MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seesthruya | 2025-10-14 18:14:57+00:00
> HIFU for prostate also is a ripe area for grifters as it is advertised and marketed towards low risk cases that would probably benefit from active surveillance.

Unfortunately, I have extensive first hand experience with practices that do this, and you are 100% correct.

The grift is very insidious. If you scan people over a certain age with prostate MRI, you will find suspicious lesions in a large percentage. And using fusion MRI/US guided biopsies, you will inevitable get cancer cells in the sample.

Many (most?) of these people being treated will die WITH prostate cancer, not FROM prostate cancer.
by mpalmer | 2025-10-14 18:15:30+00:00
> They're treating people who didn't sign the thing differently from people who did sign the thing.

That's not a thing. They can't require different things of different press organizations (arbitrary/capricious), or exclude orgs because of their speech (excluding the AP FOR calling it the Gulf of Mexico)

Courts may find that this specific requirement of signing the policy is lawful, or no. But if everyone has to sign it, it's not arbitrary.
by abraae | 2025-10-14 18:15:53+00:00
I'd like to know more about the world of ADCs. I've used the ADS1115 with success but only at very slow speeds.

On the current project we started with an MCP3208 via SPI. It did the job but only has 8 channels and it's slow (100K samples per sec).

To get something faster we switched to ADS7953. It has 16 channels and runs 10 times faster. It's somewhat more complex to code, and you can only get the highest sample rate if you scan the inputs in a predictable order. But it sure flies.

To me, these chips feel like cars. The ADS7953 is somewhat of a ferrari, whereas the MCP3208 feels like a Toyota, simple to use, unimpressive performance.

I'd love to know the industry background about how these varieties of ADC chips came to be and carved their own space in the world, and how widely they are used (millions? billions?).
by thelastgallon | 2025-10-14 18:16:05+00:00
Even animals (with significantly smaller brains) know how to avoid stationary structures (and even moving things that are trying to eat them!).

Where are ya'll from that people are running into stationary structures all the time? If people have an epidemic of running into stationary things, wouldn't there be a 100x problem of them running into moving things - like cars, trucks, trains, airplanes?

Regardless, why is it okay for people to run into any stationary structure but not okay for people to run into structures that hold solar panels? Or is there some effort to remove ALL stationary structures because of this problem?
by araes | 2025-10-14 18:17:06+00:00
Why is it written BP? These archaeology people / Phys.org really need to cease with that confusing nonsense. BP is supposedly "Before Present" or "Before Physics" modern referring to practical radiocarbon dating with a cutoff date of January 1, 1950. [1] Way too easy to transpose BCE / BC / BP.

[1] WP, Before Present: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Present

It's written like these people were supposedly cave people, yet based on this story's confusing usage, these people were caring for each other after the Spanish and Portuguese colonization of South America up to the 1700's. 4000 BP is the "really Late Holocene" 2050 BCE, 250 BP is 1700 AD. Also, the "late Holocene" goes all the way to Y2K (2000 AD). [2] The Meghalayan is the "the current age or latest geologic age." [3]

[2] WP, Holocene Era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene

[3] WP, Meghalayan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghalayan

Really does make me wonder if these people know what they're doing / writing.
by toredash | 2025-10-14 18:17:26+00:00
Totally agree!

This service is published more as a concept to be built on top of, than a complete solution.

You wouldn't even need IAM rights to read RDS information, you need subnet information. As subnets are zonal, it does not if the service is RDS or Redis/ElastiCache. The IP returned from the hostname lookup, at the time your pod is scheduled, determines which AZ that Pod should (optimally) be deployed to.

Where this solution was created, was in a multi AWS account environment. Doing describe subnets API calls across multiple accounts is a hassle. It was "good enough" to have a static mapping of subnets, as they didn't change frequently.
by estebank | 2025-10-14 18:17:29+00:00
The problem with advanced modes is that it is easy for a chaos monkey to get into them, and at scale that will happen all the time.

A mitigation for advanced modes is to have a big bright red "get me the hell out of this to a normal state" button. Making it easy for a human to get back to the normal steady-state reduces the risk of an advanced mode and gently encourages exploration and experimentation, if it is always trivial to get back to what you're used to. This means that configuration changes can't ever be fully destructive though, which requires quite a bit of design and engineering.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-10-14 18:17:34+00:00
> I said "I know you're a robot and bad at spelling but listen..." And got cut off with a "sorry, my guidelines won't let me help with that request..."

