skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll want to start by not using string interpolation when you meant to use encodeURIComponent https://github.com/varse-io/varse/blob/c14e3427138d6e70f49cf... They should be ashamed of their docs that don't specify whether axios.get does URL encoding for the user or not, but my strong guess is "not" https://axios-http.com/docs/req_config

Because the unwritten rule of any API is that surely as you always use "foo" someone will want to put the first chapter of War and Peace. If nothing else, some validation for what a variableId can look like would also help consumers not have to read external documentation to know if it's [a-zA-Z0-9] or what. Even the server-side of it isn't illustrative https://github.com/varse-io/varse/blob/c14e3427138d6e70f49cf... but hey, maybe the first chapter is actually a legitimate key name for all I know https://github.com/varse-io/varse/blob/c14e3427138d6e70f49cf...
Pinning deps is discouraged by years of Python practice. And going back to a an old project and finding versions that work, a year or more later, might be nigh on impossible.

Last week I was trying to install snakemake via Conda, and couldn't find any way to satisfy dependencies at all, so it's not just pypi, and pip tends to be one of the more forgiving version dependency managers.

It's not just Python, trying to get npm to load the requirements has stopped me from compiling about half of the projects I've tried to build (which is not a ton of projects). And CRAN in the R universe can have similar problems as projects age.
A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball (1888)
That’s still a massive sum by academic standards. Administrators can afford expenses of that size, but educators will balk.
This is based on the categorically wrong assumption that one has total control over everything they ever consume. - This is not possible.

Yet still, even ignoring this, I consciously make an effort to not support these countries because of the reasons I listed. The same way, I make a conscious effort to not support companies that use business practices that I don't condone.

Does this work 100% of the time? No. But that doesn't make me a hypocrite either. Everyone should do "whatever they can" to express their moral ideals.
BiomedGPT: A Generalist Vision-Language Foundation Model for Biomedical Tasks
Maybe worth remembering that "trees" have evolved many times on earth. i.e. trees do not all share a common tree-like ancestor. The woody-trunk-and-branches pattern was just useful enough that it evolved many times. Which makes me suspect that aliens would likely have something tree-like on their home world, and would have also learned to build using it.
Besides our focus on privacy, what sets us apart is we'ew using some of the latest AI models out there. Our tech stack includes

- Llama 3.1 405B by Meta (outperforming GPT4 by 13%)
- Llama 3.2 Vision by Meta (we're one of the first to use it!)
- FLUX.1 [dev] by Black Forest Labs
I think this is the most likely reason why we haven't found aliens yet - we are looking for something too much like what we are.

We can't take as evidence the things that happen in chemistry on our planet as indicative of what is likely in the universe.
If the source is GPL, why not release it?
The NSF's 2022 report on the collapse: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/arecibo/Arecibo-Tel...
Downvote. Dislike sound or music? Please just ignore the topic.
It’s actually very easy to import a raw peptide from china or wherever and reconstitute it without this happening. Lots of people do it all the time, and my guess is this is something particularly dumb like using plain water.

I agree though, more people should just import their own stuff.
It can be destruction of evidence, which is illegal.
Depending on how it goes today, a fair bit of labour may get shipped out the US shortly.
No. Corruption is when the others are doing it. /s
[Bad thing A] does not make [Bad thing B] less valid. This is an equally important story to be told.
If the code cannot be reached, what is the point of having it as a dependency?

Does it know which part of a dependency has a vulnerability and check, if the execution reaches _that_ part? Then it would make sense.
Similar in the UK: employers can offer a defined benefit pension plan (usually based on something like 1/60 of final salary time number of years worked) or more commonly now a defined contribution scheme (invest in to a market-based pension fund, where the employer selects the fund manager). Both of these are taken from pre-tax income, though at higher rates of income tax the employee will have to claim some tax back at the end of the tax year. These contrast with the SIPP, which is private to the individual and does not involve the employer, but has similar tax advantages to the DC employer scheme.
dramatic in the moment writing - guilty
I don't know why people are keep down voting every comment that is trying to ask what does this number include. Is it the number of work-related accidents for workers in these projects? Or does it contain every death of the workforce and how much is the workforce? Is it 100k foriegn workers or 1M or more? Doew this include deaths of worker families or just workers?

And in the article they refer to hindustan times article that 100K disappeared. At the same time they say that

> He has invested trillions in his ‘Saudi vision 2030 project

Which does not convey confidence in their handling of numbers given who know thay the aim for the project at most to get 500B investment from government ans external investment (which unlikely to happen).
So back to the question, what does dissappear here means? Are they killed or dead like the Journalist killed by MBS. That seem unlikely and something is missing here.

