MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jasoneckert | 2025-10-01 19:07:32+00:00
You don’t have to be a biologist or zoologist to appreciate what Jane Goodall brought to the world.

Her work transcended science. It touched on compassion, respect for all living beings, and a deep curiosity about the natural world that inspired generations. She didn’t just study chimpanzees; she taught us what it means to observe with empathy, to advocate with conviction, and to act with hope. Her legacy will echo for a very long time.
by jpalawaga | 2025-10-01 19:07:33+00:00
I feel like this was copy edited by ChatGPT and it really grates me. I couldn’t help but lose focus after I started seeing telltale signs of AI.

While the topic matter is interesting, I feel like obviously synthetic content falls into the “that which was not worth writing, is not worth reading either” trap.

If the authors tone is extremely ChatGPT-esque, I apologize in advance.
by rockercoaster | 2025-10-01 19:07:56+00:00
If that's actually beneficial to Trump then none of this matters, because the Republicans can just shut it down themselves no matter what the democrats want or do.

Meanwhile, what power might this give him that he hasn't already seized without resistance from Congress? He's taken spending power and partially claimed taxation power already. He's been illegally firing people his entire term so far, often en masse. So what's the "more power"?
by saltcured | 2025-10-01 19:08:12+00:00
Well said.

I have similar feelings about those who claim to have an internal monologue or voice etc. It's all so alien to me. Outside of dreams or hynagogia, my "self" and internal experience is non-verbal, non-visual, and mostly lacking any other sensory qualia.

If "me" is rooted in any perceptual qualia, I think and experience a vague mixture of a spatial awareness, proprioception, topology, and emotion. I can barely summon sound memories like music, and this could include lyrics. This recall is very faintly rooted in auditory qualia. Like the ghost of an echo down a distance corridor. Moreso, I can "feel" such music memory as a hint of proprioception, i.e. the after-thump of bass in my body or the after-tingle of a cymbal in my ear. But it utterly lacks the presence and richness of real listening.

I can think about words and phrases I've either heard or read, or try to arrange some words to write or speak later. But they're fleeting concepts, neither visual nor auditory in quality. They're not like the sound or music memory above. They're also not visuals of typography. In fact, I've more than once had words in my lexicon that I could neither pronounce nor reliably spell. I could readily match them to parsed words when reading, but would be unable to express them.

Finally, I have a relative with schizophrenia. I've witnessed how she behaves when hallucinating and/or having delusions. She often seems to experience her thoughts as if being talked to over her shoulder, or can manifest a fear into seeing dangerous threats. Her experience seems a kind of polar opposite to mine.

I wonder how it is to be somewhere in the middle of this range. It must be different from hers, to be useful but not schizoid. And it also seems like it must be a lot more vivid and accessible than my usual experience.
by looping__lui | 2025-10-01 19:08:28+00:00
What are you going to do at night, or in Germany when it’s cloudy and rainy for a month straight? I can show you my electricity consumption from my heat pump in the winter compared to the electricity my PV system produced. Hint: it doesn’t work. And batteries aren’t an option either, because I can’t generate any excess electricity during the day. Take a look at the Fraunhofer study.
by baobun | 2025-10-01 19:09:03+00:00
"AGI" is a fluid term meaning whatever sama thinks will drive up OpenAI valuation this quarter and best avoided unless your intention is to help hoodwink OpenAI investors.

"ASI" is a new one you can throw in if you notice people catching on to our "AGI" bullshitting and allows the user to appear "in the know" at mixers, cocktail parties and your company blog.

"AI" is any stochastic autonomous or generative digital system.
by bsenftner | 2025-10-01 19:09:12+00:00
No, I treat emotions as yet to be vocalized or identified observations. Emotions are like unsaid statements, hanging in a pregnant pause. If I find myself caught up in emotion, that is a likely scenario where bias can enter my self conversation, and being aware of the danger of self conversation bias, I turn my suspicious self against myself and re-center logically. Wash away that emotion with analysis and awareness.
by nunoarruda | 2025-10-01 19:10:02+00:00
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by adzm | 2025-10-01 19:10:03+00:00
> the unexpected Bojack Horseman results. I'd bet that Netflix just isn't yet taking advantage of AV1 features designed especially for this kind of animation and synthetic content.

