skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A significant source of declining iodine levels in humans can also be traced to increased bromide found in food and medications. Most notably potassium iodate was used as a bread conditioner until the 1950s when it was substituted for potassium bromate. [0]

Excess bromide levels displace the iodide stored in the thyroid and is a contributing factor to the described increase of groiter. Bromide also has the added drawback of increased cancer risk and has now been banned in California [1] [2].

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3916868/

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20131203041405/http://www.oehha....
Hi, I'm not sure if you've saw it but not only is the battery is close to dead but the charging is super slow and it struggles to work plugged in. So I cannot use it well. The only option will to get a new phone, but it's been taking a toll on me.

I am not looking to be a charity case. I'm just flustered at what Google did. Something that never happened in history, without warning, ending my phone.
> The way this is intended to be addressed in free markets is through competition

"Free market competition" is an ideological construct. Collectively (and sometimes even personally), we can't "go work somewhere else" - and we certainly can't not-work at all. Moreover, if an "employer sucks", it may suck in multiple ways - environmental impact, social impacting where it operates, impact of its products and services on society etc. None of that changes even if you do go "work something else". What's necessary is improving things, not finding another 'stall' in the 'market'.

> This has been happening increasingly in the US because corporations capture the government,

The government exists to serve the interests of property owners, and more so, the larger ones - enforcing the social order and protecting their minority control of economic forces, the means of producing and distributing goods and services, from the rest of surrounding society.

Capture by certain corporation is an attempt to tug at that common blanket to favor them specifically rather than keep the system somewhat stable and functional.
> A bunch of ML researchers who were initially hired to do quant work

Very interesting! I'm sure you have a source for this claim?

This myth of DS being a side project literally started from one tweet.
DeepSeek the company is funded by a company whose main business is being a hedge fund, but DeepSeek itself from day 1 has been all about building LLM to reach AGI, completely independent.

This is like saying SpaceX is the side-project of a few caremaking bros, just because Elon funded and manages both. They are unrelated.

Again, you can easily google the name of the authors and look at their background, you will find people with PhD in LLM/multimodal models, internships at Microsoft Research etc. No trace of background on quant or time series prediction or any of that.

From the mouth of the CEO himself 2 years ago: "Our large-model project is unrelated to our quant and financial activities. We’ve established an independent company called DeepSeek, to focus on this." [0]

It's really interesting to see how after 10 years debating the mythical 10x engineer, we have now overnight created the mythical 100x Chinese quant bro researcher, that can do 50x better models than the best U.S. people, after 6pm while working on his side project.

[0]: https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-from-hedge-fund-to-fr...
That is not correct.

Earthquakes' energy doesn't all go to displacing water and hence generating tsunamis. An ocean impact is significantly more efficient at transferring energy into tsunamis.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B97804...
Seems like a nice optimization problem when you are at these CapEx scales.
> Headphone jacks in phones are (sadly) gone forever i'm afraid.

Maybe from Google phones, for now? Possibly on smaller phones. But Best Buy sells 7 models with 5g and a headphone jack. There's almost certainly more if you shop a retailer with more variety, using Best Buy because they have decent filtering.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?_dyncharset=UTF-...
This sounds like they were going for a Roslyn analogue (using Dart to generate Dart the same way Roslyn uses C# to generate C#). Definitely a big time investment.

It's a big bite to chew, but I think Roslyn has paid big dividends.
how many people in the world are used to deploying external client facing applications?
I killed my reply because it was repetitive with my other reply and not well thought out in hindsight.

But I will agree that Amazon is a services platform internally and externally.

But Amazon for the most part doesn’t run on AWS either and never at any point has Amazon Retail (CDO) and AWS shared any underlying architecture not even to the point that another commenter here who worked at Google described about GCP. Some of the new initiatives might. But AWS treats Amazon Retail as a customer and I heard ruminations that AWS Commercial Professional Services (the consulting division) even got involved with Amazon Retail projects or migrations.

