skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without diving into your bizarre claim about 737 MAX being safe...

> It may have involved making breathalyzers a mandatory feature [for cars] etc, but I suspect there’s a lot more we could do even without that.

My understanding is that drunk driving is a small minority of car crashes/fatalities. In most crashes, the driver(s) involved are completely sober. Making breathalyzers mandatory in cars would be awful.
I have just finished an AI design agent [0] that gives UI design feedback, but that launch went really poorly.

So now I’m working on learning Golang and loving it! Going to build a backend with it

[0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ui-copilot/hgaldpfd...
I've mentioned my project a few times around HN, but might as well reiterate :)

I took some time off from work to teach myself Rust and to build a WASM colony simulation game. You've got a colony of ants, they're in a cold, foggy crater, and you help them grow and survive. The simulation runs 24/7, like a Tamagotchi, but a bit more complex, like a simplified RimWorld or Dwarf Fortress. I am hoping to design game play systems which focus on mental health, self-care, addiction, motivation, and personal growth and to use the gameplay as a means of encouraging awareness in the player.

https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants

I haven't added any features in a while, unfortunately, but it's on my mind. For a while I was just adding whatever popped into my head, as a means of learning Rust, and I naively thought the full idea would crystallize with time, but it hasn't. So, I'm trying to take a step back and figure out how to actually make a coherent game that does justice to the mechanics I want to see in my simulation. I've spent a lot of time thinking rather than coding, but I'm optimistic that I'll get through this phase sooner or later. I will admit, though, that trying to take a novel approach with game design is overwhelming at times. That's okay, though! I'm enjoying the process of tinkering with the project and will likely continue tinkering on it for many years to come as a creative outlet for self-actualization.
I've heard great things about Pola.rs performance. To get there, they have a lazy evaluation so they can see more of the computation at once, allowing them to implement optimizations similar to those in a SQL engine.
That's awesome! Do you know of any resources for learning more about audio/video compression?
These guys are going out of their way to be offended by slopshops using first-gen AI for SEO. This has been happening since ML first got "good" at translating. Just stick to publishers with reputation you agree with. Use search/recommendation engines with user respecting controls. They seem to be calling for blanket rejection of AI assisted content which is more censorship instead of more user preferences.

It's going to be interesting when people come out of the woodworks and admit to their much loved works being helped by AI. A lot of people are going to reverse their quality rating based on being "tricked". Same as it ever was with ghost writers and women using pen names. We don't even need AI-free pledges we just need honest reviewers who care about the work and not the meta-data of the work.
That doesn't hold together. You seem to be arguing that LLMs produce text as a sequence of words. Which, fair enough, they obviously do.

But then your argument seems to drift into humans not producing text as a series of words. I'm not sure how you type your comments but you should upload a YouTube video of it as it sounds like it'd be quite a spectacle!

If your argument is that LLMs can't reason because they don't edit their comments, it'd be worth stopping and reflecting for a few moments about how weak a position that is. I wrote this comment linearly just to make a point with no editing except spellchecking.
I read a cool study, apparently there’s a condition called “congenital insensitivity to pain”

There’s some gene, that if it doesn’t work right, you can’t feel pain. I think it does what this drug targets, regulate sodium flow.

Apparently they did CRISPR on some rats and disabled the gene, preventing sodium flow through the protein, and it worked to suppress pain. Interestingly it also suppressed the ability to smell! I can’t find the source right now.

I do remember, however the article I read said that they had been trying to find drugs that could do the same, but it was really tricky to find the right protein to block the transmission of chemicals.

Looks like they are finally making progress!
https://www.plainweb.dev is my shot at making web development simpler.

my bet is that most companies and solo devs only need a single process and sqlite to drive revenue.

i’m considering switching from tsx to bun, but i’m hesitating because of some missing node 20 api.
It still supports JSONP [1] too, a little React app I haven't touched for 9 years which used it [2] is still chugging along

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cxh3a/we_just_...

[2] http://insin.github.io/just-dadjokes/
I’m starting to see this new aesthetic pop up. Anyone know how to define it, or where/why it came from?
In my experience RCA is developer driven, pointing to structural issues in the org, which are then up to management to act on or not. For example, whistleblowers at Boeing are pointing out quality issues that are being ignored, not that there is too much paperwork like you are suggesting.

Post-mortems are as short as possible because technical people usually write them and have better things to do. Getting an LLM to do them will only remove this feedback channel, as it is much easier to ignore a LLM suggesting more time or money is spent on quality than it is to ignore a human.
> It's really weird that Telegram is singled out like this.

wasn't he bragging that he operates with like a dozen people or something. I can also see him just punting on many kinds of moderation (outside of the kind that helps running the service), because it's a lot of subjective, dirty work and an army of people.
I can corroborate GP's claim. I've used AdBlock at home, but at work my Youtube main page has a persistent ad that's like what GP described. Location: Hong Kong with an office network that presumably VPNs to USA.
which limits it to very small amounts or the proceeds of crime.
I don't really get why you insist on continuing to compare the 737 MAX deaths to unrelated, irrelevant other statistics.

