MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by muwtyhg | 2025-12-05 21:28:38+00:00
> First - there's no point in worrying about something before it's clear what will happen

You don't think it's important to prepare for things that have a non-zero likelihood of occurring? This case has already worked its way to the Supreme Court, it's obvious something is happening with it.

> Second - I propose that it doesn't matter. I lean toward the Trump administration's positions on probably 2/3 of the issues commonly discussed today

Is the anti-immigrant rhetoric of this admin one of the things you do or not lean towards?
by kieranmaine | 2025-12-05 21:28:47+00:00
From article https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-06-25-how-do-vaccines-reduce-...

> Recent studies have shown convincingly that vaccines against shingles (Herpes zoster) reduce the risk of dementia. The shingles vaccine now in widespread use (Shingrix) has more of an effect than the previous one (Zostavax). A key difference between these vaccines is that Shingrix contains an ‘adjuvant’, an ingredient designed to enhance the vaccine’s effect. It is therefore possible that the adjuvant contributes to Shingrix’ greater effect than Zostavax on reducing dementia.

Link to study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-025-01172-3

I don't know if this study changes the conclusion that Shingrix is more affective than Zostavax.
by zahlman | 2025-12-05 21:29:05+00:00
> Let’s start off with a simple example - detecting if a pixel is pure black, and using it to turn another filter on or off.

I'm so lost, or at least, struggling. Why is modern HTML/CSS like this?

So there's apparently a hidden <checkbox>, and then a <label> "for" the checkbox that contains no text, but takes up space due to CSS properties. And also apparently clicking on the label toggles the checkbox because, it just works that way by default? And then the CSS properties can vary depending on the checkbox state, without JavaScript, because that's just built into CSS for some reason? And then in the second box, it's using another label for the same checkbox, so it shares that state.

Then the actual SVG... just defines filters, and doesn't actually draw anything. But the various demos get to pull filter definitions out of the SVG?

And two separate <feTile> tags define a filter in conjunction, one describing the region to take as a tile and the second describing where to tile it? Whereas all the other filters are just transforms on a common region? Why is it like that (as opposed to, say, having separate source and destination coordinates in the attributes for a single <feTile> tag)?

And what even are these <fake-frame> and <art-frame> elements?
by wilkystyle | 2025-12-05 21:29:23+00:00
I like this take. While I've primarily lived in Python for much of my career (and I don't see that changing soon), I've tried to find reasons to use other languages in at least a hobby capacity so that I can (1) keep my learning muscles warmed up and (2) because they can often shape how I think about software in general.

Like the Alan Perlis (I think) quote goes: "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing."
by rdudek | 2025-12-05 21:29:29+00:00
I got Battle.net working through Steam. The way I have it is I add the battle.net installer into steam, add proton compatibility, once you run it it installs, but next time you run it, it just opens the launcher unless it needs an update. Then you can install World of Warcraft and other games there and run.

So far so good running CachyOS and KDE Plasma.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-05 21:29:34+00:00
> Rust is no doubt difficult to learn, there are many concepts and a lot of syntax

People love to say this, but C++ is routinely taught as a first programming language to novice programmers (this used to be even more clearly the case before Java and Python largely took on that role) and Rust is undoubtedly simpler than C++.
by joisig | 2025-12-05 21:29:35+00:00
Too bad about the reWind Mac app, which they've kneecapped with the latest update starting on Dec 19th even though it could probably have continued to function as a local-only thing. It was kind of nice as a local everything-memory, made some of my compliance work easier and stuff. Now deleting all the data and uninstalling it.

I also bought the Pendant but more out of techno-curiosity, never really used it much, so not much loss there. I'm sure a lot of people will be upset with the discontinuation of that, though.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-05 21:29:38+00:00
Eeyup. Costco does zero advertising, and yet everyone knows about Costco. Why? Because they're good. In reality, the prices don't always work out, but they have so many other nice things: opticians, tires, a food court (with loss leaders!), rotisserie chicken (also a loss leader), solid products, etc. Costco exists to make money, sure, but it doesn't feel like they're trying to screw you. I can't say that about 99.9% of companies now.
by Zak | 2025-12-05 21:29:38+00:00
> Basically, if I'm reading it correctly, they have to give you the source code if you ask for it, but they don't have to tell you that you can ask.

