MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tptacek | 2025-10-18 22:36:32+00:00
I don't know what you think that means, but if you took "peer reviewed evidence" from the 1990s as scientific truth, you'd arrive at an answer that is outside the mainstream of even hereditarian scientists today. Further, things like twin studies can't be evidence of genetic causation. I gave an example of why not upthread.

I think we are way too deep in the weeds for this to be productive, and we're the only two people reading this. If it wasn't clear, I was trying 1-2 exchanges ago to find an off-ramp for this. I'm not telling you what to believe, I'm just saying that twin study heritability statistics don't settle the question. We should be able to agree comfortably there.
by daemonologist | 2025-10-18 22:36:41+00:00
It seems the manufacturer of the camera didn't even know (at least in the part of the org communicating with the NTSB) that their storage was encrypted. In any case the media recovered were from testing/non-dive environments, and during an actual dive footage would presumably be recorded directly to the onboard computers (which were irrecoverably destroyed).

Oceangate should take the blame for a lot of things but probably not this.
by marshfram | 2025-10-18 22:37:26+00:00
Social media is simply an extension from cybernetics to the principles of cog-sci as a "protocol" network where status and control are the primary forces mediated. This is irrefutable - the web was built as an extension of the cog-sci parameters of information as control.

Social media can't be saved, it can only be revolutionary as a development arena for a new form of language.

"The subject of integration was socialization; the subject of coordination was communication. Both were part of the theme of control...Cybernetics dispensed with the need for biological organisms, it as the parent to cognitive science, where the social is theorized strictly in terms of the exchange of information. Receivers, senses of signs need to be known in terms of channels, capacities, error rates, frequencies and so forth." Haraway Primate Visions.

I don't understand how technologists and coders can be this naive to the ramifications of electronically externalizing signals which start as arbitrary in person, and then clearly spiral out of control once accelerated and cut-off from the initial conditions.
by teaearlgraycold | 2025-10-18 22:37:39+00:00
> but I'm disappointed in the depth of Knowledge python Devs have

Not super relevant, but my favorite fun fact about Python (specifically CPython) is that hash(x) where x is an int is always the value of the int - except for -1, because the underlying C function uses -1 to represent errors. So hash(-1) == -2, which means you have a hash collision right around 0 where hash(-1) == hash(-2)
by mrblah | 2025-10-18 22:37:51+00:00
the older i get, and more in tune with my body i become, the more i'm thinking everything is connected to metabolism... it is, after all, the primary thing life does as it relates to energy. the b vitamins, and specifically b1 is a precursor/cofactor in almost every metabolic pathway. i only high dosed it for a couple months, just taking 150mg with ala daily now, but my tinnitus that i've had for 20 years is gone unless it gets triggered by movie or video game sound design during explosion or gun fight scenes (ugh)
by teekert | 2025-10-18 22:38:20+00:00
We are not “in the nanopore era of sequencing”. We are (still) firmly in the sequencing by synthesis era.

Yes it requires chopping the genome opening small(er) pieces (than with Nanopore sequencing) and then reconstructing the genome based on a reference (and this has its issues). But Nanopore sequencing is still far from perfect due to its high error rate. Any clinical sequencing is still done using sequencing by synthesis (at which Illumina has gotten very good over the past decade).

Nanopore devices are truly cool, small and comparatively cheap though, and you can compensate for the error rate by just sequence everything multiple times. I’m not too familiar with the economics of this approach though.

With sbs technology you could probably sequence your whole genome 30 times (a normal “coverage”) for below 1000€/$ with a reputable company. I’ve seen 180$, but not sure if I’d trust that.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-10-18 22:39:33+00:00
The Kubernetes team chose etcd specifically because they were trying to replace Borg's master/slave database at Google. Nothing about Kubernetes requires etcd; the team was trying to solve a Google-internal problem with it (and in the end, didn't gain traction within Google.) k3s uses sqlite by default which was an option at the time, other clusters today use PostgreSQL.

