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by epistasis | 2025-09-24 16:36:22+00:00
The top comment is emphatically not that:

>As super low hanging fruit: > June 8, 2020: WHO: Data suggests it's "very rare" for coronavirus to spread through asymptomatics [0] > June 9, 2020: WHO expert backtracks after saying asymptomatic transmission 'very rare' [1] > 0: https://www.axios.com/2020/06/08/who-coronavirus-asymptomati... 1: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/who-expert-bac... > Of course, if we just take the most recent thing they said as "revised guidance", I guess it's impossible for them to contradict themselves. Just rapidly re-re-re-revised guidance.

My hypotheses for our discrepant viewpoints were 1) my aging memory, or 2) different experiences, but it's actually 3) not using words to have the same meaning!

Citing this as "blatant truth suppression" weakens my view of any other evidence or argument you put forward, because I no longer trust that we can use words in ways that are compatible with each other.
by ericmcer | 2025-09-24 16:36:39+00:00
This is disingenuous.

There has been a strong push back against illegal-immigration in the west. The media has completely reframed the discussion to "How can they be opposed to immigration" because if they said "how can they be opposed to illegal-immigration" their argument would fall apart pretty quickly.

No one with a brain is arguing that immigration doesn't provide tremendous value.
by JohnFen | 2025-09-24 16:36:43+00:00
I get that the article is talking about the contents of art museums and I'm just being pedantic. However, most of the art that I see (including all the art in my own home) was made by artists that I know or have at least met. I'm quite confident that most of the art I see is genuine.

If art in art museums tends to be replicas (the article itself indicates that it mostly isn't), that really does reduce the desire to bother going to see it. The thrill of seeing historically important pieces is being in the presence of the actual item the artist touched. If that's not what's happening, then I may as well just stay home and look at pictures of it instead.
by levocardia | 2025-09-24 16:36:46+00:00
Came here to post this. Haven't we learned many times in the last 5 years that, on average, "The Literal New York Times" is a better and more reliable source than "Some Guy on Substack"?

Claiming that anonymous sources inside an agency/administration is "not a thing" clearly betrays the fact that this person knows nothing about actual journalism. Heck even a casual NYT reader will know that they cite anonymous sources within the administration all the time! Just look at all the reporting about the Musk/Rubio dust-ups!
by ReptileMan | 2025-09-24 16:36:52+00:00
We are talking about the same hepatotoxic compound that is absurdly easy to OD on but it gives negligible relief on stuff you should just power trough? That anecdotal - is barely better than a pacebo?

Personally - I think that the two main drivers of autism are people having kids later and too high rates of smart people intermarriage.

Of course Trump should not have said Tylenol, but paracetamol.

And there are some very mild hints in the data that they are correlated, but not enough sigmas.

And of course it could be Tylenol and something else with which ot interacts. And autism is so hard to be linked to anything because of how big the umbrella is and that we have such high delay to diagnosis that we will never know. Not taking medications when not really necessary is probably a good precaution principle
by crabique | 2025-09-24 16:37:02+00:00
It's a very beefy server with 4 NVMe and 20 HDD bays + a 60-drive external enclosure, 2 enterprise grade HBA cards set to multipath round-robin mode, even with 80 drives it's nowhere near the data path saturation point.

The link is a 10G 9K MTU connection, the server is only accessed via that local link.

Essentially, the drives being HDD are the only real bottleneck (besides the obvious single-node scenario).

At the moment, all writes are buffered into the NVMes via OpenCAS write-through cache, so the writes are very snappy and are pretty much ingested at the rate I can throw data at it. But the read/delete operations require at least a metadata read, and due to the very high number of small (most even empty) objects they take a lot more time than I would like.

I'm willing to sacrifice the write-through cache benefits (the write performance is actually an overkill for my use case), in order to make it a little more balanced for better List/Read/DeleteObject operations performance.

On paper, most "real" writes will be sequential data, so writing that directly to the HDDs should be fine, while metadata write operations will be handled exclusively by the flash storage, thus also taking care of the empty/small objects problem.
by pfdietz | 2025-09-24 16:37:04+00:00
One reason flights are more miserable is planes are more heavily loaded. Before deregulation, planes were usually ~50% full. Today in the US, it's about 84%.

