MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kldg | 2025-07-29 17:15:10+00:00
Your IP address is hashed when you connect and then a large part of it is lopped off. The part that isn't lopped off is used for ID. There is collision risk; definitely use alternatives if not comfortable with that -- it was made for a small handful of friends in Discord to share >10MB attachments and definitely not for storing folks' medical information.

Edit: On reconsideration, though, given that, I went ahead and removed the link, email address, and solicitation generally. I'm confident nothing would go wrong in the context of the 1000 or so people I imagine would ever see that link before the service is removed/renamed in some years, but I can appreciate the high-value liability of being wrong on that. Thanks.
by metabagel | 2025-07-29 17:15:24+00:00
The kickstarter page seems to be more informative.

"From ultra-soft to firm - mold any feel"

"Multi-part bonding"

I see this as an add-on for those who already have a 3D printer (I don't), because you can print the mold for your softgel part.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/saltgator/saltgator-the...
by louthy | 2025-07-29 17:15:42+00:00
>> Not being able to access porn without a VPN is not the definition of "authoritarian nightmare".

> Linking your real identity to the ability to load text on a computer you own absolutely is.

You're responding to something I didn't say.

> Not being able to step out onto the street without having 50 government-operated cameras take your picture absolutely is.

That's not true either. You're just lying. There are police CCTV cameras in trouble areas, sure, but the idea that there are 50 pointing at you at any one time is a lie. Most CCTV cameras are privately owned and they can only be sequestered by the police with a warrant.

But just to be clear, you call that an "authoritarian nightmare". It's an exchange of some freedoms (privacy on a public street) for some safety (freedom from criminal assault/theft/etc.). Because we haven't been constitutionally indoctrinated we can see the nuance in that exchange. Some may think it's gone too far, others not far enough, most appreciate the drop in crime.

> "Knife control" absolutely is.

The last time I bought a knife the Amazon delivery driver just had to check my ID to make sure I was 18 or over. But again, because we haven't been indoctrinated to believe that the constitution was given from upon high, we understand that if kids or young adults are buying knifes to stab each other, then we'll do something about it.

How many school shootings have there been in the US this year? The fetishisation of guns and violence is literally insane. The rest of the world looks at the US and its lack of gun control as lunacy.

>> But it isn't on the precipice of losing its democracy altogether (like the US).

> Good god come on. I hope I remember to come back here after the next election and accept your apology.

You first. You've already lied several times about the UK, so whenever you're ready.

This whole debate is utterly pointless. There's a clear divide between how the constitutionally indoctrinated American sees the world and those of us who live in countries without constitutions. Our system will always seem crazy to someone who only believes in one set of laws written down 200 odd years ago.

The difference with the UK to the US is that we have tended toward freedom for the past 1000 years. We are more comfortable with our system and institutions. It's certainly not perfect, but on the whole it doesn't oppress.

The 'First They Came' poem in the UK would go something like this:

* First they came for the Islamic fundamentalist suicide bombers, and I did not speak out because I was not a Islamic fundamentalist suicide bomber.

* Then they came for the Nazis, and I did not speak out because I was not a Nazi.

* Then they came for my PornHub access, luckily I didn't need anyone to speak up because I had VPN access

* Then they came for me - and there were plenty of decent people to speak up for me, cos life in the UK ain't as bad as it's said to be on Hacker News.

It kinda doesn't punch quite as hard ;)
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-29 17:15:47+00:00
In 2025 you could do better than n-grams but it does seem the n-grams are validated. I used to reference Korzybski for language features in pathological discourse but I should have reference Beck because he’s more reputable and really did develop the “workable system” that Hubbard correctly said Korzybski never had.
by wredcoll | 2025-07-29 17:16:36+00:00
> Its lazy and incredibly selfish to condemn others for making hard choices when you don't know how you would have acted yourself

No, it's how our world improves.

I, personally, do not have to be a perfect paragon of morality and justice and righteousness in order to condemn other people for doing immoral and evil things.

