skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The source code in the linked article is for Photoshop v1.0.1, published in 1990.

Though I don't think Gimp is as rarely used in the real world as you seem to think. We all live in different bubbles, but I know more people that use GIMP than Photoshop.
Thanks for the important context. We are all exposed to inflation in significantly different ways! I think many people feel helpless because you can make every right decision but still get bulldozed by the economy in ways you can not predict.
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I remember traveling to Adobe in the mid-90s to exchange source-code with them, 'cause PhotoShop was MacApp based, and they had a layer working on Windows.
And we traded an in-process SQL engine.

I recall brining home some of the code, there were definitely parts of PhotoShop that were included, but not a lot. Just some funky color-space calculations that we ignored.

I'm looking forward to looking at the source to see if there's any remnants of MacApp in the mix. They may have changed everything since the mid 90s. Who knows.
While that's somewhat true, our CLI can push transformations back to your warehouse. We and some of our customer use Quary for their "data warehouse purposes" also. We think the integrated flow makes the E2E experience very quick.
> What about off-label medication?

Off-label means prescribed for a different purpose than originally indicated, at the prescriber's discretion. The medication must still have past safety testing and have shown efficacy for something.

> I also think it's unlikely enough to hurt people that FDA approval shouldn't be required. There's a lot of stuff in that category!

You can sell a lot of products as-is without FDA approval. However, making substantial claims about that product's medicinal properties is regulated in a different manner.

These people are trying to have the best of both worlds: Making extraordinary claims about preventing a medical condition, while also avoiding any participation in the FDA process or even funding standard trials.

I think the most obvious counter argument is that this could easily be a massively successful drug if it works as well as they claim. The TAM is everyone with teeth who wants to keep them, which is basically everyone. Yet instead they've chosen this weird path of embracing the rationalist community and supplement nuts, which is a much smaller market.
Android's theft protection features
>You can't do that in a lot of the US because speeding cars make it unsafe to walk

Not just speeding cars but specifically those shitty monster-trucks with crap visibility that can just run over everyone who isn't Shaq. Why in the name of all that is holy does every insecure suburban dickhead need to own a Ford F-450 Super Duty to play cowboy in the city?

And now they're worshiping the Cybertruck which has the pedestrian crash safety of a giant prison shank making it illegal in Europe. How do you expect to have safe roads for kids considering a nation's worshiping of oversized impractical cars?
"5C warmer" doesn't mean a uniform increase in temperature of 5 degrees at all times. It means "5 * the thermal mass of the earth's biosphere" worth of extra energy in an extremely chaotic system that is currently in a local stable point, but doesn't have to stay there.
Show HN: I Made Wordle for Netflix
Hey HN,

According to many sources the average person scrolls Netflix for 19 minutes before deciding what to watch.

I created Gameflix as a fun way to discover new shows instead of scrolling all night.

I'm doing a soft launch today because I have a ton of ideas to implement but instead, I would love to hear from you about what's missing or how things can be improved.

The game is simple:

- Guess today's show by watching its trailer.

- Incorrect or skipped guesses unlock more of the trailer.

- Guess in as few tries as possible and share your score!

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Exactly. Plastic will be the same at some point. Natural selection would probably lead to plastic-eating bacteria anyway. DeepMind's enzymes are just a way to speed it up.
Just downgrade? I still use some version from 2022, the first M1-compatible one that was cracked. Still as snappy as it was 2 years ago.
Whenever this topic comes up on HN it strikes me as bizarre that anyone thinks they can genetically modify a bacteria, release it into the wild - and that it'll stay genetically modified? Like the author mentions, bacteria are constantly swapping genes via horizontal gene transfer. Surely the bacteria in our mouths have found the optimal metabolism for their environment? Why wouldn't we expect our genetically modified bacteria to adopt the same strategy?

I imagine that you could, at least on paper, create a Rube Goldberg machine in their genes that, say, killed them if they produced lactic acid, and made it very difficult to delete these genes without destroying their ability to reproduce. But you'll probably also handicap them in the process and make it difficult for them to adapt to competitive adaptations from other bacteria.
I use an old 1st gen Pi Model B+ as a ppp server for my Tandy 1000 SX to connect to the Internet. I can telnet in and adjust stuff if needed. Very handy and fun to play Zork on sdf.org through it.
Jakub Pachocki is taking over as chief scientist.
https://analyticsindiamag.com/meet-jakub-pachocki-openais-ne...
60, try 20. Many of us millennials remember having a key to the house on a string around our necks. I walked to and from school with no adults since I was 6. I was out around the neighborhood from the moment school let out until the sun went down, by myself on my bicycle with all the other neighborhood kids. I was a teenager 20 years ago and I came and went as I pleased, no cell phone.
Not sure if you worked with it in the early '90's, but on a Mac w/4MB of RAM, it took ~5-10 minutes to undo a Guassian Blur. The pain was real.

