MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oefrha | 2026-01-11 07:21:35+00:00
If this reporting is accurate then it certainly paints a picture of cult-like behavior. Personal charisma, empathetic and caring, "strangely conspiratorial" behavior during appointments cementing an us (one lone doctor and helpless patients) against them (wealthy and powerful people) narrative, etc. are very effective on distressed people. On top of that it seems that apart from being tested over and over again and being told they have a "mystery illness", the patients aren't really treated whatsoever? Whether there's a true cluster disease or not, evidence seems to suggest that he's just adding a lot of totally non-mysterious cases to his cluster. Evading pretty mundane questions like how many of his cluster cases actually show elevated levels of environmental toxins just adds to the suspicious signs. Plus

> The couple waited eight months to get important test results from Marrero, Strickland said, as April's condition worsened. Soon Strickland could no longer manage her care. But to get her a place in assisted living he needed a letter of support from Marrero. "I think I waited four months for that letter," Strickland recalled. "I kept phoning and asking."

just sounds like medical malpractice. You shouldn't keep five hundred patients hanging if you can't handle five hundred. Makes all the talk about being empathetic and caring sound like bullshit. I feel bad for those who are probably misdiagnosed but refuse to get a second opinion thanks to the successful mental subjugation.
by enceladus06 | 2026-01-11 07:22:13+00:00
Right, but what is causing the functional neurological disorder? Speaking as someone who has had alot of of chronic pain [CPPS] there is some sort of neuro issue going on but we don't know what it is. But "dementia, weight loss, unsteadiness, jerking movements and facial twitches" does seem like more than just neuro?
by LeChuck | 2026-01-11 07:22:34+00:00
Indeed. When is was remodeling my house, I bought an old van for €2000,- (the successor to the C15, actually) *

I had no compunction to fill it with debris, earth, sand etc. but that’s not something your European tradesman does. He uses a separate trailer.

* https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/2005_Cit...
by zarzavat | 2026-01-11 07:22:38+00:00
> I'm sure everyone has worked on sites where you're scared to make CSS file edits because the unpredictable ripple of changes might break unrelated pages.

CSS gives you multiple tools to solve this problem, if you don't use any of them then it's not really CSS's fault.

> Styling code near your semantic HTML tags doesn't get in the way

It does. When I'm working on functionality I don't want to see styles and vice versa. It adds a layer of noise that is not relevant.

If I'm making e.g. a search dropdown, I don't need to see any information about its cosmetic appearance. I do want to see information about how it functions.

Especially the other way around: if I'm styling the search dropdown I don't want to have to track down every JSX element in every sub-component. That's super tedious. All I need to know when I'm styling is the overall structure of the final element tree not of the vdom tree which could be considerably more complex.

> I've never seen a complex website redesign that didn't involve almost gutting the HTML either

Perhaps for a landing page. For a content-based website or web app you often want to adjust the design without touching your components.
by XorNot | 2026-01-11 07:23:30+00:00
> However, one could very well imagine an infectious disease, with or without a dermatological component, causing delusional parasitosis.

Except what's more likely is that it's just psychological - which doesn't mean it doesn't have physiological treatments, it's just going to be for the psyche issue though.

Put it another way: it's well recognized eating disorders exist. But they're psychological disorders: they respond to psychological interventions and treatments, and are curable, but can also "spread" in viral like ways - i.e. an eating disorder can be induced by environmental (peer group) factors.

We don't generally posit that a virus spreads eating disorders, nor has any evidence of one been identified. And so in the same way, there's no reason to think Morgellons should have any underlying pathological cause that's any different, since none has been identified but we are aware of a number of psychological self-harm disorders (which can be amplified or spread sociologically but also just be unusual presentations of other conditions).
by culi | 2026-01-11 07:24:30+00:00
Yeah both glyphosate.

But the doctor in the OP explicitly pointed out that they had increased levels of glyphosate in their blood:

> He also warned that some patients' blood work showed elevated levels for compounds found in herbicides such as glyphosate, and said more testing should be done to rule out environmental toxins, including the neurotoxin BMAA, which is produced by blue-green algae.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-n...

