skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you are young and/or lucky, but you'll find over time an increasingly disconcerting amount of friends&family dying preventable/otherwise treatable (with screening) deaths from cancer.

Note I said "from an individuals perspective". It is possible for the system to be optimized from a cost/benefit system level perspective without it providing the best possible outcome for each individual. Given that its run by the government & for-profit insurance, this is probably the case.

I think it is a bit hard to argue that the US medical system in general is perfect, and beyond reproach. Let alone the gaps in our pro-active cancer screening. Places like South Korea and China do far more, with less.
Show HN: Statistical Weather Software
Hi HN!

This past January I was in Napa Valley learning everything there is to know about wine and wine production (with plenty of drinks in between of course). I was interested in learning about the drivers of poor harvest -- those being disease and weather. When temperature exceeds around 100 degrees, it destroys the harvest.

This birthed my idea for Weatherlytics, the world's first statistical weather software. While there are plenty of bleeding edge ml weather forecasting tools, there are almost no tools for analyzing past weather statistics. The statistical information tab allows users to compare historical weather trends between zip codes.

Tech notes: This was my first time building and deploying a full stack application, so it isn't perfect. For example, the mobile version of the webpage doesn't look great. This was built on Django + SQLite and deployed using a linux server on Linode. Additionally, there is a stripe link to buy a subscription, but it is not currently needed to use the software.
Wait until you hear about NATO (and I say this as a Brit).
They aren't competing with Linux though.
Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning
Hi HN! Michael here. We've spent the last 6 months rebuilding Phind. We asked ourselves what types of answers we would ideally like and crafted a new UI and model series to help get us there. Our new 70B is completely different from the one we launched a year ago.

The new Phind goes beyond text to present answers visually with inline images, diagrams, cards, and other widgets to make answers more meaningful:

- "explain photosynthesis" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTCpnyICukM#t=7

- "how to cook the perfect steak" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTCpnyICukM#t=55

- "quicksort in rust" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTCpnyICukM#t=105

Phind is also now able to seek out information on its own. If it needs more, it will do multiple rounds of additional searches to get you a more comprehensive answer:

- "top 10 Thai restaurants in SF, their prices, and key dishes" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIQQcDIIHFQ#t=11

It can also perform calculations, visualize their results, and verify them in a Jupyter notebook:

- "simulate 100 coin flips and make graphs" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP3PZ4MKGCg#t=8

- "train a perceptron neural network using Jupyter" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP3PZ4MKGCg#t=45

This blog post contains an overview of what we did as well as technical deep dives into how we built the new frontend and models.

I'm super grateful for all of the feedback we've gotten from this community and can't wait to hear your thoughts!
I don't think USAID is the core of US soft power, Hollywood is. Our tech industry is. Our food and our language and the way our culture seeps into everything is.

If USAID and aid to places in much of Africa was our soft power, I'd expect to see a lot less pivoting to China and Russia in those places. On that note, perhaps the countries that decided to invite Wagner or enter the Chinese BRI can ask their new friends for some TB meds?
C99 isn't a compiler version. It's a standard. Many versions of GCC, Clang and other compilers can compile C99 code. If you update your compiler from gcc 14.1 to gcc 14.2, both versions can still compile standard code.
5%? Sure there is a lot of activity around software. But out of week of 40 hours I most certainly code more than at most 2 hours. If this is your workplace I think it's dysfunctional.
Oh yes, let's delegate the hardest part back to the caller! Surely nothing will go wrong.

Try writing a seccomp policy for filesystem access (that isn't just 100% yes/no). That's how hard this thing will also be to use.
Recent advancements have been mostly about scaling test-time compute, which is much more expensive for companies than the previous paradigm. It makes sense that they'd re-evaluate how to price their services.
This wasn't even my point [1], but I'll go there.

Turn the other cheek. Ignore it. It's 2025 we're learning lessons from USENET all over again and having to reign in the over-sensitive, disregulated behavior of some people.

I'm gay, on the spectrum, and my wife is trans. What certain people in "my" community do from places of relative comfort makes life for those of us in more moderate / conservative-leaning places worse. The screeching from our community [2] has turned our little demographic into a major culture war topic, and it's all because of the bad attention and friction you manufacture.

Conservatives let LGBT and trans issues slide for over two decades of my adult life. But by being loud and attempting to silence them -- by harassing them -- you've become the nail that sticks out and have now created a tidal wave of opinion against us.

It's easy for some European or SF trans person to call for universal outlawing and censoring of speech, but you have to realize your message is being read all over the world. It's interpreted by an overwhelming number of people as attempting to memory hole conservatives and flush away their culture.

Simultaneous to your harmful messages, folks are also being inundated with social media rage/engagement bait to make them think liberals are literally attempting to destroy and annihilate conservatives [3].

