skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US NIH is funding to not only map the human vagus nervous system in high resolution but also create treatments via the multi-million NeuroMod Prize

* https://sparc.science/

* https://commonfund.nih.gov/sparc

* https://www.neuromodprize.com/about-the-neuromod-prize/
I wonder how much entropy there really is though. It's a non-trivial calculation to explore the tree of all legal moves. Plus there's the problem of how some sequences are much more popular than others, so if a user does those they ought to represent a weak input rather than a strong one.

For a secret that is a sequence of N moves, one would need to know how many legal N-move sequences exist under the rules, and then you'd need to somehow weigh those by how popular they are. Un-inuitive or "bad" moves should be worth more when it comes to security.

If the secret is the final board state, it gets even trickier because many different inputs can lead to the same state, oscillating a rook back and forth adds to the move-count but not the entropy.
There probably arent a lot of sales / marketing / consulting people that read the forum.
She said that there has been no research on measuring the value of information relative to other information and that the way priorities are set are by the squeakiest most senior person.

In 2024 I can say this has not changed one bit. Even though we’ve gone through the Information Age, we still make decisions like we live in the Gilded Age.
> What i said is that Elon expect that a right wing government would block, difficult or delay this single Chinese company from buying Sigma Lithium to help him to buy it instead..

My point is about this: Musk's expectations will most likely not be met, even with a right wing president. Brazil and China are strong trading partners (and friends nowadays, with Brics became a reality).
SyncLite Logger is JDBC wrapper/driver, can be consumed in Java and Python applications:

Few code samples are shown here:
https://github.com/syncliteio/SyncLite and
https://github.com/syncliteio/SyncLite/tree/main/synclite-co...

A jsp-servlet sample web app is here:
https://github.com/syncliteio/synclite-sample-web-app

SyncLite logger transactionally captures the exact sql statements (DDLs and DMls) as executed on the underlying embedded databases, into sqllog files.

The log files for each device (i.e. database) are shipped to a configured staging storage(Local FS/SFTP/S3/MinIO/Kafka etc).

SyncLite consolidator continuously looks for new devices and new logs for each devices.

The received raw sql logs are not directly applicable on final destination as they are logical statements, may involve complex dependencies/joins
e.g. insert into select <cols> from t1 JOIN t2 ...

Consolidator applies the incoming sql logs transactionally to a native embedded database (SQLite) and in the process generates record level CDC logs by identifying exact changed records and tables

The CDC logs are record-level INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE statements, DDL statements : CREATE TABLE, ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE, RENAME TABLE.

The CDC log files as generated are applied to final destination databases.

A summary of this is here : https://www.synclite.io/synclite/sync-ready-apps

Thank you for the feedback and we are improving the documentation.
> But you didn't. Probably because you're just anti-authoritarian, but not all the long list of other issues associated with the condition.

It's actually not that long of a list[1]. You only need to have 4 symptoms out of 8 to qualify as "clinically" ODD, and the "symptoms" are literally just being unpalatable to those around you. Here are 4 of the symptoms that can get you diagnosed as ODD, straight from the DSM 5:

1) Is often touchy or easily annoyed

2) Is often angry and resentful

3) Often argues with authority figures or, for children and adolescents, with adults

4) Often deliberately annoys others

I don't know about you, but I can blaze through all those in a 10-minute webex call with a "scrum master"... and the DSM just requires (for someone 5 years or older) them to have happened *once a week* for at least 6 months.

Very tellingly, the second major criteria is:

> The disturbance in behavior is associated with distress in the individual or others in his or her immediate social context (e.g., family, peer group, work colleagues) or it impacts negatively on social, educational, occupational, or other important areas of functioning,

So literally whether it bothers you - OR - people around you. There's a reason that the vast majority of ADHD and ODD diagnoses occur as a result of school requests, not from parents.

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519712/table/ch3.t14/
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Our stack: .NET (MVC, jQuery on the frontend, WebAPI on the backend), MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB.

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“Knowledge is not free; you have to pay attention”(Feynman)
The HN Jobs site is for ycombinator companies that have open roles. The Ask HN thread is for any company in the world, and those companies tend to only recruit technical talent from HN.
Blinky on Pi 4B with Bare Metal Rust
This was a blog I wrote last year while I was in college!

