MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by muzani | 2025-10-19 02:08:55+00:00
There's a joke that everyone who tries to solve their own problem makes a dating app. I think that's half of the problem - the people making the apps are amateurs, while the happily married people don't feel a need to make them.

Catfishing has always been around. AI doesn't make it much worse. It's a temporary problem.

Compatibility is overrated IMO. I'm probably incompatible with my wife on many levels. I don't know a lot of people who are fully compatible with their spouses. If he's not abusive, if she's not manipulative, it's probably going to work out.

Part of the romance is wanting to make it work despite the obstacles. If I could optimize for anything, it's for platforms matching people willing to make it work. Coffee Meets Bagel does a decent job at this by forcing the two to not talk with others. Muzz goes even further and lets you meet the dad to propose marriage.
by Theodores | 2025-10-19 02:09:14+00:00
The most hardcore timepieces I ever had to use were the $50K+ clocks used in TV production galleries back in the olden days. These sent a time signal around the facility and there was usually a backup clock in a different part of the building, with both clocks talking to each other from the comfort of their respective 1U enclosures in 19" racks.

What I particularly liked was that these clocks did not actually tell you the time unless you hooked them up to your notebook's RS232 port and telneted in. We don't even have serial ports now, particularly on laptops, but I had to telnet into them to update them when the clocks changed to/from GMT/BST.

Up the road from these expensive clocks was a college that had a horology course. People on it would spend their three years making these absurd timepieces that were all about the mechanism and it was almost a point of pride for the students to have just an hour hand rather than something actually useful.

I feel that this watch concept needs a few more iterations to make it stylishly useless. For example, if the strap was like one of those ribbon cables we used to use to connect disk drives to the motherboard in early PCs, with an adaptor so the ribbon cable is either a watch strap, plugged into the watch, or a connector to a break out box that connects to a PC via USB, with this being the sole means of adjusting the watch or setting what mode it is in.

Regarding the screen and the terminal styling, this doesn't quite work for me as 'time' is what I type into the terminal to time something and 'date' is what I type in to get the date. I therefore see the terminal styling as a bit over the top. What I would like to see is an OG font from the 8 bit days, with blinking cursor, in old school LCD, think of the one character high screens that the last of the typewriters had.

Regarding changing the mode, some dip switches could come in handy. I think that there is fun to be had and that everyone would want to critique whatever gets made, as, ultimately, a CASIO is far better for the task in hand, plus you can also get calculator watches by them that get 90% of the aesthetic for a bargain price. But that is not the point though, much like the horology students, it is all about creating a timepiece and the challenges that involves, notably keeping the time accurate.

A for effort, and A for posting your work for armchair experts like me to critique!
by gjm11 | 2025-10-19 02:09:27+00:00
The context is that rwaksmunski implied that people have been saying "AGI is 10 years away" for ages, and I was pointing out that the sort of people who say "AGI is X years away" have not in fact been setting X=10 until very recently.

I wasn't claiming that the people on that list are the smartest or best-informed people thinking about artificial intelligence.

But, FWIW, from about 13:20 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sbFi5gGdRA Ashish Vaswani (lead author on that paper) being asked what will happen in 3-5 years and if I'm understanding him right he thinks AI systems might be solving some of the Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics by then; from about 17:10 he's asked about how scientists will work ~5 years in the future and he says AI systems will be apprentices or collaborators; at any rate he's not not saying that human-level AI is likely to come in the near future. From about 1:12:40 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0gjI__RyCY Noam Shazeer (second author on that paper), in response to a question about "fast takeoff", says that he does expect a very rapid improvement in AI capabilities; he's not explicit about when he expects that to happen or how far he expects it to go, but my impression from the other bits of that discussion I watched is that he too is not not saying that AI systems won't be at or beyond human level in the near future. From about 49:00 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0beJQZQIGA he's asked: if hardware progress stopped, would we still get to AGI? and he says he thinks yes, which in particular suggests that he does think AGI is in the foreseeable future though it doesn't say much about when.