Your message adds weight to this perception, and all you accomplish here is making the majority of voters angry at us. It even turns moderates and would-be supporters sour.

I hate that you represent me by association and think that this is acceptable behavior.

As another anecdote, when I talk to my friends about Rust, the subject of "drama" frequently comes up. Why is that? Suddenly my work becomes harder for an entirely unrelated and unmerited reason. That's just me as an LGBT person - imagine how straight people feel.

We shouldn't have to keep reading about this over and over. It's orthogonal, childish, dysfunctional behavior.

Take one more look at that loud disgusting banner on the top of the Asahi page. That's neener-neenering in front of everyone. Even the moderates you hope to be your allies. Please, for god's sake, put yourself into different shoes. You're asking them to do it for you, but it's your turn.

I think you'll see that your behavior is also harassment.

Please calm down, slow down, and behave like adults. Not everything warrants a response or attention. Chances are, it'll just go away and get totally ignored. When you engage, you shift the conversation and bring yourselves down to their level. You create a firestorm of drama that everyone watches like a burning wreck.

Stand above that.

[1] I only wanted to talk about the very public, inflammatory resignation and the immature handling of this by certain parties.

[2] eg, folks whose entire personality is to harass people on social media: https://www.tiktok.com/@lillytino_/video/7295890626539687210

[3] Just look at this image and how religious people take it: https://danolinger.com/2018/11/01/responding-to-persecution-...
Do you mind sharing the product. I may be able to offer advice but without context a little hard to be specific.
At this point almost all major package managers try to not introduce any non-reproducibility, so it comes down to package itself building deterministically. Nix just have an architectural sandboxing and isolation that enforces is maybe a bit better. But the moment e.g. ArchLinux devs fix determinism and upstream it in certain package, it will become deterministic in NixOS and others, and vice versa, so there is not going to be a lot of differences between distros at this point. Everyone agrees that deterministic builds are a good thing.
As a non-interested observer; I think it will need to be said until the commitment becomes credible. I don't know how it would become credible, but it's clearly not considered credible by at least those of the kernel maintainers who are worried about the maintenance burden of accepting rust patches.
I am not following this too closely (the time issue seemed pretty severe though), but there are compatibility changes listed in the release notes very frequently:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.md
> The worst thing a corporation is likely to do (other than giving your data to governments)

There, you said it. If we want to keep data out of the hands of wrong governments, we better keep it out of the hands of corporations.
Why Replace InfluxDB with TDengine
At some level this is just concern trolling. There is nothing the Rust developers could possibly do or say that would alleviate the concern you've just expressed. You are asking for something that is impossible.

What could they possibly "deliver" beyond a strong commitment to fix the code in a timely manner themselves?
I see that as different, it is first and foremost an American project, born from a conflict between superpowers. I don't think the same is true about global charity.
Mostly because of macos’s unix roots. And you need a third party package manager to boot.
Those things you describe are norms not law. States are legally sovereign and will be testing the ability of the Federal government to drive their behavior.

The people who will be controlling the direction of the country will be empathizing the states over the people.

Regardless of the state of elections, we’ll have a deeply conservative or reactionary judiciary for a generation to come. Elections have consequences.
>IRBs are only REALLY required when you are intervening in patient care or pose some theoretical risk to a human.

In practice, sure, but that's not what the spaghetti of rules that one is compelled by law to follow state. This disconnect is the whole point of the article.
Aren't most people interested in self hosting specifically to get away from the cloud?
That’s not the worst thing a corp can do. The worst things a corp can do is sell your private data to someone else, monopolize a critical function and squeeze you dry, or block you from a monopolized utility that is critical to modern society.

The focus need to be on both
Great, so you boot your custom OS, and you can... I guess display a terminal and maybe talk to the disk? How do you use the hardware without drivers? Did Apple document their hardware interfaces?
Sure, physical pain is absolutely part of life and unavoidable. Yet, it is not an effective tool for either parenting or raising dogs. This has been consistently shown, both for raising children as well as dogs, in research over past few decades. All you do is condition fear and creating emotional trauma that will leave them less able to cope and process emotional pain later in life without resorting to “getting out the belt” for their kids.

Patenting is brutally hard, exhausting, and often unrewarding work. But if you’re burnt out and find yourself reaching for the belt because your hour of free time is being disrupted by some undesirable behavior then just step out of the house for a few minutes. Young kids (and puppies) crave attention and removing the attention is more effective than giving attention by conditioning a fear response.
"low performer" seems like the most conflict heavy route to do that.
We don’t need to “rank” cultures to recognize that individual aspects of culture are better adapted to current environments.