I think the bigger picture is more subtle than that. You, the buyer do not have a cause of action if they fail to tell you that you can ask.

They would, however be in violation of copyright if they don't tell buyers that they are entitled to ask for a copy of the source code because the license requires that they do so, and nothing else gives them permission to distributed the covered software. Any relevant copyright holder would have a cause of action in that case, but the SFC is not a copyright holder in this case.
by gaigalas | 2025-12-05 21:29:48+00:00
Something is not clicking here.

If Asimov wanted to give a good impression about exact predictive science, he made some terrible mistakes:

- In his story, Hari Seldom predictions failed a lot. They had to be amended, fixed and tweaked several times by other characters.

- The predictions sound powerful, but also implied an unavoidable series of crisis. Not the best story to push your propaganda.

- The Mule is overall more powerful than Seldom, and actually achieves a stabilization of Empire's ruins. Not what you write if you want to make sure your idea is the only path forward.

These make me believe he was more interested in portraying those ideas with healthy doses of skepticism, not pushing them willy-nilly.
by tptacek | 2025-12-05 21:29:55+00:00
It's not obvious to everybody because it's false. The Precautionary Principle is deeply problematic. For instance: it is generally interpreted to favor existing fossil fuel power sources over nuclear, despite the fact that fossil fuel power generation and extraction kills enormous numbers of people every year. Precautionary Principle thinking is extremely vulnerable to narrative capture. A closer-to-home example: Precautionary Principle thinking cautions against adoption of genetically modified crops. The status quo agriculture it favors instead have both lower yields (and thus greater ecological impact) and more pesticide/herbicide use.

Precautionary Principle thinking, taken on its face, would have immediately halted the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines (VAERS data almost immediately showed things like blot clots), because Precautionary thinking tends to fixate on individual risks rather than a global risk picture; fortunately, Precautionary thinking failed to win the day and vaccines saved millions of lives instead. Note that this example flunks your Extended Precautionary Principle logic: there were certainly big companies that stood to profit from the right decision there!

You can put together a coherent and persuasive defense of the Precautionary Principle, but if you just cite it in passing and say things like "crazy everyone doesn't agree with me about this", expect pushback.
by XCSme | 2025-12-05 21:30:35+00:00
Today a client is having some issue with Zoom because of some artificial rate limits they impose. Their support is not responding, the account can't be used, courses can not be held and there's not much we can do.

We already started looking into moving away from Zoom, I suggested self-hosting http://jitsi.org Based on their docs, self-hosting is well supported, and probably a $50-$100 server is more than enough, so a lot cheaper than Zoom.
by 9rx | 2025-12-05 21:30:42+00:00
> It annoys me a little when people here talk about how worthless management is.

In primary function, a good manager is invisible, so it is understandable that it is seen as being worthless.

But in secondary function only a bad manager keeps themselves invisible. A good manager will stand up at stand up and tell about what they've been working on. If you are not communicating exactly what you are doing to everyone else, you've screwed up horribly.

> way harder than anything I’ve ever faced in software development.

To be fair, you can say that about every job in existence that isn't software development. There is nothing hard about software development.
by eviekingparra | 2025-12-05 21:30:43+00:00
A few days ago I went from my first guitar lesson in years, to playing an open mic, to letting a stranger in psychosis crash at my empty apartment. I’m a DevOps engineer and amateur guitarist, and this is the first time I’ve tried to write a day like that down. It touches music, homelessness, and the weird ways tech overlaps with our real lives.
by Bender | 2025-12-05 21:31:05+00:00
who gets to decide

Each site operator would have to decide what level of legal risk is appropriate based on content rating and that would likely come from their legal team.

