MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RandomBacon | 2025-12-05 16:51:31+00:00
> Much of the so-called "mystery" of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) comes from the lack of openly available, detailed evidence that would allow researchers to evaluate hypotheses and construct explanations.

No, much of the mystery comes from not talking with the locals (the Rapa Nui).

I have been to Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and I highly recommend visiting.

Also, some of the mystery comes from podcasts that pretend to be authoritative and spew out falsities.
by biophysboy | 2025-12-05 16:51:36+00:00
>As unvaccinated individuals were alive between their random index date and November 1, 2021, corresponding to a maximum duration of 6 months, starting follow-up from the index date would have introduced immortal time bias. Therefore, we initiated the study of long-term mortality 6 months after the index date, while mortality within 6 months after vaccination was analyzed separately using SCCS models. While the SCCS models are well-suited for short-term vaccine safety studies, they are less appropriate for long-term mortality, particularly due to limited control periods among vaccinated individuals, and age differences within the same individual across risk or control periods, as age is by far a major risk factor for death. For both analyses, we introduced the calendar period as an adjusting factor to account for the infection dynamics, baseline mortality trends, and the varying propension to get vaccinated.
by cb321 | 2025-12-05 16:51:57+00:00
The conversation around Nim for the past 20 years has been rather fragmented - IRC channels, Discord channels (dozens, I think), later the Forum, Github issue threads, pull request comment threads, RFCs, etc. Araq has a tendency to defend his ideas in one venue (sometimes quite cogently) and leave it to questioners to dig up where those trade-off conversations might be. I've disliked the fractured nature of the conversation for the 10 years I've known about it, but assigned it to a kind of "kids these days, whachagonnado" status. Many conversations (and life!) are just like that - you kind of have to "meet people where they are".

Anyway, this topic of "error handling scoping/locality" may be the single most cross-cutting topic across CPUs, PLangs, Databases, and operating systems (I would bin Numpy/R under Plangs+Databases as they are kind of "data languages"). Consequently, opinions can be very strong (often having this sense of "Everything hinges on this!") in all directions, but rarely take a "complete" view.

If you are interested in "fundamental, not just popularity" discussions, and it sounds like you are, I feel like the database community discussions are probably the most "refined/complete" in terms of trade-offs, but that could simply be my personal exposure, and DB people tend to ignore CPU SIMD because it's such a "recent" innovation (hahaha, Seymore Cray was doing it in the 1980s for the Cray-3 Vector SuperComputer). Anyway, just trying to help. That link to the DB Null page I gave is probably a good starting point.
by proberts | 2025-12-05 16:51:59+00:00
It's not business as usual anymore. Clients have shared that interviewing officers have shared that flexibility and leniency in adjudicating N-400 (and green card) applications is over. So officers are taking a much tougher stance on criminal records and extended absences from the US. That being said, applications without any issues are being approved although the approvals are taking longer.
by ucoclddau | 2025-12-05 16:52:05+00:00
> Sensitivity analysis revealed that vaccinated individuals consistently had a lower risk of death, regardless of the cause

This sounds like a red flag to me if you're trying to isolate the COVID vaccine as something safe. Table 2 data showed less drownings, less car crashes, less falls, less deaths related to chromosomal abnormalities... How can there not be a confounding variable or two here?
Show HN: Massage therapy meets online learning– an app to help maintain wellness
by MassageByRosa | 2025-12-05 16:52:14+00:00
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by danaris | 2025-12-05 16:52:43+00:00
Honestly, I wouldn't even couch it as the majority of leaders being evil: it's that the systems they lead, and that we all operate within, are poorly constructed, broken, or outright corrupt, and need a concerted effort on all our parts to fix them so that they actually work for everyone, rather than funneling wealth and power to the already-wealthy and already-powerful by default.

And that's genuinely hard! Just by the nature of things, it is much, much easier to create a system that reinforces existing power structures than a system that works to subvert them and give more power to those who have little.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-05 16:53:17+00:00
The thing is people 'on the other side' think exactly the same, but come to different conclusions. For instance what do you think the chances of a healthy 20 year old male with 0 comorbidities of dying from COVID are? And what do you think his chances of suffering a significant case of myocarditis or pericarditis from the vaccine is? By "significant" I mean a case that's significant enough to result in active diagnosis - in other words somebody being diagnosed after a visit to an emergency room, as opposed to passive diagnosis where you assess each vaccinated individual to find cases that would otherwise go undetected.

