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Show HN: I made a scientific dissemination AI app
When I was in high school, I was eager to learn about science but felt there were very few written sources for non-technical people after a certain point. Now, as a university student with a free summer, I thought a mobile app that uses LLMs to write 5-minute personalized science articles would have been useful to my younger self—and perhaps even to me now. So, I created it through the Microsoft for Startups Program. It’s currently in a freely available closed beta, and I’m continuing to improve it. If you share my passion for science and want to give it a try, click the link above.

Thanks for your attention.
> Some of the vehicles were notorious for blocking intersections

Letting self-proclaimed autonomous vehicles use public roads was so idiotic that you need a new word coined for those who didn't see it immediately.
Optimization is one of the more useful terms for it, but I think a big part of the problem is foundational. It's easier to trade in measurable values than unmeasurable ones, so the trades with something measurable on both sides get prioritized, which subtly increases the demand and market value of measurable values over unmeasurable.

So we end up gradually converting our productivity to the measurable outputs because we can more safely trade them. But then unmeasurable values get shafted.

The non-fungible values get shafted even harder. For example, it's inherently impossible to trade for true human relationships because the bidirectional flow is where the value comes from and that flow must be built. But that means two people must simultaneously choose to take a mostly unknown level of risk on building a relationship that could fail or even be a net negative. Our relationship drive is pretty strong. The people making AI chatbot friends and SOs, not even to mention dating apps and relationship-commodifiers like Meetup or old Facebook, are doing their best to commodify relationships, though. The sheer level of social toxicity caused by online mass social media has been correspondingly enormous.
Whoa cool how come?
> This is why I find it strange that the idea of sending CC information over a dialup phone line was seen as unacceptable.

Simple, new technology is scary, no matter how "safe" it actually is in reality (or not).

Douglas Adams:

> 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

> 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

> 3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
It probably doesn’t matter. The Oval Office is a formal office, it is for ceremonial work, not sensitive work. But I don't think it's vulnerable anyway, because I've never seen a picture where there's even a computer in it.

Sensitive government information is handled in SCIFs.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/what-scif-who...
You realize this is the expected normal, with large unmanaged forests and fire suppression… right?

I live near these forests. They have been poorly managed for decades. We’ve been warning about this.
Reach out to me via email on my profile, I have an ebook version of Worm and Ward(the sequel) I'd be happy to share.
I've been coding full time in it on a large team for four years now. If Go is this difficult to comprehend, then maybe its not the simple language it claims to be.
Simulations are closed, the real world is open.

Weird things happen in the real world. They happen all the time and we expect them to happen and hardly notice when they do. Simulations approximate the model that humans use to reason about the world, but we just ignore all the oddness and can't articulate the oddness until it's made explicit by some failure.
We may concede that it could be difficult from an engineering/sensors perspective, but the software side should be about as easy as a traffic light
Contextual Vulnerability Management with Security Risk as Debt
Wow! I love this kind of short clips (unsurprisingly, short stories are my favorite kind of literature). Thanks again for sharing.
> It is CLEARLY worth the 30% to most companies, because they keep pumping out single use apps that would be better as a mobile web page.

Based on the context given in the OP, this conclusion does not follow and is not fair.

1. Patreon is passing the 30% on to customers by default, or allowing creators to pay for it out of their existing income, so Patreon isn’t making any value judgement at all. They are leaving it up to creators and users.

2. Even if they weren’t doing (1), there are other factors in play that don’t make this a fair “experiment”. Most notably that established platforms like Amazon and Spotify _don’t_ find the value here, contradicting your assertion that most companies do.

Note: I didn't think Apple historically allowed (1), which also invalidates the “experiment”, but maybe terms have changed recently.
It's obtuse, but it's effective for some people. I know someone who hires devs from the .NET and Python space for finance. When asked to suggest a solution to any kind of data problem like this the interviewees split down the middle with the .NET ones almost entirely using a relational database and the Python ones using either the library du jour or suggesting something on the command line (since they often have Linux experience.)

In both parts of their org, the .NET area tends to use SQL exclusively for analysis and the Python folks use Pandas and bunch of other stuff. These departments are also in significantly different parts of their organization with their own mandates and culture.
A EULA needs to be a contract. THe AGPL is clearly not a contract nor does it meet the basic requirements for an enforceable contract in common law countries. Can you show me where I am wrong about this?

