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by dwmbt | 2025-09-15 00:29:35+00:00
have you taken a look at what the CLI is for? like you mentioned, it's pretty much just a build step! but there are some runtime things basked that are interesting [0]. i just have a watcher listening to file changes to trigger a rebuild. i have no need for real-time queries so just having the current state at build works for my purposes.

if you must know, the product i work on is primarily a data lake. we have our own query language -> i have a fork of the CLI w added support for parsing custom cells. i don't know of any alternatives that give me a notebook so easily!

> running a script to generate a static webpage would drive me insane

possibly web-brained take but i don't mind it much. builds are instant for me, network latency is the only thing i find myself waiting around on.

> Isn't the whole point of a computational notebook to have some kind of integrated GUI

well yea, pretty sure the entire point of the desktop app is to show what you can build atop the new api! this preview is meant to expand the capability of observable within your own custom web app. the original framework was too close to some of the frustrations you mentioned, so they're trying to make it more amorphous :)

[0] https://github.com/observablehq/notebook-kit/tree/main/src/r...
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-15 00:30:48+00:00
not true. Evidence of rigorous differences exist. The "explanations" are not supported by rigorous evidence. They are just "explanations" for a correlation. One explanation is environment, another is genetics.

Realistically Both are factors.

>The current observed gap is much smaller than gains than have been observed within racial communities over time as a result of environmental changes.

Yes environment is a factor but given a prime environment to foster intelligence, you can see that among races there are still differences in intelligence.

Additionally the logic is inescapable. If genetics is what causes something like down syndrome then of course it can cause the opposite of down syndrome.

>So… no. You don’t have a lot of credible evidence for what you claim is a delusion to doubt. And even the observed effect size disregarding confounding effects is less than individual variation.

Either way can you stick to the main topic. Tired of this off tangent bs. The intelligence thing was just an example.
by uzerfcwn | 2025-09-15 00:31:23+00:00
Last month, a Finnish court judged that using derogatory words in an email sent privately to the offended person counts as defamation.[1] When this was discussed in the Finnish Reddit [2], some found it unjust that it counts as defamation even though the message wasn't sent to third parties, but it is indeed how the law was written.

[1] https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/6c9a65fe-f706-449e-b0d9-1...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/Suomi/comments/1mv9usq
by theossuary | 2025-09-15 00:32:53+00:00
Sometimes I wonder if the US government purposely doesn't allocate a chunk of bandwidth to a medium range digital mesh network protocol specifically to prevent losing centralized control of communications. It was only through a backdoor (LoRa) that things like Meshtastic can exist. Imagine if a protocol could be designed for it instead of having to reuse one meant for IoT sensors, it'd be incredible.

One of those incredible things only an altruistic billionaire could give to the US/world at this point. Who knows, maybe something like Wifi HaLow can fill that gap
by refactor_master | 2025-09-15 00:33:12+00:00
The Internet for example is thought to be “democratizing” for society, but in reality some argue we’re now living under a system of “technofeudalism” [1] which is anything but. E.g. just a handful of Internet-enabled companies essentially rule the world. You can sit down and code an Amazon clone with or without AI, and both of them will be highly unlikely to topple the existing monopolies.

[1] https://thebeautifultruth.org/the-basics/what-is-technofeuda...
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-09-15 00:34:02+00:00
Even if that's true, it's not a knock against GrapheneOS itself. It's a subjective stance, not an objective one. This may be useful for some people to consider what projects they want to support, but it's not pertinent to discussions of function.

I still enjoy Harry Potter despite controversy around what J.K. Rowling has said on some topics.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-15 00:34:36+00:00
Where you live doesn't generalize.

Where I live, interest payments alone exceed the rental rate for the same property even if you could afford a 20% downpayment. Those interest payments are a total loss. No amount of contortions can make those numbers pencil out where ownership is beneficial to the buyer. As it happens I now rent but I recently sold my house because it didn't make sense even though my carrying costs were far lower than any new buyer.