That's all fairly vague, but I very much don't get the impression that either of these people thinks that AI systems are just dumb stochastic parrots or that genuinely human-level AI systems are terribly far off.
by bookofjoe | 2025-10-19 02:09:49+00:00
Full title:

Effects of Computerized Cognitive Training on Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter Levels using [18F]Fluoroethoxybenzovesamicol Positron Emission Tomography in Healthy Older Adults: Results from the Improving Neurological Health in Aging via Neuroplasticity-based Computerized Exercise (INHANCE) Randomized Clinical Trial
by babl-yc | 2025-10-19 02:10:33+00:00
I'm trying to make a DIY security camera that can run local models, and stream video over wifi.

The TI SDK makes it easy to run demos but making any custom apps quickly gets complicated unless you are familiar with embedded Linux dev, Yocto, etc. Certainly much more complex than iOS/Android.

Hopefully over time the tools for embedded can catch up to mobile.
by runevault | 2025-10-19 02:11:07+00:00
Yeah I've mostly been keeping an eye on Bevy from a distance for this reason. cart is still willing to break API compat if he finds a better solution (and since it is pre-1.0 I do not blame him). The API breaks and an editor are probably the two biggest features Bevy needs, and the editor is an active project so I'm anxious to see how that goes.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-19 02:11:25+00:00
Those companies were operating in Brazil. They had income booked in Brazil that could be impounded. They had employees there and offices and had to comply with local laws.

4chan isn’t in the UK. 4chan doesn’t have UK employees or offices. 4chan doesn’t book income on the UK. 4chan didn’t have any thing to do with the UK at all.

If this isn’t convincing, consider this: legally what is the difference from Afghanistan requesting anything not legally in compliance with Taliban’s laws be restricted? Would you support that? Legally that is what is going on here.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-19 02:12:46+00:00
I think it's the act of creating an access point that allows posting when you get spam, not necessarily if it's curated. Your email isn't a curated feed but it will get tons of spam because people can "post" to it once they get your address. Sane with your cell phone number and your physical mailbox.

Since a community requires posting and an access point, spam is pretty much inevitable.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-10-19 02:13:42+00:00
Kites - as they are often called - are very commonly found in what were Paleolithic human and proto-human areas.

Given this was in Chile and not the Levant, parallel innovation, or less likely but possible long lasting memetic/social transfer is definitely interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_kite

https://openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/joa...
by dboreham | 2025-10-19 02:15:02+00:00
It was a long time ago but I remember Fermi decided that he (Yang) didn't do well at experimental physics, saying "where there's a Yang, there's a bang". My impression was that the atomic bomb wasn't a surprise, with the idea that when the ship arrived he'd enter a new world as a result. He was Oppenheimer's assistant at Princeton. I don't think I knew that at the time, so he must have told me but I don't recall any details. We also had a discussion about Maxwell but his later article on the subject is a much better source than my fading memory.
by ahartmetz | 2025-10-19 02:15:32+00:00
Not necessary for blending in video overlays, and wasteful. Well, necessary inside the overlay if that is where the controls should appear. Alpha blending is two reads, one write per pixel, for the whole affected region (whatever that is, could be the whole screen). An opaque overlay is one read, one write, only for every pixel in the desired rectangle.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-10-19 02:17:01+00:00
I first got pretty bad tinnitus about 10 years ago while still fairly young. Didn’t go to concerts, shoot guns, hammer nails, or any activity typically associated with hearing loss.

At one point it was so loud, it would drown out the sound of a dryer when right next to it.

This was party from impacted earwax but still pretty bad after cleaning.

Hearing test showed substantial high frequency loss (well above speech frequencies)

A few suggestions:

1) Listening to light music helped me stop focusing on it.