I worked in the public sector division of ProServe (WWPS).
Launch from the sky?
My guess is that small objects like this suffer greatly from the 3-body problem, and multiple trajectories are generated from various starting points inside our measured error bars for the current states of these objects. Small inaccuracies compound over the years.
It is great, rock solid streaming. Money well spent.
I've found I have at least 75% success with the following strategy:

* if at any point the rat king becomes visible (directly or via using the warlock scroll to identify all other 5s), activate it as soon as possible

* don't worry about leaving 1 and 2 enemies for the endgame; there's 16HP worth of walls to play with. (do however worry about leaving 1 and 2 enemies for the immediate following turn)

* if you can figure out where the warlock is, use it as one of your 1s

* make your 5 out of as many small numbers (known or constrained) as possible, even if this means not leaving a certain combination that makes 6.

* if you know "these squares must add up to N", clicking one of them is better than clicking a known N, and clicking a known N on the perimeter is better than clicking a known N that won't reveal any knowledge to you.

(for example, in a game I just started, revealed enemies are 21333 2467, but I have 16=2+4+6 + three unknowns, so I start there)

* aggressively expand toward areas with known 0s, you might get the ?gnome or a treasure chest containing XP (the mimic is no threat if you're paying attention and deal with gazers)

* whenever you use a scroll of HP, always do one that will reveal new information

* if you find the scroll of orb, use it immediately only if it's the very beginning of the game; otherwise leave it until you're lacking information and don't have any suspected 0s (if you have "100" next to 2 squares, it might choose that instead of a more useful 0 elsewhere on the map)

* work towards at least 3 of the corners so that you can kill the lich as soon as you reach 11HP. But before activating the scroll, make sure to flag (or at least constrain the position of) as many mines as you can . It's really annoying that this game "maybe" flagging (and yet, it has a useless 9).

* do not click on any walls until the endgame unless you don't know/suspect where any 1s are and you have only 1HP left

* remember that cells near the center can only be 0-7 or 10. The fact that 8s are only near the edge and there are no 9s often constrains how a large number is formed.

* with mines you have an extra level of logic, so very often you can constrain what nearby numbers are
So before .NET Core 1.0. In 2015 C# still mainly targeted only MS platforms (ignoring Mono) and didn't have mentioned features yet.

I know that Dart started as an alternative to JS, but it seems like JS target is now (unnecessarily) limiting Dart language in a way. I would be nice to be able to use lists of structs or a proper uint64 when needed. As a language it needs to expand in both directions to compete: high level productivity features and low level performance features. It has potential, but it's not there yet.

If Dart would find more use cases besides Flutter, it would make more sense to invest in its ecosystem.
Europe and Russia were the ones killing each other and destroying each others' economies. So yeah I guess they did the "heavy lifting".
With you on the bailing out and tax breaks. Mass layoffs though? That's an appropriate response to being uncompetitive.
Can dog understand numbers like 1237124? Or email like whereistimbo@outlook.com?
How many people in the world drink coffee? I don't understand your question.
> For Microsoft to say "We're going to tie you up in lawsuits about the way you trained this model" would be perfectly expected and they can use that strategy because at any given time they have 1,000 lawyers and lobbyists hanging around waiting to do exactly that. But OpenAI can't do that. They don't have Google or Microsoft's legal teams or lobbyists or distribution channels.

I think it's also hilarious that suppose they can do that then they will end up suppressing innovation within the US, and eager groups in China would just innovate without having to worry about this hostile landscape.
Isn't this huge news? How come it was little to no attention?

Update: There is more discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42853741
If it says “Failed to activate the license key” is it because I was too slow and there's already been 1000 redeems?

