MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tzs | 2025-09-22 06:25:50+00:00
> Rabies can be found in many other wildlife species, including raccoons, skunks, coyotes and foxes

It's worth checking with your state's health or wildlife department to learn which of those may have rabies in your state.

There are enough geographical barriers to divide many of those kinds of animals into multiple groups groups that are have either no contact with other groups or only rare contact. You might say have two distinct populations separated by a high mountain range. You can then have a group on one side where rabies is endemic and a group on the other side with no rabies.

A great example of isolated populations is Washington state, where no wild terrestrial mammal has ever been documented with rabies.

Some still freak out on Nextdoor if they see a Washington raccoon wander through their neighborhood in the daytime, posting warnings to keep children and pets inside to avoid rabies. They are partly spooked by merely seeing the raccoon because they know raccoons are nocturnal and so figure something must be wrong with it to make it come out in the daytime. They've often heard raccoons mentioned as rabies carries so jump to that as the explanation.

Raccoons are mostly nocturnal, but they will come out in the daytime to look for food if they aren't able to find enough food at night. In a place where the raccoons are barely getting by they may be out a lot in the daytime and people would get used to it. But at least around here they seem to be fine most of the year. It's only when they are pregnant or have young that they need to come out in the daytime, and that's not often enough for people to get used to seeing them.
by stephencoyner | 2025-09-22 06:25:51+00:00
Not just rideshare, but food delivery has been practically outlawed with all the taxes and fees. We have…

Sales tax: 10.25% on prepared delivery food.

Commission cap: Apps can only charge restaurants up to 15% per order, which leads to apps passing on fees to consumers

PayUp ordinance from 2024: delivery workers must be paid at least $0.44 per engaged minute + $0.74 per engaged mile, or a minimum of $5 per offer, whichever is greater. For 2025, those rates increase to $0.45/minute, $0.77/mile, or $5.20 per offer.

I tried to order 1 pad Thai and 1 curry the other night and it was going to be over $70. Insanity.
by vunderba | 2025-09-22 06:26:43+00:00
Yep - and since the stated use case is letting you "quickly reference notes in your vault from other places such as hand-written notes." - the second you re-organize or move a note, all those codes scattered across computers and other mediums are permanently invalid with basically no practical means of automating referential shortcode updates so that's "fun".

I'm a very heavy daily user of Obsidian with about 8000+ personal notes organized across a fairly deep nested folder structure and can't envision a situation where I'd need something like this.

Littering my publicly accessible papers / blogs / etc. with highly idiosyncratic Obsidian shortcodes that only I have the means to access seems of limited use.

Hopefully the author will write another post going into specific use-cases for this extension.
by abejfehr | 2025-09-22 06:27:47+00:00
These tips are great, but they don’t address some of the core ways that these supply chain attacks may happen: global modules and npm modules installed with editor extensions.

So `yarn global add nx` will still install the latest version by default, unless you specifically have a `~/.yarnrc` disallowing lifecycle scripts they will still be executed. Using a package manager that doesn’t allow lifecycle scripts by default is the solution here I guess.

I don’t know what the solution is for stuff like [this](https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/blob/d2fa56509679fc942bbc...) where the editor plugin automatically uses the latest version, or where in general you have little control over what version is used. Any eslint, typescript, nx, prettier, etc plugin will presumably depend on their corresponding package from npm, and if any of those gets compromised then just installing an editor extension could be enough to get you in trouble.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-09-22 06:28:57+00:00
Why have nations not come together to collectively shut down this whole tariff blackmail thing?

If everyone came together and signed up for a Chinese-style reciprocal tariff system then wouldn't this whole charade be over instantly?

I get some nations decided flattering Trump would work out (Vietnam? UK?) but even in the best case they still get tariffs.. just lower..

And how has the tariffs not completely tanked the stock market? Are markets assuming this is just temporary madness and it'll get rolled back?
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-22 06:29:33+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWjpDxvqSSE

Here's an even handed approach and overview of some of the tariff related stats. The presenter is a critic of tariffs, but concedes that the results thus far are not as simple as some here would suggest.

6:22

> This is just a matter of acknowledging the data on the graph and saying this is quite a difference from the way it was a year ago. And so, people who said this wouldn't happen, that's wrong. It did happen. There it is. And I think it's important to acknowledge that. Um, not only that, but a lot of people said, "Well, this is going to lead to the price of goods, especially automobiles, coming into the United States, is going to skyrocket." Well, so far that hasn't been the case.

