MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rocketpastsix | 2025-11-11 19:34:39+00:00
I am in the same boat, however I dont go on X at all. I deleted my account last year for good and dont miss it. BlueSky for me is a mix of people who are trying their hardest in my city to make improvements but also creating a very insular community and people who are perpetually upset (maybe rightfully so) at just about everything. I have a mastodon account but never go on it. I basically read books, play call of duty (or something else low stakes and easy to put down), and watch youtube videos of DIY stuff I need to learn so I can fix things around the house.

I deleted Reddit, Instagram, and Bluesky off my phone last weekend (coming up on day 9 I think) and its been nice trying to readjust myself to being bored and not grabbing my phone.
by tzs | 2025-11-11 19:35:14+00:00
You said they lied when they said "you won't get COVID, you won't spread COVID".

Someone doubted you. You responded by posting a quote from President Biden: "If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the ICU unit and you’re not going to die."

That does not support your earlier claim. There is support for your earlier claim at the site you took the quote from, but the usual convention here is that if you quote a site you quote the part that supports your argument.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-11 19:35:18+00:00
Sure but how.

Let's say that FFMPEG has a 10 CVE where a very easy stream can cause it to RCE. So what?

We are talking about software commonly for end users deployed to encode their own media. Something that rarely comes in untrusted forms. For an exploit to happen, you need to have a situation where an attacker gets out a exploited media file which people commonly transcode via FFMPEG. Not an easy task.

This sure does matter to the likes of google assuming they are using ffmpeg for their backend processing. It doesn't matter at all for just about anyone else.

You might as well tell me that `tar` has a CVE. That's great, but I don't generally go around tarring or untarring files I don't trust.
by FredPret | 2025-11-11 19:35:20+00:00
Until we mass-scan people’s brains, there will never be reliable data on this. Facebook-tier research and anecdote is all we’ll ever have on happiness.

When “the larger consensus” is built on nothing but bullshit soft science coming out of the hard-left humanities departments and old Soviet propaganda that’s still echoing in people’s minds today, I’m just going to ignore it and form my own impression.
by mmooss | 2025-11-11 19:35:40+00:00
They save you from buying 10 pairs at $100. They not only are durable, including not fraying, etc., but keep their form and color, and they have a beautiful form and color to begin with. You get what you pay for (if you buy the right $500 pants).

Someone outside IT might say, why pay for a Macbook when you can buy a $100 Chromebook? Why use Vim or Emacs when you can use Notepad/TextEdit (though those all cost the same!).
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-11 19:35:47+00:00
The question that I have not see answered in the many, many forum threads on "browser fingerprinting", is specifically why a user seeks to avoid it

Is it (a) to avoid internet marketing, (b) some other reason or (c) both. What is the "threat model"

If the answer is (c) then is there a belief that a fingerprint collected for marketing purposes may be used for other purposes

I do not use a browser to make HTTP requests, I only send two headers, Host and Connection, unless I need to send more, e.g., User Agent, Cookie, Accept, etc. The vast majority of websites I access work with only two headers. The list of ones that require more is short and the local forward proxy adds them automatically for those sites

For me, the "threat model" is (a) internet marketing

I do not see any ads because (1) the computers I use cannot access ad or tracking servers^FN1 and (2) I use a text-only browser to read HTML. There is no Javascript interpreter, no way to auto-load resources, no way to display images, no way to store cookies, etc.

I have no issue with this information that I'm a text-only web user being revealed to any internet marketer. (More likely I am mistaken for a "bot" as a result of crude heuristics)

On the other hand, if I were using a popular browser to make HTTP requests, one that sends a "common" fingerprint to internet marketers, then this would signal a more viable target for ads and tracking. Popular browsers have default settings that enable Javascript, cookies, images, auto-loading resources, etc.

tl;dr The reasons a computer user has for avoiding fingerprinting may be different. For example, one user might want to "blend in" and "hide", i.e., avoid being "identified", whereas another user might want to "be left alone", i.e., avoid being the target of internet marketers

FN1. Markerters always seem to require access to DNS
by scythe | 2025-11-11 19:36:10+00:00
Polyethylene terephthalate is a little unique. Part of its popularity comes from recycling, because it is "easy" to break down. For other polymers like polystyrene or PVC it's not so easy.

