skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Burying the lede: Maternal deaths had previously been underestimated

Prior to 2003, the US appeared to have a maternal mortality rate in line with the most advanced countries in the world. As of 2020, the US is in the same range as Grenada, Malaysia, Lebanon, and Iran.

So the real headline should not how for at least two decades the US maternal mortality rate has been terrible for a supposedly advanced country.
Thanks, checked out and quite fits my needs! Seems these kind of products are new in the scene?
What I commonly need is JSON serialization/parsing directly with structs.
How to do vipassana.

Sit quietly. Eyes half-open.

Watch all the experience-stuff that you are experiencing right now. That is, all the sights, sounds, thoughts, smells, etc. All those sensations. Watch them as they come and go.

Watch your attention too. Watch how your attention is moving, what you are putting your attention on, what you are focusing on and such.

Let your attention relax. Don't put your attention on anything. Just let it do nothing. Try to do that.

Sometimes you will feel the urge move your attention in reaction to a sensation. To direct your attention this or that. At a thought or whatever. To think a thought or whatever.

Whenever you feel like you're about to do that, just don't do it. Don't move your attention. Keep it relaxed. Stay relaxed.

Keep doing that for 5, 10, 30 minutes or whatever.

That's it. That's how you do vipassana.
> is it the one that handwaves at allegedly bad design without ever actually showing a single exploit? Because I've gotten really tired of people loudly proclaiming that this thing is so easy to exploit but they just don't have time to actually do it just now but trust them it's definitely easy and a real thing that they could do even though somehow it never seems to actually happen

I mean, OpenBSD does security mitigation sealioning, so nobody really wants to engage with their stupider ideas
They take PEDs or street drugs?
My fat fingers appreciate the practice.

P.s., to OP, you can roll your own UI on top of HN without losing whatever this community is.
> There is a term for this type of comparison but it is escaping me right now.

False Dichotomy?
It is very hard to predict the future. The job market shifts constantly.

Personally, I would go for foundational knowledge. Going with where your interests, aptitude and talents lie is more fruitful in the long-term.
Building an LLM Router for High-Quality and Cost-Effective Responses
Except package repositories have maintainers, who tend to be trustworthy parties. Compare the number of supply chain attacks Debian's apt repos have compared to, say, npm.
I’d also add, being decent at sql queries and design/tuning is a massive advantage over programmers who are not. It’s like being tasked with bulk editing text and one person knowing regular expressions and the other person just knowing string manipulation functions.
What do you mean? i'm using llms to debug code and stuff
Up until the invention of the self-service supermarket you could not walk into a grocery store, pick out a can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup, flip a dime to a cashier, and walk out with it.

The self-service grocery store did not exist until WWI.

They did not become common until some time around WWII.

They did not go extinct until the 70s.

My grandmothers could not (and did not) use cash to buy groceries because there were no cash-and-carrys near them. They needed an account, until the 60s-70s in rural Tennessee and Missouri where they lived.

Everything was paid by check. Drop off the order, pick up the order, bring home the bill, the husband sends in a check.

There was an exact and precise 0.0% chance in many parts of the United States of America of a single unwed woman getting an account at a grocery store without a male cosigner.

Like I said, cultural amnesia.
Stewardship: How to Leave Things Better Than You Found Them
Unlikely, handguns produce significantly smaller shockwaves. Additionally the problems described in the article are a relatively new phenomenon related to the introduction of high explosive propellant cartridges, which small arms don't use.

Exposure to lead is a much larger risk for gun enthusiasts from my point of view.
Minio - open source S3
The EMBAG law stipulates that all public bodies must disclose the source code of software developed by or for them, unless precluded by third-party rights or security concerns.

"unless precluded by third-party rights"

Oh. Well then. Nothing to see here.
While it's been known as Vuze for a long time now, it was originally known as Azureus. It was pretty popular at one point. Then uTorrent came out which was super lightweight in comparison, so it quickly gained popularity... at least before it became riddled with adware.

