skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lab of ideas = advantages the rich e.g. Steve Jobs.
"In 2009, Steve Jobs received a liver transplant—not in northern California where he lived, but across the country in Memphis, Tennessee. Given the general complications of both travel and a transplant, Jobs’ decision may seem like an odd choice. But it was a strategic move that almost certainly got him a liver much more quickly than if Jobs had just waited for a liver to become available in California." https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/live-death-math-and-...
Elixir-like pipes in Ruby (oh no not again)
That's not what I hinted to, but to this:

>The picture that emerges is that a placebo pill has almost no effect when administered by researchers who do not care about the placebo effect, but the exact same pill has an enormous effect larger than all existing treatments when administered by a researcher who really wants the placebo effect to be real.
Moderated media leans left. At least some of the reason it ends up that way is that many of the people who violate incredibly reasonable rules are conservative. Certain groups of hard-right people will say some incredibly bigoted shit that's absolutely out of line and makes it impossible to have a civilized conversation, then they complain about getting banned and drag a bunch of moderately-more-reasonable people with them when they leave. Once those people leave, normal everyday non-asshole conservatives realize the platform has less conservative content and leave in search of spaces that they feel respect their viewpoints more. In some cases entire topic-groups get banned (/r/the_donald is a good example) for legitimate reasons that frequently involve a small extremely-active group of members, and the rest of the members will also leave the platform because all they see is that a group they were part of got banned.

People who lean to the left tend to believe that it's bad to do some of the things that get you justifiably banned (such as intentionally using language that demeans people based on immutable traits). Because of this, it's much easier for them to avoid being deplatformed.
Some of these look already dead, sadly. E.g. Ricochet
Most doctors don't prescribe placebos, and may not even be allowed to. Even though a placebo might very well work.

Placebos are ideal drugs in some cases. Effective, no side-effects...
It looks utterly stupid. I’ll take three, please.
Paradoxically, my work slows when chimpanzees are in the room observing me
Isn't China adding all capacity ?

As China's power consumption grows, is coal occupying a bigger percent of the energy pie or is it proportional growth?

China wants to annex Taiwan. To fight any wau laden with sanctions, it needs energy independence. They don't have natural gas so they're burning coal.

It's not ideal, but at least they have a better reason than Germany shuttering nuclear plants or the US keeping coal alive.
Regulation for me, but not for thee?
You don't need a Hackintosh to virtualize a Mac - you can actually download the MacOS image directly from Apple and boot it right into QEMU with the proper configuration. I've used a few scripts over the years that could have an OSX image running on Linux in less than 15 minutes.
Yes that would be the kind of corporate media garbage I am talking about. Pretty much exactly.
Doesn't pareto-optimality require first agreeing on which cone be the positive one?

A market for million-dollar abstract art which it's possible[0] to see in person: https://www.artbasel.com (also suspected by artist friends to be a good way to reward questionable deeds with KYC-friendly[1] gains — pecunia non olet)

KST as a Bartle Killer[2]? That, more than "low stakes", might explain the apparent knife-fight-in-a-phone-booth nature of academic strife?

What is the physicist's equivalent of a favourite wheelbarrow? Best quick and dirty breadboard damping kludge? Honeycomb vs sheer mass?

[0] ok, I haven't been, but I was in town during it once, so I'm pretty confident it exists and is visible.

[1] let's not even mention the cash-onion that is the restaurant business.

[2] there is a theory that all the working dog breed behaviours can basically be explained by selecting for overexpression of a particular phase of prey drive and underexpression of the rest. I guess Nobel Prizes in Physics grew out of some small ur-mammal wanting to model its meals well enough to figure when it'd zig and when it'd zag, and overexpressing this to the point that humans attempt to model the whole damn universe?
TIL I'm a grandma.
15 years ago I've tried PaintshopPro before settling with Photoshop for image editing. And my impression about it was that it was good enough. I switched to Photoshop because there were more learning resources for it.

It's sad it lags so much behind now, as I hate paying for Adobe's subscription.
So, from the article, it sounds like this current UK system for liver transplant matchibg was developed to replace the previous regional systems. It's not clear if all of those used the same process to determine matches, but it would be possible for them to have developed different processes.

It's also likely that a cross-regional system existed, that may have been ad-hoc. If you had a patient with an exceptional need, you might ask the other regions to be on the look out for an exceptional liver that works just right for your patient. That sort of thing is harder to do in a national system where livers are allocated based on scores.

Another thing that's helpful with multiple systems is it encourages reviewing and comparing results.

For a single system, reviewing results is even more important, but comparing is harder. But you might look at things like demographics of patients who died from liver disease while on the list including how long they were on the list; how long the current people have been waiting; demographics of people who recieve a transplant and how long they waited.

