skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Augmented Reality in Healthcare Gives Doctors Superhuman Powers
> That's all they need to do to cover themselves.

If this is real and not a joke, I bet some DPA will disagree if this is brought to their attention. Effective consent under GDPR requires informed consent.
It would take a benefactor who wants to pay for running it for its own sake and not for profit. As soon as there's a profit motive, enshittification sets in since you're serving whoever pays rather than your users.
That was one of my first thoughts.

It’s perfectly possible for a new hot to have a severe side effect that won’t be noticed for quite a long time.

Semiglutide appears to have undergone final clinical trials in the US around 2017. Given it hasn’t been on the market terribly long and has only an exploded in popularity relatively recently it doesn’t seem like it would be that hard for it to have a serious side effect in a small portion of the population that hadn’t been detected before due to the limited number of people taking it, the amount of time it takes to manifest, or both.

Obviously it’s providing significant benefit that risk could easily be worth it. But as it gets marketed towards more and more people that won’t be true for all of them.
> it also seems super-sensible to focus on Mac only for now

I’m the first guy to agree to reduced scope, but unfortunately the reality of cross platform is that the subtle details affect the APIs, and once you add more platforms, you can realize issues too late. As a simple example, MacOS has a concept of “showing/activating the app” whereas Windows has… well individual windows. They add up, especially if you add mobile to the mix.

I think the most sensible is to keep the api surface small, and also to peek at electron, tauri etc to learn and try not making expensive mistakes.
If this is real, I hope MyFitnessPal doesn't operate in the EU.

Or rather, I hope they do, and receive an appropriate fine for this, if not even criminal prosecution (e.g. if the app uploaded nonconsensual pornography of someone visible only in the cropped out space).
Yeah I should have bought it on Steam. It's only the Epic games store that I can't access it on anymore. The strategy with that store is all over the place.
For the people who lift weights while on this/these drugs, how much lean muscle do they lose?

The point is is that most people lose muscle because they’re not lifting. You will lose muscle if you lose weight no matter the cause, if you are not lifting weights.
Discussion (1171 points, 2 days ago, 1387 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42177767
> Weather forecasts are nice to have, but often wrong.

I think you are really, really underestimating the importance of weather forecasting to modern agriculture (and therefore global stability), shipping and transport, logistics, energy infrastructure, and on and on.
Tirzepatide (Zepbound) is double-acting but semaglutide (Ozempic) isn't. Both are prescribed for weight loss.
This was the old Apple under Jobs.

Tim Cook made it a juggernaut that holds more than half the market in many areas, can buyout whole supplies of a specific technology (e.g. TSMC and their 3nm process?), influences the relationships with a whole country (China) and has the size to weather most battles (e.g. the fight with the EU).
Pokemon Go was launched on the Unity game engine in 2016. Ingress was using a different game engine at the time, and wasn't rewritten into Unity until several years later. Even the backend/server side was significantly different, with them needing to write a shim to ensure compatibility during & after the move to Unity.
I’m torn. I don’t really see how selling off Chrome would work (who would buy it?!) but at the same time Google absolutely deserves this. Having an ad monopoly also own the most popular browser is an awful state of affairs and I long to see it change.

Maybe a consortium of interested parties (Netflix, Amazon…?) could come together to find some kind of independent body that would own and operate Chrome? There’s plenty of business incentive in ensuring web browsers are viable software.
Conversely, why not invade to destabilize the incumbency of the non-stooge so that the stooge wins re-election and then use the stooge to negotiate a favorable frozen conflict? Or why even attribute it to POTUS at all? Why not attribute it to the fact that Ukraine's military power was growing due to the Western training that they were receiving over the previous 10 years, and Putin was effectively on a clock to invade? Eastern European conflicts have never revolved around who is POTUS.
Visa and Mastercard are not financial institutions subject to strict recordkeeping requirements because they don’t hold deposits or securities, issue credit, or control large amounts of capital. All they do is route payments.

There are undoubtedly reasons they are so dominant today, but storing old emails and chat logs is probably not one of them.
> This applies to all sorts of things. Even electronic things — if I put some files on a USB stick I expect them to be "mine" and used as I please, not uploaded to the cloud behind my back, or similar.

Every app you open on Mac sends a "ping" to Apples servers.

https://acecilia.medium.com/apple-is-sending-a-request-to-th....
It all goes into the GDP I guess
Stepping on Lego for Science
An Unreachable Hidden Xkcd Easter Egg Inside CPython
Adding to the main post--

You can check out the Monty Monitor here: https://montycompost.co/products/im-perfect-monty-monitor
Why do so many projects fail to include any screenshots at all?

