skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe one of these has it: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=BuqNOOwAAAAJ&hl=en

Edit: It's here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-024-00194-4

But he's clearly spent his entire career on this!
From that concrete mixer the Mythbuster's blew up? It took a while to come down...
Apple has already been working on this, would love the feature, and has an absolute hell of a lot of cash.

They also know how to turn very complicated things into miniaturized production products.

If they could provide enough proof that it works the way they say it does, I bet they could find a really good suitor there. And you know the various other health/smart watch companies would love to get one up on Apple, outside of the obvious direct benefit it would provide their customers.
If you sign a CLA you no longer own that code. Thus you trust who ever now owns the code to make decisions you agree with but have no way to assure that.

depending on the terms you may own the code but it isn't a useful right as without everyone else including them you can't use your right to get a good license in place (one they disagree with so of course they won't)
> how about you give them the copyright

under US law, this is an impossibility. Under a CLA, you retain your copyright, and you (typically) give someone else a perpetual, irrevocable license to use your copyrighted material in their own product.
I believe this is a reference to the tech you are talking about. I have a similar take as you: current cgm tech plus closed loop is pretty good. Self activating insulin is the first promising tech I’ve seen in the 40+ years of following the research.

https://youtu.be/lVTS_J7Xmxs?si=vemMfo3IbfMlYrUi
Curious if anyone has priced this out (when "nicely equipped").
Thanks for the correction.

I hadn't thought of 1bpp because it isn't interesting on VGA hardware. But you're absolutely right about 4bpp having been a thing.
I think many of these are just design trends. As in, I think in a lot of cases web designers will add these “features” not for a deeply considered reason, but simply because that’s the thing everyone else seems to be doing.

I’ve had to be pretty firm in the past with marketing teams that want to embark on a rebrand, and say however the design looks, it can’t include modal windows or animated carousels. And I think people think you’re weird when you say that.
Conservancy's lawsuit against Vizio is aiming to do for TVs what the lawsuit against Linksys did for routers (it resulted in OpenWRT).

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-st...
That doesn't preclude syntactic compatibility, does it?
Twice i read something from someone monitoring and adjusting the indoor air that came to the (expensive) conclusion that nothing beats opening all the windows.

I would add that heated clothing is fantastic. You cant heat the house to 30C and if it gets to warm you cant easily lower the temperature.
Not sure about Toronto, but from my anecdotal observation, people come to Vancouver because it's awesome, not because they couldn't get into the US. At least, I've never heard a single coworker say anything along the lines of "I wanted to work in [anywhere in US], but couldn't, so I came to Vancouver".
> rather than using something standard (at least on Linux) like dbus.

What standard? Other compositors have their own specific protocol to talk to it even if it's done other dbus.
This is totally awesome and would be even more wonky if it came out on a reel of teletype tape.
I'm sure some of their later cars after the 2/7/9 series are quite good cars, but they just don't appeal to me.
Ask HN: How to give formal feedback to my manager?
It's everyone's favorite time of the year again.

This year, the company I work for is implementing a long list of questions I have to answer about my manager. This is new to me, as my prior experience with performance reviews has been entirely downwards. I'm not sure how to approach this.

Truthfully, I don't have any complaints for my manager. When I tell them I have a problem, they usually fix it, and they do a good job of preventing it from getting to me in the first place. I hate that HR is forcing people to come up with something negative even if they don't want to.

Usually I try to be vague as RK suggests[1], but I don't think that's possible this time because they all ask for specific examples and are asking me to quantify the negative effects the manager had on the company.

[^1] https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/02/19/perf/
To be clear I think jailing foreign crypto scammers is ineffectual at securing US markets but more cathartic to victims than shrugging shoulders.

At the very least there seems to be little to no evidence it moves the needle.

If you asked me I'd say most effectual would be a combination of public announcements on avoiding crypto scams and a revival of banking secrecy with no kyc or AML, as that would steal massive capital from crypto markets and scammers.
Visualizing anti-trans legislation using RStudio
I think Big Tech is exactly like the tobacco companies of yore. Hawking a product that they know is addictive and harmful while feigning ignorance and benevolence.

To blame people is to blame the victim.

There are dude bros commenting here on this site that have materially made the world a worse place.
The problem is we don't know if the proqlem is solvable. We get data of course but it needs to be accurate to be useful and that may or may not be possible.
First, temperature dynamics and being able to reliably determine doneness by time. Boiling water is nature's thermal measuring stick, and if your water is dropping to 150 it's a Problem. This is especially the case if you like to let the water 'coast' heat-off so that your pasta doesn't burn to the bottom of the pan during an unattended rolling boil.

Second, clumping. You want the ability to freely stir and get water between pieces of pasta, or if the heat is on for the boiling bubbles to stir, in order to avoid the pasta sticking together.

