MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by groovy2shoes | 2025-10-07 04:53:23+00:00
indeed, finasteride raised my T levels slightly, from 18 ng/dL to 30 ng/dL. the same enzyme that converts T to DHT (5α reductase) can also to convert progesterone to DHT via the backdoor pathway, but i reckon that would have a very small effect for most cis men (where normal progesterone levels range from 0.0-0.5 ng/mL, compared to 2.0-24.0 ng/mL in cis women during the luteal phase, and much higher during pregnancy).

a sudden hormonal change can absolutely cause changes to mood and libido, but with finasteride these seem to be rare and generally mild. i would expect them to lessen or even disappear after some time of continued treatment. i wonder how often finasteride is discontinued before the body even has a chance to adjust to the new hormone levels. the claims that the side effects persist after discontinuation are particularly dubious, and they remind me of castration anxiety.
by datatraveler | 2025-10-07 04:55:53+00:00
For me personally, I was trying to avoid bundling an entire browser runtime, so I viewed that approach (bundling WebView2's runtime instead of downloading on demand, only if needed) as no better than using Electron. At the time, that also wouldn't have solved my "Linux support" problem, but the blog post author is using webivew (which uses WebKitGTK on Linux), so that might not be relevant to them either. At which point I have nothing relevant to say!
by robomartin | 2025-10-07 04:56:31+00:00
This goes into my "Top 100 really dumb things I've seen this year" list. Not sure if it makes top ten. It's definitely in the top 25%.

OK. Why?

Let's forget then "Let's strap model airplane jet engines to the robot and make it fly." part.

For this dumb mechanical albatross to be anywhere close to useful in ANY scenario, even without flying...it has to be useful as a humanoid robot. It isn't. iCub was a cool concept, but it is so far behind the current state of the art I am not sure why they are trying to make it fly.

And, flying?

You can hang a humanoid from any of the already available mega quadcopters and drop it off anywhere within the flight range.

You can probably stick a parachute on an already available humanoid and drop dozens of them from an airplane.

Flying is a solved problem. A humanoid useful in the real world --particularly in disaster areas-- is not. At all.
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-07 04:56:52+00:00
Setting aside that you're passing claims from a far-right troll as facts, that still doesn’t make it acceptable to equate trans women with sexual predators, both morally and logically. Or are you suggesting that if you can find one male sexual predator, it justifies equating all males with predators? I have a feeling you’d be up in arms about that.

Anyways, it's clear that you're intent on dehumanizing others, even creating a new account for the sole purpose of saying the most vile things, so I'll stop replying here.
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-07 04:57:10+00:00
You'll be dealing with AI agents all the way down.

A decade ago, I used one of the hotel aggregator sites to reserve rooms for vacation, and as I call the hotel to double check something on my way to the airport, I find out that I don't actually have a reservation and my room is already occupied. They couldn't do anything about it, as it was the 3rd party aggregator's mistake.

Just getting the aggregator to admit, that no, even though their system says I have a reservation, the hotel confirmed it didn't exist took over an hour. I had to go through several layers of customer service, and I suspect different call centers, until someone called the hotel themselves and issued a refund.

It was miserable and stressful to do from the airport, I would have lost my mind if I had to deal with chatbots for what was already a terrible experience with an automated purchase.
by Tiberium | 2025-10-07 04:57:12+00:00
GPT-5 Pro is different from GPT-5 just like o3 Pro is different from o3 and o1 Pro is different from o1 :) OpenAI doesn't want to tell the truth, but it might be something similar in the spirit to e.g. Entropix. [0]

[0] https://github.com/xjdr-alt/entropix
by mattmaroon | 2025-10-07 04:57:53+00:00
I prefer it. Always have. Don’t have any objection to logging in with my online account, in fact I would even if I didn’t have to so all my stuff just syncs. Getting a new PC is now finally as easy as getting a new phone, just sign in and let it sync. Anyone who owns a cell phone and is worried about the privacy issues here is being ridiculous.

