MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CWuestefeld | 2025-12-05 16:19:22+00:00
The most common skeptic position that I've seen (which admittedly isn't all of them) is that the shots should be banned altogether until they can be proven 100% safe for everyone.

That's not what I've seen. I live in very-red Tennessee. What I see is more like what you said yourself:

If they are better then yeah, I'll still say take the shot. If the negative outcomes only occur in certain demographics, then I'd say they should limit their exposure to the shot.

The conclusion to this (within my bubble) being: since covid risk to young children is negligible, why the heck are you requiring them to get a shot?
by sfink | 2025-12-05 16:19:37+00:00
Don't those 99 enjoy being alive despite all of the things that would have killed some of them had they not taken the vaccine? If "some" is at least 1%, that sounds like an individual benefit to me.

If you take the vaccine, you have a lower chance of dying over those 4 years. You also have an infinitely higher chance (specifically 1% vs 0%) of dying from the vaccine, but that doesn't change the previous sentence.
by metadope | 2025-12-05 16:19:38+00:00
I don't think of myself as anonymous. I am a glittering grain of sand on a beach. I am anonymous only as long as nobody cares to pay attention. If somebody (or some three-letter-agency) decided to focus on me, I'm fairly certain they could decipher my identity and 'de-anonymize' ('demonize') me. But as long as I don't glitter too brightly, don't call too much attention to myself, I can remain safely pseudo-anonymous, just another caw in the cacaphony of the crowded beach.

> It’s objectively an unnatural form of communication

I agree. Short bits quick hits and spunk spits lead to epileptic fits from social halfwits and, that's what we produce and consume. More so, when we imagine we are anonymous. The random emotional inpulse spikes that flit across so many of our untrained anonymized minds leads to a noise floor that threatens to completely obliterate any signal.

There is value in anonymity. But I would love to participate in a smaller subset of the internet, where every participant is known, identified and associated with their real-world self. Such that no one feels so obscured and anonymously free to grafitti; where everyone is careful and concerned with their affect on the environment; where publication is a precise responsibility; where effort must be made or authority is lost.

((Kinda sorta like HN, but with blue checkmarks)/s)
by wiseowise | 2025-12-05 16:19:54+00:00
> I am not sure what has happened over the decades regarding actually being proud of the work you produce.

Millions of boocampers and juniors trying to make a quick buck; any tech work that is not “make it, and make it quick” is punished; tech debt swept under the rug; any initiative is being shut down because status quo is more important; “we’ll optimize when it becomes a problem” on 15 seconds page reload; dozen of layers of parasites and grifters making your life hell, because their paycheck depends on it; salary bumps that don’t even cover inflation – the only way to actually move in life is to join, raise as much hell as possible in 2 years and jump ship leaving the fallout for the next SOB in the line.

And that’s just what I bothered enough to type on bad iOS keyboard.
by samuelm2 | 2025-12-05 16:20:01+00:00
Hey all!

A few months ago, I launched vid2scene.com, a free platform for creating 3D Gaussian Splat scenes from phone videos. Since then, it's grown to thousands of scenes being generated by thousands of people. I've absolutely loved getting to talk to so many users and learn about the incredible diversity of use cases: from earthquake damage documentation, to people selling commercial equipment, to creating entire 3D worlds from text prompts using AI-generated video (a project using the vid2scene API to do this won a major Supercell games hackathon just recently!)

When Meta's Horizon Hyperscape come out, I was impressed by the quality. But I didn't like the fact that users don't control their data. It all stays locked in Meta's ecosystem. So I built a UX for scanning called OpenQuestCapture. It is an open source, MIT licensed Quest 3 reconstruction app.

