skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insulin is a bad example and a good one. A bad one because what happens in the USA is some super weird shit (and it only happened in the USA, thats why USA people drive to canada or mexico). Without insulin though, they wouldn't be alive.

ML on x-ray pictures is super easy technology which partially already is better than x-ray experts. Its not far away to have build in diagonstics or cheap online services. And yes they will reach poorer people than before. It will also allow a lot more people to get better diagnosis.

My sister has a type of blood cancer, she would have been dead by now if research wouldn't have found a solution 13 years ago.

And no MS and OpenAI and google are not just using their DCs to write summeries. They use it to do research. A LOT actually.

And take a look at google ios and the research papers, plenty of medical papers coming from those big companies.

Alpha Folde 2? Changed a lot too
Axe Body spray:

Alcohol Denat, Butane, Isobutane, Propane, Perfume, Ethylhexylglycerin, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Citral, Citronellol, Coumarin, Geraniol, Hydroxycitronellal, Limonene, Linalool.

The perfume likely contains exotics, but the rest of the ingredients are mainly sourced from fermentation products, hydrocarbons (petroleum), or synthetic versions of plant oils/terpenes.

Coumarin came up on Hacker News recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40758767

The entire history of perfumes is fascinating, and like pigments/dyes, was completely transformed by modern organic synthesis, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume#History and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume#Synthetic_sources
Also, of an input method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Common_Input_Method
This appeals to us hackers, but it doesn’t really make that much practical sense, I think.

The SOC and storage you’re saving by using your phone aren’t the most expensive items. A good 14” screen, keyboard, trackpad and battery aren’t cheap. And if you’re paying $300 for them, you might as well throw in a few hundred dollars more and get a full laptop.
I have 4 x 230Ah LiFePo4 cells in a 12 volt setup to power my solar powered blog during the night. It also runs my computer setup at 90W for many hours using an inverter.

People should really understand how cheap these cells have become and how feasible it is to setup your own battery storage system.

I’m now on a variable (next-day / day-ahead) dynamic electricity tariff that changes by the hour. On some days there are multiple hours where I get Paid to use electricity, it’s crazy that we have such an abundance of wind and solar.

It’s such fun to play with the Tiber API + Python and using those cheap hours to charge my battery a bit, while leaving room for solar.
What does AI, or even post-singularity robots do for the 50 richest people? They already live like it's post-singularity. They have the resources to pay people to do everything for them, and not just cooking and cleaning, but driving and organizing and managing pet projects while they pursue art careers.
A drill press is more dangerous (rotating tools can get clothes/gloves/hair caught in them), and less effective.

Bending the platters is, in practice, irrecoverable due to the sheer amount of data that's impossible to read in any reasonable amount of time unless the platter can be rotated while keeping the reading tool aligned.

With a cleanly drilled hole, and some preparation (carefully machining out the area around the hole with precision tools), the platters would be a lot more suitable for partial data recovery.
AOL Keyword HyperCard stack (1997)
for one i work with GB large files and vd instantly opens them. SCIM it took a lot of painful seconds to open 14mb file
Your bank building has to be maintained and heated. Heating which is added to your use of the local bank.

My perspective is not limited. Just because people live in a city center, doesn't mean that most people do. Open Google Maps and take a look.
Why not?
There's no need for the neck to have more than 1~5 ms of lag, and about 5~10 ms photon lag even with a framebuffer involved (if you align the rolling shutter of the camera to the row-by-row multiplexed display, say OLED @ 240Hz, you should manage 4~5 ms).
Fixed it... No clue how that slipped through, thanks for noticing :)
I bet those cost more than today’s cellphones…
Avoid alcohol culture, but also avoid the worst parts of Internet culture and don't be un-social. Think about getting a Masters degree; undergrad degrees aren't really very special.
It’s a shared to-do list with a biweekly meeting to review and cleanup the to-do list, a biweekly meeting to select items to be worked on in the next biweekly period, and a biweekly meeting to discuss how the last biweekly period went. And a daily update meeting.
You shouldn’t be so surprised, university PR depts are notorious for clickbait like this. These types of articles are all over HN. They are just incentivized to get their name in the press by whatever means necessary.
Looks like they pissed off a lot of ppl when they couldnt deliver on 120hz
Oud is exceptional. I highly recommend anyone wanting to explore beyond western perfumes to check out www.ensaroud.com - there's some really fantastic descriptions of olfactory notes too.
I did made the point that AI/ml is helping us and the type of energy location and load is much easier to get green than lets say concrete.

