MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abeppu | 2025-05-08 18:31:22+00:00
I think the distinction you're drawing between "the central nervous system" and "the brain" is mistaken here -- the brain is part of the CNS. This kind of reflex basically has to involve the brain b/c it involves both the visual system and the motor system i.e. there's not a fast path from the retina to moving your appendages etc that doesn't include the brain.

The "fully process" part is part of the story though -- e.g. perhaps some reactions use the dorsal stream based on peripheral vision while ventral stream is still waiting on a saccade and focus to get higher resolution foveal signals. But though these different pathways in the brain operate at different speeds, they're both still very much in the brain.
by polalavik | 2025-05-08 18:31:36+00:00
This is such petty semantics, most of the world understands that is is a shortening of The United States of America. In fact most everyone uses some version of “Americans” [1]. 96% of the world refers to America as a continent and I’m sure 96% refer to the US as America too. It’s all about context. I don’t think anyone is genuinely confused most of the time.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonyms_for_the_United_Stat...
by maenbalja | 2025-05-08 18:31:51+00:00
Timely article... I recently learned about self-hosted runners and set one up on a Hetzner instance. Pretty smooth experience overall. If your action contains any SSH commands and you'd like to avoid setting up a firewall with 5000+ rules[0], I would recommend self-hosting a runner to help secure your target server's SSH port.

[0] https://api.github.com/meta
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-05-08 18:32:00+00:00
>For centuries. No. Millennia.

We might have had other, confounding factors during that time period. And while he did mention "deregulation", he also indicated that he only wanted partial deregulation... that there would still be some demand for purity/dosage.

When people talk about deregulation, there is this idea that regulations already exist. If you're talking about periods from anitquity where no regulations existed at all, this isn't comparable to a period of deregulation where presumably everyone knows what the regulations were trying to accomplish and agree on those and other basic scientific principles. We also had no FAA 10,000 years ago, and no one died in plane crashes then, right? That proves how awesome regulation is in the same way your example proves how awful it is. How can these two arguments reach entirely difference conclusions, do you think?

>"Oh but baby we've changed" --some random private equity sociopath

Or, just possibly, people come to realize over time that their initial knee-jerk reactions went too far, and cause measurable harm that they want to reduce. Unfettered capitalism does get a few things right... it can go from supply shortages to excess quickly. Let it work.
by coldpie | 2025-05-08 18:32:17+00:00
I think all they need to do is remove attestation from the spec, or at least put very strong language around it that it should only be used for extremely secure environments where the data is not considered to be owned by the user, for example an account at your job. For end-user software, where they're currently promoting Passkeys, attestation is unacceptable. But, their behavior on the bug trackers indicates they don't even seem interested in having the conversation.
by justanotheratom | 2025-05-08 18:32:51+00:00
well, you accuse me of lying, while you spew out nefarious theories.

I simply stated what the NIH director has publicly said. (https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/jay-bhattachar...)

RE: they'are increasing spending. - can you provide some evidence?

RE: their goal is to destroy things that serve the public... - you must be a genius to see through their goals. Has it occured to you that maybe they simply reflect that desire of the people you disagree with.
by Avamander | 2025-05-08 18:33:15+00:00
S/MIME on the other hand is supported by majority of common email clients. PGP sucks in other (cryptographic) ways as well.

What's difficult is long-term key management. This is being solved in the context of Passkeys and the same infrastructure could be used for S/MIME keys.

Provisioning should become significantly easier with ACME for S/MIME, we'll see about that though.

Nothing really says it has to be difficult, even for the layperson.
by jjwiseman | 2025-05-08 18:33:37+00:00
I liked this overview map they posted a few days ago: https://x.com/HamWa07/status/1919763145536463222

giammaiot2 on twitter has a long history of trying to use science sensors to detect intentional RF interference, e.g. this post with a map from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) looking at 7 GHz: https://x.com/giammaiot2/status/1919493425100988490

Or this thread from 2023 looking at SMAP: https://x.com/giammaiot2/status/1770815247772729539
by somat | 2025-05-08 18:34:03+00:00
Did they?

I am only an occasional blender user, but I have been using it a long time. since 1.7

the main key binds I have always used have not changed. tab, g, r s, e, b, A, f, ctl-click to add points.