Also there's a huge difference between "a week after the attacks" and "12 months after the attacks". Humans, pretty much universally, will justify/excuse reactions based on immediate rage and anger and hurt and forgive people who did it... assuming they, you know, stop doing it.

Would I personally have sent soldiers in or done any of the other things? No idea. I certainly hope not, but there's no way to prove that. It's like asking if I would have bought a slave if I lived in 1800s texas or 150 ce rome. There's no real way to answer the question, but the important part is that it would still be wrong if I did it.

We can quibble about how wrong it would be, and more usefully, what the punishment should be for doing so, but none of that changes the fact that it's wrong.

And as a general take on the whole israel-palestine thing, yes, hamas has done any number of awful immortal crimes. So has israel. The difference is that israel has a lot more power over palestine than hamas has over israel.

Sure, maybe the 8 year old did in fact kick you in the shin and spit on you. I still expect the adult to act with a higher moral standard.
by qcnguy | 2025-07-29 17:16:50+00:00
I do believe you will say it endlessly, as you're clearly in denial about what's happening (lemme guess, are you German?).

Germany is months away from outright banning the AfD, the primary opposition party that has hundreds of MPs, on the basis that the SED um I mean the SPD hates their policies. That's what punishment of dissent looks like, what a regime looks like: bulk disenfranchising a quarter of the population because they object to left wing policy.

If they get those judges appointed it'll likely be lights out for German democracy. All the AfD MPs will disappear overnight, leaving the left wing parties with a majority. They will then launch a vote of no confidence in Merz and take over the government, at which point the already extremely harsh oppression of the left's enemies will be ramped up much further still. The right will be fully driven underground by many more prosecutions of the form you claim aren't about punishing dissent, and Germany will be fully converted to the DDR model in which there are theoretically competitive elections, but the only parties allowed to exist are all on the left.

I really hope you're not German, that you're just very stubborn instead. Because if Germany does get turned into a left wing dictatorship there's no limit to how crazy and dysfunctional life there will become. The USA will be paradise in comparison.
by NomDePlum | 2025-07-29 17:17:39+00:00
If you aren't comfortable quitting, and it sounds like you aren't, consider using the time you have to learn skills that might be relevant to ideas you want to pursue. Ideally also relevant to your current role if there is overlap.

Boredom sounds like what you primarily want to address at present.

The alternative is to look for areas where you can contribute more to your current role, but sounds like you have already tried that.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-07-29 17:18:02+00:00
> Why is $85B automatically bad?

I didn't say automatically, I referred to "my words above" - that kind of money, and the profits on top of it, can only come from monopoly pricing and it's a strong sign that the business in question is operating in near monopoly conditions.

In most of the world, railroads (and other roads) are government owned because it's hard to make that kind of business competitive plus there are natsec issues to address. The privatization trend is recent.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-07-29 17:18:02+00:00
The only things an older frame won’t accommodate is electronic shifting and disk brakes. You can run 12 speed its the same cassette width as its always been since probably 7 speed. Stuff like external cables actually are better for you as someone who isn’t a pro cyclist since shifting is smoother without under handle wraps, cables last longer with less tension in the brifter. Easier to service yourself than running the cables in the stem or frame. 8 speed better too because the chain and cassettes will last forever vs thinner higher speed stuff. Gear range is probably the same just with more increments so you get away with fewer shifts on 8 speed and just use your legs to find the gear and cadence balance. People did big descents just fine on rim brakes for decades until they came out with disk and made it seem like an issue.
by asdfj999 | 2025-07-29 17:18:02+00:00
At least in the US, in general we talk to the family about code status "Do you want your loved one to receive CPR if their heart stops?". We can make them DNR/DNI. Then next discussion would be hospice. They would have a hospital bed sent to their home, be discharged with a weekly nurse visit and doctor available by phone/text, and get minimal medications focused on minimizing suffering.
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-29 17:18:12+00:00
> Uh, not all of us that homeschool are right-wing fundies.

