skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The practice of how this does damage isn't clear to me. But I'm going to test this in the very skin-in-the-game sense. My genome (sequenced by Nebula Genomics) is available to anyone who would like it. I have raw FASTQ files which you will have to pay a nominal fee to access.

Once upon a time, a friend and I decided we should launch a site where people can submit their genomes and health information so that broad population scale studies can be done. I did submit my stuff to All Of Us and so on, but I think the fact that you need to be special-cased to access the data is probably a loss.

So I think it's time to revisit this whole thing. Perhaps I should make VCFs available instead. They're much smaller and may be more accessible for people. In any case, if you want my FASTQs, just email me.
Social security for Tesla!
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"Meta said it disagreed with Ms O'Carroll's claims, adding "no business can be mandated to give away its services for free.""

Except that is what O'Carroll just did.

If Meta disagrees with O'Carroll's claims then why settle. Why not fight.

Facebook used to have a marketing soundbite/Zuckerberg quote something like "Facebook will always be free."

Now Meta claims it is not free.

BTW, the "Careless People" book is available for free in audio book form, read by the author, from many particpating public libraries.
23andme stock is down 99.12% from 5 years ago. Sheesh. What happened? Is it just not a viable business model or was it extremely mismanaged?
It seemed to me like an open and shut case too, but no one at apple would listen. When you sign terms and conditions at dropoff, you basically sign away rights :/
I once nuked the entire OS partition on an openvz host. Vz data was still good so we ended up copying the root fs from another similar box, manually updated the network config and it ran for another 4 years until retired.
This sapling is twice as large as it was a week ago, which was twice again as large as it was the week before. Why, at this rate, it'll be bigger than the whole world in but a month.
Come if you want
- 56% income tax
- housing shortage which is leading to landlords charging 1.5k eur for just a room
- ever increase in public transport (train) unreliability and degrading conditions (shorter carriages during peak times)
- increasing health insurance costs with fewer benefits
- diversity, inclusion and acceptance by the community
- directness (although it's a fine line between being direct and rude so YMMV)
- poldermodel (things may take a few iterations to get done)
Oh good. When I saw the graph I started wondering what I was being sold.
Are you saying creating several world class LLMs doesn't require "actual intelligence", whatever that means to you?
SynCity: Training-Free Generation of 3D Worlds
Study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07352166.2025.2... | https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2025.2461519
If you design a large program in C where all your variables are "char*", I suppose "exhilarating" could be one word used to describe it.

The article's perspective would be that structs are useful, so use them liberally. And nearly all good, large C programs do, as far as I can tell.

Of course there are tradeoffs and you can take it too far. The article mentions that as well.
Did I miss Red Hat applying the license of their software with the rights given to them by said license? No, I did not, I supported it. The GPL is perfectly compatible with commerce and a profitable business model and this example shows exactly why. What would you prefer–companies that open source software bleed money and get taken advantage of by others? I don't. I want to see a healthy open source ecosystem that preserves user freedoms while balancing that with profitability. The GPL perfectly embodies this ideal.
A good example of this at the extreme is game design.

When you're making a game, it's really expensive to try out different ideas, like a few different implementations of a mechanic. It could be hours of work to make a change. You tend to have to do a lot of thinking to tweak a mechanic in a fundamental way just to see what it feels like, knowing that you're probably going to throw it away.

LLMs are really good at this. Make a git branch, ask Claude Code to tweak the physics so that it does X, see what it feels like. Rollback the change or continue tweaking.

Same with branching the UI to see what a different idea would feel like. Simple changes to explain could result in hours of refactoring UI code (chore work) just to see if you like the result. Or just ask the LLM to do it, see what it feels like, roll it back.
> I never personally understood that

It’s a pretty simple cost/benefit equation.

For 90%+ of people, the benefit (or appeal) of seeing an ancestry report is greater than the cost (or risk) of handing over your DNA.

That said, it’s definitely fair to question why more people don’t take their personal privacy seriously. The reality is companies like Google (and 23andme) simply wouldn’t exist if everyone cared as much about privacy as the HN crowd. Google exists because consumers are fine with sharing their data, for better or worse.
Even if I would agree with everything the article says, I have no idea how the author gets to the conclusion that junior developers will prevail because they are faster at adopting LLMs.

Didn't he just made a point about how fast the situation is evolving? I had some FOMO about ai last year, not anymore. I don't care that I don't have time to fully explore the current LLM state of the art, because in a month it will be obsolete. I'm happy waiting until it settles down.

And if their scenario ends up happening, and you can basically multiply a dev's productivity by N by paying N x K dollarinos, why would you chose a junior dev? It's cheaper, but sometimes a junior dev doesn't take longer to arrive at a solution, it never does (same for senior devs, don't get me wrong, but it happens less often).
This is a way to express your reservation, pursuant to Article 4(3) of the EU's DSM Directive.

