MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by livenomad | 2025-10-27 00:16:53+00:00
SafeSip Filtered Bottle is the world's first portable and filtered water bottle. His goal is simple: delivering pure drinking water anywhere in the world.

Let's face it: bottles get dirty, and millions of people don't have access to clean water, and that can affect their overall performance, their mental health, and well-being. With an integrated, replaceable filter inside a sip-through straw, it reduces common contaminants and improves taste so you can fill up at a park fountain, airport sink, campsite, or gym—no second-guessing, no waiting.

Simple to use and easy to maintain, it helps you perform, drink more, and feel better
by GolDDranks | 2025-10-27 00:16:53+00:00
Note that Turing test allows a lot leeway for the test settings, i.e. who interrogates it, how much they know about the weakness of current SOA models, are they allowed to use tools (I'm thinking of something like ARC-AGI but in a format that allows chat-based testing), and how long a chat is allowed etc. Therefore there can be multiple interpretations of whether the current models pass the test or not.

One could say that if there is maximally hard Turing test, and a "sloppy" Turing test, we are somewhere where the current models pass the sloppy version but not the maximally hard version.
by DarkmSparks | 2025-10-27 00:17:41+00:00
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can lead to the rapid formation of amyloid plaques....

So entirely possible they are simply part of how or brain deals with brain cell death.

Its possible at this point it's not a "disease" at all, at least no more than the STI we are all dieing from (our parents had sex and now we get to die).

Prior to 1900 or so, average life expectancy was something like 25 or 30, our brains simply never evolved to live as long as they do now, some people age faster than others..

The problem for the scientific basis is all the brain research has gone into plaques and ignored all the other conditions that lead to cell death and aging, it's going to be a while before other directions can be properly explored, and plaques for sure still have the momentum despite failing at every turn.
by card_zero | 2025-10-27 00:19:23+00:00
There's no reason to the idea "superior intelligence". Nobody can say what that means, except by assuming that animal intelligence is the same category as the kind we want and differs from human intelligence in degree rather than qualitatively, and then extrapolating forward from this idea of measuring intelligence on the intelligence meter that we don't have one of.

Besides which we already defined "artificial intelligence" to mean non-intelligence: are we now going to attain "artificial general intelligence" by the same process? Should we add another letter to the acronym, like move on to "genuine artificial general intelligence"?
by 0dj0bz | 2025-10-27 00:19:39+00:00
When I was in my teens, I spent my summers rebuilding a LOT of Addressograph-Multigraph and (later) Farrington plate printing and embossing equipment. Some of this gear was impressive, either because of its mass (the big cast iron tag printers that were on pretty much every US Navy ship and military base) or its novelty at the time (the 6300 electronic card & plate embossers that were interfaceable to mini and mainframe computers). Learning the mechanical and electrical work on these machines made me a better engineer once I got to college.
by aprilfoo | 2025-10-27 00:21:38+00:00
Filling forms is a terribly artificial activity in essence. They are also very culturally biased, but that fits well with the material the NNs have been trained with.

So, surely those IQ-related tests might be acceptable rating tools for machines and they might get higher scores than anyone at some point.

Anyway, is the objective of this kind of research to actually measure the progress of buzzwords, or amplify them?
by luke-stanley | 2025-10-27 00:22:44+00:00
The Lethal Trifecta strikes again! Mermaid seems like a bit of a side issue, presumably there are lots of ways data might leak out. It could have just been a normal link. They should probably look further into the underlying issue: unrelated instruction following.

Thanks for the archive link and the very useful term BTW! I also got 503 when trying to visit.
by simonw | 2025-10-27 00:22:52+00:00
If your purpose for self-hosting is fear that GitHub will ignore their own promises in their terms of service and abuse their custody of your data then sure. https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

(There's also the "to comply with our legal obligations" bit, which is a concern if you're doing things that governments around the world may have issue with.)

I expect there are people who like to self-host so that they're not dependent on GitHub up-time or having their accounts banned and losing access to their data. For them, having a secondary GitHub backup should still be useful.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-27 00:23:41+00:00
Those types of books are where I learnt about kneecap back in the late 80s/early 90s as a kid, which is why I didn’t know it had been renamed post Cold War.

