skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people who say, "I would quit my job and do that; it seems easy" won't even survive what they claim they would have done.

I mean there's a reason they didn't do it, because they couldn't.
If the non-tech guys says "Here is my idea for a product, please build it" that is worth very little.

If the non-tech guy says "Here is my idea for a product. I've been working in this domain for 15 years and I know what the pain points are. I have XX customers that have expressed an interest and paid a deposit (or committed to pay once the company starts)." then that I think is worth something.
Makes sense. But I don't think this actually answers OPs question. Google is swimming in money, less so wrt good will.
Google is in a league of their own though. They have killed so many IM services I can't even keep track anymore. And then when they fail to grab market share they lobby legislators to bully Apple...
> If they were cheap enough your local urgent care could have you get one every time you twist your ankle or whatever.

More importantly, if MRIs were as cheap as X-Rays are, they could revolutionize early cancer detection, especially when paired with AI. The problem is that even if they are cheap, they are slow. And radiologists aren't scalable.
But more voters didn’t.
1. All-cash buyers get a bit of a discount simply because the deal can't fall apart due to inability to get a mortgage. Less risk for the seller is worth something. I don't know that it's worth 10%, though.

2. All-cash buyers buy differently. Let's say I have $500k, and I want to pay cash. I might buy a house for $450k, if I can find one, but I'm not going to buy a house for $550k. Just no. So either the seller can come down to $500k, or I'm buying something else, because I'm not interested in taking on a mortgage in order to get that $550k house. Whereas if I'm getting a mortgage for $500k, is getting a mortgage for $550k all that different to me?
Interesting. HTMx -> Python -> SQlite all in Cloudflare. I was kind of waiting for this day.
> Also with Deno, it become very easy to write typed cli. .ts file can be run as script very easily with permission access defined on top of the script such as:

I do this all the time. I used to use `npx tsx` in my hashbang line to run TS scripts with Node, but I've started using Deno more because of the permissions. Another great package for shell scripting with Deno is Dax, which is like the Deno version of Bun shell: https://github.com/dsherret/dax

> Also project such as https://cliffy.io has made writing cli way more enjoyable than node.

This looks cool. I've always used the npm package Inquirer (which also works with Deno), but I'll have to compare Cliffy to that and see how it stacks up in comparison.

> Hono (projects conform to modern web standard, and is runtime agnostic for JS)

Hono is awesome. It's fast, very well typed, runs on all JS runtimes, and has zero dependencies.
You store it as an integer, but as we just saw in the OP, for general interop with any system that parses JSON you have to assume that it will be parsed as a double. So to avoid precision loss you are going to have to store it as a string anyway. At that point it's upto you whether you want to reinvent the wheel and implement all the required arithmetic operations for your new fixed-point type. Or you could just use the existing decimal type that ships on almost every mature platform: Java, C#, Python, Ruby, etc.
I'm in one of the states that banned them and I used to have 2 in my back yard. Never really understood the fuss.
The problem with sieves with Legos is that everything goes in the square hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8ssH7LiB0
Ask HN: Access to Android devices for remote debugging/testing?
Hello, I am looking for recommendations for service that provides access to android device(s) for remote debugging.
I've tried AWS device farm. But it seems to allow built in fuzz testing or automated testing. I want to manually run the apk. Plus AWS doesn't have the device I am looking for.
While I agree with the quote in general, I find nothing wrong with YouTube Music. In fact its Auto-Play feature is often much better than Apple Music's.

I'm sure they'll manage to ruin it eventually but I see no reason for us not to use it until that happens.
More correctly, MRI doesn't use ionizing radiation. They definitely irradiate you with high power RF.
A lot of bad in our society can be explained by the fact that a lot of people seriously believe that some people are inherently better than others, and deserve to be at the top of the hierarchy, to follow different rules, to get more than one vote, that they are "elite" and should therefore get better treatment. Egalitarianism is not a universally held doctrine.

I thought the downvotes were coming from people who didn't get my sarcasm, but it could also be that HN readers really believe that CEOs are inherently better people...
Is Economic Deprivation the Real Cause of the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis?
I'm obviously painting in broad strokes, and for sure "data science" as a degree has become more mainstream over the years. Personally, I tend to interview everyone I can fit into my schedule that's been handed to me by a recruiter. And I have hired grad school dropouts, bootcamp grads, no grad school, graduates of DS programs. There's so much variation across with all of these things that it's difficult to make a highly sensitive and highly specific rule based off education alone.

