skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s pretty obvious from our evolution that we need some UV but not too much. In Africa, where we got a lot of sun, we evolved darker skin to prevent damage, but in the more norther latitudes, our skin tones lightened to take advantage of the otherwise insufficient sunlight.

I feel like a good rule of thumb would be, if you’re tanning, your body thinks you’re getting too much sun exposure for your current skin color.
I am talking about playing my guitar through my DAW in real time, I consider it "production"
many years ago, i was working as an electronic technician. we had a stack of processor boards (from a Perkin Elmer 7/32) that were removed from service. broken.
many different revisions, and only schematics for one revision of each board.
i thought it was hopeless. an older wiser tech taught me how.

plug a good board on an extender. run a diagnostic that fails in a loop. using a scope, look at every pin on the connector. write down what you see.
replace with a bad board. repeat.

which signals are different? chase them back. if the schematic does not match, get out a voltmeter and your eyes and draw a schematic that reflects how the board is wired.

he called this "good card - bad card".

and it worked. not going to make any claims about cost effectiveness, but we fixed every board. and my troubleshooting skills in digital electronics were greatly improved.

this was a 'fireman' kind of job. waiting for the system to break, so it didn't matter if 2 techs put a week into 1 circuit board.
It’s Texas so you would assume they want people to waste gas.
There is not one only solution for off-cloud computing, but there are solutions for different services. For photo and video storage instead of Google photo etc you may give a try to Immich.app, surely more suited for this job than Syncthing...
>> It seems that PostHog just always loads the latest version of this piece of itself:

Now there's a supply chain attack vector...
That repo was last updated 3 years ago, things seem to have changed since.

There seem to be a lot of ISOs for download at https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/t...

The ISO contains an EFI filesystem with grub etc and boots fine without needing Windows.
Before this exchange 635 was just stopped around 5pm. That is part of the problem is you fix one spot and it move the pinch point down to the next exit.
No studies have shown that any of these supplements reduces mortality, whereas multiple studies show sunlight reduces mortality.
I guess you have to wait for the article in The Atlantic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/04/dubai-om...
The result of largest American controlled experiment in Universal Basic Income
I mean, they would be the ones I'd expect to be the most sensitive to the negative impacts of UV radiation, right? The acute effects of UV tend to be worse on people who are (a) lighter skinned and (b) get less exposure in general.

I would actually expect the biggest positive impacts would be to darker-skinned people who live in higher latitudes with more time spent inside (as melanin protects you from the UV radiation, so you see higher rates of, e.g. vitamin D insufficiency).

There's three major pathways for health benefits from sun exposure.

1. UVB radiation stimulates the synthesis of vitamin D3.

2. UVA radiation stimulates the release of nitric oxide. This reduces your blood pressure and improves markers of cardiovascular health.

3. You're outside getting physical activity.

[edit] Also note that melanoma survival rates are much better for people who get more time in the sun.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/97/3/195/2544082
I used to use those, too, but I’ve started using a yubikey and azure doesn’t support those on Firefox on Linux. So now I’ve begrudgingly switched to chromium for my azure-related needs, with separate profiles, which is a PITA compared to containers.
I've never heard of the proposed gravity assist theory in any discussion of these interchanges. Does it happen? Sure. Is it one of the reasons behind the design or just something that happens to also be true is the actual question. Pontificating on the interwebs is fun
Ironically you seem to be focusing too much on the exact words and phrases I used rather than the deeper meaning. So let's just get completely away from words like "knows" and "understanding" which seem to be tripping multiple people up.

> It's just a substring match.

Let's just say this is true. That is a super simply process, but what would it look like?

Step 1: Transcribe the audio into text

Step 2: Run substring match on text

The transcribing/close captioning feature only does step 1. This shows that a step 2 is possible. I think you would have to be naive to think the capability to do this type of analysis on the transcribed text was designed for only this feature and would never be used for anything else. This feature is announcing that Youtube isn't merely creating transcripts of the audio in videos, it is running some unknown amount of analysis on that data.

