skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We also know that statistically speaking your spouse is the person most likely to murder you.

This is slightly misleading. While it is true that the person with the highest probability of murdering you is your partner (at least, if you're a woman), it is more likely that the murder is a stranger to the victim than to be the spouse of the victim.

For example, in the FBI's 2011 dataset [1], of the 7076 murders by someone with a known relationship to the victim, 1295 were by a husband, wife, boyfriend, or girlfriend. This is compared to, of course, the 2700 murders committed by acquaintances and 1481 by strangers. From this, we can see ~18% of murders are by their partners and ~60% are by someone quite a bit further flung.

The reason why both statistics are simultaneously true is that most people have only a few partners (focusing the entire risk on a small group) where as there are many thousands of people in the latter categories (creating a very diffuse risk).

So, if you were to bet one which person murdered someone, you would do well to guess one of their partners. If you had to guess if the victim knew their murderer, you should bet that they did not.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
The Show HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43515622
Growing with lax environmental oversight. Apparently oil companies can push the brunt of liability for oil spills to the taxpayer there. See: https://ieefa.org/resources/recent-decision-leaves-exxonmobi...

Under those conditions, one wonders how long can they roll the dice before a Deepwater Horizon lookalike disaster happens.
> OP has already said that it was not AI generated

They first went defensive when asked about it up thread [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43519312
I vaguely remember the philosophy classes I took oncr upon a time as all being lectures and then extensive papers for homework, with real discussion only happening in the 400-level ones around when I finally stopped taking them because the endless paper-writing rhetoric in circles was just terminally boring by that point.
Their gokart project was awesome!
I didn't know this before searching for it, but there's a wikipedia article with a list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_servic...
One thing the Streisand effect illuminates is a certain type of person is not fully able to model the consequences of trying to keep information secret. It's absolutely plausible that someone in the university administration actually believed that they could tell the FBI "please keep this secret in order to protect our reputation" and that their request would outweight the agency's other duties. There exist people that are that self-important.
If it doesn't cost $200 of your time to claim $12, what is government for?
and ‘trust me bro, my quantum chip is legit’ is better?
Does anyone have any details on what kind of filter this was? I bought a relatively high-MERV filter for my home, but I’m wondering what I should actually be trying to filter out.
Delaying is still better than submitting early.
We all have imaginary friends that we believe will one day make us magically more successful, rich, and beautiful. It’s just hard for us to observe that from within the system.

Kids, on the other hand, are simple creatures. They’ll demonstrate exactly what they feel and think. That makes observing this effect much easier.
Fandom is one of those sites I want to like but just can't. How can the developers of that site be satisfied with their work?
The Show HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43496191
I would argue that if you need to learn it the right way in order for it to make sense, then what that really means is that you just get used to it and it's not very intuitive to begin with.

Take the simple example of a pointer. It's just a data type, but it gets its own symbol. Ints or floats do not get their symbol, and pointer similarly could just be a keyword and not a symbol to be consistent. Pointer could be a type keyword for declaration, and * (asterisk) could be the operator to retrieve a pointer value. This disambiguates it easily and intuitively.

But again, I still like C++ and consider all of these inconsistencies as side effect of its longed lived legacy. It needed to change and evolve and making comprises is hard when it's already part of so many systems. I'm also not sure there's anything better. I have not yet learned Rust but it seems it's aiming for a different kind of experience alltogether. Not sure what could be the real successor to C++ while still remaining compatible in the way C++ is to C.
> like police powers haven't been continuously expanded for decades

They have also seen periods of reduction, e.g. in the wake of George Floyd (until the abolish the police nutters took the loudspeaker).
Logically -- scientifically -- a runny nose might not be said to be "a sign of a cold". That is, it is not sufficient evidence to indicate a cold. When paired with other data, it may contribute to a diagnosis. It's not unrelated.

Similarly, an imaginary friend is not "a sign of" loneliness. On its own. When grouped with other data, maybe together they are.

It's just a difference in language usage. "A sign of X" might be taken to mean that on its own, X is implied. Or it might be taken to mean that it can be a contributing factor, but on it's own is meaningless.
I have some fandom wikis that I visit. My adblockers block all the ads and I use Safari's "hide distracting items" feature to block the other annoyances. Makes the site pretty usable but you have to care a lot about the content to bother with it.
Would you say the same of Watson-Crick/Pauling and Watson-Crick/Candlin? One was pure rivalry. The other was (to my mind) just a dick move.

Fred Hoyle famously had feuds. A lot of the Astro community couldn't work with him. I think it even extended to his grad students. He was an amazing educator and got side-tracked into bizarre theories which every now and then turn out to have a germ of truth (you could say that about extra-terrestrial sources of life in regard to precursor chemicals in the asteroid belt)

Hoyle and Martin Ryle for instance.
In theory getting rid of addictions shouldn't require giving up on "it takes a village", but yes these people seem to real have a family-as-fortress mentality, along with proclamations of their own superiority.