This is directly correlated with airfares. Were planes as sparsely loaded now as they were then then fares would be correspondingly higher. But in a deregulated environment there's a very strong incentive for increased economic efficiency to keep the fares competitive.
by renewiltord | 2025-09-24 16:37:51+00:00
Haha, it's very true. Everyone is an individualist when it comes to paying for kids but when it comes to social security, we should raise that to high heaven so that the current kids will be slaves to the geriatric majority.

"I don't mind paying more money in taxes" they always say, knowing full well that the majority of the incidence is on the next generation.
by scuff3d | 2025-09-24 16:37:53+00:00
I doubt there's much you could do to make the output better. And I think that's what really bothers me. We are layering all this bullshit on to try and make these things more useful then they are, but it's like building a house on sand. The underlying tech is impressive for what it is, and has plenty of interesting use cases in specific areas, but it flat out isn't what these corporations want people to believe it is. And none of it justifies the massive expenditure of resources we've seen.
by guhcampos | 2025-09-24 16:38:12+00:00
I'm not an American, I don't live in the US and I generally keep away from politically charged topics on Hackernews, but I feel I must add to your comment a bit.

I would aggree with you that this "is just theatre" and as long as whoever is in charge is looking into the important stuff on economics and public policy, we could ignore the theatrics. I don't think this guy is doing a good job on the "important" stuff, but that's beyond me and I don't really have a say on tariffs, immigration or whatever else on someone else's country.

However, the "theatre" he does hurts real people in the real world. Trans people get killed or refused care, kids get shot in schools and even his own allies get hurt in the heat of the political theatre he creates. I must say I'm actually kind of glad he switched aim from vaccines to Tylenol: the whole antivax thing was extremely dangerous to the population as a whole, while blaming Tylenol will maybe hurt some pharma sales that's all. I wish he went with this discourse from the start, instead of spreading fear over vaccination during the times the World needed vaccines the most.

With that said, my whole point is that, unfortunatelly, political discourse has power, even if it's just theatrics. I wish you folks had more than two options in the US so you wouldn't need to choose his hateful and harmful discourse over the opposition, but sometimes you have to make do with what you have and it's not going to be good.
by entropie | 2025-09-24 16:38:31+00:00
First I ran a simple script, now I use ytdltt [1] to allow my mother via telegram bot to download YT videos (in her case its more like audiobooks) and sort them in directories so she can access/download it via jellyfin. Shes at around 1.2TB audiobooks in like 3 years.

1: https://github.com/entropie/ytdltt
by ddtaylor | 2025-09-24 16:38:36+00:00
Over time they probably will require that. I believe YT still allows most of these things because of "legacy" apps, which they have been killing off bit by bit. I'm not sure if anyone is cataloging the oldest supported app, but most things like using YT from a slightly older game console don't work anymore.

Basically any publicly known method that can sip video content with doing the least work and authentication will be a common point of attack for this.
by cb321 | 2025-09-24 16:38:39+00:00
Once you have a little frecency command-line utility like https://github.com/c-blake/adix/blob/master/util/lfreq.nim (inspired by this very HN thread!) and then either fzf, vip (https://github.com/c-blake/bu/blob/main/doc/vip.md), or whatever, the essence of the idea is really just two lines of Zsh code (https://github.com/c-blake/bu/blob/main/doc/vip.md#combining...). It's only a couple dozen more to have a more robust/complete system, though with shared-across-shells PWD histories and long-term saving somewhere with lock files.

As another example of why a simple CL utility for frecency alone is nice, you can basically replicate https://github.com/kantord/frecenfile with a shell 1-liner:

git log --pretty=format: --name-only | tac | sed '/^$/d' | lfreq -n9 -o.999

In a little timing test I did this morning, that was about 270X faster than the git log itself on the Linux kernel (61 seconds to git log, but only 227 ms to `lfreq` it).

Besides all that, there's also the distributed-with-Zsh `cdr` (`man zshcontrib` or similar to read all about that).
by Herring | 2025-09-24 16:38:40+00:00
In my experience that's usually just the tip of the iceberg. You've heard the expression "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"? It's like a link broke in a chain, and usually it's many links correlated. Maybe they just distrust expertise, well I have a phd and I assure you it'll come up later. Maybe he's an immigrant from Russia and he just distrusts everything to do with the news, well that's not really fixable except maybe with many years of therapy. And yes it will come up later too. I'm not a professional, I didn't want to ask the specifics or get into the weeds, I just have a developed nose for these things. My brother is into conspiracy theories.
by socalgal2 | 2025-09-24 16:39:24+00:00
This is why I prefer web apps over native apps. Web defaults to selectable text and text readable by extensions. I can long press on almost any word and pick "Define" if I don't understand a word (or right click on desktop). Native defaults to unselectable text and no extensions.

