skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discussions I have with doctors and pharmacists about this situation are generally unproductive. There is this pervasive resistance to change and deep ties to traditional approaches.

A large chunk of the problem is that many common self-selection and over-the-counter medications are only by a doctor's prescription in German speaking countries.

Low risk medications, which in other countries a consumer can safely select and administer, are only available over-the-counter at pharmacies, other low risk medications require a script - examples of these include basic pain medication(OTC), NSAIDs(RX), PPIs(RX), skin treatments(OTC), anti-fungals(RX), anti-biotic drops(RX). Pharmacies also generally have short hours on Saturday, and are not open on Sundays.

Combining these factors leads to people seeking out a "solution", and those "solutions" are either homeopathic or merely just alcohol, since neither require a health care professional's assistance. There is also no shortage of homeopathic stores that promise therapeutic benefits, such as addressing fertility issues and chronic pain. Regulators regulate medicine, so non-medicines often fly under the radar, even when they're promoting medical therapies.

There's so many ways that this system fails in comparison to modern approaches:

Should a woman not have a sufficient stock of pain killers on a sunday during period cramps, her options would be to either beg a neighbour, or got to the emergency department of a hospital. In other countries, she could simply visit a supermarket or convenience store.

Children with head lice can't receive a treatment without a doctor's prescription, but there's no shortage of proven ineffective products stocking pharmacy shelves, hoping that some desperate parent will buy it just to see if it works.

A person with conjunctivitis needs to first visit a doctor, potentially waiting hours just to get the script, then hope that the pharmacy is still open. (Doctor's offices are frequently bogged down with people visiting for minor ailments because they can't get basic medications without it.)

In the realm of sexual health: While other countries have dispensing sexual health clinics with easy access to treatments and prophylactic medications, those afflicted in Germany and similar are often needlessly waiting, or worse simply spreading disease. With some medications and inoculations only available via a hospital appointment.

Overall it breeds distrust in the medical system and promotes unhealthy, worthless, scammy "alternatives".
I mean, sure. I don't even think 7-11 is the top in Japan, but this is all opinion (ish).

My only real point was that they are categorically above their US counterparts, and that it's not just a Japan-specific thing.
The failures are different from my experience in this.

Human lawyers fail by not being very zealous and most of them being very average, not having enough time to spend on any filings, and not having sufficient research skills. So really, depth-of-knowledge and talent. They generally won't get things wrong per se, but just won't find a good answer.

AI gets it wrong by just making up whole cases that it wishes existed to match the arguments it came up with, or that you are hinting that you want, perhaps subconsciously. AI just wants to "please you" and creates something to fit. Its depth-of-knowledge is unreal, its "talent" is unreal, but it has to be checked over.

It's the same arguments with AI computer code. I had AI create some amazing functions last night but it kept hallucinating the name of a method call that didn't exist. Luckily with code it's more obvious to spot an error like that because it simply won't compile, and in this case I got luckier than usual, in that the correct function did exist under another name.
Ah, so _that’s_ why the ente photos app feels so “off” - it’s using flutter.

I’ve tried the app a few times over the last couple of years and had a dislike of the UI because it did not _feel_ right, like it was slow or something. I can’t say exactly what.

It is almost certainly because it is using flutter rather than native DOM elements.

(I’ve been keeping track of ente but never quite made the jump - not solely due to the UI though!)
I'm not aware of any research along these lines, but I suspect that all placebos are not equally effective.

It's a psychological effect, so things like price or flavor or packaging likely affect its strength.
The problem with Dubai is that it won’t have the staying power that Egypt or even Rome boasts.

It’s definitely tied to economics. I think the big difference is that today our values are different and are monuments refl ct the difference.
VPN ban is strangling communication in Myanmar
711 food in the US is sugar saturated to a comical degree. This store will hurt you. I think there are grounds for class action. That's what happens when you track and then promote the most addictive products of the company inventory
> This is obviously subjective, but most people wouldn't look at any practical software and call it great.

