skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nitter was officially declared "over" yesterday. Why can I still use it today?

https://nitter.poast.org/Kantrowitz/status/17581675175146582...

Twitter sucks. The "alternative" IMHO is to refrain from submitting links to "tweets" to HN. No one wants to visit Twitter.

The idea of "exclusive" content on the web is extremely difficult to accomplish. The internet is a giant copy machine.

The history of the web shows that popular websites lose popularity.

These mega-websites amassed considerable wealth during ZIRP-->COVID period. Now let them burn through it all desperately trying to stay popular.

Time to move on.
This is an unbalanced study. As such, it doesn't tell you anything about the ability to differentiate between the three populations. You can argue about the terms "negative control" (which is appropriate here, as there is a positive control test in the paper), but there are only 4 non-cancer samples tested. That is not enough to be able to adequately know range of measurable values in the population of patients w/o cancer.

But, that's not really the point. They aren't trying to diagnose cancer vs. healthy.

Error bars here are absolutely necessary. Two reasons: First, you want to know the approximate ranges for each group in Figures 3 and 5. Not showing them is misleading. Secondly -- you actually also want error bars for each patient sample. I'd expect for there to be at least three replicates for each saliva sample to show that the strips are able to consistently measure a known value from each sample.

I also mis-read part of the paper the first time. For the HER2 cases, there aren't 4 negative samples -- there are 20. There is only one positive sample. Part of the problem is really how they are presenting the data -- it is not all clear what they are testing. But, there is only one HER2+ sample in the mix.

One... N=1.

Samples include:

* Non-cancer: 4

* In situ cancer: 3

* Invasive cancer, HER2-: 13

* Invasive cancer, HER2+: 1

What you'd really like to show is that the HER2+ patients could be differentiated from HER2- patients. Which, does look really good, but with only one HER2+ sample, you really can't tell much. (And the presence of so much signal in the HER2- samples raises some very interesting biological/mechanistic questions).

Note: I'm not trying to say that the authors of the study are wrong or are trying to deliberately mislead people. There is so much here that could have been corrected to make this a much stronger paper. To me, this seems like a paper where the authors are likely engineers and not that well versed in biomedical statistics. The paper is published in a physics journal, so the journal itself is not a good place to make some of these arguments.

Is the idea of a non-invasive test worthwhile? Yes! Absolutely. But they didn't show that it was a good test of clinical utility. They showed that it could measure differences in protein concentrations from saliva. That's not nothing, but that's it. Now, if that is an appropriate way to differentiate patients is a completely different question and requires substantially more testing (and orders of magnitude more patients).
Yes!

I try to have a bias towards action.

1. Actively organize events for friends and family.

2. Go out and explore new cities, places, museums.

3. Always make sure that you have an activity coming up in the next few weeks that you are really looking forward to. If you don't have such an activity in the moment, schedule one.
It also doesn't mean it covers use cases that matter to most folks.
> But if you're growing, have big upside, and can be a rollup or been operating quite inefficiently 4x would be ridiculously low.

That's the dream, but the number of startups that check all the boxes to fall into this category is extremely small.

There's a lot of data supporting 2-4X for small SaaS companies. You'd have to be growing at an extreme rate year over year over year for 4X to be considered "ridiculously low".
I haven't yet seen the version where Epstein died of natural causes! Did I miss a good laugh?
I recently spent a few minutes setting up keyboard shortcuts in VSCode to navigate around the various panels, and do everything else I used to do with a mouse.

Wish I'd done it years ago, it was so easy.

I also found it was much easier to create shortcuts that are intuitive for me than to learn the preconfigured ones.