By the time you pay off a mortgage, a renter could afford to buy the same property for cash with money left over.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-09-15 00:35:25+00:00
Assembling your own cake mix is pretty easy if you really wanted to. Stick it in the freezer for whenever. However the prepackaged stuff is still likely to taste better because it uses industrial ingredients that will simply taste better.

A quick look at the first Betty Crocker mix I found on Safeway's site showed: corn syrup, xantham gum, and cellulose. Those will all contribute to the final texture and moistness.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-15 00:35:41+00:00
I don't know much about Asian train stations except in Japan but the thing is that in addition to being massive in terms of traffic, the stations are also malls.

If you go to Shinjuku station, it is hard to know what is the station and what is the shopping district. The part dedicated to transportation, like the JR platform you see in every picture is just a fraction of it. All large train stations feature some kind of shops, restaurants, etc... just like airports do, however Japan is on another level. There are full department stores in the station, some of them operated by the railroad themselves.

I think there are historical reasons to it, where private railways are also retail companies, and built stations as shopping centers, which looks like a clever idea for a city to develop its public transport infrastructure from private funds.
by stocksinsmocks | 2025-09-15 00:36:48+00:00
I don’t get the sense that there’s a lot of value being added here. I upload drawing files to a startup server, which may be proprietary or sensitive data under NDA as is often the case with projects like data centers, and what the service does for me is translate a prompt into an API call to auto desk automation platform? Why don’t I just put their API documentation in a context file and have a model generate the same API calls? I just get the sense that this is such a thin rapper that I don’t really understand charging money for it.
by oefrha | 2025-09-15 00:37:41+00:00
Who the hell told you Singapore doesn't have this problem? It took me 5 seconds to find this reporting from 2022 https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/the-pig-...

> It hit a record high last year, with $190.9 million stolen in such scams, more than five times the $36.9 million lost in 2019.

Can't find more recent concrete figures in a minute or two but their police are busting balls through international collaboration in 2025 so they must have a big problem still: https://therecord.media/asia-scam-center-takedowns-singapore...

I've seen bank defending people before with my own eyes. I was at a local branch doing some business and there was an old lady wanting to withdraw something like $50k to "pay a mortgage" or something, it was obvious she was scammed, the bank blocked her transaction and the teller was explaining to her she was scammed, and the old lady was shouting at the teller saying it was her money and they had no right to stop her. That's the thing, a lot of scam victims really don't believe they're scam victims until it's too late, and "it's their money, the bank has no right to stop them".
by charcircuit | 2025-09-15 00:37:53+00:00
>If true, this would violate the "priority of constituencies"

Not neccessarily. For example, piracy is so harmful that it could still outway the cost to a user even with a multiplier given to the user's cost. For example the user's cost is 10 and the author's cost is 100. Even with a 5x priority for the user, the needs of the author outweigh it.
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-15 00:38:02+00:00
> requiring calls to an API to verify the user's age

By simply asking for their age. There's nothing about requiring that the age is actually attempted to be verified as accurate at all. And the "age bracket" is specifically defined as nonpersonally identifiable information.

And it still gives no consequences for wrong/fake information.

Interestingly, they also define a "developer" simply as "a person that owns, maintains, or controls an application".

Wouldn't that inherently include all users of a computer in general?
by adastra22 | 2025-09-15 00:39:09+00:00
Because inattentive ADD has done real damage to my life, both personally and professionally. It very nearly destroyed my marriage.

I politely suggest that you check your anti-medication bias at the door. OP is describing a lifetime of feeling s/he is a failure and unable to achieve the goals he would otherwise set for themselves. This is classic ADD symptoms, and the only real therapy with lasting results is medication.

For ADD people such as myself, medication is life-altering in a positive way. I clearly divide my life before and after as different eras: before was a lifetime of failure measured against my own goals (not only external / work requirements), and after a still-ongoing period of self-empowerment and growth.

