skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That seems to be a senseless concern, since offered the evidence of a lab test, a physician should be prompted to investigate further. No physician (nor individual) should ever be making a diagnosis or treatment decision based on a single line of evidence.

You talk like an engineer who only has one product/project/patient to work on for weeks/months/years. A doctor has to see 40 patients a day, and the next day there are a completely new set of 40 patients etc. To investigate further the quality of a lab test result isn't something a physician has much time to do unfortunately.
Bear for markdown/notes

Dashlane for password manager

OrbStack which is a much better docker alternative

DaisyDisk for disk cleanup

IINA for video playback
I simply don't understand this take. Yes, I think AI is incredibly over-hyped at the moment, and I've come to totally agree with Yann LeCun's assessment that LLMs have nothing to do with AGI, but I still think it's an incredibly useful tool if one is aware of its limitations. Things like:

1. ChatGPT is great at translations (at least for English-French), and I've found it too be a great language learning assistant.

2. It's incredibly useful for me when it comes to writing a first draft of complicated SQL queries.

3. It's great at essentially a faster document search and summarization tool if I don't know the keyword of what I'm looking for, e.g. when I want to ask "I want to code X, which libraries can help me do that?"

4. I use cursor.sh as my IDE and I find it incredibly useful, especially for finding answers about a large codebase when I'm a newbie to the repository.

5. I've found ChatGPT to be great for trip ideas and planning.

In short, I think generative AI is a powerful if flawed tool, and I think the disillusionment comes when people think it's more than that.
The literal survivorship bias is from those who've managed to not commit suicide.
The more I've written code close to metal (mostly SIMD for signal processing), the more I've grown to prefer either intrinsics or separate translation unit for assembly.

If you want your code to intertwine with what the C compiler does, intrinsics are great.

If you don't, .s is great.
Submitting this because I saw this on Twitter,

https://x.com/7etsuo/status/1799717207913480604

And then someone else commented on it,

https://x.com/MysteryGuitarM/status/1799905253439221937

> It takes 2GB of RAM and 60GB of storage to simulate ~300 neurons.

> If we scale that linearly (eew) to other organisms:

> Mouse (~75M neurons): 500 TB of RAM // 14,900 TB of storage

> Human (~86B neurons): 570,000 TB of RAM // 17 million TB of storage
Show HN: A gamified book reader for busy people, on Telegram
Hey HN!

A few months ago, I started posting 100+ book excerpts on my Instagram stories and some of my friends actually read all of them (they also told me that they hadn't read a book in years)!

I found this interesting and figured I could build something that would leverage the same effects to help people read more books.

If you try it out, please let me know if it helped you read more, or if there's anything else I can add.

Thanks!
-Walter
Thanks for the feedback, would love to do a call and walk you through the product and tell all the ideas I had. If you have time.
247 people. Wow, that's a tiny company. I don't see how they could possibly keep entries researched and fresh enough.

My grandfather sold World Book and Britannica door-to-door for a time since his military pay was insufficient. Sadly, I guess that job is as in as much demand as a piano tuner.
Not really. Your point is hyperbole. Personal computing was a paradigm shift. This is a relatively minor change in a small subset of it.
What if it was pre-determined that they would not believe in determinism?
Your last paragraph is interesting. When I think back about at Perl, Python, and Ruby, all of them have/had charismatic leaders -- Larry Wall, Guido van Rossum, and Yukihiro Matsumoto. This would help to explain part of the success of their programming languages. My guess: All three of them have high IQ and EQ. To be clear: I don't write this post to take anything away from the incredible accomplishments of those people. Rather, I am trying to say that having a good personality (and probably higher EQ) only helped their cause.
I think most cultures have beliefs/norms for the suppression of emotion that influence our health more than we may realize. If we want to optimize for happiness, how do we do so without feeling sadness? Or fear? Anger? If I feel very happy with something, I will probably feel very sad if it is gone, afraid it will leave, angry if it gets taken away.