Here's the GitHub repo: https://github.com/samuelm2/OpenQuestCapture

It captures Quest 3 images, depth maps, and pose data from the Quest 3 headset to generate a point cloud. While you're capturing, it shows you a live 3D point cloud visualization so you can see which areas (and from which angles) you've covered. In the repo submodules is a Python script that converts the raw Quest sensor data into COLMAP format for processing via Gaussian Splatting (or whatever pipeline you prefer). You can also zip the raw Quest data and upload it directly to vid2scene.com/upload/quest/ to generate a 3D Gaussian Splat scene if you don't want to run the processing yourself.

It's still pretty new and barebones, and the raw capture files are quite large. The quality isn't quite as good as HyperScape yet, but I'm hoping this might push them to be more open with Hyperscape data. At minimum, it's something the community can build on and improve.

There's still a lot to improve upon for the app. Here are some of the things that are top of mind for me:

- An intermediary step of the reconstruction post-process is a high quality, Matterport-like triangulated colored 3D mesh. That itself could be very valuable as an artifact for users. So maybe there could be more pipeline development around extracting and exporting that.

- Also, the visualization UX could be improved. I haven't found a UX that does an amazing job at showing you exactly what (and from what angles) you've captured. So if anyone has any ideas or wants to contribute, please feel free to submit a PR!

- The raw quest sensor data files are massive right now. So, I'm considering doing some more advanced Quest-side compression of the raw data. I'm probably going to add QOI compression to the raw RGB data at capture time, which should be able to losslessly compress the raw data by 50% or so.

If anyone wants to take on one of these (or any other cool idea!), would love to collaborate. And, if you decide to try it out, let me know if you have any questions or run into issues. Or file a Github issue. Always happy to hear feedback!

Tl;dr, try out OpenQuestCapture at the github link above
by kogepathic | 2025-12-05 16:20:07+00:00
Hard no on giving Jolla a cent. Jolla rug-pulled [1] people who crowd-funded [2] their tablet in 2014.

Jolla used the crowd-funding campaign to butter up VCs for their next funding round [3] and then decided the Asian LLC handling the crowdfunding would go bankrupt, leaving backers with no tablets and most with no refund. [4]

The real kicker was that the tablets were ALREADY manufactured by their ODM, Jolla just never paid them. Took backers money and stiffed their manufacturing partner too. For a while after the campaign folded you could buy Jolla branded tablets (running Android, it was just an ODM model they flashed Sailfish on) on eBay or Taobao [5]. I just checked and there's a Jolla Tablet listed on eBay right now. [6]

10 years later, it looks like they're trying the same thing. Maybe they think the internet has forgotten, but I have zero interest in supporting their next hardware rug-pull endeavour.

[1] https://together.jolla.com/question/97695/information-regard...

[2] https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/jolla/jolla-tablet-wor...

[3] https://jolla.com/content/uploads/2017/02/46_JOLLATABLET_STR...

[4] https://blog.jolla.com/second_phase_refund/

[5] https://old.reddit.com/r/Jolla/comments/3x2s7e/jolla_tablets...

[6] https://archive.ph/Ncf17
by blub | 2025-12-05 16:20:15+00:00
“Doesn’t kill you” is the absolute bare minimum and a very low bar. Because the vaccines were so rushed, it’s still reassuring, but not at all a testament to the safety of mRNA vaccines.

The more interesting studies will be about non-lethal adverse reactions. Changes to menstruation, heart problems, lymph node swelling to name just a few.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-05 16:20:25+00:00
You may want to take a look at Lapce too https://lap.dev/lapce (a Rust-native graphical editor that seems to be aiming for rough feature parity with VsCode) for a better overall view of what seems to be missing still wrt. both LSP support and overall UX. For example, it does not seem that support for showing "Code Lenses" is included in Fresh, so there is e.g. no Run or Debug option when hovering the pointer or cursor on the program main function or the like; also I didn't find a way of bringing up LSP-sourced documentation on an identifier (this should probably be bound to F1, just like the old Turbo or Qbasic).

It's a great start of course, but even just documenting anything that's clearly still missing would be helpful.
by harrall | 2025-12-05 16:20:34+00:00
Ask a car guy and they’ll tell you that German car makers have been known to be be maintenance money sinks for 40 years.

