skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's about the same price as high-quality apples in America these days.
What interest rate will the bank charge me if I borrow $500,000 from them to invest in an index fund?
My pleasure!

It's a favourite tool of mine (donated so that the Mac version could get code signed) and I'd be very glad to see it more widely used.
Except everyone else also works for a living? Wealth transfer is a great descriptor of what that type of policy making leads to since it is in fact exactly taking money from delivery app users and giving to delivery app drivers. Do you disagree with this dynamic? If so where do you think the money for paying these drivers extra comes from?

The amount of people using food delivery apps is some 2.31 billion worldwide. Are you suggesting that some 1/3 of the human population who would prefer to pay less for their food delivery all don't work for a living?
You have written a deterministic function.
If you test this function with all 4 billion uint32 on one odd interval, go and count the number of times you get each result. Now look at your results, are all of the numbers equally likely or is there bias towards some outputs?

Ps: it looks like your function is exclusive like [0,N) not [0,N]
Also your function is described in this blog post https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/bounded-rands.html
Sounds effective, I've always had a hunch the real path to controlling cancer is not a singular approach. Cancer mutates too much.

>> “Instead of us injecting single particles, we’re injecting clusters of particles that are wrapping around each other like onions, like a bag full of onions,” said Elias Sayour, MD, PhD, a UF Health pediatric oncologist who pioneered the new vaccine. “And the reason we’ve done that in the context of cancer is these clusters alert the immune system in a much more profound way than single particles would.” Results from the canine trial showed how the vaccine reprogrammed the tumor microenvironment (TME) within days, allowing the activated immune system cells to fight the tumor.

https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(24)00398-2
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It was already abandoned by that point too.
Show HN: VS Code ext to GeminiAI chat with text/image-upload without leaving IDE
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Video Feedback Device perfected: Getting rotation with linear bearings
I'll admit to not being super great at getting down into the nitty gritty with internals of compilers. Are you talking about some sort of IR? Because if we're talking about the output, mutation definitely happens.

Checking on godbolt, there's definitely mutation at least sometimes. Using gcc 13.2, I get the following output.

j += i; becomes:

movl -4(%rbp), %eax // move i into %eax
addl %eax, -8(%rbp) // add i to j

With i++ becoming:

addl $1, -4(%rbp). // add 1 to i

If your example is IR, do you happen to know how it crunches everything "back down" to mutability? Does it just check that the previous value of i and j were never used and use the same registers as an optimization?
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I'll add, that although this is a good project, it really doesn't matter if it works or not.

I don't mean the fact checking part - thats legitimately a good thing to pursue. What I mean is that the value of this (to you and your co-creators) has enormous value to you way beyond the social good it might provide.

For example at some point you're going to have to deal with nuance. Things are rarely purely right or wrong. (The earth is not round, but its a good first approximation for geological beginners.)

So, I'd encourage you not to measure success here with "does it work", or how many users, or if LLMs are a suitable approach, or any metrics like that. The goal here shouldn't be popularity or "correctness".

The most value you will get is the experience of building something, ideally in team. Of facing road-blocks and challenges and overcoming them. Or, to put it another way, have fun. And things that are easy are not fun...

Congrats on the project. May it lead you forward to discovering more about how to code, more about the world, more about yourself. Don't shy away from the hard questions. But above all keep it fun.
That sort of thing makes me wonder why pyspread isn't more popula:

https://pyspread.gitlab.io/

and if mito will become popular:

https://www.trymito.io/

and whether maybe Jupyter Notebooks aren't the solution to this sort of thing.
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/flying-citroen-cars-look-... :)
This came about because I realized Gemini pro APIs have generous limits, and are good, if not great for normal tasks. They also support image uploads. When I am working on an IDE, I don't want to context switch to another browser to be able to ask any trivial questions, and would like to chat or get instance response from an AI in the IDE itself.

Here is the existing description to give a brief. I am looking for ideas on what new features can be added, and/or what to improve:

```
Have a quick question on your code or confused about the syntax ? Maybe you want to explore different ways to do a task. Or maybe you want a feedback on an image you are using, all without spending a dime ?

Using "Web Chat for Gemini", you can do all this, and more without leaving your VS code IDE. This extension gives you the ability to interact with the Gemini Pro APIs through your IDE.

Google Generative AI Gemini pro APIs have generous free tier limits. You can even take advantage of the gemini multimodal LLM by uploading images along with your texts.

Ask the extension anything from generating code to getting feedback on your code to suggesting steps to earn money, and it will do it all for you.
```
Microsoft's OpenAI investment was triggered by Google fears, emails reveal
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Of course. And I'm just pointing out a commonly implemented approach.

