skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You in fact do not need to check the weather forecast to do those things. People went outside and made plans just fine before we had the weather on TV, much less on a computer.
TypeScript ORM Benchmarks
Yes, there was also a thing known as the Great Media Debate in the 90's iirc. MOOCs have a less than 10% completion rate. Media by itself is not the answer. What makes a big difference is teaching techniques and things like superhuman spaced repetition and system adaptation. See how Math Academy does it: https://www.mathacademy.com/pedagogy
We reach!

I also am the avid family photo archiver (I scan them, tag them, release them).

The oldest photo I have is a tintype of a young girl around 1882 or so. She is maybe two years old — and is my great grandmother.

I never met her, she had died before I was born. But I have studied her in the photos going all the way back to that tintype of her — somewhere in Missouri. Photos show her with her sisters and parents not long before they died, working in the fields, married to my great grandfather, with her children. Her children become adults and at some point it is clear that the daughter's role has reversed and she is taking care of mom. Great grandmother is soon old and so frail looking. And then there is a photo of the headstone for her.

It has been a little sobering, as "photo historian" for the family, seeing the arc of lives lived and now gone.
Tell HN: Urgent write Congress on patent trolls: stop PERA S2140 PREVAIL S2220
Hey guys, resubmitting this to HN as the vote is Nov 14th.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-we-can-t-afford-more-bad-patents
It is a bit of splitting hairs in some sense, but the key concept here is just because the message was delivered to the Kafka client successfully, does not mean it was processed by the application.

You will have to explicitly ack if you want that guarantee. For a concrete example, lets say all you do with a message is write it to a database. As soon as that message is in your client handler callback, that message is ack'ed. But you probably only want that ack to happen after a successful insert into the DB. The most likely scenario here to cause unprocessed messages is that the DB is down for whatever reason (maybe a network link is down, or k8s or even a firewall config now prevents you from accessing), and at some point during this your client goes down, maybe by an eng attempting a restart to see if the problem goes away.
I'd like to but how do you overcome the slight powerless feeling? Like when those guys surrounded a vehicle and made it to stop with people helplessly inside. You're kind of stuck.
yes 100% but the reply to your comment is very funny so I'll implement it in the next version :)

the project started as a shoegaze-specific language, hence the name!
I'm so adding this in the next version!
But they did form in some star's accretion disc, just not the one they are roguing their way through. In theory, Jupiter could have caused a planet to go rogue when it made it's way to the inner solar system.
It's a large, fossilized company run by accountants who find it easier to increase profits by slashing costs instead of developing good products.
I don't know. Boston and New York may have a culture of taking whatever right of way you think you can get away with. The West Coast historically at least was more known for enforcing jaywalking though given the current state of SF I'm not sure that's still true. Boston/Cambridge also has a huge influx of students every year, many of which are pretty clueless about navigating an urban environment safely.
Oral microbiome metagenomic analysis reveals autism spectrum disorder markers
I find proofreading the code gen ai less satisfying than writing it myself though it does depend on the nature of the function. Migrating mindless mapping type functions to autocomplete is nice
As an aside, I'm not really sure whether equity in the schools is simply being used as a buzzword folks think they need to include in their statements about various topics, or whether people really adhere to what it means and entails. Probably a little from column A and a little from column B.
I saw that on HN recently, and it does look good, but haven't tried it yet. I might give it a try. One factor is I'm my son's math coach so I don't mind sitting down with him and books (he's 2 grades ahead).

This isn't to say EdTech can't be useful, and my previous comment was perhaps a bit harsh. Khan Academy is great for drilling into specific subjects; my older child (now finished college) used it at home in HS as a supplement and it helped (scored in top 2% nationwide on SAT).