This what I think is insane. We interact with probably thousands of pieces of software every day (and I'm probably off by an order of magnitude) and none of it is great? What is the bar here?

It's funny that something that was absolutely amazing yesterday is no longer even so much as great today. I can instantly connect to a remote server from my phone, type some text, and generate a pretty good poem about my cat and all of that is already "meh".
What? No. When you are 0, it is your first year. When you are 21, you have begun your 22nd year. In the US you are legal to drink in your 22nd year of life.

You are correct that nobody says "22nd year" in this context, but nobody says "21st year" either. The former is awkward but the latter is just incorrect.
I mean, others can use it too if they want, obvs, ... but, yes.

e.g. my misc-updater, I use daily, to check Manually-Installed / Source-Compiled (MISC) packages for updates! [0]. Works like a charm.

I also do all my bugtracking / milestone planning via my bashtickets program too (Ticketing for the terminal using structured textfiles. Implemented in bash. [1]) though technically this is still under development as it still lacks a couple of features "others" might reasonably need. But for me, it's already perfect at doing what I need it to; I've already worked with colleagues on some pretty large academic projects with this, where all we had was access to an ssh server with no gui and no root access! Works great, and is git friendly!

[0] https://git.sr.ht/~tpapastylianou/misc-updater

[1]
https://git.sr.ht/~tpapastylianou/bashtickets
I used a later derivative of this concept to produce a book while at university. It consisted of a Selectric typewriter with a solenoid-driven interface which connected to a metal box containing a compact cassette mechanism and a few buttons. Type a line, make corrections and hit the carriage return key upon which the result is stored on cassette tape. Recorded lines could be edited, ed-style by replacing sections (characters or words) with new content. Once stored the thing could be used to produce many copies of the same content with pauses for manually typing in addresses etc.

I used it to produce a whole book during which the typewriter motor died just after having typed in the whole thing and just before I was going to have it 'print' the text so we could cut and paste it on stand sheets for offset reproduction. I managed to find a working motor which I installed in the machine upon which I had to re-adjust the whippletree mechanism which aims the ball since the characters ended up everywhere except for where they needed to be. Those were a few intense hours since I had to go by intuition on how this all worked, not having access to a service manual and this being long before the time when you'd just go on the 'net to find one. I got it adjusted and got the book printed by feeding the typewriter with paper and the device with cassette tapes, telling it to print a page, feeding in a new sheet, next page, next cassette tape, etc.
Tired of making perennially wrong predictions, Lunduke pivots to "hatemongering" as a source of traffic and advertising income for his brand.

These flamebait posts are not fit for HN discussion, and if Lunduke continues down the path of sensationalizing popular software I suspect his tabloid/blog won't be either.
If you didn't want to shell out for actual typesetting, there might have been a market for smaller organizations that wanted to produce camera-ready copy in-house for printing elsewhere.
The Asian equivalent of a trashy and cheap American 7/11 or Circle-K would be street vendors or a hyper-local general store/bodega with a bare minimum amount of goods.

In much of Asia (JP, SK, and TW excluded), convenience stores like 7-11 are similar luxury wise to what Target is in the US.
Ah, I understand your confusion, now. I didn't link to the actual project because it's not active, anymore. I guess I could link to the repo: https://github.com/Leftium/PhotoDrop

Finding a service that integrated with Dropbox the way I wanted probably took more time than the actual development.
The product page has a lot more info and photos: https://www.dji.com/global/avinox

The screen/computer part seems to be significantly nicer than competition.
> The video mentions at least twice that gas is one of the two main revenue sources of 7-11 in USA.

Definitely. 7-11 is nationwide with thousands of locations and the majority of those found outside huge, built-up metros sell gas.

> Unrelated: Is it normal in marketing to refer to customers as "targets"? (See around 75% through the video for one example)

Yes. I worked at a place where we called them "military aged males." /s
Why string encoded column? Is it just to make the table bigger?

