skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Semaglutide is grown on yeast then removed with a chemical "cleaver".
I'm all in to local-first software and rxdb is a stellar project, very small nitpick - i wish they would support light theme for their docs.
Well, basically every nation with large enough budget has one set up (US, Russia, EU, China, Japan, and India has them). More directly to the point, I won't be shocked if Airbus (which also operates satellite imagery services) steps up, although that would open a very big hole since, uhm, Airbus makes civilian planes too.

(Something to think: European governments have large stakes in Airbus, plus Airbus' history as an intergovernmental consortium might factor in favor here.)
> 20,000 line function
...? Is this an actual figure
I'm not sure if anyone is "unable to drive" because of ULEZ. You don't have a car in London unless you have at least some money. I have a friend who dives less because it puts the cost up but again it's one of those things.
What protocol are you referring to?
Bird Flu in Animals and People: Causes and How It Spreads
More acts of surrender here: http://hotdogeatingsurrendermonkeys.com/
You've weakened what Pete said to make him more reasonable (Motte and Baily). He didn't call for simple nicotine consumption, he called for tobacco use.

That's where the quackery enters. Taking something with a kernel of truth and then expanding it past what the research says into unsafe practices.

This is how a lot of quacks work.

> People who take aspirin, drink coffee, and use tobacco, have a much lower incidence of Alzheimer’s disease than people who don’t use those things.
This makes since, but I do like the idea presented before you, that humans are natural, and our evolution is natural, therefor the things that we make are natural too. But then where do you draw the line? If an alien drops a new element on earth, would this then be not ‘natural’? Or is it impossible for anything to not be natural?
A potentially simpler solution if you just want something like a header on the page(s), org-publish-project-alist elements support a :html-preamble key that you can assign to any custom function on a per-project basis.

That's how I insert a static <nav> header, and therefore don't have to eval any org-babel blocks as it's just integrated into org-publish. Also the function lives in your init.el this way and not an external script.
I’d love to see more awareness of the importance of indoor air quality this time around.
3+5432=123, so 4 digit code would require at least 134 key presses.

Even 3 digit code would require over 60 keypresses.

We're there other constraints on valid codes?

Did the door unlock in a valid non-consecutive* subsequence like 3,4,5,0,6?
Fear not, there is a handy proof we can use here...
Apparently they've been scraping Apple's network location database and plan to offer a substitute service running on GrapheneOS servers, as well as a way to upload data you collect on your device.
Just a reminder that extensions can be used to fingerprint your browser, so installing this makes you more unique and easier to track. It is recommended to keep browser extensions to a minimum.

uBlock Origin, as well as many other ad blockers, can already do this making this extension redundant.
Mimicking shark skin to create clean cutting boards
Please don't confuse people with wrong information, the reasoning part in reasoning models is the exact same LLM that produces the final answer. For example o1 uses special "thinking" tokens to demarcate between reasoning and answer sections of it's output.
n’est que du -> is only
If you want to see the previous threads, you have to remove "PDP-11" from the search query: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Clicking the "past" link by itself won't find them.
Therefore sync/engine layers like rxdb or Triplit.dev exist: to remove the complexity and have a "plug & play" system, without requiring each project/dev team to figure out those same problems from scratch.
I is smart!!! I escaped the 'corner of the market'

I used to have a simple Nokia back in the day. Then I switched to Compaq, then to HTC (Windows Mobile). Then back to Nokia 7110. Then to iPhone 3GS, then 4, 5, 6, then I stopped using iPhones and switched to Android.

But to be fair I'm 'in/into tech' since I was 9-10yo. I will jump from one tech to another when I think that this new tech will give me what I need at reasonable cost and at minimal privacy cost.

I remember loving syncing my Nokias with Outlook, then my iPhone, now my Android. There are always solutions out there and it is always easy to jump ship (at least for me). But I never used OneDrive or iCloud or Google Drive to begin with. So, for those who take the lazy approach, yes they will eat whatever is served and be thankful to their 'masters'.

