skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This means that de facto, most of the world has subscribed to American mapping conventions.

That is overstating the situation; ITRS is the key standard here and it's maintained by IERS. I think WGS-84 and ITRS are somewhat aligned these days, but the exact relationship is not clear to me.

Various regional reference systems are also still widely used, for example ETRS89 in Europe, which is afaik semi-independently defined by EPN (EUREF Permanent Network).

Most notably Galileo GNSS does not use WGS-84.

The key difference between various other systems and the Chinese one is just that for the other systems the conversions to and from WGS-84 are available to high precision.
There isn't such a thing as inhibiting a pathway in the brain. Not directly, anyway.

There are inhibitory neurons that attach to other neurons and prevent them from firing. These neurons literally hug other neurons to prevent them from firing, which has the effect you're wanting but may not have the desired macro effect as there may be ways to still fire the neuron (not enough inhibition, or other brain chemicals like cortisol -- stress -- might prevent it from being fully inhibited). Further, the brain mostly works on creating more efficient pathways vs. inhibiting. If a behavior previously existed, life tends to suggest that it was important at some point and may be important at another point.

For example, my muscle memory for some activities still exists from being in the military. I will still annihilate entire teams in a game of paintball (which is pretty much the only place these skills are still useful, short of returning to a warzone).

Another example is that parts of your brain are dedicated to recognizing everyone you ever knew. Short of them dying or moving away, eventually, you may run into them again.
If we save billions there will be no space for other people
> Doordash

I would assume apps that are non-geek oriented will do quicker adoption. In my experience, many people are looking at passkey like a

- Password manager that is automatically working fine on their phone
- Apple or Google takes care of everything. And users think of it like 'Sign in with Google/Apple equivalent'. Press fingerprint/face-ID and all just works.

Only PITA I expect is that banks type dinosaurs will screw up this (like they did with 2FA - with custom apps and non-standard implementations). I wish W3C would some way ban these but banks are somehow escaping standards.
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Yes. We are particularly accomplished mimics. Originality is exceedingly rare. We like to think of ourselves as different, but we are just inhabited by far more ghosts than animals without language.
> No one will be double checking.

Yeah no, I can tell you from experience with a clinic that things are checked. Let's talk about the real issues and how to enforce double-checking for people who would ignore it. Hyperboly like that is not helpful.

But, I wonder if those systems should randomly insert obvious markers to help here. "This has not been read." "Doctor was asleep at the wheel." "Derp derp derp." - like the fake gun images that the airport security has to mark.
When I was a kid I loved long-distance walking because it was "me-time". I have some introvert genes and I really needed to be on my own, away from people, and going for a walk was the only way I could achieve that.

Then I moved to a bike-friendly country and I started biking all the time. 30 minutes commute one way, 30 minutes back. I live right next to subway but god I hate public transport, and owning a car in this city is a massive headache.

Often I go for a small one-hour ride in the evening. I put on some music, start cycling, and thinking about things. I feel like I get into some kind of trance. When sitting at home I constantly feel "now what now what now what now what", but while cycling, I get into a rhythm and often; not always, but often; I get into a state where my thoughts kinda flow more easily, I can just think about something happy and focus on it, or maybe listen to the music. I live in a low-density area with biking lanes separated from most car traffic, so sometimes I get drunk or high and go cycling, which feels amazing - I have to focus and make it through one intersection, and after that the worst thing that can possibly happen is falling off the bike and getting a few bruises.

Sometimes I go for longer whole-day trips. When I reach the point of complete exhaustion the part of my brain that constantly worries about getting fired or possible WW3 shuts down and it's like being high but without drugs. I plan these trips so that I fight against the wind on my way "there" and then enjoy the help of the wind on my way back which becomes almost efforless. When I come home exhausted, the body experiences relaxation in ways impossible to achieve in other ways.

