MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Supermancho | 2025-07-28 00:26:10+00:00
Since the pandemic, there was certainly noise about Vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 death correlation that the NIH decried as unsubstantiated. Fair enough. Since then, quite a bit of data has been collected.

There are a few hundred PHDs^1 that agree that Vitamin D deficiency increases COVID 19 mortality (nowhere is prevention mentioned) in the US, with no EU overlap that I could see from casual review.

Maybe I'm taking sides here, but I think the data is supported, even if the NIH papers are flawed. Funding what many people assume to be a null hypothesis, is not popular so there may never be research that is convincing, for most.

^1 The signatories are not a comprehensive list, but one list among others: https://www.onedaymd.com/2020/12/vitamin-D-COVID19.html
by mhb | 2025-07-28 00:26:25+00:00
You felt compelled to parade your ignorance by inserting this cheap shot about "Palestinians" into an unrelated discussion. What I mean by ignorance is joining the uninformed masses bleating about "genocide" and "colonialists". Presumably imagining that Jewish people arrived in Palestine de novo at some point in the 19th or 20th century and conquered the native Arab "Palestinians" there.

That's what I mean.
by akersten | 2025-07-28 00:26:40+00:00
> If you take that outcome as inevitable,

I don't and I wish Google et al would take a god damned stand against it. All it takes is 2 or 3 big companies to just not play along with the destruction of the open internet (the very same responsible for their genesis and incredible success), and the bureaucrats will eventually relent. Unfortunately they've chosen the path of least resistance, which also is the path of regulatory capture to their sole benefit. Sad to see that win over the ideals of the early net.
by 0x_rs | 2025-07-28 00:27:25+00:00
The war on the free internet is accelerating. Without real push-back to these dystopian laws and consequences for the people proposing and lobbying for them, you'll miss what will ultimately end up being a temporary anomaly of mostly unrestrained free flow of information. It's not an hypothetical scenario or something that will develop down the line, it's happening today, worldwide.
by anigbrowl | 2025-07-28 00:28:44+00:00
You know there are people on HN who come from or live outside the US, right? Instead of ruminating on how incredibly hard it is for mere mortals to understand the historical forces in play, you could just make your attempt at articulating what you think the key drivers were. Granted, a HN comment only allows for so much depth and references to books or academic papers involve work to generate and read, but as it is you've advanced no thesis whatsoever.
by majormajor | 2025-07-28 00:28:51+00:00
We could wait for further studies, but some already exist: https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt...

You say it's human nature to take shortcuts, so the danger of things that provide easy homogenizing shortcuts should be obvious. It reduces the chance of future innovation by making it more easy for more people have their perspectives silently narrowed.

Personally I don't need to see more anecdotal examples matching that study to have a pretty strong "this is becoming a problem" leaning. If you learn and expand your mind by doing the work, and now you aren't doing the work, what happens? It's not just "the AI told me this, it can't be wrong" for the uneducated, it's the equivalent of "google maps told me to drive into the pond" for the white-collar crowd that always had those lazy impulses but overcame them through their desire to make a comfortable living.
by altairprime | 2025-07-28 00:31:19+00:00
That ship sailed decades ago when Intel promoted Secure Boot as a defense against malicious modifications; it stops rootkits and it stops cheaters, what more could one ask for, etc. App attestation of this sort has been offered in certain enterprise/government Windows 10 SKUs since day one. Apple’s web attestation protocol has been live on all T2 devices for about as long as T2 has been out.

Governments have real and serious need for verifications that are backed by their force. They’re a government; they are wielding force upon citizens by doing this, knowingly and intentionally. That is a normal and widespread purpose of the State existing at all: to compel people to align with the goals of the State, whether members of the State like it or not, until such time as the State’s goals are changed by whatever means it permits or by its collapse.

