skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not so much a recent launch as an ongoing launch, that has had a remarkably drawn-out timeline: Qualcomm announced the specs of the top-tier processors in October, then announced the lower-tier processors in April, then OEMs announced systems in May, but retail availability and delivery of pre-orders are still a week away (and presumably the embargo on the real product reviews expires sometime between now and the 18th).

Qualcomm has clearly put careful planning into maximizing the publicity opportunities they can get out of a single product generation, and with an impressive degree of cooperation from OEMs, but it's really starting to look absurd considering that Apple has launched (announced and shipped) two processor generations in the same time frame (albeit the M4 is only in an iPad so far).
https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/seamless-gpu-passthrough-on-qub...

Nawh, let's not go back that far because then we lose yellow backgrounds, dithered blue sphere .GIFs, and 64pt fuchsia marquee blink tags.
I sometimes am tempted to do the math to determine what kind of life we would have if we did everything we were supposed to do.
Wouldn't this be useful if it were possible to match lattice defects to wave operators and wave functions for QC?

- "Single atom defect in 2D material can hold quantum information at room temp" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40461325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40478219

- "GAN semiconductor defects could boost quantum technology" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39365467

- "Reversible optical data storage below the diffraction limit" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38528844
As an Android user, I'd counter "Signal". Which I think would bring things back to what another comment mentioned about preferences in messaging platforms.
Yeah and you can't plug in a third. I'd call that limited
That was in 2012, right?

Their hardware has got a whole lot better in the past 12 years.

My guess is that they learned important quality lessons from that class action lawsuit too.
It's been a meme for a few years already: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/btw-i-use-arch

And obviously, I use arch btw.
The endless content available on the internet is a time sink on a regular desktop computer, more so on a laptop – but paired with a smartphone, this time sink is suddenly available all the time! There is no friction. It quickly becomes a habit.

And now we are all addicted, which most of us still refuse to admit, because we don't see the negative impact it has on our lives and our loved ones – like with any addictive behavior.
"Enabling three-dimensional real-space analysis of ionic colloidal crystallization” (2024)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-024-01917-w
Installing directly from deb packages instead of adding the repository? How about future updates?

No set -eox pipefail?
Event-driven architecture should be implemented across complete system (client-be) or be used in a single feature, i.e. it needs to be all or bare minimum, else it's just an absolute mess.
Absolutely no argument for people who can/will tinker and want a more extreme approximation of a beige box DIY PC in a laptop form-factor. I'm saying for the wider non-tinker market there's an opportunity for a better way for people who want what sort-of what Apple was under SJ but more like old-school Japanese products that are absolutely better without optimizing for money extraction and are instead optimizing for better products without compromise. I can't even get Apple TV 4K to work as an external display half the time and most of their apps are barely functional, and Apple keeps churning framework APIs over and over again like their product managers all came from US defense contractors.
If you believe in determinism you already are doing everything you were supposed to.
I’m as happy to trash google as anyone else here, but we must admit that providing the government site when somebody searches dmv or irs the right thing to do. Should these government sites be using google? No. But regardless, Google should put them first.
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I don't get the hate for Siri. If you know the constraints it's extremely useful and reliable.
I agree he's correct about the physics but I disagree with his father's economics -- my thinking on economics is more in line with David's.
> When it gets cut in half, the electric potential changes, but this is still enough information

None of the linked articles contains any evidence about some direct influence of the electric potential, but only about the influence on differentiation of the variable concentration of ions.

They did not manipulate the planaria with electrodes, but with a drug that has manipulated the concentration of ions, by blocking some of the paths through which some ions are transported through membranes.

All the talk about "bioelectricity" appears superfluous. The variable electric potential is just a side effect of the variable ion concentrations, which complicates their behavior by introducing a coupling between the movements of different kinds of ions.
That's a shame! I'd love to have a cross device way to save my bookmarks
Indeed you can incrementally improve existing engines, and certainly that's what you would try to do if you wanted one of those specific features. But I didn't write the post because I want those features, I wrote it in the hope that it might be helpful to people who are already planning to write a competitive browser engine from scratch.

Yes, for almost every conceivable features you'd be much better off adding it to an existing engine. Maybe you won't get buy-in from the core maintainers, so you'll have to maintain an out-of-tree branch, but that's still going to be much less work than doing your own engine.
It is incredible how bad we are, at the end of the first quarter of 21st century, at having a well planned and executed strategy to improve mental health of people.

