MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Simulacra | 2025-12-05 13:23:00+00:00
Something I did not see in this article at all was what they defined as unhealthy food. Heavily processed foods are bad for you, everyone knows this, but this entire article and lawsuit skips over one very important point: people choose to eat those foods. 40 years of education about processed foods, fat, sodium, carbohydrates, all of that, Hasn't done anything to diminish that.

Rather than spend that money suing giant food companies who are going to probably win in court anyways, put that money towards feeding children in schools, breakfast and lunches that are healthy, nutritious, and filling. Put that money to feeding the homeless. This just feels like Headline grabbing.
by mihaic | 2025-12-05 13:23:03+00:00
It's always great to read about how the people the own the means of distribution aquire also the means of production, trying to create a meta-monopoly. /sarcasm

I'm rooting for someone on the regulary side disliking all the crap that Netflix produces, and just shuts the whole thing down. Those 5 billion they'd have to pay for a breakup fee in that case would have me feeling better that I couldn't cancel their service, since my family pesters me to keep it.
by FIGYJ | 2025-12-05 13:23:23+00:00
In a tense Premier League encounter at Old Trafford on December 4, 2025, West Ham United snatched a dramatic 1-1 draw against Manchester United, thanks to Soungoutou Magassa's 83rd-minute equaliser.

The result left Ruben Amorim's side frustrated, as they missed out on climbing into the top five, instead moving up to eighth place.

Manchester United had taken the lead just before the hour mark through Diogo Dalot, who capitalised on a deflected shot from Casemiro to slot home from close range.

The Portuguese full-back, operating as a wing-back in Amorim's preferred 3-4-3 system, turned smartly and fired past Alphonse Areola to give the hosts what seemed like a deserved advantage after a dominant spell.

However, West Ham, under Nuno Espirito Santo, refused to wilt.

The Hammers, languishing in the relegation zone, showed resilience and were rewarded late on. Substitute Andy Irving delivered a pinpoint corner, which Jarrod Bowen flicked on.
by hasbot | 2025-12-05 13:23:29+00:00
Huh. 35 year ago I was the sole maintainer of an in-house SQL-like database query language. The application was transforming relational data into a more concise and efficient format for use in an embedded application (AT&T 5ESS digital switch). All the mapping was done in this SQL-like language. One of my power users mentioned the difficulty they had in actually changing logic based on the values in the database. For example, to perform different logic based on whether a column was a 1 or a 2, they'd have to write two querys: one for 1 and another for 2. Possible, sure, but not very clean or efficient. To address this, I implemented an if() function.
by sevensor | 2025-12-05 13:24:12+00:00
I have been burned by sentinel values every time. Give me sum types instead. And while I’m piling on, this example makes no sense to me:

proc fib[T: Fibable](a: T): T = if a <= 2: result = 1 else: result = fib(a-1) + fib(a-2)

Integer is the only possible type for T in this implementation, so what was the point of defining Fibable?
by ThinkBeat | 2025-12-05 13:24:33+00:00
"""Leaked documents [1] obtained by SOMO reveal how, under the pretext of the now-near-magical concept of ‘competitiveness’"""

I was a bit disappointed when I clicked the the link called "1" following leaked documents I got a short note on the document, but apparently no link to the document.

So I scrolled dow to the bottom figuring the number and link was a reference to the appendix but that did not appear to be case.

Similar link looking numbers appear to work the same way.
by kmfrk | 2025-12-05 13:24:46+00:00
Yep, that's one of the main reasons people are excited for this. Instead of a dedicated ISP modem with 5G, you can just use this, plug it into a gateway WAN port set up as the secondary failover connection, and you'll have a backup if you get knocked offline.

https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052548713-WAN-Failo...

The 5G unit itself also has its own failover with support for two 5G SIMs.

"All are equipped with dual SIM slots, with one SIM replaceable by eSIM, and are fully unlocked: any major carrier, any type of deployment, with one piece of hardware."

You can also see the excitement in the subreddit where people are already in the Unifi ecosystem: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/1pe5xh4/explore_p....
by croon | 2025-12-05 13:26:00+00:00
> Instead of just doing "fact checking" in form of "our data says it doesn't" its much more effective to address the original claim and expose the tricks used to give the impression that people are dying of heart attack after vaccination. It not only builds trust and reason but also makes people smart for understanding what's going on instead of feeling dumber than the "experts" who tell them the "truth".