If there's a bias against young people, you would likely see more young people with long wait times, etc.
Hm, I think the bigger issue presented is that the algorithm in question is heavily biased against younger patients -- it deviates significantly from an ideal utilitarian model.
> I guess Adobe only wants professionals and very serious amateurs to use their products these days.

To be fair, OS-native (and free 3rd party) apps are very good for the average amateur photographer, unlike 15 years ago. I think the market size of that segment has shrunk as a result.
>If I can choose between having a script that queries the db and generates a report and “Dave in marketing” who “has done it for years”

If you could that would be nice wouldn't it? And if you couldn't?

If people were saying, "let's replace Casio Calculators with interfaces to GPT" then that would be crazy and I would wholly agree with you but by and large, the processes people are scrambling to place LLMs in are ones that typical machines struggle or fail and humans excel or do decently (and that LLMs are making some headway in).

You're making the wrong distinction here. It's not Dave vs your nifty script. It's Dave or nothing at all.

There's no point comparing LLM performance to some hypothetical perfect understanding machine that doesn't exist.

You compare to the things its meant to replace - humans. How well can the LLM do this compared to Dave ?
Personally I find it funny one of the most valuable companies in the world is begging for free help maintaining their software. Gotta be cheap to get rich I guess.
Of course it seems that this hardball behaviour from ARM is likely a bad idea concerning its long-term business perspective, but I guess there is a significant group of people on HN which wouldn't be too sad about that because they hope this way RISC-V (which they love) becomes more widely used.
> if you are under 40 you will never encounter a physician who believes you are at risk of heart attack or stroke

This is absolutely not true. Only someone knowing nothing about healthcare could come to such a conclusion.

> guidelines that act like programs, and your local doctor is the interpreter.

Such reframing is irrational. You are reframing scientific facts into an almost completely empirical context. It doesn't work like that at all.
I think that will depend on whether Must decides to keep running it at a loss.

He has the resources to keep it going for years as a forum for his groupies, but if anyone else were in charge it would be a die-off for sure.
It (hopefully, theoretically) shouldn't make that assumption. It only relies on her apparent natural tendency to call her kids when/as she believes she hasn't heard from them in some time.
Two weeks ago [edit: local time] we submitted a request for some enhancements we really need for our term final paper, but haven't heard anything. We realize this is a volunteer project, but our whole final grade hinges on this, so we're going to try submitting the requests earlier...

* Can we have a multi-verse?

* We really need to be able to kill a variable but have it linger on for a while. This is to allow revenge, and...

* Our whole paper is about Bob/Alice going back in time, shooting his/her grandfather, who lingers long enough to sire their father's brother Tom, who marries their mother instead, who gives birth to Alice/Bob, who although now their own cousin is still a murderous beast, goes back in time and shoots at their grandfather, misses, kills Tom instead, thus their original father marries their mother, and Bob/Alice is born. Thus demonstrating local paradoxes with meta-consistency and explaining much in our current timeline. We're gonna get an A+ for sure.

* We suggest storing the metaverse as a directed cyclic graph of the operations and not saving state. To collapse the metaverse (in the quantum physics sense, not in emiT's oh-no-everything-is-impossible sense) simply apply the graph to a set of pre-conditions, and as you process each node apply its state constraints to the metaverse state. Handling the node cycles is normally seen as a challenge, but there's some sample code posted on HN in March, 2028 that should make it a breeze.
Perhaps there will be an intermediate step where they drop support for x86-64 executables, but retain support for x86-64 virtualization. That would still let Apple slim down the macOS system frameworks to a single architecture like they did previously when they dropped the x86-32 frameworks.
It is actually interesting how they miss most of them even "forecasting" after the fact by giving too much importance to things that flop later.

GraphQL for data products ...
> For all its flaws, it's the only service that reflects society's pulse in real-time.

Assume it’s true for a min, why does a society need a website reflect its pulse? It is useful for company and govt to harvest the data, but I failed to see any meanful way common individuals will benefit much from it.
Daisy, the 'AI Granny' Outwitting Scammers
Or some other form of energy storage. If there's a nearby higher-altitude lake, you can pump water uphill. Or you can even just lift blocks of cement or whatever up a tower. Or split water into hydrogen and oxygen and store the hydrogen. Or melt sodium. Etc.
That explains why that box hasn't worked when I've used Shopify stores before. I couldn't be bothered to take them to task individually, but I figured they were using some kind of crappy "legitimate interest" basis.
Because people are not saying "let's replace Casio Calculators with interfaces to GPT!"

By and large, the processes people are scrambling to place LLMs in are ones that typical machines struggle or fail and humans excel or do decently (and that LLMs are making some headway in).