As I said in my original comment, "it isn't that I didn't know Google had this ability", but this is literally a glowing sign pointing to this fact. I think the danger of Google reminding people of this has potential to outweigh the benefit of the "that's cute" reaction that this is designed to elicit.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. Ever since LLMs took over, I've noticed an uptick in my fellow senior developers complain about the quality of work, but I've also seen a huge increase in the poor quality of PRs to open source projects.

Like, normally my primary complaint about LLMs is their copyright violating nature, and how it is hanging everyone who has ever published the output of an LLM out to dry, but unless LLM output improves, I think it may end up being a non-issue: their use will die out, and every AI startup will die, just like all the Alt-coin startups did.

Want to change my mind on LLM quality? Have it produce code so good that I can't tell the difference between an inexperienced developer (the kind that would be hired into a junior role, not the kind that would be hired for an internship) and the output of this thing.
Several years ago, facing the problem that Reclaim.ai started off solving (cross-calendar sync), I started exploring Google's Calendar API and MS's O365 API for the same. Pretty quickly figured out this wasn't side project-sized and dropped it, so I've been happy to give Reclaim my money in the years past!
Show HN: Hybrid Ecommerce Search with Marqo
Yes, but you’re restating why I specified archery as the starting point: by WWI people had had multiple centuries to get used to firearms improving rapidly and changing ranged warfare from something requiring skilled warriors to something you could throw gobs of recently-recruited farm boys at. AI fakery has progressed at a much faster rate.
> I'm just going to wait for my preferred vendor

By the numbers, most customers are shopping on any particular given ecommerce website for the first time. It's expensive and difficult to gain new customers - and even more difficult to gain repeat customers.

What would you have done if you had not purchased from ebikes.ca before and just happened to stumble across them after a google search? What would you have done if after clicking the ad/link, the page didn't load? Would you try again tomorrow? Probably not... that is the issue. Instead you would be naming some other small business that was online when you needed them to be.
Ah interesting. I missed that when browsing the page.

Can you make the diff side-by-side? I’ve always hated the “inline” terminal style diff view. My brain just can’t parse it. I need the side-by-side view that lets me see what the actual before/after code is.
Hey Zed team, just one little nitpick about the page. I love the keyboard shortcuts at the top for the download page and login. However, when I try to Ctrl-L and select the url, it triggers the login page shortcut.

Brave Browser
Windows 10
How to Build a Multimodal Hybrid Search System with Vectors and Full Text
So how much your net worth increase? How well did your employees exit?
I don’t live in a place where just walking around can be dangerous to my health.
> I just want a fast programmable text editor with a native GUI and good defaults.

What would that be for each OS?

Linux: Kate (at least if using KDE; which one would it be for GTK / Gnome?)

macOS: TextMate?

Windows: Notepad++?
In a sense, it's the same attack surface as always - we're just injecting additional party into the equation, one with different (often broader) access scope and overall different perspective on the system. Established security mitigations and practices have assumptions that are broken with that additional party in play.
Codeium works well but I really like the copilot chat plugin as well - it generally does a good job of explaining highlighted code, fixing errors, and other code interactions.
>I don't understand the underlying mechanisms that will allow for these new partnerships to work, but reading bits like "ensuring proper attribution and compensation for use of our intellectual property,"

Possibly some European style music licensing model, but for articles. PRS for example[1] in the UK is a copyright collective. Bars, clubs, supermarkets etc pay a fee to the organisation to sign up to it, and can play pretty much any music in return. The PRS body distributes what it decides is an equitable distribution to artists & labels. For most of PRS' history, there was very little science in determining who had the most plays, but everyone seemed to agree with the distribution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRS_for_Music
My roommates' dog got attacked by the neighbor dog 2 days ago. The dog ran across the street into our yard to attack him. There's a reason for leashes.
Yes but... not for the whole day. You can still get some sun in the morning and evening when the UV index is a lot more reasonable. Clearly not ideal but, well, that's where you live.