Have you looked at the etcd keys and values in a Kubernetes cluster? It's a _remarkably_ simple schema you could do in pretty much any database with fast prefix or path scans.
by zippyman55 | 2025-10-18 22:39:38+00:00
Work closer to home is my advice. I spent way too much time doing long commutes and the lack of time to exercise and also eat right gets you later. South Bay is way more affordable, and more stable companies. Its easier to visit SF on your own schedule. Also, South Bay has lots of other places to visit, drop over the hill to Santa Cruz, Monterey, as well as Napa and San Francisco. If the is an AI-Pocalypse, SF will be hit hard.
by westurner | 2025-10-18 22:40:04+00:00
That appears to be true for STM but IDK about LTM?

- "Study shows how memories ripple through the brain" (2017) https://www.ninds.nih.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/st...

"Learning-enhanced coupling between ripple oscillations in association cortices and hippocampus" (2017) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aan6203 ... NeuroGrid

- "Brain found to store three copies of every memory" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41352124 :

> So that makes four (4) copies of each memory in the brain if you include the engram cells in the prefrontal cortex
by dag11 | 2025-10-18 22:41:06+00:00
Because the brain is really weird, and tinnitus is often a completely internal neurological phenomenon.

The sound machine linked here was really helpful for me when I had some distressing tinnitus due to concerts several years ago. If I listened to this somewhat loudly for several minutes, I'd then get about 2-3 minutes of what felt like pure silence. And for a little while after that as the tinnitus came back, my brain interpreted it as a gentle white noise instead of a continuous high-frequency tone. Then it went back to the tone a little while later. So if I was having trouble sleeping due to hyperfocusing on the tone I'd first pop in some airpods and listen to this for a few mins.

Nowadays my tinnitus is much less bothersome. Probably a combination of objectively getting a little better, and me getting more acclimated to it. Plus I've been using good musician's ear plugs for all my concerts and raves since then which stopped it from getting worse.
by zug_zug | 2025-10-18 22:41:39+00:00
Off topic, but I do feel like there is a significant number of things that mysteriously get to frontpage with 12-40 upvotes, zero comments, and then sit there getting no more upvotes / comments for like 20 minutes.

Personally I agree that it's both possible to detect this better and would actually drastically improve the quality of this site if that wasn't the meta and think it's something that should be openly discussed (in terms of practical suggestions).
by tialaramex | 2025-10-18 22:43:20+00:00
The price for not making a Turing Complete language is that you can't solve all possible problems. But, you probably didn't want to solve all possible problems.

That's one of the insights in WUFFS. Yes, most problems cannot be solved with WUFFS, but, we often don't want to solve those problems so that's fine. WUFFS code, even written by an incompetent noob, categorically does not have most of the notorious problems from systems languages, yet in the hands of an expert it's as fast or faster. It has a very limited purpose, but... why aren't we making more of these special purpose languages with their excellent safety and performance, rather than building so many Swiss Army Chainsaw languages which are more dangerous but slower ?
by mquander | 2025-10-18 22:44:24+00:00
I was interested to read this because some time ago I had my genome sequenced by Nebula. If you look at the lawsuit you can see that what Nebula did was use off-the-shelf third-party analytics products on their website, including recording analytics pings when users buy a kit, and pings when users use the Nebula website to browse Nebula's high-level analysis of their traits (leaking that the user has those traits to the analytics provider.)

This behavior represents a contemptible lack of respect for users' privacy, but it's important to distinguish it from Nebula selling access to users' genomes.

https://www.classaction.org/media/portillov-nebula-genomics-...
by jdboyd | 2025-10-18 22:44:42+00:00
These days they are mostly cloning old, usually discontinued, products. Two examples are the Roland 303 or Klon Centaur. One product that isn't exactly discontinued is Neve is continuing to sell 1073 and 33609 derived products, but they certainly aren't selling the original 1073 anymore, and their 33609 design is over 40 years old. I don't morally they have any room to complain about people cloning their old designs, nor that morally should anyone feel bad about taking decades old historic designs from another company and making a version of it that is improved or more accessible.