Low-trust society, man... It sucks.
The thing is that most of our everyday software will not benefit from parallelism. What we really have a use for is concurrency, which is a totally different beast.
My toddler has a LeapFrog talking dictionary that drives my teenage daughter crazy. So I just started a project to replace its logic board with a RPi Pico 2 and interfacing with all ~45 of the toy's buttons and LEDs via a couple of GPIO expansion cards.

We'll have about ~300 short audio clips to record, and we'll store/access them via an SPI SD card reader peripheral. Audio output via a MAX98357A combo DAC/class D amplifier that we'll talk to via I2S. Powered by 2 AA batteries. Programming will be in CircuitPython, which is a cool way to teach the kids programming. (There are easy libraries for talking to all those peripherals.)
I'm working on Video Clip Library (https://videocliplibrary.com), a desktop app for browsing, searching, and managing large collections of video files locally on your computer.

It's essentially a small search engine for videos that runs locally on your laptop. Previously, the system just extracted information about whole video files and maintained a searchable list of those files.

I'm putting the finishing touches on a major architectural change to solve a request from someone who creates highlight reels for professional soccer matches. They needed to tag and search for specific moments within videos - like all goals scored by a particular player across dozens of camera angles of dozens of matches.

This required re-engineering the entire data model to support metadata entries that point to specific segments of a file entity rather than just the file itself.

Instead of treating each file as an atomic unit, I now separate the concept of "content" from the actual files that contain it. This distinction allows me to:

1. Create "virtual clips" - time segments within a video that have their own metadata, tags, and titles - without generating new files

2. Connect multiple files that represent the same underlying content (like a match highlight with different ad insertions for YouTube vs. Twitch)

3. Associate various resolution encodings with the same logical content

For example, a content creator might have multiple versions of the same video with different ad placements for different channels. In the old system, these were just separate, unrelated files. Now, they're explicitly modeled as variants of the same logical content, making organization and search much more powerful.

I also completely reworked the job system, moving from code running in the Electron main process to spawning Temporal in a child process. I know it sounds like overkill for a desktop app, but it's been surprisingly perfect for a desktop app that's processing hundreds of terabytes of video.

When you're running complex ML pipelines on random people's home computers, things go wrong - custom FFmpeg versions that don't support certain codecs, permission issues with mounted volumes, their local model server crashes. With Temporal, when a job fails, I just show users a link to the Temporal Web UI where they can see exactly what failed and why. They can fix their local config and retry just that specific activity instead of starting over. It's cut my support burden dramatically.

My developer experience is so much better too. The ML pipeline for face recognition has multiple stages (small model looks for faces, bigger model does pose detection, embedding generation with even larger model) that takes minutes to run. With Temporal, I can iterate on just the activity that's failing without rerunning the entire pipeline. Makes developing these data-intensive workflows so much more manageable.
I'm not trying to debate the merits of various government. We're just discussing definitions.

It you take my property via threat of violence (coercion), that is thievery. School children understand this. So I'm sure you do as well. Taxes aren't voluntary and if you do not pay them, you will be jailed. If you resist being jailed, you will be violently detained. If you respond with violence in kind, you will be killed.

I don't care if you think that the ends justify the means. We're just discussing definitions.
I love your Overcooked mod.
thanks for the reference.

yes. you nailed my point-that you will have to fit classical or quasi-classical fields, which is liable to require scads of qbits just to get close. qbits are just not "designed" to do that sort of thing.

in any case we ~solved protein folding heuristically and not using fields so i shouldn't be too pessimistic that it's impossible that quantum compute will help eventually.
Daily journaling app, Markdown format, with Excel-like composable formulas (find, ask, etc.) Email in my bio if you want to be an alpha tester.
Thanks! Still a work in progress :-)
I understand why these things have to be posted, but I would be lying if I said that I wasn't utterly exhausted by the constant shit that the Trump administration is spitting at us. I mean, I get it, bad shit needs to be reported on, the Trump admin does a lot of bad shit, it makes sense, but it's just extremely tiring.

I know that's kind of the point, to bombard us with all this shit all at once so that we are exhausted and withdraw, but I kind of just wish that about half of America had just elected a fucking grownup instead of a stupid manchild and his Diablo-cheating South African toadie (or maybe the other way around).