An RTA label would be a death sentence to educational sites.

Maybe but not likely. Adult content for the purposes of education used to be protected but that was a grey area and was abused heavily by some art sites such as Deviant art and then social media. CIPA was passed in 2000/2001 and updated in 2011 to provide guidance on content viewed by children. [1] This is of course up to the parents to decide as has been the case for sex education throughout the history of the USA. If a school was going to view content that would be in conflict with CIPA then I would expect they could get parents to sign a permission slip meaning they have adult consent from the parent of each child. Either way I would expect a school to curate content that is appropriate for children and cache/print it locally.

If RTA is not an option then the alternative will likely be to have parents log into a 3rd party site to prove their identiy for each student via some proxy auth site to give the child permission while also sharing personal details of the parent and child to said third party. More laws get involved when logging the child's personal details with a 3rd party but I am thankfully not a lawyer. Here [2] are some more laws specific to states. Laws will vary wildly by country and province or state.

[1] - https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/childrens-internet-prot...

[2] - https://www.ncsl.org/technology-and-communication/social-med...
by tavavex | 2025-12-05 21:31:14+00:00
That only works if:

1. You assume that your LLM of choice is perfect and impartial on every given topic, ever.

2. You assume that your prompt doesn't interfere with said impartiality. What you have written may seem neutral at first glance, but from my perspective, a wording like yours would probably prime the model to try to pick apart absolutely anything, finding flaws that aren't really there (or make massive stretches) because you already presuppose that whatever you give it was written with intent to lie and misrepresent. The wording heavily implies that what you gave it already definitely uses "persuasion tactics", "emotional language" or that it downplays/overstates something - you just need it to find all that. So it will try to return anything that supports that implication.
by zerkten | 2025-12-05 21:31:20+00:00
I was a Feed Demon user. There are some videos of the experience which is much closer to a Windows email client than Google Reader was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIz5u9T94K0. Google Reader was late-stage RSS for me, but it brought some of the benefits of having all of the content download and aggregation being done server-side so the cost of adding new feeds was shared.
by jfengel | 2025-12-05 21:31:26+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean. Unicode doesn't have fonts. It has code blocks and code points. Fonts are how your computer chooses to render those code points.

On my browser, I don't see anything special about C, H, P, or Q on the page that you link to. They look similar to all of the other double-struck characters. Perhaps the font you are using is wonky?

However, I did find this note on stackexchange:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28012644/whatever-happen...

It says that the mathematical blackboard-bold symbols appeared in Unicode first, and the full set of double-struck characters appeared later. That includes C (complex), H (quaternions), etc. It's possible that your font is rendering those as actual-bold (for which blackboard-bold was supposed to be a hand-written substitute).
by jajuuka | 2025-12-05 21:31:48+00:00
So I was little confused until I realized the source was a libertarian outlet. If it wasn't obvious from the piece, the popup asking for donations to fight "socialism" should be the nail in the coffin. This explains the extrapolation of data and drawing broad conclusions from it. They seemed to have enter the article with a bias that disability only means physical and that most if not all mental disability is a personal failure. It further fuels this by finding a professor who makes the claim that a large part of the student body is just making up disorders. They of course assume that doctors are widely handing out diagnoses without proper scientific backing. Which is a huge leap to make. There is a similar positive and negative stereotype that children en masse are taking Ritalin and other ADD meds to pass classes.

It reminds me of the transgender "debate". That the medical establishment is someone acting contrary to science. That all of these people with years of training are part of a conspiracy to hurt children. Not surprising that this sentiment is popular amongst libertarians and applied to other students. It's disappointing to see so many echo it's sentiments without critically thinking about the piece.
by bronson | 2025-12-05 21:32:29+00:00
They did look into putting a trackpoint in there, but there wasn't enough depth in the keyboard cover to support it. Making it work would take re-doing the whole bottom shell (apparently).

