skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're being downvoted, but I think it's a really good question.

We eat and breathe all sorts of stuff that comes in nano-sized particles. We've been inhaling smoke from cooking fire, eating plant matter crushed between rocks rubbing against each other, drinking water with dissolved bits of all sorts of things, and so forth for many millenia now.

The body seems to have mechanisms to clear most of this stuff out of us over time, no? Isn't our body chock-full of waste products from our cells that are constantly getting flushed out? Is there any reason to think that nanoplastics would be different?
Most to all I agree. I disagree with monoliths and microservices. I am not a fan of microservice per se but I'm not a fan of monoliths either. I certainly prefer a mix depending on their use cases. However both designs deserve equal scrutiny.

My monolith horror started when I was working with Ruby developers. The problem with a monolith is when it becomes too big for itself. Realistically something between microservices and monoliths are where quality of life resides.

If you need a small service that needs to be fast and focused microservice it. If you need a service where it relies heavily on the same logic and shared across many things. As long as it is performant, modular and easy to fix, monolith it.

Either way conforming to one design certainly cripples the potential of services.
I feel that, can't play something new if trying to focus, but if doing chores/physical task can do new music passively in the background
Does 'throwaway519' live in NYC?
Doubtful.

What 'throwaway519' doesn't know, because they don't work in an NYPD precinct, is that most subway crime is not reported, and if it is reported, it is downgraded, or outright dismissed. When a crime is committed and the suspect gets a DAT, once they have completed 6 months without another offense, the crime is deleted from the reported crime numbers. How do I know this? 14 years on the job in Manhattan--and I've never seen it this bad. We get 150 complaints a day at my precinct for Subway crime. 147 crimes... What. a. joke.
Wrong, In my observation, common people in most 3rd world countries (but not all) are corrupt, lack ethics, are lazy, often stupid etc. Examples: Mexico, most African countries, China etc. Govt. are universally corrupt regardless of how developed the nation is, though they will vary to the degree to which they are corrupt.

We are taking common everyday interactions: small businesses, deals, trade, customer service etc. Americans by far ( and so would citizens of other first world nations) are relatively superior culturally when it comes to everyday interactions.
Vehemently disagree. I get that go's conventions line up with your own, but when they don't, it's irritating. For example, Dart is finally coming around on the "tall" style (https://github.com/dart-lang/dart_style/issues/1253). But why should people be forced to wait for a committee (or some other lofty institution) to change a style convention that then effects everyone using the language? What's the harm in letting people write their code in the "tall" style beforehand? Why must the formatter be so insistent about it?
I work in healthcare domain, We've had great success converting printed lab reports (95%) to Json format using 1.5-Flash model. This post is really exciting for me. will definitely try out 2.0 models.

The struggle which almost every ocr usecase faces is with handwritten documents(doctor prescriptions with bad handwriting) With gemini 1.5 flash we've had ~75-80% percent accuracy (based on random sampling by pharmacists). we're planning to improve this further by fine-tuning gemini models with medical data.

What could be other alternative services/models for accurate handwriting ocr?
That’s still an expense even if they didn’t pay. Same as when you bill a customer, it’s considered revenue even if they didn’t pay. They probably have cash flow issues since it reached the lien stage.
I read on and off, have a kindle, read through the whole Bobiverse series for ex
the mortality rate is significantly higher
Wikipedia says:

The shrew is between 8.9 and 10 centimetres (3.5 and 3.9 in) long[4] and weighs 4–5 grams (0.14–0.18 oz).[5] It has 32 teeth.[4]

Must be a mistake on both?!? No way its got less that 5 ccs of blood in a 9-10 cm long body.
Where’d you get the idea that we made the area expensive? It was already expensive. Then crime went down 36%.
Yes. She's very serious about it.
You‘re describing yesterdays world. With the advancement of AI, there is no need for any of these many steps and stages of OCR anymore. There is no need for XML in your pipeline because Markdown is now equally suited for machine consumption by AI models.
We don't have iPhones. We ditched Apple a long time ago.
Chinese rival overtakes Tesla as Britain turns against Musk
"We then watched the burglar walk into the room with the DVR and our cameras went out"

I must congratulate you on not using a cloud service for registering your surveillance videos. On the DVR note, mine is on the ceiling above a TV. Cables come down a short height to the TV.