I vote in every election that I am legally allowed to vote in, and I'm not sure what else I can do. I guess just stay informed and prepare for four more years of being exhausted.
Ouch the bit about being illiterate hits hard. I've always struggled to read literature that uses highly intricate, complex, or archaic English. I also struggle reading books cover to cover. I also had a disability throughout uni which made it difficult to read for extended periods of time, so I learned to be effective at skimming things. But as I matured as a student, I took the time to really understand prose, especially technical and mathematical jargon as that was pretty important. I read a lot of academic papers and dense books on theory and improved my comprehension skills. But today I still find reading a lot of books end to end is difficult and hard to make time. For awhile I was listening to audiobooks and that helped a lot and it helps ingest content but I feel I'm missing out on learning specific prose or vocabulary. Basically something I really need to improve on.
I think plenty of students are there because they want to learn a subject, singular. Everything else is just the unrelated overhead they're stuck with for their white collar job permit.
I kinda disagree with PG on this one.

What we should do is not "make good new things" but "maintain things that work and improve upon it".

We have too many people that WANT to make new things. Ideally good, but when so many people value NEW things we obfuscate what good means.

Maintaining thing that works includes everything: it makes you learn something,(how can you maintain something you don't understand?) often structured and you stand on a giants shoulder. Since it have been maintained so far, most likely it's also valuable. But also, most likely it can be improved upon.

I think PGs essay here actually go against his previous post of "Great Work". In this essay he mention art needs to be new/unique but usually art (and fashion) is cyclic; they reuse and rehash old ideas all the time. And even in science, such as Einstein and Newton, they usually just IMPROVE on the existing understanding, although in a major way.

Is newness essential? Not really in the modern attention based economy of 2025. Newness chasers are often similar to clout chasers. More noise there and you'll end up surrounding yourself with style over substance kind of people.
Very nice on both! I've long had an affinity for non-mainstream programming languages (mostly those with Wirth lineage). I wish there were more projects that used them.
Pls add support for changing currency and deductions (in India 10% TDS is supposed to be deducted on the amount (ie amount before tax is added)

Overall it’s pretty good solution for occasional invoice generators.
My dad made a similar observation, assuming the children were young. However, upon reviewing the article, I noticed it doesn’t explicitly mention the grade level. Considering younger children have weaker immune systems, this could potentially lead to fewer missed classes and improved grades. Personally, my first grader misses out on a considerable number of classes.

However, if these results were observed in grades 3 or higher, it could suggest a more substantial phenomenon. I randomly picked the third grade, but perhaps there’s a specific age after which the medical community considers a child’s immunity to be significantly enhanced.
Voting is the minimum of civic duty, not the maximum.
oh so that's what my elementary school classmate had
> Either encrypt it such that only the authorized user can read it, or require the authorized user to retrieve it directly.

> From the user's point of view, authorizing some other user to read something

You keep using the singular "user", but the posts in question are not messages between one user and one other user but rather "followers only", such that anyone who follows the account is authorized to read the post.

> doesn't mean authorizing whoever runs that user's instance to read it.

That wasn't even the issue.
It really is true, I spent years of my life wrangling a massive glusterfs cluster and it was awful. You basically can't do any kind of file system operations on it that aren't CRUD on well known specific paths. Anything else— traversal, moving/copying, linking, updating permissions would just hang forever. You're also at the mercy of the kernel driver which does hate you personally. You will have nightmares about uninterruptible sleep. Migrating it all to S3 over Ceph was a beautiful thing.
Foldable Smartphone Market to See Its First Decline in 2025
It would be hilarious if he did that and BYD said "Go for it" and they just sold cars everywhere except the US. Extra points if they never had any intention of selling those cars in the US. Extra extra points if they bought out plants manufacturing parts for American cars and just stopped doing that and made BYD parts for BYD cars not being sold in the US.

In other words, proceed as if the US was completely irrelevant to their plans.
Don’t follow your logic: if the day is currently shorter than 24 hours we need to slow the Earth rotation down, not speed it up.
> These companions can take a variety of forms — in the 2004 study, which looked at 100 6- and 7-year olds, 57 percent of imaginary friends were human, 41 percent were animals, and one was “a human capable of transforming herself into any animal the child wanted.”

Real world data is a messy thing
The tool url is not listed in TFA, but a simple google search results in the following:

https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/TLHdig/
Hi, just wrote up some reflections & strategy on this moment as a codegen startup founder.

Let me know if you have any questions!
electricity transformer
Sure. What are you doing outside of voting?
Some developers enjoy coding and some enjoy paychecks. Some enjoy both.
I think it was the bit that said

Dr. XiaoFeng Wang is the Associate Dean for Research and a James H. Rudy Professor of Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana University at Bloomington and an ACM, IEEE and AAAS Fellow. At IU, he is also a Co-Director of Center for Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing and Engineering, and was the Director of the Master of Science in Secure Computing (MSSC) program.

