skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been downloading literally whatever I feel like in Canada here for the past few decades with nothing more than an email forwarded to me from my ISP with some "threats" from the original copyright owners :P
Mitochondria are bacteria that were endosymbioticized into what became the eukaryotic cell.
Mitochondria can still survive (live) independently and functionally in the blood when they're separated from platelets and microvesicles.
Mitochondria are the software that epigenetically switch nuclear DNA genes on and off. That sofware can be tweaked by light, for instance UV light or IR light.
mtDNA mutates x1000000 more rapidly than nuclear DNA.
Often not to be honest. And then once 14 they get some permission back on their accounts
Right, and I'm saying "surely there must be a middle ground between "using all of Bluesky's infrastructure" and "having a 4.5tb copy of every post ever made on the network""
Looking at my calipers now I noticed that the imperial side is twice as precise as the metric side. Graduations of 0.05mm vs 0.001". I wonder why that is.
This has got to be literally the dumbest batch of random blame being thrown around to explain "people get a dopamine hit when people like your posts and comments" which gets compounded when it's people you know IRL. Reddit and HN make it an explicit part of the platform by keeping score.

Like no shit people, attention is addicting. This has been the cause of people doing stupid things since the dawn of community. Platforms providing the community / audience aren't responsible for the high of being on stage.
A Second Bill of Rights – The New York Society for Ethical Culture
Robin Hanson #HardSteps

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0lKliaFllPA&t=910s (timeatamped)
> If reality can emerge out of nowhere I don't see it unlikely for life to emerge in some other planet

If everything however unlikely is likely because creation is unfathomable, sure.
This article managed to hit two classic science journalism cliches in just the first few paragraphs.

(1) “Someone hypothesizing a very dramatic theory with weak evidence was considered wrong by most colleagues but later vindicated when strong evidence emerged”. (No mention of thousands of other dramatic hypotheses that turned out wrong.)

(2) “You may have heard in unsophisticated popularization that [philosophical claim ultimately hinging on semantic distinction] was false, but really it’s true [assuming my preferred semantics]”.

Aren't we all tired of this yet? Aren’t science journalists embarrassed by this stuff?
Yeah, some do. They are not going to kill anyone though unlike drivers.
We know where the problems is: cars and drivers. Focus on that instead of derailing the discussion. There are lives and health of people on the line.
You underestimate the cleverness of kids to circumvent such controls.

Do you think antivirus software prevents all viruses?

The same is true for parental control
So if I use a faraday bag for stretches of time to prevent my phone being tracked is that going to cause a reset? Any documentation?
Same here. Daily stand ups (no matter if they last 5 min. or 20) have not being useful for me any single time. They are used by managers to force us to show what we have been doing the day before. No more, no less. If I ever get stuck with something, I go and ask for help to my colleagues; I update the corresponding Jira ticket status and whatever is needed to keep my work visible.

Same for retros or any other kind of ceremony. They are just for managers.
That is simply your personal definition, right?

You don’t claim to be definitive?
Parental controls will not completely remove addiction. The algorithms are steering towards that, regardless of the age rating of content.

Still, is it Zuckerberg's fault or just how capitalism works (optimize for max profit)?

I believe only strict regulations can help. Is there any regulation against addiction to (social) media?
Even so, putting quotations around something never said is disingenuous.
Only the latest iPhones (15 and 16) support this
Not everything. Life in particular. Because without life (a conscious observer) reality cannot exist. So it should be a property of reality for life to emerge.
In school and when the play with their friends outside?

You can’t control them 100% of the time.
Just because someone else can also kill doesn't absolve the killer for killing.

But I get your point. Killing is illegal. social media harm is not. The analogy remains.
How Attackers Use HTTP Status Codes for Malicious Purposes
alright, sure, you can have it! I'll allow it this time.
Something like the Light Phone?

The iPhone has a mode, meant for older or less tech savvy people, but could also be used as a means to turn it into a dumber phone.

https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/welc...
MGTOW for girls. Withholding goods nobody was buying in the first place.
Also, yesterday someone posted[1] https://frontpage.fyi/ which seems like it's predominately Bluesky/ATprotocol news but since both of those interest me, if this blog link interests you then so might that link. It logs in with Bsky oauth2 federation

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42081210
Show HN: Braille Generator for 3D Printing
During a course that I did about OpenSCAD, a student asked me if it was possible to use it to generate Braille. I answered that it would be possible, but I didn't have an example to show. Then I created my own.

This was created using OpenSCAD, which allows to generate Braille directly from Thingiverse, using Customizer. As OpenSCAD is a programming language, this can also be used as a library.

