MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Esophagus4 | 2025-11-13 01:46:02+00:00
Ah, I was thinking that’s what the argument was.

To which I’d say… maybe?

I was able to dig up this paper that showed 66% of the COVID unvaccinated regretted their decision after hospitalization. The rest were undeterred, even after hospitalization, mostly due to ideology and conspiracies.

But the problem is that I wouldn’t be comfortable risking public health to prove 2/3 of a point to vaccine skeptics who should’ve known better anyway. The Hippocratic oath is to do no harm, and I wouldn’t want a loved one with a suppressed immune system or lung problems to get seriously sick because we let the disease spread by choice.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8950102/
by zeroq | 2025-11-13 01:46:57+00:00
I'll share a childhood story as well.

Somewhere between '93 and '95 my father took me abroad to Germany and we visited a gaming venue. It was packed with typical arcade machines, games where you sit in a cart holding a pistol and you shoot things on the screen while cart was moving all over the place simulating bumpy ride, etc.

But the highlight was a full 3D experience shooter. You got yourself into a tiny ring, 3D headset and a single puck hold in hand. Rotate the puck and you move. Push the button and you shoot. Look around with your head. Most memorable part - you could duck to avoid shots! Game itself, as I remember it, was full wireframe, akin to Q3DM17 (the longest yard) minus jump pads, but the layout was kind of similar. Player was holding a dart gun - you had a single shot and you had to wait until the projectile decayed or connected with other player.

I'm not entirely sure if the game was multiplayer or not.

I often come back to that memory because shortly after within that time frame my father took me to a computer fair where I had the opportunity to play doom/hexen with VFX1 (or whatever it was called) and it was supposed to revolutionize the world the way AI is suppose to do it now.

Then there was a P5 glove with jaw dropping demo videos of endless possibilities of 3D modelling with your hands, navigating a mech like you were actually inside, etc.

It never came.
by agoodusername63 | 2025-11-13 01:47:35+00:00
> - most modern consoles are, less-legally, emulatable

wheres the PS4 or like, any xbox emulator?

It's just Nintendo that has modern, usable emulators for most of the games you'd want to play. xbox never got lucky for basically any of their consoles and Sony never got anything usable after PS3.
by Waterluvian | 2025-11-13 01:47:40+00:00
(1) But that's how commerce works. Does a product sell? Okay sell it more.

(2) People who "do their research" aren't entitled to anything. Maybe they just won't buy it? Then it's not for them. I don't understand what "makes prices irrational" would even mean in this context. The right price is whatever maximizes P * Q.
by scrubs | 2025-11-13 01:48:03+00:00
Understand MAGA politics?

- trump is in deep with epstein. Maga cares about that

- trump and bondi said they'd release all files, which Maga wants as does the prepondernce of america.

- trump has no morals or ethics. He thinks he can tell people what they want to hear now then tapdance his way out later. The key reason he has some success here is because congressional Republicans are wussies, benefit from trump short term, are afraid of him. and Republicans are far more disciplined staying on message then dems. Release the files? Trump thinks nothing of saying that but not doing it

- no regaen republican thinks trump gives a damn about family values, church, justice, military values. No one .. not anywhere .. not at anytime.

- US fundamentalist christains (evangelicals, pentacostals) are benefitting from his culture warfare short-term. But when music stops it'll be clear they just used each other.

- as far as theology goes the Christian theology is way more flexible, bend to need than Catholics, or those for who the old testament is their book. Evangelical christains take this inch and make it a light year.