While the percentages look scary, it's only a slight difference (60kbps!) and still around 1mbps average, but with a significant quality boost (very crisp lines and near perfect quality). I bet Netflix could encode at nearly half that bitrate and stay similar to HEVC in quality, but I'm pleased they seem to have made a good tradeoff here.

It's actually quite amazing the quality that AV1 delivers at such low bitrates across the board. I've said it before, but AV1 is almost magical. Which I think is behind the lack of enthusiasm for VVC/h266; is anyone even using that? I've yet to actually see it in the wild.
by mrtksn | 2025-10-01 19:10:07+00:00
They are also very fast at electrifying everything. Especially for transportation, they built large high speed train network(runs on electricity) and are far ahead in electrifying the public transport like busses which also resulted in Chinese electric cars dominance. Future is electric, USA can't give up its fossils and EU not happy about ICE cars being phased out(or more precisely someone else winning the phase out) but that's really inevitable. US, EU should just drop everything and go electric or in a few years will look like backward civilizations because China is exporting that all over the world.
by ranger_danger | 2025-10-01 19:10:16+00:00
I don't think the answer is so black-and-white. IMO This only realistically applies to larger companies or ones that either push lots of traffic or have a need for large amounts of compute/storage/etc.

But for smaller groups that don't have large/sustained workloads, I think they can absolutely save money compared to colo/dedicated servers using one of multiple different kinds of AWS services.

I have several customers that coast along just fine with a $50/mo EC2 instance or less, compared to hundreds per month for a dedicated server... I wouldn't call that "ten times" by any stretch.
by emilsayahi | 2025-10-01 19:10:20+00:00
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by Tadpole9181 | 2025-10-01 19:10:22+00:00
For the viewers at home, CNN is not remotely an "arm of the Democratic Party". They're owned by Warner Bros (and are one of the few American media conglomerates not directly beholden to a single partisan billionaire).

Pretty much every single bias rater puts CNN as "slightly left leaning", and they are regularly under fire from the left for facilitating the normalization of alt-right or far right rhetoric.

I'd love to hear what media sources you call unbiased.
by xp84 | 2025-10-01 19:10:49+00:00
> the worthless points (why not a time unit)

The story points people won the battle against time units, claiming that "complexity" can be measured and quantified better than "hours" could, but in every place I've worked, people just treat them as though they're actually some unit of time. Product managers and my bosses always believe you can do arithmetic with that (multiply engineers assigned to project by 2 to cut time in half right? Sum up 25 points and be confident 5 engineers can complete them all in a week right?)

Then we occasionally have to pretend to really care why our "velocity" isn't arbitrarily higher or why it's less than it once was, when all of the tasks have estimates from 1-5 with at least a 1-point margin of error. There's so much noise that no amount of smoothing yields useful data that you can use to achieve "certainty" -- such as that X project will be done in Y number of sprints, which is what senior management craves most, but can never safely be promised unless you have a death wish.

Basically I'm convinced at minimum like half of teams that "do agile" or "do scrum" are just cargo-culting and derive no particular benefit from it. I don't think I'd even do estimation of any kind if I ran a software team as I saw fit.
by foobarian | 2025-10-01 19:10:50+00:00
I'm also loving projects like these [1] popping up all over the place. Looks like they are installing Tesla Megapacks with LFP cells. [2]

[1] https://vcrenewables.com/medway-grid-energy-storage-system/

[2] https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/07/17/massachusetts-greenli...
by nunoarruda | 2025-10-01 19:10:53+00:00
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by derefr | 2025-10-01 19:10:55+00:00
Masking doesn't (only) mean presenting as 100% neurotypical with the goal of others not even realizing you're autistic. It's also what you call any amount emotional labor you go through, trying to decrease the amount of emotional labor that other people have to expend on dealing with the ways you would, if not masking, approach interactions/tasks/etc differently.

If you imagine neurotypical and autistic as two "languages", then masking is when an autistic person is going to the effort to speak the neurotypical language, so as to remove the burden from neurotypical people of having to parse the autistic language. Most of the time, unless the interaction is very short and one-shot, the autistic person will still come off as speaking the neurotypical language "as a second language" rather than speaking it "fluently"; but it is the lived experience of many autistic people that this is still less disruptive in mixed company than just letting go and going full native autistic and expecting neurotypical people to be the ones to adapt. (Even in SF, a randomly-selected group of people often contains a few people visiting from elsewhere, who have never interacted with [non-masking] autistic people before, and so have never learned to "speak" autistic.)