I know that many people have ideological reasons to down vote and consider every question about numbers a defense towards MBS. Which is a toxic behavior because we shouldn't just take anything the supports our ideology or previous opinions at face value if it is not supported by evidence or if there is questions about that.
Great article and very interesting to see your evaluation against elastic search too!
I'll be very surprised if plants from Earth can tolerate the sort of high radiation environment that is the moon (or space in general, outside the magnetically shielded and atmospherically shielded bubble that is Earth).

We tend to forget that the sun is an incredibly powerful and quite unshielded fusion reactor purring away, pushing 1000W/m^2 through our atmosphere. It's about 1400W/m^2 at 1AU (outside the Earth's sheltering fields and such) - and most of that difference is some really nasty, ionizing stuff. To the best of my knowledge, the moon is rather outside the Earth's magnetic shielding influence.

But things will certainly be learned in the process!
Contributions are taxed at withdrawal, cash in your bank account isn’t. If you’re saving 30% when you contribute but paying 40% when you withdraw, that can be worse than paying upfront.

Obviously, long term capital gains should be part of the equation but if you’re young in a lower tax bracket but a lucrative career, 401k can be a terrible financial decision.
It's not, this is all internet click bait sensational stuff. Wood can be an effective composite and has been used in space vehicles for at least 40 years. First time I saw it used was old LV fairings. These days there are much better composites available so the use of wood is likely for non-technical reasons.
Considering Boeing's prospects, what faith could there be in a pension plan tied to their company?
I've got a Jabra Evolve 75 headset, so a business headset, and you are right, not really meant for music audio reproduction.
https://www.immobilienscout24.de/expose/154724307

The mortgage is estimated at 1600€ / month, S-Bahn to Hauptbahnhof is 22 minutes.

It's not super comfortable (as you'll be paying bills on top) but absolutely doable on a single 4k€ net income.

It took me about 2 minutes to find this.

Edit: To note, I claimed it's easily doable in the Berlin area, not in the Munich area. In the outskirts of Berlin 4k Net is more comfortably doable. Berlin is also geographically larger, so travel times will start being significantly above 30 minutes, too, though.
Some people are saying that companies need to step up their security game to prevent this kind of thing from happening again.

I think that's true, but I also think we need to look at the bigger picture. As long as there are people willing to buy stolen data, there will be hackers trying to steal it.

So, what can we do about it? Can we use tech to make data breaches a thing of the past? I'm not sure, but I think it's worth exploring.
A last question, could we have a rough idea how much time it took to build that new analytics feature?
AI-generated images threaten science
That was one of my "wait, doesn't everyone do this?" realizations: Most people do not regularly look at their own finances, know how much they spend on what, and even roughly know how much money they have in their checking account! I could tell you how much I've spent on groceries, gas, restaurants, clothing, and so on, to the penny, and how it tracks vs. my budget, accurate at least as of a particular day. I can tell you to the penny any of my current account balances, cash, investment, or debt. But when I mention this to people, they look at me like I have a horn growing out of my head, like it's really weird and obsessive.

I've been in an HN thread where people claimed that it's easy to lose track of your subscriptions and accidentally pay for a service for years that you don't use. Like, really? You don't even look at your credit card bill and see what you're paying for, even monthly??? You really just turn on autopay and never even look at your bills?
There are a lot deadlier jobs than transportation worker:

https://www.invictuslawpc.com/most-dangerous-jobs-osha/

> Fishing and Hunting Workers

> Fatal injury rate: 132.1 per 100,000 workers.

Luckily, not that many people work as hunters/fisherman
The more I think about it, the more I'm getting convinced that A4/Letter was a mistake. Maybe we'll see something like A5 as a standard in the future, that would be neat.
People here will reply to the most fractally stupid comments and the threads just get littered up, it's crazy.
It's not a technology problem, but since technology pervades every element of modern society it's an aspect. Passport theft is a significant part of how modern slavery functions internationally, and a technological solution isn't weird to discuss on a technology forum.
Making an AI dictation app in a weekend
I didn't say how Chinese are unsuited for democracy. You are making up words I didn't say.

Westerners need to go out of their comfort zone, and realize that maybe other people don't envy the western political system, just think about the possibility.

you see what's going on in the last few years, westerners are still living like nothing has changed. The ordinary people outside the west sees hypocrisy of your political system, it is a very different time.
The unlikeliness of the wooden spaceship was one of my favorite parts of the sci-fi mystery/adventure game “The Outer Wilds”. (An indie gem…highly recommended, if you like puzzles or exploration.)

https://www.mobiusdigitalgames.com/outer-wilds.html
Main issue: depends on your age. If you're 26 this is a great deal and you'll carry it wherever you go

if you are 50+, worked there 30 years, and had your pension frozen after 20 years of work, you are so far behind the curve even if you max out your 401k for your remaining years. You need to do a lot of work and probably invest in high risk stocks to even begin to make up for that 25 years of lost compound interest in your career.

