skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally-drug-resistant tuberculosis (TDR-TB) breaking out widely is among the more terrifying nightmare scenarios of which I'm aware, and has been high on my list of concerns for well over a decade.[1].

Unlike more virulant diseases (think, say, Ebola), TDR-TB transmits slowly, but steadily, especially under conditions of poverty (overcrowding, poor ventilation, poor hygiene), many carriers are asymptomatic (we've seen what this does with Covid-19), and there is no cure.

The only treatment is to give patients free and isolated housing, plus food, clothing and entertainment. As a friend noted, "If you execute them or put them in prison cells and feed them slop nobody goes to the doctor if they have a cough." (See: <https://web.archive.org/web/20230531181139/https://old.reddi...>).

TDR-TB already exists in places such as India.

If an uncontrolled outbreak were to emerge in one of the world's poor megacities, places such as Dhaka, Bangladesh; Cairo, Egypt; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Lagos, Nigeria; Karachi, Pakistan; Delhi, or Mumbai, or Kolkata, India; Jakarta, Indonesia; Metro Manila, Philippines; Mexico City, Mexico; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Luanda, Angola; or in other places with public health systems which are already dysfunctional and are now under further direct attack, such as the United States of America, it's going to be a very, very, very troubling future.

Cutting USAID is already beyond idiotic and short-sighted. This is simply suicidal.

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Notes:

1. See e.g., <https://web.archive.org/web/20230531181139/https://old.reddi...> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640362>.
Hmm.. I think we are talking past each other. In my initial comment I said "I do disagree with your assertion that “Life is much harder for some of us.” I still maintain that comment.

In my follow up comment I attempted to clarify my comment in response to giantg2's reply. "I do not have a disability (my wife may disagree) and I agree it makes life more challenging (wouldn’t be called a disability otherwise)." I completely agree a disability makes life more difficult. I simply added that it is not the only thing that makes life more difficult. All of these things need to be considered when making career/job decisions.
The Roslyn APIs are the .NET equivalent: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/roslyn-sdk/c...
Grave reveals victims of 2100-year-old massacre, war between East Asian empires
And they'll be able to tack an extra couple dollars onto the price because that's a good signal you're not gonna comparison shop.

Innovation!
Personally I think even Half Life looks better with the software renderer today. Maybe that's just because it's the way I first played it.
It's worth actually trying Cursor, because it is a valuable step change over previous products and you might find it's better in some ways than your custom setup. The processes they use for creating the context seems to be really good. And their autocomplete is far better than Copilot's in ways that could provide inspiration.

That said, you're right that it's not as overwhelmingly revolutionary as the internet would lead you to believe. It's a step change over Copilot.
This consequence is so obvious one must assume it's part of the calculation. The US has an unsustainable military budget. Their bet, as I see it, is that the US will see a net positive from the shrinking of the military industrial complex and reduction in expenses defending Europe.

The US has a big enough military to keep the contractors afloat. Also, keep in mind that despite Europe having good technology in many areas, it will take many years, if not decades, for Europe to have real competitors that can match the American equipment in key capital intensive areas.
Show HN: If you're an entrepreneur, this tool will be a big help...
So basically, we built something that started from our own struggle. We had an idea for a project but struggled to find the perfect name for it. We used AI to brainstorm ideas, but guess what? When we looked for the domain names, they were already taken.

We thought, why not build something that gives you a perfect, brandable name based on your idea while only showing available domains?

So we built it: https://findnextdomain.com/. The UI is great, feel free to try it out! We also have prompt templates for different scenarios. I think this will be useful for a lot of people.

Would love to get your feedback!
I’m only slightly familiar with the academic process. Who reviews the peer reviewer?
The state department has decided that untreatable tuberculosis would make America safer, stronger, and more prosperous I guess.
What is with the incorrect function declarations? I see:

int (func)().

Maybe you meant: int * (*func)(void)?

Don't mean to be pedantic. Just wanted to point it out so you can fix it.
Ask HN: I gathered info about ~1700 SaaS'es. Can I scale it into business?
Hello! I wanted to ask you for your opinion.

Over the weekend I built a very small demo where I hosted a website where you can view info about ~1700 SaaS'es / Online businesses.

I was able to get info like: website link, seo title, seo description, pricing link, contact link, socials. Of course not every website has every field present. (I wanted to scrape email addresses as well, but apparently it's illegal :P )

I had an idea that I could sell access to the database and let people query it (of course through some front-end). Including some nice fuzzy matching or leverage some LLM to get proper keywords for each saas.

I was wondering, how can I validate if there is a market for something like that? I am wondering if anyone would be willing to pay for product like that if I would for example scale number of entries to 10k or 50k.

What do you think about it?