The way to go back then was the SGI Indigo w/96MB.

It worked best for me in the late '90's on a 9500, and even then needed an entire GB of RAM.
Sacoolas pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving in 2022. She did not have diplomatic immunity.
Are there any incompatibilities cropping up between terraform and opentofu? I believe we're on terraform 1.7.5, I'm not sold on migrating yet but would like to keep the option open, especially if something like delaying an upgrade would help not have future backwards incompatible things to fix.

I understand why people were upset about licensing changes but I was not one of them who were particularly bothered. Why should I switch?
Any efforts for other platforms?

I would love to play a source-port of arcade “GTI Club”! <3
> The risk of the rise of AGI

can someone explain what the risk of this actually is? I just assumed it was a regulatory capture ploy.

IMO it is massively distracting from the very real and very measurable impact the global industry has on our climate.
I've also struggled with React's insistence on immutability. What if mutability was the only way to update state? I implemented a JSX-powered react-alike that explored the concept[1]. To my lack of surprise, I found the resulting environment easier to get stuff done in. I'm not subjecting my employer to this, but I would totally use this on a solo project that I had to support.

[1] https://github.com/tomtheisen/mutraction
Oracle has been a prolific contributor to the Linux kernel.

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/oracle-is-the-1-contribu...

XFS is really important for (their) database performance, so quite a lot comes out of Oracle for it. You might also know that btrfs began at Oracle.

https://www.google.com/search?q=oracle+blog+xfs

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

"Chris Mason, an engineer working on ReiserFS for SUSE at the time, joined Oracle later that year and began work on a new file system based on these B-trees."
Show HN: Extension that injects collective company knowledge into your workflow
If you find sex with a stranger okay there is nothing wrong with a prostitute. If you find laying bare your emotional self with a stranger okay there is nothing wrong with a therapist.

oh but only one is an expert? they both are.

both are doing it for money.

there is no free lunch
I know a website even worse, globalsign which is selling code signing certificates. They are so deep into making shitloads of money out of thin air they stopped caring in 2002. This is the only website with a password field which ONLY allows alphanumeric characters, so you have to remove all them exclamation marks, dollar signs and underscores from your generated password. They also have a freakin chat bot assistant which just throws links to documentation in response, and they use "Live Chat" for the button just like you are really going to talk to a human. If you google something globalsign certificate related, the whole first page is filled with links to their documentation. Guess what happens when you click one of them? It's a 404 page. The insides of a portal is just a horror website from the far far past, it takes maybe 30% of the wide screen in the top left corner, everything you click loads for good 30 seconds. Ah yes, if you go to your orders for example, you just get an empty table. Only when you click on "search" button the table fills. Also they will put a block on your card funds for purchase the very first moment they can do it, and it's not the last step of the form. If you could not proceed due to some nonsense error which tells your american express card zip code check failed (i used visa lol), your money will return in 10 days maybe. In the end, you have to print and send some HAND FILLED forms to them in order to get this bullshit "vetting" process done, you can finally launch your fucking egde browser in an internet explorer compatibility mode to collect your hard earnrd certificate. At least a bit cheaper than other providers. 0/10 would not recommend. Unless you really really need to eliminate this SmartScreen circus warning dont do it. Sabotage this stuff. Just let your users check the installer hashsums and they safe
> "0 plastic" is a marketing claim because it doesn't guarantee it puts us actually in a better place.

It's only a marketing claim if it's used in marketing. It can also be a statement of fact... Plastic pollution and CO2 pollution are separate phenomena and we could theoretically achieve 0 plastic and that could be a genuine victory for the problem of plastic pollution.

Anyway I realize my initial statement came off strong. I want to be clear I'm not saying zero-plastic is the goal we should actually be pursuing. But "Net environmental effect" is so complicated as to maybe not even be measurable. Are we talking about extinction rate? Biodiversity? Cancer rate of wild animals? Ecosystem collapse?

Additionally - as many ways as there are to evaluate our effects on the biosphere, there are ways to address the problems. Plastic reduction doesn't have to mean 1:1 replacement; that would be shortsighted. Holistic societal changes are necessary, and I think we're actually both agreeing on that. E.g. don't replace plastic car parts with metal - get more cars off the road.
hack: do a startup only after you already have living money assured (savings from earlier corporate jobs, now invested & producing). you have time & energy, and no obligations.
How does the section titled ‘Category 2: the known health risks of BCS3L-1’ problematically appeal to authority? It seems to about as much as appealing to known results that swallowing vast quantities of lead is a bad idea would. (The other sections certainly appeal to authority, although not obviously fallaciously to me, but that would be to go over quite tired ground about medical regulation.)
does the website owner have permission from the author to post this there?