Mac users fellate themselves over Mac usability. But if I click a file in Windows and hit the delete key you know what it does? It deletes the file. You know what Mac does? It makes the “bonk” sound and nothing happens. (Or at least it did, been years since I used it.)

I tried to like Mac for years, even using it as my daily driver for two straight, because their hardware is so good, but I just never could because of 100 little things like that. MacOS sucks.

The concerns of the people who inhabit this tiny little enclave of the internet are alien to 99% of the population at least.
by SllX | 2025-10-07 04:58:10+00:00
No, it’s not understandable because Crunchyroll has spent the majority of its time as a streaming service as a commercial paid or free-with-ads service that has a community, with comments under every video up until like last year. Moderation is an expense, but it’s 1) not an unreasonable one, especially given the scale of Crunchyroll and a paid subscriber base and 2) some investment in automating moderation or developing tools for their moderators can reduce the cost of maintaining moderation.

It was a deliberate choice that removed some of the value of the service and wiped out yet another swath of Internet history. The core is of course the videos, they can coast on that for a while, but it’s the changes like that add up that make Crunchyroll less competitive going forward, especially as other larger services acquire larger anime libraries.
by wtallis | 2025-10-07 04:58:13+00:00
> And if your text exceeds what can fit in multiple columns on a single screenful, scrolling also becomes awkward, because you'd have to scroll exactly to the next screenful to have any consistency.

That used to be a solved problem, before every website started to include multiple oversized "dickbars" floating over the real content and taking up 15+% of the available vertical space. Pressing the "Page Down" button on a keyboard would scroll down by exactly one screenfull. We also used to have scrollbars that on most operating systems would let you scroll down by exactly one screenfull with a single click.
by pupperino | 2025-10-07 04:59:55+00:00
Well, let's try to take a step back and approach this sort of stuff with a more scientific, less politically hysterical way. Models are simply mathematical fiction, useful in as much as they constrain our thinking and remove wordplay from it. They're ways of imposing some discipline on our thinking. When a paper pours over the data, makes the case for an identification strategy and its associated causality graph, and estimates some parameters, these are not Objective Truth. You get this, obviously, amazing. Ok, so, are they? Samples from a high-dimensionality probability distribution encoding the "real" parameters for the effects of immigration on any desired outcome.

So maybe try to consider this yet another data point. A paper estimating a certain effect size in a certain context shouldn't flip your entire mental model of a certain phenomenon, but it's also totally irrational to handwave away empirical results that don't match your intuition.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-10-07 05:00:06+00:00
The gaming is the only reason that keeps me buying computer with windows

Regarding this article here, when you said about competitive gaming, I imagined a competition of that sort. I wonder how does a windows installation look in a big gaming competition that many players attend. It's never "BYOD" rather they get the windows preinstalled onto great gaming PC.

Do the players need to login to their Microsoft account? And Download their cloud cotents to someone else's computer? Or maybe there is a loophole for gaming contests that allow installation without cloud login?
by hurricanepootis | 2025-10-07 05:00:18+00:00
For me personally, blender uses ROCm and ROCm hiprt for Cycles tracing and cycles raytracing acceleration. I am using a Radeon RX 6800 and AMD Ryzen AI 7 350, and it works on Linux. ROCm HIPRT really does speed up cycles rendering (at the cost of more Vram usage). Of course, using the AMD driver on Linux, you get access to the system's RAM with GTT.
by dcrazy | 2025-10-07 05:00:35+00:00
For those unaware, the article hints at a system that really does believe everything is a file: Plan 9 from Bell Labs, the “second system”/spiritual successor of Unix. But it’s also worth pointing out that NT’s kernel is designed around a hierarchical namespace of “objects,” where various subsystems slot in at different levels to take over responsibility of the rest of the path. Unlike Plan 9, this is separate from the userland filesystem. It might be most familiar to people who have installed NT 4 (or maybe 3.51?) through XP via bootable floppy: SETUP.EXE shows strings like `\Device\HardDisk0` in the status bar.

