skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't Chinese scientists recently show a crazy success rate (~90%) of treating advanced Alzheimer/dementia by performing a microsurgery of the neck, allowing brain to dispose accumulated waste?
What are you referring to? Is there anything specific that happened in Marseilles?
Satisfactory is on my list, once I replace my ~10 year old GPU.
>also that since Postgresql 15, you can use `NULLS NOT DISTINCT` when creating a unique index [0]. I'm less familiar with other databases.

Why would anyone want to use another database?
I finally got the tl;dr from https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2019/02-09-prague/pap...

> Invisible XML (ixml) is a method for treating non-XML documents as if they were XML.

Because the rest of it was some navel-gazing and having their example be the BNF of ixml itself for sure didn't help matters
time to leave protonmail and move on
We had a similar discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42627453
> I can't see any reason for a carve out

agenda pushing is a reason. whether you agree with the agenda is an entirely different discussion, but it does not invalidate the reason
I definitely prefer subtitles to be as helpful as possible, yes. That includes having situationally appropriate metadata (which is different from "all the metadata, all the time").

I don't think that's an unrealistic goal to have for AIs; they're already extremely good at semantic scene description after all. By looking at the image in addition to just the audio track they probably also get a lot more metadata, which a refined world model will eventually be able to use just like a human subtitle editor can today.
Matt disbands sustainability team after representative steps down in protest
What’s the purpose of appending ?ref=selfh.st to every outgoing link? Generally you can’t just make up parameters for other people’s websites.
Thanks!

With "gravity keeps us on the ground" I was trying to point out that the word "gravity" to most folks is the same thing as "the thing that keeps us on the ground", it's just a language symbol/shorthand for that concept, so the statement would reduce to A=A, and isn't a meaningful "fact".
My country has a large religious demographic with dumbphones. I'm glad to have them, as I have a smartphone but I'm not about to install an app for banking, an app for charging the car, an app for the supermarket, etc etc.
Waitlists can't be Show HNs, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You should post this when it's ready for people to try.
Yeah the magazine name (and target) would be essential context that should be preserved along with the images themselves.
Underneath this comment is a dead one that should probably not be dead. I don't have the power to vouch for it, so I recommend that person should make a new account to avoid auto-dead.
The sprawling car based American suburbs are actually a result of propaganda and master planning by white supremacists. I find it amusing. That so many people are so sure that so many things are innate without having ever done an ounce of research or investigation into the source of why things are the way they are.

It’s OK to admit that you don’t actually know or maybe that you even have learned something today, but I did actually do a research paper with how and why we came to live in suburbs as a core point of research, and guess what? It was a result of master planned communities by white supremacists and their oil and motor industry buddies.

Most of the best old suburbs in America were built organically through bit by bit demand around street cars, not car cars. Then the motor industry executives and oil industry executives got together and lobby the government to create the crime of jaywalking, to buy up all the street cars and remove them from American cities, to build out the highway system, and to change zoning laws, to encourage if not outright force the building of car dependent American suburbia.

Do not get me wrong streetcar, suburb, designed suburbs are fantastic, walkable compact, wonderful wonderfully tight communities. But today in today’s world this year of our Lord 2025? Today those street car suburbs are urban compared to the car dependent suburban sprawl that we have now.
These Are the Wildest, Weirdest Stock-Market Prices We've Ever Seen
The bit you are missing is that "known to the system" is not enough, as the consumer I need to _verify the logic_, which means that at some level, I do have to read the DSL (just as I have to read the Java, not, in general, the actual assembly emitted by the JIT). Which means that the DSL is actually the product here (though the LLM may make it easier to learn that DSL and in some cases to write something in it).
There are many tools that provide this experience but you then lose some of customization.

Some examples are

Cosmos (https://github.com/azukaar/Cosmos-Server)

Younohost (https://yunohost.org/)

Runtipi (https://github.com/runtipi/runtipi)
Metagene-1: Metagenomic Foundation Model for Pandemic Monitoring
SQL NULLs are not weird once you consider how you want relational logic to work when they is a record with non-existent values.
U.S. Senator Has Questions About Recreation.Gov, Pushes for Investigation
Matt, today:

> Today I learned we had a sustainability team. :) Thank you ... it's probably a good time to officially dissolve the team entirely.

