skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the US and EU could do a mutual acceptance of each others drug marketing authorizations. but it's messy, so there's no political will. USA first anyway. (and the pharma industry probably likes it this way.)

and even then ... the industry is complex, costs are high, funding is always finite, keeping product quality consistently high is a lot of effort, which is definitely not cheap, etc.

many generics "don't break even" as far as I understand

there's a lot of potential for having some kind of centralized mass-manufacturing setup of these low-profit drugs. but the cautionary tale is the baby formula brouhaha. it shouldn't be a single point of failure. but then it's not that low cost, right? so it should be some kind of industry-wide system. (ie. every big manufacturer should have some capacity that is pooled for these. but it must not hinder the market, it must not be a barrier to entry, and it must not lead to manufacturers exiting the market. so many considerations and challenges.)
On a related note, I see the "I am not affiliate with WP Engine" checkbox has been removed from the WordPress.org login pages now. That must've stung...
If there are abuses we should strive to minimize or abolish those abuses. The alternative - to tolerate incalculable human suffering and force the loved ones of those suffering to stand there and watch - is unacceptable.
I can not believe that modern ones stay perfectly static without any built-in maneuvering capability to periodically change their orbit. I also can not believe that there isn't effectively continuous coverage of important sites by multiple satellites. You really think the billions (trillions?) of dollars spent on such equipment is completely outsmarted by people just covering things up on a set timetable?
LLM Extensibility: Race for an Ecosystem
A really brief note what companies are getting into the LLM Extensibility space, and what each of their benefits and downsides are.
First, let me say that you often post here on HN, and you are one of my favourites. You really have an ability to view the issue from multiple angles and provide thoughtful replies.

After reading your post, I had a thought: Making this story about OnlyFans is the click bait element. Seriously, replay the story in your head where it says that top 1/2/3/4/5% of YouTubers or Instagrammers or TikTokkers are using LLMs to answer comments and DMs. Suddenly, the story is much less enticing. It probably would not even make HN front page. Most readers here would look at such an article, shrug their shoulders, and say: "Yeah, seems right. I would do the same.". However, as soon as you add sex work into the mix, it gets way more spicy and elicits more emotional responses.
i'm so sick of this DevOps bullshit i wonder if there is an alternative language that you can hot swap code and do all the black magic stuff while keeping the reliability and performance like Rust.
In Auckland/NZ we are not supposed to put lids or items smaller than 5cm into recycling anymore…
Donald Knuth's literate computing could be an example to follow:

combine lean prove language with inline English human language that explains it.
Then, Lean files can be fed into Lean to check the proof, and LaTeX files
can be fed into LaTeX to produce the book that explains it all to us mere mortals.
> still being as faithful to the original as it could be

Wow, you weren't kidding - it's basically a note-for-note cover of the whole album. Thanks for sharing the link!
https://open.fda.gov/
Come on, now you’re being deliberately obtuse. If you want to take medical and legal advice from an internet rando, an LLM, or a magic 8 ball, that’s your prerogative. The rationale has been explained to you at length, you’re free to ignore it. No one cares.
How exactly does one memorize an essentially random list of approximately 40,000 strings such that they could pull any of those strings out a hat at will in just 9 weeks?

What kind of sorcery would even make that possible?
Does this hot swapping also work for closures?
> Healthcare in Canada is essentially not available.

Do you live in Canada??

This is a ridiculous comment - healthcare is broadly available, especially for critical conditions.
You shouldn't need to shut down your computer just to have low power consumption when you're not doing much. I just built a home server PC using an AMD Ryzen CPU and the entire machine consumes 24W, measured at the wall, when the hard drives are spun down. That's including the CPU/MB, memory, 4 case fans (at a lower rpm), and 1 NVMe drive, plus the CPU fan, the power supply fan, and all the losses from the power supply itself (power supplies aren't that efficient at idle loads). That's all less power than people here are saying this stupid GPU card consumes at idle (30W). It should not more than double my power consumption just to plug in a GPU card and have it do nothing.
All of sudden = time pressure brought on by opponent.
That comment is even more bizarre given that there is a brief digression on the Super Famicom's expansion port which explicitly does mention the Satellaview.
DOIs fix that.
Actually, you can. If you run:

foo 2>&1 >&- | grep ...

then you will grep only the stderr. The stdout will be discarded.

Alternatively, if you only want to grep to see the stderr, but you still want to see stdout, you can swap stderr and stdout like this:

foo 3>&2 2>&1 1>&3 | grep ...

And in many shells, you can easily split the stdout and stderr into two separate pipelines like this:

foo > >(grep stdout) 2> >(grep stderr)
Everyone should be in charge of their own lives. Except doctors, who should shut the fuck up and do as their told. And people with moral and religious objections who should shut the fuck up and keep paying for this. And people who’d like to sell a kidney, who should shut the fuck up and understand that it’ll be taken after they’re dead when it’s of no value to them.
It's a well-written and insightful analysis, which is hard to do.