I'm aware that in the past they were accused of cloning more current products, but the only example I could remember was FCB1010 supposedly being a clone of the Roland FC-300 (MIDI pedal board with 2 expression pedals). There certainly is a visual similarity between the two that seems very questionable. I don't think that the Roland FC-300 was particularly innovative. I know that Mackie sued about the MX-8000 being a clone, but I'll note they did lose that lawsuit. I don't there was also a lawsuit in the 90s about the Aphex Aural Exciter Type C, but I can't say that I know the details of that. Both of those lawsuits are definitely from a time when Behringer's quality seemed to be a lot lower, so there are definately ways the company has improved in the last 30 years.
by defrost | 2025-10-18 22:44:55+00:00
> will help, here.

Yes, it's a useful reminder to those that thought Peak Oil related to oil running out when it fact, as your link shows, it was largely always about the relative costs of energy.

I had hoped that globally we would pivot harder into cleaner energies much sooner; the continuation and increase in fossil fuel usage has worsened an issue that much of the world will increasingly encounter in the lifetimes of those born today.
by Unearned5161 | 2025-10-18 22:44:56+00:00
Peak Oil has always and always will be about production rates, going back to Hubbert's paper in the 50s. We never solved the production rate issue, we just threw more money at it, see the shale boom of the 2010s.

Relying on "technology" and "science" gets a lot shakier when you realize that oil itself is what has largely funded the ability to do technology and science. We've been gluttonous in an age of cheap energy, the world is in no way prepared for what comes after the cheap part is over.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-10-18 22:45:17+00:00
If you watch Twitch, you can see that all instances of the same emote in chat animate together. Then I tested this more generally in a web page, and the same thing happens - if the same gif is placed multiple times in a page, all instances of that gif will play in sync even if loaded at different times. I guess there's a similar idea in browsers then, where maybe there's only one memory representation of the gif across the page or the browser.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-18 22:46:43+00:00
The effect of weakening the dollar is not to return manufacturing jobs to the US while allowing the same dollars to buy the same products. It's to make imported goods more expensive so domestically produced ones win out in the marketplace, both in and outside of the US. To make you switch because your favorite products become too expensive.

It's to make you chose Californian wine over French one, so to speak. Whether you are in the US or elsewhere.

If technological advancement is going to kill the working class, this might slightly accelerate that development but it does not change it one way or the other.
by isbvhodnvemrwvn | 2025-10-18 22:47:40+00:00
Forget any use for ancestry with privacy guarantees. All you'll get is magic "ethnicity" percentages, kind of astrology of genealogy. For it to be useful in genealogy context you need to rely on matching and analyzing common ancestors, this will inherently lead to your data being shared in one way or another and possibly your identity being revealed.
by scotty79 | 2025-10-18 22:48:26+00:00
You have such a human perspective on things. Pigs are free to find their own meaning to their lives as well. Why should they be concerned what their lives mean to us? Long and short are relative terms. For you 80 years is long, for me it's short. For you, 6 months is short. For a domestic pig 6 months is long because it's 100% of their lifespan. What's the median lifespan of wild pigs?

For us and pigs our lifespans are dictated by the realities of our environment. Humans are part of pigs environment.

As for miserability of existence, there's no treatment for Weltschmerz.
by krapp | 2025-10-18 22:48:47+00:00
>Decentralization, specifically political decentralization which is what federation is, makes the problems of moderation, third order social effects, privacy and spam exceedingly more difficult.

I disagree that federation is "specifically political decentralization" but how so?

You claim that decentralization makes all of the problems of mainstream social networking worse and more intractable, but I think most of those problems come from the centralized nature of mainstream social media.

There is only one Facebook, and only one Twitter, and if you don't like the way Zuckerberg and Musk run things, too bad. If you don't like the way moderation works with an instance, you don't have to federate with it, you can create your own instance and moderate however you see fit.

