MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by runarberg | 2025-12-05 21:56:39+00:00
This is exactly why I believe LLMs are a technological dead end. Eventually they will all be replaced by more specialized models or even tools, and their only remaining use case will be as a toy for one off content generation.

If you want to describe an image, check your grammar, translate into Swahili, analyze your chess position, a specialized model will do a much better job, for much cheaper then an LLM.
by bee_rider | 2025-12-05 21:56:43+00:00
Apple seems to have a no-nudity policy more or less (or at least, minimal nudity).

I dunno. Sex is part of human existence so it shouldn’t be off-limits for media IMO. But the sort of perfunctory thing where every show on Netflix or HBO has to have some nudity in the first couple episodes was a bit annoying. I don’t mind the lack of nudity in Apple’s stuff. There’s a balance that Apple falls on the “overly conservative” side of, though.

What’s adult mean to you? Nudity, violence, I dunno. Severance considers things like self-identity and the fake personalities, and fake social constructs of our workplaces… it seems more adult to me than a gangster or cowboy story.

I also quite like Pluribus, it feels like actual sci-fi (in the same way 3 Body Problem from Netflix does, actually—legit sci-fi, not action heroes in space).
by sbxfree | 2025-12-05 21:57:08+00:00
to build on this further, glyphosate disproportionally targets bifidobacterium and lactobacillus (PMC10330715). It mimics what happens to the gut as people age (PMC4990546) and increasing bifidobacterium, in research, improves dementia symptoms. In the guts of people with allergies, ibs, asthma, and cystic fibrosis there are decreased amounts of certain strains of bifidobacterium.

In mice models, Alzheimer’s is transferrable via gut microbiota. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-023-02216-7?fromPaywa...).

So to say it messes with the gut is no small thing.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-12-05 21:57:12+00:00
I never had the chickenpox as a kid, either. The doc shrugged and noted that I obviously had the virus in my system, so I must have had a sub-clinical case. I recall that when we were young, my sister had a very mild case of chickenpox, so I assume that I got some exposure from her even though at the time assumed I managed to avoid it.
by LanceH | 2025-12-05 21:57:14+00:00
My solution with manufactured content is to just rotate services. I maintain netflix year round because they have enough, but I'll buy the special rate and cancel in the same day, giving me a month at a time of each of the different ones. It also gives them time to release the whole season, instead of dribbling them out over the course of months.

It's sports that really have driven me away. I like collegiate wrestling. This is by no means a mainstream sport. But to watch what I want, I need to subscribe to flowrestling, ESPN, B1G, and BTN. The last two are really mind blowing, because the big 10 seems to think I need two subscriptions to watch a single season for a niche sport.

It's just too much for me to bear -- not financially, but morally. I won't reward such behavior, so I just don't watch.

Then there are all the games that are on broadcast and could normally watch them for free, but unless you have an antenna, you need to subscribe to get your local channel.

Now these leagues need to contend with my family and all the others like it where the kids won't have the nostalgia for that game that was on every Sunday. We don't watch the games, so we don't go to the games, so they'll never grow into being fans themselves.

The NHL does seem to try putting their games in front of their fans as the lone exception.
by xp84 | 2025-12-05 21:57:55+00:00
Sorry, I don't know any LLMs that would argue politics without using their own heavy bias and getting caught up in trying to not harm people, I'm afraid you just hate my writing style. Maybe you don't like the inline quotes? idk. Also I can't imagine wasting the effort to have a bot debate people online if I don't care enough to do it myself.

The whole reason we have those types of employment and public accommodation laws is a special case though. In terms of employment, we prefer this to a world where black people or women can't get jobs, because jobs are necessary, or can't enter half the establishments because people witnessed that Jim Crow was a shitty and shameful situation. And I do stipulate that that doesn't mean the same as "all women have the right to a job at my company upon demand."

But why don't we also have laws criminalizing things like refusing to be friends with $SKIN_COLOR people? I think it's because it's only in those specific realms like employment and public accommodation where we have created rights. The right to shop in a place that is open to the general public is a right Black people got from a law. And the right of people to be considered for a job without regard to their membership in certain protected classes is something the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 created. There is no right of foreigners without a green card to enter in the first place - CBP can completely legally say no to anyone, so no 'counteroffer' of conditional admittance could be inappropriate. The only exception I can think of is misconduct of the officer, e.g. 'I'll admit you if you give me $10,000' or a more unsavory favor. But with that already being illegal, I don't think it is too relevant here.
by drnick1 | 2025-12-05 21:57:55+00:00
Why are people paying what seems obscene prices for UniFi stuff? You probably all have spare hardware lying around that can be repurposed as a router; it does not need to be modern. I use a Ryzen 5 as a general purpose home server/router/firewall running Linux and no ISP plastic box or expensive "prosumer" gear can't touch its performance. I can push 25Gbps through it (saturating my SFP28 LAN), or north of 4Gbps through Wireguard. For access points in a home setting, TP-Link boxes flashed with OpenWrt are also considerably better value and far more "free" (i.e., unclouded) than any UniFi stuff constantly phoning home for "updates."
by com2kid | 2025-12-05 21:58:20+00:00
The mentality around lifetimes is different in Zig if you are using it for the correct types of problems.

