MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by snapdeficit | 2025-12-05 18:11:11+00:00
I was happy when Netflix was a DVD service. Streaming turned everything to shit. Netflix in 2003-2008 was its golden era: any movie you could think of from the past century was available.

I will not lament the loss of visual mass media. I’ve already reduced my viewing to just Kanopy, but even they are reducing tickets.

Fortunately there are plenty of other fun and entertaining things to do than sit in front of a screen and drool at slop.

Unfortunately people will “suffer” with their first-world problems of not getting new Marvel movies every 8 months or Spider-Man reboots every 2 years, or having to pay $100+/month for drivel. Oh the humanity.
by throwuxiytayq | 2025-12-05 18:11:15+00:00
Given it's a Framework 13 mainboard, you can probably put it in any Framework 13-compatible enclosure:

https://frame.work/products/cooler-master-mainboard-case https://frame.work/products/framework-laptop-13-mainboard-ho... https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Framework-Laptop-13

etc., lots of designs available.
by tensor | 2025-12-05 18:11:29+00:00
It's actually not. US companies are very used to it and frequently comply with local laws (e.g. in China and elsewhere). What's happening here is a vocal minority is trying to push for some notion of US dominance over other countries.

The current administration has openly stated their intent to bully selected countries they don't like in various ways, but especially when it relates to their ability to push US propaganda to foreign places via companies like X.
Show HN: Heart rate with phone camera (plain HTML/JS)
by smusamashah | 2025-12-05 18:12:24+00:00
Lots of apps like this on Android store, almost all are full of ads, and most don't detect high heart rates correctly.

It is totally made with Gemini, can save whole graph using localstorage.

I haven't put in more effort, will be using it because I need it and will therefore keep updating it with things I need.
by nrawe | 2025-12-05 18:12:41+00:00
As the manager is accountable for the problem being solved, they are responsible for making sure processes are optimal.

There definitely should be an onus on individuals and teams to reflect and generate their own improvement actions to that end. Scrum Retros are a good example of this. In this case, the manager is responsible for process improvement by chairing the retro, ensuring that the team has the info needed, and has the space to implement actions. Scrum Masters chairing retros can be seen as a form of coaching.

There are also times when process improvement means directly stepping in and directing the team to do something differently. This can happen for lots of reasons; one example may be a manager taking over an existing team under fire and identifying immediate changes needed to dig them out. I've seen several teams with entrenched mindsets in this situation where process improvement is directed rather than discovered.

Ideally, the team drives it, while the manager is responsible for ensuring it happens successfully.

E.g. there is a big difference between "Why did we loose a day here, what can we learn?" vs "From now on each dev needs to review every pull request twice per-day". Might be the same ultimate action, but in the latter the manager is solving the issue directly.
by notjonheyman | 2025-12-05 18:13:12+00:00
The only slight pain in those priuses is removing the windshield wiper assembly to get to the spark plugs closest to the firewall. It's not like they didn't have enough room in the engine bay to the left to better engineer this. But it's something that you rarely have to do. Maybe 2-3 times for the life of the car if it reaches 300k+ miles.
by hnlmorg | 2025-12-05 18:13:21+00:00
No. More like central or Western European parties. Or Green in the UK. Most left-wing politicians in America would seem right wing in, for example, Netherlands.

I think bringing communism into the discussion around left wing parties is as daft as saying all republicans or Tories are Nazis.

The problem with the UK and US is we’re so used to right wing policies that anything moderately left is considered “extreme”. There’s no nuance left because people are closed off to it. (And to be fair, may left wing folk don’t help when they call their right wing peers “racists”. There definitely needs to be more tolerance on both sides)
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-05 18:13:32+00:00
At one side, people are unhappy about AI, at the other side, who of those same people will stop using ChatGPT to write their work e-mails and assignments for them.

It looks like the "car problem" in yet another form. Many people will agree that our cities have become too car-centric and that cars take way too much public space, but few will give up their own personal car.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-05 18:13:56+00:00
They control the technologies, their direction, how a future DirectX 13 or Windows 12 might look like, and have all the legal system on their side.

Also Microsoft Games Studios owns enough studios to make an impact.

Also Proton means zero game studios have to care Steam OS exists, they target Windows, use Visual Studio, and Valve is the one that has to make the needful if they care.

The same studios might even be using game engines that support GNU/Linux, yet letting Valve do the work is much more appealing.
by babypuncher | 2025-12-05 18:13:56+00:00
I can definitely agree with that. AAA game production has become bloated with out of control budgets and protracted development cycles, a lot of that due to needing to fill massive overbuilt game worlds with an endless supply of unique high quality assets.