The Concorde was a niche aircraft that hasn't flown for over 20 years. Even if it were flying today, I would still consider its safety record as in a completely separate bucket than subsonic commercial airliners.

And I don't care how the 737 MAX compares to driving. I care how it compares to other, similar, commercial aircraft in use today. If I'm going to drive, I drive. If I'm going to fly, I'm going to care about how the plane on my itinerary compares to other planes I could be sitting on with a similar itinerary.
It's a very cool idea.

However, I gave it "Jane Eyre" (a mid-19th century novel by Charlotte Bronte; it's a classic) with the expectation that it will return "Wuthering Heights" – another a classic novel written in mid-19th century by Emily Bronte (yes the authors are related) – among other things. People who like Jane Eyre tend to like Wuthering Heights, and vice versa.

But everything it returned were new works – published in the last 20 years – of stories that are set in the 19th century.

The only filters applied were:
"Preferred: Gothic romance novel, Victorian literature, Highly influential classic literature, Early 19th-century England ".

So, something seems amiss for now. Nevertheless, it's a very cool idea.

(Edited to fix my grammar; English is not my first language, so pardon me for any mistakes.)
Two regressions I noted right away (chromium):

- CPU usage and rendering overhead/waiting time is noticably higher than on the old version.

- The supposedly responsive functionality means that the sidebar hides ~half of main content on my default window size and resolution on desktop. I have to zoom out to be able to read at all.
It also means no self-sustaining project can be built with it.

Which to me is something important to know when thinking about what can be built and the amount of effort it represents.

For better or worse, that ultimately shapes what can reasonably be done with it.
It's certainly not terrible, and I'll probably stick with it a year until I learn something else as well as I know Flutter...

But to answer...

Main reason, I'd like to ship software that isn't only good, but great. To create great apps, it needs to integrate into the OS/browser, and my experience with Flutter has been not great in this regard. The apps always look and feel a bit foreign. I'd rather write 3 separate apps (web, ios, android) that feel great, than ship something faster (if even...) that is so bad, sometimes I feel it's a spit in the face of our customers.

The mobile alternatives became much better: when they started, they were (as I remember) significantly better than the alternatives. Since then, RN became much better, Swift and Kotlin became mainstream, SwiftUI, Jetpack Computer came out, and in a couple of years KMP will also offer a pretty compelling alternative.

Flutter is spread too thin: I understand why they did it, it's great for marketing, and I know people who use it on web, desktop and embedded and are happy... To me, however, it feels like they added platforms before making iOS and Android work and feel great. I hate that I had to debug and pin dependencies that broke due to web incompatibility on an a mobile only app. IMO, it's so shjt on web it's laughable.
Critical Privilege Escalation: LiteSpeed Cache Plugin Affecting 5M Sites
thankfully Americans have their guns! that'll save them from the government...
They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexity (2023)
https://github.com/andrew-johnson-4/lambda-mountain

Working on verifiable correctness for programs written in LM or anything that generates annotated assembly. Basically low-level proofs that accessed memory is valid and live or that function pre/post-conditions are met.

The goal is that these proofs are compiler agnostic, so more people can use them.
https://www.qrgrid.dev/

Qr Grid: The Ultimate Customizable QR Code JavaScript Library

Making an OpenSource Library for developers to easily generate and customize QR codes across multiple platforms.
It might be an "OS" but it has a Linux kernel. It's a self-acclaimed "pioneering Linux distribution". It has some features other distros/tools implement to some extent as well: rebootless atomic upgrades, rollback. See Fedora/rpm-os-tree, Nix etc.
So he wasn't jailed.
For my use cases: web development with python, c#, react and unity3d extension development. Claude is significantly better.

I switched over few months ago and still test GPT from time to time, Claude wins every time
I am creating custom hardware for my own SaaS. So far I've designed a custom 3D printed case and wrote early version of firmware.

It feels great to create something physical after over 10 years of working on CRUD web apps.

My work is open source and available at https://github.com/ziolko/eink-calendar-display.
Can you clarify a little bit who you mean by Europeans?

The citizens of the EU or Europe?
I just did this with my kids various school calendars all of which are locked up in gross PDF files. Claude only made one tiny mistake which it was able to correct when I asked it why it made the mistake. It actually pointed out the confusing formatting used by the author.

I tried to do the same with ChatGPT a few weeks ago and was unable to get very far.
This isn't true. I don't know what censorship algorithm they run and what they show to bots vs. users, but if a link isn't there - then it's not there.
> Again, you miss the point. 95%+ of Linux systems are single disk. That's the expected case.

