MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ok_dad | 2025-11-11 20:07:09+00:00
Whataboutism isn’t going to solve the problem of inequality. Compare me to many others and you can say the same things as I said to GP, however there’s a clear difference that isn’t very subtle between me buying a compact car and GP buying a few pairs of those pants for the same cost.

There’s this argument that people make that goes something like, “the wealthy give their fair share why sour they pay more than a lot income person and get called out for not giving more?” I don’t believe that’s their fair share, is why I ask them to give way more. Do you think a person who starts 100 businesses is working harder than a single mom with a few kids? Why did they deserve the lions share of the profits over their employees? These are some of the questions I have they could be relevant.

Like I said, I don’t want to bore anyone, it’s not like the wealthy have ever been in touch with the common man, for millennia. I’m certainly not going to convince anyone, I’m no good at arguing and my arguments tend to be rough and full of holes, but at least I’m not a millionaire claiming I couldn’t or shouldn’t do more because I’m a special hard worker who deserves every penny.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-11 20:07:16+00:00
The author (Cato Institute scholar) presents a super limited view of the economy.

In 1967, only 5 percent of US families earned over $150,000 (inflation adjusted).

One example is that the $150k club grows in inverse proportion to home affordability.

In 1960, approximately 68 out of 100 Americans could afford to buy a home. However, by 2019, this number had dropped to about 43 out of 100 Americans.

ref: https://www.thezebra.com/resources/home/housing-trends-visua...

ref: https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/homeownership-st...

ref: https://listwithclever.com/research/home-price-v-income-hist...
by Pet_Ant | 2025-11-11 20:07:30+00:00
Jensen is an arbitrary example. I'm asking how do you disentangle company performance from internal and external factors.

If you had a company that was making buggy whips at the invention of the automobile, you expect the company profits to go down at no fault of the CEO. A better CEO just changes the slope not the direction.

So what you want to do is not reward based on performance of the company, but on the CEO and to do that you need to figure out the "wins above replacement" [1]. How much better did the CEO do than any schmuck chosen at random.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wins_above_replacement
by kube-system | 2025-11-11 20:07:34+00:00
Most of the people who are just looking at browser statistics for the purpose of managing a website are using simple tools that just simply collect data from user agent strings. Determining browser from this isn't 100% straightforward, but it's enough to give website operators a rough idea of what browser to target. This data was more important in the days when everything wasn't Chrome/Android/iOS, and it actually mattered what version of IE your users were running.

If you're doing fingerprinting for tracking purposes, you're gonna be tracking a lot more in-depth data.

But in the end, there are pretty much three types of Internet user today: 1. The person who uses the default browser installed on their device. 2. The user who always downloads Chrome when they first get a new computer. and 3. Nerds who do something else.
by cycomanic | 2025-11-11 20:08:22+00:00
Not really, if I ask an artist to draw me a Mickey Mouse (for money) who is committing copyright infringement?

It's an interesting observation that the big AI corps very much argue that learning "is the same that humans do", so fair use. But then when it comes to using that learning they argue the other way, i.e. "this is just a machine, it's the person asking who is doing the infringement".
by whatevertrevor | 2025-11-11 20:08:37+00:00
Definitely, I don't think official channels recognized aerosolized transmission until way too late, and even when they did it was very low key and non-committal.

I'm on team "ball was dropped badly re pandemic policy and communication", though I personally don't extend that to blind distrust in institutions in general. It was a tough (arguably unprecedented) situation in a media landscape primed for misinformation.
by notmyjob | 2025-11-11 20:08:55+00:00
I believe Fauci knew enough to know that herd immunity wasn’t a real probability when he was on the news talking it up as the way we “return to normalcy”. Will there ever be a public trial to disprove my belief and vindicate what seem like glaring mistakes as honest scientific naivety rather than misguided public health messaging strategy? Maybe. But it seems few are interested in the actual historical facts and would rather let sleeping dogs lie, bygones be bygones, since it’s all water under the bridge anyway and we have new things to fear like book banning and transgender athletes and Tucker platforming people who think Macron’s wife’s a dude. I’m inclined instead to believe knowledge is power, history repeats itself and governments should be transparent and accountable, even if it means putting our kings on trial.
by Lerc | 2025-11-11 20:09:04+00:00
I think the discussion on what standard practice should be does need to be had. This seems to be throwing blame at people following the current standard.

