skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I have read of the new SAT is that it operates at a session level. So if you do well on the entire first session, you get a harder version of the next session on that topic (reading or math).

That is positive. I've seen issues with adaptive tests not being resilient to accidents and brain farts: if a kid fat-fingers the response to a question early in the test, they may never get the computer to give them questions of a suitable difficulty later in the test. Thus they never even have a chance to get a score that accurately reflects their ability.

If the SAT is session-based, each session needs to be large enough that a single question can't tank the whole thing, but at the same time there also needs to be enough sessions to allow for properly dialing-in the knowledge level. In reality, the ideal situation is that the test should allow for an unlimited number of sessions, but each session is time-limited. Something along the lines of stopping once the test-taker gets below a certain score on 2 consecutive sessions.
The disappointing part was we didn't even get to see the experiment take place before shutting down prematurely. Our sales numbers were still quite solid and there were many paths for us to push forward. As a fraction of our investors' portfolio, Airplane's investment was small. I imagine they would have much more preferred us to continue working hard than to return the bit of capital. In the end, only a few employees chose to join Airtable.
> Then terminate you for that

And then the EU takes them to court and fines them billions of dollars.

The rest of the world doesn't have to stand still. They can just confiscate Apple's money using threat of government force.
That doesn't sound like something any tooling should be supporting.

I've done that before, and everyone who does regrets it. It should be a linting error, not something we need to re-write searching to support.
that the "driver" (libinput) should not send "simulated" events

As long as they are marked as being synthetic, why not?

If you mark them with a "this is a synthetic event" bit, the compositor/windowmanager has all the information it needs to decide whether or not to ignore the event (because, for example, the pointer moved out of one window and into another).

The driver generates the synthetic events, the compositor/windowmanager decides whether or not to drop them. Done.
I wish Theranos had worked on a more reasonable goal - like an implantable CGM.

I had T2D, well controlled now, my A1C is below the diabetic diagnostic range.

I used CGMs, and they taught me a lot about how my body reacted to food and exercise.

But I sweat a lot and they would always fall off, halving the useful life of each monitor. I would probably still use them from time to time if they didn't sweat off; and if an implantable version was available for a reasonable price (under $500, with no ongoing costs), I'd probably get it.

I feel like a lot of prediabetic people could learn a lot about their situation with this. I think this is a very good thing.
It's because of the mentality that things should be open and inspectable that we have things like browser devtools (thanks Firebug!), that is something we still use today to learn and troubleshoot. Sometimes it makes it harder when people use various compile-to-js/css languages, but also sometimes people ship their sourcemaps and again we can learn from examples. Or we try to reverse-engineer it, which is another valuable skill.

I didn't mean to say this is the only way of learning, but I stand firm on that it's still a great way to learn, to look at how cool stuff was done when you come across it on real websites, not just from blog posts describing something. In addition to reading fundamentals, practicing small projects and so on, of course.
Separate Church and Business. Get paid while making a meaningful contribution. Use the time outside of work to live the values you do not otherwise monetize. Critically: Have Time Outside of Work.
My Sony Xperia phone had a cable that connected to standard usb charger, this was before the first iPhone. From my memory Moto Razr 2 used micro usb b cable to standard usb. There where plenty of phones before iPhone that had charging cable that connected to standard usb charger.
Interesting, never thought about that. Also wonder what happens in Airplane mode / poor reception?
Because it can't emulate what it actually is. Xwayland is Xorg.
I don’t see how this is any different from a normal test? If you skip a question or get it wrong the penalty is you don’t get any points for it.
TypeScript 5.4
HN's collective opinion: "Hey, if you don't like Apple's walled garden, the you can giit out! [and move to Android]"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2bOXQibamM
Dude you just listed several issues with toy cameras. That's the gap.

PoE cameras are only slightly more expensive, don't hog wifi airtime and cause latency spikes for all the other devices, last decades instead of weeks, have much better video quality during day and night, and don't rely on any cloud services
Don't know much about the others but Byju's is nothing like Coursera or edX. Both of the latter two have a much better reputation. Byju's is unfortunately known for predatory practices.
Microsoft already notified EC that they stop their browser shenanigans and will ship windows without their browser pre-installed to save on endless lawyering game they can’t win.
If 60 bytes per request is a material overhead, then your workload is unlikely to benefit from general purpose compression of any kind.
What's better? I ask out of ignorance, but personally I think Datadog is amazing for viewing logs.
What is TGI? Is that the huggingface Text Generation Inference project on GitHub?
It's very possible, and I've seen a lot of people do it successfully.

It does require some organizational changes, and a slightly different set of skills, and some fail to realize they lack both.
If you can't find what you need, make it.

Well done.
How much of that revenue is threatened by DMA? If they stand to lose most of their revenue or profits by complying with the laws, why bother?