Ray tracing is a hardware feature that can help cut down on a chunk of that bloat, but only when developers can rely on it as a baseline.
by the_snooze | 2025-12-05 18:14:25+00:00
Eh, it's way simpler than that. AI doesn't know when to STFU. When I write an email or document, I don't need modern-day Clippy constantly guessing (and second-guessing) my thoughts. I don't need an AI sparkle button plastered everywhere to summarize articles for me. It's infantilizing and reeks of desperation. If AI is a truly useful tool, then I'll integrate it into my workflow on my own terms and my own timeline.
by busyant | 2025-12-05 18:14:30+00:00
This is probably a key sentence: "...the effect of actually receiving the HZ vaccination was a 3.1 (95% CI: 1.0–6.2, p = 0.007) percentage point reduction in new diagnoses of MCI over 9 years."

MCI = mild cognitive impairment

What's interesting to me is that the effect doesn't appear to be specific to Alzheimer's--rather they see a reduction in all forms of dementia diagnosis.

I suspect the thinking is something along the lines of ... dementia is either caused or heavily influenced by inflammation. Reactivation of HZ virus causes neurological inflammation. So, HZ vaccination is gonna prevent some forms of inflammation and help you avoid dementia--a little bit.

FWIW, I'm trained as a molecular biologist and have a some knowledge of clinical trials, dementia, etc., but I am far from an expert on this.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-12-05 18:15:21+00:00
Other issues also took their toll on movie theaters:

--Ticket prices of $20 or more per person.

--Jaw-dropping prices on snacks and drinks.

--People talking and using phones during the movie.

--30 minutes of ads before the movie. Not coming attractions but straight-up commercials when you've already paid $20 to be there.

--The general slop quality of most movies being made if you're not a comic book or video game fan (and frankly even if you are).

The above bullshit was enough that I stopped going to movie theaters more than about once per year. And then COVID happened.
by burningChrome | 2025-12-05 18:15:26+00:00
It will be pretty imperceivable when you stay within the same ecosystem. If you went from your 17 and then went to a mid tier phone like a Samsung A71, you would notice a difference.

Display is something I for sure started paying attention to when I was jumping back and forth between Android and Apple when I went from my OnePlus to Apple and then to Samsung noticed differences.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-05 18:15:36+00:00
Let's talk about steelmanning, shall we? Why should I show good faith when absolutely no one else in the conversation is?

Take it from the top. First reply: The majority of minimum wage workers are adults, not teenagers. This is also true for McDonald's employees. The idea that these jobs are staffed by children working summer jobs is simply not reality.

The steelman position would grant that in fact, it's traditional for teenagers working summer jobs to do just that, and proceed to explain why high minimum wages as a one-size-fits-all policy are still a net win for society. Instead, autoexec starts by attacking an unstated position -- that these are necessarily 40-hour/week full-time jobs -- and wraps up by plainly and literally denying reality.

Second reply: A teenager is presumably also going to school full time and works their job part time, not ~2000 hours per year. If we build a society where someone working a full time job is not able to afford to reasonably survive, we are setting ourselves up for a society of crime, poverty, and disease.

At least kube-system doesn't make the mistake of assuming that all jobs require 2000 hours of work per year, but they fail to acknowledge, much less address, my point that not all jobs are done for survival purposes. Not only is that not an example of steelmanning, it's followed up by an irrelevant bare assertion made without the faintest trace of historical grounding.

Moving on to array_key_first: Just the simple fact that mcdonalds is open during school hours is enough to demolish the "teenagers flipping burgers" type arguments.

Once again, the fact is that jobs such as burger-flipping have traditionally provided part-time and summer jobs for young people living at home who are looking to save up a bit of money and get some work experience. This reply doesn't care to acknowledge the basic facts of the matter, much less address the strongest possible interpretation of my argument.

Then there's this zinger from swiftcoder: Turns out our supply of underage workers is neither infinite, nor even sufficient to staff all fast food jobs in the nation. If you are looking for an example of a strawman argument in this thread, how about picking on an actual one before jumping on my case?

Come back with your "steelman" bullshit when you're willing to apply the same rules to all sides of the argument.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-05 18:16:28+00:00
OP's point was more 'How would you measure unvaccinated people that lived because vaccinated people weren't filling the ER, so there were beds/staff to spare'?

That unvaxed outcome would need to go in the 'vaxed lives saved' column somehow, or else it looks like 'outcomes were the same either way' because the lives saved from vaccination spill over into the non-vaxed group because the vaccine prevented the healthcare system from melting down.
by raddan | 2025-12-05 18:16:40+00:00
I assume that you mean "censored" and not "censured" (different thing), but it was not, in fact, censored. It was entirely in the open.