Compare it to physical health. For instance, everyone is advised to take regular tests (like blood tests). While things can still be improved a lot, this simple proactive measure helps detect many health problems before they cause serious damage.

For mental health, we don't do anything until the person is fed up with their struggles and maybe asks for professional help. Even then, in most cases we do not start with a "Triage" process. It took me a long time to even realize that there should be a mental health questionnaire, and ask my psychologist for it. We leave individuals to learn about mental health and take care of it, while there is not even a clear starting point for anyone who wants to learn.

Mental health problems, like viral infections, can be contagious. Unlike viral infections, one person with one mental health issue infects others with different types of mental health issues than the one they have. It is incredible how much happiness/productivity/economic value is lost to mental health issues that are manageable with our current knowledge.

If our collective goal for the society is to maximize a measure of overall happiness (which I think is a really decent goal), we need to have a better plan. Maybe advances in AI can bring proactive mental health monitoring to more people.
The problem with IPFS is that they index individual files.

BitTorrent DHT works, at least for the legal open source content in familiar with, because they index on entire collections.

But for some reason everyone builds on IPFS rather than working on the mutable torrents feature, and DAT seems to be mostly ignored(I'm not quite sure what the difference is with the hypercore stuff that replaced it).

I think what we need is something like cr-sqlite with digitally signed updates and a discovery DHT.

Maybe Radicle will solve the issue? I'm not sure how that one works but it seemed promising last I checked.
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I could be wrong but AFAIK Safari still doesn't have site isolation, so security-wise it's considerably weaker.
This.

Apple can gradually add AI capabilities in their products as they do not need to sell it urgently unlike the rest of the tech companies out there screaming about it to the roof tops.

Like I said before, Apple will likely announce a hybrid AI solution for Siri for both online and offline capabilities. I expect them to eventually use a local LLM to race everyone to $0.
I understand. But in the context of a headline it feels like a deliberate choice to sensationalize.
I agree with you, with just one exception - hardcoding ANSI escape sequences in strings (yes, a pet peeve of mine).

https://github.com/google/mesop/blob/fa17bcdcd765adef4b3259e...
> Sit around and write software?

It'd be a pretty extreme way to make web developers think about latency of their bloated websites, sorry "immersive app experiences", but it might actually be the one that works.
You don't say what country this is in.

1984 is being read by children in England. I doubt it's a compulsory text, as that's not how the exam system works, but there are questions on the book in recent GCSE English exams so at worst it is one option out of a small number.

You can search "1984 GCSE English" to see this.

Possibly it's required or recommended for the younger age group (before the big exams), 12-14, as I see many references to dystopian texts when searching "1984 KS3 English".
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Ask HN: Can technology help society with mental health?
There are various efforts to leverage apps for improving mental health today, but I'm somewhat skeptical about technology being the solution to everything, especially since some mental health issues stem from our socio-economic environments.

How do you see tech helping the mental health industry? Are we limited to meditation apps and AI therapists?
Well I'm not sure they are giving Apple a run for their money. They haven't delivered anything in quantity yet, the benchmarks and reliability are unknown and the big problem as always is software and they're in bed with Microsoft who are running a shit show on windows 11.

I'd like this to work out. Objectively I'd prefer to use Windows than MacOS (there I said it!) but the hassle is not worth it any more to take on the software.
If you want a full fidelity warc file, browsertrix-crawler is nice. It is slower than wget on account of using chrome, but it works better for sites with highly dynamic content and can generate wacz files which can be efficiently served via a file/objectstore when used with something like replayweb.page.
Interestingly, you know who else spotted the error? ChatGPT-4o. Annoyingly you can't share a chat with an image in it, but pasting in the image of the bad code, and prompting "whats wrong with the code" got ChatGPT to tell me that:

* UUID Generation in Primary Key: The default parameter should use the callable uuid.uuid4 directly instead of str(uuid.uuid4()). SQLAlchemy will call the function to generate the value.

* Date Default Value: server_default=text("(now())") might not work as expected. Use func.now() for server-side defaults in SQLAlchemy.

* Import Statements: Ensure uuid and text from sqlalchemy are imported.

* Column Definitions: Consider using DateTime(timezone=True) for datetime columns to handle time zones.

It then provided me with corrected code that does

id = Column(String, primary_key=True, default=lambda: str(uuid.uuid4()), unique=True, nullable=False)

where the addition of lambda: fixes the problem.
I doubt most cannot be articulated, but I think it quite likely there is valuable knowledge that is expensive to articulate, sometimes to the point of complete impracticality, and in that sense "can't". Instances of actual inability to articulate, due to Godel incompleteness or similar, seem rare. Technology applied to knowledge can change the expense.
If you have self discipline like a god, you could achieve this with any smartphone. Remove every app, just install Signal and keep the camera app.