It seems crazy that Apple is going to die on this hill, but I’m really curious what the accountants are sending the execs. I could see them willing to gamble a chunk of revenue to prevent every other market from trying to write similar laws, especially if they’re losing that revenue regardless.
Corollary: "Nutritionists are usually people without the qualifications/education to be Dieticians."
Escape hatches can work. I took a bet on Mapzen a few years ago - when they shut down my employer had features that depended on their WhosOnFirst API. Because the data behind that was openly licensed we managed to migrate off it to our own (MySQL spatial table-based) solution before the shutdown.

It was still a big pain, but it would have been a whole lot worse without that escape hatch.
How does anyone in IT management not know that Oracle is poison?

That blows my mind. I encountered two Oracle audits within 7ish years in the industry, and heard about others. If anyone goes to MIS school, there should probably be a contracts day somewhere in that curriculum, and "don't use Oracle" should be the first bullet point.

Maybe in the 80s and 90s without the internet it might be more hush-hush. But this is now two decades of aggressive Oracle audits. Two decades is a LONG TIME for companies to get off of a vendor.

And now there's Postgres with, what, 30 years of engineering into it? Honestly if your database scale exceeds Postgres, you should be on Cassandra or other specialized database that will actually scale to really large sizes, not some weirdo hyper-hardware Oracle setup.

Virtually every large org has a very involved process for vendor selection. HOW DOES ORACLE SURVIVE THESE? How does any IT organization not have a standing policy of "generally don't use oracle unless you absolutely have to"?
Not really. It's against ToS in both cases, to sell used medical equipment.
I dabbled a bit with ReasonML which has global type inference, and the error messages from the compiler became very confusing. I assume that's a big reason for not gaining more adoption.
There's no "caloric deficit." Your body stores and oxidizes fat because it needs to get the appropriate mass from somewhere. If the body has fat to oxidize, then there's no deficit of anything.

> It doesn't make a difference what kind of calories you're intaking - your body literally does not know.

You're conflating a few things here.

Fundamentally, you're saying that the body doesn't contain an internal calorie counter. In that sense, you are absolutely correct. The human body, and pretty much all organisms performing respiration, does not keep track of calories in any capacity or measure mass. The only thing the body can do is delegate different kinds of mass to the places in different cells where their presence would be of benefit to the survival of the system. That's really it, though it's a bit of an oversimplification.

However, if we correct "kind of calories" to "kind of mass", and drop the whole idea of the body "knowing" something, then what you are saying is fundamentally untrue. It is not controversial in any way that the cells in the human body, and all creatures for that matter, treat macronutrients differently and prioritize them in ways that are not equivalent.

Yes, it's more complicated, but food composition is way up there in terms of importance.
I hated Tailwind for the first week I used it, and couldn’t imagine working without it by week two.
Online diagnosis of liver damage according to the results of blood tests
HOW IT WORKS?

FP Test is a method for diagnosing the stage of liver fibrosis and the degree of activity of chronic hepatitis according to the results of blood tests.

The method is a machine learning model based on an artificial neural network that accepts the following clinical and laboratory parameters: gender, age, height and weight of the patient, as well as platelet count, levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and gamma-glutamyltranspeptidases (GGT).
What happens when a drug goes viral?
Ask HN: Canadian working for USA firm as contractor. Rates?
I've used things like Deel in the past where they've handled things like health insurance and taxes.

I may be contracting as a full time employee without this third party service soon and I'm wondering what salary/rate I should be asking for.

I assume it's mainly a simple calculation of how much health insurance would cost me, how much CPP costs me etc.

Any tips?
In fairness, if the power had gone out when I was taking it with pencil and paper, I think we would have also had to retake it.
Legitimate excuses for leaving. 99% chance what caused them to leave was they saw the writing on the wall and took on a better opportunity.
He says it runs eCos, a real-time kernel. And, that the other, unused CPU would run Linux on more full-featured products on the same hardware base.
One factor that no one seems to have noticed is that both cofounders, Ravi and Joshua, have already built fairly big companies. Ravi was the co-founder at Heap (he took over my co-founder spot after I left), and Joshua was the CTO at Benchling.

Both of those companies have raised >$100M. After that success, the prospect of continuing to run a middling company in the shadow of Retool isn't very appealing.
Office will download the full suite of variants on request.

For other download options (including licensing/redistribution for use outside of Office/Microsoft 365), it looks like Microsoft's usual deal with MonoType Foundry applies to Aptos as well and that you can make purchases at Fonts.com.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/aptos...
Yes ... and no.

You're right for many applications. Yet, for many other applications, simply converting each document into an embedding, converting the search string into an embedding, and doing a search (e.g. cosine similarity), is all that is needed.