If you want advice, from my experience:
1. Stationary machines are a scam, 90% of pleasure comes from being outside.
2. Do exercise at a pace "I could keep on going like this forever" and then after an hour "oh not anymore"
3. Get something that keeps you entertained but doesn't require your attention. I don't recommend audiobooks because you need to keep actively listening. I recommend music or radio because if you zone out and stop listening, nothing bad happens. And sometimes try not having anything at all, just watch all the things around you.
I once tried 3 hours to get ChatGPT to write a correct cubic interpolation function. Everything it wrote was either not cubic or not an interpolation function (the resulting curve didn't pass through the input points).

So yeah.
Alluding to FAFO, a computer cannot find out, so a computer shouldn’t fuck around.

I’m hoping for a lot of legal precedent showing that an AI cannot be blamed, especially in a medical context.
You grant them capabilities, a handle which permits access to a particular directory, one which allows network access (or possibly even further limited than that) etc.

No user, just a series of object handles which permit them to perform the task and nothing more.
Nvidia Calls RTX the "Premium" AI PC Platform, NPUs Only Good for "Basic" AI PCs
That kind of thing is often said, but it doesn't make much sense to me.

Preserving the planet is valuable insofar as there are people to enjoy it. Without people to experience it, it wouldn't matter much. Without any sentient being to experience it, it would matter (in my view) zero.

Thus, creating new people to experience it is necessary, if preserving the planet is going to be worth it at all.

Of course, one can argue that there are too many people and we need to make less, but I think there are lots of lifestyle changes that need to be made before something so radical even makes sense. I.e., don't think people should make less kids so that the ones that do get made can live in a suburb and drive a car everyday. That's getting the priorities totally wrong.
Are we underestimating the UK Common Swift population?
> KNN style query goes brrrr

Why do devs write comments like this? What does "goes brrrr" add to anyone's understanding of the code? It's so annoying. Is it supposed to be amusing or cute? It's not.

The rest of the article is great but it's so jarring to see this sort of nonsense in amongst a solid piece of work.

It's like when you go to a conference and the presentations are peppered with unfunny "meme" pictures. Grow up, people.
even if they do get cross pollinated, if the seeds grow, who cares?
Sorry, you are correct. However when it first takes place, when there is more “deep sleep” work to be done, it is very brief, and becomes the more dominant aspect of sleep after that work has been done:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Sl...
Around early 00s, it was already common wisdom among the web devs that, when it comes to free RDBMS, if you want speed, you use MySQL; and if you want consistency and reliability, then Postgres is where it's at.

(Most people wanted speed.)
> Kinda sad to see Apple doing this.

Maybe, but what are the alternatives? Develop yet another device that does pretty much the same thing as all the other devices? Long-shot projects like a car. Or, the worst; buying up other companies and entering other markets for no good reason until it becomes an amorphous conglomerate?

Investors might prefer to take the profits, and do their own investing.
> 70% of cloud tools on CNF are built with Go; Kubernetes is just one of many.

Yes, that's what's called an ecosystem effect. But k8s has been the biggest open source codebase for a while, so it's far from insignificant.

> you should consider whether the team was trying to code more with Java idioms than with Go ones.

Turns out generics, the “Java idiom” in question, was eventually added to Go after many years, so maybe it was in fact useful and it's not just k8s devs who where idiots following “java idioms”…

> Nodejs has been more successful than Go in cloud?

Nodejs has been more successful than Go in pretty much everything except in orchestration tools (because of the ecosystem effect mentioned above) which is a tiny niche anyway. Go is a very small language on terms of use compared to Nodejs, or PHP, which are arguably language with a terrible design.
Those laws are there to be applied selectively.

When you are a nobody, they wont care. When you are a person of interest this law will be applied to you.