Gosh, I saw this with 2 points!
probably because there's a free OSS equivalent to most software.
The free equivalent to meeting up with friends/developers is a zoom call, and those suck.
Hey Chinese Communist Party, would you like to read my email ?
Dumb question, but it would then seem that you have to know English to program??
It's a bit deceptive that o3 conveniently had access to ARC-prize-specific training material while r1 probably didn't. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42763231
This is why we saw the market correction, because the AI hegemony has been cracked.
super excited about the potential for native gui apps
> the implication is at deep seek is somehow special and is getting undue attention from hackers

... It is special.

There was over a trillion dollars wiped from tech stocks lol, in a massive win for consumers and the planet. You can't say this is like Flappy Bird or something.
Why would that make a difference? You're not connecting to tmobile's network directly, you're connecting to starlinks, they're just routing traffic as part of their deal. It's effectively a glorified proxy service.
Read the article "As Mitchell explains, it can’t bend the laws of physics to make data travel faster than the speed of light, but it can reduce the extra delays in the middle that have been slowing your connections down."

Your latency issues aren't due to the speed of light
The files aren't the only issues, it's that now I have to buy a new phone for no reason. It was working perfectly. I can't even buy a used Pixel 4a as all the phones now have the update of death.
What is the price on Azure?
> Instead of blaming all your problems on an external entity like Google

But it's not his fault. I can easily empathize with how he's feeling.

Power bank probably doesn't work well because the update limits charging speed.

What if he doesn't have money for buying a new phone? Also, transferring files via cloud storage can be a non-trivial process, especially for a non-technical person.
They aren’t actually getting the dataset though.
We have that now, DeepSeek just proved it.
There's a list of probes and telescopes that have been sent to the L1 and L2 points:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrange_po... -- This includes Nasa's Genesis and Goresat, ESA's SOHO, and ISRO's Aditya.
> Not to me confused with the Soviet shoe factories that produced only one type and orientation of shoe - with the other half of the pair being shipped in from 500 miles away.

This reminded me of something our anti-counterfeiting startup learned when integrating into manufacturing for a high-end outdoor apparel brand.

There are efficiencies that the factory gets by, say, parallelizing work on the sleeves of a jacket, while other parts are also worked on. But each batch of dyed outer material may have slight variation in color, no matter how hard they calibrate.

So, their processes are designed to ensure that, when the jacket pieces come together, they all came from the same dyed batch of outer material.

(There were many interesting tidbits like that, and those were just the ones relevant to us, in terms we could understand. I'm sure the factory also knew a million other things.)

Probably the Soviet shoes of TFA had worse problems than slightly mismatched color.
I don't think we should discount it as such, but given there's no evidence for it, yet plenty of evidence that they trained this themselves surely we can't seriously entertain it?
And if they ask him again, he’s going to take Scotland.
I think it is both an egregious example of the "farm this to craft this to farm this..." gameplay loop and that other aspects of the gameplay are too shallow to hold it up once you get bored of the crafting and building loop. And I say this as a fan of the game lol
This was exactly the same in the dotcom bubble. Like exactly the same.
Plenty of games still being modded, even multiplayer, have you looked? And is no problem even in multiplayer as long as server enforces which mods are enabled.

GTA 5 RP mod is big, Arma series are very bare bone games where modders created scenarios and game types. Both pubg and dayz comes from arma 2 mods.

Steam Workshop has made it easier than ever before, no need to run 3rd party launchers or visit a number of sketch websites to get your mods.
They use their terms of service as both a sword and a shield here. It's a little bit ridiculous.
You're back to the false dichotomy. In effect, you're saying one can either hate the genre or love NMS. But those aren't the only possible positions. One can love the genre while thinking NMS is a bad example of it, and this is where most of the criticisms of NMS actually come from.

Imagine someone watches a football match, and then they say that it was a 'bad game'. They're not saying the very game of football is bad. They're not a football 'hater'. They're saying this particular match was bad. There's an obvious difference.

It isn't required for a game to have literally 0 players or 0 fans in order for it to qualify a bad game - that's a silly standard (and another false dichotomy).