For some reason I like when they do that. My fondest memory was chatting with Copilot (when it was called Sydney), challenging it to a game of rock-paper-scissors, asking it to choose first, and winning every round to its increasing astonishment, until it suspected I was cheating and ended the conversation. So smart and so dumb.
by Veserv | 2025-10-14 18:17:37+00:00
You mean a widely known and documented Tesla promoter: https://www.jalopnik.com/elon-musks-antics-cause-tesla-super...

He held undisclosed stock, made millions of dollars worth of referrals to Tesla, and was owed hundreds of thousands of dollars from those referrals all while reporting positively on Tesla while actively refusing to disclose their clear conflict of interest even when the issue was raised.
by card_zero | 2025-10-14 18:17:39+00:00
Other stuff at Karahan Tepe has faces on:

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

And you can look at similar things from the Taş Tepeler sites in general:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%C5%9F_Tepeler

The T-obelisk things, with their long skinny arms, do seem to represent figures. I wonder why they have to be that stupid oblong shape at all. Dual purpose as roof supports? Or just tradition, tradition causes wacky things. Looking around the various carvings from related sites, it's also evident that they were greatly interested in penises.
by legitster | 2025-10-14 18:18:03+00:00
> In previous administrations, Defense Department officials — including the acerbic Rumsfeld — would hold regular press briefings, often twice a week.

> In the 10 months that the Trump administration has been in office, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given just two briefings.

Even setting aside policy differences, it cannot be understated how lazy the current administration is. A "day at work" is writing sending some text messages and looking at yourself on camera for a few hours. Anyone seen doing actual work is seen as nerd who is making them look bad.

Kicking out journalists is such a stupid move - you have access to tell them anything you want them to hear! But that would require, you know, work. This administration would literally just rather kick them out.

This is America's first "influencer" administration.
by overrun11 | 2025-10-14 18:18:53+00:00
The person you're responding to's argument is incoherent and not worth engaging in. The crux of it is that long term shareholders aren't benefited by buybacks because share price doesn't matter to them because they will never sell. Somehow however, dividends are good for them because they will not reinvest them for some reason? It doesn't make any sense.
by ajcp | 2025-10-14 18:19:48+00:00
-> put Gemini 2.5 at the top of the pack

I have come to the same conclusion having built a workflow that has seen 10 million+ non-standardized PDFs (freight bill of ladings) with running evaluations, as well as against the initial "ground-truth" dataset of 1,000 PDFs.

Humans: ~65% accurate

Gemini 1.5: ~72% accurate

Gemini 2.0: ~88% accurate

Gemini 2.5: ~92%* accurate

*Funny enough we were getting a consistent 2% improvement with 2.5 over 2.0 (90% versus 88%) until as a lark we decided to just copy the same prompt 10x. Squeezed 2% more out of that one :D
by thelastgallon | 2025-10-14 18:20:23+00:00
Probably ya'll need to update the driver's license exam. First, in the written exam, include rules against hitting stationary structures, and quiz them on it before issuing the learner's permit. Then also test for it during the road test. If they can't avoid a stationary structure, perhaps fail them?

In the US, this is not a problem unless you are drunk. When you are driving drunk, you are violating the law anyway.
by maratc | 2025-10-14 18:20:35+00:00
> You are taking issue with the claim that US politics are "fascist" right now.

I never said I take issue with that claim, nor that I agree with it, nor that I disagree with it. I just pointed out that there are two groups of people: those who agree with it and those who don't; for the latter group, reading the article that starts by stating that claim is going to be a waste of their time, as the article is built upon that foundation.

> I don't see the point in bringing up other time periods

You must be then using history the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support rather than illumination.
by koeng | 2025-10-14 18:21:20+00:00
We've known TALENs work for years. For example - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4817924/ - from 2015

I worked on a project many years ago to do RNA import into yeast mitochondria (and then hopefully reverse transcribe there). Didn't work, and a lot of the info on RNA import into the mitochondria is... suspect.

Mitochondria engineering is just actually tough. 30 years and no new protocols for getting DNA in there :(
by florisuga | 2025-10-14 18:21:28+00:00
Wow this is dark. I wish I could say you're wrong. But some version of this is where we seem to be headed. The scariest thing is how many people are not just indifferent to their gradual technological and political indenture but welcome it with open arms. On the tech side, I'm baffled every time I see people at work get excited about some new software feature that is obviously designed to lock them in and control them even more, sold on the most transparently bogus promises of some marginal benefit. No suspicion, no resistance.
by Yizahi | 2025-10-14 18:21:29+00:00
OpenAI are the last people who I would take as a reference, because they are financially motivated to keep the charade of a "thinking" LLM or so called "AI". That's why they are widely using anthropomorphic terms like "hallucination" or "reasoning" or "thinking", while their computer programs can't do neither of those things. LLM companies sometimes even expose their hypocrisy. My favorite example for now is when Antropic showed in their own paper that asking LLM how it "reasoned" through calculating a sum of numbers doesn't match reality at all, it's all generated slop.

