MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dyingkneepad | 2025-12-05 17:45:52+00:00
While WhatsApp is not very much used in the US, in some other countries such as Brazil it is basically the primary form of "phone" communication. It is everyone's default text, voice and video message platform. People don't ask if you have WhatsApp there, they just assume it. You talk to your Bank/Investor manager using WhatsApp. You order pizza through WhatsApp. Customer Support for services is WhatsApp bots that send you to the correct places. If I don't have WhatsApp, I can't voice chat with my mom, she won't see her grandkids. If you have any sort of business, you need WhatsApp.

And yes, I do have Signal installed, and there are only 2 people who talk to me through it (one being my partner).

Phone carriers got too greedy charging for every single SMS message and phone call, WhatsApp took over when smartphones became popular.
by Anon1096 | 2025-12-05 17:46:18+00:00
Cloudflare and other cloud infra providers are only providing primitives to use, in this case WAF. They have target uptimes and it's never 100%. It's up to the people actually making end user services (like your medical devices) to judge whether that is enough and if not to design your service around it.

(and also, rolling your own version of WAF is probably not the right answer if you need better uptime. It's exceedingly unlikely a medical devices company will beat CF at this game.)
by AlexandrB | 2025-12-05 17:46:22+00:00
Uh huh. Sure.

> The proximate cause of the famine was the infection of potato crops by blight (Phytophthora infestans)[14] throughout Europe during the 1840s.

Vs.

> While most scholars are in consensus that the main cause of the famine was largely man-made, it remains in dispute whether the Holodomor was intentional, whether it was directed at Ukrainians, and whether it constitutes a genocide, the point of contention being the absence of attested documents explicitly ordering the starvation of any area in the Soviet Union. Some historians conclude that the famine was deliberately engineered by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement. Others suggest that the famine was primarily the consequence of rapid Soviet industrialisation and collectivization of agriculture.
by mariusor | 2025-12-05 17:46:23+00:00
I feel like you're focusing on the wrong thing from what I said. Jolla is a small company, they don't have the man power to support everything. They already do a lot by supporting devices from vendors that are sympathetic to being open (the Sony open devices program for example).

> And they can, but they decided not to.

They can what, exactly?
by sofixa | 2025-12-05 17:46:59+00:00
> BBC

> State broadcasters have to kowtow to governments, or they can face trouble

Very good example, BBC has criticised the government many times, and even did embarrassing investigations and fought in courts to get to publish them. A very good one is them fighting like hell to publish that MI5 are shielding an informant who is a pedophile. And they got to publish it, and directly say that MI5 tried to stop them via the courts on the grounds of "national security", but the courts disagreed.

So yeah, no.

> Ones owned by major media conglomerates and corporations will reflect the interests of their owners

Depends. Le Monde is a French left-wing newspaper (top 2 in France alongside the right-wing Le Figaro), which is majority owned by a holding company majority owned by one of France's premier tech billionaires (Xavier Niel). But everything is structured in such a way that he barely has any control (he can't even sell the holding company without approval from the remaining owner of Le Monde, a representative body of the journalists, staff and even readers). It has full editorial freedom.
by emtel | 2025-12-05 17:47:03+00:00
From the paper:

> The main causes of death were cancer (769 and 853 cases per million in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, respectively), external causes of mortality (493 and 597 cases per million, including, among others, unintentional injuries, such as transportation crashes, falls, and drownings, as well as suicides or self-inflicted injuries) and diseases of the circulatory system (282 and 367 cases per million) (Table 2). Vaccinated individuals had a lower risk of death compared with unvaccinated individuals regardless of the cause of death.

I don't think mRNA vaccination is likely to cause an increase in all-cause mortality. But this study is clearly comparing two radically different populations, and could not show a mortality increase from mRNA vaccination even if one existed.
by 0x457 | 2025-12-05 17:47:05+00:00
> 10GbE will require 4x3.0 lanes

3.0 PCIE is irrelevant today when it comes to devices you want on 10G. I'm pretty sure the real reason is that 2.5G can comfortably run on cable you used for 1G[1], while 10G get silly hot or requires transceiver and user understanding of a hundred 2-3 letter acronyms.