Are you telling me those are the industry standard keybinds (surprised pikachu face)

One thing I always felt blender did better than the "industry standard tools" was it's quick/natural workflow. I have not used Maya since collage in 2000 but back then it was very clunky compared to blender for quick vertex based editing. My theory is more that the "industry standard tools" caught up to blender. but by then blender had a bad reputation as being quirky, so the "big redesign" was more a press-release. Give it a menu bar make it dark mode and most importantly got to cure that bad-reputation so tell everyone it is completely different now.
by opan | 2025-05-08 18:34:26+00:00
A tattoo of proprietary software or really any company seems kind of sad and dystopian to me. Nothing against vmware in particular. I recall an old meme collage of a bunch of people with Apple tattoos that was not putting them in a favorable light.

Maybe a Sun logo could be an exception, they're not around anymore, so it feels more like nostalgia or grieving instead of "this company owns me". I wasn't around/aware when Sun was, also, so they feel more like a mythical thing from a story to me than an old company.
by jonfriesen | 2025-05-08 18:34:41+00:00
You've definitely hit on a point that we've talked about at length and have come to terms that different organizations have different requirements, especially when it comes to regulatory and compliance.

Qtap can be locked down with local firewalls or perimeter firewalls like other applications running within a network. The TLS inspection can also be disabled with a `--tls-probes=none` flag on startup.

Even without inspection enabled, Qtap provides rich context when it comes to connections to processes. For example, source/destination information, bandwidth usage, SNI information, container meta, even Kubernetes pod and namespace meta. All of this can paint a thorough picture of what's happening with zero instrumentation.

When it comes down to it, some orgs may not be able to use the TLS inspection or require specific methods of persisting data. If we can't support this today, our goal is to address these as they come up and hopefully help devs and ops folks working in these constrained environments get what they need while maintaining compliance.
by rcarmo | 2025-05-08 18:35:07+00:00
Considering that Agent Mode saves me a lot of hassle doing refactoring ("move the handler to file X and review imports", "check where this constant is used and replace it with <another> for <these cases>", etc.), I'd say you are missing the point...

I actually flip things - I do the breakdown myself in a SPEC.md file and then have the agent work through it. Markdown checklists work great, and the agent can usually update/expand them as it goes.
by wahern | 2025-05-08 18:35:13+00:00
I wouldn't presume Prevost is more doctrinally conservative than Francis, just because Francis wasn't as liberal as popularly claimed. Rather, American conservative bishops attempted to paint Francis as doctrinally liberal as part of their rhetorical strategy to attack Francis' non-doctrinal liberalism (e.g. on high-profile but non-doctrinal matters related to discipline, liturgy, etc). Similarly, progressive activists chose to interpret Francis' policies as doctrinal shifts, when they weren't. Though it's possible the latter phenomenon was something Francis was content to leave uncorrected. Francis seemed to embrace ambiguity in his pronouncements as a method of rapprochement.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-08 18:35:41+00:00
I used to be a CNBC junkie. Before there was crypto I used to enjoy adopting a penny stock and watching the ticker for it very closely; you can learn a lot about market dynamics when you are trading a stock where you buy $2000 of stock and that is 30% of the volume for the day. (Try $KBLB for a stock where if you think the price is too high or too low you will find that both opinions are vindicated if you wait long enough.)
by photonthug | 2025-05-08 18:35:41+00:00
In the newest iteration of a time-honored tradition, grub (and/or whatever distro's treatment of it) has been finding all kinds of ways to break upgrades for 30 years. If you're on the happy path you can probably go a long time without a problem.

But when you're the unlucky one and need to search for a fix, and you're checking hardware/distro/date details in whatever forums or posts, and that's when you notice that the problems don't actually ever stop.. it just hasn't happened to you lately.
by JackSlateur | 2025-05-08 18:35:51+00:00
You are absolutely right.

Of course, if people wrote bug-free code, then there would be no bug !

Bug-free code in the actual code, or bug-free code in the test code, this is the same story.

If you write stuff and never have any bug, then either:

- you are lying - you do not write much - you only write really simple things - you are Jesus, came back from heaven to shine his light on us, poor souls

The more complicated, intricate stuff you have, the more bugs you'll get (and only time will allow you to fix that).

Tests are great do define how you think it should work, and to ensure it keeps doing that way. Take the time to think about the third point on the bullet list above.
by Centigonal | 2025-05-08 18:35:55+00:00
> the administration objects to USAID, not cancer research

Are you sure about that?

This administration's HHS Secretary has deep doubts about the efficacy of the scientific method, which underpins all of medical research in general and cancer research in particular. It seem more likely to me that the money impounded from cancer research will instead be redirected to organizations that use non-scientific methods to study the effects of nutritional supplements, water flouridation, and non-ionizing 5G radiation.

https://www.stopbreastcancer.org/national-breast-cancer-coal...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/13/abortions-cancer-in...