Why not just use the UUID type??
1. UUIDv7 allows to extract timestamp

2. UUIDv7 allows to predict first half, if you know the timestamp.

3. UUIDv7 provides 62 bits of randomness compared to 122 bits for UUIDv4.

Whether that's a problem for your particular use-case or not, it's up for you to decide. I don't think that UUIDv7 is "insecure", it just provides different trade-offs and in some situations it might be less secure compared to UUIDv4, but I hardly see any attack vector where you could issue 2^62 requests to brute-force the ID.
I think Sutskever is a charlatan outside of his area of expertise, Hinton (with whom I worked loosely at Google) is a bit of a charlatan (again, outside his area of expertise; clearly he and LeCun both did absolutely phenomenal work) and I don't know who Sutter is.

What do you think of Vizzini?
Yeah, I see what you mean. I have to think about how to prevent it.

It’s late here, and I have no quick, good ideas.
Approximately no one is paying thousands of dollars to shave grams off an eMTB. There is a small but visible group of people doing that for road bikes and a much smaller group of people doing that for non-electric mountain bikes. There's probably some weirdo out there doing it for an electric mountain bike but they're probably more of a "decorative expensive bike purchaser" than an "actual trail rider".
One thing that is missing is that we have massively improved the performance of the algorithms lately to require less compute power, so a H100 will still be performant several years from now. The problem will be that it's going to be using up more power and physical space than an out-performing future version and so will need to be scrapped.
I’ve been looking at it in the same sense as something like Docker. When containers first became a big hype, everyone everywhere was using them for everything, including things like trying to containerize full desktop environments, which outside of a couple niche businesses makes almost no sense.

Similar to containers, my feeling is that the truth is LLMs are wildly overkill for almost everything going on today. You don’t need an LLM to sort some already structured data when a basic python library or something will work equally fast, predictably, and with less black box magic. There’s probably a small number of use cases that it makes sense for but for everyone else it’s just silly to try and force the technology. It doesn’t help that the people who are selling the shovels in this gold rush are extremely good at extending the hype train every few months, but eventually when these models stop being sold at a loss and businesses have to start facing down with the bill to run them and/or make these API calls, it will correct itself real fast.
I very much agree with this. It seems to me panpsychists make a redefinition of consciousness as some entirely alien, unrecognizable thing. So, if an atom is conscious, but has no sensory systems, no possibly way to store memory etc. Well the atoms are still "experiencing" something, it's just instantaneously vanishing and there's no continuity and you can't even fathom what the experience of an atom is like per epoch because it's so different from our consciousness.

I think this is a redefinition of consciousness and shifts the problem of explaining when an entity has an experience like we all think about experiences, which was the interesting part in the first place.
Honest question from someone who isn't an expert: why would they need to encrypt that data on my machine?

If the concern is that someone might gain access to my computer and see unencrypted things, what about all of the other things on my machine that aren't encrypted?
Here's the math: http://lostmathlessons.blogspot.com/2016/03/bouncing-dvd-log...
7-11, Family Mart, and Lawson are the holy trinity of konbini (convenience stores)
Yeah, the “off-by-one” rule is there so that you cannot match the same slot over and over.
Unless you have found a way to spend a few thousand dollars to make 3-4 kg of body fat magically disappear with no complications or effort, losing weight and spending more on a bike are not things you're choosing between.
Here we have an article that claims that even when people are told they are getting a placebo, they still felt better after taking it.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...
Using 2 digits for year is as wrong as using 8 bytes for year.
Thankfully, most of us quit writing centuries in Roman numerals, it's about time we quit centuries as well :) Sadly, however, the regnal numbers continue to persist
> The integrated DJI Avinox electric power assist system leverages DJI's cutting-edge technologies in both software and hardware design, offering 850 W of peak power (250 W nominal power) in an ultra-light body of 19.2kg

This is most unimpressive. I have an 2019 3000w LunaCycle e-mountain bike (based on the Giant Anthem) with similar drive system weight specs, which includes the ginormous 40ah battery.