Obviously I'm not comparing apples to apples (side effects from vaccine vs death from COVID) but this again is as explained by your own logic. If we were having a smallpox outbreak (with some strains having upward of 30% mortality rates across all demographics), I'm not going to be concerned about side effects of vaccines short of death. But with the rather low risk profile of people in favorable health/age demographics, the side effects of vaccination become quite relevant. Another issue is that early on it became quite apparent that the vaccines were not stopping people from getting COVID, so it's not like you can really compare vaccine vs covid effects, because the reality is you're probably still going to get COVID (and repeatedly, as it turned out) regardless of vaccination status.
by pants2 | 2025-12-05 16:53:51+00:00
Yeah - things are easy when you can objectively score an output, otherwise as you said you'll probably need another LLM to score it. For summaries you can try to make that somewhat more objective, like length and "8/10 key points are covered in this summary."

This is a real training method (like Group Relative Policy Optimization), so it's a legitimate approach.
by autoexec | 2025-12-05 16:53:52+00:00
Discoverability is getting worse too. Netflix's position is that consumers hate having choices and that their customers just want netflix to choose what they're going to watch for them. That was the goal behind their last UI change which was supposed to guess at "your moods and interests in the moment" and only show you a small number of things netflix thinks you want.

In an impressive bit of gaslighting they actually said "With bigger boxes, we’re showing more information up front to help you make a better decision," because nothing gives you 'more information' like giving you barely any information on the screen at all. They also spent a fortune infesting their product with AI, but you still can't use it to get basic features people have wanted for ages like a list of everything leaving netflix in the next month.

In reality this just lets netflix hide more of what's avilable from you so that they can aggressively advertise what they want you watch instead of what you'd rather be watching and as a bonus they can charge companies extra for visibility/not hiding their shows from subscribers.
by cortesoft | 2025-12-05 16:54:08+00:00
I do appreciate the way Kubernetes forces you to plan for instance failure from the beginning, and that it creates standards on how to deal with it.

However, I feel like this article really glosses over the challenge of stateful workloads by simply handing over that responsibility to the cloud providers.

A lot of us have to run our own servers in our own datacenters for various reasons, so we have to solve that problem ourselves.

Luckily, the same principals apply for stateful workloads, it is just more challenging. You have to plan for instance failures while still preserving your data.

Even more luckily, the tools for this have gotten better and better. Various database controllers are getting much better at handling clustering and failover for you, so you can handle instances and nodes going down without losing data and without having to outsource the management to the cloud.
by snek_case | 2025-12-05 16:54:55+00:00
The reason NaN exists is for performance AFAIK. i.e. on a GPU you can't really have exceptions. You don't want to be constantly checking "did this individual floating-point op produce an error?" It's easier and faster for the individual floating point unit to flag the output as a NaN. Obviously NaNs long predate GPUs, but floating-point support was also hardware accelerated in a variety of ways for a long time.

That being said, I agree that the way NaNs propagate is messy. You can end up only finding out that there was an error much later during the program's execution and then it can be tricky to find out where it came from.
by BurningFrog | 2025-12-05 16:55:18+00:00
The cinemas not already dead are dying.

Cinemas were a way to share the cost of technology to show high quality movies among hundreds of people.

Most people now has that tech at home, so there is no need for cinemas anymore.

I went to my local cinema a few times before it closed last year. There were never more than 3 spectators.
by jonpurdy | 2025-12-05 16:55:18+00:00
Hi Peter, thanks as always. It seems that i-131 Reentry Permit processing times are greater than 12 months these days.

If an i-131 is pending, would you advise that person to return briefly to USA before their 1 year date of exit (ensuring that they are never out of USA for greater than 1 year prior to approved i-131)?

Or does a reentry permit allow them to remain out of country for longer than that even if pending (presuming it gets approved)?
by dijit | 2025-12-05 16:55:42+00:00
Supply chain has left us.

Since there's no new development happening with small phones, we'd have to settle for "older spec" screens (IE, new stock iPhone 5 screens, with none of the colour accuracy, frame-rate etc improvements from the last 10 years).

People don't like "old spec", so they'd probably not buy those devices.

If you're a small player, then you're downstream of the supply chain, you don't make the rules.

Chicken and Egg problem.

Ironically people think there's no market for small phones due to apple making a "small phone" which had a larger screen size than an iPhone 6.. which was when phones started getting too big for me, and many people I spoke to.

So, you make a small phone that isn't actually small, it sells like poop so you presume that people don't want small phones..
by flaminHotSpeedo | 2025-12-05 16:55:50+00:00
Like the other poster said, roll back should be the right answer the vast majority of the time. But it's also important to recognize that roll forward should be a replacement for the deployment you decided not to roll back, not a parallel deployment through another system.