My dad always says that “Bangladeshis don’t know how to name kids.” We don’t have surnames, but instead two given names. And everyone uses a nickname anyway that’s unrelated to the legal names. That is just inefficient and unwieldy in a modern world where social circles are larger than a village. So I have my dad’s last name and so do my kids. None of us like the name and it has no historical value but it makes things more efficient going forward.
> their iPhone stops working

Reminds of when UK regulator blocked Microsoft from buying Activision.

It was suggested by some that Microsoft has lots of power of UK and can threaten to pull out of UK and disable every single Windows PC and server in UK and destroy data belonging to UK businesses held in Azure, etc.

Shame it didn't happen, would have loved the reaction from Macron/French/EU given their hatred of US big tech.
Come to think of it, it's probably my fault for gravitating toward threads that are going to rile me up.

It's been a weird few weeks in Canada - everyone has seemingly united around strong anti-US sentiment. That's true even in the staunchly conservative part of Ontario where I live that would normally be more sympathetic toward a Republican administration in the US.

So there's probably some confirmation bias at play, too. I've been caught up in the whirlwind going on around me and maybe I've just been more likely to notice things that reinforce everything else I've been seeing.

I actually appreciate fellow HN users giving me a polite reality check. I'll save the complaining for Reddit.
Because the US is the de-facto leader of the Free World, the wealthiest country in the Western hemisphere and the winner of the Cold War. Heavy Lies the Crown. Especially when it's about fighting the deadliest infectious disease known to man.
Well, if you get rid of birthright citizenship, then no, they don't. You have to pick one or the other.
Why is Schneier now using publications like wired as tech sources? That post is filled with what look like SEO links to publications funded by USAID.

Is Schneier himself now in on the take? I used to trust him. (edit: oh I see it wasn't written by him but by a ghostwriter for a different publication. Still he loses some of my trust for this drivel on his blog)
Totally—on the hardware platform piece, I've owned Macs since the 90s, first installed Linux on one in like 2003ish, tried it on all of my various Macs since at some point, but switched to a desktop Linux machine full time in 2020. I'm generally not one to crap on ambition, but Linux is just so much more enjoyable on hardware that isn't totally closed/undocumented/hostile/unsupported by the manufacturer. With the Macs there was just always something slightly unsupported, regularly broken by updates, or otherwise not quite right, and that was before the architecture switch.

Apple makes great hardware (I have an M1 laptop I use away from home), but if I'm intending to run Linux as my primary OS, I'm buying from a company that is more open to it.
The same thing happens to me all the time. One of the most annoying things on Apple Silicon for me as a long time Linux enthusiast.
can anyone tldr/ootl me about the mastodon posts this person alludes to? I have a feeling they might have some revelatory power.
Does it really matter when they're gating their most powerful models with heavy limits on Plus users? You can barely use o3-mini-high for a couple of hours without getting limited for literal days.
The problem for TSMC is that they're in a weak position. They cut themselves from China, so what other options they have other than do what the US wants? A smart person could see this result from a mile ahead, first with Biden's insistence that it set plants in the US. The whole idea was always the forced IP transfer to US companies.
And yet, FAANG's somehow get way with employing credentialed psychologists and psychiatrists, to experiment on social media users, for maximizing their various engagement and click metrics.

For the scale and impact of non-IRB human psychology research, that one has to be at the very top.
I concur: was a very good read! Can wholeheartedly recommend.
Tolerating full cloud outages with Monzo Stand-in
Elon Gives DOGE Updates to World Governments [video]
I agree with your point that government overreach is more serious.

Which is why I want to emphasize that various government police (like FBI) notoriously buy data that they would need a warrant for otherwise.

I’m aware that you’re saying it, but I think you’re underestimating the extent to which preventing spying from the corps == preventing spying from the govt.
That USAID was Trump and Musk's first target after taking office is peculiar. They made no mention of it during the campaign and most people were unaware of it's existence until a couple weeks ago. The only group with any strong negative opinion of USAID is foreign adversaries.
Unlike Chain of Thought, "Latent Reasoning" happens in the model's hidden space
The Swiss trust their neighbors in most things. They have extensive trading relationships with their neighbors, many treaties and relatively open borders. There military is structured under the assumption their neighbors won't invade.
I assume the article is based on this presentation at 38c3:
https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-investigating-the-iridium-satell...
I just pointed out the numerous exemptions to IRBs for research. People can literally make a research career and never touch IRBs.