If you want to use it outside Thingiverse, either as library or for generating Braille in your desktop, please use the code available in GitHub: https://github.com/lucasoshiro/openscad-braille. The one in Thingiverse has a lot of workarounds that were needed due to the Customizer limitations.
That’s what I meant by this:

> …sign tampered with firmware that would allow the decryption without user authorization.

Apple wrote the firmware for everything. I assume they could write firmware to not need authorization, embedded in a copy of iOS, and sign everything so it could be installed on a phone through DFU.

They have been unwilling to do so. I think they’re right not to. But I suspect it is technically possible.
"If I could undo anything in this world it would be social media."

... he posted.
I see how to build it now, thank you. I imagine for this automation to serve its purpose, we also need to make the Control Center inaccessible when the phone is locked so that whoever has the phone can’t just try turning it off again. Well, that isn’t strictly necessary since the automation seems to run anytime Airplane Mode is enabled.
Maybe guns companies win in court but we still blame them.
That sounds like a catch-22
One of the weirder parts of this to me is this:

> After publishing this piece, multiple BleepingComputer readers have pointed out an anomaly with the TLS certificate issued for the 'search.app' domain.

> To add confusion, search.app's certificate has the Common Name (CN) set to fallacni.com, a French language website that claims to help you "find your national identity card."

> BleepingComputer further noticed that the same SSL certificate is in use by more than a hundred domains, shown below, which are hosted on the same Firebase server (IP address 199.36.158.100)

Is this typical for how Firebase (and similar offerings) work? Is there any risk of one site on a shared Firebase server being able to MITM users that are collocated on the same IP and using the same certificate, or is having a separate domain enough to mitigate this? I'd never considered the idea of entirely unrelated (and separately owned) domains sharing an identical TLS certificate before, and I'm not enough a crypto/security person to be able to immediately think through the ramifications of this.
Remember when facebook got caught running psychological experiments on its users? (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-...)

I do not trust myself with identifying when companies tweak the algorithm to mess with my psyche. How can I trust myself with identifying with my own kids except when it becomes really obvious in the content or in their behavior?

> Do we blame car manufacturers for young people driving and killing themselves or others?

Cars had no seat belts, had no crumple zone, would crush the driver when the engine got pushed in. We literally put more and more requirements on cars to make them as safe as reasonably possible.

If social media has negative effects why would we not legislate these companies in such a way as to reduce the negatives?

You can argue there is no negative effect if you want. But if they have negatives effects then don't we need to rein them in?
Even better: do not personally harm someone, but instead create an LLC, hire people, and then create an incentive structure such that if your employees want to continue getting paid, they have to harm people.
So I've used FreeBSD as a desktop for a very long time. I don't think it's acceptable desktop OS by today's standards at all:

- graphics card drivers years behind (actually what made me switch to linux)

- A lot of linux graphic environment tied itself to systemd and it's friends

- Specifically, firefox lacks some features that available on Linux, Windows and macOS (related to memory consumptions and overall snappiness)

- Many things depend on FreeBSD specific patches to work and if you aren't a seasoned porter, good luck porting it yourself[1]

[1]: this one obviously depends on what kind of software you require. For it me it's a miss.
Ugh that tired old thought terminator.

‘You criticize society yet you are part of society’ isn’t the gotcha you think it is.
It's a big pain. The prescription line at my pharmacy is never shorter than 15 minutes. Thus the drug is $11/month but costs me $60 in time to wait in that line. Meanwhile, other drugs are just mailed to me, including my prescriptions.

The prescription line is always fun. I remember some dude coughing on everyone, picking up his cell phone, "oh it was positive? great, I'm in line to get the medication" referring to COVID. In my opinion, the easiest place to get sick is waiting in the prescription line. Yet another tax on congestion sufferers.

Having said all that, your doctor can write you a prescription and all the restrictions go away, including the ID check. It has always delayed my fills even further so we don't bother anymore.

The most positive outcome from buying pseudoephedrine in line was being told "hey, your ID expires tomorrow" which was a good catch. I wasn't paying any attention to that. (I don't drive, so it's just a piece of plastic with my name. But necessary for paying taxes online in NYS.)
And know ask the same judge about copyright violations through social media
Sounds like you live in a lemon. Not all communal spaces are filled with junk things and disrespectful people.
This is hugely important to understand. Attention brokers biggest vested interest is in keeping the race close.
I had the same thought, but I suspect that would break the mount. It might make the entire /proc/mounts directory appear empty but none of the mounts would work.
It’s your country. Elect some officials willing to tax and regulate the Airbnb issue and stimulate home building. How can you blame anyone else? The tourists and expats are there by your invitation.
> civil trial

So not a criminal case than? Trump didn’t even attend.

The article says the jury did not find enough evidence of the rape claim even at the lower requirement of the civil court.

