skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beneficial kinda just means "leads to more procreation" right?

So if bigger brains meant people reproducing more, our brains would get bigger to the point that most births are cesarean or something.

I do wonder what happens when we eventually evolve to a point where we can't survive without more and more advanced technology.

A lot of people who would have died off before reproducing 200 years ago now don't, which is of course incredible for us. But what are effects of that 100/1000 years down the line?

Presumably we'll have plenty of more immediately pressing issues over that time frame.
> 2. Custom feeds as import lists so that new, popular stuff is automatically getting added

What do you mean with this? Are you automatically downloading things based on popularity solely, or does this mean something else?
Looks like a cool product! The first thing that stuck out to me is that there needs to be a prominent privacy policy. What happens to any data that is uploaded? Is it retained? If so, why and for how long? Is any data I upload used for AI training?
Mine is surprisingly still serviceable at 60fps 2560x1600 on older games, but I feel like it'd choke hard on this one too. The laptop performs much much better but obvs can't run it.
Does rust really allow stack allocated objects to escape function lifetime? That seems antithetical to how a stack works.
this is great nice work
Did you follow the 2022 trial - Johnny Depp v Amber Heard? It did not turn out how I had assumed. Sometimes the facts are what they are, and it's plain for everyone to see, whether you're liberal ("woman good, man always bad") or the opposite.

In this case, neither one of us is part of the Altman family, and we weren't there. So we shouldn't jump to conclusions.
I remember when techno was the sound of the future. Now it sounds like something from the age of industrialization.
One thing to look at is Alzheimer's. The current leading theory is that a build up of amyloid protein is the root cause of this disease. It would be wonderful if someone connected the dots to find the reason for the build up and they're able to develop a treatment to prevent the onset of the disease.
Arjan Katta (Daylight Computer) Interview
Danny Jones podcast interview with Daylight Computer founder Anjan Katta on our Brave New World and failure of Silicon Valley.

> "that what we love will ruin us"
Hehe ok, next question: do you think those are positive reasons for drinking sodas?
Is there a lack of education on nutrition?

Growing up in the 1990s and early 2000s in the United States in a middle class suburban environment, it was definitely considered "boring" to get a water instead of a soda when going out for dinner at a restaurant as a family, but at home it was not. I think we had some awareness that it wasn't healthy to drink soda for every single meal or just when hanging out, but it absolutely was considered normal to have it every day, to drink several cans at a party, to drink several cans at work. If you had drank it at breakfast you would have been looked at like you were crazy though.

Now, living in a coastal, cultural capital city as an adult, I don't know anyone who drinks soda in their normal day-to-day life, at home, at restaurants, etc. except in special situations. If anything flavored sparkling water is common. But if I visit my hometown, I do see that people still drink soda heavily, but its diet soda.
oh, wow. this actually works. I didn't know :)
thanks!
A lot of models are optimized for metal already, especially lamma, deepseek, and qwen. You are still taking a hit but there wasn't an alternative solution for getting that much vram in a less than $5k before this NVIDIA project came out. Will definitely look at it closely if it isn't just vaporware.
Side question, is goat poop flammable?
There were a few things that were difficult to render properly that made the maps incorrect in ways that would really look bad to a veteran player. Like certain cities not having the right links via trade routes (which is a huge part of the game).

I got radio silence from everyone when I tried to confirm the way to correctly determine links. So I moved on to an easier problem.
Interesting. What if that is actually a beneficial part of our own development: comparing the nonsense in our dreams to waking life and building the ability to tell the difference?
> the argumentativeness, and the stridency of the language

Can you give an example of the 'strident language' I used? While I don't tend to gild the lilly I'm not wont to start 'fights' (for lack of a better term) but neither do I avoid them. This is a discussion board after all, not an NPR program or New Yorker/Atlantic piece where we need to sound 'cultured' and 'measured'. I much prefer honesty in language over the verbal equivalent of the slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick [1] which tends to be used in 'cultured' discourse. A spade is a spade just like a rose is a rose and the former can come in handy when dealing with the latter so just call it by its name?

I think the 'problem' - if there is one, really - is not related to 'argumentativeness, and the stridency of the language' but to the narrowed window of allowed discourse on this and other similar sites (lobste.rs etc) which in turn is most likely related to the fact that most the people frequenting these sites passed through academia and later workplaces populated by similar people who all learned to keep their noses pointed mostly in the same direction even if they privately preferred the view from another side. When you're used to consensus - no matter whether it be true or false consensus - it becomes harder to deal with opposing views. This is one of the reasons why the ideological monoculture which is found in academia and many workplaces is such a negative development (no matter which ideology rules the roost) since it weakens what I for a lack of a better term will call the cultural immune system of its inhabitants who will, just like the biological namesake, start to overreact to the slightest insult (in immunological terms). Just like an under-exercised biological immune system leads to allergies an under-exercised cultural immune system leads to overreactions to normal variations from the established normal.