However, the information was definitely not distilled effectively for the average layperson. I remember thinking at the time that the CDC was seriously ham-handed when it came to communicating with the general public. I even initially blamed the Trump administration, but when the Biden administration took over, they did not improve communication either. My conclusion since then is that the CDC is dominated by academic types--which is largely appropriate given their mission--but that they also put academic types in PR roles, which was a disaster.
by _alternator_ | 2025-12-05 18:16:41+00:00
The highlights are a good start. (I’m a doctor, just a nerd who likes to read papers.)

My comments in brackets.

- Herpes zoster vaccination reduced dementia diagnosis in our prior natural experiments. [Previous work. I’m familiar with the Wales experiment where they had a sharp age cutoff for getting the vaccine in their national health system. Comparing those just below and just beyond the cutoff allows for analysis similar to a randomized controlled trial (aka ‘natural experiment’). The results showed a ~20% decrease in dementia due to vaccine, so the results were already pretty strong.]

- Here, we find a lower occurrence of MCI and dementia deaths among dementia patients [MCI = ‘mild cognitive impairment’. This is a more refined result than prior work, harder to see in the data than a clear dementia diagnosis.]

- Herpes zoster vaccination appears to act along the entire clinical course of dementia. [This is not surprising given the earlier results, but the demonstration is harder, and it may lead to recommendations for earlier HZ vaccination, IIRC currently at 50 or 55 in the US.]

- This study’s approach avoids the common confounding concerns of observational data [Basically they are improving their methods and getting stronger results, classic good science.]
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-05 18:16:45+00:00
Meanwhile, if you work on old Landrovers from the Defender 90/110 to early RR L322, you need this: https://rangerovers.pub/downloads/rave.zip (500MB zip, PDFs of all service and user manuals).

Even if you don't work on them, grab yourself a copy. You never know when you might need to know how to rebuild a Borg Warner transfer box or ZF 4HP24 gearbox.
by int0x2e | 2025-12-05 18:17:11+00:00
I used to think the same way, and I loved UBNT. Sadly, after 2 different more advanced configs I had caused wild stability issues - affecting APs, a USG and the controller itself to the point of making them less reliable than a random TP-Link router, plus an ERL randomly dying on me without warning and never booting again - I decided to pull UBNT from anything and anywhere.

I now exclusively use open-source projects with a strong history and community - or used high-end enterprise gear that I pick up when it reaches EOL so it's dirt cheap. Stability has been so much better, even with the most advanced configs I ever created.
by autoexec | 2025-12-05 18:17:19+00:00
Netflix may have the technical ability, but they don't deliver. Their UI just gets worse and worse in terms of usability and they keep cutting features on top of steadfastly refusing to provide features people have been asking for since they started steaming movies.

Basically every streaming app is minimally functional and obnoxious in their own ways. netflix isn't the worst of them, but it's no exception and getting worse all the time.
by einpoklum | 2025-12-05 18:17:19+00:00
You're right that Framework is exactly where I would expect flexibility on this: I mean, just looking at their landing page - you see a laptop without the keyboard and ports. Framework offers 176 (!) kinds of "keyboards":

https://frame.work/marketplace/keyboards

but not one decent keyboard. Why?

(Answer: it's basically just keyboard covers, and the many options are due to variations of colors and languages. But I would take a hot pink / toxic green keyboard with ancient tibetan labels if the keys were non-chicklet, with decent travel, sizes, and feedback. 7 rows if possible.)
by anthonyryan1 | 2025-12-05 18:17:48+00:00
Does this board boot Linux via a device tree, or have hardware discovery?

How about UEFI vs arm-specific bootloaders?

I tried arm32 Linux a few years back, and the largest hindrance at the time was the device trees and non-UEFI boot process. Given up on exploring the platform further (except maybe for SBC like raspberry pi) until that situation improves.
by dbbr | 2025-12-05 18:18:05+00:00
No problem. It was a super insider reference to that game. It is a war game, and within the game there is a 'logistics' branch which basically produces every single bullet etc. that is ever fired. There are also 'facilities' that produce gasoline for the trucks etc. to drive. Much of the language you used in your post could have been taken straight out of the game. I knew the odds that you played it were slim but I had to ask!
by dangus | 2025-12-05 18:18:28+00:00
This makes zero sense.

Can you name another scenario where consolidation helped the consumer? Where a sweet spot involved more consolidation?

Did Breyer’s ice cream get better when it was purchased by Unilever?

Did your local grocery store chain get better after it was acquired by Kroger or Albertsons?

Did the smartphone market get better when Microsoft acquired Nokia and HP acquired Palm?

What about Hashicorp? Sun Microsystems? Dark Sky? Red Hat? Slack? Nest? Any of these product markets get better post-consolidation?

I struggle to think of a single example of a product category that got better with industry consolidation.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-12-05 18:18:32+00:00
> In the 1970s it was still easy to just abandon the school system. Kids who didn't obviously thrive were usually treated as family burdens, and still mostly removed from society.