But almost no one has the willpower to do this, unfortunately.
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"defer tx.Commit() is nonsensical"

It's not pure nonsense, it works in the happy path, and it matches the pattern of how people often handle file IO in go.

f, err := os.OpenFile(...)
defer f.Close()

... which is another place most gophers ignore errors incorrectly. Just like the "defer tx.Commit()" example, it's collocating the idea of setup and cleanup together.

Those two patterns are so similar, python handles them in the same way:

with db.begin() as conn: # implicit transaction, gets automatically committed

with open(...) as f: # implicit file open + close pair, automatically closed

You're of course right that go requires more boiler-plate to do the right thing, but the wrong code has no compiler errors and works in the happy path, and fits how people think about the problem in other languages with sane RAII constructs, so of course people will write it.
You're confusing psychiatry, which is a branch of medicine, with psychoanalysis. This article is about the former.

Psychiatry has become heavily focused on prescribing drugs for diagnoses based on the DSM, where only the presenting symptoms are taken into account and interaction with the patient after the initial diagnosis is minimal.
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Hey HN.

After getting frustrated with many tools/services for not having a simple quickstart, I decided to make something where it would be just a single command. So you can run something like this:

./run.sh airflow

Behind the script, it is using docker-compose (the only dependency) to help spin up the required services to run the tool you specified. After starting up a tool, it will also tell you how to connect to it, which has confused me many times whilst using Docker.

It has helped me with:

- integration testing on my local laptop

- getting hands-on experience with different tools

- assessing the developer experience

Check the GitHub repo for more details[1].

[1] https://github.com/data-catering/insta-infra
- Kitty Terminal (used to use iTerm), with Jetbrains Mono Nerd font, custom colors, powerline-status, oh my zsh, fzf, brew etc

- Obsidian

- Jetbrains

- Arc

- 2 other side projects that solve personal problems

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Kitty for all the reasons for alacritty but there are tabs. The other tools I mentioned just improve quality of life.

Obsidian for notes- everything markdown files synced with icloud, works with phone and windows PC.

Jetbrains is my favorite suite of IDEs by far due to what I think of as "fearless coding" - but vscode has come a long way.

Arc is the least bad browser imo. It's hard to build a great browser.
*you're wrong but won't admit it
> We need her in the lab, not at fancy dinners.

I think it is naive to take such a stance. This is the thinking that leads to layers of management, institutional bloat, non experts with MBAs calling shots and ultimately loss of the opportunity to fund genius as it becomes all the blurier who really has the vision and capability and who is just good with filling out grant applications.
The teenagers working at the local McDonalds do a fine job modifying some truly unpleasant people.
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Tell me that something is malicous without telling me.
ADHD isn't even a good diagnosis. We throw these words as if we know what the disease even is and all we need is to figure out the cure, when these diseases have dozens of variations "my ADHD is more like this", the definitions of the disease and classification change all the time. ADHD when I was a kid is very different from ADHD today.

So to me the article shouldn't even be "we need to take a wider approach to the cures", it should be "we don't know jack shit about mental health and need way more research".
Good explanation...
It sounds like the big benefit of Venus cloud cities as a retirement destination is the lower (0.9g) gravity, plus possibly distance from problems on Earth, so it wouldn't be a destination for poor elderly people, but rather rich ones (esp. ones who don't care about visiting with family).

I imagine it would resemble a giant cruise ship, with luxurious surroundings, plenty of stuff for older people to do, etc. Of course, there would be a very large crew/staff aboard to clean and maintain it and provide services, such as medical care. Salaries for the staff would have to be huge, since they wouldn't be able to go home for years, and gigs on this floating city would probably be contracted fixed-length terms, similar to Saudi Aramco workers, so prices to live in this city would be enormous, making it something only very wealthy retirees could afford.

Considering the view would be pretty boring after a while, and the prices astronomical, it's hard to believe that 0.9g gravity would be enough of a draw to make this project economically viable.
AFAIK almost every stock market order processing system is event driven, and they are all usually very old systems that have been successfully running for years. I've seen some implementation in investment banks, what you're usually told is that most exchanges and banks run similar architectures. The reason for this is partially that FIX, the protocol for electronic orders in markets is event based.
Sure, buddy corpo, we can trust you.
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> Retirement homes.