A Rolling Stone Magazine writer once said something like "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." So, good writing about music deserves appreciation.
Location: Boston, MA
Remote: Flexible
Willing to relocate: Yes
Tech: Nextjs, React, Typescript, Javascript, Python, Java, HTML
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-hok/
Email: Branhok@proton.me

~3 Years of experience.
I am a fullstack developer with additional experience in cloud, qa, and support. Eagered and versatile developer!
I am shocked at the idea of anyone implying that Erlang is "unreliable"... it's entire reason for existence was to step up the game on reliability.
That 3 kWh/kg estimated by the poster above corresponds to an abysmal efficiency of an internal-combustion engine, of less than 25%.

Modern cars with good high-compression engines have efficiencies over 40%.

A fuel cell with hydrocarbons could reach efficiencies of 60% or more.

So no lithium battery can reach volumic energies or specific energies comparable to what can be achieved with hydrocarbons.

The reason to use lithium rechargeable batteries is to obtain a better total efficiency of using energy, not the hope that it is possible to match the densities achievable with energy stored in hydrocarbons.

Among lithium rechargeable batteries, the lithium-air batteries should achieve the best energy per mass, perhaps also per volume.

Usually the weak point of metal-air batteries is the power per mass or the power per volume, because the reaction with air is slow, therefore the electrical current density in the electrodes is low, so to obtain a given amount of power requires great areas for the electrodes.
My work with them was as the tech rep of a big games publisher.

Some credit is due to some Googlers: there are those that get it. Most people have no idea how close to outright failure the Play Store was, and to be honest one of my lasting regrets was not taking advantage of the situation to kill it. It is entirely on the action of those few Googlers that the Play Store turned into a remotely viable target for games, but once the beast was big enough the marketing analytics droids moved in and took over everything entirely. Today the Play Store is run with the same mentality you would run a casino.
I don't think that's the opposite? Seems like you also want the responsibility to match the power, I agree that in general it should be more evenly distributed, I want a system that can correctly capture outliers. I think that flattening would be the consequence if the power-responsibility curve became more linear, our current reality is nowhere near that.

It's broken at the most baseline level where an individual stealing $1k will face much harsher consequences than an employer stealing $1k of wages.
in his defending games, ding got outprepped, but then consistently outplayed gukesh while being 30min to an hour lower on time.

ding played a fanstastic prep game in one round, but it was very creative prep overall, that ding played very creative defenses for to hold to a draw
I found Animals weirdly disappointing after Dark Side and Wish. Maybe I'll give it another go.

A great sampler of earlier PF is Ummagumma, the double combo live and studio album.

FWIW, Live at Pompeii is free on Youtube.
To be fair I've heard gripes about statistics, and sometimes even probability being considered as part of mathematics.

The lines between (academic) fields are blurry -- academic fields do not form a set theoretic partitioning over areas of study.
> he called his doctor and less than a week later he was also dead

This is wild. How can they differentiate between grief and actual clear thinking desire?
Love it! We have so many frameworks and so much noise in the market, but such a limited number of cases. Good job!
TBF, the nature of the services Carta provides (equity management) are rather different from a web analytics company. Offboarding isn't necessarily as simple as shutting off the company's account.
draws are plenty exciting. prep is not
Well to state it somewhat pessimistically:

1. Thoughts about the future always reflect the anxieties and the ambitions of the present.

2. Today's world has become immersed in the dreary and often dystopian reality of that technology. Today we have Black Mirror instead of the Twilight Zone. People are more mature about the impacts of both world changing technologies and cultural paradigms forcing that technology into our lives weather we like it or not.

3. GenZ,Y and younger see Big Tech as evil or invasive but are addicted to it (Social Media, smart phones) in the way Boomers were addicted to cigarettes and TV

4. Our Oligarchical economy pushes us to eat meagerly from the wealth pot, while our day to day lives, from health care, to family cohesion, to social silos due to socializing online instead of in-person, jobs that lay us off at the drop of a hat, online apps that are convenient but remove human interaction and treat us like numbers to be managed.

Also all that Impersonal Software that has no soul sucks the soul out of human users. -instead of chatting with the mailman, we get email marketing welcoming our birthdays, now personalized with GenAI. The same issues that we complained about during industrialization of cities gets amplified more with the web and mobile revolution - e.g. we are less socialized..

basically we are more jaded after a century of unbelievable technological innovation.
Some just have different brains. I think most people could not do that no matter how hard they tried, but with billions of people some just can.
The keyboard with the best prediction and self learning was my (first smartphone) Sony Xperia Z5 from 2015. I only realized it was a Sony specific app later in life. (I didn't understand auto correction memes until I got a work phone with a google keyboard.) Sadly they don't offer it as a stand alone app. I would pay for it.

