skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't get the impression that they were batting 1000 either. Bell Labs spent an inordinate amount of time writing and debugging a driver for a dodgy printer. Several of the projects never went anywhere. How many of you have used pico to edit an image lately?
40g of sugar in one can of soda is pancreatic terrorism.

I always wonder why I see “quit smoking” PSAs on TV, but not for sugar bombs like soda or even Starbucks fraps.
I'm just looking for more depth. Like, is that all loaded in 1 load operation when the page is touched and is therefore optimal? Does disk access / writing dirty pages not matter?
check out this project: https://github.com/rclone/gphotosdl
0 and $0, therefore we should require a minimum of 20 flights at a tax of $5,000 each to guarantee the opposite effect! Of course, perhaps it's less about where the CO2 came from and more about how much is in the air. The former was a bit more fun to think about though :).
Imperials – open-source game similar to Catan
Takeout could also be an option
I thought of another reason for C++ to do this. C++ compilers allow you to customize the assembler that you use for your code. As long as that is the case, it is impossible to mandate uniform syntax. The language certainly can't standardize externally-specified code either. I bet you can't customize this in Rust.

Different assemblers, even for the same arch, support different features and instructions, and may use different syntax. So requiring uniformity is a non-starter.

>With C and C++, it will not be ironed out. It's just going to be how it is today for all of eternity.

I don't think that's true. If it is, then I guess it's a sign that the big players don't think this is an important issue. And they are the ones writing the most inline assembly, so they ought to know what is and isn't actually worth it.
Now that we have high resolution, millions of colors, and unicode in our terminals, this is the logical conclusion.

Still doesn't make a lot of sense, but I like it. :-D
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“…the United States Government shall not acquire additional Stockpile Assets other than in connection with criminal or civil asset forfeiture proceedings or in satisfaction of any civil money penalty imposed by any agency without further executive or legislative action.”
It would be interesting to analyze a dataset of commercially sold prepared "coffee" drinks from vendors like Starbucks to see how many are actually coffee, versus coffee-flavored soft drinks, and how this changed over the last few decades.
unwrap() and expect() are defined as panic-if functions. It’s one of the first things you learn when writing Rust code.

Calling them innocuous or being surprised that they can panic suggests this person hasn’t really learned much Rust at all.
“Store of value”

To the moon.

Still grateful HN has enough crypto rationalists to push back on pyramid scheme noise.

Crypto could be useful — let’s build crypto apps with customer value.

Right now the customers are morally ambiguous nation states and criminals laundering money into real estate and back into fiat currency. Hold the bag.
"...at which point, one has to ask, why do it at all?"

It seems like this line of thinking would lead you to ask the same question of literally any law, wouldn't it?

Laws often don't rely on being 100%. Even though there is a law saying people need to wear a seat belt, they can just not wear it! So what's the point, &c, &c?
I've never understood this mentality. Your employer might be the absolute worst but this? This is comitting a crime. To knowingly sabotage a company this way is a crime. Technical people like to look for technical loopholes in laws and might say things "him not being there to stop it happening doesn't make it a crime" or whatever simply don't understand the law.

Likewise, I've never taken a document or a line of code from an employer. There's nothing I've ever written that I couldn't write better if I started again from scratch. And again you were paid to create those things. You might feel ownership over some work product like this but it doesn't belong to you.

Whenever I've left a job, whether it's on good terms or bad, I simply brain dump everything I did and knew and put it out of my mind, hopefully never thinking about it ever again. This is your job, not your life.
It really is tragedy that there aren't more ZUIs in the wild. I'd love a compositor (X11 or Wayland; it's probably not just a wm) that made all windows arbitrarily zoomable, but I lack the skill to make it myself.
Saving Private Ryan, while it does give a particularly realistic view of storming Omaha Beach, and some other scenes, is also generally heroic -- the "good guys save their buddy from the bad guys" -- which serves to glorify war, giving it a "higher purpose".
As instructed, I asked chatgpt to characterize your comment:

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Irrelevant to Cancer Discussion – In the context of the BBC article about aspirin preventing cancer spread, this comment is only tangentially related. It does not engage with the article’s findings about aspirin's effect on cancer cells and instead focuses on aspirin's formulation and stomach safety, which is a separate discussion. The comment seems to use the article as a springboard for discussing a niche health opinion rather than engaging with the core scientific findings presented.