"One time the burglar was still inside (we let the police know this) and we watched the cop checked the door (locked) and left"

Didn't the police take your key to unlock the door?
Show HN: Former – Open-source Cursor for SQL
Hey everyone, Elliott and Matty here. We’ve built Former, an open source AI-first SQL Editor. The repo is available at https://github.com/former-labs/former and our home page is https://formerlabs.com/.

We built Former to provide an AI-first development environment for working with data. We’ve seen incredible applications of AI to the software engineering space with Cursor, Windsurf, and others, but we believe that focussing on a product just for data teams is needed for their unique workflows. Former is starting as a full SQL editor experience with an embedded AI that has all the context needed for accurate SQL generation.

We currently support Cursor features like Cmd+K (inline AI edit) and Cmd+L (AI chat with apply). It’s true, Cursor is already useful for writing SQL, but our advantage is in providing context and functionality specific to the data domain, which we believe will enable us to eventually build something far more powerful for data teams than Cursor.

In the long term we see room for an AI coworker that helps you complete all of your data analyst/engineer tasks, but “Cursor for SQL” seems like a good start.

Security is obviously a major consideration for a product that tries to combine AI and data. After speaking to dozens of data analysts and engineers, we found there is a wide spectrum from people who aren't even allowed to use AI at work, to people who will happily send the contents of their entire database to OpenAI. We settled on a middle ground of sending SQL + DB schema to 3rd party AIs, but a privately hosted AI is easy to setup for someone who doesn't want to have anything leave their own infrastructure.

You can access the source code (MIT Licence) and self-host at https://github.com/former-labs/former

We would love any raw feedback. We'd especially love to know what is required to have you start using this tool in your daily workflow. Let us know what you think!

Discord for direct feedback/contact: https://discord.gg/f9evejUUfa
The rival: BYD
The whole idea is to the same or more done with fewer people.

According to that hypothesis, it won't require more funding.
So entering the subway gives you a 1 in 4 chance of being at a station that had one crime reported that month. I’m shaking in my boots here!

I’d guess this is astronomically lower than the chances of witnessing 100 car drivers violating the law on your way to work.
+1 for Firefox on Linux. Several other services (like Instagram) now also accuse me of being a bot every time I legitimately log in with Firefox on Linux.
> Why do you exclude HN from your list? It is literally social media

I didn't exlude it from my list. See here:

> I’ve been off of social media (aside from HN, WhatsApp and discord) for years

I did, however, leave it out of this list

> Reddit, instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, Threads, etc are all the equivalent of digital junk food

because I don't consider HN to be digital junk food.
Is there some .dylib or .so file that runs the Chrome registration.. chmod that file and maybe it will stop doing that.
Trump actually outlines that in the speech before the riot, although he does it in such a meandering Trump-y way that it's hard to parse. He wanted Pence to send it back to the states to have a better look at things, although that would have been messy as hell.

"So as an example, in Pennsylvania, or whatever, you have a Republican legislature, you have a Democrat mayor, and you have a lot of Democrats all over the place. They go to the legislature. The legislature laughs at them, says we're not going to do that. They say, thank you very much and they go and make the changes themselves, they do it anyway. And that's totally illegal. That's totally illegal. You can't do that.

In Pennsylvania, the Democrat secretary of state and the Democrat state Supreme Court justices illegally abolished the signature verification requirements just 11 days prior to the election."

"More than 10,000 votes in Pennsylvania were illegally counted, even though they were received after Election Day. In other words, they were received after Election Day. Let's count them anyway."

