MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-19 18:11:30+00:00
> Would only have the sister's DNA if it was an ovary transplant.

Fun fact: fetal cells transmit back to the mother and can be spotted in virtually every organ afterwards - it's called "Fetomaternal cell microchimerism" [1].

It's not a far stretch to assume the transfer works also the other way around and you can detect maternal DNA in the fetus/child, but I'm not aware if there has been research around that.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138357422...
by p_l | 2025-04-19 18:11:45+00:00
The trick to handle it well is easy access to catalog and ability to recall books from storage.

Another superpower in some countries is the inter library loan - you might need to befriend the local library to utilise it fully, but a classmate of mine in high school used it as effectively free pass to university libraries that you can't borrow books from when you're not suffering or faculty.
by duncanfwalker | 2025-04-19 18:12:28+00:00
For me the point is that __init__ is special - it's the language's the way to construct an object. If we want to side-effecting code we can with a non-special static constructor like

class Foo @classmethod def connect(): return Foo()._connect()

The benefit is that we can choose when we're doing 1) object construction, 2) side-effecting 3) both. The downside is client might try use the __init__() so object creation might need to be documented more than it would otherwise
by cryptonector | 2025-04-19 18:12:28+00:00
> Why wouldn't you want to explicitly number fields? Protocols evolve and get extended over time, making the numbering explicit ensures that there's no accidental backwards compat breakage from re-ordering fields.

ASN.1 went through this whole evolution, and ended up developing extensive support for extensibility and "automatic tagging" so you don't have to manually tag. That happened because the tagging was a) annoying, b) led to inconsistent use, c) led to mistakes, d) was almost completely unnecessary in encoding rules that aren't tag-length-value, like PER and OER.

The fact that you are not yet able to imagine that evolution, and that you are not cognizant with ASN.1's history proves the point that one should study what came before before reinventing the wheel [badly].
by alephnerd | 2025-04-19 18:12:51+00:00
Difference is neither the Trudeau nor AMLO admin made alliances with Stephen Miller adjacent acolytes, nor cultivated relations with the American (and other Anglo speaking) Right, and overindexed on diplomatic protocol with an administration that subscribes to a personalist protocol.

Even when Trump was not president, countries like India, Israel, KSA, Japan, etc tried keeping informal relations with that sphere, which made negotiating much easier from the start.
by verall | 2025-04-19 18:13:13+00:00
Women are not close to even 50% of engineering students or industry or academic engineers yet you go after society of women engineers?

Let's flip it - nursing, where men are a minority:

https://www.aamn.org/

Oh look, a society dedicated to men in nursing. This is completely reasonable. The idea to go from "women are most of college graduates" to "society of women engineers should not exist" is insane.

> without comparable groups for men

Did you even try?

https://www.naesp.org/resource/male-models/

It's a serious topic in education, yes it's a thing people care about.

I studied with and was friends with women in my computer engineering major, SWE helped connect them with industry engineers who could speak about what it was like being a women in engineering.
by Amezarak | 2025-04-19 18:13:21+00:00
Well, you don't need to think too hard about this when sites like archive.org are in legal danger, and the dream of Google Books is dead. I had not considered the "everything on the Internet is AI/SEO slop now" - that's a good point too: even if the stuff exists online, it's often almost impossible to find.

A few months ago I half-remembered a quote from a famous philosopher. Google and Bing returned only the vaguest, most useless search results - basically assuming I didn't actually want the quote, but general information about the philosopher. So then I turned to ChatGPT, which asserted that no such quote existed, but here were ones "like it" (they weren't.) Finally I skimmed through all the books I had until I located it.
by belter | 2025-04-19 18:13:39+00:00
https://nyreehinton.com/pages/tesla/

"...This analysis identifies over fourteen distinct mileage calculation methods employed by Tesla—ranging from predictive telemetry algorithms to energy-consumption-based estimations—documented explicitly in patent filings and regulatory disclosures. These methodologies influence not just warranty expiration timelines, service monetization, insurance premium structures, leasing mileage penalties, resale valuations, residual-value forecasting, and regulatory credit calculations but also underpin battery health indicators, vehicle range, recorded energy efficiency, and much more. Consequently, Tesla's business model exhibits a unique systemic reliance on odometer accuracy, rendering mileage reporting a fundamental rather than peripheral concern..." -
by crazygringo | 2025-04-19 18:13:46+00:00
Seriously. This article seems to reveal much more about the author than about coffee.

I can't speak about Iran, but getting into coffee is no different from getting into pie-making, or sourdough, or wine, or cocktail-making.

They write:

> Coffee used to be fuel. Now it’s a lifestyle accessory.

I think this is the quote that reveals everything. People don't want just "fuel" anymore. They want something that actually tastes good.