[1] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Pan_Galactic_Gargle_Blas...
I honestly have stopped bookmarking sites! I can't keep track of them all and found it's easier to just search again
You may also discover a new and better way to solve an old problem.

For most things, build on the work of others, but every now that then, we should check if those "giants" actually found the best solution, so that we may chance direction if we're heading down the wrong path.
Thank you! I’m able to reproduce this now too! I’ll make a fix this weekend!
But just enough cash to only afford an iPhone.

Sent from my Z Fold 6.
No, sqrt(5)*sqrt(16*5)=20. More trivially, there's always a number y such that z = x*y for a given irrational x. You can give similar examples for all the other basic operations.
I integrated the TXR Lisp garbage collector with valgrind. That came in handy on a number of occasions.

It's not always the case that you want special behavior for the garbage collector to assist with debugging, but also this: if you want to use Valgrind to debug anything that does not have to do with the garbage collector, you want all the false positives generated by it out of your way.

Some of the scanning that a conservative garbage collector has to do looks like access errors to Valgrind. By using the Valgrind API, you can grant yourself access to that memory, and then lock it again when done.

That aspect doesn't necessarily apply to a pool allocator being described in this article; that should not be triggering any false positives.
then instead of _expected time_ you should say _hope-for time_ because _expected time_, in this context, is already firmly defined.
lmao yes; specifically Far Cry 3.
Yeah, also sugar was labeled safe years ago.
I agree. In different traditions, it's this realization that there is no separate assembler of thoughts/words (to your point, the problem of who is the assembler of the assembler?) that is a key insight.
The vulnerability was in images parsing, and exploit was distributed by sending an imessage to the target. So don't open any images, and don't read imessages.
They are also known to use browser exploits, so don't visit random websites.

That was sarcasm, in case it's not clear over the internet. Telling people to avoid "suspicious" pdfs/websites is common but ultimately not very useful advice.

The real takeaway is: don't become a target of a nation state intelligence agency. If you own a phone, they can take over it, and there's nothing you can do.
So, that's a "you didn't". Honestly, it looks like you've botched this. Doesn't seem like very good PR for Tempest.
> At least with a pair coding session there's someone there setting the guard rails to keep you within 1h

And then you're still nervous and have to explain your thought process around everything you're doing as you're coding.
Starting from March also sets up a neat pattern that can be used to generate accurate month/day values from day-of-year numbers, IF you number them from zero. You can also go back the other way.

March through July follow a simple two-month cycle of 31 days, followed by 30, repeating at May and July. August breaks the cycle with 31 days, but it essentially restarts, and runs a second five months before it breaks again, at January (the 11th month, since we started from March). The third run obviously runs out after February, ending prematurely, but this doesn't really break the cycle, either. You just restart again with March!

This allows you to write some (relatively) simple conversions using just a few divisors, along with some conversions from 1-based to 0-based numbering, and back. 153 days every five months, 61 every two, and of course 31 for a single month. Divide the remainder from each prior division by the next divisor, and the final remainder is your (0-based) day of the month. The month itself (taking 0 = March) is then the sum of each quotient multiplied by the associated count of months.

Reversing the process, I'll leave to the reader.
I wonder how usable it is in practice?

https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/17mghq3/is_toki_p... claims that once people move away from direct English translations you can convey quite complex concepts, including a presentation on 3D modelling. Has anyone here got any experience with it?
Contemplative LLMs: Anxiety is all you need?
Privacy concerns aside, I don't really understand what the point of this is, to be honest. You can already add family/caregivers as authorized users on a MyChart (Epic) profile, which is an actual source of truth, not a separate data store that you need to update manually.

This seems like a good experiment in building a CRUD app, but I'd recommend doing that with something with less liability.
No. Absolutely not. You will be held legally responsible if you have breaches.
Even just the definition of an Agent (maybe imperfect) made it worthwhile for me.
They didn't even have a control group?!?
Would that not be infringement then? You’re taking their name, branding, reviews, etc and basically presenting them as your own with only a small disclaimer. Does not seem like an amazing choice to release before hearing back from them. Could easily be mistaken as an official browser from the team on a cursory glance
I’m on Team Airgap but I would expect that bringing on dedicated devops staff to maintain internal systems would blow away any cost savings and leave you at higher risk for downtime if the one Linux Wizard you hired to set it all up leaves for greener pastures. At least the SaaSs have a higher bus factor.

And then you have your security risks of duplicating your access control. So you mirror all your employees emails, now you have to make sure only administrators have read access and avoid ever exposing that system to the internet and prevent exfil.