So I think more than physical health, there are hidden cultural forces that interfere with our desire for emotional health. Heck, we even call it mental health more than emotional health probably because of cultural dislike of "emotion." I won't even go into how attitudes in favor of monogamy may contribute lol.
You can already live in a tiny cabin and never go outside in any major city of your choice (or even outside a city, but you might need to provide your own cabin). You can even choose to pay the vast proportion of your salary to pay for the right to live there.

But you may have to make do with fresh air and water unless you make your own recirculating scrubbers.

Give it a few years and Amazon will do housing and then you can even buy everything from the same entity that provides your living volume.

I wouldn't want to bet that the operators of a space habitat wouldn't take some cues from the company town era, except with even less oversight.
And I believe them.

Because whenever there is an uproar it makes sense to wait for things to settle down and then start training on your images.
The API for programming the GPU is Metal.
What do you think retirement is?
You could secure the parked car so that it doesn't move, and its crumple zone will still slow the deceleration.
- Alfred: Spotlight replacement that is free and has lots of extensions.

- Rectangle: Window management

- A Better Finder Rename: (not actually daily) A nice GUI for renaming large numbers of files

- Day One: A journaling app. I'm not willing to pay a subscription for that (I have strong feelings about App subscriptions) but the unpaid version is fine for me.
This is just “how to write ARM assembly”. There’s not much special that would require the existence of this to help with Snapdragon processors.
And yet a few people are doing it. So yeah, it's advice to insane people.
Commit messages are overrated.
On the flip side: in some cases there are downsides to regular checkups, in particular false positive diagnoses leading to medical operations causing more harm on a population level than if the checkups hadn’t been done in the first place. Unfortunately our medical practices aren’t always good enough yet where doing early checkups at a large scale actually prevent harm.

Combine this with the sometimes shoddy diagnostics processes in mental health, and suddenly it doesn’t seem too weird to me that we avoid poking too much until people complain themselves. I think that if we were to ask people to fill out every mental health questionnaire that exists, most people would likely test positive for some disorders. But if those symptoms are not causing unmanageable harm in people’s lives, and given the current state of treatments (not nearly always effective), I think we should think twice before subjecting everyone to a list of mental health questionnaires.
ChatGPT-4o might spot it when asking about the code directly, but this was a conversion from js to python, errors where chatgpt/copilot or any other AI will allucinate or make mistakes to be as close as the original code are very common in my experience.

The other common issue is if the original code has thinsg chatgpt doesn't like (misspell, slightly wrong formatting) it will fix it automatically, or if he really think you should have added a particular field you didn't add.
> Google has gotten to the point that it is intricately interwoven into the official websites, like www.dmv.ca.gov and www.ftb.ca.gov and www.irs.gov

Could you elaborate on what you mean by this? I visited dmv.ca.gov and nothing stood out to me?
Bali is significantly further though.
Show HN: Interactive Reading for Kids
Hi HN folks, I'm Maks, and I'm excited to share a side project I've been working on – an interactive storytelling tool&library for parents to read their kids' books aloud. It's like karaoke for fairy tales, with various stories enhanced by background sound effects to make read-aloud sessions kind of 'magical' =)

Here's what the service offers so far:

1. Customizable Stories: Personalize the story by age, morals (20+ options), and favorite characters like pirates and unicorns, all with audio effects.
2. You can embed important life lessons (aka morals) into the stories.
3. Access over 300 ready-to-read stories.
4. Stories are available in English , German , Spanish , Dutch , French , Russian , and Ukrainian .

The idea came to me a few months ago while playing with an open API to ChatGPT and helping my uncle with his young son. I wanted to try making the reading process interactive for the kid and making it easier for me to come up with the story\finding a book to read=) So far, I have a couple of dozen of users. The service is completely free for individuals, and I hope to cover infrastructure expenses and monetize it through nurseries and kindergartens.

