skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed recently, they ask you about some of the transformations with a popup instead of automatically doing them when you open csv files.
In Canada you can just steal public funds if you're in the government with complete immunity. Set up a government program to support X (ex - greeness, gender education in congo, studying a random worm somewhere in asia, etc), then just transfer the funds directly to your own companies, and the companies of your friends and family [1]. We had like 5 major corruption scandals in the last 2 years - basically zero repercussions for those involved.

If you pick the right reason/name for X - anyone who crticises you can also automatically be labelled racist, dumb, fascist or whatever as well.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Tech...
Ah yes. I never thought about that since I use closed-back headphones. (Bose 700 ANC)
It's not a theoretical for me anymore, I've already cancelled a trip I was planning this summer, and have expressed concerns with friends and family who are still thinking of making the journey.
Afaik AMA lobbied congress to raise the amount of residencies.
> I can literally drive to a CVS, spend $10 on a test, and self-diagnose a UTI by peeing on a stick

It's knowing to do that in a case that isn't obvious that's the hard bit. Once you've decided to check for UTI, yes, it's an easy self-test.
> You’re not paying for the time — you’re paying for the privilege of certainty, of safety, of knowing your doctor passed through the most rigorous, exclusive system in the world.

Certainly. But how many 9's do we actually need and why are we paying for so many more 9's than that?

Most of the time, I know when my kid needs antibiotics for an ear infection. I didn't go through any exclusive gamut for that single 9.
> In this instance, the author definitely got lucky that they were working at Google where 1) there were enough users to generate this Heisenbug consistently and 2) that they had direct access to Chrome devs.

I'm not sure this is really luck.

The fix is to just not use Math.abs. If they didn't work at Google they still would've done the same debugging and used the same fix. Working at Google probably harmed them as once they discovered Math.abs didn't work correctly they could've just immediately used `> 0` instead of asking the chrome team about it.

There's nothing lucky about slowly adding printf statements until you understand what the computer is actually doing; that's just good work.
I wonder if it makes more sense for people who use other scripts besides Latin. I know there are some Chinese-character based programming languages
It's funny that reel is at IKEA, given IKEA's sketchily engineered tax structure, and that it's also the same company that paid off Romanian secret police under Ceaușescu.
I don't think the world where a mob of people can gang up on a person and take their stuff is as idyllic as you think it is. If the person who has figured out how to earn a lot of food doesn't get to "hoard" it, it'll just get hoarded by a person with the biggest stick.

What's worse (for the society), is that in this world nobody has an incentive to create wealth, because they know it'll just be taken away. When rich people aren't in power, people with political capital and big guns are. I don't think that's better.

If AGI takes over, that changes things, somewhat. If it creates unlimited abundance, then it shouldn't matter who has the most (if everyone has plenty). Yes, it would create power disparity, but the thing is, there'll always be SOMEBODY at the top of the social hierarchy, with most of the money and power - in the AGI scenario, that is someone who is in charge of AGI's actions.

Either it's AGI itself (in which case all bets are off, since it's an alien god we cannot control), or the people who have developed AGI, or the politicians who have nationalized it.

Personally, I'm uncomfortable with anyone having that much power, but if I had to pick the lesser evil - I'd prefer it to be a CEO of an AI company (who, at least, had the competence and skill to create it), instead of the AGI itself (who has no reason to care about us unless we solve alignment), or one of the political world leaders (all of whom seem actively insane and/or evil).
It also depends on the suburb. I was sad when I lived in Mountain View, heading in sight unseen, but there were a lot of sidewalks and a little main drag with some bars and shops.

A lot of "suburbs" in the Midwest lack sidewalks -- you can have the cops roll on you if you try to walk anywhere.
Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves
Isn't Ronnie Coleman also going through this to be able to walk again?
Probably not that long, uranocene (a comparatively heavy molecule of similar structure) apparently has an appreciable vapor pressure of 10^-3 torr or so at 200C.

Weight does matter of course, but intermolecular bonding/affinity is generally the more important consideration.
What's the most sympathetic way to state your position? E.g., I'm struggling with "I'm angry because I can't make money off of iPhone users the way I want to" that just doesn't sound sympathetic to me? Does it to you? (This may just be a conflict of values again, i.e., it sounds entitled to me to want to have equal access to sell your products to all smartphone users, regardless of their choices, that sounds super invasive to me in fact.)

Also be curious what you think of console makers like Nintendo who have a similar approach regarding revenue cuts and access as Apple? Specifically why is there so much hate at Apple using this model but not Nintendo?
There are also documented effects of your camera quality, and even where your camera is placed (as you tend to look at your screen during a call so your gaze is always relative to it).
Declarative Web Push
Automatic reference counting is a form of GC, and optimized versions of it end up very similar to tracing GC: https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~weimerw/2012-4610/reading/bacon-...

