skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely it would be no problem to give developers a second machine for the testing period, so they could work with that one every day and if it breaks, the stable one is just one git checkout away...

But no, I've actually never seen this. Probably better to lose people who leave over their employer messing up the work hardware than spending 3k per 2-3 years for a second machine.
Does NASA hold the recipe to the Future Of Food?
You're telling me that people go to lunch, drink a bottle of wine in an hour and go back to work?

I drink a lot and I'd never do something like that. You'd be too drunk to drive.
That’s what my mom said to me. Didn’t really get me used to it though… maybe that’s the point? Tell them life is going to be boring during their phase of rebellion and you’ll set them up to chase something better for the remainder of their days?
I used to love Dropbox, then they limited devices and storage so much it was barely worth it, and spamming me with nag popups all day to upgrade because my storage was near full sealed the deal and I just started using OneDrive (not much better but it's integeated and convenient, probably going to just go foss with a home server eventually). Another sad downfall of a once good company.
Ahh, thank you!
Yeah, even by the high standards of AI bubble nonsense, that's particularly ridiculous.
> OpenAI has been developing a web search product, partly powered by Microsoft Bing, a source told The Information.

Could this be the source?

https://search.chatgpt.com/

HN thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40235138
What's the difference between this and a slab allocator? Is it just that the bin size distribution wastes less memory (assuming the slab allocator used pow2 bin sizes)?
Sundar won't stand a chance.
Theranos 2?
Show HN: I built a tool for repeatable checklists
For a long time (after devouring Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto), I've noticed a gap in the productivity tool market—most tools don't cater well to repeatable checklists. Task managers handle one-off tasks effectively, but falter with routines. On the other hand, project management software often feels overly complex. What I wanted was in the Goldilocks Zone between Todoist and Jira.

For my own personal use, I created StepList. I've used it to assist and track workouts, my daily workday, software deployment and setup, household management, and more. Over the last year I've prepared StepList for sharing with others, and it's finally ready. It's designed to be unobtrusive and straightforward, allowing you to focus seamlessly on your tasks.

Key features include:

Easy List Creation: Quickly make lists with basic formatting options.

Search and Access: Find your lists and those shared by others.

Efficient Execution: Perform tasks swiftly, whether on a computer or mobile browser.

Flexible Scheduling: Set up lists to be done once or on a recurring basis, with email reminders.

Simple Delegation: Assign lists via email, no StepList account needed for collaborators.

StepList is fairly vanilla Rails 7 app. I've found Hotwire to be a powerful tool for building apps that work well on mobile and desktop (though in a few key places, I eschew it to keep things fast).

StepList is free to use, with a $5/month premium plan for unlimited scheduled, delegated, and private lists.

- Drew
I think they’re satirizing the kind of attacks used to dismiss those who document and complain about these safety issues. But I’m not sure.
Sounds impressive but doesn't appear that great. Struck out three times on nature photos.

Chicagoland park-> guessed central park NYC

Rural Nebraska -> guessed Iowa

Shoshone Wyoming -> guessed Glacier Montana
Looks awesome. How easy is it to use other libraries together with Uno? Say OpenGL for iOS and Android. Any examples? Looks very interesting.
It’s similar. I liked Hetzner for their affordable bare-metal offerings, but found their interfaces to be fairly clunky. Linode and Vultr (and Digital Ocean) have a nicer web based interface. I think you can find benchmarks online comparing performance of the different VPS providers but IMO the differences are not all that relevant for every day use cases.

It mostly boils down to which service you like more based on entirely subjective variables like company, branding, ownership (Linode was acquired by Akamai).
I worked at one of the United States' largest public utilities for decades and during my tenure our usage of coal dropped by 50%, and is continuing to drop.

Why?

It had nothing to do with any environmental policy, it was all financial: fracking made natural gas super cheap. It's simply cheaper to generate electricity using natural gas than coal. The kicker? A natural gas turbine plant can be built practically overnight and is much cheaper to operate. It also pollutes less and is advertised as being "green."

Guess what happened? We shuttered several coal units as they reached the end of their amortization, and we stopped building any new units. The last time we built a new coal unit was during the Obama administration, and that unit had started its planning and financing during the Clinton administration.

Everybody in the power industry knew Trump was an idiot (and blatantly pandering) when he talked about "saving coal." MONEY killed coal, not environmentalists.
Show HN: I made a macOS extension to convert HEIC to JPG straight from Finder
Hello HN,

Beside software engineering I do product design and I often deal with large image files. Many times the files are HEIC which is cumbersome as many sites don’t accept it as upload.

I created a small macOS extension that adds a Quick Action to the Finder right click menu so that I can compress & convert any number of images at once.

e.g. I import 250MB of HEIC files and I get 67MB JPG files upon a click.