My first attempt at RAG was just that, and I was blown away at how effective it was. It worked primarily because each document was short enough (a few lines of text) that you didn't lose much by making an embedding for the whole document.

My next attempt failed, for the reasons you mention.

Point being: Don't be afraid to give the simple/trivial approach a try.
Smooth scrolling is something completely different, having to do with mousewheels.

Please don't perpetuate the awful terminological confusion around this issue.
I doubt the $75B drop was BECAUSE of this ruling and if that's your assertion, it would need some evidence to back it up. Delaware has one of deepest bodies of case law for corporations and if Elon and the board acted inappropriately as they were found to have done, then it shouldn't matter if the case was started by a shareholder of 1 or a million shares.
There it is! I've been looking for something like this!

I've been using my own homebrewed toml spec, but since I am more experienced with code than training, I was concerned if it would still work well as I become more experienced. Not sure if I'll use this, but good to see another interpretation of this kind of data!
From it's issues I bet you it's infighting from a group trying to kill the vision pro from apple.
I’m pretty sure my motorolas had a usb charger on device side before iPhone was a thing .
at a previous gig, we put a Redis cache in front of a slow monolithic Microsoft SQL Server db

that gave us breathing room to migrate the data we were interested in into a much smaller dedicated db for our purposes (the user data, used on every login and other operation in the system)

in a correctly specced RDS, MySQL can be set up to store all the data both in memory and on disk (note, I'm not referring to the ephemeral disk only db engine, I'm referring to giving the RDS the correct memory settings and parameters to store all the data both in memory and on disk)

once we did that, there was no difference in read speed between the Redis and just hitting the db, so we got rid of the Redis, which vastly simplified the architecture of the user service

= the article title is true, caching is often understood to be a default requirement but it kind of isn't if you architect things correctly
To be more specific, it's likely that Epic is a threat to Apple's business/technical ability to steer/shape/profit from the iOS ecosystem.
> Benchmarking and comparing UNLOGGED tables against Memcached or Redis is out-of-scope of this article
Why would they? They’d be beyond any courts jurisdiction, but of course they could never return.
OK, stereotypical male, then. Who hungers for a more detailed description of the stripped-down (no fairings) race car, and is more mildly interested in descriptions of showing up at a gala dinner in a thrift store outfit (though that was still entertaining).
Actually, replace "ecosystem" with "revenues".
Charging per install through their store. Like Apple does (or used to).
I wonder why Apple doesn't open up. Or else just switch to a Costco model where membership means they get to dictate what’s sold at what margin using which credit card network?

Is the end game to force regulation on everyone (Google, etc) and then switch to a Costco model themselves?
Truth in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Before reading the article I thought they author would talk about caching the query results automatically, which most DBs do that.
They didn't get out of China despite having their iCloud servers owned by the CCP, don't worry they won't get out of the EU.
Thanks a lot for your reply!

I kind of do have the option for a omnipod dash with a diy loop using something like nightscout, but my nurses have advised against it (I suppose significantly because it's not something they can directly monitor or have knowledge of). I'm highly tempted to just use the TSlim because if my projects are anything to go by it'll be years before I actually set it up haha
> Listen I know that having an opinion and using superlatives when describing something makes me intrinsically uncool for breaking the all-encompassing kayfabe of total glibness required to be one of the Very Smart People on the Internet

Sorry my dumbass fell asleep by the end of that rant. Also, I fucking hate "smart people" so i take that as a deeply personal insult.
This appears to be riding the [Solid Cache](https://dev.37signals.com/solid-cache/) idea that DHH has started espousing. At the core of this idea is that SSD's are sufficiently fast for caching. Sure, this may work for 37signals, but that is because they manage their own hardware. That is the exception and not the rule. And, per [this discussion two weeks ago](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39443679). SSD's aren't as fast for most of us that leverage "the cloud".

Sure, you can do it, but why? I am all for removing complexities in my infrastructure. That said, Memcached and/or Redis are both rock solid and dead simple.

This just seems to be a waist of time 99.999% of use cases.
Sorry, a little late with my reply.

It's mostly about removing stuff from HTML - JavaScript, forms, and various CSS features - to make it focus on simple formatting. Then requiring the appropriate CSP security constraints to ensure privacy/security. Finally, standardizing on a way to include binary files (images, etc.) in the format using a JSON blob at the end of the text which can be referenced above.

Self contained, document focused, cross platform, secure and private, while still being standard HTML. Would replace ePub, .docx, Markdown, and provide a standard file format for Google Docs to export to.
> If you had asked me how much money you'd have to pay someone for them to let you scan their eyeball

People paid companies like 23andMe actual money for the privilege of mailing their DNA. Getting paid to let a company your eyeball sounds like an improvement.
You've recently had a big thread with this project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37533493

Take a look at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... about reposts.
Yes unfortunately those are the identified and confirmed deaths, there are for sure many still buried under the rubble which are not accounted for.