But German car makers are really quick to add new technology. They were quick to add ABS, fuel injection, complex suspensions, etc.

But have you ever tried to make something you built to easy to maintain? You have to reroute everything, redesign your layout, add access ports, switch fittings… my god it can take almost as much time as building the thing to begin with. As an engineering requirement, it’s a high impact one.

(OK most people probably don’t build physical things they design much, but I’m sure some of you play Minecraft. Especially for those contraptions, do you add access corridors, extra access entrances, plan access into the construction? No, most people just make some tiny hole somewhere to get in. You’re just happy it works.)

And at the pace some car makers add new technology, I don’t think they budget the time to go back and do that. I think with the quick pace of EV technology as well, previously more maintenance friendly car makers are in the same boat.
by lenerdenator | 2025-12-05 16:20:54+00:00
Scientific fraud here feels like a reaction to people not understanding the bargain we have to make given the needs of the world's population. It should be punished, but I can't help but feel there's a point that doesn't get discussed.

The thing that sucks about this is, past a certain point, herbicide/pesticide safety doesn't matter.

We use this stuff, at least industrially, to grow food. Humans need food to live. More food, generally speaking, means healthier humans, Western processed food trends notwithstanding. There's the consumer market that uses glyphosate to make yards pretty in North America, but that's not the real reason we invent herbicides, and yards themselves are problematic, so we'll ignore that for now.

It's not an accident that global starvation deaths have decreased since the 1960s[0]. We started applying chemistry and automation to agriculture. Food security and yields went up. Some of these chemicals we use are, over the long term with chronic low-level exposure, hazardous to human health.

However, they're still less immediately hazardous to the general public than malnutrition and starvation, so the question becomes this: Do you want millions to die of malnutrition now, or do you want an unknown number of people to die of various health issues (particularly cancer, though there are others) caused by chemical exposure at an unknown point in the future, and gamble that medicine will, some day, be able to treat or cure the health issues?

[0]https://ourworldindata.org/famines
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by raj_khare | 2025-12-05 16:21:11+00:00
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by xenophonf | 2025-12-05 16:21:43+00:00
CGMthrowaway writes:

> Trust the science.

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

> When Dr. Oz in 2015 spoke out against glyphosate...

Oz also promoted MLM dietary supplements, antimalarial drugs as COVID treatments, gay conversion "therapy", colloidal silver, and vaccine skepticism. He has zero credibility and cannot be trusted.
by ceejayoz | 2025-12-05 16:22:16+00:00
They claim "Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, etc., who had 0 deaths from COVID-19 during the "pandemic", and only had COVID-19 deaths ever recorded AFTER the experimental injections were administered."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pande... says Thailand's health ministry publicly recorded their first death in March 1, 2020. So it's transparently bullshit.
by Gravityloss | 2025-12-05 16:22:28+00:00
Porsche had a research program about a very reliable car in the 70s. It has some odd technical choices from today's perspective. https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/when-porsch...

One would assume taxi companies etc would be willing to pay for cars that have high uptime and reliability. But I think they drive mostly the same stuff as regular people. At least one would assume they could get beefier suspension and transmission and high displacement downtuned engines.

In general new cars are still vastly better than old ones. 90:s cars rusted from everywhere after ~8 years while most cars nowadays have zinc coating and more plastic and are still mostly fine after 15 years.
by Analemma_ | 2025-12-05 16:22:29+00:00
BMW has been the worst of the worst for a long time though. [0] is a representative example, but pretty much any "car brands ordered by upkeep cost" list will have BMW out on their own planet.

Before Teslas really took over the "high income tech worker" market, in Seattle you used to be able to get a used BMW for quite cheap, because all the Microsoft and Amazon workers would lease them and then they'd go on the used market when the lease was up. I actually considered doing this, but multiple mechanics said very bluntly, "don't, this is a trap, the maintenance costs will eat you alive".