Java clients were typically very bloated on older PCs, and Vuze was no exception.
I really like the quora interface. I think old quora used to have a good community like HN. So I'm designing the ui kind of like that
Walmart first major retailer in North America to deploy hydrogen semi truck
Ooh. Interesting. I wrote my last worker-based app a couple years ago for chunking and crunching some large datasets. I'll have to give this a go one weekend.
Adverse possession becomes a lot more of an obvious outcome when one stops thinking about urban areas and well put together homes, and instead starts thinking about abandoned areas and properties with unknown owners. At the end of the day, towns want to collect property taxes and would rather have someone improving a property and paying taxes on it than a slowly degrading property that has clearly been forgotten about, considering the owner didn't notice the adverse tenant for decades. Or maybe nobody could manage to contact the owner for decades. Or maybe the named owner for a plot of land was lost to time. What is the other option, leave it untouched for decades and centuries because at some point in the past someone had their name on it?
We certainly wish you well with your job search, but please don't post these in the "Who is hiring" threads. We don't want to start an arms race with zillions of applicants competing with such posts.

Rather, the place for these is the "Who wants to be hired" threads. I'm glad to see you already found that one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40851327. Best of luck with your search!
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846936 - I think it's on the wrong side of the rules at the top. Your underlying point is correct of course.
I would certainly appreciate if @dang and @pg cared to clarify just how many bots are on this platform. Without the data, what's left but to assume we're wasting time communing with bots and interplanetary intelligences (save for those relationships we connect with in person. Empirical evidence is important.)
When I read about it years ago, It was made out to have a very high bitrate (and quality) if the analog FM signal was replaced completely by a digital signal.
Surprised nobody went for "dug", à la DigDug.
Fitzgerald gives them immunity from civil prosecutions. That was mentioned by Sotomayor. Fitzgerald explicitly does not provide the same immunity from criminal prosecutions; specifically because the protections for a defendant and burden of proof are so much greater than a mere civil case.
I knew a guy who was charged with a crime he didn’t commit, and had strong proof of his innocence.

He was advised to do a bench trial.

The idea was the evidence was so strongly in his favor that only an idiot would find him guilty, and a judge was less likely to be an idiot than a jury.

It worked out splendidly. The trial didn’t even finish. The judge halted the trial half way through and “advised” the prosecution to drop charges, which they did.

This is of course not representative. But if I were ever in the same spot, I’d seriously consider a bench trial.
Harvard SEAS, ONSITE (Boston area, MA, US)

I have one opening in a new project around AI for precision medicine.
One thrust is about combining biomedical knowledge graphs and large language models into a biomedical-fluent core platform.
Another thrust is about UI for data-rich programmable systems.
The opening is for either a research engineer or a postdoc, with different criteria in each case.
The research engineer would be responsible for quarterly demo-driven deliverables.
The postdoc would be expected to develop a research agenda with these applications in mind.

Contact: namin@seas.harvard.edu
My favorite/least favorite tetris variant is Not Tetris 2, the one that doesn't snap to a grid. It's maddening. All this guy's games are mad at you.

https://stabyourself.net/nottetris2/
That sounds cool, right on.

But I don't really agree with those people who insist that 44.1/16bit is all you need.

I do all my audio work at 48k/32-bit float. There is a reason for this: it's to avoid clipping when you are doing destructive effects. With 32-bit you can spike above zero-db but still preserve the curve of the waveform, and bring that spike back down under zero-db before you render.

Not sure how this impacts your board or your use-case, but I wanted to point this out. It's probably overkill in your context.

I convert everything to 48k/32-bit, even when I am ripping from AAC video, converting mp3s, whatever.
I adjusted the instructions at the top of the thread - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40852286.

Of course that doesn't go back and retroactively edit all the existing posts...but it will at least be in place for future threads.

