skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on Babla, an open-source tool that helps doctors spend less time on documentation. It transcribes and structures medical conversations automatically.
What's cool is the flexibility - you can deploy it with Docker and either run it completely locally with open models for HIPAA compliance or connect to external providers. It exports to multiple formats that work with existing systems.
We just launched it as free, open-source software. Now we are looking how to make it even better.

https://notetaker.healthion.dev/
Why the fuck are jailing deportees in other countries anyways.
"Kinda feel like this is tariff bait"

Kinda looks like click bait generally. Per-capita US avocado consumption is about 9 lbs./y. That's a bit more than 1 per month of the large Mexican avacados. Somehow that's "crazy!!1"

You would think there would be some joy for all this: something Americans will happily eat that isn't "ultraprocessed" and/or meat, and a Mexican product that isn't narcotics or fossil fuel. But no. omg they're so "resource intensive!"

Luxury anxieties, safely ignored.
Its not a playground for the rich, its a playground for the upper-middle class and above. No other country besides the US provides such well-paying wage labor. You can't make seven figures a year as a salary, as a worker practically anywhere else.

Life isn't about being rich, its just that if you work hard its not difficult to do well in the US and have anything you'd want at the best quality anywhere in the world. Anyone making $100,000+ a year (and that is ALOT of Americans) has a great time in the US. Yeah a lot of people don't make it but thats how it is. Without risk there's nothing interesting in life; I don't want a mediocre, boring life with a million social safety nets, I want something chaotic and crazy and constantly active, and you can't get that anywhere else.
> because after 50+ years of marriage he just sensed that she was about to ask for it. It was like they were communicating telepathically.

> That is the type of relationship I want to have with my computer!

He means automation of routine tasks? Took 50 years to reach that in the example.

What if you want to do something new? Will the thought guessing module in your computer even allow that?
What do you think about this one, from 2017?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/08/ashamed-t...

I remember this one in particular for random reasons. But these kinds of articles aren’t particularly rare in the guardian. The guardian’s editorial policy appears to be to generate a steady stream of random human interest stories with the common agenda of finding fault with everything that isn’t British.
I still don’t get it. So they detected the usage and banned the app, what happened that made the ban disappear?

Are you saying the app is using a different scraper? This I would get. But earlier comment[1] mentions ban revocation - this is what surprises me.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43530821
A new way to understand Payment Systems (2015 Bitcoin predict)
Exactly...nobody knows what the actual end game is at this point.
So all the hyperbolic speculation is ridiculous.
Curious to know what people are building where you need to optimise like this? eg Struct Field Alignment https://goperf.dev/01-common-patterns/fields-alignment/#avoi...
The human or "natural" interface to the outside world. Interpreting sensor data, user interfacing (esp natural language), art and media (eg media file compression), even predictions of how complex systems will behave
The FBI even explicitly went to facebook and said you need to be aware of Russian misinformation and this story "fit the pattern". Did you really need the govt intelligence apparatus to hold a gun to media heads ? Things don't work that way as you well know - they all need plausible denial.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532
Advanced Algorithms, CMU Lecture Notes [pdf]
Almost nobody in the US is in that state either. Yes, the system has a lot of problems, but coverage is generally quite good and the quality of care is better than many places in Europe (the UK for sure, but that's a bad example).
I'd be happy with a `val` keyword. I thought that was a seriously missed opportunity when they introduced `var`.
Thank you for your kind words, I am the founder here :) , give me feedback and i will most probably add them right away.

I will try to create a chrome-extention for NoteUX hopefully soon.

you can follow me or directly reach out to me on twitter too x.com/nabeelHQ
We definitely have reason to believe that there’s universe outside the observable universe. The CMB uniformity suggests that that’s the case as do our theoretical models. The mere fact that two observers have different observable universes indicates it is indeed an illusory artifact.

Just because something is untestable today doesn’t mean it will be for all time. However, the untestability problem has started to creep much more deeply into cosmology and high particle physics in particular - our technology and models aren’t staying enough ahead to provide a lot of fertile testable ground.
It’s “great” if you believe in their ideology.
Right. The offset is not enough without a reference recorded time. You need the time and the time zone in order know the true time. This is a big problem is systems that don't have an intrinsic time type that deploy and have a database full of ambiguous times. Once it happens, backfilling that is a real slog.
What part of this makes good stories?
I hear what you're saying. On the other hand, "deliberate practice" is a term of art.
What is your definition of "understand them well"?
> I really like this as a study of healthy trade.

https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/mexicos-avocado-boom-a...

> While the European Union and Mexico are in the final rounds of negotiations towards the “modernization” of the EU-Mexico Trade Agreement (Global Agreement) our objective is to understand the dynamics of violence that accompanied the avocado boom, including organized crime activities, human rights violations, environmental crime and harm, and the potential impact of further liberalizing trade between Mexico and the EU.