For those who spend the time to think it through, there is no 'corner an entire market'.
Do you though? Do you drop everything to answer notifications as they pop up, or do you answer them at your convenience?
I don't think it's a matter of firing up an LLM and saying "Hey LLM, please find me a molecule that acts on human GLP-1 receptors but does not have the negative side effects of semaglutide." And it's all like "Certainly! Here are some candidate GLP-1 agonists that blah blah blah..."

It's probably more like AlphaFold -- a statistical model of molecular structure and action, not a language model.
What do you use to benchmark?
I found the science.org link difficult to read, but this seems clearer: https://cepi.net/world-should-prepare-now-potential-h5n1-flu...
Surely something like a selfhosted docker stack is a better plan than storing data in browsers?

Browsers having state like that beyond simple cookies seems like a not great plan to me
The Hottest Restaurant in France Is an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet
I don't expect simulated annealing to help too much to get a proof here.

Somewhat related: A video by 3Blue1Brown about the same problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQqtsm-bBRU
Haha, naming is always a pain either way... I remember we used to use some ERM software named ISIS, this is before the Isis became infamous. After months of getting bombarded with news on the terrorist group, having to ask questions like "can you check on Isis?" became an interesting affair.
I don't believe it, or expect significant stipulations, but I welcome it.
Looking at how they earned their 100s of CVEs, script kiddie almost looks like a compliment
That's not actually what this study finds, or even what it was trying to study. What it does find is that a majority of users of social media _believe_ that social media does them more harm than good, which is subtly but distinctly different. It may very well be that social media does in fact do 'more harm than good', but this study hasn't tried to quantify that.
My pet peeve here is the Fastmail app in Android. It doesn't even open if there is no internet connection! Why? I'm pretty sure it caches already many mails locally, why doesn't it work?
> weight loss is a side effect of the Ozempic family of drugs. It was intended as a type 2 diabetes drug and it’s quite successful in that area.

You can’t call it a side effect simply because the drug was first studied for a different condition.

Weight loss is a primary effect of the drug and it’s the indication it was approved for after extensive research.

Many drugs are first discovered while looking for some other effect.
Here in Brazil criminals are starting to use those to send phishing SMS, exploiting our ubiquitous mobile payment system (pix) or pretending to be a second authentication factor for banks.
How Monero Fulfilled Satoshi's Promise
Commerce to Overhaul Internet for All Plan, Expanding Starlink Funding Prospects
To achieve its requests in the US, the article needs more “oomph”. Do some mildly valid math to predict death counts, economic impact, etc and then maybe the government could be interested.
I am based in europe and i am disgusted by the current us politics, i have sold all my US stocks (it's a large number) for the one i didn't loose too much to come back to EU based stocks....

I am reviewing all my spending to keep the bare necessary to don't go to the us, it's nothing compared to the greater thing but it makes me feel better and sleep at night
This is the wrong move. People are starting to get used to their AI results even that many times inaccurate. I get wrong out dated results all the time, when I look for coding and documentation questions I’d the same thing.
Yes I know but that’s still only part of the puzzle. And why bother when you can just… not bother? Will it make the company more money? Lead to more sales? That’s why stuff like this is hard to prioritise.

If developers ran the ship from top to bottom you’d probably see more stuff like this in use. But product justifications are difficult to come by.

(notable that the article is written by someone at RxDB so they’re not exactly unbiased in their judgement)
Don’t forget that software is 10% building and 90% selling.

So even if you made the best competitor, distribution is key.

Looks promising and all the best!
Browser state should be more standardized and strict instead of favoring conflations specifically to benefit Google.
https://archive.ph/rIP67
That sounds like a 'Germany' problem, not a 'free university' problem. There are trivial ways to keep class sizes manageable.

