skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The mass processing of food could be the additional mechanism allowing mass distribution of prions, no?

My grandmother was from "the old country" and would never allow us to buy ground meat in a package. She made us ask the deli to grind her selected cuts, in front of her.

Back then, I wrote this off as some kind of old world silliness. I remember being embarrassed about the whole kerfuffle.

I know she wasn't thinking of prions, just contamination in general.

Now I realize that I was the silly one, and she was very wise.
Oddly, I've suspected the opposite. In my eyes, people who live in urban areas walk for transportation far more often than suburbanites.
I know. I was blaming Oracle, and Sun before them. Why can't they just relicense the entire thing as GPL or some other license that's actually open source and GPL-compatible such as MIT? They own the copyright, don't they? Surely they have the power to do that.

ZFS is too important to not be in Linux. Yet it's 2024 and it's still not in there. Because of licensing copyright nonsense. The blame falls solely on the copyright owners.
This makes me want to go to a brothel and harvest some fur. Lives were so interesting back then.
Show HN: Lapdev, a new open-source remote dev environment management software
duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39779195

Ars Technica article on original research: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract...
I actively don't want third-party payment systems on my phone. I also actively don't want the ability to load and run arbitrary third-party applications on my phone. Adding these things would make my user experience worse, not better.

My phone isn't a general-purpose computer in the way that my laptop is. My phone is an appliance. When I use my phone, I'm not actually using the phone itself, I'm using the email app to manage my emails, or the web browser to look at some news website, or Instagram to watch some reels, or Slack to communicate with my colleagues, or etc. The phone is just a conduit for apps/workflows.
Since the creators are here: how are you going to defend against SEO spam? Curation when adding the blog to the index wont work as anyone could make a reasonable-looking blog with AI generated articles in just a few hours and after you've added it to the index push a ton of aggressive spam.
Same here. It’s common in children.
But does android or iOS support it and actually check for updates regularly?
That StackOverflow comment is really good for grokking the zen of vi(m).

Those new to vi / vim, hit the ground running with my short vi quickstart tutorial here:

https://gumroad.com/l/vi_quick

I first wrote that tutorial at the request of a couple of Windows system admin friends of mine (at a company where I worked earlier), who were tasked with managing a few Unix boxes, without knowing Unix. They used the tutorial and later told me that it helped them to quickly start using vi to do their work on those boxes, including editing config files, simple shell scripts, etc.

Since vi is mostly a subset of vim, the tutorial works for vim too.
Nothing in US health care makes sense
> Excuse my French, but uh what? A browser accessing a bank in a Linux virtual machine running on bare metal is by far more secure than desktop MacOS running on bare metal.

Facts are most definitely not in evidence for this claim.
That's a slippery slope.

Should a professional programmer have to pay wikipedia if they read about an algorithm on it and then implement it and get paid for it?
I’ll just speak positively for consulting (despite my other comment)

It is useful to have outside perspective to help you think through problems. People need help defining the problem.

In my experience it’s usually not a consultants idea that helps. But, like a lot of coaching and therapy, consultants can help a client bring focus to the most important problems and focus areas.

Consultants are actually generalists. I work in the search domain and often what I actually do is see someone’s problem from a broader lens of the entire search landscape of technical issues other companies have in general.

So it’s really about helping clients with perspective and not really about having big ideas. A good consulting engagement you eventually fade into the background and the client gets all the credit.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. We believe the Church is led by Christ through his living prophets, who are not perfect, but whodefinitely seek his guidance for their decisions, many of which must be made unanimously by the 12 and the First Presidency. I believe it (or know it) because of the many reasons listed at my web site (in profile).
He still owns a ton of stock, and last month said they were on track to be cash flow positive this year.
LASIK hasn't cost that much in decades.

Realistically, the price is at or around most people's insurance deductibles.
So malware scanning and virus scanners just became relevant for Macs and IPads.

(Compromise must be running on the same hardware.)
Now that is exactly what I am looking for. I picked all the lowest options, and it comes to $26,000. I'll definitely keep an eye on this company.
that's true, yet before I unlock my phone, Google shows me what song is playing... its almost as if it should not be called a phone because they don't prioritize that functionality.
Maps of Chicago typically don't have a way to include lower Wacker, and plenty of people haven't even heard of lower lower Wacker.

Even Google Maps struggles with this, bouncing between upper and lower on street view, and pickups with Uber and Lyft are iffy on that street (at least back when I first installed them, gave up on it after a while).
Google has already given Chrome an unfair advantage by leveraging their other services. I suspect the browser market is an unstable system where absent outside intervention Chrome’s 65% market share naturally becomes 100%.

