MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by doodlebugging | 2025-10-07 00:54:05+00:00
>Existing AMD shareholders are getting a great deal; their shares are worth 30% more today and will be worth 5X more if OpenAI gets to use their option. Yes, there is some dilution for existing shareholders, but only after a 5X gain.

So if I read this right then an existing shareholder benefits up to the point where AMD stock reaches the $600/shr level and after that it becomes a dilution.

For the maximum benefit to existing shareholders, the stock price must get near $600/shr and if that looks unlikely they should consider other investments on less speculative terms. This whole AI thing feels like I'm watching the soapy fluid flow along the bubble exterior to form a droplet of soap on the bottom, thinning and weakening the bubble until it pops due to fluid film rupture at the top of the bubble as the droplet leaks away due to gravity.
by Arnavion | 2025-10-07 00:54:11+00:00
>A character may say "I've missed you so much. It's been so long." The subtitles will read "Hey. Long time. " (both quotes would be Japanese)

This is standard in closed captions and is not specific to Japan. So perhaps the service you're talking about only has closed captions and is incorrectly marking them as subtitles.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-10-07 00:54:33+00:00
Lots of things work fine when you throw twice as many dollars at them. It’s not a matter of it working or not. It’s a matter of economics.

Most game servers are single threaded because the goal is to support the maximum number of players per dollar.

A community server doesn’t mind throwing more compute dollars to support more players or higher tick rate. When you have one million concurrent players - as CounterStrike sometimes does - the choice may be different.
by echelon | 2025-10-07 00:55:06+00:00
Discovery has always been a problem.

You can look to the past to see what this might look like in the future:

- Publishing in the digital publishing era.

- Indie Gaming in the Steam Greenlight era.

- Indie music in the digital recording / DAW era.

- Trying to make it as an actor or musician in general.

- YouTuber careers vs. "YouTube poop"

- Trying to make it as a streamer / influencer

Novelty, self-promo, luck, preparation, right place/right time, likeability -- there are lots of things that can come together to make it work. But it's still a lot of work.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-07 00:55:08+00:00
I'm shocked that this wasn't widely known in the US. Reports from trans people, way back in the 1940s, show clear links between sex hormones and depression: a priori, one would assume such a relationship would exist here. The article appears to allege a cover-up:

> It is difficult to imagine what data could justify hiding in a drug safety review.

I've been sceptical of any direct relationship between "post-finasteride syndrome" and sexual function, but I've never doubted the direct effect on mental health of suppressing dihydrotestosterone in cis men. (Even if the pharmacological effects end shortly after cessation, which I suspect, a sudden and unexplained strong feeling of constant wrongness can be traumatic.) The part I find interesting is that most men seem to be just fine with taking finasteride, even orally.
by dinobones | 2025-10-07 00:55:33+00:00
Not kidding: What about suicides prevented from not going bald? To paint a fair image, this study should also compare suicide prevalence for bald people.

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Results: Compared with the controls, an increased risk of suicide attempts was observed in patients with AA, with an adjusted hazard ratio of 6.28 (95% confidence interval, 4.47-8.81). Suicide risk remained significantly elevated in AA patients when stratified by underlying psychiatric disorders. The mean age of initial suicidal behaviors was also lower in patients with AA.

Conclusions: Patients with AA had a significantly higher incidence of suicidal attempts than controls, regardless of concurrent psychiatric illness. Further studies are needed to elucidate the pathophysiology of the association between AA and suicidality. In addition, dermatologists should be aware of the increased suicidality of patients with AA.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36921592/

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Not enough time to size these in comparable numbers to this study, but would be really interesting.

Is it a net positive (reduced risk) over just going bald?
by protocolture | 2025-10-07 00:56:15+00:00
Why, if you dont mind my asking?

And how long would you expect Microsoft to write updates for computers with insecure boot chains, and secure boot chains? How much should they spend on mitigations for classes of attack that you can shut down just by updating? Why would they risk being seen to support a platform, that they consider a potential vector of incredibly bad PR, just for end user convenience? They have been browbeaten into being extremely security conscious, especially after the SMB stuff.

Personally, my Win 10 laptops are becoming Debian laptops as god intended.
by mindwok | 2025-10-07 00:56:31+00:00
ChatGPT can only do this now because the information is essentially freely available. Booking.com etc post their pages on the web to get traffic. In the world OpenAI is imagining, people will rarely if ever interact with the internet directly, it’ll instead all be through intermediary LLMs. In that world, the organisations that own authoritative information about hotel prices and locations will not make that freely available to LLMs, they will sell it. ChatGPT is trying to get ahead by encouraging them to embed themselves directly into their platform so they get first dibs on this kinda stuff before they put up the walls.
by vunderba | 2025-10-07 00:56:53+00:00
The most popular anime streaming site outside of Japan, Crunchyroll, hasn't had hard-subs.... in forever. You can watch any of the shows in their original Japanese or available dubs without subtitles.