> The source code to the program doesn't even do them any good. They cannot use that to prevent harms perpetrated by the operators of that application.

It does. It means they can run their own instance instead of being permanently tied to the operator of the service. It means they can modify and run the software.

> They don't have the source code because they don't have to program at all in any form.

That is sophistry. For the type of software AGPL is designed for the functionality provided is the same as it would if they had their own install. It is called "software as a service" for a reason.

The reason the AGPL exists is because the rise of SAAS has made the distinction you are making meaningless.

> They don't have the source code because they don't have to program at all in any form.

Users of GPL software do not "have to program". The point is they can. The same is true with AGPL.
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Yea, I think much of the tech industry has really had it too cushy. The (internet) tech industry had 2 decades of nearly constant growth because it was a completely new thing to human civilization. But now it's all hitting maturity and the status quo is changing with it.

It's also why companies are desperate to sell AI as its currently the only visible avenue for further large growth to pump stocks.
Because if you pin versions you are pinning to some version with a security flaw that you are not allowing yourself to get. Often a flaw is fixed by a developer who realizes something is wrong with the code but it hasn't been exploited yet so anyone who keeps up to date cannot be exploited by that flaw, while anyone who doesn't keep up doesn't even know they are vulnerable.

Of course there is a balance here, there is a reason to pin versions. I'm stating why you shouldn't do that, but I cannot figure out all the pros and cons and how they should work out for your needs.
>Why are we fighting Houthi rebels?

Because they're attacking commercial shipping heading to and from the Suez Canal? I mean it wlso pleases our Saudi allies but the shipping attacks are the main concern.
I guess it depends on where you live, but getting an electrician around here takes so much time and effort, not to mention money, you could by half way through to training for a journeyman degree by the time he shows up.

Perhaps a downside of becoming halfway proficient as a handyman is all the people asking for your help. But you can see it as an upside as well, if they are friends and you enjoy helping them out.
Betteridge would say no.
Create a greasemonkey/userscript for existing browser extension?

Possibly useful example: https://github.com/imdj/HNRelevant
The joy of harvesting greywater for the garden
> What MBAs and Financists destroyed so far:

You can add governance for as long as lobbyists have been writing law.

You can add accountability for whenever MBAs and investors come in contact with news orgs.
Artemis IV OIG Report [pdf]
For me, the only thing I miss in LSP-TypeScript package [1] is automatic changing of import paths when you rename a file.

[1] https://github.com/sublimelsp/LSP-typescript
Since you are spending an *immense* amount of time trail running, have you contemplated the pros and cons of reducing some of that time commitment and complementing your running with other physical activity to build other areas of your fitness beyond endurance?

You do you, but it's a bit like somebody consuming only large amounts of meat and somebody suggesting that it may be beneficial to reduce some of that and balance the diet with some other nutrients.
The reviews were negative because people had very high expectation for this movie (as it marked 100 years of Disney) and they got "just another animated musical". I watched with my wife and we enjoyed it, but we had zero expectations coming in.
Even if it isn't designed this way, it's a welcome benefit to many.
> The problem is that the Venn diagram of a) people who say things like "Financists" unironically and speak of a cabal of people with "usurary (sic) schemes" designed to bankrupt entire civilizations and b) actual, legitimate anti-Semites looks like a blurry circle unless you're right up against it.
> It doesn't mean there aren't people in (a) who aren't anti-Semites and who have legitimate grievances. But they're virtually indistinguishable from the people shitposting (or worse let, legitimately posting) on /pol/.

The problem is that the Venn diagram of a) people who collect vintage teaspoons and b) competitive yodelers looks like a blurry circle unless you're right up against it. It doesn't mean there aren't spoon enthusiasts who can't carry a tune, but they're virtually indistinguishable from the alpine warblers at international yodeling championships.

