skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some wasps are about as clever as birds in some ways, especially with respect to socially adaptive forms of intelligence in social species, such as the ~1Kya selective sweep that resulted in members of the P. fuscatus species group developing the ability to distinguish individual conspecifics by their unique facial features. That's pretty impressive for about a hundred and fifty thousand neurons, and larger and more highly social vespid wasps (yellowjackets and hornets, vs. the 'paper wasps' of Polistinae), metabolically able to support larger brains, do better still.

Their brains also aren't structured similarly to ours in a gross sense, although the so-called "mushroom bodies" do appear to serve similar purposes to our cortical "gray matter," and if I recall correctly, there is some sense that connectome complexity scales proportionately with complexity of behavior, though I'm not sure how well this has actually been studied.

On a similar note, though their primary eyes aren't constructed at all like ours, they do nonetheless exhibit a "foveal" area of highest detail and resolution, in the regions of their eyes where it does them the most good - namely, ahead and below, the latter aiding in manipulation with palps, mandibles, and the front pair of legs. That's not quite the same as a brain per se, of course, but it does also point to the adaptive constraints under which evolution has occurred: as flyers who construct their own nests and who regularly must travel long distances to find all the resources a colony needs - or, as peripatetic mammals who came up grazing as much or more as hunting and use tools - good eyesight, memory, and dexterity are all very valuable, and thus it isn't a great surprise when such species that become successful on a cosmopolitan scale show extensive development of these traits. The infrastructure on which the trait is built may be independently of interest, but not being able to understand how such a small infrastructure gives rise to such global traits isn't an excuse for ignoring the exhibition of the traits.

In light of all that - plus the anecdotes that such a close and friendly interest in wasps would tend to yield - I've tended to think of intelligence in this sense, or capacity for same, as sort of "holographic" in concept: if you make a hologram on film and then cut it in half, what you get is not two halves of a hologram, but two complete holograms, each with lower resolution than the parent. I think brains scale the same way, such that what you get with a much smaller brain is not so much less breadth as less depth.

I don't really have a clear formulation of the concept, or not yet at least, but hopefully you can see at least a vague outline of what I'm reaching for. Or that I do, at least! Maybe we could think of it as the anthropic principle shorn of human chauvinism, if you like.
That would probably save some money on new paint jobs :)
I've been meaning to practice some data visualization tasks... If anybody knows any cool datasets they'd recommend that aren't your run of the mill kaggle consumer data or whatever. I'm particularly interested in bioinformatics/genetics data but not really sure of where to look (and have almost no background, just personally interested in comp-bio).. If anyone could recommend cool and open esoteric data/possible projects, that would be awesome.
This is awesome! I love the game.

My one piece of feedback is to improve the keyboard (if that’s at all possible). I regularly miss points because of typos even if I had the correct answer.
Ford Lighting battery pack is 98 kWh, 3rd party replacement could be $7k before tariffs.
You never go full Oracle.
Why are you letting the AI construct poorly structured code? You should be discussing an architectural plan with it first and only signing off on the code design when you are comfortable with it.
You might be surprised how well that works :)
Geospatial Reasoning
UK creating 'murder prediction' tool to identify people most likely to kill
> the issue is that our government in particular is incompetent

Our federal government is huge and our state governments are small. Precisely the opposite of how the founders configured it. This is part of the problem.

The states need to band together and develop a cooperative solution and then push it upwards to the federal level.

This is a lot easier than centralized planning and management of an entity the size and scope of the US. We have a lot of offshore territories and two states. This complicates things more than people care to admit.
The line race looks so cool.

https://echarts.apache.org/examples/en/editor.html?c=line-ra...

Toggle the switches to trigger the race. By the way, well done Norway.
I agree. I think of it like a car engine. You can push it up to a certain RPM and it will keep making more and more power. Above that RPM, the engine starts to produce less power and eventually blows a gasket.

I think the performance-based management worked for a while because there were some gains to be had by pushing people harder. However, they’ve gone past that and are now pushing people too hard and getting worse results. Every machine has its operating limits and an area where it operates most efficiently. A company is no different.
Evolution doesn't care at all if we get to the top of the food chain. I think that we, as the dominant species on the earth, mistakenly assume that we are the most evolved since we are in charge. Which is more evolutionarily successful, the human or the wheat plant?