Chrome is such a complicated piece of software that the “forks” are highly dependent on Google and when Google unilaterally makes decisions they have to follow suit. Brendan Eich explains that Brave will continue to support Manifest V2 as long as Google doesn’t remove the underlying code paths: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1534893414579249152

I think a lot of people don’t appreciate how delicate the balance of web standards is right now. We have it so good (three high-quality implementations of an open spec) and I’m not willing to throw that away just to run Chrome on my iPhone.
Yeah, it's not a common phrase in the US, even in the more militarily focused areas. I don't know why the commenter said that.
> Figma could build an illustrator killer in 6 months if they wanted to and it would be obliterated

Statements like this are almost always wrong, if for no other reason that a technically superior alternative is rarely compelling enough by itself. It that weren’t the case you would see it happen far more often…
Interesting to see it's written in Haxe, a language I've never heard before. I've been looking for a "hacker's language" which could fit in practically any niche and this might just be it. With optional static typing, compilation to multiple targets (notably C++) I really don't understand why it's not more popular. Seems like a really pragmatic language whose designers understood the needs of developers.
"2. We provide a voice for the technical working teams."

This doesn't correspond to my experience. In my experience McKinsey consultants prefer not to talk to lower-level minions - on the contrary a major incentive for going into (strategy) consulting appears to be to able to deal with C-suite executives directly and not having to care about understanding any of the day-to-day business.

It usually goes like this: The CEO, a former McKinsey partner, hires McKinsey to formulate a strategy for the company: Often on a trending topic like digitalization, AI, etc. The details are usually confidential so there's no involvement of lower-level employees (maybe providing some data but without any context as to why). After a few months of utter secrecy management presents some transformation strategy.

I have yet to meet a normal employee to respect what comes from McKinsey. The average strategy consultant will look down on lowly employees and prefer to have as little interaction with them as possible.

"I have a PhD in computer science from a T1 university"

Why is the "tier" of your university important here? Not trying to offend you, but that kind of elitism is part of the reason consultants have a bad reputation. And unfortunately it is reflected in their work.
It's slow, palm-sized and worse than a normal RC car in pretty much every way. This is not the mobile gunning platform you're worried about
I was writing some Python code (not my primary language), and wanted to know if there was something built into f-strings that would nicely wordwrap the output.

I did a Google search for "how can I create f-strings in python so the output is wrapped at some fixed length". Except, for Google, I did not use the "how do I" etc. and just threw some keywords at it: "python f-string wrapping", "python f-string folding", etc.

All I got back was various results on how to wrap f-strings themselves.

Frustrated, I typed "how can I create f-strings in python so the output is wrapped at some fixed length" into ChatGPT, and back came the answer: ... However, f-strings themselves don't provide a built-in method for wrapping text at a specific width. ... For text wrapping, you can use the textwrap module ... Here's how you can combine f-strings with the textwrap module to achieve text wrapping: ... (followed by a full example).

I think "Search" will be changing dramatically over the next year or two. And websites which depend on Search traffic to survive will be in deep trouble.
"Our job is to solve problems, not to write code."

My job is what my employers pays me to do. If my employer agrees with that sentiment then it is. If I'm volunteering on open source, I can do my best, but if my employers rewards lines of code, then I produce LOC. Of course, picking a better employer factors in there somewhere.
I didn’t think you were commenting on Drew, fwiw. This keeps happening, and the people stepping up sometimes have different motivations. I believe Drew’s are well intentioned, and am pointing it out as “I think it’s possible to go well.”
I appreciate that HN follows the research, and have wondered if others have had the same experience as me. My mother was diagnosed with Early-Onset Alzheimer's at age 57 in 2013. The progression was slow at first, but it was a major problem for our family by 2017, and she died at 65 in 2022. My dad died of health issues seriously exacerbated by grief of what had happened. It destroyed my family. I'm still in my 30s and both of my parents are gone. This all happened during what are supposed to be the most critical years of a person's tech career. I am almost done with handling my parent's affairs, and am preparing to make major changes to my life again.

Alzheimer's is a terrible disease that is going to wreck havoc on the lives of of countless millenials/genzs as their baby boomer parent's age into it. We need to understand this disease as soon as possible.
You both can be right, US Gov will write well-intentioned policy that none of their live teams can keep up with, even after 20 years, and I haven't yet seen a practical enterprise authentication architecture that doesn't fall back on passwords somewhere.
Of course there will be lots of molecules involved, but that doesn't make it any easier to understand let alone do something about it. In medicine and especially in psychology our functioning is a huge black box with only indirect knowledge about interactions with certain things at a very high level.
> they aren't complaining about quality of care when they get it.

This isn't true. Plenty complaints about long waits for appointments, rushed appointments, not getting proper medicine. My wife recently couldn't get a specific potentially more effective medicine covered (it was in the end) because the insurance company wanted the dr to give her something cheaper.
‘The real gauge of friendship is how clean your house needs to be before they can come over.’