Maybe the authors don't think it's necessary, but step 3 under `Getting Started` is called `Creating UI`. Why would they not show what the result of the tutorial looks like?
> the ideal is that college should be very expensive for rich people and cheap, free, or at least more affordable, for less wealthy people.
american universities get closer to this ideal than you might expect. the days of outrageous student debt are thankfully fading away, at least for undergraduate degrees.

this is partly true. it is cheap / free for very low income -- if you qualify for a Pell grant you can usually get additional financial aid from your state university that can bring your cost down to zero.

But if you are above the low income line, but by no means wealthy -- so if you're a household making say $100K a year, then college is extremely expensive and unaffordable especially if you have several kids. You're not poor enough to qualify for substantial financial aid, and you're not wealthy enough to afford tuition. Yeah, your kid can get into Harvard or Stanford for free, but the chances of them being accepted are vanishingly small no matter how smart they are.

The saving grace is community college -- enroll at the local CC for 2 years and then transfer to the state school.
I Stopped Using OpenBSD
The normal business model for free to play games is that a small number of people pay a lot of money for cosmetics or convenience, this finances the game and is how the company makes its money. The free players then provide value by being there making the game feel alive and being someone, the spenders can show off their cool items to.

That is how monetization for free to play games have worked for a very long time now. Changing that without letting people know up front is absolutely a betrayal of trust.
> Sorry but for some ballance, the current prime minister stood in parliament and opposed the entire HS2 project "on cost and merit" and voted against the project in 2016. He said "the only sensible plan is to abandon the project altogether".

That 2016 vote was the decision. Yes and no were both valid answers at that point ("no" was a bad one, but a defensible one). The subsequent dicking about is a whole lot worse than either.
But this strategy only applies to the wealthy universities, like Harvard, which are extremely difficult to get into -- and that is by design (Harvard could expand its student body), since what Harvard is selling these days, above all, is exclusivity.
I'm not a fan of the way you moved the goal posts here. You argued that Niantic would obviously use user data to fund game operations. Then we see that they don't actually need to do that, and that the game could fund itself. Then you argue that well, we shouldn't assume that they wouldn't try to monetize user data, shame on us. I agree that those who know how tech companies operate should be extremely pessimistic as to how users are treated, but I don't think that pessimism has permeated the public consciousness to quite the level you think it has. Moreover, I don't think it's a failing on the part of the user to assume that a company would do something in their best interest. It's a failing of the company to treat users as commodities whose only value is to be sold.
As if they know which ship did this…
My big mistake was ignoring all the (growing) news that this was bad; my last business meetings where in very busy spaces and so where my wife's meetings. So we both had it early.

We weren't allowed to go out very far, it was a weird time, but luckily we live in the countryside and not in a city so not too much change besides police blockades to stop you from venturing too far.
Then add the spoof app from recovery.
How are bodybuilders getting a phase 2 trial drug still in development by Lilly?
do not disagree with* late night typing and auto correct...
Is this something like WebTunnel from the Tor Project?

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-...
Ya, I kind of hate to say it, but it feels like because of Window's backwards compatibility and variation in UI styles over the years, people expect Mac apps to be comparatively pretty consistent, and consistently good. There's some wiggle room, but usually it's some niche open source app that's just too generally useful to prioritize mac
Very cool.

However, I can't fully agree that generating 3d scene "on the fly" is the future of maps and many other use cases for AR.

The thing with geospatial, buildings, roads, signs, etc. objects is that they are very static, not many changes are being made to them and many changes are not relevant to the majority of use cases. For example: today your house is white and in 3 years it has stains and yellowish color due to time, but everything else is the same.

Given that storage is cheap and getting cheaper, bandwidth of 5G and local networks is getting too fast for most current use cases, while computer graphics compute is still bound by our GPU performance, I say that it would be much more useful to identify the location and the building that you are looking at and pull the accurate model from the cloud (further optimisations might be needed like to pull only the data user has access to or needs access to given the task he is doing). Most importantly users will need to have access to a small subset of 3D space on daily basis, so you can have a local cache on end devices for best performance and rendering. Or stream rendered result from the cloud like nVidia GDN is doing.

Most precise models will come from CAD files for newly built buildings, retrospectively going back to CAD files of buildings build in last 20-30 years(I would bet most of them have some soft of computer model made before) and finally going back even further - making AI look at the old 2D construction plans of the building and reconstructing it in 3D.

Once the building is reconstructed (or a concrete pole like shown in the article) you can pull its 3D model from the cloud and place it in front of the user - this will cover 95% of use cases for AR. For 5% of the tasks you might want real time recognition of the current state of surfaces for some tasks or changes in geometry (like tracking the changes in the road quality compared with the previous scans or with reference model), but these cases can be tackled separately and having precise 3D model will only help, but won't be needed to be reconstructed from scratch.