2) Tried Taurine. Unsure if it helped, didn’t hurt. Make sure you aren’t low on Vitamin D. That alone causes enough other problems too.

3) Make sure you don’t clench teeth or have dental issues. I think that might be able to aggravate the nerves.

It never went fully away but I’m no longer overtly conscious, just faint in the background. Always aware of light pressure/muffled feeling in affected ear. Changes were slow and gradual but did happen. Doesn’t bother me much anymore. Do miss the “sound of silence” but light background music while working is enjoyable .
by Ninjinka | 2025-10-19 02:17:17+00:00
My only game dev experience is with Babylon.js, but I decided to give Bevy a shot a couple weeks ago. I gave up once I realized they don't have any sort of editor or scene inspector. Something as simple as seeing what assets are loaded into your scene is not possible with official tooling. Tried Unity, but was ultimately more complex than what I needed. Tried Godot next, and so far it's been great. Super straight forward, and iteration speed is so much faster than Bevy or Unity because the compilation times are so low.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-19 02:17:29+00:00
Yeah, my experience has been similar. On the one hand, it's exciting to have new features every few months. Some of those features very much so addressed pain points in my code and I was excited to adopt them. Other times, changes were introduced which offered new ways of developing, but didn't deprecate old ways nor were they strongly opinionated in which way should be applied in which scenarios.

Overall, I had a lot of fun learning the ECS paradigm, and I found Bevy to make working with Rust easier than learning Rust on its own because it did a good job of hiding lifetimes from me in a lot of situations, but I never got to a point where I felt like I was able to develop ideas quickly.

I'm optimistic about revisiting the code I wrote at some point and seeing how things have improved. It's been maybe a year and a half since I stopped working on a pet project, but I still keep up with all the release notes and have seen lots of things to be excited about. For example, hot reloading is well on its way to being stable and their UI components are becoming much more robust.

https://ant.care/ I built this with Bevy (code here: https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants/) but have moved on to other projects for the time being.

It's a cute lil sim. It'll crash on you at some point 'cuz there's a race condition when ants come back from the outer-world while hauling food, but it's still kinda fun to watch 'em go.

(Also, while I'm yapping. https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/ is very true BUT ALSO people have made successful games using Bevy, or parts of it, e.g. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198150/Tiny_Glade/)
by Tostino | 2025-10-19 02:17:50+00:00
Well, that's not great. I was building out the frontend for my next venture on Hilla.

The responses in the comment section makes it clear they are de-prioritizing all work in that direction unless it is being pushed for by existing paying customers.

I may be able to get by for a few years with my existing frontend, but I do fear that they will end up deprecating things and leaving no upgrade path other than a rewrite.

Ugh.
by slowmovintarget | 2025-10-19 02:18:27+00:00
I was listening to Curt Jaimungal's recent interview with Stephen Wolfram. Wolfram dropped an interesting tidbit of an idea about the underlying foundation of "value" in economics. Because the one absolute limiting resource on every human being is time, things that are computationally reducible are valuable.

He gave an example. Given infinite time, we could make our own mobile phone. But they are valuable precisely because rather than gather all the raw materials, make all of the higher-order components, and assemble the phone ourselves, we can walk into a store and exchange currency for that finished good. This pattern recurs over and over.

So value comes from our ability do or get things that we would otherwise spend significant portions of our lives doing or making for ourselves.

Attention it time.
by arjie | 2025-10-19 02:18:39+00:00
I used Nebula (seems to be rebranded and more expensive now) for my wife and me, and for my parents and brother, and it was pretty straightforward. I paid for the 'lifetime' plan but they removed it before we did it for anyone else and it was pretty reasonable. I downloaded the FASTQ files and stuck it in an R2 bucket for myself. Nebula cost about $250 and there's a monthly $50 or something plan that's compulsory but you can cancel it right away.