I'd be willing to wager Netflix, which has a fair amount of anime, can do the same.

What site(s) are you referring to?
by baby_souffle | 2025-10-07 00:56:59+00:00
> Those are diverse enough that it's tough to build a complete profile.

Debatable; i promise you that somebody out there is willing to buy the info and will attempt to combine it with $otherInfo such that it becomes valuable enough for somebody else to buy. Lots of adtech/survalence-tech operates with thin margins at _massive scale_.

> I don't think I ever saw a place that was that guarded about their wifi.

It's rare; i'd run into it only a few times a year. Typically PoS systems and WiFi are not integrated. I also haven't really been paying attention since LTE is good now :).
by quotemstr | 2025-10-07 00:58:20+00:00
So you're doing the same thing?

Either make a meaningful argument or stop insinuating through omission that there's a real problem here. You're not only insulting the intelligence of your readers but also, thereby, undermining your cause.

The article you linked is garbage. Its authors find (of course not controlling for multiple comparisons) an effect that looks statistically significant if you p-hack it just right, then juxtapose it with overdetermined and badly simulated South polar vortex behavior to create the false impression that these satellites are killing the planet.

The real motivation behind pieces like this is personal enmity towards Elon Musk. It could not be more obvious. These people pollute our intellectual commons and degrade whatever remains of their intellectual honesty to run tendentious pieces that let them tell their friends they're sticking it to bad rocket man.

Why are NOAA and NASA funding this stuff?
by LexiMax | 2025-10-07 00:58:56+00:00
In my experience, the largest predictor for how often you run into homeless people isn't city size, how much money the local police have, or how the residents vote, but how walkable the area is. Homeless people go where traffic is, foot traffic especially, because panhandling needs an audience.

There is a big difference between feeling uncomfortable and being in a genuinely unsafe situation, and the less you are used to seeing the homeless, the more out of touch with reality your gut feelings are.
by UltraSane | 2025-10-07 00:58:59+00:00
"Nobody is defending their behavior"

You are by minimizing it.

"China's oppression of Tibet is nothing close to a million dead Iraqis"

At least the US got rid of Saddam. China is still oppressing the hell out of Tibet.

"The fact you'd even make such a goofy comparison shows how deep American indoctrination runs."

The fact that you consider this to BE a "goofy comparison" shows how deep your pro-CCP indoctrination runs.

"genociding Palestinians"

If you consider what Israel is doing to Palestinians to be genocide then you have to consider what the CCP is doing to the Uyghurs to be a genocide also. But you seem very selective with your outrage.
by phkahler | 2025-10-07 00:59:50+00:00
>> Nah, nothing in the current market is based on fundamentals.

Sure it is. Stock prices are based on supply and demand. Oh, did you mean company fundamentals? Hmm.

BTW that demand is all coming from 401k contributions. The powers that be are terrified of a downturn causing too many job losses tanking the whole thing.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-07 00:59:53+00:00
Similar thing happened to me, back in '96, but my wife saved my life, by forcing my primary care doctor to refer a neurologist.

It was a brain tumor in the cerebellum. Bad place to have problems.

The PC declared it a "virus," despite the fact that I could barely stand, and basically threw me out of his office.

The neurologist took one look at me, from a dozen feet away, and said "Meet me at the emergency room."

The next day, I was getting my noggin cracked open.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-10-07 01:00:00+00:00
That's an interesting point. To what extent does AI support make Linux on the desktop more viable? Reminds me of a discussion recently that said something similar, that developing in Rust is easier now that you can have another machine do battle with the borrow checker, haha.

To extend, maybe someone could build a "SysAd AI" distribution that administers itself given natural language directions? Let me know if anyone wants to invest. ;-)
by biglyburrito | 2025-10-07 01:00:40+00:00
"The Grayzone is an American fringe,[7] far-left[19] news website and blog,[23] founded and edited by American journalist Max Blumenthal"

"It is known for its negative coverage of American foreign policy,[1][4] misleading reporting,[25][26] and sympathetic coverage of authoritarian regimes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone
by rushingcreek | 2025-10-07 01:01:54+00:00
A fully generative UI with on-the-fly schema would be less brittle because you can guarantee that the schema and the intelligent widget can fully satisfy the user’s request. The bottleneck here is the intelligence of the model computing this, but we are already at the point where this is not much of a problem and it will disappear as the models continue to improve.

