skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some things jumped out from the article as feeling sloppy.

> The tech is so bad. The United States Digital Service found 17 days of downtime in recent years.

If anyone is curious, a total of 17 days since 1999 according to a report obtained by the Washington Post from 2021.

> Until recently, the algorithm that was protecting all organ donor patient information in the country, so STI status, mental health, every physical history, was from 1996.

The algorithm? Huh? But it actually does seem serious that they have "denied nearly 100 federal requests to audit source code, reported The Washington Post." UNOS said they would have pentesting done in the WaPo article, but I couldn't find any reporting on if they actually followed through.

Additional sources:

https://fedscoop.com/usds-organ-transplant-system-shakeup/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/31/unos-transp...
I feel like letting my geek flag fly / Yes, I feel like I owe it to someone

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I'd agree with that theory - a big part of why I leave tabs open is that I'm not deliberately stashing them until later, I just get pulled into (or sometimes distracted by) something else and will, eventually, make my way back by virtue of closing tabs I'm done with. Its a fun surprise for later, and lets me entirely skip the mental friction of deciding whether something is important enough to bookmark and how I'd categorize that bookmark etc.

I look at Bookmarks vs Tabs in the same way I look at Google+'s Circles vs Instagram's "everyone vs close friends". One is far more powerful, the other forces far fewer decisions and is seemingly good enough for just about everyone.
“Which would cause the first reading to have more weight than successive readings”, funny enough looks like the opposite of what’s going on.
And in some cases, unfortunate git commands will ship your machine too!
Hmm. I'm running decent LLMs locally (deepseek-coder:33b-instruct-q8_0, mistral:7b-instruct-v0.2-q8_0, mixtral:8x7b-instruct-v0.1-q4_0) on my MacBook Pro and they respond pretty quickly. At least for interactive use they are fine and comparable to Anthropic Opus in speed.

That MacBook has an M3 Max and 64GB RAM.

I'd say it does live up to my expectations, perhaps even slightly exceeds them.
thanks for sharing this, I have been using aichat (https://github.com/sigoden/aichat) and shell_gpt for a while. Let's see how it works.
OG Trail: Play the Classic Oregon Trail Game on Android
It's already open-source; most of it anyway:

1. https://github.com/tonyzhaozh/aloha

2. https://aloha-2.github.io/

3. https://github.com/tonyzhaozh/aloha/tree/main/aloha2
there is no welfare trap.
From your past comments I think you are near Seattle, and that area looks fairly red on the USGS national seismic hazard map!

> the maximum duration outage was less than 3 days

Past performance is no guarantee of future results!

My semi-rural parents were at one end of the faultline of the Canterbury earthquake and my sister lives on a rural property on top of the Kaikoura earthquake.

If you are in an earthquake zone, my lived experience has been that planning for more than a weeks disruption is very worthwhile.

They both have wood burners and had months of firewood so heating was fine. They used gas cookers for a while. Both have septic tanks and both had non-powered water supplies (no electric powered wells - they had tanks fed from roof and hillside). I think my sister lost a couple of chest freezers of meat because power was out. Many people had no serviced power for an extended period of time. My sister lost their ADSL internet (their property has zero cellphone coverage). She'd be okay now with her Starlink.

After an earthquake, you cannot buy a generator (they are all sold quickly).

Getting gas deliveries might be difficult (bridges and roads were fucked near my sisters).

I will instal solar with batteries and I live in a city. Power, sewage and water were out in many parts of Christchurch for a long time after the Christchurch earthquake. I'm no prepper. I am just happy to hedge my insurance bets if the price is right!

Then again: after three major earthquakes I would hope we all learn a little...

If you're visiting NZ then come visit.
This is old news.

Basically children in bad situations need just one reliable person who believes in them in their lives.