But any plastic is going to be harder to break down than cellulose because life depends on water and plastics are usually hydrophobic. So non-porous things will always break down pretty slowly. Plenty of plants grow in the water, after all, and aren't immediately consumed by bacteria. Microplastics should, in principle, be the first things to go.
by Kerrick | 2025-11-11 19:36:41+00:00
I was still on my iPhone 12 mini until about a month ago. I was ready to buy an iPhone 16 Mini on launch day if it existed. My wife was on her iPhone 13 mini until about a week ago, and would have bought an iPhone 17 Mini if that was on offering instead of the iPhone Air. Apple's continued refusal to offer a newer Mini, combined with the iOS 26 bug & accessibility nightmare, got us to switch. We now each carry a Sunbeam F1 Pro.
by curl-up | 2025-11-11 19:37:04+00:00
I'm facing the problem you describe daily. It's especially bad because it's very difficult for me to predict if the set of filters will reduce the dataset by ~1% (in which case following the original vector index is fine) or by 99.99% (in which case you just want to brute force the remaining vectors).

Tried a million different things, but haven't heard of Turbopuffer yet. Any references on how they perform with such additional filters?
by rh-app-dev | 2025-11-11 19:38:09+00:00
It's a chicken and egg situation. Many people have said they wish this existed, but it didn't when they said it. Now that it does, they don't know that it exists. If 2% of every mobile device user used this app to take pictures and videos, eventually someone would record something unbelievable. And the proof that it was real would make other people want to use it too.

So yes, this is the inception of a tool like this. Honestly, if someone else makes a similar tool, great. I made this because I think we shouldn't ever have that question "is it real or is it AI?". This removes the question.
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by jumpstartups | 2025-11-11 19:38:17+00:00
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It supports 6+ AI voices, lets you replay your readings unlimited times, and charges only per spoken word (no monthly subscription).

I’d love feedback on: • How clear the workflow feels • Whether the pay-per-word model makes sense • What voices/features would make it more useful for you

I’m the solo builder and launched this earlier this year — would really appreciate your thoughts!
by M95D | 2025-11-11 19:38:22+00:00
The rabies vaccine is not usually used unless the person is at risk. This vaccine can be administered after a bite if the animal is suspected to be infected.

Vaccines made of inactivated (killed) or attenuated (alive, but defective) pathogens are usually more dangerous. Inactivation may not be effective and a virulent pathogen may survive and attenuated pathogens may pick up virulence factors and become fully functional from a different (related) patogen that happes to infect the patient at the same time. Also, when vaccines are prepared from infected animals, manufacturing accidents may happen, such as contamination with something else infectious.

These types of vaccines were mostly replaced by fully synthetic vaccines.

You may read about the old polio vaccine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine
by volkl48 | 2025-11-11 19:39:14+00:00
As someone who's spent a while playing with one (that I didn't buy) and who hasn't picked it up off the shelf in months:

I don't think most users were returning it because they hated the UI or even the device in the usual sense. (There are certainly issues I could detail, but they don't feel like the core problem).

The core problem is just that it just doesn't really....accomplish anything.

Once you get past treating it like an expensive Google Cardboard ("neat tech demo") - it's very hard to figure out what the point of the thing is. What problem does this actually solve for you/what thing is it actually better to use this for than other existing solutions.

Extremely high price tag with no "killer app"/function that makes anyone who tries it "get it" quickly and want one, is a pretty impossible sell.
by rconti | 2025-11-11 19:39:21+00:00
I live in the Bay Area and went to my Nextdoor because I was thinking of seeing if there's much anti-Flock sentiment, and (not surprisingly for Nextdoor), most people seem to think anti-camera people are paranoid, or have something to hide, and wish they were installed in more places to solve the (non-existent) raging crime issues, or speeding, or god knows what.

I shouldn't have expected much more, though, to be fair. There's a reason I don't use nextdoor.

The funny thing is the people calling anti-Flock people "paranoid". Well, I don't believe in dash cams or ringing my house with surveillance cameras and peering at the footage all day and all night. I think _those_ are the paranoid ones. What happened to just living your life and not worrying about everything?
by ivell | 2025-11-11 19:39:42+00:00
It is super strange to say that who devoted their time and effort and then gives away their work for free is somehow entitled.

If this keeps up, there won't be anyone willing to maintain the software due to burn out.

In today's situation, free software is keeping many companies honest. Losing that kind of leverage would be a loss to the society overall.

And the public disclosure is going to hurt the users which could include defense, banks and other critical institutions.
by 5- | 2025-11-11 19:39:56+00:00
doesn't the same argument apply to ordinal dates? i see some people on hn also using longnow-style five-digit years, but i really can't see the point.

did the crossing of the rhine take place in 00406, 0406, or 406? what extra information do the two former styles convey?

also, what about the year 100000?

we are somehow doing just fine without leading zeroes for other quantities.

there is an argument to be made about e.g. iso8601 datetime formats that need to be lexicographically sortable; but i don't see any of the longnow fans using anything like those.
by nextos | 2025-11-11 19:40:46+00:00
It's disappointing. It reinforces the cliché that most hardware companies don't understand software.

The GPR-B1000 was promising, as it signaled Casio might be heading towards making watches with advanced features like GPS, yet a bit different from regular smartwatches and close to their traditional models. This model was tied to a phone app, but I thought this was OK for their first iteration.

