skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take Apple out of the loop entirely.

Why does Patreon need an app? Have users go through the website. Send them updates when people post new content.

I've never used the Patreon app on either Android or iOS. I support a number of creators and I have no idea why I'd want an app. Money is taken from my account. Receipts are sent to my email. Articles from creators are sent to my email, and if they're long enough I click a link and read the full article (or view the pictures) on the website.
Ahh, an oncologist?

Wait, no.

Hmm:

> The McDougall Program is a transformative and life-saving 12-day online medical program designed by Dr. McDougall. For over 35 years, this program has been helping individuals reverse chronic illness and take charge of their health.

"chronic illness", very specific! And in only 12 days! Wow.

Okay, it doesn't get any better when you get specific:

Osteoporosis (no, you can't reverse that, though with diet AND medication, you can slow it). Arthritis, same. Cancer? Ooh, that's a bold claim, "this diet will reverse cancer". Multiple sclerosis, same.

And all from the same diet!

If it walks like a duck... it says quack quack.
It doesn't matter when Thompson's shoulder crossed the finish line, since the shoulder is not part of the torso.

The torso was chosen as the body part for determining when a runner crosses the finish line precisely because torsos were easy to identify/distinguish and there is no ambiguity as to a runner's torso.
That's funny, I actually hate Apple's subscriptions because they are a pain to cancel. My wife has an iphone, she travels regularly to different countries for work. Because apps on apple store regularly have country restrictions (apps are not available in different countries), she has multiple apple accounts to deal with that.

Now this is also a problem with Android (and it's the fault of the app developers), but Android make switching to a different account easy. Apple, doesn't. So, when you have 3-4 apple accounts and want to cancel subscriptions, it's a pita since you need to logout and login to whichever account has the subscription.

Now, you might think that's not a typical use case, but I can assure you that in South East Asia, a lot of iphone users have multiple accounts. One recurring thing about Apple products is that they are designed by people who are not internationally minded (see for example the fact that you can't change the currency when using apple pay in a website and recalculate the totals without stopping the entire flow, or the fact that dual sim in iphones is an after thought and badly designed)
Have you taken a look at so called directory players, e.g. 1by1?
All I can think of when I read about things like this in the App Store is one of my first jobs: I was a busboy at a country club. Waiters would get tipped (usually pretty generously, as these were wealthy people who were repeat customers and developed relationships with the wait staff over many years), and they would usually in turn tip out the bussers pretty generously too.

Until one day, when tipping was "replaced" by a 15% "service fee" that was tacked onto the bill. This was sold to members as a convenience: rather than need to carry cash to tip the waiter, you can sign for it and take care of it with your monthly bill. This was misleading because the "service fee" did not go to the waiters (or the bussers), but instead was simply kept by the business office.

To make this all legal, we did all get a raise to the actual minimum wage (rather than the "tipped" minimum wage). This was still a big wage cut, and they lost most of their long-time staff, leading to huge churn. I left shortly after this happened for a better job, but the club closed down completely a couple years later (after 80+ years in operation). I suspect but can't prove that these things are related -- most likely they drank the waiters' milkshakes out of desperation, knowing they were eating their seed corn (to mix a metaphor).
I don't understand. It's just a link to a blank page?
I gotta disagree, I'm way more accepting of Scrabble list memorizers (even though I'll never be one) because word knowledge was intended by the game designers to be a part of the game.

Memorizing the spymaster layouts was almost certainly not intended by the designers of Codenames. Probably someone realized it was possible, but as other commenters mention the increased friction of fully randomized layouts isn't worth it when almost no one will want to do this.
Young people have always had cancer at some rate, which is why anecdotes here are not particularly indicative. However rare and tragic, it's not unheard of.

That said, the pop media (of which Scientific American is part) routinely conflates rates of diagnosis with rates of late-stage cancer, even though they're very different, and there's a discrepancy between them. I don't know about colon cancer in particular, but I know that it's been a long-term trend in many different cancers -- for example (iirc) skin cancer -- that people are getting diagnosed far more often, but death rates due to the illness are essentially constant.