Why can't DJI compete with something nice from 5 years ago?
I love how after Jane has her copy digitally recorded on the mag card — she then manually writes metadata on its folder, and files it away...

The future was then, it just wasn't very evenly distributed.
This made me curious how much smokeless tobacco products like vapes and Zyn offset the losses they talked about in combustible tobacco products.
My father, an attorney, made extensive use of the magcard selectric. He did wills and trusts which required revision based on client feedback or life changes. The ability to edit the document from a saved copy was revolutionary in the early 70's. It also supported stop codes so that the system would print, stop, allow for manual entry of a name or other text, and continue. The client would receive a correction free typed document (no whiteout). All these capabilities are normal after the advent of Wordstar, WordPerfect, Word and others. Having typed school papers on this system helped me understand computers early on.
What architecture? Both amd64 and ARM64 can work with 32-bit integers just fine.
It's using RoR with Lively framework (https://github.com/socketry/live?tab=readme-ov-file#live) also made by the same Team (Socketry).
Aww, that’s really sweet

My daughter is 2 years old, and she can’t enjoy it yet.

And wow, good job!
I coded a simple, attractive Calorie Tracker that works across desktop, tablet, and mobile:

https://www.calories.claystuart.com/
I wonder why this post blew up so much
More than 250W continuous is pointless in many countries because that's the limit for the most common e-bike class (i.e. even if the system can do more, you'd want to de-rate it to 250W).

Bosch makes excellent motors, but they're ripping people off on accessories (a dumb charger costs 89 EUR in the "compact" variant that can do 2A or around 80W and weighs 600g, needing over 10 hours to charge a large battery), and enabling this with aggressive DRM (which also means updates can only be done by a repair shop). They're also trying to make your bike a subscription, of course.

So even if all DJI does is become competitive, that's already a win. Bonus points if they actually let you tune (some) motor parameters yourself. The hard part seems to be reliability (a bike that gets mud, water and washing together with constant vibration is a pretty harsh environment) and many Chinese motor brands have a less than stellar reputation there, and because this is not something easily testable, building a reputation (and gathering the experience needed to actually build good products) takes time.
Don't rely on apps to enforce encrypted data at rest if you're dealing with local data that would lead into problems if e.g. your laptop is stolen.

This is already a solved problem with FileWarden, BitLocker, LUKS etc. and commonly enforced in corporate environments through group policies too...
> I basically don’t agree that anybody could depend on this holstering-causes-it-to-fire behavior.

It's an idiom. It's not supposed to be entirely logically consistent. It means what it means because people have decided that it means what it means. Your objections aren't really relevant.

"Footgun" is I think a fairly recent addition to the English lexicon, but it's based on the centuries-old "to shoot yourself in the foot". It seems silly to argue with centuries of English idiomatic usage; no one, by definition, is going to win an argument against that.
> it is an industry that preys on the vulnerable

It is. It’s like working for organised drug dealers. Or for a cryptocurrency. Hoping dumb suckers will waste their money by making poor choices.
It's not really true that we have "no" predictive power. Everywhere we've ever looked in any system anywhere in the universe, we've found nothing except the reactions that I've described. Even in biological systems.

We use this knowledge every day to predict and produce new drugs (though again, we are not very good at it).
semaglutide comes pretty close to "a few thousand dollars to make 3-4 kg of body fat magically disappear with no complications or effort"
The placebo effect and the biological basis for it is absolutely being seriously studied.

You might be interested in the work of Ted Kaptchuk and Kathryn Hall [1], for example. (Kaptchuk is a trained acupuncturist with a degree in Chinese medicine, but basically re-educated himself in western medicine, and is a highly regarded scientist.)