I want to work on UART over GPIO next, and would love any feedback on my first post!

Some resources on the topic I found helpful:
- https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-raspberrypi-OS-tutoria...
- https://wiki.osdev.org/Raspberry_Pi_Bare_Bones_Rust
- https://harmonicss.co.uk/rust/rust-on-a-raspberry-pi-part-1/
- https://www.rpi4os.com/
Felt | Web App / Elixir Engineer and Social Media/Community Rep. | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is the leading cloud-native GIS solution. It's surprisingly hard work with geospatial tools day today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. Climate change and the resulting natural disasters are forcing even more people to become map-makers, and Felt is here to meet that need. It's the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping software, founded by a team of technologists with a proven track-record. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are on the lookout for two roles

First is an exceptional Elixir engineer. Our application team builds what our end-users experience; a lightning fast and easy-to-use mapping tool that works in the browser. We are primarily using Elixir / Phoenix on the server side and have a spatially focused React on the frontend side. As an Elixir engineer, you'll be working with folks who are experts in their field [2], release more than 15+ a day [3], and aren't afraid to break new ground when necessary [4].

Our data team makes geospatial datasets a breeze to work with and we are currently building our next-generation of our data stack on AWS. The team you'll be joining is full of expert engineers, and well known people in the Elixir community. You might have used their work already.

Our second role is an social media and community representative. We are creating a new category of tooling in a giant industry and we need your help to tell the story. The ideal candidate will have experience building a community around a grand vision, while being grounded in our customers' successes and our team's ability to ship.

We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [5], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]

If you are an experienced Elixir engineer, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r...
[2] https://felt.com/blog/hashrocket-ultimate-elixir-to-the-next...
[3] https://felt.com/blog/how-felt-deploys-15-times-a-day
[4] https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsetech-digest-fel...
[5] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie...
[6] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a
[7] https://felt.com/careers
I can be incentivized by money, but it has to be in the 7 figure range. The reality is that tech workers with a little bit of work can clear 400k/yr at BigCo with much higher job security and much lower variance than any startup.

Why would I grind at a startup where the best case scenario I am getting a payout I could get at FAANG without any of the risk?

I have been through a successful exit as a SWE and you can be sure that the founders did everything in their power to maximize their own payout and minimize my payout. In a company of 40 the founders got a payout of 100x any other individual at the company, even those who were there early on and stayed until the exit. I got a (taxable) payout of ~300k and the founders got 40mil. The money was life changing for the founders, but for everyone else it was just a nice bonus.

Now I just work at BigCo and make 400k/yr, every year.
TfL Cyber Security Incident
Are there any terminal UI frameworks for the web? I want to create web apps that only use keyboard shortcuts.
xapian can do it. You don't need the SW but the HW, in most Interxion's.
Quest excludes AZ, AK and HI, but it does include NY and NJ.
Some months ago, before a GitHub update, you could just paste an image while editing a Markdown file and it would be uploaded to their CDN. You could use that link even in other files (e.g. Org files in my case). They changed their upload system and this is not the case anymore.
This mechanism makes perfect sense from the POV of every user (especially developers, who are often high-value targets) who isn't currently working on/actively contributing to low-level OS development. This is not a concern, unless your personal definition of computing freedom is equivalent with running Gentoo. If you want to tinker, there's always an escape hatch. Even macOS freely allows you to disable FileVault or System Integrity Protection (at your own risk).

Your freedom to tinker is not in conflict with my need to stay secure; in fact, when you're finally done with your tinkering, you too may appreciate the feeling of your data being secure against the most basic/common threats.

(I'm rarely in agreement with Poettering, but he's 100% on point here.)
Thanks for the feedback!

We've seen most SaaS companies use some sort of tenant_id column and this is definitely the most popular method that developers currently use.

We want to provide a few things for SaaS developers. For one, many SaaS companies will face the need to create a completely new isolated database instance and may need to deploy this instance on a specific cloud (we know that Azure is really popular for healthcare).

