skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, compromise is when a variety of people with different interests and values try to find a middle-ground solution that's sufficiently acceptable to everyone involved, each according to their own particular criteria. Proposing solutions that can only be pursued if everyone adopts a single set of criteria does not encourage compromise, it encourages conflict.

Societies are not monolithic blobs with a singular "common good" -- they're complex networks of relations among different people with fundamentally varying worldviews and value systems. Making public-interests projects work entails respecting pluralism and individual autonomy. There's no alternative: projects that depend on conformity will inevitably fail.
Show HN: Faabul – Interactive Quiz Maker
We have made an interactive quiz maker Faabul to help people make live quizzes. It is a Kahoot-like app that is available at the website and iOS and Android apps.

We try to make quiz creation as simple as possible - you can use AI, import from ChatGPT or CSV to make make the quiz.

I would love to get feedback on the app and if you have any feature requests that you don't see in other quiz makers, please let me know.
Besides deer protection and wildlife management in general, they're used in SAR and police - especially in mountainous or forest areas, it's just soooo much faster to send a quick-response team with thermal drones than to travel by foot or wait for a chopper to show up. Obviously in rough weather you still need a legit chopper, but for stuff like "find someone who didn't return from a hike/called for an emergency without knowing where he precisely is" they're just fine.

On the infrastructure side, you can use thermal drones in construction planning to detect if/where a building is losing heat, spot (beginning) defects in industrial installations and inspect if a power line is still working acceptably. DJI also pairs the thermal camera with a decent photo camera so you don't need to send up two drones for the job.
Wow, this is bad
You are thinking way too hard about this. Vietnam is the wild west, there are some levels of cost optimization but these farmers are not usually well educated living in the poorer country side. In the country side you will just fill up your sprayer and chuck the fertilizer/pesticide packaging on the ground like your own personal landfill. Maybe you might every now and then collect some of the trash and create a fire that is no where hot enough to burn trash so it will smolder a wonderful scent for a day or so.

That guy spraying in the article is most definitely not wearing any PPE, maybe a cloth mask at best, fertilizers/pesticides have not been used in Vietnam for as long as they have in the rest of the world.

These drones are absolutely all benefits.

- No more guy inhaling chemicals all day.

- Hopefully more programmatic approach to spraying where some level of measurement is happening.

- If you have business being built around spraying, they will eventually optimize around using the right amount for their service.
Sorry, are you implying that curl is not of high quality?
(Assuming your comment was in reference to GUI) Linux desktop has several issues wrt GUI. Speaking as a windows-familiar but nerdy/techy guy, command lines are nowhere as good. Arch linux's documentation is nice if you know what chroot is for. And why do I need to know about /etc?

In comparison in Windows C:/ has program files, or documents in /user1, which make much more sense (to me at least).
About 10 years ago I threw my back out really hard; for about 24 hours I couldn't sit up. After a day or two I could get up but was walking with a cane for a few days. For the next month I had constant pain. Before I'd thrown out my back I had been running 3-4 times a week; obviously after such an injury I wanted to wait for it to heal before I started up again. After a month, I decided to just do a short easy run and see how it went.

After the run, as I was recovering, I noticed that for the first time in a month I was pain-free. For the next month, every time my back started to hurt a bit, I went for a run and the pain went away.

Obviously everyone's situation is different, and I'm sure there are cases where running would be a terrible idea. But exercise should definitely one of the tools you consider trying out when you have an issue like this.
I did kinda the opposite and instead of making a font out of tetris I made a font play Tetris.

I did it with the Harfbuzz shaper which now have experimental support for embedding WebAssembly programs to shape fonts.

Talk where I show it off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms1Drb9Vw9M

Source code: https://github.com/Erk-/programmable-fonts

You can also see actual uses of this WebAssembly embedding to show that is not just for fun here: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples
I see some asking about capabilities and such - well there's a bunch of (satellite-borne) sensors for detecting ships

- SAR

- Optical

- NRD

- LIDAR

- AIS / VMS / LRIT

etc.

