skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medical malpractice and / or mysoginy is another common problem unfortunately; afflctions like endometriosis take years to be taken seriously and diagnosed, instead of brushed away.
A/UX lan?
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That is medical misinformation. It is totally irrational for most people to be frightened of misdiagnosis. The diagnostic criteria for the most common chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart failure, obesity, arthritis, hearing loss, and depression are reliable and straightforward. Misdiagnosis is only a serious concern for more rare conditions or atypical presentations.

Occasional misdiagnoses do occur but let's not contribute to hypochondria by exaggerating the problem.
It explains what happens if the electron goes too fast and instead of getting "trapped" it just changes it direction a little.
It's so clever to just pull from Wayback Machine rather than scrape the site itself. Never even thought of that
I think the most important lesson to be learned from vintage computing is to make much more wise use of resources.

Over the last decade I've spent a lot of time tinkering with various branches of the Minimig FPGA core, which aims to be an Amiga on a programmable chip. There's a certain minimalist delight in not only running and using the classic OS and the super-lightweight applications of the day, but also having to extend the same principles of frugality and elegance to other parts of the design, to make it fit within the confines of a relatively small FPGA and a single SDRAM chip.
Show HN: Replicate App-Embedded DuckDBs into PostgreSQL with SyncLite OSS
SyncLite Open Source (https://www.synclite.io/) ==>

- SyncLite Logger, a wrapper JDBC driver, supporting popular embedded databases (SQLite, DuckDB, Apache Derby, H2, HyperSQL), creates transactional sql logs for embedded dbs, ships them to configured staging storage ( S3/MinIO/SFTP/Kafka/OneDrive/GoogleDriver etc)

- Several application instances each creating multiple embedded databases/devices are synchronized in real-time on the staging storage.

- SyncLite consolidator, a centralized tool, continuously processes device logs, generates CDC logs, replicates and consolidates staged devices into a wide range of industry leading database, data warehouses and data lakes.

Look forward to feedback and suggestions.
The oldest datasets produced by humans intended to be read by machines. With our advances in digital image processing one could argue a cross section of a tree trunk is a "machine readable dataset"
I never watch videos. I don't like it, and overall I consider that a waste of time that could be better spent reading.
I deem your rock to be disqualified on the basis of its performance clearly having been enhanced by doping.
> But when they bemoan using C they seem to misunderstand exactly how big a leap forward C was from pure assembly programming. Just having portable code in the era of everybody having their own bespoke UNIX system (with their own processor architecture to match, of course!) was an absolute game changer. C is entrenched because it was an evolutionary leap in a landscape that was shifting by the day.

This is very true, but it's also like saying that magnetic tape was a great improvement over punch cards. It definitely was, but that was also a long time ago.

C portability always had a huge asterisk attached to it, which was that the language was not going to help you at all with this, nor was it even going to define basic semantics for anything. It was a long time before it defined arithmetic as two's complement, which was bad news for anyone retrocomputing on a ones-complement machine but while you could compile code designed for one on the other there was no guarantee that it would actually work.

People built portability systems on top of this such as autoconf.

> Retro computing has taught me that people weren't nearly as "clueless" or "incompetent" as they're derided for these days. These were smart people making the best decisions they could at the time with what they had available.

I don't think the Rust movement thinks that Kernighan and Richie were incompetent. I've never seen anyone say that directly. What they do argue is that new information is available and circumstances have changed which means that some decisions which may have been reasonable are no longer adequate.

And this is not new information! One of the books I learned C from was "C Traps and Pitfalls", by Andrew Koenig .. in 1989. The Morris Worm was 1988.

While old software often had higher standards for shipping reliability, because you couldn't simply update it over the Internet (or at all on cartridges!), security was not at the same standard because it is much harder to achieve.

(There is also what I might call the "we were always against C" faction: people who, even in the 80s, were using LISP or Pascal (1970) or Modula-3 (1988))
> Is this a principled defense of free speech or a case of a man treating ostensibly independent companies as divisions of his personal conglomerate?

Musk was happy to block Twitter content for Erdoğan before the 2023 Turkish election,[0][1] and block Ukraine from using it to hit the Russian navy.[2]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/musk-defends-ena...

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/twitter-musk-censors...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/musk-stopped-ukraine-atta...
but ... why?
Stay current with news is good, stay unproven with firmware isn't.
Yes. But we can absolutely in if they are being run badly
> lèse-majesté

TIL:

> Lèse-majesté or lese-majesty (UK: /ˌliːz ˈmædʒɪsti/ leez MAJ-ist-ee, US: /ˌleɪz -/ layz - )[1][2][3] is an offence or defamation against the dignity of a ruling head of state (traditionally a monarch but now more often a president) or of the state itself. The English name for this crime is a modernised borrowing from the medieval French, where the phrase meant 'a crime against the Crown'. In classical Latin, laesa māiestās meant 'hurt/violated majesty' or 'injured sovereignty' (originally with reference to the majesty of the sovereign people, in post-classical Latin also of the monarch).[2][3]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lèse-majesté
He uses "vanilla PHP/HTML/MySQL":

https://x.com/AnTheMaker/status/1530851239310802947
If we assume that this is true, then big tech gets those benefits too, so each of their developers is more productive too
> So the fallacy of...

