skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't sound like a crisis? These are all recent:

"How Much Does Long COVID Cost Society? New Data Shed Light"

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/how-much-does-long-covi...

"Long COVID: confronting a growing public health crisis"

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...

"The Long Covid Moonshot"

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-i...

"Long Covid is a significant health crisis in China too"

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6...

"Long Covid at 3 Years"

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/long-covid-at-3-years

"The future of excess mortality after COVID-19"

https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/topics-and-risk-d...

"Covid Brain"

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/covid-brain

"The Indomitable Covid Virus"

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-indomitable-covid-virus

The reason you don't hear any news about long covid is that it affects peoples brains, hearts, immunity, microbiome, organs, and employability. The hospitals do not attribute the rise of problems in these areas to long covid, so there is no news about long covid as the ultimate source of increases in childhood diabetes, the rise of autoimmune diseases, middle age heart attacks, a higher background death rate, decline in lifespan, availability of workers, etc. These are all reported as isolated mysterious facts that nobody understands. But just prior to the rises was a huge pandemic from a disease that causes long covid with many research reports of very long lasting damage to multiple systems in the body; maybe the cause is not so mysterious? Swiss Re the insurance company is certainly paying attention.

And the pandemic is not over, more people are getting long covid right now and it's not just the old people. The main fear is that this is a slow moving crisis where 5% of all people lose _some_ capability every year, including the capability of fighting off other infections, and also including those who are reinfected. It doesn't take long for that to have widespread effects and indeed effects are showing up and there are already economic consequences. The reason researchers were saying "sooner than anyone can imagine" is that this is an exponential effect and now that the CDC is no longer collecting data (and much of the world followed suite) it is difficult to predict with precision. However, like all exponential effects it will at some point start the steep part of the upward climb.
From the OP:

> and the other wanted to control women’s bodies

and you:

> Can you say that everyone should be completely comfortable with this?

So... control of women's bodies, as claimed in the OP? Why is it necessary for you to be comfortable?
Show HN: I made a list of free high DA site which gives free backlinks
SaaSDirectories.fyi is a directory of free saas directories out there. You can submit your saas on these sites and get free backlink and relevant traffic
Sorry, but the ROI on enterprise AI is abysmal
Most RPA work is in dealing with errors and exceptions, not the "happy path". I don't see how Claude's Screen Agent is going to work out there - what do you do when an error pops up and you need to implement specific business logic how to respond? How about consistency over many executions, and enterprise accounts. You want a centralized way to control agent behavior. Scripting based RPA is also much faster and cheaper to run, and more consistent.

Maybe Anthropic should focus on building a flexible RPA primitive we could use to make RPA workflows with, like for example extracting values from components that need scrolling, selecting values from long drop-down menus, or handling error messages under form fields.
> ... you may want to repost again in 12 hours for more eyes.

Duplicate threads are a plague ;).

Posting a second time will only lead to chaos as i try to juggle multiple threads while continuing work on the posted-about build port.
They've come a long way, Samsung is apparently considering Mediatek chips for their next flagship phone (S25).
Yeah, I was pondering just how long of a time delta you'd need/want to actually show a meaningful difference... Probably at least as long as the lifetime of the Euclid spacecraft...
The related submission:

rwf: Rust Web Framework - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41914544 (October 2024, 179 comments)
What is the reason behind wrapping code inside an IIFE (Immediately Invoked Function Expression)?

JavaScript modules are scoped, so nothing can be accessed outside unless explicitly exported.

FYI, you don't even need an IIFE. ES modules are block-scoped by default.

// Instead of,
let foo
(function() {
const bar = 1
foo = bar
})()
// `bar` is out of scope here

// You can just,
let foo
{
const bar = 1
foo = bar
}
// `bar` is out of scope here too
Isn't Bangalore as important as California.
OP is Australian
It actually sounded like she was running it at a loss. Or rather that if there was any profit, it was because she was taking pretty much no salary out of the company.

I really hope it succeeds but I think this is one case where someone with good marketing and sales skills could help her out a lot while she's able to focus on product.
Because, by definition, it’s not a memory-safe, TLS stack at that point. Security is only as strong as its weakest link. If critical components aren’t memory safe, we don’t usually call it memory safe overall or claim it’s in a memory safe language without clear qualifiers.

The detractors are talking about how they’re marketing or describing it. They want the memory safe and Rust labels to only be used for memory safe and purely-Rust programs. That’s fair.