And the standard debugging shortcuts (ctrl f8) etc are super unergonomic. Replaced them with ctrl-' etc.
Show HN: MyLoans.ai – Found $20B Error in Education Dept. Student Loan Simulator
We've launched MyLoans.ai to tackle a huge problem: making it simpler to understand and choose your optimal student loan repayment plan. The Department of Education's loan simulator is flawed in a way that negatively impacts graduate students to the tune of $20 billion, leading to borrowers potentially overpaying sometimes up to over $100K on their student loans. Our analysis shows that inaccuracies in the income-based SAVE plan calculations could cost graduate borrowers significantly over 25 years.

MyLoans.ai offers a calculator with the flaw removed, in order to help borrowers navigate their repayment options more effectively. The aim is to correct these costly errors and ultimately bring clarity to student loan management.

Discover how we're addressing this issue and join the conversation on improving financial tools for millions. Feedback and insights are welcome as this is our first startup!
Noah's last show was in December 2022.
> This is what many believe (e.g., Peter Zeihan) to be the real reason behind the invasion of Ukraine.

This does not make any sense. Banning birth-control would be the most cost-effective way to increase the birth-rate, stronger social programs being a strong second.

Much of what I've heard from Zeihan sound memey – like camp-fire stories or what your older brothers friends would tell you – without anything meaningful to back it up.
Most of his specific complaints are not about "creeping featurism" though.

Just plain old software quality, like bugs in core functionality and sluggishness.
> Disney+Hotstar lost like 12 million customers and posting big losses.

Wasn't that because they lost a contract to broadcast cricket? [1]

[1] https://deadline.com/2023/08/disney-ipl-free-cricket-india-s...
Android doesn't do scare screens actually. The only real difference between installing an APK from the play store and an APK you found on the internet is that the application calling the installer has a one time "OK" to make sure you are the one who wants to install an APK; Play Store has this as well, but the default distribution has it turned on, by going in the settings you can fiddle with it and turn it off if you want to.

The only thing actually needed for feature parity with the Play Store is mostly just that F-Droid can't auto-update; the Play Store can skip the update/install prompt screen, F-Droid can't. They added install origins to APK files last year iirc, so there's a likely chance they're allowing it though.
1) It keeps you from busting the watch against something.

2) It keeps people from craning to try to sneak a peek at the time. (very irritating. can't a person just ask? anyways this is pre-smartphone era)
https://groundworkcollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/...
How does the part outside the (open) core respect user freedom?

For me, user freedom is guaranteed by free software licenses.
It's definitely better than bilinear and bicubic. Looks like Lanczos but with some optimization for ClearType.
You get this for Premier League football games too - hundreds of accounts posting "WATCH LIVE!" with hundreds of sketchy URLs. In defence of the current owner, it was like this before he took over and it's not noticeably worse (from my observations - probably is if you do proper analysis, etc.)
Wrong, errors should not go unnoticed, let alone helping them to propagate. Cascading effects should be kept on a short leash. System takes one step in the wrong direction, kill it. The two most miserable things are, things not happening and there's no feedback on why, and, the other extreme, when things are overengineered and no one can predict where problems might cascade to.
I looked into this a while back, and I am convinced that it was a hoax. There were no proven genetic studies done on this thing, just a claim of 76 chromosomes, and all articles I could find about it (including wikipedia) all reference the same Portuguese article with I think 4 pictures and not much else. Maybe someone found more on this than I could, but it looks fake to me.
Perhaps because he was more of a focal point before, with that Netflix documentary, and they were waiting for him to exit the public consciousness, or at least have his prominence fade, before killing him. If they would have killed him at the peak of his popularity that would have invited more action from the rest of the world. Just speculating…
I feel like you’re taking a very roundabout way to describe the concept of sample bias. So long as it’s a random sample, this is accounted for in the statistics. Yes, we should still get more data all the same.
Not sure why I'm being downvoted, I'm not trying to suggest that this death isn't suspicious, just commenting that even if it wasn't people wouldn't believe the Russians due to how often this happens.
He absolutely increased poverty levels, education is in extremely sharp decline, propaganda is thriving, and he started to fight birth control (so far, emergency contraception only).