This seems like a better solution than everyone being subject to the whims of a centralized service.
by vacuity | 2025-10-18 22:49:04+00:00
I also encourage reading [0], for another perspective on languages and formal guarantees (and a slightly different perspective than Rust's). It also talks about concurrency, which has many open problems for programming languages and software in general cough async cough.

[0] https://gavinhoward.com/2024/05/what-rust-got-wrong-on-forma... (linked in a previous thread for OP)
by westurner | 2025-10-18 22:49:27+00:00
Why are they charging customers near the datacenters more than others? Why don't they charge their customers the same rate?

I don't think we actually have a market economy for electricity in the US. Which electricity markets in the US have competition instead of government-granted anticompetitive monopolies (that are failing to solve for intraday storage)?

(The Carter administration was already starting to deregulate DOE which their administration created, for example.)

EU has more of market economy for electricity: you must have intraday electricity rates to be a member state of EU. (SIDC)

(Edit)

What percentage of US electricity markets have more than one supplier?

From "State-By-State Scorecard on Electricity Competition" (2025) https://www.rstreet.org/research/state-by-state-scorecard-on... :

> Active competition promotes efficiency and innovation, and this is as true in the electric power industry as it is elsewhere in society.
by aabhay | 2025-10-18 22:49:37+00:00
One thing about MCP that some people forget is that the models are post trained on MCP-based rollouts. I think people imagine that MCP was something people discovered about models but it’s deeper than that — models are explicitly trained to be able to interpret various and unseen kinds of MCP system prompts.

The exact same is true of these Claude Skills. Technically this is “just a system prompt and some tools”, but it’s actually about LLM labs intentionally encoding specific frameworks of action into the models.
by zippyman55 | 2025-10-18 22:50:48+00:00
This helps to explain a lot to me. I had been on a pastor selection committee to obtain a new pastor for my church. Our previous awesome pastor had to leave when the church voted to become more conservative and this conflicted with his military reserve Chaplain obligation. We were incrementally stepping thru the process of identifying a new pastor when a very rich guy swooped in to help “plant a new church” and whoosh, next thing we knew, we had a new pastor and we had bypassed everything we had been doing. I left, for various other reasons. I hear growth has increased in the church, but my observations when I encounter still current church members, their nucleus of friends has not increased outside of the original contacts they had maintained before the new church. I always ask why we are helping these people when they have this large-scale church they belong to; and I wonder why there are never any new people who show up at these social events. I can’t say I hear complaints, but I wonder if there is an “enshitification” that can take place in these events as people work to increase membership.
by tremon | 2025-10-18 22:51:20+00:00
To have even more fun with this, republicans were the original "left wing" while the right wing was composed of monarchists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_wing#History

> Throughout the 19th century, the main line dividing Left and Right was between supporters of the French republic and those of the monarchy's privileges.

It's fun to consider those same dividing lines in the current US climate: once again, it's the right wing that tries very hard to establish an absolute ruler, while the left aims to maintain the current republic (or to salvage what's left of it).
by scotty79 | 2025-10-18 22:51:25+00:00
If the cost of repairs is more than the benefit of you having this car, it's worth zero to you and you should scrap it, sell it for $1 or gift it to someone who has more favorable math than you regarding repairs.

That's what I meant by stops working - stops working for you.

No longer operational meant broken and not worth repairing.
by brianhama | 2025-10-18 22:51:28+00:00
I suddenly lost the hearing in my left ear at the age of 24. One moment I was fine, eating a slice of pizza, the next moment I suddenly could sense something was wrong. I tried to stand up and walk, but my balance was gone. My ear felt full and there was a strange metallic echo. I waited about 24 hours and it hadn't gone away, so I went to the urgent care. By that time, just standing up was enough to cause me to vomit. I've had a pretty healthy life, so everything that was happening was rather disconcerting to me!