I have settled for FUTO Keyboard for now. Bevor that I used SwiftKey. (The Sony is still the only one where I did see contextual self-learning/prediction.)
Streams (FP in java) is slower than for loops for a couple reasons. A big one is java doesn't natively support real closures or lambdas. It does have syntax for them, but that is just syntactic sugar for an class with a single method under the hood. So streams end up doing lot of object allocation and garbage for the fake closures.

Also, streams operate on objects, so they have to be on the heap. You can't use them with primitives on the stack. Though with autoboxing, the JVM may play some tricks with a list of Integer objects really being primitives on the stack, but I would never count on it.

As for SIMD, Java isn't going to parallelize anything automatically. You need to tell it you run the steam in parallel which will split it into threads. Java doesn't have lightweight threads like coroutines.

I know lightweight threads are on the roadmap and maybe available in Java 21 or newer. I know real closures have been considered, but I don't if it's gone anywhere. It's hard to do a quick search because we got "closures" in Java 8 so theres a lot of noise.

And as a caveat, I am most familiar with Java 17 (and older). I expect we'll look at moving to Java 21 (current LTS) next year.
For cars the US does have Tesla, Lucid, and Rivian. The first two are vertically integrated, making as many of their own components as possible.

We also have Intel, and a pretty great rocket company.
What I did, was write logic to link accounts together via an automatic email confirmation.

Try visiting this URL twice, but use two different login methods (that use the same address).

https://auth.ai.moda/pages/v1.0.0/login
related - https://medium.com/@dgosling56/chat-with-any-webpage-using-y...
One thing that I’ve noticed:

On UNIX, expanding globs (*.txt) is the shell’s job.

On Windows, expanding globs is the program’s job.

I used to have a bunch of four-line Python programs to, essentially, run `flac --best --replay-gain *.wav`.
https://archive.ph/nLfpO
I've got a brief bio in my profile. The major thrust of my role is to develop architectures of digital/analog circuits for quantum computers, and I've lately been getting into device design. That's miles away from superconductivity research (at most, I could say I'm in applied superconductivity), so allow me to fawn a little... I'd love to be doing that kind of work!
Yes bad dating advice is equivalent to saying that being creative with the price of an options grant is ok[1]. Or that you can cure cancer with diet.

[1] https://a16z.com/why-i-did-not-go-to-jail/
Pulley had a big layoff recently. not sure what their finances are like or how long they will be around.
it always annoys me how much will larsen is looked up to as a progressjve technical thought leader but carta is consistently just borderline antagonistic to its own user base.
A controversial plan to refreeze the Arctic is seeing promising results
First of all, I notice that you didn't take issue with my saying another major hardware revision is due - despite Tesla's constant promises that "we totally can do it with this one bro" for the last 4 revisions.

I have been following closely. 13.2 is a major leap forward. It is VERY impressive.

It's also five years late.

It's got some serious issues, such as intervention rates (which, despite being massively lower, are still too high).

It has trouble in California-style adverse weather conditions. This is largely due to it's vision based sensors.

And by the way, I'm not saying they're not going to "pull it off". I think they're one of the few that will succeed, to be honest. I'm saying that it is nowhere close to where it needs to be to match Tesla's promises.

> This is the most advanced AI driving system in the world.

That is a bold claim, and one that I don't think is true. Tied for first or just second most advanced, I would absolutely believe. And certainly one of the five major players.

It's also missing some key customer service and realtime service components, that took Waymo over 4 years to roll out and fine tune. And Waymo is still having edge case issues!

> Just because Elon was optimistic in 2017 doesn't make this any less impressive.

That understates his repeated broken and aggressive promises, often made during investor meetings. It makes it hard to believe his claims about the future.
Even more like to like would be to compare the battery with a fuel tank + a turbo-generator.

For any kind of battery, there will be a power threshold over which a fuel tank + a turbo-generator will be smaller and lighter.

So a useful comparison would determine those power thresholds.
Yeah man, it does suck. I do wish I'd had more time with both my parents, they both died really early in their 50s, I don't think you can ever have "enough" time.

I wish my mother had been given the option in her early 50s, the number of people punished by authoritarian governments that deny self determinism and force people to be put through experiences literally worse than torture is mind boggling, I cannot fathom it.

I don't think anyone who has seen it even a single time can honestly make slippery slope arguments, I have to assume it's ignorance and that these people are simply "actually" nerds doing recreational theory crafting. I assume it's the same headspace as flat earthers, it doesn't effect me so why should I care about aligning my thoughts with the real world, let me invent theoretical overlords and victims and argue about this new synthetic world that exists in my imagination.

