MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IIsi50MHz | 2025-08-19 01:02:54+00:00
They've had Jurassic Park repeatedly over the years since then, and I've watched it a couple of those times.

But when Netflix was new to streaming they had so much more content; it was great. Then all the rights-holders decided they didn't want just a cut of Netflix's rates, they'd rather have all of it. Since then, the services have seemingly reluctantly agreed to license some of their stuff, some of the time, to other services, often with temporary exclusivity. If Netflix wanted it all back, they'd need a friendly blue genie and a monkey to defeat a multitudinous Jafars.
by ckrailo | 2025-08-19 01:02:54+00:00
Here's what I added to uBlock:

! YouTube ! Remove blue box www.youtube.com###clarify-box ! Remove shorts www.youtube.com##ytd-rich-section-renderer.ytd-rich-grid-renderer.style-scope:has(#rich-shelf-header:has-text(Shorts)) www.youtube.com##ytd-reel-shelf-renderer.ytd-item-section-renderer.style-scope:has(h2.ytd-reel-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has-text(Shorts))
by 1659447091 | 2025-08-19 01:03:43+00:00
> to places like Texas make gun permits a legal form of ID and not student IDs.

A student ID does not require the holder to get both a state and FBI background check. Besides the background checks, obtaining a license to carry (Texas gun permit) also requires an ID that could be used for voting itself. Student IDs, not so much. Also, I think people really underestimate the number of Democrat leaning gun owners in Texas.

There are far more relevant examples to use, including cost and difficultly navigating bureaucracy for obtaining documents. Throwing that Texas example in there weakens the argument and I really wish people would stop so the real arguments can be taken seriously.
by gary_0 | 2025-08-19 01:03:50+00:00
Unmatched by Intel, who have been failing for a decade, so there was no competition? They mostly won by default. And Apple's chips are giving them a run for their money. If Apple sold plain CPUs that weren't locked to their software (they never will, but hypothetically) then AMD would let themselves slide into 2nd place again.

That really makes three companies that are happy to concede to nVidia, because Apple could definitely challenge nVidia if they wanted to.

Note: I'm not saying that AMD sucks, just that their corporate culture prevents them from being very ambitious.
by Aloisius | 2025-08-19 01:04:55+00:00
I don't believe the study asked how many family/friends obtained the firearm legally. It seems unlikely that it would be 0%.

Overall, 6.7% of prisoners reported gone through a background check when obtaining a firearm at a retail source (that's not 6.7% of the 7.5%, but rather 6.7% of all prisoners).

A "retail source" includes the 7.5% number above which is just licensed firearm dealers, but there were other retail sources I didn't include (pawn shops: 1.6, flea markets: 0.4%, gun shows: 0.8%).

Of course, the background checks doesn't really matter given that those 7.5% reported giving their actual name to a licensed firearm dealer which is what one would need to track them down.
by djtango | 2025-08-19 01:04:58+00:00
Note this is oxygen assisted - the diver breathed pure oxygen and (from the article) can increase available oxygen from 450mL to 3L in doing so.

Still impressive nonetheless and I didn't know that this trick is sometimes used in Hollywood to extend underwater filming time. Avatar 2 comes to mind when I was impressed to find out Sigourney Weaver trained to hold her breath for 6 and half minutes in her 70s!

Coming back to the article, I'm disappointed that the details were sparse - how do they check whether the contestant is conscious? How does the contestant know what his limits are before passing out?
by xtracto | 2025-08-19 01:06:02+00:00
The thing with sites like reddit, HN and the like is that they don't promote "identity" like IRC, forums and others. Like, I'm replying to you, we are being "social" , but mostly we will interact in this thread and call it a day. There's no push to form community or some longer term interaction.