This tells you either that we're getting worse at treating what we diagnose, or more plausibly, that we're not detecting things that would lead to death.
My doctors have been like that too. I have to pull their teeth when I want some sort of screening done or want to see a specialist, but because I'm relatively fit, healthy, with no family history of anything "bad", they say my risk of things is low.
I don't care. I just want peace of mind. Cost isn't even an issue, I would be willing to pay a decent sum to get regular screenings so I'm not blindsided with some stage 4 diagnosis down the road.
This is a consequence of not specifying that an encoding should lead to a fault. It isn't that the instruction is faulty, it is that the instruction doesn't exist and still triggers an action. Yes it is semantics, but a distinction worth noting.

https://old.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/1emhhzs/alibabas_the...
The actual title is "Treasury sparks row over use of AI to handle taxpayer complaints". Poster has editorialised it.
Sure Apple allows it. However it is much easier to have a good UI experience with a custom app than a web app. Some people also think they must have an app for everything and so even if there is a good web experience they will demand the app anyway.
It's one of those tales where you really benefit from having prior experience with the SCP universe, but it works for new readers anyway because you're supposed to be a bit lost at the start - the reader's knowledge arc roughly follows O5-8's.
The tendency to explain increase in youth cancer by stress, even among HN readers, is somewhat unsettling to me. It is an almost unfalsifiable explanation, plus, historically, people had a lot of stress too - Gen Z is absolutely not uniquely distressed. Was there an epidemic of youth cancer among Holocaust survivors or people who lived through the terror of the Khmer Rouge? Likely not.

It also tends to conflict with causes of those cancers that we were able to discover, and which are usually almost monocausal, especially in younger age. The main reason for lung cancer isn't stress, but tobacco smoke. The main reason for mesothelioma isn't stress, but exposure to asbestos. The main reason for cervical cancer isn't stress, but HPV infection. The main reason for stomach cancer isn't stress, but Helicobacter pylori infection.

In all likelihood, the current cancer resurgence isn't caused by stress either. I suspect something much more specific, like microplastics.
Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks
I can't wait to see this law enacted by 2040.
It's not a solved issue, as others have pointed out. To elaborate, most packages are not maintained continuously. Some don't get updates anymore and some get updates that break older versions of Python. The authors of these libraries definitely aren't rooting out all the problems that can occur due to mismatched versions. And when you change one library, any other related library can be affected. It's like solving a puzzle sometimes. In many cases people throw up their hands and say "forget this, I'm not upgrading anything!" This is also the big driver of solutions like virtualenv and Docker. All languages have this issue to some extent but Python breaks stuff more often than anything else I use.

I don't especially like language-specific package downloaders either but that's not a Python-only problem, and there are tradeoffs to pushing the work downstream into more stable systems.
I wouldn't be surprised if online retailers like Amazon already do this.
The fun of this game is in the absolute clowning that happens. This is fantastic haha.
Before you get to proofs and logic in maths, all you really need for “plug and chug” maths is KA Stroud’s Engineering Mathematics textbook. It has everything from counting and number lines to calculus and linear algebra to the level of highschool, and early undergrad. Lots of exercises as well. If you are in the UK its perfect for every year of school, including GCSE and A Levels.

For school achievement btw, the real trick in school level in the UK is to work all of the past papers you can get your hands on.
The mandate didn't make the US less open to that, it's just that the US is so in love with cars that we don't seriously consider alternatives to driving as solutions to anything. If there was a meeting and the topic was "what to do about the gigantic number of car-related deaths every year", and someone said "maybe we stop driving so much and give people other options of getting around?" they would be laughed out of the room.
bingo - stress is the trigger, what loads the gun is - high calorie malnutrition + pollutants/mutagens
> Actually Go is always pass by value.