This is in fact (no pun) what every fact checker I've ever consulted actually does. I assume a lot of people just read the conclusive "Lie"/"Truth", and don't bother with the paragraphs of reasoning and sources they're basing the conclusion on. If there are faults with sourcing evidence, logic, or anything in between, that's where the issue is, but the concept is fine.
by eszed | 2025-12-05 13:26:00+00:00
I like your spirit, but the thought of trying to persuade a faculty senate to trust a computer solution more than the lady named Carol who's "always" made the exam schedules [adjust for local conditions] gave me my first good laugh of the day. Nothing about academia is optimized, and that's the way they like it. (To be fair, when I was teaching I kinda did too - it gave me latitude to arrange things, like my testing schedule, in ways that I believed were best for my students.)
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-12-05 13:26:21+00:00
Yep. The APIs have always been publicly available for streaming services to use, Netflix just refuses to use them.

The reason is pretty obvious. Netflix would rather have users open their app directly so there’s opportunity to shove things in their faces, collect data from their browsing, and ideally become positioned as the user’s “main” streaming app. The user having a hub app and treating Netflix as one of several services directly opposes their aims.

The situation shares a lot of similarities with Spotify, which also refuses to take advantage of native APIs for the same reasons. Though in their case, there’s an added layer of irony with how they make all a big ruckus about how Apple needs to open their platforms up only for them to pretend APIs don’t exist after Apple adds them. As an example Apple had to hardcode a hack into HomePods to enable Spotify to work with them; where most services (Pandora, Tidal, etc) hook the official HomePod streaming APIs which pull directly from the service to the device, for Spotify Apple has to automatically AirPlay Spotify playing on the user’s phone to the HomePod. It’s ridiculous.
by corimaith | 2025-12-05 13:26:57+00:00
>industrialised over a period of many decades even up to the modern day, for example Mexico.

Pretty sure Mexico's GDP per capita was higher for quite a while, and their stagnation lied precisely in improper government interference that closed off the economy with protectionist policg rather than embracing free trade. Nor did these have inclusive institutions or really stable political situations.

The thing about the USSR, just like with China and India and USA is that once the economic growth sets in, their large populations compared to existing European states would obviously lead to much larger economies of scale and thus GDP growth. But of course, even given that large absolute growth, living standards never did converge with Western Europe. That speaks more to how central planning stagnated things.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-05 13:27:00+00:00
Those sorts of comparisons are highly misleading because the overwhelming majority of failures for any inspection program are simple stuff that doesn't affect the operation of the vehicle in the base case. Light out, bald tires, brakes below replacement threshold, windshield crack, minor exhaust leak, etc. So what you wind up measuring by proxy is the owner behavior, since that's the dominant factor in how proactively those sorts of things get addressed.

And it ought to surprise nobody that trophy wives in 4runners show up with their vehicle in a statistically different state of repair than single moms in Altimas.

The big failures that you really want to avoid almost never show up on safety inspection data because they typically render the car much less drivable so they either get fixed promptly or the car stops coming around for it's inspection.
by stego-tech | 2025-12-05 13:27:09+00:00
I think Verizon is an eSIM option on the modem; dunno about the Router version, but I’d want to assume it’s the same?

Either way, having modems that are fully unlocked for Stateside usage for once is a nice touch. Their LTE line was essentially AT&T-locked, or unlocked but only supporting AT&T in the US, so this is a nice improvement.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-05 13:27:50+00:00
It's almost never the case that memory is uniformly accessed, except for highly artificial loads such as doing inference on a large ML model. If you can stash the "cold" parts of your RAM working set into swap, that's a win and lets you serve more requests out of the same hardware compared to working with no swap. Of course there will always be a load that exceeds what the hardware can provide, but that's true regardless of how much swap you use.
by bilekas | 2025-12-05 13:27:56+00:00
This may be a hot take but maybe some consolidation in this streaming industry is beneficial, might save some people searching for content they want to see only to find they have to pay for another streaming service because right holders decided to launch their own streaming app.

Netflix prices will probably increase though, and they will probably ruin a lot of golden IP like always, so there's that to complain about.
by SnakeShake | 2025-12-05 13:28:55+00:00
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Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zwPYl6viA3jD9ZuP12pFQrPb...

Email: Found in CV

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by __turbobrew__ | 2025-12-05 13:29:04+00:00
> I hear a lot of praise for toyota but it's from people who haven't worked on a car themselves rather than mechanics and they must be talking about toyotas from a bygone era because i'm not impressed with a 2019 corolla engineering at all

Toyota hybrid powertrains are more reliable than any other company, but other than that they are no longer special.
by 9rx | 2025-12-05 13:29:15+00:00
> The error type in go is literally just a string

No, like I said before, it's literally an interface. Hell, your next line even proves it. If it were a string, it would be defined as:

type error string

But as you've pointed out yourself, that's not its definition at all.

> So i dont know what your talking about then.

