skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
‘rm —rf’ should have default behavior to prompt “are you sure” when deleting top level folders. People are literally talking about secret video files saving their files from being accidentally destroyed.

How in 2025 do we not have these types of innovations? Are people afraid of breaking old scripts?

(macOS saves us from a lot of this stupidity, Linux should have something similar. I would love a way to mark folders as “permanent” or as “restore on reboot”)
I discovered I had around 20 half-siblings I never knew about and got connected with most of them.

> Also, that's not your real Dad

Yeah, that part was less fun
A lot of us trusted and supported her because she was married to Sergey.

No one was expecting that once she had the data she'd divorce him and go full Marissa Mayer.
Memantine is in no way a disassociative though at therapeutic doses. It also has dopaminergic activity which manifests gradually over months while the NMDAr antagonist activity dials down.
I did a quick test, it did interrupt with the fallacy as intended. Whether it actually works for you or not depends on which model you use and if your machine is picking up on the audio from the microphone clearly enough.

Feel free to give it a go though, its open source.
Climate change will not end human civilization, unless by "human civilization" you mean the very specific configuration that habitation patterns, agriculture, national boundaries and numbers of living humans all have at this very moment.

Likely hundreds of millions to a few billion will die that need not have died, wars will be fought, relocation and migration will be of unprecedented scope and scale, there will be hunger and disease ... but "human civilization" will persist through all of that. Thats not a reason to celebrate, it's just a reason to describe the risks and outcomes accurately.
Fossil evidence found of humans domesticating avocados 7,500 years ago
Is this comparable to systemd-nspawn / systemd-run?
They really shit the bed on what was probably one of the greatest things in a decade.
Sounds a bit like proportional navigation from missile guidance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_navigation
Predicting How the Market Will Open Tomorrow
You hand over your DNA when you sit down, when you stand up, when you breathe.
Wow, food in China can be so hyperlocal that I thought surely this won’t include stuff that’s not know outside China, like Guilin Noodles, but its there just under a different name than what I expected.

In particular, going to Hangzhou and trying the food there opened my eyes to how varied Chinese food is. There were a lot of lightly cooked vegetables and thinly sliced meats with subtle flavoring and sauces, the opposite of what I thought of saucy heavily cooked stir fry.
Thanks for the info, will have to try the sous vide method sometime.
This security antipattern is also called "enumerating badness", with antivirus databases being the most popular example. Obviously once you have created a list of the bad stuff, you have to keep it up to date.
Early Windows looked good, but not anything Win8 or newer.
The Remasters of first two Homeworld games play just fine, there's nothing "screwed up" there. They changed a few things due to engine change, but it has very little effect on the gameplay and it certanly isn't the massive drama bunch of nerds on forums are making of it.

Everything that makes Homeworld great is still there (without all the technical issues due to 1999 engine).
I don't know if filing for bankruptcy has immediate effect of being bankrupt, but if they are still operating normally, you can apparently remove "your data", like this:

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont...

However, that's 2 big if's: Are they still operating normally, and do they consider "your data" data you upload or genetic data pertaining to you.
this looks cool, thanks for sharing. they have linked a ctf event as an interactive example, what? XD
It is simpler to export paths locally, so the remote doesn't have to know your file/folder structure.
Reactive arthritis is easy to treat using a course of appropriate antibiotics, although the right choice may vary. A good powerful blend of probiotics in a capsule also helps tremendously although it's not sufficient without the antibiotic. I have used this approach to treat it. For an acute case, also consider activated carbon. Obviously the three all oppose each other, so take them at separate times.

As for pathogenic viruses in the gut, immune boosting supplements, glutamine, and collagen should help with treatment.
I've been a native english reader for six decades .. your subtextual meaning was not apparent in the comment as written.

Perhaps consider that neither you, nor I, nor anyone else has any truly authoritative knowledge on what is "meant" by third party forum comments and we are all limited to what is clearly written.

If you are truly concerned by the fate of the earth should it become covered in vast tracts of radioactive waste from some yet to be determined mystery source, then perhaps ask yourself could it be worse than when the earth had numerous surface level natural fission reactors?
>Basically, eventually cash will basically become the “crime mode” for its respective currency. I don’t see why it makes sense to continue to allow cash at that point.

Well, it depends on what the government in question defines as criminal activity. Just because something's made illegal doesn't mean it's immoral, wrong or in any way bad. Many regimes have in the past made all kinds of transactions illegal specifically for the sake of their own criminal persecution of targeted minority groups. This is why argument about "only criminal activity" are both idiotic and naive.
it very likely may not be per their own words. They are "bound by various legal and regulatory obligations that may necessitate retention of certain information". This came straight from their privacy team.
It possible with crypto shredding.
You store everything encrypted with one key by customer. When you want to delete you erase the key.
The data becomes unusable everywhere (backups included).
Then a job periodically garbage collects data without a key, but that's more for cost saving.