Just because glyphosate is everywhere doesn't mean it can't be concentrated in a particular place.

To be clear I'm not taking a stand for the glyphosate argument at all. I just don't think your line of reasoning is a fair counterargument in this case
by maverickeye | 2026-01-11 07:26:04+00:00
We’ve been standardizing .NET practices across multiple teams and kept running into the same issues: inconsistent conventions, hard-to-review code, and “style debates” that slow delivery.

This repo captures the coding guidelines we actually use in practice: focused on readability, maintainability, and avoiding common .NET foot-guns.

It’s intentionally opinionated but grounded in real-world usage.
Feedback and counter-examples welcome.
by Animats | 2026-01-11 07:26:39+00:00
Would that be this item? [1] The product description and SKU match.

It's not clear who "FS" is. A reseller? A manufacturer? They seem to be in Singapore. There's no excuse for the external plastic sheath disintegrating. They must have formulated the plastic wrong. The terms specify a 30 day warranty.

Here's a catalog of real mil-spec fiber optic cables.[2] This is overkill for home applications; you put these in a fighter jet.

In between are Telecom Industry Association compliant fiber optic cables. That's what telcos use. There are US manufacturers with real plants and addresses.

[1] https://www.fs.com/products/70220.html

[2] https://www.glenair.com/catalogs/fiber-optics.pdf
by maverickeye | 2026-01-11 07:28:17+00:00
This is a short, opinionated write-up on enterprise architecture based on practical experience rather than frameworks or vendor material.

It focuses on where EA tends to fail in practice, what actually creates leverage, and how architecture shows up in day-to-day decisions.

It’s intentionally concise and evolving, more field notes than a formal guide.

Posting to see what resonates (or doesn’t) with others doing similar work.
by galaxyLogic | 2026-01-11 07:28:32+00:00
Fascists are the ones who want to manipulate other people to their Fuhrer's will. To do that they must manipulate language. Whereas "socialists" are about the common good, which can only happen through peaceful co-existence, which can only happen though democracy.

Depends of course on which definition of "socialism" you use. Didn't Hitler call his movement socialism as well? But I always associated "socialism" with "being social", which means taking into account other people's benefit as well, instead of trying to overpower them with propaganda and double-speak (and of course, violence).

If the goal is unlimited power to your party, to your leader, it would only make sense to lie to people as much as you can, to mislead them. To double-speak to them. If your goal is peaceful co-existence, then not so much.

And where there's smoke there is fire. Where there's Double-Speak, fascism is not far away.

Ironically Double-Speak succeeds because people are social beings, they really WANT to agree with others.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-11 07:28:50+00:00
I occasionally see people complaining about long TypeScript compile times where a small code base can take multiple minutes (possibly 10 minutes). I think to myself WTF, because large code bases should take no more than 20 seconds on ancient hardware.

On another note I recently wrote this large single page app that is just a collection of functions organized by page sections as a collection of functions according to a nearly flat typescript interface. It’s stupid simple to follow in the code and loads as fast as an eighth of a second. Of course that didn’t stop HN users from crying like children for avoiding use of their favorite framework.
by chaboud | 2026-01-11 07:29:11+00:00
BMW and Toyota have famously used bio-derived insulation reported to be like catnip for rodents.

The bio-oil plasticizers also migrate out more quickly in thermal cycling than the old dead dinosaurs approach. Hilariously, when I asked my mechanic about getting an M5, he laughed and explained that the radiator components are known to turn brittle and crack after 5-6 years because of this.

(I don't envy automotive folks. The stuff they have to deal with is next level.)
by hxorr | 2026-01-11 07:30:06+00:00
This is still a problem. There are a lot of, eg, realtek chipsets that don't work well or simply don't work on Linux.

Another issue is they advertise "Linux support," which actually translates to: minimally working driver source available for very out-of-date kernel. Good luck if you want to rely on upstreamed drivers or even run a recent kernel.
by willmarch | 2026-01-11 07:30:32+00:00
It’s revealing that you need that little morality-play false dilemma to avoid the actual topic.