I just can't be uncharitable enough to believe a person who has seen it first hand, that a person would embrace such unfettered cruelty as to deny a person living in constant hell a drop of water.

That being said... fuck, back in 2000 I did meet a bunch of people that denied hiv existed and said even if it did it was a punishment on gay people and it would be better if it wasn't cured so they would be scared and "behave" (yes, I personally met these people, the non-existence was rare but the "shouldn't develop treatment" was not a minority view in the city I lived in at the time.)

After my mother died, for a while I volunteered with "No one dies alone.", I doubt a single person who has done so for any length of time is going to argue "slippery slope".
"There are cases where an individual's choice to end it all early would be a net loss for their immediate community, and there are cases where it would be a net loss for the wider community and the state. At some point that net loss must overrule the individual's autonomy."

I'm presuming these are situations where a person has a terminal illness or something where it's a matter of time until they are disabled / not mobile / in great pain and so forth. What right does anyone else have to demand that a person continue living against their will in those scenarios? Why does a person have to wait for life to be unbearable before they can opt out?

My father died due to dementia. When he was of sound mind, he was very, very clear that he'd prefer to be dead than diminished that way. Unfortunately his condition crept up on him and he didn't live where assisted suicide was an option anyway. I'm convinced that caring for him actually killed his wife before her time, by contributing to her stress and so forth. (She died of a heart attack about 9 months before he did, despite being a decade+ younger.)

We don't give human beings the same dignity we give pets who are clearly dying because we have misguided ideas about longevity being more important than quality.
B.S. Perhaps it was true 10+ years ago but not today, not even close. Also, "XR" today would not be considered a small project. Cardboard perhaps counts as one and that was almost a research toy.

Anything on that scale Apple/Meta bets on is definitely brought up at the highest executive level and there has to be some thought going on what the response would be if any.
It rhymes! I’m assuming it matches the meter/rhyme scheme of a particular song, but I’m music stupid, so I can’t really make a guess. But the point is to be funzies and light hearted :)
This seems like a lot of work. Surely you can just rewrite the PDF parser in Rust?
The system in Canada results in the state killing homeless and disabled people rather than offering them support.
So you're David Gosling?
I don't expect you to believe in aliens. I don't tend to believe in much of anything. But when you have multiple whistleblowers giving testimony to congress that UAPs are operated by non-human intelligence, I think keeping aliens as "just speculative science fiction" is factually incorrect.

https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/4712445-key-senato...
Even in the revenue sports it’s mostly great sportsmanship. Actually surprisingly good considering how much punishing physical contact they have between them.
> How can they differentiate between grief and actual clear thinking desire

Personally I don’t think they should. Only I know what’s in my head.

I think my rules would be:

1. Terminal diagnosis at any age - No questions asked.

2. Over 70 - No questions asked — just request MAID and get it.

3. Over 50 but under 70 - Have to request MAID 2 times, separated by 1 month waiting period. Waiting period resets after a year.

4. Under 50 - Have to request MAID 3 times, each separated by 1 month waiting period. Waiting period resets after 6 months.

I’d also be in favor of no questions asked at all in any situation.
I remember meeting Ashton, of Ashton-Tate. He (or she) was Mr. Tate's large parrot that lived in a huge cage in the lobby of Ashton-Tate's offices in Torrance, California.
Alan Hollinghurst's English Underground
It's really funny when you think that even among Indians, Pragg was much more in the news with high profile wins & Arjun crossed 2800 but here we have Gukesh WC.
Amusingly, you don't have to use either for it to be a registered trademark, it just makes it "more obvious". It also makes word marks look like corporate capitalist nonsense, so leaving it off does all of us a service =D
> So the hospital withheld IV hydration and provided a morphine drip and he was gone in 36 hours.

I watched loved ones die this way. It's cruel, absurd and grotesque. A doctor will look you dead in the eye and say "your loved one will be dead within a few days" and instead of killing them mercifully you are forced to watch them die of dehydration. A maddening and indefensible relic that I believe younger generations will abolish. There's obviously far more complicated end of life situations, but this particular case is extremely common.
Can't you ask your bank to blacklist transactions with a specific entity?
I like The Wall musically and was a big fan of Pink Floyd.

However, overall, it annoyed me for being too dark and cynical. Maybe it's because I come from a family of teachers and saw all the town ratbags and losers enjoying singing "We Don't Need No Education".
hot reload of code is nothing new nowadays, but people use it only locally during development for REPL like development style.

in actual production, people prefer to operate at the container level + traffic management, and dont touch anything deeper than the container
I thought it was a weirdly short article to post a hacker news that really didn’t talk about it’s subject at all before I realized that if I kept scrolling down below what looked like the end of the article there was more.