If they want you are just a tourist, otherwise you are a spy who took 5000 photos.
I feel the same, and not only for medicine. But like always, we have to be careful to not land in dystopia first and we are barreling toward that rather fast. Internet and fake news was bad before gpt, now it’s spiralling into a nightmare. Bad ‘support’ was bad before gpt, now I often feel that I am in some sort of different universe with companies simply not caring if their support ‘bots’ tell nonsense or keep going in circles; as long as it’s cheap!

So yes, full speed ai, no neutering, but we need laws against profit-at-all-cost (I mean, why is a for-profit company, even if their income is ads, not by law required to provide human support within x hours or get fined? Reasonable I would say) or actual UBI soon otherwise longevity is the last thing you want as you will be living in pure hell; most of the population not being able to pay for anything, enslaved by AIs and the healthcare AIs trying to minimise cost even more effectively than US insurers. I don’t want to live in that world and we are not that far from it.
I see it uses pdfbox and pdf.js, so I assume it's mainly a frond end of these tools?
Given e.g. the USA military buildup in the South China sea, perhaps the paranoia isn't entirely unfounded?
Logic need not apply. Lawyers will be paid to work around that.
As you probably should?
Maybe we're looking at different things, but the link appears to discuss ElGamal encryption, which is discrete log based (which means modern implementations use elliptic curves; historically it would have been discrete log in a subgroup of a large prime field). It also talks about BLS signatures, which are exclusively elliptic curve based.

By and large, anything whose security relies on discrete log can be implemented using an elliptic curve, but beginning cryptography classes treat that as an implementation detail because mostly all you need is a prime-order group, and elliptic curves can mostly be treated as a black-box prime order group.

(BLS signatures are an exception; they require a bilinear pairing, which in turn requires a special kind of elliptic curve that's not just a black-box prime order group.)

There are all sorts of great algebraic geometry tricks to be played with elliptic curves, but those almost certainly aren't going to be found in an intro crypto class, or maybe any CS class...
Companies and people should have liability, but mere tools like AIs should not.

How would that even work?
Space. If AI is smart enough for saving billions of lives, it will also give us more effective energy and space flight.
Language evolves. Grow up yourself.
People die at age 75-90 for a reason. Its what nature intends. Longevity for the elderly is not intrinsically moral.
I love running and doing it consistently over ~10 years, always longing to get out again.

I'm the only one among my friends that do this, and I find this to be highly correlated with my running style: Really comfortable pace 7-10km through local forests, only (I tend to do more 10km more than 7km as I like it so much).

I learned this one time when I ran on a threadmill and realized the enormous difference between a slight variation in speed (from 11 to 9 km/h in my case, but the exact numbers don't matter), where I realized with this slight change I could go on indefinitely instead of being quickly exhausted.
https://github.blog/2024-04-24-securing-millions-of-develope... ("Finally, as a result of our improved enrollment experience and passkey rollout, our data shows that it’s 47% more likely users will configure two or more forms of 2FA.") that is also promising so it is not just Google, where somebody could argue they promote it for other reasons.
My limited experience with dental practice payors (e.g. the NHS in England) is that it's an ogre's choice: Pay for over-treatment, or pay for neglect.
Boeing is killing Americans who are trying to keep passengers safe and the feds brush it off
I'm working on https://syften.com - a few of my users switched from Mention.
Show HN: I built a site to share code boilerplates
While looking for some code boilerplates i realised there isn't really an easy / efficient place to browse. Boilermate.site was made for the community to share them and give a vote!
I completely forgot that Vanguard also runs a brokerage operation in addition to their funds.
It should be a choice. I think it should be a choice from when you turn 25 or something.
macOS Finder still can't work out the size of files
Nonconformity can be off putting, especially to neurotypical individuals
All phones ask for PIN or pattern in addition to face/fingerprint. Use that.

For the average user this is safe enough. (i.e) keep google/apple password safe. Then all is fine.

> exporting and FAANG lock-in

You don't ever have to even sign into FAANG if you can put up with inconvenience.

