MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nuc1e0n | 2026-01-25 23:36:30+00:00
I wouldn't go that far. Other, less invasive treatments should still be available IMHO, but there should remain an element of personal accountability. Gene editing is a very powerful tool, and messing with complex systems in powerful ways that we don't fully understand could be a recipe for many troubles down the line. I think the use of gene editing should be very surgically applied to obviously detrimental mutations, not for some scatter gun like approach.

What if the body raising cholesterol levels serves some purpose we aren't yet aware of? I've heard there's some evidence that medication to reduce blood pressure has a potential link to the onset of Parkinson's disease. Maybe messing with blood pressure in that way without addressing underlying causes has been a mistake, and messing with cholesterol levels without addressing underlying causes could also be.
by tamimio | 2026-01-25 23:36:50+00:00
It should be a standard practice to have a unique email and password for every service you use out there, plus the usual like 2FA. I have been doing this for years and never had any issue, but also you can tell if the service got compromised even if they never announced it. For example, I have an account on a service called Shakepay, and recently I have been getting a lot of phishing attempts on that specific unique email that's never been used anywhere else. I can tell for certain that their email database got leaked/they sold it.
by WickyNilliams | 2026-01-25 23:37:57+00:00
No I don't think so. Broadly they hitched their cart to a genocidal madman. Their hubris convinced them they could maintain a steer on its direction.

The centrists ultimately lost when the Nazis banned other political parties. If they were not murdered first. And the Nazis took control of the German workforce, imposed harsh taxation on businesses, central planning, nationalization etc.

I'm sure the uneasy alliance worked well for a a little while though!
by fragmede | 2026-01-25 23:39:26+00:00
A phone without SIM can still be used to call emergency services (911/999/0118999 8819991197253). The situation we're discussing though is an attack by an extremely-APT. You really think not having the SIM card is going to do anything? If the cell phone hardware is powered up, it's available. All the APT has to do is have put their code into the baseband at some point, maybe at the Volvo factory when the car was programmed, and get the cooperation of a cell-phone tower, or use a Stingray to report where the car is when in range.
by novok | 2026-01-25 23:40:00+00:00
You would need to see the spectra of the various LEDs available and create a mix along with phosphor mixes. The closest thing is something like a BLAIR-CG light engine from aputure where they have something like 9 different colors of LEDs that mix together, but they don't put any infrared leds in them because they are for movies and they don't put any UVB or proper UVA leds. But there are infrared, UVA & UVB LEDs that you could apply the same kind of engineering principle to make something that closely follows the sun spectra.

No, you can't buy them as bulbs. The closest thing is those red light therapy panels that include them.
by tavavex | 2026-01-25 23:40:22+00:00
It is a difficult issue. For the longest time, the status quo-favoring position of not complaining about anything divisive too much worked well because the status quo had been relatively unchanging - most people grew up with it so everyone took it for granted, and even most types of pushback was far more reserved than what we see today.

But now that the status quo of Western countries had begun rapidly shifting into something completely different, the other side of that initial ruling is starting to bear fruit. I really think that at this point they should revisit this policy - not to abandon moderation, but make amends that try to distance this place from the current political establishment. What was yesterday's implicit favoring of the boring consensus is now a defined position that's supportive of whatever the current powers do. But, being more cynical, given how close HN is to Y Combinator, I'm not sure if that option is on the table.
by zb3 | 2026-01-25 23:40:48+00:00
Note that Google also forces this indirectly via their "certification" - if the device doesn't have unremovable AVB (requires qualcomm secure boot fuse to be blown) then it's not even allowed to say the device runs Android.. if you see "Android™" then it means secure boot is set up and you don't have the keys, you can't set up your own, so you don't really own the SoC you paid for..
by jacquesm | 2026-01-25 23:40:50+00:00
True, but DJI drones are comparably well behaved (and boring) compared to a homebrew FPV. Even there you have various stabilization modes, including alt-hold, pos-hold and so on. In full acro mode they're a handful, that's for sure, but you don't have to fly like that, just fly in stabilized until you get the hang of that and want to live more dangerously.
by phil21 | 2026-01-25 23:41:21+00:00
By “freebies” I meant a chargeback with few questions asked. As in they trust my side of the story and immediately refund the money. I’ve done it maybe three times in my life for exceptional circumstances where vendors either made a billing mistake they refused to correct, or engaged in outright fraud.

Other folks might have just as legitimate reasons to make a chargeback, but due to a low internal “customer value score” they will need to jump through a bunch of hoops a more “valuable” customer would not for the exact same situation.

I tend to agree chargebacks are taken advantage of far more than they should be - but my point is that the chargeback experience is going to vary drastically by demographic.