I guess that's what happens when you don't even have a basic understanding of programming. Errors are intended to be complex types; to capture all the relevant information that pertains to the error. https://go.dev/play/p/MhQY_6eT1Ir At very least a sentinel value. If your error is just a string, you're doing something horribly wrong — or, charitably, trying to shoehorn Go into scripting tasks. But in that case you'd use Go's exception handlers, which bundles the stack trace and all alongside the string, so... However, if your workload is script in nature, why not just use Python? That's what it was designed for. Different tools for different jobs.
by davidivadavid | 2025-12-05 13:29:48+00:00
So instead you get a sophomoric meta-ending that has absolutely no originality and shits on decades of storytelling? The ending is trash and an insult to the fans' intelligence because the author can't accept he's "just" writing adventure fiction, as if that's beneath him and instead needs to make some philosophical point about the nature of aging, thereby completely stepping out of his skill set. Go read Proust, Ron Gilbert, and leave that silly ambition to rest.
by swaits | 2025-12-05 13:31:28+00:00
Every time I see one of these nifty git tricks or workarounds I find myself wondering, “why not just use jj?”

You get a nicer, significantly simpler interface. You don’t need any tricks. You don’t have to google how to work yourself out of a bad state, ever. And you get near-perfect git compatibility (ie you can use jj on a shared git repo, doing all the same things, and your teammates won’t know the difference).

I’ve wondered if there is a psychological thing here: someone who spent time memorizing all the git nonsense may have some pride in that (which is earned, certainly), that introduces some mental friction in walking away???
by Springtime | 2025-12-05 13:31:57+00:00
Pirating doesn't help sustain the very thing being pirated, if you want a tangible rather than moralistic reason.

4K (Ultra HD) Blu-Ray is likely the last physical home video media generation to be produced. Disney has pulled physical out of the Asian market, Best Buy stopped releasing any physical media beside games, Target stopped selling them beside certain DVDs.

If you want any chance of actually having high quality releases continue it needs to be supported. An issue though is certain less mainstream releases in Ultra HD Blu-Ray can be rather pricey (if they get a release at all). However I still buy those I'm interested in since I don't want lower quality streaming-tier video to be the only option available in the future, apart from concerns about the volatile nature of online-only libraries (various of which have been wholly removed in the past when licensing/ownership changes).
by ubermonkey | 2025-12-05 13:32:22+00:00
I've been an avid MS hater since the late 1980s, but I absolutely and unironically believe Excel is excellent software. It's the bright spot in a pretty problematic portfolio. Other Office apps have flirted with greatness -- DOS-era Word 5.0 was groundbreaking, for example; Access had a pretty great moment in the sun 30 years ago -- but no other consumer package from Redmond is on par with Excel.

I'm sure there are many orgs that would love to ditch O365 for Libre or Google, but can't simply because there is no real alternative at this point. Excel is too entrenched.

Excel can take people from fairly naive "help me make a table of numbers" tasks all the way to actual programming. Via PowerQuery, Excel gives end users access to data warehouses directly. Sure, a tiny bit of SQL is helpful here, but it's not required. I've written no end of data sanitization / transformation tools using Excel. Sure, I would have RATHER done it in Perl or Python, but Excel can be assumed to be present on the target user desktops; not so with Perl.

It would be cool if there was a better off-ramp for advanced Excel users into more focused tools appropriate to their domains (e.g., R, or Tableau/PowerBI), but if these folks are solving their problems who are we to push?
by piva00 | 2025-12-05 13:32:35+00:00
It's not purely electricity-based, your greenwashing statements are based on a false premise/assumption [0][1].

Secondly, Sweden is an exporter of electricity to the EU, the huge undersea transmission cables are for selling electricity to the detriment of ourselves as shown after the Russian war against Ukraine when we had to pay the massively higher spot prices for electricity set by the gas/coal plants in Poland, and Germany. You can check right now that Poland is importing ~2-3% of its electricity from South Sweden (SE-4) [2] using 98% of the available transmission, Poland is always saturating the undersea transmission from Sweden with imports.

[0] https://www.hybritdevelopment.se/en/

[1] https://group.vattenfall.com/press-and-media/newsroom/2025/a...

[2] https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/PL/live/fifteen_min...
by maeln | 2025-12-05 13:33:24+00:00
> Most notably Sony which produced TVs, Computers, DVD players, Media Centers. They owned a movie studio and record label. They also have in house expertise with cloud content distribution via PlayStation.

I feel like some of those very diversified company tend to be the one who struggle to evolve and adapt because some part of their business are worried about being cannibalized by the new business opportunity (like how streaming “killed” physical media). I.e, if you are the director of the “DVD player division” you have an active interest in killing any potential streaming division. Reality is of course more complex than this, but this is the kind of story we sometimes hear off when "too big to fail" companies end up missing a major shift.
by colesantiago | 2025-12-05 13:33:43+00:00
> What's with the "everything has to be monetized" or optimized for earning?