You’ve used “mentally ill” the way other people use citations: as a substitute for substance. It doesn’t make you the adult in the room, it just makes you look like someone who can’t defend a position without trying to pathologize disagreement.

Here’s one fact you can’t hand-wave away: DHS/USCIS is proposing to expand biometrics collection (including DNA) to people merely “associated with” an immigration benefit request (explicitly including petitioners/sponsors/signatories, i.e., often U.S. citizens) regardless of age.

So, you can either argue why sweeping citizens into government biometric/DNA collection for paperwork is normal and lawful, or you can keep doing the “everyone who disagrees with me is unstable” routine. One of those is an argument; the other is a tell.
by devmor | 2026-01-11 07:31:17+00:00
This is such a frustrating situation to read about, because it is clear that Dr. Marrero is out of his depth, but it’s also clear that whatever this cluster is - real or imagined - was horribly mismanaged by the health officials in charge.

The fact that the investigation was disbanded simply because the patients had symptoms that can be tied to existing diseases is utterly asinine. As if there’s no reason to investigate why so many people in such a small area have similar conditions, or even to investigate whether or not the demographics of the supposed cluster are out of the ordinary in the first place. Even if there was no related cause at all, such an investigation could be used to determine that Dr. Marrero was the cause of a problem and stop him from doing harm. But instead the result was that no satisfactory conclusion was reached for the majority of people, and the patients continue to suffer.

These people need help and they are being failed by their doctors, their administrative officials and their representatives all at the same time.
by Sevrene | 2026-01-11 07:32:51+00:00
It feels like now you're saying it's not because it's parliament's nature to be like this, but rather these other factors that occure within parliaments and other systems?

Can't you unelect the MPs? Doesn't the paper thin margins increase those odds? Honestly, it doesn't sound like the issue is a parliamentry system, but rather people either aren't aware of the issues (media), or have decided (wrongly or rightly) not to care. Either way I still don't get how that's the parliamentry nature as much as it's the people's. That's kind of the point of these systems.

I don't know enough about Candaian Punjabi dispora to comment about the other stuff.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-11 07:33:10+00:00
Not entirely correct. OBD only mandates emissions information to be made available in a standardized way.

There are plenty of proprietary codes that might set a malfunction light and not show up on an OBD reader, or not be interpreted by it.

(there are tools that reverse-engineer the proprietary protocols that can show those codes, but they aren't $20 - more like $200 and up)

I really don't see why you're defending hiding information. Even for someone who doesn't want to mess around and would just take it to a dealer, making the information available without the need for a code reader will not hurt in any way.
by dhruv3006 | 2026-01-11 07:33:27+00:00
"Also note that the python visualizer tool has been basically written by vibe-coding. I know more about analog filters -- and that's not saying much -- than I do about python. It started out as my typical "google and do the monkey-see-monkey-do" kind of programming, but then I cut out the middle-man -- me -- and just used Google Antigravity to do the audio sample visualizer."
by brushyolaf | 2026-01-11 07:33:34+00:00
The description, prompt settings and website look like an extremely early prototype - nothing I would spend 19$ on.
If you want people to have an idea about output quality, you should provide reading samples. I personally hate the idea of seeing AI generated books in stores and I suspect publishers will reject them.
But there is a market of people ordering personalized cups, tshirts, puzzles and mousepads, so you could try to tailor the marketing to this customer group.
by defrost | 2026-01-11 07:34:05+00:00
If you've not seen it Kuru: The Science and The Sorcery is an interesting documentary of Mike Alpers time in PNG

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJrD1JcmUiE

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Alpers

* https://stmarkscollege.com.au/news/remembering-professor-mic...

As a small person in the 1960s / 1970s I'd go along with my aunts on supply runs to PNG for him and others, I met his family in Perth in the early 1980s
by culi | 2026-01-11 07:34:25+00:00
> The committee and the New Brunswick government also cast doubt on the work of neurologist Alier Marrero, who was initially referred dozens of cases by baffled doctors in the region, and subsequently identified more cases. The doctor has since become a fierce advocate for patients he feels have been neglected by the province.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/03/canada...