We need AI/ML for getting there faster and helping more people around us. Alone for weather simulations but also for medicine, material research for batteries etc.
Like a breath-first search instead of depth-first so you hit the shorter path first?
For that low a power need Anker and some others make ready to go units you can buy off of amazon that are pretty reasonable.
Just learn next.js. Ignore all the other advice here, go straight for the most popular framework. There are a million courses and pieces of content online to learn
I don't see why it's impractical. Just have a soft spring loaded clamp, like universal car phone mounts. Maybe it would be hard to line up the USBC port?
I am genuinely surprised none of the attempts at this sort of things over the last 10+ years have gained much traction.

On it's face, merging the device we have in our pocket and on our desk makes so much sense. The biggest difference being screen size.
I've had something similar- when I was deciding what grad school to go to, I was explaining how RNA enzymes work to some professor at UC Boulder, who ended up being Tom Cech (who won the Nobel for discovering RNA enzymes); he had to correct a lot of the details I messed up. I ended up going to UCSF and fortunately didn't try to explain prions to Stanley Prusiner.

In short, nearly everything I have learned is from saying dumb things in front of very smart people who instantly understood my misunderstanding and knew exactly how to explain it so I understood. That includes Sanjay Ghemawat and Jeff Dean telling me "your idea isn't so good, it's n-squared, here's a linear solution"
FPV headsets can have head tracking. I don’t know cost now, but it was possible even in 2012/2013/2014 when I worked in that industry.
Chart.js is mentioned 1000 words into the article, and three.js is mentioned 1100 words into the article.
Don't forget the impact of network. I managed to get a several hundred times performance improvement on one occasion because I found a distributed query that was pulling back roughly 1M rows over the network and then doing a join that dropped all but 5 - 10 of them. I restructured the query so the join occurred on the remote server and only 5 - 10 rows were sent over the network and, boom, suddenly it's fast.

There's always going to be some fixed overhead and latency (and there's a great article about the impact of latency on performance called "It's the latency, stupid" that's worth a read: http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/latency.html) but sending far more data than is needed over a network connection will sooner or later kill performance.

Overall though, I agree with your considerations, and in roughish terms the order of them.
"Everything Flows ' by Vasily Grossman, about Ukrainian Holodomor and people they brought to live in these empty villages.
Google only recently enabled USB-C display mode recently. It is only the Pixel 8 and later. Don't know if earlier phones will get it, it depends on having the hardware and getting the OS update.
23000 TWh, or 23 PWh according to your link
Yes, I'm surprised why an advertising article for a random disk crusher (with nothing special about it as far as I can tell) is on HN.

I expected this to be an hobbyist implementation, not an ad.
The solution to phone spam is voicemail transcription. Every call goes to voicemail, I get the transcription in a minute or two, and can call back if I want to.
I think there is a decrease in intelligence after reading this article.
the first two minutes are hilarious; a brass band in front of a helicopter, then two funny singers, and then steven's speech - and he apparently has no idea what to talk about ;-)
I think it's bad to stack bars in a graph, because it means you can't properly gauge the second layer (for example, the remote jobs quantity, at the beginning of the results section). Better to have two bars side by side (for each timestamp), one for remote, and another for not remote.
384k sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chinese firm
For low-income users who don't already own a desktop, I think it can make quite good sense. A "good" keyboard/mouse/monitor/etc. are not strictly necessary, and if you can't afford new ones, used ones can be had for extremely cheap or even free often times, like from garage sales, thrift shops, friends etc. And most of those people have a phone already, so adding the peripherals is not a big cost for them, but a full size desktop likely would be.