Big companies do this but it requires some technical maturity. If you operate in Europe you have to implement proper data deletion. I would be more worried about small companies that large ones tombe honest.
There are troubling privacy issues, but it was able to tell me: "Toe Length Ratio : Likely second toe longer". I didn't even have to look down!

Maybe it was a bad idea. But, I figured if we enter a dystopian future, evil health care companies or governments could easily get my DNA if they want to and/or simply require that information to get care. When you get blood drawn, do you see what they do with it?

Hopefully, what matters is the laws we all fight for and not whether I sent my spit to an internet company in 2022.

Anyways, will delete my data.
Thank you very much for recommending the Legentibus app. I've just installed it, and I'm already enjoying it. It looks nice, has just the right amount of introductory material, and runs smoothly, which already puts it head and shoulders above most apps. I'm looking forward to diving in.

I had four years of Latin in junior high school and high school, and have been trying to revive my skills using Duolingo for five minutes a day for a few years. It will be fun to try something new.
How does a company like that go bankrupt? They sell kits for freaking $200. How is that unprofitable?
Also, sunlight exposure (with limited UV) went hand in hand. Now we have neither.
>i.e., the inability to attribute user responses to ad creatives versus the platform’s targeting algorithms

Why would people expect to measure just the creative? How good the platform is able to target is part of what one would want to include in the measurement.

The goal of these experiments is to see which creative pushes the metrics the most.
> --best-effort: Use best effort mode, falling back to less restrictive sandbox if necessary [default: enabled]

Enabled by default: this strikes me as a particularly poor design choice
For what it's worth, this is on their Data page:

> What happens to my data if the company is sold or otherwise changes ownership?

> If the company does change ownership in the future, your data will remain protected under the current 23andMe Privacy Policy unless and until you are presented with materially new terms, with appropriate advanced notice to review those material changes as required by law.

https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/records/
I genuinely wonder about this too. I wonder what the line in the sand is for Trump supporters.

The latest assault on social security should start hitting close to home for Trump supporters?

Maybe the end of welfare or unemployment or disability? A lot of Trump supporters fall into this category. Which is crazy because Trump is the classic wealthy person that stands on the back of the poor or borderline poverty and they seem to love Trump.
their own privacy team told me they are bound by regulatory obligations to retain data even after you request deletion. I've notified our attorney general's office to see if anything can be done but it might be too late. I'd love for someone who knows these "regulatory obligations" to chime in.....
Cool! Sometimes I scan and delete the email as soon as it comes through. Will this just keep the email in the inbox?
Let's say I live in the hypothetical state of Midwestia. It gets up to 100 degrees F in the summer and down to -40 in the winter months.

Over the course of ten years, the average daily temperature goes up by 1 degree F (which is many times faster than reality).

That means that there's basically one day in the entire year that doesn't fit within the existing model, or maybe a handful if some other part of the year is cooler than normal. We see more variation between normal years than we expect to see average increase in both the short and medium terms.

Our weather models predict no more than two or three weeks into the future.

There's literally nothing about climate change that will change how weather systems interact that will occur faster than our weather models will adapt to. Our weather patterns may change drastically, but that's a fundamentally different problem.
The world politics specifically US+Germany+Russia is at least one level more complex than describing it as a transaction between these 3 countries.

I dont pretend to understand it but I also dont think you should minimize it to just one or two transactions.

Nobody can predict the future when thinking about international politics. We cannot apply human level rules to interaction between countries.
You buy a kit one time in your life. I'm more amazed that people thought it could be a profitable business once everyone that was going to had purchased their one kit per lifetime. And it wasn't even $200, it was more around $100 or even less if you didn't want ancestry + health. I wonder if I can still get the locked away health part haha?
You can request your data from a section in the site first if you like. Some of the downloads say they can take a few days to generate, but all were available within a day of my requests.
Looks more like a native ad then a review.

But that is what I expect for 'tech websites'.
I wanted to use quadlets and tried podlets as well since I wanted to try staying close to the RH paradigm. The experience coming from docker compose (on top of podman) was horrendous. It became a rabbit hole of trying with different flags, upgrading versions, following suggestions from podlet itself to switch to another tool, etc.

Ultimately my systemd just executes `podman compose up`.

What are the benefits of quadlets as opposed to letting compose do its job?