It seems to me that it's doctors reaching out to Marrero. It also seems odd that [these|this] illness(es) disproportionately affected young people.

Another article I just read stated Marrero reached out to get second opinions but was blocked.

> He claims he made arrangements in 2020-21 for "subject-matter experts" to travel to New Brunswick to evaluate patients, but the province "chose not to avail itself of this invaluable expertise."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-n...
by matsemann | 2026-01-11 07:34:26+00:00
Some questions I'm stuck with:

* are all the patients really sick or as sick as the symptoms he documents, or is it some kind of Munchausen induced or lied about by the doctor?

* Or are they all sick, they're just not getting the help they need because he wants to have a mystery disease?

* If they're all sick, is it then a higher prevalence than expected, so even if there is no mystery disease there is still something environmental or similar that should've been explored? Aka, is there a cluster, it's just a known disease?
by vbernat | 2026-01-11 07:35:15+00:00
From the photos, it does not look like the fibers themselves are damaged. You should check the error rate on both sides. If it is 0, the not optimal values of your speedtest are not related to your fiber. If it is not 0, the more likely issues are in order: connectors to clean (buy a cleaning pen), bend radius somewhere, faulty optics, then the fiber. You can also pay a professional to run an OTDR on your fiber. It would show where the fiber is degraded.
by ggm | 2026-01-11 07:35:33+00:00
Under packetloss my assumption is text is king, but I wonder if forward error correcting audio and video is actually better in some ways?

Media is information rich. Maybe we're beyond a samzdat moment and the value in comms is contextual immediacy of live feeds, text can squeeze alongside.

Long ago, broadcast quality TV was shipped as slow feed. Maybe a tiktok generation goes back there: use a phone on the street (probably surreptitiously) do post production and upload asynchronously on 30% packetloss or worse for redistribution.
by matwood | 2026-01-11 07:35:36+00:00
Did you get an EKG? Do you have it documented somewhere this issue randomly occurring is your 'normal', that's easy to share if you have an actual cardiac event? The reason I ask is I have a sternum pectus, so my EKGs can be odd. My cardio said I'm fine, but I should keep my odd EKG on my phone to show any doctors if I have an actual cardio event. Otherwise they may end up chasing something that isn't the issue.
by csomar | 2026-01-11 07:35:42+00:00
If anyone is wondering what the test results look like, here is an example from my site: https://pub-1fbd8591bf7a40cea36fa130fb2ba6bc.r2.dev/playwrig...

I have these running in a CI/CD process, compare to previous commit. Results uploaded to R2. Few problems:

- Playwright regularly fails by timeout. This is flaky and go figure out what went wrong.

- You can do a matrix test (chrome/firefox/etc.) (mobile/tablet/etc.) but the problem is, you'll need to run these tests in parallel. The bare functional minimum is 16Gb vps with 4vcpu. For my test suite, it already take 20 minutes. If you want a larger matrix and have more pages, you'll be looking at a 64Gb with a dozen or so vpcus. That's hundreds of dollars a month...

- If you have an animation, it's a struggle to filter it out.

- From my knowledge, there is no "version slider" where you can go commit by commit and see how things changed.

- Playwright takes images and videos. These consumes a lot of data. Like Gbs of data for a few commits.

- Any of the managed solutions (like BrowserStack) costs hundreds of dollars.

Overall, I think it's great though a bit cumbersome to setup everything to work flawlessly and prevent from breaking every now and then. You can also do full flows (sigup-signin-do action-etc.. -> success/failure) which can test more than UI.
by heddycrow | 2026-01-11 07:36:45+00:00
That's a fair response. I think I was trying to make a point which may be a bit more subtle than my questions suggest when taken at face value.

I'll attempt to explain.