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-cancer-institute...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-spreading-misinformation-a...

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a63559859/rfk-jr-cance...
by drmpeg | 2025-05-08 18:36:02+00:00
The specific allocation is 1400 to 1427 MHz. It is reserved for radio astronomy (the hydrogen line is at 1420.4 MHz), passive (receive only) Earth exploration satellites and passive space research.

In the US, 1240 to 1400 MHz is allocated to radar. GNSS downlinks at 1240 to 1300 MHZ are not protected in the US.
by abound | 2025-05-08 18:36:21+00:00
I think it's pretty clearly hypocritical, but also if his actions are (far) more than offsetting his own emissions and impact, it's still a net positive.

Of course, he could choose to not live a super-high consumption lifestyle in addition to his climate philanthopy, but if I had to take one or the other, I'd rather him continue throwing money at climate work than take fewer private jet rides.
by anon291 | 2025-05-08 18:36:22+00:00
I am not the commenter above. However, depression and lack of discipline/self-control form a negative feedback loop. Lack of discipline causes you to be depressed, which causes you to have less discipline. A lot of practices that seemed 'strict' to us that cultures would practice in the past are socially evolved ways to re-instill discipline via social shame. For example, the fasting days in the liturgical calendar. While you may have become undisciplined personally, when there's a fasting day that comes around every week, or an especially important one that comes by every year, you might decide to make a change.

For me personally, as a Catholic, I was able to kick my bad dietary habits during Lent. I wouldn't have been able to do it otherwise. The social pressure of having to abide by my rules helped me very much, and this was possible because my parents were 'strict' about Lent with us.

Ignoring the spiritual aspect completely, I think these practices are insanely useful which is why every culture has them. But we've thrown them out the window for some reason.
by gambiting | 2025-05-08 18:36:49+00:00
Well but that's exactly what I was asking for - thank you for posting this. I asked to be corrected and I was.

But let me quote what the article you linked says:

"claimed that Bill had met the disgraced financier on “numerous occasions.” One of those meetings allegedly lasted for hours."

Does that sound to you like they had a deep relationship of any kind? I'm just trying to form my own view on it - and that just doesn't read to me like the kind of relationship that people try to portray it as. If I met with someone "numerous times, sometimes for hours" you wouldn't immediately think we are friends or that we even share any values together, would you?

>> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...

I can't access that without a sub, you'll have to give me the jist or some quotes.
by jerf | 2025-05-08 18:36:56+00:00
An open successor is basically impossible at this point. Years and years.

What can happen is that the open source and "noncompliant" passkey implementations spread to the point that it becomes impractical to block them, or something that can only be deployed to internal security where an organization can control their authentication mechanisms tightly because they provide the authentication tokens to their employees, and regardless of what the spec writers think or want, the de facto spec simply diverges from the de jure spec. It's not like that hasn't happened to basically every spec ever.

The good news is, I think the market is going to pushed pretty heavily in this direction for a long time. Bitwarden right now provides pretty much exactly the experience I am looking for from passkeys; I auth with my tool, and as long as I am authed, it provides the passkey. It already has mechanisms for not staying logged in indefinitely and requiring periodic refreshes, and I think passkey mechanisms that involve people basically still having to authenticate every time are going to be systematically disfavored in the market to ones that don't. Passkeys are a legitimate advance if I can do one log in in the browser or my password manager and be logged in to all my sites without further intervention; they're actually a downgrade if I now have to go through the effort of setting up a passkey and also still authenticating every time I want to use one. Whether or not it is abstractly a good idea, you can't just spec your way to something like this in practice.
by philistine | 2025-05-08 18:37:07+00:00
> if you do it now it's really painful.

That's a misnomer if ever there was one. The current batch of tariffs will destroy enough American wealth to nosedive the economy before any long-term change. Manufacturing is not coming back, there's just not gonna be enough wealth in the US to warrant it. Plus there are counter-tariffs, so if you make it in America, you can't reliably export it.
by avsteele | 2025-05-08 18:37:09+00:00
I mean in this case the upside for me is no tariff. I don't mind paying some premium for assembly in USA.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I haven't ever had to 'go over' the board with PCBWay. Maybe why they are so cheap, but I've only ever had one quality issue.

I send the gerbers and pick and place and take it from there. I approve photos If they have any question (which is rare) its over email. I don't even mind sourcing the parts/pcb/stencil myself. Its the components which make the tariff painful.
by moralestapia | 2025-05-08 18:37:34+00:00
You are an editor on CNN.

A person from the US has been elected as the Pope, you have to come up with a title for this news piece.

