skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> higher intake of calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc, copper, and manganese was associated with lower blood Hcy (homocysteine) levels.
F-16 crash leaves questions over flight-control computer
I think it keeps wc simple if an algorithm is introduced not directly related to count words it becomes more complicated to debug. I see this a an example of the Unix philosophy of do one thing well.
Waht language? Because I'm guessing they work well for languages with a large amount of training data like Python (in my experience), less well for less used languages like Zig or Clojure (haven't tried them but that's my theory)
If you read deeper, you'd find out that for example the simulation engine is a separate (older?) system written in Java that does have an API but does not implement other components like designing the railroad system etc.
Multiplayer Tetris that spins!! https://youtu.be/PGFgcaVmL_I?si=egqUDmOc8D2cUAUM
There are a few hiccups, but I've found ESM to be a huge win overall. The killer feature for me is the ability to write code that can be imported in a browser without any sort of build step. You don't even need node/npm. Just download the file/directory from somewhere and import. It's perfectly feasible to build a complex browser app with many dependencies using nothing but git submodules.

The main thing you're missing out on is the optimizations that come with bundlers. But they should be treated as just that: optimizations. You shouldn't be required to use a bundler just to develop/distribute JS programs.
Within teams, we've done fine submitting to Conway's Law until we get to the point where a different structure makes sense. Reduces merge conflicts that way.
Switched to "Britain + Ireland"!
Architect: Cloud Infra for Humans
What on earth do 99% of startups even need LLMs for? Seriously.
> But if it’s working, is it wrong?

Well, you'll find out later when it gives a headache. Technical debt are things that work, but are wrong.
Why is no one talking about this ? It is a pretty big deal.
> it's no coincidence that corporations that own proprietary code don't have this problem.

Proprietary programs have a different, interesting problem: They eventually disappear. In 1995, the year PCRE2 was born, I was doing classic MacOS GUI programming on a 680x0 machine, running Metrowerks CodeWarrior as my IDE, and relying on a bunch of tools that are now gone. The proprietary technology I used in those days is now almost universally extinct. I think only BBEdit still exists.

A couple of years later, I switched to Emacs and Linux, and they're still going strong a quarter century later. I hope to get another couple of decades out of VS Code (or a fork). I can deploy Linux apps to containers. And PCRE2 is still going strong. Oh, and I can still typeset math with LaTeX.

I think there is real value in software that is "done", with stable APIs and very conservative maintenance, which can remain in use for decades. That's a world I want to live in. Let me keep using proven technology where appropriate, and switch only when I find a good reason to switch.

> maybe it ISN'T a good idea to volunteer your time to write libraries that corporations will use to make billions, while begging for donations.

I sometimes avoid letting my projects get too successful in order to minimize my support costs. But in general, if you want to earn money from software (open source or proprietary!), you're going to need to build an actual business. Using a proprietary license isn't magic. I can use a restrictive license, find no customers, and still earn no money. It's the easiest thing in the world.

If you want money for an open source project, you're still going to need to focus hard on the business part. The easiest way to do this is consulting. Your users will still capture 99.9% of the value from your software, but a successful open source project can still be turned into decent revenue—if you keep working at the business side, too.

Mostly, when I release open source, it's because I've created something useful, but I know that it would make a lousy startup for one reason or another. My employer is happy to go along. They see that a tool is useful internally, that we couldn't sell it to our customers without a massive pivot into a difficult market, and the tool isn't hugely useful to our direct competitors. So why not share it? Sometimes we get a useful PR! Even better, designing a tool to make sense as open source sometimes makes it more reusable internally.
The public is always changing; one generation will age out, while another joins the fray.
I thought about letting people take the issue to court and making politicians face actual consequences if a judge decides that politicians brought up the same law over and over again in bad faith. But I guess it'd be abused when tactics like the filibuster work to kill off badly needed laws.
Blinkfeed – AI-first email client
Hi! Some friends of mine, ex-YC founders were drowning in a flood of emails from investors and clients. To save themselves, they built an internal tool that worked so well, they decided to package it into an app (I was helping them a little bit).

There is a bunch of tools that allow you to create summaries, help writing replies, etc, but Blinkfeed builds the UI/UX around these concepts, delivering something way more refined than anything I've seen. What do you think about it?
SSO has lots of other benefits. MFA primarily. This is non negotiable these days, even for the smallest company. I’ve not seen many services supporting this without SSO.

Don’t get me started on the services that have their own smart ideas on what constitutes a safe password. Max 8 characters with no repeated letters and of which 4 must be an emoji, with automatic logout every 12 minutes. Yes those still exist.

Password policies are things you want control over in your IdP to avoid all this BS. SSO really should be standard.
C can be memory safe, we only need to turn these features on. Oh, by the way, these features don’t exist.
Is the news industry ready for another pivot to video?
They've treated me fine -- the broken one I bought that way. YTOs have given me trouble, though.