For example, a command line utility. In a CLI tool you typically don't free memory. You just allocate and exit and let the OS clean up memory.

Historically compilers were all like this, they didn't free memory, they just compiled a single file and then exited! This ended up being a problem when compilers moved more into a service model (constant compilation in the background, needing to do whole program optimization, loading into memory and being called on demand to compile snippets, etc), but for certain problem classes, not worrying about memory safety is just fine.

Zig makes it easy to create an allocator, use it, then just free up all the memory in that region.

Right tool for the job and all that.
by tetha | 2025-12-05 21:58:21+00:00
This is kinda what I'm thinking. We're absolutely not at the scale Cloudflare is at.

But we run software and configuration changes through three tiers - first stage for the dev-team only, second stage with internal customers and other teams depending on it for integration and internal usage -- and finally production. Some teams have also split production into different rings depending on the criticality of the customers and the number of customers.

This has lead to a bunch of discussions early on, because teams with simpler software and very good testing usually push through dev and testing with no or little problem. And that's fine. If you have a track record of good changes, there is little reason to artificially prolong deployment in dev and test just because. If you want to, just go through it in minutes.

But after a few spicy production incidents, even the better and faster teams understood and accepted that once technical velocity exists, actual velocity is a choice, or a throttle if you want an analogy.

If you do good, by all means, promote from test to prod within minutes. If you fuck up production several times in a row and start threatening SLAs, slow down, spend more resources on manual testing and improving automated testing, give changes time to simmer in the internally productive environment, spend more time between promotions from production ring to production ring.

And this is on top of considerations of e.g. change risk. Some frontend-only application can move much faster than the PostgreSQL team, because one rollback is a container restart, and the other could be a multi-hour recovery from backups.
by yieldcrv | 2025-12-05 21:58:24+00:00
out of curiosity, how much would this drug cost in Europe if they had required prescriptions as well

the article does a good job of showing the self serving double speak and the lack of pursuing an OTC option in the US, but I want to compare costs directly, since the article also acknowledges that OTC would have been much cheaper than $800 in the US too
by spwa4 | 2025-12-05 21:58:42+00:00
One might point out that this is the story of AI since at least the 1930's. Impressive technology demo's ... wild investment, crash, bankruptcy ... but the tech remains and in fact has useful applications all around.

AI Winters. I finished school in 2008 and have seen it happen twice.

Convnets. LSTM (and various RNNs).

Both are in wide use today.
by staplers | 2025-12-05 21:59:34+00:00
Ubiquiti at home because it is light years better than any consumer brand

As someone who simply wanted to isolate different devices on my home network, I was looking at nearly thousands of dollars of hardware, installing abstract OpenWRT software, and arduous VLAN rules to do this. It was shocking how immature this space is. I finally caved to the ubiquiti setup and am glad I did.
by jkelleyrtp | 2025-12-05 21:59:38+00:00
The browser UI will likely be more of a cool demonstration of the project instead of the end goal. We want blitz to exist to help make it easier to build stuff like lightpanda. There's a whole world of interesting browser forks that could exist but don't, and being able to easily remix the browser opens the door to new stuff like AI automation, hybrid native gui frameworks, better accessibility tools, etc.
by zahlman | 2025-12-05 21:59:58+00:00
> Well yes, if you want to customize the way checkboxes look you need to apply different styles depending on their state. Support for this literally goes back to version 1 of firefox.

It doesn't surprise me that this is possible for the checkbox, but it does surprise me that the label responds to the corresponding checkbox's state. (I take it that the styling is being applied to the labels, simply so that multiple labels can share state by all being "for" the same hidden checkbox.)

> That's kind of a natural consequence of being able to embed SVG namespace elements directly in html. CSS supports it via the filter property, but i think even before that property existed you could probably do it via direct embedding svg in html or vice versa.

I've only ever used SVG for... scalable vector graphics. I don't understand why CSS needs access. I get that SVG uses tags so that individual elements of the drawing can be in the DOM and then e.g. get animated by JavaScript. But I would have expected that to require JavaScript.
by parchley | 2025-12-05 21:59:58+00:00
> At Cloudflare's scale, I would not be surprised if they require three consecutive events to trigger an alert.

