skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could be said for all of private insurance: they've got a literal mandate to not pay out, pay out far below what is owed, or delay delay delay because what they keep is pure profit.

I wonder if for a public provider if the incentives are better.
Ninja golf...
The Ancient Egyptians were also like us in that they were into architectural bling and greenery, so I'm not actually sure they'd be complaining that much. They were into materials like gold, electrum, and polished stone, but I'm sure you could sell them on modern glass.

That said, the Great Pyramid is a historical site, not an active worship site, and modern archeological sensibilities prioritise conservation. A restoration like that might make it hard to answer future questions about the pyramid.
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1495

Fuligin, the color that is blacker than black.
Gene Wolfe.

Thanks for posting this.

Cheers, M
GPT 4o doesn't do actual OCR and there's much smaller and more effective models for specifically this problem.

I appreciate your work, intent, and sharing it. It's very important to appreciate what you're doing and its context when sharing it.

At that point, you are responsible for it, and the choices you make when communicating about it reflect on you.
There's quite a few sci-fi books, movies, and TV shows that explore this concept. Probably the most well known is 1984

But I'm pretty sure this would make life very bland. Slow down innovation as we become less creative, less willing to deviate from the norm, and the Overton window of what's socially acceptable narrows. After all, we do love having enemies in some way or another, even if it means making them up.
Haha that’s wonderful. I’m fascinated by coat of arms. I’m from Southern India, and We don’t have anything like this except for may be royal families. I’m thinking of making one myself, but not sure how this works and hence I asked! :)
The biggest overarching point (that I found most interesting) was the shift in problem space from an "engineering problem" to a "statistics problem" since there were far too many unknowns to solve effectively with engineering principles alone.
Photoacoustic is usually done with a chopped or pulsed light source at a few hundred Hz (ie. audio frequencies). If the molecules don't absorb at that wavelength or if the molecules are not present, the light just goes through. If light is absorbed, there will be slight heating when the beam is on resulting in a sound wave at the chopping/pulsing frequency. This is detected by the microphone. For weak absorptions, the intensity of the sound wave will be linear in the concentration.

I think this is what is meant by "humming": There is a sound that is generated when the target molecule is present.
On this vintage of equipment it’s almost always the backlight. See if you can see a faint image if you use a very bright light on it. If you can, you can probably replace the cfl tube with a led strip.

Also these displays are still available, but usually come with driver ic’s blobbed on. You can probably just bypass the blob or even mount the lcd module on the old board. (They usually just are mechanically attached ). Buy a couple of cheap character displays of the same size to practice tearing them apart. You should be able to find them around 5 dollars for the 2 line displays.
> You can't nuke your account. You can close it but your comments remain on the site.

Which is why I'd write an open letter and not do the thing. If I could nuke my account I wouldn't need to ask Dang, and I would have already done it.
Probably enslaved by humans and kept from interbreeding. Alternatively, very strong tribal culture that prevented intermixing like in the tribes in Papua New Guinea.
Show HN: A (provocative) tool to show the performance of your investment
Hey HN!

I'm learning front-end development, and to test my knowledge I made a tool for myself to predit the performance of a possible market investment. I'm surprised by the predictions, mainly by the inflation rate that eats so much capital... btw I used React, NextJS and UI by ShadCN. I'm not 100% sure about the correctness of the formulas used, even though I tested the results a lot.

Let me know what you think (and if there's any error)! Don't forget that it's not an accurate simulator, it's just a tool to give an idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicas_of_Michelangelo%27s_D...
What happened to the Grand Inga Dam project? I thought that's what this story is about.
Great news, congratulations!

Years ago, under the influence of Lisp romanticism late into my university years, I worked on a domain-specific language for designing and analyzing control systems as my senior design project, using Hy! Just checked, it's been five and a half years to be specific. Really, time flies.

