skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there is. And a hypothesis needs to be tested. Science!

Polarization: A Key Difference between Man-made and Natural Electromagnetic Fields, in regard to Biological Activity

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep14914

Ion Channels seem to be effected by EMFs even at powers that we are subjected to every day.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33945157/
Hey HN! I'm aarya (twitter.com/gd3kr) and I built BlenderGPT

Really overwhelmed with the traffic, will be defaulting to a less compute intensive model for a bit. Will try to keep up with this thread and respond to questions/comments but mostly focused on not letting BlenderGPT crash.

BlenderGPT is entirely bootstrapped and i'm really the only one on the team. Also, The required google sign in is only put in place to prevent botting/account creation abuse which is really not ideal when dealing with expensive GPU associated compute costs while generating every model.

I hope you have fun with it! DM me on twitter if you enjoy it and would like more credits to try it out.
What's your suggestion?

(Same, not a personal attack, I'm interested in this subject and good to see it from different views).
For the vast majority of sites with Google login it is indeed worthless. I implement it because I want to give people an easy login option and because customers want it. I couldn't care less about your personal info.
"inconsistencies" that's a friendly way to put it. The data is severely lacking for the world before the bronze age collapse. Upside: it can only get better over time.
https://archive.today/CftqX
I could spend all day long on this site. History is so fascinating and there's infinite rabbit holes to go down, so being able to visualize everything on the same timeline is awesome. Also linking to an embedded Wikipedia is super smart!
HN has so much boot in its mouth. Authority says jump and you guys ask how high.
throwaway since I'm identifiable

My partner did OF on a small scale (just for fun, she liked it) and I spent a month or so iterating on a platform for her to use. Some sort of CRM on top of the OF API: post scheduling, tracking income, users, tips. I spent some time chatting and learned some interesting stuff about other peoples jobs but I think the general idea, and a sentiment that's echoed here, is that people are just lonely. They wanted someone to talk to who's also beautiful.

I did end up using a model with fine tuning on her past conversations to match the wording and text style but ultimately didn't move forward because she didn't want to commoditize herself in that way.
Intel Arc B580 Graphics Open-Source Driver Linux Gaming Performance
The comparison to others comes with a caveat though. The best player in the world is not participating in the current WC format.
i defined the guard rails of a magic 8 ball as being a twenty sided probability problem.

what position are you even standing for right now?
The problem with MAID is statistically significant.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/some-health-care-workers-...

But in Ontario, more than three quarters of people euthanized when their death wasn’t imminent required disability support before their death in 2023, according to data from a slideshow presentation by the province’s chief coroner, shared with AP by both a researcher and a doctor on condition of anonymity due to its sensitive nature.

Of people killed when they weren’t terminally ill, nearly 29% lived in the poorest parts of Ontario, compared with 20% of the province’s general population living in the most deprived communities, the data show.
After seeing that news clip, my only question is “why do they care?”. I’m not saying nobody should care but why do we have citizens on the hunt for drones. From the look of it, the drones don’t seem to be invading citizens privacy, nor does it put them in danger. It’s pretty clear they don’t even know where exactly the drones operate, which is understandable given the conditions. And why does the mayor care? Cities can impose certain restrictions on drone operations but they cannot just ban drones. They don’t own the airspace.

This is up to FAA/FBI/DHS to investigate, if they have reasonable belief laws are being violated or safety is being threatened. Local law enforcement or state agencies can investigate as well but from a different angle (privacy violations, local ordinances, noise complaints, trespassing…).
"Healthcare in Canada is essentially not available" is not the truth. It's not great. It's the worst it's ever been while I've been alive. My uncle recently passed and it's likely caused by an over worked medical system combined with delusional anti-government conspiracies. But it is not "essentially not available", there are many folks currently working their way successfully through our medical system, and coming out with improving outcomes.

Disability payments _are_ insultingly low, but we instead want to give a GST holiday and attempt to buy votes for our current government's inevitable loss.
> nobody has the authority to figure out what is going on, or nobody has the motivation, or nobody has the technical capability

Well .. SNAFU? This is basically what I'd expect. In these kind of cases there's a steady stream of crank reports from the public which are 100% false positives. The authorities will have a process for routing all the UFO reports to someone who sends out form letters and otherwise ignores them. The actual airspace protection is done by radar and whatever the US calls "QRA".

There's no suggestion or evidence of any damage, so this ranks as a much lower threat than all sorts of other things like celebrity CEO assassins.