One way is for universities to limit the available places in each degree for first year enrolment, and assign these places based on entrance exam results (as in Spain, where tuition isn't free but is very cheap compared to the U.S.). Another way is to have unlimited first year places, but restrict places from second year onwards to a given number n, allowing only the top n students from the first year to progress (as in France, where tuition is not technically free but averages to < 200€ a year).
What China's Ban on Rare Earths Processing Technology Exports Means (2024)
It would be a start, though, if we reintroduced keystone species, allowed less problematic predators free reign, and adopted a policy of generally consigning river floodplains to nature as much as possible rather than making rivers into sewers or canals. Trying to live inches from a flowing river is an anachronism from an earlier era when we cared about very different things.
Well, I sure hope the remainder of my URLs are safe.
> Yet each request still has a 100-200ms latency or more, which becomes noticeable in user interactions

ping dawn-night-7975.fly.dev
--- dawn-night-7975.fly.dev ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 11.566/12.635/14.000/0.841 ms

so, 6ms each way from my house in the suburbs of Philadelphia, to the closest Fly region near NYC about 80 miles away. When measuring UI response latency, this is the number that matters. No, your database is not in the edge. But cached query results are!
The two aren't contradictory, it's more that due to historic traditions as an offshoot of 2chan and cross-board culture, "otaku" culture still exerts a strong influence on most of the boards.
YouTube Forces Ads in Moldova Without Offering Premium as an Option
Until March 2024, users in Moldova enjoyed an ad-free experience on YouTube. However, in March 2024, YouTube began showing intrusive ads in the region. Despite this change, YouTube Premium — the service that allows users to remove ads — remains completely unavailable in Moldova. (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365)
This situation is frustrating because:
- workarounds don’t work: Using a VPN or changing the country in the YouTube profile doesn’t solve the issue, as payment methods are tied to the user’s actual location.
- no legal alternative exists: Moldovan users cannot subscribe to YouTube Premium to remove ads, unlike users in most other countries.

In response, a petition has been started on Change.org urging Google to make YouTube Premium available in Moldova. (https://www.change.org/p/bring-youtube-premium-to-moldova-stop-forced-ads-without-an-option-to-remove-them)

Many tried reaching out to support.google, but they only provide formal, generic replies and don’t address the core issue. I’m turning to the HN community for advice: Does anyone know a specific person, team, or organization at YouTube (or Alphabet) who could help with this issue?

Curious to hear your thoughts and suggestions.
It doesn't grow from cons cells, which some people think is crucial for an authentic Lisp. They also tend to exclude Clojure.

I think maybe the Janet designers don't want to get bogged down in the language wars, and don't really care whether lispers enjoy their language or not.

A language with Lisp in the name and cons cells that a purist might argue isn't an authentic Lisp is Picolisp, e.g. because it has FEXPR:s rather than SEXPR:s and no macros. It's a great tool either way, easy to be very productive in when inventing ad hoc tools in a shell. The 'match function is quite different from e.g. the PEG:s in Janet but I really like it when doing something obtuse and gnarly with strings. Having a Prolog engine at hand is always good too.

https://picolisp.com/wiki/?home
Could it be that some people are not American and pretty tired of the trump 24/7 news cycle?
Can I ask why you wouldn't use a cloud provider for that? Just curious. If I had a music collection, I would have set up similar to yours along with a linked service to constantly review global trends and check new music that I might like as about 20-60% of the music I listen every week is new relative to previous weeks
The Valuation Guide: DCF to Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Is this ancient lore I am unaware of?
Using Tvix Store to Reduce Nix Storage Costs by 90%
>His NATO excuse never made any sense. Don't invade anybody, and you have nothing to fear from NATO.

May be he is/was worried about USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOkl2XgZlw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzgPJeYZaOU
There has been a few historical initiatives to prevent politicians (and their families) from inside trading, including projects that exist to track and record it. Most seems to focus on congress. I also recall attempts to outlaw politicians from playing the stock market because of the obvious risk of inside trading, but I don't remember any success in that area.