(I was raised Evangelical but quit as a kid, have lots of military in the family, and share several members who are regaen Republicans repulsed by trump. Trump is radioactive skank on parade.)
by technothrasher | 2025-11-13 01:48:33+00:00
Voyager 1 passed by Saturn in 1980 on my ninth birthday, and my dad had set up TV sets in the house with video he was getting off a satellite feed for my birthday party with a bunch of my friends. We were all very confused as to why he did it, as it wasn't very kid's party like. Only many years later did I get how cool it actually was, and how I will always remember that Voyager event. So... a much belated thanks, dad!
by kakco-AI | 2025-11-13 01:50:03+00:00
This is not a prediction. This tool will analyze the mushroom photo you upload, then screen and compare it within our data model to finally confirm the mushroom's information. If no information is found in the data, it will return information indicating that the mushroom is poisonous, just to ensure safety. Of course, the situation where the mushroom's information cannot be found is extremely rare. If you're unsure, why not try it yourself before making a decision?
by tpmoney | 2025-11-13 01:50:14+00:00
> None of these apply to volunteer projects.

How so? Volunteer projects have maintainers assigned to the project writing code. The "resources" to fix a bug promptly are simply choosing to allocate your developer resources to fixing the bug. Of course, volunteers might not want to do that, but then again, a company might not want to allocate their developers to fixing a bug either. But in either case the solution is to prioritize spending developer hours on the bug instead of on some other aspect of your project. In fact, volunteer driven projects have one huge resource that corporations don't, a theoretically infinite supply of developers to work on the project. Anyone with an interest can pick up the task of fixing the bug. That's the promise of open source right? Many eyes making all bugs shallow.

As for incentives, apparently both corporations and volunteer projects are "incentivized" to preserve their reputation. If volunteer projects weren't, we wouldn't be having this insane discussion where some people are claiming filing a bug report is tantamount to blackmail.

The only difference between the volunteer project and the corporation is even the head of a volunteer project can't literally force someone to work on an issue under the threat of being fired. I guess technically they could threaten to expel them from the project and I'm sure some bigger projects could also deny funding from their donation pool to a developer that refuses to play ball, but obviously that's not quite the same as being fired from your day job.

> Great, then they should loop in the people they're paying on any notification of a vulnerability.

If only there was some generally agreed upon and standardized way of looping the right people in on notifications of a bug. Some sort of "bug report" that you could give a team. It could include things like what issue you think you've found, places in the code that you believe are the cause of the issue, possibly suggested remediations, maybe even a minimum test case so that you can easily reproduce and validate the bug. Even better if there were some sort email address[1] that you could send these sorts of reports to if you didn't necessarily want to make them public right away. Or maybe there could be a big public database you could submit the reports to where anyone could see things that need work and could pick up the work[2] even if the maintainers themselves didn't. That would be swell, I'm sure some smart person will figure out a system like that one day.

[1]: https://ffmpeg.org/security.html [2]: https://ffmpeg.org/bugreports.html
by HumanOstrich | 2025-11-13 01:51:01+00:00
Why would you assume I am a chemist, an investor, and a pro-additive experiments? (I'm 2/3, but which 2!?)

I'm an educated citizen who likes to have some evidence-based sources to learn about surprising claims people make. Especially when their claims read like pseudoscientific babble that has little or no basis in reality.
by bikeshaving | 2025-11-13 01:51:40+00:00
I don’t think people here understand the pricing for this market category. This is not a phone case or a container, it is a handbag/shoulder bag, which can go for $100-500+ (do not underestimate the long tail for this market). The prominent display of Issey Miyake branding is indicative that this is a foray into fashion. Whether it looks good, or whether the Apple Pocket will be fashionable, is an open question, but it would be stupid and brand damaging for Apple to price this item lower.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-13 01:52:04+00:00
It's hard to even get $10 bills in change these days because of the ways that retailers handle putting larger bills into the safe, and getting smaller bills for change out of the safe.

"Alright. Your total is $25.13. You're paying with $100? No, no, it's fine; I just hope you like fives and ones."
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-13 01:53:03+00:00
Thanks for the link. While it will help to pressure undecided representatives and see who not to vote for in the future, the root cause of the problem remains unaddressed. Why do these proposals exist? Who/what is motivating them? It seems like nefarious actors are coordinating in secret, and they need to be exposed.

We should also try to minimize the number of useful idiots who are genuinely concerned about children's safety. There are two excuses being used to push these surveillance laws: CSAM scanning and content moderation for children. These are bad excuses and we need to call them out as such in every conversation.