But maybe I'm reading too much into it.
It is possible to write portable make files that work with both.
I'm building a website for watching TV news channels from about the world.

https://worldnews24.tv/

With the recent flurry of historic events unfolding, I want to see it from different perspectives (e.g. U.S., Europe, Russia, China, pro-Palestine vs Pro-Israel), therefore I included channels from all these areas, even channels that may be considered propaganda. So keep a critical eye when watching them.

And it's a way for me to try out Vidstack and SvelteKit. Feels like the routing can be improved though.
If Trump wins the next election, take that as the signal of the point of no return. It happened to Rome, it can happen to America.
I’m an active DSA member. What about you?
I'm all for installing air filters in classrooms for a number of reasons, but I also think the extreme results from this study aren't going to hold up to further research.

From the paper:

> To do so, I leverage a unique setting arising from the largest gas leak in United States history, whereby the offending gas company installed air filters in every classroom, office and common area for all schools within five miles of the leak (but not beyond). This variation allows me to compare student achievement in schools receiving air filters relative to those that did not using a spatial regression discontinuity design.

In other words, the paper looked at test scores at different schools in different areas on different years and assumed that the only change was the air filters. Anyone who has worked with school kids knows that the variations between classes from year to year can be extreme, as can differences produced by different teachers or even school policies.

Again, I think air filtration is great indoors, but expecting test scores to improve dramatically like this is not realistic. This feels like another extremely exaggerated health claim, like past claims made about fish oil supplements. Fish oil was briefly thought to have extreme positive health benefits from a number of very small studies like this, but as sample sizes became larger and studies became higher quality, most of the beneficial effects disappeared.
I think most of the people who sign up for email alerts would never pay. Lots of them are indie hackers or folks with a side project - I've been there, and know how price sensitive those communities are. I'd rather they use the service for free than not at all - I get valuable feedback from that, a marketing boost if they tell others about it, and the validation of having built something other people use.

I do have a paid plan for people who want Slack notifications, and I think those folks ought to be happy to pay. My hope is that I'll eventually get a few paid signups and that those will cover the costs of the service (which are minimal).

I know I lose a bit of revenue with the above approach, but it's a tradeoff I'm happy to make.
That sounds like a fair observation. Probably has a lot of merit.

The other thing about folks without means, is that they know what it’s like, to have needs. A lot of folks with means, are pretty used to having the skids greased, and not needing stuff from others.

I think humans are social animals, and we’re generally wired for empathy. When we can see, in others, that which we see in ourselves, it helps us to feel more connected.

I’m not a particularly competitive person. That’s actually a deliberate posture. When I “win” something, that means someone else loses, and I’m not so comfortable with that.

The reasons partly have to do with being raised overseas, and experiencing grinding poverty in others. It really made a mark on me.
This is a brilliant article because it is summarising how bad it is. They don't want you to know how bad! Lots of paper cuts and hopefully no one sees the amputation.

We need one on attack on working class including all the loss of services esp. education and inflation caused by tariffs.
I agree that the trend is not sustainable, but that's not the students' responsibility — they're just responding to incentives.

Either institutions maintain their standards or employers stop relying on the signaling value of the credential, and both are difficult coordination problems until the moment it becomes too late. I don't see a third option.
Before Bluestore, we ran Ceph on ZFS with the ZFS Intent Log on NVDIMM (basically non-volatile RAM backed by a battery). The performance was extremely good. Today, we run Bluestore on ZVOLs on the same setup and if the zpool is a "hybrid" pool we put the Ceph OSD databases on an all-NVMe zpool. Ceph WAL wants a disk slice for each OSD, so we don't do Ceph WAL and consolidate incoming writes on the ZiL/SLOG on NVDIMM.
Good thing Scott Aaronson's protocol isn't that.
> Like, it sounds plausible

It sounds like ass talk that is hard to refute or confirm.

I could just as easily say we have imaginary friends to help in cognitive development/processing that the real world isn't adequately fulfilling.

It sounds great and might even be possible.. but it came from my ass.
They work in tandem.
I've got a couple different things I've been hacking on on and off over the last few months.

The one that's furthest along is a database and (currently extremely crude) webapp for asking interesting data type questions about Lotus setlists. I built a little scraper for Nugs and have all their setlists, I just need to take it further and get some of the queries I want implemented and put some kind of halfway decent interface in front.

I also built a little app that uses your Claude API key to generate "generative art," so you send in a prompt and it sends back some visualization code and renders it. It's fun to mess with but I haven't seen anything come out that's wowed me yet.

Got some other little hackeries going too, a lot of my recent hacking time has gone towards getting the -arr apps and their whole little ecosystem set up on my home server. I got a little N100 machine back in December and have been having tons of fun hosting little docker gewgaws.