> ...

> Increased international demand led to an expansion of land dedicated to avocado production, to the detriment of forest cover, resulting in deforestation and the subsequent degradation of soil, water, and biodiversity.
She might be, but so far she is free on a $2 million bail since her 2023 arrest.
Wealth taxes have the same argument but plenty of people like them:

It's bad when the government takes my money via income taxes and good when the government takes other people's money via wealth taxes
Aside, but NBC’s website is way better executed than I was expecting.

Perhaps it changed recently, or I just never noticed? I was expecting 100MB with back button abuse and retention dark patterns. Instead, it loads fast, has minimal guff, and the footer scrolled into view ending the page within sight of the end of the actual article.

Perhaps this is a reward response to not having to / be able to doom scroll?
> Fittingly, with the new tarrifs, we all lose.

I live in a former Avocado farm that was subdivided into homes after NAFTA made US production less viable after Mexico undercut our labor. It was a 50 year old industry and local jobs that was wiped out with free trade. It wasn't a win win.
That is all true but in this case she was sentenced to 2 years prison and 2 years house arrest, it's not exactly locking her up and throwing away the key for a minor infraction.

Letting judges bar someone from running for office is silly though, if French law allows that they should reconsider; if someone is popular enough to win a national election despite a reasonable criminal conviction they are popular enough to threaten the civil order if they are barred from office.
Well, how folks view the philosophy can be multifaceted, so I'll leave the pseudoscience and cult part aside. On the measles, Steiner was certainly skeptical of vaccination, but I think in Switzerland you have a cultural issue with vaccination. The Waldorf school I went to in Canada, everyone had a measles vaccine, but I do recall a Swiss student coming to our distinctively not Waldorf high school and there being a huge song and dance about their vaccination status, I think as a society generally...you've got some problems there?
What does Palantir actually do? [video]
> Why is it acceptable for front end code to be of lower quality than the rest?

While I don't think that f/end should be of a lower quality than the rest of the stack, I also think that:

1. f/end gets the most churn (i.e. rewritten), so it's kinda pointless if you're spending an extra $FOO months for a quality output when it is going to be significantly rewritten in ($FOO * 2) months.

2. It really is more fault tolerant - an error in the backend stack could lead to widespread data corruption. An error on the f/end results in, typically, misaligned elements that are hard to see/find.
Jack.black
The tone of the article is that getting AI agents to do anything fundamentally wrong because they'll make mistakes and its expensive to run them.

So:

- Humans make mistakes all the time and we happily pay for those by the hour as long as the mistakes stay within an acceptable threshold.

- Models/agents will get cheaper as diminishing returns in quality of results get more common. Hardware to run them will get cheaper and less power hungry as it increases in commodity.

- In all cases, It Depends.

If I ask a human tester to test the UI and API of my app (which will take them hours) the documented tests and expected results are the same as if I asked an AI to do it, the cost may be the same or less of an AI to do it but I can ask the AI to do it again for every change, or every week etc. Have genuinely started to test this way.
What's the issue you had? When you reboot or quit you're kicked back to regular Kobo and you open up Koreader through a menu option.

The Kobo OS is good enough for me to recommend it to family, there's nothing wrong with the iPod experience of uploading books.

But Koreader+Tailscale+Kavita OPDS is the best reading experience I've ever had.
Speaking is fundamentally slower than typing or using a mouse, and it is a catastrophically bad choice if you are not alone in a room.
Or nazis and fondue.
Baseball is twice as long and boring to most people all the way through, so we seem to be in agreement.
I'm lucky enough to teach in a school that has small classes; I get to be very accessible to the students. There is some auto-grading, but most homework I grade by hand and give partial credit.

But if my classes were 300 people, I couldn't do that.

I also have relaxed deadlines so students can take more time if they need it, and request it in advance.

The object is to learn stuff. That's where I'm aiming.
Just to be clear, it's not fine at all in any "this is a fine physical theory".

A statistically unlikely arrangement of cosmic objects relative to earth only - earth in particular, violates not just the properties of the big bang but "the cosmological principle" and common sense. It's a garbage theory, a headline that makes a math person just have a "how stupid do they expect the average person to be" reaction.
> She is a woman. Her party is very conservative and a male figure would project more strength and attract voters that she might deter to parties further on the right (yes there are a few)

From what I've been able to discern, among countries that have had an elected female head of state, those women often - if not typically - represent the right wing of the local politics. The idea that conservative parties would disdain a female leader as "weak" strikes me as a strawman created by their political opponents. (However, female conservative candidates for leadership do seem uninterested in treating their gender as a reason to vote for them.)

> She is been here a long time, so she doesn’t exactly qualify as anti-establishment.