> Why do people have to earn money on their hobbies?

> Why a person can't just publish stuff for others to read?

> Why should we be obligated to pay?

The Author:

> > Help support Res Obscura for its next 15 years…

Although you are not obligated to pay and nobody is forcing you, If this isn’t a problem for the author he wouldn’t be asking you for money.

But you do sound like this:

“Why do I have to pay for things?”

“Why can’t I consume things for free?”

Which sounds extremely entitled.

> If someone has to make a living, maybe they should stick to a proper job not a hobby side gigs.

This guy is an associate professor in history, not a working SWE or AI engineer like most people on HN.

Have you not considered that this person has a family to feed or rent to pay and just needs extra money?
by stego-tech | 2025-12-05 13:33:52+00:00
> You dont have kids do you.

That line right there sank your entire argument, because A) you don’t have to have kids to want to protect kids, and B) it makes the position that anyone without kids should have no say in how those with kids rear and raise their children, which could be (and is often) dangerously expanded to oppose Doctors, Teachers, Social Workers, and other people in other professions or knowledge areas solely because they’re childless.

Be better.
by xzjis | 2025-12-05 13:34:06+00:00
Back in school, I had a teacher who was in charge of installing 3G, 4G, and 5G antennas for a carrier in France. The answer is that the 4G frequency bands are saturated, and they pushed 5G mainly to relieve congestion on the 4G network. Theoretically, 5G has just as much range (maybe even a little bit more with beamforming) on the 700 MHz and 800 MHz bands.
by igogq425 | 2025-12-05 13:34:22+00:00
I am in Germany. I will keep my 14-year-old Renault gasoline car roadworthy and use it for as long as possible. When it is no longer economically viable to drive a gasoline-powered car, I expect there to be electric cars that cost a four-figure sum in euros when new, are virtually maintenance-free, and come with a guarantee that a replacement battery will be available at a reasonable price (preferably from third-party suppliers) that I can replace myself without having to go to a specialist workshop. I hope that there will be manufacturers who recognize the need for such vehicles and will meet that demand. I will definitely not pay 20,000 or 50,000 euros or whatever for a skateboard with a battery and car bodywork.

Articles like this confirm my opinion on the subject. What annoys me most is that we argued in favor of electric cars because of climate protection. I am in favor of climate protection, but when I read this article, I just feel like I'm being taken for a ride. Politicians should not have simply decided to phase out combustion engines. They should have imposed further constraints on the automotive industry with regard to low purchase costs, durability, reusability, and affordable maintenance.
by petcat | 2025-12-05 13:34:40+00:00
Almost definitely not this FTC. And I'm not sure the FTC would in general considering there is a plethora of mainstream streaming providers outside of just Netflix and HBO Max.

Apple, Amazon, Google, Disney all have their hands in that bag. Not to mention all the old cable providers are practically streaming services now too. I don't even use my spectrum cable box, I use the Roku app to watch live TV and access all their on demand library
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-05 13:34:40+00:00
> Most notably Sony which produced TVs, Computers, DVD players, Media Centers. They owned a movie studio and record label.

They still do all those things? And they're still successful in most of them? They haven't "failed" or "dropped the ball" based on any metric I can think of. I'm not sure what you're referring to here to be honest.
by free652 | 2025-12-05 13:34:46+00:00
>(Ukraine was richer than Poland in 1993...)

Lol that's an absolute false statement. Ukraine was never richer than Poland, when it became a country (1991) economy went down a lot. So in 1993 - hahaha.

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Poland/Ukr...
by ngd | 2025-12-05 13:35:01+00:00
The cycling fans among us were quite bashed around over the past few years getting access to cycling coverage in Europe. The were the glory years where GCN Plus was extremely cheap (it was too cheap) and the coverage was ad-free and excellent. Then we got bashed around to Eurosport which was fine, more expensive but still ad-free. Then we got moved to Discovery+. They weaseled out of their ad-free coverage for a bunch of races and jacked up the price because they bundled the cycling in with football and we suffered a price hike from $3-5 per month to $30+ a month, yes a 1000% hike, over the past 5 years.
by mrweasel | 2025-12-05 13:35:16+00:00
I was thinking the same thing. A number of coworkers where trading stocks a few years ago and felt pretty good about their skills, until someone pointed out that making good stock picks was easy when everything is going up. Sure enough, when the market started to fail, they all lost money.

What could make this a bit more interesting is to tell the LLM to avoid the tech stocks, at least the largest ones. Then give it actual money, because your trades will affect the market.