I'm just saying that I seem to have more luck with people coming out of those traditional programs. But, also, as you add more jobs to your resume, the specifics of your education matters less and less.
Protocol Guild funds core protocol development via Splits
Is not radiation. It’s just strong magnetic fields.
Love this counterpoint to "OSS means I can get everybody else to do work for me for free" => "allows you to do the work yourself and share buddy"
PR or it didn't happen
It’s only embezzlement if board/investors didn’t know. This definitely is something the board would have to approve. As a former exec though I think it’s distasteful to require such things before significant profitability. Business class is fine. Pre-revenue, coach is fine too.
Ask HN: How much does an MBA help in building a business
The linear path has always been described to me as "go to an elite school for undergrad, work a few years, go back to school for an MBA" and then you're set -- what is the point of this? I don't understand why I would need/want an MBA.
If he actually uses the jet for Canoo-related business, this is not unreasonable.

Assuming those trips may eventually lead to business deals, and that the amounts reimbursed are in line with free market prices, it is advantageous to Canoo.

Their CEO could be x% "more effective" (I know how abstract that sounds), ultimately benefiting the company, and maybe they even got a good deal ("hey, I own a jet, and it has to fly at least 200 times per year to cover its maintenance costs. If you allow me to use it for Canoo-related trips, which are anyway needed, and reimburse me, I'll charge you less than what netjets wold cost us. Deal? Y/N")

The real world tends to be more nuanced, but in principle it stands, at least until proven guilty/shady.
> it's contributing to the spread of related invasive trees that are taking over some urban green spaces and pastureland and encroaching on forests.

I'll save you from the auto playing view port locker video.
" I know that nearly every company, google no exception, has less person power than they need. "

That's a wild statement to make when looking at Alphabet. Their core products could be run on a fraction of the tens of thousands they employ. They are a hugely flabby company which lacks focus, not resources.

They dabble in anything new that comes along, looking for a new hit and almost never succeed. Almost everything outside Search that you could call a success Google acquired. Despite decades of attempts their rate of producing homegrown hits is utterly dismal.

Their advertising success blinds people to what an inept organization Google are.
I find MRI machines absolutely fascinating. If I was mega-wealthy, I would have one at my house to perform independent research with. Even the math involved in the inverse problem of how images are constructed from the raw signals is super interesting.

I agree with you that these should be all over the place; I think they would be a great boon for preventative medicine.
Python notebooks can definitely work in WASM:

- https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
- https://docs.marimo.io/guides/wasm.html

Running just the kernel in a Cloudflare Worker is an interesting idea ...
I second this, the whole point of Retool is that you can build complex apps that you couldn’t with pure no code solutions (i.e Airtable/Notion).

Retool replaced a pain point (devs don’t want to code internal apps) that is now being brought back with a solution like this.
A magnetic field is not radiation. The changing RF fields used are, but they're not ionizing radiation (the dangerous kind) like that found in CT scans. The radiation used in MRIs should not be able to induce any changes to the molecular structure of your body, but RF burns can still be a risk. (Clothing and even tattoo ink can exacerbate this, fascinating!) The biggest risk seems to be being bonked by loose medical equipment, but I don't think that's what you were asking about.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705217/
Two points I'd be interested in discussing.

1. It seems a lot of people are assuming Jia Tian was compromised all along. I haven't seen a reason to believe this was a long play, but rather that they were compromised along the way (and selected for their access). Why play the long game of let's find a lone package, w/ a tired maintainer, and then try to get in good with them vs. Let's survey all packages w/ a tired maintainer, and compromise a new entrant (ie bribe/beat them).

2. IMO this also is a failing on behalf of many government agencies. NSA, NIST, FBI all should, IMO spend less time compromising their own citizenry, and more time focusing on shoring up the security risks Americans face.
Yes...so long as you're willing to invest the needed delta-v.

But in this case, they had run out of the latter, so...
Looking at the state of software security in the rest of the world, this may not be much of a disincentive. At some point we need to knuckle down and admit that times have changed, the context of tools built for the tech of the 80s is no longer applicable, and that we can do better. If that means rewriting the world from scratch, then I guess we better get started sooner rather than later.
Maybe some sort of cube mapping on the toasters to give them a reflective metallic look will make them blend with the environment more, situating them in the space and harkening to the original

(The APIs don’t let you use the actual environment for reflections, right?)
Free to try it out and then $1/hr to reserve it.
I’ve setup OAuth before and it can be painful. But it’s become more straightforward these days, with existing boilerplates.

The AI prompted scaffold sounds pretty useful, though I’m not convinced it’ll be a USP moat.

Good luck nonetheless! Internal tooling and automation is an incredibly large market that has no clear winner yet.
What would prevent the sock puppet accounts from signing each others' keys?
Google is like that really rich guy whose wife runs a boutique store that loses $10k per month. If the wife decides to change the way the store runs, it doesn't matter and doesn't materially change his financial position.
They’re invasive, they outcompete native trees, and they have many negative attributes. The wild descendants are particularly bad because they have thorns and grow in dense hard to remove thickets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL_AB
How cheap are laser engraving machines? For ultra critical keys and generationally important data this sounds like a really good idea. I use M-disc currently but an engraved A4 or Letter size scannable durable material seems like the best option if it is available.

