skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe Japan is working on urine tests for brain cancers too.

Also, just because cancer is detected doesn't mean action needs to be taken. PSA tests are a good example of this. There's a fine line between catching things before they are a problem and performing potentially harmful interventions for something that might never become a problem. But the blood and urine tests are great for screening, then using imaging or other tests to determine if it needs to be addressed.
Frankly thought your comment was in jest until people responded to you with serious recommendations :)
That's because the asymmetry of the one-way publication funnel where we can only consume has been replaced by a more symmetric ecosystem where users contribute content. Because they donate their content to platforms, they make the platform owners rich - they get the attention, so they also get the ad revenue, but they don't need to pay for quality content because users are just fine with (other) users' contributed content.

If there had been zero-install tools for self-publishing early on instead of the centralized Facebooks and Mediums, perhaps things could have gone differently.
The port of the Windows 95 Start Menu was not all it seemed
While he gave a nod to the Windows 95 design team for the iconic interface element, he explained how he'd worked out a way of avoiding a library of localized bitmaps by figuring out how to display sideways text.

In an email to The Register, Plummer told us: "Long story short, in the production builds, I've learned they went with bitmaps rather than the programmatic version.

"My guess is that's the way the art team had always delivered them ... and so it was just easier, but I don't have any real idea. I stay away from source code leaks so don't want to investigate the technicals!"
> if you list the important advancements of humankind (like LLMs [...])

Bait used to be believable.
Yup, we did experiment with SDCH at a large social network around 2015 and it didn't massively outperform gzip. Outperforming it required creating a pipeline for dynamic dictionary generation and distribution.
Because groups want to track people without cookies. This re-introduces the problem of shared caches. Site A can know if someone visited Site B by whether or not they have the dictionary for some shared resource. Site A never has to show a cookie banner to do this tracking because there's no cookie set. This is just reintroducing the "feature" of cross-site tracking with shared caches in the browser.
I wonder if the NHTSA-stop is partially to blame
The point is that when a government seizes crypto funds and auctions them off again, the funds are clean for legal purposes but transaction history doesn’t change, it just has an additional transaction.

Software that flags aspects of transaction is nullified by the reality that it doesn't actually know that one subsequent transaction cleaned the whole trail. There are hundreds of thousands of governments around the world when factoring in municipal authorities, even governments you don't respect are cleaning funds in the eyes of governments you do respect. In the eyes of the requirements of exchanges that have these automated chain analysis practices. Right now, only a handful of governments do crypto investigations and seizures, but as this increases it only moves towards the nullifying chain analysis, as many funds will be comingled with a flagged transaction but unknown to the software about how these funds have been washed by a nation state’s blessings.
> but if you list the important advancements of humankind (like LLMs, drug development, basic science breakthroughs etc.)

Amusingly, free and open source kernels (including bsds) are key to enabling all of that.
Couldn't let it go, but got everything except for the positioning of the small radius and maybe the height of the web slope is off (had to increase 2 to 2.05 to keep a gap from appearing).

I think if one laid out the radius stuff flat and then rotated it things would be easier to visualize.
I’m just at awe to see Torvalds still publishing the release notes for Linux kernel.
I am not against gambling. I enjoy it myself on occasion, and I would not ban it. But still idea of gambling for money without chance to win money back... That just feels next step exploitation.

I do understand the dopamine process of demo games on casino sites, but still. Allowing people to pay for that...
I am just a student of these things myself so take everything I say with a grain of salt. But based on your question and my own experience, it seems that you are approaching religion in the same way I was doing -- intellectually.

That is natural, but the problem is that our intellect is quite limited. You would like to have a description of "the unifying deep truth". But even very simple experience, like how strawberry tastes like, cannot be transmitted by words and comprehended by the intellect. How could we transmit something vastly more complex even if we knew it -- and I am not claiming I do.