Outside the marketing, the stack is good work. I’m grateful for all the TLS teams do to keep us safer.
The info is already public and it's tracking the vehicle not the person.

On top of that, Zuck never seemed to care about the consequences of tracking people's behaviour, so tit for tat, I'd say.
They prefer tcl as the scripting language and they like the maintainer.
Another related submission from today:

Ryde: A Rust Web Framework - https://github.com/swlkr/ryde (October 2024, 5 comments)
> We should let failing businesses fail. Everyone would have learned their lessons a long time ago and we would have less corporate greed/corpo-political corruption

In most cases I agree, but for extremely CapEx heavy industries, this is a death sentence.

For example, the entire semiconductor industry in Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan would not exist without industrial strategy and capital provided by local and central government.

In fact, unlike in the US and Europe, anti-trust never had significant mindshare in Asian economies, and much of the economy in these countries are largely split among a couple dozen conglomerates or holding companies.

This is the model that China is using, as it was Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea that played the largest role in making China a multi-trillion economy by investing in China decades before the US and the rest of the West began investing in the early 2000s.

A purely profit driven incentive structure is diametrically opposed to commodification (which is the ultimate form of production at scale) because the margins pressures would be too severe.

This is exactly what caused the entire semiconductor fabrication industry to collapse in the US in the 2000s-2010s, while Asian countries continued to spend tens of billions subsidizing a handful of conglomerates that represented these industries.
I am really good at this.
I don't know yet. We may not do it.

We haven't deployed a model like this, it's new.

I've done a ton of various RPAs over the years, using all the normal techniques, and they're always brittle and sensitive to minor updates.

For this, I'm taking a "wait and see" approach. I want to see and test how well it performs in the real world before I deploy it, and wait for it to come out of beta so Anthropic will sign a BAA.

The demo is impressive enough that I want to give the tech a chance to mature before my team and I invest a ton of time into a more traditional RPA.

At a minimum, if we do end up using it, we'll have solid guard rails in place - it'll run on an isolated VM, all of its user access will be restricted to "read only" for external systems, and any content that comes from it will go through review by our nurses.
Qualcomm should put a giant bid on SiFive tomorrow, to remind ARM that its not unassailable
That's garbage. Quarter of a million Americans work for minimum wage, (i.e. exactly $15,079 annually) according to tax filings by employers.

This does not include those in tipping industries where they are allowed to have a base pay of under the minimum wage.

https://www.zippia.com/advice/minimum-wage-statistics
HEIC to PDF Converter – Free, browser-based HEIC conversion tool
Show HN: HEIC to PDF Converter - Free, browser-based HEIC conversion tool
I built a web tool to solve the HEIC compatibility problem that affects many iPhone users. HEIC (High Efficiency Image Format) has become Apple's default format, but it's not universally supported, especially when people need PDFs for documentation.
Technical implementation:

Built with pure JavaScript for client-side conversion
Uses Web Assembly for efficient image processing
Zero server-side storage, all processing happens in browser
Implements HTML5 File API for drag-and-drop functionality

Features:

Browser-based conversion without installation
Batch processing support
Preserves image metadata
Mobile-responsive design
Open source (link to GitHub repo)
Last time I checked, the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon was faster and more energy efficient than the latest Exynos. Especially the top-binned chips that Samsung gets.

Still, the fact that Samsung can swap out the chip in their flagship product with virtually no change other than slightly different benchmark scores means that these chips are pretty much fungible. If either manufacturer runs into serious problems, the other one is ready to eat their market share for lunch.
Unfortunately, a federally compliant organization could still decrypt it because ECB decryption is still allowed for legacy use.
This is blogspam. The every-year raises in tax bracket thresholds are dead boring because they're dead predictable, and they're the only thing in this article.

I highly doubt that's all that's changing for the 2025 tax code, so it cannot be "everything you need to know".
Good idea. How would that work do you think?
> They prefer tcl as the scripting language and they like the maintainer.

That's most definitely a big part of it, but see my other response in this sub-thread for other aspects which are equally important for the project.
You read like a HAMC damage control bot. I am sick of being lorded over by criminals hiding in plain sight, it is why the economy sucks. They are sucking on it like leeches.
I would like to share this link with my outdoorsy friends, but the inability to opt out of cookies triggers my morals.