What it does is making them realize that it’s not them who are doing something wrong but that their surroundings are flawed. The problem begins when children start to believe everything is their own fault.
While I appreciate the influence Rust syntax has had on this API, what does the OP consider the main advantages to GraphQL Client over other GraphQL clients such as Houdini, Apollo, or urql? Why should I switch from Houdini to this client? What advantage(s) would it bring as well as potential disadvantages?

https://houdinigraphql.com/api/react
https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/
https://commerce.nearform.com/open-source/urql/
I was amazed we spend $38B/yr on kidney failure.
For anyone that needs this (copy pasted from a comment 2 weeks ago)

Your DNS can also do things like block malware, adult content, trackers, social media, or other things. Here's info about cloudflare and mullvad.

# Cloudflare
## Standard
1.1.1.1
1.0.0.1
2606:4700:4700::1111
2606:4700:4700::1001

## Block Malware
1.1.1.2
1.0.0.2
2606:4700:4700::1112
2606:4700:4700::1002

## Block Malware & Adult Content (not useful for this case)
1.1.1.3
1.0.0.3
2606:4700:4700::1113
2606:4700:4700::1003

You can find cloudflare information here[0], and remember to make sure you setup DNS over DoT (TLS) or DoH (HTTPS). Especially for them they will want to have encrypted DNS.

Mullvad also offers free DNS[1], which also supports encrypted DNS

# Mullvad
## DoH is port 443 and DoT is port 853
## Standard
dns.mullvad.net
194.242.2.2
2a07:e340::2

## Block Trackers
adblock.dns.mullvad.net
194.242.2.3
2a07:e340::3

## Block Trackers + Malware
base.dns.mullvad.net
194.242.2.4
2a07:e340::4

Mullvad also has block for Adult + gambling and social media (so there are 6 total configurations). You don't need the Mullvad VPN to use these.

I should also mention, as this frustrated me a bit, that your browser may implement its own DNS and so just setting these in your router (or pihole) may not completely resolve the issue. In Firefox, go to Settings > Privacy & Security > (scroll all the way down) Enable DNS over HTTPS using > then under either "Increased Protection" or "Max Protection" you can set a DNS resolver (or turn it off). They have defaults for Cloudflare (default!) and NextDNS. While you're there, also check your settings at the top of that page about "Enhanced Tracking Protection"

I am NOT a network/security person and would greatly appreciate replies to this comment with additional information. Especially about setting up things like piholes, TVs, browsers, encrypted DNS (especially this!), host files, and so on.

[0]
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/ip-addresses/
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/setup/#dns-over-ht...

[1] https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
The startup type itself is grey, set to disabled, and I can't change it.

The PuTTY agent is a perfect fit for this situation, unfortunately.
Mullvad has a public DNS service that I'd trust.
Church's λ-Calculus (2023) [pdf]
Hello World ,

We’ve been building a new, (free!!) language learning app that we are excited to share! We used Duo Lingo for a few months and there were some things we didn’t like.

Personalization: Sometimes the things we want to learn aren’t available.
Paying for exercises: Sometimes we’ll miss a couple questions and get locked out of the app until our hearts reset.

So we built an app “Slang”(https://www.theslang.app/) which can teach you to have a conversation on any topic in just 15 minutes, with no limit on the number of questions you want to ask it.

We would love to hear what you think!

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Ps. If you already have a premium subscription to Chat GPT we’ve also built a plugin to work with our quiz generator! Check it out here (https://chat.openai.com/g/g-qCaQHMjEI-slanggpt)

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We understand the implications, but I would not want anyone to bring forth children that are unwanted, thus bringing more unhappiness into those parents' lives (and their surrounding community).

Our society needs to treat children as a gift and not just "thoughts and prayers" about raising them.
it’s self reported data so it’s not super reliable

It could be people with more adverse experiences are less likely to take care in answering survey questions
This is a great idea. Apparently some people have reverse-engineered the network authentication to allow you to bypass the AT&T modem, but it looks pretty hairy.
Filers above that AGI tend to have more complicated returns. That's all. I don't see a problem with them taking it slow.

