skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I considered adding them (also considered adding links to the book page) but I ended up preferring the uncluttered titles only version. (I know it makes it inconvenient to lookup the book).
Exactly! I've reasearched some semaglutide compounding pharmacies and it terrifies me that their semaglutide source is top secret; never disclosed. Where's it coming from and what are people really injecting?
I built a browser-based version that allows you to rotate it: http://www.stardrifter.org/regexp/
This is such a strange take. It seems obvious that the wife was poisoning her husband, what does it matter if his conditions were connected or not?
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
> Your dismissive personal attack is not welcome.

Apologies - I wasn't intending to be "dismissive", and no "personal attack" was intended. I'm simply reflecting on the tone of the several comments you've written, which seem angry, IME beyond the norm for someone simply discussing on a story on the internet.

> "This is so typical of Swedish doctors. If something doesn't work, it's ALWAYS the patient's fault. If they don't know what a problem, it's ALWAYS psychosomatic."

Re-reading this, I think I can be forgiven for the suspicion you've some history with the Swedish medical establishment? :) But of course, apologies if this is not the case.

> It is never acceptable for experts to lie.

You're wrong to call the doctor's note about an assumption they were making "a lie". A "lie" is a deliberate untruth in order to deceive, and that doesn't appear to be the case. Of course, hindsight proved them wrong, but at the time they were merely making an assumption as to the possible cause, presumably based on education, experience, and probability.

Medication errors are common, communication issues between patients and doctors are common, a patient lying to their doctor is quite common, Munchausen syndrome and poisoning are very uncommon.

They could have written "Of course there other unlikely explanations, but my current prevailing hypothesis based on the balance of probabilities is...", but... no-one's perfect.
Again, it exists.

It’s not where the advertising money is.

It’s not where most in-app purchases income can be found.

Don’t believe me? Have a look at Meta’s ARPU on a per country basis. Over $50 in the US, around 15$ in Europe, $5 in Asia-Pacific, less than $5 in the rest of the world.

Don’t like those numbers? Look at Genshin Impact’s.

Don’t like those numbers? Look at how much people spend on the AppStore vs the Play Store. The AppStore represents 66% of global app stores revenue, and 76% of global app stores subscriptions revenue.

Sure, since Meta and Google don’t operate there, those numbers aren’t accounting for a big factor: China.

Now, if you’re building Grab in Indonesia, sure, Android makes perfect sense as a first choice.

Making a utility or marketplace app for a specific country or region? Sure, adapt to your target. You’d have to be a fool not to.

We come back to "targeting people with average to low income". Because wether we like it or not, that’s most of the world compared to Switzerland, the US, Japan, Australia, and the like [0].

You can be rude all you like, it won’t change the numbers.

[0]: https://datatopics.worldbank.org/world-development-indicator...
yup, this wins, by a long shot
GLP-1 => weight loss => decreased obesity, improved cholesterol, improved blood pressure, improved glucose control, etc. etc. => better survival rates (all causes)

There is no presumed clinically relevant mechanism for GLP-1s to be protective specifically against COVID death. It is simply protective against all death, of which COVID is a type. Healthier people are less likely to die, statistically. The same benefit can be (and is being) said about GLP-1s and heart attacks, heart failure, stroke, kidney failure, etc.
And I know 2 people living in condos with garages, where they could charge an EV. And you can charge an EV from your driveway, even without a garage. What would be your estimate of the percentage of households who could have an EV (because of ease of overnight charging at home), that actually do have an EV? 7%? 10%?

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ev+charger+driveway&iax=ima...
Exactly!

The economics of journalism are constantly misunderstood here. People want thoughtful, insightful, investigative stories of the non-obvious (or so they say) but also do not want to pay for the dead ends that a reporter has to find to get there.

Journalism is more like hard-tech research than SaaS. You don't necessarily know what you're getting into when you start reporting, and getting something of value can take an incredibly long time. The actual writing of an article or shooting of a video is the last part of a long process.