The doctors at urgent care erroneously diagnosed the problem as dehydration as a result of my telling them I had played tennis earlier before the incident. They sent me home with instructions to drink lots of water. After waiting another 48 hours completely unable to hear or even stand up, I went back to the urgent care. This time, they diagnosed it as an ear infection and gave me antibiotics. Over the next two weeks, my balance slowly returned, but what little hearing I still had slowly deteriorated further. About a month after it started, I finally was referred to an audiologist that concluded that I was completely deaf in my left ear, possibly due to a viral infection, but there isn't any way to know for sure the cause. Had it been treated with steroids immediately, it might have saved my hearing.

I am now 40 years old and have lived with being single sided deaf for half my life. Initially I didn't think much of it. I've slowly realized it has had a profound impact on my personality and sense of identity. I am much less social due to the difficulty I have hearing in group settings. Conversations are frustrating because it takes so much effort to hear the other person properly. I am reluctant to tell people about my condition because I don't want to be seen as handicapped in any way. Usually by the time I do end up telling someone, they say they had already figured as much.

Tinnitus is a major daily issue as well. I can’t seem to understand how this website helps though.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-18 22:53:31+00:00
These are by no means a new product. I think the early prototypes for these possibly predate the microUSB plug.

The brochures always showed it next to a completely non-sterile laptop, but it never made sense. It's fundamentally a bio lab equipment, just small. You probably should be wiping the package with disinfectant, use DNA-cides as needed, or follow whatever bioscience people consider the basic common sense hygiene standards.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-18 22:53:36+00:00
Yes. It looks to be the more standard option form factor wise, which is a blessing and a curse.

For instance they went for the standard lower resolution display (1920x1440 for 14" vs 2560x1600 for 13" on the Z13). The thermals also looked better on the Z13, which comes partly with the form factor, partly with Asus optimizing for that for so many years.

Of cours the Z13 keyboard is meh, I expect most owners to have it detached 90% of the time and handle the machine more like a standalone screen/touch/pen input.
by rimmontrieu | 2025-10-18 22:54:11+00:00
Thank for the article, this brings back so much good memories and nostalgias. Turbo Pascal was my first programming language a couple decades ago, at that time it felt like super power when you could tell the computer what to do by learning the language and just hit the Compile button.

The IDE was also so clean and intuitive, which was perfect for new programmers.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-18 22:54:55+00:00
Problem with battery fires/explosions is that they are NOT fires. They don't go out if you douse them in water, they don't go out even if you starve them of oxygen, and they get hot enough to melt concrete and steel. They move in slow motion (thank God), but they're near unstoppable until burned out.

So if you get a battery fire in your pants, it'll even be slow to heat up, but it'll burn right through your leg if you don't remove it. (or if you can't, because it melted right into your ...)

Also the fumes are toxic and inhaling it will cause "sudden unconsciousness and death".
by binarycrusader | 2025-10-18 22:54:56+00:00
I think it's more subtle than that:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250719210835/https://www.wello...

The project is a mix of licenses since it's a mix of components. If I had to guess, they intend source code and maybe the binaries under GPLv3 that they own, fonts under SIL Open Font, but "brushes" and "splash images" under CC_BY_NC, etc. mean they could probably constrain certain uses:

Our Paint is a painting application. Copyright (C) 2022-2025 Wu Yiming Learn more about LaGUI: https://ChengduLittleA.com/lagui Support the development: https://patreon.com/ChengduLittleA Our Paint is licensed with GNU GPL v3, and Noto fonts are licensed with SIL Open Font license. You should be able to find details about the license in the source code directory. The splash screen images under Resources are licensed with Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0). You can not use these images commercially, but you are free to contact the author for licensing info on other products such as prints. The brushe files packed with Our Paint distribustion are licensed with Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0).

My personal opinion is that if that's what they intended, it seems quite reasonable.
by pas | 2025-10-18 22:55:33+00:00
but it's also standard, you can hire for it, outsource it, etc.

and it's pretty modular too, so it can even serve as the host for the bespoke whatever that's needed

though I remember reading the fly.io blog post about their custom scheduler/allocator which illustrates nicely how much of a difference a custom in-house solution makes if works well