I specifically added ENOSPC as an example that's relevant on single disk systems as well.

Regardless, I thought we were talking about 95% of usecases in relation to implementations, not runtime systems, but even if we're talking about runtime systems, I'm not sure where you're pulling that 95% number from (or why you felt the need to add a plus sign this time around). That may be true for personal computers, but most Linux systems are servers, which generally aren't deployed in a single disk configuration.

> You brought this up initially, saying it was difficult to handle

I didn't say anything about difficulty. I only said that it wasn't trivial as you made it out to be, which isn't the same thing. Also, when I initially brought it up all I said was that in the FD exhaustion case it wouldn't work in the way you described in the comment that I responded to.

> You claimed it wasn't possible to be sure SIGBUS is from an I/O error. That's wrong.

I didn't. All I said in response to your claim of "It's either -EIO, or it's writing beyond EOF" was that there are other reasons for getting a SIGBUS. Moreover, I actually said (in the same paragraph), that if you know that a SIGBUS is caused by an I/O error, and that all of the code in your process is well-behaved (and by that I meant that terminating it with an abort() wouldn't cause side-effects due to e.g. atexit() handlers not running), using mmap with a SIGBUS handler might be reasonable.

> Wrong. You can resolve that ambiguity from the cited address. Try it next time.

First you claimed that I invented an ambiguity that doesn't exist, and that SIGBUS causes can be identifiable if I just read the sigaction(7) manpage. Now you say that there is an ambiguity, but that it can be resolved using the address, so which is it? [0]

I never said that using mmap is impossible, or even hard (and definitely not "this is actually really hard"). I actually agreed that in some cases it might be reasonable to do it with a SIGBUS handler. All I did say was that it isn't trivial to deal with errors, and that the 95% figure might be true for your usecases, but that it doesn't necessarily apply to other people's usecases.

The only one who said that something was "hard" during this discussion was you.

I get it, it's easier to attack the strawman rather than respond to my comments. I'm just not sure why you think it has anything to do with what I said.

[0] EDIT: I now see that you edited the sentence I quoted to say "from the cited address and si_errno etc.". It might surprise you to learn that si_errno is almost never set in Linux (the manpage is actually explicit about it with "si_errno is generally unused in Linux"), and definitely not in mmap-related SIGBUS coming from memory mapped files. I have no idea why you added this remark telling me that I should try it, when you clearly didn't.
I find Claude solutions better than GPT-4o for my coding errors and questions
I am an MD/PhD, and I agree that a lot of the research done by clinicians is self-serving and useless. But most medical/health research is not done by physicians who are typically quite busy and generally not motivated to do anything that involves statistics and takes time and effort. Also, most clinician-led research is simply ignored because it tends to be overridden by the results of large clinical trials usually conducted by professional scientists. Where I see major problems are in two fields. The first is epidemiology (which receives about 30% of Research funding) where most of the research is done by non-clinicians, often involves data dredging and posthoc theorizing motivated by easy access to larger amount of pre-collected data and the availability of statistical software that permits fitting black box models that typically show whatever results are good for publication. This field is the source of contradictory results that we read every day in the news where something and its opposite are both good and bad for every kind of imaginable illness or symptom -. The other is a lot of basic sciences research which typically represent about 60% of all funded research. The great majority of that research is baseless as was shown by effort to replicate many of the findings. Billions of dollars are spent searching for genetic and other causes of illness using small poorly designed studies that can neither prove or disprove anything. So the problem is much bigger than just poorly trained and busy clinicians trying to prove a pet hypothesis. The problem is everywhere.
Edited to fix typos
I have been working on creating a hosting project where I can provide access to lots of private frontends (invidious, redlib, etc) and different services (vaultwarden, nextcloud, etc), etc. I have been setting up glusterFS (a distributed nfs) which I can use in Docker swarm to share the volumes for different nodes. I would wanna work on writing a distributed nfs once I am done with this small project
From that article:

> however, when qualified by IQ and reading levels, Strategy Instruction (SI) had better effects for the high IQ group.

Which only goes to show that being a great teacher is an impossible mission, and it's wonderful how many succees at it despite the difficulty.
Tutors adapt to their students. Schools adapt to metrics. Why?

A tutor can do trial and error and eventually find a way that helps the student understand. School system has a needlesly specific curriculum that is decided a priori, and it's not optional.
My AI safety startup
this is really nice
Hello!
I'm working on a low-code API builder based on Flyde, the open-source visual programming language I launched a few months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628285)
Unlike existing low-code API builders, one can easily eject to a ".flyde" source file and run the API wherever they want without being commercially vendor-locked

I would love feedback on the new site's direction - https://www.getflowcode.io/ (still WIP)
Here's the old one, for reference https://flyde.app/
> I'm curious about such questions because on a larger scheme of the things, I really hope that Boeing is not a miniature reflection of the US - an empire in its twilight that got entangled in irreconcilable interests, doomed to watch its own inevitable decline.