Dark pattern: "To opt out, click the link in the footer that you can't reach because this popup blocks it until you accept all the cookies"
It's not clear which party you think is doing this because both of them do it so frequently.
Data Lifeboat
SYSTEM_PROMPT = f"""<SYSTEM_CAPABILITY>
* You are utilising an Ubuntu virtual machine using {platform.machine()} architecture with internet access.
* You can feel free to install Ubuntu applications with your bash tool. Use curl instead of wget.
* To open firefox, please just click on the firefox icon. Note, firefox-esr is what is installed on your system.
* Using bash tool you can start GUI applications, but you need to set export DISPLAY=:1 and use a subshell. For example "(DISPLAY=:1 xterm &)". GUI apps run with bash tool will appear within your desktop environment, but they may take some time to appear. Take a screenshot to confirm it did.
* When using your bash tool with commands that are expected to output very large quantities of text, redirect into a tmp file and use str_replace_editor or `grep -n -B <lines before> -A <lines after> <query> <filename>` to confirm output.
* When viewing a page it can be helpful to zoom out so that you can see everything on the page. Either that, or make sure you scroll down to see everything before deciding something isn't available.
* When using your computer function calls, they take a while to run and send back to you. Where possible/feasible, try to chain multiple of these calls all into one function calls request.
* The current date is {datetime.today().strftime('%A, %B %-d, %Y')}.
</SYSTEM_CAPABILITY>

<IMPORTANT>
* When using Firefox, if a startup wizard appears, IGNORE IT. Do not even click "skip this step". Instead, click on the address bar where it says "Search or enter address", and enter the appropriate search term or URL there.
* If the item you are looking at is a pdf, if after taking a single screenshot of the pdf it seems that you want to read the entire document instead of trying to continue to read the pdf from your screenshots + navigation, determine the URL, use curl to download the pdf, install and use pdftotext to convert it to a text file, and then read that text file directly with your StrReplaceEditTool.
</IMPORTANT>"""
I don‘t think so. The language is not perfect, and if you actually took the time to understand it’s benefits instead of spouting falsehoods, you‘d be able to see its advantages. My employer certainly sees its benefits, as do a lot of Fortune 500 companies right now.

I love C and I have used it for more than a decade, but I wouldn‘t choose it again. The most important thing I save with Rust is time and also my sanity. The very fact that I can trust my code if it compiles and that I don’t have to spend hours in GDB anymore makes it worth my while.
> When you pay $3000 for an Apple Silicon machine, you're not paying for the same things as this

Apple actually does have a full-size tower type machine with slots:

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro

I don't think it uses ECC DRAM, though previous Mac Pro models did. They also used to support up to 1.5TB of DRAM (though without the advantages of Apple's current unified memory architecture.)
In a way that's also true for the x86->ARM transition, isn't it? I had an MacbookAir 2018. And.. "it was crap" is putting it very, very mildly. Yes it was still better than any Windows laptop I got since and much less of a hassle than any Linux laptop that I'm aware of in my circle. But the gap was really, really small and it cost twice as much.

But the most important part for the working of the transition is probably that, in any of theses cases, the typical final user didn't even notice. Yes a lot of Hackernews-like people noticed as they had to recompile some of their programs. But most people :tm: didn't. They either use AppStore apps, which were fixed ~immediately or Rosetta made everything runnable, even if performance suffered.

But that's pretty much the requirement you have: You need to be handle to transition ~all users to the new platform with ~no user work and even without most vendors doing anything. Intel never could provide that, not even aim for it. So they basically have to either a) rip their market in pieces or b) support the "deprecated" ISA forever.
'Persecuted' son of Singapore founder gains UK asylum
Sure it can do coding but can it do software engineering
We're all assuming that Oryon-V is already being developed.
Wow that's a great story; thanks for sharing! If you have a blog, please copy-pasta this there. It needs to live!

This made me chuckle... it is how all great hacks begin.

> "This is not trivial, the 3270 does not want to do this"
And they will still create shadow profiles for you and track you regardless.
> OK, I need someone to talk me out of it

Looks like ARM Holdings has: https://www.reuters.com/technology/arm-holdings-cancel-qualc...

So I'm taking it back; if Qualcomm loses this case, this chip is certainly abandoned.
How would a settlement with the Authors' Guild cover orphan works? If the Authors' Guild is in a position to grant a license, then it's not an orphan work. The whole orphan works problem is that for a lot of valueless works, nobody knows who owns what.
Finally a game superior to Flappy Bird. Bravo!
I'd think it needs more detail, though?
No I didn't mean it would block the operations, but that it would block the payouts. Do you have information to suggest otherwise? You haven't linked it, so I assume you're speaking on authority. Heh :) Is it?