- Buy a U2F FIDO key like OPEN SOURCE https://solokeys.com/ or Yubikey etc
- You can register this key directly at the website or
- Use https://bitwarden.com/passwordless-passkeys/
- Every password manager need to implement it obviously
GitHub – Blockstream/Lwk at Blog.blockstream.com
This is not really how therapists work. It’s how it looks like they work.

This is a really big problem with the AI industry. People don’t know the domain well enough and assume it is a fit.

Oh look, just throw this at it and done. Simples!

Then you find that therapists, of the non quack variety at least, spend years working on how to remove bias from their assessment and learning subtle cues and indicators from their patients. And have to write in a certain prose and have to qualify their results with peers.
> Russian shells hit the Plant Genetic Resources Bank in Kharkiv. Founded in 01908, the gene bank preserved the seeds of 160,000 varieties of crops and plant seeds

Founded by Russian Empire, propped forward by the USSR.

Both of these entities see so much undeserved slander from Ukrainian state and the whole world, so that neither deserve to inherit it.

Have your own Mickey Mouse Decolonial seed bank, use that one.

Same story with Syria which was purposefully destroyed by the US/EU. They didn't dislodge Assad but they did loot and then lose the seed bank.
Jewel tones, reminiscent of precious gemstones like rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, bring a luxurious depth to any interior space. These vibrant hues possess a unique ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary with their rich saturation and eye-catching brilliance.
Ah, the freedom of having no consideration for privacy or ethics. No one should record children and feed the imagery to a ominous third-party.
While I can't speak to the quality of this list, it is an interesting illustration of the "batteries included" philosophy of some languages versus others. Having a small core was likely helpful to the early breakout of Rust, and with such a speed and memory oriented language likely continues to be a good choice for system code projects.

In contrast, out of this list, here is what comes out of the box for raku (which sets the gold standard for "kitchen sink" inclusion of everything imaginable):

- byte order conversion
- date and time
- command line argument parsing
- error handling
- iterator functions
- C interop
- multidimensional arrays
- big, rational, complex numbers
- random numbers
- parallel iteration
- regular expressions
- software versioning
- thread pool

Raku has many other things built in too such as grammars, unicode segmentation, role based composition, sequences, lazy execution and so on that are not in this list.

I think that Larry Wall (the author of perl and then raku) saw the effect of balkanisation of the code base across inconsistent library choices with perl and was keen that raku (formerly known as perl6) would plan for the long term and take the "batteries included" path. Since scripting languages also serve to quickly whip up code, it's handy to have all the tools at your fingertips rather than having to load up modules.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34464951
At least it is open source. It never hurts to have something web based but I prefer an application. I use a commercial product for Linux. Master PDF Editor. It is good, but their copy protection sucks. Better don't forget to "deregister" ist before wiping your harddrive, otherwise your code won't work. But there is always customer service....
Which one? And what sorts of things is it picking up on?
I think Keycloak is always the wrong choice if you’re looking to simplify your authentication stack
Technically if you are against terrorism then you should be for police abolition, because police uses violence for political reasons.
Longevity is neither necessary nor required for "running out of space".

If the mean person has more than 2 kids, the population grows until it can't, no matter how long or short our lives.

If we cure aging and all disease, our half-life due to accidents and homicide is (currently) somewhere around 1000 years — the same "2 kids" rule applies.
Even though I work at a company that also supplies passkeys support to its customers, I feel it is worth for people to have a read of (1). The platform lock-in is a real problem we already see. Even password managers that sync the private key most of the times do not allow to export the key material. Oh, and if a customer ever wants to change the domain name for branding related stuff, is also where the fun starts.

My 2 cents are that passwords/2fa, passkeys, federation and maybe soon verifiable credentials are concepts that will work for a long time in parallel. So, if you ever choose a system that does the "identity/authentication" plumbing work for you, I think you should focus solutions that are open source and allow you to mix and match the different concepts. IMO this applies to b2c and b2b alike ;-)

[1] https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shatt...
For novice or semi-novice, users wanting to try a libre distro, there's Trisquel.
Trisquel 11 works fine, you get Ubuntu's 22 LTS' 'standard' software but it uses Mate as the environment.
Pretty usable from the start.
Trisquel Mini it's the same but with LXDE.