I was originally interested in Bitcoin 15 years ago because of the fraudulent chargeback problem. It’s interesting how times have slowly changed and chargebacks are starting to shift towards a benefit for the privileged due to the sheer amount of abuse from so many people. Basically we decided to tie them to a hidden credit score.
by trhway | 2026-01-25 23:42:17+00:00
CPU cache is understandably SRAM.

>The whole point of putting memory close is to increase performance and bandwidth, and DRAM is fundamentally latent.

When the access patterns are well established and understood, like in the case of transformers, you can mitigate latency by prefetch (we can even have very beefed up prefetch pipeline knowing that we target transformers), while putting memory on the same chip gives you huge number of data lines thus resulting in huge bandwidth.
by listenallyall | 2026-01-25 23:42:50+00:00
C'mon buddy, you joined a near 20-year-old company that has never defined its own raison d'etre (or didn't stick to it), never really found a niche in the marketplace, never been particularly profitable, has been passed around to multiple owners, never had any reputation for any brilliant or highly-innovative engineering (except perhaps overcoming some now-obsolete, 2004-era video limitations), and whose stock price was 70-80% below its IPO price.

Were you actually expecting no technical debt, a clear mission statement, no internal dysfunction, no bored/confused/exhausted/dont-give-a-shit coworkers, no executive carousel, and no further ownership changes?

This story reads a bit like buying an old, beat-up, rusted-out car from a stranger on the side of the road, then being surprised it doesn't run smoothly.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-25 23:43:08+00:00
Ad networks have every incentive to lie to consumers to get a sale. If the strength of the economy is measured in total sales, that's great. If the strength of the economy is measured by consumer satisfaction, not so much.

An ideal ad network would not show you a product ideal for you, but a misleading ad for the lowest-cost product you'll buy for the most expensive price, with 95% of the difference pocketed by the ad network.
by Fnoord | 2026-01-25 23:43:20+00:00
Sing it!

As for the software. I would not want a camera on 24/7 (on any device, a compromise being my doorbell, which isn't cloud connected). It'd defeat the small LED which informs you it is on (since it is always-on), and if the machine is compromised this is a method to receive personal data.

Actually, I'd prefer a hardware killswitch on things like camera and microphone.
by johnny22 | 2026-01-25 23:43:25+00:00
> Assuming critics are just reflexively resistant is a convenient way to avoid asking whether the criticism has merit. "They'd get it if they were more curious" is unfalsifiable.

I don't know if it can be proven or whatever, but I do know it has changed me.

There have been many events where I thought "hey, why is everybody whining about X thing?". "things are fine the way they are". Until I read more about it and changed my mind.

If it was purely online, I wouldn't take it so seriously.

So whether it can proven empirically or not, I know it changed me.
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2026-01-25 23:43:30+00:00
> the most disturbing part to me is how quickly the Trump administration will just declare these people as "terrorists" before any kind of investigation has happened

Imperial boomerang. After enabling Israel/IDF which routinely just shoots unarmed people and officials on all levels simply justify it with "Terrorists.", and also routinely denies ambulance access to victims shots, it was only a matter of time until such and similar tactics come back home. Because politicians back home saw that the world was okay with it, so why not do it home.

People are supposed to defend their rights from far away, so that they don't have to defend them uncomfortably close when it's too late to avoid many casualties.
by bucket_ | 2026-01-25 23:44:36+00:00
A database breach wouldn't compromise your files because we never store the secrets needed to access them.

When you start an upload, the API generates a unique bID and secret, then provides a short-lived presigned URL. Your file transfers directly from your terminal to S3—it never passes through our servers. Once the upload completes, the bID and secret are returned to your CLI.

The secret is immediately discarded by our backend. Only its cryptographic hash is stored in our database.
by sonofhans | 2026-01-25 23:45:28+00:00
More humans. Seriously. Keep more humans in the loop. Everything else does and will fail. Humans add resilience to systems; demand and complexity reduce resilience.

You’re describing the infrastructure of a large system — it’s a custom-built machine designed to serve a custom purpose. There are no examples in the world of things like that working without a lot of human intervention.

This is compounded, as you say, by increasing demands placed on the system: “Now it must react to AIs committing code,” or “Our customer base is growing but your Ops budget is decreasing.” This means the system needs more humans, not fewer.
by newyankee | 2026-01-25 23:45:47+00:00
It is not broad political comment. If you read the original text and sunnahs as well as follow the interpretations of a lot of scholars like Zakir Naik and others that are unapologetic the truth that is conveniently hidden in discussions easily comes out.

The entirety of the world does not run on Western neoliberal lens and every region has had its history and challenges and fights that due to cognitive limits during discussion are never given their legitimate space.