There's a ton more. Some true, some not, etc. The annoying part is the media completely disregarded stuff like this, which only enraged his base more.

The real issue in my opinion that we don't have enough systems and transparency in place to be 100% sure our elections are fair. We should have random audits.
Hijinks with what same states pulled with their election laws during COVID shouldn't happen. Hillary Clinton claimed Trump stole the election from her, so this isn't a new feeling - Trump just had an actual support base he could rile up. Unfortunately for all of us, with the political system being so partisan I fear nobody can even propose more election security without coming off like a crazy person.
In reality the number is far higher than that, it just doesn’t get reported. On any given ride you have a pretty high likelihood of have “an incident” with a deranged member of the public, and your odds skyrocket if you’re a woman. Multiple women I know get a random weirdo trying to corner them in the subway or follow them at least once a week. None of this gets reported.
I've lived in NYC for 30 years and ridden the subway thousands of times going back to the last peak in crime in the 90s. I've never witnessed a real crime or seen someone brandish a weapon. I know a few people who have been near or been victimized to a small degree. None had anything like PTSD.

I know several people who have died or suffered serious injuries in car crashes.
If you’re gonna spend your time solving a problem, are you gonna try to solve:

1) the 10 murders a year using a mode of transportation that sees 2 million daily users

2) the 250 murders a year using a mode of transportation that sees 1 million daily users

???

Cars are dangerous and they cause crime.
It could be, also, that they are refusing to pay because they are not happy with the delivery and looking to fight it further in court. I’d say they have real cash flow issues when they stop paying their employees and electricity bills.
Please elaborate, what law does administrative leave violate?
I maintain a Rust project that is ~50,000 loc [1]. I've never felt that compiling is slow, in the contrary it's always a pleasure to see how fast the project compiles (at least in debug).

In release, build time is longer but in this case, it's in the CI/CD so it doesn't bother me. We try to be very conservative with adding dependencies so it may help compilation time. Also I'm coming from a Java/Kotlin world so a lot of things appear like fresh air in comparison...

[1]: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl
I normally have `mtr 1.1`¹ running in the background, in the third display mode, which is a 2D histogram—time in the x axis, hops in the y axis, and ASCII character/colour for ping time. When problems occur, this tends to let you easily see the nature of the problem—total loss, elevated packet loss, elevated response times; and to see the location of the problem—local network, local ISP, public internet. There are definitely occasions for loss%, sent, last/average/best/worst/stddev ping and such things as are found in the first display mode, but most of the time I find the histogram view most useful as the starting point.

You can make mtr start in this view with --displaymode=2 (direct command line arguments, `mtr --displaymode=2 …`; or shell alias, `alias mtr="mtr --displaymode=2"`; or set environment variable MTR_OPTIONS=--displaymode=2).

Screenshot of this mode: https://temp.chrismorgan.info/2025-02-06-hn-42924182-mtr-dis...

—⁂—

¹ 1.1 = 1.0.0.1 = Cloudflare public DNS, a convenient nearby public internet endpoint.
You say bad faith, but then you equivocate all "change" like any difference is good, or that Congress ought not be involved in the decisions related to how to spend government money, which is wildly unconstitutional.
Rural counties tend to have more crime per capita than urban centers in the US, yes. A few cities show up despite the trend like St Louis and DC, but those are pretty extreme outliers.
Hm I wonder if that had anything to do with the subway itself?

Is it possible that a crazy person could burn someone alive in any location?
All of the SHA functions allow unlimited input size. And yes, bcrypt computation time dwarfs that of SHA-3.

The SHA-3 family has "extendable-output functions," which can ostensibly be used to generate unlimited numbers of bits (albeit with only a given security level). These are new to SHA-3.
Not only is it new, it has yet to reach version 1 as a language with any guaranteed level of stability. In every version release there's a disclaimer that seems to discourage its use in production software.

> Zig has known bugs and even some miscompilations.

> Zig is immature. Even with Zig 0.13.0, working on a non-trivial project using Zig will likely require participating in the development process.