False, this depends upon the underlying type. The Go 'map' type is always pass (and assign) by reference.

https://go.dev/play/p/ovfuNBNtiza
I'd like to find a cheap way to self-host a stripped version of Nominatim planet. There's lots of data that I don't really need to deal with and I don't want to have to use 32/64gb of ram.
I started evaluating electron and discovered that I would have to build messages for every single thing I wanted to do on the desktop and then tweak absolutely everything for performance. Not a great dev experience. I would much rather build a blazor app in a webview where I only have to send messages to the HTML for data binding. That shit is smooooth.
What is the problem with https://github.com/fergusstrange/embedded-postgres/tree/mast... ?
I've used TileMill to create tiles for a specific layer of data for a specific area. (Fire evacuation zones for a county.)

https://github.com/tilemill-project
OP cited youtube as 'delve'ers, which skews young, so I'm guessing it's that your cognitive 'ear' is tuned to the technosphere
Flight Rationale
Utilities work like that. You don't just have to pay the marginal cost of the electricity you consume. The entire infrastructure has to be supported by the customers (who else is there?) Which doesn't much depend on demand - the wires or pipes or drains or whatever have to be run to every potential consumer, regardless of their need.
Secondly the extension is explicitly marked as experimental and is disabled on pretty much all kernel builds.

Some of these platforms are incredibly janky atm, so I'm not at all surprised that something like this could slip through.

The real surprise is scaleway rushing them into production.
In a survey of my non-technical friends, only a very small minority seemed to know that Apple took any cut whatsoever.
It's hard to believe it's been roughly two decades since the Athlon/Opteron almost killed Intel, which would've been the last time AMD did so well in server market share.

The short version of this story is that Intel licensed the x86 instruction set back in the 90s to several companies including AMD and Cyrix. Intel didn't like this as time went on. First, they couldn't trademark numbers, which is why the 486 went to the Pentium. Second, they didn't want developers producing compatible chips.

So Intel entered into a demonic pact with HP to develop EPIC. That's the architecture name. Itanium was the cip. Merced was one of the early code names. This was in the 90s when it wasn't clear if RISC or CISC would dominate. As we now know, this effort was years last, with huge cost overruns and by the time it shipped it was too expensive for too little performance.

At the same time, on the consumer front we had the Megahertz Wars. Intel moved from the Pentium-3 to the Pentium-4 that scaled really well with clock speed but wasn't great with IPC. It also had issues with pipelines and failed branch prediction (IIRC). But from a marketing perspective it killed AMD (and Cyrix).

Why is this important? Because 64 bit was around the corner and Intel wanted to move the market to EPIC. AMD said to hell with that and released the x84-64 instruction set (which, by the terms of the licensing agreemnt, Intel had a right to use as well) and released the Athlon series of desktop chips, followed later by the Opteron server chips. These were wildly successful.

The Pentium-4 hit a clock ceiling of 3-4 GHz, which still pretty much exists today. In the 90s it was thought chips would scale up to 10GHz or beyond by many.

What saved Intel? The Pentium-3. You see the Pentium-3 had morphed into a mobile platform because it was very energy efficient. First as Pentium-M and later as Core Duo and Core 2 Duo. This was the Centrino platform. Some early hackers took Centrino boards and built desktops. The parts were hard to get if you weren't a laptop OEM. They probably salvaged laptops.

Anyway by the mid to late 2000s, Intel had fully embraced this and it became the Core architecture that has evolved largely ever since to what we have today.

But back then Intel was formidable in terms of bringing new smaller processes online. This was a core competency right up until the 10nm transition in the 2010s, which was years late. And TSMC (and even Samsung) came along and ate their lunch. I can't tell you that happened but Intel never recovered, to this day.

As for AMD, after a few years they never seemed to capitalize on their Opteron head start. Maybe it was that Intel caught up. I'm not really sure. But they were in the wilderness for probably 10-15 years, right up until Ryzen.

