skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Novel front-loading exoskeleton gets paralyzed patients up and walking
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MacBook Pro Space Black Color
I like the the MacBook Pro. I have to decide about the color and want to know about the experience of people who have it.

- Is that color painted, or does all the aluminum have the same black color? When there is a small scratch, perhaps around the connectors, do you see the natural aluminum behind it?

- Do you have any regrets about fingerprints or other problems? If you had to repurchase it, would you choose that color again?
If you had infinite monkies, what is the probability that one of them is actually a random number generator

In the set of all infinite monkies there are infinite monkies that are random number generators
My parents spent around $16k in 80s money on orthodontics. The US Navy dentist took a look at the two more years of treatment thor orthodontist had planned and said you can do that or we can just pull these two teeth and everything will slide into place. He also said the entire braces + retainer treatment wasn't needed. A few decades later I can confirm he was right. Be careful with dentists
So in other words, the offer is non-negotiable?

In that case you could still work for that company, but would your company offer a higher salary with any other negotiating strategy?
It's how you can send SMS messages when there's no cell-tower in range. Aimed at emergencies when you fall on a mountain or something...
Thanks! Pixelmator just didn't click for me. Hotkeys were different and it felt like it operated slightly differently from old school Photoshop.
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Japan's Eightfold Fence (2017)
Above some point they can just check the code.

People looking at flowcharts usually don't need the entirety. Especially as the flowchart could even be out of date, or miss some of the code-level subleties.
I use uBlock on Firefox on the desktop and don't really use my phone for browsing. I specifically bought as dumb of a TV as I could find. I also pay for services to avoid ads where I feel okay doing so. I pay for Netflix, for example, but don't pay for YouTube Premium because I have less of a history of fighting ads on Netflix than YouTube. I also avoid mainstream cable (have for 20+ years).

I live alone, though, which changes the equation somewhat.
Will fit right in with iMovie, which doesn't allow you to select the resolution of the exported video. It's like the island of misfit apps.
I had the same thought. Ours usually end in a Q&A and I wouldn't want to miss that.
That's done in the paper. Using a log(log) scale for time, measured in number of heat deaths of the universe. It's the most amusing part of the study.
With source generation, I'd say that its biggest limitation is rapidly diminishing. Even ASP.NET Core is embracing it, allowing for better support for json deserialization and eventually MVC.
Transactional Model of Stress and Coping
Instant | https://instantdb.com | Founding Engineer | San Francisco (ONSITE) | Full Time | 150-210K + Equity

We're building Instant - a modern Firebase. Instant gives you a database you can subscribe to directly in the browser. You write relational queries in the shape of the data you want and we handle all the data fetching, reactivity, permission checking, offline caching, and optimistic updates.

Some context on us:

In August we open sourced Instant and had one of the largest Show HN’s for a YC company. We just announced a $3.4M seed and are backed by James Tamplin (CEO of Firebase), Paul Graham, Karri Saarinen, Greg Brockman, Jeff Dean, Amjad Masad and a bunch more technical angels.

We're currently a team of 3, working in-person in our office in SOMA. Our backend is in clojure and our frontend is typescript. We all do a bit of everything :)

We're looking to grow our team to 5. If you're the kind of hacker who who takes their craft and their word seriously, who moves fast, and isn’t afraid to look into the ‘scarier’ parts of programming, we want to talk to you

Want to apply?

Send us an email at founders [at] instantdb.com . Please include a side-project you've worked on (if it comes with a GitHub, heeck yeah!).

More info:

Essay about Instant's design: https://www.instantdb.com/essays/next_firebase

Open Source Repo: https://github.com/instantdb/instant

Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322281
Do dentists make a lot from Invisalign? Wife and I both were being pushed Invisalign at a new dentist office and I'm pretty sure neither of us need it.
Government needs to step in and prevent this. Massive taxes on any payroll leaving the country. Corporations will always act this way, we need to fight back using the only lever big enough.