This fundamentally misunderstands the meaning of the term.
Programming with an AI copilot: My perspective as a senior dev
How to Make an American Job – Andy Grove (2010) [pdf]
See Which Restaurants Have the Most Attractive Diners
Mode is a VSCode extension that acts as your personal AI coding assistant
I've moved from NextDNS to ControlD. NextDNS seems like it's been abandoned--good luck getting any level of support--and I've been really happy with the feature set of ControlD.
Hugo, s3 and CloudFront. I use GitHub actions to push to s3, that is my deployment pipeline.
This looks neat. I'm interested in some of the more advanced exercises like the Rick Beato one here (https://app.captrice.io/?eid=ph79of6zlotm8y24mc4) but a couple of things prevented me from truly attempting it:

Firstly, the tab for that exercise is long enough to need a scroll bar, and so I don't understand how one is supposed to play along with that tab to a metronome... am I expected to operate the scroll bar every couple of measures while still staying in time with the metronome? So I would suggest either auto-scroll, or better yet just find a way to get all 12 measures of the exercise to fit on the screen at the same time. I have a big enough monitor that it would fit.

Secondly, although you have the link to the embedded video player, I wouldn't be able to keep the intended sound of the exercise in my head long enough that I would feel confident I was playing the exercise right later. The app really feels like it needs a synthesized guitar sound that would play the notes of the exercise, so that I could play it along with the synthesized version and know whether I was hitting the right note. It would be OK if it sounded cheesy -- that would be better than nothing, and then once I was confident that I had the correct sequence down, I would disable the synthetic sound.
This is excellent I’ll be watching this project
Same, I think I can name one canonically trans character from a piece of media I've watched recently? And as a trans person myself, I'm probably more likely than most to pay attention when a trans character is introduced.
You require many xany bars.
Are you suggesting France is specifically gaining competitiveness through applied racism?

Sorry, I'd rather be uncompetitive than stoop to that
Thanks for stating your preference! This is something we can incorporate into the platform.
On violence: sure, let's investigate it. I'm truly unsure if avocado production is a significant progenitor of violence, especially when compared to the prosperity it affords to the growers.

> Increased international demand led to an expansion of land dedicated to avocado production

I'm sensitive to that. That is my point on California.
So, you didn't test it until the end? or did you have to build it in such a way that is was partially testable?
I’d spend them on 1x1 classes with experienced Argentinian Argentinian Tango instructors consisting mostly of dancing.

The Argentinians have a unique approach to the Milonguero style which I’m interested in so in this case they need to be from Argentina ;)

Another option would be one of my other interests, again, spent one on one with a world-class instructor and intentional practice.
Not about justice, racial equality, the commonwealth of all mankind?

Thankfully it's likely China, not the EU, that will end up ahead at the end of this scuffle.
Let's say you have constantly 1k requests per second and for each request, you need one buffer, each 1 MiB. That means you have 1 GiB in the pool. Without a pool, there's a high likelihood that you're using less. Why? Because in reality, most requests need a 1 MiB buffer but SOME require a 5 MiB buffer. As such, your pool grows over time as you don't have control over the distribution of the size of the pool items.

So, if you have predictable object sizes, the pool will stay flat. If the workloads are random, you have a new problem because, like in this scenario, your pool grows 5x more.

You can solve this problem. E.g. you can only give back items into the pool that are small enough. Alternatively, you could have a small pool and a big pool, but now you're playing cat and mouse.

In such a scenario, it could also work to simply allocate and use GC to clean up. Then you don't have to worry about memory and the lifetime of objects, which makes your code much simpler to read and reason about.
I never looked at it that way, but I get now where you're coming from. To me, the Lombok annotations are more like @Transactional, providing some useful boilerplate that I don't need to care about, it just works.
> Just because a conservative is not willing to support a liberal position, that doesn't make them automatically a fascist

Their methods and their positions make them fascist, not their support or lack thereof for opposing positions.

Say, a coup attempt. Or someone in power talking about ignoring term limits. Or getting bribes and favouritism for corporations (corporatism is a heavy component of fascism). Or silencing opposition with brutal and illegal methods (such as kidnapping in the middle of the night by unmarked and masked men). Those all scream fascism, regardless of the fact that e.g. the person in charge of healthcare is an antivaxxer.
Candidate for hardest collective fall for an April Fool's Day joke in Hacker News history?
I didn't say "just" ethnic cleansing. I said that ethnic cleansing is different from genocide. Because it is. We should be careful to use the correct words.
AI/LLMs are great, but the surrounding hype and euphoria did not appeal to me as much. This article hit it close to home with regards to my own experience in the past year with github copilot and chatgpt.
Ai can uhnderstand its output.
One of the best pieces of advice I got when I started ages ago was to just put electric strings on the acoustic. If you're just practicing in your bedroom it will be much easier to play than on stiff acoustic strings. Give it a shot.