If another mass extinction occurs, we are toast (See "The Ends of the Earth"). Relatively minor ecological changes may even destroy us. Sapience has not yet proven to grant any long-term advantage.
When volcanic eruptions are 100% predictable 3 years in advance.
Are Domain-Specific Trade-Offs Undermining On-Device Language Models?
Title: "Supreme Court scraps one judge’s block on Trump’s firings of probationary workers, but a second judge’s block on many of those firings remains in place."

https://archive.today/lnaSo
Copyright isn't a property right. Property rights are rivalrous. If you own a sandwich and a thousand other people want to eat your sandwich, only one person can, so property rights exist to define who gets to choose who gets to eat the sandwich. Writings and discoveries are non-rivalrous. To quote the first head of the US Patent Office:

> He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

The term "intellectual property" is an attempt to conflate these things, to justify net-destructive money grabs like retroactive copyright term extensions, because traditional property rights don't expire but copyrights explicitly and intentionally do.
Pdeathsig is almost never what you want
Where to? There's nothing even remotely comparable for many tech stacks. I've been looking for alternatives for many years (also being fed up with their disregard for bugs and performance), but there are none (expect for proper VS for Windows-first C++/C#).
Fake "go around" ATC messages at Cincinnati (CVG) airport [video]
When we started Tailscale in 2019, we weren't even sure we wanted to be a venture-backed company. We just wanted to fix networking. Or, more specifically, make networking disappear — reduce the number of times anyone had to think about NAT traversal or VPN configurations ever again.

Isn't logtail what got Avery et al started?

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/tree/main/logtail

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190216 / https://archive.vn/xlsA1
The truth is that the vast majority of FAANG engineers making high six figures are only good at deterministic work. They cant produce new things, and so meta and google are struggling to compete when actual merit matters, and they cant just brute force the solutions. Inside these companies, the massive tech systems built, are actually generally terrible, but they pile on legions of engineers to fix the problems.

This is the culture of META hurting them, they are paying "AI VPs" millions of dollars to go to status meetings to get dates for when these models will be done. Meanwhile, deepseek r1 has a flat hierarchy with engineers that actually understand low level computing

Its making a mockery of big tech, and is why startups exist. Big company employees rise the ranks by building skill sets other than producing true economic value
Tailscale is definitely more than "Wireguard with a GUI", but I don't think that diminishes your point that Tailscale, if they're not already, would be great stewards if they were contributing more than code back to the Wireguard project.
> The NIH & FDA largely swept this under the rug and refused to investigate or fund adequate investigation.

Did all the other governments in the world that approved the covid vaccines collude with the NIH and FDA or is there maybe another reason that (almost?) all countries approved at least some of the vaccines?

> has seriously harmed people's faith in the government

which government out of the 195+ different ones that we have in the world? is there a chance that a pandemic and subsequent global health crisis is something that's a little bit bigger than the partisan politics of a single country?
Funny seeing this here with your comment, as I was exploring using ECharts for a project recently to work exactly with HTMX from a Clojure backend. I eventually settled on Chart.js as I found that for my use case, I wanted the charts to more easily fit their dynamically sized container, which isn’t quite as simple with ECharts and Vega. I also didn't need particularly complex plots. Nevertheless, this is a nice project! There remain some open challenges with web-based visualisation libraries more generally around responsive design and accessibility, but we’ve come a long way.
What projection suggests GDP growth will be even with the increase in debt? FRED data suggests the opposite is happening: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

Debt growth is massively outpacing growth in GDP. You're right that it's less of an issue if we grow quickly and effectively keep leverage the same but that's not what's happening.

Germany and Japan haven't focused super heavily on achieving a trade deficit. As you said, Germany has huge problems with her welfare state and Japan has huge demographic issues. I'm not saying we should achieve a trade balance by tariffing everything to death; I am saying we should focus on faster growth to get there and reduce our insane level of consumerism. I don't have an issue with a temporary trade deficit for growth-oriented reasons, but I have little save contempt for people ordering packages of chinesium temu crap.
whenever someone tries to faithfully deliver on some other artist's vision

"Trying" is not a meaningful bar to clear. Love or care doesn't matter, either. According to the article, the foundation says that the building is simply not built to Wright's spec, which is an objective measure.

The owners don't outright deny this, using a handful of of qualifiers in response: "true to Wright's plan, intent and spirit while also ensuring that the home would meet current building regulations."

Saying your house was designed by a famous architect, especially one the stature of Wright brings a value and prestige that is worth claiming, like any other brand. On the flip side, if you own the brand, it is worth protecting from knock offs.
"The Phantom Tollbooth" Was Supposed to Be a Nonfiction Book About Cities
This is not correct. Wireguard establishes a tunnel between peer A and B, and its simplicity stops there. Tailscale does tons of complex networking, filtering, nat traversal, DNS, file sharing, etc. Wireguard is a small part of the codebase today, which has grown a lot.

