skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a hearing person who grew up with deaf family members (my mom & aunt are deaf), I think many deaf people will actively oppose gene therapy for deafness. In the deaf community, there’s a large subsection that actively oppose things like cochlear implants or any other attempts to make deaf people hearing. There’s a few reasons why:

First, many deaf people feel an immense pressure to fit into hearing society. I know in my mom’s case her hearing parents refused to teach her sign language because they wanted her to fit in with hearing people. This is a pretty common experience for deaf people and one that many of them hate (my mom included). My suspicion is that to the deaf community things like gene therapy might feel like another way to force them to fit in instead of being themselves. No idea if this is actually how deaf people feel, but it is an educated guess based on what I’ve seen in my family.

Second, many in the deaf community don’t view deafness as a disability. I think it’s viewed as a gift of sorts. There’s even a term for it called “deaf gain” (a play on the phrase “hearing loss”). Basically, many deaf people think being deaf is a positive and not something that needs to be cured. So, the idea of curing deafness with things like gene therapy is very controversial in the deaf community.

Third, the deaf community has its own culture. For instance, there’s different social norms that are unique to deaf people (e.g. if you want to get someone’s attention you flick a light switch on and off). One of the fears of the deaf community is that if deafness is eliminated then the culture disappears. So, in many deaf circles, things like gene therapy are viewed as an existential crisis. I’ve even heard things like this likened to cultural genocide (which is a bit extreme) because of its threat to their culture.

So due to these reasons, I can’t see this treatment actually being popular with the deaf community. There’s already a huge emphasis within deaf families to not use cochlear implants on their kids due to it being viewed as a bad thing. As a result, I think it’s unlikely those same families will opt for gene therapy. I think most of the cases you’ll see of gene therapy being used are deaf kids whose hearing parents decided they need it or with the subset of deaf adults who don’t share the views of others in the deaf community.
I think this is all true. Though with regard to your earlier example, it should be noted that Nim, too, has an extraordinarily powerful compile-time programming system: but it takes the form of typed macros and generics (as opposed to Zig's dislike for such abstractions).
Between the Tiktok digression and the talk of more flavorful kfc sandwiches, I think this guy made up his mind before he got on his Geely-sponsored flight.
Not a fan of Tesla or Elon but he is smart and realized Tesla is going to be in big trouble just like the rest of the industry if he can't set them apart technically. Probably explains his pivot into FSD and AI in a panic mode. Anyone can build charging stations and he can't afford to waste time on new models. He needs to push the software far beyond what anyone else has to set his vehicles apart from the rest of the Industry.

If you just make electric cars, the Chinese are going to kill you.
It looks like spaghetti code.
imo it's mainly because protos are unusable on the web without something like grpc-web (which requires a proxy) and in general web support in protobufs always seemed like an afterthought, just barely working (if at all) which is kind of ironic considering it came out of Google
Ya rails is going a bit backwards. Dhh is too opinionated and stubborn for his own good. The laravel ecosystem on the other hand has moved forward by being forward thinking and pragmatic. Dhh is now saying no to typescript and moving to only JavaScript.
In the US there are plenty of places where children can get surgeries. This is a small sampling of the locations:

The Stanford Children's Hospital [1] will provide surgeries to both minors and adults. It doesn't specify how young the children can be.

The University of Illinois [2] will do surgery on people under 18, but doesn't specify how young the children can be.

The University of Rochester [3] will do some surgeries for people under 18. It doesn't specify the age, but it is under the "Adolescent Medicine" section.

Seattle Children's Hospital [4] will provide referrals for gender-affirming surgery to children as young as 9 so long as they have started puberty.

[1] https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/services/gender/what-to...

[2] https://hospital.uillinois.edu/primary-and-specialty-care/su...

[3] https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/childrens-hospital/adolescent...

[4] https://www.seattlechildrens.org/clinics/gender-clinic/
About the female whale whose dorsal fin was punctured: "Ólafur appears to have developed a personal kinship with the whale"

A macabre kinship that involved spearing her calf. And eventually, killing the female whale herself while trying to kill her calf again.
If Microsoft does something you don't like with Rust you're free to Fork.

Microsoft has been pretty good to developers lately.
Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet
Deaths due to snowstorms. It's not know as killer mountain for nothing.
That "should" needs a lot of backing up, and I don't understand why we need to singlehandedly rely on the same company creating the issues to apparently solve them with wishful thinking.
where are you located? there's a company doing installs in San Diego doing exactly that
I doubt it would help, of the top 5 mountains, everest is second the easiest to climb.
Portals is a very cool idea.
That's what I said, you might not be able to get a webdl depending on if the stream is cracked, but at least webrips (which are captured from capture cards) are good enough quality anyways.
None, I use search engines with booleans when I want to find something. LLMs might provide useful citations at the end of a 'search' but there's too much hallucination in the summaries in my personal experience
Peak Plastic?
> 1000 years ago some subset of people chose not to have children, and humanity did just fine, and that same group of so-called "non-breeders" still exists today.