PS. I am not sure if this is a proper place to ask such questions. Sorry in advance if I made a mistake!
This is untrue.

You can be over specified in your prompts and say exactly what types and algorithms you want if you’re opinionated.

I often write giant page long specs to get exactly the code I want.

It’s only 2x as fast as coding, but thinking in English is way better than coding.
>Test-time compute/RL on LLMs:
>It will not meaningfully generalize beyond domains with easy verification.

To me, this is the biggest question mark. If you could get good generalized "thinking" from just training on math/code problems with verifiers, that would be a huge deal. So far, generalization seems to be limited. Is this because of a fundamental limitation, or because the post-training sets are currently too small (or otherwise deficient in some way) to induce good thinking patterns? If the latter, is that fixable?
Windows? If anything when it comes to "technical things" macOS is what gets copied.
Rocket Companies to Acquire Redfin
It’s also why our cars keep running people over and our websites keep overturning democracies
This hospital in Uganda will stop receiving UsAid funds https://fondazionecorti.it/usaid-lascia-luganda/

they are pretty much desperate!

__________________ google translation ___________

Dear all, I am writing to you from Lacor, where I arrived a few days ago.

In addition to the challenges that we have been facing for many years together with the hospital staff, there is another challenge that was unimaginable until a few weeks ago: the blocking of funds from the US agency USAID. For over twenty years, USAID has financed the life-saving program for HIV-positive people, that is, prevention, diagnosis and above all the expensive treatment of HIV patients.

Yesterday, March 6, we received the letter that puts an end to the hopes of continuing to receive at least the precious drugs.

For Lacor, this means a loss of approximately 600 thousand dollars a year. The antiretroviral drugs alone that were guaranteed to the 7 thousand HIV-positive people being treated at Lacor had a value of 400 thousand dollars. A sum equal to the cost of all the other drugs needed to treat the rest of the 190 thousand patients that the hospital receives every year.

In addition, Lacor received approximately 200 thousand dollars to cover the salaries of approximately 40 employees involved in the care of HIV patients.

Costs that Lacor, already in crisis due to the exceptional increases caused by the pandemic and the geopolitical situation, cannot afford. The Foundation, which meets the needs in times of crisis, cannot even cope with further figures of this magnitude.

Since yesterday, Dr Emmanuel Ochola, scientific director and head of the HIV program at Lacor, has stopped outreach, missions for check-ups and the distribution of drugs to those who live in distant villages.

In a few days we will run out of antiretroviral reserves in the hospital.

For me, for all my Ugandan and Italian colleagues, health workers and otherwise, who share with me the happiness and responsibility of this work, these are not faceless people who live on the other side of the world. They are women who have worked in the hospital for decades, who support their families. Women who I remember reduced like my mother to a skeleton, sick every other week until, in 2004, this program was started.

With antiretrovirals they started living again, they had children... now the thoughts and worries are crazy.

But it is just another of those diseases that here in Uganda lead to death, while in Italy they are quickly and simply resolved.

Without antiretrovirals, HIV is a death sentence and again a great danger of spreading the virus.

We are looking for solutions to stem the emergency, but the blanket is short, the resources increasingly stretched.
Matrox had great hardware, but the software drivers took too long to catch up. I was on the OpenGL team and my life's mission was to get Quake running as fast as the G200 and G400 was capable of. We finally caught up and got parity with Nvidia's TNT2, and then bam, they released the GeForce 256 series, and it was curtains for Matrox because their next gen hardware wasn't ready yet.
"Move fast and break things" isn't the best strategy when dealing with a large, complex entity having a major impact on the lives of American citizens and even non-American citizens.

When Al Gore headed up DOGE (NPR - National Partnership for Reinventing Government) they spent considerable time working with department heads and members of Congress in doing their analysis and making their recommendations. Congress made their cuts in the next budget cycle. It resulted in 377,000 federal employees being let go and two years of budget surpluses. No chaos, no circus, just competence.

Republicans are acting like this has never been done before, it has. They had a successful blueprint. They had a majority in Congress that would have went along with anything that was even remotely reasonable. Their gross incompetence and ignorance of prior art has resulted in chaos.
Apple's plan to power Siri with ChatGPT was a predictable failure
The States will never financially recover from this.
Ihave no opinion about this yet, but this is, I believe, about centralizing the NIH process for setting up study sessions for reviews on grants, not the reviewing itself.
> Who is choosing anything but Kotlin for new projects on the JVM?

I dunno... Scala, Clojure, and Groovy users? Small user bases, but the languages are not dead.
In my encoding I represent the works of Shakespeare by the digit 0, anything else by the digit 1 followed by its ASCII representation.
And, why this won't happen.