I can get a working LCD screen, keyboard and mouse from my local thrift shop for $20, whereas the cheapest new laptop is at least $200.
Perhaps this can serve as just a single leg of a larger combination though
I thought a few years back already that owning a bigger house will be cheaper than ever due to the progress of cheap renewable energy, cheaper and cheaper heat pump technology and batteries.

Nice to see blog
Exactly. The AI shows an abstraction of an abstraction (to the AI its all just bits and patterns) but the thing that's immediately fascinating about the painting is that it is echoing someones experience in the flesh of a wild pig so long ago. The stuff about "humans ability to express abstraction" is very much in second place for me.
Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
Just wondering if any of you has created any software that is meant for your use only and will never see the light of the day for anyone else.

What does it do? How did you make it? How much time you spent making it? How often do you use it?
The telephone companies make money based on minutes of usage. There is a very large financial incentive for the really big telcos to allow spam calls.

Spam callers are likely the most lucrative customer of the telephone network for the telephone companies.
To beat OpenBLAS is neither suprising nor it's not unheard of, for example D language library Mir for linear algebra did just that many years ago [1]. For C++ and C implementation please check these metaprogramming approaches [2], [3].

What's really surprising is that many modern languages are still depending on OpenBLAS for examples Matlab, Julia, Mojo, etc. But to be fair they probably have their own reasons, right?

[1] Numeric age for D: Mir GLAS is faster than OpenBLAS and Eigen (2016):

http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...

[2] Vastly outperforming LAPACK with C++ metaprogramming (2018):

https://wordsandbuttons.online/vastly_outperforming_lapack_w...

[3] Outperforming LAPACK with C metaprogramming (2018):

https://wordsandbuttons.online/outperforming_lapack_with_c_m...
Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts
Hahaha this is my first direct brush with Godwin's law. Thanks, rexpop!
Funny all the people complaining about “this makes Mac ugly compared to Linux” meanwhile every Linux tool I install craps dotfiles not only in ~/ but in working folders as well. It’s a fact of life that tens of thousands of smart programmers realized is necessary.
Yes, I have bought many RISC-V dev boards even though you get more bang for buck using ARM ones. Similarly for AMD GPUs.
Agree on the crypto stuff, it's easy to get things wrong or share wrong information. Perhaps you can peer review in the future to avoid.

Nonetheless, please keep writing! It was an entertaining read for me.

Salutations du Luxembourg :-)
> Each one of them made room for the generation that came after.

Ten of Bach's children died before him, and the quadrupling of the world population over the last century suggests that there was plenty of room left without JFK or Einstein dying.
It's not me deciding to mix bat and powershell, and it's not niche:

https://github.com/search?q=powershell+language%3ABatchfile&...

There's a need for a fast, nimble glue that powershell can't deliver on its own.
> It would be interesting to see a [not gratuitously inefficient] uniquely decodable code that is neither a prefix code nor one in reverse.

This can be done by composing a prefix code with a suffix code:

A 0
B 01
C 11
a A 0
b BA 010
c BB 0101
d BC 0111
e C 11
{a=0,b=010,c=0101,d=0111,e=11}

This is trivially uniquely decodable by uniquely decoding 0->A/etc backward, then uniquely decoding A->a/etc foreward. It's equivalent in lengths to the optimal prefix code {a=0,b=110,c=1110,d=1111,e=10} so it's a (one of several) optimal code for the same probability distributions.

And it's neither prefix nor suffix itself, since a=0 and b=010. In fact, it can't in general be decoded incrementally at all, in either direction, since "cee...ee?" vs "bee...ee?" and "?cc...cca" vs "?cc...ccb" both depend on unbounded lookahead to distinguish a single symbol.