Truth be told, detection tends to be a fusion of sensors. When it comes to non-cooperative objects, sensors like SAR, Optical, NRD, LIDAR are often used. NRD sensors detect ship navigation radar on S- and X-band, while LIDAR detects light from ships. Optical and SAR everyone knows.
Orban would welcome the powers gained through Chat Control, so...
One Giant Leap for Brand Kind (2023)
It's enough to read the context of the discussion, don't you think?

Original complaint: "it's describing a "whole other language" they call Hyperscript"

Response: hyperscript is a completely separate technology. htmx generalizes hypermedia controls, that's pretty much it, and it can be used with any scripting tool you'd like

My response:

In reality [1] htmx defines its own non-optional DSL that you have to use.

---

I will add that as with any organically grown nice-to-have utility DSLs it's quite haphazard (it's hyperscript-like in one place, js-like in another place, both in some other places etc.). But that's the nature of such ad-hoc informally specified DSLs

[1] which can be easily verified by just visiting https://htmx.org
Lens diffraction limits. VR needs lenses that are small and thin enough while still being powerful enough to bend the needed light towards the eyes. Modern lenses need more distance between the screen and the eyes and they’re quite thick.

Theoretically future lenses may make it possible, but the visible light metamaterials needed are still very early research stage.
Really confused to see the conclusion of "It's a good time to start a service business because of AI". AI can't perform, or even semi-perform, a single one of the example services the author used except maybe "design agency".

But otherwise, it does seem that starting a service business is sort of the ultimate "do things that don't scale" strategy.
Could be also just security patching. Atlassian just published their monthly security bulletin with some serve Jira DC vulnerabilities.

ref https://confluence.atlassian.com/security/security-bulletin-...
About Rust's friendly error messages: that's pretty much a self-fulfilled prophecy because compiler errors in Rust are way more prevalent due to stricter constraints imposed by the language. Therefore, Rust must show much better error messages to compensate for its ergonomical disadvantages. So, I don't see that as an absolute win.

All the remaining arguments are about maturity. Nothing prevents Zig from attaining them in the future.

As a final note: I love writing code in Rust and never used Zig, but I can relate to the demand of ergonomics from a programming language and Rust is quite handicapped on that front, IMHO.
$1M/day … Genshin Impact?

Or maybe a handful of the microtransaction/IAP filled games.
My mom could have had a career as a scientist, apparently.
Nobody gets fired for choosing curl.
I really don't understand the repeated drama about drug prices.

IIUC, the dynamics are the same as with most other businesses:

- Seller sets prices to maximize profits. If possible, on a per-market-segment / per-customer basis.

- There are no laws (AFAIK) enforcing price caps, aside from what Medicare will pay.

- Seller has a temporary monopoly on some drugs via the government -controlled patent system.

- Seller is a for-profit corporation.

So what do lawmakers expect???

They made the rules, and are uniquely empowered to change them if they don't like the resulting market dynamics.
Weird Test for Boeing's Starliner Uncovered Likely Cause of Failed Thrusters
Palantir is a classic example of what is a hybrid services => product business. It was a _very_ long road for them to get to a point where their product could actually scale without massive implementation effort, but I think they’re finally getting there (they offer a cheap self service option now AFAIK)
Please explain. I've only ever seen handwaving in pop-sci books like Sean Carrolls suggesting this (something about that the Born-rule was the "only possible equation" which seemed somewhat tautological to me), and IIRC this wasn't very encouraging either because it didn't come with any experiments that could be done to show a difference to the standard methodology and then you tend to pick the simplest method which is the one everybody else uses every day.

Would be cool if there were of course. I'm not saying it isn't interesting, I'm just saying I completely understand why most physicists don't bother as it doesn't bring anything new to their table - there are plenty of other practical quantum effects that require research as well.
> Except that's not how we value the "worth" of something

In that case, are you sure your evaluation is proper? If a masterpiece is there, and it /is/ a masterpiece (beyond appearances), why would its source change its nature and quality?