In order of decreasing likeliness:

- nothing there

- just regular commercial aircraft

- weird aircraft, but classified, hence the blank response from authorities

- eccentric hobbyist or intentional faker

- aliens

- foreign drones
I would guess that ebooks are fine. It's been a long time since I looked into this, but as I recall the important distinction the research found was more like, "Multimedia purely for the sake of multimedia seems to be verschilmmbessern, because it tends to inhibit the kinds of deep cognitive processing that lead to effective encoding."

"Screens = bad" seems to be, as far as I can tell, the kind of unhelfpul massive oversimplification that always happens when science gets filtered through the rumor mill. Because the truth is too nuanced to make for a fun anecdote you can tweet or share in light social conversation.
> Even hunters forget that when you kill a doe, you are killing 4-8 future deer,

Hunters ... Do not forget this.

This is why, for instance, many states have antlerless weekends. Florida Zone B (where I grew up and which I'm familiar with) only allows you to shoot does (antlerless deer) during general gun season December 27-29 this year.
Must be amazing getting started off in life with such an amazing title out of the gate
It generates a mobius strip that looks like a pill.
Now we just need startupGPT so we can make those pesky startup founders redundant too!
Surely you could have had a clause in the license along the line of "free to everyone... except Old Company, they can get bent."
What a bargain!


That's not too much to pay to allow Google to watch you watch TV.
really cool, very slick. the beginner content feels very AI gen'd, which isn't necessarily a problem. my eyes are conditioned to glaze over this type of content, so maybe my issue haha. but i really like the concept, and agree there's a huge gap in the landscape for a tool like this, so great work!
So my son has 7 years to set a new record. (I’m not really expecting that, of course.)
Looks interesting! Is it free? I don't see any pricing page.
Inside Out 2 has a single writer, who also worked on the first.

Consulting with SMEs, testing with audiences, etc isn’t “design by committee”.

Similarly, “Die With a Smile” seems to have been the work of two people with developed styles with support — again, not a committee:

> The collaboration was a result of Mars inviting Gaga to his studio where he had been working on new music. He presented the track in progress to her and the duo finished writing and recording the song the same day.

Apt seems to have started with a single person goofing around, then pitched as a collaboration and the expanded team entered at that point.
Because they have navigation and avoidance lights on, as required by the FAA. This is dumb hysteria.
[citation needed] that a handgun harms cells.
But how will people be impressed if you don't exhaust them with jargon?
I personally can't imagine trying to be a cybersecurity person. I'd be going out of my mind, concerned with all the things I can't keep up with. As a full stack dev, if I don't know what's new in React 19 it doesn't really hurt anybody, but if the cybersecurity people aren't up to date, that could very well be the end of the company. Either you're hot shit, just think you're hot shit, or you simply don't care, and that blend really scares me.
As a modeling exercise: this isn’t necessarily inconsistent.

Right now if Google can earn more from using their TPUs than they would selling them (ie profitably utilize them) they would be crazy to sell them.

Companies are valued not on their present value, but the net present value of their future earnings. So the big multiple implies that there is much more revenue growth potential here. For example, NVidia has Cuda, Google doesn’t have anything as good for third party users. Maybe the market is pricing in that Google doesn’t have a good path to manufacture and sell these chips externally, while NVidia has room to grow into every 1GW datacenter that’s built over the next few decades.
I think you're the only person engaging in this with the right level of seriousness.
I've rarely seen a less convincing argument than a quote from a TV show.

"Dignity" means different things to different people--such as "on my own terms". Your pithy dismissal doesn't capture any of that.
It's that old adage once again... throw enough goose shit at the wall and eventually you'll treat cancer.
Canadian-born, 26 years in US:

- 65% English, 10% Dutch, 9% Russian

- 90% English, 3% Spanish, 2% German

- 89% English, 5% Spanish, 3% Russian
Ah but here you're thinking of other meatsacks as "people" which interferes with your ability to manipulate them as objects. /s

ugh at the huge proportion of humanity that's like this, though
This is the wrong way to think about it. With reasonable game management, killing a doe has no impact on future deer because the population is at carrying capacity. In that case, killing a doe means one less deer starves over winter.

Where I live, government biologist have recommended several times to issue doe tags to increase the population and been rejected. Over the winter, old infertile does outcompete the young deer who starve.
If you're interested in this stuff at all, check out some code.

Example: https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon/FLT/blob/main/FLT/M...

Also check out the blueprint, which describes the overall structure of the code:

https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/FLT/blueprint/

I'm very much an outside observer, but it is super interesting to see what Lean code looks like and how people contribute to it. Great thing is that there's no need for unittests (or, in some sense, the final proof statement is the unittest) :P
Proves your point "Nobody can sing and dance simultaneously" :) :) :) :)
Am I missing something or is that ADALM-PLUTO a really good deal? Its going for $195 direct from AD. Half the frequency range of a USRP but 15% of the price.