Anyway, I mean ... kind of horrible activities, but ... interesting to see these stories if they are indeed linked to solicited information - do you know for a fact they are?
1. Cut fire service funding and jobs

2. Cut forest service funding and jobs

3. “The forest fires are so bad this year, how could this have happened to us??”
Isn't the default setting in iOS set to "share in a compatible format" (i.e. JPEG)?
I would generally agree - but effectively, government does have control of the internet, at least the cables that run underground in their portion of the world, and even moreso the bits and bytes that travel along those wires that travel into and out of their territory.

Wireless and satellite shoots a rather big hole in that ownership model, but not completely, the concept of air space is a thing, as well as maritime. Things get muddy when you extend out into space of course, but most internet is distributed by wire + signals on the ground rather than from satellite, might not be able to argue that to much of an extent.

Then there's the arguability of whether or not government(s) own their people - I think governments today worldwide truly believe in that position wholeheartedly. I certainly don't think they do, and government(s) ought to think twice about that position if you were to ask me.
> Why does something being reasonable to have mean it’s okay to destroy it?

Yes. That is my point
Dysentery is no joke: the defining symptom, blood in your stool, comes from your intestinal lining sloughing off. A good friend of mine got it in India and said
the waves of pain whenever she had to defecate were worse than giving birth without anesthetics.

The one upside is that dysentery is common enough in India that it was promptly recognized and treated, with a single giant horse pill targeting both bacillary & amoebic dysentery that basically cured her in 24 hours.
We recently migrated from fat controller to fat model. We found that fat model makes the code a lot clearer and is much easier to test behaviour.
Randall E. Bryant
Unrealistic; in minesweeper it's impossible to hit a mine on your first click. ;)

https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/315335/is-it-poss...
And there is also: https://celebrityprivatejettracker.com

To nicely see CO2 impact of these people.

Also for someone who is pushing the metaverse to replace face to face communication, he is surely travelling to meet other people face to face quite a lot!
Singlestore has been doing json -> column expansion for a while as well.

https://www.singlestore.com/blog/json-builtins-over-columnst...

For a colstore database, dealing with json as strings is a big perf hit.
I think you just ignored the rest of my comment though which specifically addresses why I don’t think just relying on translation is an effective strategy. Users aren’t going to switch to a platform that has lower compatibility when the incumbent has almost as good efficiency and performance.
You can sign built artifacts with cosign without actions or podman[-desktop]/docker.

It's probably possible to trigger gh actions or gl pipelines builds (container, command) with git repo mirroring.

datasette-lite depends on a WASM build of SQLite; what about WASM and e.g. emscripten-forge and micromamba?

Edit

emscripten-forge/recipes/recipes_emscripten/SQLite/build.sh:
https://github.com/emscripten-forge/recipes/blob/main/recipe... ... recipe.yml says 2022: https://github.com/emscripten-forge/recipes/blob/main/recipe...
Lissajous Curve Table
Regardless, social security is funded totally separately from the rest of the budget, with a dedicated tax, and does not contribute to the deficit. It’s typically excluded from budget discussions, for that reason.

You could change the law to axe social security, keep its highly-regressive tax, and instead use that to pay for other stuff—but lots of things are possible with a change in the law, and that’s not possible now without such a change. That’s not something that can happen as an ordinary part of the budgeting process.
great minds think alike. remote consulting looks within the reach now.
I'm so glad she's doing well.
Sorry, I was mistaken and I already do have that set up and working using binary. There’s something else I’m trying but failing to remember that isn’t possible with binary keys.
Where are you getting the "jury tampering" from? Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_trial#India seems to indicate that India mostly abolished jury trials after independence.
The bigger question is how much of their existing cores utilize Arm IP… and how sure are they that they would find all of it?
> Solving the versions of python package from your requirements is NP-complete, in the worst case it runs exponentially slow. Sudokus are also NP-complete, which means we can solve sudokus with python packaging.

Is that actually sufficient? Can every system that’s solving something that’s NP-complete solve every other NP-complete problem?
> Except it can't, a 100 acre wind farm can produce energy indefinitely while an oil well will eventually run dry.

Perhaps more true in that the wind (as far as we know) won’t run out but wind turbines do have a limited lifespan. After 20-30 years they usually need to be replaced. Some of the components are recycled but a significant portion - including the blades - are either not recyclable or not economically recyclable. Work is being done on this but there’s no guarantee it’ll produce dividends.
Since AI is all the hype I hardcoded a tic tac toe.

https://go-here.nl/ai/