> Carroll “cannot produce any objective evidence to back up her claim because it didn’t happen,” he told jurors.
Russian authorities don't cooperate with take downs. The US government forces the world to comply.
Yeah, I've played hours of Minecraft with my own dithering renderer, but I'm sure going to 1-bit would give me a headache within minutes.

I wonder if rendering the in-game graphics as if they are being shown on a virtual monitor would provide some respite. If the virtual monitor was on a desk with other items, then would give players some place to rest their eyes.
Those Boston stencil jerseys are the Boston Marathon ones. Red Sox play a day game on the same day as the marathon each April. It’s a whole day of things for the city. The stencil approach mimics the days of spray painting down the finish line.
50% + 1 share.
Delete the stuff you’re compulsively checking. Turn off notifications, so you need to make the intention to check things, rather than the phone calling for attention. Spend some time now trying to ween, but going told turkey. Go for a walk, leaving the phone at home. Leave it in another room when doing things around the house. Don’t take it with you into the bathroom. Get comfortable with boredom. Allow your mind to wander and see where it takes you.

Cal Newport’s book Digital Minimalism is pretty good for stressing the importance of spending time in thought without the influence of the internet, podcasts, audiobooks, or anything else. This used to be the norm for large sections of the day for people… now it’s rather rare.
Building a code-writing robot and keeping it happy
I guess it is a form of emulation... but

You can run 16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows with https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

I got Microsoft Encarta 98 to work on Windows 11 this way
Expect this to grow as Zuck has revealed himself to be a centrist Trump supporter. He's pals with Musk, but he runs Threads as a liberal version of X/Twitter. It's the most blatant form of divide and conquer I've seen from the billionaire class.
> How do you prevent kids using social media without 100% surveillance or not allowing internet access at all?

I don't give them a phone, and all the screens in my house are in the shared living space. They also don't know the WiFi password, should they try to sneak in a device.

Could they use a friend's phone? Sure. I'm not really concerned in that case, because there's honestly nothing I can do, but it's such minimal exposure with a huge barrier that I doubt it's effectiveness in sustaining much addiction.
If self-treatment doesn't work out for you (I've suffered a few particularly stubborn cases over the years), I highly recommend going to an urgent care clinic. They have always been able to clear my ears out in less than 20 minutes, and it's very cheap with insurance.
There are 100 million times more bacteria in the ocean than there are stars in the universe.

Which really should tell people how rare the development of mitochondria was if it has only happened once here.
This deals with one of our primary human drives. It's very easy to condemn those showing bad behavior in public, but too often it's motivated by a lack of access to privacy or mental illness. As long as no harm is intended, I don't really feel this is one of our larger concerns.
> But the judge found a lack of specifics about what Zuckerberg did wrong, and said “control of corporate activity alone is insufficient” to establish liability. Her decision does not affect related claims against Meta itself.

So direct evidence that Zuck directed the wrongdoing was not given. If it was, Zuck would know precisely what he has to defend himself against.

Instead, Zuck was labeled responsible by the plaintiff because he could stop the harm and did not stop the harm. This is not something anyone can defend themselves against. For starters, Zuck would have to admit that harm was done to be able to defend himself.

Secondly, the method of harm should lead directly to him. Without a trial establishing the method of harm that was taken, he is not able to defend himself.

What were the AGs thinking? Are they complicit in making the case weak enough for public dismissal.?
Zuckerman vs. Zuckerberg, man vs. mountain...
No, I don't really write C. I was remarking on something I saw once and I wanted to share it because the original article mentions trigraphs.
Governments need to legislate what they want. In this case - something like children - say under 16 not to have access to social media - such as Facebook. The penalty for allowing access ( contrary to the new proposed legislation ) needs to be hugh. Like jail for company executives. And if can not be done after some date the service needs to be close down the social media service. (This is similar to what happens with gambling services. )
Google has moved a lot of stuff into the play services that some stuff that was previously part of android doesn't work without the play services.
Define unfair.
Pretty much every business runs psychological experiments on their customers. That's what the ad industry is, that's why retailers run sales to gather pricing data, that's what A/B testing is for.

It's interesting to look at the triple standard of harm across different institutions though:

Science: your job is to learn things, you must bring every possible harm you can think of from your experiment to an ethical review board, and if there's a chance it might hurt people, you can't run your experiment.

Business: your job is to maximize profit, you may harm people in the pursuit of this as long as you do so within the bounds of the law.

Defense: your job is to kill people, do what you want as long as it's our enemies.

Clearly, people value killing foreigners > making money > discovering new knowledge.
If you were in his shoes, what would you do?
Ask HN: What are the questions I should be asking about AI?
As an old (color die covered) grey hair one of the most useful questions I often ask is 'What questions should I be asking?'. At the end of a job interview. When starting a project. When talking to customers. When talking to vendors. When talking to reports about tools/frameworks/solutions they want to implement. Even in the rare moments when I have a brief flash of self awareness, when talking to myself.