I was going to hold off on my SDR hobby until a few more gray hairs and $$$ came into my life but might need to pull the trigger on that guy (yes I know you can get an rtl-sdr for like $30).
IMHO this unjustified negativity, it's asking you to sign with your Google account which gives them very basic info about you which is very reasonable considering that they are going to give you a computationally intensive demo. It's a common practice against abuse, it's not asking you to install a tracking software or anything.
> As always though, I wish there were a way to show not just which "nation" ostensibly controlled an area, but what _people_ were actually there: what languages, cultures and gods actually held sway in each of these areas and times

That is pretty hard to do, because nationalism wasn't really a thing before the 19th century in Europe.

So how do you identify 18th century people living in Wallonia under the HRE or Netherlands, speaking French and being Catholic? What are they? How would they identify themselves? Or people born in Thessaloniki/Salonika/Solun in the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century, being Orthodox and Slav? Or people speaking Polish but considering themselves German in post-WWI disputed territories? Or Baltic Germans living in Russia for generations? Or the family in Macedonia where 3 brothers considered themselves Bulgarian, Greek and Serbian respectively.

Depending on the point in time, locality and even individuals, people would identify with their religion, main language, local area, monarch, nation state first. Or a combination of all of the above. How would you represent that sort of wild variety on a 2D map?
> Learn the dying art of in-person socialization. Memorize interesting things to talk about if needed. Buy a deck of icebreaker cards for inspiration. [...] Strike up conversations anywhere and everywhere.

Adaptive socialisation happens through conversation. It is as scary to live in a society where conversation is forbidden as it is in a society where discourse is manipulated or perhaps even made overwhelmingly toxic to the point where people relapse into the sort of brutish tribalism that... forms the plot of many Roddenberry episodes.
Yes I'd like to report the error of Taiwan being labeled "Republic of China"
If you didn't own it before bankruptcy, why should you own it after? You are not even their creditor.
Show HN: Publish SEO optimized content to your NextJS project in minutes
We're all developers here, we like building stuff. But what's even more great is having people use what built.

Thats why in my last project I decided to create some blog articles to drive traffic to my site and increase my userbase. It actually went really well and I found some keywords with low competition, so I decided: "Hey, why not build this in a way so I can use it easily accross all my other projects?"

And that's exactly what I did! I built a developer focused minimalistic CMS, especially designed for creating and publishing SEO optimized articles to your NextJS project. My goal was to make the integration into your NextJS project as fast and painless as possible, through a shadcn-like cli. Installation time, including creating your first content, from start to finish is between 1-3 minutes. It's only two commands (actually only 1 if you are using npm and not pnpm or yarn). Of course excluding the time it takes you to build and deploy your application.

Here are some of the features it comes with, out of the box:

- Automatic Sitemap Generation

- SSG with ISR, you can see content changes deployed instantly without rebuilding your application

- Image Support

Some of the features that are on my radar as a roadmap:

- i18n support

- Automatic image generation for articles

- Pages router support

- Scheduled publishing

- Improved article editing experience with some QOL changes

Google highly values how useful content is to the reader these days, so I highly recommend seeing the generated articles as a starting point and then editing them in the online dashboard!

I would love your guys feedback! You can try it for free under https://nxtblog.ai

Cheers!
Amazon Q and Gitlab Duo: Still Missing a Killer Differentiator
Pyrolysis is one of those El Dorado energy technologies like the fast breeder reactor that has thousands if not tens of thousands of technical report for every actual installation.

An extreme form is

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

which can turn the combustible parts of waste (what space colonists would call "volatiles") to syngas, extract some metal, and turn the rest to slag. Trouble is if you want to do anything with the syngas (say turn it into fuel with the Fischer-Tropsch process) or even it scrub it for impurities, you need to attach a chemical factory to it and chemical factories expect to get consistent inputs so they can get consistent outputs. For instance a machine like that could process building waste which is mostly chunks of concrete if that waste is mixed with rubber tire scraps or something high energy.

In recycling plastics they usually don't run the process so hard and they aren't aiming for syngas but to usually break plastics down to aromatic chemicals similar to the ones that exist in the BTX section of a petrochemical refinery, trouble is you get these along the way

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

with some particularly toxic examples such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzo(a)pyrene

which is basically a drug that causes cancer. In principle such a factory could be tuned up for a particular sort of plastic and try to be more selective about the chemistry: the 50 cent per pound BTX products are worth more than syngas.
Out of curiosity what is their burn rate and when are they projected to be profitable?
Typo discovered - Swedish King's name is Karl IX not Kerl IX
> Riley Goodside discovered how an attacker might interrupt a ChatGPT session using a visual prompt injection of the name "David Mayer" rendered in a light, barely legible font embedded in an image

Lol, will people now watermark their images with "David Meyer" to prevent them from being digested by AI scraping bots?
Actually, no. The UI is misleading.