I personally am looking forward to when I am able to be a snowbird. Summers in the northern US, winters in the south. It's the best of both worlds.

A few years ago, we met up with some friends from Houston at a summer vacation rental up in the Traverse City Michigan area. Their kids couldn't get over how late sunsets were. It really messed with their heads for the first few days. But when you have so so much daylight, you don't worry about spending a few hours indoors when the sun is most intense - you aren't wasting any of your precious vacation time.

And then in winter, walking along the ocean on the Gulf Coast in January with only a long-sleeved shirt. For a few hours most days you can get away with a T-shirt (or no shirt). Glorious.
Anecdotally, I have never seen Windows widely used for development, outside of .NET shops (but that shouldn't be a surprise).

Moreover, there's plenty of quirks Windows has with respect to:

- Unicode (UTF-16 whereas the world is UTF-8; even Java uses UTF-8 nowadays, so it's only Windows where UTF-8 is awkward to use)

- filenames (lots of restrictions that don't exist on Mac or Linux)

- text encoding (the data in the same string type changes depending on the user's locale)

- UUIDs (stored in a mixed-endian format)

- limit of open files (much lower than Mac and Linux; breaks tools like Git)

If you write software in Java, Golang, or Node.js, you'll quickly encounter all of these issues and produce software with obscure bugs that only occur on Windows.

I'm not sure about Rust, but using languages that claim cross-platform support isn't enough to hide the details of an OS.

In every job I've had, the vast majority of devs were on Mac OS, with Linux coming in at a close second (usually senior devs). So I wasn't surprised Zed first supported Mac then Linux. Windows support is nice for students, game developers, and people maintaining legacy .NET software, but those people won't be paying for an editor.
I guess getting a proper certificate was too much effort before LetsEncrypt and that site is pretty (pun, if you want) old...
HF is a cool website but I wish they offered a more obvious way to download. Let me download the model or dataset as a 7zip archive, or even better create torrents.

HF is the major distribution center for so called open models, yet I need an account to access most stuff. Github just let's me grab a release or download a project as a zip folder.

It really grinds my gears cuz its not a barrier to open source fully open models and datasets, more like that really annoying pothole.

HF has a great service but I really dislike how they serve models. If they created torrents for models, torrents that don't force you to login to access I would seed as many models and datasets as possible.
Reminded me of their Command-E acquisition from a few years ago (https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/welcome-command-e-to...)
When you’re young all the good times are ahead on your life path, when you start to get old they are behind more and more, it’s nice to look at something, a picture, a postcard, a letter and feel a little of the happiness it brought once.
you can write the grammars in swift now, not javascript.
The 4GL dream hinges on figuring out how to transition from #2 -> #1 seamlessly. The spectrum is wider and more complex than "Excel -> Postgres" but even solving that journey would be a good start. It could save us all from a whole a bunch of ~needless engineering work.

> it seems very possible to go from #1 -> #2 mechanically, and hand that off to the users who want to play with it

NocoDB seems like a reasonable attempt of taking this approach for Postgres.
> The amount of children killed or injured by poorly restrained dogs is very high.

This claim is interesting, if true. Can you back it up? I spent 15 minutes on research, and my preliminary findings, using US statistics (I'm not American but it's just easier to google American stuff) suggest that:

a) about 42 Americans die to dog attacks per year (about 0.13 per 100k population) (very high confidence)

b) it looks like about half of those are kids under 17, with ages 1-4 over-represented (very high confidence)

c) most of those kids-dying-to-dogs deaths are not due to unrestrained dogs in public, but rather infants in their family homes, dying to dogs owned by the child's parents (low to medium confidence)

For example, WP gathers media/journal reports on dog fatalities, and has 16 records for 2023 (so presumably about 1/3 of the fatalities for that year). 6 of those are children. Of those 6 children, 4 died to the family pet, the other 2 died to neighbours' dogs while in their own home. Extrapolating from that that suggests that the number of American children killed by poorly restrained dogs, other than their own family, is roughly 6. Out of around 10k child fatalities per year in the US.