And I must remind that Russia is having an electoral event this March, so the repressions were temporarily put on a back burner - but unpopular changes will come shortly afterwards. Check back in May or June.
Mastodon is at least 30 percent cat pictures. The rest is moss.
I’m sorry, maybe the article used the wrong example but the main issue comes from the fact that an Xbox app is trying to print something. It should fail, not for the developer experience, but because to start, there is no way the user would want to print something on an Xbox. Something is already really wrong with your app if it tries to do things like this.

Also he says that apps are developed and tested on PCs and that they could print in this context. I don’t know a single thing about Xbox development but I hope you can run/debug them in the Xbox environment (or a simulation).

Let me hope that nobody is running their Xbox apps/games on Windows APIs at development time and releases them on Xbox without further testing.
The law says, clearly, that if any sick person is incited against taking the vaccine (as well as other medical treatments), when current science says that would be harmful to the person, then that's illegal.

The author of this article says that the law is not making vaccine opposition illegal, because there's the qualifier that "a sick person" has to be convinced by your speech to not take it. The author is saying that any person that proposes that vaccine opposition is now illegal is lying.

What an Orwellian take. As an analogy, it's like passing a law making it illegal to maliciously yell "fire" in a crowded theatre. People read the law and say that now yelling fire in a theatre is illegal. This author says they're all liars, it's not illegal to yell fire in a theatre, because you could still do so in an empty theatre and not be breaking a law. Sure .. yes, you technically still CAN yell fire in a theatre, in that subset of circumstances, but there still is very much now a law that makes yelling fire in a theatre illegal.
I recently used windows for 2 years, and had been looking forward to good keyboard support. But modern windows is terrible at that. Many apps don't even allow you to press Alt to get to the menu.

I think these days macOS is actually better for keyboard. It has pretty good support for setting up custom keyboard shortcuts.
packages/react/src/ReactServer.js imports it.
OpenAI Sora's Output – Similarities to Stock Footage
Yes, I mean, I use all a lot of those things (haven't caught the org-mode bug tho, it's too incompatible with my attention-deficit...) but to be frank a lot of the stuff I jam into emacs (vertico, treemacs, projectile, all-the-icons etc) is in fact to get around UX issues with stock emacs.

I'd hope that a fresh emacs from scratch would just ship with something close to what those provide.

In the end my biggest beef with emacs these days is just the terrible lack of multithreading, bringing long pause and startup times. Most of my problems in the past have been rectified. Emacs 29 is really quite delightful and much easier to manage than ever before.
Not true they might drink too much and start complaining about me smoking.
Cool. How do you use it to generate the frontend CRUD interfaces?
Paul McCartney reunited with guitar stolen 51 years ago
> Of course, I'm sure it predates being able to effectively use the canvas...

Predates it at all. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ca... says browser support didn't come until 2005 at the earliest.
My understanding of the frustration is Codeberg had over-invested in Woodpecker CI and so were blindsided by the appearance of Gitea Actions runner, that was developed by a core contributor, funded by an external party. In my mind, Forgejo's creation is an overreaction to basically this event.

It's true that Gitea could have had more openness about such forthcoming development, and I think the new company structure for lunny + techknowlogick will really help them with this and being more professional.

Gitea still has all the development resources and the vast bulk of all PRs. They're committed to MIT with no CLA, the lead developers are there, and that really matters.

In comparison, Forgejo to this point has dragged its feet to rebase its few (~100) patches onto each new Gitea release. Most of the changes are simply rebranding, plus some new moderation tools for codeberg. Although codeberg don't even run forgejo directly but yet another downstream fork.

So I think this hardfork will likely spell the end (or: rebirth) of forgejo. They haven't demonstrated much independent development so far. The worry about keeping some MIT independence is I think a sideshow, the latest Gitea is still MIT and with no CLA. So if forgejo may no longer be drop-in compatible, why would you switch to them?