Yet people such as yourself would attempt to guilt trip and shame us from seeking the only thing which actually helps: modifying our brain chemistry. Why? What reason do you have for shutting down discussion of taking medicine to address a medical condition?
by kristianp | 2025-09-15 00:39:19+00:00
From the reflections section:

> x86 vs. ARM. Working with ao486 deepened my respect for x86’s complexity. John Crawford’s 1990 paper “The i486 CPU: Executing Instructions in One Clock Cycle” is a great read; it argues convincingly against scrapping x86 for a new RISC ISA given the software base (10K+ apps then). Compatibility was the right bet, but the baggage is real. By contrast, last year’s ARM7‑based GBATang felt refreshingly simple: fixed‑length 32‑bit instructions, saner addressing, and competitive performance. You can’t have your cake and eat it.
by danpalmer | 2025-09-15 00:40:05+00:00
I already use cellulose based bags for my compost waste, and they only stay reliable for about 3 days of usage after something is put in them. This makes them a huge pain to use. I think they also degrade quite a bit (i.e. shorter lifespan in use) after just a few months because each new roll of bags seems better at the beginning.
by firstplacelast | 2025-09-15 00:40:12+00:00
Well that's sort of the fun things about psychiatric "disorders", in many of them you can genuinely ask is this difference with the brain actually harmful unto itself or is it harmful because of the way society is set up?

I have struggled with this myself with ADHD where I think my brain is great and it is society that is wrong as many of the ways I do things/see things/operate are subtly shunned by society and the way it works. Everything from the typical 9-5 (my brain works best 11-7), to most white collar careers revolving around stationary work at a desk (I love difficult mental work, but think better when I'm moving around), etc.

I don't think my brain is wrong or performing poorly, I excelled at school but did not learn much from lecture style formats (figured out how to study on my own). But I have gone back and forth with medication because it is very, very difficult to construct my life in a way that plays to my strengths when they are so different than the norm. Medication helps my brain fit into society better, but I don't think it improves my brain function.
by GeneralMayhem | 2025-09-15 00:40:54+00:00
Bill text: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/id/3193837

This seems... not terrible? The typical counter-argument to any "think of the children!" hand-wringing is that parents should instead install parental controls or generally monitor what their own kids are up to. Having a standardized way to actually do that, without getting into the weirdness of third-party content controls (which are themselves a privacy/security nightmare), is not an awful idea. It's also limited to installed applications, so doesn't break the web.

This is basically just going to require all smartphones to have a "don't let this device download rated-M apps" mode. There's no actual data being provided - and the bill explicitly says so; it just wants a box to enter a birth date or age, not link it to an actual ID. I'm not clear on how you stop the kid from just flipping the switch back to the other mode; maybe the big manufacturers would have a lock such that changing the user's birthdate when they're a minor requires approval from a parent's linked account?

That said, on things like this I'm never certain whether to consider it a win that a reasonable step was taken instead of an extreme step, or to be worried that it's the first toe in the door that will lead to insanity.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-15 00:41:39+00:00
Very odd title. Apple samsung and google also sell phones outside the us and the chinese manufacturers mentioned probably sell quite a lot of phones in the us.

The article begins by implying tech companies want thin phones. Which while not false is not entirely true either.

Tldr the cheaper chinese companies have been replacing graphite with silicon in the batteries to improve capacity at the expense of longevity. It's a new technology and it's obvious why the large companies would avoid it for now.

One interesting fact is that one practical limit for battery capacity is... Regulations! Any battery over ~ 5,400mAh would be classified as hazardous and cost more to ship, at least to eu.
by al_borland | 2025-09-15 00:41:40+00:00
This is very interesting.