>In fact, prices have come down. And you can go to Google and you can look it up and there's many articles discussing the fact that the Chinese automakers have largely been eating the tariffs so far.
by lqstuart | 2025-09-22 06:29:35+00:00
I’m saying actual algorithmic (as in not data) model innovation has never been a significant part of the revenue generation in the field. You get your random forest, or ResNet, or BERT, or MaskRCNN, or GPT-2-with-One-Weird-Trick, and then you spend four hours trying to figure out how to preprocess your data.

On the flipside, far from figuring out GPU efficiency, most people with huge jobs are network bottlenecked. And that’s where the problem arises: solutions for collective comms optimization tend to explode in complexity because, among other reasons, you now have to package entire orchestrators in your library somehow, which may fight with the orchestrators that actually launch the job.

Doing my best to keep it concise, but Hopper is like a good case study. I want to use Megatron! Suddenly you need FP8, which means the CXX11 ABI, which means recompiling Torch along with all those nifty toys like flash attention, flashinfer, vllm, whatever. Ray, jsonschema, Kafka and a dozen other things also need to match the same glibc and glibc++ versions. So using that as an example, suddenly my company needs C++ CICD pipelines, dependency management etc when we didn’t before. And I just spent three commas on these GPUs. And most likely, I haven’t made a dime on my LLMs, or autonomous vehicles, or weird cyborg slavebots.

So what all that boils down to is just that there’s a ton of inertia against moving to something new and better. And in this field in particular, it’s a very ugly, half-assed, messy inertia. It’s one thing to replace well-designed, well-maintained Java infra with Golang or something, but it’s quite another to try to replace some pile of shit deep learning library that your customers had to build a pile of shit on top of just to make it work, and all the while fifty college kids are working 16 hours a day to add even more in the next dev release, which will of course be wholly backwards and forwards incompatible.

But I really hope I’m wrong :)
by DanHulton | 2025-09-22 06:31:26+00:00
And if you want to get the same "we serve the code directly" benefit as well, you can set up an npm proxy and require its use. That way you're getting a very specific version, and downloading that version from a location you control.

(And then for the ultimate level of "slow your project to a crawl, but hey at least it's really secure", you can only allow versions that pass an internal security review to be added to the proxy and disable automatic fetching of un-cached versions. Ain't no sneaky code getting in unawares there!)
by lynx97 | 2025-09-22 06:31:40+00:00
The age of adoption seems crucial to rule out early childhood trauma induced by the parents. I actually know mine, although it took me 35 years to get my mother to admit what happened. My point, I am very skeptical when it comes to parents reflecting on the bad influences they might have had on the development of their child. After all, bad parenting has a pretty harsh stigma in society (and it should!)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-22 06:32:06+00:00
> pulverized rock/iron is not actually "soil", so after forming the atmosphere you need lengthy biochemical processes playing out on the surface

We're already working on crops that can grow in lunar and Martian regolith [1].

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4146463/
by helsinkiandrew | 2025-09-22 06:33:11+00:00
> Non work use made up > 70%, work-related more common in highly educated and paid professionals.

> Guidance, information seeking and writing account for 80% of conversations (writing especially in work related tasks)

I wonder how much Apple's forthcoming Siri search and Gemini in Chrome/Google search will cannibalise ChatGPT (and other LLMs) usage. If they are available with no effort, 'free' and good enough to help the general population search for products and "how do I do ..." searches. Likewise for writing tools - if word processing and email/writing products come bundled with the ability to 'rephrase this text more professionally' etc. and browsers and PDFs can 'summarise this text', even nearly as good as ChatGPT people won't bother cutting and pasting (or integrating)

Of course those backends might be using ChatGPT, but will there be less people willing to pay or use the service directly.
by eru | 2025-09-22 06:33:27+00:00
> That is some out of the box thinking!

Thanks. I'm just parroting some lines I read a decade or so ago on a website that I didn't manage to dig up again. (I wonder if it's still online?)

> I would say the key thing with Mercury is the ability to dig fast.

Why? What are you afraid of?

First, night lasts 88 (earth) days on Mercury. So if you start digging at dusk, you have plenty of time.

Second, Mercury's daytime surface temperature is around 430C (~ 800F ~ 700K). We have plenty of materials, like steel, that can withstand these temperatures easily. Even aluminum only melts at 660C.

So you make a parasol out of steel and span it over your equipment. Important: you make the parasol just big enough to shade your equipment, but otherwise let it see as much of the sky as possible.

Mercury has no atmosphere. So during the day you normally have a small patch of the sky at around 5772K, the sun. The sun has about ~6.6 times the angular area on the sky as from earth. The rest of the sky looks as if it's about 3K in temperature, ie very cold. The effect averages out to Mercury's 700K surface temperature.

The parasol itself will attain the same average temperature as the rest of Mercury's surface (because it's exposed to the same conditions).