EDIT: obligatory, pictures https://photos.app.goo.gl/KwvnMGm5GyvnmgE58
i had the opportunity to travel to central asia last summer for a couple weeks (both uzbekistan and tajikistan, briefly). was really a fascinating trip to a part of the world that i barely knew anything about!

for those who are curious about traveling in central asia in general, there is a great travel blog of sorts called caravanistan -> https://caravanistan.com/forum/

the main website is useful for travel logistics but i find myself returning to the forum pretty often to see travel updates from people on the ground in those places. really interesting to me to read about various border crossings between countries, what to expect when traveling around/between countries, etc
During a goldrush, sell shovels.

Nvidia and TSMC are making insane profits, but that just means there's a demand for specialized compute. Like with the crypto bubble, their success is unrelated to the quality of the final AI product sold to the consumer.

OpenAI is in a similar position due to their SaaS model. It's all about pumping the hype and getting other businesses to build AI products on their platform. Not getting good results? Must be your poor prompt engineering!

The real slaughter is going to be in the AI startups, and the companies trying to pivot to AI in an attempt to stay relevant. The general public is already starting to get tired of the whole AI hype, and we haven't seen anyone provide genuinely groundbreaking products yet. All of it is somewhere on a spectrum of "kinda neat, I guess" to "dystopian hellscape".

Unless we see someone come out with a truly innovative must-have product, this hype is probably going to end sooner rather than later.
The reason this paper is back in the news is because it passed peer review this week and will soon be published in medical journals
West coast is affected as well
> why would a hospital system choose to grow for instance? where would the $$ come from to buy other ones

Not all networks are for-profit.

By merging into larger networks, you allow hospital networks to consolidate the very expensive back-office processes like billing, insurance, IT, procurement, staffing, etc.

All the intermediate "glue" needed for medical care has grown expensive due to either compliance or general profiteering, which forced consolidation in order to leverage economies of scale.

This is why both for-profit and non-profit networks have been increasingly merging.
Sure, but go to one of the main porn websites and you're shown extremely hardcore content on the front page, in video thumbnails. Often there's something "rough", probaby something about step siblings, and in most cases the actors are being exploited or quite possibly trafficked.

I agree with your sentiment though. Removing access to pornographic material isn't the answer. But these days unfiltered access comes with a different set of issues that likely have negative consequences on development of a healthy attitude to sex.
Your post seems to be misleading. Both rulings focus on selling goods to non-members, which seems rightfully taxable.

This discussion is about taxing churches/religious organizations in general on all revenue/income (ie. tithe, donations, membership fees, etc). That would very likely be unconstitutional, as that would limit the organization's ability to assemble and practice religion.
tens of thousands false positives only? I think you are severely underestimating the number of messages exchanged each and every day in the EU.

I think the number of false positives would be in the millions after a few weeks if not a few days.

That is why such a system is simply not workable.
I never saw the appeal of Pug, it's hideous and completely unreadable for me. I can't easily tell where code starts and ends
> I'm getting interested now, the comments have alleged several predictions MOND made. On the other hand I'm pretty sure the evidence for dark matter is pretty strong as well (I believe there are several ways to calculate the amount of dark matter, all of which agree).
> Can you give an example of MOND falling apart? One that requires so much fine-tuning that it cannot be adequately explained, or one requiring a violation of one of the more fundamental laws of physics?

Pick any MOND theory you like, it all fails when it hits relativity, which is a theory with an embarrassment of riches of evidence in its favor, and can't be reconciled with relativity either. So while it explains galactic rotational speeds, it then fails to explain lots of other things, so it's a huge step backwards. It's the equivalent of saying Newtonian physics is wrong because it can't explain Mercury's precession, so let's go back to epicycles. To favor MOND we give up tremendously more than we gain.

MOND CAN explain things, if I have been interpreted to say it never predicts anything, that was never my intent. The problem is that MOND can't explain much else, so rather than making our theories simpler (which usually means we're in the right direction) it complicates things.

To make relativity work for the things MOND looks at, we only add 1 thing, WIMPs, particles we theorize but haven't seen. We've predicted lots of particle and found them, so this isn't a problem. chances we have missed a particle that turns out to be highly non-interactive? High. It took us ages to really solve the missing neutrino problem by discovering them, and we predicted the Higgs boson with high accuracy too. So this is a road we've been down before.

To make MOND work, we throw out a lot of theory, and we have nothing to replace it with under MOND. Chances all those other theories are wrong even though they work great? Low.

Dr Becky is amazing with her MOND analyses. Here's one of the latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlNSvrYygRc
Tajikistan looks to be an interesting case of Islam being kept in check without resorting to either extremism or terrorism. But this is neither free nor assured, and it probably requires constant wilful effort.