So I would say what you are missing is the direct experience of something higher. Seek and you will find.
I think you might have misread that, it says 22 with a fellow crewmember or while on shore leave in Hawaii/Philippines/Singapore/Thailand/other ports (and the source [1] doesn't mention crewmembers but it's implied).

[1] https://archive.md/eFVKi#selection-255.0-255.204
Paging LeVar Burton for endorsement. This looks like a Gen 1 VISOR.

Neat tech, I wonder if getting too used to it could actually lead to degredation of your sight.
Excel chews up CSVs that it opens. I know this because an accountant checked each file our code produced using Excel before trying to import it into another program. We proofread our code before we realizing the problem was somewhere else. Shoulder-surfed the process, found the giant bug with a green X on it.
Monoidal Categories for Modelling Physical Systems and Language – G4G15 Feb 2024 [video]
The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML (2021)
Very nice to be able to see how to do this C.
I find progressive glasses and multifocal contacts help vs. "dumb" versions but mostly I still switch glasses.
I'm guessing that's Japanese Yen? Even so a bit too pricey for me.
If the coin is biased so that it lands on heads only 1 in a million times it will take a lot of coin throws to get some randomness out of it. This isn't a limit of the technique, just a consequence of the low entropy source.
>Or whoever created the puzzles leaking their information.

Or getting hacked. This is super common among people who are known to have high value wallets. Between physical attacks and zero days in everyday software, there's no chance to stay safe when you put that kind of target on your back.
It is hard to paint with a wide brush here; rules for determining fault vary by locale (sometimes significantly), but there are absolutely situations where your vehicle might strike the rear of another vehicle, and you are found completely free of liability.

Often, situations like:

* You are stopped in traffic, the driver in the front reverses into you.

* Traffic comes to a quick stop, you stop, and the driver behind you rear ends you and pushes you into the vehicle in front of you.

Brake checking and unsafe lane changes might result in a split of fault in places that assign comparative negligence, which might be more of what you're thinking of. Often the idea here is that the driver in the rear could have done something more to avoid the accident. This is less likely to be determined to be the case when a vehicle is completely stopped in traffic and the driver has no options.
Others already chipped in the obvious arguments (onlinereading, other hobbies). I want to talk about a successful magazine instead: Retro Gamer UK. It's still alive and kicking and well worth a read. It started as an "also-ran" between all other gaming magazines from the publisher but now it's the best running and one of the only ones left. Why is that? Of course because retro gamers grew up reading those magazines and love to do it again. But also because the articles are really great. Why? Because they interview the developers and research the topics (games) quite well. And the developers also have no worries to talk about stuff that didn't work out (they don't really have to sell the game or their extinct studio anymore). And of course with these "scopes" (and the retro gaming niche) they make a type of content that is quite difficult to find online. Much easier to just read the magazine (of course an online/PDF version exists as well...).

Another advantage is that the content of an issue of the magazine doesn't really get old.
> Isn't that basically coding in G-code?

No, I think G-code is too prescriptive and low level for the modelling task. What I'd prefer is some way to specify operations in a fluent, object-oriented API e.g.:

round_bar = RoundBar(
alloy=1018,
diameter=Dimension(1*Inch, error=0.010*Inch),
length=Dimension(12*Inches, error=0.25*Inch)
)
3_jaw = 3JawChuck(tolerance=0.005)
between_centers = BetweenCenters()
center_drill = CenterDrill(size=4)

shaft = round_bar
.chuck(configuration=3_jaw)
.drill(bit=center_drill, depth=Dimension(0.250*Inch, error=0.02*Inch))
.unchuck()
.rotate(axis=Y, degrees=180)
.chuck(configuration=3_jaw)
.drill(bit=center_drill, depth=Dimension(0.250*Inch, error=0.02*Inch))
.unchuck()
.chuck(configuration=between_centers)
.face()
.turn(
target_diameter=Dimension(0.750*Inch, error=0.001*Inch),
length=Dimension(11.5*Inch, error=0.05*Inch, anchor=round_bar.tailstock_face()),
finish=Rough
)
.external_threads(
class=ThreeA,
nominal_size=FiveEighths_18,
length=Dimension(1.25*Inch, error=0.020*Inch, anchor=round_bar.tailstock_face()),
reverse=False,
relief=DefaultRelief(FiveEighths_18)
)
...
So I built this in react-native with plan to release on both iOS and Android but focused on the iOS launch first. The plan was that if people liked it/used it/there were some paying users to offset the costs of hosting/APIs, then I would release the Android version as well.