But for anyone in the shade under the parasol will replace a patch of sky at 5772K where the sun used to be with one at only 700K where the parasol now blocks the view.

If your parasol is supposed to cover more than just a single point with its shadow, than it needs to be big. From the perspective of each shadow covered point, the parasol will have a bigger angular area than the sun it shades.

So you not only replace some 5772K area with 700K, but also some of the previously 3K area with 700K. Overall, you can probably set up things so that you get something like a balmy 15C on average.

> I would say the key thing with Mercury is the ability to dig fast.

To come back to this: Mercury has lower gravity than earth, so I expect that 'soil' will probably not be as dense?
by pranay01 | 2025-09-22 06:33:29+00:00
thanks for the detailed note

> My first "sniff test" for observability platforms is a tool to quickly jump to a given trace/span by ID.

You should be able to do this in SigNoz https://www.loom.com/share/71a2a95b76584b3983d9eeebb60ac420?...

> "show this event within the surrounding context"

we have this in the context logs. does this solve your use case or you mean something else? https://www.loom.com/share/9039afd5c4bf45e7b357a22c9943bb32?...

>But you make up for that by having bad search in traces

Did you mean for this to search across all attributes in spans or when you know which attribute you want to search in? If later, than you can do this through our query builder even today.

Your feedback on "Trace View" is fair. We are planning some improvements on that
by heisenbit | 2025-09-22 06:33:55+00:00
A sizable (3-10%) part of the population can either not digest lactose or has a significantly reduced ability to absorb fructose in the gut. The resulting fermentation and low dosing of low quality alcohol can cause cognitive symptoms which can be totally alleviated by appropriate diet.

It is easy to test (drink a sugar challenge drink and measure H2 in breath) but as it is time consuming and not profitable rarely done.
by TeeMassive | 2025-09-22 06:34:35+00:00
Every time I read a part of the DSM-V, as a layman, I'm flabbergasted how vague and redundant and arbitrary symptoms and diagnostics are made (e.g. "if 6 out of 10 then..."). It just seems that on its face, while psychiatry has improved and began doing more good than harm since deinstitutionalization, it still lacks the rigor found in other applied scientific fields such as cardiology and oncology for example.

This study is a very good step in the right direction. The other direction is more quantitative methods such as measuring the brain waves response to a retinal laser flash to detect mental disorders (look it up, it's real)
by withinboredom | 2025-09-22 06:34:44+00:00
As an US American living outside the US and just spending last week at a tech conference with nearly no US Americans there; this subject was pretty popular to overhear. Essentially, people are asking whether anyone should take the US seriously anymore, as a tourist destination, a place to continue career/education, a political ally, etc.

The gist was that the US is cooked from a reputation point of view. Whether that has any meaningful impact is yet to be seen.
by 8bitsrule | 2025-09-22 06:37:11+00:00
Crazy request of $350 billion investment by SK. That's 20% of it's estimated 2025 GDP of $1700 billion. Could the US pledge 20% (6000 billion) to some other country?

Awfully nice of Myung to be so understanding after the US arrest of 300+ SK workers in Georgia a month ago.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-22 06:37:11+00:00
I think this happens to any city whose existing population and culture gets rapidly overwhelmed in a small amount of time, such that the existing group sees its way of life being erased. It can happen with situations like sudden mass migration (like in some European cities where they were used as relocation centers for asylum immigrants). But in Seattle’s case, I am betting it’s the tech industry as a whole not just Amazon. The city probably saw a large influx of people from California and also outside the US, replacing the earlier vibes, all within 20 years.
by obshasaliases | 2025-09-22 06:38:58+00:00
Plus, Obsidian kind of already has this functionality. You can give any note an alias, and all linking to that alias will instead link to the note. So if you're not worried about being agnostic, and unless if you want to mark every single note, I still don't see the point. And even then, even assuming that you do want every note with a code alias, you can just set it up on a template.
by tjansen | 2025-09-22 06:39:43+00:00
I wouldn't call it a filter, unless you use it for trivial tasks ("check that the input argument is not null, throw an exception otherwise"). Sometimes it is useful for trivial tasks though, because it may do things a human dev would be to lazy to do. It also tends to be faster at finding things (as in "change the color of the submit button on the address form to #f00").

But the real value is implementing known patterns that are customized for your application. Adding a field or a new type to a CRUD application, implementing an algorithm, rendering some type of object in a UI...
by eru | 2025-09-22 06:39:54+00:00
> They still had chip&pin before US banks, and dropped unsafe cheques before US banks.

Oh, I never banked in the US, so I can't comment on them from a consumer point of view.