Third, use 80% less water and you only get a 5x higher concentration of starch. I don't have measurements in front of me but I suspect this simply isn't starchy enough to take a tiny portion of that water and use it as an effective emulsifier. The article pins 1% starch as a threshold of effect, and I doubt I'm losing 0.2% of pasta weight when cooking to al dente.

Note: This is all for dried durum wheat-flour pasta, the generic industrial 'macaroni' of American agribusiness. Egg pasta is a very different product, with different cooking characteristics, that happens to share the name. Durum semolina pasta, whole-wheat pasta, gluten-free "pasta", rice pasta... no guarantees that this is applicable.
Funny, I was just playing around with some of these techniques yesterday for my game https://roguestargun.com now that I got it running reasonably comfortably at 72 fps on the Oculus Quest 2.

Mostly due to laziness, as a cell shaded look requires less retexturing for my game than simply creating proper PBR materials.

The inverted hull method + cell shaded look I initially used however actually really does have quite a performance hit.
The appearance of rust on the surface of the article's main photo suggests steel. I guess heat from reentry may lead to that appearance on other materials?
Very few Black Americans even know about the Tuskegee syphilis program these days and it rarely comes up (I’m Black by the way).

The reason that uptake in the COVID vaccine wasn’t lower at first was because like everything else, health care is worse in the Black community.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9974364/#:~:text=By....
The Advent of Cyber side quest this year needed some Ghidra and I found Pickman's Model was pretty good at helping me craft a heap exploit from a decompilation.
Copilot is quite good at inferring functionality from comments in code. At least this is what I found. If you break down your function, or whatever it is you are great at making, into steps or sub-processes with comments outlining what each part does, Copilot works a lot better. So for example, I want to sort the lines in a file via a linked list: I might have my first comment say “step1: load text file called bla.TXT into the linked list with one line per node” then leave a gap where code should go before writing a second comment which may go something like “step 2: iteratively go through the list, swapping nodes if they are not in ascending alphabetical order. Do this until the list is ordered”. From there prompting the AI to complete the code based on the comments works fairly well.

I will say that Copilot is sometimes embarrassingly wrong. It’s strange how brilliant it can be at times and how incredibly dumb it can be other times. I think that just comes as part of the technology right now, but I have made it write quite complex code using the above approach. This approach does, however, require you to understand how the problem should be solved as to have Copilot understand enough to take over.
It’s been part of the Republican Party talking points since way before 2020.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna301646

Rand Paul was speaker of the House at the time.
No relation to the best-selling 90's PC game "Myst", in case anyone was wondering like I was.
So I just need the hotend of my 3D printer to hit 1600C? I better add a few more solar panels.
An Android or Service Workers NFC/QR code inventory management app that was FOSS and fast enough for home organization.

Wouldn't it be awesome to tap a toolbox, tap "Add items" then have anything you tap marked as "Last seen in the box at X time"?

Or tap a box and hit "Do count" then tap everything that should be in there and get a warning if there's an incomplete count?

I'm not sure I'd use it enough to pay for it, but I'd probably contribute to a FOSS version. I've thought about doing one myself but don't really need another side projects to maintain all by myself.

I'd really like a chord identifying plugin for Ardour. For musicians, it's probably easy to tell at a glance what notes are playing and what chord it makes just by listening or seeing the MIDI, for but for a hobbyists, there's a lot of "Wait what did I put there?".
What evidence do you have extradition of crypto scammers has moved the needle at all on scamming? I'm not seeing the benefit you speak of, a new one pops up 5 minutes later to replace the last.
I usually redirect it at a teammate I don’t like.

“They don’t require accountability on the part of X”
I agree with you on the sleep-hibernate thing. Unfortunate that Linux sleep is noticeably worse. Switched from Mac to AMD Framework 16 with Fedora and I discovered it quickly.
2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) in diameter:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-V
The Covid vaccine didn’t exist until after Trump lost. How could they have been pushing it?
Does anyone need data for fine-tuning?
working on a data-efficient synthetic data generation method. got a 1.1B model to beat GPT-4o mini on PubMedQA. method beats PubMed train split and WizardLM evol-instruct.

email sonyajin@stanford.edu for a test run for your research/personal projects
ClaudeSync: Bridge local dev environment with Claude Projects
There are lots of videos of similar Thai fireworks, but I think is the largest one I've seen. Also, based on my amateur rocketry experience, this is completely feasible, if rather dangerous. 99% sure it is a real video.