I will update you if the Android version is launched!
> ... But c'mon, it's just a collection of drivers, some VMM, and some syscalls. But people fetishize it because it's complex and fun to get into.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_Law ?
I’ve been having issues with my bi-focals lately. Looking far and cell phone at fine, but laptop sucks.

These can definitely help in that case, but yeah look weird.
What was the best life hack you discovered too late?
> think about all of the ways your proof is going to be used beforehand

What do you mean by that? I don't know much about theorem provers, but my POV would be that a proof is used to verify a statement. What other uses are there one should consider?
I'm Switching into AI Safety
Managing secure access to AWS resources has always been a major concern in EKS and a headache for cluster administrators. IRSAs (IAM Roles for Service Accounts), which we’ve covered in detail in this article, have been very useful in facilitating this process since their introduction in 2019, but had many limitations and required significant configuration and maintenance effort.

Then, AWS introduced EKS Pod Identity at the end of 2023, which was a major step forward in simplifying and improving this process. This article looks at what EKS Pod Identity is, how it works and why it’s a game-changer for Kubernetes developers and administrators
e.g. imagine being given some source code and being told to compile/execute it but you're not given any hardware.
Say what you will, but this is why Cloud Gaming will make sense eventually. Upgrade cycles have to make you want new games - you can't advertise the same experiences with a "now in 4K/8K" label on it. On top of that, console gamers already pay for online service access and many subscribe to PlayStation+/Xbox Game Pass. They're effectively getting the worst of both worlds - paying SaaS prices for an experience they don't control.

So... get rid of the console, and the equation balances again. Gamers just sign up for the service they like and play things from the devices they prefer. Console upgrades happen server-side, and the cost is amortized against subscription revenue for everyone involved.

I personally prefer playing games locally, on my PC. But I can't guarantee the majority of console owners feel the same way. For all of Microsoft's short-sightedness, hopping on the Cloud Gaming bandwagon seems more justified with each passing day.
I had a Series 3 Apple watch, I also had atrial fibrillation. I upgraded to the Series 7 and it's recordings, though dismissed my doctors but supported by their choice of detectors enabled us to determine the probable cause.

I have hearing loss and the hearing aids I bought a few years ago cost me £4,000 / pair. I lost one. My insurance excess is less than a pair of Apple Pro 2 earphones. [1]

I'm not sure what else they could produce in the health sphere that would directly benefit me but so far what they are doing is great.

[1] One caveat: If you see me and realise I am wearing a hearing aid you will probably react in a different way to if you see me wearing Air Pods and assume I'm listening to music (which I think was a point made here a few days ago but which happened to me today at the pub).
A parts package to create this would be a nice side hustle for the gentleman in the video.

Suggestion: (to video maker)

1. Leave the design open source, create a second design (more efficient/whatever you think defines the declaration of value).

2. Package second design parts together for sale and let the public purchase so they can run around and find disposable vapes and make their own.

3. Profit.

No need for steps 4 and 5. (Rinse & Repeat new models).
very small amount of code to make a functional webrtc implementation.
It obviously wouldn't be ethical for Waymo to brake aggressively just to catch out humans tailgating them too closely (at no risk to Waymo, after all, since the insurance of the car behind them will pay for damage and let's say they do this only when there are no human occupants). Even though it's a "flaw" in the tailgater's behaviour and even though he will have the responsibility assigned to him.