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Best,
Maks
Apple writes the libraries for you to use AMX. They aren’t giving themselves preferential treatment here.
Principled coders outperform the competition (with animations) [video]
We could plausibly land a human on Mars within our lifetimes and they wouldn't immediately die. To get Venus to that point would take minimum hundreds, more likely thousands of years. Which is neat, but between the two it implies something about the better place to start.
Wait, how did Rectina send the message that said she was trapped at the foot of the mountain, if she was… trapped at the foot of the mountain in her house? Why didn’t she escape with the messenger?
It's not, you can discuss it. Why don't you say anything of substance?
Don't forget that there is more surface area on the asteroid belt than the rest of the solar system combined — and minimal gravity.

Cheap — and resources to extract.
Is it also possible to count the distinct streets? "out count" instead of "out geom" gives a much higher number than 57.
Why do you feel bound to defend this particular technology?

It is, after all, incapable of feeling hurt.
DirtMatch: Got dirt? Find folks who need it
Evolution is slow or fast depending on the reproductive cycle of the species. Redwoods: many millenia. Viruses: measured in months - which Covid variant are we on?
I agree I'm sure the quantity of Nando's, pizza express and Starbucks within a given area is a probably a fantastic starting point for a heuristic to detect this.
Fairphone 2023 Impact Report [pdf]
Sure not having tests, is bad. Doing thing with AI without triple checking is dangerous.

But not having error logging/alerts on your db ? That's the crazy part.

This is a new product, is not legacy code from 20 years ago when they thought it was a neat idea to just throw stuff at the db raw, and check for db errors to do data validation, so alerts are hard because there's so many expected errrors.
I strongly believe we don't have "mental health problems", yet we have a global style of living in "modern society" that is inherently incompatible with the way we evolved: e.g. office-based daily tasks instead of walking and hunting, foods fabricated to stimulate us instead of what we could find in nature, high buildings and cities with sound/light/air pollution instead of a calm, clean nature, always trying to "optimize for time/money" instead of slow living etc. all eventually end us up in a mentally and physically depleted state. The problem is that none of those factors alone have a direct visible effect, but they accumulate together over years, so it's hard to quantify a specific factor in an isolated manner.

As long as we don't change out lifestyle to something simpler fundamentally, I doubt we can really solve problems with any kind of drugs or medical tests etc.

I hope a holistic approach will take us back to who we really are, which would gradually solve our both mental and physical health problems.
Thanks for the suggestion, I've increased the loop time
This may change your life:

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/4200-nissen...
Bali's between China and Northern Australia.

The Makasar traded with Aboriginal people for trepang (sea cucumber), which they boiled down, dried on their boats and traded with China where it was, and still is used for food and medicine.

That trade was ongoing when the Dutch first arrived in East Indies, they burnt a lot of local records of the existing kingdoms so it's hard to know how far back such trade went on for - although this suggests regional trade going back to at least 4 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makassan_contact_with_Australi...
And that is my point, It just says it's not which makes the whole thing feel redundant...
Also 404 now
it wasn't 5 days of only working on this one problem though, it was over 5 calendar days. even if something is gonna take me one day to implement, it's gonna take three days to get enough focus time between all the other meetings and fires to put out in order to actually get a day's worth of coding done
Look into the LLMs Mind
In Windows RT (Win8 for Arm) times, the "Designed for Windows" label specification had a requirement for locked down UEFI firmware, that only booted Microsoft signed kernels. That made Surface RTs Windows-only. I wonder if this is still required, or can you boot Linux on these machines. I'm sure there's a hardware exploit possibility to make this a reality, but it's not going to be a mainstream thing to do.
> If you're earning past six figures, are part of a team of programmers...

Compensation is in no way correlated with good engineering practices.

They might be paid much because they're developing something which people are willing to pay for, it doesn't have to be "real engineering".
Nope.

Normal natural bodybuilders get them if they have a low enough BF%.