I didn't see any reference to judaism in the original post, how you both end up there is just... weird.
I'm glad you know what everyone thinks while reading your comments.
Existing quantum devices could be used to disrupt the stock market
Ask HN: Do non-US indies/entrepreneurs hide their country in their marketing?
Maybe they think they would be taken more seriously that way?
The Amiga was my first exposure to a computer with a "real" OS: tasks/processes, memory management, IPC, shared libraries, etc. I first learned C on an Amiga. It also taught me to be careful: a bug in your program with no memory protection would often mean a crash/reboot ("Guru Meditation" error.)
Ouch. I feel for you both. I count myself lucky... I still have my IBM PC XT in the basement (runs and my son plays Zork II on it) thanks to my Dad not only shelling out for it in 1983 but hanging on to it over the years.

But I empathize for other reasons... my Mom gave away my huge bag of Legos, including all the cool Space stuff, that I wish I still had. ;)
Of course it's better to have a db doh... I'm replying to your

> By default flask doesnt have a db.
"Gather the Data: Use various tools and methods to collect information."

"By following a structured approach and leveraging specialized tools, you can effectively gather, analyze, and verify information from publicly available sources."

Am I paranoid or was this partly written by an LLM? Or is it just naturally so vague and generic. I mean most of the tips are kinda legit, but after the title I expected a little more than this.
Ask HN: What is the best way to help the homeless?
The Steampunk Clocks of 19th-Century Paris
> Or when was the last time you had to build a specific image for a x86_64 laptop?

iwlwifi firmware blobs..
"Reason 1: Go can do basically anything"

So how do you build an OS kernel in Go?
C folks have been doing it for decades. Rust guys are slowly catching up.
And Go...?
I wish Plex included something like this
The main page doesn't mention Terraform explicitly (except for the user feedback section). Are there plans to make this compatible with e.g. AWS CDK or Pulumi?
Can I just say what a genuinely fascinating perspective you have there

That pronouns are somehow an exercise of power that must be submitted to, and not just a common courtesy because we're not all sensitive snowflakes

And that this is in any way remotely comparable to being tortured and killed for religious beliefs

I wonder how you feel about the nearly 1.7% of people born intersex that you meet and definitely work with, that have been newborns treated by your own GP... occupying possibly the "wrong" pronoun according to whatever this week's definition of Definitely Binary means

I'm sure people getting tortured and killed for religious beliefs will definitely relate to this discussion
> By global activation limit, I assume you mean the total sum of neuron activation during one forward pass?

Yes. For each candidate network I keep a counter of the total # of neuron activations. This figure is constrained by a global limit (which varies based on prior performance). We simply break out of the simulation loop once the allotted resources are exhauted. This means that more efficient networks are more likely to score higher.
I do not think Rodney Brooks has ever made any assertion that he is free of commercial interest!
If you want a lossless format with animation and alpha channel and gigantic file sizes, there's always APNG
fwiw, Firefox is the browser that get this closest to ok.
How about this one: https://hackerone.com/reports/745324

It's a $20k bounty for simply taking a cookie that a HackerOne employee accidentally pasted when responding to a different vuln report on HackerOne.
Ask HN: Jobs for a Language Savant?
I’m not sure if savant is quite the right word, but my son is a language genius. Taught himself to read at 3, started studying greek at 6, etc. We just finished a discussion about Navaho vs Georgian language structures, which I just barely followed along with. He’s studying some sort of microbiology engineering at college simply to get a job, but it’s not where his passion lay. Other than linguistics professor, are there other options in the job market for this sort of talent?
No, it just aligned with elite interests ("If they can put nuke platforms above our heads and we can't put some above theirs, it doesn't matter how much better our economy runs, in theory.") There were plenty of people who would have loved to have put their energy and expertise towards a climate change moonshot, but our incredibly powerful corporate interests and the legislators that they own didn't want it to happen, so it didn't.

Also, you remove that second S and first R from that second sentence, and it would still be true. Our entry into the space race wasn't a matter of unmatched moral nobility.
Many distributions have a policy of not using generated files, and more are implementing it after the xz hack. Most package systems have (not just Debian) have the concept of build and deploy dependencies. It is of course more work, and package systems tend to not be well documented and so it is hard to figure out, but it is possible: if you ask the experts they will help
This just illustrates that this specific competition has become meaningless. It might measure their auditory reaction time more than their sprinting speed.
In my case after hearing one of the main devs of Go (I forgot his name tbh) in an interview saying they'd NEVER implement generics, it just rubbed me the wrong way.