I’m tired of this hyperbolic, melodramatic angst about the general decline of the U.S. Did you not read the part about the crew being returned by SpaceX? A company that just made landing rockets a reality only 9 years ago, not even 10 years has passed and reusable rockets are as boring as smartphones. NASA identified an issue on the Boeing Starliner, and a cutting edge company (SpaceX) stepped up for a non-emergency rescue mission. There was no loss of life, or equipment, there’s been no injuries, just mild inconveniences. This isn’t a nation in decline, this is a nation that has even begun to peak yet.
It is currently still #28 and hnrankings.info agrees. If you cannot see it there, maybe you accidentally pressed the hide button.
No it doesn't. If you set up PGP or SSL you'll be able to encrypt things and might even misuse this capability for crime, but you won't have installed a platform where crime is openly advertised.

I like Telegram, a lot, but if you're ignoring the fact that large parts of it openly function as a mall for criminal services (and it's 100x easier to find that stuff than via Tor, for example) you're not being honest with yourself. A lot of people here are just reflexively assuming its mean cops vs encryption because that's an issue tehy personally care about, and ignoring any other context.
And how to you find the true uncensored information between all the propaganda on telegram?
Which law enforcement?

I've always been under the impression that as long as your country has your back, you can refuse law enforcement requests claiming their government or their laws are bad so you don't have to comply.
I’ve been very impressed with the “awful” common core math. It teaches kids to think about numbers the way my friends and I do. (Context: I’m not a mathematician, but won lots of state math contests in high school. I didn’t choose to specialize in it but neither do I suck at it.)

It’s very different from the dreadfully boring memorization-based curriculum I had to endure.
What happens is some big investors buy chunks of stock, and then resell it on a secondary market. So my shares are claims on the big investor's shares, not mine. There's usually a non-trivial minimum, and a hefty fee.

I suppose ask your broker about it.
>> the unbelievable magic that a good Ruby on Rails team (or single dev) can sometimes achieve

I don't believe that Ruby On Rails has magical developer productivity beyond other technologies.

If yes, explain the mechanics of it to me.

Ruby on Rails does nothing special beyond Python or TypeScript or Golang or whatever.

The idea that Ruby On Rails is magically more productive is just fiction created by Ruby enthusiasts.
Wow an article from my alma mater top to HN wow congrats folks!
> There is a lot of evidence that the educational establishment is full of idiots.

The world is full of people who are not smart and don't want to feel inferior. No conspiracy needed, we've collectively decided it's best to dumb down to a common denominator to make everyone feel included. That's what you're seeing here. To a degree this is part of a good society but it also removes incentives to escape mediocrity.
Defenders is referring to the entire org, not just the security team.
Would order instantly. I have a bunch of e-scooter 18650 battery packs that would be nice to convert to an e-bike one.

If Kickstarter is starting in Sept, then I guess it will be another 1-2 years.
I don’t think I agree.

Something that is free is an unlimited resource. Something which costs even $0.01 is a limited resource (even if the limit is very high).

People naturally deal with limited resources different than unlimited. If it’s unlimited, each usage requires no further consideration. If it’s limited, each usage requires evaluating whether to spend dollars/credits/capacity on it.

I use a paid search engine. I paid extra for the “unlimited” option even though I should have fallen well under a lower tier. It wasn’t because of payment friction. (I was already paying a monthly fee, the only difference was the amount.) I paid the extra because as soon as this transitioned from unlimited to limited, I needed to keep a mental accounting of every usage. I needed to consider if each usage was worth buying.

If you give me a sheet of stickers for free I will struggle to stick them on anything. They are, by their nature as a physical thing, a limited resource. Payment doesn’t matter because they were free. What matters is I can run out so I need to ensure I’m making the best use of a limited resource.
I use Django, which is also very slow, for the vast majority of projects and a few of them run on the same server with no issues.

The "single Hetzner server" approach has only failed me once - and we fixed it by just migrating to a bigger single Hetzner server. Computers have gotten very fast!

As others have said, by the time you have enough users to outgrow the easy-but-slow stack, you'll have enough money for a rewrite.
Thank you! I hope to see it used in some office in my hometown soon :)
Anytime who complains about CORS has my instant upvote, haha!

Seriously though, I think, like this guy suggests, if you avoid cookies on your site or use same site, your fine and cors is mostly a waste.
How does it interact with two or more physical displays?
LG new tech cracks pesky problems that prevent OLED brighter and last longer
Funny, I just learned this this week too and had it generate an ics file from an excel file. Then I realized there might be bugs, so I asked it to write program instead.
If you ever visit a dairy farm, you may be in for a big surprise...