into high risk / struggling companies though the deals are calibrated to end up OK even if things go south. Not as amazing as a successful company, but usually still OK.

Do you ever see nytimes articles on "PE injected cash, company did well, the end"? Of course not. They just cover the "things go south, gotta strip what can be salvaged" instances.

Just another type of "if it bleeds, it leads" media slant. And since PE is a very opaque world that's makes up 100% of people's datapoints.

Under very specific circumstances killing companies can absolutely be profitable and thus for some shady characters that is Plan A, but definitely not industry representative.
The flood of pure software GPT shovelware is bad enough, do we really need to make physical crap to end up in landfills too?
>For example, will the following be still true?

The human capacity for moral judgement and ethical decision-making can't be reduced to programming a machine with a complex collection of algorithms only because it already is exactly that. Human cognition is embodied in a machine which implements the algorithm determined by its structure and the laws of physics.
This wasn’t a new compromise, but there were still two Okta compromises that impacted CloudFlare

January 2022: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-investigation-of-the-...

October 2023: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-mitigated-yet-ano...
It's not like he just did this once or twice. He has apparently engaged in this activity some hundreds of times. Purposely putting people's lives at risk, probably specifically hoping to cause as much harm as possible. He literally offered his "swatting" services on Telegram. This isn't like some one-off bad decision, this was a persistent extremely malicious intent and could have resulted in substantial loss of life. Yeah, I don't think he should be jailed for life, but this is a person who should not be walking free in society until he has proven substantial fundamental change.
I get you, jsx is the most useful part about React. However, there is nanojsx now, which would be great to for mobile. React tend to push out large bundles. For example, MatterMost, it is great open source initiative, but the React front end often lags it quite a bit on older computers.
Sure, but "4k" is still being used as a differentiator for streaming companies in how much they charge. Even then they serve up some pretty compressed streams where there's room to do less of that for a noticeable notch in quality.

There's of course a limit. The "native" bitrate equivalent of your retina isn't infinite.

Next step though is going to be lightfield displays (each "pixel" is actually a tiny display with a lens that produces "real" 3D images) and I assume that will be a thing, we shall see if it does better than the last generation of 3D TVs/movies/etc. That's a big bump in bitrate.

There's also bitrate for things like game/general computing screen streaming where you need lots of overhead to make the latency work, you can't buffer several seconds of that.

The next gen sci-fi of more integrated sensory experiences is certainly going to be a thing eventually too. Who knows how much information that will need.

When more bandwidth becomes available, new things become possible, sometimes that are hard to imagine before somebody gets bored and tries to figure it out.

When I'm futzing around with ML models, I'm loading tens of gigabytes from disk into memory. Eventually something like that and things orders of magnitude larger will probably be streamed over the network like nothing. PCIe 4.0 x16 is, what 32 GBps? Why not that over a network link for every device in the house in 10 years?
Regardless of the innocence or guilt of Bowser and how bad or good of a person he was leading up to this decision: I think a lot of the beef people have with this case is that it exemplifies how companies like Nintendo can just make up numbers of “losses” with no actual evidence and essentially force, with the blessing of the state, people into indentured servitude to the corporation from said “losses”. That sort of corporate power being enforced by the state should give anyone pause, regardless of whether the victims of this process are good people are not.
Reproduction context length is a standard benchmark.
Would be nice if Autechre open sourced all the crazy max/map stuff they worked on.
Thanks for the great example of drawing stroke using UIKit! It was really helpful for refactoring my code.
Also I figured out that another problem was the stroke saving logic(local & server) runs everytime I stroke. Thanks again for the comment.
String theory is both pure math and a theory. The fast that is has not proven itself in the latter does not mean it's useless or a waste of time. The search for the theory of everything is not just only string theory.
Stanchion already has support for a few kinds of compression that leverage patterns in a sequence of data of the same type (DuckDB calls this "lightweight compression"). Stanchion supports: bit packing for booleans and integers and constant compression (if all the values in a run of data are the same, only store the value once). The next type of lightweight compression that is planned is Run Length Encoding (RLE). And I also want to add support for lossless byte encoding (probably zstd) at some point.
Harvard and MIT are nonprofits so normally don't pay taxes (meaning property taxes, income taxes, etc -- they do pay payroll taxes and sales taxes). Between them and all the churches, quite a large percentage of Cambridge's property, especially commercially-zoned property, pays no tax at all. But for some reason, those two institutions just happen to make large donations to the city and state every year.

Personally I'm neutral on taxing the endowment. I can't get around the paywall (archive.ph seems to be having trouble with bloomberg links today) so I don't know if this is an asset tax or a tax on realized gains. Given how the institutions use their endowments (they just hoard them to game the US News ratings, which is pointless for Harvard and MIT) it's probably good.
Because AVIF is already a thing.

And is comparable for images and superior for video.
Helix claims that "g." should: "Go to last modification in current file"?
Like all other US defense companies, why not? Do you think US Navy produces their own ships?
Ex-CIA engineer gets 40 years for giving hacking secrets to WikiLeaks
Interesting timing, I just read about a doctor that thinks cosmetic fillers are interfering with the lymphatic system in the face:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41319373.h...
Finally some anti-American sentiment on this website!
I understand what you're saying... But lets check.

Assuming the lenses are about 2 inches across (from photos) and they are 1310nm IR lasers:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=single+slit+diffraction...

So we have a minimum beam width of 0.0014 degrees.

And the speed of light round trip distance is say 3.3 milliseconds.

So the question is, does the angle between the satellites change faster than 0.0014/0.0033 = 0.42 degrees/second?

Well the worst case is one satellite heading north at 7.4 Km/s and another heading south at 7.4 km/s. Lets assume the satellites are 550 km apart (the distance between planes at the equator), and use the small angle approximation... Comes out as 1.4 degrees per second.

So yes, these satellites do need the ability to aim transmit and receive in different directions! (although they might be able to just defocus the beam a little when angles are changing fast to trade off throughput for design complexity)