Would it make more sense to contact the domain administrator and/or the rights holders?
I am attempting to reach enlightenment by contemplating your wisdom.
Considering how many complaints about GIMP UI being bad with no more substance than "Just compare it to Photoshop!", I'd bet 65% on option B.
My kids are tween and teen and they thanked me for giving them the freedom they get. I get weird stares from other parents like I neglect my kids when what I do is actually consciously educating them to be autonomous.
Any tutorials/step by step guide on why to use these tools and perform this from start to finish?
"Works on my machine" for therapists is not a bug or a problem. People's needs are highly individual, and the best therapist will be, too.
Lots of people on the internet and some in the media. Some activists as well, and a few politicians, although it's unclear to what extent they really believe climate change is truly existential.
Why are you comparing it to Photoshop in 2013? The article is about Photoshop in 1990.
> ChatGPT is the number 1 brand in AI

Not for long. They have no moat. Folks who did the science are now doing science for some other company, and will blow the pants off OpenAI.
What a strange take! Not an expert (or even a beginner) in this area by any means, but I definitely learned a lot, and I thought the author pretty clearly laid out why they think this probiotic may not be good for your body. Did we read the same blog post?
I for one think consenting adults should be able to do mildly harmful things like waste their time/money on a fake girlfriend if they so choose, and find it offensive that others would try to impose their values on others by restricting them from doing so
I know this is an annoying comment, but I can't not: you all are commenting on a ten day old thread. It's dead, Jim. The very fact that you're seeing this at all means you're unpersuadable, and communicating only with the unpersuadable.

I would want someone else to tell me this on the (many) occasions where I've gone on tilt like this.
> The ends of the spectrum are clearly immoral, and perfectly OK, respectively.

I'd agree that it's probably a spectrum of legal culpability (although IANAL, so...)

But I disagree that the extrema are clearly moral or immoral.

For example, I expect that the private, hand-drawn scenario violates Christian morality.

And I'm guessing there are other moral frameworks that are sincerely held by some persons, and which are okay with the other extremity.
As to recognizing what ID a variable has, compilers often associate a global unique ID with each variable that exists in the translation unit. So when some variable x (or really any semantic object) is initialized to whatever its value is the compiler maps that source code x with ID 16373 (or whatever encoding the compiler is using for the mapping). This ID is what would be held in a ‘linear context’, probably in the type checker, and that ID is removed from the context when it is passed to an appropriate ‘destruction’ function.

As to the pseudo-code, it seems like the ‘mylinearvariable’ is being copied 100 times and placed in the array slots. This is probably not possible for most descriptions of linear types, a key component of said types are that only one can exist. I have some qualms with TFA’s description of their types as linear, although I am pretty sure I understand the usage and acknowledge it is somewhat accepted terminology. Even in TFA I don’t think they would accept such semantics for their linear type. If ‘mylinesrvariable’ is a constructor of sorts creating unique linear objects in each slot, each of those would have an ID in the compiler that would be independently removing each of those IDs when said object is handed to the destroy statement. This sort of simple list/map between objects and IDs only works because the types are linear which means only one exists and there must be a single explicit usage of that object (which is the destruction in the semantics proposed in TFA).
Very clean. Great effort to crack the Wordle daily-game space. Has potential.

Suggestion:

- make it very explicit that interactions have a mandatory ordering

- make it very explicit that you cannot un-select pre-selected tiles

- make it very explicit that you cannot select "background" tiles

- differentiate phases, "prep / setup" vs "reflection"

Bonus ideas for v1.1:

- track "interactions" accumulating, and provide a mechanism for replaying them (eg "scrub the timeline back and forth").

- help mode: as you "consider" a swipes and the "compass" is shown, have an assistance mode which indicates provisionally the impact of a swipe in each direction as they are selected (but not executed)

Re: differentiating "phases," AFAICT you must always FIRST do any "selection tapping"; and then you must do ONLY one or more "reflection swipes." This was confounding to my way of thinking. I found myself repeatedly making the "wrong" move because while I saw the solution, I was attempting to execute it in a different order.

Or thought I did; because "tapping to fill" ("that's one way...") is allowed, the fact that it is a degenerate solution is not clearly expressed; nor is the fact that there is (I assume) always an "optimal" solution which always involves "prep" followed by one or more reflections.
Memories once missing don’t grow back either. The most extreme cases of LSD use have impacted such basic functions as limiting people’s ability to communicate.

Post lobotomy people generally weren’t brain dead, even if diminished. So for extreme cases, yes it’s a solid comparison.
The IPCC also consistently underestimated sulphur in the atmosphere because if you look at this and previous years we've reached their 2030-2035 goal of warming this year.

> GHG emissions will lead to increasing global warming in the near term, and it’s likely this will reach 1.5°C between 2030 and 2035.

https://climatechampions.unfccc.int/the-ipcc-just-published-...