NMS is not a bad game because I'm a 'hater' who doesn't like the genre, NMS is a bad game because it is - for the reasons I allude to in my earlier post - a bad game. This is not a reflection on the worth of the devs, it's just an unfortunate, but factual, state of affairs. I think if the same devs make another game, with the lessons learnt from NMS, it will likely be a better game.

I also think ten years of effort spent improving a game from 'terrible' to 'bad' is not a good use of ten years. Ten years is a very long time. You can count how many of those you will ever see on your fingers.
The subtext was probably "Even among professional programmers, few know what it takes to safely expose a new system to the public internet."
I have to wonder – are they using a connection pooler? I'm leaning towards no, since what they did in code can be natively done with PgBouncer, PgCat, et al. That would also explain the last footnote:

> The big bottleneck is all the active connections

For anyone who is unaware, Postgres (and Aurora-compatible Postgres, which sucks but has a great marketing team) uses a process per connection, unlike MySQL (and others, I think) which use a thread per connection. This is inevitably the bottleneck at scale, long before anything else.

I did feel for them here:

> We couldn’t create a blue-green deployment when the master DB had active replication slots. The AWS docs did not mention this. [emphasis mine]

The docs also used to explicitly say that you could run limited DDL, like creating or dropping indices, on the Green DB. I found this to be untrue in practice, notified them, and I see they've since updated their docs. A painful problem to discover though, especially when it's a huge DB that took a long time to create the B/G in the first place.
I think that's what most people want: a tool that behaves like a reliable butler, not another headache in their life. Unless they enjoy headaches, then sell them rebellious teen AGIs.
No, I did not claim that it was purposeful. But they did leave their DB open to the internet without a password. And that seems really negligent.
I just wish they had a smaller offering than the SE.
(But seemingly this is the case for everyone nowadays.)
See also VO2 max
>>> and one fears they'd use other users' computers as exit nodes

>> This is already standard practice for commercial VPN providers

> I know those freebie VPNs do that, but many commercial providers are still sane.

True. There are free VPN apps that rope their users into a residential proxy net. The combined userbase is sold to bad actors as a residential proxy service.

This is not what major VPN providers like Mullvad, OVPN or even Nord do.

The first two have a good reputation. Nord, not so much. However, for all it's faults, Nord is no bad actor - they're not in the same category as a ResProxy seller.
This is the kind of thing I love HN for. Great tip!
The nexus 5x had a major bootlooping issue.
> I should add, for context, that my friend and I are talking about writing beautiful essays here. If you want to write the most precise thing possible, you need to edit mercilessly and accept that the writing ends up flat and disjointed.

I don't think that merciless editing and beauty are opposed. The author perhaps underestimates the extent to which artists mercilessly edit their own work. The author employs the metaphor of musical improvisation, but the best musical pieces are usually composed, not improvised. I like jazz, but... not for the songwriting. For stream of consciousness writing, you'd almost be better off posting on social media.

I've been blogging for over 15 years, and my advice, admittedly ironic, is to not take advice from anyone. Actually, that's my advice on many subjects. Everyone wants to impose their own little idiosyncrasies on you, but what works for them won't necessarily work for you. One's idiosyncrasies are not universal truths.
https://archive.ph/3ZOa9
The last release of ST3 was in 2019 [1], 2 years before the first stable release of ST4. It is dead.

[1]: https://www.sublimetext.com/3
So what?

Seriously. Given how pretty much all this software was trained, who cares?

I, for one, don't and believe the massive amount of knowledge continues to be of value to many users.