I just don't think EdTech __replaces__ teachers (which is what many edtech-utopians preach), and I'm not even sure it's a good classroom tool, but rather is a useful _supplement_ that allows _some_ students who are interested and good at certain subjects to forge ahead on their own, or maybe as homework. It's just a tool among others, not a "revolution in education" that's going to "raise scores for everyone".
Using BenQ's latest 32" 4k monitor (RD320U) which is aimed at programming
I agree with you but I think there may also be an element of signaling in some of these actions.
Oh for sure, I just am very happy with my Rogue equipment and am wiling to spend a little more for it. It's easy to get damaged equipment in the mail with something so heavy, and Rogue is good about reshipping things. I've never purchased anything from Walmart (I live in NYC, we don't really have them), so I'm not sure what they're like.

But yeah, get whatever works for you to start training!
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One way around this might be to test and see if you can do it via WebAssembly that the JS calls, just not sure off the too of my head how I would personally do it.

As others noted though, thats a lot of precision that maybe not everyone needs, maybe a checkbox for more precision that then calls the backend?
Really slick interface.
In a docu that I watched in which the ethics of displaying mummified remains, a talking head (likely an Egyptologist or anthropologist, I don’t recall) made the argument that these rulers wanted to be remembered for all time, thus this was a form of granting that. I’m not particularly persuaded, but it’s an interesting concept.
> AI has proven to be better at looking at medical image, and in the case of breast cancer seems to out perform humans

FWIW, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11073588/ from 2024 Apr 4 ("Revolutionizing Breast Cancer Detection With Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Radiology and Radiation Oncology: A Systematic Review") says:

"Presently, when a pre-selection threshold is established (without the radiologist's involvement), the performance of AI and a radiologist is roughly comparable. However, this threshold may result in the AI missing certain cancers.

To clarify, both the radiologist and the AI system may overlook an equal number of cases in a breast cancer screening population, albeit different ones. Whether this poses a significant problem hinges on the type of breast cancer detected and missed by both parties. Further assessment is imperative to ascertain the long-term implications"

and concludes

"Given the limitations in the literature currently regarding all studies being retrospective, it has not been fully clear whether this system can be beneficial to breast radiologists in a real-time setting. This can only be evaluated by performing a prospective study and seeing in what situations the system works optimally. To truly gauge the system's effectiveness in real-time clinical practice, prospective studies are necessary to address current limitations stemming from retrospective data."
> It just doesn’t work as well as Waymo.

I hope for the best for Tesla, but they are many years behind Waymo. The world definitely needs a second working self-driving system! Right now comparing Tesla and Waymo is nonsensical. Once you can sit in the backseat of a Tesla while it drives there might be some worthy comparisons to be made.
Yes it has. When is the last time you watched?
What's the point here over like just hitting rerun and maybe just hitting rerun again?

I mean I feel like you shouldn't have a bunch of flaky tests anyway if you're writing them properly
The reality is that our economy and entire understanding of human society relies on labor. If we free humans from labor, they just die. Like you're depriving them of oxygen.

Automation is great and all, and it's worked because we've been able to push humans higher and higher up the job ladder. But if, in the future, only highly specialized experts are valuable and better than AI, then a large majority of humanity will just be excluded from the economy all together.

I'm not confident the average Joe could become a surgeon, even given perfect access to education. And I'm not even confident surgery won't be automated. Where does that leave us?
Yep, got a relative with that exact phrase on their headstone.
Oil and gas are a 'gift of god', says COP29 host
Buckle up for the next 4 years brother.
Show HN: Chat with an AI via Email
With Apple's new Apple Intelligence, they added a lot of slick AI functionality. But you have to use Apple Mail and the latest iPhone.

I use Fastmail and I don't want to switch to enjoy using AI to help me with my emails and inbox.

I made this so anyone can use AI to help them deal with their inbox without installing some browser extension or being forced to use a certain email client.