If this pans out for them, as cryptographically it will but remains to be how vendors and implementations handle it at scale, then they can introduce voting from your phone — the previously-unattainable holy grail of modern democracy — precisely because it lets the government forcibly stop the cheating that device-to-app/web attestation solves. And they can do so without leaking your identity to election officials if they care to! Just visit a government booth once in a while to have your identity signature renewed (and any prior signatures issued to your identity revoked). That’s how digital wallet passports and ID cards work already today anyways, with their photo/video/NFC processes.

Western sfbay-style tech was founded on the libertarian principle that one should be able to tell the government to fuck off and deny taxation, representation, blah blah etc. in favor of one’s armed enclave that does what it feels like. It’s fine to desire that, but it’s proven too radical to be compatible with the needs of nation-states or the needs they enforce satisfactions for on behalf of their citizens. Attacking attestation won’t solve the problem of the “State”, and has led us to a point where Google can claim truthfully to a “State” that the Android forks ecosystem isn’t competent enough to be trusted, because they can’t be bother to do attestations.
by DanielHB | 2025-07-28 00:31:45+00:00
Yes it is a pain in the ass, but just for other people who read this, the bug was in the self-update code for the service worker. If you mess up the cache configuration it can make the service worker never look for an updated version of itself.

It is quite subtle thing in a very small part of the service-worker code but it is not like any random update can brick your app.
by BirAdam | 2025-07-28 00:31:51+00:00
I mean, I’m sure that he accidentally a whole word, but I do find it entirely possible to increase response times by leaving older systems. There was a certain immediacy to older tech that simply doesn’t exist anymore. I just hope that they didn’t move to a recent version of Windows with forced updates and whatnot, or a recent version of Ubuntu which defaults to unattended updates.
by bergie | 2025-07-28 00:32:12+00:00
I'm trying to integrate Meshtastic devices with the Signal K marine software ecosystem.

The idea is to facilitate communications between ship and the shore party, as well as to have alerts, some commands ("boat, turn deck light on") without reliance on telecommunications infrastructure.

Down the line communication and telemetry sharing between different vessels is also potentially interesting.

https://github.com/meri-imperiumi/signalk-meshtastic
by laughing_man | 2025-07-28 00:32:45+00:00
That's how the visa system works. When you lose your visa, you get deported.

The constitution does not protect non-visa-holding people from deportation regardless of the reason the visa was revoked. In this case the visa was revoked because they were supporting a foreign terrorist organization, which is something they promised not to do when applying for a visa. This is not something that needs to be proven in court unless the government is filing criminal charges.

Nobody's rights are being stripped. They're simply being forced to leave the country. They do not have a right to be here.
by snickerbockers | 2025-07-28 00:34:52+00:00
The European union never ceases to amaze me. Whatever happened to becoming less dependent on American corporations?

They flip flop on this stuff at least once a month, and the most annoying part is that they always herald everything they do as some new epoch-defining initiative only to quietly forget about it and do the opposite a few months later.

If nation states are dogs, then EU is the chihuahua: loud, proud and extremely ineffective.
by Hizonner | 2025-07-28 00:35:17+00:00
> None of this prohibits users from modifying their bootloader, kernel, or OS image;

... unless they don't want to turn their device into a boat anchor that nothing else will talk to. It's not going to stop with age verification.

Counterproposal: fuck attestation, and fuck age verification. Individual users, not corporations, associations, or organizations, get to use any goddamned software they want any time they want for any purpose they want, and if you set up some system that can't deal with that, tough beans for you.
by dvsfish | 2025-07-28 00:36:32+00:00
Can't you capitalize power costs to an extent by building a solar and battery array? A sufficiently wealthy company would have the means to find a place to put it that can optimise for both conditions I imagine. I am a total layman in this regard though so pretty happy to be told I'm wrong. Apologies if I completely misinterpreted what you're meaning.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-28 00:36:45+00:00
>So why didn't crypto block or ban them from doing these scams using their technology?

And here we have a neat example of how this site, called "hacker news" of all things, can sometimes take on a absurdly idiotic hive-mind approach to some technology X where brainless hostility combines with laughable ignorance to reject something without knowing the first thing about it, even when the thing is emphatically a practical solution to a widely discussed problem.
by mulmen | 2025-07-28 00:37:26+00:00
SLS is Congress, not NASA. The core mission of NASA is space exploration and their achievements in that domain are unparalleled.