The legal machinery is already in place, we now need precisely that: a standard for machine-readable reservations.
AI can’t meme, sorry.
How would you know? I also submitted a deletion request to that airport identity service Clear to avoid missing a flight one time. I received an email "Your request has been received" and nothing else. Is there a way we can validate our information is actually deleted?
Maybe the model is tuned for Chinese language queries and not English ones? It is a Chinese one after all so it would make sense they cater to their domestic market first, no?
Presumably, the read shell builtin can be used to read files in /proc. As per the original article, you can get a static version over the network using only bash builtins and overwrite a file with execute permission to be able to execute it.
AI breakthroughs we've overlooked [video]
I don't understand why people are so hung up on the plastic caps thing. On the milk cartons we have, I outright prefer the new designs even.

On that note, may I ask if there's any point to your comment other than to incite people?
Objects are famously bad at (relational) databases, hence a near universal loathing of ORMs.
Userpace pronfs provides high latency unlinking?
Yes.

Having the note encoded in the URL would be a great way to share that.
Usually my own way of working is to use Balsamiq[0] to have a visual prototype to test out flows, Figma|Sketch for the UI specs, then to just code it. Kinda the same when drawing where you just doodle until you have a few workable ideas, iterate of these to judge colors and other things, and then commit to one for the final result.

[0]: https://balsamiq.com/
Verbose, non terminating CoT is currently common problem with open weight models based on R1-zero methods.

Currently it seems that this shift of cost to inference-time is a necessary tradeoff that we have to live with (for now at least).

It's more of a problem for many people running those models locally because they have constrained hardware that can't handle those long contexts.

It seems that this paper shows not only that their method is cheaper in terms of fine tuning but also significantly reduces inference time cost for CoTs.

If what they say gets confirmed it looks to me like quite significant contribution?
"When you discover yourself to be in a hole, the best first thing to do is stop digging."

Some of the best early professional advice I ever received was, in moments like these, to keep my hands off the keyboard for at least a timed minute.
Hey, I live in Puerto Escondido.
I read the whole thing, top to bottom, and by the 80% mark, I still wasn’t sure whether the piece was written in earnest or the sharpest piece of satire I’ve seen in a decade.
Steve Witkoff: Putin went to church to pray for Trump post assassination attempt
This data should be available with a FOIA, or even better it should be proactively published by colleges online. It should not take hacking to bring this information to light.

The interesting question is, now that this information has been publicized, will the DoJ pursue a civil rights case for what appears to be a fairly blatant case of racial discrimination against white and Asian students?
Show HN: I made a waitlist directory to promote new apps
I’ve always thought of Kerberos as a centralized authentication system, to establish users’ identities.

Authorization, in the sense of deciding to allow or deny a requested action by a known user on a specific object, remains distributed, even with Kerberos. For example, a Windows file server, having received a Kerberos ticket showing a user’s identity and security group memberships, consults its own access control lists to determine what operations to allow on files and directories.

The article here argues that those authorization decisions should also be centralized, presumably using the sponsor’s “cloud-native authorization platform,” instead of being made within each service or application.
Huh. While I agree that Bitcoin specifically has been a successful speculative investment in the past, "a safe store of value" is a massive stretch. It's a safe store of value in the same way a S&P 500 index fund is, except more volatile. What's that phrase... "Past performance is not indicative of future gains?"
You can't. It's only for filesystem and TCP sandboxing.
> You find out your 2.3% Italian?

I'll admit, I'm surprised how easily race science and blood quantum experienced a mass resurgence.
Pretty much how Plan 9 works IIRC. I think Fuchsia might have a similar idea.
The deep gap between preception and reality for narcissists
Hi mariocesar

Django ninja creator here

The project is used in a lot of critical infrastructure so we are prasing more about stability and performance rather then newest featers

On the other hand we prise all fork and keep an eye on them on the features that seems interesting

BTW next relrase is planned by the end of this month

Cheers
No singular person, it's more the value of having a large database. You visit a coffee shop, a stalker collects your dna from a fingerprint and uses the a leaked or sold database from 23andme to tie it to your identity or home address, etc.

Interestingly this also works if a direct relative has used it as well.
KidsTube – A YT Proxy for Families
I remembered the dialogue from the movie Snatch:

T: What's happening with this sausages, Charlie?
C: 2 minutes, Turkish.
-- 5 Minutes later ---
T: How long for the sausages?
C: 5 minutes, Turkish.
T: It was 2 minutes, 5 minutes ago.

