Now with even more significance that Amanda Askell has confirmed it is based on a document they trained Claude on (https://x.com/AmandaAskell/status/1995610567923695633).
Readit Newscircularfoyers commented on Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG9... · Posted by u/thm
How do they know the causal link? Can it be that people who stay up late sleep less and this causes issues, and there being light is only a consequence of staying up late?
> These relationships were robust after adjusting for established risk factors for cardiovascular health, including physical activity, smoking, alcohol, diet, sleep duration, socioeconomic status, and polygenic risk.
There's more details further in the article[1].
[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.20.25329961v...
circularfoyers commented on I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it blog.greg.technology/2025... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky
Not OP, but yes! I've had the exact same "symptoms" my entire life.
- A faint multi-tonal background "hiss", only apparent during silence, never goes away but is quite relaxing. I'm hesitant to even call it tinnitus - Visual snow. I have early memories from at least 5 or 6, staring at the blue sky and noticing it's not pure (I see blue as everyone else, but with a very transparent layer of static)
I have attributed it to something "off" in the sensory filtering part of my brain
It's so subtle I've for a long time wondered if it's something most people experience and don't notice, or they assume is normal, just because unless I think about it I don't really notice it either. I have been known to focus on details more than others do. Not sure if this contributes to my seemingly heightened sense of smell as well. But not being able to experience what others experience, makes me wonder if I'll ever know.
circularfoyers commented on Show HN: Extension for full-text browser history search rearview-ai.vercel.app/... · Posted by u/ApbNfMR
Seeing the GitHub link made me assume for a second this was open source, which it's disappointingly not. The LLM search is interesting, but it's not interesting enough for me when there's already an open source full text history extension that I've been using https://github.com/iansinnott/full-text-tabs-forever
circularfoyers commented on Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux ostechnix.com/why-flatpak... · Posted by u/dxs
This may refer to xdg-desktop-portal[1], which is usable without Flatpak, but Flatpak forces you to go through it to access anything outside the app’s private sandbox. In particular, access to user files is mediated through a powerbox (trusted file dialog) [2] provided by the desktop environment. In a sense, Flatpak apps are normal Linux apps to about the same extent that WinRT/UWP apps are normal Windows apps—close, but more limited, and you’re going to need significant porting in either direction.
(This has also made an otherwise nice music player[3] unusable to me other than by dragging and dropping individual files from the file manager, as all of my music lives in git-annex, and accesses through git-annex symlinks are indistinguishable from sandbox escape attempts. On one hand, understandable; on the other, again, the software is effectively useless because of this.)
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal
> On one hand, understandable; on the other, again, the software is effectively useless because of this.
Just in case you didn't already know, you can use Flatseal[1] to add the symlinked paths outside of those in the default whitelisted paths.
I think it's a good thing Flatpak have followed a security permissions system similar to Android, as I think it's great for security, but I definitely think they need to make this process more integrated and user friendly.
circularfoyers commented on Creating a Proxmox or QEMU ChromeOS Flex VM kevindavid.org/code/2024/... · Posted by u/goodburb
This is great!
ChromeOS Flex doesn't get enough credit. While I recently migrated from Windows to Linux on my production machine, ChromeOS Flex is my OS of choice for a simple Push Here Dummy (PHD) machine. There is zero maintenance from an OS standpoint and the ChromeOS Flex Certified models list allows me to pick from a variety of quality hardware, not just some cheap Chromebook. I have more than one of these lying around the house and I often take one on personal trips as well.
It's a shame then that Google are moving away from ChromeOS in favor of Android. This also explains the improvements to desktop mode in the latest Android betas.
Very cool, but wish it was at least 2x2.5GbE.
I think it's unfortunate given the audience I imagine will make up most of its purchases. For example, the NBN in Australia just announced earlier this year it's first 2 Gbps residential plans (previously 1 Gbps being the maximum) planned for availability some time next year[1].
[1] https://www.nbnco.com.au/corporate-information/media-centre/...
It will not be able to reliably work with the A partition once B boots the first time - the update process even for many minor releases will trigger local and cloud data upgrades, and there are security reasons to not leave the option to leave older/unpatched versions runnable.
I don't think I've had a software update fail since iOS 7 beta 1 - and that was an issue with updating local data on first boot, so any attempt to revert to the prior OS without a wipe would have been pointless.
I believe the point isn't to let you rollback at will, but it'll automatically rollback if it fails a boot check, so before anything is written to the filesystem. However, it's worth noting that Fedora Silverblue/IoT let's you rollback at will without problem.