LEO isn't generally the consideration of places encrypting their stuff. Businesses dealing with sensitive data (PII, etc) are required to as a matter of course.
To be frank, it’s sort of hard to see many devices that could be more useful than the modern “phone,” which btw the phone part is almost superfluous at present. Now the an always connected general purpose compute device with a nearly complete environmental sensor array, extraordinarily high resolution screen, integrated multilens camera array, capable of doing AR with LIDAR, etc etc. It’s difficult to imagine a more capable device. These “new” devices are reductionist and trying to tackle the non-problem of carrying these wonderful tricorders of 2024. Converging devices has been a theme for the last 20 years, and now it’s almost entirely been achieved. There may very well not be another class of devices forthcoming if you factor in the connected wearables with bio monitoring that are essentially extensions of the “phone.”
What I am reading from this there be dragons so don't use SSH to buy coffee!
Ask HN: Tamper Proof Firewall for a Mentally Ill Friend
HN, I need your help: I have a mentally ill friend who lives alone. He is very high functioning, but also extremely mentally ill. He has some very... weird... things he looks up on the Internet. To be clear: nothing illegal! But stuff that child blockers won't block. It's very specific imagery that messes with his brain, but he's also addicted to it.

OpenDNS is out. He knows how to get around most things. He has physical access to his modem and router. So far the only thing I can think of is enclose everything but the Wi-Fi antenna in a locked metal box, but how do I lock down the firewall aspect of it so that it's similar to what he might find at a public access point such as a hospital or library, while I would maintain remote access so that I can control the software side of things?

The closest I've thought of so far is to force a VPN to a remote filtering proxy running on a VPS, but that's pretty much out.

Thank you for any and all ideas.
Can somebody help me understand as a casual Elasticsearch (and honestly, more OpenSearch) user how so much data inside of Elasticsearch ends up not becoming the "database"?

I've always understood you're not supposed to treat ES/OS as a database, so in my head I've always sort of thought of it as a cache. If I'm using it I need to be able to reindex (not sure if this is the correct term technically) all of my data from a "real" database, something (in my case) like a SQL database of some sort or another data store.

If I'm reading the article correctly it sounds like they are trying to get massive amounts of data out of ES, but it feels like that's something that would come from a "real" database. To put it another way, it seems like admin tasks that involve exporting data ES wouldn't be the right place to do that.

Now very clearly the author knows an entire world more about ES and I don't fully understand their use case anyway, so I'm hoping somebody might be able to help me understand if there is some gray area or uses for ES/OS that might make different use cases more appropriate?
I like Mathematica notebooks a lot and have thought about using it to teach computing to kids, its great to have every possible kind of data, from colors to star positions in the sky built in, plus its got lots of great graphics primatives can can even generate 3D scenes from code
5 minutes is a little quickly to dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40232177
Thanks. I hadn't heard about vultr. How does it compare to Hetzner and Linode?
GBM median survival for humans (according to the article) is 15 months.

If the effect is linear, the boost to survival time in humans would be an additional 19 months. With the death sentence of GBM hanging over your future, an additional year-and-a-half is huge.
"we" would be every voting aged US citizen who isn't a felon. "we", yes, you, and me, allowed that to happen. You may have not wanted it, I may have not wanted it, but you, I, and every other person who didn't want it, failed to prevent it. Our inability to prevent something makes us just as guilty of our rights being taken away as those who took them, because our inaction told them it was ok. Bitching and moaning about something while still allowing it to happen isn't worth shit.
Interesting. The ram cooling sounds like it could work if done quickly and precisely enough. :)
aider is super limited. solid approach but needs a lot of work to make it usable
Is this a reverse-Dropbox play? Make something need ssh, rsync, etc. that didn't need it before.
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Previously on HN [0] (17 points, 16 hours ago, 8 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40221640
This maps UInt32Max input values to N output values, so there is guaranteed to be bias by pigeonhole, unless N divides Uint32Max
I think we can't be certain of the ages of the planets in our solar system. It's based on different things but there's recent uncertainty about the age of the universe, possibly by a factor of two. It's possible the planets in our system are older than we think. Is it also possible they're younger? I'm not an expert on it.
I know this was just a lighthearted comment, but for folks like me who like to take things too seriously... "grand" has the same value, and has the benefit of already being in common use.
I miss the Mathematica license my NeXT Cube had.
True, It is not unjust. It is justified. Unlike the occupation and genocide assisted by Google, that they were protesting. I mean if you could getaway with working and aiding a genocidal apartheid regime, you could getaway with a lot of things.
The "bootstrapping code for a very minimal syntax" reads like a practical joke. Their mention of Brainfuck set expectations appropriately:

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Imagine their endless frustration as we sailed from place to place felling all the forests to build more ships to sail further afield and fell more forests.
> For example, the justification for nuking Nagasaki was "well, there's a factory nearby, so that's a valid military target".

Erm, what? The justification for nuking nagasaki was that demonstrating overwhelming might would swiftly end the war (it did) while continuing conventional war would cause many more casualties over time.

Maybe you mean to say that because a lot of ships, bombs and military equipment were made there (though it wasn't merely "a factory nearby") they dropped the bomb there rather than somewhere else.

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...
It’s utterly astounding how stupid the Hong Kong maneuver was; from a strategic standpoint it sacrificed so much for almost no gain.

But, I guess it’s just a classic example of power corrupting.
Humans don't work like that
Principal investigator. It’s what phd students call their academic advisor/boss during graduate school
Their slideshow contains the claim that their discovery "can explain the EM Drive". But the EM Drive has already been debunked: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a35991457/emdrive-t...

That doesn't give me much hope for legitimate new technology to come out of this. I would love to hear about the discovery of a new force, but since I don't see any small scale tests from this company to demonstrate the viability of this concept outside of a lab, I doubt that this will turn into a real invention.
Do you use all 3? How do they compare in your opinion?
Exactly one path between any two nodes is how I best visualize it.
(2014) Discussion in 2017 [0] (64 points, 32 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14217693
And, as I pointed out in my original comment, google has massive information asymmetry here.

They have video and email and message history and badge access times and maybe audio recording and maybe more, who knows.

So far we only have this one person's recollection of the events, where he has a huge bias towards trying to minimize his involvement.
> Before the inflation

The time before inflation? When was that? The middle ages?
You could also transliterate it into the English alphabet. Looks ugly but saves you from having to switch your keyboard layout.
I used to deliver food in a hospital. I got to know a guy who had emphysema or something like that I served him food off and on for about two years. One day I saw that he disappeared and I thought he was dead, but he popped up a few days later with some gnarly staples on his chest and a much less hoarse voice.

After a few false promises over the years he finally got a new set of lungs, they gave him a new heart too because his was fucked from the strain that his damage lungs had put on it.

IIRC, he got a new set of lungs and a heart on Wednesday, was sitting up by Friday and was eating the pureed food that I served him by Saturday. I had no idea the recovery time was so fast for a procedure that involves splitting your chest open, ripping your heart and lungs out and sticking new ones in there and sewing it back up.

The unfortunate part of this all is that he probably isn't still alive today as I understand it because lung transplants still have poor prognosis, unlike something like a heart transplant. I believe it's due to increased infection inherent in the nature of the organ -- it makes direct contact with outside air and has an insane surface area, couple that with immunosuppressive drugs and the risk of infection you're looking at an increased chance of death.

But if we had some way to grow perfect stem cell organs for situations like this or ECMO that can keep a baby alive it changes everything. The US spends 1% of the GDP on dialysis alone, it's mind boggling.

We've found these treatments like ECMO that 'work' in a very tenuous sense that they can sometimes if you squint hard enough produce desirable results but it's in no way sustainable or scaleable.