Which is not to say that it isn't nice to find other autistic people to hang out with, where you can just let your hair down and "speak your native language" together! But it's not like this is something people avoid doing, if they get the chance. It's just that in most places in the world, you're rather unlikely to stumble into groups consisting solely of autistic people. (Except maybe in engineering-led tech companies!)
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-01 19:11:00+00:00
> You're mistaken, the proposed system isn't centralized. The IDs only exist in the wallet.

That's a password manager or authenticator app. You don't need a government to do anything to have that.

> Some of these signed proofs can be disclosed using Zero Knowledge Proofs (a cryptographic means of demonstrating something without demonstrating anything else) which would actually make it harder to 'correlate' you in the way you describe.

People always bring this up as a theory, but most of the ZK systems don't actually do this, e.g. they give you a bitstring that "doesn't identify you" but they know who you are when they give it to you, and you're meant to present it to a third party who could collude with the service who does know who you are to map it back to you.

In other words, the ZK proof is an attempt to bamboozle people with complicated math rather than something that really works.

The only way to actually prevent this is to make the data the user presents to the second service indistinguishable for all users meeting the qualification, i.e. if you're over 18 then you get a secret, everyone over 18 gets the same secret, and then the second service just gets the secret and compares it, and you rotate it with some interval which is at least a week. (You can't rotate it continuously or you get timing attacks; even once a week is giving up a non-trivial amount of entropy because you can narrow down the user to the people who have requested the token in the last week and repeat the process every week that person uses it to keep winnowing it down.)

But the proposals don't ever seem to do that, most of them don't even use ZK proofs or don't use them properly.

> Another thing to bear in mind, the ID is backed up by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 which reinforces data protection laws and actually wards against the use you describe.

You can't fix this by making it illegal because you don't have a mechanism to identify when they're doing it. You give them data that could identify you and then whether they use it for that happens behind closed doors.

Then you get all of the chilling effects even if they're not (currently) doing it because with no way for people to corroborate, people have to assume that they are. And on top of that, you've now deployed a system that ties everyone's activity to their identity and then it's just the stroke of a pen before they're doing it openly, or it comes out that they're doing it illegally but nobody does anything to stop it a la Snowden.
by barbazoo | 2025-10-01 19:11:07+00:00
> But what's actually beyond me is the existence of Europeans that demand more fossil fuels. It is double ridiculous because EU doesn't even have these fossil resources at any viable scale. It is largely imported, they must be on the payroll of US and Russia or very stupid.

> IMHO EU should just drop everything and do China level or even beyond transition to Solar and similar.

If I find myself finding obvious "errors" in other people's plans and easy solutions they "just" have to implement then I'm usually missing something.

Europe's strategy to tie themselves economically to Russia for the purpose of peace didn't work out but a lot of the infrastructure and energy investments were made when that was the strategy. The other thing is that you're talking about electricity, fossil fuels have thousands of uses so you can't "drop everything".
by cthalupa | 2025-10-01 19:11:17+00:00
MR studies rule out the idea that inflammation is the sole causal factor, and we have a lot of them.

We have MVMR studies that look at multiple variables

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article%3Fid%3D10.137...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-75...

Some MR looking specifically at CRP actually dispute the idea of a causal link altogether

https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d548

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.atv.0000258869.48...

Factorial MR show strong evidence that the risk is additive, in the case of these that look at atherogenic particles and IL-6 signaling

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.121.023277

MR looking at specific genes that reduce LDL-C through a variety of mechanisms, including some that lower inflammation, show basically identical reduction of risk per LDL-C lowered.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25770315/

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1604304
by fragmede | 2025-10-01 19:11:31+00:00
> Challenging the idea that you need to mask to be successful... How much of the need here is self-imposed?

Autistic people don't come into the world as fully formed adults with irrational ideas about the need to mask. They start off as children and attempt to socialize with other children. The autistic child in a neurotypical world just "being themselves" finds themselves repeatedly kicked out of friend groups and rejected by everyone sometimes including by their parents. This is deeply traumatic to a young child's psyche. Unloved and rejected, a solution appears! I'll just pretend to be like the other kids, even though they're stupid and wrong. They may actually objectively be stupid, but apparently they don't like being told that to their face. Pile on another decade or two of this, and hey, this child, now older and wiser, has autistic masking tendencies that cause them to burn out. Blame the now-adult person with autism all you want to absolve yourself of a need to concern yourself with other people's problems, but that's not actually helpful for those people suffering from autistic burnout.
by brk | 2025-10-01 19:11:35+00:00
This guy businesses.