I won't say never, but a situation where the right answer to avoid a rollback (that it sounds like was technically fine to do, just undesirable from a security/business perspective) is a parallel deployment through a radioactive, global blast radius, near instantaneous deployment system that is under intense scrutiny after another recent outage should be about as probable as a bowl of petunias in orbit
by smelendez | 2025-12-05 16:55:51+00:00
It depends on what you watch and how much you watch.

Cable in its heyday was expensive, even for a low tier package with CNN, TNT, MTV, Nickelodeon and other non-premium channels. Most people did not have premium channels like HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, Starz, etc. Even Disney was a paid add-on in the early 90s. Adding or removing those channels at the minimum meant calling customer service and in certain eras of cable technology could even mean waiting on a tech visit to provision physical descrambling equipment. And obviously TV was linear, not on-demand.

If you watch a series or movie here and there, and aren't a big TV viewer, the streaming era is much, much cheaper with greater choice. You can often even access what you want to watch through a free trial, a single-month subscription, or a free service like Tubi or Pluto. Movie rental options are much better, more convenient, and cheaper (often even before adjusting for inflation) than Blockbuster, and you have access to much better information before you pull the trigger on renting a movie you haven't heard of before.
by nonethewiser | 2025-12-05 16:57:21+00:00
>While Gilbert said he’s always harbored these kinds of anti-capitalist feelings “at some level,” he said that “certainly recent events and recent things have gotten me more and more jumping on the ‘Eat the Rich’ bandwagon.” Though he didn’t detail which “recent events” drove that realization, he did say that “billionaires and all this stuff… I think are just causing more harm than good.”

This is very amusing to me. Gilbert must be quite rich [0], yet there is a very large difference between his wealth and the wealth of a billionaire. In fact, the wealth inequality between himself and Bezos, for example, is waaay higher than between a poor person and himself. Perhaps why he identifies more with the latter. But where is the more important disparity? It's between a poor person and himself.

He seems to feel like he is not rich. Or does he want to be eaten? Everyone but 1 person can complain about the richer people. But at the end of the day, low absolute wealth and not the degree of difference is what matters.

[0] - There is not public information on his personal wealth but he was a titan in the industry for 40 years and founded a company that sold for $76M. From that deal salary, royalties and with a moderate amount of interest, he's probably easily at $10-30M. That, or perhaps he's terrible with money.
by josefresco | 2025-12-05 16:57:52+00:00
>His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.

As I said, the contrast between "pretty" or "human" traits vs "monster" just wasn't there.
by gspencley | 2025-12-05 16:57:55+00:00
You're not wrong, but that doesn't mean they weren't still in "growth" phase.

Their pricing, and their doubling down on account sharing policies over the last few years have shown that they are no longer in a growth phase.

I cancelled my Netflix account a few months ago because I had gotten the "You're not accessing this from your typical location" blocker. Even though I was trying to watch from my permanent residence and I was the account owner / payee.

The reason that happened was that my wife and I own two properties. We are happily married, not separated, but we just like our space... especially with two adult daughters who still live at home with one of their significant others also living in the house.

We are a single family "unit" but have two locations. Furthermore, my wife has sleeping issues and was using Netflix at night in order to fall asleep. To have to get me to check my email for an access code, was a total deal breaker since I would be fast asleep. So that cut her off from her typical usage of Netflix.

And the reason Netflix thought that I was accessing the service from a different location was that I hardly ever watched it. Every time I'd pull it up, I would spend more time scrolling for something to watch than actually watching anything.. and typically I'd just give up and go watch a 30m YouTube video instead.

So I was paying more, receiving less ... mostly had the account purely for my wife and daughters who watched it the most ... and then the final deal breaker was logistical barriers preventing me from being able to use what I'm paying for.

Fuck Netflix.
by nunez | 2025-12-05 16:58:07+00:00
That part. But it even worse than that.

My wife and I used to be avid theater goers. We used to watch at least five movies a year in the theaters; more if you count the times we went individually. Almost all of the theaters we visited were high-end lounge-style movie houses. Think "Alamo Drafthouse," which is a poster child for the downfall of theaters I'm about to describe.

We're the perfect demo for the movie theaters: free time and disposable income. Yet, we've only seen two movies in the theaters this year, and not for lack of trying.

Theaters are in a kind-of death spiral. they're losing revenue to streaming, so they can't invest in making an experience that attracts people to the theater, which leads to them losing more revenue to streaming, etc. Companies circling the drain are perfect targets for M&A and enshittification in the name of growth.

This is exactly what's happening to high-end theaters: Moviehouse and Eatery (a small chain of high-end theaters) selling to Cinépolis, Alamo Drafthouse selling to Private Equity, IPIC starting to raise red flags, and probably more.