This can apply to grooming gangs in UK, the conditions of minorities in middle east (Yazidis or others)

An individual who might have an issue with a broad ideology that considers all non believers as subhuman to be converted, killed or brought into the said ideology by hook or crook can be motivated with their own experiences.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-25 23:45:50+00:00
You could just lock the seed to get "deterministic" behaviour, but you are missing the point of programming languages completely. Programming languages are a set of rules that ~guarantee predictable behaviour down to the bit level. If you were to try to recreate that with LLMs, you run into two problems: one, your LLM is now a programming language where you have to put exact specific inputs in to get the correct outputs, except you don't have a specification for the inputs and you don't know what the correct outputs even look like because you aren't a software engineer. Two, even with a locked seed, the LLM is still going to output different code based on the exact order of letters in your prompt and any change in that will change the output. Compilers can execute a variety of optimizations on your code that change the output, but in the end they are still bound to hard rules and you can learn the rules when you get output that does not match what your expectations were from the input. And if there is a bug in the execution of the rules by the compiler, you can fix it; that is not possible with an LLM.

This talk about replacing software engineering by people who have no idea what software engineering is gets unbelievably tedious. The advent of Javascript did nothing to replace software engineers, it just created an entirely new class of developer. It lowered the barrier to entry and allowed anybody to write inefficient, bloated, buggy, and insecure programs. Our hardware is advanced enough that for many trivial applications there is sufficient overhead for inefficient and bloated programs to exist and be "good enough" (although they are causing untold damage in the real world with security breach after security breach). However, lowering the barrier to entry does not replace the existing engineers. You still need a real software engineer to develop novel applications that use the hardware efficiently. The Duchies of Javascript and Python are simply a new country founded adjacent to, and depending upon, the Software Engineer Kingdom. Now a new duchy is being founded, one that lowers the barrier to entry further to make even more inefficient, even more bloated, even more buggy, and even more insecure programs easier than ever. For some use cases, these programs will be good enough. But they will never replace the use cases that require serious engineering, just as Javascript never did.
by gizmo686 | 2026-01-25 23:46:03+00:00
High cholesterol is well documented to be heritable. Perhaps more relevantly, even if they would work, lifestyle changes have a significant patient compliance problem, which significantly reduces their effectiveness.

There is a more reasonable brother argument to could make, which is that we have well tested and effective drugs available today for managing cholesterol. Any new treatment would need to clear the bar of being better than those (in at least some circumstances) to be put into wide use. This bar may cleared by the fact that existing treatments often have adverse side effects.

Further, the one time treatment aspect is actually a demerit in some ways, as one cannot stop the treatment if there is an adverse effect. This means that the safety profile would need to be much better than us typically required. And proven over a longer timeline.

Of course, this is all concerns about approval and widespread deployment. We are still in the early human trial phase, where much more risk is accepted (subject, of course, to ethical guidelines).
by NoraCodes | 2026-01-25 23:46:15+00:00
Thanks for responding, Brian. While I don't agree with a lot of decisions Bluesky and the broader ATProto community have made, I am very excited that progress towards real decentralization is happening; Blacksky's app view, for instance, was the trigger for me to try to finally try to set up an account. I would love to see more of a focus on the parts of the system that make this difficult, so that myself and other people who are tired of coupling ourselves to centralized systems can participate. It's hard for me to trust that this is the direction the community is interested in moving, but I hope you prove me wrong.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-25 23:46:19+00:00
> One current example of messaging can be seen in the reflexive dismissal by the current US government and its propagandists of any popular opposition as 'paid protesters'.

Let's take a more nuanced argument: how comes there are insane protests when ICE kills two people but just about zero coverage from the usual mainstream media when Laken Riley was killed by an illegal and just about zero coverage when an actual war refugee from Ukraine, Iryna Zarutska, is killed, in the US, to the tune of "take that, white girl"?

Basically the only coverage from the typical dems publication of these events is to say: "Only people from the far-right want to talk about these events".

But when it's a leftist who gets killed: the world (cities at least) are lit on fire.

Exact same thing with Gaza: non-stop coverage about Gaza but, from these same publications, just about zero coverage of the islamist iranian government slaughtering unarmed protesters.

Where are the universities students protesting against the islamic government in Iran that just executed all these people? The same students who were happily chanting "from the river to the sea" and burning US flags in protest of the bombings in Gaza are now totally quiet. How comes?

The media, which are very mostly left-leaning, are carefully crafting an incredibly selective outrage.
by zb3 | 2026-01-25 23:46:44+00:00
It's Google's fault. I want to buy a smartphone without AVB at all. With no "secure boot" fuse blown (yes I DO know that this is not the same fuse) and ideally I'd want to provision my own keys.

But vendors wouldn't be able to say the device runs "Android" as it's trademarked. AVB is therefore mandatory and in order for AVB to be enforced, you can't really control the device - unlocking the bootloader gives you only partial control, you can't flash your own "abl" to remove AVB entirely.