Looking at tracking data, it seems that a few individuals are responsible for the majority of trades, but there is also a fairly long tail, and they don't track family members who could act as proxies.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn850jj44mjo
> Today, IndexedDB can typically store hundreds of megabytes to multiple gigabytes of data, depending on device capacity. Chrome allows up to ~80% of free disk space per origin (tens of GB on a desktop), Firefox now supports on the order of gigabytes per site (10% of disk size), and even Safari (historically strict) permits around 1GB per origin on iOS.

Does anyone else see this as more harmful than beneficial? It would be one thing if expanded storage were a new permission that I had to explicitly grant to a site, maybe with the ability to set a budget per site. As is, now every random website that I visit can store an arbitrary amount of data on my hard drive and it's on me to stay on top of that by clearing out data regularly (but hopefully remembering not to clear data from the sites that I care about!).

I don't think we can live in a world where arbitrary sites can store whatever they want on your computer—leaving it up to you to clean up the mess periodically—and at the same time the primary copy of important data from important apps is stored in the same way. In a world where people have to regularly clean up the mess left by hundreds of other developers, even a "local first" web app has to treat the data as only safe once it lands on the developer's server, which means the primary copy is on the server, not the device. In a few cases maybe it would be beneficial to have a full copy offline (maybe your users regularly deal with unreliable connectivity), but most apps won't benefit enough to be worth the hassle.

There's no user data sovereignty here until browsers give users sovereignty over who gets to store data in the first place.
You weren’t disgusted before when the US was killing and torturing brown people across the world?
A lot of naysayers on this idea but there’s plenty of low hanging fruit that companies would love to find a cheaper option for. It would of course take time to gain traction without a sales force but also this very community of people that would band together could effectively evangelize a better solution with just their existing network. Tech people are often the early adopters and word spread via Twitter, etc.

I’m in non-tech industries in finance/accounting and during budget conversations a few things over the past few years consistently pop up as this costs too damn much; smartsheets, zoom, slack, etc. I actually implement a specific
Oracle product that costs most companies 6 figures a year that could easily be self service SAAS product with a much better solution. Financial analysts skew mildly technical and could implement it themselves and be targeted fairly easily. Competition exists but they always bloat the product to charge almost as much or more than Oracle does. But end users only care about a few small features and I think some one could execute those much better than what exists on the market. All competitors require an enterprise software sales process to even see/demo their software. If the analysts could login, connect to their data, and set some custom configurations (possibly llm assisted?), and worry about monetizing the relationship until the value prop has been realized- then I think this would spread on its own, people in the industry talk, change jobs frequently and take their tooling preferences with them. Best of all, this group of people usually report to a cfo and can offer their department a significant cost savings by doing this, saving the company money is literally their job already. That’s my business idea without giving it away entirely lol.

Comment here if you’re actually interested in this, I would love to join a group like this working on something as a group. I can code but never done so professionally or as part of a team.
Yeah reasoning models are "self-doubt" models.

The model is trained to encourage re-evaluating the soundness of tokens produced during the "thinking phase".

The model state vector is kept in a state of open exploration. Influenced by the already emitted tokens but less strongly so.

The non-reasoning models were just trained with the goal of producing useful output on a first try and they did their best to maximize that fitness function.
Does this fix the annoyingly poor performance of location services on graphene without compromising privacy? If so it's impressive.

How would I enable it?
I mean, I'm sure there's some founder out there pitching an AI-powered rubber duck dev productivity tool.

At the very least, someone at Copilot must have pitched a rubber duck avatar as the new Clippy by now...
Ironically, all of this was already implemented 30+ years ago — local storage, local code providing UI and data manipulation, seldom-connected model for dial-up or Internet, automated replication & conflict resolution with servers, DOD-grade security, etc..