I think most software will follow this trend and become generated on-demand over the next decade.
by danpalmer | 2025-10-07 01:02:03+00:00
I'm all for light travel, but this being everything you own is unrealistic and not something that most people should aspire to.

OP treats clothing as disposable, buying swim shorts for swimming and ditching them before moving on, buying more t-shirts when in one place and ditching them before leaving. I hope they are donating them for re-use.

Between medication, toiletries, and general hygiene products I could fill nearly half a bag, and that's just for me to stay healthy, I don't have any cosmetics. Travel sized toiletries are fine temporarily, but significant plastic waste if used long term.

And beyond OP's lack of human connections, they are also lacking sentimentality. My house is filled with pictures, art, sculptures, drawings, cards, books, plants, all given by friends and family, and which remind me on a daily basis about those human connections.

Like top level athletes who sacrifice their bodies in ways that we should not generally aspire to (we admire and respect), OP is doing things that for most people would sacrifice health and wellbeing.
by chimeracoder | 2025-10-07 01:02:12+00:00
> Yeah - it's a selective testosterone blocker, kind of, and tries to target the part that causes male pattern baldness without lowering overall T Levels.

> I assume it still blocks enough hormones to cause mood shifts or other effects?

Endocrinology is a lot more complicated than you're giving it credit for. DHT blockers don't necessarily lower testosterone levels; they can actually increase it (although even then, the mechanism isn't as direct as you might think).

It's neither established nor a given that any side effects of finasteride have anything to do with effects on testosterone or hormone levels at all. A lot of people make that assumption, and there's reason to suspect there's truth to that hypothesis, but it's completely possible it's an unknown side effect of the drug, and there hasn't been enough study into the mechanism to understand it (in part because the side effects are relatively rare and weakly established).
by dinobones | 2025-10-07 01:02:40+00:00
I take dutasteride (even stronger form of finasteride) and have been personally fortunate to not have any side effects in ~8 years.

My whole family on both sides is bald bald. Without it I would have been bald bald in my early 20s.

I knew there were risks of hormone disruption/mood swings/etc but I still prefer it over being bald. I took a calculated risk and I'm thankful that the drug exists. Please don't prosecute the people that gave me the only real, working treatment for my baldness.
by golem14 | 2025-10-07 01:03:12+00:00
Is there a way to get a nicely bound hardcopy ? Doing a single one-off is expensive, I wonder if a hundred people got togehter, would a larger run be more cost effective ? Are there services for those larger runs ?

Qwen3 recommends

Blurb Lulu BookBaby Mixam

For a 1000 page book, it suggest pricing of ≈$120 for single copies, down to $15-25 for a run of 1000.
by mystraline | 2025-10-07 01:03:18+00:00
Wait what?!

It blocks the system with a demanded action, but doesn't even show you what triggered the alert condition? I would completely expect a "List of conditions that suspect sepsis" and get those details up front and center.

I'd be putting in medical records "Due to software popping up an un-dismissable sepsis screen that does not show details, I dismissed it due to needing the data it was flagged on".

Lemee guess? Epic?
by teitoklien | 2025-10-07 01:03:19+00:00
Finasteride every year changes millions of lives globally, I take finasteride, and it’s the sole reason i have my hair.

Idk about you, but i know 10s of different friends who also went through hairloss and were struggling to stop it, who went through severe depression, loss of confidence, suicidal tendencies in extreme cases.

Just because you saw a study that X drug causes side effects/harms in 1-0.1% of patients, doesnt mean the med should be taken off sale especially for a drug as important as finasteride.

It’s easy for someone to say it’s just a cosmetic drug until they go through the full extent of social, mental, and even physical damage, hairloss at a young age causes.

I and almost everyone who takes finasteride take it knowing the risk of a whole range of side effects , often far more severe then just increasing risk of depression. like risk of reduction in fertility, libido in some patients often struggling with obesity.

Obesity creates a whole range of problems too, should we start prosecuting creators of tasty food too ? , fin 1mg is one of the most impactful drugs sold globally both under brand names and generic cheap drugs (i take a generic one) that is life changing for almost a quarter or more of men depending on the country who face male pattern baldness and its related issues.

More studies certainly should be done in link of depression and suicide in some patient cases, but bringing out the pitchfork like luddites and asking to prosecute executives and scientists for a non-opiod, non-addictive, drug that’s been used safely for decades across generations, and saved families thousands of dollars (including mine) in snake oil salesman products that claim to treat hairloss but dont. They should get awards, not pitchforks.
by shredprez | 2025-10-07 01:03:35+00:00
MCP has this in the spec: it's called "elicitation", and I'm pretty confident this push from OpenAI sets the stage for them to support it.