Also we should be talking about unionizing again.
Normal full text search stuff helps reduce the search space - eg lemming, stemming, query simplification stuff were all way before LLMs.
Once again, Private Equity is the driving force behind this new scam.
Wise words from my PhD supervisor (paraphrased):

"The presentation is supposed to get them to want to read the paper and talk to you about it" - or basically, it's not a lecture.
Pretty cool that it's just free and there's really no pretext just a compilation of cool projects. Almost makes me feel like I'm missing something.
Goblins | https://goblinsapp.com | Founding Engineer #2 | Williamsburg, New York | ONSITE | $60-160k (+ 0.75-2.5%)

In education, we have always traded off scale and quality. In a 30-student math class, half of kids are ready to accelerate while half are still working on their foundational skills, but teachers cannot be in 30 places at once, giving each student one-on-one support.

Until now. Imagine 30 teachers in every classroom—that's how Goblins feels. Students draw math on any device, and our AI figures out the "why" behind their confusion, giving instant feedback and building conceptual foundations. (Preview: https://youtu.be/SH9UomzBMUs)

Goblins launched to a private beta in March with 15 schools and 300 students. Since then we've built a waitlist of 2,300 teachers, and we now have paid school and district customers across the US and Mexico. We've also raised from angels and received a large grant from the Gates Foundation.

We are in the unique position of having a product that is both highly differentiated and demanded. Anyone who joins now will be getting well-priced equity. By the end of this school year, this company will be much larger.

Current technical problems we're working on:

→ Building knowledge graphs that adapt to student performance in real-time, routing them to the optimal next problem to work on

→ Extending our handwriting recognition from digital canvas to real paper through Chromebook cameras (think real-time OCR on math equations through low-quality webcams with poor lighting and limited CPU)

→ Creating interactive mathematical lessons (think 3blue1brown, but conversational) that remediate student misconceptions

You'll be engineer #2 on the team, joining Sawyer (CEO, former Head of Design at X1, acquired by Robinhood, and math teacher) and Alp (CTO, previously Stripe and Amazon).

We move fast, care deeply about craft, and obsess over delighting users. If you're interested, email sawyer@goblinsapp.com :)
I saw Pascal on the VAX (sucked) in school before I really got into Turbo.

I saw C before I started using Turbo because I had a C compiler for the 6809 using this Unix-clone OS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9

on a TRS-80 Color Computer and I was checking out the K&R C book and also the AT&T UNIX manual from the public library a lot: I had a project of implementing many of the "software tools" such as wc for OS-9 as well as developing tools compatible with ones people were using on CP/M bulletin boards like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBR_(file_format)

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ_(program)

(Now I tried that last one in Microsoft BASIC and boy the bit handling was painful)
I get that there's a lot of people only comfortable in the js-landscape, but I still think this is a weird tool for the job. If performance is a concern there's no way node is the right thing to start, and react just seems silly to me here. Should be noted that I do a big portion of my day to day work in react - no hate on the framework.
My parents were very supportive of me emotionally and I turned out a lot more resilient than many my peers, especially the ones told to "suck it up". The takeaway from the anecdote about children getting hurt on playgrounds isn't to just ignore them, you need to support them if they are actually hurt. My reading is that they aren't forcing kids to stay home and parents can choose to have kids stay home, I don't see an issue with letting parents decide.

It's hard to see where on the line this is between "supportive" and "coddling" without knowing the kids, for example one of my best friends is a woman married to a trans woman and is worried about needing to move states if a conservative wins. She absolutely has a good reason to be upset if conservatives win nationally and in our state as she's worried she won't be allowed to keep her marriage or her wife will have trouble accessing healthcare (it's already hard for her to find doctors who are accepting)

Edit: to be clear I dealt most things on my own growing up but reliable support helped me (and other people in general) learn healthy coping mechanisms and resilience. Who cares if the school lets parents decide for their own kids what they need, kids are different (and they are still kids)?
if anything i would consider embeddings bit overrated, or it is safer to underrate them.

They're not the silver bullet many initially hoped for, they're not a complete replacement for simpler methods like BM25. They only have very limited "semantic understanding" (and as people throw increasingly large chunks into embedding models, the meanings can get even fuzzier)

Overly high expectations lets people believe that embeddings will retrieve exactly what they mean, and With larger top-k values and LLMs that are exceptionally good at rationalizing responses, it can be difficult to notice mismatches unless you examine the results closely.
The thing is: regex are computer programs. The regex text is code written in a domain specific programming language that is compiled and then run against an input.