> Come to think of it, hasn't that process already begun?

Please present relevant examples: I have already observed in the past that simulations of the art made by X cannot just look similar but require the process, the justification, the meanings that had X producing them. The style of X is not just thickness of lines, temperature of colours and flatness of shades: it is in the meanings that X wanted to express and convey.

> WTF is up with the weird capitalisations?

Platonic terms - the Ideas in the Hyperuranium. E.g. "This action is good, but what is Good?".
Its insane how far quality can push things, even with a tiny budget. And yes, Im also making jokes about burning money.. tech is a strange world!
This law is going to pass at some point. They started this crap 4 years ago with Chat Control 1.0 and they won't stop trying.

This is pure madness.

I have decided I am not going to wait around to be spied upon by the EU so I am going set up my own server and move to FOSS IOS/Android clients since these ones are currently exempted from the draft.

The hardest part will be to convince friends and family to move over though.
No - the opposite
Which makes the final remark quite funny:

> Not too shabby for a hobby.
That's only if prohibition works, prohibition of consumption does not have a great track record of actually accomplishing the intended outcome.

If instead you look at why people drink, why they over consume, you can work levers that way. Are people seeking out escapes? Why? What can we do to make it so they don't feel that need?
Last remnants of Apple versus Qualcomm battle resolved, as shareholders get $75M
While I still believe it's mainly about attention seeking and remaining the topic of discussions on the part of the EU, which is not an easy task yet as such mildly effective as we see again, one could get the feeling there's somehow more to it. Like a collusion, however tacit or pragmatic, that would in general work both ways but in this case so as to provide national governments an opportunity to make a few extra points from time to time, (mainly) on domestic ground, and to look prudent or generous, at least to certain groups of voters. In this case a benefaction to the unlikely German "critics" in particular. Its ruling coalition certainly is desperate for it. For anything really. I already had this feeling years ago when we were wearing ourselves out on the darned question of so-called "upload-filters" amid the entire EU copyright law issue. What even became of it? Well, due to ultimately national implementation and copious room for legal interpretation, at least in Germany not much. A kind of nothingburger in fact, certainly relative to to the racket that went before, or shall we say, was supposed to go before. Back at the time it made (then) Merkel's big-coalition government suddenly look a little sunnier. To be blunt, it feels rather artificial to me and I don't expect anything like it being supposed to actually transpire no matter what. That is even without considering how unclear matters of technical realization remain, even if you've seen all the polito-pseudotechnical BS bingo there is to see at the moment. Like, how to even enforce client-side scanning when applications (or OS) are free software? It's just rubbish, and supposedly can be as no one never seriously planned for anything like it. But why not just talk the big talk about it? Maybe it helps. A few very optimistic quarters may even hope for some sort of (shallow) deterrence effect. For a bit of ruffling and scaring up the evil agents. Good luck as for that one.
Is it because in the near future Battery Electric Vehicles are just more expensive than regular cars. Electric cars still seem to need significant government subsidies to make them competitive.

At least Hybrid cars reduce fuel use 20-35% which is good. And reduce C02 emissions by 60%.

I guess it will be a long time before all cars are electric. (but this is where we will end up in the long term future).
sour grapes?
The JS engine is impossible to leave out, as this is a JavaScript API and strings are very engine specific.

We spend many hours reading JavaScriptCore (the engine)’s code and when we wrote the code for Buffer and related APIs we spent a lot of time benchmarking and iterating on different approaches. A lot of performance work looks like this
I’d say pronouns are a pretty different thing than this.

> everybody is expected to do their share in conforming to normality.

This is a regressive approach to the world. There are lots of past normals that are pretty terrible. I’m glad that our history is filled with people who were strong enough to be nonconformists, so that I can thrive in a world relatively free of religious persecution, racial profiling, classism, etc. And I am more than happy to stand up to regressive norms of today on behalf of other marginalized groups.
Ok I’ll bite.