That doesn't seem "very high" to me, but that's just a matter of opinion. Do you have data that shows a different pattern?
This. As a dog owner, my dog remains on a leash. I don't know you. I don't know your dog.

More than once, I've been put in the position where my dog is getting agitated because they're on leash, their dog can't be controlled because they're off leash, and we're rapidly approaching the "Swift kick or risk injury" stage.

"My dog is off leash because I want them to have freedom" is a profoundly selfish decision if you're in a place to encounter other dogs.
Hello, texan here. No busses would do nothing for these people... pretty much the entire DFW area is surrounded by huge areas of low density suburbs. The busineses and locations these people are going to covers hundreds of square miles.

Car culture builds car cities. Once you have a car city it's nearly impossible to fix it... it's too big and expensive and low density to fix.
> Social Security's insolvency was created by it being a rotating door of money rather than an actual pre-funded retirement account

Perhaps, but the fund was healthy when we had a balanced budget at the turn of the century. That’s why the Bush administration was able to deliver those tax cuts for their wealthy donors since they could deploy some confabulations about increased economic growth balancing out a “minor” change and were able to drown out the people who actually do math.
Bird-bench has gemini on 69.03% on the test set.
That is a long way from something you can build on.
We changed the URL from https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/tag/0.3.0 to the project page. Interested readers probably should look at both.
Now imagine you've designed said trains or buses lines. Where did you put them? How much money did it cost? How many people use them now that they are built? Please, enlighten us with how much better you are than those that are currently in place that have tried and failed.
running an electron app (and the x server and more) in a container
Being sunny everywhere at the same time is not the problem with solar panels, and I think this was already covered up thread so this feels like going in circles.

The problem is what percentage are generally in full sun, and how low that percentage goes. My comment was about assuming that all of the panels are not in sun at the same time. Not whether sunny days exist.
Surprisal from Language Models Can Predict ERPs in Processing Predicate-Argument
Certainly so! The first example is needlessly contrived.

But instead of

for (const i=0; i < data.length; i++) {
new_data[i] = old_data[i].toUpperCase();
}

you can write

const new_data = old_data.map((x) => x.toUpperCase());

I think it's both more clear and less error-prone.
I thought they wanted to sell it to other states

Never understood when major exporters of $thing would also specifically heavily subsidize $thing
I lived in Dallas for a couple years, and while driving the Hive Five interchange (mentioned in the article) always seemed a little crazy, what really blew my mind was that a specific interchange could warrant its own Wikipedia page. For some reason that more than anything else really underscored its scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Five_Interchange
well, aren't you special then. what's the point of this comment?
> Vector similarity of artists could be an interesting angle.

Any song has many facets: melody, key, rhythm, dynamicity, voice of the artist, lyrics.

I can see how a music browser of the future (rather than an automatic recommender) would be equipped with many different knobs to turn and tweak each of these dimension's weight (as they are going into a similarity calculation) separately, to give the user control.
>occasionally get mild sunburns

>It's really hard to know where to draw the line between "too much sun" vs "no sun".

Apparently it's not that hard, occasionally mild sunburns is right out; seems like we have a provisional maximal limit to sun exposure.
I'm still waiting for those continuous glucose monitor watches every major brand was hyping up for years.
In the US, people tend to look at me weird when I tell them my dog lives outside. Some of them probably think I’m a heartless or uncaring dog owner.

When I first adopted him, I tried inside first, and he was unhappy and anxious, and so much of that went away when he was chillin outside.