This is why it is important that users (us) don't fall into the anthropomorphism trap and call programs what they are are and what they really do. Especially important since general populace seems to be deluded by the OpenAI and Anthropic aggressive lies and believe that LLMs can think.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-10-14 18:22:18+00:00
300k votes in 3 swing states got Trump the electoral college in 2024, separate from him getting the popular vote.

In 2020 Biden won 3 swing states by 200k votes. Trump won in 2016 by 80k swing state votes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45570973

It's the swing states that matter, not the popular vote.
by oooyay | 2025-10-14 18:22:34+00:00
The architecture the author is describing is called SOA and to me is much more optimal. There's variations of SOA that can occur in a monolith or as separate services but at the end of the day it stresses separation at interfaces that most people like microservices for. Microservices are really only architecturally necessary if certain parts of your application have outlier performance characteristics where it wouldn't make sense to scale the whole thing for any number of reasons (eg: database connection pooling or some other metric).

As for why microservices got so popular I think the answer lies in writing. The more a pattern is written on the more likely it is to be repeated and modeled.

Finally, the author also goes in after cloud usage in general. We're a decade and a half away from the first of these convergences. I was a systems engineer in those days and I remember how terrible they were. Software engineers requested a virtual machine, a pool of network resources, firewall rules, etc and eventually they got what they needed. The primary motivator of the cloud wasn't scale per se, to me it was that now a competent developer has an API to request those things on. They're operating on machine time instead of human time.

Some people extrapolate the same argument above and replace cloud with virtual machine and containers, "Why do I need containers when I can simply operate this load balancer, some VMs on an autoscaling group, and a managed database?!" Again, we quickly forgot that for many software engineer immersing themselves in image pipelines, operating systems maintenance, and networking details bogs them down in releasing the thing they really care about - the thing that logically gets them paid. Containers, again, traded that complexity to another team that solves it once for many people and lets software engineers live a relatively less complex life from their perspective.

There's an old adage I used to hear in the Marines that goes something like, "If you're not in the infantry then you're serving it. If you aren't doing that then you should question exactly what it is that you do here." The same can be said for software and those outside of product - we end up living to serve those that are building more closely on the product itself.

That's how I contextualize this history/evolution anyway.
by seanhunter | 2025-10-14 18:23:13+00:00
My understanding is that lactose tolerance is a particularly interesting case because lactose tolerance is in fact the mutation and lactose intolerance is the "default". It's just that for historical reasons lactose tolerance obviously conferred an advantage in Europe in particular which is why the mutation persisted. That's why around 40% of the global population are lactose tolerant and intolerance is the global norm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence
by nicolasp | 2025-10-14 18:23:26+00:00
Key features include:

* Zero-overhead profiling: Attach to any running Python process without affecting its performance

* No code modification required: Profile existing applications without restart

* Real-time statistics: Monitor sampling quality during data collection

* Multiple output formats: Generate both detailed statistics and flamegraph data

* Thread-aware profiling: Option to profile all threads or just the main thread
by Xss3 | 2025-10-14 18:23:28+00:00
Define most places? I know i dont get one (uk) and neither does my german friend or texan friend.

I've only ever seen one despite having used 4 different ISPs for gigabit, and that one was special. It was in an apartment i rented in a converted office tower, line was done via a b2b provider then included in the rent.
by kipchak | 2025-10-14 18:23:29+00:00
Arguably this boom bust cycle is more of a intentional feature than a bug. Thanks to the cycle private actors are able and to capture the benefits of the boom, but when the bill is due the downside falls on the general public or taxpayers at large, basically Ersatz Capitalism or Lemon Socialism. 08 is the clearest example but they're all generally fueled by credit cycles creating exuberance.