In the long term, I can see it bleeding more territory to China due to the significant difference in military power and aggression. This is so long as there isn't a NATO-like structure to keep Chinese aggression in check, constituted of its neighbors.
Seems like you guys set up a complicated stack. My large app takes <5s to build. Hot reloading takes 0.2ms.

We can agree to disagree though.
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Hmm, my guess is you're trying to use the box's borders as lines (they don't count, only the lines you draw count). Let me know if that's not the issue. Also, I'll think about ways to make this more clear!
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Hey HN, Michael and Alexey from Narrative BI here.

Background

We've been working on Natural Language Query tools for quite some time. Back in the pre-LLM era, we launched a natural language to SQL startup called FriendlyData. It was later acquired by Service now where we integrated it into the Now Intelligence platform.
Then we started Narrative BI with the thesis that business users like marketers don't always know how to ask data questions, so our goal was to build a product where data insights are generated proactively, before users even ask questions.

Evolution

The general dynamics of Generative AI going mainstream created an interesting opportunity. We still believe that the future of BI lies in proactive analytics and easy data integrations. However, with increased AI awareness, we've seen a lot of interest from our users in natural language capabilities, so we decided to take it to the next level.

Why don't just use ChatGPT?

The problem with ChatGPT and other chat-based LLM tools that they hallucinate a lot. ChatGPT answers look plausible so most of users don't bother to verify if the answers match the actual data. However our research shows that ChatGPT hallucination rate is 47% for more or less complex data sets, such as Google Search Console data, for example. For business data analysis accuracy is the key as wrong answers can lead to misinformed decisions.
Another limitation is data integration. AI data analyst comes with pre-built data integrations, so you can easily connect your data sources such as GA4, Google Ads, Google Search Console, FB Ads, Hubspot and Salesforce. More data sources coming soon and we're also doing custom integrations for enterprise.

We're here to answer your questions and look forward to your feedback!
There is nothing technologically that you can do to permanently stop CSAM on the internet technically or legally, they will find a way technically to put it out there. Certainly sacrificing all privacy for a half billion people isn’t the way to go about it. It would seem that it’s a societal moral/mental health problem that causes this, as long as that persists then CSAM will exist and they will always find a new underground network for it.
An amazing place. I visited twice about 15 years ago and have many fond memories of it, but mostly when I think about it I'm filled with sadness, because the people there deserve so much better. They're constantly knee-deep in corruption, both street level and just the very blatant kleptocratic presidential family. There's a lot of ethnic Russians, both expat workers and ones that didn't manage to leave after the collapse of the Soviet Union, that are very openly racist towards ethnic Tajiks but were usually allowed to run free. The people were hospitable and open and very happy to have guests in their country, but it also seemed like a very bleak place, with few good prospects for the future.
> we should be "Reining in America's Overindulgent Lifestyle and Runaway Spending Spree".

If you’re interested in knowing where your federal tax dollars are going, put your numbers in and take a look. It’s possible this is the most productive thing Intuit has ever done.

https://us.abalancingact.com/2023-federal-taxpayer-receipt
They have to justify their jobs. I mean there are 30000 lobbyist working everyday in Brussels... They are not there to look at the architecture.
Show HN: Nestless Code – VSCode extension to help you avoid the Pyramid of Doom
Hey HN!

I built Nestless Code to help developers avoid the Pyramid of Doom problem. What is the Pyramid of Doom problem? According to Wikipedia (lol), it is a common issue that arises when a program uses many levels of nested indentation to control access to a function.

This is a real problem, especially for new devs. Nestless Code will help you visualize when you're going too deep into nesting. Let me know what you think, and thanks!
Better results, yes, but that doesn't mean good results. It can only find local optima in a predetermined state space. Training a neural network involves (1) finding the right state space, and (2) choosing a suitable gradient function. If the Correct Solution isn't in the state space, or isn't reachable via gradual improvement, the neural network will never find it.

An algorithm that can reason about the meaning of text probably isn't in the state space of GPT. Thanks to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore..., we can get something that looks pretty close when interpolating, but that doesn't mean it can extrapolate sensibly. (See https://xkcd.com/2048/, bottom right.) As they say, neural networks "want" to work, but that doesn't mean they can.

That's the hard part of machine learning. Your average algorithm will fail obviously, if you've implemented it wrong. A neural network will just not perform as well as you expect it to (a problem that usually goes away if you stir it enough https://xkcd.com/1838/), without a nice failure that points you at the problem. For example, Evan Miller reckons that there's an off-by-one error in everyone's transformers. https://www.evanmiller.org/attention-is-off-by-one.html

If you add enough redundant dimensions, the global optimum of a real-world gradient function seems to become the local optimum (most of the time), so it's often useful to train a larger model than you theoretically need, then produce a smaller model from that.
I'm even more disappointed that parents allow 11-15 year olds to be Instagram "influencers" where 85% of the people being influenced are creepy old men.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/instagram-child-influe...
More disabled Americans are employed, thanks to remote work
>Personally discoverability and ease of use are the biggest issue(s),

Personal discovery can be one of the main catalysts for easy migration.