If the obscure coded is not included by default or cannot be triggered by any means other than being explicitly asked for, then it would be reasonable to tag it Won't Fix. If it can be triggered by other means, such as auto file type detection on a renamed file, then it doesn't matter how obscure the feature is, the exploit would affect all.

What is the alternative to a time limited embargo. I don't particularly like the idea of groups of people having exploits that they have known about for ages that haven't been publicly disclosed. That is the kind of information that finds itself in the wrong hands.

Of course companies should financially support the developers of the software they depend upon. Many do this for OSS in the form of having a paid employee that works on the project.

Specifically, FFMPEG seems to have a problem that much of their limitation of resources comes from them alienating contributors. This isn't isolated to just this bug report.
by yeahforsureman | 2025-11-11 20:09:18+00:00
Looks like you almost have this habit of explaining/talking about things 'as a European', particularly when bringing up USA in the context of international relations like now...

I guess it's OK — I'm European too, for example — but it does seem like you're doing it to imply that your views are somehow (at least relatively more) popular among, or representative of, well, Europeans. But now that we're making such massive generalisations, I'd claim that well-educated English-speaking Europeans are often likelier to be more familiar with the views and internal debates among Americans than those of many of their fellow Europeans, and that you're probably no exception.

As for your comment, had you not addressed it to 'you Americans', I'd be hard-pressed to tell it apart from a pretty standard-issue American Left (or 'Progressive') rant, perhaps somewhere from the younger and more identitarian part of that crowd, for example (despite some of the quasi-tankie undertones). While I'll admit that scoffing at things like pro-life policies and/or American poverty is certainly easier and more common throughout the political spectra in (Western) Europe, I'd say your cringe-inducing bothsidesism with USA and China falls closer to the crackpot left camp in Europe as well.

Europe contains multitudes, and undoubtedly for some but not all, up until now at least, it has been a bit too easy to comfortably observe and judge things for so long as a world-political bystander from under the US nuclear umbrella, typically further from the Russian border too — whether you were an insular French with casual contempt for all things 'Yankee', a German atomic-phobic pacifist (or worse, a far-right, Pro-Putin knuckle dragger) from that 'European powerhouse' heated with Russian non-renewables, or even a Swede from the world's leading moral superpower, or something like that, anyway... ;)
by rh-app-dev | 2025-11-11 20:09:20+00:00
Easier said than done, as I just went through it. And if they did, and it did all the checks to ensure the device is valid, the backend that tracks the devices and issues the certificates, accounting for the various methods of altering content to fake a valid one, then I'd applaud them.

This system works with both mobile device platforms and content created with it can be validated by the app on any other device. There will also be a web validation tool soon.

The security behind the solution is designed to withstand legal and audit challenges. Making your own signing system is not as simple as it sounds.
by rudimentary_phy | 2025-11-11 20:09:36+00:00
When Trudeau said "[t]he best vaccine for you to take is the very first one that is offered to you," they were aware of the potential threats that AstraZeneca posed, and yet, it took about 15 more days before the government suspended its use. He was well aware of the risks he was taking by telling everyone it was safe, and yet, did it anyways (the fact that he even said such a thing indicates as much).
by CWuestefeld | 2025-11-11 20:09:40+00:00
Honestly, I think it was misfounded. As an photographer and artist myself, I find the OpenAI results head-and-shoulders above the others. It's not perfect, and in a few cases one or the other alternative did better, but if I had to pick one, it would be OpenAI for sure. The gap between their aesthetics and mine makes me question ever using their other products (which is purely academic since I'm not an Apple person).
by onion2k | 2025-11-11 20:09:41+00:00
One of the main reasons why code is often hard to understand is that it doesn't actually do what it appears to do unless you get in and read the code in depth. It looks like skim is making an assumption that would make this happen a lot - that the code doesn't rely on side effects (modifying a global, using exceptions to control flow, throwing an event on a bus for something else to pick up, etc.)