Ozempic cost 3B to bring to market. Let’s 4x that to include the cost of drugs that never go to market. Raising costs to 12B. Let’s say a company can recoup their costs over 6 years, meaning they need to make 2B a year in a drug.

In 2023 [1] Novo made 12B on Ozempic. So they’re doing 6X better than the estimate above.

So they could cut the cost of Ozempic by 6, bringing the monthly price to $125 (which would be material for most people). They would still be raking in the cash.

I get the above model is overly simple but with the amount of money Novo is making they cannot justify these high prices.

[1]https://www.axios.com/2024/01/31/novo-profits-jump-wegovy-oz...
Dark mode/light mode unreadability has bitten me a few times on sites of my own…

And it seems as though it’s happened to the best of us, more or less the entire YouTube iPad app is unreadable in light mode
Show HN: Midday – Run your business smarter (open-source)
My best friend and I are building an open-source platform for micro businesses, freelancers, and contractors to manage their operations more efficiently. Our platform offers tools for financial insights, time tracking, invoicing, and more.

It's fully open-source, and we are adopting an open startup approach with public metrics.

We'd love to hear your thoughts!
The article mentioned they are expected to make 3x the claimed RnD costs already this year, not sure what fraction of that is profits, but probably quite a large chunk.

There's no risk they won't recoup the costs even if prices were reduced 10x in the US.

> There’s so many areas of medicine where we don’t see progress because the ROI just isn’t worth it

.. because it's so much more profitable making medicines in demand in rich countries than medicines that benefit the largest number of people.
> Governance systems have mostly been unchanged at their core for the past 100-200 years

I actually disagree with this notion. We had three big spurts of new-country formation in the last 100 years: after WWI, after WWII/decolonisation and after the collapse of the USSR. I'd argue we've been better each time around at creating a larger fraction of resilient governments.

> easier than having to accept the responsibility of being involved

Correct. Strongmen are convenient.
It takes less than the time to write this comment to check the code and see Bun is not a wrapper over Node
From a counter-intelligence standpoint it does.

I'm not Chinese but even I steer clear of bringing up certain topics in my and my SO's ancestral countries without a throwaway because we have extended family who absolutely can get pressured.

This is why the State Department doesn't post Americans in countries where they are of the same ethnic origin or have familial ties to.

Realistically, software that is sold to the US government has requirements around clearance for SREs and even SWEs (eg. FedRAMP clearances, IC4 clearances, etc).
> I think Ozempic cost somewhere around $3 billion to research and develop

Sure. But how much of that was invested by the company and how much of it came from public research grants?
There will always be a premium on latest node fabs. Nothing to be done about that without billions of dollars to invest, which comes with it's own strings. In time sub-10nm fabs will be older and less expensive as newer nodes come online.

I don't need the fastest or lowest power devices though. I'd happily trade some of each for a more flexible future-proof machine. I just need an FPGA big enough to hold a linux-capable core or two, with graphics and audio and networking at an affordable price. Bonus points if it has some extra space for developing new peripherals.

I think it'd be pretty easy to design something to conform to the raspberry pi compute module interface, for example, which would make it a drop-in replacement for lots of useful systems like laptops, NUCs, and other such stuff. Gotta love defacto standard interfaces.
The cost to research and produce the diabetes and weight-loss drug Ozempic is significantly lower than the price charged to consumers:

A new study found that Ozempic costs between $0.95 and $5.50 to produce per unit, or no more than $22 per month at the highest dose. [1]

Another study estimated that Ozempic could be sold for as little as $5 per pen and still be profitable for the manufacturer, Novo Nordisk. [2]

Senator Bernie Sanders stated that a Yale study found Ozempic costs less than $5 per month to manufacture, yet Novo Nordisk charges Americans nearly $1,000 per month for the drug. [3]