"utilities have financial incentives to make large and expensive investments, but not to save consumers money. When ATTs are installed in place of building new transmission capacity, the smaller capital costs mean that utilities make lower profits. For example, utilities might earn $600,000 per year after building a new mile of transmission, compared with about $4,500 per mile annually after installing the equipment and software necessary for line ratings. "
WB axes Shadow of Mordor maker in setback for clever, sadly patented game system
I'll give you one guess as to which branch of government most agencies belong to. Yes, agencies are being gutted.
I love Gareth Edwards's writing!
I was trying to be charitable.

From my perspective, Tesla is done. Sales are in free fall, especially in Europe and Asia, during an EV surge, the brand is dead for 2/3 of the planet (again, trying to be charitable) and the stock value is mostly relying on the promise of autonomous driving, but if they ever manage to get it work, I don't think that will be enough to repair the damages, we entered emotional/cultural territory regarding anything this guy touches.
Robert Horn's `Visual language: global communication for the 21st century` is another great one!
> I have to hold the power button to force it off roughly twice a month [...]

Hmm...

$ last | grep reboot
reboot time Sun Feb 16 14:10
reboot time Fri Feb 14 19:40
reboot time Thu Jan 30 09:52
reboot time Fri Dec 13 16:20
reboot time Tue Oct 29 15:32
reboot time Tue Sep 17 12:19
[...]

I guess most of these are from macOS updates. I don't think I've used the power button at all in the past year or so? FWIW I'm using a Mac mini (also M1) rather than a Macbook, but "it works for me" was the entire point of my original comment.

> it absolutely refuses to play nice with my KVM (that my desktop has no issues with)

Honestly I'm with you here, but I'm pretty sure KVMs are just pure lottery. I plug the mini via USB-C/DP to a screen that has a simple built-in USB hub (which in turn handles mouse/KB/audio interface); this also works perfectly fine with my Thinkpad T495. However an expensive TB3 dock with a dozen ports doesn't work with either, but it's just fine with a 2017 MBP. TBH I wouldn't blame any of the involved parties; USB-C/TB always came off as a finicky mess to me.

> I'm a software engineer at a company that does all macbooks.

I can't say anything but extend my sympathy. In an ideal world, companies prioritise employee satisfaction and productivity. There's an argument that this is a trade-off vs increased IT support cost/workload, but I guess SWEs don't need much support to begin with?

You could at least appeal on the basis that the HW you've been provided with is clearly unreliable. Come up with some numbers about lost productivity. Bosses love numbers.
GPS (as well as most satellite) signals are weak because it's strong enough for line of sight even from so far away. They only transmit at 25W. Comparatively, an FM/TV signal will often broadcast at tens of thousands of watts and up.
LLMs absolutely destroy interview questions and programming contests. They can spit out well designed classes and nicely packaged functions instantly.

But in my experience they haven't been great whenever asked to something more high level
The Megalodon was less mega than previously believed
I wish the same would happen to Oil imported from Canada. Doing that may help a bit with Climate Change.

I do not know about Ontario, but IIRC, most electricity imported from Quebec is hydro.
Sophist.
If anyone is interested in trying this, here is some Python starter code you might find useful:
https://github.com/minireference/lulu-api-client?tab=readme-...

This worked four years ago when the API was still launched, but there might have been changes since, so no guarantees.

Most ArXiv PDFs are probably lulu-printable out of the box, but to make a general solution, one would probably need to do some pre-processing with ghostscript (gs), e.g. embed all fonts and flatten images (no transparency).
It reminds me of the book "Press Here" by Herve Tullet

https://www.amazon.com/Press-Here-Board-Herve-Tullet/dp/1452...
I've been trying to post my Wordle score all morning. Before it was actually down, I noticed a glitch where I got a "Sorry, something went wrong" when I tried to mark my image as sensitive (as a spoiler).

This leads me to believe that they attack is using image metadata as a vector of attack.
Because language doesn't matter.
> I decided to give an AI

What model? What wrapper? There's just a huge amount of options on the market right now, and they drastically differ in quality.

Personally, I've been using Claude Code for about a week (since it's been released) and I've been floored with how good it is. I even developed an experimental self-developing system with it.
A) you keep on using the word "almanac". That term only refers to the imprecise information about all satellites that every satellite broadcasts, mostly to improve TTFF. The actual position used for navigation is called "ephemeris", and each satellite only broadcasts its own.

B) none of that other stuff in the navigation message changes the pseudorange, which is what spoofers mess with. For a networking analogy - pseudoranges are calculated based on layer 1/2 properties of the network. (Specifically the code phase and Doppler shift.) Navigation messages are layer 7 information passed on top of that physical layer. You can change the timing and frequency characteristics of the PRN code without touching a single bit of the navigation message.)