And I find the thought of these models knowing some things they shouldn't very intriguing.
Ask HN: A custom AI agent for a website?
I'd like some of my online tasks to be automated. What tools are available today to build a custom agent for a website?
What would the cost of allowing random landing page generation be? Alternatively, an examples/showcase page could be useful in presenting the value proposition before potential user commits.
Hard to really have any sympathy for OpenAI's position when they're actively stealing content, ignoring requests to stop then spending huge amounts to get around sites running ai poisoning scripts, making it clear they'll still take your content regardless of if you consent to it.
Claude will also often refer to itself as ChatGPT. This is not a 'China' problem.
The AFNIC (manager of the .fr TLD) website is currently an Apache2 default page
Parametric Retrieval Augmented Generation
I am backing up data, or trying my best to. It's just now I have to buy a new phone because Google can't help me even though they said they would. I don't keep everything on the cloud, not something I trust.
The Cost of Being Invisible: Dis-Inclusion's Toll on Neurodivergent Employees
> There won't be progress on inflation until after the deficit comes down.

> […] https://epicforamerica.org

If these guys are so worried about deficits, why are they pushing for expanding tax cuts that make the deficits worse with articles like "Lawmakers Must Preserve and Expand the 2017 Tax Cuts":

* https://epicforamerica.org/federal-budget/lawmakers-must-pre...

US outflows ("spending") relative to GDP is coming down to historical levels (~20%):

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S

And yet the deficit relative to GDP is getting worse:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSGDA188S

It's inflows (income) that's the problem, i.e., not enough tax revenue.
I have to ask: so what? Most of the stuff here is rather specific to the test suite conflicting with security or features and does not adversely users or developers who care about UNIX behavior (SIP is really the only thing that may get in the way, but anyone who cares can disable it). For example, the fact that spotlight might update file access times is presumably not itself a violation of the UNIX standard, it's just something the test suite isn't expecting. The weirdest thing here is the uucp stuff, but that's an obsolete and rather dead technology so I see no reason to complain about macOS not giving those binaries the setuid bit, especially when the workaround so trivial.
Stopping at a stop sign isn't just stopping at a stop sign. The way you pull up to it conveys a rough picture of your intentions to other drivers, or at least the ones that are on the ball. Good drivers actively time their arrival to avoid potential confusion with other traffic.
Have _you_? It lost its novelty after a couple of days.
I think you're under-estimating the amount of pointer chasing that lots of types of code has to do. B-Tree traversal for filesystems, mark loops for garbage collection, and sparse graph traversal are all places where you're doing a lot of pointer chasing.
In case it bears mentioning, the rationale behind this was that the migration from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X was complex, and needed to be justified. Establishing OS X as more stable than Mac OS 9 was an important argument for that push.

"Mac OS X is more stable!"

"How stable is it?"

"Well, it's built on top of an established workhorse or something you've never heard of!"

"Gosh! Take my $129!"
I'm happy that the new metric is sensor size. A bit of an upgrade in metric that mildly correlates to picture quality.
I'm glad you're fond of Sublime Text.

Personally I'm totally sold on 'Vim' I have lsp through 'YouCompleteMe', which works great for C-languages, and I have Automatic update of tags with 'GutenTagsPlus', And I also use 'c-scope', 'Git' and 'Id-utils', and I have 'ulti-snips' which I probably use too little. So yeah, this and the GCC toolchain, is pretty much the ultimate for me, and I have tried a lot of Editors through the years.
thats great -- what TPS were you getting? github: https://github.com/sdan/r1-web
A lot? They can go scoop up people from any number of SaaS startups or hire an external 3rd party to do a security audit.

We're not talking some poor college students here.
I've avoided Pyright explicitly for that reason. I have a severe dislike of Node, and don't want it installed on my computer for any reason. I'm aware that this is a self-limiting position.

Anyway, agreed that this is very exciting news. Poetry was great, and then I found uv. It's... wow. It's really good.
Major version upgrades occasionally break things because they're a new feature release but are then trying to migrate configuration from the existing system. But the same thing happens with "atomic" upgrades if you're trying to migrate existing configuration, because the bug is really in the migration system that didn't properly handle that configuration variance, not because the packages aren't upgraded atomically. Which is why phones sometimes do break on major version upgrades for the same reason.
It cannot be fixed now. It would break thing.