Of course that doesn't mean that people will follow the instructions...but you get my point I hope
* Location: Melbourne, Australia * Remote: Yes

* Willing to relocate: Yes - Australia

Technologies: Mostly Javascript. I've coded in pretty much all non functional languages though. Most of the databases sql/nosql. Comfortable with gCloud/aws/heroku etc. Mostly worked with node/rails/laravel/python/golang backends.

* Résumé/CV: https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis

* GitHub: https://github.com/thomasdavis/

I'm a full stack web developer who can build apps from the ground up. I've worked mostly at startups so I am used to wearing many hats. I am a very product focused developer who prioritizes user feedback first and foremost. I'm generally very flexible when investigating new roles. Nothing too big or small.
Artillery has actually gotten smaller. Propellant charges have gotten "boomier" high explosive instead of smokeless propellants hence the traumatic brain injuries on the teams firing them.
> That look is inextricably tied to the mechanics, there's no way to make a Tetris clone which doesn't look like Tetris.

If we lived in a just world, that would make the look uncopyrightable, rather than making the mechanics copyrightable.
I can only think of two things that I really would like HN to implement:

1. Dark mode

2. Two-factor authentication for better account security

Apart from that (and maybe a better API to help with third-party apps), HN is perfect. The minimal (should I say retro?) UI just adds to the charm of the site. Consider it repellent for those who aren't ready for the HN atmosphere.
PEDs.

See the Kyle Mullen death during the SEAL entry testing[0] and subsequent policy to test for PEDs[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32656856

[1] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/10/20/navy-seals-st...
I think for SEALs in particular the issue would be cumulative large shockwaves, and how to better protect against them.
That seems like such a great route. I’m not as familiar with the area but I’m presuming the land acquisition part won’t be too bad?
> they're all on drugs

To be fair to the SEALs, this is every US SF unit.
Any durable commit is going to have I/O in the critical path unless you're Paxos/Raft replicating in-memory across failure domains (which we're not discussing here), but I think you mean it takes random I/O out of the critical path. You can get that without a WAL, though; just have the LSM keep appending out of order to a growing file and keep the in-memory index. That's the exact same I/O pattern that the WAL would generate, there just isn't an immediate compaction. The in-memory index will be stay fragmented for longer, though (which is why I call the WAL a performance optimization above). I suppose the WAL-less design lets you defer compaction for longer, which might be an advantage if you have lots of disk and lots of RAM, but don't want two-thirds of your throughput (read + write) taken away at critical moments.
Yeah I figure it's one or the other.

If anything I am somewhat surprised it's not some generic Chinese copies in the malls.
what happens when the local device dies and the customer replaces it with a new one? how does the customer's history get preserved?
I wish the poop is so neat lol
If there are no y less than x, then any statement about all y less than x is vacuously true.
I think the point the author is making is: unless you control all the code you're calling, in a language without immutable datatypes, you can't be sure the other functions don't change your data.
This seems like a problem that's automatically solved by land tax. If the property is abandoned, the tax goes unpaid and the state auctions the property off to cover the unpaid tax. Voila, new owner of record.
Thanks, Jony Ive.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jony-ives-thinness-obsession...
Keep in mind that this is a new phenomenon, which is bound to new military technology.

It reminds me of the other side, the receiving end: shell shock in WW1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_shock

I think the key here is to explore all options, not limiting yourself to the obvious.

Steel Industry:
In the steel mills people reported similarities 100-60 years ago. I remember talking to workers and their problems after being exposed to huge mechanical machines that form steel. Usually they are extremely loud, feel like a permanent earthquake, dusty and toxic air, hot temperatures and high risk for life threatening events.

I see some similarities here between steel worker’s mental impact and military. It is fair to say that some conditions are not really helping you as an individual “unlocking your full potential”. Some conditions are simply very detrimental to your health.
In the previous article of this series, we learned how to add login functionality and implement role-based authorization in our application.