There's also a element of lost collective memory via generational change providing a new supply of optimists.
by fragmede | 2025-10-14 18:23:32+00:00
We don't know the state of the multiple drivers to cause these posts, or for the drivers to run into the corresponding posts, but they're a) in the US (Atlanta, Oakland, and Brookfield, CT) and b) it sounds like it's happened more than a few times.

https://old.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/myfroy/today_the_14th...

https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/5da1w1/bes...

https://i95rock.com/how-to-avoid-a-car-crash-as-you-approach...
by Noaidi | 2025-10-14 18:23:58+00:00
I applaud Fastmail for this move. The average internet user is not you or me on HN and they have no idea what Thunderbird is. So why not make it easier for people to switch from the Big Thee email accounts that invade your privacy to Fastmail? Most people do not see apps as things that do multiple things (Facebook app for Facebook, Gmail app for Gmail, etc..) so that is what they understand. So give them a Fastmail app for Fastmail even on the desktop, which provides more usefulness that the web version. I say yay.
by vidarh | 2025-10-14 18:24:30+00:00
That was barely true a decade ago. It's total nonsense today when it's trivial to ensure all your servers have IPMI or similar and it cann all be automated apart from the couple-of-times a year component swap outs.

But it's also the wrong comparison: there's rarely a reason to go on premises, and need to take responsibility for the hardware yourself - renting bare metal servers is usually the sweet spot and means someone else does the annoying bits for you but you still have the simplicity and lower cost.

As someone contracted to manage systems for people, I consistently make more money from people who overengineer their cloud setups than from people with bare metal servers. It tends to require far more maintenance to keep an AWS setup same, secure, and not bankrupting you.
by nobody9999 | 2025-10-14 18:24:41+00:00
>I suspect that the officers they were talking to were actually walking a highly political tightrope in hopes of advancing their own careers.

Upon what evidence do you base your suspicions?

I'd note that Tom Bowman (the author of TFA) has been publishing stories based upon such details for nearly three decades.

Can you point to any stories that he published, based on such information from Pentagon-based military personnel, that turned out not to be factual?

If so, please share that information. We'd all like to know.
by outcoldman | 2025-10-14 18:24:58+00:00
> macOS 26.0 is continuing to appear more often with 28.61% as of end of September 2025. In our dataset, it had a spike to almost 40% in the middle of September, but came back a bit after that.

Compare to macOS 15 which exactly one year ago had 50% of the market share.

Obviously, it is just a subset. But the drop from 40 to 30% is pretty significant even for that subset. (Based on https://telemetrydeck.com/platforms/swift/ - 6,280 apps use it, but that includes macOS and iOS apps)

PS. I am a macOS indie app developer, but I personally do not use TelemetryDeck and I am not in any way related to them. Just found this data being really interesting, so decided to share.
by furyofantares | 2025-10-14 18:25:30+00:00
> The "_ [0]byte" trick has no base in my knowledge. For the author's specified example, [1024]float64 will be always allocated on one whole page, aka, always 64-byte aligned.

You're right - I read the results I had wrong on that one. That one is slower, not faster, on both my M2 and on x86 machine.
by EliRivers | 2025-10-14 18:25:58+00:00
Changing anything was a dangerous thing to do, because you might cause jobs that have known and reliable setups

I am reminded of some of the very finest semiconductor plants. Where parts could in theory be swapped out and replaced, but to do so would break everything. Mirrors aligned to sub-nanometre precision. Lasers and optics where picoseconds matter. Where parts are effectively custom-tuned for this machine only, allied with all these other parts also custom-tuned for this machine only. The US has a challenge on its hands to develop within the US everything and everyone needed to simply getting these systems actually working.
by kwindla | 2025-10-14 18:26:20+00:00
I 100% agree with Sean that the computer is an exploration machine. There are lots of net positive things for kids (and non-kids) that LLMs make possible. Just like there were lots of net positive things that an Internet connection makes possible.

Of course there are things technologies can do that are bad. For kids. For adults. For societies. But I build this kind of voice+LLM stuff, too, and have a kid, and the exploration, play, and learning opportunities here are really, really amazing.

For example, we are within reach of giving every child in the world a personalized, infinitely patient tutor that can cover any subject at the right level for that child. This doesn't replace classroom teachers. It augments what you can do in school, and what kids will be able to do outside of school hours.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-14 18:26:30+00:00
Okay I misread you then, but you're saying the 2000 Accord sedan only has one weight, while the Civic has a several percent range? If that's right then do we know which Civic trim is equivalent to the Accord?

If we know that trim is worth at least 6%, and we don't know how to align the cars, then the confidence interval around "1% to 7%" extends far enough to overlap some negative percents.
by toredash | 2025-10-14 18:26:51+00:00
As it stands now, it doesn't. Unless you modify the Kyverno Policy to be of a background scanning.

I would create a similar policy where Kyverno at intervals would check the Deployment spec to see if the endpoint is changed, and alter the affinity rules. It would then be a traditional update of the Deployment spec to reflect the desire to run in another AZ, if that made sense?