I’m thinking of how to do this for a friends company and the amount of stuff that a SaaS takes care of is staggering. Right now I’m stuck on learning to be my own root CA to distribute client certificates for mTLS so I can avoid relying on third party SSO/auth.
I use regular soda bottles. If I buy a seltzer or soda while I'm out I save the bottle and reuse it with a carbonator cap https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Carbonation-Pressure-Barb%E... Works great, and if I take a bottle to-go when leaving the house, I can toss it in the recycling instead of schlepping it home.
Another nuance that most people don't understand is that there are different levels of "badness."

There's a difference between "cigarettes cause cancer" and "phones cause cancer". The former is very definitely true, confirmed by many studies, and the health impact is very significant. The latter is probably untrue (there are studies that go both ways, but the vast majority say "no cancer"). Even if there's any impact, it's extremely minimal when compared to cigarettes.

People can't distinguish between those two levels of "causes cancer" in a headline.
> The current leading theory is that a build up of amyloid protein is the root cause of this disease

That's ... controversial, a few years ago fraud allegations surfaced [1].

[1] https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/for-researchers/explaining-amy...
Yes but can everyone involved - both the original archeologists who excavated them and the people who bought them - claim ancestry from whatever ancient society made them, or at least the oldest traceable group to have resided on that land? AIUI that is how "stolen" tends to be construed for archaeological things these days.
> 1. The Javascript stops working when printed to physical paper.

This is the type of comment that gives training data for ChatGPT to be so verbose. Ha!
Open-Source Invoice Builder
it's a disgrace that a university administrator makes over a million a year... in a public school to boot
That’s a valid point, and one we’ve carefully considered. The technology behind uBlock Browser is also used to develop private-label browsers for independent software publishers, which could be impacted by open-sourcing. However, we’re open to trusted community members or privacy advocates reviewing the source code under an NDA to ensure transparency and reinforce our commitment to privacy.
Transfer Your Spotify Playlist to YouTube Music
I built a free tool to transfer your Spotify Playlist to YT Music

https://wemor.vercel.app
Shaman: Evaluate the numerical accuracy of a C++ application and locate sources
A "wright of passage", a "craftsperson of passage", someone who facilitates or creates transitions -- like a metaphorical bridge-builder
I didn't think I'd care, but I had the same reaction.
Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
How do you backup your Android?
> Trying to explain grapefruit to my elderly parents is like pulling teeth.

It is not that hard. It is a fruit roughly the same size and appearance as an orange, but more bitter. See! I explained it. :) Joking asside, what are you trying to explain about grapefruit to your elderly parents? Is it the weird way it interacts with certain medicines?
So how evolution works is that a feature needs to have an evolutionary advantage, but the specimen must also not die. So there are two adversarial pressures here, carefully balancing each other in a mammal species that already has one of the highest birth mortality rates of both mother and child. If heads were any larger, it would create a proportional amount of negative evolutionary pressure by both direct and indirect death (of the mother) at birth.

Interestingly, there seem to be some indications showing that human interventions by modern technology already show clear evolutionary trends: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5338417/

Humans might eventually evolve to not even being able to be born naturally anymore at some point.
This is just regular old extortion
Yes that does seem to be the way going forward. Makes it a lot easier to write cross-platform code. Though library code still has to use the Wide Character APIs because it's up to the application as a whole to opt into UTF-8. Also if you're looking for maximal efficiency, the WChar APIs still make sense because it avoids the conversion of all the string inputs and outputs on every call.
If the parties were static sure, but they ebb and flow with the voters. Trumpism came out of seemingly nowhere now the entire GOP is all aboard, it’s effectively a completely different party compared to 10
Years ago.
Would you be kind enough to provide a little more detail on the program that worked for you?
In reality people are trying to put food on their table and they will spend the entire weekend polishing their submission. If you don't follow suit your submission is going to look comparatively bad.

It is different than traveling to a different city for an onsite because you're not wasting your teams time on a candidate unless you think they have a good chance of getting to the end. You have "skin in the game" as they say.

If hiring managers were only issuing homework to candidates already scheduled for a full round of interviews, so interviewers have standardized material to talk about and as a substitute for whiteboarding, it wouldn't be so bad. Instead you mostly get nothing to show for your time and when you do get a round of interviews nobody looks at what you did and wants you to do medium+hard leetcode on the shared screen.
I took a crack at it here that tries to bridge the gap from "autonomous" which is just software to that Agentic autonomy - https://www.aiimpactfrontier.com/p/framework-for-ai-agents
"Keep going" is great advice, but what we're looking at here isn't ready for primetime by any stretch.
Teams won’t display any usernames for an external company that added to me their chat, everyone is Unknown. Maybe misconfig, something to do with cross domain permissions, but it feels buggy and broke.