So is it ethical to brake aggressively to avoid a 1% chance of an accident up ahead? 5%? 0.1%?

This is a real life trolley problem, and the answer can't be as simple as "always brake, feel no remorse because it's the other driver's problem" even if that might be a good heuristic for a human to teach in driver's education.
A nuclear power plant is just a bunch of pipes and a pile of uranium.

/s

We like it because it is free, it is not a technological amazing breakthrought, but as a collaborative project it's kind of successful in time, you have to agree on that :)
> you just have to trust that they're going to do their job of not hitting things in front of them, just as you are.

Thats a very human-centric viewpoint, understandably. A human driver can only see in one direction, and should be looking in the direction where things are happening the vast majority of the time. A self-driving car can see in all directions and in fact is looking in all directions at all times. Perhaps the rules will be updated at some point.
> But this is unusual. Most things are not tied together like this.

It might be wise to reconsider if this “unusual.” The brain structure hippocampus is thought to bring working memory into longer term memory and has a large role in spatial memory. This neuro-activity association is also supported by the memorization technique known as a “memory palace.” [0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Sleep woke and well.
That by reading Hacker News I do lose any semblance of self respect for myself.
Very likely not. Only issue with Valve system is that consumer cannot get back their credit. Otherwise while their transaction taxes might be high everything is clearly marked in local currency. You know exactly how much real currency you are paying and there is 1:1 mapping between various payment methods and to in game currency.

There is no fake currency you can buy in varying sized bundles with opaque deals or discounts for larger purchases.
Show HN: I Made a Tool to Generate TikTok Shorts with AI
This post reminds me of the John Goodman "The Position of F*ck You" scene in the 2014 movie "The Gambler", not only the tone but also the the attitude of self-sufficiency.
Pretty bad take and calling it “a collection of drivers, some VMM, and some syscalls” is a bit reductive.

Linux kernel is built and maintained across a variety of people. To my knowledge, nobody is directly paid by Linux foundation yet these people come together to slowly improve the kernel everybody uses either directly or indirectly. It’s also a demonstration of the greatness that humans can achieve if we work together to solve a problem(s) outside of the typical “capitalistic” motivations (ie, money)
No joke. I accidentally swallowed some once from a vape that was leaking and immediately threw up. Like, it was so quick I didn’t even feel it, I just looked down and my shirt was covered in vomit. I’m not sure what kind of juice it was, it was my sisters vape. (Yes, I’ve quit since then, mostly)
Terminology-wise, what’s the better way to communicate that something captures a truly omnidirectional spherical view, not just 360° in a circle? Seems this article has gone for ‘360° panoramic’ but to me that implies blind spots above and below, but the camera placements on this device seem to have full spherical coverage. Shouldn’t they call it a 41,253 square degree camera?
> "99% of people aren't writing compilers or debuggers"

Look, I get the hype - but I think you need to step outside a bit before saying that 99% of the software out there is glorified CRUDs...

Think about the aerospace/defense industries, autonomous vehicles, cloud computing, robotics, sophisticated mobile applications, productivity suites, UX, gaming and entertainment, banking and payment solutions, etc. Those are not small industries - and the software being built there is often highly domain-specific, has various scaling challenges, and takes years to build and qualify for "production".

Even a simple "glorified CRUD", at a certain point, will require optimizations, monitoring, logging, debugging, refactoring, security upgrades, maintenance, etc...

There's much more to tech than your weekend project "Facebook but for dogs" success story, which you built with ChatGPT in 5 minutes...
Tesla combines Model 3 and Model Y sales when they report results, so we don't actually know that. According to estimates*, and my own eyes, more Model 3s are sold than Model Ys.

* 2021 is the last year for which Wikipedia has estimates for both vehicles. The Model 3 sold over 1m, the Model Y around 400k.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_Y#Sales

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_3
Boy this sure sounds like old religion, which is also not enough.
Wait sorry, if you're just discarding the entire concept of expertise, then what source could possibly convince you of anything? The sources themselves are just more experts!