Let me know if you find this useful!

Vojta
I appreciate the humor :)

In my line of work and my position, everything I do stays in the background out of the public eye. I can appreciate that for some people; researchers, open source programmers that you need to share what you do and your thoughts on how to do it with an audience. And naturally that if there is a discussion on a topic that your work might get brought up and commented on.

Unfortunately, people are jerks, even more so online sometimes and there is no way of stopping it.

The only solution I can see is creating a walled garden that is exclusive in it's membership and had a robust moderation policy. However that creates it's own problems such as echo chambers and allows those with power to control and shape discourse.

In short, it looks like we are trying to find a technical solution to a social problem or perhaps even a human nature problem.
That's a decent point, but what I don't get is, when I do a Google Translate from English to German for "billion," I get "Milliarde." Is the concern that German readers, reading the article in translation to German, will be confused? It would seem like the German readers reading the English article would understand.

Not trying to argue any point (I mean honestly...), just trying to understand the German POV here, which is interesting.
It's better to do a voluntary extinction, because the involuntary one will inevitably happen and it'll be absolutely brutal, don't expect anything else
Earlier submission on the 404Media article on this DOA, I though the closure posting itself a rather interesting perspective ...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40236523
Some idle trivia, in the London office the d in the illuminated "Food Bar" sign above the cafeteria has been switched off.
The Gift of Experiencing 'Ego Death'
It's kind of a catch-22, isn't it?

You don't take the threats seriously, nothing happens: no one notices.

You don't take the threats seriously, something happens: "why didn't you take the threats seriously? It's your own fault."

Sometimes the threats are serious and something happens.
Fabric Health - recently landed our Series A ($60M) - multiple years of financial runway

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Rather than Patients and Providers struggling with fragmented experiences and antiquated tech/processes, Fabric delivers a seamless approach to care delivery through a hybrid end-to-end experience (from onset across navigation, intake, triage, treatment, and workflow automation and beyond). We are already live with ~70 healthcare systems and growing a ton!

Fabric offers competitive base / bonus / equity, excellent benefits as well Fabric has at least 3-4 years of financial runway (just received a $60M Series A led by General Catalyst / Google Ventures / Thrive Capital) *Fabric has an excellent engineering-first culture and is led by a team of medical experts leaning on great software engineering practices to build the best systems for everyone touching healthcare systems

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What's the one that has the rainbow line cursor option?
The mile is larger than a kilometer.

But it shouldn't be common.
That's completely absurd, there are tons of rule already about who is allowed to run as well as term limits which by that logic should be eliminated as well.
Ad Hominem attack... ;)
Yeah, I feel dirty for clicking on the link.
Is it possible that the sign that says Austin is on the wall and is known to the system but not visible in the actual photo?
It's called the blockchain trilemma.

Bitcoin cash pays the price through centralisation. It can still only manage 100 transactions/second so certainly isn't flawless.

Far better to make the base layer slow but very robust, and then add layers to scale.
“If You Don’t Disrupt Your Own Business, Someone Else Will”
A lot closer to 50 than 25.
Talc powder is what is used in baby powder.

In nature, the majority of talc deposits also contain asbestos. Even worse, the form of asbestos in those deposits is the most cancerous form of it.

So basically what was happening was that women were using baby powder as a absorbent to keep their lady parts feeling fresh, but were introducing a whole bunch of asbestos in the process. This is on top of the dubious idea of putting talc on your hoo-haa to begin with.
The courts seem to have some power here, see this quote from the article:

>The company tried filing LTL in bankruptcy twice before — and both times the case was rejected as courts ruled the parent company was financially capable of paying the claims without bankruptcy protection.
I read the article so that I could understand the contrast between "long predicted" and what happens. "Long predicted" strikes me as one of those cases where whatever scenario is predicted eventually comes true. I thought the headline had to be wrong. Nope. Garbage article. Just a bunch of mega corporate earnings call quotes.
Entertainment in general; another great example of this is ticket prices for concerts and drink prices inside the venues. Obviously drink prices have always been high, but a pint of domestic beer has been very steadily creeping up by $1-$2 a year since 2020; effectively double today relative to even 8 years ago.

I just paid $250 for pit tickets to see an artist I like at a mid-tier venue. A similarly popular artist in 2019 at the same venue would have cost ~$70.

I think the reality no one in charge wants to admit is that inflation is actually kind of out of control, primarily in non-essential sectors like entertainment. Its a situation where things are more expensive -> people do fewer things -> the things have to get more expensive to account for people doing fewer things -> vicious cycle. The story of 2022-2024 was tech breaking, but I think the story of 2024-2026 is going to be the services and entertainment industry breaking; and the break might be a lot worse.
OpenELM, a family of Efficient Language Models Developed by Apple, is trending on Hugging Face!