Matt in 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq1SBFzByDw&t=28625s - "Let's open a dedicated Slack channel for the Sustainability Team"
What’ s he bragging about the fact he’s not going to be successful? Or bragging about the fact he can lie?
As far as I know, there are no inherent problems preventing simple installations. You make it sound like there is.
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It does absolutely work both ways, but there's a non-incumbent advantage in that, until an opp emerges all the non-incumbent has to do is attack whereas the incumbent has to defend.
An extreme version is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_writing
Domain-embedded nulls are the bane of my existence.
1 year suspensions are not handed out for first offenses. The guidelines for mods are to give escalating suspensions for 7/30/365 days, so this is most likely at least the third suspension for this user.
You missed the point. It’s a 3 party relationship where both Netflix and the cable company didn’t want to pay to increase capacity to the intermediary transit provider.
Okay, yeah, that’s fine. If people are reacting this way because they’re religiously vegan, that makes sense. I’m not, so the anxiety fish who’s been going to therapy for years is not of any significance.
Aww thanks, you’re making me blush.

But I think the honorific goes to the Dropbox dismissal.
Well, except in this case, don’t they actually want to cut a shot ton maybe even $2 trillion from the budget? This is the kind of lie where Musk doesn’t care and everyone else does but he just said it to get Trump elected. I think Musk wants this, no?
I am not shocked that your ego shut your brain off the second that your suburban identity felt attacked.

I do implore you to attempt to reengage your brain, despite the the mental anguish it will require to actually comprehend what somebody was saying to you when it conflicts with an identity you don’t know that you hold.
> Why are we still talking about this? Computers are INCREDIBLY efficient and still become orders of magnitude more efficient.

Because today is today, and if we can project that the energy consumption of doing a task n times on the client side outweighs the complexity of doing it once and then distributing the result somehow to all n clients, we should arguably still do it.

Sometimes it's better to wait; sometimes it's better to ship the improved version now.

> Computation is really negligible in the grand scheme of things.

Tell that to my phone burning my hand and running through a quarter of its battery for some local ML task every once in a while.
Simplicity. PG is often overkill for simple apps, where MySQL/Maria/et al is easier to maintain, or even SQLite for very simple apps where zero DB maintenance is preferable.
This feels similar to the idea behind cognitive behavioural therapy. Some psychological conditions can be greatly improved by a deliberate and gradual process of re-training how one thinks about things.
Apple used to sell Macs with Intel (integrated), AMD, and Nvidia GPUs. In other departments, they also had multiple vendors and chips. The Apple Silicon transition streamlined the product lines, but before, there were tons of drivers, and macOS had to support all of them for 5+ years after the product release.
You mean that hasn't already happened? What the hell is going on then?
interesting for comparison, tweaking, analysis,..
"climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it" - @PerthshireMags on ex-twitter
The problem is that there's no outside way to tell which 50% is the useless half. It's just like marketing budget.
i believe that what worked for your generation isn't as sure a thing for my generation, and building various small revenue streams is a better approach.

100% this.

this is how i see it from my point of view as a younger person observing the world around me and where i fit in

GODSPEED mate - you are on the right track
Maybe the insecurity of the city since he mentions the evening? Hardly somethings specific to mathematicians tho. It's seems like a weird AI-generated rant.
You and me, brother. I pray this every day. But I’m still gonna eat the fish, and may the day never come that our roles are reversed.
Thousands is nothing, maybe the code should be written and tested more carefully?
But doesn’t that still call into question the notion of “definability” as a property of a number? If I invent an axiomatic system called “ZFC + Chaitin's constant is c” does that make Chaitin’s constant any more definable than it was before?
"Work for us or we'll keep you locked up for 3 years longer than if you did" isn't really volunteering - more like extortion.
The NULLs in unique constraints quirk actually works differently in ORACLE databases, which is infuriating to say the least. Apparently this comes from some ambiguity in some sql standard, anyone know more about this?
They tried it on 6 people and found "slight improvements" after 5 weeks, with no control group to compare to and no longer term effects known yet.

- https://gpsych.bmj.com/content/37/3/e101641

Certainly seems worth investigating but I wouldn't call it a crazy success yet.
> (to what degree exactly I’m not sure but it seems like the right thing to do)

It doesn't help them very much, or at all. If you want to support them, you can pay them.
> It seems it is only a misnomer if you are too young to remember how these types of applications used to be written. They weren't always servers. In the early days they were subprocess modules[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface

No, it's even worse a misnomer when you are old enough to remember these days. They were CGI modules... running under a server. They were not "without a server". They didn't work without a server.

And in these days, we did have plenty of applications without any server. For instance, desktop applications using local in-process databases were very common, and plenty of what people nowadays do within their browser (connecting to a remote server on the other side of the world) was instead done using these local-only desktop applications. These applications are what could legitimately claim the moniker of "serverless". Not something which can only work when under the control of a server.
Most of them are OSS so you could make a real impact if you spearheaded this! Some buy-in on some sort of standardized install process from the top projects could go a long way if you decide to pursue.