It's just email.
They have been navigating the SF Tenderloin for over a year. Entire streets are a crosswalk. Most biologic drivers would barely function there. But I do wonder how lidar/visual integration works in snow.
Having a dedicated page for a category or particular conversion between units, allows adding extra information, such as info about unit of measurement and formula. Example: https://www.betaconvert.com/length/meters/feet
has warpstream been reviewed?
> What type of "basic necessities" are you getting from apps on your phone that have location access?

I already mentioned one: parking apps granted a monopoly over a region by a municipality. Before you ask, no, there are often no meters to feed cash or a card to anymore (the apps don’t want those cutting into their fees). Your options are to accept the T&C in the app so you can go buy groceries or get parking tickets, and eventually a boot or tow.
Just create an anonymous new GitHub user, it's like jaywalking. They'll never know.
Today I tried my best to clear up any of the confusion
How about not granting location permissions and typing in your location manually? Weather forecasts worked fine before phones with geolocation built in.
it sounds super sensible since metabsolic syndrome diseases people go to a doctor for are mostly preventable.

But, these days I think most companies have sufficient layoffs to where the employees don't last long enough for it to matter.
Solutions are path-dependent. Credit card adoption has followed a very different trajectory in the US vs Europe, and on a very different timeline too.

Aligning the incentives and the funding to get the US from where it is now to a place that would solve the problems we’re discussing is indeed quite hard - but not technically, as you quite rightly point out, at least when there is adequate time + resources + will available to implement and require the existing technical solutions.

Rather it’s hard financially, politically, legally, culturally, and logistically to achieve those circumstances where adopting the existing technical solutions goes from theoretically possible to done.

In particular, these problems are hard for Stripe to solve unilaterally from its particular position in the payments ecosystem, and/or for a single major US bank to solve without competitive disadvantage when its peers don’t also make the same changes.
> For the last few years I leave my phone's GPS perma-off unless I'm actively navigating.

This does nothing. The location spying is baked into the cellular tech itself. 5G base stations literally steer the beam to follow you, so it “““has””” to spy on your location in order to work.

https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2020/12/5g-positioning--wha...

“The arrival of 5G delivers new enhanced parameters for positioning accuracy down to the meter, decimeter and centimeter.”

“Positioning of users and devices across general indoor environments, such as offices, shops, logistics, etc., was a focus area of 3GPP Release 16.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90314058/5g-means-youll-have-to-...

“[5G network positioning] data can also enable advertisers and data brokers to see the exact routes you take each day and even which buildings you go into. And anyone with access to your mobile network’s cell tower data will now be able to track your movements in real time.”
Modern CPUs Assign Registers to Speed Up Your Code - Matt Godbolt [video]
A next generation catalog of cultivated bananas
I've always thought it would be interesting to have a education system that focused primarily on the best outcome for the brightest students and focused the vast majority of resources on the top 5% or so. I wonder if the total impact made (gdp, research contributions, etc) by a cohort of students this way would be higher vs spending resources to slightly bring up the average on a large number of students that never make much of themselves.
Show HN: I created a personalized greeting card site
I wanted to create an easy to use tool for users to send and receive physical memories and gratitude in a digital world
> in a better way than they did

What did they do? What I see is that I can't choose to order a key with an older firmware, and it explicitly says "firmware 5.7" everywhere I look.

> But if they sold cars and this was a defective airbag they would have been forced to replace them.

New cars have those electronic keys that work remotely (automatically close the door when you leave, automatically open when you arrive). There has been an increase of car thefts from those keys, because they are objectively less secure. Have you ever tried asking the car manufacturer to change the key for free? Or to sell you a new car at a strongly reduced price?
It is a little amusing when people get fussy about credentials and certifications for the term "engineer" given that an "engineer" in the railroad industry is simply a person who operates a locomotive engine. It seems a very small stretch to analogize software engineers as operators of computing engines!
This wonderful short story from Terraform is about a self-driving taxi service. It is well worth the read before getting into any self driving taxi service. Basically, it can turn against you, and you're locked inside with no recourse.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/one-star/
Synthetic sex pheromones in sexual arousal stimulation in domestic dogs [pdf]
Why else go to the track‽
Have you ever written and performed a piece of performance fiction for a large public audience?
Hi - do you have an example query showing this issue? I just tried "45 lb to kg" on DuckDuckGo and it's working as I would expect (45 Pounds = 20.41166 Kilograms).
Please don't start nationalistic flamewars on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> for those few users not using Spotify

That's quite the extrapolation from your anecdotal experience. Technically, it would be more accurate to say, "for those few users using Spotify."