If you're curious about my genome, here are my VCF files https://my.pgp-hms.org/profile/hu81A8CC

If you want to indulge your curiosity some more:

$ rg "20189511" /Users/george/tmp/genome/nebula_roshan_NG1AW8W7PU.mm2.sortdup.bqsr.hc.vcf 3499829:chr13 20189511 rs104894396 C T 252.77 . AC=1;AF=0.500;AN=2;BaseQRankSum=1.54;ClippingRankSum=0.00;DB;DP=25;ExcessHet=3.0103;FS=4.008;MLEAC=1;MLEAF=0.500;MQ=60.00;MQRankSum=0.00;QD=10.11;ReadPosRankSum=0.666;SOR=0.160 GT:AD:DP:GQ:PL 0/1:15,10:25:99:281,0,436

Put that into an LLM or look it up here https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs104894396 to find out which pathogenic mutation I am heterozygous for.

In practice, when my wife and I did carrier screening we didn't do it with Nebula, but carrier screening also confirmed that we had GJB2-related hearing loss genes in common. The embryos of our prospective children were also sequenced so that we could have a child without the condition.

Anyway, if you'd like a test file of a real human to play with, there's mine (from Nebula) for you to take a look at. If you use an LLM you can have some fun looking at this stuff (you can see I'm a man because there are chrY variants in there).

I also used Dante because I wanted to compare the results of their sequencing and variant calling. Unfortunately, they have a different way to tie the sequence back to the user (you take the code they have and keep it safe, nebula has you put the stuff in a labeled container so it's already mapped by them) and I was in a hurry with other stuff. They never responded to me with any assistance on the subject - not even to refuse the request to get the code for that address - so I have no idea how they work.

The nanopore stuff is very cool, but I heard (on Twitter) there were quality control issues with the devices. I'd love to try it some time later just to line it up with my daughter's genome.
by Theodores | 2025-10-19 02:20:08+00:00
Batteries weren't included, but a good article, nonetheless.

Interesting how baldness used to mean syphilis, few people know that.

What I also find interesting about men's hair is that long hair was common until the war machine came along with the short back and sides. Instead of hair, men got helmets.

The only time Americans got majorly anti-war was during the Vietnam War era, and the counterculture very much meant long hair for men, not a military style buzz cut.

Also fun to know, going grey prematurely isn't just 'genetics', as in that wonderful catch-all for anything medical we don't understand. Vitamin B12 also plays a part. Don't ask me how I know!
by jv22222 | 2025-10-19 02:20:34+00:00
I have found notch therapy to be quite helpful. It's basically where you tune a note to your exact tinitus pitch and then create white noise that has every khz EXCEPT your pitch. Then you listen to the notched sound at about the same level or slightly higher than your tinnitus. So, basically your "tinnitus" is notched out of the sound. The theory is it can retrain your brain to not produce the fake sound. I also just find it helps to alleviate the symptom.

My own tinnitus is 15khz which is annoyingly high. And I suspect the reason why tools like Tinnitus Neuromodulator don't help much in my case.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-19 02:21:03+00:00
Looks like these may be the smallest of their type right now, but other companies have been having these too in a somewhat larger form factor for quite a number of years.

I expect some of the alternative companies will be developing their own in this small size before too long as well.

Might be worth waiting for in case there is any skepticism about Broadcom's documented behavior as a moving target when it comes to ethics & integrity in relation to their customers.
by joe_the_user | 2025-10-19 02:23:17+00:00
I assume that I have somatic tinnitus because my tinnitus seems very associated with tension in my jaw, should and head. But every medical practitioner I talk to about this just seems say "uh...huh...what" and makes no effort to understand or investigate the phenomena.