I'm not sure the optimality holds for any composition of a in-isolation-optimal prefix code with a in-isolation-optimal suffix code, but it did work for the most trivial cases (other than the degenerate 1-to-1 code) I could come up with.
Note: S.M.A.R.T. status info can't be read from USB attached drives. You have no idea if they're throwing errors indicating imminent doom.
People would start believing the west cares about humans if the west was actually consistent about what humans matter to them.
It is getting more and more apparent that BLS has been cooking jobs numbers.
I expect the service to tell me upfront if my request is not serviceable, and not push it on to drivers. Don’t advertise if you can’t deliver. And be fucking consistent.
Thank you very much! Salut d'Autriche :)
Physical dual-SIM support is very market based (Popular in Asia).

I believe most reasonably modern phones should support at least one active eSIM in addition to the physical SIM now.
That's funny: I use them because they're genuinely better-aligned with my priorities. Linux is far better for programming and not being spied on (important to me); it's just worse at AAA games with anticheat and Photoshop (not important to me). Firefox's pros are similar, swapping programming with customization. It has no cons I notice.
Convergence happened already, I'm logged into the same apps from any device and have access to mostly the same files and functionality through the cloud.
Farseer trilogy, by Robin Hobb.

I often read fantasy fiction and someone recommended Hobb for having a joker/fool character along the lines of Wit in Sanderson's Cosmere universe.

Well, it turns out Hobb is brutal when it comes to writing stories that destroy people. I finished the trilogy, but I was more impacted by it than any other work of fiction I've read in years.
lan storage at 10mbs? T1 is only 1.544 Mbps. Those are incredibly slow by today's standards
Thread and a far larger circle.
I was writing that yeah, I definitely meant that to be subjective to each own, but I can't lie to myself, I mean yeah, people surely prefer Vim to whatever alternative there's available out there that makes your life less miserable, but I'm 100% sure I take my mom or your mom or some person that doesn't have the bare minimum computer knowledge and put them in front of Vim and Nano and tell them "hey here's two text editors, write something, here's a keyboard" and they won't be able to do it in Vim because you some-fucking-how need to enter insert mode to be able to write in a fucking text editor, in nano (or [inset non vim-like text editor]) you at least press a key and something happens in the screen. Software needs to be intuitive and not against the user, just imagine Notepad being like Vim, the absolute madness no? There's a thin barrier that separates subjetivity from objectivity.

Just my 2 cents.
A few years back I had a Sense power meter installed and its been great. It took some time to configure and get used to, and for it to detect various devices, but now I can reliably predict my upcoming power bill. And make adjustments as needed.

Whats helpful is it shows the top power consumers. And by paying close attention to that I've cut my bill by at least 1/3.
SvelteKit: https://kit.svelte.dev

- The starter template is like a collection of web dev best practices.

- The community is great. Beginners should ask a lot of questions, and the Svelte community is pretty good at trying to help them.

- The DX is wonderful.

I'm building this with Kit: https://weather-sense.leftium.com

The only caveat: if your goal involves finding employment choose React (Next.js) because there are way more openings.
>Economies of scale baby.

That's what they said about regular electric grid power too - that it "soon" would be so cheap as to be unmetered. That was half a century ago and it didn't pan out...
Forget the cave art, that place is just gorgeous!

Sulawesi: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sulawesi&iax=images&ia=images
Out of curiosity, why do you think that? My instinct is that the selection pressure against autism would not have been meaningfully stronger back then (and might actually have been weaker, due to people living in much smaller communities).
The intended recipients of these press releases are mainly the people who make decisions for funding agencies. Due to the highly competitive nature of funding, people working in fairly esoteric (if interesting) fields like gravity waves need to demonstrate some sort of applicability to adjacent areas of science.

In USA biology, there is a similar problem- it's known as the "Make Senators Believe Your Funding Will Cure Their Disease Problem" whereby even the simplest basic discoveries get pumped up to sound like they've cured cancer to induce future funding.
Because it's very very hard to ensure modern computers dont have storage integrated into some unexpected part. UEFI on board can have a pretty significant amount of storage. All kinds of other devices can have storage in them too. Rather than ensure everything has been erased, they grind up the whole thing.
I believe an inverter (not gate) is required...
Does numpy's implementation actually use multithreading? If not, then the comparison is not fair.
How can we get the world to talk about factory farming?
Did I buy a wireless that says it comes with a cord and it didn't? Well surely yes I will be complaining about it isn't that obvious.
Science is not magically immune to the same pressures that corrupt every other news and information source.
I've been working on similar functionality for jsonresume -> https://github.com/jsonresume/jsonresume.org/blob/master/app...