What you've noticed is that Spotify has the biggest market share, but that doesn't mean that the number of users not using it are "few". According to https://explodingtopics.com/blog/music-streaming-stats, Spotify has a 30% market share. That implies that up to 70% of streaming music users aren't regular Spotify users.
It's fairly common to see legislation that the general public will not favor be passed on a bipartisan basis by a lame duck Congress, especially when you have a large number of legislators who are no longer constrained by the need to be reelected.

The moderate Democrats and the establishment Republicans have the same donors.
Welcome to LLMflation – LLM inference cost is going down fast ⬇
It also worked for me. Whatever material you already know you can mostly skip (though you will get tested on it).

Check out /r/WGU and /r/WGU_CompSci
Maybe we're not all that stupid.
>> To my knowledge, backdoors in various NSA encryption types have only been suggested and theorized about.

Read about the Inslaw case from the 1970's.

https://www.wired.com/1993/01/inslaw/

The government essentially stole software that they built back doors into and then sold to governments on both sides of the spectrum in order to track terrorists and find out what our allies governments were doing. This was started on the DOJ side, but eventually was used in several other three letter government agencies.

Its not a leap to think if they've been doing this since the 1970's, they would be willing to do just about anything to continue to have access to developing encryption techniques. I think the Lavabit story is a great example of this.

Like you said, there hasn't been any confirmed knowledge of this, but there is a lot of circumstantial evidence to point to the idea that if an encryption technique is developed where the government doesn't have access, that is a problem. However, they don't have any issues with all of the other standards? Makes you wonder why - right?
Roads are already easy to drive. We already have signs on roads directing people to the most prioritized destinations. And now we have navigation apps that can even provide turn-by-turn and lane-by-lane directions. The issue is that most people simply ignore traffic rules when it is convenient to do so.

We didn't redesign roads and navigation for taxis or rideshares, and we're not going to do that for self-driving cars either.
MusicBrainz has also been making a list of unique identifiers for music tracks:
https://musicbrainz.org/
> Huang argued that the simple existence of CUDA would enlarge the supercomputing sector. This view was not widely held, and by the end of 2008, Nvidia’s stock price had declined by seventy percent…

This is a good example of how investor behaviour can only quantitatively project what will happen in the future. Huang's bet on GPUs for high performance computing made sense in the long term.

Intel didn't have the staying power with the i860[1] a decade earlier (and of course had no idea how to offer decent developer tools). I tried really hard to develop meaningful and executable programmes with an 8bit card (DSM). CUDA was a revelation for me.

[1] https://www.geekdot.com/intel-80860/
>becoming an amateur lawyer and spending dozens of hours reading and comparing T&Cs between apps to choose which one to use (until they change the T&Cs again of course, which they'll do without notifying you)

This right here is the issue. There's a protocol to these things focused on pushing out, but no reciprocal pipeline for feedback other than "clicked" to come back in. Clickwrapping should have been wholely dismissed as a valid medium for contracting. I'm willing to park on and die on this hill. A contract regime wherein oneside is the progenitor of all changes, is not, in fact, a meeting of anything.