I imagine this is a really useful tool for a codebase built on pure functions, but it'll get very confused by legacy code that hasn't been written without that goal.
by diskzero | 2025-11-11 20:10:26+00:00
I worked at DreamWorks Animation on the pipeline, lighting and animation tools for almost ten years. All of this information is captured in our pipeline process tools, although I am sure there are edits and modifications that are done that escape documentation. We were able to pull complete shows out of deep storage, render scenes using the toolchain the produced them and produce the same output. If the renders weren't reproducable, madness would ensue.

Even with complete attention to detail, the final renders would be color graded using Flame, or Inferno, or some other tool and all of those edits would also be stored and reproducible in the pipeline.

Pixar must have a very similar system and maybe a Pixar engineer can comment. My somewhat educated assumption is that these DVD releases were created outside of the Pixar toolchain by grabbing some version of a render that was never intended as a direct to digital release. This may have happened as a result of ignorance, indifference, a lack of a proper budget or some other extenuating circumstance. It isn't likely John Lasseter or some other Pixar creative really wanted the final output to look like this.
by esrauch | 2025-11-11 20:10:29+00:00
This program discloses security issues to the projects and only discloses them after they have had a "reasonable" chance to fix it though, and projects can request extensions before disclosure if projects plan to fix it but need more time.

Google runs this security program even on libraries they do not use at all, where it's not a demand, it's just whitehat security auditing. I don't see the meaningful difference between Google doing it and some guy with a blog doing it here.
by stavros | 2025-11-11 20:11:05+00:00
This is fantastic. You've detailed a lot of the stuff that ruined my projects, though I never really actually sat down to learn about parasitic inductance and how to combat it. Now I look at the datasheet and make sure I don't miss any of the recommended caps and resistors, though I'm still not at your level of complicated design.

The finished product looks great, well done! By the way, why not add two more buttons at those two blank corners? Is it because the labels wouldn't fit on the display? You could always replicate the layout onto the display itself and put the labels on that.
by cestith | 2025-11-11 20:11:06+00:00
You can put art through all sorts of scientific and technical analysis. Being analyzed is how we teach the techniques to new artists. A mechanical reproduction of it from that analysis is not art, though, and sometimes you get the break the rules in favor of the expression.

Did you know, for example, that Shakespeare coined a great many words and phrases used in English to this day? Before Sam Clemens, people tended to speak in proper schoolhouse English no matter the setting or character. Poetry and prose are not just the ability to arrange words on a page. Novels and plays are not limited to the three-act or five-act story arc. Simile and metaphor are often encouraged, but overused ones are actually frowned upon.
by Baeocystin | 2025-11-11 20:11:32+00:00
I don't really disagree with anything you've said, but I still feel a warm spot in my heart from projects like this. I still have (and use!) my HP48SX from my high school days, and it still works like it always has. There is something to be said for a device's limitations, and I mean that honestly. It's very powerful for what it is, but its processing limitations keeps me from overextending, which is something very easy to do with the pocket supercomputers we've all gotten used to carrying around over the previous decade. (And its keys are simply a delight to press compared to even the best glass touchscreen.)
by inkysigma | 2025-11-11 20:11:33+00:00
Maybe for a small project? I think the difference here is rather minimal. Everybody "knows" code often has security bugs so this announcement wouldn't technically be new information. For a large project such as ffmpeg, I doubt there is a lack of effort in finding exploits in ffmpeg given how widely it is used.