Also: I realize I'm spoiled, but I had quarter matching 401ks in tech (which apparently isn't that amazing to begin with), so I don't see this as an insane deal for the effort and sacrifice they put out.
What problem is this effort actually trying to solve? Why is it better than the more usual licensing methods?
Digital Version of Ray Dalio
Do you understand the distinction between:

(1) Filing up at the tank so you can get to your shitty job and feed your family -- i.e. an activity that is essentially non-optional; and

(2) Going on a vacation more than halfway around the world -- an activity which is definitely quite optional

?
I hope they succeed but making micro/nanoscale structures with humanscale machines has always been a hard thing, even for those with better funding than the hobbyist.

I recently learned about DNA-directed crystal growth and was excited by the idea that it might be a more tractable approach to being a big thing and making a small thing (like an integrated circuit). I'm not sure how one would go about it in their garage, but programming the fine-control-needed steps into the chemical rather than into the machine feels like a win.
Dstack: An alternative to k8s for AI/ML tasks
Yeah you can delete your conversation history whenever you want. Since we store data locally only, you have full control over it. Delete it, and it's gone for good. We don't retain any copies on our servers.
My Dad has always said the we should give money to people on the street. That we shouldn't worry about what they'll do with the money - that's their lookout; our worry should be about giving.

Now, that said, my Dad has also arranged his life so that he's rarely in a position where people are asking him for money. If he's out driving and see's someone he can pull over and ask them or he can keep driving.

I on the other hand am constantly accosted by people. I never have cash so that I can truthfully tell people I don't have money to give them. I avoid eye contact and have been embarrassed when a person asked me for directions and appeared to actually want directions to a place.

The thing I really suspect is that giving money really is about you not the person you're giving it to. That when I have had cash and handed it over it was because I actually interacted with the person acting and I just couldn't imagine myself as a person who would rudely tell another person asking for help "no" and then walk away.
Presumably the French police aren't randomly deciding on a Tuesday for no reason to check the company for proof of them being tax cheats without some court somewhere requesting it, but even if they were, we're talking about a company here, not a person. A person has the right to remain silent, it doesn't make sense for a company to have that same right.

And the 2nd half just reads like pure corruption to me, they paid off some politician (who just so happens to wield the most power in the whole country) to pressure him to get them to stop their investigation into their illegal acts? In what universe could that 2nd sentence be construed as anything other than slimy, corrupt behavior?
One area where this absolutely makes a difference is when embedding python. Like it or not Python is extreme popular in data/AI/ML so if you want to build an experience where users can deploy custom functions, removing the GIL allows you to more efficiently scale these workloads.
I'm skeptical. A quick search suggests that 41% of eligible employees don't contribute anything to a 401-K.

The main argument for defined benefit pensions is that while they never covered most employees, they did represent money that people got in retirement without doing anything and which "society" would otherwise have been on the hook for to some degree.
Do you mean KhiCAS?
Show HN: NewsCatcher's Hyperlocal News API – Granular City-Level News Feeds
We’ve launched NewsCatcher’s Hyperlocal News API to provide city-level news feeds for market analysis, localized apps, and data analytics.

Why We Built It:

Aggregating hyperlocal news is complex. Local news comes from diverse sources, many covering national topics, making it hard to isolate local events like transit updates, crime, extreme weather alerts, or infrastructure projects. Searching by location alone can lead to irrelevant results, especially with city names that overlap or match common words (e.g., Orange, Lake).

What It Does:

Our API provides precise, location-based news by processing 185K articles daily and tagging each with its associated_town down to the town level with 92% accuracy. Covering 31,000 U.S. locations, it uses advanced NLP to accurately associate location names, even when they’re common words.

It enables you to:

- Access near-real-time, location-focused news feeds

- Filter by topic (e.g., crime, sports), keyword, and date

- Cluster articles covering similar events and topics

- Get sentiment score for a headline and article body

- Recognize and extract entities

Key Features:

- AI-powered location recognition and validation

- Advanced querying with boolean operators and proximity search

- Multiple town association methods for precise location matching

- NLP-enriched content for deeper analysis

- Articles clustering

- Multi-language support

- High volume data retrieval (up to 1000 articles per request)

For a demo, try our 15 public RSS feeds: https://www.newscatcherapi.com/local-news/rss/. The API provides JSON output for easy integration.

Tech Specs:

- RESTful, JSON-based API

- API key authentication

- Scalable for high-volume queries

We’d appreciate any feedback or questions on use cases.
I read the complete short stories of Arthur C. Clarke recently and one of the things that really struck me was that several of the early stories (long before NASA) had lunar-native plants growing wild on the Moon. For a hard SF writer I found that extraordinary; you forget just how much the speculative consensus has changed within quite a short period.