I'm not sure why it makes the 'chuffing' noise though. Anyone know?
I'm using a [Gprinter GP-1324D](https://www.ebay.com/itm/365264659480) in everyday work, printing task tracking stickers, various labels, etc. It's designed to print shipping labels / recipients in business scenarios so it's fairly robust. The only con I can think of is its physical size. I'm not familiar with eBay, but on Xianyu(Chinese second hand market app), yes you can buy one using only $20, shipping included.
I see you've repeated this in a few comments. Do you have a link?

By the way, I'm not disagreeing. I'm Australian and curious about the US situation. My understanding was that whilst you can't assign copyright — insofar as you ought to always be able refer to yourself as the original author — you can provide an irrevocable license giving someone else the rights to reproduce, license and sublicense as they see fit.
Theory of Constraints in Software Engineering
Ehhh this is way more complicated than you make it sound.

For example, I've been in situations where I've successfully argued for some component of what we do at work to be opensourced. But I wasn't given any extra resources to opensource it. I was doing consulting work at the time and the company didn't have a culture of contributing to opensource. In that case, I spent a couple weekends cleaning up the code I'd opensourced & triaging github issues. I'm proud of my work, and I want to share it.

In another company, we were running into some limitations of the database we were using. I spent a weekend writing up a super simple database prototype from scratch, mostly as a research project for myself. I don't think we ever used any of the code I wrote. I probably ended up throwing it on github and then forgot about it. That database prototype was clearly "work related". But it was also very clearly not part of my job. - Although, working on that database made me better at my job. It helped me understand the limitations of the database we were using, and gave me some ideas on how to work around them.

How can you argue that it was unethical to do any of that work? Frankly, everyone benefited. I learned a lot. I got better at my job - (and more employable). And my company benefited directly (and immediately) from my work.
I could say the same about your comments. Your snarkiness is not appropriate for this website. Don't start commenting if you're not open to having your views challenged.
110M to 50 firms over 5 years is about 440k/year/firm. That’s roughly 2, maybe 3 FTEs on average. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan and averages can hide a lot, but that’s not exactly swimming in foreign money either.
You have no problem describing your teammates like that in a formal review? I am not sure how that would go here, I haven't tried. Like I said, so far every company I've worked for either didn't do formal reviews at all or it was entirely assessed by your manager without any conversation.
Is that a third place? I thought third places were defined as the third "social" area - places you meet and talk with other people. If it's a place to drink and read, like a home away from home, I'm not sure that's the same thing but I'm not sure what to call it.
You don't, but you provide lower insurance prices to those who can demonstrate a healthy lifestyle.

You wouldn't even need too much surveillance to do this. Give people a yearly "fitness checkup" to encourage physical exercise, monitor weight to encourage healthy eating habits, do periodic drug tests to discourage drug use etc.

If you combined this with a (privacy preserving) fitness band that would monitor your vitals, and only send a list of premiums you're eligible for, you could do even better.

You'd have to account for preconditions that make it hard/impossible to exercise, but this would work for most people.
Is there a specific definition of Micro-Planner? Curious.
That's because it's bullshit.

To clarify, the actual science they did is interesting (to me at least, as someone not in the field). The paper is linked here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-024-00194-4

What is bullshit is the completely unwarranted conclusions in the title or in the quotes in the article. This is classic "science by press release".

If you notice in the paper, they didn't do any testing, at all, with actual humans (or animals) and their blood sugar levels. The paper is mainly about the design of this "metasurface" which they claim allows higher resolution and sensitivity of a millimeter-wave radar system. The leap from what they've done to "no more needles for diabetics" is about 100x of "draw the rest of the owl".

Again, to emphasize, I'm not denigrating the science they've done. I'm denigrating the hyping of it.
And they used the technique to demo a mock surgery inside a heart removed from a goat (left atrial appendage closure - basically seals off a portion susceptible to blood clots).
DUI checkpoints are a flagrant violation of the Constitution, and one of the most braindead rulings of SCOTUS ever (Michigan v. Sitz). Later cases would uphold that checkpoints for general crime control were violations of the 4th, but 'public safety' was apparently threatened more by drunk driving than by not catching individuals committing crimes that didn't involve intoxicated driving.

Our rights have been eroding for decades, and now it can be done at massive scale.
I have a TidByt in my office and this feels like the printed version of that. The ability to choose and order the sections of your daily newspaper from a library/app would be slick.
In a restaurant that makes pasta as a focus you don't "boil it quite often", you boil it constantly. Many gallons of boiling water takes forever to come up to temperature, and once it's there the pot can be thermally insulated to keep it there above 200F with minimal additional heating. Customer orders, you dump it in, customer is served in 5-15 minutes.

You keep it at a slow boil, and properly salted, all day long. If you're using it more than one day, you'd probably want to keep it hot overnight, like "perpetual stews", but I can't attest to how common this is, especially in restaurants that aren't constantly plating pasta.