(except that ARC can't handle cyclic graphs)
> In some countries, doctors are taking public buses to work

I am programmer who earns quite a lot and takes public bus to work, because why wouldn't I?

> The years of unpaid labor, the crushing debt, the endless exams — it’s not a flaw, it’s a filter. Without those standards, the profession would lose its weight, its dignity.

That is ridiculous argument. I would be fine with idea that they learn better if this or that, but this here would make me think you are being sarcastic if you was not serious in the rest of the post.
IK Multimedia iRig Stream Mic USB, it sounds great, has a built in audio interface, pop filter, direct monitoring, mixing, light up mute button, and all for under $100.

Def use the mic with a pair of wired headphones/earbuds to use the live/direct monitoring feature.

My team used to have a lot of issues with people mics being too loud or too quiet without realizing. Getting everyone on that mic and specifically using direct monitoring has solved that issue.
No? Not when the requests are served by a machine with the capacity to answer a hundred times more requests than are actually made. The only bad faith request for information is the one that wasted the answerer's time, which isn't usually happening here. It happens sometimes, but we're also trying to block the times that doesn't happen. Why?
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Really depends on how the CSV is generated/transferred. If the output of the faulting software is line-buffered then it's quite likely that a failure would terminate the file at a line break.
Then you should support the AMA's lobbying efforts to remove the bottleneck in residency programs.

https://savegme.org/about
> Also dont forget about deskilling

de-skilling (reducing skills), not desk killing, for anyone else as illiterate as me
Instead of getting tangled up in social issues, liberal politicians should be prioritizing housing, infrastructure and government services supporting people's economic activity of all kinds.

Delivering better lives for people, and having the courage to stand up to vested interests, from house owners to corporations, would create a huge and lasting political win across a broad section of the electorate.
long time = never gonna happen OR world war happens
Ask HN: Exact irrational digit extraction now possible – one-time IP sale
A method now exists that produces exact arbitrary-digit values from irrational and transcendental expressions.

No approximation. No floating point. No machine learning.
Just a proven structure that works.

It computes correct digits — deterministically — from expressions that previously required rounding or estimation.

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I don't understand why cashless is a goal. You want DOGE to be able to control who you're allowed to pay, directly? And Trump Admin tracks every transaction?

I understand that w bills with serial numbers, cash is also trackable, but there's something deeply authoritarian about monetary systems predicated on a fiat currency with no physical representation.

Going to have to start buying little bags of silver coins with which to effect personal trade
This is a bit different. In your case, you're reusing code and data laying around in a running process to do your bidding from within.

Here, I'm actually stealing code and data from one or more executables and turning these back into object files for further use. Think Doctor Frankenstein, but with program parts instead of human parts.

I only operate on dead patients in a manner of speaking, but you could delink stuff from a running process too I suppose. I don't think it would be useful in the context of return-oriented programming, since all the code you can work with is already loaded in memory, there's no need to delink it back to relocatable code first.
Nothing built-in yet, but if you have a service that lets users pay for API keys then you can achieve this in effect. There are already some good examples:

- Models like Relace's Instant Apply (https://hub.continue.dev/relace/instant-apply)

- Codebase context services like Greptile (https://hub.continue.dev/continuedev/greptile-context)

- MCP servers for services like Exa (https://hub.continue.dev/exa/exa-mcp)
An Ode to the Game Boy Advance
Old people are 'aging in place' instead of cultivating the new generation and it really, really shows
This is extremely interesting: The authors look at features (like making poetry, or calculating) of LLM production, make hypotheses about internal strategies to achieve the result, and experiment with these hypotheses.

I wonder if there is somewhere an explanation linking the logical operations made on a on dataset, are resulting in those behaviors?
Any LLM could have told me to do that.

And yes, LLMs are frequently wrong. Do you really want to go there, Doctor...?
For everyone complaining about CSV/TSV, there's a scripting language called R.

It makes working with CSV/TSV files super simple.

It's as easy this:

# Import tidyverse after installing it with
install.packages("tidyverse")

library(tidyverse)

# Import TSV

dataframe_tsv <- read_tsv("data/FileFullOfDataToBeRead.tsv")

# Import CSV

dataframe_csv <- read_csv("data/FileFullOfDataToBeRead.csv")

# Mangle your data with dplyr, regular expressions, search and replace, drop NA's, you name it.

<code to sanitize all your data>

Multiple libraries exist for R to move data around, change the names of entire columns, change values in every single row with regular expressions, drop any values that have no assigned value, it's the swiss army knife of data. There are also all sorts of things you can do with data in R, from mapping with GPS coordinates to complex scientific graphing with ggplot2 and others.