Google is not your friend.

That ship has sailed.

Nothing "personal", but knowing nothing about Linux, if you walked up to an already booted desktop of something like Linux Mint, there is a particular series of incantations you would need to make if you wanted to see something about the user accounts.

I can only imagine what different people think about this.

You would have to click the start button, then a popup will occur which may or may not be surprising.

There would be a button labeled "Administration" in a field which is visible on most size monitors.

You would have to click that then scroll to the very bottom of the resulting icon list where under careful observation you would find another button, labeled "Users and Groups".

You would have to accurately click that before arriving at the exact little control panel which then pops up, where you would finally be able to create another account.

Fortunately, no command line is needed, this is bad enough.

Once you get accustomed to this type of thing you could always start abbreviating it something like;

Start > Administration > Users and Groups.

It might be a lot more advanced than Windows in some ways but not others, but eventually it's possible to get accustomed to it.

Without giving up Windows at all if you don't want to ;)

You've still definitely got a legitimate comment about discovery compared to Windows that has not been completely overcome though.
I prefer Kotlin over Java as well.
I use it at work (where Java code has a tendency to become Kotlin code if it comes close to me) and at home. I'm looking forward to seeing how the native and wasm backends might extends the reach of Kotlin in the future.
Why must the device be so cheap? Is the intent to have one serve each plant?
Why can’t one serve many plants?
No, a non-profit is by definition a charity _for something_. It’s a public benefit, and thus not taxed.

If it’s not a charity, but uses 501(c)(3), that’s just tax fraud! Tax fraud is already illegal!

You read the law at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/501
I think it would have been more prudent if Node had chosen to stay closer to Babel compatibility in terms of how it handled ESM + Require. I know there were reasons to break things... but it could have been smoother.
No one would win anything. Money wins elections. If you had this platform and money, you find an early grave.
Why does such a simple site need any of those services in the first place?
We can't say much until there's more news... there are only rumors about the nature of the investigation. Not enough for a discussion.
> there's a disturbing tendency for people to throw more shade on the people, organizations, and technologies that get things almost perfect than they do on the ones that aren't even trying.

Also known as The Copenhagen interpretation of ethics, and once you know it, you see it everywhere.

https://gwern.net/doc/philosophy/ethics/2015-06-24-jai-theco...
Wasn't that post-2009?
Oh my goodness.

Claude 3's Sonnet can whip up this sort of thing now in seconds: https://x.com/breckyunits/status/1803864247983837537

It struggles with a few of the more advanced features (in particular, getting advanced features to interplay correctly), but it nails 80% of it on the first try, and generates better visual design than me.

In contrast, it took me a few days to build this (but then again, I was also doing it as research into building yet another react like framework, at that time).
Priests are taxed as individuals so this doesn't seem relevant. But besides the fact that glassdoor's salary estimates are at best ludicrously off. Several of the top companies for "Catholic priest" on that page are protestant organizations, so I will take this with a grain of salt.
Amazon did not consistently lose money. They were basically breaking even since the early 2000s and they proved they could turn on the profit faucet anytime they want once AWS came around. Although, they still heavily invest in infrastructure development, hence the continued low profit margins.

https://www.stock-analysis-on.net/NASDAQ/Company/Amazoncom-I...

See Amazon v Walmart net profit margin 1999 to 2018 graph.

https://mgmresearch.com/amazon-vs-walmart-revenues-and-profi...
I spent a fortnight with a small group of friends motorcycling along the Pamir highway back in 2022, then another week or so over in Kazakhstan (off the bikes this time).

Fascinating pair of countries, and highly recommended to go travel and get off the beaten track.
Small claims based customer service is the high water mark of enshitification.
Which is half of a sentence and distorted the question.

> > There is a ton of cross pollination between mac and Linux software

> Do we have any good examples, because Apple spends a lot of effort breaking cross platform compatibility?

BuT aPpLe aRe UnIx CeRtIfiEd.

Doesn't mean there is any cross pollination from MacOS to Linux.
Right here on Hacker News, actually. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16509058
> String.format works well enough for most easy use cases

It's a convenience thing.

C# can also use `String.Format("My template: {0}", name)`, but `$"My template: {name}"` is much nicer, IMO.

The longer the string and the higher the number of tokens, the more it benefits. I find this particularly true with working with LLM prompts, for example.
I wanted to go once but heard that either the taliban or al queda were in the area, which is unideal as an American citizen. Is that not the case anymore?
Anything that doesn’t use default exports.