> Global temperatures have been exceptionally high over the past three months – at around 1.6C above pre-industrial levels – following the peak of current El Niño event at the start of 2024.

> The past 10 months have all set new all-time monthly temperature records, though the margin by which new records have been set has fallen from around 0.3C last year to 0.1C over the first three months of 2024.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-2024-off-to...
Seema pretty interesting! Would be nice to remove the shell dependancy
Google has been crushing it. Unlike OpenAI they are researching and developing useful local models and client-side inferencing libraries, at lower cost and with arguably greater success relative to the performance profile they're targeting.

If you're expecting them to sell out and pitch "alignment" bullshit like sama, you're looking at the wrong company. But they seem to be doing pretty well, and I'd argue that even Apple is jealous of how much foresight Google's AI strategy has.
Hard to do when the power users for the most part try to block analytics and the insider testers have very fluid workflows and there is no such thing as death by a thousand papercuts to them. They aren't getting the signal because the people that should be telling them the signal are actively denying sending the signal.
Nation states can run their own models if not now very soon. This isn't something you're going to control via AI-safety woo woo.
Yup, evals can definitely be tough. We basically have a suite of several hundred web data extraction evals in a tool we built called Bananalyzer [1]. It's made it pretty straightforward for us to benchmark how accurately our agent generates code when it uses Tarsier-text (+ GPT-4) for perception v.s. Tarsier-screenshot (+ GPT-4V/o).

Will have to look into supporting Azure OCR in Tarsier then—thanks for the tip!

[1] https://github.com/reworkd/bananalyzer
Source+ 200TB of public domain image data for model training
I guess you will surely find a movie to prove you different
I have first hand experience with not being able to get RPis for educational purposes while the employers I worked for were ordering them by the 1000s.

These discussions are missing the larger point which is that it feels the .com side of Rpi is eating away at the original mission of the company.
The caveat being that these things are only doing cell tower triangulation, and not even a good job of it. So all it will be able to tell you is that your car is somewhere on the east side of the city or so. Although you will be able to listen in on the conversations of the car thieves and might pick up a clue from that.

Realistically, these are 100% for stalking/espionage.
A lot of people and businesses use debt to finance the things they want to do. (Buy a home, build a new facility, pay back management). When money is cheaper, people do more.

If you can issue at 6% instead of 7%, your interest expense on that debt has decreased by 16%.

I don't think anyone expects say the fed funds rate to go to 1%, but it could go to 3.5% or 4%. [0]

[0] Fed funds: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1mM6j
[-] Const 10yr Treasury https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1nYkd
> since it uses lock files on S3 versus a separate DyanamoDB + S3 combo

This is disturbing because S3 does not give you guarantees required to implement real locking.
Ubershaders: A ridiculous solution to an impossible problem
How do you make sure the tagging of elements is robust? With regular browser automation it's quite hard to write selectors that will keep working after webpages get updated; often when writing E2E testing teams end up putting [data] attributes into the elements to aid with selection. Using a numerical identifier seems quite fragile.
It would be amazing if it gets carried over to the Mac.
Not really. House price changes are lagging after rate cuts by about a year.

Only since the 2nd half of 2023 do I see some listings have very minor price cuts and stay on the market slightly longer.

Housing prices need to fall ~10% across the board before we can say the rate increases had a measurable effect.

Source: I'm looking for a countryside property and scrape Redfin for a few thousand listings every day.
give us an example please
I usually only look deeper if the summary (X created, Y updated, Z deleted) shows some unexpected numbers, especially if the number deleted is not 0. However, if nothing's being deleted, I usually assume it's safe enough.
The trend will continue. A company will be crazy to trust that IBM would give them fair-priced high quality support.
If not Neuromancer (although I feel differently) then Queen of Angels (Greg Bear). It's the most fascinating take on AI I've ever read - the entanglement with the themes of justice and punishment is thought-provoking.

The Turing Option (Harry Harrison, Marvin Minsky). I can't stress strongly enough, do not read this book. It's terrible. But it does exist.
Alas, Babylon was written in 1959. Not exactly before nuclear proliferation but before the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Most data is crap, and you generally can't tell where the needle in the haystack is.

Having more consistency between doctors would already be a change needed to actually use data. You will find it matters more than you'd like. We can't all have the best doctors, but we could use data to level the outcomes.
A Woman Sees 100 Times More Colors Than the Average Person (2014)
average is an average, you're forgetting about extremes.

it only takes a few days (or hours) of above wet bulb temperatures to kill humans who live in and around the tropics today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
The article does specifically mention that the strain used produces an antibody which survives in the gut and may demolish your gut microbiome. Also one of the footnotes mentions that producing alcohol instead of lactic acid as a byproduct may not be as harmless at it seems.

I'm also not sure that taking issue with a company bypassing systemic protections against dangerous drugs is an appeal to authority.
Drugs Are Really Excellent