Here's an example for reading iButton temperature sensor data: https://github.com/hominidae/ibutton_tempsensors/

Notice that in the code you can do the following to skip leading lines by passing it as an argument: skip = 18

cf1h <- read_csv("data/Coldframe_01_High.csv", skip = 18)
It always comes back to social issues because some people have a problem with policies that support all kinds of economic activities.
I was raised among scientists whose attitude was that reality was so interesting, delving into fantasy was a poor substitute. To be honest, I still rather feel this way, but I see that for so many people, the demands of knowledge, effort, and time required for positive outcomes in their corner of reality are too great for most people to experience much of significance. So I've become less critical of fantasy as an absorbing interest. Furthermore, in a world where the bulk of published research is non-replicable, I've become bothered by doubts about how much of my mental models of scientific reality are actually fantasy.
China Took Fish into the Desert and Left Them for a Year, the Result [video]
Apple Set to Invest $1B in Nvidia AI Servers
TBH security is someone the source of the issues, as it often involves adding randomness. For example, replacing deterministic hashes by keyed hashes to protect from hash flooding DoS led to deterministic output becoming nondeterministic (e.g. when displaying a hash table in its natural order).

Sorting had to be added to that kind of output.
The main issue with the Yeti Blue is that it's 15 years old: although microphone tech doesn't evolve as much over the years, it's still behind a bit (e.g. it does 48 kHz/16-bit audio while modern USB mics do 96 kHz/24-bit). It also uses a USB-mini connector which is very annoying.

There are a few modern improvements on it, such as the Yeti X.
When it comes to token requests, Hyperbolic is significantly cheaper than its competitors.

Price per 1M Input Tokens:

@hyperbolic_labs
: $0.14
DeepSeek (Discounted): $0.25
DeepSeek (Normal): $0.27
Fireworks(dot)ai: $0.90
DeepInfra: $1.00
TogetherAI: $1.25

Price per 1M Output Tokens:

@hyperbolic_labs
: $0.28
DeepSeek (Discounted): $0.25
DeepSeek (Normal): $0.25
Fireworks(dot)ai: $0.90
DeepInfra: $1.10
TogetherAI: $2.00

Hyperbolic is offering the lowest cost per token request, making it the most cost-efficient AI inference provider.

If you’re looking for affordable yet powerful AI, Hyperbolic is the way to go!
And then there's the "man" (not a female) versus "man" (as in "human", i.e. "first ,man on the moon" / "all men are created equal").
The (pretty substantial) difference is now the computer is telling you what to do.
This continuum hides one thing: overbidding in terms of project cost and underdelivery in terms of quality. At least in US, quality is maintained, while costing 300% more (look at any subway, rail projects). In the third world, projects are overbid, also underdeliver in terms of quality. No quality control at all.
For keywords in particular you can write the identifier anyway, r#async is a perfectly reasonable (though ugly) way to use async as an identifier, despite the fact that async is a keyword in current Rust editions.

But the problem is that while we can mechanically perform the operation that doesn't have the effect claimed, it's as if people expected (and I know this does happen with idiots) that Chinese is just the same as English but with different symbols.
>You can look up sound quality comparisons on YouTube, these two devices are far ahead of even the most expensive business/gaming headsets. It makes a vast difference in sound quality.

Assuming that's true, I'm not even sure I care. A halfway decent business or gaming headset sounds fine for Zoom or Teams, especially if it's wired to the audio jacks or has a usb connection. It's only the cheapest garbage that has problems. If you are doing audiobook narration or something sure, go for something better, but as long as you spend $50 or so you're fine for virtual meetings.
Cheap ($10) lapel microphones from Amazon tend to have extremely acceptable sound quality for me. They tend to record even subsonic frequencies fairly well.
Let them replace me then, it's not a job I feel like doing anyway.

And when they have forgotten all about how to actually write software, the market is mine.
We used the KapStart systems and tools in place to build KapStart, now we are hoping it can build other LLC's as well. Still in the super early phases, but excited to see where it could end up. We are genuinely just trying to help people cut through the information paralysis of information on the internet, and cut to straight execution. No matter the business idea or industry.

We are evolving and growing everyday and would love any user feedback.
> more of a -2x engineer

You just needed to find another one like him, and bam, +4×.

(It is actually conceivable that two bad engineers could mostly cancel each other out, if they can occupy each other enough, but it’s not the most likely outcome.)
Not sure if insurance is mandatory in the US or not

It's mandatory and requiring proof when you register your car. Your insurer also has a line to the DMV (car registration government) to say, "FYI this guy is not insured" and the DMV gets mad.

It's a known problem, particularly with undocumented peoples, that they are often uninsured. California studied the issue: https://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/105-type/95-guides...