Combine it with IPS speeds lagging behind. 2.5G while feels odd to some, makes total sense on consumer market.

[1]: at short distances, I had replaced one run with shielded cable to get 2.5G, but it had POE, so it might contribute to noise?)
by 0rzech | 2025-12-05 17:47:17+00:00
Same experience here, though from Sailfish OS run on their first Jolla phone.

Also permission model on Sailfish was much worse than on Android. I didn't use Android apps on Sailfish, though.

I really liked Silica UI, but available apps had much less functionality than their counterparts on Android and iOS. I think that open sourcing Sailfish and Silica would end up better for them.

Nevertheless, I kinda liked the phone, but ultimately went back to Android.
by w10-1 | 2025-12-05 17:47:25+00:00
Kudos to Cloudflare for clarity and diligence.

When talking of their earlier Lua code:

> we have never before applied a killswitch to a rule with an action of “execute”.

I was surprised that a rules-based system was not tested completely, perhaps because the Lua code is legacy relative to the newer Rust implementation?

It tracks what I've seen elsewhere: quality engineering can't keep up with the production engineering. It's just that I think of CloudFlare as an infrastructure place, where that shouldn't be true.

I had a manager who came from defense electronics in the 1980's. He said in that context, the quality engineering team was always in charge, and always more skilled. For him, software is backwards.
by dasil003 | 2025-12-05 17:47:40+00:00
I understand the distinction, but at some point it's not super helpful, and I would argue even counter productive.

If you have a system that is big enough and has had enough change over time that it's structure is no longer well suited to the current or near future job-to-be-done, then it doesn't really matter how you got there, you need to explain to non-technical stakeholders that current business requests will take longer than it would intuitively take to build if you just look at the delta of the UX that exists today compared to what they want (ie. the "why can't you just..." conversation). This is a situation where the phrase "technical debt" is a useful metaphor that has crossed the chasm to non-technical business leaders, and can be useful (when used judiciously of course).

It actually undermines the usefulness of the metaphor if you try to pedantically uphold the distinction that tech debt is always intentional, because non-technical stakeholders will wonder why engineering would intentionally put us in this situation. I understand we all get to have our techie pet peeves (hacker != black hat), but this is really not a semantic battle I would fight if I'm dealing with anyone non-technical.
by KK7NIL | 2025-12-05 17:47:44+00:00
> > Trust the science.

>

> Science is a process, not a result. Retractions like this promote the integrity of scientific research and evidence-based medicine.

He was obviously poking fun at people who say "trust the science" when what they really mean is "trust these scientits" or, even better, "trust this one study".

Undoubtedly "trust the science" is little more than an appeal to authority when used in a casual debate, not some appeal to skepticism, peer review and testability.
by snafeau | 2025-12-05 17:47:47+00:00
I wonder why they're trying to establish separate branding for hardware. Considering that OpenAI's strongest advantage right now is the ChatGPT brand and they're anyway cutting efforts on other products, wouldn't it make more sense to use the ChatGPT brand?

They certainly don't seem to have a problem with using the same name repeatedly given the 300-or-so products called Codex at OpenAI.
by stocksinsmocks | 2025-12-05 17:47:50+00:00
I don’t think it’s possible to know anything conclusive about the safety for a few decades and a generation or two of affected kids can be observed. Given that finding harm would embarrass important aristocrats, I don’t think that evidence would ever be found in the foreseeable future. That mRNA and lipid nano particles were never found to be safe until the exact moment of crisis is awfully convenient for its investors.

I say decades because of the study below. Certainly, the authors could have published it for engagement bait or malice or some reason.

https://www.gavinpublishers.com/article/view/detection-of-pf...
by philistine | 2025-12-05 17:47:51+00:00
> more or less hostile to it

I wouldn't say the problem is hostility. It's complete non-interest. Apple wisely allowed us to load a non-chain-of-trust OS while maintaining the chain of trust in macOS, which is an incredible advancement still unmatched by other manufacturers.