> The US banking system, afaik, did one thing better: credit cards. But since the '00s, European ones have been just as good and often better.

I used credit cards perhaps a handful of times in my life. It's almost exclusively been debit cards for me.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-09-22 06:40:07+00:00
Personally, my main problem when learning new things is that, once an ecosystem has matured to a certain point, there's a baseline of knowledge that everyone inside that ecosystem has. In anything I read about it, this knowledge is assumed, and if I search for it, all the old articles that talk about it are either no longer available or just wrong, because that baseline knowledge gradually evolved as the tech matured, unnoticeably to the people inside the ecosystem.

This is an area where I find LLMs to be extremely valuable, as they often still contain that knowledge and can explain it to me in a way that makes sense.
by watwut | 2025-09-22 06:40:30+00:00
> saying things like how they finally "discovered" they have ADHd or even that they might "have undiagnosed ADHD"

This is not in contradiction to something being syndrome. Plus patients usually do not understand and do not have to understand technical nuts and bolts of whatever issues they have.

You cant require people to talk in clunky language qualifying every single nuance each time they speak about issues or diagnoses they have. You would just render them unable to express what they need to express.

> If so, and if this view is really prevalent in psychiatry, somehow it's completely lost on the general public and media.

General public and media are completely lost on eating disorders, OCD, psychosis and pretty much any other psychiatric/psychological problem. They are equally lost on AI, HIV and economic policy.
by godelski | 2025-09-22 06:40:42+00:00
I think what's most interesting to me is that they're also the party who's favorite amendment was written specifically to quell the rise of such leaders. They have explicitly talked about how that amendment was to protect the US from demagogues and autocrats.

They've been fairly quiet about that recently and I'm curious how they'll make that pivot. It's only a matter of time before someone on the left starts suggesting their constituents exercise that right in at least a symbolic nature. I've seen a rise in the exercise of this right by socialist groups and other radicals. But even if it is all symbolic it sets the stage for a powder keg moment. But if the right doesn't restrict this right then how far can they go and keep their heads?

It's morbidly fascinating and terrifying to me how they so successfully turned the right's worst nightmares into wet dreams. I do wonder, how far can it go? But I've never not wanted to know the answer to a question so much in my life. Please, I do not want to find out[0]

[0] no, you can't literally answer this. It can only be learned through the experience. So don't reply to me as if you have an exact answer, you only have speculation. But if you have a time machine, I'd appreciate next week's lotto numbers (and the week after ;)
by BrouteMinou | 2025-09-22 06:41:34+00:00
Yes, more of this!

I am a big fan of the "clone, F5" and it should run. If specific steps are required, I put that in a setup.ps1, and the details in the readme.md.

If the project has external requirements, I put a link to the repos, which should all be... "clone, F5"...
by shubhamjain | 2025-09-22 06:41:58+00:00
No one needs to make an investment. The playbook—as all countries are figuring it out—to navigate the crisis is simple: agree in principle to the demands, let the narcissistic toddler self-pat, brag about how fantastic of a deal maker he is. Stall, delay to make things official. Let it all die down slowly. Need more time? How about blatant corruption like approving Trump Towers, or gifting a corporate jet? Or make a token investment, just enough to let him brag again.

What every country is doing is buying time. Just enough till the next election or (hopefully) sooner.
by timr | 2025-09-22 06:43:35+00:00
> Edited to add another charming detail from the article: "A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in a nationally representative sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism."

You should always go to the primary source.

Here's the Vaccine paper [1,2]. I don't say this often about papers, but this is total crap. They did a YouGov survey of 2200 people, and HILARIOUSLY, 84% of respondents stated that their dog was up-to-date on the Rabies vaccine (another 5% weren't sure.)

Oopsie! No matter...they just barge ahead with their pre-determined conclusions, and make a model of "Canine Vaccine Hesitancy" based on these responses anyway. BTW, I see no support for the claim that "40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe". The closest survey response is this one, at 30%:

> Most vaccines that dogs receive are not medically necessary

(You'll note that this is not a question about the Rabies vaccine. Just vaccines in general. And, of course, your guess is as good as mine what "most" means.)

The whole paper is almost designed to create a narrative of "vaccine hesitancy amongst pet owners" -- it asks some questions about how people feel about animal vaccine mandates and safety in general, then tries make a a model to predict negative responses (which they call "CVH"), and then they use that to predict opposition to mandatory vaccine policies.

At no point do they actually deal with the fact that the vast majority of their respondents, regardless of opinion, actually vaccinated their pet for Rabies. I don't know if Vaccine is a good journal, but this is just a classic example of a paper that should never have made it past peer review.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02644...

[2] (full text of draft here, where you can see the data) https://ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx/qmbkv.html