The text from this point on seems to have lost contextual awareness of what preceded it (which was excellent imho).
ChatGPT - Our very own alien super-computer!
Not once but multiple breaches.

Just no.
It got killed by financial engineering in the end. No sanely run company can survive competition from a company structured to take advantage of low interest rates and public/private partnerships
these days, when using the right vis techniques you can easily train something like resnet to find malware. some is even plainly obvious to the eye. some packers and encryption is easy to spot but more subtle patterns a neural network can identify. for a reverse engineer or malware analist, seeing what part of files contain 'executable code' is also possible. for example if shellcode is embedded in a different file type or such. check the chris domas video linked on the github. its pretty epic :D
But Swift is just a messaging protocol, right? It doesn't handle trust at all - like you said, you need an awful lot of documents for a single transfer.

I think what could be gained with a zkp protocol would be timeliness. Not needing to confirm if the client has funds in the other institution manually or from trusting their in house APIs would be pretty nice.

The Brazilian central bank has a system that does essentially that, and wires here (even for very large sums) take seconds to fill, instead of the usual 2 days for US interbank wires.
Are you trying to be funny? I don’t understand your comment.
@orkunbasaran_19, this is a fascinating concept! The integration of AR for creating location-based notes and maps has a lot of potential, especially in fields like tourism, education, and urban development. One idea for expanding this could be to partner with local historical societies or museums to create interactive, location-based historical tours. This could give users a rich, immersive experience beyond just reading plaques or traditional maps. Have you considered any specific use cases or target industries where this tool could make a significant impact? Also, from a strategic marketing perspective, focusing on niche communities that are already engaged with AR could help you gain early adopters and valuable feedback. Would love to hear more about your go-to-market strategy!
Inflation as a first-class citizen in financial tools
Show HN: Open-Source Software for Designing 3D-Printable Luneburg Lenses for RF
Hi HN community,

I’m excited to share my project, LuneForge, an open-source tool currently in development that aims to simplify the design of Luneburg lenses specifically for radio frequency (RF) applications. Luneburg lenses are unique gradient-index lenses that focus RF signals effectively, making them valuable in various RF and antenna systems aimed for military and automotive industry.

Key Features:

Customizable Designs: Easily adjust parameters to tailor lens designs to specific RF needs.

User-Friendly Interface: Designed to be accessible for both RF professionals and hobbyists.

3D-Printing Optimization: Models are optimized for SLA 3D printing, ensuring precise and high-quality lenses.

Community-Driven: We’re building a community of RF enthusiasts and professionals to contribute, share knowledge, and push the boundaries of RF lens design.

I’d love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or ideas for new features. Feel free to check out the repository [ https://github.com/jboirazian/LuneForge ]
Game: Guess the prompt behind AI-generated images
I do this all the time, and the trick is finding someone who wants to share their knowledge. In a large company or govt this can be easy, as people have defined roles and expertise and you can find them and ask them.

Outside of that Upwork is generally where I go for any learning task where I need an expert for a short period. Good rates, 1:1 contracts and upwork overhead isn’t so high that it’s usury.

If it’s something super niche I can’t find there, then I’ll typically search for who is writing about the topic I’m interested in already, and then reach out if they have a public contact.

The last time I did that a few years ago I cold called a trash company in KS asking if there was anyone who would be willing to talk with me about getting into the business. The woman I called was the daughter of the owner and he invited me down to spend a few days in Russellville Arkansas learning how the trash business works.

That was a fascinating three day trip!
Semantic word games aren't a crowd-winning form of argument.
Intel Says Core Ultra 200 Arrow and Lunar Lake Not Affected by "Vmin Shift"
You could always work more if you wanted.
The Co­Initialize­Security function demands an absolute security descriptor
Good post. Have you already took a look into NOSTR?