It's also why I hate Flutter on web. They render text to canvas, suddenly nothing is selectable and so accessibility and definition/translation options don't work.

See https://earth.gooogle.com Click on a city. An info box pops up. Nothing is selectable. Of course a poorly designed HTML info box could do that too but the designer has to go out of their way to make it bad whereas with Flutter (and native in general) the default is bad.
by cjauvin | 2025-09-24 16:39:26+00:00
Author here: my learning objectives, in order of importance, are: (1) vocal understanding, (2) speaking, (3) reading, and (4) typing and writing (far further). As I explain, I'm mostly bypassing the problem of typing by using screenshots (ChatGPT's OCR capabilities are very good, and Anki works very well with it too).
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by Too | 2025-09-24 16:39:34+00:00
Many performance problems on YouTube are because they now force everyone to use the latest heavy codecs, even when your hardware does not have acceleration for it. I have a laptop that is plenty powerful for everything else and plays 4K h264 no problem. 720p on YouTube on the other hand turns it into a hot slate after a minute and grinds everything to a halt.

There are browser extensions like h264ify that block newer codecs but WHY??? Is nobody at YouTube caring about the user experience? It’s easier and more reliable to just download the videos.
by temp0826 | 2025-09-24 16:39:40+00:00
In the early days when there were articles speculating on what Glacier was backed by, it was actually on crusty old S3 gear (and at the very beginning, it was just on S3 itself as a wrapper and a hand wavy price discount, eating the costs to get people to buy in to the idea!). Later on (2018 or so) they began moving to a home grown tape-based solution (at least for some tiers).
by daxfohl | 2025-09-24 16:39:42+00:00
Don't do this. I did this many years ago for a small internal "parts" database for our small EE team, since we needed an audit history of changes.

It was just awkward to use. Diffs were weird and hard to wrap a UI around, search wasn't great, it was hard to make ids sequential (the EE team hated uuids), etc., and conflict resolution usually still had to be done in a code editor. Even the killer app, the audit trail, didn't work quite the way the EE team wanted. Code to work around the disparities was probably half the codebase.

I ended up migrating to a normal database after a few months and everything was a lot better.
by cestith | 2025-09-24 16:39:51+00:00
Memory of the past implies the current state includes information about how the buffer got the way it is. I’m not defining anything in that way. I’m saying that if you have a buffer of N tokens, the next token N+1 can be chosen based on N tokens, not 1 token and not on the calculations or past state changes that went into creating the current state of the buffer.
by codedokode | 2025-09-24 16:40:05+00:00
I tried to understand what is "Wasmer Edge" but couldn't. They say on the front page "Make any app serverless. The cheapest, fastest and most scalable way to deploy is on the edge." and it seems like I can upload the source code of any app and they will convert it for me? Unlikely so.

Also it says "Pay CDN-like costs for your cloud applications – that’s Wasmer Edge." and I don't understand why I need to pay for the cloud if the app is serverless. That's exactly the point of serverless app that you don't need to pay for the servers because, well, the name implies that there is no server.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-09-24 16:40:16+00:00
You're contrasting dictatorship vs oligarchy. The key differentiator for democracies is leaders who are subject to re-election incentives.

Populist parties are surging all over the world. Perhaps there are a few modern democracies where all the political elites are "cut from approximately the same cloth", but if so, they aren't countries I am very familiar with.
by MollyRealized | 2025-09-24 16:40:25+00:00
Person A declines Group B's invite.

Group B thinks that it's a desire-based decision: that Person A does not want to participate.

They don't always realize - because for many, this simply doesn't "track" - that Person A may simply consider themselves unworthy.