OpenELM offers models with 270M to 3B parameters, pre-trained and instruction-tuned, with Good results across various benchmarks.

My Feedback:

First Phi 3, now OpenELM. It's great to see these small models improving. I know they're not ready for production in all cases, but they're really great for specific tasks.

I see small open-source models as the future because they offer better speed, require less compute, and use fewer resources, making them more accessible and practical for a wider range of applications.

What do you think about this? Do you consider using small opensource. If yes what you are thinking to make?

I am going to use it on my smartphone
"on Linux where you only have access to our Skia renderer" ... means what? Can I make a basic GUI app on Linux with Uno. If yes how ?
Fixed the title, thanks.

We were using Teleport Team, which is being discontinued entirely. We could switch to self-hosting, but we'll probably just go back to SSH jump servers which are more straightforward to set up, and don't have the risk that the license will change again to become more restrictive.
You will be downvoted because others have financial interest in pushing this "emission reduction" agenda. But ultimately those people will realize that properly orchestrating their death was a much better option, but then it will be too late
The talc they were sourcing was riddled with asbestos, which they covered up for years. Asbestos’s carcinogenic nature is unique in that the physical shape of the fibers is what causes the cancers. So many of the cancers implicated here were due to the typical path of women breathing the powder in while applying to their babies, etc, but the ovarian ones were likely caused by women applying talc to their perineum following birth or surgery - the asbestos fibers would be introduced into the vagina and ‘burrow’ into the cells where they cause similar cancers to mesothelioma or actually interfere with mitosis due to being similarly sized to chromosomes.

It’s not too far fetched since the uterus and lungs are both lined with similar types of epithelial and mucosal cells.
>Just because OnlyFans has been around for eight years doesn’t imply that it’s been popular for that long.

Sure, but it's been popular longer than the time period talked about in the article. And, as I mentioned, I think the markets are somewhat distinct.
Yes but it shouldn't take 5 people working 50+ hours per week to support just one family. The CEO's family is the only one taking vacations. They're the only family that has healthcare.
> The hardest and most important problems won't be solved working 9-5, 5 days a week.

[Citation Needed]
As an ambulance chaser who looks at Joe Blow's imaging and reports everyday, my impression is that your concerns are overblown.

I've had at least 100 reports with "probable spot noticed on lung/liver/kidney/spine, PT should followup."

I've NEVER seen it result in unnecessary treatment. I've also had too many clients die from a cancer not found until it was too late.
I'm still of the belief that the judgement was wrong. The link between asbestos and ovarian cancer is incredibly weak, let alone enough to indicate causality.

The amount of asbestos actually found in the powder was ridiculously low.

The only smoking gun was some internal emails where executives had some higher than baseline internal tests and they argued about the accuracy/reliability of them.

Based on everything I have read, I would not be concerned in the slightest about using Talc powder.

Asbestos was bad, but people have been conditioned to overrate it's danger to casual exposure because of the lifelong exposure to mesothelioma litigation where lawyers had a field day.
Microsoft introduces passkeys for consumer accounts
Yes, it’s that cancer. Median survival is a little over a year iirc.

Often treatment focus is on quality of life issues, because they are often found due to physical deficits.
It’s the Leatherman vs a toolbox. The advantages of phones is their convenience. If you seldom use any of the extra parts, then it does a great job. More often and you’d better go with a proper device. And that includes the camera.
> can the scientific method ever support a supernatural explanation?

Of course it can, which is to say, it can support an explanation that would be considered "supernatural" by today's standards. If there were evidence of supernatural (by today's standards) phenomena, science could easily incorporate supernatural (by today's standards) explanations for those phenomena. But the word "supernatural" means what it means (today) for a reason. A lot of people have looked for evidence of phenomena beyond the Standard Model and failed to find it. This is not to say that there might not be a breakthrough tomorrow, but I'll give you very, very long odds against.

> as soon as an explanation has genuine predictive power (edit: and is parsimonious), it becomes natural.

Yes, but that's kind of like how any AI technology that actually works is no longer AI. Science can easily incorporate deities, demons, psychic phenomena, Bigfoot (heck, that's just a new species, happens all the time). In fact, all of these things started out as bona fide scientific hypotheses back in their day. The thing that makes them "supernatural" is simply that they are at odds with the current set of data. That could change any time. But the predictive power of current theories means the odds are not with you.
So what's driving the impeding recession? Shouldn't the economy be on the up swing?
I uploaded pictures of a couple of street corners and it confidently identified them as being in Texas and Florida, based on text that was not in the pictures and, in the second case, foliage in a scene that included only concrete. Although in fairness to the model, a parking lot may be the dominant ecosystem in Jacksonville.