But for some reason the author thinks it's all about marketing, insecurity, and influencers. Can't the author just let people enjoy what they like?

Why does it bother the author so much? Why can't they even imagine it might just be because the coffee tastes better, and it's a relatively inexpensive and fun hobby if you want to get into it? Why do they have to judge people for it instead?
by bombela | 2025-04-19 18:15:34+00:00
Adding my story to the list.

I grew up in France, from white parents, classical music professionals, catholic practicing. With what I now recognize as a posh french accent, that they consciously learned as a way to climb the social ladder.

I went to the town school where 80% of the students were descendent of North African immigrants, mostly from Algeria.

Most of those kids lived in projects city, and part of their identity is a specific accent differentiating them from the outside of the project city. This accent is not really related to Arabic; it is distinctively different; with what I can only describe as a palpable aggressivity in tone.

I ended up under police protection after a few broken limbs.

This was more than 25y ago. Sometimes I wonder what those kids have become. If they sometimes regret.

As recently as a couple years ago, a white posh accent kid at the same school got bullied and almost suffocated to death with a fire extinguisher. By the next generation of those immigrants.

I am now an immigrant in the Bay Area. Nobody cares about my accent here ;)
by liendolucas | 2025-04-19 18:15:48+00:00
Dumb question out of ignorance. In electronics when you have absolutely no idea where something is failing is it possible to apply kind of a binary search in the circuit to either spot or discard a failing section? Is this an effective way to search for problems in electronics or are better ways to do it? Perhaps is a very stupid question but I had it in my mind for some time.
by veidr | 2025-04-19 18:16:05+00:00
Glad for this family, but also:

This is interesting to me at the margins, because one of the things I learned when my wife got pregnant the first time was that the womb is not exactly the warm cradle of nurturing that I had always (without thinking much about it) imagined, but in many ways a blast door or containment vessel to protect the mother (host) from the fetus (roughly, xenomorph) that would otherwise explode like an aggressive parasite (killing them both).

So I mean, you probably don't want to have any leaks or weak stitches in your uterus transplant...

Keywords: fetal microchimerism, placental barrier, trophoblast invasion
by Timon3 | 2025-04-19 18:16:12+00:00
First, let's not talk about dating and work in the same argument - they are fundamentally different in many important ways, and it's not conductive to the conversation.

Second, at least call a spade a spade - according to you, when people say meritocracy they actually mean "meritocracy with handicaps for non-whites and non-males". Let's not call that "meritocracy", okay?
by doix | 2025-04-19 18:16:18+00:00
Yeah, vim was invaluable when I worked in the semiconductor industry. Lots of perl, TCL, SKILL (a lisp dialect) and giant verilog netlists. Languages which don't really have proper IDEs or great all in one tooling.

Now I'm a webdev with everything written in typescript and just use Cursor (basically vscode) with the vim plugin. i miss the tab model from vim a lot, but apart from that the vim plugin is close enough.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-04-19 18:16:39+00:00
> People who think that librarians are secretly censoring the flow of information are completely out of touch with how librarians work.

Absolutely. My farthest r-wing years overlapped with my heaviest library patronage. Libraries were a space where my overactive, fault-finding radar was quiet.

Seriously. Librarians have always been there for everyone.
by justin66 | 2025-04-19 18:17:08+00:00
> It's just a well-known example of a book that most people would agree to restrict.

That's just completely wrong. In America it's a book most libraries would keep around as a visible indicator that they're not censoring books, and a book the letter-writing busybodies who want to censor books would not prioritize because there's no sex in it.
by zamadatix | 2025-04-19 18:17:14+00:00
Agreed, still not perfect by any means.

One minor Ethernet MTU thing I would change with a time machine is to have the network header portion of the MTU be more like 802.11. I.e. instead of sized exactly to the headers of the day it intentionally was larger to allow variation over time. It wouldn't really do anything for most of the MTU concerns discussed here or for clients but I think it would have been helpful for the evolution of wired protocols.

Happy eyeballs! Yes, I loved that one! I was always a huge IPv6 nerd as well, though I didn't get started until shortly after that. The "nats are good" video isn't ringing any bells but if you have a link I'd definitely give it a watch as it sounds right up my humour alley.

Unfortunately all of that Cisco affiliation means we are forever blood enemies and can never speak again... ;). I kid, I came up through the Nortel heritage originally so I'm bound by contract to make such statements.

I've heard great things about the Fast Data Project, I'll definitely have to look into it some before the Oblivion remake comes out :). Maybe after this current project at work I'll finally get to mess with software based dataplanes properly.

It was great running into you here, I hope to catch you around more now that I know to look!
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-04-19 18:17:23+00:00
I couldn't find if this was linked to a study or was anecdotal, because of the scroll.