There's no point comparing LLM performance to some hypothetical perfect understanding machine that doesn't exist. It's nonsensical actually. You compare it to the performance of the beings it's meant to replace or augment - humans.

Replacing non-deterministic black boxes with potentially better performing non-deterministic black boxes is not some crazy idea.
People in these studies often don’t care about the science. They have selfish goals and are hoping they won’t get the placebo, because they don’t want to waste their time.
Wow this is old news but I didn't know the Atherton station was closed: https://www.caltrain.com/news/caltrain-votes-close-atherton-...
Nope. Precisely my point.
So: breaking the law is against the law?
How dare you insult the AI Gods
It was a single team for a very specific use case.

To be clear when I said that PrimeVideo is composed of hundreds of microservices, I actually meant that it's composed of hundreds of services, themselves composed, more often than not, of multiple microservices.

Depending on your definition of a microservice, my team alone owns dozens.
How is this "easiest"? Could have only been a template of readme where you could fill whatever fits your need.

This is more like a UI around a template.
LLMs have powered products used by hundreds of millions, maybe billions. Most experiments will fail and that's okay, arguably even a good thing. Only time will tell which ones succeed
That’s neither a macro nor template metaprogramming.
I don't understand the issue with encrypted emails. Is Proton Mail not secure?
Another major algorithmic down-ranker is vote wars on comments.

If lots of people are upvoting and downvoting the same comments, that's treated as a signal the topic is contentious and people are likely to start behaving badly.

HN is very clear they prioritize good behavior as the long term goal, and they are as a result comfortable having contentious topics fall in the ranking even if everyone involved in the discussion feels the topic is important.
>The only reasonable way forward is to ignore that demographic of people and their complaints, and just focus on doing their own thing.

Sure, if they don't want to have users.
So then what were the parents?

How could they have karma if they predated the first human being?
I'd very much hope it is biased towards them if anything.
SmoothMQ: a drop-in replacement for SQS. https://github.com/poundifdef/smoothmq

I am looking to build 4 main things:

1. Better compatibility with SQS' different endpoints
2. Sharding: I want users to be able to add/remove a node to a cluster and have the system automatically rebalance
3. Replication

The project is written in Go, and the UI is also just uses HTML and go templates.
> But if I had $100 million, and could bet $200 thousand that someone can make me billions on machine learning chip design or whatever, I'd probably entertain that bet. It's a numbers game.

Problem with this reasoning is twofold: start-ups will overfit to getting your money instead of creating real advances; competition amongst them will drive up the investment costs. Pretty much what has been happening.
>32bit ARM and aarch64 are wildly different instruction sets

Maybe for the CPU implementation, but having written a lot of ARM2 assembly, the disassembly of Aarch64 is far more readable than x86_64 to me.
Interesting. Here someone comes to the opposite conclusion after using both intensively [0], where they found that avalonia is a superset of uno in features, and that uno is tied to the UWP & WinUI API for the windows target. Maybe things have changed in between?

What is your feel about the web target? The ux and feel of these Canvas blobs are poor across all toolkits imho. Do you use it as an internal web app that is used like once every day?

___

0. https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5366945/Multiplatform-X...
Theranos was not a "complex business". It was deliberate fraud and deception, and investors that were just gullible. The investors should have demanded to see concrete results
It's well established that adults who read incorrect information frequently don't find out it was wrong and become more skeptical of the source. Some people operate that way, but it's a small minority unfortunately.

In particular, it's been shown that people with dogmatic beliefs strengthen those beliefs when shown evidence to the contrary rather than questioning them.
"Mastering the Digital Marketplace: Your Essential Guide to Selling Digital Products" was inspired by the growing demand for digital entrepreneurs to learn how to successfully sell their creations online. Born out of countless hours of research, practice, and real-world experience, this ebook is a treasure trove of knowledge for anyone looking to turn their digital creations into a profitable business.
Thanks, I did find this article to to bend the definition of to fit the point.
1. Before the pandemic, farebox recovery was 73%, one of the highest in the country. Electrified, it probably would have gone even higher since at least some people avoided the train because it was too crowded at rush hour. Unfortunately it could take over a decade to return to that point if ever, but it shows that Caltrain can be fairly efficient given enough ridership.

2. There have been ongoing efforts to improve equity, including Go passes for students and low-income workers. Clipper START offers 50% off for low-income riders, youths can ride for $2/day now. Side note: subsidies and programs like this decrease farebox recovery ratios, which is why transit covering its own costs is not necessarily the end goal. In fact, the decline of commuting for tech/knowledge workers (many who now work hybrid or fully remote) has meant that less-privileged workers have started making up a larger share of Caltrain ridership.

3. The new electric trains are a lot quieter. There's ongoing, long-term projects to grade separate the remaining at-grade crossings (of the 113 crossings, 41 still need to be separated).