Here it is for anyone curious:
https://github.com/celaleddin/gently

Since then, I've been following Hy from a distance and it's amazing to see it's still active. Thank you everyone involved!
Bash one-liners useful for bioinformatics
> What about meaning?

What about it? Do you seek a deeper meaning in every film you watch and every book you read? Sometimes trashy action is perfectly fine. There are plenty of narrative games too, if that's your cup of tea (not mine).

That old desert shooter Spec Ops: The Line was based on the Heart of Darkness book, for example, and BioShock is basically Atlas Shrugged. I'm sure there are newer, deeper titles, but it's not my genre of choice. Frostpunk 2 is a city builder where everything goes to shit all the time, and it's a bit like watching Snowpiercer in that sort of bleak apocalyptic way.

> Is there any reason a busy adult should be playing any games?

It can be a nice break from work and social activities. They can be fun, social, addicting, relaxing, whatever.

> Is the technology exciting anymore?

Is web technology exciting? Film and camera tech? Any tech? Anything?

Gaming is just a mature industry now, with small incremental gains instead of huge leaps, along with a busy indie scene (the COVID bubble bursting and mass layoffs really hurt that, though).

> What is an exciting new game?

What do you like in a game, if anything? If nothing, maybe gaming just isn't for you. Nothing wrong with that.

Personally, I grew tired of single-player narrative games a while ago, but Baldur's Gate 3 is an excellent title by any metric. And you can play through it without focusing on the story if you wish. I skipped every cutscene and killed everyone and still had a blast.

Been on an action RPG kick lately, between Diablo IV, Path of Exile, and Last Epoch. It's not a dramatically different experience than the first few Diablos way back when, but the builds these days are a lot more interesting. The designers have really gotten the complex synergies between items, skills, and passives down these days, but it's a lot of time investment and watching things blow up.

I also really enjoy factory games, and the recent Shapez 2 is a lot of fun if you like basic programming concepts and optimizing pipelines and parallelization, etc.

Meanwhile my partner loves digital board games like Wingspan, and she's been trying to get into BG3 as well (which is also kinda a digital board game, I guess).

My friends are often playing MOBAs.

Choose your poison. Or don't. Outside is nice too :) But the gaming industry is producing a lot of great works these days, if a bit oversaturated and repetitive.
Yes, that’s a lot of assumptions. That’s why I tried to punctuate that is my opinion, and my view, while speculating how you would use it. Or, more accurately, how “one” would use it, since I know nothing about you and just using the impression that I got from your comment to express my generalization of the issue and my judgemental stance on it.

That said, I am still fully on the side that this use of AI is not IA, agreeing with the author of the post. A “prosthetic leg” is a metaphor for IA, so I don’t think it is that. Neither for creativity, nor for ego actually. It is a subterfuge for, maybe, aiding one into self acceptance of what they can produce artistically.

My advice would be to not use AI and, instead, make an effort into understanding what one can produce without AI, even if it is not aesthetically similar to what others produce. Dig deeper into what one can produce, regardless of any accepted technique for the craft, and that will be art. A more significant art and more humanly creative (by definition) of what the output of an AI would ever be. And a more significant art for any observer/reader, even if it contains what is perceived as rookie vices or mistakes.
I actually like this: it might be the first case of a "support the underdog" phenomenon. Suddenly some voice actor who sounds a lot like the already rich popular one, can get a bunch of gigs by barely talking a bit into an AI and selling their likeness. (doesn't really extrapolate into the future properly, but still not many examples of this)
Most countries also aren't under a constant stream of active threats.
When it's vicious and cunning, sure. But the guy's pathological, and still extremely endearing despite that.

I had a high school friend who was lying all the time. His father had access to unheard of cpu prototypes and whatever else. We nicknamed him "C. The Mythomaniac" and called out his bullshit everyday.