But I don't want AVB and I can't buy such device for money.. this isn't free market, this is Google monopoly..
by lostlogin | 2026-01-25 23:47:08+00:00
The example of Ukraine is complicated, and that situation has become a nightmare With what followed - though in fairness to the Ukrainians, the west could have done a hell of a lot more, and still could.

The Arab Spring turned into The Arab Winter in a wave of repression. Some good has come out of it but the link you have provided says this:

Although the long-term effects of the Arab Spring have yet to be shown, its short-term consequences varied greatly across the Middle East and North Africa. In Tunisia and Egypt, where the existing regimes were ousted and replaced through a process of free and fair election, the revolutions were considered short-term successes.[337][338][339] This interpretation is, however, problematized by the subsequent political turmoil that emerged in Egypt and the autocracy that has formed in Tunisia. Elsewhere, most notably in the monarchies of Morocco and the Persian Gulf, existing regimes co-opted the Arab Spring movement and managed to maintain order without significant social change.[340][341] In other countries, particularly Syria and Libya, the apparent result of Arab Spring protests was a complete societal collapse.[337]
by abustamam | 2026-01-25 23:47:26+00:00
Yeah, I agree. The emphasis on expanded field enforcement is backwards. If millions of people are "illegal" primarily because they are stuck in multi-year backlogs, then the failure is in the court and asylum system, not in a lack of raids.

From a systems perspective, we're heavily funding the most expensive and disruptive part of the pipeline (identification and removal) while starving the part that actually resolves legal status (adjudication, asylum review, work authorization). Though maybe that's a feature of this administration, not a bug.

If the goal is public safety, prioritizing people who commit violent crimes makes sense. If the goal is restoring legal order, then yeah, the obvious first step is to drive the backlog toward zero. I don't think that's the administration's goal though.
by fL0per | 2026-01-25 23:47:47+00:00
Very much indeed, a 'rogue ONT' can screw another nearly 63 users' acess in my area. Oversubscription is very noticeable, but just not problematic. 10G FTTH delivering 60~70% of the bandwidth is enough I guess. And latencies or jitter aren't a thing either.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-25 23:47:48+00:00
I read through every comment in this thread and no one seems to be addressing that the people voted for this. They'll probably vote for it again in the midterms and/or 2028. You're despairing over a democratic outcome. What do you actually propose that would fix this? Disenfranchise half the country? Outlaw things people are voting for to happen? Any criticism needs to address how we democratically counter this regime, how this makes sense when this is the voted upon regime, or perhaps make an argument for why democracy has failed.

My perspective is that a scale has tipped, a critical mass of people decided they want this sort of thing, and they got it. It wasn't rigged, it wasn't fraudulent, it was a democratic election. Critique democracy itself, or the criticism is incoherent. Make an argument for why a government should be disallowed from doing things that the voters want it to do.
by karlgkk | 2026-01-25 23:48:28+00:00
Really almost every rebuttal you offer is factually incorrect while demonstrating a lack of knowledge of the modern developer experience.

For example

> That's nonsense. What year are you from? I've heard this like 10 years ago when there only 1 or 2 current iPhone models in circulation.

What? Models? Is that how you think? Screen sizes? Resolution? That’s so… 2015.

Apple has kept consistent scaling factors across their phones, laptops, and tablets. That alone counts for a ton of saved data effort. Device ratios are also generally consistent.

Android… well, not much needs to be said. It impacts the developer experience in a substantial way.

> If you offer subscription service, like Netflix/HBO/Nest or whatever, your main goal is volume, not how wealthy your demographic is.

Ironically making my point for me without realizing it (wealthier users sub more) AND dismissing the massive market that smaller services exist in. Incredible two for one miss.

> That's like Android's moat from the start, not bolted on during some 10+ major versions like on iOS.

A moat they squandered. Look at platform tablet adoption. It’s dire for Google now.

As for “bolted on”? lol.

I know the mobile os holy wars always activate posts like this, but for some people it’s simply impossible that despite some visible missteps, Apple has been out executing Google for quite some time now.
by goatlover | 2026-01-25 23:48:36+00:00
The No Kings protests were big enough to be all over social media as well as mainstream media. Members of the administration and Congressional Republicans tried to characterize it as far leftist radicals. The president made a disgusting AI video dumping on the protestors. So it was big enough to get under their skin.

Protests are one way We the People remind the government who they're supposed to be representing. Who has the real power in a democracy.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-25 23:48:38+00:00
Blockchain is still like that. Today I am setting up a blockchain node. The chain is actually two chains that recursively depend on each other. The docs say to start one of them first and wait for it to fully sync. It prints a timeout error for every block, saying the other chain node software was unreachable, and is estimated to catch up to current block height in about 200 years, which can't be right. Maybe I need to run both nodes at once contrary to the explicit instructions in the docs which say not to do so.

I wouldn't be surprised if half of all blockchains were vulnerable to some kind of trivial double–spend attack because it's not possible that all the complexity has eyes on it.