The G/NAV message (note the G - government) is for a separate service - not OSNMA - where not only is the navigation message encrypted, but the PRN code is also encrypted (symmetrically, so it can't be done for the mass market or even untrusted commercial customers).
Just like the vast majority of Americans. Of course, none of the things this group is complaining about have anything to do with the rights of black people either.
THis has nothing to do with what is changing.
I have times when I use an LLM and it’s completely brain dead and can’t handle the simplest questions.

Then other times it blows me away. Even figuring out things that can’t possibly have been in its training data.

I think there are groups of people that have either had all of the first experience or all of the latter. And that’s why we see over optimistic and over pessimistic takes (like this one)

I think the reality is current LLM’s are better than he realizes and even if we plateau I really don’t see how we don’t make more breakthroughs in the next few years.
"Two main results emerge. First, average skills increase strongly into the forties before decreasing slightly in literacy and more strongly in numeracy. Second, skills decline at older ages only for those with below-average skill usage. White-collar and higher-educated workers with above-average usage show increasing skills even beyond their forties. Women have larger skill losses at older age, particularly in numeracy."
Exactly. Why is it a story that a private company banned an account for posting content that violates it’s ToS AS WELL AS targets a group of people special to the primary owner of said company? This story is absolutely nothing other than adding synthetic fuel to the fire that already hates Elon.
Obviously not. Neither do we (officially). Unofficially we do.
We really need to get nuanced about the discussion around LLMs in programming. My experience is that LLMs work great for producing glue code. Join together a bunch of well documented APIs? LLMs will make enough progress that I can finish it myself. Produce a pile of HTML and CSS for a nondescript design? I'll get at least a mostly working result that I can easily fix up. But try to, say, design a cross platform GUI library and the results are underwhelming. LLMs know a heck of a lot of stuff, but they are not very good at working with concepts.
https://openmtp.ganeshrvel.com/
The proliferation of Hanlon's Razor has been one of the most damaging things to society.

People as a whole are not incompetent, every individual (and every grouping of individuals) have goals and will take appropriate actions to achieve them with intent, but somehow a neologism has tricked people into believing this is the exception and not the norm.
> We don’t want the US’ stuff anymore

I wonder why this sentiment is not reflected in stock prices. It seems like major defense companies are close to ATH and keep growing. Not trying to argue, just wonder what is the reason for it.
AFAICT, American copyright law does say "To prepare derivative works based upon the work" is not allowed, and doesn't say anything about private derivatives being an exception to that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...

Certainly if you privately modify it is going to be unlikely for someone to find out you did that, but that doesn't make it any less illegal.
Ah, the delights of a page that covers 26 years of history and hasn't been updated for 21 years

I can at least say that in the meantime, RISC OS is still alive and now open, available from https://www.riscosopen.org/, and most people will know the ARM company and its architectures went from strength to strength, even if the RISC PC faded away.
Yeah, I left a job where I loved the team and didn't mind the leadership too much for a 45% raise. Got lucky and the job I landed in was an even better fit for me.
The UK has a FTA with the EU. What they don’t have is access to the single market or a customs union.
On a only slightly related note, there's a thriving collectors market on ebay and other places for "clear plastic" see through enclosure prison CRT TVs since they're both a novelty, and nobody makes CRTs anymore. People buy them to hook up to like Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo bare metal hardware for retro gaming.
Debunking MongoDB Myths: Security, Scale, and Performance
It's low resolution plus the cards only supported bilinear filtering, which turns things into a blurry mess.

Overall it looked better, but a lot of Quake 2 players weren't aware of a lot of the small details that were put into the textures.
Show HN: Instant Python playground with file handling and libraries
Hey HN, I just launched this online Python compiler.

It handles file uploads, data viz, libraries, script scheduling, keyboard shortcuts, dark mode, etc.

Uses the incredible Pyodide to execute Python in the browser using WebAssembly.
Overcoming Academic Impostor Syndrome
He never will, and neither will his most ardent supporters. Television is their reality, and they're very selective about only watching channels that confirm their biases.
A bit late to reply, but none of this actually answers my question. I don't doubt distillation from behavior is possible, I doubt that it's possible when 90% of o1's behavior is never returned from the API. If the chain of thought process is what improves the results, then distillation without the chain of thought to train on should not produce comparable results.
The problem isn't what Musk is cutting, the reason for the hate is the illegal and unconstitutional manner in which he is doing it, as well as the blatant self dealing and conflicts of interest. If you excuse these things, you're part of the problem.
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Also, the Russians have been playing around with rebroadcasting legit signals with slight delays as well. The Ukraine war has been a very interesting time to observe these tricks.
This sounds terrifying!