Intel needs to be studied for how badly they dropped the bag. Nowadays, their CEO seems to be reduced to quoting the Bible on Twitter [1].

I'm glad to see AMD back. I still believe ARM is going to be a huge player in the coming decade.

[1]: https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/intel-facing...
Yes, if most of the people who will be reading your press release will misinterpret it you have a problem. Audience matters, and if you dismiss your audience as a "bubble" you will fail to communicate with them.
Just remember:

If companies could reasonably expect to get away with it, they'd offer murder-for-hire as-a-service so long as it was profitable, and if they didn't, there'd probably be at least one activist shareholder who would push for it.
Yikes. How did you find out? Did you notice a drop in your energy levels? Stomach cramps?
This would be awesome. Another thing on my wish list is a requirement to simply reject all cookies, a la lynx. I absolutely hate having to deselect some cookies while feeling like I am treated as an idiot for accepting “absolutely essential” cookies that are of course not essential at all.
Maybe your ex-wife was the one who needed to read this article.
The thing that gets me most excited about these batteries is less that they can go further, but that you can cut your battery in half and have a viable electric car. If the cost is lower, even better. I'm looking forward to the day when an electric car is significantly cheaper than an ICE alternative.
It is a play on the standard SCP term "amnestic" for a drug that erases memory.

Which only pushes your question back one level. I've thought the derivation of "amnestic" is somewhat questionable before too. But it established itself very early. There's some other parts of very, very early SCP lore that are pretty questionable; flinging arbitrary numbers of the so-called "D-Class" death row inmates into the waiting maw of a cosmic horror has become fairly disfavored for a variety of reasons over time too, for instance. But it's part of the groundwork now.
Even canned goods have a plastic liner these days.
Companies do, just not the ones we read about on Hacker News.
That is true if you can afford to isolate yourself from the rest of the world. Otherwise, social interactions are a source of stress over which you don’t have much control even if you give up on social media. Or the way society works in general. Or the state of politics. Or the environment. “It’s your lifestyle” is an easy answer that is far from complete. It is also a common way of blaming the victim. It is very difficult for most people to extract themselves from their social situation.
Patreon doesn't lose anything to Apple - they give creators on Patreon a choice - charge Apple users more to cover the 30%, or eat the loss. I don't know what Patreon's take is, they are going to take the same either way. However they know their customers and users will lose from this and it is good for them to look out for their customers (it doesn't costs them much)
It's still comical to me that Google lost their anti trust suit while Apple does blatant offenses with their 30% fee.
I suggest maintaining a neutral buffer zone between NATO and RF by not bringing Ukraine and other bordering nations into NATO. You found zero evidence that Russia wants to expand its borders. Although the communist party is the second largest in RF, its influence is relatively small and sees little likelihood of gaining significant power to restore the USSR.

The Donbas is populated mainly by Russian people who had been in a civil war with western Ukraine since the 2014 Maidan coup. They wanted to join the Russian Federation for years, but Russia did not want that until the situation became untenable.

Russia's economy is growing faster than the US and Europe. Perhaps that will encourage immigration. RF is implementing many policies to aid families to have more children and encourage controlled immigration. They could use about another billion people in that vast and rich territory.
Non North-American here. I've read that Biden passed a "Hidden costs" bill. Wouldn't this Apple charges account as a hidden cost?
That means getting those 2 million patients on every device... Really bad choice for medical software.
The “who’s hiring thread” here is good for this.
True, but Android at least allows alternative app stores, and there are a few. Obviously it's not as easy as the native store, but if enough developers are dissatisfied, there is a way out.
For me it's about giving myself the permission to "give up" and let someone else handle it. Like you, I realized that being surrounded by broken things and incomplete projects was causing me a lot of constant low-level stress. As a person who prides themselves on being self-reliant, it's hard to pay for something that I know I could do it myself, even when the cost is insignificant. It helps to remind myself there are other things to optimize for, like saving time and preserving mental sanity.
I built my house from nothing, not even utilities, by myself working full time and with kids.