[0]: https://www.crsautomotive.com/what-are-the-total-costs-of-ve...
by Arkhaine_kupo | 2025-12-05 16:22:39+00:00
> If WB was any good, would they have been snatched up by Netflix?

Yes because the situation of WB has nothing to do with their performance.

In 1990s they merged with TIME publishing right before the internet killed all magazines. In 2000s with AOL right before th dot com bubble. In 2010s with AT&T who realised they needed a shit ton of money to roll out 5G so they took a massive loan and charged it to Warner debt.

So WARNER keeps performing and the business side keeps adding debt from horrible decisions
by komali2 | 2025-12-05 16:22:43+00:00
Correct me if I'm wrong but those cables must include a DAC to function properly and so usually have a tiny kinda crappy one in them, right?

In this post headphone jack world I use a fiio Bluetooth/USB DAC that's really good quality. But it's about the size of two ipod nanos stacked on top of each other.
by csdreamer7 | 2025-12-05 16:22:44+00:00
https://metacomputing.io/products/metacomputing-arm-aipc

Save you a click or two. Looking at this I have so many questions. Am I buying a mainboard? It is not clear. It lists ports: it only supports 2 ports? You have four options with 16/32gigs and 1tb of storage? Is the storage soldiered? If so, what is the storage? emmc? Soldiered memory seems to be a given in the ARM ecosystem, but the storage is completely unacceptable on a framework mainboard.

The only difference between the pro and the regular is that the second port is a usb-c over an hdmi? I am assuming this is the mainboard even supporting framework extension cards.

No listed Linux compatibility support. Forget if the NPU even works in Linux; I do not even know if this will boot Linux because the company did not bother to submit devicetree patches to the kernel for their SOC. No listed Windows support even.

This company's copy is absolutely terrible.
by denysvitali | 2025-12-05 16:23:18+00:00
Depending on the tech debt, the ops team might just be in "survival mode" and not have the time to fix every single issue.

In this particular case, they seem to be doing two things: - Phasing out the old proxy (Lua based) which is replaced by FL2 (Rust based, the one that caused the previous incident) - Reacting to an actively exploited vulnerability in React by deploying WAF rules - and they're doing them in a relatively careful way (test rules) to avoid fuckups, which caused this unknown state, which triggered the issue
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-12-05 16:23:27+00:00
Probably was downvoted because it seem to copy-paste/derive-off an LLM output since, even if you say you wrote it yourself, some distinct LLM grammar/style characteristics appear. (Could just be you picked them as habit after use of such tools.) It doesn't appear to in same vein either. The submitted article's descriptions are, for each language, {philosophy} & {specific design examples}. Yours is mainly on {design}.

That said, agree Raku is cool. A big disadvantage though it has (or had?), more than the sigils-everywhere syntax & small ecosystem, is performance. It's slower than pre-JIT Python. Go also natively-compiles to self-contained binaries, which some people appreciate. (And there're those that prefer Go's simplicity and don't want very high expressiveness other than specific features.)
by otterley | 2025-12-05 16:23:40+00:00
From the post:

“We have spoken directly with hundreds of customers following that incident and shared our plans to make changes to prevent single updates from causing widespread impact like this. We believe these changes would have helped prevent the impact of today’s incident but, unfortunately, we have not finished deploying them yet.

“We know it is disappointing that this work has not been completed yet. It remains our first priority across the organization.”
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-05 16:23:52+00:00
If you unsubscribe for more than a year then Netflix will delete your profile data entirely and discoverability gets so much worse. I signed up for a month to watch Star Trek: Prodigy S2 right when it dropped and was so offput by the "vanilla" recommendations of a fresh profile I really didn't see any point but to cancel it as soon as I finished that one exact show I knew I cared to watch and could find only with the search feature despite it being a new release.
by N3mor | 2025-12-05 16:23:55+00:00
I noticed that a few years ago that Google had removed the very handy tool I used to filter all mail from "x" sender and I could select all and delete. I believe they did it on purpose because I think Google really doesn't want you to delete emails. They made it harder to delete emails in bulk.