Yes, that's probably why the first example of an out-group in GP is "republicans", while the second is "non-Christians", and the broad category label for the examples is "whatever is outside of their parents group".

Actually reading the excerpt you quote to react to would help.

> You better believe we prioritize a diverse set of experiences and ideas, and I think we are more favorably positioned to deliver on that.

And on what evidence should I believe either of those things?
by os2warpman | 2025-07-29 17:18:16+00:00
What it looks like is irrelevant. Inconsistent and misaligned typefaces on the keycaps are irrelevant. (Why are you even looking at your keyboard?)

The only relevant thing is buckling springs.

IBM perfected text input on personal computers in 1977 with the F and later M. Any comparison of any keyboard to the M is futile, and any attempt at replicating it must focus solely and absolutely on the one and only aspect of the keyboard that makes it special.

>For our test, Vortex provided a keyboard with Cherry MX Blues

Sigh.

Cosplaying.
by bikenaga | 2025-07-29 17:18:17+00:00
Original article (paywalled, but with the abstract intact): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09246-x

A significant comment in the abstract: "CoQ10 supplementation does not increase CoQ10 pools in the brain or in other tissues." I wonder whether this refers to "regular" CoQ10 or (e.g.) ubiquinol.
by mourner | 2025-07-29 17:19:27+00:00
The updated syntax looks brilliant — can't wait to try it out by upgrading some of my older notebooks! I was worried about the future of Observable since the Canvas announcement — it felt like notebooks were being slowly phased out, but I'm glad to be proven wrong.

Any timeline on bringing the new format to the Web editor? For me, the biggest draw of Observable is being able to instantly start exploring and visualizing some data without ANY setup (creating some local files, installing dependencies, launching a dev server etc.) — just click "New notebook" and off you go, frictionless. I hope this remains a priority.

Also worth mentioning the data viz community aspect, which I used to enjoy a ton — it's a bummer that things like being able to follow certain users and see their new notebooks in a feed were phased out, and that trending notebooks are now hidden under the Help menu instead of being featured on the user's homepage. This might be one of the reasons I stopped coming back to the platform as often, although I realize building a community is very difficult and hard to monetize — just thought I'd share.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-29 17:19:42+00:00
What's crazy is that it trains users to trust a component that can be faked by the website.

You can mimic the component and then redirect the button anywhere, and the user is primed to comply with whatever they see.

Like a fake "Actually it seems like your Google account is compromised. Please verify that it's you by doing X."

This kind of shit-tier feature should at the very least appear inside the browser chrome, not inset in/over the website. I'm so tired of amateur slop from megacorps that should know better.
by in9 | 2025-07-29 17:19:48+00:00
I'm not familiar with the medical side of this study, but I am very familiar with the statistics.

### They did not do a non-vaccinated vs vaccinated people comparison

These studies are observational, and in that sense no manipulation (such as random treatment assignment) was made. So they need to rely on observational studies techniques.

From what I could gather, one of this observational techniques in inverse treatment probability weighting when they say

> "we adjusted for all baseline covariates using stabilized inverse probability of treatment weights"

The IPW technique basically tries to solve the problem that some groups of children might have a higher prevalence of the treatment by weighting them in a manner as to mimic random assignment. This is as close as we can get to comparing treated and untreated in observational settings.

Also, the division of the doses of vaccine is also a better characterization of "was vaccinated". If you think getting vaccinated causes something, then getting more vaccinated should increase the incidence of that something.

### Wouldn’t you need a sizable cohort of non vaccinated children?

Yes, but as you pointed out, that might not exist. So by creating comparable groups (via IPW) + treatment intensity/dose we can still arrive at some conclusions.

### The researchers discarded from their cohort 34,547 children for receiving too many vaccinations/too much aluminum (...) Wouldn’t that data be relevant to look at?

They probably did. A few things are important here. The data comes from administrative data sources, so mistakes can happen. While you need to trust the sources, there could be imputation typos, or just weird cases. So the researchers probably went after a notion of "clinically relevant vaccine dosage for this study" to know up to which point to consider data points, because from that point onward, it either is not interesting because its a rare treatment incidence, or just seems like a mistake.