He was a really great friend.
>Inside a black hole, the center is in your future, it’s a point in time where geodesics end

we're going to end up in one of those super-large black holes in like 20 or 50 billions of years. One can say that we're already falling into that blackhole. And the geodesics of our local Universe end in the core of that super blackhole. The core of that blackhole can be considered the center of our local Universe the same way like the core of any blackhole is considered the center for everything falling into the blackhole.
Right -- if they dig into the context (which of takes infinitely more time, and then they have to be logged into Elon's hate machine to even see it) then they'll find the more "nuanced" information below it (for what in the hasbara world counts as "nuanced" anyway), which is at least somewhat less brainwash-y and does try to make some kind of point.

But the whole intent of the retweet's framing (its truncating) of the underlying tweet is to bypass all of that, and just get straight to the cortisol-spiking emotional imagery.
3. Regulations.

Yes I know the typical visitor to HN is deathly allergic to government regulations and regulatory bodies in general.
That attitude in tech is how we got here.
> You want to fund a new American semiconductor manufacturer from scratch?

More like rebuilding the whole supply chain. They are throwing serious money.
Aside from how ridiculous it would be to buy double coverage, it can just make the problem worse with both companies trying to argue they aren't the primary and that their doing anything may be duplication of coverage. But some more paper work should resolve that once you are dead.
Thanks, looks very interesting, but also somewhat abandoned. Will keep an eye on it in case someone picks up the torch.
Video games are lies, zeroes and ones masquerading as worlds and people; imbued with meaning by the power of dreams and dreamers
I do too think it's more stupidity than malice, but this is a very rare case of a conspiracy theory that could easily convince me. One, the civilians hit by the 7th october are bedouins, leftists still living in their anarchist commune, and partying teens/YA who wouldn't vote for him anyway. Two, intelligence agencies all knew, they had the plan (according to haaretz), and it is well-known that Egypt send a lot of advance warning (the week when it happened).

The fact that most of the IDF was busy finding ways to "liberate" land in the left bank while it happened to me is a reason why i mostly think it is due to stupidity. It's very plausible, and that's what IDF primary purpose was until last october. By removing people from their houses in the west bank, they allow settlers to take that land (as it is unused), and that's how Israel grow. It was like that that they took my father's (christian) orphanage and school: pretexted the building was too old and needed reparation, put the Sisters and the kids out, destroyed the orphanage, settled the place. Easy. They probably thought the warnings were given to prevent them to build new settlements fast enough, and choose to ignore them.
Everything can be made simple if you throw 90% of features out. Now we get to watch dhh and crew reinventing all the wheels that k8s had in 2018 over the next couple years
Hammock-driven development [video]
The big secret: Different human populations are actually just different hybrid compositions of ancient hominids. All have "Homo sapien" as a common mixin, but the other populations mixed in were way more diverse.
I ran NextCloud for some years, just for the file sharing. I was the only user. About every third upgrade cocked up in some critical way that required bespoke DB fixes. Twice I basically blew away all state and recreated my entire file store from scratch from a backup because it was easier than fixing the install. Worked for me but is infeasible for any larger install. I tried using the office functionality for one document and I lost the document entirely on an upgrade because apparently the mirroring as a file is an illusion and the real office data is stored buried in the database in a way I never did manage to recover; I ended up just recreating the document. Thank goodness it was just the one document.

It is constantly screaming for upgrades but I don't know what they are doing with those upgrades because it doesn't seem to make the core any more reliable. It's just an opportunity for the upgrade to fail and lose data, which it frequently took advantage of.

The key thing that really annoyed me is that I couldn't hardly have used it more lightly than I did, and it took about every other opportunity to fall over and lose data. I can't even imagine the plight of someone trying to run this in an office environment.
I once had an insurance plan with a grossly inaccurate provider directory. This cost me a bit as the doctor they suggested to me, verbally on the phone, turned out to be out of network. They later told me it was the doctor’s responsibility to remove themselves from the directories and they often fail to do that. If they’re so incapable of maintaining an accurate list of providers on their own, how did the insurance company know to reject that claim so quickly? They are simply liars and fraudsters.