They obviously don’t discuss it for obvious reasons but given the options I’d say east then either north or south, Canada is nearer and air fields with sufficient length to be able to land (and is in NATO) which is why it’d be my guess at least to start with, loiter over an unpopulated area and at least the likelihood is reduced of been near a detonation is reduced, the continental US simply has too many targets, though with modern warheads been lower yield they’d likely be OK orbiting unpopulated areas out west I guess.
by prawn | 2025-10-27 00:23:50+00:00
I think consider that simonsquiff may not have been in a position (stable relationship, reliable personal situation, partner's career, etc) until their 40s. If not now, they may not have had children at all, leaving no one to know any grandparents.

I think there are advantages either way. I have three kids, born when I was 35-41; when my wife was 31-37. The children met great-grandparents, get lots of experience with their grandparents, and I think time for us to get more established has made for a stronger and more interesting parenting environment. I might've regretted giving up chances to travel/etc before having kids. That said, I am conscious that I would be 80+ before my youngest hit 40.

It might be that consecutive generations of late-parenting are where the impact is felt. My parents had their three children at 24-29.
by MBCook | 2025-10-27 00:23:59+00:00
Sure I have. They’re not that color scheme, they have enough contrast to be readable.

“Use reader mode”. It’s clearly a problem. There is an entry in the FAQ about it. The solution just isn’t useful to 98% of browser users.

If the author is willing make alternate color schemes with acceptable contrast users should be able to use them without switching browsers.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-10-27 00:24:34+00:00
So FIFA are shady, disreputable, immoral, greedy and unscrupulous. Nothing new here, though it's good to remember that every now and then. Like many but not all of the mega sporting bodies and club owners, they don't care about football. Just making money.

But there's one important thing the article overlooks; the fans are not owed anything. I guess that's not entirely true because sports does get support from the government. Still it's FIFA's show, they can do what they like with it. Hopefully fans will call them out on it and boycott the world cup. If that doesn't happen (it won't) it proves FIFA right; they can do whatever they can get away with, it's a free society if you don't like it don't pay.
by walleeee | 2025-10-27 00:25:18+00:00
> legislation

Perhaps more generally phrased as governance

Yes, the answer is not some business plan by which some can dodge disaster in an untrustworthy market, the answer is to recognize that this planet is a spaceship i.e. materially closed, and we are massively soiling the nest, microplastic is in steak because it's literally everywhere on the surface of the earth, etc.

Therefore, good ecological governance is a requirement, as is the analysis, as a public service, of the resources and ecosystems, and the services they provide human beings and our dependents, i.e. a democratic and just policy, not a lucrative plan to privatize yet more of public health

If one is convinced the best vehicle for the above in the near term is a business, then it had better have a different approach than is typical of personal health tech startups

Empowering individuals isn't worthless by any means but pitting one against another with asymmetric information is worse than worthless
by lunarboy | 2025-10-27 00:25:39+00:00
Yup, I feel like the biggest limitation with current AI is that they don't have desire (nor actual agency to act upon it). They don't have to worry about hunger, death, feelings, and so they don't really have desires to further explore space, or make life more efficient because they're on limited time like humans. Their improvement isn't coming inside out like humans, it's just external driven (someone pressing a training epoch). This is why I don't think LLMs will reach AGI, if AGI somehow ties back to "human-ness." And maybe that's a good thing for Skynet reasons, but anyways
by drfuchs | 2025-10-27 00:25:40+00:00
Yeah, and I suppose you’re going to tell me that Han didn’t shoot first, either. Did you refer to an original 1980 70mm release print, before all the fiddling around they did on subsequent releases? And newspapers and fanzines from 1982 that covered the issue (at first, LucasFilm denied these posters even existed).

On the other hand, it seems that you are, in fact, correct. Oh, well.
by Frotag | 2025-10-27 00:26:26+00:00
I usually care more about the ideas than characters / prose and the recs below kinda reflect that.