I recently bought an older Better Homes and Gardens cookbook from 1953. I wanted one from before science took over the kitchen too much. I haven’t had a chance to cook anything from it yet, but now I’m questioning if I’ll have issues trying to cook with a 70+ year old cookbook, especially when it comes to baked goods.

I’m not into cooking enough to have the patience to experiment and tune things. If something doesn’t work, I’m more likely to get discouraged and order take out.
by ars | 2025-09-15 00:41:49+00:00
Most disposable plastic is not PVC. Because Chlorine prolongs the life of the plastic, it's specifically used on things that you don't throw out.

In any case incinerators can handle the chlorine - it's so reactive that it's actually very easy to filter.

> You can't really "burn up" heavy metals

There are no heavy metals in plastic, and very little in consumer waste as a whole.

> are "solid hydrocarbons" but most plastics are more complex than that

But those 3 you listed are the vast majority of the thrown out plastics.
by roxolotl | 2025-09-15 00:42:46+00:00
You can actually buy stuff like that if you really want to keep a mix on hand.

The King Arthur powders are great:

https://shop.kingarthurbaking.com/items/bakers-special-dry-m...

https://shop.kingarthurbaking.com/items/dried-buttermilk-pow...

And I’ve never tried it but here’s powdered butter:

https://hoosierhillfarm.com/shop-products/butter-powder/
by charles_f | 2025-09-15 00:44:14+00:00
What I hate most about shrinkflation is how shady it is. That recessed middle section in cookie boxes so that they give me one less cookie makes me feel like I'm being played for a fool, and I do not like that.

With that said, if the grandma's secret receipe is industrial cake mix, I don't know how much of a secret receipe it is. Especially since these are usually mostly flour, some sort of yeast or another, and chocolate or sugar, feels like something pretty straight forward to fix.
by esbranson | 2025-09-15 00:44:53+00:00
I'm going to spend about 5 minutes and maybe do a better job at science than this article:

Autisms are biologically caused by disruptions in early brain development that alter how synapses are formed, pruned, and regulated, producing imbalances in excitatory and inhibitory signaling across neural circuits. Most cases trace to combinations of genetic variants—some rare, high-impact mutations affecting synaptic scaffolding (e.g., postsynaptic density proteins), neuronal excitability (ion channels), chromatin remodeling, or transcriptional control, and many common variants with smaller effects—while prenatal factors such as maternal immune activation, teratogens, or perinatal stress can act as modifiers. These converging influences disturb synaptic wiring, circuit dynamics, developmental timing, and gene-expression programs, leading to atypical brain connectivity: often locally hyperconnected yet underintegrated across distant regions. This altered network balance underlies the sensory, communicative, and behavioral traits recognized as the autism spectrum.

Synapse Formation and Balance:

– Faulty assembly and regulation of excitatory and inhibitory synapses.

– Leads to unstable network tuning, “noisy” signaling, and altered local vs. global connectivity.

Neuronal Firing and Circuit Dynamics:

– Changes in ion channel function distort how neurons spike and synchronize.

– Affects rhythmic activity (oscillations) important for sensory integration and social cognition.

Neurodevelopmental Timing:

– Mistimed growth, migration, and pruning of neurons.

– Results in atypical wiring patterns: often hyperconnected locally but underconnected long-range.

Gene Expression Control:

– Master regulators fail to coordinate large developmental programs.

– Produces ripple effects across hundreds of downstream pathways, compounding small errors.
by Gualdrapo | 2025-09-15 00:45:35+00:00
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by ksenzee | 2025-09-15 00:45:57+00:00
Why on earth would I make pancakes from scratch when I can buy Krusteaz? If someone gets enjoyment from buying their flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, buttermilk, and oil separately, and turning pancakes into an entire weekend morning activity involving a sinkful of dirty dishes, then they should definitely do that. Meanwhile I’m dumping a cup of Krusteaz into a bowl, adding water, and eating pancakes within five minutes of walking into the kitchen.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-15 00:46:02+00:00
That might actually explain why Apple suddenly wants to ship a thin iphone after years of ignoring the idea. In which case they're not really ready but for some reason have decided to go for it anyway which is a risky decision.