Overall Characterization:
The comment is opinionated, alternative-health-oriented, and off-topic regarding the article's cancer discussion. It reflects a niche perspective influenced by Ray Peat’s followers, prioritizing aspirin’s stomach safety over its potential anti-cancer benefits. While it might offer practical advice for those concerned about aspirin’s side effects, it does not directly contribute to the scientific discussion in the BBC article.
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Certainly, as does any open-ended research organization. But when there are innumerable questions to consider and maybe 1% are worth-while, a 25% success rate might be incredibly impressive.
Can you provide a citation for the France assertion? I think it’s wildly unlikely a protocol for acute stroke would favor mri over ct but could be wrong. It would take 20 minutes to transfer a pt to mri in a lot of stroke centers in the USA, as opposed to CT’s that are generally across the hall, where imaging should be read within 30 minutes of door time I believe.

Also I’m not sure what you increased “sensitivity” would get you. Acute stroke is a clinical diagnosis, the imaging determines the type of stroke and treatment.
> Not giving more aid, there is a reasonable argument is not betrayal.

Not donating more stuff maybe.

But cutting off targeting, intelligence, satellites, and other enablers is pretty much betrayal!

Other countries have bought US equipment with certain capabilities and donated that stuff to Ukraine.

This makes the US an unreliable provider of military equipment.

Yes, of course the US has the ability to cut of things like this, but I doubt people buying HIMARS every feared they'd cutoff from enablers by the US as a negotiation tactic.

The US probably also has backdoors in some of the stuff, but using such backdoors is a one time event. Nobody will trust you afterwards.
Naturally occurring has little to do with cost of production.

Coral snake venom is naturally occurring and has medicinal uses. $4,000 per gram.
Sounds like a wealth transfer to anyone holding Bitcoin.

And probably another constitutional crisis if he tries to spend federal money to buy Bitcoin without congressional approval, even if that's not in his order.

Perhaps he's trying to return to a combined crypto+gold standard?
When an LLM cares about something would be promising evidence to me.

As they currently exist, they are essentially a novel and extremely sophisticated method to search, derive, and understand data. In fact almost all of the data ever recorded. To OPs point, every new LLM startup is just trying to build a bigger and more sophisticated way to search, derive, and understand data. It's not clear to me that bigger and more compute intensive methods will create an LLM that cares about anything.
This is the kind of control that is really becoming a luxury.

And I don't know how we get back to a simple state; Let's say you're a family of three with shared services and accounts:

Keeping everything under Keepass means handling the file sync between all the devices and OSes, with potentially your credentials flying through third party sync services, thus negating most of the advantages of Keepass.

Moving to something like a self-hosted Bitwarden instance should be the way, but then one member of the family becomes a dedicated lifetime sysop making sure that instance is secure while being accessible anytime from everywhere.
> We've already established that you were wrong about that as these machines are in commercial deployment.

No there are literally no companies using that sewing robot, you can't buy that shirt.

> No, you're wrong. You clearly know nothing about this issue

You're being very rude, this isn't twitter.
Ok, but let's consider the other extreme: a world where no library can ever assume a runtime invariant holds without dynamically checking it first.

In this world, Vec::index() would need to perform not only a bounds check but also a check that the pointer is not NonNull::dangling(). Sure, RawVec is supposed to guarantee that the pointer will not be dangling when cap is >0, but RawVec could have a bug in it.

I agree that documenting and returning a PtrWasDanglingError error is not good API design. An InternalError for all such cases seems more reasonable. But at some point we need to be able to assume that certain program invariants hold without checking at all (in a release build).
same MO as manifest V3
Coreboot can run tianocore just fine. I don't think my corebooted Chromebook even has BIOS.