CSAM scanning ignores the actual problem, which is the process by which CSAM is created. The root problem is the trafficking of children in physical space, not the tools used to transmit and store child porn, which are general purpose tools used to transmit and store anything. Our efforts and resources, as a matter of priority, should be spent on preventing children from being trafficked in the first place.

The under-16 social media ban ignores the actual problem of parental responsibility. We could implement configurable IP filters on the device itself at the OS level, with the setting being protected by a password parents can set, and this could be done completely offline. It would be way easier to implement and will work better than any of these remote solutions. And as a matter of principle: it is the responsibility of parents to decide how to raise their own children.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-13 01:53:20+00:00
I agree, it would suck if ffmpeg dropped support for niche codec altogether. But that's orthogonal to whether or not the bug reports should be made public. And realistically the only way distros (or anyone) can know if they should or need to disable some formats by default is if the issues with those formats are public knowledge so people can make informed decisions. Otherwise you're just arbitrarily picking some formats to enable and some not to based on age or some other less useful criteria.
by jampa | 2025-11-13 01:53:25+00:00
Apple seems to be running out of steam. Xiaomi, "the Apple clone," is now releasing cars and XR devices. Meanwhile, it has been a while since Apple released a new product line. The last one was the Apple Vision Pro. With Apple Intelligence, they have shown that they can't "think different" anymore.

Sure, Apple will remain a trillion-dollar company for a long time, partly because its competition keeps shooting itself in the foot. Windows and Android are hostile towards power users and bloat the system with pre-installed apps, and they are both stepping on the gas.

But the real question is: how long can brand loyalty alone sustain the hype of new Apple products? And when will Apple stop being considered a "growth" company?
by zb3 | 2025-11-13 01:54:18+00:00
I'm just presenting my exotic point of view - since that developer verification would only be needed to run apps on the "stock OS" (which I consider bad), then deliberately excluding it could promote using LineageOS/GrapheneOS which would be a good thing.

But of course I'm talking about non-commercial apps, but commercial app developers would already be on Google Play.
by abletonlive | 2025-11-13 01:54:25+00:00
Well hey remember that time you were trying to argue BBC is some impartial source of news to a fault, or does your memory not last that long? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45357693#45362865

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/britains-bbc-...

Maybe it’s time to reevaluate whether your perspective is worth sharing, or perhaps some time is needed internally to reposition what you think you know
by vecter | 2025-11-13 01:54:54+00:00
> When they hit a jack pot. They’d document the mutations, throw the engineered strain out and start blasting them with UV. Afterwards you just scan for the same mutations and voila, now it’s classical strain enhancement!

Instead of starting with a fresh gene pool and blasting it with UV and praying that they get the same jackpot mutations, why didn't they start with an entire population with that desirable jackpot mutation and those blast cells with UV and then select for the ones that survived?
by westurner | 2025-11-13 01:55:33+00:00
"The Consistency Functional K: Variational Unification of Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and General Relativity" (2025) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17405041

From https://philarchive.org/archive/SABTCF-3 2025-10-16 draft :

> 9.6. The Unified Table of Correspondence

Physical Domain Consistency Condition Emergent Law Quantum Mechanics \delta_\rho \mathcal{K} = 0 Unitarity, Born Rule Thermodynamics CPTP monotonicity Second Law, Entropy Relativity \delta_\rho \mathcal{K} = 0 Einstein Equations Gauge Theory Symmetry Invariance Yang–Mills Equations Cosmology Global extremum of \mathcal{K} Friedmann Dynamics

IIUC, inferring due to a minor LaTeX table error:

Causality I_{\rho}(A : C \mid B) = 0 Quantum Conditional Mutual Information (QCMI)

> 9.7. The Fundamental Equation of Reality

> All of the above can be compactly expressed by the defining relation:

\delta\mathcal{K}(\rho, g) = 0
by jalapenos | 2025-11-13 01:56:01+00:00
It's an old solution to value-based taxation that's very simple and effective:

If someone declares a value, the other party can take advantage of it if it's off the mark.