Anyways, in no particular order ...

- Adiamante by Modesitt (1996), pacifist environmentalists vs cyberpunk warmongers. It's a lot of philosophy and a bit preachy at that but the world building was pretty thorough. - Last and First Idol by Gengen Kusano (2018). Similar to Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, it parodies various aspects of Japanese culture over a period of eons. (It's a set of three ~70pg stories). - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky (2010). Parody where the main character investigates how to exploit magic. Kind of like xkcd / what-if but in the Harry Potter universe. Author is controversial and the story's pompous /r/iamverysmart vibes can be offputting but I enjoyed it.

Also want to second some of the other recs in this thread.

- Greg Egan's stuff - There is No Antimimetics Division by qntm - Sequels to Enders Game and the Ender's Shadow spinoffs by Orson Scott Card. - Dragon's Egg and its sequel by Robert L. Forward.
by sunscream89 | 2025-10-27 00:26:45+00:00
> Jung used synchronicity in arguing for the existence of the paranormal.

The greatest secret of all time is that we are not alone in our own minds, and a long standing secret culture among us controls our synchronicities, as well as much more. These play games with our lives, sometimes benevolently, usually out of mischief.

This same phenomena is behind the CIA Stargate programs. This report describes the cargo cult interface through which mainstream government intelligence communities accept being “curated” by these third party handlers.

There are over 500,000 humans who can move among our minds, meddling with our minds and our lives. These toy with our “synchronicity”.
by kbelder | 2025-10-27 00:28:37+00:00
>0:10 I point it out. >0:11 I said I would vote for this every >0:12 single time and I'll say it again. Um, >0:15 uh, camera technology and your >0:17 expectation of privacy when you're >0:19 driving around um, is none. And there is >0:22 no expectation of privacy when you're >0:24 driving a stolen car. Uh, you don't have >0:27 that expectation. That's the law of the >0:28 United States.

That's what the councilman said. All other context was clipped. As far as I can find, the rest of the 8 minute video is the host going on about that statement.

Is it incorrect? Judge for yourself. But the headline, "Politician calls constituents criminals with no right to privacy" is obviously false.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-27 00:28:51+00:00
It supports h264/h265 at high bit rates via oculus link (their software), I only use mine for PCVR, never on device.

You can also if you are a bit technical (and given where we are I’m gonna assume you are) use virtual desktop, which is designed to work over high speed WiFi but you can reverse tether it with https://github.com/Genymobile/gnirehtet then you can do high bitrate AV1 (which it supports in 10bit) with much lower latency than even good Wi-Fi and much less jitter, it’s a little fiddly to set up but has been robust for me that way.

I can’t really see much difference between h264 via usb-c and reverse tether via AV1 though.

With an aftermarket charge while use cable you can run it indefinitely, on quiet weekends I’ve spent as much as 6-7 hours in a go in IL2, it’s quantitatively different to playing the same game on a monitor.

Be aware though it will crush GPU’s, I have a 7900XTX and if I crank the sliders in IL2 I have to be careful to keep 90fps.

You can tell that Meta doesn’t much care about PCVR side of their software though, it all works and it’s serviceable enough but it’s not their focus.

In terms of quality loss, not really, there is no direct mode in any case, it’s all encoded/decode but it’s hardware encoded PC end (all GPU’s that are powerful enough to handle it have had the hardware encoding for quite a few years) and the decoder on the Quest 3 is more than powerful enough to do it within the frame time limit.
by mobilejdral | 2025-10-27 00:30:23+00:00
I am not saying that if there was a pill on the market today that would increase plaque-clearing there wouldn't still be dementia, simply that they would probably then die from pneumonia.

One needs to also dive into neurogenesis. Elevated HPA Axis activation which brought us the oxy-androgens also gives use higher cortisol and lower α-MSH which promote neurogenesis. This elevated cortisol is one of the classic hallmarks of Alzheimer's. Estrogen signaling is also an important part of neurodevelopment. So someone with Alzheimer's usually has low α-MSH and low estrogen signaling and overall reduced neurodevelopment. Need to fix these to prevent dementia.