Fast forward to 2023, their expensive DW-H5600 was very disappointing. They included a Polar heart rate monitor, which are known for their reliability. Nevertheless, hear rate readouts are extremely noisy to the point of being useless. Also, setting up the watch requires pairing it with a Casio app, which is absurd for a non-smartwatch.

I would love to be able to buy a normal watch that offers heart rate monitoring and basic GPS tracking but can be operated fully offline, doesn't need updates, and will not become abandonware in 5 years time. Garmin is nearly there with some models. Some Casio, Withings, Polar, and Suunto models also have interesting features but overall still far from that ideal goal.

Besides, in many regulated environments you can't have a watch with hardware radios like Bluetooth. Only Garmin seems to understand this. Suunto had terrific models, but is slowly falling behind and has been sold to a Chinese conglomerate.
by creer | 2025-11-11 19:40:48+00:00
> Selling the _entire_ stake sounds really aggressive though? Is that normal?

They did not. They sold MOST of their stake in Nvidia long ago before anyone paid attention to Nvidia vs AI. It's one decision as part of a complex cloud of decisions.

Also this "stake" was around one thousandth of Nvidia. Minor. Most companies have lots of owners with much larger stakes.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-11 19:40:58+00:00
Yea, I agree in the perfect world, with a cooperative public who want the best for everyone, they should have said that. In reality, (as we know now) the American public largely doesn't give a shit about anyone but themselves, and any argument to "do something to help someone else" was just going to be ridiculed and ignored. They had to structure the message in the form of "Right now, we think X works, Y doesn't, and to help yourselves, do X, and don't do Y." because any other message would be totally ignored. I wish we weren't surrounded by selfishness, but we are.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-11 19:41:10+00:00
> Yes we know of the horrible bloat, tracking and privacy invasion that the OS does to us, but many people tend to just ignore it and move on.

Or in the case of enterprises, Windows gets controlled and managed by a (hopefully) competent IT team or enterprise desktop group, and with LTSC versions Microsofts give them the tools to strip the bloat, tracking, and most of the privacy invasions (to then be replaced with corporate privacy invasions in a lot of cases).

Point being, Windows as an enterprise user desktop is a whole different beast from Windows on the laptop mom and dad just bought from Best Buy.

HN lives in a macOS/Linux bubble, but outside of SV it's a Windows world still. So much of the world runs on Windows in places that you wouldn't even expect to see Windows. And with enterprise purchasing agreements, you can get some good deals on bulk laptop purchases that you aren't getting from Apple. $1,000 or less per 32GB of RAM laptop, depending on how many you are buying. I've seen bulk purchases as low as $700/laptop for enterprises that buy thousands at a time for scheduled refreshes. You're not going to be able to buy everyone a MacBook Pro for that pricing.

Windows remains one of the best general purpose OSes for generic office worker productivity, and I don't see that changing anytime soon unless Microsoft really fucks it up with whatever Copilot garbage they are doing.
by phkahler | 2025-11-11 19:41:20+00:00
From TFA this was telling:

Thus, as Mark Atwood, an open source policy expert, pointed out on Twitter, he had to keep telling Amazon to not do things that would mess up FFmpeg because, he had to keep explaining to his bosses that “They are not a vendor, there is no NDA, we have no leverage, your VP has refused to help fund them, and they could kill three major product lines tomorrow with an email. So, stop, and listen to me … ”

I agree with the headline here. If Google can pay someone to find bugs, they can pay someone to fix them. How many time have managers said "Don't come to me with problems, come with solutions"
by tonetegeatinst | 2025-11-11 19:41:27+00:00
I find it so despairing that the more you want to make a higher return on investment aka the more risk taking....the harder it is to actually make money in the long run.

Say your a fresh student out of college looking to invest 5 grand. The S&P500 will just make enough you can fight inflation. Want to make money you can spend in the next year or 2? Well that means you have to accept more risk if you want better returns.

For a new college student who has 5 grand, I get the long term goal is to build money. But I also see that as 5k which could be used right now on a vacation or funding a dream. This is opportunity cost. When you invest, in order to make money we lock our investment into the market where the harder it is to liquidate the better returns you will see on average.