Unlike hard-tech, the result often has a very short shelf-life. It's not going to continuously earn payouts for the reporters/news outlet for more than a couple of weeks (at best) after publication.
Why can't we give every page on Wikipedia a Unicode codepoint, and let DALL-E draw an emoji?
Trim and Timestamp Audio, in the Terminal
Paul Krugman: "[cryptocurrencies] mainly seem suited for things like money laundering and extortion."

This is not new from him, but I still don't understand why he's a columnist for the New York Times, of all publications.

Or why Mr. Krugman writes about a technology that he clearly doesn't understand and is unable to imagine a valid use for.

Incidentally, most types of cryptocurrency are actually terrible for money laundering or extortion, unless one believes that a permanent, irrevocable, and wholly public record of transactions are ideal for those purposes.
The wellness drink for sober people that some say they can't stop drinking
Will the Workweek Ever Get Shorter?
Just started actually using fly for a side project and it's really awesome. loving the experience!
Ask HN: Best Paid Hosted LLM Service for privacy and low/no censorship
What paid LLM services do HN users like? For me it is important to have something that respects privacy/anonymity (not recording prompts, or answers, or using interactions for training) and also does not have heavy- or any- censorship/moderation, and preferably with multi modal capability. As I recall there are some services that even just host various open weight models and let you choose which one you want to use, but I cannot recall what those services were called.
> Contrived example being that Lisp "knows" about Structs and CLOS, whereas while you can add Structs (records) to Scheme, at a Scheme level you can only reduce them to the given Scheme primitives (vectors or lists), when the compiler finally sees the result, all it will see is a vector or list, with no knowledge of it actually being a struct (and thus can't potentially optimized for it).

I don't know every single implementation of Scheme, but at least the Chez Scheme compiler has a lot of special code for records. The compiler sees them as records, tries to inline as many getters and setters as possible, and has low level support for the tree of subrecords and I may be missing a few more tricks. You can go to https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme/blob/main/s/cp0.ss and Ctr+F record . For example https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme/blob/main/s/cp0.ss#L3816...

The old implementation of Racket also had some tricks, but now the structs are transformed to Chez Scheme records.
Please don't call names in HN comments and please don't post shallow dismissals. We're trying for something different here.

Even if we assume you're right, a comment like this poisons the commons. What's worse, these toxins accumulate over time.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Starving takes a long time, i kinda figure almost anyone would crawl to the front door in that time
Not knowing what FenPhen was I checked the wiki page and wow, it looks remarkably similar to those sketchy amphetamine analogs people sell on the internet like 3-FA, of course selling that as an anti-obesity drug was going to go sideways.
Embarrassed city sues annoying jerk who told everyone how full of crap city should was.

Suing security researchers for investigating the contents of disclosed information is ineffective at protecting anyone.
"Not indexed" is the deep web. The dark web is ones that use alternate protocols on top of the web so they can't be indexed by web search engines (includes things like Tor and Discord).

I suppose ones that require authentication (like internal employer sites) could also be dark web.
I have a ASUS PN40; on this thread they also mention some N100-based ones which are more powerful. Distrust any result taken with Windows.
You can, however, eat crab, shrimp, squid and lobster without cooking them...
Measure your productivity by integrating over a longer period than one day.

Conserve your health. Take "off days" seriously as a message that you need some TLC, and that will help prevent serious health issues.
FYI, you can also add your 2FA to cloud password managers like Bitwarden or 1password, and that way it will work across all your devices without having to pull out your phone. My 1password just autofills the 2FA requests on my laptop, for example.

Passkeys are similar. They can be implemented in software and don't need to be tied to a physical device.