I do subscribe to things I find interesting but other times they are emails from services I joing. I am now using Office 365 and am being able to keep it much cleaner. All my Newsletters go into a Newsletter folder and I have a Sweep rule to keep the 10 most recent and delete the rest. My inbox is way easier to manage now. And every year I move the corresponding emails from that year into a folder, like "2024" and go through it from time to time. It's being a bliss.

My two gmail accounts probably have way over 100k as I've more or less abandoned them. Google also made the total emails you have in the account less apparent too, I was up to 80k and suddenly my inbox had around "3,000" or so emails.
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-12-05 16:23:58+00:00
Same, my time at a F100 ecommerce retailer showed me the same. Every change control board justification needed an explicit back-out/restoration plan with exact steps to be taken, what was being monitored to ensure that was being held to, contacts of prominent groups anticipated to have an effect, emergency numbers/rooms for quick conferences if in fact something did happen.

The process was pretty tight, almost no revenue-affecting outages from what I can remember because it was such a collaborative effort (even though the board presentation seemed a bit spiky and confrontational at the time, everyone was working together).
by thayne | 2025-12-05 16:24:07+00:00
I want a separation between the streaming platform companies and the content making companies, so that the streaming companies can compete on making a better platform/service and the content companies compete on making better content.

I don't want one company that owns everything, I want several companies that are able to license whatever content they want. And ideally the customer can choose between a subscription that includes everything, and paying for content a la carte, or maybe subscriptions that focus on specific kinds of content (scifi/fantasy, stuff for kids, old movies, international, sports, etc.) regardless of what company made it.
by notabee | 2025-12-05 16:24:19+00:00
I really wish people would stop fixating on one nation-state or other entity when it comes to the astroturfing problem. It's something that's going to have all sorts of hands stirring the pot since it's basically just a very pernicious new form of marketing and propaganda. Any sizeable countries or corporations are going to be utilizing this new tool of manipulation, regardless of how scummy that may be.
by chemotaxis | 2025-12-05 16:24:28+00:00
The main thing is that no one wants the hassle of keeping up with 50 mildly-interesting blogs by visiting them regularly. You really need a "push" mechanism of some sort. Social media doesn't work for this because if someone subscribes to a content creator on X / Twitter, they most likely won't see most of the creator's posts. Instead, the algorithm will show them cat memes and other on-platform engagement bait.

Many other social venues are gone too. If you're lucky, you can reach your audience on HN, but it's about the only remaining, successful aggregator of this type. Reddit has grown a lot more insular and many subreddits don't allow outgoing links. Where else do you go?

In this reality, the most practical push mechanism is email, but sending email to thousands of recipients is hard. You pretty much need to pay someone for the privilege if you want to have a reasonable success rate. Substack will do it for you for free, and it also lowers the friction because it gives visitors a familiar UI with a pre-filled address and no concern about phishing / spam / etc.

Beyond that, I don't think Substack is actually that much of a community. They built a good brand by attracting (buying) a bunch of high profile writers, then had an issue with neo-Nazis where they took controversial stances... I don't associate the domain with anything especially good or bad, not different from blogspot.com or wordpress.com. I have a special hatred for medium.com because almost everything over there is aggressively paywalled, but that's another story.

And yeah yeah, RSS, but the friction for RSS is much higher.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-12-05 16:25:11+00:00
Yeah, or if you don't mind something with performance this low, the RK3588 has much better kernel support (I have a couple here) and there's some companies offering laptop format for those now.

But as much as I love the RK3588 it's very much in the "low perf utility SBC" world than "good performing general PC". I use my two boards for NAS, Plex, Forgejo CI builders, etc.

I do recall that Jeff Geerling I think had some followup with that board that perhaps there could be firmware changes that improve the power efficiency later maybe?