I wish Gitea and Codeberg could be better friends. Gitea has had amazing success this year with adoption by Blender and other large projects.
UWP apps that don’t require specifically desktop APIs will run on Xbox — including, for instance, Excel.
I wonder if the company will survive this. If the really have to recall all their bikes and refund their customers they will have a big problem. I own one of those bikes as well. I'm not sure what I should do.
No one that isn't in the small circle of select chosen is paid at all, that is just yet another scam.
IIRC, the browser builds of Pyxel games end up pulling down 30mb+ of Python libraries, which seems a bit overkill for little pixel games.

TIC-80 is probably the closest open source thing to PICO-8. The browser builds ran 10% slower than the desktop app last I tried. It doesn't have a "CPU budget," so it's possible to write inefficient code that works fine on powerful machines but not slower ones.
(I think it costs 8, not 7 dollars.)

The surprising thing is that apparently the bot operators make more than $8 _per account_ on average, which is surprising to me.
Did you start to notice things getting worse around the new year when they added Brave to their search results? That was the turning point for me, I was a huge advocate but then quality went downhill and then a few weeks later they proudly announced that they had spent a third of their funding on...t-shirts. Between that and this huge push towards being just like Google and Bing with LLM hallucinated nonsense, I'm not sure what their aim is anymore.
You should read the party objectives. State media is often a bit biased and even in the west you can fell victim to propoganda.
> car will be twice as fast,

What? I just pointed out that at the time most people need to drive we have traffic. I assure you, in San Francisco, I’d win the race even with a little walk on both ends.

> don’t forget walking time

Are you implying that downtown offices have ample space for every worker to park next to their desk? Or advocating a Texas-like downtown with a huge parking lot or garage on every urban block. Parking in an urban core is prohibitively expensive for most, since it uses a ton of very expensive real estate.

> trains are slow because…

This is a strange take. Trains are fast because they stop exactly 6 times between Daly City and Montgomery. Cars are slow because they have to go about 5MPH through a massive part of San Francisco every day between 7:30-9:30AM and 3-7PM. (Forgive me if I’m off by an hour for that particular commute, I left a few years ago).

Cars are much faster at 2AM though, or in rural Nebraska.

My point was, someone who lived in a sane development in those places does not need a personal car. That would be a large enough population to support a grocery right there. The city itself is a quick ride away, so you can do non-bulky shopping easily via the train. And for weekend trips or IKEA runs or whatever, imagining a car rental office onsite is easy, and again, MUCH cheaper than the cost of ownership, including paying the cost of storage, via having a more expensive residence - since it takes up so much more square footage per unit to provide parking for each resident. (Also don’t forget things like paying for window repair after every car burglary!)

By the way. I live in the suburbs and drive a car basically 100% of my trips. I’m not disputing that they’re the only option for how most of our country is planned. Just that we chose this and we could have chosen otherwise. And in theory, undeveloped areas could be built differently.
I defied your warnings and read your tale. I got some good laughs out of it. Well done!
Slime mold powered smart watches
> The mouse is a very clever abstraction

It's more like an extension of the body itself, the same way we use any tools. And there's a set relation between causes and effects, which becomes more instinctual the more we use it. I think eye tracking suffers from that we use our eyes for perception, not action. Constraining it to action, especially with how slow our movement is, will barely improve our interactions, and may impede them.
For starters, support the Ukraine.
The problem with segregating transportation is you then have different levels of access.

If I bike on the street, I can stop at any location that addresses the street, same as any other street user. If I bike in the tunnel, there's not likely a ramp up for every business.

It gets worse when you don't have a bike tunnel on every street, because then I need to go out of my way to get to destinations off the tunnel street. And all the street users will yell at me to get back in my tunnel.
>can that be good? I don't think so

Well that's just an implied always. Is it likely good? No, probably not. Is it always bad? No, probably not. It's conceivable that there are a lot more potential users in the direction the company wants to drag the project, and the few current users can fork it.
Indeed. There's a common saying that sort of derives from Frédéric Bastiat that "where goods cross borders, armies don't." Trade and economic dependence is the best deterrent of war that there is. That doesn't necessarily mean that it stops all war, but it definitely raises the cost of war and costs matter.