Maybe they want to show that they are coming up with fresh ideas and it helps their image even if the actual product is a failure? Or maybe if they wait a couple of years to launch it, it will be together with their folding model and that will steal the market so they might as well do it now.
by Aachen | 2025-09-15 00:46:38+00:00
Done it since before I properly knew what I was doing. Haven't had issues. Even though n=1, also now that I'm actually working in IT security, I don't think the risk was ever much bigger than what I could oversee

The main thing is that, if someone gets onto the server system, then they're in my network and they can do attacks on other devices in that LAN (guest wifis are a nice way to isolate that nowadays; that didn't exist back when I started). Same as when I take my laptop to school for example, then others can reach it. I've had issues with others in school doing attacks because the internet was unencrypted http back then (client-side hashing in JavaScript limited the impact though), but not from anyone who tried to hack into the server. Only automated scans for outdated Wordpress, setup files for Phpmyadmin, ssh password guessing... the things they simply try blindly on every IP address. If any of this is successful, you're most likely going to be turned into a spam-sending server or a DDoS zombie; not something with lasting impact once you discover the issue and remove the malware

Most attackers don't do targeted attacks on your system or network unless you're a commercial entity that presumably can pay a nice ransom, or are a high-profile individual. Attackers aiming for consumers send phishing emails and create phishing advertisements, look for standard password vaults if you run their malware, try using stolen credentials on Steam and hope you've got a payment method stored... the usual old things. Having a server doesn't make any of those attacks easier, and besides, self hosting is very uncommon. Even if you and I had a similar enough setup at home with a straightforward path to exploitation, it's a few thousand people that self-host in a country with millions of people. It's not worth developing attacks for
by baubino | 2025-09-15 00:47:01+00:00
This really just depends on the city. These kinds of generalizations just don’t hold for different cities with different cultures of community. I, for one, spent my entire childhood living in apartments, as did everyone I knew (and probably almost everyone does in large cities) and now am raising my own family in an apartment in a neighborhood with lots of other families. This kind of living is the norm in many places.
by solid_fuel | 2025-09-15 00:47:17+00:00
Some of this is being marketed to law enforcement, though. There is a world being sold to law enforcement agencies by some tech companies that one day they'll just be able to click the face in the CCTV, or the plate on the van, and immediately be able to cross reference it with the decrypted messages and other records. Imagine how much more "efficient" that kind of law enforcement could be.
by fcpguru | 2025-09-15 00:47:56+00:00
These are the questions I ask engineers now:

Q1. How well do you prompt?

Q2. How reactionary are you to canceling a running prompt as soon as you see a wrong turn?

Q3. How well do you author PRs without ever saying "well AI did that part." Do you own your PRs?

Re: 1. It's a new skill set. Some engineers are not good at it. Some are amazing. And some are out of this world. You can spend a few minutes crafting a prompt that's so thorough, so well thought out but also succinct and to the point. How it touches on all the possible unknowns the AI might have as it works through the task and has direction. An out of this world prompt gets you between 90% and 95% completely done with a task that before AI would take weeks.

Re: 2. You can do very well with the first prompt but the whole other side of this is watching the AI work. Knowing when to watch very closely, and when it's okay to multi-task. Know when you immediately press ESC and tell the AI exactly what you just saw you didn't like. Catching it quickly is like early detection of cancer. You can save the rest of your day by preventing some messy dead ends before they even happen.

Re: 3. Not everyone on the team will be using AI to the level the Jedi are. And personal responsibility for your code, 90% AI generated or 0%, is still your responsibility. Once you make your PR and ask for feedback, you should no longer be able to say "oh I didn't write this part." Yes you did. No one on the team needs to know what % AI your PR was. And you don't need to know theirs.