And that's it. They have done zero work to accommodate Linux. At all. Perhaps if Microsoft ever figures out that NT used to run on more than one arch, Apple will revive Boot Camp for Windows and deem it useful to include Linux this time?
by tetha | 2025-12-05 17:47:58+00:00
If FL2 didn't have the outage, and FL1 did, the pace of the migration did have an impact.

Though this is showing the problem with these things: Migrating faster could have reduced the impact of this outage, while increasing the impact of the last outage. Migrating slower could have reduced the impact of the last outage, while increasing the impact of this outage.

This is a hard problem: How fast do you rip old working infrastructure out and risk finding new problems in the new stack, yet, how long do you tolerate shortcomings of the old stack that caused you to build the new stack?
by marcosdumay | 2025-12-05 17:48:34+00:00
As a rule, organizations are created to avoid the transaction costs on those detail tasks. If you externalize every single supporting task into a market, you will be slowed down to a drag, won't be able to use most competitive advantages, and will pay way more than doing them in house.

But removing the market competition is a breeding ground for inefficiency. So there's a balance there, and huge conglomerates tying their divisions together serves only to make the competitive ones die by the need to use the services of the inefficient ones.
by Kirby64 | 2025-12-05 17:48:35+00:00
Like I said, this assumes you use ridiculous cabling and bus bars. You could design something that handles this, it would just be wildly impractically large and cost way too much money.

Also, the problem is definitely also the cables in your car. Moving to 48V would mean amperage would increase by 10-20x, which would mean cabling thickness would have to increase substantially.
by 999900000999 | 2025-12-05 17:48:59+00:00
I want a 4TB SSD.

To do that on a MacBook I'm spending a minimum of 3200$.

If you have unlimited money ( or can expense it) a 3200$ to 4k MacBook is going to be the best experience money can buy.

If you have limited funds, a 200$ used computer can get the job done with the right distro.
by culi | 2025-12-05 17:49:12+00:00
Agreed. This has come up multiple times during my job. It's gotten to the point where we had a microservice running that spun up selenium and printed the dom and then sent that pdf back to the front-end all just to make consistent print outputs. I've read tech blogs of others doing just that too so it's not uncommon.

Unfortunately the test set of wpt does not have the capability to cover printed matter so relief isn't coming any time soon
by saubeidl | 2025-12-05 17:49:32+00:00
You could've read a bit more of the article. Proximate cause != ultimate cause.

> Initial limited but constructive government actions to alleviate famine distress were ended by a new Whig administration in London, which pursued a laissez-faire economic doctrine, but also because some assumed that the famine was divine judgement or that the Irish lacked moral character,[20
by bityard | 2025-12-05 17:49:36+00:00
> while most cars nowadays have zinc coating and more plastic and are still mostly fine after 15 years.

In your part of the world, maybe. I live in the middle of the salt belt in the US and we get about 10 years out of most cars. That's when you start seeing rust holes in the fenders around the wheels, when most of the frame has flaked away and the floor pans become involuntary structural elements.

If you're a car nut who spends extra time and money on preventive maintenance and rustproofing, you can get a few more years. But the rust comes for your car at some point anyway.

Car manufacturers know how to make the frames and bodies last longer, this is not an unsolvable manufacturing and design challenge. It's just that nobody is getting a raise for going to their boss and saying, "I know how to make the company sell slightly fewer cars..."
by a_shovel | 2025-12-05 17:49:38+00:00
I can't help but notice similarities with certain conservative attacks on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans people.