Update: podman runs under my user, no demon whatsoever.
It’s a pity I didn’t upload my sequence here. I imagine in the end the most comprehensive databases win. But @dekhn mentioned PGP and I’m there. Here I am https://my.pgp-hms.org/profile/hu81A8CC

Let’s see if anything worthwhile comes of it. Feel free to ask me for more. I have the raw reads as well. Email in profile.
Ask HN: What are the best use cases for custom GPTs
I'm looking for ideas that have really high demand

for eg: For example: a customer service agent for a Shopify store, integrated with a RAG system and the customer database.

There are many such ideas. would love to hear your favorites.
It's an aspirational 'edit out'. As in, 'don't include them in the future'.
I worry more about Google, Facebook, mobile apps, cell phones tracking location, interests, activities putting it together for others to buy.

These tests do not do a full detailed analysis if you want that you need to find a clinic and pay thousands of dollars. For what they do tell you I wouldn't be afraid for the entire world to see.

Discovering who you are, where you came from, discovering who your relates are, what your last name is, where people with your genes live now, the backstory on how your wave of immigration came and where they settled and why has been worth it.

The information exposed by 21andme was profile and ethnicity information. I'm okay with any of that becoming public, the public part of a facebook profile shares personal data. Actually I wish more people would ask me about my ethnicity data. I think it would make a great addition as a facebook profile section and if facebook still allowed developers to create profile addons I would create one.

As an aside does anyone remember catbook addon?
A private company will also oversee the Postal Inspectors, won't it?

"As fact-finding and investigative agents, postal inspectors are sworn federal law enforcement officers who carry firearms, make arrests, and serve federal search warrants and subpoenas. Inspectors work closely with U.S. attorneys, other law enforcement agencies, and local prosecutors to investigate postal cases and prepare them for court."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Inspectio...
My Ruby Debugging Tips in 2025
What do you need though? One lab and software they already have?
Anything like this for Windows 8? I know most people's favourite is 7, but I prefer 8 as it is very lightweight, and performs well on older PCs
Yes California. I've been asking what data is being retained per their privacy policy and here is the much longer response:

"Your Genetic Information, date of birth, and sex will be retained by 23andMe and our third party genotyping laboratory as required for compliance with applicable legal obligations, including the U.S. Federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA), California Business and Professional Code Section 1265, and College of American Pathologists accreditation requirements.

It is important to understand that the information stored is distinct from the raw genotype data available within your account. The raw data we receive from the lab has not been processed by our interpretation software to produce your individual-level genotype data (in your account).

You can read more about our retention requirements in the retention of personal information section of our Privacy Statement."
I guess I'm in the camp that considers your con a pro. If my Dad wasn't or isn't my biological dad, I would want to know. And I'd be grateful to any service that informed me.
I think all DSLs should be turned into function calls. Of course, function calls can be simpler, such as some infix and dictionary parameters.
I signed up with a fake name and a prepaid debit card. They’re going to have to work hard to get mine.
It would be nice to have a laptop you can safely use outside somewhere or handle drinks getting spilled on the keyboard.

But I guess that would add 10 or 15 more dollars to the manufacturing cost and make it harder to deny warranty claims.
So their argument is that the tests are not providing causal inference, because the platforms can target the two A/B test groups differently.

With that in mind, my reading of this is: if you're a researcher trying to say "Advertisement A is more appealing than Y", you need causal inference and these tests won't give them to you. If you're a marketer just trying to determine what ad spend is more efficient, you don't need that causal inference.

In other words, they are debunking using these tools for research studies, and not as marketing tools.
This is fantastic! Now do India.
I have a theory why placebo works: It may be caused by the "Selfish Gene".

When my sub-conscious believes the body is dying it decides it's for the best of the whole gene-population that the individual in question stops fighting for resources and for reproductive opportunities in the world. It would be wasteful to use scarce resources for me, not from the viewpoint of me the individual, but from the viewpoint of the gene-population.

But if I do believe the doctor's pill will cure me soon, then the sub-conscious "thinks" that it must be more true than not, because who can we believe more than the experts? So it's time for it to NOT give up my fight for the survival of the fittest, but to help me do it.

In other words if my subconscious believes I am dying soon, it would not make sense (from the viewpoint of the gene-population) to take away scarce resources from other individuals who are NOT dying soon.