I don't see why actors would suddenly reallocate large amounts of effort especially since a patch is now known to be coming for the issue that was found and thus the usefulness of the bug (even if found) is rather limited.
by l___l | 2025-11-11 20:11:44+00:00
Is the Witness a person or something else? Can the Witness be faked?

I also have the same questions I had 48 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45364282

How would fake content not be able to fake the proof?

What's to prevent fake content from generating cryptographically signed photos and videos that embed a JSON manifest with the same characteristics as this service?
by notmyjob | 2025-11-11 20:12:20+00:00
You probably also would argue smoking cigarettes doesn’t cause cancer? Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

Edit: to connect the dots:

How mice studies are used

Experiments on mice have helped scientists understand how the carcinogens in cigarette smoke damage DNA and cause cancer, which complements epidemiological data from human studies. These animal studies have been crucial in establishing the link between smoking and cancer since at least the 1950s.
by hermitcrab | 2025-11-11 20:12:32+00:00
Another GW-6900 fan here. I think you've done pretty well to only have 1 replacement band in that time. Maybe that is because you don't take it off at night!

The only other thing I have with similar levels of toughness is the rogue leather hat I wore for at least 20 years. https://rogue.co.za/collections/headgear But I eventually sweated a hole in it and had to buy another one.
by mncharity | 2025-11-11 20:12:54+00:00
> She found it very frustrating [...] I wonder if I should try a [different language] with her

Or, perhaps, preprocess left-arrow to equal?

Customizing a language to taste. Especially for shallow syntactic issues. Like "no multi-line string literals allowed ... I'm sorry, that's just not ok". Or "ok kid, what nicknames would you like to give the keywords today"?

When programming for just fun, I'll sometimes go "this aspect of the language bugs me - I could of course just live with it... but here, I think it will be more fun not to". So for recent example, a few lines of recast.js ast tweaking, and I could use infix unicode mathematical symbols as javascript functions.

I wonder if one could teach programming by build-your-own language. Perhaps even of the video-scanned desktop variety. "Draw a circle around your toys to create a collection. Label it with a letter. Now you can sort/filter it by..."
by Topfi | 2025-11-11 20:13:18+00:00
You don't have to take my word for it. Open the three next to each other, type in a search query. Only one will provide part of the results as a wildly inaccurate "overview" that somehow manages to link to sources telling you the opposite or contradicts itself inside the text box, which can also not be deactivated. Those are the results you get from Google and that alone makes quality worse, pure and simple.

More subjectively, but if you want to ignore the "AI overview" and consider that not results (then why are they on my results page?!), just look for a specific, slightly older video on Youtube, a site Alphabet themselves run. You can provide the exact title down to the letter and are in many instances going to struggle to find it with Youtube search or Googles Video Search, even when wrapping in ", etc. Kagi and DDGs video search tabs meanwhile yield the desired results. Again, this doesn't mean they are amazing or massively far ahead as Google was able to reliably provide such results in the past. It just means that Google Search has regressed, yet users stuck with it because, as I've been saying, quality (or lack thereof) has a hard time overcoming brand strength.
by cafard | 2025-11-11 20:13:29+00:00
According to a bit in one of Arthur Haley's potboilers, American manufacturers would ensure that VIPs got "mid-week cars", with the notion that the last weekend's drinking would have lost its effect by Tuesday, and that the next weekend' drinking wouldn't start until Thursday night.

Assuming that this is so, I wonder what effect Monday Night Football had on Tuesday quality.
by flatline | 2025-11-11 20:14:05+00:00
It has gotten better. The `vmmem` hyper-v process would regularly freeze up and require a reboot on my Windows 10 work laptop. I’ve successfully run WSL for days/weeks without issue on Windows 11. As a tradeoff, I’ve had the Weston container freeze up and be unrecoverable without restarting WSL.
by mvsingh | 2025-11-11 20:14:08+00:00
I was frustrated with how most UI libraries looked great until you tried to customize them. Everything broke, or you ended up fighting someone else’s design system.