Heads isn't BIOS or UEFI.
How would you discover the syntax reference via the repl help() system?
Is Mathup Ready for 1.0
Mathup is an AsciiMath dialect which compiles to MathML. This started as my hobby project over 10 years ago (then it was called Ascii2MathML) and I have been developing it with major breaks in my spare time. The dialect deviates somewhat from AsciiMath proper. Enough so that replacing one for the other will require a lot of fixing.

I’m asking HN for help here because while this library has some use in the real world, it is not enough that I can ask any community of users, or contributors. I’m also not a power user of the library my self. So there might be some major aspect missing from the language, which I have simply not thought of, but the more math inclined of you could spot right away.
If he wants trade concessions, which I agree is plausible, delaying the tariffs on only USMCA-covered goods is a significant hint that there's real backchanneling going on. I was very surprised to learn there's so many non-USMCA-covered goods, and one way or another it's fair to presume Trump is intentionally drawing attention to that fact.

But the idea that Trump has deep strategic goals he's lying to the American people about is hardly a defense. And all the information that's leaked about negotiations thus far is that Mexico and Canada are just as confused as the general public about what Trump is asking for.
Because the government has a vested interest in the outcomes of the research that $400m is funding?

Are you equally confused by why you’re giving Apple or Samsung or whoever $1000 for a phone when the companies are worth billions to trillions?
I use Fennel with TIC80, Love and Raylib. Such a fun little Lisp that was the first one to really stick. Really helped that Fennel has anti-fennel that converts between Fennel and Lua.
Tons of responses so I don't know if you'll read this but a few things:

Post-concussion syndrome (and screens)

After getting a concussion, I had to change my screens in a big way. Many people have heard of sensitivity to PWM and low frequency PWM in particular. The alternative is DC dimming, and it helps tremendously. Additionally, higher refresh rates seem to help. At least 120 Hz but preferably 144, 165 or higher. My phone has some complicated PWM / DC dimming settings[0] - possibly 120 / 360 Hz[1]. My laptop is 165 Hz and does not appear to use PWM[2]. My desktop screens are 144 Hz and have DC dimming.

I'm going through the hassle of getting a physician to sign off on an ADA request to get my current employer to allow me to use better screens at work, as they provided a laptop with a horrible 60 Hz screen, and two crappy 60 Hz monitors. Fortunately I'm only in the office twice a week.

Glasses

Last year, I got brand new glasses with the prescription determined by the optometrist. However, it took three tries of adjusting things like pupil measurements and the "base curve" or index of the glasses before I started to get used to them. Up until then, I felt very tired and brain foggy while wearing them. With the third revision and a week of adjustment, I finally started to settle in. It takes a really good eye doctor to figure out these kinds of issues, and be willing to swap out lenses for you.

[0] https://www.eyephonereview.com/post/oneplus-12-its-complicat...

[1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/OnePlus-12-5G-Smartphone-Revie... (120 Hz PWM)

[2] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Nitro-16-AN16-41-review-A...
What is the status of EU sideloading btw?
My reaction too. It reminds me of the Simpsons' "Buttzilla" bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPmeLibaVwg&t=112s
It's not an oracle. 'equivalent to the halting problem' just means 'your system is a turing machine'.

>Even if someone attempted to build one of the machines depicted in these blueprints, however, researchers point out that undecidability is a feature of physical theories and cannot literally exist in real experiments. Only idealized systems that involve infinity — an infinitely long tape, an infinitely extensive grid of particles, an infinitely divisible space for placing pinballs and rubber ducks — can be truly undecidable.
You just did this 11 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43166950) and 12 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43151504)
> Perhaps he's trying to return to a combined crypto+gold standard?