But then again, it's a great thing for the language to be used in larger public projects (like tigerbeetle, bun, ghostty). This will drive its development and adoption.
Google tells employees why it's ending DEI hiring goals
What would change "everything" is if we managed to switch to "real" digital parseable formats instead of this dead tree emulation that buries all data before the arrival of AI...
Tbh I have no idea at this point. I read info he did fire people, but I'm seeing conflicting reports between his actions, intent, the deferred layoffs and later cancelation of the deferred layoffs.

It's all a twisted yarn:

https://wlos.com/news/nation-world/no-evidence-trump-fired-t...
LOL you are using a website selling home security products as a source?
Correct.

The only thing would require more budget is hiring backfills (while paying out the leave).

Supposedly, they can get the same work done with fewer people.
The difference was within the margin of error (only a 3% change), which is very inconclusive. That's fine. Making the world a more inclusive place is hard. There's lots of people (see this thread) who clearly believe that certain races and genders are biologically superior.
I prefer RISCV as an starting assembly language because: it has good design, it's more intuitive, it has modern language and tool support (GCC, LLVM, Rust, etc.), and it runs on QEMU and real available hardware.
That seems to have been going around for, oh, the past 47 minutes or so.
There have to be at least 147 gate jumpers every morning. There's probably a delta between crime and reported crime that is pretty large.
I've done a lot of broad research on exercise in recent years. While there is certainly a dose dependent relationship with results, it's amazing how little you can do to get "some" results. A few stats from studies or articles I've seen in the past:
- Just twelve minutes of exercise is correlated with positive health improvements
- As little as two minutes of walking after eating has a positive improvement in blood sugar
So more
It's also a fun one to write an emulator for. There are plenty of example programs out there to test, and they draw graphics by writing bytes to a frame buffer at some offset in memory. You can read from that region in memory, interpret each byte as a color from a preset palette, and use it to display visual output / graphics.

I wrote one in Swift a few years back, and then ended up developing it further into an NES emulator capable of playing Donkey Kong. It was a great learning experience.
I can think of way better reasons to avoid Wyoming.
In NYC there are 250 traffic fatalities per year with 1 million daily drivers

There are 10 murders in the subway per year with 2 million daily riders

The cars are WAY more dangerous and it’s not even funny. Plus cars cause 50,000 injuries per year. The amount of money we waste on cars is insane.
That makes sense, but if this is the correct interpretation, then I find the wording a little weird. I've always considering "programming" and "writing code" to be the same thing.
Original source (100 points, 7 hours ago, 137 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42954598
No, it doesn't. This is a dramatic reach and complete misunderstanding of the stats. The data in table 5 is not statistically significant.

If you go down to table 6 (which is also incredibly weak), it shows the opposite: men are advancing at a higher rate than women in blind auditions.

Andrew Gelman reviewed the link as well and agreed:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/05/11/did-blind-...
I grew up on a small poultry farm. Most farmers I know are very very good at recycling and reprocessing. There's very little "rubbish" if you are clever about it. If it can't be fed to an animal, and it doesn't rot (compost), it's probably something you can build with, either a machine or a structure. Meanwhile you use animal waste to improve the garden, producing more food, the scraps of which go back to the animals.

The biggest exception was in the case of disease, which we managed with fire. Burning diseased bird coops along with the corpses of dead birds was very cost effective on our small scale.
> It’s hard for politicians and journalists to grasp what Musk and his team are doing, still less to explain it to the public.

They are turning US into a dictatorship. It's not hard to grasp that.
My Atari 2600 had an odd behavior with the reset switch. Holding it down at the beginning of the tank/combat game enabled your first shot to go through walls. Did you any Atari bugs while you worked on it? Pretty amazing that you could program these without the benefit of searching any internet for answers. (btw, I replied to you elsewhere :-P)
You couldn't find the reply button?
Imagine some AI converting all of the linux kernel source code into rust someday. Would kernel devs move over to rust and ditch the C tree?
> For people who are not AI experts, engineers, doctors, etc. the federal government offers pay and benefits unparalleled to anything those same people would find in the private sector.