You have these two options:

A) First American Pope elected ...

B) First US Pope elected ...

A is ambiguous because "American" means a country for 4% of the world and a continent for 96% of the world. Also, the pope that just died happened to be from Argentina, and also happened to be the "First American Pope" for 96% of the world, adding to the ambiguity.

B does not have any issues and is correct from whichever angle you want to approach it.

Which one do you choose?
by throwaway2037 | 2025-05-08 18:38:00+00:00
> What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

Ask that exact same question to someone from the AngloAmerican sphere and Japan/Korea. They will answer very differently. This is a widely studied cultural communication difference. Japan/Korea can handle incredibly dense communictation mediums, but AngloAmericans cannot. Neither is wrong, but they are both economically important cultural spheres.
by Animats | 2025-05-08 18:38:07+00:00
Oh, it's the NuScale guy again.

NuScale got far enough to get approval to build a test reactor at the Idaho Reactor Testing Station, which is in Outer Nowhere for good reasons. But they never got enough funding to build it.

The trouble with most of these small modular reactor schemes is that their big pitch is mostly "we don't need a big, strong, containment vessel because ... reasons."

There's no inherent problem in building a small nuclear reactor. Here's one from 1957, near Oakland, CA.[1] It's safety if something goes badly wrong that's a problem.

History:

- Chernobyl - meltdown and fire, no containment vessel, major disaster.

- Fukushima - meltdown, too-small containment vessel, large disaster.

- Three Mile Island - meltdown, big strong containment vessel, plant lost but no disaster.

Alternative reactor history:

- Fort St. Vrain - high temperature gas-cooled, subject to helium plumbing leaks in radioactive zone, shut down and plant converted to natural gas.

- AVR reactor, Germany - pebble bed reactor, had pebble jam, had to be shut down, extremely difficult to decommission.

- Sodium reactors - prone to fires.[3]

- Molten salt reactors [4] - require an attached chemical plant that reprocesses radioactive molten salt.

Most of the problems of nuclear reactors in practice involve plumbing. Everything in the radioactive zone has to last half a century or so without maintenance. That's possible with distilled water as the working fluid, but everything else tried has not worked well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1O8xAB_FDI

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor

[3] https://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/resources/research/techn...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor
by evanjrowley | 2025-05-08 18:38:14+00:00
The markup in this case would be some type of semantic web format, like JSON-LD[0] or OWL[1], or some database that can process SPARQL[2] queries. Goal being the "inverse" of something like OWL2Vec[2].

EDIT1: A few weeks ago, a team of Brazilian researchers published a report about using ChatGPT to enhance agriculture-focused OWL dataset[4].

EDIT2: In addition to training LLMs on ontologies, it looks like Palantir is using ontologies as guardrails to prevent LLM hallucinations[5]. Makes sense.

[0] https://json-ld.org/

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-syntax/

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14654

[4] https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18651

[5] https://blog.palantir.com/reducing-hallucinations-with-the-o...
by anon291 | 2025-05-08 18:38:18+00:00
Because appetite suppressants remove the 'self' from the equation. They literally make it so the 'self' (whatever that is) is not in control. But that being said, if you take an appetite suppressant of your own accord (rather than doctor's orders), then you are fine. That's meta-self-control. For example, I know I am uncontrollable around chips. So... I stopped buying them and literally leave the room once I've had just a few. I cannot be around them. I know that and control myself.

A lot of the regain of weight after a diet is due to people starting diets due to doctor's orders and perceiving it as an intervention rather than as a 'rebirth' in a sense. I know there's a meme about vegans, but I don't blame them honestly. If you've ever been food addicted, finally getting it in control feels like a pseudo-religious experience.
by StefanBatory | 2025-05-08 18:38:35+00:00
Why was John Paul II elected? Because of politics.

This could be a factor here too. To try to mend, or keep America in faith, according how you look at things.

I'm wondering one thing - how will this affect Catholics in countries like Russia or China. I imagine their leadership will not like this at all, China especially. I know, not many of people there are Catholic, but still.
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by setzeno | 2025-05-08 18:38:43+00:00
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by abeppu | 2025-05-08 18:38:47+00:00
I think it would be interesting to know if the viewer's familiarity with the object informs how accurate the reconstruction is. This shows presumably lab-raised macaques looking at boats and tarantulas and goldfish -- and that's cool. But presumably a macaque especially whose life has been indoors in confinement has no mental concepts for these things, so they're basically seeing still images of unfamiliar objects. If the animal has e.g. some favorite toys, or has eaten a range of foods, do they perceive these things with a higher detail and fidelity?