In this article, we will cover how to implement a watchlist feature similar to the wishlist feature of e-commerce apps. When a user visits the movie details page, we will add a feature to display a list of movies from the same genre.
It's entirely possible that they actually did send messages, but the people they informed didn't give a fuck, and are in entirely separate divisions from the Navy officers The Times interviewed.
Double plus agree.
This is pretty cool! But what does it mean when something is listed under "Services"? For example, one of my "services" is "52.45.50.190/32", an AWS IP. What does that actually mean? How did that IP get there?
Rust has that too, with nalgebra if you want arbitrary-sized tensors as scientific computing wants, or with glam and similar crates if your needs are more modest as in graphics. In all cases they're SIMD-accelerated.
Lol! Nice one.
No need for velcro for storage just wrap them in a circle and then gently weave the last foot or so around the circle

I use several clear shoebox sized bins and organize by type. Usb-a, usb-c, audio hdmi, etc etc.

I tried doing ziplock bags but it became a rats nest of bags upon bags full of cables. It was a pain to find a cable quickly.

Another option for frequently used cables are wall hangers where the cables hang down like spaghetti. I use these for audio mostly
> If there are no y less than x, then any statement about all y less than x is vacuously true.

I suppose this is technically correct, but it doesn't seem like a good basis for doing induction.
I recently used a Treedix USB cable tester to figure out which cables were worth keeping. It’s probably not worth keeping any charging-only USB cables since you’ve got so many data cables.
I don't think it's very difficult to write a different UI. There's even a terminal version available:

https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex
Actually more along the lines of:

An individual can be bad, but where they are, a group can generally be relied upon to rein them in. Groups can also be bad, but generally when individuals are removed from a group context, better sense prevails.

Juries balance the judge, just as the judge balances out the jury.

The Senate balances the House, just as the House balances the Senate.

The President only found balance in the checks of the other two branches, and the good sense and consciences of the electors in the Electoral College, who were empowered to be able to ignore the popular vote if upon vote casting time, their good sense deemed otherwise once they were removed from the influence of group dynamics.
I have a box!
FTTN: Feature-Targeted Testing for Numerical Properties of Matrix Accelerators
Exactly, this isn't a gotcha. This is one of the basic checks on Congress.

Congress can also impeach justices, which is one of their checks on the Judicial branch. They also have the authority to confirm the Executive's judicial nominees (one of their checks on the Executive).
Figma AI looks rather trained on existing apps
> Also they're all on drugs and will kill you if you report them for embezzling unit funds.

This is maybe not too related to the brain damage stuff (or maybe it is?), but I don't think the wider public knows nearly enough about the frankly shocking kinds and amounts of criminality in the various US special forces units. OP is not kidding about these people operating as gangs (but worse, because they're sanctioned killers).

A smattering of such behavior:

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/07/internal-study-defe...

https://news.usni.org/2021/01/24/seal-sentenced-to-10-years-...

https://abc7chicago.com/us-navy-seals-seal-training-drugs-in...

The journalist (and Army vet, iirc) Seth Harp does yeoman's work on this topic, and is a good Twitter follow. He's got several excellent long-form investigative articles, often for Rolling Stone. Here's one on the rampant murders (ongoing!) at Fort Bragg that the Army won't talk about:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fort-b...

And another one about rampant drug deaths at ... also Fort Bragg:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/inside...

I think it's time to have a big cultural conversation about how much our current era of spec ops worship is worth all the war crimes and other less-than-normative behavior.
Because we live in a democracy and at some point we have to respect the pesky will of the pesky people to elect their pesky leaders. If you assume that the people don't want the rule of law, then you must conclude that the people don't want a government.
"It's hard to describe the difference"
Indeed. It's kind of like rubberducking.
> What I feel like the dissent misses completely, which is quite ironic given Justice Sotomayor’s history in private practice

Why do you presume that the dissent did not consider this? What are your qualifications to think you’ve considered this more completely than the SCOTUS (whether or not you agree)?
The main thing I can think of that would help here is the fact that Rust has stricter alignment requirements than C++ does. Any live reference can more or less be assumed to point to validly-aligned memory at all times, which isn't true in C++.