I don't know why I remembered it. Is it AI, or self driving cars, or both. Huh.
Rich billionaire? As opposed to a poor one?
No mention of the Transputer :(
Or C. It just turns into pointer math. Godbolt example here[1], just make sure the `int` is an offset within the bounds of the char* and it's well-defined.

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/YWKK1P7zj
> there is no reason to prevent others making other choices and allow other manufacturers to compete on features.

Who is preventing other people from choosing an open platform and who is preventing other manufacturers from competing on that open platform? Certainly it’s not Apple. There are no requirements that app developers exclusively publish for iOS only. There are no requirements that accessory manufacturers manufacture for iPhones only. Retailers are no required to sell exclusively either iPhones or Android phones and no one is charged any per device fees for iOS even if those devices don’t ship with iOS. How does a single manufacturer with less than half of the market share and no presence on any devices other than their own prevent other people from making different choices?

> Apple has to allow access to their OS so that others can interoperate with it, and that's that.

Why though? Why is it not a valid choice to sell a highly sandboxed device that limits the access developers of additional software can have to the device hardware? Why should it be illegal to sell a device where 3rd party developers can’t run their software as root?
As far as ads and Europe are concerned, I'm astonished how Kaufland and Lidl get away with distributing weekly unsolicited physical leaflets to every doorstep within certain radius of their shops which is the case at least in Poland and Germany. I do not want to be on their blacklist or whitelist, simply do not fucking deliver me this paper okay?
> But in many more modern languages, a "new type" is something the equivalent of

You don't even need a modern language for that kind of thing, plenty of languages from a half century or so ago also let you do that. From Ada (40+ years old):

type PrimaryColor is (Red, Green, Blue);

Or if you're content with a mere alias, C (50+ years old) for your first example:

typedef char* MyNewType;
> The union assumed I'm too stupid (...)

I don't think the union thinks about you specifically.

> needing to vacuum the same area more times over to achieve the same cleanliness resulting in even more power used than before

While this makes intuitive sense to me, is this what actually happens though?

> Or just like the EUs promotion for (...)

Remind me, why are you gish-galloping to other random things you find to be crappy about the EU? Again, is there any other point to your comments than to incite?
They typically generate generic LALR parsers, not custom recursive descent parsers. I'm no expert, but my understanding is that custom recursive descent parsers have advantages in terms of readability and error message generation.
How to use an en-dash and em-dash correctly? (BrE)
Bubblewrap is very limited, for example it doesn't allow to grant access to /proc/self/exe without giving access to whole /proc subsystem. So I had to write an emulation of /proc in Python and mount it with FUSE to work around this. I wonder if this issue is fixed in landlock, firejail and others.

Also bubblewrap cannot ask for a decision in runtime: you must set up the rules beforehand.
The amount of random plastic bottle caps in nature proofs that you can not be trusted to screw the cap back on.

And if anything the limit on vacuums forced them to innovate. My Vacuum today is far more effective than my 2000 watt vacuum was in the past.
Wow! This might be very useful. However, the Cursor changes and AI models change and behave differently as time goes by.
Like the husband of the founder ?
> You can't add a number to a string, only to another number.

Works in C, as long as the integer keeps the resulting pointer within the bounds of the allocation. See a trivial example[1].

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/YWKK1P7zj
I always find the caps hate so funny too. I mean it's not something that the world truly needed but I don't have a problem with it and it comes in quite handy when drinking water while driving
No, just putting the results in a set of objects as boxes and move them along. I don't use ORM layers. Just put the returning data from the DB directly into their neat boxes, string them along in a vector, and pass along.

I also write my templated queries myself and talk with the server directly. No need to go "FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition" for a simple task.
I also wonder about that, e.g., considering the team behind deepseek, was it more important for them to have great engineering skills vs strong math backgrounds to achieve this success?
AG could have chosen to inform the public about this and suggest they in future vote for candidates offering privacy enforcing platforms.
> But DNA is the the least impersonal data I could imagine.

I imagine there are far more devastating bits of PII to publish than genes, like your porn-watching habits. I don't think this is a strong rhetorical stance to defend genetic data.

Contract law is kind of diseased. I don't think it's a good idea to build a society around letting people sign basic protection from corporations away.
You're right that it should not matter. That would be a great world to live in! It's not this one, though. Companies ignore these agreements all the time. Sometimes they're even caught and their wrists get slapped.

More often (I believe) we just never learn the agreements have been broken in the first place.

But it is a rule—almost approaching a law of nature—that companies facing financial distress will begin putting a price tag on private data they've promised never to sell. It's like the cartoon with the starving people in the life raft: they look at your data, and suddenly they don't see a legal agreement to protect it, they see a juicy drumstick.

> After all we wouldn't talk about Dropbox being sold resulting in ransacking of your personal data why is that in the conversation with 23andme?