So I built NextBunny a visual dev platform for Next.js that exports real, clean code (no schemas, no lock in). You can build with Tailwind, Shadcn, and Framer components, customize it and then export production read high quality code.

It’s free to try. Would love feedback from people who’ve struggled with UI customization or design to code code workflows or tried UI libraries for building with nextJS.

https://NextBunny.co
by diskzero | 2025-11-11 20:14:26+00:00
Production methodolgies for animated films have progressed massively since 1995 and Pixar may have not found the ideal process for the color grading of the digital to film step. Heck, they may not have color graded at all! This has been suggested. I agree that someone should know better than to just take a render and push it out as a digital release without paying attention to the result.
by Loquebantur | 2025-11-11 20:14:43+00:00
There are many "invisible" things that exist. "Telepathy" isn't "unprovable". The "Telepathy Tapes" are evidence in favor of telepathy (It appears, you confuse "evidence" with "proof"). The explanation I suggested is neither "invisible" nor "unprovable". There actually is evidence for it as well (again, your idea of evidence is wrong).

In other words, your assessment is entirely counter-factual and simply false.

Noting the absurd down-votes on my comment in conjunction with the lack of comments providing any rational argument is actually evidence in favor of the hypothesis presented there.
by ok_dad | 2025-11-11 20:14:49+00:00
A good start might be taking 9500 euros a next time you need pants and donate to a local food bank, then buy 500 euro pants instead!

Maybe you could even retire and open a food bank or a childcare facility locally, which might not be possible for you but who knows.

If I were wealthy i would open a childcare facility that was free for anyone who lives in my town for emergency care 24/7.
by onion2k | 2025-11-11 20:15:21+00:00
You missed the point of the essay.

a scalable product company

If you're building a scalable product company your first customers are your best evangelists. They're the ones you need to cultivate and nurture to take your message to a wide audience. Wider than you can connect with without them on side. That's why you have to do things at the start like emailing and talking with them personally. You can't do that when you have 1,000 customers, but you need to do that when you have 3.
by toast0 | 2025-11-11 20:15:25+00:00
Use After Free takes 3 seconds to fix if you defer free until the end of the program. If you have to do something else, or you don't want to leak memory, then it probably takes longer than 3 seconds.

Probably the right solution is to disable this codec. You should have to make a choice to compile with it; although if you're running ffmpeg in a context where security matters, you really should be hand picking the enabled codecs anyway.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-11 20:15:35+00:00
The people who complain about wanting phones to be smaller are like me. We don't buy phones that often. Manufacturers will never cater to us, because I didn't replace my Pixel 2 XL until this year.

I can never compete with the market that replaces their phone every year. Nobody can. They are the ones that keep buying giant phones.

>It’s not as if Apple dislikes money. If they believed the market for small phones was large enough, they’d still be selling small phones.

Apple, like almost every business that size, only does things that are profitable enough. It's not enough to sell 1 million phones for a good profit, they try to avoid doing that.
by cycomanic | 2025-11-11 20:15:46+00:00
> but I suppose some countries consider loading into RAM a copy already. I guess we're already at absurdity

FYI most do. Have a look at many software licenses. In particular Microsoft (who as we know invested lots into OpenAI), will argue it is so.

I would also say it makes sense. If it wasn't the case we can just load a program into lots of computers using only a single license/installation medium.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-11-11 20:16:11+00:00
I mean, at some point we are convinced as a convenience. You can use mathematical formulations describing _how_ a motor works without understanding why they are true. Similarly, I don't believe that there is a grand conspiracy involving chemtrails, even though I haven't proven that all the theories I've heard are false. I'm just fairly confident that this _could_ be done, given enough time and resources. But practically, I have to get on with my life.