Randomly firing and cutting funding isn’t a solution. Especially not to a perceived problem. If you think the spending is excessive you have to do the hard work of explaining why and then the even harder work of fixing it. If that seems too hard then yeah, it’s fine.
by seriocomic | 2025-07-28 00:37:59+00:00
Almost ready to launch an all-in-one platform for solving problems I face all the time at work, with clients and my own sites.

Frustrated with running 10+ different checks on domains/websites I've built or working on with 10+ different services, I've built - with help from Claude Code - a Django app that tries to wrap all those key checks into one place. On top of that, I've built in scheduled monitoring and alerting.

It's been a great experience learning about the intricacies and nuances in different website set-ups, the complexities in avoiding false negatives, fun with CloudFlare workers, agentic coding and much more.

The site is still running off a RPi (Coolify) in my home-server behind a CF Tunnel at the moment, so won't link directly here - but ping me if you want to give it a test-run.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-28 00:38:52+00:00
> They flip flop on this stuff at least once a month

Because in the background it's a French vs German vs Irish vs Czech vs $insert_eu_state business interests competing with each other.

Notice how it's almost always French legislators and businesses that mention "domestic EU tech" and not Polish, Czech, Romanian, Dutch, or even German policymakers or businesses?

That's why.

National interests always end up trumping the EU in it's current form. And for a large portion of the EU, American BigTech represents the majority of FDI (tech and overall).

Japanese and Korean automotive players did the same thing with the US in the 1980s-90s in order to ensure their interests remained aligned (though the Plaza Accords did play a role)
by jakelazaroff | 2025-07-28 00:39:09+00:00
I'm trying hard not to judge, but the "Infinite Personal Jukebox" sounds nightmarish to me — and I don't just mean to me, personally, but for humanity as a whole.

You are describing a world in which music is devoid of any social context. No sharing songs with friends, no replaying the first song you danced to with a loved one, no seeing live performances, no researching who inspired your favorite artists — because in this world "inspiration" doesn't exist. Nothing will ever force you to reevaluate a genre you'd written off, or ponder tough questions — in fact, no media will ever challenge or surprise you in any way.

That is a world in which one of our most primal connective threads has been robbed of its social and emotional value. It's just elevator music for our own private elevators.
by keyle | 2025-07-28 00:40:01+00:00
> anyone serious about designing for AI should consider non-copilot form factors that more directly extend the human mind.

Aren't auto-completes doing exactly this? It's not a co-pilot in the sense of a virtual human, but already more in the direction of a HUD.

Sure you can converse with LLMs but you can also clearly just send orders and they eagerly follow and auto-complete.

I think what the author might be trying to express in a quirky fashion, is that AI should work alongside us, looking in the same direction as we are, and not being opposite to us at the table, staring at each other's and arguing. We'll have true AI when they'll be doing our bidding, without any interaction from us.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-28 00:40:25+00:00
The number of births will continue it's overall decline because major sea-changes in parenting and childhood aren't being considered.

We ruined parenting. And we ruined childhood. And even if we pretend those catastrophes never happened, the economy still says No to families.

Parenting time is up 20x from a few generations ago. Was a few hours a week. Is now ceaseless. We've wiped out kids free roaming area to satisfy car culture and trespassing culture. We've ended adult-free, peer based, social growth hours. It's impossible for most couples to pair off in a 4-income economy.

The last one might get resolved in a decade or two. The first two won't.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-07-28 00:40:49+00:00
What exactly do you mean by - Visit the container terminals of Europe's third busiest port ?

It's not like you could walk or ride around in there, and you shouldn't either.

It's all fenced, secured.

There are a few vantage points from where you can see into them, from afar, or the other side of the river, but that's it.