Well, opinions differ on that one too!
A schengen area visa would be very valuable for me, an American
The article kind of brushes over - 10 or so of the victims are all from the same place but were in puerto Escondido when they disappeared? And bodies were dropped just outside of the state line, which was effective somehow?
Seems quite odd.
Bonta himself is about to be indicted by the feds in relation to the Duong family/Sheng Thao corruption probe.
100,000 Germans Surveyed, 94% Said No to Tesla Cars
I find myself much the opposite - I don't usually complain about hype cycles, thinking we should wait and see before reserving judgement. In this case I feel like we've seen enough to know LLMs are not capable of performing anyone's job.
The sad part is that, once upon a time, those crazy claims mattered. There were once good and bad cables. But over the last centry all the best practices were universally adopted (twisted pairs, shielding, consistent conductors made of soft copper). Monster now sounds like a car company shouting about seatbelts and crumple zones, things we now just expect but were once important to look for when selecting cable.

Given Monster some credit for at least being a brand. Have fun trying to reclaim a warranty from the discount chinese numbered company that tops your amazon search. It will be out of business before your delivery arrives.
Notepad Messed with Your Mind [video]
I did this for bone marrow donation. God knows what they did with my DNA sequence but if they match it, it's quite likely I'd be the only one who could help (due to the uniqueness required). It'd be an honor.
As we've discovered with the current federal administration, there is what's in your power (what you can actually do) and there is what's in your power (a convenient excuse not to take decisive action).

The AG isn't "playing the game" because many of these people who hold office are participants in a system of patronage by people who want de-regulation or regulatory capture.

edit: "Norms" is a word that has started to be commonly used to describe situations in which someone was allowed to do something but it was generally considered against the unwritten rules.

Norms is a word that is used to defend inaction even though action is possible, and you'll notice one side dis-empowers themselves by conflating the idea of against norms with being against the rules.
UX-wise, yes. Internally firejail and landrun use different isolation APIs.
The point is that while biology has been a great source of inspiration toward technical advances it’s only a guide, it can’t guarantee there isn’t a better way.
Maybe to them, training LLMs isn't an intelligent thing to do and the world is better without.
Couldn’t they find you on facebook instead of sequencing your genome?
My mom probably has 5 imitator accounts (using her picture and name) and I have two (despite only getting on Facebook once or twice a year). Asking Facebook to delete them does not result in them being deleted.

(They don’t seem to do anything beyond gather some followers from her… maybe they’re DMing those followers through)
I vote democrat. I really do, but I am upset with democrats because they aren't crafting a world we want to live in and they will take any excuse they can to do nothing or something close to nothing instead of actually doing something.

One of the reasons democrat don't get voted for is because they are incapable of governance even in their own strongholds because they engage in the conflict of interest of taking corporate donations. When a politician acts against a citizen, there is no consequence. When a politician acts against a corporation, donations are reduced or transferred to their opponents.

Before a general election is a primary, and before a primary is fundraising. During fundraising, which acts as a filter for candidates, and is therefore a form of election, money votes first, which is why we have a country that feels like politicians represent corporations (they do, corporations vote first by voting with money), rather than people.
I made an informed decision when I signed up.

It's SNP genotyping, which realistically other than telling your ancestry and few health conditions, isn't that predictive of most health conditions. Genotyping only captures a small percentage of total genetic information (it's not a full sequence -- still too expensive for what I paid), and thus the data was actually very limited, so the risk was realistically very small.

Privacy is about risk-reward -- rather than applying the preventative principle to everything (which is overly conservative), we make trade offs in life.
Columbia University agrees to policy changes
"If Meta disagrees with O'Carroll's claims then why settle"

Meta and most companies will settle lawsuits when they believe the rewards of continuing the lawsuit outweigh the cost of settling the lawsuit. There is no connection to whether they disagree or agree with the claim of the lawsuit.
We don't need more agtech investment, we need better agtech that takes market share from UPF and healthcare.
They usually know, but they also know that their opposing party is willing to use bad faith tactics or outright violence to defend their position, and they are scared to some level.
I'm not a physicist, but it's very pleasant listening to a conversation between two old intellectuals.
Seems like a Nix could take a good advantage of Landlock, as it already (kind of) knows all the paths processes need access to.
Image processing and shift invariance come from DSP.
> To put this discovery into perspective, the newly found deposit represents more than half of the world’s annual gray hydrogen production

Only half the yearly production, and yet we're nowhere near anything resembling widespread adoption of hydrogen.
2.0 Flash seems to work well/fine for some use cases but for other produces hilariously bad results compared to ChatGPT and Claude. As a result I tend to avoid prototyping with it and instead consider it something I might implement at scale for speed and cost reasons if it turns out to work for a given use case.