It’s a bit like saying Dropbox is just a GUI on top of TLS.
> It appears the X account "Hammer Capital" was the first to share this false report, around 10:11 a.m. ET on Monday. The account has just over 1,100 followers, and it has a blue verification badge

> Dozens of other accounts with blue verification badges reshared it. Not long after, news organizations including Reuters and CNBC reported the unsubstantiated claim.

Read the article, the chain of events is more complex and more ridiculous, what a tragicomedy... Ad supported news media has become so dysfunctional, Reuters getting their news from X, what's the point?
In a quick web demo, this library was the only one that could handle interactive viewing and manipulation of a very large graph using its GraphGL component !
I don’t think it's a well-known visualization library, but it's quite interesting ...
Hard to imagine rebuilding a manufacturing economy while your scientists are fleeing the country.
A correlation matrix created with Svelte
Yes me too, zero, and I'm pretty sure it's closer to zero than to 100% among others also, here where I live
I tried to pull the house but got shingles instead
Could try these:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/

https://github.com/OpenGene/awesome-bio-datasets
The Death of the Cookie
Deploy your Next.js app to Cloudflare Workers with the adapter for OpenNext
I'd really like to know how they did all the transition effects. They were really cool.
>50% cut in NSF Graduate Research Awards for 2025
The National Science Foundation announced Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards today. These awards directly fund graduate students across the natural sciences (math, physics, chemistry, biology), engineering, and social sciences.

The number of awards made in 2025 (1000 awards) is LESS THAN HALF the number made in 2024 (2036 awards).

NOTE: You'll have to choose the award year and download the excel spreadsheets at the link above to see the numbers yourself.

This is an example of what scientists mean when they point out the Trump administration is handicapping the national research infrastructure across all sciences.
All you need is the presumption that Jevon's Paradox applies, which makes this a circular argument.
> Let’s be real: improving load times doesn’t directly impact the bottom line. Selling Shark Cards (GTA’s virtual currency) does. Companies optimize for metrics that show up on quarterly earnings calls, not for goodwill or user experience, until it’s too late.

I don't know... I quit playing GTA V once because of the horrendous load times. After I built a new computer, I finally finished the single player, even though the load times were still horrible. I also had a bug that randomly when I started the game, fps would be really slow and some of the textures didn't load.

The game was great, and maybe I would have gotten back to it to also play the multiplayer, but the fucking load times made starting up the game feel like a chore. I mostly play games when I have a little spare time in the middle of my work day, and I don't want to waste that spare time staring at loading screens or rebooting the game because of random bugs.
Funny because everyone was stating his role in a way that doesn't fit that definition in public, but then changed to fit the definition when required in court.
I'm not really looking for "justice", I'm looking to uphold our interests. I don't particularly care if we raise more revenue than some other country does from our imports. I don't think tariffs are the best or only weapon to fix our problems. I do think they have a place, that selling off more and more of our country via trade deficit is unsustainable, and that our priorities as a nation are beyond screwed up.
Usually these hacks are always from insiders. Sometimes the entire team plans this months and years ahead.
What does this have over Plotly, Chart.js, D3, Bokeh, etc
i think they're saying it shouldn't be counted as a fail, rather than it should be accepted as an answer at that point.

if not i agree with you. it'd be nice if it flashed green or something around the entire set of brackets but made you still answer all the sub-clues though.
Just a nit: the part that describes its mobile optimized (and pretty much all other pages describing the features) does not load correctly on mobile.

https://echarts.apache.org/en/feature.html#mobile
At least doesn't depend upon whether you rant drunk at a party. The whataboutism is ridiculously strong in the wumaos today. Guess even the most jaded get to feel patriotic pride when a political stampede like trump is going through town
I was really enjoying my 401k being over cost basis for a year or two. So much for that!
Used this for some knowledge graph visualization work. Really clean UI and some nice features out of box for interactivity
Gotta say, when I saw “The Island” I thought “This reminds me a heck of a lot of Spares.” Only, you know, much less interesting and hard-hitting.
The same thing has been said about many other companies taking on VC Money. Someday, those investors are going to want to see a return on that investment. Its going to take focus and determination to not just ship enshittification as a feature..
> project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’

They are only applying to people known to police.

For anyone known to police who has killed twice already, you don't need any fancy algorithm: just short-circuit to "highly likely". They tried killing once, and it suited them well enough to do it again. People known to police only for petty or non-violent crimes like shoplifting or possession of dope can probably be filtered out. You need the algorithm for everything in between.
I think it mostly depends on age. Kids have no problem learning how to use a phone, youtube and messenger apps independent from their grades.
We can definitely do better than where we're at. But I'm not sure working in factories is so much better. I wonder whether people will like having things like steel furnaces and injection molders in their towns. Exporting the dirty, smelly, dangerous stuff to elsewhere is one of the most devious tricks we played.
Some species have properties that seem way beyond what would be necessary for evolutionary success. For example, an inland taipan has enough venom in a single bite to kill 100 people. There is no imaginable situation where a taipan is going to need to bite an entire village and take them all out. Why on Earth did it evolve such insanely strong venom?