This is just not really true. I work in the private sector with former federal employees and every single one is making more money now than they were in government.

What is true is that there are jobs in the government that are not available at all in the private sector, like prosecutor, police officer, military officer, spy, law clerk, legislative director, special agent, etc.

Many of these require high educational achievement and/or expensive training and are compensated to attract talented people. But it’s also true that most of those people who leave for the private sector make more money there.
From what I remember, Droidif-y is a fork of Foxy Droid and Neo Chat was fork of Droidif-y or vice versa. Either way, I used to use Foxy Droid but Droidif-y has been the modern update it needed.
> no Polish Jew would have survived the Nazis with this kind of information theft.

I'm not sure this is a good is a good example. I believe a majority of Polish Jewish survivors were those who fled into parts of soviet union not occupied by nazis(some were sent to gulags but this was still much better chance to survive then those who stayed in Poland). Another large portion were in concentration camps and hadn't been killed yet. And I believe 60,000 or less are estimated to have hid in Poland through the war. It's unlikely many remained in their pre war identities and simply concealed their Jewishness and managed to survive.
So bloodletting?
I predicted this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42619051
Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"?
It’s genuinely incredible how safe the nyc subways are. The only thing more incredible is the insane propaganda effort that’s been pushed for half a century to slander the subways and the city itself.
The article says that every train between 9pm and 5am has a uniformed police officer on board.
I think a personal assistant /ai agent that refuses to do its job is a problem, yes. "I'm sorry, Dave, but I'm afraid I can't talk about that."
So what do you think of all the "DEI" hires in the Trump administration? Or do you think a second-rate alcoholic domestic abusing Fox News host is the best individual on the merits to run the DoD?
In many decades past, there were no high level languages, and assembly was the only language.

It was a very different time. Those people would be equally astonished at our casual computing devices and ignorance at how they work.

Oddly enough, my current karma score is 6502. Synchronicity indeed.
And just a week ago 70 people died in a fireball that ended up with their bodies at the bottom of the Potomac.

Terrible things happen, statistically they aren't likely to happen to you. With crime, it's less likely to happen in a crowd.
Generally the NYC subway puts you into closer contact with crazy people than you would get normally. It’s like the bus here in Seattle and Link train, a lot of people don’t ride them because they don’t feel safe with all crazy people riding them…only a few people get killed by these people a year but it still discourages ridership. (Note that neither Seattle nor NYC are known for homicide, so murders like these are really notable)
I still doubt it? It's a marathon, not a sprint; I still trust Firefox more.
>Mayor Eric Adams attributed the decline in subway crime to a number of factors, including the massive surge of 1,200 additional NYPD officers in the subway system, as well as an additional 300 officers patrolling overnight trains

So which is the cause of the lower crime, congestion pricing, increased ridership, or the 1,500 additional officer surge? How long will this surge be sustained?
When does Trump claim he fixed it
Even if you could invent it, I don’t think there would be demand for it (yet)
Gotta love zompist!
Yeah, it is busy with police...

>Mayor Eric Adams attributed the decline in subway crime to a number of factors, including the massive surge of 1,200 additional NYPD officers in the subway system, as well as an additional 300 officers patrolling overnight trains
Cars are mostly dangerous to other people, less so to the people inside of them. Especially at inner-city speeds.

(Well, at least when you like at direct injury. People inside the cars might have long running health effects from insufficient exercise.)
linux + firefox. not sure what happened to me yesterday but the challange/response thing was borked and when i finally got through it all, it said i was a robot anyway. this was while trying to sign up for a skype acct, could have been a ms issue though and not necessarily cloudflare. i think the solution is to just not use obstructive software. thanks to this issue i discovered jitsi and that seems more than enough for my purposes.
It's the first question that provides points, not the only one.