There have always been, and always will be, people who don’t have kids, for a whole host of reasons.

But that’s not the argument (or at least, not the steelman version of it, as opposed to the strawman one) - the argument is that if there are certain heritable traits that discourage people from having children, then all else being equal, natural selection will cause the frequency of those traits to decline over time, albeit often not to zero.

The all else being equal part is very important. In a society with strong social pressure to reproduce, a trait which makes people less likely to want children may not be strongly selected against - because the social pressure to reproduce means desire to have children only has a small impact on the odds of actually having them - whereas in a society which is much more individualist, it may have much more of an impact, so the selective pressure against that trait may be much stronger. And of course, a trait which produces less desire for children might nonetheless be selected for because it produces some other countervailing advantage

Still, I think the argument does have some weight - that in contemporary Western society where reproduction is far more of a voluntary choice than it once was, biological and cultural factors which encourage reproduction are going to be selected for to a much greater degree than they were in the less individualist societies of decades and centuries past, where less such encouragement was needed
You can see similar (poor) results if you give it a slightly tweaked puzzle that it’s seen before. The most recent example on Twitter was the farmer with the animals and the boat. If there are no constraints, it will give you an answer based on the tricks for the original unless you harass it.
Relevant: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
The centralization and also the monitoring are hard nopes for me.

If the monitoring was all local and not pushed up to k8s instantly, maybe. But this screams of a PHB's wet dream.

As someone who has maintained forks of large FOSS code bases. This also makes doing that harder. I wasn't interested in sharing my changes. But I wanted SCM to allow me to merge upstream's changes.

This feels like a step back to systems like Clearcase, and I.. Just don't want it.
> future space telescopes will come off an assembly line. There will be thousands in orbit, pointed at every part of the heavens simultaneously.

Like I said: citations.

> Now we can send up bigger, heavier objects for much less money.

This hasn't even been demonstrated.
It appears that this solves exactly no problems which I have, while introducing a slew of problems I don't have currently and am grateful not to.

I know this comment risks falling to the low-brow dismissal bucket, but it's hard for me to say anything more cogent than that. It all seems so obvious? Like, Kubernetes, your choice of cloud provider, "who works offline anyway"...

No thanks.
No. You are confusing the model for the reality. Again, our model may lead to a more impressive reality, but ball players are not doing trig. They are almost certainly simulating things, but that does not require trig. Indeed, it only loosely requires math. Models can be very informal with loose approximations.

You seem to think I have to prove your model false to show others don't do that. But I am specifically not claiming your model is false. I'm saying folks don't think that way, necessarily. For example, many build lists for shopping that they were taught. Not that they reasoned.
Sure, that was an extreme example. The point was that the minimum of data is 1 point, maximum is "all of it". It entirely depends on your use case.
I don't think anyone is arguing that individuals have heritability

isn't saying that someone's character is inherited from their parents such a claim?
This is a truly important perspective. And I wonder if often treatments to make people more "normal" are sometimes more pushed by society because one of the prime pressures of modern society is to have everyone homogenized as cogs to advance technology rather than just be a person.

I would not be surprised if ADHD and other things are next. One of the prime aims of technology is in fact to erode independent communities because they are one of the few that can speak out against technological development (e.g. the Amish).
The concern is increasing taxation of the young, productive population to sustain the old, non productive population causing political turmoil and decreasing national competitiveness on the global scale.
I think we are just all different - I can't imagine children bringing me any happiness; I felt the way Tolstoy did already when I was a young child. Interestingly, my grandmother once told me she only had children because of social expectations, and I can say that her children were absolutely aware of that. For me, the philosophical reasons were enough; the monetary savings are in a sense a bonus, but for others economics may be the main force preventing them from having children which is indeed sad in its own way I suppose.
This looks surprisingly good! I can see the quick sanity checks being very useful in cases like the mismatched env variables. That said, since you probably already know what works well, here's some constructive criticism:

First, I'm pretty unimpressed with the PR descriptions. I'd be frustrated if my company adopted this and I started seeing PRs like the one from continuous-eval that you linked to first. It's classic LLM output: lots of words, not much actual substance. "This PR updates simple.py", "updates certain values". It's the kind of information that can be gleaned in the first 5 seconds of glancing through a PR, and if that creates the illusion that no more description is needed then we'll have lost something.