So if the value is self-assessed, the state has the option to buy at that price (and vice versa if state-assessed).

This nullifies cheating without any complexity or contention required.

You won't undervalue your property to get an e.g. 30% lower yearly tax rate if that risks the other party then buying it to realize a 30% profit (and 30% of total loss for you).
by zahlman | 2025-11-13 01:56:50+00:00
My understanding is: the training induces it to put Python code inside Markdown code fences, which the app interprets. It does that because the training data is full of examples of people doing that, because when people post Python code online it's very commonly in contexts where Markdown is understood that way.

... I suppose they could train the LLM to put a Markdown horizontal rule in the right place, but it sounds harder to get the system prompt to care about details like that consistently.
by lmm | 2025-11-13 01:57:21+00:00
> However, this part of AI evolves very quickly. So given these are known problems, why shouldn't we expect rapid improvements in agentic AI systems for software development, to the point where software developers who stick with the old paradigm will indeed be eroded in time?

Because writing code has always been the easy part. A senior isn't someone who's better at writing code than a junior - they might well be worse at writing code. AI can now do the easy part, sure. What grounds does that present for believing that it's soon going to be able to do the hard part?
by dmix | 2025-11-13 01:57:49+00:00
HN users will complain when a company tries to be all-consuming and unfocused then others deride them as uninspired when they are only focusing on a core business (which in this case still makes Apple endless amounts of money).

This is just some high fashion accessory they release, like a clothing company selling wallets on the side. It's not a big deal.
by davely | 2025-11-13 01:58:04+00:00
I think they are also absolutely addicted to cruddy pay to win mobile games and they don’t want to give up that sweet drip feed of IAP that they get a 30% cut of… which is substantial.

For funsies, try searching App Store apps and find a way to filter out results for apps with IAP. Nope!

(Source: me, who spent time at a mobile gaming company as we figured out how to continuously optimize our funnels so that some rich dudes in Qatar could continue to spend $40K a month on useless cosmetics.)
by agoodusername63 | 2025-11-13 01:58:44+00:00
none of these consoles are "usable"

I'm pretty into emulation. It's very misleading to claim that "modern consoles are emulatable" when no, only nintendo has emulators you can boot up, pick from a very large list of compatible games, and have a consistent experience that any sane person would want out of these.

Sony disappears after PS3 and xbox... well I guess xemu is Fine, but you're going to play for an hour and then come to the conclusion that you're better off hooking up the old console
by zzo38computer | 2025-11-13 01:59:02+00:00
If adb is unrestricted and can work with the Linux command shell (something I seem to remember I had read about before; you will need to enable the developer mode to use it), which is aparently a separate system but runs on the same device, although if it has the ability to communicate with the main Android system using adb (which it might be reasonable to require that to be explicitly enabled with another setting, for additional security in case you do not use adb), then this would help since you do not require another computer that would be compatible with adb in order to do it.

However, I think there are other things they should do as well (in addition to the other things) if they want to improve the safety, such as looking at the apps in Google Play to check that they are not malware (since apparently some are; however, it says they do have some safeguards, so hopefully that would help), and to make the permission system to work better (e.g. to make it clear that it can intercept notificatinos; there are legitimate reasons to do this but it should require an explicit permission setting to make this clear).
by throwaway17_17 | 2025-11-13 01:59:06+00:00
I will second your recommendation and also recommend all of his ‘Tested’ videos. The microphone ‘Tested’ video was also an absolute delight.

The delivery style gets to some people (i.e. “I’m not ___ I just play guitar…”) but i find it absolutely fine.