This is a good 1st step to make a 3D map, however there should be an option to go to the real location and make edits to 3D plan by the expert so that the model can be precise and not "kind of" precise.
I can't even find the New Scientist article that supposedly backs this up.
We'd really need traceroutes (ideally bidirectional) from before, during, and after the break to diagnose your issues :P

But, even if your traffic was going east, with the broken cable to the east, there might be a lot more traffic going east (or coming from the east), and that could cause a lot of breakage.

For better or worse (mostly for worse), BGP doesn't propagate capacity of links, so it doesn't matter if there are alternate routes, if the overloaded route has the most desirable advertisement, it gets the traffic even if most of the packets are dropped into the sea.
The freshman class of MIT pays enough to cover all other students every year.
I really hope this is a joke, as someone who diligently uses the barcode feature on MFP everyday.......
I remember CEOs having a salary of $1...
The cheapest you're going to get is $10K a year (and that's hard to find), and that's just tuition. If it's not near your parents' home then you're looking at $25K/year bare minimum (as in living off ramen packs and peanut butter). So that's $100K that your parents have to have saved up (per child) or which you have to take on as debt.

Just looked up our main state schools and cost of attendance is $31K - $35K for in-state residents. So that's $120K - $140K for 4 years (not counting increases). And these aren't top-100 schools either.
That's slowish, bottlenecking disk based IO. (yes you can improve it with dd options, if you are versed in the language...)
C and C#, possibly Go (one of C# or Go based on jobs).

Learning C via "C Programming: A modern approach" to have a deeper understanding of memory management, stack/heap, lifetimes, pointers, low-level etc

Learning C# for my career, and to get more familiar with SOLID, OOP, Backend coming from TypeScript/Python

In 2025 I plan to try either C++ or Rust for graphics programming
Chatbots sucks, I want a human.
If our society were sane, rational, advanced, the headlines would be all about scientific and technological progress. The fusion power breakthrough of 2022 by Lawrence Livermore National Lab would still dominate the news. Large corporations would compete to create the first Star Trek replicator (at least for organic matter, food, etc) by advancements in nanofabrication. Politicians would debate R&D topics and strategy, figuring out which path leads to greater broad-sector economic progress.

One can dream. :) Instead, we have a society almost entirely dependent on many kinds of technology, and yet very few understand any of it, nor care to. Wonder how long this trend can persist until some sort of phase transition appears on the horizon.
I don't know why hydrofoils aren't more popular
> Yet the technique employed to make the theory useful — renormalization — repulsed Dirac because he found it mathematically ugly.

Perhaps if he had used quaternion the solution will not be mathematically ugly or can even be beautiful [1].

[1] A quaternion formulation of the Dirac equation:

https://mauritssilvis.nl/research/publications/silvis-rug10....
You did not lose 40 pounds of fat while building lean muscle tissue unless you're BOTH relatively new to weightlifting and use PEDs, in which case, the "hysteria" is justified for an average person.
I would assume they would not want Facebook to buy it, obviously. Microsoft neither.

I do not have a solution for the business case I have to admit, but it has 60%+ market share I believe, I’m sure someone will figure out something to monetize this.

It might end up with chrome becoming a worse browser though, that’s not an unlikely outcome at all. But Internet as a whole would be better for it in my view, if google‘s grip got loosened a bit…
> Most of your analysis is flawed because the model is non-rivalrous so it could easily be given to every player.

Sure, copying it is approximately free. But using it provides value, and sharing the model dilutes the value of its usage. The fact that it's free to copy doesn't mean it's free to share. The value of the copy that Niantic uses will be diluted by every copy they make and share with someone else.

> Additionally, many people can contribute to make something greater that benefits everyone (see open source). So the argument of “you couldn’t have done this on your own” also doesn’t hold any water.

Your second sentence does not logically follow from the first. In fact, your first sentence is an excellent example of the point I was making: many people contribute to open-source projects, and the value of the vast majority of those contributions on their own do not amount to the sum total value of the projects they've contributed to. This is what I meant by "your own individual input is itself insufficient to have created it in the first place". Sure, many people contribute to open source projects to make them what they are, but in the vast majority of cases, any individual contributor on their own would be unable to create those same projects.

To rephrase your first sentence: the value of the whole is greater than the value of the parts. There is value in putting all the pieces together in the right way, and that value should rightfully be allocated to those who did the synthesis, not to those who contributed the parts.

Is a canvas-maker entitled to every painting produced on one of their canvasses? Without the canvas the painting would not exist--but merely producing the canvas does not make it into a painting. The value is added by the artist, not the canvas-maker--therefore the value for the produced art should mostly go to the artist, not the canvas-maker. The canvas maker is compensated for the value of the canvas itself (which isn't much), and is entitled to nothing beyond.

> The only thing that protects niantic is just a shitty ToS like the rest of the games that nobody pays attention to. There is nothing fundamentally “right” about what they did.