The "Selfish Gene" is in fact the most unselfish thing there is, it is guided by what is best for all of us.
this is amazing. Definitely going to use this when I visit China again. Level of detail and accuracy is incredible I definitely learned a lot while reading about which cuisines I missed when I visited China

> Shaxian Wontons (沙县云吞). Top left. Similar in many ways to Cantonese style wontons

The locals always use the term bianrou 扁肉 even though it was the Shaxian delicacies chain that popularized it outside of Fujian. I was a little confused when I saw my favorite dish called this.
Please allow triplets! You're missing out big without a basic shuffle! I also second the other comments about ordering. Cymbals on top, snare and toms in middle, bass and other pedals on the bottom. e.g.

hh |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
S |----o-------o---|
B |o-------o-o-----|
Are all the inputs (from buoys, weather balloons, stations, etc) from decades of history stored, as well as past daily forecasts of existing weather models, so that this AI algorithm (and any future new ones) can be run across historic data and compared in terms of performance to existing methods?

Is there a big Clearinghouse for this data?

Kind of like how fintech algos can be run against historic stock market data to evaluate them.
Kind of. NIR is more oriented towards lowering and optimizing code for driver backends, as far as I know. SPIR-V is targeted towards the other end of the spectrum.
> Within the context of iNaturalist.

No, he/she meas everywhere:

> Note that by 'first known' I'm referring to the first known photographs of a species anywhere, not just the first photographs to be submitted to iNaturalist.
Calling typescript devs "low quality" while also citing python as "high quality" actually made me laugh out loud.

Thank you for the chuckle.
The less naive answer is that a typical weather model has hundreds of parameters that have been tuned manually over decades of use.
If you're a fan of compose files, then you can use Docker's own compose application [1] with Podman [2]. It seems that the compose cli controls the engine using its socket. Both podman and docker engines have the almost same API. I'm using this approach since podman-compose didn't work as expected. Docker-compose is usually installed as a plugin for the docker client. However, I use it as a standalone application for use with Podman. In addition, I prefer using docker 'contexts' instead of the DOCKER_HOST environment variable to set up the integration.

Also, note that if plain quadlets aren't powerful enough for you, quadlets [3] and plain podman [4] also support running a limited set of kubernetes manifests.

Added later: I still haven't figured out how podman handles the 'restart' option in compose files, since podman doesn't have a supervisor daemon. Meanwhile, I know that the 'healthcheck' option depends on systemd timers. Automatic health check didn't work for me when using Podman on a non-systemd distribution (Gentoo). However, I could trigger the health check manually and that would lead to the rest of the setup running to completion.

[1] https://github.com/docker/compose

[2] https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-serv...

[3] https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.uni...

[4] https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-kube-play.1...
How would you define “ready” here?
Second-year high school students do read actual Roman texts, but they typically do so very slowly and laboriously - a day’s homework might be translating a single paragraph.

I studied Latin from 7th grade through my early undergraduate years (1990s to early 00s), and that dynamic didn’t change as much as you might expect - the focus remains on deeply reading a few texts, rather than building the fluency required to quickly read and understand new texts on unfamiliar subjects. The corpus of texts for standardized exams is also relatively small and well-known - I didn’t see a single unfamiliar passage on either AP Latin exam.

Perhaps some classics professors read Latin as fluently as the average Spanish literature professor reads a Madrid newspaper, but I certainly never met any outside Reginaldus’s orbit.
What a great post, I'm so stunned.
I've been collecting "directed energy" articles for years now, for anyone that would like to know more: https://www.reddit.com/r/DirectedEnergyWeapons/
The caste system was put in place 1900 years ago but after the mixing of populations so caste system identification through dna isn't really possible.

And Jews were self identifying and dna isn't going to tell you if you are gay or not.

Ethnicity can be easier discovered through last name, visual clues rather then stolen hacker data.

The fears are similar to fears around your commodore 64 accidently logging into a war games scenario and destroying the world.
I wanted to try something different when I reset my self host set up several years ago, and went with openSUSE MicroOS. Ultimately it has led to podman containers running under systemd/quadlet and I'm quite happy with the current set up.

Containers auto update with built in podman tooling, getting at logs and monitoring is through the usual systemd tools. When I need to change something, it's easy to work out where the config files are if I have forgotten and they are easy to read and change. Rootless and daemonless is nice too.

I tried a few things along the way, podman compose felt clunky so I'm glad it is deprecated and it's clear quadlets are the way to go.

There was a learning curve and there's less information out there than with docker, so keep that in mind. I would still lean towards docker and docker compose for local dev to bring a stack of services up and down.
Go lower in the stack and wait. Wait is the keyword here because some people can't hold on to tech for a couple more years without income.

There is a lot of stuff (packages/crate/repos) going unmaintained. It used to be hard to make an open source contribution in 2015-2021 as it was competitive and it brought resume value. That is no longer the case. Also lots of companies stopped their open source contributions/paid staff working on OSS. The only open source going on now is the one that monetizes the company bottom line.

In 1-2 year lots of stuff will start breaking and companies will need people to fix this stuff. Eventually they'll start hiring again whether full time, part time, freelance you name it.