Just pointing out how the same general idea can take distinct forms of implementation.
by redwall_hp | 2025-10-07 05:02:12+00:00
There's a reason it was law in the US that movie production companies couldn't own movie theaters: distribution should be required to be separate to ensure choice on the viewer side due to the inherent non-fungibility of entertainment media. In other words, if through copyright we grant a monopoly, then it's not a sustainable situation for the distribution to also be allowed to consolidate.
by avhception | 2025-10-07 05:03:23+00:00
The last Windows versions my parents actually used was Windows XP, maybe they encountered Vista somewhere for a brief moment. In my capacity as the family sysadmin, I've switched them to Linux around this time. Ubuntu first, now Debian. XFCE back in the day, Gnome3 since a few years. I think they'd hardly recognize a modern windows installation any more. Gnome3 has it's warts, but I really hope it's here to stay, at least in the broad strokes of the UI paradigm.
by braza | 2025-10-07 05:03:33+00:00
Despite all the shenanigans related to their corporate structure, does someone really trust in those services in terms of real privacy?

It's hard to believe that for USD 10/month you can have a high-trust VPN so that your ISP will never know who you are, and you can surf the internet untraceable from the IP perspective.

I mean, that kind of infrastructure costs money, and the mechanics to make it happen must be very expensive, and it is hard to believe that this is very commoditized.

It sometimes sounds like someone is selling a 2-cent pizza in Zürich: If you're paying that, maybe you're not ready to know what is inside.
by alexchantavy | 2025-10-07 05:06:17+00:00
Yeah it bugs me. We've got enough examples in this article to make Cards Against Humanity ChatGPT edition

> One panelist shared a personal story that crystallized the challenge: his wife refuses to let him use Tesla’s autopilot. Why? Not because it doesn’t work, but because she doesn’t trust it.

> Trust isn’t about raw capability, it’s about consistent, explainable, auditable behavior.

> One panelist described asking ChatGPT for family movie recommendations, only to have it respond with suggestions tailored to his children by name, Claire and Brandon. His reaction? “I don’t like this answer. Why do you know my son and my girl so much? Don’t touch my privacy.”
by toast0 | 2025-10-07 05:06:42+00:00
> But I doubt an interface like Alexa can replace a PC-like setup for most of the «real work».

Most people, and most workers simply don't do what you call real work that needs a big screen and a keyboard. I think most of the kids at my child's school don't have a computer at home (other than the district issued chromebook) and likely won't ever own a personal computer.

People do everything on their phones. Google recently said Chrome OS is going to end next year... I don't know what schools are going to do.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-07 05:06:44+00:00
It's a tough one for Chinese names. Japan will usually read the actual kanji but with their Japanese reading, which sounds nothing like the actual Chinese. And western audience will probably be more familiar with the Chinese name, except if they have their own weird pronouciation altogether.

For instance the current PRC chairman, Xi Jinping, has an alphabet reading close to Chinese, but Japanese news will call him along the lines of "Shu Kinpei", which sounds absolutely nothing near the original name, but is how someone would read the name assuming it was Japanese and with no pronounciations hints. They just don't care much about the sounds when it comes Asian names, even in official settings.
by datatraveler | 2025-10-07 05:06:45+00:00
It might even be better than that. It sounds like Microsoft pushed WebView2 to (at least some) Windows 10 computers (N.B. Steam says 32% of users are still on Windows 10).

Of course, the docs still say:

> Even if your app uses the Evergreen distribution mode, we recommend that you distribute the WebView2 Runtime, to cover edge cases where the Runtime wasn't already installed.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/co...

I wish we knew how prevalent that situation was. Not sure what the failure mode would be. But it sure would be nice to be able to assume that a modern WebView always exists on Windows! That certainly wasn't the case back when I made my decision circa 2022.
by diego_sandoval | 2025-10-07 05:06:58+00:00
Pretty much.

I remember when new Windows versions were still an event: you could read about it on the magazines, people would get excited to try them, people would debate about how pretty/ugly the new UI was, etc.