There's also nothing fundamentally wrong about it, either, which was my point. Well, my point was actually that it's even more shitty to demand the sum total of the output when you only contributed a tiny slice of the input.
Waste of time. Just talk in terms of what they want to hear. They are just interested in the payoffs (not in the details).

As info explodes and specialists dive deeper into their niches, info asymmetry between ppl increases. There are thousands of specialists running in different directions at different speeds. Leaders can't keep up.

Their job is to try to get all these "vectors" aligned toward common goals, prevent fragmentation and division.

And while most specialists think this "sync" process happens through "education" and getting everyone to understand a complex ever changing universe, the truth is large diverse groups are kept in sync via status signalling, carrot/stick etc. This is why leaders will pay attention when you talk in terms of what increases clout/status/wealth/security/followers etc. Cause thats their biggest tool to prevent schisms and collapse.
> And training data isn't of people walking, but from images they've produced while catching pokemons or something?

Training data is people taking dedicated video of locations. Only ARCore supported devices can submit data as well. So I assume along with the video they're also collecting a good chunk of other data such as depth maps, accelerometer, gyrometer, magnetometer data, GPS, and more.
It's not, though. It's people in an entirely different context, acting as an agent of a legal entity that is regulated and has restrictions on the things it can do.

This is the same reason why I think police should be recorded when they are out on duty. A person gets to have the right to privacy, but the police, while on duty, should not have that right, given that they have the ability to legally kill someone, among other things.

If you (police, large corporation) are granted the legal ability to do harm on a large scale, then you also need checks to ensure those abilities are not being abused.
No one is arguing it is some sort of human right. The argument is that being the owner-operator of a small business is a financially different situation from having a lot of liquid wealth sitting around. And that smart universities should figure that out so they don’t accidentally lose good students over silly structural flaws in their financial aid processes.
Duct-taped banana sells for more than $6M at auction
I think that the DOJ's (and FTC's) anti M&A philosophy is rather permissive and has been targeted at very large, dangerous mergers.
I don’t think this is sarcasm.

Until pretty recently, phone telemetry data was a free-for-all, and if you’re, say, in legal trouble, a map of the location of your phone over the past… however long you’ve had your phone is immediately available.
14% of software engineers working remotely do almost no work (Ghost Engineers)
> Services like Cloudflare, Akamai Technologies, Fastly, and Amazon CloudFront ... support millions of websites across critical sectors, including government and healthcare, making them indispensable

The author is pretty naive. There is a reason why Google was left out of the list, in the 2010s people argue "Google is too important and China never dare to block it" then google's whole IP range is blocked.

Amazon Cloudfront, Akmai, Fastly are also (partially) blocked and barely working.

IMHO cleve tricks like "domain fronting" is just freebooting
Thank you @xlinux and @mbid. Very interesting and not something I knew much about before.

I had a look at eglog and egglog and if I'm understanding things correctly then one possible use case is type inference and optimization. I'm particular I looked at the example in [1].

I'm thinking that this could be useful in the PRQL [2] compiler, in particular for:
a) inference of type restrictions on input relations and resultant output relation types,
b) optimization of resultant SQL queries.

Would you be able to comment on whether that's correct?

Any links to related examples, papers, or work would be appreciated. Thanks!

1: https://egglog-python.readthedocs.io/latest/tutorials/sklear...

2: https://www.prql-lang.org/
Surely the game engine has little to do with logged telemetry data. No?
I see this as a goal in life, not a problem
Actually it is now possible, in Part Design (not in Part), within some limits. It's not an official feature yet as I understand it, for reasons that become obvious when you play with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjzhUCl3gXg

Since you're not selecting the enclosed area to extrude (which is how the older RealThunder implementation works), but instead the edges, shapes will need to be drawn out as edges if you want to extrude just their intersecting parts.

e.g. if you wanted to pad only the intersection of a Venn diagram of two circles, you cannot, without breaking the circles into arcs.

You could use the Split Edge tool twice on each circle and then make the two new vertices on each circle coincident. But this can be really tricky to constrain. You could also draw out the arcs independently on top of two construction geometry circles.

As I understand it, this "feature" is largely a consequence of the new TNP mitigation code. You can do other things as a result, like select the edges of a hole on a part and extrude that.

It does not work in the Part workbench yet; that has more possible outcomes for extrudes I guess.

It's now also possible to have multiple separate solids in a single body in Part Design:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LQbhjZTdZk&t=1s
Anything that grows exponentially is going to suffer comically wrong forecasts if over a long enough time horizon, like 3-5 years. It's almost impossible to get the exponent exactly right, and the error grows very quickly.
Ask HN: Is there a way to blacklist some sites on mobile HN?
Hello everyone,

I browse mainly HN with my mobile (website and Hacki) and it happens to me to not want articles from one or more specific sites, let's say youtube or the nytimes for example.

To your knowledge, is there any existing HN mobile app that can do that ?