What the author could have done, and what I should have (but didn't) also, is add a bunch of possible values (enums) for each possible field value. This should solve it from coming up with variations e.g. node, nodejs

In zod/tooling it would look like this;
remote: z.enum(['none', 'hybrid', 'full']),
framework: z.enum(['nodejs', 'rails']),

But this just shifts the problem further down, which is now you need a good standard set of possible values. Which I am yet to find, but I'm sure it is out there.

On top of that, I am working on publishing a JobDescription.schema.json such that the next time the models train, they will internalize an already predefined schema which should make it a lot easier to get consistent values from job descriptions.

- Also I tend to forget to do it a lot recently in LLM days but there are plenty of good NER (Named Entity Recognition) tools out there these days, that you should run first before making robust prompts
I wonder if it wouldn't be easier / more comfortable for the worker to just get a low-poly reconstructed 3D rendering of the environment. That way at least they could move their head as much as they want and still get a read-time feed in their goggle without the usual VR tricks.
Reminds me of the Neptune Duo[0], which sadly never became a thing. And the ASUS Padfone[1] which barely did. Would've loved to get my hands especially on the former. Actually still would even today, as it would really reduce the waste of having multiple smart devices that inevitably reach EoL with lots of still-working parts. Looking at my nonfunctional ASUS Transformer[2] that served me so well in college years ago, with its phenomenal battery life (keyboard dock also has a battery), and I still have hope I can get it repaired and use it again, even if only as an e-reader.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/reviews/neptune-duo-preview/
[1] https://m.gsmarena.com/asus_padfone-3965.php
[2] https://m.gsmarena.com/asus_transformer_tf101-3936.php
Why is science reporting such irredeemable clickbaity trash? Not just from the mainstream media with commercial motive, from whom I naturally expect trash, but also from nonprofit universities of all places.

Seriously, who is the intended audience of this headline?

University science-by-press-release drives me crazy, too. My guess has been that the intended audience is alums that might be enticed to donate more.
> A real backup solution ought to cover the case where you deleted the wrong file, and you find out the next day. Or it got corrupted somehow (PCs and disks can explode slowly) and you find out the next time you open it, a week later. If the cloud service happily replicated that change, it can't be used to restore anything.

a) my cloud storage has file versioning
b) as I mentioned, I have a ~24hr old snapshot as well as a ~30d old snapshot

The worst practical case is that I lose a month's data, and I'm fine with that.
I didn't realize the inside was a bunch of rectangular panels. Considering the high ticket price, I thought it'd be a seamless dome screen, IMAX 3.0.
Not quite. For example politicians benefit from being able to solicit donations over mass text.
The goal of the authors of the PR is to promote a narrative. In this case, the PR intends to increase funding for gravity wave research by imputing its utility in another field.

From The ELements of Style, Strunk and White, omit needless words. Dropping "Gravitational waves" from the title conveys the same information.

The Elements of Style, by Strunk and White:
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
- Markup to generate HTML I used in courses that I taught. The markup generated links according to an outline (next/prev page, next/prev section) and a few other navigation related things.

- Python-based pipe-objects-not-strings shell with cluster and database support deeply integrated. Twenty years later, it has turned into Marcel (https://marceltheshell.org), and I’m still the only one using it AFAIK.

- Backup utility for Linux, with characteristics of Time Machine. Been using it for five years, it keeps daily, monthly, yearly full backups, relying on hard links for files that don’t change. Handles both local and remote (to my Raspberry Pi).
Huh, so there is, with physical servos moving a camera.

Any idea what latency numbers might look like? Seems unlikely the physical movement can be especially low latency.