I began calling random doctors in the directory and one even told me he tried to get his name removed for three years. Anybody at the insurance company could clean up the directory once a quarter. They know the directories are inaccurate. It makes their network look bigger.

Health insurance middlemen need to be eliminated already.
Facial Recognition Technology Detects Entrepreneurs, Outperforming Human Experts
The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
"It's not real communism..."
In cases of public healthcare the problem is almost always a shortage, doctor shortage, bed shortage, nurse shortage, tech shortage etc.

The perfect system is a public healthcare with true abundance.
Interesting subject, but came here to comment that you are “doing the lord’s work” by writing an LLM tool for Delphi developers. All six of them! (i kid) Best of luck with Owl.
The Wikipedia page for the “Seattle freeze” phenomenon mentions it applying to Vancouver[1], also Vancouver has long been known as “No Fun City” because of laws and cultural norms against partying[2].

1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze
2 https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/No_Fun_City
Neapets
Did you? Punishing people for expressing themselves is Soviet, it's not Western.
IME, people who are building in public seem to spend more time letting people know they're building in public than actually building.
My wife is a doctor and dealing with insurance is one of the worst parts of the day.

Far too often, she knows that a certain treatment plan is going to be the only and most effective plan for a patient. However, insurance will require her to exhaust several other options first.

It seems the hope is enough patients give up on treatment that they never actually seek the proper care. They'll just get chucked the "cheap" option again in the future.
I don't think slavery made sense for nomadic people. Also, 'slave' is a quite advanced abstract concept for a time when humans could barely speak with eachother.
> We've done the research and our MI300x pricing is competitive

More info would be appreciated. Because I tried finding the pricing for all the providers and they aren't similar. In my research, in almost all the cases, 2*A100 is superior than both H100 and MI300x in VRAM, performance and pricing if the usecase supports multi GPU.
I think at this point we understand that 'inventing' or 'discovering' means coming up with the solution/discovery that took off in modern culture/usage in a way that shaped our current world.
The original Bell Labs approach was to make things as simple as possible, even at the expense of functionality- should that impact simplicity.

Adhering to that philosophy is very, very hard. Especially since complexity sells better & is often more expedient.
What is this trained on? It doesn't seem to look on the web for my product at all... doesn't quite the reviews...

Are you just using an LLM? I asked to write code, and it did...
Nope, see for example "Custom 1":

var buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(4096);
try (var fc = (FileChannel) Files.newByteChannel(tempFile,
StandardOpenOption.READ))
{

buffer.flip();

for (int i = 0; i < records; i++) {

if (buffer.remaining() < 32) {
buffer.compact();
fc.read(buffer);
buffer.flip();
}

int len = buffer.get();
byte[] cityBytes = new byte[len];
buffer.get(cityBytes);
String city = new String(cityBytes);
int temperature = buffer.getShort();

stats.computeIfAbsent(city, k -> new ResultsObserver())
.observe(temperature / 100.);
}
}
Thanks. I enjoyed compiling a huge list of buzzwords to use for it.
Your rhetoric is so laughable it's insane, you clearly enjoy arguing for the sake of arguing but you will not succeed in this case. Both tweets indiscriminately smeared protestors as "terrorists" and Israel's official account just said "they[the protestors] are terrorists" merely based on "their ideology" but you want me to be so charitable towards a propaganda account that even engaged in propaganda against Palestinians that is reminiscent of Nazi propaganda!? (e.g. caricatures of Palestinians as cockroaches and rats)