I have found doing the Alexander Technique helps me quite a bit with the tinnitus.
by sphars | 2025-10-19 02:25:18+00:00
I'll be curious how you'll do this, having a daily Far Side like the daily paper calendar is a good idea. The only possible issue with my RSS feed is that I lump all the daily comics into one entry. So you could get 2-5 images per day/entry. Essentially what you see on the front page of thefarside.com. I'm not completely sold on my method, so open to suggestions (see above post for the GitHub)
by _heimdall | 2025-10-19 02:26:08+00:00
> That's just means you're effectively acting as a moderator yourself, only with a whitelist

Agreed, though when you are your own moderator that really is more about informed consent or free will than moderation. Moderation, at least in my opinion, implies a third party.

> And how did you discover those feeds in the first place? Or find new ones?

The same way I make new friends. Recommendations from those I already trust, or "friend of a friend" type situations. I don't need an outside matchmaker to introduce me to people they think I would be friends with.
by userbinator | 2025-10-19 02:27:29+00:00
Good to see the first comment there corrects him, and that it's not actually green pixels; at least for the Intel and nVidia drivers I've used before, it appears to be more of a dark magenta. It could be configurable or hardcoded somewhere in the driver, but I don't think it's fixed in hardware.

The desktop compositors takes the graphics content of all the windows, including their composition visuals, and combines them to form a full desktop image that is sent to the monitor.

...at the cost of latency and efficiency.
by Theodores | 2025-10-19 02:28:38+00:00
Your comment has made me wonder what fun could be had in deliberately educated an LLM badly, so that it is Fox News on steroids with added flat-earth conspiracy nonsense.

For tech, only Stack Overflow answers modded negatively would 'help'. As for medicine, a Victorian encyclopedia, from the days before germs were discovered could 'help', with phrenology, ether and everything else now discredited.

If the LLM replied as if it was Charles Dickens with no knowledge of the 20th century (or the 21st), that would be pretty much perfect.
by ljlolel | 2025-10-19 02:30:03+00:00
Interestingly, this doesn't mention that, like the tomato and the potato, Syphilis was from The New World. It’s a disease that caused this hair loss, unlike European diseases which killed a lot of Native Americans. Syphilis caused these issues but didn't cause death. However, it's interesting to note why this trend happened after the year 1492.
by femiagbabiaka | 2025-10-19 02:31:04+00:00
Yep, every cluster approaching 10k I know of has either pared back etcd's durability guarantees or rewritten and replaced it in some manner. Actually the post goes into detail about doing this exactly, the Alibaba paper they reference says about the same.

> Sharding total compute capacity compute capacity into multiple isolated k8s clusters reduces the likelihood that a software bug is going to take down everything as you can carefully upgrade only a single cell at a time with bake periods between each cell.

Yeah, I've been meaning to try out something like Armada to simplify things on the cluster-user side. Cluster-providers have lots of tools to make managing multiple clusters easier but if it means having to rewrite every batch job..
by vebgen | 2025-10-19 02:34:20+00:00
Thanks for the quick response!

> Non-CDP APIs at rendering engine level

That's brilliant - bypassing CDP entirely is the right call. Most anti-bot systems specifically look for navigator.webdriver and CDP artifacts. Building click/type primitives directly into the rendering pipeline is much cleaner.

> auth state question

Sorry, I wasn't clear! I was thinking about the scenario where you have multiple MCP clients (say Claude Desktop + another agent) both trying to control the same BrowserOS session. Do requests get queued, or can they interleave?

For our Django agent sandbox, we handle it by serializing operations - only one agent action at a time. Curious if you do something similar or if the HTTP/WebSocket layer handles concurrency differently.

The architecture diagram showing WebSocket → Extension → Browser makes sense now. Will definitely be trying this for testing our Django apps - the logged-in session persistence would save tons of auth setup time.

Excited to see where you take this!
by charcircuit | 2025-10-19 02:34:34+00:00
Why was this chosen to be a keynote? This talk seems to not care about open social media, but rather that existing social media sites don't follow the author's political agenda. Having a keynote trying to rally people into building sites that support a niche political agenda that the general public doesn't agree with doesn't accomplish the goals of making open social media more viable. This along with equating things with "Nazis" just further alienates people.