Drones? Uh Oh! Better not! Lingering around the fences to get a better view? Are you trying to find the smuggled drugs in some container? Trespassing into some empty quay which has recently been torn down, then elevated, now lying empty, to explore the growth of so called 'pioneer plants'? Better not, because signs say fine is 1000EUR. GULP!
by kllrnohj | 2025-07-28 00:41:38+00:00
It's even harder to get an accurate picture of what Chinese companies are actually doing. Like the wiki page for Huawei's OS Next is pretty incredible. By which I mean, rather actually unbelievable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_NEXT

They created a brand new microkernel with Linux ABI and driver support in containers? Or... did they just slightly fork Linux and pretend they invented it?
by gwyll | 2025-07-28 00:41:48+00:00
Currently working on a tool for creative workflow automation called runchat.app with the goal of giving creatives more control over gen ai. Its a jeckyl and hyde visual canvas that can be used for open ended exploration and experimentation with models on fal as well as automation of things like image processing or web scraping. Something weve been thinking about lately is the idea of ephemeral interfaces and how the ui of runchat can be generated on the fly to suit a specific design task. This makes it possible to vibe code workflows from self contained modular react components - something llms are really good at.
by elcritch | 2025-07-28 00:41:56+00:00
Yes, they finally made it to ZipDrives! Now they'll be future proof for a long time. ;)

After building for just IoT stuff I really like things that work without changing for years. I can't imagine how change adverse nuclear weapons engineers and staff would be.

It's funny too that spy thriller movies always envision military systems as super futuristic and having cutting edge technology.
by nicoburns | 2025-07-28 00:42:56+00:00
> Given your knowledge on Dioxus, do you think Dioxus/Tauri/Wry will eventually support something like this?

Something webkit based? Almost certainly not from a Dioxus perspective. We may add JavaScript support to Blitz at some point though. I believe Tauri have been looking at a WPE backend which may be able to support these kind of things, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
by westurner | 2025-07-28 00:43:42+00:00
Is there a similar drive for West Nile Virus?

"Treatment and Prevention of West Nile Virus Disease" https://www.cdc.gov/west-nile-virus/hcp/treatment-prevention...

/? West Nile Virus WNV: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by buremba | 2025-07-28 00:44:06+00:00
I often need a PostgreSQL server for testing an application, vibe coding, or troubleshooting a PG client. Inspired by Neon's architecture, I implemented PostgreSQL WASM (PGlite) with a cloud proxy (via Websockets) at https://postgresql.dbfor.dev

All the PostgreSQL data lives in your browser, and you have unlimited PostgreSQL servers that persist the data locally without installing anything.
by userbinator | 2025-07-28 00:45:05+00:00
"Device security checks" is the most horrifying aspect as it basically means "officially sanctioned hardware and software", and leads straight into the dystopia that Stallman warned us about in Right to Read.

There is some amusing irony in the EU relying on the US for furthering its own authoritarianism. It's unfortunate that freedom (in the classic rebellious, American sense) never became that popular in the EU, or for that matter, the UK.
by wting | 2025-07-28 00:45:07+00:00
Because of goomba fallacy.

The EU is not a hegemonic state, but rather an economic supranational organization. France/Germany tend to be primary proponents of increased EU strategic autonomy, while Poland/Czech/Baltic states are less supportive.

Similar to recent discussions of self-hosting, it's a tradeoff of autonomy/control vs efficiency.
by Hizonner | 2025-07-28 00:45:12+00:00
> No evidence is given that they won't implement non-Google remote attestation solutions like https://attestation.app/about

Unfortunate that it doesn't matter, because they're not going to accept anything that's not attested by some authority.

Attestation in itself is a bad thing, guaranteed to be horrifically abused in ways far, far worse than any problem it could possibly solve. You do not need to know what software I am running, period.
by jamesponddotco | 2025-07-28 00:45:59+00:00
Inspired by this article by Laurie Hérault[1] which explains how understanding the science of video games helped them "cure" their procrastination, I built a simple CLI tool in Go to print those tasks and added a fun little twist, a "Pokemon roulette", of sorts.