The other thing is, despite having touched Go since its early days (late 2000s) I don't have enough real world experience with it. I'm too self-critical to ever apply for jobs I don't feel confident in. So until someone just offers me work with it I probably wont use it as much as I could.
I argue the main issue is that many companies have invested significant resources in poorly assessed, designed, and planned AI implementations, rather than focusing on simpler, achievable, and impactful solutions [1]

[1] https://thomasvilhena.com/2024/06/easy-wins-for-generative-a...
Reading this, this line deeply resonated:
“People that out of necessity grow a thick skin with not fitting in and being OK standing out.”

I think this is a pre req to trying to do what a founder is working to do: Change fundamental belief states of the vast majority of people. It is extremely uncomfortable to stake out a position no one else believes in… yet. It requires courage (and thick skin) to get people through the disbelief curve.
Err checks are a big one. I don't want to worry about error handling when prototyping. There are little things like having to prefix methods with the struct name and type, and bigger things like no default arguments and by name parameters, which makes setting up test fixtures cumbersome. Also, functions don't compose well because there can be more than one return value, so you end up just writing more intermediate values.
AudioFlux: A C/C++ library for audio and music analysis
> having a very high density of sweat glands across our bodies (10 times the density of chimps) giving us an efficient and superb cooling capacity.

Being naked helps a lot too.
> If a customer ever feels the need to hit that button, then the people who have built and sold the robot have failed.

He is not against the button per se: it's "just" that it should never be necessary!

Removing the button would require enormous trust from the customer (very hard to obtain) and from the developers (impossible to obtain, because they know!), apart from legal aspects concerning personal safety.
Because they already backdoored the CPU using the Intel "management" engine.
Hah, even at Google, the Python 3 migration lasted well into 2020.
You overbuild solar at utility scale to compensate for seasonal fluctuations.
The issue is not language semantic. The issue is readability. Having the best feature set in the world is useless if the code produced by others is a pain to decipher.

Haskell disqualified itself for general programming when its community decided that point-free was desirable despite the style being impossible to read and custom operators were a good thing. I personally hate every Haskell code base I have ever seen despite being relatively fluent in the language (an issue Ocaml never had amusingly mostly because its community used to be very pragmatic).
Editing your dependencies in maven is not some "random XML file somewhere", come on. It's a standard file that is situated like any build declaration.
A rather improper fraction, though. Pick some random non-techie person and they'll have at least tried it.
Could similar be done for co2 emissions?
Why would you believe anything Musk says?

He can safely get around being truthful because an organic user traffic outage would look exactly like a DDOS to an end user. He had the same outages when he brought Desantis on (last year? two years ago? I forget). It's not like he'll ever release a post-mortem, we'll never see if Libtard420 (/s) spun up a million boxes from a digitalocean cidr block and nuked twitters video endpoints vs. twitter just getting slammed globally once it started.

He fired all of the previous (great) engineers at twitter. I find it much more probable the systems just went down due to load.

This is my job for a big advertising company that does far more load than twitter ever did. We scale on load. We'd be a failure if we had to cap the audience that saw our advertisements. We do something like 20-40x (tens of billions req a minute) the amount of load on Black Friday/Christmas every year and don't even need to tweak anything.

IIRC Musk brought everything from the "cloud" (twitter was AWS iirc) to I guess some in-house datacenter where they couldn't quickly scale as they're dealing with physical hardware themselves. I'm not sure if they even have a CDN in front of them nowadays. I quit paying attention to their tech. IIRC their video service used to be provided by another vendor that Musk wound up getting in trouble with because he stopped paying them or something along those lines. I believe they stopped using that service?

edit: Oh, Periscope. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-building-l...
Yes, we have got quite a lot of requests for those. On the roadmap for sure!
We saw the same thing with crypto ads dominating the Super Bowl a couple of years ago and gambling apps during the NBA playoffs. TV advertising for major sporting events is a "flex" as so few companies can afford the cost of a national ad slot. The ones that do usually have money to burn from investors.
Understanding the Multi-Dimensional Nature of AI (2023)