From reading the article, I presume that at some point, all the people who think of code as clay will migrate out of this profession and set up shop in some mall somewhere helping married people renew their ties by making code artifacts by hand. As the article suggests, code (for them) will go the way that clay has went.

Also per the article, AI will be making some other portion of the low-hanging fruit code which business people can't justify hiring humans for.

And then perhaps there will be me and other people like me getting paid to work on things which require an understanding that code is quite unlike any medium humanity has seen before.

For the later group, code is not for everyone, it's beyond what AI can produce by itself, it's not a fetish, it's not cool, it's not fun, and it's one of the only ways to do the things we can do with it.

I sometimes think I'm addressing that later group of people when I type into this box, but maybe that's a bit naive of me.

It could have been safer for me to state that I find it unwise to make these analogies without being careful about the dangers in doing so.
by culi | 2026-01-11 07:37:04+00:00
Well it depends if you believe the report or the doctor:

> In an October 2023 email exchange with another PHAC member, Coulthart, who served as the federal lead in the 2021 investigation into the New Brunswick illness, said he had been “essentially cut off” from any involvement in the issue, adding he believed the reason was political.

> Coulthart, a veteran scientist who currently heads Canada’s Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System, did not respond to a request for comment by the Guardian. But in the leaked email, he wrote that he believes an “environmental exposure – or a combination of exposures – is triggering and/or accelerating a variety of neurodegenerative syndromes” with people seemingly susceptible to different protein-misfolding ailments, including Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.

> Coulthart argues this phenomenon does not easily fit within “shallow paradigms” of diagnostic pathology and the complexity of the issue has given politicians a “loophole” to conclude “nothing coherent” is going on.

> Coulthart’s email emerged more than a year after Marrero pleaded with the Canadian government to carry out environmental testing he believed would show the involvement of glyphosate.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/03/canada...
by chaboud | 2026-01-11 07:40:56+00:00
Next time you're vibe coding something, have the system generate a mermaid diagram to show its understanding. Though visual generation can be hard for models, structure/topology in formats like mermaid is pretty gettable.

I've even found sonnet and opus to be quite capable of generating json describing nodes and edges. I had them generate directed acyclic processing graphs for a GUI LLM data flow editor that I built (also with Claude - https://nodecul.es/ if curious)
by ggm | 2026-01-11 07:40:59+00:00
Live cell imaging is fascinating. I grew up on b&w films of mitosis, and now people can visualise events at the single protein level.

Cells are also fascinating. It pays not to think of them as wet bags of fluid: wet and dry don't seem good terms to me for things at this scale. Van der waals forces are everywhere in a cell. Polar and non polar compounds, which wraps which depending.
by culi | 2026-01-11 07:41:20+00:00
It was a number of doctors that were baffled by their patients that referred them to Marrero. Besdies, he's not the only one convinced there's an environmental factor at play:

> In an October 2023 email exchange with another PHAC member, Coulthart, who served as the federal lead in the 2021 investigation into the New Brunswick illness, said he had been “essentially cut off” from any involvement in the issue, adding he believed the reason was political.

> Coulthart, a veteran scientist who currently heads Canada’s Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System, did not respond to a request for comment by the Guardian. But in the leaked email, he wrote that he believes an “environmental exposure – or a combination of exposures – is triggering and/or accelerating a variety of neurodegenerative syndromes” with people seemingly susceptible to different protein-misfolding ailments, including Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.

> Coulthart argues this phenomenon does not easily fit within “shallow paradigms” of diagnostic pathology and the complexity of the issue has given politicians a “loophole” to conclude “nothing coherent” is going on.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/03/canada...
by dmantis | 2026-01-11 07:42:18+00:00
But it doesn't make Signal bad. If Americans blindly process our messages without knowing what's inside, it's worse than not depending on them, but better than showing your private correspondence to somebody.

At least we don't seem to have things which are close by UX and security at the same time.

Simplex is fine, but still feels a bit raw.

Everything else is either untrustworthy because of the closed code or no e2e encryption or custom encryption schemes (WhatsApp, Telegram, any Asian messenger) or unusable from UX perspective (Tox, Matrix).