The various stuff that has been found to reduces dementia also improve estrogen signaling. Estrogens are an incredibly old hormone used in regulating a ton of basic cell function. Keep ERa functioning well and you get not only better amyloid plaque clearance, but healthier DNA repair, immune system, etc and better neurogenesis. A lot of stuff that improves longevity ultimately just keeps this going.

There is a Alzheimer's Choline camp which is where we know that Choline supplements is associated with improved Alzheimer's. With low estrogen signaling you have lower N-methyltransferase so less Choline in the body as it is how the body makes it. Less Choline, less SAM via BHMT, less SAM, less clearance of 2-OHE1, less ERa activation, and ... less choline in a loop. Supplement with Choline and it helps not only with the APOE e4 which consumes more Choline, but undoes this is what this theory is about.

As we are having fun with this, decrease the BHMT from less Choline and it shifts from BHMT-mediated methionine synthesis to MTR-mediated pathways, consuming 5-MTHF resulting in slower THF regeneration. Slower THF regeneration impairs the folate cycle, increasing reliance on serine as a one-carbon donor. Elevated serine flux upregulates PHGDH, which promotes IKKα-HMGB1 signaling which drives amyloid pathology and neuron death! Which brings us to probably my favorite paper from this year. "Transcriptional regulation by PHGDH drives amyloid pathology in Alzheimer’s disease" https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00397-6

I myself don't put myself in the Choline camp, but more see Alzheimer's simply as one failure mode on the metabolic estrogen axis of which is induce in certain genetic or diet configurations. In this mode it results in a number of cascading failures until death. Some genetics/diet are fairly easy to halt/undo the spiral of death which is seen in how there are some things that are known to improve Alzheimer's in some, but not all patients. I can induce Alzheimer's via the gut, diet, inflammation, adrenals, sleep, a whole host of ways, anything that starts the cascade.

An example of an unlucky genetic case is when someone has 3 CYP21A2 rather than 2, they end up with hypercortisolism and nearly always they will get Alzheimer's if there is no intervention. This is a rare genetic case, but simply a way to break the axis elsewhere with the same effect.
by kelnos | 2025-10-27 00:31:05+00:00
Interesting that babble.c doesn't compile (with gcc 14):

babble.c: In function ‘main’: babble.c:651:40: error: passing argument 1 of ‘pthread_detach’ makes integer from pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] 651 | pthread_detach(&thread); | ^~~~~~~ | | | pthread_t * {aka long unsigned int *} In file included from babble.c:77: /usr/include/pthread.h:269:38: note: expected ‘pthread_t’ {aka ‘long unsigned int’} but argument is of type ‘pthread_t *’ {aka ‘long unsigned int *’} 269 | extern int pthread_detach (pthread_t __th) __THROW;

I assume the author is using a compiler that either doesn't show that warning by default, or doesn't error out on that warning by default. But I'm surprised the program doesn't crash (at the very least, I'm surprised it doesn't run out of memory eventually, as presumably libc can't actually detach those threads, and pthread_join() is never called).

As this binary does a bunch of manual text parsing and string operations in C (including implementing a basic HTTP server), I'd recommend at the very least running it as an unprivileged user (which the author implicitly recommends via the provided systemd unit file) inside a container (which won't definitely save you, but is perhaps better than nothing).

The program also uses unsafe C functions like sprintf(). A quick look at one of the instances suggests that the use is indeed safe, but that sort of thing raises red flags for me as to the safety of the program as a whole.

And while it does process requests very quickly, it also appears to have no limit on the number of concurrent threads it will create to process each request, so... beware.
by lazide | 2025-10-27 00:33:13+00:00
I found nothing in the Google search results for that, or follow up search results, that indicate what you are saying is correct.

Mind linking to something concrete?