This system looks really similar to the FAFSA enrollment site, which had trouble in late 2023. Probably explains why this site didn't launch earlier.
> If no one else will work for free, I will not either.

If you're deceased, what sort of labor are you doing exactly?

To me, your argument seems to fall more along the lines of your body and organs being property that can be inherited by your family in the same was as cash, real estate, etc. Which is an interesting idea.

But ultimately it's called "donation" for a reason. If you donate to, say UNICEF or Red Cross, you're also the only one in the chain who doesn't get paid.
If we can “aim” at mars and generally hit it, then we can definitely “aim” our space junk not at densely populated areas.

I really don’t think that the use of the word “aim” here necessitated this level of pedantry.
Strategies to Deal with Data Challenges in RAG Systems
[not related to this thread]

hey brother--working on a project that I'd love to get your perspective on based on a comment you made on a different thread that is too old to reply to.

If you're open to connecting, shoot me a message at amitthakrarcoaching@gmail.com!
If you ever go on a cruise, the ones with a casino typically give you about $10 of free in-casino credit.
Have you watched Upload on Amazon Prime? Instead of being born into a simulation, like in The Matrix, we can choose to enter one upon death, effectively becoming immortal.
Maxing out credit cards and magic money trees
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That's over wifi not usb.

Even a bluetooth mouse has too much latency for many games.
No, we don't. The issue was never and will never be the content, it is with the curation and mobility deeply and systemically taken over by social media and smart phone makers. If Google displays spam and AI generated nonsense, and almost everyone relies on it (including those who use "alternative front-ends"), then how do you expect anyone to find a healthy internet? Even if the "extractive and fragile monoculture" made up 0.001% of the internet, it doesn't matter if people can never reach the 99.999%.
I'd also recommend Elliot Parker who worked with Clay for a long time. His new book is a great read (I read a pre-print version, but I'd guess they are the same): https://www.amazon.com/Illusion-Innovation-Efficiency-Unleas...
Yes. There is actually some research into this idea where markets would effectively conduct rolling auctions, but I'm struggling to find it at the moment because I'm in a work meeting. Iirc the evidence suggests this would reduce market dislocations when news comes out etc so would generally improve price discovery.

Markets already conduct an opening and closing auctions and conduct an auction to resume after a volatility break (what people often call a "circuit breaker" in the press although it's a volatility break) so this would not be as much of a technological lift to implement this as it may appear.

How it works from a practical perspective is the exchange suspends matching for a period (so say 30mins) but order placement still works. Then when the market comes out of suspension a single print runs to uncross the order book, and everyone who submitted an order which matched gets executed at a single price. So as you say timing arbitrages of the current kind are effectively impossible. So in the case of a rolling auction you would do that print and then immediately suspend matching again and do another auction.

Here's some background on how auctions work in financial markets in general but it's not the specific paper I was referring to https://www.princeton.edu/~jkastl/auctions_finance.pdf
>Does anyone have any mental heuristics for judging how "useless" a feature is?

My favorite example is the story I got to live through of the first generations of consumer 64 bit CPUs.

When the first AMD Athlon 64 came out, everyone I knew was buying them because they though they were getting something totally future proof by jumping early on the 64 bit bandwagon, in 2003, when nobody yet had 4GB+ of RAM and neither Windows nor any software would see 64bit releases till several years later when Vista came out which everyone avoided and staid on Windows XP 32bit waiting for Windows 7.

And by the time RAM sizes over 4GB and 64 bit software became even remotely mainstream, we already had dual- and quad-core CPUs miles ahead of those original 64 bit CPUs which were now obsolete (tech progress back then was wild).

So just like how 64bit silicone was a useless feature on consumer CPUs, and like the first GPUs with raytracing, I feel like now we're in the same boat with AI silicone in PCs, no much SW support for them and when it does come, these early chips will be obsolete. It's the price of being an early adopter.
This is a bit off-topic but I'm interested in the same space you are in.