Unfortunately it seems to be in Palestine's (and even Hamas) best interest to be truthful, in this case
Don't be fooled by the reason though

> The markup on OTC products is generally higher than on prescription medications.

https://www.eposnow.com/us/resources/how-do-pharmacies-make-....
Yep. And this blog post from 2009 was a big inspiration for me in exploring touch on the mac: https://archive.org/details/2009-03-28-steike-code-macbook-m...

and a comment a few years ago by me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23274577
I am an Apple customer because I have loved using a Mac since before Steve Jobs returned to Apple and made it a trendy luxury item. But I can no longer support with my money "90s Microsoft 2.0".
Much more reasonable than Apple, you only pay fees if you actually make money.
I had to buy one for a friend. But then he ordered a new one and all he had to do was send them a picture of his old one (after some persistence). It’s ridiculous.
What happens when an officer confiscates your glucose monitor today? I assume you die and they claim they did it for some valid reason or the other.
Epic is trying not to call attention to it, but in the emails they published from Apple, Epic's history of violating an agreement with Apple was cited as why Apple has reason to not trust Epic. That may not be sufficient justification under EU law, but it's unquestionable that Apple has more underlying their concerns than just Epic's recent public complaining.
> I know the first thing I’d be trying to figure out is how to put my competitors in jail.

Provide an incentive for companies to regulate each other! Let rational self-interest clean up the market while the state steps back and looks on!
> "There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase closely associated with P. T. Barnum, an American showman of the mid-19th century, although there is no evidence that he actually said it. Early examples of its use are found among gamblers and confidence tricksters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_...
CGMs use bluetooth
Dip their finger in purple ink.
I think it is <insert-expletive> to make Epic out to be the villain.

At the same time:

> This quote makes sense, if you replace "ecosystem" with "monopoly."

In the US, iPhone has a 57.93% market share. As of 2023, Android has a 70.29% global market share.
I'll also attempt an answer.

You chop up your documents into chunks.
You create fancy numbers for those chunks.
You take the user's question and find the chunks that kind of match it.
You pass the user's question with the document to an LLM and tell it to produce a nice looking answer.

So it's a fancy way of getting an LLM to produce a natural looking answer over your chunky choppy search.
> The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners

Probably lower on average given a lot of them got paid $0 it seems.
The emails are from this post (https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/apple-terminated-e...).

The source for the tweets (from your original comment: "Sweeney allegedly tweeted that he would breach his contract with Apple") are Sweeney's Twitter feed which you can read as well as I did. Did you find any threatening non-compliance?
I don't see any non-prescription CGM's on Amazon, are you using Amazon USA? I searched for "CGM" and "Continuous Glucose Monitor", and only found test-strip devices and CGM devices on Amazon Pharmacy available with prescription.

What search string are you using? Can you post one?
Grudges are unproductive and bring no benefit to the shareholder - this move is almost certainly going to result in a lawsuit that Epic would be in a good position in (assuming there aren't massive skeletons in the closet). This is an irrational move - especially in an election year when politicians have a lot to gain by demonizing late stage capitalism.
Monopolies are not a bad thing, except when they are enforced with violence=government.

Fortunately no one forces you to use Apple's products.
it's all BLE and works great on an airplane as long as BT is on
While I can't vouch for Ben's time at Airplane, I worked adjacent to Ben at Segment and can say his reputation there was unimpeachable and his work was top notch, so it doesn't surprise me that he'd publish something so thoughtful and informative.
I think that jives with the theme of sunk costs. I guess it's not socially acceptable anymore to sell the kids to science.
That healthcare workers comparison does indeed not make much sense, it should be healthcare workers involved in retrieving the injured, which are indeed at very high risk (even though theoretically they shouldn't be targeted)
> 12. The gatekeeper shall apply fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory general conditions of access for business users to its software application stores, online search engines and online social networking services listed in the designation decision pursuant to Article 3(9).

Apple don't get to deny access to their main competitor in this space just as a show of force. That is not fair, reasonable or non-discriminatory.
I think there is a way to make APIs copyrightable:

1.) Hire a bonafide poet (e.g., someone with an MFA degree in Creative Writing).

2.) Have them write Haikus on salary for your company ("work made for hire" under copyright law).

3.) Use the Haikus in your API names.

e.g. for a sqrt() function in Java:

public double sqrt___an_ancient_pond_$_a_frog_jumps_in_$_the_splash_of_water(double number);
...If you have at least a dual 3090 setup.

Either way very interesting and it looks like we will soon have enough consumer grade GPU power with the 50 series to train custom models. Can't wait to throw all my finances and private info at it so it can do my taxes.