Second, in the same PR: when writing a collection to a jsonl file, I would expect an empty collection to give me an empty file, not no file. Further, I haven't looked at the rest of the context, but it seems extremely unlikely to me that dataset_generator.generate would somehow produce non-serializable objects, and a human would easily see that. These two suggestions feel at best like a waste of time and at worst wrong, and it's concerning to me that the habits this tool encourages led to the suggestions being uncritically adopted and incorporated and that this seemed to you to be a good example of the tool in use.

The second PR you linked to is, I think, a better example, but I'm still not sold on it. Similar to the PR descriptions, I'm concerned that a tool like this would create an illusion of security against the "simple" problems (leaving reviewers to focus on the high level), whereas I'd hope that the human reviewer would still read every line carefully. And if they're reading every line carefully, then have we really saved them that much time by paying for an LLM reviewer to look over it first? Maybe the time it takes to type out a note about a misnamed environment variable.
At some point we can’t rely on ever growing populations. It may be painful for a while but at some point growth has to stop.
Google Photos testing 'Collections' redesign that buries your library
It’s natural for human brain to find explanations for the supernatural. We are born with a “God” placeholder in our brain, just as infinity is a concept.

The idea that consciousness is 5th fundamental force sounds great but doesn’t make any sense.

Everything in universe is interaction of particles in force fields. We have mathematical definitions for them in standard model of physics.

And consciousness is what we experience in our brains as a model of reality. It’s a much more complex emergent concept arising from how neurons are wired together to process input -> output signals. Consciousness boils down to signal processing. Which down the stack of atoms and subatomic particle requires the fundamental forces.

Very different things. Put in a different way, they are fundamental because they explain everything in observable universe.

That being said, I respect your right to believe.
> Take a closer look at how much homework children have, and how much assigned, mandatory reading children have.

Probably this, but also this. Kids don't even show up for school post-pandemic

36% of NYC public school students were chronically absent last school year

https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2023/9/6/23862246/nyc-publ...
I mean mainstream American society of secular to moderately religious people, as opposed to ultra-religious minorities such as ultra-Orthodox Jews or Old Order Amish

I mean the term quite broadly and inclusively, since many of the big divides within American society (ethnicity, race, politics, class) make a relatively modest difference to fertility rates, and those differences appear to be shrinking over time
Rocket launches are far more environmentally non-friendly than planes. You can't just look at fuel capacity. It's the composition and where the waste product gets dumped. Rockets dump their waste much higher up in parts of the atmosphere much more sensitive to it. Comparing a rocket and plane isn't an effective comparison in terms of environment impact. So this:

> A single 747 burns more fuel in a year than all the Starlink launches in the past five years.

is not an accurate summary of the environmental impact of rocket launches.

Also, rocket launches are incredibly disruptive to the local ecosystems of the launch sites.
Someone just got Android running on the Rabbit R1 [video]
Library that provides user with easy to use email clients collection in Rust
Good point. Also "linear convergence" means the residual reduces "linearly", or |r_{k+1}| = \lambda |r_k| with \lambda \in (0, 1). So it is somehow exponentially converging, and an algorithm with linear convergence is neat and fast.
Random thought, but I used to use version control (Git) for work. After I quit, I kept programming for fun...and to be honest I like programming without version control a lot better. I realized I hate version control. It imposes too much structure on programming, like having to keep all my drafts of the past. It's rather stifling in fact.

Now, I know version control is super useful for large projects, especially of the commercial variety. But now I see all the modern software out there and I wonder if maybe the increasingly commercialization of the software world has in part been accelerated by version control, which makes programming more robotic and less artistic.
Related: Alright is one word.

So very often it's written "all right" by folks writing the subtitles.
> We're massively more connected than ever before.

In a certain electronic sense, yes, but emotionally and socially, we are not more connected than ever before. So like I said, this utopian promise of the Internet connecting and liberating and educating us has not happened. In fact, it's the opposite that has happened.
Maybe this is the heart of it.

How does someone with free will choose one option and not another? Is it not their character or soul but determines a choice? How could they choose something different without being someone different.

I'm willing to believe that a Choice can't be predetermined or calculated before it happens. What I don't understand is why the choice would ever be different in an identical universe with an identical person making the decision.

This seems to be a paradox of free will. A person has the freedom to choose between options, but choice and will imply this action is based on something, and not purely random. If Free Will choice is based on something, why would the choice be different for the same chooser.
Where did the expression 'STEELY-EYED MISSILE MAN' come from?
Primary author here. Thanks for submitting this to HN!

Lots of updates in the pipeline based on all the great feedback we’ve been getting. Hopefully next time generates more interest.