Any technology that pushes us towards a future where we can grow and store organs will change the face of humanity in so many ways. It'll free up so many resources that we can then focus on other game-changing medical innovations, which I think will lead to a snowball effect of the eradication of so many maladies and a fundamental shift in the human condition.
Eelco Dolstra steps down from NixOS Foundation board
Ansible is neither and it shows. For example, deleting a configuration in Ansible doesn't revert the system back to its original state. That's the definition of statefulness.
Preach! It's not like that rocket company that hired the NASA administrator who made their not ready rocket the sole Artemis moon lander.
…after which they should abandon it and focus on something else
I'm not sure what the contribution is since it seems like just engineering, but pretty cool low-tech control system engineering. They made a thing that can automatically push an object along an arbitrary path on the ground by pointing (in 2 axes) a jet of air at the ground behind it, controlled by feedback of the object's position. It doesn't seem to say anything about how the feedback was done so I guess machine vision which is its whole own problem.
Hatch (https://hatch.one) has many of the characteristics of HyperCard plus its "projects" are full featured, shareable and remixable (if you want) web pages.

- Easy drag-and-drop interface with a library of images, audio, video, etc.

- Programmable with Visual Scripting for an easy on ramp to adding logic and behaviors.

- Programmable with Javascript if that's what you want to learn.

- HTML "components" if you want to dig into HTML, CSS and all that good stuff.

- A few tutorials to help get started with physics, animation, etc.

- Free.

- Super fun! Ok, I'm highly biased as one of its creators.
Not really. Given an infinite universe it’s certain that any measured thing will be greater elsewhere, so “in the universe” always has an implicit “…as far as we know”. Always. Without exception. And because of that, there’s no need wasting time with the weasel words.
> The instructions are prompting it to proceed rigorously, as it is a logical problem, not a natural language problem.

I think you're missing a bit here. Look at the middle tweet where the person constructed it fail the logic. There are no tricks. What you're missing is the signal you're giving it, how it is spoiling the question in a subtle way. That's very different that a reasoning machine. We can't trust it to reason if it can only "reason" when we give it explicit instructions to do so that do not generalize for many tasks. That's not really reasoning...

> OpenAI could train or tune ChatGPT to "spoil" itself by default

They have and it's provable
More deserves to be written on the ILP idea, I haven't actually tried to make it work but it seems to me like the only real direction to optimize ("optimize" used in the mathematical sense, rather than the programming sense) queries that you can't just exploit the principle of optimality on (see this earlier article I wrote [1] for a bit more exposition). I think maybe some of the egg [2] people have experimented with this.

Speaking from experience, there's lots of rewrites you'd want to do in a query optimizer that having access to efficient DAG-shaped query plans would make tenable, but as a specific example they are an important part of doing full subquery decorrelation [3].

[1] https://buttondown.email/jaffray/archive/why-are-query-plans...

[2] https://egraphs-good.github.io/

[3] https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/materialize-decor...
His commentary isn't the exonerating statement you seem to think it is.

By his own admission he sought to join the protestors (he went to the lounge on the 10th floor of Google’s New York City office around lunchtime to check out the protest) and spent an indeterminate amount of time talking with protestors the first time around (I talked to folks who were standing up, passing out flyers, doing other roles)

Anyway it doesn't matter if he spent 40 minutes talking to them, four hours talking to them or 4 minutes talking to them
Probably Principal Investigator. I'd guess the "SO" is a PhD student and now his/her program is up in the air.
I have been paid to write code for over 20 years, in eight or nine languages, and wouldn’t bet a serious amount of money I could fizz-buzz in any of them, including one I wrote a bunch of today, without a reference. Not without getting something basic about the language wrong in a way that would keep it from working on the first try.

This is, if anything, becoming more true the longer I do this sort of work.
Relevant previous discussion:

A leadership crisis in the Nix community (lwn.net) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199153 - 2 days ago (274 comments)
> there’s recent uncertainty about the age of the universe, possibly by a factor of two

Do you have a reference for this? Interesting if potentially true.
No example output? Here's a youtube video where he plays with this software

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=493xbPIQBSU
There are these things called Golden Teachers that can give you a great reset on life. You have a lot of trauma and you need to heal yourself through it. assuming you don’t have a family history of schizophrenia you may want to consider finding the golden teachers
In orbit, you don't even need the tube, it can be a single habitat with retractable cables attached to a counterweight of useful material that isn't immediately needed.
Nonsense.

If you read the original article it specifically says he sought out the protestors.

> he went to the lounge on the 10th floor of Google’s New York City office around lunchtime to check out the protest.

Is a single google cafeteria/lounge employee being terminated for happening to be in the lounge when the protest happened? Of course not because that would be nonsense.
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