Further, we want to spare the dev-experience of using WHERE clauses and/or setting up RLS. We aim to provide a seamless DX that abstracts over where the tenant data actually is and provide a unified platform that developers can trust to provide native isolation. We are pretty early but want to hear whether these resonate with you!
You might check out the work https://wristband.dev is doing on multi-tenant auth. My read is it's complimentary to what you're doing rather than competitive.
Suppose you’re a nation-state and have gathered wind that an enemy state has developed an eavesdropping technology that uses directed energy. Do you:

A) allow the enemy state to use it, letting them think you don’t know it exists

B) publicly accuse the enemy of having the technology, thus jeopardizing the intelligence assets who revealed its existence to you as the enemy goes on the hunt for the spies who leaked the info

C) make up a story about how a bunch diplomatic personnel got sick in a way that’s consistent with some kind of directed high energy source, causing your enemy to stop using the device and recheck everything because they thought it would not be detected, but apparently it was. They don’t suspect an internal “leak”, which keeps your spies safer.
> We are currently dealing with an ongoing cyber security incident. At present, there is no evidence that any customer data has been compromised and there has been no impact on TfL services.

> The security of our systems and customer data is very important to us, and we have taken immediate action to prevent any further access to our systems.

I guess time will tell what this was.
Exactly right. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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This looks super interesting! Will check it out. Thanks for letting us know!
> We do it different in Europe

> Romania

Oh, please stop using Romania as an example for Europe. We're the banana country here.
To learn is to teach one's self!
My problem with it being any kind of energy weapon is that we should have been able to detect something. If not initially, then afterwards.
This seems interesting, but I can’t quite figure out what your target audience is. Can you give an example of a theoretical customer and how they would use your product?
It's annoying that there's no date/timestamp on that page
When Heat Turns Deadly
Diagnoses are driven by treatments and not by patient health.

I approached my PCP with a genuine complaint in the category of intermittent "medical emergency". The PCP diagnosed an organ and prescribed a targeted medication without even asking me clarifying questions, much less screening or imaging (except to rule out cancer as a cause, because that would've been more profitable.)

Later I returned to the PCP with questions. How did you diagnose this organ pathology without imaging? Even if you imaged it now, you have no baseline image to compare. Did you rule out other causes? Did you even evaluate my experiences, or review the history of incidents that would definitely be germane to the case? I collected a lot of evidence that the diagnosis was wrong, but I eventually hit a brick wall when trying to secure a referral and visit with a specialist.

Nope, it was "take two of these and call me in the morning". Due to the prescription's targeted nature, the next time I reported taking it, the corresponding diagnosis was duly entered in the chart! Post hoc ergo propter hoc???
Model Merging in LLMs, MLLMs, and Beyond
yes, because installing random python libraries to system python on Debian never broke any system.
The conversation part. I am not good at talking to people in person or holding an interesting conversation in general, nor confident enough to just go up to strangers and just starting chatting with them.

As you can probably guess, networking has been an absolute pain.
I don’t see why things should be equal.

The school system doesn’t spend an equal amount of money on each student in the first place. Students with special needs get more—that includes both students with learning disabilities and students who are gifted.

The students who have learning disabilities aren’t “rewarded” with extra per-student spending. Neither are the gifted students. It’s not a reward.
> I've created a simple demo program to illustrate the concept of a human passport, inspired by World ID. It uses a zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM) to verify certain properties of a password without actually seeing the password itself.

Why would I need it in practice?
Fwiw, the ketogenic diet is not safe as per these studies:

1. Ketogenic diets inhibit mitochondrial biogenesis and induce cardiac fibrosis (2021) (PMID 33558457)

2. Ketogenic diet induces p53-dependent cellular senescence in multiple organs (2024) (PMID 38758782)

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Even so, given what little is shared, I strongly feel that this study should NOT have been halted without a very good reason. We know that a ketogenic diet is relevant for epilepsy, and that's sufficient motivation to study it for schizophrenia.
Every linux system comes with awk already on it. Perl has to be installed, and might not be available on a system you don't control.
Good to know, I was passingly wondering what the service level was that they were offering. CenturyLink currently can only offer me 60Mbps/5Mbps for $55/mo, until Q.com builds out more of the town.

That compares poorly with the city FTTH which is 1G/1G for $70/mo, 2G/2G for $100, or 10G/10G for $200/mo. A static IPv4 is another $20/mo (which is admittedly pricy for an add-on, but $90/mo for gig with static feels fine to me).
Good to know. Thx
Hvaldimir
No, it cannot. India and Mexico are where the factories will likely migrate to in the post-Chinese manufacturing world. Brazil probably wasn't even considered.