It permits both private/niche communities and public (global) texts.
Off topic: I often find that copy&paste doesn't work. I clearly hit copy, when I paste nothing happens, or I get the previous copy instead. Not sure why this happens, I see it both on Macs and Ubunutu. As if, after decades of work, we still can't reliably implement a simple operation. It happens both in browsers and other apps.
I don’t know, consider me skeptical. My last company was a start-up with a solid product-market fit and lots of building interest from prospective customers. We had a CEO and CTO, both cofounders, who were operating in what it sounds like is being described as “founder mode” here. Very hands on and opinionated on implementation details would be the polite way of describing it. The less kind version is that they were meddling micromanagers, out of their depth in the areas they forcefully inserted themselves, and frequently subject to delusions of grandeur. A bunch of product and technical decisions were made that many of us saw as being fatally flawed and pushed back against and were overruled. We were saddled with dead end product implementations that failed to meet what the founders had envisioned and came with crushing tech debt. We went from being positioned to win what was clearly a newly emerging category, to scrambling to put out fires and being in constant crisis mode. All the while CEO would send out think-pieces to the team on his take on why our efforts were failing to achieve his vision, while never once recognizing that the things the team had warned him about were being realized exactly as predicted. Employee churn was high, as people were fired out of nowhere for “poor performance”, to be replaced by new hires that the CEO was very high on, only for them to be crushed by the same factors that had crushed everyone else. Eventually the wheels came off the wagon and the company failed. Someone is going to build a successful version of that product, but it won’t be us.

Paul Graham here claims that C-level types are all professional liars and that the ideas behind standard management strategy is worthless. I agree. Where I disagree is the idea that founders are any different. They are just a different flavor of the same thing. This concept of founders mode is just another nice-sounding theory that can never be proved, that makes for captivating talks and blog posts and eventually management books but will fail to produce anything with any kind of consistency. It’s the yet another cargo-cult trend for the group desperate to prove they are the next Steve Jobs.

I’m not even sure I buy into the Steve Jobs mythos. Every random process will have statistical outliers for no other reason than randomness, but hey become canonized and their words and lives are studied like scripture and we try to divine the path to emulate them. Many of us understand that top performing hedge fund managers are statistical flukes that are getting lucky rather than systemically beating the market. But we hold out against the idea that startups and founders are a similarly chaotic system. I wonder if it’s because this is a forum for startups and not hedge funds?
Firefox + Feedbro extension + RSShub container (self hosted) does the trick for those that have and had RSS.
in the UK it is typically fibre to the box on the street, and then copper from that to the house. providers would love you to subscribe to fibre to the house (so they can charge you exorbitant prices for it), but really YAGNI for most people at least in my experience.
I agree with this. In my experience, if your "good people" are running your business into the ground, you just didn't hire good people. The challenge is that hiring "good people" is incredibly difficult. It's also actually fairly hard to get released once onboard. If the company is in the black, even if growth is far below where a founder or investor wants to be, stakeholders are reluctant to make changes.

Baseball recruiters have the advantage that they can go watch a pitcher toss a few balls. For most roles in a company you can't get that direct knowledge of someone's skills prior to hiring. After hiring someone who is actually an expert needs to sit with the new hire and assess them critically.

As a founder, sit in the first several meetings with the new sales guy. Did they come prepared knowing who to talk to? What their budget likely was? What their pain points likely were? Did they hear what the client asked and respond accordingly? Or did they did misunderstand the domain, need, request, etc.? Did they leave with notes and follow-up items? If you didn't come away impressed release them and move on. After 3 or 5 meetings you'll have confidence that they are the right fit.

After that, let them do their job and move on to addressing the next challenge. Once someone has shown themselves to be a good hire, protect them.
The takeover fight that could reshape Japan
It's disappointing seeing the slow decline in the number of devices that include a 3.5mm headphone jack. Personally I don't want any hassle from my headphones, I just want to plug them in and use them.
And it’s using Silk icons.
Get to know your enemy.' How Hollywood workers are learning to use AI
Rescinded or not, it shows how far the government will go, and how willing they are to abuse their claimed powers. I say “claimed”, because of article 5 section 9 of the Brazil constitution (https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Brazil_2014), citizens and residents have the freedom of expression without censorship, which such a ban obviously violates.

It also signals to companies - domestic and foreign - that this one Supreme Court justice who is issuing secret censorship orders (Alexandre de Moraes) will basically do whatever he wants as far as controlling them. If he’s willing to force Apple and Google to censor their app stores, what else might he or others in the government be capable of? Even if that VPN order is rescinded, Brazil’s business reputation is now damaged. Companies can’t view it with the same stability they expected just a few days ago. It’s a risk to keep any intellectual property or sensitive data there. In other words, you have to take the same precautions you would with the CCP.
But it’s not untestable at all, scientists have a reasonable understanding of what properties are inherent to consciousness. But if we frame experiments or hypotheses in a Neo-Kantian framework, that will always distort or bias the accuracy of estimations.
I’m sure they will throw tons of money at this. Failure to be able to make chips is national suicide for a major world power.
https://archive.is/tume4
Do regular search engine index DCMI dcterms:? Doe Google Scholar or Google Search index schema.org/CreativeWork yet?
Any assertion has a burden of proof, you are likely referring to cultural/colloquial norms/beliefs on the matter.