In the report California states up to 13% of the US residents of some areas do not happen to possess documentation documenting their legality of being in the US. Often they came from countries with no insurance requirement, so they are unaware of American culture and policies in this regard. The report also states 10% of drivers are uninsured. I'm not sure why the DMV isn't getting mad in this case, being informed the car is not insured. So it's "mandatory" but 10% of drivers are not insured. Similar to how in California retail theft is technically "illegal" but a lot of people will do that without consequences. Honestly if you ask me we need to be waiving the insurance requirement for cultural reasons and take a verbal Spanish-first policy to help accommodate people who have undocumented English skills or are without documentation of being literate.
I think the author has it quite backwards, at least as it comes to housing.

Politicians are beholden to the members of their district, not would-be members. Sure, more affordable housing would benefit many people, but it wouldn't benefit the members of the district, particularly the wealthy and powerful, since more affordable housing is very nearly equivalent to real estate values decreasing (at the very least, as perceived by voters). Sure, renters would in theory benefit, but real estate prices aren't rental rates, and the renters have to move to capture the improvement in pricing, often outside of the district.

Essentially, the status quo of real estate pricing always increasing in a district serves everyone within the district well enough. Any change to that is a massive financial risk to property owners, so it will be vigorously opposed.
In the Culture books it was AI...
Let's take what you said apart a bit;

- Doctors take busses to work: I lived in NYC and regularly saw doctors take public transportation. I also saw lawyers take public transportation, and many other professionals do the same. Why not doctors?

- "in France where a cardiologist makes less than a dental hygienist in Ohio."

As someone who lived briefly in France, and who grew up with a French parent, this is either untrue, or requires a lot of context in this apples to kiwis comparison. Show me data, and also don't forget to count all the income streams a physician in France has, and the fact that they don't carry the same debt as an American doctor, and compare their income to a dental hygienist in the same region of France.

- Meanwhile, patients complain that a 15-minute consultation in the U.S. costs $300. You’re not paying for the time — you’re paying for the privilege of certainty, of safety, of knowing your doctor passed through the most rigorous, exclusive system in the world.

Between my wife and myself, we've lived in five countries. The skill of doctors in the US is not any better than doctors of the non-US countries we've lived. The idea that US doctors are "the best in the world" is just nationalistic.

I worked in the US medical billing industry, and the idea that the US system is efficient or even fair is completely bizare to me.

I current reside in Canada, where I regularly argue the health care system is broken, but compared to the US, it's still heads and tails better for the vast majority of Canadians. The Canadian system needs major reform to bring it to the level of eg a European nation, but the US is cruel. It's cruel to patients, who are regularly prevented from getting care due to financial issues. It's cruel to require patients pay so much in fees, and risk bankruptcy due to their health. It's cruel to doctors too, to force them to work with the sword of Damocles over their heads of crippling debt, an inhumane insurance system, endless amounts of paperwork, stressful schedules, etc.

The cause of this miserable state in the US is clear, and has been for at fifty years.

Oh and I saw the doctor earlier this week for a followup. I didn't bring my own stethoscope. I also didn't bring a credit card.
The problem with building Uber and Lyft isn’t the process of writing the software — that’s been done many times over.

The hard part of course is investing the money in marketing and support to match the user recognition and experience that Uber and Lyft, subsidized by VC wallets, can provide to their customers.
I think from the way stuff is getting flagged & the comments, it's really a change in the user base becoming slowly less techo-anarchist/libertarian and more rightwing/authoritarian curious.

Something really in the water the last few years in tech circles. Or maybe just disgruntled as the stock compensation infinite money printer has ended.
It wasn’t clear from the article: how do you naturally recover from a spinal cord injury? I’m assuming we can’t be talking about a fully severed spinal cord.

Is it common to recover from a spinal cord injury that leads to some sort of paralysis?
Yep, exactly that. IMO agent workflows, MCP and tool usage bits are all promising, but the more common usage of LLMs in coding is still chat. AI extensions in editors just make it simple to supply context, and apply diffs.

An addon makes it seem like an afterthought, which I'm certain you are not going for! But still making is as seamless as possible would be great. For ex, response time for Claude in Cursor is much better than even the Claude web app for me.
Reminiscent of laws a couple decades ago which intended to make cars more fuel efficient; a loophole / exclusion for SUVs led to a paradigm shift (upwards) in vehicle size.
I used to read DF semi regularly, like many others I didn’t always agree with the opinions but broadly I appreciated the thought and effort that went into them.

I stopped abruptly when posts and tweets became (to me) shockingly pro Israel and excused/justified/diminished the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

I understand the situation in Israel is complicated, and there is a strong relationship between the US and Israel, but as a citizen of a former occupied nation I can not stomach any attempts to rationalize the genocide happening in Palestine.
It may not be serious, but it's a true display of an LLMs limitations. A bad look for Claude, and a missed advertising opportunity if someone can do better.
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