### “adjusted hazard ratio (95% CI) per 1mg increase in aluminum received……” and in the chart Asperger’s is listed at 1.13 (.89 - 1.44) so they do potentially see an increase for Asperger’s

Important to say that with hazard ratios, a HR of 1 means that there is no change because we are in the multiplicative scale (as opposed to 0 meaning "treatment does nothing" in the additive scale).

So in this setting, after adjusting for the treatment probabilities, a HR CI of (.89 - 1.44) just translates to 'no effect'. Nothing out of the ordinary in terms of the interpretation.
by cratermoon | 2025-07-29 17:19:51+00:00
Every time I've been in the hospital - unfortunately too many times -it's the nurses I see and who do the work, with the occasional lab tech visiting to do a test or draw blood.

The doctors show up once a day, doing their rounds. Don't get me wrong, I've had some wonderful doctors, hospital patient visits are only part of the work doctors do.

I remember the good nurses, the patient nurses who understood why I'd be grouchy, even angry at times, and would sit down and talk to me. I remember the young new nurses, sometimes struggling with an IV placement but persevering to get the skill they know they need.

Most importantly I remember how every time I'd wake from general anesthesia, the first face I saw was a nurse letting me know where I was and what's happening.
by nailer | 2025-07-29 17:19:52+00:00
> Here's Osama, lying in a hospital (April 25th)

Osama al-Rakab has cystic fibrosis. Again you should consider unfollowing CBC.

https://x.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1949802614507368958

> Here is a picture of Yazan, 2 (article from today)

Who also has a medical condition, and whose mother and father are very clearly not starving https://x.com/ApostateProphet/status/1764033775862698302. You should consider unfollowing Unicef too.
by tojumpship | 2025-07-29 17:20:09+00:00
Untrue, you can modify it enough to avoid giving it more entropy. Possible approaches include: - Spoofing browsers down to the TCP stack - Plausibily random values - Every possible bit scrambled on each request

You can see a similar thought-process behind Tor bridges so it is tried-and-tested. Noted that it is a much more difficult feat to accomplish in a full blown browser rather than network layer.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-07-29 17:20:13+00:00
I'm not sure about the audience for this, if you're already willing to learn the material you probably already engage with AI in a way that isn't "please output the answers for me" because you're likely self-aware enough to know that "answering" isn't always "understanding." Maybe this mode makes that a little easier? but I doubt it's significant

If you're the other 90% of students that are only learning to check the boxes and get through the courses to get the qualification at the end... are you going to bother using this?

Of course, maybe this is "see, we're not trying to kill education... promise!"
by wmanley | 2025-07-29 17:20:24+00:00
Depends on willingness to pay - Even if your cost per customer is 0 maximising profit would mean that it’s better (for you) to sell 10 licences for £1,000,000 a pop to rich customers who really need the service rather than 500,000 licences for £1. It’s a shame because those 500,000 miss out on your product even though it would cost you nothing if they were to use it. This is where price segmentation comes into play - maybe you can still charge those 10 big customers the full whack, while providing benefit to the 500,000.
by nticompass | 2025-07-29 17:20:30+00:00
Not just "Oh My Zsh" but pretty much any piece of software. Try searching for "vlc" or "filezilla" or something and I can pretty much guarantee that the "sponsored" links are viruses/malware. I remember once having to show my boss that the "filezilla" link he was going to click on from Google was fake/malicious.
by runarberg | 2025-07-29 17:21:32+00:00
I looked at a couple of definitions of Zionism.

Wikipedia:

> Zionism is an ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe to establish and support a Jewish homeland through the colonization of Palestine.

Brittanica:

> Zionism, Jewish nationalist movement with the goal of the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine.

Jewish Vioce for Peace (an Anti-Zionist organization):

> Zionism is a form of Jewish nationalism, and is the primary ideology that drove the establishment of Israel.