If you sadly need propietary firmware for wireless, install the Xanmod kernel and run it, then try buying a cheap Atheros 9k based USB device.

It's propietary, I know, but at least it's just for some kernel blobs on firmware, and Trisquel itself
disables some 'bad' modules such as mei and mei_me by blacklisting them.

For Windows games, if your son/daugther needs that, at least run Lutris and install all of that on a separate account.
You can always show him Xonotic or Red Eclipse. It might not have AAA graphics, but gameplay wise on Red Eclipse you can do crazy hops and parkour on arena matches.

Desktop wise, it's far faster than Windows 10 and 11, it won't install bloatware and lag like hell.
No issues with Celluloid as a video player, and you can install VLC with two clicks.
Icedove (Thunderbird) will work fine with most email accounts, seamlessly.

For developers and sysadmins, it has the same infra as Ubuntu LTS editions, so you will be covered.
Suppose you have any finite number of humans to work on the problem.

Emissions reductions can be achieved in known ways at some relatively modest cost, e.g. the difference in cost between using fossil fuels and using electric cars or renewable/nuclear generation methods, which are already very close together in price and could be made closer or even cause the alternatives to cost less through certain types of engineering R&D or reasonable regulatory changes, and not only lower emissions but lower energy costs.

Carbon capture requires a large amount of R&D which might not yield any useful results whatsoever, and if it did the result would be a reduction in cost from a level which is hopeless and preposterous to one where actually deploying it would still cost trillions of dollars in implementation and operating costs to have any meaningful effect, while producing no other economic value and almost certainly a vast amount of chemical waste.

The difference in cost effectiveness is so vast that the optimal allocation of finite resources to the latter could plausibly be zero.
Longevity escape velocity implies de-aging therapies.

Longevity with increased healthspan for the elderly is definitely moral.

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Edit because of HN rate limit:

> So dictators live 1000 years instead of 100? That's moral to you?

Grandma gets to live to 1000 years too, as do my other loved ones, so sure.
I hope every person who’s a victim of my AI hacks reacts at least as poorly as you do. The salt, rage, anger, etc of gamers is the funniest stuff ever.

A major streamer, pchooly, is known for extreme gamer rage. https://youtu.be/h2ZZh3s2OPA?feature=shared

I like to think that I’ve caused similar poor reactions from upset players.
So you would agree that Apple reached its limits more than a decade ago?
You are just nitpicking on semantics. If the total cost of publicly funded healthcare is reduced from people using helmets then that could result in not increasing what you are "making other people pay" even though you are also offering helmets at no cost. That is what most people would consider free.

People who don't use helmets for whatever reason would be more inclined to do so if they could just go pick one up, and didn't have to pay for them in a store. Even if those reasons are not that they are expensive. It's a great idea.
Albert Stevens – the most radioactive human
Also unlimited ponies and puppies for everyone!
Arch + i3 + tmux + d-menu
Oh… and I use vim by the way
> Lall said it takes minutes for AI Scribe to collate the information, allowing her to move on to other patients while the SOAP note is being created in the background.

it takes minutes ...
> We eat meat.

Purely for taste.

> We need to eat meat.

False. 10-20% of the world population does not and we're just fine.

> So we need to kill animals for that.

No, you want to kill animals because you want tasty food. Not because you "need" meat. No one living in an industrialized country does. It's trivial to create a plant-based balanced diet (and a tasty one at that.)

> Zoos absolutely not required for humans to survive.

Neither are factory farms. They exist to satisfy "taste buds go brr." But that is not worth literally torturing[1] an animal to death.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQRAfJyEsko
Why Britain is building the world’s most expensive nuclear plant