I’ve had enough success with using docker images (lots of projects provide them) that I don’t feel the pain acutely, but there certainly is some bespoke fiddling with every one. To me that’s part of the self-hosting experience, but I know plenty of people that don’t self host because of it, can’t blame them.
> It's not the iPhone, it's just a recent, fancy phone versus an out-of-date or cheap one.

They compared high end Android phones and they were still slower than any iPhone that has been introduced in the past three years.

In the US, 70% of users own iPhones. They are all faster than any Android phone if bought in the last three years.
Musk wants power and control, everything else is a means to accomplish that.
Exactly this. SQL is based on the relational algebra and that's well-defined, NULL along with other features of SQL work in an entirely regular and predictable way. The only time it's weird is when a developer decides that it should work the way Javascript (or whatever) NULLs work because that's the last time they saw the same word used in a programming language, in which case it's the assumption that's weird.
I would be really shocked if that part actually happened. Major state universities don’t blackmail random students to write software for them. They make RFQs and send them to companies. There’s a software procurement process. 0 chance some person in the registrars office is taking this persons code off github and deploying it to UW production.
No, not at all - it means that the power of the people to vote their choice is alive and well - that doesn't mean we're putting good candidates up, or that people underestimate the difficulty of wholesale systemic change - it just means we can vote for who we choose.
Nothing in life is deterministic. That doesn't preclude things having meaning.
Consider the liability to which a bad security guard can expose your organization! Not that pay guarantees quality but still
Ask HN: Is HN a right place for links to handmade web?
I posted a link to our website, which was created in 2024 without JS, CSS, or inline styles. Personally, I find this interesting because the website looks fairly normal, and this was achieved through a dozen HTML hacks that most developers don't know these days.

I believed such handmade web would align with the HN community, and someone even upvoted the post before it was flagged.

So, my question is, why wasn't HN the right place for such post?
That's very interesting.

Incidentally that slide deck mentions the pi zero - which is still very cheap (the 2w is about $20 where I live), so I guess they're still honouring that even if their fancy one is pricy-ish.

Edit: I also found this article from before the original pi release https://hackaday.com/2011/05/06/miniature-pc-packs-a-big-pun...

The comments in that thread are very focused on the price point (many doubting it could hit $25, which it actually did reach) so I stand corrected; it was clearly part of both the marketing and the attraction.
Here is an open source framework that my company makes that I think meets your requirements:

https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py

You can build your software as a monolith and deploy it with one command to your own cloud or our cloud.
AOC is not in charge of government spending. Congress members have not meaningfully capped government spending for decades now.

So it’s not “categorically wrong” and it’s petty good evidence that those degrees are useless for actually controlling government spending.
Hmm, which one do more doctors use?
"Much crisper"

You must have exceptional eyesight.
Pretty much every schools uses staggered registrations to allow upper class men or even athletes the ability to get classes they need.
oh wow this is very cool, I can't wait to use it!

Does this work with mods?
It worked okay at first but seemed to start just giving me answers again after a few questions. This was ChatGPT for reference. I might try something again now that they have "Projects" where you can define a prompt which sticks to the entire project.

The idea was to use ChatGPT as debugging ducky 2.0
Ask HN: Which SVG icon library are you using and why?
Is there some way of having a backup for relatively short outages like this on a single domain? From what I understand DNS entries for mail and mail security block quickly switching providers temporarily right?
I've been frustrated by his writing in the past few years. He asks big questions, but is surprisingly small-minded with the answers.

Feels like he found a formula for churning out thinkpieces:

- find an interesting topic

- make a simplified model of the issue

- solve the simplified model

- discover reality conflicts with the model (optional)

- ignore reality

- declare victory
That's interesting - I believe this is exactly how Sequelize implements soft-deletion.
You'll get no argument from me on higher ed misspending the majority of their funds. You could remove 80% of all US higher ed administration from the workforce forever and I'm convinced there would be no noticeable negative impact on the economy. IMO it's one of the careers with the largest gap between how important the people in it think they are vs. how much of a real impact they actually have.

I was just pointing out that there are two competing reasons why classes end up with long waitlists or people who graduate having never had the chance to take them so it's not a simple "Do _________" and it's fixed.
Hackers are exploiting a new Ivanti VPN security bug to hack company networks
Whoa, good to know that Henri Cohen was involved in this story.