One of their insights is that placebo effect comes from neural modulation of pain receptors, and that the placebo effect has specific limitations. For example, the placebo effect cannot cure cancer or make a cold go away, but it can lessen pain and reduce inflammation through hormone signaling.

[1] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/node/39354
Elegant Full Text Search [video]
The Journal of Scientific Integrity
Canadian here. I think UK office because my family has lots of UK ties and grew up with that humour.

Eventually saw the US office and hated it.

Canadians are culturally stuck between US and Europe, so it can go either way
Scalable Analysis on Dynamic Semi-Structured Data [video]
Just relabel some cheap white-label distillation units by putting them in a pretty metal housing, with "100% natural rubber" hoses (sell a subscription to hose replacements too!) then mark up 600%.

My problem is I am uncomfortable bilking the uneducated. There's enough of that going on already.
My country's finally banning smoking inside restaurants and bars, and wouldn't you know it, it appears "heated tobacco products" are immune to the ban because it's somehow a smokeless product, despite definitely emitting smoke. And while the ban will only come into effect mid-December, there's already a concerning amount of "IQOS-only" places, and there's still ashtrays in such places, they're just slightly more discreet in their design.

And to top it all off the public consensus is that it stinks worse than a cigarette. So if nothing changes by then, we're gonna be in this paradoxical situation in which you can't smoke a strawberry-flavoured vape containing no tobacco, but you can smoke "smokeless" "tobacco product", which is totally not a cigarette 2.0 with no proven health benefits in comparison to cigarettes.
Is there a list of services that have a specific 2FA provider requirement? In my experience, my when my service ask for 2FA it usually says Google Authenticator and use Authy. I'm looking to migrate out of Authy in the near future.
At least in the pacific northwest, mounting biking isn't just about riding the bike any more than owning a motorcycle is just about riding a motorcycle. It's a culture or talking about and bragging about bike tech. Weight is bragging rights for mountain bikes as "aero" is for road bikes. Lots of people will pay to have the better toy. The running joke is that many bikes are worth more than the cars that bring them to the trailheads.
Only if the tv is a square, which most tvs are not.
The weird ones are in the lower density American suburb/urban transition area where many of the 7-11s are setup as if they could have gas pumps but don't and act as drive-up convenience stores/small groceries.
Exactly. Even if PMI wants to truly support real research, and is willing to accept the findings - their name attached alone casts doubt on any of those findings.
Isn’t “half one” used as a short form of “half past one” these days, I.e. 01:30? That has been a source of confusion for someone used to the Germanic way.
I've heard of a strategy that can help some people challenge their belief for issues like homeopathy or flat earth. The idea is to ask them to rate on a scale of 1-10 the strength of their belief. As in, "how convinced are you on a scale of 1-10 that the earth is flat?". If they give anything less than 10, you then follow up by asking them why that score and why not a higher or lower score as in (if they said e.g., 8/10): "What would make it a 9/10 or a 10/10?".

Basically having them "ironman" the opposite side of the argument can cause people to start to think more objectively about the issue. However, if the person says 10/10 there apparently isn't much that can be done.

I've never tried this myself as I don't have any flat earther or homeopathy believers in my entourage, but it does seem to make sense and I've used this to question some of my beliefs myself. Not saying it would work with your family members either though.
How is that terrible software? PHP isn't the new hotness, but it's everywhere, fairly easy to pick up, and reasonably fast.
I pay $99/year. With the amount of money I make, it’s a really trivial sum for the convenience. Plus I could use it to add Apple OAuth to my web apps if I wanted to.
Sure delays are expected but "But the reactor itself won't fire up fully until 2039 at the earliest." That is 19 years delayed and big cost overruns as well. I Hope it goes well. I would like to see fusion power. But it is a lot of money, time, and effort but is it going to work or teach us what we want to know. The up an running in 2020 was maybe a little optimistic.

[1] : Hackernews earlier today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40884055

https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/worlds-large...
That's beside the point of the comment I replied to, which falsely said homeopathic products were classified as dietary supplements.