Also to be clear, I didn't assume anything about you. My very first question was about your expertise.
Isn’t this just saying things seek a local minima (or maxima)?
Great article, thanks for posting! I typed out a long thing that got lost, so I’ll cut to the chase and do what everyone else is doing and give my rebuttal: cognition is absolutely composed of many non-unified (and often almost-entirely-unconscious) systems, much like a computer is composed of many disjointed programs. But consciousness is unity itself, in my view — the fact that most of our animal processes are disjointed doesn’t say much about us as sapient beings, even if those processes take up “most” of us on some given scale (time, energy used, neurons involved, whatever).

But I’m just vaguely gesturing — this view was first and best characterized in 1801:

For example, this universal identity of the apperception of the manifold given in intuition contains a synthesis of representations and is possible only by means of the consciousness of this synthesis… For the empirical consciousness which accompanies different representations is in itself fragmentary and disunited, and without relation to the identity of the subject. This relation, then, does not exist because I accompany every representation with consciousness, but because I join one representation to another, and am conscious of the synthesis of them… in other words, the analytical unity of apperception is possible only under the presupposition of a synthetical unity.[16]

…for the reason alone that I can comprehend the variety of my representations in one consciousness, do I call them my representations, for otherwise I must have as many-coloured and various a self as are the representations of which I am conscious. Synthetical unity of the manifold in intuitions, as given à priori, is therefore the foundation of the identity of apperception itself, which antecedes à priori all determinate thought. But the conjunction of representations into a conception is not to be found in objects themselves… but it is on the contrary an operation of the understanding itself, which is nothing more than the faculty of conjoining à priori and of bringing the variety of given representations under the unity of apperception.

This principle is the highest in all human cognition.

- Immanuel Kant, A Critique of Pure Reason
Asking genuinely—are there places that use yen other than the Japanese kind? I wasn’t aware of any and a casual search came up empty.
Just web complexity really, there are lots of reasons you might have multiple domains as a business.

Language-specific domains, preview domains, multiple properties (often not fully integrated) etc.

You can always paper over things with more redirects / params (so a landing that bounces on) or multiple clients but supporting multiple redirects can save the customer work in some scenarios.
I had the exact same reaction and was about to rant here but I looked up the wikipedia article and to be fair to the author there is no simple easy way to explain this. The article actually does a decent job. :)
Rent controls will not deter housing investment, US mega-landlord says
Just a thought. The problem in most cases isn't finding people with whom to meet, it's actually how we meet. We've lost a lot of capacity to develop relationships that go beyond common interests and basic in-person politeness.
Is there any way to get similar behavior as inside IDEs like Visual Studio or Eclipse or IntelliJ? Where each tile has tabs, and I can drag tabs to another tile, or create a new tile by dragging to the left/right/up/down of an existing tile.

Or is there some reason this behavior is not useful? I see some hints that it would be. More and more apps have tabs - windows explorer now, all IDEs of course, all text editors, browsers, terminals. And often they let you drag the tabs to some other convenient place, like Firefox lets you drag tabs to another Firefox window. Would it not make sense to generalise this to the entire screen?
Put yourself in a position to have to learn.

If you want to learn carpentry: buy a house or work land

If you want to expand IT skills: attach it to revenue/savings
That isn't just unethical, it is illegal. You can't intentionally cause an accident. The waymo would have the responsibility assigned to them if it was determined that was programmed that way intentionally.
I've had a few hard crashes (system freezes completely, ssh does not work) over the last two weeks on 6.10.x kernels. I am hoping that it is https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3142 (and not hardware failure) but I've been unable to capture the kernel panic if it does occur.

Never had such an issue before.
I had to look that up.. damn, right in their faces:

https://www.nknews.org/2024/08/kim-jong-un-flaunts-new-200k-...