When you're ready to record then you can put acoustic strings on it, heh :-)
> MegaLag posted a VPN example, which was an edge case, but it was enough

Ah, the modern day equivalent to snake oil, where you buy a product that gives your data to a random company in a tax haven over your publicly accountable ISP.
Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
I've been working on a little side project that combines Duolingo-like listening comprehension exercises with real content .

Every video is transcribed to get much better transcripts than the closed captions. I filter on high quality transcripts, and afterwards a LLM selects only plausible segments for the exercises. This seems to work well for quality control and seems to be reliable enough for these short exercises.

Would love your thoughts!
I don't know, but I feel like we already have the "telepathic grandfather interface." Or at least we try to have it. My iPhone is constantly guessing at things to suggest to me (I use the share button a lot in different apps) and it's wrong more often than not, forcing me to constantly hunt for things (to say nothing about autocorrect, which is constantly changing correct words that I'd previously typed into incorrect ones)! It doesn't even use a basic, sensible LRU eviction policy. It has some totally inscrutable method of determining what to suggest!

If we want an interface that actually lets us work near the speed of thought, it can't be anything that re-arranges options behind our back all the time. Imagine if you went into your kitchen to cook something and the contents of all your drawers and cupboards had been re-arranged without your knowledge! It would be a total nightmare!

We already knew decades ago that spatial interfaces [1] are superior to everything else when it comes to working quickly. You can walk into a familiar room and instinctively turn on a light by reaching for the switch without even looking. With a well-organized kitchen an experienced chef (or even a skilled home cook) can cook a very complicated dish very efficiently when they know where all of the utensils are so that they don't need to go hunting for everything.

Yet today it seems like all software is constantly trying to guess what we want and in the process ends up rearranging everything so that we never feel comfortable using our computers anymore. I REALLY miss using Mac OS 9 (and earlier). At some point I need to set up some vintage Macs to use it again, though its usefulness at browsing the web is rather limited these days (mostly due to protocol changes, but also due to JavaScript). It'd be really nice to have a modern browser running on a vintage Mac, though the limited RAM would be a serious problem.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/
The person wouldn't really read the entire post but just wave their hands and ask for this and that saying I haven't provided enough information. "This" and "that" wasn't needed to answer my question but I would provide this information anyway and then the person never comes back. This happened more often than not.
Read on Reddit that people love AI because it's "democratizing creativity". Let that sink in. People want to be dropped on the top of the mountain and be called an alpinist.
I think the following would make a killer app in this category:

- App listens to your playing

- Identifies your weaknesses

- Creates a curated lesson plan

- App actively listens as you progress through the plan and adjusts
Anti literacy, anti science, anti humanity.

Insanity.
Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
I can't find the news/study at the moment but read recently about the opposite being the case: belief in a Christian god / such higher power resulting in weakened feelings of guilt from complicity or participation in wrongdoing
Do you know what zero knowledge proofs are? OpenAI could create ZKP that would be easy to verify.
Rewiring Silicon Valley for the World of Atoms: The Industrial Venture Moment
Nue’s a web framework I’m building to slice through modern web dev bloat. When a Vite/ShadCN/Tailwind button is 40% heavier than a full-blown SPA, it’s time to do things differently. We’re retooling from the ground up—web standards first, no bloat. It’s for frontend architects, design engineers, and UX folks craving simpler, saner workflows. Still in progress, but the shift’s coming. Curious to hear your thoughts!
The "bitter lesson" is extrapolating from ONE datapoint where we were extremely lucky with Dennart scaling. Sorry, the age of silicon magic is over. It might be back - at some point, but for now it's over.
As someone who does use containers: It depends™ on how you do things, but lots of containers are used as a way to consume mystery meat easily. Who made that image? What's in it? Do you trust the binaries in it? How often does it get updates? Are you keeping up with updates that are available? All of these are solvable, of course, but a lot of containers are "just docker run randomsource/whatever:latest and never think about it again".
Can someone help me understand...I thought executive orders only had power to manage the executive branch of the US Government. They aren't edicts. Even US companies don't have to follow them, right?
With these features scammers will create all sorts of "you have to log into your password manager" popups again.
> gcc and clang will not insert code to start rm’ing files when you overflow a signed integer.

It could. If it detect that a code path cannot be taken without causing overflow, it will assume this code path cannot be taken and will optimise it by removing it. No need even to return from the function.
If you reach this code anyway, it can run whatever functions is on the binary after it. If you're unlucky that's a function to remove temporary files which would be ran with bogus arguments.
Perfriend – a new way to text and add friends
The slides you link state that the law had no meaningful impact on overdoses and that it’s probably too early to draw any meaningful conclusions. Given the time it takes to ramp up things like mandatory rehab, it’s not clear it could have that big of a short term impact.