4. Arguably, the stations were directly responsible for the land being so valuable. Many peninsula downtowns and sometimes entire cities were built around the train stations, 100-150 years ago. Pre-pandemic, some of the most expensive apartments were the ones near the train station. Sure most of them also had the benefit of being close to downtown restaurants, but there were also big developments around Lawrence station which has basically zero local services aside from the Costco and the train station.

Of course this was mostly in the past, but downtown areas continue to be congested and the only way we can keep building high-density housing is to have good public transit. In the long run, the train provide immense benefits to the cities that host them and removing it would be shortsighted.
Fil-C - a memory safe implementation of C and C++.

Written in C and C++.

Need most help just porting C programs to Fil-C. Often porting is as easy as recompiling, but sometimes there are compatibility issues to resolve similar to if you were porting C code to a new CPU or OS. Could also use help with compiler hacking (llvm expertise required) and runtime hacking (experience with high level language runtimes required).

https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge
Can Generative Artificial Intelligence Help a Cartoonist Achieve His Vision?
How many words in the art of electronics? Could you give that as context and see if might help?
I just took a new role that moves me out of day-to-day coding. I clicked into this thread looking to find a python project that needs help so that I can keep my coding skills sharp.
Then the entire medical industry is failing at communicating that

The relatability of OP’s shared experience has us wanting to replace most medical professionals with genAI language models as soon as the regulations allow
"Knows the average relationship amongst all words in the training data" ftfy
Technically it's called Half Life 3-D
Somebody at my day job tried to sell me on Bluesky by saying it was run by a public benefit corporation and thus was less likely to abuse its users.

I wasn't persuaded, because I remember ello.co [0] (which shut down in July 2023). It too was run by a public benefit corporation, but it couldn't sustain itself because t-shirt sales and affliate links weren't bringing in enough revenue, and they never got their freemium model off the ground.

No great loss, which is what I'll say when Bluesky starts to rot because its operators need to provide ROI to the VCs backing them [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ello_(social_network)

[1]: https://decrypt.co/288157/bluesky-raises-15-million-no-crypt...
Is it normal to congratulate those people on the fact that you're not offering them a job?
Let me think about it...

All the engineers in MY company are morons.

They're just bureucrats.
Attacking other users will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are.

Also, please don't perpetuate ideological flamewars on HN, and please avoid tit-for-tat spats. These things are not what the site is for, and destroy what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
That’s my read too, if I’m being generous.

I also think OP is missing the point saying the target applications are too small of a market to be worth pursuing.

They’re too small to pursue any single one as the market cap for a company, but presumably the fictional AI chip startup could pursue many of these smaller markets at once. It would be a long tail play, wouldn’t it?
s/email marketing/spam/

Going to get downvoted for this - but I don’t know how spam is just considered OK and normal. We’re all bombarded with garbage every day. Managing my inbox is more annoying than ever. Just stop it already.
So finger and ~/.plan was the original twitter then?
enigo - Cross platform input simulation in Rust [1]

enigo tries to make it easy for developers to simulate key presses or mouse movements on Linux, Windows and macOS. I try to hide the differences between operating systems and make it as simple as possible. It is the most popular crate to do so according to crates.io, but there are still a number of issues.

A number of cool project use it such as
- plock: Query and stream the output of an LLM from anywhere you can type [2]
- RustDesk: Remote Access and Support Software (forked enigo) [3]

I'm close to running integration tests in the CI to prevent regressions and find platform differences, but it's not fully working yet. If someone could get it over the finish line, that would be great.

For Linux there is X11 but also basic Wayland implementation and a libei one, but they only work properly for US keyboards.

[1] https://github.com/enigo-rs/enigo
[2] https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/plock
[3] https://rustdesk.com/
Why would you not look at the code repo for checking activity? There are so many active projects without regular blog posts.
> in direct contradiction to the state’s founding principles

"adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."

(I mean, I'm on the side of "all men are created equal, ... with certain unalienable Rights,... among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" but it's hard to deny that that other language is right there as well. Logical implication and noncontradiction do not seem to have been among the founders' strong suits.)

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMOL7GaPWI
Exactly, macOS is ~20% market share vs Windows worldwide. It's not a competition if you're only competing for a small slice of the pie on your own platform. I don't see this driving further adoption of macOS much, but even if it did, it would only be making up ground lost due to the Final Cut X shmozzle.
always nice to see when someone has deliberately made a command easy to type
Please don't perpetuate ideological flamewars on HN, and please avoid tit-for-tat spats. These things are not what the site is for, and destroy what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
What's your alternative news sources?
The whole concept of "request for startup" is entirely misguided imo.

YC did well because they were good at picking ideas, not generating them.