In the late 90s early 2000s I was very into a game called Tactics Arena Online, and we had several great communities.
by tguvot | 2025-08-19 01:06:57+00:00
Hypercatabolic syndrome (HS) is a biochemical state characterized by increased circulating catabolic hormones (eg, cortisol, catecholamines) and inflammatory cytokines (eg, tumor necrosis factors, interleukin–1β), and decreased anabolic insulin effects with consequent insulin resistance.

nothing to do with starvation.

in usa iirc,in usa 20k people died in 2022 or so from malnutrition. were they also in blockaded zone ? or is it just happens so that malnutrition is a complex thing that not always affected by food supply
by Analemma_ | 2025-08-19 01:07:00+00:00
I have a feeling a lot of users just reflexively upvote any story about security vulnerabilities without checking if the contents have any meat at all. It's a well-intentioned heuristic, but unfortunately it's easily exploited in practice, because there are a whole bunch of C- and D-list security consultancy firms who use blogspam about exaggerated threats to get cheap publicity.

This post is a classic example and should've been buried quickly as such. You wouldn't upvote a LinkedIn "look at what MyCorp has been up to!" post from a sales associate at MyCorp, a lot of this infosec stuff is no different.
by t-3 | 2025-08-19 01:07:50+00:00
I've seen lots of people on this site that pay for YouTube. I've met real people that have subscriptions to porn sites. They fork out money for stuff that's pretty much always already freely available, for basically no reason except maybe convenience or slightly better service. People spend money all the time, for stuff they want and care about. If they didn't want or care about it, they wouldn't buy it or pirate it.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-19 01:09:28+00:00
I don't see them plateauing. I see that they are in their infancy. So far AI people were just persistently doing the dumbest possible thing that turned out to work, with very limited understanding, insight and innovation. At some point they will buy all the gpus and all the GWh they can and will be forced to actually figure out how to really improve what they are doing. Then the real breakthroughs will start showing up. There are probably improvements of 3-4 orders of magnitude right behind the finish line of the low hanging fruit picking contest.
by const_cast | 2025-08-19 01:09:52+00:00
It depends on what you think is going to happen with models.

The way I see it, models were always predicated on openness and data-sharing. That, too, will be the competitive downfall of those who poured billions into creating said models.

They won't stay caged up forever. Ultimately the only thing OpenAI has between itself and it's competitors is some really strong computers.

Well... anybody can buy strong computers. This is, of course, assuming you don't believe the promise of ever-increasing cognition and eventual AGI, which I don't. The people going fast aren't going to be the winners. The second movers and later on will be. They get all the model, with 1/100th the cost.

Ultimately models, right now, for most consumers, are nothing more than novelties. Just look at Google Pixel - I have one, by the way. I can generate a custom image? Neat... I guess. It's a cool novelty. I can edit people out of my pictures? Well... actually Apple had that a couple years ago... and it's not as useful as you would think.

It's hard to see it because we're programmers, but right now, the AI products are really lacking for consumers. They're not good for music, or TV, or Movies, or short-form entertainment. ChatGPT is neat for specific usecases like cheating on an essay or vibe coding, but how many people are doing that? Very, very few.

Let me put it this way. Do I think Claude Code is good? Yes. Do I think Claude Code is the next Madonna? No.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-08-19 01:10:08+00:00
Maybe browsers are nearing "peak maintainable complexity" for a single computer program. An early indication of this was the Linux distro's giving up on maintaining them. That was the universe informing mankind it had created a lump of so code so complex, it exceeded the ability of a single man to pick it up and run with it from a standing start. Now it seems it's getting beyond the ability of a moderately well funded organisation like Mozilla to maintain a competitor to Chrome.

Why is that important? Clearly maintaining Chrome isn't beyond the kind of software engineering expertise Google can bring to the task. Creating a ecosystem around a browser with so many features everyone uses it, but so complex only a few organisations do the same thing has rewarded Google handsomely. It's one of the ways they control the internet.

That control has also created a huge risk - people wielding antitrust laws want to break it. But if Google doesn't develop it what are we left with - Firefox? Or maybe its a whole pile in incompatible browsers, controlled Microsoft and Perplexity. Ah how we all pine for the IE6 days when Microsoft tried to use it to mold the internet in the direction it wanted it to go (which was nowhere much at all). Not.