I think humans often wrongly project their own preferences onto dogs.
You need to compare not against what you currently have, but rather what you'd have if there was political will and budgets comparable to what was spent on the existing car infrastructure. Otherwise is saying that no-one wants a bridge to cross a river because no-one swims across.
How would you even begin to investigate the cause?
This is the same thing as Vitamin D is good for health. Exposure to the sun is correlated with good health, the problem is the direction is the other way around healthy people are outside and in the sun more, hence they have higher Vitamin D levels.
I've noticed the opposite: people who had never even started learning to program who are now getting stuck in because they don't have to wade through six months of weird error messages about missing semicolons to get started.

But I guess I'm talking about complete newbie developers, which is a different category from junior developers.

I have 25+ years experience at this point so I'm pretty far removed from truly understanding how this stuff benefits newcomers!
Well, I simulated it and the numbers seem to agree with you. The example is interesting. I still have trouble seeing why my original reasoning doesn't hold though. I'll give an example, if anyone can clear up the issue that would be appreciated.

1/10 odds, 10 entrants, one winner expected on average.

Given a particular winner:
Expect: 0.9 + 1 winners

Given the same particular loser:
Expect: 0.9 winners

Over all cases we see:
0.1(1.9) + 0.9(0.9) = 1 winners

Checks out, but if the numbers are correct then any winner should be able to calculate the higher average and be right knowing only that there is at least one winner. So in cases where there is at least one winner:
P(winners>=1)=1-(9/10)^10=~65%
The expectation should work out to 1.9. The rest of the time we expect zero winners. However if I use those numbers I get an overall expected number of winners as 1.237, which has increased the overall number of winners across all cases. In order for that number to work out to one, the expected winners when there is at least one winner would have to be ~1.535. Which suggests that the expected outcome is different depending on if you check your own ticket, or someone else's, even if you see the same thing?

Am I just not on for math today? I thought the solution to the paradox would be that the higher expectation discounts outcomes with zero winners.
Aaron Swartz would have liked some of those principles. This is a small, "better late than never" step for most of us, but for Aaron...it's more like "too little, too late."
Question: What is Elsevier’s value proposition? Could that be replicated by on open source offering?
I just want a perplexity-style agentic integration that researches dozens of pages first, does internal brainstorming before printing output in my editor.

I just had a many-hour long hacking session with Perplexity to generate a complex code module.
Easiest just to not get out of bed or go straight to a couch, and drive occasionally to pizza hut.
Here's one of my best documented examples: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Apr/8/files-to-prompt/

And a more recent example (writing me a Django app): https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/8/django-http-debug/#clau...
Are companies really just YOLOing and plugging LLMs into everything knowing prompt injection is possible? This is insanity. We're supposedly on the cusp of a "revolution" and almost 2 years on from GPT-3 we still can't get LLMs to distinguish trusted and untrusted input...?
you're on an english language forum based in California hosted by a San Fran tech incubator. if you don't want to hear about US issues you're in the wrong place.
A cousin got diagnosed with it recently so I looked at the recent research. I found some interesting bits about the zika virus targeting the same stem cells as glioblastoma - which is why zika causes developmental problems in foetus’ brains. The research is ongoing, and there is little evidence that it works (though there is a paper that looks at the case of a woman infected with zika who was in remission), but honestly the pronostic is so bad that if it was me, I’d fly straight to a zika-infested region, you never know... I think there is one in Thailand.

Search for zika and glioblastoma and you’ll find the papers. Good luck.
What library are the researchers getting their access through now? Are they saying the MIT library bought digital copies of all those publications?
Upthread mentioned camshafts and valves, guess my reply is mostly to that.
As long as it is not via subscriptions…
I don't mind them having AI features, but I wish they'd fix some of the most basic performance issues considering that their entire reason to exist was "performance".

You know, things like not rerendering the entire UI on the smallest change (including just moving your mouse) without damage reporting.