> A general subjective notion that the evidence "isn't good enough" with no reference to the level of evidence that is typically used to approve other treatments with similar risks and benefits

> The focus on randomized controlled trials as the only acceptable form of evidence, despite (or because of) their expense and length

> Common and easy-to-collect indirect markers of effectiveness (presence of antibodies, lower reported suicidality) are against them, so they insist on using only rare, hard-to-collect direct markers (prevented illnesses, reduction in completed suicide attempts) despite lacking any reason to believe the results will be different

> The insistence on unnecessary, lengthy trials or tests for treatments that are time-sensitive, to the point of overrunning the time when they ought to be administered (RCTs for flu vaccines that would delay them past flu season, vs insisting on a large and arbitrary minimum number of assessments before allowing puberty blockers such that puberty starts before the patient is approved). For the anti-treatment side in both cases, a long enough delay is effectively a victory that doesn't require them to prove any of their points.

So, what can we draw from these tactics? They want to make their opponents waste time and resources on long, difficult trials (the longer the better,) because every day it goes on is a day that treatment is delayed or a "temporary restriction" can continue. Plus, if they need more time, they can always push the arbitrary standard of evidence they demand arbitrarily higher. They can always demand more trials, or more specific and difficult-to-collect data.

But on some level, they know they can't say "THIS is the study that will prove vaccines/HRT are unsafe" because they understand that the results will probably not go in their favor (or, that they'd get caught if they faked it).

It seems like they understand that the evidence is against them, but that stalemate is in their favor.
by NoGravitas | 2025-12-05 17:49:40+00:00
The creature was always supposed to be a mix of sympathetic and monstrous. He becomes a monster by turning himself implacably toward revenge, but we can sympathize with him for what sets him on that path. The entire premise rests more on Victor being a monster. I thought the movie handled both of those fairly well. There's really no living director who gets the Gothic sensibility quite as well as del Toro.
by e2le | 2025-12-05 17:49:54+00:00
Pardon my ignorance, but I don't believe RIPE is a US organisation or branch of the US government.

Any attempts by the US government to assert control of a foreign non-profit entity such as RIPE is only going to end in tears. I suspect would also empower those pushing to balkanise the internet should the independence of RIPE or ARIN be violated.

I'm not sure region specific intranets is a future anyone should want.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-12-05 17:50:18+00:00
I love the ride analogy.

So it sounds like you agree with me that, for an English Composition exam, all students should receive the same amount of time. Is that correct?

But now I'm wondering:

- if someone's typing speed is slow due to arthritis or an identifiable condition, shouldn't they get extra time?

- if someone's typing speed is slow just because they never learned to touch type, should they get extra time? after all, the exam is meant to be testing English composition, not typing.
by vlovich123 | 2025-12-05 17:50:22+00:00
That is also true at Cloudflare for what it’s worth. However, the company is so big that there’s so many different products all shipping at the same time it can be hard to correlate it to your release, especially since there’s a 5 min lag (if I recall correctly) in the monitoring dashboards to get all the telemetry from thousands of servers worldwide.

Comparing the difficulty of running the world’s internet traffic with hundreds of customer products with your fintech experience is like saying “I can lift 10 pounds. I don’t know why these guys are struggling to lift 500 pounds”.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-12-05 17:50:29+00:00
How many retractions has Dr Oz published?

Has he retracted his claim that “raspberry ketones” are a miracle for burning fat in a jar?

Idiots look at people who never admit they were wrong and think those are the people to follow.

People with the slightest bit of intelligence look at the people (or process in this matter) who are constantly checking themselves and willing to admit they were wrong (or in this case misled by frauds) when they find the truth.

Meanwhile, the real issue here is not the science. The real issue here is the American GRAS system, because Europe didn’t allow glyphosates because their political system requires stuff going into your food to be proven safe, whereas the American system simply requires it to not be proven harmful.
by jodrellblank | 2025-12-05 17:50:30+00:00
Off topic, but I am boggled that Larry Ellison came back to “richest man in the world” this year.

For all the enormous Reach of Facebook adverts, Apple, Microsoft breadth of products, Tesla and SpaceX and Twitter, Amazon’s massive cloud dominance, the AI boom for nVidia…

Oracle?!

“On September 10, 2025, Ellison was briefly the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$393 billion.

In June 2020, Ellison was reported to be the seventh-wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of $66.8 billion”

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-12-05 17:51:38+00:00
I think it’s because companies don’t incentivize people listening to each other. Management doesn’t listen to the underlings and the underlings have to compete to get noticed.