The point I'm trying to make is that the blog is so narrowly defined that it doesn't match the reality of clinical research.
i think i agree about "if the math works out" -- but thats the hard question isnt it? isnt the accuracy of the poop test significant? if 2 or 3 poop tests increase our confidence in the result it changes the risk:benefit calculation for the colonoscopy or treatment. thats an easy win. but even if it did not, is the result from the (preventative) poop test less valid data than a patient complaining of pain? so generally speaking i agree we dont want to enable a path to risky procedures based on dubious evidence, but i think overall we are presently operating with a dearth of information (waiting for symptoms) and the math itself improves by having more proactive testing (information) in the first place
There is also a very high level of backwards compatibility between versions of ISO C because there is a gigantic amount of code is updated if there is change. So such changes are done only for important reasons or after a very long deprecation period.
I think it'd be best to start with getting people to run for local, non-partisan offices. School board, etc. You're right that trying for anything higher than that is going to run into life ruining amounts of interference from existing interests, but I think it could be done at the lowest levels first.

> the money is bad and it requires a different set of skills.

Which is one thing that makes me think of recent graduates. Recently retired people/people in tech who've FIREd also might be viable. People who either can't get a high paying tech job or who had them and are past that stage in life - politics is better than service sector work (for the recent grads) and the retired wouldn't depend on the money.

Skillswise, there are more people going into CS who don't have a passion or intuition for technology - we pushed a lot of people into CS and STEM in general over the last decade or so who wouldn't have pursued it in the 90s-2010s. I bet there are lots of C students who could do a better job at understanding tech than our current leaders and a better job at communicating with non-technical people/schmoozing than most of the talented techies.

> at least advising these people

I think they need to hold office. Advising isn't going to cut it - the incentives for our current politicians to listen to this group aren't there. The only incentive lever we have any hope at pulling (outside of radical system change) is threatening their seats.
Ah. I know ICP as "Internet Content Provider": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license
The goodwill the US gets from soft and hard power projection is precisely what allows us to have the world reserve currency. This allows the government to print large amounts of new money with much smaller consequences. The US is basically the center of an economic empire, which the neofascists are intent on destroying - either out of mistaken adherence to the political tropes of analyzing a country like a household (eg the harping on "government debt"), or it's likely they are just overtly selling us out to the rising empire of China.
commoditization (i.e. enshittification) of computer hardware was taking place all through Moore's Reign, it was simply disguised and overwhelmed by all of Moore's "more".
The USA is the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world. Why would ceding this soft power to other countries benefit the USA? These cuts will be meaningless in cutting the deficit while harming the USA's global influence.
I do think it's crazy the degree to which the entire world seems to rely on us.

And our own politicians are the ones who have sent our hard-earned billions of dollars away to foreign countries, many of whom feign being allies but really provide us with no benefit at all
Assuming this act even moved forward (big IF), "bugs" like this show up in first drafts of bills all the time. They'd do a little research, then apply a fix. Amusing that the "coverage" didn't seem interested in "how could this easily be addressed?".
I wish they would have gone more indepth about the current compiler work, such as stack defenses or fbounds-safety. It should cover OOB read and write safety, which is 70-80% of C's memory vulnerabilities, for a marginal performance overhead and with abi compatibility.

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafety.html
Civilized Discourse but How? (2017)
Thank you for this nuanced, probably-took-more-than-5-seconds research. What is difficult to stomach is that level-headed people will look beyond the clickbait to frequently find a logical explanation that makes sense...but a large number of people will just assume the headline is true and parrot it.
> The same people community clutching pearls

This is an unfortunate typo because your meaning is completely lost.

If your claim is that individuals are being hypocritical then you may have a point. Especially if you can produce examples.

But if you mean community vs community then you have simply bought in to the religious debate which isn’t interesting.
One aspect of all of this which I haven't seen directly addressed[0] is the question of what might be going on with Torvalds and the Rust Foundation from a longer term, dare I say "political" standpoint. Torvalds seems to usually position himself as a kind of anti-political, code-is-code type, but then, perhaps there's more to him and to this story?

There's an awful lot of money and power associated with operating systems and programming languages (obviously), and the resulting "realpolitik" of situations like these seem to get swallowed up in these discussions.

It makes sense for technical people to think that the technical debate is what essentially matters, but it usually never actually is.

I've found the way Linux has approached Rust in the last couple of years to be a tad confusing. Always cutting a hard line, suddenly Torvalds' opinion is quite wishy washy. Oh, we'll try it, who knows, what's the worst that can happen, type thing? What induced this change, one wonders.

[0] Well-written blog posts on the subject are very welcome, please share if you know one!
Bosses are fed up with remote work
Well, yes, that's the point: it doesn't matter who pays up front, it affects the supply/demand equation, typically hurting everyone. Regardless of where I am in the chain, I'm not going to run at a loss and hope to make it up in volume.
I'd be surprised if $1 of cash changes hands due to this website. It seems like he whipped it up in an hour using Cursor to promote his main business, which he linked at the top of the page
But this conflict isn't about competing with Linux, it's about having a vision for what Linux should be that clashes with the core maintainers' vision.