Or we perhaps we abandon the entire platform. I suspect they hit the "release with the lowest bug count" a long time ago. With that ability to add features slows, they become less reliable, and eventually they collapse under their own weight. Does that deliver us a X to Wayland monument in Web Standards? Perhaps its starts with "HTML Small", a tiny version of HTML + CSS without the legacy that's small, simple and fast to render on a watch. Maybe the Chinese already have such a thing in WeChat.
by mgsloan2 | 2025-08-19 01:11:25+00:00
Sounds like cool stuff, along the lines of structure editing!

The question is not whether it can work, but whether it works better than an edit tool using textual search/replace blocks. I'm curious what you see as the advantage of this approach? One thing that comes to mind is that having a cursor provides some natural integration with LSP signature help

Yes agentic loop with diagnostic feedback is quite powerful. I'd love to have more controllable structured decode from the big llm providers to skip some sources of needing to loop - something like https://github.com/microsoft/aici
by soegaard | 2025-08-19 01:12:58+00:00
The US list prices are, well, a complicated matter. For non-US readers, it is important to note that 80% of the customers (who has insurance) don't pay the list price, but rather an much more reasonable over-the-counter price.

Due to the system of insurance companies and PBMs in the US the list price is often high.

When PBMs a are negotiating with the pharmaceutical companies, they have an incentive to keep a high list price. Let's say the PBMs and a pharmaceutical company negotiates for the price of a drug X.

If the pharmaceutical company lowers the price of the drug X, and there are other comparable drugs from other companies on the market, then there is a risk that the PBM simply drops the drug X from their lists. Instead, they make a better deal (for them) on drug Y.

For the company producing X, being omitted from the insurance companies lists, is bad business.

As an outsider, it is difficult to understand that the US keeps the private insurance layer and the PBMS.

Now - the insurance companies also don't pay list prices. They get a rebate. But they - and here my memory fails me - the get some money from ... the government based on the list price.

Look at the congress hearings on the high medicine prices on YouTube.
by kragen | 2025-08-19 01:14:32+00:00
Anytime you store a single property for all objects in an array or hash table, so, Fortran, BASIC, APL, Numpy, R, awk, and sometimes Perl. Parallel arrays are out of style but certainly not unheard of. They're the hot new thing in games programming, under the name "entity-component-system".

Even C when `property` is computed rather than materialized. And CLOS even uses that syntax for method invocation.

The only language I can think of that uses field(record) syntax for record field access is AT&T-syntax assembly.
by inkyoto | 2025-08-19 01:14:51+00:00
> No one knew what “blockchain” was, how it worked, or what could be used for.

Not the blockchain itself, but the concept of an immutable, append only, tamper-proof ledger underpinning it is a very useful one in many contexts where the question of authenticity of datasets arises – the blockchain has given us a ledger database.

The ledger database is more than just a hash as it also provides a cryptographic proof that the data is authentic via hash chaining, no ability to delete or modify a record, and the entire change history of any record. All these properties make the ledger databases very useful in many contexts, especially the ones where official documents are involved.
by wiredpancake | 2025-08-19 01:15:57+00:00
As someone with 10,000+ hours in CSGO/CS2, I think your argument is weak clearly is coming from someone who is a boomer.

CS is one of, if not, the least egregious "loot cases" systems in the gaming industry. Every case you open, gives you a reward, which can be sold. Each case you open has fixed odds and is not manipulated by the gaming companies to psychologically torment you. You get no benefit from using skins or stickers on your gun. It is purely cosmetic. Compared to other games which rely on pay2win mechanics, CSGO/CS2's systems are great.

I think skins are one of the best parts of CS. It blows my mind you can have skins worth thousands of dollars, trade them between friends like collectables, sell them for real life money and make your inventory look cool.

I agree the third party skin gambling sites aren't good, although the whole base concept, within Steam and a handful of trusted selling sites are perfectly fine.

Your gripe with the eSports side of this is also stupid. Have you watched / seen any sport on the planet? Gambling is apart of sports and sports culture, its one of the main revenue streams. Gambling helps grassroot sports and helps get kids into sports.