Nowadays new Windows versions are like some unwanted background noise. I don't even know at what point Windows 10 stopped being the new version and 11 came out, but it went totally unnoticed to me until I heard that Windows 10 was close to EOL a couple of months ago. And then you start dreading the moment that you'll have to migrate and uninstall all the Xbox crap again that they force on you, etc.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-07 05:09:21+00:00
> there aren't enough doctors

Be very careful with what you're suggesting and to what degree.

I live in a country that has taken "we need more doctors" to the max and opened hundreds of new medical schools backed by student loans. As a result, the medical profession has become a shadow of its former self. It used to be that only the best students would be selected for medical school. Nowadays any moron can become a doctor.

Pay is nosediving since about 40 thousand new doctors enter the market every year or so. Emergency rooms are supposed to attract the most experienced, most cold blooded doctors in the field. Here they have turned into total shit jobs that only attract the heavily indebted and quite possibly incompetent newly minted doctors.

Do you know how much damage a stupid indebted inexperienced doctor can cause? People are going to fucking die. I'm actually afraid of getting sick.

> If there are more doctors, they will need to need to spread further into regions where they're in demand.

Yeah, that's essentially my country's strategy. Squeeze doctors so much they'll have no choice but to relocate to the literal Amazon jungle in search for jobs.

Would you like to live in the jungle? Raise a family there? I sure as hell wouldn't. There's a reason the doctors are all concentrated in the capital. Same reason why people migrate to the capital. No one actually wants to live in some undeveloped shithole.

"They will need" betrays the fact you think you're qualified to dictate the careers and life paths of an entire category of people. That borders on magical thinking: if you squeeze them, then they'll do what you want the way you want it. No such deal exists. People have any number of options laid out for them. They can just as easily give up on medicine altogether, take their capital and start a business instead. I've actually seen a few do just that. Buy trucks and start a goddamn logistics business because medicine wasn't cutting it anymore.
by alluro2 | 2025-10-07 05:12:32+00:00
After some thinking, I've concluded that I'd actually like if there was a large collision that resulted in a chain reaction and took out most of the military and commercial satellites. It's obviously needed, in order for people to reassess their priorities, and whether additional garbage will be left with every mission.

(if we're imagining, without damage to ISS and scientific projects, of course)
by vipin-tanna | 2025-10-07 05:12:40+00:00
We call it Gabriel Operator—record a task once, get an agent you can reuse/share. It operates in your browser, not via vendor APIs. We built this after getting tired of scripting the same “download this report, paste that ID, submit those 12 fields” flows across dozens of portals.

What it’s good at: repetitive CRUD, back-office portals, weekly reports, job/lead sourcing, invoice/status checks. What it’s bad at: CAPTCHAs, 2FA, wildly changing DOMs, anti-automation defenses.

If you try it, I’d love bug reports and “this broke on Site X” details. We’ll be in the thread all day.

Link: https://gabrieloperator.com
by t_mahmood | 2025-10-07 05:12:56+00:00
Yes, that quick. It is probably leaded batteries do no like to get drained fully. I have two UPS now that dies as soon as electricity goes.

I am thinking of writing a script that will trigger the desktop to shut down as soon as the LAN goes down. My desktop is 1kw PSU, so, I am really not looking forward to replacing the 1.2kw UPS every few years.

These Laptops will be only doing backups, and small personal services

one for photo backups, replacing OneDrive

Another for sync, calendar service etc.

None requires heavy processing, in my knowledge. So thermals are not going to be an issue, hopefully.

Secondary issues are cats. And I don't have any idea how to stop them from stepping on the keyboards whenever they think like it, or jump on the router and cut the Internet :|
by devjab | 2025-10-07 05:13:06+00:00
> Just don't write bad code;

If we're writing good code then why do we even need a GC? Heh.

In decades of experience I've never once worked in an organisation where "don't write bad code" applied. I have seen people with decades of experience with C# who don't know that IQuerable and IEnumerable load things into memory differently. I don't necessarily disagree with you that people should "just write good code", but the fact is that most of us don't do that all the time. I guess you could also argue that principles like "foureyes" would help, but it doesn't, even when they are enforced by leglisation with actual risk of punishments like DORA or NIS2.