This does decrease security somewhat ("something you know and something you have" becomes "two things someone else knows, protected by one thing you know -- your master password"). But it's a lot more convenient than having to pull up the 2FA app on your phone all the time, and there's no worries about losing any devices since you can just log back in on a replacement and all your 2FAs are still there.
Whatever you teach them to eat. But parents are often lazy, its supremely easier to buy addictive paper boxes and be done rather than wake up 10 minutes earlier (or 2) and cook or prepare something quick and healthy. Depends also where you live, US its exactly as we discuss, ie France or Switzerland its a completely different world, and its immediately obvious on people too. This approach also permeates many aspects of society.

Kids also imitate what they see in parents, both good and bad. No point preaching healthy lifestyle if one is obese and spends hours daily in front of TV eating junkfood. Also, back in 80s I had maybe 4 years and I knew very well sweet stuff is bad for one's health, it was always as obvious as ie that cigarettes were very harmful and highly addictive.

I love how many folks desperately try to throw blame on literally anybody, anything for their failures in life, rather than taking a cold hard look at the mirror and accepting one's own failures, as a parent but also generally as human in this case. Sure, it makes life with oneself a bit easier, instead of huge instant dose of misery and self-disappointment its slowly dripping through the cracks of illusions for the rest of their lives and people love feeling like a victim, but it very effectively prevents actually fixing anything.

So sure, lets blame sugar industry (which is doing exactly what all other businesses do - sell to as many people as possible), lets blame tobacco industry or wine producers for people's failures. Lets wait till politicians will sweep away all obstacles and traps from our lives, of course that's a reasonable expectation. Anything but throwing away that 3rd cupcake or starbucks latte.
Recommendation is a form of moderation?
Buzz did have a bit of urgency in his voice regarding the 1202 alarm :)
I see you are not even trying to defend your previous assertion that Idaho is "prohibiting minors from accessing books with LGBTQ+ themes (regardless of whether there was any sex or not)". Instead you have sent a couple of new soldiers into the fight.
I think this is a great article explaining exactly why it's okay to step off the career progression ladder and say this is what I want to do.

The alternative is the Peter principle where you end up promoted upwards until you fail.

OP, I wonder if you had frank talks with your line management about your long term career trajectory or if this was a sudden realization?
Capturing Eardrums (2000)
I'll believe "researchers in artificial intelligence, some of whom worked on Bing" more than some rando on HN.
Real-Estate Shopping for the Apocalypse
https://archive.ph/2024.08.28-224908/https://www.newyorker.c...
There are many different types of "dangerous" things you can do for your career, and some are worse (and more permanent) than others.

The most "dangerous" thing for my career was when I started posting about what's happening in Gaza and Palestine on my public social media accounts. I've heard similar horror stories from others, ranging from being let go from their jobs to missing out on new opportunities and positions, specifically or "incidentally" as a result of their decision to speak out.
> I can't understand why newspapers can't see that no-one wants to be spending that sort of money

NYT adds 210,000 digital subscribers in Q1.

"The company said it had about 10.5 million subscribers overall for its print and digital products at the end of the first quarter, up roughly 8 percent from a year earlier. About 640,000 of those were print subscribers, down about 10 percent from the same period last year. "

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/business/media/new-york-t...
the one thing I'll say about some of the more complex systems is this: if you have a small/medium size house and can get by with a single zone, or need multiple zones but can/are-ok-with having a dedicated system per zone, I 100% agree with you. If you need a single system with multiple zones, the variable speed setups can be a lifesaver to make sure you can tune everything correctly for every combination of active zones without having intermittent head pressure issues; especially if you have any suboptimal ductwork.

> I also don't understand the obsession with "smart" controls on any residential single family home when a basic programmable thermostat already does basically everything.

don't get me started on this. all this "learn your schedule and adapt conditioning to match where you are" is literally the one thing you ARENT supposed to do with efficient heat pumps, which are becoming more and more common. You set it at a temp, maybe you let it bump up 1-2 degrees in the heat of the day and then back down later at night, but any more than that is LESS EFFICIENT and more expensive overall. I don't get it.
I mean, if you actually can't believe they didn't predict this exact outcome, that means you believe that they DID predict it and this is what they intended/hoped to happen!
Ultra-Wideband Terahertz Integrated Polarization Multiplexer
> This advancement holds promise for 6G terahertz integrated systems with enhanced channel capacities.
Thanks for the reply! Never would have thought.
Sure, but cats sleep around 35 hours a day.
I mean, if the city keeps saying, "no, there wasn't any data released", then maybe backs up and says "there wasn't any sensitive data released", and keeps backing up, at some point you need to cut to the chase and be like, "OK, here's the most salacious shit possible. Explain that."