> They also usually died young.

> People with ADHD for example, are more prone to abusing drugs and alcohol. How many people died from alcoholism who were untreated ADHD cases?

Or suicide. Look at the suicide rate amongst those with autism even now. And when people take themselves out of society with drugs or alcohol we don't put much into figuring out why they chose that path. I recall a bit in a book by an ER doctor--one of the frequent fliers, brought in because they were found unconscious. When asked if he knew what brought him to the ER, responded alcohol. And one time he admitted why: he had been a sniper in the Serbian war and it was the only way he could keep from killing himself.

I believe that to a large degree the "drug" problem is a manifestation of other issues.

> This is objectively true, do you know why? We changed the name of really poorly functioning people in some cases from "Mentally retarded" to "Autistic".

> That's it.

> Look at a graph of generic "mental retardation" diagnosis and it's fall coincides with the "rise" of autism diagnosis. Those people were always actually autistic,

Exactly. There is no epidemic of autism, there is an "epidemic" of better diagnoses.
by ceroxylon | 2025-12-05 18:18:37+00:00
> The friction isn’t just about quality—it’s about what the ubiquity of these tools signals.

Unless they are being ironic, using an AI accent with a statement like that for an article talking about the backlash to lazy AI use is an interesting choice.

It could have been human written (I have noticed that people that use them all the time start to talk like them), but the "its not just x — its y" format is the hallmark of mediocre articles being written / edited by AI.
by diarrhea | 2025-12-05 18:18:44+00:00
A similar problem applies to Go, just inverted. Take iteration. The vast majority of use cases for iterating over containers are map, filter, reduce. Go doesn't have these functions. That's very simple! All Go developers are aligned here: just use a for loop. There's no room for "10% of concepts corners", there's just that 1 corner.

But, for loops get tedious. So people will make helper functions. Generic ones today, non-generic in the past. The result is that you have a zoo of iteration-related helper functions all throughout. You'll need to learn those when onboarding to a new code base as well. Go's readability makes this easier, but by definitions everything's entirely non-standard.
by hedora | 2025-12-05 18:19:11+00:00
Shingles attacks your nervous system. Avoiding shingles prevents it from damaging your brain, so it isn’t surprising the vaccine reduces dementia.

There are multiple causes for dementia. If I read figure 2 right, the vaccine slightly reduces the chance of mild cognitive impairment, but cuts the chances of dying from dementia by about a third(!)

Also interesting: The vaccine helps at different phases of disease progression.

The simplest explanation is that dementia is due to cumulative damage, not a single event, and that getting shingles is a big hit.

The vaccine probably prevents dementia in the same way staying out of planes makes you invulnerable to parachute failures.
by jama211 | 2025-12-05 18:19:33+00:00
Well said. I’ve always also thought that writing code and craftsmanship is a forced metaphor. At most, the product is the craft, not the code. And a product is exactly as good as people’s experiences of using it and how well it solves their problems. The underlying code quality is correlated with these things, but let’s be honest a badly designed product that doesn’t meet the customers needs can have PERFECT code and zero tech debt and still be a bad product because of it.

Also you know what, some code is disposable. Sure, we all want to craft amazing sculptures of metaphorical beautiful wooden chairs that will last a lifetime, but sometimes what the customer needs is a stack of plastic chairs, cheap, and done next week. Who cares if they break after like 1 year.

So, sometimes when I accept that my boss wants something rushed through, I don’t complain about the tech debt it’ll cause, I don’t fight back about how it should’ve designed to have wonderful code… not because I have no pride in my work, but because I understand the businesses needs.

And sometimes the business just wants you to make plastic chairs.
by dogman144 | 2025-12-05 18:20:08+00:00
“ The usual Monsanto claim involves patent infringement by intentionally replanting patented seed”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_legal_cases

Edit - Can’t reply again looks like but to the response below, yes many view this approach as effectively leading to enforcing what you state. Which is why it is so horribly underhanded to me, and seeing supporting narratives in hackernews was striking.
by chroma205 | 2025-12-05 18:20:36+00:00
> There are no exchanges where market makers get any kind of priority to bypass the FIFO queue.

Nope, several large, active, and liquid markets in the US.

Legally it’s not named “bypass the FIFO queue”. That would be dumb.

In practice, it goes by politically correct names such as “designated market maker fill” or “institutional order prioritization” or “leveling round”.
by dmix | 2025-12-05 18:20:42+00:00
I hadn't heard of iyO, their products look interesting. Seems to be an Alexa type product via airpod style headphones? https://www.iyo.ai/iyo-one

and some sort of 'wand' that can "see your surrounding area", maybe radar or imaging? https://www.iyo.ai/iyo-wand
by dylanpyle | 2025-12-05 18:20:43+00:00
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