>"well they don't say that explicitly, but if you take the other stuff they're doing into context then it's pretty clear think that and are engaging in propaganda"

this is a laughable straw-man. I'm saying, as it's tweeted, that they smeared the protestors indiscriminately as terrorists based on their ideology of supporting resistance to colonization, but you are bending over backwards to sanitize the tweet by arguing semantics like a Nazi who hides behind dog-whistles and ambivalent language to retain a small degree of plausible deniability. anyone who is not hell-bent on arguing for the sake of arguing knows exactly that the purpose of that rhetoric is the blanket vilification of all protestors like they have done consistently for the past year. it's documented how zionists have persistently tried to smear protestors as "antisemitic", "terrorists" or any other evil known to man. Such dishonest strategies are the bread and butter of zionist propaganda. I will no longer entertain your bad faith argumentation.
"Just" partial differential equations of complex fields for Schrodinger; the fourier transform to shift between, what was it, momentum and position?; matricies and/or quaternions for the Bloch sphere; bra-ket notation; and the Hermitian, Hamiltonian, and Laplacian operators.

Of these, the only one I did in my double maths A-level was matricies and partial differential equations of single dimensional real functions, and the absolute basics of what complex numbers are.

Seems like it needs a degree to me, having tried to teach myself using brilliant.org
Volodymyr Zelensky Has a Plan for Ukraine's Victory
If you give a short description of what you need and contact details, your search is maybe already over, as on this site are also some freelancers with FPGA&|Embedded experience.
https://archive.ph/2024.09.22-161614/https://www.newyorker.c...
We should adopt and use to it. There will be more and more fake AI created content every day so we should be confrontend with it to learn how to react to it.

Regulating prolong adoption and take resources.
It was also made to work on exactly one hardware specification, with no operating system to speak of. This flappy bird clone works on an immeasurable number of devices, with varying hardware AND software configurations!
Love of cargo bikes is changing how we deliver goods in our cities
Oh yeah, now I understand.

I'm struggling to find a width for the layout that makes sense for text (where narrow columns are preferable), but also for code snippets (where you want wider columns).
Have you taken a look at using Nix as a build system? One thing I don't like about most build systems is the lack of a dependency check, C is most guilty of being the troublemaker here. But anyways, with Nix you can lock in dependencies and handle arbitrary feature flags and platforms as well.

Though it's possible this goes beyond your "just do stuff"
Shoutout to the GCP apologists: your faith in the face of overwhelming evidence contradicting the stability of the offering will be remembered heroically by history
M is the SI prefix for million (not a unit).

m is the SI unit symbol for meter. Minute is not a SI unit, as the SI unit of time is the second.
I don't think so? https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-48754/Support-for-hy...
Agree! Only bummer is when I want to create calendar events and reference email details, or vice versa. On desktop it’s easy enough to have two tabs, but on mobile, it’s a pain. I get why it is the way it is, but we are talking about exceptional UX here, and I think there is room for improvement.
> "It has been thought of as many things"

This makes me remember the time I looked at a random book at my university library, and it happened to be a physics book from 1905.

Which was both fascinating and unintentionally hilarious due to it proudly asserting that we knew most of physics now because we knew about atoms, and assuring the plum pudding model as how atoms worked.

n.b. Plum Pudding was the old-school idea that atoms were a positively-charged blob with negative electrons embedded. It was refuted when you measure the radiation scattering patterns off gold foil and discover that, actually, there's an extremely dense nucleus.
The study cited is "Global trends in incidence, death, burden and risk factors of early-onset cancer from 1990 to 2019". BMJ Oncology. 2023.

Important context lacking here is that a scientist called Jianhui Zhao, has been caught cheating previously in a 2018 article about cancer. Results didn't matched the experiments.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33901310/

"certain of the Transwell cell migration and invasion assay data shown in Fig. 3B were strikingly similar to data appearing in different form in a pair of other articles written by different authors at different research institutes, one of which had already been published elsewhere prior to the submission of this paper to International Journal of Molecular Medicine"

--If-- this author from the Second Affiliated Hospital on Zhejiang (China) is the same person that worked previously on the Hospital of Jilin University (China), we should take the results claimed here with a healthy dose of caution.