Once a service can actively involve you and/or your LLM in ongoing interaction, MCP servers start to get real sticky. We can safely assume the install/auth process will also get much less technical as pressure to deliver services to non-technical users increases.
by Gabriel54 | 2025-10-07 01:04:14+00:00
> The stuff Jordan says about there being some value in the classics is good. Some of his stuff about meaning is good. Little to none of it is original.

I don't think he ever claimed that these ideas were original?

> He’s also a raving misogynist. I have two daughters. He can fuck right off with that shit.

I feel like this is quite an extraordinary accusation. The tone of your comment reminds me of his interview with Kathy Newman. Everything he said that had even the smallest nuance was twisted into something else. What specifically did he say that makes you thing he is a misogynist?
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-07 01:04:16+00:00
> If you’re Crunchyroll, it’s easier to make just one version of the subtitles, than to have a Crunchyroll-specific one and another that you send out for ingestion for “Crunchyroll on Prime Video” and “Crunchyroll on YouTube.”

I will mention that youtube has pretty good subtitle capabilities, even if they're rarely used.
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-07 01:04:53+00:00
>but fan subs are notorious for mistranslations and awkward hyperliteralism.

funny to see the comment. I was rewatching JoJo, this time in dub, and just came across a line like this. (the context is a fight between two 19th century British characters in a very theatrical setting):

Sub: "Stop the futile, useless resistance. Don't hide in the curtain's shadows and come out!"

Dub: "You're behind the curtain, like Polonius. And, like Polonius, it is there that you shall meet your end."

I was so surprised that they threw in the Hamlet reference it's what made me look up what the original Japanese line was. The English dub writing often strikes me just as straight up better the more I watch of it.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-07 01:05:40+00:00
> Are you under the impression they aren't burning money trying to make their own foundational models?

Indeed, I think they burn money with that, but not as much as they would if they were putting all of their eggs into one casket, as the "AI companies" like OpenAI and Anthropic do (or do much more).

There exist multiple (not mutually exclusive) explanations for that:

- Limititing the "money burn rate" on AI is a political compromise that was made at the companies between various decision makers

- The companies hope that at the end even a not state-of-the-art AI model might offer business opportunities

- Perhaps such a model might give you a better "bang per buck" rate (cost of training, cost of running)

- These companies want to get experience with AI, so they currently burn a lot of money of it, but will pivot when their AI models have been out-competed

- Such a pivot could be getting from "state-of-the-art models" to "models that are insanely cheaply to run, while still being powerful"

- Perhaps the decision makers of the respective companies believe in the (not implausible) scenario that AI could from a technical perspective continue improving a lot, but these models will get disproportionally expensive to run, i.e. in the upcoming future AI models won't improve so much anymore because no one will be able to pay for it. In such a case having a slightly worse model is much less of a disadvantage.
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by hatefulmoron | 2025-10-07 01:06:54+00:00
It's also possible that people taking Finasteride might be a more potent selection of people that are distressed about hair loss, and are therefore more likely to exhibit depression, etc. As in, if people with androgenetic alopecia are more likely to be depressed, people who take finasteride may be a sampling of those people who are distressed enough to seek and maintain treatments.
by chimeracoder | 2025-10-07 01:07:12+00:00
> You might expect trans women to react differently to lower T levels than cis men for various reasons

Sure but that's besides the point. I was responding to - and refuting - the claom:

> Reports from trans people, way back in the 1940s, show clear links between sex hormones and depression: a priori, one would assume such a relationship would exist here.

There's no reason to believe that the effects of hormones on depression in trans people are predictive of hormones taken by cis people in completely different doses for different reasons, but it's especially fallacious to assume that it's not only predictive, but predictive of the the exact opposite effect.
by skulk | 2025-10-07 01:07:29+00:00
> teleports the founder and his wife to the same location so they can be together in person holding hands - they're already in the same same city and want to meet immediately, so they are 99.98% of the way there! They're both working 10 hours a day to bridge the remaining 0.02%. Following this proof of concept, other people will also be allowed to date, however at the moment all dating is prohibited until the founder and his wife meet successfully.

Uhh.... I.... ok.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-07 01:08:06+00:00
> The executives and scientists should both be prosecuted.

For what? Many drugs have depression as a possible side effect, but that doesn’t mean they should be pulled from the market and executives prosecuted for simply the possibility of depression.

Negative reactions to drugs are always a possibility. Weighing the risks and tradeoffs and monitoring patients is important. This is why drugs like this are not OTC.