What I did find was numerous documents noting that Geiger counters needed to be calibrated to generate useful dose rates because CPM by itself is useless without a bunch of other work to characterize the sensor and radiation type.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-27 00:33:33+00:00
> There you’ll see the 10 Cortex-X925 (“performance”) cores listed with a peak clock rate of 4 GHz, along with the 10 Cortex-A725 (“efficiency”) cores listed with a peak clock rate of 2.8 GHz

> If you start Python and ask it how many CPU cores you have, it will count both kinds of cores and report 20

> Note that because of the speed difference between the cores, you will want to ensure there is some form of dynamic scheduling in your application that can load balance between the different core types.

Sounds like a new type of hell where I now not only need to manage the threads themselves, but also take into account what type of core they run on, and Python straight up report them as the same.
by boxed | 2025-10-27 00:34:04+00:00
> Instead, you are just simply an ideological fan of his, so no matter how many times he gets proven wrong, its not going to change your mind about him.

That's just you repeating confirmation bias again. I am not an ideological fan of Musk. You just assumed so because I said that Musk was correct or competent in some areas.

If I said Hitler was a vegetarian (true btw) and that this is a moral act (also true), does this make me a Nazi? Of course not.

Musk is consistently wrong about so many conspiracy theories it would be laughable if not for the influence he yields.

HOWEVER, we must also be able to accept that sometimes he's actually competent at something. Those are two different things and can both be true.

> Overall in general, he and all the other conservatives have done enough damage to their credibility with straight up lies that are so easily verifiable to such an extent that, its totally fine to just discredit anything the say right off the bat.

See, the issue here is that this logic can also be easily applied to US liberals. You just can't listen to the biggest idiots of a given group and judge the entire group by it, and certainly not ALL behavior of ALL the members of said group.

Because liberals threatened white people that had dreadlock with violence, does this mean I should stop listening to all liberals when they say the sky is blue? See how this logic is crazy?

To make it clear: I am liberal. Not US liberal (I'm Swedish), but I believe in gay rights and the right of abortion for example. I also believe SpaceX is partially great because Musk has done an amazing job. I furthermore believe Musk has done horrible damage by spreading misinformation.
by orwin | 2025-10-27 00:34:24+00:00
That's Adam Smith liberalism. You can have a market and competition without capitalism. Just look at what China did for EVs and solar panels, its full liberalism under state planning.

China does have _some_ capitalism, state capitalism but still, capital owners decide what is produced, with state supervision (nuclear, coal, rail sector, Alibaba). Already for its telco sector we knew it was different, it wasn't like the usual, a sort of capitalist liberalism with state planning. Now we have more data, and i'm not the only one to think its EV boom is the perfect example of a non-capitalist liberalism.
by gus_massa | 2025-10-27 00:34:32+00:00
Jobs post should go in the official whoishiring threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Latest edition https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

Take a look in case you find something interesting. They are read only now, so you must wait until November 3 to post there. Take a look at the requested format and style, and repost in the correct one.
by reissbaker | 2025-10-27 00:34:52+00:00
As usual with Alzheimer's studies, this is another "breakthrough" in mice. Unfortunately, every other Alzheimer's breakthrough in mice has failed to replicate in humans, because... Mice don't get Alzheimer's. We can create mice with dementia patterns that are surface-level similar to Alzheimer's (beta amyloid plaques!), and clear the plaques and even often reverse the dementia. Unfortunately this doesn't help much of anything, since those diseases we create in mice are not Alzheimer's and appear not to actually be similar causally to Alzheimer's. All of them have failed to replicate and we have many of them.

I generally wouldn't trust any Alzheimer's "breakthroughs" in mice models. The models are not accurate and have thus far had zero predictive power for actual Alzheimer's in humans.
by anon84873628 | 2025-10-27 00:35:53+00:00
Plaques have not failed at every turn. This seems to be a myth repeated every time an article like this pops up. Yes there were specific instances of fraud, but this did not invalidate the whole research avenue. Researchers are in fact doing exactly what you suggest, and understanding plaques is a lever into those underlying dysfunctions... Like say circadian rhythm perhaps.

And I don't know why you would talk about average life expectancy when median expectancy or expectancy at adolescence are much more relevant metrics (that probably don't agree with your point).