Sorry but that’s a method you use if you serve 100 requests per second, not when you are at Cloudflare scale. Cloudflare easily have big enough volume that this problem would trigger an instant change in a monitorable failure rate.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-05 22:00:39+00:00
FYI for anyone who isn't familiar with the wacky US insurance situation: Nobody in the US actually pays $800 for the drug. That's the "list price" for insurance companies to pay. Even insurance companies don't pay that price because they negotiate their own rates with the drug companies, which are lower.

Then the drug companies come in and offer a "savings card" which you apply at the pharmacy like another layer of insurance. I searched and Miebo has one too: https://miebo.blsavingscard.com/ You'd have to read all the fine print, but it reveals that the actual cash-pay price is $225 (still high, obviously) and they have a co-pay assistance program that reduces your copay to $0 to incentivize you to get your insurance billed for this drug. So a lot of people who take this drug in the US actually pay $0 because they sign up for this card.

The FDA is partially to blame for this situation: They required a complete New Drug Application before they would let anyone bring it to market, even though it's over the counter in other countries.

The cost of performing a New Drug Application starts in the mid hundreds of millions of dollars range and can extend into the billions for some drugs.

So nobody could feasibly introduce it to the market here without investing $500 million or more up front. At that price, your only viable option is to stick a big price tag on it and try to milk that money back from insurers.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-12-05 22:00:45+00:00
A lot of debt also arises because of savings needs. If everyone is saving for retirement, for example, that savings has to be debt marked somewhere else. Examples:

* Social security used to have a huge surplus, that was savings that had to go somewhere (even if it was just a savings account in a bank, the bank would then be able to lend it out). They instead buy treasuries and that savings becomes debt to the USG.

* China likewise needs to save dollars because it doesn't want them sloshing around in their economy leading to inflation, so instead of using it to buy things they buy treasuries, and their savings becomes debt to the USG (not always a great deal for China if interest rates are below inflation).

The dollar has been so useful in the past as a currency of trade because you could save large amounts of it easily by buying US treasuries. One reason China doesn't want the RMB to be used so heavily for trade is that they don't want to do the same yet.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-05 22:01:00+00:00
> the primary purpose of NATO between 1992 and 2022 was to avoid wasting money on defense. Europe was willing to accept a world order, where the US was the hegemon and paid for the privilege

We shifted away from that policy in the Obama administration as part of the Pivot to Asia. We publicly vocalized this shift in strategy [0] during my time in the policy space.

Europe did not listen. Instead, they dragged us into Libya because France ran out of munitions within a week of air strikes. That should have been the first warning call.

Then Western and Northern European nations (except the UK) ignored the second warning in 2014 following the Russian annexation of Crimea and the War in Donbas.

> The is no expectation that Europe would help the US in the Indo–Pacific

Your leadership have messaged otherwise, like the UK [1], France [2], and Italy [3]

Yet we cannot trust the rest of Europe, especially looking at Spain's [4] steady pivot to China and Merkel's pro-China policies [5] before the recent pivot [6].

This is why under the Obama administration we ourselves began pivoting to Asia, because we are not in a position to fight a conventional war with both Russia and China.

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And what are you complaining about? We're taking the gloves off now. Deal with the Russians on your own while they are being armed by the Chinese [7]. The leaders you voted to power should have listened when we publicly and privately vocalized this shift in policy for decades.

[0] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6U81KNpyXPI

[1] - https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

[2] - https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files/regional-str...

[3] - https://rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publication/rsis/italys-silent-enga...

[4] - https://ceias.eu/whats-behind-spains-pivot-to-china/

[5] - https://www.cap-lmu.de/download/2015/CAP-WP_German-China-Pol...

[6] - https://merics.org/en/comment/germanys-recent-china-policy

[7] - https://www.ft.com/content/52ea7aab-f8d1-46b6-9d66-18545c5ef...
by aziis98 | 2025-12-05 22:01:01+00:00
> Pointing capability: Gemini 3 has the ability to point at specific locations in images by outputting pixel-precise coordinates. Sequences of 2D points can be strung together to perform complex tasks, such as estimating human poses or reflecting trajectories over time

Does somebody know how to correctly prompt the model for these tasks or even better provide some docs? The pictures with the pretty markers are appreciated but that section is a bit vague and without references
by onetimeusename | 2025-12-05 22:01:10+00:00
Is there a way for someone on h1B to start a company in a roundabout way by doing something like placing company shares into a trust and having a unpaid board seat? Is that pushing luck? Not for me but a friend who I had plans to go into business with but we're facing a chicken or egg problem until she gets a green card or changes her visa status.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-12-05 22:01:17+00:00
in some part of europe, we have national healthcare so basically people don't think they are paying their medications, like there was some magic money.

in that case, you don't care if you drug cost 10€ or 2000€ because you aren't spending a single € from your own wallet, at least if you don't factor in taxes.