So Hacker News, what questions should I be asking about AI? On a developer level? On a customer level? On an investor level? On an implementer level? On a civilizational level?
I first learned about it from iTerm2's build process: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/v3.5.6/Makefile#L170 and https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/v3.5.6/deps.sb
This reply is a nothingburger and I think you didn't know what to add to it, because GP shared something that plainly shows "more money =/= more speech -> more power"
How do we know it only happened once? Maybe it happened multiple times but only one version survived while the others were outcompeted?
Just watch: Pretty soon there will be an LLM optimization called Windows
NFTs aren't about laundering money, they are about pump and dump!
Dying to save taxes: Evidence from Estate-Tax returns on the death elasticity [pdf]
Isn't that kind of mixing up the chain of causation? Without a winner, a lottery cannot exist (or at least, at p=0, it's nonsensical). That doesn't automatically imply there are a lot of winners, however.
Wonerful! This article is a mind-meld of Humberto Maturana’s work on autopoiesis with almost any of Nick Lane’s deep discussions of bioenergetics e.g., the wonderful book “ Power, Sex and Suicide: Mitochonria and the Meaning of Life” or his equally strong book “Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death” that is focused on the Kreb’s cycle. He brings biochemistry and bioenergetics alive in a way that will impact your thinking.

Maturana and Valera gave a brilliant definition of “living” in Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living” (1980). But their writing style will make this a tough read. Terry Winograd write a useful summary if Maturana’s philosophy in his computer science classic “Computers and Cognition”.
Recently there was this post about how bureaucracy structures itself to remove any responsibility.

Apparently free market enterprises are not that different after all, they happen to collect all profits and those who run these systems don't have liability.

I'm extremely curious how would the upcoming version of USA work as people who collected all the profits kept complaining endlessly and beared no responsibility for any problems are about to run it. Very interesting times.
What? When saying that "X" is an accident, nobody means "nature says 'oooops'. Nature is neither conscious nor alive, if universe were alive and creates and shapes life, why is there so many errors happening in the universe?

Everything exist by " accident", and that means that is the result of random events that happen unexpectedly in unimaginable places, leading to an environent were the outcome of this events causes more random events.

Why universe insist in making life so uncommon if it has the secret to create and replicate?
I upvoted this because it's perhaps the most important research being conducted currently. But the seriousness of the issue is misleading.

CRISPR is revolutionary technology. Any side effects of its use require evolutionary improvements. The two are not the same.

With the decades of experience we have dealing with code and information, as well as the arrival of AI, I wish that people would stop obsessing about the difficulty of solving problems. The difficulty is gone. All problems are solvable now, it's just a matter of time, effort, and a tiny fraction of the money that used to be required.

But FUD seems to dominate these discussions. That's probably my biggest disappointment with, say, the rich and powerful who gatekeep funding and the media. It's even easier for them to solve these problems, or encourage healthy debate. But they seem to go out of their way to do the opposite. Like, if it weren't for wealth inequality, we could have been working on this stuff, and found the answers potentially years ago. I'll just never understand the so-called realists and how they hold us back in these times out of fear, which leads to false equivalence and generalization.
Nobody gave a shout out to Robot Odyssey yet?
Nowadays i come to my conclusion that "ease of maintenance" is the most important feature to have in a project. More critical is only that the project in itself is valuable enough, so many engineers optimize things that shouldn't exist in the first place.

Easy to maintain is not only about keeping something alive with minimal effort over longer periods of time. It also plays a pivotal role for scalability in any direction. Adding more engineers/teams, adding more unforseeable features, iterating quickly in general, surviving more traffic/load, removing technical bottlenecks, ... everything is so much easier when the project is easy to work with and maintainable.
You say you don't say anything about what we as a society should do about it, but it's definitely implied... or can be seen as such. Especially because it's quite a colored opinion - do you need a list of hoaxes and lies disseminated by the political left in the last 4 years?

Point is, everyone has biases, and everyone makes mistakes. We're only human. I think we should judge an information channel by the way they self-correct for those mistakes. That tells a lot about character and values, and whether or not to trust the source. So I believe we desperately need a meta layer on the Internet, much like X introduced with community notes, but on a larger scale. Open source, fully auditable, immutable (append-only and decentralized, so probably on a blockchain cause of the Byzantine Generals problem) - but I'll admit, that's just the tech geek in me trying to find a practical tech solution to a complex social problem.
There is no known scientific principle or theory with experimental support that without a conscious observer reality cannot exist. It's not something that can be tested, and lies in the realm of philosophy, not science.
How long does it take you to normally drink a mug? I've been interested in it but I find that I tend to drink a coffee quickly before it gets too cold, and with tea I actually enjoy the change in taste as it cools