You can manage it as a batch process, throwing the water out when it gets too starchy, but doing this unaided leaves you unable to use the water as emulsifier at the start of the cycle. You could also do it as a perpetual process by pouring some off the top and refreshing with clean water.
What's the deal with the thermal paper though? I guess it's negligible exposure since you would only be using it once a day. There is an alternative thermal paper that uses vitamin c. It's slightly more expensive but I feel like that wouldn't matter for something like this since it's not using nearly as much as would be used for retail printing. I wonder if it's worth using the vitamin c kind instead.
The rise of Japanese cars is the perfect note to end on. Imagine you could go back in time and predict the rise of Japanese cars a decade before it happened.
Well maybe you can because it seems to be happening again.
This is great! I wonder how hard it would be to use a pen plotter instead of a thermal printer. You could even use a procedurally generated handwriting font and Claude to make it feel like a handwritten letter.
No idea what's underlying this post. I do think it's kind of amusing to think how little serious time humanity as a whole spends thinking about how (and preparing for when) human civilization (e.g. what it means to work, believe in god, go to school, defend a nation, start a business, etc.) will be forced to change once we do surpass the singularity and computers are able to do anything a human can do, but better.

I guess it's kind of like climate change. The magnitude, inevitability, and helplessness is too much for our collective little brains to take meaningful action.

Hunter-gatherer cultures should still be good to go and happy after the singularity. I'd be upset if Yoshimi let those robots defeat them too.
just need to check the classifieds: https://www.controller.com/listings/for-sale/cirrus/vision/a...

spoiler: $1.9M to $3.5M used. less if you're down for a timeshare deal.
It sounds more complicated than it is. A metasurface is almost always just a fancy patch antenna. If you reduce some parameters down, you can really just view it as a resonant circuit. You could design a meta surface in a few minutes in any pcb design software and get it fabricated on low tech PCB fabrication equipment. In this case, they used an array of a specific type of patch antennas (that’s a meta surface) called the complementary split ring resonator. In a sense, all split ring resonators are “micro radar” surfaces, because a split ring resonator is designed to be electrically small compared to the wavelength. The researchers here found that the change in glucose in the bloodstream changes the dielectric properties of the bloodstream, and the resonant characteristics of the complementary split ring resonator change depending on the surrounding dielectric (a dielectric just describes the electrical properties of a material - for instance, a higher electric dielectric constant will slow down the phase velocity of an EM wave, which leads to various measurable effects in an RF system). Looks like great engineering work here, but I’ve always thought the term “metasurface” was foo foo jargon since I first began studying antennas.
If it fits in a watch a lot of nondiabetics will also buy it. It can be much cheaper that way.
After reading the introductory page, I don't see any benefit over Quarto, and in fact some limitations in comparison.
> they didn't do any testing, at all, with actual humans (or animals)

They did mention in the article that clinical trials are on-going.
Be aware that in many single-payer systems, insurance is also tied to working (or unemployment / retirement / pensions).

In my opinion, this is actually the reason for why we have so little innovation in Europe.

Mandatory, single-payer insurance very significantly raises the cost to be self-employed / have a sole proprietorship, which you practically need to run any side project that you want to eventually make money from. This means that if you launch a startup, you either need it to be profitable on day one, or you're vasting significant amounts of your money, not just your time.
It’s not entirely different here, the feed-in is applied as a credit to your account. I suppose they’d have to pay out if pushed, I’m yet to know anyone who has received actual money though. I guess I’m about to find out, if my retailer ever fixes the issue with their billing system that’s preventing any of my solar data showing correctly / at all.
Copyright can be transferred in the US. I think you are confused from copyright can’t be destroyed to put work public domain.
This is yet another in a long line of glucose-measurement devices designed to sell to unsophisticated research grantmaking agencies, rather than to diabetics. Making a device that "measures" blood sugar in a watch form factor is easy, and many research groups have done so. Making one that's accurate enough to compete with the CGMs that are already on the market is a different matter entirely.
Local politics have colored a lot of my views on these things, to where I'm deeply suspicious of faux-democratic processes like the notice-and-rulemaking regulatory process of the federal government. Nobody elected the people making these decisions! These are awfully big decisions for unelected appointees to be making.
Is it? There is a Korean poster bragging here about how happy they are to have offloaded kwon to the US for a free ride on us since they are too lazy to mete out full punishment of people operating on their turf.

We are a laughing stock. Dump your criminals on the US taxpayers to play world police.
I want private corporate LLMs trained to mimic individual employees by periodically ingesting all data they generate on a bunch of different platforms: email, Slack, Salesforce, Microsoft Office, Zoom meeting recordings, Figma, GitHub, etc. Give me an AI bot that mimics each of my colleagues so that I can ask them questions. That way I'll only have to ask the human if the AI answer is unsatisfactory.