It asks you to first sign up with Google. Then it lets you sign in with your gmail address.
I moved to airVpn. They have port forwarding and 3y is like 100 euro
It's kind of amazing that you can post incitement to terrorism on HN. People have been jailed for using high-power laser pointers against aircraft.
It's interesting to read the myriad of different potential causes shared in the comments.

The biggest problem with my kids' math studies that I've noticed since COVID has been having the kids solve problems exclusively using the computer, with no prompting to work things out on paper. They just stare at a screen and try to think of what their next step should be so they can type it into MathSpace.

I love math and do very well at it, generally, but trying to do it without writing it down and lining up the numbers and operators on the paper in a way that makes sense, crossing off items that have been reduced away, and regrouping the problem as my understanding of it evolves is maddening for me as an adult. I can only imagine what goes on inside my 13 year oldest head. I'll always grab a sheet of paper to show him how I would approach it, but he won't do it for himself. He's more likely to ask the DESMOS calculator site for a hint over and over again until it basically solves the problem for him. Who can expect actual understanding and retention when that's possible? He just wants the homework over with.

I think the push for technology in the classroom has been too aggressive. It's great that the tech is increasingly available. How to build and implement it for the optimal results still needs more time in the oven.
I recall reading that banks used to "reorder" transactions so as to trigger overdraft fees more often. Is this still happening?
Regarding "creepy", someone my age, giving $10 per month to a 20yo so she can show me her "pipi" and messaging her to "next time wear red instead of blue".. I think I am the creep and she is the prostitute. And the age difference only makes it worse.

I get it that the article is about incorporating LLMs/chatbots. Don't many/most dating apps play similar dirty tricks?

Technology only enhances what we are.
Show HN: Job board Product management and Product design people
I genuinely don’t understand how OnlyFans customers wouldn’t understand this. What, you think that someone with hundreds of thousands of subscribers is going be personally chatting with you? It’s either going to be AI, or some poor guy across the world who’s paid to pretend to be a sexy woman.

It’s hard to fathom how so many people can be so gullible.
I’ve never been to this site before and opened it in an incognito window. The second and third “For You” results were anime women - one proclaiming to be a “lovely waifu”. Your assumption that the parent’s ad data is leaking appears to be unfounded.
I tried the app, and it's great. As a near-native French speaker I would be interested in working out my French pronunciation, hopefully you will go multi-language soon.
Here's a really good explainer video of the blunder at the end. https://youtu.be/FJU4BXsZCvg?si=qC961oYH3wkB6Vyk&t=925
Disagree. Gukesh was constantly putting pressure on Ding to find defensive moves and Ding finally made a mistake. The fact that it happened when it did just makes it even more dramatic. We know from the other matches that Ding is capable of finding them, and the fact that he didn't just highlights that they're both human, both under extreme pressure and that it's not just mindless computation.
What sucks in security? Research findings from 50 security leaders
Hopefully there is some method of tracking the deer through the system so that meat from animals with Chronic Wasting Disease, a prion disease, doesn't make it into the food supply. Colorado Parks and Wildlife has some guidelines [0] here, I wonder how closely they are followed when meat is donated by the hunters to a program like this.

[0] https://cpw.state.co.us/hunting/chronic-wasting-disease

Seems like they are setting up for an outbreak of human CWD if there is no testing to limit the opportunity for this infected meat to make it into the human food chain. To date though, CWD is not confirmed to be spread from deer, elk, moose to humans.
Yes. In fact, Lean is a compiler and type checkers are theorem provers (by the Curry-Howard correspondence). Proofs are programs!
There is also an increase in unethical behavior around wolves, environmentalists say. In Montana, wolves are legally trapped with neck snares placed on trails. A wolf wanders into the metal loop and slowly chokes to death. Sometimes, grizzly bears, dogs, or other nontarget animals are accidentally killed. In Wyoming, snowmobile riders chase down and run over coyotes and wolves in a pastime called “yote mashing.”

In one instance a Wyoming man, Cody Roberts, brought a wolf that he had injured with a snowmobile into a bar in Daniel, Wyoming, with its mouth taped shut. He kissed and teased the leashed wolf and allowed it to be filmed before the animal was shot behind the bar. Roberts was fined $250.
High-tech archaeology shows we aren't the first to endure hard times
Scientists Have Discovered a "Mini-Brain" Inside the Heart