A common issue with studying the effects of gaming is most studies are studying 1-2 blocks or light gaming schedules. I think most of the population is doing that, but there are people playing 4+ hours a day, most days. When articles are shared about the positive effects of gaming, a lot of people read them as though the effects must apply to them. Maybe they do! I don't see a lot of studies on this population.

I feel the same with this article, because I don't find Stardew Valley super relaxing. I think it's aesthetically relaxing, but mechanically stressful. Trying to complete the quests on time or get a certain item before the season ends is stressful. I could go into it with a more relaxed attitude, but then how is the game cozier for me than others? I could go into Skyrim with that attitude. Maybe I am too rushed in my professional life to play games in a relaxing way.
by mitchellpkt | 2025-04-19 18:17:49+00:00
Interesting. Hmmm, I have to think this through. I believe that if the game followed normal chess rules, except for replacing the pieces with queens, then games where the captures are all even trades would result in draws, but if one side could come out ahead with K+Q vs K, then there would be the usual mate sequence.

HOWEVER the rule OP added that "a piece may only move if it is adjacent to another piece of either color" slightly complicates the endgame. My normal tendency would be to put the queen far away from the action to avoid blundering it, but here that would instantly deactivate it. It's kind of funny to picture the kings racing across the board to capture or reactivate the last inert queen.

I think one can still get the usual style of mate in this variant, you just have to walk the king and queen together, and pay extra attention to avoiding stalemate. For example, imagining white king on e1, black king on e3, black queen on d3. If white to move then Qb1# or Qe2#, fairly standard maneuvers (though if black to move that's a stalemate).

This is an interesting modification to the game, I'd play a few rounds...
by datavirtue | 2025-04-19 18:18:19+00:00
I don't what you guys are on about but I have been using the free GitHub Copilot in VS Code chats to absolutely crank out new UI features in Vue. All that stuff that makes you groan at the thought of it: more divs, bindings, form validation, a whole new widget...churned out in 30 seconds. Try it live. Works? Keep.

I'm surprised at the complexity and correctness at which it infers from very simple, almost inadequate, prompts.
by bluedino | 2025-04-19 18:19:40+00:00
I was on a coffee shop kick for...15 years?

And then I just quit. I'm not sure if was the price, waiting in line, or the quality going down since so many places popped up or what. But I just have zero interest in buying a coffee. I drink generic stuff I make at home. Or I just go without.

Oddly around the same time I quit drinking sodas.
by Amezarak | 2025-04-19 18:19:51+00:00
Yet these same local libraries used to be filled with the sorts of books I'm talking about. They threw them away to replace them with DVDs of Marvel movies, the worst dreck imaginable in the children's section, and shelves and shelves of the latest romance and mystery novels, along with whatever "hot" ghostwritten politics book is out.

Frankly, I look at that is abandoning their original mission and no longer feel inclined to support them in any way. Libraries should have led their communities as centers and sources of learning. What we have now is something else wearing libraries as a skinsuit, and I don't see why libraries like this deserve public support as a library.

But at any rate, as I said, the problem is not limited to municipal libraries, it's ongoing even at institutional libraries.
by hn_acker | 2025-04-19 18:20:42+00:00
> Confirmed crimes are not allegations. He entered the USA illegally - without "due process". He is a member of a foreign terrorist organization. He was even arrested in the company of MS-13 gang members with long criminal records.

Let's not muddy the waters. The only crime Garcia committed was entering the US at 16 years old to flee a gang in El Salvador. Garcia has never been charged or convicted for any crimes in any country [1].

> Elizabeth Kessler - the immigration judge declared in charge of his case declared that this man's release in the USA would endanger the public since "evidence shows that he is a verified member of MS-13.". Hell, even an appeals court later affirmed the judge's decision.

And that judge's "evidence" contradicted by the DOJ [1][2]:

>> The GFIS explained that the only reason to believe Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was a gang member was that he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie; and that a confidential informant advised that he was an active member of MS-13 with the Westerns clique. ...

>> According to the Department of Justice and the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, the “Westerns” clique operates in Brentwood, Long Island, in New York, a state that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia has never lived in.

> Due process was followed.

> Its not complicated.

It's very complicated, except for the fact that due process was not followed. Garcia had a protective order specifically against being sent to El Salvador [1]:

> He argued, as the government has since admitted, that his removal was illegal because an immigration judge had granted him “withholding of removal” to El Salvador due to his “well-founded fear of future persecution” there from a violent gang known as Barrio 18.

And on the matter of appeals courts, a 4th Circuit Court of Appeals judge (J. Harvie Wilkinson III, appointed by Reagan) who in the past ruled in favor of sending an American citizen to Guantanamo with no charges has decided that Garcia was incorrectly removed to El Salvador and that the Trump administration is defying the Supreme Court order to facilitate his return [3].