> The political ideology of Zionism, regardless of which strain, has resulted in the establishment of a Jewish nation-state in the land of historic Palestine.

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/zionism/

Jewish center for justice (a Zionist organization):

> Zionism is the belief in the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in our ancestral homeland of Israel.

> Today, supporting Zionism means promoting the continued existence of a Jewish state and upholding the right of Jews to live freely in their historic homeland.

https://jewishcenterforjustice.org/what-is-zionism-six-thing...

Zioness.org (a Zionist publication):

> The progressive movement for liberation and national self-determination of the Jewish people in our indigenous homeland, the land of Israel.

Zack Beauchamp (A journalist and a Liberal Zionist):

> Zionism is Israel’s national ideology. Zionists believe Judaism is a nationality as well as a religion, and that Jews deserve their own state in their ancestral homeland, Israel.

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18080010/zionism-israel-pales...

There is a varying degree in what these definitions call the land in question (Israel; Jewish ancestral homeland; etc.; I just call it Palestine) and where exactly that land is (1967 borders; Israel + occupied territories; Israel + Sinai + Jordan + South Lebanon + ect.). There is also a varying degree of how much rights to grant the indigenous population. Liberal Zionists want to grant them equal rights as a minority, while Kahanists want to expel them again in a Geoncide. But all Zionists agree that Zionism is a national project to maintain a Jewish supremacy state in Palestine.

A liberal Zionist would refute the description Jewish supremacy because in a democratic Israel all citizens should have the same rights. I refute that refutation on the basis that without the right of return for the 1948 refugees, Israel has artificially created a racial majority on lands that did not belong to them, and thus have created a supremacy through majority rule via a violent expulsion of the indigenous population.
by awhitby | 2025-07-29 17:21:35+00:00
This makes some good points. Slightly off its main topic, can iOS or an app treat Face ID and passcode auth differently, or are they completely unified?

For example, it would make a lot of sense to treat them differently for Apple Pay fraud detection, since passcode + device compromise seems a lot more likely in the real world than compelled Face ID.

Edit: there's a newish feature, Stolen Device Protection, that works along these lines - https://support.apple.com/en-us/120340
by Shank | 2025-07-29 17:22:27+00:00
On the contrary: If Project Zero finds a 0-day in a product I know I use, and I know that product is Internet Facing, I can immediately take action and firewall it off. It isn't always the case that they find things like this, but an early warning signal can be really beneficial.

For customers, it also gives them leverage to contact vendors and ask politely for news on the patch.
by cma256 | 2025-07-29 17:23:09+00:00
It's better than a professor in some respects. A professor can teach me about parser combinators but they probably can't teach me about a specific parser combinator library.

There's a lot of specificity that AI can give over human instruction however it still suffers from lack of rigor and true understanding. If you follow well-trod paths its better but that negates the benefit.

The future is bright for education though.
by jonahx | 2025-07-29 17:23:16+00:00
> The idea that tests should be split into a specification layer and execution layer is a good one that should have taken off by now.

There is a fundamental reason it hasn't:

An actual specification layer isn't any simpler than the execution layer. That's a programmer's fallacy.

What has taken off, and is part of virtually every software project, is a loose, natural language specification, which hints at "more or less" what the stakeholders are imagining. The idea that you can close the gap between this and a complete specification in a way that all stakeholders can still digest is the fantasy of cucumber. Or any other tool that attempts it.

You can't solve the problem in that way. Because, from a high-level stakeholder's perspective, the whole point of the people below them (whether programmers or UX designers or anyone else) is to fill in those details in a way that matches their own hazy expectations, at least well enough.
by qingcharles | 2025-07-29 17:23:35+00:00
That's definitely true. I could see more of the running open source models on other people's hardware model.

I dislike running local LLMs right now because I find the software kinda janky still, you often have to tweak settings, find the right model files. Basically have a bunch of domain knowledge I don't have space for in my head. On top of maintaining a high-spec piece of hardware and paying for the power costs.