The whole "often give a segment to gambling people talking about odds" is rubbish. At most ESL, Blast, PGL events, the most that is even talked about odds is a brief mention of the odds, no breakdowns, no match betting options, etc. It's very, very tame. I likely have hours watching CS than I do playing too.

CS eSports is in a weird place because the funding comes from two main places in 2025, Saudi sportswashing and gambling. There used to be tons of VC, although that dried up when eSports didn't take off exactly how everyone expected it to. CS was one of the more safe investments are the game has been around for effectively two decades and has always had a competitive scene, dating back to early 2000s. CS is one of the most enjoyable and easy to watch eSports so its pretty enticing for viewers (and advertisers) although the marketablility of CS is hard due to bombs, guns and terrorists.

eSports needs a pay per view option otherwise the funding is always going to come from sketchy places, but the average eSports fan does not care enough to pay because they are too cheap to pay for stuff, or too young to have the funding to do so. Unlike traditional sport.

You are seemingly fine with killing gambling, so might as well kill all tier 2 and 3 scenes, including local scenes. They are mostly funded by gambling and even so, people throw matches because they get like 1k a month for being a tier 2 pro. People need to live and throwing gets more than their wage.

Your final point is Twitch chat messages saying stupid shit about match-fixing, I am not sure why this is even relevant. Studying twitch chat is like studying The Onion, not sure why you would.

Richard Lewis has talked extensively about everything I've said above.
by jordwest | 2025-08-19 01:17:22+00:00
I guess there is a convergence of ideas going on here because I've actually been tinkering on something like this, a Notion-database-like that just uses flat CSV files (and internally reads it into an in-memory SQLite for filtering, grouping and displaying) then schema files for interpreting the data and displaying it nicely.

Here's a little demo of what I've got working: https://youtu.be/LCR9pAc_xn0.

It's currently still very rough and I'm just using it myself but hoping to open source it at some point.
by duxup | 2025-08-19 01:17:33+00:00
In Minnesota we have paper ballots, we run them through an optical scanner straight into a lockbox attached to the scanner. The scanner counts the votes, but there's a paper copy and they can audit the machine and ballot 1:1.

In theory you could just run it through the exact machine again and you'd get a good test for what is going on, and you have a physical copy to count / verify.

I think it is a good system, and about as close to digital as I want to get.

Some solid old school tech and some reasonably new.
by kaladin-jasnah | 2025-08-19 01:17:55+00:00
As someone that used these APIs in C, they were not very well-documented nor intuitive, and oftentimes segfaulted when you messed up, instead of returning errors—I suppose the validation checks sacrifice performance for correctness, which is undesirable. Either way, dealing with this is not fun. Such is the life of a C developer, I suppose....
by halfcat | 2025-08-19 01:17:58+00:00
In late 2000 or early 2001 I got into CS with some guys in Austin. Our leader knew some other clan’s leader, and we scrimmaged against them every week for a while.

I thought I was decent, but, damn…this other clan destroyed us every time.

I start following the CS leagues, CAL, RiTD, STA, CPL, and look at that…there’s this clan we scrimmaged every week: CK3

So that was my intro to competitive gaming, unknowingly playing one of the best clans in the world.
by gus_massa | 2025-08-19 01:18:07+00:00
Interesting article. From the title, I expected a very shallow article, but it has a nice discussion about the current theories about neutrinos.

I'm not sure why the neutrino change only has 2 of them. I expected to see the 3. I'm not sure if this is important but in other areas of matter-antimatter asymmetry it's important that there are at least 3 generations.
by mockingloris | 2025-08-19 01:19:06+00:00
Nigerian here.

> Shamelessly authentic might be what is causing the increasingly success now days.

I 100% agree with this. It's hard to pull off; I've just the one example[0]. Also this buttresses:

> Under open borders, sanctions will backfire, because they just serve as a signaling boost for the transgressor, attracting outsiders who resonate with that person’s message. What’s meant to be punishment instead becomes a flare shot straight into the night sky.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeryDarkMan
by chupchap | 2025-08-19 01:19:09+00:00
Salesforce does offer granular controls for admins to restrict or allow connected apps, but in a lot of older instances this is not restricted. Partly this is due to lack of awareness of the threat vector, or sometimes because no one cares enough. In the current release I think Salesforce is locking things down by default to avoid this. https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.r...
by ericmay | 2025-08-19 01:20:07+00:00
You are spot on, they can indeed run that software.