I mean, steroids are worse but you can get perfectly disfunctional naturally .
the thing is that the challenge to monetize AI. if AI won't allow apple to sell more devices - it won't work out.
When I see a new Framework product, such as their latest Intel CPU updates and now a third screen installment for the 13, I can't help but feel frustrated at the limited effort put into the development and maintenance of older models.

I'm linking the threads on the 11th gen and 12th gen Intel BIOS updates. It takes years for an update to be made available, and then it has endless problems with the update itself or after.

Nirav Patel writes from time to time they're gradually putting more effort into the maintenance of their older systems, but it doesn't instill confidence the older hardware will remain as well supported as alternatives.

11th gen: https://community.frame.work/t/11th-gen-intel-core-bios-3-10...
12th gen: https://community.frame.work/t/12th-gen-intel-core-bios-3-08...
Classic mistake. I tell newbies about this type of mistake roughly weekly hanging out on Discord. I bet it's in the training data of ChatGPT many many times.
I think if I gave you 20 pieces of music, half of them made by AI, you wouldn't be able to tell which ones are made by AI much better than guessing randomly.
The easiest way to scrape websites today in my opinion also features a simple way to automate interactions with websites. The scraping browser integrates with the 3 major headless browsers (Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer) and lets you interact with your target site’s HTML in a multi-step manner to extract the data you need.
Try it here https://bit.ly/3STY9ON
it was a paradigm shift, yes, but you would never guess that if you were looking at ENIAC in the 40's.
I think the disillusion here is when you find out that these things are mostly smoke and mirrors that tend to generate very suboptimal solutions. For example I am forever having to shoot down ChatGPT generated code before it hits production which is naively and lazily generated and the engineer is not aware of this at all. Yes it can write SQL but does it understand the index strategy on the destination table or the consequences of running thousands of those queries a minute in a production database? No. Does it have a deep understanding of context rather than just syntax (ask a French language translator what they think of it). No. And with trip planning and ideas, which is a speciality of mine, it is always better to find someone local and ask them about it because a huge portion of the information out there isn't something a model can infer about because it isn't written down anywhere. Case in point, I'm off to the Azores islands shortly - it can't generate anything useful for me. I had someone suggest that already. On top of that it is compelled to over explain sometimes to the point of incorrectness, which it likes to do on travel advice. This becomes dangerous. I found someone local to talk to instead.

So personally I think the LLM and question based uses are limited and quite ridiculous from an objectivity perspective. They barely scratch the surface of the problem and the hit rate is less than I'd get doing the legwork myself, which I do not find useful. And the information is hard to verify and judge if it's safe without deeper contextual knowledge. This is a complete mire.

The other use cases, like classification and search are where I see it winning but those aren't sexy and don't play on our human emotions as well enough to part with cash. They will be left after the hype of course.

Really I think people are buying into a romantic fantasy at the moment.
That's retirement.
John Mitchell, a seasoned veteran in the bustling newsroom of the Daily Ledger, had seen it all. From political scandals to human interest stories, his pen had chronicled the ebb and flow of the world for over three decades. Today, he sat at his cluttered desk, the rhythmic clatter of typewriters around him, drafting a piece about a groundbreaking yet alarming development in the tech world. Scientists had unveiled a hacking autonomous munition AI, a sophisticated machine capable of exploiting 53% of real-world vulnerabilities in zero-day settings. It was a story of immense technical achievement shadowed by its potential for misuse.

Mitchell’s fingers flew over the keyboard, his words painting a balanced picture of innovation and caution. He handed the draft to his editor, a young, ambitious man named Trevor Hayes, who scanned the article with a furrowed brow. “This is good, John,” Trevor said, tapping his pen against the desk, “but it needs a punchier title. Something that grabs the reader's attention. How about ‘Rogue AI Threatens to Unleash Cyber Chaos’?”

Mitchell sighs, opens the bottom right drawer of his desk, and takes out a half-empty bottle of amber-colored liquid.
Of course it can reason about the context of its output. I'm honestly not sure what you're trying to say.