Contrary to the USA where it's a much more responsible market, people do pay for the medications or they get it paid by their own insurance but it cost them directly a lot of money.

I would think that americans would be much more vigilant about what medication they take, the price it cost, and so would have much lower pricing. That's just how free market work, and technically there are many medication manufacturer and many customer.

Is it the proof that a true unregulated free market doesn't work ? if left unsupervised, big companies are going to buy smaller companies until they are monopoly or make secret, behind the door, deal to keep price up.

It's what the USA is made on, the idea of freedom and free market. i believe the idea of unregulated market is more recent, think the 70's, but surely in the 50 years since then american would have pushed back against it and not elected people like Trump who are all in.
by titzer | 2025-12-05 22:01:21+00:00
Obviously specifics make a huge difference here so it's hard to generalize, but generally, finding the market is not a new problem. In the current business environment, the entire ecosystem is rigged against you, forcing you to advertise. Consumers are so inundated with advertising that almost have no energy leftover, or any expectation that they need to go out and search. Worse, search is distorted in all the wrong ways because of the exact same incentives. Your competitors (or even poorly-fitting tangentially-related products) are stealing discovery from you by capturing searches through advertising. They can't even get to you because a wall of SEO stands between them and you.
by vitorsr | 2025-12-05 22:01:23+00:00
> over Debian/Ubuntu

And over Fedora/RHEL. If I had to guess, it could be that new entrants find it easier to submit changes to Arch Linux packages [1]. ChromeOS also steered away from Debian-based distributions, choosing a Gentoo base.

[1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages
by marmarama | 2025-12-05 22:02:28+00:00
I already run stuff that was very much not made with TBDR in mind, on TBDR GPU architectures, and the performance is perfectly fine.

For sure, you can squeeze a few percentage points more out if you optimize for TBDR, and there are some edge cases where it's possible to make TBDR architectures behave pathologically, but it's not that big a deal in the real world.

I also disagree that the Steam Frame is for streaming primarily. If it was, why put such a powerful SoC in it or using it as the prototype device for doing x86 emulation with Fex?

The Adreno 750 is a 3 TFlops GPU that _should be_ substantially faster than a PS4 or a Steam Deck. It'll play plenty of low-end PCVR games pretty well on its own, if Fex's x86 emulation is performant, which it is.

Like the Meta Quest 2, it's a crossover device that a lot of people will just use standalone.
by rayiner | 2025-12-05 22:02:32+00:00
That’s misinformation. They’re being arrested because they were in the country illegally, usually overstaying a visa: https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/green-card...

They have a green card interview because they married an American. But you can’t get an adjustment of status if you are in violation of your current visa terms.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-05 22:02:33+00:00
There is no free market at play here. This is the result of FDA regulations not allowing anyone to sell it unless they did a New Drug Application first, which could cost a billion or more. Therefore nobody in the free market was allowed to sell it without putting up the capital first, which they have to collect back now.

You could actually order this from amazon.de up until recently and have it shipped to you. That seems to have disappeared, though.
by hunterpayne | 2025-12-05 22:02:41+00:00
> instead of it being the coolest thing in the fucking world

Some people think a M-16 is the coolest thing in the world. Nobody thinks we should be handing them out to school children. The reaction is because most people think AI will compound our current problems. Look at video generation. Not only does it put a lot of people out of work, it also breaks the ability of people to post a video as proof of something. Now we have to try to determine if the very real looking video is from life or a neural net. That is very dangerous and the tech firms released it without any real thought or discussion as to the effect it would have. They make illegal arms dealers look thoughtful by comparison. You ignoring this (and other effects) is just childish.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-05 22:02:57+00:00
> If they cost more AND they're less reliable, what exactly is the reason to not self host?

Shifting liability. You're paying someone else for it to be their problem, and if everyone does it, no one will take flak for continuing to do so. What is the average tenure of a CIO or decision maker electing to move to or remain at a cloud provider? This is why you get picked to talk on stage at cloud provider conferences.

(have been in the meetings where these decisions are made)
by Aerbil313 | 2025-12-05 22:03:54+00:00
I’ll be the one to say it:

Liquid Glass is actually very good design that addresses design problems that persisted since the switch to touchscreens in a very comprehensive way.

More specifically, the problem of how to have universally recognizable and standardized UI controls in every app without interfering with their design identity.

To me it’s just a logical conclusion in the UI design field, and I fully expect Google and others to adopt something like it eventually.

The implementation isn’t flawless though.

I’d love if an actual UX designer could comment here.