I'm pretty sure Trump's too dumb to understand the arguments why such a system would be good, if anything it'd be all the crypto-bro billionaires who made their boy Vance VP. Or perhaps it's just all a pump and dump for them...
Exploring the Hybrid Debian GNU/KFreeBSD Distribution
Our primary advantage right now is extensibility and simplicity. We are working with users that want to implement features that cant be generated with current generators and we enable them to implement those. Our generator does work for those basic use cases when you want a client to interact with an API, but if you need something more, like state management, sse, etc, we make the SDK easy to work with and extend.

If you've used some oss generators, their code is often a complete headache to just read. OpenAPI generator is a good example.

Hope that answers your question :P
someone else’s computer
Given that this is an association study, I like to interpret it as if you drink coffee and you often add sweetener, you may be more likely to develop type w diabetes than others who drink coffee and don't add sweetener.

Not adding sweetener because it's associated with type 2 diabetes is probably less protective than being the type of person who naturally didn't add sweeteners.

Sugar in my soda, cream in my coffee thanks.
Imagine if Fort Knox had a magic key allowing the bearer to walk in and out of it, at will, with as much riches as they wanted.

Now imagine that bearer is a politician who blames the North Korea for the missing assets.

Or imagine that key is damaged and no one can get the coins. It is lost forever.

I almost hope this stupid experiment is done on a state level, rather than national, and that it fails miserably as cautionary tale.
Auntie PDF – an open source app built using Mistral OCR
OK I've been critical of Mistral AI but credit where credit is due. Mistral OCR seems cool.

So cool in fact, I got distracted and ended up building an open source PDF parser and chat app!

Presenting Auntie PDF - your all-knowing guide that unpacks every PDF into clear, actionable insights.

You can upload a pdf or point to a public link, parse it, and then ask questions. All open source and free.
Japanese convenience stores still work this way. I’m still a bit bemused every time I see scantily clad ladies right next to the shounen manga, but maybe it shouldn’t xD
glad to see the crypto discussion here getting more nuanced and technical
UEFI might be too complex, but I think BIOS was too simple. I do not miss having to dd over the front of the disk to make it bootable; placing a file (or multiple! It's not exclusive!) on a FAT partition is so much lower stress.
I will nitpick this one:

> 1. The switching cost from Google Search is certainly not zero, it implies switching from Google, which is virtually impossible because it's tied to Chrome, YouTube, Android and Gmail

Google Search is a product. Not the whole company. Switching to most other search engines is $0. Naturally no one is honor bound to use anything else you listed either.
It says something about the inhumanity of our contemporary culture that people willingly accept that our employers have no obligations to us in any way.
Article is a bit light on the details. It says he was demoted, and there was a restructuring. Why?

Usually when there are motives that are not easy to relate to, the corporate media will tell you what a horrible person they are. When they are easier to relate to, there is a curious silence.
Right, and its working perfectly for the current bearers of that crypto

The PvP nature is continual demand
Why should the EFF be primarily influenced by public opinion? The public is often ignorant or apathetic about electronic surveillance and privacy invasion, or else they welcome the panopticon with open arms because corporate and propaganda have successfully manufactured their consent.

And as the article states, laws already exist to address the issue. To simply assume this law would be interpreted or executed in good faith, especially given the current American political climate, seems naive.
Yeah, what's up with that? Like, I don't mind qemu defaulting to BIOS, but why is UEFI booting a VM so convoluted?
And the blight is spreading. The US have already fallen, Europe's chances are 50/50. The world is being robbed of the future that has liberty and pursuit of happiness in it — only to be replaced with "you die today, I die tomorrow" of the all-encompassing Russian prison law.
> You will however be asked for ID before being allowed in a strip club, brothel or casino, or before being sold a DVD of some action movie.