Sure kids activities have to go on a back burner, but sorry, they have food and shelter and after that their enjoyment has to take a backseat to the family building the house which benefits us far longer than the memories of the park or soccer practice.

I respect choices of others but ultimately I see no reason to place childrens non-needs above critical family infrastructure.
Secrets include facts like “I am being treated for schizophrenia”, “I no longer believe the teachings of my church”, “I used to be a woman”, or “I testified against the mafia.”

Disclosure of these secrets foreseeably results in irreparable harm.
It's a diphthong though. Same as the difference between George (roughly dzo:rdz) and Geörge (roughly dze:ordz).
Any reason why Patreon can't go Netflix/Spotify way? they charge their customers via the web thus bypassing Apple paywall.
While I agree that the peace of mind for subscribing through a service like Apple or Google is nice (or any other service that you know will be easy ahead of time), Patreon's model is the same. It's really easy to subscribe and unsubscribe from individual creators. There's no benefit to the user from adding Apple into the mix.
I don't think the actual amount of time working changes if it takes one week or two months lol.
> What is your logic?

That is precisely the question many people would like to ask the head of SpaceX.
all of these intuitions are right, it's the stress, the environmental pollutants, the empty calories, the nutritional deficiencies, and, as you said, excessive hygiene and underexposure to pathogens particularly during childhood (even cesarian birth contributes to gut dysbiosis), overreliance on pharmaceutical drugs that do more harm than good, all in all a gross misunderstanding of what constitutes health and how the human body works
LG Seeking Compensation from Apple over Canceled MicroLED Apple Watch Project
which mobile browsers can this run on? seems like its not happening on Safari on iPhone. If it did that would be a game changer. Any status on whether ElectricSQL can run on mobile devices in general?

also is the UI tool open source? id prefer to run it locally

edit: this is an incredible tool. its going to eat a lot of backend engineers billing hours.

suggestion: add a copy button for the generated SQLs
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Discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41224853
Normally not a fan of the “AI/LLM” + {existing workflow} headlines that companies have been pumping out but honestly. This might be a decent case. In my experience, LLM is pretty good at generating on the fly data for inserting into databases. So instead of hand rolling or building a query to insert data, it would be easier to query LLM.

Overall, looks pretty good. I’m on mobile but stumbled upon the blog post in comments.

Ask: I understand why it won’t run on mobile but at least give mobile a synopsis of what it’s suppose to do. I almost ignored this if it wasn’t for the luck of seeing your comment.
Tangentially related to the post: I have what I think is a related computer vision problem I would like to solve and need some pointers on how you would go about doing it.

My desk is currently set up such that I have a large monitor in the middle. I'd like to look at the center of the screen when taking calls. I'd also like it to appear as though I am looking straight into the camera, and the camera is pointed at my face. Obviously, I cannot physically place the camera right in front of the monitor as that would be seriously inconvenient. Some laptops solve but I don't think their methods apply here as the top of my monitor ends up being quite a bit higher than what would look "good" for simple eye correction.

I have multiple webcams that I can place around the monitor to my liking. I would like to have something similar to what is seen when you open this webpage, but for a video. hopefully at higher quality since I'm not constrained to a monocular source.

I've dabbled a bit with OpenCV in the past, but the most I've done is a little camera calibration for de-warping fisheye lenses. Any ideas on what work I should look into to get started with this?

In my head, I'm picturing two camera sources: one above and one below the monitor. The "synthetic" projected perspective would be in the middle of the two.

Is capturing a point cloud from a stereo source and then reprojecting with splats the most "straightforward" way to do this? Any and all papers/advice are welcome. I'm a little rusty on the math side but I figure a healthy mix of Szeliski's Computer Vision, Wolfram Alpha, a chatbot, and of course perseverance will get me there.