I'm tempted to make a thicker bezel so the screen won't close all the way anymore. Pick up the room for a trackpoint by going wedge shaped! (edit, obvious downside: the screen would be a lot weaker when closed)
by general1465 | 2025-12-05 21:32:37+00:00
> Because it's cheaper and more frequent.

The thing is that you can't put a price tag on national security. For example Ukraine got F16s. Good plane. However after a spat between Zelensky a Trump, Ukrainian F16 got no new updates to their jammers, which temporarily degraded the plane performance and Ukrainians needed to pull them out of frontlines.

Sometimes it is just better to fly on a plane which is not the top performer, but which you can control and manufacture or which a neighbor with same geopolitical problems like you can control and manufacture - i.e. Swedish SAAB JAS39

Same with space launches. Furthermore SpaceX is US company, so US government will want to know everything about the payload, probably down to the schematics and software, which is a big no-no for national security, but even for IP protection - what is stopping US government to supplying your IP to your US competitor? Nothing.
by dzhiurgis | 2025-12-05 21:32:44+00:00
You'll most likely be overpaying for overall package, not get the advanced software and will be forced to pay insane yearly service fee.

Then there's whole long term thing - very little spare parts availability cuz most EVs are niche models, some already ceased to exist, service tools not available or insanely overpriced.

Some like Kia/Hyundai are notoriously unreliable to begin with.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-05 21:33:03+00:00
"We can't get rid of this toxic part of society because what if people lose jobs?" has never really been a great argument. Like, maybe society could find a way to financially support people who transition to a new career (although if you've made any sort of money from ads, I'd argue that uh... you should've saved more, but whatever. Labor rights, etc.). "We ban something and then you're just out of a job" doesn't have to be what happens, it's just what typically happens. We can get creative, though! Other modes of governing society are entirely possible. We can both support people and keep them happy and healthy, while also getting rid of things like advertising. We just need to imagine a better world.
by ignoramous | 2025-12-05 21:33:08+00:00
> They raised about $45M in venture capital

Impressive for a hardware upstart (which are usually relatively capital intensive), no?

> at least have other people's money to throw around for now.

Speaking of other people's money... Framework's been sponsoring many a project, some of which are controversial on their forums: https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-righ...
by jazzyjackson | 2025-12-05 21:33:16+00:00
Not enough people know how cool the Prius hybrid system is. One would think having EV + gas would add complexity, but it actually allows them to delete a lot of parts. There is no clutch, no belts, no starter, there's practically nothing that can break. Not knowing how the regen affects braking I brought my Prius in for 80k service and asked for new brake pads and mechanic asked me why I want to replace them, they look good as new.

Only downside is the flimsy high efficiency tires, I've spent more money on tows and tires than I saved on gas.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-05 21:33:27+00:00
For me it was a rash on my hands, and I thought it was my dogs leash. It was not until I got the uh blisters that my wife told me what I probably had, and it was too late by then unfortunately. The nerve pain is not worth it. I would have gotten the shot immediately had I known early enough. To make matters worse, I think I went to a family event, and the AC where we were staying had just died, so my itchiness was through the roof in South Florida. Nothing was as awful as the random nerve pain though, I cannot imagine being 50+ and getting the nerve pain.
by HaZeust | 2025-12-05 21:33:53+00:00
>"post hoc ergo propter hoc"

Appealing to an informal fallacy, and not even using it right. The post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy hinges on the fact that one's argument assumes that just because one event happened chronologically first, it must have caused the one(s) that chronologically came after.

GP did more than that and didn't simply say "X happened first, so I think it's responsible for Y." He gave correlative observations and suspected a possibility of causation OUTSIDE of chronological timeline. Regardless of whether I agree with him, it's easy to see this comment having more than fallacy.
by susam | 2025-12-05 21:33:57+00:00
A shorter solution is possible with an ordered list (<ol>) if we're willing to ignore the untidy output:

li:nth-child(3n), li:nth-child(5n) { list-style: none } li:nth-child(3n)::before { content: "Fizz" } li:nth-child(5n)::after { content: "Buzz" }