It was an important point in the design of Perl 6, now named Raku. Perl already had first class support for a powerful regex variant, in Raku, they went a step further to consider it for what they really are.

> In Raku, regexes are written in a domain-specific language, i.e. a sublanguage or slang. This page describes this language, and explains how regexes can be used to search for text patterns in strings in a process called pattern matching.

> Fundamentally, Raku regexes are very much like subroutines...
Nice change of pace from the current zeitgeist of, "you should really be Extremely Online to have a chance!" that is oft-repeated by...Extremely Online people.
I’ve never seen a graphics person using a windows machine in all my years in tech…

Maybe I’m in some sort of bubble.
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For the same reason, I drew this Snail of Theseus as the logo of my digital garden/lab notes: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/the-snail-of-theseus/
It's the sweet spot for me. I don't edit images for a living, but I push pixels around enough for hobbies (e.g. making video game maps) that I want something user friendly and pleasant. Pixelmator Pro has way more features than I'll ever need or use, and all the ones I do need are ergonomic to me, a person who doesn't have decades of Photoshop muscle memory.
Firmware is C (and I forgot to mention asm) and a few special rules about boot. Less difficult than tedious in modern times.

Electronics is a different subject, but I took physics in school and dabbled in soldering etc. Amateur electronics at least is pretty approachable if you have the interest.

Computer Architecture class bridges the two nicely. There you go—well rounded.
Thank you for nice comment! I already have a job I enjoy, but I still take note of the tech field economic climate by monitoring recruiter activity. Of course, the issue could always be me!
Decades of obsolete and unpatched hardware and software endanger us all
There might be one case somewhere that could be found where a firm that technically counts as PE isn't shady but in general the very idea of private equity is shady so it follows that all the PE firms would be shady also.

The point of PE isn't to run sustainable businesses that provide quality products and services for customers while treating their employees well. The point is to rapidly suck all the value out of businesses by loading them up with debt, breaking laws, mistreating customers, and exploiting employees. What happens to the carcass of the business or to the customers and employees whose lives have been destroyed doesn't matter to them.
The overlooked GenAI use case: cleaning, processing, and analyzing data
No because an aggregate can be made of many sources, maybe you restrict your sources to those only you trust, but not every source is correct all the time. So you’re still stuck with needing to fact check.
Sure, and I'm sorry for that, but in general technology introduces severe social and learning challenges. Extreme enough to induce a measurable increase in teen suicides since the introduction of social media and mobile phones.
Ask HN: Company Failed from Poor Code?
Have you been at a company that failed from poor code quality?

We all know the importance of code quality but it is very difficult to quantify. Many companies have average code quality and seem to do fine. To understand this better please share your experience when working with poor code quality and what was the breaking point.

Also share what language and technologies were used and if managers were forcing language choices or making bad decisions. Also if from experience give your opinion if certain technology leads to poor quality.

For example I think JavaScript leads to bad code quality. Mangers will want to use JavaScript because they think it is faster to write and can find more qualified candidates. They don't realize that good programmers should be able to write code in any language and that code writing efficiency is significantly less important than code reading efficiency.
Anecdotally, I can support this.

A loved one is moving through this pathway now. Its has you said: try all the established drugs first, even if they aren't directly indicated for the cancer diagnosis of the patient, then move on to the more modern and specific treatments once the established medicines have failed.

One problem with that approach is, once the patient has reached the point of several failed treatments, the cancer has possibly become advanced and the patient is worn down by the earlier interventions. In my observation, this confluence makes the newer medicines simultaneously harder for the patient to tolerate but also appear less effective than might've been the case at earlier stages of the disease.
I think that’s all over the medical sector. Knee operations for which there is no proof of benefit, screenings where the result makes no difference, expensive back surgeries instead of physical therapy and exercise, expensive drugs instead of nutrition changes.

There is just too much money to be made.
The first time I visited USA about 15 years ago, the cold weather must have been too much for me, I developed a sharp pain in my right lower jaw.