Edit: would this work?

https://a.co/d/5fWJaEa

Since it seems to accept an image, the question is what material would be best to run it on and then have it be scannable well on a standard flat bed scanner, which almost certainly will be available in some form as long as our current civilization survives.
Ah the keyboard was designed specifically for native english speakers, mapping the english letters to their closest approximate arabic equivalent.

For example s = س
> Get out of the Google Cycle wherever you can.

I think this is a bit much. Maybe the better lesson is "don't get attached to products whose providers aren't sustained by and dependent on you and your money." Yes, google tries some stuff, and kills it if it isn't important and successful. Should they really need to run and maintain free products indefinitely if they haven't gained traction?

A smaller company can start a product that doesn't succeed in the way the business needs it to, and they'll pivot, get acquired (and the new parent kills the product or subsumes it into some larger offering), or die. We might be disappointed when that happens, but we don't feel burned or distrustful.

(edited for typo)
Queen's University to announce lottery for medical student selection
I think the market is tapped out for EV's at the moment. Most people seem to want plug in hybrids vs. full EV's.
Creo was a legendary printing technology company that got its start making optical data tape in the early 1980s. I'm sure the trademark is fine to use for a software company, but you might want to ask Kodak to make sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creo_(company)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/kodak-buy...
Consumption needs to happen somewhere so why not create sinks (ceos) so that our work (source) ends up serving the rich.
Personally I think they are on the right track, which is why we're over-invested in them.

Generally in our experiments, GPT-4/Claude Opus is able to generate Next-flavored React Server Components (RSC) a lot easier than anything else, because their APIs are simple.
I have no interest in defending the man, but this argument triggers me. Do you also make sure to regularly remind people that those football players with Superbowl rings never won the world series?

Edit: the point is that the win condition is electoral votes. A rational actor will optimize for that, potentially at the expense of the popular vote even, and they will be more likely to win for it. In other words, don't have your quarterback spend his practice time in the batting cages if you want to win the super bowl.
I think ideally we'd have month/year timestamps for every link submitted, but that's probably not going to happen, so you end up with instances like this, or months-old news being taken as new, etc.

I think the better solution, which I'm trying to do myself, is noting the date on the article before reading
Was totally expecting this to be about the Kraft food company creating their own cloud service as an April fools joke.
Oh wow! Imagine how the chances of detecting a tumor increase going from 3T to 11T.

I wonder how much the resolution would increase if we went from 11T to say 50T?
Typescript (nodejs) backends are not performant, and your ultra modern stack is going to just cause you issues going forward if you need to scale. Prisma is really bad too, slow queries and no flexibility. If you ever need to do any sort of complex query you will just have to write sql anyway. And typescript is only sort of static typing.

These technologies are great for prototyping and building a v1 release to see if what you're trying to achieve is actually possible, but you will regret it later on.

The reason I know this, I work at a startup where we literally had the same backend stack and its been nothing but preformance issue after preformance issue. And it all needs to be replaced. We would have been better off building everything with go/rust in the first place. Or even java.
Google isn't a charity. The product doesn't make any money, so all maintenance is an irrecoverable expense.
Show HN: I built a premier card game of East Africa on the web
I wouldn't consider Google Podcasts a first party app. Even as a Pixel user, I only ever interacted with it by searching for a podcast. I could install it, but it wasn't pre-installed.

I'm not sure but YouTube Music _might_ be pre-installed. I can't recall.
I didn't really know this, but a Computed Tomography scan uses X-rays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT_scan

An MRI is just a great big magnet (generated by a superconductor that is held at low temperatures by liquid helium).

From the safety section of the wiki: "Since MRI does not use any ionizing radiation, its use is generally favored in preference to CT when either modality could yield the same information... MRI uses powerful magnets and can therefore cause magnetic materials to move at great speeds, posing a projectile risk, and may cause [extremely rare, perhaps fatal] accidents."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging

If you've had a PET scan, then you've been exposed to antimatter (anti-electrons) for Positron Emission Tomography (which ends up as gamma ray radiation).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission_tomography
What's crazy to me about how we've set up computers to do things, is that xz itself is a pure function, but somehow there's all of this shit that has to happen to just use a pure function! It's just bytes in and bytes out, but we have an astoundingly complex build system and runtime linking system which somehow allows this pure function to run arbitrary commands on a system.
So, we can have both the standard complaints of CEOs with private jets and the standard complaints of companies spending way more than they earn.
It explains right in the tweet. Big companies take unpaid work and start to rely on it without giving anything back, then demand fixes as high priority.