As to whether LLVM actually takes advantage of this effectively, I don't know. I know that we do supply the necessary attributes to LLVM in most cases, but I haven't looked at the individual transform and optimization passes to see whether they take advantage of this (e.g. emitting movdqa vs. falling back to movdqu).
HN's UI is not the product.
Greece introduces 'growth-oriented' six-day working week
Pretty cool, gamification is always good!
That works to the extent that a polity is willing and able to seize, care for, and sell off parcels. At scale, this is not guaranteed to be as easy as it sounds. Case in point: Detroit.
Different roles. Everyone has a part to play but SF relies upon relative superiority. Assets and ignoring military customs which do not increase effectiveness and lethality are requirements to get the job done. An infantry company is more able to defend its position than a troop of SF without heavy weapons if bogged down. Camouflage works and when you're rolling multicam with a black gun it reduces its effectiveness.

I sense a lot of bitterness.
Great article. Interestingly, I'd suggest the introductory material has a subtle empathy gap that can be summarised with the "Regardless of how careful we are to frame what we say, there is a strong chance that it will be misinterpreted" comment.

That applies to everyone. It is a rare and skillfull person who can get a new point into a conversation. Spend any time at all watching how political debates evolve and it is quite clear that pushing a conversation from equilibrium to equilibrium is remarkably challenging to do and often comes under heavy social attack. There are also hints coming out of the world of the therapists where there are a stunning number of people who don't know how to express their thoughts to save themselves.

At a personal level the standard neurotypical strategy is not to say anything new, or anything that hasn't been pre-vetted by something else with higher status. So the problem autistic people tend to run into is that they aren't repeating what someone influential said in a similar context and that is an inherently high-risk strategy. Careful framing can't possibly lead to a safety. Autistic people may act in socially inappropriate ways, but the mistake is to assume other people are good communicators. They aren't, they are subtly limited by fairly strict guiderails and can't express/process a lot of concepts independently from the herd.
Any books recommendations for this part of history?
> No, not enough. The lack of 'both sides' is what got us here.

lol, why are you going out of your way to reply to this? It's not in my comment, and it wasn't in the comment when you logged in to reply. Did you copy and paste it from your rss feed or whatever specifically to be able to reply to it? That's really weird. Anyway.

> They have felt alone, disenfranchised, and cut off by the coastal elite (both sides!) for decades.

The problem is they have no education and have no idea how to think critically. In society we have made it such a bad thing to be 'stupid', combine that with studies showing being wrong can be similar to being physically hurt [0], well, now we have a population that has no education, is religious and rejects science, doesn't want to be called stupid or be wrong, so they rally around 'alternative facts' and a charlatan who they see as one of them.

The only solution here is mandatory re-education and/or limiting who can vote, or hopefully waiting for the oldest and most stubborn conservatives to die out so alphas and gen-z can vote with a little more heart and brain.

> So no, I'm not going to be done with 'both sides'. The Left thinks that if they just prosecute Trump and get him convicted these people will just go away and we can go back to business as usual,

Trump's an especially bad candidate to be leader, the left just wants the Romney style republicans back. You know, not the science denying nazi wackos obsessed with guns and controlling women's bodies.

The left isn't the problem here, and never has been.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/feb/28/why-bei...
Jump the Queue: Effortless Async Task Processing
An interesting thought popped off in my head: what if it does, and the crowd that leans heavily into enthusiast firearm usage is giving themselves micro-TBIs -- could that over the years create certain changes in personality and psychological workings that lead to certain, similar outcomes? E.g. could it be correlated with political affiliation?

Don't read into it too much, though. This isn't snark or passive aggression, just genuine interest.
I actually think you're describing a WAL.