Back when we were "just" best friends, I'd get offended that my fiance would clean her apartment when casual acquaintances would come over, but would never bother to clean up for me. She finally explained the above to me..
If I set the maximum wage to one million dollars an hour, it would in some sense be a price control, but it would have no effect. I agree that ineffective price controls that are set above the market price do not cause shortages. Price controls that have an effect, which are those beneath the market price, cause shortages.
That maintenance problem is sometimes also expensive in terms of service costs. Which is more of a tech debt problem than a cloud comparison, honestly, but they're often inseparable.

Extended support costs on old hardware and software are sometimes astronomical. Then you're paying all of that to get something that, compared to modern gear, performs like ass and just breaks all the time.

I've also had C-suites tell me I have two months to start a project and have all the gear live, but I find we are only allowed to order direct from the manufacturer, and our orders will take 90 days to get to our door. Oh boy. That scenario is difficult to put into terms of money. Sometimes having that one-hop instant supply chain into a cloud service is a huge business enabler, sometimes it's not.
Ntex: Powerful, pragmatic, fast framework for composable networking services
True,

And it will be great when a service such as this has a auto-crawler, categorizer LLM that takes all the content in the repo and groups them together based on content context tagging - so a diasproa of blog posts from anyone/where about [TOPIC] could be groupded, and even compared...

"Show me all the blog posts on [TOPIC] but show me the top opposing opinions on said [TOPIC]"

Or "show me all the folks who have consensus on [SUBJECT]"

etc.
I feel like it's the time of the year again to point to this website: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
Not wasted, converted in heat.
You might be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaluza%E2%80%93Klein_theory
Your link doesn't disprove the need for cleaning, just that the studies examined were generally of poor quality.

Anecdotally - I have issues with receding gums - and teeth cleaning (even though I hate it and only go once every 3 years or so) seems to be one way to quickly alleviate it for a while. For me there appears to be some benefit at least to going regularly if one does have dental problems.
The consensus of economists is that you are wrong.
This is sort of embarrassing to admit publicly, but I had a fear of going to the dentist for several years and decided to go recently. After a 10 year hiatus, I was shocked to learn that I didn't have a single cavity or any other apparent issue! The dentist and hygienists were as astonished as I was. In my hiatus, I would brush every single day and occasionally pick plaque off myself with a tool similar to what the hygienists use at the dentist office. Needless to say, I bucked my irrational fear of the dentist and I'll be going back in a few months for another regular cleaning. This isn't to say that going to the dentist for regular cleanings isn't worth it, but maybe it isn't as required for some people as we think granted they keep up with a regular at home regimen?
I agree with the other commenters that you're reading your own beliefs into his statement. Think of what the prof said as more like a anthropologist analyzing human behavior through the lens of animal behavior.
not sure, but enshittification is in the process. They are just too powerful if they work properly. It's like buying a Yamaha R1 and ridding in a 30mph zone.

For the record, enshittification should not be a thing for LLMs though...
> You get GP stuff on the NHS for free, but dental and optical is only subsidised if you're on state benefits

This isn't really the whole picture though, is it? I pay £25.80 for a dental check-up thanks to the NHS. If I wanted to do that on a private basis I'd probably be paying double.
I guess if the benefits of a treatment are obvious you don’t need a lot in the way of research, or even science at all, to recommend it.

But if the benefits are subtle or borderline, then it’s an interesting ethical dilemma. Which is the least unethical: withholding a potentially-beneficial treatment from a control group, or giving a potentially-non-beneficial treatment to everyone?
Sometimes I have them at seemingly infinite levels of depth. Also the time dilation feels enormous. It feels like I've been dreaming for days.
It was there from early days of vi.
A few year's back at Big's Backyard Ultra (2014), one of the last two runners had to catch his plane back to his home country. As you probably know, to win Big's you have to be the sole runner to complete a final lap, however many laps that is. Because the other runner didn't think this was a fair way for him to win, they both stopped running together on the 49th lap (204 miles) and that year there was no winner.
The Big Bang involved a finite amount of energy and created a finite amount of matter. New energy cannot be created. Therefore the universe is finite.
The restored Star Trek Enterprise-D bridge goes on display in May
And yet I find it vastly more compelling than your addition.
Exactly. It's impossible to validate that this is really the illusion that the patient is seeing (which is highly unlikely to me) versus the possibility that the patient is making all this up (highly likely).

I also wonder, how the patient was able to confirm the face was deformed correctly if they genuinely have this condition. If they are looking at an already deformed image, that image will be further deformed, no? The deformation 'filter' will be applied to the image too...
I have mixed feelings about this technology. On the one hand Neuralink will be groundbreaking for those with disabilities and will enable entirely new classes of human-computer interaction. In theory this could eventually enable a nearly perfect virtual reality experience without having to wear a headset or haptic clothing.