The problem that you and others with similar interests are running into is that you’re asking Apple to spend perhaps tens of millions of dollars to make a change that, frankly, almost nobody wants or cares about. I don’t want it or care about it whatsoever, nor does my grandma. That’s why this all plays out in court and in countries that want to stick a finger in the eye of American tech companies.

Anti-trust concerns tend to just be multi-billion dollar corporations (Apple, Meta, Epic, Netflix, etc.) arguing over who gets the slice of your wallet. None of these companies lower prices when they win court battles, experiences don’t get better, and as Apple in particular loses more and more control over the App Store they lose the ability, however flawed, to collectively bargain on behalf of regular folks against developers [1].

Can anyone point to a single major technology product/service/app, like Spotify or something where after Apple has ceded control over the App Store the company has lowered prices, or perhaps instituted tougher privacy controls than Apple has demanded on the App Store?

Is there a single example?

[1] Items like forced private Sign in with Apple, or disclosing how data is used, don’t and won’t exist on “the Meta App Store” because as a single person or small group you’d rather have access to Facebook and you’ll give up data for it. But Apple can listen to users and then force Meta to comply with those demands, however flawed the situation may be and however self-serving Apple’s interests may be.
by jltsiren | 2025-08-19 01:20:33+00:00
You have a short-term perspective. Republics often last longer than a human lifetime. They should prepare for scenarios that happen once every few centuries.

The most important aspect of elections is that the vast majority of losers accept the outcome. If they don't, the elections failed. It doesn't really matter if there was fraud or if the losers just don't accept the result. The fundamental reason is the same in both cases: too many citizens don't support the system.
by kiwijamo | 2025-08-19 01:21:15+00:00
On Windows 11 I can see a startup screen briefly before it loads the calculator buttons -- takes maybe 2 seconds all up -- seems to be 1 seconds to start up screen then another second to populate the buttons. But can understand why people feel it's a regression though as I reall the win95/98/me calc.exe would pretty much appear near instantly even on the CPU/RAM/etc of the day.
by fn-mote | 2025-08-19 01:22:00+00:00
Include the time frame when you talk about this.

2007-present, in this case

People making conclusions should look at the data, though.

In this case, every ciruit has a 64+% reversal rate, the sixth has a reversal rate almost identical to the 9th. I have no idea what a significant difference would be.

Maybe someone can explain a set of assumptions and the resulting variance.
by defrost | 2025-08-19 01:22:38+00:00
No drama, gave me a chuckle & I'm glad you took it well; my primary motivation was to alert you in case you wanted to change up your response, etc.

Hume might have enjoyed this past century's Dialetheism of Graham Priest and Richard Sylvan as a solution to paradox arising from strict rationalism, it's more probable Hume would have lacked any passion for it.
by colechristensen | 2025-08-19 01:22:43+00:00
Eh, I don't think your analysis of your coworker is correct, or it might be technically correct but missing the point.

Some people are obnoxious because they never learned not to be. It's about empathy, bad habits, and never getting the right feedback. Of course there is accounting for people being different and your goal in life shouldn't be "never bother anybody", but some folks take things too far. In a work context a manager needs to take a dude aside and gently suggest they tone the behavior down. We don't want to be surrounded by either tone police or constant needless corrections.
by duxup | 2025-08-19 01:23:30+00:00
When I worked in a different career I worked with big banks and did disaster recovery tests (we didn't run the tests we just had equipment that the tests sort of centered around). We'd basically cut of a data center for a weekend and they would run from another data center that was supposed to have all the data there too. We'd even move their check processing to a backup site and they'd truck full truckloads of paper checks to a backup site.

They were legit tests at the offline site too too, they'd power down equipment, and power it up and we'd fix what didn't come back up. Even the data centers would be fully powered off to test.

At least at that time those banks did not skimp on those big tests and it was a big effort and pretty dang well run / complete.