It's also IMHO the most productive and ethical way to reduce/prevent war. Maybe they shouldn't have allowed something so fundamental as energy to become a dependence, but generally speaking the principles are sound.
Oh, moving the goal post uh ? Pretty weak game you show here.

> Just like the US can stop this war at any moment by dropping support for Ukraine and pressuring them to negotiate.

Just like So you admit Putin could stop the war at any moment ? Good. Why don't you petition for that ? (oh wait, what happened to that guy that submission is about and who wasn't completely on board with Putin's leadership ?)

What prevents him from stopping this war anyway ? Why won't he ? What terrible outcome would he or Russia face if he just declared "okay, we showed the world we ain't no pushovers, we are now confident Ukraine and NATO won't try to invade us because we showed them how strong we are" ?

Anyway, that Putin guy has made it pretty clear he wants to knock off all of Ukraine. Only Russian shills and useful idiots believe otherwise. But that's not what you are, aren't you ?
Great write-up, your take on honesty is very accurate. I appreciate a member of a community who is well-intentioned, and transparent about any biases they're bringing in. I write a lot about my devtool, but I try to be transparent that I work on it, and also try to share learnings beyond just what I build.
You aren't just buying a company, you're buying a job. In this blog post, the payroll expense is $250k a year. The founder is working for free 40 hours a week, acting as a software dev, managing a $40k advertising budget, developing the product, and overseeing the customer support team.

If you buy this company and hire somebody who can do all those things, that $235k of net profit becomes $0.

Buying it just to shut it down without continuing the product- eh- does your product really address all the needs of the customer base? Or will they go to another competitor instead?
"Red shift is a feature, not a bug!"
Receipt Recognition Using LLM
I've just completed a straightforward web application for receipt recognition, leveraging an LLM (Large Language Model). It efficiently extracts meta-information from receipts, and you can easily download the recognition results in JSON format. Feel free to try by yourself.
Especially when you can do this with still images on a normal M-series MacBook _today_, automating it would be pretty trivial.

Just feed it a script and get a bunch of pre-vis images for every scene.

When we get something like this running on hardware with an uncensored model, there's going to be a lot of redundancies but also a ton of new art that would've never happened otherwise.
Are you serious? He’s more comparable to Trump or KKK leadership!
I recently had a fake account follow me where they replaced the letter L with an I in the user name. Whatever font Twitter website uses, makes it impossible to visually see the difference. The fake account looks 100% the same as the real, even has thousands of 'followers'. I reported it, and it is still up.

Original: https://twitter.com/WildcatTrader

Fake: https://twitter.com/WiidcatTrader

It is unreal to me that the platform hasn't developed a way to automatically deal with fake accounts like this. Just check to see if the profile image is the same!?
Looks like you're right!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0771119/
Well it's something an undergraduate can understand and in principle compute/play with. That's pretty simple, comparatively.
The name should not matter. There are sometimes good reasons to have more than one operator in a metro area for various reasons. However there needs to be one fare/transfer system across the entire metro with a price cap.

You can have various systems of zones or service levels, but there needs to be a maximum cost it is not possible to exceed to make it easy to budget. People who expect to hit that maximum will not hesitate to use transit or send their kids on it and thus are more likely to decide they don't need the car (even though a car probably costs more most people don't account for the costs of a trip)
IMHO old school boiler plate design is a feature. Usability over all the various platforms and basic SEO are important, but easy to achieve with the great tools now available for site analysis. $46k is about two, maybe three orders of magnitude more than I would consider spending on a 3 page website.
You missed the key part

> if you generalise the coefficients

The result appears to be https://gwern.net/doc/cs/computable/1972-conway.pdf if you want to read in detail
I am shocked!