Can you give me an example of a prompt that requires your definition of "reasoning"?
One of the big arguments for colonizing Mars is that a self-sufficient Mars colony could serve as a "backup" for the human race in case we screw things up so badly that we wipe ourselves out here on Earth.

I always thought this was a specious argument and that despite a lot of social media threads and Elon ravings, no one is really taking it seriously. The reason I think this is because no one ever brings up the idea of having a self-sufficient colony in Antarctica.

I mean to build a proper threat model you need to understand exactly what threats you're trying to mitigate I guess. But let's say it's the usual doom and gloom stuff, a) climate change, b) nuclear war/winter, c) meteor strike.

If anything an Antarctic colony stands to benefit from climate change. A nuclear war is scarier, but none of the fallout is going to reach the South Pole, and to be self-sufficient you had to solve your energy needs without much sunlight anyway (there are surely tons of undiscovered hydrocarbons down there waiting to be dug up and refined).

A meteor strike, well as long as it doesn't land on the colony, the problems are similar to nuclear winter.

So if you want to have a "backup" for the human race - the Antarctic Plateau is sufficiently remote, and about 10,000x easier than anything off-world.

But we don't even talk about it because everyone knows life on Antarctica is pretty depressing and PEOPLE JUST WANT TO DO SCI-FI IN SPACE.
Everything can be understandable if this is a small first personal project of someone.

Here we are talking 1.65 MILLION CAD $ backed YC company
I'm wearing Dick Tracy's watch so the ideas were already out there...

The point is that idea was actually useful!
1. Update ToS to give yourself expansive new capabilities

2. Publically state that you're not abusing those capabilities (in the present tense of course) to bury the story

3. In a year quietly turn it on in the backend with no public fuss. Preferably in a confusing incremental way so no one step feels too far and nobody with less than superhuman patience can keep track

Microsoft has gone through their version of the path before and will do it again with Recall. In a decade you will technically be able to disable cloud-recall, only on business windows versions, by editing a registry key every 24h.
Who needs static analysis when you can put your trust in a magic robot?

(This is one thing that baffles me about the “let’s use LLMs to code” movement; a lot of the proponents don’t seem to be just adding it as a tool (I don’t think it’s a terribly _useful_ tool, but whatever, tastes differ), but using it as the only tool, discarding 50 years worth of progress.)
sure it's casual but the things you're pointing out are merely an alternative style and don't suggest lack of maturity. judging a book by its cover
What’s the mistake? Putting on the “Captain Obvious” cape and summarizing news clippings?
> Her "key" is to be busy with some other activity.

That's also the issue, isn't it? YouTube addiction feeds in the vacuum of not knowing what other activities one wants to do.

Doing nothing and don't know what you want to do? Maybe you open YouTube to fill the void. I know I do (even though much less nowadays).
> (Wild tangent: holy shit is hard to get iOS to accept “do process” in a sentence. I edited that paragraph at least 30 times, no joke, trying every trick I could to stop it correcting it to “due process”. I almost gave up. I used to defend autocorrect but holy shit that was a nightmare.)

can you not just pick the original spelling in the autocomplete menu above the keyboard?
It’s also incredibly difficult for people with mental health issues to simply get advice to try to “pull themselves up by the bootstraps” by improving their lifestyle when so much of their mind is working against them.

Combine that with the fact that hyper individualism is a big factor for loneliness, (and social media is a poor man’s substitute for socializing) and with loneliness being one of the biggest factors in poor mental health, what we have is not just people with problematic lifestyles (exercise, diet, sleep, social support, financial health, purpose) but also a life structure (overworking, drinking, shopping, doomscrolling, etc.) which makes it all too easy to fall back into old patterns of a poor lifestyle.

What’s crazy is expecting people with poor mental health to just “fix themselves”. Some may be able to, while others will struggle with it their entire lives without proper support and societal guardrails.
They don't have logs and commit directly to production 10/20 times a day.

I don't think 128 bits vs 36 byte performance it's a main concern right now