It's kind of funny how Brazil always ends up named as part of the "BRIC" group. India put a spacecraft on the moon. Russia is, well, Russia. China is unquestionably a world power. Brazil is... The world's soy and cattle farm.
Well you didn't read the article because the comparisons of the energy consumed are listed in Ws (Watt Seconds)

e.g.

> We can now boot into a Linux user space program in less than 3.5s!

>~400ms is spent in the Linux kernel (difference between pin 0 and pin 1)

>Total energy consumption: 0.364 As * 5.0 V = 1.82 Ws
RPN also means that the programming notation is only that. It doesn't give us a data notation, other than a flat sequence of words. This is why Lisp and Forth are not really comparable. In Lisp, you can write made-up words that don't have any previous definition (let alone operator arity), and clump them into whatever nesting you want. As long as you don't try to pass that through the standard evaluator, it's fine.
Again, this is exactly the cryptocrap-derived nonsense I meant.

"Goldman Sachs could..." but they do NOT. Like they don't use blockcrap for interbank settlements, asset tracking, notary, etc.

So basically, no actual uses so far. And it's not even clear _why_ I would want to use ZKP.
Jeff Atwood called it the dancing bunnies problem[1].

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-dancing-bunnies-problem/
A very accomplished older professor once told me in grad school that “research” was a process of first intuiting patterns, and then “searching” for further examples of said pattern, and then “re-searching” until you had statistical confirmation.

I very much agree.
This is a great question :)

We initially targeted startups at the moment that they are moving from a 3rd party DBaaS to databases on their own cloud. However, we just realized this was super tough to time. We experimented a bit with enterprise actually too but many of them already have huge systems in place.

We are shifting our focus to SaaS developers. We know that often, thinking about data isolation is a factor on SaaS developers' minds. We want to build a platform where they can have an incredibly simple DX while also trusting that their customer data will be isolated.
Ask HN: Terminal UI Framework for Web?
Are there any terminal UI frameworks for the web? I want to navigate my web app with a keyboard.
Depends on the type of book. Although it might work for textbooks or something you would read at a desk, it wouldn't have the convenience you get from a paperback or an e-reader (eg, you can easily take out a ereader on the train, pack it for a trip, etc.)
I often read up on stuff to learn the differential diagnoses, and the unique symptom combinations that could indicate a specific diagnosis.

Then I go tell a physician, and they throw it all out the window.

The pharmacist has a sign posted reading, "Your Google Search Won't Outweigh My Degrees and Qualifications." Don't try to be well-informed on biomedicine, because the knowledge will be counterproductive.
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These are all very rough analogies though. Everything interacts with everything. Proteins go back and 'flag' DNA with epigenetic flags, control how DNA is transcribed, control how other proteins are folded, etc. Sometimes cells even edit their own DNA, and not just during sexual reproduction. Then there's viruses, virus-like patterns within genomes, etc.

Computational or mechanical analogies are not totally wrong but they're dangerously over-reductive.
As far as I remember, TRRS playback control was implemented first by Nokia, but Nokias had 2.5mm jack and switched to 3.5mm only after iPhone.
Thanks, that gives a good overview
This logic is good as a first approximation but completely breaks down in situations like this. In geopolitics there are simply so many unknown variables that it is completely inscrutable from the outside. Plus, state actors do seemingly dumb and irrational things all the time.

Also, maybe the FUD caused was a desirable outcome in its own right.
Games. Network effects in business. Social networks. Balkanization in Linux. Marketing. Pre-Installation at point of sale. Lack of a central company that people can "trust"
Single Sign On (SSO) for all applications as the default. That will do 80%+ of what you want. Thycotic (Delinea) Secret Server for API keys, break-glass accounts, etc. If you have a more granular need for Privileged Access Management (PAM) there are enterprise tools for that. (I don't recommend BeyondTrust; I've heard CyberArk is decent but haven't used it.)

You could do a mid-roll-your-own with Bitwarden commercial, etc., though consider the operational management overhead.
It's possible to do a lot better with strategy.
You don't think they do the same thing to people on medicaid to get money from the government? Or people who have private insurance, but don't have the resources to pursue legal recourse?
To be precise, it needs a force that would bend the rubber sheet. You can use a spring to do that if you want.