He is the co-creator of PARI/GP, the algorithmic number theoretic C library that I used for my thesis (https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/) as well as four books in Springer's Graduate Texts in Mathematics (GTM 138, 193, 239 and 240 - most mathematicians achieve fame with just one book in this series).
Huh? Did you comment this in reply to something other than what you intended to reply to?
Introducing “unknown” feels like another kind of hell like undefined in JavaScript.
In pre-scientific societies, "let's just murder a bunch of people and see if it helps" seems to be a surprisingly common way of handling all kinds of things. Google "Children of Llullaillaco" for an absolutely heartbreaking example of this.
Hi Dan - is there an email to reach out to you? I saw your posting on another platform and applied already. I'd love to discuss the role more.
Google 'Daily Listen' is a personalized podcast based on Discover
Expecting a developer with 4 YoE to be able to handle a messy legacy codebase by themselves is a suboptimal business decision I’d say.
Wow, they even used the accurate term "crackers", I feel so old.
Games need to be recompiled for it, but several such as Beat Saber have been.

If they’re on Unity or Unreal Engine, etc, I hear it’s trivial.

And the killer app is video, not spreadsheets, though I’m sure it’s the best headset for that if that is your jam.

The movie watching on it is better than my 65 inch OLED tv.
Cute. First thing I did though was to see if moving my mouse or clicking affected it. Doesn't seem to, please add that!
It's a great language... That was quickly overshadowed by Rust.

Rust is significantly more difficult, but faster and has more hype.

I would love Go that has been optimized to beat Rust. It's actually a really easy language I wouldn't mind working in. Feels like someone made Python you can complie.v
Bad connections deserve more attention. Slower devices too, but at least they get some attention even if too many people ignore them. The amount of code that can’t handle brief transient network errors is crazy and I hardly see it discussed. You don’t have to be in the middle of nowhere, either. I’m in dense suburbs, with gigabit fiber and pretty fast 5G, and apps will still fall apart if I’m using them while I walk away from my house as the device tries to decide if the weakening WiFi signal justifies switching to cellular yet.
(made in 2015, I should add)
My wife said that in Eastern Europe in the 80s and early 90s it was common to go to a "record shop" and give a certain list of songs that the owner of the shop, who was just someone with access to some records, a record player and a cassette recorder, would copy to a cassette for a fee. This was the only way to get western music, and there were most certainly no copyright laws at all that would have regulated that.

Edit: I asked my wife for details and there was an actual shop offering this service, but they got their cassettes from another guy who was married to a stewardess. She brought CDs back from her trips abroad, and he made a business copying the CDs to cassettes and selling them. Eventually he got in trouble with an organized crime group who had learned that he was making good money and wanted a share of it. This was in the early 90s in Sofia/Bulgaria.
I'm a Commodore guy, but there is one thing I've always envied about Atari ST owners. No, not the MIDI interface. The ST just looks so damn good. To me, it's still a high point in industrial design.
You don't need to do anything with the flags. You can just mmap a huge virtual area and the pages will be realized whenever you first touch them.
A Tragedy of Julia's Type System
1) You don't need to read the DSL in the raw form if you use a language model to convert it to a few paragraphs in natural language.

2) You can test the created workflow on a bunch of test data to verify it works as intended. After a workflow is created, it's deterministic (since we don't use LLMs anymore for decision making), so it will always work the same.

Sure we can expose DSL to power users as an option, but is reading the raw DSL really required for the majority of cases?
Proton's target audience are folks who care about privacy and at least a few bits of anonymity. Using your own domain will make you stand out like a sore thumb across all services you sign up to.
If it's ML you want, you should check out Math Academy.

They have courses on linear algebra and mathematics for machine learning.

No certificates, but you can always demonstrate your mastery in interviews.

You can always build a project as well.
Yes, but is one allowed to move a pointer inside it as they see fit? On a one-dimensional array, one can iterate through it starting with a pointer pointing to the first element and ending with a pointer pointing one position past the last element (which the user is not allowed to dereference). For multidimensional arrays, the element type is an array too (with a smaller rank than the original one), so one could perform that type of iteration with a pointer to an array. My question is whether a pointer to the underlying scalar type can freely move inside the multidimensional array without UB, since it may have to actually leave the array it was originally part of. If that's not allowed, how could one build slices and other view types?
We know the solution - just give those people homes - but we don't want to do it because building homes makes them abundant and devalues existing homes.
Just the usual stuff, unfortunately.

Given how chaotic people are, it's remarkable that millions of us working together isn't invariably a constant raging dumpster fire, and instead is only a bit of smoke here and there that sometimes flares up a bit.
They are deterministic at 0 temperature
Also the 40th anniversary of the Amiga (year at least, not sure on month)! Happy anniversary to all.
Everybody faces this dilemma: work for the job or face worse consequences. You can spin it negative if you like. What alternative is there to this? Not let anybody reduce their sentence with public service, to serve some armchair philosopher's notion of what's 'extortion'?