Happy to answer any questions!
Huawei breaks free from Google ecosystem with homegrown HarmonyOS
> Because grace watch automatically uploads new file versions after every save, …

Nope. I type stuff all the time that I don’t want anyone else seeing.

# I hate this ^#{=+ thing just work dammit

Or

password = ‘foo’ # TK fetch this from disk later

Etc. I don’t want my computer sharing my scratch notes with my coworkers without me explicitly choosing to commit and push them. No way, no how.

(Also the presumption of always online-dness. What?)
Thanks, Codewithcheese. To clarify, it's not for non-technical founders. It's the opposite—it's for first-hire engineers or technical founders exclusively.

You raise a good point with Heroku, but that's a "managed service," like Aptible or Vercel, which offers simpler alternatives to AWS and is used throughout the lifecycle of your app. I'm specifically providing a service for initial setup and deployment only. 'Pay-once, use-once'.

For the MVP, this is targeted at a market that wants to host on AWS, along with an array of other extremely common web-based SaaS services, such as authentication, feature flagging, and monitoring etc
I really enjoyed the reconstruction video[0] linked in the story.

[0] https://twitter.com/rezawrecktion/status/1788211832936861950
Everything sounds obvious in hindsight. If you're one person, a small niche is probably where you should focus.

Here's my back-burner side-project: software to track materials being checked in or out, like a tool crib or maybe a library. Exists in many forms already, but mine's better :-)
I'm not sure how the existence of subscribers and profit negates the point. Their are plenty of things that have those that aren't useful beyond a capitalistic sense.
Yes, cDNA is a DNA fragment that does not interact with the patient's DNA in this treatment.
Wikipedia:
"Once amplified, the sequence can be cut at each end with nucleases and inserted into one of many small circular DNA sequences known as expression vectors. Such vectors allow for self-replication, inside the cells, and potentially integration in the host DNA. They typically also contain a strong promoter to drive transcription of the target cDNA into mRNA, which is then translated into protein."
I think that's a little harsh, at least grabby aliens theory is based on certain assumptions and logic that can be falsified, argued against, etc. It's better than Russell's teapot.
It is because AI causes humanity to self-destruct before AI can be self-sufficient, and therefore the AI self-destructs also. And this is rather plausible: AI further cements us on the path towards technological development, which inevitably uses unsustainable practices of resource extraction. It helps us continue the unsustainable economy that is necessary for the development of AI.

In other words, we simply cannot stop now because we are too addicted to technology. AI will get better, but at some point we will suffer a massive catastrophe because instead of focusing on how to use less energy and avert climate disaster, we focus on developing more AI.

It's not exactly that AI is the root cause, but our ever-increasing technological development of which AI is the apex, the apex of its destructive power.
Everything seems obvious in hindsight, and it takes a lot of work to make something that seems obvious and inevitable at the end of the day.

Think of how often you hear people complain about something. Every single complaint is an opportunity… something that hasn’t been solved well enough yet. The more people who complain, the bigger the potential opportunity.
Almost all of us have that requirement sometimes. Working from a hotel coffee bar and the WiFi goes out? Bummer if that blocks your work.

I’m online 98% of the time. My local tooling works 100% of the time. I’d want to defenestrate my laptop if it stopped working for a silly reason.
US committee targets Georgia Tech's alleged ties to Chinese military research
to spell it out, the FBI can't tell the general public many of the stories where they did good, because that would exposure the methods they used to do good, which would result in them not being able to use those methods anymore, so those stories have to go untold.

also I disagree that we're not in world War III. we are, it just hasn't been officially declared yet.
Consider a place like Kiryas Joel, New York: in the 2000 census it had a population of 13,138; by 2010 it had grown to 20,175 (a 53.6% increase over the decade); by 2020 it had grown to 32,954 (a 63.3% increase over the decade); the US Census Bureau’s 2022 estimate is 38,998 - 18.3% in only two years. The vast majority of that growth is due to births not migration. It is now the largest municipality in its county, and also its MSA - in 2023, the White House renamed the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown MSA to the Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh MSA, in recognition that it has overtaken Poughkeepsie proper as the MSA’s most populous municipality (although greater Poughkeepsie is still larger)

And Kiryas Joel is expanding in its de facto area: as its spiritual leader, Satmar Rebbe Aron Teitelbaum likes to say, its “holy borders” go further than its legal boundaries under New York state law, although very likely the legal boundaries will at some point grow too. And, there are similar ultra-Orthodox communities in other parts of New York state, and also in New Jersey (especially Lakewood)
Could Technological Change Solve the Problem of Inequality?
No, I had a bit of dizziness for the first day or so, but otherwise there were no side effects. Absolutely no impact on my sense of taste.