Excel has some funk around keeping shared files in sync. We set up one spreadsheet where I have read only access so I don’t accidentally delete anything. Turns out when I do make a change, excel creates a locally cached version and stops syncing changes. That took a couple hours of screwing around to figure out, and the solution was to duplicate the spreadsheet with a new name and delete the old one.
But will it also compile when printed out on paper?
Thank you everybody for your comments.

Comments on legal issues: I absolutely agree and 100% plan to get legal advice. In the meantime, if you have personal experience, I would love to learn from you.

Comments on HIPAA: I'm 99% sure this does not apply, since the site is for patients and their families, and no doctors, clinics, hospitals, or insurance companies are involved. All information comes from the family, and stays in the family.

Comments on security: This is a huge issue for me. I've followed best practices as nearly as I can, but I've also been asking around to find out who could do a comprehensive security audit, but haven't yet found anybody I trust. Does anybody have any recommendations on how to find someone?

Comments on terms of use, etc: Yes, this needs to be done, but I figured the terms of use are of no use until there's something to use.

Comments on "novice" and "learning projects": Yes this was absolutely built with love and grand intentions, and no, I'm not a novice. I wrote this because my adult daughter died of cancer recently, and we really could have used this. If I can help others deal with the pain of diseases like this, then I'm going to try. I'll work through the problems as they come up.

Aside from the security audit, I'm also looking for someone who'll do a much more professional design and L&F for the site.

Another issue I can really use advice on is how to show this to the people who need it. People who aren't dealing with the problem right now, aren't interested. How do I reach the maybe 5% to 10% of people who have the need right now?
Yes and ctrl-V in vim would be super awkward.
I am not familiar with with the rules for piercers
and I am certain they are different in different
countries but what from of anaesthetics are they
legally allowed to administer and at what strength?

Or do you just bite down on a bullet?
Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account
Is Gmvault the best way to backup and restore my Gmail account?
How do you know that the authors are novices with "complete blindness" to real consequences? Where are you getting the "find a learning project" goal from?

It sucks that you've been burnt by that before, but it sounds like your employer was the one who screwed you there, not the author of the application.
OK - if it is “employer market” than you as a candidate can suck it up and either stay up all night and finish all three take-homes or pick 1 or 2 of the employers to interview with.

on a side note - if employer does not want to wait and wants to rush the hire chances are you don’t want to work there anyways…
I think this is very bad PR. The author comes off as very unprofessional and petty.

Also, a few years ago, I spent some time drawing mandala patterns on a tablet with Illustrator and rotational symmetry turned on. Most of my drawings would also match the small patterns highlighted as examples, because they are just way too generic. One of the "infringements" is a square area that was divided into top and bottom and then the bottom half was divided into left and right. If you start with a smaller circle and then divide outwards to make the outer circles have roughly the same chunk sizes, you always end up with this type of pattern. It's an artifact of larger circles having a larger circumference, not a design choice worthy of copyright.

Similarly, one of the "infringements" is a ring cut into segments with rotational symmetry. In Illustrator, that's 1 manually placed line between 2 circles. Is a single brush stroke already art? Or is it just a line?

But mostly, I just find it very off-putting that they state their opinion as fact: "Based on Canadian Copyright Laws the Nikken's design is a substantial copy of my work, and my copyright was infringed." ... but they did not win in court and did not collect any damages, or as they say: "The case has not been fully resolved." (which I would read as: they did not even file a case)
Bluesky valued at $700M in new funding round
https://archive.is/XRuOJ
For anyone here struggling with AWS Amplify or AWS CDK - I recently discovered https://sst.dev/ for serverless deployment.

It doesn't solve all problems (tt isn't a CRUD framework) - but it does make the developer experience much better as compared to Amplify.
Private Equity Pull Back from Exotic and Controversial Liquidity Loans
> This platform was never intended to be monetized, and I am not planning to get a lawyer involved as I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end.

Hopefully the Streisand Effect will force them to do the right thing.

I upvoted your LinkedIn post.
It doesn’t look like accessing the llmclient for this is possible for external projects in the latest release, as that example takes advantage of being inside the project. (At least working through the quick start guide).
> I don't really understand what the point of this is, to be honest [...] on a MyChart (Epic) profile

As someone who never heard of either MyChart nor Epic, I'm guessing it could be useful for people like me who don't have those things.
Putting aside all the legal issues, I would like to see more details of what it does before I sign up. Seems like you need to register yourself and then get all your family/carers to register and then link their accounts to yours? There should be some screen shots of the app in action (with dummy data of course).

Shame this is such a legal minefield. I do not think you should put this on GA.
This is not true. I'm not a lawyer, but I am in the healthcare field.

HIPAA very much applies to this type of app or any other type of app that may deal in personally identifying information (PII) related to healthcare.