There seems to be an inherent pull between large chunks (great for visualising large extents and larger queries) vs smaller chunks for point-based or timeseries queries. It's possible but not very cost-effective to maintain separately-chunked versions of these large geospatial datasets. I have heard of "kerchunk" being used to try and get the best of both, but then I _think_ you lose out on the option of compressing the data and it introduces quite a lot of complexity.

What are your thoughts on how to strike that balance between use cases?
Thanks for posting about our project. We made a Show HN post earlier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40054486

We have promo codes for those that want to give this a try. Email support@userland.tech if you want one (first 500)
I thought I just wasn't understanding the visualizations. Glad it wasn't just me.

It also wasn't very clear to me what I was supposed to be noticing in the visualizations that was related to whatever text was currently popped up. In the end I just watched the youtube video that was linked to at the very beginning and it made everything much clearer to me.
That's a good point. The publisher got paid and the coffee shop probably made a decent amount bringing in customers who knew they'd find a free paper there.
Not disagreeing with your point that economic metrics often held too highly above others, but Jamie Dimon has commented a lot on the need to tackle inequality. Even if he's doing so for ulterior reasons, I feel like this is an uncharitable representation of his views.
And without the vaccines they would likely have had worse symptoms as well as potentially had symptomatic covid even more times than they did.

In other words the fact that vaccinated people contracted covid does _not_ mean the vaccines didn’t protect them from the disease.
>They had to do it for overpopulation, not for some explorative spirit.

Navigation methods aside, those aren't mutually exclusive.
Why New Tech Products Fail
How about Zeiss?
For any domains really.

Your best bet is something like Dnscrypt or DoH that exposes a resolver locally on your full network.
The enormity of this statement is really blowing my mind. /If/ we could travel the speed of light, which we can't, it would still take nearly a day to get to Voyager 1, which seems both infinitely far given our current capabilities and remarkably close given how long it's taken to get that far.
I don't have many points to consider, that's the root of my comment. The only point I can think of is that a project is a result of its people. And Redis people are now Valkey. Thus, for me, the word Redis is a deprecated word that in past meant what is now named Valkey.
Low latency, conversational voice foundation model
The right click is paste, both in CMD.EXE and the terminal app found in the store.

PuTTY is following a Microsoft precedent.
I assume that's https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrews_%26_Arnold

The minute they come to America I'm switching.
> While it does cost $99 to get in the store, the app can be used by millions for no additional cost. Hosting fees for a web app will grow along with the user base. Even without users, a domain plus a basic hosting plan will easily be more than $99/year.

$99/year is just to host the 'client-side'. Most likely you still the backend so that cost is still the same.
Yes, but if you own the building, how could the squatters prove that they were there first?

Even if you don't own it, how can anyone prove which party was established firstly in any building?
I would say that the circle of influence people have is by far the most impactful on their happiness and that of their family. The individual choice to try meth or not will vastly outweigh any genetic or environmental factor on personal outcome. Beating ones children is much more influential than your socioeconomic class.

No a mount of political action can compensate for dissolution of individual responsibilities.

Ideally, they are complementary, but they can easily be antagonists.

Teach a generation of juveniles that they have no agency, and their individual efforts and work, and they will never succeed.
Mitchell Hashimoto, Founder of HashiCorp on Open Source Monetization
It is important that this is based on all income levels equally. Yes, some will pay back that money in taxes, but the important part is keeping the amount equal. It would be even more effective if you gave them a monthly check (even if you would eventually take it all back via a consumption tax on people earning more). A ~25% national sales tax should be sufficient to cover a UBI program. (We should still have an income tax, though.) Furthermore, a consumption tax would decrease unnecessary spending since you can target only new products and not used products to encourage people to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
> The second presumption is that "abuse" or "adverse experiences" is able to be categorized by the researcher's definition. Again, we're dealing with people of different cultures who have different standards for living. We're overlaying our own "refined" terminology of what constitutes "abuse" or "danger" to them and drawing conclusions. Worse yet, we're saying that those same conclusions are correlated to the conditions that they experienced, regardless of how they themselves would classify it.