Big decisions are almost always made on factors that are more relationship based than technical based at the end of the day.

Many highly technical people despise management, MBAs, and anything in that orbit. This is understandable, but leads to a lot of frustration.

If you truly want to guide major decisions you are going to be more effective at the top of the stack than the bottom. Every tier has trade offs, and you are almost always having to sell some part of your soul to truly move up.

Like it or not, most technical companies these days are managed to short terms goals and payouts. The C Suite, investors, etc are all just there for a payday. The actual product or anything else is just a detail in the goal of collecting commas. If you recognize this, you have a better chance of managing your own expectations at whatever level you are in the org. If you spend your time fighting for something that is not truly the goal of the company you will tend to have a bad time overall.
by vharuck | 2025-10-01 19:11:41+00:00
IIRC, the ancient Greek mathematics we learn about today was the university-equivalent mathematics of that era. Common people did not use geometric abstractions to figure out math problems. Before Fibonacci brought algebra to Europe, everyday calculations were done on an abacus. If no abacus was nearby, people emulated one by placing stones in lines on the ground.

Pre-university schools, even today, focus on teaching practical math. Most people can get by just fine without skills in abstract math, theorizing, and proofs (though those skill would make a lot of people much better at whatever they do).
by craftkiller | 2025-10-01 19:11:43+00:00
I already barely touch the cache because I rebuild all my software with zen4 optimizations but this article has convinced me to go all-the-way and disable the upstream nix cache completely. Even if it doesn't save me from a hypothetical cache poisoning attack that may never happen, I'll barely notice the change anyway since I'm already compiling all of my software, and it'll put less strain/cost on the nix cache servers.
by mothballed | 2025-10-01 19:11:56+00:00
Wikipedia link provided says Marshalls are part of the DoJ, which is the executive branch.

>The constitution assumes you can create various offices and departments associated with each of these organ

Definitely a valid point. But the legislative is unique in that the constitution explicitly defines what can exercise the legislative power, and it's defined as consisting of the house and senate. The executive and judiciary has no such restriction.
by rsynnott | 2025-10-01 19:12:14+00:00
(Granted, some of the "help, I'm being censored" crowd really seem to be more about "help, people aren't paying sufficient attention to me"... I remember there was significant outrage on Twitter when someone made an extension available to mass-block the blueticks; mass-blocking is actually a thing on Twitter as well, just not a first-party feature.)
by LarsDu88 | 2025-10-01 19:12:36+00:00
All you have to do is breach the server room, open the server case, insert this raspberry pi memory module into the DIMM slot, and reboot the machine.

I have an even lower cost way of attacking the server. A simply cast iron axe could be used to smash the rack and access the motherboard, after which I would simply rip out the hardware.
by syngrog66 | 2025-10-01 19:12:40+00:00
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by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-01 19:12:44+00:00
Sure, the board is a board of federally appointed individuals. But the board is a subsection of the federal reserve systems. And even the board is kind of odd in it's structure, because the governors have staggered appointments and serve a term.

The whole federal reserve is also privately funded, and doesn't get money from congress.

From the outside it may appear like a regular federal agency, but it is very different from the FTC, DEA, FDA, DOE, etc.
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by KempyKolibri | 2025-10-01 19:13:12+00:00
Where we agree is that oxidation of LDL is part of the atherogenesis pathway.

However, I’m not aware of any evidence showing that higher oxLDL vs higher LDL entails greater risk. IIRC there is a paper that compared oxLDL to ApoB where ApoB was more strongly associated with risk, which doesn’t seem like it would be expected on your hypothesis.

The response to retention hypothesis and the mechanistic evidence supporting it point to oxidation being inevitable once ApoB tagged lipoproteins are trapped in the arterial wall. That being the case, it would be moot whether it entered the wall in an oxidised state or not.

So yes, oxLDL is one of the early stages of atherogenesis, but I’m not aware of any evidence that having LDL pre-oxidised before it’s trapped vs regular LDL increases risk.

I’m always open to new evidence that would change my view, but that’s my understanding of the research landscape at the moment.