Also, being unpaid implies that one has to do other things to get money, so that leaves limited time and energy to put towards the free project. So when pressure starts coming in from outside, the maintainer(s) don’t have time for real reviews and accept code without fully vetting it.

If maintaining this code was part of a paid day job, there would be more time, energy, and incentive to review it more completely.
I Use the GPL and Not Cuck Licenses
The xz debacle happened partiallybecause the generated autoconf code was provided. Checking in generated code is not that much better. It's a bit more visible, but not much people will spend their limited time to validate it, as it's not worth it for generated code. xz also had checked in inscrutable test files, and nobody could know it was encrypted malware.

I'm not a fan of generated code. It tends to cause misery, being in a no mans land between code and not-code. But it is usefull sometimes, e.g rust generating an API from the opengl XML specs.

Sandboxing seems the least worst option, but it will still be uninspected half code that one day ends up in production.
Out of touch with whom? Logically you're also out of touch with those you're talking about.

Different places/environments/skill levels have different costs, so what?
> Rightly or wrongly.

No comment.

> That’s great, but does not disincentivize public bads which I mentioned above.

It’s simple. Tax the externality. In this case institute a carbon tax.

It appears to me you are saying we can’t figure out how to be a functional democracy. That’s a shame. One solution could be to try and identify what tools we have in our collective toolbox to taclke the problem at hand. Another solution is to blame the banks that they don’t have enough civic virtue. To me it looks like one of these two solutions is more likely to work than the other.
The issue is that nobody speaks "classic" arabic in day to day life, so its not very useful. The egyptian dialect on the other hand is the most widely spoken dialect and understandable by most arabic speakers.
> How did they got access to it? Concerning..

Someone bound system:anonymous to ClusterReader "just for now, for testing, I'll delete it right after".
In this case, inputs, or more like the whole chain toward "real inputs".

A project can be reproducible when built from the release tarball, without being able to reproduce the release tarball from a git tag.
Some other context

As of Q3 2022, Tesla’s profit margins stand out significantly compared to its competitors:

Gross profit per car: $15,653
Net profit per car: $9,574

In comparison, other major automakers have lower profit margins:

General Motors (GM): Gross profit per car of $3,818 and net profit per car of $2,150.

Toyota: Gross profit per car of $3,925 and net profit per car of $1,197.

Volkswagen (VW): Gross profit per car of $6,034 and net profit per car of $973.

Hyundai: Gross profit per car of $5,362 and net profit per car of $927.
How is proof is stake wasted effort? What human energy is required there?
This article doesn't really help me choose and based on the title I expected it would. I don't think OP made a "hype" driven decision, but this is certainly one of the most popular modern stacks and what I would like to see instead is a comparison between the popular and less popular options and why OP chose exactly this stack.
people often assume state actors are the pinnacle of sophistication, and especially long games. (Also notably Chinese culture is very attuned / trained for long games, relative to American impatience). This was a sophisticated attack, therefore presumption.
Contrast with Apple's significantly less experimental, more refined approach to product releases.

Apple's approach has been a disaster recently with the glorified (and polished) beta test kit "Vision Pro" and the cancelled Apple Car.

If Apple has embraced the Vision Pro as an experimental product, they probably could have released it with an order of magnitude or two less expenditure. But Apple does not experiment in the marketplace, they release solid polished products that have been in a sense validated by their competitors (Blackberry etc).

When it comes to innovation, an experimental approach like Google's is key. If you don't have that culture, you will get left behind. Apple is in a precarious position: the iPhone is over 15 years old, becoming "my parent's phone". They're not a player in AI and the car project failed. How will they capture the next generation?
Are the executables not signed? That would be surprising to me for something coming from Mozilla.

EDIT: I just realized that the cross-platform single-binary thing might actually cause issues with code signing. I'm curious about this.
1. Feynman to U-235
What nobody seems to wonder about is why both the Bible and Quran strongly prohibited gay sex and that idea is so widespread across most of history and most of the world, even today, and even in China which doesn't have a history of those religions. You can't say we know better now because we're better educated when we don't know the reason in the first place.

There are some clues. The Bible has the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, which might be a collective memory of societies becoming gay-friendly and promiscuous then being destroyed somehow. It could have been put into a story about God to make it memorable across generations (we do still have the story after-all, and we don't still have the actual history). In Islam, Mohammed said his greatest fear was that Muslims would turn gay. Why was he so afraid of that? Maybe there was cultural knowledge of what too much tolerance for gayness leads to and we just don't have that knowledge in our recorded history.

Not saying I have the answer, but nobody else does either. It's naïve to just look at the direct consequences and say "they're not hurting anybody so it's fine". There might be destructive emergent social phenomena that come from it being widely accepted over the long term. We only have basically 2 generations of data on gay-friendly western society to observe from.