In a similar vein, several of the early stories seem convinced by the evidence for psionics...
I'm guessing fear of being dismembered into small pieces weighs in the decision of reporting negative news on the events in Saudi Arabia
Show HN: Lila, computer use to automate testing
Hey community!

Lila is a testing platform that uses Anthropic's computer use to run high level e2e testing over webapps.

Would love your feedback! Feel free to use and explore.
Things that UA provided. Or that there were extensions for like Da Vinci tools.

So, sortable tables, better date range presets, heatmaps on tables, URLs in reports not just screen name, settings to allow for unfiltered views, etc.

GA4 promised a lot and hasn't really delivered on much. Still waiting on cookieless tracking.
Thanks for the explanation,I didn't consider this other use case. There are some ways of making a SATA connection read-only [0], but surely not as convenient as flipping a switch on a tape.

[0] https://www.nightofthedead.org/security/hardware-write-prote...
How about just get rid of double taxation in corporate taxes? Eventually, taxes will get paid via distributions or sale of stock by individuals.
Okay, and? I guess hating on uber is a popular sport. But to be clear, this was cutting off those computers from other uber systems. Systems that were not in those offices. Uber has no obligation to leave them logged in so some jumped-up eurotard can search not only its local files but its global ones too.

That sort of thing just makes sense from a security standpoint.
> What the OP is saying about 21000 laborers dying in Saudi Arabian is that huge number would have been noticed by lots of people - and a lot of these people would have had huge incentive to get the word out, and then the "mainstream media" would have had huge incentive to get the word out as well.

Well, it's more complicated than that. Take Bangladesh. Most of the people dying are extremely poor young men from the gram (village), whose families are not going to have the power to get their stories in the newspapers, which are owned by ruling class families. Some of these papers even have sibling businesses in their parent conglomerates that actively recruit workers to go to SA, UAE, etc. [0] Also, the political system is desperate for Saudi investment [1][2], so they aren't necessarily going to make a huge public fuss about it. It's certainly in the news though [3][4].

That's all to say that families absolutely know about this, talk about it on social media groups, and nothing happens.

[0] https://bashundhara-bd.com/, which is owned by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashundhara_Group, which owns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Pratidin .

[1] https://en.bd-pratidin.com/national/2024/10/28/21535

[2] https://en.bd-pratidin.com/national/2024/10/27/21480

[3] https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/87ot8fmapn

[4] https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/vomgbw8zwa
As an American, why do you say this? I feel like most Europeans strongly dislike the US/Americans.
Unless it wasn’t destroyed, in which case it might be interring with an investigation, which is probably also illegal in France.
If you are self-employed, you can make the normal employee contributions and your employer (also you) can make the additional contributions of roughly 25% of salary. For 2025 this would be a total of 70k instead of the normal 23k
To exit a country, you need to pass their immigration which may require same physical passport on which person has entered. Also, India/Pakistan wouldn't want to antagonize the Saudis as billions in forex flow via these workers. So, it is the cost of being poor.
'Most' is important to recognise here. I'm studying theology at Cambridge University and at least one current professor (in a small faculty) advocates strongly for an early dating of John (i.e. pre-70). It is important to note that a lot of the rationale behind dating, as with Q itself, is supposition/educated-guesswork. To take the example of John, arguments for a later dating, which is the mainstream perspective, is based on the idea that the theology is too developed for it to be early rather than direct historical evidence. Paul's epistles, which are early arguably display a very high christology, suggesting John is not such an outlier here.
> Professional Engineers do not make mistakes. They are real engineers.

My _literal_ engineering 101 case studies on "engineering failure":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge

Are all failures traced down to the underlying design and engineering. Granted, they are famous because they are rare. I almost linked the Columbia disaster but that is sufficiently murky between engineer and management.

Stop being elitist.
It might be time to read the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This article is one professor's mix of opinion and elementary introduction to the concept of conjecture, and IMO is quite rambling and inconsistent. Why are you generalizing this one random person's thoughts into a conclusion about mathematics as a discipline? Don't let one poor thinker (or perhaps merely poor writer) spoil it for you.

The author seems to have completely missed the actual reason we find conjectures interesting: we're asking ourselves, "do we have the techniques to prove this kind of problem?" That's the fundamental reason disproving a conjecture is less celebrated than proving it, because disproving is often done by finding a single counterexample, which doesn't teach us much about our proof techniques -- unless, of course, the process of finding that counterexample was particularly new and interesting!

The most interesting question to ponder with a conjecture is not "is this true?", but rather "why is this hard to prove?". The most boring answer to the latter is "oh, because it's false", while the most exciting answer is "because we were missing this fundamental idea that can spawn an entire new branch of mathematics." It's all about the journey, not the destination.