Ok I love this as a sci-fi premise. Especially as a spiritual successor to Logan’s Run.

But how does this actually work? Who cares for these people? Are these retirees the opportunity young caregivers will seek?
It depends on what you consider “accurate”. For home/diy usage, +/-10% may be absolutely sufficient as long as the error is stable (i.E: it always is a similar offset). For lab/industrial usage, 0.1% may be too far off. There’s a large gap in engineering effort that drives up the prices for more precise sensors.
Agreed. Also Pylint has a lint for exactly this mistake so they didn't even set up the standard linting / static type checking tools which are absolutely a must with Python.
To be brutally honest, blaming chat-gpt for a coding mistake doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.

Having insufficient testing and 0 monitoring does not improve it.

Y'all need to hire some senior backend Devs.
I feel like on other laptops everyone is optimizing for specs/price and specs don't include quality of life features like a good trackpad. Sure, it would be nice to have a good trackpad, but chances are your customers are going to buy a cheaper laptop with a worse trackpad from a competitor.
Input is not the problem, but the output.
That was in the parent post, but I tend to agree with you.

It seems to imply an attention economy where that is the objective an cultural currency in a way I find off-putting.
Data consumers in unknown teams is a nightmare regardless of the architecture.

Events sent for readership you can’t control are ideally of the type «x changed», and the consumer must then fetch data on the relevant endpoint.

That or the company must have serious versioning policies.
Distance from Earth seems like a huge downside, not a benefit. Even if our climate goes to shit it will still be far more livable than Venus.

So, as you say, there's only one benefit, 0.9g, and is that really enough to justify this entire thing?

To be honest it seems like people are clutching at straws to justify space colonisation
Indeed, when opening a hatch and allowing scalding ultra-high-pressure sulphuric acid into the habitat is an option, dissent will be fairly easily handled!
So you are saying I should sell Nvidia?
I know there are properly humans in the background answering but conversing with an llm wouldn't be worse than what you qre going through.
This and all the CC bloatware is why I switched to Affinity.
Why should they be upset? Roads cost money to build, the land they're on has value, and the users should pay for all of that. Free roads are basically communism.
That's not how it works. A company can not just claim things (as part of PR reaction or otherwise) and have it mean nothing legally, just because it isn't part of their ToS.
A worthy goal We’re not even close to that, though. The various depression questionnaires used in research haven’t been updated in decades and the questions on them have little overlap.

A long way to go.
>Consent is not necessary to take or share photographs taken in public.

Maybe not legally, depnds on the country, but morally.

Epecially now since AI training data is ripped from every possible source.
>The AI industry needs to show that it's useful, not that it's innovative. People won't come if you just build stuff. Outside of the tech industry, I have found people have literally no interest or just disdain for this.

you could've said the same thing about computers, back when they were room-sized machines full of vacuum tubes, capable of rudimentary calculations and not much else. would you imagine that less than a century later, we would have devices with more computing power than a million of those in our pockets?

when AI industry stops obsessing over lobotomizing their models into being useless for anything except basic bitch customer support, content moderation and mediocre stack overflow substitute, there will be tons and tons of applications for generative AI. my own industry - gamedev - is within less than a decade from dialogue and audio being generated on the fly, with human writers doing maybe 10% of the work and voice actors just providing a few samples. of course, that will not happen until LLMs are allowed to produce anything but soulless garbage that strictly adheres to FAGMAN sensibilities.
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> Compare it to physical health. For instance, everyone is advised to take regular tests (like blood tests). While things can still be improved a lot, this simple proactive measure helps detect many health problems before they cause serious damage.

Q: How many people actually take regular blood tests?
Those are interesting points, but disabling the JIT doesn't really change anything unless it means you can forgo site isolation, and that would be a very risky bet.

It may be that disabling the JIT is fine for users most of the time. However, that is also a tough call --- so easy for your competitors to beat you up with benchmarks, and there will be real use-cases (e.g. emulators) where it matters to some users.

And of course there's a lot more to perf than just the JIT. I barely mentioned JIT in my blog post.
a framework need not be provable to be useful
Not all foreigners in Rome were slaves. Far from it. However, path to becoming a citizen was not easy, and even if you were a citizen your rights were dependent on wealth, sex and reputation.

Not that there were no rights for other people. But it was very different from what we've come to expect.
This is how I felt when a Gitlab employee deleted the production database by doing it in the wrong terminal window.
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