Code is messy since I built it thinking I'd just throw it into a dotfiles repository, but it works, which is what matters. I'll work on improving it after I test the technique and ensure it works for me.

I'm going back to work tomorrow after three months of paternity leave, and will test further to see if the technique really works. Here's hoping.

[1]: https://www.laurieherault.com/articles/a-thermal-receipt-pri...
by latentsea | 2025-07-28 00:47:10+00:00
>If I were a criminal, which I'm not, I'd rather rob a bank with an actual gun than with a squirt gun. Even though having an actual gun puts a bigger target on your back. Because the actual gun works - the squirt gun is just kinda... useless

Actually, there was a case... I can't recall but it might have been in Argentina, where the robbers did explicitly use fake guns when robbing the banks because doing so still actually worked for the purposes of the robbery, and it also reduced their legal liability.
by sillysaurusx | 2025-07-28 00:47:18+00:00
Couldn’t disagree more. I watched my first beheading video at 13, let alone porn. I still remember it, Nick Berg. I think I turned out ok. My online freedom was largely why I became who I am.

As for other people being the danger, there’s some truth to that for women. I have a daughter, so this will be a concern. But you know, she won’t die. Everyone goes through trauma. The key here is to make sure she feels comfortable enough to talk to me and to my wife before doing anything (too) stupid.

I snuck out of my parents’ house to go see a girl when I was 16. Took my dad’s station wagon. On the way, some car tried to pass me and ended up hitting a big truck on the side. Truck was fine, I was fine, that fella was not. He ended up on the side of the road. Me and trucker just kept going. I still think about that guy a lot, because obviously the correct thing to do would have been to call 911, but I was a dumb 16yo who was out past midnight to go see a girl.

Point is, if things went a little differently, I could have been the one who crashed, or even dead. But that doesn’t mean that the girl I was going to go see was somehow a threat to me. It means I was doing something dangerous.

Again, this is easy to say as a man. The threat model for women is different. But prohibiting minors from the internet without supervision is totally absurd, and I feel bad for any parent who helicopters their kids like that.

Ultimately your kid will grow up and have their own life. Do you want to be remembered as the parent who had them under lock and key in the name of safety, or as a parent who monitored from a distance and occasionally let them do stupid things so that they could learn from it? For me, the latter is far more preferable.
by topspin | 2025-07-28 00:47:56+00:00
"a single, larger layer of hidden units"

Does this not mean that the entire model must cycle to operate any given part? Division into concurrent "modules" (the term appearing in this paper,) affords optimizing frequency independently and intentionally.

Also, what certainty is there that everything is best modelled with multilayer NN? Diversity of algorithms, independently optimized, could yield benefits.

Further, can we hope that modularity will create useful points of observability? The inherent serialization that develops between modules could be analyzed, and possibly reveal great insights.

Finally, isn't there a possibility that AGI could be achieved more rapidly by factoring the various processes into discrete modules, as opposed to solving every conceivable difficulty in a monolithic manner, whatever the algorithm?

That's a lot of questions. Seems like identifying possible benefits is easy enough that this approach is worthwhile exploring. We shall see I suppose. At the very least we know the modularization of HRM has a valid precedent: real biological brains.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-07-28 00:48:14+00:00
It had nothing to do with capital.

A low to mid spec PC cost around $2000, and an NE2000 clone was around $50. RG-58 coax was about 20 cents a foot from Radio Shack.

Windows for Workgroups made the setup pretty trivial, and there was a plethora of folks out there (like me) repairing PCs and setting up LANs for small businesses.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-07-28 00:48:48+00:00
I didn’t say that ChatGPT said. I said I used ChatGPT as a search engine because it’s incredibly easy and slightly better than Google. And then I visited the links it gave me to see the primary and secondary sources.

Again, the only reason we’re having this conversation as though there’s a debate here is that people have decided to believe in one inaccurate version of the world instead of using the extensive tools available to figure out what’s going on. This level of conversation is fine for Reddit, it’s embarrassing for HN where having an accurate mental model of the world (and a willingness to learn an update) is kind of essential.