This is something I think I am learning now, painfully late. I'm 51. I think I'm beginning to realize that I was a feral kitten for much of my life, claw-swiping at the milk syringe out of fear when people were trying to be nice to me.
by clmnt | 2025-09-24 16:40:27+00:00
Introducing Gaia2, the follow-up to the agentic benchmark GAIA, allowing analysis of considerably more complex behaviors. Gaia2 is released with the open Meta Agents Research Environments (ARE) framework to run, debug and evaluate agents. ARE simulates complex real world-like conditions and can be customized to further study agents behaviors. Gaia2 dataset is released under CC by 4.0 license, and ARE under MIT license.
by notatallshaw | 2025-09-24 16:40:44+00:00
> There is, the web. The web distributes code directly to end users at a much larger scale. To distribute the bandwidth costs, the web is federated: to depend on a script you refer to its url, and whoever hosts this url foots the bill.

But the Web is notorious for the problems I listed, you end up with standards around not following standards. It leaves almost all the responsibility on the client tool (browser or whatever) to do validation to stop malicious sites, name squatting, accepting and "fixing" poorly constructed metadata etc.

> Deno is a Javascript implementation for the backend that attempts to mimic this pattern (it later introduced a more npm-like centralized repository, but afaik it's optional). Deno is of course less popular than Python, but its url-centered model can really scale imo.

I was not familiar with Deno, I've done some shallow reading on this now and it's certainly interesting. I don't know enough about the JavaScript world to make a comment on the pros or cons.

But I don't think can work for Python, as transitive dependencies would immediately conflict as soon as dependencies required a different version of the same transitive dependency. And the guarantee of Python packaging is you only have a single version of a library installed in an environment, while it can cause some dependency solver headache, it also solves a lot of problems as it makes it safe to pass around objects.
by unregistereddev | 2025-09-24 16:41:12+00:00
I agree with both these points, though I'm much more willing to check a bag when traveling on vacation than when traveling on business. If I were to lose a bag on vacation there wouldn't be the same consequences.

On vacation I don't have my work laptop, so it's easier to toss toiletries and an emergency change of clothes in a small under-seat carry-on bag. Besides, tourists aren't expected to smell nice and look put-together, and are more likely to have a flexible schedule that would let them go shopping if the bag doesn't turn up.

Only once has the airline lost my bag while on vacation. It was only slightly annoying and they found the bag and got it to me eventually. I've seen a coworker whose bag was lost on a business trip to India. He was stuck wearing the same clothes - a tshirt and jeans - for multiple days. This included time in the office (which had a dress code) and at least one business dinner.
by js8 | 2025-09-24 16:41:14+00:00
I really like combinatory logic and lambda calculus, and I think it should be used to define common semantics for various languages and computer systems.

Lately, I was wondering about if it's possible to represent any logic by choosing a suitable base of combinators, and the sentences in the logic would correspond to beta-normal terms expressed in those combinators. What brought me to the idea is that we can represent certain substructural logics using a subset of B, C, K, W. Also, one can represent classical logic by using a different base than S and K, which allows for call/cc.

What would be intriguing, a choice of combinator base such that it could express terms in Church's typed lambda calculus. The composition of combinators would fail to normalize iff the corresponding composed term in typed lambda calculus failed to typecheck.

I think this could lead to somewhat simpler foundations of mathematics, instead of having types and various axioms, we would just say here's a base set of combinators and have fun combining them.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-24 16:41:21+00:00
> Tell somebody you use your phone less than 10 minutes a day and look at their face change.

While not less than 10 minutes per day for me, but I was having this argument on reddit over the iPhone Air - people couldn't fathom that there's someone out there that is not on their phone 24/7, and doesn't use their phone as their main computing device.

I clock in at under an hour screen time most days. It's the least ergonomic device for me to do anything remotely serious. Can't even stand typing on a virtual keyboard. My laptop is, and will remain, my main interface to the net and communication with others.

You'd think I was some kind of weird hermit luddite because of it.
by bsnnkv | 2025-09-24 16:42:37+00:00
Always fun to see two of my worlds collide!

I studied Dari own my own and at college as an elective, and ended up taking a job with the ICRC to investigate ISAF war crimes in Afghanistan right after I graduated

These days Dari is my most comfortable second language (and I have quite a few of them)

I'm not sure if, given I had to start from scratch again, I'd go down this route - the description and screenshots seem very overstimulating for me

The most important parts of my language learning in Dari (and Pashto) - the "aha" moments if you will, were trying to express something, making a fool of myself, making everyone around me laugh, and then being gently corrected in a long-winded way (usually because I couldn't understand a simpler, more direct correction)

In hindsight this feels like a very equitable cultural exchange - I learned something valuable about the language and culture while giving my interlocutors a funny memory to share with their friends and family