The available evidence indicates that the research and production costs for Ozempic are a small fraction of the final retail price charged to patients. The significant markup between manufacturing costs and consumer prices has led to calls for the drug manufacturer to lower prices.[4]

[1]: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/03/29/ozempic...
[2]: https://www.fastcompany.com/91071415/your-1000-per-month-oze...
[3]: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-s...
[4]: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/glp-1s/5-ozempic-new-s...
Enjoy! No spoilers from me :)

I agree it's a big "if". For me, simply reducing the risk to less than the risk of the status quo is sufficient to count as a win.

I don't know the current chance of us wiping ourselves out in any given year, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's 1% with current technology; on the basis of that entirely arbitrary round number, an AI taking over that's got a 63% chance of killing us all in any given century is no worse than the status quo.
Neat. Here's a feature idea you may not have encountered before: the host sees an estimate on how many by people will show up. Initially this can just be a super trivial to implement 50% for free events and a label just above attendee count. Later it can be fancier with ML predictions based on event info and users. That ML could actually be very simple and still effective.

Even just the simple 50% notice could be really helpful to people hosting their first event for the first time. Or "7 sign ups, you can expect 0-3 attendees".
I mean almost half of them want to change the rules, any kind of universal healthcare would massively change how drug prices are negotiated. You'll have to blame the other politicians here that do not want to change the system here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33R6eoPoczs
Quiz: Algorithm Complexity
It reads a bit like someone at the turn of the 20th century describing the shortcomings of newfangled automobiles.
IIRC it was found that the anti-inflammatory effects of SSRIs are partially responsible for their benefits
Well the research and development was originally for a diabetes. It actually worked quite well. The appetite suppression was a bonus (an extremely lucrative) side effect.
Technically, C++ string literals are not pointers but arrays. Arrays can decay to pointers though.
"Turned" may be the wrong word. "Cozened" might be more correct. There may be no good way for an individual to identify someone who is being paid to take over their project from someone with a genuine interest.
What about all the $3B shots on goal that don’t yield anything?
And how many of them are donating to or sponsoring the cURL project?
libcurl is very capable and easy to use. Pretty much go-to library if you need connectivity through any of the common protocols.
Killing other people is significantly different from killing oneself.
Show HN: I made native JavaScript regexes competitive with the best re flavors
I'm a longtime regex superfan, having coauthored O'Reilly Media's Regular Expressions Cookbook and creating/contributing to a variety of open source regex tools. I also love JavaScript, but historically its regexes have been underpowered compared to other modern regex flavors. So I recently created a lightweight library that upgrades native JS regexes with key features that, when combined with all the latest improvements in ES2024, IMO makes JS regexes step up to being among the very best to use (competitive with PCRE and Perl and maybe surpassing Python, Ruby, Java, and .NET). It allows even long and complex regexes to be beautiful, grammatical, and easy to understand.

Ideas/feedback about features you find especially useful from other programming languages and regex flavors is very welcome.
True, but I suppose this is at least partially compensated by the cost of such a 0-day. For sure, a 0-day on Chrome is a lot more expensive than one on Firefox
How do you estimate that that turns into a monopoly for China?
I don't drive and don't have back pain, I could swear all the people on the net complaining about back pain in their 30s and 40s spend a lot of their time sitting in cars.
Exploring EURO 2024: interactive dashboard with real-time analytics
Not a native English speaker.
Is it correct "an walking intervention"? Should it be "a walking..."?
>I had bad sciatic nerve pain for a couple of years, finally fixed it with regular 5km walks.

Out of curiosity, have you sought any physiotherapy for it beforehand? For me, walking is really good for unwinding mentally and burning calories, but fixing posture and back pain requires to train those specific body parts that are too weak to support the spine correctly, or too tight pulling the spine in the wrong position, and that usually requires a specialist to monitor your posture and tightness and prescribe certain exercises tailored to your deficiencies.