Example: https://susam.net/code/web/css-fizz-buzz-ol.html

$ curl -sS https://susam.net/code/web/css-fizz-buzz-ol.html | sed -n '/none/,/after/p' | tr -d '[:space:]' li:nth-child(3n),li:nth-child(5n){list-style:none}li:nth-child(3n)::before{content:"Fizz"}li:nth-child(5n)::after{content:"Buzz"} $ curl -sS https://susam.net/code/web/css-fizz-buzz-ol.html | sed -n '/none/,/after/p' | tr -d '[:space:]' | wc -c 129

But I don't quite like how misaligned the numbers and the words look in this version. Correcting that would call for extra code that would cancel out the characters saved.
Show HN: BinaryStorage – High-performance PHP binary key/value store
by asmodios | 2025-12-05 21:34:12+00:00
BinaryStorage is a PHP binary key/value store designed for fast and efficient data access. It supports any PHP serializable data, provides startsWith/contains searches, and includes data compaction to reduce disk usage.

GitHub: https://github.com/olivier-ls/binary-storage-php
by laughing_man | 2025-12-05 21:34:28+00:00
Where I lived the local cable company boasted something like 250 channels on the base tier. But when your cable box arrived you discovered there were less than 50 actual broadcast channels, and the rest were pricey on-demand channels. I think it was about $5 for a movie, which is more than Amazon Prime today and much more in constant dollars.
by jimmaswell | 2025-12-05 21:34:38+00:00
I can't express how disappointed I am in the societal backlash to AI. It used to rightfully be something we looked forward to. I've been fascinated by it for as long as I've known what a computer was, from watching CyberChase as a kid in the early 2000s to reading the Asimov books to making my own silly sentence-mixing chatbot with a cult following on IRC.

I never thought a computer would pass the turing test in our lifetime (my bot did by accident sometimes, which was always amusing). I spoke to an AI professor who's been at this since the 80s and he never thought a computer would pass the turing test in our lifetime. And for it to happen and the reaction to be anything short of thunderous applause betrays a society bankrupt of imagination, forward thinking, and wonder.

We let pearl-clutching loom smashers hijack the narrative to the point where a computer making a drawing based on natural language is "slop" and you're a bad person if you like it, instead of it being the coolest thing in the fucking world which it actually is. We have chatbots that can do extraordinary feats of research and pattern-matching but all we can do is cluck over some idiot giving himself bromide poisoning. The future is here and it's absolutely amazing, and I'm tired of pretending it isn't. I can't wait for this "AI users DNI", "This video proudly made less efficiently than it could have been because I'm afraid of AI" social zietgeist to die off.
by Frost1x | 2025-12-05 21:35:24+00:00
Eh, I like an interesting spin on a classic. I’ve seen/heard the Frankenstein plot and small variations on it many times, taking a different direction is a good way to keep in a general universe but develop something new. If you’re not going to come up with new interesting content, at least don’t rehash the exact story I’ve heard many times. But that’s just my preference—I really enjoyed it and have become a fan of Guillermo del Toro works recently (due to exposure on Netflix). I’m not huge critic really so I won’t speak to artistic merit but I can at least say I really enjoyed it.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-05 21:35:38+00:00
I was born in '85 and got chickenpox at 7. My parents aren't quiet antivaxxers but they also have a sort of "you don't need all vaccines" attitude (so no way I was getting the new chickenpox vaccine).

I've recently had shingles and, let me tell you, it sucks ass. I thought my liver was going to explode.

I'll be getting the shingles vaccine as soon as possible.
by hadlock | 2025-12-05 21:36:07+00:00
The market is ripe for ChatGPT in a box, replacing google home or Alexa desktop pucks. God knows the google home assistant has been detuned and detuned to the point it barely works for turning the lights on and off at this point. There's a handful of golf-ball shaped objects on AliExpress for $25 that provide this functionality, powered by an ESP32 IoT chip, but doesn't have wakeword capability (yet). I picked up two for a Home Assistant voice assistant project but haven't had time to dive into it yet.