I don't know how to do that responsibly (just share it with a reputable reporter?), but I definitely get the feeling if you're constantly subjected to bad faith.
Last year the NYT cost $2.50 at the newsstand. GP wants to pay ~$1.50 for 15 individual articles. There are more than 15 articles in a single edition of the NYT, so that sounds pretty reasonable to me.

Hell, bump it up to $2.50/yr for those 15 articles/yr, same price as a single physical edition. GP would probably still be ok with that, and that doesn't seem unreasonable.

I'm not sure what magazines you were buying in the 90s for $6-$8 each, but they were certainly on the high end and not representative of your average newspaper, which were on the order of 35-50¢ at the time. Full-color glossy mags cost a lot more to produce than a newspaper, so I'm sure that's part of it.
Still the GPU barely works
Well said! I totally agree. Sorry you had to read the grandparent message, OP.

(To be clear I am agreeing with the author of the article!)
Good stuff. Thanks! Any chance this has to do with the generous grants which get bestowed on movies and tv productions in Canada?
>>how terrible injections are for patients

What is this belief founded upon?

Disposable syringes and detachable needles have been around for over 50 years. We had 6mm needles in the 80s.

Evolution of Insulin Delivery Devices
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7261311/
Dont let facts stand in the way of Microsoft bashing.
An axolotl emoji is desperately needed, then :).
Thalidomide was not approved in the US until long after the birth defect scandal, FWIW.
Show HN: RewiredMind – AI Mental Health Web App
Hi Hacker News!

I'm building RewiredMind - a web app providing AI based mental health tools to help you manage stress and anxiety.

I'm using RAG to train the model on techniques I have found the most helpful in my mental health journey such as meditations, journaling, CBT worksheets and affirmations.

For the text and audio output I'm using GPT 4o and TTS such that if you input what's stressing you out, you'll get one of these techniques customized to your situation.

My goal is to offer something hyper personalized and always accessible for whenever you need a bit of support.

You can try it out here: https://rewiredmind.vercel.app/

If you have ideas for features, experience with similar tools, or just general feedback on what you like / dislike about the product, I’d love to know!
> niceties/third party packages from emacs that I missed

Was it magit?
Sorry, as an AI language model, I'm not able to generate an emoji of the "September 11 attacks"
I would say it is unlikely, they don't have the same brand recognition or access to consumer devices.

In this regard, OpenAI has the strongest brand, Google and Microsoft have the best integrations in search and office products, and whoever Apple chooses for Siri will get a big bump (likely OpenAI aiui)

The marginal difference is not going to noticeably change user choice. Claude is also slower w.r.t. request response times and more expensive. Responsiveness and price will drive user choice more than the result quality

Also, that you perceive Claude to have superior results is (1) anecdotal and (2) always changing
It goes in phases. Anything other than pill use to be a hard no, but now we see injections moving beyond just vaccines. I've also heard from a friend that large pharma internal R&D is "pretty much just cancer for now."
One advantage of this approach is that if you're already using S3 (as in the SlateDB case mentioned in the article), it's essentially “free”. And it means that a package like SlateDB just needs to be pointed at an S3 bucket, instead of making you point it to an S3 bucket _and_ a DynamoDB instance.
'Biocomputers' made of human brain cells now available on rent
"Ciel" means "sky", in French language.
Right place, right time.

They went from gaming GPU provider to an early risk-taker in CUDA, and that paid off handsomely both for crypto and AI.