The action movie too? I’ve never seen that happen, and I’m certain I rented a whole bunch of age inappropriate DVD’s (or was it VCR’s?) back in the day. Maybe we were required to be ID’ed and the teenager behind the counter just gave zero fucks?
I just assumed when they made the deal with OpenAI… it would just be SiriGPT of sorts.
> An ability to reverse transactions in the case or error or fraud

Yes and that bug is a risk I weigh when using those money transfer mechanisms

When it fits my risk profile I engage in that transaction

Not hard

Not a matter for an industry regulator or state

Just pure market choice
Dang. This was supposed to be a Ask HN. but I accidentally put the link to the repo up in the URL bar.
So this is a sort of wireless amplifier?
I’m a neuroradiologist. The article is confused about the stroke workup—the most critical thing is to detect acute hemorrhage, which is much easier, faster, accurate, and cheaper with a CT than an MRI. We already have mobile CT units in deployment.

That’s not to say there isn’t value in mobile MR, but it’s not as the article states.
It's interesting to note that Bell Labs started doing its most famous work around the same time quantum electrodynamics was hitting its stride, Von Neumann was doing his work in computer science, Eniac was being built, and the Manhattan project was going on. This was around 1945.

Richard Hamming worked on the Manhattan Project, and John Tukey developed fast Fourier transforms (FFT) in service of the US nuclear program. John Von Neumann shows up as a hidden presence, working with Tukey when Tukey coined the term "bit", and informing Claude Shannon that the mathematical quantity he was working on was a special case of the concept of entropy.

There are periods of history like this where major breakthroughs (quantum mechanics and also what we now call computer science) enable new technologies (like physically realizable Turing machines) and those technologies are suddenly in high demand (because of WWII and then the threat nuclear war). Suddenly there are lots of new ideas, insane amounts of money, and the survival of humanity requires getting things done.

The other interesting thing to me is that Bell had experience with communication at scale due to their telephone networks. And a lot of early computer hardware and software concepts echo designs from the telegraphy days. Think of things like UART and the progression from telegraphy to teleprinters to keyboards. Concepts like Clos Networks from the 1930s are still used in modern data centers today. So having all these large communication problems at scale fed into what we now think of as computer science but really predated computers.

So you may not get the same mileage asking the right questions as Bell Labs did. The environment they were working in was pretty remarkable. We may be getting there eventually with AI, and perhaps climate change will be a pressing enough problem the way nuclear war was.
Can you give an example of gender being put into texts where it doesn’t matter? Or are you just buying the talking points of an administration that has no qualms deleting women’s health data and osha regulations wholesale?
We don't have to live in the extreme though. That's one of the great advantages of Rust. :-)

In `regex`, for example, there are certainly some cases where I use `unsafe` to elide those dynamic checks because 1) I couldn't do it in safe code and 2) I got a performance bump from it. But of all the dynamic checks in `regex`, this was an extremely small subset of them.

And it makes sense to rely on abstractions like `RawVec` to uphold those guarantees.

The point is that you're making that trade-off intentionally and for a specific reason (perf). The idea that I would support dogmatically always checking every runtime invariant everywhere is bonkers. :P In contrast, we have someone here who I responded to that is literally suggesting propagating every possible broken runtime invariant into a public API error value.
Been using Zellij for awhile and it is delightful! I am only a moderate terminal user, but I really like having some basic multiplexing features if I need them. My brain just could not hold onto the necessary tmux key combos with only intermittent use. Instead I find the Zellij commands to be more intuitive (and more discoverable thanks to the handy prompts...)
The point of this article is there are insufficient safeguards against fraudulent take-down notices. There isn't even the theoretical safeguard that the DMCA has.

There is no downside to the person making a frivolous claim, and there is a very aggressive deadline for compliance, meaning that sites will just go ahead and insta-delete anything anyone files a complaint against.
> but I think it's much worse, now, than it has ever been.

At some point, some US employers would hire armed private security companies like Pinkerton to break strikes, often leading to multiple deaths.

In other countries, the army would be sent to break prolonged strikes by shooting at strikers.

In other words, it has been way worse.
This sounds like an interesting area of research! I built LookAway[1], a break reminder app for Mac that helps reduce screen fatigue by nudging users to take short breaks. A lot of users report feeling less eye strain and headaches after using it regularly. Might be useful data for your research!

[1] https://lookaway.app