I moved on from tube amps about 15 years ago and now really enjoy a variety of different solid state amplification stages with varying EQ and ‘dirt’ options at various places. Turns out a lot like were Jim’s Video goes.
by gastonmorixe | 2025-11-13 02:00:38+00:00
yeah. Lesson learned: never share on HN late at night without paying more attention. I’m sorry guys. It wasn’t my intention at all, I was trying to learn about time syncing and thought they really needed help to keep the site and devs support up. 2 months left and 1k goal looked sad and perfect for us to help. I failed in the title badly and no idea what they are doing by changing the goal. I will dig deeper later. It was 100% my fault. Stop donating. I only hope they are not a scam. :/
by westurner | 2025-11-13 02:00:44+00:00
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45606837 :

> "The Self-Consistent Coherence-Maximizing Universe: Complete Derivation of the Standard Model and General Relativity from Mathematical Self-Consistency" (2025) https://www.academia.edu/144466150/The_Self_Consistent_Coher... :

> Abstract: We derive the complete structure of fundamental physics from a single principle: Quantum coherence maximization under self-consistency constraints. [...]
by zeroq | 2025-11-13 02:03:07+00:00
I'll probably make fool of myself but could someone ELI5 what's the deal with BSD and why it matters?

I grew up in times when people were using stuff like Solaris, Novel and my older friends would occasionally gift me a whooping set of 7CDs with something like SUSE or RedHat so I could join the cool kids club.

While former - in my headspace - were like Oracle - specialized, enterprise solutions, the latter were just different breeds of Linux trying to compete with Windows. Nowadays, for an ordinary dude like myself, we pretty much settled on Ubuntu with plethora of different distributions for hackers and tinkers, but, at least for me, there's not much difference between Mint or Arch. It's like sports team, everyone has their own favorite team, but at the end of the day the all play football. Or fashion.

It's like if you'd ask me about a bike I could go for an hour long tangent about different breeds and brands, but at the end of the day if you just want to cycle around the neighborhood just pick any bike you can that more or less fits your size and you're set.

But for whatever reason BSD seems to occupy different space, why?
by freakynit | 2025-11-13 02:03:54+00:00
Humanity’s greatest journey so far has only reached the closest world to us: the Moon ... in a universe that stretches endlessly in every direction and is seemingly infinite.

It's kind of wild to think about: we might end up collapsing our own civilization before we ever make it beyond our solar system.

At this point, I suspect the next real explorers won't be us, but probes carrying intelligent machines..our robotic descendants venturing where we can’t.
by dmix | 2025-11-13 02:05:11+00:00
> but is Apple's brand and fans the same as they were back then

Yes Apple is still an up-market brand. You can be a luxury company that sells products that start priced in the middle while offering high end stuff that also sells very well... or better, iPhone 15 Pro Max was their top selling individual item last year, not the standard iPhone 15.

Having a subset of the influencer/trendmakers who buy only the high end stuff helps push up the brands popularity. Even if it's only more novelty stuff like this.

This 'sock' is a very loud fashion item that will show up in celebrity photos and youtube videos.
by saagarjha | 2025-11-13 02:06:00+00:00
The hierarchy is actually a little more complicated than this. MacPorts can and does build open source GUI apps (in fact it largely rejects binaries for them, preferring to build them directly). Homebrew rejects GUI apps from being built from source. Because Homebrew downloads apps from the internet, it makes them with the quarantine attribute, which means more apps that it handles will be flagged by Gatekeeper.
Tell HN: PSA/reminder AI Apps have access to your clipboard
by ddxv | 2025-11-13 02:06:25+00:00
I had a situation occur where Cursor demonstrated it already knew what was in my clipboard. A pleasant feature, but jarring because I hadn't started working yet and didn't expect it to know what was in my clipboard.

I think a year ago I would have 'expected' this but have grown pretty complacent using AI apps and lately have started becoming more shocked realizing how much they are collecting constantly.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-13 02:06:32+00:00
> because the governments of countries where such scams are widespread will hold Google responsible.

This is the unsurprising consequence of trying to hold big companies accountable for the things people do with their devices: The only reasonable response is to reduce freedoms with those devices, or pull out of those countries entirely.

This happened a lot in the early days of the GDPR regulations when the exact laws were unclear and many companies realized it was safer to block those countries entirely. Despite this playing out over and over again, there are still constant calls on HN to hold companies accountable for user-submitted content, require ID verification, and so on.