I hope they don't abandon the gaming segment :( GeForce Now has been a game-changer for me (hosted RTX-4080s for gaming for $20/mo)
There's also Arb if you need guaranteed intervals to make sure you are on the right side of the branch cut. I completely agree that care and numerical analysis is necessary. My point is that once you've done the analysis, your actual answers aren't infinite (hopefully), and if your calculation returns Inf, it means that your program is wrong. Given that, you might as well just make the value of your function exactly on the branch cut NaN and be done with it.
Behind the Telegram boss arrest:a small Paris cybercrime unit with big ambitions
I used this last week! I was out of town and a friend texted me letting me know the lights in my house were on. I got such a sense of joy in knowing that it was working as intended.
> micro-transactions are not possible given the huge banking fees

I actually worked on several projects like this and we found a few ways of making this work. A simple example would be having a wallet you can top up, so you can pay per article. The fee was _roughly_ 2x the CPM for a post, and the cost for an average user ca. $5 per month IIRC. There's a bunch of companies doing this stuff, but their usual issue was scale/publisher relationships. After a few years of trying and 3 companies later I ended up in a situation where this wasn't a problem. Apologies for being vague here.

> I also think that Google isn't the greater evil, because Google has an incentive to keep the web going

True, but the web Google wants to "keep going" is _very_ unlikely the same as the one that's good for users. Chrome or Android serve as storefronts, hence consent assumed by default (think Manifest V3, FLOC, etc...).

Example: think of the deal they signed with Conde Nast (and earlier Reddit). Nowadays, Google has exclusive access to search results from Reddit.

> For instance, what happens with local newspapers, when they die, besides depriving ad networks of revenue, is that the audience of these newspapers moves to walled gardens like Facebook. The failure of advertising on the web right now results in more centralisation.

I witnessed it in 2010s when working with publishers (EU, UK, and some US-based). It wasn't much different than what happened during the "cookiegeddon" around '17 '18 (IIRC): moving to new platforms, pushing towards subscriptions, bundles, or focussing on premium/high quality content.

The publishers I spoke with (again, as a vendor working in publishing and then, later, in adtech) generally would be more than happy to drop the ads if we had any other way to let people pay for stuff without using dark patterns (e.g. subscriptions people tend to forget about).

The only people who created pushback were not even their advertising partners, it was _their own sales people_, responsible for pushing their inventory via direct sales. It makes perfect sense, from a people/internal politics point of view. I'd be happy to elaborate on that, but it's getting a bit late!

People like free stuff, but they're also happy to pay for stuff if they understand its value. Imagine walking into a coffee shop and asking for a free americano promising that you'll stare at their ads on your phone for 5 minutes. (This idea only makes sense if you're running an adtech / marketing startup.)

Then, we have more interesting examples like The Guardian, where many of the people supporting them did so because they wanted _other_ people to have access to it.

So yeah, I agree that people like free stuff, and that the current situation is messy to say the least, but I think we need to take a step back and reconsider the things/ideas we take for granted.
same concept. Japan is a nation of people who share a common bond. Thinking your responsibility ends at your houses fence is already adopting an atomized, American view. When Fukushima happened there were elderly volunteer groups who demanded that they be sent to clean up the waste to spare the youth, not just their own grandkids, everyone's. It's why when an earthquake levels a city there's no panic and looting in the streets.

There is a whole national responsibility from young to old and the other way. This transactional language of talking about old people as a political class, of support as "subsidies" is already being stuck in an entirely different economized, weird mindset.
Building Go Stack Traces from BPF
Hacking syndicate: not sued

Public website hosting hacked records: not sued

Lying public servant: not sued

Joe Schmoe for pointing out all three: sued
I think the incentives are different for Netflix and Youtube.

Youtube wants engagement so they can sell you ads, Netflix just wants subscribers, they don't care how much I watch or how engaged I am, just that I keep my subscription.
I'm assuming it went good? Sorry if I missed it in the article.