Visited a dentist who took a full mouth X ray, diagnosed a "horizontally impacted" tooth that was causing it.

She used a form of chain of thought reasoning to deduce that I should get FIVE of my teeth pulled from all corners of my jaws, and referred me to a dental surgeon who just so happens to be her husband.

Instead, I used clove oil as a topical remedy and managed the pain for the rest of my stay.

Back in my home country I did get the horizontal tooth extracted and a root canal treatment on the adjacent one. Paid only a fraction of my month's salary which was also reimbursed by my employer insurance.

I am happily living with rest of the three teeth intact. (I did have other dental issues since but not with these ones she wanted to pull.)

The dentists I consulted back in my home country (India) have been fairly conservative before recommending invasive procedures. More than once they wanted to double-check and confirm they understood the root cause before doing any procedure on a particular tooth, lest they leave the problem unsolved while creating needless expense and complications.
Some dentists want to fill "crevices" that may become a problem later, others wait until there is a problem. I've been fortunate to mostly have dentists that were happy to just do the semi-annual cleaning and annual xrays and nothing more than that unless I had a complaint or they spotted obvious decay.
Yes, but Delphi is no rocket either.
NASA, probably more than any private organization has reams of documentation. Every bolt is documented. Maybe, just maybe, electronic systems are more complicated than bridges and buildings that literally just sit there.

I do agree that we need to do a better job of celebrating the people that do maintenance which is what the vast majority of our field is based on.
There isn't that much training data on reverse engineering Python bytecode, but in my experiments ChatGPT can reconstruct a (unique) Python function's source code from its bytecode with high accuracy. I think it's simulating the language in the way you're describing.
I think that saying this phenomenon is change "for the sake of tech" or for "progress" elides the fact that it is good for some people. Specifically, it is good for auto executives and their shareholders (in their capacity as executives and shareholders, though presumably many of them are drivers as well). It's a cost measure that makes customers' lives worse (and more dangerous) for the entire life of the car in exchange for pennies in their pocket now. This isn't technology getting its way or anything, but people using their power to further their own interests with indifference to the interests of others. That's not new, just the details are.
Pixelmator could never compete with Adobe. Their expertise is on Mac and until now they didn't have the resources to make a big product like Photoshop or Illustrator (at some point they shared the idea of making a vector graphics product but it was abandoned).

Another point is macOS has a significant market share in the creative industries. Personally I know zero designers/illustrators using Windows. My hunch is Mac users represent probably 50% or more of Adobe users.
I started by addressing the OP and the issue of replaying the QR code directly.

And then I branched out into related issues of proving presence somewhere — online or offline.
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JS will eat the software world. So having better tools on par with charm in the go world would be great.
I guess it depends where you work. In CAD and 3D animation work, Windows machines outnumber the Macs I see 10:1. In smaller shops this ratio probably flips around but Adobe (and others) have a large and captive contingent of Windows users to profit off.
One rule I have found useful with dentists:

If you can see another dentist from the parking lot of the dentist you are going into, find a third.
The no-subscription aspect is a huge differentiator IMO, and depending on situation is even worth trading off features. Losing access to your work because you stopped your Adobe subscription sucks, as does the eventual premium over single-purchase.
I bought and used Pixelmator a long time ago, but stopped right after Affinity Photo (and Designer) came out. I didn't follow its development very closely since then. Has anyone used both Pixelmator and Affinity Photo recently? I'd appreciate some comparison here.
The bindings are only valid for the expression following in.

Haskell does the same thing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42012807
I've never seen a company that allowed the employees to dictate so much of their policies and decisions. How many times have employees staged walk outs and protests and the company continually bent the knee for them?

I've never understood people who do this. If you think you're on the chopping block for layoffs or cost cutting? You dust off your resume. You start networking. You reach out to recruiters. You actively PLAN to get laid off and have a Plan B or move before you do get laid off. If you're already working at Google, I'm sure it will be easy to find another job rather quickly.

Why would you put yourself on the radar when the company is already looking for people to lay off?
Desktop PCs have become the Big Block V8 Muscle Cars of the computing world. Inefficient dinosaur technology that you pour gasoline through and the output is heat and massive raw power.
What’s a CPE?