All of this is incredibly depressing when you feel like you know just enough to know how your screwed with where your at, and feeling like this is not a viable method to build financial success. Worst is knowing how little you know, despite trying to learn about economics and financial theory....and realising you basically are stuck with traditional paths of investing.
by evertedsphere | 2025-11-11 19:41:46+00:00
wow lmao

> Do Not Track. Some web browsers may transmit a “do-not-track” signal. Because there currently is no industry standard concerning how to treat such signals, the Services currently do not take action in response to do not track signals. We respond to legally recognized browser-based opt out signals such as the Global Privacy Control signal for California residents.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/privacy-policy/
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-11-11 19:42:12+00:00
The entire conflict here is that norms about what's considered responsible were developed in a different context, where vulnerability reports were generated at a much lower rate and dedicated CVE-searching teams were much less common. FFmpeg says this was "AI generated bug reports on an obscure 1990s hobby codec"; if that's accurate (I have no reason to doubt it, just no time to go check), I tend to agree that it doesn't make sense to apply the standards that were developed for vulnerabilities like "malicious PNG file crashes the computer when loaded".
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-11-11 19:42:22+00:00
I've been in the industry for over 30 years (yikes!) and I can assure you that job satisfaction is transient at best.

Start by understanding both what you want to do and what you really don't want to do and understand that over time, both of these will probably change.

In most organizations, in order to make the most impact, you have to be at Management level. I think this is causing you some conflict, because you want to be impactful, but yet don't want a CTO-type position. As an Individual Contributor, even as a tech lead, people "above" you really just want you to keep your head down and keep cranking out product. Like it or not, titles have meaning. If you want to make changes, your position in the company needs to be one where they expect change to come from, or you need to get really good at pushing your ideas to others and you have to know those people well.

It's going to be difficult to be an upper-level tech employee at a smaller company and not manage people. The separation between technology lead and manager/supervisor tends to only happen at larger companies that can afford that specialization.

It may sound trite, but the reality is that you have to understand just what kind of job you want and then devote your energy towards finding that job.
by naet | 2025-11-11 19:42:35+00:00
I have always felt certain media just looks better (to my own personal tastes) on VHS and on CRTs. I know that technically it isn't the highest possible definition or quality and that both have significant drawbacks in terms of fidelity or whatever. But my taste likes what it likes. Just like how some people think vinyl records can sound more appealing and warmer than the equivalent digital media, even though the digital version has a higher bitrate and other advantages.

I do in fact still have Toy Story on VHS and recently watched a bit of it with my toddler. And while I'm sure the Blu-ray or streamed version is higher resolution, wide screen, and otherwise carries more overall video and audio data than our tape I personally got a bit of extra joy out of watching the tape version on our old TV.

I never considered the color differences pointed out in the article here, and I'm not sure how they appear on home VHS vs on 35mm. Maybe that is a small part of what makes the tape more appealing to me although I don't think it's the full reason. Some feelings are difficult to put into words. Tapes on a full aspect ratio CRT just give me a certain feeling or have a specific character that I still love to this day.
by jsnell | 2025-11-11 19:42:38+00:00
> My takeaway from the article was not that the report was a problem, but a change in approach from Google that they’d disclose publicly after X days, regardless of if the project had a chance to fix it.

That is not an accurate description? Project Zero was using a 90 day disclosure policy from the start, so for over a decade.

What changed[0] in 2025 is that they disclose earlier than 90 days that there is an issue, but not what the issue is. And actually, from [1] it does not look like that trial policy was applied to ffmpeg.

> To me its okay to “demand” from a for profit company (eg google) to fix an issue fast. Because they have ressources. But to “demand” that an oss project fix something with a certain (possibly tight) timeframe.. well I’m sure you better than me, that that’s not who volunteering works

You clearly know that no actual demands or even requests for a fix were made, hence the scare quotes. But given you know it, why call it a "demand"?

[0] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/07/reporting-tra..., discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44724287

[1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/reporting-transpare...
by lern_too_spel | 2025-11-11 19:42:49+00:00
Canada has a mandatory immigrant medical exam for anybody applying for permanent residence or a visa of longer than 6 months. At this exam, the doctor will ask for vaccination records and prescribe missing vaccinations. It is unlikely that immigrants are contributing to this outbreak.

The Mennonites in Canada aren't actual immigrants and are not subject to this mandatory exam.
by Tmpod | 2025-11-11 19:43:06+00:00
It seems it was pushed to 18/11. Here follows the notice posted on Discord:

> Hey @everyone, apologies for the Blender 5.0 false alarm earlier today. The announcement was scheduled to go out this morning, and I even double-checked the official release date last night before bed to confirm everything was still on track. Unfortunately, an unexpected delay pushed the launch back at the last minute. Blender 5.0 will now officially release on November 18. Thank you all for the enthusiasm and understanding, your support means a lot, and the wait is almost over.
Slow moving UX disaster: Passkeys are now required
by eep_social | 2025-11-11 19:43:15+00:00
I am being forced to configure a passkey in order to regain access to my HSA account. The UX remains disastrously bad and the provider has zero interest in serving existing users who have evaluated their own threat model and declined passkeys. I hope the folks who think this is a good idea are happy to have further entrenched the non-general computing device duopoly and enabled enshittification in the name of “security”. I’m sure the “think of the children” folks will be pleased with your work.