It was Lotus Notes. Then IBM bought it and started ramping up pricing and walling it off.

I'm convinced that, had IBM gone the other direction and opened it up, they could have owned the Internet. Instead, Notes is just a forgotten footnote and IBM is... who are they again?
Regex is one of my favorite things to work with. It's surgery. I love having a very specific problem and a very sharp knife. What I hate is chasing down language or library bugs, or undocumented limitations. Of course I would hate it if I had never used it extensively. Its terseness is harder if you only have to pick it up occasionally.
The problem as I see it is that large-scale farming creates an ideal place for viruses to mutate and possibly become dangerous to us. It's pretty much inevitable that we're going to get new virus strains emerging from livestock - it's just a question of when and also how well different countries deal with it.

A global approach is the only sensible way to deal with pathogens that can spread so easily as it's becoming almost impossible for countries to control borders sufficiently (especially if birds are a vector).
sigh

The key difference according to the famous Berlin interpretation is that roguelikes are supposed to have certain traits [1] making them into a variation of classic games: ADOM, (B)Rogue, Nethack, etc.

Metaprogression can or cannot be in the game. Doesn't even matter.

In this worldview roguelites, generally speaking, only borrow certain aspects of the definition, with permadeath being the main one.

Either way, there are many (very) influential devs who do not agree even with this strict definition [2].

[1] https://www.roguebasin.com/index.php/Berlin_Interpretation

[2] http://www.gamesofgrey.com/blog/?p=403
OpenAI shouldn't do credits in ChatGPT
Irrespective of whether they are proud of what they are doing, I found the post helpful and educational. Let's not prevent people from sharing their knowledge as it might help us to protect ourselves. A consequence of such line of questioning would be that in future they would be hesitant to share their knowledge to avoid being judged.
I have reality -> that's the thing i'm working on, which happens to be a bunch of very hard problems which I need resolved as that's for a client. Then I have a dream -> that's the thing I want to do before I expire. And most theory is for the dreams, but the 'easier' project already needs a lot of research & effort.
While it is nice to have more options, it still definitely isn't at a human level yet for hard to read text. Still haven't seen anything that can deal with something like this very well: https://i.imgur.com/n2sBFdJ.jpeg

If I remember right, Gemini actually was the closest as far as accuracy of the parts where it "behaved", but it'd start to go off the rails and reword things at the end of larger paragraphs. Maybe if the image was broken up into smaller chunks. In comparison, Mistral for the most part (besides on one particular line for some reason) sticks to the same number of words, but gets a lot wrong on the specifics.
I'm going to second this, hard. You're much better off doing anybody's $10/month github copilot/codey/cursor plan, spend less to get a laptop that does everything else better, then in a year or 2 ask again to see if localLLMs have gotten better or if x86 laptops have gotten better.

What I can do with localLLM on my MacBook is not worth paying extra for an x86 laptop that be heavier, hotter, louder, and less battery (especially if you're not going to play games).
Supporting Mimblewimble / MWEB privacy might be a good next move for Bitcoin. Apparently it works for Litecoin. Alternatively, one other option is to use Litecoin, with or without MWEB, for transactions - it supports them better than Bitcoin.
Defending Tailwind
If the companies combined can meet demand
This could be related (no news articles as of yet—too insignificant?)

- "Entire Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office at NOAA fired (self.space)"

- "The Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs (CRSRA) directorate at NOAA is the licensing body in the US for remote sensing space platforms. I interact with this office as part of my job in the industry, and we received notice that everyone in the office was fire this week as part of the ongoing gutting of the federal government."

https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1j1ww74/entire_comme... (4 days ago)
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I used a ChatGPT this morning. I asked for a website url related to one of my queries. It kept giving me wrong ones. I believe this is going to be frequent in the LLM era and I fail to see how it AI-only results are an improvement when this fundamental flaws of LLMs are not tackled head-on