Anyways, these pictures were from Iowa.
The most obvious would be asbestos contamination. There was for example a Reuters investigation in 2018 that claims J&J were aware of test showing asbestos in some of their talc.

Looks like there are also suspicions towards talc itself, but it might be hard to prove that J&J was negligent in that regard. Unless there's been some cover-up that I/we don't know about.
The subsidiary will pay out the settlement and go bankrupt without affecting the parent company's stock price.
Right. If we weren't conscious we wouldn't know we had slept. It is an experience of nothingness.
> wholesale dismissal of entire fields and/or thinkers

Like what?
In Sweden, a mile is 10km, not 1.6… so there are other measures that exist, just not in all countries.
>Panpsychism suggests that all matter has proto-conscious traits, not just brain-like consciousness.

I think a cornerstone of panpsychism is that none of the concepts presently available to any physicalist explanation is sufficient or on the horizon, therefore it is necessary to entertain such ideas as a universe-spanning proto-consciousness.

I find this position to be pre-emptive, not in the spirit of scientific open mindedness, not compatible with any research program that could prove or disprove it, and completely emptyhanded in any conversation that seeks to understand consciousness in functional or structural terms as well as completely emptyhanded in even beginning to explain the combination problem.

Until it gets its act together and gets out of alpha-testing, I fault pansychism proponents for bringing a "teach the controversy" approach to a table of scientific investigation at which they are yet to have earned a seat.
Any tips for getting a first quant job ?

Is learning C++ a must?
Well, they could start with getting a life for at least two days a week...
1Password Extended Access Management
This is true, but CIPA is the law that is being exploited for its ambiguous applicability. There are lawyers out there actively targeting companies who legitimately believe they do not need a cookie banner.

They seek out customers of the company ("Are you now, or have you been, a customer of X? You may be the victim of Y/eligible for legal settlement Z/etc.") They may even identify the corporate targets, and recruit new customers for their purpose.

And the way to avoid the issue completely is to add a stupid, superfluous, cookie banner. (Which, in the height of absurdity, requires adding a cookie).

It was a painful and semi-expensive lesson for this small company. And their expensive/prominent lawyers say they are seeing the problem increasing. (I asked why they didn't take the time to warn their clients, but did not get a satisfactory answer).

So it's worth a thought and a note when the idea of not needing a cookie banner comes up.
> All this stuff about Lisp is great, but is that the most important part of the project?

It's clearly not the most important part of the project but it serves to illustrate the kind of problem that the project intends to solve. Without something like this section the following sections would be even more difficult to understand.
These "additional packages out of the box" , particularly the Auth/Nav/Log etc ... also have FOSS licensing??
GitHub: Nintendo Submit DMCA Notices to Yuzu Forks
>I disagree with the premise that the tax reduction for land with homes built on it exists to de-incentivize people from tearing down abandoned homes.

Okay. You'd have to explain why.

>Much the opposite - the purpose of the law is to encourage the efficient use of land.

That's not the opposite of my argument. It's not even mutually exclusive with it.

>I think they probably just didn't foresee a massive population decline coming when the law was originally enacted

Since that would be 1950, that's plausible. But I think that actually also bolsters my case. 5 years post-war, the last thing the government would have wanted is labor going towards demolishing homes that didn't need to be, just because it would be tax-advantaged; the focus would have been rebuilding. Again, I think that it's plausible that this effect was the intention. However, what's changed are the circumstances, as you said. The law didn't keep up with them until the act passed in 2014.
From second hand experience (I’ve never owned one but my cousin loves foldables), they’re probably more reliable than an unadorned iphone. Folding means the screen isn’t fully exposed.

The major advantage of the iPhone is that its ecosystem of cases means you can get some pretty high quality cases that can make it actually protected.
Intelligence is also in the name of the CIA, and that's pretty well understood as an oxymoron. Artificial is also in the name which seems much more apropos. It's clearly not real intelligence, it's purely artificial in the use of the word. I guess, Computer's Best Guess Simulating Intelligence To Low Intelligent Humans would be too on the spot and not as sexy of an acronym.
More like 180,000 full time employees, and probably at least that number again in external and temporary contractors etc.
Now I just want DECTalk ported to MacOS. The original Stephen Hawking voice.

I have an Emic2 board I use (through UART so my ESP32 can send commands to it) and I use Home Assistant to send notifications to it. My family are science nerds like me, so when the voice of Stephen Hawking tells us there is someone at the door, it brings a lot of joy to us.
perhaps we should use kilo-millions?
IMHO it’s because they can try to apply a dark pattern to have users accidentally consent to more tracking than they might normally agree to.
I bought a CD from CDNOW over Telnet in the early 90's!

I also remember telnet BBS's became popular for a few years when I was in college 91-93.
It was true 30 years ago, it took most people at least 20 years to take a hint.