[1] https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abrego-garcia-and-ms-13...

[2] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578...

[3] https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/18/this-should-be-shocking-...
by deltaknight | 2025-04-19 18:21:15+00:00
Unfortunately I think this is because I haven't signed the executable. I've signed the Mac executable (as I already have an Apple dev account), but the Microsoft process seems to be a bit more involved and requires an expensive EV certificate. I'll look in to this further, but I can't promise anything.

Usually downloading the app as a dotnet tool doesn't get flagged as a virus, but it seems this isn't always the case.
by mdaniel | 2025-04-19 18:21:15+00:00
It's your toy, but I wanted to draw your attention to this very, very common "templating in yaml" bug

world: "{result:hello:message}"

will always require quoting, because { is a special character in yaml. Contrast that with the GitHub Actions version of

world: ${{result:hello:message}}

which doesn't require quoting because $ isn't a yaml special character. I don't have any insight about { versus {{ so I think you can pick your favorite but the leading character matters and it'd be better to fix that early in the tool's life than to suffer the Ansible outcome
by xp84 | 2025-04-19 18:21:57+00:00
I'm not so convinced that I'd prefer to live isolated and "just" get a robotaxi for every excursion anyone wants to do. I'd rather my kids walked about a quarter mile to school with several neighbors. Exercise and being outside are good!

Even assuming we turned smarter and built clean nuclear plants everywhere, just all the paving of roads, tires etc. takes a lot of resources.
by muzani | 2025-04-19 18:22:35+00:00
You need a crowbar. Enter at an angle, then pry it off.

Slack is my favorite example. It looked like chat. It had a hash, like IRC channels did. But it was actually email! It cut down back and forth in email. You can just give someone an emoji callback instead of emailing them, "Noted." You can send documents. You have a history of conversations and it was easy to CC the boss if someone didn't cooperate. People no longer spent the whole day replying emails.

Or Amazon. Instead of selling everything online, they started with books. Books were annoying to buy and easy to "ship".

A modern example might be Cursor. People already use VSC. They kept the exact same interface, added a few extra features, and end up selling agents. There's lots of agents out there which are great like Aider, but many are too far from someone's workflow.

Most of these are in the form of "create a channel people use, then sell things down that channel".
by southernplaces7 | 2025-04-19 18:23:08+00:00
A fascinating thing about complex life in the deep crust lies how said life allows the earth to regenerate ecosystems even under the most extreme hypothetical conditions, and has probably done so in the past:

For example, if a super-asteroid the size of a minor planet were to hit the Earth, it's believed that it would essentially boil away all the oceans and cook the whole of the planet's atmosphere. Studies have also shown that it would likely super-heat the crust down to a depth of hundreds of meters, even in parts far from the immense and totally liquefied impact site itself.

But, in those more distant parts of the crust, far down in the dark beyond the reach of post-impact heating, below a depth of several hundred meters, microbes of all kinds would continue to live, hidden in so many tiny, watery cracks. As thousands of years pass after such a colossal impact, as the atmosphere reforms, as the earth's water re-condenses, and falls back to the surface in gigantic ocean-filling torrential rain storms, those hidden microbes, which had found their refuge in the deep rocks, would eventually creep upwards.

They'd slowly find their way back into these reformed oceans, lakes and rivers, back into the again cooled atmosphere, back into the sunlight, and the evolutionary process would kick into gear all over again.

It's speculated that our planet has survived at as many as several completely surface destroying impacts by minor planets or asteroids several hundred kilometers across, impacts that make the dinosaur impactor seem like a children's party firecracker in comparison, and this is how life regenerated from these cataclysms.
by radicalbyte | 2025-04-19 18:23:09+00:00
Oh there are certainly some excellent American comedy shows..

Seinfeld, Curb, Arrested Development, Modern Family, The Office (US), South Park, Parks and Rec, 30 Rock, Frasier, Fresh Prince, Friends, How I Met Your Month, Futurama, Simpsons (OG) and then there's not a lot more on the bench unless you include the lesser remakes of British shows.

A lot of them aren't funny or aren't satire.. just look at the Shameless remake - they turned that into a character drama when it was a sitcom.

America has more of a stand-up culture I feel.

I wonder if it's because the news in America is pretty much fiction that they basically don't have political satire as a genre outside of the topical news shows (Daily Show / John Oliver) which are honestly more like real news shows than comedy at this point.
by Amezarak | 2025-04-19 18:23:26+00:00
The books don't get put in storage in most places, they get thrown away.

> but a classmate of mine in high school used it as effectively free pass to university libraries that you can't borrow books from when you're not suffering or faculty.

The mass de-accessioning of older books is such a huge problem you often cannot find (even famous!) works through ILL anymore.