I think in this case, it seems they did pretty well. They're not lumping in "people failed to use their pronouns" into it, but things like gun violence, violent crime, and bullying. Some kids might be made of tougher material and shrug that off better, but even for them if that's not an adverse experience, I don't know what could be. It seems like the researchers are using an appropriately conservative definition.

> Maybe it's a good thing that mom divorced the man who was never around.

Yeh, but now we're confusing propaganda that was designed to encourage women to leave abusers for something of statistical significance about another matter entirely. If there are more men who would have made the kids' lives better than there are men so dangerous it's good they were separated from their children, then it doesn't matter that some are bad. The fact that the father has divorced and is out of the picture puts them at a higher risk of poor outcomes.
I couldn't test this because it fails to install on nixos inside a venv (some error with onnxruntime? when calling termax).

It seems fine, but I would appreciate a nixos package for this.

on the other hand,
How is the LLM configured?
Does it support llama etc...?
Does it provide an automatic way to install the LLM?
Jobs are not a commodity that has to be "created" at all. A job is just a demand for labor. Either the demand is there at market rate, or it's not.
The number of the ideas has nothing to do with the quality of the ideas. Some ideas a gold, many aren’t.
Interesting idea, and I’d think mostly only limited by cost/speed per token currently
> speedrunning the extinction of Western civilization!

Western civilization was always a good idea, never achieved, and they have had their day
A vector DB is the complete opposite of what you describe, it maps list<double> to pair<file, string>.

The queries it's good at are not "what vectors map to this filename", but "what pieces of text are closest to this vector, and what metadata do we have about them?" This is a non-trivial problem to solve if you don't want your queries to be O(n) where n is the dataset size.

This is useful because AI models can transform any kind of content (usually text or images) into vectors, in a way that content similar in meaning is transformed to vectors that are close to each other. This can be used e.g. find all documents related to your search query, even if your search keywords are never directly mentioned, to find articles similar to the one you're currently reading, to search images by their descriptions, or even to see how closely a user submission matches "undesirable" content, like spam or porn.

I agree that specialized vector databases are a little silly though, considering that Postgres and others have vector extensions now.
Yup, replace learning the syntax of tools with learning how to ask ChatGPT what a command is in English. I've found sometimes it will take a few tries for it to a working answer. I don't care if its sed or awk or grep or whatever as long as I accomplish the goal of what I want to be done.
I don’t think it’s about the killer app or the killer tech. Certainly, you need those things. It’s simpler than that — it’s gotta be in the Zeitgeist.
Make a torture tool that triggers all these breakages, and send it to people who review monitors.
It’s a bit like the automatic-writing quality of Bob Dylan lyrics (or especially text he’d write for his album covers) but in film form. Similar deal where the “text” is obscure and seems full of puzzles, and you can make connections and draw some conclusions—and certainly a tone, themes, and even a point or message may be communicated clearly—but you can’t count on everything lining up and making logical sense.
We should not make it more than $1000 per month. Very few would choose to be poor. It would put a lot of pressure on companies to pay decent wages, though.
OpenSearch is doing quite well, but Elastic is still more dominate based on my GitHub insights tool.
Your account has swerved into using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. I don't know why, but it's dismaying, because you've been a great contributor in the past but now you're posting more battle comments than not.

This is not allowed on HN, regardless of which politics you're for or against, or how right you are or feel you are. We have to ban accounts that post like this and I definitely don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop posting like this, that would be good.
This describes many wrongs in the timelines of the Indian section.
In your experience, is the r-family better than the c-family for running an RDBMS?
I had very similar takeaways, you said it well!
It's probably also worth checking your ping to these servers. For me, Cloudflare and Quad9 are around 10ms, while Mullvad is around 40ms, so I take that into consideration when choosing a DNS provider.