This is the reason I favour Go as a cross platform GC language over C#, because with Go are given fewer opportunities to fuck up. There is still plenty of chance to do it, but fewer than other GC languages. At least on the plusside for .NET 10 they're going to improve IEnumerable with their devirtualization.

> hidden indirection and runtime magic"

Maybe not in C#, but C# is .NET and I don't think it's entirely fair to decouple C# from .NET and it's many frameworks. Then again, I could have made it more clear.
by vipin-tanna | 2025-10-07 05:13:26+00:00
Happy to share technical guts: we capture actions, bind to resilient DOM anchors, expose the flow as an editable step list, and support parameterized inputs + loops. Roadmap: better selector heuristics, headless/cloud runners, approvals, and versioned flows. Known gaps: CAPTCHAs/2FA, anti-bot walls, highly dynamic UIs. Send me your worst sites.
by bobalob | 2025-10-07 05:14:04+00:00
The reason that this male sexual predator was allowed to use the female changing room and showers is because he claimed to have a female gender identity.

This illustrates the safeguarding risk in allowing males to use female spaces on the basis of simply saying that they identify as female. It ends up with situations like this: a registered sex offender pleasuring his erect penis in a shower area that young girls are using, and a reluctance of the authorities to stop him and file charges because they're in the thrall of policy that deems self-declared gender identity to be unquestionable.

> are you suggesting that if you can find one male sexual predator, it justifies equating all males with predators

For the purposes of safeguarding, yes. This is much of the reason why we have female-only spaces in the first place, as a preventative against male predation.

Not all males are predatory, but one can be quite sure that the subset of males who disregard and ignore women's and girls' boundaries are. Including the sex offender being discussed in that Twitter conversation. And any other male who demands access to female spaces.
by masklinn | 2025-10-07 05:14:14+00:00
Most of the list is rocket bodies which are quite large, and rendezvous is already challenging when everybody is collaborating, rendezvous with a tumbling uncontrolled giant piece of junk is even more difficult.

Astroscale is working on that in collaboration with various space agencies, they're currently planning a mission (ADRAS-J2) to connect to an uncontrolled rocket body and deorbit it circa 2027: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/astroscale-aced-the-wo...
by karpik | 2025-10-07 05:14:51+00:00
Hey, I find you from another topic (about speed of js/rust calls, im really curious about best effective way of wasm 3d app with additional raycasting, etc)

However I couldnt ignore this topic since im from Voronezh, Russia. Totally agree about government’s lies and impulsiveness, however:

- when they say “X is what totally not gonna happen” actually they introduce X event to the news so 99.99% it is gonna happen later

- impulsiveness huge, they got a lot of people in jail for labeling “svo” as “war” and in last months all the government refers to the conflict as to “the war”. However(!) they kinda translate will of the nation, some basic russians, trying to create narrative that will make average russian proud and happy and from the other side praying for any luck in war (actually they need not luck but supply chains, that ones are corrupted as hell, and that shit going for three centuries at least, nothing new)

So, about prep to a war I’m afraid you’re right, I don’t think it’s reasonable to stay at Russia at all for now at least for 6 years. Also it’s risky to stay in Poland and Finland. For Baltics not that risky but really depressing though. h o w e v e r

- russia had a deal for nato not to get close to its borders, that was violated in a really bad manner, the neighbor just stopped all communication from 2020 and at beginning 2022 declared cancellation of other deal of not to place any atom weapon nearby.

- USSR, and Russia asked to get in NATO a few times and got pretty rude responses “no way”. So there is nothing else this country can do if it doesn’t want to give up. The reasoning is pretty clear and emotional, stand for national security, do not became another India for UK. But the whole thing is messy, and smells like a slavs genocide. Russia became isolated, people are really angry and tolerable to constant violence threats, that is just insane turnaround since 2018 world cup that was hosted in Moscow.