I have only a few people with whom I can discuss something in depth without anybody pushing an agenda. With most people it’s just about pushing through what you want to do.

I am just going through a bunch of sessions where a director has engaged consultants to change our stuff to use a new platform. Nobody who works on the system thinks it makes sense but it can’t be stopped because of the director and a few yes men. Nobody listens.
by Fnoord | 2025-12-05 17:51:40+00:00
There is probably one other person on planet Earth who also just feels burnt out on these type of projects (you can just call it cyberdeck).

Meanwhile, from [1]

> 2,777 backers pledged CA$ 1,264,707 to help bring this project to life.

> UPDATE: The project got fully funded within 5 minutes! Can’t believe the support—thank you so much!

ClockworkPi's DevTerm, uConsole, GameShell are constantly sold out [2]. Hackberry Pi, constantly sold out.

Jolla's strength is SailfishOS which is a successor of Maemo/MeeGo. It is a Linux-based solution with a good, gesture-based UI with Android emulation.

GrapheneOS has nothing to do with any of these projects. It is software-only, for Google Pixel devices, and it has a specific strength (security) no other OS/HW combo comes close to.

The strength of a modular smartphone is, it is repairable and you can physically alter its features without changing form factor, like Framework. For smartphones, I believe a Fairphone is very modular, and smartwatches Pixel Watch 4 (but it only runs WearOS).

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulscircuit/pilet-open...

[2] https://www.clockworkpi.com
by stiray | 2025-12-05 17:51:44+00:00
They can support passtrough for bluetooth and NFC. It is not something they need to invent themself.

I cant emphasize enought how this feature is of most importance for my daily life. At 48, I am using either the bicycle or public transport for my daily commute (for 30+ years!). I can workaround it by buying a NFC card each month but very typically it is not available without considerate walk time. Not to mention banking app, but I have covered it by reversing and patching it. How many users will do that?

It is not my fault, that the world is as it is. But not supporting real life scenarios is certainly Jollas fault.
by jeffbee | 2025-12-05 17:52:22+00:00
Again, starting from elements of Maemo is a surefire way to ship a ghastly user experience. The N800 that I still own had the most hostile UI of any device I ever bought with my own money. The reason it flopped was because it is really bad, not a great conspiracy.

Look at the TODOs for Maemo Leste, which you just referenced. "Phone calls should work, with audio, when alsamixer is set up properly". That is F-tier user experience. OpenMoko-level garbage.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-05 17:52:33+00:00
Wow. That is dysfunctional.

I would be curious how the financial wires got crossed.

I would have assumed residuals were proportional to views, and views valued proportionally as contributing to subscription demand. And it would be a rare viewer to watch one show like that, over & over. I.e. only upside. Something went sideways.
by mystraline | 2025-12-05 17:54:00+00:00
This isn't too much different than the UK OFCOM doing the similar stunts of suing for Sanctioned Suicide and Kiwifarms for websites hosted in the US, and with no foreign stations of business.

I want to make no mistake - I personally think that Kiwifarms is absolutely gross with their harassment campaigns. But it does appear legal, and first amendment speech issue.

SaSu advocates for people who wish to commit suicide, a how-to. Its the final "my body, my choice" that every government wants to take away. So silencing is a thing. But again, 1fa issue.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/05/when-trolls-take-on-tyra...

https://sanctioned-suicide.net/
by stop50 | 2025-12-05 17:54:11+00:00
for your information: this class is for 2-3 year olds, because the first check is after 3 years because there are usually no parts that break or wear that early, after the first check the car owner has to go to TÜV every two years. When a car has been deemed to less safe, they have to remove the plaquette from the registration plate and the owner is forbidden to make longer travels with the vehicle than the next repairshop and home, both must not exceed 50 km. The insurance is also not required to cover shpuld there be an accident and the unsafety has an role in it. In the worst case it can also beend deemed unsafe and then any usage is forbidden. an tow truck brings the car to an repair shop or it is destroyed.