However there are some pretty scary implications for abuse by governments and criminals, as well as all the unforeseen societal and health consequences of manipulating our brains in this manner.

I am very curious to see where this all goes.
And some people who smoke live to be 100 years old, but if you go by actual statistics and data and not just some random anecdote off the internet, people get cavities. If cavities are untreated the tooth rots, infections occur, teeth need to be pulled and there are lots of negative consequences.
Programming of human stem cells into components of blood vessels
It is not? The lack of healthcare in US is always astonishing. Here in Brazil, since about 2000, dentistry is supported by public healthcare. Sure, for some services it may take a lot of time to be attended and treated, so who can afford usually pay for private healthcare, but nonetheless the public and free service exists. It is common that US tourists, when became sick or if they suffer some accident here, they resist to being sent to the hospital arguing that they cannot pay. And for some of them, it takes some time to make them understand that they do not need to pay for such a basic human right.
Yes, but not through tax which is the point.

Quantative tightening just takes money from the fed/bank loop. It is real yes but it’s like thinking interest rates are a lever in the economy anymore.

Anyway the QT on M4 has only dropped M4 by a trillion which basically means 9T still out there on top of everything else

(#) ie they tried to suck it back out of banks but banks don’t have the wealth - the banks customers do.

In short, ultra wealth taxes will stop the ultra wealthy drawing more value out of the economy like a gravity well, and start a flow of wealth through the economy.

Imagine all the blood in your body accumulating in your ankle. Your ankle feels it’s rich in blood but you need transfusion after transfusion to keep everything else going.
> How would you counter?

With something cheaper that you spread around. Drone grenades?
I understand the logic but there is still no evidence to support your hypothesis.
The £3M immersive 'spaceship' where you can battle to save humanity
US Feds Ordered Google to expose YT viewers
Federal authorities in the US asked Google for the names, addresses, telephone numbers and user activity of the accounts that watched certain YouTube videos between January 1 and 8, 2023, according to unsealed court documents viewed by Forbes
Not important enough. Computing freedom is more important. Computers should be free. We should be free. If the cost of that freedom is having to defend against malicious actors, so be it. I pay it gladly.
What is this FAQ format [1]?

Why are the questions ordered in descending order?

5Q: ...?
5A: ...

4Q: ...?
4A: ...

3Q: ...?
3A: ...

2Q: ...?
2A: ...

1Q: ...?
1A: ...

--

[1] DARPA-EA-23-02 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) Capability Study
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/LunA-10%20FAQs_v1.2.pdf
Cool, I recently made a similar tool for generating diagrams like that for SQLalchemy data models. Can definitely be useful for understanding a complex schema.
I will NEVER add such a privacy breaking a**hole feature
If all the stores did that, and people would actually buy goods at those prices, you'd be in an inflationary economy, not a deflationary one.

What do you think inflation is? It's a reduction in the value of money, relative to goods. You can't say that the solution to the problems of deflation is inflation. (I mean, you can, that is my whole point... but it fully undermines the original argument.)
The needs of those who want to capture the majority of the value they create when they author digital goods like software haven’t been the concern of either the Free Software movement nor the Open Source movement. These movements are rooted in the nature of digital goods: they cannot be “exploited” (like strip mining for extracting materials from a mountaintop does) because they are naturally abundant. “Create more value than you capture” was the mantra.

The “free rider problem” has been used to justify licenses that protect the interests of software authors since before we called it “open source”, long before Amazon was made a scapegoat.

“The free rider problem is when someone is allowed to package free software in non-free or less-free bundles, and that's precisely the area of the GPL that I thought I needed to do something about in making the Aladdin license”—Peter Deutsch, October 1998 [1]

The point I am trying to make is that legal tools like the Aladdin Free Public License and SSPL do not protect FOSS, or advance the social movements that have produced a bountiful commons of digital public goods. Those that craft those tools and apply them to their works have every right to do so, but they do so because they choose to do so, not because a company like Amazon “forced them” to.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20041013082602/http://devlinux.o...
Such an awesome find, I'm thinking of sticking this to my CI Pipeline now! :D

I use SQLite for a gameserver, having 3 different databases for different stuff. And this would be a lifesaver for others working on anything requiring the main database which has a lot of relations, thanks to normalizing it and having a lot of different but related data.
Thank you for this!
I wonder how this app is perceived by people who under stand the rules of Game of Life, verses people who don't understand the rules.

I showed it to my kids and they were amazed and mesmerized, but I know they can't grasp the complicated cellular automata that is happening.