The end result is always the same: endless ads appear where mostly-ad-free prerolls used to be, food and drink prices go up while quality goes down, service gets worse as staff are asked to do more for effectively-less pay, and previously-super comfortable lie-flat lounge seating gets more and more decrepit, all while increasing ticket prices!

All of this is even more insulting when the movies you pay to see are distributed by Netflix or Apple and are all but guaranteed to end up on their platforms in mere weeks, sometimes with better post-production.

We used to happily pay $100+ for a night out at the movies seven years ago. Our experiences have gotten costlier and more disappointing, however. Families deciding to drop $1500 on a 100" TV with an Atmos soundbar and relegating the theaters to the past makes total sense to me. It's sad --- theaters are a social experience and have given me so many great memories --- but it was all but an eventuality the minute streaming on Netflix went live.
Show HN: MyBacklinks – Track backlinks and growth metrics for side projects
by hhhhmkk | 2025-12-05 16:58:29+00:00
I've been running multiple side projects for 3 years, and link building has always been my weakest point. Not because it's hard to submit links, but because:

1. I never knew which submissions actually got indexed 2. I couldn't tell which backlinks drove real traffic 3. My "backlink opportunities" lived in 5 different spreadsheets 4. Checking domain metrics (DR, traffic) for each platform was tedious

So I built MyBacklinks.app to scratch my own itch.

*What it does:* - Connects to DataForSEO API to auto-discover backlinks pointing to your domains - Tracks submission status: pending → submitted → indexed - Attributes traffic to specific backlinks (via UTM or referrer matching) - Integrates with GA4, Plausible, Google Search Console - Maintains a curated list of free submission platforms with DR/traffic data

*Tech stack:* - Next.js 15 (App Router) - PostgreSQL + Drizzle ORM - Deployed on Cloudflare Workers - Stripe for payments - MCP protocol support for AI tool integration

The free tier gives you 3 projects and 100 backlink resources. Credits system for API-heavy features like discovery.

Would love feedback from fellow indie hackers managing multiple projects.

https://mybacklinks.app
by stiray | 2025-12-05 16:58:31+00:00
I wouldnt recommend it.

TLDR: while the OS is great (really GREAT), the real-world compatibility is not.

I had Sailfish OS for a daily driver for two years, and OS is great (let me say that again, Sailfish IS GREAT!), but there are "the details".

Jolla is completely ignorant to needs of their users. While they do have an android layer, they are ignoring to things that are of huge importance for daily life, like bluetooth passtrough, and are important due to daily needs, for instance, bluetooth passtrough is really important for using public transport here.

FFS, I was reversing banking application and patching it to be able to use it. And actually became very good at it :D

Here is a bluetooth feature request thread, that is open for 5 years: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/bluetooth-support-in-android and being blatantly ignored.

And lets not get into details, like NFC.

So at the end you will have a great OS, incompatible with the whole world. After 2 years of suffering, I ditched Sailfish, bought Pixel and installed Graphene OS.

Once Jolla starts to listen to their customers, they are on the path to very real android contender, but unfortunately they just dont understand, that people need some features, they are not providing while the vendors wont support some exotic OS. They need to adapt, not vendors - the whole thread is full of this mentality.

The android "container" was a step into right direction but they just shouldnt abandone it and keep on supporting it, adding additional layers of compatibility.

I really hope they will change their mind at some point and prioritize compatibility, would love to ditch android and its spyware driven ecosystem completely, but sadly, Graphene OS + NetGuard is just a far better alternative until Jolla stops behaving like an infant. They are literally sabotaging themself in a worse possible way.
by corwinxpro | 2025-12-05 16:58:44+00:00
> Compared to stuff like Toyotas or Hondas

Don't get this. I had a CR-V from 1996 (over 300k), sold it a few years ago, and can still see it cruising around the town. My previous Toyota Yaris was pretty much unkillable, just like a RAV 4 or a 1998 TLC.
by mwcz | 2025-12-05 16:58:57+00:00
I'm one of the git users you describe who are resistant to jj. jj sounds great, Steve Klabnik's endorsement is very convincing, and I would probably love it, but here's the issue: I've used git for 17 years and have internalized its idiosyncracies sufficiently to practically never run into problems, and help anyone on my team who does.

jj is harder to adopt for people with a thorough mental model of git, because it's harder to accept jj commands at face value. I know it's modifying my git tree, so I feel compelled to grok exactly what it's doing, but that's distracting and time consuming.

People like me should probably trial jj exclusively for two weeks, to shed that antijjotic resistance and form a more clear-headed opinion.