When you dig into it, these outliers are often the result of an evolutionary arms race [1]. In teh case of the inland taipan, they are often prey for mulga snake and perenties, who have evolved immunity to their venom. So you've got a feedback loop where the taipan keeps evolving stronger venom to fight back against predators, who continue evolving stronger immunity to the same venom. Run that loop a million years and you get a snake who can kill a busload of people.

Human intelligence is another such outlier. I know it's popular to talk about how animal intelligence is underestimated but even so, human intelligence is just astronimcally greater than any other species. Sure a squirrel can find a bunch of nuts it buried. Humans have built machines and landed them on other planets. Our intelligence is orders of magnitude greater than any other species.

My pet hypothesis for years is that this must be the result of an evolutionary arms race within the species. Humans are a profoundly social species. We are mostly too fragile to survive in the wild on our own. The functioning survival unit of humans is a hunter-gatherer group. We are sort of like eusocial animals like ants.

But unlike ants who can mostly rely on simple chemical signals to tell which other ants are part of their anthill, we have to rely on social cues. There is a very strong incentive to be able to deceive humans in other groups and infiltrate or sabotage their group. If you're smart enough to sneak in, you can steal a lot or do a lot of damage. Likewise, there's an equally strong incentive to be able to suss those bad actors out to prevent them from doing that. The smarter you are, and the better you're able to remember people and describe them to others, the harder it is to get taken advantage of.

Turn that evolutionary crank a few hundred thousand years, and you get a species so smart that the only other animals that can possibly hope to compete with them in terms of intelligence are other Homo sapiens.

If we weren't so deeply social, I don't think we'd be so smart. We have these huge brains in order to navigate the fantastically complex social world which we have in turn created by having these huge brains.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_arms_race
Nintendo clearly should have moved production the the USA and fully automated it. Thereby paying no tariffs and employing no americans except cleaning or repair staff.
I was particularly impressed with how performant the demo was as it was playing. I was fully expecting my Macbook-fan to start whirring as it usually does with most javascript-heavy pages.
If you look at it instead like a 1D version of a crossword puzzle, then it's not skipping to the end so much as just filling out one of the other words.

I see it as a UI limitation that you can't fill it in (how would you show it?). But it's fine as is, I'll just use it to help me solve the adjacent ones.
Thank you for ABZÛ! My daughter has played it at least ten times. And when she wrote a letter to your team for a school project, you sent back a t-shirt and a soundtrack CD. We've listened to that CD for hours on road trips, it is a great soundtrack.
And then people won't give you money because "look at them with their phones! I'm sure that could have paid rent for a month"
"promoted, or transferred within the last year"

You normally want to keep the people you promote. You also normally want to keep the people you transferred to that new important project you spun up.

They reason they fired this specific classification is because it was easier to, not because there was any justification to fire them. I thought above you said it's hard to fire people without reason?
Tariffs on China set to rise to 104% on Wednesday
> This may be true, but because there's basically no on ramp to running on a mainframe

You can get a partition of IBM Z to run in the cloud. The cost is about $5/hr for the smallest configuration.

> Splurging on network infrastructure with multi-chasis redundancy is an easier step to take to get to a more reliable system than building against a totally different system architecture.

Yes and no. If you truly need that redundancy than the mainframe is going to provide a much better version of it. SYSPLEXs and LPARs are some insanely powerful technologies.
> Cryptocurrencies don't stand a chance.

Now, try to use Pix outside of Brazil - it's not even used in other Mercosur countries, what's the chance of having that adopted in other countries... And, that's problem #1.

How much do you trust your government with your money? A system like Pix don't stand a chance to get a worldwide adoption - maybe people are naive but governments won't unify to adopt a common system controlled by just a single entity / country.

What we may however end up with, are dozens of systems like Pix, one for each country, union, etc. Still cryptocurrencies as-is remain relevant (see point 1)
Considering I have been using different search engines since Excite and Alta Vista, the state of modern search is worse than when crawlers were in their infancy. It is so front loaded with SEO, a search for a simple doc reference gives you ten pages of links back to the sales and marketing pages for 12 applications that do something similar.

AI is a better search for now because SEO and paid prioritization in search hasn't infested that ecosystem yet but it's only a matter of time.

I dropped Google search years ago but every engine is experiencing enshitification.