There is cultural/normative truth, and then there are various stricter/technical interpretations (using forms of logic other than binary, which causes reality to appear very differently), and making such distinctions is typically culturally "discouraged" (it is rude, pedantic, not what HN is for, etc).
It is really common for Google to delete projects out of the blue. So don't be surprised that they haven't much updates.
I have seen (multiple times just yesterday) random, vengeful Twitter users from other countries tag Brazilian police and investigators in replies to completely unrelated comments they disagreed with, saying something to the effect of “@op is using Twitter from Brazil, arrest them!”

(How the PD is supposed to be checking their Twitter account amid the blockade, I don’t know.)
https://archive.ph/RoPuk
"if farmers would only come by the hospital anytime before it's almost too late, we'd be able to help them with mild treatments" — the doctor in my family
Yes, India and the Romans had extensive trade relations for the 6 centuries between the Romans conquered Egypt until the Arabs took it.

Facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Roman_trade_relations

As I understand it, the Silk Road only became important when the sea route was closed. It lost its importance 800 years later when the Portugese found the sea route around Africa.
Before building an app that depends on the Wayback Machine (or other Archive infrastructure) it's good to keep in mind this post from their blog: <https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let-us-serve-you-but-don...>

One of my favorite tricks when coming across a blog with a longtail of past posts is to verify that it's hosted on WordPress and then to ingest the archives into my feedreader.

Once you have the WordPress feed URL, you can slurp it all in by appending `?paged=n` (or `&paged=n`) for the nth page of the feed. (This is a little tedious in Thunderbird; up till now I've generated a list of URLs and dragged and dropped each one into the subscribe-to-feed dialog. The whole process is amenable to scripting by bookmarklet, though—gesture at a blog with the appropriate metadata, and then get a file that's one big RSS/Atom container with every blog post.)
NASA astronaut reports 'strange noise' from Boeing Starliner spacecraft
Interesting because nicotine in tobacco evolved to ward off insects as well and that's why there's so many pesticides made from related chemicals: neonicotinoids.
Yeah, so the reason they’re testing for cocaine is because that’s a test they have available. I doubt it was actually positive, they just needed something to write their paper of analyzing some preserved brain around
The 'golden age' of alien hunting at the Green Bank Telescope
Some of the site's infrastructure is using an expired cert referencing letsencrypt R3 and other bits are serving a working cert at letsencrypt R10. Broken ACME updates maybe.

This can be so hard to get right! But I guess an automation oopsie is a step up from the need for spreadsheets, NMS checks, calendar reminders, and still having things expire once turnover erodes institutional knowledge.
Honestly, it was a school project, i had time and my final internship was month away, so i took the time to do it. Barely finished in time and it was quite lousy, but i was proud of it. It was my peak "Dunning-Kruger", because i was probably the most mathematically-inclined of all my classmates, and thought i was really clever.

Funny stuff, during my final internship i made a heavy use of scikit-image, learned about openBlas and unterstood how much better low-level libraries were for matrix computation, and how far away my own library was. And at my next job i was setting up our PaaS VMs with a lot of stuff, including TitanX with Cuda and pytorch, informed myself on the tools i was installing (i did set up tutorials in notebooks for an easy launch), and then understood i was years behind and way less informed than i thought i was. I think i learned about HN around that time.
That would include almost all of the human race, yes.
So phreaking cool
This would have a different dynamic in recent decades due to the chronic shortage of skilled labor.
I hope Japan avoids as just like it was done to many north American chains and businesses where they were hollowed out for larger and larger stock prices.
Elon is playing a PR game here to make Brazil look more unreasonable than they are in the court of public opinion.

Sure, there is a problematic aspect of this particular court and judge in Brazil.

But Elon purposefully went beyond non-compliance to get Twitter banned on purpose to amplify his point of view. He closed up the Brazil office that was required to operate in the country.

And before you say that Elon is doing this to fight for free speech, explain how being a “free speech absolutist” jives with his business presence in China, or his own suspension of left-leaning and Musk-critical accounts.
Thanks! I've unfortunately also had plenty of experience with those kinds of people. I'll let you know when the Android version is out!
I absolutely love my job. I just also love everything else in my life. The productivity difference of 30 vs 40 hours is not that big, but the difference it would make to my life is monumental.
It is something people have been working on: https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd

https://spectrum-os.org/ is very cool too!

> Spectrum will, for now, be a Linux-based system, with packages from Nixpkgs but not derived from NixOS.

This is because NixOS is not actually so flexible/extensible. I hope multi-kernel NixOS helps with that in general