And yes, I'm drinking my kool-aid at this point. Sucks being on the minimalist side of the Software world, but I'm doing my damnedest to cut out every EULA possible, replacing it with something wherein I can be assured the world won't be turned over on me at a moment's notice at the behest of a bunch of greed optimized psychopaths sitting on top of an infrastructure most of them would be powerless to keep running short of the economic game of Mutually Assured Destruction the West calls it's capitalist "free market" system (which is anything but once you scratch beneath the surface).
Scraping a well-built API at human speed often isn't terribly useful, and once you start ramping up the scraping, it's account creation/patterns/use frequency that will set an alarm.

Faking real user clients won't prevent these alarms.
Its all IBM PR :) 3 1/4 was Japan, HD drives was Japan, ED drives was Japan, TD drives was Japan. Cheap two head drives was afaik Tandon, IBM had an elaborate expensive and complicated mechanism moving both heads while Tandon decided to keep bottom head stationary. IBM cross licensed patents with Tandon when they made a deal to ship Tandon TM-100-2A floppies in PCs.
Apologies for confusion, I forget people don't have a direct microscope to my brain sometimes!

I edited the post to clarify.
Fixed in the parent comment now. Thanks!
I'm saying that you get a health insurance policy, and the company requires you to submit a genetic test. Maybe you get that policy at age 30, but you have a genetic marker that, on average, means you will develop an expensive condition at an average age of 55.

So you pay premiums for 20 years, but starting at age 50, your rates start to seriously climb. They continue to climb until you're priced out of keeping the insurance and have to drop the policy before your condition comes in, and nobody else will take you now.

Besides, the taxpayers end up bailing out these companies constantly. The government is not going to bail out a random patient.
Abstract

In experiment I: anoestral bitches were applied synthetic (n=6) or natural (n=6) pheromones and their attractiveness was compared to the attractiveness of bitches in natural oestrus, In experiment II: swabs socked in natural estrual discharge or Eau D’Estrus were presented to male dogs and behav- ioral arousal (Exp. II a) and changes in blood flow in the penile artery reflecting erection (Exp. II b) were recorded. In experiment III the time dedicated for sniffing in experimental dogs was analyzed in relation to the type of attractant presented (natural estrual discharge or Eau D’Estrus). In all three experiments we observed the signs of sexual arousal, increased blood flow in the penile artery and increased time of sniffing only with natural pheromones. No signs of excitation or changes in penis perfusion were noted after the use of artificial pheromones. Our results did not support the suitability of Eau D’Estrus for male dog sexual stimulation.

Key words: bitch, oestrus, sex pheromones, sexual behavior, color Doppler
That is still downstream of the question of “why would someone make such a [seemingly contradictory] decision.” The person you replied to is misunderstanding the OP, which they later clarified.

My point is understanding outcome causality doesn’t necessarily have to even enter the decision.
Yeah so I have to imagine that most of those are bogus, right? That's like if 1 in a thousand people in the country had a new "invention" every year. Considering life expectancy, that's like if a single digit percentage of people would get a patent at some point in their lives?

So suppose to apply, one needed to pay for market-rate hiring of a jury of PHOSITAs, and all applications became more expensive -- then you'd only apply for the things that are strategically important and very likely to be approved. Overall the number of applications should go down and the quality of granted patents should go up. I think the main equity issue here is that someone who figures out something genuinely inventive and valuable is less likely to be able to pay for the process. And perhaps, how do you vet that someone is a PHOSITA acting in good faith?
Eh. JSON has its place. I have some stateful data that is fairly transient in nature and which doesn’t really matter all that much if it gets lost / corrupted. It’s the sort of thing I’d throw into Redis if we had Redis in our stack. But the only storage in my project is S3 and Postgres. Postgres allows me to trivially query, update, analyze the usage of the feature, etc. Normalization wouldn’t buy me much, if anything, for my use case, but it would make “save this stuff for later” more of a nuisance (a sync across a bunch of rows vs a single upsert).

That said, I’ve worked on projects that had almost no normalization, and it was pure hell. I’m certainly not arguing against normalizing; just saying that data blobs are useful sometimes.